The government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has banned the production, distribution, and sale of halal-certified food products. The decision only applies to the domestic market; halal foods may still be produced for export.
In other news, residents of the Indonesian province of Aceh have turned back Rohingya boat refugees from Myanmar, whom they consider badly-behaving.
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“We Are Entering a Period of Warfare”: An Interview With George Friedman
George Friedman is a geopolitical forecaster and strategist on international affairs and the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures. He has briefed numerous military and government organisations in the United States and overseas. For almost twenty years he was CEO and then chairman of Stratfor, a company he founded in 1996. We talked to George Friedman about global warmongering, how the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East will likely end, and whether the balance of power is shifting in a globalised world.
In a recent analysis on your website, you paint a bleak picture of what the future holds for the world. In the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas war you write about a possible Chinese-Japanese conflict, Turkey intruding in Central Asia, Russia’s sphere of influence, and according to your sources, Serbia is preparing for war, which would topple the Western Balkans into chaos. Are these actual predictions or just possible scenarios?
No. They are simply areas where I have knowledge of the level of tension. However, when you have so many areas that might have tension, the probabilities of multiple warfare rise. We are entering a period of warfare, which by the way is routine. We humans wage war on a constant basis. And obviously, World War I and World War II, but even the Cold War, had many aspects of warfare. So this is not unprecedented. It is not catastrophic, but it is what we are looking at.
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2 Kings County Deputies Wounded by 3rd in Accidental Shooting
Two Kings County Sheriff’s deputies were injured in an accidental shooting by a third deputy, a sheriff’s spokesman reported Friday.
The injuries were non-life threatening and the deputies were treated and are recovering, the spokesman reported. The deputy who fired the round from a service handgun was placed on administrative leave during an investigation of the incident.
The shooting took place as the deputies were taking part in night training in lowlight settings, according to the sheriff’s office. The weapon involved was a Glock semi-automatic pistol.
A spokesman said that the shooting happened after a qualification round when the deputy was attempting to disassemble the pistol in an area set aside for weapons cleaning, but was unable to do so because it was “jammed.”
In order to complete the disassembly of a Glock pistol, the magazine must be removed and the gun racked to ensure there is not a round in the weapon. Then the trigger is pulled to continue disassembly. It appeared from the explanation that there was a live round in the weapon when the trigger was pulled.
The spokesman said the deputy had the weapon pointed down at a table when he pulled the trigger and the other deputies were standing nearby. When the weapon discharged, the bullet went through the wood table, struck concrete, ricocheting into the legs of the other two deputies.
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An Ohio man has been arrested for allegedly lying to police about being the victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime.
Hesham A. Ayyad, 20, told the Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations that a driver had hurled anti-Palestinian slurs at him and hit him with his car, according to an Oct. 23. CAIR press release demanding an investigation into the incident.
North Ridgefield police arrested Ayyad on Tuesday and said he lied about the encounter and that his injuries had come from a fight with his brother, Cleveland.com reported.
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ACT Test Scores Drop to Lowest Level in 30 Years
(Gray News) — The average Composite score on the ACT test for the class of 2023 has fallen to 19.5 out of 36, according to a report.
The decrease in scores marks a decline of 0.3 points from 2022, when the average score was 19.8, data released by ACT in October shows. ACT is the nonprofit organization that administers the college readiness exam.
The average scores in three of the four subjects featured on the test — mathematics, reading and science — were below the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks. The benchmarks are the minimum ACT test scores required for students taking the test to have a high probability of success in college.
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Anti-Trump Eugene Vindman Announces Run for Congress as a Democrat
Retired Army Col. Yevgeny “Eugene” Vindman, the lesser-known identical twin brother of anti-Trump impeachment witness Alexander Vindman, is running for Congress in Virginia as a Democrat.
Vindman announced that he is running for the open seat being vacated by Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA).
Spanberger is a former CIA officer who is leaving Congress to challenge Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin.
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ASU Pulls Plug on Tlaib’s Speech in Wake of House Censure
In the wake of her bipartisan censure by the U.S. House of Representatives for saying that the Biden administration ‘supports genocide’ in Gaza, a planned speech by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was canceled by Arizona State University (ASU).
The censure, introduced by Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), accused Tlaib of promoting false narratives about Hamas’ attacks on Israel and calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. Notably, 22 Democrats joined the majority of Republicans, while four Republicans voted against it on free speech grounds.
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Breaking: Pro-Palestinian Activists Stage Protest Inside Fox News’ NYC Headquarters
On Monday morning, pro-Palestinian protestors occupied the lobby of Fox News’ headquarters in New York City.
The group of protestors stood holding a sign that read, “Fox News’ lies cover up genocide” and chanted “Fox News Fox News you can’t hide, your lies cover up genocide.”
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Breaking: President Trump Slams ‘Crooked’ Joe Biden for Being ‘Owned by China’ to Packed Iowa Crowd
On Saturday, former President Donald Trump took the stage at the Commit to Caucus event in Fort Dodge, Iowa as the state’s “first-in-the-nation” caucuses draw near. Trump is polling in with nearly 43 percent of the state’s vote, with a 27 percent lead over GOP candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley.
The former president notably ripped into Joe Biden for a myriad of reasons, accusing him of being “owned by China” and having a “weak” foreign policy when it comes to dealing with the Chinese Communist Party.
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Newly released footage from Hanuary 6, 2021, released by House Speaker Mike Johnson, shows Matthew Perna, who tragically took his own life, calmly strolling through the building alongside other protestors and even many police officers. Perna killed himself after prosecutors in his case added a terrorism enhancement in advance of his sentencing.
