Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resisted pressure from the Biden administration, and said there will be no ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas releases the 240 hostages. Meanwhile, the Russian government announced that it is sending 28 tons of aid to Gaza via Egypt and the Sinai.
In other news, Serbian police arrested seven people smugglers and discovered more than 700 migrants in a series of raids near the Hungarian border.
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Canada Posts Meager Job Gains, Unemployment Rate Climbs to 5.7%
Canada’s labour market posted its weakest job gain in more than a year and the unemployment rate rose to a 21-month high, adding to evidence the nation’s economy is weakening.
The country added 17,500 jobs in October, while the jobless rate rose 0.2 percentage points to 5.7 per cent, the fourth monthly increase in the past six months, Statistics Canada reported Friday in Ottawa. The figures missed expectations for a gain of 25,000 positions and a jobless rate of 5.6 per cent in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
Wage growth for permanent employees slowed to 5 per cent, missing expectations for a 5.2 per cent gain, but still the fourth straight month of pay raises of 5 per cent or more.
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Job growth in America slowed in October and the unemployment rate ticked higher as auto strikes weighed on the labor market last month.
Nonfarm payroll growth totaled 150,000 in October, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday, while the unemployment rate rose to 3.9% from 3.8%. The unemployment rate now stands at its highest level since January 2022.
Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expected job gains to tally 180,000 with unemployment holding steady from the prior month.
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Poland Among Countries With Lowest Unemployment Rate in EU
Over recent years, Poland has been one of the countries with the lowest unemployment rates in the European Union, which is a success of the government’s policy, the family and social policy minister has said.
Poland’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment remained stable at 2.8 percent in September versus August data, according to a harmonised unemployment report by the EU stats office, Eurostat.
“Eurostat data confirm the stable situation on the labour market in Poland,” Marlena Malag, the family and social policy minister, announced on Friday. “September is the fourth month in which the unemployment rate in our country has remained at the same level — 2.8 percent.”
Thus, Poland ranked among the countries with the lowest unemployment rate in the EU, also including the Czech Republic (2.7 percent), and Malta (2.8 percent).
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“Be Careful What You Wish for” — Musk Warns ‘No Jobs Needed’ in Future of AI “Magic Genie”
Authored by Savannah Fortis via CoinTelegraph.com
The United Kingdom’s global summit on artificial intelligence (AI) safety, the AI Safety Summit, concluded on Nov. 2 with a one-on-one chat between U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and billionaire Elon Musk.
Musk was one of many big names to attend the summit, including heads of OpenAI, Meta, Google and its AI division DeepMind, along with leaders from 27 countries. Musk’s nearly hour-long chat with Sunak was one of the main events of the second day.
Their conversation touched on everything from AI risks to China and opened with Elon Musk likening the emerging technology to a “magic genie.”
“It is somewhat of the magic genie problem, where if you have a magic genie that can grant all the wishes, usually those stories don’t end well. Be careful what you wish for.”
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Biden Tries to Appease Swing-State Muslims by Calling for ‘Pause’ in Gaza as Hamas Retreats
President Joe Biden called for a humanitarian “pause” in the Israel-Hamas war as the IDF mounts a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The president made his comments on Wednesday evening when a protester interrupted his campaign speech by calling for a ceasefire.
“I think we need a pause,” Biden said.
The president had been speaking to a crowd of supporters in Minneapolis about what motivated him to run for president when a woman interrupted him by shouting for a ceasefire.
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Biden Admin Announces Additional $425 Million Military Package to Ukraine
On Thursday, Biden’s Department of Defense announced that the United States will send an additional $425 million military aid package to Ukraine which will include munitions and anti-tank weapons.
The deal will supply Ukraine with $300 million for long-term funding to strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses. The funding will come from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which is a contract relationship with defense companies to build or modify major weapons systems, according to the Associated Press.
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‘Big Short’ Investor Steve Eisman Demands UPenn Stop Using His Name for Scholarship Fund
Infoumous investor Steve Eisman has demanded that the University of Pennsylvania stop using his name for a scholarship fund established by his family.
The hedge fund manager, famously portrayed by Steve Carrell in the movie “The Big Short,” blasted UPenn over the college’s support for anti-Israel protests.
Eisman responded by declaring that he doesn’t want his “family’s name associated with the University of Pennsylvania. Ever.”
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Breaking: DC Appeals Court Grants Temporary Halt of Trump Gag Order in J6 Conspiracy Case
On Friday, the 3-judge US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted a temporary stay on a gag order placed on Trump by Judge Tanya Chutkan.
“Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, which includes requests for an administrative stay and to expedite the appeal, it is ordered that the district court’s October 17, 2023, order be administratively stayed pending further order of the court.”
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A transcript of a November 1 hearing before Judge Aileen Cannon regarding the Mar-a-Lago documents case has revealed Trump lawyers discussing “extensive” collaboration between the National Archives, Department of Justice, and the Biden White House prior to the indictment.
“We have seen communications between NARA and the Department of Justice and the White House and the Special Counsel that started way before what has been publicly disclosed and extensive meeting, extensive communications; and so we feel very strongly and expect that we will win on that,” the statement, posted to X by journalist Julie Kelly, stated.
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Certain Scientists, Journals Pose ‘Potential Threats to Vaccine Confidence’: CDC
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Scientists and journals that conduct and publish certain research pose a problem for the federal government’s vaccination campaigns that should be addressed, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials wrote in newly reviewed emails.
Colin Bernatzky, a public health analyst with the CDC’s Immunization Services Division, in one of the missives flagged a paper from scientists in the United States and several other countries that analyzed the effects of repeated COVID-19 vaccination.
Vladimir Uversky, a molecular medicine expert in Florida, and his co-authors noted that experiments have found multiple doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines lead to higher levels of antibodies called IgG4, making the immune system more susceptible.
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The top clerk for New York Justice Arthur Engoron, Allison Greenfield, appears to have violated judicial rules preventing officers of the court from making excessive political donations, Breitbart News has learned.
What’s more, it appears Engoron was advised of Greenfield’s violations in a 72-page complaint addressed to his court via email that was also filed with the New York State Bar Association the same day he decided to issue a gag order against former President Donald Trump in his case currently playing out in Engoron’s Manhattan courtroom. Engoron has subsequently fined Trump a total of $15,000 for two alleged violations of that gag order preventing the former president from criticizing his principal law clerk.
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Conniption in Court: Gasps as Breitbart Exposé on Trump New York Judge’s Clerk Takes Center Stage
Former President Donald Trump’s counsel, Christopher Kise, suggested in court Friday that the legal team may consider pursuing a mistrial in the civil suit brought by the state of New York in light of a report from Breitbart News.
At the center of the argument is Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle’s report that New York County Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s top clerk, Allison Greenfield, “appears to have violated judicial rules preventing officers of the court from making excessive political donations.”
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Tiffany Gomas, the Texas woman who went viral for her outburst on a commercial flight, has finally set the record straight on what she saw that led her to leave the plane distraught on July 2.
While speaking on Barstool Sports’ “Pardon My Take” podcast Friday, Gomas explained what really happened that led to her viral meltdown on an American Airlines flight before take off, revealing that it was her reaction to an “altercation” with a fellow passenger that “spiraled out of control.”
