A protester is in critical condition after setting him or herself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta. The gender of the unfortunate victim is unclear, so its pronouns are not known. He, she, or it used gasoline as an accelerant, and a Palestinian flag was found at the scene.
In other news, a 70-year-old Ugandan woman gave birth to twins after receiving IVF treatment, making her the oldest person ever to give birth in Africa.
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$6 Billion Biden Promised to Iran BLOCKED by House in Bipartisan Vote
The US House has blocked the transfer of $6 billion in frozen funds to Iran. The money, being held in Qatar, was part of a hostages-for-prisoners swap deal in September. However, the funds transfer was paused by Qatar, where the funds are being held, and the US, after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.
Iran hs been accused of aiding Hamas in the planning of that attack, which was in the works for two years, and of having green-lit the attack only a week or so before it was carried out. Even so, the Biden admin said they did not intend to refreeze the funds.
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Anti-Israel Activists Target TPUSA UNC Event With Ari Hoffman
Anti-Israel activists targeted Turning Point USA We Stand with Israel, an event featuring Seattle-based Jewish radio host Ari Hoffman at the University of North Carolina Charlotte on Tuesday.
Anti-Israel protesters flooded the campus and attempted to intimidate Hoffman and other people attending the event. They chanted, took over the hallways, and disrupted Hoffman as he gave his speech in the auditorium.
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Bill Ackman Points Out Inconvenient Truth of X’s ‘Unfair Treatment by Advertisers’
X has been attacked by activist organizations such as Media Matters and legacy corporate media. These groups view the platform as a threat to their ideological agenda and the interests of their financial backers and thus aim to sabotage it by misleading companies to pull ad spending.
At The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Elon Musk silenced a room full of liberal elites as he proclaimed that: “…if someone wants to blackmail me with advertising, they can go f*ck themselves.”
NYTimes noted this morning that at least half-dozen marketing agencies said they would keep their clients off X. Others have spoken with clients about reducing ad spending.
“There is no advertising value that would offset the reputational risk of going back on the platform,” Lou Paskalis, the founder and CEO of AJL Advisory, a marketing consultancy, told NYTimes.
Over the years, ZeroHedge has also gone through similar ad monetization hell, having lost most of our advertisers because they did not approve content on this website, and as a result, they — together with such members of the Censorship Industrial Complex such as Newsguard, Sleeping Giants and CheckMyAds and various three-letter US government agencies — did everything in their power to attempt to kill the site. Still, thankfully, we survived because of our premium subscribers.
Commenting on the advertiser boycott of X, billionaire Bill Ackman posted on X that Musk “is entirely correct that he and @X are treated unfairly and inconsistently by advertisers.”
Ackman pointed out that other social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and others have “enormous amounts of problematic content, antisemitic and otherwise, but the advertisers don’t boycott those platforms.”
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Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis police officer currently serving jail time in connection with the death of George Floyd, was stabbed 22 times in prison by a “Black Lives Matter” vigilante inmate.
John Turscak, 52, has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing Chauvin 22 times in the law library at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona, according to prosecutors.
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Breaking: Trump Announced as Keynote Speaker for 111th Annual NY Young Republicans Club Gala
2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has been announced as the keynote speaker for the 111th New York Young Republicans Club Gala.
Rep Matt Gaetz is also speaking at the event, and comedian Alex Stein will serve as the Master of Ceremonies.
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Climate Activists Interrupt Opera Performance, Angering Audience: ‘Shut Up!’
Climate activists angered opera fans at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, by standing up and screaming during an opening night performance of Tannhäuser, Thursday.
Radical climate group Extinction Rebellion, NYC, took credit for the protest on social media, and shared videos of the disruptions.
Halfway through the second act of the performance, several protesters stood up and demanded an end to fossil fuels. One man scolded the audience to “wake up” to the “climate emergency,” before unfolding a black banner that said, “No opera on a dead planet.”
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Comer, Jordan Demand Hunter Biden Appear for Deposition, Say He Will Not Receive ‘Special Treatment’
FIRST ON FOX: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan demanded Hunter Biden appear for his deposition later this month as part of their effort to determine whether the House of Representatives will draft articles of impeachment against President Biden.
The lawmakers also stressed to Hunter Biden’s attorney that the president’s son will receive no “special treatment.”
Comer, R-Ky., subpoenaed Hunter Biden for a deposition earlier this month. The deposition is set for Dec. 13.
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Congress Expels George Santos, First Member Expelled in Over Two Decades
Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is no longer a member of Congress. The House voted 311-114 Friday morning to expel him in the first House expulsion since 2002.
The historic vote sets a new precedent in the House. Santos departs even as he has not been convicted of a crime and has pleaded not guilty.
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Federal prosecutors announced Friday attempted murder charges against an Arizona inmate and ex-FBI informant, a week after ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was stabbed 22 times inside a library at the Tucson penitentiary where they are both inmates.
John Turscak, 52, is also facing multiple assault charges and inflicting serious bodily injury with an “improvised knife” around 12:30 p.m. on Black Friday — a day the suspect allegedly told investigators he picked to symbolize the “Black Lives Matter” movement, which spurred months of protests around the country in connection with the death of George Floyd — who Chauvin was convicted of killing.
