The presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised that he will support $5 billion in reparations for black farmers when he takes office. Mr. Kennedy made his promise despite an earlier court ruling that such a measure would be unconstitutional.
In other news, the container ship Dali that collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore back in March was refloated today and returned to the Port of Baltimore, eight weeks after the incident.
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Canada Heading for Prolonged Decline in Living Standards: Study
Despite what Chrystia Freeland wants Canadians to believe about the economy, Canada’s living standards have declined since 2019.
According to a study by the Fraser Institute, if per-capita GDP does not recover this year, it will mark the longest and largest decline in per-person GDP over the last four decades.
Inflation-adjusted per-person GDP, a broad measure of living standards, declined from $59,905 to $58,111, or by 3% from April 2019 to the end of 2023, the study found.
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Red Lobster Files for Bankruptcy With $1 BILLION in Debt After Mass Layoffs
On Sunday, Red Lobster announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and secured $100 million in debtor-in-possession financing commitments from existing lenders. The company was over $1 billion in debt.
The seafood chain noted that while remaining restaurants will continue operating during the proceedings, the number of locations is set to be drastically reduced in the coming weeks.
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Signed Into Law: Alabama Abolishes Income Taxes on Gold and Silver
Via Money Metals
(Birmingham, Alabama — May 14, 2024) — Alabama Governor Kay Ivey last week signed a bill that removes all income taxes on capital gains from the sale of gold and silver, enabling the state to take an important step forward in reinforcing sound money principles.
With this move, Alabama joins a growing number of states prioritizing the protection of citizens against the deleterious effects of inflation, currency debasement, and mounting federal debt.
Enactment of Senate Bill 297 makes Alabama the 13th state in the nation that does not impose capital gains taxes on sales of gold and silver.
Under the new law’s provisions, any profits or losses arising from the sale of precious metals, as reported on federal tax returns, will be excluded from the calculation of an Alabama taxpayer’s adjusted gross income (AGI). This measure effectively shields individuals from punitive taxation on transactions involving constitutional forms of currency.
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A large group of news outlets have joined with Judicial Watch and the Heritage Foundation to sue Biden’s Department of Justice for the release of the audio of special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with Joe Biden in the investigation into classified documents found at the president’s residence and office.
Among those suing the department under the Freedom of Information Act for the release are ABC News, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, CBS News, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, NBC News, Reuters, Univision, and the Washington Post.
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Mayor Eric Adams on Monday called the NYPD’s conduct at a raucous anti-Israeli protest in Brooklyn “commendable” — as a marcher accused of kicking a cop was freed without bail over prosecutors’ objections.
Adams took to various morning talk shows to defend the cops against allegations of excessive force during the Bay Ridge protest, while acknowledging authorities would look at an “isolated incident” of a cop caught on video pounding a demonstrator pinned to the ground.
“Those police officers did a commendable job under very difficult circumstances,” Hizzoner told 1010 WINS radio.
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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Dali Moves for First Time in 55 Days
Dwarfing the tugboats to which it was tethered, the container ship Dali returned to the Port of Baltimore Monday morning after crews freed the vessel that had been stranded in the Patapsco River since it struck and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26. Crews had refloated the vessel around 6:40 a.m, and 20 minutes later, the ship started moving slowly, almost imperceptibly. By 8:40 a.m., tugboats had guided the 984-foot ship into the Seagirt Marine Terminal, still bearing on its lacerated bow a chunk of the pavement from the bridge.
“We took an enormous step forward in our mission to recover from the collapse,” Gov. Wes Moore said in a statement.
Moore, who watched the operation from a boat about 500 feet from the Dali, lauded those who have worked safely and speedily in the massive and ongoing recovery effort led by the Key Bridge Unified Command. That’s the multiagency effort led by the Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers, the Maryland Department of the Environment, the Maryland Transportation Authority and Maryland State Police.
The Dali’s slow-motion, 2.5-mile journey on Monday returned it to the port it had left 55 days earlier. Shortly after leaving the port, it lost power and careened into one of the bridge’s support pillars, plunging the span into the river. Six construction workers who were repairing potholes on the span died in the catastrophe.
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Baltimore Bridge Cargo Ship Moves for First Time in Eight Weeks
The large container ship which allided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, closing the mouth of the Baltimore Harbour in March was floated off and started its journey to a temporary berth for repairs on Monday.
The Singapore-registered MV Davi moved for the first time since March 26th on Monday after it was refloated off the remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge pier, bringing the bridge crashing down. Proceeding at less than one mile an hour, the Davi is expected to be alongside at a marine terminal inside Boston Harbour for initial repairs within three hours.
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Biden Risks American Lives to Protect Hamas
The United States of America has been conducting backchannel talks with Hamas to ask the Islamic terrorist organization not to attack American soldiers helping deliver aid to Gaza.
We “passed that message back through the appropriate channels to Hamas,” the White House spokesman admitted. Rather than warning Hamas not to attack or it will suffer the consequences, Biden is pleading with it from a position of weakness.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin recently admitted at a congressional hearing that American soldiers operating Biden’s disastrous “aid pier” for Gaza could come under attack from Islamic terrorists.
Biden has not sent a single soldier to recover American hostages being held by Hamas, but there are now soldiers in the line of fire in order to send aid to Gaza.
In the event American forces on the pier come under attack, they would be allowed to fight back, Austin promised. But based on the rules of engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, all the terrorists have to do is attack from a mosque or from behind civilians, and American soldiers would be banned from fighting back.
And those are the ways that Hamas tends to attack.
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Biden Bizarrely Suggests He Was VP During Pandemic in Latest Blunder
President Biden declared Sunday that things got “kind of bad” when he was vice president during the COVID-19 pandemic — even though the virus hit more than three years after he left office.
The 81-year-old Biden, who finished his eight years as Barack Obama’s veep in January 2017, suggested he was still in post at the time of the outbreak during a campaign event with the NAACP.
