Pro-Palestinian protesters broke through a police barrier outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago today. Meanwhile, protesters attacked a man outside the DNC, causing an injury under his eye.
In other news, man was arrested last night in the English city of Manchester after a multiple stabbing left a woman dead and two others seriously wounded.
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Canada’s Debt is “Much Worse” Than the Government Lets on: Study
A new study by the Fraser Institute finds that Canada’s debt is much worse than the Liberal government admits to.
The study found that the statistics the government uses to claim it has the lowest net debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7 are flawed because they count assets that cannot be used to pay off the debt in Canada.
“The study finds that Canada’s relative debt position, instead of being the best of the G7, falls significantly when total debt is measured instead of measuring debt after adjusting for financial assets,” a news release from the Fraser Institute said. “Net debt, which is the measure used by the federal government, offsets a part of the country’s total debt by including financial assets.”
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Chicago Grocery Owner Skeptical of Harris ‘Gouging’ Plan: ‘What Exactly Are We Trying to Control?’
Local grocery store owners struggling with inflation might face price caps to curb “price gouging” if Vice President Harris becomes the next president.
As part of Harris’ economic agenda, she plans to implement federal price controls on groceries and other everyday expenses. But a local grocery store owner in Chicago — where the Democratic National Convention is underway — says he’s not sure “what we’re trying to control.”
“Most of the grocers that I know and associate with are very conscious of having products that we’re pricing things according to what we pay for them, not necessarily as to what the market bears,” HarvesTime grocery store owner Hristos “Chris” Dallas told Fox News Digital in an interview Monday.
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As a High School Teacher, Walz Presented to Students Favorable Picture of Communism in China
Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reportedly spoke favorably about China’s communist system when he was teaching high school students in the 1990s.
Citing a 1991 article in Nebraska’s Alliance Times-Herald about Walz’s work on student-exchange programs, he sai in his social studies class, “everyone is the same and everyone shares” in China, the according to The Washington Free Beacon.
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As Democratic Convention Gears Up, Chicago Police Already Making Arrests
Aug. 19 (UPI) — As the Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago on Monday, police already have arrested several demonstrators while even more protests are planned for this week.
Chicago police say an unidentified 23-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man were arrested on Sunday at a protest event the day before the convention kicked off on Monday, ABC7 in Chicago reported.
On Sunday, the nearly four-hour-long “Bodies Outside Unjust Laws” march was seen going from Michigan Avenue to the loop in Chicago’s Grant Park.
The two demonstrators were taken into custody in the 600 block of Wabash Avenue, where the mostly peaceful event first began. They were charged with misdemeanors for alleged defacement of property and allegedly resisting/obstructing an officer.
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Biden-Harris Admin Seeks to Ban Online Election Betting Sites
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency responsible for regulating financial derivatives under the Biden-Harris administration, has taken steps to ban election-related betting on platforms like PredictIt. The CFTC’s move stems from concerns that allowing bets on political outcomes could introduce more money into an electoral system already influenced by financial interests.
Rostin Behnam, the chairman of the CFTC, has pursued rules to outlaw election betting, arguing that the agency is not equipped to monitor political markets for fraud or manipulation. Behnam warned that such bets could undermine the integrity of the American electoral process, turning it into a commodity and degrading the democratic experience, according to a report by the Washington Post.
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Breaking: Trump Says He Would Consider Elon Musk for Cabinet Position
Donald Trump has said that he will consider Elon Musk for a cabinet position if the GOP nominee is elected in November. The comments come after Trump and Musk joined together for an interview on X.
According to Reuters, when Trump was asked by reporters if he would consider Musk to be part of his cabinet, Trump replied, “He’s a very smart guy. I certainly would, if he would do it, I certainly would. He’s a brilliant guy.”
Musk publicly endorsed Trump last month after an assassination attempt on Trump’s life. He later commended the GOP nominee in their X discussion together for showing bravery in the moment when he had been shot.
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Campus Anti-Israel Protests Resume as Students Return, Colleges Implement More Strict Policies
Universities across the U.S. are implementing stricter administrative policies regarding on-campus protests as students return from summer break and following the chaos from last semester’s protests sparked by Palestinian-affiliated Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel that resulted in Israel’s war in Gaza.
Anti-Israel protests occurred Monday on at least one college campus, George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. And the expectation is that protests will resume at other campuses as students return.
In July, the Young Democratic Socialists of America passed a resolution asking students to hold a national strike over the Israeli-Hamas war.
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Dem Chicago Mayor Embraces Massive Protests at DNC, Says it’s a ‘Privilege’ to Hear ‘Grievances’
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said he’s not worried that the massive protestsplanned by pro-Palestinian groups for the Democratic National Convention this week could overshadow the convention, Kamala Harris or her ascendance to serve as the party’s standardbearer. Instead, Johnson insisted on Sunday in an ABC interview that Democrats “can handle” the demonstrations because it is a “privilege” to hear and experience the kind of protest where people can “bring their grievances” to the party leadership. Those protests began Sunday night with demonstrators vowing to “bring the war home.”
Despite musings that protesters might be prepared to maintain the political honeymoon for Harris, the vice president has become the same target as President Joe Biden, protesters argue, even as she has tried to remove herself from the Biden-Harris administration’s legacy—which is, of course, her legacy as vice president.
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Democratic D.C Councilman Arrested & Charged With Bribery, Faces 15 Years in Jail
Washington, D.C., Councilman Trayon White Sr. has been charged with bribery, according to court filings unsealed on Aug. 19.
White was arrested on Sunday by federal authorities.
As Zachary Stieber reports at The Epoch Times, according to an affidavit from an FBI agent, White agreed to accept $156,000 in cash in exchange for using his position as a member of Washington’s District Council to pressure government employees to extend contracts valued at $5 million.
White indeed took payment of $35,000 in cash across four separate occasions—the most recent on Aug. 9—from the owner of the companies that were given the contracts, according to the affidavit.
City code bars public officials from accepting any gifts from people or entities that have or are seeking to obtain contractual or other business with Washington’s government.
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Democrats Exclude Bitcoin and Crypto From 2024 Platform, Aligning With Past Hostility
Authored by Nik Hoffman via BitcoinMagazine.com
The Democratic Party’s official 2024 platform was released today on day one of the Democratic National Convention, without any mention of Bitcoin or cryptocurrency.
This decision aligns with the past four years of the Biden-Harris administration’s hostility towards the industry.
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Democrats in Chicago Book Hotels Under Fake Names to Hide From Protesters: Report
As the Democratic National Convention begins Monday in Chicago, House Democrats are reportedly being told to check into hotels under assumed names to avoid being detected by up to 100,000 pro-Palestinian protesters in the city.
Axios reported that Democratic Party security officials are worried that demonstrators might turn on members of Congress.
