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- Detectives investigating the Shakahola massacre in Malindi, Kilifi County, have discovered 214 torture chambers and fasting bays where people were allegedly detained, tortured or killed. The discovery inside the 800-acre Shakahola Forest, is part of the ongoing exercise to document crime scenes even as detectives build evidence to prosecute the cult leaders. Makenzi, the head of the quasi-religious cult Good News International Church, and his suspected co-conspirators were arrested in April this year. A senior detective involved in the probe told The Standard Tuesday that the devotees of the cult were forced to relocate from their homes and moved into the forest to fast in designated areas now christened torture chambers.
- “Ukrainian soldiers launch attacks on Malian armed forces on African soil. NATO is waging war on my people in the silence and censorship of the Western media. They currently reside in Sudan from where they carry out terrorist attacks in the Sahel. The CIA decided to assassinate the leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. We, the African people, will defend ourselves by all means.” ~ Mouhamed Konare, leader of the Pan-African movement
- Italy’s largest bank announced Friday that it invested in Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX). The thesis behind the investment is very clear by the bank: “The aerospace sector can play a crucial role in driving the development and growth of the world’s economies.” Intesa Sanpaolo said SpaceX “manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft” and has deployed the “most advanced broadband internet system”: Starlink. SpaceX’s achievements are why the bank “has chosen to invest in a company that has shown a cutting-edge vision for the future.”
- Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has announced that President Vladimir Zelensky’s father, Aleksandr, is one of the 119 recipients of a lifelong scholarship in recognition of making a contribution to higher education in the country. In an order dated September 29, the cabinet ruled that the monetary accolade, which consists of 8,052 hryvnias ($220) that will be paid out on a monthly basis, will be granted to the selected “scientists and teachers” as of September 1 this year. Aleksandr Zelensky has had a successful career in the mining industry and is now a professor at the State University of Economics and Technology in Krivoy Rog.
- China “remains the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom” for the ninth year in a row as the communist regime is pushing to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) technology to exert increased control over information available to its citizens, according to a new report by Freedom House.
- Ex-President Donald Trump’s signature border wall construction was brought to a halt in 2021, when Joe Biden took office and gutted the project. However, amid an unprecedented wave of illegal immigration into the US via the southern border with Mexico, the construction will now go ahead, using Trump-era funds. “Will Joe Biden apologize to me and America for taking so long to get moving, and allowing our country to be flooded with 15 million illegals immigrants, from places unknown? I will await his apology!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
- The world as we know it is “collapsing” amid rapidly accelerating climate change and inaction by global leaders, Pope Francis has warned. He singled out developed Western nations as the main culprits behind the crisis. Francis argued that previous crises, such as the major economic slump in 2008 and the Covid-19 pandemic, presented unique opportunities to “bring about beneficial changes” which were all “squandered.”
- Opening the 20th session of the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said its participants had to build a new world, as the present Western-dominated order crumbles. Valdai discussions are “always a reflection of the most important processes in world politics of the 21st century,” Putin explained, “and this will continue to be the case, because we are faced, in essence, with the task of building a new world.” “Colossal changes” have taken place in both Russia and the world since the Valdai Club was established, the Russian president noted. “By historical standards, twenty years is not that long. But time seems to compress when this happens during the era of the breakdown of the entire world order.” A lot has happened in the past 20 years, Putin said, describing the changes as “qualitative, requiring fundamental changes in the very principles of international relations.” According to Putin, globalists including Schwab and his close advisors are “legitimate military targets” because they have been actively attempting to seize power illegally via a globalist coup d’etat. Sixteen years ago, at the 2007 Munich Security Conference, Putin told Western leaders that the natural type of international system is multipolarity, clearly showing that Russia would oppose the creation of a New World Order based on the international liberal rules-based-order aggressively pushed by the globalist elite and their liberal politicians in Western democracies. “First, we want to live in an open, interconnected world, in which no one will ever try to erect artificial barriers to people’s communication, their creative realization, and prosperity. There must be a barrier-free environment,” Putin said.