Federal corrections officers intervened “immediately” according to court filings, dousing Turscak with pepper spray. He allegedly told the guards he would have killed Chauvin if guards hadn’t reacted so fast. When he waived his Miranda rights, he allegedly told the FBI about the Black Friday symbolism and said he’d planned the attack for a month.
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Ex-CNN Star Chris Cuomo Open to Voting for Trump in 2024: ‘No Greater Risk to America Than Biden’
Former top CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has done a major U-turn against the Democrats and warned the public that there’s no “greater risk to America” than four more years of President Joe Biden in the White House.
Cuomo, who is now a host on NewsNation after being fired in disgrace from CNN, weighed in on the 2024 election during an interview on Friday’s episode of the “PBD Podcast.”
In a major blow to Biden’s re-election campaign, Cuomo, whose family name is synonymous with the Democratic Party, is now openly considering voting for President Donald Trump next year.
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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., said Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., needs to be expelled from the U.S. Senate, quipping that he’s more of a “Senator from Egypt, not New Jersey,” on Friday on ABC’s “The View.” The freshman lawmaker from Pennsylvania made the claim in the context of the recent expulsion of Rep. George Santos, D-N.Y., from the House of Representatives, noting that if Santos deserves to be kicked out of Congress, then Menendez does, too, after being federally charged for participating in a bribery scheme.
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Florida Democrats Cancel Primary Election, Biden to be Handed Delegates
Florida Democrats are keeping Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) and President Joe Biden’s other opponents off the state’s primary ballot, effectively handing Biden the state’s 250 delegates, Politico noted Thursday night.
Thursday marked the deadline for the Florida Democrat and Republican parties to submit their lists of approved candidates for their receptive primaries, and Biden was the lone name on the Democrat ticket, per Politico.
Phillips took to X to contend that the move disenfranchises millions of Florida voters and said he would challenge “this absolute nonsense.’
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GOP Rep Says J6 Committee Failed to Preserve Witness Depositions
In a Thursday evening interview, Rep. Barry Loudermilk revealed that videotapes of witness interviews conducted by the Democrat-led January 6 committee have disappeared.
“All of the videotapes of all depositions are gone,” Loudermilk, chairman of the House Administration oversight committee, told John Solomon.
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GOP Senators Call on Joe Biden to ‘Immediately’ Ban Travel From China
Republican Senators are asking President Joe Biden to “immediately restrict travel” to the United States from China as Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials are accused of hiding information related to an “unknown respiratory illness” spreading in Beijing.
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Hate Crime Hoaxer Jussie Smollett Headed Back to Jail After Appeals Court Upholds Convictions
Hate crime hoaxer and disgraced actor Jussie Smollett is headed back to jail after an Illinois appeals court upheld his convictions and jail sentence.
The Illinois Appellate Court upheld Smollett’s disorderly conduct convictions on Friday, meaning that the disgraced actor, who was found guilty last year of filing a false police report after he hired two brothers from Nigeria to stage a fake hate crime against him, will be going back to jail, according to a report by The Associated Press.
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Inmate Stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 Times, Charged With Attempted Murder, Prosecutors Say
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Court documents: Inmate who stabbed ex-officer Derek Chauvin 22 times charged with attempted murder.
A federal inmate was charged Friday with attempted murder in the Nov. 24 prison stabbing of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd.
Federal prosecutors say John Turscak stabbed Chauvin 22 times in the law library at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona, with an improvised knife. He told correctional officers he would’ve killed Chauvin had they not responded so quickly, prosecutors said.
Turscak later told FBI agents that he’d been thinking about assaulting Chauvin for about a month because he is a high-profile inmate but denied wanting to kill him, prosecutors said.
Turscak told the agents that he attacked Chauvin on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, as a symbolic connection to the Black Lives Matter movement and the “Black Hand” symbol associated with the Mexican Mafia gang, prosecutors said.
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Judge Strikes Down Federal Ban on Handgun Sales for 18 to 20-Year-Olds
On Friday, Judge Thomas S. Kleeh issued a decision striking down the federal prohibition against 18 to 20-year-olds purchasing handguns.
The plaintiffs in the case are Steven Robert Brown, Benjamin Weekley, the Second Amendment Foundation, and the West Virginia Citizens Defense League.
Judge Kleeh, a Donald Trump appointee, is Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
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Kamala Harris & John Kerry Jet to Dubai to Lecture About ‘Climate Crisis’
Vice President Kamala Harris and “Climate Czar” John Kerry are jetting off to Dubai to give lectures on fighting “global warming.”
The heroic eco-warriors will be joining Democrat President Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken to participate in the United Nations (UN) COP 28 summit.
The conference is a two-week-long event designed to promote climate alarmism fears among the public in an effort to promote the globalist green agenda.
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Liz Cheney: Trump Election Would be End of the Republic — We Are ‘Sleepwalking Into a Dictatorship’
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said in a preview clip that will air on “CBS Sunday Morning” that if former President Donald Trump is elected in 2024, it would be the end of the U.S. republic form of government because we would be “sleepwalking into dictatorship.”
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Majority of Americans Say China is Greatest National Security Threat, Up 30 Points in Five Years
The Reagan National Defense Forum is set to convene in Southern California to address key national security concerns as a growing number of Americans pinpoint China as one of the country’s greatest threats.
The forum involves a series of military leaders in attendance, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, national security experts and lawmakers. They will unpack various threats facing America — encompassing ideas like artificial intelligence, the future of warfare and military readiness.
