A 72-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly used his pickup truck to run down and injure several people waiting for the start of the Christmas parade in Bakersfield, California. If he was committing truck jihad, it was very inefficient, because he reversed his vehicle into the crowd. The driver fought with police when they came to arrest him. Alcohol is said to have played a role in the incident.
In other news, a young woman named Laneisha Shantrice Henderson was arrested for using gasoline to try to burn down the birth home of Martin Luther King Jr in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Germany Struggles to Fund Green Agenda
Germany’s three-party coalition government is struggling to agree on next year’s budget after a court ruling tossed the country into an economic crisis. The turmoil could hurt the economy and hinder Green agenda investments, but an audit court has warned that a recently approved supplementary budget could also be unconstitutional.
As the government seeks to fill the hole in the budget, Finance Minister Christian Lindner ruled out tax increases, and emphasised that his country’s debt brake “must be respected.”
As we previously reported, the constitutional court ruled on November 15th that a move to redirect €60 billion of unused loans meant to combat the effects of the pandemic to a climate fund was unconstitutional. In December 2021, the coalition of Social Democrats, Greens, and the liberal FDP agreed to transfer €60 billion of untapped credit to its so-called climate and transformation fund.
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Poland: FDI Soared 25% in 2022
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Poland in 2022 totaled 140 billion zlotys (€32.3 billion), up by 25 percent from 2021, according to the Polish Central Bank (NBP)
FDI is now double what it was in the pre-pandemic period, according to NBP. More than half of the 140 billion is composed of reinvested profits but also includes almost 30 billion zlotys of purchased shares. In 2022, FDI accounted for 4.6 percent of GDP.
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Polish GDP Sees Some of the Fastest Growth in Europe
Eurostat data shows that while the eurozone economies contracted by 0.1 percent, the EU as a whole remained in the black, with Poland being one of the fastest growers.
In the third quarter of this year, Malta recorded the highest growth rate of 2.4 percent. Poland came second with 1.4 percent, and Cyprus third with 1.1 percent GDP growth.
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U.S. Payrolls Rose 199,000 in November, Unemployment Rate Falls to 3.7%
Job creation showed little signs of a letup in November, as payrolls grew even faster than expected and the unemployment rate fell despite signs of a weakening economy.
Nonfarm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 199,000 for the month, slightly better than the 190,000 Dow Jones estimate and ahead of the unrevised October gain of 150,000, the Labor Department reported Friday. The numbers were boosted by sizeable gains in government hiring as well as workers returning from strikes in the auto and entertainment industries.
The unemployment rate declined to 3.7%, compared with the forecast for 3.9%, as the labor force participation rate edged higher to 62.8%. A more encompassing unemployment rate that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time positions for economic reasons fell to 7%, a decline of 0.2 percentage point.
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Multiple candidates hoping to replace Joe Biden as president in next year’s presidential election pulled no punches Friday in response to the indictment of his son, Hunter, a day earlier.
The indictment, which was handed down Thursday by DOJ Special Counsel David Weiss in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, included nine charges alleging a “four-year scheme” when Hunter did not pay his federal income taxes from January 2017 to October 2020 while also filing false tax reports.
“The timing of the Hunter Biden tax indictment is one more sign that the deep state is planning to sideline Biden & pick a new puppet for 2024, all the while using this indictment as a perfect fig leaf to claim that the Trump prosecutions aren’t politically motivated. Kills two birds with one stone,” Republican entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy wrote in a post on X.
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AI-Powered Pods Being Created to Give Self-Service Medical Exams Without Doctors
On Wednesday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Mandy Cohen announced the agency’s latest set of guidelines as Americans prepare themselves for the winter months and the increase in respiratory illnesses that this time of year brings.
She suggested that while there are no “new or unfamiliar” viruses going around, everyone should still consider masking up when necessary, staying up to date with their vaccinations, and washing their hands more frequently.
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Alarms Are Raised Over California Law Enforcing “Media Literacy” in Schools
There’s gathering contention over a newly-introduced California law that appears to be timed with the kick-off of presidential campaigns. The law, Assembly Bill 873, is touted by its supporters as a tool to help students differentiate between accurate, impartial information and opinionated “misinformation.” However, critics see it as yet another ploy by the state to undermine and mute non-mainstream media channels in the minds of young children.
Santa Clara University ed-tech professor, Pedro Hernandez-Ramos, voiced his views on the topic, saying, as reported by the Washington Times. “Legislation became necessary at the state level when the federal government didn’t take action.” He further accuses President Trump of manipulating information to serve his own interests and causing harm to others.
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Biden Administration to Investigate 6 Additional Schools for Discrimination Amid Israel-Hamas War
The Department of Education announced this week that an additional six schools across the country are being investigated for discrimination amid the Israel-Hamas war.
Investigations into Montana State University, Tulane University, Union College, the University of Cincinnati, Santa Monica College, and Cobb County School District in Georgia, were opened over the past week by the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights. The investigations are focusing on cases of alleged discrimination that involve shared ancestry.
A DOE spokesperson declined to comment on the investigations, but pointed Fox News Digital to a November press release after opening investigations into several schools after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas.
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Bill Burr: Liberals Are “F**king Stupid” to Have Turned Trump Into a Martyr
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news
Comedian Bill Burr told talk show host Jimmy Kimmel that liberals are “f**king stupid” to have turned Trump into a martyr and that “he’s coming back” for revenge.
Burr made the comments in the context of saying how he’d teach his kids about narcissists and sociopaths.
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Breaking: Journalist Owen Shroyer Released From Prison
Journalist Owen Shroyer has been released from prison.
