A security guard at Macy’s department store in Philadelphia was stabbed to death by a man who had allegedly been shoplifting hats. After being thrown out of the store, he returned with a knife. He has been arrested, but his name has not yet been released.
In other news, Denmark has deployed army troops to defend synagogues in Copenhagen.
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Video of a middle school bully beating up a smaller girl went viral on TikTok. The incident took place outside the Mark Twain Intermediate School for the Gifted and Talented in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, and is now reportedly under police investigation.
Other students recorded the attack on their cell phones. Video showed the attacker going up to the 11-year-old girl then punching her repeatedly, even after she fell to the ground. Other students can be seen walking by and not intervening.
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FIRST ON FOX: Seventeen governors are calling on federal leaders, including President Biden, to prevent foreign adversaries like China from buying U.S. land, Fox News Digital has learned.
Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leading a letter, with 16 of her fellow GOP governors, to Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and congressional leaders in both chambers to tackle the growing issue of China buying American land, including farmland.
“Numerous governors and state legislatures have taken action to protect our citizens from the imminent national security threat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),” the governors wrote.
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Antisemitic Mob Descends on Israeli-Owned Restaurant in Philadelphia
An antisemitic mob of pro-Palestinian protesters descended on an Israeli-owned falafel restaurant in Philadelphia while reportedly shouting a litany of hateful chants on Sunday night.
“An antisemitic mob has descended on Michael Solomonov’s falafel restaurant in Philadelphia. They demand a boycott of Jewish goods. Michael Solomonov is a James Beard Award-winning chef. He makes some of the best hummus outside Israel, as well as outstanding lamb and other dishes,” announced commentator David Frum as he shared video of the chant.
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At Least Four Dead, Two Officers Injured in NYC Mass Stabbing
At least four people were killed, and two officers were injured, in a mass stabbing Sunday at a home in New York City, according to reports.
The New York Post reported five dead and ABC 7 noted at least four dead.
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Billionaire Harvard Alum Accuses University of Discriminating Against White Males, Conservatives
Billionaire and Harvard graduate Bill Ackman called out his alma-mater for having “discriminatory practices” against White males, Asians, and conservatives in a scathing open letter posted to social media on Sunday.
Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, previously penned a letter to Harvard President Claudine Gay, demanding she crack down on antisemitism on campus that rose in the wake of the Hamas’ terror attacks on Israel.
Ackman noted the university was now under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education over its alleged antisemitism problem, and said that senior faculty on campus revealed to him antisemitism was just one of the ways the elite university practices racial and viewpoint discrimination.
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Bitchute Launches Rants and Raves, an Anonymous, Ephemeral, Real-Time Chat Feature
BitChute, a platform championing free speech in video sharing has introduced new features called “Rants and Raves.” This feature is unique in its ability to provide a safe space for user expression.
Accessible on all BitChute channels, it opens a door for the platform’s extensive user base, numbering in the tens of millions monthly, to engage in candid, unmoderated discussions, all the while maintaining their anonymity and upholding free speech principles.
Ray Vahey, BitChute’s co-founder and CEO, emphasized the platform’s commitment to free speech, stating, “As the industry’s only true free speech platform, we are always challenging ourselves to create innovations for users to enjoy and that further the importance and our mission of free speech. Rants and Raves does just that and is designed in a way that we believe people will enjoy using it. We are the only ones providing a private conversation in a public sphere.”
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Breaking: Owen Shroyer Granted Early Release From Prison on J6 Charges
Jailed journalist Owen Shroyer is set to be released from prison on December 8. He was sentenced to serve 60 days for charges stemming from his presence and remarks outside the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. He reported to prison on October 24. He has spent the majority of his time in solitary confinement.
With Shroyer’s release set for December 8, he will have been in prison for 45 days. Over 30 of those days were spent in solitary confinement.
Shroyer was first placed in solitary confinement upon his arrival at FCI Oakdale prison for five days as part of the facility’s Covid protocols.
Just days later, Shroyer was once again thrown in solitary confinement after he placed a call with a friend to post on his X account, thanking his supporters for sending him letters. This stint reportedly lasted around 30 days.
Shroyer was sentenced to 60 days in prison in response to being on Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021. He did not enter the building, but prosecutors said to he violated a previous deferred prosecution agreement that forbade the journalist from using “loud, threatening, or abusive language, or to engage in any disorderly or disruptive conduct, at any place upon the United States Capitol Grounds.”
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Fans of pop princess Britney Spears believe she may be afflicted with akathisia, a disorder that makes it impossible to sit still as a side effect of psychiatric medications that she was made to take.
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Congress Aims to Hold Vote to Initiate Biden Impeachment Inquiry
House Republican leaders hope to hold a formal vote next week on a measure that would formally initiate an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, Fox News has learned.
The revelation that Congress may soon consider the impeachment of the president comes shortly after House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., released subpoenaed bank records showing an entity owned by Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, had made “direct monthly payments to Joe Biden.”
“This wasn’t a payment from Hunter Biden’s personal account but an account for his corporation that received payments from China and other shady corners of the world,” Comer said in a video message Monday.
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DC Police Urge Canada Goose Wearers to Keep AirTags in Pockets Due to Thefts
Police in Washington, DC have urged anyone wearing a Canada Goose jacket to slip an Apple AirTag into their pocket amid an increase in thefts of the luxury garments.
Via the coin-sized device, victims would be able to track their jackets in the event that they are stolen.
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Faces of Muslim ‘Abandon Biden’ Movement Accused of Wife Beating, Hamas Links
WASHINGTON — A campaign calling on Muslim-Americans to oppose President Biden’s re-election bid over his support for Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip includes men accused of spousal abuse and ties to the Hamas terror group, as well as one advocate of whipping as a form of punishment, The Post has learned.
The leaders of the “Abandon Biden” movement piled onto a Hampton Inn stage Saturday in Dearborn, Mich., to slam the 81-year-old commander-in-chief for not forcing Israel to halt its incursion in response to the murders of 1,200 people — including 33 Americans — Oct. 7.
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Far-left activist organization Code Pink, who has a history of criticizing Israel while supporting Iran and Hamas, is under investigation by House Republicans, who are attempting to find out if its leaders are working with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to push propaganda.
According to the Daily Mail, the anti-war feminist organization, which was founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, has denied taking money from Beijing, calling the accusation “ludicrous.”
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FBI Interviewed Priest, Church Choir Director Ahead of Anti-Catholic Memo, House GOP Finds
FIRST ON FOX: The FBI interviewed a priest and a church choir director as part of its investigation into traditional Catholics, a House Weaponization Committee report obtained by Fox News Digital revealed, while determining that subpoenaed documents show that there “was no legitimate basis for the memorandum to insert federal law enforcement into Catholic houses of worship.”
The House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have been investigating the FBI’s categorization of certain Catholic Americans as potential domestic terrorists after an FBI Richmond internal memo, titled “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.”
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Glenn Youngkin Blasts Virginia Arts Event Canceling Hanukkah Celebration: ‘Absurd and Antisemitic’
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin did not mince words at the news of an Old Dominion town’s art and music festival canceling a Hanukkah menorah lighting.
