Philadelphia is reinstating its indoor mask mandate as of April 18. Meanwhile, Ontario has decided not to reinstate its mask mandate.
In other news, Ali Harbi Ali has been convicted of murdering UK MP David Amess last year at a church in Essex.
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White House Warns of ‘Extraordinarily Elevated’ March Inflation Rate
White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted Monday that fresh monthly inflation data will be “extraordinarily elevated” when it’s released Tuesday — after inflation hit a 40-year high of 7.9 percent last month.
“We expect March CPI headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated due to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s price hike, and we expect a large difference between core and headline inflation reflecting the global disruptions in energy and food markets,” Psaki said at her regular press briefing.
NPR reporter Asma Khalid pressed Psaki on the White House’s attempt to blame Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, saying she had just returned from a reporting trip to Michigan, where many people told her “they feel that inflation has predated this war.”
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Biden Begins Crackdown on ‘Ghost Guns’ Following Nomination of New ATF Director
The Biden administration announced on Monday that it would be introducing new firearms measures following the nomination of Steve Dettelbach as director of the Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
Dettelbach is the former US attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and was nominated after Biden withdrew his nomination for David Chipman due to resistance from centrist Democrats and Republicans in Senate. Chipman had mocked gun-owning Americans as “doomsday preppers” and compared them to Netflix’s Tiger King star Joe Exotic.
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Bill Clinton Rape Accuser Juanita Broaddrick Banned From Twitter
Juanita Broaddrick, the former nursing administrator who accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her, has been banned from Twitter.
Broaddrick provided Fox News an email from Twitter announcing the suspension of her account after the platform flagged her most recent tweet for “…violating the policy on spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.”
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Breaking: Twitter CEO Announces Elon Musk ‘Decided Not to Join’ Tech Giant’s Board
Parag Agrawal, CEO of Twitter, announced on the platform Sunday night that Elon Musk “has decided not to join” the tech giant’s board of directors.
In the announcement Agrawal said, “The Board and I had many disucssions about Elon joining the board, and with Elon directly. We were excited to collaborate and clear about the risks. We also believed that having Elon as a fiduciary of the company where he, like all board members, has to act in the best interests of the company and all our shareholders, was the best path forward.”
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Breaking: DeSantis Signs Bill Investing $70 Million Into Programs to Support Fatherhood
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday investing $70 million into programs to support “responsible fatherhood” in a statewide awareness campaign. DeSantis signed HB 7065, a child welfare bill that promotes responsible fatherhood in the state and encourages their “active participation in their children’s lives.”
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D11 Dissolves Department of Equity and Inclusion
Colorado Springs School District 11 has effectively dissolved its groundbreaking Department of Equity and Inclusion and, with it, the director of equity and inclusion position.
By a “thumbs-up” at the April 6 board meeting, D11’s board voted 4-2 not to fund the equity department in the 2022-23 preliminary school year budget. The board’s conservative majority led the decision; directors Julie Ott and Darleen Daniels opposed the move.
This decision shutters the department that implemented D11’s equity policy and practices, which were put in place in 2020 under previous Superintendent Dr. Michael Thomas, to “meet the unique needs of all students.”
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Dallas Love Field Airport is Using Robots to Scan for Unmasked Travelers
Seven-foot tall robots at the Dallas Love Field Airport are scanning for unmasked travelers and cars that have been parked for too long. The technology raises privacy concerns among privacy advocates.
The robots, dubbed SCOT (security control observation towers), have been placed at two locations; one near security checkpoints and the other near baggage claim. The aim is to determine if robotic systems can assist travelers to get around the airport and warn those who are breaking the rules.
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Elon Musk Signals That He Was Told to ‘Play Nice and Not Speak Freely’ By Twitter Board
Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk liked a tweet that speculatively outlines his vision for Twitter, after the announcement yesterday by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal that the billionaire Musk, who recently became the largest shareholder at the tech giant, would not be joining the board of directors despite the board’s invitation.
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The family of the Miami man stabbed to death by his OnlyFans star girlfriend say they do not believe her claim that she was acting in self-defense when she stabbed him in the shoulder, and are demanding that she be charged with his murder.
Christian Obumseli, 27, was stabbed to death by his girlfriend Courtney Clenney, 25, on Sunday April 3rd. She called 911 after stabbing him in the shoulder at the One Paraiso Building — a luxury skyscraper in Edgewater, Miami.
Clenney, who also goes by Courtney Tailor, told police she was acting in self-defense and that she though Obumseli was going to hurt her.
