Russian President Vladimir Putin convened the Russian Security Council yesterday after Ukrainian troops entered Russian territory in the Kursk region. Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said its troops are battling to push back Ukrainian forces.
In other news, newly released body camera footage from Butler Township police shows the moments before and after Thomas Crooks opened fire at a rally for former President Donald Trump.
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Almost 44% of Americans Say They Don’t Make Enough to Cover Daily Expenses: Survey
Almost 44% of Americans say they don’t make enough to cover daily expenses in the current economy, a Freedom Economy Index survey has revealed.
The survey, a product of the Red Balloon job site and the Public Square shopping site, was released Thursday and further showed that finding a job has become more difficult.
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Czechia: Prices for New Apartments in Prague Reach Highest Point in History
Demand for new apartments in Prague is on the rise, with prices for new buildings now reaching a record-high, according to new figures. In the second quarter of this year, the average offering price of new apartments in the Czech capital exceeded CZK 156,000 per square meter. Analysts believe this trend will only continue for the rest of this year.
Demand soars, as do prices
According to a recent analysis from development companies Central Group, Trigema, and Skanska Residential, rising interest in new apartments is attributed to falling mortgage interest rates and the returning deferred demand from the previous two years.
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Real Wages in Czechia Have Slumped in the Last Five Years
Czech salary growth is in a dire state, with real wages worth much less today than they were five years ago — despite sizable growth in nominal terms. Based on data from the national Information System on Average Earnings (ISPV), some professions have seen technical pay cuts of up to 30 percent since 2019, mainly owing to Czechia’s high inflation rate.
Worse off, despite higher pay
Using the ISPV figures, Czech media outlet Seznam Zpravy found that inflation, on aggregate, has increased in Czechia by around 38 percent since 2019. Consequently, a large chunk of employees have lost money in real terms. As a result, protests and demands for significant pay increases have erupted across various professions, including police officers, court workers, doctors, teachers, and academics.
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On Tuesday, Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X Corp announced in a video post that the company had initiated a lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), its parent entity the World Federation Advertisers, and several key members including Mars, CVS Health, Unilever, and Orsted. The litigation, which also involves Rumble—a video-sharing site often praised by influencers as a bastion of free speech—accuses these entities of engaging in a boycott of certain platforms, thereby limiting consumer choice and stifling free expression.
Allegations of the advertising cartel acting as a monopoly are at the heart of the lawsuit and Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski this week shared more insight into the issue of advertisers boycotting select video platforms.
Pavlovski posted an email from a representative of Diageo, explicitly saying that they won’t advertise on a platform that hosts Alex Jones and Stephen Crowder, two prominent political and cultural commentators.
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ABC News Confirms Trump-Harris Debate on September 10
ABC News on Thursday confirmed that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris will debate on the network next month.
“ABC News will host qualifying presidential candidates to debate on September 10 on ABC,” the outlet wrote on the social media platform X. “Vice President Harris and former President Trump have both confirmed they will attend the ABC debate.”
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Donald Trump held a presser on Thursday at Mar-a-Lago and slammed Vice President Kamala Harris’ record with voters. He reminded voters that she did not make it to Iowa in the 2020 Democrat primaries when she was attempting to secure the nomination for president on her own merits.
“She had no votes, no support, and she was a bad debater, by the way, very bad debater. And that’s not the thing I’m looking forward to, but she was a bad debater. She did obviously a bad job. She never made it to Iowa.”
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Butler Police Bodycam Footage Reveals Moment Officer Sees Trump Shooter
New bodycam footage from Butler police in Pennsylvania, which was released on Thursday, revealed the moment that a Butler police officer was hoisted onto the roof with former President Donald Trump’s shooter.
Trump was injured in an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month, which resulted in the deaths of two people including the shooter, and injured a total of three people including the former president.
The footage comes amid increased tension with the Secret Service for allowing an assassination attempt to take place.
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An anti-Israel protest got the OK to go ahead during the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Chicago — as a pro-Israeli group remains in limbo for approval to stage its own demonstration, according to a new report.
The Israeli American Council (IAC), a nonprofit organization that advocates for Israeli-Americans, has yet to hear back on whether it will be allowed to protest at the DNC, which starts in less than two weeks, the Jewish Insider reported.
Anti-Israel groups, meanwhile, have already gotten permission for a “March on the DNC” near Chicago’s United Center after the groups sought a First Amendment lawsuit against the city for attempting to restrict the demonstration.
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In an interview with The Post Millennial in Nashville, TN, Senator Bill Hagerty said he was “shocked and dismayed” at Kamala Harris’s unwillingness to call out “terrorism and terrorist supporters.” The Senator condemned the Biden administration’s position toward Iran. Hagerty claims the administration has shied away from assigning responsibility to Iran for destabilizing the Middle East and funding terrorism. “The administration is far more concerned with the domestic politics of states like Michigan and Minnesota than with the national security of our ally, Israel.”
Hagerty claims that the Kamala’s actions have brought Iran closer to developing a nuclear weapon. This development was subsequent to the Biden-Harris administration lifting sanctions that were imposed on Iran by the Trump administration. Hagerty was proud of his role in imposing the “maximum pressure sanctions” on Iran, saying, “My job was getting the Japanese government to stop buying Iranian crude oil, and they did.”
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A former inmate at a secure prison island in Washington for sex offenders has been indicted for receipt and possession of images of child sexual abuse. This after Democrats passed a law making it easier for offenders to be released from McNeil Island, a facility made for violent sexual offenders.
71-year-old Alan Lewis Meirhofer was indicted this week by a federal grand jury for receipt and possession of images of child sexual abuse. According to US Attorney Tessa M. Gorman, Meirhofer was originally charged in state court after a teen boy saw images of child sexual abuse on a phone he borrowed from the defendant. The teen gave the phone to his mother, who called law enforcement. Meirhofer was later arrested in March 2021 and his devices were seized.
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FBI Let Suspect in Plot to Kill Trump Into U.S. on Parole Despite Terror Ties, Iran Trip, Memos Show
The FBI allowed Asif Raza Merchant, the Pakistani man charged with plotting with Tehran to assassinate Donald Trump and others, to enter the U.S. in April with special permission known as “significant public benefit parole” even though he was flagged on a terrorism watchlist and recently traveled to Iran, according to government documents reviewed by Just the News.
The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed Merchant, fingerprinted him and inspected the contents of his electronic devices when he arrived at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston, but then let him leave with the special parole that expired on May 11, the memos state.
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FBI: Maui Police Investigating Reports of Potential Explosive Devices
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) — The FBI has sent out a notice Thursday, warning the public about recent reports of potential explosive devices around Maui.
The FBI said several devices have so far been recovered in the Kahului and Pukalani areas.
The improvised explosive devices — IEDs — may look like small makeshift baskets, but their appearances vary, officials said.
No injuries have been reported.
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Georgia Election Board Seeks New Investigation Into Fulton County’s Handling of 2020 Election
Georgia State election board on Wednesday night voted to request that state Attorney General Chris Carr reopen an investigation into Fulton County’s counting of the results of the 2020 election.
The request comes after the board closed the matter in May, but voted to install an independent election monitor for the 2024 election, after an independent investigation found that the county likely scanned thousands of ballots twice in a recount of the 2020 election.
The election board approved the new resolution in a 3-2 vote, but Carr has not received the resolution yet. The resolution states that if Carr does not conduct an investigation, the board will try to find an outside lawyer to conduct the inquiry.
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Gun Sales Jump in Response to Trump Shooting and Harris Nomination
Gun sales turned up for the first time in nearly a year after last month’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and promises of firearm bans from Vice President Kamala Harris following her anointment as the Democratic presidential nominee.
While still high historically, sales month over month had slowed until the shooting and elevation of Harris, who selected liberal gun-grabber Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor, as her running mate on Tuesday.
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A Virginia high school football player has died after suffering a heart attack on the practice field Monday — and his teammates are now paying tribute to the “positive” and “remarkable” athlete.
Sophomore Jayvion Taylor, 15, was about 40 minutes into the practice — and in the middle of light drills — when the young student-athlete took a water break, then dropped to the ground just 10 feet from a coach, a Hopewell High School spokesperson told CBS 6 Richmond.
