Former President Donald Trump announced today that he will hold another rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, to honor the slain former volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore. The Secret Service has said that it can’t protect the former president during any more large outdoor rallies, so he must have organized his own security arrangements. Perhaps he found some private security firms that aren’t deterred by sloped roofs.
In other news, high-speed train traffic in France was disrupted today just before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, as the result of arson and cable theft.
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PKP Cargo, Poland’s largest and the EU’s second-largest rail freight operator, has announced plans to lay off 30 percent of its workforce.
This drastic measure will affect 4,142 employees, according to a company press release.
The layoffs come at a time when the firm, vital to Poland’s transportation infrastructure and described as a transport giant of strategic importance, is facing severe operational challenges.
Krzysztof Bosak, deputy speaker of the Sejm and one of the Confederation party leaders, emphasized the dire implications of the layoffs, not only for the affected employees but for the entire nation.
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“She Has Our Full Support”: Obamas Endorse Kamala Harris for President
With the Democratic corporate media machine fully propping up Vice President Kamala Harris (see: here & here & here) following President Biden’s shock announcement on Sunday that he’s abandoning his 2024 presidential campaign, it was only a matter of time before former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama endorsed VP Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee.
“Earlier this week, Michelle and I called our friend @KamalaHarris . We told her we think she’ll make a fantastic President of the United States, and that she has our full support,” Barack Obama posted on X on Friday morning at 0501 ET.
Barack Obama continued, “At this critical moment for our country, we’re going to do everything we can to make sure she wins in November. We hope you’ll join us.”
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A damaging video of a Kamala Harris interview from 2020 has just resurfaced, proving that the Democrat vice president’s radical agenda includes support for far-left “defund the police” efforts.
During an interview with the “Ebro in the Morning!” radio show on New York City-based HOT 97, then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) voiced support for the “defund the police” movement.
However, President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign started refuting claims that Harris was anti-police justweeks later when she joined the Democrat presidential ticket.
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87% of American Voters Say Biden Was Right to Drop Out of Race, Poll Shows
A new poll has revealed that the overwhelming majority of the American people believe that Democrat President Joe Biden did the right thing by dropping out of the presidential race.
According to a New York Times/Siena College Poll released Thursday, American voters almost universally approve of Biden’s decision to end his 2024 re-election campaign.
The survey found that a staggering 87% of registered voters said they approved of Biden’s decision to forego a second term.
Only 9% of respondents said they disapproved of the decision.
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A local CBS News affiliate has been hit with a Community Notes “fact check” on X for pushing false claims in a desperate attempt to hide Vice President Kamala Harris’s far-left record from the American people.
CBS Minnesota affiliate WCCO claimed President Donald Trump had “falsely” accused Harris of helping raise money for a bail fund that helped violent criminals get out of prison.
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Discount Retailer Big Lots to Close More Than 50 Stores in California
Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Discount retail chain Big Lots is shuttering more than 50 stores across California following a drop in customer spending and economic challenges.
The store locator function of the chain’s website shows 54 stores that will close across the state, but it’s not clear exactly when they will close.
Big Lots said in a June filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it plans to open three stores nationwide this year and close 35 to 40.
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Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician with direct knowledge about former President Donald Trump’s ear wound, disputed FBI Director Christopher Wray on Friday after he previously questioned whether a bullet caused the former president’s injury.
Wray said on Wednesday that “there’s some question” on whether Trump got hit by “a bullet or shrapnel” during the July 13 assassination attempt while testifying to the House Judiciary Committee about the FBI’s handling of the incident. Jackson released a statement on Friday saying there is “absolutely no evidence” anything other than a bullet injured Trump’s upper right ear.
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Exclusive: Lara Trump, Michael Whatley Train Hundreds of Floridians on How to Secure US Elections
The Republican National Committee (RNC) hosted a “Protect the Vote” event in Tampa Bay on Thursday, in which hundreds of voters learned how to get involved in the GOP’s fight to ensure a fair and transparent presidential election. This effort was led by RNC co-chair Lara Trump and chairman Michael Whatley.
Volunteers and legal experts received training on how to become poll watchers and poll workers, which is part of the RNC’s nationwide election integrity initiative to energize and recruit voters who want to help prevent a repeat of the 2020 presidential election. Appearances at the event included Lara Trump, Michael Whatley, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Congressman Cory Mills (R-FL), and Florida GOP chairman Evan Power.
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FBI Director Wray Uses Trump Assassination Attempt to Criticize Private Messaging
FBI Director Christopher Wray has used a congressional hearing organized after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump to launch another attack against encryption and use that as justification for the state of the investigation.
Appearing before the House Judiciary Committee this week, Wray was supposed to speak about the FBI’s investigation into this extremely serious incident, as well as about what the committee said is “the ongoing politicization” of the agency under his and Attorney-General Merrick Garland’s direction.
But Wray turned it into blaming encrypted apps and services for the pace of the investigation. Quite extraordinarily for a person who is supposed to be highly knowledgeable about security, the FBI chief came across as oblivious to how essential encryption is for people’s online security — from their bank transactions to their communications.
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Harlem Bomb Scare Suspect Threatened Cousin With Explosive: Prosecutors
Chontrell Wrenick, the Manhattan man accused of sparking a bomb scare outside an East Harlem NYPD stationhouse, had threatened his cousin with the explosion, claiming that the blast would kill both of them, Manhattan prosecutors said Friday.”I’m going to take us both out,” Wrenick, 50, told his cousin after he was picked up outside of his E. 130th St. apartment building Wednesday.
Just minutes after getting into his cousin’s Honda, Wrenick pulled the device from a camouflage tote bag and showed it to his relative, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Antonio Melchionna said.
Wrenick also pulled on his cousin’s shirt collar, trying to choke the man, Melchionna said. When that didn’t work, he pulled a 16-inch machete from the same tote bag and struck his relative in the back of the head with it.
The cousin drove to the 25th Precinct stationhouse at E. 119th St. and Lexington Ave. in East Harlem at about 11:50 a.m., officials said.
He immediately told cops outside about the stationhouse about the attack and how Wrenick had a bomb.
“He’s trying to kill me! He has a machete!” the cousin screamed as he sought help, police said.
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‘I Urge You to Reconsider’: Gavin Newsom Pleads With Crime-Ridden City to Allow More Police Chases
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom sent a letter to Oakland city officials on Friday asking them to change their policy regarding the pursuit of criminals amid soaring crime.
