A passenger plane carrying nearly 400 people collided with a coast guard jet at a Tokyo airport and burst into a ball of fire, killing at least five crew members of the coast guard plane, which was taking aid to earthquake victims. Meanwhile, the death toll from the earthquake in Japan has risen to 55.
In other news, a small earthquake, estimated at 1.7 magnitude, struck New York City early this morning in the vicinity of Roosevelt Island. What sounded like a series of explosions popped manhole covers. Experts say the quake may be connected with an incident in which the celebrity rapper Lizzo fell off a stage.
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Aussie real estate could see more than a decade’s gains wiped out this year as the world faces the most dire economic shock since the Great Depression, an economic forecaster warns.
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Most Canadians Say They’re Financially Worse Off Since Trudeau Elected: Poll
A new Nanos poll has revealed that over half of Canadians say their personal finances are worse off today than they were in 2015, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first took office.
In 2015, Trudeau ran on an election campaign promise to “help the middle class and those aspiring to join it.”
However in 2023, with the high cost of living, inflation and interest-rate hikes, millions of indebted Canadians said that they will be voting with these issues being their top priority.
The polls saw 53% of respondents saying that their personal finances are worse now than they were eight years ago.
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With the imminent release of roughly 10,000 pages of documents (originally scheduled for Jan. 1, 2024) — expected to be a list of 156 John Does who were sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s friends, recruiters, and victims — former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has raised questions about the official account of the 2019 death of Epstein in federal custody.
Jeffrey Epstein died in federal prison while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, with the official cause of death determined as suicide by a New York City medical examiner.
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Al Gore Warns of Consequences of Failing WEF’s ‘Net Zero’ Agenda
“Eco-warrior” Al Gore has issued a warning to the public about what he claims will happen to Earth if humanity fails to comply with the “Net Zero” climate goals of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
In a fearmongering statement, the Democrat former vice president made an apocalyptic prediction about what the world will look like if the public refuses to kneel before the green agenda of unelected foreign globalists and corporate elites.
According to Gore’s latest dire threat, there will be a “billion” climate refugees crossing our borders if the public fails to “save the planet” from the so-called “climate crisis.”
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A man with links to the “Stop Cop City” movement was arrested on Saturday for an alleged arson attack on construction equipment in South Carolina.
In addition to setting a pair of trucks belonging to a construction company on fire, Seth Brock Spigner, 23, allegedly spray-painted others with slogans associated with the Antifa-fueled attempt to prevent a police training facility from being built in a forest just outside Atlanta, Georgia.
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American Water Facilities Targeted by Foreign Cyber Attacks
Water utilities are warning of a recent increase in cyber attacks against their facilities that appear to be coming from foreign hackers.
Experts are now warning that cyber attacks are putting the water supply at risk as their frequency increases.
The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyber attack.
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Berkeley’s Ban on Gas-Powered Appliances Once Again Blocked by Ninth Circuit
Berkeley became the first city in the nation to pass an outright ban on natural gas-powered stoves and other appliances in 2019, in an effort to combat climate change, and the local ordinance took effect in early 2020. But since then, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has thwarted the city, ruling that only the federal government has jurisdiction to enact such bans.
On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling denying an “en banc” rehearing of a case that was decided by a three-judge panel of the court last April. In that ruling, three Republican-appointed judges said that Berkeley could not regulate “the quantity of energy” being used by businesses or residences, and that such laws are the exclusive purview of the federal government.
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Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy responded to former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation on Tuesday in a post on X saying it was “better late than never.”
In an X post, Ramaswamy slammed Harvard University for their handling of the situation and talked about his own experience helping to appoint a new Harvard president.
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Biden’s DOJ Has Sentenced Jan 6 Defendants to a Combined 847 Years in Prison
In the nearly two years since the events of January 6, 2021 at the Capitol building, the Department of Justice under President Joe Biden has been busy identifying, arresting, and punishing those who were involved.
Over 1,200 people have been apprehended in connection with the day thus far.
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Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has warned that a “big fight” will go off within former President Donald Trump’s orbit over the possibility that he will pick Nikki Haley as his running mate should he clinch the Republican presidential nomination.
The selection of Haley for the No. 2 slot on the GOP ticket is going to be “one of the fights we’re going to have — a big fight that will take place in the spring,” Bannon predicted Monday while speaking on the “Human Events Daily” program.
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Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is calling for conservative U.S. Supreme Court Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any litigation involving President Donald Trump’s eligibility for the presidency.
Raskin, who previously served as an anti-Trump “impeachment manager,” is one of the shrillest partisan defenders of Democrat President Joe Biden in Congress.
The congressman is now claiming Thomas has a conflict because his wife, Ginni Thomas, raised concerns about the 2020 election results.
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A former CIA analyst has spoken out to warn the American people that the “deep state within the intelligence community will reemerge” during this year’s elections in order to protect and advance the Marxist agenda.
Dr. John Gentry, a Georgetown University professor who spent 12 years as a CIA intelligence analyst, warns that the intel agencies will become “politically active” against President Donald Trump to stop him from winning reelection.
According to Gentry, the “deep state” sees Trump as a “threat” to policies such as DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) that form part of the un-American Marxist agenda.
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FDNY Responds to Sounds of ‘Booms and Shakes,’ Power Outages on New York’s Roosevelt Island
Firefighters and emergency response teams are responding to reports of small explosions on New York City’s Roosevelt Island.
Just before 6 am Tuesday, residents on the island in the East River reported what they said sounded like explosions coming from Roosevelt Island and surrounding areas, according to local reports.
