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Top official has ordered a review of the state’s counter-terrorism strategy amid rising violence against women and girls, Telegraph reports

Extreme misogyny in the UK will be treated the same as Islamist and far-right extremism under a new government plan aimed at addressing gaps in the country’s counter-terrorism strategy, the Sunday Telegraph has reported, adding that the move comes in response to rising violence against women.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered a review of the strategy to combat violence against women and girls amid growing concerns that current legislation is too narrow, the paper wrote. The updated guidance is expected to legally oblige teachers to refer pupils they suspect of extreme misogyny to the government’s counter-terrorism program, called Prevent.

Currently, teachers, healthcare professionals and local authority staff are required to make a referral to the program if they believe someone is susceptible to becoming radicalized.

“For too long, Governments have failed to address the rise in extremism, both online and on our streets, and we’ve seen the number of young people radicalized online grow,” Cooper told the paper, pledging to close any gaps in existing policy that prevent the authorities from cracking down on violence.

The comprehensive review of the Prevent program, which is expected to be completed as soon as this autumn, will focus on developing an updated strategic approach that involves close collaboration between the government and communities. The measure comes as part of a new counter-extremism strategy that the Home Office expects to unveil by next year.

The move is expected to address mounting concerns about the influence of misogynistic figures who are seen as radicalizing teenage boys via various online platforms, the news outlet noted, citing Andrew Tate, a controversial British-American influencer and self-proclaimed “misogynist,” as an example. Tate is currently awaiting trial in Romania over allegations of rape, human trafficking, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.

The Home Office currently lists several categories of extremism, including Islamist, extreme right-wing, animal rights, environmental, and Northern Ireland-related, as areas of concern. The list also includes an online subculture called “incel,” short for “involuntarily celibate.” This refers to a misogynistic worldview promoted by men who blame women for men’s lack of romantic prospects.

In the year ending March 31, 2023, there were 6,817 referrals to the Prevent program, marking an increase of 6.4% from the previous year, statistics tracked by the government show. Among them, 37% were categorized as “vulnerability present but no ideology of counter-terrorism risk,” while 19% were related to extreme right-wing ideologies, and 11% were associated with Islamist extremism.

In February, a study conducted by UK telecommunications multinational Vodafone found that 70% of teachers had seen a rise in sexist language in their classrooms over the past year, while 69% of boys had encountered posts promoting misogyny. It was also revealed that 42% of parents had heard their sons make inappropriate comments because of what they have seen online.

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Tim Walz Caught in New Acts of Stolen Valor

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Kiev may have launched its Kursk incursion to provoke a drastic response by Moscow, President Alexander Lukashenko believes.

Ukraine’s incursion into internationally recognized Russian territory looks like an attempt to compel Moscow to use nuclear weapons, which would irrevocably damage its image globally, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said.

In an interview with Russia-1 aired on Sunday, Lukashenko warned that Kiev’s operation in Kursk Region – the largest cross-border assault by Kiev since the outbreak of the conflict – posed enormous risks to global security.

“The danger is that this kind of escalation on the part of Ukraine is an attempt to push Russia into asymmetric actions, for example, the use of nuclear weapons,” the Belarusian leader said, adding that such a move would be a PR bonanza for both Kiev and its Western backers.

“Then we would probably have hardly any allies left. There would be no sympathetic countries left at all,” he noted, explaining that this reaction would be based on the universal aversion to the fallout that could be caused by nuclear weapons.

Lukashenko also responded to statements by Ukrainian officials that the Kursk incursion was aimed at improving Kiev’s diplomatic position for possible talks with Russia. This plan is “a classic, but it does not work in a struggle against a great empire that has not even begun to fight in earnest,” he argued, adding he was sure that the Ukrainians would eventually be expelled from Kursk Region.

According to its current nuclear doctrine, Russia can deploy its nuclear arsenal only “in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies, and also in case of aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said on several occasions that there is no need to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine campaign. Moscow has warned that it may change its nuclear doctrine, but said that any changes would be in response to what it perceives as escalatory moves by NATO.

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Ukraine’s armed forces could cause a nuclear disaster that would affect most of Europe if they strike the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in Russia, according to former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik. Russia intelligence has […]

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Thousands are seeking compensation for harm allegedly caused by coronavirus vaccines, according to the Telegraph

Almost 14,000 people in Britain have applied for payments from the government for disabilities they claim were caused by Covid-19 vaccines, The Telegraph has reported.

Only 175 people, or less than 2% of those seeking compensation, have so far received a one-off money transfer of £120,000 ($155,300), the paper said in an article on Saturday.