Newsom sent the letter to Oakland’s mayor, city council and police department encouraging officials to take a harsher position on crime and allow for criminals to be pursued when fleeing officers, which Newsom points out that the current policy does not allow. Current Oakland police protocol only allows for criminals to be chased under strict circumstances, such as when a firearm is involved, but does not warrant pursuit in most other cases, even for violent misdemeanors.
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J.D. Vance Ditched by His German Publisher
German publishing house Ullstein has decided not to reprint J.D. Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy since its author became Donald Trump’s nominee for Vice President. Demand for the book has skyrocketed after Vance was nominated, making the decision bad for business and freedom of expression.
The 39-year-old senator from Ohio wrote his bestselling memoir in 2016, telling his story of growing up poor in southern Ohio, having a drug-addicted mother, and being raised by his strict grandparents.
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J.D. Vance Warns Harris ‘Much More Liberal’ Than Biden
As Democrats scramble to “reintroduce” Kamala Harris to the American people, the vice president’s unpopular far-left track record continues to re-emerge.
Republicans are eager to remind voters that Harris had a direct hand in the destructive radical agenda of Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration.
President Donald Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, is warning that Harris is “much more liberal” than Biden.
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Journalist Who Attacked ‘Anti-Vaxxers’ Dies ‘Unexpectedly’ at 43
A prominent journalist from Washington State, who smeared and attacked “anti-vaxxers” over their views about Covid mRNA shots, has died “unexpectedly” at just 43 years old.
Matt Driscoll was a controversial columnist and opinion editor for The News Tribune (TNT).
Driscoll’s sudden death was announced by TNT.
The outlet revealed that Driscoll died in his Tacoma home this Sunday.
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Reid Hoffman, the tech mogul known for co-founding LinkedIn, is reportedly orchestrating a major funding initiative to support Vice President Kamala Harris’s bid for the presidency. He is said to be rallying Silicon Valley’s elite to amass around $100 million for her campaign. However, Hoffman’s support comes with specific demands: he is pressing for the dismissal of Lina Khan, the FTC’s leading antitrust official who has been cracking down on Big Tech monopolies.
Hoffman has also been vocal about his disdain for current tariffs and his preference for the US to revert to its longstanding free trade policies, which he discussed in a CNN interview.
CNN reporter Matt Egan highlighted Hoffman’s specific grievances against FTC Chair Lina Khan, whom he accused of harming American businesses. Hoffman hoped that under a Harris presidency, Khan would be replaced.
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Manhattan DA Argues Trump Case Not Affected by Supreme Court Immunity Ruling
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has argued in a new court filing that former President Trump’s criminal case and guilty verdict are not affected by the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity.
“That decision has no bearing on this prosecution and would not support vacatur of the jury’s unanimous verdict (let alone dismissal of the indictment) even if its reasoning did apply here,” reads a July 24 brief from Bragg’s team.
Earlier this month the Supreme Court ruled in a separate case that presidents enjoy absolute immunity for core constitutional conduct, presumptive immunity for official acts, but no immunity for unofficial acts — which Bragg has seized on in his response to a Trump filing asking New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to toss Trump’s indictment, arguing that communications between Trump and his aides have been used as evidence before the grand jury which indicted Trump and a jury which returned a guilty verdict.
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Mother and Son Arrested for Alleged Stabbing of Child in Ellendale
ELLENDALE, Del. — Two people have been arrested on attempted murder charges stemming from the reported stabbing of a child.
Shortly before 11 a.m. Thursday, troopers were called to Bayhealth — Sussex Campus for a possible stabbing. Troopers arrived and learned that a 12-year-old had been brought to the hospital by a family member after being stabbed at a home in the 18000 block of Sharon’s Road in Ellendale.
Further investigation revealed that the suspect, 40-year-old Darris McGlotten, allegedly stabbed the victim in the chest while the victim was sleeping. It was also learned that Darris’ mother, 54-year-old Jamesneta McGlotten, knew that the victim had been seriously injured but did not seek police or medical help.
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Navy to Expunge Records for Seals, Sailors Who Refused COVID Vaccines
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times
The U.S. Navy has agreed to correct the records of SEALs and sailors who declined to receive COVID-19 vaccines due to their religious beliefs, under a settlement approved by a federal court on July 24.
“Defendants agree to re-review the personnel records of all class members to ensure that the U.S. Navy has permanently removed records indicating administrative separation processing or proceedings, formal counseling, and non-judicial punishment actions taken against the class members solely on the basis of non-compliance with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and adverse information related to non-compliance with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate,” the settlement agreement states.
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Nebraska Teen Allegedly Derailed Trains Just to Get ‘Insane’ Footage for YouTube
A teenager was charged this week with two felonies for allegedly derailing trains in Nebraska to film “insane” footage for YouTube.
The 17-year-old, who has not been identified because of his age, posted a 5-minute video of the April 21 derailment in Bennet, calling it the “MOST INSANE VIDEO I’VE EVER TAKEN!”
“Oh my God! Oh my frickin’ God!” he repeatedly gasped as he filmed two locomotives and five fully loaded railcars come off the rails — but remain upright — after hitting an empty one, causing $350,000 in damage.
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Netanyahu Defends America Before Congress
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had come to D.C. to defend Israel’s war against Islamic terrorists, instead he ended up defending America in a city and Congress overrun with them.
Marxist and Jihadist mobs prowled the streets of D.C., tearing down and burning American flags, and putting up the terrorist flags of the PLO in their place. Hamas supporters openly waved the green flag of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization and even the black ‘battle flag’ used by ISIS and other Jihadists made an appearance in the capital of the United States.
The Columbus fountain outside Union Station was vandalized with the red triangles supporting Islamic terrorist attacks and “Hamas is Coming”. “Long live the intifada” was scrawled on the Freedom Bell. A courageous lone individual rushed to save an American flag being burned by a mob shouting “Allahu Akbar” which quickly gave chase. The Capitol Police, formerly so beloved by Democrats and media, battled more of the red-shirted radical thugs with no support.
“Allahu Akbar! Hamas!” a Muslim protester shouted. “We’re gonna kill all the Jews.”
Then in a few hours the insurrectionist mob that assaulted Capitol Police officers was set loose.
The message from the Biden administration and Democrats was once again that terrorist mobs could freely vandalize landmarks, threaten members of Congress and assault Capitol Police.
