A “youth” who appeared in a viral video in India said that Hindus will be killed like insects when Muslims take power. The Islamic youngster’s statement was part of a general ferment that was triggered by the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
In other news, a group of French senators from The Republicans proposed a bill that would criminalize the criticism of Zionism.
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Bank of Canada Says Scrapping the Carbon Tax Would Drop Inflation by 16%
In the unlikely event the Liberal Party abandons the carbon tax, the Bank of Canada claims inflation would fall 16%.
On October 30, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem told the Commons finance committee it “would create a one-time drop in inflation of 0.6 percentage points” from the current rate of 3.8%.
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Russia’s Economy Set to Grow 2.8% in 2023 Despite Sanctions
Russia’s economy is poised to rebound in 2023, with an anticipated growth of approximately 2.8 percent, as reported by Russia’s Tass news agency on Saturday.
Finance Minister Anton Siluanov stated, “We expect the economy to expand by around 2.8 to 3 percent this year, fully compensating for the 2 percent decline in growth witnessed last year.”
Siluanov also reassured that the ruble exchange rate has stabilized and is expected to remain within a reasonable range, Xinhua reported. An earlier forecast by the Bank of Russia had projected the country’s GDP growth rate to be in the range of 2.2 to 2.7 percent for the year.
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AG Raoul Issues Opinion on Illinois Secession in Request by Jersey County SA
One Illinois county has been told by the Attorney General’s Office that seceding is not an option.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jersey County State’s Attorney Ben Goetten was asked by the Jersey County Board to issue a letter to the Illinois Attorney General Office’s to seek a formal opinion on whether a county could secede from the state and either create their own state or join a neighboring state.
According to the report, Goetten believed secession to be a non-starter but issued the letter at the wishes of the county board.
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Anti-Israel Agitators Vandalize Historic Monuments in DC’s Lafayette Square
Historic US monuments and statues were defaced and vandalized by pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Washington D.C. on Saturday as part of the “National March for Palestine” which was a worldwide demand for Israel to stop its war against Hamas terrorists.
Statues of American founding fathers, US Presidents, and other historical figures were draped in Palestinian flags, keffiyeh scarves, and plastered with banners that included anti-American and anti-Israel slogans. They were also graffitied with pro-Palestinian messaging.
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Comer Wants Biden Impeached, Teases More Details on Family Loans: ‘This is Going to be a Big Week’
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he wants Congress to impeach President Biden while teasing subpoenas against the first family concerning their overseas dealings.
Comer (R-Ky.) is helming an impeachment inquiry of the president — a fact-finding mission into whether Joe Biden engaged in influence peddling schemes during his time as vice president.
“I think he should, but that’s going to be left up to the speaker,” Comer told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” when asked about impeachment. “People ask me why I haven’t put someone in jail yet. All I can do is investigate.”
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Congress Sneaks in Stealth $34,000 Pay Raise; Gaetz, AOC Among More Than 200 Lawmakers to Benefit
As House Democrats were set to hand power over to the Republicans following their midterm loss, they slipped in a provision into the House’s internal rules under the guise of aiding their less affluent members; a $34,000 allowance to ostensibly help with living expenses in Washington D.C.
A deep dive into the records by the Washington Free Beacon reveals that over 200 lawmakers, including the vociferous Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), have dipped into this taxpayer-funded pot, a sumptuous feast on the nation’s dime.
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‘Cruel and Hateful’: Michigan Attorney General Demands Rashida Tlaib ‘Retract’ Genocidal Hamas Chant
Michigan’s attorney general is calling on fellow Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) to “retract” the use of a “cruel and hateful” statement she used to sympathize with Palestinians that has a deeper, genocidal background.
“From the river to the sea” is a popular chant used by sympathizers of the antisemitic Islamist militant group Hamas, who want to wipe Israel completely from the map. Tlaib used this phrase Friday in a video posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, in a plea to President Joe Biden to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
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Elon Musk: Green Agenda is a ‘Death Cult’
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has warned the public that the globalist green agenda is a “death cult” disguised as environmentalism.
Musk issued the warning during an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan earlier this week.
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On Friday night, just before the Jewish Sabbath, two synagogues at Seward Park in Seattle, Washington received suspicious envelopes with a white powdery substance in them, prompting a probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies.
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Florida Sheriffs Association Supports DeSantis Suspending Soros-Backed State Attorney in Court
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Sheriffs Association provided a brief in support of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ suspension of former State Attorney Monique Worrell.
The governor removed Worrell as the state attorney for the ninth Judicial Circuit, comprising Orange and Osceola Counties, in August.
“Worrell’s abuse of prosecutorial authority, as outlined in Executive Order No. 23-160 raises particular concerns for the sheriffs in light of the public safety issues implicated by these proceedings,” the association said.
“As articulated in the Executive Order, Worrell systematically circumvented minimum mandatory sentences for firearms, offenses and drug trafficking as well as sentencing enhancements for prison release reoffenders and habitual violent offenders, declined to direct file on serious juvenile offenders, limited charges for possession of child pornography, and withheld adjudication in cases involving recidivist felons,” they added.
Worrell immediately challenged the governor’s decision and sought legal action in protest of her removal.
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On Saturday, billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman criticized Harvard President Claudine Gay for not doing more to protect Jewish students on campus who are dealing with “widely prevalent” antisemitism on campus since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and said he has lost confidence that she and the University “will do what is required.”
In a letter to President Gay posted on X, Ackman pointed to a double standard with how the university treats different groups. He referenced a faculty member who asked, “What would Claudine do if 34 Harvard student organizations put out a statement on May 25th, 2020 that ‘George Floyd had it coming’?”
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds Plans to Endorse Ron DeSantis at Joint Rally
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds plans to give a blockbuster endorsement of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday, a source familiar told The Post.
Traditionally, Iowa governors stay neutral in the Iowa Caucus competition, but DeSantis has been courting Reynolds for months.
