Massive uncontrolled wildfires in Ontario and Quebec have spread a pall of smoke south over the Eastern Seaboard, prompting air quality alerts from New York State all the way to the Carolinas. Sunlight today was noticeably orange here at Schloss Bodissey, although I didn’t smell any smoke.
In other news, a teacher in Edmonton, Alberta told Muslim students that they couldn’t be Canadian if they didn’t support Pride Month.
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Poland’s Share of World Trade and GDP Rising
Poland’s GDP accounted for 1 percent of the total global GDP in 2022, according to a report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Poland’s GDP in 2022 was €688.3 billion, putting it in 22nd place, just below Taiwan. However, in terms of importance to global trade, Poland was judged to be more significant than Taiwan, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
According to the director of the Polish Economic Institute (PIE), Piotr Arak, the Polish economy “was never as important in the context of global trade as is the case currently.” Poland’s exports have bolstered the importance of the country’s economy and its GDP, as it now accounts for 1.4 percent of global exports.
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Another Corporation Ditches San Francisco Over City’s ‘Major Challenges’
Two of the largest hotels in San Francisco are set to close, following a trend of businesses fleeing the Democrat-led city as it faces a surge in crime.
The owner of the city’s largest hotel, the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, and its fourth-largest, Parc 55, will cease payments on $725 million worth of loans and enter foreclosure on the hotels because the city is facing “major challenges.”
The decision was “very difficult, but necessary” because of “concerns over street conditions,” office vacancies, and reduced conventions, said Thomas J. Baltimore Jr., CEO of Park Hotels & Resorts, which owns the two hotels.
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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are introducing legislation that would close what they describe as loopholes in the Biden administration’s guidance that still allows Department of Defense (DOD) funding to go to universities with Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked Confucius Institutes.
The No Federal Funding for CCP Spying and Persuasion in Education Settings Act, or SPIES Act, would expand the prohibition on funding for international institutions of higher education that host Confucius Institutes and remove the ability to waive the prohibition through the Confucius Institute Waiver Program (CIWP).
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Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry celebrated the 79th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy by likening the historic event that resulted in the deaths of thousands of American and allied service members, and the eventual victory over the Nazi regime, to the fight against climate change.
According to a report by Recharge, Kerry made the comparison in Norway on Tuesday during an appearance at a shipping exhibition in which he was the keynote speaker.
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Biden Admin is Preparing to Target Americans’ Gas Furnaces Amid Stove Crackdown
The Biden administration is expected to soon finalize regulations restricting which home gas-powered furnaces consumers are able to purchase in the future.
According to experts, the regulations — proposed in June 2022 by the Department of Energy (DOE) — would restrict consumer choice, drive prices higher and likely have a low impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The agency could finalize the rules targeting residential gas furnaces, which more than 50% of American households rely on for space heating, at any point over the upcoming weeks.
“This is a classic example of one size not fitting all,” Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital in an interview. “Every home is different, every homeowner is different and people are best off having a wide range of choices. They can work with their contractor to make the best decision for their home and their circumstances.”
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Biden Administration Censors Disclosure of 2020 Election Censorship Documents
Censoring proof of censorship — that would be a new low for the current US administration, but that is what newly released documents — emails — are now revealing as the inner workings of the Biden White House related to online speech, and what they say they consider to be “misinformation.”
The new documents refer to the time last September when some journalists and civil rights advocates wanted to probe the role of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in censorship on social sites — a part of what is now widely considered collusion between various government agencies, and privately-owned tech giants.
But, it would appear that instead of being forthcoming about this information — in the spirit of democracy, and also, since the cat was already out of the bag anyway — the government, via the Department of Justice (DoJ) got busy trying to effectively sabotage these efforts, Lee Fang reported.
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Biden Campaign Says YouTube Easing Up on Censorship Policy is “Reckless”
President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign said that YouTube’s decision to drop its election “misinformation” censorship policy is “reckless” and could result in violence. The policy banned claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election and YouTube reversed course this month.
“YouTube’s reckless and irresponsible decision will invite further democratic decay and potential violence, and we urge them to reconsider this policy,” said Kevin Munoz, the spokesperson for Biden’s campaign to Reuters.
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Breaking: Instagram Algorithm Promotes Pedo Networks, Connects Predators With Victims: Report
A new investigative report from the Wall Street Journal has revealed that Instagram is helping to connect and promote networks of accounts that commission and purchase underage sex content.
The report, which came from investigations done by the outlet and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, revealed that Instagram’s algorithm actively promotes pedophile accounts, and guides pedophiles to content sellers through the recommendation systems “that excel in linking those who share niche interests.”
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Breaking: Steve Bannon Subpoenaed in Special Counsel’s Jan 6 Grand Jury Investigation
A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena for Steve Bannon, former Trump advisor and current War Room host, in a case investigating Trump’s alleged attempts to retain the presidency after the 2020 election. Special Counsel Jack Smith is undertaking the investigation.
An indictment under the Espionage Act is expected later this week in the case of the Mar-a-Lago seized documents. Two sources familiar with the matter, NBC reports, stated that the subpoena for Bannon, looking for documents and testimony, was issued in May.
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CNN CEO Chris Licht is out after a little more than a year on the job, as he failed to turn around the long-troubled news network. He stepped down effective immediately, Fox News Digital confirmed Wednesday.
“I have great respect for Chris, personally and professionally,” Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said in a statement.
“The job of leading CNN was never going to be easy, especially at a time of huge disruption and transformation, and he has poured his heart and soul into it,” Zaslav continued. “While we know we have work to do as we look to identify a new leader, we have absolute confidence in the team we have in place and will continue to fight for CNN and its world class journalism.”
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CEO of TRUTH Social Announces That the App Has Opened Up Globally
Former California Congressman and current CEO of TRUTH Social Devin Nunes announced Wednesday that the app has launched globally.
“We’ve created a system that is a bulwark against big tech,” Nunes said on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “We’re not reliant on any big tech—other than we have to be in the Google Play Store and in the Apple App Store. But we have no problem with that because we want to have a clean platform and now we are opened up globally.”
TRUTH Social is former President Donald Trump’s social media platform that serves an alternate to other social sites.
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Chicago Public Schools Failing Hispanic Students, Only 17 Out of 100 Can Read at Grade Level
In another example of how the Chicago Public School (CPS) system is failing the Windy City’s students, recent data suggests that only 17 out of 100 Hispanic students can read at grade level.
Worse, CPS policies seem to insure that students won’t be able to keep up with their reading capabilities.
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Chicago Mayor Johnson’s Latest ‘Yes, He Really Said That’ Comments on Crime
Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson outdid himself yesterday.
Earlier, a Wall Street Journal editorial said, about his empty comments on Chicago violence over Labor Day weekend:
“Yes, he actually said that, which goes a long way to explaining why gunmen patrol the streets with impunity.”
