Former President George W. Bush said that he will not endorse any candidate in this fall’s presidential election. Meanwhile, his former vice president Dick Cheney said that he supports Kamala Harris.
In other news, forty-eight people and fifty cows were killed when a petrol tanker exploded on a highway in the Nigerian state of Niger.
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A Second Trump Presidency Has the UN Fearing for Its Future, Employee Caught on Camera Reveals
A recent undercover video showing a United Nations legal affairs employee saying the world body is scared of a Trump presidency is shining a new spotlight on Trump’s policy toward many of the U.N.’s scandal-plagued agencies.
The U.N. Office of Legal Affairs official was recorded on an undercover video stating, “I’m not sure the United Nations as an institution is going to survive a second term by Trump.” The Louder with Crowder podcast conducted the undercover recording and first disclosed it.
While the Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment, as president he was viewed as being very tough on the world body by taking an aggressive posture against U.N. corruption, anti-Americanism and antisemitism while pushing American interests.
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Absentee Voting Instructions by NC Board of Elections Violates State Law, RNC Argues in Litigation
Litigation filed last week by the Republican National Committee alleges a memo sent by the North Carolina’s State Board of Elections to county boards of elections instructing them on absentee-by-mail balloting conflicts with state law.
For the board, it’s lawsuit No. 6 in 43 days, and the fourth in 12.
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Bill Gates Laments First Amendment Strength on “Misinformation”, Advocates for Digital ID
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates has voiced concerns about the intersection between technology and speech, particularly criticizing the limitations he perceives the First Amendment’s free speech protections impose on combating online “misinformation.”
Gates erroneously cited the example that shouting “fire” in a crowded theater is an exception to free speech protections, a misrepresentation that has been clarified legally over time to be more nuanced in its application.
The technology magnate is grappling with what he believes to be the threats of misinformation and the technological phenomena of deepfakes.
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Queens state Assemblyman Ron Kim says groups tied to the Chinese Community Party tried to topple him and steal his predominantly Asian-populated seat in the June Democratic primary.
“There were clear patterns of foreign influence trying to dictate the outcome of the election — groups with ties to mainland China and the CCP [Chinese Communist Party]. They were trying to steal the Flushing seat,” Kim told The Post.
“It’s a very layered operation. We’re entering dangerous territory. I don’t know how we can stop it,” he said.
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Church Appeals Ruling Over Maine’s Anti-Discrimination Law
A Christian school is challenging a Maine law requiring religious schools that receive money from a taxpayer-funded tuition program to abide by the state’s anti-discrimination laws.
A federal lawsuit, filed in 2023 by the First Liberty Institute on behalf of Crosspoint Church, argues that changes to the state’s school choice program by the Legislature, in response to the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Carson V. Macon, are unconstitutional and discriminatory. In February, a U.S. District Court judge denied the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction, but they appealed.
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Elon Musk Pledges Support for Second Amendment: ‘Tyrants’ Disarm the People
Tech billionaire Elon Musk did not mince words when declaring his support for the Second Amendment on Sunday.
“The right to bear arms is there to protect free speech and stop a tyrannical government from taking your rights away! That’s why the first thing that all tyrants do is disarm the people, just like Chavez did when he was first elected. After that, no more real elections in Venezuela,” Musk posted to his X account on Sunday.
Musk was responding to an interview clip of Democratic Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock joining NBC News on Sunday, when he was asked whether Vice President Kamala Harris should support a mandatory gun buyback program.
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Sen. John Fetterman said he still believes President Joe Biden would have beaten former President Donald Trump if he stayed in this year’s election race — even as he admitted Trump is a “good debater.”
“It’s going to be a straight-up debate,” Fetterman (D-Penn.) told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday ahead of a Tuesday debate between Trump and Biden’s last-minute replacement at the top of the Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“She’s going to do great, of course, but Donald Trump will be good too. I mean, we can all remember he wrecked all of the Republicans. He’s a good debater,”
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Former President George W. Bush will not endorse any candidate ahead of the 2024 presidential election while his former vice president Dick Cheney publicly threw his support behind Kamala Harris.
“No,” Bush and his wife Laura answered when asked if they were endorsing anyone for the White House race on Nov. 5, according to NBC News.
“President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago.”
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Gov. Walz’s Legacy is That Majority of Students Can No Longer Read
Gov. Tim Walz has made much of being a former high school teacher in his political campaigns. The DNC brought out former students of his on stage and the media has rolled out adulatory stories claiming that Walz’s time as a teacher will help him shape America’s education policy.
The recent release of the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA) test scores for 2024 by Education Commissioner Willie Jett, a Walz appointee, were described by the Minnesota Star Tribune as “stagnant with only about half of students meeting or beating grade-level standards in math and reading.” The paper struggled to describe an empty glass as half-full.
