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In today’s financial system, what many people take for granted as foundational truths are actually deeply flawed assumptions or outright deceptions.

Below is a breakdown of commonly misunderstood financial concepts—reframed to reflect a more accurate interpretation of how the system really works.

I consider his analysis to be spot-on.

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Our reporter went on patrol with police in Jackson, Mississippi, which has a homicide rate 15 times the national average.

Perhaps not unrelated to the fact that it’s 81.8 African-American….

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Bell Hotel resident Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, is to be sentenced at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court after he was found guilty of five charges, including two of sexual assault, following an earlier trial.

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An Ethiopian asylum seeker who provoked nationwide protests when he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old schoolgirl and a woman near a migrant hotel in Essex has been convicted.

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The lawsuits involve computer models with zero predictive capability; conclusory assertions devoid of actual supportive evidence; and refusal to recognize Earth’s tumultuous climate history, powerful natural forces that caused momentous climate changes long before the fossil fuel era, written records and data over the past 200 years showing no unprecedented changes or trends in climate or weather, and an inability to separate natural from alleged human causes.

The Telegraph (UK).

GPs have been told they must stop dismissing patients following the death of a young woman who was turned away 20 times by the NHS.

Jessica Brady died from cancer in 2020, after her concerns were repeatedly brushed off with online consultations and she was not sent for tests.

Andrea and Simon Brady, her parents, have since campaigned successfully for the introduction of new guidance, named Jess’s Rule, in a case highlighted by the Telegraph.

How about that great government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

No,  I didn’t think so. This is what happens when you put the Post Office in charge of your medical care.

The Times (UK).

Grooming gangs will be able to carry out their crimes with “impunity” if a new definition of Islamophobia is given the go-ahead, the Conservatives have warned.

Writing in The Times, Claire Coutinho, the shadow equalities minister, said that the definition risked intensifying the “culture of censorship” by creating a “special status” for one group over others.

She claimed that Labour was only pressing ahead with the new definition to stave off the threat posed by pro-Gaza candidates at the next election.

The Times (UK).

Teenagers who fail their English and maths GCSEs should not be forced to resit the exams unless they have a “realistic” chance of passing, the Commons education committee has said.

In a report published on Tuesday, the cross-party group of MPs urged the government to introduce three alternative pathways for the thousands of post-16 pupils who do not achieve a grade 4 in these core subjects.

It warned that the policy of mandatory resits was “not serving its purpose”, as more than 80 per cent of pupils who failed at 16 had still not passed by age 19.

It is exactly serving its purpose, which is to ensure that people who have gone through the educational system have actually learned what they were supposed to learn. This reflects the proglodyte ‘participation trophy’ mindset, and demonstrates that Britain is now what Democrats what America to become.

Hormonal contraception was made available to the public in 1960.

Abortion-on-demand was declared a constitutional right in 1974.

Connect the dots … if you can.

Victor Davis Hanson.

I’d like to return, if I could, to the brutal murder of the Ukrainian immigrant, Ms. Iryna Zarutska, who was killed on a light rail, as we saw from the video, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

I think the way to look at this, this was a horrible scab—this incident—but once it was pulled off, we saw a putrid wound underneath. And all of our pathologies that we really have to deal with were apparent and led to her death.

The first thing, of course, is she was blamed—I could not believe it—in some of the videos that she was not situationally aware. That she walked into an area where there was a suspicious-looking individual with a hoodie on—black Americans, that maybe they meant by their analyses that they have, statistically, higher prope

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The report also notes that a threat to kill Morrissey was also made by a deranged leftist on Bluesky prior to the singer’s CityFolk appearance in Ottawa.

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The outpouring of love and support for Charlie Kirk has been touching to see—especially considering that it has transcended the typical conservative ecosystem and burst into popular culture. In sporting events across the country over the past week, from New York City to Texas, Charlie’s life’s work was recognized and memorialized in front of millions of viewers.

