I was out most of the day, and didn’t have time to do anything except get a news feed together. With the Lord’s help, I hope to resume normal programming tomorrow.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin strongly criticized the Biden-Harris Department of Justice after the DOJ sued the state for its implementation of a systemic removal of non-citizen voters. Meanwhile, according to a new poll, the vast majority of American voters want policies and procedures in place to guarantee the integrity of elections.
In other news, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin revealed an alleged plot to assassinate Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, due to the latter’s pro-peace stance on the war in Ukraine.
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Big Lots to Shutter More Than 50 Retail Locations
Big Lots aims to permanently close the doors of more than 50 stores.
The discount retailer disclosed its intentions of shuttering 56 more locations in a Friday filing to the bankruptcy court overseeing its Chapter 11 proceedings.
The new stores set for closure are located in numerous states, including California, Texas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois, Arkansas, Alabama, Connecticut, Virginia, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, Missouri, Washington, Arizona, Maryland, Kansas, Louisiana, Florida, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and North Carolina.
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90% of Americans Want CBS to Release Unedited Kamala Harris ‘60 Minutes’ Interview
The overwhelming majority of American voters say they want CBS News to release the full, unedited “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris after it emerged that the recording had been deceptively edited.
As Slay News previously reported, CBS News released teaser clips from the interview with the Democrat presidential nominee before the show was broadcast.
However, when the “full” interview was televised, viewers noticed that the footage had been deceptively edited to help the Harris campaign.
CBS provoked a backlash by deceptively editing the Harris interview to replace her word-salad answer with something more coherent and preferential to the Democrat campaign.
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Afghan ISIS Terror Plot: Biden Admin Agencies Point Fingers as Lawmakers Demand Answers
Government agencies are pointing fingers over how an Afghan national, who is now charged with plotting an Election Day terror attack, was allowed into the U.S. and when he was allegedly radicalized — as lawmakers are pushing for more information.
Authorities last week announced the arrest of Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, who is accused of plotting an Election Day terror attack inspired by ISIS.
Tawhedi is charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS and receiving a firearm to be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism. Court documents say he liquidated his family’s assets to finance his plan, including purchasing rifles and one-way tickets for his wife and child back to Afghanistan.
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The Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a myriad of lawsuits against various police and fire departments across the states of Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Indiana that “discriminate” against black and female applicants after they required all prospective employees to take written as well as fitness tests.
Last week, Durham, North Carolina settled with the DOJ in a lawsuit. “Employers should identify and eliminate practices that have a disparate impact based on race” US Attorney Sandra J. Hairston for the Middle District of North Carolina said. As a consequence, the Durham Fire Department is being forced to pay out nearly $1 million to people that failed and employ 16 of them.
The DOJ claimed that the tests are not relevant to firefighters doing their jobs; yet a quick perusal of an online practice tests from the “Comprehensive Examination Battery” test cited in the North Carolina complaint demonstrates how relevant the questions are. One question asks how many 60-foot hoses are required to reach a building 350 feet away. Not knowing could mean the difference between life and death for the people inside of the building, the outlet reported.
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Bloomberg Editor Blasts Kamala Harris for Refusing ‘Interview About Her Economic Plans’
Bloomberg’s Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait has blasted Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris for refusing to sit down for an interview with the outlet.
Micklethwait revealed that Bloomberg has been requesting an interview with the vice president to discuss “her economic plans.”
However, Micklethwait said Harris “has declined so far.”
The top journalist made the comment at the beginning of an interview with President Donald Trump at the Economic Club of Chicago.
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California County Drops Hundreds of Misdemeanor Cases After Not Prosecuting Suspects in Time
Alameda County, CA has dropped hundreds of misdemeanor charges because the suspects weren’t prosecuted in a timely manner.
Staff in Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price’s office told the San Francisco Chronicle that the old cases have kept piling up since Price became the DA in January 2023. She is now fighting a recall effort. Price blames the backlog on cases they inherited from the previous DA, Nancy O’Malley, who has said that accusation is not true.
According to the Chronicle’s investigation, there are now more than 1,000 misdemeanor criminal cases in Price’s files that have expired due to the statute of limitations. Of these, there are over 600 cases that have passed their due date but are technically still pending but likely to be thrown out, and 360 that have been officially declined — all are over a year old.
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Colorado Man Arrested for Starting Massive Wildfire
Authorities in Colorado have arrested a 63-year-old man for starting a massive wildfire that devastated a 7,200-acre area in August.
The suspect, identified as Brent Garber, is accused of igniting the fire when he tried to cremate his euthanized dog, according to case records.
The Montrose County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) announced that Garber has been charged over the blaze, CBS News reported.
Officials also alleged he had trespassed on private property.
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Dem Fundraiser ActBlue Stole GOP Strategist’s Identity to Make Donations: Lawsuit
ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform that has collected millions of dollars for Kamala Harris, has been named in a bombshell racketeering lawsuit by a Wisconsin Republican strategist who alleges his identity was stolen to make at least 385 fraudulent donations to left-wing causes — including to the Harris Victory Fund.
Mark Block, former chief of staff to Republican 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain, alleges that a total of $884.38 given in his name and without his knowledge between May and October was designed to circumvent federal election law and may be part of a larger scam involving tens of thousands of unwitting donors.
The individual donations were all under $200, meaning that they did not have to be reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney talked to the House January 6th Select Committee’s “star witness” behind her lawyer’s back, damning texts released by a congressional committee show, as part of an allegedly unethical move to have him replaced with handpicked attorneys more amenable to the committee’s perspective.
Cheney interacted with the witness, former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, through ex-Trump strategic communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin — and later directly — in an effort to compel further testimony and have Hutchinson appear for a prime-time televised hearing about the 45th president’s culpability for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Though she worked behind the scenes to obtain Hutchinson’s juiciest allegations in 2022, some of which were later found to be false, Cheney never mentioned the backchannel talks with Hutchinson or Griffin in her book “Oath and Honor” about the riot.
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Feds Admit: Child Sex Trafficking Reports Triple Under Harris and Biden
Youth sex trafficking and its myriad cruelties tripled under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a report in TheFreePress.com.
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Girl, 13, Sentenced to 7 Years in Juvenile Prison for Stabbing Her Mother More Than 30 Times
On Dec. 28, 2023, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call where they found a woman inside a house on Talon Run suffering from life-threatening injuries.
BSCO stated in their report that the victim was a 33-year-old woman who was stabbed more than 30 times by her daughter. The mother survived the attack.
Kimberly Thomas, assistant supervisor of Restore Hope Unit, testified on the witness stand to explain what she knew about the incident. Thomas said she would visit with the girl weekly while she was in detention to gather information and complete paperwork with the family.