The actual numbers showed that 49.9% of Minnesota students reached grade-level proficiency standards in reading, only 45.5% did so in math and only 39.6% managed it in science: a more accurate description would be that well less than half of Walz’s school students are proficient.
The educational glass in Minnesota isn’t half full, it’s more than half empty.
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Government Vaccine Scientist Blows Whistle: COVID Shots Were Planned for 20 Years
A former government vaccine scientist has come forward to blow the whistle, revealing that Covid mRNA shots had been in development for 20 years before the pandemic emerged.
During a bombshell new interview, the whistleblower, former U.S. government contractor Dr. David Martin, exposes the detailed planning of the Covid mRNA shots.
Martin reveals that Covid mRNA shots didn’t just suddenly appear in response to the pandemic.
According to the vaccine scientist, Covid mRNA shots had, in fact, been in the making for two decades.
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How AI is Helping Scientists Finally Predict Earthquakes
When a 4.4-magnitude earthquake rattled Los Angeles on Aug.13, it didn’t come as a complete surprise to everybody. About a million Californians got an early alert on their phones that a quake was imminent.
How did it happen? It was thanks to the newly-developed MyShake app, created by researchers at the University of Berkeley, in partnership with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. The app basically works as a crowdsourced detector, collecting motion data from phones across the West Coast — from California up to Washington State — and sends out alerts based on a phone’s location.
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Kamala Harris made a campaign stop on Saturday at a spice shop known to openly discriminate against Republicans while calling for an end to political “division.”
The spice shop, Penzeys Spices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, welcomed the Democrat nominee to browse the store and meet some supporters.
While facing a gaggle of reporters, Harris claimed, “It’s time to turn the page on the divisiveness. It’s time to bring our country together, chart a new way forward.”
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Las Vegas Republican Candidate Slashed by Knife-Wielding Thug While Putting Up Campaign Signs
A Las Vegas Republican running for office was attacked by a knife-wielding mugger in broad daylight while putting up his own campaign signs.
Stanley Vaughan, 67, said he was lost in thought putting up signs along Pecos Road for his bid at a State Assembly seat on Aug. 29 when a man approached him and demanded his wallet, local KVVU reports.
“I turned around, caught me by surprise — then he started to lunge at me,” the US Army veteran said. “I instinctively kicked him, and he ran away.
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Liz Cheney Praises Kamala Harris for Dem Convention Speech She Says ‘Reagan Could Have Given’
Former Rep. Liz Cheney lavished praise on Vice President Kamala Harris Sunday and called her nomination address “a speech that Ronald Reagan could have given.”
Cheney, a Wyoming Republican and rival of former President Donald Trump, commended Harris’ address to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last month as she explained why she defended her decision to vote against the GOP nominee this year.
“If you look at Vice President Harris’ speech, for example, at the Democratic Convention, it is a speech that Ronald Reagan could have given. It’s a speech that George Bush could have given,” Cheney told ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday.
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Macy’s Set to Close 55 Stores by the End of 2024
By Bernadette Giacomazzo of RetailWire
Macy’s has announced that it is closing a total of 55 stores by the end of 2024, in the faltering brand’s ongoing effort to revamp its business.
According to The Daily Mail, the company originally intended to close 50 underperforming stores by the end of the year, part of the 150 total locations it will close within three years. However, it now plans to close 55 before 2025.
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A man now charged with murdering an Arizona police officer while on parole was arrested on a potential felony and misdemeanor charge just last year, but the charges were never filed and the 2023 case reportedly “disappeared from the public record,” per a local outlet.
Saul Bal, 41, is accused of shooting two Phoenix police officers, resulting in the death of 29-year-old Zane Coolidge, who had served on the force for five years. Bal now faces a first-degree murder charge along with several other charges. At his initial court appearance, attorneys argued that he posed an extreme danger to the community, according to Fox 10 Phoenix.
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The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school called to warn a school counselor before the attack, according to the suspect’s aunt and grandfather.
Colt Gray, 14, apologized to his mother, Marcee Gray, on the morning of the mass shooting at Apalachee High School — sending an alarming, cryptic text Wednesday that prompted the mother to warn the school that something could be wrong, his grandfather told CNN, confirming information he first provided to the New York Post.
“I’m sorry, mom,” the text read, according to Marcee Gray’s father, Charles Polhamus, who said he was standing near his daughter at his home in Fitzgerald, Georgia, when she received the message.
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No Warning, No Explanation: YouTube Bans Political Commentator Tayler Hansen
Tayler Hansen, a prominent YouTuber and journalist associated with the ill-fated newsgroup Tenet Media, has been permanently banned from YouTube. This action comes in the wake of allegations that the company he was paid by was funded by those with ties to Russian state media.