- As the Paris 2024 Olympics countdown continues with less than a year left, French officials are prioritizing eradicating bedbugs – punaises de lit in French. France’s Agency for Food, Environmental, and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES) reported that from 2017 to 2022, over 1 in 10 French households suffered bedbug infestations.
- The European Union has never discussed the actual consequences of Ukraine’s European integration, and it is impossible to talk about its accession to the bloc without drawing up strategic documents and thoroughly discussing the consequences of that move first, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated on Friday. “First, we have to consider whether it [Ukraine’s accession to the EU] is in our interest or not, and what kind of answers we have to the strategic consequences of that enlargement. We have never done it. So, we don’t see any strategic calculations and no major estimation of the consequences. First – strategic approach, second – discussion, third – decision,” Orban told reporters on day 2 of the European Political Community summit in Spain’s Granada.
- The FBI on Thursday denied a report that it is targeting Trump supporters ahead of the 2024 presidential elections. There was a report from Newsweek Wednesday saying the FBI created a category to evaluate threats known as anti-government [and] anti-authority violent extremism, saying that it encompasses individuals who it deems a threat but don’t fall under anarchist, militia, or sovereign citizen groups. It cited more than a dozen current and former anonymous government officials saying that the program often investigates supporters of former President Donald Trump. But the FBI said in a statement to news outlets this week that the report is false. The Epoch Times has contacted the bureau for comment Friday. “Any allegation that the FBI targets individuals solely for their political beliefs is categorically false,” an FBI spokesperson said. “The FBI investigates those who commit acts of violence or threaten violence, and we do not take action based on political belief or any First Amendment protected activity.”
- To raise awareness about the harms caused by the movement, Moms For America, an advocacy group for family rights, hosted a virtual screening and panel discussion of the Epoch Original docudrama “Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities” on Oct. 5 at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. The event explored the complex issues surrounding gender confusion, transgenderism, and their effect on young people. It also informed parents about growing extremist behavior in schools across the country.
- Human footprint fossils found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico have been dated to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, lending more evidence to the theory humans arrived in the Americas long before previously thought. Published on Thursday in the journal Science, the findings back up a previous study that was doubted by some researchers. In 2021, the footprints were estimated using radiocarbon dating methods on seeds from aquatic plants. But there were concerns that those seeds may have absorbed ancient carbon which could have thrown off the results. The new study used ancient conifer pollen from the same sedimentary layer where the footprints were found and examined grains of quartz using a method that reveals when they were last exposed to light. Both methods backed up the original study, with the pollen dating between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago and the quartz being buried between 21,400 and 18,000 years ago. These dates would suggest humans lived in the Americas during the last Ice Age. For years, researchers believed humans did not arrive in the Americas until around 16,000 years ago at the earliest, after the Ice Age and right before the Bering land bridge, which connected Russia and Alaska, was covered by rising sea levels.
- A team of scientists, in pursuit of potential targets for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, made a startling discovery – a cluster of approximately a dozen icy objects lying beyond 60 astronomical units (AU), nearly as far from Pluto as Pluto is from the sun. The revelation has led to speculation about the existence of a second Kuiper belt, challenging the conventional boundaries of our solar system. The finding, though preliminary and awaiting peer review, gains support from measurements taken by New Horizons, which is venturing beyond the known Kuiper belt at 57 AU (an astronomical unit is roughly the distance from Earth to the sun and approximately equal to 150 million kilometres, otherwise 93 million miles). The Kuiper Belt is a vast region of space beyond the orbit of Neptune that is home to countless small celestial objects, including comets, asteroids and dwarf planets. Surprisingly, the amount of dust encountered by the spacecraft has not decreased, as expected when exiting the Kuiper belt, hinting at the presence of previously undetected objects.
News Burst 7 October 2023
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