Frail Biden Escorted Off Stage Following ‘Disastrous’ Debate
Following Thursday night’s debate on CNN footage shows Joe Biden being carefully escorted off-stage by his wife Jill, further exacerbating concerns over his health. The media was told that the President had a cold which […]
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British Prime Minister: U.K. Teens Will be Cut Off From Banks if They Refuse National Service
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently issued a warning to teenagers in the United Kingdom who refuse to take part in his controversial election promise of mandatory national service.
“Young people who refuse to do National Service could lose their access to finance,” Rishi Sunak has said. The prime minister also suggested they could have their driving licenses removed, adding that there are “all sorts of things” countries across Europe can do to ensure young people take part in mandatory national service. “Whether that is looking at driving licenses or their access to finance or all sorts of other things, that’s the right thing to do,” Sunak said.
Sunak threatened the draconian measures during an election “Question Time” special on BBC1.However, he so far failed to say how he will force young people to participate in the scheme, which would see them volunteer with community groups or join the armed forces.
Under the National Service plan, which was announced by the prime minister at the start of the election campaign last month, every 18-year-old in the country would have to either join the military or spend one weekend a month carrying out community service. Sunak insisted that the program would provide young people with life-changing opportunities and real-world skills and would help create a “shared sense of purpose among our young people and a renewed sense of pride in our country.” National Service in the U.K., which was previously introduced during World War I and World War II, was ended in 1960.
A pilot version of the program is planned to be launched in September of next year if the Conservatives remain in power. It is expected to cost British taxpayers around £2.5 billion ($3.19 billion) a year.
(Related: U.K. bringing back mandatory military service as Europe prepares for WAR with Russia.)
The National Service is one of the key announcements made by the Tories during the general election campaign. The Tory manifesto promised a “year-long full-time placement in the armed forces or cyber defense” for 30,000 18-year-olds, while others will be forced to volunteer for one weekend each month with organizations such as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
The military service option promises to be “competitive and paid, so our armed forces recruit and train the brightest and the best.” The policy is aimed at shoring up support among the older and more patriotic Conservative base. But the party has come unstuck since announcing the plans, with ministers repeatedly refusing to say how it will work and how 18-year-olds will be forced to take part.
Foreign office minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan even suggested parents could be punished on behalf of their children if the young ones refused to participate.
National Service re-introduction was drawn up in secret
According to the Daily Mail, the plan to reintroduce national service was drawn up in secret by Sunak and his close advisers.
In the confidential 40-page plan, the advisers argued that the growing international threats posed by countries such as Russia and China needed to be addressed by ramping up the U.K. Armed Forces as did the listlessness of many young adults. Nearly 750,000 18 to 24-year-olds are currently out of work and this age group is disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system.
The civic roles would include supporting flood defenses and communities during natural disasters, the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) support roles, fire safety work or signing up for the charity RNLI or Mountain Search and Rescue.
Meanwhile, Sunak’s proposed scheme has already been heavily criticized by opposition parties. “This is not a plan. It is a review which could cost billions and is only needed because the Tories hollowed out the armed forces to their smallest size since Napoleon,” a Labour spokesman stated last month. Other members of the opposition party have accused Sunak of trying to get 18-year-olds to fix the problems that the government has created.
Some critics point out that there are other areas that Sunak can improve. “This ill-thought-out conscription scheme will increase pressure on defense and waste money,” the former head of the Royal Navy, Admiral Lord West, who was first sea lord from 2002 to 2006, wrote, adding: “Rather than enhancing our defense capability, it would further reduce it.”
Lib Dem education spokesperson Munira Wilson said: “He is more interested in taking away young people’s bank accounts if they don’t do National Service than investing in their education.”
National Service in Europe varies from country to country. In Switzerland, men must serve for 21 weeks from the age of 19; in Denmark, Estonia and Finland, it is up to a year from 18. Norway is one of few places worldwide where women are also called up. Globally, around 85 countries have some form of obligatory military training. The longest period of required service is 11 years for North Korean men.
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Listen: Planned Parenthood Staffers Laugh on 911 Call for Woman Bleeding After Abortion
RICHMOND, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — Planned Parenthood staffers were caught on audio laughing during a 911 call for a woman who suffered a perforated uterus because of a botched abortion, Operation Rescue has revealed.