But Tuesday, about last weekend’s number of shootings — the worst in ten years for the first week in June — Johnson said it’s the critics of Chicago’s violence who are wrong, saying, “What I find disingenuous is, where were these individuals when schools were being shut down and closed? Did they have a critique then?”
Are you kidding, Mayor Johnson?
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Republican presidential candidate and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie laid into former President Donald Trump Wednesday, calling him “juvenile” and a “baby” after the latter targeted him with fat jokes.
“Look, he’s a juvenile. He’s a baby. Only children talk like that. He never said that about me when he offered me White House Chief of Staff,” Christie told Fox News’ Bret Baier during an appearance on “Special Report.”
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Disney’s Little Mermaid Sinks as Spider Man Swings to New Heights
Turns out nobody needed a live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid,” which sunk in comparison to Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” when it came to the weekend box office.
According to Deadline, The Little Mermaid raked in $40.6 million between over the three-day Memorial-day weekend, a 57% decline from its May 26th opening weekend, bringing the movie to a total gross of $186.2 million in the two weeks it’s been out.
Spider Man, meanwhile, earned $120.5 million over Memorial Day weekend, the best start for a summer blockbuster year-to-date, with opening day raking in $51.7 million — the best single-day gross to date for a movie this year.
Back at Disney, The Little Mermaid’s overseas numbers may do even worse — with the film expected to gross around $300 million in the US and Canada vs. $260 million abroad.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie has already tanked in China and South Korea — grossing just $3.6 million in 10 days in China, and $4.4 million in South Korea.
The movie cost a reported $250 million to produce, and has a $140 million global marketing campaign — making it likely that The Little Mermaid will only break even, or even take a loss of close to $20 million.
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The FBI is willing to allow all members of the House Oversight Committee to view the subpoenaed document that alleges President Biden was involved in a criminal bribery scheme, a source familiar told Fox News Digital.
The source familiar said all members of the panel would be able to view the document in question — an FBI-generated 1023 form — in a secure location. It is unclear whether the secure location would be in a SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) on Capitol Hill or at the FBI’s headquarters.
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First Ever Religious Charter School to be Backed by Taxpayer Funds in Oklahoma
The Oklahoma state attorney general is threatening legal action against the Oklahoma State Virtual Charter School Board after board members voted on Monday to approve a Catholic charter school, which became the first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in the nation.
The Board voted 3-2 to approve St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Catholic Charter School, an online Catholic school that will open in late 2024 for kindergarten to 12th-grade students. Roughly 500 students will be allowed to enroll, according to BBC News.
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Fox News Gets Jealous, Says Tucker Carlson Breached His Contract With Twitter Video
Fox News got jealous after Tucker Carlson scored over 80 million views for his Twitter video and officially accused him of breach of contract.
The letter says: “This evening we were made aware of Mr. Tucker Carlson’s appearance on Twitter in a video that lasted over 10 minutes.
“In connection with such breach and pursuant to the Agreement, Fox expressly reserves all rights and remedies which are available to it at law or equity.”
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High School Graduate, Father Killed in Shooting After Virginia Graduation
Tameeka Jackson-Smith told The Associated Press her son, Shawn Jackson, 18, and his father, Renzo Smith, 36, died in the shooting
An 18-year-old student who had just received his diploma at his high school graduation and his father were killed when a gunman opened fire as hundreds of people gathered in a park after the graduation ceremony in downtown Richmond, Virginia.
Five other people were wounded Tuesday in the shooting, which sent hundreds fleeing in panic outside the state capital’s city-owned Altria Theater after the graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School.
Tameeka Jackson-Smith told The Associated Press her son, Shawn Jackson, 18, and his father, Renzo Smith, 36, died in the shooting. She said her and Smith’s 9-year-old daughter was hit by a car in the chaos that erupted afterward. The girl was treated for leg injuries and released from the hospital, Jackson-Smith said.
Jackson-Smith said the family had watched the graduation, then got separated in a large crowd after they walked outside. “He was so happy — oh my God — because he got to graduate. He worked hard.”
She said she was walking toward her husband and son in a nearby park to reunite when she saw a man run up behind them and start shooting.
“I don’t know if he was shooting at everybody because so many people got shot all over in the area. There were like seven people on the ground,” she said.
Suspect Amari Pollard, 19, was arraigned Wednesday morning on two counts of second-degree murder, Colette McEachin, Richmond’s top prosecutor, said in an email to The Associated Press. Pollard said he intends to hire an attorney, so the court continued the case until a hearing later this month, McEachin wrote.
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James Comer: Joe Biden Took ‘Substantial Bribe’ From Ukrainian Oligarch
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has revealed that new evidence has emerged that includes allegations that Democrat President Joe Biden took a “substantial bribe” from a Ukrainian oligarch.
Comer detailed new information about the key document the FBI has been hiding relating to the alleged bribery scheme involving Biden while he served as Obama’s vice president.
Comer told “Just The News” founder John Solomon that the bribery allegations involve a powerful “business person from Ukraine” who “sent a bribe” to Biden.
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Former President Donald Trump’s ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has reportedly flipped on his old boss and will take a plea deal with the Department of Justice in exchange for immunity.
Prosecutors are ready to ask grand jurors to approve an indictment against Trump for violating US criminal code known as Section 793, which prohibits “gathering, transmitting or losing” any “information respecting the national defense.” They will reportedly ask grand jurors to vote on Trump’s indictment tomorrow.
The report goes on to say the use of Section 793 is a possible end around for the Feds to try to kneecap Trump’s obvious defense that he used his authority as president to declassify the documents he removed from the White House. If so Trump will take this to SCOTUS.
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Michigan Man Pleads Guilty to Assisting Whitmer Kidnapping Scheme
A man accused of aiding a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor pleaded guilty Wednesday, the ninth conviction in state and federal courts since agents broke up an astonishing scheme by anti-government rebels in 2020.
Shawn Fix said he provided material support for an act of terrorism, namely the strategy to snatch Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home in Antrim County. Prosecutors agreed to drop a weapon charge.
Fix trained with a militia, the Wolverine Watchmen, for “politically motivated violence,” prosecutors have said, and hosted a five-hour meeting at his Belleville home where there was much discussion about kidnapping Whitmer.
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New York’s Air Quality Alert is Still in Effect Until Around Midnight Wednesday
ALBANY — The state Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an updated air quality health advisory that now includes the Upper and Lower Hudson Valley, including the Capital Region, as smoke from wildfires continues to choke the Northeast.
An air quality sample taken in Albany Wednesday morning measured a PM 2.5 concentration of 240.1, placing it in the “very unhealthy” category.
The current DEC advisory is set to expire at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.
