Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested in an interview that bigoted Trump supporters may be in need of deprogramming. Meanwhile, a new poll shows Donald Trump leading Joe Biden by 1.1 points in a presidential matchup, while Ron DeSantis trails Mr. Biden by 2.5 points.
In other news, the World Health Organization warned that the meat supply will cause the next pandemic.
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Argentina Four-Week Inflation Rate Has Halved Since August Peak — Rapid Data
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 6 (Reuters) — Argentina’s weekly inflation rate has hit the lowest since July after a big spike in August, rapid data released by the government showed on Friday, with the four-week rolling rate also halving since the recent peak.
The government, grappling with triple-digit annual inflation ahead of a presidential election this month, has started releasing weekly preliminary inflation data before the official monthly report.
That data, which can later be revised, shows that the most recent weekly inflation rate dropped to 1.3% in the week Sept. 25-Oct. 1, down from a weekly peak of 4.8% in mid-August when the government devalued the peso currency by around 20%.
Four-week inflation up to Oct. 1, meanwhile, was around 7.3%, according to a Reuters calculation, less than half the late August peak of 15.2%, potentially giving an early indicator of the monthly rate in September.
“While inflation remains at very elevated levels, it has slowed down significantly,” the Economy Ministry said. The official August monthly rate ended at 12.4%.
Argentina’s annual inflation rate is running at 124%, the highest level since 1991, which has buoyed a right-wing radical in the polls ahead of the Oct. 22 election, with voters angry about a painful cost of living crisis and poverty at more than 40%.
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Chapter 11 Filings by Businesses Soar 61% So Far This Year
By Daphne Howland of RetailDive
Updates to Retail Dive’s bankruptcy tracker have been numerous in 2023 so far, with the all-important holiday quarter left to go.
A wide array of U.S. businesses have struggled this year. In the first nine months of 2023, commercial Chapter 11 bankruptcies have soared 61% year over year to 4,553, according to Epiq Bankruptcy, which provides U.S. bankruptcy filing data.
Small business filings in that time rose 41% to 1,419, according to the research, released by Epiq and the American Bankruptcy Institute. In all, considering every type of bankruptcy, filings in the commercial sector rose 17% to 18,680.
After recent declines thanks in part to pandemic-era financial support, consumer filings also rose this year, up 17% to 313,458, per the report.
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Chicken prices at grocery stores across the country have hit record highs, and prices are expected to remain high as inflation-weary shoppers have opted to buy chicken over still-pricier beef and pork alternatives.
Tyson Foods and other companies have also dialed back poultry production, further driving up prices. The higher chicken prices should improve earnings at top producers Tyson and Pilgrim’s Pride ahead of the holiday season.
U.S. consumption of chicken is expected to exceed 100 pounds per person this year for the first time ever, data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows.
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Colombia Inflation Slows to 10.99%, Bolstering Rate Cut Forecast
(Bloomberg) — Colombian inflation slowed to its lowest level in more than a year, bolstering expectations that the central bank will follow regional peers and start cutting interest rates this year.
The annual inflation rate dropped to 10.99% in September, the statistics agency said Friday, in line with the 11% median forecast of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Consumer prices rose 0.54% from the previous month.
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Dow Gains Nearly 300 Points After Jobs Report Surprise: Stock Market News Today
October’s first trading week ended with a twist after Wall Street reversed earlier losses on Friday and surged to the closing bell as investors digested a strong jobs report that blew away expectations.
The S&P 500 (^GSPC) gained about 1.2%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) climbed roughly 0.9% or about 290 points. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose 1.6%.
The September jobs data did not show the signs of cooling in the labor market that were forecast. The US economy added 336,000 jobs in September, almost twice the number expected. That could give the Fed more evidence that the labor market remains strong, making the case for a more restrictive policy for longer.
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Turkish Inflation Rises to 61.53% in September, Near Forecast
ISTANBUL, Oct 3 (Reuters) — Turkish annual consumer price inflation climbed to 61.53% in September, official data showed on Tuesday, just below expectations and rising for a third consecutive month in response to recent tax hikes and lira weakness.
Month-on-month, consumer price inflation was 4.75%. In a Reuters poll, annual inflation was expected to rise to %61.7.
Inflation soared above 85% last year after an aggressive rate-cutting cycle sparked a historic currency crash in late 2021. But after winning May elections, President Tayyip Erdogan reversed course and named a new economic team to embrace more orthodox policies including aggressive monetary tightening.
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Affirmative Action Opponents Sue Naval Academy to Ban Race Consideration
The organization behind the lawsuit against Harvard University that led to the demise of affirmative action in college admissions has filed a new lawsuit against the United States Naval Academy seeking to end race-conscious admissions there.
The lawsuit by Students for Fair Admissions is the second the group has filed against a military academy within the past month after it sued West Point Military Academy last month. The group was the driving force behind a lawsuit that led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling this summer that prohibited colleges from considering an applicant’s race in college admissions.
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Alan Dershowitz and Elon Musk on Free Speech and Anti-Semitism
Alan Dershowitz: Let me start with a statement that many will disagree with. No country in history has ever really tested free speech: has seen whether the marketplace of ideas works or whether we can really have a society without censorship; where every idea is tested only on its merits, rather than for political benefit. This cannot be a right-left issue. Elon, you may be the first person who has really tried. Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln all compromised. You are trying, for the first time, a great experiment to see whether we can survive with a marketplace of ideas, without censorship, where all thoughts and all ideas are treated equally. For instance, where there are judgments on the basis of whether something is pro-right, pro-life, anti-Jewish, pro-Christian, anti-Christian. What we need is to create a circle in which things that are illegal, such as abusing children, are outside the circle, but anything else has to be inside the circle. So if something is permitted for one idea or “-ism,” it has to be permitted for the others. This is exactly what universities are failing to do. They are creating a line on which favored groups fall on one side and disfavored groups fall on the other side.
