Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel today, and said the attack was its response to the targeted killing of a Hamas leader in Lebanon. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with leaders of Turkey and Greece to try to prevent the war between Israel and Hamas from expanding into a wider regional conflict.
In other news, according to U.S. intelligence, Russia has already deployed ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea against Ukraine.
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Canada’s Economy Saw Net Increase of 100 Jobs in December
Canada’s unemployment rate remained at 5.8% in December, adding only 100 net jobs, according to data compiled by Reuters.
While permanent employees’ wages did increase at the fastest pace in three years, bringing the average hourly wage growth rate from 5% to 5.7%, analysts polled by Reuters had predicted a net gain of 13,500 jobs for the month of December.
The Bank of Canada hiked rates ten times between March 2022 and July 2023, keeping job growth slow but forcing wage growth up.
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Initial US Employment Reports Overstated by 439,000 Jobs in 2023
There’s something wrong with previous U.S. jobs reports.
The government quietly erased 439,000 jobs through November 2023, a closer look at the numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows.
That means its initial jobs results were inflated by 439,000 positions, and the job market is not as healthy as the government suggests.
Since the government wiped out 439,000 jobs after the fact, the total percentage of jobs created by the government last year is even higher. Increased government hiring has been driving the jobs numbers higher.
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It would be an understatement to say that academic elites are absolutely seething over the takedown of Harvard president Claudine Gay, whose rise to power was brought to you by the letters DEI, and of course capital P for Plagiarism.
There were two major players involved in her downfall — billionaire investor Bill Ackman, and journalist Chris Rufo.
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Tucker Carlson sat down with evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein (brother of Eric Weinstein), where the two dissected the intricate web of narratives surrounding COVID-19, the pharmaceutical industry, and global shifts in governance and public health policy.
According to Weinstein, opposition to the ‘official’ COVID narratives is like taking on Goliath — with competent and courageous experts in various fields being aggressively censored during the pandemic. This led to the formation of a “Dream Team” of dissenters.
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27 States File an Amicus Brief in Supreme Court to Keep Trump on the Colorado Ballot
Twenty-seven states have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, urging the court to keep former President Donald Trump on the Colorado ballot.
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Alaska Airlines Grounds All Flights After Panel Blows Out on New Boeing 737-9 Max Mid-Flight
On Friday, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 from Portland, Oregon to Ontario California was forced to make an emergency landing after a panel blew off the side of the two-month-old Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft causing depressurization of the cabin.
In a post on X, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said, “I’ve been briefed on last night’s incident and remain in close contact with FAA on the response.” He added, “Grateful to the flight crew that kept passengers safe during this terrifying incident. FAA is supporting the NTSB’s [National Transportation Safety Board] investigation and will take all appropriate steps going forward.”
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Biden Was ‘Unsteady and Confused’ After Vacation, Expert Warns
A leading body language expert has warned that Democrat President Joe Biden looked “unsteady and confused” while returning from his recent vacation.
Biden’s age-related decline is increasingly a cause for concern for the Democratic Party and for the nation as a whole.
Over the past year alone, his gaffes, word salads, falls, and overall confusion have led many to believe that, politics aside, he’s simply too old to carry out the business of a United States president.
He looks weak and feeble, and that’s not exactly the image that the most powerful nation on Earth should project.
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Biden Tries to Fan the Flames of Jan. 6 as Republicans Mock ‘Fake Insurrection’
President Biden offered a meek echo of his mud-slinging rant against former president Donald Trump as he marked the anniversary of the 2021 Capitol riot on social media Saturday.
“Three years ago, a violent mob fueled by lies attacked the U.S. Capitol,” Biden wrote on X. “Our democracy was tested. But it held because We the People prevailed.”
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Biden’s DOJ Not Investigating Pro-Hamas Agitators Holding US Visas: Report
President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has reportedly issued a “stand-down order” to federal law enforcement and US attorneys to stop investigating Hamas supporters who have US visas for “incitement, violence, and vandalism.”
A complaint filed by the America First Legal Foundation with the Office of the Inspector General to investigate the DOJ obtained by the Washington Free Beacon alleges that the Biden administration has ignored the spike in attacks against Jews in the US following Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7 that killed over 1,200 people.
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Big Gov’t Raids Small Amish Farmer Who Refuses to Participate in the Industrial Meat/Milk Complex
Local media, The Lancaster Patriot, reports that the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture served an all-natural Amish farm in southeastern Pennsylvania with a search warrant on Thursday afternoon.