The protests were planned before Vice President Kamala Harris was appointed as the Democratic presidential nominee after President Joe Biden was pressured to drop out of the race. But the change at the top hasn’t made any difference to those leading the demonstrations.
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Democrats Release 2024 Platform for DNC Claiming Biden is ‘Running to Finish the Job’
Democrats have released their 2024 platform for this week’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) but it still names lame-duck President Joe Biden as the party’s nominee.
Democratic National Committee released its 2024 platform on Sunday ahead of the party’s convention in Chicago this week.
The Democrats said that the platform was passed by the Platform Committee on July 16.
It was passed just five days before Biden announced the end of his campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement.
However, the platform wasn’t updated to remove Biden as the nominee.
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Disney and Disney Springs restaurant Raglan Road say a lawsuit following the death of a New York doctor from an allergic reaction should be tossed out because her widower signed up for a Disney+ account years earlier, according to court papers.
Following public backlash, Disney has waived its right to arbitration.
“At Disney, we strive to put humanity above all other considerations. With such unique circumstances as the ones in this case, we believe this situation warrants a sensitive approach to expedite a resolution for the family who have experienced such a painful loss,” said Josh D’Amaro, Chairman of Disney Experience in a statement to FOX Business.
“As such, we’ve decided to waive our right to arbitration and have the matter proceed in court.”
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Ex-NIH Chief Confronted Over Deadly COVID Shots: ‘Blood on Your Hands’
Dr. Francis Collins, the former head of the National Institute of Health (NIH), has been confronted in a restaurant over his role in pushing dangerous Covid shots onto the public.
Collins appeared to be dining with his family when a man approached his table and dropped the hammer.
A video of the confrontation emerged on social media and quickly went viral.
The former NIH looked stunned as he was called out by the unidentified man.
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Former Barack Obama David Axelrod has warned against overconfidence in Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
During an appearance on CNN, Axelrod asserted that the initial “enthusiasm” among Democrat voters for Harris’s campaign is now waning.
He noted that “if the election were today,” President Donald Trump would likely beat Harris.
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FBI Investigation Confirms Iran Was Behind Trump Campaign Hack
The FBI and other United States Intelligence agencies confirmed on Monday that Iran was behind the hacking of former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
The Trump campaign said on Aug. 10 that it was notified by Microsoft that Iran hacked one of its websites, and the FBI launched an investigation into the reported hack last week.
The bureau said the Middle Eastern country has attempted to disrupt both presidential campaigns.
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Georgia State Election Board Adopts Rule to Ensure Number of Ballots Matches Total Voters
The Georgia State Election Board (SEB) on Monday adopted a rule that requires the number of ballots and voters be the same before the certification of election results.
The rule ensures that counties comply with Georgia state code. It comes after Fulton County was found to have likely scanned thousands of ballots twice in a recount of the 2020 election.
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Harris Has Problems With Her Fringes at Chicago Coronation
Kamala Harris will formally accept the Democratic nomination for president this week at the DNC, the party’s convention in Chicago. As the event gets underway, DNC officials—along with their friends in the media—are keen to show just how joyous Harris’ run will be.
“Harris Used to Worry About Laughing. Now Joy Is Fueling Her Campaign,” read one headline in The New York Times earlier this month.
Unfortunately for her, not everybody feels the same way.
Indeed, it appears as though frustration within the Democratic Party over the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war stretches to Harris’s campaign, with around 1,000 pro-Gaza demonstrators marching through downtown Chicago on Sunday night, chanting”Shut down the DNC.” One protester managed to storm the stage of a delegate party where he grabbed a microphone and said “You are funding a genocide,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Vice President Kamala Harris was ridiculed on social media Sunday after delivering a long-winded monologue on the “duality to the nature of democracy” at a campaign event in Pennsylvania.
Harris spoke to supporters at an event in Rochester on Sunday alongside her running mate Tim Walz before the pair head to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention this week, where she will be nominated as the party’s nominee. In a seemingly off-script moment during the event, Harris regaled attendees with a lecture about the dual nature of democracy, describing it as both “incredibly strong” and “incredibly fragile.”
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House Probe Concludes Joe Biden Committed Impeachable Offenses by Helping to Enrich His Family
The Republican-led House committees leading the impeachment probe into Joe Biden concluded Monday the president engaged in impeachable conduct by helping to enrich his family with millions of dollars in business schemes that traded on his name and then defrauded voters by lying to cover up the scandal.
The House Oversight, Ways and Means and Judiciary Committees said they believe the evidence from their nine-month investigation establishes that Biden abused his office and violated his oaths under the Constitution, according to the 291-page report reviewed by Just the News.
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Israel-Defending Pennsylvania Sen. Fetterman Won’t Attend Democratic National Convention: Report
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman will not attend the from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week.
The senator has had a number of high-profile disagreements with other Democratic members of Congress, particularly over the Israeli-Hamas conflict, The choice to skip the event, according to the news outlet The Free Press.
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Green Party leader and presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein’s choice of a running mate is Bilal (Butch) Ware, an associate professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara who has shared pro-Hamas propaganda and has called Israel a “white supremacist Zionist project” that activists should “stab in the heart.”
Stein lauded him on Sunday in a post announcing Ware as her running mate: “I’m honored and thrilled to welcome Butch Ware as my running mate and the Vice President we need at this moment in history. His personal experience overcoming systemic injustice, his deep knowledge of history and people’s movements, and his commitment to building a sustainable, just, peaceful world make Butch the ideal candidate.”
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Judge Tosses Pittsburgh ‘Boycott, Divest, Sanction’ Ballot Initiative
Pennsylvania judge on Monday tossed a proposed city of Pittsburgh boycott, divest and sanction ballot referendum targeting Israel after supporters failed to gather enough signatures to get the initiative on the November ballot.
The measure would have prevented investing or allocating Pittsburgh taxpayer dollars in entities doing business with Israel. The referendum, if approved by voters, also would have taken away entities’ tax-exempt status for the same conduct.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh City Controller Rachael Heisler, and several Jewish Pittsburgh residents challenged the ballot referendum, which was backed by the Pittsburgh Democratic Socialists of America.
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Kamala Harris: Football Players Can ‘Be Undefeated’ Even if They ‘Don’t Win Every Game’
A group of young Pennsylvania football players was left scratching their heads after receiving a pep talk from Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
On Sunday, Harris spoke to aspiring players at Aliquippa Junior/Senior High School.
Harris told the young hopefuls they can “be undefeated” even when they “don’t win every game.”
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Las Vegas Teen Accused in ‘Lone Wolf’ ISIS Terror Plot
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) — A teen is accused of attempting to run a “lone wolf” ISIS terror operation in Las Vegas, including trying to make explosive devices and possibly targeting a high school, according to court documents.
A Grand Jury indicted Joshua Robles on eight terrorism-related charges, including five charges of possession of a component of explosive or incendiary device.
