The mayor of the Italian city of Bologna today ordered the town hall to fly the Palestinian flag. He said he was duty-bound “to act to ensure the utmost social cohesion possible in our city.”
In other news, Hunter Biden is preparing to sue Fox News for defamation, after the network called him a “degenerate crackhead”.
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1 Found Dead in Downtown Youngstown Building Explosion, Reports Say
Multiple people were injured after a natural gas explosion damaged a building in downtown Youngstown, Ohio on Tuesday, fire officials said. One person is dead, according to reports, while several others were hospitalized.
The body of one of the employees, a 27-year-old man who was missing, was recovered late Tuesday night, reports CBS affiliate WKBN and ABC News.
The media outlet reports that the coroner’s office was on the scene right after 11:30 p.m. local time.
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Alito Rejects Calls to Step Aside From Supreme Court Cases Because of Flag Controversies
Justice Samuel Alito is rejecting calls to step aside from Supreme Court cases involving former President Donald Trump and Jan. 6 defendants because of the controversy over flags that flew over his homes.
In letters to members of Congress Wednesday, Alito says his wife was responsible for flying an upside down flag over his home in 2021 and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag at his New Jersey beach house last year.
Neither incident merits his recusal, he wrote.
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Alternative Media Giants Sue the Censorship Industrial Complex
In a new lawsuit, Webseed and Brighteon Media have accused multiple US government agencies and prominent tech companies of orchestrating a vast censorship operation aimed at suppressing dissenting viewpoints, particularly concerning COVID-19. The plaintiffs, Webseed and Brighteon Media, manage websites like NaturalNews.com and Brighteon.com, which have been at the center of controversy for their alternative health information and criticism of government policies.
We obtained a copy of the lawsuit for you here.
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Antisemitism at Yale, Univ. of Michigan to Face Congressional Scrutiny
FIRST ON FOX: The dates for closed-door interviews with top university presidents have been announced as House Republicans continue to probe antisemitism at educational institutions across the country.
Two university leaders were provided notice by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Wednesday of upcoming transcribed interviews that will be closed to the press.
Yale University President Dr. Peter Salovey is set to speak with the committee in a closed-to-press interview on June 20 at 10:30 a.m., and University of Michigan President Dr. Santa J. Ono is scheduled to appear for his own private interview on Aug. 9 at 10 a.m.
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Boy, 12, Charged With Hate Crimes in Disturbing Caught-on-Video NYC Attack on Jewish Boys: Cops
A 12-year-old boy was slapped with hate crime charges Wednesday in the disturbing caught-on-video beatdown on two Hasidic Jewish boys around his own age in Brooklyn earlier this month, law enforcement sources said.
The pre-teen was picked up late Wednesday morning and charged with aggravated harassment and assault — both as hate crimes — in connection to the May 12 evening attack on the boys at Franklin and Myrtle avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, authorities said.
The Jewish boys were among a group of about a dozen playing in front of a condo building on Franklin Avenue near Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant just before 9 p.m. when the young Citi Bike-riding suspect set upon them, according to the video, obtained by Williamsburg 365 News.
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Saifullah Khan, a former Yale student who was expelled from the university in 2019 after he had been falsely accused and acquitted of rape the year prior, has filed a defamation lawsuit against fifteen left-wing organizations and an attorney involved in aiding his accuser.
The complaint was filed at Hartford Superior Court on May 14. This is separate from the previous lawsuit Khan filed against Yale University and his accuser. The plaintiff alleges in the new complaint that the defendants defamed him by calling him a rapist.
Khan accuses the defendants of defamation, false light, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and abuse of processes. He is seeking an unspecified amount of compensatory and punitive damages, according to the complaint.
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Breaking: All Charges Against Professional Golfer Scottie Scheffler Dismissed
All charges against professional golfer Scottie Scheffler, following his arrest outside the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club earlier this month, have officially been dropped.
Scheffler was arrested on May 17 after allegedly attempting to bypass traffic by driving on the median. When a police officer attempted to stop, he reportedly continued, leading to his arrest.
The golfer faced charges including third-degree criminal mischief, second-degree assault of a police officer, reckless driving, and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic. However, during a court hearing on Wednesday, Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell announced that prosecutors could not proceed with the case, according to CNN.
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Police are ramping up security on Long Island after ISIS threatened to disrupt an upcoming cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan at an East Meadow stadium, authorities said Wednesday.
While officials said there had been no “specific threat” of a terror attack at Eisenhower Stadium during the June 9 match, cops are taking no chances when the international championship comes to town.
“This will be the tightest security that Nassau County has ever seen,” Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said. “Every single asset in the police department is involved, including our intelligence.
“We have partnered with the NYPD, the MTA, the New York State Police, Suffolk County, FBI and DHS, Customs, have all provided briefings,” Ryder said. “Everything is credible.”
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A branch of the Democratic Socialists of America called Red Star has declared “We do not condemn Hamas, and neither should you” in an article posted on their website. The far-left group has been losing support from more moderate Democrats in the wake of the Oct. 7 atrocities committed against Israel.
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Financial Surveillance? PayPal Plots Ad Network Built Off Your Purchase History and Shopping Habits
PayPal has announced that it is creating an ad platform “powered” by the data the payment service giant has from millions of both customers and merchants — specifically, from their transaction information.
The data harvesting here will be on by default, but PayPal users (Venmo is included in the scheme) will be able to opt out of what some critics refer to as yet another example of “financial surveillance.” The company’s massive business in the first quarter of this year alone amounted to 6.5 transactions processed for 427 million customers.
Sellers are promised that they will, thanks to the new platform, achieve better sales of products and services, while customers are told to expect the ads targeting them to show more “relevant” products.
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Hunter Biden to Sue Fox News for Calling Him a ‘Degenerate Crackhead’
Hunter Biden is preparing to sue Fox News for defamation, alleging that the network exploited his drug addiction to “dehumanize” him and damage his father’s reputation.
Hunter’s lawyers sent a letter to Fox News several weeks ago, threatening legal action for allegedly collaborating with Trump operatives and pro-Russia nationals to defame him for profit. The letter demanded retractions, corrections, and on-air apologies from the network.
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Illinois City Slapped With Lawsuit Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Reparations Plan: ‘Using Race as a Proxy’
Some residents of Evanston, Illinois, are suing their city for doling out reparation payments in what they call an “unconstitutional” program.
The Illinois city made history in 2019 by becoming the first in the nation to create a government-funded reparations program for current and former Black residents. In 2021, the Evanston City Council voted 8-1 to approve a reparations plan that would provide $25,000 for qualifying Black residents to address harms caused by a pattern of housing discrimination and segregation that existed between 1919 and 1969.
Six non-Black residents attacked this since-implemented program for being “presumptively unconstitutional” based on its racial requirement.
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L.A. Mayor’s Friend Leads Pro-Hamas Group
When Islamists and leftists attacked Jews at the Museum of Tolerance which had been screening images and videos of the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7, Mayor Karen Bass failed to condemn the violent antisemitism at a Holocaust museum.
Instead the Los Angeles mayor tweeted a generic condemnation of both sides, stating that “we cannot allow current worldwide tension to devolve into this unacceptable violence in our city. This is a time of immense pain and distress for thousands of Angelenos.”
