The Israeli government and Hamas have reached a deal, brokered by Qatar, that will see a four-day pause in hostilities in return for the release of fifty hostages by Hamas. Israel will reportedly also release 150 Hamas prisoners, which is an unusually low ratio in such hostage exchanges — normally there are at least ten Palestinian prisoners released for every Israeli hostage freed.
In other news, Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) in the Netherlands, is currently leading the polls for the upcoming elections. If the polls are accurate, the PVV will become the largest party in the Tweede Kamer.
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Rising Food Inflation Hits Low Income Families Across Europe, Widening Disparities
Despite a decline in overall inflation rates in the Eurozone since its peak in October 2022, a new challenge emerges as food inflation remains persistently high, particularly affecting low-income households across Europe.
The latest data reveals that real food inflation, calculated by subtracting overall inflation from food inflation, stood at 4.6% in the Eurozone (4% in the EU) in October 2023, intensifying economic pressures on vulnerable households, Euronews reports. Notably, the gap between the overall inflation rate and that of food and non-alcoholic beverages has widened over the past 12 months, presenting unprecedented challenges.
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Three of four Louisiana teenagers charged with murder for carjacking and dragging a grandmother to her death have struck a plea deal to avoid life in prison.
Briniyah Baker, 17, Lenyra Theophile, 16, and Mar’qel Curtis pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter for killing 73-year-old Linda Frickey in New Orleans on Monday, 4 WWL reported.
The three teens were dealt a 20-year prison sentence and will serve at least 15 years each.
The guilty plea comes more than a year after Frickey’s gruesome death, in which her arm was severed.
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60% Believe the President ‘Helped and Participated’ in Hunter Biden’s Business Dealings
More than half of Americans believe President Biden had some involvement in his son’s foreign business dealings, according to a new poll.
The Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey of 2,851 registered voters, released Monday, found that 60% believe “Joe Biden helped and participated in Hunter Biden’s business,” while 40% responded that they don’t think the 81-year-old president had any involvement.
“While the news has pivoted to other topics, voters remain concerned about Hunter Biden and how involved President Biden was in his business,” Harris Poll Chairman Mark Penn said in a statement to the Hill.
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Service members stationed at the Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota received a text message ahead of the November 17 “Dakota Patriot Rally” warning them that attending the event in town could jeopardize their future with the United States military.
Leadership at the base said the issue with the event was that Tyler Bowyer from Turning Point Action, which they deemed to be an “alt-right” group, was slated to be there. The popular 501(c)(4) organization’s chief operating officer had been listed on the rally’s website as a “conservative activist.”
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One of the attackers convicted in the beating of a Jewish man in Times Square in 2021 caused a ruckus inside a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday — shouting “Free Palestine” as his rowdy supporters accused the judge of being racist at his sentencing hearing.
Tensions flared in Manhattan Supreme Court after Mahmoud Musa, 23, was slapped with seven years in prison for attacking Joseph Borgen, a Jewish man, during a clash between Israel and Palestinian supporters on May 20, 2021 in Midtown.
As Musa was being walked back to a holding cell in handcuffs, he turned to tell his family he loved them — before yelling “Free Palestine” twice, sparking an all-out shouting match in Judge Felicia Mennin’s courtroom.
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At Least 2 Dead, 5 Injured in Philadelphia Shooting
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — A shooting in North Philadelphia left at least two people dead and five others injured Tuesday night.
It happened around 8:30 p.m. near 6th Street and Allegheny Avenue.
Police say seven people were hospitalized, including five who were transported by officers at the scene.
Two people later died from their injuries. The conditions of the five other victims were not immediately known.
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Baby Dies and Florida Mother Found Stabbed to Death as Firefighters Rescue 2 Children From Blaze
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Firefighters discovered a woman stabbed to death when they rushed to extinguish a blaze early Tuesday at an apartment in Daytona Beach, while her three young children were taken in critical condition to a hospital where the youngest, an infant, died.
Authorities have not released the baby’s cause of death or the type of injuries and current conditions of the two surviving children, ages 4 and 5.
“This is a horrific incident two days out from a holiday that centers around family,” Daytona Beach police Chief Jakari Young told reporters at the scene.
The mother’s name has not been released and police were investigating the fire as a homicide, Mr. Young said. Authorities have not named a suspect. The fire began around midnight Tuesday at the Countryside Apartments, Mr. Young said, and the infant was found in a crib near the mother.
WKMG in Orlando reported that state investigators believe a fire was intentionally set at the apartment.
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Biden Admin Pushing to Tie Highway Funding to ‘Woke’ Agenda, Internal Senate Memo Shows
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing to tie billions of dollars in taxpayers’ funds to unrelated “woke initiatives,” an internal Senate memo has revealed.
An internal memorandum circulated among lawmakers by Senate Commerce Committee Republicans shows that the Biden admin is trying to link the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) highway funding to the Democrats’ radical agenda.
The memo was sent late Monday evening and spearheaded by Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-TX).
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Bill Gates Laughs Off Idea He Hatched ‘Evil Plot’ to Push Vaccines
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates laughed off allegations that he hatched an “evil plot” to push Covid vaccines onto the public.
During a Tuesday appearance on Trevor Noah’s podcast “What Now?” Gates mocked the “wild” theories that link him to the mRNA injections.
Gates argues that the combination of the Covid pandemic and social media had created “insane” and “stunning” discourse.
Some of the “insane” theories he alluded to allege that Gates was engaged in a global scheme to harm the human population for his own benefit.
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Chicago Suffers Another Weekend Bloodbath: Over Two Dozen Shootings, Five Fatal
The crime-infested deep blue city of Chicago, Illinois, suffered yet another bloodbath over this past weekend.
The Democrat-led city witnessed over two dozen shootings.
According to CBS Chicago, at least five of these shootings were fatal.
7 teenagers were among the 24 people hurt during the shootings.
