A hypersonic missile fired by the Houthis in Yemen evaded Israeli air defenses and reached central Israel today. No injuries were reported.
In other news, Vice President Kamala Harris said that she was relieved to know that former President Trump is safe after the latest attempt on his life.
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10 LA Schools Could Stop Standardized Tests After Board President Calls Testing Industry ‘Repugnant’
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted 4-3 Tuesday on a resolution that would allow 10 schools to opt out of standardized tests and test preparation beginning in the 2025-26 school year.
LAUSD President Jackie Goldberg read during the Tuesday morning board meeting that the resolution stipulates that once the schools “develop and pilot innovative, authentic, rigorous and relevant” assessments, the schools “will be excused from any standardized testing with the exception of state and federally mandated assessments.”
Goldberg, who “hoped” for the resolution to be adopted before leaving her post as president, said that the measure would “begin to change how we look at student assessment.” She said that she is “not against assessment.”
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Alleged Would-be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh Donated Exclusively to Democrats Since 2019
The Hawaii man suspected in former President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt on Sunday is a long-time Democrat, donating exclusively to the party’s candidates 19 times since 2019, records show.
Between September 2019 and March 2020, Ryan Routh contributed more than $140 on the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue, Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show.
The filings indicate he lived in Kaaawa, Hawaii, at the time of the donations. The records indicate that he was “not employed.”
While the money went to ActBlue, it was earmarked for individual 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates including former Rep. Beto O’Rourk (D-Texas), Andrew Yang and Tom Steyer of New York and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (R-Mass.)
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Ballet Star Michaela Deprince Dies Suddenly at 29
Michaela DePrince, one of the world’s most prominent ballet stars, has tragically died suddenly.
The famous ballerina was just 29 years old when she died.
DePrince appeared in Beyonce’s “Lemonade” music video and on the TV show “Dancing With The Stars.”
Her death was announced on her Instagram page and confirmed by her family on Facebook.
On Facebook, her family members paid tribute to “an unforgettable inspiration to everyone who knew her or heard her story.”
They said her death was “sudden.”
However, no further details have been released and the cause of death is not known.
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Bill Gates Forecasts Another Global Pandemic ‘Likely’ Within Next 25 Years in Ominous Health Warning
War or another global pandemic, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is cautioning that, if the world manages to avoid the former, the latter is a very real possibility within the next 25 years.
“A lot of unrest” in today’s age could spark a major war, he told CNBC’s “Make It.”
“If we avoid a big war … then, yes, there will be another pandemic, most likely in the next 25 years,” he continued.
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Cornell Prof Who Lauded Hamas Attack as ‘Exhilarating’ is Back at School After Dodging Punishment
The radical Cornell University prof who lauded the Hamas terror attack on Israel as “exhilarating” and “energizing” dodged any punishment and is now back teaching at the upstate Ivy League school.
Shamed history Professor Russell Rickford was out for the past year on “voluntary leave” after widespread public outcry when he was recorded at an off-campus anti-Israel rally cheering Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, invasion that slaughtered 1,200 Israelis.
“It was exhilarating, it was energizing …I was exhilarated,” Rickford said at the time — before apologizing for applauding the mass murder of innocent civilians.
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Demands Mount for Trump to Get Same Protection as Biden — After Yet Another Assassination Plot
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump urgently needs enhanced Secret Service protection after a suspect was arrested Sunday in another apparent assassination attempt on the Republican nominee, Trump’s political supporters demanded Sunday.
The would-be assassin, identified as 58-year-old Ryan Routh of Hawaii, was detained after a Secret Service agent spotted the barrel of his AK-47 style rifle through a chain link fence on the outskirts of Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach.
The ex-president, 78, was on the course at the time. Authorities have yet to determine if the shooter squeezed off any shots at Trump.
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DeSantis Warns Against Dragging Vote Count Beyond Election Night: ‘Absolutely Killing Public Trust’
Finding out who will be America’s 47th president could take quite some time after election night, if speculations from a recent New York Times article prove true.
With just over 50 days left until voters head to the ballot box in droves, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says taking the counting beyond election night is “outrageous.”
“You’ll have one candidate that may have a big lead because of Election Day votes and then people wake up the next morning and say, ‘Yeah, my candidate’s up 6%,’ and then they keep counting the next day, and then they count more the next day, and then the lead flips,” he told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo.
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Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was identified as the suspect who was arrested after allegedly pointing an AK-47 assault rifle at former President Trump at his golf course, according to law enforcement sources.
Trump was golfing at the time, Routh was spotted several holes ahead of Trump.
The alleged shooter mounted a GoPro on the fence and was “intent on filming” what would have been the murder of a former president, officials said.
Martin County Sheriff William Snyder described the suspect as having a “calm” demeanor after being apprehended by law enforcement.
