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-Great Cultural Revolution
How transgenderism is viewed around the world: From the country that celebrates trans people to where they are deemed 'mentally ill'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2024 06:54 || Comments || Link || [77 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seven of the best LGBTQ+ spaces in Berlin
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2024 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Thailand is Buddhist. Among the population it is believe by some that this is punishment for actions in a former life. A Thai version of FAFO Karma.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2024 10:32 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
How wild beast [hog] invasion is tearing up America
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]… and killing more people than sharks: 'I'd rather get eaten by an alligator'

An invasion of wild beasts is wreaking havoc across America - and shocking figures reveal they are killing more people than sharks.

Officials up and down the country are warning of a 'feral swine bomb' due to an explosion in the population of wild hogs, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.

Wild hogs, an invasive species of pig first brought to Florida by Spanish settlers in the 1500s, have now been seen in at least 35 states and are destroying farmers' crops, tearing up gardens and, in some cases, even attacking humans.

One longtime animal trapper, Craig Greene, recalled a terrifying encounter with the wild pigs in 2008. He described hiding in his own three-feet tall cage, knowing there was no one nearby to save him, until they eventually ran off and he could escape.

'I know when they kill you, they'll eat you while you're screaming,' he said. 'I'd rather get eaten by an alligator.'

Wild pig attacks are relatively rare - but they still outnumber all species of shark attacks combined, research showed.

Between 2014 and 2023, there was an average of 5.8 fatal shark attacks worldwide compared to 19.7 wild pig attacks, AgWeb reported.

In 2024 alone, there have already been seven deaths globally from wild pig incidents, the outlet added - and revealed the number of humans killed had climbed steadily from 2000 to 2019 to a total of 172 deaths.

Dr. John Mayer, a research scientist and manager at the Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina, told AgWeb: 'Tigers, Indian elephants, Nile crocodiles, and venomous snakes kill more people than wild pigs, but wild pigs are certainly worse than bears, wolves, and all shark species put together.

'Wild pigs are nowhere near the worst of the worst, but they’re far more dangerous than people believe,' he added, describing the vicious 'stab-and-slash' wounds inflicted by boars.

In 2019 a Texas caregiver, 59, was mauled to death by a pack of wild hogs while outside the home of the elderly couple she looks after, before being partially eaten.

And the potential for dangerous encounters between pigs and humans is set to increase as the land animals used to have free reign on is developed.

Pigs now exist in all 67 Florida counties and wreak the most havoc in inland areas in the middle of the state.

'They've been here for 200 years and now everywhere they go they're getting pushed out,' Greene told Sun Sentinel. 'They're doing so much major construction. So now pigs are showing up in people's yards because the gated development is butted right up against a preserve.'

Greene added that people frequently call him to help them deal with rowdy pigs.

'I've had phone calls like, "Oh my God, I'm in my car right now, this pig is slamming his head up against my truck,''' Greene said. '''Come help me.'''

Many Americans are also concerned about the danger the hogs pose to agriculture.

Pigs roll around in the dirt on farms to cool themselves off and often root around for food and eat crops, causing billions of dollars worth of losses to farmers every year.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [347 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Place a bounty on them with no limit and problem solved
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/10/2024 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Wild pork is much tastier than domestic.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 06/10/2024 0:53 Comments || Top||

#3  That’s only meaningful to the 98% of Americans who don’t have religious objections to eating pork, Grom. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/10/2024 0:56 Comments || Top||

#4  ^😨
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 06/10/2024 1:02 Comments || Top||

#5 
Here in Ga, we have found 100lbs of gutted and dressed out Pork for the cost of a few 12Ga slugs or 30# rifle rounds, has brought the cost of a pork BBQ way down.

I have seen more than a few neighbor cook-out parties sharing the meat.

Remember a 1,100+ lbs Hozillia was killed in Southern Ga.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/10/2024 5:12 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ who says we don't need anti-tank weapons?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2024 7:02 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ see bank robber

Place a bounty on them with no limit and problem solved

Open season in TX, all year long.
No license on private land, no limits.
Buzzards/Coyotes will reduce body to bones in days.