“At least 5 people were killed, and 24 others were hurt in weekend shootings in Chicago as of Sunday,” CBS Chicago reported.
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Chick-fil-A Deliveries Arrive by Drone in Florida
Chickens have taken flight once again. A Chick-fil-A in the suburbs of Tampa, Florida launched a new pilot program on Monday that features new delivery drones.
Chick-fil-A announced the new initiative on Instagram last week, showing a video of employees getting the meal ready and then placing it onto a small drone before it takes flight and delivers the box.
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Exclusive Interview: Ramaswamy Talks RFK Jr., Argentina’s Historical Election and More!
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy joins The Alex Jones Show to talk about the populist movement making its way around the globe and how humanity can unite to fend off the New World Order.
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Flash Mob of Teens Roll Up in 5 Cars and Steal $12K From LA Nike Store in Caught-on-Tape Heist
A flash mob of teens could be seen on camera ransacking a Nike store in Los Angeles and taking off with about $12,000 worth of merchandise, according to authorities.
Seventeen masked youngsters rolled up in five different cars and descended on the chain store on South Alameda Street on Sunday evening around 6 p.m. and quickly filled up clothing and boxes of sneakers into trash bags, the LAPD said.
Stunned customers looked on as the thieves quickly filled their trash bags to the brim with goodies from the athletic retail shop, according to footage posted online.
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Disgraced former Maryland mayor and prominent Democrat Patrick Wojahn was sentenced to 30 years of prison after he pleaded guilty to dozens of child porn charges.
Wojahn, who formerly served as the first openly gay mayor of College Park, Maryland received the sentence after he was arrested for possession and distribution of child pornography in March, reports Fox News.
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Lawsuit Against Alleged CIA Spying on Assange Visitors: A Rare Court Hearing
A United States court held an extraordinary hearing on November 16, where a judge carefully considered a lawsuit against the CIA and former CIA director Mike Pompeo for their alleged role in spying on American attorneys and journalists who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Judge John Koeltl of the Southern District of New York pushed back when Assistant U.S. Attorney Jean-David Barnea refused to confirm or deny that the CIA had targeted Americans without obtaining a warrant. He also invited attorneys for the Americans to update the lawsuit so that claims of privacy violations explicitly dealt with the government’s lack of a warrant.
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Mayor Eric Adams Blames Biden Admin for NYC Budget Cuts: ‘Abandoned Us’
New York City’s Democrat Mayor Eric Adams recently announced severe budget cuts as taxpayer funds are rediverted to manage the escalating illegal migrant crisis.
In response to Democrat President Joe Biden’s failed immigration policies, border state leaders have been busing illegal aliens to so-called “sanctuary” cities such as NYC, Chicago, and Washington D.C.
As Slay News reported, Adams announced that he’s been forced to issue major budget cuts to the city’s police force and education department to cover the costs of the influx of illegal border crossers.
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In a press conference today, New York Governor Kathy Hochul outlined her administration’s aggressive new strategy for combating online “hate” and implementing pre-crime-esque online surveillance.
As part of this approach, New York’s Threat Assessment and Management Teams (TAM teams), which were established in August 2022 in response to the Buffalo mass shooting, will extend their efforts and start targeting speech surrounding the conflict in the Middle East, with a focus on preventing crimes before they occur. TAM teams will be given an additional $3 million investment for their implementation across New York State college campuses.
“We’re creating strategies, first time ever, to help identify hate at the source and prevent crimes before they occur,” Hochul said.
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New York at Heightened Risk of Islamic Terrorist Attack Amid Tensions in Middle East: Report
As the war between Israel and Hamas rages on, experts at the New York State Intelligence Center have warned that the Empire state could be a potential target for Islamic terrorist attacks.
In the weeks since the Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist group launched its latest wave of violence in the Jewish state on October 7, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has earmarked $2.5 million to help ramp up security and ensure that the Joint Terrorism Task Force has the staff necessary to properly detect potential threats.
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NYU’s Israeli Alumni Cut Ties Over President ‘Whitewashing’ Antisemitic Chant as ‘Not That Bad’
New York University’s Israeli alumni severed ties with the institution Tuesday over its failure to tackle antisemitism — and after its president allegedly played down the incendiary “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” chant as “not that bad.”
The 2,000-strong NYU Alumni Club of Israel slammed NYU president Linda Mills and told board of trustees chairman Evan Chesler that it would drop ties until the institution tackled antisemitism head-on.
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One San Francisco business owner sounded off against Mayor London Breed for downplaying crime and homelessness after the city led a temporary effort to clean up the streets ahead of the highly-anticipated APEC summit last week.
Lifelong San Francisco resident Tom Wong said during “FOX & Friends First” that, in less than one day, the city was back to its original form — ridden with crime, drugs and homelessness.
“It’s horrible. I just drove through the Tenderloin, and it is just a lot of drug heads, drug dealers, and they’re all out, they’re all out in the neighborhood,” Wong told co-host Todd Piro Tuesday. “It’s less than 24 hours, and it’s back to the same thing.”
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Trump-Endorsed Candidates Dominate Louisiana’s Elections
Candidates endorsed by President Donald Trump have been dominating statewide elections in Louisiana.
The Associated Press reports that three Trump-endorsed candidates have won in Louisiana.
This includes Republicans Liz Murrill, Nancy Landry, and John Fleming.
Landry has been elected as governor, Murrill as attorney general, and Fleming as treasurer.
Not only did these candidates win, but they dominated their races.
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United Airlines Pilot Removed From Service Over Pro-Hamas Posts
A United Airlines pilot has been removed from service after social media posts surfaced showing the man expressing support for Hamas in the wake of the Palestinian terrorist group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
United told the Daily Mail on Tuesday that pilot Ibrahim R. Mossallam had been removed from service with pay as an investigation into the posts is carried out. The airline said he was removed from service on November 20 after his social media posts gained attention from the public.
