The top political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran just hours after an Israeli airstrike killed a top Hezbollah leader in Beirut. These actions have increased fears of a major regional conflict in the Middle East.
In other news, British cabinet ministers are considering banning the English Defence League following riots on the streets of Southport.
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German Economic Output Plummets, Debt Hits Record High
Germany’s economy appears to be teetering, with experts painting a bleak picture over the coming months right into the autumn state elections, all while debt levels have hit a new record high. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s promised “green economic miracle” appears to be falling to the wayside, and there may be political consequences for the ruling left-liberal government.
German economic output unexpectedly dropped by 0.1 percent in the second quarter of 2024, compared to the first quarter of the year, while gross national product also fell 0.1 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the Federal Statistical Office.
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Hungary’s economy contracted by 0.2 percent in Q2 versus the previous quarter, while GDP grew by 1.5 percent year-over-year. Analysts polled by Portfolio had expected 0.5 percent and 2.3 percent growth, respectively, meaning data came in well below expectations.
After the first quarter saw growth of 0.7 percent on a quarterly basis, analysts believed the Hungarian economy had emerged from its recessionary stagnation and household consumption would rebound. Although consumers did spend in some segments, overall growth is nowhere near expectations.
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“Hundreds” of Cars Stolen and Robbed Each Year From Seattle Airport “Park-n-Fly” Lots
‘Hundreds’ of cars are being stolen from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport every year, investigators from KING NBC 5 have found.
Car thieves frequently target hotel and motel lots offering “park-n-fly” or “stay-n-fly” packages. Data reviewed by KING NBC 5 shows that some of the most well-known lodging names have the highest crime rates, leaving customers liable.
According to public records, the airport Marriott tops the list for crimes at hotel and “park-n-fly” lots. Data from the King County Sheriff’s Office shows 94 car thefts and prowls in 2023, including 27 stolen vehicles. In 2022, there were 74 reported incidents, according to KING NBC 5.
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Army’s Plan to Boost Recruitment Campaign Featuring the Rock, UFL, May Have Hurt Enlistment Efforts
The US Army’s multi-million dollar deal with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and the United Football League, a professional American football minor league that Johnson owns, to gain new recruits has reportedly failed. The Army may even seek to recoup some of the monetary losses from the deal.
The $11 million deal likely didn’t lead to any new Army recruits, and may have actually had a negative impact on recruiting, internal documents and emails seen by Military.com revealed.
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Biden Administration Unveils Next Steps in Student Loan Forgiveness for 25 Million Borrowers
The Department of Education announced on Wednesday that it would be contacting 25 million student loan borrowers to inform them about next steps they can take to pay down their debt.
The new plan comes after the Biden administration already helped relieve the financial burden for nearly five million borrowers in one of the earlier phases.
The administration said that the final rules on the latest forgiveness plan will be announced in the fall, but that they are notifying borrowers in advance so they can opt out of the plan by Aug. 30.
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Breaking: CNN Permanently Shuts Down Opinion Section
CNN’s opinion section will be permanently shuttered on August 9. A number of writers were informed on Wednesday via email that the decision had been finalized.
The move was first revealed earlier this month, with journalist Claire Atkinson noting on Substack that contributors and the team working behind the scenes to gather, edit, and publish opinion pieces had been told they’d be let go in the coming weeks.
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Chilling New Video Shows Thomas Crooks Moving Across Roof Before Trump Assassination Attempt
Chilling footage taken by one of the victims gravely wounded in the Trump assassination attempt captured a figure dashing across the AGR International roof outside the rally grounds just moments before shooting erupted.
The footage, taken by James Copenhaver at 6:08 p.m. on July 13 — minutes before bullets started flying at 6:11 p.m. — captured what appeared to be gunman Thomas Crooks running along the rooftop outside the rally grounds, in clear view of former President Donald Trump on stage.
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America’s attempt to set up what critics called the “Ministry of Truth” failed miserably last year when the Disinformation Governance Board was quickly set up as an advisory to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — and then quickly dissolved, under massive public pushback.
The Board’s head was Nina Jankowicz, whose role some of those same critics, among politicians and media among them, summed up as “misinformation czar.”
Let’s say that this is a kind way of saying, “censorship czar.” But, reporting to this effect still personally offended Jankowicz enough to file a defamation lawsuit against Fox News.
And now, a federal judge has dismissed that suit.
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F-16 Drops Fuel Tanks During Emergency in Central Michigan, One of Which Explodes
An F-16 from the Ohio Air National Guard was able to land safely in Toledo after it had to drop two fuel tanks, one of which exploded and the other landed in a retail parking lot in central Michigan near Oscoda, the Iosco County Sheriff’s Office said.
The sheriff’s office received a report around 1:15 p.m. of an explosion in the area of Baldwin Resort Road near Lake Huron in Iosco. The F-16, from Toledo’s 180th Fighter Squadron, was one of two operating in the area Wednesday. The plane had an emergency and and dumped two full external fuel tanks, according to a news release.
One landed in Lake Huron north of Baldwin Resort Road and exploded, and the other landed in the Baldwin Plaza retail parking lot, which includes a Tractor Supply and Save-a-Lot. The tank caused minor damage to a few vehicles, the sheriff’s office said, but no bystanders were injured. The U.S. Coast Guard found what was likely part of the other tank in Lake Huron.
Oscoda Airport originally received a distress call from the aircraft, but did not receive any further calls. The two F-16s returned safely to Toledo, according to the news release.
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Georgia Chick-fil-A Delivery Driver Fights Off Masked, Gun-Wielding Robber in Dramatic Video
A Georgia Chick-fil-A employee fought for his life against a gun-wielding burglar who broke into the store and threatened to kill him, dramatic footage of the brawl shows.
The delivery driver was alone inside the Stone Mountain fast food joint when the 51-year-old suspect, Tommie Lee Williams, used a rock to smash through the drive-thru window at around 4:30 a.m. on July 1, according to the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office.
Williams — who wore a mask over his head — stormed into the kitchen area and told the victim “he was going to die if he didn’t open the safe and pointed a handgun at him” — but the employee did not know the combination of the safe, police said.
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Georgia Democrats Warm to Ditching Voting Machines: ‘Bad Guys’ Are ‘Interfering With Them’
Democrats in Georgia are warming to calls for ditching the state’s electronic voting machines, according to a new report.
The U-turn on the controversial voting systems is a stunning concession that is sure to infuriate Democrats nationwide.
Since the 2020 election, Democrats have mostly opposed any efforts to ensure that only legal votes are cast.
However, Georgia Democrats are now backing calls from the state’s Republicans to replace Dominion Voting Systems machines with paper ballots.
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GOP-Led House Intervenes on Bannon’s J6 Legal Case, Making Good on Speaker Johnson’s Promise
The GOP-led House has quietly filed a rare intervention in Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress case, arguing the Democrat-led House January 6 Select Committee failed in its formation to follow chamber rules — invalidating the two subpoenas it served Bannon that he ignore and ultimately put him behind bars.
The House brief argues the select committee was improperly constituted and that neither then-Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi nor the committee leadership followed the directives of House Resolution 503, which established the committee.
The Amicus Curiae brief filed by the House General Counsel nine days ago fulfills a promise from Speaker Mike Johnson in June to intervene in the case.
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Anti-Israel protesters held up a portrait of assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and waved a pro-terror flag during a shocking demonstration in Times Square Wednesday afternoon.
The hateful mob chanted “Free Palestine” while one protester held up a flag representing Hamas. Another demonstrator held up a photo of Haniyeh.
The same demonstrator, sporting a mask and sunglasses, wore a hat with a yellow headband around it that represents the terror group Hezbollah.
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Layers representing Democrat President Joe Biden’s son are desperately trying to convince a federal judge to drop Hunter’s tax evasion case.
Hunter Biden’s attorneys claimed they “never tried to mislead” the court in a legal motion.
The lawyers claim they used incorrect wording in a motion that conveniently cuts favorably toward their client, The Hill reported.
A federal judge threatened them with sanctions after attorneys used “false statements” in an attempt to get Hunter Biden’s California case tossed, as Slay News reported.
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Infant Deaths Surge to Record High Since Vax Rollout
Official data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that infant mortality rates have now soared to a record high.
Newly released CDC data shows that death rates for American babies spiked massively in 2022.
The surge marks the first jump in infant mortality rates in twenty years.
The surge in deaths for children under the age of 1 started in 2022, the year after Covid mRNA shots were rolled out for public use.
In June 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the approval for Covid mRNA injection to be used on babies and toddlers aged 6 months to 5 years old.