During the UCLA Hamas riots, Mayor Bass once again did not condemn the antisemitism, only denounced the “violence” and “harassment” without saying a word about the Hamas supporters and their attacks on Jews.
And that’s not surprising both because of Bass’ radical politics, she was once a member of a pro-Castro front group, but also because of her association with a key antisemitic figure.
No one has done more to mainstream antisemitism in LA than Melina Abdullah.
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Louisiana Bill to Castrate Sex Offenders Moving Toward Governor’s Desk for Signature
A proposed Louisiana Senate bill allowing judges to sentence convicted child rapists to surgical castration may become law.
Reversible chemical castration through medication is already approved as a criminal punishment in the state, but earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed Democratic Sen. Regina Barrow’s bill by a vote of 74 to 24, which would take the punishment a step further.
The law would allow judges to order the procedure for men or women who have committed an aggravated sexual offense against a child under 13, assuming that they are a viable candidate. The procedure would take place no less than one week after a convicted person finishes their prison sentence. If they don’t show up or refuse, per the proposed bill, they could be sentenced to an additional three to five years behind bars.
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A maniac tried to mow down Orthodox students and a rabbi outside a Brooklyn Jewish school Wednesday while allegedly yelling “I’m gonna kill all the Jews” in a shocking antisemitic attack, sources told The Post.
Video footage supplied by the Flatbush Shomrim Safety Patrol shows the crazed driver revving his engine and mounting the curb as he swerved toward Orthodox Jews milling around aYeshiva in Canarsie about 11:25 a.m.
Police sources identified the attacker as a 58-year-old Pakistani immigrant livery cab driver with a history of mental illness.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the case, and detectives were interviewing the driver Wednesday night.
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Neighbors Shocked by Detroit Man’s Arrest for Allegedly Supporting ISIS
DETROIT (FOX 2) — Video posted to social media shows the FBI raiding the home of a 25-year-old Detroit man facing federal charges for allegedly supporting ISIS.
The man is accused of working to finance and join the terrorist organization.
Neighbors along Bentler Street on Detroit’s west side learned Tuesday that he was arrested, and they say they are surprised.
“I (had) no idea. That really shocks me, to say the least,” said Lynne Bienick, the suspect’s neighbor.
“I think he’s just weird because I never see him,” another neighbor said. “And when he does (come out), he doesn’t speak or anything.”
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Protesters Blockade UCSC Entrances as Classes Head Back Online Through Thursday
Several hundred UC Santa Cruz students and supporters took to the streets again on Tuesday to protest Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, blocking both the main and west entrances of UC Santa Cruz.
At the main entrance, about 100 pro-Palestine protesters picketed with UCSC graduate student workers, members of the United Auto Workers 4811 who continued to strike over the University of California’s treatment of protesters. At around 1 p.m., the demonstrators blocked the entrance and wrote messages of solidarity in the street with chalk.
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Revolutionizing Monetization: Rumble Introduces Live-Read Sponsorship Marketplace
Rumble, the growing free speech video-sharing platform, has launched a live-read sponsorship tool through its Rumble Studio tool. The delivery uses Rumble’s new patent-pending ad delivery technology and is a new way for creators to monetize their channels, and for brands to reach developing audiences.
This development means advertisers can now use the Rumble Advertising Center (RAC) to get involved with this new direct format of advertising.
The feature is currently available in the US, Canada, and the UK, rolling out to more countries in the future.
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RFK Jr. Accuses CNN of Excluding Him From Presidential Debate With Biden, Trump
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a complaint Tuesday alleging CNN, President Biden and former President Donald Trump violated federal campaign and debate rules by barring him from a planned forum next month.
The two presumptive major party nominees are scheduled to meet face-to-face at the network’s Atlanta headquarters June 27. No third-party candidates will be involved.
Kennedy’s team argued CNN “colluded” with the Biden and Trump teams to exclude the 70-year-old from joining the debate by employing “criteria that were designed to to result in the selection of certain pre-chosen candidates.”
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RFK Jr Super PAC Chair to Publish Tell-All Memoir From Hunter Biden’s Baby Mama Lunden Roberts
The co-chairman of American Values 2024, the largest super PAC supporting independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has announced that the memoir written by the Arkansas woman who had a child with Hunter Biden will be published this summer. The memoir, titled, “Out of the Shadows: My Life Inside the Wild World of Hunter Biden” will delve into Lunden Roberts’ experiences and her relationship with the son of President Joe Biden.
Roberts gave birth to Hunter Biden’s daughter, Navy, in 2018. In his own 2021 memoir, Hunter Biden claimed to have “no recollection” of his encounter with Roberts. Initially contesting Roberts’ paternity lawsuit, Hunter Biden eventually agreed in 2020 to pay child support after a DNA test confirmed his paternity.
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The local government of San Francisco has decided to remove its “Appeal to Heaven” flag that has flown at city hall for decades. The removal comes at the same time many are up in arms that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had the flag displayed at his vacation home in the past.
Many have attempted to connect the flag that was flown over ships controlled by George Washington to the 2021 “Stop the Steal” J6 rally in Washington DC because some were flown by people in the crowd. Demands for Alito to recuse himself from Donald Trump and J6 related cases over his wife flying a US flag upside down in response to an argument with a neighbor as well as a report showing that the “Appeal to Heaven” flag was also flown at his vacation home.
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Seattle Museum Closes After Staff Walkout Protesting Exhibition’s “Zionist Language”
Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum remained closed the morning of May 29 following a walkout by staff in protest of an exhibition including language that the striking workers say equates calls for Palestinian liberation and anti-Zionism with antisemitism. Multiple outlets have reported that twenty-four of the museum’s fifty-two employees staged the action on May 22, the day the contested exhibition, “Confronting Hate Together,” was to have opened. Organized by the Wing Luke Museum, which centers the culture and history of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, in collaboration with the Black Heritage Society of Washington State and the Washington State Jewish Historical Society, the show was meant to explore the ways in which communities fight back against forms of bigotry against Black, Asian, and Jewish populations, among others.
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A Seattle-area journalist who boasts millions of social media fans is being accused of squatting, construction fraud, and abusing his position in the fire department to be the first to cover a story. Independent journalist Steve Hickey, known for being first on the scene and breaking big stories, is facing mounting allegations of fraud, theft, and intimidation. Hickey is also a King County Fire Commissioner in Ravensdale.
Earlier this month, Senior fellow for the Discovery Institute Jonathan Choe and YouTube journalist Tyler Oliveira revealed that Hickey is squatting in a million-dollar home in Ravensdale and is refusing to leave, even though he has no lease and records show the house was purchased by a new owner. The dispute is currently being argued in court.
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Sen. John Fetterman told Yeshiva University graduates Wednesday that he was “profoundly disappointed” in Harvard University’s inability to address antisemitism on campus before removing the ceremonial crimson academic hood representing his alma mater.
The Pennsylvania Democrat expressed his disapproval with the Ivy League school during his commencement address for the private Orthodox Jewish university, which bestowed him with its “Hero of Israel” award, the institution’s highest honor.
“I have been profoundly disappointed [in] Harvard’s inability to stand up for the Jewish community after Oct. 7,” Fetterman, 54, told the new grads at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens.
