Seven people have been arrested in Indonesia after a failed plot to attack Pope Francis during his visit to the country. Meanwhile, the pope signed a joint declaration with the Grand Imam of Indonesia, urging inter-religious unity and harmony.
In other news, a 2-year-old boy was stabbed to death this afternoon by his 6-year-old brother inside their residence in the Chicago suburb of Joliet.
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Italy’s President Says Need to Bring Down Public Debt is “Inescapable”
Italy’s president said there was an “inescapable need” to bring down the country’s mammoth public debt, but warned on Friday that markets’ perception was a “questionable” indicator of the financial reliability of a nation.
Speaking via a video link at the Teha economic forum in Cernobbio, President Sergio Mattarella said that the cost of servicing Rome’s debt was far higher than neighbours due to interest rates.
“And yet Italy is an honourable debtor, with a 30-year history of annual primary government surpluses, with a public debt that has grown to a large extent, since 1992, mainly due to interest,” Mattarella said.
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LL Flooring Shutters All 442 Stores After Filing for Bankruptcy
American flooring company LL Flooring, previously known as Lumber Liquidators, has filed for bankruptcy and will be shuttering all of its 442 stores across 47 states. This, after being in business for the past three decades.
The retailer is one of the largest flooring companies in the US and is considered one of Home Depot’s biggest rivals. Around 2,000 of its employees will now be without jobs.
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Which Industries Hired the Most Workers in August?
Job growth ticked up in August even though it fell short of economists’ expectations as job losses in industries like manufacturing and retail partially offset other sectors’ gains.
Employers added 142,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department said in its monthly payroll report released Friday. That fell short of the 160,000 gain forecast by LSEG economists, while the unemployment rate ticked lower to 4.2%, in line with their projections.
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2-Year-Old Stabbed to Death by 6-Year-Old Brother in Joliet Home
A 2-year-old boy was stabbed to death by his 6-year-old brother inside a Joliet residence Friday afternoon, according to authorities.
Police said officers responded just before 5:05 p.m. to a home in the 2700 block of Fairway Drive for reports of a child who had been stabbed.
Upon arrival, officers discovered a 2-year-old boy who had sustained multiple stab wounds, with a preliminary investigation determining he was stabbed with a kitchen knife by his 6-year-old brother, officials said.
The 2-year-old boy was taken to Ascension St. Joseph Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
According to authorities, the victim’s family is cooperating with the investigation, with the Department of Children and Family Services working with detectives regarding the incident.
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A Georgia Fire Battalion Chief is Killed Battling a Tractor-Trailer Blaze
GREENSBORO, Ga. (AP) — A battalion chief was killed in an explosion as he worked to put out a tractor-trailer fire on a Georgia highway, officials said.
Greene County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Chris Eddy was working the fire on state Route 15 north of Greensboro on Wednesday, the department and county Board of Commissioners announced in a news release. The trailer exploded, causing Eddy’s death, county spokesperson Kathy Wooley said in an email Friday.
Eddy, 35, of Buckhead, grew up in Greene County and had been a firefighter since he was old enough to volunteer at Woodville Volunteer Fire Department, officials said. He worked with the Putnam County Fire Department and Old Salem Fire Rescue Department before starting in Greene County as a firefighter in 2019 and rising to battalion chief in 2021, officials said. Eddy also worked as a part-time firefighter in Morgan County and as a volunteer for Fire Station 4 in Buckhead.
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Alan Dershowitz Announces He is Leaving Democratic Party
Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz announced on Friday that he is officially leaving the Democratic Party, but did not state who he would vote for in November’s election.
Dershowitz, who has been a prominent Democrat for decades but has been critical of the party recently, said he was “disgusted” at the Democratic convention, and cited growing dissatisfaction with the party as the reason for the change.
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Appeals Court Orders Removal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. From Michigan Ballot
The Michigan Court of Appeals ordered on Friday that former Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name be removed from the ballot for the upcoming November election.
“While the request was made close to the deadline for defendant to give notice of candidates to local election officials, it was not made so late that laches should apply,” a three-judge panel of the court wrote, according to The Detroit News.
“Additionally, we conclude that the absence of any statutory authority prohibiting his withdrawal gave plaintiff a clear legal right to have his name removed from the ballot,” the statement continued.
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Boeing’s Starliner Capsule Departs Space Station Without a Crew
Boeing’s Starliner capsule successfully departed from the International Space Station (ISS) without a crew on Friday evening, beginning a six-hour trek back to the Earth.
The capsule, which has been attached to the ISS since June, was initially expected to make a one week trip to the station with two NASA astronauts. But multiple helium leaks and other issues have left the pair stranded on the station for months.
NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who is one of the two still stranded on the space station, celebrated Starliner’s departure after it successfully completed 12 brief firings of its small engines, which allowed it to fully break away from the station. There are currently nine people on the ISS altogether.
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House Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has demanded that a new ethics probe surrounding a potential conflict of interests between Judge Juan Merchan and his daughter Loren Merchan be investigated. The request from GOP Chairwoman Stefanik to investigate Merchan’s potential conflict of interest Harris comes as the judge ruled to postpone Trump’s sentencing in the NYC falsified business documents case until after the election.
According to a letter from Stefanik sent to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter, who is the president of Authentic Campaigns Inc, may stand to benefit from the fraudulent business documents case involving GOP nominee Donald Trump.
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Canadian Man Arrested Over Alleged Plot to Attack New York Jewish Center on Oct 7
Canadian man was charged on Friday for an alleged plot to attack a Jewish center in New York City on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, who was born in Pakistan but lived in Canada and was an alleged supporter of the Islamic State (ISIS), was arrested after a complaint was filed in the Southern district of New York. The suspect had been intending to travel to Brooklyn to carry out a mass shooting, the Department of Justice alleged in a press release.
The Pakistani national, who was arrested on Sept. 4, has been charged with one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
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Court Blocks Parts of California’s Social Media Law in Free Speech Clash
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has granted a partial preliminary injunction in the X Corp. v. Bonta case, which concerns some provisions from California’s online censorship (“moderation”) law, AB 587.
In explaining the ruling, the court said that X Corp. is “likely to succeed in showing that the Content Category Report provisions facially violate the First Amendment.”
The law, introduced by 10 Democrats and one Republican in the state legislature and later adopted, mandates that large social media companies must report to California’s attorney-general regarding the details of their “moderation” apparatus. These companies are required to submit “Content Category Reports” twice a year.
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Dennis Quaid’s ‘Reagan’ Exceeds Box Office Expectations, Bringing in $10.3 Million
Authored by Haika Mrema via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
The biopic “Reagan” exceeded box office expectations after its release over Labor Day weekend.
The full-length feature film, starring Dennis Quaid, is the story of former President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy Reagan, who is portrayed by Penelope Ann Miller.