A Reynolds endorsement of DeSantis will also be significant because she will be bucking the party’s former presidential nominee. The DeSantis campaign teased an event with Reynolds in Des Moines on Monday.
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‘Kill the Babies!’ Anti-Israel Hecklers Taunt Jews at Stroller Protest
Hecklers shouted “kill the babies” to taunt a protest Sunday organized by Jews in Skokie, Illinois, to highlight the fact that 30 children, including babies, are being held hostage by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.
The Times of Israel reported:
Jewish community members in Skokie outside of Chicago have organized an exhibit of 30 empty strollers to raise awareness about the 30 children currently being held hostage in Gaza along with roughly 210 others…
Several people driving by shout obscenities at the Jewish participants, including, “kill the babies!”
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Muslim Stanford Student Injured in Hit-and-Run by Driver Who Yelled ‘F**k You and Your People’
A Muslim Stanford University student was injured in a hit-and-run by a driver who allegedly yelled “f**k you and your people,” and California police are investigating the incident as a racially motivated hate crime, the school said Sunday.
The victim was struck Friday afternoon by a driver who reportedly made eye contact with him before peeling away and yelling out the car’s open window, according to Stanford’s Department of Public Safety.
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Netanyahu’s ‘Political Days Are Numbered’: White House
Via The Cradle
Joe Biden and top White House aides have discussed the likelihood that Benjamin Netanyahu’s “political days are numbered,” and are gauging potential successors as the popularity of the Israeli prime minister continues to plummet following last month’s successful Hamas attack on Israel, Politico reported on 2 November.
The topic of Netanyahu’s anticipated fall from power has come up in recent White House meetings including following Biden’s most recent trip to Israel in which he met with Netanyahu following the surprise Hamas attack on 7 October, according to two senior administration officials.
Biden has even suggested to Netanyahu that he should think about lessons he would share with his eventual successor, the two administration officials added.
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Obama Says Both Sides to Blame for Israel-Hamas Conflict: ‘Nobody’s Hands Are Clean’
Former President Barack Obama has urged Americans to “take in the whole truth” when weighing Israel’s war against Hamas, saying everyone is “complicit to some to degree” in the conflict.
“Nobody’s hands are clean,” the 44th president said during an interview with Pod Save America, a podcast hosted by former White House aides from his presidency, in an excerpt released Saturday.
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Philly Pizza Shop Employee Fatally Shoots Armed Man During Attempted Robbery
A Philadelphia pizza shop employee killed a would-be-robber in a shootout on Saturday night, according to police.
Two armed men entered George’s Pizza on Oxford Avenue in the city’s Frankford neighborhood around 8 p.m. and tried to rob the store, Philadelphia police told WPVI.
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Police Find No Evidence That Israel Supporter Attack UNC Muslim Student With Knife
Authored by Micaiah Bilger via TheCollegeFix.com
Police are investigating an online claim alleging an individual wearing an Israeli flag attacked a Muslim student Tuesday near the University North Carolina, Chapel Hill — but so far say there is no evidence the attack took place.
The UNC Muslim Students Association claimed on its Instagram page Thursday that a Muslim student was attacked with a knife by “an individual wearing an Israeli flag” on the evening of Oct. 31 on Franklin Street.
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San Francisco McDonald’s Shuts Down After 30 Years Amid City’s Decline
A McDonald’s in downtown San Francisco, California, has shut down as the city grapples with numerous issues plaguing businesses in the area.
The fast-food location’s ownership, Scott Rodrick of Rodrick Management Group, had a negative view when speaking of the issue, Fox Business reported Saturday:
Office building vacancies, the environmental atmosphere of downtown sidewalks and a tepid return by tourists and conventioneers all drove the decision.
The economics of running a franchised restaurant in San Francisco continue to be a challenge, particularly in a downtown that is impacted by high office building vacancy rates and visitor trends that have not recovered since the pandemic. My Front Street location, without the benefit of parking and a drive-through, amplified the challenge.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has given book royalties for nearly two decades to a group whose “far-left” director has pushed for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and defunding police departments.
Brown, 70, has contributed royalties from his 2004 book “Myths of Free Trade” to Cleveland Jobs with Justice (CLEJWJ), according to his Senate financial disclosures.
Cleveland Jobs with Justice is part of a national pro-union coalition that has partnered with the Democratic Socialists of America, among other organizations.
CLEJWJ Director Deb Kline, a self-described “far-left progressive activist,” has posted on social media in favor of abolishing ICE. For the three years following the summer 2020 riots in US cities, Kline has been part of a Facebook group with a stated commitment to “defund police.”
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Skiff Mail Adds New Quick Aliases Feature
As advocates for individual privacy and opponents of intrusive surveillance, we’re pleased to spotlight the recent stride made by Skiff Mail. Renowned for its end-to-end encryption and open-source framework, Skiff Mail has matured into a premier alternative to mainstream platforms such as Gmail. It has earned the favor of privacy-conscious consumers through its continuous enhancement of features designed explicitly to uphold user privacy.
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George Soros, two of his family members and other megadonors helped propel the political career of New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is suing former President Trump, according to the filings reviewed by Fox News Digital.
James, a Democrat, brought a civil lawsuit against Trump last year, alleging he and his company misled banks and others about the value of his assets. She claimed that Trump’s children — Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric, as well as his associates and businesses — committed “numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation” on their financial statements.
New York City Judge Arthur Engoron is presiding over Trump’s civil fraud trial, which stemmed from James’ lawsuit. Trump has blasted James for bringing the litigation, for the trial not having a jury and for Engoron handling the case.
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Student Told to Hide Jewish Star on GWU Campus as Antisemitic Violence Booms
Jewish students continue to fear for their safety on college campuses across the U.S. as tensions around the Israel-Hamas war rage into the fourth week, with defacements, protests and calls for the state of Israel to be eradicated emerging on several fronts.