A source confirms that Robles is 17 years old.
According to the indictment, Robles’ crimes took place between July 13, 2022 and Nov. 29, 2023. Prosecutors allege Robles intended to support ISIS, saying Robles gathered explosive material “to target one or more areas within Clark County, NV.”
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Local Cop, Not Secret Service, Shot Trump Rally Shooter First
The first shot to hit Thomas Crooks, the man who sprayed eight shots at a Butler, Pennsylvania Trump rally on July 13 — hitting Trump in the ear and killing an attendee — came from a local SWAT operator who was about 100 yards away from the building on which Crooks was positioned, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) said in a preliminary investigative report.
When the SWAT officer saw Crooks moving around the rooftop, he quickly left his post and sprinted towards the man, “running to a clear shot position directly into the line of fire while Crooks was firing,” said Higgins.
“He stopped Crooks and importantly, I believe the shot damaged the buffer tube on Crooks’ AR,” Higgins added later, citing eyewitness testimony.
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Most Voters Say Harris Knew of Biden’s Decline Long Before He Dropped Out of Race
A new poll has revealed that the vast majority of American voters say they believe Kamala Harris knew of President Joe Biden’s mental decline long before he was forced to drop his re-election bid.
The American political landscape experienced something of an earthquake last month when Biden announced the end of his re-election bid.
It came after new concerns emerged among Democrats and the corporate media about Biden’s cognitive health.
Though Vice President Harris swiftly stepped into the role as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer for November, recent polling finds that a substantial majority of Americans believe she knew about Biden’s decline long before he dropped out.
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Mother Shot, Killed in Oakland After Confronting Drug Dealers Who Sold Weed to Her Children
A mother of eight children was brutally executed after she confronted drug dealers in Oakland, California who were reportedly selling weed to her kids. Maria Ramos, 33, was shot and killed in the city after she confronted the teenage drug dealers.
Maria Ramos was visiting her mother, Blanca Velasco, with her children on Aug. 7 when the dealers sold pot pipes to two of Ramos’ children, the Daily Mail reports. Ramos and Velasco then pursued the teens by car to confront the vehicle occupied by the dealers in order to confront them, according to KTVU.
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Patrons at a Pittsburgh culinary landmark were outraged Monday after they claimed they were forced to leave the premises before Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz arrived for a weekend campaign stop.
Several people who had been enjoying food, drinks and the Pittsburgh Pirates game on TV at Primanti Bros. in Moon, Pennsylvania, on Sunday said they were all forced out of the restaurant promptly at 4 p.m.
Mark Dodson of Collier, who said he was just in the area to enjoy “the Bucs” — as the Pirates are nicknamed — simply wanted a quiet day.
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Pro-Palestinian Protesters Break Through Police Barrier at Democratic National Convention
Pro-Palestinian protesters have breached through a police barrier erected outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
A number of protesters scrambled to gain access to the event ahead of President Joe Biden’s speech.
Thousands of flag-waving pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in the Windy City on Monday in a show of force against his administration’s support for Israel in the Gaza war.
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Pro-Palestine Protesters Hold ‘Killer Kamala’ Banner Outside DNC Event
Protesters held a banner saying “Killer Kamala // Gaza’s Speaking” near the Democratic National Convention welcome party venue on August 18.
The banner references Harris’s recent response to pro-Palestine protesters who interrupted her rally in Michigan, which was in turn a callback to her viral moment during the 2020 vice presidential debate where she said “I’m speaking” in response to being interrupted by former VP Mike Pence.
Other pro-Gaza protest actions took place on Sunday, including at the welcome party, where a protester ran onto the stage in the Aon Grand Ballroom to denounce Harris and the Democratic Party for funding Israel in the war against Hamas.
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Report: Biden Administration Rushes Digital ID Plans
The Biden administration is working to expedite widespread adoption of digital IDs, including driver’s licenses, a draft executive order indicates.
Digital IDs are a contentious concept primarily because of the concentration of — eventually — the entirety of people’s sensitive private information in centralized databases controlled by the government, and on people’s phones, “client-side.”
That in turn brings up the issues of technical security, but also privacy, and the potential for dystopian-style mass surveillance.
Proponents, on the other hand, like to focus on the “convenience” that such a shift from physical to digital personal documents is promised to bring.
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RFK Jr. Refutes Report That He Approached Harris for Cabinet Position
Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refuted a Washington Post report from earlier this week that said he would drop out of the race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in exchange for a cabinet position if she wins in November.
During an Aug. 15 Latino Town Hall on TikTok, he told the moderators that the story is “fake news.”
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RNC Asks Supreme Court to Block 41,000 Arizona Voters From Voting in November
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times
The Republican National Committee (RNC) asked the Supreme Court on Aug. 19 to prevent 41,000 registered voters from voting in the November presidential election because they allegedly did not provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
Arizona is a hotly contested battleground that could help determine who wins the election. In 2020, President Joe Biden won Arizona by 10,457 votes.
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San Francisco City Council Bans Rental Data Websites, Faces First Amendment Concerns
San Francisco’s City Council has decided to deal with the problem of soaring housing costs by banning websites that allow landlords to determine their rents using rental market data.
Other than indicating that local authorities in San Francisco have chosen to hide their head in the sand rather than deal with the crisis, the ban could also violate the First Amendment.
What critics likely see as the Council’s fairly irrational move, where the city caved to activists’ arguments and “embraced” them, implies that access to this information — on sites such as RealPage and Yardi — is the actual reason behind the big rise in rents.
An ordinance issued by the Council bans “algorithmic devices performing calculations of non-public competitor data concerning local or statewide rents or occupancy levels” when these “devices” are there to help landlords decide on the rent, or whether to rent their property at all.
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Shooting at a Gathering in Baltimore Leaves 1 Dead and 7 Others Wounded, Police Say
BALTIMORE (AP) — A shooting at a gathering in Baltimore has left one person dead and seven others wounded, police said.
It appears that “multiple people opened fire” just after 8 p.m. Sunday in east Baltimore, Police Commissioner Richard Worley told reporters. The shooting broke out on a block near a park but was not confined to a small area, police said.
“Officers located multiple victims as well as multiple firearms on the scene,” Worley said.
A 36-year-old man died in the shooting, Worley said. Conditions of the wounded were critical to stable, Worley said, and they ranged in age from 22 to 45 years old, according to preliminary information.
The identity of the man who died wasn’t immediately released. Law enforcement was seen searching for evidence in the rain behind basketball court bleachers on Sunday, the Baltimore Sun reported.
The shooting was under investigation Monday, and Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said the city’s police department will “diligently work to find and hold those who are responsible accountable for this horrific act of violence.”
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Texas Congressman Demands Answers From Google After Harris Campaign Edits Headlines for Use in Ads
Congressman Lance Gooden, R-Texas, is requesting answers from Google following reports that Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has been editing past headlines in news articles from different outlets and reposting them as ads.
