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Slovakia's deputy premier to boycott Olympics closing ceremony over Last Supper parody: 'Disgraceful'

Talha Ozturk
Anadolu Agency
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 21:30 UTC
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© Facebook / Tomáš TarabaTomas Taraba, Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia
Re-enactment featuring drag queens and dancers widely criticized by Christian groups

Slovakia's deputy prime minister said he will not participate in the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics over the controversial Last Supper parody during the opening of the games last week.

The organizers of the Olympics in Paris prepared the abomination for the world a performance full of LGBT ideology and an insult to the symbols of Christianity, Tomas Taraba said in a Facebook post on Sunday.

Comment: Will there be others?

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Yoda

Arizona election fraud warrior Kari Lake wins GOP nod for Republican Senate bid

Julia Johnson
Fox News
Tue, 30 Jul 2024 21:03 UTC
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© Getty ImagesCurrent/Potential Arizona Senate candidates

From left to right: Republican Pinal County, Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb, Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and former Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.
It sets her up for a general election battle with Gallego for Sinema's seat.

Kari Lake won the Republican Senate primary in Arizona on Tuesday evening, setting up a heated race against Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., in November for the open seat being vacated by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz.

Lake defeated Pinal County, Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb for the nomination. Gallego won his bid for the Democratic nomination to the Senate as well, officially securing the party's nod to succeed Sinema.

Lake initially ran for governor of the state in 2022 but was defeated by now-Gov. Katie Hobbs, D-Ariz. Prior to her gubernatorial run, Lake was a news anchor for a local Arizona television station and had been working in the media for 27 years.

Comment: Kari Lake showed herself to be a woman of principle when her own party tried to bribe her into not running for governor.


Arizona GOP chair Jeff DeWit RESIGNS over bombshell audio bribing Kari Lake to stay out of office

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Attention

Italian female boxer says 'I quit to save my life' after stopping Olympics bout with 'biologically male' opponent just 46 seconds into first round

Shektar Bhatia
Daily Mail
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:19 UTC
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Female Italian boxer Angela Carini says she stopped her Olympic bout against her 'biologically male' opponent to 'save my life'.

The clash between the 25-year-old and her Algerian opponent Imane Khelif lasted just 46 seconds, with Carini yelling 'this is unjust' before she fell to canvas and wept having had her Olympic dreams snatched away from her.

Carini was rocked by two punches from Khelif - who had been banned from a major boxing contest before the Olympics - and said the savage force of the blows made it 'impossible to continue'.
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Bizarro Earth

Net Zero targets 'Unachievable' says Air New Zealand and nearly 70% of Australian companies 'not even trying'

Jo Nova
joannenova.com.au
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:30 UTC
ANZ B777-300
© YouTube

And the flavor of the month is "failure"

Air New Zealand announced this week that it would not be able to cut its carbon emissions by 29% by 2030. The levers were "outside their control", they lamented, which was the polite way of saying there isn't enough sustainable jet fuel in the world, electric planes die after a few weeks, and no one has invented a low emissions plane yet. At the moment the only kind of Net-Zero-flying is not to fly at all.

Current supplies of sacred sustainable fuel are rapidly growing but barely 0.5% of total requirements. Even though production is expected to triple this year to 1.5 Mt of Sustainable Aviation Fuel, the industry needs 200 times what is currently available.

If someone could just invent an anti-gravity machine, or a nuclear jet...
Air New Zealand pulls the plug on 2030 climate targets

By Charlotte Graham-McLay, Associated Press

Air New Zealand has pulled the plug on its climate targets saying the resources needed to meet them are unaffordable and unavailable.

In a statement the airline said it was removing its 2030 carbon intensity reduction target and will withdraw from the Science Based Targets initiative.
This is the sound of the free market saying "It's a stupid idea":
Sustainable transport researcher Dr Paul Callister said Air New Zealand's climate target was unrealistic and was never going to be achieved. ... "We've seen report after report saying that sustainable aviation fuels are not being produced and the quantities they should be and part of the problem is that airlines are not willing to pay the full cost of it. They're wanting cheap fuels and they're wanting government subsidies to pay for those fuels. It's a bit of a vicious cycle.
Of course, if customers thought the world was really going to end they might be willing to pay for expensive fuels to prevent that. But no one really believes it.
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Sherlock

Huge fire at industrial unit in Dublin sends smoke billowing across city, site repeatedly hit by arson in last month

Conor Gallagher
Irish Times
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 18:37 UTC
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People living in the area have reported ash landing in their gardens as Dublin Fire Brigade advises locals to close windows and doors
The fire broke out on Thursday at the premises on the Oscar Traynor Road. Five fire engines are currently at the scene.

The fire has caused significant damage to the property and is emitting a large plume of smoke. People living in the area have reported ash landing in their gardens.

Dublin Fire Brigade said smoke is drifting across the locality and has advised residents to close all windows and doors if they can smell smoke.

The fire in Coolock, spreading smoke across the city, seen on Thursday evening from the roof of The Irish Times building on Tara Street, Dublin

Comment: Considering the previous acknowledged arson, alongside the discontent that is spreading throughout the UK, in addition to the sabotage incidents that have surged in the last two years or so, this fire is notable.

Is just opportunistic arson? An insurance claim? A rival business? Or, does some shadowy group want to fan the flames of unrest, destroy supply chains, and want to make it look like the world is going to hell?

In just the past few weeks:

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Black Cat

Rules for thee: Audit finds IRS employees owe $50 million in back taxes

Luke Rosiak
The Daily Wire
Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:18 UTC
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) irs back taxes employees
© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesSen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) says IRS employees’ failure to pay taxes is particularly galling, considering the $80 billion the Inflation Reduction Act allotted to expand the agency’s audit capacity.
Internal Revenue Service employees and contractors owe a collective $50 million in back taxes, a new audit by the Treasury Department's inspector general found.