On Sunday, LoveLight Placemaking, the nonprofit that runs Williamsburg, Virginia’s 2nd Sundays Art and Music Festival, canceled a scheduled menorah lighting featuring a local rabbi, citing Israel’s war against the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.
“Singling out the Jewish community by canceling this Hanukkah celebration is absurd and antisemitic,” Youngkin tweeted on Monday.
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Hillary Clinton Claims “Extreme Heat” Has Killed Half a Billion People
Hillary Clinton told the Cop28 conference that “extreme heat” has killed half a billion people, most of them women and girls, but failed to cite any actual source.
“We’re seeing and beginning to pay attention and to count and record the deaths that are related to climate and by far the biggest killer is “extreme heat.”
The two time failed presidential candidate went on to claim that “extreme heat” had killed 61,000 people in Europe last summer.
“We don’t have that kind of number yet from Africa, Asia, Latin America but we know and estimate that we probably could measure about 500,000 deaths and the majority of those are women and girls and particularly pregnant women,” she added.
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House Republicans Warn Jack Smith’s ‘Days Are Numbered’
House Republicans have issued a warning to Democrat President Joe Biden that his anti-Trump special counsel Jack Smith’s “days are numbered.”
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) said as much during a recent appearance on Newsmax’s “The Chris Salcedo Show.”
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Illinois Schools’ Segregated Classes Blasted as ‘Unconstitutional’
Civil rights attorneys have called out a Chicago-area school district’s program to racially segregate English and math classes to boost minority students’ scores, saying it is “unconstitutional.”
“There is no way that could possibly pass legal muster if someone sued,” legal expert David Bernstein told the Washington Free Beacon of Evanston Township High School’s two programs to offer separate Algebra 2, pre-calculus, Advanced Placement Calculus and English seminars for Black and Latino students.
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In what we’re sure will be a blow to the bottom lines at Uber Technologies Inc., DoorDash Inc. and Grubhub Inc., all three companies now have to pay New York food delivery workers at least $17.96 an hour.
The new rule comes as a result of the companies failing to win their case on appeal to block the minimum pay rule for their workers, Bloomberg reported last week.
An appellate court in the state, on Thursday, upheld a previous ruling from September by a judge, despite attempts by the companies to overturn it. The decision had been on hold pending the court’s ruling and, as a result, delivery services are now mandated to pay their couriers either a standard hourly wage or an alternative payment of approximately 50 cents per minute per delivery.
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John Kerry Vows to ‘Accelerate Unabated Coal Phaseout Across the World’
Democrat President Joe Biden’s unelected and unregulated “climate czar” John Kerry has vowed to “accelerate unabated coal phaseout” in every nation around the world.
Kerry, Biden’s “Special Envoy for Climate,” made the pledge on Saturday.
He declared that he plans to halt the building of coal power plants and shut down existing ones in America and “across the world” to fight “climate change.”
The former secretary of state insists that eliminating fossil fuels is key to complying with the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” goals.
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Judge Halts the Incarceration of Meme Artist Douglass Mackey
In a decision that shows some consideration of free speech rights, a federal appellate court has halted the 7-month incarceration of Douglass Mackey. Mackey became the focus of legal proceedings after sharing a satirical meme during the presidential run-up in 2016 that suggested Hillary Clinton supporters could place their votes through text messages.
The stay of his sentence was signed by Judge Omar Williams of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut as per an official Motion Order.
The Motion Order outlined the following critical steps: Mackey will formally surrender, and the District Court will then set the guidelines for his release. Any future detention petitions can be made without prejudice against Mackey by the government.
The court-ordered acceleration of Mackey’s appeal will culminate in its hearing as soon as possible post-February 20, 2024, following all due submissions by Mackey and the government counsel.
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Judge Blocks Kari Lake From Examining Ballot Envelopes
A Maricopa County judge has just rejected Kari Lake’s request to examine ballot envelopes from Arizona’s 2022 gubernatorial election, according to reports.
Lake was the Republican candidate in that election, which she ended up losing to Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) by a tally of roughly 17,000 votes.
Lake, however, has maintained that she did not lose the election.
Rather, she has alleged that the election was stolen from her.
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LA Homeowner Opens Fire on Armed Home Invaders, Killing 1, Injuring Others
Early Saturday morning, a group of armed men broke into a home in the San Fernando Valley, just north of the city of Los Angeles. The suspects were met by the owner, who opened fire, killing one.
By the time police arrived on scene, the would-be burglars had fled, but the homeowner was handcuffed and questioned. Authorities have not revealed whether they are seeking to charge him over his use of lethal force while dealing with the invasion.
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Liz Cheney: ‘No Question’ Trump Will ‘Try to Stay in Office Beyond a Second Term’
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has made a bizarre prediction that President Donald Trump “would never leave office” if he wins re-election next year.
When asked if she believes Trump “would try to stay in office beyond a second term,” Cheney asserted that “there’s no question.”
Cheney made the comments during an appearance on NBC’s “Today” on Monday.
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Macy’s Security Guard Stabbed to Death by Man Who Returned 15 Minutes After Trying to Steal Hats
A Macy’s security guard was killed and another wounded in a double-stabbing by a man who allegedly tried to steal multiple hats from the Philadelphia department store Monday morning, authorities said.
The guard was fatally knifed about 15 minutes after unarmed security prevented the suspected killer from stealing the merchandise around 10:45 a.m., according to Philadelphia police.
The suspect was allowed to leave following his attempted theft but returned to “immediately” attack one of the guards before redirecting his violent rage toward a second guard.
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Man Stabs Security Guard to Death, Injures Another Guard at Center City Macy’s, Police Say
A suspect in the stabbings was arrested at SEPTA’s Somerset Station in Kensington, officials said
A man stabbed a security guard to death and injured another guard after trying to steal merchandise from the Macy’s store in Center City, Philadelphia police said.
The ordeal began Monday around 11 a.m. at the Macy’s on 13th and Market streets. Police said an unidentified suspect was trying to steal hats from the store and was caught by security guards who took back the merchandise.
The suspect left the store and then returned 15 minutes later, stabbing one of the guards, a 30-year-old man, in the neck, police said. A second security guard, a 23-year-old man, tried to intervene and was stabbed in the face and arm, according to investigators.
The 30-year-old guard was taken to the hospital where he died from his injuries. Police have not yet revealed the condition of the 23-year-old guard.
The suspect in the stabbings fled the scene and tossed a knife on the tracks on the platform of SEPTA’s Market-Frankford Line, police said. That suspect was later arrested at the Somerset Station on Kensington Avenue in the city’s Kensington neighborhood.
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The parents of a 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan falsely accused of wearing blackface by a race-baiting Deadspin reporter have lawyered up and have threatened to sue the outlet, publishers G/O Media and Great Hill Partners, and the reporter, Carron Phillips — who wrote that the child, Holden Armenta, had “found a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at the same time.”
Shannon and Raul Armenta have hired Clare Locke LLP to demand a retraction, and have threatened further legal action. The firm previously won a $787.5 million settlement against Fox News for Dominion Voting Systems (resulting in Tucker Carlson’s ouster).