“Personally, I do not fundamentally believe that it is right for me to wear this today,” the senator added as he removed the Harvard hood, identifying him as an alum, from around his neck.
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Trump Says Both He and Hungary’s Orban Are Against War
Former U.S. President Donald Trump said he and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban share the view that wars are unnecessary and costly during an appearance on the Tim Pool podcast.
“If you look at Viktor Orban, he says we don’t want to see wars, I don’t want to see wars. I was in no wars other than we finished a war with ISIS and we completed it, 100 percent complete,” Trump said on the podcast on X.
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Jurors in the “hush money” trial against Donald Trump deliberated for nearly five hours Wednesday in the historic criminal trial against the former president, but have not reached a verdict.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan gave the jury instructions in the morning, and the seven men and five women on the panel began weighing the case around 11:30 a.m.
Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 “hush money” payment his former “fixer” lawyer Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election.
The jury will resume deliberations Thursday at 9:30 a.m.
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Former President Donald Trump is considering appointing Elon Musk to help advise him in the White House after the pair patched up their relationship in recent months.
The 45th president has not ironed out the details and a position might not materialize, the Wall Street Journal reported — but the two have been in talks about how the tech mogul could give “formal input” on issues like the border, the economy and preventing voter fraud.
Their initial icy relationship has been thawing recently, and Musk — the world’s third-richest man — is now in direct phone contact with Trump; the pair talk “several times a month,” according to the outlet.
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Trump, Biden Tied in Deep-Blue Virginia, Shocking Poll Shows
President Biden and former President Donald Trump are dead even in the state of Virginia, which hasn’t backed a Republican for the White House in two decades, according to a stunning survey released Wednesday.
Trump, 77, and Biden, 81, each receive 42% support from likely voters in the commonwealth, according to the head-to-head poll from Roanoke College’s Institute for Policy and Opinion Research.
Another 14% said they would vote for other candidates and the remaining 2% said they were undecided.
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UFO Captured Zipping Through the Sky During Blue Angels Airshow Over New York Beach
What a close encounter!
A UFO was spotted zipping past the Navy’s iconic Blue Angels while they performed during an air show on Long Island over Memorial Day weekend, according to a report.
The small sphere flew past the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet over Jones Beach on Friday in bizarre footage obtained by TMZ.
The unidentified object only appears in the footage for about a millisecond.
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University of Florida Employee, Students Implicated in Illegal Plot to Ship Drugs, Toxins to China
A University of Florida research employee and students have been implicated in an illegal, multi-million dollar scheme investigated by the Justice Department to fraudulently buy thousands of biochemical samples of dangerous drugs and toxins that were delivered to a campus laboratory then illicitly shipped to China over seven years, according to federal court records.
Among the students tied to the scheme was the president of UF’s Chinese Students and Scholars Association.
The group openly protested a Florida law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis last year that limits universities from recruiting students and faculty from China — and bans employing such students from working in academic labs without special permission.
That student, Nongnong “Leticia” Zheng, confirmed Friday in an interview that a federal prosecutor notified her last year in writing she was the target of a grand jury investigation, and the Justice Department was preparing to seek criminal charges against her.
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Violent Middle School Brawl Leads to ‘Stampede’ on Campus, Leaving Parents Outraged
A violent assault of two young girls at a California middle school led to a “stampede” of students who trampled each other just to watch the fight, according to reports.
Shocking video from Friday’s attack at the Sinaloa Middle School shows one of the girls on the ground being surrounded and attacked by three other students who punched and kicked her relentlessly, KTVU reports.
Administrators then revealed that students were told ahead of time when the fight would take place, triggering a crowd of hundreds of kids to race across the campus in hopes of seeing the beat down.
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Canada’s Online News Act Fuels Big Media, Harms Independent Outlets
One of Canada’s divisive and controversial pieces of legislation, the Online News Act (Bill C-18), has been promoted and defended by proponents as the “solution” to the ongoing crisis faced by media outlets.
But critics say it has done little thus far except to further harm the media scene, particularly smaller and upcoming outlets, by cutting them off from one of the two key sources of traffic (and ad money).
The bill became law last June, and the overall picture that has in the meantime been emerging is that the biggest legacy media will likely get the lion’s share of the money — at the expense of independent and digital outlets.
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Abascal Vows to Pull Spain’s Recognition of Palestine ‘When’ He Becomes PM
Santiago Abascal, the President of Spain’s Conservative VOX party, vowed to withdraw his country’s recent recognition of Palestinian statehood “when” he “becomes prime minister”.
The populist politician made the comments during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
During the May 28 meeting, Abascal insisted that the decision of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to recognise Palestine did not represent the views of the Spanish population.
“Pedro Sanchez is not Spain,” Abascal told the Israeli PM.
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Tensions are growing between European parties on the right, with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) now openly criticizing Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for presiding over a huge increase in immigration into Italy and her pro-war stances in the Ukraine conflict.
“We will not bend our program for anyone. That must also be clear for us, including our political positions, which are correct, which have currently brought us to second place in the polls in Germany, which offer unique selling points and which we will not bend in favor of European positions just so that we are more attractive to some. We see this in Italy. Migration has actually doubled there under Prime Minister (Giorgia) Meloni. Open borders instead of blockades. Meloni is also in favor of more weapons in the Ukraine war and confrontation with Russia instead of peace and diplomacy for Europe. I want to make it clear that this Melonization will not happen with us,” said AfD co-chairman Tino Chrupalla at the AfD Saxony state party conference.
“For us, German interests always come first,” he added.
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Belgium to Give Ukraine Thirty Fighter Planes
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a military deal in Brussels on Tuesday, May 28th, which includes Belgium sending thirty F-16 fighter planes to Ukraine in the next four years.
“The document includes at least €977 million in Belgian military aid to Ukraine this year, as well as Belgium’s commitment to providing our country with support over the course of the agreement’s ten-year term,” Zelensky tweeted, adding that the agreement includes guarantees by Belgium to aid Ukraine with “modern armoured vehicles, equipment to meet Ukraine’s air force and air defense needs, naval security, mine clearance, participation in the artillery ammunition coalition, and military training.”
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Dutch Women’s Rights Event Disrupted by Antifa Activists
A women’s rights demonstration in the Netherlands has been disrupted by far-left agitators over allegations of ‘transphobia.’
The demonstration, organized by LetWomenSpeakNL, took place on Sunday in the Dutch city of Utrecht. However, it became a target for Antifa, which, as a De Telegraaf investigation revealed, was bent on disrupting the demonstration, and would not shy away from violently confronting police to do so.
As with last year’s demonstration, this year, a large police contingent was present to keep a safe distance between LetWomenSpeakNL participants and Antifa activists.
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EU Commission Chief’s Online Ads Breached EU Transparency Rules
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has violated her own EU transparency rules on campaign financing by failing to disclose that she was behind a €70,000 Google ads promoting her “leadership qualities.”
Von der Leyen had previously been raked over the coals for allegedly using EU funding for a promotional booklet on her time as Commission president.
According to media reports, von der Leyen and her team purchased the online ads through a French PR firm without listing her campaign or the European People’s Party (EPP) faction as the official buyer. The ads were seen tens of millions of times on Google and YouTube across Europe.