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X CEO Linda Yaccarino has reportedly hired her son to help Elon Musk’s social media company hit its goal of $100 million in political advertising revenue — which she hopes will offset the money lost due to the pause in ads announced by several blue-chip companies.
Matt Madrazo, a top sales executive at Studio71, a creator-focused media firm, has been introducing himself to political advertising insiders in Washington, DC, in recent weeks, according to the news site Semafor.
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Trudeau Government Moving to Create UN Treaty Banning ‘Plastic Pollution’ by 2024
Canadian Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault and the Trudeau government are appealing to the United Nations for a “legally binding treaty to ban plastic pollution in two years.”
Guilbeault made the remarks at a news conference Monday explaining other options for the Liberal government to ban single-use plastics.
The Federal Court of Canada said Thursday it is both “unreasonable and unconstitutional” for the Liberal government to label all plastic-manufactured items as “toxic.”
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Anti-Migrant Firebrand Geert Wilders Leads Dutch Polls on Eve of Knife-Edge Election
Geert Wilders, the anti-migrant firebrand known for his fierce rhetoric against Islam, has taken a shock lead in the polls before a knife-edge general election in the Netherlands on Wednesday.
The veteran leader of the hard-Right PVV was on Tuesday predicted to win 28 seats, enough to potentially make him prime minister in a country where nearly one million people, more than five per cent of the population, are Muslims.
“In the latest poll we are the biggest party in the Netherlands!,” the shock haired populist said. “Make it the truth tomorrow.”
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Austria: Vienna Ready to Accept Children From Gaza in Need of Urgent Medical Care
Vienna General Hospital is prepared to receive children from the Gaza Strip requiring intensive medical assistance, stated Mayor Michael Ludwig.
Michael Ludwig, the Mayor of Vienna, confirmed that the Austrian capital is ready to admit children from the Gaza Strip who are facing serious health challenges for treatment.
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Czechia Has Received All 14 Leopard Tanks Gifted by Germany
All 14 Leopard 2A4 tanks, gifted to Czechia by Germany, are now in the hands of Czech soldiers, according to the Novinky news outlet.
Soldiers from the 73rd Tank Battalion, based in Praslavice in Olomouc, received the first Leopard in December of last year.
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Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom is set to become the largest party in the Dutch parliament according to the final poll published ahead of Wednesday’s election.
The last survey conducted by I&O Research released on Tuesday morning showed the populist conservatives had edged ahead of the establishment parties and suggested the PVV could win 28 seats in the House of Representatives.
The governing Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and the Labor-Green alliance of PvdA-GroenLinks spearheaded by former Eurocrat Frans Timmermans, were projected to amass 27 seats apiece.
The recently-formed New Social Contract (NSC) led by centrist Pieter Omtzigt was fourth in the poll with 21 seats.
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EU Still Funding Islamist Enemies of Israel
The European Commission is set to announce continued payments of development aid to the Palestinian territories, despite acknowledging the “risk” of funding Hamas.
In the wake of the October 7th terror attacks against Israel, Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Varhelyi announced a freeze of aid to Palestine. His announcement had clearly not been signed off on, with senior officials quickly scrambling to contradict the comments. But they still appear to have prompted an official internal audit on funding.
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The 16-year-old high school student, identified only as Thomas, was stabbed at the weekend when a group of outsiders descended on a festive crowd of around 400 people gathered in Crepol.
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Germany Plans to Build a Large Railway Tunnel to the Czech Republic
Germany has announced plans to build the country’s longest railway tunnel through the Ore Mountains along the German-Czech border. This was stated by the state railway company Deutsche Bahn, according to DPA.
It is expected that the approximately 30-kilometer railway tunnel from the German town of Geydenau to the Czech town of Usti nad Labem will significantly reduce travel time between Prague and Dresden.
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Germany’s Federal Freeze: Budget Crunch Hits Every Corner
Berlin’s ruling green-Left coalition is finding itself in the midst of a budget crisis after last Wednesday’s verdict by the country’s top constitutional court that ruled against plans to reallocate €60 billion worth of COVID recovery funds into the green transition.
On Monday night, the federal ministry of finance issued a budget freeze on a majority of the German ministries, the only exceptions being the Bundestag, the Bundesrat, the federal Presidency, and the Federal Constitutional Court. The government is hoping to see a clarification from the court this week on whether their decision will impact the pending budget.
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Hungarian MEP Slams Leftist Attack on Antisemitism Conference
Danish and Spanish leftist-liberal MEPS in a letter have criticised the conference “Combating Antisemitism through Education,” organised by Hungarian MEPS in cooperation with the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation (EMIH). The event, taking place at the European Parliamentary Building in Strasbourg on Tuesday, November 21st, aims to
bring together experts, policymakers, community leaders, European and Israeli decision-makers to explore successful initiatives that have effectively tackled antisemitism through school education.
The leftist MEPs took offence at the fact that the organisers come from the ruling parties of Hungary.
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Hungary Surveys Voters on EU and Ukraine
The Hungarian government has launched a nationwide survey on key topics related to national sovereignty, including EU migration policy, issues related to Ukraine, and foreign influence on Hungarian politics. The survey accompanies a new antiglobalist, EU-skeptical billboard campaign for next June’s European parliamentary elections.
The questionnaire, titled “National Consultation on the Defense of Our Sovereignty,” was mailed out to the 9.6 million Hungarians living within the country’s borders on Friday, November 17th. It asks their opinions on Ukraine’s EU accession, military and financial support for Ukraine, Brussels’ financial support for Palestinian organizations, as well as various government policies Brussels wishes to see abolished, Magyar Nemzet reported.
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Iceland Builds a Wall as Volcano Eruption Imminent: You’ll Get 30 Minutes Warning
Some 900 earthquakes hit southern Iceland on Monday, authorities said, adding to tens of thousands of tremors that rattled the region in recent weeks as the country braces for what could become a significant volcanic eruption.
It comes as Iceland officials worked to build a wall around a nuclear facility to stop any lava flow nearby.