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New Bodycam Footage of Trump Shooting Shows Police Finding ‘Explosive Device’
New police bodycam video from President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt has been released by authorities.
The video shows police discovering a transmitter for an explosive device next to the shooter’s dead body.
The dramatic video also shows police and a Secret Service agent identifying the dead shooter as the same man who was photographed acting suspiciously before the attack.
The video was recorded by a Beaver County Emergency Services Unit officer and shared with Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (IA).
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has urged the Supreme Court to reject a request from Missouri AG Andrew Bailey to intervene in former President Donald Trump’s court case, in which he was convicted of 34 felony counts of the falsification of business records, usually a misdemeanor in the state of New York. James argued against Missouri’s appeal to pause Trump’s sentencing hearing, set for September 18 after a postponement, and lift the gag order imposed on him.
Earlier in July, Missouri AG Andrew Bailey requested permission from the Supreme Court to file a complaint against New York, aiming to halt Trump’s sentencing scheduled for September and lift the gag order. Bailey argued that New York’s actions violated the rights of Missouri voters by restricting them from hearing from Trump, a presidential candidate.
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NYU Prof: Trump, Like Hitler, Will Use Assassination Attempt for ‘Authoritarian’ Goals
Authored by Matt Lamb via The College Fix
Being almost killed ‘can cause a wave of sympathy,’ professor says
President Donald Trump may take a page out of the “authoritarian playbook,” and use his assassination attempt to make himself more powerful, according to a New York University professor.
Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat wrote in The Conversation that “assassination attempts can cause a wave of sympathy for leaders that can boost their personality cults as well.”
“And with each failed attempt, the personality cult themes about the leader’s macho toughness, resilience and invincibility gain credence among his followers,” the history professor said. “This was certainly the case with Castro and Mussolini, and it has been the case so far with former President Donald Trump.”
“From Mussolini and Hitler onward, strongmen have posed as victims of internal and external enemies, as well as protectors of the nation — as the only individuals who could save the people and lead them to greatness,” she said.
(This is not the first time she has compared Trump to Mussolini.)
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Retired Chicago Cop Who Exposed Jussie Smollett Hoax Warns Voters About Kamala Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris once called infamous hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett a victim of an attempted “modern day lynching.”
Now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Harris to this day has not deleted her 2019 social media post that repeats the false claim, even after the “Empire” actor’s criminal conviction in Illinois for the faked attack.
Smollett claimed two masked men “doused him with bleach, put a rope around his neck and said, ‘This is MAGA country!’“ in the heart of Chicago during the 2019 polar vortex.
“[Jussie Smollett] is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery,” California Sen. Harris posted on X, formerly Twitter, Jan. 29, 2019.
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Seattle Judge Releases Teen Charged With Bringing Automatic Weapons to Crowded Parade
On Thursday, three young teens arrested for bringing loaded guns modified to be fully automatic to a crowded Seattle parade pleaded not guilty in court. Despite the charges, a judge released one of the suspects to home monitoring.
Seattle Police arrested three armed juveniles Sunday evening at a parade in the Chinatown-International District. At 7:31 pm, patrol officers responded to reports of three males brandishing firearms near 7th Ave South and South Weller Street during the parade.
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Seller on Amazon Sold Merch Reading “The Only Good Trump is a Dead One”
“Why are you allowing a shirt to be sold that seems to encourage lunatics to attempt to kill members of the Trump family?” commentator and filmmaker Robby Starbuck asked Amazon & founder Jeff Bezos on X, referring to Amazon allowing a seller earlier this week to offer merchandise with the slogan “The Only Good Trump Is A Dead One.”
Starbuck said, “Just searched and @Amazon has hoodies too!”
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Shoplifting Rates Spike Across US While Other Crimes Dip Below Pre-Pandemic Levels, Study Finds
Shoplifting rates increased during the first half of 2024 while other serious crimes have decreased to pre-pandemic levels, according to a Council of Criminal Justice (CCJ) study.
Shoplifting increased 24% in 23 cities across the country during the first half of 2024 compared to the first half of 2023, according to the mid-year 2024 update from CCJ. Other crimes, including homicides and robbery, receded to or below 2019 levels.
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The Biden administration has backed down from defending two race-based programs that were central to its “racial equity agenda,” the Washington Post reported Friday.
Federal judges ruled that racial preference is unconstitutional in cases regarding the Minority Business Development Agency and the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program, which provided loans and government contracts on the basis of race, accordingto the Post. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has not appealed the rulings, instead limiting the scope of the two race-based programs.
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Trump Announces Return to Butler for New Rally After Assassination Attempt
Former President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would hold another rally in Butler, Pennsylvania in a post on Truth Social.
Trump revealed the return to the site of the July 13 assassination attempt that injured his right ear when a gunman fired at him from a rooftop in the post on Truth Social early Friday evening. The former president said he intended to honor former volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore, who was killed in the attack, and two other attendees at the rally who were wounded.
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Violent Portland Antifa Member Heather Clark Among 9 Militants Arrested During Anti-Police Attack
Violent Portland Antifa member Heather Ashley Clark, 36, was arrested on Wednesday after Antifa militants staged an attack on Portland Police’s north precinct as revenge for the death of Sonya Massey, a black woman who was killed in a police-involved shooting in Chicago earlier this month.
Heather Ashley Clark, of Portland, was arrested on trespass charges. She was booked into jail and later released on own recognizance, jail records show.
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X’s Grok AI Feeds on Your Data: How to Turn it Off
X users are starting to discover that their posts and interactions are being utilized to enhance Grok, a generative AI chatbot. This practice was initiated without prior notification.
In X’s settings, a newly added “Data sharing” toggle suggests that any data created or interacted with on the platform may contribute to “training and fine-tuning” Grok. Previously, Grok’s training was limited to a disparate set of texts available publicly online, and it did not approach the sophistication or breadth of data sets used by competitors like ChatGPT or Co-Pilot.
X maintains that allowing Grok to access a live stream of public X posts enhances its ability to deliver timely and diverse responses to user queries. In theory, Grok aims to better understand human language and communication, deliver more relevant and engaging replies, and develop a balanced viewpoint without political bias, even attempting to cultivate a sense of humor.
