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Donald Trump's presidential victory means some U.S. allies may have to reckon with prior scathing remarks as their countries prepare to build diplomatic ties with a president-elect whose return they may not have anticipated. “The most destructive president in history,” Australian Ambassador to the U.S. Kevin Rudd said of Trump in 2020, who “drags America and democracy through the mud.” “A woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath” and a “profound threat to the international order,” David Lammy, the U.K.'s current foreign secretary, said in 2018. “A political pyromaniac who must be put before a criminal court,” Jean Asselborn, then-foreign minister for Luxembourg, said...

Just four months ago, our British cousins voted in an election that changed the course of their country. Today, we go to the polls and will hopefully change the direction of ours. There are some interesting comparisons between the two elections. Granted, we won’t know the result of the U.S. elections until tonight — or maybe later — but there are some weird similarities and some obvious differences between the two elections. Let’s start with the timing of these elections. The British elections took place on July 4, eliciting snickers from Americans. I don’t know if Britons ever think about...

Allegations of fraud have been tied to Black Fork Strategies, a left-wing Ohio firm committed to ‘building long-term progressive power.’Earlier this year, Cincinnati-area voters Cassandra and Harry Scott were puzzled to receive voter registration updates showing they had changed their address. They hadn’t. The Hamilton County Board of Elections had received two registration forms for the voters from Black Fork Strategies LLC, an Ohio-based “engagement firm that focuses on all aspects of community and electoral field work.” Elections Board staff made the requested changes in the voter rolls and, per Ohio law, sent notice to the voters at their “new...

Humza Yousaf has revealed he has doubts over whether he and his family will stay in the UK amid a growing rise of Islamophobia and the far right. The former First Minister of Scotland admits that the riots in England over the last week have been concerning and he is now considering a future where he, his wife and three children move out of the UK and potentially away from Europe. Mr. Yousaf has been vocal in his criticism of the trouble in England over the last week and there are concerns it could spread to Scotland. Scottish Secretary Ian...

Eric Trump says England's prime minister risks 'poisoning' relations with America by interfering in the US election. In a deepening crisis for Sir Keir Starmer, the ex-president's second son told the Daily Mail that it was 'pretty disappointing' to learn that 100 Labour Party operatives had been dispatched from Britain to support Harris' campaign. Eric warned that if dad Donald Trump is re-elected on November 5 - polls increasingly predict he will be - Starmer will find his actions have proved 'counterintuitive' to UK-US relations. He dismissed any influence it could have on voters, saying that a British Kamala Harris...

The vice president then began singing the praises of Kaunda, a brutal socialist dictator allied with the Soviet Union, who had banned opposing political parties and ran as the only candidate for president until he was finally ousted, and praised Zambia’s “democracy”. Kaunda, whom Kamala fondly recalled meeting with JFK and MLK “to discuss peaceful forms of protest” had demanded nuclear weapons from LBJ. Hichilema, who had narrowly survived being arrested by a previous regime, had nothing to say about Kamala’s fond memories of Zambian democracy. Or the “peaceful forms of protest” carried on with nuclear missiles and terrorism. But...

Chris Kaba, who was elevated to George Floyd-esque martyrdom status in Britain after being killed during an altercation with police in 2022, has now been revealed to have been a serial violent criminal offender and a member of one of London’s most feared gangs, which put out a hit on a police officer following Kaba’s death. In September 2022, Kaba was stopped by police over suspicion that his car was tied to a firearms offence the previous day. Rather than complying with the officers, Kaba refused to leave his vehicle and ultimately used his car as a “battering ram” against...

A grandfather imprisoned for two years and eight months for taking part in an anti-immigration protest in Rotherham, England, has been found dead in His Majesty’s Prison (HMP) Moorland. Peter Lynch, 61, carried a placard asserting politicians, police, journalists, and others had been corrupted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), BlackRock, Vanguard, and others at a protest outside a hotel hosting illegal immigrants following the deadly stabbing of three young girls in the town of Southport, allegedly by a migration-background teenager. The courts admitted Lych’s placard and protest were not unlawful. Still, they chastised him for having “a general conspiracy...

Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives, according to a landmark new report. Decades of destructive land use and water mismanagement have collided with the human-caused climate crisis to put “unprecedented stress” on the global water cycle, said the report published Wednesday by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a group of international leaders and experts. The water cycle refers to the complex system by which water moves around the Earth. Water evaporates from...

