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August 8, 2023
Jake Welch
News

13 Dead in Just 5 Days of DC Summer Violence.

Washington D.C. witnessed 13 homicides within the first five days of August as the city’s authorities continue struggling in their effort to prevent the uptick in violent crime occurring in the United States capital.

The recent spate of killings took place in various locations in the city, with one occurring at 1900 13th St NW – walking distance from the White House.

The total number of homicides in the Capitol this year alone is at least 161, which represents an increase of 28 percent compared to last year, according to the District Crime Data. The city also passed 100 annual homicides at the “fastest rate in 20 years” earlier this summer.

Local Democrat city councilor Trayon White Sr has even suggested calling the National Guard to the city to assist as the D.C. police force – with the number of officers at the lowest level in half a century – is unable to control the surge in criminality. “Crime is out of control and getting worse by the day… kids and innocent people are getting killed. It’s becoming status quo with no end in sight,” argues White.

The Washington D.C. council took to passing an emergency safety bill last month after July, similarly to August, began with ten killings in the first five days. The legislation made it easier for authorities to detain those accused of violent crimes and felonized firing a gun in public. However, its impact has so far been limited.

Criminality in general has been skyrocketing in the U.S. Capitol, with offenses, including sexual abuse, assault with a weapon, and robbery, having increased by 37 percent in 2023 compared to last year.

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Washington D.C. witnessed 13 homicides within the first five days of August as the city's authorities continue struggling in their effort to prevent the uptick in violent crime occurring in the United States capital. show more
boer
August 8, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
World

White Farmers Attacked, 79-Year-Old Has Throat Slit, After Media Defense of ‘Kill the Boer’ Chant.

White farmers in South Africa have been brutally attacked after a leading politician led a packed stadium in chants of “kill the Boer, the farmer,” and the corporate media’s globally broadcast defense of the incident. Theo Bekker, 79, was brutally murdered in a farm attack on Sunday, with the South African Agricultural Union (TAU) reporting 35 such murders committed this year.

“[A]fter the chanting… there [have] been two farm attacks and one farm murder,” said Ernst Roets, a civil rights activist whose AfriForum organization represents Dutch-origin Afrikaners, often described as Boers, who make up the bulk of South Africa’s roughly 4.6 million-strong white minority.

“An elderly man was severely beaten, from what we know he was beaten with a pipe, and eventually he was murdered when his throat was slit. His wife is in a severe condition, a critical condition, in hospital… just a few days after this chant was made,” he added, in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter.

Earlier this week, the platform’s South Africa-born platform owner Elon Musk elevated the Afrikaners’ plight by slamming the ‘Kill the Boer’ chants, led by Julius Malema at a rally of his Marxist-Leninist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, as a call to “genocide”.

South African politicians and Western media often deny there is any racial element to farm attacks in South Africa, with The New York Times even publishing an article suggesting that calls to “kill the Boer, the farmer” should not be “taken literally”. Musk expressed disbelief that the NYT had “the nerve to support calls for genocide,” recommending people “cancel” the newspaper and circumvent its paywall.

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White farmers in South Africa have been brutally attacked after a leading politician led a packed stadium in chants of "kill the Boer, the farmer," and the corporate media's globally broadcast defense of the incident. Theo Bekker, 79, was brutally murdered in a farm attack on Sunday, with the South African Agricultural Union (TAU) reporting 35 such murders committed this year. show more
USAID LGBT
August 7, 2023
News

Biden’s USAID Focuses on Trans, Abortion Activism in New Report Featuring Bizarre Terms and Creepier Imagery.

Joe Biden’s United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a new ‘LGBTQI+ Inclusive Development Policy,’ which demands foreign countries adhere to woke U.S. standards including the use of personal pronouns, ‘allyship’, and even the notion that “cisgender LGBQ individuals with stable employment and income, while still stigmatized, may also live a very different reality than gender-nonconforming, intersex, and/or transgender individuals.”

The document published this week also features an illustration of what appears to be an adult man holding the hand of a clearly unrelated young child alongside some one carrying a “genderfluid” bag, and a plethora of LGBTQI+ “flags” being waved at a pink-haired woman.

