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Within a progressive controlled nation, who gets punished by the law is greatly dependent on their political and ethnic affiliations. Left leaning groups (and people like migrants who are useful to left leaning groups) enjoy a separate set of legal standards compared to people who oppose leftist ideology. This has become a clear trend within the UK in recent years.

This two tier legal system helps the encourage future crimes by leftists and their allies while the hammer is brought down on conservatives and patriots to ensure they are fearful of stepping out of line in the slightest.

This double standard is obvious once again in the recent acquittal of three Just Stop Oil activists who made headlines after they spraying down the historic site of Stonehenge with a mixture of powder and orange dye.  The dye cost around $1000 to clean but luckily did not leave lasting damage.  The stunt was allegedly designed to draw attention to JSO’s climate change agenda.

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Straws, soda, now paper bags. Is there anything batshit insane Democratic government officials don’t want to tax or micromanage?

In Philadelphia, that answer is apparently ‘no’, according to 6ABC.

While drug ravaged Kensington remains an issue, homeless people litter the streets and violent crime remains a problem, Philadelphia’s City Council just voted 10–5 for a truly groundbreaking idea (eye roll): charging 10 cents per paper bag.

The bill is now on Mayor Cherelle Parker’s desk, and she hasn’t said if she’ll sign it.

Time to leave.

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Since October, Danish farmers have been required to feed their cows Bovaer—a methane-reducing additive intended to make agriculture more climate-neutral. However, several farmers have reported that some animals have become ill or died after consuming the supplement, Danish media, including Nyheder TV2, reports.

The new regulation, effective from January 1st, 2025, mandates that all farms with more than 50 conventional dairy cows feed Bovaer for at least 80 days a year. Many farmers began using the additive on October 1st. Reports describe cows suffering from fever, reduced milk output, or sudden death shortly after consumption. One farmer said he lost several cows, each representing a financial loss of about 10,000 Danish kroner (€1,300).

Bovaer, developed by the Dutch company DSM-Firmenich, contains 3-nitrooxypropanol (3-NOP), a compound that inhibits methane-producing enzymes in a cow’s digestive system.

The Telegraph (UK).

The £33m aid project was designed to help poor Ugandan farmers deal with the impact of climate change.

But the reality saw their crops and homes destroyed in an “inhuman” project that left them “on the brink of starvation”.

Local government officials, who were guarded by armed security forces, razed crops, trees and homes as they claimed to be re-wilding wetland in a project run by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which has received £2.6bn in UK taxpayers’ money.

It is one of a number of controversial projects uncovered in a seven-month investigation by The Telegraph into how the Government is spending £11.6bn in International Climate Finance (ICF).

On Friday, The Telegraph revealed how the public has paid for a £52m road to nowhere through the jungle in Guyana, rusting solar panels on schools in Zimbabwe and condoms in the Congo all under the guise of climate aid.

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Several arson attacks took place in Leibertingen (Baden-Württemberg) last week. According to the police, a 22-year-old man threw Molotov cocktails at a car and two neighbouring houses. He also attacked police officers and other emergency services with incendiary devices. It has now emerged that the attacks were probably politically motivated. Among the victims of the arson attempt was Michael Koppatz, a former politician and active member of the AfD (Alternative for Germany).

The mother of the alleged perpetrator, Tobias K., is the mayor of a neighbouring town.

The suspect first set fire to Koppatz’s wife’s company car in the parking lot. Firefighters managed to extinguish the fire in time before it spread to Koppatz’s house. Shortly afterwards, he allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at the window of Koppatz’s house, but it did not cause any damage. The former MP retired from politics some time ago because he no longer agreed with some of the party’s policies.

While police officers and a firefighter were investigating the scene of the fire, another Molotov cocktail was thrown at them, landing a few meters in front of them and exploding on the street.

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Some of the most prestigious medical journals are refusing to publish corrections to papers that contain demonstrably false claims about ‘gender medicine.’