Shroyer reported to FCI Oakdale prison on October 24 to serve a 60-day sentence he was handed down 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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Breaking: Man Arrested After Driving Truck Into Spectators at Bakersfield Christmas Parade
Update: Local ABC News reports that “Investigators said alcohol intoxication played a role in the collision. This crash remains under investigation.”
“The driver, identified only as a 72-year-old man, was quickly taken into custody after the crash.”
Original story follows:
Spectators at the Bakersfield Christmas Parade in California were injured when a man drove his Ford F-150 pickup into them as the annual event was about to begin.
According to the Bakersfield Police Department, first responders were dispatched to the site of the parade at approximately 5:30 pm after reports of multiple people being struck by a truck at 21st and H streets.
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WINTER PARK, Fla. — What started out as a search warrant for drugs at a home in Winter Park on Thursday ended up with the evacuation of several homes in the area after a homemade explosive was found, according to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.
Mark Severson was arrested and charged with possession of explosives and manufacture of explosives with intent to do bodily harm, plus other drug possession charges for methamphetamine, MDMA and marijuana, according to deputies. Records show that Severson is a system engineer for an unnamed intelligence analyst.
Deputies executed a search warrant on the 40-year-old man’s home on Thursday for drugs, according to an affidavit. When they arrived, they found “numerous chemical powders” that are “consistent with pyrotechnic manufacturing and the manufacture of homemade explosives,” deputies said. This discovery triggered a secondary search warrant to be obtained and executed, which was signed that day.
eputies continued their search and tested the powders for explosive materials. They found a white crystalline powder which appeared to have been synthesized in the home, deputies said. It tested positive for triacetone triperoxide (TATP), a “highly volatile homemade explosive mixture that cannot be moved and must be disposed of in place due to the high likelihood of unintended detonation,” the affidavit said.
Officials said they found half-a-pound of TATP.
Due to the powder’s volatility, detectives evacuated five homes in the immediate vicinity for a short time on Thursday and also conducted reverse 911 calls to neighboring homes in the Winter Park neighborhood on Alena Court.
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A Rumble channel has been arranged by the Republican-controlled Subcommittee on Oversight under the Committee on House Administration for releasing the second batch of surveillance video from the events of January 6 at the US Capitol.
Rumble was likely selected due to its commitment to free speech and anti-censorship principles. With the initial videos uploaded to the Rumble channel on December 5th, over 100 videos have been added so far.
The initial release took place earlier on Nov. 17, consisting of 90 CCTV clips on the House of Representatives website.
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Gun Rights Group Applauds After Federal Appeals Court Deals Blow to NY Concealed Carry Law
Gun rights activists cheered Friday after a federal appeals court struck down parts of New York’s expansive concealed carry law.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit blocked three provisions of New York’s “Concealed Carry Improvement Act” (CCIA), a law Democrats passed last year in response to a Supreme Court ruling that declared the state’s previous concealed carry permitting requirements unconstitutional. In doing so, the appeals court allowed other parts of the law to go into effect.
In a 261-page ruling, the three-judge panel struck down a requirement that gun owners disclose their social media accounts for review when applying for a concealed carry permit. The court also blocked restrictions on carrying firearms on private property that is accessible to the public, as well as a restriction on concealed carry in houses of worship.
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In a podcast interview posted on Friday, Hunter Biden claimed the allegations of corruption that have been raised against him have “earmarks” of Russian disinformation.
Hunter Biden told host Moby, “This may not in every aspect be a Russian disinformation campaign, but it has literally every earmark of what the Russians did.”
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IRS Whistleblowers Say Investigation of Joe Biden as Part of Hunter Probe But Weren’t ‘Allowed’ To
On Tuesday, IRS whistleblowers testified in a closed session before the House Ways and Means Committee, revealing that they wanted to investigate Joe Biden as part of the investigation into Hunter Biden’s finances, but were prevented from doing so.
During the hearing, Rep Brian Fitzpatrick asked Special Agent Gary Shapley, “did your gut tell you that Joe Biden was benefiting in any way from any of Hunter’s criminal proceeds?”
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More Young Americans Doomsday Prepping for 2024 Election: System ‘Not as Stable as We Assumed’
Younger Americans appear to be the ones preparing the most for a disaster scenario ahead of 2024, with everything from global pandemics to the upcoming presidential election on their minds.
A poll from Finder.com earlier this year found that 39% of American Millennials and 40% of Gen Zers reported spending money on disaster prepping in the last 12 months. By contrast, only 29% of Americans in general spent money on emergency preparedness.
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Mozilla Asks the Supreme Court to Rule Against Florida and Texas Social Media Free Speech Laws
When in a hole — just stop digging!
Not the kind, however, of common-place, and friendly advice, the Mozilla Foundation seems like it’s ready to take in, these days.
The number of websites that, one way or another, don’t render/function correctly anymore in Mozilla’s Firefox is not exactly growing at the same pace as the browser’s loss of market share, but it’s now becoming concerning.
That’s because Google is eating Mozilla’s lunch with the Chrome browser, and faced with this stark reality of the once innovative, exciting, widely-used Firefox, a flagship for open source, now steadily losing users — what does Mozilla do?
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NYC Jewish-Japanese Restaurant Set on Fire in ‘Anti-Jewish Incident’: Video
Video has emerged showing the moment an apparent arsonist set a Japanese-Jewish restaurant on fire in New York.
Footage from the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn shows the suspect approaching the Shalom Japan restaurant and igniting what police say were window tarps decorated with the Star of David.
“The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating this as an anti-Jewish incident,” police said.
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Pro-Hamas activists targeted the office of the president of the University of Washington in Seattle on Thursday, the first night of Hanukkah, in advance of the campus menorah lighting.
