The goal of this column is to present news from around the world that is not often – if ever – covered by more mainstream entities, using local sources wherever possible, but occasionally using news aggregators not used, again, by the mainstream media. Also, please note that we do use links to Wikipedia; while Wikipedia is well-known as a largely-useless site for any kind of serious research, it does serve as a launch-pad for further inquiry, in addition to being generally free of malicious ads. As with anything from Wikipedia, always verify their sources before making any conclusions based on their pages.
This column will cover the preceding week of news.
To make it easier for readers to follow story source links: anytime you see a bracketed number marked in green – [1] – those are the source links relating to that story.
North America
Beginning in North America and the Caribbean, this week saw a return of bomb threats against schools and Jewish centers, after near-silence for two weeks. The anonymous threats were concentrated in California, and in the Northeast, in Upstate New York and neighboring Canada. [1]-[4]
In an incident somewhat similar to the recent series of threats made against the town of Kiel, Wisconsin, a series of bomb threats were made against a host of offices of the Alabama state Department of Transportation, as well as various officials of the agency. According to the threat letter received, the person making the threats was opposing the eminent domain case the Alabama DOT is pursuing against a local family, attempting to seize a portion of their property – including four homes – for a highway project. The family in question is reportedly “disturbed” by the threats made against the local government. [5]
Finally for the United States, 42-year old Allison Fluke-Ekren plead guilty in federal court on the 7th, on charges of conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization. Fluke-Ekren, a purported leader within the Islamic State terror group, was accused of leading the “Khatiba Nusaybah”, a reported all-female unit of IS fighters that planned terror attacks inside the United States. Fluke-Ekren faces up to 20 years in prison. [6][7]
Turning briefly to the Caribbean, unknown “gangs” reportedly kidnapped some 38 people riding in ‘mini-buses’, as they left Port-au-Prince, the capital of the impoverished nation of Haiti. No further details were available at press time. Haiti has been on an increasingly downward spiral, in the aftermath of devastating earthquakes in 2010 and 2021, the assassination of the nation’s President in 2021 and an array of problems associated with the Covid pandemic. [8]
Turning to Europe, officials reported that a number of Belgrade schools received another round of bomb threats this week, disrupting classes as police responded to investigate and clear the schools. Some analysts have begun trying to link the relentless waves of threats to Serbia‘s continued refusal to impose sanctions on Russia, over its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. [1]
In Germany, one person was killed and 30 more were injured when a man rammed his car into a crowd of shoppers in central Berlin, near the Breitscheidplatz, site of the 2016 Berlin truck attack, that killed 12 and wounded 56, an attack for which the Islamic State of the day took responsibility. There was no word at press time of the identity of the assailant, who was detained at the scene by shoppers until the police arrived, or his motivation. [2]
In Nigeria, while the pace of arson, assassination and kidnapping attacks continue throughout the nation, the number of attacks was noticeably lower this week, in comparison to previous weeks. The ongoing investigation into last week’s bloody massacre of Catholic worshipers in Ondo, saw police on the scene recover at least three IED‘s from the scene. [1]-[6]
The ISWAP terror group, reeling from last week’s losses to the Nigerian Army and civilian militias, staged an attack on the town of Lawan, near Maiduguri in the state of Borno, in the eastern part of the country, reportedly kidnapping a number of civilians. This shaped into a major fight, with the ISWAP fighters attempting to block the main road in the area, and having to be dislodged by army troops, with air strikes from the Nigerian Air Force. The terrorists were ultimately driven off, with three “technicals” captured and another destroyed. This is in the same area as last year’s deadly assault (which reportedly included a captured Scorpion Light Tank) on an army camp near the town of Mainok, which resulted in the death of some 33 soldiers, and the destruction of several heavy vehicles, including a T-55 tank, a BTRIFV‘s and several MRAP‘s. [7][8]
Desultory violence continued throughout the region, this week, as two Egyptian soldiers and three civilians were killed in the town of Rafah, in the Sinai Peninsula, by Islamic State militants. The Egyptian state and people have been battling IS since 2011, in a protracted war of terror against Egypt. [1]
Turning to Syria, Turkey’s intervention ground on through its eleventh year, with artillery and drone strikes in its occupation zone in Syria’s Kurdish-majority north, where Turkey is trying to destroy Kurdish infrastructure, in order to limit support from getting to its own restive Kurdish minority. [2]-[4]
This week saw a sudden uptick of violence across Afghanistan, where a wave of bombings has killed at least two dozen people, and wounded dozens more, as the Taliban struggle to maintain order in the wake of their seizure of the government and capital of Kabul in September of 2021. This is not simply a case of resistance by the Northern Alliance (which has been clinging to life in the Panjshir Valley) since the Taliban takeover, but the reality of Islamic terror: no one is ever “ideologically pure” enough…which is why most of the world’s victims of Islamist terror are Muslims.
