A “British” man named Mohammad Farooq was arrested for plotting a terror attack after a suspicious package was found outside the maternity ward at a hospital in the West Yorkshire city of Leeds. The incident has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.
In other news, the Metropolitan Police in London are recruiting functionally illiterate officers in order to meet their diversity quotas.
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Zoran Bogdanovic received benefits of £736,000 last year, including an allowance for his partner.
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Moody’s Upgrades Alberta Government’s Credit Profile
The Alberta government’s credit profile has been upgraded on the back of the continued high price of oil.
Moody’s Investors Service raised the province’s long-term debt rating on Thursday to AA2 from AA3 with a rating of “stable.”
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Rand Paul Slams Alarmist Default Rhetoric, Outlines Fiscal Reform Plan
Senator Rand Paul has slammed ‘doomsday’ talk regarding the debt ceiling and a potential default, saying that such rhetoric is “completely dishonest.”
Appearing on Fox Business with Larry Kudlow, Paul noted that such alarmism will “worry the markets, and is bad for the country and bad for all of us,” further explaining that “There is absolutely no reason for us to default.”
“Our interest payments are about 400 billion,” Paul continued, adding “We bring in about five trillion, so we have plenty of money to pay our interest payments. We have plenty of money to pay our soldiers, to pay our social security and to pay for Medicare.”
Paul went on to explain that spending has to be trimmed, but over time.
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S&P Downgrades Hungary’s Ratings to ‘BBB-/A-3’, Outlook ‘Stable’
Jan 27 (Reuters) — Credit ratings agency S&P on Friday cut Hungary’s long- and short-term foreign and local currency ratings to ‘BBB-/A-3’ from…
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Headline economic data saying Australia just saw its biggest ever drop in property prices masked real stories of Aussies losses so big they destroy life savings.
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$2M Bond for Illinois Man Who Stabbed Michigan Teen Over Sex
SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A judge set bond at $2 million Friday for an 18-year-old Illinois man who is accused of traveling to Michigan to meet a teenager and then stabbing her for refusing to have sex.
The 14-year-old suffered severe injuries Wednesday but “seems to be holding her own,” Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said.
Julian Pinedo of Monmouth, Illinois, was charged with attempted murder during his first court appearance Friday. He did not appear with an attorney.
Investigators said the victim’s sibling was asleep at the time of the attack in Springfield Township and their parents weren’t home. The teen told sheriff’s deputies that she met Pinedo on a social media website.
Pinedo told investigators that he stabbed the girl when she declined to have sex with him, the sheriff’s office said.
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Tina Moore, a Pickerington, Ohio woman, filed a lawsuit this week against Nationwide Children’s Hospital for illegally firing her and discrimination because she refused to get their mandated Covid vaccine due to her devout, “sincerely held” Christian beliefs.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, the complaint states that the Columbus-based children’s hospital, “did not respond to Moore’s offer of additional information, did not seek clarification about her beliefs, and did not permit her to provide any further explanation beyond what she was able to provide on the hospital system’s ‘Religious Exemption Request Form.’“
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Antifa Vows to ‘Burn it All Down’ in NYC Following Death of Tyre Nichols
On Friday, Antifa called for activists to riot in New York City in the wake of five former officers of the Memphis Police Department being charged with the murder of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.
According to the Daily Mail, the outlet obtained a poster that told Antifa to assemble at various locations throughout NYC and then “Burn It All Down.”
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Armed Carjackers Shock Chicago, Thank Victim, Call Him Sir and Let Him Keep Pizza
A group of heavily armed carjackers shocked the citizens of Chicago when they were caught on camera thanking the victim, calling him sir, and letting him keep his pizza. The polite carjackers were armed with a rifle and two handguns.
A man was walking in the Bridgeport neighborhood caring a pizza on Saturday when the carjackers exited a parked car while concealing their weapons and made their way toward the victim. The victim walked unaware into an ambush as the carjackers circled him with weapons drawn.
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Attorney Who Helped Firebomb NYPD Car During BLM Protests Sentenced to Prison
BROOKLYN — In a dramatic hearing on Thursday, a federal judge sentenced a corporate attorney who firebombed a police car during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests to a year in jail, arguing that his prestigious education — boarding school, Princeton, a law degree from New York University — should have rendered him a peacekeeper, not an instigator.
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Close Call: Lithium-Ion Battery Explodes in Adams County Fire Investigator’s Face
Common batteries can cause damage, injuries if not properly stored, discarded
ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — Jerry Means and Ryder Robison have worked together for a while.
“We have — since his Day 1,” Means said of Robison who started with Adams County Fire Rescue in 2021.
Means, the chief of investigations for ACFR, and, Robison, fire inspector and investigator with ACFR, have seen a lot in their time as fire investigators.
“We’ve spent some time in the dark together out on fire scenes, crawling around,” Means said.
But nothing was quite like this past Sunday night.
“I thought he had just burned his face off,” Means said.
“It was terrifying,” Robison said. “Because it just happened like that.”
Means and Robison were responding to a house fire call.
One of the residents had called to report a skateboard with lithium-ion batteries had exploded in the home. One of the roommates had minor burns but all got out okay.
Then, as Means and Robison arrived to investigate, another explosion.
“It appeared that all of these batteries had already burned,” Robison said. “We also took the extra step of utilizing a thermal imaging camera to ensure the temperature was okay. And as I set them down outside, out of the corner of my eye I saw a red glow.”
“He’s bent over laying it down and he said something like, ‘Uh oh!’ And then it just — boom — it exploded,” Means said. “And the next thing I remember we’re about 12 feet away.”
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Court Releases Body Cam Footage of Attack on Paul Pelosi
ASan Francisco court Friday released the video and audio tapes of the attack last year on Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi was attacked Oct. 28, 2022, in his and his wife’s San Francisco townhouse allegedly by David DePape.
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DeSantis Proposes Death Penalty for Convicted Child Rapists
Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has proposed stronger punishments for convicted child rapists that would bring a minimum of life in prison and the possibility of the death penalty.
DeSantis announced the proposed changes to the state’s criminal justice laws on Thursday.
The changes include making child rapists eligible for the death penalty and reducing the number of jurors required to dole out capital punishment.
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Elon Musk Puts Egg on Adam Schiff’s Face, Tells Him Who Duped Him Into Believing Russia Hoax
Elon Musk just put egg on Adam Schiff’s face by revealing who duped him into buying into a fake Russia story that Adam used to bully Facebook and Twitter and censor Americans.