Approximately 50 members of the activist groups United Front for Palestinian Liberation and Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return (SUPER) entered the Gerberding Hall administration building and occupied the office of UW president Ana Marie Cauce, refusing to leave until the UW president agreed to their demands. They also vandalized the building. Those demands were to “materially divest from Israel, end the repression of pro-Palestinian students and faculty,” and to “cue ties with Boeing.”
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Senate Votes Down Resolution to Withdraw Troops From Syria: “Another Regional War Without Debate”
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com
The Senate on Thursday voted down a resolution that would have directed President Biden to withdraw all US troops from Syria, where US forces have come under frequent attack in response to President Biden’s support for Israel’s Gaza onslaught.
The bill failed in a vote of 13-84 and received support from seven Democrats, five Republicans, and one Independent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT). The resolution was introduced by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who argued the US occupation of eastern Syria risks a major regional war.
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Teachers Across Oakland Host Anti-Israel ‘Teach-in’ in Defiance of School District
On Wednesday, dozens of teachers in Oakland, California defied the school district and taught pro-Palestinian lesson plans to students during an all-day “teach-in.” They said the curriculum is a “corrective” to pro-Israel educational material.
Despite the Oakland School District publicly opposing the event, the Oakland Education Association endorsed the anti-Israel course work which resulted in wide participation from teachers across Oakland, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Truck Drives Into Crowd Awaiting Bakersfield Christmas Parade
A pickup truck backing up “very fast” struck three people in a crowd waiting for the start of Bakersfield’s Christmas parade Thursday night.
The three injured were identified as men ages 21, 42 and 77; all were taken to a hospital, Bakersfield TV station KBAK reported. They are expected to survive, police officials said.
The driver, a 72-year-old man, was arrested. Police say alcohol is suspected to be a factor in the crash.
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Video Shows Fuel Tanker Truck Engulfed in Flames on Turnpike in Palm Beach
On Thursday, Selena Gomez raised some eyebrows when she seemingly confirmed she is dating music producer Benny Blanco.
Video showed a fuel tanker truck engulfed in flames after a crash and explosion on the Florida’s Turnpike in Palm Beach County Friday morning.
The incident happened around 6 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the Turnpike north of Boynton Beach Boulevard, close to Lake Worth and Boynton Beach.
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue officials said the impact of the crash split the tanker open. It was carrying about 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel and 7,500 gallons of gasoline.
A plume of black smoke could be seen from far away as the fuel burned.
The driver of the semi was able to escape unharmed, officials said.
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Watch: Plane With ‘Harvard Hates Jews’ Banner Seen Flying Over College Campuses
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Anti-Defamation League launched an investigation Thursday after a plane, carrying the Palestinian flag and banner with a provocative message about Antisemitism, was seen flying over the Harvard campus.
A group claiming to represent Jewish students said they hired a plane carrying the message “Harvard hates Jews” to circle over Harvard and other Ivy League campuses over the next “several days.”
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On Thursday, a woman was arrested after getting caught trying to burn down the birth home of American civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr in Atlanta, Georgia.
Laneisha Shantrice Henderson, 26, has since been charged with second-degree arson and, because the home is operated by the National Parks Service, interfering with government property.
According to the Atlanta Police Department, officers were called to the historic home on 501 Auburn Avenue around 5:45 pm Thursday following reports of vandalism in progress.
Upon arrival, they found that the suspect, Henderson, had been stopped from carrying out the crime by a number of civilians, and was being held down by two off-duty officers with the New York City Police Department who just happened to be visiting the home that day.
[Comment: The arrested person is an African-American, and some claim she is an Antifa.]
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“Nobody Will Defend Spain Better Than the Spaniards”: An Interview With Pablo Mariñoso
Pablo Mariñoso is a graduate in international relations, a reporter for La Gaceta, and a regular contributor to other media, such as Revista Centinela, La Iberia, and Libro sobre Libro. Mariñoso is the spokesman for the Romance de Ferraz, an initiative that arose in support of the protests against amnesty for Catalonian separatists.
Why do you go to Ferraz every night?
I am going to Ferraz, together with hundreds and thousands of young people, to save Spain. These are not just demonstrations against the amnesty; they are in favour of the unity of Spain and the freedom of Spaniards—freedom to pray the rosary, to demonstrate, to express opinions. Nor is it just a protest—it is a vindication: a vindication of faith, through the rosary; a vindication of Spanish literature, for example, with the reading of the romance; and even of Spanish traditions, such as the barbecue that was held in Ferraz. Many older people also attend, which shows that youth is an attitude of the soul.
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Can Europe Have a Nuclear Renaissance?
Despite the criticism of nuclear power in Europe, which has led to the termination of every German reactor and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s view that nuclear power is not “strategic” for decarbonisation, it is important not to overlook the positive steps being taken. These include the backing by MEPs of small-scale reactors and the Parliament’s decision to put nuclear on the list of technologies eligible for preferential treatment. Yet there is, as panellists at The European Conservative’s latest event made clear, much more to be done.
Highlighting the scale of the problem, Ladislav Ilcic, a Croatian MEP who serves as a member of the Bureau of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Group, said that “we are losing on all possible levels.” He explained that most of the mainstream media coverage “is not based in common sense” and they will “always play the game against” those who support a pro-nuclear shift; just as there aren’t enough supporters on the political and academic levels to produce any meaningful change.
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EU Leader in Tough Trade Talks With China
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, is visiting China for talks on Russia sanctions and the imbalance in EU-Chinese trade. The AFP reports:
On the economy, von der Leyen stressed that Europe was not trying to “de-couple” itself from the Chinese powerhouse, but to “de-risk” ties that had become too one-sided. “We have seen a growing trade imbalance. The trade imbalance has doubled in the last two years up to almost 400 billion euros by now,” she said.