The stated outcomes of Biden’s USAID policy focus is to introduce gay pride and gender theory masquerading as “comprehensive sexuality education”. The document also stresses “reproductive rights” aka abortion on demand, and introduces the phrase “sexual orientation, a gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics” with the acronym: “SOGIESC”.

SOGIESC, according to the United Nation’s “Glossary of Definitions”, is an “umbrella term for all people whose sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and/or sex characteristics place them outside culturally mainstream categories,” and thusly represents the “+” in LGBTQI+.

The UN also states in the same document that the word “homosexual” should no longer be used, because it is “perceived as clinical in nature,” and that special care should be taken not to use “any terms that associate people with diverse SOGIESC with pedophilia.”

USAID is a federal agency that is supposed to use American taxpayer funding for international aid, and for basic requirements, including food, infrastructure, and medicine. With its budget of tens of billions per year, Biden’s USAID claims it now has a “steadfast commitment to championing LGBTQI+ inclusive development and the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons as part of a coordinated, whole-of-government effort with our partners on the ground.”

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Jake Welch and Raheem Kassam contributed to this report.

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Joe Biden's United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a new 'LGBTQI+ Inclusive Development Policy,' which demands foreign countries adhere to woke U.S. standards including the use of personal pronouns, 'allyship', and even the notion that "cisgender LGBQ individuals with stable employment and income, while still stigmatized, may also live a very different reality than gender-nonconforming, intersex, and/or transgender individuals." show more
August 7, 2023
Jake Welch
Immigration
News

Majority White America to End With Gen Z.

Generation Z – born between 1997 and 2013 – will become the last majority-white generation in America, with non-Hispanic whites becoming a “majority minority” with the arrival of Generation Alpha – those born since 2010, according to recent census data.

The number of non-Hispanic white people is projected to fall below 50 percent as early as 2045, with that number set to drop further among the under-18 population, which is expected to make up just 40 percent of America’s population by 2050. Indeed, racial minorities accounted for “all net population growth in post-baby-boomer generations,” reports the Brookings Institution, which analyzed the census data.

Non-Hispanic whites make up only 47 percent of Generation Z, which is the first generation in American history that white people are not an absolute majority. Among those over 75s, white people make up 77 percent of the population, compared to 67 percent of those aged between 55 and 64, and 55 percent of those between the ages of 35 to 44.

Richard Alba, professor emeritus in sociology at the City University of New York, said: “In a sense, we’re forming a new kind of mainstream society here, which is going to be very diverse. But whites are going to be a big part of that. It’s not like they’re going to disappear and be supplanted.”

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Generation Z – born between 1997 and 2013 – will become the last majority-white generation in America, with non-Hispanic whites becoming a "majority minority" with the arrival of Generation Alpha – those born since 2010, according to recent census data. show more
america first
August 7, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

‘Leaked’ Dem Memo Accepts Trump’s Populist, America First Stance Is A Vote Winner.

The campaign arm of Congressional Democrats plans to attack House Republicans using populist benchmarks, per a memo from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The strategy revolves around a paid media campaign highlighting votes that threatened U.S. manufacturing jobs “in states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas,” as well as cutting veteran’s services, defunding law enforcement, gutting manufacturing jobs, and even – ironically – upholding a culture of corruption in Washington.

The memo even mentions Republicans who ignore “the kitchen table issues like lowering costs and creating good-paying jobs,” in a sure sign that even the left, ahead of establishment Republicans, understand that Donald Trump’s America First populist message is a vote winner.

One specific example is H.R.2811 (the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023) – legislation they refer to as the ‘Default on America Act’ – alongside a handful of bills that comprise the House GOP budget proposal.

The DCCC memo also details a plan to drive a wedge between more establishment candidates and the GOP’s pro-Trump MAGA base. The memo appears to tacitly acknowledge that former President Donald Trump and his populist policies remain popular among both Republican, independent, and even Democrat voters – and that House Republicans who have departed from that message in favor of a return to Romney-Ryanism are vulnerable.

The memo makes no mention of a scenario where long-shot candidate Ron DeSantis is the Republican nominee, though it is reasonable to assume Democrats would his less-than-populist votes in Congress – including support for U.S. job outsourcing via Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership – to paint the candidate as out-of-step with his own base.