She was taken into custody under Florida’s Baker Act, which protects people at risk of suicide or mental health crisis, but is now free again and over the weekend, she was seen attempting to have a drink in a bar with her father before being confronted by a stranger.
Obumseli’s family from Austin, Texas, is demanding answers. They do not believe she was acting in self-defense, and are at a loss over why she has not been arrested…
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Hundreds Protest COVID Vaccine Mandates at Downtown LA Rally
Over 1,000 people gathered in downtown Los Angeles Sunday to protest COVID vaccine mandates, saying that rules requiring workers at many government agencies and private companies to get vaccinated are unconstitutional and have cost thousands of people their jobs.
“We’re here to re-claim our territory,” master of ceremonies Kevin Jenkins told the crowd at Grand Park after singer Jimmy Levy performed the national anthem. “We’re going to re-generate the soil. This is our defining moment.”
The crowd booed when Jenkins mentioned Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president, who has come to be viewed by many as the face of the official government response to the pandemic.
Sunday’s rally was be hosted by the organization Defeat the Mandates, which has sponsored anti-vaccine and anti-mandate events across the country.
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Hunter Biden Found to Have Paid for Biden Family Expenses
Amid resurfaced controversy surrounding Hunter Biden’s lucrative overseas business dealings, it’s been revealed that President Joe Biden’s son also often paid for family expenses, according to another bombshell New York Post report.
Text messages on Hunter’s notorious “laptop from hell” show that he kicked back as much as 50 percent of his earnings to his dad, the New York Post reported.
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‘I Did That!’: Man Arrested After Placing Biden Decals on Gas Pump, As Fuel Anger Grows
A fed-up Pennsylvania man got into an ugly gas station confrontation with local cops after he was allegedly caught slapping anti-Joe Biden stickers on the pumps in protest of rising fuel prices.
“This guy stuck stickers on a gas pump, got yelled at by a clerk for doing so and went crazy afterwards,” wrote Aaron Philips, who recorded the March 31 incident and shared it on Facebook.
Thomas Richard Glazewski, 54, of Manor Township, was charged on April 4 with a series of offenses after placing decals of President Biden on pumps at a Turkey Hill gas station, Lancaster Online reports.
His effort is part of a growing nationwide trend as gas prices continue to soar. The stickers show the president pointing at the prices with the words “I did that!” in big, bold print.
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No Jail for NYC Prankster Who Told Diners He Had a Bomb and Would Kill Them for Allah
When Malik Sanchez was sentenced on Wednesday for claiming he had a bomb and telling two women outside a New York City restaurant that he was going to kill them, he apologized to the women and said that his actions were those of an “immature and reckless child.” Manhattan federal court Judge Colleen McMahon stopped him right there and corrected him, saying his action was “that of a sicko.” Nevertheless, she gave him no jail time at all while praising his post-arrest behavior and calling him a “pretrial success story.” Scaring people half to death is no big deal in New York City; in the decaying Leftist paradise of Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams, it takes a great deal to be sent to prison.
Sanchez faced up to five years in prison, but McMahon sentenced him to time served: he spent 23 days in jail after he was arrested and nine months confined to home.
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An Ohio State University student in a student government position is facing backlash for stating he believes black people are “superior.” The Undergraduate Student Government parliamentarian made the controversial statement about black supremacy while speaking at a General Assembly meeting in late March.
Third-year student John Fuller, who majors in human development and family sciences, said while presenting a resolution on the General Assembly floor to condemn anti-critical race theory legislation that hopes for a world where “black people were taught that they are superior” as he “full-heartedly believe[s].”
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Pennsylvania High School Teacher Charged With Sex Offenses Involving Student
A chemistry teacher at a Pennsylvania high school was arrested Friday for multiple sexual offenses against a child, adding another case to the growing number of public educators facing a slew of charges for sex crimes against children.
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Philadelphia Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate
The Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced Monday that it will reinstate the city’s indoor mask mandate, just over a month after lifting it.
Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigole said the department will allow a one-week education period for businesses, with masks required in all indoor public spaces, including schools and child care settings, business, restaurants and government buildings, as of April 18.
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Prominent BLM Activist Convicted of First-Degree Robbery
A prominent leader of Black Lives Matter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who was praised by the media for leading anti-police protests in 2020 following the death of George Floyd while in custody with the Minneapolis Police Department, was convicted of first-degree robbery in Kentucky on Friday.
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Proof: Blue States Failed in COVID Response; Red States Did the Best: Study
A new study ranks all US states in their handling of the COVID pandemic from best-to-worst. Florida came out among the top states, while the states of New York, and New Jersey were at the bottom.