One Jewish student at George Washington University is warning that the divisive misinformation is driving the unrest, and that the cultural climate of today’s antisemitism is alarmingly reminiscent of persecutions from the past.
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Tens of Thousands of Anti-Israel Protesters Flood Streets of Washington D.C.
The streets of Washington D.C. were flooded with tens of thousands of anti-Israel protesters on Saturday.
Disturbing scenes show pro-Hamas demonstrators demanding that Israel stop defending itself against terrorist attacks.
The protests are calling for a “ceasefire” over the Jewish state’s response to the October 7 terror attacks that saw Hamas murder hundreds of innocent civilians, including children and American citizens.
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Trump Notches Considerable Lead Over Biden in Five Swing States: Poll
Donald Trump is notching considerable leads against President Biden in five of six key battleground states, a new poll has found.
The GOP frontrunner is up between 4 to 10 percentage points among registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania, according to a New York Times, Siena College poll.
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Women Desperately Seek Unvaxed Sperm on Facebook as Demand Skyrockets
Women around the United States are now turning to unconventional strategies to become pregnant as aspiring mothers search for sperm donations from men who have refused to take a Covid-19 inoculation. The women are searching for this sperm on Facebook.
Jonathan David Rinaldi, also known as “The Sperminator,” was a longtime donor for America’s largest sperm donation group, a Facebook group called Sperm Donation USA, according to the Daily Mail. He later elected to leave the group and created his own sperm donation operation after he caught wind of the demand for “unvaccinated sperm donors.”
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Alberta Premier Promises to Protect Parents’ Rights During Speech to UCP Convention
CALGARY — Premier Danielle Smith, in a speech to her party delegates, promised to fight the feds and build Alberta, but got the loudest applause when she promised to keep parents in control of their child’s education.
“I want every parent listening today to hear me loud and clear: parents are the primary caregivers and educators of their children,” Smith said Saturday to sustained applause from almost 3,800 delegates at the United Conservative Party’s annual meeting in Calgary.
“We cannot have a successful province or a successful society without strong and nurturing families,” she added.
“And regardless of how often the extreme left undermines the role of parents, I want you to know that parental rights and choice in your child’s education is and will continue to be a fundamental core principle of this party and this government and we will never apologize for it.”
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Canadian Police Want Tech to Access Private CCTV Cameras in Real-Time
Canadian police forces are investigating the use of advanced technology that taps into home and business security camera feeds. This controversial move, lauded by some for its potential to streamline law enforcement, is also raising alarms among privacy advocates and policing researchers, concerned over the potential for overreaching surveillance.
Police services in Canadian cities are contemplating a tech-forward evolution akin to that seen in some US cities, where officers can monitor real-time feeds from a network of private security cameras. These cameras cover crime scenes, emergency incident areas, and everything in between.
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Canada’s Military is in a Retention and Recruitment Crisis
Defence Minister Bill Blair informed the Senate during the question period that the Canadian Armed Forces are struggling to attract recruits to counter high attrition numbers. Expert testimony at the National Citizen’s Inquiry directly attributed the blame to the chain of command’s enforcement of Trudeau’s vaccine mandate.
Blacklock’s Reporter detailed Blair’s testimony to the upper chamber:
“Does your biggest concern lie in recruitment?” asked Senator Tony Loffreda (Que.). “My concern is not only for recruitment, because we have to get the best talent coming in the door, but I am also concerned about retention because we have extraordinary men and women in the Canadian Armed Forces,” replied Blair. “I want to make sure we provide them with the appropriate support.”
Blair did not detail figures. Annual recruitment last year fell 35 percent from 8,069 to 5,242 volunteers according to a July 5 Department of National Defence briefing note Recruitment And Retention.
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CBC Calls Itself ‘Precious’; Viewership Numbers Say Otherwise
The remarks about the value of CBC to the national fabric were made by CBC’s New York residing CEO Catherine Tait in an appearance before the Commons Heritage Committee.
“This is a precious asset,” Tait told MPs.
Tait explained that cutting the CBC’s annual $1.3 billion budget “would be devastating” to Canadians, hitting rural residents particularly hard.
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Free Speech in Medicine Conference Pioneers Discussion on Medical Taboos
The second annual Free Speech in Medicine conference that took place at the end of October in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, had a primary mission of fostering open dialogue and critical inquiry into challenging and contentious medical topics.
“This year we talked about medical assistance in dying, gender issues, drug policies, and those are difficult issues,” explains organizer and emergency room physician Chris Milburn.
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Hamilton Church Broken Into, Arsonist Attempts to Burn Entire Building to the Ground
Early in the afternoon on Wednesday, November 1, Hamilton firefighters responded to a scene at the King Street East parish following reports of a church filled with smoke and fires blazing within.
According to The Hamilton Spectator, police Constable Krista-Lee Ernst stated that crews swiftly extinguished the fire and confirmed there were no injuries.
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Ontario Physician Found Guilty of Professional Misconduct for Questioning Government COVID-19 Edicts
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) ruled in a Disciplinary Tribunal that Dr. Mark Trozzi is guilty of professional misconduct, dishonourable conduct, and incompetence in the practice of medicine, as stated in a press release from his lawyer, Michael Alexander.
Dr. Trozzi’s verdict comes in light of his outspoken questioning of the government’s COVID-19 edicts, including having the audacity to issue medical exemptions for novel mRNA COVID-19 injections in support of a patient’s right to decline medical treatment, a right protected by the Ontario Health Care Consent Act and section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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The twenty-sixth day of the Chris Barber and Tamara Lich trial concluded with an outstanding disclosure dispute between the defence teams and Crown on Friday in Ottawa, ON.
Both Barber and Lich are charged with mischief, intimidation, obstruction of police and counselling others to commit mischief, intimidation, and obstruction of police. The charges relate to the two co-defendants’ roles as organizers of the 2022 Freedom Convoy, a peaceful and civilly disobedient demonstration of governmental decrees, edicts, lockdowns, and mandates ostensibly imposed upon Canadians in interest of “public health” with respect to COVID-19.
