A politician for the Liberal Party in Quebec said that online speech that is hurtful to politicians should be banned. Meanwhile, women’s rights activists in Pakistan are facing renewed allegations of blasphemy.
In other news, an Italian prosecutor told a court in Sicily that Matteo Salvini should not be charged with “kidnapping” for closing ports to migrant-rescue ferries when he was Minister of the Interior.
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Hungary: Kopint-Tarki Raises GDP Forecast to 4.5% in 2021
Economic research institute Kopint-Tarki on Wednesday raised its forecast for Hungary’s economic growth in 2021 to 4.5 percent from its December projection of 3.5 percent.
Éva Palócz, the think tank’s head, said economic growth in 2021 will partly result from a base effect, with a rebound of around 10 percent expected in the second quarter.
In 2022, Kopint-Tarki forecasts GDP growth of 4.5 percent.
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WEF Warns of Cyber Attack Leading to Systemic Collapse of the Global Financial System
A report published last year by the WEF-Carnegie Cyber Policy Initiative calls for the merging of Wall Street banks, their regulators and intelligence agencies as necessary to confront an allegedly imminent cyber attack that will collapse the existing financial system.
[Comment: They are announcing what they are planning to do.]
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Anti-Free Speech Muslim Group Sues Facebook for Not Removing Sites Opposing Jihad Violence
My latest at PJ Media:
The tech site Engadget reported Thursday that the far-left legal group Muslim Advocates has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Facebook for allowing “anti-Muslim hate to spread on the platform, leading to real-world harm.” The organization provided a list of what it claimed were 26 “anti-Muslim hate groups,” including organizations that are dedicated simply to opposing jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others, including my own news site Jihad Watch, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, the Center for Security Policy, and other groups whose main crime is opposing leftist Islamopandering and the left’s tendency to turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses sanctioned by Islamic law.
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Antifa-BLM thugs violently assaulted an independent reporter on Saturday who was covering an anti-eviction march through Greektown in Detroit, Michigan.
Marchers chanted, “Black homes are under attack, tell me what do we do, rise up fight back!”
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Biden Creates Federal Commission to Study SCOTUS Reform
President Joe Biden created a federal commission on Friday to conduct a six-month study on proposed changes to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“The Commission’s purpose is to provide an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform, including an appraisal of the merits and legality of particular reform proposals,” the White House said in a statement on Friday.
“The topics it will examine include the genesis of the reform debate; the Court’s role in the Constitutional system; the length of service and turnover of justices on the Court; the membership and size of the Court; and the Court’s case selection, rules, and practices.”
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Biden’s ATF Pick Defended Waco Massacre by Falsely Claiming Branh Davidians Shot Down Helicopters
David Chipman, Biden’s gun-grabbing pick to lead the ATF, defended the massacre at Waco in an AMA post on Reddit, by falsely claiming that Branch Davidians shot down helicopters.
Chipman, who served in the ATF for 25 years as a special agent, and currently works as a senior policy advisor for the anti-Second Amendment group Giffords, was nominated by Biden to lead the agency as the director. In 2019, Chipman made an “Ask Me Anything” post on Reddit in 2019. When Redditors posed Chipman hard questions, such as asking him if there was any actual hard evidence that firearms proliferation among normal citizens was an actual causal factor in gun violence, Chipman resorted to flat out lies.
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Could mRNA Vaccines Permanently Alter DNA? Recent Science Suggests They Might.
A December preprint about SARS-CoV-2, by scientists at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), produced findings about wild coronavirus that raise questions about how viral RNA operates.
The scientists conducted the analysis because they were “puzzled by the fact that there is a respectable number of people who are testing positive for COVID-19 by PCR long after the infection was gone.”
Their key findings were as follows: SARS-CoV-2 RNAs “can be reverse transcribed in human cells,” “these DNA sequences can be integrated into the cell genome and subsequently be transcribed” (a phenomenon called “retro-integration”) — and there are viable cellular pathways to explain how this happens.