“When I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic and what happened was, Barack said to me, ‘Go to Detroit! Help fix it,’“ Biden said.
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Biden Admin Moves to Bolster Deep State to Prepare for Trump Win
President Joe Biden’s administration is moving to bolster the bureaucratic deep state in preparation for the likely event that the Democrats will lose control of the White House after the November election.
With the 2024 election season heating up and President Donald Trump showing impressive strength in the polls, the administration is taking steps to make it difficult for Biden’s preferred regulations to be unwound in the event of a Democrat loss.
To that end, the Biden White House is working overtime to implement a host of new rules ahead of November in hopes of thwarting Trump-directed policy reversals.
These steps are particularly focused on boosting the unelected administrative deep state, as Breitbart reports.
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Biden’s DEA Admits Mexican Cartels Are Operating in All 50 States
In its 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment, the Drug Enforcement Agency revealed that Mexican cartels are operating in all 50 states, and have been at the forefront of the “dangerous shift from plant-based to synthetic drugs.”
The two “most powerful and ruthless” cartels, the Sinaloa and Jalisco, essentially control the flow of illicit drugs into the United States via their “worldwide organized criminal networks.”
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The singer, 42, has been accused of not taking her mental health medication, while simultaneously drinking and taking other drugs — sparking fears of a relapse.
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Comer Announces New Subpoena for Several Biden Family Members’ Bank Accounts
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has announced a new subpoena for the bank accounts of several members of Democrat President Joe Biden’s family.
Thanks to the Democrats’ allies in the corporate media, news of efforts to impeach President Biden had died off a bit recently.
Nevertheless, several GOP-led investigations into Biden and his family’s foreign business dealings are ongoing.
However, evidence and proof of his corruption keep surfacing, as PJ Media reported.
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Authored by Kristin Lang via The Epoch Times
As we near the end of the school year, a new court ruling may have some parents rethinking whether they want to enroll their children in California’s public schools this fall.
Those of you living in Southern California will likely remember the case of Aidan Palicke. An academically-gifted Yorba Linda High School student and captain of the track team, Aidan was forced to take his exams outside in 40-degree weather wearing only a t-shirt. School officials singled out Aidan for wearing a formerly acceptable mesh face mask to school during the COVID era.
“I was freezing, and all of the other students were looking at me through the window,” Aidan told me.
“My fingers were in so much pain from the cold that it was hard to concentrate on my exam.”
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D.C. Residents Blast Democrat Mayor for Taking ‘Lavish’ Vacations While Crime Runs Rampant
Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser is facing a backlash for taking “lavish” taxpayer-funded trips while crime continues to run rampant in Washington D.C.
Residents are voicing their frustration with Bowser as the mayor heads to Las Vegas on taxpayers’ dime.
The vaccination comes weeks after a lavish trip to the Masters Tournament.
D.C. resident Alex Kelinsky blasted Bowser’s luxury vacations during a Monday appearance on “Fox & Friends First.”
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A Democrat former top prosecutor is begging President Joe Biden for clemency while awaiting sentencing on perjury and mortgage fraud convictions.
Marilyn Mosby, once the state’s attorney in Baltimore, Maryland, is seeking a pardon to avoid likely prison time, Fox News reports.
Mosby claims she is the victim of political persecution, despite the fact that similar arguments raised by President Donald Trump generally fall on deaf ears among her Democratic Party colleagues.
During sentencing, prosecutors will request that she receive at least 20 months incarceration
However, she faces the theoretical possibility of 40 years in prison.
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Google’s AI-First Ambitions Sideline Publishers, Boost Its Ability to Filter and Control Information
The internet’s most frequented page is on the verge of a transformation unlike any in its 25-year history.
Last week, at Google I/O 2024, as Liz Reid, Google’s head of Search, gushed on stage about their AI-powered future, one couldn’t help but feel a pang of irony. “Google will do the Googling for you,” she proclaimed, envisioning a future where Google’s AI sifts through the web’s content and spits out neatly packaged summaries, removing the need to visit any websites.
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Harvard Study: COVID Shots Cause Sudden Deaths, Strokes
A damning new study from some of America’s most well-respected researchers has determined that Covid mRNA shots are causing surging cases of strokes and sudden deaths.
The case study was conducted by Harvard Medical School and chronicled soaring cases of fatal cerebral ischemia over the past three years.
Cerebral ischemia is a form of deadly brain damage triggered by insufficient blood flow to the brain.
The Harvard researchers found that Moderna’s Covid mRNA injections specifically caused the recent spike in the fatal disorder.
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Harvard Blocks 12 Seniors From Graduation, Temporarily Suspends Others for Roles in Campus Gaza Camp
Harvard has reportedly blocked 12 seniors from graduating and dozens more students received notices to appear in front of the Harvard College Administrative Board in connection with the Gaza camp that lasted nearly three weeks in Harvard Yard.
On Friday, Harvard suspended five students and put 20 more on academic probation, according to The Harvard Crimson. At least 60 students received notices to appear in front of the Harvard College Administrative Board and another 12 seniors will not be able to participate in the upcoming commencement exercises, all because of their roles in the Gaza encampment.
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HCSO: 23 Juveniles and 6 Adults Arrested After Canceled After-Party at Astro Skate Leads to Riot
BRANDON, Fla. — Almost 30 people were arrested Saturday night after a fight broke out in the parking lot of a Tampa-area skating rink.
Around 9:20 p.m. Saturday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) received a call from off-duty deputies working at Astro Skate of Brandon requesting help with a large crowd fighting in the parking lot.
According to HCSO, the fight happened after a planned after-party was canceled. Astro Skate requires people hosting private parties to hire an off-duty deputy for the event. When the party organizers did not do that, the party was canceled.
Following the cancellation of the party, the group went on social media and asked people to come and riot at the business and confront law enforcement, according to HCSO.
Deputies said approximately 400 to 500 people gathered at the Astro Skate parking lot. They issued warnings and told people to leave.