Of the more than 3,800 IRS employees who owe back taxes, 2,000 have not even established a payment plan. More than 50 of these delinquent employees have remained employed by the IRS for five years or more. All told, nearly 150,000 federal employees failed to pay their taxes, owing a combined $1.5 billion.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), who requested the audit, says IRS employees' failure to pay taxes is particularly galling, considering the $80 billion the Inflation Reduction Act allotted to expand the agency's audit capacity.

"Surely the irony and hypocrisy can't be missed here: taxpayers are being forced to pay billions more to the IRS to audit America while the agency won't even collect the tens of millions of dollars in unpaid taxes owed by its employees," Ernst said.

Comment: The IRS has become a shake-down tool wielded to protect political friends and against troublesome political adversaries, not tax evaders. Thus, the calibre of their employees is not an issue. In today's climate, those are principally conservative. The whole organization should be scrapped, just like the FBI.

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British public warned of $28bn financial black hole


RT
Tue, 30 Jul 2024 05:53 UTC
Reeves
© Jonathan Brady/AFP/PoolUK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers a speech at the Treasury.
UK public spending is on track to go £22 billion ($28 billion) over budget by this year due to Tory financial mismanagement, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, told parliament on Monday.

Reeves took over as finance chief after Labour won a landslide victory in the general election in early July, ending 14 years of Conservative Party rule.

Warning of the need to make "difficult decisions," the chancellor announced an immediate £5.5 billion ($7 billion) of cuts, promising a further £8.1 billion ($10.4 billion) spending decrease for the next financial year. Reeves also announced above-inflation pay rises for public sector workers costing some £9.1 billion ($11.7 billion). Tory policies had sparked worker strikes in several areas of the public sector for years.

Reeves, in the House of Commons, said:
"They ducked the difficult decisions. They put party before country. The reserve spent more than three times over, only three months into the financial year, and they told no one. The scale of this overspend is not sustainable. Not to act is simply not an option."
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HAL9000

Censorship: Google AI chatbot refuses to answer questions about Trump assassination attempt, cites policy on "election-related issues"

Jeffrey Clark
Fox News
Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:01 UTC
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© Getty ImagesGoogle chatbot Gemini refused to answer questions about the failed assassination attempt against former President Trump
Google is also facing criticism online for its search results relating to the Trump assassination attempt

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Google Gemini refuses to answer questions about the failed assassination attempt against former President Trump, in accordance with what it calls its policy on election-related issues.

"I can't help with responses on elections and political figures right now," Gemini told Fox News Digital when asked about the recent assassination attempt. "While I would never deliberately share something that's inaccurate, I can make mistakes. So, while I work on improving, you can try Google Search."

Google Gemini is one of many multimodal large language models (LLMs) currently available to the public. As is the case with all LLMs, the human-like responses offered by these AIs can change from user to user based on a number of factors, including contextual information, the language and tone of the prompt and training data.

Comment: Meta (Facebook) is no better:


Big Tech is blantantly stumping for Harris:




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USA

Fewer Americans back military support for Ukraine - poll


RT
Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:14 UTC
Times Square, New York City
© Photo by Adam Gray/Getty ImagesPeople walk through Times Square on June 11, 2024 in New York City.
Less than half of Americans approve of their government giving aid to Kiev, according to research published on Monday. The poll's result suggests a shift in public opinion on the US backing Ukraine in its conflict with Russia.

According to the survey by the Pew Research Center, a Washington-based think tank, the American public is evenly divided overall on levels of US aid to Ukraine, with 49% saying that Washington does not have any responsibility to help Kiev and 48% saying that it does.

A similar poll carried out a year ago by the Reagan Institute suggested that 59% of Americans supported providing military aid to Ukraine. According to a June 2023 Gallup poll, 62% of Americans supported the US effort to help Kiev.

Comment: The government spending money it doesn't have for a war that it shouldn't be involved in. Par for the American course.

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Israeli Shekel crashes after Iran assassination, 2nd worst depreciation in the world right now

Srinivasan Sivabalan
Bloomberg
Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:41 UTC
El dirigente de Hamás, Ismail Haniyeh,
© Vahid Salemi / Associated PressHamas said its political leader was killed in an airstrike in Tehran that it blamed on Israel. Ismail Haniyeh was in the Iranian capital for the inauguration of the new president on Tuesday. The Israeli military declined to comment.
Israel's shekel headed for the biggest three-day selloff in two years as traders worried the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh on Iran's soil raised the danger of a broader Middle East war.

The currency fell as much as 1.2% to 3.7886 per US dollar after Hamas blamed Israel for the airstrike in Tehran. That took its three-day decline to 3.3%, the worst in the world only after the recently floated Ethiopian birr. Israel's 10-year sovereign yield rose 4 basis points to 4.97%.

In nearly 10 months of war between Israel and Hamas, investors had repeatedly hoped for a return to peace, leading to sporadic resilience in the shekel as well as the country's stock and bond markets.


Comment: Israel has made it quite clear that they do not intend to work towards peace. Bear in mind that, whilst they have yet to admit they were responsible for the assassination of the Hamas' peace negotiator, they do admit that within 24 hours they bombed Beirut in another attempted assassination, they bomed Syria, and, of course their Western backed Gaza genocide is ongoing.


But as cease-fire talks in Gaza drag on, the latest events have eroded traders' optimism in a quick resolution, and fear is growing that Iran and its allies will be drawn into direct conflict with Israel.


Comment: Iran isn't blinded by pathology, and it seems that it will continue with the long game; of which, Israel's flailing economy is but one part: Iran tells UN it will retaliate against Israel's assassination with 'special operations'

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