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Dick Cheney Will Vote for Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump, Liz Cheney Says
Former Vice President Dick Cheney will vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, over Donald Trump, the GOP nominee, says former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who previously revealed that she would be voting for Harris as well.
“Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris,” Cheney said on Friday.
In the 2020 election cycle, Cheney, the former House GOP conference chair, was critical of Harris, calling her a “radical liberal” to the left of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a self-described Democratic-socialist.
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NFL Eagles player Darius Slay has said that while he’s excited about the first week of football season, he’s not looking forward to heading down to Brazil to play he doesn’t want their opening game against the Packers. “You want to know why? I’m gonna tell you why,” he said.
“They already told us not to leave the hotel,” he said, “they told us we can’t do too much going on because the crime is crazy.” He questioned why the NFL would want to send players to a place with such a high crime rate.
“I don’t have no intentions of doing nothing. I’m going to eat hotel food, I’m doing everything, but, they set me up. It’s going to be pretty crazy down there,” Slay added. The Eagles player said that there will be flight security for the plane ride down as well as other security measures for the players.
The crime rate in the country’s capital of Sao Paulo is high, however, the homicide rate in Philadelphia is around four times that of Sao Paulo as of 2022.
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Elon Musk: Trump Must Win, Civilization is on the Line
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity,news
X owner Elon Musk urged Thursday that he believes Donald Trump must win the election in order to save civilisation.
“I have never been materially active in politics before, but this time I think civilization as we know it is on the line,” Musk posted.
He added, “If we want to preserve freedom and a meritocracy in America, then Trump must win.”
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Goldman Reveals Shocking Collapse in Visits to Chat-GPT Website
OpenAI’s ChatGPT continues to lead the generative AI chatbot space, but the initial hype—lasting just over a year—appears to be fading quickly, as reflected in the latest monthly website traffic data.
New data from Goldman’s Peter Oppenheimer, citing analytics firm Similarweb, reveals that the total number of monthly visits to ChatGPT’s website sharply declined from spring through mid-summer, as reported in a note to clients on Thursday.
Here’s more from Oppenheimer:
“Furthermore, the original ‘excitement’ about chat-GPT is fading in terms of monthly users (Exhibit 11). This does not mean, of course, that the growth rates in the industry will not be strong, but it does suggest that the next wave of beneficiaries may come from the new products and services that can be created on the back of these foundation models.”
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Green Party Will Not Appear on Nevada Presidential Ballot, State Supreme Court Rules
The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that the Green Party is ineligible to appear on the state’s presidential ballot after its petition failed to include the required language for minor parties to qualify for the ballot.
In a 5-2 ruling released Friday, the high court’s majority agreed with lawyers representing the state Democratic Party — which filed the lawsuit — that the minor party’s petition contained the wrong affidavit language, invalidating the signatures gathered to land on the ballot. The legally deficient language used by the party was recommended by the secretary of state’s office, which led dissenting Justices Kristina Pickering and Douglas Herndon to write that they believe the ruling violates the Green Party’s due process rights.
The decision reverses a lower court’s ruling that allowed the Green Party to qualify for the Nevada ballot for the first time since 2008.
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Harvard and Columbia Rank as Worst Colleges for Free Speech in Annual Survey
Authored by Jonathan Turley
For the second year in a row, Harvard University is ranked dead last among universities and colleges on the annual survey of free speech on campuses by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
Harvard shares a score of 0.00 with Columbia University. They are followed by New York University, University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College.
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House Republicans Unveil Continuing Resolution to Fund Government Through March
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday unveiled a continuing resolution that would fund the government through the end of March, as the federal government heads towards a partial shutdown.
The resolution includes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which previously passed the House in July. The SAVE act requires voters to prove their citizenship in the United States in order to vote in federal elections.
Republicans have largely united around the voter ID legislation, but the inclusion of the SAVE act means it the resolution is not as likely to pass the Senate, where Democrats have claimed the issue is a nonstarter because illegal immigrants are already not voting in federal election.
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Internet Archive Loses Appeal in Copyright Dispute Over Ebook Lending
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has sided with major publishers in a case revolving around the Internet Archive’s e-book lending program, branded as a form of “piracy.”
The National Emergency Library, NEL, started in March 2020 and was supposed to help those cut off from libraries just as the pandemic restrictions were starting to descend upon society.
NEL was born out of an existing, similar program called the Open Library. The difference is that the Open Library treated ebooks like their physical counterparts, and limited the lending of scanned books to one person at a time, while NEL sought to be more “generous” and did away with this restriction.
Now, the court’s decision is seen by some as a major blow to the non-profit that could also affect the internet as a whole.
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Judge Pauses Biden/Harris Admin’s Unpublished Plan to Cancel More Student Debt
Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times
A federal judge in Georgia has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from implementing its latest plan to bring widespread federal student loan cancellation for up to 30 million borrowers.
The 14-day restraining order was handed down Sept. 5, two days after a coalition of seven Republican-led states preemptively sued to stop the plan, claiming that the federal government is “unlawfully trying to mass cancel hundreds of billions of dollars of loans” and planning to do so by Sept. 7.
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Judge Rules RFK Jr. Must Remain on North Carolina Ballot
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times
A Wake County judge has ruled against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attempt to be removed from North Carolina presidential ballots, finding that the harm Kennedy would suffer would be small compared to that facing the state Board of Elections, although the judge granted Kennedy a 24-hour stay to appeal.
Last week, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) decided in a vote at an emergency meetingon Aug. 29 to reject a request from the We The People Party to remove Kennedy, its nominee, from the general election ballot. In its decision, the board said it would be impractical to reprint ballots by the Sept. 6 deadline for mailing the first absentee ballots while also noting the additional costs involved in reprinting.
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Judge Delays Trump Sentencing in Hush Money Case Until After Election
Justice Juan Merchan on Friday delayed former President Donald Trump’s sentencing in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money case until after the presidential election.
Originally set for Sept. 18, the sentencing will now take place Nov. 26, Reuters reported.
Earlier this year, a jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a 2016 payment his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels.
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The Associated Press (AP) deleted an X post and updated a false headline after getting busted by X’s Community Notes, but not until the post had over 2.5 million views. The headline claimed that JD Vance said school shootings are “a fact of life.” The Kamala Harris campaign, along with her running mate Tim Walz, also jumped on the story, making the same false claim.
JD Vance spoke in Phoenix, Arizona on Thursday night, and on the subject of school shootings, he said “I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.” This comes on the heels of a school shooting that took place at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) — The Las Vegas teen accused of running a “lone-wolf” ISIS operation had previously threatened to commit a school shooting, according to new court documents.
Joshua Robles faces multiple felony terrorism charges from incidents in 2022 and 2023. Prosecutors alleged Robles intended to support ISIS, saying Robles gathered explosive material “to target one or more areas within Clark County, NV.”
