British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has promised the establishment of a standing army to suppress the ongoing riots over the stabbings in Southport. Meanwhile, nearly 400 people have been arrested in six days of rioting in various cities in England and Northern Ireland.
In other news, a man from Winchester, Virginia has been charged with threatening to kill Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Biden’s Top ‘Bidenomics’ Advisor Joins Harris’s Team as Markets Melt Down
Democrat President Joe Biden’s top economic advisor is leaving the lame-duck White House team to join Kamala Harris’s presidential election campaign.
On Monday, Biden announced that his senior “Bidenomics” advisor Gene Sperling is joining the Harris campaign.
Biden made the announcement on the same day that markets suffered the biggest meltdown in years.
The global “Black Monday” market crash came amid concern of a potential economic crisis.
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‘I Told You So’: Trump Slams Biden, Harris Over Global Stock, Crypto Crash
The global stock market took a plunge on Sunday leading into Monday, with the DOW Jones dropping over 1,000 points. Wall Street’s “fear gauge” spiked to the highest it has been under the Biden-Harris administration, and Bitcoin has taken a heavy plunge. Donald Trump took aim at the Biden-Harris administration over the chaos. This has unemployment numbers rose to 4.3%, the highest since October 2021.
According to CNBC, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) or Wall Street’s “fear-gauge” has spiked to the highest it has been since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020. VIX is a key marker to the volatility of the market, and broke 50 on Monday morning. Since the pandemic, the VIX has been lower, trading below 20. The DOW Jones futures market tumbled over 1,000 points, according to the outlet.
Trump posted on Truth Social, “Stock markets crashing. I told you so!!! Kamala doesn’t have a clue. Biden is sound asleep. All caused by inept US leadership!” Before the Biden-Harris administration was voted in in the 2020 election cycle, Trump told reporters that the economy would crash if Biden was voted in as president.
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Japan’s Nikkei Sees Biggest Tumble Since 1987 Crash
Japan’s Nikkei stock index on Monday saw its largest single-day rout since the 1987 “Black Monday” sell-offs that precipitated a major recession.
The fall was driven by last week’s global plunge in stock prices, which followed bleak jobs data that indicated the US could be heading for recession, sending a shock wave across markets.
At the end of trading, the Nikkei index shed a massive 12.4%, after dipping as much as 13.4% at one point. For comparison, the biggest single-day drop was 14.9% in 1987. At one point during the sell-off, a “circuit breaker” was triggered to stop trading.
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Major Wall St Firms Hit With Outages Amid Market Crash
Several major Wall Street investment firms were hit with damaging outages amid a widespread “Black Monday” market crash.
Global fears triggered a massive sell-off in stocks and cryptocurrencies that started over the weekend and ignited a bloodbath on Monday.
However, investors were hit with further frustration as computer systems also crashed at several major companies as traders scrambled to stem the bleeding.
Online services at Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments experienced significant issues on Monday, Reuters reports.
The outages left many users unable to log into their accounts during a tumultuous trading session.
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Report Casts Doubt on German Economic Viability
Germany’s economy is facing challenges that threaten the viability of its growth model, a report has claimed.
By 2050, Germany could be overtaken economically by Japan and Indonesia, according to the report by Economist Intelligence Unit released on July 31.
Despite Germany’s highly skilled and educated workforce and relatively low public debt, the country’s real GDP growth has been the weakest among the G7 nations since the pandemic.
Germany’s economy has grown only 0.3 per cent since the pre-pandemic period, which is the weakest among the G7 countries. This suggests that Germany has struggled to recover from the pandemic’s economic impact.
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Trump Tops Harris on Economy 52 to 40 in WSJ Polling
Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris on the issue of handling the economy by 12 points, according to a recent Wall Street Journal poll. This comes as global stock markets have plunged in recent days after unemployment increased in the US to 4.3 percent.
The poll was conducted from July 23-25 with 1,000 registered voters nationally and when those surveyed were asked, “Between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, who in your opinion is best able to handle the economy,” Trump was favored by 52 percent of those polled compared to 40 percent who said Harris would do a better job.
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US Stock Markets See One of the Biggest Plunges in Nearly Two Years
U.S. stock markets dropped massively by the end of its business day on Monday, marking one of the worst days for the market since 2022.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,034 points from Monday’s opening, or 2.6%. The Nasdaq Composite lost 3.4%, and the S&P 500 dropped 3%, according to CNBC.
The sudden drop comes after July’s labor report showed the U.S. economy only added 114,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate increased to 4.3%, compared to 4.1% in June.
Dow Jones also closed 600 points lower than it had opened on Friday, which was directly after the jobs report came out. The Nasdaq Composite had slipped into correction territory on Friday, which is when a market falls more than 10% from a recent high.
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Bill Gates Pushes for ‘Genetically Modified Insects’ in Human Food Supply
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is pumping millions of dollars into efforts to flood the human food supply with hyper-processed products made from “genetically modified insects.”
Gates and his foundation have been investing in the development of the products while pressuring U.S. regulators to open up the floodgates for insect-based “foods” to be sold in American stores.
The plan is not new, however, as Gates has been pushing for bugs to be fed to Americans for over a decade.
In 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation a project called “All Things Bugs.”
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Breaking: SCOTUS Will Not Delay Sentencing of Trump in NYC Case
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an effort to delay the sentencing of 2024 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump in the New York City case brought forth by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
In a brief order, the court wrote, Missouri’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied, and its motion for preliminary relief or a stay is dismissed as moot. Justice Thomas and Justice Alito would grant the motion for leave to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief.”
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A Bronx prosecutor has resigned after being exposed as an alleged child predator. William C.C. Kemp-Neal, a 30-year-old working in the Bronx DA’s office, tried to meet up with a young boy he was in contact with online. He was exposed by the group Dads Against Predators who went as far as to share footage of Kemp-Neal attempting to do the meet-up in a Mount Vernon Target parking lot.
Kemp-Neal can be seen in the footage as he’s approached by the Dads Against Predators. They ask if he is Marcus, and Kemp-Neal takes off. In the Bronx DA’s office, Kemp-Neal handled assault, harassment, and child-endangerment cases, ironically. He earned nearly $85,000 per year in that position, per the NY Post.
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Regulators are proposing plans for the California government to take control of oil refineries to manage energy price hikes as the state pushes to advance green agenda policies.
State officials have proposed a variety of government intrusions into the petroleum industry to combat future energy price surges.
The proposals were revealed in a new report released by the taxpayer-funded California Energy Commission (CEC).
The CEC expects some of California’s nine oil refineries to be shuttered due to falling demand as the Golden State continues to pursue its green agenda.
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Court Slaps Down NIH for Unconstitutional Censorship
The D.C. Circuit Court has declared that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) violated the Constitution by using keyword filters to censor comments on its social media platforms. The court’s decision stems from a dispute involving People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which argued that their comments were unfairly targeted by NIH’s filtering system on Facebook and Instagram. This case highlights ongoing tensions between government control and free speech on digital platforms.