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Pro-Palestinian Students Block Building Entrance at the New School During NYC Protest
A group of Pro-Palestinian students from The New School occupied the entrance to one of the Big Apple college’s main buildings Monday as they protested the school’s interim president for “condoning genocide.”
The roughly 40 students blocked the entrance to The New School University Center — which holds classrooms, a library, dining hall and studios — for two hours Monday afternoon while waving Palestinian flags and donning keffiyeh scarves.
The protesters sat down in front of the electronic gates as part of a week-long action planned by New School Students for Justice in Palestine nearly two months after the war between Israel and Hamas began.
Other students who tried to get into the building through the turnstile had to get in another way.
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San Francisco’s Aggressive Crime Crackdown Sees Dramatic Drop in Car Break-Ins
San Francisco has seen a sudden drop in car burglary rates since implementing an aggressive crackdown on thefts in recent weeks through a combination of bait cars, plainclothes officers and video surveillance, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
City leaders and police officers have seen car burglary rates continue to drop after implementing the policies. Between Sept. 1 and Nov. 26, the city logged 3,399 smash-and-grab reports, which was a stark contrast to the 6,703 documented during the same time period in 2022. Before September, the number of reports in 2023 were on par with the previous year.
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told the SF Chronicle that she “hope[s]” auto burglaries will continue to taper off. She said the drop in crime can be attributed to a three-pronged strategy that includes targeted police efforts to catch the most prolific burglars, vigorous prosecutions and hard-line messaging to scare away potential thieves.
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Scranton Locals Trash Biden: ‘Worst President We Ever Had’
Locals in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania have trashed the Democrat president over his running of the country, specifically taking aim at his so-called “Bidenomics.”
At face value, you’d assume “Bidenomics” related to bribing Ukrainian oligarchs and then funneling those funds back to Biden family bank accounts in the United States via a series of shady shell corps.
Yet, “Bidenomics” is actually a term used by the White House when gaslighting the American people into believing that Biden’s economic policies are working.
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Seattle Breaks All-Time High Homicide Record Set in 1994
A man who was beaten and stomped on earlier this year in downtown Seattle has died from his injuries to become Seattle’s 70th homicide victim this year, breaking the previous all-time high homicide record set in 1994.
According to the Seattle Police Department, the assault occurred at approximately 11:30 am on June 26 in front of the Morrison Hotel, a homeless facility operated by the embattled Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) on Third Avenue.
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Supreme Court Wrestles With OxyContin Maker’s Bankruptcy Deal, With Billions of Dollars at Stake
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would shield members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids.
The justices seemed by turns reluctant to break up an exhaustively negotiated agreement, but also leery of somehow rewarding the Sacklers.
The agreement hammered out with state and local governments and victims would provide billions of dollars to combat the opioid epidemic.
The Sacklers would contribute up to $6 billion and give up ownership of the company, but retain billions more.
The company would emerge from bankruptcy as a different entity, with its profits used for treatment and prevention.
The high court put the settlement on hold during the summer, in response to objections from the Biden administration.
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The Marvels Sets New Record for Lowest-Grossing MCU Movie Ever
Disney’s latest superhero movie, The Marvels, has officially set the record for the lowest-grossing movie in Marvel Cinematic Universe history.
After being released about a month ago, the film, which notably features American actress Brie Larson, managed to gross only $80 million in North America and $197 million globally.
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The U.S. is Running Out of Money for Ukraine, the White House Warns
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Monday sent Congress an urgent warning about the need to approve tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Ukraine, saying Kyiv’s war effort to defend itself from Russia’s invasion may grind to a halt without it.
In a letter to House and Senate leaders and released publicly, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young warned the U.S. will run out of funding to send weapons and assistance to Ukraine by the end of the year, saying that would “kneecap” Ukraine on the battlefield.
She added that the U.S. already has run out of money that it has used to prop up Ukraine’s economy, and “if Ukraine’s economy collapses, they will not be able to keep fighting, full stop.”
“We are out of money — and nearly out of time,” she wrote.
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Trump Wants to Take Gag Order Fight to NY’s Highest Court, Will be at Civil Fraud Trial This Week
Donald Trump wants to take his fight over the gag order in his New York civil fraud case all the way to the state’s highest court, his attorneys said Monday — as The Post learned the former president plans to attend the trial in Manhattan later this week.
Trump, 77, is asking for permission to rush his case up to the New York Court of Appeals after a lower appeals court last week reinstated the limited gag order barring him and his attorneys from publicly speaking about the judge’s staff.
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Trump Slams ‘Unwatchable’ Robert De Niro: ‘Total Loser’
President Donald Trump has fired back at Robert De Niro after the Hollywood star recently delivered a hate-filled anti-American speech during an award show.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump blasted De Niro as “unwatchable,” arguing that his personal life is a “mess” because he “has become a total loser.”
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US House of Representatives Blocks Prominent News Website, the Gateway Pundit
Last Thursday afternoon, The Gateway Pundit, a prominent conservative news platform, discovered that its website was covertly being blocked on the network within the US House of Representatives. Through reliable insiders present in the halls of Capitol Hill, this unsettling news reached the team at The Gateway Pundit.
It began with an email from a staffer working for Congressman Paul Gosar. Addressing the news platform directly in his email, he drew attention to his prolonged inability, continuing for two weeks, to access The Gateway Pundit on the House network. This electronic missive was bolstered with a snapshot of the aforementioned restriction as seen on the staffer’s computer while attempting to visit the site.
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White House Warns Ukraine Funds Up Soon — as New Analysis Finds 90% of Billions Spent Stay in US
The Biden administration alerted Congress Monday that funding to assist Ukraine in its war with Russia will run out by the end of this year as negotiators reach an impasse over future military and humanitarian aid — despite recently published research showing around 90% of the money spent never leaves US shores.
A Nov. 29 report by the American Enterprise Institute found that approximately $60 billion of the $68 billion in military and other assistance approved by Congress since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, has stayed in the United States to build new weapons for US forces, replacing older equipment sent to assist Kyiv.
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Young Juveniles in Minnesota Increasingly Committing Serious Crimes: Report
Juveniles in Minnesota’s Twin Cities are “committing a growing number of severe and brazen crimes,” according to the Star Tribune.
“We are not talking about stealing candy bars from stores,” Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt told the Star Tribune in an article published Sunday. “These are indicators that we’re in trouble.”
The outlet reported that the most common crimes committed by juveniles in Hennepin County, Minnesota, were “auto thefts, gun possession, assault and robbery,” adding that “[j]uveniles charged with homicide have more than doubled since 2021 compared with the three years prior.”
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85% of Canadians Refuse to Use Digital Currency Over Cash, Other Payment Methods: Report
Canadians do not want a central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to consultations with the Bank of Canada.
After polling 89,423 Canadians, the central bank learned a whopping 85% of respondents would not use the digital dollar if it became available. Only 12% said they would “potentially” use it, whereas the other 3% said they didn’t know.
