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Canada’s Carney calls for unity as Alberta prepares for secession vote | Elections News– www.aljazeera.com
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Prime Minister Mark Carney has used his Thanksgiving message to Canadians to call for national unity, a week before the oil-rich province of Alberta is set to vote on a proposal to secede from Canada.

“We can’t build big things on fault lines,” Carney said in his video message on Monday, warning that Canada faces threats to its economy, security and way of life.

“We have to be strong, and we are stronger together.”

His comments come as Albertans head to the polls on October 19 to decide whether to begin the process of seeking independence. The initial referendum is non-binding, but it proposes to hold a binding vote in the future to decide whether Alberta should secede.

The question facing voters is: “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada, or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?”

The vote follows a growing push by a vocal group of separatists, fuelled by longstanding grievances over federal energy and environmental policies.

The secessionist movement has accused the Canadian government of unfairly targeting Alberta’s oil and gas industry, the cornerstone of the province’s economy.

The movement is also being watched south of the border, as Canada’s relationship with the United States under President Donald Trump has become strained.

An investigation by The Globe and Mail earlier this month revealed that US Republican operatives met with secession organisers in Alberta to talk about campaign strategies. Separatist leaders had reportedly offered access to the province’s water and oil royalties in exchange for US support for independence. Separatist leaders have disputed those claims.

Carney’s comments also come after another secessionist movement, the Parti Quebecois, won the most seats in a provincial election in Quebec last week, allowing it to return to power after more than a decade.

The Parti Quebecois, however, only won 59 seats out of a total of 129 in Quebec’s National Assembly, leaving it short of a majority government.

Still, following that victory, US tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, considered the richest man on the planet, applauded the results. He has been known to use his wealth and influence to support political causes, particularly on the far right.

“Good. Quebec should separate,” Musk wrote on social media. “They would be better off. Alberta and Saskatchewan should separate too.”

Carney, who grew up in Alberta, said he was filming the message from a classroom at his former school, St Francis Xavier High School in Edmonton.

“I’m back home a lot these days because we are building big things again in Alberta: thousands of new homes, high-speed rail, a new pipeline to the West Coast that will create lasting opportunity and prosperity for hundreds of thousands of people in this province and across the country,” he said.

Despite the secessionist movement’s growing visibility, polls suggest most Albertans oppose independence.

 

Archbishop tells Catholic soldiers not to take part in military execution– www.foxnews.com
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Catholics serving in the Army should request to be excused from participating in the planned firing squad execution of a convicted Fort Hood mass shooter, which the Pentagon has proposed livestreaming, a prominent U.S. archbishop who oversees Catholic pastoral services for the military said on Monday.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio raised several objections to the Pentagon’s unprecedented plan to broadcast the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist who was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 shooting at the Fort Hood military base. Hasan, now 56, uses a wheelchair, after being shot by responding officers during the attack.

Hasan is set to be executed at Fort Hood on Dec. 3, at 1 p.m. CST, according to the U.S. Army, which would make him the first person to be executed by firing squad by the U.S. military since 1945. It would also mark the first U.S. military execution by any method since 1961. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said he wanted soldiers to execute Hasan at the time, day of the week and location of the shooting and has argued that making the execution public would help serve as a deterrent.

Broglio recalled presiding over the funeral of one of Hasan’s victims, Michael Grant Cahill, the only civilian killed in that attack, and expressed sorrow over the deadly shooting. But the archbishop questioned whether the U.S. government wanted to “imitate the terrorists of this world and make a public spectacle of barbarically killing our adversaries.”

POPE LEO DENOUNCES DEATH PENALTY AS ‘INADMISSIBLE’ AHEAD OF PENTAGON’S PLANNED LIVESTREAMED EXECUTION

Archbishop Timothy Broglio raised several objections to the Pentagon’s unprecedented plan to broadcast the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Hasan’s crime “was heinous, but does exposing the public to his execution serve any purpose?” Broglio asked in a statement.

“I oblige any Catholics assigned to the firing squad to request to be excused from this action contrary to the teaching of the Church,” he continued.

Army regulations permit soldiers to seek religious exemptions or accommodations.

It is unclear how the military intends to select members for the firing squad.

“The U.S. military generally enjoys a good reputation in the world,” Broglio said. “Is there really a value to throwing them in the same boat with terrorists by broadcasting the image of the execution of a man in a wheelchair to the whole world?”

A U.S. government execution has never been broadcast to the public, making it an unprecedented plan that has drawn backlash from political and religious leaders.

Broglio joins other Catholic leaders in criticizing the Pentagon’s plans to livestream the execution.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan is set to be executed at Fort Hood on Dec. 3, which would make him the first person to be executed by firing squad by the U.S. military since 1945. (REUTERS/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences/Handout)

The head of the U.S. bishops conference, Archbishop Paul Coakley, expressed “shock” and “great sorrow” about the public execution plan and urged the U.S. to reconsider.

“In no way can Hasan’s actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered,” he said in a statement on Friday. “The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.”

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, called the proposed broadcast “truly incomprehensible” and warned that it was “unacceptable to turn death into a spectacle.”

“The Church’s position is one of total opposition to the death penalty; it is incompatible with human dignity and serves as no deterrent,” Parolin told reporters on Friday.

According to the English translation published by Vatican News, Parolin said, “It is truly incomprehensible that anyone would want to use this method in this day and age. I do not know for what purpose. It is certainly unacceptable to turn death into a spectacle. However guilty the person may be, there are other ways.”

Parolin added that the death penalty “is incompatible with human dignity and does not serve as a deterrent.”

Pope Leo XIV reiterated the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty as “inadmissible” in a social media post on Saturday marking World Day Against the Death Penalty.

