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Mass Stabbing in Solingen, Germany
Quote:An asylum seeker from Syria has been arrested after a mass stabbing at a “festival of diversity” in Germany on Friday evening.
At around 11 pm local time on Saturday, over 24 hours after the attack in Solingen, 26-year-old “Issa al H.” surrendered to police.
According to German tabloid Bild, he came up to a patrol car and said: “I am the one you are looking for.” He reportedly hid in a backyard to evade detection while the day-long police manhunt was underway.
During the attack, which took place in the city centre of Solingen at a “festival of diversity” as the city celebrated its 650th anniversary, three people were stabbed to death and six others were wounded, including four with life-threatening wounds.
The attacker was said to have specifically targeted his victim’s necks, leading to speculation that it was terror-related.
Der Spiegel reports that Issa al H. was born in Syria, in the city of Deir al-Zor, before coming to Germany in 2022 as an asylum seeker. Last year, he was granted protection, allowing him to remain in the country as a result of the civil war in his homeland.
He was reportedly not known to security authorities as an Islamic extremist, however, he is said to be a Sunni Muslim.
It was claimed that, according to witness statements gathered by police, the attacker had shouted out the Jihadi war cry “Allahu Akbar” as he carried out the attack on the diversity festival.
Meanwhile, Bild reported that an Islamic State (ISIS) branch claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack, saying that it was intended as revenge for “Muslims in Palestine”.
Syrians Arrested Over Stabbing of Music Teacher
Quote:Four Syrian brothers have been arrested after a 67-year-old teacher was nearly killed in a knife attack last month in a suburb of Hamburg, Germany.
The 67-year-old music teacher from Tornesch barely escaped with his life after being stabbed on July 19th in the parking lot outside of an adult education centre in Wedel outside of Hamburg.
The teacher reportedly suffered wounds to his neck and upper body before he escaped his attackers by fleeing inside the school.
Shortly after the attack, police arrested two men in connection with the stabbing, yet they were released due to a lack of evidence.
However, this week, four men, reportedly all brothers from Syria, aged 17, 19, 21, and 21, were arrested by the local homicide squad on suspicion of attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm,” Bild reports.
Public Prosecutor Peter Müller-Rakow said: “After the attack on a lecturer at the music school in Wedel, the public prosecutor’s office applied for arrest warrants against the four now urgent suspects for attempted murder in conjunction with dangerous bodily harm after extensive police investigations.”
Local police have confirmed that the teacher knew his attackers, however, it is currently unclear if they were students of his at the education centre.
The four Syrian brothers have now been remanded in custody and have yet to comment on the attack in front of the magistrate.
The education centre describes itself as “a place of lifelong learning, an education and meeting centre for all citizens, companies, institutions, clubs and associations in our region.”
“With our work, we stand for equal educational opportunities for all,” it’s website states.
NATO Air Base in Geilenkirchen, Germany on Alert
Quote:Security at a NATO air base in western Germany has been raised because of intelligence information pointing to a “potential threat,” and all staff not essential to missions have been sent home as a precaution, NATO said.
The Geilenkirchen air base, near the border with the Netherlands, is where the alliance’s Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, aircraft are based.
A post on the NATO AWACS fleet’s account on social media network X late Thursday night announcing that “we raised the security level” did not elaborate on the nature of the potential threat. It said that “operations continue as planned.”
The Geilenkirchen base said Friday that it had nothing to add to the statement and “the situation at the moment is unchanged.”
German news agency dpa said a reporter saw police cars on the grounds of the air base. Police confirmed a deployment Thursday night but gave no details, and offered no information on Friday morning.
Last week, a major German air force based near Cologne was locked down for several hours amid fears that its water supply might have been tampered with. An investigation found no evidence of such sabotage. There were also reports of suspicious observations at Geilenkirchen and a person was briefly detained for questioning near the base, dpa reported at the time, but there turned out to be nothing untoward.
The incidents come at a time of jitters about the possible vulnerability of infrastructure to attempted Russian sabotage.
