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BIDENOMICS

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Biden Launches Nationwide Workforce Initiative — for Illegal Aliens

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has launched a nationwide workforce initiative that seeks to funnel millions of border crossers and illegal aliens into United States jobs — even as the labor force participation rate for Americans continues to decline.

On Wednesday, Biden’s DHS announced “a first-of-its-kind national campaign” to make millions of border crossers and illegal aliens, who have been released into the U.S. interior, aware that they are eligible for work permits to take American jobs.
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Hundreds of thousands of email and text notifications have been sent by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole, with additional notifications in Ukrainian and Russian planned in the coming days.

These notifications are the start of a government-wide effort to integrate newly arrived noncitizens into the American workforce … USCIS will also begin distributing flyers to local NGOs, stakeholders, and migrants to explain the [Employment Authorization Document] process and provide them with a QR code for instant access to the application.

Specifically, DHS officials said they are mostly connecting with border crossers and illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Ukraine who have been released into the U.S. interior to “remind them of their eligibility to apply for a work permit.”

Regardless of obtaining work permits, Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Director of Research Steven Camarota told the Washington Times that millions of illegal aliens are holding American jobs.

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) has estimated that Biden, in his first two years in office, has welcomed nearly four million border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities.

So they could have allowed Russians, pretending to be average Ukrainians, enter US soil just like that!?

Biden to Cancel Alaska Oil, Gas Leases Issued Under Trump

President Joe Biden’s Interior Department said it would cancel the oil and gas leases issued in the latter days of President Donald Trump’s administration.

Biden has said he would move to protect roughly 19.6 million acres in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for polar bears and caribou.

“As the climate crisis warms the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, we have a responsibility to protect this treasured region for all ages,” Biden said in a written statement.

Trump issued the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) seven leases right before Biden’s inauguration. The move is part of a larger strategy by which Biden has moved to cancel oil and gas exploration on public lands.

AIDEA said it would challenge the move.

“This latest action by the Department of the Interior shows arbitrary disregard for Federal law, based on campaign trail rhetoric. Campaign promises are not enough to justify this agency action,” AIDEA said in a statement.

Republicans slammed Biden’s move to develop oil and gas in Alaska.

“There is palpable anger and frustration among Alaskans about the Biden administration’s unrelenting assault on our economy and our ability to lawfully access our lands,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) said in a statement.

Biden’s Bureaucrats Linked to Open Borders Lobby, ‘Abolish ICE’ Movement

A review of bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) shows deep ties to the nation’s powerful open borders lobby and “Abolish ICE” movement, which seeks to end arrests and deportations of illegal aliens.

Most notably, CRCL Chief Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia was engrained in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology as the associate dean for DEI at Penn State Law in University Park and a director at the pro-amnesty National Immigration Forum.

Before joining CRCL, Wadhia suggested that perhaps even the most violent illegal alien felons, such as those convicted of murder, rape, and child abuse, should not be eligible for deportation solely because of their crimes.

Wadhia said in 2020:

I don’t know that any element of criminality should suffice to being a priority for enforcement, or even any felony for that matter, and I think that part of that has to do with how I view the role of prosecutorial discretion and the importance of looking at the whole person and equities.

Wadhia also previously advocated against using the term “illegal immigrant,” which is now written policy at the DHS thanks to orders from Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that require staff to use the term “noncitizens” instead.

Say what!?
Now they should let  serial killers and terrorists remain in the US and keep killing innocent people just because they should protect the criminals' rights at all costs!?

US NEWS

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Democrat Official Who Vowed
to Dismantle Minneapolis Police Department
Wants Justice for Carjacking

An anti-police Democrat party official in Minnesota wants tougher crime laws after being violently attacked during a carjacking in Minneapolis.

Shivanthi Sathanandan holds the position of second vice chairwoman for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), the New York Post reported Thursday.

She explained in a social media post on Wednesday what transpired during the incident:

Yesterday my children and I were violently car jacked in the driveway of our home in Minneapolis. Four very young men, all carrying guns, beat me violently down to the ground in front of our kids. The young men held our neighbors up at gunpoint when they ran over and tried to help me.

The men knew what they were doing, she continued, and there was no doubt in her mind they had done the same thing to other victims.
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Sathanandan then thanked police officers and others for coming to help.

Law enforcement confirmed the carjacking that happened in the Folwell area but have yet to arrest any suspects in the case.

According to the Post, Sathanandan said in a social media post three years ago that she and fellow activists were “going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department” because it had failed citizens.

NYC Mother Claims Son ‘Killed Instantly’ by Peloton Bike

A mother is suing the fitness company Peloton, claiming its exercise bike killed her son during a workout inside his Brooklyn home.