Citing Catholic doctrine revised under his predecessor, Pope Francis, Leo emphasized that the death penalty violates human dignity.

“The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption,” Leo, the first American pope, wrote on X without specifically mentioning the Pentagon’s execution plan for Hasan.

FORT HOOD SHOOTER SHOULD BE EXECUTED ’13 TIMES OVER’ — BUT NOT ON LIVE STREAM, SURVIVOR SAYS

A U.S. government execution has never been broadcast to the general public, making it an unprecedented plan that has drawn backlash from political and religious leaders. (Aaron Schwartz / AFP via Getty Images)

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President Donald Trump said Saturday he had not yet decided whether to allow the livestream plan to move forward, although he has reportedly expressed doubts in private about broadcasting the execution.

Vice President JD Vance, who is a Catholic, expressed skepticism about whether the Pentagon would proceed with a public execution. He said he would not watch the livestream if it were carried out.

Several lawmakers, including Republicans, have spoken out against plans to broadcast the execution.

“Public executions are what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said on Thursday. “It should not be happening in America.”

Reuters contributed to this report.

 

 

Video. Ceuta awaits King Felipe after summer migration crisis– www.euronews.com
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Spain’s royal couple are expected in Ceuta on Tuesday, 13 October, as the North African enclave continues to recover from an unprecedented migration crisis. On 30 and 31 July, more than 70,000 people crossed the border from Morocco, a figure approaching the city’s entire population of 80,000.

Most returned within hours, but thousands remained in makeshift camps and emergency shelters for weeks. On Sunday, more than 350 police officers and soldiers took part in an operation to clear the last major informal settlement at El Guano, transferring its residents to reception centres.

The crisis has exposed deep divisions in Ceuta, where Muslims make up around 40% of the population. While some residents have called for tighter border controls, others have criticised hostility towards migrants. In the predominantly Muslim neighbourhood of El Príncipe, locals sheltered women and children, while community representative Ahmed Enfed-Dal condemned attacks on shelters and attempts to obstruct Red Cross food deliveries.

The royal couple are expected to meet local officials and civil society representatives before travelling to Melilla on Wednesday. Their first visit to the two enclaves since 2007 comes ahead of Spain’s 29 November general election, with migration a major political issue. Morocco’s territorial claims add a further diplomatic dimension to the trip.

 

Paramount’s New Avatar Series Forces LGBT Ideology On Kids– thefederalist.com
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Forcing LGBT ideology onto children is not a new phenomenon for Hollywood. So, it wasn’t exactly surprising when Paramount’s latest show for kids attempted to do just that.

On Friday, the company’s Paramount Plus streaming service debuted its new Avatar: Seven Havens series. Set within the Avatar universe, the animated show takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where the avatar — who can bend the elements of water, earth, fire, and air — is branded the enemy. The program follows the journey of Pavi and Nisha, twin sisters who discover that they’re twin avatars and must hide their abilities.

Seven Havens is a sequel to The Legend of Korra (2012-2014), which followed the original (and beloved) Avatar: The Last Airbender series (2005-2008). Seven Havens and Korra are rated PG, while The Last Airbender is rated TV-Y7, according to IMDb.

Seven Havens introduces viewers to a variety of new characters in its three-episode premiere. Among these is Jae, a male airbender who serves as a guardsman on the bending force tasked with protecting the city of Ellora, where the series takes place.

The show’s LGBT indoctrination rears its head in the third episode, when viewers learn that Jae is dating his fellow guardsman Datu. In one scene, Jae is escorting Pavi and Nisha back to the city’s compound before he gets abruptly stopped and embraced by Datu. Seeking to protect the girls from potential harm, Jae quickly lies about their true identities before kissing Datu on the cheek as he leaves.

The scene is hardly the first instance in which the Avatar creators have sought to force-feed LGBT ideology to kids.

At the end of Legend of Korra, the avatar of the same name is heavily implied to be in a romantic relationship with her female friend Asami. This relationship was subsequently confirmed in a series of spinoff comics that followed the show’s characters after it ended. Both female characters had previously dated the same male character at different points throughout the series.

The Avatar universe’s continued embrace of “woke” has also crossed into racial territory.

As Douglas Blair reported in these pages, the studio’s most recent Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender movie, a sequel film to the original 2005 series, sidelined the original voice cast in favor of new actors who fit the industry’s “deliberate shift toward race-based casting standards.”

“Studios adopting these standards are responding to narrow ideological pressure elevating identity over performance to the detriment of their products,” Blair wrote. “Established talent is sidelined, creative flexibility is reduced, and audiences are left with weaker performances in the name of a principle they never wanted.”


Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood

Soros-Backed Organization Picks Towns Where Migrants Settle– gellerreport.com
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WHO PICKS YOUR TOWN? Inside the Soros-Backed Push to Choose Where Migrants Settle

A Washington think tank has drawn up a county-by-county migration shortlist—and wants private entities to sponsor arrivals directly.

By: Natalie Winter, October 12, 2026:

“enable local governments and private entities to sponsor immigrants directly”

That is what the Niskanen Center, a Washington think tank whose immigration program receives Soros-foundation backing, wants policymakers to do. The instruction appears in its November 2025 immigration blueprint.

Two weeks later, Niskanen published a county-by-county migration index, identifying hundreds of American communities as potential destinations for newcomers. Its proposed applications include planning where refugees and asylum seekers could settle.

The complete published community list appears at the end of this article, organized by state. Check whether your county is on it.

The agenda reaches straight into the question of who gets to shape your town: which places should receive newcomers, which private actors should help sponsor them, and how arrivals could be encouraged to stay.