Justice Heather Perkins-McVey, the judge presiding over the trial, began the day’s proceeding by sharing her decision over a separate disclosure dispute. She determined that some redactions applied by the Crown to an email chain between Ottawa Police Service officers on the basis of solicitor-client privilege should be removed.
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Trudeau: Palestinians Need Protections From ‘Extremist’ Israeli ‘Settlers’
The remarks from the Prime Minister about the alleged dangers faced by Israeli residents living in towns in so-called disputed territories were made in a Friday afternoon press conference in Washington, DC.
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Breaking: Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson REINSTATED on X
English media personality and conservative commentator Katie Hopkins has just had her account unbanned from X, formerly known as Twitter, as did former UK Independence Party adviser Tommy Robinson.
“Thank you [Elon Musk] And thank you to all the Twitter family who have brought Tommy & I back to @X,” Hopkins posted on X after the reinstatement on Sunday. “Know this. You are not alone. We are many. And we are stronger together. The fight back for your freedom is on.”
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‘Bring Them Home!’ — Thousands Peacefully Rally for Release of Hamas Hostages Outside UK Parliament
Thousands of protesters gathered outside of the British Parliament in London on Sunday to call for the release of hostages taken from Israel by Hamas terrorists last month.
Parliament Square was covered on Sunday morning with thousands of protesters waving British and Israeli flags as they demanded the release of an estimated 240 people kidnapped by Islamist Hamas terrorists during the October 7th attacks on the Jewish state that left over 1,400 dead.
Holding flyers featuring the pictures of those taken hostage by Hamas, the demonstrators were recorded singing the “Hatikvah,” the Israeli national anthem, as well as “God Save the King” and other songs of peace, according to footage posted on social media. The demonstrators were also heard chanting: “Bring them home!”
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Challenges and Concerns Amidst Anti-Israel Demonstrations: A Look at Recent Events in Germany
Massive demonstrations by individuals expressing strong anti-Israel sentiments demand include the establishment of a caliphate and the complete destruction of Israel, as cited by Exxpress.
These protesters besiege establishments owned by Jewish entrepreneurs, engage in confrontations with the police, and utilize their demonstrations for a display of power. Social media users have expressed deep concern, referring to the scenes from Berlin and Düsseldorf as an assault on our cherished values.
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Danish Justice Minister: The Threat Against Jews in Denmark is Increasing
The Danish Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard, has stated that the threat against Jews in Denmark has increased since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.
“The Jewish community tries to use the information it receives to map and record the many threats and harassing experiences against Jews who live here. The authorities have no central register, so I rely on the messages that the Jewish security organization brings,” Hummelgaard told the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
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French Senators Propose a Bill That Could Jail Those Who Criticize Zionism
A piece of legislation has recently been put forth by sixteen French senators from The Republicans, with the goal of criminalizing criticism of Zionism. This proposed law seeks to tighten the protective net around the support of Israel, effectively muffling voices of opposition, criticism, or dissent, and raising widespread alarms about the apparent threat to free speech and democratic discourse.
“With 16 senators we demand the criminalization of anti-Zionism. The explosion of anti-Semitism is fueled by hatred of Israel, the false nose of hatred of Jews Anti-Zionism could expose its perpetrators to up to 5 years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros,” Senator Stéphane Le Rudulier posted on X.
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Germany: Abducted Girl Safe and Father Arrested After Hostage Situation Paralyzed Hamburg Airport
BERLIN — The hostage situation at Hamburg Airport ended Sunday afternoon, around 18 hours after a man drove his vehicle through the gates of the airport with his 4-year-old daughter inside, authorities said. The man was arrested and the girl appears to be unharmed.
Hamburg police posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, that “the hostage situation is over. The suspect has left the car with his daughter. … The child appears to be unharmed.”
Police also said that “the man was arrested by the emergency services without resistance.”
The airport in the northern German city had been closed to passengers and flights canceled since Saturday night when the man, who was armed, broke through an airport gate with his vehicle and fired twice into the air with a weapon, according to German news agency dpa. The man drove the vehicle just outside a terminal building and parked it under a plane.
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TikTok CEO to Meet Pro-Censorship EU Officials This Week
The CEO of the popular video-sharing app TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, is slated to meet with top-ranking industrial regulators at the European Union this week. The reason for the rendezvous stems from allegations of “disinformation” being spread on the app during the recent Israel-Hamas conflict. This forthcoming meeting in Brussels marks the second visit for the TikTok head, signaling an escalating regulatory microscope on TikTok’s role in the diffusion of alleged misinformation.
Shou Zi Chew is expected to meet with pro-censorship EU industry chief Thierry Breton, equally pro-censorship EU digital chief Vera Jourova, and EU antitrust chief Didier Reynders to discuss these matters in detail.
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UK Government Considers Loosening Definition of “Extremism” in a New Threat to Free Speech
UK government plans have recently come to light, suggesting a potentially contentious move to broaden the scope of the term “extremism” to include any entity that “undermines” the values and institutions.
These revelations, sourced from documents seen by The Observer, have led to considerable backlash from officials fearful of the implications it may have on legitimate groups and individuals, and the suppressive impact it could have on the principles of free speech and expression.
Spearheaded by cabinet minister Michael Gove, the proposed definition is seen as part of a heightened effort to unify the country’s response to extremism. However, many understand it as an encroachment on the freedom of speech and a potential threat to the right to dissent, marking it as a contentious development. The proposed definition might frame not only the violent extremists but also non-violent entities, which could fundamentally reshape the landscape of free expression and political discourse.
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UK: ‘The Pianist’ Actress Maureen Lipman Assigned Bodyguards After Voicing Support for Israel
British actress Maureen Lipman — who played Adrien Brody’s mother in the 2002 Oscar-winning Holocaust drama The Pianist — has reportedly been assigned personal bodyguards for exterior shoots of the ITV series Coronation Street after she publicly voiced support for Israel and condemned Hamas.
