The “manifesto” written by Audrey Hale, the late transgender person who massacred six people at a private school in Nashville last March, has been leaked to Stephen Crowder and published online. The day she carried out her attack, Ms. Hale wrote that she was targeting children for their white privilege, referring to them as “crackers” and “faggots”. The Nashville city government has initiated an investigation to determine how the manifesto was leaked.
In other news, a 17-year-old girl was raped by an African migrant in a parking garage in Germany.
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Hungary would have faced bankruptcy twice in the past four years if the government had listened to the opposition regarding the handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis resulting from the war in Ukraine, said Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjartó, reported by Origo.hu.
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Bobulinski is a Navy veteran who worked with Hunter and his uncle Jim — Joe Biden’s brother — on a deal to invest in China in 2017.
In 2020, Bobulinski confirmed emails from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop that indicated that Hunter Biden was holding ten percent of the profits from shady foreign deals for a mystery partner known only as “the big guy.”
Many believed that “the big guy” was a reference to Joe Biden.
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Bill Gates Boasts of Owning Multiple Private Jets: ‘My Guilty Pleasure’
Microsoft co-founder and leading green agenda advocate Bill Gates openly gloats about owning a fleet of private jets, describing the luxury planes as his “guilty pleasure.”
Despite being one of the most vocal “climate change” activists, Gates now owns four private jets.
For several years, Gates has been one of the most prominent figures in advancing the globalist “Net Zero” agenda of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the United Nations (UN).
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The Gates Foundation “AI initiative” is getting scrutinized, and criticized, from a variety of points of view. And now a trio of academics has offered their take on the controversial push into using AI to supposedly advance “global health.”
What seems to have prompted this particular reaction — authored by researchers from University of Vermont, Oxford University, and University of Cape Town — was an announcement in early August.
The Gates Foundation at that time let the world know that it was in for a new scheme, worth $5 million, set to bankroll 48 projects whose task was to implement AI large language models (LLM) “in low-income and middle-income countries to improve the livelihood and well-being of communities globally.”
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Steven Crowder dropped a bombshell on Louder with Crowder on Monday morning, making public pages from what’s become known as the Nashville school shooter’s manifesto. He showed pages from that alleged manifesto that he received, showing that shooter Audrey Hale was driven by anti-white hate and an insidious desire to murder blonde children at Covenant Catholic School. After he aired the photographs of three, hand-written sheets of loose leaf paper, YouTube took it down.
YouTube sent a message to Crowder, which he shared on free speech platform X. “We wanted to let you know our team reviewed your content and we think it violates our violent criminal organizations policy,” YouTube said, conflating the release of primary source information obtained by an investigative journalist and an actual crime syndicate.
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Breaking: Jailed Journalist Owen Shroyer Faces 30 Days in Solitary Confinement
Jailed journalist Owen Shroyer of Infowars is now facing an additional 30 days in solitary confinement, a post from Shroyer’s X account reveals. The additional 30 days of solitary confinement, combined with the time he’s already served in that form of punishment, will mean that when his term is up, he will have spent more than half of his sentence in solitary.
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On Monday morning, hundreds of anti-Israel protestors organized by the non-profit Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) surrounded the Port of Tacoma to block a ship they believe will be loaded with weapons and military equipment and sent to the Middle Eastern nation as they continue their war against Hamas terrorists.
“The fight against Israeli apartheid is a fight for freedom for us all,” AROC’s site reads. They go on to say that they hold “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence we’ve witnessed across historic Palestine. In the face of such violence we recommit ourselves to the struggle for freedom and justice in Palestine, in our region, and globally.”
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Breaking: Nashville Mayor Launches Investigation Into Leak of Trans Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto
Following the leak of the transgender Nashville shooter’s alleged manifesto on Monday morning, Mayor Freddie O’Connell said that the city has launched an investigation into how the images of the writings were released.
“I have directed Wally Dietz, Metro’s Law Director, to initiate an investigation into how these images could have been released. That investigation may involve local, state, and federal authorities. I am deeply concerned with the safety, security, and well-being of the Covenant families and all Nashvillians who are grieving,” O’Connell said in a statement, according to WSMV.
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Cooper Union Alumni Threaten to End Donations Over School’s Response to Pro-Palestinian Protestors
Over 300 Cooper Union alumni are threatening to cut donations to the university over its response to a pro-Palestinian demonstration that left a group of Jewish students cornered inside a campus library in fear for their safety.
The graduates made the funding threat in a scathing Nov. 2 letter to Cooper Union that accused the school of being “more concerned with avoiding a scandal than protecting its Jewish students.”
The letter alleged Cooper Union’s director of campus safety of advising the NYPD not to enter the school library during the Oct. 25 protest, even as students made repeated 911 calls as pro-Palestinian demonstrators banged on the closed doors and yelled anti-Israeli chants in the wake of Hamas’ October 7 attack on the Jewish nation.
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Chicago alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa has resigned from his leadership positions in city council after he tried to block a female colleague from attending a meeting on the city’s sanctuary status referendum.
The Democratic socialist, who was mayor Brandon Johnson’s City Council floor leader, has been accused of ‘bullying’ fellow Ald. Emma Mitts and of physically trying to keep her from entering the voting chamber during a special meeting last week.
The meeting was to discuss whether the city should ask voters in March if Chicago should remain a sanctuary city as it continues being overwhelmed with nearly 20,000 newly arrived migrants.
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Dramatic Video Shows LA Homeowner Opening Fire, Scaring Off Two Intruders
Terrifying surveillance video captured the moment a wealthy Los Angeles homeowner opened fire on a pair of masked intruders who snuck up behind him as he walked up to his door.
The man is seen walking up to his Mid-City house about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, holding a drink in one hand and taking his keys out of his pocket with the other, footage posted by ABC 7 and Fox 11 Los Angeles shows.
One of the men, dressed in all black, sneaks up on him — but he quickly turns the tables by throwing his cup, whisking out a handgun and opening fire on the fleeing bandit.
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Elderly Jewish Man Dies After Apparent Assault by Pro-Palestinian Protester at California Rally
An elderly Jewish man attending a pro-Israel rally in California has died after he was allegedly assaulted by a pro-Palestinian protester, a law enforcement source confirms to Fox News Digital.
A verbal altercation broke out between the unnamed victim and protester on West Lake and Thousand Oaks Boulevards in Ventura County around 3pm on Sunday, witnesses at the scene told local affiliate Fox 11.
Fox News is told the pro-Palestinian protester threw a megaphone at the man. He succumbed to his injuries Monday, after suffering a brain bleed from the blow.
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Following the leak of pages from trans Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale’s alleged manifesto on Monday morning, the FBI has refused to comment on the matter.
“As this matter is being addressed by the courts, the FBI will not be commenting on the reported documents,” FBI Memphis Field Office Public Affairs officer Elizabeth Clement-Webb wrote in an email to the Daily Wire’s Gregg Re.
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Fetterman Accuses Newsom of Not Having the ‘Guts to Announce’ He’s Running for President
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom over the weekend by accusing the California Democrat of running a primary campaign against President Biden without having “the guts” to publicly announce it.