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Psaki Grilled on Biden, Kamala Not Wearing Masks
White House press secretary Jen Psaki was grilled Monday on the on and off mask-wearing practices of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris after the administration has vehemently pushed for stringent masking restrictions.
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Twitter is Questioned Over Hunter Biden Laptop Story Censorship
In October 2020, just before the election, the New York Post published a story about Hunter Biden’s potentially corrupt dealings when his father, Joe Biden, was vice president. The story was based on damning emails obtained from a laptop Hunter left at a repair shop in Delaware.
Twitter censored the story over the “origins of the material” and suspended the New York Post’s account for two weeks. The online platforms also prevented users from sharing the story.
A few weeks ago, The New York Times confirmed the authenticity of what the New York Post called the “laptop from hell.”
Now, Republican members of the House Election Integrity Caucus, led by Rep. Claudia Tenney, in a letter addressed to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, are asking for answers about the censorship of the story.
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USPS Suspends Service in Santa Monica Neighborhood Due to Assaults and Threats
The United States Postal Service suspended service in a Santa Monica neighborhood after reports of repeated attacks on mail carriers.
In a notice posted at apartment mail boxes in the 1300 block of 14th Street, the USPS informed residents that service to the neighborhood is suspended. The letter cited several assaults and threats against mail carriers by an individual.
“This is unfortunate, but please be advised that the Post Service does not enter into decision to suspend service lightly,” the letter stated. “Multiple carriers have been subjected to assaults and threats of assault.”
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Video: Watch the Insane Reaction U.S. Troops Had for Elon Musk During Visit
Video posted to social media shows cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado going nuts at the arrival of Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, in stark contradiction to how troops reacted when the sitting president visited them.
Musk addressed the troops on Thursday as part of Academy’s Ira C. Eaker Lecture Series. He spoke about being an innovator and took questions.
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A Deeper Dive Into the CBC’s Debunked Convoy Victim Story
This is the second video to debunk the lies propagated by the CBC about the Martin Anglehart story. In this video, you will once again see that mainstream can’t be trusted.
You can watch the first video of this series here, and be sure to follow our new website MediaFactCheck.ca for more of our upcoming reports debunking the mainstream media’s lies.
Martin Anglehart testified that due to the convoy, he had spent over $13,000, but that unfortunately, only $2,000 was given to him in return. Here, I expose not only the man who admitted to being a former scam artist, but also his financial lies about the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
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Canadian Forces Veteran James Topp Marches Into Saskatchewan
Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) veteran James Topp made it to the Land of Living Skies this weekend, hitting the middlemost province of his protest march from Vancouver to Ottawa and putting a third of his 4293km trek behind him.
Topp reached the Saskatchewan border on Saturday, the forty-ninth day since departing from the Terry Fox Memorial at B.C. Place on Feb. 20. The soldier of 28 years commemorated the milestone on social media with a picture of his watch showing that he had made the 54km stretch from Medicine Hat, Alberta in 11 hours.
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Civil Liberties Group Challenging Nova Scotia’s Ban on COVID Protests
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is taking the Nova Scotia government to court over an order that banned protests against lockdowns and public health restrictions.
The civil liberties group is before the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal today to appeal a court order that granted the provincial government the power to prevent a protest from occurring during a wave of COVID.
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Government Research Shows Majority of Canadians Worry Pandemic Will Never End
Even as vaccine passports and masks mandates are lifted across the country, most Canadians say they don’t think the pandemic will ever end, according to in-house research by the Department of Health.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the Department of Health conducted a study titled, Covid-19 Tracking Survey On Canadians’ Views, to gauge the public’s “perceptions, knowledge and behaviour relating to Covid.”
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Jason Kenney Roasted for Calling Alberta’s Harsh Mandates the ‘Balanced Approach’ To COVID
Alberta’s Premier Jason Kenney was roasted on social media for tweeting that his province took a “balanced approach” to managing COVID, while commenting on a video showing alleged footage of a drone issuing instructions during a strict lockdown in Shanghai, China.
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Ontario Not Reinstating Mask Mandates
After being out of the spot light for four weeks, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health made an announcement this afternoon.
Dr. Kieran Moore began his press conference by thanking Ontarians for their diligence in protecting their loved ones and communities from severe outcomes of COVID-19.