We obtained a copy of the order for you here.
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CrowdStrike Lawyer Blasts Delta for “Misleading Narrative” Surrounding Global IT Outage
CrowdStrike lawyer Michael Carlinsky, who is a co-managing partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, penned a letter on Sunday to Delta Air Lines, making it very clear that the carrier has pushed a “misleading narrative that CrowdStrike is responsible for Delta’s IT decisions and response to the outage” that lasted several days.
“Should Delta pursue this path [referring to a lawsuit], Delta will have to explain to the public, its shareholders, and ultimately a jury why CrowdStrike took responsibility for its actions—swiftly, transparently, and constructively—while Delta did not,” Carlinsky wrote in the letter addressed to Delta’s legal team, which was obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
The letter comes as there has been a growing public conflict between CrowdStrike and the airline over last month’s global IT outage.
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FBI to Resume Meetings With Social Media Companies, Ignoring Censorship Concerns
Here we go again — another US election is coming up, and there’s another push to find ways to censor “disfavored” voices, and one of those ways is the focus on the foreign malign influence (FMI) boogeyman.
Americans (and the world) have seen this play out already before and after the contested 2020 vote.
The infamous case of the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop news story came after the FBI issued a warning to social media companies about an incoming FMI “disinformation dump” — from Russia.
We know how that went and was eventually debunked, the laptop being authentic, rather than a figment of some “disinformation” peddling operation’s imagination. But here is the FBI again, more than just emboldened by the recent Supreme Court’s ruling in the Murthy v. Missouri case.
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Federal Court Orders California College to Drop Censorship Policy
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times
A federal judge ordered a California community college on Aug. 2 not to enforce a poster policy that was used against three students whose anti-communist posters were taken down.
U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston found that the poster policy of Fresno-based Clovis Community College violated the students’ First Amendment and 14th Amendment rights.
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Fordham U. ‘Diversity’ Programs Discriminate, Violate Civil Rights Law: Complaint
A legal advocacy group has filed a discrimination complaint against Fordham University, claiming the Jesuit school in the Bronx offers race— and ethnicity-based scholarships that favor black and Latino students over white and Asian students in violation of civil rights law.
The Equal Protection Project’s complaint highlights several examples, such as Fordham’s “Diversity Fund” and “Fordham Scholarship,” for which access is restricted to black, Latino or first-generation or lower-income students.
The group also points to the school’s Latino Social Work Coalition Scholarship Program, which targets aid to Latino or bilingual students while excluding their black, white and Asian peers.
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Former Secret Service Chief Wanted to Destroy Cocaine Evidence
Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.
Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023, a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland, the sources said.
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Google Loses Major Antitrust Case to Department of Justice Over Search Engine Monopolization
Google lost a major antitrust case on Monday to the Justice Department, after a federal judge ruled that it has maintained an unfair monopoly when it comes to searching for things online.
US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google must stop its anticompetitive behavior, where it monopolizes exclusive contracts that make it the default search engine on smartphones and computers.
The Justice Department filed the antitrust case during former President Donald Trump’s administration, claiming that the company’s exclusive contracts block out its strongest competitors like Bing, and DuckDuckGo. The exclusivity of the contracts was the biggest contributors to the ruling.
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Hallie Biden Granted Immunity to Testify in Hunter Biden Tax Trial
Hunter Biden’s legal troubles took a decidedly difficult turn earlier this year when he was convicted on a series of federal gun charges.
However, a judge in California just dealt Democrat President Joe Biden’s son another blow that could impact his fate in another federal case poised for trial.
As Fox News reports, U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, set to preside over Hunter Biden’s tax trial next month, granted immunity to Hallie Biden to secure her testimony in the criminal proceedings.
Hallie is the widow of Hunter Biden’s late brother, Beau.
She is also the former lover of Hunter Biden.
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Harris Says ‘Everybody Needs to be Woke’ in Unearthed Clip Spreading Like Wildfire on Social Media
A clip of Vice President Kamala Harris from 2017 calling on “everybody” to be “woke” resurfaced on social media, sparking critics and conservatives to lambaste the official Democratic nominee as a “Communist functionary” who is “too radical” to serve as president.
“We have to stay woke. Like everybody needs to be woke. And you can talk about if you’re the wokest or woker, but just stay more woke than less woke,” then-Sen. Harris said in 2017 during Recode’s annual Code Conference, alongside philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, during the conference.
The conference focused on issues such as immigration and the environment, including Harris speaking out against the Trump administration’s drug policies and immigration polices just moments ahead of her call on Americans to be “woke.”
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A hatchet-wielding madman attacked three employees at a Chicago McDonald’s on Sunday morning when the cashier refused to give him free food — then he grabbed a cookie and sauntered down the street after the attack.
The assault happened at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday when the unidentified man strode into the South Western Avenue fast food joint and demanded food from the person behind the counter, according to Fox 32 Chicago.
When the cashier told him to get lost, he grabbed what cops described as a “hatchet-like object” and turned on the employees, sending three of them to the hospital.
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House Probes Major Businesses for Censorship Collusion With GARM’s Alleged Ad “Cartel”
US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on August 1 requested documents from more than 40 companies that are members of the controversial, powerful advertising initiative, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM).
The Committee has long had GARM (set up by the World Federation of Advertisers, WFA) in its sights in the context of a broader investigation into the government colluding with tech companies, but also other corporations, to censor online speech.
In this case, GARM is suspected of getting the world’s biggest brands to effectively demonetize, by withholding ads, various platforms, podcasts, news sites, “and other content that GARM and its members deem disfavored,” Committee Chairman Jim Jordan writes in his letter sent to dozens of GARM members.
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‘I Shot Him’: 15-Year-Old Teen Admits to Shooting Democrat Canvasser Over a Dollar in Michigan
A Democrat from Michigan was murdered while canvassing for votes. Theodore Lawson lost his life when Lamar Kemp tried to rob him for just one dollar. Kemp, 15, has admitted to the crime. He is set to be sentenced on September 11.
“I shot him,” said Kemp in a courthouse on Friday, per local news WILX. Kemp pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Prosecutor John Dewane charged Kemp as an adult. Kemp’s previous record in the juvenile justice system as well as the nature of the crime are what led Dewane to charge him as an adult in the murder of Lawson.
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Is a Super Eruption at Yellowstone Imminent? A Geophysicist Explains
POCATELLO, Idaho — After the “most-recorded” hydrothermal explosion happened in Yellowstone National Park last month, many wonder if a super volcano eruption is imminent.
In short, the answer is no, according to experts. To find out why, as well as what the true warning signs would be, EastIdahoNews.com spoke with Michael Poland, a research geophysicist with the Cascades Volcano Observatory and the current scientist-in-charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
“(The Biscuit Basin explosion) might be of a size that perhaps occurs every decade or so on average. Hydrothermal explosions that are smaller occur several times a year in some part of Yellowstone,” Poland said.