“Google interfered in the 2020 election through the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story,” Gooden wrote on the social media platform, X. “Now they appear to be interfering through shadow banning Trump-related searches & allowing Kamala Harris to manipulate article headlines.”
An analysis released earlier this week showed that the Harris-Walz campaign changed the headlines of news outlets to generate more favorable results in Google searches.
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Serving as Minnesota’s governor, Kamala Harris’ veep pick Tim Walz commuted the sentence of a teen convicted of murdering an 11-year-old girl. Myron Burrell’s trial for a separate charge began on Monday, as the first day of the Democratic National Convention is underway.
Burrell was handed a lifetime sentence for the 2002 murder of Tyesha Edwards. The girl was struck by a stray bullet while she was doing homework, according to the New York Post. Police at the time said Burrell, who was then 16, shot Edwards while he was attempting to shoot a rival gang member.
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Tulsi Reveals Trump Debate Prep: Kamala Has ‘Incredibly Vulnerable Record’
Speaking with Fox News on Monday evening, former US Rep Tulsi Gabbard, who has been tapped to help Donald Trump with debate prep against Kamala Harris, said that the current vice president has an “incredibly vulnerable record” that will be put in the spotlight when the two get up on the debate stage in September.
Gabbard said that Trump has proven “time and time again” that he has a “strong performance on the debate stage,” adding that he “doesn’t really need help at all with debate prep, nor does he do debate prep like a typical politician would, because he’s not a politician.”
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Two Children Rescued From Violent Homeless Encampment Near Seattle
Two children were rescued from a county-enabled homeless encampment in Burien that has become a haven for drug use, sex trafficking, and a revolving door for criminals on government property near Seattle. 911 calls have spiked from the encampment in Washington’s most populous county, that is located right next to a courthouse and ironically, approximately 50 yards away from the county sheriff’s department.
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Video: Protesters Attack Man Outside DNC, Blood Under His Eye
A video appeared to capture protesters attacking a man outside the DNC on Monday, which caused an injury under his eye.
In the video, which occurred during a broadcast on The Rudy Giuliani Show, the reporter could be heard talking before a fight broke out nearby.
“Get an ambulance. We need a doctor over here,” the reporter yelled.
The man who was attacked then picked himself off the ground and gave an interview, which revealed he had a gash under his eye. Though it remained unclear as to what prompted the attack, one protester said that he yelled, “F*** Palestine.”
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VP Harris Praises Biden in Surprise Remarks at DNC’s Opening Night: ‘We Are Forever Grateful to You’
CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris delivered surprise remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday night and praised President Biden calling him “incredible” and saying “we are forever grateful” to him.
“It is so good to be with everyone this evening in this hall and everyone at home,” Harris told the crowd at the United Center on the convention’s opening night.
“This is going to be a great week. And I want to kick us off by celebrating our incredible president, Joe Biden, who will be speaking later tonight. Joe, thank you for your historic leadership, for your lifetime of service to our nation and for all you will continue to do. We are forever grateful to you. Thank you. Joe.”
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“The British People Have Had Enough of Being Ignored”: An Interview With Jack Ross
Jack Ross is a political activist and journalist in the United Kingdom. He is the CEO of the conservative organisation Turning Point UK and a research fellow at the Bow Group.
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Bridget Phillipson, the UK’s Secretary of Education and Labour MP for Houghton and Sunderland South, has unveiled plans for a comprehensive review of the primary and secondary education curriculum. The proposed changes aim to equip students with the state-backed skills to discern truth from falsehood in the always-online era but have sparked concerns regarding potential indoctrination and the limiting of critical thinking.
Phillipson’s initiative, discussed in a recent interview with The Sunday Telegraph, seeks to fortify students against what she describes as a surge of false narratives and extremist ideologies online. The revised curriculum will emphasize critical thinking across various subjects, including English and Computer lessons, which will now incorporate analyses of news articles and online content to identify “misinformation.”
Phillipson told the Sunday Telegraph: “It’s more important than ever that we give young people the knowledge and skills to be able to challenge what they see online.
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Emergency Measures Enacted in England to Hold Rioters as Prisons Stretched Thin
LONDON (AP) — Britain has taken emergency action to prevent prisons from becoming overcrowded as hundreds of people are sentenced in connection with the civil unrest that gripped the country earlier this month.
Under the measures, defendants in northern England will be held in police cells while awaiting early court appearances, and they will be summoned to court only when there are prison spaces available for them. Similar measures were temporarily implemented in May by the previous Conservative-led government.
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EU Will Ban X if Musk Does Not Implement Censorship, Top Liberal MEP Claims
The European Union will ban Elon Musk’s X if it fails to censor the platform, one of the bloc’s top Liberal MEPs has claimed.
Sandro Gozi, a senior EU representative for Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble coalition, has insisted that the US platform must implement Digital Services Act (DSA) so-called “hate speech” controls if it wants to continue operating within the bloc.
Speaking to Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Gozi said on August 19 that X “must respect the DSA directive on disinformation and incitement to hatred” or face prohibition.
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EU-Funded NGO Pays Tribute to Assassinated Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh
Al Sharq Youth, a Turkish NGO funded by the European Union, has praised Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader assassinated along with his personal bodyguard in the Iranian capital Tehran in an apparent Israeli attack on July 31.
At the beginning of August, the youth section of the international organisation Al Sharq Forum organised a special service for the late Hamas leader, French news outlet Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) reported on August 14.
During what was termed the “last call of the martyr Dr Ismail Haniyeh,” which took place in Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Square on August 3, the youth wing of the EU-financed NGO commemorated the Hamas leader.
Hamas led the coordinated terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, where after an immense rocket barrage, an armed incursion from the Gaza Strip into Israel took place, leaving around 1,200 people dead with another 250 being kidnapped.
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German Defence Stocks Down After Report of Freeze on Ukraine Military Aid
German defence stocks fell on August 19, after the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) reported that the finance ministry would not approve additional applications for Ukraine military aid due to budget constraints.
Shares of German defence companies fell sharply this morning, with Rheinmetall dropping three per cent, making it the biggest loser on the DAX index.
Hensoldt, which produces radars for the IRIS-T air defence system, saw a six per cent decline, while tank gearbox maker Renk fell four per cent.
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German Lawmakers Demand Ukraine Pay for Nord Stream Sabotage, Gov’t Cutoff of Military Aid to Kyiv
Leading populist lawmakers in Germany, from both the left and right, have demanded consequences for Kyiv over Ukraine’s alleged involvement in the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, including reparations and the cessation of arms deliveries.
Last week, it was reported that German authorities had issued an arrest warrant against a Ukrainian citizen for alleged involvement in the 2022 sabotage against the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines owned jointly by Russia and Germany.
