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October 16, 2023
Jake Welch
News

Florida Hands ‘Special Status’ to Universal After Removing It From Disney.

A Florida County Commissioners Board has voted in favor of giving the Universal Orlando Resort, owned by NBC Universal (Comcast), a “special district” status just months after Governor Ron DeSantis stripped Disney of many of the same privileges.

The Orange County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously to bestow the new status for the 719 acres containing the resort earlier this week, permitting all taxes and fees collected to fund the district. The district is set to use $174 million in bonds to finance new infrastructure, such as a railway station to connect the park and the Orlando airport.

All board seats will also be held by Universal employees – differing from the arrangement made for the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which oversees Disney World, as its board became dominated by DeSantis allies after the Governor dissolved the district’s special status.

“Today marks a step forward and we thank the mayor and county commissioners for approving our petition to establish a community development district that can help realize the vision for expanded SunRail connectivity from the airport to the convention center,” said the chief administrative officer of Universal, John Sprouts, in a statement.

Orange County’s decision is likely to impact the ongoing legal dispute between DeSantis and Disney, with the latter accusing the Florida Governor of “weaponization of government” after he supposedly removed its special status due to the company’s criticism of the state’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation.

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A Florida County Commissioners Board has voted in favor of giving the Universal Orlando Resort, owned by NBC Universal (Comcast), a "special district" status just months after Governor Ron DeSantis stripped Disney of many of the same privileges. show more
October 16, 2023
Jake Welch
News
World

The EU Will TRIPLE Palestinian Aid, One Week After Pledging to Suspend It.

The European Union (EU) is preparing to triple the amount of humanitarian aid it provides to the Gaza Strip, backtracking on its decision to suspend all aid and financial support to the area following Hamas’ violent incursion into Israel last weekend. 

The European Commission will now send €75 million instead of €25 million to the Hamas-controlled area, with the decision coming soon after a conversation between EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, on Saturday. 

Elsewhere, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, is set to convene senior figures within the EU to address the bloc’s constant flip-flopping over the current conflict.

“We stand in full solidarity with the people of Israel and the victims of the terrorist attacks,” Michel stated before adding, “the unfolding tragic scenes in the Gaza Strip resulting from the siege and the lack of basic needs combined with the destruction brought by significant shelling, are raising alarm bells in the international community.”

However, EU financial and humanitarian aid has already been misappropriated by Hamas, with the widely recognized terrorist organization turning $100 million worth of EU-funded water piping into makeshift rockets to fire into Israel.

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The European Union (EU) is preparing to triple the amount of humanitarian aid it provides to the Gaza Strip, backtracking on its decision to suspend all aid and financial support to the area following Hamas' violent incursion into Israel last weekend.  show more
October 16, 2023
Jake Welch
News
UK

Britain’s Ascendent Opposition Party Pledges To Make ‘Misgendering’ an Imprisonable Crime.

Britain’s left-wing Labour Party – leading in polls ahead of an imminent general election – has warned that deliberately “misgendering” a transgender person may be punishable by up to two years imprisonment under its potential government.

The party, led by Sir Keir Starmer, is planning to raise criticism of someone’s gender identity to an “aggravated offense” in an effort to combat the abuse against transgenders. The policy would make perceived transgender abuse comparable to assaulting or attacking another on grounds of race or religion, which are imprisonable offenses of up to two years.

“Thousands of women dispute the notion of ‘gender identity’ and particularly the idea that it should be prioritised over biological sex,” said Caroline Ffiske from the UK group Conservatives for Women.

“Is there a risk with this policy that a woman could be accused of harassment for correctly sexing a man and then for that to be treated as an aggravated offence?” she added.

Notably, the law of England and Wales does not require a transgender to actually be assaulted or abused but rather “perceive” any potential hostility from another due to how they identify themselves.

The law does not even provide a definition of “hostility;” instead, it uses an “everyday understanding” of the word, such as ill-will, spite, contempt, prejudice, unfriendliness, antagonism, resentment, and dislike.

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Britain's left-wing Labour Party – leading in polls ahead of an imminent general election – has warned that deliberately "misgendering" a transgender person may be punishable by up to two years imprisonment under its potential government. show more
October 16, 2023
Crime
News
Religion

6-Year-Old Illinois Muslim Boy Stabbed to Death Over Middle East Conflict, Say Police.

A 71-year-old Illinois man has been charged with a murderous hate crime after allegedly stabbing a 6-year-old boy to death and injuring a 32-year-old woman. Joseph M. Czuba of Plainfield – around 40 miles southwest of Chicago – allegedly targeted the victims because of their Islamic faith, in response to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, according to police.

