At least six people were killed at a wedding in northeastern Nigeria when suicide bombers detonated an IED at the venue. The woman who exploded was carrying a baby on her back.
In other news, a security guard at the Israeli embassy in Serbia killed a Muslim man who attacked him with a crossbow. The security guard was wounded, and was taken to the hospital to have the arrow removed from his neck.
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Alex Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial is on track to take place next month despite his lawyers bid to have the charge dismissed.
Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer rejected a motion to dismiss the case, the third time in five weeks she ruled to uphold the charge, People Magazine reported.
Baldwin’s lawyers argued key evidence related to the prop gun the actor allegedly fired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza, was destroyed.
The deadly October 2021 incident occurred on the set of the Western “Rust.”
The “30 Rock” star’s trial is set to begin July 9. He faces up to 18 months in prison.
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Anti-Trump Judge Juan Merchan Removed From Steve Bannon’s Border Wall Fundraiser Case
The Democrat judge who presided over President Donald Trump’s “hush money” case in New York has been removed from Steve Bannon’s case, according to reports.
Judge Juan Merchan, a Biden donor with Democrat ties, was scheduled to oversee the New York criminal trial of Bannon, a former Trump White House advisor.
The case related to a “We Build the Wall” fundraising campaign that Bannon was linked to, as The Washington Examiner reported.
However, Merchan is no longer involved in the case.
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Biden Camp Dismisses New York Times Call for Him to Step Down
The Biden campaign dismissed a New York Times opinion piece from the outlet’s editorial board on Friday evening. The op-ed was in response to the incumbent president’s lackluster debate performance on Saturday.
In response to the Times’ op-ed, Biden campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond told CNN “The last time Joe Biden lost the New York Times editorial board’s endorsement it turned out pretty well for him.” In the 2020 race, the outlet had endorsed Senators Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar instead of Biden.
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Octogenarian President Biden has difficulty functioning outside a six-hour window of daylight, according to an alarming new report.
The 81-year-old commander in chief is prone to absent-minded gaffes and fatigue outside of the hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or while traveling abroad, White House aides told Axios in a bizarre attempt to spin his disastrous debate performance.
During the 90-minute trainwreck of a presidential debate — which kicked off five hours after the president’s peak performance window, at 9 p.m. — Biden often appeared vacant or slack-jawed, and on several occasions froze mid-thought, misspoke, or struggled to form coherent sentences.
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Billionaire Ex-Democrat Bill Ackman Calls on Americans to Rally Behind Trump: ‘Help Him Succeed’
Former Democrat donor Bill Ackman has called on the American people to come together and throw their support behind President Donald Trump.
Ackman, the billionaire founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, announced in January that he’s “no longer a Democrat.”
At the time, he also admitted that, while registered to vote in the Democrat primary, he was funding the campaigns of Trump’s challengers in the Republican primary in an effort to prevent the 45th president from winning re-election.
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Breaking: Steve Bannon to Host War Room Outside Federal Prison Monday
On Saturday, Steve Bannon announced that he would be hosting a live War Room show on Monday outside Danbury Federal Prison, the facility where he is set to be placed in for his contempt of Congress charge.
Bannon made the announcement, saying, “The change of command show—temporarily being relieved by the War Room working group and our cohost—will be on Monday.”
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Cars Go Up in Flames at Downtown LA Street Takeover
At least two cars burned early Saturday morning in a tower of smoke and flames at a downtown Los Angeles intersection where dozens of drivers gathered for a street takeover.
The fire was reported an about 3 a.m. near 18th and Main streets. Cars were burning in the middle of the intersection when firefighters arrived.
Several explosions could be heard as the cars burned, sending thick smoke over the area and backing up traffic at the intersection.
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The infamous intelligence community letter claiming Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” was part of an effort to rig the 2020 election, new information has revealed.
The letter was intentionally crafted to produce a “talking point” for Democrat President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential debates, JustTheNews reported.
Newly released transcripts from House Judiciary Committee interviews prove that the letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials was a political ploy.
The revelations on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which was abandoned by the drug-addled son of the then-candidate, were explosive.
Because they couldn’t refute the substance of the since-verified information, former CIA Director Michael Morell confessed he concocted the letter that the “Biden world had asked for.”
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President Biden likely suffers from a “cognitive disease” and should not only drop out of the presidential race but resign immediately, according to the former White House physician and current Republican Congressman who served former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
“This is a national security issue,” Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson told The Post after Biden’s disastrous debate performance. “As an American, I think he needs to step down and he needs to be immediately removed from office.”
Before entering politics, Jackson served as Obama’s personal physician between 2013 and 2016.
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Jack Smith May Have to Rewrite Trump Indictment After SCOTUS J6 Ruling: Legal Analyst
The Supreme Court’s decision in Fischer v. United States, which sided with a protester charged with obstructing an official proceeding on January 6, could have a significant impact on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s DC indictment of Donald Trump.
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett highlighted this on Fox News, stating, “330 people who were falsely prosecuted will probably have their convictions either tossed or modified, but for Donald Trump, it may mean that Jack Smith now has to rewrite his indictment.”
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Julian Assange Bitcoin Donation Shows How Crypto Can Support Transparency
WikiLeaks founder and prominent free speech advocate Julian Assange has developed strong connections with the Bitcoin community.
Both he and WikiLeaks have benefited from the unique properties of Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency, as well as from its vibrant community.