The clip of the incident that took the internet by storm this summer depicted a distraught Gomas walking down the center aisle of the plane before turning to flight attendants and other passengers and stating, “I don’t give two f***s, but I am telling you right now, that motherf***** back there is not real.”
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Eric Trump Slams ‘Charade’ of Manhattan Civil Fraud Trial, Says ‘We’Re Going to Win This Thing’
Speaking outside the Manhattan courthouse where the civil fraud trial brought forth by New York Attorney General Letitia James against 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, his family, and business, son Eric Trump told reporters, “we’re going to win this thing.”
“We have come of the best assets in New York. We’ve never had a default. We’ve never missed a loan payment. We have thousands of employees, there are thousands of employees that rely on our company every single day to put food in their mouths in the state of New York,” Trump said, noting the “witch hunt” against his father and family.
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HBO, Max Execs Created Troll Army to Target Critics of Their Entertainment Content
Have a desire to share an honest opinion about HBO movies and television shows? Well, you better watch out as new reports reveal that its executives created a “troll army” to go after critics of their entertainment content.
According to Rolling Stone, HBO and Max executives Casey Bloys and Kathleen McCaffrey discussed creating a “secret army” through a series of text exchanges which includes having employees create fake X accounts to go after movie and television critics in an effort to manipulate audiences into liking their content.
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Hero Worker Gets Shot, Grabs Gun From Armed Robber, Shoots Attacker
A hero apartment maintenance worker managed to turn the tables during an armed robbery in Illinois.
The 20-year-old worker was shot during an attempted robbery Tuesday, according to police.
However, the worker, who was not identified by authorities, fought back against the robber who had shot him.
He was able to wrestle the gun from the armed attacker and shoot the thug back.
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Jeff Bezos to Leave Seattle for Miami Nearly 30 Years After Founding Amazon
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has announced that he is leaving Seattle after nearly 30 years and moving back to the warmth of Miami.
Bezos, 59, announced he is ditching the birthplace of the e-commerce giant via a heartfelt Instagram post late Thursday, which was accompanied by an old video clip of him giving a tour of the company’s first office in Seattle.
The billionaire businessman, who grew up in Miami, wrote that he is making the big switch back to the Sunshine State in order to be closer to his parents, who recently returned there.
Bezos also mentioned that the operations of Blue Origin — his space exploration company — are increasingly shifting to Cape Canaveral, Florida, and that he and his fiancée Lauren Sanchez “love” Miami.
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Judge Engoron Slaps Trump Attorneys With Gag Order in Alleged Civil Fraud Case in New York
On Friday, the Manhattan judge overseeing the civil fraud case brought forth by New York Attorney General Letitia James against Donald Trump, Trump family members, and the Trump Organization, issued a gag order against the 2024 GOP frontrunner’s lawyers in the case.
Judge Arthur Engoron wrote in the order, “I hereby order that all counsel are prohibited from making any public statements, in or out of court, that refer to any confidential communications, in any form, between my staff and me.”
“Failure to abide by this directive shall result in serious sanctions.”
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Minnesota Lawsuit to Keep Trump Off Ballot Hits Rocks
A lawsuit to kick Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot in Minnesota may be in trouble after the state Supreme Court justices hearing the case appeared skeptical that states have the authority to take the unprecedented action.
The case centers around the Fourteenth Amendment, specifically Section 3’s “Insurrection Clause.” Plaintiffs argue President Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, disqualify him from appearing on the ballot.
The clause reads:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Similar lawsuits have been filed in other states, including Colorado, where a state trial judge heard arguments all week.
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NAACP Rails Against Failing Maryland Schools: “African Americans Aren’t Being Educated”
Investigative journalist Chris Papst from Fox45 News’ Project Baltimore has turned his focus from the massive grading scandal in Baltimore City Public Schools to neighboring Baltimore County. He uncovers a troubling trend: An alarming number of county schools have fewer than 5% of students scoring proficient in math.
Based on new school data analyzed by Papst and his team, they found that in 27 schools, 15,256 students took the state test, with at least 95% failed to achieve proficiency in math. A closer examination revealed that out of these 27 schools, 17 are high schools.
That is an alarming number, but it makes sense if you look at the math scores for students going into high school. Last year, 10,299 students in Baltimore County took the 7th or 8th grade state math test and 5 percent or fewer scored proficient. That means, in all of Baltimore County Public Schools, 5 percent or fewer of seventh and eighth graders who took those tests scored proficient in math. — Papst wrote in the report.
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Naked Man Tussles With Las Vegas Cop Before Stealing, Crashing Patrol Car: Video
Video footage captured an aggressive nude man slipping out of a Las Vegas cop’s grasp and making off in his police cruiser on Tuesday.
Clyde Cabulisan, 29, would lead Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers on a 15-minute, five-mile chase in the stolen Metro Ford F-150 before running a red light and colliding with a Ford Explorer around 11:15 p.m.
Cabulisan now faces felony charges for robbery, driver disobeying a peace officer, endangering people and property and battery on a protected person.
He also faces misdemeanor charges for reckless driving, failing to stop at the scene of an accident and driving under the influence, according to Clark County Detention Center online records. No charges are listed for indecent exposure, however.
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Poll: Donald Trump Boasts 48-Point Lead in Republican Primary Race
Former President Donald Trump has a 48-point lead in the Republican primary race, this week’s Morning Consult survey found.
The latest weekly survey showed Trump with a runaway lead in the GOP primary race, as 61 percent of potential Republican primary voters support him in the Republican primary race.
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Poll: Plurality of Americans Say U.S. is Doing ‘Too Much’ to Aid Ukraine
American public support for the Biden administration’s “as long as it takes” policy on aiding Ukraine is collapsing, according to a new Gallup poll.
The poll, released Thursday, showed that a plurality of Americans — 41 percent — say that the U.S. is doing too much to help Ukraine. That is a dramatic rise from just 29 percent in June 2023 and 24 percent in August 2022.
In addition, fewer — 33 percent now versus 43 percent in June — say the U.S. is doing the right amount, and only 25 percent say the U.S. is not doing enough.
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President Biden En Route to Maine to Meet With Shooting Victim’s Families, First Responders
LEWISTON, Maine — President Joe Biden departed the White House Friday afternoon to travel to Maine, where he will visit the city of Lewiston after 18 people were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in state history.
Thirteen people were injured in the Oct. 25 shootings at Schemengees Bar and Grille and Just-In-Time Recreation, a bowling alley.
Biden and First Lady Jill Biden are planning to pay their respects to the victims, meet with first responders and others and will “grieve with families and community members,” the White House said in a statement.
Tracey Walker, whose husband was killed at the bar, said she was invited to speak with Biden and that she plans to discuss why warning signs about the shooter didn’t prompt action to prevent the killings.
Biden’s visit also comes after Maine Gov. Janet Mills submitted a request for federal help for area businesses that were forced to remain closed during the manhunt that followed the shootings.
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Queens Man Fatally Stabbed During Chase Collapses Outside Home in Front of Uncle: NYPD
A 21-year-old Queens man chased down and fatally stabbed by a group of men stumbled home and collapsed in front of his stunned uncle, police said Friday.
“Help me!” victim Henry Celleri implored right before he fell unconscious following the Oct. 7 attack in Flushing.
EMS rushed Celleri to Elmhurst Hospital, but he didn’t survive.