Reagan Presidential Foundation CEO David Trulio said Americans are witnessing the Chinese bolster their military readiness Friday as more remain concerned about growing tensions with Beijing — a seismic shift from just years prior.
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MSNBC: Trump’s Climate Strategy Will Cause ‘Climate Change-Fueled Apocalypse’
Climate alarmists at MSNBC warn that if Donald Trump wins the presidential election he will roll back climate mitigation measures and cause a “climate change-fueled apocalypse.”
“Only a massive shift away from fossil fuels and a reduction in the amount of carbon dioxide pumped into the air can avert the oncoming disaster,” declares the article by Hayes Brown, but Donald Trump has “other ideas.”
Beyond simply cranking up output, “Trump would also seek to roll back any environmental regulations that the Biden administration has issued and have Congress cut off the climate spending in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act,” Hayes notes.
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Oregon Female Athletes File Title IX Lawsuit Against School Citing Unfair Treatment
Thirty-two female athletes at the University of Oregon have filed a lawsuit against the school claiming that it is not following Title IX laws.
The 115-page suit, filed by Bailey & Glasser, says the school has been “depriving women of equal treatment and benefits, equal athletic aid, and equal opportunities.”
The suit cites an investigative story by “The Oregonian” in July that says the volleyball team “practices and plays home games in a city park” and uses public restrooms “with no doors on the stalls.”
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Poop Scoop: DeSantis Confronts Newsom With Map of Public ‘Human Feces’ in San Francisco at Debate
WASHINGTON — GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis confronted Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom with a map of public sightings of “human feces” in San Francisco during a debate between the pols Thursday.
DeSantis invoked the map of human waste as he argued that California had let itself go under Newsom, who was mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
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Protester Injured After Setting Self on Fire Outside Israeli Consulate in Atlanta
ATLANTA (Atlanta News First/Gray News) — Two people were injured after someone attempted to set him or herself on fire in an act of political protest at a building in Midtown Atlanta on Friday, according to the Atlanta Police Department.
Police said shortly before 12:45 p.m., they responded to 1100 Spring Street NW. Several businesses and the Israeli consulate are housed in the building.
Emergency officials at the scene said a Palestinian flag was found at the scene and that gasoline was used as an accelerant.
The Consulate General of Israel Atlanta told Atlanta News First that everyone in their office is OK and they’re still investigating.
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Protester Sets Themself on Fire Outside Israel Consulate in Atlanta, Georgia
A protester is in a critical condition after lighting themselves on fire at the Israeli consulate in the US state of Georgia in what police called an “extreme act of political protest”.
Police said the demonstrator used petrol, and a Palestinian flag was found at the scene, outside the mission in Atlanta.
The person’s gender and age remain unclear.
A security guard who attempted to intervene was also injured.
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Rep. Adam Smith Says His Home Was Vandalized by Cease-Fire Activists
WASHINGTON — Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., said Friday that his home was vandalized by activists pushing for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.
A spokesperson from the congressman’s office told NBC News that Smith’s garage was vandalized with red spray paint calling for a cease-fire. The alleged incident in Bellevue, Washington, took place around the same time that Israel renewed its assault in Gaza after the end of a weeklong truce with Hamas.
“Last night, my house was vandalized by people advocating for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza,” Smith said in a statement. “This attack is sadly reflective of the coarsening of the political discourse in our country, and is completely unwarranted, unnecessary, and harmful to our political system.”
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Retired FBI Agent Warns Vivek Ramaswamy to be ‘Very Careful’ on the Campaign Trail
Vivek Ramaswamy was at a campaign stop in Iowa on Thursday and met a retired FBI agent and his wife who said they were supporters. The former agent gave Ramaswamy a warning.
“I met a former FBI agent and his wife on the campaign trail here in Iowa. They agree with me: we need to root out the corruption & shut down the FBI. At the local level, we have police & prosecutors. At the federal level, we have U.S. marshals & the DOJ. An intermediary bureaucracy is rife with risk for politicized corruption & it’s been happening since J. Edgar Hoover in the 60s,” Ramaswamy said on X of the exchange.
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RFK Jr. on the Charge: Republicans, Democrats Alike Say ‘I’m In’ on Kennedy
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drew hundreds from across the political spectrum to a rally in Utah’s capital Thursday night, as the political scion crisscrosses the US in a push to make the ballot in all 50 states.
Spectators lined up outside the SKY nightclub an hour in advance to get good seats, with some telling The Post they felt energized enough to get politically involved for the first time in their lives.
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Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman Supreme Court Justice, Dies at 93
She was a pivotal figure during her 24 years on the court.
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman Supreme Court justice, died Friday morning in Phoenix, Arizona. She was 93.
It was announced in October 2018 that she had been diagnosed with dementia. In a letter, she wrote: “As this condition has progressed, I am no longer able to participate in public life.”
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— two weeks after she was jailed for 90 years for killing love rival
Love triangle killer Kaitlin Armstrong, recently convicted by a Texas jury of killing the woman her boyfriend had dated, will not face charges for trying to escape jail prior to her trial.
Liberal Austin, Texas District Attorney Jose Garza — known for going easy on criminals — filed a motion to dismissed felony charges against Armstrong for injuring a sheriff’s deputies during her failed escape
This comes as Armstrong’s attorney appealed her Nov. 16 conviction for the murder of Moriah ‘Mo Wilson — a woman Armstrong’s boyfriend had dinner with hours before she was gunned down in May 2022.
