Dozens of Ukrainian soldiers undergoing training in France have reportedly deserted. The desertions come as the Ukrainian military is currently struggling to hold back Russian advances.
The French army admitted that dozens of the 2,300 soldiers undergoing training in the country had deserted but claimed the figure was small in comparison to the number of troops that had been trained. As such, desertion is not considered a crime in France; none of the men who fled the Ukrainian army will face any criminal repercussions while in the country.
The soldiers all belong to the brigade “Anna of Kiev,” named after the second wife of France’s King Henry I. Ukrainian journalist Yuri Butusov claimed that 50 soldiers deserted in France and that, overall, 1,700 have fled before being sent to the front. Notably, Ukrainian land forces commander Mykhailo Drapatyi was confronted by the reports on January 6. He simply stated that he would not refute them.
Russian forces are currently advancing toward key cities and towns like the logistics hub Pokovsk. According to some estimates, as many as a million soldiers have been killed or seriously wounded in the war since it began in February of 2022.
Former North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said as far back as last May that Ukraine was clearly losing the war on the ground. As a result of heavy losses and desertions, including men fleeing the country, the Ukrainian military has begun kidnapping people from nightclubs and other venues and sending them into combat.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is also being pressured by the outgoing Biden-Harris regime to lower the conscription age to 18 to bolster troop numbers.
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Dozens of Ukrainian soldiers undergoing training in France have reportedly deserted. The desertions come as the Ukrainian military is currently struggling to hold back Russian advances.
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The British Parliament has shut down efforts to launch an inquiry into predominantly PakistaniMuslimgrooming gangs preying on predominantly white working-class girls after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party voted against them. The Conservative Party’s reasoned amendment to Labour’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill calling for an inquiry was decisively rejected, 364 votes to 111, with only Conservative and Reform Party lawmakers voting in favor.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch argued for the inquiry during Prime Minister’s Questions, warning of potential perceptions of a “cover-up” and accusing the government of avoiding scrutiny of Labour figures potentially involved. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer responded, misleadingly, that multiple inquiries into grooming gangs had already taken place—however, none of these were national in scope, and none have resulted in public officials who enabled or turned a blind eye to the abuse facing criminal sanctions.
The reasoned amendment would have stopped the progress of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, urging the Labour government to instead “develop new legislative proposals for children’s wellbeing at the same time as establishing a national statutory inquiry into historical child sexual exploitation, focused on grooming gangs.”
Following reports that Labour’s Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, Jess Phillips, had refused to approve a local inquiry into grooming gang abuse in Oldham, England, tech billionaire Elon Musk began pressing the issue on his X platform, causing Britain’s right-leaning press and politicians to take up the issue.
Labour threatened to cut security ties with the United States this week unless President-elect Donald J. Trump distances himself from Musk’s views, given he is set to join the administration as a co-leader of the Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The British Parliament has shut down efforts to launch an inquiry into predominantly PakistaniMuslimgrooming gangs preying on predominantly white working-class girls after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party voted against them. The Conservative Party's reasoned amendment to Labour's Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill calling for an inquiry was decisively rejected, 364 votes to 111, with only Conservative and Reform Party lawmakers voting in favor.
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The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) allocated huge sums of money to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the months and years leading up to the wildfires currently gripping Los Angeles County, rapidly devastating thousands of acres of land while claiming two lives and around a thousand properties and counting as of the time of publication.
City budget documents covering the 2022-23 fiscal year show a $673,810 operational request for “Equity and Inclusion Staffing,” allocated to “a new Human Resources Bureau to implement a strategic diversity and inclusion plan, mediate conflict, mitigate complaints, grievances, lawsuites [sic], and facilitate a positive work environment.” Another operational request for “Diversity in Recruitment” allocates $418,778 for “the targeted recruitment of women and members of underrepresented groups.”
City documents covering the 2024-25 fiscal year also show an approved $1,777,715 operational request for “Equity and Inclusion Staffing,” allocated to “Continue funding and resolution authority for nine positions consisting of one Fire Deputy Chief, two Fire Battalion Chiefs, one Management Analyst, one Fire Assistant Chief, and four Fire Captain[s] to mediate conflict, implement a strategic diversity and inclusion plan, mitigate complaints, grievances, and lawsuits, and facilitate a positive work environment.”
Local firefighters have struggled to tackle the blazes, which currently remain at zero percent containment after starting Tuesday morning. Waterless fire hydrants and a lack of personnel and equipment have hampered the response to the crisis.
In addition to expending large sums of money on DEI, fire departments in the state have also been giving away allegedly surplus equipment to Ukraine in recent years.