Slovenia rejects bill in blow to PM Janez Jansa’s reform agenda– www.france24.com
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Slovenians narrowly rejected a government bill in a referendum Sunday, dealing a blow to nationalist Prime Minister Janez Jansa’s reform agenda, which the opposition has denounced as “authoritarian”.

The proposal had been to expand the powers of parliamentary inquiry commissions, but 51 percent of voters rejected it, to 49 percent in favour, with 99 percent of the votes counted in the binding referendum.

Had the proposed law been approved, individuals summoned to testify before parliamentary inquiries would have had to appear immediately, with no right to challenge the summons in court until the commission had completed its work.

The opposition, arguing that those called to testify might be compelled to disclose sensitive information, said the government was effectively setting up a “political police“.

Read moreSlovenia’s liberal PM Golob claims victory over conservatives in neck-and-neck vote

Media and analysts had predicted a low turnout, but partial results put voter participation at 53.7 percent of eligible voters, the highest-ever turnout for a referendum in Slovenia.

Jansa came to power after liberal ex-prime minister Robert Golob failed to form a government despite his party’s narrow victory in March parliamentary elections.

The political veteran, an admirer of US President Donald Trump, promised a “cheaper state but with better quality”.

German opposition demands Trump-style diesel deal with Russia — RT World News– www.rt.com
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AfD and BSW are pushing for an end to sanctions against Moscow as soaring fuel prices squeeze German consumers

Two German opposition parties have called for restoring economic ties with Russia following US President Donald Trump’s example in striking a diesel deal with Moscow, challenging Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s sanctions policy as soaring fuel prices put further pressure on Europe’s largest economy.

The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the left-wing Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), which together command a majority in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt’s parliament, are preparing a joint resolution demanding an end to anti-Russia sanctions and financial support for Kiev amid growing frustration over Berlin’s foreign policy and its economic consequences.

“Germany also needs a diesel deal with Russia,” Claudia Wittig, deputy leader of the BSW parliamentary group, said, according to German media.

Wittig described fuel prices at German filling stations as “a scandal,” arguing that sanctions against Moscow had “failed across the board” and were primarily hurting Germany itself. She insisted that Berlin should go further than a one-off fuel agreement and resume regular imports of Russian oil and gas to help rescue German industry.

 

UK PM Burnham says Russia interfered in 2016 Brexit vote– www.channelnewsasia.com
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Burnham’s comments mark a departure from those of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who campaigned to leave the EU, and said in 2020 there was no evidence of Russian interference in the referendum.

Britons voted 52 per cent to 48 per cent to leave the EU in 2016, plunging the country into its biggest political crisis since World War II.

Burnham said voters in European democracies needed to be better informed about efforts to disrupt their politics.

“I mean, these things are important now to put clearly on the record, and I believe, help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies, namely Russia,” he said.

Britain’s government failed to establish whether Russia meddled in the 2016 referendum on membership of the EU, according to a report by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee in 2020.

The report also found that Russia had sought to influence Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum, in which voters rejected independence.

Burnham last month said he could campaign to take Britain back into the EU at the next general election, reopening the country’s divisive debate on its relationship with the continent.

Mail theft, scattered ballots along roadside raise concerns about mail-in voting in California: report | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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“This discovery really shows we have to have greater concern for the chain of custody of ballots.”

Concerns about the security of mail-in voting in California are mounting after election mail was found scattered along a roadside. A separate region in the state also saw a theft targeting a US Postal Service truck just one month before the November midterm elections.

According to ABC 10 News, dozens of pieces of election mail, including signed and unsigned mail-in ballots, were discovered scattered along Lake Wholford Road in San Deigo’s North County region last Thursday morning. Scott Harmes, a local resident, stopped to investigate after hearing of the discovery. He said the mail was spread across the road and did not look as though a mailbag simply fell out of a USPS truck.

“The way they were spread out it almost looks like they were thrown out the window of a car,” Harmes said.

“Obviously there was a huge problem, because these didn’t get to the voter. Is it negligence? Malfeasance?” he added. “This discovery really shows we have to have greater concern for the chain of custody of ballots.”

Polish leader says school attacks were fueled by online glorification of violence– abcnews.com
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WARSAW, Poland — The attacks at Polish schools over the past week were “spontaneous acts” driven by the online “glorification of violence,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Sunday.

Three attacks at schools in the Mazovian province in central Poland took place within four days this week, leaving one dead and many wounded, including children.

By Sunday morning, police had detained 117 people across Poland for carrying knives or other dangerous weapons, or for threatening to attack schools or fellow students. Some 64,000 schools were checked.

“We are not dealing with any group organized on a big scale,” Tusk said on Sunday morning, during a crisis meeting with government and security services. “These are very often spontaneous actions inspired by online activity.”

“In the past years and months, we have noted — globally and in Poland — a rise in the fascination with violence.”

Tusk said the acts could be associated with “nihilistic violence,” a term used by authorities to describe acts of violence driven by a nihilistic worldview and misanthropy rather than specific political goals.

In the case of Poland, he said “some of the people detained are active in the ultraright environment.” He said authorities have observed intensified online searches of Nazi content as well as of “mass killers who have become idols online.”

Pakistan imposes emergency rule in northern province after protests– www.channelnewsasia.com
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a stronghold of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, and the PTI-led government there will be sidelined under Sunday’s extraordinary constitutional measures.

PTI chairman Gohar Ali Khan called the move “an extremely alarming and grave political mistake and an undemocratic measure”.

“The people will never accept such actions against their rights,” he posted on X.

An increased security presence could be seen in Peshawar, the provincial capital, on Sunday, according to an AFP reporter, and roads in other cities in the province also remained closed.

