Two workers were killed and another seriously injured when a tire on a plane exploded early today at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport. The plane was a Boeing passenger plane, although that may have no relevance to the tragic incident.
In other news, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that F-16 fighter jets were used to shoot down Russian missiles, but he needs the West to send him more.
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Almost Half of Canadians Losing Sleep Over Financial Struggles: Poll
Almost half, 46%, of Canadians are losing sleep over worries about their financial situation, according to a recent poll issued by Ipsos. An almost equal 47% of respondents reported experiencing strain in personal relationships because of financial pressures.
The study, conducted among 1,150 Canadian adults between June 21 and 25, highlighted that Canadians are being forced to adapt in response to the economic challenges they face.
Over half of Canadians, 56%, said they have been dining out less, while 45% even shop at multiple grocery stores to find better deals. Additionally, 37% of respondents said they were purchasing cheaper and less healthy items at the grocery store. Almost a quarter, 23%, of Canadians reported eating less to save money.
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Anti-Israel Agitators Hit Cornell University With Vandalism, Protests on Ivy League School’s 1st Day
Anti-Israel agitators defaced property at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and held a massive protest on the first day of classes Monday, despite administrators’ efforts to prevent a repeat of the spring chaos.
Along the entrance of Day Hall on Monday morning, the messages “Israel bombs, Cornell pays” and “Blood is on your hands” were scrawled in red spray paint, and the door glass had been smashed.
“We are appalled by the graffiti spraypainted, and glass shattered overnight along the front entrance of Day Hall,” Cornell’s Vice President for University Relations Joel Malina said in a statement.
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Appeals Court Turns Down RFK Jr. Bid for Injunction Against Google
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times
A federal appeals court on Aug. 26 declined to block Google from removing Robert F. Kennedy’s videos, ruling that Kennedy has not shown that the California-based company was a state actor when taking down the videos.
Kennedy’s lawyers said in a request for a preliminary injunction that Google was acting on advice from government officials when it removed multiple videos for allegedly violating the company’s medical misinformation policy. The lawyers requested an injunction blocking Google from removing additional videos from Kennedy’s YouTube page.
“Americans may agree with Mr. Kennedy’s views. They may disagree with them. They may vote for Kennedy or reject him at the ballot box. Whatever the case, our Constitution requires that voters have an unfettered chance to hear Mr. Kennedy speak. That is the only way they can make an educated decision when exercising their right to vote,” they said in their motion.
Google said it was merely applying its own policy and urged the court to deny the request.
U.S. District Judge Trina L. Thompson in 2023 sided with Google, finding that Kennedy had not established Google as a state actor and, therefore, rights from the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment have not been implicated.
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Breaking: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Announce Joint Interview on CNN
Vice President Kamala Harris has announced plans to sit for her very first interview since she announced the start of her campaign in July, and it will be a joint interview with her running mate Tim Walz on CNN. The interview with CNN’s Dana Bash will be on Thursday at 9 pm.
The vice president and Democrat Party presidential nominee has not sat for an interview since taking over at the top of the ticket for President Joe Biden. She had promised to get one on the schedule before the end of August, and Thursday will be August 29, just two days before the month comes to a close.
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Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Laments Decline in Big Tech Collaboration Since 2016
Participants in the Democratic National Convention (DNC) were comfortable speaking publicly about what Congress is investigating as conduct that eventually (after the 2020 ballot) turned into government-Big Tech collusion.
And they are doing this by reminiscing about “the good old days” after the 2016 election when major social platforms panicked and got cowed into “working” with Democrats.
“Election integrity” is how supporters of the practice frame the concern that was and is being addressed as platforms have their “calls” with officials.
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Democratic Lawmakers Urge FEC to Crack Down on AI Deepfakes Over Grok Backlash
A group of House Democrats urged the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) on Tuesday to crack down on artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes, amid backlash over the social media platform X’s chatbot Grok.
X released the chatbot Grok-2 earlier this month with limited guardrails. The platform, and other AI platforms, have faced backlash after the AI circulated fake images of presidential candidates, including former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, online.
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Over a month after the attempt on former president Donald Trump’s life, left-wing conspiracy theories claiming that the shooting was staged still pervade social media on platforms like X — where they are racking up millions of views.
Hashtags like “#Staged,” “#StagedbyTrump,” or “#StagedAssassinationAttempt” continue to see hundreds of deranged posts across social media daily — many of them posted by proudly anti-Trump and left-leaning accounts.
One anti-Trump poster asks simply “Who else thinks the Trump campaign staged this?” with a video of the aftermath of the shooting. It has 8.4 million views and more than 20,000 comments — most of them agreeing with the premise.
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Don Lemon Stunned That Black Voters Support Trump: ‘They Don’t Understand’
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has revealed that he is stunned that black people are supporting President Donald Trump.
Lemon confessed it was “eye-opening” to see the number of voters in deep-blue cities that told him they were backing Trump in the next election.
As Slay News reported, Lemon took to the streets to ask black people who they were voting for.
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Establishment Voices Attack Telegram Over Free Speech Protections in Wake of Founder’s Arrest
Legacy media and some establishment figures are busy justifying the arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov, attacking the platform, but also making not-so-veiled threats aimed at other platform owners.
Ukrainian-born former member of the US National Security Council Alexander Vindman, who played a key role in the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, took to X (calling it “Twitter”) — to warn the social site and its owner Elon Musk that there could be “broader implications” in the context of the Durov arrest.
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Flight Attendants for Islamic Airline Hijackers
Karen Martin was the first of the flight attendants to be attacked by Islamic terrorists on September 11. While the head flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 lay bleeding after being stabbed, the rest of her team, Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney, remained collected and provided the first reports about the hijacking. By the time the 9/11 attacks were over, 25 flight attendants would be among the nearly 3,000 killed by Arab Muslim terrorists.
Airline passengers however recently noted the shocking images of some flight attendants wearing PLO pins. Islamic terrorists claiming to represent the cause of the Arab Muslim colonists in Israel who called themselves ‘Palestinians’ had innovated the practice of the mass hijacking of airplanes. There was a direct line between the Dawson’s Field hijacking of four airplanes in 1970 and the hijacking of four airplanes by Al Qaeda on September 11.
In 1970, a plane headed to New York City was hijacked by a terrorist holding a gun to a flight attendant’s head. While an Israeli steward helped end a hijacking attempt on one of the planes, the captured terrorists were traded in exchange for the hostages. And one of the terrorists, Leila Khaled, would go on to become a popular figure in the campus anti-Israel movement.