The wildfires — more than 100 currently burning in Quebec — are putting fine particulates into the air, matter that consists of tiny solid particles or liquid droplets in the air that are 2.5 microns or less in diameter. They can be made of many different types of particles that often come from processes that involve combustion.
The National Weather Service says when pollution levels are elevated, the state Department of Health recommends that people consider limiting strenuous outdoor physical activity — particularly for people who may be sensitive to the effects of elevated levels of pollutants including the very young and those with preexisting respiratory problems such as asthma or heart disease.
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New York City ‘Drug’ Vending Machines Cleaned Out in One Day
New York City drug addicts cleaned out a new drug paraphernalia vending machine overnight, its first day of operation.
Four “public health” machines, placed in some of the most drug-infested neighborhoods of the Big Apple, dispense free drug-smoking kits complete with crack pipes, mouthpieces, lip balm, anti-overdose medication Narcan, as well as other items such as condoms, tampons, and nicotine gum.
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Nurse Injured by COVID-19 Vaccine Heading to Trial Against Former Employer
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
A nurse diagnosed with a COVID-19 vaccine injury is headed to trial in a case against her former employer.
Danielle Baker, 43, is trying to compel Ohio’s Hospice Inc. to pay worker’s compensation for her COVID-19 vaccine injury, suffered after she went to get vaccinated in June 2021 because she believed the company would mandate vaccination.
A state officer rejected the claim, finding that Baker did not show her injury came “in the course of and arising out of her employment” because Ohio’s Hospice had not yet mandated vaccination. The Ohio Industrial Commission refused to hear the appeal.
But a judge intervened in May, scheduling a trial date that sets up the possibility a jury could side with the nurse.
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The judge presiding over the lawsuit filed by Missouri and Louisiana, alleging collusion between the federal government and social media companies to censor certain viewpoints, is said to have asked if the Biden administration has ever read George Orwell’s 1984.
The transcript of the hearing is not yet available. However, Missouri’s Attorney General Andrew Bailey shared some of the statements made by Judge Terry A. Doughty.
“The federal government had a hard time convincing a judge last week that it hasn’t been working with and coercing social media companies to censor free speech,” Bailey tweeted.
“The judge asked the feds if they had ever read George Orwell’s 1984, pointing out the similarities between the case and the book,” he added.
Bailey also tweeted that Doughty asked the federal government about their views on protected speech.
“He asked if an American citizen questioning the safety or efficacy of masks or a vaccine was protected under the First Amendment,” Bailey recalled. “The feds’ answer? ‘It COULD be,’ but often won’t be.”
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Seattle City Council Refuses to Allow City Attorney to Prosecute Public Drug Use or Possession
On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council, in a 5-4 vote, rejected Council Bill 120586, which would have empowered the City Attorney to prosecute drug possession and public drug use.
As a result, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office will have the sole authority to prosecute drug-related crimes. Before the vote, King County Prosecutor Leesa Manion urged council members and Mayor Bruce Harrell to pass this ordinance because the city attorney and police need the ability to enforce these drug laws.
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Soros-Funded DA Gives Teen Linked to 3 Murders Just 7 Years in Prison
Far-left district attorney Pamela Price gave a California teen linked to three murders just seven years in prison.
Alameda County Sheriff’s Office on Friday urged Price to charge Sergio Morales-Jacquez, now 18, as an adult because of his “extensive and violent criminal history in multiple jurisdictions.” Price—who was elected in November as an “unapologetic progressive” who promised to “upend” the county’s prosecutorial conventions—declined the petition, sending Morales-Jacquez to the Juvenile Justice Center for seven years with the possibility of probation.
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The first episode of Tucker Carlson’s much anticipated 10-minute Twitter show has attracted more than 80 million views and counting in less than 24 hours.
‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ on Fox News was the most-watched cable news show. That show received an average of 3.1 million viewers each weeknight. 80 million views in less than 24 hours is a game changer no matter how you look at it.
Twitter owner Elon Musk said, “Would be great to have shows from all parts of the political spectrum on this platform!”
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Twitter Files: FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users and Obtain Their Info, Including Journalists
Authored by Aaron Maté via Substack
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.
In March 2022, an FBI Special Agent sent Twitter a list of accounts on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ukraine’s main intelligence agency. The accounts, the FBI wrote, “are suspected by the SBU in spreading fear and disinformation.” In an attached memo, the SBU asked Twitter to remove the accounts and hand over their user data.
The Ukrainian government’s FBI-enabled targets extend to members of the media. The SBU list that the FBI provided to Twitter included my name and Twitter profile. In its response to the FBI, Twitter agreed to review the accounts for “inauthenticity” but raised concerns about the inclusion of me and other “American and Canadian journalists.”
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Two Democrats Want to Ban Facial Scanning in Public Housing
Reps. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) sent a statement to the Department of Housing and Urban Development asking it to ban the use of facial recognition in public housing.
The use of facial recognition is controversial anyway, let alone when it’s used invasively in public housing as the residents are often of low-income.
A recent report by The Washington Post covered the concerns about using biometric surveillance in public housing. It stated that surveillance creates the feeling of being a suspect.
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Video: Biden Press Secretary Defends Him Continually Stumbling and Falling Over
Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre again attempted to brush off concerns that Joe Biden is constantly stumbling around and falling over, claiming “things happen,” and that “other Presidents have had similar situations.”
Jean-Pierre was questioned by NewsMax’s James Rosen who pointed out that Americans are concerned that Biden isn’t fit to run for another four year term as he appears frail.
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Smoke from Canadian wildfires triggered air quality alerts in more than a dozen U.S. states Wednesday, with health officials warning people, especially those in sensitive groups, such as children, the elderly or with respiratory conditions, to limit their time outdoors or stay inside.
In New York City, the U.S. Air Quality Index spike to “hazardous” levels, forcing many outdoor activities to be canceled and planes at area airports to be temporarily grounded due to low visibility.
Our live coverage has ended. For a recap of wildfire smoke coverage from Yahoo News reporters, see our blog below.
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Elon Musk Says Canada Needs New Government to Protect Free Speech
Twitter CEO Elon Musk recently said Canada needs a new government because the Liberals do not care about enacting protections for free speech.
Musk made the comments during a recent Twitter space with Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a conversation that touched on government censorship and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Over 200 ‘Out of Control’ Wild Fires Plague Canada, Sending Smoke South to Blanket US Cities
Smoke from the hundreds of wildfires wreaking havoc on eastern Canada has drifted into the United States in recent days, with reports of hazy skies as far south as the Carolinas.
Conditions have quickly deteriorated further, prompting states and municipalities to issue air quality advisories, urging citizens to remain indoors to avoid potential health complications.
Smoke from the hundreds of wildfires wreaking havoc on eastern Canada has drifted into the United States in recent days, with reports of hazy skies as far south as the Carolinas.