They reproduce faster than you can buy bullets.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2024 7:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Surprised how skittish the Floridians seem to be about it. Go to Kaua'i - the pua'a own the whole island... except for the feral chickens of course.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/10/2024 8:47 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ If you live in the country, no problem unless they are tearing up your crops and giving your livestock diseases. If you live in a built up are where local authorities frown on firearms discharge, you have a problem.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/10/2024 8:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Not necessarily just wild hogs. Domestic pigs will go feral quite quickly and grow tusks.
The rule around here is if it's not in a pen shoot it.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/10/2024 9:11 Comments || Top||

#11  ...Snowball and Napoleon could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2024 10:37 Comments || Top||

#12  Invasive species become a problem when no one eats them. The critters in this case are quite tasty. The problem seems to be harvesting them at scale. Perhaps we could hunt them with armed drones. Or machine gun them from helicopters.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/10/2024 11:05 Comments || Top||

#13  In places where the law allows and the problem demands it, baiting them into corrals for a "shooting fish in a barrel" approach is sometimes used. Also shooting them from helicopters and using night vision.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/10/2024 11:21 Comments || Top||

#14  I can attest to the fact wild hog is very tasty. My tractor front end loader also serves as a fire pit digger. I once dated a lady who killed one with a Bowie knife. Growing up my father and uncle would hunt them. That's how I learned how to butcher one.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues || 06/10/2024 11:48 Comments || Top||

#15  Potentially useful for disposal of evidence of attacks by criminals...
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/10/2024 12:15 Comments || Top||

#16  Shooting wild hogs from a helicopter is an actual tourist industry. 'Merica.

Guide I know says bring the heaviest rifle you can safely operate. And make sure it is dead. He had set his rifle down and was beginning to go to work when he realized nobody told the pig it was dead, and had to run, blind firing a .45 behind him and got lucky.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/10/2024 14:03 Comments || Top||

#17  I have a friend who takes one every year in WV with a 1911 in 10mm Auto.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/10/2024 14:11 Comments || Top||

#18  That's some good eatin'.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/10/2024 14:34 Comments || Top||

#19  ...the 'good old days'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2024 17:28 Comments || Top||

#20  A gun writer, now deceased, use to blog about killing hogs over bait as a form of pest removal. He said that even with night vision and semi-automatic rifles they could get maybe two shots off before the pack scattered. He also said that the pigs are fairly intelligent, are fast over short distances and had a good sense of smell and hearing.
Posted by: Chantry || 06/10/2024 19:23 Comments || Top||

#21  Seen similar videos since suppressors became more common, hog drops in the middle of a crowd and the rest just kept feeding.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/10/2024 19:40 Comments || Top||

#22  the pigs are fairly intelligent, are fast over short distances and had a good sense of smell and hearing.

Then they shall make worthy adversaries for our swarms of autonomous kill-bots.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/10/2024 20:10 Comments || Top||

#23  SSsssshhhh SkyNet awaits
Posted by: Frank G || 06/10/2024 20:21 Comments || Top||

#24  I see opportunity for allies, and take a page from South Park, and propose Chimpanzees riding Wild Hogs.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/10/2024 22:13 Comments || Top||

#25 
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2024 22:27 Comments || Top||

#26  I have a friend who takes one every year in WV with a 1911 in 10mm Auto.

I get the challenge; That's wild.

Saw my dude get a coyote at full perpendicular trot at 50 yards with a snap shot. When he says he hit that hog at short range with a 6.5 Creed with a thermal scope, I know he had a good hit.

I guess there was a fight recently where one of the contenders let his guard down to talk to the ref and got thumped - lesson is, when in the ring don't let your guard down.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/10/2024 22:41 Comments || Top||


Elite Media Whine as Migrants Begin to Take Their Top Jobs
Over a decade of shrinking outlets leading to ever-decreasing payrolls, and now this. The poor darlings.
[Breitbart] The U.S. journalists who are ignoring the displacement and demotion of many U.S. professionals by millions of imported visa workers are suddenly complaining about the inflow of British journos into their top media jobs.

