Viktor Orbán sparks outrage with attack on ‘race mixing’ in Europe

Hungary’s far-right prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has lashed out against the “mixing” of European and non-European races, in a speech that immediately drew outrage from opposition parties and European politicians.

“We [Hungarians] are not a mixed race … and we do not want to become a mixed race,” said Orbán on Saturday. He added that countries where European and non-Europeans mingle were “no longer nations”.

Orbán has been making similar claims for years, but these comments were couched in stark far-right terms.

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The Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary redefines ‘female’

Recently, Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary made a significant amendment to its lexicon.

The dictionary’s digital publishers added a new definition for “female” which reads: “having a gender identity that is the opposite of male.”

Similarly, the secondary definition of “male” reads: “having a gender identity that is the opposite of female.” 

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Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent

Played by humans, chess is a game of strategic thinking, calm concentration and patient intellectual endeavour. Violence does not usually come into it. The same, it seems, cannot always be said of machines.

Last week, according to Russian media outlets, a chess-playing robot, apparently unsettled by the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, unceremoniously grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open.

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The Economist Plotting the Brave New World Order

NYT darling Herman Daly has plans for you.

Record inflation that’s forcing us to reconsider a diet of fried bugs and seaweed. Gas prices that are compelling BMW owners to don roller skates. And housing costs that make owning a modest bungalow seem as impossible a dream as living like a Black Lives Matter founder.

You may regard these as ominous developments. But for the green crowd, of course, they’re wonderful tidings — big steps in the right direction. And for one of the kings of that green crowd, Herman Daly — an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland and former World Bank economist who’s the father of something called “ecological economics” — they’re all part of the master plan.

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Bettie Page, ‘50s ‘Queen of Pinups,’ to receive historical marker in Nashville

Bettie Page, a ‘50s model and Playboy centerfold who helped set the stage for the sexual revolution of the ‘60s, is finally getting recognized in Nashville.

The Tennessee native, nicknamed the “Queen of Pinups,” is set to receive a historical marker in downtown Nashville. The marker will be placed near Hume-Fogg High School, where Page graduated second in her class in 1940.

About time.

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Adam Zivo: Crime at homeless encampments is becoming a national problem

There is no shortage of evidence that residents of homeless encampments often harm surrounding neighbours through harassment, assault and vandalism. Despite this, many politicians and bureaucrats continue to whitewash homeless crime. This needs to stop, because although it’s important to support vulnerable Canadians, communities cannot simply be abandoned to lawlessness.

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WTF?

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China wanted to build 70ft pagoda in ‘perfect spying spot’ near US Capitol

FBI investigators say they have seen a “dramatic escalation” of Chinese espionage and claim Huawei technology ‘threat to national security’

China wanted to build a 70ft pagoda on a hill close to the Capitol in Washington DC but was stopped amid fears the “perfect spot” could be used to spy on the US government, according to leaked FBI documents.

Beijing had also reportedly been attempting to snoop on US military and government facilities using the cover of Huawei installations, according to CNN, which first published the story.

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Soros-backed district attorneys face growing backlash as crime spikes

A progressive movement to install liberal activists in district attorney’s offices across the country is beginning to backfire, with voters in some cities reconsidering their choices and Republicans in others organizing ahead of the next election .

Liberal billionaire George Soros has sunk millions of dollars over the past several years into boosting candidates that have advocated reforms such as ending cash bail, barring prosecutions of minors as adults, and declining to bring cases against a host of less serious, but frequently disruptive, violations of the law.

Some of the candidates he helped install have presided over severe increases in violence.

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Why Putin Must Be Defeated

May 9, Moscow. The annual military Victory Day Parade was held in Red Square, but with fewer soldiers and military vehicles than in other years. The parade had been cut by 35%. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s short, sober speech tried to justify the war of aggression he had launched against Ukraine on February 24.

Putin seemed on the verge of defeat. A month earlier, in an apparent debacle, the Russian Army had hastily left the Kyiv area. Countless Russian soldiers had been wounded and killed; the loss of military equipment was unimaginable. A report from the UK Ministry of Defence on May 15 said that Russia had lost a third of its combat forces and much of its heavy equipment.

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“Where are America’s Jewish Leaders?” on Islamist Antisemitism

“… You can imagine we, who found this out, were pretty upset,” Jacobs said, so he called an “emergency meeting” with the “Jewish leadership in Boston,” including the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Federations, and the American Jewish Committee. APT showed them indisputable evidence from the ISBCC’s 2004 website, including a “how to beat your wife panel” that advised men to “hang up the whip where members of your household can see it.” Should your wife displease you, eventually you can “beat her on the ankles, then on the legs,” and so on. Although Boston’s Jewish leadership “has to be the most pro-feminist bunch of people that you’ve ever met,” this “didn’t faze them.”

Jacobs also showed the leaders checks from the mosque to terror organizations, and from those organizations back to the mosque. “Nothing helped,” he said, as the leaders decided to “give [the Islamists] the benefit of the doubt” because “they’ll come to know us and like us . . . because we’re likable.” Jacobs said he “begged the leaders” to “go tell the mayor of Boston what we know,” and to “go show them what the FBI says about these people.”

It’s damn near comical. And entirely applicable to Canada save for a few recent moments of clarity.

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‘Never seen a virus that behaves this way’: Why COVID refuses to give us a break

Two and a half years into the COVID mess, yet another immunity-dodging viral variant is driving a seventh wave of infections — even though half the country’s population, more than 17 million people, were infected with Omicron between December and May, and despite more than 80 per cent of the population having received at least two doses of a vaccine.

I blame Communist China. Make them pay.

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Bill Gates Funds China’s Scientist Recruitment Project

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving money to the Chinese regime amid the regime’s bid to tempt foreign scientists into the country.

Bill Gates’s foundation issued a $100,000 grant in June to the Foreign Talent Research Center (FTRC) of China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, according to the Gates Foundation’s website, the National Pulse first reported.

The funding is to help the Chinese regime organize a forum hosted by Zhongguancun—China’s state-sponsored silicon valley—on “pandemic preparedness and response.” The forum has featured top leaders of the regime as speakers including, in its 2021 event, regime leader Xi Jinping.

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Tour de France fans tackle militant eco-protesters before dragging them off the road to stop them blocking the race

Hero Tour de France fans have taken justice into the own hands to remove eco-protesters threatening to disrupt the event by blocking the road

Eight climate activists from Dernière Rénovation (Last Renovation) wearing T-shirts saying ‘we have 978 days left’ to tackle the environment tried to stop the race during the 20th stage between Lacapelle-Marival and Rocamadour.

But they were thwarted by spectators, which the militant eco-protesters admitted ‘removed’ them from the road even ‘before the police’ had arrived to later arrest the activists.

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