That’s the main finding of Dr. J. Cohn, author of ‘Censorship of Essential Debate in Gender Medicine Research.’ She noted the ‘low or very low-certainty evidence for the benefits of medical gender interventions’—echoing last year’s Cass Review—including suicide prevention. Despite the facts, academic medical journals continue to publish demonstrably false claims about gender medicine.

Since 2022, when these dubious ‘facts’ appeared online or in print, including in the JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Pediatrics, Cohn has submitted corrections: a normal part of the peer review process. Typically, journal editors responded with assertions about their confidence in the articles and their parallel doubts about the rigorous scholarship cited by Cohn.

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The Democratic Party’s power grip on the Mid-Atlantic, particularly in Maryland, appears to be eroding.

Local headlines and a Justice Department statement confirm that leftist-controlled Baltimore County has been removed from the federal list of sanctuary jurisdictions after signing a cooperation agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The DoJ wrote in a press release that the county’s cooperation represents progress in restoring public safety, despite state-level restrictions on federal immigration enforcement. The county had been listed as a sanctuary jurisdiction since August, a designation leftist County Executive Kathy Klausmeier argued was a mistake.

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The ongoing debate over France’s budget continued on Friday, when the National Assembly voted down a proposal for a 2% tax on assets exceeding €100 million, known as the Zucman tax after its economist proponent, Gabriel Zucman. The measure, supported by an alliance of left-wing parties, aimed to target around 1,800 wealthy households and would, Zucman has said, generate €15-20 billion annually. Center- and right-wing lawmakers united in opposition, citing concerns about capital flight, job losses, and economic harm, while the government warned the tax would be unconstitutional. A milder ‘Zucman-light’ variant from the Socialists, proposing a 3% levy on assets over €10 million, with exemptions for family and “innovative” firms, also failed to pass.

The vote escalates political tensions as France races to approve its 2026 budget by year-end, with the deficit projected to hit 6% of GDP amid post-pandemic recovery strains. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu faces mounting pressure, as he lacks a parliamentary majority and is reliant on Socialist support to pass the budget.

If the minority government excludes wealth redistribution measures, left-wing deputies have threatened to topple it. To pacify furious lawmakers on the Left, Lecornu offered concessions like abandoning planned freezes on pensions and welfare benefits, which would otherwise fail to adjust for inflation. Lawmakers did approve a compromise: a 2% tax on non-operational assets held in holding companies, expected to raise up to €1 billion.

Zucman, a 39-year-old Berkeley professor, decried the vote as a “missed opportunity for fiscal justice.” Critics, including budget minister Amélie de Montchalin, argued it would drive wealthy taxpayers abroad and undermine business competitiveness. With Senate review pending, further amendments could reshape the budget, but analysts warn of prolonged gridlock.

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Dr. Wrong. The Population Bomb is the stuff of jokes as obesity has overtaken famine in the developed (non-statist) world–thanks to more, not less, people. Game, set, and match to Paul Ehlich’s intellectual foe, Julian Simon.

The New Neo.

That way you can still be a liberal and have the limousine too.

Why don’t they move further away? I guess because they want to keep their NYC jobs and access, and are willing to commute. It will be fascinating – if Mamdani is in fact elected – to see if there’s a massive exodus from New York or not. The rich have more options than the poor, as usual.

Perhaps the rich will leave the city entirely and leave it to the poor. We can have our own Socialist Failed State right there on the Hudson.

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A new report by Americans for Public Trust claims that a group of foreign-based charities has quietly spent almost $2 billion funding U.S. nonprofit organizations engaged in climate advocacy, litigation, and policy campaigns.

The 31-page study, Foreign Charities Fueling Extreme Policies in the U.S., names five European foundations that it says have steered hundreds of millions of dollars into American organizations promoting rapid transitions away from fossil fuels and other energy reforms.

The report identifies Britain’s Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Denmark’s KR Foundation, Switzerland’s Oak Foundation and Laudes Foundation, and the United Kingdom’s Quadrature Climate Foundation as key financial sources.