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The campaign arm of Congressional Democrats plans to attack House Republicans using populist benchmarks, per a memo from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The strategy revolves around a paid media campaign highlighting votes that threatened U.S. manufacturing jobs "in states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas," as well as cutting veteran's services, defunding law enforcement, gutting manufacturing jobs, and even – ironically – upholding a culture of corruption in Washington. show more
e jean carroll
August 7, 2023
Jake Welch
News

Judge Bizarrely Claims Trump Fingered E Jean Carroll So He Can’t Sue Her.

Federal judge Lewis Kaplan has dismissed former President Donald Trump’s counter-defamation lawsuit against rape accuser E Jean Carroll, arguing bizarrely that Carroll’s claim that Trump penetrated her with his fingers is enough to substantiate the claim on Monday. Kaplan also rejected Trump’s request for a new trial in July.

“The jury’s verdict in Carroll II establishes, as against Mr Trump, the fact that Mr Trump ‘raped her’, albeit digitally rather than with his penis. Thus, it establishes against him the substantial truth of Ms Carroll’s ‘rape’ accusations,” Judge Kaplan explained.

“In consequence, there is no merit to Mr Trump’s argument that the jury’s finding on Penal Law ‘rape’ question established that Ms Carroll’s statements were false even if her statements reasonably could be construed as referring to ‘rape’ in that specialized Penal Law sense,” Kaplan added.

Trump’s legal proceedings appertained statements made by Carroll on CNN after the jury’s decision. Although the court cleared the former President of rape, she insisted once again that he raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York, stating: “Oh yes he did, oh yes he did.”

Carroll has already filed further legal proceedings in New York, seeking another $10 million for defamation. The trial is scheduled to take place on January 15 next year.

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Federal judge Lewis Kaplan has dismissed former President Donald Trump's counter-defamation lawsuit against rape accuser E Jean Carroll, arguing bizarrely that Carroll's claim that Trump penetrated her with his fingers is enough to substantiate the claim on Monday. Kaplan also rejected Trump's request for a new trial in July. show more
youngkin
August 7, 2023
William Upton
News

The Back Up Plan! Youngkin Meets GOP Mega Donors in Hamptons.

Governor Glenn Youngkin headed to the Hamptons this weekend. Not for a relaxing day at the beach, but for a private dinner at the home of Wilbur Ross, Donald Trump’s former Commerce Secretary, who amassed a room of GOP mega donors to meet with the Virginia Republican.

Not officially billed as a fundraiser, Gov. Youngkin is said to have impressed dinner attendees – reportedly a who’s-who of the moneyed, establishment conservative class.

State elections for the Virginia legislature occur in off-years with Republicans currently holding a four seat majority in the House of Delegates (the lower legislative house) and the Democrats holding a four seat majority in the State Senate. While the purpose of Ross’s dinner for Youngkin was ostensibly to raise funds for these Virginia GOP election efforts, rumors abound that the governor may also be eying a potential run for President in 2024 – especially as the establishment frets over the collapse of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Youngkin – a former hedge fund CEO – rode a wave of parental discontent to the Virginia governor’s mansion after a male high school student, who would often wear a woman’s skirt, was accused and later convicted of sexually assaulting two female Loudon County, Virginia high school students in the girl’s bathroom.

Ross, a billionaire businessman, drew fire as Commerce Secretary for the frequency of naps he took during the work day. It was rumored Ross’s staff would have to schedule the Secretary’s day around nap times and that even then the octogenarian would nod-off during meetings. During the Trump administration, Ross often took a back seat to other figures, with the U.S.’s pre-pandemic economic boom often being credited to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and former President Trump himself.

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Governor Glenn Youngkin headed to the Hamptons this weekend. Not for a relaxing day at the beach, but for a private dinner at the home of Wilbur Ross, Donald Trump's former Commerce Secretary, who amassed a room of GOP mega donors to meet with the Virginia Republican. show more
August 7, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Christie Gave Zelensky Bon Jovi’s Handwritten ‘It’s My Life’ Lyrics.