Assange and WikiLeaks have also played a crucial role in boosting the relevance of Bitcoin, with the symbiotic relationship being mutually beneficial and contributing to Bitcoin and WikiLeaks’ survival and progress.
On June 25, Assange won his freedom after a 14-year legal battle in which he was imprisoned for five years. The dispute ended when Assange agreed to a deal with United States authorities, pleading guilty in exchange for avoiding extradition to the U.S. and receiving credit for his time served in the United Kingdom, ultimately leading to his release.
The Bitcoin community has strongly supported WikiLeaks and its founder because they share similar goals, Joshua Bate, founder of DeSciWorld and core member of AssangeDAO, explained to Cointelegraph. “They are closely intertwined and both equally dangerous to an authoritarian regime,” he said.
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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Slammed in Hundreds of Thousands of Online Posts: Data
His reputation is nothing to brag about.
It’s an open and shut case online against soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who scored a dismal 56% in negative sentiment in discussions, articles and mentions across various platforms in the US over the last three months, according to data provided to The Post by social media expert Rila Global Consulting.
In 483,000 posts, critics pointed to an array of policy failures and poor decisions, including his kid-glove pro-criminal approach to crime in Gotham, his leniency with anti-Israel protesters, his stance on policing and his criminal pursuit of former President Donald Trump.
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Pentagon Admits $62 Million in Taxpayer-Funded Ukraine Military Aid Was ‘Lost or Destroyed’
Democrat President Joe Biden’s Department of Defense (DOD) has admitted to losing $62 million in taxpayer funds in the form of military aid sent to Ukraine.
However, according to a new report released on Wednesday, the Pentagon doesn’t actually know what happened to the weapons aid.
The DOD admitted that the weapons aid has but “lost or destroyed” but doesn’t know which.
The $62 million in weapons were designated for end-use monitoring (EEUM).
Unfortunately for American taxpayers, those weapons have since mysteriously disappeared, according to a Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General report (OIG) report.
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Police Shoot and Kill Teen Armed With a Replica Handgun in Upstate New York, Authorities Say
NEW YORK — An officer in upstate New York shot and killed a teenager who was fleeing while wielding a “realistic appearing firearm,” authorities said Saturday.
Utica Police Chief Mark Williams said the shooting happened Friday night after officers in the city about 240 miles northwest of Manhattan stopped two youths at around 10:18 p.m.
One of them fled on foot and pointed what appeared to be a handgun at the officers, he said during a news conference early Saturday at Utica City Hall. Members of the community, including the youth’s family, were in attendance.
One of the officers fired a single shot at the teen “during a ground struggle,” striking him in the chest, Williams said.
The teen, who he described as a 13-year-old Asian male, was given “immediate” first aid by the officers and taken to Wynn Hospital, where he died from his injuries, the police chief said.
Williams declined to provide more details about what prompted the stop or preceded the shooting, saying that will be part of the ongoing investigation. Officers, he said, recovered a replica Glock 17 Gen 5 handgun with a detachable magazine from the scene.
“It is in all aspects a realistic appearing firearm with GLOCK markings, signatures, detachable magazine, and serial numbers,” Lt. Michael Curley said in an email to The Associated Press later, when asked to elaborate about the weapon. “However ultimately it fires only pellets or BB’s.”
Williams said the department would release the identities of the officer and the youth later in addition to photos of the weapon. Over the next several days, he said, the department will be releasing a report providing a “comprehensive overview of the events” as well as the full body camera footage from the officers who were involved.
Audience members shouted down officials’ remarks at times, while at moments people implored the rest of the crowd to quiet down so members of the Burmese community could hear the responses translated by an interpreter in Karen.
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Portland Enforces Homeless Camping Ban After SCOTUS Ruling, County Continues Giving Out Tents
After Portland, Oregon, announced it would implement a ban on homeless street camping and impose fines or jail time for those who refuse shelter, Multnomah County says will continue distributing tents and tarps to homeless individuals despite the city’s efforts. The news comes just as the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that cities can remove homeless encampments from public property.
On Monday, the city announced that it would start enforcing the new ban which applies to any homeless person offered reasonable shelter who refuses. Violators could be fined $100 or jailed. The ban also prioritizes targeting camps that pose significant health and safety risks in the community.
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RFK Jr Warns Debate Proves Biden is Not Running the Country: ‘It’s Scary’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has responded to Thursday’s historic presidential debate by warning that Democrat President Joe Biden’s trainwreck performance proves he is not running the country.
Speaking during a Friday appearance on “Fox & Friends,” RFK Jr. told host Lawrence Jones that Biden’s performance while debating President Donald Trump was “scary.”
Kennedy warned Biden’s poor showing at Thursday night’s CNN Presidential Debate calls into question who is really running the country.
“He does not seem to be the person who’s making the decisions in the White House,” RFK Jr. said.
“I think our government is being run by anonymous men in lanyards, and it’s scary.”
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Shocking Moment ‘Street Takeover’ Ends in INFERNO After Hundreds of People Descended on Downtown LA
This is the shocking moment a ‘street takeover’ attended by hundreds ended in a blazing inferno early Saturday morning in downtown Los Angeles.
The takeover occurred before 3am at the intersection of 18th and Main streets, according to preliminary reports by OnSceneTV.
Two vehicles erupted into flames in the middle of the intersection, KTLA News reported.
It remains unclear if the fire was deliberately set or if the vehicles caught fire accidentally, the news outlet reports.