At the time of Perna’s death, his mourning family reportedly said that he “couldn’t take another day” after learning of the sentencing enhancement. His aunt, speaking to Dinesh D’Souza in his documentary Police State, revealed that Perna had a positive outlook when it came to serving time for trespassing on January 6, but that the terrorism enhancement was more than he could bear. After his death, she said she spoke to his prosecutor who claimed the enhancement would have been dropped in due time. But it was too late for Perna.
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Breaking: Babylon Bee Pledges $250,000 Towards Ads on X to Combat Cancel Culture
The Babylon Bee has announced plans to commit to a $250,000 ad buy on X.
Elon Musk came up with the idea to buy Twitter in spring 2022 after The Babylon Bee was suspended from the platform for posting a joke about Biden’s diversity hire Dr Rachel Levine. Now, amid an ad boycott due to a Media Matters hit piece on Musk, the Bee has pledged a $250,000 ad buy to help sustain the free speech platform.
“The Babylon Bee has pledged $250,000 towards ads on X,” said Ashley St. Clair.
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Bystander Fatally Shot During Street Takeover in South Los Angeles
A 23-year-old male bystander was shot and killed Friday night during a South Los Angeles street takeover, police said.
Officers responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call near the intersection of 54th Street and Manhattan Place about 11:55 p.m. Friday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
They arrived to find a man on the ground suffering from a gunshot wound as numerous vehicles and pedestrians were leaving the area, police said.
Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded and pronounced the victim dead at the scene. The victim’s identity is being withheld pending next of kin notification, authorities said.
In recent years, street takeovers have become a regular occurrence in neighborhoods across Los Angeles County, where drivers perform stunts in the middle of busy intersections or race their vehicles in residential streets as spectators look on, posting videos on social media. These gatherings have on occasion turned deadly, with shootings and vehicle crashes.
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Comer: Biden’s Brother Has ‘Signaled’ That He Will Cooperate With Investigators
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has revealed that Democrat President Joe Biden’s brother James has “signaled” that he’s willing to start cooperating with investigators.
Comer confirmed on Friday said attorneys for James Biden indicated that he will cooperate with an investigation into the family’s business dealings and influence-peddling schemes.
Comer dropped the bombshell during a Friday appearance on “Just The News, No Noise” on Real America’s Voice.
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D.C. Issues Public Emergency as Juvenile Crime Spikes 10% From Alarming Rate in 2022
Washington, DC, Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency in the nation’s capital this week after the opioid fatalities spiked and juvenile crime soared ten percent from 2022’s alarming rate.
The order will enhance the activation, implementation, and coordination of aid agreements between the District, federal, and local authorities to allegedly reduce crime.
Crime soared in 2022 after U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves refused to prosecute 67 percent of those arrested. In turn, 222 criminal homicides occurred in 2023, a 35 percent increase from the same period in 2022, according to police statistics. The district eclipsed 200 killings on August 12, the earliest point since the late 1990s.
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Democrat Rep Admits Violent Leftist Riot at DNC HQ ‘Scared Me More’ Than Jan 6
A Democrat congressman has spoken out about the terror he felt while being trapped inside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters as a violent mob of leftist rioters attacked the building.
Most Democrats talk about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot of 2021 as if it were one of, if not the most dangerous and frightening incident that has ever occurred in the nation’s history.
Some, including Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris, have even compared Jan. 6 to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
That changed Wednesday night for at least one unnamed Democrat lawmaker, however.
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‘Doxxing Truck’ Creator Says He May Tail Antisemitic Students for Years
The creator of the so-called “doxxing truck” chasing allegedly antisemitic students from Harvard to Hunter College says his effort will continue indefinitely.
“We don’t think that your antisemitic record should die when you graduate,” said Adam Guillette, president of Accuracy in Media, a nonprofit that has been sponsoring the effort. “I think it’s incredibly important to make an example of these people.”
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Elon Musk Announces “Thermonuclear” Lawsuit Against Media Matters
In a bold statement issued early Saturday, Elon Musk announced his intention to take aggressive legal action against Media Matters, a non-profit organization that pushes for online censorship. He accused the group and its associates of grossly distorting the user experience on his social media platform, X.
Musk’s planned lawsuit, which he describes as “thermonuclear,” targets not only Media Matters but also “all those who colluded” with them.
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On January 6, 2021, the Washington Field Office of the FBI halted the investigation into an alleged child predator in Virginia “due to events that occurred at the United States Capitol Building that day,” allowing the man to seemingly assault a 10-year-old in Alaska.
According to court documents, Brogan Welsh was arrested in Anchorage, Alaska, on Oct. 19 after law enforcement found sexually explicit conversations regarding sex with minors with a man they were investigating.
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Gun Possession Limit for Violating Second Amendment
A judge has struck down a law that placed limits on citizens’ Second Amendment rights, ruling that the provision is unconstitutional.
The law prevented a person from possessing a firearm after receiving a conviction for driving under the influence (DUI).
According to Breitbart, U.S. District Court Judge John Milton Younge found the statute — 922(g)(1) — to be a violation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Four Suspects in Beating Death of Las Vegas Teen Jonathan Lewis to be Charged as Adults
On Friday, four of the eight teenagers who were charged as adults in the beating death of 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis at Rancho High School in Las Vegas on Nov. 1, appeared in court.
According to the Daily Mail, the judge ordered Dontral Beaver, 16, Gianni Robinson, 17, Damien Hernandez, 17, and Treavion Randolph, 16, to be held without bail at the Clark County Detention Center for their role in the incident and are expected in court again on Tuesday.