According to Politico, the EU leadership is worried about the combination of a trade deficit and the recent slowdown in the Chinese economy.
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European Elections: Is the New ‘Rural Alliance’ a Cover for Macron?
A newcomer in the race for the European elections, a French list designed to defend rural life, has just been launched, headed by Willy Schraen, the head of the French hunters’ federation, under the name ‘Alliance rurale‘ (Rural Alliance). Although defending the countryside is traditionally a right-wing issue in French politics, the head of the list denies any conservatism and intends to reconcile rural lifestyles with “modern values.”
The list was officially unveiled on Tuesday, December 5th, with the stated aim of defending a “happy rurality.”
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Far-Left MEP Kicked Out of Group for Harassing Over a Dozen Assistants
A member of the European Parliament has been kicked out of the far-left France Insoumise group following allegations that she harassed at least 13 different parliamentary assistants since 2019, including behaving aggressively towards the employees.
MEP Anne-Sophie Pelletier was booted from France Insoumise (LFI) after the party announced her departure in a press release on Monday, December 4th. They stated that 13 parliamentary assistants had claimed “degraded working conditions and harassing, inappropriate, and aggressive behaviour towards them on the part of Anne-Sophie Pelletier,” Le Parisien reports.
The LFI group added that the behaviour of Pelletier was incompatible with the party’s values and that it would be taking measures to make sure the parliamentary assistants who made the accusations would be able to keep their positions.
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Nearly 4 in 10 Muslim students in France opted against unequivocally condemning the stabbing of teacher Dominique Bernard by an Islamist extremist on Oct. 13 in recent polling.
The Ifop survey asked a weighted sample of 1,805 students in French state education between the ages of 15 and 17 the following: “A teacher, Dominique Bernard, was murdered by an Islamist of Ingush origin in a high school in Arras. When you think of the perpetrator of this assassination, what is your reaction?”
When accounting for all students, 91 percent expressed total condemnation of the murder, 3 percent said they condemned the attack but shared some of the motivations of the jihadist, 2 percent refused to condemn the attack, and 4 percent said they were indifferent regarding the issue.
However, when focusing purely on the demographic of students who are practicing Muslims, the figures changed considerably.
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German Left Loses Parliamentary Status After Ten MPs Leave Party
Is the end in sight for the socialist Die Linke party after it was stripped of its parliamentary status in the German Bundestag? The grouping was placed into a state of financial liquidation, following the departure of Sahra Wagenknecht MP and her faction of nine other MPs, critical of the party’s embrace of woke culture and support for mass immigration.
Founded in 2007, Die Linke has been riven by intense faction-fighting over the party’s response to the Ukraine war and migration as the rise of the AfD cut into its traditional heartland in the former DDR.
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Germany: Limited Political Support for Banning AfD
CDU MP Marco Wanderwitz, who for months has been working to amass support for draft legislation that seeks to ban the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, has refused to say how many MPs support his anti-democratic initiative, leaving some to believe he’s failed to collect the small number of signatures required to bring the motion before the Bundestag.
When asked by the daily newspaper Die Tageszeitung how many MPs he’s managed to persuade to sign on to the plan, Wanderwitz declined to provide details on specific individuals who have endorsed the plan or the total number of supporters he already has.
Wanderwitz, the former Eastern Commissioner under Merkel’s federal government, had previously expressed his desire to bring the draft legislation before the Bundestag—which requires the support of a mere 36 MPs (5%)—by the end of this year.
Now, quite possibly lacking the backing he needs, Wanderwitz has pushed the date back.
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A father and son accused of injuring 17 people when they intentionally burned down their poorly performing fashion business to claim on the insurance are standing trial in Germany.
Both are charged with 13 counts of attempted murder, among other counts of grievous bodily harm, and arson.
The regional court in Aachen heard how the son, 22-year-old Karsan K., poured 13 liters of gasoline into the fashion store in Eschweiler back in March this year and set it on fire, causing a mass explosion that left dozens injured.
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Germany’s Left Party Loses Parliamentary Faction as Rival Left-Wing Party Led by Wagenknecht Rises
Since midnight on Tuesday, the German Left party no longer has a parliamentary faction in the Bundestag. The left-wing party, which was founded in 2005 and still had nearly 12 percent of the vote in 2009, is losing hundreds of thousands of euros in funding.
The Left achieved only 4.9 percent in the 2021 parliamentary elections, which normally would have left the party unable to enter parliament, but three of its candidates also won direct seats, allowing it to form a parliamentary faction despite falling short of the 5-percent threshold,
After a year and a half, however, the party’s problems have only grown worse, according to Hungarian news outlet 444.hu. At the party congress in June 2023, its leadership openly distanced itself from the dissident Sahra Wagenknecht, who was also called on to resign her seat. She has since signaled she will form her own rival party, with polling showing it will spell the end of the Left party.
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Hungary Receives First of 44 German Leopard Tanks
Hungary has received the first German-made Leopard battle tank, with 44 more on the way, Defense Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky announced on Wednesday.
In a social media post, the Hungarian minister wrote, “What did you all get from St. Nicholas? The Hungarian Defense Forces received one of the world’s most modern tanks.”
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Ireland: Tech Platforms Commit to Censorship After Dublin Riot
In the wake of the Dublin riots in backlash to an alleged immigrant’s knife attack against children, social media giants have come forward to reiterate their commitment to censorship. Tanaiste Micheal Martin expressed major concerns regarding the efficiency of social media platforms in rallying massive crowds in the wake of the disruption.
Meta, TikTok, and Google representatives took center stage before the Oireachtas media committee, addressing the international attention Dublin received. They discussed issues related to media literacy, misinformation, and their response to the riots.