PTI supporters began “long march” demonstrations between towns and cities throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a week ago, after talks with the government broke down.

Ukraine threatens to use chemical weapons in Donbass, leaving ‘scorched earth’ — senator – Russian Politics & Diplomacy– tass.com
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MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces may use chemical weapons to create a “scorched earth” in territories of the Donetsk People’s Republic that have not yet been liberated by Russia, specifically in the Slavyansk and Kramatorsk areas, Alexander Voloshin, a Russian senator representing the DPR, told TASS.

Earlier, Russian Permanent Representative to the OPCW Vladimir Tarabrin stated that Kiev’s violations of its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention are systematic in nature. He also emphasized that Western countries are participating in and coordinating the use of chemical weapons against Russian citizens.

“The situation around Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, which are getting closer and closer to being liberated by our armed forces, is particularly alarming. It seems that the Ukrainian command, following a Nazi playbook, is preparing to leave a trail of destruction in the Donbass with no regard for the consequences or human lives. The consequences of such a catastrophe will affect the entire region, not to mention Ukraine itself,” the senator noted, commenting on the Ukrainian military’s use of chemical weapons in the region.

Voloshin added that using toxic substances during hostilities violates international obligations and is a crime that primarily threatens civilians. In this regard, the senator stressed that the international community must make every effort to prevent a tragedy.

Ukraine threatens to use chemical weapons in Donbass, leaving ‘scorched earth’ — senator – Russian Politics & Diplomacy– tass.com
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MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces may use chemical weapons to create a “scorched earth” in territories of the Donetsk People’s Republic that have not yet been liberated by Russia, specifically in the Slavyansk and Kramatorsk areas, Alexander Voloshin, a Russian senator representing the DPR, told TASS.

Earlier, Russian Permanent Representative to the OPCW Vladimir Tarabrin stated that Kiev’s violations of its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention are systematic in nature. He also emphasized that Western countries are participating in and coordinating the use of chemical weapons against Russian citizens.

“The situation around Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, which are getting closer and closer to being liberated by our armed forces, is particularly alarming. It seems that the Ukrainian command, following a Nazi playbook, is preparing to leave a trail of destruction in the Donbass with no regard for the consequences or human lives. The consequences of such a catastrophe will affect the entire region, not to mention Ukraine itself,” the senator noted, commenting on the Ukrainian military’s use of chemical weapons in the region.

Voloshin added that using toxic substances during hostilities violates international obligations and is a crime that primarily threatens civilians. In this regard, the senator stressed that the international community must make every effort to prevent a tragedy.

King Charles warns malicious online actors are evolving their tactics– www.bbc.co.uk
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King Charles III has warned of the challenges disinformation and other “hostile online activity” pose to trust and security in the digital age.

The comments, made in a letter to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to mark its 10th anniversary, spoke of “malicious actors” continuing to “evolve their tactics by using automated technologies”.

“From threats to our international order, to the need to balance the risks and opportunities of powerful new technologies, strong cyber security is fundamental to making the online environment safer and more resilient,” he wrote.

Last month, the King warned AI executives of the “existential dangers” posed by the technology falling into the wrong hands.

In the letter published on Saturday by NCSC, the King praised the government agency. He said its achievements over the past decade have included defending the country against cyber attacks, safeguarding democratic institutions and protecting “the critical infrastructure upon which daily life depends”.

“You have built resilience across our public services, businesses and communities, equipping us all to prosper in our ever-evolving digital world,” the monarch added.

The King said he was “acutely aware” that much of the work done by the NCSC cannot be praised publicly and that he was filled with “profound gratitude”.

Palestinian president Abbas postpones legislative, presidential elections to September 2027– www.france24.com
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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday decreed that presidential and legislative elections both be held on September 11, 2027, postponing the previously scheduled legislative polls, according to official Palestinian media.

“Abbas issued a presidential decree on Saturday calling for simultaneous presidential and legislative elections to be held on September 11, 2027,” his office said in a statement published by the Wafa news agency.

The legislative polls, which the international community has strongly advocated for, had been due to take place on November 28 this year, while a presidential vote had been expected in early 2027.

Read moreIsraeli policies threaten ‘life and existence’ of Palestinians, Abbas tells UN

A day earlier, Israel‘s foreign minister accused Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of “fooling the international community” by planning to postpone upcoming legislative polls, as indications of a delay multiplied.

“Mahmoud Abbas is fooling the international community by cancelling once again promised elections,” Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar wrote on X.

“They keep deceiving. Consequences? Not for the corrupt PA!” he added.

James Talarico’s Woke Insanity Claims The Bible Supports Killing Babies in Abortions– www.lifenews.com
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U.S. Senate candidate for Texas James Talarico had just begun voicing regret over his past statements that there are six genders, that men should play in women’s sports, and that “God is nonbinary.” Then Talarico’s lesbian “minister” was caught on camera with an entirely different spin, telling an undercover journalist that his newfound moderation is all a lie to get more votes.

Texas voters are right to be concerned that his campaign’s “Christian” packaging is false advertising. So, let’s check his record.

Talarico made his name as the progressive “Christian” alternative to Republican Ken Paxton, the current Texas attorney general, who has been endorsed by President Donald Trump.

As a member of the Texas House of Representatives, Talarico voted against SB 14, the law protecting minors from mutilating gender surgeries and sterilizing puberty blockers. Now he claims he only opposed certain parts of the bill and wanted to see amendments before he could vote for it.

His record on women’s sports tells the same story. In 2021, Talarico voted against HB 25, the Texas law requiring student athletes in public schools to compete on teams that match their biological sex. Back then, he didn’t talk about amendments. He told his colleagues, “You can’t compromise with hate,” and argued that “some things are more important than perfectly fair competition in sports.”

