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July 28, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

DeSantis Collapses to Single Digits in Ohio, Behind Vivek.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is on just nine percent in the Republican primary race in Ohio, trailing entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, now on 12 percent.

Former President Donald Trump is dominates the field in the Buckeye State, according to Ohio Northern University polling, on 64 percent. DeSantis — who has presented himself as Trump without the baggage, but campaigned as Jeb Bush without the name recognition — is now in third place behind Ramaswamy, a candidate who lacks the prior celebrity or record in high office of his competitors – but is beating all expectations for his candidacy.

The Ohio polling also punctures the DeSantis camp’s narrative that the Floridian has a better chance of beating President Joe Biden than Trump, having him eke out a narrow 41-39 victory over the octogenarian Democrat while Trump smashes him by a much wider margin of 49 to 39 percent.

Media outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch, already backing off their previous support for DeSantis amid insider reports that he can “smell a loser”, had suggested Ramaswamy was displacing the Florida Governor as Trump’s main competitor before the Ohio polling was released.

 

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is on just nine percent in the Republican primary race in Ohio, trailing entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, now on 12 percent. show more
July 28, 2023
Jake Welch
News

DATA: 50% of Millennials, Gen Zers Want to ‘Focus on Themselves’ Instead of Having Kids.

Only just over half of millennials and Gen Z – 55 percent – say they are planning to start a family, citing the environment, finances, and career aspirations, among others, as deterrents, research from OnePoll has found.

One-quarter of the 1,000 18 to 34-year-olds surveyed stated that they have completely “ruled out” having children, with another 20 percent unsure whether they would do in the future. More than half believe that it was not important to have children to “feel fulfilled in their lives.”

The most common reason for not wanting children was so that people could have “more time to focus” on themselves at 49 percent. Financial issues were another prevalent concern at 47 percent, followed by “fears about the state of the world” – 38 percent – and concern “about the impact on the environment” – 35 percent.

“For generations, having children has just been the done thing, but it seems younger people are now deciding against this more and more,” said a spokesman for OnePoll to the Times of London.

While young adults in the West are debating whether to have children, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is actively encouraging their citizens to start families, offering IVF treatment covered by the state and increased welfare, to reduce the damage of the CCP’s decades-long “one-child policy”.

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Only just over half of millennials and Gen Z – 55 percent – say they are planning to start a family, citing the environment, finances, and career aspirations, among others, as deterrents, research from OnePoll has found. show more
July 28, 2023
Jake Welch
News

Germany Pays $145Bn+ In Welfare To Foreigners Since 2010.

Germany has paid over 132 billion euros, or $145bn (USD) to unemployed foreign nationals in state welfare since 2010, with the proportion of foreign benefit recipients having recently increased by a whopping 122 percent. The number of Germans receiving state welfare has halved in the same time period.

Foreign nationals make up 47 percent of welfare recipients as of 2023, despite being only 18 percent of the population. The German state spent 15.4 billion euros on unemployed foreign nationals alone in 2022 – almost 10 billion more than in 2010, in which the government spent 6.9 billion.

The largest foreign welfare recipients were 707,000 Ukrainian refugees. The second largest was just under 500,000 Syrians: more than half of the total population of Syrians living in Germany as of 2022. Turks ranked third, with around 200,000 claiming welfare. Below those countries were Afghans and Iraqis. There are 377,240 Afghans registered as living in Germany as of 2022, 176,000 of whom claim state welfare. Of the 284,595 registered Iraqis, 115,000 claim welfare.

Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP, Rene Springer, argues that Germany requires “a restrictive immigration policy that effectively prevents immigration into our social systems” because, he adds:

“The citizen’s allowance introduced by the federal government… acts as an immigration magnet.”

Germany’s failure to successfully integrate immigrants is having wider societal ramifications, such as the Berlin city council having to check identity cards to visit outdoor swimming pools to counter surging criminality often perpetrated by men with migrant backgrounds.

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Germany has paid over 132 billion euros, or $145bn (USD) to unemployed foreign nationals in state welfare since 2010, with the proportion of foreign benefit recipients having recently increased by a whopping 122 percent. The number of Germans receiving state welfare has halved in the same time period. show more
July 27, 2023
News

Biden Prosecutor Adds 3 More Charges to Trump Documents Case.

Joe Biden’s foreign-dwelling, Obama-linked prosecutor “Jack” Smith has added three more charges against former President Trump, in a move the Trump campaign blasted as “nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their Department of Justice to harass President Trump and those around him.”