“There are two additional Democrats running for Pennsylvania, excuse me, running for president right now,” Fetterman said during a speech to the Iowa Democratic Party on Saturday, according to NBC News.
“One is a congressman from Minnesota, the other one is the governor of California, but only one has the guts to announce it,” the Pennsylvania Democrat added, referring to Newsom and Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.).
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Florida Boy, 14, Dies After Suffering Cardiac Arrest While Running a 5K
A Florida teenager has died after going into cardiac arrest during a high school 5K race.
Knox MacEwen, 14, was a member of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) program at his Western High School in Davie, Florida.
On Saturday, the teen participated in a 5K held by the program. However, after the race he suffered from cardiac arrest. He was transported to Memorial Hospital Miramar where he was later pronounced dead, NBC Miami reports.
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Home Depot Founder Calls Biden a “Dunce, “ Says President is a “Puppet”
Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, who has railed against “socialism,” corporate “wokeness,” and the Biden administration, recently spoke with FOX Business Charles Gasparino about why he is in a “particularly pissed-off mood” these days.
“I’ve said this to all of my friends, anybody who would listen: if this election goes the way the last one went, this country will be a Third World country,” the 94-year-old billionaire told Gasparino.
Marcus blames the social and economic mess consuming the country on President Biden, calling the president a “dunce” and saying he’s the “most divisive president we’ve ever seen.”
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‘I Don’t Kneel’: Student Sues Chicago Schools Over Disguised Religious Rituals During Class
Mariyah Green was a junior when she transferred during the 2018-19 school year from a charter school to Bogan High School, where she played volleyball and basketball.
Green had no idea when she transferred to Chicago Public Schools that she would end up suing the school, alleging violations against her First Amendment rights.
She told Chalkboard that students were made to participate in the district’s Quiet Time program, where instructors encouraged students to participate in transcendental meditation, including initiation rites conducted in a darkened classroom. She was recently awarded $75,000 for damages and legal fees in a judgement.
Students were told not to tell their parents about their “mantra” words, according to Green.
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In ‘Grok,’ Musk Releases AI Challenger
Nov. 5 (UPI) — A new competitor is emerging in the rapidly changing artificial intelligence virtual landscape, and it is challenging companies such as OpenAI, maker of Chat GPT, perhaps the best known AI platform to date, Inflection, Anthropic, and Google’s AI platform called Bard.
xAI, the first such technology company to be released by entrepreneur Elon Musk, is unveiling Grok, which the company said is modeled on and inspired by “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” a 1970s British comedic science fiction program that followed the misadventures of Arthur Dent, the last person who survived the demolition of Earth by an alien race.
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INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD officers arrested a woman, who they labeled a “terrorist,” after she drove her car into a building that she thought was a Jewish school.
However, the building is used by the Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge which has been labeled and anti-semitic hate group.
Ruba Almaghtheh, 34, was arrested on a preliminary charge of criminal recklessness.
According to a police report obtained by FOX59/CBS4, police were called to the building around 11:30 Friday night to investigate a hate crime. Officers said Almaghtheh backed her car into the building while several adults and children were inside.
Almaghtheh told officers she was watching news coverage of the Israel-Hamas war on television and decided to plan an attack on the building because she was offended by the “Hebrew Israelite” symbol on the front of the building.
Police said Almaghtheh passed by the building a couple times and called it the “Israel school.”
IMPD said she made reference to “her people back in Palestine” and told officers, “Yes. I did it on purpose.”
However, the Anti-Defamation League defines the Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge as an “extreme and antisemitic” sect of the Black Hebrew Israelites. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the Black Hebrew Israelites as a hate group.
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Mother in Custody After 5-Year-Old Boy Stabbed in Newark: Police
NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) — A mother was taken into custody after a 5-year-old boy was stabbed Wednesday evening, police say.
Shortly after 5 p.m., police responded to Murray Street in Newark on a call of a child stabbed.
The boy was transported to a local hospital and is said to be in stable condition.
The incident remains under investigation.
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New Emails Show DHS Created Stanford ‘Disinfo’ Group That Censored Speech Before 2020 Election
New emails show officials at the Department of Homeland Security created a Stanford University “disinformation” group that censored Americans’ speech before the 2020 election, according to a House Judiciary Committee report exclusively obtained by The Post.
The House panel’s 103-page staff interim report says never-before-seen emails and internal communications were obtained from the group, known as the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), and show how it worked with DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to flag, suppress and remove online speech in coordination with big tech companies.
One of EIP’s founding partners — the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab — described CISA’s central role in the alleged censorship effort in a July 31, 2020, email.
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New Jan 6 Footage Shows Ray Epps Whispering: ‘We’re Here to Storm the Capitol’
Newly emerged footage from Jan 6 has provided fresh evidence that suspected instigator Ray Epps was planted in the crowd as an agitator.
A new report provides an eyewitness statement and video evidence that suggest Epps may have been an FBI plant.
The new evidence was revealed in the first of a two-part series from “Truth in Media” host Lara Logan.
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Authored by Monica Showalter via American Thinker
Governor Hairspray doesn’t pay attention much to California’s budget numbers when he signs off on a bill. It’s as if putting on a green visor would mess up his costly coif.
So, in no surprise to the rest of us, Gavin Newsom was in for a surprise.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
SACRAMENTO — When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that set a first-in-the-nation minimum wage for healthcare workers, three words in a bill analysis foretold potential concerns about its cost: “Fiscal impact unknown.”
Now, three weeks after Newsom signed SB 525 into law — giving medical employees at least $25 an hour, including support staff such as cleaners and security guards — his administration has an estimated price tag: $4 billion in the 2024-25 fiscal year alone.
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Oakland Businesses Forced to Shut Down as Employees and Customers Are Robbed at Gunpoint
Restaurant owners in Oakland, California are fed-up with out-of-control crime and say that they are losing thousands of dollars each week as a result. Between employees being robbed at gunpoint to customers getting robbed while entering and exiting eateries, business owners are comparing the city to the Vietnam War and are packing up for good.
Two iconic Oakland restaurants, Galeto Brazilian Steakhouse and French-Vietnamese eatery Le Cheval, both shuttered their doors in recent weeks after decades in the city, according to Daily Mail.
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Palestinian Man Who Plotted to Kill Jews in Houston Arrested on Federal Firearms Charges
(JTA) — A Palestinian man living in the Houston area has been charged by the FBI with illegal possession of a firearm after reportedly plotting to attack a Jewish gathering.
The man, 20-year-old Sohaib Abuyyash, was arrested Oct. 19 on federal charges unsealed on Friday. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Texas, he “has been conducting physical training and has trained with weapons to possibly commit an attack.” Abuyyash has Jordanian citizenship and was in the United States on an expired visa.
CNN, quoting an unnamed law enforcement source, reported that Abuyyash was “plotting to attack a Jewish gathering” and spoke of “martyrdom.” The suspect also appeared with pistols and assault weapons in firearms training videos posted to social media.