YouTube has banned Hansen, despite Hansen not being accused of any wrongdoing.
Tenet Media, which aligns closely with the description of “Company 1” in a recent indictment by the US Department of Justice, is suspected of receiving financial support from RT, a state-controlled Russian media entity.
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Pro-Hamas Students Protest Hillary Clinton Teaching at Columbia University: ‘Fascist Bootlicker’
Twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been met with pro-Hamas protests at Columbia University where she is teaching.
Clinton appears to be still taking the brunt of the protest annoyances from the anti-Israel Left.
According to The Blaze, pro-Hamas and anti-Israel groups staged a protest in the form of a sit-in protest “outside of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s Columbia University course on Wednesday.”
At the university’s Institute of Global Politics in the School of International and Public Affairs, the former secretary of state teaches a class called “Inside the Situation Room.”
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RFK Jr Has Name Withdrawn From Wyoming Ballot in Another Big Win for Trump
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent the past several weeks attempting to have his name removed from several state ballots after suspending his presidential campaign and throwing his full support behind President Donald Trump.
According to the Daily Caller, the former independent presidential candidate has successfully had his name removed from the Wyoming ballot.
This comes following legal victories in other battleground states.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Republicans Have Become ‘The Party of the Common Man’
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lifelong, die-hard Democrat, said on Sunday that the Republican Party had become “the party of the common man,” while Democrats had become the party of elites.
Kennedy recently suspended his campaign in battleground states, and endorsed former President Donald Trump.
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‘Shrinking’ California GOP to Blame for State’s Problems Argues LA Times Columnist
California Republicans share some blame for the poverty, homelessness and crime currently plaguing the state, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez argued.
Though Lopez acknowledged how Democrats “deserve to be on the hot seat” based on their current control in all statewide offices, he explained “none of that happened overnight, nor did it happen exclusively under Democratic leadership.”
“For decades, through Democratic and Republican leadership, California made the mistake of not building enough housing to keep up with the flood of people who moved here to fill jobs in the state’s burgeoning economy. It’s one of many factors in rising home prices and homelessness today,” Lopez wrote Saturday.
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A sicko who shot motorists on a rural Kentucky highway was on the loose Sunday as cops said they recovered an SUV and an “AR rifle” — one day after he blasted five people and caused a crash that injured two others, cops said.
Multiple law enforcement agencies were searching for the shooter after he fired at a stretch of Interstate 75 in the small city of London, Kentucky on Saturday.
All of the victims were in stable condition early Sunday, though some had “very serious” injuries, including one person who was shot in the face, deputy Gilbert Acciardo, a spokesperson for the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office, said.
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Suspect Remains on the Loose Day After Shooting 5 People and 9 Vehicles on Kentucky Highway
Authorities searched a rugged, hilly area of southeastern Kentucky on Sunday for a man suspected in the weekend shooting of nine vehicles and wounding of five people on a busy interstate.
Joseph A. Couch, 32, was named a suspect in Saturday’s shootings on Interstate 75 after authorities recovered his SUV on a service road near the crime scene. They later found a semi-automatic weapon nearby that they believe was used in the shooting, said Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, a spokesperson for the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office.
The search was focused on a remote area north of London, a community of about 8,000 people, roughly 75 miles (120 kilometers) south of Lexington.
“Where is he? That’s the big question right now,” Acciardo told reporters as law enforcement raced to find Couch in the heavily wooded area before darkness fell. “We’re still in there. We still feel like that he’s in there or we obviously wouldn’t be searching wholeheartedly like we are.”
Couch — who earlier this year faced a later-dropped misdemeanor charge for terroristic threatening, according to court records — most recently lived in Woodbine, a small community about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of the shooting scene. Acciardo said law enforcement found his abandoned vehicle Saturday and then an AR-15 rifle on Sunday in a wooded area next to a highway “that he could have shot down upon the interstate from.” A phone believed to be Couch’s was also found by law enforcement, but battery had been taken out.
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Trump Vows Massive Crackdown on Election Cheating, Including VPs Who Hide a President’s Decline
Former President Donald Trump vowed Saturday to wage an historic crackdown on election cheating if voters return him to the White House, including seeking to expand the 25th Amendment to punish a vice president who conceals from Americans an incapacitated president.
During a speech in Mosinee, Wis., Trump sought to subtly tie Joe Biden’s perceived mental deterioration to an alleged coverup by Vice President Kamala Harris, who succeeded him on the Democrat ticket.
Trump declared he supports altering the 25th Amendment to permit the ouster of a vice president who “lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the president of the United States.”