Musk exposed that a group called “Hamilton 68” was behind the fraud. Reporter Matt Taibbi said the group is “a computerized dashboard designed to be used by reporters and academics to measure Russian disinformation.”
Taibbi quotes former Twitter executive Yoel Roth saying the group “Falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots. Virtually any conclusion drawn from it will take conversations in conservative circles on Twitter and accuse them of being Russian.”
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Elon Musk has revealed that Twitter’s coding is a “flaming dumpster” that “may have to be torn down” so engineers can “start from scratch.”
Conservative commentator Dave Rubin noticed his engagement on Twitter was way day lately.
He spoke up about the issue and Musk heard him.
Musk invited Rubin to visit the Twitter headquarters and look under the hood.
This is unheard of in Silicon Valley but Musk has long called for increased transparency in his effort to restore free speech to the platform.
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A commissioner from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights asked the Fairfax County School Board if they were involved in the alleged withholding of merit awards from students within the district, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
At least 17 schools with Fairfax County, Loudoun County and Prince William County failed to notify students, mainly Asian, of the National Merit Scholarship commendation, an honor used for college applications and to obtain scholarships, according to a report by parental rights activist Asra Nomani. In a letter addressed to Fairfax County School Board Chair Rachna Sizemore Heizer, Peter Kirsanow asked if the board had discussed the “racial makeup” of the students receiving the honor and if they knew the district was failing to notify students who earned the award.
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Exclusive — Mark Meckler: Optimistic for a Convention of States by 2026
Mark Meckler, president of the Convention of States Action group, hopes to have enough states on board to have a Convention of States — one of the two ways to amend the Constitution — by 2026, he said during an interview on Breitbart News Saturday.
Meckler pointed to Article V of the Constitution, which contains two clauses detailing how the country can amend the United States Constitution.
“The first way is, whenever two-thirds of both Houses of Congress decide an amendment is necessary, they can propose that amendment and put it out to the states for ratification, and it takes three quarters of states to ratify that amendment,” he explained, pointing to the second clause, which says that two-thirds of the states can gather to take action if they cannot get Congress to move.
“The method is, the state legislatures alone — no governor’s signature necessary — when the majority of both houses of the state legislature say they want to call a convention, they pass a resolution calling for that convention. And then they submit that to Congress and when 34 states have done that, then the convention is called,” he said, noting that his organization is involved in this.
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Ex-NFL Player Jessie Lemonier Dies Suddenly at 25
Former NFL player Jessie Lemonier has died suddenly at just 25 years old, according to reports.
Lemonier would have turned 26 on Tuesday, according to Sports Illustrated.
Drew Smith, the football player’s agent, told ESPN that Lemonier and his girlfriend were expecting a baby.
“We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of former Detroit Lion Jessie Lemonier,” the Lions said in a statement.
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Federal Judge Allows Capitol Police Officers’ Lawsuit Against Trump for Jan 6 Riot to Proceed
A federal judge on Thursday refused to throw out a civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump brought by Capitol Police officers for injuries they sustained during the riot on January 6, 2021, and is allowing the case to proceed.
US District Judge Amit Mehta rejected the claim by Trump that presidential immunity protected him from liability of actions as part of his official duties.
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Half Moon Bay Mass Shooting Erupted Over $100 Bill: Sources
A supervisor told the suspect he must pay for the damage from an accident with a co-worker involving farm equipment, sources say
After sleeping with a Glock-17 semiautomatic pistol under his pillow for two years, accused Half Moon Bay mass killer Chunli Zhao told investigators he was set into a rage after a mushroom farm supervisor demanded he pay $100 over a work accident that he insisted wasn’t his fault, sources with direct knowledge of the matter told NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit.
Zhao, 66, is being held on murder charges for the deaths of seven farm workers and attempted murder of an eighth worker.
The case being developed by investigators suggests that Zhao methodically hunted down and executed coworkers that he had held long grudges against. Sources say Zhao recalled that he bought the 9 mm pistol at a local store two years before, after being bullied by co-workers.
But what triggered the massacre Monday, authorities say, was a dispute Zhao had over paying a $100 bill for a farm equipment crash at Terra California Garden, formerly called Mountain Mushrooms. About a half hour before the shooting, sources say, Zhao complained to a supervising co-worker that he was not to blame for the earlier accident. Sources said Zhao claimed his co-worker intentionally ran into him with a bulldozer while Zhao was driving a forklift.
After insisting that Zhao still had to pay, according to sources familiar with Zhao’s account, the supervisor rode off on a bicycle.
Zhao told investigators he followed and caught up with the supervisor outside a greenhouse, talking with the co-worker Zhao blamed for the accident. After confronting the boss again, who maintained Zhao had to pay the $100 bill, Zhao told investigators he walked away but waited nearby inside a greenhouse. It was then, sources say, he allegedly shot the co-worker from the accident and then the supervisor.
Our sources say Zhao told investigators he returned to a trailer encampment and went to the co-worker’s trailer, and targeted his wife, saying: “I killed your husband, you should join him too.” Sources said Zhao then went to another trailer, shooting one co-worker as he slept and wounding the victim’s brother.
Zhao left the scene, sources say, driving to a nearby mushroom farm on Highway 1, Concord Farms, where he had worked five years before. There, he allegedly shot and killed the assistant manager — who Zhao claimed had mistreated him — as well as a San Francisco couple he had worked with there.
Our sources say Zhao told investigators he then drove to the Half Moon Bay sheriff’s substation, where he waited in the parking lot about two hours, to get arrested. Authorities found the gun, ammo and a goodbye note he had written to his wife, telling her to take care of their 40-year-old daughter living in China.
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Harmeet Dhillon Says Republicans Ignore Grassroots Base at Their ‘Peril’
DANA POINT, Calif. — Harmeet Dhillon has a warning for the Republican National Committee.
Dhillon, the RNC committee member from California who was unsuccessful on Friday in her bid to unseat longtime national party chair Ronna McDaniel in a high-profile and combustible election, pointed to her grassroots support and warned “if we go back to our homes and ignore this message, I think it’s at our peril. It’s at our peril personally, as party leaders and it’s at our peril for our party in general.”
McDaniel won re-election on Friday, bringing to an end nearly two months of barbs and accusations amid a major fight for the future of the GOP.
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Harvard Poll: Six in Ten Have Doubts Over Biden’s Mental Fitness
A new Harvard/ Harris survey has revealed that six in ten Americans have reservations over Joe Biden’s mentally capacity to run again in 2024, with 65 percent agreeing that at 80-years-old, Biden is “too old” to continue as President.