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Growing Number of Poles Support Peace Negotiations Between Ukraine and Russia
A recent poll conducted by United Surveys for the Wirtualna Polska news outlet shows that 54.5 percent of Poles think Ukraine should begin negotiations with Russia to end the ongoing war.
When asked if it is time for Ukraine to engage in peace talks, 18 percent responded “definitely yes” while 36.5 percent answered “rather yes.” Support for negotiations was more prevalent among supporters of the ruling left-liberal coalition than those backing the opposition.
Conversely, 7.1 percent of respondents firmly opposed the idea, with an additional 19 percent saying “rather no.” Meanwhile, 19.4 percent were undecided, indicating that they “don’t know” or “found it difficult to say.”
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Irish Police Investigate Whether Stabbing of Army Chaplain Terror-Related
Irish police suspect a possible terror motive in a stabbing attack outside an army barracks in Galway that inflicted serious injuries on a military chaplain.
Police have detained a 16-year-old boy who was reportedly radicalised online and had a grievance about Irish peacekeepers in the Middle East.
The attack happened at approximately 10.45pm on Thursday when an assailant with a knife approached Father Paul Murphy as he sat in a car outside Renmore barracks on the outskirts of Galway city in the west of Ireland.
Murphy, who is in his 50s, ran through the gate and was pursued and stabbed several times. Sentries fired warning shots and used a baton to subdue the assailant until police arrived and took him into custody.
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Manhunt in Spain After 11-Year-Old Stabbed to Death
Police in Spain are searching for a man suspected of stabbing an 11-year-old boy to death on a football pitch.
The murder took place at around 9:45 a.m. on Sunday at the Ángel Tardio sports centre in the town of Mocejón in central Spain. Witnesses say a man with his face covered with a scarf and armed with a sharp object charged at several people, who fled. The assailant then attacked the boy, who fell mortally wounded on the side of the pitch.
Very little information has emerged about the suspect, whose face was covered, but he is believed to be around 18 years old. Police said on Monday he was wearing a white t-shirt and shorts and had dark hair. Security forces also told Spanish newspaper ABC that he fled in an old grey Ford Mondeo.
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Norwegian Police Alarmed About Swedish Gangs Recruiting Children
Hot on the heels of Denmark sounding the alarm about Swedish gang violence—especially involving underage criminals—crossing the border, Norway now appears to be increasingly worried.
Norway, which shares a more than 1,600 km long border with Sweden, has documented criminal networks from its eastern neighbor established in all twelve of its police districts, with several known narcotics-dealing gangs already active there. The organized crime division of the Norwegian police now fears that other criminal activities, such as money laundering and violence, are imminent—in line with trends witnessed in Sweden.
Case in point: three gang criminals from Sweden have been charged with murder after a house in a residential suburb of Oslo was blown up last year.
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Outbound Tourism Soars as Poles Flock to International Destinations in Unprecedented Numbers
From January to June, travel agencies in Poland reported serving nearly 4.5 million customers compared to 4.13 million during the same period last year, according to data compiled by the Insurance Guarantee Fund.
“This year is shaping up to be a record-breaker for outbound tourism. The last peak year was 2019, which saw 4.18 million clients. This surge has also been reflected in the number of contracts signed. This year, we have already exceeded 1.55 million contracts, compared to 1.44 million in 2023 and 1.39 million in 2019,” the report detailed.
The most popular travel destinations for Poles in 2024 are Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, and Greece.
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This article was originally written by the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture. It has been republished by Remix News in English with the author’s permission. You can view the original article here.
The lawyers of the Ordo Iuris Institute received a response from the Minister of Foreign Affairs to a request for intervention in the extraordinary Klaman case whereby four Polish children were taken away from their parents and placed in three different foster families in Sweden, where, according to the parents’ accounts, they are forbidden to speak Polish.
In response to the request for support for the Klaman family, Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski outlined the investigative steps taken by the Ministry in connection with the Ordo Iuris Institute’s intervention.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs stressed that the case is of a cross-border nature, and therefore the Ministry of Justice will play the leading role as the central authority. Foreign Affairs declared their readiness to cooperate with them.
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Right-Wing Nationalist FPÖ on Course to Win Austria’s September Elections
With parliamentary elections in Austria barely more than a month away, it seems as if no one can stop the march of the opposition Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), which is campaigning on a hard anti-immigration platform.
The latest polls suggest that the party has a 10 percentage point lead over its two main rivals, the governing centre-right Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and the opposition Social Democrats (SPÖ). According to a survey by INSA, FPÖ is projected to win 31% of the votes on September 29th, SPÖ 21%, and ÖVP—which has governed the country since 2017, first in a coalition with FPÖ, and then the Greens—19%.
This means that, for the first time, neither of the two mainstream parties—ÖVP and SPÖ—who have taken turns ruling the country since the end of World War II, is projected to win. If the forecasts are correct, FPÖ will gain its largest share of the votes since the election in 1999, when it received 27%.
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Shocking Federal Police Report: Over 2,100 Crimes Per Day in Germany Last Year
The number of crimes committed in Germany has risen to its highest rate since 2012, according to the federal police’s report on crime in 2023. According to the report, released on Monday, August 19th, the total number of crimes was 790,245 last year.
Announcing the report at a press conference on Monday, federal police chief Dieter Romann added a shocking number to the already distressing figures, saying that “in relation to the total population, non-Germans are statistically six times more likely to resort to knives in an attack than German citizens. And in sexual crimes, it is seven times more likely.”
As German daily Bild reports, this is 88,079 more crimes than in 2022—an increase of 12.5%—and an incredible 2,165 crimes per day on average. The federal police protect the borders, but also ensures security at train stations and airports. In 2023, it recorded more crimes than at any time since 2012.
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Snoop Dogg’s New Amsterdam Cannabis Coffee Shop Under Fire From Authorities
Snoop Dogg’s new coffee shop in Amsterdam has ruffled feathers among officials in the capital, local reports have indicated.
The US rapper and entrepreneur opened a new establishment in the city called SWED — short for “Smoke Weed Every Day” — amid attempts by politicians to reduce certain types of tourism in the city.
Located in the middle of Amsterdam, the new joint — pun intended — is reportedly marketed at “cannabis tourists.”
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Top Study Confirms Pfizer Pushed ‘Bad Batches’ of COVID Shots Onto Public
A major study by leading Scandinavian researchers has confirmed that Pfizer distributed dangerous “bad batches” of the pharmaceutical giant’s Covid mRNA shots for public use.
The study was launched after a previous Danish study in 2023 found that recipients of Pfizer’s mRNA injections suffered high rates of side effects and mortality.
The new study, led by physician-scientist Dr. Vibeke Manniche and prominent University of Copenhagen cardiologist Professor Peter Riis Hansen, sought to identify the source of the surge in serious adverse events and deaths recorded in Denmark and Sweden.
