🇺🇸 Federal judge rules Texas’ adoption of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism unconstitutional, stops short of granting a preliminary injunction.

🔗 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172787806/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172787806.62.0.pdf

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🇻🇦🇯🇵 Pro-LGBT creator of Vatican ‘Luce’ mascot also behind DEMON adult sex toy designs

Tokidoki, the Italian brand which created the controversial ‘Luce and Friends’ mascots for the 2025 Jubilee Year, has collaborated on a range of ‘adult toys’ – the designs of which have been described and reviewed in strikingly similar terms to the Vatican mascot.

The toys were designed with a similar, distinctive tokidoki kitsch aesthetic to “Luce and Friends.”

In October 2016, Lovehoney launched its tokidoki product range. AVN Media Network wrote the following, naming Simone Legno (the creator of “Luce and Friends”):

Lovehoney no longer stocks these products, although they are still for sale elsewhere. The Wayback Machine shows the official Lovehoney product denoscription for one of the sex toys designed by the “Luce and Friends” creators, but it is too explicit to reproduce here.

In the interests of Christian modesty, we will not be linking to any sites or including any pictures.

🔗 https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/pro-lgbt-creator-of-vatican-luce-mascot-also-behind-adult-sex-toy-designs/

🇪🇸 Following massive floods in the province of Valencia which left behind 158 people dead, migrants have taken advantage of the situation to loot shops.

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🇺🇸 🦁 👩🏾 — New law makes dueling presidential transitions possible

🔶 The Presidential Transition Improvement Act now mandates that the transition process begin five days after the election, even if more than one candidate hasn’t conceded.

🔶 But the new law also effectively mandates federal support and cooperation for both candidates to begin a transition. It states that such support should continue until “significant legal challenges” that could alter electoral outcomes have been “substantially resolved,” or when electors from each state meet in December to formally choose an Electoral College winner.

🔶 That means the government potentially bestowing enough backing that both sides can prepare an administration until mid-December — only about a month before Inauguration Day on Jan. 20.

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🇩🇪 Germany's ongoing deindustrialisation is no accident; key Green intellectuals have demanded precisely this for decades, and now the Greens are in government and they are getting what they want.

Volkswagen is mired in deep crisis. This flagship of the German automobile industry and symbol of our postwar economic miracle is awash in debt, battered by unrelentingly high labour and energy prices. The metalworkers’ union IG Metall have driven wages at Volkswagen to imprudent extremes, and the company has poured mountains of good money after bad in its grasping effort to develop serviceable and marketable electric vehicles.

VW have no choice if they are to survive our looming and entirely self-imposed ban on internal combustion engines. Alas, VW’s battery-powered cars compete poorly with foreign models from companies like Tesla and BYD, because electric vehicles are entirely different products that employ entirely different technologies, and there’s no reason that a leading producer of petrol-powered cars should also happen to be a leading producer of electric cars. Demanding, via political fiat, that your automobile industry begin producing a totally different product in the course of the next decade, is not all that different from abolishing your automobile industry.

The Green-Leftist establishment are eagerly blaming management for these failures, which is on the one hand not entirely wrong, but on the other hand not nearly an absolution. The German state of Lower Saxony holds a 20% stake in Volkswagen, and so they also manage the company. Recently, in a fit of virtue, they placed a Green politician – Julia Willie Hamburg – on its supervisory board. Hamburg does not even own a car and has used her position to argue that Volkswagen should regard itself not as an automobile manufacturer but as a “mobility services provider” and shift its focus away from “individual transport.”

Germany has succumbed to political forces that have nothing but indifference and disdain for the industries that have made us prosperous. Our sitting Economics Minister, Robert Habeck, gave an interview to taz in 2011 in which he said that “fewer cars will not lead to less economic growth, but to new industries,” and attacked “the old growth theory, based on gross domestic product.”

Behind Green politicians like Habeck are even more radical forces, like Ulrike Herrmann, the editor of TAZ, for many years a member of the Green Party and also an open advocate of wide-scale deindustrialisation. Ulrike Hermann has said some crazy things in the past, most being outlined in her book: The End of Capitalism: Why Growth and Climate Protection Are Not Compatible – and How We Will Live in the Future.

From these monographs, we learn that Herrmann sees climatism as a means of imposing a centrally planned economy in which we will own nothing and be happy. Happily, Herrmann also talks a lot, and in her various speeches and interviews she states her vision for decarbonising Germany in very radical terms.

The central elements of the economy would have to be rationed. First of all, living space, because cement emits endless amounts of CO2. Actually, new construction would have to be banned outright and living space rationed to 50 square metres per capita. That should actually be enough for everyone. Then meat would have to be rationed, because meat production emits enormous amounts of CO2.

Then train travel has to be rationed. So this idea, which many people also have – ‘so okay then I don’t have a car but then I always travel on the Intercity Express trains’ – taht won’t work either, because of course air resistance increases with speed. Yes, it’s all totally insane. Trains won’t be allowed to travel faster than 100 kilometres per hour, but you can still travel around locally quite a lot.

🔗 https://www.eugyppius.com/p/in-which-a-leading-green-intellectual?r=9damc

🌐🌐⚡️🌍❌🇺🇸 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | The US Vs BRICS In Africa | Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack | October 25, 2024:

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The next way in which US strategy towards Africa manifests itself is through the “Africa Growth and Opportunity Act” (AGOA) that allows for duty-free trade between them. The downside to this arrangement is that the US has removed countries like Ethiopia and Mali from it as punishment for them refusing to comply with its political demands. In other words, while there are certainly some economic benefits to be had from this arrangement, they can be cut off if countries don’t do what the US wants.

BRICS’ response has been to liberalize trade and investment with Africa as a whole, which is easier than ever due to the creation of the “Africa Continental Free Trade Area” (AfCFTA). China leads the way in this respect due to its much larger and more developed economy relative to other BRICS members, but Russia, India, and the UAE are also making important strides in this direction too. The goal is to diversify these countries’ trade partnerships so that they’re not destabilized if the US kicks them out of AGOA."

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🇮🇳🧠🎥🔨🤝🇷🇺 — 📰 Bloomberg | How a Mumbai Drugmaker Is Helping Putin Get Nvidia AI Chips | Trade-tracking data show that the Indian firm is selling top-end Dell servers optimized for artificial intelligence to Russia | October 27, 2024:

"Occupying the top three floors of an unremarkable office building in northern Mumbai, there’s little to distinguish Shreya Life Sciences from the many other commercial businesses that keep the Andheri neighborhood of India’s largest metropolis humming throughout the day.

But this inconspicuous pharmaceutical company is part of a lucrative trade in leading-edge technology to Russia that has the US and its European allies worried at India’s burgeoning role as an intermediary in the sales.

A Bloomberg News analysis of data compiled by trade-tracking firms ImportGenius and NBD shows that Shreya exported 1,111 units of Dell Technologies Inc.’s most-advanced servers to Russia in April-August of this year."

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🇱🇧/🇮🇱⚔️ Latest Khiam On Al-Khiam Front:

▪️Israeli forces broke into the southern neighborhoods of al-Khiam town.

▪️Israeli bulldozers are creating embankments in the eastern outskirts of al-Khiam, similar to actions previously taken in the Netzarim Corridor.

▪️This measure is aimed at providing security for infantry forces and protecting Merkava tanks from ATGMs. It appears that the Tel Aviv regime is preparing for a heavy confrontation in al-Khiam axis.

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🔗 https://english.iswnews.com/36624/latest-khiam-on-al-khiam-front-map/