Over a third of that 65 percent are Democrats, with almost a quarter of Democrats also saying they have doubts about Biden’s mental fitness.
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Jane Fonda: ‘Racism’ To Blame for ‘Climate Crisis’
Actress Jane Fonda has claimed that “racism” is to blame for the alleged “climate crisis.”
During a recent interview on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” Fonda claimed that “there’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism.”
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President Joe Biden went to a steamfitters union hall in Springfield, Virginia to talk about all the economic progress the country has made in his first term but delivered a flub-filled performance that went viral on social media for all the wrong reasons.
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Kemp Declares State of Emergency Amid Violent Protests Following Atlanta Police Shooting
Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp has declared state of emergency after violent protests broke out in Atlanta over the weekend after a police-involved shooting.
The state of emergency is last through Feb. 9.
Kemp has activated roughly 1,000 members of the Georgia National Guard to try to help restore order, citing “unlawful assemblage, violence, overt threats of violence, disruption of the peace and tranquility of this state and danger to existing persons or property.”
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Lawsuit Questioning Constitutionality of Assault Weapon Ban Filed in Macon County
This article has been updated to add the lawsuit in McHenry County.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — A eighth lawsuit has been filed against Illinois’s assault weapons ban.
State Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) filed the lawsuit in Macon County Thursday night. He joins Law-Abiding Citizens of Macon County and Perry Lewin and Decatur Jewelry & Antiques. Inc. The defendants named are Governor J.B. Pritzker, Illinois Speaker of the House Chris Welch, and Senate President Don Harmon.
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Matt Gaetz Introduces ‘PENCIL’ Bill to Block Adam Schiff From Receiving Classified Information
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has reintroduced a bill to block Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) from receiving classified information.
Gaetz filed the “Preventing Extreme Negligence with Classified Information Licenses Resolution,” or the “PENCIL Resolution.”
The resolution also seeks to open an investigation into Schiff by the House Ethics Committee, and would officially strike his comments made during any proceeding of Congress regarding false allegations about Russian collusion and the Trump campaign from the record.
The naming of the bill mocks Schiff by making reference to the “Pencil Neck” nickname that President Donald Trump uses for the congressman.
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Memphis Releases Video Footage of Police Altercation With Tyre Nichols
The City of Memphis on Friday released video footage on the police altercation with Tyre Nichols that resulted in his death.
The city aired the video in four parts on Vimeo.
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Ryan Long’s dreams of opening his Michigan brewing business may be dashed after a group of teen vandals left $200,000 in damages on the construction site.
The DirtBag Brewing Company owner told “Fox & Friends First” on Friday he fears there will be “zero accountability” for the 13-year-olds accused of destroying the property he planned to open this summer.
“They showed up three days in a row last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,” Long began. “They broke every window, every overhead door, over 100 windows that were destroyed, ransacked the building. They destroyed a sky track that was in the building. They removed the oil cap, the hydraulic lines, they filled everything full of sand. They destroyed a 15-passenger van that we had there… to move things around and get things done. And completely, you know, put a huge setback on the building and the project to move forward.”
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Middle-Aged Tech Mogul Spends $2 Million Per Year to Achieve ‘18-Year-Old’ Body
A 45-year-old tech mogul worth nine figures says he spends around $2 million per year to ‘bio hack’ his body so that he has the fitness of an 18-year-old, the skin of a 28-year-old, and the heart of a 35-year-old.
Bryan Johnson, who sold his company Braintree Payment Solutions to Ebay for $800 million when he was in his 30s, has been sticking to an aggressive daily routine that was crafted by his team of 30 doctors and regenerative health experts, Bloomberg reports.
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Nancy Pelosi Indicates She Has ‘No Intention’ of Watching Bodycam Video of Home Invasion
California Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi on Friday indicated that she has “absolutely no intention” of watching the police body camera footage of the incident last year during which David DePape allegedly entered her San Francisco home and struck her husband, Paul, with a hammer.
“As you know today there was a release of some information. I have not heard the 911 call, I have not heard the confession, I have not seen the break in, and I have absolutely no intention of seeing the deadly assault on my husband’s life,” Pelosi said, according to The Hill.
The San Francisco Superior Court this week released the body camera footage of the incident along with Paul Pelosi’s 911 call, after siding with a group of legacy media outlets that had sued to secure their release.
In the video, police approach the Pelosi home and knock on the door. Authorities briefly converse with Pelosi and DePape, both of whom are grasping a hammer, inquiring as to the situation.
At first, the scene appears calm, but DePape quickly turns violent after police ask the pair to drop the hammer. He then seizes full control of the tool and strikes Pelosi, prompting police intervention.
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Nolte: CNN Primetime Viewers Crater to 444,000, Don Lemon Hits Record Low
During the week of January 16, CNN’s average primetime viewership cratered to only 444,000 viewers.
Between Ukraine, the roil over House committee seats, and all the classified documents His Fraudulency Joe Biden scattered throughout the world, there was no shortage of news that week.
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NYT: John Durham Has Been Secretly Investigating Trump for Alleged Financial Crimes
Special Counsel John Durham has been secretly investigating President Donald Trump over alleged financial crimes, according to reports.
Durham reportedly launched a criminal investigation into Trump while he was supposed to be investigating the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.
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Poll: 1 in 4 Millennials Say Parents Cover Their Rent
Roughly a quarter of millennials say their parents cover their rent, and 35 percent of U.S. adults say their parents still pay for at least one of their bills, a new poll found.
The New York Post reported on the survey Friday, which was conducted with 2,000 Americans by OnePoll on behalf of Chartway Credit Union. The survey found that the top three expenses parents pay for their adult children are rent (19 percent), groceries (19 percent), and utilities (16 percent).
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Radical Muslim Cleric Convicted in New York of Supporting ISIS
Radical Islamic cleric Shaikh Abdullah Faisal was convicted Thursday on several counts of supporting terrorism after working as a recruiter for the Islamic State (ISIS), according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.
Faisal promoted a radical interpretation of Islam that supported the idea of killing nonbelievers, leading to his incarceration in Britain in 2003 and deportation from Kenya in 2010, according to the New York Times. On Thursday, District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Faisal had been found guilty of several counts of lending support for terrorism after attempting to recruit an undercover officer into ISIS.
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The House on Friday passed a bill that requires new federal lands and waters leases for oil and gas companies each time the Energy Secretary releases oil from the SPR.