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A “vast conservative shift is well under way” in Europe according a survey which found voters are rejecting the globalist agenda of Brussels, which they blame for the degradation of their countries.
In the lead up to the European Parliament elections next week, a survey conducted by the Tyson Group on behalf of the EU-US Forum has found that European citizens are growing tired of the high-tax, high-regulation, open borders, and censorious agendas pushed by Brussels and their national governments.
This has correlated with a growing trend of people believing the EU is on the wrong track under its current left-wing leadership, with just 24 per cent of Dutch respondents saying that they thought the EU was headed in the right direction, followed by 29 per cent of Italians and 32 per cent of the French.
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Facebook Bans Pro-Israeli Hungarian-Jewish News Portal
Hungarian-language Jewish news and opinion portal Neokohn’s Facebook page became unavailable on Sunday morning after the social media giant deleted it, the news portal posted on their official website. They wrote that Meta had deleted the page of Neokohn.hu, which had 30,000 followers, without giving any reason, “which is outrageous because it makes it difficult to appeal.”
They added that “the last we heard, the site was going against the Meta Community Principles. Previously, Meta restricted our access on the grounds that we were a conservative-liberal Jewish site promoting (!) the Islamic State terrorist organization.”
Meta decided and then acted without giving any substantive reason, argues the news portal.
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Forza Italia ‘Resurrects’ Silvio Berlusconi Ahead of European Parliament Elections
Centre-right Italian party Forza Italia has urged voters to write “Berlusconi” or “Silvio Berlusconi” on their ballot papers for the European Parliament elections in June.
That is despite the former Italian prime minister and president of the party having died almost a year ago.
Forza Italia distributed a booklet to groups including regional party secretaries and MEP candidates with clear instructions on how to vote in Italy.
It has provided 16 different options for people to choose from, indicating whether their vote would be accepted or rejected.
The party insisted that Italians can still vote for Berlusconi in the June EP elections.
Forza Italia estimated the stunt would attract more voters — up to 100,000 — who were nostalgic about Berlusconi.
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France and Poland Approve Ukraine Using Western-Supplied Missiles to Strike Inside Russia
The war in Ukraine may be on the precipice of expanding into uncharted territory as NATO members France and Poland stated publicly that Kyiv was allowed to use their missiles to strike targets within Russia, prompting warnings from the Kremlin of a full-on war with the West.
Following controversial comments from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who said over the weekend that Ukraine should be free to use Western-supplied weapons to attack sites inside Russia, both Paris and Warsaw have come out in support of the apparent escalation in the war.
During an interview on Radio ZET, Polish Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk said that Ukraine “can fight as they want”, saying that Warsaw will not apply any restrictions to Kyiv on the use of Polish-supplied weapons against Russian targets.
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A wide assortment of protesters, including pro-Palestinian protesters, anti-war protesters, and protesters from the right, targeted Green Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s Nuremberg campaign event with loud jeers yesterday.
The protests were so loud that she was barely able to deliver her speech over the din while speaking in the run-up to the EU parliamentary elections next week.
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Germany: Slap in the Face for Left-Wing Parties in Local Elections
Left-wing parties took a heavy beating in local and mayoral elections in the eastern German state of Thuringia on Sunday, May 26th. The parties of the minority government of Thuringia—the Social Democrats (SPD), the hard-left Die Linke, and the Greens—could only garner an insubstantial 23% of the votes, a sign that Germans have had enough of the energy, green and migration policies that have left the country in an economically and socially dire state.
The clear winner of the elections was the centre-right CDU and the right-wing, anti-globalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), two parties which are in opposition both in the Thuringian parliament and in the Berlin Bundestag. The CDU garnered 27.6% of the votes, modestly improving on its 27.3% result from the elections five years ago. The biggest gains were made by AfD, which went from 17.7% to 26.4%.
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Germany’s Far-Left Interior Minister Reinstates Border Controls for European Football Championship
According to far-left German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, further security measures around the European Football Championship are to begin in the coming days.
“We are responsible for border protection. That is why I have already announced that I will close the borders altogether from June, including those to the west,” the SPD politician said on ARD television on Sunday.
She noted that checks were already being conducted at the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland, saying this “is an important aspect of protecting those entering the country.”
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Hungary Backs Full Schengen Membership for Romania in Unexpected Move
O ne of the important objectives of Hungary’s EU Council presidency is for Romania to achieve Schengen membership, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Péter Szijjartó said at a press conference in Trgu Mures on Monday, May 27.
Szijjartó said that Hungary will do everything possible to achieve this goal.
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Italy: Bologna Town Hall Flies Palestinian Flag
Will put Israeli one out too when Gaza war ends says mayor
Bologna town hall on Wednesday put out the Palestinian flag and Mayor Matteo Lepore said it would fly the Israeli one too if and when Tel Aviv ends its campaign in Gaza.
“As mayor of a town historically campaigning for peace, non violence and safeguarding human rights, it is duty-bound for me to take a stance and to act to ensure the utmost social cohesion possible in our city,” he said.
“That’s why we’ll fly the Palestinian flag alongside a banner calling for a ceasefire.
“We take sides in favour of the victims and human rights, once more.
“We cannot and will not stay in silence”.
Lepore also voiced sympathy with the Jewish community, which he said was “suffering from the situation”.
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Italy’s Salvini Aims for 9 Per Cent in European Parliament Elections
Italy’s League Party (LSP) leader Matteo Salvini said he would be happy with 9 per cent of the vote in June’s European Parliament elections.
Despite currently being the largest Italian delegation in the EP, wining 34.3 per cent of the vote in 2019 and 29 seats, Salvini has more moderate ambitions for June.
The goal is to “grow compared to the general elections of a year and a half ago”, he said on Italian TV channel Rete 4.
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Macron Wants to Double the EU Budget
Europe faces an “existential threat” and must therefore double its spending, French president Emmanuel Macron has claimed.
Speaking during a state visit to Germany, Macron called for a “massive investment shock” in the EU to meet the bloc’s challenges. However, it remains to be seen whether voters across Europe will be keen on even more public spending. The idea was notably absent from a joint op-ed in the Financial Times by Macron and his German counterpart Olaf Scholz.
In the speech in Dresden, Macron said, “Let’s double our European budget”:
Europe needs a massive investment shock to meet its challenges. … Two times more joint public investment.
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Netherlands: FVD Politician Claims Prosecutors Cut His Speech to Make it Look Worse in Sedition Case
FVD MP Gideon van Meijeren claimed that prosecutors cut his speech in parts leading to a manipulated view during a court case in The Hague on Tuesday where he is accused of two counts of sedition.
The prosecutor is not being sincere, he said. “My comments have been unfairly taken out of context and manipulated to give a false view of my intentions. By omitting parts of the indictment, in which I explicitly advocate peaceful revolution, the Public Prosecution Service has presented a misleading and incorrect image.”
Van Meijeren chose to make his own plea during the case. He started his defense by praising the freedom of speech. “Not just a right but the foundation from which other freedoms arise,” he said. “The truth cannot win without this freedom, and the powers that be cannot be held accountable.”
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) recommended 200 hours of community service against Van Meijeren. Van Meijeren suggested that violence against the government is permitted and maybe even necessary. Prosecutors said that he “crossed a criminal line” with the statements.