“[The girl] was upset with her mother and hit her in the back of her head with a barbell while she was cooking. She stabbed her multiple times and then brought out a pair of brass knuckles and started hitting her in the face,” Thomas said.
Before her sentence, 436th District Court Judge William Cruz Shaw said that he has known the girl throughout her time in detention, where to his knowledge she had zero incidents.
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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin slammed the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) while he was on with Jake Tapper Monday after the DOJ sued the state over implementing what the administration called a “systemic” removal of non-citizen voters too close to the election. However, the Virginia law requiring their continual removal has been around since 2006.
Tapper told Youngkin that Virginia was allegedly “purging voters that were flagged as potential non-citizens” within 90 days of the election.
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Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Sues Ohio After Officials Rule Votes Won’t be Counted
Green Party candidate Jill Stein has filed a lawsuit against the state of Ohio after election officials ruled that her votes won’t be counted in the November presidential race.
State election officials said they won’t count Stein’s votes on Election Day because her party apparently named her running mate after the deadline.
Stein, running mate Butch Ware, and three Ohio voters filed the suit on Wednesday.
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Clinton left politics and tried her hand at producing Broadway musicals after she was crushed by President Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
And she failed, big time, according to Breitbart.
The musical “Suffs,” which lists Clinton as a producer, failed to turn a profit in its first six months and has now formally been tossed in the trash.
The cast, which are all women and “non-binary” actors, apparently didn’t have the talent or the story backing to wow audiences into coming back.
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Hospitals Treated Far More Vaccine Injuries Than Unvaxxed COVID Patients, Major Study Finds
People for mRNA “vaccine” adverse events than unvaccinated patients with Covid infections.
The study, led by Drs. Johannes D Knapp and Aditi Bhargava, PhD, was conducted by researchers affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and data firm Aseesa Inc.
The researchers sought to investigate the differences in COVID-19 outcomes based on gender.
However, the study found that the mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna led to a higher adverse event rate than COVID-19 itself as measured by hospitalization.
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Kamala Harris Unveils ‘Opportunity Agenda’ to Buy Votes From ‘Black Men’
Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris has just unveiled her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men.”
The scheme offers financial incentives that will only be available to black voters.
The plan appears to be a last-ditch effort to buy votes from black male voters Harris losing ground to President Donald Trump with the demographic.
As part of the scheme, Harris is offering black men:
- 1 million forgivable loans for black entrepreneurs starting a business
- Money for education/training programs
- Protect cryptocurrency
- Health initiative: sickle cell & other conditions
- Legalize recreational weed to boost the industry
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It was 2003 and Kamala Harris was making her closing argument in the race to become San Francisco’s district attorney. Her opponent, Terence Hallinan, the incumbent DA, the son of a Communist father, had been backed by George Soros as one of his first pro-crime DAs, had come out against the death penalty, for drugs and against the police, and that gave him impeccable leftist credentials. How was Kamala going to run to the left of a man like that?
The answer came in the form of a postcard mailer featuring black and white photos of the last ten DAs with the words, “It’s time for a change.”
What did her leftist opponent have in common with Charles Fickert: a tough Republican DA known for going after leftist anarchists in court and after their supporters outside it with his fists?
Not a thing except that they were both white men.
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Maricopa Recorder’s Email Trail Sparks Controversy Over Censorship War
The county recorder in Arizona’s Maricopa, Stephen Richer, decided to “seek help” from two controversial groups — one foreign, although funded by the US State Department, and one domestic but ideologically biased.
This is according to an exclusive report based on email records, which speaks about Richer and his ilk’s “war on disapproved speech.” From their point of view, however — or according to the narrative they push in the media — it’s actually a “war on disinformation.”
The groups involved in helping Richter and his office navigate the “treacherous waters of free speech” so to speak, are the States United Democracy Center NGO, and the UK-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), which has a reported track record of censoring conservative speech around the world.
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North Carolina Governor Confirms at Least 92 People Are Still Missing Weeks After Hurricane
Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced that at least 92 people from Hurricane Helene are still missing nearly three weeks after the storm hit.
Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the Southeast when it landed as a Category 4 storm late last month, including hitting parts of Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. North Carolina was hit the hardest with more than 118 of the 243 people dying in the Tar Heel State, per NBC News.
Cooper said the state National Guard is still conducting search and rescue operations for those missing, and the Department of Public Safety has created a task force to track those who are still unaccounted for.
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Ohio Army Soldier Sentenced to 14 Years for Coordinating ISIS Attack on U.S. Troops
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Army soldier was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday for attempting to provide material support to ISIS and conspiring to murder U.S. service members, the Department of Justice announced. Cole Bridges, also known as Cole Gonzales, 24, from Stow, Ohio, pleaded guilty in June 2023 to charges of attempting to aid the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
Bridges, a former cavalry scout assigned to the Third Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia, began communicating with an undercover FBI agent in 2020, believing the agent was connected to ISIS fighters in the Middle East. According to court documents, Bridges expressed a desire to help ISIS carry out attacks against U.S. soldiers and provided tactical advice, including military maneuvers and plans to fortify an ISIS encampment for ambushing U.S. Special Forces.
Bridges also provided sections of a U.S. Army training manual and sent videos of himself in military gear, pledging support to ISIS. In one video, Bridges posed in his Army body armor in front of an ISIS flag, and in another, he narrated a propaganda speech promoting an ISIS ambush.
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PayPal’s New Ad Move: Power Play or Privacy Overreach?
PayPal has recently launched PayPal Ads, a new venture into the digital advertising space under the leadership of Mark Grether, a veteran from Uber and Amazon. The program raises concerns as it capitalizes on its access to extensive user transaction data, which includes data from not only PayPal itself but also Venmo and the shopping tool Honey. This approach involves analyzing the financial transactions of its 400 million active users in the US who still use the service, sparking skepticism about the ethical implications of such deep data mining for advertising purposes.
In an interview with ADWEEK, Grether boasted about the unprecedented scale of transaction data available to PayPal, which exceeds what any single retailer could accumulate. Such statements highlight the vast scope of personal financial information PayPal plans to utilize, underlying potential privacy concerns for consumers who may not fully realize how their purchasing data is being commoditized.
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Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden are still not talking, months after the former House Speaker decided to pull the plug on President Joe Biden’s dreams of a second term and urged him out as the Democratic presidential candidate, the Daily Mail reportedWednesday.