Abuyyash has also “been in direct contact with others who share a radical mindset,” according to the FBI indictment. He is set to be arraigned on Nov. 13 and faces up to 15 years in prison and a possible $250,000 maximum fine.
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Trump Drops Hammer on AG James During NY Testimony: ‘Political Hack, Should be Ashamed of Herself’
President Donald Trump held nothing back while testifying in court today, telling the Manhattan court that New York Attorney General Letitia James is a “political hack who wants to be governor” and “she should be ashamed of herself.”
Trump’s statement came after Judge Arthur Engoron earlier lectured the 45th president about delivering speeches during questioning.
According to a report from The Gateway Pundit, Engoron appeared to be outraged that President Trump was able to freely speak during his trial.
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Trump: “I’m the Only One That Will Prevent World War Three”
During a speech at the Florida Republican Party’s “Freedom Summit” in Kissimmee Saturday, Donald Trump declared that he is the only candidate who can prevent World War Three, warning that “we are closer than anyone understands” to “obliteration.”
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A University of Massachusetts Amherst student was arrested after allegedly punching a Jewish student and spitting on an Israeli flag at the end of a vigil Friday night, school officials said.
The unidentified student is accused of assaulting their peer at an event where empty seats were set up at a Shabbat table to represent the more than 200 hostages taken by Hamas fighters during their Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel.
The suspect first approached participants and aggressively gave them the finger before walking away, according to UMass Hillel, which organized the solemn gathering.
But the same student came back shortly after and allegedly punched the Jewish student holding an Israeli flag before ripping it out of the victim’s hands, the organization said. The aggressor then reportedly spit on the flag.
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Following The Post Millennial revealing that Washington state was working to roll back restrictions on sex offenders, officials rushed to deny the claim. However, new documents reveal that the officials were not only working on rolling back the restrictions but lying when they tried to deny it.
According to documents obtained by The Center Square, the recommendations were included in its 2022 report to the State Legislature and one county called out officials for attempting to remove a requirement for public notice and public comment before permitting less restrictive facilities for violent sex offenders to be placed in neighborhoods.
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Watch: Stephen Fry Reveals Real Reason Musk and Bezos Are Trying to Get to Mars — ‘We’re Doomed!’
Actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry has revealed why he believes tech giants Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are set on travelling to Mars.
Speaking to John Cleese on his GB News show The Dinosaur Hour, Fry detailed that the newest owner of X, formerly Twitter, and the Amazon mogul follow the philosophy of Objectivism.Objectivism, a philosophy created by Ayn Rand, is the idea that human knowledge and values exist and are determined by the nature of reality.
They are to be discovered by someone’s mind, not created by the thoughts someone has.
Fry claimed that Objectivism is “not very academically fashionable or or admired.”
He added that Musk and Bezos also believe in Longtermism, which is the view that we should be doing “much more” to protect the future generations.
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Waterville Teen to be Sentenced for Conspiring in ISIS-Inspired Plot
WATERVILLE, Maine (WMTW) — A 19-year-old from Waterville will be facing years in prison when he is sentenced Monday for conspiring to provide material support to the terrorism group ISIS, the first case of its kind in Maine.
Xavier Pelkey pleaded guilty in April and faces a maximum sentence of 15 years.
His defense counsel has asked U.S. District Judge Lance Walker for a sentence of no more than six years.
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White House Silent, Secret Service Makes No Arrests After Pro-Palestinian Protesters Vandalize Gate
The White House is silent after pro-Palestinian demonstrators vandalized its gates with signs and paint during a rowdy protest over the weekend.
Tens of thousands of people descended on Washington, D.C., on Saturday to demand a cease-fire between Israel and terror group Hamas.
Protesters could be seen vandalizing the White House fence and wrenching at the gate as antisemitic graffiti was left on several buildings along the protesters’ path through the city.
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The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) says a woman is in custody after allegedly driving her car into a building she thought was a Jewish school over the weekend.
According to a police report, officers were called to the building, which officials say is used by the Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge, around 11:30 p.m. Friday to investigate a possible hate crime.
Upon arrival, officers say they found Ruba Almaghtheh, 34, who had backed her car into the building while several adults and children were inside. Police labeled Almaghtheh a “terrorist” according to Fox 59.
Officers say Almaghtheh told them she was watching news coverage of the Israel-Hamas war on television, and was offended by the “Hebrew Israelite” symbol on the outside building — so she decided to attack the building.
[Comment: Wikipedia says, “Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge (ISUPK) is an American non-profit organization and black supremacist, extremist religious sect based in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. The group is part of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, which regards American blacks as descendants of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the ISUPK a hate group, citing its extremist ideology and black supremacist rhetoric.” The news is like The Babylon Bee!]
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre lost a vote in the House of Commons Monday to exempt the Liberal carbon tax on all home heating fuel, and a Liberal Member of Parliament apparently gave the finger while voting against the Conservative motion.
According to Poilievre, Trudeau secured the support of the separatist Bloc Quebecois before the vote as well as the party’s continued support to keep the Liberals in power.
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Progressives Cancel Buffy Sainte-Marie After Indigenous Ancestry Questioned by CBC Documentary
Progressives are condemning and canceling Canadian musician Buffy Sainte-Marie after a CBC report questioned her indigenous ancestry.
“This deception allowed her to benefit from a very deliberate and false narrative that misled thousands of Indigenous youth, adults and most tragically, Indigenous survivors of colonial harm,” reads a meandering statement from the Indigenous Women’s Collective.
The leftist advocacy group is also insisting on public disgrace for the entertainer and has demanded that Sainte-Marie’s 2018 Juno award — the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy — be rescinded for the alleged deception.
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Ambiguous Approach of British Media to Covering the War in Israel
When a terrorist attack occurs in Europe, the BBC doesn’t hesitate to refer to the perpetrators as terrorists. However, when it comes to Hamas, the BBC appears to be hesitant. This has drawn criticism from the government, British Jews and Israeli comedians. Journalist James Warrington points out that the BBC is not alone in this, as it reflects a broader trend driven by a left-leaning view that considers Israel an oppressive state, without exception, as reported by Parlamentnilisty.cz.
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Austria: Antiglobalist FPÖ Maintains Strong Popular Support
While Austria’s increasingly unpopular center-right and center-left parties quarrel with one another, broad swaths of the Austrian population continue to back the right-wing, antiglobalist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)—a clear signal that, despite what some regime analysts contend, the European sovereignist movement remains alive and well despite PiS’s defeat in Poland.
After losing much of its support in the wake of the Ibiza affair, the FPÖ regained the trust of many Austrians during the COVID-19 pandemic, when it staunchly opposed policies the mainstream parties unanimously backed, like draconian lockdown restrictions and vaccine mandates. Shortly thereafter, the FPÖ saw its support surge a second time in the wake of the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian war, when it again took a position diametrically opposed to the mainstream parties, which unanimously supported sanctions against Russia—sanctions that have wreaked havoc on the Austrian economy.