However, beneath the surface, a more pernicious sentiment lingers. American leftists have cheered on Charlie’s unconscionable assassination, with a concerning number of them appearing to occupy key roles at American universities. While conservatives have highlighted the often radical and near-unanimously blue political affiliations of professors for some time, the reality is that the rot extends far deeper at these institutions.

The vast majority of university employees have nothing to do with teaching or research—they’re bureaucrats. According to the National Center for Education Statistics in 2023, just over 64% of all university employees are anything but faculty. The college where Charlie Kirk was murdered, Utah Valley University, is a quarter-billion-dollar-a-year enterprise. It is also one of the largest employers in the state, with 6,000 employees on its payroll. Of that number, about one-third teach students.

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In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination as well as the confirmation that alleged killer Tyler Robinson is a far-left ideologue and gay man living with a transgender partner, the public’s attention has once again turned to the issue of Antifa, an activist network that shares many similar political beliefs with the shooter.

Federal authorities are currently investigating the Discord sever groups used by Robinson in the lead up to the attack to find any potential co-conspirators. Discord has been identified as a common forum used by Antifa for organizing members for specific events while pretending as if their protests are random and “grassroots”.

In the meantime, the corporate media is once again running interference for Antifa, claiming that the group is nothing more than a gaggle of disconnected people without no affiliation other than they “agree to oppose fascists”.

Of course, simply declaring yourself the “good guys” does not necessarily make it so.

ALSO: Netherlands, Hungary Push To Designate Antifa As Terrorist Organization

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An anti-immigration protest involving hundreds of demonstrators turned violent in The Hague on Saturday, September 20th, as right-wing protesters clashed with riot police. Protesters set a car on fire, threw stones and bottles at police officers, and vandalised the office of the center-left D66 political party. The police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd.

Many of the demonstrators were dressed in black, linked to Dutch nationalist and far-right groups. responded with tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd.

Sounds like an ordinary BLM/AnitFa riot to me.

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Alternative History books are fascinating. It’s endlessly engrossing to go over the “what ifs” of a different world. We’re all familiar with “what if the Nazis won” and “what if the South won the Civil War.” That’s some dark speculation, for sure. But it set my mind to wandering and dreaming up some other scenarios. Imagine worlds in which:

1. There’s still WWII, but this time Hermann Goring is thin.

2. Correlation DOES equal causation.

3. The car is invented before the wheel.

4. John Lennon writes “Imogene,” a loving tribute to Imogene Coca. The song is sung worldwide at funerals and after tragedies.

5. Ibarra Chocolate does not comply with the Mexican norm.

6. The Big Bopper survives the plane crash.

7. The names of Germany and Austria are reversed.

8. The ukulele has five strings, lending a quaint drone to Hawaiian music.

9. Space aliens visit Earth, but are only advanced in space travel, otherwise totally primitive, without a language.

10. J.K. Rowling’s “Hairy Potter” book series, about a hirsute ceramicist, is a hit with readers worldwide.

11. Gandhi decides to fistfight the British, one by one.

12. Beethoven’s sense of hearing is intact, but he is unable to smell like a normal person.

13. Leonardo da Vinci leaves all his sketch books in a tavern. His books and ideas are stolen by a guy named Milton.

14. The pyramids are made of styrofoam blocks with stone siding. They were built because the pharaoh lost a bar bet.

15. It’s very noisy because all insects have the ability to speak in Esperanto.

16. George Orwell’s “1985” depicts a dystopia which has free Pac-Man machines as its only redeeming feature.

17. The Olympic Games include “Snooker to the Death.”

18. Julius Caesar is only metaphorically stabbed in the back by Brutus, who leaks details of the salad he’s been working on.

19. Andy Griffith’s character in the “Andy Griffith Show” is named Sheriff Andy Griffith.

20. You can’t bet your bottom dollar, because it is forbidden worldwide.

What if Trump actually were the New Hitler, and wore an orange mustache and only ate vegetables?

The New Neo.

In the wake of the Kirk assassination, I’ve been thinking about how the background has been to stir up hatred against the right and especially white people as a group. White people themselves are supposed to hear the message and to feel guilty about their supposed “privilege” and even their very existence, whereas people of other races are encouraged to blame all their woes on white people – not just historically, but now.