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Democratic strategist James Carville warned that Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign will need to learn to “defend and attack at the same time” as Republicans update their campaign strategy.
When President Biden stepped aside under pressure from his own party earlier this month, Harris rapidly ascended to become the presumptive nominee. Harris has since enjoyed a honeymoon period from her party and from some in the media, but Carville warned Democrats the honeymoon will come to an end. Carville warned Democrats that while the GOP was initially caught off-guard, this will be no easy victory for her campaign as Republicans adapt.
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In 2008, the Bologna family was murdered by an illegal alien MS-13 gang member.
San Francisco DA Kamala Harris refused to ask for the death penalty despite pleas from the widow because of, in her words, a “complicated analysis that involved many issues”. But the real issue was that Kamala protected criminals instead of victims.
Four years earlier, DA Kamala Harris had refused to impose the death penalty on the violent thug who gunned down Officer Isaac Espinoza with an AK-47. His widow blasted Kamala for not even talking to her before denying her husband justice “I felt like she had just taken something from us. She had just taken justice from us. From Isaac. She was only thinking of herself.”
“She never called,” her sister-in-law said. “There was no consideration for Renata, my niece, my parents, me, or the officers. It was as if she didn’t care.”
David Hill, Officer Espinoza’s murderer, however thanked Kamala. “It took a lot of courage,” he told CNN. “I’m forever grateful.”
Because there were people Kamala did care about. Criminals.
A year before the Bologna murders, Alexander Izaguirre was enrolled in ‘Back on Track’: a Kamala program to expunge felony convictions for criminals in exchange for attending some classes. Izaguirre, who had already mugged another woman, was picked for the program by Kamala. Even while he was enrolled in the program, the illegal alien thug mugged another woman, and then rammed her with a car, fracturing her skull. That woman, once a liberal, has become a Trump supporter after her experience.
But Kamala’s most enduring legacy was writing misleading descriptions for pro-crime ballot initiatives, including Proposition 47, which legalized shoplifting and set off a crime wave.
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L.A. Officials Reject Newsom Order to Clear Out Homeless Encampments
Via Headline USA
Los Angeles officials are pushing back on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order this month to start clearing homeless encampments, arguing the effort to clean up the city’s streets won’t work.
“I do not believe that it is ultimately a solution to homelessness,” said Democrat Mayor Karen Bass, according to the Denver Gazette.
“How are they supposed to pay for their ticket, and what happens when they don’t pay?” she continued. “Does it go into a warrant and give us an excuse to incarcerate somebody?”
Los Angeles County Supervisors Chair Lindsey Horvath agreed with Bass, calling the order to clear out homeless camps “unconscionable.” The solution to homelessness is not “arrest,” she insisted. “It is not pushing people from community to community.”
Horvath also accused Newsom of setting a troubling precedent.
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Congressional lawmakers slammed a plea deal reached Wednesday that will spare the accused 9/11 mastermind and two alleged accomplices from death, calling it a “national disgrace” and a “total miscarriage of justice.”
“The Biden-Harris Administration’s weakness in the face of sworn enemies of the American people apparently knows no bounds,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement.
“The plea deal with terrorists — including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks that killed thousands of Americans — is a revolting abdication of the government’s responsibility to defend America and provide justice,” the Kentucky Republican argued, noting that “The only thing worse than negotiating with terrorists is negotiating with them after they are in custody.”
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Minnesota Man Gets 20 Years for Fatally Stabbing Teen, Wounding Others on Wisconsin River
HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — A Minnesota man convicted in the slaying of a high school student and stabbings of four other people who were tubing on a western Wisconsin river was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison.
A judge also ordered Nicolae Miu, 54, to serve six years of extended supervision following his release from prison in the July 2022 stabbings along the Apple River in St. Croix County, which sits along Wisconsin’s state line with Minnesota.
A jury convicted Miu, of Prior Lake, Minnesota, in April of first-degree reckless homicide, four counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety and one count of battery.
Prosecutors had sought a 70-year prison term for Miu in the stabbing attack that killed Isaac Schuman, 17, of Stillwater, Minnesota, and wounded four others. The stabbing took place as Miu and the victims were tubing along the Apple River in separate groups.
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey wants First Amendment free speech protections to be bolstered and believes that the separation of Tech and State ( creating a “wall of separation” between them) is in order.
This is to make sure government censorship is efficiently prevented going forward, he suggested.
Bailey sat down with journalist Tim Pool, and went through a litany of other issues plaguing political and social democratic processes, most clearly visible in what critics of the current White House consider to be the government colluding with social media companies to suppress lawful speech.
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Most Voters Believe Kamala Harris Covered-Up Biden’s Health Issues, Poll Shows
The majority of American voters say they believe Kamala Harris was part of a cover-up to keep Democrat President Joe Biden’s health issues hidden from the public, a new poll has revealed.
According to a new survey by YouGov and the Times of London, a majority of all voters, 54%, said they believed there was a cover-up of Biden’s declining health.
92 percent of the voters who believed there was a cover-up of Biden’s health say that Vice President Harris was at least partly to blame.
They agreed that Biden’s degraded mental and physical state was made evident during the June presidential debate against President Donald Trump.
68% of that 54% said they blamed Harris “a great deal” for the cover-up.
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New Evidence Refutes FBI Testimony That Trump Shooter is Far-Right, Anti-Immigrant
Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness
A top FBI official made a point of testifying that President Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks may have espoused far-right extremist viewpoints on an unnamed social media account five years ago, but forgot to mention that Crooks may have shared pro-Biden viewpoints on Gab more recently.
Both accounts have not yet been fully verified as belonging to Crooks.
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New Jersey AR-15 Ban Ruled Unconstitutional, But Large Capacity Magazines Still Outlawed
New Jersey AR-15 fans were handed a big victory on Tuesday, after US District Judge Peter G. Sheridan issued an order declaring that the Colt AR-15 rifle is not an “assault firearm” as defined in the New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice Section 2C:39-1, and that doing so is incompatible with recent precedent set by the US Supreme Court.
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New Secret Service Director Announces Changes in Wake of Trump Assassination Attempt
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
The Secret Service is making changes in the wake of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, the agency’s new acting director announced on July 30.
Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. said that he traveled to the site of the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the former president was shot by a man who fired from the roof of the nearby AGR building.
“What I saw made me ashamed,” Mr. Rowe told two U.S. Senate committees on Capitol Hill. “As a career law enforcement officer, and a twenty-five-year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured.”
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Police Bust Comic-Con Sex Trafficking Ring in San Diego, Arrest 14 Suspects
A human trafficking sting operation at Comic-Con in San Diego, California earlier this week resulted in the arrest of fourteen suspects and uncovered ten potential victims. Between July 25 and 27, undercover officers infiltrated the popular convention and tracked down the would-be traffickers and victims by posing as potential sex buyers and sellers.
Neither the names of those allegedly involved in the criminal operation, nor those who suffered as a result of it, have not been publicly revealed, though it was noted that one of the victims was only 16.
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President Biden Slated to Kick Off Democratic National Convention Next Month
Once slated to deliver the closer, President Biden is now expected to give the keynote address on the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month.
Night one of the convention will pay reportedly tribute to Biden’s political legacy and accomplishments including with a primetime address from the president himself, before the rest of the convention shifts to Vice President Kamala Harris.
The convention is slated to take place from Aug. 19-22 in Chicago, though Harris is set to be officially crowned the party’s nominee weeks before then.
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Rudy Giuliani Agrees to Deal to End His Bankruptcy Case, Pay Creditors’ Financial Adviser $400K
Rudy Giuliani has agreed to a last-minute deal to end his personal bankruptcy case and pay about $400,000 to a financial adviser hired by his creditors, avoiding a potential deep-dive into the former New York City mayor’s finances that was threatened by a federal judge.
The agreement was filed Wednesday in federal court in White Plains, New York.
That came nearly three weeks after a judge there threw out Giuliani’s bankruptcy case after criticizing him for repeated failures to disclose his income sources and to comply with court orders.
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Secret Service Counter-Sniper Warns Another Trump Assassination Attempt is Coming
Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news
A Secret Service counter sniper sent out an email Monday night, copying in the entire Uniformed Division warning that if changes are not immediately made, a further assassination attempt on Donald Trump before the election may be successful.
RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree revealed the communication from the counter sniper, who stated that he no longer feels proud to be working for the agency, that higher ups need to be fired.
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Senate Passes Kids’ “Safety” Bills Despite Privacy, Digital ID, and Censorship Concerns
Two bills combined — the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0)— have passed in the US Senate in a 91-3 vote, and will now be considered by the House.