On Thursday, prosecutors in Flensburg, in Germany’s far north, said they were investigating suspicions of espionage for the purpose of sabotage, without elaborating on who might be behind it. German media reported that drones had been spotted over a chemical park in Brunsbuettel, on the North Sea coast.
Scholz Criticizes Ukraine's Incursion
Quote:Ukraine did not warn Berlin before its Aug. 6 cross-border incursion into Russia, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday, adding he expected Kyiv’s military operation to be limited in time and scope.
Speaking at a press conference after talks with Moldovan President Maia Sandu in Chisinau, Reuters reports Scholz said Germany is monitoring further developments closely as Russia vows to repel the incursion.
Ukraine has prepared its military operation in the Kursk region very secretly and without feedback, which is certainly due to the situation.
This is a very limited operation in terms of space and probably also in terms of time.
Separately Scholz said Germany would continue to be what he said was Ukraine’s biggest supporter in Europe after controversy in recent days over what critics call wavering German support for Kyiv driven by domestic politicking.
As Breitbart News reported, Germany has halted future aid to Ukraine amid Berlin’s budget struggles.
All future requests from the Ministry of Defence for Ukraine aid will not be approved by Scholz as his leftist government seeks to cut costs to address the 12 billion euro budget shortfall.
More broadly Scholz’s awkward three-way coalition, which has struggled to reach a deal on its budget, plans to halve its aid next year, betting the shortfall will be made up by a G7 plan to loan Ukraine $50 billion.
Scholz said the G7 plan to use proceeds from frozen Russian assets to give the loans was “technically demanding, but politically clarified” and would give Ukraine a considerable increase in support.
Czechia Claims Ukraine Had to Attack Nord Stream Pipeline
Quote:Czech President Petr Pavel said that attacking the Nord Stream pipelines would have been a “legitimate” target for Ukraine amid reports pointing the finger at Kyiv for the sabotage.
Pavel, who previously served as NATO chairman and before that at the head of the Czech Armed Forces, said that while he has no information to confirm reports that the Zelensky-led government in Ukraine was behind the September 2022 assault on the Russo-German Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, such an attack would have been justifiable in light of the Russian invasion months prior.
Speaking to the online news magazine Novinky on Wednesday, the Czech president said: “When an armed conflict is waged, it is waged not only against military targets, but also against strategic targets. And pipelines are a strategic target. If the attack was aimed at cutting off gas and oil supplies to Europe and back money to Russia, then—and I say conditional on purpose—it would be a legitimate target.”
Pavel also attempted to downplay the significance of the sabotage, claiming that Nord Stream was not “critical” for European energy security, saying: “It certainly brought some complications, but not those that we couldn’t deal with. Pipelines have always been and will always be targets, because they have the potential to influence the conflict in one direction or another.”
However, in a likely reference to Germany, the Czech leader noted that if it was proven that Kyiv was behind the sabotage of Nord Stream, it could “affect the willingness of countries to provide assistance to Ukraine.”
Ukrainian Recruits Are Poorly Trained
Quote:Some new Ukrainian soldiers refuse to fire at the enemy. Others, according to commanders and fellow fighters, struggle to assemble weapons or to coordinate basic combat movements. A few have even walked away from their posts, abandoning the battlefield altogether.
While Ukraine presses on with its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, its troops are still losing precious ground along the country’s eastern front – a grim erosion that military commanders blame in part on poorly trained recruits drawn from a recent mobilization drive, as well as Russia’s clear superiority in ammunition and air power.
“Some people don’t want to shoot. They see the enemy in the firing position in trenches but don’t open fire. … That is why our men are dying,” said a frustrated battalion commander in Ukraine’s 47th Brigade. “When they don’t use the weapon, they are ineffective.”
The accounts come from commanders and soldiers who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity in order to speak freely about sensitive military matters. Others spoke on the condition that they be identified only by their call signs in keeping with Ukrainian military protocol.
Commanders say the recruits have contributed to a string of territorial losses that enabled Russia’s army to advance, including near the city of Pokrovsk, a critical logistics hub. If it falls, the defeat would imperil Ukraine´s defenses and bring Russia closer to its stated aim of capturing the Donetsk region. Russian soldiers are now just 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away.