So much has happened since the year 2020 that it’s easy to forget the whole “anti-racist” movements which – as with so many projects on the left – had an Orwellian looking-glass sort of title, because it represented the furtherance of racist thought. It looked at people as almost nothing but their races, and all white people were judged harshly because of being white. At the time, I wrote a post titled “White privilege, white guilt: whites as the new Jews.”

And MAGA are the New Niggers.

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The collapse of the German economy continues unabated. The German Engineering Federation (VDMA) now expects a dramatic decline in production this year and lashes out at the federal government.

Socialist managerialism will do that to you.

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Many Americans are simply not aware of how much of the global economy survives by siphoning cash and jobs from the US through immigration (legal and illegal). If they knew, they would probably have demanded that the door on H-1B visas be slammed shut much sooner.

 

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According to the Department of Homeland Security, New York, Illinois, and California appear intent on releasing “thousands of criminal illegal aliens back into American communities.”

DHS said Saturday that Illinois and New York have responded to a DHS request about the issue and told the government they won’t support lawful DHS immigration enforcement.

The department said California did not respond.

A place where you have to buy a license to watch TV.

And people wonder why the place is so messed up….

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani has had a fantastic week. The Democratic Party’s nominee for mayor of New York City, a self-avowed democratic socialist, secured the endorsement of Kathy “the Hack” Hochul, the Empire State’s bland, witless governor.

As colorless as nitrogen, Hochul discovered that Mamdani is her man to occupy Gotham’s City Hall. And it took her only 11 weeks since the Democrat primary to do so. That’s leadership.

Meanwhile, a Marist University survey of 885 likely voters found that Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman from Queens, enjoys 45% support. Mamdani is the tallest bush in a grove of shrubs. Former Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, earned 24% in that survey. Guardian Angels founder and Republican hopeful Curtis Sliwa stood at 17%. Finally, incumbent Democrat Mayor Eric Adams, also competing as an independent, brought up the rear at just 9%. (Error margin: plus or minus 4.1%.)

The Telegraph (UK).

French police filmed migrants on their phones but did nothing to stop them leaving the beaches as up to 900 reached the UK on Friday.

After nine days of bad weather stopped any boats crossing, the people-smuggling gangs took advantage of calmer seas to dispatch up to 10 dinghies crammed with hundreds of migrants.

The exodus came as two more Channel migrants – an Eritrean man and an Iranian man – were deported to France on Air France passenger flights on Friday. That brings the total removed under Sir Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” deal to three this week, although at least five have been pulled off flights after late legal appeals.

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Feminism views women as a kind of defective men, and had nothing to say about the biological interests of actual women.

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The UK faced another surge of migrants crossing the English Channel on Friday, with at least 800 people making the journey in small boats, according to GB News.

This comes after a frustrating week in which only two migrants were returned to France under the government’s repatriation efforts.

After nine days of windy weather had prevented crossings, conditions improved overnight, prompting people smugglers around Calais and Dunkirk to launch multiple small boats into the Channel.

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I know the stories we’re told: that the country stands for opportunity, fairness, and freedom. That it’s the best country in the world. Unfortunately, it’s not true. After travelling to over 100 countries and building a life for my family in Panama, where we enjoy real privacy, entrepreneurial freedom, and control over our future, I’ve seen just how far Canada has fallen.

If you’re still inside the Canadian system trying to build something meaningful, you need to hear this: Canada has declared war on prosperity. It’s no longer a land of opportunity. It’s a bureaucratic machine that punishes productivity, vilifies success, and taxes ambition into extinction.

In this article, we’ll look at what’s happening in Canada, from the capital gains crackdown to wealth destruction policies. I’ll show you where the numbers prove the system is collapsing, why this is about control, not fairness, and most importantly, how you can build your Plan-B before it’s too late.

Canada is what the U.S. would be if there hadn’t been a revolution.