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Border control campaigner and Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned of a new wave of sectarian politics washing over Britain, pointing to the unedifying spectacle of a top Labour politician pleading with a “group of Muslim leaders” to get her re-elected in the summer general election.
Speaking at a border control campaign event in Dover, England on Tuesday — the “front line” of the mass migration “invasion” playing out over Britain’s southern coast — Nigel Farage warned that a failure to integrate the huge numbers of new migrant arrivals was allowing communities at odds with the British mainstream to establish themselves.
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Now Liberals Threaten to Abandon EC Chief Von Der Leyen
European Parliament Liberals have joined Socialists in threatening to abandon European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as she looks to secure support from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
The Parliament’s Renew group President, Valérie Hayer, warned that she would not back von der Leyen’s bid for a second term as EC chief if she co-operated with the hard-right.
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One of Slovenia’s Last Conservative Media Hold-Outs Raided by Police
In the most blatant example to date of the leftist Slovenian government’s media purge, authorities raided the offices of conservative outlet Nova24TV, the media channel reported on Wednesday, May 29th. The home and car of the channel’s director Boris Tomasic, a long-time government critic, were also searched, and his laptop and phone were confiscated.
Appearing on a talk show immediately after the raids, Tomasic explained that the raids had been carried out simply to obstruct the channel’s work and intimidate its staff before the upcoming European elections.
The raids were carried out just ten days before the EU elections. “Coincidence? Certainly not,” Tomasic wrote on X.
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Poland Unveils Plans for Massive €2.4B Fortifications Along Eastern Border
The Polish defense ministry on Tuesday, May 27th, unveiled the details of a massive defense infrastructure that the country plans to build along its eastern border with Belarus and Russia. The aim is to create a defensive wall to render any surprise invasion from Russia impossible.
The project—officially called “East Shield,” but dubbed by Polish media “Tusk Line” after France’s famous Maginot Line from the 1930s—will include physical infrastructure, such as bunkers, anti-tank obstacles, and even minefields, as well as electronic elements like satellite monitoring, anti-drone systems, and thermal imaging cameras, Business Insider reported.
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On Monday, Beata Szydlo, the former prime minister of Poland and current Law and Justice (PiS) MEP, sharply criticized Donald Tusk’s newly announced “Shield-East” program on independent TV Republika news channel. Szydlo claims that the initiative, which promises enhanced fortifications along Poland’s eastern border, is nothing more than an electoral gambit aimed at the upcoming EU parliament vote.
The defense initiative, outlined by Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz aims to bolster security on Poland’s border with Belarus and Russia by 2028 with a budget of 10 billion zloty (€2.35 billion). The program includes constructing barriers and fortifications along the frontier.
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Poland Denies Reports That it Plans to Send Troops to Ukraine
Over the weekend, German media reported that Polish and Baltic state troops might be deployed in Ukraine if Russia breaches the current frontlines. However, the Polish Ministry of Defense has categorically denied any plans to send Polish soldiers to Ukraine.
“We are not considering the idea of sending Polish soldiers to Ukraine; there are no such plans. We call for special caution regarding the credibility of information appearing in the media space,” the ministry stated in response to a question from the Wirtualna Polska news outlet regarding reports in the German press.
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Polish Pilots to Undergo Advanced Training in South Korea on F-50a Fighters
Twenty-four Polish pilots will head to South Korea for training as part of the largest military aviation rearmament operation in over two decades
The Polish pilots’ extensive training sessions in South Korea will mark the largest such deployment for training since the late 1990s. According to commercial TV channel Polsat News, this initiative is a component of a significant rearmament project involving the FA-50 fighter aircraft, which has been ongoing for more than 20 years.
The first squadron of Korean FA-50 fighters is currently based near Warsaw, Poland, where both personnel and pilots are entering a crucial phase of their training. The complete project comprises over 36,000 items including documentation, equipment, logistical packages, and IT systems.
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‘Russiagate’: Police Raids on EU Parliament “Linked to AfD Election Success”
A parliamentary aide to Dutch Forum for Democracy (FvD) lawmaker Marcel de Graaff was the subject of a raid on his Brussels residences Wednesday morning as Belgian authorities conducted searches of his EU Parliament office in Strasbourg.
The Belgian Public Prosecutor’s Office defended their actions as being motivated by an alleged Russian influence operation through the ‘Voice of Europe’ platform, with Czech and Belgian authorities previously claiming that the website acted as a conduit for Kremlin money.
The parliamentary assistant was named in the press as Guillaume Pradoura, a French national who had previously worked with the French RN and Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) MEP Maximilian Krah. Pradoura was only made aware of the twin raids through the media and has not been charged with any crime.
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Russian Diplomats to Face New Movement Restrictions in Poland
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has announced new restrictions on the travel of Russian diplomats within the country in response to Russia’s alleged hybrid warfare on EU territory.
Speaking after a meeting with EU counterparts in Brussels on Monday, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that the decision to place Russian diplomats under a more restrictive regime was in response to Russia’s involvement in a hybrid war against the EU, including Poland.
The restrictions will apply to embassy and consular staff, limiting their movement to specific regions. Russian diplomats will be confined to the central Mazowieckie province, while consuls will be restricted to the provinces where their consulates are located. However, these limitations will not apply to the Russian ambassador.
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UK: Keir Starmer Blocks Close Corbyn Ally From Standing for Labour
British Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is doing all he can to distance his leadership from the enduring memory of former party chief Jeremy Corbyn—the man he not so long ago tried to make prime minister. His latest effort has seen Starmer block Diane Abbott, who served as Labour MP for almost four decades and is most well-known as a key Corbyn ally, from standing for the party in the July 4th election.
The move has outraged the Labour Left, which feels as though its influence in the party is being purged by Starmer. But it is really only reflective of Starmer’s mission to make Labour appear more ‘moderate’ (and less Corbynite) so as to please the electorate, rather than to actually change his policy agenda, which remains as radical as ever.
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UK: Labour Would Give Children the Right to Vote
The British Labour Party wants to force through a change to the electoral system that would make it more difficult for voters to remove them from office.
Sir Keir Starmer has long wanted to extend the vote to 16 and 17-year-old children. In fact, when he was working to make his then-boss—and Labour leader—Jeremy Corbyn prime minister, he believedthat such youths ought to have been able to vote to reverse Brexit.
Both then and now, opponents of handing the vote to under-18s said that Labour was (and is) simply gerrymandering—that is, rewriting electoral rules not because of what’s ‘right’ but because of what is most likely to keep Labour in power. After all, the party almost always performs even betterthan the Conservatives among children and young adults than it does among older adults.
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UK: Three Police Hurt and 40 Arrests at Pro-Palestinian March in London
Three police officers have been injured during a demonstration in Westminster organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups.
One officer suffered a serious facial injury after she was hit with a bottle thrown from within the crowd, the Metropolitan Police said.
The Met said the suspect had not yet been identified but that police were investigating.
40 arrests related to assaults on emergency workers, obstruction of the highway and public order act breaches were made, the force said.
The protest began in Whitehall at 18:00 BST and was due to end two hours later.
