A young Czech named David Kozak went on a shooting rampage at Charles University in Prague, killing fourteen people and wounding dozens more before killing himself. Mr. Kozak is reportedly thought to have also randomly murdered a father and his daughter in a forest last week.
In other news, a McDonald’s restaurant in Ohio was closed by health officials after a customer reported finding a crack pipe in a drive-through breakfast order.
Czechia: Prague Shooting: Everything We Know About the Shooter David Kozak and His Intentions
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Leading Economic Indicators Point to Looming Recession
A closely watched measure of forward-looking economic data fell again in November—a warning sign that the economy could slump next year.
The Conference Board said its Leading Economic Index (LEI) fell 0.5 percent last month, following a one percent decline in October.
The LEI declined by 3.5 percent over the six-month period between May and November 2023, a slower pace of contraction than recorded in the previous six months.
“The US LEI continued declining in November, with stock prices making virtually the only positive contribution to the index in the month,” said the Conference Board’s Justyna Zabinska-La Monica. “Housing and labor market indicators weakened in November, reflecting warning areas for the economy.”
The Conference Board said it expects a shallow recession in the first half of 2024.
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Third Quarter GDP Growth Revised Down to 4.9%
The economy grew at an annual pace of 4.9 percent in the third quarter, the U.S. government said Thursday in its third estimate of economic growth in the July through September period.
This was slower than the previous estimate of 5.2 percent growth but is still the fastest rate of expansion in a decade not counting the spring back from the pandemic lockdowns.
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UK Inflation Falls to Two-Year Low at 3.9%, But Central Bank 2% Target Still Distant
LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. as measured by the consumer prices index eased back to its lowest level in more than two years, official figures showed Wednesday, in a development that is likely to bolster speculation that the Bank of England may start cutting interest rates sooner than expected.
The Office for National Statistics said inflation dropped to 3.9% in the year to November, its lowest level since September 2021, from 4.6% the previous month. That decline was bigger than anticipated in financial markets.
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A retired Vanderbilt University professor and allegedly one of Harvard President Claudine Gay’s plagiarism victims has called for the immediate firing of the embattled higher education leader to “steer the university back towards sanity.”
“Fire Claudine Gay posthaste,” Dr. Carol Swain posted Thursday on X, as part of a social media post titled “some free unsolicited advice for Harvard University.”
“She can be relieved of duties until the terms are negotiated.”
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Another billionaire has slapped his checkbook shut to Harvard University.
Businessman Len Blavatnik and his family foundation have paused their millions of dollars in funding to the Ivy League as it stands behind President Claudine Gay despite accusations she stood by as students spewed antisemitic rhetoric on campus, according to a report.
The Harvard Business School alumnus will halt his funding until the university directly addresses what he sees as rampant antisemitism at the school, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators stormed a Christmas party held by Michigan Democrats to confront a lawmaker over his support for Israel — sparking a melee that left an elderly female partygoer hospitalized with two black eyes.
Around 20 to 30 demonstrators swarmed a Detroit bar Saturday night to interrupt the holiday party being thrown for around 200 people by the 13th Congressional District Democratic Party, according to Bridge Michigan.
The protesters from the Palestinian Youth Movement and Party for Socialism and Liberation were there to confront Rep. Shri Thanedar, who had renounced his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America over its support of a “hate-filled and antisemitic” Times Square rally.
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Breaking: Joe Biden Emailed Hunter Business Associate 54 Times in 2014
Newly released records from House Republicans have revealed that Joe Biden exchanged emails with a business associate of son Hunter Biden 54 times while he served as vice president.
According to NBC News, the records described the dates of the emails as well as who exchanged them, but do not reveal the content of the messages.
Then-Vice President Biden reportedly emailed Eric Schwerin five times before Biden took a trip to Ukraine on June 7, 2014, and 27 emails were sent between the end of June to November 21, 2014, when Biden traveled to Ukraine once again.
Most of the emails reportedly occurred leading up to and following Hunter Biden being named to Ukrainian energy company Burisma’s board.
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California Drunk Driver Pleads Guilty After Crashing Into Anti-Drunk Driving Sign
A woman has pleaded guilty in California to driving under the influence after she crashed into a sign warning motorists against drunk driving.
Clarissa Hernandez, 27, from Texas, had downed a pint of tequila minutes before getting behind the wheel of her Land Rover early Aug. 11 and plowing into an electronic signboard in Palm Springs that read, “Don’t Drink & Drive,” according to a police statement.
The impact of the crash shattered the sign, but cops said the situation could have been much worse because the sloshed driver had narrowly avoided colliding with a group of pedestrians leaving a nearby theater.
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Dem Attorney and Former Atlanta Police Officer Convicted in $7 Million COVID Relief Fraud Case
Shelitha Robertson, an attorney and former Atlanta police officer who once ran for office as a Democrat to become a superior court judge, was found guilty by a federal jury in Georgia on Tuesday of fraudulently obtaining over $7 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans.
According to prosecutors, Robertson used the money to buy a Rolls-Royce, a motorcycle, and even a $148,000 10-carat diamond ring, among other things. Robertson received PPP loans for her multiple companies even though only one was operational at the time, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Democrat Charged in Voter Fraud Scheme Over Dozens of Absentee Ballots
A Queens, New York, man was indicted this week for allegedly submitting 20 falsified absentee ballot applications for the Democratic primary in 2022, the county district attorney’s office announced.
“Every vote has to count. Election integrity is the foundation of a viable, working democracy. We will vigorously prosecute anyone who threatens in any way to undermine that integrity. To investigate and prosecute anyone for voter fraud takes time and resources I am willing to commit,” Queens County District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a press release.