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Pastor Tobias Tissen Ticketed Over $17,000 After Battling Quarantine Act
When churches were no longer able to gather thanks to COVID health orders in Manitoba, one pastor stood above the rest in defiance. Now battling quarantine tickets, Pastor Tobias Tissen fights on.
On the latest episode of Rebel Roundup, Sydney Fizzard joined David Menzies to talk about the latest round of tickets which were given to Pastor Tobias for worshipping in a way the state deemed illegal, thanks to the Quarantine Act.
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Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre went after “big city gatekeepers” for “destroying the home ownership dreams of working-class youth,” showing how red tape at a local level is “blocking the poor, the working class, and immigrants from the privilege of owning a home” in Canada.
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Vancouver Weighs Tax Hike to Restore Police Budget After Defunding in 2020
Vancouver is considering raising property taxes on residents to restore $5.7 million in funding to the municipal police force after councillors gave in to demands to defund the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) in 2020.
Last month, British Columbia’s provincial government overturned the city’s police budget and demanded that Vancouver restore millions in funding to the VPD, citing a lack of police officers to deal with violent crime and to ensure public safety.
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Vax Pass Enforcement at Poilievre Event Frustrates Potential Supporters in Vancouver
With five months to go until the Conservative Party of Canada crowns its new leader on September 10, 2022, many contenders have picked up their pace on the campaign trail.
Last week, I was on scene to cover two of MP Pierre Poilievre’s campaign stops in British Columbia.
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2022 French Presidential Election
The first round of France’s 2022 presidential election was held on 10 April. A run-off will be held between the top two candidates on 24 April 2022. The incumbent president, Emmanuel Macron among La République En Marche! (LREM), who won in 2017 and whose first term lasts until 13 May 2022, announced on 3 March 2022 that he was launching his re-election bid to a second five-year term for which he is eligible under the Constitution of France. His opponent in the second round will be Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally (RN), whom he defeated in 2017.
The election will take place just before the 2022 legislative election, that will be held on 12 June with runoffs on 19 June, to elect the 577 members of the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament.
As of 2022, no president has won re-election since the 2002 French presidential election.
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French President Emmanuel Macron’s claim that Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is a “far-right anti-Semite” were “an unacceptable lie and slur,” renowned U.S. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has claimed.
The French president made the remarks during an interview with French media late last week, pulling no punches in his critique of Morawiecki as a “far-right anti-Semite banning LGBT people.”
Boteach is one of the world’s leading relationship and spirituality experts; his books have been translated into 17 languages, and he lectures and makes TV and radio appearances all over the world.
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Antifa Riots in French Cities Because They Didn’t Like the Election Result
Antifa members in France reacted to the outcome of the first round of the presidential election by rioting in several cities because they didn’t like the result.
Populist Marine Le Pen will face off against incumbent Emmanuel Macron in the second and final round of the election in two weeks after the pair racked up the most votes out of all the candidates.
This apparently displeased members of the far-left Antifa extremist group, who responded to the democratic vote by rioting in several major cities.
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‘British to be Minority by 2066’ Banner Flown Over Premier League Match
A banner that said “British to be minority by 2066” was flown over the Premier League football match between Manchester City and Liverpool yesterday afternoon.
A light airplane carried the banner over the Etihad Stadium, prompting an outpouring of condemnation on Twitter.
Although it used the word “British,” the banner was obviously referring to White people becoming a minority in Britain within 50 years.
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Environmental Activists Block a Motorway in Switzerland
Environmental activists briefly blocked a highway near Lausanne to demand that the Swiss government take concrete and rapid action against global warming.
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French Political Class Closes Ranks to Protect Macron
When it comes down to it, everyone from the Communists to the Socialists to the Greens to the Anti-capitalists, to the Republicans closes ranks to protect the establishment.
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In Germany, Pro-Russian Protesters Complain of Discrimination
Pro-Russian protesters rallied in Germany over the discrimination they say they have suffered since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Frankfurt, Hanover and Stuttgart all saw demonstrations on Sunday.
“We organised this protest because many of us Russian speakers, Russians, have been discriminated against and harassed because of our language culture,” said Eddy, a protester in Frankfurt.
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London Police Officer Hacked by Machete-Wielding “Religious Guy”
A police officer is recovering from wounds sustained while confronting a suspect armed with a machete in London yesterday, according to reports.
The incident unfolded at around noon on Sunday in Forest Gate, a district in the borough of Newham in East London.
Authorities say they were alerted about an armed man “suffering a mental health crisis” at a residence on Skelton Road.