A pair of coaches performed CPR and called 911, the statement said. Paramedics arrived quickly, and brought Taylor to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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How the Biden Campaign Redefined Misinformation to Control the Online Narrative
Evidence keeps piling up that the use of the terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” has become the ultimate tactic to manipulate and censor people and content, invalidate legitimate arguments, and control the narratives.
Matt Orfalea writes about the case of Joe Biden, and the effort his team put into trying to convince voters that any (as it turned out, completely legitimate) talk about the president’s mental decline was “disinformation.”
A Zoom call between three members of that team has now surfaced, dating to the 2020 campaign, when questions were already being asked about the state of health of then-candidate Biden.
And according to them — the manipulative methods that they discuss, designed to dispel those concerns — supposedly resulted in Biden receiving 200,000 more votes than he would have.
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Hunter Biden Was Paid Millions to ‘Influence U.S Government Agencies’, Special Counsel Reveals
Special Counsel David Weiss has revealed in a court filing that lame-duck President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was paid millions of dollars to “influence U.S. government agencies” on behalf of foreign nationals.
Hunter Biden accepted $3,101,258 from Romanian oligarch Gabriel Popoviciu while his father served as Barack Obama’s vice president.
However, Weiss stopped short of accusing Hunter of having “improperly coordinated with the Obama administration.”
Nevertheless, Weiss, who was tasked to investigate the president’s son by Biden’s Justice Department, failed to indict Hunter on Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations in 2023.
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Jack Smith Seeks Delay on Deadlines for Trump’s Jan 6 Case
Special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday requested more time to consider how former President Donald Trump’s January 6 case can move forward, after the Supreme Court gave Trump a major victory last month.
The Supreme Court ruled 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.
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan has ordered both sides of the January 6 case to jointly propose how to move forward in the case.
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Kamala’s Press Corps Gets Private Briefings So They Don’t Complain About Lack of Access: Report
Kamala Harris, the current vice president, has been the Democrat candidate for president for 18 days, and in those 18 days, she has not publicly taken questions from reporters, nor sat for interviews. Politico’s Playbook revealed on Wednesday that Harris has “routinely interacted with the reporters who travel with her,” though speaking only off the record.
Playbook noted that Harris “often visits with the press pool seated at the back of her plane,” but speaks to them “only off the record.” When she does choose to comment on the record about something, she addresses the pool on the tarmac, but does not answer questions, they said.
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Majority of Americans Oppose Using US Troops to Defend Israel: Poll
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com
The majority of Americans oppose the idea of US troops being used to defend Israel if it comes under attack by Iran, according to a poll conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs that was released on Tuesday.
The poll, conducted from June 21—July 1, 2024, found that 56% of Americans oppose US troops defending Israel, while 42% support the idea. Support for defending Israel is stronger among Republicans, with 53% in favor and only 32% of Democrats in favor.
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Major US Banks Shutter 33 Locations in Just 2 Weeks
National banks continue to shut down branches at an alarming rate, with more than 30 locations being shuttered in just two weeks in July, the Daily Mail reports. Banks closing branches include Chase, Bank of America, PNC, Axiom Bank, Capitol, Citizens, Dollar Bank, Lemont, Wells Fargo and Zions Bancorporation.
Bank of America shuttered 11 branches with Chase and PNC both closing seven branches each. Florida lost the most branches, with Ohio, Virginia and Texas following with three branches each in those states. Bank of America closed 100 branches in 2024 alone. Over the past year, however, California saw the most closures at 72 while New York was second with 51 and Pennsylvania had 40 branches closed.
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Man Stabbed on SEPTA’s El Train After Punching Woman in the Face, Officials Say
A woman stabbed a man on the SEPTA Market Frankford Line in self-defense Thursday afternoon in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberties area.
Around 12:25 p.m., the train was traveling west near the Spring Garden Station when SEPTA said an argument broke out between a woman and a man.
Police said the man was smoking on the train and the woman asked him to stop several times, that is when the man punched her in the face. The woman then stabbed the man in the arm and stomach, according to officials.
The man was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said. However, his condition is unknown.
SEPTA said the stabbing was done in self-defense. They spoke with the woman and at this time no one is in custody or has been charged.
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Marine Veteran Who Was Shot, Injured at Butler Trump Rally Offers Gratitude for Support
One of the Trump supporters injured during the attempted assassination of the former president, has spoken publicly for the first time about his ordeal since leaving hospital care. David Dutch, a Marine veteran, survived the Trump assassination attempt on July 13 but suffered two gunshot wounds and was placed in a medically induced coma for treatment.
The 57-year-old issued a statement on Wednesday because he wanted to express his gratitude for the overwhelming support that he and his family have received since the incident. Dutch was standing right behind Trump when the firing started.
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Nancy Pelosi Admits She Was Never ‘Impressed’ by Biden’s ‘Political Operation’
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed Thursday that she’d “never been that impressed” with President Joe Biden’s political operations, despite previously claiming he should be added to Mount Rushmore.
Pelosi claimed on Sunday that Biden was “such a consequential president of the United States,” that he deserves to be on the historic landmark, alongside other great presidents like Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington.
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Nassau County Criminalizes Masks to Counter Far-Left Mask-Wearing Activists
Nassau County Republicans passed the “Mask Transparency Act” on Monday, making it a misdemeanor for anyone 16 and older to wear a face mask in public spaces except for health and religious reasons. This move aims to curb criminals or violent protesters who exploit mask-wearing to conceal their identities.
Nassau County Legislator Mazi Pilip proposed the Mask Transparency Act after one of her constituents was attacked by a mask-wearing protester.
“Having them covering their faces, thinking they can do whatever they want. This is absolutely unacceptable,” Pilip told NBC New York.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman shared a similar view…
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Nevada Agrees to Purge 90K Ineligible Voters From Election Rolls
Authored by Luis Cornelio via HeadlineUSA.com
Nevada has agreed to purge over 90,000 ineligible voters from its rolls following a legal battle with the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign, according to a press statement from the Nevada GOP.
The purge will focus on Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, and will remove individuals no longer active under state law, the Wednesday statement alleged.
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New Audio-Video From Trump Rally Shows Local Law Enforcement’s Frustration With Secret Service
Newly acquired police body cam video includes audio in which a local police officer moments after the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally complains about the Secret Service not having cover the rooftop from which the sniper shot.
“I f***ing told them that they needed to post guys f***ing over here,” says a Butler Township officer in the audio of tape obtained by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday under a public records request. “I told them that f***ing Tuesday,” said a in audio captured on his body-worn camera. “I talked to the Secret Service guys. They’re like, ‘Yeah, no problem. We’re going to post guys over here.’“
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Odysee Shakes Up Video Sharing by Removing Ads
Odysee, the blockchain-based video-sharing service, has announced that it will remove all advertisements from its platform effective immediately.
The company expressed confidence in its innovative monetization programs, which are designed to support creators financially while maintaining the platform’s operational costs. “We don’t need ads to make money as a platform,” the announcement read, highlighting their commitment to creating a more open and creatively free environment.
Odysee’s move comes at a time when many media platforms increasingly rely on advertising revenue, which can lead to conflicts of interest and potential demonetization from pro-censorship activists.
By eliminating ads, Odysee aims to set a new standard for platform independence and user-centric service.
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Parody Website Clownstrike Rejects CrowdStrike’s Baseless DMCA Takedown Notice
CrowdStrike — a company that advertises itself as stopping breaches using “AI-native cybersecurity” — recently failed to deliver in a spectacular fashion.
One of its faulty updates (for Windows) caused a massive global outage across different industries and services, including hospitals and airports.
This latest poster child for “single point of failure,” and why IT systems should not be centralized to the degree they are, now apparently sees making false copyright claims, thus abusing the DMCA, as one way of damage control.
The recipient of the takedown attempt is a parody site, ClownStrike. Created by IT consultant David Senk, clownstrike.lol went online on July 24, in the wake of the embarrassing and costly (damages are said to run into billions) episode caused by CrowdStrike.
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Donald Trump took questions on Thursday during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on the current economic conditions in the US. He noted that the economic conditions under the Biden-Harris administration have led to inflated prices on many basic necessities, including food. Trump told reporters that people are “voting with their stomachs.”
“People are voting with their stomachs, meaning they’re going to the grocery store, they’re paying 50, 60, 70 percent more on food than they did just a couple years ago,” Trump said.