New documents shed light on the specific threats made regarding potential ISIS terror plots, along with the 2020 threat made toward his middle school.
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Various military units around the world (notably in the UK during the pandemic) have been getting involved in what are ultimately, due to the goal (censorship) and participants (military) destined to become controversial, if not unlawful efforts.
But there doesn’t seem to be a lot of desire to learn from others’ mistakes. The temptation to bring the defense system into the political “war on disinformation” arena seems to be too strong to resist.
Right now in the US, Lockheed Martin is close to completing a prototype that will analyze media to “detect and defeat disinformation.”
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Two Nigerian brothers who blackmailed a 17-year-old in a sextortion scam heard Thursday that they are going to jail in the US for 17 years and six months.
The Ogoshi brothers, from Lagos, Nigeria convinced Jordan DeMay to transmit explicit pictures of himself over the internet by conning him into believing it was actually a teenage girl sending the text messages. When he complied, the brothers demanded payment, BBC News reported.
DeMay didn’t send any money but committed suicide less than six hours after learning of the brothers’ sextortion scheme. It is the first time that Nigerians have been prosecuted for sextorting in the US. The cyber-crime is not only increasing in frequency in the US, it is often attempted by Nigerians.
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Prosecutor Moves to Reinstate Charges Against Alec Baldwin for Killing Cinematographer
Liberal Hollywood star Alec Baldwin just received some bad news regarding the cinematographer he shot and killed on the set of his movie “Rust.”
The prosecutor in Baldwin’s “Rust” case is fighting to bring the charges back after they were dramatically dismissed by the judge this summer.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey asked the judge to reconsider her July ruling.
Morrissey argues that there was no harm done to Baldwin’s rights when live ammunition was withheld by “mistake.”
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Revealed: Tim Walz Helped Secure Millions in US Funds for Research Center Tied to Wuhan Lab
Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz helped to secure millions in funding for a research facility that has partnered with the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. He also promoted the research facility. The lab has been theorized to be a likely location of where the COVID-19 pandemic originated and has been a topic of controversy for its connections to US funding.
According to the Washington Examiner, a research facility affiliated with the University of Minnesota called the Hormel Institute, often collaborates with the Wuhan lab in China. For more than a decade, Walz has been holding meetings with the research facility in the state of Minnesota and has touted the center for its work. The Hormel Institute thanked Walz for secure it millions of dollars in funding, per the Examiner. Walz reportedly pushed for a $5 million federal earmark for the center in 2008 as well as helped it get $2 million as a congressman.
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Teen Charged in Georgia School Shooting and His Father to Stay in Custody After Hearings
WINDER, Ga. (AP) — The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting that killed four people at a Georgia high school and his father, who was arrested for allowing his son to have a weapon, will stay in custody after their lawyers decided not to seek bail Friday.
Colt Gray, who has been charged with four counts of murder, is accused of using a semiautomatic assault-style rifle to kill two fellow students and two teachers Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Winder, outside Atlanta. His father, Colin Gray, faces related charges in the latest attempt by prosecutors to hold parents responsible for their children’s actions in school shootings.
“You don’t have to have been physically injured in this to be a victim,” District Attorney Brad Smith said outside the Barrow County courthouse. “Everyone in this community is a victim. Every child in that school was a victim.”
The father and son appeared in back-to-back hearings Friday morning with about 50 onlookers in the courtroom, where workers had placed boxes of tissues along the benches, in addition to members of the media and sheriff’s deputies. Some victims’ family members in the front row hugged each other and one woman clutched a stuffed animal.
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Tim Walz Says Gaza Demonstrators Are Protesting for ‘All the Right Reasons’ While Condemning Hamas
WASHINGTON — Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz said Thursday that those protesting American support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza are doing so for “all the right reasons,” as the Democratic ticket looks to balance its support for Israel with the humanitarian plight of civilians in the war-torn enclave.
Walz’ comments came in an interview with a local Michigan public radio station — a state with a large Muslim American population that is also a potentially pivotal swing state in this November’s election. His comments appeared to mark tonal shift, though not a policy one, from the steadfast support for Israel that Vice President Kamala Harris espoused at the Democratic National Convention last month.
Walz said the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that touched off the war, was “a horrific act of violence against the people of Israel. They certainly have the right to defend themselves.” But, he also said that, “we can’t allow what’s happened in Gaza to happen. The Palestinian people have every right to life and liberty themselves.”
During the interview, Walz was also asked how a Harris administration might handle the nearly 11-month Israel-Hamas conflict and whether she would break with President Joe Biden, who has supported Israel while working to broker a ceasefire and a deal to release hostages held by Hamas.
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Trump Sounds Off on ‘Total Phony’ E. Jean Carroll Case as He Appeals Verdict
Former President Donald Trump on Friday fumed over writer E. Jean Carroll’s claims that he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s, calling her claims a “total phony story.”
Trump made the remarks at a press conference at Trump Tower in New York after briefly appearing in court while his legal team appealed a jury verdict holding him liable for defamation and sexual battery.
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Trump Accepts Largest Police Union Endorsement, Blasts Harris as a ‘Defunder’: ‘Kamala’s Crime Wave’
The nation’s oldest and largest police organization endorsed Donald Trump Friday, saying there is “zero doubt” they want him in the White House for a second term, while the former president blasted his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, as a “defunder” of law enforcement, and vowed to end “Kamala’s crime wave” if elected.
Trump traveled to North Carolina Friday to speak at a meeting of the Fraternal Order of Police and accept their endorsement, calling it an “honor.” The organization also endorsed Trump in 2016 and 2020.
“Public safety and border security will be important issues in the last months of this campaign,” FOP National President Patrick Yoes said. “Our members carefully considered the positions of the candidates on the issues and there was no doubt—zero doubt—as to who they want as our President for the next four years: Donald J. Trump.”
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Turning Point Action to Host Make America Healthy Again Town Hall With RFK Jr. in Arizona
Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action founder Charlie Kirk announced that Turning Point Action will be hosting a “Make America Healthy Again” town hall with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Calley Means on Sept. 17.
Kirk posted the announcement on his social media on Friday with a link to registration. The event is set to be hosted in Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona after the former independent presidential candidate threw his support behind Donald Trumplast month. “Turning Point Action and TPPAC are honored to host a MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN TOWN HALL featuring the great Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Calley Means,” Kirk said.
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War Veteran Ex-Cop Has Jan 6 Sentence Reduced
A former Virginia cop and war veteran has had his sentence reduced by more than a year for his conviction over the protests at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
However, ex-Rocky Mount Police Sgt. Thomas Robertson is still facing a long term in prison until he will be released.
Robertson had his original sentence of seven years and three months reduced to six years.
The reduction came after the Supreme Court rebuked the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) for stretching the law on “obstruction of an official proceeding.”