The farmer, Amos Miller, has been in the crosshairs with the US Department of Agriculture because of his repeated failures to comply with federal farming regulations.
The USDA has tried to bring Miller’s farm into compliance with federal regulations, but Amos has yet to cooperate with the Feds and faces fines and jail time.
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Breaking: Former Police Officer, Congressman Exposes Truth of J6 to Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson had on Republican Rep. Clay Higgins for an interview to talk about his experience with and to expose the truth of Jan. 6.
From Carlson’s account on X, he posted an interview with Higgins with the caption, “This the smartest, best informed account of what actually happened on January 6th.”
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Breaking: Biden’s DOJ Suggests Prosecution for J6ers Who Never Went Into the Capitol
US Attorney Matthew Graves has suggested that those who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and did not go into the building can be prosecuted.
Graves said, that protestors—if they were on restricted Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, and had not gone in the building—would have “committed a federal crime.”
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Compton Baker Laments ‘Heartbreaking’ Losses After Rioters Drive Car Through Front Door and Loot
The son of Mexican immigrants who operates a popular Latino bakery in Compton, Calif., spoke out to Fox News on Friday after a mob of looters from an illegal “street takeover” drove a car through the front door and ransacked the business.
Ruben Ramirez Jr. told “America Reports” that the material losses have accumulated so far to $70,000, and that there is even more unimaginable damage to the bakery and to the realities of his family left to pick up the pieces.
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s officer told the New York Post that meat scales, meat, groceries and lottery tickets were among the goods looted in the early Tuesday criminal blitz at Ruben’s Bakery & Mexican Food.
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Jacob Chansley, known as the “Q Anon Shaman,” told Breitbart News that he was treated “relatively well” in prison following his arrest for trespassing in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, quipping, “It’s not like federal prison is full of people that love the federal government.”
“I mean, it’s not like the guards, the COs [corrections officers] voted for [President Joe] Biden — and it’s not like federal prison is full of people that love the federal government,” Chansley told Breitbart News at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference in December in Phoenix, Arizona.
“So there was a lot of intrigue and curiosity from both the corrections officers and from the inmates,” he added. “I was treated relatively well in that regard.”
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Three years after the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, the FBI is still seeking the suspect who planted a pipe bomb near the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee on the eve of the attack.
The pipe bombs, which had an hour-long kitchen timer as a detonator, were viable, but didn’t detonate and no one was hurt, the FBI said.
“Over the past three years, a dedicated team of FBI agents, analysts, data scientists, and law enforcement partners has worked thousands of hours conducting interviews, reviewing physical and digital evidence, and assessing tips from the public about who may have placed pipe bombs on Capitol Hill,” David Sundberg, assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office, said Thursday.
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‘Full on Antivax’? FDA Chief Calls Old COVID Vaccines Useless to Juice Boosters, Stunning Doctors
Four years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — which was officially declared over in 2023 — and with current vaccine booster rates well under 10%, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration is eager to get more shots in arms of all ages.
But critical doctors and analysts allege that Commissioner Robert Califf is playing fast and loose with scientific research to do it, using his X account to share papers that haven’t been peer-reviewed, proofread or even published in full — and ironically promoting vaccine hesitancy in his crusade for boosting.
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One victim of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was afraid to talk to police about him because she’d overheard him threaten others, according to court documents.
The victim — who was around “16 or 17” years old when she first met Epstein — was asked about her 2005 statement to Palm Beach police, in which she admitted she didn’t feel safe speaking about the twisted financier because she had overheard him tell others things like, “You’re going to die; you’re going to break your legs.”
The threats came to light in a 2016 deposition the woman gave in a defamation lawsuit filed by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Meta-Analysis: On Average, Undergraduate Students’ Intelligence is Merely Average
Background. According to a widespread belief, the average IQ of university students is 115 to 130 IQ points, that is, substantially higher than the average IQ of the general population (M = 100, SD =15). We traced the origin of this belief to obsolete intelligence data collected in 1940s and 1950s when university education was the privilege of a few. Examination of more recent IQ data indicate that IQ of university students and university graduates dropped to the average of the general population. The decline in students’ IQ is a necessary consequence of increasing educational attainment over the last 80 years. Today, graduating from university is more common than completing high school in the 1940s.
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Michigan GOP Votes to Oust Its Chairwoman, Saying They ‘Made History’
A group of Michigan Republicans on Saturday voted to oust the party’s chairwoman Kristina Karamo, despite her saying she won’t recognize their meeting.