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Jamie Raskin Said Trump Must be ‘Disqualified’ by Congress if Elected
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told a group at Washington DC bookstore Politics and Prose that it is up to Congress to disqualify Donald Trump from the election 2024 on January 6, 2025. The comments came before the Supreme Court ruled that states could not take Trump off the ticket in the election using the 14th Amendment.
Raskin suggested that if SCOTUS rejected the case against Trump, that the responsibility to disqualify Trump from the election would fall to Congress. The comments from Raskin came during the group meeting in February, per Legal Insurrection: “The court is not going to save us. And so that means the only thing that really works is people in motion amending the Constitution — but again, it’s necessary, but it’s not sufficient, because what can be put in the Constitution can slip away from you very quickly.”
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Jim Jordan Launches Investigation Into Jack Smith’s Prosecutor
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has just dealt a blow to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s anti-Trump lawfare agenda.
Smith has suffered a series of legal setbacks in recent months, and the latest news is yet another example.
According to The Hill, Jordan confirmed that he has launched an investigation into one of Smith’s prosecutors.
Over the weekend, Jordan asked “the Justice Department (DOJ) to turn over all its files related to any internal review of J.P. Cooney.”
News of the probe came not long after it was announced that Jordan and his powerful House committee are launching a similar investigation into the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan.
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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s office has claimed that he was not made aware of accusations made against his top aide until “months” after they surfaced. This follows reports of sexual harassment accusations against former aide Mike Vereb that have resurfaced as Shapiro has become a frontrunner to be Kamala Harris’ vice presidential pick.
Manuel Bonder, a spokesperson for Shapiro’s office, told the New York Times of the accusations that Vereb made repeated, graphic sexual remarks towards a female employee, with Vereb then allegedly criticizing her job performance when she refused his advances, that Shapiro “was not aware of the complaint or investigation until months after the complaint was filed,” and that Shapiro should have been made aware of these allegations sooner.
Shapiro’s office has been accused of providing legal advice to then-Secretary of Legislative Affairs Mike Vereb all the while allegedly investigating Vereb for workplace harassment claims made by a subordinate in March 2023.
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Kamala Harris’ husband and current “Second Gentleman” Doug Emhoff promoted a new “aspirational” coffee blend titled, “First Gentleman’s Blend.” The title of First Lady or Gentleman is reserved for the spouse of the president.
In a post on Monday, Emhoff wrote, “Being an aspirational coffee blend was not on my 2024 bingo card.”
A description of the signature blend dark roast states, “It takes a strong man to stand by a strong woman. We’re proud to introduce First Gentleman’s Blend, crafted by Coffee By Design to celebrate Doug Emhoff, husband to Kamala Harris. In addition to being a supportive spouse and active campaigner, Doug is an outstanding activist in his own right; supporting gender equity, equal access to justice, and combatting antisemitism. Enjoy this bold, strong dark roast made in his honor. Tastes like hope!”
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Letitia James Gets $18,000 From George Soros
Democratic megadonor George Soros gave $18,000 to New York Attorney General Letitia James in July.
James, a Democrat, garnered national attention following her civil case against former President Donald Trump.
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Man Accused of Setting Off Explosive Device Near Armstrong County Swimming Hole
RAYBURN, Pa. — A man has been taken into custody after authorities say he set off an explosive device near a swimming hole at Buttermilk Falls.
Pennsylvania State Police were called to the area in Rayburn Township on Thursday, Aug. 1.
Witnesses told authorities they saw a man in the area acting suspiciously and removing things from his backpack.
One of the witnesses told police the man taped something and then hid behind a large boulder. Shortly after, there was a large boom and a bright flash of light.
After the explosion, the man allegedly got onto his bicycle and left the area.
Authorities found a metal pipe device with one end fragments when they arrived to the area.
With images and a description from witnesses, authorities were able to locate and arrest Zane Richard Clever.
Prior to his arrest, troopers say they also found drugs and drug paraphernalia on Clever’s person.
Police executed a search warrant on Clever’s home and allegedly found multiple explosive device components.
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While we’ve all been told there’s no such thing as election fraud, former progressive Democrat officials in Hamtramck Michigan say they were cheated out of office by the all-Muslim City Council, claiming in undercover footage from Project Veritas that secret “midnight meetings” were held where blank absentee ballots are auctioned to the highest bidder — who is then elected to office.
Following a five month investigation in Hamtramck after the newly-elected Muslim leadership banned the LGBTQ pride flag on city property, Project Vertias spoke with dozens of locals, including Democrat officials and liberal activists, who described how Muslim politicians are using illegal ballot harvesting operations to secure permanent power. Of note, ballot harvesting is illegal under Michigan law.
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Talk about eating your own tail…
Seattle is infested with so much crime, its jails are running out of space. And, because King County Jail is running out of space, the city is now considering a program that “would pay for jail beds at the SCORE jail facility in Des Moines,” according to KIRO 7.
Its a move that the report says “would cost Seattle millions”. And, unsurprisingly, it isn’t winning any fans in Des Moines, as the SCORE facility would be used for offenders who are locked up only for 24-48 hours, before being released.
The report says that the Seattle City Council Public Safety Committee met Wednesday to discuss a pilot plan, with public comments varying from full support to calling it “theatre.” The proposal would fund at least 20 beds, costing $1.5 to $3 million annually, depending on usage.
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Starbucks Closes High-Traffic Pike Place Store During Peak Seattle Tourist Season
Starbucks is closing one of its busiest Seattle locations which is near a Seattle landmark during the height of tourism season. With no warning, Starbucks closed its 1st and Pike location right near the iconic Pike Place Market. The signs were removed and the windows were covered. The location was always packed with customers and did swift business.
Former Starbucks CEO and Founder Howard Schultz told employees in 2022 that the coffee giant would be shuttering locations due to safety concerns. At the time 5 other Seattle locations were closed. He blamed elected leaders of the Democrat cities where the stores are closing “at the local state and federal level, these governments… and leaders, mayors and governors and city councils have advocated their responsibility in fighting crime & addressing mental illness.”
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Supreme Court to be Key Issue in Harris-Trump Battle
The Supreme Court is now expected to play a major role in the November election between President Donald Trump and VP Kamala Harris.
With President Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race, Harris has now been installed as the Democratic Party’s nominee.
As The Hill noted, Trump had the unprecedented chance to appoint three justices, all conservative, which has drastically altered the decisions coming out of the high court.
Biden’s last move, reportedly, will be to push for radical, unconstitutional Supreme Court “reform.”
Despite the plans most likely being dead on arrival in Congress, Harris has embraced the idea.
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Usha Vance Speaks Out Over Democrat Messaging That Husband JD Vance is ‘Weird’
Senator JD Vance’s wife Usha spoke out against Democrat messaging and media networks that have taken his comments out of context as well as those who have labeled him as “weird” in recent weeks. Democrats have been trying to paint Rebublicans as “weird” since Kamala Harris stepped into the campaign. The interview with Fox News comes as Donald Trump’s VP pick has faced press attacks from corporate media outlets.