The victim was a few blocks from his home on 41st Ave. near Union St. about 12 a.m. when he got into an argument with a group of men, a police source with knowledge of the case said.
The group jumped Celleri, who ran off down the street. The suspects chased him before they knocked him on the ground, kicked him and jammed a knife into his chest, cops said.
Despite his wounds, Celleri managed to stumble home, cops said.
Celleri was also robbed of his belongings, said Alfredo Bermejo, who set up a GoFundMe page for Celleri’s family.
“[He was] barely 22 years old, from Ecuador, in the province of Cañar,” Bermejo wrote in Spanish on the GoFundMe page, adding that Celleri had only been in the U.S. for a year. “We wholeheartedly ask all our compatriots for help to be able to repatriate his remains to his native country.”
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Republicans Move to Block Biden’s Green Agenda
A Republican congressman has introduced a new bill aimed at blocking taxpayer funds from being used to advance Democrat President Joe Biden’s green agenda policies.
On Friday morning, Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) introduced the “No American Climate Corps Act.”
The bill prohibits the Biden administration from deploying federal funds to bankroll the American Climate Corps program and the Justice40 Initiative.
Both programs are signature elements of Biden’s globalist climate agenda.
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Rumble Opens Free Live-Streaming to All, Removes Five Follower Minimum
In a move that demonstrates its commitment to fostering a vibrant creator community, video platform Rumble has announced that it will open up live-streaming to all of its users, eliminating the previous requirement for channels to have a minimum of five subscribers.
Previously, in order to live-stream, Rumble users had to reach a threshold of five subscribers. While this might have seemed like a modest benchmark for some, for many new and emerging creators, this posed an initial barrier. The decision to remove this threshold is being viewed as an encouraging gesture for those who are just starting out on the platform.
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The Supreme Court on Friday agree to hear two appeals involving gun and free speech rights: one dealing with “bump stocks” accessories for high-powered guns, and a free speech challenge by the National Rifle Association (NRA).
The high court will hear arguments in the case National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo, which questions whether a government regulator threatening regulated entities with adverse regulatory actions if they do business with a controversial speaker, allegedly because of the government’s own hostility to the speaker’s viewpoint, violates the First Amendment.
The former Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), Maria T. Vullo, at the behest of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, allegedly wielded DFS’s regulatory power to financially blacklist the NRA — coercing banks and insurers to cut ties with the association, in an effort, the group says, to suppress its speech.
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Two Dozen Law Firms Warn Harvard, Yale Over Antisemitism on Campus
Two dozen top US law firms have sent a letter to more than 100 law school deans advising them to take an “unequivocal stance” against antisemitism on their campuses, which we assume includes protests opposing the Israeli government’s longstanding treatment of Palestinians (who are technically ‘semitic’), Bloomberg reports.
The letter, signed by firms including Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Wachtell Lipton Rosen and Katz LLP (which we imagine aren’t exactly headed by supporters of Palestine), follows several incidents in which law students saw job offers rescinded over their support of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. In anticipation of Israel’s response, protests have broken out across the world — which have only been fueled during retaliatory bombings of Gaza.
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U.S. Bishops Ignore Embarrassing Papal Letter on ‘Climate Crisis’
ROME — The United States bishops have distanced themselves from an embarrassing letter by Pope Francis on the “climate crisis,” preferring to invest their apostolic witness in real issues of concern.
The far-left National Catholic Reporter (NCR) indulged in much ritual handwringing at the bishops’ unenthusiastic non-response to the papal letter titled Laudate Deum, a follow-up to the pontiff’s 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si.
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Watch: Musk Tells Rogan People Were Killed by Ventilators Not COVID-19 Virus
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk said Tuesday that it wasn’t so much the COVID-19 virus that killed people hooked up to ventilators as secondary bacterial infections that caused a deadly form of pneumonia.
Mr. Musk made the remark in a wide-ranging discussion on Joe Rogan’s podcast on Oct. 31, in which he brought up a key point first raised in a bombshell study that found secondary bacterial infections of the lung were a key driver of death in people diagnosed with COVID-19 and connected to breathing machines.
“80 percent of the people they put on ventilators died,” Mr. Rogan said, possibly referring to data cited by Dr. Joseph Mercola showing that 76.4 percent of COVID-19 patients aged 18 to 65 in New York City who were put on ventilators died. Among those who were over 65, the mortality rate was 97.2 percent.
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Exclusive: Judge in Freedom Truckers Trial Orders Prosecution to Reveal Redacted Emails to Police
The judge in the criminal trial of Freedom Convoy figures Tamara Lich and Chris Barber ruled Friday that the prosecution must reveal some redacted portions of emails between themselves and the Ottawa Police Service.
The pair are charged with mischief, counseling others to commit mischief, intimidation, and obstructing police as leaders of the Freedom Convoy that polarized residents of Ottawa in 2022 and arguably began to roll back Covid mandates.
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Robert Ball, 59, and Mirgent Shahu, 32, were part of a conspiracy which shipped the Class A drug in to the London Gateway Port from Ecuador.
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Far-Right Party Will Support Polish Hauliers Protest
A leader of the far-right Confederation party has said his party will support a protest by Polish road hauliers on the Ukrainian border, planned for November 6.
During a press conference in the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, on Friday, representatives of the transport industry announced a continuation of their protest from March this year.
Polish truckers have accused their Ukrainian peers of unfair competition that is hurting their business. In 2022, the EU eased regulations for Ukrainian transport companies to help the country combat the Russian invasion, but this has undercut local businesses.
The protest will take place on November 6 due to what the Polish haulage companies see as the failure of the government to provide sufficient support in their dispute, and this time it will be supported by the Confederation party.
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Former EU Climate Pope Again Uses Girl’s Death to Push Green Agenda
With the Dutch elections fast approaching, Frans Timmermans, the EU’s former Commissioner for Climate Action and a driving force behind its Green Deal, has used a colleague’s daughter’s death to bolster his case for a more stringent climate policy.
During a NOS-op-3 appearance—together with Nieuw Sociaal Contract’s Pieter Omtzigt—on Tuesday, October 31st, the PvdA/GroenLinks leader referred to a person, called Rosa, who had died in the floods of the Summer of 2021, caused by heavy rains, which hit the Dutch region of Zuid-Limburg, Belgium, and Germany.
She was there to fight for the climate and she was swept away by that river. I will never forget Rosa, because she was the same age as our youngest daughter. But she [his daughter] is now 17, Rosa [who died at the age of 15] will never reach that age. So the sense of urgency is great.
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Three members of a Parisian gang have been arrested on suspicion of robbing almost €600,000 worth of jewelry from the wife of Mongolia’s Olympic Committee president in the French capital last month.
The vehicle transporting Battushig Batbold and his wife, Tselmuun Nyamtaishir, was tailed from the Charles de Gaulle airport by three suspects on a motorbike near the Stade de France on Oct. 11, according to the public prosecutor’s office.
Agence France-Presse reported how the gang seized the opportunity to strike when the pair’s vehicle slowed in traffic in the Landy Tunnel near the stadium, smashing the rear window and snatching a bag of valuables from the back seat.