Now that he’s running statewide, Talarico says he will oppose trans athletes playing in girls’ sports “if it risks safety or fairness.” That little word “if” is doing a lot of work. It means Talarico reserves the right to decide when it’s “fair” and “safe” for a boy to compete against girls and share their locker room, and in those cases, he’s fine with it.

But here’s the truth: it is always unfair for men to play against women, and men in women’s sports always endanger women.

God made us male and female, equally loved, differently formed. No amount of political denial of that reality changes the reality God created, nor the level of hurt women will face because of transgender ideology. To deny our natural state, made in God’s image, is to deny God Himself.

Talarico’s disconnection from reality — and from Biblical principles — goes beyond the gender issue to the most basic right we all have: life.

Talarico has claimed that abortion and gay marriage are mentioned nowhere in the Bible. This is an embarrassingly debunkable statement, one that we at Students for Life Action (SFLAction) exposed months ago with the copious Bible verses defining humans as male and female, husband and wife, and revealing God’s intention for our lives before we are even in the womb.

While Talarico does not seem committed to what Scripture actually says, many who attend church do care.

That’s why our student leaders went to Talarico’s own church, stood outside, and left flyers on the cars of the worshippers inside. It was the first stop in our campaign to reach more than 100 churches, reminding the faithful of Biblical truth: Life begins at conception, God abhors murder, and He made every one of us in His image, male and female.

Certainly, Talarico’s radical theology is an effort to cut into the pro-life, pro-faith voters who consistently vote Republican. As ABC News noted, many Democrats are trying to reclaim the faith conversation for their political ambitions.

But we’ve seen this before. After values voters helped decide the 2004 election, Democrats turned to progressive activist Rev. Jim Wallis. He wrote a bestselling book, God’s Politics, took it on a national tour, and went to Capitol Hill teaching Democrats how to talk to Christians and campaign for their votes.

More than 20 years later, Democrats still can’t figure it out, because they aren’t true believers. Even Wallis admitted at the time, “It’s so transparent when somebody is being inauthentic about religion.” Talarico is just the 2026 version of a decades-old Democratic problem. And it’s hard to reclaim the faith conversation when your apologetics are about explaining why the Bible doesn’t mean what it says.

The race is tight. And as Talarico has struggled under the weight of his past lunacy, notice where he went to clean it up. He didn’t go to MSNOW or The Nation, the Leftist outlets his base trusts. He went to Fox News to tell conservative voters not to believe what they have heard him say in interview clips.

Meanwhile, in far-Left circles, he is actively working to appeal to radical pro-abortion, pro-child-mutilation socialists by repeating their messaging. He recently went viral talking about his favorite drag queen. And in a private Zoom call with the far-Left Austin Sierra Club, Talarico spoke of dismantling capitalism, climate change doomerism, and our country being one of white supremacy and billionaire-contrived class warfare, reports Townhall.

This is not a genuine change of heart; it’s voter-segmented packaging, built on the hope that liberals won’t watch Fox and conservatives will believe he doesn’t really mean what he says.

Jesus cares about truth. In John 14:6, we read: “Jesus said…, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’”

Talarico can’t even agree on that, saying all faiths are “equal pathways to truth.”

So, to answer the New York Times question, “Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?” the answer is no. Telling people that God doesn’t mean what He says is the oldest trick in Scripture. It started in the Garden, with a serpent asking Eve, “Did God really say…?”

Christian voters should not be fooled. Talarico is a radical leftist who is saying whatever gets him elected. His own people don’t even buy what he is selling to voters.

 

 

White House Denies Trump Suggested Iran Should “Take Out” US Cities– www.ndtv.com
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The White House pushed back Tuesday after Democrats accused President Donald Trump of suggesting Iran should “take out” the major US cities of Los Angeles and San Diego.

Viral footage showed comments by Trump at a midterm elections rally in Nebraska on Monday, where he said high oil prices from the Iran war were justified by the need to stop Tehran getting nuclear weapons.

“It’s a little bit high. It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe,” Trump said.

“They can take out a city. Let them take, let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay, and it’s going to be over with very soon.”

Democrats — who control the state of California where both Los Angeles and San Diego are located — accused the 80-year-old Republican president of encouraging Iran to hit the two urban centers.

“Donald Trump is now saying our foreign enemies should ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego. He is deranged and dangerous,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said on X.

“The nuclear annihilation of an American city is no laughing matter,” Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic minority leader in the US House of Representatives, said on X.

But the White House insisted Trump was talking about the threat posed by Iran, branding it a “media freakout” that was “not rooted in reality.”

“He was clearly stating US cities would have been threatened if a nuclear Iran hadn’t been stopped,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said on X.

The White House’s Rapid Response account on X took issue with a Los Angeles Times headline saying Trump had suggested “letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego.”

“No, he didn’t, you buffoons. He was saying the US is fighting to STOP Iran from having the ability to take out LA and San Diego with a nuclear weapon — which they would if they had the chance,” it said.

Trump is hitting the road in the last month before the midterms amid Republican fears that voter anger over the Iran war and high prices could cost them control of Congress.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)


 

 

Shock Polls: Dems TWICE As Likely to Support Hitler, and Trump’s Popularity Soars With Young Voters – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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Turns out that one of the biggest signs your spouse is cheating on you is when he or she suddenly accuses YOU of cheating.

(Assuming, of course, that you’re not actually cheating. ‘Cause if you are, your spouse is just being observant.)