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Anti-Police Portland Tells Residents to Only Call 911 for ‘Life/Death Emergencies’
The Democrat-controlled anti-police “utopia” of Portland has told residents not to call 911 unless they are reporting a “life/death emergency.”
The remaining police in the Oregon city are now stretched so thin that they can only respond to emergencies that involve a significant risk of people dying.
Portland, like many other blue cities across America, slashed its police budget in response to the violent Black Lives Matter-led rioting in 2020.
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As Arrest Made, Murdered NYC Activist’s Pals Run GoFundMe to “Take Time Off Work”
Friends of murdered New York City liberal activist Ryan Thoresen Carson have created a GoFundMe page in which the “collective” solicits donations so they can take “time off of work” — and have already raked in $69,000. However, some donors are chipping in just for the privilege of leaving scathing comments.
Carson was stabbed to death at 3:50 am on Monday in New York’s Bedfort-Stuyvesant neighborhood, as he and his girlfriend were returning from a Long Island wedding. They encountered an enraged young man who was kicking over parked mopeds and scooters before turning his rage on Carson, asking, “What the f*** are you looking at? I’ll kill you!”
In video that captured the crime, Carson be heard repeatedly telling his assailant to “chill.” Carson was stabbed multiple times, including a fatal strike to his heart. (Note: Issuing orders to an enraged man is seldom a sound de-escalation strategy.)
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On Friday, a judge with the New York appeals court placed a halt on an order in the New York civil fraud trial of Donald Trump that would have seen the cancellation of his business certificates.
First Department Justice Peter Mouton rejected a motion on Friday from Trump’s lawyers to put the trial on hold, but temporarily placed a pause on the cancellation of the certificates while the appeals process plays out, according to the New York Post.
In a statement for the Trump Organization, Eric Trump wrote on X, “We thank the Appellate Division for staying the NY Attorney General’s and Judge Engoron’s overzealous attempt to cancel our New York business certificates.”
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Singer-songwriter Five Times August takes aim at rock legends in his latest single “Ain’t No Rock And Roll,” in which the lyrics call out rockstars who showed vocal support of government mandates during the coronavirus pandemic.
Five Times August, the stage name for Brad Skistimas, is toted as being the “counter culture to cancel culture” which was proven to ring true in the new rebellious track, produced by Baste Records.
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Breaking: Warrant Issued for Suspect in Murder of Far-Left Philly Activist Josh Kruger
On Friday, law enforcement in Philadelphia issued an arrest warrant for 19-year-old Robert Edmund Davis, the man accused of murdering local journalist and community advocate Josh Kruger.
Kruger, 39, was shot seven times in his own home on the 2300 block of Watkins Street around 1:30 am. Davis was identified as a suspect the following day.
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California’s Anti-“Misinformation” Law Collapses Thanks to the First Amendment
The Golden State has succumbed to mounting lawsuits and repealed a hotly debated law that sought to muzzle physicians offering COVID advice that contradicted mainstream medical perceptions. Legal action saw the bill, initially enacted in September 2022 and implemented in January, brought to an abrupt halt.
The law intended to classify COVID “misinformation” as misconduct in the medical profession, authorizing the Medical Board of California to revoke licenses of healthcare providers deviating from the prevailing scientific viewpoints. Though a federal judge brought the controversial rule to a standstill almost immediately after its enforcement, the extent of its actual application remains nebulous.
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‘Downsize Me’: BofA Reveals Weight-Loss Drug Users Could Unleash Apparel Spending Spree
America’s anti-obesity craze, courtesy of GLP-1-based weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro, produced by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, is in the early innings of unleashing a “food revolution” that could spark devastating consequences for the junk-food industrial complex — as their obese customers eat less Big Macs and carby candy bars.
To highlight the potential impact of the growing use of GLP-1 drugs, we linked to a Morgan Stanley presentation (available to pro subs) on Thursday that shows a likely 1.7% reduction (vs baseline) in calories consumed.
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Facebook Censors Report on Study About COVID Vaccine mRNA Found in Breast Milk
Facebook has once more found itself at the helm of controversy regarding the censorship of accurate information concerning COVID-19. This is not the maiden voyage of the social media giant into the tempestuous waters of information control; earlier this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg conceded to having stifled truthful content about the pandemic at the behest of establishment voices.
His admission followed on the heels of both the US government and the World Health Organization declaring the curtain call on the COVID-19 public health emergency. This prompted Meta to retrench its medical “misinformation” policy, albeit the platform seemingly persists in its endeavor to silence certain narratives.
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Footprints Found at Ancient Lake in New Mexico Challenge Old Belief of First Humans in Americas
The oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas are likely fossilized human footprints found in New Mexico, challenging once-conventional wisdom regarding humans migrating to the New World from Russia roughly 15,000 years ago, new research confirms.
The new discovery suggests that the first people actually arrived in the Americas much earlier than previously believed.
According to research published Thursday in the journal Science, footprints discovered at the edge of an ancient lake bed in White Sands National Park date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago.
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Giuliani’s Entire Fulton County Legal Team Withdraws
Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Former New York City Rudy Giuliani was indicted in Fulton County, Georgia, alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others for their actions in challenging the 2020 election results, and now his entire legal team has withdrawn from his case.
Last week, attorney David Wolfe filed a motion to withdraw as counsel, and on Tuesday attorney Brian Tevis filed a motion to withdraw as well. It is unclear who will take the lead in Mr. Giuliani’s legal team in Georgia.
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Hard Rock Cafe Becomes Latest Business to Shutter Seattle Location Amid Rising Crime
Seattle’s downtown Hard Rock Cafe will close in December as more retailers flee the area. 66 workers will be out of a job before the year’s end.
The company wrote in a statement to KING 5, “Since the opening of the Hard Rock Cafe Seattle in 2010, Hard Rock International has enjoyed serving the Seattle community and playing a role in the city’s celebrated dining culture.”