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Tulsi Gabbard Destroys Cheney Endorsement: “A Vote for Kamala Harris is a Vote for Dick Cheney”
Tucker Carlson’s Live Tour show in Colorado Springs, CO on Saturday featured Tulsi Gabbard among his many guests. The former Democrat Rep turned Republican/conservative commentator is an Army Reserve officer and has for years been outspoken in condemning the Washington national security state’s lust for war even as common Americans suffer the effects at home of spending billions in foreign adventurism and failed nation-building abroad.
The great thing about the timing of her appearance on Carlson’s Live Tour is that she took the stage just after Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz, both “lifelong Republicans”, issued full-throated endorsements of Kamala Harris for president, while also blasting “depraved human being” Donald Trump.
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“White Fragility” author Robin DiAngelo was hoodwinked into dipping into her own pocketbook to pay reparations to a black producer in podcaster Matt Walsh’s upcoming documentary “Am I Racist?”
An undercover, man-bun-wearing Walsh, 38, goaded DiAngelo into ponying up cash to his producer named Ben to compensate for the sins of the past by first coughing up the money himself.
Walsh, who had been conducting an interview with DiAngelo for a documentary project while feigning anti-racist sentiments and posing as an activist, summoned Ben after finishing up most of his questions.
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With Robberies at a 5-Year High, Violent Crimes Continue to Rise in Chicago
Crime is up in Chicago despite city-wide efforts — and more than $180 million — to reduce violence through a series of programs.
Republican state Rep. John Cabello said Chicago’s rising crime rate amounts to an indictment of the state’s present legal system and all its recent changes.
New data shows robbery, aggravated assault and aggravated battery cases across the city are all at five-year highs over the 12 months as the number of violent crimes overall have jumped by 7.2%.
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Far-Left Agitators Protest Police at UBC With Decapitated Pig Head
Left-wing agitators connected to the pro-Palestinian group “People’s University for Gaza at UBC” stuck a severed pig head on a fence at the University of British Columbia along with a sign that demanded “Pigs off our campus.”
The People’s University for Gaza at UBC group has made a list of demands, one of them being, “Keep cops off our campus. The [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] RCMP engages in suppression and violence against BIPOC and other marginalized communities.”
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List of 900 Nazis Who Fled to Canada May be Withheld to Not Embarrass Ottawa
A list of Nazi war criminals who fled to Canada after the Second World War is facing increasing pressure to be kept from the public, as some bureaucrats feel it would be embarrassing for the country, despite the list including around 900 names.
Ottawa-based Library and Archives Canada held consultations with unnamed members of Canada’s Ukrainian community and a “discrete group of individuals or organizations” regarding whether the names should be made public, according to documents obtained by the Ottawa Citizen.
Some of those present in the consultation claimed that releasing the information would be embarrassing and could lead to the alleged war criminals being prosecuted.
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On yesterday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra spoke with Lawrence Greenspon, defence counsel for Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich. Tamara is facing mischief charges for her involvement in the anti-mandate protests in 2022 in a long-winded trial that started last autumn.
Lawrence provided Ezra with an update on the trial, which is set to wrap up on September 13 with a half day, after which the judge will make a decision. Ezra brought up how five social media clips were submitted as evidence in which Tamara Lich was on the ground protesting in Ottawa, calling for others to “hold the line,” and he asked Lawrence why these videos were presented.
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The Most Controversial Conversation in Canada! Ezra Levant Goes 1-on-1 With Danielle Smith
Rebel News LIVE! Calgary is sure to generate outrage among Canada’s woke left when the country’s most controversial broadcaster, Rebel News boss Ezra Levant, sits down for a live, in-person interview with the country’s most controversial provincial leader, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
You can come watch Ezra Levant and Danielle Smith’s fireside chat on October 5. But viewer discretion might be advised — no topic is off limits, and nothing will be held back.
Questions that would make Justin Trudeau invoke martial law. Answers that would make Steven Guilbeault squirm.
You’re not going to want to miss this special conversation. But you have to be there in person.
This event will sell out! So, get your tickets now — go to RebelNewsLive.com.
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French-Dutch Gang Arrested for Dozens of ATM Bombings in Europe
French police arrested a French-Dutch gang of ATM burglars in Strasbourg on Friday morning. According to French media, it concerns a group of 13 men. The gang reportedly stole hundreds of thousands of euros in total.
According to the French news channel BFM TV, the gang was arrested on Friday morning when the gang members returned from an ATM robbery in Germany. The channel reports that the suspects are between 25 and 30 years old.
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German Chancellor Scholz Calls for Faster Progress Toward Ending Russia’s War on Ukraine
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agree that Russia should be included in a future peace conference aimed at ending Russia’s war against Ukraine. He called for stepped up efforts to solve the conflict.
A previous peace conference June 15-16 in Switzerland ended with 78 countries expressing support for Ukraine’s “territorial integrity” but otherwise left the path forward unclear. Russia did not participate.