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Twitter Files Co-Author Says Censorship of Social Media Was Worse Than He Originally Thought
“Twitter Files” co-author Michael Shellenberger joined “America’s Newsroom” Friday following his congressional testimony alleging “mass censorship” efforts by U.S. and U.K. military contractors against Americans on social media after former President Trump’s election. Shellenberger told the House Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing that the censorship efforts were worse than he originally thought.
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Video: Pro-Palestine Protester Gets Embarrassed for Forgetting Chant
A pro-Palestine protester in New York made a complete fool out of herself after repeatedly forgetting the words to the infamous “from the river to the sea” chant.
The phrase has been routinely shouted by pro-Palestine demonstrators at rallies across the west over the last two months, despite many believing it to be a call for genocide or at best anti-Semitic.
The actual words are “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
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Walmart Ceases Advertising on Elon Musk’s X/Twitter
Walmart, the largest retailer in the United States, has announced its decision to stop advertising on Elon Musk’s X/Twitter.
Bloomberg reports that Walmart is discontinuing its advertisements on Elon Musk’s X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter. This decision positions Walmart on the growing list of major companies that have recently chosen to withdraw advertising from the platform.
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) blasted Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Thursday for allegedly blocking her request to file a subpoena for sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs, accusing Democrats of “hiding” something.
Blackburn is a member of the Democrat-led Senate Judiciary Committee, on which Durbin serves as chair, giving him control over the panel’s subpoena power.
The Tennessee Republican publicly called out Durbin on X, writing, “@SenatorDurbin BLOCKED my request to subpoena Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs. What are Democrats trying to hide?”
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100,000 Canadians Sign Petition to Remove Trudeau
Canadians want an end to the era of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau according to an increasing number of polls and a recent petition calling for a vote of non-confidence against his minority government in the Canadian House of Commons.
Signed by over 129,000 Canadians, petition e-4701 is sponsored by Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri, who represents the riding (district) of Peterborough-Kawartha, and calls for the House of Commons to vote on a non-confidence motion, that, if won, would see a snap federal election within 45 days.
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Google Bends the Knee to Canada: Will Pay News Publishers $74 Million for Content
Google has agreed to pay approximately $74 million to Canadian news publishers for using their content, marking a significant shift in the tech giant’s approach to content compensation after a standoff resulted in the internet giant almost cutting off news in the country.
Engadget reports that a recent agreement between Google and the Canadian government signifies a pivotal change in the ongoing debate over the rights of news publishers in the digital age. This agreement comes in response to Canada’s impending Online News Act, designed to address the crisis in the news business where advertising profits are increasingly absorbed by tech behemoths like Google and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta. The leadup to the big news bailout bill becoming law included Facebook cutting off news links in the country and Google threatening the same.
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Austrian Army Under Fire for Buying Romanian Combat Boots
Austrian Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner recently came under fire for ordering the Austrian army’s new boots from Romania.
Tanner presented the Austrian soldiers with their new combat boots on Wednesday, a total of 35,000 pairs ordered for the years 2023-2025. The new model will “increase the performance and operational readiness of the Army,” Tanner announced.
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Dublin Anti-Stabbing Rioters Need a ‘Good, Honest, Decent Beating’ Says Irish Senator
Riots that followed a mass stabbing of young children in Dublin should be met with a “good, honest, decent beating”, an Irish senator stormed in “frank” remarks.
Now a week since the stabbing of three children and their teacher that sparked anti-immigration riots in Dublin, Ireland, and the dark mutterings of retribution — against the rioters, that is, not the knifeman — with a Senator speaking of those involved needing a beating. The remarks came within hours of another Irish politician hitting the headlines over claims he’d said he wanted to see the anti-migration rioters beaten to death.
Speaking in Ireland’s upper house the Senate on Thursday, Fine Gael party Senator Sean Kyne was venting over the riots that took place last week which have been said to be the nation’s worst in years.
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Hungary May Receive €10.4 Billion in Frozen EU Funding
At the beginning of May, Hungary approved a reform to preserve the independence of the judiciary, which, according to press reports, could soon allow EU funds to start flowing to the country.
Brussels has so far blocked €21.7 billion of cohesion funds, but €10.4 billion of this could soon be coming to Hungary, Euronews reports, citing EU officials who say that Brussels considers the domestic action to be sufficient, which will free up the money from the cohesion fund.
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The Irish authorities’ reaction to the turmoil caused last week in the country by the stabbing attack carried out by a migrant, seems to be to come up with more regulation affecting speech.
The assault was particularly egregious and caused a great deal of outrage among citizens as well as riots, because it was perpetrated at a school, with young children among the victims.
Now, the government has things to say about protests, public order, and policing.
Ireland’s Media Minister Catherine Martin addressed the tense situation by announcing that members of the public are encouraged to report “any online hate speech” — to the police.
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Ireland: Double Standards on Hate Speech Follow Dublin Riots
A Limerick politician has called for the killing of participants in the November 23 Dublin riots. Abul Kalam Azad Talukder—celebrated as Limerick’s first-ever Muslim city councillor upon his election earlier this year—stated he wished to see the rioters shot in the head or beaten to death following last week’s violence, sparked by the stabbing of several children and a teaching assistant by a naturalised Algerian immigrant.
