Up to 10,000 protesters gathered in Berlin, along with thousands of tractors, in the continuing farmers’ protest against the government’s removal of diesel fuel subsidies and other agricultural policies. Truckers have joined the revolt to show their solidarity with the farmers.
In other news, according to early returns, Donald Trump won the Republican Iowa caucuses with more than 50% of the vote, a record for Iowa. Ron DeSantis edged out Nikki Haley for second place.
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WEF Predicts Economic Doom for Coming Year
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is warning that leading economists are predicting global economic doom for the coming year.
According to a survey by the WEF, around 56% of top global economists predict that the world economy will weaken in the coming year.
The globalist organization, which was founded by German economist Klaus Schwab, says fueled by geopolitical risks and increased localization are fueling the predictions.
While regional growth expectations vary, none are expected to do particularly well in 2024, the WEF warns.
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Anti-Israel Agitators Target Cancer Hospital in NYC as Patients Watch From Inside
On Monday, a large group of anti-Israel agitators descended upon Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, accusing the institution of supporting genocide.
While many in the crowd appeared indifferent to the plight of those inside the hospital, some of whom watched the raucous procession from the windows, the loudest participants in the march made it clear that they wanted them to hear their chants.
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Bill Ackman Vows to Sue Business Insider After Accusations of Plagiarism Against His Wife
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman threatened to sue Business Insider after the outlet published two articles that accused his wife, Neru Oxman, of plagiarism in her 2010 doctoral dissertation.
Ackman said on Monday that Business Insider and its parent company, Axel Springer, “have tripled down on their false claims and defamation” after the outlet made plagiarism accusations against Oxman, a prominent designer and former MIT professor.
“By complaint I mean lawsuit, to be clear,” Ackman added on X.
Just hours earlier, Ackman said that Business Insider “is toast” in a post that included a scene with the quote “At My Signal, Unleash Hell” from the 2000 film “Gladiator.”
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A Portland Antifa group has claimed responsibility for torching a politician’s car on Jan. 12.
In a blog post to its page, the Antifa group said it burned Portland City Commissioner Rene Gonzalez’s car as “an act of community self-defense and a form of mutual aid” and that their “only regret is not attacking the other two vehicles” belonging to the residence.
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Breaking: President Trump Says He’s ‘Honored’ and ‘Invigorated’ by Iowa Caucus Win
After the projected results of the Iowa Caucuses, former President Donald Trump has said that he is “greatly honored” as well as “invigorated” with the victory.
An interview with Trump from Fox Digital took place shortly after the decision desk at the outlet called Trump to be the projected winner.
“I feel great,” Trump told the outlet. “I am greatly honored by such an early call.”
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CNN Iowa Entrance Poll: 68% Believe Joe Biden Didn’t Legitimately Win Election
Sixty-eight percent of Iowan caucusgoers do not believe President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election, while 30 percent think he did, a CNN entrance poll found Monday evening.
The poll also asked respondents if former President Donald Trump is fit for the presidency, even if convicted of a crime. Sixty-four percent said he was, while 34 percent said “no.”
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Deaths of Homeless Reach Record High in King County, Washington
King County, Washington set a record for homeless deaths in 2023, a number that was revealed as temperatures in the Pacific Northwest plunged below freezing.
According to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, 415 people died while “…on the streets or stayed in a shelter, vehicle, or abandoned building at the time preceding death,” in Washington’s most populous county, according to the Seattle Times.
The number was the highest since data started being recorded in 2003 and 34 percent higher than the previous record of 309 set in 2022.
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Emergency Crews Scramble to White House After 911 Caller Says it’s on Fire
WASHINGTON — The White House became the latest target of a bogus 911 call Monday morning when someone falsely claimed the historic building was on fire.
DC Fire and EMS spokesman Noah Gray told The Post the tip came in at 7:03 a.m.
Crews were rolling one minute later “and in coordination with the Secret Service, it was determined there was no fire emergency.”
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Publishing giant Simon and Schuster’s conservative imprint Threshold Editions is releasing a new edition of Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow’s New York Times bestselling book, Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption, Breitbart News has learned. The new version, available in paperback, comes out Tuesday, January 16, and contains original material. Readers can also get the book on Kindle and in audiobook form read by the author.
Not only is Breaking the News the most comprehensive book detailing media corruption in the Donald Trump era of American politics, it contains ground-breaking details about how corporate America colluded with Democratic politicians to prevent Trump from winning reelection.
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Fauci’s Former Boss Says COVID Lab Leak Theory Was Not a Conspiracy After Calling it ‘Distraction’
Dr. Francis Collins, the former National Institutes of Health director, told a congressional subcommittee on Friday that the coronavirus-lab Wuhan leak theory was not a conspiracy after calling it a “distraction” in 2021.
“Dr. Collins agreed with Dr. Fauci’s concession that the COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy,” Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic, wrote following Collins’ closed-door testimony on Friday.
“Dr. Collins minced words over the definition of gain-of-function research in an effort to hide the NIH’s involvement in funding the dangerous research in Wuhan. This wordplay mimics Dr. Fauci’s profuse defense of his previous Congressional testimony where he claimed the NIH did not fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan,” Wenstrup also wrote.
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Former Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Defends Stance on Gun Restrictions Despite Backlash
Dick’s Sporting Goods Executive Chairman Ed Stack defended the company’s decision to tighten its gun policies in 2018 even after facing strong backlash.
Stack spoke candidly at NRF 2024: Retail’s Big Show in New York City on Monday, saying he firmly believed it is important for the sporting goods retailer, in certain issues, “to really step up and make a statement.”
During a discussion with NRF CEO Matt Shay, Stack said the country is “holding businesses accountable for how they view different issues in the world, how they run their businesses, how they treat their employees, how they treat the communities that they serve.”
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Under fire Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis stands accused of paying one of her special prosecutors $100 less per hour than her less-qualified alleged lover Nathan Wade.
Court records show Wade billing the Fulton District Attorney’s office $250 per hour for his work prosecuting Donald Trump and 18 others on state racekteering charges over 2020 election interference in November and December 2021, despite having no experience in that area of law.
Meanwhile John Floyd — regarded the state’s foremost expert on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) cases — was only billing $150 an hour in those same months, according to a contract obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
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Judge Cannon Denies Jack Smith’s Motion to Force Disclosure of Trump’s Defense Argument Plans
Special Counsel Jack Smith has just failed in his effort to force President Donald Trump to disclose a particular defense argument he might raise during the eventual trial.
