An outlet in Melbourne for the popular Australian burger restaurant chain Burgertory burned down after the chain’s owner became a prominent advocate for Palestine. The owner of Burgertory is Hash Tayeh, originally from Jordan, who had expressed his strong public support for the Palestinians in Gaza. This evening pro-Palestinian demonstrators clashed with supporters of Israel in a park near the burned-out restaurant.
In other news, police in Hamburg are searching for two Arabic-speaking males who raped a young mother who was on her way to pick up her child from school.
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Biden Officials Blame GOP ‘Extremism’ for Moody’s ‘Negative’ Credit Outlook
The Biden administration released statements Friday evening disagreeing with Moody’s Investors Service changing the United States credit outlook to “negative.”
Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo promised that President Joe Biden has proposals to cut the budget and reduce the national deficit as a result. Moody’s claimed to have changed the outlook from “stable” to “negative” because fiscal deficits remained large, which is causing debt affordability to weaken significantly.
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An 18-year-old college student has died after being hit by a stray bullet allegedly fired by a career criminal in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jillian Ludwig, originally from New Jersey, succumbed to her injuries on Thursday, two days after being shot. The suspect, 29-year-old Shaquille Taylor, was arrested and subsequently booked on aggravated assault and witness tampering, though upgraded charges are being explored.
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Election offices across the country have reportedly received voter envelopes through the mail laced with a suspicious “white powder.”
Some of the envelopes have tested positive for fentanyl, according to authorities.
The letter included a warning message that appeared to be from the violent far-left group Antifa.
The incidents have led to the evacuation of several election offices, including a key battleground state, causing delays in ballot counting.
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Biden’s 2020 Campaign Accused of Violating Federal Law, Running ‘Coordinated Disinformation’ Effort
Democrat President Joe Biden’s 2020 election campaign and several of his administration’s officials and allies have been accused of violating federal law by running a “coordinated disinformation” effort.
The allegations have been made in a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
The alleged campaign finance violation could ensnare Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 51 former senior intelligence officials who asserted without evidence in 2020 that reports on Hunter Biden’s laptop were part of a “Russian disinformation” campaign.
The complaint was filed by America First Legal (AFL), a conservative organization run by President Donald Trump’s former White House aide Stephen Miller.
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Bill Gates Business Associates Reach Combined $365 Million Settlement With Jeffrey Epstein’s Victims
My new book, Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life, reveals Bill Gates’s vast network of influence over key technologies, industries, and people. The book also explores Gates’s complicated relationship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and sheds new light on the mutual associations and interests these two men shared.
On Thursday, a federal judge approved the $290 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by the sex abuse victims of Epstein against JPMorgan Chase—a close mutual business associate of both Gates and Epstein.
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Breaking: Fentanyl Letters Sent to Election Centers Across US All Originated in Portland: Report
On Tuesday evening, numerous election offices in Georgia and Washington state received letters laced with fentanyl, causing evacuations and hindering the voting process.
It has since been revealed that the letters all originated from a single location in Portland, Oregon.
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Columbia Suspends Anti-Israel Student Groups for ‘Threatening Rhetoric and Intimidation’
Columbia University is suspending the far-left groups Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as official student groups through the end of the fall term, it announced on Friday, saying they had violated university policies.
The university said it made the decision after the groups “repeatedly violated University policies related to holding campus events, culminating in an unauthorized event Thursday afternoon that proceeded despite warnings and included threatening rhetoric and intimidation.”
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Democrat Tlaib Funded by ‘Six Terror-Linked’ Fundraisers, Watchdog Warns
Radical anti-Semitic Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is funded by at least “six terror-linked activists,” a watchdog group has warned.
Canary Mission, an organization that monitors anti-Semitism across the United States, wrote in its October report that “Squad” member Tlaib is backed by “six terror-linked activists who all served as cohosts for fundraisers for her 2018 congressional campaign.”
The watchdog identified three new Tlaib fundraisers who are connected to terrorism, just a day after Tlaib was censured by the House for promoting anti-Semitism.
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Drug addicts, dealers and homeless who have plagued San Francisco’s downtown have miraculously disappeared this week as the city cleans up for a huge international event.
Sources tell The Post the homeless have been pushed to other parts of the city in preparation for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, which starts tomorrow and runs through Nov. 17.
However, residents and business owners said city officials’ attempts to “herd” transients and drug addicts is only a “Band-Aid” to a severe problem as drug overdoses continue to plague the city.
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Elderly Man Stabbed, Carjacked by Woman That Led Police on a Pursuit With 5 Kids and 9 Loaded Guns
BARSTOW, Calif. (VVNG.com) — A woman wanted for stabbing and carjacking an elderly man in Barstow was arrested after a high-speed pursuit ended in Phelan, inside the car authorities located her 5 kids and 9 loaded guns.
The incident was reported to the Barstow Police Department Dispatch Center on November 8, 2023, at around 3:24 pm, on the 500 block of E. Virginia Way.
The caller identified himself as the 72-year-old victim and reported he was loading his groceries into his vehicle when he was approached by a black female adult, later identified as 34-year-old Kieaira Shanta Jackson.
The elderly man reported he was stabbed in the chest with an unknown object by the female suspect who then stole his white Dodge Dart.
According to the Barstow Police Department, the suspect then loaded five young children, ages 6 months to 9 years old, into the victim’s vehicle along with nine loaded firearms and fled the area.
As Barstow Police Officers were arriving on scene, they observed the vehicle leaving the parking lot and attempted to conduct a traffic stop. Jackson failed to stop for police officers and led them on a pursuit.
The suspect entered the southbound I-15 freeway traveling more than 100 M.P.H., weaving in and out of traffic, and driving on the shoulder with no regard to other drivers.
Barstow PD turned the pursuit over to the California Highway Patrol in the area of the southbound I-15 at Stoddard Wells Road. The pursuit continued into Phelan where the suspect erratic driving caused the vehicle to become disabled in the area of Paramount Street and Luna Road.