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Google and Plaintiffs Agree to Settle in Incognito Mode Privacy Case
After almost four years of legal tussle, Google has reached a preliminary agreement to settle a class action lawsuit brought against them by consumers. The bone of contention revolves around the claim that Google has persistently misled users about their privacy when browsing the internet using the company’s Incognito mode.
As revealed in a joint update communicated to a federal judge in California both Google and the plaintiffs are moving to a settlement.
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Gunman Shoots Way Into Colorado Supreme Court Building, Sets Fire Before Surrendering: Police
A 43-year-old man was arrested early Tuesday after he opened fire and barricaded himself inside the Colorado Supreme Court building in Denver, authorities said.
The Colorado State Patrol said in a statement they did not believe the incident was related to earlier threats against the court’s seven justices after they ruled 4-3 Dec. 19 that former President Donald Trump was ineligible to appear on the state’s March 5 primary ballot.
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Harvard President Gay Resigns Amid More Plagiarism Accusations, Public Statements on Antisemitism
Harvard President Claudine Gay is resigning Tuesday afternoon, making her presidency the shortest in the university’s history.
“It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president. This is not a decision I came to easily,” she wrote in a message addressed to the members of the Harvard community.
She said that after consulting with Harvard board members, it became clear that it is in the university’s best interest for her to resign.
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Hardcore woke activists and Critical Race Theory (CRT) pushers, including professor Ibram X. Kendi, raged into the void of social media on Tuesday in response to the news that Claudine Gay was resigning from her position as president of Harvard University.
As Breitbart News reported on Tuesday, Gay finally announced her resignation after weeks of battling accusations of plagiarism in the wake of her botched testimony before Congress about the rise of antisemitism on college campuses from anti-Israel activists. The report noted:
Gay’s resignation — just six months and two days into her presidency — makes her tenure as president the shortest in Harvard’s history, according to a report by the Harvard Crimson. According to a letter released by the Harvard Corporation, Provost and Chief Academic Officer Alan M. Garber will take over as interim president.
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Judge Dismisses Some Civil Counts Against Trump Over Death of Capitol Police Officer
Afederal judge on Tuesday permitted a civil suit against former President Donald Trump over the death of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick to advance, but dismissed two of the counts.
In the Tuesday ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta dismissed Garza’s wrongful death and negligence claims, CBS reported. He did, however, permit her to bring two counts under the D.C. Survival Act.
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Media Outlets Are Already Calling for Online 2024 Election Censorship
The page has only just been turned on 2023 and already the narrative that much policing of online speech will be vital for 2024, an election year, has already stirred.
The legacy media outlet The Guardian, in its piece about Kate Starbird, has already complained that there may be less censorship ahead of the 2024 elections, and claimed that Rep. Jim Jordan’s committee’s reports on Big Tech-government censorship collusion are based on “outlandish claims.” This is ignoring the fact that an injunction was successfully placed on the Biden administration for its censorship pressure on Big Tech, a case that will be ruled on by The Supreme Court this year.
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Miami Cops Arrest Teens After Fireworks, Riots, Fights Erupted at Bayside Marketplace
Cops arrested four teens Monday night after fireworks, riots and fights erupted at Bayside Marketplace — resulting in dozens of officers swarming the Downtown Miami shopping mall on New Year’s Day, police said.
Two 15-year-old boys were charged with burglary, third-degree grand theft and battery. Two other boys, ages 14 and 16, and one of the 15-year-olds were charged with resisting arrest without violence, their arrest reports show.
Around 8:30 p.m., multiple officers from different parts of Miami rushed to Bayside Marketplace, 401 Biscayne Blvd., in response to a city-wide emergency call at the two-story, open-air shopping center after 911 callers reported hearing what they thought were gunshots, Officer Michael Vega, a police spokesman, told the Miami Herald in an email Tuesday.
“There were several reports of possible gunfire but it was just fireworks,” Vega said.
Videos and live streams started popping up on social media showing numerous police cars occupying Biscayne Boulevard, temporarily shutting it down between Second and Fourth streets.
According to the teens’ arrest reports, officers began escorting around 50 juveniles out of the mall when they spotted about 15 teens beating up a driver.
When cops used their car’s loudspeakers to tell the teens to stop what they were doing, they ran west on Southeast Second Avenue and then north on Northeast Second Avenue, police said. Officers ran after the teens, ending up at a parking garage, 30 W First St.
After four teens were arrested, the driver said two of them beat him up because he confronted them for throwing a bottle against his car. The driver also told police that one of them stole a blue iPhone 13 Pro Max from his car’s center console.
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Speaking with Dr Jordan Peterson in a recent Daily Wire podcast, Sam Harris claimed that Elon Musk bought X, formerly known as Twitter, because Musk was “addicted to it,” and complained about the free speech that has been ushered in under Musk’s ownership.
“Look at what Twitter has done to Elon’s life, right?” Harris said, stating that “Elon used to be a friend.”
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New York City Rocked by 1.7 Magnitude Earthquake Suspected of Causing Buildings to Shake
NEW YORK — What residents said felt like a series of small explosions rattled New Yorkers from Astoria to Roosevelt Island on Tuesday.
For hours, confounded firefighters and Con Edison crews circled buildings just south of the Roosevelt Island Bridge and Tramway, even popping manhole covers, but found nothing.
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NY’s Most Notorious Anti-Israel Activist Organized Bid to Paralyze JFK: ‘Go Cry About it to Biden’
Monday’s anti-Israel protest at John F. Kennedy International Airport — where the entrance to the airport was temporarily blocked and the participants likened the IDF and the NYPD to the KKK — is just the latest action designed to hamstring life in New York City while blasting out antisemitic venom.
Most have been organized by the radical group Within Our Lifetime, run by Nerdeen Kiswani and Fatima Mousa Mohammad.