According to Ph.D. biochemist and molecular biologist Dr. Doug Corrigan, these important findings (which run contrary to “current biological dogma”) belong to the category of “Things We Were Absolutely and Unequivocally Certain Couldn’t Happen Which Actually Happened.”
The findings of the Harvard and MIT researchers also put the CDC’s assumptions about mRNA vaccines on shakier ground, according to Corrigan. In fact, a month before the Harvard-MIT preprint appeared, Corrigan had already written a blog outlining possible mechanisms and pathways whereby mRNA vaccines could produce the identical phenomenon.
In a second blog post, written after the preprint came out, Corrigan emphasized that the Harvard-MIT findings about coronavirus RNA have major implications for mRNA vaccines — a fact he describes as “the big elephant in the room.” While not claiming that vaccine RNA will necessarily behave in the same way as coronavirus RNA — that is, permanently altering genomic DNA — Corrigan believes that the possibility exists and deserves close scrutiny.
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Crazed Crewcut Lady Has Meltdown Over Masking and Decides to Post it Online (Video)
Another crazy woman has a meltdown on camera over masking.
For some reason, TikTok user Budtendermary thought it would be a good idea to let the world see how out of control her life is.
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Democrat Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot received loud boos on Thursday at the White Sox home opener at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Guaranteed Rate Field was limited to 20% capacity and fans had to wear face masks.
[Comment: I wish I were there to join the booing.]
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Florida Gov. DeSantis Sues Federal Government Over Cruise Industry Shutdown
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a lawsuit on Thursday against the federal government over the cruise industry shutdown that was originally ordered by the CDC on March 14, 2020.
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Former Pfizer VP: ‘Your Government is Lying to You in a Way That Could Lead to Your Death.’
‘Look out the window, and think, “why is my government lying to me about something so fundamental?” Because, I think the answer is, they are going to kill you using this method. They’re going to kill you and your family.’
Dr. Michael Yeadon, Pfizer’s former Vice President and Chief Scientist for Allergy & Respiratory who spent 32 years in the industry leading new medicines research and retired from the pharmaceutical giant with “the most senior research position” in his field, spoke with LifeSiteNews.
He addressed the “demonstrably false” propaganda from governments in response to COVID-19, including the “lie” of dangerous variants, the totalitarian potential for “vaccine passports,” and the strong possibility we are dealing with a “conspiracy” which could lead to something far beyond the carnage experienced in the wars and massacres of the 20th century.
His main points included:
There is “no possibility” current variants of COVID-19 will escape immunity. It is “just a lie.”
Yet, governments around the world are repeating this lie, indicating that we are witnessing not just “convergent opportunism,” but a “conspiracy.” Meanwhile media outlets and Big Tech platforms are committed to the same propaganda and the censorship of the truth.
Pharmaceutical companies have already begun to develop unneeded “top-up” (“booster”) vaccines for the “variants.” The companies are planning to manufacture billions of vials, in addition to the current experimental COVID-19 “vaccine” campaign.
Regulatory agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency, have announced that since these “top-up” vaccines will be so similar to the prior injections which were approved for emergency use authorization, drug companies will not be required to “perform any clinical safety studies.”
Thus, this virtually means that design and implementation of repeated and coerced mRNA vaccines “go from the computer screen of a pharmaceutical company into the arms of hundreds of millions of people, [injecting] some superfluous genetic sequence for which there is absolutely no need or justification.”
Why are they doing this? Since no benign reason is apparent, the use of vaccine passports along with a “banking reset” could issue in a totalitarianism unlike the world has ever seen. Recalling the evil of Stalin, Mao, and Hitler, “mass depopulation” remains a logical outcome.
The fact that this at least could be true means everyone must “fight like crazy to make sure that system never forms.”
[Comment: Highly recommended reading.]
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Louisville Police Sent Out to Arrest Murder Suspect — What Happened Next Was Insane! (Video)
Louisville Police were sent out to arrest murder suspect Deandre Smithers on Friday who is wanted for a homicide in the city on March 16.
