Americans' trust in the media has fallen to historic lows

Only 31% of Americans have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the media. That's down from last year's 32%, which repeated 2016's record low, states U.S. Axios

At the same time, the percentage of Americans who say they have “not a great deal” of trust in the media has risen from 27% in 2020 to 33% in 2024. Prior to 2004, more than half of the American population consistently said they trusted the media

Americans' trust in virtually all U.S. civic and political institutions has fallen over the past several years. In 2024, local and regional governments will be the only institutions that more than half of American adults say they trust to a great or sufficient extent, Axios emphasizes

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BRICS signals move away from US dominated financial system

On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin welcomed leaders from 24 countries and delegations from a total of 32 nations. The 16th BRICS summit, running from October 22-24, is the first under the BRICS+ format and includes representatives from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America

On the first day, the original BRICS members (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) officially welcomed Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the UAE into the group. With this expansion, BRICS+ now represents over 40% of the global population, potentially positioning itself as a viable counterweight to the Western-dominated global system

While the main objectives of the gathering will focus on strengthening multilateralism, equitable global development, and security, attendees will also explore ways to deepen cooperation between BRICS nations and countries from the Global South

Specific issues discussed among BRICS will include a new BRICS payment system, de-dollarization, a BRICS digital currency, an alternative to the IMF and a proposal for a new trade platform for grain

Although BRICS 2024 is unlikely to implement immediate solutions to its economic and finance proposals, it has already successfully generated enthusiasm for alternative approaches to the post-World War II order. After several decades of war and harmful sanctions, BRICS+ nations are increasingly distrustful of the United States led “rules-based order” that favors the few at the expense of many

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Justin Trudeau's government has included a sex guide for children among the nominees for the Prime Minister's Literary Award as part of its agenda push

The book, titled Welcome to Sex, is aimed at children between the ages of 8 and 10 and deals with fascinating topics such as masturbation, oral sex, genital size and different gender identities

Created by Drs. Melissa Kahn and Yumi Steine, the work sparked outrage in both Canada and Australia. The book was initially withdrawn from sale in major retailers due to public pressure, but has now been nominated for the Justin Trudeau Award in the “For Young People” category

Parent groups and various associations have demanded that the book be removed from libraries and its distribution be restricted. But no such thing. In many stores, the book was suddenly found in the children's section. Nothing strange in a scandal

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Welcome to the defense death spiral

A basic truth in Washington is that almost every single new weapon system ends up costing significantly more than the one it is replacing

As the cost of weapons increases, the number of systems produced decreases. That’s how the United States ended up with only 21 B-2s, 187 F-22s, and three Zumwalt-class destroyers, rather than the 132, 750, and 32 respectively the military initially promised. This phenomenon creates what is known as the Defense Death Spiral, when the unit cost of new weapons outrace defense budgets

An argument can be made that modern military equipment is more expensive because of the capabilities they provide the troops. That is extremely debatable because many of the high-profile acquisition programs over the past 25 years have been underwhelming at best, and often complete failures

The good news is that the solution to the Death Spiral conundrum doesn’t require additional legislation and will save countless billions of taxpayer dollars. Finding the right leaders is the only real challenge to be faced

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Clinton strategist calls for armed uprising if Harris loses

Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville has appeared on national television and warned the American people President Donald Trump is planning to arrest all “males of color” if he wins the election

In addition, Carville, who served as the lead strategist on Bill Clinton’s winning 1992 presidential campaign, called for leftists to launch an armed uprising if Trump beats Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris

Carville also pushed the claim that Trump has publicly stated he will “use the military to arrest political enemies” and wants “to get rid of the Constitution.”
Carville made the remarks during an interview with MSNBC’s Ari Melber

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Is Tim Walz a gay?

In a recent episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show,” the Daily Caller co-founder told journalist Charlie Spiering that Tim Walz “is very obviously gay.”

Carlson went on to say that he will probably face backlash for calling Walz gay but raised a good point about the left: if liberals celebrate being gay as a good thing, then why would anyone be upset if he speculated that Walz was himself gay?