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Pro-Palestinian Protesters Heckle Kamala at Detroit Campaign Rally
Vice President and 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris was heckled by pro-Palestinian activists during her campaign rally in Detroit. Michigan. Harris told the protestors that their behavior risks handing the presidential election to former President Donald Trump.
The group began chanting, “Kamala! Kamala! You Can’t Hide! We Won’t Vote for Genocide!”
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RFK Jr. Cancels Iowa State Fair Campaign Event Over ‘Increased Security Concerns’
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr canceled an upcoming campaign event because of “increased security concerns,” his campaign said Wednesday.
Kennedy, 70, had been slated to appear at the Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday afternoon, but he called off the appearance because the outdoor venue posed a heightened risk to his safety.
“We were unable to secure a venue stage indoors that satisfies our security requirements for Mr. Kennedy’s safety,” a campaign official told The Post.
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Texas Man Set Off Explosions by Booby-Trapping Bathrooms in Businesses, Police Say
A Texas man is accused of booby-trapping toilets in the bathrooms of two car washes with “pressure-activated” fireworks.
Paul Moses Alden, 46, was arrested Aug. 1 on a charge of “arson causing reckless damage — bodily injury,” the San Antonio Police Department said. He was released from jail the same day on $50,000 bond.
Alden allegedly placed fireworks under restroom toilet seats, which caused injuries when a person sat down, police said.
A police affidavit cited by KENS 5 said multiple people were hurt when the fireworks detonated.
The first incident was reported July 20 at The Wash Tub, a car wash in Helotes, Texas. A man was seen on surveillance video entering a unisex bathroom before a small explosion occurred. A woman was injured, authorities said.
Six days later, a girl and an employee at a Wash Tub in San Antonio were injured from exploding devices attached to a toilet seat. Remnants from the fireworks were found in the bathroom, police said.
In each case, authorities say, Alden was captured on security cameras entering and leaving the bathroom, sitting in the lobby watching the bathroom door and then leaving the area after the explosions. Employees said they were able to identify him because he is a regular at the car wash who used his membership card.
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Three Columbia University Deans Resign After Insulting Texts Over Panel on Antisemitism: Report
Three Columbia University deans have resigned after exchanging insulting texts during a panel on antisemitism concerns, according to a report.
The three deans were the vice dean and chief administrative officer Susan Chang-Kim; the dean of undergraduate student life, Cristen Kromm; and the associate dean for student and family support, Matthew Patashnick, The New York Times reported.
The deans resigned after they were placed on indefinite leave in June amid an investigation into an incident in May.
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Tim Walz’s 30-Year Relationship With China
With the United States and China engaged in a heated trade war, the US-China Peoples Friendship Association (USCPFA) scheduled its national convention in Minneapolis.
Minnesota’s soybean trade made it China’s best leverage against President Trump’s tariffs and the regime was fortunate to have one of its own in the governor’s residency.
Gov. Tim Walz was the highest ranking elected official with the broadest ties to China. And so it surprised no one when the US-China Peoples Friendship Association listed him as one of its speakers at the convention alongside notable Communist influence operation figures.
Earlier that year, Walz had gone on a foreign trip to Asia along with his Lt. Gov: leaving no one in charge of Minnesota. While the trip was ostensibly undertaken to find alternative trading partners to China, it was actually a propaganda move to stir up opposition to Trump’s trade war.
In September 2019, Gov. Walz returned claiming that the state’s farmers ‘remain in desperate need of a U.S. trade deal with China.’
“There’s just no substitute for 1.6 billion consumers who are hungry to get our China trade negotiations normalized,” he claimed.
And next month in October, it was time for the USCPFA convention. While the USCPFA represents itself as an alliance of ordinary citizens seeking better relations, it had started out as a Communist front group. Revolution magazine wrote that “Communists, members of the Revolutionary Union (and later the Revolutionary Communist Party) were instrumental in the formation of the earliest local Friendship Associations in 1971 and played a significant role in the creation of the national association and in the building of locals across the country.”
In his book ‘Red Destinies’, historian Colin B. Burke wrote that the USCPFA “like the Party’s front organizations of the 1930s and 1940s it was advertised as a liberal, non-political organization supporting peace and cultural understanding. But in 1971, the founders had other missions: Advance the interests of Communist China and world communism.”
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Tim Walz Dubbed ‘Enemy’ of Italian Americans Over Rioters Tearing Down Columbus Statue
An Italian American civil rights group lashed out at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, dubbing him an “enemy” of the community and imploring him to drop out of the race, according to its board member.
The Italian American Civil Rights League (IACRL), which was founded in New York City and endorsed former President Donald Trump for the 2024 election, blasted Walz over his approach to rioters who tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus.
“Tim Walz did nothing to stop radical vandals from targeting the most prominent symbol of Italian-American culture in a flagrant hate crime,” IACRL board member Mike Crispi said in a statement.
“He knew they were coming and he did nothing to protect the statue,” Crispi added.
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Tim Walz Claimed He Served in Afghanistan — He Didn’t: Iraq Vet
Kamala Harris’ VP pick, candidate Tim Walz, has previously described himself as “a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom,” which is the official name for the US government for the war in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks, per the Washington Free Beacon. This is despite him never serving in Afghanistan. The office never got back to an Iraq veteran who called him out on it.
Walz was called out for using the label in 2009 by Iraq war veteran David Thul, who was also a sergeant in the Minnesota National Guard. Thul filmed the encounter with staff at Walz’s office in Mankato, Minnesota: “Operation Enduring Freedom is limited to Afghanistan and the airspace directly above,” Thul told the aide. “Congressman Walz is clearly claiming … to be an Enduring Freedom veteran.”
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Trantifa Member Pleads Guilty to Setting Off Bomb Outside Alabama Attorney General’s Office
A trans nonbinary Antifa member has pleaded guilty to detonating an explosive device outside the building housing the Alabama Attorney General’s office. 26-year-old Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, of Irondale, had been charged with malicious use of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device in connection to the February incident.
According to the Trussville Tribune, Calvert changed his plea to guilty last Friday.
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Trump: Harris ‘Doesn’t Do Interviews Because She Can’t Answer Questions’
President Donald Trump has noted that there’s a very good reason that Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s handlers are keeping her hidden from the press.
Trump noted that Harris “doesn’t do interviews because she can’t answer questions.”
The 45th president made the remarks during a Fox News interview on Wednesday.
It comes as Harris has avoided questions in the weeks following President Joe Biden’s announcement that he is not running for re-election.
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Trump Says Biden Had the ‘Right to Run,’ But Dem Party ‘Took it Away’
Former President Trump said President Biden had “the right to run” for re-election and the Democratic Party “took it away” from him, while blasting his new opponent Kamala Harris as the “least admired, least respected, and worst vice president in the history of our country.”
Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday afternoon after holding off-the-record meetings with major media outlets. The Trump campaign said the Republican presidential nominee wanted to address the media “while they were already in Palm Beach because he’s the most transparent candidate in history.”
Trump said Thursday that the U.S. is in “the most dangerous period of time I’ve ever seen for our country.”
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Voting Machine Company President Indicted on Bribery and Money Laundering Charges
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted voting-machine company Smartmatic’s president and founder Roger Piñate on bribery and money-laundering charges in order to get election contracts in the Philippines.
Smartmatic’s voting machines have been used in Venezuelan and Philippine presidential elections, and was founded in 2000, but didn’t take off until the Venezuelan election in 2004, when Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez chose the company to replace the country’s previous machines, according to the Miami Herald.
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Walz’s 2020 COVID Snitch Hotline Sparks Debate Amid VP Bid
In 2020, as the reaction to the Covid pandemic tightened its global grip, the administration of Minnesota’s Democratic Governor, Tim Walz, controversially initiated a hotline encouraging citizens to report non-compliant neighbors, opening a Pandora’s box of surveillance reminiscent of dystopian literature.
This move has once again sparked discussion about Walz, following his newly-minted status as the running mate for Vice President Kamala Harris in the imminent 2024 presidential election.
Serving a dual purpose, the hotline — referred to by critics as the Covid snitch line — enabled thousands of Minnesotans to both voice their concerns about perceived health risks and expose those allegedly flouting the restrictive coronavirus-sensitive rules revolving around gatherings and social activities.