Smith sought a court order last year in the federal classified documents case to force Trump to disclose his legal plans.
Much to the humiliation of Smith, however, the move provoked outrage from the presiding judge.
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LA Times Endorses ‘Team Player’ Adam Schiff for Senate: ‘The Natural Choice’
The Los Angeles Times editorial board has just issued a glowing endorsement for Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) Senate campaign.
Schiff is one of several high-profile Democrats running for the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) vacant Senate seat.
In Sunday’s paper, the LA Times heaped praise on Schiff, describing the congressman as a “team player” who would be “the natural choice” for the Senate.
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Major Green Energy Project Was Dependent on Biden Waiving Taxpayer Safeguards, Internal Docs Show
A green energy project was not financially viable until Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration intervened and removed safeguards designed to protect taxpayers, according to newly emerged internal documents.
The 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind project in Massachusetts recently became the first utility-scale offshore wind project to deliver electricity to the grid.
However, unearthed communications show that federal officials with Biden’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) acknowledged that granting a waiver on development fees designed to safeguard taxpayers was “critical” for the green energy project.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Threatens to Oust Speaker Johnson
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is threatening to have House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) removed from his powerful leadership position.
Greene issued the threat during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room show.
This comes after Johnson negotiated a government spending agreement with Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
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Native American Man in Superhero Costume Charged With Sex Abuse of Homeless People in Oregon
On January 12, a man in Eugene, Oregon was arrested and charged in connection with the sexual abuse of numerous homeless people.
Reginald Luke Black Elk III, 29, was said to have carried out the alleged crimes while wearing a “unique” red and black superhero costume.
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Radical Climate Activist Calls on Terrorists to ‘Save the Planet’ by Blowing Up Pipelines
A far-left climate activist is calling for green agenda terrorists to take extreme action to “save the planet” by blowing up gas and oil pipelines.
Author and radical climate activist Andreas Malm laments that “unfortunately” there are not “a thousand pipeline explosions per year” currently.
However, the “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” writer argues that we could soon reach this “extreme level” of terrorism and insists that deaths are “inevitable” in the fight against the so-called “climate crisis.”
Malm made the shocking comments during an interview with the New York Times about his upcoming book, “Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown.”
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RFK Jr. Defends Dad’s Wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.: ‘Politically, They Had to Do That’
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his father’s decision while US attorney general to wiretap civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., describing the move as a “political” calculation.
The longshot 2024 candidate told Politico during a campaign stop in Atlanta on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day that “there was good reason” for Robert F. Kennedy to authorize FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s wiretap.
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Swastika Spray-Painted Near Holocaust Memorial in Philadelphia
A swastika was discovered spray-painted on a wall next to the nation’s oldest Holocaust memorial in Philadelphia, sparking a vandalism probe.
The hateful symbol, measuring about 2 feet by 2 feet, was spotted early Sunday on the wall of the Verizon building on Arch Street adjacent to the Horowitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza, police said.
Surveillance video caught a masked man quickly scrawling the Nazi insignia with green spray paint around 1:30 am, according to the authorities.
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Trump Easily Wins Iowa Caucus in Landslide First Vote of 2024 Presidential Race
DES MOINES, Iowa — The first contest was no contest at all.
Former President Donald Trump was projected to win the Iowa caucus in a blowout Monday night — confirming his standing as the clear front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination.
With hundreds of caucus meetings across the Hawkeye State still in progress, media outlets called Trump as the winner with fewer than 10 precincts having reported their vote tallies to the Iowa Republican Party.
With less than 0.5% of the expected vote in, Trump had 70% support, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (15%), former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (8%) and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (6%).
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Following a mob of pro-Palestinian agitators attempting to tear down fencing surrounding the White House on Saturday night, 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump criticized the mainstream media’s lack of coverage and called for the release of protestors arrested on January 6, 2021, at the Capitol.
“So interesting to watch anti-Israel protestors violently demonstrating at the [White] House, getting close to tearing down the fences that protect the President, and NOTHING is even mentioned about it in the LameStream Media, which is merely a subsidiary of the Democrat Party,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “No arrests, no nothing. Free the J6 Hostages, NOW!!”
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Canadians Support Trump Over Trudeau: Spark Advocacy Poll
A recent poll conducted by Spark Advocacy has found that support for Donald Trump has grown in Canada since Joe Biden took office, with 33 percent of respondents saying they would vote for the former president over his successor if given the opportunity.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau currently has the support of just 31 percent of Canadians, according to the Angus Reid Institute’s tracker, suggesting that he is less popular among Canadians than Trump.
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“Witch Hunt:” MEPs Threaten to Strip Hungary of Voting Rights
Members of the European Parliament are preparing for the next big push in their offensive against Hungary in a bid to prevent the country’s conservative government from assuming the Council’s rotating presidency in July, also barring PM Viktor Orban from simultaneously becoming the European Council’s interim president if Charles Michel’s permanent successor is not found in time.
Along with Michel and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the European Parliament’s Strasbourg plenary is set to debate the Hungary situation on Wednesday, then vote on a resolution the day after. This could potentially include a call for the European Council (EUCO) to start another infringement procedure (Article 7) against Hungary to eventually suspend its membership rights—but chances of that actually transpiring remain slim.
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10,000 Expected at Tractor Protest Against German Government as Truckers Join Rebels
Monday is to be the biggest day yet for German anti-government protesters as thousands of tractors and now truckers are expected in Berlin as the workers who keep society fed and clothed push back against the green agenda.
German Police attempted to limit the impact of a huge protest against the coalition government’s anti-agriculture policies on Monday, saying they had set a hard limit on the number of vehicles permitted to attend. Officers on the outskirts of the city have been stopping muckspreaders and turning them around, preventing tractors towing loads of manure from entering Berlin, reports the Berliner Morgenpost.
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Arctic Chill Triggers Snow and Ice Warnings in UK and France
The UK and France are under yellow weather warnings for snow and ice as a surge of Arctic air envelops northern Europe this week.
The Met Office predicts four days of icy conditions, posing travel disruptions from Scotland and Northern Ireland to Wales and northern England. Meanwhile, northern France faces alerts for snow and ice, impacting a considerable area.
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Belgium Ranks Third Most Stressful European Country Globally
In the quest for an ideal place to settle, a recent ranking has aimed to unveil the least stressful countries and cities globally. Compiled by William Russell Insurance, specializing in services for expatriates, the list evaluates countries and cities based on stress factors like cleanliness, quality of green spaces and LGBTQ safety.