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Spanish police have arrested 19 illegal immigrants on suspicion of abusing, torturing and killing 50 of their fellow passengers on a boat as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Canary Islands.

Remix News reported on the brutal torture and murders earlier this month, but now, it appears the police have narrowed their investigation to at least 19 suspects.

The Spanish coast guard said they rescued the remaining passengers on the 20-meter boat, which had drifted some 400 kilometers from the coast, on Aug. 24.

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On 12 September, UK child and adolescent psychiatristSami Timimi published “When mental-health diagnoses become brands, the real drivers of our psychic pain are hidden” in the Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper.

In his superb article, Sami carefully explains how he arrives at his painful conclusion:

You see there is a truth that we (in the mental-health business) hope no one will notice – we literally don’t know what we are talking about when it comes to mental health.

An obvious problem is that all definitions of psychiatric disorders are subjective. They are not objective facts such as a broken bone is. This means they can be expanded in a myriad of ways to capture a kaleidoscope of distress, alienation, and dissatisfaction, and that psychiatric diagnoses are consumer brands, not medical diseases.

In medicine, a diagnosis is aimed at determining which disease explains a person’s symptoms and signs, which enables effective matching of a treatment to address specific disease processes.

This is not the case in psychiatry. And all psychiatric drugs have nonspecific effects that are not directed against some cause of a disease. Their effects are similar to those of alcohol, narcotics, and other brain-active substances. 

Psychiatry, like astrology or numerology, is a pseudo-science. Actually, you could say that “economics” is equally a pseudo-science. Real Science is characterized by two things: (1) Measurement and (2) The ability to make reliable predictions. Pseud0-sciences use measurement to bolster their claims, but none of them can make reliable predictions.

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Spanish police have launched a murder investigation after survivors reported that dozens of migrants were killed during a deadly Atlantic crossing from Africa, with the alleged perpetrators now housed in reception centers in the Canary Islands.

According to witness testimony, between 20 and 30 young sub-Saharan men aboard a migrant boat carrying 320 people from the West African coast conspired to kill fellow passengers during the 15-day voyage.

Seventy-two migrants were accused of witchcraft, murdered in cold blood, and their bodies thrown overboard before the vessel arrived in the Canary Islands on Aug. 25, according to an OKdiario report.

A total of 248 migrants survived the journey and are now residing on the Spanish archipelago.

Judicial sources said the killings began after disputes over food and water supplies. When theft accusations failed to justify attacks, the suspects turned to witchcraft allegations as grounds to kill. Survivors told police that groups of young men carried out the murders in an attempt to assert control and preserve resources.

The National Police are now working to identify all of the suspects, who are believed to be spread across shelters on the islands.

The Turd World is not sending us their best.

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The White House opened the week by declaring war on the radical left and its dark-money NGO network in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s political assassination. President Trump and senior officials are zeroing in on George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) empire, which they say has sown years of chaos nationwide, with Trump even hinting at potential RICO charges.

A new report from Capital Research Center (CRC), a think tank tracking foundations, charities, and other nonprofits, has revealed OSF – now run by George’s ultra-leftist, radical son, Alexander – has funneled over $80 million into groups linked to terrorism or extremist violence.

CRC investigative researcher Ryan Mauro published the bombshell report titled “Soros’ Open Society gave $80 million to pro-terror groups,” and this may be the breakthrough in evidence the Trump team needs to prosecute OSF under RICO.

The Times (UK).

Ministers have been urged not to give up on welfare reform and end a system where a new graduate can take home less than someone on sickness benefits.

Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary, has said that he wants to focus on helping young people find work and is expected to make a push for better employment support his early priority after taking over the job this month.

A backbench revolt forced Sir Keir Starmer to retreat on an attempt to cut £5 billion from disability benefits, and McFadden said this week that there would be no further action to reform personal independence payments (Pip) for another year.

Ponder a world in which such a headline reflects reality.

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The most recent numbers from The Nation’s Report Card, put out by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, are depressing when it comes to the present state of American education and the future of our nation.