Criticism of the bills focuses mainly on the likelihood that, if and when they become law, they will help expand online digital ID verification, as well as around issues like censorship (removal and blocking of content).
The effort to make KOSA and COPA 2.0 happen was spearheaded by a parent group that was pushing lawmakers and tech companies’ executives to move in this direction, and their main demand was to enact new rules that would prevent cyberbullying and other harms.
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Investigative journalist Gerald Posner — whose deeply researched studies of the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. made him a preeminent authority on political assassinations — says he can understand why so many people think there’s “something fishy” about the official story of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
Noting the belated admission by the Secret Service that Trump’s security team was denied requested resources before the July 13 assassination attempt, Posner asks, “Did they refuse to give Trump extra security for a two-year period?” They were almost creating a situation in which somebody could take a shot. Now I’m not saying that’s the case, but I understand why that speculation would be there.”
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Donald Trump brought on stage the staff member he credits with saving his life and said he decided he didn’t need to be more ‘nice’ to Democrats after he came close to death.
The former president returned to Pennsylvania just 17 days later after the historic assassination attempt as he looked to woo voters in the battleground state.
If Trump had not turned his head to look at an immigration chart on the screen at his Butler rally, it’s likely the bullet would have gone into his head rather than graze his ear.
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Trump: ‘Someone Convinced’ Kamala Harris to Drop ‘Laugh of a Crazy Person’
President Donald Trump has said he believes “someone” has finally “convinced” VP Kamala Harris to drop her “crazy laugh.”
Trump said during an interview this week with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
He said Harris’s campaign, the Democrats, and their allies in the corporate media are trying to rebrand the vice president now that she’s running for POTUS.
Trump said Harris’s advisors must have told her to get rid of “the laugh of a crazy person” because of how it makes her look to voters.
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Trump Vows to Eliminate Taxes on Social Security
President Donald Trump has declared that he plans to eliminate taxes that seniors are forced to pay on their Social Security checks.
Trump announced the plan on Wednesday, to a flood of support.
“SENIORS SHOULD NOT PAY TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
The statement from the 45th president has been met with enthusiasm from several prominent conservatives.
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Trump: White House Currently Run by ‘Fascists, Communists, Marxists’
President Donald Trump has warned that the White House is currently being run by a group of “fascists, communists,” and “Marxists.”
“I’m the opposite of a threat to democracy — they’re a threat to democracy,” Trump said of Democrats during an interview with Laura Ingraham on her Fox News show.
“I mean, look at what they just did.”
Trump said on “The Ingraham Angle” that Democrats participated in a “coup” by replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the 2024 ticket.
He noted that the Democrat elite undemocratically selected Vice President Kamala Harris months after millions of primary voters cast their ballots.
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At the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention in Chicago Wednesday, former President Donald Trump was asked if he believes Vice President Kamala Harris is on the Democratic ticket solely because she is a black woman. This question came in response to many Republicans referring to Harris as a “DEI hire.” Trump also criticized Harris’ role as “border czar,” saying she’s “the worst” in the history of the world.
“Is that acceptable language to you and will you tell those Republicans and those reporters to stop it?” a journalist asked, referring to Harris being labeled a “DEI hire.”
Trump first asked the journalist to define DEI. After the journalist explained it stood for “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” but failed to provide a more in-depth definition, Trump continued his response by criticizing Harris for how she chose to identify herself. Trump explained that he has indirectly known Harris for some time and suggested she previously identified more with her Indian heritage rather than her black heritage.
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On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the University of California to craft a plan so that Jewish students would have equal access to the campus after anti-Israel activists blocked parts of the school’s Los Angeles campus and set up checkpoints.
According to a lawsuit brought by three Jewish students, the pro-Hamas activists limited their access to parts of the campus and told them they would not be able to pass unless they “disavowed Israel’s right to exist.”
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US Arrests a Former Green Beret Over the Failed 2020 Raid Into Venezuela to Remove Maduro
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A former U.S. Green Beret who in 2020 organized a failed cross-border raid of Venezuelan army deserters to remove President Nicolas Maduro has been arrested in New York on federal arms smuggling charges.
A federal indictment unsealed this week in Tampa, Florida, accuses Jordan Goudreau and a Venezuelan partner, Yacsy Alvarez, of violating U.S. arms control laws when they allegedly assembled and sent to Colombia AR-styled weapons, ammunition, silencers, night vision goggles and other defense equipment requiring a U.S. export license.
Goudreau, 48, also was charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods from the United States and unlawful possession of a machine gun, among 14 counts. Goudreau appeared in federal court following his Tuesday arrest in Manhattan but it was not clear a day later whether he would be released from custody pending trial. He was being held at a federal detention center in Brooklyn.
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A vandal who allegedly splattered red paint on the home of the Brooklyn Museum’s director during a disturbing outbreak of anti-Israel protests last month was busted on hate crimes charges, cops said Wednesday.
Taylor Pelton, 28, of Queens, was picked up by the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force and charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime in connection to the June 12 attack at the Brooklyn Heights home of Anne Pasternak, who is Jewish, authorities said.
She was allegedly part of a group of five masked vandals who tossed red paint on the door and displayed a banner in the outdoor vestibule that read, “Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White-Supremacist Zionist.”
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Vermont Supreme Court Rules Schools Can Force Vaccinate Children Without Parental Consent
Schools have been given the green light to vaccinate children with Covid-19 mRNA shots without parental consent by the Vermont Supreme Court which ruled that schools are protected under the PREP Act which provides immunity from liability.
The decision by the Vermont Supreme Court opens to the door for educators to further encroach upon the rights and responsibilities of parents by vaccinating children against the wishes of their parents and facing no legal consequences.
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EXCLUSIVE: PITTSBURGH — A video from James Copenhaver, one of the victims critically wounded in the July 13 assassination attempt against former President Trump, shows a figure moving across the roof of the American Glass Research (AGR) building just minutes before gunfire rang out at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
In the video taken at 6:08 p.m. on July 13, the person appears on the roof of the building adjacent to where Trump is speaking and can be seen walking from the 1:00 second mark to about the 2:50 second mark.
Officials believe gunman Thomas Crooks, 20, began shooting with a collapsible AR-15-style rifle three minutes later, around 6:11 p.m. Counter snipers fatally shot Crooks shortly afterward, and law enforcement officials found eight shell casings near his body.
In his attempt to assassinate the former president, Crooks killed 50-year-old Corey Comperatore, a husband, father and former fire chief at the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Department. Crooks also critically wounded Copenhaver, 74, and David Dutch, 57. Both victims were shot twice, according to those familiar with both victims.
Copenhaver was not filming when he was shot, said his lawyer, Joseph Feldman at the Law Offices of Max C. Feldman. Feldman said Copenhaver stopped filming when everyone turned their heads to look at a projection screen.
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Canadians Spend More on Taxes Than Food, Shelter and Clothing Combined: Study
The average Canadian spent more on taxes last year than they did on basic amenities such as shelter, groceries and clothing combined, according to a new report.
“Taxes remain the largest household expense for families in Canada,” said study co-author Jake Fuss, director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute.
The average Canadian family earned an income of $109,235 in 2023 but were also forced to fork over $46,988 in total taxes, meaning that 43% of income is lost to taxation, higher than the 35.6% Canadians spend on basic necessities.
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Santiago Abascal, a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies since 2019, has been the leader of the right-wing conservative party VOX since 2014 and a vocal defender of Spain’s right to protect its own borders. He spoke with Sergio Velasco about VOX’s decision to leave its regional coalitions with Partido Popular (PP) over PP’s agreement to redistribute migrants across Spain, the upcoming American presidential election, and what another five years under Ursula von der Leyen’s EU leadership will mean for sovereign European nations.
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The newly installed British Home Secretary (interior minister) responded with fury to a riot following a mass stabbing of young children, but has been accused of double standards after other recent riots among different racial communities were apparently treated with more understanding.
The United Kingdom appears to again be tousling with that traditional brain-teaser, namely who is more dangerous to society: the knife people, or the people who are angry about the knife people.
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‘Beach Rave’ Becomes Machete Battle at English Seaside Resort, Eight Arrested
Two people injured at a seaside machete battle were among those arrested over the disorder on Tuesday night at an English seaside town.
A “beach rave” turned into a running street battle in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, on Tuesday night as groups battled it out with long blades, described as machetes — the jungle bush-cutting tool — along the seafront. Police say they made eight arrests and recovered seven weapons after instituting a dispersal area along the promenade. The order gave officers the power to stop and search any person or vehicle in the area without cause for suspicion to search for weapons, and to order people to disperse or face arrest.
Several people were “critically injured” and two of those hospitalised are among the eight arrested.