“Kieaira Jackson was taken into custody and found to be in possession of nine loaded firearms to include assault rifles. Department of Child Services arrived and took the five children into protective custody,” stated Barstow Police in a news release.
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Eric Adams Had Cellphones, iPad Seized by FBI as Part of Corruption Investigation
The FBI seized Mayor Eric Adams’ electronic devices early this week as part of a federal probe into his campaign fundraising, The Post has learned.
The feds seized the electronics — which included at least two cellphones and an iPad — in connection to an investigation into whether Hizzoner’s 2021 campaign colluded with the Turkish government and others to direct money into his mayoral effort, sources told The Post after the news was first reported by the New York Times.
Adams’ campaign attorney Boyd Johnson said the mayor was cooperating with federal authorities and had already reported that a review found “an individual had recently acted improperly.”
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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares wants to take down Democrat billionaire George Soros-funded prosecutors nationwide and says election night Tuesday was a great sign of growing momentum against progressives despite GOP losses.
The state’s top attorney acknowledged the string of losses endured by Republicans this week on election night, telling DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview that it confirms that Virginia is a deeply ‘purple state.’
On Tuesday, Democrats retained their majority in the state Senate, and won 51 seats in the House of Delegates, taking control out of the hands of Republicans. The results shattered Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s hope to pass a 15-week abortion ban in the state.
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The latest person to be caught on video ripping down flyers showing Hamas hostages has been revealed to be a teaching assistant (TA) at the University of Southern California and the daughter of a Democratic Mayor in Washington state.
Originally from Redmond, WA, Rachel Birney, a USC Physics TA, giggled while tearing down the flyers on campus when she was confronted by someone with a camera.
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Florida Judge Denies Trump Bid to Push Back Classified Documents Trial
A federal judge in Florida denied former President Donald Trump’s request to move his trial on charges of mishandling national security information until after the 2024 election — but said she would reconsider the case schedule early next year.
In a nine-page ruling issued Friday, US District Judge Aileen Cannon set a scheduling conference between lawyers for the 77-year-old Trump and prosecutors from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office for March 1, 2024, at which she said she would re-examine the “premature” defense request.
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Free-Speech Advocates Push Elon Musk to Fight ‘State-Sponsored Censorship’: Petition
In an open letter to Elon Musk, more than 50 human rights groups, journalists, commentators and think tanks asked the owner of X, formerly Twitter, to “harness” the social media platform to combat “threats to free expression often come at the hands of businesses treating employees unfairly for sharing their views.
In an Aug. 5, 2023, X post, Musk announced, “If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit.”
“Even more insidious is the mounting trend of government suppression of speech with the imposition of serious penalties, and even criminal sanctions, for free expression,” the letter says.
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Georgia Man Arrested for Threatening to Kill Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
WASHINGTON — A Georgia man was arrested on charges of threatening to kill Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia confirmed to NBC News on Friday.
Sean Patrick Cirillo, of Macon, has been charged with using his phone to threaten Greene, R-Ga., and her staff.
The news was first reported by CNN.
According to senior law enforcement sources, Cirillo allegedly called Greene’s office twice on Wednesday, threatening “to kill her next week.”
Cirillo was arrested by the FBI and is behind bars, pending his first appearance in federal court on Monday.
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German Taxpayers Foot the Bill for €167,000 Spent on Hair and Makeup Just This Year
Germany’s federal government has spent around €167,000 on hairdressers and makeup artists so far in 2023. The Foreign Office under Annalena Baerbock (Greens) was the biggest spender with €99,000, according to the government’s answer to a question from the AfD parliamentary group.
According to this, hairdresser visits and makeup for the Green minister cost more than those of all other ministries combined. Baerbock is followed by the Federal Chancellery with €23,000 and the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs of Lisa Paus (Greens) with €21,000. The Federal Ministry of Economics has the smallest bill, with hair and makeup in Robert Habeck’s ministry costing taxpayers just €550.
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A Republican congresswoman has introduced an amendment seeking to slash the salary of Democrat President Joe Biden’s White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to just $1.
In justifying the move, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) accused Jean-Pierre of having “repeatedly lied to the American people.”
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Iowa Police Arrest Suspect After Alleged Sexual Assault of Former Arizona Sen. Martha McSally
Police in Nebraska arrested a suspect Friday after former Republican Arizona Sen. Martha McSally said she was sexually assaulted two days ago while running along the Missouri River on the Iowa-Nebraska border.
The suspect, identified by authorities as 25-year-old Dominic Henton of Papillion, was taken into custody in Omaha early this morning, according to the Council Bluffs Police Department.
The department announced last night that an arrest warrant was issued for Henton for one count of Assault with Intent to Commit Sexual Abuse in relation to the incident Wednesday in Council Bluffs, a city that is adjacent to Omaha.
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Lewiston Gunman Threatened N.H. Bakery Store Six Days Before Mass Shootings, Police Say
Six days before he killed 18 people in Lewiston, Robert R. Card II told workers at a New Hampshire bakery store that he might “snap on” them during a verbal altercation, Hudson Police Chief Tad Dionne said Friday.
Dionne said employees at the Country Kitchen Bakery Outlet did not contact his department after the Oct. 19 incident but reported it to police after Card was publicly identified as the person responsible for the Oct. 25 mass shooting at a bowling alley and billiards club.
The employees reported that Card said “Maybe you will be the ones I snap on,” according to Dionne. He also said that “I’m not gay or a pedophile, but just show me where the bread goes.”
As his mental health deteriorated in the months before the shootings, Card had become increasingly paranoid that people were calling him a pedophile, officials said.
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Residents of a small Michigan town have risen up and voted out their entire local government after officials backed plans to build a Chinese Communist Party-linked electric vehicle (EV) plant nearby.
The entire local government of Green Charter Township was voted out in a recall election.
The move came over concerns about a Chinese-affiliated company’s plans to build an EV battery plant in the small town.