Accusing someone of what you’re guilty of is a “tell” — a not-so-subtle form of self-incrimination, because our accusations are a defense mechanism. They’re psychological projections that hide our demons — a very specific, uniquely tailored smokescreen.

In other words, every accusation is a confession.

This is why I can’t wait for Sept. 15, 2027. (Shame it doesn’t fall on Oktoberfest.) Because that’s the day “literally Hitler” will finally out-Hitler the real Hitler.

Donald Trump announced he was running for president on June 16, 2015. Immediately thereafter, the media compared him to Adolf Hitler — and the blitzkrieg hasn’t gestoppt. Trump’s been branded “literally Hitler” so many times, it’s become a cliché.

And June 16, 2015 was [checks watch] 4,131 days ago.

Meanwhile, Hitler’s reign lasted precisely 4,473 days. (It ended with a bang.) This means that, on Sept. 15, 2027, Donald Trump will be the new record holder: Heil to the chief!

He’ll be the longest-reigning Hitler in Hitler history!

Hitler, Hitler, Hitler. That’s been the media narrative from day one: Trump is “literally Hitler,” every awkward MAGA hand gesture is a secret S.S. salute, and the Republican Party has been taken over by Nazis.

Never Trumpers gleefully promoted this narrative, layering it with a bipartisan façade. (Karl Rove repeated it again last week.) But it’s a lie.

“Literally Hitler” has a Jewish daughter, Jewish grandkids, an immigrant wife, and a veep who’s married to a Hindu Indian. “Literally Hitler” is wildly popular in Israel. “Literally Hitler’s” most loyal ethnic bloc isn’t white people or Aryans — it’s Native Americans.

And while the media was obsessively comparing Trump to Hitler, the Democratic Party was captured by Israel-obsessed, pro-Palestine socialists, i.e., the DSA.

DSA stormtroopers insist they’re not antisemites. They claim their criticisms are limited to Israel’s political policies; their only motivation is to ease the suffering of the poor, neglected Palestinian civilians.

Israel’s status as a Jewish state, you see, is entirely coincidental.

Yet it’s awfully revealing how many of the DSA’s enemies were also the REAL Hitler’s enemies. There’s an absurd degree of overlap: The DSA hates Israel, despises AIPAC, and vows to eliminate “Jewish influence” and/or “the globalists” (wink, wink). The Nazis and DSA both oppose free market capitalism, condemn “profiteering” business owners, support the government takeover of private industries — plus a dramatic expansion of mandatory, government-controlled social programs.

Every accusation is a confession.

Speaking of which, two polls just dropped. They’re not receiving much mainstream news coverage, mostly because the media loathes the results. The first poll undermines 4,131 days of a “literally Hitler” PR campaign. It’s the final solution to the mashugana Trump-is-Hitler narrative.

Turns out that the National Socialists and Democratic Socialists share more than just a name.

The second poll is even worse: It imperils the media’s demoralization campaign for the 2026 midterms. For months and months, the talking heads have been trying to convince you that a Blue Wave is inevitable — and the MAGA coalition is kaput.

Iran and Epstein have killed it. MAGA is finished.

Yet it seems a key demo is returning home: young voters. Trump’s numbers have suddenly spiked.

Let’s begin with “literally Hitler”:

It’s from a YouGov survey on the popularity of world leaders, both living and dead. What’s fascinating is that Republican and independent results were 100% identical: Just 1% of each had a “very favorable” opinion of Hitler, 4% had a “somewhat unfavorable” opinion, 6% had a “somewhat unfavorable opinion,” 79% had a “very unfavorable opinion,” and 10% “don’t know.”

On absolutely every question about Hitler, Republicans and independents were indistinguishable.

This means that if Republicans are Nazis, then so are independents. (Go ahead, Democrats: Go bash independents as Nazis. I double dog dare ya!)

Because we’re not Nazis, of course. Just 5% of us think the Führer was fab.

Yet TWICE as many Democrats are fans of Hitler!

Too bad YouGov didn’t ask Democratic respondents if they also supported the DSA: I’ll betcha a Diet Coke there’d be a big-arse correlation between the DSA boosters and the Hitler fanboys. (“The enemy of my enemy” and all that.)

It’s gotten so bad, MORE than twice as many Democrats now approve of Hitler as approve of Trump!

The media can scream in every beer hall that Trump is “literally Hitler” and MAGA voters are all Nazis, but the evidence is overwhelming: The Democratic Party is the most pro-Hitler major political party in America today.

And Democrats are twice as likely to SUPPORT Hitler as the people they’re accusing of BEING Hitler!

On to the second poll:

Newsweek: Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Quietly Shifts With Youngest Voters

This headline is a splendid example of media bias: More people read the headline than see the article, which is why pro-Trump polling news tends to be headlined via vague-sounding “shifts” — who knows what really happened? — whereas anti-Trump polling news leads with the stats. Example A is this morning’s gem from USA Today.

(It’s also adorable that Newsweek described it as a “quiet shift.” Yeah, when the rest of the media ignores a story, it sounds pretty dang quiet, doesn’t it?)

It’s a deliberate PR strategy. Polling results consistently have a pro-Democrat bias anyway, so when you blast the anti-Trump stats in the headline and bury the rest, it heightens the illusion of overwhelming Democratic support. Conservative voters are thus demotivated.

Everyone hates Trump! Why, the Blue Tsunami will swallow the world! There’s no point in even voting, ‘cause we’re getting killed.

But beyond the headline, here’s what Newsweek reported:

President Donald Trump’s approval among voters aged 18 to 24 rose from 25 percent in July to 41 percent in September, according to a Newsweek analysis of Harvard/Harris polling.

The shift challenges the idea that young Americans who backed the president in 2024 are uniformly moving away from him before the midterm elections.