The suspect was identified as 32-year-old Abdul Rahman of Queens’ Floral Park neighborhood, who could face up to seven years in prison if found guilty of 140 charges against him. Rahman is described by outlet the Gothamist as a man “active in Democrat and South Asian circles.”
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Enthusiasm Runs Low for Joe Biden in His Delaware Hometown
Enthusiasm is low for President Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign in his hometown of Scranton, Delaware, residents told the far-left Guardian publication on Thursday.
Low enthusiasm for Biden in his hometown depicts a microcosm of a growing problem nationwide. Polling numbers show Biden’s popularity is on a downward trajectory:
Fox News: 54 percent of Democrat primary voters prefer an alternative to Biden.
Pew Research: Biden’s approval rating sinks to just 33 percent, the lowest since he took office.
WSJ: Only 23 percent said the same for Biden’s policies.
NYT: Biden trails Donald Trump in approval rating among voters 18-29.
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Ex-Harrisburg International Airline Worker Threatens to ‘Shoot Police’ for Being Fired, Police Say
PERRY COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)— A former airline employee at Harrisburg International Airport is accused of making threats to his former boss about shooting police if he was fired, according to State Police in Newport.
Kenneth Bair, 56, of Marysville, said he was going to “shoot police” and it “was going to be seen on news media,” over the phone to to his boss at HIA Wednesday, the criminal complaint states.
State Police say they got a report from HIA Police that Bair made the threat just after 5:30 p.m. and were able to get his former boss’ contact information. During the interview with Bair’s ex-boss, Troopers say they learned that the two had a phone conversation regarding a recent arrest and suspension for Bair.
When asked about the seriousness of Bair’s threat, his ex-boss said that he took it seriously and that Bair was going to be terminated the next day at 10 a.m., his former boss told Troopers.
Bair faces a misdemeanor charge of making terroristic threats with the intent to terrorize another.
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Family of Autistic Jewish Teen Who Had Swastika Carved on His Back by Classmates Sues School
The family of an autistic Jewish high school student who had a swastika carved on his back in a cruel antisemitic attack by classmates is suing his Las Vegas school.
The abused teen and his mom, identified only as S.K. and C.K. in court papers, claim the Clark County School District not only failed to protect the 18-year-old, but dropped the ball on providing him a proper education.
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Federal Judge Blocks California Law That Would Have Banned Carrying Firearms in Most Public Places
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment of the US Constitution and deprives people of their ability to defend themselves and their loved ones.
The law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September was set to take effect Jan. 1.
It would have prohibited people from carrying concealed guns in 26 places including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks and zoos.
The ban would apply whether the person has a permit to carry a concealed weapon or not. One exception would be for privately owned businesses that put up signs saying people are allowed to bring guns on their premises.
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Fire Extinguisher-Wielding Thieves Ransack $250K Worth of Chanel in DC: Police
Six brazen cat burglars armed with a fire extinguisher ransacked a Chanel store in Washington, DC, Sunday, making off with $250,000 in merchandise, police said.
Shocking surveillance footage shows the group charging into the upscale retail store around 5:30 p.m. and grabbing as many handbags as they can stuff into their arms.
One of the robbers deployed the wildly spraying fire extinguisher to distract the employees, who were just 30 minutes short of shutting down the luxury store for the day.=
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‘Former President’ to be Exposed in Jeffery Epstein’s Client List Unsealing
A “former president” is about to be exposed when the courts finally unseal Jeffery Epstein’s “client list” in early January, a bombshell new report has just revealed.
As Slay News reported earlier, a federal judge ordered this week that documents related to Epstein’s sex trafficking cases must be made public with the names unredacted.
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered Epstein’s “client list” to be made public by unsealing dozens of documents related to the disgraced late financier.
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Gun ownership in California’s Jewish community is spiking as Jews take self-defense into their own hands while the war in Israel continues raging, according to a rabbi who trains the community on gun safety.
“Magen Am’s mission is to train and empower the community to deter and respond to security threats. We’re trying to give everybody the tool to be empowered to protect themselves,” Los Angeles-based Rabbi Yossi Eilfort said in a video produced by the NRA exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital.
Eilfort is an NRA instructor and founder of Magen Am USA, the only Jewish, nonprofit organization licensed on the West Coast to provide armed security services.
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Half of Buick Dealers Take Buyouts to Avoid Having to Sell GM’s Electric Cars
Almost half of Buick dealers across the United States have opted to take buyouts from General Motors (GM) to avoid having to sell Electric Vehicles (EVs) at a time when consumer reports show Americans are increasingly turned off by the cars.
According to GM, almost 1,000 of its nearly 2,000 Buick dealerships across the U.S. chose to take buyouts from the parent company rather than investing potentially millions into retooling and prepping dealers to service and sell EVs.
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Harvard University said it has found additional instances of insufficient citations by school president Claudine Gay — as a congressional committee announced it will investigate mounting allegations of plagiarism against her.
The Ivy League school said Wednesday that a recent review uncovered more “examples of duplicative language without appropriate attribution” in Gray’s 1997 doctoral dissertation, according to the Boston Globe, which obtained a summary of the report.
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by Daniel Greenfield
In December 2015, after a husband and wife pair of Islamic terrorists shot up a Christmas party in San Bernardino, Kamala Harris, then the Attorney General of California, convened a session on “Islamophobia” that included the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Muslim Student Association: all of which had defended Islamic terrorists.
With 130 dead in France and 13 murdered in her own state, Kamala gathered a group that included Islamic terror supporters to argue that even after “the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino”, it was wrong “to stoke fear and cast aspersions against an entire faith and the millions of law-abiding American Muslims”.