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Basel-Mulhouse Airport at French-Swiss Border Re-Opens After Bomb Alert
A Franco-Swiss airport was temporarily evacuated for security reasons on Friday, July 26, hours after arson attacks disrupted the French rail network ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony. The airport had been evacuated and closed for “security reasons” following a “bomb threat,” the Haut-Rhin prefecture told Agence France-Presse (AFP), adding that “the usual procedure was deployed,” including the dispatch of deminers. This incident comes at a time when the rail network in France is already severely disrupted by attacks on SNCF infrastructure.
The Basel-Mulhouse EuroAirport announced the re-opening in a statement on its website. “The airport has reopened and flight operations are gradually restarting. Passengers are requested to contact their airline for information about their flight.”
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Belgium Charges Three With Planning Terrorist Attack
Three suspected members of Islamic State’s Afghan branch ISIS-Khorasan detained in raids in Belgium were charged on Friday with planning a terrorist attack, the state prosecutor’s office said.
Four other people detained during house searches across the country on Thursday were released, three of them after questioning by an investigative judge, it said.
Prosecutors said all seven taken into custody in the Brussels region and in cities including Antwerp, Liege and Ghent were natives of Chechnya, with the three who were charged suspected to be members of ISIS-Khorasan.
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Breakthrough in Negotiations With US as Apache Helicopters to Finally Arrive in Poland
Poland is set to sign an offset agreement within the next few weeks concerning the delivery of AH-64E Apache helicopters from the USA, concluding lengthy and challenging negotiations that had previously stalled the landmark deal.
Poland plans to purchase up to 96 helicopters, positioning itself as the largest operator of these aircraft outside their country of manufacture.
“I can say now that we have succeeded. We are finalizing the offset agreement,” confirmed Colonel Robert Fromholz, Deputy Chief of the Armament Agency, on Polsat News TV.
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Britain’s New Left-Wing Government Withdraws Opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu ICC Arrest Warrant
The United Kingdom will no longer object to the International Criminal Court seeking an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a major foreign policy change for the country’s new left-globalist government.
The British government had submitted a brief to the International Criminal Court (ICC) questioning the body’s jurisdiction to issue arrest warrants for Israel back in June, throwing into question the move by the court’s move to seek the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Now a spokesman for 10 Downing Street, the official office and residence of the British Prime Minister, has made implicit this will not be pursued any further and the new British government, which flipped from globalist centre-right to globalist social democrat left in this month’s national elections.
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Did a Lax Vetting Process Allow Foreign Agents Into Germany?
On orders from Annalena Baerbock’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, German embassies, especially in Africa and Asia, skimped on following due diligence when evaluating family reunification applications from foreign nationals. That’s the conclusion of an investigation by Cicero magazine, published on July 25th. In at least one instance, two men suspected of being foreign agents came close to being flown to Germany under the reunification plan.
The in-depth journalistic investigation adds to previous reports, currently being investigated by public prosecutors, alleging that the foreign ministry issued illegal passports and visas and relied on left-wing NGOs rather than German security authorities to assess the eligibility of applicants.
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EU Commission Threatens “Immediate” Punishment if Slovakia Regulates NGOs
The European Commission threatened Slovakia’s sovereigntist government with legal action (an ‘Infringement Procedure’) if Bratislava goes ahead with its planned legislation requiring foreign-funded non-governmental organizations to label themselves as such. This, as Brussels has been crafting its own ‘foreign agents law’ for nearly two years now.
“I was in Bratislava and I was very clear,” EU Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova said on Wednesday, July 24th, when unveiling the EU’s annual Rule of Law Report which once again unsurprisingly singled out Hungary and Slovakia as the greatest offenders.
“If you follow the Hungarian example on the NGOs law, we will launch an infringement procedure [for violating EU law] immediately, because already we have the decision of the court on the table,” she said.
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EU Threatens to Withhold More EU Funds From Hungary
The European Commission could freeze even more EU funds owed to Hungary because of a law that Brussels claims breaches the EU’s ‘democratic values.’ The Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, told Hungarian daily Népszava that he cannot rule out the suspension of EU cohesion funds due to Hungary’s Sovereignty Protection Act.
The Hungarian parliament passed the law in December to defend the country against undue political interference by foreign entities. An office was created to investigate disinformation campaigns and activities that seek to influence election outcomes. Banned foreign financing can be punished with a prison sentence. The ruling conservative party, Fidesz, deemed it necessary to take such action after revelations surfaced that the left-wing opposition’s 2022 election campaign was massively fundedfrom overseas, mainly through a U.S. non-profit organisation.
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Former Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki Set to Chair European Conservatives and Reformists
Sources indicate that Mateusz Morawiecki, former conservative prime minister of Poland, is likely to be appointed as the chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the European Parliament.
According to press reports, Morawiecki is tipped to soon replace Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as leader of the center-right group. However, this position might not grant him significant power within the European Parliament faction due to a recent change in the party’s statutes, which now adhere to Belgian law.
Under the new statutes, the primary power within the party lies with the secretary general. “Friends from sunny Italy suggest that this position will always be held by an Italian,” dorzeczy.pl news outlet reports.
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France: Two Olympic Broadcasters Suffer ‘Significant Assault’ in Paris Robbery Attempt
Two staffers with the Olympic broadcast team for Australia’s Nine Entertainment were attacked during an attempted robbery in Paris, France, on Monday afternoon, reports revealed later in the week.
The thieves attempted to steal their backpacks as the tech staffers were walking to their accommodations.
The two staffers, who were not identified or described in Nine Entertainment’s account of the incident, were walking to their lodgings in the northeastern Parisian municipality of Le Bourget when a “group of people” accosted them.
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French High-Speed Rail Network Crippled by Massive ‘Sabotage’ (Videos)
High-speed train traffic in France was disrupted on Friday, just hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics following a series of “malicious acts”including arson and cable theft, according to the country’s state railway operator SNCF.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the company said at least three TGV lines had been damaged, including the Atlantic, Northern and Eastern routes. A group of saboteurs set fires and stole cables at the Courtalain, Pagny-sur-Moselle, and Croisilles junctions of the high-speed network. Another attack was foiled in Verginy on the South-Eastern line.
The operator said “a large number of trains are being diverted or canceled,” while the company’s CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou estimated that at least 800,000 travelers would be affected by the disruption. In a statement, SNCF asked all travelers who can postpone their trips to do so or use the classic (non-high-speed) lines until TGV traffic is restored. Repairs have already started, but are expected to continue until at least Monday.