“I believe that now is the moment when we must discuss how we get out of this war situation faster than the current impression is,” Scholz said in an interview with Germany’s ZDF public television aired Sunday.
“There will certainly be a further peace conference, and the president and I agree that it must be one with Russia present,” Scholz said.
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Netherlands: XR Activists Hold Week-Long Climate March Ahead of A12 Blockade, No Police Intervention
Activists are starting a “climate march” from Arnhem to The Hague on Sunday. Over the next seven days, they will cover around 20 kilometers every day. On Saturday, September 14, they will arrive in the Zuid-Holland capital, where Extinction Rebellion plans to block the A12 highway again that day.
The police stated that they would not intervene as a protest for their early retirement scheme. However, the police unions previously announced that they would be present at the march to ensure the safety of participants and other road users. Officers “will stop working during the final blockade in The Hague,” the police told Het Parool.
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UK: Tony Blair Urges Global Regulation of Social Media to Curb “Hatred”
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for a global initiative to regulate social media platforms, citing their role in spreading hostility and hatred. The remarks, which surfaced during an interview with LBC’s James O’Brien, emphasize Blair’s concern over what he believes is the increasing “hatred” present on platforms like X, which he contrasted with other media forms.
Blair called for a global need to “come together and create some rules around social media platforms,” a sentiment that echoes growing governmental interests in curbing what is perceived as rampant disinformation and harmful speech online.
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X Complies With EU Data Laws, Stops AI Chatbot Data Collection
Authored by Savannah Fortis via CoinTelegraph.com
The European Union’s investigation into social media platform X has officially concluded after the platform agreed to meet the compliance requirements set by the European Data Protection Commission (DPC).
On Sept. 4, X agreed to cease using personal data from users located in the EU and European Economic Area (EEA). Previously, X used this data to train its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok.
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Gunman Kills 3 Israelis at West Bank Crossing
ALLENBY BRIDGE, (Palestinian Territories): A truck driver shot dead three Israeli guards at a border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan Sunday before being “eliminated”, Israel’s military said, as it pounded Gaza with new strikes.
The rare attack at the Allenby Bridge crossing comes amid soaring violence in the West Bank with major Israeli raids and attacks by Palestinians, and against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas Gaza war, now in its 12th month.
The military said “a terrorist” reached the crossing area, also known as the King Hussein Bridge, in a truck “from Jordan”. The driver “exited the truck and opened fire at Israeli security forces operating at the bridge”, a military statement said.
“Three Israeli civilians were pronounced dead as a result of the attack,” it said, clarifying to AFP that they were “security guards” and not in the army or police.
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IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on October 7 to Prevent Hamas Taking Soldiers Captive
Gaza Division operations and airstrikes in the first hours of October 7 were based on limited information. The first long moments after the Hamas attack was launched were chaotic. Reports were coming in, with their significance not always clear. When their meaning was understood, it was realized that something horrific had taken place.
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Orthodox Rabbis in Jerusalem Call on Jews to Stand Against Spitting at Christians
During the Jewish Passover (Pesach) in late April, an unprecedented initiative took place in Jerusalem.
On the eve of the festivities, anticipating the arrival of numerous Jewish worshippers to fulfill religious precepts, several posters and pamphlets appeared in the streets of the Old City calling on the public to avoid offensive behavior and harassment toward Christians and non-Jews.
“We must together maintain ‘Derech Eretz’ (‘proper behavior precedes the Torah’) in regard to the respect of mankind, to non-Jews and those of a different religion, especially during Passover and throughout the entire year. We must prevent and prevent others from spitting in the direction of others who are not Jewish,” a short excerpt from the poster reads.
According to local websites, the initiative was promoted by Ahrale Friedman, a resident of the ultra-Orthodox Ramat Shlomo neighborhood located in the newer part of Jerusalem. A source with knowledge of the community but who is unauthorized to speak for it told CNA that the campaign is likely the effort of a broader Jewish organization with connections in the Orthodox world. Regardless, it is the first initiative of its kind.
Several highly publicized incidents involving ultra-Orthodox Jews harassing Christians in the Old City of Jerusalem have been reported. Among the most “hot” areas for this behavior are the Via Dolorosa, the Armenian quarter, and Mount Zion.
In the last year, a significant public opinion movement both locally and internationally has brought to light these types of incidents, including the controversial practice of spitting at Christians or their holy places as a sign of contempt.
The incidents have decreased in the last few months because of the war — due to the absence of Christian pilgrims and the reduced presence of Jews in the Old City in the early months of the conflict — but the phenomenon has never disappeared.
Just a couple of months ago, the attack on Benedictine Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel, captured live, caused a stir. And in recent days, a video filmed in the Armenian quarter has been circulating in which blasphemies against Jesus in Hebrew can be clearly heard.