In a special election on Tuesday, Green Charter Township’s five incumbent board members were voted out.
The board has now been replaced by five new candidates.
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And so it begins. In fact, it hardly ever stops — another election cycle in well on its way in the US. But what has emerged these last few years, and what continues to crop up the closer the election day gets, is the role of the most influential social platforms/tech companies.
Pressure on them is sometimes public, but mostly not, as the Twitter Files have taught us; and it is with this in mind that various announcements about combating “election disinformation” coming from Big Tech should be viewed.
Although, one can never discount the possibility that some — say, Microsoft — are doing it quite voluntarily. That company has now come out with what it calls “new steps to protect elections,” and is framing this concern for election integrity more broadly than just the goings-on in the US.
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NJ National Guardsman Wanted Over Capitol Riots Turns Himself in After Manhunt
The former New Jersey National Guard member who was wanted by the feds for allegedly trying to pepper-spray cops and protesters during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots turned himself in Friday after a two-day manhunt.
Gregory Yetman, 46, surrendered to police in Monroe Township, New Jersey, first thing Friday without incident, an FBI spokesperson said.
It was not immediately clear whether he turned himself in alone or was accompanied by a lawyer.
The fugitive had been on the lam since Wednesday after he fled into the woods near his Helmetta home as FBI agents arrived to arrest him on a federal warrant, authorities said.
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Nolte: Disney’s ‘The Marvels’ Crash-Dives With $6.5M Thursday
The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s worst fears appear to be coming true, with the $275 million The Marvels already dying at the box office.
Thursday night previews don’t always tell the whole story. Still, they tell enough of the story that a $6.5 million opening for a Marvel movie, especially one that cost $275 million to produce, is newsworthy.
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Philly’s New Mayor Wants National Guard to Clean Up Open-Air Drug Markets in Kensington
On Tuesday, Philadelphia elected a new mayor who says she wants to invoke the National Guard to crack down on the city’s notorious open-air drug market, according to Fox News.
Democrat mayor-elect Cherelle Parker, who is much tougher on crime than her predecessor, says residents should not have to live with the drug crisis on Kensington Avenue and is willing to put an end to the open-air drug dens by any means necessary, including military intervention.
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Political Cartoonist Speaks Out After Washington Post Pulls His Work Mocking Hamas
Michael Ramirez, the political cartoonist whose work mocking Hamas was pulled by The Washington Post following internal and external backlash, is speaking out about the “unfortunate” episode restricting free speech.
The cartoon titled “Human shields” depicted the terrorist group’s spokesperson saying, “How dare Israel attack civilians,” while a frightened-looking woman and four small children remain bound with rope to his body.
“I think it’s empirically true that Hamas uses civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, as human shields,” Ramirez told Fox News Digital in an interview Friday. “I don’t think it’s a hidden knowledge that they operate their bases in densely populated areas and under civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, they fire rockets from densely residential areas, and by design, to sacrifice the lives of the innocent people.”
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President Trump Says He Would Consider Tucker Carlson as His Running Mate
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump said he would consider world-renowned journalist Tucker Carlson as his running mate.
Trump, who is the current frontrunner in the GOP 2024 presidential primary, told the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show that the former Fox News host as his potential Vice President could be a possibility because Carlson has “great common sense.”
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Pro-Palestinian Rioters Vandalize NYPD Cruiser During Anti-Israel Protests
Pro-Palestinian rioters vandalized a police cruiser in New York City on Thursday, as they voiced opposition to Israel amid calls for an immediate cease-fire.
Around 5 p.m., a group occupied the lobby of the New York Times building and some spray-painted “Free Gaza” on an NYPD vehicle outside the building. On another side of the cruiser, “KKK” and “IDF,” referring to the Israel Defense Forces, were also spray-painted.
A smoke bomb was also reportedly set off nearby. Fox News Digital has reached out to the NYPD.
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Pro-Palestinian Protestors Swarm New York Times Headquarters Calling for Cease-Fire in Gaza
Pro-Palestinian protesters invaded the lobby of The New York Times on Thursday, demanding a cease-fire in Gaza and insisting the liberal paper favors Israel in its coverage of the ongoing war.
A group of protesters entered the atrium of the Times building in Midtown Manhattan carrying a banner calling for a cease-fire. They also wrote “lies” across the door in paint, read names of Palestinians killed in Gaza aloud, scattered mock editions of the newspaper and accused the media of “complicity in laundering genocide.”
The Times’ head of corporate security told staffers via email that the protests were “peaceful” and pointed out that no entrances were being blocked, according to the Associated Press.
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WASHINGTON — Fourth-ranking House Republican Elise Stefanik accused Judge Arthur Engoron of “bizarre behavior” and “clear judicial bias” Friday in the ongoing civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump.
Stefanik (R-NY) asked the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct to review what she labeled Engoron’s “inappropriate bias and judicial intemperance.”
The upstate lawmaker insisted that “Judge Engoron is not honoring the defendant’s rights to due process and a fair trial” and is “breaking several rules in the New York Code of Judicial Conduct” while considering allegations that Trump inflated the value of his properties to secure bank loans.
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Seattle Area Public Schools See Spike in Antisemitic Incidents Against Students
On Thursday night, parents in the Bellevue, WA School District came to a school board meeting to discuss their concerns about children being bullied because they’re Jewish.
Parents told the board that the problems have spiked since Hamas terrorists massacred over 1,400 Israelis and more than 200 hostages on Oct 7.
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Speaker Mike Johnson Pumps the Brakes on Biden Impeachment
While the Democrats impeached Donald Trump twice for optics — once because he asked Ukraine for evidence of the Biden family’s obvious corruption, and a second time for ‘incitement of insurrection’ related to January 6th, newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is a no-go on a Biden impeachment despite ample evidence that the Bidens received and distributed large sums of money from foreign sources — which raises obvious questions over foreign influence and pay-for-play.