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Breton is Back: France Approves Outgoing Commissioner for Second Term
French President Emmanuel Macron has nominated Thierry Breton to be reappointed as a member of the European Commission.
In an official letter by the French Government to EC President Ursula von der Leyen, who recently received the green light for a second term, Philippe Léglise-Costa, Permanent Representative of France, announced Breton had been selected to be Commissioner for his country again.
A subsequent letter written by Macron goes on to praise Europe’s self-styled “digital enforcer”.
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Czech School Institutes Ban on Mobile Phones in September
Schools worldwide are cracking down on cell phone use in the classroom amid growing concerns over the detrimental impacts of excessive smartphone access. Restrictions at schools across the US, U.K., and Europe aim to mitigate distractions, inappropriate behaviors, and other harmful effects linked to unfettered access to smartphones.
A school in the Czech city of Vsetin is the latest to join this growing trend, having decided to ban phones throughout the school day in its local primary schools.
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Estonia to Strengthen Borders Amid ‘Hybrid Warfare Threats’ From Russia
Estonia’s newly elected government has strengthened the country’s border security amid hybrid warfare threats from Russia.
The Northern European country has identified what it said was a need for improved security in the Baltic region.
“Over the past years we have witnessed a changed security context on EU Eastern borders where, for example, illegal migration has been weaponised as a means of hybrid warfare,” Estonia interior minister Lauri Läänemets told Brussels Signal on July 30.
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EU Regulators Seek to Formalize “Disinformation Code” Under Censorship Law
In the wake of the EU elections, those at the helm of the bloc are working to make the already contentious Digital Services Act (DSA) — which critics say is a sweeping censorship law — even more controversial.
Namely, EU regulators now want to make what was previously a set of “voluntary” guidelines implemented by online platforms — the Code of Practice on Disinformation — a formal part of the DSA.
This is the stance taken by the Digital Services Board, which just issued a report that now wants that “voluntary code” to be “swiftly converted” so that it becomes subject to the DSA. The Board consists of coordinators from the EU’s nation-states.
The report said their demand to bring the Code under the DSA umbrella is supported by the EU Commission (EC).
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France: Paris Olympics Ticket Prices Slashed as Organizers Struggle to Fill Empty Seats
The organizers behind the “woke” 2024 Paris Olympics are slashing the ticket prices for the event as they scramble to fill rows of empty seats.
Photos and video coverage from the Olympics have been highlighting the large numbers of empty seats, reportedly provoking panic among the organizers.
According to the Daily Mail, organizers have been desperately offering tickets to British tourists with a massively reduced price tag.
Tourists were reportedly offered tickets to events for Team Great Britain for as little as £12 ($15.39).
But it’s not just events for Team GB that are seeing cut-price tickets.
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Paris has once again surrendered to foreign occupiers. Except this time, the occupiers are not an armed encampment; they’re hungry athletes fed up with the vegan diet Olympic organizers tried to make them eat.
Olympic organizers were forced to order 4,000 pounds of meat and eggs quickly after athletes decried the fake meat and non-dairy options, the Daily Mail reports.
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Germany: Syrian Teen Arrested for Mass Stabbing in Stuttgart
A Syrian teenager was arrested in Germany on Tuesday evening on suspicion of a mass stabbing which left one victim in critical condition.
The attack occurred on Königstrasse in the German city of Stuttgart around 6:30 p.m. local time. According to the police report, the 17-year-old suspect was walking down the street with two other individuals when they initiated an altercation with another group.
During the subsequent attack, the Syrian allegedly stabbed three men, aged 24, 37, and 47, between an ice cream parlor and an optician on the main street.
The 37-year-old man was rushed to hospital and remains in critical condition. The other two men suffered minor injuries.
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German Media Admits Unvaxxed Are ‘Winners, ‘ Demands Government ‘Apologize’
A major corporate media outlet in Germany has just declared that people who refused to take Covid mRNA shots during and after the pandemic are “the winners.”
During a bombshell segment on German legacy media outlet Welt, the panel argued that the government owes the public an apology for claiming Covid was a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
Prominent German reporter Hans-Ulrich Jörges said the unvaccinated were “the winners” because they refused to comply with the government’s mass vaccination agenda.
Jörges called for public apologies from key government officials who perpetuated the narrative that the pandemic was solely a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
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Hungary Slams EPP Accusation of ‘Enabling Russian Espionage’ as ‘Childish Lies’
The Hungarian Government has responded to criticism from the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament of Budapest’s new visa policy for Russian and Belarusian citizens.
Hungary has recently expanded its “national card” immigration programme to include citizens from Russia and Belarus, among others.
Holders of this card are permitted to work in Hungary without security clearance and can bring their families, with the card being valid for two years and renewable thereafter.
This move, according to the EPP, could potentially exacerbate espionage activities within the European Union.
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Italy: Venice Brings in New Measures to Control Mass Tourism
Following recent demonstrations against mass tourism that erupted across Spanish regions including Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, Venice has limited group visits to 25 people.
The old city of Venice is a major attraction and the logistical problems associated with tourism there have grown in parallel with increasing visitor numbers.
On 31 July, the city council announced the new official limitations for visiting groups, although educational trips and groups that include children under the age of two will be exempt.
The use of megaphones by tour guides has also been prohibited to “protect the peace of residents”.
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Manhunt for Algerian Suspected of Slitting Throat of Spanish Man in Valencia
A manhunt is underway for an Algerian national suspected of murdering a 40-year-old Spanish man after the victim was found lying on a tram line in Valencia with his throat slit.
Emergency responders were dispatched to the crime scene on the Moreras bridge at around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday after two witnesses reported seeing a man have his throat cut with a large knife by the suspect.
Las Provincias reported that the police believed the alleged perpetrator to be a man of Algerian origin, while a second Black man is also being sought in connection with the gruesome murder.
The 40-year-old victim has been named as José P. He is understood to have first been stabbed in the neck following a dispute between the victim and his attacker.
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No Evidence of ‘Major Disinformation Incidents’ During EU Elections, Commission Admits
There is no evidence that any kind of “major disinformation incident” took place during the EU elections in June, the European Commission has admitted.
Brussels had hyped up the potential of fake news campaigns on social media — possibly backed by foreign actors — heading into the vote, which returned a majority conservative parliament last month.
According to a report published by the European Board for Digital Services, while there was some sort of increase in online misinformation overall in the run-up to the vote, no major disinformation effort was ever detected.
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Ozempic’s Biggest Side Effect: Turning Denmark Into a ‘Pharmastate’?
What if your entire economy was based on one product? TV commercials joke that America runs on Dunkin’, but for all intents and purposes, Denmark quite literally runs on Ozempic, a diabetes medication that is now widely used by consumers to lose weight.
Ozempic’s manufacturer, the Danish company Novo Nordisk, is reaping the fruits of the craze. Its net profit more than doubled between 2019 and 2023, and its stock has soared to new heights. At the end of 2023, Novo became the largest company in Europe. And its rise has eclipsed the Danish economy, creating a lot of value on the one hand, but an imbalanced economy on the other.
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Paris, Barcelona and Brussels ‘Worst European Capitals for Robberies’
The European cities suffering the most robberies are Paris, Barcelona and Brussels, according to statistics published by Eurostat and the UK police.
In the latest survey covering 2022, Paris ranked first, experiencing 611 such crimes per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Barcelona with 398 thefts and Brussels with 381.
Other French cities appearing on the list included Seine-Saint-Denis (349 per 100,000), Bouches-du-Rhône (207 per 100,000) and Rhône (201 per 100,000) inhabitants.
In Belgium, Liège (215 per 100,000) and Charleroi (201 per 100,000) were also in the top 10. The UK was represented by the West Midlands region (259) and London (257).
There was a notably higher incidence of robberies in Western European metropolitan areas compared to Eastern Europe.
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Polish President Faces Backlash for Honoring Ukrainian Ambassador
Polish President Andrzej Duda awarded the Order of Merit to Vasyl Zvarych, the Ukrainian ambassador to Poland, a decision that has led to a torrent of negative reactions online. The President’s Office announced on the social media platform X on Monday evening that the award was granted to “His Excellency” Vasyl Zvarych for “outstanding contributions to the development of Polish-Ukrainian cooperation.”
Critics were quick to voice their dismay. “Spitting in the face of Poles,” and “I am speechless,” dominated social media reactions following the decision.
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Spanish PM Refuses to Testify in Wife’s Corruption Case
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez refused to answer more than two questions on Tuesday from the judge heading a judicial investigation into alleged corruption and influence peddling by his wife, Begoña Gómez. He then filed a lawsuit against the judge for alleged malfeasance.