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‘Fact-Checkers’ Forced to Admit Trump’s Claim About Kamala Harris is ‘Basically True’
The debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris kept fact-checkers scrambling for days.
Multiple bombshell claims were made on both sides of the debate stage.
However, it was only Trump who faced real-time “fact-checks” from the partisan ABC News moderators while Harris was given a free pass to lie with impunity.
Perhaps one of the biggest claims was Trump’s allegation that Harris supports taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for illegal aliens currently being held in custody.
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Florida Will Conduct Investigation Into Trump Assassination Attempt: DeSantis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday announced the state will launch its own investigation into the apparent assassination attempt targeting former President Donald Trump earlier in the day.
The FBI has said in a statement it is investigating the matter as an assassination attempt, while law enforcement officials said on Sunday that Secret Service agents opened fire after discovering the barrel of a rifle at the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida. The suspect was later arrested by sheriff’s officials in Marion County, the county’s sheriff’s department said.
“The State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation regarding the attempted assassination at Trump International Golf Club,” DeSantis said in a social media statement. “The people deserve the truth about the would-be assassin and how he was able to get within 500 yards of the former president and current GOP nominee.”
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Fox News confirmed earlier that the suspect in the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trumphas been identified as Ryan Wesley Routh.
Using public records, Routh appears to be from Greensboro, North Carolina (some reports say he now lives in Hawaii) and was or still is part owner of United Roofing and Construction Inc.
On Yelp, one negative review for “United Roofing” in late 2016 said:
“As a military member trying to buy a home before returning from a deployment, the proprietor, Ryan Routh, insulted me for trying to buy a house site unseen as many military members do returning from overseas.”
Another customer was unhappy with Routh’s work in 2017.
Perhaps the shooter was just a lousy roofer who turned far-left activist at some point. FEC filings show Routh donated to ‘ActBlue,’ the grassroots fundraising machine for the Democratic Party.
In the days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, corporate media ran their propaganda machine, and it was possibly at that point that turned Routh into a NATO activist.
What’s startling is that corporate media, such as NYTimes, Financial Times, Semafor, and others, paraded the shooter around with a number of quotes about Ukraine and Taiwan.
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Lawsuit Takes on Federal Campaign to Silence Vaccine Injury Claims
The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) has taken significant legal action by amending its complaint in the ongoing Dressen, et al. v. Flaherty, et al. case. This action challenges the alleged collusion between various federal entities and social media platforms aimed at stifling the voices of individuals claiming injuries from Covid vaccines. The complaint underscores a pervasive campaign spearheaded by agencies including the White House, the CDC, and the Surgeon General’s Office. These bodies are accused of pressuring social media giants to dismiss and discredit as “misinformation” the personal accounts and communications within private online groups of those affected by vaccine side effects.
We obtained a copy of the lawsuit for you here.
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WEST PALM BEACH — A 58-year-old man named Ryan Wesley Routh has been identified as the suspect who was arrested after allegedly pointing an AK-47 assault rifle at former President Trump while he golfed. Law enforcement sources report that Routh allegedly pointed an AK-47 assault rifle at Trump while the former president was golfing.
The suspect was apprehended on I-95, and authorities later discovered a rifle, a backpack, and a GoPro camera at a location linked to him. Routh had previously portrayed himself as a supporter of left-wing causes on social media and had a history of promoting his “do-gooder” image.
His LinkedIn profile indicates that he studied at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University before relocating to Hawaii around 2018. Routh described himself as mechanically inclined and passionate about creative projects.
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama will not be campaigning for Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris, according to reports.
The decision may come as a surprise to voters after Michelle Obama demanded during her DNC speech that Democrats “do something” to help elect Harris.
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MSM Climate Alarmists Stumped After ‘Boiling Oceans’ Result in Very Quiet Hurricane Season
Climate alarmist journalists at leftist corporate media outlets sounded the alarm early this hurricane season in the Atlantic and Caribbean region that “literal hot water” and “unprecedented ocean heat,” fueled by “human-caused climate change,” would unleash a very active and devastating hurricane season.
Yet, 3.5 months into hurricane season and peak season realized last week, John Shewchuk, a certified consulting meteorologist, wrote on X that the number of named storms in 2024 (as of Sept. 14) totals 7, compared with 20 at this exact point in 2020.
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New: Kamala Harris Says She’s ‘Glad’ Trump is Safe After Shots Fired at West Palm Beach Golf Course
Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as the White House, have responded to the shooting that took place at Donald Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday. Reports emerged that there were shots fired at the Trump International Golf Course, which appear to have been fired by Secret Service agents after a man was spotted on the course with what agents perceived to be a gun.