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The White House was reportedly directing the communications response between different cabinet secretaries in response to questioning about removing Joe Biden from office for incompetence with the 25th Amendment, per a report from the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. This comes as Kamala Harris has taken his spot in the 2024 race for the presidency.
According to the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project (OP), the White House was seen coordinating the response to the OP’s inquiries about whether or not different cabinet members were in favor or opposed to removing Biden from office. The OP wrote, “We have learned that the White House was directing the communications response for inquiries to cabinet secretaries regarding whether Joe Biden should be removed for incompetence via the 25th Amendment.”
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White House Says President Biden Will Not Pardon His Son Hunter After Guilty Plea to Three Felonies
President Joe Biden will not pardon his son Hunter Biden, according to a statement made Thursday by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during her regular afternoon briefing.
A reporter first asked Jean-Pierre if Hunter Biden changing his plea had any influence on the “calculus” of Biden’s decision. The press secretary responded, “no comment” to that query but said “It’s no, it’s still no,” when asked if Biden had any intention of pardoning his son.
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Winsome Earle-Sears Announces Va Governor Bid to Build on Youngkin Record: It’s ‘All About Business’
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears announced her bid to succeed term-limited Gov. Glenn Youngkin in 2025, telling Fox News that she wants to build on her fellow Republican’s record of revitalizing the Old Dominion’s economy.
Earle-Sears, if successful in the primary, will potentially face Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., if the similarly prominent Virginian wins the Democratic primary.
“We really have to win, because the other side is wanting to do all kinds of machinations and so many ‘gotcha’ stuff that’s not going to help propel Virginia forward,” Earle-Sears said on Friday.
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Trudeau Gov’t Official Makes Crude ‘Dog Pee’ Remark in Criticism of Conservative Column
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A senior official from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Department of Justice was mum regarding a negative social media post he made which compared the work of a media member critical of the mainstream to newspapers used to train a dog to urinate outdoors.
The comments made by Alexander Gay, who is a senior counsel for Attorney General Arif Virani’s office, came after the very same department said journalists should never be “subjected to intimidation or harassment for doing their critical work.”
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Brussels Told to Act Against Alleged Tusk Admin Media Restrictions
A Polish MEP has demanded action from Brussels over alleged attempts by his country’s government to restrict independent media.
Maciej Wasik, a Polish opposition Conservative PiS MEP, has asked the European Commission to take action after reports emerged that the Donald Tusk-led Polish Government has been denying Conservative independent channel TV Republika access to its press conferences.
He told Polish portal Nezalezna.pl that he was awaiting a response from the Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders to a parliamentary question over the issue.
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Culture Minister’s Extramarital Affair Rocks Italian Government
Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano has admitted to having an affair and has offered his resignation to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in a scandal that has dominated Italian newspaper headlines for days.
Sixty-two-year-old Sangiuliano, a married man, became caught up in the scandal last month after a woman named Maria Rosaria Boccia, aged 41, started posting photos on social media sites of her with the minister at various public events, as well as emails and aeroplane boarding passes, writesAFP.
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Czechia: A Prague Apartment Now Costs Eight Annual Household Salaries
New findings show that it takes an average of five annual household incomes to purchase an average-sized apartment of 60 square meters in Czechia. However, this amount varies by location, with Prague and Brno requiring eight and seven annual salaries respectively.
Prices shooting up
According to consulting firm Deloitte, in the first quarter of this year, the average price per square meter in a Czech apartment was around CZK 99,300. This means that an apartment of 60 square meters would cost about CZK 6 million. The average gross monthly salary in the country was CZK 43,941; it would therefore take 11.4 annual wages to purchase an apartment.
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Germany: AfD Brandenburg Support Spikes as Greens Risk Zero-Seat Election Result
Support for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is surging in Brandenburg ahead of the State’s parliament elections this month, data gathered by pollster Infratest dimap has found.
Published on September 6, the survey also showed that support for the country’s Greens had dropped to 5 per cent — down 2 per cent on August — meaning the party risks elimination from the region’s parliament under electoral threshold rules.
As things stand, the AfD looks likely to come first in the September 22 vote with 27 per cent support, up 4 per cent on the previous August survey.
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Germany: Machete Attack on Police Station
In the early morning hours of Friday, September 6th, a man with a machete stormed a police station in Linz am Rhein (Rhineland-Palatinate). The 29-year-old Albanian man entered the police station, swinging a machete. Police spokesman Jürgen Fachinger said: “He threatened to kill [everyone] at the police station.”
The police were able to lock the man between the outside door and the secured door that leads to the officers, protecting themselves from the attack.
The officers tried to explain to the man over the intercom that he was trapped—but the man would not calm down. A special task force from Koblenz finally overpowered the machete attacker with a taser. Police spokesman Fachinger said, “After using a taser in the lock, the person was restrained and arrested by special forces. He was slightly injured.”
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Germany Blocks CO2 Vouchers for Oil Companies Over Fraud Concerns in China
Germany’s Environment Agency announced on Friday, September 6, that it rejected carbon credits for 215,000 tons of CO2 emissions from oil companies due to suspected fraud involving climate projects in China.
These projects were meant to help oil companies meet EU greenhouse gas reduction targets, which require them to make their fuel more eco-friendly.
Usually, companies meet these targets by using plant-based biofuels or through “upstream emission reduction” (UER) projects. UER projects allow companies to earn credits by funding initiatives that cut emissions during oil production, like stopping gas flaring.
The agency uncovered irregularities in eight climate projects in China that oil companies had financed to get CO2 credits.
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German Socialists Turns Up Heat on Chancellor Scholz
After the dismal results in the State elections of Saxony and Thuringia, Social Democratic Party (SPD) parliamentarians are starting to question German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s leadership.
At the start of the Socialist parliamentary group retreat marking the end of the Bundestag summer break, MPs discussed Scholz — who leads the unpopular “traffic-light coalition”, a progressive government of Socialists, Greens, and Liberals — with questions being raised about the chancellor’s future viability.
While SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich said at the start of the event on September 5 that he “absolutely supports” Scholz, others were less enthusiastic about the situation.
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Ireland: McGregor for President?
In a lengthy post on X, one of the best-known fighters in mixed martial arts (MMA) has again strongly suggested he may run for the Irish presidency.
Taking to the social media platform previously called Twitter, McGregor set out his goal, if elected, of using the powers of the Uachtaran na hÉireann to summon and dissolve the Dail Éireann (the lower chamber of parliament).
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Munich Shooter Was “Religiously Radicalised”
The 18-year-old Austrian man who fired shots near the Israeli consulate in Munich on Thursday, September 5th, was suspected of having become “religiously radicalised” and had been investigatedover terrorist links, according to Austrian police.
The suspect had been known to authorities since February 2023 after injuring fellow students. The police confiscated his mobile phone and found a video game on it in which gamers can recreate Islamic State-styled terrorist attacks.