According to The Detroit News, 88% of those participating in the meeting supported the unseating of Karamo who has been in leadership since last year.
“We have made history today,” a member of the Michigan Republican Party’s state committee, Bree Moeggenberg, said in a statement obtained by the outlet. “With over 88% of the members that were present and voting, we have taken the first step to engage and protect the various voices and liberties of all Republicans.”
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The blonde bombshell who took the fifth 42 times during a Jeffrey Epstein-related deposition hasn’t been at her longtime Upper East Side address for days, The Post has learned.
A neighborhood source said Nadia Marcinko, né Marcinkova has been out of sight since almost exactly around the time the first batch of court documents involving Epstein were made public.
“I haven’t seen her in three days,” the source said.
The model-turned-pilot, once known as “Global Girl,” is one of the most mysterious and elusive characters in the Epstein saga.
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New Evidence Discovered in DB Cooper Skyjacking Case
SEATTLE — A microscopic metal fragment found on the tie of infamous plane hijacker D.B. Cooper could help reveal his true identity. Private investigator and researcher Eric Ulis is ringing in the new year with new breadcrumbs to share.
“I would not be surprised at all if 2024 was the year we figure out who this guy was,” said Ulis.
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NY Girls HS Basketball Game Canceled After Antisemitic Slurs Hurled at Players
This was flagrant and foul.
A high school girls’ basketball game in Yonkers was canceled this week when players on the home team shot antisemitic slurs at their Jewish opponents, who needed security guards to escort them off the court to safety.
The girl’s varsity teams from The Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, and Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers, faced off in the non-league game Thursday evening.
“I support Hamas, you f—king Jew,” a Roosevelt player snarled at a Leffell opponent, according to The New York City Public Schools Alliance, a group of parents and teachers fighting antisemitism.
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On Friday, the Saint Vincent de Paul homeless day center on West 3rd St. in The Dalles, Oregon, was temporarily closed after the city claimed it was creating a “public nuisance” after police were called to the site 1,300 times in the last year.
According to KGW 8, a city ordinance requires businesses to be responsible for what happens within 300 feet of their building. For the day center, that area is a popular spot for homeless people to lay their tents and had been the site of 34 arrests.
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President Biden Was Unaware for Days That Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Was Hospitalized: Report
President Biden was unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized, according to a report.
Biden, 81, was finally informed Thursday afternoon by National security advisor Jake Sullivan that Austin had been hospitalized on Monday, Jan. 1, sources told CNN.
Austin was admitted into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center due to complications from a minor elective surgery. No more details of his ailment were released.
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Pro-Palestinian Protest Causes Dusable Lake Shore Drive Closures on North Side
CHICAGO (WLS) — A North Side pro-Palestinian protest caused closures on DuSable Lake Shore Drive on Saturday afternoon.
The group of demonstrators initially gathered near U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin’s home. The U.S. Palestinian Community Network said they and the Coalition for Justice in Palestine rallied in front of Durbin’s home because of his support for Israel.
The group was reported to be near West Addison Street in Lakeview before moving south, causing rolling closures.
Chicago police said the drive was fully reopened by 5:15 p.m.
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Protesters Demanding Cease-Fire in Israel-Hamas War Leave I-5
A group of demonstrators calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war blocked traffic on northbound Interstate 5 for over three hours in Seattle, between Interstate 90 and Mercer Street, causing a 6-mile backup.
Traffic was being diverted onto eastbound I-90, the state Department of Transportation posted on the social media platform X.
Soon after the blockade began around 1:15 p.m., the Washington State Patrol posted that “troopers are approaching to handle.” The Seattle Police Department asked people to avoid the area.
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Sen. John Fetterman Slams ‘Pinko’ Harvard, Calls Israel Beacon of ‘Progressive Ideals’
In an interview this week, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman slammed the BDS movement and said that although Harvard University has always been a little “pinko” he doesn’t “recognize” it 25 years after he attended the school following Claudine Gay’s resignation as president.
“As an alum of Harvard — look, I graduated 25 years ago, and of course it was always a little pinko,” Fetterman told Semafor this week “But now, I don’t recognize it.
Fetterman’s comment comes shortly after Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned from her position after struggling to answer a question condemning antisemitism in front of Congress and being accused of plagiarism almost 50 times.
Fetterman also told Semafor that “Israel is really a beacon of the kind of values, the American values and progressive ideals, that you want to see.”
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Social Media Mocks Biden Being Led Offstage by First Lady
Users of X, formerly Twitter, mocked President Biden after seeing a clip of first lady Jill Biden leading him offstage after his January 6 anniversary remarks.