The boy, identified as Wadea Al-Fayoume, was pronounced dead at the hospital, while the woman is expected to survive. Czuba has been charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, two counts of hate crimes, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and President Joe Biden have already condemned the attack.

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A 71-year-old Illinois man has been charged with a murderous hate crime after allegedly stabbing a 6-year-old boy to death and injuring a 32-year-old woman. Joseph M. Czuba of Plainfield – around 40 miles southwest of Chicago – allegedly targeted the victims because of their Islamic faith, in response to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, according to police. show more
October 16, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

Mike Pence’s Campaign Has Racked Up a LOT of Debt.

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s already struggling 2024 presidential campaign has racked up debts upwards of $620,000, according to a campaign finance filing released over the weekend.

Pence’s campaign managed to raise just $3.3 million in the last quarter, a figure far below competitors in the GOP nominee race, considering the former Vice President himself contributed $150,000. Pence’s former running mate, Donald Trump, on the other hand, raised a whopping $45.5 million in the same quarter.

The filing also noted that it has just $1.2 million in cash to support the campaign, yet $200,000 cannot be deployed due to it having been raised by donors who have already provided the maximum amount for a primary campaign. The funds would only be available in a general election.

The last time a GOP candidate reported such high debts was former Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker, who dropped out of the 2016 Republican nominee race days after revealing campaign debts of $161,000 – almost half a million dollars less than Pence.

“That debt number is gonna be impossible to pay back… When he drops out he’s going to have to do debt-retirement fundraisers,” admitted an anonymous ally of the former Vice President.

Worse still for Pence is that his campaign is yet to announce whether it has amassed the requisite 70,000 individual donors for the third Republican presidential debate on November 8th. Pence barely made the first debate’s requirement of only 40,000 individual donors and only reached the number within a couple of weeks of the debate.

Pence has taken to attacking his former running mate in a last-gasp bid to save his campaign, such as blaming Hamas terrorism on the 45th president and suggesting Trump is not conservative because he would attempt to broker peace in Ukraine, though to little avail. He has consistently polled below five percent since announcing his campaign.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence's already struggling 2024 presidential campaign has racked up debts upwards of $620,000, according to a campaign finance filing released over the weekend. show more
October 16, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics
World

Top Globalist, Former EU Prez Likely to Retake Power in Poland.

Law and Justice (PiS), Poland’s governing national conservative party, has likely lost power to a coalition of liberal parties led by former European Council president Donald Tusk in an election with record-high turnout.

Exit and late polls indicate PiS, which became the first party since the fall of communism to win an outright majority in the Polish legislature in 2015, and retained power in 2019, will still be the largest party in the Sejm (roughly equivalent to the U.S. House of Representatives) once all the votes are counted – but not large enough to govern alone.

Tusk’s Civic Coalition (KO), comprised of several “centrist” and left-leaning parties, is in second, but the smaller Third Way (TD) and New Left (Nowa Lewice/NL) coalitions have indicated they will ally with Tusk to form a combined government. The three together should be able to command a slim but decisive legislative majority.

Konfederacja (Confederation), a pro-tax cuts, anti-mass migration party, ruled out forming a coalition with PiS prior to the elections, but may have enabled it to continue leading a minority government in exchange for key policy concession. It appears to have performed far below expectations, however, and will most likely be unable to help PiS reach the required 231-seat majority to pass a budget.

PiS organized four referendums to fall on the same day as the election. Voters were asked whether state-owned companies should be sold to foreign entities, whether the European Union should be allowed to impose migrant quotas on Poland, whether a border wall should be dismantled, and whether the retirement age, which PiS lowered to 60 for women and 65 for men, should be increased. All four proposals appear to have been rejected by overwhelming margins of over 95 percent.

Tusk increased the retirement age to 67 when he was Prime Minister, and his party agreed to a EU migrant quotas and opposed the border wall. They have attempted to sabotage the referendums, however, by urging supporters to boycott them, as results are not binding unless over 50 percent of the electorate participates.

Currently, turnout in the elections stands at over 70 percent, but turnout in the referendums is hovering around 45 percent.

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Law and Justice (PiS), Poland's governing national conservative party, has likely lost power to a coalition of liberal parties led by former European Council president Donald Tusk in an election with record-high turnout. show more

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October 16, 2023
News
World

Afghanistan Hit by ANOTHER 6.3-Magnitude Earthquake.

Western Afghanistan was rocked by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake on Sunday, marking the area’s fourth quake of that magnitude in recent days.

The epicenter was reported to be about 20 miles outside of Herat, the provincial capital. Save the Children reported four confirmed deaths so far, and Herat Regional Hospital received 153 injured. Everything in the Baloch area of Rabat Sangi district has collapsed, with several villages being destroyed.