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Instagram Shuts Down the Account of Presidential Candidate Jill Stein
The physician and presidential candidate, Jill Stein, has reported through a tweet that her new Instagram account has been disabled by Instagram. Stein had previously lost access to her original account and, after attempting to regain it, she created a new one which has now been disabled.
According to the information provided, Meta has cited violations of community guidelines concerning “account integrity and authentic identity” as the reason for the account’s deactivation.
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Judge in Trump J6 Conspiracy Case Throws Out Motion to Remove References to Capitol Riot
Federal judge Tanya Chutkan issued a ruling on Friday rejecting 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s request that paragraphs including “inflammatory allegations” regarding January 6, 2021, be removed from the federal January 6 conspiracy case against him.
“Regardless of whether the allegations at issue are relevant, Defendant has not satisfied his burden to clearly show that they are prejudicial. He argues that sharing the allegations with the jury may result in prejudice at his trial ‘because members of the jury may wrongfully impute fault to [him]’ for ‘the actions at the Capitol on January 6,’“ the opinion states.
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Keith Olbermann Demands Government ‘Ban Twitter’ and Cut Ties With Elon Musk for ‘Hate Speech’
Media leftist Keith Olbermann has unleashed an unhinged rant demanding that the federal government issue a “ban” of Twitter/X for allegedly supporting so-called “hate speech” on the platform.
The former MSNBC host also called on Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration to cut ties with X owner Elon Musk.
He insisted that the government should “terminate all government contracts” with Musk.
It wasn’t clear which “contracts” he was referring to, however.
[Comment: Keith Olbermann is an idiot]
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‘Marvels’ Plummets Up to 80 Percent in Box Office Nightmare
Superhero movies often fall more than 50 percent in their second weekends.
They’re front-loaded with enthusiastic fans, and that initial box office return is so mighty it’s impossible to match.
That means you might see a 55-65 percent decline in week two, and it’s still considered respectable or even excellent in some cases. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” fell 68 percent in week two, and it was still part of its magnificent box office run.
And then there’s “The Marvels.”
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Moderna Admits COVID mRNA Shots Cause Cancer, Testimony Reveals
A world-renowned vaccine expert has presented evidence during congressional testimony showing that pharmaceutical giant Moderna knows its Covid mRNA shots cause cancer.
Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology, testified during a hearing on Capitol Hill led by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
During his testimony, Malone presented the patent for Moderna’s Covid vaccine.
Moderna’s patent shows that its COVID-19 vaccine vials contain billions of DNA fragments.
Those fragments, along with other contaminants, are linked to birth defects and cancer.
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Nolte: Director Promises Upcoming ‘Star Wars’ Movie Will ‘P*** People Off’
Director Taika Waititi promises his upcoming Star Wars movie is “gonna piss people off” after he emasculated Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder.
According to Variety:
When asked if his addition to the popular franchise would still show fans the same “Star Wars” they know and love, the “Thor: love and thunder” director animatedly told Variety on the red carpet of his “Next Goal Wins” premiere, “It will be … dramatic pause… a Taika Waititi film.”
“It’s gonna piss people off,” he added with a laugh.
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The New York Times editorial board penned a new editorial on Saturday stating that the school closures enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic “may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education.”
The editorial provided a reflection on the “significant” learning losses stemming from keeping around 50 million kids out of the classroom because of the virus, and urged elected officials and the education community to move quickly to heal some of the damage.
The paper came to these points after certain mainstream media outlets supported these same closures. Some media figures have continued arguing they were good decisions.
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Obama’s Top Campaign Guru David Axelrod Believes Biden Chances in 2024 ‘No Better’ Than a 50-50
Former president Obama’s top campaign guru said President Biden’s chances of winning the 2024 presidential election were “no better” than 50-50 — and possibly even worse.
David Axelrod made the grim prediction to New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd on Saturday. Biden, the nation’s oldest president, will turn 81 on Monday and would be 86 at the end of a second term.
“I think he has a 50-50 shot here, but no better than that, maybe a little worse,” Axelrod said. “He thinks he can cheat nature here and it’s really risky. They’ve got a real problem if they’re counting on Trump to win it for them. I remember Hillary doing that, too.”
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Pro-Censorship Group Moves to Dismiss X Lawsuit
Elon Musk’s social media parent company, X finds itself battling against a nonprofit organization, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), who it sued in August. On Thursday, the CCDH retaliated by challenging the lawsuit in an attempt to quash it. The lawsuit accuses CCDH of publishing detrimental reports about X Corp’s response to alleged hateful content on the platform.
These drives from CCDH have allegedly resulted in the alienation of X Corp’s advertising partners, the lawsuit alleges.
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Pro-Obama Netflix Documentary Produced by Jack Smith’s Wife
A Netflix documentary that celebrates former First Lady Michelle Obama and her husband’s administration is produced by Special Counsel Jack Smith’s wife.
The documentary is based on Michelle Obama’s book, “Becoming.”
Like the book, the film seeks to paint a glowing picture of the Obamas’ time in the White House and, specifically, heap praise on the former first lady.
However, the documentary was produced by Katy Chevigny.
Chevigny is the wife of Special Counsel Jack Smith.
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A pro-Hamas organization posted a map of multiple locations in New York City, claiming they are associated with the “genocide” in Gaza.
Among the locations listed were Fox News, NBC, the New York Post, The New York Times, the Defense Logistics Agency, Meta, as well as Jewish institutions.
The now-deleted map was posted by the radical group Within Our Lifetime, which featured the headline “From Palestine to NYC. Globalize the Intifada.”