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Over 200 Service Members, Veterans Pledge to Hold Military Leaders Accountable for Vaccine Mandate
Authored by J.M. Phelps via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
More than 200 active service members and veterans have signed an open letter seeking accountability over the alleged harm caused by the Department of Defense’s (DOD) implementation of the now-rescinded COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The open letter, published on Jan. 1, is directed to the American people, but names specific senior military leaders who the signers claim enabled lawlessness and betrayed the Constitution.
Some of the leaders specifically named in the letter include former and current joint chiefs of staff, service academy commandants, service inspectors general, and service surgeon generals.
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Report Highlights Key Findings From Congressional Investigations Into Hunter Biden
A new report has highlighted the key findings that have emerged from the congressional investigations into Democrat President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
The Washington Examiner just published a year-end report that highlights some of the major discoveries about Hunter Biden that have been made by Congress.
The outlet focuses on four investigative findings in particular.
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Report: Crenshaw, Pelosi, McConnell, Goldman Among Top 2023 Stock Traders
Several establishment members of Congress were among the top lawmakers to successfully trade stocks in 2023, a report by Unusual Whales found Tuesday.
The findings raise concerns that many members of Congress trade stocks based on information unavailable to the public.
Some of the most notable establishment members to beat the market were:
- Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) — up 38.2 percent
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — up 65.5 percent
- Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — up 18.1 percent
- Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) — up 52.8 percent
- Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) — up 25.3 percent
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Sen. Menendez Faces Allegations of Accepting Bribes From Qatar
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez faces additional allegations in a superseding indictment unveiled Tuesday, claiming he accepted a litany of gifts in exchange for making public statements in support of Qatar.
In October, he pleaded not guilty to acting as a foreign agent of the Egyptian government and the prior month pleaded not guilty to bribery and fraud charges. Though he has resisted calls to resign, he did step down as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee pursuant to party conference rules.
The superseding indictment, which CNN obtained, alleges a years-long bribery scheme in which Menendez and his wife accepted luxurious gifts, including watches and tickets to a Formula One event.
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Trump to Attend Fox News Town Hall in Opposition to CNN Debate
Former President Donald Trump plans to participate in a town hall with Fox News next week while some of his rivals for the Republican nomination debate on CNN.
Trump has not participated in any of the Republican primary debates thus far, citing his considerable polling lead. He currently boasts a 51.3% advantage in the RealClearPolitics polling average.
Scheduled for Jan. 10, both the Trump town hall and the rival debate come just ahead of the Iowa Caucus, the first nominating contest in the race for the GOP nomination. Fox’s Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum will moderate the Des Moines town hall, The Hill reported.
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Trump Asks Maine Court to Overturn His Removal From State Primary Ballot
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked a court to overturn Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’s decision to remove him from the state’s ballot in 2024, CNN reported.
Bellows in December determined that Trump was ineligible to seek the presidency under the 14th Amendment due to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Her decision followed a ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court to the same effect, though Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold subsequently announced she would include him on the primary ballot should the Supreme Court side with him.
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Trump Eyes Blue State Victories in 2024, Vows to ‘Work’ New York, New Jersey, Minnesota
Former President Donald Trump is planning to campaign extensively in states that have traditionally voted Democratic in a bid to make the GOP more competitive nationwide.
“I’m going to make a heavy play for New York, heavy play for New Jersey, heavy play for Virginia, heavy play for New Mexico, and a heavy play for a state that hasn’t been won in years, Minnesota,” Trump told Breitbart News. “I’m going to do rallies, I’m going to do speeches, I’m going to work them… That doesn’t mean I’m going to work them as hard as I work Pennsylvania, where I’m doing very well.”
New York has not backed a Republican for president since 1984, when the state broke for Ronald Reagan. Minnesota, moreover, has not done so since choosing Richard Nixon in 1972.
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A driver behind the wheel of a car loaded with explosives slammed into people leaving a rock concert in upstate New York in the early hours of the new year, killing a couple and injuring 3 others.
According to police, at approximately 12:50 am, about 1,000 people were leaving the Kodak Center in Rochester, when a Ford Expedition that was speeding towards the crowd plowed into an Uber that was leaving a nearby parking lot.
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Federal Public Service New Hires Nearly Tripled Since 2015
Under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, jobs in the federal public sector have seen threefold growth since he was first elected in 2015, with record growth being reported last year.
Additionally, more public servants changed positions, resigned or were investigated than in any other period under Trudeau.
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The lawyer representing downtown Ottawa plaintiffs in a $300 million lawsuit against the Freedom Convoy expressed outrage Sunday over anti-Israel protesters being fined for violating a noise bylaw.
“This is an affront to our deepest and most important democratic values: the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of asswmbly [sic]. A ticket for using a megaphone for a couple of hours on a public street to protest against a horrific war? Unacceptable,” Ottawa attorney Paul Champ posted on X.
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Olivia Chow Says Toronto is Safer and More Affordable, But the Numbers Don’t Lie
In an end-of-year video addressing her city’s residents, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow claimed that Toronto had become a safer and more affordable city in 2023.
Chow’s claims are contradicted by data showing the number of crimes committed in the past year increased while housing prices in the city remain unaffordably high.
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96 Christian churches in Canada have been vandalized, burned down or desecrated since the announcement of the apparent discovery of graves found near a residential school in Kamloops, BC.
Since then, three other first nations have announced similar findings of burial sites located near former residential schools.
In response to these announcements, far-left radicals have used this opportunity as an excuse to terrorize Catholic and other Christian communities by targeting churches.
Here is the full list of churches that have been targeted by the radical vandals.