Flight attendants supporting Islamic terrorists would seem to be suicidal, but they’re not alone.
The Association of Flight Attendants CWA recently announced that it had joined other radical unions in bailing out Hamas by calling for an end to Israeli attacks on the Islamic terrorist group.
The AFA-CWA has taken to trying to ‘organize’ Delta workers into joining its radical union and has championed the wearing of PLO flag pins as a sign of what it can do for flight attendants.
When Delta reacted by banning any pins other than the American flag, an AFA-CWA video furiously blasted the airline for taking a stand for America and against support for terrorists.
The video claimed that opposing terrorist flag pins was “racist” and urged flight attendants to join the union which would protect them from “harassment” by passengers opposed to terrorism.
Other flight attendants wearing terrorist flag pins were seen on Spirit and JetBlue: whose flight attendants are represented by AFA-CWA. JetBlue was accused of “blatant antisemitism” after calling the police on a Jewish passenger after he objected to a terrorist flag pin.
The AFA-CWA may be ‘ground zero’ for the explosion of terrorist flag pins on planes.
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Georgia Democrats, DNC Sue State Election Board, Warn New Rules Could Block Final Vote Certification
Georgia Democrats have sued the state Election Board, arguing new measures implemented by the agency regarding the election-certification process are illegal.
According to the lawsuit filed Monday in state court, local election officials are now able to “hunt for purported election irregularities of any kind, potentially delaying certification and displacing longstanding (and court-supervised) processes for addressing fraud.”
Local election officials, candidates for political office, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party of Georgia, are behind the lawsuit.
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Government and Private Groups Still Unite to Target Election “Misinformation”
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — a part of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — has been enlisting private entities to help achieve one of its goals.
According to CISA, it would be to combat election misinformation and secure “election infrastructure” — while according to critics, it is to continue with the mission of censoring lawful speech “disfavored” by the current authorities seeking to remain where they are after November — by hook or crook.
CISA doesn’t feel the need to hide this activity that has been taking place since 2018 through a program called the Election Infrastructure Subsector Coordinating Council (SCC). It is here that US government entities — federal, state, and local — meet private groups (“partners” as CISA calls them).
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Jack Smith Files Revised Trump Indictment in J6 Case to Address Immunity Ruling
Special Counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a superseding indictment against former President Donald Trump, changing some of the charges to better reflect the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.
The Supreme Court ruled last month that presidents and former presidents are exempt from prosecution when it comes to core presidential actions, and presumptive immunity for other official acts. But the Supreme Court sent the January 6 case back to the lower courts to determine what actions constitute “official” acts.
The indictment dropped allegations that Trump attempted to pressure the U.S. Justice Department to overturn the results of the 2020 election, but still includes charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and obstruction of an official proceeding, among others, according to Forbes.
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On Thursday, former President Donald Trump announced a new release of his digital trading cards. This time it includes the suit he wore during June’s historic presidential debate with Joe Biden that ultimately ended the president’s longtime political career.
Labeling it “The Knockout Suit,” Trump said that fans who buy 15 or more of his digital trading cards will receive a portion of the suit he wore to the first presidential debate. The new collection includes 50 trading cards, said Trump.
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Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz were invited weeks in advance to Monday’s three-year anniversary ceremony for the 13 soldiers who died during a suicide bombing at Abbey Gate in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. None of them decided to show up. GOP nominee Donald Trump was instead in attendance.
According to Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec, the White House had been informed about Biden, Harris, and Walz participating in the ceremony for the third time nine days before the ceremony occurred. Two other requests were reportedly made on July 28 as well as August 9 for them to attend. The first two requests were made for Biden and Harris’ attendance.
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Kamala Reverses Course on EV Mandates Despite Supporting Them for Years
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign claimed Tuesday that she doesn’t support mandates for electric vehicles (EVs). However, in 2019, Harris along with other Senators, supported a bill to set the US on a path for new car sales to be all electric.
In a statement, the Harris campaign said that the VP does not support EV mandates in response to claims made by the Trump-Vance campaign about Harris’ position on electric vehicles.
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Kidney Failure Deaths Skyrocket Among COVID-Vaxxed
One of America’s leading data experts has issued a bone-chilling warning to the public after uncovering evidence that deaths related to kidney failure have skyrocketed since Covid mRNA shots were unleashed.
The shocking phenomenon was exposed by renowned statistician John Beaudoin.
After analyzing official state government data for excess deaths, Beaudoin calculated that there have been 155,000 excess deaths caused by acute kidney injury (AKI) since late 2020 in the United States alone.
As Beaudoin explains in a new interview, excess death is the figure above the expected baseline, not the total, meaning an extra 155k Americans died from AKI.
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Las Vegas Teen Plotted ISIS-Inspired Terror Attack, Built Bombs in Room: Documents
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A teenager accused of planning a terror attack in Las Vegas was allegedly building bombs in his room and may have been preparing to target a school, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained.
Joshua Robles was 16 when Las Vegas Metro police arrested him in late November. Because of his age at the time, the courts and police kept Robles’ name and details about his arrest confidential. Earlier this month, a judge certified Robles as an adult before a Clark County grand jury indicted him on terror-related charges, including providing material support for acts of terrorism or terrorists and attempting to commit or cause an act of terrorism.
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Longtime Kamala Harris Ally Refuses to Endorse Her Campaign for President
A vulnerable senator is refusing to endorse Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign, despite being a longtime ally of the vice president.
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) has played a key role in Harris’s rise to power.
Tester was reportedly central in securing Harris’s recruitment to the Senate
However, Tester will not be making an endorsement in the presidential election where VHarris is running as the Democrat nominee.
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Michigan Judge Rules Cornel West Must Appear on Ballot if Qualified
A Michigan judge has overruled a decision to keep left-wing independent presidential candidate Cornel West off the ballot in the state.
Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert Redford ordered the state’s Bureau of Elections to qualify West and his running mate for the ballot if they show they have obtained the correct number of valid signatures.
Democrats officials in Michigan have been pushing to keep West of the state’s ballot for the November election.
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Parents Fight Back With Rising Use of Religious Vaccine Exemptions for Their Children
Summer has officially come to a close. Families wrapped up beach and/or mountain vacations last weekend as kids now sit in the classroom, hopefully learning non-woke math and critical reading skills. A notable trend this school year is the increasing number of parents choosing to circumvent government-enforced vaccine requirements for their children through non-medical religious exemptions.