When police arrived they confirmed there were at least 50 cars present.
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Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report described President Bidenas “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” — and numerous political analysts said that was exactly the impression that the president left on viewers of the debate on Thursday.
In the February report, which noted that Biden’s “memory also appeared to have significant limitations,” Hur said he would bring no criminal charges against the president after a months-long investigation into his improper retention of classified documents related to national security.
“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone from whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt,” the report stated. “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
During and after Biden’s debate against former President Donald Trump this week, several political analysts took to social media to suggest that Hur, who faced criticism from Democrats and liberal media figures over the report’s comments about Biden’s memory and judgment, had been “vindicated” and “deserves an apology.”
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There Were 12 Campus Hate Hoaxes This School Year
There were at least 12 hate crime hoaxes in the 2023-24 school year that either occurred on a high school or college campus or are otherwise linked to higher education, according to an analysis by The College Fix.
A hate crime hoax is anything considered criminal or at least an act of misconduct. This number also includes questionable hate incidents that have yet to be solved. The 2023-24 school year saw a mix of hate crime hoaxes and other situations that do not neatly fit into a narrative about racism on college campuses.
It can also be a hoax when there is no path forward for the investigation to end but there’s also no clear evidence indicating the act was an intentional hate crime.
Some hate crime allegations have clearly fallen apart.
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Trump Plans to Withdraw US From Climate Agreement if Reelected
Former US President Donald Trump plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement if he wins the election again, according to Caroline Livitt, a representative of Trump’s presidential campaign, reported Politico.
According to Politico, American conservatives have been preparing the ground for Trump to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Agreement for years, with a view to his return to power. A series of executive orders is being developed that Trump is expected to quickly sign upon returning to the White House, said a source familiar with the process.
As noted by Politico, such plans are not unexpected, as Trump has already withdrawn the US from the agreement once before and has spoken out against it during debates with incumbent President Joe Biden. During the debates, Trump called the agreement “a theft of America” and a “catastrophe”.
There are currently “several different versions” of executive orders on withdrawal from the agreement that Trump is expected to sign, said a source familiar with the process. One version, according to him, involves withdrawing the US from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Withdrawal from the UN Framework Convention would be a more drastic step, notes Politico, as it would effectively halt US participation in global climate negotiations and destroy international cooperation. The representative of Trump’s presidential campaign declined to comment on this information.
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Trump Crushed Biden in Debate, New Poll Reveals: ‘More Presidential’
Former President Trump crushed President Biden during their presidential debate on Thursday, according to new polling data.
A survey of 500 registered voters by Schoen Cooperman Research found 51% of voters who watched or were familiar with the debate believed Trump won, compared to just 23% who said Biden triumphed.
An additional 14% said they believed the contest was a draw, while 12% said they weren’t sure who won.
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Trump Leads Biden With 41 to 40 Percent in Dem Stronghold New Jersey: Coefficient Poll
A recent New Jersey poll has surprising revealed that former President Donald Trump is favored slightly over President Joe Biden in the Garden State.
The poll, conducted by Coefficient, found that 41 percent of likely voters favor Trump while only 40 percent favor Biden. Third-party candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., garnered 7 percent, while 13 percent of respondents were undecided. The poll surveyed 810 likely voters just before the presidential debate on June 26 and 27. Trump’s lead was within the +/— 3.4 point margin of error.
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‘Wake Up’: Israel’s New Consul General Warns of ‘Radical Muslim Occupation’
The Big Apple is in danger of falling under “radical Muslim occupation” like many cities in Europe, Israel’s new consul general warned in an exclusive interview with The Post.
“You know what happening in London these days, you know what’s happening in Paris these days and in Malmo, a major city in Sweden?” Ofir Akunis said. “They are under radical Muslim occupation.
“There are no-go zones and I don’t want to happen here in New York or in other places here in the United States,” Akunis warned. “They burned an American flag right here, in front of the doors of the [Manhattan] consulate.
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‘Washington State May be in Play’: Trump Campaign Eyes Evergreen State After Debate
The Trump campaign is eyeing Washington state following President Biden’s disastrous performance during Thursday night’s presidential debate, which reportedly launched the Democratic Party into a full-scale panic. The poor performance from Biden may give the Trump campaign more opportunity to gain support in more states before November.
After loyal Democrat mainstream media pundits spent hours suggesting Biden could be done for in the election, Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller made a bold statement: “Washington state may now be in play.”
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Doug Ford Boots MPP Goldie Ghamari From Caucus After Tommy Robinson Meeting
Premier Doug Ford has kicked Iranian-Canadian MPP Goldie Ghamari out of the Progressive Conservative caucus after she met with controversial British activist Tommy Robinson.
Ford’s office announced Friday morning that it would immediately remove Ghamari from the Ontario PC caucus after the MPP for Carlton met with Robinson over FaceTime.
She said the conversation was to discuss the Islamic regime in Iran’s human rights violations and its attempts to operate in Canada, something she raises awareness of in her free time.
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Former Liberal Premier Calls for Trudeau’s Resignation, Urges MPs to Speak With Him
Former B.C. premier Christy Clark has called for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s to resign, urging Liberal MPs to lobby him behind closed doors to step aside if he doesn’t do it on his own.
Clark’s sentiments were spurred on by the damaging loss of long-time Liberal stronghold Toronto—St. Paul’s to the Conservatives in Monday’s byelection.