The Bank of Canada said CBDCs — not to be confused with cryptocurrencies and other digital money — is a digital version of a physical banknote that holds the same value as the national currency.
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Canada Has Yet to Make Arrests Amid Ongoing China ‘Police Station’ Probe
A Parliamentary committee acknowledged that Beijing operated “police service stations” in Canada — more than a year into an alleged espionage probe by the RCMP.
The Special Committee on Canada-China Relations tabled a report Tuesday to confirm the ongoing probe amid formal diplomatic protests to the Chinese Ambassador, reported Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Although the Chinese Communist Party portrays the overseas police service stations as facilities providing administrative and consular services, witnesses emphasized they also monitor diaspora communities, collect civil intelligence, harass and intimidate individuals who are critical of China policies and assist China public security authorities with coerced return operations,” said the report Chinese Communist Party’s Overseas Police Service Stations.
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Canada’s Homicide Rate Has Increased for the Fourth Year in a Row
According to recently released Statistics Canada data, Canada’s homicide rate is at the highest level since 1992, as police-reported crime continues to surge under Trudeau.
According to the number crunchers at the agency, a total of 874 people were killed in 2022, a nearly nine per cent increase over 2021 data.
Among the provinces, Manitoba had the highest homicide rate last year, followed by Saskatchewan and British Columbia, while Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador had the lowest rates.
Kids are getting more violent. Police reported 90 youths accused in 2022, compared with 33 the year before.
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Day 32: Crown Alleges ‘Conspiracy’ Between Tamara Lich and Chris Barber in ‘Unlawful Protest’
The Crown and defence team continued their dispute over the prosecution’s Carter application on the thirty-second day of the Chris Barber and Tamara Lich trial on Friday in Ottawa, ON.
Barber and Lich are accused of committing mischief, intimidation, and obstruction of police. They are also charged with counselling others to commit mischief, intimidation, and obstruction of police.
The charges stem from the two defendants’ roles as organizers of the Freedom Convoy in 2022, a peaceful demonstration in downtown Ottawa against government decrees — including “vaccine mandates” and lockdowns — ostensibly issued in pursuit of “public health” in the context of COVID-19.
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Far Left Anti-Israel Activists Arrested in Montreal for Blocking Railway
In a daring move, far-left anti-Israel activists took to blocking the CN rail in Montreal in the early morning of December 1, 2023.
This echoes incidents in Manitoba and Saskatchewan on November 20 and 29, where the usual far-left activists staged rail blockades until police intervened.
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The bill, spearheaded by Alberta Conservative MP John Barlow, offers jail time and fines of $25,000 for individual animal rights protesters who trespass and occupy farms. Organizations would be subject to fines of up to $100,000.
“Our family farms do not feel safe,” Barlow argued. The bill passed the Commons on Wednesday with 278 votes in favour.
Bill C-275 An Act To Amend The Health Of Animals Act would ban unauthorized entry to “any building or other enclosed place in which animals are kept.”
This is the second time legislation to protect farms has been proposed. C-205 was approved by the Agriculture Committee in 2021 but died before being passed when Parliament broke.
In 2019, a turkey farm run by the Jumbo Valley Hutterite Colony was invaded by dozens of animal rights activists, including a videographer for Global News.
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Live Updates: Freedom Convoy Organizer Tamara Lich’s Trial Enters Day 32
The trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber continues on day 32 today in Ottawa. As two of the most prominent faces of the Freedom Convoy, Lich and co-accused Chris Barber are facing charges of mischief, obstructing police, counselling others to commit mischief, and intimidation. The Freedom Convoy demonstrations drew thousands of Canadians to Ottawa in early 2022 in opposition to COVID-19 restrictions.
As explained by Rebel News reporter Robert Kraychik, during yesterday’s proceedings, “Radcliffe’s characterization of the Freedom Convoy as an ‘unlawful’ demonstration was expressed as he argued to have the Crown’s Carter application considered. The defence teams submitted a request to have the Carter application dismissed.”
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Ottawa Wants to Pass Bill C-21 in the ‘Coming Weeks,’ Ban ‘High Capacity’ Firearm Chargers
Gun control remains a top priority for Public Safety Canada, with a ban on high-capacity firearms chargers expected in the future.
In an interview with La Presse, Minister Dominic LeBlanc said gun manufacturers should no longer be able to sell chargers to Canadians that can be modified to hold 20 and 30 bullets.
“We will also apply obligations to arms manufacturers to ensure that we cannot easily alter a high-capacity charger,” he told the publication.
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Protester Challenges COVID-19 Overreach in Legal Battle, Exposing Sanctioned Democratic Erosion
The story of Graham Walker has been culminating over the last two-and-a-half years and is a direct result of the tyrannical, unjustified government-imposed COVID-19-related health protection measures that we put in place throughout 2020 and 2021.
Walker is a man of conviction and determination who is representing himself against four tickets in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. He was in court earlier this week for a ticket he received on May 8 for the crime of peacefully standing in front of Cobourg’s iconic Victoria Hall.
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Tamara Lich Trial Day 31: Crown Says Freedom Convoy Was ‘Occupation’, ‘Unlawful Protest’, ‘Blockade’
The Freedom Convoy was an “unlawful protest”, “occupation”, and “blockade”, prosecutor Tim Radcliffe said in court during day 31 of the trial of Chris Barber and Tamara Lich in Ottawa, ON.
Both Barber and Lich are charged with crimes linked to their roles as organizers of the 2022 Freedom Convoy, a peaceful demonstration against decrees, edicts, orders, mandates, and lockdowns imposed by government and marketed as “public health” measures to reduce the transmission of COVID-19.
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Germany’s Welt newspaper, perhaps the most popular publication in the country, is well known for its pro-Ukraine stance and ran numerous articles in the past about the likely success of Ukraine’s military offensive against Russia. However, in a column published yesterday by the paper’s chief correspondent, Sascha Lehnartz, the assessment of Ukraine’s chances in the war is decidedly bleak.
Entitled “Has Kyiv already lost?” the article describes Ukraine’s military growing increasingly despondent to the point that the country’s commander-in-chief admits there is a “stalemate” at the front.
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Brussels Aiming for Brexit Revenge as EU Threatens to Block UK Energy Amid Row Over Fishing Rights
Brussels could be aiming to take revenge against Britain after Brexit as the EU has threatened to block the UK’s access to energy markets should fishing communities on the continent find themselves at risk.
Come 2026, the UK will have a chance to renegotiate the fisheries agreement with the EU with the possibility of limiting the access of EU fishing vessels to British waters.
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Denmark Deploys Army to Defend Synagogues in Copenhagen
The Danish government has dispatched armed troops to man Jewish places of worship and the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen following a dramatic rise in anti-Semitism and an increased terror threat across the country.
From Wednesday, firearms units will guard synagogues in an attempt to provide further assurances to an increasingly insecure Jewish community.
“The conflict in the Middle East has led to a completely unacceptable increase in anti-Semitism and insecurity for Jews in Denmark,” Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said, as cited by the Copenhagen Post.