Multiple users expressed amusement that the White House staff appeared to be allowing Biden’s wife to rush up and lead the president away from the podium before he could make any awkward hesitations or walk to the wrong end of the stage in confusion.
RNC Research’s X account shared footage from the end of Biden’s speech near Valley Forge in Pennsylvania on Friday, during which he once again blasted former President Trump and his supporters as a threat to democracy.
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Thieves broke into the Los Angeles offices of Jeffrey Epstein’s one-time crisis PR guru and stole work computers — the day before long-sealed court documents related to the convicted pedophile were released to the public, according to cops.
Michael Sitrick, of A-list global crisis PR firm Sitrick & Company, said crooks burglarized his company’s offices in a four-story Brentwood building on Jan. 2, but batted down any connection between the break-in and this week’s unsealing of nearly 900 documents from a since-settled 2015 defamation suit by alleged Epstein vic Virginia Giuffre.
“There can’t be any connection because it makes no sense,” Sitrick insisted to The Post.
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Trump Drops New Campaign Video Vowing More Transparency on JFK Assassination
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news
Donald Trump dropped a new campaign video featuring Bill Clinton meeting with Jeffrey Epstein, while the ad also promised more transparency on uncovering the full story behind the JFK assassination.
The video opens with Ronald Reagan’s ‘thousand years of darkness’ speech where he called on Americans to tell their elected officials that national policy should be based on a shared sense of morality and is soundtracked by Aerosmith’s Dream On.
It also features Trump’s promise to obtain transparency surrounding the assassination of JFK, featuring footage of Kennedy being shot before highlighting the lyrics, “you got to lose to know how to win.”
The ad then shows footage of when Trump was ‘arrested’ along with a passage from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War which reads, “If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”
The chorus then drops showing Trump with his supporters before clips showing Bill Clinton meeting with Jeffrey Epstein.
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University of Washington Discriminated Against Whites and Asians: Report
An “internal whistleblower” has exposed that the University of Washington discriminated against whites and Asians.
According to an internal report obtained by Newsweek, a black applicant for a tenure position in the psychology department, who ranked third in the candidate selection process, was given a tenure-track assistant professor job in April over white and Asian candidates who were ranked higher.
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YouTuber Ripped as Antisemite After Defacing Israeli Flag at NYC Cafe, Harassing Customers
A controversial Muslim YouTuber who rocketed to internet stardom in street fight videos has been posting footage of himself harassing customers in an Israeli café and at a Starbucks in Manhattan, revolting some fans who ripped him as “antisemitic.”
Adam Saleh — who’s been seen in photos with Mike Tyson and Andrew Tate and was set to fight on a Jake Paul undercard last February before the match was canceled last minute — stormed Union Square cafe Blue Stripes and pulled down its Israeli flag in December.
“Free, free Palestine,” chanted Saleh, 30, as he and two friends paraded around the café in the Dec. 15 video, which collected over 50,000 “likes” before being deleted following The Post’s inquiry.
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“We Can’t Work With Steven Guilbeault”: Danielle Smith Wants Federal Minister Gone
Alberta has had enough of the federal environment minister.
Premier Danielle Smith said in an interview that her government simply can’t work with Minister Steven Guilbeault, whom she accused of continued “defiance and disrespect” of the provinces.
Smith’s comments on CTV’s Your Morning reflect a growing tension between provincial and federal approaches to environmental policy and energy strategy.
Smith explained that she has a good relationship with some federal ministers, like Chrystia Freeland—who worked with Alberta on carbon capture, utilization, and storage—and François-Philippe Champagne—who she said has been helpful with getting major energy projects to the finish line.
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Govt’s Research Shows Canadians Disapprove of Internet Censorship
In-house research from the Privy Council found that most Canadians believe that the government should stay out of censoring the internet to protect Canadians from “misinformation.”
The federal government contracted Strategic Counsel to hold several focus groups to engage people in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada about their views on the government’s plans to censor the internet.
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Demonstrators Block Bridge Outside UK Parliament While Protesting Against Israel
LONDON — Pro-Palestinian anti-Israel protesters block roads outside the British parliament in London, demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict and clashing with police who prevent them from marching across Westminster Bridge.
Videos posted on social media shows police blocking protesters’ access to the bridge and a Reuters reporter says there have been several small scuffles. Unable to fully access the bridge, where they had planned to unfurl banners, protesters instead occupy the surrounding roads.