After the Islamic mass murders of over 1,000 Israelis, Kamala returned to pushing “Islamophobia”. In the speech that he delivered three days after the massacres, she urged Biden to include a line about “Islamophobia” because of the way that Muslims had supposedly ‘suffered’ from it after the Islamic terrorist attacks killed thousands on September 11.
Next month in November, she unveiled a push to fight “Islamophobia”, not antisemitism. It was Kamala who pressed Biden to be more open to Islamist groups and their complaints, driving him to profusely apologize for questioning the civilian casualty numbers coming out of Hamas.
And it was she who voiced the highest level criticisms of Israel’s war on Hamas…
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A celebrated liberal political scientist has warned the Democrats that they should “panic” over President Joe Biden’s historically poor polling.
David Faris, a political science professor at Roosevelt University, raised the alarm in an article for Slate this week.
Several polls published this month show Biden’s approval at record lows.
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Maryland High School Sees 10 Fights Break Out in One Day: ‘It’s Really Concerning’
Administrators at a Maryland high school are investigating after 10 fights broke out in one day.
The series of fights happened on Tuesday at Charles Herbert Flowers High School in Prince George’s County, school officials told FOX 5, but it’s not clear if anyone was injured.
Video on social media shows a large fight that broke out in the high school’s hallway as dozens of students watched.
In a letter to parents on Wednesday, administrators said that “a concerning series of multiple altercations” took place on Tuesday.
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McDonald’s Closes After Customer Says Crack Pipe Found in Breakfast Order
An Ohio McDonald’s was closed by health inspectors after a customer reported getting a crack pipe in a drive-thru breakfast order.
The anonymous customer initially posted on Reddit about the disturbing find in his Tuesday morning order at one of the fast food chain’s locations in Columbus.
He said he brought the bag back to the store, alerting a manager so that something similar wouldn’t “end up in a Happy Meal.”
However, he declined an offered refund and instead reported it to Franklin County Public Health, the post said.
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NH Man Accused of Threat to ‘Impale, ‘ Disembowel’ Presidential Candidate
A New Hampshire man indicted last week for allegedly texting death threats to Vivek Ramaswamy’s presidential campaign was formally charged Thursday with sending lurid warnings to two other White House contenders.
Tyler Anderson, 30, of Dover, now faces three counts of transmitting an interstate threat and could receive 15 years in prison if convicted on all charges, according to court documents.
Anderson was initially arrested Dec. 9 and charged with threatening graphic violence a day earlier in response to a Ramaswamy campaign message advertising an appearance in Portsmouth.
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Nolte: Blue States Lose Population, Red States Gain Population
Americans are again voting with their feet, which means the deep blue states of Illinois, California, and New York posted the top three population losses in 2023, while the red states of Texas, Florida, and North Carolina were the top three population gainers.
Yes, yes, I am well aware my current home state of North Carolina has a Democrat governor. However, Republicans control the State Senate and House. In fact, Republicans have a veto-proof supermajority in the House. Here in The NC, we are governed by the GOP.
When you compare 2022 state populations to 2023 state populations, New York posted a net population loss of 101,984 souls. California lost 75,423. Illinois lost 32,826.
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Republicans Threaten to Subpoena Jack Smith Over ‘Politically Motivated’ Attacks Against Trump
House Republicans are threatening to subpoena the Democrats’ anti-Trump Special Counsel Jack Smith, according to reports.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) are demanding records from Smith related to his “politically motivated” prosecutions of President Donald Trump.
On Thursday, Jordan and Biggs wrote a letter to Smith requesting various documents and communications concerning the prosecution of Trump and Smith’s staffing.
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday in the wake of a $148 million civil court ruling and a mountain of unpaid legal bills.
Giuliani, 79, estimates he currently owes $153 million — an amount that will likely balloon due to several other pending lawsuits and when millions of dollars in pending legal bills are factored in, according to the Manhattan federal court filing.
Once hailed as “America’s Mayor,” Giuliani indicated on the court document that he had debts of between $100 million and $500 million, with assets of up to $10 million.
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Special Counsel in Trump Case Unconstitutional, Former Reagan AG Says
Former Attorney General Ed Meese has presented arguments to the Supreme Court that they should reject Special Counsel Jack Smith’s requests because he was unconstitutionally appointed in the first place.
Meese, along with law professors Steven G. Calabresi and Gary S. Lawson, filed a friend-of-the-court brief Wednesday to present the case that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of Smith — a private citizen — is in violation of the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.
“Not clothed in the authority of the federal government, Smith is a modern example of the naked emperor,” the brief states.
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Democrat President Joe Biden-appointed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has just been hit with an ethics complaint.
Democrats and their corporate media allies have spent much of the year attempting to stir up ethics controversies and scandals involving the conservative justices of the Supreme Court.
The Left has been campaigning to discredit the conservatives on the SCOTUS in the public eye.
That game goes both ways, however.
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At Least 15 Dead, Several More Injured in Prague University Shooting
At least 15 people were shot dead by a gunman from a balcony on the faculty of arts at the University of Prague on Thursday, with the gunman reported by local media to have fallen from the roof.
A mass shooter has been “eliminated” and “here are several dead and dozens of injured” around the faculty of arts building at the University of Prague, Czech police said on Thursday. Czech newspaper Lidové Noviny reports the mayor of Prague Bohuslav Svoboda told their publication that the presumed shooter had fallen from the building and was now dead. Images circulated on social media show a man identified as the attacker holding a long fire arm with scope at the balcony rail near the roof of the building.
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Czechia: Background Checks, Gun Licensing, Fail to Prevent Prague Mass Shooting
Stringent gun controls proved futile when at least ten people were killed and upwards of 30 others hurt in Prague during a mass shooting Thursday.