Experts have said residents will get just 30 minutes warning ahead of any explosion.
Almost 4,000 people were evacuated over the weekend as authorities feared that molten rock would rise to the surface of the earth and potentially hit a coastal town and a geothermal power station.
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S***lib academics are once again surreptitiously pushing the narrative that England was an ethnically diverse country… 700 years ago.
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Just Stop Oil: Outrage as UN Rep Attacks UK Jail Terms for Protesters Wreaking Havoc
A United Nations representative has sparked outrage after attacking sentences handed out to Just Stop Oil protesters who caused carnage on the M25 bridge.
Activists Marcus Decker and Morgan Trowland were convicted of causing a public nuisance after stopping traffic for almost 40 hours.
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Majority of Poles Oppose the Shutdown of Public Broadcasters
The majority of Poles do not support the dismantling of public broadcasters TVP and Polish Radio, recent polling has shown.
According to a poll conducted by United Surveys for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna newspaper and RFMF FM commercial radio, 56 percent of respondents oppose the dissolution of the broadcasters, 34 percent are in favor and 10 percent are undecided.
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Netherlands: “If a Country is Sovereign, Who Cares About the EU?” An Interview With Wybren Van Haga
Wybren Van Haga is a Dutch cultural conservative, libertarian, and entrepreneur. Following a decades-long affiliation with Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD), a year spent as an independent MP, and then a brief stint at Thierry Baudet’s Forum voor Democratie (FvD), van Haga struck out on his own.
In July of 2021, he founded his own party, Belang Voor Nederland (BVNL). Alarmed by the direction Dutch politics is heading, through this party, van Haga seeks to promote and preserve hard-won individual freedoms whilst curtailing the size of the state.
Two days before the country’s parliamentary elections, Mr. van Haga sat down with The European Conservative to talk about—among other things—ugly communist architecture, oppressive political elites, and how a return to personal autonomy and responsibility can slow down, if not halt, the West’s headlong plunge into decadence.
We met van Haga in his modest office in The Hague, not in the ‘Binnenhof’—a building complex which for centuries has been the beating heart of Dutch politics—but its decidedly less impressive temporary stand-in, while the former is under renovation.
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Poland’s President Duda Assures Support for Finland Against Russia’s Hybrid Border Attacks
In an official visit to Poland, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö was welcomed by President Andrzej Duda, with talks emphasizing Poland’s support for Finland amid hybrid aggression from Russia at the border.
President Niinistö was warmly received by his Polish counterpart at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. The visit, starting with one-on-one discussions and delegation meetings, concluded with a joint press conference where President Duda reaffirmed Poland’s solidarity with Finland in light of the latest accusations that Moscow is facilitating an influx of illegal immigration into the Scandinavian country.
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Polish Liberal Coalition Must Seek to Improve Relations With Belarus, Says Parliamentary Speaker
Poland has no choice but to enter into talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko following a deterioration in the country’s relationship with its neighbor, the new deputy speaker of the Polish Senate, Maciej Zywno, has claimed.
Zywno, from the Third Way alliance supporting Donald Tusk’s return to power, told Wirtualna Polska liberal news outlet that Poland can ill-afford the present state of its relations with Belarus.
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Portugal’s Youth Population Declines: Over One Million Lost in 50 Years
Over the past five decades, Portugal has witnessed a decline of more than one million children and young individuals, marking a significant demographic shift, according to Portugal News.
This trend has positioned Portugal as the second oldest country in Europe, as revealed by Pordata, the statistical database of the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation. The data compiled in honor of Universal Children’s Rights Day illustrates that nearly 5% of the 1.3 million young people in Portugal are of foreign origin.
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Solitary British Police Commissioner States Blatant Truth on Cannabis
Law enforcement on cannabis is “pathetically weak” and has been for years. That is according to Alison Hernandez, the Conservative Party Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Devon and Cornwall.
This has, in fact, been clear for decades. In his 2012 book on “the British Establishment’s Surrender to Drugs,” Peter Hitchens responded to the claim that cannabis and other substances ought to be legalised because the ‘war on drugs’ has failed by arguing that this was The War We Never Fought. He showed that officials long ago stopped enforcing the law against those found in possession of cannabis—that is, found breaking the law. The worst many users could fear was being dealt a ‘cannabis warning,’ which does not constitute a criminal record and need not be declared to employers.
The argument was dismissed then. It still is by some, though most recognise that cannabis is de facto legal. So much so, in fact, that PCC Hernandez said “a lot of people think it already is legal.” Now, she added, there is a permanent and “absolute stink” across Britain’s streets, yet the issue gets “ignored.”
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Sweden Grapples With Escalating Gang Violence: A Once-Peaceful City Shattered by Crime Surge
The tranquil streets of Uppsala, Sweden’s fourth-largest city, have transformed into a battleground with explosions, shootings and grenade attacks becoming a daily reality, Financial Times writes.
What used to be a peaceful district now resembles a war zone, culminating in the tragic death of 24-year-old teacher Soha Saad in a blast aimed at a neighbor linked to a criminal gang.
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From January 1, 2021, to January 1, 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the population of the European Union decreased by 265,257 people, as reported by Eurostat.
In 2021, the overall natural population growth rate in the EU was —2.7 per 1000 people, meaning that, on average, 2.7 people died for every 1000 people in the European Union. The most significant population decrease was observed in Bulgaria, where in some areas, the natural population growth rate was less than —20 per 1000 people. Negative trends were also evident in Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, and Estonia.
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Three Arrested Over Spanish Populist Politician Shot in Face in Apparent Assassination Attempt
Spanish police have arrested three people over the shooting in the face of a veteran Spanish politician as he walked home from Church earlier this month, but say they haven’t yet found the gunman and further arrests may come.