A member of the supposedly conservative party Fianna Fail, his remarks from November 27th were reported by the Limerick Post. Talukder stated:
I strongly believe that this is not the face of Ireland. This is just some criminals looting the shops. I don’t think they follow any ideological purpose. They come to the streets and just rob. They should get punishment.
Not even an animal does these kind of thing [sic]. It is very shameful and they should get public punishment.
I’d like to see them shot in the head or bring the public in and beat them until they die.
The call for the murder of the rioters was immediately countered by Labour councillor Conor Sheehan, who asked Talukder to withdraw his remarks, explaining that calling for the murder of people was forbidden in the council chamber.
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The Irish police (Garda) is about to get new, wide-ranging powers to spy on people’s private online conversations happening via chat apps — in order to “crack down on crime” after last week’s events in Dublin.
But the events the Irish legislators are talking about are not the stabbing of 5 and 6-year-old children and their caregivers, but rather the reaction to the heinous crime, namely, the protests and riots that followed.
The Irish government is, overall, making a huge effort to redirect focus from the original event (committed by an Algerian man who had apparently been granted Irish citizenship) to preventing it from increasing the anti-migrant sentiment, that is already present in many European countries as a result of the controversial migrant policies over these last years.
In the words of opposition Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald — who was referring to the authorities’ relentless maneuvering around the real issue, including by calling protesters “extremists” — she has never witnessed such “brazen ass covering (by the government).”
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King Charles III warned the world Friday it must change its ways to avoid climate calamity after he flew over 3,000 miles to the COP 28 climate conference in Dubai to personally deliver his opening address.
The British monarch joined upwards of 80,000 other members of the globalist elites jetting into the two-week U.N.-sponsored meeting aimed at finding ways to slash global emissions.
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Latvia to Purchase German Air Defense Missiles in €600 Million Deal
Latvia signed a contract for the procurement of German air defense missile systems in a deal worth around €600 million, the country’s defense ministry announced on Thursday.
The agreement with German company Diehl Defence will see the delivery of its IRIS-T mid-range air defense system equipped with medium-range missiles starting in 2026.
The Latvian Ministry of Defense announced in September it had reached a joint-procurement agreement with neighboring Estonia for the purchase of an air defense system, stressing the purchase would be the largest air defense procurement in the history of the two Baltic states.
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Orlen CEO Appeals to Polish President to Stop New Parliamentary Majority’s Energy Levy
The CEO of energy giant Orlen, Daniel Obajtek, has appealed to President Andrzej Duda to consider stopping the energy price freeze levy planned by the new parliamentary majority, as he believes it to be detrimental to Orlen and Polish energy security
In Obajtek’s letter, he accused the new parliamentary majority of deliberately reducing the market value of the company he runs. He has asked the head of state to analyze the “unfavorable changes proposed,” which he believes will be “damaging to the development of the company, the Polish economy and Poland’s energy security.”
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As Poland’s Law and Justice party (PiS) steps down from the helm of government, Deputy Prime Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz reflected on Poland’s support for Ukraine during the Russian invasion in an interview with Visegrad 24, saying there is “no doubt” Ukraine will win the war.
“We’ve been touched by the war very personally from the very first days of the conflict,” she told Visegrad 24 in a new video interview. “Just after Feb. 24, more than 5 million refugees passed through Poland and more than 2 million in the first year decided to stay in Poland.”
“I think the Western world is going to win this war, and I think this conflict is almost ended. So, the bankruptcy of Russia is visible,” she said.
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The Hamas attack against Israel in October is inspiring a fresh wave of anti-Jewish and anti-Western extremism in Europe in new ways that haven’t been seen before, Germany’s political police bureau warns.
Lone wolf attacks against soft targets are a major threat and disparate Islamist groups which have shunned each other in the past for reasons of history and philosophy are now “linking up” out of a shared feeling of antisemitism, Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), their domestic intelligence agency which polices both the people and politics of the nation, warns.
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Slovak Truckers Join Polish Drivers in Ukraine Border Blockade
(Bloomberg) — Truckers in Slovakia joined Polish counterparts in staging a blockade at the border with Ukraine, escalating a protest over competition that Kyiv says has disrupted crucial humanitarian aid imports.
The Union of Slovak Haulers began the labor action on Friday at the country’s only crossing for freight transport, extending blockades along the Poland-Ukraine frontier that’s caused traffic chaos for weeks. The Slovak drivers are demanding that the European Union reverse a wartime decision to loosen licensing rules for Ukrainian truckers.
The disruption to competition has had a “devastating impact on the Slovak transport market, but also on the markets of other neighboring states and throughout the EU,” the union said in a statement.
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It comes after the death of 29-year-old mother Lauren Page Smith who was discovered lying the floor with her daughter clinging to her chest just hours after paramedics had given her the all-clear.
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Video: UK Health Security Head Admits Use of Face Masks Was Never ‘Evidence Based’
During testimony at the UK government’s COVID inquiry this week, England’s former deputy chief medical officer at the height of the pandemic admitted that there was never any proof that face masks were effective in slowing or preventing the spread of the virus, and in all likelihood made the problem worse.
Professor Dame Jenny Harries, now the head of the UK Health Security Agency, explained that the policy wasn’t based on scientific reality and had the effect of instilling a “false sense of security,” convincing people that they would reduce their risk of becoming infected if they wore a mask.
