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White girls raped by dogs, whisky bottles, and hundreds of Muslim men: Britain's migrant grooming gang scandal exposed

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Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe told Westminster that Parliament had a duty to confront the full horror of rape gang abuse and stop "talking" while children continued to be failed

Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe used a Westminster Hall debate on Monday to confront MPs with harrowing testimony from White girls and women who were raped, tortured, trafficked, and degraded by migrant grooming gangs, and abandoned by the very authorities that should have protected them.

The debate was secured after 260,974 Brits signed a petition calling for Parliament to address the rape gang scandal. Lowe opened by thanking the signatories and welcoming survivors who were sitting in the hall, saying the debate was not about politics, but about them.

"I want the world to hear what we heard during the two weeks of our independent rape gang inquiry hearings, an inquiry that should never have needed to happen," Lowe said.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) heralds a post-human era of economic, social and moral upheavals

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"Artificial Intelligence (AI) will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have." — Eric Schmidt (1955- ), former Google CEO, in a keynote address to University of Arizona graduates, that was booed by students, Friday, May 15, 2026.

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire." — Sundar Pichai (1972- ), Chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc. and of its subsidiary Google. (Statement made in 2018, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland).

"The development of full Artificial Intelligence (AI) could spell the end of the human race... it would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded." — Stephen Hawking (1942- 2018),British physicist, in an interview with the BBC, December 2, 2014.

"Any technology that facilitates attackswithout seeing the face of human beings lowers the moral threshold of conflict." — Pope Leo XIV (1955- ), in his first encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' (or Magnificent Humanity), May 25, 2026.

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The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and of work-automation is progressing rapidly with many potential applications and benefits in many areas. It is going to define the economic future.

Fire

Election interference scandal is uncovered in two major California hubs

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© KTLA 5Election officials said preliminary information suggests the damage was limited in scope and occurred during a relatively short window between a scheduled ballot pickup and the following morning’s collection.
An election interference scandal has already rocked California as a voting site was vandalized and burned mail-in ballots were found in a drop box.

The incidents, which officials described as isolated but serious, have sparked an investigation and renewed warnings that any attempt to interfere with the voting process will carry criminal penalties.

Election workers discovered vandalism Sunday morning at a vote center located at Cesar E. Chavez Park in Long Beach, according to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's Office.

Officials said staff responded immediately and voting operations continued without interruption.

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Colorado could be in legal trouble with Feds for punishing election official and political prisoner Tina Peters

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Tina Peters on the day of her release after being railroaded into prison for doing her job preserving Colorado 2020 election records
A conservative group is asking the federal government to criminally investigate Colorado officials for throwing 2020 election skeptic Tina Peters in prison.

The state targeted the former county clerk and President Donald Trump ally based on political viewpoints when punishing her for leaking voting machine data in 2021, the Article III Project told the Department of Justice (DOJ) in a Monday letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Judge Matthew Barrett sentenced Peters to nine years behind bars in 2024 on felonies and misdemeanors for sharing the data with political allies to investigate alleged election fraud.

Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence on May 15, scheduling her for release on Monday.

Comment: Colorado's prison system was not kind to the grandmother.




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Che Guevara

Mamdani U-turns to DOGE-style playbook after tax-the-rich plan stalls

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stolen the government-efficiency playbook from Elon Musk and President Trump's DOGE, repackaging it as the "Commission on Government Efficiency." This comes as the far-left mayor is grappling with a large budget deficit.

Democrats and their far-left, billionaire-funded NGOs and activist groups spent the first half of 2025 demonizing Trump's DOGE, which aimed to trim the bloated federal government.

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41% of Muslim youth in Vienna believe their religious laws take precedence over Austrian laws

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© Askin Kiyagan/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesVienna, Austria, April 21: Muslims attend Eid al-Fitr prayers at Central Mosque of Austrian Turkish-Islamic Culture and Social Assistance Union in Vienna, Austria.
A recent study conducted on behalf of the city of Vienna highlights a concerning trend among young Muslims regarding their religious and political views. This follows the recent announcement that Muslim children now comprise nearly 41 percent of the population in Vienna's compulsory schools, making them the largest religious group.

The study, published on May 12, 2026, was led by Kenan Güngör. He classifies the results as "very worrying," noting that religion occupies a much larger space in the lives of Muslim youth compared to their peers.