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Radicals Vandalized Queen Elizabeth II Statue in Manitoba After it Was Restored
A day after it was reinstalled on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature, a statue of the late Queen Elizabeth II was spray painted with the words “killer” and “colonizer” by far-left radicals.
The statue had been toppled and damaged by protesters on Canada Day in 2021, along with a statue of Queen Victoria, which has yet to be returned.
Nobody has been charged as a result of the 2021 incident.
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Scholar Warns BLM-Inspired University Charter Will Have “Terrible Consequences” on Academia
A Canadian scholar is raising the alarm about a woke charter that has been signed by over 50 Canadian colleges and universities.
St. Mary’s Philosophy professor and former Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship president Mark Mercer says the “Scarborough National Charter on anti-Black racism and Black Inclusion” will have “terrible consequences” on academia.
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Climate Activists Deflate Tires of More Than 100 SUVs in Denmark’s Capital
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A group of climate activists claimed responsibility on Wednesday for deflating the tires of sport utility vehicles in Denmark’s capital. More than 100 vehicles were vandalized, police said.
The Tyre Extinguishers said on its website that “we are defending ourselves against climate change, air pollution and unsafe drivers.” The group has been active in other countries.
Copenhagen police appealed for witnesses to come forward, saying “we are investigating the vandalism and would like to hear from citizens who have seen something” late Tuesday or early Wednesday.
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Finnish Four-Party Coalition Finds Form
Finland is on the cusp of forming a new centre-right coalition after officials indicated that a deal was expected between conservatives and the populist Finns Party.
Talks to form a new Finnish government entered their second month last week as the conservative National Coalition Party (NCP) continues to hammer out a coalition deal with the right-wing Finns Party and smaller parties.
Finnish voters went to the polls on April 2nd in an election that saw gains for right-wing parties as voters turned their backs on Social Democratic Prime Minister Sanna Marin due to inflationary and budgetary issues. The Finns Party just about missed out on becoming the country’s largest party.
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The approval of the Yggdrasil area project by the Norwegian parliament gives Polish energy giant, PKN Orlen, access to over 30 million barrels of oil and 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas, according to CEO Daniel Obajtek.
The Yggdrasil project will see the development of oil and gas discoveries between the Oseberg and Alvheim fields located in the North Sea. The plans mark a significant milestone for the PKN Orlen Group, which holds a nearly 13 percent share in the project.
Obajtek emphasized the strategic importance of the Norwegian shelf for Orlen’s extraction endeavors, stating that it will enhance regional resource autonomy. PKN Orlen also announced that it is launching a new project on the Norwegian shelf.
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Eco-vigilantes have taken to the streets to vandalise SUVs by spray painting slogans such as ‘climate criminal’ and ‘this machine kills kids’ onto the pricey cars in Bristol.
Members of the eco-group The Tyre Extinguishers, which indiscriminately targets 4x4s regardless of whether they were fueled by petrol, diesel or even electricity, claimed responsibility for damaging 11 cars in the Clifton area of the city.
This is the second time cars in the area have been targeted by the group, with 60 4x4s having their tyres slashed by the climate change zealots earlier this year.
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UK: Van Shoves Just Stop Oil Protesters Down Road as Furious Motorists Tear Down Banners
A frustrated driver was seen pushing a mob of Just Stop Oil protesters down a London street as their slow march caused havoc during rush hour. Footage of the man showed him tapping them with his vehicle as they paraded down Marylebone Road. A furious pedestrian was also seen grabbing their banners before slapping a protester around the head.
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‘We Will Not Close Turow Coal Mine, ‘ Polish PM Insists Despite Court Order
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has insisted the Turów coal mine located on the country’s southwest border with Czechia and Germany will remain open, defying a recent ruling made by the administrative court in Warsaw.
In a visit to the facility on Wednesday, the Polish leader vowed to resist any order to close the mine which is estimated to account for 8 percent of Poland’s energy supply.
Environmental groups including the Frank Bold Foundation, Greenpeace, and the EKO-UNIA Ecological Association, hailed their success earlier this week in acquiring a court order for mining operations at the facility to be suspended due to adverse impacts on the environment.
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Serbia’s President Announces Early Elections Amid Protests, Tragic Shootings
Serbia’s president on Wednesday promised an early parliamentary election, in an apparent attempt to defuse large protests against his populist rule in the wake of two mass shootings that shook the nation.
In an address to the nation, President Aleksandar Vucic said the vote will be held “by the end of this year.”
“Now it’s clear that we will have early parliamentary elections,” Vucic said, flanked by his close political ally, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic.
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Saudi Arabia Reminds Social Media Users That Criticism of the Regime is Illegal
State media in Saudi Arabia has reminded Snapchat and other social media platforms’ users that insulting the regime is a criminal offense. Several Snapchat influencers and users in the kingdom have been arrested and some handed decades-long sentences.
The news segment, originally aired in April then deleted, was an interview of a man who was in jail over a tweet that criticized the regime. The segment was reposted by human rights group ALQST after the state broadcaster deleted it.
The man shared his regret over the tweet and said that there were others in jail over social media posts.
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Saudi Arabia May be Re-Exporting Russian Oil Products to the EU, Warns MEP
Saudi Arabia could be selling the EU Russian oil products at a major markup, effectively undermining the bloc’s sanctions, an MEP has suggested.
Marc Botenga, a left-wing Belgian politician, has asked the European Commission whether or not it would be able to tell if Saudi Arabia was selling the continent diesel that originated in Russia. The Union replied even if Saudi was selling European nations diesel made out of Russian crude, that wouldn’t be against the sanctions regime anyway.
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Belgium Launches Probe Into Belgian Weapons Found in Russia
In the wake of a cross-border military incursion into the Russian region of Belgorod that is reported to have left two civilians dead and many more combatants deceased or injured, Belgium has launched an investigation into whether its weapons, which were supplied to Kyiv, were used during the attack.
During comments given to the public broadcaster RTBF on Monday, June 5th, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said that the executive has “asked its intelligence and military to analyze [the claims]” that Belgian weapons were used in the Belgorod attack, and added that his government has reached out to Kyiv to provide “clarification” on the situation.
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Local Official Hurls Molotov Cocktails at Russian Military Recruitment Center
Police detained Zhanna Romanovskaya, a 55-year-old employee of the Architecture and Construction Ministry of the Russian city of Vladimir, on Wednesday for throwing firebombs at a military recruiting center.
Arson attacks against recruiting offices spiked after Russian leader Vladimir Putin launched his brutal attack on Ukraine in February 2022. Dozens of such attacks were reported in the first six months of the war, and the pace increased throughout last summer.
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Paramilitaries in the Russia-Ukraine War Could Escalate and Expand the Conflict
The war in Ukraine continues more than a year after Russia’s invasion and shows no signs of abating. An attack on a Ukrainian dam is just the latest development in a long and drawn-out conflict.