Smithers was spotted by police and fled to a nearby apartment building in the Park Hill projects. The LMPD SWAT and Hostage Negotiating Team were called to the scene.
That’s when all hell broke loose.
Locals wrestled with police as they attempted to arrest the wanted killer.
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Portland’s Latest Idiotic Plan: Unarmed Park Rangers to Confront Gun Wielding Maniacs
Help Wanted: Unarmed pseudo law enforcement rangers to patrol Portland’s parks and confront violent individuals who have guns. You’ll be supplied with a radio and a flashlight. Apply via the city’s website.
Raise your hand if you’re chomping at the bit to sign up for that job! That’s exactly what America’s *favorite* mayor, Ted Wheeler, and his assembled city commissioners have drawn up to counter the sharp rise in shootings and other violent crime that have plagued the city in recent years. The $6 Million comprehensive plan will allocate $1.4 Million to add about 24 new park rangers to the existing cadres, assuming people will actually apply for the jobs.
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Report: Phillip Adams Shootings Were Sparked by Decision to Stop Medication
It remains unknown why former NFL defensive back Phillip Adams shot and killed a prominent South Carolina doctor, his wife, two grandchildren, and another person. A new report supplies a potential motive.
South Carolina U.S. Representative Ralph Norman tells Alex Giles of WBTV that Dr. Robert Lesslie had been treating Adams, and that Dr. Lesslie had stopped giving Adams medication.
“He was treating him and stopped giving him medicine and that’s what triggered the killings from what I understand,” Norman said….
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Supreme Court Rules Against California’s Limits on In-Home Religious Gatherings
The U.S. Supreme Court in a divided decision late Friday ruled in favor of lifting restrictions on in-home religious gatherings, overturning a lower court ruling that upheld Gov. Gavin Newsom’s limits on people from different homes.
The 5-4 unsigned ruling follows other similar decisions recently regarding churches and the coronavirus pandemic. The decision noted it was the fifth time the court has rejected the Ninth Circuit’s analysis of California coronavirus restrictions.
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Virginia Tech Faces New Lawsuit Over Alleged Free Speech Violations
Virginia Tech is facing a new lawsuit from Speech First, a First Amendment watchdog organization, over allegedly violating students’ rights with vague and broad rules surrounding student speech.
In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, Speech First alleges that Virginia Tech’s policies “restrain, deter, depress, and punish speech about the political and social issue of the day.” The organization takes issue with policies that encourage students to police each other, even anonymously, and for incidents that take place outside of campus.
Speech First describes a college environment where speaking freely comes with serious risks of discipline. “Under these policies, students can be disciplined for ‘unwelcome jokes’ — or even being present when such jokes are made and failing to report when such comments are made by another person; sending “partisan, political” emails using the university’s internet; or failing to register to hand out flyers on campus,” the organization says.
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West Virginia Attorney General Promises to Sue Biden Admin if He Enacts His Gun Control Policies
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrissey has vowed to sue the Biden administration if they “run roughshod over our citizens’ gun rights.”
Morrissey said in a statement that defending the Second Amendment is one of the most important priorities for his office.
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United Airlines took their wokeness to the next level this week after condemning Georgia’s new voter integrity laws.
United happily announced it will train thousands of new pilots based on race.
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Wyoming Governor Signs Bill That Requires Voter ID at Polling Station
Republican Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed House Bill 75 into law Tuesday that requires Wyoming voters to present a valid ID before casting a vote.
This voter ID bill, primarily sponsored by Rep. Chuck Gray, will be effective on July 1.
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Approximately fifty heavily armed police raided the hotel where Rebel News reporters were staying in Montreal on Saturday.
Rebel News reporters Keean Bexte and David Menzies have been detained.
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Canadian Liberal Wants a Ban on “Hurtful” Online Words Against Politicians
A Liberal Canadian politician has suggested the banning of “hurtful” language against politicians online. The provision is going to be included in the upcoming internet censorship bill, to be discussed in parliament in the next few weeks.