On Wednesday, the group published the details and recording of an April 24 call from a Planned Parenthood location in Richmond, Virginia, for a woman who, according to the caller, was “currently having a termination procedure done and, it looks, appears to be a possible uterine perforation.” A second staffer who took over the call described the woman as “not currently actively bleeding” but requiring continued monitoring for bleeding and to ensure her vitals remained stable.
During the call, unidentified individuals in the room can clearly be heard laughing. The object of their mirth is not possible to determine from the audio, but appears to indicate, at a minimum, that the Planned Parenthood staff did not feel particularly troubled by one of their clients being in a potentially life-threatening situation.
Notably, the Planned Parenthood representative also asks the dispatcher, “if you could just not use your sire- your, you know, your sirens, the noise.” The dispatcher responds that she is not permitted to tell emergency vehicles how to use their sirens.
“This facility has been cited numerous times on inspection reports, including failures in the areas of quality management, filth, and botched abortions,” Operation Rescue notes. “In another case like this emergency, a woman suffered an incomplete abortion – her baby still alive inside her for weeks until a hospital performed a second abortion.”
Last month, pro-life leader and former abortion industry insider Abby Johnson told LifeSiteNews that her upcoming film Unthinkable will highlight firsthand accounts corroborating that such disregard for women’s welfare is not uncommon in the abortion industry.
“If they could hear the stories from these women, and they will, if they see Unthinkable they will hear just the degradation of these women while they’re laying on the tables for their abortion, the way that they are talked about by the staff, the doctors in particular,” she said. “The way their bodies are made fun of and talked about, just how devalued they are.”
Despite countless cases of women harmed by abortion and documented health and safety violations at abortion centers across the United States, national Democrats continue to push legislation that would, among other things, forbid states from subjecting the abortion industry to health and safety regulations, such as admitting privileges and informed-consent requirements.
The Biden administration currently allows abortion pills to be distributed by mail (in violation of federal law), effectively cutting medical oversight out of the chemical abortion process entirely. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case.
Wildly Unpopular Macron Threatens ‘Civil War’ in France if He Loses Upcoming Snap Legislative Election
French President Emmanuel Macron has threatened “civil war” on his nation if his globalist Renaissance Party loses the upcoming snap legislative elections to the conservative populist National Rally and the far-left New Popular Front (NFP) coalition.
In a message lashing out at the popularity of La France Insoumise, the leading party of the NFP, Macron claimed that the so-called “far-right” solution it is proposing to fix mass migration and the breakdown of the social order in France will only lead to “division and civil war” because they are based on “categorizing people in terms of their religion or origins.”
Macron further claimed that there is “a civil war behind” the political agenda of the NFP because they “categoriz[e] people in terms of their religious outlook or the community they belong to.”
Trying to fix France’s out-of-control mass migration problem in order to restore order and civility is simply “a means of justifying isolating [migrants] from the broader national community,” Macron continued. “And, in this case, you would have a civil war with those who do not share those same values.”
(Related: Did you hear? Macron dissolved the entire French parliament after Marine Le Pen and National Rally thrashed him in the recent European elections.)
Macron likely to see his prime minister ousted after snap election
Just like they did in the recent European elections, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party is expected to place first in the fast-approaching snap elections. National Rally is said to have more than double that of Renaissance, which is why Macron is having a meltdown.
Macron apparently called the special snap election because he mistakenly thought National Rally would be too low on resources and too disorganized at that point to achieve a legislative majority, especially on such short notice. Macron, hilariously, was dead wrong.
The French right, admittedly, is not in very good shape. It tried unsuccessfully to rally together into a broad right-wing coalition against Macron, only to end up widening the splinter between National Rally and the more mainstream conservative party The Republicans.
On the left, most parties have joined with La France Insoumise to form the NFP. The left and right together are popular enough to ensure that Renaissance and Macron’s liberal coalition Ensemble will likely place third in the snap elections.
National Rally will probably not secure an outright majority, but a third-place Ensemble means that Macron’s first choice of prime minister will likely get ousted, making it difficult for Macron to continue governing.
“In France, they take it all too seriously,” one of our regular readers wrote about the political climate in France. “I might be in a pub or club without a care in the world and the men want to talk politics.”
“I had hoped that talking cuisine would gain me more friends than talking la politique. French vin? Keep France as full as we can of its own culture and merit. Viva la France!”
Another wrote that Macron is clearly trying to maintain a dictatorial position over the French who no longer want him to hold that title.
Another of our regulars emphasized the fact that tyranny exists both on the left and the right, which is why the best route is dead center to keep the polar opposite ends of the political spectrum in a stalemate where they can cause the least amount of harm.