Pelosi’s aggressive intervention reportedly left both Joe and Jill Biden shaken and embittered towards the aged but occasionally still agile Democratic boss, who is actually a bit older than Biden. Days before he suddenly announced his departure from the presidential race, Biden was still talking about how he wasn’t going anywhere, even though his performance in the debate with former President Donald Trump on June 27 was rated abysmal even by Democratic Party apologists. After offing Biden, Pelosi went on to claim that Vice President Kamala Harris had won the nomination in an “open primary.”
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Rumble Scores Big as Sticker Mule Chooses Its Cloud for AI Processing
Today marked a notable development for Rumble, a video-sharing platform and cloud services provider, as they welcomed Sticker Mule, a prominent online custom merchandise seller, to their roster of cloud clients. Sticker Mule, known for its rapid production of a diverse range of personalized items, has opted to transfer its Artificial Intelligence processing to the Rumble Cloud, capitalizing on Rumble’s use of the NVIDIA H100 technology. This move deepens the existing ties between the two companies, which have previously collaborated with Sticker Mule advertising on Rumble for several years.
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Amsterdam, NY, Sticker Mule has grown significantly, now boasting a global workforce exceeding 1,200 employees. The company offers a variety of customizable products, including stickers, magnets, buttons, labels, packaging, keychains, temporary tattoos and more.
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Scientists Find 55 Undeclared Secret ‘Chemical Elements’ in COVID ‘Vaccines’
A team of renowned researchers believes they have uncovered the cause of the unprecedented “increase in health disorders and sudden deaths” among the vaccinated after finding 55 secret “chemical elements” in Covid “vaccines.”
Conducted by a team of leading biologists, physicians, and biotechnologists from Argentina and California, the study found traces of dozens of “undeclared” ingredients in Covid shots.
The results of the peer-reviewed study were published in the prestigious International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research.
Led by biotechnology Professor Lorena Diblasi of the Nacional de Tucuman University in Argentina, the research team sought to identify any potential contaminants in Covid “vaccines” that could explain the global surges in deaths and adverse events among the vaccinated.
However, the researchers were stunned by what they discovered.
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Trump Destroys Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief, Receives Standing Ovation in Chicago
Former President Donald Trump sat down with Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait for an interview in partnership with the Economic Club of Chicago — where he knocked several tough questions out of the park, while starting — and ending, with a standing ovation.
At the beginning of the interview, Micklethwait said Kamala Harris refused to appear to discuss her ‘economic vision.’ Probably a smart move.
Some highlights:
Trump slammed Micklethwait to his face over tariffs — saying “It must be hard for you to spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you’re wrong.” To which the crowd erupted in applause.
“It’s going to have a massive effect, positive effect,” Trump said. “The higher the tariff, the more likely it is that the company will come into the United States, and build a factory in the United States so it doesn’t have to pay the tariff.”
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US Supreme Court Gives Texas Citizen Journalist New Shot to Sue Over Arrest
Oct 15 (Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday directed a federal appeals court to take a new look at whether a citizen journalist in Texas can sue officials over her arrest for asking a police source questions.
The justices threw out a 9-7 ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in January holding that Priscilla Villarreal could not sue police officers and other officials over her arrest because they enjoyed qualified immunity, a legal defense that can shield government officials from liability in lawsuits over their actions.
The court directed the 5th Circuit to reconsider the case after the Supreme Court in June in a separate case out of Texas revived a lawsuit by a former member of a city council alleging she was arrested in retaliation for criticizing an official.
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Vandals Cover Abraham Lincoln Statue With Strange, Blood-Colored Graffiti, Call Him ‘Executioner’
Spray paint-wielding vandals in Chicago covered an iconic Abraham Lincoln statue with bizarre slogans on Monday — including one that claimed the Great Emancipator was actually an “executioner.”
The monument — which sits near the Chicago History Museum in the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood — was defaced as part of an apparent act of protest on Indigenous Peoples Day, according to CBS News.
The messages included one that said, “Lincoln was an executioner,” and another that said, “May all empires fall from Turtle Island to Palestine.”
The Lincoln reference is an apparent nod to the 16th president’s 1862 order that 38 Dakota men who fought with white settlers in Minnesota be hanged the day after Christmas.
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Vast Majority of Americans Support Election Integrity Measures, Including Citizenship Check
A vast majority of voters want policies and procedures in place to guarantee the integrity of elections, according to new polling.
That includes 86% of those surveyed who agree that election officials should have access to all necessary information to verify that the number of ballots cast matches the number of voters, and 85% who say that election officials should verify the accuracy of the information they receive before signing off on certifying election results. Majorities of Republicans, Democrats and Independents support the proper verification of voting.
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Walgreens to Shutter 1,200 Stores Across US
Walgreens will be closing about 1,200 stores across the US, the drug store chain announced. The news comes as online competition for pharmacy options has ramped up and payments for prescriptions have gotten more competitive. Additionally, in many major retails markets across the country, retail crime has become a huge issue and forced other closures as well. In New York and California, retail theft rings have become rampant leading drug stores to lock up everything from toothpaste to hair care products.
In the next three years or so, about one in seven Walgreens locations will be shutting down. In the first year, the retail chain expects to close 500 stores, the company announced on Tuesday. The move is an escalation from a few months ago, when the pharmacy chain said it would be cutting back 300 stores as part of a multi-year program to optimize the business. At the time of the first announcement, Walgreens said that around 25 percent of the stores were not turning a profit.
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Bomb Hoax Forces Chicago-Bound Flight to Make Emergency Landing in Remote Arctic City
An Air India flight en route to Chicago was forced to land in a remote Canadian city on Monday due to a bomb threat, officials say.
According to data posted by FlightAware, the plane left Delhi and touched down at Iqaluit International Airport in Iqaluit, Canada, at around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. Iqaluit is the capital of the Nunavut territory.
A spokesperson for Iqaluit International Airport told local outlet Nuvanut News that an “unspecified bomb threat from a person in India to Air India” caused the emergency stop. When the pilot became aware of the threat, the plane prepared to land in Iqaluit.
Air India confirmed the incident in a post on X Tuesday.
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Three children attending a school in Basècles, Belgium, were hospitalized after allegedly ingesting candy thrown at them by two women during the children’s lunch break at a kindergarten. Remarkably, the two women were allegedly dressed like clowns.
The incident occurred on Friday at the Saint-François school in Basècles, which left the children who ingested the candy vomiting, complaining of stomach aches, and breaking out in rashes, according to French outlet SudInfo. Some of the children suffered from a fever as well.
“I was told about possible poisoning,” a father told the Belgian news site.
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Hungarian portal Vilaggazdasag (“World Economy”) has written about The Wall Street Journal’s coverage of efforts around the world to boost fertility, and Hungary was in the spotlight.