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Republican state lawmakers filed an appeal with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday hoping to preserve elements of their impeachment case against an elected progressive Philadelphia prosecutor.
The appeal asks the state’s highest court to review last month’s decision regarding the legality of the Legislature’s impeachment and trial of Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner. It seeks clarity on whether the trial can move forward with certain articles and takes issue with the court’s decision that three of the impeachment articles allege ethics violations, which would put it under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to discipline Krasner. Republican lawmakers, rather, assert it is in their power to remove him.
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Senate Launches Investigation Into Pfizer Over ‘Bombshell’ Undercover Video
The U.S. Senate has launched an investigation into Pfizer after one of the Big Pharma giant’s executives was caught in an undercover video boasting about the company’s disturbing practices.
As Slay News reported, Pfizer’s Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations Jordon Trishton Walker revealed in an undercover video his pharmaceutical company is using dangerous gain-of-function research to “mutate” COVID-19.
Walker, an mRNA scientific planner, said that Pfizer is “mutating” the virus so the Big Pharma giant can produce and sell more vaccines.
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Texas Bill Seeks Accountability for ‘Rogue’ DAs Who Don’t Prosecute Crimes
FIRST ON FOX: Lawmakers in Texas are going after “rogue” prosecutors who they say refuse to enforce state laws for certain crimes or prosecute certain defendants by threatening to have them removed from office or subject to an investigation.
State Sen. Mayes Middleton, a Republican, filed a bill in the state Legislature Friday that would require district attorneys to go after suspected criminals and prosecute their alleged crimes. It would also give state Attorney General Ken Paxton that ability to go after district attorneys by forcing them to enforce laws and potentially seek to remove them from office, according to a copy of the bill obtained by Fox News Digital.
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Three Arrested in Iranian Plot to Kill U.S. Journalist
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday announced that authorities had arrested and charged three individuals for their alleged roles in an Iranian scheme to assassinate a prominent U.S. journalist and critic of the Islamic Republic.
Garland identified Khalid Mehdiyev, Polad Omarov, and Rafat Amirov, as the defendants.
“The indictment unsealed today alleges that individuals in Iran tasked defendant Amirov with targeting the victim in a murder-for-hire plot,” Garland stated, alleging that “Amirov, who resided in Iran, is a leader of the Eastern European criminal organization.”
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Trump Proposes Big Changes to Public Education, Saying it’s Been Overtaken by ‘Radical Left Maniacs’
Continuing to craft a second generation of his policies, former President Donald Trump is proposing a dramatic change in the education sphere that would empower parents to elect and fire school principals.
“Our public schools have been taken over by the Radical Left maniacs,” Trump said in a video announcement released late Thursday night.
Trump said the first step in his plan to “save American education” and restore power to parents would be to cut federal funding for any school or program pushing Critical Race Theory, gender ideology or other “inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content to children.
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Utah Leading a Lawsuit Against New ESG Rule Affecting 401(k) Plans
SALT LAKE CITY — With 24 other states on board, the Utah attorney general announced on Friday a lawsuit against a Department of Labor rule. The new rule involves ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing, which the AG said would impact millions of 401(k) plans.
The “prudence and loyalty in selecting plan investments and exercising shareholder rights” rule will take effect Monday (Jan. 30, 2023). It is included along with other amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said the new rule in question allows 401(k) managers to put their clients’ money into ESG investments.
AG lawsuit involves ESG investing
According to Nerdwallet, ESG investing means that money managers make investment decisions based in part on whether a potential investment company addresses issues like carbon emissions and pollution in its business decisions.
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Video: Leftist Talking Heads Claim Letting Trump Back on Facebook Will “Destroy Democracy”
Reacting to the news that Facebook is to allow President Trump access to its platform after a two year ban, leftist ‘journalists’ on MSNBC claimed that it will “destroy democracy”.
Trump derangement syndrome is well and truly back, with New York Times editor Mara Gay, Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway, and historian Jon Meacham crying about Meta helping to “take down the country” by allowing Trump to return.
Conway said “They think, ‘Well oh, the fire’s out, so even though this guy has a cache of matches and gasoline that he carries around with him, let’s let him just play with matches again.”
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Virginia Library Paying ‘1619 Project’ Creator $35,350 for ‘Hour-Long’ Speech on Controversial Work
A major Virginia public library system is reportedly paying “1619 Project” creator and anti-racist author Nikole Hannah-Jones over $35,000 dollars for just one upcoming, hour-long speaking engagement.
According to the Fairfax County Times in Northern Virginia, Fairfax County Public Library staff have agreed to pay the controversial journalist a whopping $35,350 for an hour-long lecture at the McLean Community Center.
The paper stated that the price tag amounted to $589 per minute of Hannah-Jones’ speech.
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Watch: Trump Slams DC Pro-Crime Bill as ‘Sick and Twisted, ‘ Calls for Congress to Block It
In a video message posted Thursday, former President Donald Trump slammed the Washington, DC City Council’s newest crime bill that would weaken the punishments for crimes such as carjacking and robbery.
The bill, which was nearly unanimously passed by the Democrat-controlled council in spite of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s unsuccessful veto, prompted congressional Republicans to take action in an attempt to block the legislation, reports Axios. In response to the crime bill and in support of Congress trying to stop it, Trump took to Rumble to share his thoughts.
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The process of delivering sophisticated new Abrams tanks to Ukraine will take months, with the Pentagon saying it does not have any excess tanks ready for transfer.
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YouTube Censors and Punishes Project Veritas Over Undercover Pfizer Video
YouTube has deleted an undercover video by Project Veritas that showed a Pfizer director of research and development make comments about an idea he calls “directed evolution.”
YouTube has also punished the entire Project Veritas by issuing a “strike.”
“YouTube has taken down our Pfizer DirectedEvolution bombshell. It had 800K views,” O’Keefe announced on Twitter. “Pfizer is scrambling today per sources inside.”
“Project Veritas channel has been given a ‘strike’ and ability to upload ANY new videos is ‘restricted’ for a week with threats of future ‘permanent removal’ Project Veritas announced.
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Canadian Hospital President Slammed for Promoting ‘Anti-Racist’ Book Against White Women
The president of “Canada’s leading pediatric rehabilitation teaching hospital” is facing online backlash for promoting a book that tells white women that their niceness “is actually evil,” that they “uphold white supremacy,” and how they’re “killing” people of color.
“White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better” by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao is a “no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy,” according to the overview.