France 24 reported the shooting occurred in a school located in Jan Palach Square.
Prague is the capital city of the Czech Republic, a country with stringent gun controls and no guaranteed right to firearm possession.
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Czechia: Prague Shooting: Everything We Know About the Shooter David Kozak and His Intentions
According to Czech media Idnes, the 24-year-old mand named David Kozak from Kladno in Czech Republic, first killed his father, then he went to school to continue his killing spree, causing the biggest massacre in the history of the Czech Republic.
David Kozak was a student at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague. Last year, he completed his bachelor’s degree in History — European Studies and even received an award for his final thesis this year.
“He was a quiet guy, an introvert. He didn’t talk much with us,” described one of the students who graduated with him, wishing to remain anonymous. Another classmate, who had previously attended Malostranské Gymnasium with him, said, “I vaguely remember him; he was a year above me, but always more of an inconspicuous person who didn’t talk much to anyone.”
Warning on Telegram
On Thursday afternoon, the police confirmed that David Kozak. was the writer of a channel on Telegram, created on December 9 under his name.
He added posts in Cyrillic script, writing that the profile would be his diary and that he wanted to commit a school shooting, possibly even suicide. The next day, he added that he was inspired by Alina Afanaskina. However, according to him, she did not kill enough people, which he intended to rectify.
He was referring to Russian schoolgirl Alina Afanaskinova, the perpetrator of a mass shooting at a school in Bryansk, where two people died and others were injured on December 7, before she committed suicide. In subsequent posts, the author referred to Afanaskinova, writing that she helped him a lot. According to the post, he always wanted to kill, stating that mass murders are more advantageous than serial ones.
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Wolfgang Große Entrup, the General Manager of the Association of the Chemical Industry, has expressed worry regarding supporters of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
In a contributed piece for Die Welt, he outlined the dangers stemming from elevated energy prices and the entanglements of excessive bureaucratic hurdles within Germany’s business sphere. However, his greater concern is articulated in terms of the AfD, characterizing it as an insidious menace that puts the nation at risk.
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Dutch Liberal-Globalist Party Advisor Says Wilders’ PVV Wants to Make Aid to Ukraine Controversial
On Thursday, the House of Representatives Committee on Defense will meet for the first time since the installation of the new House of Representatives. According to Isa Yusibov, an advisor to the liberal-globalist political party D66 Geert Wilders’ party wants to declare its support for Ukraine controversial.
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France Has ‘Plan B’ for 2024 Paris Olympics in Case of Terrorist Attacks, Says Macron
LE PECQ, France (AP) — The giant opening ceremony extravaganza that Paris is planning to hold on the River Seine to launch the Olympic Games could be moved if France is hit again in the run-up by extremist attacks, French President Emmanuel Macron said.
Macron’s comments in a television interview on Wednesday night were a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse into the deep layers of planning for the July 26 ceremony. Many details about the show remain shrouded in secrecy to preserve its hoped-for wow factor. The security, with tens of thousands of police and soldiers deployed, will be intense.
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Germany Seeks to Seize Hundreds of Millions in Frozen Russian Assets
Federal Public Prosecutor General of Germany Peter Frank wants to confiscate hundreds of millions of euros in Russian funds. According to Der Spiegel, his office has submitted a corresponding application to the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court.
Now, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Karlsruhe is planning to return more than €720 million in frozen funds to the state coffers. These had been parked by a subsidiary of the Moscow Stock Exchange at the German subsidiary of the major U.S. bank J.P. Morgan.
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Germany: Majority Opposes Cuts to Farmers’ Tax Benefits
A clear majority of Germans advocate maintaining tax privileges for farmers. The Ampel government is planning to make savings by eliminating benefits for agricultural diesel and vehicle taxes for farmers. These plans face significant resistance from both farmers and the general population.
Farmers’ association president Joachim Rukwied announced massive protests if the Ampel government does not retract its austerity measures. The plans entail introducing vehicle taxes for vehicles in agriculture and forestry, and ending the tax benefits for agricultural diesel, resulting in savings of approximately 925 million euros.
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Hungarian Government Launches Career Support Program: Retirees to Mentor Young Professionals
The Hungarian government is set to introduce a new employment initiative focused on supporting individuals starting their careers.
As reported by About Hungary, under this program, retiring workers will have the opportunity to continue working and share their wealth of experience with younger colleagues. Sandor Czomba, the state secretary for employment policy, announced on Tuesday that the project is scheduled to commence in January and has a budget of 2.6 billion forints (EUR 6.8m).
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Italian Lawmakers Reject EU Bailout Fund Ratification, Deepening Populist Divide
Italy’s parliament dealt a blow to the European Union as lawmakers, including members of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy party and the coalition partner, the League, rejected the ratification of reforms to the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).
The center-right Forza Italia, a junior coalition partner, abstained from the vote, leading to a rejection of ratification by 184 votes to 72 in the lower house.
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Lithuania to Present Conscription Reform
On Thursday, Lithuania’s Minister of Defense, Arvydas Anusauskas, will introduce a conscription reform in the country’s Seimas, as reported by LRT.
According to the new model, the conscription age will be set between 18 and 21 years, replacing the current range of 18 to 23 years. Enrollment in higher education institutions will no longer be considered a reason for exemption from military service.
Students at higher education institutions will be required to undergo service either in junior officer training courses or as part of the Volunteer Forces of national defense, combining it with their studies. They may also temporarily suspend their education to fulfill military service in the regular mode.