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Pawel Wronski, the press spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry, has told reporters that although Poland is not currently planning to send troops to Ukraine, he cannot rule out a future situation that may require a Polish military presence there.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, in interviews with El Pais, La Repubblica, and Gazeta Wyborcza published on Tuesday, stated, “We should not rule out any options. Let Putin guess what we will do.”
When asked about the minister’s comments, spokesman Pawel Wronski said that Minister Sikorski’s words were consistent with his previous statements that, “although there are no current plans to send Polish troops to Ukraine, it is impossible to rule out such a scenario in the future because the situation’s development is uncertain.”
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Weimers: EU Conducts Taxpayer-Funded “Foreign Influence Campaign” in Member States
Tens of millions of euros have been disbursed by Brussels toward an ongoing campaign that’s designed—officially at least—to persuade more people to vote in the EU elections as well as to raise awareness about the benefits of the European Union.
However, according to MEP Charlie Weimers, lead candidate of the national conservative Sweden Democrats party, the campaign is nothing but a thinly veiled effort to boost the mainstream parties’ electoral chances and deter people from voting for Eurosceptic outfits.
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Erdogan Urges Meloni to Recognise Palestinian State
Exert pressure to stop Israel’s brutal crimes
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged Premier Giorgia Meloni to recognise a Palestinian state.
Erdogan said over the phone he hopes that Italy will be “on the right side of history”, following the example of Spain, Ireland and Norway in recognising Palestine as a state.
Erdogan added that “pressure should be increased to stop Israel’s brutal attacks on Palestine and force the Israeli administration to comply with international law”, reported the Ankara Republic Presidency.
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Israel-Hamas War Will Last Another Seven Months—as Rafah Fighting Intensifies, Israeli Official Says
A senior Israeli official said the country expects its war against Hamas in Gaza will likely last through the end of this year, as Israeli forces reportedly pushed further into the Gaza Strip city of Rafah amid mounting humanitarian concern and global calls for a cease-fire.
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Slovenia Will Announce Recognition of Palestine on Thursday
Parliament will vote on this decision later
BELGRADE, 28 maggio 2024, 15:31
Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob has stated that the Slovenian government will announce its decision to recognise the state of Palestine on Thursday.
The parliament will vote on this decision later.
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War in Gaza Expected to Last Through End of 2024, Top Israeli Official Says
Israel’s war with Hamas is expected to last through the end of the year, a top official for the Jewish state said Wednesday.
Tzachi Hanegbi, Israel’s national security advisor, told Kan public radio he was “expecting another seven months of fighting” in Gaza to eradicate the Palestinian terrorists that carried out the massacre on Oct. 7.
The ongoing bloody war has led to growing international pressure for a cease-fire along with near-constant protests in the US.
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Think Tank Close to Kremlin Says Russia Should Consider a ‘Demonstrative’ Nuclear Explosion
May 29 (Reuters) — A senior member of a Russian think tank whose ideas sometimes become government policy has suggested Moscow consider a “demonstrative” nuclear explosion to cow the West into refusing to allow Ukraine to use its arms against targets inside Russia.
The proposal by Dmitry Suslov, a member of the Moscow-based Council for Foreign and Defence Policy, was issued a day after President Vladimir Putin warned the West that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Kyiv use Western weapons to strike deep inside Russia, something he said could trigger a global conflict.
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US Abrams Tanks’ Armor is Failing in Ukraine
Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, U.S-supplied Abrams tanks’ armor is failing as a series of weaknesses were found, according to Ukrainian crews working on the tanks who spoke to CNN.
The U.S. has supplied Ukraine with Abrams tanks, specifically the M1A1 models, as part of its military aid to support Kyiv’s efforts against Russian forces. The delivery of the tanks was initially announced in January 2023, with each tank costing about $10 million.
According to President Joe Biden’s announcement about the armored vehicles, the tanks are known for their advanced capabilities that require significant logistical support and maintenance, which the U.S. has committed to providing.
However, the tanks have faced significant challenges on the battlefield, primarily due to Russian drone warfare tactics. The drones have made it increasingly difficult for the tanks to operate without being detected and targeted, leading to the withdrawal of the hardware from the front lines to prevent further losses.
According to The Associated Press, five of the 31 American Abrams sent to Ukraine since January 2023 have already been lost to Russian action.
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Georgian Foreign Interference Bill Passed Overruling President’s Veto
The Georgian parliament voted on Tuesday, May 28th to override a presidential veto of its foreign interference law that has caused domestic tension—and also upset the European Union and the United States.
The bill, which is set to be signed into law within a few days, has been criticised for resembling a similar Russian law. However, its critics fail to mention almost identical EU and French attempts to monitor foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The reason for the attacks against Georgia could be that the country’s ruling party is strongly opposed to migration and gender ideology—and espouses Christian values.
According to the new law, NGOs and media outlets receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad would have to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power,” and provide more detailed reports on their finances and activities, with fines for those who do not obey.
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EU Terminates Military Co-Operation With Post-Coup Niger
The European Union has ended its official military co-operation with Niger following a successful coup in the North African country last year.
Having spent almost a year denying the military takeover in the country had been successful, the Council of the EU announced on May 28 it was ending the bloc’s military partnership mission in Niger (EUMPM) over what it termed the “grave current political situation in the country”.
“The mission was established in December 2022 at the request of the former Nigerien authorities to enhance the ability of the Niger Armed Forces to contain the terrorist threat, protect the population in the country and ensure a safe and secure environment in compliance with human rights law and international humanitarian law,” the Brussels body said.
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Israeli Embassy in Mexico City Set on Fire by Protesters
Demonstrators upset with the ongoing Israeli bombardment of Gaza clashed with police and tried setting Mexico City’s Israeli Embassy on fire this week.
“It’s not a war, it’s a genocide,” the protester chanted outside the embassy.
According to the Associated Press, six police officers were injured during clashes with the angry demonstrators who tore down poles to use as weapons and threw objects at the cops.
The protest was launched in response to a Sunday Israeli attack on a refugee camp near Rafah that reportedly killed 45 people, according to Palestine’s numbers.
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Whither the Mexican Right: An Interview With Fernando Doval
During its five years in power, the left-wing socialist presidency in Mexico has made many attempts to diminish checks and balances, to destroy the public institutions charged with limiting the president’s power, and to use the state’s power to persecute the political opposition and journalists. Under the Andre’s Manuel López Obrador (commonly known as AMLO) administration, Mexico has seen the legalization of abortion in nine of 32 states, constant attempts to push policies for ‘trans kids,’ limitations of the freedom of expression, prohibitions of the nativity scene in public spaces, and many other policies which challenge the human dignity, freedom, and living conditions of Mexicans. Given the current circumstances, one would expect the Mexican Right to understand the importance of a united victory in an election that will determine if Mexico continues to advance down the path of an authoritarian left-wing regime.
While many political analysts thought that the Right had no chance whatsoever of winning the 2024 elections, those expectations unexpectedly shifted when Senator Xochitl Galvez, a member of Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), gained popularity among Mexican voters by suddenly arriving on a bicycle to confront AMLO during one of his morning conferences in his official residence. A charismatic, indigenous woman who is close to Mexican citizens, Galvez was precisely the kind of miracle that PAN needed in order to be competitive in the 2024 elections. Today, PAN is the primary opposition party in Mexico, and this center-right Christian Democrat party has many ways to challenge AMLO and win in the 2024 general elections.