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Brussels Vows to Crack Down on ‘Despicable’ Rise in Anti-Semitism
The European Commission has expressed its concern at the dramatic increase in anti-Semitic incidents being reported throughout the bloc amid escalating tensions in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine.
“In the last few days, anti-Semitic incidents across Europe have reached an extraordinary level, reminiscent of the darkest periods in history. European Jews are once again living in fear,” European Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas said in a statement.
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Czech Government Faces Criticism Over Information Campaigns
The Czech government, led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala, has been criticized for a series of information campaigns it has conducted since taking office including campaigns against disinformation, Parlamentni Listy.cz reports. These campaigns have raised concerns among some citizens and experts, who question their impact and motivations.
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Finland Birth Rate Continues to Decline Despite Pandemic Baby Boom
The Finnish public health authority THL has reported that the number of births in Finland is still on a decline. In the past year, approximately 45,200 babies were born in the country, which is a nine percent decrease compared to the previous year, Yle News reports.
This indicates that after a brief baby boom during the pandemic years 2020-2021, the downward trend in birth rates has resumed. Preliminary data for this year suggests that in the first nine months, there has been a 4.5 percent reduction in births compared to 2022.
Finland’s Family Federation has proposed that the declining fertility rate is linked to a cultural and societal shift that is setting higher standards for starting a family.
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Germany: Anne Frank Kindergarten Renamed for ‘Diversity’ Reasons
A daycare centre in north-eastern Germany named after Anne Frank, one of the most well-known victims of the Holocaust, is set to be renamed in accordance with the wishes of parents from “migrant backgrounds,” German media outlets reported. The kindergarten in the town of Tangerhütte has been named after the Jewish girl for fifty-three years but parents launched a petition to change it because they find it difficult to explain Frank’s significance to their children. Employees also allegedly took issue with the name, saying something more “child-friendly” was needed, something that was “better suited to their concept.” Anne Frank is apparently no longer aligned with the “new focus on diversity.”
Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Following her and her family’s arrest in August 1944, they were transported to the concentration camps in Auschwitz and later Bergen-Belsen, where they died a few months later. She gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl.
The head of the kindergarten said small children find it difficult to understand Anne Frank’s history.
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Germany 789 Gang Rapes in 2022; Up 16.5% Year Over Year
On an average day in Germany, a distressing pattern known as gang rape unfolds, where at least one victim falls prey to multiple perpetrators. These crimes against women and girls are showing a drastic increase.
The year 2022 saw gang rapes reach a grim milestone, with 789 reported cases, surpassing the previous year’s count of 677, marking a significant surge of 16.5 percent, Deutschland Kurier reported.
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Hungary Tests Its Defense Capabilities With ‘Adaptive Hussars 23’ Military Exercise
The Hungarian Defense Forces, with the participation of NATO forces, will hold a multi-national exercise called Adaptive Hussars 23 to test the country’s defense capabilities, Minister of Defense Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky has announced.
In the coming weeks, the Hungarian military will conduct operations in several parts of the country including ground, air, and river exercises.
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Italian Study: 30% of Subjects Vaccinated COVID-19 Experienced Neurological Symptoms
Italian researchers conducted a survey involving more than 19,000 individuals who had received COVID-19 vaccinations, aiming to investigate potential neurological issues arising from the vaccines. The findings revealed that over 30 percent of respondents reported experiencing various impairments, which included visual disturbances, skin discomfort, and pain.
A recent study published by the Swiss scientific publisher MDPI delves into the topic of neurological damage resulting from COVID-19 vaccinations. The research, conducted by Italian scientists in July 2021, involved a comprehensive survey of over 19,000 participants who had received either their first or second vaccine doses. The results were notable, with over 30 percent of the surveyed individuals, roughly equivalent to 6,000 vaccinated subjects, reporting neurological problems.
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Italy May Become the World’s First Country to Ban Synthetic Food
Italy will ban synthetic food products, stated the country’s Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, as reported by Euractiv. On Monday, a bill that prohibits the production, import and sale of food products manufactured in laboratories will be discussed in the lower house of parliament.
At an event called “Traditions and Innovations: A Conservative Future for European Farmers,” leading conservative politicians discussed the challenges and opportunities arising from European regulations and cooperation in the fields of animal husbandry, agriculture and the green economy. Lollobrigida and Wojciechowski participated remotely.
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Filip Brusselmans is a Belgian politician, political activist, and the youngest member of the Flemish Parliament, where he’s represented the right-wing, anti-globalist party Vlaams Belang since 2019. He currently serves as the chairman of the Vlaams Belang youth wing. Like others in his party, like MP Filip Dewinter, he has been placed under police protection due to numerous threats against his life.
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Massive Strikes Disrupt Operations at 100 Metal Companies in Austria
The warning strikes in the metal industry began on Monday morning with a public company meeting held for over three hours on Vienna, Austria. Due to this street blockade, there were significant traffic disruptions. According to the union, approximately 100 companies, including Bosch, Blum, Kone, Knorr Heid, Otis, Pewag, and voestalpine, were on strike for three hours each on Monday. On Tuesday, warning strikes are planned at companies such as Palfinger, Berndorf, Collini and Otto Bock, according to News.at.
On Wednesday, work stoppages are scheduled, including at BMW Motoren, Liebherr, Hella, Steyr Arms, Diamond Aircraft and Rheinmetall MAN Military, among others. In total, the union plans warning strikes in over 400 companies.
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Outrage in Poland Over Ex-German Ambassador’s Suggestion That German Troops be Stationed in Poland
Polish conservatives have expressed their outrage over recent remarks from Germany’s former ambassador to Warsaw, Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven, who suggested in a German newspaper that German troops should be stationed in Poland permanently.
In an article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, von Loringhoven waxed lyrical about a potentially liberal-led coalition government under Donald Tusk taking the reins in Poland, and expressed his hope that such an administration would repair the ailing relationship between Berlin and Warsaw.
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Pilot of Packed Passenger Jet Becomes ‘Incapacitated,’ Plane Makes Emergency Landing
The pilot of a packed passenger jet became “incapacitated” during a flight from the UK to Turkey, causing the plane to make an emergency landing in Hungary.
The Jet2 Boeing 737-800, registration G-GDFP, was performing flight LS-1711 from Manchester, England to Dalaman, Turkey with 161 passengers and 6 crew on board.
The plane was enroute at FL370 about 80nm south-southwest of Budapest, Hungary when the crew put out an emergency call.
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will have the first chance to form the next government after his conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party won the most votes in last month’s general election, President Andrzej Duda announced on Monday.
In a national address, the Polish president explained he was following convention by allowing PiS the first opportunity to govern.
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Polish Train Company Pesa Secures Huge Deal to Make Trains for Romania
Pesa Bydgoszcz, a Polish rolling stock manufacturer is set to deliver 62 electric multiple units (EMUs) for regional railways in three Romanian cities after winning the largest tender in its history.
The budget for the contract is a record-breaking 3 billion zloty (€670 million) and includes the supply of the vehicles as well as a 15-year maintenance service for all EMUs with an option to extend the maintenance contract for an additional 15 years.