Mumbai, Bangalore and Nairobi have emerged as the most stressful cities, with Brussels securing the 30th spot, making it the third most stressful European city after Rome and Athens, as reported by the Brussels Times.
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Belgian Police Arrest Teenage Terror Suspect Over Possible Anti-Semitic Attack Plans
Belgian police have apprehended a 19-year-old individual from Antwerp on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack targeting a Jewish institution.
The arrest is also linked to allegations of the illegal possession of weapons, as disclosed by the responsible public prosecutor’s office on Sunday evening, according to reports from the Belgian news agency Belga. A decision on a potential arrest warrant is expected to be made early this week by an investigative court, according to reports.
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Danish Right Shaken Up by Populist Party’s Surprise Dissolution
Shocking even some of her own party colleagues, New Right (Nye Borgerlige, NB) leader Pernille Vermund announced the dissolution of her party on Wednesday, January 10th, saying that the move was necessary to consolidate Denmark’s highly fragmented right-wing political scene.
The New Right was founded on national-conservative, anti-migration, Eurosceptic, and libertarian principles in 2015, and has been a parliamentary force since 2019. The party gained 3.7% in the 2022 general elections, translating to 6 parliamentary seats in the 179-seat parliament, the Folketing.
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Despite Rising Prices, Polish Supermarkets Remain a Shopping Haven for Czechs
Poland’s recent surge in prices hasn’t deterred Czech shoppers from flocking to popular Biedronka stores, known for accommodating trunk-sized loads, Novinky.cz writes.
While the new year and a change in government have led to increased costs, Czech visitors are still drawn to Polish supermarkets for their larger purchases.
Despite an unfavorable exchange rate of 5.8 Czech crowns to one Polish zloty, Biedronka stores near the Czech-Polish border continue to attract Czech shoppers. In the border town of Kudowa Zdroj, Czech license plates filled ninety percent of the supermarket parking lots, contrasting with half-empty stores in the neighboring town of Nachod.
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Disturbed Behavior Reports Slightly Up in Dutch Police Records
The Dutch police recorded a record number of 141,759 instances of individuals exhibiting disturbed behavior in 2023, according to NL Times. Although this marked a 2% increase from the previous year, authorities emphasized that the substantial annual growth observed in recent years is stabilizing.
In 2014, approximately 60,000 reports were filed for peculiar behavior, rising to 100,000 in 2019 and reaching 138,810 in 2022.
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EPP Leader Weber Declares Full Support for Polish PM Tusk’s Controversial Conservative Crackdown
Manfred Weber, the leader of the European People’s Party group in the European Parliament, has declared full support for the new Polish government’s initiatives aimed at “reinstating the rule of law and rebuilding democracy in Poland.”
Speaking to the Polish Press Agency (PAP) in Brussels, the German MEP endorsed Donald Tusk’s controversial attempts to, in his view, restore democratic principles to the country. Actions taken by the government have included a crackdown on public broadcasters perceived to be too critical of the Tusk regime, while the new prime minister has also supported the detention of two conservative lawmakers, Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Wasik, who were seized at the Presidential Palace last week, sparking mass protests in Warsaw.
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EU Continues to Attack Hungary But Stays Silent on Brutal Power Grab in Poland, Says Hungarian MEP
Despite the takeover of public media and the arrest of opposition figures in Poland, the next plenary session of the European Parliament will be another Hungarian debate based on lies and slander, said Hungarian MEP Tamas Deutsch during an appearance on a political talk show on news channel HirTV.
During the discussion, anchor Zsolt Bayer and the politician discussed the brutal crackdown on the conservative opposition in Poland.
Deutsch stressed that in the almost dozen proposals in the Strasbourg plenary session, various left-wing slanders against Hungary will be repeated again. At the same time, there will be no discussion of the events happening in Poland.
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Europe at the Crossroads: Nuclear Energy’s Dividing Impact and the Rise of the Nuclear Alliance
The question of nuclear energy has divided Europe. While Germany has shut down its nuclear power plants, and Spain plans to do the same, some other EU countries are opening theirs.
The 2011 Fukushima disaster impacted nuclear energy development in Europe. Germany abandoned nuclear power, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted a shift.
Countries like France, Poland, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic are now planning nuclear expansion.
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In an exclusive interview with Remix News, Polish opposition MP Krzysztof Bosak, deputy speaker of the Sejm, explains how Donald Tusk and his left-liberal coalition are making the rule-of-law issue a lot worse in Poland after years of bad reforms of the judiciary by Law and Justice
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German Farmers Clog Berlin Streets With Tractors in Protest Against Diesel Subsidy Cuts
The demonstrations are rooted in wider discontent with Germany’s government
Farmers clogged Berlin streets with their tractors on Monday, honking their horns in protest at a plan to scrap tax breaks on the diesel they use, the climax of a week of protests that has tapped into wider discontent with Germany’s government.
Columns of tractors rolled into the capital ahead of the demonstration at the landmark Brandenburg Gate. Over the past week, farmers have blocked highway entrances and slowed traffic across Germany with their protests, intent on pushing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government to abandon the planned cuts entirely.
They’re not satisfied with concessions the government has already made. On Jan. 4, it watered down its original plan, saying that a car tax exemption for farming vehicles would be retained and the cuts in the diesel tax breaks would be staggered over three years.
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Germany Preparing for Russia to Start World War 3, Leaked War Plans Reveal
Europe is preparing for Russian President Vladimir Putin to expand his country’s war in Ukraine and attack NATO ally countries next year, leaked documents published in German newspaper BILD reveal.
According to the outlet — which obtained the classified military information from the German Ministry of Defense — the country’s armed forces are gearing up for a “hybrid” Russian attack in Eastern Europe.
The newspaper detailed how multiple potential alarming scenarios could unfold in the months ahead.
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Belgian Development Minister Caroline Gennez, who belongs to the Socialist party, has sharply criticized the German government’s policy of backing Israel.
“It is difficult to understand why Germany is allowing itself to be pulled along by this Israeli government, which is pursuing a shameless colonization policy,” the Social Democrat politician from the Vooruit party told Knack magazine.
“The question arises as to whether our German friends will really be on the wrong side of history twice and whether they will continue to stand by and watch ethnic cleansing take place,” she said.
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German Pharmacies Are Accused of Illegally Reselling COVID Medications
The German Federal Ministry of Health provides pharmacies with the Paxlovid medication for free to combat severe cases of COVID. However, some pharmacists are alleged to have seized the opportunity for substantial illegal profits, as reported by Spiegel.