One of the most significant findings involves the hierarchy of legal and religious authority. Forty-one percent of Muslim youth agree with the statement that their religious laws take precedence over the laws in Austria, compared to 21 percent of Christian youth, as reported in Austrian news outlet Der Standard.

Comment: If someone moves to another country and seeks to benefit from their way of living in some way, whether it be financial or social, some degree of assimilation is necessary for social cohesion.

This isn't about totalitarianism and suppression of religious freedom, but respect for the values, norms and laws that exist in the host country. There are strict laws in some Middle-Eastern countries that are followed despite the nationality or religion of the individual. It should be no different in the West.


Pills

The Sedation of Appalachia

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© Adobe StockAppalachian town
Consider what Appalachia gave America before America returned the favor in pill form.

The region supplied the coal that powered two industrial revolutions and two world wars. It supplied, per capita, more military volunteers than almost anywhere else in the country — a tradition that held through Vietnam and into Iraq and Afghanistan. It fed American steel mills, timber yards, and chemical plants. Its people worked in the dark, underground, and underpaid, and when the work was done, they came home to churches and kin and the kind of densely-interlocking community life that sociologists now study as sort of an artifact of a vanished world. Many of these communities now record the highest drug-related deaths in the developed world.

This isn't a story about weakness. It's a story about what happens when every institution that once made hardship survivable is now removed at the same time, and the market for chemical sedation expands to fill the void.

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Minneapolis police rarely responded to ICE calls but still managed to spend millions on overtime

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© Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNSA protester sits in the street in front of a group of federal agents and Minneapolis police officers at West 27th Street and Nicollet Avenue after federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti on Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis.
The MPD prioritized preventing large-scale civil unrest over responding to calls from residents concerned about unlawful force by ICE, and racked up huge OT costs doing it.

Minneapolis police rarely responded to immigration-related emergency calls during Operation Metro Surge, even as the department spent $10 million on overtime and standby pay preparing for unrest that largely never materialized.

In December, then-Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara urged citizens to call 911 if they witnessed apparent kidnappings by masked people in the street and were unsure if they were actually law enforcement. He also vowed to fire officers who failed to intervene in cases where federal agents used unlawful force.

A rise in emergency calls about ICE followed.

In early December, a Minneapolis grocery store owner called 911 to report agents were in his parking lot, harassing customers and refusing to leave.

In January, a Minneapolis resident complained to a 911 dispatcher that about a dozen agents were tear-gassing protesters near downtown.

Two days later, another caller reported being chased by an SUV as agents inside pointed their firearms.

Bizarro Earth

Britain mourned George Floyd. Why won't it mourn Henry Nowak?

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A dying teenager said "I can't breathe." Britain looked away.

Consider what a nation chooses to see. Attention is not a neutral faculty, a camera that simply records whatever passes before it. A society has only so much moral attention to spend, and the way it spends that attention, what it magnifies and what it lets slide past, is among the most honest confessions it ever makes about its real beliefs. We learn what a people values not from its official creeds but from the deaths it cannot stop talking about, set beside the deaths it manages to forget within a week.

Begin, then, with the deaths a nation could not stop talking about. When George Floyd died under a Minneapolis officer's knee in May 2020, Britain responded as though the killing had happened in Bristol rather than 4,000 miles away. The Guardian's own survey of that summer found demonstrations in more than 260 British towns and cities, from Shetland to south Wales, with crowds of 15,000 in Manchester and well over 210,000 marchers nationwide by mid June. The future Prime Minister knelt for the cameras. This is worth dwelling on, because it proves something the British establishment now seems eager to deny about itself. It is fully capable of treating a police death on another continent as a domestic moral emergency. The machinery exists. The will exists. The question is only when it switches on.

Cowboy Hat

Dem establishment starting to worry about Spencer Pratt

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Spencer Pratt has run a brilliant campaign trading on Karen Bass's failures as mayor. The message was placed on a typical LA street by power-washing the grime away.
The last person California Democrats expected to keep them up at night is Spencer Pratt. Yet here we are.

The former reality television personality-turned-independent mayoral candidate has spent the past several weeks doing something that Los Angeles's political establishment convinced itself was impossible: making incumbent Mayor Karen Bass look vulnerable.

Conventional wisdom held that a candidate like Pratt, a former television personality with no governing experience, running as an independent in a deep-blue city, had no realistic path to victory. The conventional wisdom was wrong, or at a minimum, it failed to account for how much patience voters had actually lost with the Democratic Party's incompetence.

Comment: Pratt's campaign team deserves every award:





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