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Sacha Baron Cohen Blasts TikTok for Being the ‘Main Platform for the Dissemination of Jew Hate’
Jewish celebrities and content creators claim that TikTok has become a breeding ground for anti-Semitism in wake of the Israel-Hamas war. They lashed out at executives during a meeting on Wednesday and demanded action be taken to address the issue through stricter content moderation policies.
Actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who is most famously known for his role as “Borat,” accused TikTok of creating “the biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis,” according to meeting records obtained by The New York Times.
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Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee is calling for an investigation into the now-defunct House January 6 committee, accusing former and current lawmakers who served on the committee of “deliberately” hiding some of the footage from the Capitol riots.
Lee’s comments came after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., began releasing more than 40,000 hours of footage taken at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, when protesters angry about the 2020 election results entered the halls of Congress.
Highlighting the release of the footage in a series of posts to X, formerly known as Twitter, Lee called into question the character of former Republican representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.
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South Dakota Native American Reservation Expected to Declare State of Emergency Due to Rampant Crime
Rampant crime has overcome the largest Native American reservation in South Dakota and the federal government has stalled in helping to beef up law enforcement there, according to its tribal leader.
Frank Star Comes Out, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, is expected to declare a state of emergency on the Pine Ridge Reservation as gun violence, drug offenses and rapes have become increasingly common on the Pine Ridge Reservation, according to reports.
There are only 33 officers and eight investigators responsible for over 100,000 emergency calls a year on the 5,400-square-mile reservation, officials have said.
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SpaceX Launches Giant New Rocket But Explosions End the Second Test Flight
SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship but lost both the booster and the spacecraft in a pair of explosions minutes into Saturday’s test flight.
The rocketship reached space following liftoff from South Texas before communication suddenly was lost. SpaceX officials said it appears the ship’s self-destruct system blew it up over the Gulf of Mexico.
Minutes earlier, the separated booster had exploded over the gulf. By then, though, its job was done. Saturday’s demo lasted eight or so minutes, about twice as long as the first test in April, which also ended in an explosion. The latest flight came to an end as the ship’s six engines were almost done firing to put it on an around-the-world path.
At nearly 400 feet (121 meters), Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, with the goal of ferrying people to the moon and Mars.
“The real topping on the cake today, that successful liftoff,” said SpaceX commentator John Insprucker, noting that all 33 booster engines fired as designed, unlike last time. The booster also separated seamlessly from the spaceship, which reached an altitude of 92 miles (148 kilometers). Added commentator Kate Tice: “We got so much data, and that will all help us to improve for our next flight.”
SpaceX founder Elon Musk watched from behind launch controllers at the southern tip of Texas near the Mexico border, near Boca Chica Beach. At company headquarters in Hawthorne, California, employees cheered as Starship soared at daybreak. The room grew quiet once it was clear that the spaceship had been destroyed.
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University Broke State Law to Hire Black Candidate Over More Qualified White One
The University of Washington Department of Psychology violated a non-discrimination policy by putting “inappropriate” emphasis on applicants’ race in a hiring decision earlier this year, a university investigation found.
The report by the university’s Complaint Investigation & Resolution Office found the department altered its hiring process “to provide disparate opportunities” for a black candidate whom a hiring committee ranked lower than white and Asian candidates.
The public university prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and sex. The decision also violated a state law banning affirmative action practices in the state of Washington, watchdogs say.
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Update: More Details About Concord Shooting; Suspect Identified; Victim for Ex-Police Chief
Attorney General John Formella and Col. Mark Hall, director of the State Police, held a press conference Saturday morning, a day after a deadly shooting at New Hampshire Hospital, and identified the alleged shooter as a transient man from the Seacoast who had recently moved to Concord.
Police said they believe John Madore, 33, used a 9-mm pistol to kill Bradley Hass, 63, a security officer at the hospital and the former chief of police in Franklin.
Haas was killed in the hospital lobby, before a yet-to-be identified State Trooper, who was also on duty in close proximity with Haas as part of a two-man security team, shot and killed Madore near the metal detector, which is routinely used at secure facilities.
Attorney General Formella said Madore did not make his way into the lobby, where several other individuals were at the time of the shooting.
“He did not get past the metal detectors,” Formella said. “So he was engaged (immediately).”
Consistent with protocol, the name of the Trooper involved in the incident is being withheld pending the conclusion of a formal interview.
Investigators discovered an AR-15-style weapon, a tactical vest and ammunition inside an U-Haul van near New Hampshire Hospital. They could not confirm the vehicle was connected to the shooter.
“All I can tell you is that we’ve gathered information to tell us there may be a connection,” Formella said. “But beyond that, I can’t. I can’t comment because we’re still gathering facts. We’re still sifting, and so it’s important not to prejudge this and jump to conclusions before we’ve had a chance to gather all the facts, all the information.”
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White House Targets Elon Musk, Accuses Him of Antisemitism on X
On Friday, White House spokesman Andrew Bates went after Elon Musk, accusing the X CEO of repeating a “hideous” antisemitic lie on the platform after Musk replied to a post suggesting Jewish organizations were facilitating anti-white resentment through their embracing of diversity initiatives and the embracing of the oppressor/victim world view. while at the same time asking people to stop directing hate their way.
Bates said it was “unacceptable” that Musk had engaged with the post, saying that he affirmed an anti-semitic sentiment. The original post contained an advertisement, a PSA encouraging parents to discourage their children from being racist against Jews. The ad showed a white man and his white son in a pickup truck and did not acknowledge that the primary source of anti-semitism currently is in the major cities among leftist progressives and Arabs.