Adding to Ukraine’s woes are Russia’s huge advantage in manpower and its willingness to accept staggering losses in return for capturing small objectives.
The recently conscripted Ukrainians are a far cry from the battle-hardened fighters who flocked to join the war in the first year of the full-scale invasion. The new troops lack even a minimal level of training, commanders and soldiers from four brigades defending the Pokrovsk area said.
They described having to plan operations with infantry who are unable to shoot targets and uninformed about basic topography. Some recruits simply lacked faith in the battle plans of their superiors and walked away from prepared positions.
Frustrated with the quality of the new conscripts sent to the front line by territorial recruitment centers, commanders are now seeking to conduct their own mobilization drives to better screen and train new fighters, multiple commanders and soldiers said.
PM Modi in Ukraine
Quote:Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a historic visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, alongside President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, signing multiple agreements with the state and honoring the victims of Russia’s invasion.
Modi became the first person in India’s top government office to visit sovereign Ukraine and sought to improve ties after months of tensions between Kyiv and New Delhi, originating in India’s close relationship with Russia. India is one of Russia’s most loyal buyers of crude oil, buying it cheaply and refining it to sell it at higher prices to the West. The Indian government has also refused to sign onto sanctions on the Russian economy and Modi himself has visibly elevated his friendship with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in the public eye, visiting Moscow in July.
Zelensky was publicly critical of Modi for meeting with Putin, to which Modi responded by agreeing to visit Kyiv.
Modi began his tour of Kyiv by meeting with Indian nationals in the capital city, then met with Zelensky to mark the eve of Ukrainian Independence Day and honor civilian victims of the Russian full-scale invasion:
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“Conflict is particularly devastating for young children. My heart goes out to the families of children who lost their lives, and I pray that they find the strength to endure their grief,” Modi said in a statement for social media.
Russia: Snipers Kill ISIS Operatives in Prison
Quote:Snipers from Russia’s national guard on Friday killed four inmates who had seized prison guards as hostages and declared allegiance to the Islamic State group, Russian media reports said.
The National Guard Service said the rebellious inmates were “neutralized” and all the hostages had been freed, although the number of hostages was not immediately specified, the reports said.
Details of the violence at the prison in Surovkino, 860 kilometers (535 miles) southeast of Moscow, were sparse and it was not clear how the inmates had taken hostages several hours earlier.
Before the inmates were shot, state news agency Tass said four victims were taken to a local hospital and two of them were in serious condition. Unconfirmed reports on Telegram messaging channels said one or two people died.
Russian news site Meduza posted a video that it said was from the scene, showing men wielding knives inside and in a prison yard and several men in what appeared to be guard uniforms lying in blood on the ground.
In the video, the alleged attackers claimed support for the Islamic State Group and for the suspects arrested in the March terrorist attack on a Moscow concert hall that left 145 people dead. An IS affiliate claimed responsibility for that attack, in which gunmen killed patrons waiting for a popular music group to perform and set the building on fire.
Tass said court records showed that the hostage-takers were from former Soviet Central Asian countries; all the concert hall attack suspects are from Tajikistan.
Russia Files Charges Against CNN Team
Quote:Russian officials filed criminal charges Thursday against CNN reporter Nick Paton Walsh, along with Ukrainian reporters Olesia Borovyk and Diana Butsko, for allegedly crossing the Russian border illegally to file reports on the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk.
Russia’s FSB, successor to the KGB, said it would place all three journalists on an “international wanted list.”
Walsh is CNN’s chief international security correspondent. The Ukrainian government invited him last week to visit Sudzha, a Russian town held by Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian troops pushed across the border into Russia’s Kursk province on August 6, and still hold territory in Russia to this day.
Walsh filed a report from Sudzha last Friday. He described residents of the town as stunned by the swift and sudden Ukrainian assault, and noted they have generally been treated well by the occupying force.