In a sit-down interview with the broadcast outlet, Usha said that the negative press coverage of JD “can be hard” and that when she sees it has said, “Well, this is not the JD I know, this is not accurate.” Usha also spoke at the RNC in Milwaukee, introducing her husband and telling the story of how they met in school. The couple has two children.
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Virginia Man Charged for Allegedly Threatening to Kill Vice President Kamala Harris
A man from Winchester, Virginia, was charged with threatening to kill Vice President Kamala Harris on a conservative social media site, according to a criminal complaint.
Frank Carillo, who used an alias on the website GETTR, has allegedly made 19 threats against Harris, including several threats just days after she announced her bid for the presidency following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race. She has since become the presumptive Democratic nominee.
The Virginian made his first court appearance on Monday, and will be detained until his next hearing on Thursday, according to NBC News.
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Weird: Dems Use 16 Year Old Photo of Kamala Surrounded by ‘Michelle’ Signs to Promote DNC
Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news
In a strange move, the official X account of the Democratic Party chose to upload an image of Kamala Harris that is 16 years old, surrounded by signs that say ‘Michelle’ as a way of promoting the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
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Montreal Man Sues Social Media Platforms for Being Too Addictive
A class-action lawsuit against several social media companies has been launched by a Montreal man who alleges that the platforms have caused harm from being too addictive.
Meta, the parent company of social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, were listed as defendants in the lawsuit, as well as TikTok, YouTube and Reddit.
The plaintiff is being represented by Lambert Avocats, a Montreal law firm, which argues that the high levels of dopamine received by users from these platforms has led to negative effects on their mental health and self-esteem.
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“Childish Lie”: Hungary Denies Letting ‘Russian Spies’ Into European Union Without Screening
Nearly 70 lawmakers in the European Parliament (EP) signed a joint statement over the weekend to demand “urgent measures” from the European Commission against Hungary’s current work permit procedures, which—they claim—will allow Russian spies to enter the Schengen area without any security screenings.
“It’s a childish lie,” replied Foreign Minister Péter Szijjartó.
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Antisemitic Incidents Up 90 Per Cent in Czech Republic, Jewish Community Says
PRAGUE (AP) — Antisemitic incidents in the Czech Republic sharply increased last year, with their peak appearing in the final quarter of 2023 following the deadly Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, an assault that triggered the war in Gaza, the country’s Jewish community said Monday.
In its annual report, the Federation of the Jewish Communities said it registered 4,328 antisemitic incidents in 2023, up 90% from 2,277 in the previous year.
The report said that 1,800 incidents — or 41,59%, of the total — happened in the last three months of the year.
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Brussels ‘Co-Ordinating’ Oil Embargo on Hungary and Slovakia, Claims Minister Szijjartó
Brussels is behind Ukraine’s attempt to block oil from entering Hungary and Slovakia, Budapest’s foreign minister, Péter Szijjartó, has claimed.
Speaking at a music festival over the weekend of August 3, Szijjartó claimed that the European Union must be behind Ukraine’s sanctioning Lukoil, the Russian energy firm largely responsible for supplying both Hungary and Slovakia with oil.
The transportation of Lukoil-owned hydrocarbons through the Druzhba pipeline that originates in Russia was blocked by Ukraine last month, prompting fears of energy shortages.
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EC Torpedoes TikTok Rewards Programme in Latest DSA Purge
The European Commission has taken down a TikTok rewards programme amid fears it could have been operating in violation of the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
Concerns regarding the “rewards functions” in ByteDance’s new TikTok Lite app first emerged in April, with the company announcing it was temporarily axing the system after a DSA-based investigation launched by the EC.
That has now been made permanent, with the EC announcing on August 5 that its probe into TikTok Lite had ended after the Chinese social media company agreed to “permanently withdraw” the system from the European Union.
According to the EC’s press release, ByteDance has also promised “not to launch any other programme which would circumvent the withdrawal” of the previous rewards programme.
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Elon Musk Launches Savage Attack on Keir Starmer as He Wades in on Violent Riots
Elon Musk has hit out at Keir Starmer on social media after a wave of riots erupted across the UK.
The billionaire responded to the Prime Minister’s online post discussing the recent spate of violence on Britain’s streets.
Starmer shared a video of him speaking about the riots, with the caption: “This is not protest, it is pure violence. We will have a standing army of public duty officers. We will ramp up criminal justice.
“We will apply criminal law online as well as offline. We will not tolerate attacks on mosques or on Muslim communities.”
Musk commented on the post saying: “Shouldn’t you be concerned about attacks on *all* communities?”
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Flemish Government Advertises for ‘Climate Doctor’
The Flemish Government in Belgium has posted a job advertisement for a “Climate Doctor” to address the potential medical effects of climate change.
“As a Climate Doctor, you will contribute to preventing and detecting environmental health damage in Flanders. You will look at climate policy from a medical perspective and help develop prevention strategies to make health systems and the general population more resilient to climate-related stressors,” the job vacancy reads.
“You support activities implementing the Flemish Climate Health Plan, focusing on topics such as heat, UV radiation, infectious diseases, water quality, extreme weather conditions, pollen, allergies, nutrition, and greenhouse gas emissions.
“The plan focuses on climate adaptation and mitigation with a strategic approach through to 2030.”
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France: Olympics Security Boost Fails to Curb High Levels of Crime
The 2024 Olympic Games have been accompanied by a massive deployment of police officers in Paris and the French cities hosting the events. But despite these ambitious measures, crime is not decreasing overall—proof of a deep-rooted structural problem in French society.
On Wednesday, July 24th, two days before the opening of the Games, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin boasted that crime would be reduced to “virtually zero,” thanks to an increased police presence, particularly in Paris. However, the figures do not give cause for optimism, despite improvements in a number of specific indicators. Crime is shifting and changing, but it is not disappearing.
A distinction must be made between Paris and its region and the rest of the country. As a clear result of the increased police presence at Olympic venues, ‘deliberate destruction and damage’ have fallen considerably in areas hosting Olympic venues in the Paris region, while the rest of the country continues to be affected. The same applies to ‘theft related to vehicles’ and ‘drug-related offences.’
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Left-Wing Spanish Government Accused of Cozying Up to Venezuela’s Maduro
Members of the Spanish left-wing government are split on how to respond to last week’s Venezuelan elections, in which Nicolas Maduro’s government has been accused by most of the Western world of widespread fraud. Spanish right-wingers VOX, whose observer was interrogated in Venezuela before being deported, has accused the Socialist Spanish government of cozying up to the Maduro regime.
The Venezuelan presidential election, held on July 28th, was won officially by President Nicolas Maduro with 52% of the vote, while the main opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez got 43%. However, the government has still not made public the voting tallies to prove Maduro won, and the opposition claims the elections were stolen. They declared Gonzalez the winner by a landslide of 67%.