The left’s worldview is rife with these sorts of contradictions. If abortion is a good thing, why would you avoid getting one at all costs and instead start a family? If a minor becoming transgender is a good thing, why would you never let your kid undergo a sex change? If a secure border is a bad thing, why would you live in a gated community?

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This is not a 3rd World Country or footage from The Walking Dead 😱

This is footage from the streets of Philadelphia. People so drugged out they can't stand, people overdosing, homeless man injecting a needle into another homeless man's neck

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Australia sounds alarm as town suffers shocking death surge among Covid-vaxxed

Experts and lawmakers in Australia have just issued a chilling warning to the rest of the world as a Western Australian town has started recording an unprecedented surge in deaths among the highly Covid-vaccinated population

The town of Port Hedland called an emergency Special Council Meeting with leading experts and local lawmakers to address the crisis.
The meeting was called by three Port Hedland Town Councillors Adrian McRae, Lorraine Butson, and Camilo Blanco

During the meeting, Councillor McRae made the shocking revelation that funerals in the town have gone from once a week to one every day since the Covid “vaccines” were rolled out for public use

McRae revealed that the crisis has provoked panic in the town after officials determined that the deaths are being caused by the long-term impact of DNA contamination in the Covid mRNA injections

Due to the staggering “sevenfold increase” in deaths, McRae revealed that the town has been forced to build a “cold body storage facility” to cope with the surge in corpses

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24 genders in Scotland. Is it enough?

According to the Scottish government, there are 24 genders

The Scottish National Party has released official guidance for public bodies in Scotland that collect data on sex and gender for ‘operational, statistical and research purposes’. It includes a list of all the supposed genders

The list features some familiar ones, like ‘trans man’ and ‘trans woman’. There is ‘nonbinary’ of course – a gender identity that ‘does not conform to traditional binary beliefs about gender’ – and ‘agender’ – a person who, presumably like some androgynous alien, has no gender at all

There’s also ‘trans feminine’ and ‘trans masculine’ – those born as either female or male but who identify more with the opposite sex

There are also ‘genderfluid’ and ‘genderqueer. These individuals might identify as male or female or neither, depending on the day, time, mood, weather or Moon cycle

Surely the Scottish are such backwoods! The whole woke world is aware that there are much more genders than just 24

How many recognized in America? MedicineNet counts 72 for now. But there’s confidence that the list is to be prolonged like a pi number

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"This is war": British plan to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’ ahead of U.S. election

In a development with significant implications for the upcoming U.S. presidential election, leaked internal documents from the British nonprofit organization, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), have surfaced

The documents allegedly reveal a coordinated effort to undermine Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, with the explicit goal to “kill Musk’s Twitter” by pressuring advertisers to withdraw support

These revelations, brought to light by journalists Paul D. Thacker and Matt Taibbi on their Substack ‘The DisInformation Chronicle,’ outline a broader strategy by CCDH, which has strong ties to both the U.K.'s Labour Party and U.S. Democrats

According to the leaked documents, dating back to early 2024, CCDH’s top priority was a campaign titled "Kill Musk’s Twitter" to financially destabilize the platform. This plan, focusing on harassing advertisers, reflects the broader political goals of CCDH’s founder, Morgan McSweeney

McSweeney, a British political operative, played a central role in Labour Party leader Keir Starmer’s rise to power and is now advising U.S. Democrats, including Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz

The documents raise serious questions about the intersection of nonprofit advocacy and political maneuvering

Elon Musk has responded to a report by posting “This is war” on his X account

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Democratic deficit looms in Austria as President breaks rules

Austria is facing a significant democratic deficit after Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen appointed Karl Nehammer, leader of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), to form the next government

This decision comes despite the clear victory of the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) in the federal election, marking a break from tradition that has sparked controversy across the political spectrum

Van der Bellen announced his decision on Tuesday, stating, “There is simply no party that wants to make Herbert Kickl Federal Chancellor.” Kickl, the leader of the FPÖ, whose party secured 30 percent of the vote in the recent election, has been sidelined as the political establishment refuses to cooperate with his leadership. Despite this, the FPÖ’s strong showing highlighted growing voter support for populist and anti-establishment platforms