Sanchez was called as a witness in the investigation but used his right under Spanish law to not testify against his spouse.
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Tensions Flare Between Poland and Hungary Over Diplomatic Accusations and EU Relations
On Tuesday evening, during a TVP Info interview, the head of Polish diplomacy, Radoslaw Sikorski, addressed comments from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjartó. Szijjartó had previously stated on social media that Polish diplomacy “is sinking in a swamp of lies,” alleging that the Hungarian government is isolated due to Orban’s “peace mission.”
The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted earlier to Orban’s Saturday speech, where he accused Poland of conducting business with Russia through intermediaries. Deputy Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski denied these allegations.
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UK Media Organisations Call Hamas Political Leader “Moderate”
Hamas’ political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran early this morning, on July 31st, as he attended the swearing in ceremony for the country’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian.
Western journalists have been criticised for their coverage of his death, which describes the figure as a “moderate.”
Hamas said Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli airstrike, which Israel has not officially acknowledged. It said his death would “take the battle to new dimensions and have major repercussions,” while Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, which has declared three days of national mourning, warned that Israel had provided the grounds for “harsh punishment for itself.”
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Ministers will consider whether the English Defence League should be banned following riots on the streets of Southport, Angela Rayner suggested today.
The deputy PM said the government ‘will look at various different groups’ amid widespread condemnation of violence that broke out after the horrific knife attack on children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
Angry politicians have blamed ‘lies and propaganda’ on social media for igniting the chaos, while heartbroken Southport families have accused hoodlums of showing ‘no respect to a town that is grieving’.
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Many defenders of Islam’s growing presence in the West say that moderate Islam needs to be promoted while “radical” Islam needs to be fought. However, one French journalist has now written a book, “At the heart of French Islam, Three years of infiltration in 70 mosques,” about his experience posing as a Muslim convert for three years and the various experiences he had with “moderate” imams. His book shows that even with these imams, which did not operate in any of the so-called radical mosques, that “the most brutal precepts of the Quran are transmitted literally but often with a smile.”
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Only two miles separate Corfu from Albania so they share the same turquoise sea. Here’s our pick of the best seaside towns, including Ksamil, dubbed the ‘Maldives of Europe’.
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Killings of Hamas and Hezbollah Leaders Escalate Fears Regional War Could Ignite
The top political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed overnight in Tehran, just hours after an Israeli airstrike killed one of the top military leaders of Hezbollah in Beirut. Taken together, after ten months of war in Gaza, the attacks escalated fears that a simmering regional conflict could explode into a new and more dangerous phase. Nick Schifrin reports.
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Hamas’ Top Political Leader is Killed in Iran in Strike That Risks Triggering All-Out Regional War
BEIRUT (AP) — Hamas’ top political leader was killed Wednesday by a predawn airstrike in the Iranian capital, Iran and the militant group said, blaming Israel for a shock assassination that risked escalating into an all-out regional war. Iran’s supreme leader vowed revenge against Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel “will exact a very heavy price from any aggression against us on any front” but did not mention the killing. “There are challenging days ahead,” he added.
Israel had pledged to kill Ismail Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders over the group’s Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel that sparked the war in Gaza. The strike came just after Haniyeh had attended the inauguration of Iran’s new president in Tehran — and hours after Israel targeted a top commander in Iran’s ally Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
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Belarus President Pardons German on Death Row
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has decided to pardon Rico Krieger, a German sentenced to death on terrorism and other charges, the BelTA state news agency reported on Tuesday, citing Lukashenko’s press service.
Belarus’ close ally Russia is currently talking with the West about a possible exchange involving U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich, convicted on spying charges he denies, and other Westerners being held in Russia.
Among those Moscow would like to free is Vadim Krasikov, a Russian serving a life sentence in Germany for murder — an exchange that would require Berlin to get something in return.
Germany’s foreign office confirmed that Krieger had been pardoned, a government spokesperson said by e-mail.
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Russia Legalizes Bitcoin for International Trade to Bypass Sanctions
Authored by Nik Hoffman via BitcoinMagazine.com
In a significant legislative move, Russian lawmakers have passed a bill permitting businesses to use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in international trade, according to a report by Reuters.
This development is part of Russia’s strategy to circumvent Western sanctions imposed following the invasion of Ukraine. The new law, expected to take effect in September, aims to address delays in international payments, particularly with key trading partners like China, India, and the UAE.
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Ukraine Says it Has Repelled Massive Russian Drone Attack
Ukraine’s air force says it has repelled one of the largest aerial barrages launched by Russia on its territory in months.
The air force said on Wednesday that it shot down all the incoming projectiles — 89 drones and one missile — launched by Russia overnight, the attack mainly targeting the central region of Kyiv.
Kyiv’s military administration said more than 40 of the drones were downed over the capital, Kyiv, and its outskirts.
There was some damage to buildings as a result of falling debris, but no casualties were reported.
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He ‘Wanted to Kill as Many People as Possible’: The Persecution of Christians, June 2024
The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of June 2024.
The Muslim Slaughter of Christians
Russia: On Sunday, June 23, terrorists launched attacks on several churches and synagogues in the Muslim Republic of Dagestan. At least 21 people were killed and dozens wounded. One elderly and ailing Orthodox priest, Fr. Nikolai Kotelnikov, had his throat slit by the Muslims yelling “Allahu akbar” [“Allah is the greatest”]. At least one church, that of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was set on fire. In another church, in the words of one report,
“Gun battles erupted around the Assumption Cathedral in Makhachkala and heavy automatic gunfire rang out late into the night. Footage showed residents running for cover as plumes of smoke rose above the city.”
About 5-6 militants were killed; the rest fled. No one claimed the attack, which follows the Moscow massacre, claimed by ISIS, on March 22, 2024, when 145 Russians were murdered.
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US Suspends $95 Million in Aid to Georgia After Passage of Foreign Agent Law That Sparked Protests
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday suspended $95 million in U.S. assistance to Georgia after its parliament adopted legislation related to foreign agents that critics say was inspired by a Russian law used to crack down on political dissent and that sparked weeks of mass protests.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that he had decided to pause the Georgian aid, which would directly benefit the government, as the result of a review of assistance that he ordered in May after the law passed. He said he took the action in response to “anti-democratic” actions the government has taken.
[Comment: It is clear that the Biden Administration sides with Soros.]
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Surge in Alzheimer’s Caused by COVID Shots, Major Study Finds
A major new peer-reviewed study has found that Covid mRNA shots are responsible for the surging numbers of people being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders.
The study, published in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, was conducted by a team of eminent South Korean researchers.
The aim of the study was to identify links between the Covid mRNA injections and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
The researchers, led by Professor Jee Hoon Roh of the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Korea University College of Medicine in Seoul, analyzed the official government data for a total of 558,017 South Korean individuals.
The official government data was obtained from the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) and Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) databases.
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“I’m Not Afraid of You”: Venezuelan President Maduro Challenges Elon Musk to a Fight
Move over Mark Zuckerberg.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro fired back at Elon Musk on national television, challenging the billionaire to a fight. This comes as Musk said on X earlier this week that the country’s presidential election was a “travesty” riddled with election fraud.
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, loyal to Maduro and the ruling party, declared Maduro the winner of Sunday’s election with about 51% of the vote. This announcement came despite several exit polls indicating that the opposition candidate might have been the true winner. Turmoil has since erupted on city streets.
“Major election fraud by Maduro,” Musk wrote on X on Monday.
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A major Mexican supermarket chain has been forced to shutter all of its stores in a troubled region after a striking rise incidents involving drug cartels and gangs.
Oxxo, Mexico’s largest chain of convenience stores, announced late last week that it was closing its 191 stores and seven gas stations in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
The problem came to a head when Femsa corporation, which operates the chain, said they had been dealing with cartel demands concerning fuel distributors.
However, in recent weeks gang members abducted two store employees and demanded they act as lookouts or provide information to the gangs.
Since convenience stores are used by most people in Mexico, the gangs see them as good points to keep tabs on the movements of police, soldiers and rivals.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has bowed to pressure from protesters and neighboring countries alike and called for an audit of the recent presidential election while continuing to verbally spar with rival leaders such as Argentina’s Javier Milei.
“The fraud carried out and perpetrated by the dictator Nicolas Maduro is nothing less than a Pyrrhic victory,” Milei said in a video posted on TikTok, according to a translation by The Wall Street Journal. “He may believe he has won a battle. However, the most important thing is that the Venezuelan lions have awakened, and sooner or later socialism will come to an end.”