“UK media execs are being handed some of the biggest jobs in U.S. journalism,” said a critical article in the media-industry site, The Wrap.com. The article continued:

some question whether the [hiring] choices are what America’s democracy needs. “Everybody’s screaming about how we have a crisis in local news,” said Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at CUNY. “I say we have a crisis in national news too, at this time when fascism is at the door.”

“Right-wing Brits running the Washington Post? Stuff of nightmares,” said a tweet from Dan Froomkin, at PressWatchers.org.

The Brit arrivals include Will Lewis, the new CEO of Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post.

“It feels very much like a dive headlong into the abyss,” responded Drew Magary, a columnist for SFGate.com. “Lewis is British. NEVER trust a British media executive,” Magary wrote.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [118 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  NEVER trust a British media executive,” Magary wrote.

FIFY
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2024 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  "Learn to code." Oops, AI does that now.

"Fries with that?" Oops, robots do that now.

Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/10/2024 7:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Perfidious Albion strikes again!

Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/10/2024 7:26 Comments || Top||

#4  And here I was given to understand that we were supposed to welcome immigrants with differing opinions and life experiences. I was told so by the media.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/10/2024 9:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Murdoch kicking the tires before Bezos dumps his bad investment.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/10/2024 9:09 Comments || Top||

#6  ..I was told that after 3 years a 'business' hasn't shown a profit, its classified as a hobby by the IRS.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2024 15:22 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
During the past 30 years, the United States suffered the same type of ‘strategic over-extension" that exhausted the British Empire and contributed to the end of its naval mastery
[RealClearDefense] Nearly fifty years ago, historian Paul Kennedy wrote a book about the evolution of British naval power titled The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1976), which reached back to the Elizabethan age through England’s wars with the Dutch, the struggles against Spain and France, a renewed struggle against France, the establishment of Pax Britannica, and its long decline starting with the end of the First World War and continuing through World War II and the Cold War. It is a book that holds lessons and warnings for American naval power, which in relative terms may be in the process of a similar decline.

Kennedy’s book combined history with geopolitics. It included an entire chapter on the geopolitical writings and theories of Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American naval officer and evangelist of sea power, and Halford Mackinder, the British geographer and statesman whose “Heartland” concept foresaw that Britain and other sea powers would be challenged in the future by continental-sized land powers. Kennedy recognized that Mahan and Mackinder, though often viewed as presenting clashing geopolitical theories, actually agreed on some fundamental geopolitical issues, including the supreme value of sea power. Mackinder worried that geography, the industrial revolution and other factors presented the opportunity for a continental-sized state to transform land power hegemony into dominant sea power. Remarkably, Mackinder in 1904 suggested that a more politically organized and technologically advanced China, because of its lengthy “oceanic frontage,” could become a great Eurasian power whose population and resources could be used to strengthen its sea power. That is precisely what has happened in the 21st century.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/10/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [82 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To the best of my knowledge: the Brits didn't practice affirmative action.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 06/10/2024 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2  When the Wall came down, it was time to demobilize. Instead the globalists in the Swamp wanted to play geopolitics using the resources and treasury of the American people (to exhaustion).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2024 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  During the past 30 years
The Democrat reign.

Known phenomena.

"The Bathtub Curve is a diagram model that represents the failure rate of an asset over time. It is a graph that resembles the cross-section of a bathtub, with steep sides and a flat bottom. The curve is divided into three main regions: the early life, the useful life, and the end-of-life period.

Early Life:

The early life of an asset is characterized by a high failure rate, as the asset is still new and has not yet reached its optimal performance. This period is often referred to as the “infant mortality” stage.

Useful Life:

The useful life of an asset is the period where the failure rate is relatively low, and the asset is operating at its optimal performance. This is the longest period of the bathtub curve, where the asset is providing the most value to the organization.

End-of-Life:

The end-of-life period is the final stage of the bathtub curve, where the failure rate increases sharply. This is due to the asset and its parts reaching the end of their designed useful life. During this period, the asset is no longer operating at its optimal performance, and failures become more frequent and unpredictable.