Local non-profit media outlet Maryland Matters cited new data showing an increasing number of parents have opted their children out of vaccination requirements through non-medical religious exemption. The trend surged after draconian requirements pushed by an overreaching government during the Covid era.
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Pelosi Expressed Regret National Guard Wasn’t Pre-Positioned to Protect Capitol on J6, Video Reveals
As she fled the U,S, Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear she did not want to evacuate the building and expressed regret that the National Guard had not been pre-positioned to protect Congress ahead of the contentious certification of the 2020 election results, according to video footage turned over this week to House Republican investigators and obtained by Just the News.
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Pennsylvania Registers More New Republicans Than Democrats in July
The state of Pennsylvania registered more new Republican voters than Democrats in the month of July, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.
The surge in Republican voter registration comes during an eventful month for both parties. Former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, and then he selected his running mate in Ohio Sen. JD Vance ahead of the Republican Convention.
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Secret Service Bombshell: Mike Pence Escape Car Left Its Position During Jan. 6, Redactions Reveal
The Secret Service failures at last month’s Trump rally were foreshadowed in once-redacted passages from a Jan. 6 after-action report that was shared with agency brass weeks before the Butler, Pa., assassination attempt and exposed harrowing blunders that may have put the lives of Mike Pence and Kamala Harris in jeopardy.
The redacted sections from a recently released Homeland Security inspector general report, obtained by Just the News, chronicle how Pence’s escape vehicle left its post without explicit permission and left him stranded at an increasingly violent scene at the Capitol.
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Supermarket Chain Bans Unaccompanied Minors After 6 P.M., Large Bags Amid Rampant Theft
A supermarket chain is banning unaccompanied minors inside select stores after 6 p.m. and large bags in Washington, DC, and Maryland as part of a new policy aimed at curbing rampant retail theft.
Giant Food confirmed to Fox News Digital in a statement on Monday that the chain’s revised policy will affect select stores “to mitigate the unprecedented levels of product theft” that has made business “unsustainable.”
“Retail theft in our market area affects everyone,” Giant Foods said in a statement. “It limits product availability, creates a less convenient shopping experience, and, most critically, puts our associates and customers in harm’s way.”
The chain’s new policy, which went into effect on Thursday, will affect all seven locations in DC, two in Baltimore and three in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
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Suspicious Fires Ignite Major California Freeway Shut Down by Arson Last Year
(The Center Square) — A series of fires with “potentially suspicious starts” disrupted traffic on a busy California freeway near where an enormous fire shut down that same freeway for days last year.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said there were several fires near one small section of the I-10 freeway between the ocean and downtown Los Angeles, and, according to KTLA, called the fires “suspicious” without outright calling them arson.
Last year, items stored under the same freeway burned so hot the freeway — which connects Los Angeles’ job centers to its far-flung housing — was shut down for eight days.
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Trump Announces Agreement on ABC Debate Rules
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday revealed that he agreed to debate rules from ABC News ahead of his presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris next month.
The debate will take place on Sept. 10, in Philadelphia. It will be moderated by ABC News’ “World News Tonight” anchor and managing editor David Muir and ABC News Live “Prime” anchor Linsey Davis and will be the first debate between Trump and Harris. The first presidential debate in May was between Trump and President Joe Biden.
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Trump Responds to Jack Smith’s New Indictment, Saying it Should be Immediately Dismissed
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday responded to special counsel Jack Smith’s new indictment against him, stating it should be dismissed immediately.
“In an effort to resurrect a ‘dead’ Witch Hunt in Washington, D.C., in an act of desperation, and in order to save face, the illegally appointed ‘Special Counsel’ Deranged Jack Smith, has brought a ridiculous new Indictment against me, which has all the problems of the old Indictment, and should be dismissed IMMEDIATELY,” Trump wrote on TRUTH Social.
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Trump Lawyers Urge Appeals Court to Disqualify District Attorney Over Speech at Atlanta Church
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday submitted a court filing against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the Georgia Court of Appeals, arguing that she should be removed from the case for committing a “severe violation” of the state’s legal guidelines.
In a reply brief, the former president’s team wrote that Trump was “aggrieved by Willis’ church speech,” referring to comments she made in January that suggested there was a racial animus at play when a co-defendant filed a motion to have her disqualified over a relationship she had with her then-special prosecutor.
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Tulsi Gabbard & RFK Jr Named ‘Honorary Co-Chairs’ of Trump’s Presidential Transition Team
President Donald Trump has added independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) to his 2024 presidential transition team.
It comes after Kennedy just last Friday suspended his campaign in key swing states and endorsed Trump.
Gabbard and Kennedy will join Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, as well as the 45th president’s running mate Senator JD Vance (R-OH) as “honorary co-chairs” of his transition team, according to a Tuesday report from The New York Times.
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Two Dead After Boeing Passenger Plane’s Tire Explodes at Georgia Airport
Two people have been killed and another seriously injured after a Boeing passenger plane’s tire exploded at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia.
A Delta Air Lines employee and a contractor were killed on Tuesday morning, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Sources told the local news outlet workers were removing the Delta plane tire in a maintenance area at the airport when it exploded.
Delta Air Lines confirmed that two people were killed in the accident, and another person was seriously injured.
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Two Workers Killed, One Injured After Explosion at Delta Air Lines Facility in Atlanta
ATLANTA (WJBF) — Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion early Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport, according to multiple media reports.
WSB-TV reported that a tire on a plane exploded, killing one Delta employee and a contract worker. The television station cited unnamed sources.
Several Atlanta fire units and police responded to the maintenance hangar near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport shortly after 5 a.m., The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The facility where the accident happened is part of Delta TechOps, which performs maintenance, repair and overhaul work for Delta and more than 150 aviation and airline customers around the world.
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X’s Chatbot Grok Updated After 5 Secretaries of State Told Musk to Make Changes Over Election Info
The Grok chatbot on the X social media platform has been updated following a letter sent to platform owner Elon Musk from five secretaries of state demanding he make changes over false election information.
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Canada Imposing 100% Tariff on EV Imports From China, Following Similar Move by US
The Canadian government says it will be implementing a 100% tariff on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles.
The move was announced on Monday and follows similar U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports. In May, the Biden administration imposed a 100% tariff on EVs imported from China.