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‘Fire the High-Priced Consultants’ Says Poilievre
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said on Friday his government would fire pricey consulting firms that are wasting taxpayer dollars under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The promise came as Poilievre addressed the Conservative caucus on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
“A Poilievre government will cap government spending,” he said. “Cut the waste, and fire the high-priced consultants so that we can put the money back in the pockets of our people.”
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Majority of Canadians Support Ditching Notwithstanding Clause, New Poll Shows
The majority of Canadians in all provinces but Quebec want the “notwithstanding clause” abolished, according to a recent survey.
The Angus Reid survey released on Thursday says 55% of all Canadians would scrap the clause, whereas 63% of Quebecois say it should stay put.
The majority of Canadians say the rising use of the clause is concerning.
The notwithstanding clause is a term in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms which allows for certain rights to be overridden when bringing in new legislation.
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Top Cops Urge Trudeau to Level Tougher Penalties on Violent Criminals
The Toronto Police Chief and head of the Toronto Police Services Board are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to make immediate changes to criminal law and bail procedures citing an uptick in crime across Canada.
In a letter to the prime minister, Chief Myron Demkiw and board chair Ainsworth Morgan called for specific reforms to the justice system. The letter comes at a time of increased pressure from all 13 premiers to tackle the issue of the revolving door justice system.
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Trudeau Sends Troops, Leopard Tanks to Ukraine to Support Zelensky’s War Effort
On Thursday, the Trudeau Liberals announced that Canada would be joining its allies in sending tanks to Ukraine.
Defense Minister Anita Anand revealed that four “combat ready” Leopard 2 tanks would be making their way to the war-torn nation, along with members of the Canadian Armed Forces, who will assist with training.
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Dutch Government Tells Workers to Stay Off Chinese Platform TikTok
The Dutch government has reportedly told public authorities to refrain from using Chinese social media platform TikTok over data security fears.
Authorities in the Netherlands have been told that they should stay away from TikTok — a major social media site with links to the Chinese government — for fear that user data on the platform may be compromised.
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Germany Starts Deploying Patriot Systems to Poland
The first batch of surface-to-air Patriot missile systems to be deployed in Poland by the German army has arrived in the country, the Bundeswehr announced on Wednesday.
Along with a squadron of 350 soldiers, the units will help strengthen Poland’s air defense, and improve the security of NATO’s Eastern flank.
The missile systems will eventually be stationed in the eastern Polish city of Zamosc.
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I Am Not Certain Whether Germans Wants Ukraine to Win This War, Says Polish Defense Minister
Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said that he was not certain if Germany wants Ukraine to win the conflict. He is of the opinion that Berlin should donate more tanks from its stockpiles to Ukraine, which is why Polish pressure on Germany remains as strong as it was before.
“There is a reason for this pressure,” said Blaszczak.
He noted that when the Polish government sought support for Ukraine, it was widely criticized by the opposition.
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Croatian President Zoran Milanovic has scolded Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock for claiming Europe is now at war with Russia, calling her remarks a “kind of madness.”
During a visit to the port city of Split, Milanovic claimed Europe’s apparent declaration of war on Russia was news to him and confirmed that Croatia would in “no way” be dragged into what he referred to as a “proxy war” between NATO and Russia.
The Croatian president then wished Germany, tongue in cheek, better luck this time around following its previous attempt to defeat the Soviet Union in World War II.
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Latest Stockholm Bombing is 13th Bombing in Sweden in Just 26 Days
A large explosion took place in an industrial area in the Stockholm region early Thursday morning, marking the 13th explosion Sweden has seen in the last 26 days.
The heavy explosion took place in Botkyrka, just south of the city of Stockholm, in an industrial area at around 1:30 am on Thursday morning, with police calling the incident a “powerful detonation.”
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‘Leopards Will Provide Ukraine With Armored Fist, ‘ Says Polish General
Polish General Waldemar Skrzypczak, the former army head of command, is praising Germany’s decision to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine and expressed his hope that they could change the course of the war.
Germany and the United States announced on Wednesday that they would be sending tanks to Ukraine. Germany will supply 14 Leopard 2 tanks and will give permission for other European states to send their Leopard tanks as well. The U.S. will also send a battalion of Abrams tanks.
Skrzypczak said that Ukraine requires hundreds of Leopard tanks to be able to launch an offensive to counter Russia’s growing forces in the country.
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A man has been charged with planning a terror attack after being arrested at St. James’ Hospital in the English city of Leeds last Friday.
Counter-terror police and bomb disposal units were deployed to the maternity unit of the hospital after a suspicious package was reported to have been left outside. The hospital was evacuated as a precautionary measure, and the threat was handled by the authorities.
On Thursday, counter-terrorism police confirmed 27-year-old Mohammad Farooq had been charged with a string of terror offenses following the incident, including one charge of engaging in an act of terrorism, one charge of possessing an imitation firearm, and one charge of keeping an explosive with intent to endanger life or property.
Farooq remains in police custody and is scheduled to appear by video link at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
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Netherlands: Extinction Rebellion Activists Arrested at Home Over Plans to Block A12 Highway
The police arrested six climate activists at their homes on Thursday morning for plans to block the A12 highway on Saturday. “Calling for a criminal offense, such as blocking the public road, counts as sedition,” the Public Prosecution Service (OM) said.
According to the climate action group Extinction Rebellion (XR), at least two of the arrested nonviolent climate activists form part of the group, and the arrests are part of an effort to suppress the peaceful blockade. “XR condemns the criminalization of nonviolent climate activists,” XR said. “The right to peaceful protest is being trampled by the Dutch state.”
Extinction Rebellion plans to block the A12 highway next to parliament and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy in The Hague on Saturday to nonviolently demand an immediate end to the government’s annual fossil subsidies. According to XR, over a thousand people have signed up for the protest.
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Orban Tears Into Scholz for Tanks Deployment to Ukraine and Declares ‘You Are at War’
Germany’s decision to send advanced armoured tanks to Ukraine has sparked the fury of EU and NATO ally Viktor Orban. From Washington to Berlin to Kyiv, a Western decision to send battle tanks to Ukraine was hailed enthusiastically. Moscow first shrugged it off — and later launched another barrage of attacks.
But in an interview with Hungarian state radio, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Germany’s decision to send 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks to Ukraine was emblematic of the increasing role Western countries are playing in the war, now in its 12th month.
The Hungarian leader said on Friday that Hungary getting drawn into the war in Ukraine “is out of the question as long as I am prime minister” but he thinks it is too late for other countries in Europe.