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Orban Criticizes Ukraine’s Move to Block Poroshenko Meeting
As reported by Reuters, Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, voiced criticism towards Ukraine’s recent move to block former president Petro Poroshenko from leaving the country to meet with him. This action, as Orban highlighted during a briefing, raises doubts about Kyiv’s aspirations to join the European Union.
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Orban Claims the EC Has No Grounds to Deprive Hungary of Voting Rights Under Article 7
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated today in a press conference that the European Commission (EC) has not been provided with any grounds to initiate the procedure for depriving Hungary of its voting rights under Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union. Orban asserts that the European Commission has affirmed the correctness of Hungary’s legal system.
Earlier, some officials within the EU were considering the possibility of resuming the procedure to penalize Hungary under Article 7 for alleged violations of the rule of law. According to the Financial Times, this initiative might be linked to an attempt to exert pressure on Hungary regarding financial assistance for Ukraine.
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PM Orban Accuses European Commission of Blackmail
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban asserted on Thursday that the European Commission is engaging in blackmail tactics by withholding frozen funds, amounting to billions, over concerns related to the rule of law.
Orban openly acknowledged the alleged blackmail, emphasizing that even members of the European Parliament have acknowledged it as a factual situation, the Hungarian press reported.
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Polish President Accuses Tusk’s State Media Reforms of ‘Anarchy’
Amidst escalating tensions between President Andrzej Duda and the newly appointed government led by Donald Tusk, the Polish president denounced the state media overhaul as “anarchy” on Thursday.
Tusk’s administration, which assumed office earlier this month, has initiated reforms targeting state media. These include the removal of a public news channel from the air and the dismissal of executives, aiming to restore impartiality.
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Portugal: 40% of Monthly Budget Now Allocated to Accommodation
Recent data from the National Statistics Institute, as reported by Jornal de Noticias, indicates that the average Portuguese citizen now allocates 40% of their monthly budget towards housing expenses.
As reported by Portugal News, this figure has witnessed a remarkable doubling since the turn of the century, with the year 2000 seeing housing costs account for a mere 19.8% of family expenditures.
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Prague Shooting Latest: Charles University Gunman Linked to Forest Murders Last Week
Student also killed own father before attack that left people huddling on outdoors ledge in fear of lives
A gunman in Prague who killed 14 people and injured more than 20 others is suspected of having also murdered two people in a forest last week.
Police chiefs said the 24-year-old, a student at Charles University where he opened fire, legally owned weapons and had killed his own father earlier in the day.
As the shooting began, crowds of people fled the scene, and eight students perched on a ledge high up outdoors, hiding in terror.
A witness reported seeing the killer on a balcony and shooting towards a bridge. The area, of Jan Palach Square, is close to the old town, particularly popular with visitors at Christmas.
The killer also died, but it is not clear whether he shot himself or was shot dead by officers.
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Protests by Farmers Continue in Germany: Entrances to Highways Blocked
Farmers in three federal states of Germany have resumed protest actions, demonstrating against the government’s intentions to reduce subsidies and benefits, reports Spiegel.
On the morning of December 21, farmers with their tractors, started to block exits to national highways at numerous locations. In the area around the city of Herlik, 10 highway exits were blocked alone.
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Russian Spies Who Planned to Destroy Army Trains Convicted in Poland
14 Russian spies including alleged ‘Ukrainian refugees’ have been sentenced in Poland over a plot to spy on and sabotage infrastructure carrying weapons and aid to Ukraine including an airport, railway, and sea port.
Poland has dismantled a Russian spy ring which the court found received instructions from its handlers in Russia through an encrypted messaging app and was paid on a per-job basis by cryptocurrency transfer. National newspaper Rzeczpospolita reports from the Lublin court that payments ranged from $5 for posting a propaganda leaflet, to $400 for installing a surveillance camera, and up to $10,000 for derailing a train.
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Spanish Police Arrest Over a Dozen Would-be Jihadists
After months of investigation and surveillance, Spanish police made 13 arrests this week in one of the largest anti-terror operations in recent years.
On Tuesday, Spanish National Police, working with their Moroccan counterparts, dismantled a terror recruitment cell by arresting nine in the North African exclave of Melilla and another person in the city of Nador, just across the Moroccan border, El Mundo reports.
The General Directorate for the Surveillance of Moroccan Territory (DGSN) said that the suspects were attempting to recruit new jihadists. Among those arrested was one suspect who is believed to be a member of a terrorist group operating in the African Sahel region.
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Survey Reveals Limited Willingness to Fight for Country Among Germans and Poles
Startling findings from recent surveys indicate that only one in six citizens in both Poland and Germany is prepared to defend their country in the face of a military threat.
In Germany, with a population of 84.4 million, a mere 17% of respondents expressed a willingness to defend the nation in the event of a military attack, according to reports from Stern. An additional 19% stated they are “likely” ready to do so, while a significant majority of 61% indicated they are either “likely” or “under no circumstances” prepared to defend their country.
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UK: Hushed Investigation Into Tory MP an “Offence Against Natural Justice”
A row has emerged following the news of an investigation into Tory MP Miriam Cates. Cates is one of her party’s few openly Christian and more conservative representatives and is the co-founder of the ‘rightist’ New Conservatives group of backbenchers.
A brief notice on the website for Parliament’s standards commissioner Daniel Greenberg said late last week that Cates is being investigated for “actions causing significant damage to the reputation of the House as a whole, or of its Members generally.” It gave no further details of the case, leaving voters guessing what the MP is accused of doing.
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IDF Destroys Hamas Tunnel in Palestine Square Where Leaders Hid During Oct. 7 Attack
The IDF blew up an extensive Hamas tunnel system hidden beneath Gaza’s Palestine Square where terrorist leaders hid during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel — as officials said the ground offensive in the north is nearing an end.