One group left the parking lot and attacked a juvenile inside the Time Out Barber Shop. The victim was beaten and thrown through a glass window, according to deputies. The victim had non-life-threatening injuries and had a severe cut on the hand, according to deputies.
Another group went into a convenience store, damaged wine bottles worth $500, and stole an unknown amount of merchandise. Officials said the crowd was involved in fighting, damaging businesses, stealing, and disrupting normal business operations.
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House GOP Demands Answers on Alleged Attack on Detained J6er by Prison Guard in 2022
GOP Representatives Jim Jordan and Troy Nehls have opened an investigation into the alleged attack of a J6 defendant who was pepper sprayed in the face by a Washington DC corrections officer.
A letter released by Jordan and Nehls stated in a letter to DC Department of Corrections Director Thomas Faust, “The Committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections’ (DOC) decision to withhold information pertaining to a defendant housed in your facility.” Ronald McAbee, who was arrested over charges from J6, was allegedly pepper sprayed by an officer during his time in jail against policy.
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Illegal Daycare Employees Arrested for Spiking Children’s Food
Four people have been arrested and charged after they were caught dosing children with melatonin at an illegal New Hampshire daycare.
The substance is often used to enhance sleep.
The Manchester Police Juvenile Division said the arrests came after a lengthy investigation.
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Just in: Trump Would Consider Ken Paxton for US AG if He Wins in November
President Donald Trump has revealed that he would consider Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for national AG if Trump wins in November.
When asked by a KDFW-TV reporter if he would consider Paxton for the position, Trump responded, “I would, actually,” in the interview on Saturday at the annual NRA convention in Texas.
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Michael Cohen’s Admitted Theft From Trump Organization Stuns MSNBC, CNN Hosts
CNN and MSNBC hosts and guests were stunned by the revelations that ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen stole money from the Trump Organization.
Cohen testified Monday during cross-examination in New York’s case against former President Trump that he stole $60,000 from the Trump Organization, a revelation the prosecution failed to make clear during its questioning last week.
“It’s fascinating stuff,” CNN’s Jake Tapper said. “I have to say, I’m still kind of reeling from the revelation that Michael Cohen stole money from the Trump Organization and that wasn’t, at least to my knowledge, that the prosecution didn’t get that out earlier.”
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Michael Cohen Admits During Testimony He’s Considering Running for Congress
Disgraced former attorney and convicted perjurer Michael Cohen admitted during testimony at President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trail that he’s considering running for U.S. Congress.
While he didn’t reveal which party affiliation he would run on, it’s fairly obvious to most observers which side he would choose.
The admission came on the witness stand Monday during Cohen’s fourth day of testimony in the Democrats’ anti-Trump case in New York.
Cohen told the court that he would pursue congressional office because he has the “best name recognition out there.”
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Missouri Man Allegedly Helped in Suicide Attempt: Prosecutor
Prosecutors charged Christopher R. Crownover of Randolph, Missouri, with attempted voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action for allegedly helping in a suicide attempt.
A Randolph, Missouri, man is facing a charge of attempted voluntary manslaughter after he allegedly assisted in a suicide attempt, prosecutors said in a news release.
Clay County Prosecutor Zach Thompson also charged Christopher Ryan Crownover on Friday with one count of armed criminal action.
Prosecutors allege that Crownover “knowingly assisted” in an attempted suicide by instructing the victim to kill herself, selecting the knife and filming her as she stabbed herself.
Clay County Sheriff deputies responded about 11:45 p.m. Thursday to a home in Randolph, a small town in Clay County near Interstate 435 and the Missouri River, according to redacted copy of the affidavit, which describes why someone is charged with a crime. There, deputies found a person lying on the ground with a knife impaled on the left side of her body.
Crownover allegedly told deputies he had video of the person stabbing herself on his cellphone. Crownover allegedly said, “I was going to kill her if she didn’t kill herself,” and that he was the one who got the knife for her. Because the affidavit was redacted, it was unclear to whom he made the comments.
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Mortgage Brokers Leak Sensitive Data to Facebook
Another big source of Facebook’s “bread and butter” — namely, people’s personal data — has been highlighted in a new investigative report, which identified that source as the online mortgage brokers industry.
These are companies that act as intermediaries between borrowers and lenders, and when people either apply for a loan or seek refinancing, they give up highly sensitive information, trusting that it will be used by those firms alone.
But The Markup reveals that this data, in an alarming number of cases (over 200 out of about 700 tested broker websites), gets “shared” with Facebook.
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Oakland Locals Blame Homeless Encampment for City Removing Traffic Lights to Stop Copper Thieves
A California city removed the traffic lights from a four-way intersection as the city grapples with thefts attributed to a massive homeless encampment nearby.
Oakland has been experiencing high crime and theft, including people stealing copper wires and the city’s infrastructure, according to locals who spoke to CBS News. The city attempted to thwart criminals tampering with its electrical boxes by placing cement barriers over them — to no avail. Now, the city has taken to removing the traffic lights at a busy intersection and replacing them with stop signs.
“It’s just telling us that the city is giving up on us,” said Tam Le, owner of Le’s Auto Body & Engine Repair, nearby the intersection, told CBS News. “If you really want to fix the stop sign, I think you really have to clean up this homeless encampment.”
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Popular Podcast “Breaking Points” Joins Rumble
Rumble, an increasingly prominent provider of free speech cloud services and video-sharing disclosed today that it would serve as the new subscription provider for the popular news analysis podcast, Breaking Points. This move strengthens Rumble’s standing as a leading platform for political discourse.
Breaking Points will provide exclusive content on Rumble, featuring an interactive format that’s accessible to the general public. A subscription-based full version of the show will be available on Locals, Rumble’s affiliated platform. Paying subscribers will get exclusive member-only access and weekly Q&A opportunities.
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Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Drexel Ignore Call to Disband as Arrests Nationwide Surpass 3,000
Pro-Palestinian protesters ignored a request by Drexel University’s president to disband their encampment on Monday as arrests linked to campus demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war surpassed the 3,000 mark nationwide.