The British tabloid The Sun obtained photographs showing Dame Maureen Lipman being accompanied by security personnel while working outdoors on Coronation Street.
The actress confirmed the bodyguards at a recent event.
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PHILIP INGRAM: Give veterans this time to reflect on their fallen colleagues of all backgrounds and from all conflicts in a dignified way without the risk of memorials being desecrated.
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UK: Burnley Council Leader and 10 Others Quit Labour Over Starmer’s Gaza Position
The councillors said they ‘cannot remain in a party that is not doing enough while innocent people are being killed’.
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Amina Ahmed is a ‘leadership program facilitator and project manager’ at the Met, and seemingly made calls for those who support Israel to be investigated for a ‘hate crime’
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Some 515 cases of Islamophobia were reported in the UK between October 7 and October 29 — compared to just 73 during the same period in 2022.
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Putin’s Decision to Establish Bases in Libya Raises Fresh Concerns in the Region for the US
Russia is actively working to bolster its military presence in eastern Libya, with intentions to potentially establish a naval base, thereby securing a substantial foothold in close proximity to Southern Europe.
According to Bloomberg, that a defense agreement is currently under negotiation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Libya’s eastern military leader, Khalifa Haftar. These discussions took place during their meeting in Moscow in late September. The sources providing this information have requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the topic.
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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made frantic surprise trips Sunday to the occupied West Bank and then Iraq and Turkey as the Israel-Hamas war threatened to spread.
The Biden administration also sent CIA Director William Burns, an expert in the Middle East, on a multination tour in the area to meet with Arab leaders to discuss intelligence agreements.
The US diplomatic and intelligence push came as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza spiraled into further chaos and Israeli bombs continued to rain Sunday on Gaza — including two refugee camps, killing dozens of people.
Blinken met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for about an hour in what was described by a Palestinian official as a tense, and ultimately failed, tet-a-tet in his government’s de facto capital of Ramallah.
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Boris Johnson took an apparent swipe at the BBC and others who have refused to call the Hamas atrocities in Israel a terrorist act.
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The FCDO has begun putting names of British citizens on to the list of those allowed to leave Gaza via the Rafah crossing to Egypt.
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Britons in Gaza Forced to Wait for Escape as Rafah Crossing Remains Shut
The Foreign Office said it is continuing to press for the key border route to be reopened to foreign nationals.
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IDF Reveals Evidence of Hamas Abuse of Palestinian Civilians, Hospitals in Gaza
Real Admiral Daniel Hagari of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told reporters in a briefing Sunday that Israel is trying to protect civilians in the war but that the Palestinian terror group Hamas was trying to stop civilians from evacuating, and operating from hospitals.
Hagari said that Israel had “prioritized evacuation efforts over other missions.” He said that the Israel Air Force dropped over 1.5 million flyers warning Palestinians to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip, which is where Hamas’s strongholds are located, and to move south, beyond the Wadi Gaza wetlands, for their own safety. He added that Israel had made 20,000 personal telephone calls to civilian residents of Gaza, telling them to evacuate the area.
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Israeli Minister Suspended After Claiming Nuking Gaza ‘One of the Possibilities’ of Hamas War
An Israeli government minister was suspended Sunday for suggesting that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was “one of the possibilities” in the Jewish state’s war against Hamas.
Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was relieved of his duties and barred from cabinet meetings by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after making the outrageous claim during an interview on Radio Kol Berama, the Times of Israel reported.
“Amichai Eliyahu’s words are detached from reality,” Netanyahu said in a statement posted on X.
“Israel and the IDF are acting in accordance with the highest standards of international law in order to prevent harm to uninvolved people, and will continue to do that all the way to victory,” the prime minister wrote.
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Israel Intercepts Long-Range Hamas Rocket With Arrow Air Defense System
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Saturday a long-range rocket fired by Hamas terrorists at the southern city of Eilat was intercepted by the Arrow air defense system, a new anti-missile system designed to be more effective against long-range, high-altitude threats than the venerable U.S.-made Patriot system.
The IDF reported Arrow’s first interception of the Hamas war on Thursday. In that instance, a ballistic missile believed to have been launched by the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen was intercepted over the Red Sea. On the same day, an Israeli F-35 fighter shot down a cruise missile that was targeting the city, also apparently launched from Yemen.
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Palestinian Journalist Loses Sons, Brother After Israel Airstrike Hits Refugee Camp
A journalist working in the Gaza Strip mourned the deaths of his four children and brother after Israel launched an airstrike at the Al Maghazi refugee camp, killing at least 47 people and wounding dozens, including his wife and infant child.
Mohammed Alaloul, a photographer for the Turkish-run Anadolu Agency news service, was at work when he learned that the refugee camp was hit in an overnight airstrike, the New York Times reports.
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The ‘Two-State Solution’ is Terrorism
by Daniel Greenfield
“We must keep pursuing peace. We must keep pursuing a path so that Israel and the Palestinian people can both live safely, in security, in dignity, and in peace. For me, that means a two-state solution,” Biden lectured Israelis during his visit.
A two state solution dividing up Israel into a state for the Jews and a state for the Muslim terrorists has been on the minds of Biden, administration officials, EU leaders and the media.
Before his visit to Israel, Biden called Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and scheduled a meeting with him. Secretary of State Blinken had met with Abbas the day before.
According to an official of Abbas’ Fatah party which runs the Palestinian Authority, “Blinken even demanded before he met with him that there be a condemnation” of the Hamas attacks. But no such condemnation was forthcoming. Nevertheless the media falsely reported that Abbas had disavowed Hamas. In reality, a statement was planted in a readout of a call with Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro without Abbas’ knowledge. When Abbas found out, he had it removed.