“I think the leader needs to be replaced,” Clark told the Globe and Mail in an interview on Thursday. “I think it’s time for him to move on to other, fairer pastures.”
Clark called the upset loss of the riding a pronouncement on Trudeau himself, rather than just the Liberal party, which until Monday had held the seat since 1993.
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Liberal MP Pens Letter Calling for Trudeau’s Resignation
New Brunswick MP Wayne Long called for the resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a letter to caucus members on Friday.
“Colleagues, after reflecting on this week’s defeat in Toronto—St Paul’s and then seeing the response, I want you to know clearly and directly where I stand,” wrote Long, according to a report by Althia Raj in the Toronto Star.
“For the future of our party and for the good of our country we need new leadership and a new direction. The voters have spoken loud and clear they want change. I agree.”
Long is the first Liberal caucus member to publicly call for Trudeau to step down.
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Ontario MPP Apologizes for Virtual Meeting With British Activist Tommy Robinson
Ontario MPP Goldie Ghamari has said she wasn’t aware of a controversial British activist’s history when taking a FaceTime meeting with him.
Goldie Ghamari deleted a post from X with screenshot from a virtual meeting she had with anti-mass immigration activist Tommy Robinsonduring his stay in Canada.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims called on Premier Doug Ford to kick the Iranian-Canadian MPP for Carleton out of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative caucus after speaking with Robinson, who they accuse of being “Islamophobic.”
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Political Insiders Say Trudeau Must Reverse Course or Resign After Devastating Byelection Loss
The shocking byelection victory for the Conservatives in Toronto—St. Paul’s has many calling for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to change course, or even resign.
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s and his Liberal party’s popularity continues to decline, political experts have suggested that Trudeau step down as the Liberal leader in order to salvage his party’s electoral prospects.
Samuel Duncan of Wellington Advocacy told True North that while extrapolating too much from a single byelection would be unwise, the result demonstrated that there is an appetite for change among the Canadian electorate.
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Tommy Robinson’s Freedom Restored, Deemed a “David and Goliath” Victory
After an ordeal which saw Tommy Robinson handcuffed and hauled away from a free speech event, the British activist will be allowed to travel and exercise his free speech once more.
Robinson made the announcement alongside Rebel News founder Ezra Levant, who helped organize the event in Calgary.
“David and Goliath doesn’t even capture it. Not only are you free to go and give a speech in Toronto, but there’s no deportation order. There’s no ban. You are leaving as a welcome and honoured guest,” said Levant.
Robinson was arrested on Tuesday in Calgary after delivering a speech on censorship and government overreach at an event organized by Rebel News. The event in Calgary was the first stop of three in his Canada-wide tour.
He confirmed that he got his passport back and is free to travel where he pleases.
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“Alternative for Germany” Reelects Its Leaders
Members of the far-right “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) party re-elected Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel as their leaders for the next two-year term, according to DW.
Chrupalla said he was “a bit surprised” after receiving 82.72% support from party members at the party conference in Essen. Weidel received 79.77% of the votes.
Both leaders’ support increased compared to the party’s largest convention two years ago, where around 600 delegates gathered at a covered arena.
In her opening speech before the vote, Weidel criticized the ruling coalition led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
“A respected government, finally, get out of here and clear the way for new elections,” she said, adding that barriers against her party are unnecessary.
Weidel meant the refusal of major German parties to cooperate with the right-wing party. Chrupalla, on the other hand, stated that AfD is “stronger than ever” after both leaders “brought peace” to a previously divided party.
AfD came in second place in the European Parliament elections in June.
Earlier on Saturday, police used pepper spray and batons to disperse a large group of protesters who tried to break through the police cordon near the location of the two-day conference.
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“We Publish What Others Are Silent About”: Slovenia’s Fearless Conservative Media
Less than a month ago, we published an analysis of the double standards of Brussels and the application of the rule of law in dealing with the persecution of conservative media by progressive governments. On May 29th, Slovenian police raided the headquarters of the conservative media outlet Nova24TV and searched the home of its director, Boris Tomasic. Moreover, under the progressive liberal government of Robert Golob, and to the deafening silence of the EU institutions, national television was purged of ‘right-wingers,’—as was also the case in Poland—and turned into a propaganda apparatus at the service of power (although the new progressive leadership has complained bitterly about the shortage of budget). Nevertheless, the European elections have demonstrated the significant loss of support for Golob and his left-wing partners, who suffered a severe defeat at the hands of former prime minister Janez Jansa’s Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS).
During my recent visit to Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, I met up with two good friends and collaborators, veteran journalists Jože Biscak and Bogdan Sajovic, and went to the studios of Nova24TV. After recording a short interview in which we discussed the results of the European elections and the Slovenian conservatives’ lack of sympathy for Ursula von der Leyen, I met with Boris Tomasic. The director of Nova24TV, before it was targeted by Slovenian progressivism, gained notoriety for setting a new world record by hosting the longest talk show on television, a marathon lasting 73 hours, 23 minutes, and 21 seconds. A feat that did not please the left-wing media!
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French left-wing leader defends police-killing chants and throws in threats of his own in the final days before France goes to the polls in round one of Emmanuel Macron’s big-risk snap parliamentary elections.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the left-wing leader who is perhaps the most visible face of the New Popular Front (NFP) coalition bringing in the whole spectrum from pro-Europe centrism to full-blooded communists laughed off chants by his supporters at an anti-right wing rally. Making reference to the populist party of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella polled to come first in the elections, National Rally (RN), the demonstrators had chanted “A dead cop is one vote less for the RN”.