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Calgary Restauranteur Acquitted on COVID Charges After Business Crushed by Pandemic Policies
Calgary pizzeria owner Jesse Johnson won his day in court Wednesday, when a city court acquitted the businessman for charges of not enforcing Covid-19 mandates during the pandemic.
According to Mocha Bezirgan of Media Bezirgan, Johnson promised to sue the government after proclaiming, “These b*stards they literally tried to break me — financially, mentally, and spiritually.”
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Trudeau’s Labeling of Plastics as ‘Toxic’ Ruled ‘Unconstitutional’ by Canadian Federal Court
The Federal Court of Canada says it is both “unreasonable and unconstitutional” for the Liberal government to label all plastic-manufactured items as “toxic.”
Justice Angela Furlanetto overruled the cabinet order saying the category of plastic items is too broad to classify material as toxic.
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70% of Muslims in France Would Choose the Leader of the Left Wing Party Melenchon in the First Round
If only Muslims participated in the presidential elections in France, they would have already elected the leader of the left-wing party “Unsubmissive France,” Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the first round. The results of such a study are reported by a French sociologist.
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Anti-AfD Sticker Prepared With Razor Blades Appear in German City
The police in Lüdenscheid, located in Märkisches Kreis, have issued a warning about a concerning trend in the city involving stickers prepared with hidden razor blades.
These stickers, adorned with anti-AfD slogans and images of dogs, are being discovered in various public places such as lanterns, power boxes, signs, and cigarette machines, Apollo News reported.
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Czechs Pay Premium Prices for Mobile Internet Compared to Neighbors
Czech citizens are shelling out significantly more for mobile internet compared to their neighbors with prices up to ten times higher, according to a study by the Center for Research on Telecoms, Novinky.cz reports.
Despite being in the European Union, where price harmonization is expected, the cost of a gigabyte of mobile data remains notably steep in the Czech Republic.
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Germany: One of the Representatives of the Taliban Spoke in Cologne
At an event in the DITIB mosque in Cologne, sponsored by Turkish President Recep Erdogan, Abdelbari Omar, a high-ranking representative and former Minister of Health in the Taliban government, spoke.
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Germany: Erdogan-Scholz Meeting in Berlin Overshadowed by Israel-Hamas War
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who earlier this week called Israel a “terrorist state,” arrived in Berlin on Friday, November 17th, for a short state visit where he and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will seek to find common ground on several key issues, including the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, migration, defense, and trade.
Erdogan’s visit, his first in nearly four years, is overshadowed by Germany and Turkey’s starkly contrasting positions on the Israeli-Hamas war and comes one day after the foreign affairs commission in the Turkish parliament opted to postpone a vote on Sweden’s NATO membership bid.
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Icelandic Town May be Evacuated for Months as Volcanic Rumbling Continues
Authorities are warning residents of the Icelandic town of Grindavik that it may be months before they are able to return to their homes as volcanic eruption concerns persist.
Grindavik, which was evacuated by the Icelandic government this week after seismic activity and air content analysis pointed to possible eruptions, has been shut down to traffic for the foreseeable future.
Residents have only been given short windows of time to gather their belongings and flee the town, which is believed to now sit on a corridor of magma flowing under the area.
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Italy Becomes the First Country in the World to Ban Lab-Grown Meat
Italy just became the first country in the world to ban lab-grown meat.
The Italian government voted in support of a law banning the production, sale or import of cultivated meat or animal feed, according to the BBC.
The right-wing government there took the action on Thursday in an effort to protect its farmers and culture.
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Orban Government Concerned That Soros Will Arrange Ukraine’s EU Membership
Hungary’s ruling Fidesz will ask the European Commission in writing about recent talks by George Soros’ son with Ukrainian leaders about Ukraine’s EU accession, MEP Balazs Hidvéghi said on Friday. Referring to photos published by Alex Soros, Hidvéghi said in a video that “while there is a Ukrainian flag behind the Ukrainian prime minister, Alex Soros is standing in front of an EU flag, creating the obvious impression that Soros was having talks on behalf of the EU.”
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Pedro Sanchez Has Been Re-Elected as the Prime Minister of Spain
The leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), Pedro Sanchez, won the vote in the congress of deputies, thereby reclaiming the position of the kingdom’s prime minister, announced Congress Chairwoman Francina Armengol on Thursday, as reported by BBC.
Sanchez received the votes of 179 out of 350 parliamentarians. Notably, all seven deputies from the Catalan separatist party Junts voted in favor of him.
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Poland: Pro-Palestinian Demonstration in Warsaw
Demonstration under the slogan “Not a single bomb. Free Palestine!” took place on Saturday in Warsaw. Protesters marched from Zbavichela Square to the Israeli Embassy. According to the Warsaw Metropolitan Police Department, the meeting went “safely.”
According to TVN24, about a thousand people gathered with banners with inscriptions such as “Solidarity with the Palestinian resistance.” The demonstration was guarded by a significant number of police officers, who also used a mobile surveillance center. At the beginning of the event, Zbavichela Square was closed to traffic.
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Slovak Truckers Stage Hour Long Border Closure in Solidarity With Polish Drivers
Slovaks demonstrate solidarity with Poles by closing the border with Ukraine for an hour in support of Polish drivers, according to Rzeczpospolita.
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Over 50 retired military officers have called on the Spanish Army to conduct a coup to remove socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez after he made concessions to Catalonian separatists to remain in office.
Amid large-scale protests and warnings of “civil war” over the socialist government of Pedro Sanchez’s move to push for amnesty for politicians and activists in the Catalonian separatist movement, many of whom were accused of sedition and rebellion after seeking to launch an independence referendum in 2017 for which they were removed from office and figures such as former Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont fled the country to avoid prosecution.
