(0506) Morning all … dark out there. (0554)

 

5. DAD at 1494

a) UK. The RNLI has temporarily closed its Portsmouth station following anti-migrant protests in the city. 

Volunteers for the service were branded “traitors” after bringing 120 migrants, who had been rescued from a single dinghy, ashore near Portsmouth Lifeboat Station.

[Actions have consequences.]

b) EU. Pedro Sánchez and the European left have suffered repeated humiliating defeats in the European Parliament over Ceuta, with MEPs endorsing the terms ‘invasion’ and ‘hybrid warfare’ for July’s mass border breach. The outcome also underlined an increasingly reliable EPP–ECR–PfE–ESN voting alignment on migration, already visible in June’s tougher EU Return Regulation.

c) France. More than six months after the municipal election, on Thursday, the public rapporteur recommended to the Orléans Administrative Court that the municipal election result in Montargis—a town in the Loiret department won by the National Rally in March—be annulled due to irregularities. Following the vote, RN candidate Côme Dunis had won by a margin of 59 votes in this town of 15,000 inhabitants, which had been governed by the political right since 2001. 

Administrative courts generally follow the recommendations of public rapporteurs. The court will issue its ruling in the coming days.

[Lawfare, again.]

d) Italy. Meloni scraps road tax for one year due to high fuel prices

The exemption covers petrol, diesel and hybrid cars of up to 80 kW (109hp) and all motorbikes and mopeds.

e) UK. Tommy Robinson exposes a Jihadi spy working inside parliament.

4. Greenwald

I’ve seen this guy as a conservative till now, but criticising all sides when necessary.

Then I noticed the profile pic and so checked it out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald

3. Steve at 1493 and 1494

• US Data Centers Projected to Consume 15 Billion Cubic Feet of Gas Daily by 2035
• UN moves forward with plans to take control of AI globally
• The Mysterious 9/11 Apology By Condoleezza Rice
• Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa: Russian Missiles Hit Steel And Electronics Plants In [The] Ukraine
• Trump Admin Celebrates 16 Straight Months of Zero Releases at Border, ‘Levels Not Seen in Over Three Decades
• FOX’s Resident Democrat Jessica Tarlov Was “Gobsmacked” by Drone Footage of Biden’s Open Border — Then Admits the Biden’s White House Only Tightened Up When the Election Got Close
• During Her State of the European Union Address, Ursula von der Leyen Offered Canada ‘Associate Member’ Status – But Furious EU Leaders Were Blindsided by Announcement
• Germany: Public Hospital Fires Senior Pediatric Surgeon Following AfD Candidacy
• Much more.

2. “Lawyering up”?