Steven Guilbeault, a Liberal member of parliament representing the Laurier-Sainte-Marie federal district in Montreal, has been the subject of controversy severally for favoring internet censorship. Now, he is suggesting that the government should ban the use of hurtful language against politicians.
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Released Canadian Pastor, Lawyer Speak Out After Church Gets Barricaded
James Coates, a pastor at GraceLife Church in Alberta, Canada, spoke on Friday about his recent release from jail, his ongoing legal battle, and the Albertan government’s recent barricading of the church’s building on Wednesday.
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Anti-Global-Warming-Hysteria Book is Driving Norwegian Alarmists Nuts
Other than by misspelling “fjord,” how would an American geologist draw the ire of a pair of Norwegian politicians? Answer: Write a book that counters the notion that human activity is causing the globe to warm with catastrophic consequences.
Gregory Wrightstone’s 2017 book, Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know, was published in Norway and is being promoted by the Climate Realists, a Norwegian organization, which shares the author’s view that modern warming is neither unusual nor unprecedented.
Backed with 90 illustrations and 15 pages of references, the book presents 60 footnoted facts inconvenient to the Western elite’s absurd narrative about global warming.
Among them: Most of the last 10,000 years have been warmer than today, including the Medieval Warm Periodwhen Vikings raised barley on Greenland, and the Roman Warm Period when citrus grew in northern England.
After the Climate Realists announced plans to distribute the book to all 356 of Norway’s mayors, two members of Norway’s unicameral Stortinget — Tom-Christer Nilsen and Lene Westgaard-Halle — wrote the mayors a letter discouraging them from accepting a book that is popular “because lies are more entertaining” than the truth.
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British Public Won’t Welcome Meghan and Harry at Prince Philip’s Funeral, Says Farage
The California-based Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will not be welcomed home by the British public, even for the funeral of Prince Philip, Nigel Farage has said.
Following the passing of Harry’s grandfather, the consort of Queen Elizabeth II, the woke couple released a statement merely reading: “Thank you for your service… you will be greatly missed.”
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Far-Right Alarm Bells for Next Italian Election
In less than two years, Italy will hold its next general election — and, as the hard-right League and far-right nationalist Brothers of Italy parties are rapidly gaining ground, it is highly-possible that a new populist hard-right coalition government will come to power after Mario Draghi’s current government.
According to the latest opinion polls, Matteo Salvini’s League party is leading with 24 percent, followed by Brothers of Italy at 18 percent.
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France: Senate Votes to Ban Hijab for Girls Under 18, Citing ‘Inferiorisation of Women’
The French Senate has voted to implement a hijab ban for Muslim girls under the age of 18. As expected, an Islamic supremacist activist group, bent on foisting its Sharia values upon Western countries, is robustly in opposition:
Activist and founder of Muslim Women’s Day Amani al-Khatahtbeh…took to her social media to say, “My French sisters, know that we see you, stand with you and fight with you against the globalized Islamophobia that brought us here.”
Meanwhile, human rights activist women in countries including Saudi Arabia and Iran and have faced severe punishment for choosing not to wear the hijab. These two countries are the keepers of Sunni and Shia Islam (respectively).
“French Senate Votes To Ban Hijab For Muslims Under 18,” by Niamh Shackleton, UNILAD, April 3, 2021.
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In France There is a City With Just One Jew
A French town where Islamic brigades make sure Sharia law is strictly kept, women are veiled and no one drinks beer, boggles the mind. Op-ed
They call it the “bunker”— a few windows, all screened, a flag on the roof. “It looks like a foreign embassy in a hostile country”. In July 2013, following a police check on a veiled woman, 400 residents stormed the building. The siege lasted several hours and required, from the police, 700 stun grenades and tear gas. A helicopter was mobilized.”It looked like a war scene,” a policeman said at the time.
The attacks have continued since then. The latest dates back to Saturday 27 March. Eight mortar rounds with fireworks hit the front of the building.