“It’s big. There are hundreds of wires to reconnect one by one, which control safety devices. Then we have to test. It’s a goldsmith’s work,” Matthieu Chabanel, head of maintenance at the SNCF, told Le Figaro.
Transport Minister Patrice Vergriete said the attacks were deliberate, as “everything was done at the same time” with the perpetrators’ “vans” found on sites. So far, however, nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack, and no arrests have been made.
The attacks were condemned by the French authorities, who said they were aimed at destabilizing France, especially as they had coincided with the start of the Paris Olympics.
“Through the SNCF, it’s a piece of France that they’re attacking,” Farandou stated, branding the perpetrators as a “gang of crazy, irresponsible people, who thought it was smart to prevent us from doing our job.”
Vergriete wrote on X that he “firmly condemns these criminal actions which will compromise the departures on holiday of many French people.” On BFMTV, Minister for Sports Amelie Oudea-Castera described the attacks as “acts of sabotage.”
“It is truly appalling. It is playing against the [Olympic] Games, playing against France,” she stated.
Acting French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said the intelligence services and law enforcement had been “mobilized” to probe the attacks and find the perpetrators.
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German Magazine Compact Files Lawsuit Against Government Over Ban
Controversial right-wing German magazine Compact a has filed a lawsuit with the country’s Federal Administrative Court against a ban.
On July 17, Germany’s interior ministry banned the media outlet, which has often criticised the left-leaning government, in what some called the most aggressive move against press freedom since the Second World War.
Interior minister Nancy Faeser of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) justified the step by saying Compact and its associated video production company Conspect Film were “central mouthpieces of the right-wing extremist scene” and were against Constitutional order.
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Germany: Two Months After Mannheim Stabbings: Survivors Are Still Recovering
It’s been almost two months since an Afghan failed asylum seeker killed 29-year-old police officer Rouven Laur in Mannheim, Germany. The Islamist attacker—Sulaiman Ataee, 25—also stabbed and seriously injured five other people, including 59-year-old activist Michael Stürzenberger, who was scheduled to speak at the May 31st anti-Islamism event.
Stürzenberger is still being treated for and recovering from his injuries.
On Wednesday, he posted on X:
Now surgery on the tooth root that was severed by the Afghan’s knife. 2 weeks ago knee surgery because of swollen bursa caused by one of the 7 knife stabs. Titanium staples in the jaw will be removed in November.
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German Ministry Mistakenly Targets CHANEL in Islamic Extremism Purge
In its clampdown on Islamic extremists in Germany, the country’s interior ministry has targeted several Islamic centres, a mosque, and their affiliated online media channels.
Unfortunately, in doing so, it made an embarrassing error.
Due to a typo, the decree mistakenly named the luxury brand CHANEL’s YouTube channel instead of the intended Islamist channel connected to the Islamic Centre in Berlin.
On July 24, Germany closed one of its largest and oldest mosques and banned the nationwide Shia Muslim organisation that operates it, citing concerns over religious extremism.
But, in the ministry’s announcement, a typo has caused some red faces.
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Poland: Tusk’s Ukrainian Beautician Causes a Stir
A Ukrainian beautician has been working for Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his party, Civic Platform (PO), while being a member of an organisation that successfully lobbied for reducing VAT for beauty salons.
The PO included cutting the tax for such establishments as one of its 100 election pledges. After it took up the reins of government last year, that relief was introduced from April 1, with VAT on cosmetic services dropping from 23 per cent to 8 per cent, according to online site VATCalc.
At the same time the government raised VAT on food from zero to 5 per cent.
The woman in question is Kristina Voronovska, it was reported on July 25, who is some 30 years younger than Tusk. She has worked in Poland as a qualified beautician and has a Instagram account #Ukrainiangirl.
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Poland: Cigarette Prices Set to Surge by 50% in 2025
After the new year, the price of a pack of cigarettes in Poland is expected to rise to approximately 26 to 27 zlotys, approximately €6.05 to €6.28, announced Deputy Finance Minister Jaroslaw Neneman. The current price range of 17-18 zlotys, which equals between €3.95-€4.19, means a significant increase of roughly 50 percent.
This price jump is the result of the long-anticipated acceleration in the rate of excise tax increases on tobacco products. During a speech at the parliamentary subcommittee meeting on public health, Neneman also mentioned the Polish Finance Ministry’s intention to impose excise taxes on all nicotine products, which are currently “outside the system.” Furthermore, a fee of 40 zlotys (€9.30) will be introduced on vaporizing devices, both disposable and reusable.
A few days ago, Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski noted that these changes should result in an increase of approximately 4 billion to 5 billion zlotys (about €930 million to €1.16 billion) in tax revenues.
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Revolting Brussels Metro YouTube ‘Prankster’ Strikes Again
An infamous Brussels-based YouTuber who is known for throwing buckets of excrement, oil and other filth over unsuspecting victims on the city’s Metro system has published a new video of his disgusting antics.
It shows how YouTuber “YaNike” again throws a bucket filled with filth over an unsuspecting Metro passenger.
The police have opened a new investigation against the culprit who had been released from jail on parole.
His series of offensive “prank” videos sparked public outrage and led to his arrest in January on suspicion of intentional battery and injury, property damage and destruction of property by force.
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Scholz Praises Press Freedom While Saying Some Opinions Are “Forbidden”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday spoke for the first time about the interior ministry’s decision to ban the right-wing magazine Compact. At a press conference, Scholz defended the ban, saying “freedom of the press includes being able to say a lot of nonsense, but there are limits that you can’t overlook.”
Seemingly contradicting himself many times on the matter, he said he is a “champion of press freedom,” which is of “the utmost importance for democracy in Germany,” but then went on to say there are “of course opinions that are forbidden in Germany,” including, for example, the glorification of national socialism or anti-semitism.
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Terror Chief Urges Dutch to be Prepared for Future Tech Blackouts
Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, the National Co-ordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV), has warned the Dutch they need to be better prepared for blackouts.
After the global tech outage on July 19 that appeared to stem from a failed update between Microsoft and global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, hospitals, airports, public transport and a host of other sectors were severely disrupted.
In an increasingly digital and tech-dominated world, such outages could have even more disastrous consequences, said Aalbersberg.
He told Dutch public broadcaster NOS that water treatment, electricity and payment services among others could also be rendered inoperable by such technical issues and warned that the general Dutch population needed to be prepared for such.
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Kinga Gal has been vice president of Fidesz since 2021 and is now serving as first vice president of the European Parliament’s Patriots for Europe grouping. This interview has been shortened in some areas.
