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Dozens of sites earmarked for migrants have been set afire deliberately over the last year

Another site earmarked to house migrants has been set on fire in Ireland. The site in Co. Wicklow was proposed to accommodate International Protection Applications, the term given to migrants by the Irish government.

The attack took place in the early hours of Saturday morning, and is being investigated by the Gardaí as a deliberate act of criminal damage.

Ireland’s Department of Integration had said it was considering locating 20 eight-person tents on the site, but the plan had not been finalised.

Local residents have voiced concerns about the use of the site, including a lack of consultation with the government, and there have been ongoing protests at the site.

The fire is not the first to occur at a site for housing migrants.

Back in February, Prime Time Ireland, a branch of RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, reported that there had been at least 23 suspected arson attacks at sites linked, or rumoured to be linked, to the housing of migrants in the country.

“In recent months, there has been a marked increase in such attacks,” the report noted. “Across 2023 there were at least 13 incidents, but 10 of the 23 total incidents have occurred in the three months since November.

Documented Fires at Migrant Housing Sites in Ireland, Image: RTE

“So far in 2024, there have been four fires reported at properties that were linked to housing people who are officially categorised as international protection applications (IPAs) or beneficiaries of temporary protection (BOTPs).”

In recent years, Ireland’s population has increased dramatically as a result of mass immigration. Between April 2022 and April 2023, the population increased by 2%, as just over 140,000 migrants entered the country. This would equate to 7 million people entering the US in a single year.

More migrants entered the country than during the 2016 Migrant Crisis.

The figure is the highest for two decades, and was only surpassed in Irish history by migration during the so-called “Celtic Tiger” boom at the turn of the millennium.

Unsurprisingly, this massive wave of migration is causing significant tensions with the native Irish.

Crime has soared, with murders doubling.

Figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) for 2023, up to the end of June, show that there were 71 killings (murders and manslaughter) in the first six months of 2023 compared to the same six-month period in 2022, an increase of 31 percent. Murders accounted for 47 of these killings, while in the same period the year before they were only 24.

There were also 410 more robbery, extortion and hijacking cases, making a total of 2,328 such incidents this year, or a 21 percent increase.

Anger at migration has boiled over into open violence on the streets. Riots took place in Dublin last year after a stabbing attack in which a migrant stabbed children at a primary school.

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Ukraine has become more coercive in recent months as US aid has been stalled amidst political infighting.

The Ukrainian leader has occasionally compared his country’s plight to that of Israel, a dubious distinction as Tel Aviv’s reputation is battered globally.

President Volodymyr Zelensky took to the X (formerly Twitter) social media platform Sunday to remind Western lawmakers not to forget about Ukraine as the world responds to Iran’s retaliatory strike against Israel.

“Ukraine condemns Iran’s attack on Israel using ‘Shahed’ drones and missiles,” the leader wrote, claiming Moscow and Tehran utilize the same kinds of armaments.

“The world cannot wait for discussions to go on,” he added. “Words do not stop drones and do not intercept missiles. Only tangible assistance does. The assistance we are anticipating… It is critical that the United States Congress make the necessary decisions to strengthen America’s allies at this critical time.”

Former Ukrainian minister Volodymyr Omelyan was even more forceful, slamming former US President Donald Trump whose “America First” brand of conservatism has questioned US military spending.

“I hope that Iran’s attack on Israel will send a powerful message to Republicans, namely to Mr. Trump – you cannot wait aside any more and think that those are small separate regional conflicts happening somewhere in Europe, Middle East, [or] Asia,” Omelyan said in an interview with a US-based tabloid media outlet.

“China, Russia, Iran and North Korea persistently attack the West,” he said, without clarifying when they have done so.

China, Iran and North Korea have historically been subject to deadly US-backed economic sanctions. The United States invaded Russia in 1918 in an attempt to thwart the country’s unfolding revolution, and invaded China to help put down the Boxer Rebellion.

Zelensky has occasionally compared Ukraine’s plight to that of Israel. In 2022 the Ukrainian leader claimed he saw the country as a model for Ukraine’s future, saying Ukraine should become a “big Israel.”

The president said he was referring to Israel’s model of hardened internal security, but critics may instead draw comparisons between the two countries’ strident nationalism and treatment of minorities. The Kiev regime has launched attacks on its Russian-speaking eastern regions for more than a decade, often killing civilians.

A 2014 massacre of trade unionists in Odessa drew particular condemnation. Paramilitary groups attacked a peaceful rally in the coastal city, forcing people to take refuge in the Odessa Trade Union House. The neo-Nazi gangs then set fire to the building, killing some 50 people and bludgeoning to death those who attempted to escape.