🚨 JUST IN: A firefighter has been rescued after being injured fighting the Palisade Fire
At least four firefighters have been transported after sustaining injuries so far tonight
The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) allocated huge sums of money to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the months and years leading up to the wildfires currently gripping Los Angeles County, rapidly devastating thousands of acres of land while claiming two lives and around a thousand properties and counting as of the time of publication.
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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum‘s government is developing strategies to address potential mass deportations and tariffs threatened by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. One such measure is a “panic button” app for cell phones aimed at helping Mexican citizens in the United States signal the nearest consulate and family members in case of detention. The Sheinbaum government also plans to increase legal aid staff at over 50 consulates throughout the U.S., enhancing support for citizens facing deportation.
This response follows Trump’s campaign declarations, which have created widespread concern among Mexican officials, business leaders, and immigrants. Trump has not provided a detailed plan but has indicated a focus on deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records.
Recently, the U.S. House passed legislation entitled The Laken Riley Act targeting illegal immigrants accused of burglary, theft, and other so-called ‘nonviolent’ crimes for deportation. President Sheinbaum, who describes Mexican immigrants as “heroes,” has publicly opposed the deportation policy but has refrained from directly criticizing Trump.
With around 4.8 million illegal Mexicans in the U.S., the largest foreign national group, the Mexican government is emphasizing legal support, engaging over 300 advisors and seeking aid from various law firms.
Critics express skepticism about these initiatives, describing them as superficial. Additionally, doubts persist about the effectiveness of the panic button app and the practical capabilities of Mexican consulates amid budget cuts.
Mexican authorities are also working to support deportees who return to the border, although specific plans have yet to be detailed by Sheinbaum.
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Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum's government is developing strategies to address potential mass deportations and tariffs threatened by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. One such measure is a "panic button" app for cell phones aimed at helping Mexican citizens in the United States signal the nearest consulate and family members in case of detention. The Sheinbaum government also plans to increase legal aid staff at over 50 consulates throughout the U.S., enhancing support for citizens facing deportation.
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Far-left Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has complained about President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Defence Secretary pick Pete Hegseth, claiming he may be an “insider threat” because he has a Roman Catholic-inspired tattoo.
In a letter to Hegseth written on January 6, Senator Warren notes that Hegseth, then a National Guardsman, was removed from President Joe Biden’s inauguration because of concerns he was an “insider threat” due to a tattoo on his arm that reads Deus Vult, Latin for “God wills it.”
Warren claims the phrase is linked to “right-wing extremism” and states that “we cannot have a Defence Secretary whose fellow servicemembers feel concerned enough about to report as a potential insider threat.”
The phrase “Deus Vult” is associated with the Crusades and was allegedly shouted by knights in response to a speech by Pope Urban II. In it, the Pope called for Christians in the West to aid the Eastern Roman Empire, which was constantly under attack by armies of invading Muslims.
While not a Roman Catholic, Hegseth also sports a large Jerusalem Cross tattoo on his chest, a symbol of the city of Jerusalem and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Hegseth has previously addressed criticisms of his tattoos, accusing the media of “anti-Christian bigotry” on X last November.
Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, a practicing Roman Catholic, also defended Hegseth and slammed the Associated Press (AP), saying, “They’re attacking Pete Hegseth for having a Christian motto tattooed on his arm. This is disgusting anti-Christian bigotry from the AP, and the entire organization should be ashamed of itself.”
Under the Biden-Harris regime, some Christians have been targeted, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spying on Traditional Catholics across the country. The FBI also used “far-right extremism” as justification for the spying.
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Far-left Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has complained about President-elect Donald J. Trump's Defence Secretary pick Pete Hegseth, claiming he may be an "insider threat" because he has a Roman Catholic-inspired tattoo.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump is asking the United States Supreme Court to block his upcoming sentencing in a New York ‘hush money’ case. Trump, who was found guilty of falsifying business records, is scheduled for January 10. The President-elect, who has consistently denied the charges, was unsuccessful in appealing the sentencing date before a New York state appellate court earlier this week.
The emergency petition submitted by Trump’s legal team and being considered by Justice Sonia Sotomayor urges the Supreme Court to prevent what they describe as unlawful actions by New Yorkcourts. Trump’s attorneys cite the high court’s presidential immunity decision handed down earlier this year, which—in theory—negates at least a portion of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump. Additionally, the President-elect’s lawyers suggest that Trump’s sentence is part of a wider, politically-motivated lawfare campaign against him waged by the Democrat-controlled Department of Justice (DOJ).