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‘Who’s Got Eyes on Him?’: Body Camera Video Shows Moment Officer Spotted Gunman at Trump Rally
BUTLER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 has obtained body camera footage from Butler Township police showing the moments before and after Thomas Crooks opened fire at a rally for former President Donald Trump.
The new video shows the moment an officer arrives at the scene and asks to be lifted up onto the roof where Crooks had planted himself and his belongings.
The officer can be seen holding his hand out to be hoisted onto the roof. Though no sound could be heard in the video, the officer exchanges some words with a Butler Township officer who helps him onto the roof.
Sound could not be heard on some of the video due to the way it was recorded, according to police.
The officer later drops down from the roof and then begins running towards other law enforcement.
When the audio begins to play, the officer is grabbing his gun and telling others where Crooks is. The timecode for the body camera footage is marked as 18:12:37, or 6:12 p.m.
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X and Rumble’s Lawsuit Topples Alleged Censorship Cartel
The Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) has announced it will cease operations. This decision followed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s social media company, X, and video-sharing platform Rumble.
GARM, a nonprofit led by the World Federation of Advertisers, faced accusations of orchestrating a boycott against X, leading to their inability to sustain operations financially while engaged in legal battles.
GARM has faced serious accusations from various stakeholders in the digital content and advertising sectors. Allegations against GARM suggest that it operated like an advertising cartel, effectively controlling which creators and news outlets could secure advertising revenue, leading to widespread demonetization.
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Major Global Study: COVID Shots Caused ‘Largest Non-War Mortality Event in 100 Years’
The lead author behind a major global study of excess death rates in 125 countries has just raised the alarm over the shocking impact of Covid mRNA shots on humanity.
A new study by a team of Canadian researchers into excess mortality found that deaths have surged dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, they found that patterns of excess death globally could not be explained by the virus, including long Covid.
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Austria: Islamist Teenagers Planned Bloodbath at Taylor Swift Concert
A 19-year-old man arrested in Vienna on Wednesday had been planning a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in the Austrian capital, local intelligence services announced on Thursday, August 8th.
“He said he intended to carry out an attack using explosives and knives. His aim was to kill himself and a large number of people during the concert, either today or tomorrow,” the head of the domestic intelligence agency, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner told a news conference. He was referring to three concerts by the U.S. pop singer that were supposed to take place at the Ernst Happel Stadium on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, but were cancelled due to the terror threat.
About 65,000 spectators were expected at each show, and as many as 30,000 onlookers outside.
Authorities arrested the 19-year-old, an Austrian with North Macedonian roots, in the town of Ternitz, an hour’s drive from Vienna. His accomplice, a 17-year-old with Turkish-Croatian roots, was detained in Vienna. The former had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State terror organisation in recent weeks and began working on his attack plans in July. He is said to have quit his job some time ago.
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Canadian North Korea Expert Reportedly Detained in Switzerland on Espionage Charges
The reports were part of a joint investigation by the German news outlet Der Spiegel, the Swiss media company Tamedia and North Korea-focused website NK News.
The Swiss attorney general’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the case.
The suspect regularly travelled to China for his work as an environmental consultant before being arrested earlier in the spring on espionage charges, said NK News, an online outlet that has staff in the US, Europe and South Korea.
It said it did not publish the official’s full name as he has not been convicted and authorities have not made public charges against him.
The person, in his 50s and a resident of Geneva, was in pretrial detainment for several months pending the conclusion of an investigation by the Swiss attorney general’s office, the NK Newsreport said.
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Criminal Complaint Filed Against Czech Political Party for Racist Campaign
Jiri Pospisil, the head of the TOP 09 party Prague division, has filed a criminal complaint against the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party over a campaign that used a photograph of a dark-skinned man holding a bloody knife. The campaign incites hatred against minorities, he said on the X network Tuesday.
After the image was criticized, junior opposition SPD chairman Tomio Okamura wrote on the network that the campaign was merely a reaction to the government’s actions, which he says will lead to a flow of migrants to the Czech Republic. He is referring to the approval of the EU’s recent migration pact.
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Danish PM’s Attacker Gets Prison Sentence and Deportation
A Polish man who attacked and punched Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen earlier this summer was sentenced to four months in prison on Wednesday. After serving time, he will be deported and prohibited from re-entering Danish territory for six years. The man, who in keeping with Danish law can not be named, was found guilty of violence against a public official.
On June 7th, the assailant by chance encountered Frederiksen at Kultorvet, a public square lined by cafes and restaurants in the center of Copenhagen’s pedestrian area. He approached and punched the PM with a closed fist on her right upper arm, which pushed her aside and made her lose her balance. The assailant was drunk at the time and, according to witnesses, said something angry and incomprehensible to Frederiksen.
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EC and NGOs Left Smarting Over Attacks on Poland for Jailing Russian Spy
NGOs and the European Commission have egg on their faces after they lambasted Poland over the imprisonment of Pavel Rubtsov, a Russian spy who was part of the recent prisoner swap with Russia.
The historic prisoner exchange between Russia and the West on August 1 left a sour taste for the European Union, NGOs and activists who defended Rubtsov, who was calling himself “Pablo Gonzalez”.
He had worked for left-leaning news outlets and was arrested four days after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. He was covering the situation at the border between Ukraine and Poland, where refugees then tried to get out of harm’s way.
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EC Gives Nod to Green Deal Architect’s Top Job With Dutch Gas Major
One of the architects of the European Green Deal has received permission from the European Commission to take up the role of Chairman with Gasunie, a Dutch gas company.
Diederik Samsom, had initially made the move to the gas company on June 26, without the required EC permission.
Amid raised eyebrows regarding a staunch climate activist working for a gas firm, it turned out that Samsom had broken EC rules, investigative publication Follow the Money (FTM) reported.
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Exclusive: France Seeks FBI Help in Probe of High-Speed Train Sabotage Hours Before Olympics
PARIS, Aug 7 (Reuters) — Police in France investigating the sabotage of high-speed rail lines hours before the Paris Olympics’ Opening Ceremony have asked the U.S. FBI for help, two sources with direct knowledge of the French inquiry said.
Investigators called in the FBI after media organisations, including Reuters, received an email the police believe may have been sent by the perpetrators. It set out a rambling list of grievances but did not explicitly claim responsibility.
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German Police Raid Last Generation Members’ Homes
German police have searched the homes of Last Generation members after the group’s protests at several German Airports.
According to the climate activists, a total of eight apartments “of peaceful protesters” were searched on the morning of August 8. They claimed that the police also took DNA samples.
The group reported raids in Berlin, Leipzig, Freiburg, Halle and Mannheim.
Eight people between the ages of 20 and 44 were arrested and later released.
Those raided and those held said the police were attempting to pressure them over their activism for Last Generation.
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Irish Regulator Takes X to Court Over Grok AI
Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) is taking the Twitter International Unlimited Company to the country’s High Court over its “Grok” artificial intelligence, local media have reported.
The DPC watchdog reportedly believes that the training of the AI runs in violation of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as publicly available user data — such as X social media posts — are being used to train the chatbot.
The DPC has reportedly been in contact with X about the matter and, while the regulator acknowledged that the tech firm has taken measures to mitigate the issue, it remained concerned that user data was not being treated in line with the law.
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London ‘Peace’ Rally Marred by ‘Cut All Their Throats’ Rhetoric, Labour Politician Suspended
British legacy media came together to celebrate an evening of left-wing activists turning out across the country to confront a “far-right” that didn’t seem to meaningfully exist, but one of the largest rallies, billed as “preaching a message of peace”, saw one of its speakers shout a call to kill.
An activist said to have been identified as Labour Party politician Councillor Ricky Jones has been suspended by the party after apparently calling for political opponents to have their throat cuts at a left-wing rally in London on Wednesday night. The development has somewhat dented the establishment media narrative that the evening had seen a flowering of brotherly and open-minded feeling across England, in defiance of days of riots.
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Most Poles Unaware of New EU Taxes, Study Reveals
According to the Warsaw Enterprise Institute, a significant majority of Polish citizens (between 66 and 70 percent) are unaware that the European Union is set to implement new taxes that will directly contribute to the EU’s budget.
These taxes include the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the Pillar Two minimum tax, and the partial transfer of revenues from the Emission Trading System (ETS).
This revelation comes as Poland faces a potential excessive deficit procedure by the European Commission, prompting potential tax increases.