She also told the inquiry that government advice on how to make a mask out of bits of cloth and old t-shirts was wholly “ineffective”.
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William Shatner Pleads With King Charles on Climate Change: ‘We’re All Going to Die’
Actor William Shatner, forever immortalized as Captain Kirk on Star Trek, pleaded with King Charles to fight climate change for fear of “human extinction.”
Shatner issued his plea during an appearance on Good Morning Britain where he said the king should warn the British public at the COP28 climate conference.
“He’s got to say ‘we’re all going to die’. That’s what he should say to open up with. ‘Very quickly, we’re all going to die,’ he should say,” said Shatner.
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A bombshell report has claimed Israeli intelligence had an intimate understanding of Hamas’ October 7 attack blueprint over a year prior, but brushed it off as it was deemed unachievable.
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Israel Promises Hamas the ‘Mother of All Thumpings’ After Cease-Fire Ends and Shelling Re-Starts
Israel spent its recent seven day cease-fire gaining intelligence to plan “surgical air strikes” to avoid civilian causalities, and its military spokespeople promised Hamas will receive the “mother of all thumpings” following the end of the cease-fire.
Minutes before the cease-fire was set to expire at 7 a.m. Friday morning, Israeli forces said they shot down a Hamas rocket fired from Gaza, breaking the fragile agreement and leading to the shelling of the area.
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Kibbutz Founder, 85, Oldest Israeli Hostage, Dies in Hamas Captivity
The oldest Israeli hostage taken by Hamas terrorists during their barbaric October 7 attack on Israel has died in captivity. He was 85.
Aryeh Zalmanovich was one of the founders of Kibbutz Nir Oz.
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— and begs Hamas and the IDF to let them operate with security in war torn city
The Red Cross says that footage that allegedly shows the bodies of five Palestinian children left to die in the Al-Nasr Hospital in Gaza represents an ‘unspeakable tragedy.’
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Putin Orders Russian Military to Boost Troop Numbers by 170,000
Russia’s armed forces set to total 1.32 million after latest increase amid the continued invasion of Ukraine
Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s military to increase the number of troops by nearly 170,000 to a total of 1.32 million, as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine continues into its 22nd month.
Putin’s decree was released by the Kremlin on Friday and took force immediately. It brings the overall number of Russian military personnel to about 2.2 million, including 1.32 million troops.
It is the second such expansion of the army since 2018. The previous boost by 137,000 troops, ordered by Putin in August 2022, put the military’s numbers at about 2 million personnel and about 1.15 million troops.
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Russian Missile Strikes in Eastern Ukraine ‘Bury Families in Rubble’
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles tore through apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, local officials said Thursday, killing at least two people and burying families under rubble as the Kremlin’s forces continued to pound the fiercely contested area with long-range weapons.
Russian military units simultaneously launched six S-300 missiles toward the Donetsk region during the night, according to Ukrainian Internal Affairs Minister Ihor Klymenko. Another two were fired separately in the same area, the Ukrainian air force said.
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Zelensky: World ‘Shifting’ to Help Israel is Hurting Ukraine’s War
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Associated Press in an interview published Friday that “only the blind” cannot see that his country has lost attention and support following the Hamas atrocities against Israel on October 7, which prompted an ongoing war to eradicate the terrorist organization.
Zelensky promised he would “fight for attention” for his war against Russia, particularly in the United States, where he warned “there may be weakness” in the will of Congress to spend more money on weapons for his country.
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Australian Pro-Palestinian Protesters Storm Israeli Delegation Hotel Lobby
Sydney — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Melbourne who forced an Israeli delegation of relatives of Israelis killed or abducted by Hamas to seek shelter in a police station are facing condemnation in Australia. The demonstrators stormed the lobby of the delegation’s hotel Wednesday waving banners and placing two bloodied dolls on the ground.
A group of Israelis whose relatives were kidnapped by Hamas during the militant group’s Oct. 7 attacks were followed to their hotel from a Wednesday meeting with members of the public and local politicians at a local college by about 20 pro-Palestinian protesters. Social media images and video show the protesters shouting pro-Palestinian slogans and holding banners, including one that read, “Stop arming Israel. Free Palestine.” The police were eventually called and moved the protesters from the hotel.
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New Zealand Conservative Govt to Ban Cellphones in Schools
AFP — Cellphones will be banned in schools across New Zealand, conservative Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Friday, as his fledgling government looks to turn around the country’s plummeting literacy rates.
New Zealand’s schools once boasted some of the world’s best literacy scores, but levels of reading and writing have declined to the point that some researchers fear there is a classroom “crisis”.
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Safina Namukwaya became the oldest woman to give birth in Africa after she delivered a baby girl and boy on Wednesday afternoon, the Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Centre said.
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Polish Scientists Open Cutting-Edge Astronomical Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert
In the middle of Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the world’s prime locations for stellar observations, stands the newly inaugurated Cerro Armazones Observatory (OCA), managed by the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (CAMK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). This observatory, equipped with five telescopes and soon to add a sixth, is strategically located at an altitude of 2,817 meters (9,242 feet) above sea level.
The site features over 340 cloudless nights per year and an exceptionally stable atmosphere, which make it ideal for calibrating cosmic distance scales, a key focus of the international Araucaria Project led by Professor Grzegorz Pietrzynski, head of OCA. Professor Pietrzynski emphasized the prestige of this investment, noting its scientific potential and unique location.