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Fugitive Migrant Woman Wanted for Murder Cries as She’s Busted During Texas Traffic Stop
An international fugitive from Mexico, living in the United States illegally and wanted for murder by Interpol, cried as she was arrested last week in Texas.
Leo Acosta Sanchez, 21, was captured on May 24, when she was pulled over during a routine traffic stop, as part of a collaboration between local and federal authorities.
“During a routine patrol, vigilant Splendora Police officers identified the wanted individual behind the wheel of a vehicle and promptly called for backup,” the department announced Saturday.
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Germany: 1,700 Ukrainian Refugees Face Eviction to Make Room for Afghan, Syrian and Turkish Migrants
When the war in Ukraine broke out and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians streamed into Germany, there was an outpouring of support. Now, Ukrainian refugees are increasingly taking a backseat to other migrants, with 1,700 told to leave their apartments in the Ore Mountains in Saxony to make room for newcomers.
The district office sent termination letters to Ukrainians occupying 650 apartments in the cities of Zschopau, Aue, and Marienberg, telling the tenants they would no longer have an apartment by July, which means they have just weeks to find new places to live.
These Ukrainians need to make way for migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, and Turkey who are currently undergoing asylum procedures, but the issue is that 90 percent of all available asylum housing is occupied.
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Italy Sees Illegal Migration Collapse Under Meloni Masterplan
Ahead of the European Parliament elections in June, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s border control masterplan appears to have yielded results, with illegal migration having fallen by 62 per cent in 2023.
This fall appears to have accelerated in 2024, with the country seeing just 16,000 irregular border crossings in Q1, compared to 47,700 in 2023.
In April, there were almost 4,600 arrivals, a decrease of nearly 70 per cent from the previous year.
The drop in irregular migrants to the country seems to confirm the success of the policies pushed by Meloni. That has come after she worked to find agreements with third countries to combat irregular migration while also changing legislation to block NGOs from shipping in migrants.
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Polish Soldier Stabbed by Illegal Migrant as Tensions on Belarus Border Mount
A migrant attempting to illegally cross the border from Belarus into Poland has been accused of wounding a Polish soldier.
Following the incident on May 28, Polish prosecutors said they plan to charge the alleged assailant with attempted murder.
The soldier was injured in a knife attack during a border patrol. The serviceman and colleagues came across a group of about 50 illegal migrants. In an altercation that followed, a number of other officials sustained minor injuries.
According to Poland’s interior ministry, the attack took place in the early morning hours of May 28 when the migrant allegedly stabbed the soldier in the chest by reaching through a gap in the steel barrier on the border.
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It was around 11pm on Tuesday when, last week, another petrol bomb was thrown — and St John’s House, a four-storey block in Tallaght on the outskirts of Dublin was suddenly ablaze.
It could have been much worse but, fortunately, no one was inside and firefighters were quickly on the scene.
As to why anyone might take the trouble to attack a set of empty offices, the answer is all too clear: they’d been earmarked as housing for asylum seekers.
A recent and dramatic rise in the number of migrants reaching Ireland has sparked a furious campaign of protests and petrol bombings right across the country. This was just the latest.
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During an investigation into how illegal immigrants are working in New York, Frontlines TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez uncovered that illegal immigrants are using various pages on Meta’s Facebook to access Uber, Doordash and Instacart delivery accounts, sell fake
During the investigation into how illegals are working for food delivery services, it was discovered that multiple Facebook pages with digital flyers advertising the activation or rental of accounts for Uber Eats, Doordash and Instacart alongside a WhatsApp number for interested parties to reach out to.
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Tyson Foods Slapped With Civil Rights Complaints Over ‘Un-American’ Migrant Hiring Bonanza
Tyson Foods has been slapped with a series of civil rights complaints accusing the meat-packing firm of discriminating against American workers and favoring migrants.
America First Legal (AFL), a conservative group, filed several civil rights complaintsagainst the $54 billion firm on Wednesday, saying it offered perks to migrants that it denied to US citizens.
Tyson faced a boycott in March from conservatives, who were angry that the company was axing 1,300 workers at an Iowa pork plant while hiring scores of newcomer migrants in New York City.
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UK: Farage Challenges Sunak to Debate on Migration
The British Conservatives have allowed a “trickle” of migrants crossing the Channel to the UK to become a “flood,” says Nigel Farage, who has challenged Rishi Sunak to a debate on the issue. Farage is particularly critical of the “disastrous social effects” brought about by a “large influx of young males coming [undeterred] from an entirely different culture, and certainly coming from a culture in which women are not even regarded as second-class citizens.”
The former UKIP leader’s request is, in part, a teasing response to the prime minister challenging Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to no less than six televised debates. But more than this, it is an early step of what Farage describes as a six-year plan to make Reform UK—the retitled Brexit Party of which he is honorary president—”the voice of opposition.”
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A migrant attempting to illegally cross the border from Belarus into Poland stabbed a Polish soldier on Tuesday, with the police sharing footage of the shocking incident that was recorded from a surveillance camera.
The attack on the Polish soldier occurred during a patrol along the border on Tuesday morning. Other officers were also injured during the incident, which involved a clash with around 50 illegal migrants.
According to prosecutors, the attack happened at around 4:30 a.m. The assailant reached through a gap in the steel barrier and stabbed the soldier in the ribs, with the knife becoming lodged in the soldier’s body.
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The first transgender actor to claim Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday launched a legal complaint over a “sexist insult” from a French politician after the win.
Karla Sofia Gascon and co-stars jointly received the accolade for their performances in the musical Emilia Perez.
The unconventional movie musical, which also features Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez, premiered Saturday in competition at Cannes, as Breitbart News reported.
In the film, the 52-year-old Spanish actor — who was born male and started identifying as a woman aged 46 — plays a Mexican drug trafficker both before and after gender reassignment surgery.
French politician Marion Marechal after the win posted on X: “So a man has won Best Actress. Progress for the left means the erasure of women and mothers.”
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DEI is Finally Dying in the US — and Response to Oct. 7 Hamas Attacks Highlighted Its Hypocrisy
DEI is dying — and chaos following October 7th might be the final blow.
After exploding by a factor of 300 in 2020, mentions of DEI in quarterly earnings calls have tumbled this year to just a quarter of its peak three years ago, according to an Axios report.
Meanwhile, major companies like Zoom and Tesla have slashed DEI staff brought in to foster workplace diversity and provide employee inclusion training.
Experts attribute the decline to a cooling moral panic since the racial unrest of the summer of 2020, as well as the realization that DEI can foment toxicity — especially in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.
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French Senate Votes to Limit Puberty Blockers for Minors
Following in the footsteps of other European countries, France is laying the foundations for a legislative framework designed to protect children from the onslaught of transgenderism by restricting the use of puberty blockers by minors. However, the law passed remains limited in scope.
The bill was proposed at the initiative of senators from Les Républicains (LR), who were concerned about the scale of the phenomenon of gender dysphoria, leading to extensive medical treatment and causing irreversible damage to children. The vote brought together the LR senators, some of the centrist senators, and the two senators from the Rassemblement National. The Greens attempted to reject the text before examination, but without success.