He said: “The others are not only in danger, they have already been swept away.
“If you send weapons, if you finance the entire annual budget of one of the belligerents, if you promise more and more weapons, more and more modern weapons, then you can say whatever you want. No matter what you say, you are in the war.”
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Relations Between Poland and US Are the Strongest Ever
Relations between Poland and the United States are the strongest ever and Poland can expect the continuation of American investment into the country, Mark Brzezinski, the U.S. ambassador to Poland told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
Brzezinski praised the Polish government for its readiness to spend on defense and Polish society for helping Ukrainian refugees.
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The ‘game-changing’ deal among Western leaders to pump sophisticated tanks into the country has sparked fury in Moscow which has threatened to escalate the war beyond Ukraine’s borders.
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Spain: Rising Female Soccer Star Dies Suddenly at 14
A rising female soccer star has tragically died suddenly at just 14 years old.
Tributes have poured in from around the world following the unexpected death of Spanish under-15s star Estrella Martin.
Sporting Club de Huelva, from Andalusia, announced the death of the academy youngster.
Martin died suddenly in her hometown of Ayamonte, in southern Spain, on Wednesday, according to the club.
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Twitter Restores Renaud Camus, French Novelist Who Coined ‘Great Replacement’ Term
Social media giant Twitter has restored the account of prolific French novelist and ‘Great Replacement’ writer Renaud Camus, who claims he had been suspended over an ironic “anti-white” comment he made on the platform.
Twitter restored Mr Camus’ account after banning the French author in May of last year, one of many accounts reinstated in recent weeks since a change of management.
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UK Defense Committee Chair Calls for ‘Massive Arms Factory’ In Poland
The construction of a major arms factory in Poland would transform procurement for Ukraine’s forces and could be necessary to make the Ukrainian war effort more sustainable and less dependent on Western aid, a U.K. Conservative MP has told Britain’s Telegraph newspaper.
In an interview with the newspaper, Tobias Ellwood, who also chairs the U.K. parliament’s defense select committee, argued Western governments have demonstrated a lack of strategic foresight in their plans for helping Ukraine. He welcomed the decision to deliver Western-made battle tanks but believes the model of transferring weapons to Kyiv with differing supply chains and types of ammunition, was not sustainable in the longer term.
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UK: ‘Functionally Illiterate’ Officers Recruited by London’s Met Police to Increase Diversity
London’s Metropolitan Police recruited officers who are “functionally illiterate” in English in order to increase diversity, according a member of His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary.
The diversity and inclusion push from the woke leadership of the largest police force in Britain has seen the Met accept applicants who can barely write in English, HMI Matt Parr said. The police watchdog said that while he felt that it was “noble and right” to increase the number of ethnic minorities hired by Scotland Yard, Parr urged that this must not be at the cost of lowering standards.
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The former Tory PM’s latest entry in Parliament’s Register of Members’ Interests states he received ‘£510,000 as an advance on an upcoming book’.
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A man has been crushed to death by a hydraulic urinal while working on the device in London’s West End this afternoon.
Emergency services tried to save the man, who has not been named, but he died at the scene at Cambridge Circus on the junction between Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road — outside the Palace Theatre, where the Harry Potter play is being shown.
The victim was performing maintenance on the pop-up urinal which rises from the pavement for those out in London at night.
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UK: Met Police Accepting ‘Functionally Illiterate’ Applicants in Bid to Meet Diversity Targets
Officers who are “functionally illiterate in English” are being accepted into the Metropolitan Police, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary Matt Parr has warned. Mr Parr said it was right that ambitious recruitment targets were being set but added that it shouldn’t be at the expense of standards, The Telegraph report. He warned that the force is at risk of “recruiting the wrong people” but said Commission Mark Rowley has made it clear he wants to “dial down the requirement to meet those targets” to ensure the right people are recruited.
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‘We Are Not at War With Anybody’ — Hungary Rejects Germany’s Claim That Europe is at War With Russia
The Hungarian people have made a clear decision to stay out of the conflict in Ukraine, and the country is therefore not at war with anyone, stressed Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjartó in New York on Thursday.
Szijjartó’s comments follow a statement from his German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, in which she stated Europe as a whole is fighting a war against Russia.
The German foreign minister told the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly on Wednesday that it was crucial to “do it together and that we do not do the blame game in Europe, because we are fighting a war against Russia and not against each other.”
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Wealth of the Swiss Billionaires Increased by 52.2 Percent After Pandemic
Globally, the wealth of the richest have increased massively. This is shown by a report by the Institute for Policy Studies, which has accused the WEF of ignoring the problem of the concentration of money and power. Switzerland has for a long time been a paradise for the super rich. It is teeming with millionaires and billionaires.
Hardly any other country has so many rich people. The country has 65 095 people with net assets equivalent to at least $5 million and 4 520 people with assets of $50 million or more.
There are also around 40 billionaires — the caste of owners and shareholders of large corporations in a wide variety of areas. They have benefited enormously in the last 10 years, more so than the richest of the rich in almost any other country.
At least that’s the conclusion of the Extreme Wealth report, which was written by the Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam, Patriotic Millionaires and the Fight Inequality Alliance. It analyzed the development of wealth concentration over the last 10 years.
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WHO Introduces a Global Patient File
Officially, Corona is hardly an issue anymore, and in most countries most “hygiene measures” are now no longer in force. For the elite of the World Economic Forum (WEF) who had gathered in Davos, however, the Great Reset is far from over. Rather, the impression is that WEF boss Klaus Schwab and his guests are already busy planning for the next “pandemic”.
In a round of talks at the WEF, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair advocated the need for digital recording of vaccination status. He announced “coming vaccines” that would consist of multiple injections.
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7 Killed in Shooting at Jerusalem Synagogue, Suspect Dead
Ten others were wounded in the Friday night shooting.
Seven Israelis have been killed in a shooting at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood, according to Jerusalem District Police Commander Doron Turgeman.
Ten others were wounded in the Friday night shooting, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
The suspect was killed by police, according to officials.
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Caroline Glick: The Israeli Left Begs the World to Protect Its Power
In 2007, then-editor of Israel’s far-left Haaretz newspaper David Landau implored then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to “rape” Israel. Landau told Rice that Israel “wants to be raped by the United States” into making territorial concessions to the Palestinians.
Landau’s statement, which was widely reported at the time, was and remains shocking. But over the past quarter-century, it has become common practice for the Israeli Left to turn to foreign governments and other international actors for help subverting democratic processes in Israel.
