New York braces for billionaire exodus after socialist Zohran Mamdani’s win

New York is bracing for an “exodus of billionaires” after the Democrats nominated a staunch socialist as their candidate for mayor.

Zorham Mamdani, a 33-year-old “anti-Zionist”, sent shock waves through American politics on Tuesday when he beat Andrew Cuomo, the former governor, in the Democratic primary, earning him the party’s nomination for November’s mayoral election.

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New York, London, Paris: the great cities of the West have fallen

Zohran Mamdani shows that the toxic wind that began to blow after the killing of George Floyd has become a tornado

New York is generally considered one of the greatest cities on earth, if not the greatest, as the classic tagline goes.

Never mind that in my view, it is stifling in summer and slushy in winter, a concrete jungle from which it often feels there is no escape thanks to a terrifying, erratic subway, an incomprehensible bus system, and all of it laid out on an alienating grid system suited to human compasses, not people.

Then there are the rodents and the cockroaches, the poorly-made housing, and the sky-high prices.

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UK punk band blasted for ‘Death to IDF’ chants during Glastonbury festival as police probe ‘deeply offensive’ comments

Another UK band has come under fire for its “threatening” comments against Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza — stirring up a frenzy at an outdoor music festival Saturday.

English-based punk duo Bob Vylan whipped the crowd at England’s annual Glastonbury Music Festival into a furor, and led the massive audience in gang chants of “Free, free Palestine” and “Death, death to the IDF” in referencing the Israeli Defense Forces.

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Online terror content is a national security crisis

The Times reported this week that thousands of social media accounts connected to terror groups, including Iran-backed Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen, have been allowed to operate freely on mainstream platforms. While everyone can see what is posted on Instagram and X, it’s much harder to tell the extent of the problem on encrypted services such as Telegram and WhatsApp.

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Grooming gangs, multiculturalism and the silence of the ‘progressive’ feminists

What happened to all the progressive feminists? At a time when the industrial-scale exploitation of girls across the UK has been back at the top of the news agenda, we have heard remarkably little from what you might call the professional feminist set.

Louise Casey’s audit on grooming gangs, published last week, was sufficiently explosive to force UK prime minister Keir Starmer to u-turn on his opposition to holding a national inquiry into the scandal. Of course, in many ways, the report merely underlined what victims, parents and a few brave journalists have been trying to communicate for decades: that vast swathes of young girls across the UK have been sexually exploited by grooming gangs, made up disproportionately by Pakistani Muslim men.

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National security experts say Canada’s loose immigration system may have opened the floodgates to Iranian operatives bent on retaliation against the US

A shocking wave of Iranian regime insiders — including suspected members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — have quietly moved to Canada in recent years, stoking fears of sleeper cells poised to strike targets across North America.

The explosive revelation comes amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, where a shaky ceasefire appears to be holding after America joined Israel’s 12-day bombing campaign of Iran’s nuclear program.

Now, national security experts say Canada’s loose immigration system may have opened the floodgates to Iranian operatives bent on retaliation — and that the threat could extend across the border into the US.

Welcome to Iran North.

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PBS Claims Reaction To Socialist Mamdani’s Win Has Been ‘Hateful’

Friday’s weekly news recap featuring PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks preferred to talk about the conservative reaction—or more accurately, Nawaz’s cherry-picked conservative reactions—to socialist Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral primary win than Mamdani’s actual positions and history.

It’s a constitutional right to hate on commie Muslim foreigners.

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Marseilles drug police scandal has echoes of ‘French Connection’ era

Five officers are implicated after €10m of cocaine went unaccounted for during a sting on ‘Mimo’, one Europe’s biggest narco-traffickers

When the container ship OPS Hamburg docked in Marseilles on a morning in April 2023, officers from France’s elite anti-drug force were lying in wait. They were sure their cunning sting would net one of Europe’s biggest narco-traffickers.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration had told them that buried in a container of bananas arriving from Cartagena, Colombia, there was a massive shipment of cocaine. It had been ordered by Mohamed Djeha, alias Mimo, the feared boss of Marseilles’ Castellane clan.

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Man Who Killed French Doctor ‘For Allah’ Ruled Not Criminally Responsible

This brutal crime was kept under wraps by a near-total media blackout—but now the shocking details have emerged.

Just three years ago, in Marseille, a young 40-year-old military doctor, Alban Gervaise, was brutally murdered by Mohammed—“in the name of Allah”—in front of his children’s school. There was no minute of silence or national tribute for him. His widow has just learned with horror that her husband’s murderer will not be tried because he has been deemed “mentally unfit to stand trial.”

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Zohran Mamdani plans to raise taxes on white neighbourhoods in NYC

Zohran Mamdani has pledged to raise taxes on “whiter neighbourhoods” if he becomes New York mayor.

The self-described socialist earlier this week beat Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor, in the Democratic primary, earning him the party’s nomination for November’s mayoral election.

Following his win on Tuesday, fresh details of Mr Mamdani’s radical agenda have emerged, including a plan to “shift the tax burden” to “richer, whiter neighbourhoods”.

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Preventing ‘Grooming Gangs’ Requires Honest Data

The common factor amongst the perpetrators is not nationality or ethnicity but Islam, and the common factor amongst the victims is that they are non-Muslims.

We need to talk about the failure to collect and provide data about the offenders connected to the grooming gangs—or what is more accurately described as child sexual slavery and enforced child trafficking.

Despite having signed and ratified the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (‘the Istanbul Convention’) which, in article 11, requires the UK authorities to collect and make public such data, we have an intelligence picture that is so bad it suggests the truth is being deliberately obscured to hide the true scale and nature of these horrors.

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SLOBODIAN: You’d never know the shooting had stopped

‘Iran’s Supreme Leader may be hiding in shame, but his hateful ideology marches on, right here in Canada.’

With the announcement of a “complete and total” ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran, US President Donald J. Trump earlier this week declared an “official end,” to a 12-day war of relentless bombing.

Within a couple of hours an angry Trump dropped the F-bomb when he blasted both Israel and Iran for violating the terms he had just announced.

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