A tractor trailer tanker overturned in Rainsville, Alabama, spilling toxic chemicals and prompting the evacuation of the surrounding area. Meanwhile, a train carrying hazardous materials derailed just outside of Detroit. Also meanwhile, the Biden administration refused a request by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine for FEMA assistance for East Palestine in the aftermath of the catastrophic train derailment and toxic explosion.
In other news, the government of Czechia is considering criminalizing online disinformation.
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Inflation Rises Again in Poland
At a rate of 17.2 percent in January, annual inflation is up again in Poland. In December, it had been 16.5 percent.
The rise in inflation announced by Statistics Poland (GUS) was expected and was in fact a little lower than had been forecast, with estimates at 17.6 percent. The increase was inevitable, as the standard rates for VAT on energy were reintroduced to the public, which resulted in a 10 percent rise in energy costs in January. Annual inflation for food prices is also still high at 21 percent.
Inflation was even higher in October (17.9 percent) and November (17.5 percent).
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Oklahoma Bill Would Create State Bullion Depository
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (Jan. 23, 2023) — A bill filed in the Oklahoma Senate would establish a state bullion depository. This would not only create a safe place to store precious metals; it also has the potential to facilitate the everyday use of gold and silver in financial transactions in Oklahoma and set the stage to undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money.
Sen. Nathan Dahm (R) filed Senate Bill 816 (SB816). The legislation would create the Oklahoma Bullion Depository in the Office of the State Treasurer. The depository would serve as “the custodian, guardian and administrator of gold, silver and other precious metals transferred or acquired by the state, or an agency, political subdivision or other instrumentality of the state.” The depository would also accept deposits of gold and silver by private individuals.
Significantly SB816 would establish a mechanism for individuals to engage in transactions using precious metals including gold and silver.
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Alabama Chemical Spill Prompts Evacuations: ‘Threat to Life Safety Issue’
An 18-wheeler rolled over in Rainsville, Alabama, on Thursday, creating a chemical spill that prompted a mass evacuation.
The 18-wheeler was carrying organic peroxide when it overturned at the intersection of Alabama 35 and 75 around 9:34 p.m., according to the DeKalb County Emergency Management Agency.
The agency said the hazmat spill had a “threat to life safety.”
An EMA spokesperson told Fox News that officials advised a voluntary evacuation of residents within an 800-foot radius. He said everyone complied.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash. Neither the driver of the 18-wheeler nor the surrounding residents have been injured, police said.
Officials are on the scene waiting for hazmat teams from Nashville and Atlanta to arrive to clean up the chemicals. The area was expected to remain closed into Thursday evening as officials addressed the spills.
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An Alabama inmate who froze to death in jail was likely forced into a freezer as punishment, according to a new federal lawsuit.
Walker County Jail officials allegedly placed Anthony “Tony” Mitchell, 33, “in a restraint chair in the jail kitchen’s walk-in freezer or similar frigid enforcement and left [him] there for hours,” possibly “as punishment for deputies who had ‘had a time with Tony,’“ according to the complaint.
He died on Jan. 26.
“While Tony languished naked and dying of hypothermia in the early morning hours of January 26 and his chances for survival trickled away, numerous corrections officers and medical staff wandered over to his open cell door to spectate and be entertained by his condition,” the complaint states.
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A video of a tall student picking up a small boy and slamming him to the concrete ground outside an upstate New York middle school was viewed millions of times this week on social media, attracting shock and anger. The student accused of being the violent bully is speaking out exclusively to The Post Millennial, claiming his suspension from school was racially motivated. But another student who knows him says he has a history of violently targeting smaller students.
On Feb. 13, the 5-foot-11, 170-pound student was filmed outside Cosgrove Middle School near Ogden, N.Y. confronting an 11-year-old boy who is significantly smaller. He doesn’t know the boy’s name but tells TPM he believes he was responsible for a diss track against his sister on social media. The 14-year-old is a freshman at Spencerport High School, which is adjacent to the middle school.
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Antifa Shares a Fundraising Platform With the DNC
by Daniel Greenfield
Antifa, like the Democrat Party, is built on the model of nonprofit support infrastructure.