“Throughout this conflict our team has delivered factual, impartial reporting covering both the Ukrainian and Russian perspectives on the war,” CNN said in Walsh’s defense after the FSB announced its criminal investigation.
“Our team was invited by the Ukrainian government, along with other international journalists, and escorted by the Ukrainian military to view territory it had recently occupied. This is protected activity in accordance with the rights afforded to journalists under the Geneva Convention and international law,” the network pointed out.
The FSB took similar action last weekend against two Italian journalists who entered Kursk with Ukrainian troops.
Moscow summoned the Italian ambassador to complain that reporters Simone Traini and Stefania Battistini of Italian state broadcaster RAI illegally crossed the border to commit journalism. Italy responded that RAI plans its reporting activities in a “totally free and independent way.”
The Russians have also threatened to file charges against an American reporter and photographer, Siobhan O’Grady and Ed Ram of the Washington Post, for filing a report from Sudzha.
UK Government Needs More Asylum Seekers
Quote:The number of asylum seekers being granted UK refugee status has soared to the highest number since records began nearly 40 years ago, official figures released Thursday show.
A total of 67,978 asylum claims were granted by the Home Office in the year to June, more than triple the 21,436 in the previous year, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Migrants who arrived by crossing the Channel on small boats accounted for more than a third of the decisions – some 35,176, over four times more than in the year ending June 2023, when there were just 7,888, according to the Home Office data seen by the outlet.
The Telegraph report details the exact numbers:
Home Office caseworkers made just under 92,000 initial decisions on asylum claims in the year – the highest level in two decades.
Of those, 58 percent were given asylum or another form of humanitarian protection, down from 71 percent in the year ending June 2023 after the Tories tightened the rules.
Before the pandemic, the “grant rate” – the proportion of asylum applications which lead to refugee status at the initial stage – was about a third.
The sheer volume is even higher than during the asylum crisis in the early 2000s.
The introduction by former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of fast-track schemes and trebling in the number of caseworkers making decisions has been pinpointed as the moment approvals started soaring.
The schemes were introduced in an attempt to clear a backlog of cases as Sunak scrambled to deliver on his pledge to “abolish” the list.
The surging number of migrants being granted asylum shows no sign of diminishing under the new left-wing Labour government of Sir Keir Starmer.
As Breitbart News reported in July, since the new government came into power over 3,000 illegal boat migrants have crossed the English Channel from France, throwing into question Starmer’s ability to “stop the boats”.
UK: 6 in 10 Labour Voters Disagree with Immigration Policies
Quote:A survey of UK Labour Party voters found that a majority think that the government should work to reduce immigration into Britain, putting further pressure on fledgling Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The JL Partners polling firm asked over 1,000 voters of the left-wing Labour Party to put themselves on a scale of 0 to 100, with 0 representing a desire for significant reduction of migration and 100 for more migration into the country.
The survey found that 57 per cent put themselves below 50, meaning that they favoured cutting immigration, compared to just 27 per cent who supported more foreigners entering the country, The Sun reports.
While those surveyed put Prime Minister Starmer’s position at 43 out of 100, the average Labour voter scored themselves at 37, meaning that his own base is to the right of the government on immigration.
The poll also found that around one in four Labour Party voters would consider defecting and voting for Brexit leader Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
While the Farage-led party holds many traditionally conservative policy positions, Reform UK has made its mission to target voters in working-class Labour Party strongholds, many of whom voted for Brexit over a desire to reduce immigration.
Indeed, in last month’s election, Farage’s upstart Reform party outperformed the Tories to come in second-place to the Labour Party in 98 seats, suggesting that the relatively new party’s message is resonating in the so-called “Red Wall” areas of the country.
Robin Hood Now Stealing on Behalf of the CCP?
Quote:Taxpayer-funded British foreign aid is being directed to areas of the world that are wealthier than some sections of the UK, including to fund projects in Communist China, a study found.
A report from the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank has found that taxpayer money has been directed to aid projects in wealthy areas of countries like China, Mexico, and Malaysia.