Abbas’s actual reaction to the Hamas murder of women and children was to assert the right of the “Palestinian people to defend themselves against the terrorism of settlers and the occupation forces”.
While Biden and Blinken were preparing to meet with the terrorist leader, a terror unit that is part of Abbas’ Fatah party was claiming credit for collaborating with Hamas on the attacks…
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Fires engulfed whole buildings in the Gaza Strip as the IDF carried on its bombardment campaign, as Netanyahu told IDF troops that war would only stop when Hamas was completely destroyed
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‘We Are Failing Again’: UN, US Resignations Highlight Splits Over Israel’s Gaza Assault
While many Western leaders and officials were quick to express their support for Israel in its war against Hamas, there have been signs of dissent in senior US and UN circles over the West’s unwavering backing of Israel’s massive retaliatory bombardments on Gaza. Some have even quit their posts.
When Craig Mokhiber, director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, quit his job in protest over Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, his resignation letter citing the West’s “complicity” in a “genocide unfolding before our eyes” immediately went viral on social media sites.
Mokhiber’s resignation followed that of US State Department official Josh Paul, who was the director of congressional and public affairs for the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs for more than 11 years.
In his October 28 letter to Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mokhiber explained that he was stepping down in protest over the “genocide unfolding before our eyes” in Gaza.
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Large Group of Pro-Palestinian Activists Storm Airbase in Turkey Housing US Troops
Turkish police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of people at a pro-Palestinian rally on Sunday. The protesters attempted to storm an air base housing U.S. troops, just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s scheduled visit to Ankara for talks on Gaza.
Turkey has increased its criticism of Israel as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has worsened and supports a two-state solution while hosting members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Protests have erupted across the country since the Israel-Hamas conflict began, Reuters reported.
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Jordan’s queen is so dishonest and cynical that she denies the atrocities, even though she knows they happened, Op-ed.
Queen Rania of Jordan has introduced a new term into 21st century discourse: pogrom-denier.
“It hasn’t been independently verified…that Israeli children [were] found butchered in an Israeli kibbutz,” the queen said in an interview on CNN. “There’s no proof of that.”
Yet really, the queen shouldn’t be surprised that Israel’s enemies are capable of such horrors. After all, her own country’s troops committed nearly identical atrocities against numerous Israeli Jews during the 1948 war.
The Jordanian army, then known as the Arab Legion, played a central role in the war against the newborn Jewish state, often operating alongside Palestinian Arab terrorist forces that were in many ways precursors of Hamas.
R.M. Graves, an official of the British administration in Palestine at the beginning of the war, wrote in his diary (published in the 1949 book Experiment in Anarchy) that “the mutilation of the Jewish dead” was “a common practice” among the Arab forces. After one attack, he wrote: “Some heads were cut off the bodies of the fallen Jews and have been carried round Jerusalem as trophies of victory. A British member of my staff met a young Arab in the German Colony yesterday, who showed him a handful of severed fingers.”
The renowned investigative journalist John Roy Carlson (Arthur Derounian) worked undercover in Arab areas in and next to Israel during the 1948 war. He wrote of the aftermath of one Arab attack near Jerusalem: “The next day on sale everywhere in the Holy City were gruesome photographs of the battle: the burnt and mutilated bodies of Haganah men…had been stripped of clothing and photographed in the nude….Arabs carried them in their wallets and displayed them frequently…”
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With her charm, elegance, and Western education, Queen Rania, like her husband King Abdullah II, is often regarded as the epitome of reason and moderation. Her descent into pogrom-denial, however, undermines that perception.
Some may wonder whether the queen of Jordan is so ignorant, and so enamored of conspiracy mongering, that she honestly believes the atrocities stories are all fabricated—presumably as the result of a conspiracy by the governments of Israel and the United States, together with world Jewry and the international news media.
However, it’s just that she is so dishonest and cynical that she denies the atrocities, even though she knows they happened, simply in order to undermine world sympathy for Israel.
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Second U.S. Aircraft Carrier Arrives in Eastern Mediterranean to Deter Iran
U.S. Central Command said the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group arrived in the Middle East early Sunday making it part of the CENTCOM area of responsibility.
The U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying elements will join the U.S.S. Ford in the eastern Mediterranean to deter Iran from opening a second front against Israel from Lebanon using the Hezbollah terror group and its rocket arsenal, as Breitbart News reported.
The aircraft carrier strike group had moved through the Strait of Gibraltar earlier this week, putting two American carriers in the Mediterranean Sea, a rare sight in recent years, AP reports.
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London Says Ukraine War ‘Relatively Static’, Advances ‘Floundered’, Air Power Not Being Felt
A British defence digest has underlined the degree to which the Ukraine War has become an essentially static conflict, a view that was expressed just hours after Ukraine’s top General called it a “stalemate” and made several allusions to the trench warfare of the 1914-18 Great War.
The southern theatre of the war in Ukraine “remains relatively static between the two main lines” and recent operations conform to a now-established “trend” of favouring the defender, Britain’s Military of Defence notes in its latest Ukraine situation briefing.
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Russia Reports Successful Launch Test of Nuclear Sub Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military on Sunday reported a successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads from a new nuclear submarine.
The report comes as tensions are soaring between Russia and the West over the fighting in Ukraine. Adding to those tensions, President Vladimir Putin last week signed a bill revoking Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban in a move that Moscow said was needed to establish parity with the United States.
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Ukraine Damages Putin’s Warship in Crimea With Missile Strike, Russia Claims
A Ukrainian missile strike hit a shipyard over the weekend in Crimea, dealing a blow to at least one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warships, the Kremlin claimed late Saturday.
Some 15 cruise missiles rained down at the Saliva shipyard in Kerch, which is fixated about 600 miles south of Kyiv and is fixated in the eastern part of the Crimean Peninsula, per the Kremlin.
Moscow says its air defense systems managed to counter 13 missiles, but acknowledged that some got through and dealt a blow to a ship, but didn’t specify how much damage was done.