According to CBS News, “The President and Vice President have been briefed about the security incident at the Trump International Golf Course, where former President Trump was golfing. They are relieved to know that he is safe,” the White House said in a statement. “They will be kept regularly updated by their team.”
Harris also posted that she had been briefed on the indecent. “I have been briefed on reports of gunshots fired near former President Trump and his property in Florida, and I am glad he is safe.”
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Professor Sends His ‘What if Jan 6 Succeeded’ Comic-Book to All Pennsylvania High Schools
Authored by Dave Huber via The College Fix
The Harvard Law professor who co-authored a “what if?”-style graphic novel about the January 6 “insurrection” succeeding is sending free copies to every public high school in Pennsylvania.
Alan Jenkins, formerly president of the Harvard “social justice communication lab” Opportunity Agenda, and his co-author Gan Golan are giving out gratis copies of “1/6: A Graphic Novel” in order “to convey the risks facing American democracy,” The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
“The forces that led to that insurrection … the white supremacy, disinformation […] are all very still much with us,” Jenkins said.
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Republicans and Democrats Demand Answers After Would-be Trump Assassination: ‘Deeply Concerned’
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle breathed a sigh of relief that former President Donald Trump was safe after a second apparent assassination attempt in as many months — as the bipartisan task force investigating the July attack said it’s “deeply concerned about political violence.”
Questions over Trump’s security swirled Sunday after an alleged gunman with an AK-47-style rifle was spotted by Secret Service 300 to 500 yards away from Trump as he hit the links at his resort in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Former Democrats Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard blasted their one-time party as “warmongers” and “the party of censorship” while stumping for Donald Trump in Arizona Saturday.
“Today it’s become the party of war, it’s become the party of surveillance, it’s become the party of censorship,” Kennedy, 70, told the crowd at Arizona Christian University in Glendale.
“It’s no longer the party that I recognized.”
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The son of Ryan Wesley Routh, the man named as the suspect in a possible assassination attempt near Donald Trump’s Florida golf club on Sunday, has said his father is not a violent person and did not even believe him to own a gun.
Wesley’s son, Oran Routh, reached by DailyMail.com shortly after Sunday’s shooting, said this was the first he’d heard of the alleged assassination attempt.
‘This was the first I heard about it,’ the 35-year-old exclusively told DailyMail.com. ‘Was my father shot or injured?’
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Soros-Tied Leader Visited White House
(Washington D.C.) — Rashad Robinson, president of the Soros-backed racial justice group Color of Change, visited the White House multiple times during the Biden administration, according to visitor logs. While records confirm at least five visits, discrepancies in middle initials suggest Robinson may have visited up to 16 times, including meetings with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Color of Change did not clarify the exact number of visits or Robinson’s role in the prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
In May, following Trump’s indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Robinson claimed credit for helping to elect Bragg. He praised his organization for holding Bragg accountable to its goals, not only in prosecuting Trump but in shaping broader criminal justice reform. Color of Change endorsed Bragg’s 2021 campaign and pledged $1 million to support him.
Color of Change has received financial backing from liberal donor George Soros, who contributed $1 million after the group announced support for Bragg’s candidacy. Soros has a long history of supporting progressive organizations and criminal justice reforms.
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Taylor Swift’s Kamala Endorsement Backfires: Poll
Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris was a dud, according to a YouGov poll released Saturday and highlighted by the New York Post.
Despite the superstar singer’s support for the Harris-Walz presidential ticket, only eight percent of those responding to the YouGov survey said the endorsement made them “somewhat” or “much more likely” to convince them that voting Democratic on Nov. 5 was the right choice. Many more — 20 percent — said they were “somewhat” or “much less likely” to vote for Harris after Swift identified as a Harris supporter.
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Several high-ranking Secret Service agents are stepping down just before the public release of an internal investigation into the failures that led to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, PA on July 13. Among the findings of the report is the revelation that agents did not instruct local police to secure the rooftop of the building where the gunman positioned himself, two anonymous sources have revealed to the Washington Post.
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Trump Safe Following Palm Beach Shooting
(West Palm Beach, FL) — Reports say “multiple shots” were fired at former president Donald Trump’s golf club. According to reports from Politico, Trump was golfing at the time but was not in danger. The New York Post reported that two individuals exchanged gunfire outside the Trump International Golf Club. Secret Service officials responded to the scene.
Steven Cheung, Trump’s campaign communications director, confirmed that Trump was safe but did not provide additional details. Authorities are investigating, and further information has been requested from the Trump campaign and Palm Beach Sheriff’s Department.
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Trump Was the Subject of an Apparent Assassination Attempt at His Florida Golf Club, the FBI Says
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who authorities say pointed a rifle with a scope into former President Donald Trump’s golf club and was arrested is Ryan Wesley Routh, three law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.