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The permanent protest industrial complex, fueled by billionaire-funded NGOs and far-left activist groups, is preparing to mobilize a coordinated color revolution–style operation targeting the White House under the banner “The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go Now.” The upcoming protest activity mirrors tactics historically associated with American statecraft overseas in regime-change operations, but appears to be domestically funded through a web of dark-money-funded NGOs aligned with sinister globalist interests and amplified by the unhinged leftists of the Democratic Party.

“Beginning November 5, the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election, flood DC in nonviolent protest. Surround the White House. Surround the Capitol. Surround the illegitimate fascist-packed Supreme Court,” the far-left group Refuse Fascism wrote on its website.

We’ve got some great new memes here: “unhinged boomer activist”, “protest industrial complex”. File them with AWFUL.

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One of the most notorious billionaire pontificators on the climate change boondoggle just did an about-face and told the eco-extremists screeching Armageddon to take a chill pill.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates shocked the political sphere by completely skewering the leftist narrative that we’re all going to die from climate change in a few years in an October 28 blog post.

Gates first outlined the doomist narrative: “‘In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us—just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.” Then came the kicker: “Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise.”

Okay, who is this guy and what did he do with Bill Gates?

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Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen posted on Instagram that brand owner Unilever had prevented the company from making a flavor in support of Palestine, so “I’m doing it myself.”

He said that the flavor would be based on watermelon, which The Times of Israel noted has become a symbol of Palestinians on social media in recent years due to its colors resembling those of the Palestinian national flag.

In his post, Cohen asked the public to send in ideas for a name for the flavor and for additional ingredients, as well as suggestions for ideas for the design on the ice cream container.

What is he going to call it? Judenhasse Sherbet? Genocide Gelato?

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Fresh insights into the ecological devastation caused by onshore wind turbines around the world are contained in a shocking new paper published last month by a group of ecologists in Nature. The paper is paywalled and has attracted little mainstream media interest, but it highlights research that illustrates that the effect of utility-scale wind energy production “can be far reaching and sometimes have large and unexpected consequences for biodiversity”.

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A bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike, toppled and burned by demonstrators in 2020 protests, has been reinstalled in Judiciary Square.

Crews placed the statue Saturday, surrounded by fencing and signs reading “Historic preservation work in progress,” Channel 4 in D.C. reported.

The Department of the Interior said the restoration follows President Donald Trump’s directives on restoring historic monuments, citing compliance with federal preservation law and executive orders promoting the beautification of the nation’s capital.

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New Jersey’s largest teachers union, which has endorsed Democrat governor candidate Mikie Sherrill, will host a drag queen event days after the November election.

The New Jersey Education Association, which has 200,000 members as the Garden State’s chapter of the National Education Association, will host its annual convention on Nov. 6 and 7, two days after the gubernatorial election. At the convention, the NJEA Consortium—a union project undertaken with education and “social justice” organizations—will host a Friday event called “Drag is Not a Crime: The Past, Present, and Future of Drag.”

The convention’s floor plan also includes a booth dedicated to the drag theme. The NJEA convention theme puts “learning” third—after “equity” and “justice.”

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Which is, of course, like painting Nazi’s as the real victims of Kristallnacht.

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Various blue states are facing towering budget deficits as federal pandemic payments end and expenditures rise.

The result is a widening gap between the two parties on tax policies as Democratic leaders seek to avoid massive budget cuts in favor of tax increases. Two of the most economically moronic measures can be found in California and Illinois where leaders could be pushing high-tax residents out of their respective states.

In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking a billionaire tax that would target roughly 180 individuals who are expected to remain in the state, like some voluntary canned hunt. In Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson is facing the same exodus of businesses as California. His solution? A head tax on the very large corporations is needed for the city to survive. Even the far-left governor, J.B. Pritzker, is opposing the move as economically suicidal. However, groups like the teachers’ unions are pushing for this and other new taxes to support, among other things, a bloated pension plan for its members.