Police say they have imposed a legal order limiting the location of the protests and that by 3 p.m. local time people had begun to disperse. Those who refuse to comply with an order to leave could be arrested, police say.
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‘Elvis Evolution’: Elvis Presley is Back, as a Hologram, in New Virtual Reality Show
The King of Rock’ n’ Roll will once again be seen by a new generation of fans, this time in hologram form.
Elvis Presley gets the futuristic treatment in “Elvis Evolution,” an “immersive concert experience” using artificial intelligence and holographic projection, which will debut in London in November, with additional shows scheduled for Las Vegas, Tokyo and Berlin.
The hologram was created in partnership between British immersive entertainment company Layered Reality and Authentic Brands Group, which owns the rights to Elvis’ image. According to Layered Reality’s website, the technology will create a life-size digital Elvis to perform his famous songs and moves.
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Farmers Intend to Block Traffic Across Germany
Throughout the week from January 8, farmers dissatisfied with the reduction of benefits plan to hold rallies and block roads across Germany.
In the federal state of Brandenburg, around 100 actions are planned, in Bavaria — 20, and in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — 50.
Based on the protesters’ plans, BILD has compiled a map of where major traffic disruptions will occur this Monday. Significant traffic jams are expected, and drivers are urged to prepare for widespread congestion.
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Germany: National Support for Left-Globalist Chancellor Scholz Sinks to 19%
In a new low for Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a mere 19 percent express satisfaction with his performance, marking a negative record, as per the latest “Germany trend.”
The declining approval figures are revealed in the recent ARD Germany survey, showcasing a one-percentage-point drop from December and the lowest recorded value in an Infratest survey for a Federal Chancellor since 1997, according to a report from WDR.
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Germany: In Berlin, a Couple Speaking Hebrew Was Attacked in an Antisemitic Incident
The incident occurred around midnight in the Neukölln district, known for its significant Middle Eastern immigrant population.
A 24-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman were having dinner at a fast-food restaurant in Hermannplatz square. They were conversing in Hebrew.
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A grocery store chain in Europe said that shoplifting losses exceeded profits made by the company in 2023, reports show.
“We often catch people not scanning products, or not paying at the cash register. People are becoming increasingly sophisticated in not paying for products. You sometimes fall over in shock to witness how creative people are to take products without paying,” Ton van Veen, CEO of grocery chain Jumbo, told Netherlands-based news outlet ANP.
Jumbo is a grocery chain with more than 700 locations that operate in both Belgium and the Netherlands. The company detailed in an earnings release that the value of items stolen from store locations was 25% higher than profits pulled in last year, the NL Times reported.
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‘Long COVID’ Caused by mRNA Injections, Scientists Warn
A new study has found that COVID-19 mRNA injections are behind so-called “long Covid.”
In a new paper, scientists behind the study reveal that spike protein has been detected in the bloodstream of people suffering from long Covid.
According to the scientists, the spike protein was found up to two months after Covid mRNA vaccination.
The discovery suggests that spike protein may persist in the body much longer than previously predicted and does not remain at the injection site as claimed by pharmaceutical companies and health officials.
The findings also dispute previous claims that long Covid was caused by the virus as it now appears to be a reaction to the mRNA injections.
The study was published on December 27 in the renowned European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences.
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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski Urges the West to Stand Firm in Support of Ukraine
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has urged NATO, the European Union, and other countries supporting Ukraine to maintain their commitment in the face of ongoing Russian aggression.
Sikorski, from the new left-liberal government, emphasized that allies are truly tested in difficult times and cautioned against any moves toward capitulation or compromise with Moscow. In a series of social media posts, he called for escalated sanctions and the provision of long-range missiles to Kyiv, enabling Ukraine to target enemy launchers and command centers.
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The jihadists who planned attacks on cathedrals in Austria and Germany this past Christmas were offered a rocket launcher by an unnamed army official in Ukraine, according to the Austrian news outlet, Exxpress.
The site reported on Wednesday that the German Federal Criminal Police Office had obtained testimony from one of the suspects affiliated with the Islamic State terror cell in the Afghan province of Khorasan (ISPK) that revealed the group had been approached by “a contact who is supposed to fight in the army in the Donetsk Basin” regarding the purchase of a U.S.-manufactured FIM-92 Stinger missile.
The federal police office in Wiesbaden reportedly gathered intelligence through a statement made by a leading terror suspect, understood to be of Turkmen origin, to an undercover federal agent.
