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The US and the UK are considering staging new attacks on critical undersea infrastructure reminiscent of the Nord Stream pipelines bombing, Nikolay Patrushev, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has said.

Patrushev, who led Russia’s Security Council for over a decade before assuming his new role this year, made the remarks in an interview with the Kommersant daily published on Monday.

“According to available information, the Americans and the British are viewing the sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines as one of many methods to advance their economic interests. They could attack other infrastructure facilities, including undersea fiber optic cables that provide communications throughout the world,” Patrushev stated.

The senior official also reiterated Moscow’s position on the 2022 Nord Stream attack, stating that the theory that it was bombed by some freelance Ukrainian divers did not hold any water.

The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were built under the Baltic Sea to deliver Russian natural gas directly to Germany. Both were destroyed by underwater explosions in September 2022. A number of Western media outlets later claimed that a six-strong crew of Ukrainian divers on a small yacht had planted the explosive devices that ruptured the pipelines.

“Anyone interested in the capabilities of foreign naval forces knows that the Ukrainian Navy has neither the equipment nor the trained specialists to carry out a deep-sea terrorist attack. Only special forces of NATO countries could carry out a sabotage of such scale,” he said, adding that it is “known for certain” the UK and the UK both possess such capabilities.

The ultimate goal of the Nord Stream bombing - as well as of the alleged potential new attacks - is to sow chaos and destabilization worldwide, Patrushev believes.

“Since the hegemony of the West began to falter, Washington decided to bring chaos to the energy market, including by destabilizing maritime transportation,” the official explained.

Patrushev pointed to the US campaign against the Yemen based Houthi group, which he said is officially designed to protect maritime traffic, but in reality serves as a “smokescreen” for plans to spark an “escalation in the region.”

Destabilization is needed to put pressure on major consumers, including China and India, and to lay a foundation for grabbing more of the global energy market, he suggested.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/607490-us-uk-nordstream-attacks/

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Upwards of 50,000 people have flown into oil-rich Baku, Azerbaijan, for the 29th annual United Nations climate conference where an aggressive push to limit carbon emissions is expected to dominate proceedings alongside demands for “compensation” to be paid by wealthy, industrial nations to the world’s poorest.

One noted absentee will be climate activist Greta Thunberg who says she will not be attending COP29 because the event is “greenwashing.”

Host nation Azerbaijan “has no ambition to take climate action”, she says, the BBC reports.

Even without her presence organizers have an ambitious schedule ahead with their desire not just to limit global emissions of pollutants but also arrange wealth transfers from rich industrialized countries to poorer third world entities it is claimed suffer due to their lack of development.

The hope is to resolve the COP29 summit’s top agenda item – a deal for up to $1 trillion in annual climate finance for developing countries, replacing a target of $100 billion.

“We are asking for the down payment of a very large debt – a down payment of $5tn [a year],” sais Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network, global alliance of more than 1900 civil society organisations in over 130 countries.

The argument is rich nations allegedly prospered by burning fossil fuels and now need to fund poorer nations to avoid the same path, and cope with the severe heatwaves, floods and storms fuelled by global heating and already here.

“Climate reparations” have consequently been demanded.

“We know the debt is much larger, but $5tn is what we come here to demand,” Essop declared to the Guardian.

COP29 takes place in the shadow of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the move will doubtless see him repeat his scepticism of the entire “save the world” mantra of environmental activists.

Trump has pledged to once again withdraw the U.N. from the landmark Paris climate agreement.

As the talks opened, U.N. climate chief Simon Stiell told countries: “Now is the time to show that global cooperation is not down for the count.”

And he warned wealthy countries who are struggling to agree a new funding target to “dispense with any idea that climate finance is charity.”

“An ambitious new climate finance goal is entirely in the self-interest of every nation, including the largest and wealthiest.”

More than 51,000 people are expected at the COP29 talks, which run from November 11 to 22.

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Leftists on social media were triggered after photos revealed that NHL legend Wayne Gretzky attended a victory party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and even wore a “Make America Great Again” hat.

Gretzky, known among hockey fans as “The Great One,” attended the party alongside his wife, Janet, his son, Trevor, daughter Paulina, and Paulina’s husband, Dustin Johnson, Fox News reported.

Unsurprisingly, Democrats and other leftists on social media quickly went into despair over Gretzky’s support for the president-elect.

While most seemed to be happy to see Gretzky in his MAGA hat, a lot of liberals found the photos just added to their despair over the amazing Trump landslide election.

Of course, Gretzky got far more social media support for his visit to Florida than he did detractors.

Read X tweets here,

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extremists throughout his presidency of COP28.

“I’m not in any way signing up to any discussion that is alarmist. There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C,” he said in December.

The COP28 conference resulted in no meaningful commitments to radical climate activist policies, disappointing left-wing environmental groups.

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https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2024/11/11/taliban-terrorists-to-discuss-fighting-climate-change-u-n-conference/

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President-Elect Donald Trump had made peace in Europe a key campaign pledge, but several NATO member states are dedicated to total Ukrainian victory and will discuss how to “thwart” him and keep Kyiv in the war even if Washington withdraws support.

London, Paris, and Warsaw are to form the nucleus of a European effort to keep Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia going even if the Trump Presidency from January 2025 tries to bring an end to the Ukraine war. Exactly how he will achieve this campaign pledge has not been publicly articulated to date. However, a ‘land swap’ between Kyiv and Moscow or a Korean-style demilitarised zone has been discussed as options open to Trump, neither of which aligns with Ukraine’s official ambition of total victory.

British Tory-aligned broadsheet The Daily Telegraph cites senior government — but unnamed — sources who tell of what the paper says is “expected to plot a last-ditch attempt to thwart Donald Trump’s efforts to scale back US support for Ukraine”. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is in Paris today, having reviewed troops with French President Emmanuel Macron on the streets of Paris for Armistice Day, and the pair had talks on defence matters during the day.