Spend spend spend — it’s all Democrats know how to do. And they can’t quit spending, so they have to raise taxes. And “the rich” don’t have enough money to cover the spending (and, besides, they depend on rich leftists for campaign contributions), so they have to tax everybody else to make up the differerence.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Sunday that he’s about make good on a threat to revoke millions in federal funds for California because he says the state is illegally issuing commercial driver’s licenses to noncitizens.

In an appearance on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Duffy said California Gov. Gavin Newsom has refused to comply with Department of Transportation rules that require the state to stop issuing such licenses and review those already issued.

“So, one, I’m about to pull $160 million from California,” Duffy said. “And, as we pull more money, we also have the option of pulling California’s ability to issue commercial driver’s licenses.”

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In Sweden, a two-kilometer stretch of electrified highway allows electric vehicles to charge while they drive — a prototype for 3,000 kilometers of such roads planned by 2045.

It all sounds sleek, modern, and progressive, like something from a futurist’s dream.

Eddie Grant once sang, “We’re gonna rock down to Electric Avenue.”

But before we charge headlong into this electric future, we should pause to ask: is any of this really helping the environment?

The answer, inconveniently, is no.

Electric vehicles are not the sustainable miracle they’re marketed to be — this article details the hidden environmental toll of battery production, the inefficiency of “green” energy systems, and the deeper agenda behind the global push toward EVs and UN-driven sustainability mandates.

The prevailing narrative of “zero-emission” transportation falls apart with documented evidence, industry data, and science itself.

The green movement’s corporate and political drivers open up broader questions of personal freedom, economic control, and truth in environmental science.

Newsbusters.

On Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s Behind the Table podcast (The View’s podcast), Joy Behar recounted to host Brian Teta about her liberal activism during the Vietnam War. Inspired by last weekend’s so-called “No Kings” protests, Behar hyped how she used to rant to her students back when she was a teacher and encouraged them to draft dodge. She also whined about one girl who “snitched” and got her fired.

Behar kicked off the show by decrying how Republicans were dismissing the protests as “a big nothing,” according to her. To counter that, she tried to suggest five to 10 times the number of estimated attendees actually supported the protests.

Is every Democrat a self-righteous asshole, or do we just see the worst of them in the news?

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Let’s ask her why she’s living in an ‘all-white’ neighborhood. Is she trying to pass?

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Oligarchy fighter and working class man of the people Bernie Sanders sees nothing out of the ordinary in owning three large properties.

When recently questioned about his three houses, the ‘No Kings’ figurehead passed it off as if most Americans own multiple properties and he’s just like everyone else.

“Do I own three residences? Yes I do,” declared Sanders.

He then explained that he has “a beautiful home in Burlington,” a place in Washington, and “like many thousands of people in the State of Vermont” he has a “Summer camp on Lake Champlain.”

“It’s a nice one,” he enthused.

“That’s it!” Sanders declared.

Two more than I’ve got. Apparently socialism pays really really well.

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The European Court of Justice’s Advocate General has once again put the rights of deported asylum seekers above the needs of ordinary Europeans. In an opinion issued Thursday, Advocate General Richard de la Tour declared that an asylum seeker who cannot be transferred to another EU country within the set deadline must continue receiving full asylum benefits, including money for clothing, household goods, transport—and even a cell phone.

The case revolves around an Afghan national who first applied for asylum in Romania in 2021 before entering Germany. Under the Dublin Agreement, Romania—as the first country of entry—is responsible for his application. Romania had agreed to take him back but suspended the transfer due to the war in Ukraine. In the meantime, German authorities in the Bavarian district of Schweinfurt reduced the man’s benefits, limiting them to essentials such as food, accommodation, and medical care.

Rather than supporting this reasonable restriction, the Advocate General sided with the Afghan claimant. He argued that the 2013 EU Reception Conditions Directive “prohibits a Member State from denying an applicant benefits to cover his or her needs for clothing and household goods.” He went further, calling Germany’s national legislation “problematic” for allowing the automatic withdrawal of benefits without a detailed assessment of the personal consequences for the applicant.

The Foundry.

After 65 years of socialist control, Cuba’s private sector has become the island’s most unexpected victory for freedom.