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UK: King Charles to Cut Funding for Prince Andrew Over Latest Epstein Revelations
After the revelations exposed this week in the Jeffrey Epstein documents dumps, Britain’s King Charles III is responding by cutting taxpayer funding for his brother, Prince Andrew.
The Epstein docs revealed new allegations against Andrew, the Duke of York, and exposed the nature of his relationship with the pedophile to have been deeper than he claimed.
The latest tranche of papers claims the royal enjoyed daily massages and stayed in the “blue room” at Epstein’s Palm Beach lair.
Epsetin’s convicted sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell also claimed there was a Prince Andrew “puppet” at the pedophile’s New York property.
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An independent London mayoral candidate has pledged to abolish low traffic neighbourhoods, the congestion charge and the entire Ultra low emission zone (Ulez).
Andreas Michli, a gym owner from Haringey said that London’s air is “the cleanest it has ever been”, but claimed that the Ulez had not been a contributing factor in that.
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UK: Nolte: BFI Fascists Add Trigger Warnings to James Bond Films
The once-prestigious British Film Institute (BFI) is telling audiences how to think and what to feel about James Bond films by way of trigger warnings.
“Audiences at a new season of films at the British Film Institute in London have been cautioned the titles — including two James Bond movies — ‘will cause offence today,’“ reports the far-left Guardian.
The season is dedicated to British composer John Barry — the late, great five-time Oscar winner — who scored a dozen 007 films, including the first seven, which set the stage for all 007 scores to come.
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Hezbollah Fires Rockets at Israel in ‘Initial Response’ to Killing of Top Leader From Allied Hamas
Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel on Saturday, warning that the barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing, presumably by Israel, of a top leader from the allied Hamas group in Lebanon’s capital earlier this week.
The rocket attack came a day after Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that his group must retaliate for the killing of Saleh Arouri, the deputy political leader of Hamas in a Hezbollah stronghold south of Beirut.
Nasrallah said that if Hezbollah did not strike back, all of Lebanon would be vulnerable to Israeli attack.
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Blinken Meets With Turkish, Greek Leaders as He Tries to Prevent the Israel-Hamas War From Expanding
CHANIA, Greece — U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with the leaders of Turkey and Greece on Saturday during the opening stops of his latest Mideast diplomatic mission as fears grow that the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza may expand into a broader conflict.
Blinken’s fourth visit in three months comes as developments in Lebanon, northern Israel, the Red Sea and Iraq have put intense strains on what had been a modestly successful U.S. push to prevent a regional conflagration. The crisis was triggered when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped about 240 others. International criticism of Israel’s military response, in which more than 22,000 Palestinians have been reported killed, continues to mount.
Blinken held talks with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, in Istanbul about what Turkey and others can do to exert influence, particularly on Iran and its proxies, to ease tensions, speed humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza and begin planning for reconstruction and governance of postwar Gaza. Much of the territory has been reduced to rubble by Israeli bombardments.
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Lukashenko Signs Law Granting Self Criminal Immunity for Life
President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus signed a new law Thursday that gives him lifelong immunity from criminal prosecution and prevents opposition leaders living abroad from running in future presidential elections.
The law theoretically applies to any former president and members of his or her family. In reality, it only is relevant to the 69-year-old Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for almost 30 years.
The new measure appears aimed at further shoring up Lukashenko’s power and eliminating potential challengers in the country’s next presidential election, which is due to take place in 2025.
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Russia Used North Korean Missiles Against Ukraine
According to U.S. intelligence, North Korea has supplied Russia with ballistic missiles and launchers that Russian forces have already deployed against Ukraine, the White House national security spokesman John Kirby said in Washington on Thursday.
Kirby said that at least one North Korean missile was fired by Russian forces on Dec. 30, and several more were used in a night air strike on Ukrainian territory on Jan. 2.
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Russia Admits to Accidentally Bombing Its Own Village
Moscow said its military accidentally bombed a village in the southern Voronezh region on January 2 during a massive Russian attack on Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said six buildings had been damaged but there were no casualties in Petropavlovka, some 150 kilometers east of the border with Ukraine. It came on the same day that Russia’s military launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Ukraine, with four killed and nearly 100 injured in Kyiv and Kharkiv, the two cities targeted in the Russian attacks.
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Ukraine Says Russian Missile Attack Kills 11 in Eastern Town
At least 11 people, including five children, have been killed by a Russian missile attack in and around the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, according to the regional governor.
Eight people were also wounded when Russian missiles hit the area, Vadym Filashkin, the governor of the Ukrainian-controlled part of Donetsk region, said on Saturday.