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EU’s True Rule-of-Law Standards Revealed by Tusk’s Takeover of Poland’s Public Media
With all the legal mess and competing directors claiming to be heading Polish public television TVP, one just needed to watch the evening news on TVP1 last week to realize who was now truly in charge.
On Thursday, for example, the news service’s first headline was dedicated to praising Culture Minister Barlomiej Sienkiewicz’s last move to put Poland’s public media in a state of liquidation. This decision was explained in a positive light only. After all, this is all the fault of President Andrzej Duda, who no longer wants Polish television TVP to be financed with public money now that it is not in the hands of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, according to TVP.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk was shown several times, in contrast to opposition leaders who did not appear once on air, and Tusk’s announcements were strongly supported by the commentators’ narrative.
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A 15-year-old schoolgirl who was strangled by her teen boyfriend and dumped in the woodland near her home in Germany died in hospital on New Year’s Day.
The attack occurred on Wednesday in the Wiblingen district of Ulm located in the south German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Police were called by the attacker shortly before midnight who told the authorities he had killed his girlfriend and left her in a nearby forest.
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Germany: New Year’s Eve Attacks in Berlin Described as “Normal”
Conservative media outlets and social media users are outraged by New Year’s Eve attacks on the emergency services—mostly committed by young Muslim men—which authorities and politicians have hailed as a more peaceful “return to normal” when compared to last year.
Authorities in Berlin described New Year’s Eve celebrations in the German capital as more peaceful than in 2022. “Only” 390 people were detained and 54 police officers injured. After last year’s riots—when mainly young men of an African or Middle Eastern background targeted and attacked officers, firefighters, and medical personnel with fireworks—Berlin and other major cities were much better prepared.
As we reported, German municipalities planned to deploy many more police officers on Sunday in order to prevent the levels of violence seen the previous year.
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German Liberals Close to Pulling Plug on Government Coalition
Berlin’s trafficlight coalition avoided disaster on January 1st as the liberal Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP) narrowly voted to continue propping up the beleaguered Scholz chancellorship by a razor-thin 52% to 48% margin.
The smallest component in Germany’s threeway social-democratic led coalition, the fiscally conservative FDP, is noted to be increasingly at odds with Scholz and the Green Party, especially in light of a recent €60 billion budgetary scandal that sent German finances into disarray in November.
Approximately one-third of the party’s 76,000-strong membership took part in the non-binding resolution which, if passed, would have potentially heralded fresh elections in the country.
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Germany Achieves Record Employment: 45.9 Million Workers in 2023
Despite a stuttering economy and persistent labor shortages, Germany experienced a surge in the number of employed individuals last year, as reported by Der Spiegel.
According to preliminary calculations by the Federal Statistical Office, an average of around 45.9 million people were employed—a record level since the reunification in 1990. This marks an increase of 0.7 percent or 333,000 individuals compared to the previous record year of 2022, even though Germany’s economy contracted, as reported by leading institutions.
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Germany: Anti-Globalist AfD Climbs to Nearly 40% in Saxony
The German state of Saxony is becoming a source of concern for the country’s anti-German, globalist establishment as a recent poll indicates that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is reaching a record high. At the same time, the Social Democrats (SPD) face the possibility of being entirely excluded from the state parliament.
According to the latest poll conducted by the research institute Civey, the AfD has climbed to 37 percent of the vote, marking a four-point increase since the previous poll four weeks ago. The SPD meanwhile, in stark contrast, is projected to secure a mere 3 percent of the vote, a significant decline from the 7.7 percent it achieved five years ago.
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Great Reset: Nearly 10,000 English Homes Without Power
According to a report by Sky News, almost 10,000 UK houses are currently left without power due to a major storm in South West England.
Storm Henk brought in winds of up to 94mph to Britain, hitting some areas with flooding and leaving many homes and businesses without electricity, said the Energy Networks Association on Tuesday.
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Poland’s President Criticizes the Government’s Assault on Public Media and Violation of Rule of Law
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda took the opportunity in his New Year’s address to signal his strong disapproval of the government’s actions in seizing control of public media. He called it “an attempt to take over media by force for the first time since the end of communism,” with the transmission signal actually being switched off and public media put into a state of liquidation.
He said that those in power must respect the law.
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Record Mortality in Britain in 2023: NHS Strikes Played a Key Role
Britain recorded historically high mortality in 2023, as reported by The Telegraph. In a non-pandemic year, there were over 53,000 additional deaths, setting the highest figure since World War II.
According to the publication, a key factor contributing to this statistic was the strikes by National Health Service (NHS) workers. In 2023, healthcare workers went on strike for 38 days, leading to a significant deterioration in service and contributing to the increase in mortality, according to experts.
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Report: Ireland Had ‘No Excess Deaths’ During Coronavirus Pandemic
A report by the OECD indicates Ireland had no excess deaths during the pandemic years 2020 to 2022, suggesting many of the thousands who died “with COVID” would have died anyway.
The Irish government, notorious for its panicked approach to the coronavirus, targeted its religious citizens for some of its harshest antivirus measures, outlawing going to church for more than a third of the year 2021.
Ireland’s ban on in-person religious worship went into effect in late 2020 and endured until May of 2021, despite widespread criticism.
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Schengen Expands: Increased Free Movement With Minimal Accountability
On Saturday December 30th, citizens of European Union member states Romania and Bulgaria were informed that they would be allowed to travel passport-free by sea or air to most of the EU’s member states, starting at the end of March 2024, thanks to the consensus reached within the European Council.
In a surprise development, visa-free travel was also opened up to Kosovars seeking to cross into the EU’s Schengen Area, which permits over 400 million EU citizens free movement.