Despite international criticism of the Venezuelan government, Spanish Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz, a member of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s hard-left junior coalition partner Sumar, called for the recognition of the Venezuelan results, saying: “The first thing is to recognise the election results, which is what democrats all over the world do, and secondly, simply: in the face of doubts, transparency, transparency, and transparency.”
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Netherlands: More Amsterdam Statues Tagged With Free Gaza Graffiti
On Sunday, graffiti was discovered on several other statutes in Amsterdam-Zuid, in addition to the statue of Anne Frank on the Merwedeplein. A spokesperson for Mayor Femke Halsema and a police spokesperson confirmed this following reports by AT5.
Tagged statues include one of Mahatma Gandhi and the resistance monument on Apollolaan. The words Free Gaza were written on the latter in purple paint, as can be seen in photos. In total, six statues were vandalized with graffiti, said the spokesperson for the Amsterdam police. The municipality filed a report.
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Ombudsman Sides With Conservative Think Tank Against EU Commission
The European Ombudsman found that the European Commission’s withholding documents about a highly controversial policy constituted “maladministration.” Last month it ordered the executive to disclose the files to MCC Brussels, a conservative think tank, “without further delay,” the watchdog revealed last week.
Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly’s preliminary ruling addressed to the Commission and dated July 10th—published on its website on Friday, August 2nd—notes that the case was opened months ago, when MCC filed a complaint on April 29th, ten days after the Commission missed the initial deadline for answering its freedom of information (FOI) request.
The think tank requested access to 20 documents (out of 27) pertaining to the controversial Nature Restoration Law’s consultation period, during which the Commission asks for input from relevant stakeholders (private sector, NGOs) before finalizing their policy proposal.
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Poland: Tusk Government Accused of Push to Sell Off State Rail Assets to Germany
The centre-left Polish Government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk has been accused by the opposition Conservatives (PiS) of attempting to sell-off the assets of State railway haulage company PKP Cargo to the German rail firm Deutsche Bahn.
PKP Cargo offers logistics services, combining rail, road and sea transport, and operates in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovenia.
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Poland Releases Russian Spy as Its Own Journalist Remains in Belarusian Jail
Poland was lavished with praise by the US administration after it consented to the release of a Russian spy from a Polish prison, helping broker the biggest prisoner swap between Russia and the West for decades.
Politicians from Poland’s opposition have however criticised the government for the release of the Russian agent without securing in return the release of ethnic Poles being held in Belarus. They include Polish journalist Andrzej Poczobut who is serving a lengthy sentence in a Belarusian labour camp.
On August 1, Polish security services confirmed that Pavel Rubtsov, also known as Pablo Gonzalez, a Russian-Spanish dual national held on espionage charges in Poland since 2022, had been released as part of a wider prisoner swap.
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In 1969, Bela and Gabriella Bollobas fled their native Hungary, escaping Communism. They landed in Britain, where Bela went on to become a world-renown mathematician at Trinity College, Cambridge. Their son Mark was born there in 19—, and raised both in Britain and in the United States, where his father did occasional stints in American universities. Young Mark Bollobas enjoyed freedoms that his parents dreamed of growing up in a Communist dictatorship.
And yet, in 2010, the younger Bollobas gave it all up, and moved to Hungary, his parents’ homeland, where he had citizenship owing to his ancestry. He settled in Budapest, married, and is now raising a family there. With his native Britain shaking from domestic unrest, amid an atmosphere of general national decline, Bollobas, 52, reflects on how happy he is that he reversed his mother and father’s migratory path. I spoke with him last weekend in Budapest.
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Fireworks were let off and a police van was damaged as far-right and anti-racist demonstrators clashed in Plymouth amid a wave of violence sweeping the UK.
The protesters clashed as campaign group Stand Up To Racism and a “stop the boats” rally met at Guildhall Square in Plymouth this evening.
Devon and Cornwall Police also said violence had been carried out against its officers and a riot van had been damaged during the confrontation.
It comes as almost 400 people have been arrested over the mob violence spreading across the UK, with the prime minister setting up a “standing army” of specialist police officers to deal with further attacks.
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UK: Farage Accuses Starmer of ‘Two Tier Policing’, Adding to Sense of Injustice in Country
Appalling violence seen in recent days is a symptom of a broken democracy, Brexit leader Nigel Farage makes implicit, stating the underlying problems behind the rioting of the past week remain unresolved.
Political leaders from across the political divide spoke out against violence on the streets of Britain overnight, but the question of where the blame lies, the underlying causes, and how to address them remains a matter of debate. While the government has moved quickly to attempt to divorce the protests in riots in England from the event which sparked them, the mass stabbing of young children a week ago, others see outrage stoked by what is stated to be nakedly political policing by the government.
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Four Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested by Manchester Airport amid fears of disruption to flights.
Officers from Greater Manchester Police’s Specialist Operations Branch on suspicion of conspiring to cause a public nuisance.
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UK: Labour’s Response to Southport Stabbing Puts “Fundamental Freedoms” at Risk
Violent protests across Britain—triggered by the killing of three young girls and injury to eight other children and two adults in a violent knife attack in Southport last week—have prompted the newly installed Labour prime minister to consider a range of authoritarian measures.
After Monday’s emergency (‘Cobra’) meeting, Starmer told the media that he was considering additional measures, including the creation of a “standing army” of specialist law enforcement officers able to be deployed across the UK, ramp up criminal justice, and identifying and naming participants in protests as quickly as possible. Criminal law applies online as well as offline, the PM said, “and I am assured that’s the approach that is being taken.” He added,
“This is not protest. It is pure violence, and we will not tolerate attacks on mosques or our Muslim communities, so the full force of the law will be visited on all those who are identified as having taken part in these activities.”
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The UK’s top cop seemed unable to control his temper when asked about growing concerns opver two-tier policing in the United Kingdom, lashing out at a journalist on Monday morning.
Sir Mark Rowley, the chief of the Metropolitan Police, London’s police force and the most senior in the UK, appeared to lose his temper at a journalist on Monday morning as he was questioned about the quality of response to recent incidents of public unrest including riots in England.
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UK: Nearly 400 Arrested After Six Days of Violence
Nearly 400 people have been arrested after six days of riots in parts of England and Northern Ireland, police say.
On Monday evening police were attacked in Plymouth as they attempted to keep rival protesters apart, petrol bombs were thrown at officers in Belfast and police dealt with unrest in the east of Birmingham.
Over the past week dozens of police officers were injured and shops, cars and homes damaged in disorder in the UK.
It erupted the night after three children were killed in Southport in a stabbing attack last Monday. This followed false rumours which spread online that a suspect was a Muslim asylum seeker.
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A near-week of threats hasn’t had the hoped-for impact for Sir Keir Starmer, who on Monday announced a change of tack with the establishment of a “standing army” to crush riots where they appeared.