“The main blow was dealt to Pokrovsk and Rivne in the community of Myrnograd,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
He said S-300 missiles had been used in a series of attacks, and one hit a house of a family of six.
Filashkin released photographs showing rescue workers working through the debris in the aftermath of the bombardment. He said the attack showed Russian forces were “trying to inflict as much grief as possible on our land”.
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Ukraine Strikes Annexed Crimea, Destroys Russian Command Center
Ukrainian forces blasted a Russian command center in occupied Crimea, according to reports Saturday.
The Ukrainian Air Force said it hit and destroyed the Saki air field in western Crimea, the region illegally occupied by Russia in 2014.
“The Ukrainian Air Force is carrying out methodical work aimed at destroying the occupiers’ control system in Crimea,” said Ukraine government advisor Anton Gerashchenko in a post on X Saturday.
“Over the past few days, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has carried out a number of successful attacks on enemy targets in the still-occupied Crimea.”
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US Puts Azerbaijan on Religious Freedom Watchlist
The United States on Thursday added Azerbaijan to a watchlist on religious freedom, following fears for Christian heritage after the country seized back an…
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Explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghan Voice Agency (AVA)_Monitoring, Khaled Zadran, the spokesperson for Kabul police, confirmed an explosion in the “Dasht-e Barchi” area of Kabul city.
He stated that in this explosion, two people were killed, and fourteen others were injured.
Mr. Zadran did not specify the nature of this explosion but mentioned that it targeted a mini-bus vehicle.
Local sources report that this explosion occurred around 6:30 near Qala-e Nazar.
Meanwhile, according to the spokesperson of Kabul police, the injured individuals have been transferred to the hospital for treatment.
No individual or organization has claimed responsibility for the explosion.
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Hyde Park, Sydney: First Pro-Palestine Protest of the Year Kicks Off
Hundreds kick off first pro-Palestine protest of the year in Sydney.
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Stabbing Attacks in Australia’s Melbourne Cause Four Injuries; Cops Arrest 31-Year-Old Man
SYDNEY (Bernama-Xinhua): Police in the Australian state of Victoria said on Sunday that a 31-year-old man was arrested at about 1:15am local time, following a series of stabbings that caused four injuries in Melbourne’s inner-city suburbs overnight, reported Xinhua.
The police said in a statement that the man allegedly stabbed four people in three separate random attacks over a three-hour period from about 10pm local time Saturday to about 12.30am local time Sunday.
The stabbings are not believed to be related to terrorism, the statement added.
The four victims were all taken to hospital.
Among them, a 24-year-old man had a non-life-threatening leg injury, a 31-year-old woman had life-threatening injuries, a 31-year-old man had a serious arm injury, and another 31-year-old foreign man, had non-life-threatening leg injuries.
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Britain grants asylum to a greater percentage of migrants than most European countries, official figures have revealed.
Asylum application approvals have doubled since Brexit, soaring to 75.1 per cent in the year ending September 2023, up from 31.1 per cent in 2018, analysis of official data by The Telegraph shows.
Britain has now climbed from 26th to seventh in a league table of the highest initial approval rates out of 33 European nations.
Approval rates are now more than double that of countries including France (30.6 per cent) and Sweden (32.2 per cent).
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Four migrants found hiding in a lorry in Calais were the suspected attempted murderers of the son of former British boxing champion Tony Dodson, French police revealed today.
Anthony Dodson, 21, was stabbed in the heart on Boxing Day during a brawl in the centre of Liverpool.
A manhunt was launched soon afterwards, and it reached France last week when officers raided a truck on Tuesday.
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A young female jogger was violently attacked as she ran through a park in the French city of Toulouse on Tuesday by a Nigerian illegal immigrant who reportedly claimed to have wanted to kill her and was already the subject of five deportation orders.
The incident occurred shortly before 2 p.m. in a small park to the west of the city when 27-year-old Lola was accosted by the suspect who attempted to rape her at knifepoint.
French newspaper Le Parisien reported how the man pulled down her leggings and ordered her to “let it happen” but Lola resisted and cried out for help, prompting the suspect to punch her several times in the face and attempt to strangle her.
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French Report: Illegal Immigration Costs €1.8 Billion Annually
The president of France’s supreme audit institution admits to deliberately delaying the release of a report on illegal immigration costs until after the parliamentary debate—and vote—on immigration law. The report, just released by the Cour des Comptes, shows the exorbitant sum of €1.8 billion charged to illegal immigration in 2023.