The officials identified the suspect to the AP but spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.
Secret Service agents shot at the suspect, who was taken into custody after fleeing the scene of what the FBI is calling an apparent attempted assassination of the Republican presidential nominee. Authorities are working to determine a motive.
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Former President Donald Trump issued a statement shortly following an apparent assassination attempt at his West Palm Beach, Fla., golf resort where a suspect was allegedly caught with a high-powered rifle in the bushes.
“There were gunshots in my vicinity but before rumors start spiraling out of control, I wanted you to hear this first: I AM SAFE AND WELL!” he wrote Sunday after the second such attempt, this time as he teed off at his Trump International Golf Course.
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Trump’s Security at Golf Course Was Lighter Because He’s Not Sitting Prez: Official
The Secret Service fought off another assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a Florida golf course on Sunday — as a local sheriff said Trump’s security was lighter since he’s only a candidate, not the commander in chief.
Agents opened fire on the shooter, identified as 58-year-old Ryan Routh, as he approached the Republican presidential candidate during a round of golf at Trump’s West Palm Beach course.
Trump was OK after the encounter, but West Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said that if he’d been in office, his security would have been much tighter.
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Former President Donald Trump narrowly survived yet another assassination attempt after a sniper with a scoped AK-47 rifle got within a few hundred yards of him as he played golf at his West Palm Beach, Florida club on Sunday.
It is the second time a madman armed with an assault rifle has tried to kill the 45th president in two months.
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said the suspect took cover near a chain-link fence between 300 and 500 yards from Trump around 2 p.m. — noting that “with a rifle and scope, like, that is not a long distance.”
Law-enforcement sources told The Post that the suspect is Ryan Routh, a 58-year-old Hawaii resident who has championed progressive causes online and was a reliable donor to Democratic causes and candidates.
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Truth is Out There: Congress to Get Update on UFOs From Pentagon as Gillibrand Presses for Data
Congress will soon be getting an update from the Pentagon on UFOs, according to New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — who says the session is “a priority for me.”
The New York senator chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities,” the panel tracks UFOs, aka UAP, or “unidentified anomalous phenomena.”
“It’s a priority for me. I think it’s very important that we continue to make things publicly available,” Gillibrand recently said on Matt Lasl’s DC “Ask a Pol” podcast.
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Welcome Back to Planet Earth: SpaceX Polaris Dawn Crew Returns After Historic Spacewalk Mission
The five-day Polaris Dawn mission, operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, ended early Sunday as the Crew Dragon capsule safely splashed down off the coast of Florida. The mission, hailed as a massive success, featured the world’s first commercial spacewalk with astronauts traveling further into space than any humans for more than half a century and marked a breakthrough in testing inter-satellite laser communication through SpaceX’s Starlink network.
The Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts, including billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, and two others, splashed down off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, around 0337 ET.
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Wife of Trump Impeachment Witness Downplays Assassination Attempt: ‘No Ears Were Harmed’
The wife of a former impeachment witness against President Donald Trump in 2019 downplayed the second assassination attempt on Sunday afternoon.
“No ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon,” Rachel Vindman, the wife of Alexander Vindman, posted on X.
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Authorities have released the first photos from the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his golf course earlier Sunday.
The photos show alleged gunman an AK-47 rifle propped up against a fence alongside a black backpack and a GoPro attached to the wires.
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On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, lawyer Sarah Miller discussed Pastor Artur Pawlowski’s appeal of his criminal conviction for giving a sermon to protesters in Coutts, Alberta in 2022.
Pastor Artur was convicted after he travelled to Coutts during the protests against government-imposed COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates to deliver an inspirational speech to the demonstrators.
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Poilievre Condemns ‘Radical Davos Agenda’ of Trudeau Ally
Tory Leader Pierre Poilievre called out the Trudeau government Wednesday for appointing a Davos bureaucrat with a “radical agenda” to chair a key task force.
“We found out that there’s a new Phantom Finance Minister,” Poilievre told reporters. “Trudeau said he offered ‘carbon tax Carney’ the real job.”
“But that caused a dilemma.”
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Tamara Lich’s Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon Speaks on the Trial’s Conclusion
Here it is, finally over the trial of Tamara Lich. Of course, it’s not over till it’s over. The trial part is over. 47 days of hearings over the course of a full year, all of this two and a half years from the trucker convoy. So that’s done. But the judge says she’ll need till November 26th just to review the case.
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Austrian Alps Hammered by Huge Autumn Snowfall
It often snows at altitude in September, but the levels seen over the past few days in places have been described as ‘unprecedented’ by weather experts.
Snow is falling to as low as 700m in Austria with as much as 2m expected to fall at altitude by the end of Monday.
Austrian storm warning centre UWZ says that in some areas, previous records for the entire month of September will be “surpassed in just a few days”.