In the coming months, Ukrainian forces hope to make impressive inroads into Russian-occupied territory.
This war, by most analyses, is a conventional conflict. While there have been unconventional elements in the war, such as the weaponization of refugees, the focus of both states remains on their regular armed forces.
As the war progresses, however, we are witnessing more irregular elements — in particular, paramilitary groups — enter the conflict. Critically, they don’t appear to operate under the direct control of either Ukraine or Russia.
While these units give both parties tactical advantages they otherwise would not possess, the loose nature of their control also means they can undermine their respective war efforts.
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Russia Tests Blocking OpenVPN Protocols
Russia has started testing the blocking of the OpenVPN protocol on mobile carriers in what appears to be yet another attempt to prevent people from accessing blocked websites.
OpenVPN had previously stated that it won’t comply with any censorship demands.
Since last week, internet users in Moscow complained that they could not connect to services powered by OpenVPN on mobile carriers including MTS, Megafon, Beeline, Colna, Tele2, and Yota.
The censorship was first reported on Twitter, with forum posts confirming the blocks.
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Russia Blames Ukraine for Ammonia Pipeline Sabotage, Civilians Injured
Moscow has accused Ukraine of blowing up the Tolyatti-Odesa pipeline in a new act of “sabotage” targeting vital Russian infrastructure. It is the longest ammonia pipeline in the world, at some 2,500km, and Russia utilizes it to export the industrial chemical, which is a core component of fertilizer, among other products.
A Wednesday statement by the Russian Defense Ministry said “A Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group blew up the Tolyatti-Odesa ammonia pipeline” outside the village of Masyutovka in the northeastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine.
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Turkish President Erdogan Calls for Comprehensive Investigation Into Kakhovka Dam Explosion
7th June 2023 — (Ankara) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held phone talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, calling for a comprehensive investigation into the Kakhovka dam explosion to leave no room for doubt. Erdogan also stressed Turkey’s determination to ensure peace between Moscow and Kyiv and offered Ankara’s support to end the conflict.
Putin, for his part, called the destruction of the dam an “environmental and humanitarian catastrophe,” according to a press release from the Kremlin. Erdogan also discussed the dam blast issue with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Kakhovka dam explosion has caused flooding and humanitarian, economic, and ecological consequences. The reservoir formed by the dam is a major source of cooling water for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and the destruction of the dam has raised concerns about the safety and security of the plant.
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Ukraine’s Counteroffensive: Are We There Yet?
Ukraine’s long-awaited spring counteroffensive may have started over the weekend—but while Russia boasts of having “repelled” heavy attacks during the last three days, Ukraine remains tight-lipped on the issue.
As ever, the fog of war remains difficult to pierce.
After months of preparations and delays, Kyiv first telegraphed it was set to launch its counteroffensive, cast by some commentators as a ‘D-Day’ for the 21st century, on Saturday, June 3rd, at the onset of summer.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that “as of today, we are ready to do it. We would like to have certain things, but we can’t wait for months. We strongly believe we will succeed. I don’t know how long it will take.”
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Ukraine Accuses Russia of Shelling Citizens Being Evacuated From Flood Area
Ukraine says Russia is shelling flooded civilian areas around Kherson even as efforts to evacuate thousands from rising waters unleashed by the bombing of a major hydroelectric dam threatens lives.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian government said they were being careful not to shell civilians in flooded areas south of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power dam on the Dnipro River towards Kherson, and that claims their forces were impeding evacuations are Russian falsehoods. Army southern command press officer Natalia Humeniuk said, per Kyiv, that “…[Russia’s] shelling continues.
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Australia Could Send Dozens of Retired F/A-18 Jets to Ukraine With US Consent
Australia is discussing with the United States and Ukraine the possible donation of 41 F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets to Kyiv, the Australian Financial Review newspaper reported citing defense department sources.
Australian military expert Robert Potter confirmed the talks but stressed the parties had not yet reached a concrete agreement. According to sources close to the talks, Washington is positively assessing the aircraft transfer. U.S. consent in this matter is required, as it owns the intellectual property rights to the fighter jets.
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Biden Hit With Order on Prince Harry’s Immigration Records Amid Preferential Treatment Claim
A federal judge on Tuesday gave the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) one week to deal with requests for Prince Harry’s immigration records after the agency was sued by the Heritage Foundation.
The Biden administration appeared in a federal court Tuesday after the conservative think tank filed a lawsuit demanding DHS release Prince Harry’s immigration records, alleging the administration gave him “preferential treatment” in allowing entry to the U.S.
The suit claimed that the Biden administration allowed the prince to enter the U.S. despite his admission of illegal drug use — a factor that would usually be enough to deny other people entry.
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A federal judge on Tuesday halted two New York counties’ orders designed to block New York City from sending migrants to hotels in their jurisdictions as the Big Apple scrambles to tackle a migrant crisis.
Judge Nelson Roman of the Southern District of New York blocked the enactment of orders by Orange County and Rockland County that barred local hotels and motels from making rooms available to migrants from New York City.
The counties acted after New York City officials announced May 5 they would transport hundreds of migrants to the counties ahead of the end of Title 42 on May 11.
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FIRST ON FOX: Florida officials confirmed on Tuesday that the state is behind multiple migrant flights to California in recent days, saying that the migrants on board gave their consent.
The flights have sparked a furious response and accusations of kidnapping from California’s governor and attorney general.
The Florida Division of Emergency Management told Fox News in an email that Florida flew the migrants to California as part of a voluntary relocation.
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France: Bus Driver Stabbed by African Illegal ‘Known to Police’
An illegal migrant from Africa who was ‘already known to police’ and under deportation orders was arrested for stabbing a bus driver in France this week, according to reports.
The disturbing incident unfolded at around 7 p.m. on Monday evening in Athis-Mons, a commune in the Paris suburbs.
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Mass Immigration Doesn’t Work in Sweden
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson publicly denounced his country’s poor management of immigration this week in a landmark opinion piece for the Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet.
The article is just the latest sign of a political volte face in the Scandinavian country’s infamous immigration outlook, but one that makes sense with respect to Kristersson’s Moderate Party’s electoral pact with the right-wing Sweden Democrats, in place since 2022.
In an article titled “Three Things are Required to Put Sweden Back Together,” Kristersson lays out a radical reform to his nation’s immigration policies outlining his wish to see Swedish migration policy become the strictest in Europe.
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Non-Citizens to Soon Have Arrest Powers as Police Officers in Illinois
ILLINOIS (ECWd) —
House Bill 3571 passed both Houses this past week with Senate Floor Amendment 1.
