Corax
The Greek nationalist party the Spartans is banned by the Supreme Court from the European Parliament elections in June and eleven members of parliament from the party are under investigation on suspicion of being controlled by the former spokesman of the now-banned Golden Dawn party, jailed Ilias Kasidiaris
World
Russia will not let a US decision to confiscate Russian assets go unanswered and that the confiscation undermines the principle of private and state property according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the statement comes after the US Congress approved a possible transfer of assets to Ukraine
Michael Kabuni, lecturer in political science at the University of Papua New Guinea, says Joe Biden's claim that his uncle, Ambrose J Finnegan Jr, was eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea when he crash-landed there and the body was never recovered, is offensive, not because of the cannibalism which is a fact but that the president implies that the islanders thought it would have been a good meal
Norway and the US are building a satellite station on the island of Andøya in northern Norway, where a base for long-range drones is also planned, located 800 kilometers west of the capital of Russia's Northern Fleet, Severomorsk, outside Murmansk
The Canadian intelligence service CSIS says in a report that Pakistan and India probably tried to influence elections in Canada, the Indian influence is said to be in regards to concerns that diaspora Indians in Canada will be sympathetic to the Sikh separatist Khalistani movement or harbor pro-Pakistani political views
Miscellaneous
German-American businessman Karl-Erivan Haub was declared dead in 2021 after disappearing in the Swiss Alps in 2018 but is now suspected to be alive and his brother is being investigated for perjury at the death declaration after journalist says the disappearance may be linked to a Russian mistress and that there are photographs of him in Moscow from 2022
American philosopher Daniel Dennett dies at age 82, one of the so-called Four Horsemen of New Atheism alongside Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris and his 2003 TED talk "The Illusion of Consciousness" has been viewed more than four million times
The British pub Lower Red Lion in St Albans is being noticed for its sign that says animals are welcome but children not, after a photograph by a guest spreads online, owner David Worcester says they have had the policy for eleven years, that one child is enough to disturb the peace of customers and that all other pubs in the city are child-friendly
Chef Gordon Ramsey's York & Albany pub in central London is occupied by six professional squatters who barricaded themselves with kitchen equipment in connection with the temporary closure due to an upcoming change of partnership and put up a legal notice on the front door stating they have the right to stay
Former American football star O.J. Simpson, who became world famous after being charged with the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her new boyfriend and the subsequent trial 1995 in which he was acquitted, dies of cancer at the age of 76
The food museum in Rome, Museo della Cucina, exhibits more than 400 historical meals such as the lunch on the Titanic the day she sank, Fidel Castro's flight lunch during round trip to Mexico in 1960, the meal Hitler and Mussolini ate in Venice 1934 during their first meeting ever and Queen Victoria and emperor Alexander II meal in 1874 during their first meeting in 35 years
Media
X is ordered by the Federal Court of Australia to remove videos of last week's stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanueli in a Sydney church by Muslim teenager and is now being criticized by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for its refusal and the announcement that they will take it to court
Wikipedia spends more money on left-wing causes than running an encyclopedia, asks its readers for donations but has assets of USD 250 million, donates USD 24 million mostly to the left-wing organization Tides Foundation, which collects anonymous donations to pass on and, among other things, to Knowledge Equity Fund working to work against Eurocentrism and white male imperialist and patriarchal supremacy
Alexandre de Moraes, judge of the Superior Electoral Court of Brazil, starts investigation against Elon Musk who announced that he does not intend to comply with the Brazilian court order to censor accounts on X with a daily fee of almost 20,000 USD per account for failure of censorchip, Musk calls for impeachment or resignation of de Moraes
Sweden deports Chinese journalist Chen Xuefei Axelsson, resident in Sweden for 20 years and has as an editor at Green Post collaborated with Chinese intelligence and worked closely with the Chinese embassy
19-year-old Marco Troper, son of YouTube's former CEO Susan Wojcicki and nephew of 23andMe's founder and Sergey Brin's ex-wife Anne Wojcicki, is found dead in a dormitory on the UC Berkeley campus and according to grandmother Esther Wojcicki, he must have inhaled drugs and that they don't know what kind pending toxicology report
Politics
Protest movements generate attention online but have limited effects on political attitudes, researchers who studied protests in US from 2017 to 2022 say all had zero effect, except BLM protests after death of George Floyd which shifted views on race and benefited Democrats
Florida's governor Ron DeSantis (R) announces proposal to permanently ban Covid-19 mandates in the state, includes banning mask and vaccine requirements, prohibiting Covid passports in the state and prohibiting employers from hiring or firing based on vaccination status, also promises to