Extending the Bathtub Curve:

Businesses can choose to extend the bathtub curve by seeking maintenance services from a Third Party Maintenance provider. This can help to “sweat” the assets for as long as possible, maximizing the value derived and allowing for budget to be collated over a longer period of time for eventual hardware procurement."

Who will be the maintenance partner?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/10/2024 8:47 Comments || Top||


Europe
How Sweden became a 'haven' for mafia gangs and the EU's gun crime capital off the back of surging...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … migration: As murders surge, police and politicians say the nation is at crisis point.

Over the course of one night last year, three people were killed in separate attacks across Sweden - three of many violent attacks to rock the country in 2023.

The first victim was an 18-year-old man who was shot dead in a Stockholm suburb on September 27. Just hours later, one man was killed and another was wounded in a shooting in Jordbro, south of the city.

Then, as if two killings weren't enough, Soha Saad - a 24-year-old kindergarten teacher living with her brother and parents - died in an explosion in Uppsala, west of Stockholm, in the early hours of September 28.

In the aftermath, one neighbour described the blast as being 'like a war scene' and 'something you see on the news from Afghanistan.'

The violence meted out across the region in those 12 hours made international headlines, but to many living in Sweden - did not come as a surprise.

In a series of interviews, Swedish academics, a politician and a high ranking police officer have spoken to MailOnline about the multi-faceted crisis, describing a nation at crisis point that is ill equipped to tackle the scale of the violence.

Jale Poljarevius, a senior police officer and chief of intelligence for Sweden's Mitt region, described the 'deadly violence' as being 'very serious' to MailOnline.

He said that although gang violence today has improved slightly from 'Black September,' when a new flare-up in violence will come can be unpredictable.

'That was a bad period in Sweden – September to October last year. Today it's a little bit better, but it's very insecure still because it can turn on and start with a new wave of violence at any time,' he said.

'Sometimes we make arrests of gang members and when they are put away, a vacuum opens, and then new gang members try to take over,' he said. Then 'they are fighting each other and you have new shootings and a new explosion of violence.'

Deadly violence linked to feuds between criminal gangs has escalated in recent years against the backdrop of high levels of migration into the country.

Hundreds of shootings and several bombings have been carried out - with a shooting earlier this week resulting in the death of an award-winning rapper named C. Gambino. Police - who say 62,000 people are linked to criminal networks in the country - have said they suspect the attack was gang related.

Meanwhile, Sweden's share of non-western population grew from 2 percent to 15 percent in just 20 years.

Mafia groups abroad have called the country a 'haven' for their activities, while organised crime groups have infiltrated business sectors and found ways to smuggle military-grade weapons into the country.

In response, Swedish police have been given new powers - such as the ability to declare 'visitation' or 'safe zones' in which officers have more temporary powers to increase their presence, and to search people, homes and vehicles.

But many, including within the government, have gone as far to call on a full closure of Sweden's borders to asylum seekers.

It is easy to see why some are calling for drastic measures. September 2023 was a particularly bloodthirsty month, with over 40 violent episodes and 12 deaths recorded in just 20 days - earning the moniker 'Black September'.

In all of 2023, 53 people were killed in shootings across Sweden, which is home to around 10.5 million people. In 2022, that figure stood at 62 - and Stockholm's per-capita murder rate was roughly 30 times that of London's.

The killings have turned Sweden, seen for many years from the outside as a peaceful Scandinavian welfare state, into the European Union's gun-homicide capital.

Gangsters carry out personal vendettas against each other - or hire youngsters to do their dirty work. Almost half the suspects in the gun-related murders in 2022 were aged between 15 and 20 - youngsters who have been groomed by gangs that are, statistics show, largely run by second-generation immigrants.

Young hitmen have admitted to being hired to shoot and kill rivals, being paid as much as a million krona (around £73,000) to do so, or as little as a few thousand.

Experts say the violence has been driven by a number of factors: Turf wars between gangs, a growing drugs market, an influx of guns into the market, growing inequality, high level of immigration and also a failure of migrant integration into society.

But gang activity in Sweden is not limited to street violence and drugs. Organised crime has also taken hold in the country, with many gangs also committing fraud.

The overall issue has led to uncomfortable debates.