However, the absence of representatives from X at the committee drew criticism from pro-censorship ministers.
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Liechtenstein: Prince Constantin Dies ‘Unexpectedly’ Age 51, Says Royal House
His Serene Highness Prince Constantin of Liechtenstein died “unexpectedly” aged 51 this week, the Princely Family of the European nation said.
A statement from the Liechtenstein Fürstenhaus this week revealed the death of His Serene Highness Prince Constantin of Liechtenstein. The youngest son of the present reigning Prince of Liechtenstein Hans-Adam II, Constantin was seventh in line.
No cause of death was given and the family said the death had come “unexpectedly” to the 51 year old European royal and businessman. Radio Liechtenstein reports Constantin had studied law in Germany in the 1990s and was a member of the Austrian Council for Sustainable Development.
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In an interview with Mark Steyn for the Jewish Independent over a decade ago, I mentioned several ‘far-right’ figures and included the name of Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP who had emerged as one of Islam’s fiercest critics during the War on Terror years. “What are you talking about?” Steyn sputtered, “I’m far-right: pro-life, pro-traditional marriage. I like Wilders, but he’s to the far Left on every one of these issues! The civilization he wants to defend is Amsterdam’s vibrant gay scene!” This was coming from the man who wrote the foreword to Wilders’ 2012 memoir Marked for Death: Islam’s War against the West and Me, which describes Wilders’ ideology as well his life under police protection since a price was put on his head by angry Islamists.
Steyn was right. Wilders is not a conservative—at least, not in the sense that most Christians would understand the word. He is a staunch defender of the sexual revolution and the consensus of the last half-century—a man who believes that abortion should be legal but that madrassas should not. While he occasionally gives a nod to the Christian heritage of the West, he is more likely to cut it out. I remember watching a speech he gave in 2010 at a protest in New York City, where the construction of a mosque was being planned within spitting distance of Ground Zero. At one point in his speech, he quoted Abraham Lincoln. “Those who deny freedom to others,” he told the crowd, “deserve it not for themselves!”
I recognized the quote—it hung on my wall at home and was taken from a letter Lincoln wrote to H.L. Pierce on April 6, 1859—but Wilders had removed half of the sentence. The full quote reads: “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.” The omission sums up Wilders’ worldview quite succinctly—he treasures the freedom, but not the source.
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Poland’s New Liberal Government to Introduce a Ministry of Equality, According to Media Reports
According to unofficial sources, the new government under Donald Tusk is set to restructure the existing Ministry of Family and Social Policy. TVN24 television reported the possibility of creating two new ministries: the Ministry for Senior Policy and the Ministry of Equality.
Marzena Okla-Drewnowicz, a Civic Platform (PO) member, is slated to head the former, while Katarzyna Kotula from the New Left is expected to lead the Ministry of Equality.
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Right-Wing Surge Projected in 2024 EU Elections
Leftist parties together with the center-right EPP dominated the European Parliament in the past five years, practically excluding the two conservative groups (ECR and ID) from Brussels’ decision-making process. However, it’s not going to be easy to do so after June 2024 if the latest predictions materialize.
The projections published by EU Matrix, a leading Brussels-based analytical research agency, on December 5th, predicts left-wing parties losing seats across Europe to the sovereigntist Right, finally making a right-wing majority in the EU Parliament a possibility.
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Russia Hacking Western Politicians, Journalists to ‘Undermine Trust in Politics’, Warns UK
Russian hackers are “selectively” leaking material obtained by hacking the devices of members of Parliament, Civil Servants, think tanks, journalists, and NGOs in Western states to “undermine trust in politics”, the UK government has asserted.
The Russian Federal Security Services, the FSB, is “behind a sustained effort to interfere with our democratic processes”, British government ministers have announced, revealing they were subjecting Russian hackers to sanctions and encouraging targets to improve their cyber security. The hacking efforts have been ongoing for many years, it was claimed, and are targeted both against prominent figures and organisations in the United Kingdom and other “like-minded states
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Spain: Madrid: Socialist Neglect Leads to Two Train Derailments
A series of accidents on medium distance trains in Madrid have shown the neglect of the central government for the Spanish capital’s basic infrastructure.
Isabel Diaz Ayuso, the president of the Madrid region, promised on social media to do everything she could to protect citizens in the face of the lack of investment by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’ government.
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Sweden Shuts Down Publicly Funded School Over Jihad Links
Swedish authorities have shut down a school in Stockholm after the Swedish security police Säpo produced evidence that the students attending the school were at risk of becoming radicalised as several staff members have ties to Jihadism.
The Swedish Schools Inspectorate revoked a permit for ALM Education, which runs the Cordoba International School, named after the capital of Islamic-ruled Spain according to the school, in the Stockholm suburb of Kista as the newspaper Aftonbladet reports that board members of the company had ties to Islamic extremist groups.
One staff member who worked for a preschool run by ALM Education is even said to have been involved with a terrorist group in the past.
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Swedish MEP Staffer Among Victims in Brussels Shooting
Four people were injured Wednesday night in Brussels after a shooting in the heart of the Belgian capital near the European Parliament with a female member of the Swedish European People’s Party (EPP) delegation among the wounded.
The shooting happened in the Porte de Namur shopping district outside a local Apple shop at around 7:30 p.m., according to official statements. One of those shot suffered critical injuries and was rushed to a nearby hospital. The gunman swiftly left the scene as onlookers took refuge in an adjacent retail store.
Police were quick to cordon off the district and ruled out terrorism as a motivation for the attack. An EPP spokesmanperson confirmed to Politico that their employee was recovering from their wounds.
The name or the professional background of the thirty-year-old Swede has so far not been given though she is believed to be affiliated with the centrist Moderate Party. An official police statement ruled out the possibility of more than one attacker.
