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Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio Receives
Record 22-Year Prison Sentence for Capitol Riots

Former Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio received 22 years in federal prison on Tuesday, a record-high sentence for the January 6, 2021, defendants.

Tarrio’s 22-year sentence surpasses Oath Keepers founder Steward Rhodes and former Proud Boys leader Ethan Nordean’s previous record-high 18-year prison sentence.

The 39-year-old was not in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, due to his arrest in the city two days prior for allegedly defacing a Black Lives Matter banner. After his arrest, a judge ordered him to leave the nation’s capital, so Tarrio spent the majority of January 6, 2021, at a Baltimore hotel.

However, prosecutors said Tarrio’s absence from the city on that day “does nothing to detract from the severity of his conduct,” because he “was a general rather than a soldier.”

Federal prosecutors said Tarrio is a “gifted communicator who excels at attracting followers” who “used those talents to inflame and radicalize untold numbers of followers, promoting political violence in general and orchestrating the charged conspiracies in particular.”

“To Tarrio, January 6 was an act of revolution,” prosecutors added.

Tarrio was one of four Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy after a trial in May. Judge Timothy Kelly applied a terrorism sentencing enhancement, as he did with some of Tarrio’s co-defendants.

Tarrio’s attorney, Sabino Jauregui, fought back against the terrorism label, arguing that Tarrio is a “misguided patriot.”

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Trump Courts United Auto Workers
Biden’s Electric Car Agenda Will Kill
Michigan Auto Industry, Boost China

President Joe Biden’s green agenda, which includes moving to electric vehicles (EVs), will kill Michigan’s auto industry and boost China, former President Donald Trump warned on Monday in a post courting United Auto Workers (UAW) members.

“The Great State of Michigan will not have an auto industry anymore if Crooked Joe Biden’s crazed concept of ‘all Electric Cars’ goes into effect,” Trump said in a Monday Labor Day post on Truth Social, warning that such a move would hurt Americans and boost China.

“CHINA WILL TAKE IT ALL, 100%. United Auto Workers, VOTE FOR TRUMP,” he said courting members of the labor union.

“Get your leaders to ENDORSE ME, I WILL KEEP ALL OF THESE GREAT JOBS, AND BRING IN MANY MORE. CHOICE IN SCHOOLS, AND CHOICE IN CARS!!!” he exclaimed.

The UAW has gone after Biden over his “green energy” agenda, pointing to the wage-cutting outcomes. Due to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, major automakers get tax credits for EVs made in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Once again, UAW President Shawn Fain said, workers lose as “the ‘Big Three’ automakers, Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, are taking billions of dollars in government subsidies to go electric.”

Austin Cops Tell ‘Unfortunate’ Robbery Victims
to Dial Non-Emergency Number amid Rampant Crime

Police in Austin, Texas, are asking residents to call 311 if they become victimized by robbers as crime plagues the leftist-run city, Fox News reported Monday.

“Did you get robbed on your way back from a bank or ATM? Call 3-1-1 or make an online report,” the Austin Police Department said in an infographic shared Friday:

Even if you are cautious & follow all the safety advice, you may still become the unfortunate victim of a robbery. Do you know what your next steps should be?
Make a police report & provide as much information as possible so we can recover your property quickly and safely.

The number 311 is typically for non-emergency calls, the Fox News article noted, adding the directive was shared as the state’s capital city suffers from rising crime.

To make matters worse, Austin is facing a police officer shortage as current and former officers cite hostility towards law enforcement and conservatives as the reason behind the problem, according to a report from March.

It is important to note the Austin City Council caved to the leftist “defund the police” movement in 2020 and cut the budget by $150 million after the death of George Floyd. In addition, leaders also slashed 150 police officer positions out of the budget.

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Castro Regime Forbids Traditional Evening Catholic Procession

The Castro regime has forced the local community to celebrate the procession at an earlier hour instead, when the sun and heat conditions are “overwhelming,” according to the Catholic priest.

The Vatican declared Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre as Patroness of Cuba in 1916. Cuban Catholics mark September 8 as the feast day of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The traditional procession is part of the yearly celebration of Cuba’s patron saint, which includes a solemn Mass followed by a series of processions with the image of the Virgin across several towns in the nation, which the faithful accompany with prayers.

On his Facebook account, Priest Pías said on Friday that the local parish in Esmeralda was scheduled to celebrate an evening Mass and then carry out the procession, as per tradition – but the Castro regime imposed a restriction that the procession cannot take place at night, with “no explanation, no appeal possible.”