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Netherlands: More Young People in Social Isolation
More and more young people in the Netherlands are ending up in social isolation, sometimes not leaving their rooms for years on end, Nieuwsuur reports. The program spoke to 15 therapists from mental health institutions throughout the country, and 12 reported an increase. They suspect growing pressure to perform, social media, and the impact of social distancing during the pandemic play a role in the increase.
This phenomenon is not unique to the Netherlands. In Japan, the problem of young people isolating themselves has become so great that there is a word for it — hikikomori, which means to “pull in” or “lock oneself away.” In Japan, an estimated 500,000 young people are severely isolated.
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Puigdemont’s Return to Spain Sparks Barcelona Police ‘Cage’ Operation
Mossos d’Esquadra, Catalonia’s regional police, on August 8 activated a “cage” operation lasting more than three hours to capture the region’s former president Carles Puigdemont after his long-awaited return to Spain.
Checkpoints along motorways within and outside Barcelona have been installed, causing traffic jams and other incidents on several roads in the area as Puigdemont arrived from France. Organised by his separatist Junts per Catalunya party, he appeared at a rally in Barcelona city centre in front of the Arc de Triomf.
According to Junts, the rally was an “institutional welcoming” of the previously exiled leader.
The Spanish authorities have not yet been able to locate him.
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Quran Burner Charged With Hate Crime in Swedish Court
Rasmus Paludan, the dual Danish-Swedish citizen who has protested Islamism by burning the Muslim holy book the Quran in several European countries, will be charged with “incitement against an ethnic group” in Sweden. Charges were filed Wednesday in Malmö district court for statements made by Pauldan in connection with a 2022 Quran burning outside Malmö.
One of the statements seen by the prosecutor as a violation of Swedish law was:
Freedom of speech means that you are allowed to say things that others in the country do not like to hear. And you can say it without others assaulting or trying to kill you.
The prosecutor’s interpretation of this is “that Muslims don’t like Western democracy and freedom of speech”—which is then in turn deemed to be offensive to the group (that is not explicitly mentioned by Paludan).
A second statement considered in violation of the law is that there could “be a problem” if someone “likes, for example, to use violence as a means of communication” because “it is only God’s word that counts.” This statement, too, was interpreted as denigrating to Muslims.
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UK Authorities Now Arresting People for Posting “Inaccurate Information” on Social Media
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news
Authorities in the UK are now arresting people for posting “inaccurate information” on social media, according to a new report.
Sky News reports that a woman has been arrested by Cheshire Police for posting “inaccurate information on social media” about the attacker who stabbed three girls to death in Southport last week.
The 55-year-old woman was arrested near the northern town of Chester on “suspicion of publishing written material to stir up racial hatred and false communications.”
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UK Riots Are Used to Call for End to Online Anonymity
In the wake of recent riots in the UK, Tobias Ellwood, former lawmaker, British Army reservist and a senior officer in the 77th Brigade, has voiced strong opinions on the role of social media in fueling public disorder. Ellwood, known for his previous support of vaccine passports and online vaccine certificate databases, emphasized the alleged negative impacts of online anonymity in a recent interview.
The UK’s 77th Brigade, officially known as the 77th Brigade of the British Army, is a unit that focuses on non-traditional warfare, including what is known as “information warfare” or “psychological operations.” Formed in 2015, it includes personnel from various sections of the military as well as reservists with expertise in a range of disciplines such as media, marketing, and public relations.
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UK: National Grid Executives Warn Citizens Must Prepare for Rolling Blackouts Due to ‘Net Zero’
National Grid executives are warning that citizens must prepare for imminent rolling blackouts as governments push to comply with the “Net Zero” demands of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Industry whistleblowers have revealed that executives from the UK Grid’s Electricity System Operator (ESO) are raising the alarm that large portions of the population will soon be facing major power outages.
An industry insider reportedly told the UK’s Telegraph that, in private conversations with the energy industry, ESO execs revealed that the network is now becoming so congested that “there will be blackouts in the South East by 2028.”
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UK: Woman Held Over Social Media Post After Southport Killings
A woman has been accused of stirring up racial hatred on social media in the wake of the Southport knife attack.
The 55-year-old, from near Chester, was arrested earlier over a post which was published online containing inaccurate information about the identity of the suspect accused of the killings of three young girls in Southport, Cheshire Police said.
She is being questioned in police custody.
Chief Supt Alison Ross issued a “stark reminder” of the dangers of posting unchecked information.
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UK’s Met Police Chief Threatens “Keyboard Warriors” With Terrorism Charges
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news
Head of the Met Police Sir Mark Rowley has warned that “keyboard warriors” could be hit with terrorism charges for inciting riots online, even if they are living abroad.
Rowley made the comments in response to waves of rioting that unfolded across the UK following the murder of three young girls at a Taylor Swift dance class in Southport by a 17-year-old of Rwandan migrant origin via his parents.
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Israeli Group Practices Red Heifer Ritual in Front of Al-Aqsa Mosque
Via Middle East Eye
A group of religious Israelis have been pictured practicing the ritual of the red heifer, which is meant to herald the building of a new Jewish temple on the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
According to Jewish tradition, the ashes of a perfectly red heifer cow are needed for the ritual purification that would allow a third temple to be built in Jerusalem. That temple, say radical Jewish groups, must be constructed on the raised plateau in Jerusalem’s Old City known as the Temple Mount, where Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock shrine stand today.
Some believe this will herald the arrival of the messiah and possibly even the end of the world.
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U.S. and Other Frustrated Mediators Call on Israel, Hamas to Resume Gaza Talks, Saying, ‘No Excuses’
WASHINGTON — Leaders of the United States, Egypt and Qatar jointly demanded Israel and Hamas return to stalled talks on the war in Gaza next week, saying Thursday that “only the details” of carrying out a ceasefire and hostage release remain to be negotiated. “There is no further time to waste, nor excuses from any party for further delay,” they said in a joint statement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Thursday that it had accepted the invitation.
President Joe Biden, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Qatari Emir Tamim al-Thani, mediators in indirect negotiations to end 10 months of devastating war in Gaza, set the talks for Aug. 15, to take place in either Doha, Qatar, or Cairo.
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Israel Attacks Airbase in Central Syria Known to House Russian Troops
Following late night explosions being reported in the central Syrian region of Homs, state media SANA has subsequently confirmed that an Israeli airstrike has wounded at least four soldiers and caused “material losses” at the Shayrat Airbase.
The Israeli attack came from the direction of northern Lebanon. It has become common for Israeli jets to use undefended Lebanese airspace from which to attack targets inside Syria. Images showing a series of large explosions have circulated on social media.
Shayrat Airbase has long been well-known also as a base of Russian troop operations over several years. It remains unknown if Russians were present at the base when it was struck late Thursday night. Some Israeli sources have said ammo storage depots were hit, or else ‘Iranian assets’ were targeted — as is the usual refrain after such operations.
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‘Nobody Cared About Us’: Russians Condemn Moscow as Ukrainians Counter-Invade
Russians living in the border region of Kursk are criticizing the slow and confused response by civic and military officials to the Ukrainian military incursion that began Tuesday.
“Nobody cared about us,” said an angry Kursk resident quoted by the Moscow Times on Thursday. “The refugees from ‘that country’ were given everything at once … and [local] people left for nowhere and with nothing.”
This was essentially a complaint about ethnic Russians fleeing into Russia from the ersatz “republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk, unilaterally declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin when he invaded Ukraine in February 2022, receiving far more care and assistance than Russians who suddenly find themselves on the receiving end of Ukrainian artillery.
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Putin Convenes Security Council After Ukrainian Troops Enter Russian Territory
Russian President Vladimir Putin urgently convened the Russian Security Council on Wednesday after Ukrainian troops entered the territory of the Russian Kursk region, the Russian Telegram “Brief” channel reports, citing a source familiar with the matter.
Ukrainian troops even managed to consolidate their positions and occupy several localities, while the Kyiv authorities are keeping quiet about the incursion in the region, according to The Moscow Times.
Ahead of the Security Council meeting, Putin will meet with members of the government, a source told Brief. The forum’s members include the heads of the security establishments, the presidents of both chambers of the Russian parliament (the State Duma and the Federation Council), Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, former President Dmitry Medvedev, currently deputy secretary of the council, and his secretary, Sergei Shoigu, a former defense minister.