On posters and flyers, one can find quotes on the matter from leading rabbinical authorities who have condemned such actions, such as the elder rabbi of the Council of Torah, Rabbi Meir Zvi Bergman.
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Israel Carries Out Intense Strikes in Central Syria, 4 Killed, 13 Injured
A series of Israeli strikes hit multiple areas in central Syria late Sunday, killing at least four people, wounding 13 and sparking fires, state media reported.
Syria state news agency SANA reported that Syrian air defences “confronted an aggression that targeted several points in the central region,” damaging a highway in Hama province and sparking fires that firefighting teams were battling to control early Monday.
At least four dead and 13 wounded people arrived at the Masyaf National Hospital in western Hamas province, SANA said, citing hospital head Faysal Haydar. It was not immediately clear if they were civilians or militants.
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2 NATO Countries Claim Russian Drones Violated Airspace During Nighttime Attacks
KYIV, Ukraine — Two NATO members said Sunday that Russian drones have violated their airspace, as one reportedly flew into Romania during nighttime attacks on neighboring Ukraine while another crashed in eastern Latvia the previous day.
A drone entered Romanian territory early on Sunday as Moscow struck “civilian targets and port infrastructure” across the Danube in Ukraine, Romania’s Ministry of National Defense reported.
It added Bucharest had deployed F-16 warplanes to monitor its airspace and issued text alerts to residents of two eastern regions.
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The Kremlin refused to cancel next month’s elections in the Kursk border region despite Ukraine’s ongoing offensive there, deeming it “only a local crisis” from a military perspective, said three Russian officials familiar with the election preparations.
The officials agreed to speak on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.
Ukraine’s 6 August incursion into the Kursk region surprised not only the Russian military and special services but also the Kremlin’s political department, which is responsible for organising next month’s elections across the country.
The 8 September parliamentary, governor, regional, and municipal elections will take place in four regions that regularly face Ukrainian shelling — the Kursk and Bryansk regions, as well as annexed Crimea and Sevastopol — along with the nearby Volgograd, Lipetsk, and Tula regions.
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Meloni Pledges Support for Ukraine After Meeting With Zelenskyy
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pledged unwavering support for Ukraine after a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday (7 September), in which they discussed Kyiv’s plans to end the war with Russia and reconstruction efforts.
The conservative prime minister met the Ukrainian leader on the sidelines of the annual TEHA business forum on Lake Como, as Italy prepares to host next year’s conference on Ukraine’s reconstruction.
Meloni told the forum Italy would never backtrack on its support for Ukraine. The decision was not just morally right but also in the national interest given it was aimed at safeguarding rules designed to protect a country’s national integrity, she said.
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Outgunned and Outnumbered, Ukraine’s Military is Struggling With Low Morale and Desertion
Dima never puts out a cigarette until he smokes it right down to the filter, risking burning his fingers to squeeze out one more drag. He spent years on the Ukrainian front lines. He knows the price of a good smoke.
As a battalion commander, Dima was in charge of around 800 men who fought in some of the fiercest, bloodiest battles of the war — most recently near Pokrovsk, the strategic eastern town that is now on the brink of falling to Russia.
But with most of his troops now dead or severely injured, Dima decided he’d had enough. He quit and took another job with the military — in an office in Kyiv.
Standing outside that office, chain smoking and drinking sweet coffee, he told CNN he just couldn’t handle watching his men die anymore.
Two and half years of Russia’s grinding offensive have decimated many Ukrainian units. Reinforcements are few and far between, leaving some soldiers exhausted and demoralized. The situation is particularly dire among infantry units near Pokrovsk and elsewhere on the eastern front line, where Ukraine is struggling to stop Russia’s creeping advances.
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Russia Advances in East Ukraine, Launches Deadly Air Strikes
Russia on Sunday said its forces had advanced in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv reported deadly air attacks and urged the West to allow it to carry out more retaliatory strikes inside Russia.
Russian attack drones flying towards Ukraine also breached the airspace of NATO members Romania and Latvia, the countries said Sunday, triggering calls for a robust response from the military alliance.
Moscow has stepped up its aerial attacks in recent weeks, but it is also trying to fight off a major Ukrainian cross-border offensive into its western Kursk region, which has reshaped the course of the two-and-a-half-year war.
Kyiv launched its Kursk offensive on August 6 hoping to force Russia to redeploy troops pressing forward in the east of the country. But Moscow has appeared to intensify its attacks there, chalking up its most significant territorial gains in almost two years over the month of August.
And on Sunday, its military claimed to have captured another small village on the route towards the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region.
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Russia Claims to Make Advances in Eastern Ukraine, Take Control of Town
Russia said on Sunday its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as Moscow’s forces advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk and seek to pierce the Ukrainian defensive front lines.