“The [Cuban Communist] Party has spoken, the Party has decided, and its decision admits no reply, either it is accepted or there is no procession, even at an hour when the sun and the heat are oppressive,” Pías wrote.

Pías, a staunch critic of the Castro regime’s communist indoctrination of children in schools, lambasted the regime for the lack of respect for religious freedom in Cuba and its continued control of any activity deemed “suspicious.”

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Communist Castro Regime to “Dismantle” Human Trafficking Network
Sending Cubans to Fight for Russia in Ukraine

The communist regime’s announcement follows reports published last week indicating at least two Cuban teenagers accused Russian scammers of deceiving them with a fake construction job offer to coerce them into fighting in Ukraine.

In a statement issued by the Cuban Foreign Ministry on Monday, the Castro regime asserted that the alleged human trafficking network operates from Russia and involves “Cuban citizens living there, and even some from Cuba.”

“Attempts of this nature have been neutralized and criminal proceedings have been initiated against persons involved in these activities,” the statement reads.

The Russian government has not commented on the allegations at press time.

Cuba has been a longstanding ally of Russia. Much like the other two authoritarian regimes in the region – Venezuela and Nicaragua – it has openly expressed its support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla claimed last year that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “necessary” in response to the existence of NATO, despite Ukraine not being a member country of the organization.

Did you ever consider the possibility that a former dictator could become a  out of the blue?
Well, some people already did...

Chile: Actress Says Pinochet Vampire Movie ‘Necessary’ to Fight ‘Extreme Right’

The cast and crew behind the film El Conde (“The Count”), debuting at the Venice International Film Festival this week, said depicting late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a vampire was “necessary” because the “extreme right” was gaining ground around the world.

Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean general who took power via a coup ousting socialist Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. Pinochet’s dictatorship lasted until 1990 when he stepped down following a national vote to return to democracy and a subsequent presidential election. Patricio Aylwin became the first post-dictatorship elected leader of the country with no intervention on Pinochet’s part. The general died in 2006.

“Pinochet had never been portrayed in film or TV before,” Pablo Larrain, the director of El Conde, said during a press conference in Venice ahead of the film’s premiere on Thursday. “The approach we chose led us to combine elements of farce and satire.”

Pinochet appears in the movie as a 250-year-old vampire.

“It’s probably the only way [to depict Pinochet],” Larrain claimed. “If you avoid satire there is a risk of creating empathy, and that’s not acceptable.”

“This is a film that can start a national conversation,” actress Paula Luchsinger, who plays a nun in the movie, said. “There is a resurgence of the extreme right in Chile and this is a necessary film because it reminds us that Pinochet went unpunished.”

“It’s also necessary because the wind of the extreme right isn’t just blowing in Chile,” she added. “It’s blowing around the world.”

 They don't even know what they're doing by coming up with such a nonsense.

EUROPEAN NEWS

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Russia’s ‘General Armageddon’ Spotted for First Time Since Prigozhin Mutiny

Several Russian journalists on Monday published photos of Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the commander known as “General Armageddon” for his aggressive tactics who has not been seen in public since Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin launched his ill-fated mutiny in June.

“General Sergei Surovikin is out. Alive, healthy, at home, with his family, in Moscow. Photo taken today,” Russian media personality Ksenia Sobchak wrote Monday on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram.

Sobchak included a photo of Surovikin dressed in casual civilian clothes and walking through a garden beside a woman who appears to be his wife Anna.
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Venediktov said Surovikin was allowed to speak with his family shortly after the mutiny but has been held incommunicado ever since, possibly while President Vladimir Putin decides his fate.

Venediktov said Surovikin has been interrogated by a commission to weed out Prigozhin sympathizers, which was established by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the primary target of Prigozhin’s anger.

International media outlets could not confirm the authenticity of Sobchak’s photo, or when and where it was taken. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on Surovikin’s status at a press conference on Tuesday.

However, unnamed U.S. officials told the New York Times (NYT) on Tuesday they believe Surovikin has been released from the secret detention in which he has been held ever since Prigozhin’s mutiny. These officials said it was unclear whether Surovikin remains under some form of house arrest, or if he is still an officer in the Russian military.

So how long should we wait till Putin gets rid of Surovikin as well?

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Birmingham Mosque Has £2 Million Govt Grant Suspended
over Shocking Islamist Sermons

A £2 million government grant to a controversial Mosque has been suspended amid outcry over extremist Islamist statements made by its imams including apparently advocating for stoning women to death for adultery and waging jihad against unbelievers.

Social Investment Business, which initially green-lit £2.2 million in taxpayer money to build a youth centre at the Green Lane Masjid and Community Centre in Birmingham, has blocked the delivery of the grant while investigations are held into allegations of radical rhetoric being spouted in the mosque.

