New South Park episode could ‘almost be an ICE recruiting ad'
'It's a bit more fun and games for the South Park boys this week, who have decided that they really, really don't like Donald Trump or his ICE raids,' Mr Morrow said.
'Frankly, looking at this clip from their latest episode, I think this could almost be an ICE agent recruiting ad.'
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Head of US military approvingly shares views of pastor who thinks women shouldn't be allowed to vote
The man President Donald Trump chose to lead the US military has come under fire for sharing, in apparent approval, remarks by the leader of a radical church network who thinks women should be stripped of the right to vote, among other fringe ideas. Pete Hegseth, whom Mr Trump plucked from his job as a TV host to make him Secretary of Defence, posted a clip of a CNN segment featuring Doug Wilson, a Christian nationalist and the self-appointed leader of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches. 'All of Christ for All of Life,' wrote the Defence Secretary, who has publicly praised Mr Wilson in the past. The video Mr Hegseth shared mostly featured Mr Wilson, a pastor with an international network spanning more than 150 churches, though some other members of his church were also interviewed. The pastor defended his vision of a patriarchal society in which men are dominant and women submit to their husbands. 'Women are the kind of people that people come out of,' Mr Wilson said. 'So you just think they're here to have babies. That's it? They're just a vessel?' interviewer Pamela Brown asked. 'No, it isn't. It doesn't take any talent to simply reproduce biologically,' said Mr Wilson. 'The wife and mother, who is the chief executive of the home, is entrusted with three, or four, or five eternal souls.' Ms Brown pointed out that she was both a working woman and a mother of three children. 'Is that an issue for you?' she asked. 'No it's not automatically an issue,' said Mr Wilson. Mr Hegseth attended the opening of Mr Wilson's latest church last month, which happens to be in Washington D.C., right at the centre of power in America's federal government. Sean Parnell, chief spokesman for the Pentagon, told The Associated Press the Defence Secretary was 'a proud member of a church' affiliated with Mr Wilson's network and 'very much appreciates many of Mr Wilson's writings and teachings'. Those teachings include the idea that the United States should become a Christian theocracy, with other religions driven out of public spaces – he has explained in the past that he thinks Muslims, for example, should still be able to pray in private, but mosques should not be allowed in American cities. In addition to that, he wants non-Christians to be barred from holding public office. Mr Wilson also believes women should not be able to vote, and he thinks homosexuality should be criminalised, as it was decades ago. In a book, which he wrote in the 1990s, he claimed slavery in America's South 'was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity'. 'There has never been a multiracial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world,' he wrote. 'The credit for this must go to the predominance of Christianity. 'In spite of the evils contained in the system, we cannot overlook the benefits of slavery for both blacks and whites. 'Slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races that we believe we can say has never existed in any nation before the War or since.' The 'war' in question, of course, being the American Civil War. Writing in 2020, Mr Wilson conceded there had been 'abuses' under slavery, but insisted 'the benevolent master is not a myth'. In the clip Mr Hegseth shared, CNN interviewed a few members of Mr Wilson's church, such as Josh and Amy Prince, who travelled across the US to join. 'He is the head of our household, yes, and I do submit to him,' Amy Prince said of Josh. Toby Sumpter, a pastor, said that 'in my idea society, we would vote as households', with the father ultimately deciding. 'I would ordinarily be the one that would cast the vote, but I would cast the vote having discussed it with my household,' he said. Another pastor, Jared Longshore said he would support repealing the 19th amendment to the US Constitution, passed in 1920, which granted women the right to vote. And Mr Wilson said that 'yep', he would like to go back to the era when 'sodomoy' was illegal in the United States. 'I'm not a white nationalist, I'm not a fascist, I'm not a racist, I'm not a misogynist,' he said. 'I'd like to see the town be a Christian town. I'd like to see the state be a Christian state. I'd like to see the nation be a Christian nation. I'd like to see the world be a Christian world. 'Every society is theocratic. The only question is whose 'theo'. In a secular society, it would be deimos, the people. In a Christian republic it would be Christ.'
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Kyiv won't give up land, says Zelensky as US-Russia summit confirmed
Ukraine won't give up land to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned early on Saturday, hours after Washington and Moscow agreed to hold a summit in a bid to end the war. Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will meet in the far-north US state of Alaska, near Russia, on August 15, to try to resolve the three-year conflict, despite multiple warnings from Ukraine and Europe that Kyiv must be part of the negotiations. Announcing the summit on Friday, Trump said that "there'll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both" Ukraine and Russia, without providing further details. "Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier," Zelensky said on social media hours later. "Any decisions against us, any decisions without Ukraine, are also decisions against peace. They will achieve nothing," he said, adding that the war "cannot be ended without us, without Ukraine". Three rounds of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine this year have failed to bear fruit, and it remains unclear whether a summit would bring peace any closer. Tens of thousands of people have been killed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with millions forced to flee their homes. Putin has resisted multiple calls from the United States, Europe and Kyiv for a ceasefire. Zelensky said Kyiv was "ready for real decisions that can bring peace" but said it should be a "dignified peace", without giving details. The former KGB officer in power in Russia for over 25 years has also ruled out holding talks with Zelensky at this stage. Ukraine's leader has been pushing to make it a three-way summit and has frequently said meeting Putin is the only way to make progress towards peace. - Far away from war - The summit in Alaska, which Russia sold to the United States in 1867, would be the first between sitting US and Russian presidents since Joe Biden met Putin in Geneva in June 2021. This was just nine months before Moscow sent troops to Ukraine. Zelensky said of the location that it is "very far away from this war, which is raging on our land, against our people". The Kremlin said the choice was "logical" because the state close to the Arctic is on the border between the two countries, and this is where their "economic interests intersect". Moscow has also invited Trump to pay a reciprocal visit to Russia later. Trump and Putin last sat together in 2019 at a G20 summit meeting in Japan during Trump's first term. They have spoken by telephone several times since January. On Friday, Putin held a round of calls with allies, including China and India, in a diplomatic flurry ahead of the summit with Trump, who has spent his first months in office trying to broker peace in Ukraine without making a breakthrough. The US president has earlier imposed an additional tariff on India for buying Russia's oil in a bid to nudge Moscow into talks. He also threatened to impose a similar tax on China, but so far has refrained from doing so. Away from the talks, across the more than 1,000-kilometre (600-mile) frontline, Russia and Ukraine continued pouring dozens of drones on each other in an overnight exchange of attacks on Saturday. As a result of that, a bus carrying civilians was hit in Ukraine's frontline city of Kherson, killing two people and wounding six.
Sky News AU
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- Sky News AU
‘Things are getting done again': Americans respect Trump for getting ‘on top of issues'
Former Republican congressman Zach Wamp says most Americans respect the fact that 'things are getting done again' by the current US administration. This comes as US President Donald Trump has surpassed 200 days in office. 'We actually have a president that is paying attention and on top of issues – that's a good thing,' Mr Wamp told Sky News Australia.