Three people have been arrested over the shooting of 78-year-old Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a retired parliamentarian and co-founder of Spain’s populist Vox party, the first detentions over the attempted slaying earlier this month. A British citizen woman and a man were arrested in Granada, and a man with Spanish citizenship was taken by officers in Malaga, all in southern Spain, in police operations in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
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UK Teachers ‘Censoring Their Lessons Over Fears of Offending Muslim Pupils’ — Damning Survey
Teachers across the UK are self-censoring their lessons over fears of offending Muslim pupils, according to a recent poll.
A survey of over 1,000 teachers conducted for the Policy Exchange think tank found that 16 per cent of them have admitted to self-censoring in order to avoid causing religious offence.
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Protesters have been arrested just thirty seconds into a disruptive slow march at Whitehall, police have confirmed.
Just Stop Oil protesters took to the street shortly after 12pm on the second day of a planned week of demonstrations.
Met Police officers arrested the protesters under Section Seven of the Public Order Act after they left Trafalgar Square and walked onto the road.
According to the Met, police can make arrests under Section Seven of the Public Order Act if a protester intentionally or recklessly interferes with national infrastructure which includes roads.
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UK: War Memorial Defaced With Anti-Israel Graffiti — ‘Completely Unacceptable’
Police are appealing for information from the public after anti-Israel graffiti was daubed on a war memorial in South London.
The graffiti was discovered on the memorial, on Lewisham High Street, after Remembrance Sunday.
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Violence Against Christians is Growing in Europe
An alarming increase in violence against Christians in Europe has been documented by two separate reports recently published by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
The data showed a 44 percent increase in attacks against Christians last year compared to 2021.
In particular, a dramatic rise in arson attacks against Christian institutions was recorded with such incidents up 75 percent year-over-year. A total of 231 attacks were reported in Germany alone.
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‘We Came to Kill White People!’ — 9 Arrested for Murder of French Teen in Mass Stabbing Attack
French authorities arrested nine individuals on suspicion of murder on Tuesday following the fatal stabbing of a French teenager in a suspected racially motivated attack.
Eyewitnesses to the stabbing spree in the French village of Crépol on Sunday which cost the life of 16-year-old Thomas and left several others injured have revealed how the knife-wielding gang members spoke of their desire “to kill White people”.
Promising rugby player Thomas was stabbed in the chest and neck after leaving a winter ball in the quaint village in the early hours of Sunday morning as a gang from a nearby town stood waiting for attendees to leave the village hall.
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Serbia: Belgrade Blames James Bond for Farmers’ Protest
Tractors are blocking key transport junctures in the northern agricultural region of Vojvodina in Serbia for the second week in a row. The protest comes as part of a bitter dispute between farmers and the central government over an increase in subsidies weeks before elections scheduled for December 17th.
Demonstrations began on November 12th in the northern city of Subotica over the Serbian government’s refusal to honour commitments removing excise duties on fuel.
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China released what it called its three-step plan Tuesday for ending the Israel-Hamas war — while Gaza refugees in UN shelters are reduced to sharing a single toilet for every 160 people and one shower for every 700.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, speaking at a summit of BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — called for the formation of an “international peace conference” aimed at establishing an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.
“Second, humanitarian corridors must be kept secure and unimpeded, and more humanitarian assistance should be provided to the population in Gaza,” Jinping said, according to the state-run Xinhua news outlet.
“Third, the international community must act with practical measures to prevent the conflict from spilling over and endangering stability in the Middle East as a whole,” he said.
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Israel, Hamas Reach Deal for 50 Hostages in Exchange for Multi-Day Cease-Fire in War: Reports
Israel has approved a deal with Hamas in which 50 hostages held by the terror group would be freed in exchange for a cease-fire in Gaza lasting at least four days.
The Qatar-mediated agreement was approved by the Israel Cabinet early Wednesday morning local time after more than five hours of debating.
As part of the deal — struck more than six weeks into the war — Hamas is set to release 50 of the 240 hostages taken during their Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish nation, according to the Israeli government.
The hostage releases would occur over the course of a four-day cease-fire in Gaza, which has been devastated by Israel’s retaliatory airstrikes and subsequent ground attack aimed at destroying Hamas.
The pause in fighting would extend an extra day for every 10 additional hostages released by Hamas, the Israeli government said.
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Israeli Intelligence to be Granted Full Access to National Biometric Database
The Israeli government is implementing significant amendments in the usage and access of biometric data, which could have profound implications for privacy rights, per recent reports from the Calcalist.
This move demonstrates a radical shift in the control of civilian and private biometric data, especially during the country’s wartime.
The series of altered data permissions are presently making their way through the Knesset, the country’s legislative body, taking the form of regulatory modifications and legislative memos. This proposes a scenario where, barring judicial resistance, the Israeli military, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement could acquire increased surveillance authority.
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Israel-Hamas Deal: Some Gaza Hostages for Prisoners, 4-Day Pause
GAZA/TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s government and Hamas on Wednesday agreed to a four-day pause in fighting to allow the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.
Officials from Qatar, which has been mediating negotiations, as well as the U.S., Israel and Hamas have for days been saying a deal was imminent.
Hamas is believed to be holding more than 200 hostages, taken when its fighters surged into Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies.
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The ‘Two-State Solution’ is Terrorism
by Daniel Greenfield
“We must keep pursuing peace. We must keep pursuing a path so that Israel and the Palestinian people can both live safely, in security, in dignity, and in peace. For me, that means a two-state solution,” Biden lectured Israelis during his visit.
A two state solution dividing up Israel into a state for the Jews and a state for the Muslim terrorists has been on the minds of Biden, administration officials, EU leaders and the media.
Before his visit to Israel, Biden called Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and scheduled a meeting with him. Secretary of State Blinken had met with Abbas the day before.
According to an official of Abbas’ Fatah party which runs the Palestinian Authority, “Blinken even demanded before he met with him that there be a condemnation” of the Hamas attacks. But no such condemnation was forthcoming. Nevertheless the media falsely reported that Abbas had disavowed Hamas. In reality, a statement was planted in a readout of a call with Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro without Abbas’ knowledge. When Abbas found out, he had it removed.