Citing UN statistics that Europe’s population is expected to fall by 40 million by 2050, with the U.S. right behind, the American paper reportedly asked if Americans would have more children if they were given state-subsidized loans and cars, a lifetime income tax exemption, more vacation time, free fertility treatment, and other benefits.
Countries around the world have been vocal about efforts to reverse this demographic trend, but do incentives actually work? It’s a fair question as fewer babies continue to be born, regardless of age, income, or education.
WSJ highlighted both Hungary and Norway for their efforts on this front, stating that both countries spend more than 3 percent of GDP on family support initiatives, more than on their military. The U.S., meanwhile, spends 1 percent of GDP on child tax credits and programs targeting low-income Americans.
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EU Adopts Declaration on Combating Antisemitism Under Hungarian Presidency
The Council of the European Union has adopted a declaration on promoting Jewish life and combating antisemitism, reaffirming the EU’s commitment to stand against all forms of racism, hatred, and discrimination, Hungarian EU Affairs Minister Janos Bóka announced in Luxembourg on Tuesday, following a meeting of the General Affairs Council (GAC).
Providing further details, Bóka emphasized that promoting Jewish life and combating antisemitism is particularly important, given the alarming rise in anti-Semitic incidents across Europe and beyond.
The minister highlighted the importance of education as a crucial tool in eradicating antisemitism. He stressed the need to ensure the safety of Jewish people, protect victims of antisemitism, and provide them with the necessary support.
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The European Union is seriously concerned about the attacks by the Israeli army against the UN mission in Lebanon, in which several peacekeepers were injured. There is a strong Hungarian presence in this mission, leading some to ask if Prime Minister Orban has reached out to his Israeli counterpart.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell announced on Sunday night that “such attacks against UN peacekeepers constitute a grave violation of international law and are totally unacceptable. These attacks must stop immediately.”
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EU Lags Behind as Major Powers Fight to Reconquer the Moon
The European Union is lagging behind as space agencies race to reconquer the moon.
Experts from around the world are gathered in Milan for the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) as a new global race regarding Earth orbit operations and moon landings begins to heat up.
At the event starting on October 14, there is significant involvement from the private sector, with many companies striving to keep pace with Elon Musk’s dominant SpaceX.
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EU Wants to Restrict Smoking on Balconies and in Private Cars
Senior EU officials are considering heavily restricting citizens’ ability to smoke on balconies and in private cars.
Representatives in the Council of the European Union are pushing for a far-reaching ban on smoking and vaping in private places such as people’s balconies and cars.
The drastic proposal has been floated during negotiations with the Council’s Working Party on Public Health, which consists of representatives from member states’ national governments, alongside officials from the European Commission and other EU institutions.
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Exclusive: EU Official Emails Hit With Four-Day Partial Outage
The European Union’s official email service was hit with a four-day partial outage between October 10 and October 14, documents seen by Brussels Signal have confirmed.
The incident appears to have centred around official emails belonging to the European Commission, with the ability of an unknown number of email addresses to send and receive messages having been hit.
In a letter sent to MEPs on October 15, the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for tech support warned that emails sent from the European Parliament to the Commission or vice versa from October 10 at 12:42 until October 14 at 14:10 may not have successfully gone through.
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FPÖ Furious After Austrian President Ignores Party’s Election Win
Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) has criticised the country’s President Alexander van der Bellen over his decision not to give the party the mandate to form a government despite winning the country’s general election.
Speaking on October 14, FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl accused Austria’s head of state of “refusing to accept facts”. The FPÖ, Kickl said, was the unquestionable winner of the country’s general election on September 29 with more than 1.4 million votes (29 per cent of the total) — a clear electoral mandate for forming a government.
On October 9, van der Bellen, a former Green MP who became Austria’s president in 2017, announced he would not give the FPÖ a mandate to form a government for the time being.
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French: Le Pen on Trial for Parliamentary Assistants Doing the ‘Wrong Work’
The French political scene is abuzz with news of a trial commencing against the Rassemblement National (RN) for “misappropriation of European public funds.” The leading party of the French national Right is accused of having used its European parliamentary assistants to work for the party at the national level. Marine Le Pen, who is testifying in court from October 14th to 16th, intends to defend herself—and denounces a political cabal targeting her political party.
The trial opened on September 30th in Paris and is due to last until the end of November. Le Pen is under suspicion of misappropriating European public funds to the tune of €6.8 million. Behind this accusation is the suspicion of “fictitious employment” for the parliamentary assistants of the MEPs of the Front National (which became the Rassemblement National in 2018) who sat in Strasbourg and Brussels from 2010 to 2017—meaning that these parliamentary assistants were employed to work for the party, without actually working on European issues. In addition to Le Pen, 24 people from her party are due to be tried, including Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan and MP Julien Odoul, and MEP Nicolas Bay, who since then has left the RN to sit alongside Marion Maréchal.
Marine Le Pen is to be questioned for three days. On the first day of her hearings, her strategy was to highlight the fundamental problem behind the accusations made against the Front National: can a European parliamentary assistant be criticised for working for his ideas and the party that represents them, in the absence of a strict definition of the duties of a European parliamentary assistant according to the European Parliament (EP)?
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Germany’s AfD Could be Declared ‘Anti-Constitutional’ by End-of-Year
The populist-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party could be declared “anti-constitutional” before the end of the year, a report in the German media has claimed.
Die Welt, part of the Axel Springer group, reported that Germany’s spy agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), was planning to issue a new report on the party to be published before January, with the document having the power to readjust the party’s legal standing in the country.
Speaking on October 14, BfV president Thomas Haldenwang said his organisation could either classify the party as being “suspected” of extremism, could say that suspicions of extremism have been “confirmed”, or could say that the party is “definitely extremist and anti-constitutional”.
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Germany’s SPD Plotting ‘Wealth Tax’ Amid Financial Problems
Germany’s ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) is plotting the introduction of a wealth tax on assets amidst the country’s worsening economic situation, local news media have reported.
The plans have already provoked outrage from the right-wing opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a party aligned with the European People’s Party, warning that the tax would only hasten the country’s decline.
According to a report by daily Tagesspiegel on October 15, SPD leaders have insisted the levy on assets would allow the federal government to reduce the tax burden for 95 per cent of the general public.
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German E-Car Owners Are Increasingly Switching Back to Combustion Vehicles
While electric vehicles are described as the wave of the future, new troubling statistics from Germany’s largest auto insurance company show that many electric vehicle owners may be very unsatisfied with the performance of their vehicles.