It’s an eye-popping statistic: Over the past two months, Trump’s support has jumped by 64%!

Young voters are most vulnerable to changes in the job market, good or bad. Affordability woes hit Zoomers disproportionately to Boomers. They surf the crest of cultural changes; they’re early adopters of political shifts.

And they’re now racing away from the Democratic Party.

This suggests that the 2026 midterms are anything but decided. Just because voters haven’t been shy about expressing their dissatisfaction with Republicans doesn’t mean they prefer the Democrats.

The opposite could be true: Yes, they’re disappointed in President Trump’s progress and expected better/faster results — but he’s still a WAY better option than those DSA weirdos!

As we near Election Day, more Americans will likely feel the same way. Because everything tightens in the homestretch. Wayward demos return home.

That’s been the historic norm: One domino falls, then the other.

It begins with young voters, but that’s not where it ends.

So stay engaged. The midterms aren’t close to over. The media wants to demoralize you, but there are plenty of reasons for optimism.

A 64% jump in youth support is extraordinary! (Especially for a Republican.)

Just know you won’t be reading the good news in a headline, because that’s not how the propaganda game is played. Instead, the media relies on dog whistles, bias, and selective reporting — while tarring Republicans for the crimes of Democrats.

I’m not cheating! YOU must be cheating! I’m not Hitler! YOU must be Hitler!

But every accusation is a confession.

The Democrats and the media aren’t just pointing fingers. They’re holding up a mirror.

This is why they keep seeing Hitler.

One Last Thing: 2026 will reach a crescendo with the midterm elections. Nothing less than the future of our country teeters in the balance.

Never before have the political battle lines been so clearly defined. Blue wave or red wall, the 2026 midterms will transform our country.

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Harvard will stop granting internships to foreign law students– www.thecollegefix.com
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Foreign student suggests Americans would have taken his internship just as a ‘hobby‘

Harvard University international students will no longer be able to displace American law students from internship opportunities.

Harvard’s law school announced it was ending work authorizations for foreign law students. The change follows a Trump administration directive to restrict “Curricular Practical Training” opportunities for foreign students. The internships had been used as backdoor way to allow foreigners on student visas to work in the country.

The Crimson reported:

HLS’s graduation requirements include six credits of “experiential learning courses,” which includes externship clinics. But students also have the option to fulfill the requirement through in-house clinics and seminars — meaning externships are not required of every student and no longer qualify for CPT.

The change bars international J.D. students from all of the Law School’s 13 externship clinics, which pair a course component with placements at government agencies, companies, and non-profit organizations. Previously, international students were barred only from some externships, such as government placements that require U.S. citizenship.

Associate Dean Meredith Boak said the school wants to help its foreign students through these changes.

“We reached out earlier this month to all F-1 students and have been working directly with students already enrolled in externship clinics to help them understand their options,” Boak wrote, according to the student newspaper. “Students who are unable to pursue an externship are being offered individualized advising to identify an alternative path aligned with their goals.”

Applicants for a student visa are supposed to attest that they do not plan to use it as a way to gain permanent residency or citizenship in the country. However, an immigration law professor at the University of Oklahoma told Harvard’s student newspaper that this is what students do.

“I would assume that most students would not want to use their optional practical training in this context,” Professor Kit Johnson said. OPT is a related program that also functions as a backdoor employment program for foreign students.

“They usually want to use it for post graduation because then it helps buy them time and buys their employer time to get them a different visa,” Johnson said, implicitly acknowledging foreign students find ways to stay in the country after graduation.

A Canadian law school graduate bemoaned that others like him might be denied of the opportunity. He suggested foreign law students get internships to gain experience, while Americans just do it as a “hobby.”

“It seems like cruelty for cruelty’s sake,” Michael Poirier, a 2025 Harvard Law School graduate complained.

“You’re just removing those opportunities from the people who are the most interested in them, the people who are most likely to provide the most value to those opportunities versus people who, maybe they’re American-born, but maybe doing an NBA internship is more of a hobby for them.”

Poirier said he may not have attended Harvard if he was not able to get an American internship.

“If I were told at the time that the NBA was completely off the table, I never would have come to the United States,” he said. “There would have been no incentive for me to do so. I would have just much preferred to stay among family and friends and have a successful legal career in Canada.”

He now works at Ropes and Gray, a Boston law firm.

The Trump policy may not be permanent, as legal challenges are currently underway. Several groups filed a federal lawsuit on Monday in a Massachusetts federal court, The Crimson reported.

Groups are separately challenging a regulation that would require college students to complete their studies in four years or apply for a waiver.

U.S. Seizes $2.8 Million in American Fuel Illicitly Headed to Cuba– www.breitbart.com
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Multiple federal agencies announced on Wednesday that they had seized 90 shipments of fuel illicitly intended to be sent from the United States to a sanctioned corporate entity in Cuba.

The shipments, which reportedly mostly contained diesel fuel, were reportedly valued at $2.8 million and expected to be received by the Cuban energy corporation ENETEC S.A., which the U.S. government sanctioned due to its role in funding the illegitimate communist regime in control of that country. The federal agencies stated that the shipments seized were preparing to depart from Florida and Texas.

The seizure reveals that American authorities believe that the Cuban regime, desperate for petroleum products, is apparently seeking them in the United States despite the long-established alleged “embargo” limiting commercial activity with the Castro family dynasty. Cuba has been experiencing severe fuel shortages this year following the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in January, who for years provided free or heavily discounted fuel to Cuba in exchange for political and military support.