For decades, the Castro regime tried to convince the world—and its own people—that socialism was efficient, equal, and sustainable. But today, the model is collapsing under its own weight. Food shortages, blackouts, and mass emigration have exposed the truth: Socialism doesn’t work. What does work—and quietly transforms Cuba from within—is the entrepreneurial spirit of ordinary citizens who have stopped waiting on the state.

Many outside observers still don’t realize Cuba even has a private sector. The regime downplays it, terrified of what it represents: economic independence, self-reliance, and dignity. Yet since 2021, more than 10,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (MIPYMES) have been officially registered, according to the Cuba Study Group. These are not “oligarchs” or “elites.” They are everyday Cubans who have decided to hacer de tripas corazones—to turn scarcity into strength and survival into freedom.

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A civil rights complaint has been filed against Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) after reports that several high schools offered courses restricted by race and sex.

Minnesota outlet Alpha News reported that the complaint concerns courses titled “BLACK Culture – Building Lives Acquiring Cultural Knowledge.” The Washington Free Beacon first noted that South High School’s curriculum guide listed one section of the class as open to “all black male students” and another to “all black female students.”

“The course is open to black male students of any grade,” one course description reads. Roosevelt High School reportedly offers a similar course titled “High School Black Culture Queens.”

As Chief Justice Roberts famously said (in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1), “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race” .

L.A. Times, a Voice of the Crust.

The incident unfolded around 9 a.m. in a dense immigrant community where, according to Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, federal agents were carrying out “a targeted enforcement traffic stop” of an undocumented immigrant who “previously escaped from custody” and “attempted to evade arrest yet again.”

The suspect, Carlitos Ricardo Parias, was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer, according to acting U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli. During the stop, the 44-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico “rammed his car into agents’ vehicles after they boxed him in and ordered him to submit to arrest,” Essayli said on X.

McLaughlin said ICE agents “fearing for the safety of the public and law enforcement … followed their training and fired defensive shots.”

Witnesses said the suspect was struck, and another bullet appeared to ricochet and wound a deputy marshal.

cLaughlin later confirmed that a law enforcement officer at the scene was hit in the hand by a ricochet and that the target of the operation was wounded.

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An immigration enforcement sweep targeting vendors on New York City’s famed Canal Street turned chaotic Tuesday afternoon, as bystanders and protesters confronted federal agents and tried to block their path.

Thus ‘obstructing justice’, which is a crime in every jurisdiction of which I am aware.

The confrontation between the agents and hundreds of angry New Yorkers took place along a busy commercial thoroughfare that has long been a hub of the city’s not-so-underground market for knock-off designer handbags, watches, perfumes, and sunglasses, as well as phones and other electronics.

So, it’s a hotbed of criminality.

An Associated Press reporter observed dozens of federal agents as they made one of a number of arrests in the area, detaining a street vendor who appeared to be selling bedazzled smartphone cases.

The reporter, a Tool of the Crust, no doubt attempted to portray the arrested street vendor as somebody just going about his normal life and suddenly being hassled FOR NO LEGITIMATE REASON by agents of ‘Trump’s totalitarian state’. That’s their Narrative, and they’re sticking to it.

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A federal judge in Oregon said during a hearing on Monday that she plans to issue an injunction stopping the Trump administration from requiring several Democratic-led states to remove references to gender ideology from their sexual health education curricula as a condition of receiving federal grant funding.

U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken, based in Eugene, made the comments in reference to a lawsuit filed by 16 states, including Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin, as well as the District of Columbia. The states of Oregon, Washington, and Minnesota are leading the group.

You will have noticed, as I have, that the vast majority of these anti-Trump judges are female.  Feel free to speculate.

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Students at the Oxford Union in England reportedly voted to oust their president-elect after he made controversial comments celebrating the assassination of American conservative leader Charlie Kirk.

The Oxford Union confirmed a successful vote of no confidence against its incoming president, George Abaraonye. The motion passed with the required two-thirds majority, receiving 1,228 ballots in favor and 501 against, the U.K.’s Independent reported Tuesday.