The new charges attempting to “alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal evidence”; inducing someone else to do so; and a new count under the Espionage Act stemming from a document they allege he showed to visitors at the Trump National club in Bedminster.

“Deranged Jack Smith knows that they have no case and is casting about for any way to salvage their illegal witch hunt and to get someone other than Donald Trump to run against Crooked Joe Biden,” the Trump campaign shot back on Thursday.

Maintenance worker, Carlos De Oliveria, was added as a new defendant in the case, with the DOJ claiming he was instructed to wipe video surveillance servers.

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Joe Biden’s foreign-dwelling, Obama-linked prosecutor “Jack” Smith has added three more charges against former President Trump, in a move the Trump campaign blasted as “nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their Department of Justice to harass President Trump and those around him.” show more
wapo
July 27, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

WaPo: Republicans Should Pick the Candidate Democrats Can Agree Most With.

The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is hyping Asa Hutchinson, an also-ran in the Republican primary race currently polling around one percent, insisting his Democrat-friendly ideas “deserve to be taken seriously”.

Hutchinson, who ran the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) under President George W. Bush, has been particularly fierce in his defense of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), declaring that defunding it “is off the charts a bad idea” and that “[Donald] Trump has done great harm to our rule of law”.

“None of [Hutchinson’s policies are] radical, and Democrats could support most of what he’s advocating,” the WaPo notes, as if this is a selling point.

Hutchinson has repeatedly called on Trump, whom he blames for Jan 6, to abandon the race in response to the indictments being levelled against him by state and federal prosecutors – despite the fact he is yet to be convicted of anything – and tacitly endorsed Special Counsel Jack Smith targeting the former president.

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The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is hyping Asa Hutchinson, an also-ran in the Republican primary race currently polling around one percent, insisting his Democrat-friendly ideas "deserve to be taken seriously". show more
slater bayliss
July 27, 2023
Jake Welch
News

AUDIO: Top DeSantis Fundraiser Gushes Over ‘Mentor’ Jeb Bush.

Unearthed audio reveals Slater Bayliss, a top financial bundler for Ron DeSantis for President, calling former Florida Governor Jeb Bush “a wonderful mentor,” while boasting of his deep connections to the wider Bush family.

Bayliss – a Bud Light lobbyist who was recently identified as one of DeSantis’s top money men – boasted of his Bush links working as part of the Iowa Straw Poll team; Committee 100 Director of the Republican Party of Florida; Special Assistant to the Jeb Bush; and assistant director of the Governor’s Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development.

Bayliss explained, “Jeb Bush wrote something that resonated with me and I kinda just figured how to get an internship on his campaign and he and I personally hit it off. He added:

“He’s been a wonderful mentor, friend, and he was a great boss for me for gosh, six years or so.”

– Slater Bayliss, Top DeSantis ‘Bundler’

DeSantis, too, has expressed his admiration for members of the Bush family. Florida’s Governor claimed in an interview that the 41st US President, George H. W. Bush, was the most inspirational person that he has ever met.

Bayliss has raised at least $242,600 in recent months for the DeSantis camp, placing himself as their third-highest cash bundler. A lobbyist for Bud Light’s parent company Anheuser-Busch, Bayliss was already discussing a potential DeSantis run as in November 2022, telling POLITICO: “If you look at where the money is coming from, it’s indicative of Gov. DeSantis being seen by national donors as the de facto frontrunner for president.”

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Unearthed audio reveals Slater Bayliss, a top financial bundler for Ron DeSantis for President, calling former Florida Governor Jeb Bush "a wonderful mentor," while boasting of his deep connections to the wider Bush family. show more

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foreign
July 27, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Economy
News

Biden Law Hands Billions to Foreign Firms Building Bases Abroad, & Murdoch’s Papers Approve.

Foreign corporations will wring massive profits from U.S. taxpayers under Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and Rupert Murdoch mouthpieces are apparently delighted about it.

In an article with the BuzzFeed-style headline ‘Foreigners Will Benefit From U.S. Climate Subsidies, and That Is Good News‘, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) argues overseas firms like Panasonic gathering in up to $2 billion a year in climate tax credits to build American battery plants is a feature of the IRA, rather than a bug.

The WSJ favorably compares the situation to that in Communist China, where the regime “require[s] local production” to access its market – but admits this approach has also left the Chinese struggling with excessive waste and a mountain of debt.

“China’s local government debt burden has exploded over the past decade, in no small part due to an arms race among city governments to support local industrial policy champions in areas like solar, robotics, electric vehicles and microchips,” the WSJ concedes.

Aping the Chinese could therefore prove costly for American taxpayers, given the national debt is already running well over $32,65o,000,000,000 – roughly $100,000 per person.