The earthquakes that occurred on October 7th had already levelled whole villages in Herat According to United Nations officials, over 90  percent of the more than 2,500 people people killed a week ago were women and children. Mud-brick homes, schools, health clinics, and other village facilities were demolished, and survivors left struggling with the loss of multiple family members.

Volunteers are still arriving to help sift the debris and dig mass graves as the region tries to recover from the natural disaster.

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Western Afghanistan was rocked by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake on Sunday, marking the area's fourth quake of that magnitude in recent days. show more
October 16, 2023
Jake Welch
Immigration
News

Biden Tells Banks: Don’t Deny Loans or Credit to Illegal Migrants.

The Biden government has informed banks and other financial institutions in the United States that they cannot reject credit claims made by illegal migrants due to their immigration status.

Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) warned banks of the unlawfulness of rejecting loans or credit applications because “consumers have reported being rejected for credit cards as well as for auto, student, personal and equipment loans because of their immigration status…”

The DOJ and CFPB have claimed denying finance to illegal migrants would constitute a breach of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (1974), which prohibits discrimination based on characteristics, including race, religion, sexual orientation, and national origin, among other things.

Financial institutions may only consider one’s immigration status when considering the “creditor’s right regarding repayment.” Creditors and lenders will break the law if they consider it in any other capacity as a result.

“Lenders should not deny people the opportunity to take out a loan to buy a home, build their businesses or otherwise pursue their financial goals because of unlawful bias and without regard to their actual ability to repay,” said the Assistant Attorney General of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Kristen Clarke, in a statement.

This comes just months after Democrats in Illinois forced through legislation allowing illegal migrants to serve as police officers, despite federal law only permitting U.S. citizens to serve in the office.

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The Biden government has informed banks and other financial institutions in the United States that they cannot reject credit claims made by illegal migrants due to their immigration status. show more
October 16, 2023
Jake Welch
News

As BLM Sided With Hamas, Biden’s White House Honored George Floyd.

President Joe Biden‘s White House has honored and celebrated the 50th birthday of George Floyd, despite Black Lives Matter (BLM) having publicly voiced their support for Hamas, an internationally acknowledged terrorist organization.

The White House Briefing Room released a statement over the weekend reading, “George Floyd should be alive. He should be celebrating his 50th birthday with his young daughter Gianna, family, and friends. He deserved so much more.”

“Today, we join his family to honor his life and legacy. And we remember the tragedy and injustice of his death that sparked one of the largest civil rights movements in our nation’s history and inspired the world,” the statement added.

The Los Angeles branch of BLM – the organization most associated with the death of Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 – meanwhile published its support for Hamas after conflict broke out between the group and Israel last weekend. It claimed, “As Black people continue to fight to end militarism and mass incarceration in our own communities, let us understand the resistance in Palestine as an attempt to tear down the gates of the world’s largest open air prison.”

The Chicago branch of BLM similarly shared its support for Hamas by posting a celebratory photo on X (formerly Twitter) of the terrorists who paraglided into Israel and slaughtered hundreds of people at a concert last week.

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President Joe Biden's White House has honored and celebrated the 50th birthday of George Floyd, despite Black Lives Matter (BLM) having publicly voiced their support for Hamas, an internationally acknowledged terrorist organization. show more
October 16, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

RFK’s New Campaign Manager Is a CIA Agent.

Robert F Kennedy Jr. has replaced his presidential campaign manager, former Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, with his daughter-in-law, who also happens to be a Central Intelligence Service (CIA) agent.

Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, married to RFK‘s son of the same name, was announced as Kucinich’s replacement this weekend, after he suggested the campaign needed a “new direction.” Kucinich, who also ran for president on two occasions, had been RFK’s campaign manager since the latter announced his presidential run earlier this year.

“Amaryllis is a woman of extraordinary intelligence and drive who I am confident will take this campaign to the next level,” said RFK in a statement following the announcement.

Amaryllis spent a decade at the CIA working in the organization’s most elite and clandestine operations unit. Her memoir suggests she was deployed to 16 different countries as part of her goal of hunting some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists.

Her writings, however, have been criticized as “grossly exaggerated” and “BS” by multiple senior CIA colleagues. William Murray, a CIA operations official, said: “You don’t go wandering around Karachi on your own… You’ll wind up in some warlord’s harem, or you’ll wind up dead.”

Amaryllis joins the senior campaign staff as RFK is coming under increased scrutiny from both sides following his decision to run as an independent in next year’s presidential election. Last week, RFK was left dumbfounded in an interview with Sean Hannity in which the latter bombarded the presidential candidate with questions exposing his liberal politics.

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Robert F Kennedy Jr. has replaced his presidential campaign manager, former Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, with his daughter-in-law, who also happens to be a Central Intelligence Service (CIA) agent. show more