It is stated the pair will have talked about keeping Ukraine fighting and how to persuade outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden to give a last-minute signoff on allowing Ukraine to use the long-range bunker-buster cruise missiles given to it by Western partners to launch strikes deep inside Russia. Ukraine has been calling for authorisation to use these advanced modern weapons in this way for months and it is a key part of President Zelensky’s ‘Victory Plan’, but the U.S. believes it risks serious escalation with Moscow.

A UK government source told the paper: “We are very keen to make sure we can make the most of the time between now and Jan 20 [when Mr Trump becomes US president] and not just put everything on hold until the next administration”. At the same time, a Downing Street official has told The Guardian newspaper that Starmer and Macron are moving to “best to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position going into the winter”.

That report characterised today’s meeting between Starmer and Macron as a “pointed show of European solidarity days after Donald Trump’s re-election”. The two countries funding Ukraine’s war post a possible future U.S. withdrawal of material support comes with a significant cost, however, given both the UK and France are presently struggling through major budgetary issues.

Whether voters can be persuaded to foot the true bill of Eastern European defence with American taxpayer help remains to be seen.

Beyond today’s France-UK meeting, Poland — now under the leadership of Eurocrat-globalist veteran politician Prime Minister Donald Tusk — is also moving to be a key player in the emerging anti-Trump foreign policy alliance. Tusk is expected to meet with British leader Sir Keir Starmer this week for talks and will have further discussions with Macron and Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte. Tusk is also expected to involve NATO’s Scandinavian and Baltic members in the process.

Polish state television TVP quotes PM Tusk as having said over the weekend: “There is no doubt that this new political landscape is a serious challenge for everyone, especially in the context of a possible end to the Russian-Ukrainian war as a result of an agreement between, for example, the president of Russia and the new president of the United States.

“In the coming days, we will very intensively coordinate cooperation with countries that have a very similar view on the geopolitical and transatlantic situation and situation in Ukraine.”

Tusk said Ukraine ending the war would be a “fundamental threat to Poland and Polish interests,” given Poland has a land border with Russia’s Kaliningrad (formerly Konigsberg) and Russian nuclear ally Belarus.

As the Telegraph acknowledged, the moves against President Trump’s ambition to bring peace to Europe “could be seen by Mr Trump as an attempt to undermine US foreign policy.”

President Trump has, meanwhile, been making progress on his ambitions. He has spoken with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to discuss his plan, with a German government spokesman stating that during their call, the two leaders “agreed to work together towards a return to peace in Europe.” Some media outlets claim Trump also spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone, but Moscow later outright denied this.

Speculation is mounting over how precisely President Trump could engineer a situation in which Ukraine and Russia agree to cease hostilities. British spymaster Sir Alex Younger suggested over the weekend that a land swap—where Russia returns some Ukrainian territory for Russian land captured by Kyiv—may be inevitable, if undesirable for those involved.

The senior intelligence man said it would be up to the UK and others to make sure such a peace would be one favourable to Europe, saying: “Trump’s advisers, on the one hand, are saying that Ukraine should be forced into neutrality, so basically back into the bosom of Putin.

“Others are talking about the need to do a land swap, but then reinforce its military and economic capabilities, and we need to make sure we are compounding that second argument.”

Also in contention, allegedly, is a demilitarised zone in Eastern Europe keeping Ukrainian and Russian forces apart, policed by European troops, including UK forces, almost a return of the old British Army of the Rhine, which held Western Europe in the face of the Soviet Union in the late 20th century. The 800-mile border said to be envisioned could tie up thousands of European troops for decades.

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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/11/11/britain-france-poland-move-to-undermine-trump-ukraine-peace-mission/

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Iran’s foreign ministry has called for Israel to be removed from the United Nations after Syria said multiple civilians had been killed in an IDF airstrike on its capital Damascus on Sunday.

According to Syria’s SANA state-run news agency, the “Israeli enemy launched an aerial act of aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan.” It said the strike had targeted a residential building in the Sayyidah Zaynab, killing several civilians, including women and children.

In a statement on Monday, foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei “vehemently condemned Sunday’s aggressive attack by the Zionist regime,” and accused international bodies of turning a blind eye to alleged Israeli strikes.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) typically neither confirms nor denies such attacks.

Baghaei also urged the international community to “take practical and effective measures against the Zionist regime, including imposing an arms embargo, expelling the regime from the United Nations, and prosecuting and punishing its leaders.”

He said Israel routinely targets Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian territory with impunity because it enjoys the “unconditional support” of the US and “certain European nations.” He described those countries as “accomplices in the genocide and war crimes committed” by Israel in Gaza and elsewhere in the region.

Earlier this month, Malaysia prepared a draft resolution for the United Nations General Assembly, calling for the removal of Israel from the international organization over its actions in Palestine.

Amid its ongoing military operation against Hamas militants in Gaza, as well as rising tensions with Iran, Israel’s relations with the UN have become increasingly strained.

In early October, West Jerusalem declared UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata, accusing him of failing to unequivocally condemn a previous Iranian missile attack on the Jewish state. Following Tehran’s strike, Guterres said in a post on X that he condemned the overall broadening of the Middle East conflict.

More than 100 UN member states have since signed a letter denouncing Israel’s decision regarding Guterres. The document insisted that “such actions undermine the United Nations’ ability to carry out its mandate, which includes mediating conflicts and providing humanitarian support.”

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged for the first time that Israeli special services were behind a sabotage operation in which thousands of handheld pagers and radios exploded across Lebanon, killing dozens and wounding thousands.

On September 17, thousands of pagers, primarily used by Hezbollah militants, exploded simultaneously in Lebanon and parts of Syria. The following day, hundreds of walkie-talkies detonated in a similar wave of blasts. The attacks killed at least 42, including at least 12 civilians – and injured over 3,500 people including women and children.

The attack was widely attributed to the Israeli spy agency Mossad and viewed as a preemptive strike, after which Israel intensified its attacks on Lebanon, ultimately killing Hezbollah’s long-time secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, in a September 27 strike on Beirut.

“The pager operation and the elimination of Nasrallah were carried out despite the opposition of senior officials in the defense establishment and those responsible for them in the political echelon,” Netanyahu said during Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting, according to Israeli media reports. His spokesman, Omer Dostri, acknowledged that the PM indeed “confirmed Sunday that he greenlighted the pager operation in Lebanon” when reached for comment by AFP and CNN.