“President Trump’s legal team filed an emergency petition with the United States Supreme Court, asking the Court to correct the unjust actions by New York courts and stop the unlawful sentencing in the Manhattan D.A.’s Witch Hunt,” Steve Cheung, the incoming White House communications director and spokesman for Trump said in a statement. He added: “The Supreme Court’s historic decision on Immunity, the Constitution, and established legal precedent mandate that this meritless hoax be immediately dismissed.”
The team has requested the Supreme Court to stay further proceedings in New York until Trump’s appeal is fully resolved. Judge Merchan, who set the January sentencing date, has previously indicated that an incarceration sentence is unlikely. Instead, Trump might face an unconditional discharge, which entails no penalties.
Trump is set to be inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States on January 20.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump is asking the United States Supreme Court to block his upcoming sentencing in a New York 'hush money' case. Trump, who was found guilty of falsifying business records, is scheduled for January 10. The President-elect, who has consistently denied the charges, was unsuccessful in appealing the sentencing date before a New York state appellate court earlier this week.
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Britain’s far-left Labour government is threatening to abandon its intelligence and national security relationships with the United States unless President-elect Donald J. Trump ends the influence of tech mogul Elon Musk in his incoming White House. According to the BBC, the demand comes from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer himself in response to Musk’s recent comments regarding Muslim grooming gangs in the country.
“There is absolute horror at the highest levels of the government at the incendiary language we have seen from Elon Musk,” BBC Newsnight reporter Nick Watt claims, adding: “And there’s going to be, as I understand it, a hard-headed assessment. Is this just the view of Elon Musk, or is it the view of the wider administration and the incoming President Donald Trump?”
Watt continues, suggesting if Musk’s view of Britain’s handling of the rape gangs is held more broadly, the Labour government could isolate from America’s broad and powerful security network. “[T]here may well be some very, very serious questions about the nature of our ongoing security partnership with the United States,” the BBC reporter said.
Musk’s recent comments regarding groomer rapists in Britain are not his first. The South African-American billionaire and space exploration innovator posed the question of whether groups of Muslim men were still preying on British girls in August on his X (formerly Twitter) social media platform. At least one victim of the gangs responded in the affirmative.
Meanwhile, in 2023—after purchasing X—Musk reinstated anti-grooming gang activist Tommy Robinson, who had been suspended by the social media platform’s prior owners.
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Britain's far-left Labour government is threatening to abandon its intelligence and national security relationships with the United States unless President-elect Donald J. Trump ends the influence of tech mogul Elon Musk in his incoming White House. According to the BBC, the demand comes from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer himself in response to Musk's recent comments regarding Muslim grooming gangs in the country.
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A wildfire in California has forced the evacuation of over 30,000 people in the Pacific Palisades and parts of Santa Monica near Los Angeles as the flames rage out of control. The cause of the fire, which ignited yesterday, remains unclear. Despite the ‘wrath of nature’ narrative that has formed around the devastating fires, a series of human actions could either have caused the wildfires or at least fueled their rapid spread.
The conflagration has been primarily fueled by a months-long drought and powerful Santa Ana winds coming off the mountains to the east, exacerbated by the recent atmospheric bomb cyclone that brought snow to the Great Plains and the northeastern United States. However, state mismanagement may have greatly exacerbated the situation.
STATE MANAGEMENT.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has repeatedly pressed California to focus on forest and brush management as a means of mitigating the massive wildfires that have come to devastate populated areas of the state every few years. A lack of state action has allowed large amounts of debris, including dried leaves, downed trees, and scrub, to build up, which can act as fuel for the fires.
In 2018, then-President Trump chastised Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) in the burned-out remains of the Town of Paradise after wildfires destroyed the locality. “You’ve got to take care of the floors, you know, the floors of the forests,” Trump said. “You look at other countries where they do it differently, and it’s a whole different story.”
FLASHBACK: Trump stood next to Gavin Newsom and stressed the importance of proper forest management after wildfires swept through California in 2018 pic.twitter.com/tE7ds4mxij
President Trump repeated his advice again in 2020, after a new round of wildfires devastated parts of California. “I see again the forest fires are starting,” he said. “They’re starting again in California. I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests — there are many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.”
“Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it because they don’t listen to us,” Trump added.
WHAT CAUSED THE FIRES?
The source of the fires is not yet known, but in the past, they have been sparked by any number of natural and human causes. Lighting strikes have kicked off conflagrations, though this does not appear to be the case in this instance. More often than not, wildfires begin because of either an incident of arson—including illegal immigrants starting a campfire or simply flicking a cigarette into the dried brush—or because of high winds down a power line.
Even more troubling, though, is what can cause these fires to spread. Besides the powerful Santa Ana winds, which supercharge the fires and spread embers over vast areas, California’s water management is also partially to blame. Firefighters battling the current inferno have found a number of fire hydrants without water, frustrating their efforts.