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Germany: Bombshell Study Directly Links COVID Shots to Sudden Deaths Surge
A group of renowned researchers has just published a bombshell study that proves a direct correlation between Covid mRNA shots and surging numbers of sudden deaths seen around the world.
The study was conducted by Christof Kuhbandner, PhD, Professor of Psychology at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria Germany, and mathematician Prof. Matthias Reitzner at Osnabrück University, a public research university located in the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony.
In their study, the top scientists identified a direct correlation between surging excess mortality in Germany and Covid mRNA injections.
The esteemed authors of the study are now raising the alarm about the devastating side effects of the shots and calling for governments to launch full investigations into their explosive findings.
The pre-print paper for the study is titled “Differential Increases in Excess Mortality in the German Federal States During the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
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Legislative Changes Will Come Into Effect in the Netherlands From July 1
Starting Monday, July 1, new laws will come into effect in the Netherlands. For example, in the future, plastic bottles must be fitted with caps, and keeping meerkats as pets will be banned. What else will change from July 1?
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Vatican: ‘Climate Crisis is Bringing the Whole of Humanity to Its Knees’
The Catholic Church is continuing to advance fearmongering about an alleged “climate crisis.”
As Slay News has reported, Pope Francis has been ramping up globalist rhetoric to advance the green agenda by promoting debunked claims about “global warming.”
Earlier this month, the pope warned that the human race is becoming an “enemy of itself and of the planet.”
Francis issued the anti-human warning before world leaders during the first-ever papal address at a G-7 conference.
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Deadly Attack on Israeli Embassy by Crossbow-Armed Terrorist
A bizarre attack on Israel’s embassy in the Serbian capital of Belgrade has unfolded Saturday, and ended in the death of the attacker, and a wounded security guard now fighting for his life.
Serbia’s interior ministry is calling the incident a terrorist attack which involved a man armed with a crossbow shooting a police officer, wounding him in the neck, before the officer shot the assailant dead. Authorities are in the aftermath looking at links to Islamic extremism.
The Serbian government statement indicated the officer who had been protecting the embassy “used a weapon in self-defense to shoot the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries.”
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Suspected Islamist Shoots Guard at Israeli Embassy in Serbia in Neck With Arrow, Shot Dead
A local security guard of the Israeli embassy in Serbia killed a man who attacked him with a bow and arrow. The man was identified as Salahudin Zujovic, Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic revealed late Saturday.
Zujovic was from central Serbia and had converted to Islam from Serbian Orthodox Christianity. He said he had worked with an accomplice who remained at large.
“We are looking for another person,” Vucic told reporters after visiting the wounded policeman. “We will secure all diplomatic missions and also guarantee safety and security.”
The pair were being tracked by Serbian security agencies prior to Saturday’s attack but there was not enough evidence to detain them, Vucic added.
“There is no doubt — this is a terrorist act against the government of Serbia,” Serbia’s deputy prime minister and interior minister, Ivica Dacic, stated in response to the attack.
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The wounded security guard has been taken to the hospital to have the arrow removed from his neck and is conscious.
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No Progress in Gaza Ceasefire Talks With Hamas Official
A senior official of the militant Islamist group Hamas, Osama Hamdan, said on Saturday there has been no progress in ceasefire talks with Israel over the Gaza war.
The Palestinian group is still ready to “deal positively” with any ceasefire proposal that ends the war, Hamdan told a news conference in Beirut.
Arab mediators’ efforts, backed by the United States, have so far failed to conclude a ceasefire, with both sides blaming each other for the impasse. Hamas says any deal must end the war and bring full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, while Israel says it will accept only temporary pauses in fighting until Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2007, is eradicated.
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Iran Threatens Israel With “War of Annihilation” in Case of Attack on Lebanon
Iran has threatened Israel with “war of annihilation” in case of an attack on Lebanon, according to Iran’s UN Representative in a social media post.
It is reported that all scenarios for the event of an Israeli attack on Lebanon have been prepared, although such statements are considered as “psychological warfare”.
“Despite considering the propaganda of the Zionist regime about its intention to attack Lebanon as psychological warfare, if it starts a full-scale military aggression, a war of annihilation will begin. All options, including full mobilization of all Resistance fronts, are on the table,” the statement read.
Earlier, Israel approved plans for an invasion of Lebanon and threatened the Hezbollah with destruction. In response, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that in the event of a full-scale conflict with Israel, the movement would be able to attack any part of Israeli territory thanks to its arsenal.
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Tel Aviv would halt active operations in the Gaza Strip and prepare for a possible war with Lebanese Hezbollah.
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Officials Say at Least 11 Killed in Russian Strikes Across Ukraine on Saturday
Russian officials say at least five people were killed in Ukrainian strikes on Kursk with the Defence Ministry saying six Ukrainian drones had been shot down overnight over four regions, including the Crimean Peninsula which Moscow annexed in 2014.
At least 11 people have been killed in Russian attacks across eastern Ukraine on Saturday, while rescuers in the city of Dnipro dug through rubble after a strike ripped through a nine-story residential building, leaving one person dead.
The attacks came as Russia continues to stretch Ukraine’s troops in several areas along the 1,000-kilometre frontline.