The observatory not only offers optimal conditions for diverse astronomical research but also provides Polish astronomers with unprecedented growth opportunities.
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Chicagoans are turning on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ‘open doors’ policy to migrants, staging daily protests against expensive new government-run tent shelters for the homeless newcomers.
Hundreds of locals attended a community meeting this week, and dozens more have staged protests near a construction site where one of two new shelters is being built in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood.
The shelters, funded by the state of Illinois, are set to open within weeks.
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Dozens of Migrants Brave Arctic Snap as They Land in Britain After Making Perilous Channel Crossing
Dozens of migrants have braved the Artic snap as they crossed the Channel by small boat yesterday.
The mostly-male group of asylum seekers — clad in hooded winter jackets and red blankets — were brought into Dover, Kent on Border Force catamaran Hurricane shortly after 10am.
The government is yet to confirm the official figures for the group — who are the first to reach the UK this month.
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Foreign-Born Population Hits 49.5 Million Under Biden — Largest Ever in American History
The nation’s foreign-born population has hit an unprecedented 49.5 million, the largest ever recorded in American history, under President Joe Biden.
Analysis by Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) revealed that in October the foreign-born population reached almost 50 million, increasing by 4.5 million foreign-born residents since Biden took office in January 2021.
Put another way, the Biden administration has added more immigrants to the nation’s population than the annual number of U.S. births in fewer than three years. Similarly, the growth of the foreign-born population under Biden exceeds the resident populations of 25 states.
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Editors at Europe’s best-selling tabloid proudly boast of feeling the emotions of their readers and listening to their hearts.
When 1.1 million migrants arrived in Germany in 2015, Bild Zeitung launched a ‘welcome’ campaign, echoing the sentiments of then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had unilaterally opened the country’s borders to Syrians fleeing civil war in their homeland.
The German people answered the call. They hung bunting on lampposts, waved balloons, offered food parcels and put up campbeds for the newcomers in sports halls, churches — and even in their own homes.
Which makes the new campaign by Germany’s favourite paper, known to everyone simply as Bild, quite extraordinary.
Under the front-page headline ‘Germany, we have a problem!’, it has published a highly controversial 50-point manifesto telling migrants how to behave as the country experiences a national culture clash.
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The so-called “speeding maniac of Wiesbaden,” Barsoum K., has been hit with a life sentence after the Syrian migrant drove his Mercedes 130 kilometers per hour (80 mph) to “show off,” resulting in the murder of a father and four other passengers being injured, including a young child.
The incident occurred last year on Oct. 22 when the Syrian overtook eight cars in his Mercedes CLS 350, blew through several red lights, and then smashed into a VW Golf, which contained a 30-year-old father who had not been wearing a seatbelt. The driver was traveling at high speeds in a low-speed zone through city streets. The father died a few hours later in the hospital.
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German General Praises Polish Border Guard for Stopping Belarusian and Russian ‘Hybrid Operation’
General Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart, the commander of NATO’s Multinational Corps Northeast, based in Szczecin, Poland, offered a comprehensive assessment of the current security situation on NATO’s eastern flank, specifically praising the Polish border services for their effectiveness in countering provocations from Belarus and Russia.
In his interview with El Mundo, the German commander also praised border officers from Lithuania and Latvia for safeguarding NATO’s eastern frontiers. He highlighted the influx of illegal immigrants, fueled by the Kremlin and Minsk regime, as a “hybrid operation” and the most significant threat on NATO’s eastern flank.
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Illegal Migrants Invade Malibu Beaches
A boatful of illegal migrants invaded the elite playground of Malibu, California, where the average home sells for a jaw-dropping price of $3.4 million.
ABC7.com reported the landing, which delivered roughly 25 illegal migrants into California:…
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Illegal Alien Arrested for Fatally Shooting Two Sisters in the Head in Their Texas Home
An illegal alien has been arrested and charged for allegedly fatally shooting two sisters in the head in their Texas home last week.
Police booked Jose Santiago Chairez at the Dallas County Jail on charges of capital murder of multiple persons and aggravated assault.
Chairez is also accused of shooting his daughter in the arm.
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Sanctuary State Illinois: Newly Arrived Migrant Accused of Beating Wife, Children
A Honduran national, who recently arrived in the United States via the southern border, is now accused of beating his wife and children in the sanctuary state of Illinois.
Walter Sanchez-Baquedano, 24, recently arrived in Illinois after crossing the border with his wife and two children. On October 28, Waukegan police officers responded to a call from Sanchez-Baquedano’s residence where his wife was found scared and crying.
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Six Democrats Join House GOP to Block Biden From Turning Federal Lands Into Migrant Camps
Just six Democrats joined House Republicans this week to prevent President Joe Biden from turning federal lands into migrant camps for tens of thousands of illegal aliens who have been released into the United States interior.
On Thursday, the House passed Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’s legislation known as the “Protecting our Communities from Failure to Secure the Border Act” to block the federal government from using federal lands to house illegal aliens in a 224-203 vote.
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An illegal Moroccan immigrant has been arrested for sexually assaulting three children between the ages of five and seven on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, local police confirmed on Friday.
The assaults date back to an incident on Nov. 20 when the 30-year-old suspect allegedly approached the minors in the street and kissed them on the mouth whilst grabbing their necks, according to a report by Spanish news outlet La Gaceta.