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Anti-terrorism police have been called in to investigate the use of an IED which was used to blow up a Ulez camera sending burning pieces of shrapnel flying through a London neighbourhood.
Residents living close to the blast zone in Sidcup have described the blast as ‘deafening’ akin to a ‘bomb going off’.
Police say the attack — which occurred on Wednesday in Sidcup — was a deliberate act carried out with a ‘low-sophistication’ IED and that officers with ‘specialist expertise in explosives’ are leading enquiries.
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UK: Elderly Woman Dies After Foreign Carers Fail to Grasp Basic English
Barbara Rymell, who suffered from dementia, was 91 when she fell down some stairs and became trapped under a stairlift after being left unattended at her Somerset care home. Her two carers, who were Romanian and Indian, were unable to explain to emergency services what had happened, failing to understand the difference between the resident being “alive” and “alert,” or “breathing” and “bleeding.”
An inquest has heard that their poor grasp of English meant it was “virtually impossible” for the call handler to make a “meaningful” assessment of Mrs. Rymell’s condition, which was classified as “serious” rather than requiring an “immediate” response. By the time paramedics did arrive at the home, Mrs. Rymell had died.
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UK: Sunak Pushes Ahead With Smoking Ban
The British government is not messing about with its plan to phase out smoking. And unlike measures to stop illegal migration, it looks as though this actually will be carried through, even if (or when) the Tories lose the next election, since it has the backing of Labour.
Ministers will make it an offence for anyone born after 1 January, 2009 to be sold tobacco in England. It is not yet clear how officials will police the purchasing of tobacco on behalf of someone born after this time by another born just slightly before it during the likely jolty, “two-tiered” phase-out period.
A consultation on these plans ended on Wednesday. This received around 25,000 responses—far more than the piddly 567 picked up by the government’s call for evidence on AI in education.
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Vatican Threatens German Episcopate With Excommunication Over Liberal Reforms
Pope Francis’ first-in-command has threatened the German episcopate with excommunication due to increasingly liberal policies.
Hungarian newspaper Mandiner reported on a letter sent by Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to the German episcopate indicating that if “the German daughter church wanted to accept homosexual relationships or attempt to ordain women as priests,” it would be disowned by the Catholic Church.
This is the result of a “synodal journey” by the German particular church over several years. While a Synod of Bishops on Synodality was held in the Vatican in October under the leadership of Pope Francis, the German Church, led by the secular Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), has been on a very different reform path since 2019. This has led to the initiation of fundamental doctrinal changes in the church and has brought it close to schism.
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Gallant Cites ‘Signs’ Hamas is Beginning to ‘Crumble’ in Gaza
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Friday he was seeing definite “signs indicating the terrorist regime of Hamas was beginning to break under the pressure of Israel’s military offensive.
Gallant delivered the statement during Hanukkah candle lighting with troops of the Border Defense Corps’ Caracal Battalion and Armored Corps on the Gaza Border.
“The results are very impressive,” he said. “I see signs showing Hamas is beginning to fall apart in Gaza. You all play a key role in this,” he said.
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Israeli MP: UN Agency Drives Islamist Radicalization
It’s no secret that the schools run by the UNRWA—The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the UN agency created in 1949 exclusively to aid Palestinian refugees—use textbooks that glorify terrorism and incite children against Israeli Jews, both in Gaza and the West Bank.
However, the organization’s structural problems run much deeper than just the textbooks, and the entire UNRWA must be dismantled to end the Islamist indoctrination that fuels Hamas’ perpetual war against Israel, Knesset Member Sharren Haskel warned at an event organized by MEPs of the European Conservative and Reformist (ECR) Group. The event, “How to stop radicalisation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” was held in the European Parliament on Wednesday, December 6th.
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The United Nations told Americans to stop eating meat in order to mitigate climate change, then they served gourmet meats at their climate summit in Dubai.
The UN’s COP28 climate summit features an online portal showing all the luxe food items available at the summit, from specialty wagyu burgers to barbecue, African street meats, Philly cheesesteaks, and so much more. Meanwhile, Americans are told to eat less meat overall and the World Economic Forum suggests we eat bugs.
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New Pledges of Military and Finanical Support to Ukraine Down 90 Per Cent in a Year: Report
A German research body that tracks donations to Ukraine says the value of pledges fell almost 90 per cent between Autumn 2022 and 2023, with levels dwindling since this Summer, around the time of Kyiv’s ‘Spring Offensive’.
Pledges of military and financial aid to Ukraine are now lower than they were before the renewed Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Keil Institute says of its latest tranche of data published through its Ukraine Support Tracker programme. Noting donors have become “more hesitant in recent months”, Christoph Trebesch, a director at the Institute claimed “a further delay” to large aid programmes planned by the European Union and the United States of America would “significantly strengthen Putin’s position”.
Illustrating the degree to which aid was drying up for Ukraine, the report stated “Newly pledged aid hit a low between August and October 2023” and had fallen a remarkable 87 per cent compared to the same period in 2022. The value of promises to Ukraine is now the lowest since January 2022, the month before Russia renewed its invasion.
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Surprise! Putin Confirms He’s Running for President Again
President Vladimir Putin isn’t going anywhere — at least in political terms. Russian state media said Friday he has announced his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election which he is all but certain to win.
The Kremlin is rallying support for Putin’s fifth presidential term by pitching him as the defender of traditional Russian values against the “liberal” West as the war in Ukraine grinds on.
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There Will be No Lasting Peace in Ukraine, Warns Former Head of Polish Diplomacy
The former foreign minister of Poland expressed skepticism about the prospect of achieving lasting peace in Ukraine in an interview with Poland’s DoRzeczy.pl.