Anti-Russian Ukrainian nationalists have continued to constitute an important faction of the country’s armed forces, with Kiev officially integrating the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion into its military later that year.

Israel has also received criticism for its increasingly extremist trajectory in recent years. Neo-Nazi activist Richard Spencer publicly praised the country’s so-called “Jewish Nation State” law in 2018, viewing it as a model for his desired white ethnostate. Israeli human rights group B’tselem has called Israel an “apartheid” and ethnic supremacist regime.

Ukraine has become more coercive in recent months as US aid has been stalled amidst political infighting.

“Give us the damn Patriots,” demanded the country’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba last month, referring to the US-developed surface-to-air missile system Ukraine sees as crucial to its fight against Russia.

Kuleba appeared to economically blackmail Western countries in recent comments, suggesting Ukraine would drive up global oil prices with attacks on Russian refineries if US aid were not forthcoming.

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Jonathan Adam Lecompte was just trying to do the right thing when he was brutally run down by a carjacker

Shocking video reached social media over the weekend of a carjacking in which a good Samaritan who tried to intervene was run over and killed. The incident took place last month and the carjacker has already been arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

Jonathan Adam Lecompte, 38, of Fayetteville, North Carolina was killed when Ricky Alex Driggers, 28, stole a vehicle and then intentionally ran him over while making his getaway.

The incident began at about 10:30 am on Thursday March 14. According to the police, officers were on their way to a carjacking call when they were told the suspect had been involved in a hit-and-run in the parking lot of Go Gas at 2605 W. 5th Street and was trying to carjack another vehicle on W. 5th Street in front of a McDonald’s.

Video posted to social media shows what took place in that parking lot. A man in a reflective vest approach the side of a tow truck, brandishing what appears to be a gun at another man, presumably Driggers, who is in the process of stealing the truck. There is an exchange of gunfire and the carjacker reverses the truck, before speeding off across the parking lot, hitting Lecompte in the process.

Lecompte was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Ricky Driggers / Photo: Robeson County Detention Center

Driggers has been apprehended and charged with first-degree murder, two counts of attempted common law robbery, larceny of a motor vehicle and felony fleeing to elude. He is being held in the Robeson County Detention Center, without bond.

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The film will chart Trump’s rise to power in the 1970s and ’80s, including his “Faustian deal” with Roy Cohn

The first official image from Ali Abbasi’s forthcoming Trump biopic The Apprentice has been released. The film will follow Trump’s rise to power in the cutthroat world of New York real-estate in the 1970s and 1980s.

In the image, we see a young Trump, played by Sebastian Stan, taking a phone call in the back of a limousine. He is watched over menacingly by his mentor Roy Cohn, played by Jeremy Strong.

Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong in The Apprentice, Photo: Profile Pictures

The film is described as a “dive into the underbelly of the American empire.” According to the official synopsis, the film “charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.”

The film is written by Gabe Sherman. Director Ali Abbasi is best known for his film Holy Spider, about a serial killer who targets sex workers in Iran.

The Apprentice will premiere next month at the Cannes Film Festival as one of the selections for the main competition.

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The US was forced to deny direct advance knowledge of the attacks as early as Thursday

On Sunday, a senior US official was forced to deny claims from Iranian, Turkish, Jordanian and Iraqi officials that Iran gave three days’ notice of its attack on Israel. On Friday and Saturday last week, the US warned of an impending but nonspecific threat from Iran, and President Biden warned the Islamic Republic “Don’t.”

According to Reuters, the US official denied all claims that the US knew of the attack as early as Thursday, but the official did admit that Washington was in contact with Iran via Swiss middlemen.

“That is absolutely not true,” the official said. “They did not give a notification.” The official also denied that any specific details of targets, which would have allowed evacuation, were given.

The official added that Teheran sent the US a message after the attacks had begun, not before.

“We received a message from the Iranians as this was ongoing, through the Swiss. This was basically suggesting that they were finished after this, but it was still an ongoing attack. So that was (their) message to us.”

In the aftermath of Saturday’s missile and drone attack, Iranian, Turkish, Iraqi and Jordanian officials have all claimed that the US was given significant advance warning, including details of the targets and the intention simply to answer Israel’s April 1 attack on the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, which killed two of the Revolutionary Guard’s top generals.

An Iranian source revealed that the Iranian regime informed the US government of the attack through multiple diplomatic channels, including Qatar, Turkey and Switzerland, giving details of the day of the attack and stating that it would be carried out in a way that would avoid provoking a response.

“Iran said the reaction would be a response to Israel’s attack on its embassy in Damascus and that it would not go beyond this,” said a Turkish diplomatic source.

“We were aware of the possibilities. The developments were not a surprise.”

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