Abbas’s actual reaction to the Hamas murder of women and children was to assert the right of the “Palestinian people to defend themselves against the terrorism of settlers and the occupation forces”.
While Biden and Blinken were preparing to meet with the terrorist leader, a terror unit that is part of Abbas’ Fatah party was claiming credit for collaborating with Hamas on the attacks.
A spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades boasted that the “together with the rest of the Palestinian resistance factions” it “carried out several operations behind enemy lines as part of ‘the Al-Aqsa Flood’ battle”, which is the Hamas name for the attacks, and claimed that “we killed and took captive occupation soldiers” as part of a “joint operations room”.
Biden’s alternative to Hamas was actually killing Israelis in coordination with Hamas…
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Putin Pardons Satanic Cannibal That Beheaded Four Teens After He Fought in Ukraine
A Russian cannibal in a Satanic cult that slaughtered four teenagers — beheading and partially eating two of them — has been pardoned by President Vladimir Putin after fighting against Ukraine in a notorious unit of convicts.
Nikolai Ogolobyak, 33, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2010 for murder and desecrating corpses over a series of horrifying ritualistic murders that rocked the Yaroslavl region — where the then-teenager was known as “Count.”
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Zelensky Claims to Have Survived ‘Five or Six’ Russian Assassination Attempts
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that he has survived multiple Russian assassination attempts on his life and that there is an ongoing Kremlin plot to take him out before the end of the year.
Speaking with Britain’s largest circulation newspaper, The Sun, Zelensky said that there have been at least “five or six” assassination plots against him by Moscow since the Russian invasion of his country last year that have been foiled by Ukrainian intelligence services.
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‘Europe Leaning Towards India, Now That Russia Has Proved to be Unreliable’
‘In India’s case, the services sector is absolutely fantastic as it has the benefit of a human resource exceptionally talented in mathematics, the digital sphere and the high-tech domain’.
Decoupled from Russia, since its conflict with Ukraine, Europe is looking for new economic partners and India will play a pretty important role in the changed dynamics, Jean Claude Trichet, former governor of Banque de France, who’d also served as the president of European Central Bank told DH ‘s Lavpreet Kaur on the sidelines of Dubai Business Forum in United Arab Emirates.
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A derelict home described as an unlivable property situated within walking distance from a major cricket ground has been sold for more than a million dollars at an auction.
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Fulani Militants Gun Down Christian Pastor in Kaduna State, Nigeria
Fulani Muslim raiders gunned down the pastor of the Evangelical Church Winning All in Kaduna State, Nigeria, late last week and kidnapped his wife for ransom.
“The Fulani militants killed Reverend Amako Maraya,” a church leader of the Evangelical Church Winning All told International Christian Concern (ICC). “He is my pastor. Last Sunday before he was killed, he preached about forgiveness.”
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“Scream” Actress Melissa Barrera is Fired Over Israel-Hamas Commentary on Social Media
Melissa Barrera, the 33-year-old Mexican actress, has been let go from her role in the upcoming movie “Scream VII” due to her Instagram posts discussing the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Melissa Barrera had joined the iconic slasher franchise in 2022 and played the prominent role of Sam Carpenter in its fifth and sixth installments, alongside Jenna Ortega.
On Tuesday, sources confirmed to Variety that Barrera has been dropped from Spyglass Media’s upcoming sequel. This decision was primarily influenced by her social media posts, which have been critical of Israel and have raised accusations about alleged anti-Semitic undertones.
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Falklands veteran Simon Weston has responded to the new Argentinian President’s vow to take back the Falkland Islands from British sovereignty, saying: “They don’t have a military to provide any action.”
Speaking to GB News, Mr Weston, who suffered severe burns during the 1981 conflict, said: “The Falklands is an independent territory that chooses whose sovereignty they live under and they choose our laws, they choose our flag, they choose our Parliament.
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Albanian Mafia Supplying Weapons to Migrants at Serbia-Hungarian Border, Says Serbian Minister
The Albanian mafia is alleged to be supplying migrants with weapons at the Serbian-Hungarian border, according to Bratiszlav Gasics, the Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs, as reported by Magyar Nemzet.
Organized criminal gangs operating in the northern part of Serbia, aiding in the smuggling of migrants, receive support from the Albanian mafia, emphasizes Gasics. The Albanian mafia, based in Kosovo, supports these organized groups with weapons and other tools. Migrants are not seen merely as victims but as organized criminal gangs, against whom Gasics states they are fighting.
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Clare O’Neil struggled to answer whether convicted sex offenders released from immigration detention were wearing ankle bracelets.
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COA, the refugee settlement agency, is allocating €750 million for the development of new refugee housing, including the temporary use of former cruise ships and other vessels, as reported by the Dutch News.
The funds will be utilized over the coming years to address the accommodation needs of around 60,000 refugees in the Netherlands as of November 1, with an anticipated increase to 77,000 by January next year. Approximately half of these refugees currently reside in temporary facilities such as ships, hotels and sports halls.
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Croatia Implements Border Controls Amid Surge in Balkan Migration
Croatia has implemented temporary border checks in response to a surge in migrants attempting to enter the country from neighboring states through the ‘Balkan route,’ as reported by Info Migrants.
Despite joining the EU’s Schengen zone earlier this year, allowing free movement, Croatia cites the need for controls due to an influx of migrants without proper documentation.
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Finland’s President Highlights Challenges in Returning Asylum Seekers
Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto stated on Monday that the deportation of asylum seekers who do not meet protection criteria has become impossible, emphasizing the need to consider this reality when shaping policies.
Speaking during a state visit to Poland, Niinisto highlighted that entering a country’s borders effectively means staying if asylum criteria are not met.
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Finnish President Advocates EU Collaboration to Address Border Challenge
During a two-day official state visit to Poland, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö called for a collaborative effort among EU member states to address the challenges faced at border checkpoints, as reported by Yle News.