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Russia Warns Biden Admin Planning False Flag Pandemic Before Election
Russia’s Ministry of Defense has issued a chilling warning that Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is planning to launch a false flag attack in the United States before the November election that involves unleashing deadly bioweapons to create a new pandemic.
The stomach-churning warning was issued during a press conference by Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Kirillov claims Russia has uncovered evidence that the bioweapons operation will be launched by Biden’s Pentagon but blamed on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A segment of Kirillov’s press conference was shared in a post on X and translated to English by a U.S. military veteran and researcher known as WarClandestine.
During his statement, Kirillov explains that the Pentagon has relocated its secretive Ukrainian biolab operation to Africa.
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Russian Missile Attack on Ukrainian Town Kills 7, Including 2 Children
Russian forces on Saturday fired missiles at the town of Vilniansk, outside the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing seven people, including two children, and injuring 31 others, officials said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky repeated his appeal to allies to provide Ukraine with more long-range weapons and enhanced air defences to stop what he said were daily attacks on his country.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said two missiles were fired on the town, damaging infrastructure, a shop and residential buildings.
Emergency services put the death toll at seven, including two children, with 31 others injured, eight of them children. Firefighters had put out blazes in several buildings and completed rescue operations.
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Wounded Sri Lankan Mercenaries Reluctant to Return From Russia; Take Russian Citizenship
Those wounded among the Sri Lankan mercenaries in Russia are reluctant to return to the island nation as they hope to receive Russian citizenship, a minister said on Saturday.
Many Sri Lankan mercenaries had left for Russia through agents and were forced to fight in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“Many Sri Lankan mercenaries fighting in the Ukraine front have become Russian citizens, making it difficult to give them diplomatic support,” Economy Next quoted Foreign Minister Ali Sabry as saying.
“They have taken Russian citizenship at the moment,” Sabry said on Friday.
“If you take another country’s citizenship you lose Sri Lankan citizenship, so if you are no longer a citizen of Sri Lanka we lose the right to represent you, that is the problem unless they apply for dual citizenship,” Sabry said.
While some appeared to have been misled that they would be camp helpers in support roles and pushed into combat, others may have known the actual stakes involved, he said.
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Australian Government Has Been Hiding Deadly COVID Shot Side Effects Since 2021
The Australian government discovered in 2021 that Covid mRNA shots carried a high risk of causing deadly side effects but officials chose to keep the information hidden from the public, bombshell new documents have revealed.
In early 2021, Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) became aware that mRNA lipid nanoparticles from Covid injections would spread to vital organs.
The TGA is Australia’s equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The agency found traces of the mRNA lipid nanoparticles in the brain, liver, and ovaries of those who had received the shots.
Newly revealed documents reveal that the TGA was aware during the initial Covid shot rollout that mRNA lipid nanoparticles could travel to critical organs.
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Nigeria: Six Dead, Many Injured as Suicide Bombers Storm Wedding Party in Borno
At least six people attending a wedding in Geoza town, Borno State were killed after suicide bombers detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) at the venue Saturday. More than 10 other wedding guests were injured.
According to eyewitnesses, the first bomber was carrying a baby on her back when she entered among the other guests at Tashan Mararaba near the Fire Service in Gwoza town where she detonated the IED.
A military source in Gwoza said the female suicide bomber crossed the road opposite the military base and immediately detonated the IED, killing a soldier in the process, Channels TV reported.
The terrorists reinforced and returned to the 192 Brigade but the Nigerian Army troops successfully repelled the attack. The bomber identified as a young mother in her twenties pretended to be a guest at the wedding.
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Brazil: Top Female Bodybuilding Champion Dies Suddenly of Blood Clot at 36
Brazilian female bodybuilding champion Cintia Goldani has tragically died suddenly after suffering an unexpected blood clot.
Goldani was just 36 years old when she collapsed and died on Wednesday.
The celebrated athlete, from Rio Grande do Sul, died from a pulmonary embolism, according to the organizers of an upcoming championship event.
Goldani died just days before she was due to take part in the Musclecontest Brasil event in July.
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Can Cyprus Cope With the Current Flow of Asylum Seekers?
Their massive arrival, especially until spring, has motivated a heated debate about the limits of reception in the country. Euronews Witness travelled there to listen to very different points of views.
Many in Cyprus fear that the arrival of mostly Muslim migrants poses not only socio-economic and security issues, but also an identity, demographic and even an existential threat to the country, whose North has been occupied by the Turkish army since 1974.
“Cyprus population is about 800,000 people. If we have 250,000 foreign people here, it means that 25% or 30% are foreigners. If we cannot tell them to go away because of the European Union policies, it means that in a year period of time, as they will bring their wives and kids, they are going to be more than a million. We would be turning to a Lebanon. We want to stay Greek Cypriots here in Cyprus”, said Christakis Meleties, Head of Kokkinotrimithia Local Council.
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Massachusetts Begins Rejecting Illegals, Democrat Gov Declares ‘Sanctuary’ State is Full
The state of Massachusetts has revealed that it will no longer accept illegal aliens flooding into its cities.
Democrat Gov. Maura Healey announced Friday that officials have now banned illegal aliens from sleeping on the floors of Boston’s Logan International Airport.
Massachusetts officials are now also telling illegals currently at the Southern Border not to travel to the “sanctuary” state because its shelter system is out of space.
More than 100 migrants have been using the airport facility as a shelter.
Illegals have been lining the floors of Boston’s main air hub with makeshift beds and air mattresses.