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A children’s summer camp in Spain has sparked a string of alarming safeguarding allegations. What should have been a fortnight of normal camp activities was, according to several attendees, more like a carnival of horrors. The camp, organised by non-profit youth group Sarrea Euskal Udalekua Elkartea, was held from August 8th to 23rd in the village of Bernedo, and was hosted by a controversial trans activist who had previously boasted about wanting to “indoctrinate” children.

The Foundry.

Conservative shareholders at eight major corporations have filed resolutions urging those companies to stop using politicized tools like the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map,” which added Turning Point USA a few months before the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The Heritage Foundation and portfolio manager David Bahnsen, which have held thousands of dollars in shares at each of the companies, filed the proposals last week.

“The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated October as Hate Crimes Awareness Month—but few organizations have sown more hatred against fellow Americans than the SPLC itself,” Heritage Chief Advancement Officer Andrew Olivastro told The Daily Signal in a statement Friday. “It doesn’t fight hate—it manufactures it, embedding division into every press release they issue and every word they post; their business model is defamation, and America is finally waking up.”

“Companies are now rightly distancing themselves from the SPLC, recognizing that its model is not only flawed but dangerous,” Olivastro added.

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Because they know that it will go nowhere without U.S. participation. “Follow the money!”

The United Nations body specializing in regulating global shipping voted on Oct. 17 to delay a vote on the adoption of a proposed framework that will impose a global carbon tax on international shipping—a regulation the United States has strongly opposed.

Member states of the U.N.-backed International Maritime Organization (IMO) were set to approve the proposal on Oct. 17 when Saudi Arabia, which has voiced opposition to the plan, tabled a motion to defer the vote by one year.

The motion was passed with 57 votes in favor and 49 against.

The proposed net-zero framework would have required ships to comply with a global fuel standard for large oceangoing vessels of more than 5,000 gross tonnage, as part of an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the global shipping industry to net zero by 2050.

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“Coup d’Flat”: Billionaire-Funded ‘No Kings’ Color-Revolution Turns Into White Liberal Boomer Parade As Dems Become National Laughingstock

The Democratic Party’s dark-money NGO network, bankrolled by left-wing billionaires, unleashed a highly coordinated, color-revolution-style mobilization nationwide on Saturday; the same tactics U.S. intelligence agencies have used overseas for years in regime-change operations. Yet the turnout wasn’t dominated by unhinged young leftists or gender-confused woke warriors, but rather by white baby-boomer liberals, a mobilization effort that NGO expert Mike Benz described as a “Coup d’f?lat.”

The nation is waking up to the fact that dark-money NGO networks, including the Arabella Network, Soros Network, Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Tides Foundation, Rockefeller Network, Singham Network, and many others, are funneling millions of dollars into what investigative researchers Peter Schweizer and Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute call “Riot, Inc.” – the permanent protest industrial complex and the engine behind “No Kings 2.0” partners and organizers. These protests are far from organic; this movement is manufactured, coordinated, and entirely artificial.

Power Line.

This is revealing:

The national body of Students for Justice in Palestine backed Hamas’s grisly public executions of fellow Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, posting “Death to the Occupation, Death to Collaborators” on Instagram.

SJP’s Instagram post concluded with this:

Between exploiting Gaza’s youth for money using desperately needed aid to the killing of their own people in service of Zionism, collaborators have no place in a liberated future.

Death to the occupation. Death to Zionism. Death to all collaborators.

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Film and TV production in the Los Angeles area has hit an all-time low, sinking to levels worse than the SAG union strike of 2023. The city has introduces new tax incentives to generate enthusiasm but many in Tinseltown are questioning if the industry will ever recover.

FilmLA, the city and county’s film permitting office, said Tuesday that on-location production in the greater Los Angeles area declined 13.2% from July through September 2025 compared to the same period last year. Once again, this continues a multi-year trend in declining local production.