SA1 permits counties and municipalities to hire non-citizens as deputy sheriffs and police officers in the same manner as hiring U.S. citizens, as long as they are: “legally authorized under federal law to work in the United States and is authorized under federal law to obtain, carry, or purchase or otherwise possess a firearm, or who is an individual against whom immigration action has been deferred by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process and is authorized under federal law to obtain, carry, or purchase or otherwise possess a firearm”
What this means in Illinois, is that you may soon see non-US citizens wearing police badges, with arrest powers over US citizens. Senator Rose spoke against its passage, suggesting it would violate the United States Constitution.
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Poland: Georgian Smugglers Arrested After Cramming 38 People Into 4 Cars in Illegal Border Crossing
The Polish Border Guard, in cooperation with the police, has arrested four Georgian citizens accused of attempting to smuggle 38 illegal migrants across the Polish-German border.
According to the Border Guard, the smugglers resorted to dangerously cramming the migrant group into four vehicles, disregarding the potential risks to their lives.
Four Georgian citizens, aged between 28 and 46, were detained by Polish authorities on a road checkpoint in western Poland. They were driving two Volkswagens, a Mercedes, and a Jeep with Polish and German license plates.
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A Texas county judge has asserted that illegal immigrants are allowed to receive universal basic income (UBI) based on a recent proposal, Fox News reports.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo made the claims on Tuesday during a vote on the Uplift Harris pilot program, introduced by Harris County Democrats, which would give $500 monthly payments to 1,500 illegal immigrant families under the American Rescue Plan Act.
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Bud Light is Co-Sponsoring an ‘All-Ages’ Drag Show Party: ‘Safe Space’ ‘Family Festival Event’
Despite tumbling sales and negative press coverage as a result of its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, Bud Light is reportedly co-sponsoring an “all-ages Pride event” in Flagstaff, Arizona, according to the Flagstaff Pride website.
The party, which is called “Pride in the Pines” and includes drag queens and other performers, lists Bud Light as one of the companies sponsoring the June 17 event. (Bud Light is mentioned prominently in one of the posters.) The event is listed as a “family festival event” and a family-friendly, “safe space” for all visitors.
Other big-name companies sponsoring the all-ages event for Pride Month include Old Navy, Toyota and Coca-Cola USA, according to an event flyer.
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Canada: Winnipeg Pride Drag Queen Kids Performers Posted Extreme, Satanic-Themed Content
A drag queen story hour for children at Pride Winnipeg celebrations on Sunday featured a performance group whose members have posted extreme and satanic-themed content on their social media profiles.
“The House of Hex” is a Brandon, Manitoba based drag queen group. According to the Pride Winnipeg website, the group held a 2:00 p.m. drag queen story hour on Sunday on the kids stage for its 2023 program.
The group is composed of four performers: Flora Hex, Luna Hex, Mercy Hex and Lilith Hex
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A Democratic member of a Maryland city council blasted Muslim children as on the side of “White supremacists” after they spoke out against sexuality discussions and materials in classrooms during a heated school board meeting Tuesday evening.
“This issue has unfortunately does put… some Muslim families on the same side of an issue as White supremacists and outright bigots,” said Democrat Kristin Mink of Montgomery County Council for District 5. “I would not put you in the same category as those folks, although, you know, it’s complicated because they’re falling on the same side of this particular issue.”
Mink made the remark after Muslim children from the district spoke out against their parents’ inability to opt them out of lessons they deemed violated their faith. She argued Muslim families do not have the religious right to opt their children out of LGBTQ books, similar to parents’ inability to opt their children out of studying evolution.
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Elon Musk: ‘Gender-Affirming Care for Minors’ is ‘Pure Evil’
Twitter boss Elon Musk has blasted the use of the phrase “gender-affirming care for minors” and warned that such procedures are “pure evil.”
The phrase is often used by the Left to describe life-altering sex-change treatments for children.
The procedures include puberty-blocking drugs, hormone treatments, and irreversible surgeries.
Musk made the comment in response to a tweet from renowned psychologist Jordan Peterson.
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Exclusive: Washington State to Require Prison Guards to Search Inmates According to Gender Identity
The Washington State Department of Corrections is changing policies governing how staff conducts searches.
Effective June 30, 2023, staff will be required to search individuals in accordance with their gender identity.
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Fight Against DEI in Schools Picks Up Steam Nationwide
The legislative fight against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in education is picking up steam nationwide.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. introduced the Fairness in Higher Education Accreditation Act, which would ban accreditation officials from considering an educational institution’s DEI or affirmative action policies when determining accreditation.
DEI departments have exploded at universities in recent years with a spike in new administrators who enforce liberal equity and racial policies at the educational institution. These programs usually embrace the idea of systemic racism, speak of the U.S. as a deeply racist nation, and push for the most aggressive side of the LGBTQ agenda.
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Nova Scotia Taxpayers Funded Fake Breasts, Prosthetic Penises and Chest Binders for Youth
A Nova Scotia youth organization is handing out “gender-affirming items” such as prosthetic breasts, fake penises and chest binders to “two spirit, trans, non-binary or gender questioning youth” under the age of 25.
The Youth Project is a non-profit charity focused on providing gender identity services to youth and the organization lists the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness and the Nova Scotia Department of Education as supporters.
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State Dept Pushes LGBTQ ‘Pride’ Everywhere Except Muslim World
by Daniel Greenfield
In June, United States embassies across the world get ready for the biggest patriotic celebration of the year. Flags are taken out of the attic, ironed and hoisted in rainbow swirls across the sky.
From Europe to Latin America to Asia, Africa and Oceania, the new flag of the nation flies across what used to be the worldwide diplomatic outposts of the United States of America.
This is done without regard to the religious feelings or sensibilities of the host nation.
In Vatican City, the U.S. Embassy flew the rainbow flag and tweeted that it “stands with the LBGTQI+ community against discrimination and other forms of persecution because of who they are and whom they love.”
In Jerusalem, outgoing Ambassador Tom Nides cheerfully declared “Shabbat Shalom” from a gay pride parade that featured a drag queen. Nides had made no comment about the murder of Meir Tamari, the 20th person in Israel killed by Islamic terrorists so far this year.
In India, Ambassador Eric Garcetti, the former Los Angeles mayor whose inappropriate nomination had barely survived the scandal of his aide sexually harassing men, broadcast a video in which he raised the pride flag, with more dedication and drama than the Marines at Iwo Jima, before delivering a speech about the importance of the LGBTQ movement.
In Paris, the embassy celebrated “#IncroyableDiversité” while the embassy in Moscow put up a rainbow mural of Biden declaring in Russian that, “Pride is a celebration of generations of LGBTQI+ people, who have fought bravely to live openly and authentically.”
In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a country where the people are starving, children are being sold as sex slaves and the streets belong to gangs, the white ambassador convened white staff members to attend a Pride Month ceremony. The wind was blowing hard and the participants might have smelled ash, misery and human waste. Some of the locals have taken to setting each other on fire, but surely they appreciated the ambassador’s thoughts on LGBTQ pride.