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Greece: 21 CasaPound Members Arrested at Athens Airport
On way to attend rally on anniversary of 2 Golden Dawn deaths
(ANSA) — ROME, NOV 1 — Some 21 members of the Rome-based far-right CasaPound group were arrested at Athens airport Tuesday night on their way to to take part in an extreme right-wing rally planned for this afternoon in the Greek capital, to commemorate the death of two militants of the now-disbanded neo-Nazi Alba Dorata (Golden Dawn) party on 1 November 2013.
Among the militants arrested at Athens Eleftherios Venizelos international airport was CasaPound President Gianluca Iannone.
The arrests were reported on the website of Greek daily Kathimerini.
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Hungarian Cross-Border Talent Network Opens Slovak Campus
The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), Hungary’s ambitious conservative educational and research hub, opened its newest campus in Dunaszerdahely (Dunajska Streda), Slovakia, to offer educational programs and training to the local Hungarian youth and to establish another bridge between Hungary and its sizable diaspora. Celebrating the launch, MCC hosted a panel discussion on Thursday, October 26th, with former European Commissioner for Education Jan Figel, and The European Conservative‘s own Rod Dreher.
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Hydroxychloroquine Associated With Lower COVID-19 Mortality: French Study
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
People who received hydroxychloroquine were less likely to die than those who did not, according to a new study.
Just 0.8 percent of patients at a facility in France who received hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and an antibiotic died, compared to 4.8 percent of patients who did not receive the drug combination, French researchers reported on Nov. 1.
“This study represents the largest single-center study evaluating HCQ-AZ in the treatment of COVID-19. Similarly, to other large observational studies, it concludes that HCQ would have saved lives,” Dr. Didier Raoult, with Aix-Marseille Universite in Marseille, and his co-authors wrote.
The paper was published in the journal New Microbes and New Infections. It was released as a preprint earlier this year, but withdrawn because authors said they have changed their “analytic strategies.”
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Italy: Bangladeshi Girl May Have Killed Self Over Arranged Marriage
15-yr-old threw self out of third-floor window, died in hospital
(ANSA) — ROME, NOV 3 — A 15-year-old Bangladeshi-Italian girl who committed suicide by jumping out of her family flat’s third floor window and dying after three days in hospital may have done so because she feared being pushed into an arranged marriage with an older man in Bangladesh, police said Friday.
Her father, who was planning to take her on holiday to his home country, has been placed under investigation for instigation to suicide in Ancona, the capital of the north-central-eastern Marche region.
The girl, who has bot been named, died in an Ancona hospital Thursday.
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Italy: Three Climate Activists Arrested for Blocking Bologna Road
Latest act of civil disobedience by Ultima Generazione
(ANSA) — ROME, NOV 3 — Three climate activists were arrested Thursday night for blocking the ‘tangenziale’ beltway road in Bologna.
The three are part of the Ultima Generazione (Last Generation, UG) civil disobedience climate activist group.
They were charged with aggravated private violence and damage, and sent to trial November 30.
UG has staged a series of controversial headline-grabbing protests in the last two years including pouring red liquid over themselves outside Florence cathedral and gluing themselves to the iconic Laocoon statuary group in the Vatican Museums.
In May this year a protest at the Giro d’Italia by three UG members was thwarted as the trio was dragged away from the road at Meolo near Venice before they could stop a breakaway group of four riders from racing past.
Earlier that month UG staged another act of civil disobedience to highlight the need to tackle the climate crisis when two protestors covered themselves in mud outside the Senate in Rome.
Three UG members are currently on trial in Rome for spraying easy-to-wash-off paint over the facade of the Senate in January.
Last month several UG activists were fined 3,300 euros each for public indecency after stripping naked and blocking traffic in a flash mob on a central Turin bridge.
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Pictures: Over a Million Left Without Power as 100mph+ Storm Rips Through Britain and France
PARIS (AP) — Winds up to 180 kilometers per hour (108 mph) slammed France’s Atlantic coast overnight as Storm Ciaran lashed countries around western Europe, uprooting trees, blowing out windows and leaving 1.2 million French households without electricity Thursday.
Strong winds and rain also battered southern England and the Channel Islands, where gusts of more than 160 kph (100 mph) were reported. Hundreds of schools stayed closed in the coastal communities of Cornwall and Devon as downed trees and flooding hindered morning commutes.
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Polish PM Insists Public Finances Are in Good Shape as Opposition Leaders Start to Make Excuses
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said that the next government will inherit a state budget in far better condition than could be expected for the current geopolitical climate, as opposition leaders attempt to enforce a false narrative about the state of Poland’s public finances.
In a social media post, Morawiecki explained that both financial rating agencies and the European Commission had recently given Poland’s finances a clean bill of health, and accused spin doctors from the parties that will soon have a parliamentary majority of claiming otherwise because they know they overpromised during the recent election and will need to backtrack on electoral pledges.
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The Central Communication Port Will Benefit Poland and Should Not be Used as a Political Football
The construction of a major transport hub in Poland, which was a major flagship policy of the outgoing conservative government, is at risk of being canceled by the incoming liberal coalition.
The parties that have won a majority in parliament in Poland and are likely to form the next government have been highly critical of the Central Communication Port (CPK) project and promised a thorough audit of it before deciding whether to continue.
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Five members of a child rape grooming gang in Rochdale have been jailed collectively for over 70 years for sexually exploiting two young girls in the northern English city.
Mohammed Ghani, Jahn Shahid Ghani, Insar Hussain, Ali Razza Hussain Kasmi, and Martin Rhodes, who were convicted earlier this year on a range of sexual offences against two girls, aged 13 and 14 at the time, have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from eight to 20 years behind bars.
The two girls, who remain anonymous due to court restrictions, were routinely taken to an apartment in Rochdale known as the “butcher’s flat” where they were plied with alcohol and drugs, including ecstasy and marijuana, before being passed from man to man, the Daily Mail reported.
The abuse, which began in 2002 and continued until 2006, started when Girl A was lured into the grips of the grooming gang by Mohammed Ghani, who would have sex with the girls before passing them on to his fellow groomers.
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Selfish stunts by Just Stop Oil activists have already cost the taxpayer an estimated £40 million, new analysis today reveals.
Hundreds of the eco-zealots were arrested in London this week as JSO ramped-up their autumn action and dozens have since been charged.
Analysis now shows how much the group has estimated to have cost the hard-up taxpayer since they formed in February last year.
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UK: Outrage at Pro-Palestine Rally on Armistice Day
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has been strongly criticised for organising a huge pro-Palestine rally on Armistice Day. Protesters have descended on London in support of Palestine over the past three Saturdays, and this is set to continue on Saturday, November 4th, and a week later, on November 11th, with organisers hoping to attract a million people.
Armistice Day marks the end of World War I, and is a day of remembrance of those who lost their lives in combat. “For me and fellow veterans, 11th of November is not just another day, it’s not just even a day of remembrance, it’s a day of grief,” Minister of State for Security Tom Tugendhat told Times Radio. “It can be a very painful moment and I think that is why this is not an appropriate time, this is not an appropriate venue for protest,” he said of the planned rally.
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UK: Scientists Call for Meat to Carry Warning Labels to ‘Fight Climate Change’
New calls are emerging for meat products to carry cigarette pack-style warnings to guilt consumers into believing that are contributing to “climate change” if they choose to eat the food.
According to new research, adding graphic warnings to meat-based foods had a significant impact on people’s decisions to choose them.
The idea is being promoted by scientists from Durham University in the UK.