What building? It is the police station of Trappes, a French town of 35,000 inhabitants, at the center of a long investigation by the weekly Valeurs Actuelles.
The “brigades” go around the city. Those so called are the followers of the Islamic fundamentalist movement Tabligh who, all dressed in white, enforce the religious prescriptions on the inhabitants. Sharia law, Islamic law. They intervene against those who drink, against a lightly veiled woman …
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Plandemic: Plans for ‘Vaccine Passports’ Were in Place 20 Months Before COVID-19 Outbreaks
With the world being told that so-called ‘vaccine passports’ will be required for all international travel in future, and in many countries even to enter shops, restaurants, bars, gyms, hotels, theatres, concerts and sports events, the impression we are being given is that the measure is a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic.
In Europe, however, which hosts 8 of the top 10 pharmaceutical exporting countries, planning for vaccine passports began at least 20 months prior to the start of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Apparently, the pandemic conveniently provided European politicians with the ‘excuse’ they needed to introduce the idea
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Spanish Populist Party Leader Attacked With Rocks During Madrid Speech
Far-left extremists threw rocks and other objects at the leader of Spain’s populist VOX party, Santiago Abascal, while he was giving a speech in Madrid.
The attack on Abascal came during a VOX rally in the Vallecas area of the Spanish capital on Wednesday. Far-left extremist protesters began to throw objects at the part leader and supporters.
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The UK’s Shocking Secret Police “Non-Crime” Speech Lists Put Kids’ Future Careers at Risk
In a damaging move against free speech, British kids are being warned to be careful about what they say online as it could ruin their future careers. That’s because police have already recorded thousands of “non-crime hate incidents” involving kids. These non-crime hate incidents could show up if an employer conducted a deep background check.
Non-crime hate incidents are cases of “hostility towards religion, race, or transgender identity.” Police in the UK are required to record these incidents even without evidence of a so-called hate element.
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UK: Pub Landlords Fear Penalties if Customers Don’t Wear Masks Outside
Some overzealous local councils have reportedly ordered drinkers to wear masks in pub gardens, going beyond government reopening guidance, with landlords worried they might be penalised for perceived breaches of the rules.
Under the next phase of reopening England following the third lockdown, outdoor hospitality venues may open from Monday, meaning that many pubs will take advantage of their beer gardens to reinvigorate their businesses.
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White Women Must Move Aside for Foreigners to Take Power, Says Sweden’s Green Party Spokeswoman
The spokeswoman for Sweden’s Green Party, Märta Stenevi, recently argued that native-born White Swedish women must step aside so that foreign minority women can take the country’s reins of power.
The statements made by Steveni, who currently serves as the minister for gender equality and housing, came during a podcast interview with Aftonbladet’s political Editor-in-Chief Anders Lindberg after she was asked to comment on the clear and apparent disparities in voting patterns between men and women in the country.
The Green Party spokeswoman claimed there’s an “alarming trend” that has seen men in Sweden move toward the right side of the political spectrum because they believe the country is sufficiently equal as it is today.
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Woke Blue Tick Twitter Expresses Delight After Death of Prince Philip
A number of woke verified Twitter accounts expressed delight, mockery, or derision in the minutes and hours after the announcement of the death of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on Friday.
The announcement of the death of Prince Philip was made on Twitter by the official account of the British Royal Family on Friday.
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Released From Prison, Algerian Christian Persecuted in Tunisia
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) — After Slimane Bouhafs was released from prison in 2018, having served nearly two years for violating Algeria’s blasphemy laws, further persecution drove him to Tunisia.
Threats on his life continue there, and he is stuck in legal limbo — missing his daughter’s wedding on Friday (April 2).
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The entire world is watching in horror as death rates have skyrocketed in Israel since the Israeli government brokered a secret deal with Pfizer to inject the entire population with their experimental COVID shots, which are now being mandated as a condition to participate in society. See: Death Rates Skyrocket in Israel Following Pfizer Experimental COVID “Vaccines”
The National File reported this past week that a group of Israeli doctors, lawyers, campaigners and concerned citizens have hired the services of Tel Aviv-based firm A. Suchovolsky & Co. Law to file a criminal complaint in the International Criminal Court, stating that the mandatory vaccine laws are a violation of the Nuremberg Code.