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Man Arrested Over Explosive Device Planted in French Cathedral
A 47-year-old man with known a history of placing suspicious parcels on the city’s metro system has been indicted by prosecutors in Toulouse after allegedly planting an explosive device in the Saint-Etienne cathedral.
The man was arrested on Friday by French police in the suburb of Balma several hours after he is said to have placed an explosive device at the foot of the altar of the Saint-Etienne cathedral at around 8:30 am that morning during Mass.
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Man Found Guilty of Murdering UK Lawmaker David Amess
LONDON —A “fanatical Islamist” inspired by Islamic State was found guilty on Monday of murdering veteran British lawmaker David Amess by knifing him to death in a frenzied attack in a church where he was meeting voters.
Ali Harbi Ali, 26, a British citizen and son of a former media adviser to a prime minister of Somalia, repeatedly stabbed Amess in an attack last October for what he said was revenge for the lawmaker’s support for airstrikes on Syria.
Prosecutors said he was a “committed, fanatical, radicalised Islamist terrorist”.
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Orban is the ‘Only Authentic Statesman in Europe, ‘ Says Former Czech President
Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus sees Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as his only friend among today’s leading European politicians, the politician revealed during CNN Prima NEWS’ broadcast on Friday.
According to Klaus, Viktor Orban is the only authentic politician of today, and he was thus pleased with his re-election.
“He is a great man. I am glad that the progressive left did not win, as in our country, where it unfortunately happened,” commented Klaus. “He is the only authentic politician in contemporary Europe. He aims to represent his nation.”
“Today, we live by the cultural revolution, green madness, multiculturalism. That is our reality, and in this, I am with Orban on the other side of the barricade,” the former Czech President noted.
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Poland Attacks Hungary Over Ukraine Stance, Threatens to Freeze Relations
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the conservative Polish Law and Justice (PiS) party, criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over his stance on the Bucha massacre in Ukraine and warned that his attitude could endanger Polish-Hungarian relations.
“My assessment is clearly negative. I have to admit, it’s all very sad,” Kaczynski told Radio Plus about the information that Viktor Orban had not clearly condemned what happened to the massacre of Russians by many international actors.
“If Orban says he can’t see what happened in Bucha, he should see an ophthalmologist,” Kaczynski said, adding, “We can’t cooperate as we did in the past if it continues.”
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Report: Sweden and Finland to Join NATO Over Ukraine Invasion
Finland and Sweden are set to join NATO as early as this summer, extending the organization’s borders alongside Russia by hundreds of miles, U.S. officials told the British newspaper the Times. Finland is expected to submit its application for membership in June, with Sweden to follow.
During talks among the organization’s 30 member nations last week, U.S. officials said that NATO membership for the Nordic countries was the “topic of conversation.” Foreign ministers from both Sweden and Finland attended the NATO sessions.
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Slovakia’s Decision to Gift S-300 Batteries to Ukraine Ends in Domestic Upheaval
While the small Eastern European country of only 5 million might be seriously lagging behind in modernizing its own armed forces, it is certainly one of the front-runners in arming its war-torn neighbor.
The Slovak government’s decision to donate its own Russian-made Soviet-era, surface-to-air missile system (SAM) to its eastern neighbor has generated praise and positive headlines internationally, despite the fact that there is very little domestic public support for dragging the small country into the war between the two giants in their neighborhood.
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Sweden’s Ruling Party Begins Internal Debate on Joining NATO After Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Sweden’s ruling Social Democrats have begun an internal debate about joining NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Members of the party — who have previously opposed Swedish membership of the alliance — have met to discuss the country’s strategic situation.
Deputy party leader Tobias Baudin said Monday’s debate will be a “broader discussion than just a yes or no question on NATO membership”.
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The Most Peaceful Country in the World? A Series of Shootings and Stabbings Shakes Iceland
Will Iceland lose its status as the most peaceful country in the world? Several shootings and stabbings have disturbed the usual tranquility of the island nation in recent months, with some incidents linked to criminal gangs with ties to “international networks.”
Iceland has topped the Global Peace Index since its inclusion in 2008, and the country’s 375,000 inhabitants have thus far avoided the rising crime problems seen in Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Denmark. Most crime in Iceland is in fact fictional, with the nation known for publishing crime thriller books both popular in the country and abroad.
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Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) and brother of the deceased President Lech Kaczynski, addressed a commemoration march for the 12th anniversary of the Smolensk air disaster and claimed that in the coming days details would emerge of what actually happened 12 years ago.