Data obtained by The Telegraph through Freedom of Information requests indicates that those who were eventually reimbursed suffered from conditions such as stroke, heart attack, dangerous blood clots, inflammation of the spinal cord, excessive swelling of the vaccinated limb, and facial paralysis.

Around 97% of the satisfied applications were related to the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, developed by Oxford University and British-Swedish company AstraZeneca, and the rest to the US-made vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, it said.

The outlet noted that the UK government continued to recommend the AstraZeneca vaccine, despite its use being halted in Germany, Italy, France, and other European countries by March 2021, amid reports of a growing number of blood clotting cases.

Thousands of people have been refused payment due to the government’s medical assessors arguing that there is no concrete proof that their health problems are a result of the vaccines, the report read.

Hundreds of others were turned down due to being “not disabled enough,” it added. Under the rules of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS), an applicant has to be at least 60% disabled to qualify.

A spokesman for AstraZeneca told The Telegraph that its vaccine “has continuously been shown to have an acceptable safety profile and regulators around the world consistently state that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks of extremely rare potential side effects.”

As for the health complications caused by the vaccine, the spokesman said, “our sympathy goes out to anyone who has lost loved ones or reported health problems.”

In May, AstraZeneca, which officially admitted that its vaccines could cause blood clots in certain cases, began the withdrawal of its product worldwide, saying that newer vaccines adapted to the latest coronavirus variants were more effective.

Around 16,000 people have sought payments since the introduction of the VDPS in 1979, with most of the claims related to Covid-19 vaccines. The growing workload resulted in an increase of the staff responsible for handling applications from four people to 80 last year. “We continually review our processes to further develop the way in which we manage claims, and to provide a better service for claimants,” a National Health Service spokesperson said.

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Tim Walz Caught in New Acts of Stolen Valor

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Are the Olympics globalist or nationalist in nature?

“Citius, Altius, Fortius Communiter” is the motto of the Olympic games, which translates to “Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together.”

The 2024 Summer Olympics were just held in Paris. The games raise various questions that should be pondered.

Are the Olympics globalist or nationalist in nature?

On the one hand, most of the world participates and there is plenty of globalist rhetoric accompanying the Olympics.

On the other hand, the games promote nationalism and competition among nations. Check out the medal count chart.

Take Europe, for example.

There is no European Union Olympics team. But there is a German team, an Italian team, a French team, etc. Their athletes are proud to compete for their countries.

There were some disgusting things in the opening ceremonies this year, that’s for sure.

And what about the rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine“? It’s been performed at previous Olympics ceremonies.

In the song, Lennon sings of “no heaven… no hell… no countries… no possessions.”

So if there were no religion, countries, or possessions, there would be peace on earth? Really? There’d be nothing else to fight over?

Think of the history of the 20th century, during which atheistic communist regimes fought wars against each other.

Nor did Millionaire Rock Star John Lennon give away his possessions!

In Poland, an Olympics commentator was suspended for pointing out that “Imagine” is “a vision of communism.”

You’d think that, given the history of Poland, that wouldn’t be controversial.

Did you know that some of the countries competing in the Olympics are not independent nations but territories of other countries?

Three U.S. territories have their own Olympic teams: American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is a U.S. Caribbean territory that some want to make a state.

All its residents are U.S. citizens, but in many aspects it functions as an independent country.

Puerto Rico sends its own contestants to international beauty pageants.

Also, since 1948, Puerto Rico has sent its own team to the Summer Olympics (and most Winter Olympics), competing under the Puerto Rican flag, not the U.S. flag.

In 1980, when the U.S. boycotted the Moscow Olympics in protest of the invasion of Afghanistan, the Puerto Rican Olympic team made a special point to go to Russia and compete.

Over the years, Team Puerto Rico has won a total of 10 Olympic medals.

When a Puerto Rican Olympian wins a gold medal, which has occurred twice, “La Borinqueña” is played – not “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

At the 2024 Olympics, Puerto Rico’s team had 51 members, bigger than most independent countries at the games.

This time, Puerto Rico won two medals. They were won by the two athletes who bore the Puerto Rican flag on a boat on the Seine river during the opening ceremony.

Sebastian Rivera won a bronze in men’s freestyle wrestling, in the 65 kilogram (143.3 pounds) class.

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won a bronze medal in the women’s 100 meter hurdles. She won gold in that event in the previous Olympics.

Though the two medalists competed for Puerto Rico, neither was raised there.

Rivera was raised in New Jersey, trained and competed as a wrestler in the United States mainland. Then he started to compete for Puerto Rico.

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn was raised in South Carolina.

She is the daughter of black American hurdler James Quinn and black Puerto Rican sprinter/long jumper Maria Milagros Camacho. Jasmine’s brother, Robert Quinn, has played in the NFL for many years. It’s an athletic family.

In Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames are used, one from each parent.

In that style, Jasmine would write her surnames “Quinn Camacho.” However, as a Puerto Rican competitor she uses “Camacho-Quinn,” with the Spanish surname first.

The long history of the Puerto Rican Olympic team is one evidence of the strength of the island’s nationalism.

Culturally, it’s another country. We need to recognize that.

Puerto Ricans feel their identity very strongly. Even athletes who weren’t raised on the island want to compete for Puerto Rico.

Not only do I oppose Puerto Rican statehood, but I support Puerto Rican independence.

It would be better for both of our countries.

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Tim Walz Caught in New Acts of Stolen Valor

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Meanwhile, the primary source of funding for Ukraine – the Biden family and various deep state operatives – is about to dry up

Three days ago, in the aftermath of the WSJ report seeking to radically shift the narrative over the Nordstream sabotage, where instead of the CIA being blamed for the explosion of the critical gas pipeline from Russia to Europe, unnamed “intelligence” sources forged on with a hilarious script according to which a top Ukraine general (operating initially under the instructions of Zelensky but then going rogue wen Z got “cold feet”) was responsible for coordinating the sabotage using a handful of rank amateurs who somehow managed to sneak to the bottom of the Baltic sea and conduct an unprecedented military operation, we said that – no matter the laughable veracity of the report – relations between Germany and Ukraine are “about to turn ugly,” and we asked why this story is coming out just now?

We didn’t have long to wait to get the answer: as German media reports, this U-turn in the narrative (which according to some meant that NATO should now unleash its full military power against…. Ukraine, which had single-handedly attacked German assets by blowing up the Nordstream) was meant to soften the blow from Germany’s decision to finally cut off Ukraine’s – and Zelensky’s – unprecedented grift.

According to a Saturday report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the German government will stop new military aid to Ukraine as part of the ruling coalition’s plan to reduce spending. The report, which cited non-public documents and emails as well as discussions with unnamed sources, goes on to note that the moratorium on new assistance – which is already in effect – will affect new requests for funding, not previously approved aid.

In a letter sent to the German defense ministry on Aug. 5, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said that future funding would no longer come from Germany’s federal budget but from proceeds from frozen Russian assets, according to the German newspaper. And since we already know that recent attempts to liquidate Russian assets crashed and burned over fears of escalating Russian retaliation, this effectively means no more aid for Ukraine.

Berlin, which is Europe’s main supplier of military aid to Kyiv, had previously signaled a change in course on Ukraine last month, when the governing coalition of the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Liberals adopted a preliminary deal on a draft budget for 2025. The compromise detailed plans to slash future assistance to Ukraine by half to €4 billion to fulfill other spending priorities. And, it now appears, that even this token amount is about to be cut to zero.

As we reported in June, the G7’s decision to extend a USD 50 billion loan to Ukraine, backed by immobilized Russian assets, was this summit’s most significant step forward. This loan structure reflects a typical compromise between the US and Europe. While the straightforward solution would involve seizing all of Russia’s frozen assets (estimated at USD 280 billion) to directly fund Ukraine’s war efforts, European countries – particularly France, Germany, and Belgium – aggressively shied away from this, viewing it as too aggressive and fearing Russian reciprocation. Instead, they opted for using the interest on matured assets, which amounts to only a few billion dollars per year. The first option would be a game changer, we said, “whereas the second option falls embarrassingly short.”

And now Ukraine will have to be satisfied with receiving whatever meager interest seized Russian funds generate.

Meanwhile, the primary source of funding for Ukraine – the Biden family and various deep state operatives – is about to dry out, after Biden finally leaves the White House and quit politics forever in three months.

Speaking after the Cabinet approved the draft budget in mid-July, Germany FinMin Lindner said Ukraine would have to rely more on funds from “European sources” as well as the frozen Russian assets. But it’s still unclear if, and when, that money will flow.

According to Politico, contentions over Ukraine aid reportedly deepened the rifts in the ruling coalition in Berlin, already tattered by weeks of internal fights over a series of issues from the budget to welfare. Green leader and Economy Minister Robert Habeck said this week he plans to run for chancellor as the Greens’ candidate in the 2025 federal election, casting doubt on the survival of the governing alliance of which he is a member.

“It’s quite obvious that this coalition has major problems finding common ground,” Habeck said regarding the recent disputes.

“The ideas are falling apart.”

Which is also why Zelensky will have no choice but to resort to ever-more-desperate and shocking provocations and diversions to keep the money flowing, as the alternative is complete devastation for Ukraine and its Western backers.

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Tim Walz Caught in New Acts of Stolen Valor

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