It is unclear who opposed the operations, but earlier this week, Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, accusing him of “breach of trust” and citing “significant gaps” between their respective positions on the war against Hamas and Hezbollah.

Israel launched its war with Hamas, and later Hezbollah, after the Palestinian militant group attacked southern Israel on October 7 last year, killing around 1,100 people and taking more than 200 others hostage into Gaza.

The massive military retaliation by Israel has claimed roughly 43,500 lives in the enclave, according to Palestinian health officials. In Lebanon, Israeli strikes have killed more than 3,100 people and injured another 13,000, according to health ministry reports. Both military operations are ongoing, despite international pressure on Israel to halt the bloodshed and negotiate a resolution to the crisis.

Until now, Israel has refrained from claiming responsibility for the pager attacks, and its allies have denied any knowledge of them. The attack drew international condemnation, with UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Turk labeling it a “shocking” and “unacceptable” act that violates human rights laws.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the UN General Assembly in September that there “can be no justification for acts of terrorism” committed against Israelis on October 7 last year, but stressed that “anyone who still has a sense of compassion is outraged by the fact that the October tragedy is being used for mass collective punishment.”

“Another glaring example of terrorist methods as a means of achieving political aims is the inhumane attack on Lebanon that transformed civilian technology into a lethal weapon,” Lavrov said, calling for an immediate international investigation.

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Transgender player Blaire Fleming is steadily breaking women’s volleyball records at San Jose State despite the growing number of opposing teams that have boycotted games in which he has played.

For instance, despite SJSU’s loss to San Diego State on Saturday, Fleming achieved his 250th kill shot, a record that is unparalleled in women’s volleyball, the Daily Mail reported

This is not the first season that Fleming has hit the 250 mark. He achieved that record in 2022, as well, during his first year with the team.

The record is notable, especially since SJSU has sat out seven games this year because opposing teams have forfeited rather than play against him.

Five teams, Nevada, Utah, Boise State, Wyoming, and Utah State, have boycotted games against SJSU. They have refused to play against San Jose State, mostly because the teams say Fleming’s participation is unfair due to his physical advantage and because they fear for their safety due to his greater physical strength.

SJSU officials retaliated against one assistant coach who spoke out against the school’s quiet decision to allow Fleming to play as a woman on the team.

The suspension came just as shocking allegations emerged that Fleming and allies were plotting to injury players who did not support Fleming’s bid to be allowed to play as a woman on the team.

The suspension occurred early this month after assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose took a public stance against Fleming and the school by filing a Title IX complaint and giving an interview in which she lamented the toxic culture created by the school’s aggressively enforced trans-inclusion policy.

After the filing, the school issued a statement, telling Outkick, “The associate head coach of the San Jose State University women’s volleyball team is not with the team at this time, and we will not provide further information on this matter.”

In her Title IX complaint, Batie-Smoose alleges that Fleming, the transgender player, and another teammate engaged in a conspiracy to help San Jose State lose a match and injure SJSU player Brooke Slusser, Quilette reported.

Slusser is a member of women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines’ Title IX suit against the NCAA that accuses SJSU of deliberately covering up the fact that Fleming was a male.

Batie-Smoose alleges Fleming and another teammate violated team rules by leaving their hotel on October 3 to meet with Colorado State player Malaya Jones. During this meeting, Fleming and the unnamed SJSU player gave Jones scouting reports on their team, and Fleming agreed that he would not block any shots from Colorado State directed at Slusser.

Quilette also reported that Batie-Smoose became aware of the plot after the unnamed SJSU player confessed it to her.

The NCAA is also being sued by several groups over its policy of allowing transgender players to play as women.

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https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/11/10/san-jose-state-transgender-volleyball-player-continues-breaking-womens-records/

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Thousands of protesters marched through New York City Saturday protesting President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election.

In a video posted to X by Turning Point USA reporter Savanah Hernandez, protesters could be seen holding a black banner with yellow words that said, “We Won’t Back Down.”

“Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go,” the protesters could be heard chanting.

Savanah Hernandez @sav_says_

The current scene on the streets of New York where thousands are marching against Donald Trump’s re-election and plans for mass deportation of illegal immigrants nationwide.

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🚨HAPPENING NOW Major Protest taking place in New York City, going against Donald Trump.

They refuse to acknowledge that the American people spoke on Election Day. We are fed up with democrat leadership!

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In another video posted to X by Hernandez, migrant protesters could be seen holding signs that said, “Protect keeping families together program,” and “We Hispanics are the engine, and the workforce of the economy of this beautiful, and blessed country.”

Savanah Hernandez @sav_says_

NYC- “Here we are, we’re not leaving!”

A group of migrants protesting the election of Donald Trump hold signs reading “Protect keeping families together” & “We Hispanics are the engine and the workforce of this economy.

In another video posted to X, protesters could be seen holding signs that read, “This world doesn’t belong to the 1%” and “Protect our freedoms, families, futures.”

Navya Asopa @navyaasopa

📸 NYC LIVE: Thousands of New Yorkers, organized by 'Protect Our Futures' and other allied groups, took to the streets to protest the presidency of Donald Trump. #NewYorkCity #March

Trump, who served as the 45th president and will serve as the 47th, won the presidential election over Vice President Kamala Harris after he secured a path to 270 votes in the Electoral College As of this writing, he has won 301 electoral college votes.

Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that when Trump “starts his term” as president, he will start “operations to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.”

“He’ll launch the largest mass deportation operation of undocumented immigrants on day one,” Leavitt added.

Breitbart News has reported that polls from the Pew Research Center, Fox News, and Ipsos have found that a large majority of Americans support the deportation of illegal migrants from the country.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/09/thousands-protesters-march-nyc-over-president-elect-donald-trumps-win-donald-trump-has-got-to-go/

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Los Angeles County voters have chosen to pass Measure A, which will raise sales taxes by a quarter of a percent to fund homeless services.