Jordan Bardella, 27, succeeds Marine Le Pen as leader of the National Assembly, says he wants to maintain continuity and build on the legacy of his predecessor
Vandals in New Zealand write LABOUR on election posters during local elections in the country last week to smear candidates from the party represented by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, party members call it an attack tactic, the right gains ground in most cities while the incumbent government plans to tax farmers for their climate impact
Greta Thunberg says that it would be a very bad idea for Germany to focus on coal power when the nuclear power plants are still in place, would be shut down this year but is still being debated within the German government, she also says that it is completely forbidden in Sweden to talk about reducing energy use and that people then say ‘Oh no, this is communism and so on’, which she says is completely insane
Liz Truss wins race to be elected leader of the ruling Conservative Party and the new UK prime minister, defeated former finance minister Rishi Sunak by 57% to 43% in the final runoff which was a smaller margin than opinion polling had suggested, the 47-year-old foreign minister campaigned as a tax-cutting, anti-woke candidate who would take a hard line on post-Brexit dealings with the EU
Opinion
Andrew Beck: Ten years ago, Javascript's creator, Brendan Eich, was forced out as CEO of Mozilla, which he co-founded, as a result of donations he made to lobby groups opposed to the legalization of same-sex marriage, which I felt at the time was a major escalation of the culture war and made me realize that the ideological conformity to the top-down, programmatic transformation of the country was all that mattered
Robin Hanson: Global monoculture is a dangerous mistake which is on track to repeat historical patterns of population collapse, centuries of minimal development and increasing illiberalism, no cultural counterforce has realistic chance of reversing the trends but high tech could prevent some of the problems ahead
Philip H. Dybvig: Speaking of Claudine Gay, most people's dream, especially the oppressed, seems to be to become oppressors, just like the strong correlation between those who abuse children and those who were abused as children, first they claim to represent the oppressed and then they destroy all counter-revolutions
Cremiux Recueil: Elites have distinctive genetics shaped by selection pressure, an effect that takes a long time to dissolve, Copts are relatively successful today and have been heavily selected when the cost of not converting to Islam was high, Jews were encouraged early to send their first born to school and discriminated Indians in Fiji were driven to focus on education
Europe
The hate speech charges against Finnish MP and former minister Päivi Räsänen following her 2019 tweet and 2004 pamphlet on same-sex marriage will be heard in the Supreme Court of Finland after being acquitted in two instances, she says the investigation has been going on for almost five years and has consisted of more than 13 hours of interrogation
Residents of the district Bulwell in Nottingham in England with a 2.7 percent Muslim population oppose the planned construction of a mosque and a woman at a meeting says she thinks they are now considered the local racists but that it feels like they are being driven out and that the area will be completely overtaken
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico's close ally, 48-year-old Peter Pellegrini, wins the Slovak presidential election with almost 54 percent of the vote against liberal, pro-Western candidate Ivan Korčok who received just over 46 percent
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says Russian spies have been working at the defense alliance's headquarters in Brussels and have now been expelled, Ukrainian security adviser Oleksiy Danilov says Russian spy networks are very active in Germany and five people are awaiting trial in Britain accused of spying for Russia
North America
US House of Representatives votes for additional USD 61 billion in aid to Ukraine, prompting Democrats to wave the Ukrainian flag in the chamber
Florida woman sentenced to one month in prison for stealing and reselling Joe Biden's daughter Ashley's diary, in which it says Joe and Ashley took "probably not appropriate" showers together and that she was hypersexualized at a young age
Baltimore's black mayor Brandon Scott says DEI, diversity, equality and inclusion, is used as racist term by people who don't have the guts to say the N word
Latin America
Argentina's President Javier Milei confirms his relationship with 43-year-old actress Fátima Flórez has ended after they started dating eight months ago, saying it is as a result of her overwhelming professional success as she has received numerous job offers in the US and Europe
Ecuadorian police raid the Mexican embassy in the capital Quito and arrest Ecuador's former vice president Jorge Glas, who is accused of corruption and bribery and sought political asylum at the embassy, leading to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador breaking diplomatic relations with the country
The local government of the province of La Rioja in Argentina defaults on debt payment of USD 26 million on Monday, the green bonds were issued after a restructuring in 2021 due to a default in 2020 and was mostly invested in wind farms, one of which was sold for USD 171 million, which in turn was then invested in two more wind farms
Asia