The wealthy state has taken in more asylum seekers escaping the Middle East and the Balkans than many other European countries over the past three decades.

This has emboldened right-wing politicians in the country while leaving those on the left feeling nervous about vilifying immigrants and other vulnerable communities.

Some argue that there is a direct link to migration and gang crime in the country, while others argue that it is the unequal conditions in which migrants and others are either placed in or are raised in that push youngsters towards gangs.

Nevertheless, both sides tend to agree that there has been a failure to integrate many new arrivals into the country at a time when there is a growing inequality gap.

How to tackle the issue remains divisive.

Violence has begun to spread into more affluent areas of Sweden, but it is still deprived migrant communities that are seeing the worst of the killings.

Many of the immigrants who enter Sweden end up in these suburbs, meaning first, second and third generation migrants are brought up in satellite towns and council estates that are segregated on the outskirts of the country's main cities.

There, people have fewer economic prospects, increasing social inequality and, as a result, find it more challenging to integrate into society. Gangs often fill that void.

These are ideal conditions for gangs to recruit, with statistics showing that most gang shooting suspects are young men with foreign background - and are often first or second generation immigrants, and therefore Swedish citizens.

Göran Adamson, a political consultant and associate professor with a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE), told MailOnline that there is a clear link between migration and the gang crime in Sweden.

Pointing to his 2020 study 'Migrants and Crime in Sweden in the 21st Century', he said someone with a migrant background can be two, three or even four times more likely to be involved with or a suspect in criminal activity than an average Swede.

'When some people say there is no connection between migration and crime, they are not telling the truth,' he said, adding: 'The data from the crime prevention agency tells us this [...] these are just the bare bones statistics.'

He continued: 'In the suburbs, there is a lot of shooting and a lot of killing going on and its mostly gang related. I would say 99 percent gang related.

'When someone is shot - if someone who is under 20 - is shot or two people are shot in a suburb of Stockholm, you can almost count on them being members of one gang who are killing members of another gang, but these are still young guys.'

Manne Gerell, an associate professor of criminology at Malmo University, told MailOnline that generally, crime in Sweden is trending downwards.

He said the country does have a 'very big problem with violence' largely limited to gangs. Now, though, more people are being caught in the crossfire as turf wars and vendettas spill out from Sweden's marginalised suburbs.

GROWING CONCERN
Unsurprisingly, the violence has left many Swedes concerned.

Swedish newspapers regularly splash stories about gangland attacks on their front pages, and political parties promising a tough response are risen in popularity.

One such party is the Sweden Democrats - a party born out of a neo-Nazi movement at the end of the 1980s which has pivoted in recent years to be a more mainstream political party. It now forms part of the ruling conservative coalition government.

Like Adamson, Charlie Weimers - a Swedish MEP and member of the party, said there is a clear link between migration and gang crime.

'This is why my party has a zero asylum policy for Sweden,' he told MailOnline. 'We must give ourselves the breathing room to start dealing with these problems, because they are systemic and threaten the basic functions of Swedish society.'

Weimers continued: 'In this gang related criminality you have everything from street thugs - who kill for £50 - to very well organised criminals who infiltrate municipalities in order to control welfare payments and other functions of municipalities.

'The first problem - the street problem - is on the news every evening.

'But the latter problem is threatening the basic function of society, the stability of Sweden as a state, because it is then turning into more of a classic mafia. Historically that's been very hard to root out and we need to try to stop this before it's too late.'

The violence has led to many asking: what has led to the rise in gang attacks?

'Sweden had been guaranteed peace, order and quiet for a long time,' Police officer Poljarevius said. 'You take this for granted.

'But when you combine unsuccessful integration and - from late 1990s – globalisation, we have migration that has not been [handled well],' this causes issues, he said. 'In Sweden you must have some sort of normal migration, but the rates have been very high in Sweden during the 1990s and start of the 2000s.'

He also said that police have not been able to keep up with the technical advances being made by gangs .

'Technical development and digitalisation - criminal gangs are using that,' he said.

'Police forces have not been as successful in integrating our systems or our ability to fight crimes with the technical part. So this gap between ability to commit crime and capability to fight crime has just increased for many, many years.'