“We’re in a situation where the terrorist threat hanging over Denmark is serious,” he warned
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Germany’s former top domestic spy chief, Hans-Georg Maaßen, said in a new interview that Europe is facing an unprecedented crisis due to mass immigration, that Islam is well poised to conquer Europe, and that Germany and Austria could do much to stop the crisis but are choosing not to.
“A completely different culture is approaching us. We are not at all prepared for this, as we’re incapable of resolving conflicts even by means of violence, like family clans do from the Arab states. These people resolve conflicts by violence, whereas people in Central Europe think that this can only be done through the courts,” said Maaßen, who served as president of the Office of the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) from 2012 until 2018, said in his interview with FPÖ TV.
“The Europeans will succumb to Islam. On the one hand, because they are unable to even see this conflict coming, and on the other, because they are incapable of resolving conflicts in a similar fashion,” he said, stating that “the end result will be the gradual destruction of our European cultures.”
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Fico: Slovakia Must Prepare for Post-War Normalization With Russia
Slovakia’s left-wing, anti-globalist prime minister, whose SMER party sailed to victory in September after campaigning on a platform against further involvement in the war in Ukraine, has essentially broken ranks with fellow EU and NATO allies in suggesting that Slovak-Russian relations will be regularized following the conflict’s conclusion.
Four-time Prime Minister Robert Fico’s statement, which came alongside sharp criticism of the American and EU strategy toward Ukraine, followed meetings with the U.S. Ambassador to Slovakia, Gautam Rana, and the Russian Ambassador to Slovakia, Igor Bratcikov on Thursday, November 30th, the Slovakian newspaper Hospodarske Noviny reports.
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France: the Timeline of a Failed Terrorist Surveillance System
The perpetrator of the terrorist attack in Paris on Saturday, December 2nd, was clearly a dangerous criminal who many warned had the potential to commit an act of violence, but despite having him ‘under surveillance,’ the French authorities could not prevent him from killing.
The 26-year-old man, armed with a knife and a hammer and yelling “Allah Abkar,” killed a German tourist and left two people wounded near the Eiffel Tower in Paris late on Saturday in what President Emmanuel Macron called a terrorist attack.
Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab was born in France in 1997 to Iranian parents, in a family described by the prosecutor as having “no religious engagement.” But French media have revealed how he was easily manipulated and radicalised as a teenager by jihadist websites and how he concealed his radicalisation while in prison. His act inevitably raises the question of how France monitors terrorists after their release after incarceration.
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Germany May Have to Cut Billions to Ukraine as Budget Crisis Rages
According to a leaked document, Germany wants to reduce its contribution to the €20 billion in EU funds for Ukraine, which could spell serious trouble for Kyiv’s fight against Russia’s armed forces.
The German budget is under pressure after the Scholz government unconstitutionally sought to reallocate coronavirus funds to keep its election promises related to green energy, business daily Vilaggazdasag reports.
There are growing voices that Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition is on the verge of collapse. The German budget crisis could have a drastic impact not only on energy costs but also on electric cars.
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Italy: Climate Activists Disrupt Archbishop’s Mass in Turin
Climate activists in Italy over the weekend disrupted a Mass celebrated by Turin Archbishop Roberto Repole, with the demonstrators reading from Pope Francis’ works on the environment during the incident.
Activists with the climate group Extinction Rebellion appeared at the Turin Cathedral on Sunday during the archbishop’s Mass there, according to the Italian newspaper la Republicca.
The protesters “interrupted the Mass that Archbishop Roberto Repole was celebrating to read passages from Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’“ as well as his apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum. Both of those documents address climate change and what Pope Francis sees as humankind’s responsibility as stewards of God’s creation.
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Matteo Salvini, leader of the Italian governing League party, announced at a meeting of right-wing parties in Florence, that Brussels will be liberated from the socialists and George Soros in the upcoming European Parliament elections in 2024.
“We have a completely different vision from the Europe of Ursula von der Leyen, Christine Lagarde, George Soros and the bankers,” said Salvini.
He said that, just as David once defeated the seemingly invincible Goliath, men and women armed with common sense, courage and faith will defeat “the giant who is Europe’s enemy number one” throughout Europe.
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New Speaker of Polish Parliament is Now Most Popular and Trusted Politician in Poland
The leader of the Poland 2050 party, Szymon Holownia, has topped a poll of those Poles trust most, displacing Polish President Andrzej Duda. The third most trusted politician in Poland, according to the survey by public agency CBOS, is Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz the leader of the Polish People’s Party (PSL), the party that is allied with Holownia’s party in the Third Way electoral coalition.
The CBOS poll shows Holownia is trusted by 52 percent, with only 27 percent distrusting him. President Duda is trusted by 51 percent and distrusted by 38 percent, whereas Kosiniak-Kamysz is trusted by 48 percent, with only 21 percent lacking trust in him.
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Collin — a 24-year-old identified by his first name only (pictured) — was the first victim of Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, 26. The terrorist used a kitchen knife and hammer in his brutal attack
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Poland: Tusk’s New Coalition Accused of Attempting to Sell Off Land to Germans
Robert Telus, an MP for the outgoing ruling Conservative Law and Justice (PiS) and former agriculture minister, has said that legislation proposed by the new parliamentary majority is dangerous for rural areas because it makes the purchase of land easier, which could in turn allow Germans to buy up Polish farmland and convert it into wind farms.
He said he believes that the legislative proposal is an example of Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition (KO) doing the bidding of German lobbyists.
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Extinction Rebellion have targeted BAE’s Govan shipyard with a graffiti protest over its contribution to climate change as well as the war in Gaza.
Activists spraypainted the walls of the BAE Systems site in Glasgow with slogans opposing the defence firm’s contribution to global emissions as well as its supply of weapons to the Israeli Defence Force.
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Sovereigntists Adopt ‘Florence Manifesto’ for a Free Europe
Under the motto “Jobs, Security, Common Sense,” the European Parliament’s Identity and Democracy (ID) Group organized a massive convention in Florence on Sunday, December 3rd, also serving as the party family’s unofficial campaign launch for next year’s EU elections.
The event, hosted by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini’s Lega party, was attended by over a thousand members and staff from 14 different sovereigntist parties from all around Europe, including the French National Rally (RN), the German AfD, the Austrian FPÖ, and Geert Wilders’s PVV that recently won the Dutch elections.
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Spain: 15,000 Rally Against Amnesty for Catalan Separatists
Around 15,000 people turned out on the streets of Madrid on Sunday, December 3rd, to protest the pending amnesty for Catalan separatists and their friends.
The protest marked the fourth promoted by the center-right Partido Popular (PP) against an amnesty that includes not only MEP Carles Puigdemont and a handful of others who directly organized the 2017 illegal referendum on Catalan independence but also extends to crimes such as street violence and drug-related crimes of anyone considered a supporter of Catalonia’s secession from the Spanish nation.
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These NATO Countries Have Just Three Years to Prepare for a Russian Attack, Poland Warns
Countries on NATO’s eastern flank have as little as three years to prepare for the likelihood of a Russian attack that could turn them into the next Ukraine, Polish officials warn.