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met Sunday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Cabinet ministers and reportedly raised the issue.
Sullivan is scheduled for his first visit to Beijing on Tuesday.
Trudeau said Canada will also implement a 25% tariff on Chinese steel and aluminum.
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Could Austria Replace Poland in V4 Group?
Within a year or so, the geostrategic system in Central Europe could be restructured. The tasks of the now fractured Visegrad Four (V4) group — Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland — could be taken over by a different configuration, which could not only take on the role of a buffer zone between East and West, but could also set itself more ambitious goals.
Only two out of the three parties that initiated the formation of the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament belong to the V4 group: Hungary’s Fidesz and Czechia’s ANO, but not the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). This is bound to stir up even more the V4’s already unstable state of affairs. Another peculiarity of the “three” is that Fidesz is in government while the other two parties are in opposition.
In the latter two cases, however, there could be radical changes this autumn and next year.
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France: Instagram’s Ban on Right-Wing Accounts Sparks Backlash
In recent days, Instagram launched a vast banning operation in France against accounts belonging to right-wing organisations or commentators. MEP Marion Maréchal decided to appeal to the management of Instagram France to express her disapproval and condemn the arbitrary nature of these account closures.
They were notified of the decision on Wednesday, August 21st. Several commentators and influential figures on the French right have had their Instagram accounts censored on the grounds that they did not comply with community standards, even though these accounts had not committed any legal offence. It is not only individuals identified as activists or whistleblowers on the national Right who have been targeted but also ordinary journalists, such as Jordan Florentin, a journalist from Boulevard Voltaire; trade unions, such as the student union La Cocarde étudiante; and even media outlets, such as our colleagues from Frontières (formerly Livre Noir).
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France Extends Telegram Founder’s Arrest
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest was extended by a French court on Sunday, allowing him to remain in custody for a further 96 hours, after which a new court decision will be needed to keep him in custody.
The 39-year-old CEO was arrested on Saturday at an airport near Paris, saying Telegram provided a haven for fraud, drug trafficking, other organized crime, terrorist communications, and child pornography, among other things — despite similar phenomena being found on other social networking sites and Western authorities able to more easily put pressure on Meta, registered in the U.S., than Telegram, registered in the UAE.
The arrest of Durov has sparked mass outrage across social media, with numerous politicians, activists, and academics warning of a grave threat to freedom of speech.
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Germany: AfD Party Scores Landslide Victory in Under-18 Elections, Greens Crash in the East
More than 9,000 young people headed to the polls in the Under-18 election before the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) crushed the competition in both votes, leaving the German political establishment reeling and issuing warnings.
The youth vote comes just days before the real vote in regional elections in Saxony and Thuringia, where the AfD is slated to win the elections with over 30 percent of the vote.
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The FT published an article asserting that the primary concern after the mass stabbing in Germany was that it might make people more likely to vote for right-wing parties that want to stop mass stabbings.
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Macron, Brussels Deny Involvement in Telegram CEO’s Arrest
French President Emmanuel Macron has denied involvement in the arrest of the CEO of Telegram in his country, with officials from the European Commission having also privately issued similar statements.
Both parties’ attempts to distance themselves from the incident on August 24 came as many decried the arrest of Russian businessman Pavel Durov as an attack on tech innovation — the kind of which many feel has become increasingly common within Europe.
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Macron Rejects Left-Wing Government With French Democracy in Uncharted Territory
French President Emmanuel Macron has dismissed proposals from the left-wing alliance (New Popular Front) to form a government, citing the need for “institutional stability,” according to a statement from the Elysée Palace.
With the announcement on August 26, French democracy continues to move into uncharted territory, with an unpopular president and a caretaker government that has now been in place for 42 days, a record for the Fifth Republic.
Emmanuel Macron’s confidence rating remains at one of its lowest levels since 2017: 25 per cent according to the latest poll.
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Poland Searches for Suspected Russian Shahed Drone
An unidentified object, which Polish news portal Salon24 reported the Polish military believed was a Russian Shahed drone produced by Iran, has entered Polish territory without being shot down.
The incident took place on the morning of August 26 during a Russian air assault on Ukraine. The Polish military has confirmed the search for the object is continuing in the South-East of Poland near the border with Ukraine.
Military sources have reportedly not discounted the possibility that the drone may have entered and later left Polish airspace or that it may have exploded mid-air.
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Poland’s Postal Service to Cut 9,000 Jobs
The Polish Post (Poczta Polska) is set to undergo a significant transformation, with plans to lay off around 15 percent of its workforce — roughly 9,000 employees — as it transitions from a traditional mail service into a courier, digital, and financial services company.
CEO Sebastian Mikosz emphasized that while the layoffs are necessary, the move is part of a larger strategy to adapt to modern needs and technologies.
In an interview with Puls Biznesu, Mikosz outlined the company’s vision for the future, driven by expectations from the Polish Ministry of State Assets.
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Police Officers Suspended Over Puigdemont’s Escape From Spain
Three Catalonian police officers have been suspended for allegedly aiding the dramatic escape of Carles Puigdemont, the fugitive former Catalan president, following his surprise appearance at a Barcelona rally.
Puigdemont, the 61-year-old figurehead of Catalonia’s independence movement, defied an arrest warrant to address thousands of supporters on August 8 near the regional parliament.
Despite an intensive police manhunt and roadblocks across Spain’s second-largest city, the politician managed to vanish into thin air, only to resurface in Belgium the following day.
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Polish Justice Minister Accused of Purging Judges to Put Opposition MP in Prison
Adam Bodnar, Poland’s justice minister, has come under fire from the opposition Conservatives (PiS) and the legal think tank Ordo Iuris.
They have accused the minister of attempting to remove judges that the government disapproves of from a hearing to decide whether an opposition MP and former justice deputy minister will be detained.
PiS deputy Marcin Romanowski has been charged with authorising the illegal use of the Justice Fund, which was set up originally to help victims of crime, to pay for political campaigns.
Parliament lifted his immunity in June and he was arrested despite the fact that he had offered to testify voluntarily.
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Russian Drone Entered Polish Airspace, Say Military Sources
Poland’s Armed Forces Operational Command reported that an unidentified aerial object had entered Polish airspace on Monday morning, tracked by the country’s air defense systems.
Although the military was prepared to shoot it down, they ultimately did not. The decision was influenced by poor weather conditions that prevented visual confirmation of the object.