While areas of Britain continue to languish with lack of investment, the IEA claimed that foreign aid was acting like “Robin Hood in reverse” and called on the government to “urgently re-evaluate” the priorities of international aid spending.
The report found that aid dolled out by the UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) has been directed over the past five years to fund arts, infrastructure, and tech projects in middle-class areas throughout the world, often in regions richer than parts of the UK.
According to the IEA, British taxpayer money funded a £200,000 project in the prosperous Chinese city of Shanghai to promote a traditional all-female opera through digital media. Another £200,000 project backed by the UK sought to “foster creativity in Chinese communities” in Shanghai, despite the city having a similar GDP per capita to leafy London suburbs like Redbridge and Waltham Forest.
The report found that the richest region to receive British taxpayer money was the Chinese city of Ordos, which is wealthier than 69 regions in the UK. Other relatively prosperous Chinese cities to receive aid included the capital Beijing, Guangzhou, and the Hong Kong-adjacent city of Shenzhen, which is richer than seven British regions.
Elsewhere, the UK taxpayer funded projects in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, which is wealthier than five UK regions, and the Mexican city of Campeche, which has a higher GDP per capita than 36 regions in Britain.
The think tank said that the reason for aid being directed towards relatively well-off areas of the world was likely a result of civil servants and aid workers preferring to locate themselves in areas with more comfortable living standards, better infrastructure, and more opportunities for professional networking.
The paper called for the International Development Act 2002, instituted under former Labour Party PM Tony Blair, to be amended so that foreign aid is only sent to regions with a £10,914 GDP per capita or below.
UK: Magistrates Shouldn't Jail Offenders, Prisons are Overcrowded
Quote:The latest effort to ease pressure on Britain’s overcrowded prisons has been issued with magistrates told to stop jailing convicted criminals for several weeks and postpone sentencing.
A “listing direction” has been issued to the managers of magistrates’ courts in England and Wales with the order.
It suggests offenders likely to be jailed should have sentencing postponed until the left-wing Labour government’s early release scheme comes into effect on September 10, as Breitbart News reported.
The order to magistrates from Lord Justice Green, a senior judge who sits on the Court of Appeal and is also the deputy senior presiding judge, is reportedly likely to affect hundreds if not thousands of offenders.
The Times reports a Ministry of Justice spokesman said the guidelines did not apply to high-risk offenders who were already on remand, adding the problem of overcrowding has been inherited from the previous Conservative government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak:
The changes coming into force in September will bring it under control.
Independent judges decide when to schedule court hearings and do so in the interests of justice, including to ensure the effective operation of the criminal justice system.
Magistrates’ courts handled more than 1.3 million cases last year.
Tom Franklin, chief executive of the Magistrates Association, told the Times: “Every delay in magistrates’ work adversely affects the timely delivery of justice and impacts victims, witnesses and defendants.”
He said Green’s direction was “the latest sticking plaster to try to get through until the big release of prisoners on September 10 but just highlights the crisis that the justice system is in.”
UN on Hate Speech in UK
Quote:The United Nations issued a warning to the UK on Friday saying the time has come for it to take action to curb racist hate speech, including by politicians.
A report containing the caution, released at the globalist body’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, claimed the persistence of hate speech published in mainstream media, online, and spread by politicians and public figures, needs immediate redress in the UK.
No direct examples were given within the study to back the assertions. The UK was included in the work alongside Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Venezuela as needing attention forthwith.
No single UK politician has been singled out for a direct warning to curb their speech, but authorities were told to “formally and publicly reject and condemn hate speech and the dissemination of racist ideas”.
The unelected body said it was “particularly concerned” about racist acts and violence by “far-right and white supremacist” groups, seen during anti-mass migration riots across England and Northern Ireland.
The recommendations were contained in a four-year external review addressing the UK’s record on tackling racial discrimination – a requirement for countries signed on to international conventions.
The U.N. Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination urged the UK to address alleged racial profiling by police and alleged discrimination in criminal justice, housing, schools and healthcare.
It also said it was especially disappointed and concerned by the claimed persistence and in some cases “sharp increase” of hate crimes and hate speech in the UK.