They argue that the novel approach will cut meat and dairy consumption.
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The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is launching a project based on what’s known as “digital public infrastructure,” aka, DPI.
And the overarching justification/explanation of these activities is reaching the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs).
What UNDP is supposed to be doing is pretty clear from its name, but what DPI itself is, is a buzzword used in somewhat interesting/alarming concord by organizations such as the UN, but also the European Union (EU), the Gates Foundation, and of course, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is never quite out of any such picture.
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Serbia: An Interview With Jovan Palalic on the Cross-Continental Conservative Congress
Jovan Palalic, an MP for and the secretary general of the Serbian People’s Party, has dedicated the better part of the last two decades of his life to public service as a lawmaker in the Serbian National Assembly.
As one of the main organizers of the Cross-Continental Conservative Conference set to take place this weekend in the Serbian capital city of Belgrade, he sat down with The European Conservative to discuss, among other things, the impetus for holding the conference, what distinguished figures will be in attendance, what topics are on the agenda, and what it hopes to achieve.
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Americans are leaving Gaza on Wednesday for the first time since Hamas attacked Israel, President Joe Biden confirmed, but one family says they are still stranded in the Palestinian stronghold.
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Analysis: Israel’s Gaza Bombing Campaign is Proving Costly, for Israel
A back of the envelope calculation suggests it has already cost Israel more than $2bn with little actual gains to show for it.
The first response by Israel to the Hamas attacks of October 7 was to send in the air force to bomb Gaza. The air force was given a long list of potential targets, related to the attacks or not. The logic was to show to Israelis and Palestinians alike that Israel was not down but could muster a quick, resolute and brutal response.
Israel initially released reports of the number of air strikes it was conducting, but probably realising that admitting having bombed Gaza thousands of times was bad public relations, it switched instead to reporting the number of “targets” it was hitting. The last figure was released about a week ago claiming 12,000 targets attacked. Without the specifics of how they were hit and with what means, the number doesn’t say much.
But a lot can be deduced from the total number of bombs used. This week, Palestinian officials reported that 18,000 tonnes of bombs have been dropped on Gaza. The destruction on the ground is consistent with this figure.
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Caroline Glick: Why Are the October 7 Atrocities Being Denied?
On its face, Holocaust denial makes no sense. The physical evidence of the genocide exists. The testimony of survivors and of Nazis and their collaborators exists. And they are all irrefutable.
Beyond that, the Nazis were proud of the fact that they killed 6 million Jews. By denying the Holocaust, contemporary Nazis and Nazi fans seem to be demeaning their heroes. Why would they do that?
The mystery of Holocaust denial is no mere puzzlement from a distant past. Understanding its purpose is essential as we contend with our present predicament. Immediately after word got out about Hamas’s sadistic slaughter of more than 1,400 Israeli men, women and children on Oct. 7, Hamas’s supporters worldwide launched a concerted effort to deny that anything had happened.
Just as neo-Nazis both celebrate the Holocaust and deny it, so do those who rapturously greeted the stories of slaughtered and decapitated Jewish babies and men, and raped and dismembered Jewish women and girls, insist that Hamas didn’t commit any of those crimes.
A notable aspect of the atrocities is that Hamas’s mass murderers didn’t try to hide them. Instead, they broadcast them worldwide as they carried them out. Armed with Go Pro cameras and the cellphones of their victims, the Palestinian terrorists in southern Israel filmed the rape, dismemberment, torture and execution of their victims on their victims’ own phones, posting them in their victims’ family WhatsApp groups and Facebook pages as they carried them out. They did the same with their own social-media platforms. No one needed researchers to comb through Hamas archives. The directions for the slaughter were found in documents that the terrorists carried with them into Israel.
So why are supporters of Hamas tearing down posters of kidnapped Israeli children, women and men being held hostage in the Gaza Strip? They celebrate the hostage-taking on their social-media postings. Why are they insisting to their fellow students on campuses or subway riders in New York and Johannesburg that there are no hostages in Gaza, and this is all a Zionist conspiracy? A gas-lighting?…
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Hamas Vows to Repeat October 7 Attack ‘Again and Again’ Until Israel ‘Annihilated’
A top Hamas official has vowed that the terrorist group will continue launching deadly terror attacks against Israel until the Jewish state is “annihilated.”
Ghazi Hamad said during a recent interview that Hamas is ready to repeat its October 7 terrorist attack, dubbed the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” until every Jewish person in Israel has been murdered.
Hamad vows that Hamas will repeat the horrific attacks “again and again” until Israel is “finished.”
He made the remarks during an interview late last month on LBC TV, a Lebanese news channel.
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Israel Resists US Pressure to Pause the War to Allow More Aid to Gaza, Wants Hostages Back First
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday pushed back against growing U.S. pressure for a “humanitarian pause” in the war to protect civilians and allow more aid into Gaza, insisting there would be no temporary cease-fire until some 240 hostages were released.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made his third trip to Israel since the war began, reiterating American support for Israel’s battles against Hamas, while echoing President Joe Biden’s earlier call for a brief halt in the fighting to address a worsening humanitarian crisis.
Alarm has grown over spiraling Palestinian deaths and growing misery for civilians after weeks of Israeli bombardment and a widening ground assault that risks even greater casualties. Overwhelmed hospitals say they are nearing collapse, with medicines and fuel running low under the Israeli siege. About 1.5 million people in Gaza, or 70% of the population, had fled their homes, the U.N. said Friday.
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MAILONLINE LIVEBLOG: As the conflict between Israel and Hamas enters its 29th day, these are the main developments.
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Netanyahu Rejects Biden: No ‘Pause’ in Fighting Without Release of Hostages
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his nation on Friday evening that he had refused the Biden administration’s request for a “pause” in fighting, ostensibly for humanitarian purposes.
Netanyahu recounted that he had met earlier in the day with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and showed him footage of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7. (Breitbart News was among the first to review that footage last week in Israel.)
He also said: “I appreciate the consistent support of President Biden, the American administration and the American people.”
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Russia to Deliver 28 Tons of Aid for People in Gaza
by Sputnik
The Russian Ministry Emergency Situations said on Friday that it would send two aircraft to Egypt at the instruction of Russian President Vladimir Putin to deliver 28 tonnes of humanitarian aid to people in the Gaza Strip.
“Two aircraft of the Russian Emergencies Ministry will deliver 28 tonnes of humanitarian aid for the population of the Gaza Strip … Russia’s humanitarian aid will be transferred to the Egyptian Red Crescent Society for its further delivery to the Gaza Strip,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that the shipments include medical aid, among other things.
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Ayatollah Khamenei: ‘Death to America’ is Not Just a Slogan, But Iran’s ‘Policy’
The “supreme leader” of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared in an address on Wednesday that the common chant of “Death to America” in his country is “not just a slogan — it is a policy,” one his regime intended to bring to fruition.
Khamenei was reportedly delivering remarks on Iranian regime-controlled television regarding the ongoing conflict between the nation of Israel and the Hamas genocidal terrorist organization, which Iran funds to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year.
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The terror group’s chief Hassan Nasrallah will break weeks of silence since war broke out between Hamas and Israel in a speech today.