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a “formal deprogramming” for many supporters of former President Donald Trump during a new CNN interview.
Discussing the recent upheaval on Capitol Hill, Clinton contrasted what she called the “sane” part of the GOP caucus who helped prevent a government shutdown with the “cult” wing devoted to Trump.
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Hospital That Fired Nurses for Refusing Vaccines Now Begging Them to Return
A Maine healthcare provider is now begging nurses to return after firing them for refusing to comply with vaccine mandates during the pandemic.
MaineGeneral Health in Augusta has reached out to healthcare workers and asked them to “consider rejoining us.”
According to The Maine Wire, many of those workers were denied unemployment compensation after they were fired.
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House Republican Takes Aim at Chinese Spying on American Colleges
EXCLUSIVE — Freshman Rep. John James (R-MI) introduced legislation Friday that would require faculty and staff at universities to disclose any donations that they received from foreign sources.
The Disclose GIFTs (Getting Investments in Foreign Transactions) Act would tighten foreign funding reporting requirements for higher education institutions. The bill expands on Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, which requires all higher education institutions to disclose any donations from foreign entities that exceed $250,000.
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Hunter Biden Took Thousands From Daughter’s College Fund for ‘Hookers and Drugs’: Report
Hunter Biden withdrew $20,000 from his daughter Maisy’s college fund and spent it on “hookers and drugs” after being warned he had just 44 cents left in his bank account, the Daily Mail reported Friday.
According to the outlet, Biden received an email from Wells Fargo bank on Dec. 17, 2018, warning that he had just 44 cents left in his account, which prompted a muddled reply ordering the bank to transfer $20,000 from Maisy’s college savings account.
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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Fox News on Friday he is not considering resigning his congressional seat after being ousted from the speakership earlier this week.
Speaking with Fox’s Bret Baier following a Politico report that he was weighing a congressional exit, McCarthy flatly said he was not leaving.
Politico had cited “two people familiar with matter” in its reporting that McCarthy would stay in his seat at least until a new speaker was chosen next week “in order to help the party steady itself after a seismic shakeup.”
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Stephanie Bloodworth, then 24, was pulled over in February 2022 for speeding around her Florida island in a tesla and told the police that her dad ‘owns an island;.
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More Rights Groups Challenge New York’s “Anti-Hate” Censorship Law
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling upon the Second Circuit to maintain the injunction against New York’s contentious online “Hateful Conduct” law, asserting that it poses a dangerous threat to free speech on digital platforms. The EFF’s challenge to the law highlights the enduring value of individual rights in the rapidly evolving landscape of digital communication, and draws light to the continued struggle between free speech rights and attempts at internet regulation.
The proposed law, aimed at holding tech companies accountable for content deemed “hateful,” has triggered widespread alarm from multiple sectors with free speech advocacy at their core. The fear is that such laws could inadvertently act as a form of censorship, even if their original purpose was protection rather than restriction.
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MyPillow’s Mike Lindell is Broke, Can’t Pay Millions in Legal Bills: Lawyers
Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit, saying he owes them unspecified millions of dollars and can’t pay the millions more that he’ll owe in legal expenses going forward.
Lindell confirmed in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday that he’s out of money and said he understands his lawyers are people who need to make a living.
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A sparsely populated area of Alaska home to hundreds UFO and ‘bigfoot’ style sightings has also seen 20,000 people disappear since 1970.
While many have a heard of the Bermuda Triangle, a patch of ocean in the Caribbean known for mysterious airplane and boating disasters, the so-called Alaskan Triangle has managed to slip largely under the public radar, despite having a missing persons rate more than double the national average.
Located between Juneau, Anchorage and the small town of Barrow, the area is reportedly a hotbed of paranormal activity.
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New York Sees a Surge in Tuberculosis Cases Amid Migrant Influx and COVID Fatigue
New York City is recording a ‘dramatic’ rise in tuberculosis cases, reports suggest — fueling fears the disease could resurge in the US.
Preliminary data shows 500 cases of tuberculosis (TB) have been diagnosed in the city so far this year — marking a 20 percent increase from this time last year.
Infections are also at their highest level in the city for this time of year in more than a decade, raising concerns the disease could spill into other areas of the country.
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Not the Onion: Bernie Sanders’ Staffers Have Left-Wing Antiwar Activists Arrested Outside Office
Via AntiWar.com
A group of 50 activists and Vermont constituents staged a sit-in inside Senator Bernie Sanders’ office on Wednesday, demanding the senator to call for peace and diplomacy in Ukraine instead of more weapons and war. The sit-in resulted in the arrest of 11 activists, including an 89-year-old CODEPINK peace activist.
The group was joined by Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr. Cornel West in the Senate lobby for a prayer vigil before the sit-in. The prayer vigil and sit-in were part of a week of action that included an antiwar rally on Tuesday night featuring Dr. West, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary; Claudia de la Cruz, Co-Executive Director of The People’s Forum; Lee Camp, American comedian, writer, podcaster, news journalist; Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange; and Eugene Puryear, American journalist, activist, and host on Breakthrough News.
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Investigative journalist James O’Keefe revealed that Project Veritas reportedly walled off funds to pursue a lawsuit against him, which resulted in the CFO submitting a letter of resignation, calling the move “vindictive.”
O’Keefe, who was ousted from the company that he founded a few months ago, obtained internal emails between former PV CFO Tom O’Hara and CEO Hannah Giles, which provide a closer look as to what led up to the demise of the guerilla news organization that ceased all operations in September.
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A portion of Central Park’s Great Lawn — one of the most popular event venues in New York City — is closed for public use after suffering significant damage during the Global Citizen Festival late last month.
“The Central Park Conservancy is very disappointed that the iconic Great Lawn is now closed and unavailable for New Yorkers to enjoy this fall,” the Central Park Conservancy said of the decision in a statement Tuesday.