The panic on the left is international. U.K. Labour, which is collapsing before our eyes a mere few months after winning a massive majority in the Parliament, is engaging in a massive election interference program here in the United States. When Russia spent a few hundred thousand dollars on grossly ineffective ads aimed at stirring up trouble in 2016, the world went wild. The ruling party of the United Kingdom is literally sending foreign agents to the United States to help the Kamala Harris campaign. So far nobody is making a stink about it. Why on Earth is @UKLabour proactively...

View profile for Sofia Patel Sofia Patel Head of Operations at The Labour Party 16h I have nearly 100 Labour Party staff (current and former) going to the US in the next few weeks heading to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia. I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of North Carolina - we will sort your housing. Email me on labourforkamala@gmail.com if you’re interested. Thanks!

An Albanian criminal who sneaked back into Britain after being deported has won the right to stay under the the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Ardit Binaj, 32, was freed six months into a two-and-a-half year jail sentence for burglary and deported as part of a prisoner transfer agreement with Albania. However, within months he re-entered Britain in breach of the deportation order to be with his Lithuanian girlfriend, who had leave to remain in the UK under the Government’s EU settlement scheme. They subsequently had a baby and married, enabling him to lodge his successful claim that an...

Model, 20, who died suddenly at home ‘was an inspirational and beautiful girl’More than £12,000 has been raised for the family of a ‘beautiful’ young model who died suddenly at her home last week. Andreja Siaucilaite, from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk was found dead in her home last Tuesday. An inquest into her death found that her cause of death was a ‘fatal pressure on her neck’, and she was identified by her mother. Senior coroner Jacqueline Lake adjourned her the full hearing until next year. The 20-year-old had modelled wedding dresses and was described as an ‘inspiration’ and a ‘beautiful...

Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed KidsA major study involving 1.7 million children has found that heart damage only appeared in children who had received Covid mRNA vaccines. Not a single unvaccinated child in the group suffered from heart-related problems. In addition, the researchers note zero children from the entire group, vaccinated or unvaccinated, died from COVID-19. Furthermore, the study found that Covid shots offered the children very little protection from the virus, with many becoming infected after just 14 to 15 weeks of receiving an injection. The 1.7 million children observed in the study...

With Autumn has come the deadline for Registering your Poultry with DEFRA (and the APHA) under new regulations introduced to prevent the spread of Bird Flu. Under the new legislation, all keepers of poultry in England and Wales, even if you just have two or three pottering around your allotment or garden, must register them with DEFRA before Tuesday 1st October 2024. DO NOT WORRY! The Registration only requires your address, the number of birds you keep, and the type (e.g. chicken, duck, geese etc). It is an online registration form but you can email them if you prefer at...

The number of people in the United Kingdom who identify as atheist is greater than those who say they believe in God, according to a research project examining why people reject religion. Explaining Atheism, a three-year program overseen by Queen’s University Belfast in collaboration with other academic institutions launched in 2022, presented interim findings earlier this year on the levels of atheism in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom. According to the research project, from 2008 to 2018, the number of Brits who don't believe in God rose from 35.2% to 42.9%, leaping ahead of belief in God, which dropped...

Britain’s left-wing government announced a plan on Thursday to surrender sovereignty of a British Overseas Territory in the Indian Ocean that has hosted an important joint U.S.-UK military base and listening post for the past 50 years. The United Kingdom is giving the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, from whom it bought the archipelago in the 1960s. The announcement is the latest development in years of sovereignty claims by Mauritius, now drifting into China’s sphere of influence, which until recently were not even recognised as legitimate by the UK or its allies. Just last week, President of Mauritius Prithvirajsing Roopun barracked...

Conservatism, the late philosopher Roger Scruton wrote, emerged into the modern world as “a kind of ‘yes but…’” response to liberalism. Conservatives, he observed, believe, like liberals, in the importance of the free market, of private property and of individual choice. They believe also in the overriding significance of community and tradition as setting limits to the reach of individualism. Liberalism, for Scruton, made sense “only in the social context that conservatism defends”. The relationship between these two philosophical wellsprings of conservatism has never been comfortable. The tension between the individualism of the market and private property and the communality...

For Daniel Guerra, an aspiring Brazilian sailor keen to travel the world, the job ad was a dream come true. A British yacht owner was seeking two deck-hands to help sail his boat from Brazil across the Atlantic, one of the great ocean journeys. There would be no salary, but all expenses paid - and, crucially, Mr Guerra would gain some of the sailing experience he needed to qualify as a sea captain. "My dream was to become a captain and go work in Europe," remembers the 43-year-old, who saw the advert from an online sailing recruitment agency. "So I...

🥫 3 Just Stop Oil supporters have thrown soup over 2 of Van Gogh paintings in the 'Poets and Lovers' exhibition at the National Gallery. VIDEO at link.................