An investigation is underway against several pharmacists in Bavaria for allegedly illegally selling the COVID medication Paxlovid abroad.
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Germany: CDU Chief Merz Announces Firewall Against Maaßen’s Union of Values Party
In the aftermath of a closed-door session of the CDU executive board held in Heidelberg, party leader Friedrich Merz announced a significant decision regarding the party’s relationship with the Values Union (WU). Merz revealed that the matter would be subjected to a party conference vote scheduled for April.
Emphasizing the CDU’s renewed commitment to conservatism, Merz categorically ruled out any potential collaboration with the AfD. Additionally, he made it clear that the Values Union, led by CDU member and former President for the Protection of the Constitution Hans-Georg Maaßen, is also excluded from future alliances, the German press reported.
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In a remarkable turn of events during the first round of voting in the district election in Thuringia’s Saale-Orla district, AfD state parliament member Uwe Thrum emerged as the clear frontrunner, clinching an impressive 45.7 percent of the votes.
Following closely behind was Christian Herrgott (CDU) with a notable but trailing 33.3 percent. These two contenders are set to face off in the runoff election scheduled for January 28th, the German press reports.
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Lava Engulfs Houses in Iceland Despite Heroic Efforts to Build Earthwork Defences to Save Town
Houses have been hit by lava flows in southwestern Iceland as a long-dormant volcano erupts for the second time since cracks opened in the earth in November.
Enormous emergency earthworks thrown up in response to the awakening of a long-dormant volcano in Iceland are working well, authorities say, but even so lava streams have reached the edge of Grindavik, Iceland, engulfing homes. Thousands of people have been evacuated from Grindavik again as a second eruption started on Sunday, and a second fissure closer to the town than the first opened, allowing lava to flow to a residential street.
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Poland’s Morawiecki: ‘Now, I Understand Brexit’
In a Sunday interview with London’s Daily Express, the former prime minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, spoke against increasing centralization within the EU and warned that the “dangerous” EU “will implode.”
Morawiecki, of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, has admitted that he now understands why the British voted for Brexit, pointing to the ongoing centralization of the European Union. Morawiecki warned that while the EU has its advantages, these centralizing tendencies could lead to its implosion.
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Romania and Ukraine Begin Talks on Bilateral Security Pact
At the initiative of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine has started negotiations with Romania on a bilateral security pact, the Ukrainian presidential office announced.
The negotiations, which took place in Davos, Switzerland, were attended on the Ukrainian side by Head of the Presidential Administration Andri Ermak, his deputy Ihor Jovkva, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Mikola Tocitsky, and on the Romanian side by State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Iulian Fota.
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Send Money: W.H.O. Appeals for ‘Quick’ $1.5+ Billion in Additional Funding
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Monday issued an appeal from its Geneva, Switzerland, headquarters for upwards of $1.5 billion in additional funding to respond to health crises it sees evolving around the world.
“We aim to reach some 87 million people with life-saving humanitarian assistance this year,” said W.H.O. Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Reuters reports.
“To do this, we need support totalling $1.5 billion, and we need this funding to arrive as early as possible and with as much flexibility as possible… A reactive approach is not enough.”
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Survey Reveals Growing Trend of Childlessness Among Young Women in Finland
In Finland, a recent survey conducted by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) reveals a rising trend of childlessness among women under 35, as reported by The Helsinki Times.
According to the Healthy Finland survey, 73% of women aged 20-34 have not given birth, marking an increase of eight percentage points since 2017. Conversely, births among women over 35 have slightly increased by two percentage points over the last six years.
The survey shows that 39% of women and 44% of men under 50 express a desire to have children in the future with higher proportions among 20-29-year-olds, where 62% of women and 69% of men express this wish.
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On Friday, Justice Minister Adam Bodnar, who also holds the post of prosecutor general, announced that Dariusz Barski is no longer the head of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office, alleging that previous Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro had made a procedural error in appointing Barski.
Minister Bodnar proceeded to appoint Jacek Bilewicz to the post of “acting national prosecutor,” a post which is not recognized by law, without consulting Polish President Andrzej Duda. The law obliges the minister to consult any dismissal or appointment for the post of National Prosecutor with the head of state.
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Trump ‘A Political Threat’ to UK — Ex-MI6 Chief
by RT
Former US President Donald Trump’s potential reelection could be “problematic” for British national security due to his stance on NATO, the former head of the MI6 intelligence service has warned.
Richard Dearlove, who led MI6 from 1999 to 2004, was discussing potential threats to the UK in 2024 in an interview with Sky News on Sunday. He pointed to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the “long-term behavior of China,” before moving to the US presidential race.
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UK: Just Stop Oil Protesters Now Say They Want Free Palestine as They Link Up With Gaza Activists
The eco-activists joined in the action by wielding placards and holding banners over the weekend
Just Stop Oil (JSO) joined forces with pro-Palestine protesters as they marched through the streets of London this weekend to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Over 200,000 demonstrators marched through the capital in the first major demonstration of 2024, with the Met Police confirming that it had to make six arrests.
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Just when you thought you had heard the most horrendous stories of the terror unleashed on thousands of girls by Rochdale grooming gangs, more episodes emerge.
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UK: ULEZ Camera Destroyed at Chislehurst War Memorial
Police have launched an investigation after traffic lights and a ULEZ camera have been damaged in Chislehurst.
The incident happened at Royal Parade just before 4am today (January 15).
Police have launched an investigation and enquiries are ongoing.
No arrests have been made at this stage.
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Volcanic Eruption in Iceland’s Grindavik Leaves Residents in Limbo
The evacuated residents from the Icelandic town of Grindavík now fear that they may never be able to return to their homes after Sunday’s volcanic eruption propelled lava towards the residential area, setting houses on fire and damaging water and electric supply.
The Fagradalsfjall volcano situated on the north of the Icelandic fishing village of Grindavik erupted early on Sunday (Jan 14), just hours after residents were evacuated in the vicinity of the area.
The eruption took place at 8:00 am (0800 GMT), according to the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO).
“A crack has opened up on both sides of the dykes that have begun to be built north of Grindavik,” the Met Office wrote.
Thirty-one-year-old David Ingi Bustion, an architect whose family have lived in the fishing town of Iceland for over three years said that the latest lava explosion has left the 3,800 residents of Grindavík in uncertainty over the town’s ability to be habitable ever again.
“We don’t know what will happen now. It has thrown a question mark over people’s lives,” The Guardian quoted Bustion as saying. “A few houses have burned but the water pipes and electricity have been damaged so there is no heating and it’s been really cold.”