Cuba especially needs access to diesel and other petroleum products because its dilapidated power grid cannot sustain the nation’s electricity demands. As a result of over half a century of socialist mismanagement, Cuba barely maintains a power grid and what is left of it routinely fails; the wealthy, tourists, and communist elites became accustomed to accessing electricity through private generators. Without fuel for those generators, the blackouts affect luxury hotels and other properties frequented by foreigners. This year, the power grid regularly collapsed, doing so five times in the month of August alone.

According to a press release published on Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday, multiple agencies including Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “developed information indicating that the Cuban government used ENETEC S.A. to receive fuel illegally exported from the United States” that led them to act to seize the shipments.

“A total of 71 shipments containing approximately 496,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel at Port Everglades were seized and 19 additional shipments containing approximately 119,000 gallons at the Port of Houston are currently being detained,” ICE shared.

Special Agent in Charge Jose R. Figueroa with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Miami, one of the participating agencies, said in a statement that the seizures “underscores HSI Miami’s commitment to stopping fuel and other goods from the United States from being illegally exported to Cuba through sanctioned entities or deceptive commercial networks” and authorities would continue to monitor and intercept such activity.

The agencies also published video of the seized shipments in Florida, a large number of gas tankers lined up for inspection on land after being taken into custody.

The independent outlet Cubanet reported that authorities have filed a case implicating ENETEC S.A., a Cuban company sanctioned on July 13 for its role in supplying the Castro regime. It is considered a Cuban state enterprise, which Cubanet described as being “dedicated to the import, export, and commercialization of combustibles.”

While shipments directly to Cuban state companies run afoul of sanctions, Cubanet observed that the “Cuban private sector,” which does not practically exist as the country is a repressive communist autocracy, has in fact sought the import of American petroleum products following the collapse of its once-reliable Venezuelan supply. Those shipments reportedly avoid “embargo” scrutiny through a loophole in the policy in which the United States does not prevent business to “support the Cuban people.”

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez appeared to respond to the seizure in a post on social media on Thursday, declaring that the American government “lacks practical and moral authority to decide what is legal under international law and free commerce laws.”

“Its measures are not just directed illegally towards Cuba, but towards the rest of the international community,” Rodríguez declared. This statement is false, any other country can – and many countries, including European allies of the United States – do engage in commerce with Cuba. To the extent they limit this, it is a response to the Cuba’s deplorable economic status and its lack of respect for human rights. A notable example of this is the massive Spanish hotel corporation Melía, which maintained dozens of properties in Cuba for decades, but shut down its operations there this year in response to the unsustainable economic climate on the island.

Rodríguez’s rant went on to declare that America “also does not have the right to impose a naval blockade nor an energy blockade.”

The government of President Donald Trump has regularly dismissed the Cuban regime’s accusations that its energy woes have anything to do with America or the “embargo.” On May 20, after announcing a series of new sanctions on the Cuban regime in response to its egregious human rights abuses, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an address in which he explained that electricity struggles in Cuba were unrelated to any American policy.

“The reason you are forced to survive 22 hours a day without electricity is not due to an oil ‘blockade’ by the U.S.,” he clarified. “As you know, better than anyone, you have been suffering from blackouts for years. The real reason you don’t have electricity, fuel or food is because those who control your country have plundered billions of dollars, but nothing has been used to help the people.”

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Families of troops killed in Iran war skip Trump’s Gold Star reception– www.independent.co.uk
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The vast majority of relatives of six service members killed in the deadliest strike of the Iran war will be absent from a major White House reception hosted by President Donald Trump for Gold Star families.

Only one family member of those killed during the March 1 Iranian drone attack on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait confirmed plans to attend Tuesday’s gathering with Trump and the First Lady.

Meanwhile, surviving troops from the attack have questioned why they were stationed at a location that lacked sufficient air defenses despite being identified as a likely target.

This combination of photos released by the U.S. Army taken on May 16, 2025, shows from top left, Sgt. Declan Coady, Master Sgt. Nicole Amor, Maj. Cody Khork, Master Sgt. Noah Tietjens, Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, after they were killed following an Iranian drone strike on March 1, 2026, in Port Shuaiba in Kuwait (AP)

Since commencing on Feb. 28, the conflict has resulted in the deaths of 19 U.S. troops and injured more than 800 others. The annual gathering marks Gold Star Mother’s and Family’s Day, which takes place on the final weekend of September.

According to the White House, this year’s reception recognizes nearly 40 fallen troops from operations dating back to the Vietnam War. Trump was scheduled to deliver an address, followed by a candle-lighting ceremony and a musical presentation featuring a rendition of “America the Beautiful.”

Teen Farage Supporter Arrested over Online Jokes About Tory Councillor– www.breitbart.com
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A 15-year-old supporter of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party was arrested in Britain after he made jokes about a local Conservative Party politician online.

The schoolboy, only referred to as Fraser, was arrested by four officers from the West Midlands Police at his home in the early hours of August 3rd. He was taken from his family home and searched in front of his neighbours, locked in a cell, fingerprinted, had a mugshot taken, and had a sample of his DNA taken. Meanwhile, two officers searched his bedroom, and he was pressured to hand over his phone for other officers to search.

While the police force has yet to confirm the reason for the 15-year-old’s arrest, The Telegraph reports that it appears that it was a result of comments made by Fraser online about the standard of dress of the leader of the Conservative Party on the Wolverhampton City Council, Simon Bennett, who has admitted referring the boy to the police over the posts.

In one post, he complained that the Tory councillor had attended a meeting in a T-shirt and shorts and later said he expressed approval when Bennet then attended a subsequent meeting in a suit. Fraser said that he was glad the councillor did not turn up “looking like a rent boy”, a derogatory phrase for homosexual prostitutes in Britain.