Maduro on Wednesday asked the country’s Supreme Court to conduct an audit of the election, responding to claims from the opposition that they had won the election and international claims that the election was not fair and free. Maduro told reporters that his party had the electoral tally sheets and was ready to share them, The Associated Press reported.
[Comment: The courts in Venezuela are in Maduro’s pocket.]
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Venezuelan Opposition Rises: Protests Surge Against Maduro’s Regime
The opposition is not standing down in Venezuela even as the repression comes hard and fast from the regime of president Nicolas Maduro.
Maduro claimed victory in Sunday’s elections, but the opposition led by Maria Corina Machado and Eduardo Gonzalez Urrurtia has also claimed victory. Internationally, the EU has called for an independent count of the votes, and governments from Argentina to the U.S. are questioning the results put forward by Maduro.
Even the Carter Center, invited by Maduro to observe the elections, has not recognized his victory nor have governments with leaders usually friendly and ideologically aligned with Maduro, such as Chile.
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3,000 Illegal Boat Migrants Land in Britain Since Labour Took Power
Since the new Labour Party government came into power earlier this month, over 3,000 illegal boat migrants have crossed the English Channel from France, throwing into question Sir Keir Starmer’s ability to “stop the boats”.
According to a tally from GB News, which had producers counting boat migrants as they were brought ashore, at least 133 illegals reached British shores on Tuesday.
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Austrian Minister for the EU Aims for Geneva Convention Changes Over ‘Migration Crisis’
Karoline Edtstadler, Austrian Minister for the EU and the Constitution, has said she wants to adapt the Geneva Convention to the Status of Refugees of 1951 to fight rising migration to Europe from poorer parts of the world. Austria is facing a migration crisis that is heavily influencing public sentiment ahead of general elections in September.
In a July 27 interview with Austrian media outlet Der Standard, Edtstadler advocated for moving asylum procedures out of the European Union and into third countries.
To this end, the Geneva Convention of 1951— which, she said, dated from “pre-globalised times” without “transcontinental migration movements”, should be “further developed” to meet the demands of current times.
Edtstadler told Brussels Signal she wanted to see change in two areas.
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Court Overturns Order to Remove Texas’ Rio Grande Barrier
Authored by Caden Pearsen via The Epoch Times
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday overturned a lower court’s decision requiring Texas to relocate a 1,000-foot floating barrier in the Rio Grande, installed to prevent illegal border crossings.
The Fifth Circuit found that the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas had abused its discretion when it ordered Texas to relocate the buoys from the river last summer.
Tuesday’s ruling permits the barrier system to temporarily remain in the river until a trial is held.
The Justice Department sued Texas after the buoys were placed in the river in July 2023, alleging that the barrier was unlawful. The district court had previously granted a preliminary injunction directing Texas to move the barrier to the riverbank.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) appealed the ruling unsuccessfully, with a three-judge panel upholding the district court’s decision in a 2-1 opinion. But the full court later heard the case en banc, vacating the panel’s opinion and blocking the injunction pending appeal.
On Tuesday, Circuit Judge Don R. Willett, joined by eight other judges, found that the district court had abused its discretion in issuing the preliminary injunction.
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EU Agency for Fundamental Rights Blast Bloc’s Border Policies
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has published a report heavily criticising the EU’s border policies.
According to the document published by the independent body on July 30, the EU has failed to rescue and assist migrants in distress.
The report also claims there were incidents of maltreatment, abuse and other life-threatening human-rights violations at the EU’s land and sea borders that have not been properly investigated.
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Fox News Host Shannon Bream: Americans Have Died Because of Biden-Harris Open Border Polices
Fox News host Shannon Bream has hammered President Joe Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg over Democrats’ open border policies.
Bream blasted Buttigieg over the mishandling of illegal immigration by Biden and VP Kamala Harris, the Daily Caller reported.
Buttigieg and others are attempting to rewrite history on the issue for the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, Vice President Harris.
Shortly after his inauguration, President Joe Biden put Harris in charge of fixing the illegal immigration problem at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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German Catholic Diocese Calls for Migrant-Rescue Boat Funders
The German Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier has called for sponsorship for a new sea-rescue ship for the pro-migrant aid organisation Sea Eye.
“Sea rescue is a Christian and humanitarian duty,” the Vicar General of Trier, in the ecclesiastical province of Cologne, told Domradio.
“I have personally got to know this rescue organisation and consider the commitment to be convincing and absolutely right,” stated the diocese’s Vicar General, Ulrich Graf von Plettenberg, on July 30.
“With our support, we would also like to send a clear signal against Europe’s isolationist policy, which is propagated above all by right-wing parties,” he said.
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Besides the electronic monitoring tag on his left ankle, Dorian Puka, 28, could be any other wealthy holidaymaker — but the prolific burglar shouldn’t be in Britain at all.
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It’s the End of the Line for Eric Adams’ ‘Unconstitutional’ NYC Migrant Bus Suit, Judge Rules
It’s the end of the line for Mayor Eric Adams’ $700 million lawsuit against bus companies that have hauled more than 33,000 migrants to the Big Apple, according to a Manhattan judge who denied the city’s request for a preliminary injunction and called the case “dubious at best.”
The suit, filed in January against 17 bus companies that ferried folks from Texas to New York City, was deemed “unconstitutional” by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Mary Rosado.
“This is a plain attempt to regulate the transportation of indigent persons from State to State in violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause,” the Monday decision reads.
[Comment: Interesting ruling.]
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Michigan: Previously Deported Illegal Alien Accused of Sexually Assaulting Young Girl
An illegal alien, previously deported from the United States, is now accused of sexually assaulting a young girl under 13 years of age in Shelby Township, Michigan.
Joel Quintana-Dominguez, a 32-year-old illegal alien, has been arrested and charged by the Shelby Township Police Department in connection to the repeated sexual assault of a young girl.
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A new migrant shelter will open next month at a former college dorm building in the Bronx’s swanky Riverdale section — angering some local residents who fear the “neighborhood will be destroyed.”
The city is putting the finishing touches on the shelter at 435 West 238th St. — a stone’s throw away from the $63,500-per-year Ethical Culture Fieldston School — which is set to open sometime in August, according to City Council Member Eric Dinowitz.
The building, previously used as off-campus Manhattan College housing, will house 95 migrant families, according to City Hall.
As furniture was being moved inside the facility on Wednesday local residents fumed over the soon-to-be shelter.
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Migrants should receive less benefits than German citizens, the country’s Christian Democratic Union opposition party has said, as it calls for a two-tier system through which foreigners who refuse to work will have their allowance cut.
Senior CDU MP Alexander Dobrindt has called for the two-tier system under which the rate of Buergergeld, also known as citizen’s allowance, paid to migrants would be cut compared to that of German passport holders.
‘There must be a new social benefits system for asylum seekers that pays out less than the citizen’s allowance,’ he said.
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Nearly 1 in 20 of All Syrians Now Lives in Germany, Over Half Receive Welfare
Ever since the 2015/16 migrant crisis, Syrians have arrived in Germany in ever-increasing numbers, and now number at least 972,000 at the end of 2023, according to Statista. There are 22 million Syrians living in Syria itself, meaning those in Germany represent nearly 1 for every 20 in their native country.
This is extremely rapid growth since 2014 when there were only 60,000 Syrians in Germany. Since then, the population has grown 16-fold.
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New Barbed Wire Wall Fails to Cut Off Dangerous Route Into US Used by 500,000 Migrants Last Year
A newly-installed barbed-wire fencing at the Darien Gap has failed to keep migrants from crossing from South America into Panama in their way to the US, according to several reports.
Panamanian president José Raúl Mulino gave the order to block the dangerous jungle crossing after more than 500,000 people passed through it last year in their journey to the US.
Panama’s border police have erected about three miles of barbed wire to block some trails and funnel migrants to a single reception point.
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NYC Migrants Who Jumped, Bit Two NYPD Cops Cut Loose Without Bail: ‘Open War on Cops’
A pair of migrant thugs who attacked two of New York’s Finest are back on the street after Manhattan prosecutors agreed to cut them loose without bail, The Post has learned.
Brian Joseph, 24, and Jose Gonzalez, 19, were both arrested Sunday after scuffling with cops on traffic patrol on Eighth Avenue shortly after 9:50 p.m. — allegedly biting one officer and hurling a moped at the other, according to law enforcement sources and officials.
But when they were hauled into court on Monday, Manhattan prosecutors agreed to let them walk.
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Dad Wins Full Custody of Son, 4, After Child’s Mother Allegedly Tried to Raise Him Non-Binary
A California father said he’s been granted full custody of his 4-year-old son following a protracted legal battle with the boy’s mother — who allegedly forced the child to wear dresses and glitter because she wanted to raise him as non-binary.