In 1977, Israel’s Left lost its political majority forever when working-class Israelis abandoned it for the political Right. Over the past 46 years, the Left has held power for a total of just under 13 years.
To compensate for its loss of political power, the Israeli Left expanded the power of Israel’s already powerful bureaucracy, which its members controlled. Over the past 30 years, using its control over the Supreme Court and the attorney general’s office, the Left enacted a judicial revolution that transformed the unelected justices into the most powerful arm of government, with no checks on its power or accountability to the public. Through judicial fiat, the justices and their allies in the attorney general’s office have clipped the wings of Israel’s elected leaders, and made all policies and laws dependent on their prior or retroactive approval.
As the years passed, more and more Israelis fell victim to the legal fraternity, which rules in accordance with its leftist values and political interests. And as more Israelis became aware of the problem, the issue of legal reform became increasingly salient in elections…
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ANDREW NEIL: A year ago Russia was on the brink of attacking Ukraine and the Western military consensus was that Kyiv would fall within three days of the invaders crossing the border.
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The London-listed group revealed that first-half net profits declined by 34.4 per cent to €152.9million even as total sales exceeded forecasts on the back of price hikes.
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The Russian President, whose horrific war continues to shatter peace in Europe, repeated his claim on the day when the world remembers the unimaginable horrors that killed 6 million Jews.
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At the beating heart of Moscow, directly opposite the Kremlin on the eastern side of Red Square, you’ll find Russia’s most famous shopping mall.
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Russia Blocks Privacy Mail and Docs App Skiff
Russia has blocked access to encrypted technology company Skiff.com. Skiff provides encrypted email, calendar, and documents and is a challenger to privacy-invasive companies such as Google.
The app uses end-to-end encryption techniques to ensure that only you and the person you’re communicating with can read your messages.
The app does not store any metadata or content on its servers, which means that your conversations are not accessible to anyone other than you and the person you’re communicating with.
It’s for this reason that Skiff has grown in popularity in recent months since it first launched its private Google docs alternative back in 2021.
Skiff is the latest in a list of private services that have been blocked in Russia. Proton and Tutanota have also been banned in the country.
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Challenger 2 tanks supplied by the UK are not expected to arrive in Ukraine until the end of March, after France suggested it could send fighter jets instead.
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Zelensky Dismisses Prospect of Ukraine Peace Talks With ‘Nobody’ Putin
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected the prospect of peace talks with Vladimir Putin while dismissing his Russian counterpart Thursday as a “nobody.”
Zelensky used an interview with Britain’s Sky News to declare Putin “doesn’t want negotiations because he doesn’t want peace.”
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As youth crime sweeps Alice Springs, sales data reveals 200 properties are up for sale as locals are packing up and leaving. The exodus leaves some locals fearing the town will be fly-in fly-out for workers.
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The Today Extra host was joined by his co-host Sylvia Jeffreys, and journalists Tom Tilley and Jess Ridley on Friday morning to discuss the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
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Shelby ‘Bilby’ Mills spent her public holiday partying with mates at a lavish waterfront home on the Gold Coast, while downplaying the event as just ‘drinks around a pool’.
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Djokovic´s Father Insists He Unwittingly Posed for Photos With Putin Supporters
Srdjan Djokovic was shown in a YouTube video standing with a man holding a Russia flag with Vladimir Putin´s face on.
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Novak Djokovic’s Dad is Warned After Posing With Russian Flag at Match
Novak Djokovic’s father has been warned about his future behaviour after causing outrage at the Australian Open by posing with a Russian flag with Vladimir Putin’s face on it.
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Novak Djokovic’s father has pulled out of attending tonight’s Australian Open semi-final in the wake of his controversial interaction with Vladimir Putin supporters on Wednesday
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Rioters unleashed rocks, bricks and bottles at police in two separate ‘out of control’ incidents on Thursday and Friday in the Perth CBD — after an earlier ‘Invasion Day’ protest.
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Retired star Alexandr Dolgopolov has called for Novak Djokovic’s father to be banned from the Australian Open. It follows Srdjan Djokovic posing with men supporting the invasion of Ukraine.
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The Rumble channel of Brazilian podcaster Monark is still available despite the censorship demands of the controversial judge Alexandre de Moraes of the STF (Federal Supreme Court).
The censorship demand was made after the events of January 8th, when supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in the capital Brasilia. Big Tech platforms such as YouTube and Facebook complied.
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Attacker in Spanish Church Machete Murder Was Moroccan National Subject to Deportation Order
The man responsible for a terrorist attack at two Spanish churches on Wednesday evening, leaving one dead and several injured, was a Moroccan national who had been under surveillance and was subject to a deportation order, authorities have confirmed.
The attacker, now known as 25-year-old Yasin Kanza, stormed a church in Algeciras armed with a machete and stabbed a priest in the neck. He then went to another church where he attacked a sacristan, hunting his victim down as he attempted to flee and delivering a fatal wound in the town square.
Eyewitnesses told the EFE news agency that the man shouted “death to Christians” along with “Allah” before the attack.
Kanza is a Moroccan national who had been living in Spain illegally. He was recently the subject of a deportation order and had been under surveillance by Spain’s counter-terrorism police because he was linked to terrorist groups and was at risk of radicalization.
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Documents obtained by MailOnline reveal how Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai was an enforcer in the lucrative human trafficking trade that sends thousands of young men across Europe to Britain.
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France: Illegal Migrant Breaking Into Homes in Effort to Force His Own Deportation
An illegal migrant is breaking into homes in France in an attempt to force his deportation back to his home country of Tunisia, which has refused to take him back, according to reports.
A woman in Val-de-Marne in the Paris suburbs recently discovered a man had broken into her home, which was unoccupied while repairs were taking place.
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The mother of Italian teen Pamela Mastropietro, who was killed and dismembered by a Nigerian drug dealer in 2018, appeared at an appeal for the migrant killer wearing a shirt showing the dismembered remains of her daughter.
Graphic content warning
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Louis CK thinks the solution to America’s border crisis is to just “let everybody pour in” because white Americans deserve it.