While Ireland and Cyprus will still require some form of travel documents—as they are not part of Schengen—non-EU members Norway and Switzerland will now also admit Bulgarians, Romanians, and Kosovars without requiring them to show their passports.
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Study Reveals Germans Expect Massive Losses of Prosperity in 2024
In a recent statement, Henrik Ahlers, the CEO of auditing firm EY, has sounded the alarm about an ongoing “crisis mode as normal” in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Expressing concern over the financial situation in the past year, Ahlers highlighted that many Germans have experienced significant losses in disposable income.
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UK: Extinction Rebellion Deface Google Advert With Explicit Message
AN Extinction Rebellion activist has plastered an explicit message on a bus stop in a bid to “reverse weaponised psychology”.
The Google Pixel 8 advertisement in question was put on a bus stop billboard at the bottom of Devizes Road and the ‘subvert’ reads ‘Advertising s***s in your head!’.
A QR code linking to a handbook teaching people how to deface advertisements has been stuck below the message with the instructions ‘use this space, open and subvert’.
The handbook, compiled by Don Coyote and Charles Chester CBE, was created as part of Extinction Rebellion’s weekend of resistance in October 2022.
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UK: Just Stop Oil Boasts of Achievements in 2023 as Rallying Call Issued for More Chaos
Just Stop Oil has boasted about its achievements in 2023 as it rallies eco-zealots to wreak more chaos.
The group was behind a number of disruptive incidents in 2023, including at Wimbledon and during a performance of Les Miserables.
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UK: ULEZ Bailiffs ‘Threaten to Seize Personal Items’ From Home of Car Owner Despite Paying Charge
A business owner received a Ulez penalty of £559 and threatening letters from a bailiff despite paying the charge.
In August 2022, the Cotswolds-based entrepreneur was opening a new site in London and paid the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) charge each time they drove in.
They paid the £27.50 charge on the morning of August 29, 2022 but still received a penalty which was disputed and appealed.
“Prior to receiving a decision, I began to get threatening letters from bailiffs, suggesting I could have personal items seized from my home,” the business owner said in a letter to The Guardian.
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WEF Says Davos 2024 Meeting of the Globalist Elites All About ‘Trust’
At the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual conclave of globalist elites in Davos, Switzerland, later this month, organisers say one word is going to be central to the event: trust.
The WEF has released a partial outline of just what is on the agenda at its mostly closed-door 54th annual meeting.
It says it will “provide a crucial space to focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability.”
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Hungary Takes Over Lead of Peacekeeping Troops in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The European Union’s peacekeeping operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will be led by a Hungarian commander, Major General Laszló Sticz, from January. The Hungarian Defense Forces will participate in this mission with a total of 400 soldiers, three times the previous number.
According to Sticz, the tasks in support of the local authorities are wide-ranging, from air rescue to mine clearance to the work of canine bomb disposal teams. However, as a senior officer, he promised the soldiers’ families that he would do his utmost to ensure that everyone returned home safely at the end of their service.
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Man of the Year: The IDF Soldier
In a bad year when the civilized world seems stuck in a pattern of endless retreat, he is fighting back.
Under Biden’s leadership, America has been invaded by hordes of millions of migrants, and Europe continues to stagger under an endless wave of migration from the Muslim world. That’s why American and European cities are being torn apart by rioting mobs supporting Hamas.
But after Israel was invaded on Oct 7, it fought back. The men on the front lines are not the politicians or the generals, they’re among the 360,000 reservists activated in a nation with a Jewish population of 7 million who left behind their homes, families and jobs to go and fight.
The Israeli military was unprepared for both Oct 7 and a call-up of this size. The soldiers were fed, clothed, and equipped by the people. While the media reports on the fighting, the truly incredible unreported story is how civilian volunteers have become the supply and support (the ‘tooth-to-tail’) of the Israel Defense Forces or the IDF.
In a small country, volunteers have been bringing food every day, they have provided clothes, shipped in body armor and even showed up with washing machines on pickup trucks to do the laundry. Some civilian volunteers have been wounded and even killed while delivering food. Israeli housewives have formed the Baking Battalion to make cookies, a cooking school produces meals for the troops and restaurants operate free food trucks. Others have stepped in to harvest crops and run the shops of the reservists who have been called up to serve in Gaza.
When the government and the leaders failed, the ordinary Israeli stepped up.
Some armies call themselves the “people’s army”: IDF soldiers really are. They’ve gone into Gaza knowing that the country stands behind them, not as an ideal, but as an everyday reality. Israel is a small country and everyone knows someone who died, came under attack, is among the 200,000 who left their homes to be out of range of the terrorist attacks, or in the ranks of those who are fighting or who have already fallen in defense of their nation.
Israel today reminds me of New York City after September 11 where for a brief shining moment everyone except the worst leftists pulled together against a common enemy. That spirit may well pass in Israel as it did in America, but while it lasts, it is something to admire and emulate…
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Britain Preparing to Take ‘Direct Action’ Strikes Against Iran Proxy Houthis in Yemen
The United Kingdom “won’t hesitate” to take “direct action” against Houthis in Yemen its Defence Secretary has said, as the nation’s military reportedly prepares for strikes.
Attacks on global shipping passing through the Red Sea by Islamist terrorists are being felt in the West as delays mount and the cost of imports rise to cover soaring insurance costs and the United Kingdom is preparing to join the United States in launching direct strikes, it is claimed. UK newspaper of record The Times reports the country is preparing to launch airstrikes in Yemen with the U.S., and while “no decisions have yet been made”, “planning is underway”, a spokesman is reported to have said.
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Hezbollah’s TV Station Says Top Hamas Official Saleh Arouri Has Been Killed in a Beirut-Area Blast
BEIRUT (AP) — The TV station of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group says top Hamas official Saleh Arouri was killed Tuesday in an explosion in a southern Beirut suburb.