Harrison Tinsley told “The Daily Signal Podcast” that he prevailed in the years-long court battle to win full physical custody of Sawyer, which the dad likened to “watching a miracle.”
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Obese Olympic ‘Christ’ Threatens to Sue Critics Over ‘Last Supper’ Backlash
Authored by Jonathan Turley
Barbara Butch, the LGBTQ activist who was the center figure in the controversial “Last Supper” Paris Olympic scene is threatening to sue those criticizing her. Butch played the role viewed by many as a spoof on Christ in the Last Supper. The creators insist that they were going for a type of “pagan party” of Olympic gods and sent a message of tolerance. Art experts have supported the creators and pointed to paintings that inspired the pagan motif. That is not exactly what was seen by millions of Christians who were deeply insulted by the parody. The question is not the intent of the creators, but the intent of critics in denouncing the display and its participants.
The threat of legal action would not be especially serious in the United States where opinion is given robust protection in both criminal and civil cases. In France, however, free speech is in a free fall with the left pushing for the censorship and criminalization of ever-expanding range of political and religious speech.
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The opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris on Friday evening was marred by controversial and bizarre elements, including mockery of the victims of the French Revolution, references to LGBT ideology, and a parody of the Last Supper. The event has sparked a wave of critical commentary, not only in Poland but also even from far-left French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Polish conservative leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, speaking at a press conference, described the Paris opening as an “unprecedented scandal” and a “vivid illustration of the sad and increasingly advanced process of the moral and political decay of Western elites, including French elites.”
He warned that this decay threatens the future of what he called “the most benevolent civilization in the history of the world, a civilization friendly to man, the Christian civilization.”
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Ok – so the organizers of the olymics in Paris thought olymic atletes will eat vegan food?
That’s a joke of a day 🙂
I have to give one thing to the Paris olymics – they are faithful and steadfast in the cause.
“so the organizers of the olymics in Paris thought olymic atletes will eat vegan food? That’s a joke of a day”
Joke? Why?
Although I’m not vegan, I’ve been a vegetarian most of my life (I’m in my late 60s, in “excellent health” (medic’s comment from January’s yearly check-up) and have no medical issues).
If you think there’s something inherently weak about herbivores, check with a few elephants, rhinos or gorillas—all herbivores.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/05/09/the-single-reason-the-biggest-animals-are-herbivores/
You’d think the top athletes would have compared, by now, no?
I happen to have been growing up around olypic class sportsmen, and one thing I remember very vividly is how much meat they would eat.
This is nothing against vegans or anything, but I have yet to see a vegan olympic swimmer, or runner, or anyone?
Is there anyone eating vegan – among the sportsmen at the olypmics?
“Is there anyone eating vegan – among the sportsmen at the olypmics?”
I reckon you’re just not looking hard enough..
“I’m physically in better shape than I’ve ever been, and I’m more successful than ever right now, and my plant-based programme has played such a big role in that.” —Lewis Hamilton, F1 race winner
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/mhsquad/nutrition-membership/a31095632/lewis-hamilton-plant-based-diet/
“It is now becoming common knowledge that athletes don’t need animal protein to build and maintain muscle. As a consequence, plant-based diets in the sporting industry are rising in popularity and vegan athletes can be found in almost every discipline. From football stars to tennis pros, more and more….are going plant-based to fuel their sporting success. Keep reading to learn about the vegan athletes proving the myths about vegans and protein wrong!”
https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/features/vegan-athletes-plant-based-diet/
“You may be surprised to hear that many Olympians at the top of their game have credited their sporting success to adopting a plant-based diet.”
https://thebeet.com/these-7-olympic-gold-medalists-are-powered-by-plant-based-diets/
Just sayin’..
“I happen to have been growing up around olypic class sportsmen, and one thing I remember very vividly is how much meat they would eat.”
I’m not a mind-reader, but I ‘spect that’s because, like you, we’ve all essentially been raised on meat-based diets; and told, by “the experts”, that humans NEED meat to survive and/or remain healthy. Alotta this probably comes from our prehistoric ancestors NOT having the knowledge or tools to farm and/or grow sufficient veggies to sustain early populations. Much easier to trap/kill animals with sharpened bits of stone than to craft farm tools outta them. And you know what they say about the path of least resistance…
Anyroads, like so many things, as we gain more [empirical] knowledge, we find that many of our sacred cows were actually just wooden saw-horses wearing cow costumes (of our own making!); and the more aware amoungst us tend to act quickly as these long-held assumptions’re revealed to’ve been mistakes.
But I could be wrong..
https://olympics.com/en/news/swimming-diet-vegan-carnivore-plant-based-muscle
the truth is – some run on meat, others on plants, most people mix both. It looks like there are olympic medalists who eat pasta and pizza every day just like there are those who weight every gram of their diet.
I am of the opinion that human body can change its energy intake from different fuels.
The “meat” itself is problematic because it is esentially a sacrifice of living flesh – dead meat goes bad quickly – and also today, most of the cheap meat in the supermarkets is grown by animals that don’t move, and have to be medicated just to survive to make it to the slaughter.
Strictly “kosher” speaking – most of the meat out there is not kosher.
That is – I believe – one of the reasons why also it is good to avoid meat. Vaccinated salmon grown in a barrell is not particularly the pinnacle of cuisine.
Nevertheless, I myself have tried it also, not eating meat, and I found out it’s not for me. And I don’t even eat meat that often, once or twice a week, but I need it to be “happy” if you will. I need it to work. Like coffee.
Maybe because my metabolism is set in its ways, or maybe I come from a carnivore family? 🙂
I applaud the genius of the British government. The English Defence League does not exist. Therefore banning it is a master stroke. Snuffing out something which does not exist is perfect for a politician. It gives the impression of doing something, without having to do anything.
The EDL used to exist. Tommy Robinson founded it because he was sick of muslims harassing white girls in Luton. But the state made sure the EDL could not be run. Like the Proud Boys, I expect a good percentage of its members were government agents. So Tommy wound it up, and now pursues a valid and effective career as a journalist, much to the disgust of the British establishment.
This same establishment now ascribes to the nonexistent EDL the riots which have broken out in England. But these riots are not coordinated. They are inchoate expressions of rage at the murder of three small girls by the son of Rwandan asylum claimants, just the latest in a long line of terror crimes against the British people by migrants and asylum claimers. The governing establishment allows huge numbers of undocumented asylum seekers into Britain, yet finds the white British people to be offensive when they notice the truth, that they are being attacked and killed by these people whom they do not want in their country.
The Chief Constable of Merseyside tried to gaslight the people that the latest murderer was just a lad from Cardiff. As if he was your average Welshman. They have tried this trick once too often now. People see through it. They have taken their rage on to the streets. This was always going to happen. The establishment will try to suppress this righteous anger, but they will fail. The Labour government has abandoned the Rwanda settlement scheme for migrants, and plans to give settled status to 90,000 undocumented migrants. More will come, It will be a long hot summer.
Well, not quite. Tommy Robinson quit the EDL because he didn’t like the antisemitism of many members. This is entirely consistent with his current group’s having black and south Asian members. It’s not about “race”, but belief systems.
I think they are trying to fabricate a loose semantic relationship with things to put him in prison. He is arrested under counter terrorism powers. EDL is banned. The EDL may get classified as a terrorist entity even though it doesn’t exit. Antifa doesn’t exist – its an idea. They can go either way. I keep seeing old footage of him when in the EDL even from some supportive people – I’ve never seen them before. So if they charge him for terrorism because he won’t unlock his phone (they probably can get in anyway) so he can be put in jail or so he can be shown to betray victims of grooming gangs that have spoken to him, so those names can be released, they win in a way unless something else happens.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran has hundreds of military bases, installation, ammunition depots around Damascus (Isaiah 17.1) and along the Golan Heights but the upside down world condemns Israel for actions that increase fears of a major regional conflict in the Middle East. Iran’s Hizb’allah east of Lebanon’s Tyre just sent their rocket into northern Israel that killed Druze children playing at a soccer field.
They’ve been launchingl barrages of rockets into Israel on a daily-weekly basis and yet Hizb’allah and Iran, who chants death to Israel and America every day are never accused of increasing the fear of creating a major regional conflict. A fact I find disgustingly abhorrent, pathetic. But goes well with the current politically correct narrative of blaming the victim.
“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” ~ Psalm 83.4
This is the Psalm 83 war Iran’s proxies began on October 7, 2023 that will result in the total annihilation of Damascus for the reasons I’ve just written about. What will then follow is the Ezekiel 38 Magog war that results in the capitulation of the western nations, including the U.S.; why? Because Magog is actually Ukraine, and those nations with it are all NATO nations.