Few Americans were in attendance since the embassy had previously issued an alert warning tourists not to come “due to kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and poor health care infrastructure.”
But while State Department facilities from Bogota, Columbia to Pretoria, South Africa put aside their pressing business to celebrate Pride Month, and the embassies in Warsaw, Poland and the Philippines joined in, there were notable exceptions from the global celebration of ‘Pride’.
The United States embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia bafflingly neglected Pride Month. In Islamabad, Pakistan, insult was added to injury when the embassy instead commemorated Urs, a festival marking the death of a Sufi saint, without even a single rainbow emoji in view…
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Three Arrested at Protests Outside an L.A. School Board Meeting About Pride Month
Three arrests were made Tuesday as protesters violently clashed outside a Los Angeles County school district building, where board members had convened to vote on whether or not to recognize June as Pride Month, according to the Glendale Police Department.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the Glendale Unified School District headquarters both in opposition and in support of the school district’s LGBTQ policies. Anti-LGBTQ protesters waved American flags and chanted “Leave our kids alone” and the names of the five school board members. Counterprotesters waved Pride flags and held up signs rebuking anti-LGBTQ sentiments, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The board was about an hour into hearing comments from the public when police declared the protests “unlawful assembly” due to instances of physical violence, including unauthorized pepper spray use, police said. Attendees of the school board meeting were ordered to shelter in place, and police cordoned the building entrance with yellow tape.
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UK: Cartoon Pig Aimed at Toddlers Wishes Them “Happy Pride”
Makers of a cartoon aimed at pre school children have drawn criticism after issuing social media campaigns wishing followers a “Happy Pride Month,” declaring “Here’s to celebrating love.”
The UK’s Peppa Pig is the biggest kids cartoon in the country, but when the creators issued the following messages, it drew the ire of parents who point out that it is a parent’s choice whether or not to introduce their children to the concept of homosexuality and other sexual or gender identity lifestyles.
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UK: Oxford College Says Students Can be Expelled if They ‘Misgender’ Peers
A college within Oxford University announced a new policy promising disciplinary action if students willingly or unintentionally “misgender” another student.
Regent’s Park College, one of the 44 colleges within Oxford University, released a “Trans Inclusion Statement” on Thursday. The statement describes the school’s intolerance to “transphobia” and was crafted with student input last year.
“Misgendering,” or using pronouns that correspond with a transgender person’s biological sex, is characterized as an unlawful form of bullying or harassment in the statement.
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UK: Oxfam Apologises for Evil Cartoon ‘TERF’ That Resembles JK Rowling
Anti-poverty charity Oxfam has issued an apology over a cartoon it produced featuring a bunch of evil eyed ‘transphobic’ characters hating on the LGBTQ+ lifestyle, with one wearing a button labelled ‘TERF’ and very much resembling author JK Rowling.
The charity edited the video and deleted the original after complaints over the term TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) being offensive to women’s rights activists.
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UK: You Won’t Believe What They’re Doing Now
A school in the UK is celebrating ‘Pride Month’ by encouraging children as young as 11 to dress up in “full blown drag”.
Forget just exposing them to what is inherently sexualized in nature, they’re now literally making the kids the drag queens.
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Watchdog Group Accuses Bank of America CEO of Using Bank as ‘Political Club’ Against Americans
Conservative non-profit and corporate watchdog Consumers’ Research has launched a new campaign targeting Bank of America for forcing its “ideologically-driven agenda on the American people.”
The campaign — which features two national TV ads, billboards in major U.S. cities, including one in Times Square, and a website mimicking Bank of America’s own — accuses the “mega bank” of “ESG fanaticism, which puts politics ahead of its customers.”
Consumers’ Research, which describes itself as a “nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase the knowledge and understanding of issues, policies, products, and services of concern to consumers and to promote the freedom to act on that knowledge,” has defined ESG on its website.
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An Edmonton teacher has been caught on tape berating Muslim students for not doing enough to support Pride, many aspects of which go against their cultural and religious beliefs.
The audio quickly went viral, and while the Londonderry School faculty member’s identity was not made public, her voice was quickly confirmed by members of the Edmonton School District, who have since released an apology to students and parents.
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Åkesson: Multiculturalism has divided Sweden
Published 2023-06-06
In a series of debate articles, Jimmie Åkesson (SD) has described the multicultural assault on Sweden and the Swedish people and its consequences. Responses and rebuttals have come from Muharrem Demirok (C), Per Bolund (MP) and Märta Stenevi (MP).
Åkesson began by noting that Sweden was once known as the calm, safe, small country in the north – something that today has turned into a rampant decay and an example of fear for the rest of the western world.
READ ALSO: Report shows: Immigration costs 130 billion a year
He stresses that this has not happened by chance but is the result of political decisions – a decades-long persistent political assault on Swedish society and the Swedish people.
The politicians’ dream of a multicultural Sweden has been prioritized above all else, and has today become the people’s nightmare.
The SD leader also points out that they have shot the messenger and smeared those who warned of the development with ugly words. Now that the harmful development has gone so far that it can no longer be swept under the carpet, other parties have been forced to take a stand on the issue of immigration policy.
Sweden must now end the multicultural experiment.
Smears from C and MP
In a response a few days later, C leader Muharrem Demirok writes that “integration in Sweden has for many years been too poor” and spends the rest of the text smearing the Sweden Democrats without any answers on how to deal with the decline.
READ ALSO: 52 criminal networks active in Stockholm
A few days later, the Green Party’s two spokespersons also entered the debate on roughly the same theme as Demirok.
The homogeneous, white society that Åkesson and his far-right friends throughout Europe are striving for is an authoritarian society where racism and homophobia thrive and citizens are pitted against each other.
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Multiculturalism is our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues and our children. And the Sweden Democrats’ racism and homophobia is an assault on all of them, and on the soul of our Swedish people.
Democracy
On the national day, Jimmie Åkesson gives his final reply and notes that the politicians’ persistent work in recent decades to transform Sweden into a multicultural society in various ways has also been highly questionable from a democratic perspective, as a majority of the Swedish people in surveys have consistently been against a continued large-scale reception.
The SD leader says that what has been done in practice is democracy.
He also states that multiculturalism regularly leads to increased violence, crime, insecurity, division and a significant reduction in national solidarity and tax morale.
However, I and the Sweden Democrats will not be satisfied until Sweden is whole again and community has been restored throughout our society, where all girls, women, boys and men feel safe in all parts of society.
READ ALSO: National police chief warns against the clans,
52 clans in Stockholm.
Author of the text
Andreas Nilsson
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US searches for ‘Swede’ – with a 54 million reward
Published June 8, 2023
The US is now looking for Swedish citizen Maximillian Rivkin,
also known as
Milos Jankovic.
Up to five million dollars – about SEK 54 million.