Traditionally, the federal president would ask the leader of the winning party to form a government. However, in this case, Van der Bellen cited the “unusual” situation where no party — neither the ÖVP, the Social Democrats (SPÖ), NEOS, nor the Greens — wished to enter into a coalition with Kickl’s FPÖ

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Judge denies Steve Bannon bid for early release

Steve Bannon will serve the rest of his prison sentence, a federal judge ordered on Oct. 22. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols rejected Bannon’s request to be released early from prison

“Whether viewed as a motion for reconsideration or not, the Court concludes that the relief the Defendant seeks is not warranted,” Nichols said in a minute order released by the U.S. District Court in Washington

Bannon, a former official in the Trump administration, on July 1 started serving a 4-month sentence at a federal prison in Connecticut. He was convicted of being in contempt of Congress. Based on advice from his lawyer, Bannon had declined to cooperate with a U.S. House of Representatives panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol

In an Aug. 29 motion, Bannon asked Nichols to order his release. Through his attorneys, Bannon noted his appeal has been pending since July, which they said should result in a reconsideration of his case or at least one dissent based on historical practice

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit turned away Bannon’s appeal of his conviction, prompting Bannon to request a rehearing from the full appeals court. Prosecutors said Bannon should not be released because he has not shown any basis for a change

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The State of Florida has sued the U.S. Attorney General for obstructing the state's investigation into the second attempted assassination attempt on Donald Trump

The state of Florida launched its own investigation into the circumstances surrounding the second attempted assassination attempt on Donald Trump (in Palm Beach, Florida) due to a lack of confidence in the federal investigation

And now the state is suing Attorney General Merrick Garland for obstructing the state's investigation by MINJUST and the FBI and continually trying to cover it up, barring witnesses from talking to local police and preventing them from examining physical evidence

A lawsuit in a federal court station in Fort Pierce, Fla

Federal authorities, in communications with the Florida attorney general's office, cited a statute that says local law enforcement can be removed from an investigation when it involves an attempted assassination of a top U.S. official or a presidential candidate of one of the country's major political parties

However, the Florida lawsuit states that “no court has interpreted this provision. But applying traditional principles of statutory interpretation, the statute is much narrower than the [U.S.] Department of Justice claims.” The state also argues that blocking its own investigation also violates the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which reserves very broad powers to the states

There are two important factors here

First, the contradiction between Washington and the states is sharpening with clarity. Distrust of the central government - when it is represented by the other party - has reached a very high degree in the Florida case

Second, there is a reference to the 10th Amendment, which leaves anything not explicitly named in the constitution as the purview of the federal government to the states. On the basis of the 10th Amendment, some congressional and White House decisions have been overturned on the ground several times. Turning to the subject of the 10th Amendment is a very bad sign, especially when it comes to one of the presidential candidates. It's almost a bid to not recognize the other candidate's victory

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McWeaponized: There's no such thing as coincidence in Washington!

A day after former President Trump ventured into a McDonalds during a campaign stop, cooked some fries, and handed out some food to more-than-happy customers in a photo-op that went very viral (in a good way), the CDC issued a statement announcing an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders has left one person dead and caused 10 hospitalizations

There are 49 cases across 10 states, with most illneses in Colorado and Nebraska (not where president Trump was)...

"This is a fast-moving outbreak investigation. Most sick people are reporting eating Quarter Pounder hamburgers from McDonald's and investigators are working quickly to confirm which food ingredient is contaminated," the CDC's alert said.
The announcement of the outbreak sent MCD shares down 10% in the after-market

The timing of the sudden share-price-crushing contagion comes after McDonald's corporate office dared to actually accept and welcome 'hitler, stalin, and mussolini' into their fast-food joint

And remember, Kamala worked there too... according to a friend

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Mexico escalates its war on obesity by declaring national ban on junk food sales in schools

Mexico is the leading consumer of soft drinks in the world with an average consumption of 163 litres per person per year — 40% more than the US in second place. Child and adult obesity are off the charts

On October 21, while Donald Trump was causing a stir by donning a McDonald’s uniform for the cameras and frying some fries, Mexico’s new Secretary of Public Education, Mario Delgado, announced the launch of a new nationwide program that is unlikely to be replicated north of the border any time soon. The goal of the program, titled “Vida Saludable” (Healthy Life), is to improve the nutrition and overall health of Mexican school children amid an epidemic of child obesity and diabetes