Niinistö emphasized the need for a European Union-wide consensus, highlighting that the issue of an increase in undocumented asylum seekers impacts EU borders collectively, not just those of individual nations like Poland and Finland.
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Finnish Deputy Chancellor of Justice Rejects Government’s Border Restriction Measures
Deputy Chancellor of Justice Mikko Puumalainen has rejected the Finnish government’s proposal to tighten restrictions on the eastern border, citing concerns that it did not adequately ensure the genuine and effective opportunity to seek international protection, Yle reports.
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Former Eurocrat Barnier Joins Calls for French Referendum on Immigration
France’s former Foreign Minister Michel Barnier has criticized the European Union and the French government’s migration policy and called for a referendum on migration.
The former vice-president of the European People’s Party (EPP) said before the 2022 elections that the handling of immigration was out of French hands. He proposed that the country should suspend the admission of migrants from non-EU countries for three to five years.
In response to criticism that he had joined the populist wave he once despised, he said: “I was European before them and I will be European after them.”
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ICE Arrests Brazilian Illegal Immigrant Child Rapist in Martha’s Vineyard
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced this week that it arrested an illegal immigrant Brazilian fugitive — who is wanted in his home country for failing to serve a prison sentence for raping a 5-year-old child — in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
ICE said the Brazilian, identified as 37-year-old Saulo Cardona Ferreira, had received “multiple criminal convictions” in Brazil in 2019 for raping the child and had been sentenced to 14 years in prison, but he had fled the country. The town of Sorriso, Mato Grosso, had issued a warrant for his arrest.
The agency said that at an unknown time and place, he entered the U.S. illegally, meaning he evaded Border Patrol as a “gotaway.”
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Illegal Aliens in Chicago Admit Sending Their U.S. Dollars Back to Their Home Countries
According to an interview with several illegal aliens sitting idly around a Chicago playground, long-term illegals from Venezuela admit that they send most of the U.S. dollars they are able to gather back to their home country for their families instead of spending it here in the States.
The video comes from the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.
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On November 21, the Moldovan Ministry of Internal Affairs reported searches in the Comrat and Taraclia districts in connection with the organization of illegal migration from Ukraine through Moldova and further into EU countries.
The ministry noted that among the suspects are employees of several MIA units: the Border Police, the Migration Inspectorate and the Police Inspectorate.
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Lawlessness in France fuelled by mass immigration has spread from the inner-city suburbs to the French countryside as the government continues to ignore the reality staring it in the face, Marine Le Pen has claimed.
In a recent interview with Valeurs Actuelles, the firebrand nationalist and former presidential candidate evidenced the spread of disorder among migrants by citing the tragic case of Thomas, a 16-year-old promising rugby player who was stabbed to death by a city gang who infiltrated a village’s winter ball at its local hall and stabbed several attendees in the early hours of Sunday morning.
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Economist Chris Richardson, who has worked at Treasury and the IMF, said housing had become a ‘misery machine’ as building activity failed to keep pace with record immigration.
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Migrants Get Free Turkeys for Thanksgiving Ahead of Low-Income New Yorkers
Low-income New Yorkers living in public housing say newly arrived migrants have been first in line for free turkeys ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, as public resources are strained from illegal immigration.
According to local reports and interviews, New Yorkers living in public housing are competing against tens of thousands of newly arrived migrants to New York City when it comes to meals this Thanksgiving.
“Why do we have to take the butt of everything,” New Yorker Georgia Butler told FOX5 New York in an interview. “This community is already suffering.”
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Poland’s Border Guard dismantled a criminal group specializing in smuggling people across the border into Western Europe. According to information provided by the Border Guard, the smugglers transported approximately 2,600 individuals. Among the detained suspects are citizens of Poland, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Georgia, according to Polsat News.
Investigators found that anyone wanting to avail themselves of the group’s services had to pay at least several thousand dollars.
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In the East Thuringian district of Greiz, the costs for the care of “unaccompanied minors” (UMA) have reached heights this year: German taxpayers have to bear up to 100,000 euros per person per year, according to Deutschland Kurier.
The district confirmed that an average of 8,300 euros is incurred monthly, totaling 99,600 euros annually.
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South Africa is planning to terminate its UN refugee treaties in a bid to tackle migration, after the government says it can no longer afford current asylum polices.
The country’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has announced plans to tough immigration laws in order to “overhaul” the entire refugee system.
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The Swedish Government is Proposing to Deport Migrants for a “Detrimental Lifestyle”
On Tuesday, Sweden announced its intention to introduce new requirements that would allow the deportation of asylum seekers and immigrants for drug abuse, affiliation with criminal groups, or expressions threatening Swedish values, according to AFP.
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UK: Fresh Crisis for Rishi Sunak as Net Migration Figures ‘To Reach 700K’ in Historic High
UK net migration could reach more than 700,000 in figures to be published on Thursday, in what would be a historic high.
Net migration figures for the year up to June will be published this week. They are expected to beat last year’s figures, which reached a record 606,000.
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UK: Sunak’s ‘United’ Cabinet Shows Cracks on Rwanda
The suggestion that Rishi Sunak’s new cabinet would be more unified than the last had legs for about a week before headlines started pointing to a split.
On Monday, just seven days after the prime minister sacked Suella Braverman and welcomed David Cameron (now ennobled as Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton) to the Tory top team, The Times warned of an impending “cabinet row” over the failed ‘Rwanda Plan.’
The Supreme Court said the plan could not go ahead because it would risk asylum seekers sent to the African nation being forced back to their country of origin and was thus in breach of national and international law.
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Vienna Integration Monitor Reveals 34% Lack Austrian Citizenship
One-third of the population in Vienna (34 percent) does not possess an Austrian passport, as indicated by the Integration Monitor presented by the city on Tuesday, Kronen Zeitung reports.