40-year-old man kills six people and injures three in a shopping center in Sydney, Australia in a knife attack and is shot dead on the spot by a female police, is not suspected to be an act of terrorism as the man previously known to the police
The candidate of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, William Lai, wins the presidential election in Taiwan, while mainland China views Lai as a separatist and urged Taiwanese voters not to vote for him
More than a third of unmarried Japanese under the age of 50 have never been in a relationship, according to research by Recruit Holdings Co. who since 2017 have conducted research on the topic, among men who do not want to get married the most common reason was the cost involved and for women it was that they did not want to compromise their freedom and independence
Africa
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi says in response to German authorities' proposal to limit the import of hunting trophies that they would like to offer 20,000 elephants to Germany and will not take no for an answer, says the number of elephants has increased explosively as a result of conservation efforts and that the country had to pay the price
Economy
Central bank of Zimbabwe launches the new currency Zimbabwean Gold, ZiG, said to be backed by USD 100 million in foreign currency reserves as well as 2,522 tonnes of gold, according to the head of the central bank the currency is being launched because of the instability of the Zimbabwean dollar exchange rate and the inflation and he says there is a need to restore trust
Donald Trump's media company Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns the social media platform TRUTH Social and went public on March 26 this year, reports a 2023 loss of USD 58 million and its stock is down as much as 26 percent on Monday, the IPO added nearly USD 4 billion to the former president's fortune
US production of oil in 2023 highest ever for a country for the sixth year in a row, according to a report by The Energy Information Administration, despite the fact that Joe Biden, as part of trying to accomplish his campaign promise to eliminate fossil fuels has signed 200 executive orders in regards to that
Sam Bankman-Fried is sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the fall of the crypto exchange FTX and the company Alameda Research in which clients lost deposits of 8 to 11 billion USD, lawyer Mark Mukasey said, among other things, that his client does not make decisions with malice in his heart but that he makes them with math in his head
Technology
The German state of Schleswig-Holstein replaces the Microsoft Windows operating system with Linux and the Microsoft Office software package with LibreOffice on its 30,000 computers, the Minister-President writes that they have no influence on such solutions and a possible outflow of data to third countries and that they have a great responsibility towards citizens and businesses to ensure that their data is kept safe and that they must ensure that they are always in control of the IT solutions
Data containing US telecom company AT&T's information on an estimated 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former customers is posted on cybercrime forum, the data includes name, address, phone number, birthday and social security number
Google's image generation program Gemini has a very difficult time generating white people regardless of the request from the user and on direct request to depict a white man the response is given that the request cannot be fulfilled as it specifies a certain ethnicity and that Gemini's aim is to create images that are inclusive and representative, product manager Jack Krawczyk has over the years written about systemic racism in the US and argued that white privilege is fucking real
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to raise USD 7 trillion to invest in increased semiconductor manufacturing capacity to facilitate the development of artificial intelligence
Science
Researcher Nathan Cofnas is fired from Emmanuel College, part of the University of Cambridge, for violating its diversity and inclusion policies when he argued that the number of black professors at Harvard would approach zero in a meritocracy and that they would not hold any high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment
Nobel laureate in physics 2013, Peter Higgs who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson in particle physics in 1964 which was later confirmed at CERN in 2012, dies at the age of 94, was born in Newcastle in 1929 and worked at the University of Edinburgh for almost all of his career
The Swedish professor of epidemiology Martin Kulldorff was fired from his position at Harvard University for opposing vaccination mandate, writes that ignoring Sweden's actions during the lockdowns is like ignoring a placebo control group, that he could not publish his support for the Swedish solution in the American media, that the state helped Twitter to censor anti-vaccine posts and that science cannot survive in a society that does not value truth and strive to discover it
Statistically significant negative correlation found between penile length in the flaccid state and IQ according to study by Cuntong Wang and Yihe Wangding with data from 115,387 men aged 18 to 65 years from 139 countries, also notable differences between ethnicities were found
John Tooby passes away at age 71, founded evolutionary psychology as scientific field in collaboration with his wife Leda Cosmides, celebrated by friend Steven Pinker as exceptionally good person and intellectual giant who brought to fruition Darwin's prediction that psychology will be placed on a new foundation