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Cultural diversity on display again in Sweden

Steve Watson
Summit News
Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00 UTC
riots in Sweden
BBC says "angry protesters" clashed with the police

Displays of cultural diversity have yet again broken out in the multiethnic utopia of Sweden.

Otherwise known as migrant riots, the latest violence has erupted in Malmo following a Quran burning by an 'Anti-Islam activist' according to the BBC.

"A group of angry protesters tried to stop the burning, which resulted in a showdown between them and police," the report states.

Take a look at the "angry protesters" in action:


That's not a protest. It's a riot.
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Oil Well

Oil prices surge to 10-month high as Saudi, Russia extend supply cuts

Shariq Khan
Reuters
Tue, 05 Sep 2023 19:41 UTC
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© REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsFILE
Oil prices rose a dollar a barrel on Tuesday to their highest since November, after Saudi Arabia and Russia extended their voluntary supply cuts to the end of the year, worrying investors about potential shortages during peak winter demand.

Brent crude futures rose by $1.04, or 1.2%, to settle at $90.04 a barrel, closing above the $90 mark for the first time since November 16, 2022. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) futures gained $1.14, or 1.3%, to settle at $86.69 a barrel, also a 10-month high.

Investors had expected Saudi Arabia and Russia to extend voluntary cuts into October, but the three-month extension was unexpected.

"This is a clear indication that oil prices trump volume (for Saudi Arabia)," said Jorge Leon, senior vice president at Rystad Energy.

"These bullish moves significantly tighten the global oil market and can only result in one thing: higher oil prices worldwide," Leon added.

Comment: See also: Western officials to warn UAE against trading with Russia as oil trading breaks records

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Flashlight

Joe Rogan claims Biden scandals are being exposed 'on purpose': Democrats 'want to get rid of him'

Alexander Hall
Fox News
Sun, 17 Sep 2023 07:35 UTC
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© SpotifyJoe Rogan on President Biden and son Hunter's scandals in an episode of his podcast
Podcaster Joe Rogan on Wednesday claimed that President Biden's political scandals are being exposed "on purpose" so he can be replaced with another Democratic presidential candidate.

As evidence from investigations into Hunter Biden and the Biden family's foreign business dealings builds, Rogan explained his hypothesis, as an "armchair conspiracy theorist," on why the scandals have reached a fever pitch.

"If I had to guess, I would say that all this stuff that's coming out slowly but surely about Biden is on purpose, and they want to get rid of him," Rogan said during a recent episode with former CIA covert operations officer Mike Baker.

"I think he wants to run again, and I don't think the Democrats think that he can win. I think they're right, and I think they're going to slowly but surely expose more of these very clear pieces of evidence of corruption," he said.

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Italian ex-premier says French missile downed an airliner in 1980 by accident in bid to kill Gadhafi

Frances D'Emilio
AP
Sat, 02 Sep 2023 10:11 UTC
Amato
© Plinio Lepri/AP/FileItalian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato • Italian press conference • March 16, 2007
A former Italian premier, in an interview published on Saturday, contended that a French air force missile accidentally brought down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980 in a failed bid to assassinate Libya's then leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Former two-time Premier Giuliano Amato appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron to either refute or confirm his assertion about the cause of the crash on June 27, 1980, which killed all 81 persons aboard the Italian domestic flight.

In an interview with Rome daily La Repubblica, Amato said he is convinced that France hit the plane while targeting a Libyan military jet.

While acknowledging he has no hard proof, Amato also contended that Italy tipped off Gadhafi, and so the Libyan, who was heading back to Tripoli from a meeting in Yugoslavia, didn't board the Libyan military jet.

What caused the crash is one of modern Italy's most enduring mysteries. Some say a bomb exploded aboard the Itavia jetliner on a flight from Bologna to Sicily, while others say examination of the wreckage, pulled up from the seafloor years later, indicate it was hit by a missile.
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© Emiliano Grillotti/AP/FilePolice officer patrols the reconstructed wreckage of the Itavia DC-9 passenger jetliner which crashed near the island of Ustica, June 27, 2003.

Comment:
Italian ex-premier says French missile downed an airliner in 1980 by accident in bid to kill Gadhafi
2 Sept 2023

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Germany's banking regulator BaFin hit by cyberattack


PYMNTS
Mon, 04 Sep 2023 12:00 UTC
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Germany's banking regulator has reportedly closed off parts of its website following a cyberattack.

BaFin took defensive measures following the attack Sept. 1, which restricted access to the website, Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. 4). The organization was working to restore full access.

The site appeared to be down Monday afternoon.

Regulators in Europe have been warning banks that cyberattacks present a rising threat, as they can cost money and cause customers to lose confidence, the report said.

Security is a pressing concern in the world of digital finance, with organizations and individuals both demanding greater assurance that their money is safe and secure — particularly from the most modern threats.