“From the moment it entered Polish airspace, attempts were made to visually verify the object before considering neutralization. Unfortunately, due to prevailing weather conditions, we were unable to clearly identify it, preventing the decision to shoot it down,” stated the military communication.
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In his first major address since the riots this month, Prime Minister Keir Starmer blamed the previous Tory government and the “snake oil of populism” for the unrest in the wake of a mass stabbing.
There is a “deep rot” within British society, according to Sir Keir Starmer, who pinned the blame for the violent uprising — in mostly Labour-controlled areas of the country — on his predecessors and the populist movement in the country.
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Top EU Lawmaker Blows Whistle: ‘Monkeypox’ is the ‘Next Plandemic’
A top European Union (EU) lawmaker has issued a warning to the public that “monkeypox” is the “next plandemic” to soon be unleashed.
German Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Christine Anderson has blown the whistle in an open letter to her “fellow citizens.”
Anderson argues that her warnings will be smeared as “conspiracy theories” by government officials and the corporate media.
However, she notes, as with other previous “conspiracy theories,” the warnings will soon be proved true.
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GB News star Nigel Farage was embroiled in a feisty row with former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle over ‘two-tier policing’ in Britain.
The Reform leader claims the ‘two-tier’ element is rearing its ugly head in the wake of violence at the Notting Hill Carnival.
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Sir Keir Starmer says he wants to “turn a corner on Brexit” and “fix the broken relationships” as he flies to Berlin to agree terms of a new UK and German treaty.
The Prime Minister will meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday to discuss the deal.
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UK: Starmer Accused of Cronyism as Popularity Slumps
Britain’s Labour prime minister Sir Keir Starmer delivered a speech in Downing Street on Tuesday morning, promising to “root out 14 years of rot” under the Conservatives and asking to be “judged by our actions and not by our words.”
Yet despite pledging to clean up politics, Starmer’s government is already—after just 50 days in office—immersed in a growing cronyism scandal.
Loyal Labour figures—who have been involved in donating to party officials—have been appointed to senior roles in the civil service, which is supposed to be impartial. And the prime minister’s biggest personal donor was given an extraordinarily rare security pass for Number 10 Downing Street.
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UK: Three Jailed for ‘Appalling’ Rioting in Southport
Three more people have been jailed for their part in rioting the day after the stabbing of three young girls in Southport.
The men, who all admitted violent disorder, were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court.
Merseyside Police said the trio were involved in “appalling scenes” in the town on 30 July, as unrest began to spread across towns and cities in England.
Mark Blanchard, 37, of Saints Close, in Old Swan, was sentenced to two years and six months, Carlos McStravock, 33, of Middle Way, in Croxteth, received two years and four months and Max Higson, 22, of no fixed address, was sentenced to two years.
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A vigilante has admitted posting messages on Facebook encouraging people to damage Ulez cameras and to sending a threatening email to a company behind the technology.
Joseph Nicolls, 43, sent Yunex Traffic a message in May last year intended to cause ‘distress or anxiety’, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
Nicolls’ Facebook posts were capable of ‘encouraging or assisting others’ to carry out ‘criminal damage to or theft of Ulez cameras’, according to court documents.
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IDF Rescues Hostage, Father of 11, in Daring Gaza Tunnel Raid
Israel’s military has announced another big breakthrough operation on Tuesday, after a small handful of prior hostage recoveries. An Israeli Bedouin man has been recovered alive after spending more than ten months in Hamas captivity.
52-year old Qaid Farhan Alkadi is a father of eleven and has been returned safely following a “complex mission” by Israeli commandos which took them deep underground.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari confirmed in a press conference that “He is alive and back home in Israel.”
Alkadi had been taken hostage on Oct.7 while working as a private security guard at Kibbutz Magen in southern Israel. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) had overrun several civilian communities while also attacking border bases during the attack which has been widely dubbed “Israel’s 9/11” — leaving mass slaughter in their wake.
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Top US General: Near-Term Middle East War Risk Has Eased
The Pentagon’s senior-most uniformed official believes the threat of a larger war in the Middle East has decreased following Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah tit for tat earlier this week that resulted in no further strikes.
But Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. C.Q. Brown told Reuters Monday that even with the lowered risk of conflict, Iran and its proxies are still a major risk as Tehran considers a strike on Israel.
Speaking to the outlet after a three-day trip to the Middle East that included a stop in Israel, Brown said the near-term danger of a regional war had declined “somewhat.”
“You had two things you knew were going to happen. One’s already happened. Now it depends on how the second is going to play out,” Brown told Reuters while leaving Israel.
Brown was referring to two major threatened attacks against Israel in recent weeks: Hezbollah’s strike and Iran’s pledge to attack the country over the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last month.
“How Iran responds will dictate how Israel responds, which will dictate whether there is going to be a broader conflict or not,” he added.
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Russia Warns West it Could Spark World War III: ‘Asking for Trouble’
Russia said the West could spark World War III by allowing Ukraine to attack deeper into Russia with Western missiles, a move which is under consideration.
President Vladimir Putin has said Russia will respond to the attack on its territory on August 6.
According to Reuters, Ukraine attacked Russia’s western Kursk region, which has been regarded as the largest foreign attack on Russian territory since World War II.
Sergey Lavrov, Putin’s foreign minister, said the West is “asking for trouble” by considering lifting restrictions on the use of foreign-supplied weapons against Russia.
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Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, liberal Ukrainian MP (Holos, ALDE/Renew Europe) welcomed Pavel Durov’s detention as it disrupts the communication networks of the Russian leadership, and wishes that the Telegram CEO will “provide information about the terrorist activities of the Russian authorities,” in Ukraine.
Pavel Durov, a Russian-French citizen and Telegram CEO, was arrested in Paris on Saturday (24 August) for multiple offenses, including organised fraud and distributing child pornography. His detention was extended for questioning until Wednesday (28 August).
“One can only thank the French authorities for their willingness to protect their citizens and the citizens of other countries from […] distribution of child pornography, calls to terrorism, drug trafficking, smuggling, financial fraud, propaganda of ‘Russian peace’ (Rusciy Mir),” Yurschyshyn said to Euractiv.
Yurschyshyn co-authored a bill regulating Telegram and headed Transparency International Ukraine from 2014 to 2019.