That’s how much money the US government is offering to anyone who provides tips that lead to the arrest of Maximilian Rivkin, 39.
Rivkin, who was granted Swedish citizenship but is originally from Serbia, is internationally wanted for a number of crimes.
The FBI tricked him into selling phones with the encrypted chat program Anom to several criminal gangs. This allowed the police to listen to the criminals’ conversations, and in Sweden alone, the Anom chats led to the arrest of over 150 people.
Maximillian Rivkin has already been remanded in custody in Sweden, suspected of particularly serious drug smuggling and particularly serious drug offenses during the period July 2020 to May 2021. In the United States, he is also hunted for drug trafficking and money laundering, and he is also said to have been involved in murder and kidnapping plans and “other violent acts”, according to the US State Department.
According to Dagens Nyheter, Maximilian Rivkin is believed to be in Turkey.
He has used aliases such as “Maximilan”, “Malmo”, “Teamsters”, “Malmö”, “Microsoft” and “Max”.
The 39-year-old has a scar on his left knee and scars on the fingers of his right hand. He also has a tattoo of three monkeys on his right arm.
Anyone with tips on the case is asked to email the US FBI at SD_Rivkin_Reward@fbi.gov or the Swedish police at efterlyst@polisen.se.
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“600,000 Americans have died from the vaccine”
https://www.snaphanen.dk/2023/06/08/dr-mccullough-600-000-amerikanere-er-doede-af-vaccinen/
8/6-23 AT 0813
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video: worse than the civil war
https://rumble.com/v2son6i-dr.-mccullough-testifies-the-truth-about-the-number-of-people-who-died-from.html
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A modern American tragedy with more deaths than the Civil War
I regard Dr. McCullough as one of the most reliable sources of information on vaccines. He arrives at roughly the same result as many others – between 600,000 and one million in two years – and in the short clip he also explains the difficulties in arriving at reliable figures.
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There is another clip:
“My Clinical Practice Is Completely Full of Patients Who Have Suffered Grave Vaccine Injuries”.
https://rumble.com/v2sr47c-my-clinical-practice-is-completely-full-of-patients-who-have-suffered-grave.html
The whole hearing is here at minute 41:25.
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Bill Gates 2021: The next pandemic: Marburg?
I quoted a week ago
https://www.snaphanen.dk/2023/06/01/er-marburg-den-naeste-epidemi/
two authors about a possible future Marburg virus. A deadly but very slightly contagious one related to Ebola. It has never killed anyone in the US and very few in the world. Today, more information is added to what was said the other day.
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has now announced that a vaccine against it and a PCR test for it have nevertheless been developed. In a thorough article, journalist and analyst Mike Whitney discusses the latest developments. It also features videos with the late Dr. Rashid Bhuttar and Sasha Latypova and is entitled Marburg – Genocide or Nothingburger? “Prepare for a Disease Deadlier than Covid”:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/marburg-genocide-or-nothingburger/5821537
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Dr Rashid Buttar; Soothsayer or Crackpot?
This is the warning that Buttar delivered on his Rumble channel in the weeks preceding his death. According to the Doctor, the modified mRNA vaccines contain components that act like “sleeper cells” that lie dormant until a catalyst releases their toxic payload. Here’s a quote from a recent interview:
People ask me if there will be a second wave, and I say, “Of course, there will be a second wave, but it won’t be from the virus, it will be from the vaccine injury……
There are things within the vaccine that are designed to create a detrimental effect when they want it to create a detrimental effect… (It’s) like a ‘sleeper cell’ in your body… that can be triggered by a signal or chemical or (something else) that can activate the sleeper cell.
One of the three pathogens contained (in the sleeper cell) is Marburg that creates a hemorrhagic fever …which according to Google has an 88% mortality which means that 88 out of 100 people who get it will die…. Once the Marburg payload is released, millions of people will die…
I expect this will happen sometime this year. …There’s a payload of pathogens that have been introduced to the body like a sleeper cell waiting to be triggered by an electromagnetic pulse… that will cause the hydrogel to release the payload (carried by vaccinated people) that will mean certain death…Dr. Rashid Buttar, Millions will be Affected, Rumble.
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The author writes:
Dr. Buttar anticipates a global genocide more catastrophic than any event in history Unfortunately, I have no way of confirming whether he is right or wrong. So, I remain agnostic on Buttar’s conclusions, but I think they are worth considering all the same.
As you know, the criminal WHO, which has already killed millions, together with the EU, now has a “digital health passport” ready to be rolled out at any time. It will probably be in the summer. Then everything will be ready for the next ‘pandemic’, and it may well be Marburg that is unleashed in the fall.
The important thing for the fall will be not to take the offered vaccine under any circumstances.
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Dr. Campbell has a special, acidic comment on the Health Passport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixnqF6vEufA
which will indeed be the start of our digital slave life, where everything is under the control of a database whose owners no one knows.
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And Bill Gates – major shareholder in vaccines –
wrote a suspiciously prophetic article on Gavi-vaccines work with the headline The next pandemic: Marburg?
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/next-pandemic/marburg
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Other recommendations from today:
Dr. Naomi Wolf Uncovers Pfizer’s Depopulation Agenda, as Evidenced by Its Own Documents
https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/dr-naomi-wolf-uncovers-pfizers-depopulation?utm_medium=email&utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email
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One million fetuses in Europe have remained unborn due to vaccine damage.
Pfizer has kept a cold record of all the possible injuries to women, and Wolf calls them worse than Dr. Mengele. As we know, injuries to women account for 70% of all injuries, and of those, reproductive injuries are by far the most prevalent. This shows, says Wolf, that there is a depopulation agenda. Natasha Latypova is convinced of the same, and these are two women who are hard to dismiss.
There is no political left; what appears like leftism today is BlackRock, the WEF, & the CIA engaged in left cosplay
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/there-is-no-political-left-what-appears?utm_medium=email&utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email
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https://www.snaphanen.dk/2023/06/08/dr-mccullough-600-000-amerikanere-er-doede-af-vaccinen/
I’d just sit back and sip my cup of joe with a Bushmills back, and a big side of smug as the vaXXXed – most of whom are of the alphabet/pedo/deviant/urban marxist/democrat/progressive/hairy bottom purple crested swivel eyed amorphous dyke blob gender; low hanging fruit, but a win none the less! – turn teats up. Yup, that’s a shame. Anyway…but for the ‘But’, which is 2 insertions of the SV40 sequence in the spike protein/prion expressing engineered plasmid at the core of the vaXXX. That’s the one causing the ‘turbo cancers’. If these A-holes turn into bug factories, and this kind of bioweapon inserts or ( plasmids are spooky, like prions ) piggybacks, and goes airborne…then we’re faced with an existential Romero-type apocalyptic situation.
Buy a decapitator, stock up fougasse fixin’s and ammo, I suppose.
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