The committee highlighted what they said were recurring racist acts and violence against minorities, asylum seekers and refugees, including during riots in late July and early August.
The U.N. report follows a study in 2021 that decried a disproportionate focus on the political right that has taken away the necessary resources from confronting Islamist extremists in the UK’s battle against terrorism, as Breitbart News reported.
Greece Against People Smugglers
Quote:The crew of a Greek coast guard vessel opened fire on a speedboat smuggling migrants – including several children – from neighboring Turkey killing one passenger, Greek authorities said Friday.
A coast guard statement said shots were fired, first into the air and then at the speedboat’s engine “to avert the direct threat to the patrol boat and its crew” after the helmsman rammed the Greek patrol boat in a bid to escape arrest.
When the boat came to a halt, the statement said, the passenger was found fatally wounded, “probably by a bullet.”
The remaining 13 people on the plastic speedboat – 5 children, 7 men and a woman – were unharmed and were taken to the southeast Aegean Sea island of Symi. The dead passenger was identified as a 39-year-old man. His nationality was not immediately known.
The statement said the incident occurred northwest of Symi after the helmsman of the smuggling boat ignored multiple calls to stop. It said he “repeatedly carried out extremely dangerous maneuvers, ramming the patrol boat.”
USA
RFK Jr Suspends Campaign
Quote:UPDATE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated he is suspending his campaign but not ending it, urging residents of blue states to vote for him but throwing his support behind former President Donald Trump in battleground states.
Original story follows below:
Democrat-turned-Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to endorse former President Donald Trump for president on Friday in Arizona, according to a report by the Associated Press.
Kennedy, the son of the late Democratic Party icon Robert F. Kennedy, built a career as an environmental lawyer. He has embraced unlikely causes throughout his life, gaining notoriety for questioning the efficacy of some vaccines.
He launched his campaign as an anti-establishment mission to shake Washington free from the grip of establishment elites. Unlike many Democrats, he did not demonize Trump or Trump supporters.
He ran as a Democrat at first, but left the party after he concluded that Democrats were arranging their primary to make it impossible for any insurgent campaign against President Joe Biden to succeed.
While he gained some traction as an independent — together with running mate Nicole Shanahan, a Silicon Valley attorney — he also found his path blocked by Democrats and Democratic Party-aligned groups that sued in several states to keep him off the ballot.
Democrats — ostensibly “defending democracy” — were concerned about losing votes to Kennedy, enabling Trump to win key swing states.
Kennedy is set to speak to reporters in Arizona early Friday afternoon, and is rumored to be joining Trump at a campaign event later in the state.
Trump Announces Future Commission
Quote:Former President Donald Trump pledged at his rally in Glendale, Arizona, on Friday night to create a commission on presidential assassination attempts if he is elected in November.
Trump said the commission would be in tribute to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who joined him on stage at the Turning Point Action rally at the Desert Diamond Arena as the Republican presidential candidate’s special guest.
“After I was — can’t even believe I have to say this — nearly assassinated in Pennsylvania last month, Bobby called me to express his best wishes. He knows firsthand the risks incurred by leaders who stand up to the corrupt political establishment,” Trump said. “And when you stand up, you bring on some trouble for yourself, but you have to do what’s right. You have to do what’s right for the country. I’ll tell you, we are both in this to do what’s right for the country.”
Both Kennedy’s father and uncle were assassinated. Kennedy’s father, Robert F. Kennedy, was shot on June 5, 1968, after winning the Democrat primary in California and died the next day. Kennedy’s uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been very vocal in his belief that the CIA was involved in the killing of his uncle.
“He lost his father and uncle in service to our country, and Bobby himself was subject to repeated threats to his safety during the course of his campaign, while being denied protection by the Harris-Biden administration,” Trump said. The Biden administration notably only ordered Secret Service protection for RFK Jr. after the Trump assassination attempt and after Trump demanded protection for him.
Trump said the commission would be “tasked with releasing all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.” Over 13,000 documents pertaining to his assassination were released in 2022, although many are still being withheld from the public.