Witold Waszczykowski warned that the current negotiations could result in only the permanent annexation of Crimea and a majority of the Donbas region, rather than a sustainable peace agreement. Waszczykowski noted that many predict a temporary pause in hostilities, after which Russia might resume its aggressive actions.
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Ukrainians Load Their Trucks Onto Rail Cars to Bypass Polish Trucker Blockade
Ukrainian transport companies are now utilizing a costly but effective solution to bypass the Polish trucker blockade at border crossings, with the Ukrainian companies loading trucks onto rail cars and transporting them across the border.
The strategy, aimed at mitigating the impact of the ongoing protest by Polish transport companies, costs €1,600 for each truck loaded onto a rail platform. According to Volodymyr Balin, the vice president of the Association of International Road Carriers, Ukrainian exporters are preparing for this shift in transport method.
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West No Longer Sees Ukraine as Something Special, Expert Says
According to the expert, Moscow’s “strategic decision to try to hold on longer than the West is working”
LONDON, December 9. /TASS/. Western countries no longer see the Ukraine conflict as their own security issue, Jacob Kirkegaard, senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), told the Financial Times.
“Ukraine is no longer special. It is no longer regarded as this issue of national security, of paramount importance for the EU, NATO, or the United States. Because if that was the case, people wouldn’t be playing politics with it,” he said, as cited by the newspaper.
“It is a devaluation of the Ukrainian war effort. There is no other way to put it, in my opinion. And that, for Ukraine, is a terrible situation,” Kirkegaard added, commenting on the situation surrounding additional US and EU aid for Ukraine. According to the expert, Moscow’s “strategic decision to try to hold on longer than the West is working.”
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Authored by Matthew Lysiak via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Immigrants who illegally cross the border into Arizona are being handed $5,000 in good-as-cash gift cards, along with cell phones and costly plane tickets, all of which are being paid for by the American taxpayer, according to Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb.
Mr. Lamb, sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, told The Epoch Times that he had been informed of the lucrative hand-out through his close sources working at the United States border.
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Asylum Crisis in Germany Worsens as Over 300,000 New Claims Made in 2023 So Far
Asylum claims made in Germany this year surpassed 300,000 in November, representing a 60 percent increase on last year’s figure with one month still to go.
Data published by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) showed that 35,316 initial applications were submitted last month, taking the total for 2023 to 304,581 first-time applicants which rises to 325,801 when accounting for follow-up applications.
The figure does not include Ukrainian refugees of which over 1 million have arrived in Germany since the Russian invasion of Ukraine’s eastern territories in February last year.
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A sixth person has been arrested after a controversial ruling from the High Court that released 140 immigration detainees including hardened criminals.
The Australian Federal Police said a 36-year-old Eritrean-born man was arrested late on Friday in Melbourne’s west after he failed to comply with a curfew set out in laws rushed through parliament in response to the High Court’s ruling.
Temesgen Tsegay Gebreyonas is set to appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Saturday.
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Billboards plastered with the phrase ‘New York City Welcomes Immigrants’ are popping up across El Paso, promising migrants that it’s a ‘sanctuary city.’
The signs have appeared around the Texas border city in the last few days on roadside announcements and on the sides of trucks.
A member of ‘Concerned Americans,’ the group behind the billboards, explained the messages are meant to let border crossers know New York, Chicago and San Francisco are open to having them in their community.
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African and Middle Eastern migrants who failed to breach the Finnish border from Russia are being offered work permits by Moscow on one condition — that they fight on the front line in Ukraine for a year.
According to the BBC’s Russian Service, the Kremlin is seeking to repurpose the migrants it is accused of allowing into Russia only to facilitate a mass influx of asylum seekers on the European Union’s external border.
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France: National Assembly Rejects Bid to Change Franco-Algerian Immigration Deal
The question of renegotiating an agreement signed in 1968 between France and Algeria is being raised as part of the immigration bill to be examined on Monday, December 11th, by the French National Assembly. The agreement grants major privileges to Algerians in France in terms of employment, movement, and residence. The Right is in favour of renegotiating the agreement, but the government is hesitating.
In 1968, six years after Algeria’s independence, France, under General de Gaulle, signed an agreement with the Algerian government granting numerous privileges to Algerian nationals wishing to travel to France, work there, or settle there.
In practice, the 1968 agreement, governed by international law, exempts Algerians from ordinary French immigration law and allows them to benefit from special privileges. The agreement makes it easier for Algerians to enter France. They benefit from legal entry conditions and therefore do not need long-stay visas. It enables them to obtain a residence permit, valid for 10 years, more quickly than nationals of other countries. Their conditions of access to family reunification are also more favourable: family members admitted to reside in France receive a residence permit for the same duration as the person they are joining. Algerian nationals can also apply for a 10-year residence certificate after just 3 years of residence, compared to 5 years under ordinary law.
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German State to Refuse Citizenship to Anti-Israel Migrants
A German state has called for the denial of citizenship to migrants who hold anti-Israel views as the country continues to contend with a surge of antisemitism since the October 7th massacres by the terrorist group Hamas, with the state urging other regional governments to follow their lead.
The state of Saxony-Anhalt, located in Germany’s east, has stated that all migrants looking to become German citizens will be required to write that they do not support the dismantling or destruction of the state of Israel.
According to a report from broadcaster Deutsche Welle, the new policy was announced by the state’s interior ministry and calls on local authorities to be vigilant regarding the opinions migrants exhibit on the subject of Israel and to watch out for antisemitic attitudes.