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Ukraine War Briefing: Zelenskiy Says F16s Shooting Down Russian Missiles
Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for more F-16 fighter jets and more training for pilots to fly them as he revealed the western warplanes were used to shoot down Russian missiles during the last two days’ heavy attacks on Ukraine.
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UN Watchdog Says Fighting Poses Serious Risk to Russian Nuclear Plant
The head of the UN’s nuclear agency on August 27 warned of the risk of a serious accident at a Russian nuclear plant because of fighting nearby between Russian and Ukrainian forces.
Rafael Grossi, director general at the International Atomic Energy Agency, spoke after visiting the plant in Russia’s western Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces broke across the border three weeks ago and Russia is battling to eject them.
“The danger or possibility of a nuclear accident has emerged near here,” Grossi told reporters.
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Zelensky Calls for Western Air Forces to Intervene in Ukraine
Following another major overnight Russian rocket barrage targeting the Ukrainian capital, President Zelensky took to social media to demand Western allies implement their “obligations” to send the proper air defense equipment. He pleaded for both the authorization of the use of long-range weaponry against Russian targets and for more direct Western involvement in the future.
“We need solutions,” said Zelensky—but if his appeals are successful, it could result in a significant regional expansion of the war zone.
“In the various regions of Ukraine, we could do much more to protect lives if the air forces of our European neighbors would work together with our F-16 fighter jets and our anti-aircraft defenses,” the president said in a live address on his Telegram page.
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Zelensky to Present ‘Victory Plan’ to Harris & Trump in September
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to meet once again with US President Joe Biden, reportedly set for September. On Tuesday Zelensky revealed that he intends at that time to present the White House with a plan for victory against Russia. But more important is what happens after the US presidential election.
He specified that his plan will also be directly presented to Vice President Kamala Harris as well as former President Donald Trump as the two candidates head into the November election.
“The plan is prepared. I think it’s right that I first present this plan to the US President.” Zelensky was quoted in Ukrainian media as saying. “The success of this plan depends on whether we get what is outlined in it, or if we are free to use what is included.”
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Russia Accuses US of Plotting ‘Tbilisi Maidan’ as Georgia Becomes East-West Battleground
Moscow has accused Washington of plotting a “Tbilisi maidan” event aimed at an illegal coup of the Georgian Government, the TASS news agency has reported.
The so far unsubstantiated allegation marks one of the latest developments in Georgia’s increasingly fractious political landscape, with the country becoming a battleground between East and West.
In a statement published on August 26, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service alleged that the US had become “extremely dissatisfied with the landscape in Georgia” ahead of the country’s October 26 general election.
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Chinese EV Maker Aims to Build Cars in EU to Soften Tariffs
A Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer and partner of Germany’s Volkswagen has said it was looking to produce cars in the European Union to bypass new import tariffs imposed by Brussels.
CEO of the firm Xpeng, He Xiaopeng, told Bloomberg on August 27 it was searching for a location to build a new factory, preferably with “relatively low labour risks”.
Alongside a factory, the manufacturer said it would also need a large-scale data centre for its smart vehicles, as efficient software collection becomes crucial for EVs’ intelligent driving features.
The potential move would come after the EU slapped new tariffs on EVs from China ranging from 17 per cent to 36.3 per cent, on top of the existing 10 per cent.
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U.S. Army Private Travis King Who Ran Away to North Korea to Plead Guilty to 5 of 14 Charges
U.S. Army Private Travis King, who fled to North Korea and was taken into custody in the country last year, will plead guilty to five charges, his lawyer said on Monday.
King, who joined the Army in January 2021, was released from North Korean custody in September of last year and U.S. Army had charged him with 14 offenses.
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“It’s a Nightmare in Every Direction”: In Communist Cuba, Elderly Left to Struggle on $10 Pensions
Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Cubans continue to flee a worsening economy in record numbers while the elderly have been left behind, fighting to survive on the communist regime’s $10 monthly pension and a critical lack of basic supplies.
Food, power, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical shortages have ignited persistent protests this year and driven Cuba’s ongoing exodus of working-age adults.
The result has been nothing short of devastating for the country’s retirees.
“It’s a nightmare in every direction. This is an SOS. Cuba is about to collapse in a fatal way,” said Ramon Saul Sanchez, a long-time anti-Cuban regime activist and president of the Democracy Movement in Miami.
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California Moves to Give Illegal Immigrants Up to $150,000 Loans for New Homes
California could be the first state in America to provide illegal immigrants with up to $150,000 in taxpayer-funded loans. This comes amid the Biden-Harris administration’s ongoing border crisis in combination of lax immigration law enforcement in California.
California Democrats in the state legislature are likely to pass Assembly Bill 1840, which would expand the “California Dream for All” program, renaming it the Home Purchase Assistance Program and allow for illegal immigrants to get 20 percent of a house downpayment up to $150,000, Fox News reported.
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A migrant in the French city of Caen beat his ex-girlfriend just a few weeks after being released from prison for beating her over a year ago, but this time it was over a “vulgar” photograph he saw of her in a skirt.
The migrant, who is already under a deportation order, was originally sentenced in 2023 for assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Now, he has been convicted in a new trial, on Aug. 23, 2024, involving the same victim.
According to prosecutors, the man saw a photo of his ex wearing a skirt, and despite the photo predating their relationship together, he reportedly found the outfit “vulgar.” In response, he slapped her and threw a phone at her head, causing a hematoma on her temple which left her unable to work for two days, according to French news outlet Ouest France.
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Germany: Scholz Calls for EU “Task Force” Against Migration After Deadly Terror Attack
Migration is now back at the center of German political discourse following the recent terror attack perpetrated by a deportation-evading failed asylum seeker from Syria that left three dead in the city of Solingen last Friday. For once, the left-wing government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz is appearing to listen to voters and the populist opposition parties demanding a radical change in the country’s asylum policies.
On Monday, August 26th, Scholz not only promised to tighten domestic regulations but also called for an international “task force” of selected European Union member states to reevaluate the entire bloc’s asylum and migration strategy—even though Brussels’ flagship ‘Migration Pact’ was passed just months ago, after being in the works for nearly a decade.
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Germany: Migrants ‘Injuring Themselves to Avoid Deportation’
Migrants are deliberately injuring themselves or behaving abusively to get thrown off deportation flights, the chairman of a major German police union has claimed.
Andreas Roßkopf, chairman of the Gewerkschaft der Polizei (GdP), said some migrants who are about to be deported behave so badly that pilots refuse to take them.