The lack of hydrant water, sustained high winds, and months of tried brush fuel built up across the Pacific Palisades resulted in over 3,000 acres being consumed by flames by Tuesday night, even though the wildfires only began Tuesday morning.
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A wildfire in California has forced the evacuation of over 30,000 people in the Pacific Palisades and parts of Santa Monica near Los Angeles as the flames rage out of control. The cause of the fire, which ignited yesterday, remains unclear. Despite the 'wrath of nature' narrative that has formed around the devastating fires, a series of human actions could either have caused the wildfires or at least fueled their rapid spread.
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Following the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, that left 14 dead, it has emerged that Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick is paid almost $340,000 and has raked in millions of dollars from the American taxpayer since 2017. Reporters questioned her competence following the attack, with no vehicle barriers having been in place. “Actually, we have them,” she admitted. “I didn’t know about them, but we have them, and so we have been able now to put them out”—too late to prevent the Islamic State-inspired attack.
Kirkpatrick, who has a background with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and has served in police departments in Chicago, Oakland, and five other cities, joined the New Orleans police in September 2023 with a salary of $337,943, making her the second-highest paid city employee. Since 2017, she has earned $2.97 million from taxpayers, including salaries and legal settlements.
The barriers police failed to deploy were purchased in 2017 and used to protect pedestrians on previous occasions. Their manufacturer described how they “allowed free pedestrian flow and emergency vehicle access through the streets while providing a solid perimeter to unwanted vehicles.” The fact pedestrians were unprotected on New Year’s Day because police leaders forgot they had them raises serious questions about whether their high salaries provide good value for money for taxpayers.
RECORD.
Before her tenure in New Orleans, Kirkpatrick was the chief of police in Oakland, California, starting in January 2017 with an initial salary of $250,003, which increased to $334,090 by 2019. Her tenure in Oakland ended controversially when she was dismissed without cause in February 2020. Kirkpatrick sued for wrongful termination, claiming she was let go for exposing corruption within the Oakland Police Commission. A federal jury sided with her in 2022, awarding her $1.5 million in damages, which included a year’s salary and legal fees.
Her career also took her to various cities, including Memphis and the Chicago Police Department’s Bureau of Professional Standards. For five months in 2016, she earned $79,652.
New Orleans, under Kirkpatrick’s leadership, saw 193 homicides in 2023, leading the nation with a rate of 53.8 per 100,000 people. In 2024, violent crimes numbered 2,408, with 120 homicides, which would rank fourth worst in the country based on 2023 data.
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Following the New Year's Day terror attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, that left 14 dead, it has emerged that Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick is paid almost $340,000 and has raked in millions of dollars from the American taxpayer since 2017. Reporters questioned her competence following the attack, with no vehicle barriers having been in place. “Actually, we have them," she admitted. "I didn’t know about them, but we have them, and so we have been able now to put them out”—too late to prevent the Islamic State-inspired attack.
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The Islamist behind the New Orleans truck attack that killed over a dozen people traveled to Canada and Egypt, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran, drove a truck into a crowd on New Year’s Day, resulting in the deaths of 14 individuals and injuries to numerous others, before he was killed in a shootout with police.
In videos posted to Facebook, Jabbar declared his allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group and indicated his original intent to broadcast the killing of his family, calling them “apostates.” Weapons, explosives, and an Islamic State flag were discovered in his vehicle.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Lyonel Myrthil confirmed Jabbar’s visits to Cairo, Egypt, in late June and early July and then Ontario, Canada, shortly after. Canadian authorities, working in collaboration with U.S. agencies, verified Jabbar’s travel from Houston to Canada. The FBI has reported Jabbar’s use of “smart glasses” during his October visit to New Orleans, which were present during the attack.
Jabbar’s family noted his conversion to Islam as an adult. While some friends recently noticed a growing religious interest, there were supposedly few indications of extremism.
The mosque attended by Jabbar, the Islamic Center of Greater Houston (ICHG) – Masjid Bilal, has a history of extremism. Imam Eiad Saudan once stated in a sermon in 2023 that Jews take over the economies of countries and claimed that was the reason Adolf Hitler killed them during the Holocaust.
Another imam, Mohammed ElFarooqui, gave another antisemitic sermon last August, claiming that the Islamic god Allah turned Jews into monkeys, rats, and pigs for disobeying him and that Jews “went out everywhere on the face of this earth [and] started creating havoc everywhere.”
The Islamist behind the New Orleans truck attack that killed over a dozen people traveled to Canada and Egypt, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran, drove a truck into a crowd on New Year's Day, resulting in the deaths of 14 individuals and injuries to numerous others, before he was killed in a shootout with police.
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