The Prime Minister, a seasoned lawyer with a usually assured and slick style seemed unsure of his words at times and lacked his normal energy as he spoke to journalists on Monday after he stepped out of a government crisis meeting.
Speaking at his official residence and office Downing Street, where it appears a certain degree of bunker mentality has set in — the husband of the Home Secretary (Interior Minister) complained his hadn’t seen his wife in a week on national television this morning — Sir Keir said of what had been agreed as the next steps: “The first is we’ll have a standing army of specialist officers… [unintelligible]… so what we’ll have enough officers to deal with this where we need them”.
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‘EU Values Economic Interests Over Rule of Law and Democracy,’ Claims Balkans Expert
The EU-Serbia lithium deal, aimed at reducing Chinese influence, faces sharp criticism over Serbia’s rule of law issues and the EU’s perceived prioritisation of resource acquisition over democracy and governance concerns.
Florian Bieber, professor of political science and history at the University of Graz, took the EU to task over its policies towards Serbia.
With the signing of the deal on June 19, European bigwigs including Maros Šefcovic, the outgoing vice-president of the European Commission who is responsible for the Green Deal, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had visited Belgrade.
Šefcovic called the partnership “historic” and “a testament to our shared commitment to driving forward the ‘green’ transition”.
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Hezbollah: Israel Facing Existential Threat
The risks to Israel are intensifying. It is already menaced by a coalition of Iran-backed Islamist groups, with—like Hamas—a constitutional commitment to eliminating the Jewish State, and the Jews. Now, following the assassination of a number of Islamist officials, Israel’s enemies have sworn revenge. This could intensify the aggression of Tehran’s proxies, currently attacking Israel on up to seven fronts, or even bring in Iranian forces more directly.
While Israel is engaged in a highly publicised war started by Hamas on October 7th last year, it also faces coordinated assaults from the Houthi Movement in Yemen, Shia militias operating from Iraq and Syria, and—probably the greatest immediate danger—from Hezbollah in Lebanon. Following Hezbollah rocket attacks, which started on October 8th, its commander Fuad Shukr was killed last week—most likely in an unclaimed IDF operation.
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UN Fires Nine Gaza Staff Members Likely Involved in Oct.7 Attacks
This looks like an admission of guilt after months of denial: “The UN said on Monday that nine staff working for its Palestine refugee agency UNRWA will be sacked because they may have been involved in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel,” a statement posted Monday to the UN’s online press release section stated.
UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq confirmed that all nine will be terminated following an investigation of official allegations initially lodged by Israel that UNWRA staff had been involved in the terror attacks which killed about 1,200 people near the border with Gaza, and which resulted in 251 Israelis and foreigners taken hostage.
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Breaking: US Personnel Injured in Attack Against Al Asad Airbase in Iraq: Report
US personnel have been injured in a suspected rocket attack against Al Asad airbase in Iraq, according to three US officials who spoke to Reuters. The outlet reported that several US personnel were injured during the attack.
The outlet reported that the sources were citing preliminary information about the attack which could change. Security sources told the outlet that two Katyusha rockets were fired at the base in western Iraq, on Monday.
“Base personnel are conducting a post-attack damage assessment,” one of the officials commented. The attack comes as concerns over tensions in the region have mounted with the killings of Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist group leaders.
Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec reported that five to six Americans were injured and that there were several getting surgery.
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EU Countries Urge Citizens to Leave Lebanon Amid Fears of “Imminent” Escalation
EU member states have begun telling their citizens to leave Lebanon “as soon as possible” amid fears of an imminent escalation in hostilities with Israel over the weekend. Iran and its proxies vowed to retaliate against Tel Aviv for the recent assassinations, potentially leading to a wider regional war in the Middle East.
“In a highly volatile security context … we invite [French citizens] to make arrangements now to leave Lebanon as soon as possible,” the French foreign ministry said in an urgent statement on Sunday, August 5th.
The U.S. and the UK were the first to publish similar warnings, with the latter pleading with British citizens to book “any ticket available” to leave the Middle East as soon as possible. They were quickly joined by Canada, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and later Italy, whose Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani urged Italians to “absolutely not travel to the south of the [Lebanon]” and return to Europe with the next available flight.
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Furious Iran General Salami Vows ‘Holy Wrath’ Against Israel
“Holy wrath” is coming against Israel, the furious head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami, declared Saturday.
The military chief, known for making bloodcurdling threats against Israel and the U.S. along with their allies, made his latest deadly promise in a condolence message to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah for the death of terror leader Fuad Shukr.
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Putin Ally Holds Talks in Iran as Middle East Teeters on Brink of Wider War
MOSCOW — A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin arrived in Tehran on Monday for talks with Iranian leaders including the president and top security officials as the Islamic Republic weighs its response to the killing of a Hamas leader.
Russia has condemned the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Iran last week and called on all parties to refrain from steps that could tip the Middle East into a wider regional war.
Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia’s security council, was shown by Russia’s Zvezda television station meeting Rear Admiral Ali Akbar Ahmadian, a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander who serves as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.
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Putin’s Top Defense Officials Are in Tehran Amid Countdown to Zero Hour
On Monday as the Middle East approaches zero hour of Iran’s expected major retaliation attack on Israel, there is a Russian defense delegation in Tehran, and a US defense delegation in Tel Aviv. How is that for symmetry among enemies?
Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s ex-Defense Minister and current national Security Council secretary, is meeting with senior Iranian military and security officials, as well as newly sworn-in president Masoud Pezeshkian.
Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency described the focus of the talks as “strengthening bilateral cooperation in a wide range of spheres including security” — and the meetings come amid growing speculation that Russia is actively helping the Islamic Republic to thwart potential Israeli attacks.
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Explosions Rock Kyiv as Air Defense Intercepts Incoming Missiles
Several explosions rang out in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv late on Monday, Reuters witnesses said, after an air raid siren sounded, but authorities said air defence units had intercepted incoming missiles.
New explosions were heard a half hour after the original blasts, the witnesses said.
Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s military authorities, said that, according to preliminary reports, there was no damage or casualties.
Ukrainian air defense units were operating in the city and in the surrounding Kyiv region, authorities in Kyiv said in statements on the Telegram messaging app.
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Russia ‘Fears’ Trump’s Return to the White House
The Russian government is growing “concerned” over “fears” that President Donald Trump will return to the White House after the November election, according to a new report.
A report from the Wall Street Journal suggests that Moscow became more interested in negotiating a prisoner swap with the United States when Trump recently surged in the polls after surviving an assassination attempt.
The Journal, whose reporter, Evan Gerskovich, was freed as part of the prisoner swap deal, noted that “Moscow’s concerns about a potential Trump presidency speeded up the deal.”