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Hakan Ayik: Australia’s Most Wanted Man is Arrested in Istanbul, Turkey
Hakan Ayik was one of dozens of underworld figures who were arrested in Istanbul by local police on Thursday morning local time, 13 years after he fled Australia
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Hezbollah Leader: America Will Soon ‘Pay a Heavy Price’
The leader of the Lebanese Shia Islamist terrorist group Hezbollah has warned that America will soon “pay a heavy price” for supporting Israel.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah gave a one-and-a-half hour-long speech loaded with threats.
The speech was full of threats and ultra-provocative heated words aimed at Israel and the United States.
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Lebanon Border Closer to War; Israel Encircles Hamas in Gaza City
The Lebanese-Israeli border is closer to war than it has been thus far in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, as the Palestinian terrorist group claimed responsibility for rockets fired from southern Lebanon at the Israeli city of Kiryat Shemona on Thursday.
Hamas is based in Gaza but also has a presence in Palestinian communities in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and in other countries, including southern Lebanon, as well as in more distant countries like Qatar, where the Hamas leadership resides.
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‘Perfect Storm’ Gathering as Israel Surrounds Gaza and Iran Seeks to Unite Islamic World
The world is bracing itself as a convergence of factors is quickly coming together that could precipitate not only regional war in the Middle East but quite possibly a global conflict.
This afternoon, in a long-awaited speech regarded by observers across the world as an indication of whether the Israel-Hamas war will escalate into a broader regional conflict, Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah delivered his first comments since the onset of the war.
Nasrallah did not rule out the potential for a broader conflict that might involve Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed, Lebanese Shia Islamist group, and other Iranian-backed militias in the region, with his overall message seeming to suggest that Hezbollah’s current actions, which have seen the group engage in substantial cross-border skirmishes with Israel, would continue and possibly widen in scope.
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10 of Ukraine’s 24 Regions Hit by Russian Strikes Overnight
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed a wave of nighttime drone and missile attacks across 10 of Ukraine’s 24 regions, Ukrainian authorities said Friday as they prepare for another winter of infrastructure bombardment by the Kremlin’s forces.
Ukraine’s air force said it intercepted 24 of 38 Shahed drones and one Kh-59 cruise missile launched by Russia.
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An explicit recruitment advert targeting women for the Ukrainian Army is Russian propaganda and not an official video, Kyiv have said in a statement.
A short video linking to the recruitment website for the Armed Forces of Ukraine showing by turns a woman in lingerie, a woman caring for a small child, and a woman preparing for battle has been flagged by an official statement from the Ukrainian government as a fake.
Kyiv’s government news outlet Ukrinform picks apart the video, noting it is stitched together from generic stock clips found elsewhere on the internet, and that the video has never appeared on any official government sites. Text and a voiceover over the clips of women fulfilling various roles state that: “a real woman should be a whore in bed, a housewife in the kitchen and a defender at the front. Join the Military.”
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Polish Rearmament is Provoking Russia and Could Lead to World War III, Warns Medvedev
Former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has issued a stark warning that Poland’s rearmament efforts could lead to a confrontation with Russia and Belarus, potentially sparking a Third World War.
In a recent anti-Polish article for Russia’s state-funded newspaper, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Medvedev wrote that the military build-up in Poland and its military presence in Ukraine could provoke direct conflict between Warsaw and the governments in Moscow and Minsk.
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The 1996 treaty outlaws all nuclear explosions, including live tests of nuclear weapons , though it never came into force because some key countries never ratified it.
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As a strategic maneuver to tighten its control over internet access, Russia has intensified its campaign against VPNs — not merely the use but also the promotion or discussion of these privacy and anti-censorship tools. These recent developments expose deeper concerns about internet censorship and its implications for the fundamental principle of free speech.
In the spring of 2023, as part of an elaborate communications campaign, Russia issued public service announcements denouncing VPNs.
Fast forward to the summer, these seemingly harmless ads took a stark transition into concrete policy changes. President Vladimir Putin endorsed regulations demanding select internet platforms, including social media, to verify the identity of new users, potentially via their passports. Providing guidance on using VPNs to access banned internet resources was deemed a criminal act under these new edicts.
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Ukraine Fears Being Forgotten Amid Middle East Conflict
This winter in Ukraine promises to be dark and cruel. Just under a month after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, Ukrainians fear that their war will be forgotten. The authorities in Kyiv are also worried about the future of US support, as their American ally struggles to secure international aid to Ukraine in the face of a divided US Congress.
On Thursday, November 2, the US House of Representatives passed a $14.3 billion (€13.4 billion) military aid package for Israel, whereas President Joe Biden is calling for a joint $105 billion package for Israel, Ukraine and partners in Asia, to counter Republicans reluctant to maintain US support for Kyiv. Beyond the supposed “fatigue” of Westerners, 20 months after the start of the Russian invasion, the situation around and in the Gaza Strip seems to have momentarily eclipsed Ukraine from the West’s priorities.
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Western Nations ‘Changing Tune’ on Defeating Russia — Putin
by RT
Western nations, which previously insisted that Ukraine should defeat Russia on the battlefield, are gradually changing their position, President Vladimir Putin noted on Friday.
“They are changing their tune now, saying different things,” the Russian leader told members of the Civic Chamber, a civil society body tasked with consulting the government on policymaking.
Putin argued that the nation should become stronger in all aspects, including the economy, military, and political stability. Such strength deters hostile actors from trying to isolate Russia, he said.
“They (EU nations) excluded our energy. So what? What is the result? Our GDP will grow [up to] 3% this year, and the leading European economies are shrinking,” he noted.
“They suffer; they have real problems,” Putin added, noting that he was saying this without joy. “This doesn’t mean that we should behave aggressively. It means we must be sovereign in every sense of the word,” he concluded.
The US and its allies have accused Russia of launching an “unprovoked” attack on Ukraine last year and have pledged to support Kiev for “as long as it takes” to defeat Moscow. Washington has stated that its goal in Ukraine is to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia.
Moscow said the hostilities were caused by Western refusal to address Russia’s concerns about NATO expansion and Kiev’s discriminatory policies against Russian speakers after the 2014 armed coup. The US allegedly stopped the Ukrainian government from striking a truce in the first weeks of the ongoing conflict, which would have made it a neutral nation.
Kiev has declared that the only outcome it would accept is to push Russia out of all territories that it claims as its own, including Crimea. It has failed to secure any significant gains on the frontline during the so-called summer counteroffensive this year.
“Despite the supply of new kinds of NATO weapons, the Kiev regime is losing,” Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said earlier this week, assessing the battlefield situation.
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Women Doctors Must Register for Draft in Ukraine
Ukraine is requiring female medical professionals to register with the military in case their service is needed. The requirement took effect on October 1, although women in a wide range of professions have been required to register with the military since December 2021.
The update specifies that female doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, and pharmacists between the ages of 18 and 60 must register for the draft so that the military has a better account of the medical professionals in the country at its disposal—and where these professionals are already working.
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Zelensky Will be Ukraine’s Last President — Exiled Opposition Leader
by RT
Ex-Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk, now in exile in Russia, denounced Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in a column published by the Russian media platform Smotrim on Friday. The politician claimed that the current Ukrainian head of state may well be the last, and he will only have himself to blame.
Medvedchuk branded Zelensky a merciless “professional traitor” whose pattern of stabbing everyone in the back for his own gain has ruined the country.