The data from Huk-Coburg shows that 34 percent of all electric car owners switched back to a combustion automobile when purchasing a new vehicle so far this year. With Germany serving as the largest automobile market in Europe, this data is sure to raise questions about the EU’s new law that will completely ban combustion engines for all new vehicles by 2035.
Last year, 28 percent switched back to gas or diesel engines from electric vehicles, while in 2022, this figure was 17.5 percent. The year before, it was 14.2 percent. Despite claims that the technology will only improve over time, it appears that each year more and more Germans are making the switch back to combustion engines.
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Hungary to House US Fighter Jets, Including Those Able to Carry Nuclear Payload
Yesterday, The Telegraph wrote that Hungary’s Kecskemét air base will undergo upgrades. Reports indicate the base will house U.S.-made F-15 Eagle strike tactical fighter jets, which can deliver American B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs. The U.S. may also send A-10 Warthog close support aircraft and C-5 Galaxy transport planes.
The United States and Hungary agreed back in July 2021 that American forces could use the Kecskemét and Papa air bases, with yet another agreement in December 2021 designating Tata and Varpalota Garrison and Training Areas “as agreed facilities and areas” under the Defense Cooperation Agreement made by the two countries in 2019 and enabling U.S. forces to “access and utilize these bases in cooperation with the Hungarian Defense Force.”
At a summit last March, new troops were approved to be stationed in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia, and this past July, NATO emphasized its commitment to strengthening its eastern front.
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Hungary’s Isolation? Orban Meets Scholz in Berlin
On Monday, 14 October, Viktor Orban travelled to Germany for the Berlin Process summit. While there, he also had a one-on-one meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz—a resounding rebuttal of EPP President Manfred Weber’s recent claim that Hungary is ‘isolated’ and ‘nobody’ talks to the Hungarian government.
The Hungarian prime minister reported on his trip on social media, noting that a busy day awaited him in the German capital: first, the Berlin Process summit, which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the so-called Berlin process, and before that, a meeting with Chancellor Scholz, followed by an interview.
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Hungary’s Orban Gives Trump Negotiating Room by Delaying Ukraine Aid Loan Until After Election
Populist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has thrown a wrench into globalist plans to extend funding for the Ukraine war in an apparent bid to give Donald Trump negotiating leverage should he return to the White House.
Former President Donald Trump has long vowed that he would seek an end to the bloody conflict in Europe if he wins the U.S. presidential election in November, promising to negotiate a peace settlement before he is even sworn into office in January.
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Germany has faced a wave of lone-wolf terror attacks in recent months, including in Mannheim, Munich, and Solingen, but now an offshoot of the Islamic State is calling for more such attacks, and is actively glorifying the attack in Solingen, which saw three people die at the “Festival of Diversity.”
The radical Islamists magazine “Voice of Khorasa,” which is a publication from the terror group “Islamic State Khorasan Province” (ISPK), which is connected to IS in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is celebrating the attacks in Solingen which occurred on Aug. 23. During the attack, a 26-year-old Syrian, Issa al Hassan, a known Islamist, stabbed three people to death, two of which were confirmed to be involved in pro-refugee activities. Another eight people were injured during the attack.
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Italy: Pro-Palestinian Far-Left Group Calls for Ousting of Meloni Government
Creating unrest in Italy is not enough for the communist pro-Palestinian movement that has called for violent acts against Jews and friends of Israel. In their most recent statement, they share their ultimate goal which is to oust the conservative Meloni government and replace it with one that meets their extremist demands.
As Italian daily Il Giornale reports, the far-left Partito dei CARC (Committees to Support the Resistance for Communism) issued a statement on Monday, October 14th, vowing to strengthen their support for the “Palestinian resistance,” while also claiming that “war must also be fought in our country.”
The declaration was made after the government banned two pro-Palestinian rallies due to public security concerns. They were scheduled to take place on October 5th in Rome.
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LPG Prices Soar in Poland Ahead of Russian Sanctions
The rising price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is already being felt by Poles ahead of the introduction of EU sanctions on cheaper fuel from Russia.
Poland, one of the largest consumers of LPG in the European Union, heavily relies on Russian gas, with nearly half of its imports coming from Russia. Despite efforts to redirect supply sources, Russian gas remains a significant player in the market.
Russian-sourced LPG will be prohibited in the 12th round of EU sanctions entering into force on Dec. 20 — and Polish consumers are being warned they will feel the pinch.
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Momentum Seemingly Building for Dissolving Extinction Rebellion Finland
THE NATIONAL Police Board is weighing up the possibility of submitting a claim to dissolve Extinction Rebellion Finland, reports Verkkouutiset.
National Police Commissioner Ilkka Koskimäki on Friday told members of the media that the board is currently gathering information to determine whether the environmental group has engaged in materially unlawful activity and whether the legal criteria for submitting the claim are satisfied.
Activists from Extinction Rebellion Finland and Sweden’s Återställ Våtmarker sprayed red paint on columns of the Parliament House on 25 September. Organised in protest of the peat extraction operations of a Finnish majority state-owned company in Sweden, the stunt is provisionally investigated as aggravated criminal damage.
Koskimäki said also the findings of the investigation may inform the claim but stressed that the main focus is on the events that occurred outside the Parliament House, according to Ilta-Sanomat.
Sari Turunen, the real estate manager of the Finnish Parliament, told STT last week that cleaning up the facade of the building will cost roughly 15,000 euros.
A claim to dissolve an association or organisation can be brought to a district court either by the National Police Board or the National Prosecution Authority. The claim can be granted if the court rules that the association or organisation has engaged in activity that is materially unlawful or contrary to accepted principles of morality.
Dissolution orders have been fairly rare in Finland. In recent years, district courts have issued such orders to two biker gangs implicated in drug distribution and violent crime and the neo-Nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement.
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Portugal’s Far-Right CHEGA Party to Vote Against Budget Plan
(Bloomberg) — Portugal’s far-right Chega party, the third-biggest political force in parliament, plans to vote against the 2025 budget plan proposed by the country’s minority government.
“It’s not our budget, we don’t see ourselves in it,” Chega leader Andre Ventura said in a televised press conference. “Chega will vote against the 2025 budget.”
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Researchers Alarmed by China’s Grip on EU Wind Sector
Senior researchers are sounding the alarm over the increasing grip China has on the European Union’s wind energy sector.
Writing in an October 11 report, Henrik Wachtmeister, a researcher in global energy systems at Sweden’s Uppsala University and associate analyst at the National Knowledge Centre on China (NKK), warned that China’s increasing control of the sector posed a strategic threat to the long-term economic prosperity and political autonomy of Sweden and Europe.