Manuel Kelemen, a forecaster for Puls24 TV, said “what we’re experiencing is extraordinary, if not unprecedented”.
“Although occasional (mostly) high-altitude snowfalls are nothing unusual in September, this degree of storm is not something we have seen this early for many years and it will probably end up dumping record snowfalls (for the time of year) across some parts of Austria,” said Fraser Wilkin from weathertoski.co.uk.
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Climate Expert: Global Warming Has Saved the Lives of 282,000 Babies
Danish climate change expert Bjorn Lomborg observed Sunday that global warming has saved the lives of more than 282,000 babies between 2001 and 2019, citing a 2024 study by Nature magazine.
Lomborg, who heads up the Copenhagen Consensus Center, noted that more people die each year from cold than from heat, which helps explain why warming ambient temperatures would result in fewer net deaths.
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Demographic Decline: Greece Faces Alarming Population Collapse
Empty villages, disillusioned young workers, and government officials scrambling for solutions: this is the stark reality Euronews uncovered in Greece, where the country is bracing for a major population collapse fuelled by plummeting numbers of births, mass emigration, and low fertility rates.
Six years after Greece exited its financial bailout programmes, marking the official end of a painful economic crisis, the country is now facing a new kind of emergency that could influence its social and economic structure: population decline. Projections suggest that by 2070, Greece’s population could shrink by as much as 25%, way above the EU average of 4%.
In 2022, the country recorded less than 77,000 births, the lowest in almost a century, while deaths nearly doubled that number, reaching 140,000. Nothing seems to indicate that this trend will change anytime soon.
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Downpours Leave More Than 250,000 Czech Households Without Power
More than 250,000 households in the Czech Republic have been left without electricity due to the devastating downpours, the CTK agency reported on Sunday, citing energy suppliers.
The situation was most dramatic in the eastern part of the Moravian-Silesian region on the border with Poland. There alone, more than 100,000 households had no power.
Rains had softened the soil, causing numerous trees to fall on overhead power lines and high-voltage lines. Forecasters expect the rainfall to continue until Monday.
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Eastern Germany Braces for Floods Amid Chaos in Central Europe
Eastern Germany is bracing for floods as the catastrophic rains hitting its Central European neighbours threaten to spill over the German border.
Authorities in the state of Saxony said on Sunday that the level of the Elbe river in Schöna, near the border to the Czech Republic, is expected to peak on Tuesday afternoon at 7.50 metres — enough to declare the highest alarm level in the area.
The Elbe has already risen to 5.59 metres in Schöna, far above the average height of 1.58 metres. It is expected to reach 6 metres by Sunday evening.
Should waters rise to the highest alarm level, the state flood centre said dams could overflow or break, causing built-up areas to flood and posing a threat to life and limb.
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg was named “Antisemite of the Week” by a Jewish group following her arrest at a recent anti-Israel rally.
Thunberg “has joined the ranks of keffiyeh-clad protesters, brazenly voicing her disdain for the Jewish state,” the watchdog group StopAntisemitism said Friday, days after Thunberg was among those hauled off by Danish police during a demonstration at Copenhagen University.
“She has sadly transformed her activism into a platform for vile Jew-hatred,” the organization added.
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More Evacuations as Historic Flooding Continues Across Central Europe
A dam in south-west Poland burst late Saturday following heavy rainfall, as emergency responders in Poland, the Czech Republic and parts of Austria continue to grapple with severe flooding caused by historic rainfall across central Europe.
The Lower Silesian municipality of Bystrzyca Klodzka said that the dam in Miedzygórze had overflowed, despite efforts to drain water and prevent the surge.
The Regional Water Management Authority in Wroclaw called the situation critical, prompting evacuations from lower-lying villages.
The dam, built at the beginning of the 20th century in the Klodzko Valley on Poland’s border with the Czech Republic, is 29 metres high. Its flood control reservoir can hold almost a million cubic metres of water.
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Netherlands: Over 300 XR Activists Arrested at A12 Blockade, Highway Reopened
Police arrested hundreds of climate protesters on the A12 highway in The Hague on Saturday afternoon. Twenty of them were arrested for obstruction and vandalism, such as spraying graffiti, and 350 for disobeying the law on public demonstrations, police said. The latter group was released, and the other 20 XR activists are still in custody.
The highway, which has been blocked since noon on Saturday, was cleared in the evening. At around 7 p.m., all the activists were removed from the road and put on buses. They were released at another location. The road was reopened after 9 p.m. on Saturday.
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Netherlands: Ajax Supporters Destroy Amsterdam Police Station and Vehicles, Riot Police Deployed
Hundreds of Ajax supporters, who have been demonstrating on Amsterdam’s Leidseplein since 2:30 p.m., are rioting at the police headquarters in Marnixstraat in the center of Amsterdam. They vandalized the police station and police cars. Riot police were deployed to bring the tense situation under control.