Russian forces, which have controlled about a fifth of Ukraine since invading in February 2022, are advancing in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to take the whole of the Donbas, which is about half the size of the U.S. state of Ohio.
Russia’s defence ministry said its forces had taken the town of Novohrodivka, which lies 12 km (7 miles) from Pokrovsk, an important rail and road hub for Ukrainian forces in the area. The town had a population of 14,000 before the war.
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Ukraine Attacks Oil Storage Depot in Russian Border Region, Governor Says
(Reuters) —The governor of Russia’s southern Belgorod region said on Sunday Ukrainian forces attacked a fuel depot, triggering a series of fires after Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of launching overnight attacks on border regions.
“The Ukrainian military, aided by lethal drones, attacked a fuel storage site in Volokonovsky district,” Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram, referring to an area near the border.
“Several reservoirs caught fire in an explosion. Firefighting crews are putting out the blaze.”
Gladkov also reported drone attacks on three other localities. There were no casualties reported in the incidents.
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48 People, 50 Cows Killed in Niger Road Accident
Residents blame speed, bad road
Forty-eight people have lost their lives as a result of a petrol tanker explosion that occurred along Bida-Agaie-Lapai- Road.
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Brazil: São Paulo Streets Surged With Protesters After Supreme Court Suspends Musk’s X
Thousands of freedom supporters flooded the streets of São Paulo on Brazil’s Independence Day on Saturday in a protest centered on free speech. The demonstration was triggered by a nationwide suspension of X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, following a ruling by Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. The ban has been viewed by many as an act of political suppression, with protestors calling it an overreach of government power.
This rally, beyond being a reaction to the ban, was also seen as an opportunity for former President Jair Bolsonaro to galvanize his base ahead of upcoming elections, despite his disqualification from running for office until 2030.
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Netherlands Secretly Provided Shelter to Venezuelan Opposition Leader Gonzalez
The Netherlands has offered shelter to opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez after the elections in Venezuela, Minister Caspar Veldkamp (Foreign Affairs) told the media. This happened at the “urgent request” of Gonzalez. The Venezuelan opposition leader seemed to be going to win the elections, but the incumbent president, Nicolas Maduro, was declared the winner without any evidence being provided.
Gonzalez is now on his way to Spain, where he has been granted political asylum.
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The city of Springfield, Ohio — population 60,000, has been overwhelmed by roughly 20,000 Haitian illegal migrants, who flocked to the city — exacerbating a ‘significant housing crisis’ according to city officials, and eating pets and wildlife according to locals.
During an Aug. 27 City Commission meeting, one local resident said that Haitians were “in the park grabbing ducks, cutting the heads off, and eating them.”
Another local resident posted to a Facebook group that their neighbor had a cat go missing — only to see it “hanging from a branch, like you’d do a deer for butchering, & they [the Haitians] were carving it up to eat.”
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Dozens of fed-up New Yorkers rallied outside a massive migrant shelter in Brooklyn on Sunday — demanding that City Hall balk at renewing the controversial lease for the troubled 2,000-bed facility on federal parkland.
Led by a caravan of more than 30 vehicles, the crowd massed outside Floyd Bennett Field in Marine Park in the latest in a series of demonstrations against the asylum-seeker encampment at the onetime federal airfield — with elected officials, veterans and regular citizens all taking shots at the site.
“We have these migrants coming in, door knocking, stealing packages, you know, soliciting everywhere in front of our supermarkets, playing at the heartstrings of people,” state Assemblywoman Jaime Williams (R-Brooklyn) told The Post.
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‘Ghost’ Migrant Admits to Knifepoint Rape and Kidnapping of Louisiana Girl, 13
An undocumented immigrant police likened to a “ghost” admitted to kidnapping and raping a teenage girl at knifepoint near New Orleans.
Diego Rodriguez-Salvador, 23, was arrested Sept. 4 for allegedly luring a 13-year-old girl into his car before driving her to his home in Kenner, La. and raping her.
Rodriguez-Salvador, an illegal migrant from Honduras, allegedly asked his friend’s teenage sister to take a ride to a nearby store with him. She accepted the ride, but when the girl noticed they were headed in the wrong direction, Rodriguez-Salvador pulled a knife, assaulted her, then dropped her off in her own neighborhood before speeding away into the night, the Kenner Police Department said.
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Illegal Migrant Arrested, Accused of Rape After Being Released by Massachusetts Court: ICE
A 28-year-old “gotaway” migrant has been arrested and charged with rape after he was previously released by a state court, despite his violent rap sheet.
In a Friday statement from the Boston, Massachusetts, field office, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrest of Jorge Luis Castro-Alvarado.
He was arrested in Lynn, Massachusetts, on August 1.