After being elected president on a platform of peace with Russia and reconciliation with Donbass, Zelensky “ceded power to radical nationalists, adopting their rhetoric and behavior,” Medvedchuk wrote. In doing that, he betrayed the people who voted for him.
“Zelensky simply got scared of becoming a peacemaker since it would require him to oppose aggressive forces inside and outside of the country,” he argued.
Instead of delivering on the promise of fighting corruption, he and his team “saddled the financial flows.” And after hostilities with Russia broke out last year, the president “realized that the war can be profitable” too. According to Medvedchuk, Zelensky acted as a US tool to pressure European nations to sacrifice their economic well-being for Ukraine.
“In fact, Zelensky betrayed the interests of not only Ukraine but also the EU,” he claimed.
The column mentioned the recent arrest of Yury Kolomoysky, a once-powerful oligarch whose media empire allowed Zelensky to become a popular comedian before running for office. Medvedchuk claimed that it was another example of the president’s backstabbing.
“Having betrayed everyone, [Zelensky] is now alone. He has no allies, only a flock of flatterers, who will sell him out if given a reasonable price,” he wrote. Zelensky has built “a criminal dictatorship of Nazism and militarism, and that is why he will be the last president of the nation, which he had betrayed with such cynicism.”
Medvedchuk led a political party, which had the largest opposition faction in the Ukrainian parliament, before 2022. Amid the conflict with Russia, Kiev branded him a traitor, cracked down on his political activities, and seized all his assets. The politician was arrested and handed over to Moscow in a prisoner swap in September last year.
His column was a comment on a Time profile of Zelensky, in which insiders described the president as delusional and calcified in his determination to pursue a military victory. Aleksey Danilov, a senior Ukrainian security official, said the anonymous sources who spoke to the magazine should be identified and punished for disloyalty.
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— making it THREE TIMES OLDER than Stonehenge and Egyptian pyramids
Archeologists have found that Indonesia’s pyramid, a 98-ft-deep ‘megalith’ submerged within a hill of lava rock, ranks as the world’s oldest pyramid.
Gunung Padang, first re-discovered by Dutch explorers in 1890, may in fact also be the oldest known man-made construction of its size, at least, according to the latest radiocarbon dating of the ancient site.
The tests place early construction of the pyramid, with its hundreds of steps chiseled from andesite lava, back to more than 16,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age.
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China Fines Alibaba for Allowing “Vulgar” Keywords
China’s internet is facing a sharp bout of censorship imposed by the nation’s internet regulatory body, as it clamps down heavily on content regarded as “vulgar.” Alibaba’s search engine, Quark, and the livestreaming platform, NetEase, are the latest victims of this restrictive campaign, being penalized and reprimanded for content deemed inappropriate by the Chinese authorities.
This tightening grip on free speech and individual expression by the Cyberspace Administration of China could be seen as an encroachment on the fundamental liberties enshrined in free, democratic societies. Fined the equivalent of $68,000 for “vulgar” search results, Quark and NetEase, forced to halt updates on a dance-content channel for a week, signify the establishment’s low tolerance for what it deems to be explicit content.
The Register is reporting that the CAC, while censuring Quark for this alleged obscene content, further criticized the platform for allegedly recommending vulgar keywords to its users.
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The role is reserved solely for Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander candidates, and commands a salary of up to $339,000.
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Patterson was arrested at her home in Leongatha in Victoria’s Gippsland region on Thursday morning before police spent the day painstakingly scouring the property.
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Britain and Austria Agree to Collaborate Illegal Migration, Seek Cooperation on Deporting Migrants
The United Kingdom and Austria have signed a security agreement taking in migration, terrorism, and cyber and are set to enter further talks on cooperation over deportations.
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman visited Vienna on Thursday to ink a new cooperation agreement on fighting terrorism, illegal migration, and cybercrime. It is claimed the agreement could lead to deeper cooperation on the critical question of mass migration and the removal of arrivals to alternative accommodation in Africa.
The accord comes just days after five Nordic nations signed a major new agreement on cooperation on deportation flights.
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British holidaymakers heading for Spain could find themselves sharing their hotels with illegal immigrants from Africa.
Human rights organisations are asking hotels in various holiday hotspots to give up rooms for around £35 a night so asylum seekers can receive proper accommodation.
The plea follows a major crisis for the Canary Islands which are seeing near-daily arrivals of illegal immigrants who have survived the deadly sea journey from Africa in tiny boats.
So far, hotels in the Valencia region have agreed to help while the popular British destination of Benidorm has refused because the request hasn’t come from the government and they think it has not been ‘thought out properly’.
The migration crisis in the Canary Islands broke all records in October, surpassing even 2006 when thousands tried to head for the likes of Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria. Almost 15,000 people arrived on the coasts of the islands last month.
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Czechia: “If We Invite Thirty Thousand, a Million Will Come.” Interview With Andrej Babis
We recently met the former Czech Prime Minister and leader of ANO at his party headquarters in Prague. During our exclusive interview, Andrej Babis addressed issues concerning election manipulation, the Visegrad 4 alliance, his choice for Commissioner Vera Jourova, and shared his view on the recent meeting between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
You were obviously watching the elections in Poland, the contrast between the two Polish leaders is not as sharp as for instance between the leaders of Slovakia’s two largest parties (Robert Fico and Michal Šimecka). Furthermore, the V4 cooperation between Hungary and Poland under Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was not always enthusiastic either. On the other hand, Donald Tusk is not a pro migration politician per se.
We can only hope that the winner of the elections will understand that the Visegrad 4 alliance (Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, Hungary) had achieved huge results, and he will return to this cooperation giving the alliance a chance to function again.
Unfortunately, from the part of the current Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, this is not the case, despite the fact that he claims to be a right-wing conservative politician. He has coalition partners who have openly stood up against Hungary, such as Markéta Pekarova Adamova (President of the Chamber of Deputies) or Ivan Bartos (Minister of Regional Development and Deputy Prime Minister for Digitalization). It is a shame that Fiala allowed this to happen.
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Five Nordic Nations Agree to Collaborate on Shared Deportation Flights
A group of northern European nations has agreed to work together to make expelling migrants with no legal right to stay, saying they will share deportation flights and expertise.
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden announced a new agreement on Tuesday that they were to combine their efforts on removing migrants, saying they would launch joint deportation flights and other initiatives. The agreement came out of a two-day Nordic nations summit in Copenhagen where the group said they had come to a “strong commitment” to strengthen their cooperation on migrant returns.
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Panic button? Left-liberal and even Green German politicians are calling for mass deportations.
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Germany: Syrian Migrant Knifeman Admits He Killed for the Islamic State
A suspected sympathiser of the Islamic State who murdered a 35-year-old man on the streets of the German city of Duisburg earlier this year has admitted he carried out the deadly knife attack on orders from the terrorist group to kill its enemies.
The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court heard from the 27-year-old Syrian this week on Thursday, November 2nd, as he admitted that he carried out the attack which left one dead and four others wounded on behalf of the Islamic State, the newspaper Die Welt reports.
The Syrian explained his motivations saying it was because of the demands and orders of the Islamic State, which called for killing its enemies. And to take revenge for millions of Muslims killed. I wanted to kill as many people as possible.
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Illegal migrants arriving in the U.K. from mainland Europe should be handed a bottle of water and escorted back to France, former Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has claimed.
