A federal judge in New York has ruled that many of the personal records of Ghislaine Maxwell, partner to accused sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, be released in the next two weeks. Those records will almost certainly implicate some powerful men such as Prince Andrew and former president Bill Clinton. Clinton reportedly took dozens of flights on Epstein’s private plane, dubbed the “Lolita Express,” referring to the underage girls who stayed on the late financier’s island playground.
I suppose we can simply flag this story as the latest entry in our series on how the pandemic has changed America and what the “new normal” looks like. And we’re once again looking at issues involving the restaurant industry, arguably among the hardest hit during the lockdowns.
The current levels and psychic costs of violent crime in many US cities are, well, criminal
Just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday June 1, 18-year-old Kennedy Hobbs of Jackson, Mississippi stopped at a gas station off of Medgar Evers Boulevard to gas up. She had graduated from Murrah High School in Jackson that same day and was on her way to a graduation party. While at the gas station, she made a phone call. While talking, she was shot multiple times by an unknown person and died on the scene. Details are murky and police are still investigating, but at this time it doesn’t appear that Hobbs knew the shooter.
Of course you’ve heard the name “George Soros,” often invoked as a sort of folk demon on the American and international right, it’s likely that you have some vague notion of why you think he’s a bad guy, or maybe you think the whole thing is a bunch of hype.
However, if you’re a freedom lover, there’s nothing “hype” about the influence that George Soros has around the world attacking your freedom. Indeed, you probably vastly underestimate the influence that he has on politics.
h/t Instapundit
A recent homily by the head of Canadian Catholic bishops is sparking anger, after he implied that the church is being persecuted amid widespread attention to gravesite discoveries at residential schools.
On Sunday, three days after an announcement that a preliminary search with ground-penetrating radar had found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former Catholic-run residential school in Saskatchewan, Archbishop Richard Gagnon delivered a homily in Brandon, Man. He said in his address that residential schools are “a big thing right now in Canada and I know that we Catholics, we’re troubled, we’re hurt by this a lot in our hearts.”
Blame where it’s due – the Liberal Party.
Justin Trudeau is probably feeling unwell right about now.
The prime minister got his second dose of vaccine on Friday and the pharmacist warned him the side effects are likely to be worse than the slight chills and fever he had after his first dose. “I know,” he said. “Sophie got hers yesterday. She had a bit of a tough night sleep.”
Alleged drunk driver nabbed in Vaughan with girl, 5, in car
America’s primary geopolitical competitor signals its intention to expand its nuclear weapons capabilities.
Afew months after the Pentagon warned that China intended to expand its nuclear weapons program by “at least doubling” its stockpile, there is now photographic evidence of this buildup taking place.
While browsing satellite imagery, an American researcher has discovered a massive construction project taking place in a desert in China’s northwestern Gansu province. It appears to consist of a series of missile silos identical to those at a known nuclear weapons site in Jilantai in the province of Inner Mongolia.
The former head of Germany’s intelligence agency has criticised the country’s leader Angela Merkel over her immigration policies, saying that they are leading the country into a decline.
Hans-Georg Maassen previously ran the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Germany for six years before being forced out in 2018 after publicly contradicting the chancellor’s claims that foreigners had been ‘hunted’ in the city of Chemnitz during civil unrest in the area.
The 58-year-old’s remarks at the time, which questioned evidence of such ‘hunts’, caused a huge scandal and rocked Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Chicago continues to be the U.S. poster city for random and senseless violence. During the last weekend of June, 77 people were shot and two mass shootings occurred almost back to back.
Hours after Chicago’s Puerto Rico Day parade on June 19, a Puerto Rican driver and passenger were dragged from their car by a mob after a minor traffic accident and shot execution-style. The spark from the gunfire can be plainly seen in a video before the offenders run off. The slaying resembles a lynching that might occur in a lawless, poor country but not in the U.S.’s third-largest city.
On January 19, 2014, the Turkish Gendarmerie command in southern Turkey searched three trucks heading for Syria. Accompanying the trucks were Turkish intelligence officers; the trucks had a bizarre cargo: In the first container, were 25-30 missiles or rockets and 10-15 crates loaded with ammunition; and in the second, 20-25 missiles or rockets, 20-25 crates of mortar rounds and anti-aircraft ammunition in five or six sacks. The crates had markings in the Cyrillic alphabet. One of the drivers testified that the cargo had been loaded onto the trucks from a foreign airplane at Ankara’s Esenboğa Airport and that, “We carried similar loads several times before.”
In a series of tweets that had several left-wing media outlets fuming, actress Kirstie Alley shared her belief that the United States is on the road to accepting pedophilia.
I do not think she is wrong.
The violent death of a young girl has drawn attention to Afghans in Austria. In their communities, young men with refugee experience are in the majority.
The dismay and sensational reporting of the murder of a 13-year-old girl in or near a sheltered apartment in Vienna-Donaustadt has sowed distrust of people from Afghanistan living in Austria. This is not the first time this has happened: in recent years, crimes committed by mostly Afghan men have repeatedly stirred up a stir, raised fear and prompted calls for stricter laws in asylum matters.
These were often sex crimes, rape in parks or other public places. The 13-year-old girl who was killed is also believed to show signs of sexual violence. Do men from this Central Asian country really commit assault more often than others? Is the criminal energy among Afghans particularly pronounced? What do we know about the 45,000 men and women living in Austria, from a country ravaged by terrorist attacks and war for decades?
A look at police crime statistics shows: The vast majority of Afghans in the country are unsuspected in terms of criminal law. In 2020, they were suspected of a total of 4,877 offenses, including every report filed. They accounted for 1.8% of all suspected offenses that year.
There are 4 suspects, 2 still on the run.
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VATICAN CITY, July 3 (Reuters) – A prominent Italian cardinal was among 10 people sent to trial in the Vatican on Saturday charged with financial crimes including embezzlement, money laundering, fraud, extortion and abuse of office.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, formerly a senior official in the Vatican administration, as well as two top officials at the Vatican’s Financial Intelligence Unit will go on trial on July 27 over a multi-million euro scandal involving the Vatican’s purchase of a building in one of London’s smartest districts.
The trial will inevitably bring a swirl of media interest to the tiny city-state surrounded by Rome, and appears to underscore Pope Francis’ determination to cure the rot in Vatican finances, even if it involves messy public hearings.
Sprinter Richardson has been banned for 30 days after failing a marijuana test, and will miss out on the 100-meter dash at the Tokyo Games.
AOC hit out at Olympic organizers for their decision on Friday, also slammed the International Swimming Federation for rejecting the use of Soul Cap, a brand of swimming caps designed for athletes with natural black hair, at the Olympics.
‘The criminalization and banning of cannabis is an instrument of racist and colonial policy,’ Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Friday.