The referendum, which seemed in doubt until recently, passed with 57% support.

CalMatters.org reported (original emphasis):

Measure A, which is leading in the ballots counted thus far, would end the county’s existing quarter-cent sales tax for homelessness that was scheduled to expire in 2027 and replace it with a half-cent tax that would begin immediately and continue in perpetuity. That new tax is expected to raise $1 billion a year, and since it has no sunset, that’s $1 billion a year forever — or at least until voters revoke it.

The money will be administered by the county, adhering to certain spending formulas contained within the measure itself. Officials have vowed to keep tight tabs on spending. According to the text of the measure, 61% of the money raised is slated to pay for homeless services — including money for mental health and addiction treatment — while 35.5% will go to the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency for affordable housing.

The remaining balance, about 3%, will go to the county’s development authority to help produce housing.

Voters had initially been skeptical, given that another referendum, Measure H, which passed in 2017 and raised sales taxes a quarter of a percent, failed to stop homelessness from rising (and arguably may, by funding more services, have increased it).

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The outgoing Biden administration is seeking to fully use funds allocated for Ukraine to deliver additional weapons to the country, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing unnamed White House officials. The plan, however, is reportedly facing logistics hurdles as the US further depletes its already thinned out stockpiles.

Washington has more than $7 billion left in drawdown authority, enabling the Pentagon to transfer weapons and ammunition to Kiev, as well as another $2 billion to fund long-term equipment contracts for Ukraine, the WSJ noted.

The pending delivery involves some 500 anti-aircraft missiles for various systems, including Patriots and NASAMS, a senior Biden administration official has said. The cache of missiles is expected to get delivered to Ukraine in the next few weeks, where it will meet the country’s air defense needs for the rest of the year.

The plan, however, has already raised concerns that it would further deplete already-exhausted US weapons stockpiles, officials told the newspaper. Apart from that, funneling a large amount of weaponry within mere weeks is bound to lead to logistics problems and put a further strain on US capabilities, the officials warned.

The rush to get as many weapons to Ukraine as possible before US President Joe Biden’s term ends is intended to give Kiev an advantage and reinforce its “negotiating position,” according to the WSJ. Before the presidential election, Washington sought to deliver the weaponry by April, but Donald Trump’s win has apparently prompted the outgoing administration to accelerate the process.

The president-elect has long been critical of the largesse afforded Kiev and has repeatedly pledged to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine overnight, potentially even before assuming office officially. Trump, however, has provided little to no detail on how exactly he would do that.

The delivery is unlikely to meet Kiev’s ever-growing weaponry wish list. Separately, the WSJ reported that Washington has refused to give Ukraine additional ATACMS ballistic missiles. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has informed Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky that the call to violate long-standing US arms contracts and prioritize Ukraine over its customers awaiting the missiles of the type was “too much to ask.”

The Pentagon has been reluctant to send additional ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, arguing that the munitions of the type were not actually needed since Russia had already moved all the valuable assets from their reach.

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BERLIN (AP) – Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany’s capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events commemorating one of the country’s most historic days on Nov. 9, 1989.

It was “a lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.

Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall stood for 28 years at the front line of the Cold War between the Americans and the Soviets. It was built by communists to cut off East Germans from the supposed ideological contamination of the West and to stem the tide of people fleeing East Germany.

It had carved a 156.4-kilometer (97.2-mile) swath through Berlin´s heart and the surrounding countryside, and through the hearts of many of its people. However, when the border was opened 35 years ago, it took less than a year until the country´s reunification on Oct. 3, 1990.

Today only a few stretches of the wall remain, mostly as a tourist attraction.

For the anniversary celebrations on Saturday, event organizers created a temporary wall of 5,000 posters designed by children and adults under the motto “We uphold freedom,” which attracted a steady flow of visitors, including many foreign tourists. It stands along a four-kilometer (2.5-mile ) stretch of the former wall in downtown Berlin.

The posters combine the demands of East German protesters against the communist authorities in autumn 1989, such as freedom of expression, freedom of the press and freedom to travel, with current day wishes and were created as part of workshops in schools, church parishes, local art groups and cultural projects.

“Uphold freedom, because without freedom everything else is nothing,” Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner said at an official anniversary event with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Berlin Wall Memorial.

“Freedom and democracy have never been a matter of course,” the mayor said, warning that both were currently under attack from many sides.

For Saturday night, 700 professional and amateur musicians were expected to synchronously play songs on different stages along the path of the former wall.

Among other songs, they were planning to perform Heroes” by David Bowie and “Freiheit,” or freedom, by German rockstar Marius Müller-Westernhagen. The lyrics will be shown on screens so that the audience can sing along.

The Russian dissident band “Pussy Riot” is expected to perform on Sunday as the highlight and conclusion of the anniversary celebrations.

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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/11/09/thousands-gather-to-celebrate-35-years-since-fall-of-berlin-wall/

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President-elect Donald Trump teased Democrats on Saturday after they spent tons of money and incurred debt trying to defeat him in the recent election.

“I am very surprised that the Democrats, who fought a hard and valiant fight in the 2020 Presidential Election, raising a record amount of money, didn’t have lots of $’s left over,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social:

"Now they are being squeezed by vendors and others. Whatever we can do to help them during this difficult period, I would strongly recommend we, as a Party and for the sake of desperately needed UNITY, do. We have a lot of money left over in that our biggest asset in the campaign was “Earned Media,” and that doesn’t cost very much. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

Sources said Vice President Kamala Harris’s (D) campaign fell $20 million in debt during the last week of her campaign, Breitbart News reported on Wednesday.

One of her campaign staffers told the outlet that reports her campaign was $20 million in debt were real.

The person also said campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon reportedly “blew through a billion dollars in a few months.”

“The concerts that the Harris campaign held with celebrities such as Katy Perry, Lizzo, Eminem, and Bruce Springsteen were reportedly ‘all Jen’s idea,’ the campaign staffer explained,” per the article.

Harris made a strong showing among female voters but did not quite make the cut with urban voters and young voters whom she needed for support.