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Foreign corporations will wring massive profits from U.S. taxpayers under Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and Rupert Murdoch mouthpieces are apparently delighted about it. show more
July 27, 2023
News
Politics

REVEALED: Facebook, Instagram Censored Americans After Biden Team ‘Outrage’.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has revealed, in never-seen-before documents, that Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Instagram platforms censored Americans and changed their content moderation policies “because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House.”

Jordan cites the globalist former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg – now President for Global Affairs at Meta Platforms – who wrote in an internal e-mail in April 2021:

“Just got off hour long call with Andy Slavitt [Senior Advisor to Biden]. There are some pretty serious – and sensitive (see last point) – issues we need to address… As an eg, he was outraged – not too strong a word to describe his reaction – that we did not remove this post which was third most highly ranked post in the data set we sent to him.”

The posts relate, in particular, to the U.S. government’s vaccine policies, with another newly uncovered e-mail revealing:

“We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the White House and the press, to remove more COVID-19 vaccine discouraging content. For example, we recently shared with the White House a list of the top 100 vaccine-related posts on FB in the U.S. for the week of 4/5-4/11. While authoritative information dominated the list, the White House was concerned that the #3 post was a vaccine discouraging humorous meme and they called on us to delete the meme.”

Jordan even posted the meme in question:

“On August 2, 2021, Facebook admitted it was going to change its policies because of pressure from the Biden White House,” Jordan wrote, in a Twitter thread on Thursday.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has revealed, in never-seen-before documents, that Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook and Instagram platforms censored Americans and changed their content moderation policies "because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House." show more
transgender
July 27, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Michigan Gov’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban Criminalizes Parents Who Don’t Affirm Transgenderism.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed two bills banning “conversion therapy” for minors who identify as homosexual or transgender, turning healthcare providers and parents who do not accept their children were “born in the wrong body” into criminals.

Media coverage of the bills focuses on therapy “intended to change a person’s sexual orientation” but alsos ban therapy aimed at persuading girls they are girls and boys they are boys, rather than “transgender”.

House Bill 4617 defines conversion therapy as “any practice or treatment by a mental health professional that seeks to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, including, but not limited to, efforts to change behavior or gender expression or to reduce or eliminate sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward an individual of the same gender.”

This language suggests clinicians and possibly parents who refuse to “affirm” so-called trans kids by dressing boys as girls and using female pronouns for them, and vice versa, could be accused of unlawful activity.

Governor Whitmer insists that as “a mom of a member of the [LGBTQ] community and a proud, lifelong ally” she is “grateful” that Michigan is “banning the horrific practice of conversion therapy”.

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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed two bills banning "conversion therapy" for minors who identify as homosexual or transgender, turning healthcare providers and parents who do not accept their children were "born in the wrong body" into criminals. show more
Human Traffickers
July 27, 2023
Jake Welch
News

1,000+ Human Traffickers, Smugglers Arrested.

More than 1,000 human traffickers and migrant smugglers have been arrested across 54 countries as a result of an unprecedented joint operation launched by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and the African Union Mechanism for Police Cooperation (AFRIPOL).

The operation – codenamed FLASH-WEKA – resulted in a total of 1,062 arrests, 2,731 irregular migrants being detected, the identification of 823 human trafficking victims, the seizure of 801 criminal merchandise articles, such as weapons and vehicles, and 197 investigations being launched. The United States, Germany, Norway and the European Union, assisted in funding the operation, which took place between May and June this year.

Some of those arrested in FLASH-WEKA included two men who are suspected of trafficking and sexually abusing an underage girl in Syria, nine Iranians thought to be involved in organ trafficking, and eight Moroccan men preparing an illegal crossing over the Mediterranean to Spain, among hundreds of others.

“Human trafficking and migrant smuggling are often part of a wider and more complex criminal chain. This is why close cooperation between INTERPOL and AFRIPOL is so important in uniting our resources to dismantle these networks…” Argued the Secretary General of INTERPOL, Jürgen Stock, who added that the continued international efforts “will no doubt result in further arrests, bringing to justice those who traffic in human misery.”

Human trafficking is becoming an increasingly recognized topic across the United States and the rest of the world thanks to the combined efforts of INTERPOL and AFRIPOLS as well as Alejandro Monteverde, who directed the groundbreaking anti-child trafficking movie, ‘Sound of Freedom.’

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More than 1,000 human traffickers and migrant smugglers have been arrested across 54 countries as a result of an unprecedented joint operation launched by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and the African Union Mechanism for Police Cooperation (AFRIPOL). show more