“The use of heavy equipment and intense foot traffic in the saturated conditions from the September 23 concert damaged a large portion of the lawn and fully destroyed a third of it,” the statement continued.
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Philly Motorcyclist Filmed Stomping on Car Windshield Arrested After His Employer Tips Off Police
The motorcyclist captured in a viral video stomping out the back windshield of a car with two small kids inside was arrested Wednesday after the suspect’s employer and others tipped off police, according to authorities.
Cody Heron, 26, was charged with possession of an instrument of crime, recklessly endangering another person, and multiple counts of aggravated assault over the Sunday night attack.
Typically lenient Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner reportedly requested Heron be held on $5 million bail, but a judge set it for 10% of $2.5 million during Heron’s arraignment Wednesday night, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Prosecutors allege Heron is the biker caught on camera shattering the car window before pointing a gun at a mother who jumped out of her car to confront him.
Shattered glass fell onto the woman’s two kids, ages 2 and 5, who were sitting in the backseat at the time.
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Professor Warns California’s Equity-Based Math Curriculum Will be a ‘Complete Failure’
A Stanford math professor issued a stark warning Thursday on California’s new math curriculum, arguing the push for “equity” could backfire academically as students continue to reel from post-pandemic learning loss.
Brian Conrad, who read the entire 1,000-page teaching framework, joined “FOX & Friends” to discuss why the effort to include conventional math curriculum is critical in preparing kids for careers and college later in life.
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The latest RealClearPolitics averages of polls reveals that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is trailing President Joe Biden in a hypothetical 2024 head-to-head matchup by 2.5 points, while GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is ahead of Biden by 1.1 points in a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 election.
The RealClearPolitics average of polls for a DeSantis v Biden matchup looked at polling conducted between August 25 and October 1. Biden is at an average of 45.6 points, compared to DeSantis’ 43.1.
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Madeline-Michelle: Carthen has been dead for 16 years — at least according to the government, she says.
Ever since she discovered her social security number was linked to someone “deceased,” the St. Louis native says she has been fighting to prove she is still alive, but to no avail.
“I’m here for the long haul. I just want this over with,” she told Fox News Digital. “This is not right. I could’ve had my PhD by now. I could have been teaching academia right now.”
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Trump to Endorse Jordan for Speaker
Update (2320ET): After teasing himself for Speaker of the House following Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s extremely short tenure, former President Donald Trump will endorse Rep. Jim Jordan’s bid.
“Just had a great conversation with President Trump about the Speaker’s race,” Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) posted on X, adding “He is endorsing Jim Jordan, and I believe Congress should listen to the leader of our party. I fully support Jim Jordan for Speaker of the House.”
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Trump Files Motion to Dismiss DOJ’s J6 Case Against Him, Citing ‘Presidential Immunity’
On Thursday, Donald Trump’s lawyers filed a motion seeking to dismiss the federal election charges leveled against him in Washington, DC. The former commander-in-chief’s team claimed he was protected via presidential immunity, suggesting that because he is the first chief executive to face criminal charges, there is no official precedent claiming otherwise.
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Video Shows Kari Lake Confronting Democrat Rival for Senate: ‘I’m Going to Beat You’
A video has emerged showing GOP rockstar Kari Lake confronting her Democrat rival for the U.S. Senate during a heated argument in an airport.
Lake confronted Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) about the border crisis at the Phoenix airport on Thursday.
Both Lake and Gallego are running for U.S. Senate in 2024.
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Canada Plots to Increase Online Regulation, Target Search and Social Media Algorithms
Canada is taking steps towards potentially intrusive regulation of artificial intelligence as it pertains to its application in search and social media services. The government’s intentions have been revealed, which includes AI application way beyond the realm of generative AI similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Industry giants such as Google and Facebook, who utilize AI for search results, translation provisions, and customer taste recognition respectively, are among the contenders lined up in the regulatory intent with the pro-censorship government intent on having a say on how these algorithms work.
The information comes by way of Minister François-Philippe Champagne of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) in a letter submitted to the Industry committee analyzing Bill C-27—the privacy reform and AI regulation bill. Precise amendments remain shielded from scrutiny, however, as the governmental body keeps the proposed changes under wraps.
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Trudeau Falsely Claims He Never Smeared Parents Who Oppose Gender Ideology as Motivated by ‘Hate’
At a news conference Thursday in Vaughn, Ont., Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lied about having never described parents who oppose gender ideology in the school system as being motivated by “hate.”
Referring specifically to a demand from the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) that Trudeau apologize for issuing a post on X that associated parental rights with hate, a reporter asked Trudeau, “You use the word hate to describe their concerns and you’ve been asked to retract that comment and apologize will you do that and should you have been more careful in the way you discussed this?”
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Footage going viral online shows the moment a Canadian man boldly told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau he’s ruined the nation with his globalist policies.
“I’m not shaking your hand, you’re a piece of shit man,” the individual filming told Trudeau as he went in for a handshake.
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Bizarre Rare Space Explosion Seen Somewhere it Shouldn’t Be
We may know a heck of a lot less about a bizarre kind of cosmic explosion than we thought.
They’re known as luminous fast blue optical transients, or LFBOTs, and one nicknamed the Finch (AT2023fhn) has been spotted in intergalactic space, at a significant distance from the nearest galaxy.
This is a problem, because astronomers thought that LFBOTs could be a type of massive supernova — something thought only really to occur within galactic borders.
“The more we learn about LFBOTs, the more they surprise us,” says astronomer Ashley Chrimes of the European Space Agency and Radboud University in the Netherlands.
“We’ve now shown that LFBOTs can occur a long way from their nearest galaxy, and the location of the Finch is not what we expect for a supernova.”
The first LFBOT was spotted in 2018, and since then we have detected around a handful. With each new discovery, LFBOTs have continued to puzzle scientists. These space explosions are tremendously bright — at least 10 times brighter than a normal supernova — and tremendously brief.