Johanna Furtado filed her lawsuit in New York and the document alleges her son Ryan was “killed instantly” as a result of the incident that happened in January 2022, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.

The woman says the bike fell on top of the man while he was lifting himself off the floor during an exercise routine.

Images show the man who was about to turn 33 in the days after he died, and the Mail report noted officers with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) found him with the bike laying across his face.
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In May, Peloton issued a recall for over two million exercise bikes across the nation due to safety concerns, Breitbart News reported at the time.

“The recall applies to approximately 2.2 million units of the Peloton Bikes Model PL01 sold in the U.S. from January 2018 until earlier this month,” the outlet continued:

The safety concern revolves around the potential risk of the seat post assembly breaking during use, which could result in falls and injuries. Peloton has reported 35 incidents of seat post breakage and detachment, leading to 13 reported injuries, including fractured wrists, lacerations, and bruises caused by falling off the bike.

NYC Approves ‘Mega Migrant Housing’ Project
in Abandoned Long Island Office Building

Mayor Eric Adams (D-NYC) and the New York City Council announced a massive new project to house 1,000 border crossers inside an empty five-story office building on Long Island.

The building on Austell Place, close to a train yard near Queens, has been designated a “humanitarian response and relief center” and is the city’s 16th large-scale migrant housing center, according to Crain’s New York.

The interiors of the top four floors of the five-story building will be rebuilt for housing, while the bottom floor will be designated as a community gathering spot, sources say.
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The city has taken over dozens of buildings, many of which were empty, others which were once for-profit hotels until the city contracted to take them over. Along with the 16 major housing facilities, the city has about 206 smaller facilities to deal with the flood of illegals.

But the shelters have cost the city untold millions of dollars in construction costs, too.

As Crain’s noted, many of these buildings needed heating, cooling, and water system upgrades or amendments to safety issues to accommodate the large numbers of illegals staying inside. In one case, an entire boiler room had to be rebuilt to provide an emergency egress up to building codes, new stormwater drains, and a new exterior entrance before the illegals were allowed to take up residence.

New York videographer Leeroy Johnson recently spoke to a group of illegals from Africa who entered the U.S. through the southern border, and they told Johnson that they were promised “a better life” and jobs if they came to America. They also said they wanted to send money to their home countries.

Rep. Matt Gaetz Blasts ATF for Allegedly
Retaliating Against Congressional Witness

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is blasting the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for allegedly retaliating against a Congressional witness.

In a letter to ATF director Steven Dettelbach, dated September 7, 2023, and shared exclusively with Breitbart News, Gaetz wrote:

It has come to my attention that yesterday, September 6, 2023, ATF agents once again aggressively targeted and harassed one of my constituent federal firearms licensees (FFL), Chris Smith of Gulf Coast Gun, this time apparently in violation of federal law. Chris has held an FFL in Florida for years with no issues, and yet the ATF has aggressively audited him without merit and accused him of various clerical errors in an attempt to have his FFL revoked. It is for this reason that Chris testified as a whistleblower before members of Congress.

Gaetz noted that the ATF’s visit to Smith’s business came after Smith provided testimony at Gaetz’s “Field Hearing on the Weaponization of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.”

He pointed out that Smith has only had his manufacturer’s license six months and has yet to use it for business; therefore the ATF agents were forced to leave Smith’s business empty-handed. He also indicated that the ATF had already audited Smith’s retail license within the last year “and it follows that given the ATF is forbidden from auditing the same business twice in one year, the only excuse the ATF had to further harass Chris, was to audit a new, unused manufacturer’s license.”

EUROPEAN NEWS

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17 Killed in Russian Missile Strike on Market, Ukraine Says

The Russian missile that struck Wednesday in eastern Ukraine turned an outdoor market into a fiery, blackened ruin where weeping civilians looked for loved ones among the mangled, burned bodies scattered across the ground.

The blast in the town of Kostiantynivka killed 17 people and wounded at least 32 in one of Russia’s deadliest strikes on civilians in months, Ukrainian officials said.

“There was no military target here. This is a peaceful neighborhood in the city center,” Stefan Slovak, who lives in Kostiantynivka, said in a trembling voice.

Behind him were the remnants of the market, where charred bodies could be seen in the street, their clothes still burning, near cars engulfed in flames. Behind a market stall holding fresh parsley, rescuers found a women in civilian clothes with her head covered in blood.

Asylum Applications to Germany up 77 Per Cent Over 2022

Initial asylum claims in Germany are soaring, both month-on-month over the summer but also compared to the same period last year, with the nation experiencing a considerable 77.2 per cent rise in arrivals.

There have been almost 205,000 initial applications from would-be asylum seekers in Germany this year between January and August, the latest periods for which the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) has published figures.