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Ukraine’s Zelensky Says ‘Not Ready’ to Talk to Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday he was “not ready” for talks with Russia unless its troops withdraw from his country, denying Western officials had suggested holding peace negotiations.
He was commenting on reports that US and European officials had spoken with his government about negotiations to end the war, and after a senior Ukrainian commander said the conflict was deadlocked.
“(The United States) know that I am not ready to speak with the terrorists because their word is nothing,” Zelensky said in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press.
“For today, I don’t have any relations with the Russians, and they know my position,” he said, adding: “They have to go out from our territory, only after that, the world can switch on diplomacy.”
He said the conflict had reached a “difficult situation”, but again denied that it was deadlocked.
“On the frontline, it is not a secret, we don’t have air defense. That’s why Russia controls the sky. If they control all the sky, until the moment when we get air defense, we can’t move quickly forward,” he said.
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Zelensky Invites Trump to Ukraine and Says He Needs US Support for One More Year
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky extended an invitation to Donald Trump to come visit, while stressing his war-torn nation needs at least one more year of heavy US support.
Trump has long crowed that he could end the war in 24 hours if he becomes president, but Zelensky gently suggested he would disabuse the former president of that notion.
“I invite President Trump if he can come here. I will need 24 minutes…to explain [to] President Trump that he can’t manage this war, that he can’t bring peace because of Putin,” Zelensky told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
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‘Hindus Will be Killed Like Insects When Muslims Will Capture Political Power in India Soon’
Taking cognisance of the video, Masuri Police in Uttar Pradesh said that the accused has been detained.
Suvarna Pandey | HENB | Ghaziabad | Nov 5, 2023:: The common intention of the Muslim youths in India is exposed again through a video that has just surfaced in social media. They are waiting for a great moment for Islamic India with a political power they aspire to capture soon. This is a most dangerous Islamic agenda as the majority Muslims in India are striving for.
Social media has given unlimited freedom of speech to people but many people take it for granted and indulge in communal rhetoric. Time and again incidents of hate speeches have gone viral on social media attracting user reactions and police action. One such incident came to light when a youth from Ghaziabad’s Rafiqabad went on camera to say that Hindus would be crushed like insects and spiders.
The video has since gone viral on social media with netizens tagging the Uttar Pradesh police demanding action. In the video, the youth identifies himself as Ayyan Qureshi of Rafiqabad and can be heard saying that Hindus are confined to India only. “Insa-Allah, Islam was alive, is alive and will be alive in the whole world. What are Hindus? They will be crushed like insects, spiders the day.(inaudible)…,” he said but was interrupted by the anchor who asked him to not speak like this. Despite that, he can be seen saying that he will speak like this.
Qureshi went on to say that there is a government of Hindus and they can do whatever they wish and the day there is a favourable government (of Muslims), all will be cleaned.
Taking cognisance of the video, Masuri Police said that the accused has been detained. “Taking immediate cognizance of the viral video on social media, in which objectionable remarks are being made by Ayaan Qureshi against a particular religion, a case is being registered against the accused and the accused is being taken into custody and interrogated. Further legal action is in progress,” said the police.
This is yet another incident of hate speech which has gone viral on social media leading to outrage following a police action. But, Muslim offenders for hate-speech against Hindus get early bail for their ecosystem so active in police and judiciary.
The reactionary forces of Islam in India are spitting venom against non-Muslims during the days of war between Israel and Hamas.
The majority of Muslim people in India are supporting Palestine including the Hamas terrorists and fomenting against India as India did not clearly support the Jihadi stand of Palestine and Hamas obviously going barbaric against the Jews and humanity.
Now, the whole Islamic world is conceiving the degree of Israeli retaliation on the Hamas offensive.
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Two women has been chastised online for taking aim at a Coles manager and disturbing customers over the supermarket’s new surveillance measures.
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The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) has been slammed for allowing a racegoer to wear a dress covered in politically-charged slogans relating to the Israel-Gaza conflict during Melbourne’s Spring Racing Carnival.
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Children are being bullied in schools for being Jewish and Nazi sympathisers are using the guise of empathy toward Palestine for spreading hatred and vitriol.
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Remote Control: Concern Over Push to Dictate What Aussies See on Smart TVs
The Australian Labor party is set to introduce legislation that could reshape how Australians access content on their smart TVs.
The proposed “prominence” laws, championed by Labor’s Communication Minister Michelle Rowland, aim to regulate devices in living rooms, dictating the priority of content displayed upon switching on the TV.
Advocated by the FreeTV lobby group, in collaboration with ABC and SBS, the legislation demands manufacturers pre-install specific TV apps and prioritise their content in search results and recommendations.
This directive extends to voice-activated searches, ensuring local TV services take precedence.
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Canada Could Take in 500,000 Palestinian Refugees According to Proposed Plan
With the war in the Israel and Gaza displacing millions and creating refugees, Israel has secretly suggested that Canada could be the destination for a large portion of them. The Israeli Intelligence Ministry first floated the plan in a “concept paper” that argues Canada would be an ideal candidate for refugees because the country has such a “lenient” immigration policy.
The number under consideration — according to talk on Parliament Hill — is as high as 500,000.
Israel wants most of the refugees moved to Egypt.
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Fishing Boat Carrying 531 Migrants Arrives in Lampedusa
(ANSA) — ROME, NOV 5 — A 25-metre fishing boat carrying 531 migrants and refugees arrived in Lampedusa on Saturday night after being intercepted and accompanied to port by coast guard and finance police vessels.
The boat carrying people mostly from Syria, Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh, including just five women and six children, had set sail from Zuwara in Libya.
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Germany: 19% of Working-Age Ukrainians Employed; the Remaining 81% Live on Benefits
The German magazine Spiegel is raising questions about the employment situation of Ukrainian refugees, noting that only one in five or 19% of working-age Ukrainians in the country is employed, with the rest relying on benefits.