Drexel’s Philadelphia campus remained on lockdown, with classes being held virtually as police kept watch over the demonstration on the school’s Korman Quad. Many Drexel employees were told to work from home.
In a statement issued a day earlier, Drexel President John Fry said as many as 60 protesters were at the encampment, lambasting it as “intolerably disruptive to normal university operations.” He said there were “serious concerns about the conduct of some participants, including distressing reports and images of protestors subjecting passersby to antisemitic speech, signs and chants.” Fry threatened disciplinary action against Drexel students participating in the protest.
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he will support giving black farmers $5 billion in reparations once in office — throwing his weight behind a provision in President Biden’s American Rescue Plan that was struck down by a court as unconstitutional.
“When I’m in the White House… I’m going to get rid of those people in USDA and get that money,” Kennedy told John Boyd Jr., the founder of the National Black Farmers Association, in a recent episode of his podcast.
“That $5 billion is not money, that is an entitlement,” the 70-year-old added. “It’s money that was a loan that black farmers were entitled to way back when and was stolen from them through discrimination.”
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made a campaign promise to black farmers that will give them $5 billion in reparations should he win the 2024 presidential election.
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Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott Among Voters’ Top Picks for Trump Veep: Poll
If voters had their way, Donald Trump would pick one of his former 2024 primary rivals to be his running mate.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) are the top two choices among people who gave their preference for whom the 77-year-old Trump should pick to join the GOP ticket this year, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll out Monday.
DeSantis, who ruled himself out of being Trump’s No. 2 in February, was the pick of 12% of all voters surveyed and 23% of self-described Republicans.
The 45-year-old Sunshine Stater was followed in the preference list by Scott (9% of all voters, 12% of Republicans), biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (8%, 13%) and former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (5%, 8%).
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Trump Says Judge Merchan Has Way to Gain Back ‘Respect’ Despite Presiding Over ‘Witch Hunt’ Trial
NY v. Trump had a whirlwind day in court, including Michael Cohen admitting he stole thousands from Trump Org
Former President Donald Trump said the judge presiding over the NY v. Trump trial, Juan Merchan, can earn back “respect” if he rules to dismiss the case.
“This case should be dropped by the judge. I think the judge, if he did, that … could gain the respect back. The appellate court has to step in, something has to happen. Think of it, the Republican Party, one of the two great parties, nominates somebody to be their candidate. And that candidate now has been sitting here for almost five weeks in a freezing cold icebox listening to this stuff,” Trump said Monday following a whirlwind day in court.
“I think the case is going very well. We’ve asked for termination of the case. This case should be terminated. This shouldn’t go anywhere. It should be terminated right now. And New York State has to build up its system again. New York State can’t let this happen. We can’t let this happen. There were no crimes. We did nothing wrong. And I want to get back to campaigning. I’m representing millions and millions, hundreds of millions of people,” Trump later added.
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Trump Leads Biden 52-47% in Arizona: CBS/YouGov Poll
A new poll out of Arizona has revealed that Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden by five points.
The CBS News/YouGov poll found that 52 percent of registered voters in the state said they would vote for Trump, compared to 47 percent who said they would vote for Biden. No respondents said they would vote for a third-party candidate, and none said they were unsure of who to pick.
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Trump Leads Biden by 11 Points Among Independent Voters Nationwide: Harvard/Harris Poll
A new national poll has revealed that Donald Trump leads Biden by 6 points overall, with Trump seeing s lead margin among independent voters at 11 percent.
The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found that 49 percent of voters nationwide would cast their ballot for Trump, while 43 percent said the same for Biden. 8 percent were unsure.
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USA Today Says to ‘Save America’ From Trump, Biden Must ‘Drop Out of the Race’
In an op-ed published on Monday titled “How can Biden save America from Trump’s return to the White House? Drop out of the race,” USA Today urged for Joe Biden to drop out of the race “for the good of the nation and the party.”
Jeremy Mayer, an associate professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, wrote for the outlet that Biden and GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump are “the two oldest and among the most unpopular candidates in our history,” adding though that it “doesn’t have to be that way.”
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Waco Police: 14-Year-Old Boy Stabs 9-Year-Old, 10-Year-Old Boys
Waco police say a 14-year-old boy stabbed two younger boys — one 9, the other 10 — on Sunday night, but the victims should be OK.
That’s according to KWTX News, which cited Waco police in reporting that the 14-year-old stabbed the other boys — both of whom he knew — around the corner from Dollar General, 4012 Bosque Blvd.
After getting stabbed, the 9-year-old ran about a half-mile to the store to ask for help, according to KWTX. Police were called out to the scene at around 8:18 p.m.
The 10-year-old was later found nearby, and both victims were taken to the hospital to treat the non-fatal stab wounds. The 14-year-old has been taken to a local juvenile detention center.
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The White House refused to confirm or deny Monday whether President Joe Biden intends to use performance-enhancing drugs in preparation for the presidential debates.
Former President Donald Trump believes Biden should receive a drug test before the debates.
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Jewish Community Rallies Around Young Student Too Unsafe to Walk to School
The safety of a young Jewish student was at risk walking to school, prompting the community to gather around him and act as protection.
Calls for a community support walk were posted Friday morning, about an hour before a student was set to walk to school.
The young Jewish elementary school student was repeatedly attacked by his schoolmates. He allegedly received death threats that included threats “to do to him what Hamas did to Israel.” The boy had experienced having rocks thrown at him on his way to school, according to the post calling for the community’s help.
“Our community must act… If the school can’t keep our kids safe, we will,” read the post.
The post to X confirmed that the young boy’s parents had asked for help.
The walk was set to take place about an hour after the post was published. Despite this, approximately 150 people showed up to walk the student to school and act as protection.
“Simply being a Jewish child is now a safety risk in Canada,” read the post.