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Russia’s Biometric Boom Faces Rising Data Security Fears
The Russian government is intensifying its drive to expand the use of biometric technologies across the nation. This push comes amid growing fears over personal data security, highlighted by a surge in data breaches in recent years. In 2023 alone, RBC, a Russian research agency, reported that data breaches at Russian financial institutions escalated 3.2 times compared to 2022, with about 170 million personal records compromised.
Despite these security challenges, the Russian state has placed a significant focus on biometrics. In 2018, authorities established the Unified Biometric System (UBS), a pivotal element in Russia’s digital infrastructure which was later designated as a state information system. Maksut Shadayev, Russia’s minister of digital development, noted that biometric data submissions have been noteworthy, with figures continuously climbing. As of now, approximately 18 million Russians have comprehensive biometric profiles, with 70 million having submitted some form of biometric data to various state or private institutions, according to Riddle Russia.
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Russia Says Troops Are Battling to Push Ukrainian Forces Back After Cross-Border Incursion in Kursk
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops are battling to push back Ukrainian forces from the Kursk region on the third day of one of the largest cross-border incursions of the war, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday.
A ministry statement said the Russian military and border guards have blocked Ukrainian forces from pushing deeper into the region in southwestern Russia. It added that the army is attacking Ukrainian fighters trying to advance into the area from Ukraine’s Sumy region.
“Attempts by individual units to break through deep into the territory in the Kursk direction are being suppressed,” the ministry said.
Ukrainian troops had advanced as much as 15 kilometers (9 miles) into Russian territory, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank. The data that hasn’t been officially confirmed.
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Ukraine Penetration of Russian Federation Sparks Europe Energy Fears
A Ukraine invasion of internationally recognised Russian territory has sparked energy concerns.
Officials in Kyiv remain tight-lipped about the incursion into the Kursk Oblast — an undisputed part of the Russian Federation — though third-party sources say that the offensive is sizeable, and could involve over 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers.
Fighting in the region is said to have drawn dangerously close to a major natural gas transmission hub in Sudzha. Natural gas prices in Europe have risen as a result.
According to Reuters, this is the last operational trans-shipping point for Russian natural gas to Europe via Ukrainian territory, though representatives from Ukraine’s national gas operator insist that supplies continue to flow normally through the pipeline network as of the time of writing.
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WHO Convenes Emergency Committee Over New Monkeypox Outbreak
The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus announced on Wednesday, August 7th, that he was convening an International Health Regulations Emergency Committee to assess the seriousness of the recent outbreak of monkeypox (Mpox) in Africa and decide whether it constitutes Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)—one step closer to declaring another pandemic.
Speaking at a press conference from the WHO headquarters in Geneva, the director general explained that the new concerns are about a novel and deadlier strain of monkeypox than the one that was declared a global emergency back in 2022, and which spread to over 70 countries, mainly affecting gay and bisexual men.
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Judge Tosses Mexico’s $10 Billion Lawsuit for 6 of 8 Named American Gun-Makers
Authored by Stephen Katte via The Epoch Times
A Massachusetts District Court Judge has dismissed Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against six out of the eight named American gun manufacturers that the country argues are responsible for firearms flooding south across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Initially filed in 2021, Mexico argued that the U.S. companies, all of which have denied wrongdoing, were undermining Massachusetts’s strict gun laws by selling weapons they knew had a chance of being smuggled across the border.
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Venezuela: Maduro Orders Mass Arrests of Opposition Leaders
The regime of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro is conducting mass arrests of opposition leaders following nationwide protests over elections that campaigners believe the regime has stolen.
The situation across the country is continuing to deteriorate after the presidential election on July 28. The electoral authority, which is controlled by the government, declared Maduro the winner, but the opposition says it has proof that its candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, won by a landslide.
The electoral council has so far declined to publish a detailed breakdown of the result. The Maduro government has blamed a cyberattack for the delay.
Protesters took to the streets across the country after the result declaration, in what many saw as the biggest challenge yet to 25 years of socialist rule. The protests have, for the time being, subsided, but arrests of leading opposition figures have continued in an operation dubbed “Tun Tun,” or “Knock Knock.”
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Comer Requests Documents on Kamala Harris for Border Crisis Probe
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is moving forward with investigations into Vice President Kamala Harris’s handling of the border crisis.
Congress appears to mirror some of the apprehensions of the American people.
According to a recent announcement in The Hill, an investigation is underway with Harris at the center.
As Harris takes over the Democrat 2024 presidential nomination, the GOP-led House Oversight Committee has decided to oversee and attempt to pull some accountability out of the White House by investigating the actions of the “Border Czar” regarding the illegal immigration crisis.
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Germany Considers Reintroducing Permanent Border Checks
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s German Government is under increased pressure from both within and outside his ruling coalition to reintroduce nearly all the hard borders around Europe’s largest country. A growing number of lawmakers see it as the only way to curb the inflow of illegal migrants—reinforcing fears that the EU’s failure to prevent illegal crossings at the bloc’s external borders will eventually result in the death of Europe’s precious Schengen area.
Germany, along with a few other North Western European countries, is the primary destination of illegal migrants coming to the EU from North Africa and the Middle East. Illegal entries into the country reached a seven-year high in 2023, leading to temporary border checks with Austria, Poland, Czechia, and Switzerland being reintroduced last fall.
That was not enough, it seems. The opposition Christian democratic CDU recently called for permanent hard borders to be reinstated around Germany. According to party leader Friedrich Merz, it is one of the measures “that do not cost money, but could very quickly change the mood in the country for the better.”
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Germany Considers Reform to Publishing Nationalities of Criminals Amid Spike in Migrant Crime
Germany’s liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), the smallest party in the governing coalition, is proposing that law enforcement authorities should be obliged to disclose the nationality of suspected criminals throughout the country.
The initiative has been endorsed by the opposition CDU/CSU, while the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), although supportive of it in theory, believes it does not go far enough.
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ICE Arrests 50 Illegal Migrants in One Day on Felony Charges
Immigration and Customs Enforcement obtained and executed 50 criminal arrest warrants for illegals accused of felonies on July 23, the agency said Thursday.
“The warrants are related to ICE’s Title 8 authority over non-citizens who threaten public safety and have previously been removed from the United States,” according to an ICE.
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Immigration is Now the Top Political Concern for British Voters, Crime Worry Soars
Polling taken the week following a horrendous mass stabbing of children triggering anti-mass migration protests and riots shows immigration has leapfrogged other concerns to become the top political priority of Britons.
Immigration is now the top issue facing the country, polling by YouGov conducted on Monday and Tuesday this week states. When asked to pick three policy areas from a list respondents believe are “the most important issues facing the country at this time”, a staggering 51 per cent of respondents chose ‘immigration & asylum’ as one of their selections.
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Oh No! Anyway… Ex-Scottish Leader Humza Yousaf Threatens to Leave UK Over Migration Riots
Failed left-wing politician and former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has said that he is considering leaving the United Kingdom with his family as a result of the anti-mass migration riots that have erupted over the past week in Britain.
Humza Yousaf, a member of the far-left Scottish National Party (SNP) and who served as Scotland’s first minister, said that he has questioned if his family can have “an existence” in the UK. Unrest and violence broke out last week in response to the mass stabbing at a children’s ‘Taylor Swift’ dance party last week in Southport, which left three young girls dead and several others seriously injured.
Despite no riots occurring in Scotland so far, the Member of the Scottish Parliament toldThe News Agents podcast: “It is a strange feeling when your very sense of belonging is questioned.
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Madrid airport is running out of space in the designated holding areas for illegal migrants due to a surge in newcomers in recent weeks, the Spanish Police Federation (CEP) has warned.
The organization cited a large number of Mauritanian nationals leaving Morocco as a challenge currently facing border staff. Apparently, many undocumented migrants are landing in Spain, throwing away their passports, and claiming asylum.
Spanish police said the situation had started to become worrying at the end of June when arrivals of Mauritanians increased by 350 percent compared to the previous month.
They added that most of the arrivals are men under the age of 30. There are also some who claim to be minors, hoping that this will speed up the processing of their asylum applications.