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Suspect in Death of Jewish Man at Anti-Israel Protest is California Computer Science Professor
The person of interest in the killing of an elderly Jewish man at an anti-Israel protest in Los Angeles on Monday is a Muslim computer science professor who teaches at California State University Northridge and Moorpark College, according to Red State.
Loay Alnaji, 50, of Moorpark, is suspected of killing Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish man, at an anti-Israel demonstration near Westlake Blvd in Ventura City. Alnaji allegedly hit Kessler over the head with a megaphone that caused him to fall backwards and strike his head on the sidewalk.
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Trump Judge’s Wife Denies Posting Anti-Trump Messages
The wife of Judge Arthur Engoron has denied making anti-Trump posts on X, after conservative activist Laura Loomer said Dawn Engoron was behind an account that frequently posts anti-Trump content against the former president.
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Trump Bests Biden in Key Swing States in 3rd Poll This Week
Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in six of seven crucial swing states, according to a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll, mirroring a trend in two separate polls published Sunday and Thursday.
In hypothetical head-to-head matchups, Trump leads Biden to varying degrees in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, while they tie in Michigan.
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The Equal Protection Project (EPP) (EqualProtect.org) of the Legal Insurrection Foundation has challenged numerous racially discriminatory programs done in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This discrimination comes in various ways, but the overarching theme is to exclude or diminish some people and promote others, based on race, color, or ethnicity.
As previously reported, EPP challened is a tuition waiver program at Bismarck State College in North Dakota, which is open only to non-whites, by filing a civil rights complaint with the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education.
EPP has now filed civil rights complaints against the University of North Dakota and the University of North Dakota Law School for similar discriminatory tuition waiver programs.
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From the Chicago Maroon (Nikhil Jaiswal, Finn Hartnett, Solana Adedokun & Michael McClure):
At 6:15 p.m. University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) officers began to arrest demonstrators engaged in a sit-in inside Rosenwald Hall. In addition to student demonstrators, two faculty members were also arrested. The arrested individuals were processed inside adjacent Walker Museum as protesters surrounded all exits. They were charged with “criminal trespass to real property,” a Class B misdemeanor under Illinois state law.
Protesters from UChicago United for Palestine (UCUP) have been engaged in a sit-in in the building since 11:30 a.m…
At 6:05 p.m., a protester warned that those inside Rosenwald were given five minutes to leave the building before they would be issued a citation…
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UCLA Students Batter Bibi Piñata to Chants of ‘Beat That F**king Jew!’
Pro-Palestinian students at UCLA were captured on video battering a piñata bearing an image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — to the chant of “Beat that f—king Jew!”
A crowd of students assembled around the effigy on Wednesday to express their anger at Israel’s retaliatory strikes in Gaza after the Hamas attack on the Jewish state on Oct. 7, according to a clip posted on X.
Many of the protesters are seen wearing keffiyeh scarves on their heads and over their faces as they take turns pummeling the swiveling piñata amid loud chants.
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WEF-Linked UPenn: ‘Climate Change’ Causing Heart Attacks Spike
The University of Pennsylvania has published a new study claiming that spikes in fatal heart attacks and strokes are caused by “climate change.”
UPenn, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and linked to the globalist World Economic Forum (WEF), published the results of its study in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA).
The team of researchers from UPenn, led by Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, concluded that “climate change is causing an increase in extreme heat.”
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Justin Trudeau Rails Against ‘Islamophobia’ After Gun Attack on Montreal Jewish Schools
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chose to condemn both “anti-Semitism” and “Islamophobia” after shots were fired at two Jewish schools in Montreal on Wednesday night.
“I understand that people are so profoundly disturbed by what they see happening there,” Trudeau said at a press conference in Montreal on Thursday.
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EU Parliament Agrees on Digital ID Introduction and Pro-Censorship Chief Suggests CBDC Integration
The European Parliament (EP) and the bloc’s member-countries have reached a provisional deal on the digital ID framework, and now EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton is reported as suggesting CBDC (central bank digital currency) integration should follow.
The provisional agreement on what’s known as the eID (European Digital Identity) regulation is being presented by the EU Council (that worked on the agreement together with the EP) as a safe and trusted option, and also one that “protects democratic rights and values.”
Opponents, like Dutch EP member (MEP) Rob Roos, took to X, though, to announce the news, and brand it as “very bad.” The reason, according to Roos, is that in the process of striking a deal the two EU institutions “ignored all the privacy experts and security specialists.”
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France Claims Russia is Whipping Up Antisemitism to Destabilise West
PARIS (AP) — France says it has been the target of a Russian online destabilization campaign that used automated social-media accounts to whip up controversy and confusion about spray-painted Stars of David that appeared on Paris streets and fed alarm about surging antisemitism in France during the Israel-Hamas war.
The 250 or so quickly erased blue stars are now the subject of French police investigations seeking to determine whether the graffiti were antisemitic, as Paris’ police chief and others initially suspected, and if they were organized from outside France.
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Police in Germany are searching for two Arab-speaking males accused of raping a young mother on school grounds in Hamburg as she sought to pick up her child on Tuesday afternoon.
According to a police statement, the attack on the 29-year-old took place shortly before 12 p.m. on Weusthoffstrasse in the Heimfeld district of the city.
The victim “was on her way to the school on Weusthoffstrasse when she was approached by two still unknown men and forced onto the school grounds. One perpetrator then violently held the woman down while the other sexually assaulted her,” it read.
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The governing People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) has received more than double the sum of high-value donations versus any other political party in the lead-up to the Dutch general election later this month, as wealthy financial backers seek to preserve the status quo in the Netherlands amid a rise of populism across Europe.
The VVD has declared €1.51 million in donations over the reporting threshold of €10,000 so far this year, according to government data cited by De Volkskrant newspaper, dwarfing the figures received by some of its closest political rivals in the national polls including Pieter Omtzigt’s New Social Contract (NSC), which has not received any donations of €10,000 or more.