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UCP MLAs to Attend Town Hall Highlighting COVID Vaccine Harms
A town hall discussing the harm and even deaths attributed to COVID-19 vaccines will double as an opportunity for Albertans to mingle with UCP MLAs, organizers say.
The event, titled “An Injection of Truth Town Hall,” will host vaccine researchers and critics in Calgary-Lougheed next month, according to a listing on the UCP’s official event website. Attendees who purchase tickets will also receive access to the after party Politics and Popcorn, where they can mingle with speakers and MLAs, including the rookie MLA for the riding, Eric Bouchard.
“Was your child killed or injured by a COVID shot? Do you have a story to tell? You should be heard,” reads the event page.
“Are you one of the remarkable doctors, scientists or researchers who know the answers? Now is the time to say the quiet part out loud; let’s target the elephant in the room.”
The page cites recent statistics that show excessive deaths for children are up 350% since 2021.
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‘Day of Shame’ as Inquiry Slams ‘Successive Governments’ for UK Infected Blood Scandal
The UK prime minister issued an apology in the House of Commons, promising to compensate victims for the government’s failings.
An inquiry report into the UK’s infected blood scandal in the 1970s and 1980s documented a series of failures by “successive governments” and medical professionals in the UK.
Roughly 3,000 people are believed to have died as a result of being infected with HIV and hepatitis from blood transfusions during what’s seen as the deadliest scandal to afflict the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) since its inception in 1948.
“It will be astonishing to anyone who reads this Report that these events could have happened in the UK,” reads the inquiry report’s introductory summary.
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EU Leaders Offer Iran “Sincere Condolences” and “Solidarity” Following Death of ‘Butcher of Tehran’
Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran, has died in a helicopter crash, according to state media. Brussels officials have described the crash as “tragic” and have offered their “sincere condolences” and even “solidarity” to the Islamic Republic of Iran, despite Raisi’s role in sentencing thousands of political prisoners to death in the 1980s, which earned him the moniker ‘Butcher of Tehran’.
Raisi was a longstanding close ally of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. As president of the country since 2021, he supported Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea; backed Iraqi militias attacking and killing American soldiers; and helped Hamas fight its genocidal war against Israel—to list just a few egregious examples.
At home, Raisi oversaw an increased enforcement of the ‘hijab and chastity law,’ under which women face 10 years in jail for “inappropriate” dress. The United Nations recently found that his administration was responsible for the “physical violence” that led to the 2022 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested for allegedly breaking this law. His officials then responded brutally to the nationwide protests her death prompted.
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Italy: Two Lega Activists Hospitalised After Brutal Attack
A vicious assault on two supporters of the Italian right-wing Lega party over the weekend has been roundly condemned by conservative Italian MPs.
The father and son activists, aged 60 and 15 years respectively, had been handing out leaflets on behalf of Lega’s Andrea Tragaioli, mayor of Rivoli, a commune in the municipality of Turin, on Sunday morning. After being surrounded by a group of seven people, the Lega supporters were attacked and beaten with bats.
Both suffered injuries to their backs and faces, with the 15-year-old, who also suffered an eye injury, being sent for a CT scan at a nearby hospital due to head trauma. The identities of the assailants are so far unknown. Both Lega supporters were kept in hospital for further observation.
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Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance lauded Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s crackdown on higher education and defended the controversial leader in Budapest amid bipartisan criticism in the US.
“I don’t know everything he’s ever done,” Vance told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “On the university principle, the idea that taxpayers should have some influence in how their money is spent on these universities — it’s a totally reasonable thing.
In February, Vance suggested Orban’s crackdown on campuses was “closest conservatives have ever gotten to successfully dealing with the left-wing domination of universities.”
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a “great project to build a safe border”, but as leader of the Conservatives (PiS) parliamentary caucus and former defense minister, Mariusz Blaszczak, observes, that policy was already in place thanks to the last PiS government.
Tusk took to the stage in Kraków during the 80th-anniversary ceremony commemorating the Battle of Monte Cassino to announce a program to strengthen the eastern border. “We have decided to invest PLN 10 billion (€2.35 billion) in our security, and above all in a safe eastern border. We have started this work so that the Polish border will be safe in times of peace and so that it will be an impassable border for the enemy in times of war,” announced Tusk in Kraków.
The Polish prime minister has called this national defense and deterrence plan, “Eastern Shield,” adding that it would protect Poland “against attacks from the east and provide a deterrent.” The fortifications are to be built along a 400-kilometer stretch of the border with Belarus and Russia.
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Ronald Plasterk Says He Will Not Seek to Become Next Dutch PM Amid Ethics Probe
Politician Ronald Plasterk will not become the next prime minister of the Netherlands, he told the Telegraaf. Plasterk, a trained microbiologist who also writes a column for the newspaper, said he is “no longer available” for the job as he has found himself at the center of a growing controversy around a patent for a cancer treatment.
When he was the head of the Amsterdam Medical Center, Plasterk allegedly claimed sole credit for the medical treatment, and largely cut out the hospital and the researcher Kees Punt. He is both an oncology professor and the head of oncology at the Amsterdam University Medical Center, the teaching hospital’s current name. Details about the ethics scandal have been published in recent weeks in the NRC, which noted Plasterk and his company earned millions of euros.
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The 14-year-old girl from Montenegro had planned to carry out the attack on ‘infidels’ or non-believers on one of the biggest squares in the city of Graz, according to local media.
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Seven Times ‘Yes’ for Poland — PiS Leader Announces Positive Plan for Poland in the EU
The head of the Law and Justice (PiS) party Jaroslaw Kaczynski spoke at a rally in Tomasz Mazowiecki, central Poland, in the run-up to the European elections. He chose to repeat the approach his party had successfully taken during the recent local government election campaign, which saw it come first in the regional council elections.
Kaczynski concentrated on a positive seven-point plan to build consensus about the future of Poland. He described it as “seven times yes for Poland,” chiming well with the fact that the PiS list has drawn number seven on the list of parties in the European parliamentary elections.