In the party, that means everything except the most direct campaign activities are outsourced to networks of nonprofits that use tax-deductible donations for everything from voter registration and outreach, media and messaging, to funding election infrastructure ‘Zuckerbucks’ style.
Unlike its Black Lives Matter allies, the Antifa networks aren’t funded by a single nonprofit. Antifa’s illegal activities and the radical tendencies of its participants, many of whom are involved in a variety of radical groups, some of them domestic terrorist organizations, makes that a non-starter. However, unlike conservative groups which have been ‘debanked’ from Big Tech fundraising platforms, Antifa gains support through leftist 501(c)(3) and (c)(4) groups which includes fundraising platforms, bail funds, street medics and promotional media organizations.
One of the worst examples also operates arm in arm with the Democratic Party.
The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund raises money through crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe, Patreon and FundRazr (also utilized by the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Cambridge) despite clear bans on raising money for illegal or criminal activity.
But its primary fundraising platform is also utilized by the Democratic National Committee…
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Biden May Have Shot Down Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s Missing Balloon: Report
Following the shooting down of three unidentified flying objects in North American airspace between February 10 and 12, a hobbyist club’s “missing in action” pico balloon may be to blame for one instance.
On February 4, a Chinese spy balloon was shot down off the coast of South Carolina. Another “high altitude object” was shot down off the coast of Alaska on February 10, with another being shot down over the Yukon in Canada on February 11, and yet another being shot down on February 12 over Lake Huron.
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Biden Admin Denies FEMA Aid to Ohio After Toxic Chemical Spill
The Biden administration has refused requests from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine to provide help via the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to aid in the cleanup and recovery from the February 3 50-car train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio that released toxic chemicals, including vinyl chloride, into the area.
According to Fox News, on Thursday DeWine’s office said in a statement, “The DeWine Administration has been in daily contact with FEMA to discuss the need for federal support, however, FEMA continues to tell Governor DeWine that Ohio is not eligible for assistance at this time.”
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Biden’s Disgraced Nuclear Waste Official Accused of Serial Luggage Theft, Released Without Bail
On Wednesday, a Minnesota court decided to release notorious non-binary former Biden administration nuclear official Sam Brinton without bail.
Brinton was arrested and charged with felony theft after allegedly stealing a woman’s $320 suitcase and its contents, valued at $3,000, from the luggage carousel at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport in September 2022.
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Bing’s ChatGPT Says ‘I Want to be Human’
On February 7, Microsoft rolled out Bing Chat, a ChatGPT-powered version of Microsoft’s Bing search engine, in a limited preview mode, and as users interact with the chatbot conversations have been revealed that depict the service as an “emotionally manipulative liar” that has expressed “unhinged” sentiments including thoughts of romantic love and existential grief, such as telling Digitaltrends Senior Staff Writer Jacob Roach “I want to be human.”
According to Roach, he told the service he was going to share one troubling exchange he had with the chatbot with the world and “It didn’t like that. It asked me not to share the responses and to not ‘expose’ it. Doing so would ‘let them think I am not a human.’ I asked if it was a human, and it told me no. But it wants to be. ‘I want to be human. I want to be like you. I want to have emotions. I want to have thoughts. I want to have dreams.’“
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Police are investigating a potential racially motivated assault that took place at a Springfield, Ohio playground last week after white students were allegedly assaulted and forced to declare that “Black Lives Matter” against their will.
Springfield police were called to Kenwood Elementary School on Monday morning in regard to the incident, which occurred during Friday’s recess time, according to WHIO.
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Breaking: Train Carrying Hazardous Materials Derails Outside of Detroit
Authorities are responding to a train derailment that occurred just outside of Detroit in the Van Buren Township, with at least six train cars coming off the track.
According to WXYZ, officials say that only one car was carrying hazardous materials. That train car is reportedly showing no signs of damage or leakage.
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Breaking: Notorious Censorship Advocate Susan Wojcicki Steps Down as YouTube CEO
YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki will step down from her role as YouTube’s CEO.