Foo Fighters Against Trump
Quote:Like clockwork, the proverbial complaints from musicians rolled in after a Trump rally, as bands who once “raged against the machine” now rage for it. On Friday, the Foo Fighters decried their 1997 hit song “My Hero” being played at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Glendale, Arizona, as Democrat-turned-Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the stage to endorse the 45th president.
The chorus of “My Hero” played as John F. Kennedy’s nephew walked out on stage while flash pots went off and Trump rally attendees cheered.
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An X account named “Wu Tang is for the Children” posted video of the rally, asking the Foo Fighters if they “let Trump use ‘My Hero’ to welcome RKJ Jr. on stage,” to which the band simply replied, “No.”
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The Foo Fighters then took a screenshot of the exchange and posted it to their own X account for their 3.2 million followers to see — alongside the caption, “Let us be clear.”
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“Foo Fighters were not asked permission, and if they were, they would not have granted it,” the band’s spokesperson told Billboard, adding that “appropriate actions are being taken” against the Trump campaign.
Any royalties received as a result of the song usage will be donated to the Harris/Walz campaign, the spokesperson said.
Notably, the Trump rally was co-hosted by Charlie Kirk’s organization, Turning Point Action, known for its usage of flash pots and other effects that make political events feel more like concerts.
Walz, Harvard & China
Report: Tim Walz Caught Inflating Background Again, Making It Look Like Harvard Behind China Classes
Quote:Democrat vice-presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) was caught inflating his background and making it seem like Harvard University was behind a teaching program in China in which he participated, according to a recent report.
A report from the Washington Free Beacon found that Walz had lied about being “named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce,” and seemingly implying that Harvard University was behind a teaching program, and had picked Walz for “an opportunity” to teach in China through a university program. The program, WorldTeach, was founded in 1986 by several graduates from Harvard University, according to the organization’s LinkedIn page.
Both lies appear in his biography in an archived version of his campaign website in 2006 as he was running for Congress.
This comes after Walz previously falsely claimed that his children were conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), claimed that he had carried weapons of war “in war,” and that he had retired as a “command sergeant major” when he had actually retired as a Master Sergeant.
“With his teaching degree complete, Harvard University offered Walz an opportunity to gain a new perspective on global education by teaching in the People’s Republic of China,” Walz’s biography on the archived website says. “Working in China during 1989-1990, Walz was a member of one of the first government sanctioned groups of American educators to teach in Chinese high schools.”
The outlet noted that Walz’s congressional biography had allegedly “said the same thing,” and that a 2018 biography allegedly implied that Walz had been teaching in China through the WorldTeach program, “a program at Harvard University.”
The program in question is the WorldTeach program, a nonprofit founded by Harvard undergraduates, including the Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Kremer, in 1986. For a time, the program was funded by Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association, which the Harvard Crimson has characterized as “a student-run community service group” that disburses resources to an array of nonprofit organizations and facilitates volunteerism for Harvard students. WorldTeach, which is currently dormant, does not appear to have ever been an official program of Harvard.
A 2001 article in the Harvard Gazette notes that WorldTeach, which began as a “student-run organization,” was “sponsored by the Center for International Development (CID)” and was “an independent nonprofit organization.”
WorldTeach got its start as a student-run organization in the Phillips Brooks House 15 years ago. Although it is sponsored by the Center for International Development (CID), WorldTeach is now an independent nonprofit organization. The center finances eight spots for Harvard students in WorldTeach’s 2-year-old summer undergraduate internship.
Democrats on Cheap Housing for Immigrants
Quote:Democratic politicians nationwide are trying to put many illegal migrants into apartments and homes that would otherwise go to young Americans.
In California, Democrats in the state Assembly have passed legislation that would create homebuyer tax breaks for illegal migrants who walked through weak border controls.
“When undocumented individuals are excluded from such [house-buying] programs, they miss out on a crucial method of securing financial security and personal stability for themselves and their families,” according to the sponsor, Rep. Joaquin Arambula, a Democrat with a large and poor Latino constituency in Fresno Valley.