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The ‘street’ artist Banksy carried out a stunt at the now uber trendy Glastonbury Festival Friday night by launching a mock-up small boat complete with dummy migrants into the crowd.
The Guardian reports that many in the crowd thought it was part of the band Idles’ set given that their songs are all about lefty political positions such as the idea that limiting mass illegal immigration is right wing and evil.
The report notes, however, that Banksy was behind the stunt stating “The raft, a reference to the small boats carrying migrants across the Channel that have been such a high-profile target of Rishi Sunak’s immigration policy, was crowdsurfed through the thousands-strong Other stage crowd, which Idles were headlining on Friday night.”
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The Department of the Interior has released a 24-page guide instructing bureaucrats to use “inclusive language” to prevent and combat discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. The guide instructs individuals to avoid using gendered terms like “uncle” or “aunt” and to use “parent’s sibling” instead.
Obtained by the Daily Wire, the guide suggested using inclusive, bias-free language and provided a list of over 100 terms as alternatives to gender-specific terms. For instance, it recommended replacing “husband” and “wife” with “spouse,” “partner,” or “significant other,” and using “flight deck” instead of “cockpit.” It also suggested referring to the “different sex” rather than the “opposite sex” and describing a “gay” person as an “LGBTQIA+ person.”
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WEF Calls for Restrictions on Public Washing Clothes
The unelected World Economic Forum (WEF) is calling on governments of “sovereign” nations to enforce restrictions on how frequently members of the general public can wash their clothes.
The WEF urged limits such as jeans being washed no more than “once a month.”
The globalist organization argues that the planet is being destroyed by “global warming” due to members of the public washing their clothes.
By placing restrictions on clothes washing, the WEF insists that governments will force their citizens to “help the planet.”
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WEF Pushes Plans to ‘Reduce Car Ownership’ Among Public
Unelected members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) have laid out plans to “reduce car ownership” among members of the general public.
During the WEF’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions, aka “Summer Davos,” in Dalian, China, globalists discussed plans to force the masses to give up their vehicles and use public transport instead.
A mayor from the UK spoke at the event and revealed during the panel on “Electrifying Mobility” that his city is being used as a testbed for ushering the globalist objectives.
Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester and Mayor of Salford Paul Dennett told fellow globalists that his city will lead the way in the shift toward reducing car ownership.
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WEF Pushes Plans to Seize Control of Oxygen Supply
World Economic Forum (WEF) members have begun discussing plans to seize control of all elements of nature that humans rely on for survival such as food, water, and even the oxygen supply.
During the WEF Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also known as “Summer Davos,” in Dalian, China, globalists declared that natural systems are finite and must be corporatized.
During a Summer Davos panel discussion, WEF speaker Lindsay Hooper blasted members of the general public for expecting water and oxygen to be “unlimited” and “free.”
Hooper, the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership CEO, argued that food, water, and oxygen are “forms of natural capital” that global elites must put “on the balance sheet.”
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Sunday Chronicle: World order
Published on June 30, 2024
by Karl-Olov Arnstberg
Those of you who read my blog and usually like what I write, but can’t shake the idea that you’re on the side of good by supporting Ukraine, at least understand this difference between you and us: you’re on the side that continues to kill people and raises the risk of both a third world war and the destruction of humanity. We who oppose the war are not “Putinists”. We are not on the other side, but on the side. We are desperate bystanders who want unconditional negotiations and peace. You might say “but we also want peace, we save lives by supporting Ukraine”. That is not true. That is newspeak. War is not peace.
Russia’s war with Ukraine is usually referred to in the Swedish media as “Russia’s full-scale invasion”. In substance it is correct but what is missing is the context. It wasn’t that Putin woke up one morning and thought “I’m going to conquer Europe, starting with Ukraine”.
If you put the war in its explanatory context, Russia’s war is a defensive war against the West, in particular against the US and NATO. It began not in 2022 but in 2014, with the US-engineered coup in Kiev. A small minority of Ukrainians supported the constitutional coup, and it was also only a minority that campaigned for NATO accession.
In doing so, Ukraine violated the security agreement it signed with Russia in 1997. Clause six states that neither party may join a foreign military alliance at the expense of the other’s security.
Over the next ￥8 years, NATO forces transformed Ukraine from a neutral state into a frontline against Russia by marginalizing Ukraine’s domestic opposition, demonizing Russia, claiming that Ukraine was violating the democratic rights of its Russian-speaking population, building a large Ukrainian army, and frhindra all fredslsningar and uppgrelser with Russia.
That the US provoked this war is not an opinion but a factual statement. The sequence of events can be documented step by step, and the political science and geopolitical literature is in complete agreement on what happened. The latest is political science professor Glenn Diesen with his “The Ukraine war & the Eurasian World Order” published in February this year. That research report is praised by a world elite of researchers and is already being translated into a dozen languages. I do not know if Swedish is included.
There are a fair number of interviews with Glenn Diesen on Youtube. As I write this column, this interview is recommended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32uZmnrxtcg&t=212s
If you have a couple of hours to spare, you might like to read the interview that the American journalist Tucker Carlsson recently conducted with one of the world’s foremost economists, Jeffrey Sachs. He is not only knowledgeable but has also been an advisor to various heads of state since the 1980s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS-3QssVPeg
Considering that there is a historical process that is essentially documented and there is no disagreement about it, it is extremely shocking to follow Swedish and Western media.
