Just How Dystopian Can Starmer’s Britain Become?

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– Just How Dystopian Can Starmer’s Britain Become?:

After his landslide election victory in July, Keir Starmer promised that his new Labour government would “tread more lightly” on the lives of voters. It is one of a multitude of pledges Starmer has broken in just his first four months in office, during which time his approval rating has suffered the biggest post-election fall of any British prime minister in the modern era.

It’s worth recalling that his government’s massive parliamentary majority represents just about 20 per cent of the eligible electorate.

As the Middle East Eye journalist John Obourne warned in 2023, “you would be very unwise to believe a word Starmer ever says.”

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World Leaders Congratulate Trump On Winning Presidency

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– World Leaders Congratulate Trump On Winning Presidency:

Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times,

Reactions from world leaders have begun to pour in, congratulating Donald Trump on winning the presidency again.

Decision Desk HQ has projected that Trump will return to the White House, being the first president to win nonconsecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in 1892.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the first world leader to congratulate him.

“Dear Donald and Melania Trump, Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback!” Netanyahu posted on social media.

“Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.”

This comes as Israel has been fighting Hamas and Hezbollah since the former launched an attack on the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023 – the deadliest single-day anti-Semitic attack since the Holocaust.

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Israeli Airstrikes Pummel Syria For A Second Day In A Row

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– Israeli Airstrikes Pummel Syria For A Second Day In A Row:

The last two days have witnessed more Israeli airstrikes carried out on Syria, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday issuing rare direct confirmation that it targeted Hezbollah weapons depots in the al-Qusayr area in western Syria, close to the border with Lebanon.

“The IDF says Hezbollah’s armament unit is responsible for storing weapons in Lebanon, and it recently expanded its activities to Syria, storing weapons in al-Qusayr,” Israeli media reports.

And the NY Times writes of the expanding and more frequent nature of the raids, “The Israeli military on Tuesday said its Air Force had struck targets in Syria for the second day in a row, attacks it said were aimed at cutting off the flow of weapons and intelligence between Hezbollah, the armed Lebanese group, and its sponsor, Iran.”

The day prior, on Monday, Syrian state media confirmed Israeli airstrikes south of Damascus. The attack again targeted an area known to attract many Shia religious pilgrims.

SANA indicated that it involved Israeli warplanes hitting “a number of civilian sites south of Damascus, resulting in material losses.” There are regional reports that at least two were left dead and five injured in the Monday attack on the Syrian capital’s suburbs.

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Far-Left Advocacy Group In Hamburg Shows Migrants How To Get Cash In Benefits-Card-Loophole

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– Far-Left Advocacy Group In Hamburg Shows Migrants How To Get Cash In Benefits-Card-Loophole:

A left-wing advocacy group in Hamburg is openly teaching asylum seekers how to bypass the recently introduced payment card system, sparking political controversy and exposing a loophole in the system meant to control benefits distribution.

The Hamburg Refugee Council, which opposes the card, has launched a website explaining how asylum seekers can convert their card credit into cash through a voucher exchange system.

The payment card, introduced in November 2023 after an agreement between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the state prime ministers, was designed to reduce the administrative burden of handling cash benefits for asylum seekers and prevent misuse. The goal was to ensure that aid would be used for essential needs, such as food and hygiene products, rather than cash being spent elsewhere or sent home amid concerns the cash is being used to buy drugs, prostitutes, and other illicit purposes.

Hamburg was the first federal state to implement the card, issuing around 2,500 of them in the first half of 2024.

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Ukraine Announces First Direct Clashes With North Korean Troops

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– Ukraine Announces First Direct Clashes With North Korean Troops:

The US and South Korea now say many thousands of North Korean troops are on the front lines, potentially engaging Ukrainian forces, with most of them located in Russia’s Kursk oblast, which has been under Ukrainian troop presence since the August cross-border offensive.

“More than 10,000 North Korean soldiers are currently in Russia, and we assess that a significant portion of them are deployed to front-line areas, including Kursk,” spokesman for South Korea’s defense ministry, Jeon Ha-kyou, told a briefing.

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Supreme Court Takes Up Case That Could Affect Deportation Appeals Of Illegal Immigrants

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– Supreme Court Takes Up Case That Could Affect Deportation Appeals Of Illegal Immigrants:

Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times,

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a key deadline affecting some noncitizens, specifically, illegal immigrants who seek protection from deportation to countries where they say they fear persecution or torture.

The decision could resolve conflicting interpretations among lower courts on how strictly the timing of deportation appeals should be enforced.

The high court agreed on Nov. 4 to hear a case brought by Pierre Riley, a Jamaican national who overstayed his visa to the United States in 1995.

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Illegal Alien Gangs Taking Root In Our Schools

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– Illegal Alien Gangs Taking Root In Our Schools:

The harmful impact of mass illegal migration is felt in every state and at every level of society, from the national to the most local. Rather than attempting to solve or at least acknowledge the problem, pro-open-borders officials prefer to silence criticism. Parents in Northern Virginia’s Loudoun County saw a demonstration of this reality earlier in October. The county school board chose to shut down public discussion about an alleged illegal alien MS-13 gang member in the county’s school system.

For mass-illegal-migration apologists on the school board, the real problem is not that illegal immigration is bringing gangs and crime into our classrooms, but that Americans notice it and dare speak out against it.

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