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston branch said that the migrant “unlawfully entered the United States before making his way to Massachusetts and allegedly victimizing a resident here.”
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Illegal Immigrant From Guatemala Charged With Voting Fraud, Identity Theft in Alabama
Alabama has charged an illegal immigrant from Guatemala with assuming a false American identity and then voting in several elections. This comes as the topic of non-citizens voting in federal elections has become a point of concern for the GOP.
According to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office from northern Alabama illegal immigrant Angelica Maria Francisco, 42, “has been charged in connection with her fraudulent assumption of a United States citizen’s identity and her use of that identity to vote in multiple elections and obtain multiple United States passports.”
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A Colorado landlord has agreed to sell a troubled apartment complex that was taken over by the violent Venezuelan migrant gang Tren de Aragua.
Landlord Zev Baumgarten has been fighting with the Denver suburb of Aurora over the Aspen Grove after the city accused him of allowed it to become a trash-ridden, gang-infested hellhole, according to records obtained by the Denver Gazette.
Baumgarten is also the owner of another apartment complex where a viral video showed a crew of gun-toting thugs breaking into a unit, according to the Gazette.
Baumgarten’s company has now agreed to sell, lease, or find some “similar disposition” for the complex — which was shuttered in August, displacing some 300 residents, the Gazette reported.
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New York City Paying Illegal Aliens $4000 Each to Move Out of Shelters
Democrat-controlled New York City is giving illegal aliens taxpayer-funded $4,000 payments to move out of migrant shelters.
NYC is giving payments and gift cards to illegals to help them get set up in permanent housing and move out of city-operated shelters, Fox News reported on Saturday.
The NYC Department of Homeless Services (DHS) offered 150 illegal aliens $4,000 each through the Asylee Moveout Assistance (AMA) program.
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Over 400 Tren De Aragua Venezuelan Gang Members Active in New York City: OMG Report
It has been revealed through Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) from the US Army that there is a growing presence of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), in the United States, according to from James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group.
According to a document obtained by OMG, Tren de Aragua has “established a presence in Brooklyn, Bronx, and Williamsburg, NY,” with approximately 400 members residing in these areas. The information also revealed that TdA members in Denver “have been given a ‘green light’ to fire on or attack law enforcement,” and that Homeland Security investigations in New York have received similar intelligence reports about the gang’s activity.
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The Trudeau government’s immigration plans continue to have a detrimental impact on the Canadian economy as Canada’s population continues to grow, according to Statistics Canada’s August Labour Force Survey.
Statistics Canada revealed that while the economy added a modest 22,000 jobs last month, the added jobs were quickly outpaced by the country’s rapid population growth.
As a result, Canada’s unemployment rate increased to 6.6% last month, up two percentage points from July.
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The Obscure State Department Bureau That Fosters Global Illegal Migration
By Phillip Linderman, via The Center for Immigration Studies
It is remarkable how many well-informed conservative foreign policy strategists have never even heard of the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). Even those who closely follow immigration and border issues rarely understand the role PRM plays in accommodating and promoting the worldwide movement of illegal migrants.
PRM should not be confused with State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, which is in charge of issuing visas to foreigners to enter the United States and is known in Foggy Bottom as “CA.” Because so many interest groups constantly want more visas to be issued, CA gets its fair share of scrutiny from the media, lobbyists, and members of Congress. The PRM bureau has nothing to do with visas, and so it often flies under the conservative policy radar.
PRM manages, along with DHS, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Under Biden-Harris, PRM currently resettles around 125,000 refugees annually. Trump had cut admissions down to 15,000.
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‘Too Sensitive’ UK Govt Refuses to Release Cost of Furnishing Asylum Seeker Flats
The UK government has refused to reveal the cost of kitting out flats for alleged asylum seekers over concerns of a backlash against migrants.
The independent Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ruled in favour of the Home Office in refusing to abide by Freedom of Information requests about the cost of furnishing an apartment bloc in Hampshire to house some 346 supposed asylum seekers. According to The Telegraph, the flats were said to have been equipped with flat-screen televisions and satellite tv.
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Two Border Patrol Agents Working With Cartels to Smuggle Fentanyl, Drugs Into California: Report
Two US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have been accused of helping Mexican cartels smuggle fentanyl, heroin and other drugs into the United States, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Jesse Clark Garcia and Diego Bonillo reportedly started living the high life earlier this year and alarm bells went off. Prosecutors have argued that the two were spending thousands of dollars on luxury items from Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Burberry, while one invested in horse racing and building a mansion in Mexico and the other had taken several European vacations and was planning on a front row seat at a Las Vegas prize fight.
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Tucker Carlson interview with a relative of Justin Trudeau about the dark turn to dictatorship under the Corona pretext
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jKfnhkMf70
or https://www.bitchute.com/video/lvmOu9l4s3sj