“We know what happened in Smolensk and in the coming days we will be revealing that” said Kaczynski, who regretted that the pandemic had made it impossible to hold commemoration marches in 2020 and 2021 but said the three years had been important for getting to the bottom of the causes of the tragedy and that the memory was an important part of Poland’s national identity.
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U.N. Chief Guterres Backs Big Pharma Plan to ‘Get Vaccines Into Arms’ Of Every Person on the Planet
Roll up your sleeve and wait. The U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres backs plans to jab every person on the planet with coronavirus vaccine as the pharmaceutical industry guarantees 1.5 billion doses per month are now ready for global distribution.
The veteran Portuguese socialist was addressing an international vaccine equity summit Friday when he outlined his support for global jabs during an event that saw world leaders commit $4.8 billion to drive lower-income nations boost vaccination rates.
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The UK government is currently pushing a sweeping online censorship bill, the Online Safety Bill, which will force tech giants to censor content based on the vague, subjective term “harm.”
One of the government’s main arguments when attempting to defend these controversial censorship requirements has been that “news content will be completely exempt from any regulation under the Bill.” However, the rules that govern these exemptions are written in a way that favors large media outlets and makes it difficult for small, independent outlets to qualify.
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UK MP Found Guilty of Sexually Assaulting Teen After Forcing Him to Watch Pornography and Drink Gin
UK Conservative MP for Wakefield Imran Ahmad Khan has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old at a party.
According to BBC, Khan forced the boy to drink gin, made him watch pornography, and then sexually assaulted him.
The 48-year-old MP was found guilty following a week-long trial.
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UK: Extinction Rebellion Protests Block Vauxhall and Lambeth Bridges
Extinction Rebellion climate change activists have staged protests in the centre of London for a second day, blocking Vauxhall and Lambeth bridges.
Hundreds of protesters prevented cars and buses crossing but ambulances were let through.
The Met Police said 38 arrests were made on Sunday and officers had now moved protesters from the bridges.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas earlier told the BBC the group’s protests could sometimes be counterproductive.
But for some people, the rallies were the only way they felt heard, she said. The government has yet to comment.
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On the first day of the nine-day protest from Extinction Rebellion, exasperated commuters were seen confronting activists from the climate extremist group who set up roadblocks in Central London.
After months of relative quiet from Extinction Rebellion during their typical winter hibernation, the green radicals have once again taken to blocking key intersections in central London as the weather improves, to the dismay of motorists, many of whom were on their way to work.
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Downing Street has today promised a crackdown on eco-activists using ‘guerilla tactics’ following a spate of disruptive protests on oil depots across the UK.
In the strongest statement yet on the eco-mob ‘Just Stop Oil’, Number 10 today pledged that it would ‘not tolerate’ those obstructing people ‘going about their day-to-day business’.
It comes after activists from the protest group chained themselves to pipes high up at Grays oil depot in Essex.
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UK: Sir David Amess: Man Found Guilty of Murdering MP
An IS fanatic has been found guilty of murdering Sir David Amess MP.
The Southend West MP was stabbed more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex on 15 October 2021.
A jury at the Old Bailey took just 18 minutes to convict Ali Harbi Ali of murder and preparing acts of terrorism.
The 26-year-old from Kentish Town, north London, had denied the charges and claimed he targeted the MP over his vote for airstrikes on Syria.
Sir David’s family sat in court just a short distance from Ali as the verdicts were delivered…
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Latest News in the Russia-Ukraine War
Ukraine: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky made a fresh appeal for military aid ahead of an expected Russian offensive. Russian units arrived at staging grounds north of the Ukrainian city of Izyum. France has sent a unit of gendarmes to Ukraine to investigate reports of war crimes. Ukrainian authorities said they were investigating a claim by troops in the besieged city of Mariupol that they came under a Russian chemical weapons attack Monday. No independent evidence of the attack emerged Monday from Mariupol.
Russia: Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer warned President Vladimir Putin of more sanctions to come, in the first visit to Moscow by a Western leader since Mr. Putin launched the invasion. Russian Army Gen. Aleksandr Dvornikov, an architect of Russia’s military intervention in Syria, will become the overall commander in Ukraine, according to Western officials, as Russia refocuses on the south and eastern Donbas region.
Economy: Ukraine’s economy is expected to shrink by 45.1% this year, the World Bank said, depending on the duration of the war. French bank Société Générale said it would cease its banking and insurance activities in Russia, including selling Rosbank.
U.S.: Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli is expected to be elevated to head U.S. European Command, which is in charge of all U.S. military operations across the Continent, officials said. President Biden discussed Ukraine with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. India has avoided publicly denouncing Russia’s invasion.