The total of 204,461 to date in this period in 2023 is a 77.2 per cent increase over the 115,402 recorded in January to August 2022, reports Die Welt. A University of Vienna academic has told Germany’s Tagespiegel that while it is hard to accurately predict migration numbers — especially as any number of foreign wars or revolutions could begin in the next five months, adding extra pressure on global northward migration — she believes it is conceivable there would be 300,000 applications this year.

Asylum applications continue to rise as the year goes on. There were 27,738 applications in August alone, which itself is up 17 per cent in two months over June.

Typically, the largest sources for these asylum applications profess to come from Syria and Afghanistan, but Turkey — a safe, wealthy, NATO-member state — is also in the top three for those seeking protection in Germany.

French Minister: E.U. Can Undermine Putin
by Cleaning Up Process for Countries to Join

The European Union should be bolder about the onboarding process for new member states to head off attempts by the Russian state to undermine pro-European sentiment in those nations, Brussels diplomats have said, a report claims.

Talking about European accession for potential member states but then not acting on it presents Russia with a motive and opportunity to sow division in those states intended to pull them towards Moscow’s orbit, two European diplomats have said in remarks reported by Politico. France’s Europe minister Laurence Boone said disinformation and interference was a real issue in what are called candidate countries, which she believes Russian President Vladimir Putin deliberately encourages to “weaken the European Union”.

This is something the Union should “fight against”, she said, remarking “the most important thing is to send a steady message on these countries’ place in the EU”. By giving candidate nations a clearer position, the Union could use the expansion process to support neighbours rather than invite Putin to undermine them, she said.

There are nine nations which are either candidates or applicants for European Union membership of varying degrees of advancement in the process. All have former history as Soviet-aligned nations in the 20th century, some as outright Soviet Socialist Republics like Ukraine and others as new nations born out of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Even faraway Georgia, a Caucasus region nation on the far side of the Black Sea and whose capital is closer to Kabul than Berlin is an on-again-off-again prospective EU member state, has been under intensified Russian threat of late. Russia already militarily occupies two Georgian regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia which it claims are ‘breakaway’ regions it has spoken of absorbing into the greater Russian state, as it has already professed to do in Donetsk, Ukraine.

ASIAN NEWS

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Pakistan: ‘Large Group of Terrorists’ Storm
Border from Afghanistan, 16 Killed

The Pakistani military said Wednesday that its border forces repelled an attack from a “large group of terrorists” from Afghanistan. The invaders attacked two Pakistani outposts in the Kalash valley using the “latest weapons,” which is how Pakistani officials often refer to the American equipment abandoned in Afghanistan during President Joe Biden’s disastrous 2021 withdrawal.

Pakistan reported a total of 16 casualties during the “intense exchange of fire,” including four Pakistani soldiers and 12 terrorists.

The Pakistani military claimed it detected the “terrorists’s movement and concentration” on the other side of the border before the attack, and duly reported these movements to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan.

The Taliban apparently did little to thwart the attack, because Pakistan’s statement concluded by reminding the regime in Kabul of its obligation to “deny the use of Afghan soil by terrorists for perpetuating acts of terrorism against Pakistan.”

Responsibility for the attack was quickly claimed by Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the so-called “Pakistani Taliban,” a militant group with doctrinal similarities to the Afghan Taliban. TTP was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States in 2010.

North Korea Launches Nuclear Attack Submarine

North Korea claimed to launch its first nuclear attack submarine on Wednesday in a ceremony attended by a very excited Kim Jong-un, but the South Korean military quickly pointed out that the submarine does not appear operational or capable of carrying a heavy payload of nuclear missiles.
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Dictator Kim Jong-un gushed over the sub at its lavish launch ceremony, which came three days before the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Communist dictatorship. The corpulent dictator looked like the world’s most sinister child unwrapping an unexpected gift on Christmas morning:
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The sub was ostentatiously christened Hero Kim Kun-ok, the name of a famous North Korean naval officer from the Korean War. It appears to be a slight variation on a Russian Romeo-class diesel submarine design, with ten visible missile launch tubes.

The Romeo series was generally considered a failure for the Soviet Union, with a host of serious design and performance issues. The Soviets handed a number of Romeo subs over to China, which, in turn, passed about two dozen of them along to North Korea. Elderly Romeo subs are believed to be operated by the North Korean military to this day.

“These submarines will be equipped with a vast array of nuclear delivery vehicles of varying power and will be poised to launch preemptive and retaliatory strikes at any time underwater,” Kim boasted.

“The nuclear attack submarine, which has been a symbol of aggression against our nation for the past few decades, now symbolizes our threatening power that strikes fear into our unscrupulous enemies,” he said.

Kim said that “achieving rapid development of our naval forces,” including arming them with nuclear weapons, was important due to “the enemies’ recent aggressive moves and military acts.”