The offer also encompasses the construction of three maintenance centers for all 62 train sets.
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Professor Lockdown Denies Ever Calling for Lockdown
Authored by Will Jones via The Brownstone Institute
In one of the more bizarre moments at the Covid Inquiry so far, Professor Neil Ferguson, the architect of Britain’s lockdown, today denied ever calling for the first national stay-at-home order — in the latest instance of lockdown backpedalling.
The Mail has more.
Professor Neil Ferguson’s terrifying March 2020 models warned that 500,000 Brits would die unless tougher action was taken to curb the virus’s spread.
It spooked Boris Johnson into adopting draconian restrictions that saw the country told they “must stay at home.” Vaccines — considered the only safe route out of the pandemic — were still months away from being deployed.
But Professor Ferguson, who quit his role as a SAGE adviser two months after being caught breaking social distancing rules to meet his married lover, today insisted he didn’t tell officials to plunge the country into a lockdown.
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The EU Has Increased Humanitarian Aid to Gaza by 25 Million Euros
As part of its continued support for the population of Gaza, the European Commission will allocate an additional 25 million euros in humanitarian aid.
Together with the previously allocated 25 million euros, the EU’s assistance to Gaza will total more than 100 million euros this year. The new aid will be provided to humanitarian organizations to offer vital support, particularly in the areas of water supply, sanitation, healthcare, food and other essential items.
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The French Prime Minister Has Proposed “Panic Buttons” in Schools in Case of Terrorist Attacks
Prime Minister Élisabeth Born is suggesting connecting schools and the police with a rapid alert system to prevent and respond quickly to emergency situations, as reported by BFMTV.
Born has proposed expanding the use of “panic buttons,” which already exist in schools in certain cities, notably Nice, where they were installed after the 2016 terrorist attack to most schools in the country.
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UK: ‘We’re Led by Gutless People’: Farage Fumes Ahead of Planned Protest on Armistice Day
Nigel Farage has accused the Government and the Metropolitan Police of being “gutless” by not banning the ‘Million Man March’ on November 11.
Speaking on GB News, he said: “The whole weekend is one of Remembrance and Armistice Day itself, the 11th, has recently taken on more significance and what has been planned by those that organised these marches is, well, to call that to call that insensitive would be an understatement.
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UK: Just Stop Oil Vows ‘Epic Disruption on a Level Not Seen Before’ as it Looks to Raise 300k
Protestors from Just Stop Oil have launched an online appeal to raise £300,000, to fund their next demonstration which they say will bring “epic disruption”.
The eco-protesters have claimed to be “on the brink of a massive victory” as they fundraise for extra cash.
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Just Stop Oil protesters have stormed the National Gallery, using hammers to smash a painting depicting the Suffragette movement, whilst also targeting Whitehall in a series of coordinated attacks.
Two stormed the National Gallery, while another 40 people were arrested after conducting a slow march through Whitehall.
Police, who have been closely protecting the Cenotaph in recent days ahead of Remembrance Sunday at the weekend, arrested around six protesters who were blocking the road next to the war memorial.
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UK: Poppies STRIPPED From Rochdale Cenotaph as Activists Dress Monument With Palestinian Flags
A cenotaph in Rochdale had its poppies removed and replaced with Palestinian flags as tensions grow over pro-Palestine protest on Remembrance Day.
Video footage shows a man returning the Remembrance wreaths on the war memorial and discarding Palestinian flags.
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UK: Sunak: ‘Yes to Oil and Gas — and Net Zero’
The Tory party is desperately trying to keep green activists on side while announcing annual oil and gas licensing.
In a new government release on the continued use of fossil fuels, Rishi Sunak’s office made sure to lead on “further steps” being taken to reach carbon “net zero.” In fact, “net zero” was mentioned 14 times in the document—that is, once every 75 words.
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Western Europe Buys More Russian Gas
While Washington, Brussels, and Kyiv have remained silent as Western European states like Belgium, Spain, and France have significantly increased their imports of Russian gas, Hungary, which has decided to do the same, has received sharp criticism from both high-level Ukrainian officials and America’s ambassador to Hungary.
A new report carried out by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), an independent research organization, has revealed that Spain and Belgium increased their LNG (liquefied natural gas) imports from Russia twofold compared to the same period in 2022, while France upped its Russian LNG imports by 40% during the same timeframe, the EU Observer reports.
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A PR video drawing attention to posters of missing Israelis being torn down portrayed the culprits as being white, blonde college girls.
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Day 30 of the War: Where it Began and Where it Will End
IDF has entered arguably the biggest military fortress ever built. The faster it operates, the more soldiers, and noncombatants, are likely to die. But how much time does it have?
Hamas’s October 7 slaughter of 1,400 people inside Israel did not happen in a vacuum, say Israel’s critics from UN Secretary-General Guterres on down, seeking to place the worst assault on Jews since the Holocaust in a context that blames Israel for the massacre of its own people and, by extension, thwart Israel’s efforts to prevent a recurrence.
Indeed, October 7 did not come out of nowhere.
It began with the War of Independence, or rather the war declared on nascent Israel aimed at preventing its independence or cutting it very short.
It continued through a series of conventional wars, relentless terrorism that reached a peak with the Second Intifada, and the ongoing campaigns that utilize lawfare to demonize Israel and attempt to destroy its legitimacy.
Israeli policies and actions regarding the Palestinians were certainly not beyond reproach through the decades, but in the intermittent efforts at peacemaking, those who spoke for the Palestinians conditioned the establishment of their independent state on terms that would spell the demise of ours. These conditions have always included the insistence on a “right of return” to today’s Israel for millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants — a demand, that is, for an independent Palestine alongside an Israel that is to be turned into Palestine, too, by sheer weight of numbers.
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RICHARD PENDLEBURY: One million foreign tourists visit Bethlehem each year. But, on October 7, some five hours after Hamas launched its murderous rampage, the streets of the Old City had emptied.
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IDF Spokesman Says Israel Has Encircled Hamas Stronghold of Gaza City
Nov. 6 (UPI) — Israel’s military said Monday it has encircled Gaza City, the most densely populated area of the Gaza Strip, cutting it off from the rest of the Palestinian enclave as its ground incursion against Hamas continued to build.
Israel Defense Forces troops pushing deep inside Gaza have “reached the coast in Gaza,” IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht wrote in a briefing posted on his Substack page. “We’ve completed encircling northern Gaza, separating Hamas strongholds in the north from the south. This is proving to be effective.”
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Israel’s Ground Invasion Ramps Up as Gaza Death Toll Surpasses 10K, Palestinian Officials Say
The Israeli army cut off northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged enclave on Monday and continued bombarding the territory with air attacks as ground forces prepared to invade densely populated Gaza City.
The Israel Defense Forces said airstrikes had destroyed 450 Hamas targets and Israeli soldiers had taken control of a military compound in an escalation of its war on the terror group nearly a month after Hamas’ monstrous attack that killed more than 1,400.