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The EU Has Already Transferred 82.4 Billion Euros to the Ukraine
In a span of nearly 22 months, the European Union extended support to the Ukrainian government in the Russian conflict, contributing a total of 82.4 billion euros at an average monthly rate of 3.7 billion euros.
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UK: Knife Attack: Two 12-Year-Olds Appear in Court Charged With Murder
Two 12-year-old boys, charged with the murder of 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai and possession of a machete, appeared in Birmingham magistrates’ court, The Telegraph reported.
The victim was found stabbed on Stowlawn playing fields in East Park, Wolverhampton, and was pronounced dead at the scene on Monday night. During the brief court appearance, the boys, who cannot be named due to their age, confirmed their personal details and were remanded into youth detention. They are set to face a further hearing at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Monday.
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Several pro-Palestine protesters were arrested on Saturday after staging a ‘sit-in’ at Waterloo Station, one of over 100 marches across the UK, which also included a demonstration outside Sir Keir Starmer’s constituency office in north London.
Officers made ten arrests in total on Saturday, as pro-Palestine protesters launched series of smaller demonstrations on Saturday instead of the large marches that have taken place since Israel first responded to the Hamas attack on its people on October 7.
Offences include breach of bail conditions, public order, racially aggravated public order, inciting racial hatred, affray and obstruction.
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Viktor Orban Criticizes Ukrainian Policies on Hungarian Language and Education in Zakarpattia
Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, has expressed concern over the state of the Hungarian language and education in Zakarpattia, stating that conditions were better during the Soviet era than under the current Ukrainian government, RTL reports.
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Watch: Anti-Israel Activists Hang Massive Palestine Flag From Italy’s Leaning Tower of Pisa
Anti-Israel activists broke into the world-famous Leaning Tower of Pisa on Friday to drape the Palestinian flag from the 14th-century structure amid student-led protests throughout Italy on Friday.
The Tower of Pisa, a Unesco World Heritage site in Central Italy, was used by anti-Israel agitators to push their political agenda against the Jewish state.
According to the ANSA news agency, approximately 15 activists broke off from a larger procession in the city, throwing bottles and other objects at police as they left the approved route of the protest.
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‘Winston Churchill Was a War Criminal,’ Claims Influential Islamic Scholar During Heated Clash
Former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill was a war criminal for sanctioning the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg during World War II, an Islamic scholar has claimed during a heated debate over the proportionality of Israel’s response to the Hamas terrorist attack last month.
Mohammed Hijab made the accusation against Britain’s war-time leader during a fiery clash with U.S. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach moderated by Piers Morgan on Talk TV on Thursday evening.
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Russia May Start Balkans War to Distract From Ukraine Fighting, Volodymyr Zelensky Warns
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russia may be planning to ignite a war in the Balkans to distract from its ongoing fight with Ukraine.
“Pay attention to the Balkans. Believe me, we are receiving information: Russia has a long plan,” Zelensky told reporters Thursday, according to news agency Interfax-Ukraine.
“If the countries of the world do nothing now, there will be such an explosion,” he added, explaining additional conflicts would undermine the amount of aid allies could provide his own country.
Zelensky did not offer evidence for his ominous prediction, which came almost two months after an incident along the border between longtime Balkans foes Kosovo and Serbia which left four people dead.
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Hundreds Leave Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital as Many Feared Killed at UN Shelter
Hundreds of people including some patients left Gaza City’s main hospital on Saturday. Some medical staff said they had been told to leave but Israel disputes this.
Many were seen walking along rubble-strewn streets as gunfire rang out.
Separately Hamas health officials said two explosions in Jabalia in northern Gaza together killed 80 people.
Israel told the BBC it could not confirm it struck a UN school-turned-shelter but was investigating.
BBC Verify has geolocated footage to al-Fakhoura school in Jabalia that shows many people — including women and children — with severe injuries or lying motionless on the floor in different parts of the building.
There are more than 20 such casualties visible in the footage, and around half of these are seen in one particular room on the ground floor, which also shows signs of considerable damage.
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini said he had seen “horrifying images and footage of scores of people killed and injured” in one of his agency’s schools “sheltering thousands of displaced”.
“These attacks cannot become commonplace, they must stop,” he said.
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Israeli Defense Minister: Hamas Leaders in Exile Are Dead Men Walking
JERUSALEM, Israel — Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant vowed Saturday night that all Hamas operatives would be killed — including those outside Gaza, sheltering in comfortable exile in Arab states like Qatar.
“There is no difference between a terrorist who walks around with a Kalashnikov … and a terrorist who wears a three-piece suit and walks around in another part of the world,” Gallant told a press conference, as the war entered its seventh week. “All of them are dead men walking.”
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Israeli Police Say Extreme Sexual Violence, Rape by Hamas Terrorists Was Systematic
Warning: This article includes graphic and disturbing accounts from the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel.
JERUSALEM — The first suggestion that Hamas terrorists committed acts of extreme sexual violence and rape against victims during their Oct. 7 rampage through southern Israel came on social media early on that fateful Saturday morning six weeks ago.
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Netanyahu Opposes Biden: No Way Palestinian Authority Runs Gaza Again
JERUSALEM, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his opposition Saturday night to a proposal by U.S. President Joe Biden to restore control of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority (PA) once Hamas is removed from power and destroyed.
On Saturday, Biden published an op-ed in the Washington Post in which he supported Israel, though once again joining the Israeli cause to the Ukrainian one, putting Hamas and Russia in the same category as enemies of the United States.
