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Currently, we find ourselves in the fifth release of unsealed court documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking activities. US Judge Loretta Preska ordered the unsealing as part of a lawsuit filed by one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Giuffre, against
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/who-are-the-notable-mentions-in-the-epstein-court-documents-8-01-24Lewis Brackpool2024-01-08T11:00:02.000000Z2024-01-08T11:00:00.000000Z
The UK Prime Minister is facing the wrath of MPs and the general public as more controversial information about alleged Downing Street parties during the 2020 Covid lockdowns continues to emerge. In the most recent set of shocking revelations, Boris Johnson and his wife, Carrie Symonds, are alleged to have been among 30 people who attended a “bring-your-own-booze” drinks gathering on May 20th, 2020, where as many as 100 people were
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The UK Government has stated that it will respond in turn if France continues with its trend of threatening the UK with various actions, such as shutting off electricity to the Channel Islands, amid post-Brexit fishing rights disagreements. Amid the escalation of threats from the continent, the Environment Secretary has
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/royal-navy-on-standby-after-the-french-seize-scottish-fishing-trawler-29-10-2021Josh Ferme2022-10-03T00:00:07.000000Z2021-10-29T17:00:00.000000Z
Floral tributes left in Parliament Square following the 2017 Westminster Islamist terror attackA new report, published in the wake of the murder of MP Sir David Amess last week, has criticised the UK’s flagship anti-terror program ‘Prevent’ for its emphasis on “political correctness” and the diversion of resources from the “gravest threat” of Islamic terrorism. 
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/report-uk-anti-terror-body-prevent-hamstrung-by-political-correctness-20-10-20212021-10-20T18:00:37.000000Z2021-10-20T19:00:00.000000Z
The UK government is facing increasing pressure from scientists to reimpose social restrictions.The calls come after the country recorded 49,156 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the largest number since mid-July, with the Office for National Statistics last week estimating that one in 60 people in England had the virus. 
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The member of parliament for Leicester East may face jail time after being found guilty of harassing her partner’s former girlfriend.Appearing outside Westminster magistrates’ court on Wednesday following the verdict, Claudia Webbe, 56, said she was “innocent” and “deeply shocked” and would seek an appeal. 
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/labour-mp-claudia-webbe-made-acid-attack-threats-14-10-20212022-10-03T00:00:09.000000Z2021-10-14T15:00:00.000000Z
A study by the taxation and public policy research institute, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), has found that women earn less than men in their twenties because they choose university degrees that lead to lower-paying jobs. According to the IFS, the first emergence of the gender pay gap occurs immediately after graduation from university, with male graduates earning on average five percent more than female graduates at the age of 25. 
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/study-finds-gender-pay-gap-due-to-life-choices-08-10-20212021-10-08T15:02:59.000000Z2021-10-08T14:05:00.000000Z
The BBC is expected to end its subscription to the LGBTQ diversity programme run by the self-described lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights charity Stonewall. The move, revealed by VICE, will see the UK’s publicly funded service broadcaster resign from the organisation’s flagship ‘Diversity Champions’ programme which ensures that “all LGBT+ staff are accepted without exception in the workplace.” Beginning in 2001, the initiative allows its recipients “access to
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The UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has said that the BBC needs to depart from “tokenism” and “groupthink” in order to best represent the views of the country as a whole. Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference on Monday, Nadine Dorries, who replaced the former culture minister Oliver Dowden in September’s cabinet reshuffle, said that the publicly funded broadcaster was full of “people from a similar background with a certain political bias.” 
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Polish MPs have lambasted the Australian government for its “totalitarian” Covid lockdown policies and “human rights” abuses.Gathering outside of the Australian embassy in Warsaw, the group of politicians, which included the former leader of the Liberal KoLiber party, Jakub Kulesza, accused Australia of “unsubscribing herself from the civilised International Community” after “contracting Covid madness.” 
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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said that former Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens may have abused his Covid lockdown powers to lure Sarah Everard into his car. Everard was kidnapped by Couzens as she walked home from a friend’s home near Clapham Common in south London on March 3rd. According to the CPS, the former firearms officer strangled the 33-year-old to death with his police belt after raping her in his car. 