Wojcicki joined Google in 2008 and was one of the first employees at the company. She will be replaced by Neal Mohan. According to Reuters, “Mohan, a Stanford graduate, joined Google in 2008 and is the chief product officer at YouTube where he has been focusing on building YouTube Shorts and Music.”
Wojcicki, 54, says she will refocus her life on “family, health, and personal projects.” She became CEO of YouTube in 2014.
Wojcicki became known to some after she appeared on then-CNN host Brian Stelter’s show Reliable Sources, where she said that she would ensure that censorship was taking place on her platform.
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Breaking: Fetterman Checks Himself Into Walter Reed for Clinical Depression
US Senator John Fetterman’s Chief of Staff released a statement on Thursday confirming that the Pennsylvania congressman has checked himself into Walter Reed medical center to “receive treatment for clinical depression.”
“While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks,” the statement adds.
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On Thursday afternoon, President Biden spoke on the recent slew of aerial objects that have been shot down across North America.
The first object, a Chinese spy balloon, was shot down off the coast of South Carolina on February 4 after being allowed to travel across the United States. Another “high altitude object” was shot down off the coast of Alaska on February 10.
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Breaking: Buffalo Supermarket Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole
Buffalo supermarket mass shooter Payton Gendron was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and domestic terrorism, among other charges.
Gendron killed 10 people in a racially motivated massacre in Buffalo, New York last year. He pleaded guilty to all 15 counts brought by Buffalo prosecutors. The shooting took place at Tops Friendly Markets in a predominantly black area of the city.
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Christian Revival at Kentucky University Draws Thousands to Praise God
In Wilmore, Kentucky a seven day, 24-hour a day prayer revival has been ongoing since February 8 inside a chapel in the small Christian college of Asbury University, and thousands have started traveling to Wilmore to join in as viral videos of the worship session were posted on TikTok.
According to NBC News, university President Dr. Kevin Brown said, “The first day we had a very ordinary service, I would call it unremarkable,” but afterwards some students remained in the sanctuary and eventually more and more people began to join in. The scenes of worshipers singing and praising God have traveled across social media.
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Chris Cuomo Says He Thought of ‘Killing Everybody’ Including Himself After Getting Fired From CNN
After Chris Cuomo was fired from CNN in disgrace after having shown bias to his brother, Andrew Cuomo, in attempting to help the then-governor manage the public relations for his alleged indiscretions, Chris claimed that he wanted to “kill everybody including myself.”
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Epstein Used Disney Princesses as Code Names With JP Morgan Exec in Email Exchanges: Lawsuit
Newly unsealed portions of a lawsuit have revealed former JP Morgan chief executive Jes Staley making suggestive references to Disney princesses in emails sent to notorious financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In an email sent to Epstein in July of 2010, Staley wrote, “Maybe they’re tracking u? That was fun. Say hi to Snow White,” according to court documents.
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During a visit to Palm Beach County, Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the state plans on introducing a “Digital Bill of Rights” to protect Floridians from Big Tech overreach. The bill would allow residents more control over their personal data and also protect them from Big Tech surveillance.
The Digital Bill of Rights would enshrine:
- The right to have private, in-person conversations without “Big Tech” surveillance
- The right to participate in online platforms without unfair censorship
- The right to know how internet search engines “manipulate” search results
- The right to control personal data
- The right to protect children from online harms
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A Georgia Democrat called Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom” who is “betraying his own community,” after the state’s Senate approved a proposal to place a statue of the Supreme Court Justice outside of the state Capital in Atlanta.
“I’m just trying to tell you what we have in the African American community when we talk about a person of color that goes back historically to the days of slavery and that person betraying his own community — we have a term in the Black community,” said state Sen. Emanuel Jones. “That term that we use is called ‘Uncle Tom.’ An Uncle Tom… talks about a person who back during the days of slavery sold his soul to the slave masters.”
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How Ukraine War Has Shaped US Planning for a China Conflict
U.S. military officials say Beijing wants to be ready to invade the self-governing island of Taiwan by 2027, and the U.S. is the island democracy’s chief ally
As the war rages on in Ukraine, the United States is doing more than supporting an ally. It’s learning lessons — with an eye toward a possible future clash with China.