Biden also reiterated his support for a “two-state solution” as the only answer to the conflict, and added: “As we strive for peace, Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under a single governance structure, ultimately under a revitalized Palestinian Authority, as we all work toward a two-state solution.”
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20,000 Military Age Ukrainian Men Fled Abroad to Avoid Conscription, Another 20,000 Caught at Border
Huge numbers of young Ukrainian men fled the country to avoid being drafted in the army to fight Russia, a report states, with many swimming border rivers or walking cross-country to avoid detection.
Under Ukraine’s martial law, for the vast majority of Ukrainian males, it has been illegal to leave the country since the Russian invasion, a step taken by Kyiv to maintain its access to conscripts for the fight against Moscow’s occupation. Yet figures reveal tens of thousands have attempted to flee and avoid fighting.
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Michael Von Der Schulenburg — Peace for Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg, former UN Assistant Secretary-General, served for over 34 years with the United Nations and briefly with the OSCE in many countries facing war or internal armed conflicts, often involving weak governments and armed non-state actors.
Contrary to Western portrayals, Ukraine and Russia were in agreement at the time that the planned NATO expansion was the cause of the war, reports Brave New World
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Russian Drone Attack Hits Ukraine Infrastructure, Causes Power Outage
KYIV: Russia carried out a major drone attack on Ukraine overnight, hitting infrastructure facilities and causing power outages in more than 400 towns and villages in the south, southeast, and north of the country, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday.
Ukraine air defences shot down 29 out of 38 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched from Russian territory, the air force said.
The air force said in a statement the attack on several Ukrainian regions lasted from 8 p.m. (1800 GMT) on Friday to 4 a.m. on Saturday.
The energy ministry said 416 settlements in the Odesa region in the south and in the Zaporizhzhia region in the southeast were cut off from electricity after networks were damaged in the strikes.
Last winter, Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of missiles and drones, leaving millions without electricity, heating, and water during the coldest months.
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India: Yogi Government in Uttar Pradesh Bans Sale of Halal Certified Products
Halal certification of food products is a parallel system which creates confusion regarding the quality of food items and is not tenable under Section 89 of the Food Law Food Safety and Standards Act, an order said.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Lucknow | Nov 18, 2023:: Mahant Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh government today banned products with a halal tag. Production, storage, distribution, and sale of food products with the Halal certification has been forbidden with immediate effect, said the state government. Products manufactured for export, however, will not be subject to the restrictions.
“Strict legal measures will be implemented against any individual or firm engaged in the production, storage, distribution, buying, and selling of Halal-certified medicines, medical devices, and cosmetics within Uttar Pradesh,” an official order said.
Halal certification of food products is a parallel system which creates confusion regarding the quality of food items and is not tenable under Section 89 of the Food Law Food Safety and Standards Act, the order said. “The right to decide the quality of food items lies only with the authorities and institutions given in Section 29 of the said Act, who check the relevant standards as per the provisions of the Act”, it added.
It said that certain medicines, medical devices, and cosmetic products are reported to feature the Halal certificate on their packaging or labelling when there are “no provisions for marking Halal certification on labels in the government rules related to drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics”, nor is there any mention of Halal certification in the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, and its related rules.
The move comes after a police case was filed against a company and a few other organisations for allegedly “exploiting people’s religious sentiments” to boost sales by providing “forged” halal certificates. One Shailendra Sharma also took initiative for lodging FIR against the Halal menace in the state.
The case has been registered against entities such as the Halal India Private Limited Chennai, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind Halal Trust Delhi, Halal Council of India Mumbai, Jamiat Ulama Maharashtra and others for allegedly exploiting religious sentiments to boost sales by providing halal certificates to customers of a specific religion, the UP government said in a statement.
The complainant raised concerns over a large-scale conspiracy, indicating attempts to allegedly decrease the sale of products from companies lacking the halal certificate, which is illegal, the UP government said.
The statement said that these companies allegedly issued forged halal certificates to various companies for financial gains, fostering not only social animosity but also violating public trust.
Earlier, it was also alleged by different quarters that Fund earned by Halal authorities were supposedly utilized by terror organisations.
Halal certification is mentioned on the labels of certain food products like dairy products, sugar bakery products, peppermint oil, salty ready-to-eat savouries and edible oils etc, the food commissioner’s office said.
Halal certification is a guarantee that the food is prepared in accordance with Islamic law and is unadulterated. If a product contains animals or animal byproducts that are considered prohibited under the law, then it cannot receive a halal certification.
Specifically, halal foods are those that are made, produced, manufactured, processed, and stored using machinery, equipment, and/or utensils that have been cleaned according to Islamic law and are free from any component that Muslims are prohibited from eating.
Ramesh Shinde, the National Spokesperson of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and the writer of the book, “HALAL JIHAD” shared the available Govt order banning the Halal products in UP in his X handle.
Upananda Brahmachari, Editor of Hindu Existence Website and fighter against Halal in India conveyed his salutation to Mahant Yogi Adityanath Govt in Uttar Pradesh for taking such bold steps against Halal.
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind Halal Trust, in a statement, termed the allegations against Halal as “baseless” and said it will take “necessary legal measures to counter such misinformation”.
Now, this will be a big fight against Halal in the court of law.
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Indonesia: Aceh Residents Against the Arrival of “Badly-Behaving” Rohingya Refugees
Jakarta, IO — Residents of Bireun, Aceh rejected Rohingya refugees ship with 249 onboard, preventing them from disembarking.