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Germany: CDU Fears Islamist Bloc as Millions of Turkish Migrants to be Granted Voting Rights
New German citizenship laws that expand voting rights to up to 2.5 million recent migrants are unnerving even the usually complacent CDU, with one conservative lawmaker airing fears that the new arrangement could enable a potential Islamist bloc to attain parliamentary representation in the Bundestag.
The migrant voters are expected to be added to the electoral registry under plans by Berlin’s ruling traffic light coalition to fast-track naturalisation among Germany’s foreign-born population, which would reduce the residency time needed to attain citizenship to as little as three years.
This rapid and politically calculated expansion of suffrage has lent itself to fears of a Turkish-led Islamist takeover, with CDU MP Alexander Throm stating that the proposed legislation could fuel the “demographic potential” for an AKP-controlled spinoff party in Germany.
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Germany is facing an unprecedented influx of illegal immigration from predominantly Islamic nations that hate Western culture, and mainstream parties must solve the problem before voters trust more radical groups to take control, a former German minister has warned.
Jens Spahn, who served as CDU health minister in Angela Merkel’s fourth cabinet from 2018 to 2021, warned in no uncertain terms of the consequences of mass immigration from areas that refuse to respect Western liberal ideals.
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The German capital of Berlin pays €1.5 million per day to house migrants in 12 buildings, consisting of 10 hotels and 2 migrant arrival centers, according to data released for the first time in response to a request from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) faction in the Berlin Senate.
The overall costs for housing these migrants amount to €547 million for 2023 alone. That is over half a billion in just one German city, and it does not even capture the full costs of housing migrants in Berlin, as it only covers the 12 buildings in question. These buildings include the two migrant arrival centers at Tempelhof and Tegel airports, both of which are decommissioned airports, as well as 10 hotels that are being rented by the government to house migrants.
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Italian Council of Ministers Approves Migrant Outsourcing Deal
The Italian Council of Ministers has paved the way for Albania to take migrants from Italy to process their asylum claims. The Council, headed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, approved an agreement signed as part of a memorandum of understanding between Italy and Albania last month.
The agreement will set up two migration centres in Albania, with Italy hoping that as many as 3,000 illegal migrants will be processed in the centres every month, RAI reports. In turn, this would free up space in Italy, which has seen a surge of illegal arrivals in the last year.
Prime Minister Meloni praised the Council of Ministers’ approval of the proposal saying, “The agreement with Albania is innovative, useful and a precedent that can be set in many countries in full compliance with international law.”
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared in a speech after visiting Washington, D.C., that he sees the “cold reality” his city will have to face the migrant crisis on its own for the time being.
The migrant crisis has plagued the mayor for more than a year and, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, Adams’ approval rating sits at 28% among self-identified registered voters. The rating is the lowest Quinnipiac has ever recorded for a New York City mayor since it began tracking the statistic in 1996.
On Thursday, Adams traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with congressional leaders and Biden officials to appeal for more federal aid for the sanctuary city’s migrant crisis. He broke the news that he left empty-handed at a press conference with religious leaders the next day.
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Pakistan is Deporting Illegal Afghan Migrants En Masse and Germany is Taking Them in
The first flight of 188 Afghan migrants expelled from Pakistan for living in the country illegally has arrived in Leipzig as the German federal government vows to accept vulnerable Afghans who don’t wish to return to their Taliban-governed homeland.
According to Zeit Online, the charter flight that touched down in Germany this week from Islamabad was the first of its kind since the Pakistani government announced in October that it was adopting a mass deportation program for an estimated 1.7 million Afghan illegal migrants from the country citing national security.
The move was announced after new data revealed a majority of suicide bombings in Pakistan this year were carried out by Afghan nationals.
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House Democrats have issued a strong call to Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, urging them to address what they call the widespread issue of abortion “misinformation” on their social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and X.
These concerns were expressed in two letters from the House Oversight Committee.
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An American boy who says he is a “transgender” girl has won a slot in the Irish Dancing World Championships for girls after winning a girls’ competition he switched to when he lost competing against other boys.
“Parents think it’s outrageous,” one parent told the Daily Signal, which broke the story after the boy placed first in a regional dance competition for girls in the United States. “They are absolutely outraged. It’s absolutely ridiculous, just like in any other sport …The feeling is one of fundamental unfairness,” this parent added. “And then obviously the frustration and resentment that goes along with that.”
American parents are protesting the decision after the boy placed first in the under-14 south region competitions that took place in Dallas, Texas, according to the Daily Signal
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLJKRUYFHP4
English social advertising.
I don’t know the link to the original source, there is only a translation into Russian, which migrants distribute through their channel with the caption “Putting an impudent Nazi in her place”
‘Great replacement theory’
Ramaswamy also boosted the “great replacement theory,” the white nationalist belief that immigration policies are designed specifically to dilute the political power of white Americans by making them a smaller share of the population.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ramaswamy-defends-debunked-conspiracy-theories-shared-republican-debate/story?id=105464858
I asked (under a fake account) a migrant human rights activist who was deported from the Russian Federation and now lives in Illinois what she thought about Vivek Ramaswamy.
“There are also idiots and scoundrels among the migrants. The Indian community is STRONGLY AGAINST Ramaswamy, he is a migrantphobe.” – she answered.
How about a “great replacement fact”? Look at London. No mere “belief” somebody has.
Vivek is the Ross Perot of this election. He’ll blurt anything. 🙂
How does your Russian contact know what the Indian community is strongly against, Elena? Maybe I am misunderstanding and she is Indian?
No, not Indian. She is a citizen of Uzbekistan, but claims to be Ukrainian. Although she has a Russian mother. She has been working on replacement migration issues in Russia for 15 years. All this time she received foreign grants from IOM, Caritas, etc.
In 2021, the FSB deported from the Russian Federation.
If you are interested, she is quite famous, her name is Valentina Chupik.