“I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in false security in the Islands and Coastlands, and they will know that I am YEHOVAH.” ~ Ezekiel 39.6
. . . just in case there’s anyone out there who still listens to the Word of God. You’ve been warned (Ezekiel 33.6).
without going any deeper into it just now…
I remember that the nations listed in the Gog and Magog invasion of Israel are predominantly the Muslim nations – Turkey, Persia, Lybia…
The way I always understood it was that Gog and Magog is Russia and Turkey
Who is going to have the most powerful army in the world if NATO countries collapse?
Russia and Turkey.
Both of them predominantly muslim.
I’m just saying – it’s not gonna be “the Europeans” – who will invade Israel using nuclear weapons 😉
Russia has some muslim parts but “predominantly muslim” is far from the truth.
Will you also interpret something from afar and not when it’s right in front of you too? You’re using older traditional church interpretations instead of using the benefit of what you see before you. Luke 12.56, Matthew 16.3, Romans 12.2.
All of the nations being listed in Ezekiel 38 have migrated into the western nations of the EU, UK, US. It is these same nations using Ukraine as their proxy. Magog, the ancient Scythians whose ethnic heritage now lies in Ukraine.
The Bible, as the Word of God in Ezekiel doesn’t stipulate Muslim people. It describes ethnicities from their ancient ancestors. It describes people, and not specific lands where they live since groups migrate to different lands from century to century. If anyone were paying attention they’d go outside their homes and see , , , now inside their nations.
“I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel.” ~ Ezekiel 39.2 . . . Rus is a regional term meaning people of the north. The Kievan Rus lie directly north of Israel, Jerusalem, and Kiev, as you know, is the capital of Ukraine. This verse will be authenticated as Georgia, Armenia, Turkey all lie within the northern mountains of Israel and are also being prepared for entry as vassal states to the European Union.
“Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.” ~ Ezekiel 39.3 . . . Ukraine has now had four NATO trained and supplied armies raised up and then completely annihilated since 2021. This verse is authenticated and will become completed.
” . . . you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals. You will fall in the open field . . . ” ~ Ezekiel 39.4-5 . . . the nations “with” you are the EU, UK, US, all filled with those foreign nationals described taking part with their proxy Magog (Ukraine). Even now they leave their fallen troops on the battlefield to rot away on the open fields of the Ukrainian steppe lands. About one brigade every day now.
I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in false security in the isles and coastlands, and they will know that I am Yehovah.” ~ Ezekiel 39.6 . . . and who are the ones who live in false security even as the arm and fund Ukrainians to fight and die for them? Europe is a veritable peninsula of (EU) coastlands and islands (UK) that even include America’s eastern coastlands where DC resides in and commands the NATO armies and their governments.
My God man! Pay attention! Stop quoting the past and recognize what is about to happen right in front of you! This I respectively submit for your perusal, and I understand from where you’ve gotten your perspective from. But it just isn’t relevant anymore to the situation and orientation of the battlefield of 2024.
I am no expert but how can you connect Gog and Magog with the EU? When their chief allies listed in Ezekiel 38 are Persia (Iran), Ethiopia (subsaharan Africa), Lybia (North Africa)?
Gog and Magog themselves being identified in Turkey and “Ukraine” – which I say Russia but I agree Ukraine – i.e. Kievan Rus – that general area.
Now – to the most important part of my argument: Gog and Magog, and their allies, must come up against Israel – before they are destroyed and turned back. How is the EU and Ukraine any threat against Israel?
But Russia – an ally of Assad in Syria… Turkey upset about Palestine…
What is the most likely coalition today, to perform an invasion of Israel, and break their teeth on it? Like Gog and Magog should?
Or am I wrong?
The “coalition” right now is NATO (EU,UK,US). That can morph into anything. Ezekiel 38, 39 are describing the ethnic makeup of the people who will be destroyed with Magog. I see those ethnicities in the EU, UK, US right now. A veritable Ukraine-NATO alliance.
You read about these specific ethnicities at Gates of Vienna daily. This is the theme here is it not? Of a foreign force of specific ethnicities invading Europa? Where are the millions of military age males from Gog, of the land of Magog (Ukraine), Meshek, Tubal, Cush, Put, Gomer, Beth Togarmah. now? A third of the population of Ukraine have fled to the EU. All of these others are in the EU, UK, and US. Or am I wrong?
At the same time we’re reading about how Ukraine no longer has men to replace those dead from their NATO fed war against Russia. They all come from the ‘uttermost’ north. The Kievan-Rus along with their “allies”. Who are Ukraines allies right now? The EU, UK, US. Why have those specific people been led to those uttermost northern lands?
Yet you don’t seem to see this? Because of dogma and tradition? Then read Matthew 16.2-3 and ponder about why they didn’t see their Messiah when he was standing before them. Read Matthew 24.37-39 and ponder about the normalcy bias of those days. People will always believe the academics of their institutions before they believe what their own eyes are seeing.
Persia (Iran) has already began their war against Israel when they sent missiles, drones from Iran on April 14, 2024. Damascus lies at the foot of the mountains which begin north of the Jezreel Valley that Megiddo resides within. The Psalm 83 and Ezekiel 38 war are one after the other. You already see the hatred for Israel and Jews rising to new levels as it fights against its’ genocidal enemies.
If you don’t think the leaders of the EU, UK, US won’t utilize that maniacal hatred of Israel to fill its’ current deficit in military fighting men in Ukraine then just wait a few days and see that likelihood become more probable. “I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army” ~ Ezekiel 38.4
“He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.” ~Matthew 16.2-3
One thing – why I will not spend an extra effort arguing with you is your talking to me like you got all the truth:
“Yet you don’t seem to see this? Because of dogma and tradition?”
I told you my reasons, yet you blame dogma and tradition which to me says – you don’t listen what I say…
You have not adressed my objection that the allies of magog are predominantly islamic nations today, you have dismissed my point about gog and magog attacking israel.
Maniacal hatred of Israel is certainly not the modus operandi of the EU, USA, NATO, Etc…
Long story short – In my humble opinion – you did not show any good argument whatsoever all I remember from this is you, instead of arguing a point, accusing me of following some dogma – which is rather ironic when the only one following “dogma” in this thread – is you 🙂
The claim that the Olympic “Last Supper” was a play on Greek mythology and pagan ritual is specious. When something looks exactly like the Last Supper, it’s the Last Supper. Everything is fluid with the some people, be it “gender,” or history, or religious belief. This is what happens when the thinking brain becomes unhinged from reality, and believes things that simply are not true. It must be something in the French water.
“Everything is fluid with the some people….This is what happens when the thinking brain becomes unhinged from reality, and believes things that simply are not true. It must be something in the French water.”
Nah, it’s just indicative of a matriarchy (see “Zardoz”).
“Repeal the 19th.” —posted to fb (Oct 2018)
This should’a been a 10-minute video, but, still, I’d encourage all to give it a view.
Watch..
“Men without women destroy themselves.
Women without men destroy the world.” —Jason Whitlock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7jFbw8OZSc&t=217s
I don’t like his argument that conversation with women is feelings bound, while with men it’s all rational. Bunkum.
But, on the other hand, I think that pushing women into public life and the dog eat dog employment world was a huge mistake. The pressure and the… unsuitability to women’s psyche has pushed a lot of women toward bad choices, misery and even madness.
I don’t like it neither but that’s the common experience. Women do communicate based on feelings which drives logical men crazy…
Needless to say – some men can be logical beyond reason and this drives the emotional women crazy as well.
Saying that – both men and women can overcome their inherent “sex” and become reasonable in all endeavors of thought, but there are some basic “animalistic” settings that have to be overcome first.
“I don’t like his argument that conversation with women is feelings bound, while with men it’s all rational. Bunkum.”
Of course, in an absolute sense, you’re absolutely correct.
But, in practice, I think it’s safe to say that MOST (not all!) womens’ PRIMARY [biological] drive is to bear children; menz’ primary drive is to do/make things to keep our womiz safe so they can continue the species!
A dollar bill vs silver dollar: unequivocally, different; but absolutely equal in value.
Congratulations to Israel for taking out the trash! The US should have assassinated the Hezbollah leader a long time ago . He was responsible for the killing of 241 Americans in the 80’s and recently 12 children playing soccer in Israel. The Hamas leader has ordered countless terrorist attacks in Israel over the years and authorized the October 7 massacre. He rejoiced in the atrocities while living in luxury abroad, skimming millions from the Palestinians and happily allowing them to be used as human shields.
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