Jacek Siewiera, the chief of Poland’s National Security Bureau, said a recent German report warning that NATO’s eastern bloc must be ready to fend off Russia within the next six to 10 years was far “too optimistic.
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UK: ‘He Has No Mandate!’ Sadiq Khan Braced for Major Blow as MP Proposes Law to Scrap ULEZ Expansion
Conservative MP Gareth Johnson has announced a new Private Members’ Bill which would overturn the Ulez expansion in London.
The extended zone, which covers the whole of outer London, came into force in August.
A spokesperson for Johnson described the expansion as “undemocratic”.
He said the Ulez expansion is an “unfair stealth tax” which “hits the poorest the hardest”.
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UK: Just Stop Oil Activists Arrested Over Six Hundred Times in Just Over One Month
Over 600 arrests have been made of activists from climate group Just Stop Oil in just a month, it has been revealed.
From October 30 to December 1, there were 667 arrests made of Just Stop Oil supporters attempting to disrupt the UK.
Over 600 arrests have been made of activists from climate group Just Stop Oil in just a month, it has been revealed.
From October 30 to December 1, there were 667 arrests made of Just Stop Oil supporters attempting to disrupt the UK.
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Sadiq Khan’s controversial ULEZ expansion generated £5.3million in its first week with 300,000 extra drivers charged for driving non-compliant vehicles within Greater London
More than 425,000 ULEZ charges were paid in the week following the extension, compared to just 140,000 the week before.
The scheme, designed to limit harmful pollution, means that anyone with a non-compliant vehicle has to pay a daily £12.50 fee to drive within London — or a larger fine if this is not paid.
Sadiq Khan’s controversial ULEZ expansion generated £5.3million in its first week with 300,000 extra drivers charged for driving non-compliant vehicles within Greater London.
More than 425,000 ULEZ charges were paid in the week following the extension, compared to just 140,000 the week before.
The scheme, designed to limit harmful pollution, means that anyone with a non-compliant vehicle has to pay a daily £12.50 fee to drive within London — or a larger fine if this is not paid.
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World Exclusive: The First Foreign Interview With Incoming Dutch PM Geert Wilders
I just got back from the Netherlands where I interviewed Geert Wilders, the winner of the recent Dutch parliamentary elections. For years, the mainstream media either ignored him or mocked him, because of his opposition to mass immigration.
The Dutch people have a different view — they gave Wilders and his Party for Freedom a landslide victory in the Parliamentary elections, making it all but certain he’ll become the new prime minister. I sat down with Wilders for his first English-language interview since his election.
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Hamas Rocket Struck Israeli Base on Oct. 7 Holding Dozens of Nuclear-Capable Missiles: Report
A rocket fired Oct. 7 likely by Hamas struck an Israeli military base where dozens of the country’s nuclear-capable missiles are believed to be based, according to a new report.
The missile did not strike any of Israel’s nuke-bearing rockets but caused a fire to spread near its storage facilities at the Sdot Micha base in central Israel, the New York Times said Monday.
While Israel has never acknowledged it, whistleblowers, US officials and satellite data estimate that there are likely 25 to 50 nuclear-capable Jericho missile launchers at the base.
It’s unknown how many nuclear weapons Israel has.
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Israel Orders Evacuations From City in South Gaza as Offensive Widens
Israel’s military has ordered the evacuation of a fifth of the main city in southern Gaza, as it expands its ground offensive against Hamas.
A map showed six northern and central areas of Khan Younis where an estimated 167,000 people needed to leave.
Witnesses also reported seeing tanks to the east, and a doctor said a local hospital was overwhelmed by casualties.
Many of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are sheltering in the south after being previously ordered to leave the north.
The Israeli military said it would operate with “maximum force” in the south, as it had done in the north — where there has been widespread destruction over the past eight weeks.
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by Daniel Greenfield
On Oct 7, Hamas, a terrorist organization born in part out of a collaboration between Nazis and Islamists, carried out the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
The butchery of men, women and children and the elderly, was not only ‘Nazi-like’, it was in some ways the final act of a Nazi crime nearly eight decades in the making.
In 1946, the Muslim Brotherhood held its founding conference in Gaza at the Samer Cinema. The movie theater which had opened two years earlier and would be shut down, along with much of Gaza’s movie theaters as the Islamist movement strengthened its grip over the area, represented the secular Western culture that the Islamic organization wanted to destroy.
It was a modest beginning for the group that would eventually become known as Hamas.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s expansion into Israel began a year earlier in 1945. The Brotherhood’s foreign backers, the Nazis, had surrendered earlier that year. The thousand pound checks which had helped take the Brotherhood from just another fringe Islamist theocratic movement to a dominant force in Egyptian political culture would no longer be coming. And Nazi Germany’s armies would not be arriving to help them kill all the Jews.
Without the Nazis, the Brotherhood no longer had the money or any protection from the British, who might seek to punish their Nazi collaboration, or the Egyptian monarchy which was worried that the Islamist group was seeking to overthrow it. By 1948, Egypt had banned the Brotherhood and Hassan al-Banna, its charismatic leader, had been shot dead in the street a year later…
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3 Commercial Ships Hit by Missiles in Houthi Attack in Red Sea, US Warship Downs 3 Drones
UBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck three commercial ships Sunday in the Red Sea, while a U.S. warship shot down three drones in self-defense during the hourslong assault, the U.S. military said. The Iranian-backed Houthis claimed two of the attacks.
The strikes marked an escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to the Israel-Hamas war, as multiple vessels found themselves in the crosshairs of a single Houthi assault for the first time in the conflict. The U.S. vowed to “consider all appropriate responses” in the wake of the attack, specifically calling out Iran, after tensions have been high for years now over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
“These attacks represent a direct threat to international commerce and maritime security,” the U.S. military’s Central Command said in a statement. “They have jeopardized the lives of international crews representing multiple countries around the world.”
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COP28 President Declares ‘No Science’ in Demands for End to Fossil Fuel Use
The Emirati president of the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, Sultan Al Jaber, has declared there is “no science” behind alarmist demands for an end to fossil fuel use, adding any phase-out of coal, oil, and gas would plunge the world into societal decay and “back into caves.”
Al Jaber made the comments in responses to questions from Mary Robinson, the former Ireland president and former U.N. special envoy for climate change, during a live online event last month.
As well as running Cop28 in Dubai, for his part Al Jaber is also CEO of United Arab Emirates’ oil giant ADNOC.
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At the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, Poland joined over 20 countries that pledged to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050, emphasizing nuclear energy as a key to clean, safe, and stable energy for the future.
Polish President Andrzej Duda highlighted the crucial role of nuclear energy in achieving a fair energy transition. The declaration adopted in Dubai at the COP28 climate conference marks a pivotal moment in the world’s commitment to sustainable energy solutions.
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Pope Francis: The Problem of Climate Change is ‘A Religious Problem’
ROME — Pope Francis asserted Sunday that the global climate crisis is “a religious problem” whose roots lie in humanity ‘s “presumption of self-sufficiency.”