Arouri, one of the founders of Hamas’ military wing, had headed the group’s presence in the West Bank. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had threatened to kill him even before the Hamas-Israel war began on Oct. 7.
Israeli officials declined to comment.
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Top Hamas Leader Saleh Arouri Killed in Beirut Explosion
Hamas’ No. 2 leader and a key “architect” of the deadly Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel was killed in an airstrike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut late Tuesday.
Saleh al-Arouri, the Palestinian terror group’s deputy chief, was taken out when the drone struck a Hamas office in Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh — a stronghold of the allied Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Hamas said on its official Telegram channel.
Al-Arouri — who was a founder of the group’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades — is now the most senior Hamas figure killed since the terrorists’ surprise attack triggered the devastating Israel war three months ago.
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Barely Any German Leopard Tanks in Ukraine Are Operational
In Ukraine, the operational status of the German Leopard 2 tanks is alarmingly low, with reports indicating that only a scant few of the 18 delivered are combat-ready. Various logistical challenges further compound the situation, prompting a call to action from the Green Party.
Sebastian Schäfer, a member of the Green Party in the Bundestag, has voiced the pressing need for an accelerated pace in the repair of the Leopard 2AG main battle tanks provided to Ukraine. Expressing concern on the current situation in Ukraine, he underscored the collective responsibility of the government and the industry to intensify efforts. Schäfer conveyed his message through social media and formal letters addressed to Rheinmetall and the French arms company Nexter, the German press reported.
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Russian Missile Attacks Kill 5, Injure More Than 100 in Ukraine’s Two Largest Cities: Officials
Ukraine’s two largest cities came under attack Tuesday from Russian missiles that killed five people and injured more than 100, officials said, as the war approached its two-year mark and the Kremlin stepped up its winter bombardment of urban areas.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said Tuesday evening that the attack killed five civilians and injured 127 as air defenses downed Russian Kinzhal missiles that can fly at 10 times the speed of sound. The Kremlin’s forces targeted Kyiv, the capital, and the northeastern Kharkiv region whose provincial capital is also called Kharkiv, authorities said.
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Russia Will Dictate the Terms of Conflict Resolution in Ukraine — Fico
In an interview with the ta3 television channel, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico stated that the Russian Federation will dictate the terms for resolving the conflict in Ukraine, not the European Union or other countries.
Fico expressed the opinion that we are approaching a period where the European Union will not be able to exert decisive influence on the resolution process in Ukraine.
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Afghan Women and Girls Defy Taliban Education Ban Through Online Learning
In defiance of the Taliban government’s ban on female education, tens of thousands of Afghan women and girls have turned to online learning platforms to pursue their studies, Financial Times writes.
The Taliban extended their restrictions on female attendance at schools to include higher education in December 2022, citing conservative interpretations of Islamic law. Despite the dangers of discovery and challenges with internet connectivity and power supplies, online course providers report a surge in demand for subjects like English language, science and business.
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Five Dead After JAL Airliner Crashes Into Quake Aid Plane at Tokyo Airport
TOKYO, Jan 2 (Reuters) — All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane escaped the burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda airport that killed five of six crew on the smaller aircraft on Tuesday.
Live footage on public broadcaster NHK showed the JAL Airbus A350 (9201.T), (AIR.PA) airliner burst into flames as it skidded down the tarmac shortly before 6 p.m. (0900 GMT).
Video and images shared on social media showed passengers shouting inside the plane’s smoke-filled cabin and running across the tarmac after escaping via an evacuation slide.
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The Coast Guard said its plane was headed to Niigata on Japan’s west coast to deliver aid to those caught up in a powerful earthquake that struck on New Year’s Day, killing at least 55 people.
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Japan Earthquake Death Toll Rises to 55, Officials Say
The death toll from Japan’s devastating earthquake Monday has risen to 55, Ishikawa Prefecture officials said Tuesday after the district suffered from a 7.6 magnitude quake and dozens of aftershocks.
The Ishikawa Prefecture confirmed Tuesday evening local time that 55 people died from the earthquake on the coast of central Japan, according to state-run broadcaster NHK.
The region suffered from hundreds of aftershocks over the past two days, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The country had issued a tsunami warning and ordered evacuations after the 7.6 magnitude quake, but it has since passed.
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A passenger plane carrying nearly 400 people burst into a ball of fire at a Tokyo airport Tuesday when it collided with a coast guard jet — killing at least five crew members taking aid to victims of a deadly earthquake.
Horrifying video showed the Japan Airlines plane suddenly burst into flames after touching down at Haneda International Airport — with the fireball spreading across the runway as it came to a stop.
Five crew members on the coast guard plane died while their captain was critically injured, officials told NHK.
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A Sydney council has flagged it will fight a claim of a piece of prime inner city foreshore parkland by an Indigenous Land Council.
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147 Migrants Arrive on Lampedusa in First Landings of 2024
Some 147 migrants and refugees landed on the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa in four separate boats on Monday, the first arrivals of the year.
Following the transfer of 650 people off the island, on Tuesday morning there were 352 people in the temporary migrant reception ‘hotspot’.
On the orders of the prefecture of Agrigento, 300 people were scheduled to be transferred by passenger ferry to Porto Empedocle on mainland Sicily later in the day.
On Saturday the interior ministry said 155,754 migrants landed in Italy in 2023, including more than 17,000 unaccompanied foreign minors.
This represents a 50% increase over the previous year, when there were 103,846 arrivals.
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Biden Admin Relaxes Vetting Process for Chinese Nationals Illegally Crossing U.S Borders
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has ordered border officials to relax the vetting process for Chinese nationals caught illegally entering the country.