“Many people subject to deportation behave abusively as soon as they reach the airport,” he toldRedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND).
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Germany: Anti-Immigration Parties Set to Benefit From Solingen Terror Attack?
The two anti-immigration parties dominating the polls before crucial regional elections in Germany have called for an end to uncontrolled migration, following the terror attack in Solingen last week.
The tough stance taken by the populists connects with growing public outrage at a deteriorating security situation.
While the German leftist government is still debating whether to deport failed asylum seekers to countries such as Afghanistan and Syria, Alice Weidel—co-leader of the right-wing opposition Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party—has called for a complete halt to immigration for at least five years, saying that without a U-turn on migration, Germany faces an “irreversible civilisational decline.”
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Despite years of soaring knife crime attacks, assaults, and rapes tied to mass immigration, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the left have downplayed the issue of immigration or swept the issue under the rug. However, the Solingen stabbing, which saw a Syrian migrant murder three Germans in a knife attack, is piling the pressure on Scholz right before the Sept. 1 elections in the east. The chancellor, who visited Solingen, said “this was terrorism against all of us,” and that illegal immigration into Germany “must be reduced.”
The chancellor vowed that he and his government would “do everything in their power to ensure that those who should not stay in Germany are deported and sent home,” and also claimed that rules must be tightened on the carrying of weapons.
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German CDU Suggests ‘National Emergency’ to Curb Migration
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz urged the government to enforce the Dublin Regulation after meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday (27 August) and suggested declaring a state of national emergency if the rules cannot be enforced.
In the wake of an alleged stabbing attack by a Syrian migrant that left three people dead, the federal government’s migration policy is at the top of the political agenda, at a time when the ruling coalition is under immense pressure and is expected to lose two upcoming state elections by large margins.
On Tuesday (27 August), the leader of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/EPP), Friedrich Merz, upped the pressure on Scholz’s government.
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MassGOP Demands Information About ‘$1 Billion in Secret Migrant Crisis Spending’
BOSTON — Massachusetts Republicans are alleging the amount of money spent on the state’s migrant crisis is veiled in “secrecy” and are demanding a full disclosure about the spending and asking for information on public safety incidents at state-funded emergency housing.
The Massachusetts Republican Party Chair has formally submitted FOIA requests to the Executive Office for Administration & Finance, the Office of the Governor, Legal Counsel, the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security and the Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development for the information, the group said Tuesday.
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Migrant Charged in Brutal Beating of NYC Cops Had Been Caught at Border — and Released — Last Year
The migrant accused of leading the infamous beat-down of two cops in Times Square had been nabbed illegally crossing the US border just months earlier — but was released by the Harris-Biden administration.
Yohenry Brito, 24, of Venezuela crossed the border illegally into El Paso, Texas, and was apprehended by border agents May 9, 2023, according to a House Judiciary Committee report on the migrant’s file exclusively obtained by The Post.
Days later, on May 17, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security authorized his release into the US on his own recognizance because of a “lack of detention space.” Brito had indicated he needed asylum in the US because he feared returning to Venezuela.
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Migrant Amazon Driver Allegedly Smashes Florida Mom Walking Baby, Flees Scene
Sarahy Parra-Ovalles, a migrant from Venezuela who was granted a work permit after overstaying a tourist visa, has been accused of crashing her car into a Florida mother who was walking her baby in a stroller before fleeing the scene.
The mother, who has not yet been identified, had been pushing her 4-month-old infant in a stroller across the street when Parra-Ovalles came driving down and crashed into her, throwing the baby into the street. Surveillance video then allegedly showed Parra-Ovalles, an Amazon driver, getting out of her car to put the baby back in the stroller before fleeing the scene as the mother lied on the concrete bleeding from “catastrophic” injuries. The mom’s attorney, Judd Rosen, said that Parra-Ovalles left “the baby alone in the middle of the intersection and the mom bleeding from her skull.”
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NY Cops Arrest Knife-Wielding Teen Migrant After First-in-the-Nation Public Mask Ban
Nassau County cops busted an illegal migrant teen carrying a massive knife in the first arrest under a first-in-the-nation law that bans wearing masks in public, authorities said Tuesday.
Wesslin Omar Ramirez Castillo, 18, was spotted in a ski mask lurking around a Levittown neighborhood Sunday night — and cops found he was armed with a 14-inch blade when they stopped him under the “Mask Transparency Act.”
“Our police officers were able to use the mask ban legislation as well as other factors to stop and interrogate an individual who was carrying a weapon with the intent to engage in a robbery,” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman told The Post.
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Spain’s Leaders Silent Amid Migrant Crisis in Ceuta
The pleas for help from the North African Spanish exclave of Ceuta have gone seemingly unheardby the country’s central government, El Debate reports.
Ceuta, a historic Spanish city on the tip of northern Africa and bordering Morrocco, is a longstanding entry point for both legal and illegal immigrants into Spain from Africa. In recent weeks, the pressure of irregular entries has intensified. On Sunday, 1,500 people tried to enter the city irregularly, according to the central government’s representative in the region, Socialist Cristina Pérez, adding that of those arrivals, only about 150 or 200 would be able to be quickly deported back over the Moroccan border. She called the situation in the city “extreme.”
Juan Vivas, the regional president of Ceuta, who is a member of Spain’s opposition center-right Partido Popular, has also called on support from Madrid and the rest of the country to handle the avalanche of migrants.
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Trump Slams Harris ‘Flip Flop’ on Border Wall, Says Kamala ‘Cowering Behind’ Anonymous Staff
Update (1153ET): The Trump campaign has responded to Axios reporting that Kamala Harris now supports a border wall.
“How much longer will the mainstream media allow Kamala Harris to hide and use staff to speak on her behalf? It’s DAY 37 of ZERO interviews and Kamala’s anonymous campaign sources are now claiming she supports President Trump’s border wall — this is a preposterous and false claim.”
“Kamala’s ACTIONS speak much louder than the WORDS of the anonymous staff she is cowering behind.”
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Dozens of migrants including a child in a wheelchair have been brought to shore in Dover in what is the first Channel crossing in a week.
Pictures show men, women and children wearing life jackets and blankets disembarking from a Border Force vessel at the Kent port on Tuesday.
It is understood the child was provided a wheelchair by Border Force when arriving in Dover due to a medical condition.