Trump won the election on Tuesday and “will become the first person to win back the Oval Office after losing a reelection bid since Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1892,” according to Breitbart News.

“In victory, Trump completed what is indisputably the greatest political comeback in American history,” Breitbart News’s Joel Pollak wrote.

“Cleveland, too, faced a closely and bitterly divided country in the wake of the U.S. Civil War. But Trump faced multiple prosecutions, two assassination attempts, censorship on social media, overt media bias, and even efforts to intimidate his lawyers,” he said.

On Wednesday, Trump’s campaign released a statement confirming Harris conceded the election and called the former president to congratulate him, Breitbart News reported.

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https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/11/09/trump-teases-democrats-kamala-harris-dnc-debt-joking-offer-pay-it-off-using-his-leftover-campaign-funds/

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On the day after Election Day, comedian and former late-night TV host Jay Leno insisted that the election of Donald Trump on Tuesday was a “great day for democracy.”

Appearing Wednesday on the CBS daytime show, The Talk, the 74-year-old star and famed car collector was pleased that the election was “fair and honest.”

“The nice thing about this election is, it was fair, it was honest,” the former Tonight Show host said.

While insisting he was not really a Trump fan, he added, “but that’s OK, it’s the president of the United States – let’s all get together, thank you very much.”

He went on to say that he is glad that the election wasn’t very close and that the election was “done professionally,” to avoid all the post-election questions that occurred in 2020.

“Everybody says it was honest. I mean, it’s a great day for democracy,” he said of Tuesday’s results.

Leno added that today’s late-night hosts “pick a side” and are not equal opportunity jokesters.

“Well, you know, it was different – in my day, you kind of made fun of both sides. You’d get angry letters from both sides. Now you kind of have to take a side and, yeah, it’s little bit different,” he said.

Unsurprisingly, Leno got those angry “letters” as left-wingers angry over Trump’s election to a second term attacked him on social media in the wake of his appearance on The Talk, the Daily Mail reported.

In fact, Leno certainly was not a Trump fan. Ahead of the election, the comedian insisted in January that America can “do better” than Trump.

Leno also helped Biden’s campaign. As Breitbart News reported in 2020, Leno helped host a celebrity fundraiser for then-candidate Joe Biden, along with Rob Reiner and Barbra Streisand.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/07/jay-leno-the-election-was-fair-honest-and-a-great-day-for-democracy/

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Donald Trump may have turned the U.S. red, but in Europe the airwaves and front pages turned blue as the very tribally left-wing legacy media vented their disappointment at the American people not voting as wanted.

German broadsheet newspaper Die Zeit said it for many in the European media on Wednesday morning with their reaction to the re-election of President-elect Trump, stating in their headline simply: “Fuck”. The colourful article comparing election night coverage to staring into a nuclear bomb’s mushroom cloud lamented “America doesn’t care at all” about European feelings.

Leaning into the now well-established trope that an election is a sure sign that democracy is dying, the article’s author rhetorically asked whether this was to be the end of America, writing: “American democracy is so old, it can handle it. The Egyptian Empire, the Roman Empire – everything that lasts a very long time lasts forever, we know that. And if not, if that was the last US election, at least people were watching. And now we can hardly wait to see what the next day will bring.”

Top-selling Spanish left-wing newspaper El Pais called the election a victory of a “convicted felon” and editorial by the paper’s editor-in-chief claimed a “victory of disinformation” and of reactionaries. France’s Liberation stated: “It would be tempting to decree that 50% of Americans are morons, but that would be flippant… all these people adhere to the priorities defined by Trump (violent economic protectionism, geopolitical isolationism, mass expulsions of migrants)”.

Of Trump himself they claimed: …convicted felon, misogynist, racist, egocentric, liar and probably disturbed. Either the voters did not take these accusations seriously, or they were perfectly aware of them but they do not care.”

Generally, European political leaders have been far more circumspect in both the run-up to this election and in their responses to the result. This contrasts very strongly with the attitude by the capitals of Europe back in 2016 in the days when to that ruling class, the notion of a Trump victory seemed utterly impossible, even laughable. This time, they bit their tongues — even if some, like Germany’s Chancellor couldn’t even bring himself to mention Trump by name in his statement responding to the election.

Broadcasters don’t have the same worries as politicians, they don’t have to try and forge alliances with a President Trump-led America from January. But there are still some very minor consequences, it seems, for some. British journalist Emily Maitlis, formerly senior political journalist at state broadcaster the BBC and now a founder of new venture The News Agents — a sort of super-podcast — saw herself get a telling off during live election coverage overnight because she couldn’t stop herself swearing.

As the Trump victory became ever-more apparent, Maitlis’s language during a live panel discussion on Britain’s Channel 4 news soured, the journalist calling Trump’s rhetoric about migrants eating pets “batshit”. She was quickly reprimanded by co-host Krishnan Guru-Murthy who said: “Stop swearing. I have to tell [the other guests] off for swearing and then you do it”.

Guru-Murthy said later after a break, during which Maitlis had left the set: “I will, I’ll tell Emily off later because I know she started swearing. It may be the middle of the night in Britain but they’re still a little bit sensitive about that stuff.” Maitlis denied she’d been kicked off set for her blue language, and that instead she’d gone to record an episode of The News Agents. But there too she was on form, evidently dressed for a party with oversized novelty cocktail earrings, and hosing the Trump campaign with criticism.

She said: “a lot of that has been done on the back of lies, right? It’s been done on the back of propaganda. Now I’m not saying he hasn’t won fairly… but a lot of the messaging and the stories he told were lies, whether it was about cats and dogs being eaten in Springfield, Ohio”.

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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/11/06/fck-european-media-couldnt-handle-trump-victory-and-got-very-sweary/

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Activists from a British direct action group sprayed bright orange paint across the front of the U.S. embassy in London on Wednesday morning “in response to the election result”.

Hard-left campaign group Just Stop Oil said in a statement Wednesday morning that “Corporate power” and “the fossil fuel industry” that “controls the major parties” are the only true winners of the U.S. Presidential election. Their activists sprayed the limestone wall proclaiming the Embassy of the United States of America with bright orange paint.