The Biden admin significantly streamlined the vetting process for Chinese illegal border crossers in April 2023, it has now been revealed.
The order was not made public at the time, however, and was just exposed by an internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) email obtained by the Daily Caller.
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France: 7-Year-Old Girl Sexually Assaulted by Afghan Migrant Near Eiffel Tower
A male migrant from Afghanistan was arrested for an alleged sex attack on a 7-year-old girl near the Eiffel Tower in France over the weekend, according to reports.
The disturbing incident unfolded during the overnight hours between Saturday and Sunday in Paris.
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The eastern German state of Saxony is presenting new problems for the country’s political establishment, with new polling showing the Alternative for Germany (AfD) reaching a new record high, while the Social Democrats (SPD) would be entirely kicked out of state parliament.
The new poll from the research institute Civey showed the AfD at 37 percent of the vote, rising four points since the last poll four weeks ago. Meanwhile, the SPD would obtain an abysmal 3 percent of the vote. Five years ago, the party still achieved 7.7 percent.
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A French rape victim, Claire, is speaking out to the press after she was raped by an illegal African migrant, saying that if he had been deported, the traumatic and brutal sexual assault would have never occurred. In her latest interview with French magazine Une Certaine Idée, she also notes that not a single left-wing feminist has spoken to her about the incident.
Une Certaine Idée asked her when she found out that the assailant was under an order to leave the territory of France (OQTF), she said: “The police told me when he was arrested. It’s even more revolting: Why is he still here? He wouldn’t have done this if this had been carried out.”
She also told CNews in a televised interview: “If we applied the laws, I would not have been raped by an illegal migrant under OQTF (a deportation order).”
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The clocks had barely struck midnight to mark the new year when a young Irish family was the victim of an armed robbery by a migrant gang at their home in Santry, Dublin.
In the early hours of New Year’s Day, footage from a home belonging to a young couple with children showed at least two hooded Black males breaking into an apartment by smashing a glass door and reportedly cleaning out thousands of euros worth of Christmas presents.
In stills posted by the RM.tv news platform, the perpetrators armed themselves with hatchets as they stormed the property while a pregnant mother and her two young children slept upstairs.
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Italy: Ocean Viking Under Administrative Detention in Bari
The Ocean Viking rescue ship has been placed under administrative detention in the port of Bari after disembarking 244 migrants on Saturday.
The boat chartered by Italo-Francio-German-Swiss migrant rescue charity SOS Medterranee had picked up the migrants, including 18 unaccompanied minors, two disabled and two pregnant women, in three separate rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean.
The migrants were said to have come from Eritrea, Sudan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Syria.
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Italy: Meloni’s ‘Right-Wing’ Government Oversaw 50% Uptick in Illegal Migrant Arrivals in 2023
In 2023, there was a 50% surge in the number of migrants arriving compared to the preceding year.
This information is derived from the statistical dashboard of the Interior Ministry, providing an overview of the period from January 1, 2023, to December 29, 2023, in contrast to data from equivalent periods in earlier years, Italian media reports.
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Only one percent of migrants in Chicago have work permits as the Democrat ‘sanctuary city’ buckles under strain of the 26,000 arrivals in 18 months.
Since August 2022, just 284 asylum seekers have received the necessary permits in order to start looking for employment and 279 have gotten their social security cards, CBS News Chicago reported.
This is a shockingly low statistic compared to the number of migrants that have arrived in the Windy City more than a year ago.
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Maryland County Argues for School Board Seat Exclusively for Illegal Immigrants to Vote on
Officials from Howard County, Maryland, have said they would be able to create a school board seat that only illegal immigrants could vote for under the 14th Amendment.
According to a Washington Times report, the county made the assertion in December while arguing before a federal court and defending a current practice of having a school board seat set aside for a student that only public school students can vote for.
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Eric Adams has reiterated how the city of New York cannot turn over arriving migrants to US Immigration and Customs officials due to local laws.
The mayor made the assertion during a sitdown with Fox 5’s Rosanna Scotto, where he revealed the city’s ‘sanctuary’ status has hindered his ability to handle the crisis.
‘We’re getting close to anywhere from 2,500 to peaking at 4,000 a week,’ Adams told Scotto during the Tuesday interview, before which the reporter took a rare tour of the recently reopened asylum seeker center at Midtown’s Roosevelt Hotel.
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In a horrifying case that saw tragedy strike on New Year’s morning, a 75-year-old French woman was brutally raped by an African migrant, according to police.
The African suspect entered the house in Ozoir-la-Ferrièr, located in a small, quiet street, on Monday morning through a window that was not properly closed. Police say the man first went to the husband’s room who screamed when he saw him. However, the husband is bedridden and disabled, and was not able to stop what happened next.
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NYE in Italy: Migrants Occupy Monument in Front of Milan Cathedral
On New Year’s Eve, Milan witnessed a display of force, primarily from a migrant crowd that occupied the monument directly in front of the Milan Cathedral.
The central square, Piazza Duomo, hosted up to 25,000 visitors, many of whom appeared to have a migrant background, based on videos. The traditional fireworks display, a part of New Year celebrations worldwide, took place, drawing tens of thousands to the cathedral.
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Jan Pietrzak, a senior Polish satirist known for his conservative views, has ignited a scandal with his remarks on migrants, suggesting that Auschwitz and other former concentration camps could be used to house them.
In a controversial statement on conservative broadcaster Republika TV, Jan Pietrzak responded to a question about Poland’s acceptance of illegal migrants by jokingly proposing that Poland could offer barracks in former German concentration camps.