The findings were published in the MDPI medical journal.
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UK: ‘Healthy’ 18-Year-Old Student Drops Dead During Sabbatical
An 18-year-old student has collapsed and died suddenly after traveling to the UK to work during a sabbatical year.
Jack Ryan from Australia dropped dead in the bathroom at his accommodation over the weekend.
Ryan was working in south-east England as part of the “Letz Live” program at the Dulwich Cranbrook school in Kent, according to the Daily Mail.
The 18-year-old was considered “healthy” and was very active in sports.
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UK: Government Calls for Zombie Knives and Machetes to be Handed in to Police
There won´t be repercussions for those surrendering the potentially dangerous knives safely, the Government said.
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UK: Multiple Stabbing in Manchester Leaves One Woman Dead, Two Others With Life-Threatening Injuries
A 22-year-old man has been arrested after a multiple stabbing incident in Manchester left a woman dead and two others seriously injured late Sunday evening.
A 43-year-old woman died, and a 17-year-old girl and a 64-year-old man have been hospitalised with “life-threatening injuries” after they suffered “serious stab wounds” during an incident at a property in the Gorton area of Manchester, England.
A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder shortly after the stabbings, which occurred around 11:20 pm on Sunday, Greater Manchester Police said.
No further information about the suspect has been made public at the time of this reporting, however, the Manchester Evening News reports that detectives believe the man was “known” to the victims, and the stabbings are thought to have been an “isolated” incident.
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UK: Taylor Swift Meets Girls Injured in Southport Stabbing Before Wembley Show
Taylor Swift met some of the children injured in the Southport stabbings while she was in London for her Wembley Stadium show last weekend. Several children were attacked during a Taylor Swift-themed dance party at the Hart Space pregnancy and community centre on Hart Street in Southport on July 29.
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UK: Three More Men Jailed for Disorder in Southport
Three more men have been jailed for taking part in violent disorder that broke out in Southport the day after three young girls were stabbed to death last month.
The men all admitted taking part in a disturbance close to Southport mosque on 30 July, the day after stabbings.
The violence was started by false online rumours that the suspect in the Southport attack was a Muslim.
Video footage played to Liverpool Crown Court showed the men throwing missiles at police.
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One of Britain’s most popular and once peaceful seaside areas has become a ‘warzone’ with some locals now claiming the only way to restore order is to arm the police with guns.
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Croatia to Reintroduce Compulsory Military Service
Croatia has said it will reintroduce compulsory two-month military service starting in 2025, local media is reporting.
From January 1, Croatians will be required to serve in the army amid growing international tensions, Defence Minister Ivan Anusic announced late on August 15.
The country had abolished conscription in 2008, transitioning to a volunteer-based system. Defence force sources say, “Two months full-time training is usually more than enough to train a civilian into a basic infantryman.”
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Serbian Police Shoot Dead Islamist Terrorist Linked to Israeli Embassy Crossbow Attack
Serbian police shot dead a suspected terrorist on Saturday during a shootout in the southern town of Novi Pazar, the country’s Interior Ministry Ivica Dacic confirmed.
The man was Sanad Ramovic, a Bosnian Muslim who was wanted for harboring a Serb convert to Islam responsible for a crossbow attack outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade on June 29.
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Ukrainian Trio Wanted in Connection With Mass Arson of 22 Yachts in Croatian Marina
After a three-month investigation, the Istrian police have charged three Ukrainian citizens who deliberately started a fire in the port of Medulin on the Istrian peninsula in May, destroying 22 boats, the Croatian daily Jutarnji List reported on Saturday.
Reconstructing the events leading up to the fire, forensic experts have established that the three Ukrainian nationals — two men aged 25 and one 28 — had arrived in Croatia from Poland on May 14. They parked their car somewhere around Medulin and then set off on foot to the marina.
Surveillance cameras showed one of them sneaking under the fence while the other two stood guard in front of it. At 4 a.m., one perpetrator threw a bottle of flammable material onto one of the yachts and the fire spread to the other 34 boats, 22 of which were completely destroyed.
According to the authorities, the value of the damage caused to the owners exceeded €2 million.
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Egypt: Yemeni Christian Convert on Hunger Strike to Protest Unjust Imprisonment Since 2021
An imprisoned father has declared a hunger strike to protest his two-and-a-half years of detention without trial.
Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo, who has five children, was arrested after he discussed theology with Christian converts in a private Facebook group.
Campaigners for religious freedom are calling for the urgent and safe release of the convert to Christianity, after he wrote to his family—vowing to strike in stages until the strike is “complete,” including turning away healthcare treatment and, eventually, food.
Abdo was arrested by Egyptian authorities in 2021 after participating in a Facebook page supporting people who have converted from Islam to Christianity. He registered previously as a UNHCR asylum seeker in Egypt, death threats received in his home country after he converted to Christianity.
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Hamas Claims Tel Aviv Bombing as Blinken Warns of ‘Last’ Chance for a Cease-Fire Deal
Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists have taken credit for the bomb blast near a Tel Aviv synagogue on Sunday — just an hour after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel and warned that the current cease-fire deal on the table may be “the last” chance for peace in the Middle East.
Hamas’ armed wing said in a statement that the terror groups executed a suicide bombing operation near the Tel Aviv temple as worshippers were gathering to pray, warning that it was just the first of many to come.
Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer said a terrorist was carrying a backpack loaded with explosives that luckily detonated just “before he managed to reach a more heavily populated area.”
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“Prayer is a First Resort”: An Interview With Fr. Benedict Kiely
Fr. Benedict Kiely is a priest of the Anglican Ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church. He administers aid and advocates on behalf of persecuted Christians in the Middle East. He shares his mission and concept, along with stories about the subsidiary nature of the support provided to small family businesses.
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Civilians Flee Pokrovsk as Russia’s Army Bears Down on the Key Eastern Ukraine City
POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Civilians with small children in their arms and lugging heavy suitcases fled Monday from Ukraine’s eastern city of Pokrovsk, where the Russian army was bearing down fast despite a lightning Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.
Local authorities said Russian forces were advancing so quickly that families were under orders to leave the city and other nearby towns and villages starting Tuesday. Around 53,000 people still live in Pokrovsk, officials said, and some of them decided to get out immediately.
People of all ages boarded trains and buses with the belongings they could carry. Some wept as they waited to depart. Soldiers helped the elderly with their bags, and volunteers helped people with disabilities. Rail workers wore bulletproof vests.
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Fire Rages at Large Russian State Oil Depot, Still Two Days After Ukraine Drone Attack
A massive fire has been raging in the southern Russian city of Proletarsk (in Rostov region) for nearly two days, after a cross-border Ukrainian drone strike on its major state fuel storage facility ignited fuel warehouses.
Large crews of firefighters have been working to extinguish the blaze for well over 24 hours straight at this point, leaving over 40 of them injured.