“Despite many warnings, a group continues to seek confrontation. The mobile unit is now carrying out charges to drive this group away,” reports the Amsterdam police. Supporters vandalized, among other things, the police station and police vehicles.
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Poland Backs Ending EU Benefits for Ukrainian Men of Fighting Age
Poland would support ending welfare payments to Ukrainian men of fighting age in Europe to push them to return home and fight Russia’s invasion, the Polish foreign minister has said.
Kyiv is trying to replenish the ranks of its army as the war stretches into its third year, including by enticing emigrants to return to Ukraine.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski proposed on Friday (13 September) to “stop paying social security payments for people who are eligible for the Ukrainian draft”.
Some men fled Ukraine to avoid being drafted, despite an official ban on leaving the country that applies to most men of fighting age.
“There should be no financial incentives for avoiding the draft in Ukraine,” Sikorski continued.
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Thousands Flee Unprecedented Floods in Central Europe
Central Europe was hit by massive flooding on Sunday, as rivers swollen by historic downpours burst their banks in Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic.
The region has seen unprecedented rainfall in recent days, causing serious floods that have claimed a number of lives and major disruptions to power, gas and transport systems.
The eastern Czech town of Krnov, on the border to Poland, is a particular concern, with up to 80% of its territory under water according to Deputy Mayor Miroslav Binar.
Helicopters were deployed to rescue stranded residents in the town, which lies at the confluence of the Opava and Opavice rivers.
The highest flood alert level was in force at more than 120 gauging stations across the country, with dozens reporting once-in-a-century rises in floodwaters.
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Houthi Missile Reaches Central Israel for First Time, No Injuries Reported
JERUSALEM, Sept 15 (Reuters) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would inflict a “heavy price” on the Iran-aligned Houthis who control northern Yemen, after they reached central Israel with a missile on Sunday for the first time.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group struck with a new hypersonic ballistic missile that travelled 2,040 km (1270 miles) in just 11 1/2 minutes.
An Israeli military official said the missile was hit by an interceptor and fragmented in the air, rather than being completely destroyed.
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Houthi Missile Reaches Central Israel, Riddling Air Shield
A missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis reached central Israel, setting off sirens from the outskirts of Tel Aviv to the Jerusalem foothills, and partially broke apart in midair after it was shot at, the Israeli military said.
The Iranian-aligned rebels, whose long-range attacks on Israel in solidarity with Hamas’ almost year-old war against it from Gaza have mostly been intercepted over the Red Sea, said the missile they used on Sunday was new and hypersonic.
They didn’t elaborate.
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels have said that the militant group struck Israel using a “new hypersonic ballistic missile.”
Yahya Sarea, a spokesperson for the Houthis, said that the missile took just 11 and a half minutes to travel more than 1,200 miles.
The Israel Defense Forces said that it had identified a surface-to-surface missile fired from Yemen over central Israel.
It said that the projectile “most likely fragmented in mid-air” before falling in an open area.
“No injuries were reported,” the IDF said on X.
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Dozens of people were injured after a Russian aerial bomb hit an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv; Volodymyr Zelenskyy said people were trapped under the rubble and that the strike was a reminder to the West of what Ukraine needs to fight Russian attacks.
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NATO Admiral Backs Ukraine Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia
PRAGUE (AP) — The head of NATO’s military committee said Saturday that Ukraine has the solid legal and military right to strike deep inside Russia to gain combat advantage — reflecting the beliefs of a number of U.S. allies — even as the Biden administration balks at allowing Kyiv to do so using American-made weapons.
“Every nation that is attacked has the right to defend itself. And that right doesn’t stop at the border of your own nation,” said Adm. Rob Bauer, speaking at the close of the committee’s annual meeting, also attended by U.S. Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Top Japanese Scientists Prove COVID ‘Vaccines’ Cause Deadly Heart Failure
A group of Japan’s leading scientists has uncovered evidence proving that Covid mRNA “vaccines” are causing a global surge in heart failure and related deaths.
The Japanese scientists used a specialized biopsy technique to finally prove that Covid mRNA shots cause fatal damage to the heart in those who receive the injections.
The team of researchers, led by Dr. Hiroyuki Yamamoto Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Narita-Tomisato Tokushukai Hospital, Chiba, Japan, sought to identify the global spike in cardiac deaths.
During their investigations, the team uncovered evidence of vaccine-associated myocarditis or “VAM.”