Similarly, Adamson said Swedish society has not been set up to handle the level of crime.

'Everything in Sweden has been tailor made for a situation with much less crime,' he said. 'Sweden has been tailored to cope with around 25 percent of the murder rate we have. Some say we need to build many more prisons and we need to change the structure of the legal system, but these things take 10 years or 20 years.

'There's a huge backlog. We are not prepared for this, and we keep being unprepared for the escalating violence, which means we can't handle it properly.'

Adamson said a lawyer acquaintance has warned the system could collapse under the strain 'because we simply have no means of coping with the rapid increase of serious crime, and we don't know what's going to happen after that.'

Police say much of the recent violence was down to a drug gang known as 'Foxtrot' - led by notorious leader Rawa Majid, 'the Kurdish Fox' and based in Uppsala - and the fallout after it split into smaller groups.

Majid fled to Turkey in 2018 and fell out with his right-hand man Ismail Abdo, aka 'Strawberry'. Amid the bloodthirsty feud, Abdo's mother was shot dead - also in September 2023, also in Uppsala.

Speaking in April 2022, Sweden's then-Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson proclaimed that migrant integration in the country had failed, and that it had in turn led to parallel societies forming and gang violence escalating.

Since then, a general election was held in September 2022 and swung to the right, with a minority government forming under Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.

The right-wing coalition vowed to crack down on violence by tightening migration policies, doubling prison sentences for offences committed in 'gang environments', widen the use of electronic surveillance and even deport criminals who are not Swedish citizens.

PM Ulf Kristersson reiterated this after the spate of killings in September 2023.

'The wave of violence is... unprecedented in Sweden, but it is also unprecedented in Europe, no other country has a situation like the one we have,' he said at the time.

'Political naivety and cluelessness have brought us to this point. Irresponsible immigration policy and failed integration have brought us to this point.

'Exclusion and parallel societies feed the criminal gangs, providing space for them to ruthlessly recruit children and train future killers. Swedish legislation is not designed for gang wars and child soldiers. But we are now changing that,' he vowed.

Gerell, too, said there was 'no denying' a connection between the violence and migration, but he noted that many of the migrants involved in gang violence are second or third generation immigrants having been born in Sweden.

'I think you can make a distinction,' he said. 'It might be because of migration, and [it might be] because of failed integration, because most of the people involved in this violence were born in Sweden, so they were not migrants - their parents were.'

But, he said, 'you can't really deny the fact that most of both the victims and the perpetrators of this gang violence have a foreign background, so there is a connection to immigration and/or integration, which I think cannot be denied.'

There is something about Sweden, however, that appears to set it apart from other countries, Gerell said. He pointed to Germany, saying that while the country to Sweden's south has also seen high levels of immigration, 'shootings are going down'.

So what sets Sweden apart? 'It's really hard to tell,' he said.

'I do believe that immigration, integration, segregation is part of the answer, but it cannot be the whole answer.'

'I think another partial explanation might be that the Swedish government and Swedish agencies, and particularly the police, took too long to respond to these problems and let them grow too strong and too powerful - these criminal networks.'

Adamson said that while Swedish people typically have a high level of trust in the state, migrants - many of whom live in segregated communities - have less.

'If you come from a culture where the state is very weak then you have other structures - you have your family, you have your extended family, you have your clan, you have your tribe - and you care very little about the state, people it makes more sense to join a gang because the gang is where you have your affiliation, where you have your trust and honour and then you can fight against the state,' he said.

'You see the state as your enemy, and then if your state is also your enemy, it's OK to abuse the state and to try to get money from the state.'

MEP Weimers said that 'policies in Sweden were unusually soft. Crime policy, for instance, and policing.'

'[These policies were] created for a very cohesive country - a homogeneous country - which had one of the world's highest degrees of social trust. The system was not built for dealing with these kind of problems, and that has been exploited.'

He pointed to a report from April in which a journalist in Montenegro had gained access to hundreds of thousands of messages sent between criminals, in which they described Sweden as a 'haven' for their activities. 'This is how criminals have viewed our country due to our very lax policies on crime,' Weimers said.