Ukraine claimed responsibility for the Sunday morning drone strike on the “Kavkaz” oil and petroleum storage facility, while Russian authorities said that a diesel fire ignited after local anti-air defense batteries downed inbound drones over the city.
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Lavrov Says ‘Clear’ That US Ordered Nord Stream Attacks, Demands Answers From Germany
Russia is calling out the last several days of Western media reporting on the Nord Stream gas pipeline bombing as essentially a limited hangout.
Suddenly all of this ‘new information’ has come out of the German investigation and leaked to the press, and seems by design an attempt to shield both the Ukrainian president and Washington from any culpability, as we’ve been detailing. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has responded to the WSJ’s recent reporting, saying Monday it was “clear” the US ordered the Sept 2022 attacks on the vital Russia to Germany gas pipelines.
The central thesis of last week’s Wall Street Journal report is that a Ukrainian crew conducted the covert attacks with the oversight Kiev’s then-military commander-in-chief, but that Zelensky tried to stop it when he got a call from the CIA. But the general went ‘rogue’ and carried out his own op anyway.
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Russia Offers Safe Haven for People Trying to Escape Western Liberal Ideals
MOSCOW, August 19. /TASS/. Moscow will provide assistance to any foreigners who want to escape the neoliberal ideals being put forward in their countries and move to Russia, where traditional values reign supreme, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin.
Under the document, such foreign nationals will have the right to apply for temporary residence in Russia “outside the quota approved by the Russian government and without providing documents confirming their knowledge of the Russian language, Russian history and basic laws.”
Applications may be based on the rejection of their countries’ policies “aimed at imposing destructive neoliberal ideals on people, which run counter to traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”
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Russian State Nuclear Firm Closely Monitors Two Power Stations in the Warzone
The situation around the Zaporizhzhya and Kursk nuclear power plants is steadily deteriorating, Alexei Likhachev, CEO of the Russian state nuclear company Rosatom, told Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in a telephone conversation on Saturday.
Rosatom’s press service reported how Likhachev had invited Grossi to the Kursk nuclear power plant and the town of Kurchatov to see the conditions there for himself.
Earlier in the day, Russia accused Ukrainian troops who had invaded the Kursk region of planning an attack on the Kursk nuclear power plant and holding Moscow responsible. Ukrainian foreign spokesman Heorhiy Tihiy denied the allegation on X, calling it “crazy” propaganda.
The Russian defense ministry, quoted by the Interfax news agency, stressed that a tough response would be given if any attack on the nuclear facility took place.
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Russia Accuses Germany of Nord Stream Sabotage Cover-Up
Moscow has filed an official complaint to Germany over its alleged failure to properly investigate the 2022 Nord Stream sabotage, the Russian state-owned Ria Novosti reported on Monday, August 19th.
“We have raised the question of the fulfillment by Germany and other affected countries of their obligations arising from the U.N. anti-terrorist conventions,” Oleg Tyapkin, the head of the European department at the Russian foreign ministry said. “In this regard, bilaterally, the relevant claims have been formally submitted, including to Berlin.”
Tyapkin recalled that Germany has officially identified only a single suspect so far—a Ukrainian driver instructor named Volodymyr Z.—who was allowed to slip through the Polish-Ukrainian border last month, allegedly because of Berlin’s failure to include him on the international wanted persons list.
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Shiveluch Volcano Erupts in Russia After Powerful Magnitude-7.0 Earthquake
A volcano near a major naval base on Russia’s eastern coast erupted early Sunday after a powerful magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck in the Pacific about 63 miles away, according to Russian state-run media. It briefly triggered a “code red” warning for aircraft.
The Shiveluch volcano spewed an ash column as high as 5 mils above sea level and released a gush of lava, Tass news agency reported Sunday morning, citing scientists with the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The volcano is about 280 miles from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a coastal city of more than 181,000 people in Russia’s eastern region of Kamchatka. The city is surrounded by volcanoes and sits across a bay from an important Russian submarine base.
The Ebeko volcano located on Kuril Islands also spewed ash 1.5 miles high, the institute said. It did not explicitly say whether the earthquake touched off the eruptions.
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Ukraine Destroys 3rd Bridge in Russia’s Kursk, Zelensky Stresses He’ll Keep Territory
Following the Friday destruction of the strategic bridge in the Russian town Glushkovo, which lies in Kursk oblast, and the taking out of another bridge across the River Seym on Saturday, Ukraine has attacked and damaged a third bridge in the same region, Moscow has confirmed.
Russia’s Investigative Committee on Monday announced that yet another bridge located along the River Seym, which winds through the Kursk region, was destroyed in a Ukrainian attack.
Ukraine’s military has said that the targeted attacks are intended to disrupt Russian supply lines and make Russian troop and armory movement much more difficult.
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Cumberland City Council is Accused of Introducing an Aboriginal ‘Treaty by Stealth’
A Western Sydney local council has been accused of attempting to implement an Indigenous ‘treaty by stealth’.
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Venezuelans Defy Maduro: Global Protests Demand Regime Change
Opposition leaders and thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets on Saturday once again defying the oppression of the regime of Nicolas Maduro and calling for peaceful regime change following the disputed elections of July 28th.
While Maduro has claimed a narrow victory over the opposition, international observers have cited irregularities and lack of transparency in the elections. Meanwhile, the opposition has shown that, according to tallies collected officially from the country’s electronic voting machines, their candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, garnered 70% of the vote.
Since the election, approximately 2,000 anti-Maduro demonstrators have been arrested.
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Several high-profile accounts remain “withheld,” i.e., inaccessible in Brazil, despite the latest developments in the clash between X and Brazil’s judicial authorities.
Over the weekend, X announced that it was closing its operations in Brazil — the latest stage in the ever-escalating dispute over censorship in that country, ongoing for several years now.
At the center of the massive controversy are what X considers censorship orders issued by Alexandre de Moraes, president of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court and a Supreme Federal Court justice.
On Saturday, X said that while it was shutting down operations in the country because of unwillingness to comply with the orders, the platform would continue to be available to people there.
However, X is continuing to “withhold” accounts belonging to journalist Guilherme Fiuza (@GFiuza_Oficial), journalist Allan dos Santos (@allanldsantos), journalist Rodrigo Constantino (@Rconstantino), and podcaster Monark (@monark).
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Entrepreneur and former GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will be joining the new film City of Dreams as an executive producer. The film, produced by Roadside Attractions and directed by Mohit Ramchandani, is set to be released in theaters on August 30.
The inspired by true events film centers around a young Mexican boy who was trafficked across the southern border and sold to a Los Angeles sweatshop, according to Deadline. The film speaks on the current border crisis in America and the exploitation of children in American corporations.
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Two-thirds of Britons blame the UK’s immigration policy for the outbreak of riots across the country, a new poll has revealed.