The pope’s words, read by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, were penned for the inauguration of the “Faith Pavilion” at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit in Dubai, an initiative meant to harness religions for the cause of fighting global warming.
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Russian Billionaires Expand Their Immense Wealth Despite Ukraine War Sanctions
Russia’s richest oligarchs expanded their wealth in 2023, despite heavy sanctions on their homeland related to its invasion of Ukraine, according to figures from the Bloomberg Billionaire Index.
The total fortunes of Russian nationals who made the exclusive list ballooned by $38.6 billion since January 1, according to the data.
Economic sanctions following Moscow’s incursion into Ukraine have failed to hobble their fortunes — and in some cases may have helped fatten them further.
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Russian MP Proposes Taxing Childless People
by RT
A member of Russia’s State Duma has proposed to revive a tax on childlessness, which existed during the Soviet times, citing the need to boost population.
“We must encourage the birth of children,” Evgeny Fyodorov from the ruling United Russia party told Govorit Moskva radio on Saturday. He added that the tax revenue could be used to fund existing and future welfare programs designed to help families with children.
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Volodymyr Zelensky failed to adequately prepare Ukraine for the ongoing conflict with Russia and will pay for his mistakes, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said in a blistering attack on his country’s president.
In a wide-ranging interview with Swiss news outlet 20 Minuten, the former heavyweight boxing champion-turned-politician slammed Ukraine’s war-time leader for a litany of errors that allowed Russia to take the upper hand in the first few months of the conflict and accused Zelensky of being slow to react to Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital.
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Pakistan Arrests 17 Suspects in Connection to the Weekend Bus Shooting That Killed 10
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Police in Pakistan arrested at least 17 suspects in the weekend bus shooting that left 10 people dead and 25 others wounded, authorities said Monday.
Security forces raided several areas in the northern Gilgit Baltistan region — where the attack took place — and arrested the men who were currently being questioned, local police chief Shah Wali said.
He added that the death toll from the attack rose to 10 on Monday when one critically injured man died in hospital.
The bus was carrying passengers from Gilgit to the city of Rawalpindi when it was shot at, causing the driver to lose control and crash into a truck, which in turn caught fire. Both drivers were killed on site.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, however, the Pakistani Taliban, also known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, have denied involvement in the shooting in a statement on Sunday.
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TikTok Part of CCP’s ‘Cognitive Warfare’ Strategy Against US: Rep. Gallagher
Authored by Andrew Thornebrooke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
TikTok is a key tool in communist China’s strategy to manipulate Americans and undermine the United States’s ability to respond to crises, according to experts and lawmakers.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, will likely use TikTok in its effort to wage “cognitive warfare” against the United States, said Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.).
“The CCP calls it ‘cognitive domain warfare,’ part of their larger political warfare strategy,” Mr. Gallagher said in prepared comments for a Nov. 30 hearing of the House Select Committee on the CCP.
Mr. Gallagher, who chairs the committee, said that the United States was struggling to respond to the threat, as the nation had no grand strategy or apparatus for confronting propaganda from authoritarian powers.
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Experts Predict Mind-Controlled Devices May be Common by 2040s
Authored by Isabella Rayner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
It would allow people to navigate the internet, send texts, and adjust thermostats by merely thinking, blurring boundaries between humans and machines.
University of New South Wales (UNSW) biomedical engineering expert Mohit Shivdasani said scientists are “very close” to mind-controlled devices becoming an everyday reality rather than a science-fiction concept.
A smartbrain, or Brain-Machine Interface (BMI), is a wearable or implanted device that directly links the human brain to smart devices like phones, computers, and robotic limbs.
It would allow people to navigate the internet, send texts, and adjust thermostats by merely thinking, blurring boundaries between humans and machines.
University of New South Wales (UNSW) biomedical engineering expert Mohit Shivdasani said scientists are “very close” to mind-controlled devices becoming an everyday reality rather than a science-fiction concept.
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Mystery as Young Irish Athlete Dies Just Two Days After Moving to Australia With His Girlfriend
Young Irishman Matthew McGuigan, 24, tragically died on Saturday just two days after he and his girlfriend had moved to Australia.
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Infamous Block buyer Danny Wallis has revealed he will be selling all his properties in Victoria after former premier Dan Andrews introduced new property laws.
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Whistleblower Arrested for Exposing New Zealand’s Mass Vax Deaths
A New Zealand government official has been arrested for leaking secret data to expose the nation’s soaring mass deaths among Covid-vaccinated members of the public.
Barry Young, 56, is employed by Te Whatu Ora — the New Zealand government’s public health agency.
As Slay News reported, Young, identifying himself as “Winston Smith,” released data showing that vast numbers of vaxxed New Zealanders are now dead.
The whistleblower exposed official government data that shows the nation’s spike in excess deaths is associated with the Covid injection campaign.
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South Africa: Seven Men Burned to Death in Vigilante ‘Mob’ Attack
(AFP) — Extra police patrolled one of South Africa’s most violent townships Sunday after a “mob” tied-up and burned to death seven men accused of a crime wave, police and residents said.
South Africa is afflicted by a steadily increasing murder rate, but community leaders say Diepsloot, a town of more than 350,000 people north of Johannesburg with high rates of killings and rape, has been abandoned by authorities.
Police said they had started a murder investigation after the charred bodies of the seven young men were found.
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Majority of Venezuelans Vote to Annex Oil-Rich Region of Guyana
As previewed last week, on Sunday Venezuela would hold a referendum whether Maduro’s socialist banana republic should annex the vast majority of its oil-rich neighbor, Guyana (because Venezuela doesn’t have enough domestic issues to deal with, it may as well also invade a sovereign nation and start a war). And, as expected, an overwhelming majority of Venezuelan voters who took part in a referendum voted in favor of claiming sovereignty over most of the oil-rich territory of neighboring Guyana.
Per the Venezuelan government, as much as 95% of voters supported the claim, with 10.5 million votes counted, Reuters reported.
The referendum took part despite the fact that the disputed territory—an oil-rich region called Essequibo—is part of an active case at the International Court of Justice, where Guyana is suing Venezuela for trying to take away most of its territory.
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Police have accused the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win as part of a plot to overthrow the government.
Nicaraguan pageant director Karen Celebertti and her husband and son were charged with conspiracy against the government. She allegedly tried to ‘turn pageants into political traps and political ambushes, financed by foreign agents.’
It all started November 18, when Nicaragua’s Sheynnis Palacios, 23, won the Miss Universe competition, becoming the first Central American to wear the crown.
The government of President Daniel Ortega briefly thought it had scored a rare public relations victory, calling her win a moment of ‘legitimate joy and pride.’
But the tone quickly soured the day after the win when it emerged that Palacios had posted photos of herself on Facebook participating in one of the mass anti-government protests in 2018.
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An Afghan refugee released from immigration detention after a controversial High Court ruling has been charged with two counts of indecent assault.
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A recently released immigration detainee arrested for possessing cannabis has a criminal history including serious crimes of violence and firearm offences.