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Hungary: George Soros NGO Challenges Ban on Pro-Palestinian Protests at Court
Following Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s statement that Hungary cannot hold sympathy demonstrations alongside terrorist organizations, police banned another pro-Palestinian demonstration, reported Magyar Nemzet. However, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU, Tarsasag a Szabadsagjogokért) has appealed to the court because, according to HCLU’s Szabolcs Hegyi, “in the tense global political situation, there may be security risks involved in such a demonstration, but this is not in itself a reason to ban it”.
The HCLU, is sponsored by radical left-wing supporters, such as George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, that has been at the forefront of anti-government initiatives in Hungary for years, the American Bar Association, of the Hungarian MagNet Bank, known for its support for LGBTQ and civil liberties causes.
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Hungary and Slovakia Could Oppose Ukraine’s EU Accession
Ukraine’s path to the European Union will be full of obstacles—if a path exists at all—as two member states, Hungary and Slovakia, will very likely block the start of accession negotiations, or at least demand a high price in exchange for their leniency.
After the European Commission on Wednesday, November 8th proposed accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova to be initiated by the European Council—leaders of the 27 member states—Hungary has made it clear it will veto such a decision at an EU summit this December.
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Italy Intervenes to Keep Indi Gregory on Life Support
A terminally ill British child has been given a temporary reprieve after a court delayed the switching off of her life support.
Italian consul in Manchester Matteo Corradini presented an urgent request to the High Court of the United Kingdom on Thursday, delaying a previous court ruling that would have taken seriously ill 8-month-old girl Indi Gregory, who suffers from a rare incurable mitochondrial illness, off life support.
The emergency intervention came as part of an ongoing court battle by the parents of Indi, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, following an October ruling by a British judge, allowing medical personnel at Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) to take the young child off life support. Doctors claim she cannot be treated.
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Poland: Out With the Old: Senior PiS MP Says Party Can’t Depend on Aging Kaczynski Anymore
In the aftermath of PiS failing to secure a majority in parliament, nor being able to form a ruling coalition with any other party, President Andrzej Duda’s advisor and senior MP Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski has contributed to the debate on the direction of the party ahead of next year’s local government and European parliamentary elections.
President Andrzej Duda’s chief aide Marcin Mastalerek has already gone on the record as saying that people inside PiS are increasingly of the view that the process of succession in PiS has to begin soon.
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Police Investigating Whether Spanish Populist Shot in Face Was Iran-Ordered Execution
Spanish police say the attack on a veteran politician had the hallmarks of a professional hit job and are considering whether it may have been ordered by the Iranian regime against a prominent European critic.
Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a retired Spanish right-wing populist politician who was shot in the face at point-blank range as he left church on Thursday is in intensive care in a Madrid hospital but is conscious and able to speak to police officers. Investigators are now considering whether the attack, which may have been meant to be fatal, could have been motivated by a personal grievance or whether it was politically motivated.
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Polish Opposition Signs Coalition Agreement Paving Way for Tusk’s Return to Power
Opposition parties in Poland capable of governing with a parliamentary majority signed a coalition agreement on Friday, paving the way for the liberal, pro-EU former prime minister, Donald Tusk, to return to power.
The deal will likely result in Poland’s next administration comprising Tusk’s liberal Civic Coalition (KO); the center parties of Poland 2050 and the Polish People’s Party (PSL), which ran in the election under the Third Way Alliance; and the New Left.
Negotiations had been ongoing for a few weeks after the Polish election held on Oct. 15 saw the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party lose its grip on power despite returning to the Sejm, Poland’s lower house of parliament, with the most seats.
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Portugal Election: Eurocrats Fear Populist Surge
Europhiles spared no time warning against a populist backlash after the shock resignation of Portugal’s socialist PM António Costa over a green energy scandal, which has resulted in snap elections in the Atlantic nation.
Lisbon’s political scene is still coming to terms with Costa’s departure. This comes after police raids on his official residence and the homes of multiple members of his Cabinet in connection with a corruption probe around the mining of lithium and the production of hydrogen energy. The probe suggests an extensive grift network involving public funds.
Portuguese citizens will now go to the polls in March 2024 after an election campaign that pundits predict could hand momentum to the populist Right in the form of the Chega party.
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Privacy Fears as EU Moves Forward With Digital ID
The European Parliament and the majority of the member states reached a provisional agreement on the establishment of the “European digital ID” or “eID”—the first central and fully digital identification system for all Europeans—on Thursday, November 9th. Conservative lawmakers and cybersecurity experts are sounding the alarms, citing concerns for potential large-scale abuse.
“We are taking a fundamental step so that citizens can have a unique and secure European digital identity,” Nadia Calvino, the Spanish minister for economy and digitalization, representing the European Council’s Spanish presidency, said.
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Spain: Sanchez Amnesty Deal: EU Commission Wants Explanation
Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is one step closer to clinching another four years at the helm of his country’s government.
His socialist party PSOE announced on Thursday morning that it had reached an agreement with the Catalan-separatist party Junts per Catalunya that would give the party’s seven votes in congress to Sanchez. The agreement has been much anticipated as it includes the Catalans’ demand for an amnesty for leaders of the 2017 illegal referendum, headed by MEP Carles Puigdemont, a fugitive of Spanish justice and president of Junts per Catalunya.
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UK: Disgraced CEO at Heart of Farage Debanking Scandal Loses £7.5 Million Payout
The bank boss who lost her job over her behaviour during the Nigel Farage debanking scandal is set to lose most, but not all of her £10 million-plus payout as Natwest Group concludes she could not be justly considered a “good leaver”.
Dame Alison Rose, who resigned from her post as CEO of the partially state-owned NatWest bank in July after her role in the Nigel Farage debanking scandal will receive £2.4 million in pay and £850,000 in shares following her departure, the bank has decided. She forfeited £7.6 million including other shares and lost annual performance bonus.