In Pakistan, scattered terrorist incidents killed over a dozen in scattered shootings and bombings across the country, including four terrorists from various groups and one soldier.
Turning to India, finally, Indian police captured a drone delivering supplies to Islamic insurgents in Jammu & Kashmir, as continuous operations killed or captured a dozen terror suspects, and netted weapons and explosives. [1]-[7]
Elsewhere in the country, fallout continues over the comments made in May by two of India’s ruling BJP (“Bharatiya Janata Party”) party officials (who were dismissed over the religiously offensive comments), which many Muslims saw as profaning Muhammad, the Prophet of the Islamic faith. At least three protestor’s have been killed by police in riots in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand State, in protests demanding the arrest of Nupur Sharma, one of the female party members who made the offensive comments. In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh (site of the Taj Mahal), police have arrested over 300 people in in connection with the violent protests, and officials have begun a highly controversial policy of bulldozing the homes and businesses of some of the rioters. Additionally, the “Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent” terror group chimed in, vowing suicide attacks in retribution. [8]-[4]
NY State is the first state in the country to pass a “Right to Repair” Law, a law preventing manufacturers from not allowing their customers to repair their own purchased product. The bill also compels manufacturers to provide information on how to repair their products to customers and repair shops.
A new Italian study of the Shroud of Turin suggests the shroud is indeed 2000 years old and from the Judea-Palestine region. Museum of the Bible exhibit curator Brian Hyland said, “The pollen samples that were gathered they….are from plants that are native to….the area around Judea, Palestine, and Syria …”
A complex task that would take conventional computers over 9,000 years to process was completed in 36 microseconds by a photonic quantum device, a computer chip called Borealis. A Toronto-based company called Xanadu accomplished the task and published their study in Nature. The team used the gold standard of Quantum tests, the Gaussian Bosom Sampling.
Washington Post is in danger of breaking down into a circular firing squad after one reporter, Felicia Sonmez, got colleague Dave Weigel fired for a bad tweet, leaving other WaPo reporters to turn on Sonmez. She tweeted “Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed.”
The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that USA Today has been taking money from the Chinese Communist Party. China Daily, a CCP-owned and operated agit prop publication, has bought over a quarter million dollars in advertising from USA Today, which lost 62 percent of its circulation in one year.
SCOTUS is reviewing a Maine law that impedes the ability of parents to get vouchers for faith-based schools. The law affects rural districts with no high schools, the only communities that can use school vouchers in the state. The ruling could affect limitations on faith-based government funding across the country.
GOP lawmakers are wondering why the Secret Service did not indict Hunter Biden for violating gun laws. “Before proposing or passing any new federal gun legislation, (Biden) ought to enforce existing laws, regardless of who is violating them, even if that person is the president’s son,” said Senator Johnson
The EU has passed new “terrorist content” regulation that will require Social Media platforms to remove content deemed to be terroristic by any government within the EU. The law passed last year, but the regulations took effect Tuesday, June 7th. Content that incites violence is also included.
Xi has always viewed work concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers from a broader historical perspective and made a series of important discourses on the topic. He has answered a series of major theoretical and practical questions, providing an action plan and fundamental guidance for work in the sector….
SCOTUS is reviewing a Maine law that impedes the ability of parents to get vouchers for faith-based schools. The law affects rural districts with no high schools, the only communities that can use school vouchers in the state. The ruling could affect limitations on faith-based government funding across the country.
The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that USA Today has been taking money from the Chinese Communist Party. China Daily, a CCP-owned and operated agit prop publication, has bought over a quarter million dollars in advertising from USA Today, which lost 62 percent of its circulation in one year.
If the abortion movement wants Americans to not think of them as baby murderers, perhaps going down a path that leads to aborting adults that aren’t even your children is not the best way to go. The media might protect this new breed of terror, but Americans will find the news the abortionists want to conceal. The glamor of murdering the unborn is coming to a close.
A new Italian study of the Shroud of Turin suggests the shroud is indeed 2000 years old and from the Judea-Palestine region. Museum of the Bible exhibit curator Brian Hyland said, “The pollen samples that were gathered they….are from plants that are native to….the area around Judea, Palestine, and Syria …”
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It might not prove the Shroud of Turin is, in fact, the shroud of Christ himself, but the latest advanced testing does not eliminate it from consideration, which was long thought to be the reality before this test was performed.
NY State is the first state in the country to pass a “Right to Repair” Law, a law preventing manufacturers from not allowing their customers to repair their own purchased product. The bill also compels manufacturers to provide information on how to repair their products to customers and repair shops.