The report, based on test results from 2024 shows a 4% drop since 2019—the last time the assessment was taken—in science scores for eighth grade students, and a 3% decline for high school seniors in both math and reading.

Even more alarmingly, less than one-third of eighth graders scored at or above the NAEP proficiency in science, and more than a third scored below even the most basic knowledge mark. The declines were even more pronounced for lower-performing students.

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Earlier this month a British academic named Michael Rainsborough wrote an insightful essay on the United Kingdom’s descent towards civil war. Once the head of the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, Rainsborough was dismissed from his post for committing a series of “thought crimes.” His final offense came in the form of a co-authored essay entitled, “The British Road to Dirty War,” in which he and former colleague David Betz diagramed “the hollowing out of British democratic institutions” and the dangerous rule of a permanent governing class filled with authoritarian elites.

Which elites will not enjoy what is in store for

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It turns out that Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old assassin of Charlie Kirk, was not simply a leftist radical. He was also living with Lance Twiggs, a man in the process of ‘transitioning’ into a woman. The FBI says the two were romantically involved. It seems likely, then, that Robinson may have slain Charlie Kirk to avenge the honor of his transgender lover.

Both Robinson and Twiggs came from conservative families in Utah. They did not learn gender ideology there. They appear to have been radicalized online, which can be a sinkhole of unfathomable depravity. There is evidence that both young men were also involved in the “furry” world—a sexualized subculture of humans who wear animal costumes.

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All transgenders are not murderers, but it is more than a little disturbing how many killers these days turn out to be trans. The female who massacred children at a Christian school in Nashville two years ago? Trans. The male who shot up a Catholic church in Minneapolis last month, killing two children at prayer? Trans. In Vermont, the trial of a trans person charged with murdering a U.S. Border Control agent in January has begun. Teresa Youngblut is part of the Zizians, a cult of trans people suspected in six serial killings across America.

In the past, the medical profession recognized gender dysphoria as a mental disorder, and recommended treatment. But over the last decade or so, under pressure from activists and their politician allies, transgenderism has become normalized, even valorized. Among the Zoomer generation—the same as Tyler Robinson and his lover—transgender identification has soared.

Power Line.

Minnesota’s feckless Democratic Gov. Tim Walz formally announced today that he’s running for a third term.

The Hill newspaper is out with a story that begins with a Walz quote,

I’ve always tried to do what’s right for Minnesota. And I’ll never stop fighting to protect us from the chaos, corruption, and cruelty coming out of Washington.

“Corruption”? The biggest feature of Walz’s tenure is the $1 billion of fraud verified committed against state government welfare programs. I suppose he could go for $2 billion in another term.

UPDATE: Tim Walz, Unusually Dishonest For a Politician

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In the spring of 1975, the Red Army Faction, more popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, stormed the West German Embassy in Stockholm and murdered two of its staff before setting the building ablaze. In its aftermath, a British tabloid printed a headline whose bluntness masked its profundity: ‘So, Who’s Sick?‘

It was less a headline than a rhetorical diagnosis, reflecting the bewilderment at these seemingly senseless acts of terror. Was it the bourgeois world condemned as corrupt by these self-styled revolutionaries, or was it the revolutionaries themselves, who in their righteous fervour appeared possessed by demons?

The question was never one that admitted an easy answer in that moment, and it remains just as piercing in ours. For when, half a century later, Charlie Kirk was struck down in the midst of civic debate, and when voices on the ‘progressive’ Left respond not with horror but with unholy glee, we are forced once again to confront the same ambiguity.

John Hinderaker.

Murders are following upon each other so rapidly that it is easy to forget them. Conservatives were horrified by the slaughter of Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte train, but the murder of Charlie Kirk came so soon after that some fear Zarutska, and the liberal ethos that led to her death, will be forgotten.

If we go back another week or two, we come to a third horror that briefly dominated the headlines but now is absent from them, except locally: Robin Westman’s attack on Annunciation School in Minneapolis. We are reminded of that crime by the funeral for a ten-year-old victim that was held yesterday.