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The Metropolitan Police have announced an ‘exclusion zone’ around the Cenotaph memorial on Whitehall, Westminster, saying anyone “believed to be part of” pro-Palestinian demonstrations inside that area “can be arrested”.
London is due to see Armistice Day commemorations, a major Israel-Palestine protest, and the ancient Lord Mayor’s Show all take place within a matter of hours on Saturday, and while there have been calls for the protest to be banned as not in keeping with the sombre commemoration of the 105th anniversary of the end of the Great War, police instead have published a management plan. The Palestine protest will go ahead, but is being confined to a marching route to the west of Westminster, going around the Royal Green Park, the back of Buckingham Palace, through Pimlico and over the river Thames into Vauxhall.
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UK: Pix: Major Arms Factory Blockaded by Palestine Protesters
Activists protesting against Israel picketed several entrances to a major factory operated by BAE Systems, one of the world’s largest defence contractors on Friday.
Dozens of protesters — with organisers from ‘Workers for a Free Palestine’ claiming “400+” — blocked entrances to a major defence factory in Rochester, Kent on Friday morning. Protesters chanted that Israel is a “terrorist state” and pleaded with employees of BAE Systems to go home rather than try to go to work.
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“No Possibility” of Gaza Ceasefire — Biden
by RT
US President Joe Biden has ruled out any hope of achieving a lasting ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
“None. No possibility,” Biden told reporters outside the White House on Thursday when asked about the chances of a firm cessation in hostilities.
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Caroline Glick: The Truth is Israel’s Narrative
Paul Kessler went to a pro-Hamas demonstration in the Los Angeles area waving an Israeli flag to stand down the crowd gathered to support the genocide of Jews. A pro-Hamas demonstrator, who tracked the 69-year-old before he approached him, clubbed Kessler in the head with a megaphone. Kessler fell to the ground and died of cerebral bleeding.
Forty-eight hours after Kessler was killed, his murderer was still free, even though the police know who he is. Ventura County Sheriff Jim Fryoff hadn’t arrested him because he couldn’t decide whether the murderer’s blow was the reason that Kessler died. Maybe he would have fallen on the ground head-first anyway. These things happen.
Fryoff isn’t the only one who can’t see the connection between A and B these days.
From coast to coast, university presidents can’t figure out whether Israel is to be supported and Hamas condemned, or Hamas is to be supported and Israel is to be condemned. It’s true Hamas murderers savagely executed, raped, sodomized, decapitated, dismembered and kidnapped thousands of innocent Israelis. But then again, Israel retaliated and stuff.
The confusion isn’t limited to police chiefs and professors.
Consider Sen. Bernie Sanders. The Socialist from Vermont told CNN that a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is impossible. As he put it, “I don’t know how you can have a ceasefire, a permanent ceasefire with an organization like Hamas, which is dedicated to turmoil and chaos and destroying the State of Israel.”
But then again, Sanders said: “The immediate task right now is to end the bombing, to end the horrific humanitarian disaster, to build—go forward with the entire world for a two-tier, two-state solution to the crisis to give the Palestinian people hope.”
So, on the one hand, you can’t have a ceasefire because Hamas won’t cease firing since it seeks Israel’s annihilation. And on the other hand, Israel needs to stop firing on Hamas and give the people who elected Hamas a state. Sanders’s confusion makes sense, given his Jewish roots on the one hand, and his ties to the Hamas caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives on the other.
The obvious contradiction in his position resonates with President Joe Biden’s viewpoints as well. True, Biden says, Israel has a right and a duty to defeat Hamas. But it must do so without harming any of Hamas’s human shields, and it needs to accept a ceasefire that will allow Hamas to regroup, resupply and rearm.
True, Biden admits, Hamas wants to annihilate the Jews. And true (although he won’t acknowledge it), the unpopular PLO-controlled Palestinian Authority also wants to annihilate the Jews. All the same, Biden insists that they must always be empowered and never punished for anything…
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Israel Expands Daily Combat Pauses; No Ceasefire
Israeli officials on Thursday, November 9th, announced that it will implement daily, “tactical, localized pauses” in its military operations in Gaza to allow for the evacuation of civilians and distribution of humanitarian aid, but emphasized no ceasefire will occur until all hostages are released.
Israel’s announcement of the humanitarian pauses, set to occur daily for a period of four hours in specific areas in northern Gaza, follow a weeks-long initiative by high-ranking Biden administration officials to persuade Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take steps to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza, The Jerusalem Post reports.
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Bill Maher says it’s “great” white Brits are now a minority in London, but when it comes to Israel, his views on diversity differ.
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Netanyahu Rebukes Macron Over ‘Babies and Women’: Hamas, Not Israel, Causes Civilian Casualties
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron early Saturday morning after Macron called on Israel to stop killing Palestinian “babies and women,” declaring that Hamas was to blame for all civilian casualties.
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A Palestinian who was heralded as a “hero” and compared to Rosa Parks by liberal media after she assaulted an Israel Defense Forces soldier in Nabi Selah, a village in the West Bank, was arrested Monday by the IDF for allegedly inciting terrorism and calling for drinking the blood of Jews.
“The IDF has carried out substantial numbers of counterterrorism activity since Oct. 7 and has apprehended hundreds of suspects. Overnight, the IDF carried out activity to apprehend individuals suspected of involvement in terrorist activity and incitement,” the IDF said. “During the activity, Ahed Tamimi, who is suspected of inciting violence and calling for terrorist activity to be carried out, was apprehended in the town of Nabi Saleh. Tamimi was transferred to Israeli security forces for further questioning.”
Tamimi’s arrest pertained to a social media post allegedly from her social media account, which called for Palestinians to drink Jewish blood and eat their skulls.
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The remarks, some of his most condemning of Israel’s ongoing airstrikes, were delivered during the secretary’s state visit to India. Sec. Blinken commended Israel for daily pauses in combat.