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Dementia Drug Prescriptions Up 46 Percent Over a Decade in Australia
Authored by Crystal-Rose Jones via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Recorded cases of dementia, as well as deaths and prescriptions for the disease, are on the rise across Australia as the nation grapples with the effects of an ageing population.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s Dementia in Australia report, released on Sept. 13, estimates that out of every 1,000 Australians, 15 are suffering from the neurodegenerative disease.
Prescriptions for dementia drugs have increased 46 percent in a decade.
A total of 688,000 dementia medication prescriptions were dispensed to around 72,400 Australians aged 30 and over in 2022—23, compared to 472,000 scripts dispensed in 2013—14.
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Libertarians Make Waves With Record-Breaking Result in NSW Local Elections
The Libertarian Party could secure up to 15 seats in councils across New South Wales and potentially take control of a key regional council after the Liberal Party failed to nominate over 100 candidates for last weekend’s local government elections.
NSW Libertarian MP John Ruddick attributed some of his party’s success to the Liberals’ organisational mishap but stressed that this is just the beginning of a growing movement as Australians turn to alternatives beyond the traditional parties.
Ruddick is confident that around half of the 32 Libertarian candidates will be elected, including Gregory Harris in Upper Lachlan Shire. The party has been vocal against initiatives like drag queen storytime at local libraries and other “woke” programs, which they argue are outside the core responsibilities of councils, such as roads, rates and rubbish.
Viewing every issue through a lens of reducing government size, Ruddick said, “we’re radically pro-capitalism.” The party garnered nearly 25% of the primary vote in the MidCoast region by Sunday morning, and they are in contention to secure a majority and possibly the mayorship of the large regional council.
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Three American citizens were detained by the Venezuelan government on suspicion of plotting to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro and sabotage the country as alleged conspiracies in the area continue to run rampant.
Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello announced on Saturday that three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech citizen were arrested for allegedly plotting an attack to “destabilize” Maduro and his government through “violent actions,” adding that the government seized hundreds of weapons,Agence France Presse reported.
Cabello did not state when the six individuals were arrested, but made claims that “the CIA is in charge of this operation and the CNI of Spain, too,” Spanish outlets reported.
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EU’s Borrell Calls Maduro’s Regime ‘Dictatorial’
The EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell described Nicolas Maduro’s regime in Venezuela as “dictatorial” and “authoritarian” on Sunday, alluding to those forced to flee the country, including the opposition leader whom Madrid granted asylum last week.
Borrell commented on Maduro’s regime in an exclusive interview with Spanish private television station Telecinco, broadcast on Sunday.
“Let’s not fool ourselves about the nature of things. Venezuela has called elections, but it was not a democracy before, and it is much less so after”, Borrell added, reported EFE.
In particular, Borrell highlighted the fact that opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia and “seven million Venezuelans” have had to flee the country and the “thousand restrictions” to which political parties are subjected.
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A near daily record of 801 migrants crossed the English Channel on Saturday in just 14 small boats, the latest government figures show.
The current record for the highest number of arrivals in one day so far this year is 882 in 15 boats on June 18.
The latest small boat disaster claimed the lives of eight migrants today after their dinghy got into difficulty off the coast at Ambleteuse, near Calais, in the early hours of this morning.
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Fatal car accidents in Springfield, Ohio, increased four-fold last year, The Post has learned — as residents say a surge of Haitian migrants unfamiliar with US driving has turned their streets into the Kentucky Derby.
Eight people were killed in seven car accidents in Clark County in 2023, up from just two fatalities in two accidents in 2022, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol overseeing the county comprising the small city.
Traffic accidents involving injuries in Springfield have also risen, climbing to 414 so far this year compared to 362 in 2023 — a 14% increase.
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Fed-up Denver suburbs are looking to sue their big sanctuary city neighbor and the state government after suffering strained budgets and crime after 42,000 migrants flocked to Colorado — bringing the violent gang Tren de Aragua with them.
Most recently, the council for the city of Castle Rock — just south of Denver — unanimously voted to research legal options against its largest neighbor, CBS News Colorado reported.
The vote came amid a wave of other suburbs that have voted to sue, or to look into suing over the migrant crisis in Colorado.
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Former EU Chief Juncker Criticizes Germany’s Border Controls
Former European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has voiced opposition to Germany’s imminent increase in border controls, warning of the inconvenience posed to commuters and the potential threat to European integration.
On Monday, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser ordered the introduction of temporary controls at all German land borders to curb the number of unauthorized entries, in an effort to clamp down on migration.
The checks — which expand an existing scheme to all German entry points — are to begin on Monday and will initially last for six months.
Speaking to dpa in his native Luxembourg, Juncker said he was not a fan of border controls because they inconvenience commuters.
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Germany Pledges New Border Checks Will be ‘Targeted’ to Avoid Queues
Border controls along all of Germany’s frontiers will be targeted to “combat cross-border crime and further limit irregular migration,” the Interior Ministry said on Sunday, a day before the expanded measures take effect.