He was reported to the police by his friends on suspicion of having become strongly religiously radicalised, being a member of a terrorist organisation, and disseminating Islamic State propaganda. Though Austrian authorities did find Islamist propaganda on his mobile phone, the public prosecutor’s office dropped the case against him in April 2023.
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Netherlands Vows to Create ‘Credible Deterrence’ With Rapid Armed Forces Expansion
The Netherlands has announced a rapid expansion of its armed forces, with the country’s new government announcing plans to buy F-35 fighter jets, frigates, tanks, drones, and other munitions. It will also expand its personnel.
In a defence note, presented on September 5, authorities also announced that it would be increasing the number of personnel serving in the army and would also reintroduce the country’s first tank battalion since disbanding the last one in 2011.
According to NATO standards, a tank battalion typically consists of 44 tanks, plus an additional eight for training and logistics.
Most likely, these will be the new Leopard 2A8 models for which Germany recently opened a production line. The Netherlands received an invitation from Berlin last year to join the acquisition, aligning with its current defence policy.
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Netherlands: Pim Fortuyn’s Brother Wants Investigation Into Murder Weapon DNA 22 Years After Murder
22 years after the murder of Pim Fortuyn, there is still a mystery about the gun Volkert van der G. used to kill him. DNA was found on the firearm that did not belong to Volkert but matched DNA found on a balaclava left behind after a ram raid in Emmen in December 2001. Fortuyn’s brother, Simon Fortuyn, is calling for the police to run this DNA sample through international databases as well, AD reports.
A new documentary on infamous Dutch murders by Sinan Can recently revealed that the police were investigating that DNA trace as recently as this summer. “With today’s advanced DNA techniques, we may finally be able to tie up some loose ends in this case,” Simon Fortuyn said in the documentary. “Consider this a cold case. This is a historic murder, and we need to know everything. I want to know who else had that weapon in their hands.”
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New PM’s Appointment Could Reshape French Political Life
The appointment of Michel Barnier as prime minister—after many weeks of procrastination—has given rise to many different responses in France, not only to his personality and programme, but also to what it says about the future political balance of the country.
Unsurprisingly, reactions have been very mixed on the Left and the Right. Many will see this appointment as out of step with the desires of large swathes of the electorate—even those who now crave political stability.
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Next EU Energy Chief Urges Switch From Russian Gas to Expensive LNG
Jozef Sikela, Czech trade minister and Prague’s candidate for the incoming EU Commission has urged neighboring countries Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary not to seek renewal of their Russian gas imports at the beginning of next year when the Moscow-Kyiv transit agreement expires.
Sikela, who is set to replace incumbent Energy Commissioner Kardi Simson, sent letters to Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, and Germany, as well as to Simson, asking her to intensify EU-wide efforts to completely replace Russian gas—at a great cost to them, while profiting the Czechs.
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On behalf of the Hungarian national group of the Patriots for Europe Group, Hungary’s Fidesz-KDNP representative in the European Parliament, MEP Tamas Deutsch, has submitted comprehensive amendments to the European Union’s 2025 budget. The proposals of Fidesz and KDNP aim to “replace the further expansion of power of Brussels bureaucracy with an EU budget that puts peace; the interests of European people, families and nations; and sovereignty first.”
The European Commission presented its 2025 EU budget proposal in June, as required by law. It includes €199.7 billion in commitments, €152.7 billion in payments and €71.8 billion in borrowing. According to Deutsch, radical changes are needed to the commission’s “flawed” draft budget.
The Patriots for Europe group believes that instead of a budget supporting illegal migration, there should be one that strengthens border protection and focuses on helping Europe and Europeans on the ground.
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Police Raid Organisers of Polish Independence Day March in Alleged Hate-Speech Case
Polish police have raided the premises of the organisers of the annual independence day march following allegations of hate speech during the 2018 edition of the annual November 11 event.
The raids on September 4 have been condemned by the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party as political repression and the organisers of the march have filed a complaint against the public prosecutor’s actions.
Officials say the raids were carried out as part of an investigation into suspected crimes committed during the annual independence march. Right-wing nationalist groups organise the event, which attracts mass participation from Poles wishing to demonstrate their patriotism on independence day.
Poland regained its independence on November 11, 1918, in the wake of the First World War.
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Polish Conservatives Fundraise After Being Stripped of Public Funding
The Polish opposition conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) has raised around three million zloty (€700,000) from 40,000 donors since it appealed to its voters last week to transfer “even small amounts” of money to the party.
The appeal came after the electoral commission announced cuts to the party’s subsidies after ruling it misused public funds to finance its campaign in the build-up to the parliamentary election last October.
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President of Italy Explains How Leftists Stay in Power Despite Losing Elections — Video
Italian President Giorgia Meloni released a video in English recently explaining how Leftist European political parties hold on to power in the face of election defeat after election defeat.
“Governments have not been the outcome of what the citizens shows by voting, but rather have been the outcome of agreements often under the table between the same parties that were fighting each other in the electoral campaign,” Meloni said in the video.
The crux of the scheme relies on party coalitions. In parliamentary systems, many numerous parties run candidates, some further left, some further right, many somewhere in between.
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Two-time Olympic silver medalist swimmer Martina Moravcova has criticized the catastrophic state of the swimming infrastructure in Slovakia and how athletes need more to succeed.
In a recent interview for the Slovak paper Dennik N, Moravcova, one of the most successful athletes in the history of Slovak independence, lamented the lack of infrastructure and facilities available for aspiring athletes across the country.
“Without infrastructure and a base, our success will depend on one or two talented and hardworking individuals with a good family background. It has always been our case and it is still our case,” Moravcova said.
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Telegram Boss Durov Criticises ‘Misguided’ French Over His Arrest
Pavel Durov, the owner of social media platform Telegram, has criticised French authorities over his arrest in August.
While the investigation is still ongoing, Durov claimed France’s justice department should have approached his company rather than detain him.
Writing on his personal Telegram channel, the Russian-born tech entrepreneur said he was told he “may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram”.
Durov called that “surprising for several reasons”.
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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Criticizes ‘Misguided’ Arrest in France
Pavel Durov, the CEO of popular messaging app Telegram, has publicly addressed his recent arrest in Paris, calling the French authorities’ approach “misguided” and expressing surprise at being held personally responsible for illegal activities on his platform.
Novaya Gazeta Europe reports that in his first public statement since being detained on August 24, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has hit out at the French authorities’ “misguided approach” in arresting him on charges related to the management of the popular messaging app. Durov was indicted on 12 offenses, including administering a platform that permits illicit financial transactions, failure to provide information to authorities, complicity in the distribution of child pornography, drug trafficking, organized crime, and money laundering.
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UK: Left Wing Activist Pleads Not Guilty Over ‘Cut All Their Throats’ Protest Speech
A former Labour councillor has denied encouraging violent disorder in a speech where he called for political opponents to have their throats cut.