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A video reveals the moment a woman hurls a hot cup of coffee at a man wearing a Palestinian scarf and his child at a Brooklyn playground — and brands them terrorists.
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UN Adopts Eight Resolutions Condemning Israel, Refuses to Condemn Hamas for Terror Attacks
The United Nations (UN) has adopted eight resolutions condemning Israel for its military response to the Hamas terrorist group’s October attacks against the Jewish state.
However, the unelected bureaucratic globalist organization is still refusing to condemn Hamas for its brutal October 7 terror attacks against Israel.
A UN watchdog has criticized the organization for passing multiple resolutions this week condemning Israel for various alleged human rights violations.
However, the UN is making no condemnation of Hamas or other groups or nations, despite a global rise in anti-Semitism.
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What Israelis Think of the War With Hamas
New opinion polls just released from Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University’s Peace Index indicate that Israeli attitudes towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are more hawkish than at any point in recent memory.
Both surveys were conducted in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 massacre and the resulting war with Hamas, and sampled approximately 600 people each. The polls are part of a series conducted several times per year and attempt to be representative of the various factions of Israeli society, including Israeli citizens of Palestinian descent.
Despite thousands of protesters gathering in Tel Aviv to demand the release of the hostages held by Hamas, only 10% of Israeli Jews in the Israel Democracy Institute poll said they would support a pause in fighting in order to exchange hostages. Meanwhile, 44.3%, the plurality of Israeli Jews, said they want the government to negotiate for the hostages immediately without pausing the fighting.
Yossi Mekelberg, an associate fellow at Chatham House who specializes in writing about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, says that while many Israelis want the hostages returned home, they are also worried that releasing Palestinian prisoners will lead to more attacks like the one perpetrated on Oct. 7.
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Pentagon Confirms Four New Attacks on US Military Bases by Iranian-Backed Proxies
On Thursday, the Department of Defense announced that Iranian-backed groups carried out four new attacks on American troops in the Middle East in retaliation for a defensive airstrike on an Iranian facility in Syria.
Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said during a press brief that the latest attacks targeted four US military bases and were in retaliation for a US airstrike conducted on Wednesday that targeted a major weapons facility in Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iranian-backed militants, according to The Hill.
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called on Ukraine’s allies to continue giving Kyiv all the necessary military support it needs in its war against Russia’s aggression and warned that they have to be prepared for a protracted battle, even as Russian shells continued to cause fatalities to civilians and damage to infrastructure sites in the east and south of the country.
“We have to keep giving the Ukrainians the weapons they need to stay strong on the battlefield today, so they can be strong at the negotiating table tomorrow,” Stoltenberg said after talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin.
“These contributions help Ukraine defend its freedom and they help keep Europe safe,” he said.
But Stoltenberg cautioned in an interview with the German news agency dpa that it could take a long time for Ukraine and its allies to achieve their goals.
“We have to be ready for the long term. Wars are by their very nature unpredictable. What we know for sure is that what happens at the negotiating table is inextricably linked to the situation on the battlefield,” Stoltenberg said.
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Ukraine Says it is Ready to Meet Hungary’s Demands on Minority Rights
Ukraine is ready to reach an agreement with Hungary on meeting EU requirements for the protection of the rights of national minorities, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Olga Stefanishyna told a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.
She vowed to guarantee the rights of the ethnic Hungarian minority living in modern-day Ukraine, but rejected claims that Hungarians were particularly affected by the ongoing Russian aggression in the country.
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Ukraine Energy Minister Floats Potential Attacks on Russian Energy Infrastructure
“It would only be fair,” Galushchenko says of attacking Russian oil and gas in response to possible attacks against Ukraine’s grid this winter.
Ukraine is open to the possibility of attacking Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure if Moscow ramps up its targeting of Ukraine’s electric system this winter, Ukraine Energy Minister German Galushchenko said in an interview.
Galushchenko, speaking with POLITICO in Washington, D.C., after meeting with Biden administration officials and lawmakers, said Russia has regularly perpetrated cyberattacks against Ukraine’s electric grid and is expected to ramp up physical attacks as temperatures fall and people depend more on energy to heat their homes…
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The Prime Minister is visiting the Cook Islands for the Pacific Islands Forum, where he pledged $350m towards the Pacific Climate Infrastructure Financing Partnership
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Since Prime Minister Anthony Albanese came to power, after-tax income for every household has fallen by 5.1 per cent — making it the worst plunge among developed nations.
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Burgertory Protest: Violent Rally Kicks Off Outside Burnt Down Restaurant
Protestors from both sides of the Israel-Palestine debate were seen at Princes Park near the Burgertory restaurant in Caulfield, Melbourne ‘s south-east, at 7pm on Friday.
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Popular Burger Shop Burned After Owner’s Pro-Palestine Controversy
A burger store branch owned by a prominent pro-Palestine advocate has been burned in a “suspicious” fire.
A gourmet burger chain outlet whose owner has been a vocal advocate for Palestine has been gutted by a “suspicious” fire in Melbourne’s south.
Burgertory’s Caulfield store was severely damaged by the blaze about 4am on Friday, with crews pictured online battling to put out the fire.
In a statement, Victoria Police confirmed no one was inside the store at the time, but said cause of the fire was being treated as suspicious.
The blaze is the latest blow to Burgertory founder and owner Hash Tayeh, who stoked controversy over his outspoken position on Palestine.
Mr Tayeh was pictured last month leading chants at a pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.
The slogan, calling for freedom from oppression for Palestinians, has been interpreted by some groups as an anti-Semitic rallying cry.
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Watch: Australian Protesters Fight Over Israel-Hamas Conflict
Protesters in Melbourne, Australia fought each other in the streets Thursday night as tension over the Israel-Hamas war spreads worldwide.
Footage captured by Rebel News shows several men throwing punches and wrestling in the middle of a road while police try to break up the skirmish.
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In February 2020, Australian actor Melle Stewart was enjoying standing ovations in Belfast. But she is now unable to walk or talk following a devastating complication from an AstraZeneca Covid jab.