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India is Using Facial Recognition to Identify Vaccination Recipients
Facial recognition technology will soon replace fingerprint and iris scanners at coronavirus vaccination centers in India. The excuse for facial scans is safety against infection as it does not involve physical touching of scanning equipment.
Speaking to local news outlet ThePrint, the National Health Authority CEO R.S. Sharma, confirmed that the government had begun a pilot project to measure the effectiveness of facial recognition.
“We have started a pilot in Jharkhand which is reporting more than 1,000 successful authentications via facial recognition on a daily basis at the vaccination sites,” said Sharma, who is also the head of India’s coronavirus vaccination program.
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The Muslim festival of Ramzan is on April 12. As there are strict restrictions on gatherings in the state of Maharashtra amidst a spike in Covid-19 cases, Mohammed Saeed Noori, Secretary of Raza Academy, has written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on April 6, requesting him to relax rules for the month-long festival. Raza Academy sparked controversy last year as well when the lockdown was in place, and they wanted to organize iftars and prayers in mosques. At that time, the permission was denied by the state government.
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Pakistan: Women’s Rights Activists Face New Allegations of Blasphemy
While organizers of Pakistan’s Women’s March have long been the subject of threats and criticism, allegations of blasphemy could put women’s rights activists in a new kind of danger.
Blasphemy accusations have resulted in killings in the past, and human rights activists believe that these allegations have created a widespread climate of fear, especially for women’s rights advocates.
“Pakistan is not a democratic state but a religious state where clerics wield a lot of influence,” Mehdi Hassan, a former chairperson of Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission, told DW.
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Afghan Migrants Arrested in Sweden Suspected of Plotting Terror Attack
The Swedish security police Säpo arrested two Afghans, a man and a woman, during the Easter holiday on suspicion of plotting a terror attack in Stockholm county.
Säpo announced the arrests earlier this week, saying that they took place on the morning of Good Friday following a police operation in the Stockholm region.
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Italy: Prosecutor: Salvini Should Not be Tried for Migrant Policy
ROME (AP) — An Italian prosecutor on Saturday told a court in Sicily that there’s no reason to order right-wing leader Matteo Salvini to stand trial for alleged kidnapping for his role in keeping rescued migrants aboard a coast guard ship for days in the summer of 2019.
Prosecutor Andrea Bonomo recommended at a preliminary hearing in Catania that Salvini was carrying out government policy when he kept 116 migrants aboard the Italian coast guard vessel Gregoretti off the coast of Sicily for five days.
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Spanish Police Investigating Migrant Boat Deaths Detain Five
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish police say they have detained five men for allegedly navigating two migrant boats to the Canary Islands and being responsible for the deaths of some of its passengers.
The men are being investigated for “favoring illegal immigration” with three of them also being investigated for homicide, Spain’s national police said in a statement released Friday. A judge ordered four of them to be held in custody.
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A boat carrying five migrants arrived on UK shores today after 44 people made the dangerous journey across the Channel yesterday.
Immigration Enforcement officials were seen bringing the men to shore at Dover, Kent, on Saturday.
Stormy conditions at sea have caused a lull in arrivals as several boats attempting to make the crossing from France turned back.
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Big Tech Gains Momentum in Censoring ‘When Harry Became Sally’
Yet another bookseller has followed Amazon’s lead in removing a bestselling book questioning the advisability of sex reassignment surgery.
Online aggregator bookshop.org has banned scholar Ryan T. Anderson’s 2018 book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, citing complaints.
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Keeping Us Masked Forever? The Davos Set’s Dystopian Ambitions Are Very Clear
The WEF’s promotion of a Chinese ‘smart face mask’ that tracks every breath its wearer takes is further evidence that the changes to Western society over the last 12 months of Covid are intended to be permanent.
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