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Between Brussels and Moscow: Interview With Dragan Stanojevic, Member of the Serbian Parliament
On December 17, parliamentary elections to the National Assembly were held in Serbia. The victory of the pro-presidential coalition (which, as a result, won the majority of mandates) was the trigger for large-scale rallies organized by the pro-Western coalition. The main “joker” of the elections is considered to be the”We are a voice from the people” movement, which advocates anti-Western rhetoric and the strengthening of diplomatic and economic relations with Russia. Voice of Europe spoke to Dragan Stanojevic, one of the founders of the sensational party, who spoke about the plans of the political force, the situation in Serbia and the global war between East and West.
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Caroline Glick: Victory is More Important Than U.S. Support
At his press conference Tuesday evening, U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken showed that contrary to popular belief, the Biden administration is not Israel’s ally. It is the greatest obstacle to Israel’s victory.
Blinken began his remarks by drawing a moral equivalence between the suffering of Israeli hostages and their families and that of the Palestinians in Gaza. The Palestinians in Gaza, who overwhelmingly support Hamas, are just as innocent as the hostages, Blinken insisted.
Blinken said nothing about the torture, rape, mutilation and deliberate starvation of the hostages carried out by Hamas terrorists and its civilian accomplices alike. Instead, Blinken spoke of the “acute food insecurity,” that Gazans suffer from—and blamed that “acute food insecurity” on Israel.
“Israel needs to do everything it can to remove any obstacles from [aid] crossing to…Gaza. Improving deconfliction procedures to ensure that the aid can move safely and securely is a critical part of that,” he said.
The body responsible for distributing “humanitarian aid” in Gaza today is the United Nations, through UNRWA. Blinken ignored completely the documented fact that thousands of UNRWA employees posted fulsome praise for the Oct. 7 slaughter on social media. He ignored the overwhelming evidence that UNRWA schools and clinics are Hamas military bases. He ignored that UNRWA employees have been credibly accused of holding Israeli hostages and deliberately starving them. And he ignored that UNRWA employees, including all of its regional directors in Gaza, have been credibly accused of being Hamas terrorists themselves.
Burying his head deep in the sand, Blinken cooed, “The United Nations is playing an indispensable role in addressing the immense humanitarian needs in Gaza. There is simply no alternative.
“UN personnel…in Gaza are demonstrating extraordinary courage by continuing to provide lifesaving services in what are extremely challenging conditions.”
Israel, he demanded, must join the United States in giving the United Nations its “full support.”
As for Israel’s military campaign to wipe out Hamas, Blinken said that military operations must take no toll on civilians, even if that means that Israel will lose the war.
“We know that facing an enemy that embeds itself among civilians—who hides in and fires from schools, from hospitals—makes this incredibly challenging. But the daily toll on civilians in Gaza, particularly on children, is far too high,” said Blinken.
The only way to separate the civilians from the terrorists and so protect them is by permitting them to leave Gaza, just as 6 million Ukrainians left their country since the Russian invasion.
Gazans are so eager to leave that the Guardian reported they are paying $10,000 to middlemen to bribe Egyptian officials to let them leave. But the United States will have none of it.
“The United States unequivocally rejects any proposals advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza,” said Blinken with a scowl.
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Hamas released more sick video Monday featuring the faces of three Israeli hostages — and asking viewers for their opinions on whether the terror group should kill them.
The twisted “game” surfaced several hours before the Palestinian terror group aired footage that forced one of the captives, Noa Argamani, to reveal the other two hostages had been killed
In its first footage Monday, Hamas asked viewers, “What do you think?” when it came to whether the three hostages should live or die.
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Israel Pounds Targets Across Gaza, Awaits Hamas Word on Three Hostages
Israeli forces bombarded targets in the south, north and centre of the Gaza Strip on Monday ahead of an expected announcement by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on the fate of three Israeli hostages shown in a video clip at the weekend.
Twelve Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli airstrike overnight on a house in Gaza City in the north, health officials said, while plumes of smoke rose above the main southern city of Khan Younis shelled by Israeli tanks.
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Two Palestinians Kill Woman, Injure 17 in Coordinated Israel Car-Rammings: Cops
Two Palestinians launched a coordinated pair of car-rammings Monday in an Israeli city popular with Americans — killing an elderly woman and injuring 17 others.
The two suspects were arrested after the terror attacks in Raanana north of Tel Aviv, violence that left at least seven children and teenagers among the injured.
The suspects were identified as Ahmed Zidat, 25, and Mahmoud Zidat, 44, both residents of the southern West Bank town of Bani Naim who were blacklisted from Israel after illegally entering multiple times, the Times of Israel reported.
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Woman Killed, 17 Wounded in Car-Ramming, Stabbing Spree by 2 Terrorists in Ra’anana
Children, teens among injured; cars seized from owners during attack; police arrest the suspects — Palestinian relatives from Hebron area who were working illegally in the city.
(THE TIMES OF ISRAEL) An elderly woman was killed and 17 people were injured, including at least seven children and teenagers, in a car-ramming and stabbing attack by two Palestinian terrorists in the central Israel city of Ra’anana early on Monday afternoon.
During the attack, the perpetrators — two West Bank Palestinians who were working in Israel illegally — seized three vehicles and rammed pedestrians in several locations in the city, also stabbing one or more of their victims, according to police, medics, and eyewitnesses.
Meir Hospital said a woman in her 70s, who arrived in critical condition, succumbed to her wounds. She was later named as Edna Bluestein, 79, from Ra’anana.
The two suspects were named as Ahmed Zidat, 25, and Mahmoud Zidad, 44, both residents of the southern West Bank town of Bani Naim, close to Hebron. According to the Shin Bet, both had been blacklisted for entering Israel illegally numerous times in the past.
The attack began at about 1:30 p.m., as schools were dismissing students for the day.
According to reports, one of the terrorists attacked a woman driving a black jeep on the city’s Haharoshet Street, pulled her out of the car, and rammed it into three people.
The terrorist then got stuck and abandoned the car, before stealing a second vehicle and continuing down the street, ramming into more people.
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Explosions Reported Near US Consulate in Iraq
Several explosions were reported near the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, Iraq, an Iraqi security source told ABC News.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps quickly took responsibility for the attacks, saying it was targeting the “headquarters of spies” and “anti-Iranian terrorist gatherings in parts of the region” with ballistic missiles.
Four people were killed in the IRGC bombings, an Iraqi security source told ABC News.