Ricky Jones, 57, has again appeared in court to face one count of encouraging violent disorder over an August speech at a ‘peace rally’ held in response to days of disorder across England and Wales. A recording of the event showed Jones shouting through a microphone “they are disgusting, Nazi fascists. We need to cut all their throats, and get rid of them all”, while making a gesture of drawing his finger across his throat.
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‘Woke’ German Bank Terminates AfD MP’s Account Immediately After His Election Win
A lawmaker for the German anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has had his bank account closed for unknown reasons. Sascha Schlösser, a recently elected member of the Thuringia state parliament, made the public aware of his plight in a post on X on Thursday, September 5th.
“The DKB [Deutsche Kreditbank Aktiengesellschaft] did not miss the opportunity to congratulate me on my election as a member of the state parliament for the AfD and has terminated all my accounts,” he wrote, attaching a photo of the letter sent to him by his bank. The bank did not give a reason for the closure, but all signs point to yet another ‘debanking’ scandal—where financial institutions get rid of clients for political reasons.
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Iran Denies Supplying Missiles to Russia for War in Ukraine
Iran has denied sending arms to Russia for use in the ongoing war in Ukraine after a report cited U.S. and European officials alleging that the Islamic Republic had provided Moscow with short-range ballistic missiles.
The report, which first appeared Friday in The Wall Street Journal, was said to be based on evidence provided by U.S. officials to European allies. President Joe Biden’s administration had previously threatened Tehran with “a severe response” if it went through with transferring such weapons to Moscow after Reuters reported last month that Iran was allegedly considering planning to ship hundreds of Fath 360 short-range ballistic missiles to Russia.
In a statement shared with Newsweek, however, the Iranian Mission to the United Nations stated that Iran had not provided weapons to either side of the conflict in Ukraine and called on other nations to cease doing so.
“Iran’s position vis-à-vis the Ukraine conflict remains unchanged,” the Iranian Mission said. “Iran considers the provision of military assistance to the parties engaged in the conflict—which leads to increased human casualties, destruction of infrastructure, and a distancing from ceasefire negotiations—to be inhumane.”
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Russia Vows New Crackdown on US Media in Response to RT Sanctions
Following Wednesday’s announcement by Attorney General Merrick Garland of new sanctions targeting Russian state media entities, particularly media network RT, which stands charged with conspiring to commit money laundering and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, Moscow is promising to hit back against US journalists and media.
Garland had said, “The American people are entitled to know when a foreign power is attempting to exploit our country’s free exchange of ideas in order to send around its own propaganda.”
But Russia on Friday announced it is imposing new restrictions targeting American media. “A like response is not possible. There is no state news agency in the US, and there is no state TV channel in the U.S.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was cited in RIA Novosti news agency as saying. But he said new measures targeting American media will follow.
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Zelensky Hits Western Allies With Demands for More Weapons, Enhanced Capabilities
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used a meeting Friday with top United States military leaders and 50 partner nations to call for yet more weaponry even as the Biden administration confirmed it would rush another $250 million in security assistance to Kyiv.
Zelensky added systems that were promised already have been too slow to arrive as he again stated his desire to directly strike at Russia deep behind its borders.
AP reports U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the meeting of the leaders at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base in Germany was taking place during a dynamic moment in Ukraine’s fight against Russia, as it conducts its first offensive operations of the war while facing a significant threat from Russian forces near a key hub in the Donbas.
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Indonesian Police Arrest Seven for Terror Plot to Kill Pope Francis
Seven people in Indonesia have been detained after a failed plot to attack Pope Francis during his visit to the country.
Local media says the people — listed as HFP, LB, DF, FA, HS, ER and RS — were taken by police on Sept. 2 and Sept. 3 in Jakarta, Bogor and Bekasi.
Spokesperson Colonel Aswin Siregar told reporters that investigations are still ongoing, and it is not known if they detainees knew each other or were part of the same terrorist group.
“We have a mechanism to monitor and filter. We had tip-off information from members of the public,” he said.
“Densus 88 has taken legal action against seven individuals… who made threats in the form of propaganda or terror threats via social media in response to the Pope’s arrival,” Aswin told reporters.
“There was also a threat to set fire to the locations,” he added.
A source told The Straits Times one of the detainees was a house with bows and arrows, a drone and ISIS leaflets.
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Pope Francis and Indonesian Grand Imam Call for Inter-Religious Action to Fight ‘Climate Change’
JAKARTA, Indonesia (LifeSiteNews) — Signing a joint declaration with Indonesia’s Muslim Grand Imam, Pope Francis urged inter-religious “unity and harmony,” while warning about “dehumanization and climate change.”
Beginning his last full day in Indonesia as part of his Asian voyage, Pope Francis joined Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar for what has been billed as the pinnacle of his stay in the country — the interreligious meeting at Jakarta’s Istiqlal Mosque and the joint signing of a document with Imam Umar.
The declaration called for joint action between religious leaders to address “two serious crises: dehumanization and climate change.”
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Aboriginal Woman Madison King Reveals Why She Wants Welcome to Country Ceremonies Cancelled
An Aboriginal woman has branded modern Welcome to Country ceremonies ‘bulls*** money making schemes’.
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Leaked Government Data Exposes Dramatic Sudden Death Surge Among COVID-Vaxxed
Data leaked from the New Zealand government’s official database has exposed a dramatic surge in sudden deaths among those who received Covid mRNA shots.
The data was leaked by a government contractor from the country’s federal public health agency and it contains detailed information regarding the vaccination rates of all citizens.
According to the Health New Zealand database, 85.5 percent of the country’s population over the age of 12 is “fully vaccinated.”
The data from Health New Zealand, the nation’s equivalent of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was analyzed by leading American MIT computer scientist and vaccine expert Steve Kirsch.
The secret data was leaked to the public by New Zealand government contractor Barry Young last year.
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Mohammed and Jalal, two Moroccan nationals, were sentenced to five-year imprisonment each, with one-third of the sentence suspended, for raping a young man at gunpoint while he had been enjoying a night out with friends in the square in Liège.
Contrary to the wishes of the public prosecutor’s office, the court dismissed the charges of kidnapping, homophobia, and racism. According to the public prosecutor’s office, the criminal acts could have been qualified as such because the suspects held the victim in the toilet and made him scream “Vive le Maroc,” which translates to “Long live Morocco,” in English.
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On Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a controversial bill that would have given up to $150,000 to illegal immigrants in the state for home down payments.
“To the Members of the California State Assembly: I am returning Assembly Bill 1840 without my signature. This bill seeks to prohibit the disqualification of applicants from one of California Housing Finance Agency’s (CalHFA) home purchase assistance programs based solely on their immigration status,” Newsom wrote.