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To Hell With the Will of the People
The globalist left is increasingly unscrupulous in its disregard for the voters’ choice.
The third-strongest faction, the Patriots for Europe, will not have a single official in the European Parliament. It won’t happen, because the globalist-Jacobin majority —which, for the sake of simplicity, is mostly called “the left” — is violating all written rules and customary law and ignoring the will of the people and has now prevented it. The Ursulas announced that, in their opinion, the sovereigntist faction — largely created by Viktor Orban— is far-right and, as such, anti-Europe, anti-progress and anti-humanity, and therefore should be quarantined, isolated and suffocated.
There is no talk of their deportation yet, but based on the dynamics of events, this may even happen in a few years.
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UK: Boy, 16, Killed Woman After Inhaling Laughing Gas
A 16-year-old boy has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a woman during a row after they both inhaled laughing gas on Christmas Eve.
The youth had a physical fight with Kacey Clarke, 22, and then stabbed her in the chest at a flat in Bermondsey, south-east London.
Earlier that evening he was caught on CCTV threatening to “ching her up” and kill her, the Old Bailey heard.
Both Ms Clarke and her killer had a history of inhaling nitrous oxide — commonly known as laughing gas — which was classified a class C drug in November 2023. The boy, who cannot be named because of his age, will be sentenced at a later date.
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UK: Labour Stops Free Speech Law a Week Before it Comes Into Force
New government powers to financially punish universities and student unions for failing to protect freedom of speech look doomed—without having collected a penny in fines. Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced Friday that she will “stop further commencement of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023” to consider other options.
The ‘paused’ legislation would have allowed the Office for Students (OfS), a UK regulator, to penalise institutions where, for instance, the cancellation of events under duress threatened free expression.
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UK: Labour Planting the Seeds for Major Tax Rises
In an interview with the Financial Times ahead of the July 4th election, new Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves “admitted [as the paper put it] that—unlike previous incoming chancellors—she would be unable to arrive at the Treasury and claim she had looked inside the books and realised things were even worse than they looked from the outside, giving a flimsy excuse for immediate tax rises or spending cuts.”
Just days after the election, Reeves did exactly that.
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The victim, in her 40s, was wearing a Richard Mille timepiece when she was approached by the group of three men outside St Pancras International Station in Euston Road on Sunday July 21.
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Terrifying video shows an innocent London taxi driver being caught up in a brutal knife fight as masked machete-wielding attackers try to stab one of his passengers.
Footage has been shared on social media of the disturbing incident on Spencer Road in Rainham at 5.10am on June 23.
At the start of the footage, the taxi driver is seen waving goodbye to three jolly-looking men who had been riding in his cab before saying, ‘I’m going home now’.
Seconds after the trio leave the cab, a Mercedes pulls up behind and at least three men jump out.
A scuffle breaks out as the taxi driver begins to slowly reverse away. After about 10 seconds, one of the men who was previously in the cab — wearing a light blue t-shirt and a beanie — suddenly pulls open the rear left door and jumps inside.
He is being pursued by an attacker wearing a black hoodie and a red mask, who smashes the taxi’s window with a hammer before another man — with his face also covered — stabs him with a large knife.
The terrified man inside the cab pleads ‘uncle, drive’ as he is repeatedly stabbed through both windows by the three attacks — with blood pooling on his shirt.
Several seconds follow where the driver appears to be frozen in terror, before he begins moving away while the stabbing victim wrestles his attackers off him.
The man inspects his injuries before, through the back window, he notices the Mercedes is now pursuing him.
‘Drive fast, drive fast, uncle,’ the man pleads to the driver, before promising to pay him for the damage to his car.
The victim has a gash on his arm and over his right eye, with blood smeared across his shirt.
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Ukraine ‘Blackmailing’ Hungary and Slovakia With Oil Shutdown, Budapest Claims
Ukraine is attempting to “blackmail” Slovakia and Hungary with an oil embargo over both countries’ positions on Russia’s invasion, Budapest has claimed.
Speaking at a press conference on July 26, Hungary’s Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, Gergely Gulyas, said Kyiv’s decision to embargo fuel supplied by Russian energy company Lukoil from passing through the country was motivated by a dislike of Budapest and Bratislava.
“Ukraine is blackmailing the two countries that support the ceasefire and peace talks, and this is behind the blackmail,” Gulyas said, citing the fact that other Russian firms that send oil to other countries remained unaffected.
He added that Budapest — which is responsible for around two-fifths of Ukraine’s electricity imports — could be forced to consider retaliatory measures if a solution was not found.
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Weimers Demands MEP Strik be Punished for ‘Racist’ Jibe
The vice-chair of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) has called on President Roberta Metsola to punish a left-wing MEP who implied he was a “racist”.
European Conservatives and Reformist (ECR) group MEP Charlie Weimers wrote to Metsola on July 25 demanding she takes punitive action against Greens rep Tineke Strik over comments she made about him during a sitting of the committee on July 23.
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Netanyahu Outlines Path to Israeli Victory in Speech to U.S. Congress
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday proposed the formation of a new anti-Iranian ‘Abraham Alliance’ in an address to the joint U.S. Congress. He thanked the U.S. for its support since the Hamas terror attacks on October 7th and stressed that “America and Israel must stand together. Because when we stand together, something very simple happens. We win. They lose.”
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Air Defences Down 12 Ukrainian Drones in the Space of an Hour in Southern Region, Governor Says
July 26 (Reuters) — Russian air defence units intercepted 12 Ukrainian drones in the space of an hour late on Friday over southern Russia’s border region of Bryansk, the regional governor said.
“Thanks to our valiant defenders, all airborne targets were intercepted and destroyed,” Governor Alexander Bogomaz wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
There were no casualties or serious damage reported.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Belgorod region, also on Ukraine’s border further to the southeast, said three drone attacks and a number of shelling incidents had smashed windows and caused some other damage to buildings.
Ukrainian forces have regularly attacked Russian border regions, particularly Belgorod, in a bid to reduce Russian strikes on targets inside Ukraine’s border.
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Ukraine Says it Will Continue Mobilization Efforts to Regain 1991 Borders
Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi has indicated the country plans on returning to its internationally recognized borders of 1991, including Crimea, according to an interview he granted to The Guardian via Magyar Nemzet. To accomplish this, it needs more soldiers, necessitating the lowering of the mobilization age from 27 to 25.