There were no coalition forces or American forces killed in the bombing of Erbil, the Iraqi security source told ABC News.
Coalition forces also shot down three drones near Erbil airport in Iraq, the source said.
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Houthis Fire Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Toward U.S. Warship, Defying Washington-Led Coalition
United States Central Command said Sunday that Houthis fired an anti-ship cruise missile towards the USS Laboon, a guided missile destroyer at approximately 4:45 p.m. local time while it was operating in the Southern Red Sea.
U.S. fighter aircraft shot down the missile in the vicinity of the coast of Hudaydah, Yemen, Centcom said.
There were no injuries or damage reported.
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Navy Seals Lost Off Somali Coast Were Searching for Iranian Weapons Shipment to Yemen
The Navy SEALs who were lost at sea on Thursday had been searching for a suspected Iranian weapons shipment that was set to go to Yemen.
During the nighttime mission, one SEAL was knocked off a boat in the rough seas and another went in after him. They are still yet to be found.
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UK Considers Further Actions Against Houthi Rebels in Yemen
The United Kingdom does not rule out the possibility of conducting further attacks on targets associated with Houthi rebels in Yemen, as reported by Rzeczpospolita.
British Defense Minister Grant Shapps stated that the country will “wait and observe” before taking new actions but emphasized that freedom of navigation in the Red Sea must be protected in accordance with international law. This decision follows recent Houthi attacks on civilian ships in the Red Sea.
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Ex Polish PM: Ukraine Strategy Failed
In an interview published Friday with the UK’s Express tabloid newspaper, former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki acknowledged that Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive was “not successful.”
He admitted that Russia currently holds the strategic upper hand, warning that the war in Ukraine is “going in the wrong direction.”
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‘Money is Still Money’ — Western Corporations Keep Doing Business With Russia
Regardless of the war, Russia is a market of 140 million people, GDP per capita at purchasing power parity is growing, and so is the annual household income per capita, which reached $7,873 in December 2022 compared to $6,566 in 2021. Consequently, despite inflation, Russians still have money to buy products.
After Feb. 24, 2022, Western firms had three strategies to choose from, depending on how much they succumbed to pressure and how their operations were affected by the series of sanctions “manufactured” on the assembly line. Of course, those who chose to withdraw typically justified their decision on moral grounds, while those who stayed put forward different explanations.
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Ukraine Says it Destroyed $330M Russian Spy Plane and Airborne Command Post
Ukraine said on Monday it had destroyed a Russian Beriev A-50 spy plane and an Ilyushin Il-22 airborne command post in the Sea of Azov area, dealing a blow to Russian military operations in occupied southern Ukraine.
“Ukraine’s Air Force destroyed an enemy A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft and an enemy IL-22 air control centre,” army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
“I am grateful to the Air Force for the perfectly planned and executed operation in the Azov Sea region!”
Reuters was unable to verify the statement independently.
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Ukraine Destroys Russian Spy Plane and Command Aircraft — Army Chief
KYIV, Jan 15 (Reuters) — Ukraine’s military said on Monday its air force destroyed a Russian Beriev A-50 surveillance plane and an Ilyushin Il-22 airborne command post in the Sea of Azov area in an operation that could delay some future Russian missile strikes.
Kyiv did not disclose how the sophisticated aircraft were struck. The Sea of Azov lies roughly 100 km (60 miles) from areas Kyiv holds. Russia’s defence ministry had no immediate comment.
Ukrainian army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, who announced the hits on Telegram messenger, posted a video of an aircraft tracking map suggesting the planes were struck over the Sea of Azov, which lies to the east of the occupied Crimean peninsula.
Reuters was unable to verify his statement independently.
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— She is just one of millions doing it tough
Despite Ms Reed working six days a week as a disability support worker she still has to share the home with four other people to bring down rental costs.
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Outrage Over Push to Ban Wood Heaters Across Australia: ‘What Happens When the Power Goes Out?’
Despite a new study showing the deadly effects of wood heaters calls to ban them from urban areas have been derided as an example of the ‘health Gestapo’.
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Voice Architect Launches a Scathing Four-Word Attack on Malcolm Turnbull and His ‘Elitism’
One of the architects of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament has launched an extraordinary attack on former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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The Sudanese-born man, 37, was one of more than 140 people released into the community in late 2023 after the High Court ruled indefinite detention was unlawful.
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Only half of Ukrainian refugee children in Europe attend local schools, according to ABC News, citing UN data.
It is likely that many of them continue their education remotely in Ukrainian schools. Additionally, only 40-60% of adult refugees are employed.
The UN states that many Ukrainians in the EU “remain vulnerable, lacking means of livelihood,” and “require increased and sustained support.”
Therefore, this year, the organization will request $4.2 billion in aid for Ukrainians: $3.1 billion for people in Ukraine and $1.1 billion for refugees in neighboring countries.
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Eric Adams to Put Illegal Immigrant Shelter Under Curfew Due to Rising Crime, Complaints of Begging
New York Mayor Eric Adams is moving forward to impose a curfew on several illegal immigrant holding facilities in the city after a rise in crime and complaints about panhandling.
According to reporting from the New York Post, illegal immigrants who have been staying in temporary housing facilities will now have to clock in by 11 p.m. and remain inside until 6 a.m. in the morning.
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Germany: The Term “Remigration” Deemed ‘Worst Word’ of the Year
In a recent announcement from Magdeburg, the jury of the “Unword of the Year” campaign has declared “remigration” as the undesirable term for the year 2023.
This campaign, not affiliated with any specific institution, highlighted that the word has gained prominence as a euphemism in right-wing and extremist circles, particularly within the Identitarian Movement and right-wing political parties, according to a report from the German press. It is used to mask the demand for forced expulsion and mass deportations of individuals with a migration background.
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Thus, Germany became the leader in the overall ranking. This information is reported by TRT Deutsch, citing data from the European Union Asylum Agency (EUAA).
The combined number of asylum seekers in Spain and France is lower than in Germany. Hungary is at the bottom of the list among EU countries, with only 31 asylum applications registered there.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was pressed about his management of the city amid its migrant crisis and whether it means raising taxes on citizens.
Republican governors like Greg Abbott of Texas have sent buses of asylum seekers to Democratic-controlled states and sanctuary cities. Republicans argue the action is necessary to show the rest of the country what border states are dealing with due to the surge of migrants. The bussing of migrants to major cities like New York City and Chicago has forced some Democratic leaders to admit the migrant crisis is overwhelming their cities and that President Biden has failed to take proper action to stem the tide.