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Wilders Wants Dutch Government to Send Syrians Home
Geert Wilders, whose Freedom Party (PVV) party sits in the Dutch Government, has said he wants Syrians to be sent back to their home country.
“Why do we still let in Syrians in massive numbers?” Wilders asked on X on August 25.
According to him, Syria is safe enough for recognised asylum seekers to return.
Wilders also said he wanted the borders to be closed “in principle” for Syrians and advocated for the return of Syrian refugees with temporary residence permits to their home country.
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House Probes Allegations of Biden Administration Interference on Transgender Surgeries for Minors
House Oversight subcommittee on Tuesday sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra regarding allegations that the Biden administration pressured global pediatricians to drop age limit guidelines on transgender care for minors.
The Biden administration has sent out mixed messaging on where it stands on transgender surgeries for minors, but most recently claimed that it supports transgender surgeries for adults, and “gender-affirming care for minors,” per Fox News.
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Lowe’s Revises DEI Policies Amid Pressure Following Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling
The home improvement giant Lowe’s recently made changes to its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives amid scrutiny following a Supreme Court ruling that banned affirmative action from being considered in college admissions.
Lowe’s is the latest company to adjust its DEI policies since the ruling, and amid blowback from right-wing influencers and political commentators. Harley-Davidson, John Deere, and Tractor Supply Co. have ended their DEI policies recently, and Zoom, Snap, Tesla, DoorDash, Lyft, Home Depot, and Wayfair have reduced their DEI work force, according to the New York Post.
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Pro-Life Pregnancy Center in Chicago Vandalized Hours After DNC
Shortly after the Democratic National Convention (DNC) ended on Thursday night, a Chicago pregnancy resource center was attacked and vandalized with far-left messaging similar to other incidents sometimes attributed to the activist group Jane’s Revenge.
Aid for Women (AFW) helps pregnant women in compliance with the Catholic faith and does not abort babies or refer mothers to get abortions. Leftist activists, including Antifa, have regularly targeted these crisis pregnancy centers. One of AFW’s clinics was vandalized in Chicago within hours after the DNC.
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UC San Diego Abandons Female-Only STEM Program After Federal Complaint
Via The College Fix
Civil rights activist told university to drop program or offer equal opportunities…
The University of California San Diego removed some information about its STEM program only open to female high school students following a federal civil rights complaint.
The physical sciences’ department page for “STEM Girl Summer” returns an “access denied” message.
However, the university still lists information on the program elsewhere, including in a social media post last week.
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“I absolutely believe Donald Trump and an enhanced security posture he should’ve had would’ve made him look more presidential, would’ve facilitated the logistical operation of him traveling….I think they [Secret Service management] were concerned about optics and making him look like a big shot, or whatever, and they were making some of these decisions purely on grade school-level politics.” —Dan Bongino (under oath), retired Secret Service (27 Aug 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AdvpsNFRmY&t=937s
“I believe history will reveal that the attempted assassination of “Orange Hitler” on 13 July 2024 was due to a combination of incompetence and The Party’s ongoing “insurance policy”—to “get Trump!”, figuratively or literally—that resulted in an inherently [and intentionally!] “lackadaisical” attitude towards the protection of the former president.” —posted to fb (24 July 20224)
Commie-toddlers’re as predicable as a well-regulated Rolex.
Zelenskyy is a bully. He DEMANDS money from the U.S. and now from Great Britain.
He deserves nothing. He is a clown dictator.
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The mystery of the Trump assassination attempt is increasing
28/8-2024
Brand new Trump interview where he talks, among other things, about the attack, about the election and about “comrade” Kamala Harris, a Marist and globalist, whom the entire “bourgeois” Danish press is now cheering for.
https://rumble.com/v5cn0zl-trump-dr.-phil-interview-82724.html
By Lars Hedegaard – snaphanen.dk
It has just emerged that the FBI, tasked with investigating the circumstances surrounding the assassination attempt on the former president, has rushed to burn the body of suspected hapless assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, erasing the physical traces on the roof. from where he allegedly fired several shots. One has to hope that they have secured all the projectiles, so you can see if more than one shot was fired.
But you can’t take anything for granted, because the more that is revealed, the more mysterious the assassination that almost killed Trump becomes.
Now it turns out that the local police in Pennsylvania had offered the Secret Service agents on site radio so they could communicate with the local population, but the offer was declined.
So did a drone provided by the local police, which would have been able to pinpoint Crook’s location on the roof within easy reach of the president.
And lest it be a lie, the Secret Service had given written notice before Trump’s rally that requests for more manpower would be denied.
In the US Congress, the Acting Director of the Secret Service, Ronald Rowe, has testified under oath that his agents on the ground were given all the manpower they asked for – which was technically correct, because of course no one asked for anything they knew. would be refused.
The Senate committee investigating the assassination has asked for any documents that might shed light on the course of events, but the Secret Service and the FBI have given the cold shoulder, handing over only parts of the documents, and that too in heavily redacted form.
If you didn’t believe so well in your fellow men and the American institutions, you would have concluded that the Secret Service had planned the attempt to get Trump out of the way – because after years of effort it had failed in any other way.
We must remember that in the Deep State and the Democratic Party, Trump is Hitler.
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Steen – SNAPHANEN.DK:
Robert Kennedy Jr. and Tucker.
The other day, Trump could be heard presenting his partnership with Kennedy at a large rally in Arizona. The excitement is really worth hearing. So many are busy criticizing both of them for being “controlled opposition”. I do not find it proven, on the contrary, it is America’s great hope to get out of the nightmare the globalist-communist “Democratic Party” has placed the country in with the two puppets Biden and Harris. Not least an opportunity to stop the dangerous Ukrainian war against Russia before someone fires the first nuclear missile.
Will the deep state try to have Kennedy or Trump assassinated once again? Of course.
Former Trump employee Dr. Alexander writes: Was it a warning shot against Trump?
Yes, it was a warning shot, IMO was not meant to KILL YET, but the evil deep state & I argue within our own government, WILL try to kill him again! The hand of GOD intervened.
https://youtu.be/8O-ZM0RxG4g?si=Zn7Nbf8of9ZD46jk
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LN, translator:
In the audio file, you can hear how the shooting was carried out with two weapons.
1. three shots
2. > 5 shots
Is it credible that a person collapsed after being shot in the ear, immediately afterwards, bleeding profusely, gets up and triumphantly waves his hand – any next shot could be fatal.
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