The colonel general said Ukraine will “liberate (its) citizens,” calling the goal “realistic,” without divulging any details, which he called a “military secret.”
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Azerbaijan and Armenia Exchange Accusations as Tensions Rise Again
The Azerbaijan defence ministry has accused Armenia of “committing provocations using heavy weapons in the Kalbajar and quadcopters in the Tovuz directions”.
“It should be noted that such provocations by Armenia are not the first and have become systematic,” the ministry claimed on July 25, pointing to military exercises conducted by the US in Armenia. It also cited the provision of lethal weapons to Armenia by France and the recent support of the Armenian Armed Forces by the European Union via the European Peace Facility.
The US and European help for Armenia, described as an “occupying state” by Azerbaijan, encouraged it to carry out “provocations and indicate its preparation for another war against Azerbaijan”, the statement read.
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Georgia is the Next Country That Might Face a High-Profile Assassination Attempt
Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack
Georgia’s State Security Service (SSS) informed the public that they’re investigating a criminal group linked to the former government which plotted to assassinate the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party. According to RT, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze claimed that these are the same forces that were behind the attempted assassinations of his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico and former US President Donald Trump, while Politico cited local media to report that the Georgian Legion is under suspicion.
It was explained in early May why “The Georgian State Security Service & The Georgian Legion Are On The Brink Of War”, namely because that pro-US armed group can play a crucial role in catalyzing a spree of urban terrorism ahead of, during, or right after fall’s parliamentary elections. The preceding analysis followed the failed attempt by rioters to storm the parliament over a week prior in protest of their country’s FARA-inspired foreign agents legislation, which readers can learn more about here.
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Meloni Arrives in China, Aims to Boost Trade Balance
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrivies in China on July 26 for the first time since she took office in 2022. It will be the first visit by an Italian PM in five years.
The Italian Government’s priority objective is to improve its trade balance. In 2023 it was in favour of China, with a deficit of €40 billion.
Italy is also seeking to attract Chinese investment and support the approximately 1,600 Italian companies operating in the Asian country.
The meeting over July 26-31 comes despite the fact that Meloni decided in December 2023 that Italy would leave China’s so-called New Silk Road (the Belt and Road initiative).
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Women and children are among those raped, killed and decapitated in an outbreak of horrific violence on Australia’s doorstep.
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A mayor in far north Queensland has copped vile abuse after her council refused to change a local place name that some say is a reference to the rape of Indigenous women.
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A parent claims his six-year-old son was given a colouring-in sheet featuring politicised images and slogans about Indigenous activism as part of kindergarten school work.
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PPS Qld and PPS Commercial: Two Major Gold Coast Construction Companies Suddenly Collapse
Nearly 3,000 builders have gone bust in Australia in the past year, according to ASIC data.
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Venezuela Holds First Elections in 11 Years
As Venezuela prepares for elections on Sunday, July 28th, President Nicolas Maduro is doing everything he can to impede the opposition while presenting the appearance of clean elections to the international community.
These are Venezuela’s first elections in eleven years and are being closely watched internationally.
Observers estimate that Maduro is facing his toughest opposition yet, with a population tired of his narco-mafia banana republic and its accompanying poverty and insecurity that has become especially bad in the last seven of the 25 years of left-wing Chavist ideological rule.
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Flashback: Kamala Mocked Trump’s Border Security as ‘Vanity Project, ‘ Compared ICE to KKK
As Vice President Kamala Harris gears up for the 2024 presidential race, her past comments on immigration and border security are drawing renewed attention and criticism. This comes as illegal immigration has become a top issue for many voters during the Biden administration.
During her 2020 presidential campaign, Harris described then-President Donald Trump’s border wall as a “vanity project” and asserted that illegal immigration was “not an emergency” by definition.
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German Court: Reporting on ‘Remigration’ Conspiracy Was False
Claims by a German state-funded, left-wing media outlet about a conspiracy to conduct the mass deportation of migrants have been shattered in court. A ruling by a court in Hamburg prohibits public broadcasters from repeating the allegation that the expulsion of German citizens of foreign origin was discussed by participants at a meeting in Potsdam last November.
As we reported at the beginning of the year, Correctiv, a partly state-funded investigative website, made explosive claims of a top-level meeting between members of the anti-globalist opposition AfD party, the right-wing Identitarian Movement, and the centre-right CDU, alleging the existence of a right-wing plot to deport millions of migrants, including those with German citizenship. The article resulted in hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets around Germany to protest against ‘far-right extremism.’
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Moderate House Dems Push for Crackdown on Noncitizens Voting in US Elections
A pair of moderate House Democrats are co-leading a bipartisan push to crack down on noncitizens voting in U.S. elections.
Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., joined legislation being spearheaded by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., less than six months ahead of the November presidential election.
The pair of Democrat lawmakers’ support is significant — a bill to repeal Washington, D.C.’s policy allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections was vehemently opposed by the progressive left but wound up passing with support from 52 Democrats.
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Poland: President Duda Threatened to Block China’s Rail Route Into Europe to Combat Migrant Crisis
Polish President Andrzej Duda has issued a stern warning about potentially blocking a vital railway route used for exporting Chinese goods to the European Union as part of a strategy to address the migration crisis on its eastern frontier, according to Bloomberg.
During a state visit to Beijing in late June, Duda linked the issues of migration and cargo transport across the Belarus border. Since then, there has been a significant reduction in illegal border crossings from Belarus into Poland.
Bloomberg notes that over the past three years, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has been intensifying the migration crisis at the Polish border. The situation escalated in May when a Polish soldier was killed by a migrant, prompting the government to announce the allocation of approximately $2.5 billion to fortify the border.
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Serbia: People Smugglers Strike Again: Van Carrying 50 Migrants Overturns on Trafficker Route
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A van carrying some 50 migrants overturned on Friday in southwestern Serbia, injuring more than 30, the country’s state television reported.
The incident happened on the road between the eastern town of Pirot, near the border with Bulgaria, and Nis, in southern Serbia, the report said.
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Speaker Johnson Visits Border, Blames Kamala Harris for National Illegal Alien Crisis
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has made a surprise visit to the Southern Border to assess the crisis of illegal aliens flooding into the country.
During a visit to the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego alongside Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Johnson warns that Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris is to blame for the national border crisis.
Additionally, Johnson called for Congress to pass new legislation to safeguard elections from non-citizen voting as illegal aliens continue to flood the open border.