LA motion picture employment dropped from 142,000 in 2022 to 100,000 by end-2024 – a 30% cut (42,000 jobs gone). Below-the-line crew were hit hardest; 63% earned less in 2024, and 41% are considering an exit. High taxes in LA and California have forced some productions to leave the area, but total US film and TV productions are still in decline no matter where you go in the country. There has been a 28% drop in theatrical releases since 2019 and a 25% drop in scripted TV projects.

The vast majority of film and TV media are shot in the greater Los Angeles area due to proximity to studios, editing facilities, effects houses and actor pools. A drop in Hollywood and LA production indicates are decline in the film industry as a whole. The plunge in activity coincides with the overall drop in box office receipts since 2019.

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The Democratic Party’s dark-money NGO network, bankrolled by left-wing billionaires, is reportedly preparing to activate a coordinated, color-revolution-style mobilization across the U.S. this weekend – a replay of failed agitation attempts seen earlier this year targeting President Trump and Elon Musk. The operation, marketed under the “No Kings” banner and portrayed publicly as a grassroots movement, in reality functions as a professionalized protest-industrial complex. Its composition includes a blend of paid activists, white boomers suffering from Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome, and a smaller contingent of organic, unhinged leftists who recite MSNBC talking points by heart.

ATQUE: Soros foundations helping fund anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ protests nationwide (Fox News)

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Homeland Security’s border agency says it has fixed a loophole from the Biden era that let immigrants enter the United States illegally and claim asylum despite using fraudulent identification documents, according to a newly released audit.

The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general said in a report that agents at the border caught migrants using fake papers but failed to record the attempted fraud in the migrants’ official immigration files, known as A-files, reports The Washington Times.

As a result, authorities reviewing asylum applications had no idea the individuals had tried to deceive border officers, which could have disqualified them.

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On the eve of an emergency crisis summit with the steel industry, Germany’s ruling Social Democrats (SPD) have unveiled their “crisis roadmap.” If subsidies and protectionism fail, the sector will be nationalized. Just like that.

Germany’s steel sector has become the perfect parable for the pitiful state of the country’s broader industrial base. Its decline over the past eight years is almost without precedent in modern economic history. Output has plunged by more than 30% since 2018, with the first half of this year alone showing a brutal 12% year-on-year drop — a collapse accelerating at high speed.

In absolute numbers: crude steel production fell from its 2018 peak of 42.4 million tons to what will likely be only 29 million tons this year. It’s simple: producing in Germany no longer pays. So capital is fleeing to more profitable locations. China — and now increasingly the U.S. — is where business gets done.

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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. (Well, it is Milwaukee….)

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A federal judge has lifted travel restrictions for Mahmoud Khalil, allowing the Palestinian activist to speak at rallies and other events across the U.S. as he fights his deportation case brought by the Trump administration.

Khalil, who was freed from a Louisiana immigration jail in June, had asked a federal magistrate judge to lift the restrictions that limited his travel to New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C., Louisiana and Michigan.

“He wants to travel for the very significant First Amendment reasons that are at the bottom of this case,” his lawyer, Alina Das, said during a virtual hearing Thursday. “He wants to speak to issues of public concern.”

Let him do it back where he came from.

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Conservatives are nowhere to be seen in a Harvard University course focused on black women in politics, according to a copy of the syllabus obtained by The College Fix.

‘History 167: Race, Gender, and the Law Through the Archive’ praises First Lady Michelle Obama, failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, and Vice President Kamala Harris for having “left their mark on 21st-century politics and grassroots organizing.”

The course says it will examine black women in the 20th century who “shap[ed] politics, grassroots organizing, the legal profession, and higher education during Jim (Jane) Crow and beyond.” Topics include “reproductive rights,” “non-binary people,” and “Black Feminism,” according to the syllabus.

But the course leaves out prominent conservative black women, including one who even made history at Harvard.

After all, they’re not REALLY black….

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Fueled by the explosive rise of artificial intelligence and the data centers that power it, America’s demand for electricity has surged to record highs. Meeting that demand will require unprecedented investment in reliable, affordable energy. Yet just as the need for dependable power grows more urgent, radical climate activists are working to choke off the very projects that promise to supply it and are threatening the integrity of the American judicial system in the process.