The majority of immigrants since 2014 come from EU or EFTA countries and have higher educational qualifications: 25 percent have completed secondary education (Matura), while 38 percent have a university degree. According to the study, educational opportunities for young people whose parents have come to Vienna from non-EU countries are also increasing.
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Cricket Chiefs Ban Transgender Players From Women’s Competition
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has banned biological male players from participating in international women’s cricket. The move against transgender competitors who “identify” with the other sex has been made to protect the safety of female players.
The decision means any male-to-female participants who have been through male puberty will not be eligible to take part in the international women’s game regardless of any surgery or gender reassignment treatment they may have undertaken.
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House Republicans Probe Leaked NSA Glossary That Featured ‘White Fragility, ‘ ‘Genderqueer’
House Republicans are investigating a leaked glossary of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) terms passed around the National Security Agency, which they say provides a “deeply troubling” look into the “hiring and contracting processes” of the intelligence organization.
Reps. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) wrote in a Tuesday letter to NSA Director Paul Nakasone that the glossary includes “incoherent” definitions of terms concerning gender, race and capitalism that could “harm national security.”
The lawmakers are asking for information about who disseminated the glossary, whether that employee has been disciplined and when it was removed from circulation.
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MTG Blasts Biden’s Pentagon for Demanding $114 MILLION for Diversity Initiatives
Following a report on Tuesday that the Pentagon has requested around $114 million for “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” programs in the 2024 fiscal year, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called out the department for the ask as they failed a sixth consecutive audit.
“The Pentagon has no idea where the hell all the taxpayer money that has been funding it went for the past 6 years, but they have the audacity to ask for more funding for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs?” Greene wrote. “Does Joe Biden want the military to be a lethal fighting force or a clown show??”
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Roman Emperor Was a Trans Woman, According to Woke UK Museum ‘Sensitive’ to Preferred Pronouns
A UK museum has declared a third-century Roman emperor a transgender woman — and will start referring to the ruler as “she,” even though some historians believe it is based on ancient insults.
The North Hertfordshire Museum said it is being “sensitive” to the purported pronoun preferences of Emperor Elagabalus, who came to power at 14 in 281 and died by assassination just 4 years later, according to The Telegraph.
The council-run museum in Hitchin claims the switch is based on classical texts that show Elagabalus asked to be called a “lady” and a “wife,” The Telegraph first reported.
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Target is facing public scrutiny yet again after the retail giant seemingly doubled down on its pushing of far-left gender ideology after it was revealed that the company has a new self-proclaimed “Senior LGBTQIA+ Segmentation Strategist and Pride Lead” named Erik Thompson, also known as “GayCruella” on his Instagram page.
Thompson posted excitedly to social media upon receiving his new role, telling the world that he is here to “make trouble” and that it is now time to “rip that old world to shreds.”
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White House Touts ‘Transgender Victims’ for 2024 Campaign
President Joe Biden’s deputies are touting the invented “Transgender Day of Remembrance” to help mobilize election-year action among women who want to care for others, say critics.
“Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we grieve the 26 transgender Americans who were killed this year,” White House spokesman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters, adding, “Year after year, we see that these victims are disproportionately black, women, and women of color. No one should face violence or live in fear, or be discriminated against simply for being themselves.”
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“Czechia Has Received All 14 Leopard Tanks Gifted by Germany”
Leopard 2A4 – it was “old tank” in 1989, and today it is older still.
What a “gift” – for the 90 modernized T-72M1 (roughly equivalent to these Leopards 2A4), 200 APCs, and 40 long range artillery pieces Czech Republic “gifted” to Ukraine – as commanded by our German and US overlords…
The Czech Republic is a joke. A country completely being mined out of all value by foreign interests.
Sorry Barn, but those Leopards at better on their worst day than anything the russians built on their best day. Their reliability, survivability, gunnery and range make them better than the bloody ruskies have or allies for that matter.
It is quite easy to return asylum seekers.
All you need is a 9mm
What you describe is the second step.
You forgot the FIRST and most important one:
WILLPOWER.
Without the will to do something all your guns are just paperweights.
Get a German mad and marching, and they have the will to do anything they put their mind to do.
I have a better idea. Israel should take 1000 “palestinian” prisoners. Walk them to the top of the temple mount, where the dome on the rock is now, and machine-gun them.
Then demolish the mosque up there.
Wow, this is the best idea yet. Unfortunately the Israeli pm and his war cabinet cohorts are yellow bellied lefturds who should be marched up with them. The last people they should allow is Qatar/ moslem brotherhood to be part of this, as of course they are best pals with obast’urd and that is where the pressure is coming from. The terrorists are only going to release 10 at a time but only after they have their 150 female terrorists back. And who knows a) if they will even do that, and b) if any hostages are still alive, as apparently Hamas have said they will need to find the children first. Some may be disguised and or drugged and going south with camouflaged hamas members. Meanwhile they are also receiving more fuel and food.
Loki, I would do the 1,000 a day until every last Israeli is accounted for. It is amazing how well that works when dealing with ragheads.
Old people are especially vulnerable to predators
Sweden. A 31-year-old man of non-Western immigrant origin was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. This happened after he raped a mentally disabled woman in her 70s whom he was supposed to care for while working for the city’s home care service in Malmö. The man got the job despite a solid criminal record.
https://samnytt.se/brottsdomde-omar-fick-jobb-i-hemtjansten-valdtog-utvecklingsstord-70-aring
Russia. Two drunk migrants from Uzbekistan attacked an 84-year-old St. Petersburg woman for a bag with money.
Arriving police spoke with the victim. She clarified that the migrant ran up from behind. When the elderly woman found herself on the asphalt, the man stole five thousand rubles ($56)
https://78.ru/news/2023-11-22/v-peterburge-pyanie-migranti-napali-na-pensionerku-radi-sumki-s-dengami
HOORAY!
Geert Wilders victory.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/11/22/anti-mass-migration-populist-geert-wilders-wins-most-seats-in-dutch-elections-exit-polls-show/