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Ex-House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has appealed to members of the Labour party to grant him forgiveness over his former role as a Conservative Party MP. Making his debut at the Labour party conference in Brighton on Monday, Bercow, who switched his allegiance from the Conservatives to Labour in June this year, earned a favourable reaction from the crowd as he referred to himself as a “rehabilitated offender” before asking if he was permitted to call Labour members his “comrades.” 
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American independent congressman Bernie Sanders appeared at a far-left fringe event in Brighton, England, on Sunday to encourage Labour party members to scrutinize leader Sir Keir Starmer’s rejection of “progressive” policies. Attending the ‘World Transformed Festival’ via video link, the US senator was asked how to deal with a “centrist leader” by former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. McDonnell, a self-avowed Marxist, complained that the “left” of the Labour party was experiencing “problems in ensuring a working relationship” with the party’s leadership, asking Sanders how Starmer could be convinced to adopt a “radical programme.”
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Flights back to Haiti have resumed after President Biden halted deportation flights back to the country earlier this month. At its peak, up to 14,000 Haitians sought to make their way into the United States through Texas. Since Sunday, 1401 migrants have been returned to Haiti from camps on the Del Rio part of the Texas border.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/texas-ongoing-border-disaster-24-09-2021Josh Ferme2021-09-24T13:54:14.000000Z2021-09-24T14:50:00.000000Z
New documents leaked by the Covid-19 pandemic origin research group DRASTIC have indicated that the controversial non-profit EcoHealth Alliance sought $14 million in funding in 2018 for a project that would expose wild horseshoe bats in China to altered coronaviruses. 
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/darpa-denied-daszak-funding-for-dangerous-covid-research-in-2018-23-09-20212021-09-27T09:07:09.000000Z2021-09-23T13:10:00.000000Z
The former acting Secretary of Defence Christopher Miller has said that he “did not authorize” the acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley to have “secret” calls with China in the final days of the Trump Presidency. 
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Gavin Newsom will remain Governor of California after successfully surviving a bid to remove him from office following heavy criticism of his handling of the pandemic.The Democratic Governor is in the third year of his four-year term, and as such will be up for reelection in November 2022. However, almost 1.5 million signatures were gathered, equal to 12% of the 2018 gubernatorial vote, which met the
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/gavin-newsom-celebrates-win-over-larry-elder-as-rejection-of-bigotry-16-09-21Josh Ferme2021-09-16T11:32:23.000000Z2021-09-16T12:30:00.000000Z
Former President Donald Trump has dismissed claims made by the US’s top military commander Mike Milley as “fake news” after the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff alleged in a new book that he had taken steps to limit Trump’s powers to launch nuclear
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President Biden’s approval rating has fallen to 45% just two days after he was booed at a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York City. The figure, calculated as an average of eight major polls by polling data aggregator Real Clear Politics, follows the President’s implementation of widely unpopular COVID-19 vaccine mandates and the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan which left 13 American service members
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/hostility-against-joe-biden-grows-across-the-us-amid-record-low-approval-14-09-20212021-09-14T12:20:07.000000Z2021-09-14T13:20:00.000000Z
A charity formerly known as “The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust” has changed its name to the “Churchill Fellowship” and removed all images of the former Prime Minister from its website. It later restored one of the images after both media and public backlash.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/winston-churchills-namesake-charity-changes-name-and-disassociates-from-the-09-09-2021Josh Ferme2021-09-09T19:00:43.000000Z2021-09-09T20:00:00.000000Z
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday implored California voters to retain the current Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom in the run-up to next weeks gubernatorial recall election. Newsom was embroiled in a political blunder in November when he was photographed dining with lobbyists and friends at the French Laundry restaurant in Yountville, Napa Valley. The governor’s attendance at the party, which broke his administration’s own COVID-19