The Israeli military released video Thursday of a huge series of explosions demolishing the tunnels in the upscale Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City that once housed Hamas’ upper echelons.
Col. Benny Aharon, who gave a tour to reporters two days before the demolition, said the homes and offices of Hamas’ top Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar and military chief Muhammad Deif were linked to the tunnel network, The Times of Israel reports.
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IDF: Israel Has Killed 8,000 Hamas Terrorists Since Start of War
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that it has killed 8,000 Hamas members since the terrorist group launched the war on October 7, and that is has killed 2,000 in the past three weeks alone, since Hamas broke a week-long truce with Israel.
IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in his evening briefing (IDF translation from Hebrew):
Our forces continue to intensify ground operations in northern and southern Gaza. Since the end of the operational pause on ground operations in Gaza, our forces have eliminated over 2,000 terrorists from the air, sea, and land. We have increased the number of soldiers fighting in eastern Khan Yunis and are operating there determinedly with five infantry brigades and combat engineering forces, focusing on underground combat to drive out the terrorists, fight them as they emerge, and drain this space of Hamas terrorism.
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EU Pays Out Last Billion-Dollar Loan to Ukraine for 2023
The EU has declared the release of an additional financial assistance loan for Ukraine. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen revealed on Thursday that this involves the final installment of 1.5 billion euros from a comprehensive 18 billion euros support program for 2023, which was collectively agreed upon by EU member states in December of the previous year.
The fate of financial aid for the country, under attack by Russia, remains uncertain for the upcoming year. Originally, a new aid program amounting to 50 billion euros for the next four years was anticipated to be approved at the EU summit held at the conclusion of the previous week, according to reports.
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Kyiv Hit Early Friday in Russian Drone Attack
The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv was attacked by a barrage of Russian drones early Friday morning, officials said, injuring at least two people, in the sixth drone attack on the city this month.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko and other officials reported strikes on separate residential districts.
The mayor added that a drone had hit a block of apartments in the Solomyanskyi district, causing a fire.
“The upper floors are in flames. Emergency crews are on site,” Klitschko said.
Apartment buildings were also damaged in other parts of the city.
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Poland Seeks to Reclaim Lost WWII Territory From Ukraine, Putin Claims
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Poland of aspiring to regain territories lost after World War II.
In his latest claims, Putin alleged that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western powers sought to dismember the newly formed Russian Federation. He asserted that this idea was openly discussed at the time.
“Russia itself, as we know, was planned to be divided into parts… into five parts… They did not hide it. Everything was discussed openly,” Putin stated during an extended session of the Russian Ministry of Defense’s collegium.
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Ukraine Votes to Legalise Marijuana to ‘Help Ease Stress From the War With Russia’
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s parliament voted Tuesday to legalize medical marijuana, after the war with Russia left thousands of people with post-traumatic stress disorder that many believe could be eased by the drug.
The new law, which will come into effect in six months’ time and which also allows cannabis to be used for scientific and industrial ends, passed by 248 votes in the 401-seat parliament in Kyiv. A full breakdown of the vote wasn’t immediately available. The law was proposed by Prime Minister Denys Smyhal.
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Ukraine Needs €34 Billion to Stay Afloat in 2024, According to the IMF
Ukraine needs $37.3 billion (more than €34 billion) in aid next year to maintain financial stability, according to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimate published Wednesday by the Ukrainian Finance Ministry.
The “timely” arrival of financial aid offered to Ukraine by international partners is “vital” to keep the country’s economy afloat while Russian military aggression continues, Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said. Ukraine ends 2023 in a state of uncertainty over the financial aid promised by the U.S. and EU. In the U.S., a new $61.4 billion financial aid package for Ukraine, which Democratic President Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve, is still blocked by Republicans, who are asking Democrats to increase measures against illegal migration in return, according to Hungarian publication Ziare.
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Ukraine Seeks to Unblock Border With Poland, Considers Rerouting Transport
Ukraine is considering the rerouting of freight traffic to circumvent border blockades by Polish truckers, the country’s Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov has announced.
The Kyiv government official declared the ongoing protests by Polish haulers unacceptable and has insisted on their complete removal, but hinted at alternative logistic routes in the meantime.
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Ukraine ‘Scales Back’ Military Operations, Blames Lack of Foreign Aid
Ukraine has blamed a “shortfall in foreign assistance” as it suffers a shortage of munitions, forcing it to make operations “smaller” in its Western-backed war against the Russian occupation.
General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi cited shell starvation “across the entire front line” — what he called a “very big problem” — and what Reuters paraphrased as “the drop in foreign military aid” as being major factors in the reduced combat readiness of Ukrainian troops. Speaking to the wire service in interview, the Ukrainian military leader said the volumes of artillery “are not sufficient for us today, given our needs”, so ammunition was having to be redistributed.
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Zelensky Says 500,000 Ukrainians May be Mobilized for War, Calls for Meeting With PM Orban
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered his annual state-of-the-nation speech yesterday, where he called for his country to raise up to 500,000 more men for the armed forces to fight against Russia.
“First of all, this is a fair question of our commanders-in-chief, the General Staff. They addressed the issue of mobilization. I think the issue is very sensitive, but they asked about the protection of our state and potential counteroffensive actions, about the deficit. And they offered to mobilize an additional 450,000-500,000 people,” said Zelensky.
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A veteran fisherman claims he found a large piece of missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 off the coast of South Australia before being ignored by authorities.
The plane disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, with no sign of the missing wreckage despite the most expensive ocean search in history.
Retired Australian fisherman Kit Olver has come forward with claims that he discovered what he believes is a wing of the commercial liner when his deep-sea trawler pulled it up in September or October of 2014, just months after the flight disappeared.