“In the West, everybody is tired of left-wing tyranny. In the east, people rejoice over right-wing tyranny as they have given up on their lives. No matter which wing or center, tyranny can exist in all shapes and sizes as long as the people allow it.”
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Windows 11’s Sneaky OneDrive Sync
Those still using Microsoft Windows (now in version 11) as their operating system in 2024 have a lot of experience being left out of the “decision-making process” concerning their own computer and their own data.
This is what closed-source, proprietary software gets you (in addition to a lack of innovation and overall technical quality); but there are even more ways to avoid transparency, and, frankly, disrespect paying customers.
And one is introducing questionable features without even announcing them.
OneDrive – Microsoft’s cloud service – is also available to back up Windows folders like Desktop, Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos… and as it turns out, users don’t even have to agree to this – or even know it’s happening.
Namely, if you are installing Windows 11 (signed into the Microsoft account, as Microsoft prefers), the default is now to upload content from those folders to Microsoft’s cloud. And Microsoft didn’t bother informing their users about this change, compared to the previous installation process, Neowin reported.
“Informing” here means, not with a press release, and not even with prompts during installation and setup.
The backup, i.e., the syncing of the files is now already ongoing or done as soon as a fresh install is finished, and users are reportedly only (slowly) becoming aware of the change because of new visual indicators on their desktop shortcuts and folder icons (showing that the backup is in progress or done).
Windows users can still be grateful there are several ways to deal with the situation. One is to go to the OneDrive settings, and then go through several steps (Sync and Backup>Manage Backup…) and uncheck whatever folders should not sync with the Microsoft cloud service.
(But there are also older versions of OneDrive, where the way is, Manage Backup>StopBackup.)
Another way to remedy the situation is to install Windows offline, that is, not signed into the Microsoft account (although, it’s not clear what happens once a user signs in after the install – or what might start happening at some later date).
The third method is to delete OneDrive from your Windows.
And the fourth and best – stop using Windows.
80% of Students Were Reportedly Absent for Ottawa Elementary School ‘Pride’ Flag Raising
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — An Ottawa elementary school was missing 80 percent of its students during its scheduled “Pride” flag raising ceremony earlier this month, a local pro-family activist has said.
Speaking to LifeSiteNews, Muslim pro-family activist Kamel El-Cheikh said that on June 4, teachers and staff at Michaelle Jean Elementary School in Ottawa, Ontario were baffled when 591 out of 738 students (80 percent) were missing from the school’s LGBT “Pride” flag raising ceremony. The reported absences coincided with Campaign Life Coalition’s 2nd annual National ‘Pride’ Flag Walk-Out Day.
In response to the mass absence, El-Cheikh, who said he visited the school to encourage parents and students in their resistance to LGBT ideology, attested that the school principal, Tania Bergeron, and a grade five teacher by the name of Martine, were attempting to punish parents whose children did not attend the “Pride” flag ceremony.
Upon his arrival at the school, El-Cheikh said parents quickly told him that the two staff members were passing around a document for parents to sign to punish those who refused to partake in the “Pride” flag ceremony.
“Both need to be held accountable in the future,” El-Cheikh said, condemning the school staff for “belittling and demonizing parents.”
“We’re going to hold each and every one of you accountable,” he promised.
In further comments to LifeSiteNews, El-Cheikh lamented the “pride agenda” for attempting to steamroll over “people’s beliefs, people’s civil liberties,” and for going “after the kids.”
El-Cheikh, the organizer of the Million Person March for Children on September 20 last year, said that the massive boycott led to teachers consolidating classes for the 147 remaining students. However, El-Cheikh said that even then, 50 percent of the remaining students asked not to take part in the LGBT flag raising.
In addition to the massive success at the Ottawa school, El-Cheikh estimated a “Pride” flag boycott rate of 50 percent in schools across the country during Canada’s 2nd annual National ‘Pride’ Flag Walk-Out Day.
According to Campaign Life Coalition, this year, a total of eight provinces participated in the walkout campaign, compared with seven the year before.
The participating provinces in 2024 included: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.
While the schools have yet to publish official numbers, El-Cheikh said that he received his information from pro-family Canadians working within the school system.
“These are people that are working in the boards,” he said. “These are IT people. These are teachers that don’t want to get in trouble. These are principals. These are politicians that care about kids and their parents.”
“It’s empowering parents, women and children to be protected from a degenerate sinister devilish agenda that seeks to undermine divine order,” he added. “And I will be fighting that.”