Power Line.

We’re in one. The only question is in regard to current temperature. This site has been writing about the idea of a “cold civil war” going back to at least 2017 and to work by the late professor Angelo Codevilla.

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A newly introduced bill threatens to punish judges who refuse to impose tough sentences on dangerous criminals.

The legislation, called the JAIL Act and introduced Friday by Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., comes in response to the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.

Zarutska was allegedly murdered by Decarlos Brown Jr., a career criminal with a lengthy rap sheet who had repeatedly avoided serious jail time.

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U.S. authorities are warning of a new synthetic opioid from China that can be up to 50 times more potent than fentanyl.

Nitazenes pose an emerging threat as they are more resistant to naloxone, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses. They are often mixed with other drugs and delivered in the form of counterfeit pills mimicking drugs such as Xanax or Percocet, according to authorities.

Frank Tarentino, who heads the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, said that the presence of nitazenes coming from China has been increasingly prevalent on the illicit drug scene.

“Here in the United States, we have found it in heroin, methamphetamine, in some cases fentanyl, and more alarmingly, we have now seen it pressed into pills,” he said in a Sept. 10 interview with NTD, The Epoch Times’ sister media outlet.

“What we have seen is that these cartels, these transnational criminal organizations that are operating on a global scale, are intentionally lacing their drugs with fentanyl and now nitazenes to increase the high, to increase the addiction, to make more money.”

Tarantino said that traffickers are selling counterfeit prescription drugs such as oxycodone on the streets, online, or on social media. He warned that the only safe place to buy prescription drugs is through a legitimate pharmacy.

The Telegraph (UK).

Rap duo Bob Vylan mocked the death of Charlie Kirk during a concert in Amsterdam.
On Saturday the singer, real name Pascal Robinson-Foster, told the crowd: “I wanna dedicate this next one to an absolute piece of s— of a human being. The pronouns was/were.”

“Cos if you chat s—, you will get banged,” he continued.

He then made a gun symbol with his hands, and fans in the 1,500-strong crowd cheered. “Rest in p—, Charlie Kirk, you piece of s—,” he screamed in front of a large Palestine flag.

The duo was also accused of attempting to incite a pogrom, with Robinson-Foster leading the crowd in another chant of “death, death to the IDF”.

The De Telegraaf newspaper reported that the singer then shouted: “F— the fascists, f— the Zionists. Go find them in the streets.”

And there you have it.

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A massive homeless encampment in Koreatown has grown into what neighbors describe as a “city” of its own — complete with a tennis court, garden, barbecue pit, and even illegally rigged electricity, according to the NY Post.

“The reason why people are sleeping here is because you leaders are sleeping on not taking initiative and action to clean this place up,” resident Daniel King told ABC7.

Time to leave.

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New data shows that 64 percent of violent robberies, physical and sexual violence on public transport in Paris are committed by foreigners, with 43 percent of this number being North African, who represent only 3.4 percent of the population.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprisd.

The data, from the French agency INSEE, as reported by Fdesouche, also shows that in 2024, overall in France, foreigners committed 41 percent of violent robberies, physical and sexual violence on public transport. Nineteen percent of these crimes were committed by North Africans.

The foreign population in France is equivalent to 5.2 million people, or 7.7 percent of the total population. Of this number, 44.4 percent are from Africa.

These statistics do not break down information based on race or ethnicity, as France does not track such information. France also does not track the migration background of French citizens. Any foreigner who has since become a French citizen is tracked in the statistics as French.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Think of it as evolution in action….

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The U.S. Department of Education has stopped awarding grants to colleges based on the share of minority students they enroll, saying it is unconstitutional to use taxpayer dollars to promote “racial or ethnic quotas” at those schools.

As indeed it iw.

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Unless you live under a rock, you will jnow by now that conservative activist Charlie Kirk (31) was shot dead while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

At the time of writing, the shooter is still at large and a manhunt is underway.

Kirk was an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump and the founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative student movement.