Normal supernovas tend to flare to a peak, then fade over weeks or months; LFBOTs are like a camera flash in space. And they’re tremendously hot; that’s what gives them a bluish hue.
Scientists thought that these events might be caused by an unusual type of core collapse supernova, in which a dying star’s core directly collapses into a neutron star or black hole. This requires a massive progenitor star, at least eight times the mass of the Sun.
Another possibility is that the flashes could be caused by a black hole devouring another ultradense object, such as a white dwarf star.
Massive stars don’t live very long main sequence lives. It’s less than 100 million years for a star eight times the mass of the Sun. And they’re born in regions that are very rich with thick gas and dust, which means galaxies. There’s not a lot of matter in intergalactic space.
Although some stars can get kicked out of orbit onto an escape trajectory and velocity out of their host galaxies, massive neutron star and black hole progenitors are not expected to get that far before their eventual supernovae.
In fact, all previous LFBOTs have been discovered in the spiral arms of galaxies in which star formation is occurring — the expected place to spot a supernova.
This brings us to the problem of the Finch. It was detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 10 April 2023. Its temperature was measured at a whopping 20,000 degrees Celsius (around 36,000 Fahrenheit). Hubble was then called in to figure out where it came from. And this is where things started to get a little hinky.
The explosion took place some 2.86 billion light-years away — but in intergalactic space, some 50,000 light-years from the nearest spiral galaxy, and 15,000 light-years from the nearest dwarf satellite galaxy of that spiral galaxy. This poses a significant challenge to the supernova hypothesis.
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Catholic Movement Civitas Dissolved by French Government
The Catholic movement Civitas, recently accused of promoting anti-Semitic comments at its summer university, had been in the sights of the authorities for several weeks. It has now officially been dissolved by the government.
The decision, taken by the Council of Ministers, was announced on Wednesday, October 4th by government spokesman Olivier Véran.
“Civitas considers human rights to be tools for destroying Christian civilisation. Civitas has organised rallies in tribute to personalities emblematic of collaboration. Civitas promotes a hierarchy between French citizens with clearly anti-Semitic and Islamophobic theses,” he said in the minutes of the Council of Ministers.
The charges against the movement, founded in 1999 to defend, according to its official website, “the national and Christian identity of France” and chaired by the Belgian Alain Escada, had been mounting recently.
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Czechia Changes Its Defense Strategy in Response to Russia
The Czech government adopted a new defense strategy on Wednesday in response to escalating aggression from Russia. This new approach dictates that Czechia must be prepared for a prolonged defensive war against an adversary equipped with nuclear weapons. Central to this policy is the strengthening of military forces to serve in collective NATO defense.
Defense Minister Jana Czernochova remarked in a press conference that this new strategy implies a modernization of the army. As per the document endorsed by the government, another objective is the comprehensive operational preparation of Czech territory to accommodate, move, and support potentially significant allied forces.
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In case you were wondering, there is are supposed to be values and transparency represented by the European (EU) Commission. And the commissioner entrusted with this task befitting the titans, is one Vera Jourova.
Jourova’s had happy news to share on X, a platform she loves to threaten.
“Many thought this was mission impossible. But we have it: a proposal to protect media freedom in the European Union. After today’s vote, let’s get a final deal to protect journalists and our democracies,” the Czech bureaucrat seconded to Brussels posted on October 3.
A day later, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, once again showed he was in no mood to “take any prisoners” concerning EU politics, fraught as it is with way too much discord these days.
This is how Orban wrote in response to Jourova’s enthusiastic post:
“Another anti-freedom proposal from Brussels: establishing total control over the media. We Central Europeans have seen such things in the past. They called it the Kominform and the Reichspressekammer. Never again! #MediaFreedomAct.”
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EU Parliament Designates Surrogacy as Human Trafficking
Surrogacy could soon be classified as a form of human trafficking by the EU.
At its meeting on October 5th, the EU parliament’s joint committee on women’s rights and civil liberties added surrogacy to the list of crimes targeted by the bloc’s directive on preventing human trafficking.
The directive, put in place in 2011, is being revised at a crucial moment when parallel legislation on rules recognizing parentage risks facilitating surrogacy within Europe.
Most EU member states have bans on surrogacy in place, but several do permit altruistic surrogacy or simply have not regulated it. On the edges of the EU though, in countries from Ukraine to Georgia, a booming commercial surrogacy industry exists whose clients often come from within the EU. Additionally, Ukraine, well-known for its surrogacy industry, is seeking fast-track entry into the EU.
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Germany: Fresh Call to Ban AfD Comes From CDU Politician
While the left is well known for calling for a ban on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), often described as a conservative party, also has a variety of politicians calling for the party to be banned. This time, CDU MP Marco Wanderwitz, who was personally defeated by an AfD candidate, plans to introduce a motion in the Bundestag to ban the party.
Wanderwitz made the call to ban the party during the state-run ARD television program “Panorama,” saying, “We are dealing with a party that seriously endangers our free democratic basic order and the state as a whole,” which is why “it is high time to ban them.”
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Knife Attacks at German Train Stations Have More Than Doubled Since 2019
The number of knife attacks recorded at train stations in Germany has more than doubled since 2019, and foreign nationals are greatly overrepresented when analyzing the ethnicity of suspects.
By Aug. 31 this year, the German Federal Police had already recorded 527 violent crimes in which a knife had been used at German train stations — the equivalent of more than two knife attacks a day on average.
The figures were provided by the federal government following a request by Martin Hess, an MP for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
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Last Ever Burial at Vienna’s Habsburg Crypt
The Capuchin crypt, or Habsburg necropolis (Kapuzinergruft or Kaisergruft), which houses the remains of the family that ruled the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, and Hungary for several centuries, is about to welcome the burial of Princess Yolande de Ligne. This is the last place available in the famous vault, after which no member of the family will be able to be buried there.