The propaganda and the lies that are piled on top of each other contribute to costing the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people. I am usually moderate in my judgments and I will be so now: Swedish media are totally disgusting when they do not tell the truth about the Ukrainian war. This applies in particular to SVT and Swedish Radio. Why citizens should pay 9 billion a year to be exposed to their dishonest and warmongering reporting is incomprehensible.
And to the government and parliament of Sweden: You have been trusted by the people to lead the country. You are irresponsible and ignorant fools who send weapons and money to Ukraine. Listen to our Minister of Defense Pål Jonsson who allows Ukraine to shoot into Russia with the Swedish weapons that the government has provided them with. What he says means that Sweden is now at war with Russia. If the world does not stop this war, it may well lead to a Russian nuclear missile in Stockholm in return for our contribution.
A world order describes the system and rules for living peacefully on the same planet. The first world order was the Pax Romana of the Roman Empire, which lasted 200 years. After that, the Papacy was responsible for the international order. With the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, secular politics took over and the world order became a balance of power between sovereign states. For 300 years, the nation state was the political ideal of choice in the Western world.
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After two world wars, a new bipolar world order was created in which the United States and the Soviet Union competed. We had the Cold War, which ended after 45 years with the collapse of communism.
Now we have been living with the subsequent US unipolar world order for over 30 years. Initially, there was much cause for optimism and faith in universal values such as free markets, democracy and a global civil society. Former rivals Russia and China were friends with the US and the West. The EU took on a new role as one of the major players in the world. The Arab Spring seemed to reform authoritarian governments in the Middle East. China’s economic rise lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and propelled the world economy forward, while the internet and globalization processes brought the world’s populations closer together.
Why did the liberal hegemonic order eventually start to crumble? One of the partial answers is that while the Westphalian world order sought a balance of power to avoid conflict, the unipolar order required constant conflict to s￤kerst￤lla ensure that allies were loyal and rivals weakened.
The top of the heap must both deter and defeat challengers. The US defense of its role as the world’s only superpower is to show China how superior it is to Russia.
Not a single major Western leader advocated diplomacy; instead, ‘peace summits’ were held in Copenhagen, Jeddah and Switzerland. Russia was not invited and Russian security concerns about NATO expansionism were not addressed. The Ukrainian government openly admitted that the purpose of these peace summits was to weaken Russia by organizing the world around Ukraine. It worked badly. In war, the guns have the last word, and neither Ukraine’s nor the West’s guns can match Russia’s.
As the abundant evidence shows, Western leaders knew that Ukraine’s accession to NATO would lead to civil war and a Russian invasion. The intention was to defeat Russia on the battlefield, destroy its economy and isolate it on the international stage. Sanctions have not brought Russia down. Instead, it became clear to the world that Western sanctions could be used as a weapon against any country that fell out of favor.
The BRICS countries – Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa – which oppose the dominance of the US economy, were founded in 2009 (South Africa joined in 2011) in the wake of the US subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent recession, which exposed US financial irresponsibility to the world. Why give poor people high-interest mortgages when you know they won’t be able to pay them back?
Zero morals.
The BRICS want a new political and economic world order without the dollar as the world currency. Some 40 countries in the so-called Global South have joined. The expansion of BRICS to include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates has further accelerated a new world order. With a list of over 40 countries wanting to join BRICS to introduce multipolarity, it will be difficult to reorganize the world back to the hegemony of the collective West. BRICS is anti-hegemonic but not anti-Western; the goal is to create a multipolar system, not to assert an alternative collective dominance over the West. Unlike the US-led alliance systems that divide countries into adversaries that must be kept in check and obedient allies, BRICS sought security with other members rather than against non-members. For example, both Saudi Arabia and Iran joined to mitigate their rivalry in the region. Egypt and Ethiopia also joined, despite their dispute over the Nile.
The liberal hegemonic world order was meant to promote liberal values, which were supposed to be above power politics. The Ukrainian war tore the liberal veil and showed that democracy and human rights had been transformed into tools of power politics. The Western proxy war in Ukraine is a conflict between two competing world orders – the unipolar liberal hegemony of the West and an emerging multipolar Eurasian world order.
The time when one world order is replaced by another is a time of crisis and chaos. The Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci wrote in the 1920s “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old dies and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
It really is. Two wars are going on, both of which can develop into world wars and the morbid symptoms are many:
postmodernism’s relativization of the concept of truth, feminism, the preference of minorities over the majority, woke, the LGBTQ and trans movements. Questions of morality have become strangely important in international relations. The West classifies all countries that are hostile to LGBTQ ideology as backward. They are convinced that they embody a universal modernity, but have not understood that they are making themselves irrelevant in a world that is patrilineal, homophobic and de facto opposed to the Western moral revolution. The excesses of liberal democracy lead to a polarization in international relations. The Russians have always admired and aspired to Europe. Now they turn their backs on our crazy world.
A new multipolar world order is being born, led by the giants China and Russia. Soon India will also join. It is made up of states that represent a majority of the world’s population. It is inevitable that this will affect the US and the dollar as the world currency. But in Europe we could cope. We have no reason to go to war with Russia and they do not want war with us.
It is time for us Europeans to pull ourselves together and act independently. We must stop sending money and weapons to the Ukrainian war and instead force peace negotiations. We must do our part to heal the wounds and improve relations with Russia. Europe is at the heart of Western civilization. With a population of 450 million and Russia at its side, Europe would become a global force to be reckoned with.
Karl-Olov Arnstberg
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