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Rishi Sunak Claims Success as Record 51,000 Migrants Granted Asylum in Britain Last Year
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak lauded his government’s efforts to clear the backlog of asylum seeker applications while revealing that immigration officials granted a record-breaking number of migrants the right to remain in the country.
Britain’s Home Office cleared 112,000 asylum cases last year as it ramped up efforts to clear the backlog of undecided cases. There were 77,000 final decisions, with 51,469 migrants being granted asylum in the country. This represents the most asylum applications granted in history, far outpacing the previous high of 33,460 in 2002 under former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, GB News reports.
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UK: Sunak Takes Credit for Winter Reducing Channel Crossings
Britain’s Conservative government is treating the latest statistics for illegal small-boat crossings as a victory, despite it being the second highest total since records began in 2018.
The provisional recorded number of individuals completing Channel crossings in 2023 is 29,437—down by almost a third from the 2022 figure of 45,774. Yet this figure remains upwards of 29,000 more than the 299 people detected making the journey in 2018.
In the face of these figures, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who listed “stop the boats” as one of his “five priorities” for 2023, has been criticised by his own MPs.
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Uncovered Data Exposes Rising Incidents of Migrant-Linked Sexual Violence in Germany
According to information that leaked from the Federal Republic of Germany and was published in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 7,000 women in Germany have been sexually assaulted by migrants since 2015. This figure represents a threefold higher rate of sexual violence among individuals with a “migration background” compared to the rest of the population.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung drew attention to this high number and emphasized that the influx of migrants into Germany was greatest in 2015, with over a million newcomers. Although the numbers decreased in the following years, they have been on the rise again in the last two years.
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‘Activists’ Infuriated as Dave Chappelle Explains Transgender Position in New Special
If everyone pretends that the emperor has clothes when he’s naked, does that mean he’s not naked? All it takes is one person to point out reality and break the collectively enabled delusion, so everyone must play along. Why? Because the delusion makes the emperor feel special and appeases his entitlement — Anger the emperor and he might make the whole nation miserable. Just play along, what could it hurt?
The trans movement exists in this kind of bubble, a place where objective truth is no longer welcome and cognitive dissonance is encouraged for the sake of comfort. And much like any oppressive environment the more people self censor to avoid rocking the boat the harder it is for individuals to speak their minds. This is how consent is manufactured; by creating the illusion of consensus.
Dave Chappelle is one of the few entertainers in the Hollywood arena that’s willing to point out when the emperor has no clothes, which is why the political left hates him with a seething passion. Despite their consistent attempts to cancel his career, Chappelle is back with another Netflix special called ‘The Dreamer.’ The comedian opens with guns blazing on the trans agenda…
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DHS Joins With Woke Universities to Label “Manosphere” a Terror Threat
Since at least the year 2020 the Department of Homeland Security has been funding a series of woke university programs across the country. They have spent millions of dollars (that we know of) to incentivize academic groups, not with the goal of countering foreign terror elements or even to investigate US preppers and patriots, but to develop tools for disrupting what some call the “Manosphere” movement (previously known as the Red Pill movement) — A movement focused on countering feminism and feminist propaganda.
Is arguing logically against feminism really such a threat to the nation? No, but it is a threat to the woke movement, which has been on the decline in recent years as more and more information about their ideology is scrutinized by the public.
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Federal Appeals Court Rules Biden Admin Can’t Force Texas Doctors to Perform Emergency Abortions
A panel of judges on a federal appeals court unanimously ruled Tuesday that the Biden administration can’t compel emergency room doctors in Texas to perform abortions in order to stabilize a patient.
The lawsuit stemmed from guidance issued by the Department of Health and Human Service in July 2022 requiring doctors in states such as Texas, where most abortions have been outlawed, to comply with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).
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Oregon High School to Host ‘All-Ages’ Drag Festival Featuring Local Queen ‘Poison Waters’
A high school in Oregon is set to host an “all ages” drag performance on January 7 with the goal of “bring[ing] visibility” to the LGBTQ community.
The event will take place from 1-4 pm on Sunday, January 7 at Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego, a town about 10 miles south of Portland.
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UK Church Replaces “Husband and Wife” With More “Inclusive” Terms
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news
The Methodist Church in the UK has issued an ‘inclusive language’ guide, advising followers to refrain from using terms such as ‘husband’, ‘wife’, ‘brother’, and ‘sister’, reasoning that some people might find them “hurtful”.
The Christian Post reports that the guide lists extensive categories of people with whom Methodists are advised to use “sensitive and inclusive” language when addressing minorities that have been “marginalised and/or demonised by common culture.”
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UK: London Council Demands Private Companies Commit to LGBTQ+ Agenda Before Hiring Them: Report
A leftist-controlled council local government in London has reportedly begun to require private companies “demonstrate their commitment to LGBTQ+ equality” if they wish to do business with the council.
The Camden Council in Central London is said to have introduced measures to ensure that all firms hired by the local government are on board with the increasingly radical LGBTQ+ agenda.
According to statements seen by The Telegraph, the Labour Party-run council has proclaimed that it will only “work with businesses whose values align with our own, and to use our position of power to positively influence”.
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USA Boxing Slammed for New Transgender Policy That Allows Biological Men to Compete Against Women
A new kind of fight is brewing in the boxing world.
USA Boxing, the governing body of the sport in the United States, is being slammed for its “pathetic and disgusting” new transgender policy that allows biological men to compete against biological women.
Under the new policy, included in the 2024 rule book, male boxers who transition can compete in the female category so long as they meet certain criteria.
Those under the age of 18 are still required to compete as their birth gender, but adults can choose their category as long as they state their new gender identity and fully complete gender reassignment surgery.
Transgender athletes must also participate in regular hormone testing.
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