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Tim Walz Backs Plan for Taxpayers to Fund College Tuition for Illegal Immigrants
Kamala Harris’ choice for VP candidate Tim Walz backed giving illegal immigrants free tuition at Minnesota colleges, signing the measure into law as the state’s governor in 2023. According to a report from the SCRIPPS News, in 2023 an omnibus education bill that was signed a bill into law by Walz, the “North Star Promise” program allowed for illegal immigrants to apply for free college tuition within the Minnesota State and University of Minnesota school systems if their families make less than $80,000 a year.
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Sir Keir Starmer was yesterday accused of having ‘no plan’ for reducing migration as he dodged questions about it in the wake of the riots. The Prime Minister was asked whether now was the time to acknowledge ‘underlying tensions’ in communities over record migration levels in recent years.
But during a visit to a mosque in Solihull, Birmingham, he failed to answer the question, simply saying: ‘The first priority is safety and security of our communities.
‘I was very keen that we were able to demonstrate that if you’re involved in disorder, within days you’ll be in the criminal justice system and with some people starting long terms of imprisonment.’
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“Progress” — NIH Brags About Using Tax Dollars to Fund More Research by Black Scholars
Authored by Micaiah Bilger via The College Fix
Even as diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts draw increased scrutiny at the state level, a federal government agency is bragging about promoting DEI — and using Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars to do it.
“Progress” is how National Institutes of Health diversity officer Marie Bernard recently described the agency’s work to fund more research by black scholars.
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Bulgarian Parliament Approves Ban on ‘LGBTQ Propaganda’ in Schools
The Bulgarian Parliament has approved a ban on “LGBTQ propaganda” in schools to tackle what it called “incitement” to “non-traditional sexual orientation” or “gender identity other than the biological one”.
On August 7, with 159 in favour, 22 against and 12 abstentions, the parliament passed changes to the education law, much to the anger of NGOs and human rights activists.
The bill was proposed by the pro-Russian Vazrazhdane party, which called the result “a historic breakthrough”.
Kostadin Kostadinov, Chairman of the party, said that it has opened an opportunity for other political organisations in the European Union to do the same.
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Ottawa Pride Calls Out Islamophobia, ‘Pink-Washing’ in ‘Solidarity’ With Gaza Ahead of Parade
Ahead of Ottawa’s annual pride parade, the parade’s organizer, Capital Pride, has issued a “Statement in Solidarity with Palestine”—including accusing Israel of “ongoing genocide against Palestinians.”
This comes in the wake of numerous Canadian pride parades and festivals being disrupted, re-routed—and even ground to a halt—because of pro-Palestinian groups staging protests in the path of the celebrations. For instance, 30 protestors managed to end the Toronto Pride parade entirely by sitting in the middle of the parade route, with signs that included “Pride partners with genocide.” In Victoria, BC, Pride was re-routed when anti-Israel activists used the same tactics. And just last week, Vancouver’s parade, too, ended early because of pro-Palestinian protests. In Halifax, the disruptions ended with parade goers and protestors shoving one another.
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Two male boxers have easily made their way to gold medal matches in their respective weight classes at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan and Imane Khelif of Algeria are both banned by the International Boxing Association (IBA) after DNA tests proved they are men.
Nevertheless, the Olympics permitted both fighters to compete in women’s boxing on the governing body’s “transgender” policies.
However, neither Lin nor Khelif “identify” as transgender and both insist they are “women,” despite gender tests showing they have XY chromosomes, meaning they are male.
Lin and Khelif have notably dominated female opponents.
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“According to Russian human rights activist Mira Terada, the ideology of violence and hatred towards those who openly express disagreement with the dominant ideology of the government is increasingly permeating the political and social life of Western and Eastern European states.”
https://fondfbr.ru/en/articles/political-persecution-us-europe-russofobia-en/
“I f—ing told them that they needed to post guys f—ing over here…I told them that f—ing Tuesday. I talked to the Secret Service guys. They’re like, ‘Yeah, no problem. We’re going to post guys over here.’” —” Butler police officer (captured on his body-worn camera)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-show-police-at-trump-rally-airing-frustration-with-secret-service-47c62e12
“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 2024)
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Rasmus Paludan is now charged with incitement against a group of people after two incidents in Malmö 2022
7 AUGUST 2024
The so-called far-right politician Rasmus Paludan is charged with incitement against a group of people and insult after two incidents in Malmö two years ago.
The indictment concerns events in Malmö in April and September 2022, Malmö’s Prosecutor’s Office writes in a press release.
“My assessment is that there are sufficient reasons to bring charges and now the district court will hear the case,” says senior prosecutor Adrien Combier-Hogg in the press release.
The dispatch also states that the prosecutor will not be available to the media or make any comments about the prosecution.
“Is about interpretation”
When SVT Nyheter Skåne reaches Rasmus Paludan, he says that he has not received any information about the prosecution. He says that he was interrogated in Denmark by both Danish and Swedish police and by Swedish prosecutors.
– From what I understand from those interrogations, I have not said anything that is criminal, but it is about how others can interpret it. That makes it difficult for me to take a stand on what I said, he says.
– But if you as a politician are to be prosecuted, it is better to be prosecuted for something you said than for something criminal you did.
Want to stay in Denmark
Rasmus Paludan has previously said that he does not want to come to Sweden, because he himself believes that it is dangerous for him to stay in Malmö.
According to the german FBI known as BKA the number of islamic fanatics willing to die is going down.
https://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/politik/bka-z%C3%A4hlt-immer-weniger-islamistische-gef%C3%A4hrder-in-deutschland/ar-AA1ou4KX?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=721728ba210f4188900b27ddbd649e16&ei=82
And the number of muslims increases in Germany.
Frankly, I dont believe them.
More Paludan: ADRIEN versus RASMUS
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REVEALS: Rasmus Paludan was wanted in Sweden for a year
Published 2024-08-08
Rasmus Paludan was wanted in Sweden for a whole year. Samnytt can now reveal that. He was flagged in the police system, and all officers had orders to arrest him if they encountered him – for example, at a traffic stop. It was in May of last year that information leaked to the media that Rasmus Paludan had been arrested in Sweden while he was out. Claim: Rasmus Paludan arrested in
Rasmus Paludan is now under arrest in Sweden in his absence. Aftonbladet claims that. The Danish-Swedish politician has been suspected since March of this year of incitement against a group of people, assault against an official and insult due to last year’s Koran riots.
When Samnytt calls Paludan, he questions whether the information in the social democratic newspaper, which would mean that he will be arrested by the police if he tries to travel to Sweden, is true.
– It is not a particularly serious crime I am suspected of, and if I were to be arrested for it, it would be quite idiotic, he says.
– If it is really so, then it is possible that I will dispute it because it is completely idiotic.
Criminal suspect
Since March this year, Rasmus Paludan has been suspected of incitement against a group of people, assault against an official and insult in Sweden.
The first criminal classification concerns the fact that on April 16 last year he set fire to a Koran at the Skånegården rest area by the Öresund Bridge. A demonstration that the Malmö police then gave the go-ahead to, but almost a year later judged could be criminal.
The two other criminal classifications are about Paludan planning to set fire to a Koran outside the tough police and left-wing activist Emelie Kullmyr’s home outside Gothenburg.
The campaign never materialized, but his planned political protest against the illegally acting female police chief is now considered an “assault” against her.
Want to be questioned
Rasmus Paludan has expressed several times that he wants to be questioned about the criminal charges.
– I really want to answer. I am innocent, so it is in my interest to answer, he tells Samnytt.
On the other hand, Paludan does not want to go to Malmö for questioning in view of the threat to him, and because the Malmö police do not want to give him personal protection in connection with such a trip. He has offered to instead hold the interrogation via telephone or with the help of Danish police, something that the police in Malmö did not agree to.
The Danish-Swedish politician believes that the authorities in Malmö are being pressured by the city’s large Muslim population to stretch the law to try to get at him.
– They are threatened by the fact that a large percentage of those who live in Malmö want me to be injured. They can’t do that right away, but they can do what they’re doing now, he says.
“Real entry ban”
Rasmus Paludan was born in Denmark, but is the son of the Swedish politician and writer Tomas Polvall. When Polvall married Paludan’s mother in 1989, the son also became a Swedish citizen.
Despite his Swedish citizenship, Rasmus Paludan was banned from entering Sweden three years ago, which is against the constitution. It was also a decision that the Malmö police stood behind.