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Attacks on Hindus Unleashed in Bangladesh in the Name of Anti-Quota, Anti-Hassina Protests
Bangladesh protests: Hindu councillor shot dead, Hindu journalist hacked to death; Hindu houses, shops, ISKCON, Kali temples attacked amid violent clashes perpetrated by Jihadi elements.
Sabita Das Pal | HENB | New Delhi | Aug 5, 2024:: A Hindu councillor Kajal Roy from Rangpur, was among the 100 people killed in the violent protests across Bangladesh on Sunday. Reports indicate that houses, business, shops and temples belonging to Hindus, including ISKCON and Kali temples, were targeted, forcing devotees to seek shelter in a perilous situation. Reports also came in that On Sunday, fundamentalists connected to Jamiat-e-Islami groups hacked to death one Pradip Bhowmik, who was the Secretary of Raiganj Press Club.
Thousands of Bangladeshi protesters demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resign clashed with government supporters Sunday in one of the deadliest days since demonstrations began. But, the protests have now also been shaped as anti-Hindu and anti-Hindu movements. The fundamental elements in Bangladesh are now trying to motivate the people to establish a Sharia State in Bangladesh dumping its secular structure whatsoever.
A curfew has been in effect since 6 pm on Sunday and will continue. A three-day closure of all establishments, including banks, has been announced by the government. However, essential services such as hospitals, water, gas, and electricity will continue uninterrupted indefinitely. After the resignation of Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, the Army of Bangladesh has taken the charge to make an interim Govt there taking representatives of all political parties. As per latest reports, Sheikh Hasina has now exiled in India and taken refuge in New Delhi.
“It was a ‘Bloody Sunday’ today. Miscreants have turned the violence communal. Social media like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have been blocked,” Professor Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, a political commentator from Bangladesh, told this newspaper.
Bangladesh has been marred by the biggest crisis after Independence. While more than 100 people have been killed in anti-quota protests, incidents of Hindus being attacked in some parts of Bangladesh have been reported.
In Noakhali district of Bangladesh, anti-quota protests have escalated and protestors started attacking Hindus. In exclusive footage accessed by HENB, attackers were seen trying to enter a Hindu home in Noakhali. They tried to break the gate of one Tanusreya Bhatta’s residence.
Bangladesh has been marred by the biggest crisis after Independence. While more than 100 people have been killed in anti-quota protests, incidents of Hindus being attacked in some parts of Bangladesh have been reported.
In the footage, women were seen terrified and crying while saying “bhagwan, bhagwan”.
In the above video the attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh in the name of anti-Hassina or anti-Quota protests can be seen as available in various social media platforms…
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Bangladesh Leader Flees Country in Helicopter as Protesters Storm Parliament
Via Middle East Eye
Bangladesh’s long-serving Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, resigned and fled the country on Monday, after protesters defied a military curfew and stormed her official residence.
Hasina, who had been in power for 15 years, fled the capital Dhaka along with her sister by a helicopter to India, the daily newspaper Prothom Alo reported, after weeks of violent crack downs on protesters left nearly 300 people dead.
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Japanese Scientists Raise Alarm Over Links Between COVID Shots & Miscarriage Surge
A team of leading Japanese medical researchers has issued a red alert after uncovering disturbing links between Covid mRNA shots and surging reports of miscarriages.
The warning was issued in a report from Japanese scientists from the Tokyo-based National Center for Child Health and Development (NCCHD) and the Nippon Sport Science University.
Led by Professor Michi Hisano of the NCCHD’s Center of Maternal-Fetal, Neonatal, and Reproductive Medicine, the team is raising the alarm over troubling findings from a study conducted on 184 hospital staff members who participated in separate prior studies.
The studies were conducted during Japan’s FY 2020 (April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021) through FY 2022 (April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023).
The longitudinal studies were conducted with team members associated with Japan’s NCCHD during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“No Forgiveness”: Maduro Arrests 2,000 Venezuelan Protesters, Vows ‘Maximum Punishment’
Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Post-election demonstrations in Venezuela continue as pressure mounts against disputed President Nicolas Maduro, who has firmly stood his ground amid ongoing calls to release voting details from the July 28 general election. In the streets, clashes between Venezuelan security forces and protesters have resulted in at least 20 deaths, according to Human Rights Watch.
On Aug. 3, Maduro announced that 2,000 civilian arrests have been made and denounced those who contest his administration.
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Argentina’s AI and the Rise of Pre-Crime Digital Surveillance
Argentina’s new initiative to launch the Applied Artificial Intelligence for Security Unit (UIAAS) represents a concerning step toward a surveillance-heavy approach to tackling crime. Under the guise of innovation, this unit, embedded within the Ministry of Security, integrates artificial intelligence to not only sift through vast amounts of historical crime data but also to monitor social media activities ostensibly to predict and preempt criminal behavior.
This approach raises significant ethical questions, especially regarding privacy and civil liberties. The idea that AI can predict future crimes based on patterns might sound efficient, but it harbors risks of overreach, profiling, and potentially unjustified surveillance. The emphasis on monitoring social media activities and detecting “potential threats” could easily slide into invasive scrutiny of everyday citizens’ lives under a loosely defined mandate.
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Elon Musk Warns of English ‘Civil War’ as Muslim Gangs Clash With Anti-Migration Demos
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has warned that “civil war is inevitable” in Britain, which has seen sectarian violence break out between vigilante Muslim groups and anti-mass migration protesters.
The Tesla and X/Twitter CEO shared his grim prediction as the UK descended into chaos over the weekend following the mass stabbing at a children’s dance party, which left three young girls dead and eight others injured in Southport allegedly at the hands of a Rwandan-heritage teen.
Responding to footage of the ensuing riots, born-South African Musk said that “civil war is inevitable” while highlighting the perils of “incompatible cultures” being “brought together without assimilation.”
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Leftist UK Government Announces Mosque ‘Emergency Security’ Measures Amid Anti-Mass Migration Unrest
The tenderfoot Labour government in Britain announced that mosques will be offered “emergency security” protection amid the national unrest and riots following the killing of three young girls by an alleged second-generation migrant Rwandan-heritage youth.
Fledgling Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer redoubled his commitment to cracking down on the “far-right thuggery” seen across the UK on Sunday, which again saw numerous clashes with police and anti-immigration protesters and rioters, as well as an attack on a reported “migrant hotel” in the grooming gang hotspot of Rotherham.
Still keeping well clear of discussing the catalyst of these protests and riots — the mass stabbing of young children last week at a ‘Taylor Swift dance party’ for young children in Southport — Starmer instead continues to focus his energies on the fear amid Britain’s Muslim population.
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More Knife Attacks in Germany Committed by Syrians
A Syrian migrant with a Dutch passport is alleged to have committed a knife attack against a four-year-old girl in a supermarket in the southern German city of Wangen im Allgäu in April, and seriously injured her. The perpetrator and the victim did not know each other. The girl was in the supermarket with her mother when the incident happened and had to be operated on after the stabbing.
A psychiatric report was ordered to check the 34-year-old man’s mental state. The prosecution has accused him of attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.