'That was one of the most important reasons why my party grew and why we were able to form a new Conservative government in 2022, but ever since the 60s, Sweden has had a combination of soft crime policy, multiculturalism and mass migration - and this has put Sweden in this situation.'

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The toddler diplomats – Spain, Norway, and Ireland
[IsraelNationalNews] When the governments of Spain, Norway, and Ireland together announced that they would recognize a state of "Palestine," they assumed a responsibility as patrons to the putative 23rd Arab nation. It was a bold move, but it was all for show. They are out of their league and lack the ability to contribute in any meaningful way to the establishment of a new nation. Spain can't even find Spanish diplomats willing to live in Ramallah to staff its new embassy in the capital of "Palestine."

Spain, Norway, and Ireland share some common experiences that may shed light on their Palestinian Arab advocacy and contempt for Israel.

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Olde Tyme Religion
Ben Shapiro And John MacArthur Discuss Church, Jesus, And A Return To Biblical Morality
[WIRE] Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro and Christian Pastor John MacArthur called for a return to biblical morality amid plummeting church attendance across the United States in the latest episode of the Sunday Special.

The two discussed the decline of religiosity in America and how many churches have twisted the Bible to be more in line with woke culture. They also discussed how modern secularists have embraced moral relativity and rejected any claim of a higher power.

During the conversation, Shapiro asked MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, how people looking for a biblical truth "determine what is a Bible believing church that’s worth their time versus a church that maybe has a Pride progress flag hanging off the door and claims to be speaking in the name of the Gospels."

"A church that is faithful to scripture, a synagogue that is faithful to scripture, bears moral authority," MacArthur said. "I mean, it exists to say, ’this is what the Lord has said. This is what God requires.’ This is divine mandate. This is the morality that leads to blessing and disobedience. And disregard for this morality leads to cursing."

MacArthur added that many in America wanted to live by their own standards of morality and not have any authority over them.

"The bottom line is, if you’re living in the culture that we’re living in, where you want absolute freedom to do anything you choose to do, to establish your own set of rules, your own truth, your own standards of morality, the last thing you want is to step into some place that’s going to call into question everything you’re choosing to do in your life and is going to exercise authority over you," he said.

The two also discussed the person of Jesus Christ, who many Americans have twisted into a generic hippy-type figure, Shapiro noted. He said that modern secularists tried to turn Jesus into a "bizarre pacifist with nothing of morality to say."
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Science & Technology
Law Professor Dr. Francis Boyle, Who Drafted the 1989 Biological Weapons and Antiterrorism Act, Claims COVID-19 mRNA Injections are Weapons of Mass Destruction in New Affidavit
[Gateway] Dr. Francis Boyle, a Harvard-trained professor and the architect of the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act, which was unanimously approved by both Houses of the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush, has issued an affidavit declaring COVID-19 mRNA vaccines as biological weapons and weapons of mass destruction, Dr. Joseph Sansone first reported.

Dr. Boyle’s affidavit, which was submitted as part of an emergency petition for a writ of mandamus in Florida, argues that the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines violates several statutes, including the U.S. Code on Biological Weapons and Florida’s statutes on weapons and firearms.

This petition, aimed squarely at Governor Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody, calls for an immediate halt to the distribution of these injections in Florida and demands the confiscation of existing vaccine supplies.

According to Dr. Joseph Sansone, the original Emergency Petition for a Writ of Mandamus was filed on March 3rd, 2024, in the Florida Supreme Court. It was later transferred to the Circuit Court in Leon County on March 20th, 2024. After the Circuit Court dismissed the case on April 9th, 2024, it moved to the appellate court. The Appellate Brief was filed on Memorial Day, May 27th, 2024.

Dr. Boyle, one of the world’s leading legal experts on biological weapons, has added considerable weight to the case with his affidavit. The case already boasts a substantial body of evidence provided in the writ of mandamus, including affidavits from med-legal advisor and biotech analyst Karen Kingston and Ana Mihalcea, M.D., PhD.

According to Dr. Sansone, the pleadings claim that the distribution of these injections violates several laws, including:
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