Corax
Austrian nationalist activist Martin Sellner from Génération Identitaire is arrested by police in Switzerland during a speech where, at the invitation of the organization Junge Tat, he was to speak about re-migration, the police state that they located the event after a number of tips and the landlady canceled the contract after finding out about the nature of the meeting
World
Hungary, as the last country of the 31 member countries, approves Sweden's application to NATO on Monday and now only formalities remain, Victor Orbán says that being a member of NATO together with another country means that we are ready for each other and Ulf Kristersson (M) writes on X that it is a historic day and that Sweden is ready to shoulder its responsibility for Euro-Atlantic security
Miscellaneous
British-Jewish financier Lord Jacob Rothschild dies aged 87 and being succeeded as chairman of the Rothschild Foundation by 61-year-old daughter Hannah, was among other things former president of what is now called Jewish Policy Research, co-founded financial firm St James's Place and was active in the art world
Media
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
Tucker Carlson is in Moscow and there are rumors of an upcoming interview with Vladimir Putin, has been seen at the Bolshoi Theater and when asked if he is in the city to interview the president, he replies that we will see
Politics
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
The European parliament votes to end sale of petrol and diesel car by 2035 in EU, MEPs still have to negotiate the final law with ministers from the 27 national governments, the proposed law is part of a broader climate crisis response with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by the end of the decade
Boris Johnson calls for a return to the workplace to drive up productivity and revive Britain's town and city centres, says his experience of working from home involves spending an awful lot of time making another cup of coffee and walking very slowly to hack off a small piece of cheese before forgetting what it was he was doing when returning to the computer
Opinion
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
Brendan O'Niell: Is it now that we can start talking about Sweden and question the "Scandinavian naivety", now that the prime minister is asking the armed forces to help the police with gang criminals, now that the gang war killed 11 people in September and the country up until 15th of August this year saw 109 explosions, now that we are far from The Guardian again publishing articles that says a visit to Sweden is a visit to the future and now that there are now so many grenade attacks in Sweden that it is the only country apart from Mexico that keeps records of them?
Europe
Former Stasi officer Martin Naumann, 80, faces charges for murder of Pole Czesław Kukuczka who tried to escape to West Berlin in 1974, at least 140 people were killed between 1961 and 1989 trying to cross the Berlin Wall and officials have previously been charged for manslaughter for which the statute of limitations would have expired in this case
Alternative for Germany wins the election in Großschirma near Dresden with 59 percent of the vote in the first round and their candidate Rolf Weigand becomes the party's third mayor
Recording of top ranking German military officials discussing potential German operation to bomb Crimea Bridge leaked by Russia who intercepted the conversation and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says what is being reported is a very serious matter and that is why it is now being investigated very carefully, very intensively and very quickly
North America
SpaceX is building spy satellite networks for US intelligence, according to five Reuters sources, is being built under the Starshield business unit with a USD 1.8 billion contract with the National Reconnaissance Office signed in 2021, will allow the US to quickly spot potential targets almost all over the world
US Supreme Court will take up the case of Donald Trump's immunity from prosecution regarding the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, it is the first time that the Supreme Court will take up any of the charges against the former president
38-year-old Alexander Soros, son of George Soros and now chairman of the Open Society Foundations, is dating 47-year-old Huma Abedin, ex-wife of scandal-ridden Anthony Weiner and close associate of Hillary Clinton, is made public when Abedin publishes photos of the couple from a restaurant in Paris on Valentine's Day
Latin America
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
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
Economy
American hamburger chain Wendy's will in 2025 start experimenting with changing prices daily based on demand, as all restaurants are planned to have digital menus by then
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman for violating the company's founding agreement to prioritize humanity over profit, the lawsuit says the company has turned into a de facto closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft, Musk co-founded the company and served on the board until 2018
Empty freight wagon with reduced speed derails on the Iron Ore Line in North of Sweden near the Norwegian border four days after the route was reopened after a similar accident two months ago six kilometers away, LKAB's logistics manager Linda Bjurholt said at the time that the loss of revenue due to the closure of the railway is close to SEK 100 million a day
For SEK 13 billion the Stenbeck family's investment company Kinnevik sells its entire holding in the telecom company Tele2, which was founded in the early 1980s by Jan Stenbeck and according to CEO Georgi Ganev was fundamental to the creation of today's Kinnevik, the buyer is Freya Investissement, which is controlled by the European telecom group iliad and its chairman of the board and founder Xavier Niel
Technology
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
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