The act of vandalism was “in response to the election result this morning” and a rejection of “fascism”, they said. Just Stop Oil called President-elect Trump a “fake populist” because while appealing to the “disaffection many feel”, he doesn’t do what the group says is the truly important thing: ending oil and gas drilling.

Calling for others to get involved, JSO said: “Ordinary people have to step up, get organised and make change happen, because it should be clear by now, no political leaders are coming to save us. Just Stop Oil.”

One of the activists who sprayed paint and who was subsequently detained by armed police was 25-year-old Joseph Aggarwal, who articulated something of a left-wing-populist position himself.

Speaking of a uni party, apparently without recognition, the next President of the United States has certainly been recognised as a political outsider; Aggarwal said: “Across the Western world, people can vote for parties that bear more resemblance than difference to one another.

“No matter who they vote for, they receive an assault on living conditions, continued injustice and the drive towards climate collapse. This lack of real democracy breeds resentment and allows bad actors like Trump to exploit the disquiet to further benefit the billionaire class.”

On Wednesday morning, former and future President Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, securing the support of over 70 million American citizens.

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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/11/06/hard-left-activists-immediately-vandalise-u-s-embassy-in-london-in-response-to-trump-win/

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The race in Maine’s Second Congressional District “will determine control of Congress,” which could explain why Democrats are throwing millions into the rural district, Austin Theriault, Republican candidate for Congress in that district, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

Theriault, who is challenging Democrat incumbent Rep. James Golden (D-ME), said one of his biggest concerns right now is polls that are essentially trying to make people feel like they do not have to go and vote.

“And that’s my biggest concern, making sure that our side and our supporters realize this race is not in the bag. … We have to go vote,” the NASCAR driver-turned-politician said, noting this concern swings to the other side too, as some polls try to make it seem as if Democrats are so ahead that Republicans should not even bother to show up.

“And the other extreme, some of these polls that have, you know, Kamala way up in districts that are reliably Republican. I don’t believe those either. I think either way, we still got to go out and vote,” he said, noting that the state of the race is telling, given how much Democrats have spent on these rural districts.

“I just can’t believe how much a lot of these far left progressives are willing to spend in some of these rural districts around America to try to buy the seats for these Democrats who are going to vote for Hakeem Jeffries as the next speaker. I mean, think about the worst case scenario,” he said, laying out a scenario where former President Donald Trump wins, Republicans flip the Senate, but Democrats take the House and make Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) the Speaker and “nominating and putting forth a bunch of crazy folks to lead some of these committees.”

“You’ve got impeachment. You’ve got investigations — like that would be terrible. We can’t let that happen,” he said, urging the grassroots to get out and not allow “people like [the] Soros family and Michael Bloomberg trying to buy these elections.”

“The money the Democrats are throwing into this race the last couple days is insane. … We’re talking millions in a pretty rural part of the state of Maine, where it doesn’t cost that much money to run an election. They’re just throwing money at the wall because they’re so scared of losing the seat, we’ve got a lot of momentum.” the former NASCA driver said, noting that his opponent has “tied himself to the Biden Harris administration.”

Perhaps what is more, Austin Theriault warned his race against Golden will “probably come down to a couple hundred votes just based off of how close the polling has been.”

“Our side is excited. We want change. We want to give President Trump his one electoral vote in the Second District,” he said, adding at the end, “This seat will determine control of Congress.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2024/11/04/exclusive-maine-candidate-austin-theriault-this-seat-will-determine-control-of-congress/

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The Harris campaign and allied groups spent more than $2.185 billion trying to prevent former President Donald Trump from completing the greatest comeback in American political history, Bloomberg reported on Open Secrets data.

The $2.1 billion investment underscores the challenge Trump faces to win reelection, notwithstanding two assassination attempts and Democrats’ lawfare.

The vast sum does not include millions of funds invested in smaller amounts by Democrat-allied organizations. The top organizations that spent $2.185 billion include:

Harris for President: $875 million Future Forward: $621 million DNC: $368 million Harris Victory Fund: $321 million

“11,000 Political Groups Spent $14.7 Billion to Influence the 2024 Election,” Bloomberg wrote, reporting the particulars:

[I]t’s Vice President Kamala Harris who has the huge money advantage. She’s raised large sums from wealthy supporters and grassroots donors alike, which allowed her campaign to spend more handily compared to Trump’s, pouring $875 million into the race compared to $355 million for the Republican nominee.

Billions have passed through the coffers of the parties’ fundraising political action committees, including Democrats’ ActBlue and Republicans’ WinRed, which have processed more than 113 million donations and distributed $4.5 billion to other committees. The two PACs account for more than 31 cents of every dollar spent in the US, and have the most financial activity of any of the committees that spent money in the 2024 election cycle.

The US political system runs on money – and lots of it. With no legal limits on how much money can go into electing candidates to the White House and Congress, voters are deluged with ads, text messages and mailers as Republicans and Democrats battle to influence a deeply divided electorate.

Trump, however, posted an ad on Monday about overcoming adversity:

Nothing worth doing ever came easy. Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. Never ever quit. Never quit. Adversity makes you stronger. Don’t give in. Don’t back down and never stop doing what you know is right. They want to take away my freedom, because I will never let them take away your freedoms. They’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you and I just happen to be standing in their way.

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https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/11/04/democrats-spend-2-1-billion-trying-stop-donald-trump/

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The Harris campaign and allied groups spent more than $2.185 billion trying to prevent former President Donald Trump from completing the greatest comeback in American political history, Bloomberg reported on Open Secrets data.

The $2.1 billion investment underscores the challenge Trump faces to win reelection, notwithstanding two assassination attempts and Democrats’ lawfare.

The vast sum does not include millions of funds invested in smaller amounts by Democrat-allied organizations. The top organizations that spent $2.185 billion include:

Harris for President: $875 million Future Forward: $621 million DNC: $368 million Harris Victory Fund: $321 million

“11,000 Political Groups Spent $14.7 Billion to Influence the 2024 Election,” Bloomberg wrote, reporting the particulars:

[I]t’s Vice President Kamala Harris who has the huge money advantage. She’s raised large sums from wealthy supporters and grassroots donors alike, which allowed her campaign to spend more handily compared to Trump’s, pouring $875 million into the race compared to $355 million for the Republican nominee.