The wooden ship arrived at the shore of Pulo Pineung Meunasah Dua village, Panjang Bireuen district, Thu (16/11), per CNN Indonesia, Sat (18/11)
Pulo Pineung village chief Mukhtaruddin explained that residents immediately went to the location after learning about the arrival of more Rohingya refugees that often made their landing in Aceh.
Mukhtaruddin said the rejection was not without reason. According to him, they often cause trouble for the local communities. “The popular sentiment is that most of them are seen as badly behaving,” he said.
After being rejected in Bireuen, the ship carried on its journey and arrived in Ulee Madon village, Muara Batu district, North Aceh. However, the residents there also rejected them.
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Chinese Police Raid Christian Worship Service, Arrest 13 Believers
Chinese police and national security agents raided a Christian worship service in the nation’s Sichuan province last week and arrested 13 believers.
Among those arrested in the November 9 raid were Elder Li Yingqiang and Pastor Dai Zhichao of Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church, an independent Christian church regularly harassed by the Chinese Communist Party.
Elder Li and Pastor Dai had traveled to the city of Dazhou, where they held a worship service at the “Good Land Mission Center,” a subsidiary of Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church. The service included baptisms and holy communion, according to reports by ChinaAid, a U.S.-based Christian charity.
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Czech Interior Minister Proposes Border Controls Extension Amid European Migration Concerns
The Czech Minister of the Interior, Vit Rakusan, has announced a proposal to extend border controls with Slovakia until at least December 5, citing the decision as a necessary response to neighboring countries, including Germany, extending controls due to the increased influx of migrants.
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Dutch Migration Expert: Average Asylum Seeker Costs 800,000 Euros Annually
Migration expert Jan van de Beek participated in a Senate expert meeting on immigration and asylum, providing insights into the financial implications for the Dutch State and taxpayers in accommodating asylum seekers.
According to Van de Beek, the average annual cost for hosting an asylum seeker is 800,000 euros, and he emphasized that this estimate likely underrepresents the actual expenses, the Dutch media outlet NieuwRechts reports.
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EU: Illegal Border Crossing Reaches Highest Level Since 2015 Migrant Crisis
The number of unauthorized border crossings by migrants reached 331,600 in the first ten months of 2023, marking an 18 percent increase compared to the same period last year, according to the latest data from the European border protection agency Frontex.
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Italy’s Asylum Strategy Gains Traction as Potential European Blueprint
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni revealed that Italy’s innovative approach to managing asylum seekers in Albania has garnered interest from its European counterparts.
European Union nations are grappling with the challenge of controlling the surge in undocumented arrivals and are considering Italy’s model.
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Mayor Adams Begs Wealthy New Yorkers for Help as ‘Sanctuary City’ Buckles Under Migrant Crisis
New York City’s Democrat Mayor Eric Adams is begging NYC’s wealthy residents for financial help as the “sanctuary city” struggles to cope with the strain on resources caused by President Joe Biden’s migrant crisis.
Adams is urging rich New Yorkers to open their wallets to help weather a financial storm as the city remains overwhelmed by the flood of illegal aliens.
The call from Adams comes just days after the city unveiled deep budget cuts.
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A group of migrants have been forced to move into Boston’s Logan Airport as the ‘sanctuary city’ has run out of beds for them to sleep in.
The party of up to 20 people, which includes babies, was seen sleeping underneath blankets on benches on Friday.
They arrived in Boston as the Massachusetts shelter cap reached its maximum and there is deadlock over how best to spend $250million for emergency shelters.
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Portuguese Population Surges Due to Migration
According to Portugal News, in 2022, Portugal experienced an influx of an additional 46,249 residents, marking the sixth consecutive year of positive migration balance and a 5.1% increase in the number of births compared to 2021.
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Elon Musk has announced a new change in policy to X. On Friday, his announcement established that the use of terms such as “decolonization” and “from the river to the sea”— phrases commonly thrown around by the pro-Palestine movement — would invite suspension on the platform as they imply genocide. The change came after pressure from major corporate advertisers.
While these expressions have emerged as rallying cries in support of Palestinians, numerous individuals and groups, including supporters of Israel, Jewish advocacy teams, and others, perceive these phrases as eliminatory and anti-Semitic rhetoric that advocates the obliteration of the Jewish state and the Jewish people.
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Gavin Newsom Claims Tennessee Town ‘Banned Being Gay in Public’ — They Banned ‘Indecent Behavior’
On Thursday, Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom falsely accused a city in Tennessee of banning homosexuality in public.
The city of Murfreesboro passed an ordinance in June that banned “indecent behavior” but Newsom parrotted a lie written by a left-leaning news outlet to seemingly mislead the public rather than sticking to the facts.
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A Portland-area math teacher launched a pressure campaign against the Beaverton School District in an attempt to prevent the removal of a Palestinian and Pride progress flag that she claims her students had painted on the walls of her classroom. Ultimately, the school acquiesced to her demands, at least for now, with a postponement of the repainting.
Hailey DeMarre, of Portland, Oregon, was reportedly informed by the school district that the paintings went against official policy and therefore she retaliated by launching a pressure campaign on Instagram, which resulted in the district postponing the removal of the flags.
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Quote: In other news, residents of the Indonesian province of Aceh have turned back Rohingya boat refugees from Myanmar, whom they consider badly-behaving.
I gues in a few hours our press will scream about the Islamophobia of those racist Indonesians.
Will anybody bet against me?
Or do you think that it will this time be a low profile story because what happens in Israel and what Hamas did?
I think Indonesians in Aceh are moslems.
I just checked: about 90% are. It’s a semi-autonomous region, and the only part of Indonesia officially subject to Sharia law.