“Given the finite funding available for CalHFA programs, expanding program eligibility must be carefully considered within the broader context of the annual state budget to ensure we manage our resources effectively.”
[Comment: He’s running for President in 2028.]
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Chip Roy Releases Scathing Report on Impact of Biden-Harris Border Policies
Democrats have made no secret that they plan to grant blanket amnesty to tens of millions of illegal immigrants who flooded into the country after President Joe Biden shredded President Trump’s sweeping efforts to secure the border — and whose worst elements are committing heinous crimes and taking over apartment complexes in several major Democrat-run cities.
The plan appears to be to provide Democrats with a reliable stream of votes, no matter the cost to the country (which, according to the NY Post, was $150 billion last year).
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Germany Could Send Migrants to Rwanda Using UK-Funded Facilities
Germany is considering processing migrants in Rwanda, where facilities paid for by Britain are currently sitting empty.
Joachim Stamp, Germany’s migration commissioner, proposed using Rwanda as pressure grows on the coalition government to deal with the influx of asylum seekers.
Britain’s previous Conservative government spent £290 million on the facilities in Rwanda as part of a plan to process and deport asylum seekers to the African nation. However, the new Labour government scrapped the scheme immediately upon coming to power in July. The money spent on the facilities cannot be recouped.
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Germany: ‘Allahu Akbar’ Knifeman Who Attacked Police Station Arrested
Specialist police have taken over the investigation after a migrant knifeman shouting “Allahu Akbar” raided a police station, declaring he had come to kill police officers.
An Islamist apparently botched an attempted terror attack in the German city of Linz, in the Rhineland-Palatinate on Friday after he rushed a police station with a machete. He attempted to get inside but was foiled by the security door, and was locked in — alone — in the compound by officers, who then tasered him into submission.
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Globalist Think Tank: German Economy is Struggling Because of Germans Calling for Less Immigration
The populist right may not having power in Germany yet but it is certainly their fault that the economy is underperforming, a top globalist thinktank says, blaming them for anti-immigration rhetoric it says is killing economic growth.
The old neoliberal orthodoxy that immigration equals economic growth may be dead and buried in the minds of many, but it still lives on in the hearts of think-tankers like the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), which blames insufficient migrants for Germany’s gloomy economic forecast.
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Hungary Shows Off Buses it Could Use to Send Migrants to Brussels
Hungary has raised the stakes in its spat over migration with Brussels, showing off the buses it said it could use to send migrants to the capital of the European Union.
Parliamentary Secretary of State of the Human Resources Ministry Bence Retvari, on September 6, presented a fleet of the yellow vehicles he said could be deployed by Budapest for migrant delivery.
“If the European Union forces Hungary to let in illegal immigrants, it will offer migrants to be transported to Brussels free of charge,” Rétvari said at a press conference.
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Jim Jordan Subpoenas Biden Admin Over Kamala Harris’ ‘Border Czar’ Role
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has issued a new subpoena against the Biden-Harris administration over the crisis at the Southern Border.
Jordan is demanding information from the administration regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’s role as the so-called “border czar.”
It comes amid a recent flood of subpoenas from top committee Republicans.
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More than 22,000 migrants have now crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year, according to new official Government figures.
These included 51 people in one dinghy embarking on the treacherous voyage today despite torrential rain and choppy waters — and the boat tragedy earlier this week which killed 12 people.
A total of 22,028 asylum seekers have now arrived via Channel crossings in 2024, with 976 people intercepted already this month alone.
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Poland Extends Duration of Exclusion Zone Along Border With Belarus
Poland has extended the exclusion zone along its border with Belarus by an additional 90 days, the country’s Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak announced on Thursday.
Speaking in Kielce, Siemoniak revealed the extension would be formalized by a new regulation entering into force in the coming days.
A buffer zone stretching 56 kilometers along the Belarusian border in Hajnówka County was introduced on June 13 to help combat illegal immigration.
Initially in force for 90 days, the exclusion zone prohibited entry and travel across a 200-meter-wide strip along the border. In high-risk areas, the exclusion zone increased to a width of 2 kilometers.
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Discord Account Linked to Colt Gray Expressed Desire to Shoot Up School Over Transgender Issues
Georgia school shooter Colt Gray was discovered to have had a Discord account that contained posts suggesting he was planning a mass shooting due to his grievances over trans acceptance. Gray had also researched previous school shootings, like the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting carried out by Adam Lanza as well as the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in 2018.
The posts on Discord, from 2023, referenced plans for a “future mass shooting,” CNN reported. “I’m committing a mass shooting,” a post read, “I’m committing a mass shooting and I’m waiting a good two to three years, and I’m ready.” CNN reported that the poster then shared a picture of the gun he intended to use, before continuing to discuss the post.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has managed to work fearmongering over the perceived proliferation of misinformation, hate speech, and deepfakes into his message issued on the occasion of the upcoming International Day of Democracy.
Not only that but as far as the UN is concerned, this year’s Day of Democracy is focused on — of all things — (at this point in time, upcoming at some later point in time) artificial intelligence (AI).
Though the press release might look like a “politically correct word salad,” it does show a purpose — and that’s pressing for global AI regulation.
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Vatican Uses Secular ‘BCE’ Instead of ‘BC’ in English Version of Papal Text, Prompting Outrage
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — A number of Catholics have expressed consternation after the Vatican used the non-Christian dating notation “BCE” instead of the Catholic style of “Before Christ” in a papal document.
In recent days, social media posts on X (formerly Twitter) highlighted passages from Pope Francis’ July letter on the role of literature in formation.
Section 12 of the Pope’s text contained two quotations from writers who lived before Christ’s birth, and reads:
This verse contains two quotations: one indirect, from the poet Epimenides (sixth century B.C.E.), and the other direct, from the Phaenomena of the poet Aratus of Soli (third century B.C.E.), who wrote of the constellations and the signs of good and bad weather.
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WEF: COVID ‘Was the Test’ for ‘Huge Number of Unimaginable Restrictions’
The globalist World Economic Forum (WEF) has declared that the Covid pandemic was merely “the test” for “a huge number of unimaginable restrictions” on the general public’s freedoms.
In a post on the WEF’s website, Klaus Schwab’s Switzerland-based organization gloats that the willingness of “billions of citizens across the world” to comply with Covid restrictions proves that members of the public can be manipulated into accepting “individual social responsibility.”
The WEF lauds how “billions” of people complied with Covid “restrictions,” arguing that they would do the same under the guise of reducing carbon emissions.
Titled “My Carbon: An approach for inclusive and sustainable cities,” the article suggests that the same fear tactics could be used to impose further “restrictions” on the general public.