A poll by Savanta has shown that more people think the recent unrest was about migration, rather than the Southport killings in July.
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Report: Spain’s Civil Guard Warns of Record Migrant Surge Into Canary Islands
Illegal immigration into Spain’s Canary Islands “remains at extreme levels” and will almost certainly get worse in the second half of August, a Civil Guard report has said.
The number of arrivals is on the verge of breaking the all-time record, and will soon likely pass 30,000 so far this year. The report, seen by Spanish outlet La Gaceta, says this could happen in the coming weeks after 2,200 illegal migrants arrived in July.
That number was the highest total for a July since 2006, when 2,260 arrived.
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Harley-Davidson Drops DEI Initiatives Amid Right-Wing Backlash
The motorcycle manufacturing powerhouse Harley-Davidson announced on Monday that it was ending its diversity-centered initiatives after facing pressure from the political right.
The company faced backlash from the conservative activist Robby Starbuck, who claimed the company had gone woke after it adopted the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) business model.
Harley-Davidson said it also ended its sensitivity training, diversity spending goals, and said it will review its sponsorships to focus more on motorcycles, first responders, active military, and veterans.
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A Christian woman who was arrested after she silently prayed outside an abortion clinic has been awarded a £13,000 payout and an apology from the police.
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce issued a claim against West Midlands Police for wrongful arrests and false imprisonments, assault and battery in relation to an intrusive search of her person, and for a breach of her human rights in 2022 and 2023.
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Russia offers a haven for those who want to escape from the liberal woke ideals of the West
9:08 – NEWSVOICE EDITORIAL
Come to Russia if you are tired of “Woke West”…
In an unexpected move to mark Russia’s distancing from the West’s liberal ideals, the Russian state is now offering foreigners to live in Russia as a sanctuary, reports the Tass news agency.
According to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin, Moscow will help all foreigners who want to escape the neoliberal ideals promoted in their countries and move to Russia, where traditional values prevail.
Foreign citizens are thus given the right to apply for a residence permit in Russia “outside the quota approved by the Russian government and without providing documents confirming their knowledge of the Russian language, Russian history and fundamental laws.”
The applications can be based on rejecting their countries’ policies “aimed at imposing on people destructive neoliberal ideals that are contrary to traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”
Tass writes that the Russian government is expected to compile a list of countries that impose unhealthy ideals and thoughts on their citizens.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received instructions to start issuing three-month visas to applicants as early as September 2024.
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Tass: Russia offers safe haven for people trying to escape Western liberal ideals
Yes, I submitted that article for the news feed.
The Democrats seem to believe in strongly policed borders around their convention. It’s just the rest of the country they don’t care about.
“The Democrats seem to believe in strongly policed borders around their convention.”
And their homes.
“It’s just the rest of the country they don’t care about.”
That’s because the rest of Obamerica’s cluttered with those [non-hyphenated] American citizens and other, critical-thinking brained Untermenschen, who, in spite of two generations of Party-driven “re-education”, seem to’ve retained the innate ability to discriminate between, say, Coke and Pepsi, or healthy and pathological.
Useful idiots aren’t much use to The Party if they’re not IDIOTS.
Take a gander at this video and lemme know your thoughts. And TRY to remain objective (i.e., try, in your own mind, to find reasons that DISPROVE the obvious)..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrV1kqmAsho&t=49s
#### The EU, The UK, The UN, and NATO, Americans Run America. https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/the-eu-the-uk-the-un-and-nato-americans
“The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing.”
-https://freebeacon.com/elections/walz-praised-chinese-communism-as-a-system-where-everyone-shares/
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I didn’t die this time!
891/3 years old;
almost blind – visual capacity < 3% of normal vision;
constant deterioration.
Now I soon can't see the keys on the enhanced keyboard.
The fact that I am still alive must now be considered mysterious in retrospect.
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On Tuesday, July 2 at 12 noon, I was on my bike on my way to the Region's vision department at St Lars. Would be there at 1 p.m.
South on Getingevägen, just before the transition at Baravägen, I collide with ?SOMETHING? poignant, something I hadn't seen.
Gets a cross stop on the bike, is knocked over extremely violently to the right, hits the street with the right side of the body, miraculously hits
not in the head, but gets a superficial wound on the right side of the scalp.
This bleeds profusely.
There I lie, bleeding, confused, helpless, with a bicycle
on top of me.
After a number of seconds, someone removes the bike and shortly afterwards helps me up into a standing position.
People have gathered, they are talking about an ambulance – I would prefer to get away from there by bicycle, whose front wheel seems to be completely jammed.
I urge a woman standing nearby to call St Lars and report my passing.
I don't know how, but I leave the place by bicycle and in the company of the woman on the phone, whose name is Fanny and who promises that she will follow me home to Skarpskyttevägen 2-10.
That also happens – via the basement garage I get the bike into the basement storage,
takes me up 2 flights of stairs to the apartment – I have only minor pains, the whole right half of my head is full of almost clotted blood.
I take off my clothes, crawl into bed and fall asleep.
At half past five I wake up, have sharp pains in the right side of the body: the knee, the outside of the thigh, which is stiff as a plank, around the hip joint, the ribs, the shoulder. The wound in the head under the blood clot hurts insignificantly. I swallow 3 paracetamol 500.
Palpating through the body – no fractures, no wounds, only pains from the gentle compression. Can lie on the left side of the bed, sleeps…
Waking up early on Wednesday, 3 paracetamol, no heating pad, need to get heat in the injured body parts!!
Sitting on a stool in the bathtub, wearing a tight woolen cardigan, I take a warm shower on the right side of my body, thigh and knee, for 20-30 minutes, 6-4 times a day. This goes on for five weeks.
At the end of the third week, July 20, the pains begin to subside,
in the fifth week, 01 August, they are completely gone.
The hip is still a bit sore.
For two and a half weeks I have been completely bedridden; slept, listened to the radio, slept, ate 2 boiled eggs, sandwich with lots of cheese, glass of milk…
In the fourth week I start to be up; on August 17, I leave the apartment for the first time after the roughly 40 days of convalescence and visit the letter box on the ground floor.
To be aging alone, and also severely visually impaired, in the beautiful country of Sweden, is trying. Where are all the sane people?
I have to tell you about when I tried to be examined at the Lunda emergency room in June because I suspected I had had a stroke.
One morning my right "mouse fingers" were PARALYZED. Lasted half a day.
It took 11 hours and 6 doctors – No. 6 listened and could think –
The following day, the stroke was diagnosed and I was admitted to Neurologen 25 for 3 days, before and after Pentecost. Enough about this.
There is more to tell, but it will do,
until perhaps after death – we are in Sweden, after all.
Greetings to my friend Fjordman!
Amazing healing… you are one tough cookie!
Best wishes.
Wow. What a brave soul you are. An inspiration. All the best.