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Coles Shoppers Lash Out at Supermarket Giant Over ‘Prison-Like’ Security Gates: ‘It’s Triggering’
Shoppers have been left furious by security gates installed by Coles across it’s stores and have slammed the new security measure which they feel is ‘triggering.’
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A Jewish man has endured a horrifying flight after he was allegedly abused by a pro-Palestine supporter sparking a confronting ordeal on board the flight.
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This week saw a surge in citizen journalist reports on social media platform X, detailing how ‘migrants’ from the southern border are being jetted around the country through US airports.
On Tuesday, a post from X user Ashley St. Clair sparked the first major concern that perhaps the government and or non-government organizations were flying migrants from processing centers to Delta Airline planes at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and then across the nation.
However, Community Notes responded: “There is absolutely no evidence of the people at the gate being “migrants”“.
Entire flight full of migrants being shipped from processing centers on @Delta
Are taxpayer dollars paying for this???? pic.twitter.com/jMwBGfIJfq
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) December 19, 2023
Nevertheless, X user Tony Ortiz claimed, “I have noticed a large amount of migrants being shipped from” Phoenix Airport “to different parts of the country. These Guinea migrants were headed to New York via Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona.”
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Austria Leads EU in Asylum Requests Per Capita in September
In September of this year, Austria led the EU list with the highest number of asylum applications per capita, followed by Cyprus. The total number of first-time applications in the EU amounted to 98,240, which is less than the population of Klagenfurt, as reported by Kronen Zeitung.
The majority of applications came from Germany, Spain, France and Italy, which together accounted for 67 percent of the requests. The primary applicants were Syrians, followed by individuals from Turkey, Afghanistan, Venezuela and Colombia.
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Border crossers claiming asylum are being given court dates to have their cases heard nearly a decade out. At the same time, the nation’s immigration court backlog has now topped three million under President Joe Biden.
As hundreds of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens — most with invalid asylum claims — flock to the United States-Mexico border in the hopes of being released into American communities, many are receiving check-in and hearing dates well into the future.
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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., continued to distance himself from the far-left wing of his party, telling the New York Times he no longer considers himself a “progressive.”
The freshman U.S. Senator has angered progressives with his outspoken support for Israel and a secure border in the past few months. The Democrat said he’s not interested in his party’s “bizarre” purity tests.
“It’s just a place where I’m not,” he told the Times. “I don’t feel like I’ve left the label; it’s just more that it’s left me.”
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A deputy mayor in France who labeled the government’s proposed immigration bill “shameful” and “disgusting” was hospitalized on Wednesday evening after being brutally attacked by a gang of North African men just meters from her own front door.
Oriane Filhol, the deputy mayor to Mathieu Hanotin of the Socialist Party (PS) in Saint-Denis, was returning home from a work meeting when she was assaulted by several men on the driveway to her home at around 9.30 p.m.
The elected official, who is in charge of solidarity, women’s rights, and fighting against discrimination in her constituency, was “hit violently in the face and body with punches,” indicated a police source to Le Parisien newspaper.
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New Year celebrations across Berlin last year descended into chaos as emergency service vehicles were torched, shots were fired at police, and hooded men hurled fireworks at firefighters attempting to extinguish infernos in apartment buildings and trash cans on the streets.
In total, police reported 3,943 incidents across the German capital on Dec. 31 resulting in injuries to 15 firefighters and 47 police officers.
A total of 145 arrests were made, of which just 45 suspects held German citizenship — some of whom could be migrants with dual nationality, a tactic often used in the reporting of crime stats across Germany to play down the disproportionate nature of migrant crime.
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German Police Raid Church Facility With Battering Ram and Chainsaw to Deport 2 Afghan Migrants
Police in the city of Schwerin entered a church with a battering ram on Wednesday to detain two Afghan men and deport them to Spain; however, the police operation went awry when the mother threatened violence against herself and her family.
German churches have blocked thousands of deportations by offering “church asylum” to migrants, which police and the state informally recognize, but which lacks formal legal codification.
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Illegal Border Crossers Spreading Word to Rest of World: The US is Letting Everyone in
by Border Hawk
Millions of illegal aliens are pouring into the United States and using social media to signal to the rest of the world that the southern border is open to virtually all who can reach it.
Border Hawk correspondent Efrain Gonzalez interviewed migrants in Mexico who all indicated that they expected to cross illegally into the U.S., claim asylum, and be released to start their new lives in the Land of Opportunity.
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Increase in Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands
The Netherlands has seen a significant rise in underage asylum seekers arriving alone in 2023, surpassing 5,400 applications by November. This marks a 29% increase from the previous year and a considerable surge compared to 2022 and 2021, as reported by NOS.
According to NL Times unaccompanied minors now make up 16% of the total asylum applications, a sharp climb from 9% in 2015. Research conducted by the WODC institute, presented to the Dutch parliament, sheds light on the motivations behind these young asylum seekers.
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Less Than Half of Ukrainian Refugees Have Completed Integration Courses in Germany
Less than half of Ukrainians who were granted the right to undergo integration courses in Germany have completed them, According to Bild, citing a report from the German Federal Audit Office, According to Bild, citing a report from the German Federal Audit Office.
It was revealed that since February 2022, nearly 450,000 Ukrainians were granted the right to take integration courses in Germany. However, by mid-year, only 194,000 of them or less than half, had completed the courses.
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Reduced Migration: Cyprus Leads in EU for Repatriation and Arrival Decline
Cyprus’ Interior Minister declared their country’s leadership in the EU by repatriating more rejected asylum seekers than those arriving, a first among EU nations. As reported by AP News, with over 11,000 repatriations this year, double the count of 2022, Cyprus ranks 4th in absolute repatriation numbers. Notably, about two-thirds were voluntary returns.