Gaza health officials said that more than 10,000 Palestinians had been killed in the offensive, without distinguishing fatalities between civilians and militants.
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Queen Rania — who previously stoked outrage by condemning Israel while her country refuses to take in any Palestinian refugees — appeared on CNN to make her appeal.
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The Israel Defense Forces said it arrested prominent 22-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi on Monday during a raid in the West Bank town of Nabi Saleh. The IDF said Tamimi was “suspected of inciting violence and calling for terrorist activity to be carried out,” and that she was “transferred to Israeli security forces for further questioning.”
An Israeli military official forwarded CBS News a screenshot of what they called “an example of Ahed Tamimi’s inciting violence from her social media account.”
The post, which appears to be an Instagram story posted by the account “ahed_tamimi15,” shows text in Hebrew and Arabic threatening the murder of Israeli settlers and referring to Hitler.
CBS News has been unable to independently verify that the account belongs to Tamimi. Her mother, Nariman al-Tamimi, told the AFP news agency that her daughter did not write the post.
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Protesters Blast Netanyahu, Call for Resignation Over Lack of War Preparedness
Nov. 5 (UPI) — Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets and upped their pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down for his administration’s lack of readiness on Oct. 7 when a surprise attack by the Palestinian group Hamas killed thousands of Israelis, and for his handling of the hostage crisis that has followed.
Police forcibly restrained hundreds of protesters who pushed through security barriers waving blue and white Israeli flags, chanting “jail now!” outside Netanyahu’s residence on Saturday.
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Terror in Jerusalem: 2 Israeli Police Officers Injured in Stabbing Spree by Palestinian Teenager
Two Israeli border police officers were injured in a stabbing attack by a Palestinian teenager in east Jerusalem on Monday, police said.
Israeli authorities confirmed that two officers, a male and female both in their 20s, were hospitalized after a knifeman targeted officers at the Shalem police station near the Herod’s Gate entrance to the Jerusalem Old City.
The female officer is understood to have been seriously wounded in the attack.
In a statement, police confirmed they had shot dead the suspected attacker, who was understood to have been a 16-year-old Palestinian boy.
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Zelensky Visit to Israel Imperiled by Leak — Media
by RT
A planned trip by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to Israel later this month may not happen after Israel’s Channel 12 news was tipped off about the visit, an unnamed Ukrainian diplomat told the Times of Israel on Sunday.
“He wanted the trip to be public when he stepped on Israeli soil,” the official told the news outlet, adding that Zelensky was “very disappointed.“
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Iraq Leader Declares Allegiance to Iran, Praises Hamas Just One Day After Meeting Blinken
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has traveled to Tehran and declared his allegiance to Iran just one day after meeting with Democrat President Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
According to multiple reports, al-Sudani met with Iranian leadership in a show of support for Iran-back terrorist group Hamas.
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Spike in Attacks on US Troops in Middle East as American Forces Surge to Region
WASHINGTON — American troops in Iraq and Syria were targeted in seven more attacks over the weekend as the US boosted its military presence in the region while the Israel-Hamas war rages.
“Since Oct. 17 Eastern Time, we’ve had 20 attacks in Iraq, 18 in Syria — a total of 38 of these, you know, essentially what are harassing attacks of drones and rockets,” Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder told reporters Monday.
The total of 38 attacks was up from Friday afternoon, when the figure was 31, according to the Pentagon.
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U.S Military Deploys Nuclear Submarine to Middle East
The United States military has deployed a nuclear submarine to the Middle East as tensions continue to mount amid the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The Ohio-class submarine has been deployed as a show of deterrence against further escalation.
The move comes as the Israel-Hamas war nears the one-month mark.
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Increased Pessimism Surrounding Ukraine’s Prospects
Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia has been largely unsuccessful, with Ukrainian troops having only managed to advance 17 kilometres since the counteroffensive started in the summer. After more than twenty months of fighting, the Ukrainian army and public are becoming tired of the war, Western support is less enthusiastic, and even Ukraine’s military leaders admit the country has to prepare for a drawn-out war.
Ukrainian “gains so far have been small, as improved Russian defences proved effective, and any momentum created in the south and east looks to have run out of steam for now,” Reuters assessed the situation on the ground in an article published on Friday, November 3rd.
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Ukrainian Military Chief Says Aide Killed in Explosion During Birthday Celebration
Ukraine’s commander in chief, General Valeriy Zaluzhniy, said his “assistant and close friend” Major Hennadiy Chastyakov, 39, was killed when an explosive device ignited in what was thought to be a birthday gift. Zaluzhniy’s Telegram statement on November 6 didn’t provide details, but he said Chastyakov is survived by his wife and four children. Zaluzhniy said Chastyakov has been a reliable aide for him since the beginning of the Russian invasion of February 2022. The incident occurred in Chaykiy village in the Kyiv region. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko later called the incident an accident, saying Chastyakov had been showing a gift — a box of Western-manufactured grenades — to his son when a grenade exploded.
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Zelensky Not Willing to Bow to Pressure for Peace Talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed suggestions that Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia has stalled, and that he should start peace negotiations with Vladimir Putin. “I don’t think that this is a stalemate,” Zelensky said in an interview with NBC News on Sunday, November 5th. He did admit that “everybody gets tired”, and “our steps forward are slow” because of “Russia’s domination in the air” and “the landmines which Russia planted,” nevertheless “we hold the initiative in our hands … our people are mobilised, and our people have a strong desire to win.”
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Afghan Opium Cultivation Down 95% After Taliban Ban — UN
by Sputnik
Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has all but stopped, falling 95% since the Taliban (under UN sanctions for extremism) outlawed poppy production last year, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said Sunday.
“Opium cultivation fell across all parts of the country, from 233,000 hectares to just 10,800 hectares in 2023. The decrease has led to a corresponding 95 per cent drop in the supply of opium, from 6,200 tons in 2022 to just 333 tons in 2023,” a new research brief read.
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A New Law is About to Kill Free Speech and Democracy in Australia
by Augusto Zimmermann
RT.com
The Australian Government has recently introduced in Parliament a new law proposal to ban officially unapproved online content. Digital companies are expected to adopt a code of conduct which will see them censor speech based on broad, vague and far-reaching directives.
The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill2023 foreshadows the imposition of a legal obligation on digital platforms to police alleged ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’. If that does not work, the law proposal provides for the full empowerment of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to directly intervene for the purpose of preventing ‘harm’.
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Greens Storm Out of Parliament and Yell ‘Free, Free Palestine’
The left-wing minor party holds 11 seats in the Senate and have been demanding a ceasefire since Israel retaliated against Hamas’ brutal attack on October 7.
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‘The Uluru statement stands, absolutely,’ co-chair of the Yes23 campaign Rachel Perkins told supporters on Monday in an online town hall meeting.
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Police have stepped in to guard a small group calling for the release of Israeli hostages as they were besieged by a screaming mob of pro-Palestinian protesters.