The motive of the perpetrator remains unclear but the man was already known to the police, as he had acted aggressively before. He is said to have come to Wangen im Allgäu in 2023 to visit his sister and her family. A few months before the knife attack, he had been in the same supermarket and acted violently towards his relatives, including the children.
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A new interim staff report from the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, published on Monday, highlights how the Biden administration, with ‘Border Czar’ VP Kamala Harris, facilitated the greatest illegal alien invasion ever on the United States.
The report titled “Terror At Our Door: How The Biden-Harris Administration’s Open-Borders Policies Undermine National Security And Endanger Americans” revealed that the failed southern border policies of President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris have flooded the nation with more than 5.4 million illegal aliens. Additionally, at least 1.9 million known “gotaways” also entered, bringing the total to 7.3 million illegal entries.
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Taxpayers Expected to Save Millions After COVID-Era Perk for Illegal Immigrants Gets Cancelled
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ended a COVID-era program that granted hundreds of free minutes of video calls to illegal immigrants, Fox News Digital has learned — a move that is estimated to save taxpayers more than $10 million a year.
The federal agency began offering illegal immigrants in custody 520 minutes of free domestic and international phone and video calls per month in May 2020 due to the then-emerging COVID-19 pandemic and visitation restrictions that were implemented as a consequence. The cost of the program is $10.2 million a year.
The public health emergency for the pandemic ended in May 2023, but the program remained in effect even as in-person visitation has resumed with the ending of social distancing requirements.
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Under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s leadership, the American economy has been disproportionally benefitting foreign-born workers over native-born Americans, the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report reveals.
In July, 1.2 million fewer Americans held jobs compared to a year prior. At the same time, 1.3 million more foreign-born workers are holding jobs — suggesting that most job growth in the Biden-Harris economy is going to newly arrived migrants.
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Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif Refuses to Discuss Failed IBA Gender Test
Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif, who has been at the center of controversy after the International Boxing Association (IBA) chief claimed Khelif had male chromosomes, refused to answer any questions on Sunday about biological sex or fairness concerns at the Paris Games.
The IBA disqualified Khelif, fighting in the 66 kilogram division, and Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting, fighting in the 57 kilogram division, from fighting in its women’s tournaments in March 2023 on the grounds that they failed unspecified tests to confirm that they fit the governing body’s definition of a woman. IBA President Umar Kremlev told the Russian news agency Tass at the time that Lin and Khelif “have XY chromosomes,” the genetic makeup of a human male.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed Lin and Khelif to compete because it does not use the IBA testing standards, requiring athletes only to present their passports and qualifying them to compete as men or women, depending on how their countries classify them.
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International Boxing Association Fires Back at IOC in Row Over Gender Tests: ‘This Boxer is Male’
The International Boxing Association (IBA) held a press conference Monday to defend itself for its ban of two controversial boxers from claims that its decisions were illegitimate leveled by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
In 2023, the IBA President Umar Kremlev explained his organization’s decision to disqualify Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif from competing in the IBA’s 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships, according to Russia’s Tass News Agency. “Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition,” Kremlev said.
However, despite the 2023 disqualification and the stated testing results, the IOC ignored the IBA’s findings and allowed Khelif and Lin to fight in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris this year.
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Trans Person’s ‘Facial Feminization’ Surgery Will Not be Covered by Ontario Health Plan
Ontario taxpayers will not be forced to pay for a biological male to have his features appear more feminine. Facial feminization surgery is used by transgendered women to look more feminine in a way that hormones alone can’t provide.
But should taxpayers be obliged to pick up the cost?
“Why should this quickly growing identity group be entitled to services that others are not,” said Pamela Buffone, founder of the Canadian Gender Report, according to the National Post.
The individual who was denied the funding is identified as M.F. and is said to suffer “severe gender dysphoria.” M.F., who cannot be identified due to a publication ban, is seeking surgical redress for “a pronounced Adam’s apple and prominent forehead,” according to the Post.
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Vatican Finally Condemns Paris Olympics Parody of Last Supper
ROME — The Vatican said this weekend it was “saddened” by the drag queen parody of the Last Supper on display during the July 26 opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, after critics complained loudly over the Vatican’s prolonged silence on the matter.
“The Holy See is saddened by some scenes of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games and cannot but join the voices that have been raised in recent days to deplore the offense done to many Christians and believers of other religions,” it said in a statement.
“In a prestigious event where the whole world comes together around common values, there should be no allusions that ridicule the religious convictions of many people,” the statement said.
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Britain has a standing army. Starmer seems to threaten a paramilitary police to cudgel Britons to accept Islam as the UK state authority
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Re: “Britain has a standing army. Starmer seems to threaten a paramilitary police to cudgel Britons to accept Islam as the UK state authority.”
Yes, that is my interpretation as well. Starmer isn’t the only globalist politician to have spoken in such terms. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Macron conferred some years ago, and during their meeting discussed the possibility of forming a “rapid reaction force” for the European Union.
To which observers rightly asked, “For what purpose?” since the EU is already protected by NATO as well as the individual armies and police forces of individual nations. Reading between the lines, it seems fairly obvious that they want an armed paramilitary force for their own ends and under their control. Starmer would seem to feel the same.
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NOTA BENE
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On August 6, 2024, it will be 79 years since the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Friends of peace around the world are demonstrating on August 6 to remind that nuclear war should never be fought and can never be won.
“An international chorus of voices must now drown out the constant talk of war and call for peace!”
The organizer argues:
“After the end of the Cold War, an opportunity was given for global peace. Today, NATO has expanded right up to Russia’s borders. The US has left almost all nuclear disarmament treaties. It has triggered a new nuclear arms race without any such safety nets.
At the NATO summit in Washington earlier this summer, it was decided to send F16 planes to Ukraine, planes that can carry the B-61 type nuclear weapons stationed in Europe. At the same time, the US decided to deploy long-range robots for nuclear weapons in Germany by 2026. When NATO now does not have enough weapons for Ukraine, the only recourse is nuclear weapons.”
The Humanity for Peace movement, which is a project of the Schiller Institute, is building a coalition, across all ideologies, to stop the ongoing escalation into a nuclear war. We refuse to let humanity perish because of madness.
We demand:
Immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and Israel and unconditional peace talks.
Immediate cessation of all arms exports to Ukraine and Israel.
Disband NATO and the division of the world into geopolitical blocs!
The creation of a new international security architecture for peace and economic development.
This new architecture must take into account the security of every free nation, large and small.
To cut a long story short, sharia law being established in UK. What is happening in Bangladesh will happen here soon.
Re: “Kamala’s Husband…”
I feel like throwing up!
Were I a British subject, or an Irish native, I would be seeking out the Russian embassy to get the hell out. Russia: mostly white, Christian, and they have no LGBTQ+ BS going on. That alone would be worth moving pets, parents, grandparents, and especially your children to a sane and safe country.