In the report for the Swedish National China Centre, an independent research unit at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Wachtmeister highlighted how China’s growing dominance and ambitions in “green” technology have put Europe in a tricky situation.
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Serbian Deputy PM Warns of Alleged Assassination Plot Against PM Orban
In recent days the Russian and Serbian media have been abuzz with reports that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban may be the target of an assassination plot due to his pro-peace stance on the war in Ukraine. This information was shared by Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin, who revealed the alleged plot in an interview with a Russian newspaper.
‘As for the threats to the personal safety of politicians disliked by the West, it is no coincidence that there have been attempts on the life of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, the assassination of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, and the attempted assassination of US presidential candidate Donald Trump. We have received information that an assassination attempt is also being prepared against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban,’ Vulin said. He added that he believes this could be due to the fact that all the political figures mentioned are advocating for peace talks in Ukraine.
Vulin also stated that this was the underlying reason for the mass riots in Belgrade in August, which, according to the Serbian Interior Ministry, were attended by around 27,000 people. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic described the unrest as an attempt to ignite another ‘colour revolution’ aimed at replacing the legitimate government with politicians who would be obedient to the United States.
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Top German Doctor Raises Alarm Over mRNA Shots: COVID is ‘Harmless’
A leading German doctor has warned that Covid mRNA “vaccines” are “a cause for serious concern” due to the health risks, arguing that the virus that the shots are meant to tackle is actually “harmless.”
Dr. Karla Johanna Lehmann, a retired independent medical researcher from Dresden, Germany, has warned that the injections carry a huge risk of severe adverse reactions.
However, she argues that COVID-19 is actually “harmless.”
Dr. Lehmann notes that the Covid “vaccines” have been linked to multiple adverse reactions that are far more dangerous than the virus.
Lehmann published a report in the European Society of Medicine on the reported adverse reactions associated with mRNA Covid vaccination.
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UK Court Hears Ex-Soldier Muhammed Choudhary Sent Night Vision Rifle Optics to Taliban
A former British Army soldier had admitted terrorism charges laid against him over fundraising and equipment meant for the Taliban.
41-year-0ld Muhammed Choudhary has admitted three counts of terror-related charges at a UK court over his fundraising and donation efforts a court heard were to benefit the Taliban in Afghanistan. A court report by The Daily Telegraph says the former British Army soldier, who at the time of his arrest in 2020 was working in the UK’s state National Health Service (NHS) stood accused of “providing money knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect that it would or might be used for the purposes of terrorism” between 2017 and 2019.
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UK Science Secretary Peter Kyle sees “loopholes” in the UK’s Online Safety Act censorship law, and is promising to “close” them.
The law is sweeping, influencing a broad swath of the industry and people’s right to free expression, but as ever when having to justify highly controversial policies, politicians start thinking and talking, quite narrowly, and insistently, about “the children.”
Kyle doesn’t appear to be the most charismatic, innovative, or indeed, persuasive of politicians, so he sticks to the script. The script is this: (despite the uproar in the free speech/privacy advocacy community because of it) the law is still lacking. There’s “loopholes.”
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Netanyahu Tells Macron That Israel Was Not Created by the UN, But by ‘Blood of Our Heroic Fighters’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday took umbrage at remarks made by French President Emmanuel Macron, in which he stated that Israel was created by the United Nations.
Macron was speaking to his cabinet when he said, “Mr Netanyahu must not forget that his country was created by a decision of the U.N.,” referring to the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1947 to partition Britain’s Palestinian mandate into separate Jewish and Arab states.
“Therefore, this is not the time to disregard the decisions of the U.N.,” he added.
Israel accepted the partition plan while the Palestinians rejected it. Hours after declaring its independence on May 14, 1948, armies from the surrounding Arab countries attacked Israel, which won the war a year later.
“A reminder to the French President: It was not a UN decision that established the State of Israel but the victory that was achieved in the War of Independence with the blood of our heroic fighters, many of whom were Holocaust survivors, including from the Vichy regime in France,” Netanyahu read from a statement in response to Macron’s comment.
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U.S. Warns Israel it Could Cut Arms Shipments Unless More Aid Allowed Into Gaza
The push and pull of the U.S.-Israel relationship was on full display Tuesday as the U.S. warned Israel it could cut off arms shipments unless it allowed more aid into Gaza. But at the same time, the nations appear to be in sync on how Israel will strike Iran in response to the recent ballistic missile attack.
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Restaurateur Leaves Sweden, Finds ‘Safer Life’ in Iraq Amid Rising Gang Violence
A former restaurant owner who fled to Sweden from war-torn Iraq in 2003, has decided to leave the country, citing safety concerns due to escalating gang violence.
After more than two decades in Sweden, Amin returned to his home country, describing the move as one of the best decisions he’s ever made.
In an interview with Dagens Nyheter, Amin shared his experience of running a business in Sweden for years before gang activity in his neighborhood forced him to leave.
“I forgot about those times! Now I live like a king! I am developing, I feel good. It is much safer in Iraq than in Sweden,” he said, reflecting on his new life back home.
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The war may not be going as planned for the Ukrainian president, despite his ongoing positive rhetoric. However, a Vatican peace mission may bring some news on the ceasefire front and hopefully get children taken by Russian forces back home.
President Zelensky has been quoted as saying Ukrainian forces are holding their positions, stating that Donetsk and Zaporizhia are presenting “very difficult conditions,” but that forces in Kurks “are holding certain lines” despite the Russians’ efforts to push back.
However, a report from the U.K.’s Telegraph just this past Saturday, presented a very different story in Kursk, with Ukrainian military blogger DeepState saying that Ukrainian forces could be encircled. “We are on the verge of another mess due to the repetition of mistakes,” they wrote.
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Russia Claims Recaptured Territories, Zelensky Maintains Confidence
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has posted on X that fighting is going on along the entire frontline, “with particularly fierce battles unfolding in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove directions.” The Ukrainian president also noted that Ukrainian forces have been under pressure in Kursk for five days, saying “the Russians have been trying to break through our defense in the Kursk region. Our guys are standing firm and counterattacking.”
According to Ukrainian commander-in-chief, Olexander Syrskyj, Moscow has now withdrawn almost 50,000 soldiers from the frontlines in southern Ukraine and moved them to Kursk for counterattacks, Die Welt reports.
At the beginning of August, Ukraine crossed Russia’s western border and claimed to have gained control over 1,300 square kilometers of Russian territory with over 100 settlements. However, Russia has reported that it recaptured several settlements last week.