Princess Yolande de Ligne was the wife of Archduke Charles-Louis of Austria, the fourth son of the last Austrian emperor Charles and his wife Zita. She turned one hundred in May 2023. Widowed in 2007, she died in Brussels on September 13, 2023. She will have the honour of occupying the last available place in the Habsburg family crypt, located in the heart of Vienna.
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More Questions Than Answers in Romanian Motor Insurance Probe
A German MEP has uncovered major flaws in the European Commission’s account of an investigation into the Romanian motor insurance industry, following The European Conservative’s revelation that a business close to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s brother stood to benefit from lax EU regulation in the sector.
This follows complaints by a number of MEPs that EU institutions were withholding key information about the investigation, and claims of manipulation by Romanian regulators.
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Netherlands: Extinction Rebellion Pauses Daily A12 Highway Blockades; Hague Mayor Relieved
Extinction Rebellion (XR) is suspending the blockades on the Utrechtsebaan (A12) in The Hague. The group of activists will await a vote in parliament on Tuesday on a motion in which Suzanne Kroger (GroenLInks) and Raoul Boucke (D66) asked for a phase-out plan for fossil fuel subsidies. The Hague mayor, Jan van Zanen, called it a relief.
If XR indeed suspends its daily blockades, it is “good news for the many police officers who have been working since September 9 and all times before that to clear and prevent blockages,” Van Zanen said.
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Scholz Agrees With Italy’s Tunisia Policy — Meloni
(ANSA) — ROME, OCT 6 — Premier Giorgia Meloni said Friday that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz agrees with the policy Italy is promoting of boosting cooperation with Tunisia and other African countries in order to stop the illegal arrival of migrants to the EU.
The EU recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Tunisia that Meloni was instrumental in bringing about.
“Chancellor Scholz is aware that the Italian strategy is the only one that can be effective,” Meloni said at the end of the informal EU summit in Granada.
“He told me that we must keep going with this work in Tunisia.
“Everyone tells us that the work with Tunis must be replicated with other countries in North Africa and beyond”.
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Slovak President: No Weapons to Ukraine
Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova has refused a plan by her country’s caretaker government to send further military aid to Ukraine, saying it doesn’t have the authority. Simultaneously, parties that oppose such support are in talks to form a government following last week’s election, AP reports.
The presidential office said that Caputova, who has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine and visited Kyiv twice since the start of the Russian invasion, has not changed her view on the necessity of military assistance for Ukraine. But “approving a military aid package by the current outgoing government would create a risky precedent for the change of power after any future elections.”
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The Ukraine War Has Split the Brotherhood Between Poles and Hungarians
Poles and Hungarians have traditionally seen each other as brothers in arms who enjoy a special relationship. The war in Ukraine has thrown this into doubt.
The governments of the two countries have interpreted the war in Ukraine very differently, have different views on the military, and their peoples view the conflict differently too.
According to a Pew Research Center Poll, carried out with Poles and Hungarians in March and April of 2023, 48 percent of Hungarians oppose sanctions on Russia, 34 percent support them, and another 8 percent want these sanctions tightened.
On the other hand, in Poland, 67 percent want sanctions on Russia to be tightened and only 3 percent want them to be lifted.
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The Hensbys were woken by strangers driving by after their home near St Austell, Cornwall became engulfed with flames as a a result of their electric car catching fire in the middle of the night on Monday.
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The 40-year-old tourist was arrested by Israel Police yesterday for intentionally damaging ancient Roman statues displayed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
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Turkiye Denies Damage to Cargo Ship in Black Sea, Explosion Occurred 15 Meters Away From it
The Turkish cargo ship Kafkametler was not damaged in the explosion, which occurred on October 5 in the waters of the Black Sea off the coast of Romania.
This was reported by Reuters with reference to the Turkish maritime authority.
The explosion occurred 15-20 meters behind the Kafkametler as it was heading from the port of Batumi (Georgia) to the Ukrainian port of Izmail.
“The ship continued sailing to its destination to deliver its cargo following checks and there was no evidence that the explosion was caused by a mine,” the department added.
The operator of the Kafkametler ship also said that the cargo ship was not damaged in the explosion. The ship’s crew is safe.
The ship proceeded on to Izmail, but was forced to slow down due to a large accumulation of ships in the Danube channel.
The agency also spoke to Kafkametler’s captain. The cause of the explosion remains unclear, he said.
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Zelenskyy Says Russia Will ‘Again Try to Destroy’ Power Grid
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Friday that Russia will “again try to destroy” Ukraine’s power grid this winter and that Kyiv was making “preparations” to protect its heating facilities.
Fears for Ukraine’s energy security have risen ahead of the winter months as war with Russia has dragged on for almost 20 months.
Last cold season Russia led a campaign of targeting Ukraine’s power grid and energy facilities, leaving thousands to face freezing temperatures in the winter, which can be severe in parts of Ukraine.
“This winter, Russian terrorists will again try to destroy our power system,” Zelenskyy said in his daily evening address.
“We are fully aware of the danger,” he said.
He added that Kyiv was preparing for “the protection of our generating facilities and provision of electricity and heat, restoration of everything damaged by Russian strikes and hostilities.”
He said government officials met to discuss the protection of energy facilities.
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Japan’s Prime Minister Eats Radioactive Fish From Fukushima Waters
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida along with three of his cabinet members ate seafood sourced from waters off the coast of Fukushima, a stunt he pulled roughly a month before in the hopes of dispelling concerns over the safety of the food.
“It is important to show safety based on scientific evidence and resolutely disseminate (the information) in and outside of Japan,” said Economy and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura in a statement to the press.
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New Zealand Gov’t Exempted Elite From ‘Deadly’ COVID Jabs, While Forcing Vax on Public
New Zealand’s Ministry of Health granted vaccine exemptions to key staff while hypocritically rolling out the world’s most draconian vaccine mandates and insisting the public be vaccinated.
The hypocritical vaccine exemptions for the elite were granted by former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government before she stood down and accepted a new role as the World Economic Forum’s global “disinformation czar.”