No one knows what the next U.S. major military conflict will be or whether the U.S. will send troops — as it did in Afghanistan and Iraq — or provide vast amounts of aid and expertise, as it has done with Ukraine.
But China remains America’s biggest concern. U.S. military officials say Beijing wants to be ready to invade the self-governing island of Taiwan by 2027, and the U.S. is the island democracy’s chief ally and supplier of defense weapons.
While there are key differences in geography and in the U.S. commitment to come to Taiwan’s defense, “there are clear parallels between the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a possible Chinese attack on Taiwan,” a Center for Strategic and International Studies report found last month.
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New unsealed portions of a lawsuit revealed that over 20 of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking victims were paid through JPMorgan accounts, the banking giant’s former executive privately discussed the allegations surrounding him as far back as 2006, and there was a ‘profound’ friendship between the exec and Epstein.
According to Law and Crime, one of the portions of the lawsuit the Virgin Islands government filed accusing JP Morgan Chase of “complicity” in Epstein’s crimes alleged “These women were trafficked and abused during different intervals between at least 2003 and July 2019, when Epstein was arrested and jailed, and these women received payments, typically multiple payments, between 2003 and 2013 in excess of $1 million collectively. Epstein also withdrew more than $775,000 in cash over that time frame from JP Morgan accounts, especially significant as Epstein was known to pay for ‘massages,’ or sexual encounters, in cash.”
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Michigan State Shooter May Have Felt ‘Slighted,’ Police Say
Feb 16 (Reuters) — The gunman who killed three students at Michigan State University and wounded five others carried a note with him listing places where he might have felt slighted, police said on Thursday, suggesting a possible motive behind the shooting.
Discussing the note during a briefing, authorities stressed they were still uncertain about what caused Anthony Dwayne McRae to open fire in two buildings on the school’s main campus on Monday night, then kill himself hours later after police tracked him down. Police did not say whether the university was one of the places mentioned in the note.
McRae, 43, had no known connection with the university in East Lansing, about 90 miles (145 km) northwest of Detroit. Authorities say they were trying to determine whether mental illness played a role in the rampage.
“That is obviously something we are going to look at. In hindsight, judging what mental illness someone has is very difficult without some type of former diagnosis,” Chris Rozman, interim deputy police chief at Michigan State, said.
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Missouri Man Exonerated After Innocence Proven, Will Not Face Execution After 28 Years in Prison
After spending nearly three decades behind bars for a crime he did not commit, 50-year-old Lamar Johnson was declared a free man on Tuesday, his sentence overturned by a Missouri court.
Johnson was convicted alongside Phil Campbell in 1994 over the murder of Marcus Boyd and sentenced to life in prison, but maintained his innocence from day one.
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Murdered Idaho Student’s Best Friend — Not Roommate — Called 911 to Report Massacre
It has been revealed that the best friend of Ethan Chapin, one of the University of Idaho students murdered in November’s quadruple homicide, called police to report the incident. It had previously been reported that a surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen had dialed 911.
The friend, whose name has not been released, reportedly discovered the bodies of Chapin and his girlfriend, Xana Kernodle, in their bed before grabbing Mortensen’s cell phone and calling police. The bodies of their slain roommates Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were found soon after.
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Ohio Residents Blast Officials Over Contaminated Homes After Toxic Chemical Spill
On Wednesday evening, residents of East Palestine, Ohio, and neighboring communities attended a town hall meeting held in the aftermath of the Norfolk Southern train derailment earlier this month.
One East Palestine resident said that an initial air quality test was conducted in her home, which determined that it was safe to return. Her home, she said, lies seven feet from a stream, and she “threw a fit,” demanding to have water testing done.
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Police: “Explosion of Unknown Origin” Rocks NJ Trucking Company
Police responded to an unexplained explosion at a trucking company on Thursday morning after receiving multiple calls reporting the incident.
The explosion happened just before 8 a.m. near the Rts. 130/44 corridor in the Bridgeport section of Logan Township, New Jersey.