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US Concerned by Reports of North Korean Soldiers Fighting for Russia
WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) — The United States is “concerned” by reports of North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia in Ukraine, a White House spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy this week accused North Korea of transferring personnel to Russia’s armed forces, saying his intelligence agencies had briefed him on “the actual involvement of North Korea in the war” in Ukraine.
The Kremlin has dismissed the allegation as “fake news.”
White House National Security Council spokesperson Sean Savett said the involvement of North Korean troops in Ukraine, if true, would mark a significant increase in the North Korea-Russia defense relationship.
“Such a move would also indicate a new level of desperation for Russia as it continues to suffer significant casualties on the battlefield in its brutal war against Ukraine,” Savett said in a statement.
Washington says North Korea has supplied Russia with ballistic missiles and ammunition. Moscow and Pyongyang have denied arms transfers but have vowed to boost military ties, possibly including joint drills.
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India: West Bengal: Hindu Woman Health Offices Molested by a Elderly Muslim Man in Jalpaiguri
A Hindu woman health officer was molested in a tense atmosphere of RG Kar Rape and Murder Backdrop. En elderly Muslim man was arrested as accused. Jalpaiguri is in a frenzy over the incident.
Madhuparna Saha | HENB | Jalpaiguri | Oct 15, 2024:: An elderly local Muslim man was accused of molesting the Hindu Community Health Officer (CHO) of a health center in Sadar Block, Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) on Tuesday. As the news spread, tension went high in the area. The police of Kotwali police station rushed to the spot. The accused was brought to the police station. This created a tense atmosphere in backdrop of the RG Kar Rape and Murder row.
It is known that a 22-year-old woman from Jalpaiguri city joined the post of community health officer in the health center after getting a job a few months ago. She was in the office this afternoon. The health center was lonely without visitors or patents. At that time, the accused Ayub Ali (70) went to the health center with a plan to check the blood pressure there. After that, he allegedly started pulling the hand of the young woman. Then when the young woman screamed, the people around came running. They detained the accused. The relatives of the lady officer house also got the news. On their complaints, the police came to the health center and arrested the accused. It is known that the traumatised lady officer is currently being counselled to overcome the shock.
Biswajit Dutta Chowdhury, maternal uncle of the girl, said we were shocked to hear this incident. We went to the village where the new health center is being built. There is no electricity connection. No CCTV cameras. There is no security system. We demand necessary action and also demand exemplary punishment of the accused.
Accused Ayub Ali admitted the allegations against him and said that there was a mistake. Superintendent of Police Umesh Khandabahale said that the accused has been arrested. Investigation of the incident has been started by filing a case under specific sections of BNS.
But, it remains unclear whether the accused septuagenarian Ayub Ali got excited and advanced to a young lady of 22 yrs old, with an inspiration of Prophet Muhammad who consummated with 9 yrs Aisha in his quinquagenarian age.
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Australia Sounds Alarm as Town Suffers Shocking Death Surge Among COVID-Vaxxed
Experts and lawmakers in Australia have just issued a chilling warning to the rest of the world as a Western Australian town has started recording an unprecedented surge in deaths among the highly Covid-vaccinated population.
The town of Port Hedland called an emergency Special Council Meeting with leading experts and local lawmakers to address the crisis.
The meeting was called by three Port Hedland Town Councillors Adrian McRae, Lorraine Butson, and Camilo Blanco.
During the meeting, Councillor McRae made the shocking revelation that funerals in the town have gone from once a week to one every day since the Covid “vaccines” were rolled out for public use.
McRae revealed that the crisis has provoked panic in the town after officials determined that the deaths are being caused by the long-term impact of DNA contamination in the Covid mRNA injections.
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Albania Says Only Italy is Allowed to Operate Migrant Asylum Centers in the Country
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s prime minister on Tuesday said his government had turned down many requests from other European Union countries to take in thousands of asylum-seekers but made an exception for Italy.
An Italian navy ship was expected to dock at the Albanian port of Shengjin with the first group of 16 migrants who were intercepted in international waters and whose asylum applications will be processed in two centers in Albania instead of in Italy, under a five-year agreement between the two countries.
Prime Minister Edi Rama, speaking in Luxembourg at an EU conference, repeated that no other country will be able to operate asylum centers in Albania.
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Belarus Planning a ‘Hot Border and Migration Crisis, ‘ Poland Says
Poland’s plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum are based on the assumption that neighbouring Belarus is seeking to push a large number of migrants towards the country’s shared border, deputy Interior Minister Maciej Duszczyk says.
“The information we have about various scenarios being developed in Belarus and Russia justifies such a safety valve,” Duszczyk told broadcaster TVN24 on Tuesday.
Belarus was working on a “hot border and migration crisis,” by planning to violently force hundreds of people towards the EU external border to destabilize the situation in Poland, he said.
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Border Patrol Agents Say There Will be an ‘Exodus’ if Kamala Harris Wins
Border patrol agents are threatening to leave the agency if current Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidency in November after her time as the “border czar” of the Biden administration.
“I’m not doing this sh*t again,” one agent told the New York Post. “Four more years of hell.” The agent is not near the age of retirement. He said that he is “absolutely sure” he would leave if Harris wins in November.
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EU Commission May be Ready to Budge on Migration as Pressure Grows to Increase Deportations
Ahead of this week’s European Council Summit, which is likely to be dominated by immigration, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen sent out a lengthy memo to member states outlining the EU executive’s ten-point plan to address the remaining “challenges” of the bloc’s migration strategy.
These are challenges that conservative lawmakers and countries like Poland and Hungary have been bringing up for years in their criticism of the EU’s new Migration Pact. However, mainstream parties have largely ignored these concerns and instead pushed their version of the pact forward, bypassing the unanimity principle last spring.
But even though most member states would not dare to challenge the Brussels consensus, the majority immediately realized upon adopting the Pact that it was not nearly enough to deter illegal migrants from trying to enter the EU, to prevent secondary movements within Schengen, or to fix the bloc’s laughable track record with returns.
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The family of murdered Maryland mother-of-five Rachel Morin has commended Bill Clinton for admitting that the failed border policies of the Biden-Harris administration have led to the deaths of innocent Americans.
Morin was brutally killed by an illegal alien who entered the country by crossing the open Southern Border.
During a campaign event for Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris over the weekend, Clinton admitted that open border policies led to the murder of another young woman, 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.
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French Interior Minister to Restore ‘Order’ by Regularising Working Illegals
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau wants to regularise a large swathe of illegal migrants as part of the country’s new 2025 immigration law.
The minister insists the measure is necessary to restore “order” in France, with the bill also set to include a crackdown on illegal immigration through the extension of detention for undocumented migrants from 90 to 210 days.