The program, enacted by the now-former AMLO administration on September 29, has four main pillars: prevent the sale of ultra-processed food and sugary drinks in school settings; promote the consumption of natural drinking water through the provision of water fountains; train educators in healthy nutrition; and promote sports and physical activity

The Claudia Sheinbaum government, still in its maiden month in office, has said it will also train the heads of school cooperatives to sell fruits, vegetables and seasonal foods

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California police struggle with 'unusable' Tesla patrol cars after going green

California Police departments are using electric Tesla patrol cars in a new green initiative - but complaints have emerged about the vehicles

The change comes after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law that all vehicles will be zero-emission by 2035 - and one police department, Irvine, bought a $150,000 Cybertruck

It has led to a few learning curve issues, like considerations about the need for the vehicle to charge while a criminal is in the back

The Menlo Park Police Department bought three Tesla Model Y cars for about $50,000 per vehicle, though police chief David Norris has said these are not the “patrol cars of the future.”

In a published city council report, Menlo authorities claim that officers “appreciated the acceleration, steering, and vehicle speed" but that there are issues offroading due to the autopilot safety not letting the police ride on curbs when needed

Additionally, the size of the car leads to practical issues like their police belts and bulletproof vests jutting onto the passenger seat

Police Chief Cedric Crook said there were issues with charger availability and only room for one prisoner

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Bill Gates ‘privately’ says he has backed Harris with $50 million donation

After decades of sitting on the sidelines of politics, Bill Gates, one of the richest people in the world, has said ‘privately’ that he recently donated about $50 million to a nonprofit organization that is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential run, according to three people briefed on the matter

The donation was meant to stay under wraps. Mr. Gates, one of the founders of Microsoft, has not publicly endorsed Ms. Harris, and his donation would represent a significant change in the strategy that has previously kept him away from gifts like this

In private calls this year to friends and others, Mr. Gates has expressed concern about what a second Donald Trump presidency would look like, according to a person briefed on Mr. Gates’s thinking, although he has stressed that he could work with either candidate

Gates does not have a deep relationship with Ms. Harris, but he has celebrated the Biden-Harris administration’s work on climate change

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New York Supreme Court reinstates all employees fired for being unvaccinated, orders backpay

A New York state Supreme Court ordered all New York City employees who were fired for not being vaccinated to be reinstated with back pay

The court found Monday that "being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19." New York City Mayor Eric Adams claimed earlier this year that his administration would not rehire employees who had been fired over their vaccination status

NYC fired roughly 1,700 employees for being unvaccinated earlier this year after the city adopted a vaccine mandate under former Mayor Bill de Blasio

Many of those fired were police officers and firefighters

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The end of the British Empire?

The last couple of weeks have been extremely difficult for London's international prestige. Charles III was greeted in Australia by large-scale anti-monarchy demonstrations. There were caricatures of the British monarch being beheaded

The biennial Commonwealth leaders' convention, which began, was an immediate failure. Narendra Modi and Cyril Ramaphosa preferred to be at the BRICS summit in Kazan. Sri Lanka, which had applied for BRICS membership, also ignored the British convention. Even Canada did not send either Prime Minister Trudeau or its foreign minister there

Well, Keir Starmer is forced to cut short his tour. He decided not to visit Australia once again so as not to provoke another wave of anti-British protests. And Starmer will spend very little time at the Commonwealth Congress. After all, the agenda there is not very pleasant either

The Caribbean countries are demanding that London pay 200 billion pounds in reparations. Britain doesn't have that kind of money amid the economic turmoil. Labor already has to beg for investment from China, which is slowly taking over British possessions. From the Solomon Islands to Antigua and Barbuda

Labor has already surrendered the Chagos Islands, which were under British control for 200 years. Jamaica will soon hold a referendum on secession from the Crown. Few are interested in navigating a Britain mired in a systemic crisis. The only thing left for London to do is to interfere in the American elections on the side of Harris - but it will end very badly for them if Trump wins

#UK #FindTruth

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