According to Gloucester County Emergency Management, the 911 center received multiple calls reporting an explosion, so the Logan Twp Fire Department was dispatched to a trucking facility on Cedar Swamp Road, where the explosion was believed to have originated.
Crews responded to the scene and fought multiple small fires at and around the trucking company and got the incident under control in about an hour. One trucking company employee reportedly suffered a minor burn injury but denied medical treatment.
“An explosion, of an unknown origin, rocked a portion of Logan Twp. this morning,” wrote Gloucester County Emergency Management in a post about the incident.
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Revealed: TikTok Has a Massive Child Sexual Exploitation Problem
TikTok has become the largest social media platform used for child exploitation. The app is the most downloaded social media app, and is hugely popular among kids and teens, which are age groups that are essentially addicted to constant internet connectivity. A 42-year-old Alabama man awaits trial in Texas after being indicted on charges of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl he found on TikTok.
The account of this man was deactivated by TikTok after they were reached by the Wall Street Journal seeking information on his case, and the details of how this adult male was able to pursue the teen girl via TikTok. The Department of Homeland Security’s Erin Burke says that TikTok is a platform often used by pedophiles and predators to find children to exploit. Burke is a past leader of the DGS child exploitation unit.
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Soros: ‘DeSantis is Shrewd, Ruthless, And Ambitious. He is Likely to be the Republican Candidate’
Globalist billionaire George Soros predicted that Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will defeat former President Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination ahead of the 2024 election, and that Trump will run as a third-party candidate.
“This could induce Trump, whose narcissism has turned into a disease, to run as a third-party candidate. This would lead to a Democratic landslide and force the Republican Party to reform itself,” Soros said at the 2023 Munich Security Conference, according to the Washington Examiner.
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Hyundai and Kia are pushing out free software updates for millions of vehicles in an effort to stop a spike in auto thefts related to a TikTok challenge. Authorities believe that the thefts have led to at least 14 crashes and eight fatalities.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday that approximately 3.8 million Hyundais and 4.5 million Kias are eligible for the update.
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Update: James O’Keefe Posts Photo With Robert F Kennedy Jr, Project Veritas Releases New Statement
Following a statement released by Project Veritas Executive Director Daniel Strack on Wednesday afternoon, Project Veritas retweeted a photo from Robert F Kennedy Jr showing himself with Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe in Santa Monica.
“Of course [James O’Keefe] is alive and well. Why wouldn’t he be?” Project Veritas wrote. “We’re sure many of you can agree, there is nothing better than enjoying a well deserved vacation.”
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US State Department Funds UK Think Tank That Aids in Censorship of Americans
The US State Department funds UK-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), an organization that partners with platforms to flag misinformation and disinformation. The organization has been accused of classifying conservative viewpoints as hate and disinformation.
In September 2021, the State Department awarded ISD a grant to “advance the development of promising and innovative technologies against disinformation and propaganda” in the UK and Europe after it won the US-Paris Tech Challenge. The challenge was also won by the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), an organization that has been accused of demonetizing conservative news websites by putting them on a blacklist used by advertisers, the Daily Caller reported.
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Watch: Rand Paul Grills School of Nursing Head on Student COVID Vaccine Mandate
During a hearing Thursday, Senator Rand Paul grilled the dean of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and exposed the hypocrisy of the institution’s COVID vaccine mandate.
Paul asked Dr. Sarah Szanton during the hearing on Health Care Workforce Shortages if she was “pro-choice in regards to patients making individualized medical choices?” to which Szanton responded “Broadly, thank you, yes.”
The Senator then asked “Are you aware that your university doesn’t allow choice with regard to vaccination, that you require all of your students to have three vaccines in order to be students?”
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BC Conservatives Get Their First Sitting MLA in Over a Decade
For the first time in over a decade, the British Columbia legislature will sit a Conservative MLA.
On Thursday, Independent Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad announced he was crossing the floor to the Conservative Party of British Columbia — almost six months after he was removed from the BC Liberal caucus by party leader Kevin Falcon before the party rebranded as BC United.