Around 15 people held a vigil in central Adelaide’s Rundle Mall on Sunday afternoon calling for the release of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas during their incursion on October 7.
Video of the incident shows the small group standing next to pictures of the kidnapped Israelis taped to the ground and carrying Israel flags or small placards in support of the Jewish state.
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Two Nigerian Workers Killed in Generator Explosion at Canada’s High Commission
OTTAWA — Two Nigerian maintenance workers were killed Monday and two others injured when a diesel tank exploded at Canada’s high commission in Abuja.
Global Affairs Canada said an investigation is underway but there is no belief at this time that the explosion was anything other than a terrible accident.
Nkechi Isa, spokeswoman for the State Emergency Management Agency in Abuja, said a fire broke out in the morning while workers were servicing generators.
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Austria’s Left-Liberal Greens Favor Requiring Asylum Seekers to Work and Speak German
The state government of Vorarlberg in Austria is planning to introduce new requirements for asylum seekers in the future. They would be asked to sign a commitment, including obligations such as attending German language courses and making themselves available for charitable work. In case of any violations, there may be reductions in social benefits, as reported by Kronen Zeitung.
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Belgium Pays 1,140 Euros Per Month to Ukrainian Refugees: EU Countries Still Maintain the Payments
Some European countries continue to provide significant social and financial support to refugees from Ukraine. The amounts of these payments exceed the average Ukrainian salary.
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A record number of illegal migrants have landed on the Canary Islands this year — surpassing the previous highest total for the Spanish archipelago set back in 2006.
Close to 1,000 illegal crossings from the African mainland were detected by authorities over the weekend as the latest surge in illegal immigration showed no sign of slowing down.
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Despite Adverse Weather, Migrant Arrivals Continue in Southern Italy’s Roccella Ionica
As reported by InfoMigrants, the small port of Roccella Ionica, situated in the southern region of Calabria, continues to witness a steady influx of migrant boat arrivals even in the face of adverse meteorological conditions at sea. As of November 2, 5,000 migrants have been registered in the port since the beginning of the year, marking a striking testament to the ongoing migration challenges faced by southern Italy.
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Germany: Teen Girl Raped by African Migrant in Parking Garage
Authorities arrested an African man suspected of raping a teenage girl in a parking garage in Germany last week, according to reports.
The shocking incident unfolded at around noon on Wednesday in Munich.
The victim, a 17-year-old girl, was approached by the suspect who invited her to smoke a joint with him.
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Germany: Deporting a Single Migrant Costs Up to 200,000 Euros
In a recent meeting on November 6th, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, along with the leaders of Germany’s 16 federal states and the Union leadership, discussed the ongoing migration challenges facing the country. As expected, the prospect of a “massive deportation campaign” was once again on the agenda. However, the exorbitant costs of deporting a single social migrant have raised concerns among German taxpayers, according to Deutschland Kurier.
According to reports, deporting just one individual back to their home country has previously cost the German state up to €200,000. This substantial expense has become a matter of concern, especially as local communities are struggling to cope with the increasing influx of migrants and the Federal Police consistently report record numbers of illegal border crossings.
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Leader of Hungary’s Fidesz Party Kocsis Raises Concerns Over Terrorism Risks in Migration
In a recent statement, Maté Kocsis, the group leader of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, emphasized the high risk of terrorism associated with migration. He referred to a partially published secret service report that underlined this concern. Kocsis highlighted the seriousness of the situation and called for urgent action to address the migration practices advocated by Brussels, as reported by About Hungary.
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A recently declassified intelligence report on the national security aspects of illegal migration in the Serbian-Hungarian border region has added further worrying details to the already gloomy picture unfolding on Hungary’s southern border.
The report by the Hungarian secret service prepared for the parliamentary National Security Committee revealed that the physical, vital, and legal elements of Hungarian defense are under increasing pressure.
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More prominent Israelis are calling for Europe to absorb millions of Palestinian refugees.
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Analysts: Woke Investing Takes Massive Hit as Investors Lose Interest, Risks Becoming More Apparent
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) funds lost billions in the third quarter as demand among investors plummeted, according to Morningstar, a American financial services and research firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Investment funds focused on sustainability goals have lost $2.7 billion in the third quarter of 2023 and they have been closing faster than they are opening during the same period, according to Morningstar. U.S. funds experienced withdrawals overall, but ESG funds experienced a significantly worse decline than their counterparts, facing four straight quarters of outflows as investors have lost interest due to regulatory scrutiny and concerns about returns.
ESG funds lost .85% of their value while funds in general lost .02% in the past three months, according to Morningstar. More traditional funds started in the third quarter than closed. Three ESG funds launched while 13 closed during the three-month period, according to Morningstar.
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‘Dumb College Kids’ Have Been Supporting Mass Murder for a Hundred Years
by Daniel Greenfield
One of the people watching college students cheer Hamas and tear down posters of kidnapped Israeli children commented that this was not just “dumb kids wearing Che t-shirts”.
But it is.
The ‘dumb college kids wearing Che t-shirts” were supporting mass murder, atrocities and ethnic cleansing in Latin America. They were cheering on the murder of women and children. And an international Communist movement responsible for the deaths of millions.
Before they were supporting Hamas, they were backing BLM while cities burned, streets filled with broken glass and people were violently assaulted. And before BLM, there was Mumia Abu Jamal and the Gitmo terrorists, further back there were the Sandinistas, the PLO, the Weathermen, the BLA and the Viet Cong. And before them Mao and the Bolsheviks.
‘Dumb college kids’ have been supporting the mass murder of millions for at least a century.
There is something different here.
Never before have the atrocities been as graphically documented with so many videos taken by the monsters themselves committing their crimes that were broadly distributed in graphic and gory detail to the public in ways that could not be censored or suppressed.
The victims of Marxist dictatorships or the Soviet Union and China were mostly faceless figures, sometimes caught in grainy black and white photos, often with no names or backstories. Here there are full color photos and videos, personal stories of families, mothers and children, and the elderly, all looking from the ‘Kidnapped’ posters being torn down from college campus walls.
But the smiling children looking back from the posters might as well have been kulaks in Russia or intellectuals in Cambodia for all the empathy they elicited. Seeing them only infuriates college kids busy righteously advocating for Hamas as a queer liberation movement. It spoils their plans for a class walkout while chanting, “Free Palestine” and waving their puny fists in the air conditioned air…
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Facebook Censors Leaked Copy of Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto
Tech giant Facebook is censoring a leaked copy of Nashville transgender school shooter Audrey Hale’s manifesto that was obtained and published by conservative commentator Steven Crowder.
The manifesto was collected in the immediate aftermath of the March 27, 2023 mass shooting at Nashville’s The Covenant School, which left six people dead. Usually, these types of manifestos are released within days of the shooting. However, local and federal authorities have spent months refusing to release this manifesto, causing lawsuits to be filed with the hope of forcing transparency.
With no sign of the manifesto being released through official channels any time soon, this leaked copy of the manifesto is the first time, after more than seven months of waiting, that the public has been able to see the contents of the manifesto that authorities are seemingly trying to conceal.