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Salvadoran Gang Member Charged With Murder Entered U.S. As Unaccompanied Minor
The teenage gang member recently arrested for the murder of a Maryland woman came to the U.S. under a special program that welcomes illegal immigrants under the age of 18 and provides them with a multitude of taxpayer benefits. The government refers to them as Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and hundreds of thousands have entered the country in the last few years. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is charged with caring for them and the agency spends millions of dollars annually to house, medically treat, entertain, and school UAC who come mainly from Central America. Under U.S. law illegal immigrant minors are almost always allowed to remain in the country and are quickly disbursed to a government-funded shelter upon arrival at the border. In fiscal year 2022, a record 149,000 UAC were apprehended by federal agents, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) figures.
Underage migrants without an adult usually possess a ticket into the U.S. via the Mexican border and this disturbing case illustrates the profound consequences of such a reckless program.
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But there’s more… He tried to break into my bedroom at night — then said he’d kill everyone in our teenage care home
The call every parent dreads came at six in the morning. Dolores Wallace, still half asleep, picked up the phone and held it to her ear.
At first it was hard to comprehend what the voice on the other end was telling her. Her son Tommy had been stabbed, she needed to come to the hospital.
‘They said I needed to get there quickly,’ she says in an exclusive interview with the Mail, recalling the moment life twisted on its axis and plunged her and her family into unfathomable tragedy. ‘I was in shock, numb, but I got in the car and drove.’
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UK: Based Ukrainian Refugee Causes Offense
Left-wing broadcaster Channel 4 interviewed a Ukrainian refugee who said she moved out of Birmingham, England’s second city, because she was “afraid” of living in the city as she expected more white people to be there.
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Amid the ongoing migrant crisis in Britain seeing hotels across the country filled to the brim with illegal migrants while their asylum claims are processed, private landlords are reportedly set to be offered long-term leases from the government to house the overflow of migrants.
Next week, the Lincolnshire County Council will reportedly consider a move towards expanding the migrant hotel scheme to private landlords in the county, who will be offered fiuve-year leases by controversial government contractor Serco, as well as paid repairs and maintenance of their properties in exchange for housing migrants, at taxpayer expense.
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Ukrainian Women Are Refusing to Live in Islamic Neighborhoods in the UK, Citing Safety Concerns
Ukrainian refugees are refusing sponsored accommodation places in diverse British cities because they feel unsafe living in neighborhoods where the residents are primarily Islamic, it has emerged.
That’s according to a report by the left-wing Channel 4 News broadcaster, which claims many Ukrainian women living in urban areas such as Birmingham are finding it difficult to settle into communities that are far more culturally diverse than they are used to back home.
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“Tragedy … Might be Triggering”: British Universities Add Warnings for Greek and Shakespearean Plays
The problem with universities overwhelmingly controlled by faculty on the left is that there are few to offer a dose of reality or rationality. Left to their own devices, some faculty seem to search for new ways to demonstrate woke priorities. British universities have long been ridiculed for policies controlling speech or symbols. Now, The Telegraph is reporting that British universities are adding trigger warnings to Greek and Shakespearean tragedies to protect students from being triggered by tragedy. Indeed, there are now warnings on other classics for everything from “ableism” to “depictions of rural life.”
One such warning stated, “Tragedy is a genre obsessed with violence and suffering, often of a sexual or graphic kind, and so some of the content might be triggering for some students.”
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‘Golden Demon’ Statue Placed Atop New York Courthouse to Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Abortion
A new state-sanctioned desecration of our heritage just dropped.
The demon statue to honor Ginsberg sticks out like a sore thumb.
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SARAH VINE: A recent post from Burberry features a heavily tattooed trans man, his mastectomy scars proudly in evidence, embracing a partially shaven headed companion of indeterminate gender
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Valencia College Drops Diversity Training to Comply With State Law
A Florida college announced earlier this week it would no longer offer a voluntary diversity training for faculty, ensuring its programming complies with a state law prohibiting content that could be considered discriminatory, the Associated Press reported.
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Kara Lynn, the woman fired on January 6 from her job as community manager by the video game company Limited Run Games after Jessica Blank, after a far-left trans activist who goes by the handle Purple Tinker, called her a “transphobe,” said in an interview with the National Review that she was targeted in part because of her excitement over the upcoming game Hogwarts Legacy, based on the Harry Potter book series by JK Rowling.
“I’m personally looking forward to it! The more I see gameplay, the more excited I get. It’s hitting all the marks I’ve been wanting for a Harry Potter game,” Lynn tweeted about the game on December 28. “There is a huge, huge discourse going on in the gaming sphere in which a lot of people are saying, ‘If you support this game in any way, you’re also supporting JK Rowling,’“ Kara Lynne said to the National Review. “I have this feeling that this is kind of where it stemmed from.”
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“Germany at war with Russia!” –
says Germany’s Foreign Minister
– Jimmy Dore Show
https://swebbtube.se/w/3YEWye9ttTMD3xVowgLudK
Why is Putin not using this?
Just imagine Putin would announce:
“The Russian Federation accepts the German declaration of war. The 3rd since 1914 and 1941. As Germany declared war, they cannot hide behind Article 5 of NATO. So I give the german government a choice: Unconditional surrender or hypersonic missiles from 0600 tomorrow morning. Your decision.”
No, I dont want war, but sometimes there must be consequences.
And I would really like to take a hammer and lots of nails to make sure the piehole of Baerbock is shut and stays shut – permanently.
The Germans have no planes that fly, and army that can’t fight, with ships that cannot sail. Interesting.
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Ukraine and Nazis
“The Right Sector”
Swedish documentary
https://swebbtube.se/w/mnksWE7e2KJE5qmpGxncX9
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The TRUTH is coming out in Ukraine and Zelensky
is in deep trouble
– Redacted with Clayton Morris
https://youtu.be/Pg0ScJ7vXe4
Rightwing Spanish leaders under fire over anti-Islam comments after attack on churches
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/27/spain-algeciras-churches-attack-rightwing-leaders-islam-comments
By the way. I did not find a single link on the net where Muslims would condemn this terrorist attack. Everyone is busy protesting the burning of a cheap printed edition.
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DOUGLAS MACGREGOR _ SENDING TANKS WILL NOT HELP UKRAINE –
More Tanks & Ukrainians training in US
– Col Doug Macgregor
https://youtu.be/S4Qs21LFWtQ
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Repition is the mother of knowledge
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https://swebbtube.se/w/q5byDcbWrk66UwwTdkaLbZ
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“Death By ‘Graphene Oxide’ ‘Nano Particles’
Dr. ‘Douglas Gabriel’ – ‘Covid 19’ Medical Report
https://rumble.com/v26amra-death-by-graphene-oxide-nano-particles-dr.-douglas-gabriel-covid-19-medical.html