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Self-assembling nanostructures in the Covid vaccine
7/9-24 KL. 0203 snaphanen.dk
https://www.snaphanen.dk/2024/09/07/selvsamlende-nanostrukturer-i-covid-vaccinen/#more-201847
Japanese and Korean researchers have published a peer-reviewed article about their trials with the Covid vaccines. They have placed them on a glass plate in salt water in as human an environment as possible. They then photographed them with a stereo microscope and observed that nanostructures with the strangest shapes formed. It must be said that Dr. Campbell: “What on earth is that and what does it order in a vaccine? The manufacturers should explain themselves.” Try to see some of them:
Figure 11. Findings for Pfizer incubation study for 372 days; (a) Day 22, this is what we describe as a beaded chain (at 400X magnification); (b) Day 24, 2-dimensional geometric self-assembly at the bottom (at 200X magnification) in normal saline; (c) Day 60, floating 3-dimensional detailed chip-like structures (at 400X magnification) in distilled water; (d) and (e) day 60, accumulated 3-dimensional chip-like structures within an oval shaped boundary (200X/400X) in distilled water; (f), (g), (h), (i) Floating filaments shedding bubbles inside and outside in normal solution at day 95 (100x/100x/200x/200x); (j), (k), (l), (m) Progressive degenerative changes in distilled water 200X (day 82/day 256/day 306/day 372).
The full article can be read in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research. The pictures are from page 22 and page 65.
A draftsman with a conscience
It is a long interview, but most people here are interested in what has happened to our media and their so-called “free journalism.”
“The hardest thing is getting people to understand that we now live under a system that actively seeks to harm them. You can’t tell them that, they have to come to understand it themselves.”
We get to know a lot about what is going on within the MSM. Bob Moran was The Telegraph’s lead cartoonist, but was fired for saying the wrong thing about the killer vaccines. He talks a lot about them in this interview.
He also allowed himself to make this drawing of the mass murderer Netanyahu and Joe Biden. He has been reported to the police for this. UK Police Urged to Take Action Against Cartoonist Over Antisemitic ‘Blood Libel’ Depiction of Netanyahu
Sangui’s Balneum
Western world leaders enjoy life in a Roman bath
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Bob Moran’s website
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Vaccin mot covid-19Få den senaste informationen från svenska myndigheter.
Dr. John Campbell
https://youtu.be/eEgjuB-0bw8?si=J5_XtVX93Ahvu3Dq
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SHOCKING DUTCH COVER-UP: THEY KNEW ABOUT VACCINE INJURIES AND HID THE DATA | w Clayton Morris
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https://youtu.be/kKu3mxnNYM8?si=6FimmTOv1NusdSnr
“Politicians in Berlin will be viewing this weekend’s results with mounting PANIC… AfD’s simplistic messaging – mostly centred around a fervently ANTI-MIGRANT rhetoric – has resonated with young people. With a stagnating economy, a growing housing crisis and the GOVERNMENT’S INSISTENCE ON IMPLEMENTING EXPENSIVE NET ZERO POLICIES, SUCH AS A BAN ON COMBUSTION ENGINE CARS AND GAS BOILERS, the AfD’s conservative attitude to these issues feels refreshing for many.” —Spectator (2 Sep 2024)
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-afd-is-winning-over-germanys-youth/
“Prediction: I believe there’s an international movement—which may become violent—that’s quietly intensifying AGAINST commie-toddlerism (aka socialism, fascism, Marxism, et al) and its practitioners (aka elites, sophisticates, the leftist ruling classes, et al). I believe my previous predictions of a Bosnian-style civil war in the US may’ve been too myopic, therefore missing the wider (i.e., global) scope of swelling outrage.” —posted to fb (Sept 2022)
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“By my reckoning, it’s now been about 10 years since Bolshevik two year-old-run cities and states have been flaunting federal law (and the Constitution) with “Sanctuary Cities” that aid and/or protect ILLEGAL aliens from federal law enforcement. In fact, many of these hyphenators are now calling for the complete dissolution of US borders and the law enforcement responsible for protecting them. And law-abiding Americans have remained mostly silent; putting up with it.
In contrast, there have been exactly 0 “Sanctuary Cities” that aid and/or protect law-abiding American citizens from the various and growing number of infringements on their Constitutionally-guaranteed civil rights to free speech and to keep and bear arms.
At some point, Americans, having had enough of turning the other cheek, will declare their own “Sanctuary Cities” for the Second Amendment. The Bolshevik two year-olds will then scream “They’re breaking the law!”
Poke…Poke…Poke……………..BAM!!” —posted to fb (Nov 2018)
We now return you to [The Party’s APPROVED] regularly scheduled PROGRAMMING…
Order the Happy Meal and keep takin’ the pills..
Re: “Seven people have been arrested in Indonesia after a failed plot to attack Pope Francis during his visit to the country. Meanwhile, the pope signed a joint declaration with the Grand Imam of Indonesia, urging inter-religious unity and harmony.”
Can the contrast be more-obvious between these two events?
On one hand, Francis’ life was endangered because of a plot – presumably by Muslims (Indonesia is a majority Islamic nation) – to assassinate the Pope, the titular head of the Catholic Church and a worldwide symbol of the faith.
On the other hand, the pontiff was there to supplicate himself to Islam, de facto, in calling for “interfaith cooperation” or some such.
Extending the hand of cooperation, reconciliation and compromise may be seen as civilized behaviors here in the West, but in the Islamic world, they are seen as weak and therefore provocative by many believers. An invitation to attack, or at least an invitation to double-down on whatever demands are being made of the kafirs.
Five hundred years ago, Muslims may have despised and hated the Catholic Church of Rome just as many do today, but at least back then it was a symbol not of weakness but of the strength and unity of Christendom.
The soldiers of Allah may have hated the Church of Rome, but they respected it because it was strong and commanded the loyalty of so many adherents ~ including men willing to fight on its behalf.
Today, the situation is vastly different; the Pope is weak and lacking in resolve amongst other problems (there are some who question his legitimacy to serve as Pontiff in the first place), and the Church of Rome is in disarray and roiled by internal dissent.
Whatever his other character traits may have been, al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was telling an essential truth about Islam years ago when he stated, “Muslims respect the strong horse,” because they do.
Displaying such weakness in front of the billion plus Muslims of Dar al-Islam ~ the Islamic world – not only harms the cause of Christianity generally and Catholicism specifically, it also emboldens the hardliners within the Islamic world. As long as aggressive, forward-leaning tactics and strategy continue to get results such as these, there is little or no incentive to change, and little leverage for it amongst would-be reformers or realists within that camp.
He deserves it.
After all this Jesuit Poope has sided with the Muslims and he pushes absolutely nonsense. He is NOT a Christian at all.
@theresa
You’ll get no argument from me. He was installed in the papacy illegitimately and is a puppet of the globalists …. not to mention a hard-core communist and a traitor to his own civilization. And he is a deeply corrupt and amoral man as well, about the last person you’d want in his position if you are in fact a practicing Christian and a Catholic.
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