San Diego has been a hot spot for unlawful crossings in recent months.
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The Most Criminal Migrant in Germany? One Asylum Seeker Terrorizes Small Town
Even as German authorities shut down press outlets critical of mass immigration, the country has never seen so much crime from foreigners, with the share of foreign crime hitting a record high in 2023. To exemplify this trend, the case of the small town of Apolda in the eastern German state of Thuringia highlights one of the most extreme cases in the entire country. There, a Moroccan asylum seeker has been terrorizing the small town for nearly 10 years, with local authorities seemingly powerless to stop the mayhem.
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France: ‘Gayest Olympics Ever’: Paris Olympics Opens With Suggested Bisexual Threesome
From the moment that the 2024 Paris Olympics launched its opening ceremony with an elaborate street dance scene, it became clear that pushing the LGBTQ agenda was at the top of the program with a sequence that made the opening the “gayest opening ceremony ever.”
The opening dance number featured women flung around on poles as rain fell on the ceremonies. Others danced in the streets, including men lovingly embracing each other as they cavorted onto one of the many bridges across the Seine River in Paris.
However, one of the prerecorded dance segments was even more explicitly LGBT, as three dancers in gender-ambiguous costumes ran through the streets of Paris and into a building. Their segment ended with the three — two males and one female — nearing each other in dramatic kisses, then entering a room to further their amorous acts.
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France: Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Recreates ‘Last Supper’ With Drag Queens & Trans Performers
Further making the Olympics opening ceremonies the “gayest ever,” Parisian Olympics officials also featured an LGBTQ parody of the “Last Supper” along with a woke fashion show featuring gender-bending fashions and transgender models.
Many jumped to X to wonder just what the Olympics was trying to tell viewers about Paris.
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The Virginia teenager who raped a freshman girl in a Loudon County high school bathroom while wearing a skirt and identifying as “gender-fluid” was released from a juvenile treatment center in November and last Wednesday, on his 18th birthday, he was released from court supervision.
Hunter Heckel, charged as a juvenile, will not have any public conviction on his record nor will he have to register as a sex offender. The decision comes despite Judge Pamela Brooks stating during his 2022 sentencing, “Over the years this court has read many psychosexual reports, and when I read yours, frankly, it scared me. It scared me for you, it scared me for society.”
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Polish PM Punishes His Own MPs After Abortion Bill Fails
After narrowly losing his bid in parliament to loosen the country’s abortion laws, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is handing out punishments to the three party members who de facto abstained from the vote, allowing the measure to fail.
The bill would have decriminalized the act of helping a woman get an abortion up to the twelfth week of pregnancy. It failed by just three votes after three members of Tusk’s liberal Civic Coalition (KO) party did not join in the parliamentary session because of other important commitments.
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Trans Cyclists Win First, Second, Third Place in Washington Women’s Grand Prix Race
At a Washington cycling championship on July 19, two-person teams featuring trans-identified male athletes took first, second, and third in a cycling relay race. Those teams featured one biological woman racing with a biological male. The next runner-up teams were comprised of only women.
At the Marymoor Grand Prix in Washington’s Jerry Baker Memorial Velodrome, each of the top placing teams in the Elite Women’s Madison, a style of cycling race, featured a biological male: Jordan Lothrop in the first place team, Jenna Lingwood in the second, and Eva Lin in the third, according to Fox News.
Lothrop competed against men in the athlete’s home country of Canada as recently as last year, the Daily Mail reported. Lothrop was ranked 22 in the men’s Victoria Cycling League this time last year. Lingwood raced in the men’s division until 2017. Lin began racing in the women’s division in 2022.
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Heavy Metal at the Olympic opening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_OOOkVJK7o
It looks foreboding to me with those red bands…
Other news full with chaos, attacks on Jews and extreme security measures for Israeli athletes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=une2DBW2gEY
This is not going to end well.
video not made available in my country.
the second one….muslim trash.
Have you tried a VPN? I currently use Proton, the free version is somewhat limited but good enough so far.
Who do you mean by muslim trash? The chaos he reports? Or the speaker because of his middle-eastern appearance? He is of Iranian descent, but check him out:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/06/working-class-refugee-conservative-iranian
Re: “The Secret Service has said that it can’t protect the former president during any more large outdoor rallies, so he must have organized his own security arrangements.”
So, they’re not just incompetent – but a bunch of liars, too. Very revealing statement of conduct, very revealing indeed. The question is ~ what will Congress do about it?
Congress will do what they always do. Hold investigations, then do nothing, and also introduce bills that will never get a majority vote. That has been their routine for decades now. Also take note that there are indoor stadiums, even mega-churches that are of a larger capacity then the outdoor rally held in Butler, Pennsylvania. This is the U.S. Secret Service merely giving Trump the formal message that they will no longer be protecting him. Two weeks, too late.
I thought it was the Secret Service’s job to protect their principal, not to tell him what he can and cannot do. Having failed to prevent an assassination of Trump, it seems now they are washing their hands of him. Anyone else get the feeling the Deep State wants him dead?
“Having failed to prevent an assassination of Trump, it seems now they are washing their hands of him. Anyone else get the feeling the Deep State wants him dead?”
A coupla things..
1) I presume you meant the SS failed to prevent an ATTEMPTED assassination of Trump..
2) If you just figured out that The Party (what many refer to as the “deep state”) wants to destroy “Orange Hitler”—figuratively, politically or literally—then you haven’t been paying attention….and won’t win what’s behind door number 2..
“As predicted in April 2017, as beneficial as his ACTIONS as president have been for the country, I reckon Trump’s odds of completing his first term remain at 50/50…And, actually, considering the powers that’re allied against him and their long history of law-breaking and irrationality, the odds’re probably more like 49/51 against.” —posted to fb (July 2018)
“The powers that’ve been allied against “Orange Hitler” for the past several years will NOT stop until the man is dead—politically or literally. That much I KNOW.” —posted to fb (May 2023)
What Can Be Unburdened by What Has Been
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/what-can-be-unburdened-by-what-has
“We are dealing with bloodthirsty mental deficients that will do anything to win.”
https://alt-market.us/civil-unrest-is-the-next-most-predictable-crisis-for-america-now/
“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 (Nov 2021)
Who tried to get rid of Trump? The Butler Pa did it.
It is evident that Mayorkas, Biden and the Secret Service tried to assassinate real President Trump.