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Russia Censors Two More Independent News Outlets
Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor has banned two more independent news websites in the ongoing crackdown of “false” information about the Ukraine invasion. Multiple local and international news websites have been blocked since the beginning of the invasion.
On April 9, the websites of independent news outlets Kholod and Diskurs were blocked by Roskomnadzor, with the order coming from the Prosecutor General’s Office.
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War in Ukraine: Oil and Gas Shortages in Spotlight But Food Supply Also Threatened
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare reliance on Vladimir Putin’s oil and gas exports but the damage does not stop there. In the invaded country itself, the “breadbasket of Europe,” farming operations have virtually shut down which could drive global food shortages.
And both Russia and Ukraine represent the third and eighth-largest exporters of wheat, respectively.
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Two Hindu youths including a Civic Police murdered by Muslim Kingpin Jane Alam Molla in a very ISIS style out of a loan row. Molla arrested from Kolkata and Court allowed Police remand for 14 days.
Prasad Panda | HENB | Diamond Harbour | April 11, 2022:: A civic volunteer and his friend were killed by armed assailants at a crowded cattle market in Magurpukur area of Mograhat, South 24-Parganas, on Saturday morning.
Civic volunteer Barun Chakraborty, 35, attached to Mograhat police station, and his friend Maloy Makhal, 31, were dragged into the deserted office room of a construction firm’s office, where the criminals shot the two friends from close range before hacking them with sharp weapons, a police source said.
The brutality of the murder of two Hindu guys by a notorious Muslim businessman and his gangs created a huge retaliation with immediate effect which brought the police in intense intervention.
Multiple sources in the area said that the duo were killed as they were putting pressure on a local businessman turned Mafia Jane Alam Molla to return the money he had taken from them as investment after promising high returns.
“The businessman summoned the duo at 11.30am on Saturday morning with the lure of returning the money… His people took them inside his office, where they were killed,” a relative of Chakraborty alleged.
People in the market area heard gunshots from inside the office room of the construction firm. While some ran away, others went near the office to see what happened.
“We first saw Jaan-e-Alam, owner of the company, coming out of the room. At least four others were following him and suddenly one of them hurled a bomb, which created panic in the area,” said an eyewitness.
The gory scene of murder had an obvious similarity with ISIS execution, first the gun-shot from pointblank range, then slit of throats with sharp weapons.
The police, on being informed, went inside the office from where they recovered the bodies and took them to Diamond Harbour district hospital where doctors declared them brought dead.
The news of murders in the office of a crowded market created unrest. A mob ransacked some shops, torched a vehicle protesting the poor law-and-order in the area..
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Creepy: Locked Down Chinese Scream From High Rise Windows
Shanghai is close to mass civil unrest as Chinese authorities continue to deny people food under yet another draconian lockdown.
Now chilling video footage has emerged of hundreds, maybe thousands of people screaming from their high rise windows and balconies.
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Japan: Hitachi Wants People to Pay for Goods With Their Fingerprint
Japanese tech company Hitachi has developed a finger vein-based payment system that could replace credit cards and smartphone payment systems like Apple Pay, according to Nikkei.
The system only needs the user to place their finger over a reader. The reader will automatically identify the user and retrieve the relevant data, such as credit card numbers.
Using the system, a user does not need to carry their smartphone or credit card to do shopping. Additionally, the system will speed up transactions at terminals and check-ins by as much as 40 seconds, according to Hitachi.
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Breaking: Trudeau Says His Immigration Policies Have Inflamed Housing Crisis Woes
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took questions at a press conference on Monday he said that his government’s immigration policies have been a key contributor to Canada’s housing crisis.
“Population growth in this country hasn’t been matched by an equivalent growth in housing supply,” said Trudeau, in British Columbia.
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Up to 80 Channel migrants landed in Britain today as people-smugglers take advantage of clear skies and calm waters.
UK officials escorted two small boats of men, women and children into Dover Harbour, Kent at around 7.30am, following a two-week break in crossings due to strong winds and bad weather.
The last crossing, on March 28, saw 386 people make the perilous journey across the 21-mile Dover Strait in 12 boats.
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Video: Former Obama DHS Head Warns of “Major Influx” of 18,000 Illegal Immigrants Per Day
Former Obama Homeland Security head Jeh Johnson warned Sunday that unmanageable numbers of illegal immigrants will pour across the southern border if the Biden Administration lifts the Title 42 public health authority.