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/kamala-harris-campaigns-with-gavin-newsom-ahead-of-california-recall-vote-09-09-20212021-09-09T11:21:40.000000Z2021-09-09T12:25:00.000000Z
An attacker reportedly inspired by the Islamic State has been shot dead after stabbing and wounding six people in a supermarket attack.The man, yet unnamed, is understood to be a Sri Lankan national who had lived in New Zealand for approximately 10 years and had been regarded as a “person of interest'' by the authorities for around 5 years. He had been under round the clock police surveillance for his affiliation with extremist Islamist ideology,
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/six-stabbed-in-new-zealand-islamist-extremist-attack-03-09-2021Josh Ferme2021-09-03T11:34:08.000000Z2021-09-03T12:30:00.000000Z
On August 24th-25th, both houses of the Australian parliament passed a landmark bill granting the Australian federal police (AFP) and intelligence agency (ACIC) sweeping new powers of surveillance against the Australian public. Touted as a necessary tool to combat organised crime online, the powers created by the bill are nevertheless unmatched across
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/bill-allowing-spying-and-online-account-breach-by-law-enforcement-passed-in-Australia-02-09-2021Hugo Hythloday2021-09-02T19:00:41.000000Z2021-09-02T20:00:00.000000Z
A California teacher is under investigation by her school district after she boasted, in videos posted to the social media platform TikTok, about making her students pledge allegiance to the racial Pride flag instead of the national flag of the USA.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/tiktok-teacher-no-longer-in-classroom-after-making-pupils-pledge-allegiance-31-08-20212021-08-31T15:51:41.000000Z2021-08-31T17:00:00.000000Z
In an exclusive two-hour-long interview with Breitbart News at his golf club in northern New Jersey, former President Donald Trump discussed President Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The interview took place on Wednesday evening, a day before the
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/donald-trump-on-bidens-afghanistan-withdrawal-single-most-embarrassing-27-08-2021Josh Ferme2021-08-27T11:19:22.000000Z2021-08-27T12:25:00.000000Z
Prior to Thursday’s bomb attacks which killed 13 service members and over 62 Afghan civilians, US officials said that “daily communication” with “Afghan [Taliban] partners” had expedited the evacuation of thousands of people from the country. Speaking exclusively to POLITICO, three US and congressional officials outlined the reliance on the Islamist group for the security of the airport while revealing that Taliban fighters had been handed “a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies”
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/taliban-assistance-to-the-us-saving-lives-amid-bomb-blasts-that-killed-28-of-27-08-20212021-08-27T11:12:06.000000Z2021-08-27T12:15:00.000000Z
A Green Party leadership candidate who first came to prominence as an environmental activist in the late 2010s will offer voters a “young, intersectional feminist political leadership” to “win the argument that there can be no climate justice without social justice.” 
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/non-binary-green-party-candidate-hopes-to-offer-voters-intersectional-26-08-20212021-08-27T08:54:57.000000Z2021-08-26T18:00:00.000000Z
Demonstrations by rival leftist and right-wing groups in Portland, Oregon, became violent on Sunday as protesters armed with mace spray, batons and paintball guns clashed in the North East of the city.According to reports, at least one man has been arrested after he engaged in a gun battle with rival adversaries, although police have said it is unclear as to whether he was tied to the clashes. 
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/antifa-and-proud-boys-clash-in-portland-oregon-23-08-20212021-08-23T11:21:44.000000Z2021-08-23T12:00:00.000000Z
A British university student has become stuck in war-torn Kabul after his “sun-soaked” holiday to Afghanistan was halted by the advance of the Taliban. Miles Routledge, 22, a second-year physics student at the University of Loughborough, first posted about his planned trip to Afghanistan on his Facebook account in May. Upon his arrival, the student reported on his initial travels in the country on the online message board
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/in-a-pickle-british-student-dubbed-miles-of-kabul-has-afghanistan-holiday16-08-20212021-08-16T10:39:56.000000Z2021-08-16T11:40:00.000000Z
The Plymouth gunman who murdered five people on Thursday night has been identified as Jake Davison. The 23-year-old, armed with a long-barreled gun, reportedly kicked in the door to a home on Biddick Drive at around 6 pm Thursday evening before shooting his mother, his sister, and his brother. Davison then proceeded to shoot two additional
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/plymouth-gunman-who-killed-five-people-identified-as-incel-crane-operator13-08-20212021-08-13T09:06:39.000000Z2021-08-13T10:10:00.000000Z