The first point on the list was a yes to major capital investment projects such as the central airport (CPK), the container port in Swinoujscie, making the Oder River navigable, and nuclear power, including large and small nuclear reactor construction programs.
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Slovakia: Fico’s Shooter May Not Have Acted Alone
Slovakia’s interior ministry is starting to work on the assumption that the suspect in the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico may not have acted as a “lone wolf,” as was previously believed.
Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok said on Sunday that “the crime may have been committed by a certain group of people,” rather than a lone disgruntled citizen. This view has been given credence by the fact the suspect’s online “communication history” was deleted just two hours after the attack. This deletion was not carried out by Fico’s attacker, nor by his wife, who reports say “is not technically proficient enough to be able to delete the communication.”
Officials also said on Sunday that Fico is now out of immediate danger but remains in intensive care after he was shot several times at point-blank range by 71-year-old Juraj Cintula.
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Spain: Socialists Propose Scrapping Public Input on Laws
Spain’s left-wing parties are attempting to pass a measure that will make it easier for Congress to skip public consultation when passing new legislation.
The Objective reports that the governing Socialist Party and its far-left junior partner Sumar added an amendment to the Gender Parity Bill that introduces a new formula allowing the government to pass laws without prior consultation with experts or the public.
The current government is known for introducing important legislation as “urgent,” which also allows for cutting corners on public debate, but this new rule will add another option that can be applied to a wider swath of regulations.
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UK High Court Allows Assange to Challenge US Extradition
Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks, has successfully been granted permission by the UK’s High Court to contest his extradition to the United States on espionage allegations. Assange is currently under prosecution in the US, suspected of conspiring activities aimed at acquiring and sharing classified defense material involving hundreds of thousands of leaked documents dating from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, that showed alleged war crimes.
Assange was absent from the hearing in London due to health concerns.
The risk of his swift removal and actions taking place towards his extradition would have escalated significantly if his plea for an appeal had been denied. However, his defense team is firmly committed to bringing a halt to his extradition and is prepared to lobby the European Court of Human Rights for an urgent injunction to prevent it.
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UK: Just Stop Oil Could be Forced to Pay Compensation for Protest Disruption Under Government Plans
Protesters could be forced to pay compensation for the disruption they cause under proposals in a review by a Government adviser.
Individuals, businesses or institutions that could show they endured loss, distress or suffering from an illegal protest would be entitled to court-ordered compensation from activists, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The measures are said to be contained in a review by Lord Walney, the Government’s adviser on political violence and disruption, which will be published on Tuesday.
The measures could be used to impose financial costs on organisations like Just Stop Oil if they carry out acts such as blocking roads or disrupting businesses.
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Viva 24: Madrid Conference Shows Beginnings of Unified European Right
An international ensemble of right-wing personalities gathered in Madrid over the weekend as part of the “Europa VIVA 24” event, lending hope to the possibility of Europe’s fragmented populist right congealing before—and after—next month’s EU elections.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni appeared by video link while Hungary’s Viktor Orban mounted the stage in person in a meeting between groups and parties from all corners of the European Right, including Polish Law and Justice (PiS) former PM Mateusz Morawiecki and Rassemblement National’s (RN) Marine Le Pen.
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Amal Clooney Played Key Role in ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Hamas Leaders
Amal Clooney, wife of actor George Clooney, was among the experts who advised the International Criminal Court (ICC) in seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar over alleged war crimes.
The ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, asked Clooney, 46, to assist him with evaluating evidence of suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel and the Gaza Strip, where Israeli military forces have been operating since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.
“I agreed and joined a panel of international legal experts to undertake this task,” Clooney, an attorney, said in a lengthy statement on the Clooney Foundation for Justice website.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the International Criminal Court’s decision to pursue arrest warrants against him and his defense minister are the latest examples of “what the new antisemitism looks like.”
Netanyahu is speaking out for the first time Monday after ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said his office has “reasonable grounds” to believe Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leaders committed “war crimes and crimes against humanity” during the war in Gaza.
“As the prime minister of Israel, I reject with disgust the Hague prosecutor’s comparison between democratic Israel and the mass murderers of Hamas,” Netanyahu said in a video message translated from Hebrew. “This is a complete distortion of reality. This is exactly what the new antisemitism looks like. It has moved from the campuses in the West to the court in The Hague.”
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Clooney, a renowned human rights lawyer, was named as one of the six legal experts who helped British prosecutor Karim Khan come to the decision.
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US Lashes Out After Israeli Officials Targeted With Arrest Warrants
U.S. officials went on the offensive Monday after the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed arrest warrants against two top Israeli leaders over the war in Gaza, a move that Congress and the White House slammed for equating Israel’s conduct with the Palestinian militant group’s Oct. 7 attack.
President Biden and moderate Democrats united with Republicans in Congress to criticize the ICC shortly after the Monday notice that arrest warrants had been filed for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, along with three top Hamas officials.
They argued the ICC has no jurisdiction in the case and was undermining its own credibility, while House Republican leaders threatened to sanction the court over the warrants.
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Biden State Department Expresses Condolences to Iran for Death of ‘Butcher of Tehran’ Ebrahim Raisi
The Biden administration’s State Department expressed condolences to Iran after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, otherwise known as “The Butcher of Tehran.”
Raisi died during a helicopter crash over the weekend. After the events, the US State Department sent out a press release expressing condolences to the nation which is normally seen as adversarial to the United States.
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Tyson Fury Says Split Decision in Favor of Oleksandr Usyk Motivated by Sympathy for Ukraine
Tyson Fury, moments after losing to Oleksandr Usyk by split decision in a fight for the undisputed heavyweight title, threw one last punch.
It was a very low blow of the metaphorical variety.
Fury intimated that judges awarded the right to Usyk, the Ukrainian boxer, because Ukraine is at war. The country was invaded by Russia more than two years ago.