However, the EU’s recent migration control rules, though beneficial, fall short of Cyprus’ push for mandatory relocation from strained front-line states. Instead, members refusing migrants must now pay 20,000 euros ($22,000) to the front-line country for each individual declined.
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Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asserted Thursday that new lawsuits against a fledgling state law allowing law enforcement to arrest individuals suspected of entering Texas illegally will stand up in court or at least in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Patrick further confirmed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has begun flying illegal migrants into Chicago because Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson enacted a policy impounding migrant buses.
He also reamed out the Biden administration for its continued inaction and what he called fallacies coming from Biden spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre — who called Texas’ new law “extreme” and “dehumaniz[ing].”
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Austrian Archbishop Says Catholic Priests Cannot Refuse Blessing to Gay Couples
ROME — The President of the Austrian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has declared that priests may not refuse to bless gay couples, just two days after the Vatican permitted the practice for the first time.
Salzburg Archbishop Franz Lackner said Monday evening in an interview with Austrian television that at this point priests have no excuse for refusing a blessing to a gay couple that asks for it.
When asked how a priest should react when a same-sex couple requests a blessing, the 67-year-old archbishop said: “Basically, you can no longer say no.”
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Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, reversed a recent decision to allow biological males to attend the university if they have a history of identifying as a woman.
Last month, President Katie Conboy told the faculty about the policy change in an email obtained by Fox News Digital.
“Saint Mary’s will consider undergraduate applicants whose sex assigned at birth is female or who consistently live and identify as women,” Conboy emailed.
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Germany: Bavarian State Buildings Can Display Crosses
A German court on Tuesday, December 19th, dismissed a lawsuit against the Kreuzerlaß (Cross Decree) that requires the display of Christian crosses in public institutions throughout the predominantly Catholic state of Bavaria.
The decree, signed in 2018 by the Free State of Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder (CSU), stipulates:
A cross must be clearly visible at the entrance area of every service building as an expression of the historical and cultural identity of Bavaria.
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A police officer was called to a Massachusetts middle school after receiving an anonymous complaint that a commonly banned book on gender expression was being read inside an eighth-grade classroom.
A plain-clothed officer, equipped with a body camera, was deployed to W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School in Great Barrington on Dec. 8 to search for the highly controversial book: “Gender Queer”.
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Satanic Statue Erected in Front of Michigan Capitol, Democrat Staffer Poses With it, Calls it ‘Sexy’
The Satanic Temple erected a statue of Satan in front of the Michigan Capitol earlier this week which has sparked outrage among Christians who oppose Satan and all his works.
Seven Republican state legislators signed a letter demanding the statue’s removal but a Democrat staffer took a picture with the Satanic idol, praising it as “sexy.”
Samantha Skorka, the Michigan Democrat staffer, uploaded a photo to X of her kissing the “sexy” Satanic idol. However, Skorka has since deleted her post and claimed that her comments were just a joke.
“In the name of Satan, I claim the sexy satanic baphomet goat altar at OUR Michigan Capitol. Amen,” said Skorka.
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WEF’s ‘Net Zero’ Goals Will Kill ‘4+ Billion People,’ Experts Warn
Leading experts have spoken out to warn the public that the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” goal to eliminate fossil fuels will result in the deaths of over four billion people.
As Slay News has reported, the WEF and its fellow unelected globalist organization, the United Nations (UN), are pushing for governments around the world to “phase out” fossil fuels.
The “Net Zero” target to end fossil fuel use is part of the WEF and UN’s “Agenda 2030” and “Agenda 2050” plans for humanity.
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As for the tragedy in Prague, the domestic terrorist also killed his father prior to the mass shooting and the police was already looking for him, they even evacuated a different building of the same faculty – unfortunately, he didn’t pick that one (or maybe he saw it was being evacuated and went to a differejt one, but that’s just my speculation.
The “daughter” shot in the Klanovice forest was a toddler.
I’d like to add a rational thought among this tragedy: it’s a given this case is going to be abused as a reason to change our gun laws. It’s not easy to get a gun in Czechia! You have to undergo thorough training and a psychological evaluation, then you have to proof you know how to handle a gun and understand the laws in front of a commitee. I find this system pretty good, although he shooter had this licence. According to the news as of now, the shooter carried a machine gun (but maybe the media just think every long arm is a machine gun). A citizen cannot legally purchase this kind of gun over here. So, unless this was a different kind of gun, this case prooves a bad guy will somehow get a gun anyway, so good guys need to be allowed to carry.
Czech law recognizes a right to own arms, but also imposes all the restrictions which any American gun controller would want, including licencing gun owners, registering guns, police and medical checks, and written examinations. This man passed all of these hurdles. He was evil.
The guy had some very special looking gun. I would love to hear some expert opinion about it.
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“The guy had some very special looking gun. I would love to hear some expert opinion about it.”
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I haven’t seen any official statements yet, but, based on the photos I’ve seen, it looks like a scoped ZEV-30 rifle (sans butt-stock, which may’ve been broken/knocked-off during the melee) chambered in the NATO-standard 5.56 round (I’m a firearm instructor).
This New York Post article agrees with you, says it’s a ZEV-30.
Thank you very much!
Very best wishes for Chistmas and the New Year, to all here and their loved ones.
Re the Czech university massacre which took place – “France 24 reported the shooting occurred in a school located in Jan Palach Square.”
Jan Palach set himself on fire in the middle of the main square in Prague back in the 1969 in a protest against the Soviet re invasion of 1968. Or as pathetic Wikipedia puts it: by the Warsaw Pact armies.