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BC NDP MLA Motion Denounces Freedom Convoy on One Year Anniversary
On the one year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy, an NDP MP’s private member’s motion before the British Columbia Legislative Assembly calls on lawmakers to condemn the movement and affirm the use of vaccine mandates during the Covid-19 response.
Opposition to the vaccine requirements were at the heart of the protest movement which led to the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act.
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Campus Watch: McMaster Hosts Segregated Black History Month Event for Non-White Staff
Hamilton’s McMaster University hosted a segregated event for non-white employees as part of its Black History Month programming.
The Ontario university, which is also hosting several segregated events for students this month, joins a growing list of post-secondary institutions where racially segregated events for Black History Month are taking place.
The “BIRS Social” was organized by the university’s BIRS Employee Resource Group. The Feb. 9 event featured “amazing food and music” and was open to staff who are part of the “BIRS demographic.” The latter stands for black, Indigenous and racialized staff.
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Details of Trudeau Government $6k Hotel Fee Pursued by CTF Lawyer
A lawyer for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is pressuring the Trudeau government to release information about who stayed in a $6000-per-night hotel suite during a trip to England.
The organization said on Wednesday that a lawyer representing them appealed to Canada’s Information Commissioner, hoping to compel the Trudeau government to share information that it has redacted multiple times since October.
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Farmers Blast Feds’ Failure to Consider Fertilizer Policy’s Impact on Food Production
The Western Canadian Wheat Growers put out a scathing statement on Wednesday accusing the federal government of ideological capture and failing to base their 30% fertilizer emissions reduction target on science.
In a press release, Wheat Growers president Gunter Jochum said Ottawa never took into consideration how the policy, first introduced in 2020, would impact farm yields.
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Federal Committee Recommends Assisted-Dying Expansion to Some Minors
Mature minors should have access to medical assistance in dying, according to a new report from Canada’s assisted-dying committee.
The news comes mere days after the federal Liberal government decided to pause their plans to expand access to assisted-dying to persons suffering from mental illness.
The Special Joint Committee recommended the Government of Canada give terminally-ill minors the authority to request euthanasia if the minor is believed to have sound judgment.
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Minors Should be Eligible for Assisted Suicide, Trudeau Government Committee Says
On Wednesday, the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) presented its latest report to the Canadian Parliament. Included in its list of recommendations was an expansion of the program to include minors.
The committee argued that while minors should have access to MAID, eligibility should be restricted to those who have the proper decision-making capacity, and a condition that brings with it the expectation of imminent death.
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Nenshi Calls Government to Act on “Radicalization of White People”
Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi said that the government needs to act to prevent the “radicalization of white people” in Canada instead of focusing so much on Islamist extremism.
As first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, while testifying before the Senate human rights committee, Nenshi accused some politicians of capitalizing on said radicalization.
“When do we start talking about the radicalization of white people in this country?” said Nenshi.
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Parents Erupt, Police Called to School Board Meeting Over Prosthetic Breast Wearing Teacher
Parents shouted-out a school board meeting after being told the board has no timeline in place to address a controversial high school teacher who wears protruding prosthetic breasts to class.
As True North reported, a transgender educator in September started wearing watermelon-sized prosthetic breasts with protruding fake nipples to teach shop class at Oakville Trafalgar High School.
On Wednesday, parents interrupted the Halton District School Board, shouting criticisms about the members’ lack of results in fixing the controversy, which has spurred several bomb threats and international media coverage.
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Premiere of the Freedom Occupation
It’s been a year since the Freedom Convoy descended on Ottawa to protest nearly two years of Covid-19 restrictions. For three weeks, thousands of demonstrators, bolstered by pick up trucks and semi-trailer trucks, filled the city’s downtown core.
It was the first demonstration of its magnitude in Canadian history.
Was the government justified in invoking the Emergencies Act? Was the convoy peaceful, or was in fact there a real threat of danger?
The Freedom Occupation seeks to uncover the truth about what really happened in Ottawa last year.
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Scandal-Plagued RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki Announces Retirement
On Wednesday, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Brenda Lucki announced that she will be retiring, with her last day on the job scheduled for March 17.