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Former Northern Territory chief minister Marshall Perron, whose government returned 292,000 hectares of land to Aboriginal traditional owners, has revealed he’s against the Voice.
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For 99-year-old Doug Peterson, Saturday will be the 27th time he has voted in a referendum. In his lifetime, only six have been successful, and they all had bipartisan support.
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Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has announced plans to send 275 National Guard troops to the southern border as record illegal crossings continue to plague the nation.
Ivey follows governors in at least 12 other states who have sent their law enforcement resources to the border this year, with the Alabama leader saying she made the move because ‘every state has become a border state.’
‘Alabama remains committed to being an integral part of the mission to protect our southern border,’ she continued in a statement.
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AOC Implodes Over Biden’s ‘Cruel’ Decision to Build Border Wall
Radical Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is outraged over the news that President Joe Biden’s administration will build a border wall in Texas to tackle the illegal migrant crisis.
As Slay News reported earlier, Biden approved the building over the wall following pressure from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Mayorkas mysteriously changed his tune about tackling the border crisis after House Republicans moved to slash his salary to $1.
Biden issued an order that will allow the government to sidestep environmental regulations in order to resume the border wall plan initiated during President Donald Trump’s administration.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has ruled out the possibility of a European consensus on the European Union’s proposed asylum reforms and accused Brussels of “legally raping” Poland and Hungary by attempting to force through its controversial migration pact via a qualified majority vote.
Speaking from the Spanish city of Granada on Friday, where dozens of EU leaders have convened for the third meeting of the European Political Community, the Hungarian leader insisted his country would remain opposed to any plans by Brussels to obligate member states to receive asylum seekers.
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Chicago residents protested Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to house a large influx of illegal immigrants in a local field house this week.
Frustrated locals gathered for a community meeting inside Amundsen Park field house in the city’s Galewood neighborhood on Tuesday evening to speak out against the mayor’s plan to house new migrants being bussed into the city after a protest earlier that afternoon.
City officials have warned the public that Chicago could start receiving up to 25 buses of migrants a day, for which Johnson is seeking makeshift housing at the field house.
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Outraged residents say they will resist a ‘racist’ Danish law which allows large numbers of people to be evicted from social housing in areas where the authorities say there are too many immigrants.
‘It’s straight up racism,’ said Jawad, a doctor from Mjolnerparken in central Copenhagen, which is surrounded by rapidly gentrifying areas.
‘Even though I was born and raised in Denmark, in the statistics I’m a non-Western immigrant,’ the 29-year-old told AFP.
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Denver’s liberal government has asked officials at border towns to distribute fliers telling asylum seekers to stay away from the Colorado capital, after 21,000 new migrants arrived this year.
Like various liberal cities like Chicago and NYC, the Mile High city has been struggling with migrants being bused north by conservative governors trying to make a point about what they say are open-border Democratic policies. The city currently has about 2,510 migrants staying in temporary shelters and has spent about $26 million on the crisis.
Matthew Mueller, the executive director for the Office of Emergency Management, has asked officials in Brownsville, El Paso, Houston, and Dallas to let migrants know Denver ‘can no longer provide the same level of sheltering resources to newly arriving persons.’
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France Breaks Word and Welcomes Lampedusa Migrants
LAMPEDUSA—France has begun taking in migrants from Italy’s southern island of Lampedusa, with some arriving this week in Paris and more expected to be sent to a small rural village. This is happening against a background of concern expressed by locals and local politicians over safety.
Migrants from Lampedusa have been arriving in France this week, with broadcaster Europe1 reporting that the first wave of arrivals was seen in Paris. Migrants in the French capital claimed they had come from the island to the city before heading on to their final destinations in the UK and elsewhere.
The arrival of migrants from Lampedusa comes after Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin claimed last month that France would not welcome any migrants who had arrived illegally on the island after 5,000 illegals arrived in a single day.
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France: ‘We No Longer Feel Safe!’ Paris Residents Fear Next Wave of Migrants Arriving From Lampedusa
Concern is mounting in the French capital over the latest wave of illegal immigrants to head from the Italian island of Lampedusa to northern Europe, with Parisian residents worrying about their own security.
Several local residents discussed the issue of immigration with the French broadcaster CNews, expressing their fear that Paris could see an influx of new arrivals, with tens of thousands of migrants landing on Italian shores in recent weeks.
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Italy: Migrants: I Understand Hungary, Poland — Meloni
(ANSA) — ROME, OCT 6 — Premier Giorgia Meloni said Friday that she could understand Poland and Hungary, whose opposition to the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum led to there being no chapter on migration in the final declaration of the informal EU summit in Granada.
Under the pact, EU countries will be obliged to take a share of the migrants that arrive in ‘frontline’ States like Italy or Greece or pay for each migrant they refuse to receive.
Meloni has repeatedly said it is more important to stop migrants arriving in the EU in the first place rather than focusing on how to redistribute those that do arrive.
“We voted for the pact because the new rules are better than the previous ones,” Meloni said.
“But I did not make this a priority.
“It is the debate based on an old perception (of the migration issue).
“Our position is different from that of Poland and Hungary because of geographical issues.
“They understand the Italian position, I understand their position perfectly and it does not compromise how we work together”.
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QUITO, ECUADOR — Mayor Eric Adams dropped by a family shelter in Ecuador during his whirlwind migrant discouragement tour Friday — but he failed to tell any of the asylum seekers there not to come to the Big Apple, The Post has learned.
Hizzoner spent roughly an hour meeting with 10 migrant families at the shelter in Quito, as he kicked off day three of his Latin America trip that was purportedly aimed at dissuading asylum seekers from heading to an already overburdened Gotham.
When The Post visited the Fundación Gotitas de Oblación shelter after Adams’ private meet-and-greet, staffers — who were blasting Jay Z’s “Empire State of Mind” — were shocked to learn of the mayor’s underlying migrant message.