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Mexican Cartels’ Violent Reign of Terror at the Border Helping Drive US Migrant Crisis
A surge in drug cartel violence along the Mexican border is terrorizing locals south of the Rio Grande — and driving more migrants north into the US, according to reports.
The ruthless gangs have unleashed a reign of terror in Mexican towns like Juarez that is so commonplace that 40% of adults have witnessed cartel violence over the previous three months, according to Border Report.
With border crossings surging, their turf wars are now over human smuggling routes, not just drug trafficking.
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NY Lawmaker Claims “Smoking Gun” in NYC Migrant Voter Fraud Scheme
A New York state lawmaker says she’s found ‘smoking gun’ evidence that New York City is trying to illegally register migrants to vote in upcoming elections.
“On page 50 of this contract, there is an entire section dedicated to voter registration,” said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) on Sunday, after she and four other Staten Island Republicans claimed a city contract with a nonprofit hired to run a Staten Island shelter includes a stipulation that voter registration forms are to be distributed among asylum seekers.
“We believe this is the smoking gun that proves what we’ve been saying all along — that the city intends to register non-citizens to vote.”
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Elon Musk: Disney is “World’s Biggest Example of Go Woke, Go Broke”
Via modernity.news
Elon Musk has hit out at Disney again after the company pulled ads from X, calling the company’s output “unwatchable” because of how woke it is attempting to be.
Musk responded to a post by author Scott Adams, saying that Disney has “a major content problem” and that “They are the world’s biggest example of go woke, go broke.”
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A Colorado father is suing the state’s largest school district, claiming staff refused to let him display a “straight pride” flag alongside the Progress Pride flags on view throughout his children’s Denver school.
Nathan Feldman argues his children are being barred from exercising their freedom of speech in a case of viewpoint discrimination.
Feldman’s lawyer, Michael Yoder, blamed equity policies like Denver’s for “the overt sexualization of content in elementary schools nationwide.” Progress Pride flags and gender identity books geared toward young children encourage students to ask about them and foster one-sided conversation around inappropriate topics in the classroom, he said.
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General Vannacci Probed Over Anti-Gay Book
(ANSA) — ROME, DEC 4 — General Roberto Vannacci was notified on Monday that he is under investigation over a anti-gay book that he recently self-published and has become a best-seller.
The general was given the notification after arriving at the Army’s Rome headquarters to prepare for a new role he has been assigned and immediately took a leave of absence of one month for “family reasons”, the sources said.
Vannacci has been hailed as a hero by the anti-politically correct lobby in Italy over his book, which also slated Jews, feminists, environmentalists and migrants.
At the weekend he was named army ground operation forces chief of staff after being sacked as head of the military geographical institute in August after the release of the book.
Defence ministry sources said Sunday Vannacci’s new post “is not a promotion”.
They stressed that his new role “does not entail relations with other institutions”.
They said he would “only be commander of his own office chiefs and will not have direct decision-making autonomy”.
Former crack paratroop regiment chief Vannacci, 55, who was replaced by his direct superior after Defence Minister Guido Crosetto started disciplinary proceedings in mid-August, has been defended by many right-wing politicians who say his right to free speech is sanctioned by the Italian Constitution.
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The parents of an 11-year-old female Colorado student are furious after her school allegedly allowed a biological male to bunk with her during a field trip to the East Coast without her, or their, consent simply because he identified as transgender.
Joe and Serena Wailes have, via Alliance Defending Freedom, called on Jefferson County Public Schools officials to explain why they failed to disclose the fact that their daughter would be sharing a bed with a boy after making it very clear that students would be segregated by sex during the overnight portions of the trip.
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School lunches in America are on the chopping block for K-12 schools that don’t enforce gender ideology. In an attempt to comply with Joe Biden’s executive order requiring all agencies to implement equity programs for LGBTQ+ inclusion, the Department of Agriculture decided that it would hold free school lunch aid hostage unless schools allowed boys to use girls’ bathrooms and implemented other actions showing their compliance with the wacky, progressive gender theory that says boys and girls can become girls and boys just by declaring it to be so.
Senate Republicans tried to overturn it in voting against the USDA reinterpretation of Title IX via the Congressional Review Act, but that vote was short at 47 to 50. “Don’t be fooled here, the Biden Administration is the only player in this policy fight that is taking away lunches from children,” said Kansas Senator Roger Marshall. “There is real-world evidence that USDA’s policy has already taken away school lunch funding from low-income children. Weaponizing school lunch money in pursuit of their radical agenda and putting students in the crosshairs is unconscionable, and we will not stand for it.”
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The UN is Threatening Privacy Under Pretense of New Cybercrime Treaty
The US digital rights group EFF is describing the latest UN Cybercrime Treaty draft as “a significant step backward” and a case of “perilously broadening its scope beyond the cybercrimes specifically defined in the convention, encompassing a long list of non-cybercrimes.”
This “dance” — with some reported progress, for things to then again get worse — is not exactly new in the now lengthy process of negotiating the document, amid criticism not only from observers among the involved rights non-profits, but also UN member-countries.
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Threads to Block Chronological Feeds to Maintain Censorship Control
Remember Threads — the app launched by Meta (Instagram) as a Twitter clone, just as the legacy media were ramping up anti-Twitter (X) sentiment and hoping to sway users away from that platform?
Some data shows that as many as 80 percent of those who initially signed up for Threads have in the meantime indeed forgotten about it, and new statements coming from the top Instagram exec might be a good reason for those who haven’t done it yet to stop using the app.
Namely, Adam Mosseri believes that allowing Threads users to filter search results as they wish is a bad idea. This is seen by critics as effectively introducing yet another nuance of censorship.
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Re: “In other news, Denmark has deployed army troops to defend synagogues in Copenhagen.”
For anyone wanting to see an act of security theater in action, this move by the Danish government is a near-prototypical example. To be sure, the synagogues may need protection from cultural enrichers and hooligans of various sorts, but this act amounts to a band-aid when it comes to addressing actual root causes of the violence.
What makes this an act of security theater is that while it may protect and save some infidel lives, it will not in any real way reduce the overall hazard or the dangers facing Danes in the face of the de facto invasion by the soldiers of Allah.
Note also that while one part of the Danish government is working to import more Muslims and others from the Middle East and North Africa, another part of that same government is “protecting Danes” from the very hazard that the same government is responsible for creating in the first place!
The whole problem of “migrant violence” in places like Denmark and for that matter in places like Sweden, Germany, and all over Europe, exists in the first place because these governments have been derelict in their duty to defend their citizens.
Many of these officials and functionaries will now say that they are powerless to change immigration policy, and that only Brussels and the European Union can do that…
but someone must ultimately be responsible.
None of this happened by accident, although there are certainly plenty of powerful and influential people who would like us to believe precisely that. And also to forget that a great many leaders entrusted with the protection of their respective nations and peoples betrayed that sacred trust when the chips were down.
Of course, when things are going great, everyone wants credit, but when they start going badly, everyone runs for shelter and starts pointing fingers at one another. As JFK once said, “Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan…”
Heavily-armed people don’t need protection by the government.
Those who entrust their lives to the government will likely lose ’em.
Just sayin’..