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Apple Agrees to Record $25 Million Discrimination Settlement for Hiring Immigrants Over US Citizens
Apple will be forced to fork over $25 million to settle claims by Biden’s Justice Department that the company illegally favored immigrant workers over American citizens and green card holders for certain jobs.
According to the Department of Justice, the tech giant didn’t recruit US citizens or permanent residents for jobs that were eligible for the permanent labor certification or PERM program, which enabled employers to sponsor immigrant workers for green cards. The practice was a violation of a federal law that bans discrimination based on citizenship.
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European Elections Will be Fought on the Issue of Mass Migration, Says Hungary PM Orban
A key battleground during the European parliamentary elections next year will be the issue of mass migration, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said, claiming that the migration policies adopted by liberal governments in Western Europe have increased the terror threat on the continent.
Speaking to Hungary’s Kossuth Radió, the Hungarian leader said that a recently declassified secret service report on migration proved his administration right in its assessment that “migration and terrorism go hand in hand,” and reaffirmed his government’s commitment to cracking down on illegal immigration in the name of national security.
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The European Parliament has voted to lift the immunity of four of Poland’s governing party’s MEPs who have been accused of violating hate crime laws for endorsing an election advert that warned of the dangers of mass immigration.
Beata Kempa, Beata Mazurek, Patryk Jaki, and Tomasz Poreba could now face charges in their homeland for racially aggravated offenses after they retweeted and liked a Law and Justice (PiS) election video on social media ahead of local elections in 2018.
The video warned of the threats that an influx of illegal immigrants to Europe could cause and linked “enclaves of Muslim refugees” with sexual assaults and violent attacks.
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German Homelessness Rises by 50% in a Year Amid Surge of ‘Asylum Seekers’
by RT
A sharp rise in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Germany has contributed to a more-than-50% rise in homelessness in the EU state in the past 12 months, according to a report by an emergency housing assistance organization.
Increased rents, a lack of social housing and soaring costs of living have limited accommodation options for about one million refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, The Times newspaper reported, citing just-released data from the Federal Association for Aid to the Homeless (Bag W). Additionally, about 148,000 non-Ukrainians applied for asylum in the EU state in 2022, further compounding the country’s scarcity of available housing.
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Muslim Democrats ‘Horrified’ by Plan to Halt Palestinian Immigration to U.S.
Muslim Democrats Andre Carson, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar say they are “horrified” by GOP plans that would halt Palestinian legal immigration to the United States.
This week, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) and other House Republicans introduced legislation to ban the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from providing green cards, visas, refugee status, and parole to Palestinians.
Zinke’s legislation also would revoke visas for Palestinians in the United States, thus making them eligible for deportation.
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Only 2% of the 140K Migrants Who Have Come to NYC Have Applied for Work Permits
Only about 2% of the tens of thousands of migrants who have poured into the Big Apple since the asylum seeker crisis started have actually applied for work authorization permits, the latest data shows.
Roughly 3,200 asylum seekers in New York City have filed the required paperwork needed to start earning a legal paycheck — some 18 months after the relentless migrant influx first began, according to figures provided by City Hall.
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Video: Migrant Caravan Chants “Biden” in Celebration of Open Border Policies
Viral footage shows the moment a large group of migrants heading towards America’s southern border chanted, “Biden,” in support of the man illegally letting them into the country.
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The management of a preschool in Austria has uninvited Santa Claus from his annual scheduled visit to see the children citing cultural differences.
The kindergarten, located in the town of Plainfeld, Salzburg, opted to cancel the event linked to the Christian religious holidays as it considered it to be inappropriate in an ever-increasing diverse community, according to the Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper.
“The management claimed diversity and cultural differences as well as some children being afraid of the figure,” the newspaper reported.
Parents of the children expressed their anger at the school leadership team for the decision.
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Singer Susan Calloway, known for her contribution to the Final Fantasy XIV video game, has been disinvited from the upcoming Final Fantasy enthusiast gathering, KupoCon, set to take place in Toronto. This decision followed revelations that her social media posts on X displayed liked posts from celebrated female athlete Riley Gaines who has continually expressed her reservations about male involvement in women’s sports.
KupoCon disclosed an official declaration on their website, stating the reasons behind the sudden withdrawal of Calloway’s much-awaited appearance.
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Ivy League Professor Promotes ‘Thought-Provoking’ Pro-Bestiality Study
An Ivy League professor and self-described animal rights activist promoted a pro-bestiality study online Thursday, calling it “thought-provoking.”
Princeton University bioethics professor Peter Singer shared the study from the Journal of Controversial Ideas, which he co-founded, saying the article challenges society’s “taboo” against having sex with animals.
“Another thought-provoking article is ‘Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible’ by Fira Bensto (pseudonym), which is just out in the current issue of [the Journal of Controversial Ideas],” Singer wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
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Muslims Protest British Band Coldplay’s Concert Over LGBTQ+ Support
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Dozens of conservative Muslims marched in Indonesia’s capital on Friday, calling for the cancellation of Coldplay’s upcoming concert over the British band’s support for the LGBTQ+ community.
Coldplay is renowned for interlacing its values with its shows, such as the band’s push for environmental sustainability. Lead singer Chris Martin has been known to wear rainbow colors and wave gay pride flags during performances.
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NYC Man Charged With Anti-Gay Hate Crimes for Allegedly Punching Lesbian on the Subway
On Tuesday, New York Police arrested a suspect on anti-gay hate crime charges who had violently assaulted and threatened two women on a city bus and a Brooklyn subway.
Richard Taylor, 28, of Canarsie, Brooklyn, has been charged with the following hate crimes: menacing, aggravated harassment, strangulation, assault, and harassment, according to the New York Daily News.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/luongo-evolving-battle-lines-middle-east
Said it before, Turkey in NATO equals having a rattle snake in one’s living room. This whole theater will go down in a hot mess.