“You know his country’s at war, so people are siding for the country at war,’’ Fury said during a post-fight interview in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. “Make no mistake, I won that fight, and I’ll be back.’’
Manuel Oliver Palermo of Spain scored the fight 115-112 in favor of Usyk, and Craig Metcalfe of Canada scored it 114-113 in favor of Usyk. Mike Fitzgerald of the United States scored it 114-113 in favor of Fury.
After Fury’s remarks, water sprayed into his face from the director of Usyk’s camp. Usyk motioned for it stop.
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Malaysian Doctor Goes Viral After Apologizing for Administering COVID Shots
(LifeSiteNews) — On April 17, a restorative doctor from Malaysia posted what seemed to be a sincere apology for administering the experimental COVID-19 “vaccines” to patients.
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Anti-Woke American Matt Walsh Takes Another Swipe at Australia
An anti-woke US commentator has suggested Australia should be invaded and returned to its roots as a penal colony.
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Nikki, who lives in Brisbane and works as an administrative assistant said the cost of living has left her without a personal life.
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Rory Nairn, 26, died from an inflamed heart — myocarditis — 12 days after receiving his first dose of the Comirnaty (Pfizer) vaccine at a pharmacy in 2021.
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Rising Rugby Star Son of Top New Zealand Lawmaker Dies Suddenly at 22
Brody Cameron, a rising star in New Zealand rugby, has tragically died suddenly at just 22 years old, according to his family.
The young athlete’s death was announced by his prominent politician father, ACT Member of Parliament Mark Cameron.
MP Cameron announced the death of his son Brody last week, five days after he died unexpectedly.
“Good speed my Son, my boy,” the top lawmaker wrote on Facebook.
“I love you always, Dad. RIP.”
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Alabama: Illegal Alien, Freed Into U.S., Charged With Murdering 19-Year-Old Adam Luker
An illegal alien, released into the United States, is accused of murdering 19-year-old Adam Luker in a drunk driving crash in Mobile County, Alabama.
Antonio Antonio Rodas, a 29-year-old illegal alien, was arrested on May 8 and chargedwith murdering Luker.
According to Mobile County prosecutors, on April 28, Rodas was drunk driving at three times the legal limit and going 88 mph when he ran through a red light and crashed into Luker, who had the green light and was turning at the intersection.
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More than 80,000 rejected asylum seekers are still in Australia despite their claims for protection being denied, with the majority enjoying full work and study rights.
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Dem Residents Object to New Illegal Immigrant Housing Being Made in Former Massachusetts Prison
Residents are furious over Massachusetts announcing that it is transforming a former state prison into a shelter for hundreds of illegal immigrants and homeless individuals currently being held at Logan International Airport in Boston and on a shelter waitlist.
The Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI), a medium-security facility, is being renovated using taxpayer dollars to serve as a temporary shelter in Norfolk, a small town that voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
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Explosive Survey Shows How Many Voters Want Lockups and Deportations to Tackle Migrant Surge
Fears about America’s immigration crisis have been laid bare by a poll that shows broad support for roundups and mass deportations of non-legal migrants.
Fully 56 percent of voters said most or all immigrants in the US illegally should be rounded up and deported, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
That is understood to apply to at least 10 million people, and perhaps many more.
Another 36 percent of registered voters supported the use of detention camps to hold undocumented migrants before they’re kicked out of the country.
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Ireland: Migrant Housing Project Halted After Construction Vehicles Torched
A construction contractor tasked with building migrant housing in Clonmel, Ireland has reportedly withdrawn from the project after its heavy machinery was torched last week.
Sisk Ltd. reportedly made the decision to halt construction after the rental company decided to withhold further vehicles when several excavators were found destroyed by fire and a portable security tower equipped with cameras was vandalized Thursday.
Security workers were also assaulted by a group of individuals, with one needing hospitalization.
Footage of the site shared by locals on social media shows the scorched remains of the excavators, the partially destroyed security tower, and a hollowed-out workers marquee.
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Mohammed Ali Ahmad-Rezaei, 46 was sentenced in Adelaide’s District Court on Monday after a jury found him guilty of five counts of rape last year.
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Britain is ‘leading the charge’ in tackling illegal migration, Rishi Sunak said last night ahead of talks with his Austrian counterpart to agree closer cooperation.
The Prime Minister will meet Austrian chancellor Karl Nehammer in Vienna today.
They are set to agree that Rwanda-style models are part of the solution to tackling the ‘pan-European’ challenge of migration.
Last week Austria was among 15 EU countries who warned that they would have to ‘think outside the box’ to tackle the root causes of irregular arrivals. Mr Nehammer said earlier this week that asylum procedures in safe third countries outside Europe are a ‘necessity’.
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UK: Record Illegal Migration Shows Rwanda Plan Isn’t Working
Rishi Sunak’s ‘Rwanda plan’—meant to deter Channel crossings by sending asylum seekers to the East African nation to have their claims processed—will not work. Sunak himself has always known this, despite his persistent claim that “the plan is working.” Illegal migrants know this too, and are so undeterred that they are still crossing the English Channel into Britain, now in record numbers.
It was revealed on Friday, May 17th, that 9,681 migrants made the perilous journey in the first five months of this year. This is higher than the total for the first five months of any previous year since records began. And officials reckon the figure will top 10,000 this week.
It is no wonder that migrants continue to pay people smugglers to get them across the Channel; they know that once inside, the chance of them being deported to Rwanda is not just slim but almost non-existent. In turn, it is clear that the smugglers are the main customers for a thriving market in custom-made ‘small boats,’ commissioned to make a single trip across the English Channel. Everyone involved in the process exudes confidence — except for the UK electorate.
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Desperate Chinese nationals are travelling to Indonesia with the intention of illegally entering Australia by boat.
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Patients Who Undergo Sex Changes Over 12x More Likely to Attempt Suicide: Study
A comprehensive study by researchers at the University of Texas has debunked claims made by transgender activists who say that undergoing a sex change prevents suicide.