Republican presidential heavyweight Chris Christie presented Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky with hand-written lyrics to the song ‘It’s My Life’ by recording artist Jon Bon Jovi during his recent, little-noticed trip to Kiev.

Speaking to CNN, the former New Jersey governor said Bon Jovi had written out the lyrics “in his own hand, got it framed, and I brought it to President Zelensky… and said that this is representative of many of the American people and what they feel about the cause that’s being fought for in Ukraine.”

The gesture seems somewhat questionable, considering lyrics in the song such as “This ain’t a song for the broken-hearted” and “I ain’t gonna live forever” will hit close to home for the tens if not hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian families who have lost loved ones in the conflict, which has now dragged for well over a year as a result of Joe Biden having “blocked” a ceasefire in its opening weeks.

Christie has become the de facto anti-Trump candidate in the GOP race, with the likes of Asa Hutchinson, perhaps equally anti-Trump, unable to take up this mantle due to the fact that few people even know who he is. The same applies to someone called Will Hurd.

Christie’s marginally greater name recognition has done him little good relative to Hutchinson, however, with both languishing on less than five percent in national polls.

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Republican presidential heavyweight Chris Christie presented Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky with hand-written lyrics to the song 'It's My Life' by recording artist Jon Bon Jovi during his recent, little-noticed trip to Kiev. show more
desantis trump lost
August 7, 2023
Jake Welch
News

DeSantis Breaks With 70% of Republicans in Telling NBC ‘Trump Lost’.

Ron DeSantis has broken with 70 percent of the Republican base, telling NBC News, “Of course [Trump] lost: Joe Biden’s the President.” The stunning remarks, though caveated with complaints about mail-in voting and ballot harvesting, are unlikely to endear DeSantis to his party’s voters, a majority of whom are already soured by the Florida Governor’s lackluster campaign and toxic online strategies.

DeSantis, who has spent the last two weeks watching some of his chief donors abandon his beleaguered presidential campaign, told NBC News: “Whoever puts their hand on the Bible on Jan. 20 every four years is the winner,” before being pressed for a “yes or no” answer as to whether or not Trump lost.

“No, of course he lost: Joe Biden’s the President,” he shot back, before going on to blame Trump for “turn[ing] the government over to Fauci” and signing the CARES Act which funded mail-in ballot expansion. In reality, the CARES Act was supported by almost every Republican in Congress – a fact which seems to have escaped DeSantis’s attention.

DeSantis is currently projected to lose in every state in the Republican nominee race to Donald Trump and is forecasted just 159 delegates votes, trailing the former President by over 2,000.

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Ron DeSantis has broken with 70 percent of the Republican base, telling NBC News, "Of course [Trump] lost: Joe Biden's the President." The stunning remarks, though caveated with complaints about mail-in voting and ballot harvesting, are unlikely to endear DeSantis to his party's voters, a majority of whom are already soured by the Florida Governor's lackluster campaign and toxic online strategies. show more

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covid lockdowns
August 7, 2023
Jake Welch
News

COVID Lockdowns Stunted Growth for 50% of Kids.

Almost half of children studied had their emotional and social development stunted as a result of government measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a “first of its kind” study conducted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the University College London Institute of Education.

The study – which surveyed more than 6,000 parents from across England – found lockdown measures negatively impacted children from across the socioeconomic spectrum. However, the effects were more pronounced among different age ranges. Parents with children between the ages of four and seven were far more likely to have reported setbacks to their children’s emotional and social development, at 52 percent, compared to the parents of 12 to 15-year-olds, at 42 percent.

Parents reported that their children began experiencing increased levels of depression, anxiety, and lower self-esteem, and even having tantrums more regularly than they did before the pandemic.

One of the study’s authors, Andrew McKendrick, highlighted the likely irreversibility of the impact, stating:

“There’s been some discourse suggesting that children will bounce back and this has not been long-lasting. Wider evidence outside our study has shown that this kind of disruption to children can have long-lasting consequences.”

“As we come out of the shadow of the pandemic, the extent of the crisis in children’s mental health is becoming more and more evident,” added Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner for England.

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Almost half of children studied had their emotional and social development stunted as a result of government measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a "first of its kind" study conducted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the University College London Institute of Education. show more