Speaking to conservative broadcaster Nigel Farage on Thursday, the former leader of the Nordic island nation said the solution to the ongoing migrant crisis, “looking at it from the outside, is simple.”
“When a boat comes with illegal migrants, take them on land, give each of them a bottle of water, and bring them back to France,” he said.
The move, he believes, would drastically reduce the pull factor currently in place for migrants seeking to travel across Europe to reach Britain.
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Illegal Alien, Wanted for Terrorism, Arrested Near One World Trade Center Had Been Freed Into U.S
By Biden’s DHS
An illegal alien wanted for terrorism in Senegal was arrested in late October just blocks from New York City’s One World Trade Center after having been released into the United States by President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Just this week, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that illegal aliens who are “national security threats” are promptly arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and deported.
Despite Mayorkas’ assertion, an illegal alien — from either the Islamic Republic of Mauritania or Senegal — arrived at the United States—Mexico border on Oct. 3 near Lukeville, Arizona. The illegal alien was given a Notice to Appear (NTA) before a federal immigration judge and released into the United States interior.
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Illegal Alien Living in Texas Caught ‘Studying How to Build Bombs’ to Attack Jews
An illegal alien has been arrested in Texas after authorities caught the Jordanian national “studying how to build bombs” to launch a terror attack against Jewish-American people.
The illegal, 20-year-old Sohaib Abuayyash, was reportedly training to target Jews in a possible attack on U.S. soil.
The case was cited by FBI Director Chris Wray as an example of the increased risk of terror attacks in the United States.
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Serbian Police Arrest 7 People Smugglers and Find Over 700 Migrants in Raids
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbian police said Friday they have found some 3,400 migrants and seized weapons and ammunition during a days-long crackdown on irregular migration in the wake of a shooting last week near the border with Hungary that killed three migrants and wounded one.
Earlier on Friday, police also said they arrested seven people smugglers in the capital Belgrade and in Subotica, a city near the border with Hungary.
Reports of violence and gun battles between people smuggling gangs have become common in the border zone between Serbia and Hungary, a European Union member state. Migrants have been camping in the area while looking for ways to cross into Hungary.
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Serbian Authorities Detain Over 700 Illegal Migrants as Crackdown on Hungarian Border Continues
Serbia’s crackdown on illegal immigration continued this week with the detention of 738 irregular migrants in cities close to the Hungarian border.
In a statement by the Serbian Interior Ministry published on Thursday, a police taskforce located the undocumented migrants in the northern cities of Subotica, Sombor, and Kikinda, as well as in the southeastern city of Pirot near the Bulgarian border.
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Venezuelan Migrants Accused of Stealing Thousands in Merchandise From Illinois Macy’s
Two Venezuelan migrants residing in Chicago were charged with stealing nearly $3,000 in merchandise from a suburban Macy’s on Tuesday and prompted authorities to warn of an uptick in migrant criminal activity coming from the city.
Luis Mendez-Gomez, 28, and Frank Montez-Davila, 23, left the Macy’s store in Oak Brook, Illinois, around 1:40 p.m. carrying a “happy birthday” bag and a backpack containing merchandise, DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office said.
Oak Brook police officers on patrol spotted the men’s “suspicious behavior” and saw them enter a car that left the scene, prosecutors said.
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Euthanasia Increasingly Used for Mental Disabilities
A recent independent study by British researchers of Dutch euthanasia data has found that people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands, even though they had no physical disease or ailment.
Euthanasia has been legal in the Netherlands since 2002 and the use of the practice has steadily expanded in the last two decades.
According to the Dutch government’s euthanasia review committee, 60,000 people were killed by their doctors between 2012 and 2021. The committee publicly released documents related to more than 900 of those cases to demonstrate how the law was working.
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‘Glamour’ Names Transgender Model as ‘2023 Woman of the Year’
Glamour magazine has named a male-born transgender model as one of its 2023 Women of the Year awardees.
The magazine named Philippines model Geena Rocero as one of its seven women of the year picks in its November 1 announcement.
In its retrospective of Rocero’s career, it is revealed that the Filipino model got started when an adult drag queen groomed a then 15-year-old Rocero for a stage career.
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In a video posted on Sunday, Jiu-Jitsu competitor Ansleigh Wilk described what it was like competing against a transgender athlete in a July competition. That athlete did not disclose that he was male beforehand.
“So I’m sure you’ve seen the tweets or the article about trans athletes competing against women in Jiu-Jitsu. And as one of those females I wanted to come on here and kind of share my experience about what happened to me in July,” Wilkd began.
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Target CEO Falsely Claims Company Did NOT Team Up With Satanist Designer, Sell Pride Merch for Kids
Target has sold chest binders for young women seeking to appear flat-chested and male. They have sold “tucking” bathing suits for boys who want to hide their penises so that they appear to look more like girls.
Target teamed up with trans-promoting fashion brand AB Prallen which advocates for Satan. They even had Pride merch for newborns, and “packing underwear” that girls could stuff with fake flaccid phalluses to look like they were, well, packing.
Now, the CEO of Target said in an interview with CNBC all the accusations that they sold all that well-documented merch is just not true.
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Shannon Ashton obtained copies of Queensland Fertility Group’s donor freezing data after coming across multiple donor siblings of her children in the local community.
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UK Tories Made Interns Complete ‘Privilege Walks’
A British political party has asked its interns to complete ‘privilege walks’ to draw attention to their white, middle-class advantages. Not Labour, but the Conservatives.
The Daily Telegraph this week reported that Tory interns have been quizzed on their race, gender, sexuality, and disability “to help staff identify whether they are more fortunate than their colleagues.” The paper noted:
If a participant answered “yes” to a question, they had to take a step forward. The person who travelled the furthest during the exercise was deemed the “most privileged.”
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The creator of Libs of Tik Tok, Chaya Raichik, released a fiery response on Thursday after multiple left-wing media outlets published hit pieces suggesting that she is a “terrorist” for standing up against child sex changes. Raichik’s response even received praise from X owner, Elon Musk.
In the video published to X, Raichik said that these left-wing journalists asserted that her work is both “dangerous” and “violent.” However, the popular creator suggested that she is nothing of the sort but rather those who push radical gender ideology onto children are the dangerous ones.
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British holidaymakers could be sharing Spanish hotels with illegal migrants from Africa after they were asked to give up rooms to accommodate asylum seekers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12706645/British-holidaymakers-sharing-Spanish-hotels-illegal-migrants-Africa-asked-rooms-accommodate-asylum-seekers.html
Welcome to communism! Even worse than communism.
Haha. This is very funny. This reminded me of a poem from my Soviet childhood about Mister Twister.
In short, the poem describes how Mister Twister arrives in the Soviet Union, checks into a hotel and, oh horror!… He meets a black man in the corridor!
Worse than communism, because only decent blacks, were allowed into the USSR, and not some rabble.
So it’s unlikely that Mister Twister’s daughter would have been raped in this hotel. In the USSR, security matters were very serious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIXrIH9i-qQ
Tell me, what are ‘decent blacks”?
Who know how to observe the rules of decency in society.
“Tell me, what are ‘decent blacks”?”
Unfortunately, they’re relatively few and far between today, but here’s a quick sampling of some I think highly of: Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Condoleezza Rice, Winsome Sears, Shelby Steele, Allen West, Will Hurd.