The frequently touted claim was put to the test by researchers who analyzed the cases of millions of patients, both those who had undergone sex changes and those who had not.
Findings showed that those who changed their gender had a 12 times higher suicide attempt risk than those admitted for emergency care with no history of sex change surgery.
The peer-reviewed study was published in April 2024 and is the largest of its kind.
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Pedophile Advocacy Group Opposes Age-Verification Laws for Pornography
Pedophile advocacy group Prostasia, which seeks to destigmatize pedophiles, has spoken out against age-verification laws that require pornography websites to verify that users looking to access the site are over the age of 18.
“Age verification laws do not protect children the way they are intended, they restrict free speech and prevent people from educating children about healthy and unhealthy behaviors. Protecting children happens at the policy level,” the organization wrote.
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Following a trip to Seattle, prominent “plus size travel” activist and self-described “proud fat girl” Jae’lynn Cheney claimed that her request to access a wheelchair service was ignored, and that she had been instead forced to walk up part of the jet bridge between the plane and the terminal.
In a TikTok video, Cheney alleged that when she deplaned, an employee was waiting, but upon realizing that she’d be pushing her, “started to walk away with the wheelchair while making comments about my size.”
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Polish Cardinals Speak Out Against Warsaw’s Ban on Religious Symbols
Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski has enacted policies prohibiting religious symbols in city offices, sparking significant debate among religious and political figures.
Warsaw is the first Polish city to implement such a ban, preventing civil servants from displaying religious symbols on their desks, as reported by Gazeta Wyborcza.
Addressing the media, Archbishop of Lódz Cardinal Grzegorz Rys criticized the approach of stripping public spaces of religious identity, emphasizing that a true community involves embracing individual identities rather than nullifying them. “We have a crucial lesson to learn; a community among people is not a community of erased individuals,” he stated.
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Pope Francis Backtracks on Blessings for Same-Sex Couples
ROME — Pope Francis has added to the confusion regarding the blessing of same-sex couples, now insisting that only the individuals may be blessed and not the couple.
In a conversation with CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell that aired on 60 Minutes on Sunday, the pontiff seemed to reverse a Vatican text from last December that explicitly allowed for the blessing of same-sex couples.
“Last year you decided to allow Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples,” O’Donnell said to the pope. “That’s a big change. Why?”
“No, what I allowed was not to bless the union,” Francis replied. “That cannot be done because that is not the sacrament. I cannot. The Lord made it that way.”
“But to bless each person, yes. The blessing is for everyone. For everyone. To bless a homosexual-type union, however, goes against the given right, against the law of the Church. But to bless each person, why not? The blessing is for all.”
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The Human Rights Campaign president announced that the LGBTQ oganization will be doing a swing state blitz campaign in an attempt to get voters out to support Biden in 2024. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced that they will hire field workers to go knock doors, make phone calls, and launch ads in the effort to boost Biden over the finish line in November, to the tune of $15 million.
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The Labour Party is reportedly preparing to make the process of legally changing one’s gender easier, potentially by allowing just one doctor, regardless of expertise, to sign off on the decision.
With the general election looming in Britain and current projections pointing towards a resounding victory for Labour, the left-wing party is already consumed in discussions on the issue of gender and how the party will govern if given power.
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Baron, I don’t speak English, it’s difficult for me to find relevant links, and it makes no sense to insert Russian-language ones here.
Maybe you can find something. There is unrest in Kyrgyzstan. Connected with locals and international students. Someone harassed someone, then there were mass beatings. And it seems there were even rapes of Pakistani students. I’m not sure.
Pakistan is now evacuating its citizens by plane. Kyrgyzstan clearly sided with its citizens. Also, foreigners working as couriers are now being fired en masse.
But if you are interested, I can provide links in Russian.
Thank you. I’ll look around, see what news I can find in English.
I found this:
Kyrgyzstan’s President Warns of Swift Crackdown If Unrest Flares Again
https://timesca.com/kyrgyzstans-president-warns-of-swift-crackdown-if-unrest-flares-again/
Unrest in Kyrgyzstan: What sparked the attacks on hostels housing Indian, Pakistani students?
https://www.wionews.com/world/unrest-in-kyrgyzstan-what-sparked-the-attacks-on-hostels-housing-indian-pakistani-students-722926/amp
Thank you!
I’m sorry that RFK Jr has shown himself to be a grifter and race baiter. His views on the false vaccines and “Dr” Fauci are sound. Everyone lets you down eventually.
baron
do you know why western rifle shooters site is down ?
It’s not down, it just moved from https to http, for technical reasons that I don’t understand.
Use this URL:
http://westernrifleshooters.us/
I read that Kennedy walked down aeroplane aisle and went in to toilet barefooted. Would not vote for him!
How cares about burger-stan?
Ronald McDonald?
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Edward Dowd: The Pandemic Scorecard
“My estimate is that 8-17 million have died and 60 million have been injured/disabled worldwide. In the USA alone, 33 million are either sick, disabled or dead.”
In a brand new interview, Dowd brings us up to date with what’s been happening lately. He calls the behavior of those responsible “attitude step dancing” as more and more truths leak out. “Trust in politicians, institutions and authorities will plummet, and perhaps that is even the intention of the globalists.”
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Canadian Kayla Pollock ended up in a wheelchair after vaccine injury. I had her story on March 28:Covid-vaccinated Kayla Pollock suffered a spinal cord injury. Here she is with Jim Ferguson, who is convinced that those responsible will pay for their misdeeds.
The virologist Geert vanden Bossche is also completely sure that they will not get away with it unpunished. After all, he has a theory that the next virus will come within a few months, and will hit all vaccinated particularly hard, as their immune system cannot defend them against death and disease. He says that politicians must prescribe Ivermectin and other antivirals to avoid mass death, and that this must be consumed immediately when the virus debuts, whether it is on the other side of the world. One must not hope that he will be right, but we will know soon, and he has staked all his honor on it.