Government officials said it planned to allow the regularisation of undocumented migrants working in sectors facing labour shortages, such as construction, agriculture and hospitality.
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Frontex: Number of Unauthorized Border Crossings Declines
In the first nine months of this year, 166,000 people attempted to enter the EU irregularly, 42% fewer than in the same period last year, the EU border protection agency Frontex said in Warsaw on Tuesday.
However, the number of attempted unauthorized entries via the EU’s eastern land border, specifically the route through Belarus to Poland and Lithuania, has significantly increased: Some 13,200 such attempts were recorded, an increase of 192%, Frontex said.
In light of this, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Saturday plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum.
The fight against illegal migration is also set to be a topic at the summit of EU leaders on Thursday in Brussels.
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Germany Urges Rapid EU Reform as Poland Moves to Suspend Asylum Right
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on Tuesday for rapid implementation of a reformed European Union Common European Asylum System (CEAS) as the Polish Cabinet discussed suspending the right to asylum.
Speaking in Berlin on meeting her North Macedonian counterpart, Timco Mucunski, Baerbock said the new package should be “decided now with ambition and implemented.”
The Polish Cabinet discussed the suspension of asylum rights on Tuesday.
Poland and the EU accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ally, Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko, of deliberately directing migrants from crisis regions to Poland’s eastern border with Belarus. The border is simultaneously the EU’s external border.
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Meloni to Gather EU Like-Minded Counterparts Seeking Tougher Migration Rules
(Bloomberg) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will convene an informal meeting of leaders on the sidelines of this week’s European Union summit to push for tougher migration measures as rifts in the bloc over the issue widened.
The premier will co-host the gathering with her Dutch and Danish counterparts Thursday in Brussels to secure backing for more stringent action. The meeting will seek “innovative solutions” to unregulated migration as EU leaders expect a long debate on Thursday, according to officials familiar with the preparations.
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More small boat migrants have reached Britain since Labour entered power than under the Conservative government this year.
From the beginning of this year to the general election on July 4, 13,574 people crossed the Channel while the Tories were in power.
But since the beginning of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership a further 13,759 people have arrived, Home Office data shows.
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Number of Unaccompanied Migrant Kids Arriving in NYS Jumps 60% Over Four Years: Records
The number of migrant children arriving in the Empire State without a grownup is soaring, with nearly 7,000 kids now showing up solo in the Big Apple every year, according to records revealed Tuesday.
Stats show that the number of migrant youngsters seeking asylum in the city has jumped by more than 60% over the past four years, experts told the City Council at a special hearing.
“Immigrant youth may be especially prone to falling victim to immigration fraud committed by bad faith actors,” Tom Tortorici, executive director of legal and support initiatives in the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, told city lawmakers.
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Shocking Border Patrol Statistic Reveals Why it’s So Easy for Migrants to Cross US Southern Border
A shocking internal Border Patrol memo revealed that nearly one-third of their security cameras along the southern US border are not functioning.
That translates to roughly 150 out of 500 cameras positioned on surveillance towers along the US-Mexico border that are currently not in service.
The bombshell statistic, shared with agents in early October and obtained by NBC News, states that the ‘nationwide issue is having significant impacts on [Border Patrol] operations.’
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Three Illegal Migrants Nabbed in Florida for Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Child
Three illegal migrants from Honduras have been nabbed in Florida after they allegedly sexually assaulted a child.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrested Elvin Lopez Lopez, Erick Lopez Lopez and Jesersson Lopez Lopez on Friday and said they believe the group engaged in the “despicable behavior” since August this year.
The migrants were charged with numerous counts of Lewd Lascivious Behavior (Capital Sexual Battery) on a minor under the age of 12.
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After the Civic Coalition convention, where Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made international headlines for announcing he would suspend the right to asylum in Poland, there are some who remain skeptical about Tusk’s move. Polish professor Mieczyslaw Ryba, a political scientist at the Catholic University of Lublin, said that a true anti-migration agenda is unlikely to materialize.
“In Poland, it is not about the right to asylum, but about illegal migration. Tusk should first block the migration pact. He is doing all this for the presidential elections,” says Prof. Ryba in an interview with the wPolityce.pl portal, emphasizing that Tusk is trying to present himself as a tough defender of Polish borders.
“What he says and what he does are two different things. Of course, he will be watching how the social mood develops or what the external pressure will be,” stated Prof. Ryba.
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UK: Nigel Farage Says ‘Illegal Migrant’ Made Threat on His Life
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has alleged that an “illegal migrant” has made a threat on his life, sharing a video of a man appearing to threaten to shoot the British Member of Parliament.
Mr Farage, who has been a frequent target of leftist political violence, highlighted Monday apparent threats made by Tik Toker Mada Pasa, a migrant believed to hail from Afghanistan who has drawn controversy by documenting his quest to migrate into Britain from France illegally.
Pasa, who has a Kalashnikov rifle tattoo on his face, has amassed a large following on social media with millions watching his vlogs.
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Von Der Leyen Proposes Migrant ‘Return Hubs’ in Deportation Push
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to establish so-called “return hubs” outside the European Union to accelerate deportations.
In a letter sent to EU member states, the chief Eurocrat outlined plans for new legislation that would allow the easier removal of illegal migrants.
“We should also continue to explore possible ways forward as regards the idea of developing return hubs outside the EU, especially in view of a new legislative proposal on return,” she wrote on October 14.
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Nevada Women’s Volleyball Team Forfeits Match as Players Refuse to Play Against Male
The University of Nevada’s women’s volleyball team has announced that it will not compete against San Jose State because the “female” team includes a male player.
On Monday, Nevada released a statement confirming that the decision has been made to forfeit an upcoming women’s volleyball match against San Jose State University.
San Jose State has been the center of controversy due to a male player on its roster who claims to be a “transgender woman.”
However, officials from the University of Nevada, Reno asserted that they wanted the game to go ahead but the players refused.
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Trans Killer Gets Taxpayer-Funded Sex Change After Murdering Couple to Get Money for Procedures
Under policies and precedents set under then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a trans-identified male murderer who in 2004 killed a married couple in an attempt to obtain money for a sex-change surgery has succeeded at achieving such procedures at the taxpayers’ expense.
On November 15, 2004, Thomas and Jackie Hawks boarded their yacht with John Jacobson Jr, who now goes by Skylar Deleon. Jacobson had reached out to the married couple to purchase their boat, according to the Washington Free Beacon. The ship left a dock on the California coast, after which Jacobson attacked the couple using a stun gun. Jacobson tied the couple to the ship’s anchor and forced them to sign over their bank account information and title to the boat.
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