Last month, footage emerged from a sermon from Zakaullah Saleem, the mosque’s head Imam, appearing to show the Sheikh telling worshippers that women found guilty of adultery should be buried in the ground up to their waist in order to “protect her modesty” and then stoned to death, the Mail on Sunday reported.

The Imam was also reported to have called on the government to take “legal action” against the former Batley School Grammar School teacher who was forced into hiding with his family amid death threats in response to him showing his class a caricature of the Islamic prophet during a class on blasphemy.

Another Imam at the Green Lane Masjid, Abu Usamah al-Thahabi allegedly compared British ISIS bride Shamima Begum to young white girl victims of largely Pakistani grooming gangs in the north of England. Al-Thahabi was previously featured in a Channel 4 documentary in which he was recorded telling congregants that a “jihad” would soon come against the “kuffar” — a derogatory term for unbelievers.

Austria Breaks up Suspected Islamic State Terror Cell in Linz

Austrian security officials said Tuesday they have broken up a suspected terror cell linked to the Islamic State group that consisted of nine young men and one woman. One suspect was detained.

The investigations and interrogations carried out so far show that the suspects have an attitude that is between “fundamental Islamic” and “terrorist,” Austria´s domestic intelligence service DSN said in a statement. It did not reveal any further details about the suspects, saying it is still conducting further investigations.

The suspects, who are aged between 15 and 23 and live near the city of Linz in northern Austria, allegedly “have been recruiting for the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) and its criminal activities for a long time,” the intelligence service said.

“In addition, they planned to establish a mosque or prayer room under the sign of a decorative Taliban flag through missionary and recruitment activities,” the statement said.

The identities of the suspects were not given in line with Austrian privacy rules, but Austria’s APA news agency reported that the suspects are from Austria, Turkey, Iraq, Russia and Croatia or are stateless.

During house searches at the beginning of July, dozens of cell phones, laptops, PCs, other data carriers and propaganda material were seized.

The public prosecutor´s office in Linz ordered the detention of one of the suspects, an 18-year-old, on the grounds that there was a risk of him fleeing or committing crimes. The other suspects are under investigation.

Pope Francis: Vatican’s Relationship with China is ‘Very, Very Respectful’

Pope Francis said Monday that the Vatican is walking a “friendly path” with China, insisting that “relations are moving forward” on both sides.

“The relationship with China is very respectful, very respectful. I personally have great admiration for the Chinese people,” the pontiff told reporters aboard the papal plane returning to Rome from Mongolia.

The pope was asked why he urged Chinese Catholics to be “good citizens” after Beijing denied permission for Chinese bishops to travel to Mongolia for the papal visit.

“The channels are very open – for the appointment of bishops there is a commission that has been working with the Chinese government and the Vatican for a long time,” the pope stated in reference to a 2018 accord between the Vatican and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the naming of bishops.

Francis went on to underscore the fact that “there are many, or rather there are some, Catholic priests or Catholic intellectuals who are often invited to Chinese universities to offer courses” as evidence of Chinese goodwill toward the Church.

“I think we need to move forward in the religious aspect to understand each other better and so that Chinese citizens do not think that the Church does not accept their culture and values and that the Church is dependent on another, foreign power,” he added.
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Pope Francis has faced widespread criticism for his policy of appeasement with the CCP, demonstrated by his unwillingness to call out China’s egregious human rights violations toward the Uyghur Muslims and other groups.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

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Australian Lawmakers to Travel to U.S.
to Lobby Against Extradition
of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

A group of Australian lawmakers said Tuesday they would travel to Washington this month to lobby the United States to abandon its efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The delegation includes former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and five other lawmakers from across the political spectrum. Their trip is timed to draw attention to the issue ahead of a planned visit to the White House in late October by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Independent lawmaker and delegation member Monique Ryan told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. they represented a large group of lawmakers who feel “really, really strongly about the importance of securing Mr. Assange’s freedom.”

Ryan said Assange was in poor health which made the matter more pressing.

Assange, an Australian citizen, has spent the past four years in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison fighting extradition to the U.S. He has been charged with espionage for publishing classified military and diplomatic cables through WikiLeaks. If found guilty, he could face a sentence of up to 175 years in prison.

The effort by the Australian lawmakers is the latest in a series of international moves raising questions about the extradition. Pope Francis met with Assange’s wife Stella in June, which she said was evidence of his ongoing support for the family’s plight. In May, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced the lack of concerted efforts to free Assange.