The clearest example of this troubling trend came earlier this year, when Greenpeace International filed a lawsuit in the Netherlands against the American company Energy Transfer, an extraordinary attempt to overturn a verdict issued by an American court. In the case, a North Dakota jury ordered Greenpeace to pay roughly $660 million in damages for its role in the disruptive 2016 and 2017 protests targeting Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access Pipeline.

During the North Dakota trial, jurors heard how the organization engaged in a campaign of defamation, disruption, and property damage that led to costly delays in the pipeline’s construction. One of Greenpeace’s central falsehoods was that the pipeline would cut through sacred tribal lands. In reality, Energy Transfer worked directly with tribal leaders and routed the pipeline to avoid such areas, a fact Greenpeace chose to ignore.

Greenpeace was also found to have dispatched paid protesters to the construction site who were carrying tools that were later used to lock agitators to equipment. These “hired guns” trained protesters who assaulted law enforcement officers, set fires, and caused untold environmental damage by leaving behind 48 million pounds of garbage.

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Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas is being celebrated in Los Angeles Thursday with a “Voice of Inspiration” award — but not everyone’s applauding.

Thomas, who was born a male and identifies as female, will receive the award at the Violet Visionary Awards, a move that sparked fierce backlash from Riley Gaines.

While Thomas, 26, won the NCAA Division 1 500-yard freestyle in 2022, Gaines, 25, finished fifth in the same race.

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Pro-Palestinian campaigners have vowed to continue protesting, claiming the ceasefire agreement did not amount to a peace deal and branding “ceasefire” an “oppressor’s term”.

Perhaps they’d prefer the term “hudna“.

Several groups said the peace agreement brokered by President Trump last week was “not enough” and had done “little to change their demands”.

Nothing will ever change their demands, because those demands will change hour by hour.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has encouraged students to walk out of classes on Thursday, boycott Barclays on Saturday and has planned a march on November 2. University societies described the agreement as a “so-called peace deal” and encouraged students to demand the sanctioning and boycott of “the Zionist state of Israel”.

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The president of Boston’s Police Patrolmen’s Association has responded after a violent mob of over 100 people unleashed chaos in Boston’s streets, torching a police cruiser and pelting officers with fireworks, cones, and poles in what witnesses called a “riot-like” assault on law enforcement.

The wild attack, which unfolded in the early hours of October 5, was described as a deliberate and “hell-bent” targeting of police, according to Larry Calderone, president of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, in an interview with Fox News.

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Democrats and their radical leftist allies need an urgent wake-up call after betting the entire political strategy on transgender ideology, which most notably is the effort to queer America’s youth into “gender-fluid” left-wing activists operating in schoolyards and on city streets. That strategy appears to be collapsing, if it hasn’t already, as a new study reveals a sharp decline in youngsters identifying as something they’re not. In short, youngsters appear to be rejecting the multi-decade social engineering experiment by leftist public school bureaucrats, Hollywood, progressive doctors, left-wing NGOs, and other ideological operatives aligned with the globalist agenda.

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A few years back, I kept tripping across one of the many “disinformation experts” who popped up during the COVID pandemic like mushrooms on a rotten log after a hard night’s rain. I had no clue who Imran Ahmed was, nor his Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), but the Biden White House plucked him from obscurity to anoint him an expert on COVID vaccines and to censor their critics.

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Intrigued, I began digging into the Center for Countering Digital Hate. In a 3,300-word investigation for Tablet, I exposed CCDH—not for being a trusted source on vaccines—but as a fraudulent political operation formed by two staffers working for the British Labour Party: Morgan McSweeney and Imran Ahmed. These two characters created CCDH and several other dark money nonprofits to install Keir Starmer as the head of Labour. Starmer is now the Prime Minister of England and Morgan McSweeney is his chief of staff. After its success in the UK, CCDH then began operating in DC and coordinating with Democrats to attack critics of the Biden administration.