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The fact Home Office officials have no idea of the whereabouts of 17,000 asylum seekers is an ‘absolute shambles’, Tom Tugendhat appeared to admit today.
The extraordinary revelation at the Home Affairs Select Committee yesterday has prompted fresh claims that the Government has lost control of Britain’s borders.
Mr Tugendhat, the security minister, told LBC today that the Home Office was working to locate the missing asylum seekers.
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UN to Austria: Take More Asylum Seekers
The United Nations is exerting pressure on Austria, which last year saw the largest percentage increase in asylum applications of any EU member state, to take in additional asylum seekers from across the world.
In an interview with Salzburger Nachrichten published on Wednesday, November 29th, Kelly Clements, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, leveled criticism against the Austrian government—which is dealing with a litany of cultural and economic problems associated with the migrants and asylum seekers—for its decision to suspend its participation in the UNHCR’s resettlement program.
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US Border Officials Are Closing a Remote Arizona Crossing Because of Overwhelming Migrant Arrivals
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it will temporarily close south and northbound traffic to vehicle and pedestrians at the remote Lukeville, Arizona border crossing with Mexico
LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — So many migrants are crossing from Mexico into the United States around remote Lukeville, Arizona that U.S. officials say they will close the port of entry there so that the operations officials who watch over vehicle and pedestrian traffic going both ways can help Border Patrol agents arrest and process the new arrivals.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Friday that the temporary closure of the crossing will start Monday as officials grapple with changing migration routes that have overwhelmed Border Patrol agents stationed there.
The agency said it is “surging all available resources to expeditiously and safely process migrants” and will “continue to prioritize our border security mission as necessary in response to this evolving situation.”
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Two journalists for Turning Point USA are facing charges this week after an incident with an ASU professor in October. The two, Kalen D’Almeida and Braden Ellis, were charged in connection with their work reporting on ASU professor David Boyles, who referred to himself as the “head of recruitment” for “The Queer Agenda.”
He is on the TPUSA professor watch list due to his “obsession” with sex ed and is responsible for bringing Drag Queen Story Hour to ASU in 2019.
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Cosmopolitan Endorses Satanic ‘Ritual Abortion’ Provided by the Satanic Temple
Cosmopolitan Magazine has jumped aboard the Satanic Abortion Ceremony bandwagon in a new article praising the practice. The women’s magazine details the specifics of how the “ritiual” abortion is meant to take place and writes favorably about The Satanic Temple (TST) and their New Mexico abortion clinic named after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s mother.
Cosmo writes that for The Satanic Temple, “abortion is a religious ritual—one they argue deserves legal protection even in restrictive states.” The Satanic Temple also claims that “a uterus is private property that comes with a set of ownership rights that do not extend to an uninvited fetus.”
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Hungary’s Assisted Suicide Ban Challenged at ECHR
Hungary is being forced to defend its ban on assisted suicide, as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) hears a case from a solicitor trying to overturn the law.
Oral hearings in the case of human rights lawyer and Hungarian national Daniel Karsai took place this week, although the ruling may not be handed down for another year.
Karsai, 46, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, in July 2021. In the United States, the neurodegenerative condition is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease after the Yankees’ first baseman, who died of the condition in 1941.
Karsai brought a suit against the Hungarian government for its ban on euthanasia and assisted suicide, which also prohibits helping someone travel to another country to end their life. He is asking the court to strike down the Hungarian law and hopes the ECHR will go as far as declaring a ‘right to die.’
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Pieta Masterpiece Re-Imagined With Trans Mary and Tattooed Jesus
A seemingly male “artist” wearing stockings, lipstick and beard stubble unveiled a re-imagining of Michelangelo’s Madonna della Pietà featuring a trans Mary and a tattooed Jesus.
Yes, really.
The painting received much fanfare and press attention as onlookers whooped their delight at seeing the edgy and daring work.
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A California father has come forward to reveal that his 17-year-old daughter suffered a serious concussion during a high school volleyball game in which the opposing team had a trans-identified male student competing alongside women, causing the longtime player to have to sit out for the rest of her senior year.
Luis, whose name was changed to protect his family, told Reduxx that his daughter, who had been playing the sport since a young age, had a ball spiked at her head by the transgender student during an October game at Half Moon Bay High School.
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Will the 70 year old” new” mother of twins from Africa now immigrate to either western Europe or America is the question on everyone’s mind?
Probably, She is on the way to Germany !!, everyone can come here , and Germans will pay for life for Her and that twins , like is not enough people in this crazy world..
With “chain” immigration policy in Germany ever relative person to her will or could be bought in ,and with all the inbreeding in those African nations that could be a village the size of thousands of inbreed idiots. At her age you would have to pay for the children’s welfare and the German version of social security .When your uncle could also be your brother many people in this shallow gene pool would not have an IQ level above 72 . Just what Germany needs more unemployable people on the dole who have not the brains or more important the will to assimilate. That communist Merkle ,the EU, the elite, and woke idiots who elect woke idiots to run the mad house that is Germany 2023 should be thanked! How many more years before an angry little guy with a bad hair cut and weird mustache take charge if things do not change. Insanity definition is doing the wrong thing over and over and expecting a different result . Germany from 1914 to 2023 is just an insane nation that keep orbiting insanity sometimes they almost break the obit then being pulled right back in with the insane leaders they follow.