Neighbouring states have expressed concern that the border checks will lead to tailbacks, hampering regular cross-border traffic. The measures were announced last week amid a caustic German debate on migration triggered by a spate of recent attacks.
The police will carry out the spot checks “flexibly and according to current security requirements,” the Interior Ministry said. The extent, duration and specific locations for the controls would depend on these factors.
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Moroccan Police Stop Hundreds of Migrants From Entering Spanish Enclave of Ceuta
Sunday has been a day of high tension in the area after hundreds of people gathered at the border following reported calls on social media for a collective breach attempt.
Moroccan police have prevented hundreds of migrants from crossing into Ceuta after dozens manged earlier on Sunday to cross the first border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave.
They were all intercepted before they could cross into Spanish territory.
Sunday has been a day of high tension in the area after hundreds of people gathered at the border following reported calls on social media for a collective breach attempt.
The young migrants are mostly Moroccans but some come from elsewhere in Africa, the Spanish news agency EFE reported.
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Trust Accounts to Fund Open Borders
The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies has spent years battling on behalf of illegal alien invaders. Earlier, Freedom Center Investigates exposed how the lawfare group housed at a University of California law school provides full service open borders support.
“During Trump, my CGRS colleagues and I expended a tremendous amount of energy challenging the anti-immigrant policies that were issued on what seemed like an almost daily basis,” Karen Musalo, the CGRS founding director, boasted.
The Center also offers a database of “expert witnesses” willing to testify on behalf of the ‘refugee’ claims of border invaders. It urges licensed medical or mental health personnel to register to “support asylum seekers with forensic mental or physical evaluations.”
Who funds the CRGS open borders lawfare? Many of those who fund it don’t even know it.
CGRS is one of the radical leftist groups that benefits from interest seized from trust accounts controlled by lawyers and redistributed to some of the most extreme groups around.
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Banks Urged to Defund Farming Industry to Limit Meat & Dairy Consumption
Major banks are being urged to stop financing the global farming industry as part of an effort to force limits on the general public’s meat and dairy consumption.
A collective of over 100 climate groups, led by Friends of the Earth, is pressuring JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and other private banks to stop financing global meat and dairy companies.
According to a report from Agriculture Dive, the groups argue that the institutions’ lending activities undermine their environmental commitments.
An open letter from groups to some of the world’s biggest banks calls for a halt on any new financing that expands industrial livestock production.
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Breaking: Trans Activist Jonathan Yaniv Shouts Racial Slurs at Rebel Reporter, Threatens Child
Trans activist Jonathan “Jessica” Yaniv, who has a history of being violent towards reporters and uttering threats, brazenly harassed Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey outside the courthouse in Surrey, BC earlier today.
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Dr. Jordan Peterson Faces Five New Complaints From ‘Woke Censors’
More complaints have been filed against Dr. Jordan Peterson, of which none relate to his professional capacity as a psychologist.
“My lawyers and I received not one but five (!) additional complaints last week — part of the endless litany of whining manipulative missives,” Dr. Peterson wrote in a National Post op-ed.
“What was my crime this time? Yet another tweet, with clear political intent, criticizing none other than Kamala Harris … Have you ever listened to Harris?”
All five public complainants objected to the former psychologist’s use of the word “retarded” in a social media post.
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Half-Naked ‘Performance Artist’ Twerks on Cop Car in Front of Kids at DC Gender-Rights March: Video
Thousands flooded DC on Saturday for the inaugural Gender Liberation March — including a “performance artist” who did a sexually explicit dance on the hood of a cop car as a little girl and hapless officers looked on, viral video shows.
The marchers danced in the streets, waved flags and chanted in support of a range of causes, from abortion access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth, and listened to speeches delivered by LGBTQ icons such as actor Elliot Page and “The Dads” documentarian Stephen Chukumba in the nation’s capital.
Just off the marching route, in full view of the teeming masses, a person in knee-high boots and leather underwear — complete with a studded codpiece and fishnet top that fully exposed their breasts — put on a sideshow, gyrating on the hood of a police car and twerking while blaring Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us” through a speaker she was toting strapped to a dolly cart.
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“… taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for illegal aliens currently being held in custody.”
We do this already in Europe, don’t we? Except they hardly ever get locked up before someone dies. Anyhow, think about it, this is is actually ironic if not cynical. They absolutely know that of those illegal aliens claiming transgender whatever, there is a low chance that any of it has to do with genuine genders garbled up in their brain, and a high chance that all of it is made up out of pure opportunism because they caught wind it gives them preferential treatment through the bureaucratic and legal process, more free money, ways to get women or whatever other advantages. If these imposters are castrated along the way, be my guest.