The four-article text strictly regulates the prescription of puberty blockers to minors.
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Jesuit Father James Martin: Church Would be ‘Immeasurably Poorer’ Without Gay Priests
ROME — Pro-LGBTQ+ Jesuit Father James Martin said Wednesday that he has known “hundreds” of gay priests in his life as a Jesuit, in response to comments by Pope Francis that there is too much “faggotry” in seminaries.
“In my 25 years as a priest and almost 40 as a Jesuit, I’ve known hundreds of holy, faithful and celibate gay priests,” Father Martin wrote on X. “They’ve been my superiors, my teachers, my confessors, my mentors, my spiritual directors and my friends.”
The Jesuit order, in fact, is known to have a remarkably high percentage of homosexual members, making it unsurprising that Father Martin has had gay priests as superiors, confessors, mentors, teachers, and spiritual directors.
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UK: JK Rowling Says Friends ‘Begged’ Her Not to Speak Out on Trans Issue: ‘I Was a Heretic’
“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling revealed in a new essay why she decided to speak out for women’s rights despite facing pressure to stay silent on the controversial issue of gender identity.
“By the standards of my world, I was a heretic,” Rowling said about the moment she began to believe that the transgender movement was “dangerous” and “profoundly misogynistic.” “However, I kept my thoughts to myself in public, because people around me, including some I love, were begging me not to speak.”
“So I watched from the sidelines as women with everything to lose rallied, in Scotland and across the UK, to defend their rights. My guilt that I wasn’t standing with them was with me daily, like a chronic pain,” she confessed in a new book extract published by the UK’s The Times on Wednesday.
Rowling said that she was moved to stand up after witnessing how freedom of speech became under attack when it came to this issue in the United Kingdom.
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Behind the scenes with Jeffrey Sachs
Watch — listen to this very interesting interview released earlier this evening in which Tucker Carlson talks with Professor Jeffrey Sachs – President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and author of many best-selling books, including The End of Poverty and The Ages of Globalization – which gives a good insight into American foreign policy, the Ukraine conflict including the involvement of NATO and Washington, how the CIA actively works to overthrow governments in other countries (e.g. Syria and Libya), who blew up Nord Stream and the rise of Covid-19.
In conclusion, Washington has a hand in most of what happens and their recurring quest to start wars around the world goes hand in hand with the flourishing of the war industry.
Sachs is very outspoken and you are amazed at how those in power make fatal decisions without thinking that have enormous consequences for humanity, just because they can. The common man would have needed to hear this to finally see through the fog curtains.
Although it is like a bad movie when you hear Sachs describe how everything is connected, there is unfortunately no stop button on the remote control as this is the reality and the idea that Sweden’s political elite is part of this where they act as lap dogs for Washington while others’ suffering, is disgusting, but a little worse is the knowledge that the population gives a thumbs up.
2 hours 15 minutes.
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-jeffrey-sachs
https://youtu.be/JS-3QssVPeg?si=WE20JuG5qXvZWax0
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Sweden obviously wants to participate
New weapons package for Ukraine – for SEK 13 billion
Published May 29, 2024 by Fria Tider
The government and the Sweden Democrats are now presenting a record-breaking support package for the war in Ukraine – worth SEK 13.3 billion.
According to the government, the new weapons package will strengthen Ukraine’s combined air defense.
Among other things, Sweden is to hand over radar reconnaissance and control aircraft ASC 890 to Ukraine.
– The overall assessment is that a donation of the radar reconnaissance and control aircraft ASC 890 is what would have the greatest effect for Ukraine’s air force right now, says Defense Minister Pål Jonsson (M).
“The handover entails a temporary decline in the Swedish defense capability and this is handled via the acquisition of another aircraft of the type S 106, Global Eye, as well as bringing forward the already placed order for two new Global Eye,” writes the government.
The government also intends to donate the entire Swedish stock of Pansarbandvagn 302 (Pbv 302) to support the building of new Ukrainian army brigades.
Sweden also donates artillery ammunition, as well as providing resources for the maintenance of previously donated equipment.
The package that will be included in an upcoming additional amendment budget.
Since Russia’s war began in February 2022, Sweden has contributed 43.5 billion kroner in military support.
The government announced a week ago that Sweden will contribute a full 75 billion kroner in military support to Ukraine until 2026:
The Social Democrats demand an immediate announcement that Sweden will send the Jas Gripen to Ukraine, but the government has so far not promised such deliveries.
(It may be time for Putin to bomb Hägglunds and Linköping-SAAB)
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He said he was duty-bound “to act to ensure the utmost social cohesion possible in our city.” ”
Social cohesion or servility to islam?
Where have all these European dhimmis adopted acquired internalized all this subservience to islam and muslims. ?
Have Italians forgotten the cebturies when Lido di Ostia beaches were raided periodically, kidnapping girls and leaving the Mediterranean shores with scattered corpses ?
Was islam created by priest Waraqa Bin Nofal to be a thorn on the side of Jews and Christians with confused mind to the point they don’t know, or are unwilling to remove that deadly thorn from their side.
Why were europeans so eager and courageous to slaughter each other but paralyzed
against islam. European kuffars willingly take the muslim boot and place it on their own necks.
No honor. No feelings. No conscience. no moral sense or scruples. No sense of right or wrong.
SACRIFICE YOUR COUNTRY AND PEOPLE JUST FOR MUSLIM VOTES.
Was in Bologna as a teenager with my family about 50 years ago. It was an exquisite renaissance city with many narrow cobbled streets, an absolute haven… we had made friends with a lovely family while holidaying on the Adriatic ( another piece of heaven then) 😪💔
Minor Attracted Persons: Newspeak to the nth Degree https://tinyurl.com/yc875u9d
‘Toddlers’re as PREDICTABLE as a well-regulated Rolex.
“Trump…was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a case stemming from a payment that silenced a porn star.” —New York Times (30 May 2024)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/30/nyregion/trump-trial-verdict
“Prediction: If Trump gets taken down, it’ll likely be over Manhattan real estate “inconsistencies” or something like this:
“Cohen taped discussion with Trump about possible payment to Playboy model” —Fox News (20 July 2018)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cohen-taped-discussion-with-trump-about-possible-payment-to-playboy-model” —posted to fb (20 July 2018)
“‘Toddlers LIE and LIE and LIE and, then, they LIE about their LIES. Then, they point their collectivist fingers at their opponents and accuse them of lying, which is a LIE..
Remember: There’s no law that can’t be broken, no lie that can’t be told by Bolshevik two year-old commie-toddlers in their blind pursuit of “social justice” (for personal gain).” —posted to fb (12 Nov 2021)
Obamerica: The Art of Collapse.
Just sayin’..
it is all a show, leftards will believe the narrative and sistematically say that the israelis are nazis…. instead of playing with flags, he could simply step out of his own party (PD), as the president Schlein is a lesbian jew not even born in Italy but in switzerland and with a german surname.
it is not very productive to talk to leftards because they are so dumb that whereever they look, they only see nazism or fascism all around them, they are jew blinded. they will vote for aliteral jew while claiming to be pro palestine. . .