The measure, which Biden intends to scrap in May, has effectively served as border control, allowing federal immigration officials to swiftly return around two million illegal immigrants to their home countries over the past two years.
Without it, it is conservatively estimated that numbers of migrants reaching the border will increase three fold to 18,000 per day.
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“Disney Groomer” began to trend nationwide on Sunday after Twitter temporarily locked out Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec after calling Disney “groomers.”
Trending at number 15, #DISNEYGROOMER swept the rug under the category “entertainment” which received over 5,400 tweets as of Sunday evening. Posobiec broke the news after his account was reinstated.
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Flashback: Dr. Oz Was an Early Promoter of ‘Trans Children’, Including Surgery
Dr. Mehmet Oz claims to be conservative in his race for the GOP Senate nomination in Pennsylvania, but the talk show host’s past history on the topic of “transgender children” is resurfacing.
The following clip, recently unearthed by Human Events’ Jack Posobiec, comes from a 2010 episode of the Dr. Oz show.
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Former Reddit Chief Uses ‘Free-Speechers’ As a Pejorative Term
“At the end of the day,” former Reddit CEO Ellen K. Pao tweeted Tuesday, “the free-speechers really just want to be able to use racist slurs. CW: racism, immaturity, stupidity, and even more racism and extreme stupidity. They really don’t care about sharing new ideas or encouraging freedom other than the freedom to harass other people off the platform.” Pao included a screenshot of a message she apparently received, loaded with anti-Chinese slurs.
That’s all that people who say they want free speech are really about, you see, at least in the view of fashion-monitoring Leftists: insulting and hating people. But if Pao has such a dim view of “free-speechers,” what is she, exactly?
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Nurse Investigated for Saying Biological Sex is Real
In a recent piece penned by Amy Eileen Hamm, the nurse and writer spoke on the investigation currently being undertaken against her by the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives for her “off-duty conduct.”
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Ray Skyer, a biologically female first-grade teacher at Brooke Roslindale School in the Boston area, came out to young students via a Zoom call, telling them as well that doctors “guess” when they identify the genders of newborn babies.
The school was hosting an “identity share” for students from kindergarten through second grade, and Skyer was introduced by the assistant principal, who told the children that Skyer was going to reveal something really “cool” about themselves.
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Odysee Adds Flow Podcast, Cinemassacre, SomeOrdinaryGamers, China Uncensored, Optimus, And More
Blockchain-based video sharing platform Odysee has added lots of new creators from a wide variety of niches to its platform. Many of these new creators have millions of collective subscribers and have switched to Odysee after facing YouTube censorship.
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Picture taken for family album , by request of my Son i Love so much..
Will i have chance to be a good Granddad for his kids ?
Will i be still alive to see my Grand children’s ..questions on my minds..
ps. As a Face cover i use portrait of my favour army Commander..Jan Karol Chodkiewicz.
Kircholm Battle Heroes..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karol_Chodkiewicz https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQGdv3fWQAo9YZ4?format=jpg&name=medium
Jesuit trained like all the dictators. He is probably an evil man.
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Speaking of ‘Wit and Wisdom’,
Snaphanen.dk writes today:
And when will they send the police after those who write the truth? I hope that all ordinary journalists of conscience, of which I fortunately avoided becoming one back in 1972, when I entered their “high school”, are ashamed of themselves when they go to bed.
The ’68ers thought they had a political fight ahead of them, because they were better off than anyone else in living memory.
Now the struggle is real and they are completely gone and prostituted. They deserve nothing but contempt, but they have inherited the world, as Giuseppe Lampedusa writes in The Leopard; and that is why things are going the way they do.
To oppose it is naive, but an honourable instinct. It can only be described, and that’s what I’ve been trying to do for twenty years. So far, criminals and idiots have won, see especially in Sweden and France, and a little later in Denmark.
We can only hope that one day Europe will rise again after this lost generation. No one knows, but we know the names of the guilty ones.
They should not rule out the possibility that they will be called to account, even if the inhabitants of the former democracies are all currently lypng in a coma. My own doctor does, having offered me the vaccine four times. So do all the hospital staff, after my tour of four hospitals in the last year. I wish them no harm, but let there be no doubt that I regard their offers as attempted murder.
The Leopard says of them:
“Everything has to change for everything to stay the same. All this should not be able to last, but it will last, forever; forever by human standards, of course: hundred years, two hundred years, and then it will be different, but worse. We were the leopards, the lions; it will be jackals, hyenas, that will replace us, and all in the herd, both leopards and jackals and all the sheep, will still think that they are the salt of the earth.”