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With the passage of the Right to Repair bill by a Democrat-controlled state, it lays down a challenge to Republican states to match NY State and deliver to more and more Americans the right to repair their own products, and to receive the information needed to be able to repair their products from the manufacturer.
The victory undermines the move towards a subscription-based society where property dies and a de facto serfdom takes its place. It gives hope to farmers in rural states that their legislatures might move to free them from the tyranny that is John Deere, second only to Apple in working aggressively to prevent customers from repairing their own products.
John Deere is facing more and more lawsuits, with nine cases recently being consolidated into one suit now being considered by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Perhaps the NY Right to Repair Law will now hasten legislative release for farmers that can happen long before the judicial process runs its course.
The Social Construct Gender Game is a Language War Against The Right to the Pursuit of Happiness
Making gender a social construct is a way to reinforce the notion that the individual exists in the social. The paradigm to be replaced is that the social emerges from the minds of individuals. This is the underlying assumption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, that the government derives its power from the consent of the individuals, as individuals (not as identity groups).
Government itself emerges from the minds of individuals.
By making gender a social construct, it creates a political factionalism in everyday language itself wherever an adoption of this new social reality is coerced on others, as it already has been in America. Dialectically, the alternative-gendered expression is considered individual expression, but it requires social coerced-conformity to be realized.
Imagine creating conditions in which people can lose their means to make a living for merely refusing to adopt to the top-down created and enforced new language standards, breaking the binary constructs overnight, non-consensually, using violence and economic terrorism to do it.
That’s what has already been happening in America today.
The social construct gender game is a philosophical game of sophistry designed to create a new justification for coercion based on the preservation and advancement of the social, where all individuals exist, outside the mind, inside the social institutions managed by experts that are paid by a handful of the most powerful at the top of another pyramid of top-down, monopolized power.
The goal is not to liberate the non-gendered or gender-fluid. The goal is to change the right to rule standards of the land from an old to a new one.
A recent Washington Post/Ipsos Poll shows that black support for President Biden is slipping, dropping to 70 percent, from previous highs over the 90s. Also in the poll, only 60 percent of respondents agreed Biden was meeting his campaign promises. 23 percent of respondents strongly approved of Biden’s performance.
Democrats hope to pass a big tech antitrust bill before the midterm called “The American Innovation and Choice Online Act.” Republicans appear ready to join them, with the ranking member of the antirust committee, Ken Buck (CO), saying, the bill “have the votes in both chambers to move forward.”
An OpenAI text-to-image system called DALL-E2 has created its own language. At least that’s what computer science PHD student Giannis Daras is claiming.
“DALLE-2 has a secret language. The discovery of the DALLE-2 language creates many interesting security and interpretability challenges,” Daras tweeted.
The Biden Administration wants a windfall profit tax on energy companies to subsidize home energy bills for Americans in need.
“We get it, supply and demand, prices go up, but profit margins should not go up, that’s just oil companies gouging,” Senator Elizabeth Warren said, in support of the tax.
A Missouri Farmer named Jared Wilson had to get the FTC to force the only authorized John Deere dealer in 80 miles to fix his tractor. There is a group of farmers seeking to pass right to repair laws for farmers, the heart of the real problem in this story.
A study published in Science Advances reveals a new method that might enable cancer tumors to be treated by the patient’s own antibodies.
The team lead, Andrew Tsourkas, said “Much is yet to be done before this could be considered a practical clinical approach. But I hope at the very least this works stimulates new ideas in the way we think about personalized medicine.”
Nigeria’s Ondo state was struck with violence Sunday, June 5th, when Gunmen opened fire on a Catholic Church, leaving 50 plus dead and even more injured. The violence comes as attacks increase by militant Muslim groups against Christians in Nigeria. The government has not moved decisively to stop the attacks.
A former Australian Politician won $515,000 from Google for alleged defamatory remarks made on its platform by Comedian and YouTuber Jordan Shanks, aka friendlyjordies.
“I am emotional today. To hear His Justice read out the reasoning and the evidence and the case itself again is a little bit traumatizing,” Barilaro said.
The bill’s sponsor, Assemblywoman Shirley Weber stated, “California has come to terms with many of its issues, but it has yet to come to terms with its role in slavery,”
Southern Illinois University Edwards is being sued by former student Maggie Delong for issuing no-contact orders against the student due to her sharing her Christian views with others.
“…SIUE officials are determined to force their graduate students to think and speak exactly the same…”, said ADF Lawyer Gregg Walters.
A recent Washington Post/Ipsos Poll shows that black support for President Biden is slipping, dropping to 70 percent, from previous highs over the 90s. Also in the poll, only 60 percent of respondents agreed Biden was meeting his campaign promises. 23 percent of respondents strongly approved of Biden’s performance.
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