Comment: Cyberattacks against various institutions appear to be on the rise, and below is just a selection of some of the most recent incidents:

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Investor home purchases crash 45%, sharpest decline since 2008 threatens housing bubble

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:00 UTC
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Earlier this week, we wrote that the bursting of the AirBnB bubble will also pop the broader housing bubble, which has shown remarkable resilience in the face of the highest interest rates since Volcker, largely the result of a staggering divergence between effective mortgage rates (since almost everyone refinanced into a 30Y mortgage when rates were at record lows a few years back and is locked into a nice, low rate for a long, long time... or until they sell) and current 30Y mortgages, which at 7.5% nobody can afford.

So back to the coming AirBnB fiasco, today the real estate experts at RedFin wrote that investor home purchases fell 45% from a year earlier in the second quarter, outpacing the 31% drop in overall home sales. That's the biggest decline since 2008 with the exception of the quarter before, when they dropped 48%.

The decline comes as this year's relatively cool housing and rental markets makes investing in homes less attractive than it was during the pandemic-driven homebuying frenzy of 2021 and early 2022, when record numbers of AirBnB were purchased as hotel and lodging surrogates (Redfin defines an investor as any institution or business that purchases residential real estate).

Comment: Despite the best efforts of those in the establishment managing the world's economies, from the recent banking bailouts in the US and Switzerland - the numerous countries, particularly those in the West - falling into recession, to the worsening cost of living crisis, all the signs point to a collapse up ahead:

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Ulez: 171 reports of vandalised cameras logged by Met Police in two weeks

Yasmin Rufo
BBC
Sat, 02 Sep 2023 10:19 UTC
ulez camera
© PA MediaThe Met Police has received more than 500 reports of crimes relating to Ulez cameras since 1 April.
There have been 171 reports of crimes relating to Ulez cameras logged since 17 August, the Met Police has said.

The BBC previously revealed that more than 300 cameras had been vandalised between April and mid-August.

The actual number of cameras affected is likely to be even higher as one report can represent attacks on multiple cameras.

Comment: See also:

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Pills

Pharmacists continuing to refuse to fill ivermectin prescriptions, raising ethical concerns

Matthew Lysiak
The Epoch Times
Fri, 01 Sep 2023 18:55 UTC
Ivermectin
The continued refusal of pharmacists nationwide to fill prescriptions for controversial COVID medications has raised questions over medical autonomy and who ultimately has control over patient care, according to a prominent doctor.

Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, a practitioner and founder of Coalition of Health Freedom, told The Epoch Times that many pharmacists nationwide are still refusing to fill prescriptions issued for ivermectin issued to patients for the treatment of COVID, despite statements from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) affirming that right to doctors.

"This needs to come to an end. In telling my patients what medicines they can and cannot have access to, we effectively have a large group of pharmacists practicing medicine without a license," said Dr. Bowden. "They have no accountability for this yet they are allowed to dictate patient care."
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Dollars

US Air Force plans to replace highly effective A-10 with 'flying tinderbox' F-35s

Mike Fredenburg
The Epoch Times
Mon, 04 Sep 2023 04:30 UTC
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© Petr Svab/The Epoch TimesThe U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II, also known as "Warthog," demonstrates its capabilities at the New York Air Show at Orange County Airport, N.Y., on June 24, 2023.
"By scrapping the A-10, the Air Force is guaranteeing more Gold Star families will be created," according to Charlie Keebaugh, president of the largest group of tactical-air-control party airmen.

The 2024 version of the National Defense Authorization Act (pdf) allows the Air Force to retire 42 A-10 Thunderbolt 2s in 2024, with the remaining 220 or so to be retired with prejudice by 2029. This retiring of the A-10 "Warthog" is predicated on the fantastical disproven idea that the A-10, which to this day is the most cost-effective plane in the Air Force's inventory, can be replaced by the F-35.

This power play by the Air Force is just another chapter in the long, ongoing saga of senior Air Force leaders using every tactic, including underhanded tactics, threats, and rigged testing, to justify retiring the A-10. It certainly isn't about improving our country's close air support (CAS) capabilities that have saved countless American lives. Instead, it's about converting A-10 maintainers to F-35 maintainers in order to satisfy the F-35s endless, ravenous appetite for maintenance and support. And it's about killing off the plane that will continue to show up the F-35 as long as it continues to fly.

Comment: The disastrous F-35 is a testament to the insidious incompetence overwhelming US institutions, whilst the push to replace the A-10 reeks of the ravenous corruption and greed, which projects like this - in addition to proxy wars, like that in Ukraine - facilitate:

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Roses

Dozens of death certificates list COVID-19 vaccination as cause of death

Zachary Stieber
The Epoch Times
Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:01 UTC
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© Courtesy of the Watts familyGeorge Watts Jr. in a file image.
Dozens of people were killed by COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, death certificates show.

COVID-19 vaccination is listed on 26 death certificates across five states, an Epoch Times review found.

That includes a 78-year-old Minnesota man who died on Jan. 5, 2021. The man suffered sudden cardiac death just 10 hours after receiving a second COVID-19 vaccine dose.
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