In comparison, 66% of Ukrainians are working in Poland, and 70% in the Netherlands. A Thuringian official from the ruling SPD, Matthias Jendrike, criticizes the decision to provide Ukrainians with the “Bürgergeld” or citizen’s allowance, while other refugees receive asylum seekers’ allowances, which are 92 euros lower. Jendrike believes that, in addition to monetary support, Ukrainians are given separate housing, making some prefer a comfortable sofa over a German language course, Der Spiegel reports.
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Homemade Explosive Found in Backpack Along Border Wall in South Texas
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Backpacks loaded with ammo and a homemade explosive device were discovered by U.S. Border Patrol agents along the South Texas border wall in Starr County, said officials who are conducting sweeps of the river north and south coordinating with Mexican authorities.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Friday said Border Patrol agents “discovered an abandoned bag containing a potential homemade explosive” on Sept. 5, near the border in Fronton, Texas.
Agents coordinated with law enforcement from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, along with McAllen police, which took the device away and detonated it.
They “classified it as a ‘noise maker’ as it contained flash powder,” according to a CBP statement Friday.
Flash powder was found inside the backpack but “no fragmentation to cause major injuries or casualties,” CBP said.
“A dangerous situation was averted in our border area,” Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez posted on X, the platform formerly Twitter.
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Photos Show Migrants Forcing Way Through Texas Border Barriers
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Several groups of migrants entered the water of the Rio Grande headed to Eagle Pass, Texas, despite repeated attempts to deter their access by Mexico’s National Guard soldiers. The migrants thwarted the soldiers’ attempts to capture them, ultimately entering the water and heading straight into the layers of concertina wire and cargo containers placed along the United States bank of the river.
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Spain: 31,887 Illegal Immigrants Have Arrived in the Canary Islands This Year
A total of 31,887 immigrants have illegally arrived in the Canary Islands by Saturday, November 4. This number surpasses the 31,678 arrivals during the 2006 canoe crisis in the archipelago, La Gaceta reported.
The Ministry of the Interior’s report as of October 31, 2023, revealed that 30,705 immigrants had reached the islands, marking a significant increase of 111.2% compared to the previous year.
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Texas: Police Arrest Jordanian Asylum Seeker Who Planned Attack Against Jewish Community
A Jordanian asylum seeker planned a terrorist attack using bombs and firearms against the local Jewish community in Houston, Texas. The Hamas terrorist attack on Israel served as inspiration.
In August, a young Jordanian asylum seeker named Sohaib Abuayyash was apprehended in Texas on charges of illegal weapons possession, The Daily Mail reports. Subsequently, it was revealed that Abuayyash had been devising a plan for an extended period to carry out an assassination attempt targeting the Jewish community in Houston. He diligently researched bomb construction and received firearm training. The bomb-making instructions were reportedly acquired from radical organizations on the internet, as disclosed by FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Court documents indicate that he shared violent thoughts on social media and made explicit references to an upcoming Jewish community event in Houston, Texas.
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The surprising response controversial Australian drag queen Reuben Kaye got when he asked a British boy about men wearing make-up has resurfaced on social media.
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BC Nurse Amy Hamm Testifies to Keep Her Nursing License After Anonymous Complaints of ‘Transphobia’
Amy Eileen Hamm has been facing a disciplinary hearing in British Columbia, brought by the BC College of Nurses and Midwives, over charges of transphobia. The proceedings have been going on for almost a year. The hearing has gone through witness after witness coming forward to complain that Hamm, who believes in the reality of biological sex, is not fit to be a nurse for that reason alone. As the hearing reccommenced in October, Hamm’s defense took center stage, and Hamm gave testimony on her own behalf.
Over two years ago, two complaints were launched against Hamm, claiming that she was transphobic. Hamm had never even met— let alone treated— either of the people who brought the complaints. Yet the BC College of Nurses and Midwives accepted the complaints at face value and notified Hamm that she would be required to sit for a series of hearings which would determine whether or not she would be allowed to keep her nursing license. The committee claimed that, dating from July 2018 to March 2021, Ms. Hamm “made discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people.”
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Rowan Knox, formerly known as Amanda Jette Knox, announced on his social media earlier this year that he had would ‘re-introducing’ himself as a trans man .
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Colleges Now Teaching Classes on Occult Rituals and Witchcraft
Colleges in the United States and Europe have started offering classes that teach students about witchcraft and occult rituals.
In America, Rice University has introduced classes that teach “Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism.”
The college offers a “certificate” from its religion department that focuses on magic, ritual, and witchcraft.
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FBI Recruits for New Hires at Charlotte Pride Event
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) set up a recruitment table at an LGBTQ Pride event in South Carolina, prompting backlash across social media with people accusing the federal law enforcement agency of political bias.
The FBI announced on X that its Charlotte branch attended a recent Pride event in an effort to recruit attendees to the Bureau and to discuss the agency’s commitment to protecting civil rights.
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On Saturday, a masked Antifa member who was arguing with Chris Elston, also known as Billboard Chris, that children should be able to get sex changes attempted to garner support from two Muslim women, who then immediately sided with Elston.
In a video posted on X, while the two are discussing the medicalization of children who claim a trans identity, the Antifa member turns to three Muslim women who walked up and said, “This guy is trying to propagate anti-LGBTQ propaganda. He is trying to tell children they are not allowed be trans.”
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It’s pointless the criminalise criticism
Of Zionism, but they should criminalise calling for Jews to be murdered/ gassed, that Israel should be judenrein, just like no one is allowed to mention the n;66er word or that muzrats are terrorists, which is a fact. All these inciters should be fined and jailed. On Memri is a video where a leader of Hamas says this will not stop with Jews and that the aim of terrorists is to make the whole of the planet bow down to paedo Mo.
“From the river to the sea
Congress should from Tlaib be free.”
Hamas likes her, I can see,
but she sickens you and me.