Billions have passed through the coffers of the parties’ fundraising political action committees, including Democrats’ ActBlue and Republicans’ WinRed, which have processed more than 113 million donations and distributed $4.5 billion to other committees. The two PACs account for more than 31 cents of every dollar spent in the US, and have the most financial activity of any of the committees that spent money in the 2024 election cycle.

The US political system runs on money – and lots of it. With no legal limits on how much money can go into electing candidates to the White House and Congress, voters are deluged with ads, text messages and mailers as Republicans and Democrats battle to influence a deeply divided electorate.

Trump, however, posted an ad on Monday about overcoming adversity:

Nothing worth doing ever came easy. Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. Never ever quit. Never quit. Adversity makes you stronger. Don’t give in. Don’t back down and never stop doing what you know is right. They want to take away my freedom, because I will never let them take away your freedoms. They’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you and I just happen to be standing in their way.

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https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/11/04/democrats-spend-2-1-billion-trying-stop-donald-trump/

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Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and hundreds of other recording artists, has died at 91.

Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson, says he died Sunday night at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, surrounded by his family.

“Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the family said in a statement.

“And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that he lived and know there will never be another like him.”

Jones rose from running with gangs on the South Side of Chicago to the very heights of show business, becoming one of the first Black executives to thrive in Hollywood and amassing an extraordinary musical catalog that includes some of the richest moments of American rhythm and song.

For years, it was unlikely to find a music lover who did not own at least one record with his name on it, or a leader in the entertainment industry and beyond who did not have some connection to him.

Jones rose from running with gangs on the South Side of Chicago to the very heights of show business, becoming one of the first Black executives to thrive in Hollywood and amassing an extraordinary musical catalog that includes some of the richest moments of American rhythm and song.

For years, it was unlikely to find a music lover who did not own at least one record with his name on it, or a leader in the entertainment industry and beyond who did not have some connection to him.

Music saved him. As a boy, he learned that a Chicago neighbor owned a piano and he soon played it constantly himself. His father moved to Washington state when Quincy was 10 and his world changed at a neighborhood recreation center. Jones and some friends had broken into the kitchen and helped themselves to lemon meringue pie when Jones noticed a small room nearby with a stage. On the stage was a piano.

“I went up there, paused, stared, and then tinkled on it for a moment,” he wrote in his autobiography. “That’s where I began to find peace. I was 11. I knew this was it for me. Forever.”

Within a few years he was playing trumpet and befriending a young blind musician named Ray Charles, who became a lifelong friend. He was gifted enough to win a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out when Hampton invited him to tour with his band. Jones went on to work as a freelance composer, conductor, arranger and producer. As a teen, he backed Billie Holiday. By his mid-20s, he was touring with his own band.

“We had the best jazz band on the planet, and yet we were literally starving,” Jones later told Musician magazine. “That’s when I discovered that there was music, and there was the music business. If I were to survive, I would have to learn the difference between the two.”

As a music executive, he overcame racial barriers by becoming a vice president at Mercury Records in the early ’60s. In 1971, he became the first Black musical director for the Academy Awards ceremony. The first movie he produced, “The Color Purple,” received 11 Oscar nominations in 1986. (But, to his great disappointment, no wins). In a partnership with Time Warner, he created Quincy Jones Entertainment, which included the pop-culture magazine Vibe and Qwest Broadcasting. The company was sold for $270 million in 1999.

“My philosophy as a businessman has always come from the same roots as my personal credo: take talented people on their own terms and treat them fairly and with respect, no matter who they are or where they come from,” Jones wrote in his autobiography.

He was at ease with virtually every form of American music, whether setting Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon” to a punchy, swinging rhythm and wistful flute or opening his production of Charles’ soulful “In the Heat of the Night” with a lusty tenor sax solo. He worked with jazz giants (Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington), rappers (Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J), crooners (Sinatra, Tony Bennett), pop singers (Lesley Gore) and rhythm and blues stars (Chaka Khan, rapper and singer Queen Latifah).

On “We are the World” alone, performers included Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen. He co-wrote hits for Jackson – “P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing” – and Donna Summer – “Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) – and had songs sampled by Tupac Shakur, Kanye West and other rappers. He even composed the theme song for the sitcom “Sanford and Son.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/11/04/quincy-jones-music-titan-who-worked-with-everyone-from-frank-sinatra-to-michael-jackson-dies-at-91/

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Nicole Shanahan, the former vice-presidential running mate of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shared an ad on Sunday highlighting how it is “the people who are making America great again.”

In a post on X, Shanahan shared a video of clips of former President Donald Trump, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (R-HI), Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), the vice-presidential running mate of Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Kennedy talking about how the election is about “we, the people choosing our government,” and how Americans should be focusing on rising “above the hatred” and the fear.

The video highlights how people such as Trump, Gabbard, Vance, Ramaswamy, Musk, Kennedy, and Shanahan have united together to make America great.

“It’s the people that Make America Great,” Shanahan wrote in her post. “Unity 2024.”

The advertisement shared by Shanahan starts out with clips of Trump as he can be heard saying, “What will we do with this moment? How will we be remembered? Look at the opportunities before us.”

“This election really isn’t about the left versus the right,” Gabbard can be heard saying in the video. “It’s about we, the people choosing our government and the choice between freedom versus tyranny.”

“Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have,” Kennedy can be heard saying in the video. “Why are we allowing this to happen to our children? Ultimately, the only thing that will save our country is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other.”

Shanahan can be heard saying in the video how what is happening is “deeper than politics,” adding that people “are being called to rise above the hatred and the fear and the evil.”

“We need to remember, above and beyond, that we must love our neighbors, that we must treat other people as we hope to be treated,” Vance says in the video.

In August, Kennedy announced that he was suspending his presidential campaign and endorsed Trump for president. Despite having political differences, Kennedy and Trump revealed that they would be working together to “investigate the corruption of regulatory agencies,” and work to “make America healthy again.”