Paludan says that he does not have any plans to visit Sweden, but that the actions of the Swedish authorities are now a way of trying in practice to once again ensure that he cannot travel to the country of which he is a citizen.
– In real terms it is an entry ban, but the fact that the Malmö police do not want to protect me from being murdered is also an entry ban, he says.
If Paludan is arrested, that decision has been made by a prosecutor. However, Paludan believes that the Prosecutor’s Office in Malmö has “the same challenges” as the Malmö police and is under pressure from the city’s Muslims.
READ ALSO: Rasmus Paludan: “The Malmö police force is an Islamized dump”
Author of the text
Matthias Albinsson
Mattias Albinsson The claim comes from an unnamed source. However, the extent of the alleged detention and how long it lasts is unknown.
The prosecutor confirms
Over a year later, on Wednesday this week, prosecutor Adrien Combier-Hogg files his indictment against Paludan. Two cases of incitement against a group of people and one insult. Rasmus Paludan is charged with defending freedom of expression
The Danish-Swedish politician and activist Rasmus Paludan is charged with incitement against a ethnic group and insult. Prosecutor Adrien Combier-Hogg submitted his lawsuit to the Malmö District Court today. Among other things, the indictment concerns Paludan’s defense of Swedish freedom of speech, which the prosecutor believes is offensive to Muslims.
The first sentence in the first indictment concerns that Paludan during one of his Koran burnings in Sweden spoke passionately for freedom of expression.
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– Freedom of speech means that you can say things that others in the country do not like to hear. And you can say it without others attacking or trying to kill you. That is precisely what freedom of speech is, he said during a speech at Rastplats Skånegården outside Malmö in April 2022.
A statement that the prosecutor interprets as Paludan saying “that Muslims do not like Western democracy and freedom of speech”, which is therefore considered offensive to the ethnic group.
“Islam makes a lot of mistakes”
The second sentence in the indictment relates to Paludan saying that it could “be a problem” if someone “likes, for example, to use violence as a means of communication” because “only God’s word applies”.
Even the something that the prosecutor means refers to and is disrespectful towards Muslims.
Facsimile
Several of the indictments relate to Paludan’s warning of an Islamist takeover during his speech.
– It happened before Islam took over. Then it is very very inconvenient to live in this place, because Islam makes it not very comfortable to live in places. Because Islam makes a lot of mistakes, and there is a lot of unrest and not harmony in those places, he said, among other things.
The prosecutor believes that the statement constitutes illegal criticism of Islam. “Arabs and Africans are so highly intelligent”
The second charge mainly concerns statements about “Arabs and Africans”.
– If you like Arab and African culture, and like that Arabs and Africans are so highly intelligent, always work and never commit crimes. Yes, but in that case it has been great that two million of that type came here, Paludan said, among other things, as well as:
– Actually, it has become so good in countries where they used to be that they have left those countries to do great in other countries as well. Because they are so proud of how calm, peaceful and highly developed their own countries are.
Facsimile
– Here I am thinking of the highly developed and peaceful, highly civilized countries such as Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia. And also Syria. Wow!
Sarcastic statements which the prosecutor considers to be disrespectful.
Offended criminal African
Rasmus Paludan is also charged with insulting an African man in his 50s, who is alleged to have called Paludan a “shit boot”.
– Yes, go your way. Bye then! Back to Africa! Go home to Africa! Paludan shouted at the man.
When the man shouted: “I’m home”, the anti-Islamic activist replied:
– You are not at home! This will never be your home! You will never be Swedish! Travel home!
The offended man has previously been convicted of a crime, and has been in prison for, among other things, serious assault and serious violation of women’s privacy. He was born in an African country, is now a Swedish citizen and, according to court documents, lives on benefits.
The offended African demands SEK 60,000 in damages from Paludan.
Wants the district court to try
It has been almost two and a half years since Paludan’s demonstration at Rastplats Skånegården. And senior prosecutor Adrien Combier-Hogg is hoping for a conviction for the anti-Islam activist.
– My assessment is that there are sufficient reasons to bring charges and now the district court will hear the case, he says in a prepared statement.
The prosecutor does not want to give any further comments.
Rasmus Paludan, himself a trained lawyer, denies any crime. He told Samnytt on Tuesday that the prosecution is weak, but that the prosecutor chooses to bring charges anyway in the hope that it will benefit his own career.
– That prosecutor would very much like to end up in the newspaper. He wants to get to the top. And the easiest way to do that within the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Sweden is to bring charges against Rasmus Paludan, claims Rasmus Paludan.
READ ALSO: Rasmus Paludan: Is there a risk that the Swedish police will shoot me
Author of the text
Matthias Albinsson
The prosecutor confirms
Over a year later, on Wednesday this week, prosecutor Adrien Combier-Hogg files his indictment against Paludan. Two cases of incitement against a group of people and one insult. After the indictment was filed, Samnytt contacted the prosecutor to ask about the arrest last year. At first, he does not want to comment on the task.
– I have no interest in commenting on it right now. It is a means of coercion that may have been part of the preliminary investigation, and there is nothing that is included in the material that I submitted to the district court, says Adrien Combier-Hogg when Samnytt calls.
Nine minutes later, the prosecutor speaks again, and can now answer the question.
– I can confirm that he was arrested in his absence, as you mentioned earlier. It was from April 30, 2023 through April 29, 2024. So for almost exactly one year, says Adrien Combier-Hogg.
So if Rasmus Paludan traveled into Sweden and was stopped at a border control, would he have been arrested?
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– Yes, exactly. Flagged in the police system
Adrien Combier-Hogg then explains that there are two different forms of arrest in absentia, or absenteeism as it is also called. In the first case, for example before a police operation, the arrested person is not “flagged” in the police system. The arrest exists only to give the police powers to detain the person.
– Then it is not visible in the system to the outside. Then you don’t want the person in question to be detained in connection with a traffic control or the like, because that could affect the effort, he says. The police chief says: That’s why I took a stand against Paludan
as well as discounts and offers from Samnytt’s partners. In the second case, the person is “flagged” so that the first best police patrol that comes across the arrested person has orders to arrest him.
– Then it appears in the systems that you must deprive you of your liberty if you come across the person in question, the prosecutor clarifies.
In the case of Rasmus Paludan, what type of arrest was involved? The first case, or the second case where it shows up in the systems?
– This is the second case, because the person in question was not in Sweden.
A form of solicitation
Adrien Combier-Hogg then says that the flagging in the police system can be seen as a form of wanted, although that particular word is not something that he uses.
He points out that it is important for him to use the right words, and that wanted is not a term used by prosecutors in Sweden.
READ ALSO: Police took Paludan into custody in response to Muslim riots
– It’s not a word I usually use. You get connections to the film world when it comes to “wanting”, he says.
– But in layman’s terms you can certainly draw a parallel. Wanted is not a word I use, but in practice it probably means the same thing, says Adrien Combier-Hogg.
Paludan: “It’s crazy”
It is no news for Rasmus Paludan that he was arrested last year while he was out. Something that is news, however, is that he was wanted right up until April 29 this year.
– I didn’t know about it, he says to Samnytt.
– It’s crazy because I had the final hearing in February. So if I was still under arrest at the end of April, that is illegal and insane.
The Islamophobic activist points to the actions of the Swedish police as a reason why he stayed away from Sweden.
– I have told you and others that I did not want to come to Sweden. It was not only because of threats from terrorists, but also because the Swedish police are dangerous, says Rasmus Paludan.
ALSO READ: Court convicts police chief for Paludan-hostile statements
Author of the text
Matthias Albinsson
“A woman…was arrested earlier over a post which was published online containing inaccurate information about the identity of the suspect accused of the killings of three young girls in Southport.” —BBC (8 Aug 2024)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w6q611yn1o
“Two men have been sent to prison for stirring up hatred and violence online after the Southport attack, in the first cases of their kind linked to the recent riots seen across the country.” —Guardian (9 Aug 2024)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/09/two-men-jailed-for-social-media-posts-that-stirred-up-far-right-violence
“Historically, when tyrannical sophisticates silence common people to keep them from speaking TRUTH to LIES, the commoners tend to coalesce into mobs; and the mobs construct guillotines; and the guillotines get used to silence the sophisticates. Just sayin’..” —posted to fb (Nov 2018)
History keeps repeating itself and only the names and dates change….BECAUSE only the names and dates change. Just sayin’..