The giveaway will drive up Americans’ housing costs — and make life tougher for the 85 percent of American-born California families who earn less than roughly $80,000 per year and spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing, according to a pro-migrant advocacy group.
In Canada, the government’s mass migration policy is preventing many young Canadians from buying homes, reducing the birth rate, exploding Canada’s homeless population, and shifting vast wealth to older investors. Many young people will lose the retirement wealth that their parents earned from house ownership, Canada’s pro-migration Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted in July.
CNN on Harris's Press-Interview Phobia
Quote:On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” CNN host Kaitlan Collins said that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris should do interviews because “anyone who wants to have access to the nuclear codes should be willing to sit down and take questions.”
Host Bill Maher said, “What do you think about the fact that Kamala doesn’t talk to the press? In a way, I feel like it’s more insulting than what Trump does. And Trump says you’re the enemy of the people, which is pretty bad. What she’s kind of saying is, I don’t need you, and I’m not talking to you, you don’t matter, you’re not relevant anymore. To me, that’s even worse than I hate you. It’s like, I don’t think about you.”
Collins responded, “I don’t know if it’s worse than denigrating the press on a daily basis, which is what Donald Trump did. I covered him in the White House every day as a correspondent, and oftentimes, to kind of shake you if you were asking him a question, he would try to get into a personal argument with you or just deny or lie about what you were asking about. And so, I don’t know if I would compare the two. I do think she should talk to the press. I think anyone who wants to have access to the nuclear codes should be willing to sit down and take questions. And we’d love to have her on the show.”
CANADA
Railways & Flights
Quote:The Canadian government finally took action to resolve the railroad labor crisis on Friday, ordering Canadian National Railway (CN), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), and the Teamsters union to accept mediation by a third party.
Even as a faint glimmer of light appeared at the end of the railroad tunnel, Air Canada’s pilots voted overwhelmingly to authorize their own strike.
Canada’s railroad drama, a confluence of bad timing and seemingly intractable demands by all parties, triggered a shutdown of railroad freight on Thursday. Both Canadian and American business groups pleaded with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take action, as consumers in both countries stood to suffer billions of dollars in damage, particularly in the food and agriculture sector.
Trudeau has been under enormous pressure from the left wing of his political coalition to stay out of the dispute because the left saw mediation of the dispute as inevitably favoring the railroad companies over labor.
On Friday, Labor Minister Stephen MacKinnon ordered the union and rail companies to accept binding arbitration from a third-party mediator, namely the Canada Industrial Relations Board.
“These collective bargaining negotiations belong to these parties, but their effects and the impacts of the current impasse are being borne by all Canadians. And there is an impasse,” MacKinnon said.
“It is the government’s responsibility to ensure industrial peace in this critically vital sector. Thus we will be examining why we experienced repeated conflicts in the railway sector and the conditions that led to the parallel work stoppages we are seeing,” he said.
MacKinnon insisted the Trudeau administration is still “committed totally to collective bargaining” and wants to give it “every possible opportunity to succeed,” but the government felt the consequences of a railroad shutdown were simply too dire to allow it to continue indefinitely.
The labor minister said he expected the arbitration process to deliver results within a matter of days. Meanwhile, he required the railroads to begin resuming services, and told union employees to return to work under emergency extensions of their existing contracts.
CN said it effectively lifted its lockout a matter of hours after it began on Thursday, in order to “expedite the recovery of the economy.”
CPKC, on the other hand, said that while it would like to resume railroad operations, the unions remain intransigent and may file a legal challenge against MacKinnon’s arbitration order.
The Teamsters insisted the “main obstacles to reaching an agreement remain the companies’ demands, not union proposals,” and on Friday they issued a 72-hour strike notice against CN. Meanwhile, the union representing about 3,300 CPKC employees did indeed announce they would file a legal challenge against the arbitration order.
“We are focused on getting back to work. The Teamsters are focused on getting back to the picket line,” CN spokesman Jonathan Abecassis said on Friday.
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