Gabbard, who recently announced that she was joining the Republican Party, endorsed Trump in August. In her endorsement of Trump, Gabbard highlighted how Trump had not started “any new wars.”

“You want to be a rebel? You want to be a hippie? You want to stick it to the man? Show up on your college campus and trying calling yourself a conservative,” Ramaswamy says in the video.

“America’s going to reach heights that it has never seen before,” Musk says in the video. “The future is gonna be amazing!”

The video continues to show iconic clips from the Trump campaign, such as when Vance went on Theo Von’s podcast, and Trump rode in a garbage truck after President Joe Biden referred to Americans who support Trump as “garbage.”

“Don’t you want healthy children? Don’t you want a president that’s going to make America healthy again?” a clip of Kennedy plays, as another clip shows Shanahan filling out a ballot on stage for Trump as she reveals she is a former Democrat and a “first time Trump voter.”

The video continues to show clips such as Trump appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Gabbard throwing out red “Make America Great Again” hats at the University of Arizona, and Trump serving customers at a Philadelphia McDonald’s.

“The people dreamed this country, and it’s the people who are making America great again,” Trump says in the video.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/03/watch-stirring-unity-ad-showcases-trumps-expanded-maga-coalition-rfk-gabbard-musk-more/

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San Jose State University (SJSU) has suspended an assistant volleyball coach indefinitely for speaking out against the inclusion of transgender player Blaire Fleming on the team’s roster, according to OutKick.

“The associate head coach of the San Jose State University women’s volleyball team is not with the team at this time, and we will not provide further information on this matter,” the school said in a statement to OutKick.

The suspension follows a tumultuous week in which assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose took public and legal action against the school by filing a Title IX complaint and giving an interview in which she lamented the toxic culture created by the school’s aggressively enforced trans-inclusion policy.

At the heart of the Title IX complaint, in a report obtained by Quilette, is an allegation from Batie-Smoose that Fleming, the transgender player, and another teammate engaged in a conspiracy to help San Jose State lose a match and injure SJSU player Brooke Slusser.

Slusser is a member of women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines’ Title IX suit against the NCAA that accuses SJSU of deliberately covering up the fact that Fleming was a male.

Specifically, Batie-Smoose alleges Fleming and another teammate violated team rules by leaving their hotel on October 3 to meet with Colorado State player Malaya Jones. During this meeting, Fleming and the unnamed SJSU player gave Jones scouting reports on their team, and Fleming agreed that he would not block any shots from Colorado State directed at Slusser.

Quilette reports that Batie-Smoose became aware of the plot after the unnamed SJSU player confessed it to her.

The early October matchup between SJSU and Colorado State was the first game after Slusser’s first critical public statement against Fleming on September 30.

The timing of Slusser’s statement and the date of the conspiratorial meeting involving Fleming and the Colorado State player led Batie-Smoose to conclude the plot was a direct retaliation for speaking out against the transgender player.

The Mountain West Conference says it is aware of the allegations, “reviewing the document, and has initiated an investigation to gather all the facts.”

The allegations against Fleming are as explosive as they are serious. If proven, it’s unimaginable that he would be allowed to continue to play for SJSU.

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https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/11/03/report-sjsu-suspends-coach-after-revealing-shocking-allegations-trans-player-conspired-injure-teammate/

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King Charles III and his son Prince William have contracts with UK taxpayer-funded public services, charities, government departments and even a prison, which help them earn millions every year, the Sunday Times has claimed. That’s in addition to the so-called sovereign grant the royals get from the government.

In 2023 alone, Charles and William’s “private fiefdoms,” the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall - raised £27.4 million (over $35 million) and £23.6 million ($30 million) respectively for the British royal family, the newspaper found as part of a joint investigation with Channel 4’s Dispatches program.

The paper said Saturday that they used the royal addresses to uncover their business contracts and discovered how the duchies are making money “via a series of commercial rents and feudal levies on land largely seized by medieval monarchs.”

Dubbed “Duchy Files,” the investigation claims to have found that King Charles and Prince William “charge for the right to cross rivers, offload cargo onto the shore, run cables under their beaches, operate schools and charities, and even dig graves.”

“They earn revenue from toll bridges, ferries, sewage pipes, churches, village halls, pubs, distilleries, gas pipelines, boat moorings, opencast and underground mines, car parks, rental homes and wind turbines,” The Times claims.

Some 5,410 landholdings and properties are held by the royal duchies, the investigation claims.

For instance, a deal with an NHS foundation trust will reportedly pay the King’s Duchy of Lancaster £11 million ($14 million) over 15 years to rent a warehouse for ambulances.

Prince William’s Duchy of Cornwall receives £1.5 million ($1.9 million) a year from the Ministry of Justice for using Dartmoor prison, The Times claims. The duchy of the King’s eldest son, the Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps, also charges the military “for the right to train” on its 67,500 acres of land in Dartmoor. The sum it gets has not been revealed.

The estates also rent out over 900 residential homes and farms to tenants, according to the report.

The duchies, both established in the 14th century, are operating as commercial landlords, but are exempt from paying tax on their corporate profits, the paper notes. The King and Prince pay income tax voluntarily at the highest rate, 45%. In 2022, the last time King Charles published his tax filings, he paid 25% of the £23 million ($30 million) in duchy profit “because he deducted expenses he considered related to his official duties,” The Times pointed out.

The “Duchy Files” investigation marks the first time that the complete list of property holdings for the two royal estates has been made public, the paper says, adding that even the British parliament was denied access to it.

“The ancient property empires that fund the King and the Prince of Wales have remained a closely guarded secret within the royal family and its small circle of advisers for centuries,” it claimed.

The two duchies are separate from the Crown Estate, a vast property business owned by the British monarch but run independently. Because of its soaring profits, the taxpayer-funded sovereign grant that pays for official royal duties will rise from £86.3 million ($111 million) in 2024-25 to £132 million ($170 million) in 2025-26.

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https://www.rt.com/news/606954-king-charles-millions-property/

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