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A leaked copy of three pages from the alleged manifesto of transgender Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale obtained by Louder with Crowder show that the shooter targeted white children, calling them “cr*ckers” with “white privlages.”
BREAKING: Nashville School Covenant Shooter Audrey Hale’s “DEATH DAY” Manifesto Targeted “Cr*ckers” with “white privlages”
“wanna kill all you little cr*ckers”
“I hope I have a high death count”
“I’m ready…I hope my victims aren’t.”
“Ready to die.”#NashvilleManifesto pic.twitter.com/89Ie6TlgRf
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) November 6, 2023
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The Missouri atorney general announced on Monday that his office is suing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health and Senior Services after they unlawfully approved the shipping of chemical abortion pills in the mail.
Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s suit, which was joined by the states of Idaho and Kansas, comes on the heels of his efforts earlier this year, warning CVS and Walgreens that their plan to use the mail to distribute abortion pills would violate state and federal laws.
Twenty Republican state attorneys general joined in the effort, led by Bailey, who in February said he was doing everything in his power to warn the companies that his office will use “every tool at our disposal to uphold the law.”
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Nashville Shooter Audrey Hale’s Alleged Writings Surface: ‘Wanna Kill All You Little Crackers’
Alleged writings of Nashville mass killer Audrey Hale’s have been released by conservative commentator Steven Crowder, which appear to reveal the shooter’s anti-white hatred and nervous but resolute planning.
The three handwritten pages were posted on Crowder’s web site, which asserted their legitimacy, saying they had been obtained by his MugClub Undercover investigative unit.
Nashville Metropolitan Police Department, who led the investigation into the shootings, said they were aware of the documents and were investigating, but clarified in a statement: “The photographs are not MNPD crime scene images.”
Hale, 28, who identified as transgender and also went by the name Aiden, allegedly wrote in one of the missives: “Wanna kill all you little crackers,” before murdering three children and three adults at the Christian school, which Hale had once attended, in March.
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has admitted that reform of his country’s abortion law three years ago, which led to mass protests, may have had an impact on the shift in sympathies among young voters and the outcome of the 2023 election.
In an interview with the Interia.pl news site, Morawiecki insisted that he was ready and willing to attempt to form the next government since his conservative Law and Justice (PiS) is the biggest party in parliament, but reflecting on why the party’s parliamentary overall majority had been lost, he admitted that the tightening of abortion regulations had been a mistake.
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UK: ‘We Must Uphold Biological Reality!’ Backlash Over Trans Schooling for Children
A major campaign has been launched calling for an end to the spread of gender ideology across society as advocates demand children are no longer be taught they can be born in the wrong body.
More than 80 pressure groups and public figures have united in protest against trans schooling as they urge institutions to stop pupils “socially transitioning” by letting them change names, pronouns and uniforms.
Their Declaration for Biological Reality plans to boost women’s rights by protecting single-sex spaces such as toilets and hospital wards, and banning transgender athletes from female sports.
The group hopes to defend freedom of speech which suggests nobody should be penalised for saying humans cannot change sex.
They also call for public bodies such as the NHS and police to stop displaying “ideological symbols” such as the rainbow flag.
Prominent figures involved include MPs Mark Jenkinson, Nick Fletcher and Neale Hanvey, peer Baroness Fox of Buckley, Olympic athletes Sharron Davies and Mara Yamauchi.
Plus comedy writer Graham Linehan and pioneering headmistress Katherine Birbalsingh.
The calls come amid disputes in courts, Parliament, the public sector and on social media over the belief that self-described gender identity is more important than biological sex.
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Woke Teachers Trying to Ban Classic Novel From Schools to “Protect Students”
The Washington Post reports that “progressive” teachers in in Washington state are attempting to get To Kill a Mockingbird, authored by Harper Lee, banned in schools in order to “protect students.”
The report notes that The Mukilteo School District teachers are adamant that the classic novel, published in 1960, is “outdated and harmful.”
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I may be wrong, but isnt “cracker” a not nice term for white people by black people and if we compare it to “n….” (how some white people name black people) they are the same class of insult?
I remember that long ago the Professor Heitmann, an antiracist guy, said that in regard to insults the terms “Kartoffel” (= potato, how muslims describe germans) and “Kana…” (how germans describe muslims) are considered to be equal.
But only if I use the second terms I will be prosecuted. But not if I use the first term.
Hm, I wonder why?
Yes, “cracker” originated as a contemptuous term used by blacks for poor lower-class rural whites in the South. But usage of the term spread to effete white Leftists. It’s used to refer to traditional Christians and other whites who are considered ignorant and inferior.
Nobody who uses insulting terms for whites or subgroups of whites has to worry about being accused of racism.
Here is a little Chubby Checker ditty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNxvw03Wz40
“Here is a little Chubby Checker ditty.”
Which reminds me of this little ditty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqQnf11EYKQ
Thanks. What a masterpiece. LOL.
Surprised that YOUSCREW allows it to remain.
Theresa: “Surprised that YOUSCREW allows it to remain.”
Because only a RACIST would remove it.
In my Orwellian totalitarian childhood, I hated Palestine.
The TV had only two channels, which mostly showed communist meetings and “news from the fields.” There was a lot of politicized news.
“Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip..”
In Russian it sounded like a certain sector where GAZ is located.
I imagined a lot of gas tanks and people running among them. It was boring.
It’s the same now. I’m sick and tired of this.
It would be nice if this Gaza was bombed to the ground and no one else in the world would be bothered by this Palestine and Israel.
It would be nice if there was a desert there like many thousands of years ago.
Israel and Israelies are the most important people and land in the history of this planted.
It would be great if the Gaza strip was bombed back to the stone age.
If Muslims put down their arms there would be peace. But they are not peaceful people at all. They are violent sand rats with low IQ’s who are only focused on the people who are more important than they will ever be.
Are you Jewish or are you simply indoctrinated into ideas of Abrahamic Jewish superiority?
I can understand if it’s the first option, but I can’t understand if it’s the second.
It’s apparent that your hatred causes you to be blind to the facts. I am a Christian Zionist, Elena, and it is you that is indoctrinated into some anti-Jew Cult.
The Jews will always be better than you or I will ever be.
I have nothing against Jews. These are people being people. I have questions about the ideas of Jewish superiority that you are now demonstrating. You have not provided a single piece of evidence why Jews are better than other creations.
Besides the fact that this was said by a fictitious Heavenly Fairy, which the Jews themselves invented.
The same superiority lies at the core of Islam.
I believe that Humanity must be decolonized from these Abrahamic ideas.
Elena: “You have not provided a single piece of evidence why Jews are better than other creations.”
Can you cite ONE (1) factual example throughout history of Jews calling for “Death to the “? I’ll wait….
This is not a criterion for being an “improved kind of person.” Much more questions are raised by the Abrahamic covenant, according to which the Jews decided that they had the right to appropriate the lands on which other peoples lived.
And as for calls for death… any parasite tries to survive at the expense of the “host”.