Published on Thursday, January 4th, the report is a harsh indictment of government policy, in particular the actions of Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who boasts of having taken a tough stance on managing illegal immigrants. Darmanin claims to have introduced an effective policy for expelling illegal immigrants and says the expulsion rate of delinquent foreigners is up by 30%.
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Germany: 3 Serbian Brothers Attack Berlin Hospital Staff, Knock Doctor Unconscious
After a video went viral of three men involved in an attack on hospital staff on New Year’s Eve in Berlin, police have revealed that it was a trio of Serbian brothers involved in the attack.
The video from a surveillance camera shows how the men first beat a doctor unconscious and then attacked a nurse.
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Illegal Migrant Arrivals Highest Since 2015 Migrant Crisis, Says Germany
There were over 127,000 “unauthorised entries” by migrants detected by German law enforcement in 2023, a considerable increase on previous years and the highest since the historic surge of the Europe Migrant Crisis in 2015.
German police have warned the nation should strengthen its border controls for as long as Europe’s external border remains unsecured, flows of migrants will continue across the Schengen open-frontier zone to the wealthy, high-welfare states of northern Europe.
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Melee Breaks Out After Someone Cuts Line Outside East Village Migrant Center
At least two cops were injured and two men arrested when a fight broke out after someone cut the line among a crowd of over 400 asylum seekers outside an East Village migrant center on Saturday morning, sources and eyewitnesses told The Post.
The wild melee began around 8:30 am outside the re-intake center on East 7th Street center near Tompkins Square Park when one man holding a cup of java tried to sneak into the winding line, apparently spilling it on others in the process, according to eyewitnesses and city officials at the scene.
A squabble quickly turned physical, with one man punching the line-cutter and tumbling to the ground as others joined the fray, witnesses said.
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These migrants appear to have better rides than some Brooklyn families they’ve been hitting up for cash, food and clothes.
Authorities on Friday night towed at least five unregistered vehicles apparently being used by migrants that were illegally parked outside the city’s controversial tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, according to Assemblywoman Jaime Williams (D-Brooklyn)
The wild scene — which Williams caught on video and shared on Facebook — included a white pickup truck with no plates being towed from a grassy lot that is federal parkland to the dismay of at least one migrant seen pleading to gain access to the vehicle.
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Conservatives in Poland warn that Brussels is preparing the so-called compensatory mechanism for the migration package, which assumes that countries that have so far resisted mandatory quotas of newcomers from outside the EU will have to accept more of them in the coming months.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk claimed that Poland would not accept any relocated migrants from the obligatory solidarity mechanism. However, Poland’s conservative Law and Justice (PiS) argues that the very fact Poland has agreed to the pact becoming operational implies that Poland has handed over its migration policy to Brussels and would soon be faced with the choice of housing migrants or being fined for refusing them.
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Employers are attempting to rebrand diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in an attempt to distance themselves from the controversial progressive scheme amid escalating backlash over increasing antisemitism allegations on college campuses.
Instead of DEI, businesses and higher institutions are swapping the terminology for a focus centered around “wellbeing and inclusion.” Despite the rebranding, it’s still the same policy, and an attempt to rebrand the anti-white initiatives, which many believe are “racist.” This won’t come as an easy task, as DEI has captured the attention of prominent outspoken billionaire businessmen such as Elon Musk and Bill Ackman.
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‘Dumb Evil Idiots’: John Lennon’s Son Trashes DEI, Woke Left
The son of iconic musicians John Lennon and Yoko Ono has spoken out against diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives pushed by the woke left following now-former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s resignation.
Sean Ono Lennon declared DEI to be nothing more than “Dumb Evil Idiots,” and took aim at those who seek to ensure that it infiltrates every aspect of society.
“Have you guys heard of DEI? It stands for ‘Dumb Evil Idiots’,” he wrote on X Wednesday. While the post has since been deleted, his statement was reported by numerous outlets such as the Daily Beast and Breitbart.
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Since 1968, the Windsbraut (“Tempest”) sculpture has stood on the shore of Binnenalster Lake in the center of Hamburg. The monument was created by German sculptor Hans Martin Ruwoldt.
Numerous hotels are located nearby, offering a view of the city, making the statue a popular subject for tourists’ photographs, reports Bild.
However, the authorities in Hamburg have now decided to remove the sculpture and establish a “reflection space on sexual and gender diversity” in its place.
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All the travels of Anthony Blinken spew lots of pollution into the atmosphere, waste taxpayer dollars, and accomplish nothing good for anyone.