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The Salvation Army has been facilitating the rampant migration of refugees into New York City, funding their efforts using FEMA emergency cash, and adding to the Big Apple’s crisis.
Reports emerged this week the charity has been helping migrants fly into New York City despite the asylum seekers already being inside the United States.
Assistance documentation printed by the organization was shared to X on Wednesday, showing TSA airport staff are handed a note saying the migrants ‘must cross the country,’ where they will await ICE check-ins.
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Poland has reintroduced border checks on its border with Slovakia, and over the first 24 hours, it has carried out checks on 6,000 individuals and 2,000 vehicles crossing that border, leading to several migrants being detained.
The checks by border guards on the Polish-Slovak border have led to the detention of five migrants on a train and nine after a car chase. However, Polish and Slovak citizens make up a majority of those who have been checked.
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Sunak and Meloni Talk ‘Tough’ on Migration After EPC Summit
In an act of political posturing amid their abject failures to stem record levels of illegal migration, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni have announced that action will be taken to finally bring an end to the ongoing migration crisis.
The announcement comes on the heels of the less-than-successful European Political Community summit in Granada, where, prior to its commencement, Sunak had sought to make illegal migration one of the top agenda items. His efforts, however, were brushed aside by the left-wing Spanish hosts, who preferred instead to discuss other ‘more pressing’ issues.
In a joint op-ed piece titled “We must stand together against criminal people smugglers,” published by The Times on Friday, October 6th, Sunak and Meloni, both of whom have overseen record levels of illegal immigration despite their hardline rhetoric on the issue, wrote that “now is the time” to take action to stop illegal migratory flows to regain the trust of the British and Italian people.
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Florida law judge John Van Laningham called for Science teacher Yojary Mundaray to be exonerated after she was fired for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns.
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Loudoun County Sexual Assault Victim Files $30 Million Lawsuit Against School Board
The Loudoun County student who was sexually assaulted in a high school restroom filed a $30 million federal lawsuit against the school district.
The girl, who is a minor and used a pseudonym in the filing, was 15 years old when a male student in a skirt sexually abused her in a bathroom at Stone Bridge High School on May 28, 2021.
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‘Non-Binary’ Male Computer Scientists Overtake Women’s Tech Conference
On September 26, hundreds of women and non-binary technologists gathered in Orlando, Florida to take part in AnitaB.org’s annual Grace Hopper Celebration conference, however this year an alarming number of males exploited the three-day event’s gender identification rules to join in, drawing the ire of female attendees.
Many reported feeling unsafe, and annoyed that males were taking up time at the booths and recruiting stations meant to help women and non-binary students and professionals make connections and find employment in an industry that has long been harder for them to break into.
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Ohio Coach Smeared by Her College for Standing Up for Women in Sports
An Ohio coach has been publicly smeared by her own college after she bravely took a stand to defend female athletes in women’s sports.
56-year-old Kim Russell, the head women’s lacrosse coach at Oberlin College, says she was “burned at the stake” for opposing “transgender” biological males in women’s sports.
Russell reportedly published a post on Instagram congratulating Emma Weyant for being the “real winner” of the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA championships last year.
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UK Prime Minister Warns Country Will Not ‘Be Bullied’ Into Believing There Are More Than 2 Genders
The United Kingdom’s conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned that the British people will not “be bullied” into accepting radical gender ideology.
During a speech this week, Sunak said no one should “be bullied into believing that people can be any sex they want.”
Sunak, the first British Asian to hold the high office, made the remarks at the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday.
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WHO: ‘Meat Supply’ Will Cause ‘Next Pandemic’
The globalist World Health Organization (WHO) has started warning that the “meat supply” will trigger the “next pandemic” by causing deadly pathogens to jump from animals to humans.
This disturbing new narrative comes amid an already escalating war against agriculture and livestock farming over claims that producing meat and dairy products contributes to the so-called “climate crisis.”
Now the United Nations’ WHO is targeting the meat industry with the latest proven fear tactic — the alleged risk of another freedom-robbing pandemic.
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“Czechia must be prepared for a prolonged defensive war against an adversary equipped with nuclear weapons…”
Yeah right! What a statement to make for a puppet defence minister in a NATO/EU Protectorate…
We, the 10 million Czechs, are gonna take our 5 supersonic jets and take on Russia!
And we are gonna buy the most expensive F35’s – because F35’s is basically a stealth nuclear warhead carrier…
Cernochova and her government already signed a subservient “Treaty” with the US allowing US and other NATO troops to stay in Bohemia and Moravia indefinitely, and allowing US and NATO to store nuclear weapons in the Czech Republic…
I mean – come on – how long does the Czech Republic has to play the useful idiot of Europe? Barking at Russia as a yorkshire terrier barking at a pitbull.
“Outraged residents say they will resist a ‘racist’ Danish law which allows large numbers of people to be evicted from social housing in areas where the authorities say there are too many immigrants.
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‘Even though I was born and raised in Denmark, in the statistics I’m a non-Western immigrant,’ the 29-year-old told AFP.”
Something doesn’t add up in this story. If he successfully completed a lifetime education in Denmark to become a doctor, why does he live in social housing? It is only there that the law applies, they cannot touch tenants in private contracts and owners.
Killary is back on the Clinton Foundation fundraising circuit with her latest comment about “deprogramming.”
I know what Hillary needs.
It has a rope attached to a stone on a ship above the Marianas Trench.
Today, Oct. 7, 2023 The Muslim terrorists Hamas has attacked the Hebrews. It’s a bloody war, thousands have died.
Let’s hope that the Jews prevail and wipe those evil terrorists from the earth.
Well well, would you look at that! We both agree on something finally!
It is NOT my intention to agree with you on ANYTHING.
British Army colonel thrown out of army for ant- trans views:
https://youtu.be/DgmrjICEw4c?si=gWHskXXWmUd6Rsco