In a statement, Trump blamed the rhetoric of the “radical left” for Kirk’s death while politicians on both sides of the aisle shared their condolences.

The shooting adds to a growing list of incidents of politically-motivated violence in the United States, with echoes of an incident last year when Trump was also nearly shot at a rally in front of a crowd.

Despite the major rift that exists between left and right, data shows that such acts of political violence are not tolerated by the vast majority of U.S. adults.

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For much of the past century, in both the United States and elsewhere, the inexorable trend has been for people to move from rural areas and towns to ever larger cities, particularly those with vibrant downtown cores such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and dozens of other iconic American cities. Most visions of the future still view urban cores as the uncontested centers of production, consumption, and culture, with rural areas, small cities, and suburbs relegated to the backwaters of modernity.

A RealClearInvestigations analysis has found that we may be on the cusp of a new era. Urban cores have started to shrink, losing first to the suburbs, then to ever further exurbs, and now to small towns and even rural areas. For the first time since the 19th century, America’s growth pattern favors smaller metros – Fargo, North Dakota, as opposed to Portland, Oregon – many of which once seemed out of favor.

This transformation can be hard to detect because demographers often discuss metropolitan regions, which put city centers at their cores. But this method of classification masks the trend that much of the growth is at the edges of these areas. In virtually all the fastest-growing metros, it has been the further-out exurbs, themselves until recently rural areas, that have experienced most of the expansion. While Raleigh, North Carolina – a sleepy state capital for much of its history – continues to draw migrants from across the country, the most explosive growth is not occurring in the city center but the surrounding “countrypolitan” towns of Apex, Fuquay-Varina, and Zebulon that offer land and a relaxed rural environment along with access to modern amenities.

Between 2010 and 2020, the suburbs and exurbs of the major metropolitan areas gained 2 million net domestic migrants, while the urban core counties lost 2.7 million. The pandemic, which normalized remote work and encouraged people to keep their distance, turbocharged this movement to smaller, less crowded, less expensive housing markets. Through the first four years of this decade, the urban core counties of the major metropolitan areas (over 1,000,000 population) lost 3,259,000 net domestic migrants, three times the rate of loss in the last decade. In contrast, 2.3 million net domestic migrants moved outside the major metros.

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A federal appeals court ordered Vermont to let a Christian school compete in state-sponsored sports events—even though the school doesn’t support the state’s view of “transgender” ideology.

That decision allows the school to finally participate in athletics again after suffering a yearslong ban for forfeiting a game that would have forced girls on its team to compete against a male playing on the opposing girls’ team.

In an opinion released Tuesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that state officials likely “displayed hostility toward the school’s religious beliefs” by banning it, and it instructed Vermont to let the school compete while the case continues.

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Later this month, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk will issue a report calling for massive reparations from the West for the alleged harms wrought by colonialism. It will be the culmination of a long-gestating effort within the U.N. and by Third World nations to squeeze money and demand other goodies from former colonial powers in the name of “reparatory justice.”

In addition to being historically ill-informed, the effort is racist. What began as a simple extortion effort has since been supercharged into an all-out assault on European cultures. Since being appointed in 2022, Türk has transformed his office. It now issues daily muezzin calls for uncontrolled mass migration to the West and the erasure of white cultures. His report should cause Western nations to abandon every U.N. agency that pursues this sick agenda.

The genesis of the colonial reparations movement (and the adjacent slavery reparations movement) that Türk is building on began as a fringe cause among Western Marxists in the 1970s. It was taken up by African nations following the first major conference on the topic in Lagos in 1990. The U.N. joined the chorus in the 2000s. It mustered political support for a renewed “Big Push” of development aid to Africa (most former colonial Asian nations want nothing to do with this backward agenda). The clamor grew by merging with the “racial justice” movement that erupted in the 2010s, reaching its crescendo on the streets of Minneapolis in 2020. “Behind today’s racial violence, systemic racism and discriminatory policing lies the failure to acknowledge and confront the legacy of the slave trade and colonialism,” Türk’s predecessor said at an “urgent” U.N. meeting at the time.