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Netherlands: Refugees Received 6% of Social Housing in 2021
In 2021, refugees with residency permits in Netherlands constituted only 6% of the new tenants in rent-controlled housing corporations, contrary to assertions suggesting their prioritized allocation, as reported by Dutch News.
The national statistics agency CBS revealed that out of 169,000 available housing corporation homes, just under 10,000 were assigned to refugee families during that year.
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Portugal Faces Demographic Challenge as 30% of Young Population Emigrates
Approximately 30% of young individuals born in Portugal currently reside outside the country, with over 850,000 Portuguese aged 15 to 39 living abroad, as reported the Portugal Resident. Experts caution that this mass departure will significantly impact national fertility rates and the labor market.
The findings are derived from the “Atlas of Portuguese Emigration” prepared by the Observatory of Migrations, highlight Portugal’s status as having the highest emigration level in Europe and among the highest globally. The continuous outflow of the younger population is exacerbating the demographic challenge.
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A new report from Tenet Media has revealed that police officers in San Antonio, Texas have been hired by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to facilitate the smuggling of illegal immigrants at the southern border.
Tenet reporter Tayler Hansen revealed that police officers in San Antonio are taking the deal as a side gig in addition to their usual income.
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Texas Has Moved Over 100,000 Foreign Nationals to ‘Sanctuary Cities,’ Including 37,100 to NYC
Since April 2022, more than 100,000 foreign nationals who have illegally crossed the border have been bused or flown from Texas to six sanctuary cities. This equates to roughly 5% of those who illegally entered Texas in fiscal 2023 alone, the highest number on record, The Center Square exclusively reported.
Gov. Greg Abbott began busing foreign nationals who illegally entered the U.S. and were unlawfully released by the Biden administration into Texas, he argues, to provide relief to border communities, including at least 50 that declared disasters citing the border crisis.
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Poland has long been celebrated by conservatives for being an ethnically and culturally homogenous country that rejected open borders, but that may soon change.
Over 100 civil society organizations and 550 celebrities and notables have signed a petition delivered to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk calling for the end to “pushbacks” on the Polish-Belarusian border, arguing that these do not have a humanitarian, legal or moral basis.
The appeal for stopping of pushbacks is not the first of its kind, but it is the first addressed to Tusk in his new role. His party had campaigned during the election on ending what it argued to be inhumane practices on the Polish-Belarusian border.
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University of Washington Health in Seattle, Wash. has mandated its white employees to undergo extensive diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training that forces them to yield positions of power to non-whites to atone for the racism that they were allegedly naturally born with, per documents obtained by End Wokeness and shared to X.
The DEI Training also requires white employees to learn how to be “antiracist” and forces them to provide examples of their so-called white privilege and fragility. It also instructs employees to take courses on unlearning the systemic racism that they were inherently born with, according to documents.
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The FBI has arrested a radical transgender gunman after he threatened to go out in a “blaze of glory” by going on a shooting rampage to kill “transphobes.”
On Friday, federal prosecutors charged “Elizabeth West” — a man who claims to be a “transgender woman.”
After a search of his home, agents found 27 guns and “tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition.”
West caught the attention of the FBI after he announced his plans in a Facebook post to the “Trans Woman Support Group.”
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In 2023, Belgium Witnessed Unprecedented Alterations in Gender Registrations, Setting a New Record
In the past year, a total of 633 individuals underwent changes to their gender registration in population records and civil status documents, as reported by The Brussels Times.
This process is tailored for those who feel that their birth certificate does not accurately reflect their personal gender identity. Individuals are able to declare the necessary changes before a civil status officer in the municipality where they are registered in the population or foreigner’s registry.
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Revealed: United CEO Scott Kirby is Drag Queen, Pushes Drag and DEI on Staff
The United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby who went viral for championing DEI measures for pilots at the company is also a drag queen in his spare time.
In photos revealed by Libs of TikTok, Kirby is seen dressed in drag and other events sponsored by the company had queens attending.
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Systemic Racism is a Conspiracy Theory Cult
What is a conspiracy theory anyway? Conspiracy theories are, by definition, things that other people believe. Nobody believes in conspiracy theories, they believe that other people do.
As an old dead white Elizabethan male who invented the toilet once quipped, “Treason doth never prosper. What’s the reason? Why if it prospers, none dare call it treason.” Like treason, a conspiracy theory with the backing of the establishment becomes an article of faith.
What’s the most dangerous kind of conspiracy theory? The kind no one dares to call what it is.
Political extremism is invariably based on a set of conspiracy theories. And when the extremists take power then their conspiracy theories become establishment dogma. The dividing line is easy to spot. Extremists who aren’t in power invent conspiracy theories about those who are, while extremists who are in power invent conspiracy theories about those underneath them.
The shift from conspiracies about an established upper class to conspiracies about bad ideas held by the lower classes, or from class warfare to political correctness, was also a power shift.
It’s a covert confession about who really runs things by the conspirators who actually do…
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The social democratic EU commissioner took the leaf from her mouth and clearly explained what the plan is:
To replace Europe’s indigenous peoples with immigrants from other parts of the world.
The European peoples must be replaced with foreigners, the Swedish EU commissioner Ylva Johansson (S) stated during a meeting in Athens on January 8 this year. If we don’t open up to even more foreigners, we will starve to death, she also said.
Talking openly about people exchange!
It is particularly interesting, however, that these statements come in the same vein as her own party at home trying to lie in a big way about its history and claiming that it has always been in favor of a “strict migration policy”.
We also see time and time again how so-called anti-racists claim that there is no population exchange going on, even though Ylva Johansson openly advocates just that in her role as EU commissioner.
Because what is she really saying? Here are some verbatim quotes, translated by me:
“The truth is also that without immigration we would starve […] In a normal year we have about 3.5 million legal immigrants coming, and about 300,000 irregulars coming. About 10% if you compare with the legal ones. Legal migration works very well, I must say, but it is not sufficient. Because for demographic reasons, the working-age population in the EU will decrease by one million per year. Already reducing by one million per year! This means that legal immigration should increase more or less by a million per year, and that is really a challenge.”
“Without immigration we would starve”,
says Sweden’s EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson (S).
She wants to increase immigration to the EU by over 25%, for demographic reasons. The shrinking domestic workforce must be replaced, million by million. That was the message in Greece on Monday.
To state that the native population is decreasing in number, and that it needs to be replaced by foreigners, is the very definition of a population exchange. There can thus be no doubt whatsoever that such a population exchange is partly ongoing, partly orchestrated and planned by politicians and other influential forces for a long time.
A sadist who hates Europe
The whole idea that Europe’s and Sweden’s expected labor shortage should be solved with mass immigration is baroque. It is not enough to destroy the ethnic, cultural and social community in the European countries that are being targeted. They also drain the outside world of labor that is needed in their respective home countries.
If you now manage to specify immigration to the extent that it is actually exactly the sought-after competence that immigrates to our continent, which is largely impossible, then that competence disappears from where it was trained — countries that are often dependent on aid from Europe! That immigration would save European welfare is in itself also a myth that has been debunked a thousand times, most recently just a few days ago by Professor Bernd Raffhüschen who stated that Germany is losing 600 billion on immigration. But the truth, as you know, has never been relevant to social democrats.
You have to be stupid in the head and/or a sadist to think it’s a good idea for someone. Which is admittedly the classic definition of a social democrat.
Also note in the film clip how Johansson constantly sneers every time she says something about the Europeans having to be replaced. She enjoys it. Ever since she began her political career in Communist Youth in the 1980s, she has been driven by her hatred of the sovereignty of the European peoples, and after the Stefan Löfven government appointed her as Sweden’s EU Commissioner in 2019, she has had the opportunity to pursue her heart issues about European people exchange at an international level.
She will most likely be replaced after the elections to the European Parliament which are held later this year, but unfortunately I have a hard time seeing that Sweden will send someone who is anywhere near better.
Dan Eriksson
President
Free Sweden
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Pro-illegal alien people always cry about “the work force” and demand “who will do those jobs?”. Their own words confirm my assertion that illegal immigration is the New Slave Trade.
Hogtied so- called “rebels”, wipe them off the face of the Earth. That shouldn’t be hard to do since they are just a bunch of barbarians still living in the 7th Century A.D.
As for my wood stove? Touch it and you will die.
Stockpile food and firewood and you will be alright.
Sorry, I meant houthies. Not hogtied. Damn spellchecker.
Mind you hog- tieing them would not hurt either. Lololol…
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The politicians in Gothenburg have decided that in future foreigners will be placed in Gothenburg’s more Swedish areas so that the Swedes are forcibly integrated into the multiculturalism.
But there are alternatives for those who wish for a Swedish future!
That the multicultural society is a catastrophic failure has finally dawned on more and more people. But instead of dealing with the failure through large-scale re-migration and a restoration of Sweden to a homeland for the Swedish people, we see more and more attempts at forced integration and an erasure of the Swedish oases that remain around the country.
Forced integration is increasing
The Social Democrats were clear in their recently published social analysis, which will form the basis of their policy going forward:
“The economic, ethnic and linguistic segregation needs to be broken on a structural level, which requires the population to mix. Society will have to implement efforts we have not previously done, on a scale we have not seen before.”
In recent months, we have seen proof of this social democratic forced mixing with the busing of students in Sandviken, and the plans to build together the immigrant ghetto Rinkeby with the significantly more Swedish Bromsten in Stockholm.
Gothenburg next city to be affected
Now it’s Gothenburg’s turn to be affected by the social engineering of the sossas. There, the red-green board has decided that “new arrivals” should be “placed” in areas with many Swedes, so that all parts of the city will be affected by multiculturalism. Not a single Swede should be able to get away and think they can move away from the Social Democrats’ dream of a Sweden without Swedish housing estates.
While the Kristersson government, with the good memory of the Sweden Democrats, continues to take in as many immigrants as they did under Stefan Löfven and Fredrik Reinfeldt, the municipal politicians are therefore working frantically to place them where Swedes live. This works in a similar way to the EU’s Migration Pact, which aims to ensure that no European country can oppose mass immigration and multiculturalism.
It is of the utmost importance that you as a Swede understand that the destruction of your country and your homeland is not a coincidence. It is a conscious policy from the highest hens in Brussels and Washington down to the municipal politicians in Gothenburg, Sandviken and Stockholm. Nor do they try to hide it, but are extremely clear with their vision of the forced mixed future.
A serious alternative for the Swedes must therefore be clear that what is required is massive remigration of all foreigners who do not want or cannot become part of the Swedish community, and a new constitution that clearly declares that Sweden is the country of the Swedes and that all others who we allow to settle here must respect this.
Take your own responsibility
At the same time that Swedish nationalists work in different ways to bring about this political change, it is also crucial that we make sure to secure our own, Swedish areas. We in Det fria Sweden do this by establishing meeting places in the form of the House of Swedes and networks of like-minded people in our own areas.
We are not going to sit on the sidelines and hope that some politicians will solve the problems for us. We will put pressure on them and work to inform the Swedes about what is happening, but at the same time we are building our own alternative to the increasingly corrupt and anti-Swedish state. Our goal is that whatever happens with politics, both in Sweden and in the world, we must secure a future for our people. This is not done by solely engaging in debates and demonstrations, but by tangibly creating areas that are by Swedes and for Swedes.
Welcome to do it together with us!
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Renaud Camus:
Philosopher of the Great Replacement
https://www.amren.com/features/2024/01/renaud-camus-philosopher-of-the-great-replacement/
“Truckers have joined the revolt to show their solidarity with the farmers.”
Canadian truckers?
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Rebuilding trust:
World Economic Forum annual meeting 2024
By Lars Hedegaard
This year’s meeting of the World Economic Forum, which starts today, is expected to attract a record number of business leaders, 1 600, arriving by private jet, according to its CEO, Jeremy Jurgens.
He doesn’t mention that the many money men also need to relax while solving the world’s problems, which is why kind-hearted and compassionate women from near and far have flocked to Davos to lighten the load of small lives deeply burdened by world improvements.
The theme of this year’s Davos meeting is “rebuilding trust”. And it’s about time, since the WEF was brought into disrepute by a series of failed announcements on climate change – that you shouldn’t own anything and that you should eat nothing but insects.
It turns out that there is no market for these goods, and since the 1 600 capitalists are short of profits, they have to come up with something new to ensure a safe return.
Now it has become trust. Before, it was hot air.
*) Secrets of Davos
The Dark Side of the World Economic Forum: Exploitation of sex workers in Davos.
Sex, drugs and treats inside the so-called “superbowl of capitalism” at the annual Davos meeting.
Davos party secrets: caviar, magic mushrooms, champagne and A-list private concerts.
It is a pleasure to read Lars Hedegaard and please continue the translation of his essays.