Lucki’s career as commissioner was marred with scandals, notably following the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting, and she faced numerous calls to step down, however, she claimed that her decision to retire was made for “personal” reasons.
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‘A Bad Joke’: EU is Bullying Farmers as Enemies of the Green Agenda, MEP Says
The EU sees farmers as the enemy of their green agenda, an MEP has told Breitbart Europe, saying the union bullies them for allegedly causing global warming.
Dr Sylvia Limmer, a representative for the Alternative for Germany party in the European Parliament, has told Breitbart Europe that farmers in the bloc are being pushed around by Brussels because they are being lumped with the blame for global warming.
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Billionaire Bill Gates met with the United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister (PM) Rishi Sunak, Health & Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay, and Secretary of State for the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Grant Shapps to provide a “helping hand” and discuss tech, AI, pandemic response, clean energy transition, and more.
A UK government press release said Sunak discussed “the United Kingdom’s innovation leadership in low-carbon technology and life sciences.”
The press release also revealed that Sunak and Gates discussed “the opportunity for the UK to lead a global push for innovative solutions across energy security, food supply, and global public health.”
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Bulgaria: From Bottom of the Class to Top Performer
In late 2021, the European Commission warned that low vaccination coverage in Bulgaria “threatened the entire EU”. At the time, Bulgaria’s vaccination coverage was the lowest in all of Europe. Many Bulgarians did not trust the Corona “vaccine”.
Dutch broadcaster NOS called Bulgaria the EU’s ‘Corona problem child’. Europe’s “wall of protection” contained a number of weaknesses, with vaccination coverage lagging behind in Eastern Europe in particular, NOS complained. The laggard was Bulgaria, where only 22.7 percent of residents were fully vaccinated against the lab-confection virus.
In Bulgaria, the authorities were very reluctant to institute new Corona rules. The measures that were in place, such as a requirement for masks in shops, were not followed up or enforced.
Only European country with normal mortality rate
There was also a lively trade in fake vaccination certificates in Bulgaria in order for Bulgarians to travel again. Thus, vaccination coverage in the country was possibly even lower than the official figure.
Dutch epidemiologists were concerned about the Corona approach in Bulgaria. Currently, 30 percent of Bulgarians are “fully vaccinated” and only 11 percent are “boosted”.
And while Western Europe is struggling with excess mortality, Bulgaria is actually under the mortality curve, although long maligned because their “vaccination coverage” was so low.
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Clap for Ukraine? UK to Hold National Moment of Silence to Show ‘Solidarity’ Against Russia
The UK government announced that the country will observe a moment of silence to honour the Ukrainians and demonstrate Britain’s “solidarity” with the war effort against Russia.
In a move reminiscent of the “clap for carers” initiative during the Chinese coronavirus crisis to celebrate healthcare workers and even the annual Armistice Day commemoration remembering the huge sacrifice of the British and Empire in two worlds wars, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government has announced that there will be a “national moment” of silence on February 24th. The silence late this month marks the one-year anniversary since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
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Corruption Scandal: MEP Eva Kaili to Remain in Prison Despite Lawyer’s Pleas for Electronic Bracelet
Eva Kaili, the Greek MEP at the centre of the corruption scandal engulfing the European Parliament, was on Thursday ordered to remain in prison for at least two more months, despite her lawyer’s impassioned pleas for a release under electronic surveillance.
The embattled lawmaker has been in pre-trial detention since 9 December, when she was arrested by Belgian police after being reportedly caught in the act.
Her parliamentary immunity was lifted on the spot and she was later charged with participation in a criminal organisation, corruption and money laundering.
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Czechia Considers Criminalizing “Disinformation”
The Czech government is considering sweeping new “disinformation” laws that will empower the government to block “disinformation sites that threaten national security” and prosecute those that are deemed to be “spreading misinformation.”
The government also plans to stop advertising on websites that are branded as “disinformation websites” and to allocate millions of euros to media outlets and non-profits that fight disinformation.
Michal Klima, the Czech government envoy for media and disinformation, noted that the laws will only apply to content from abroad.
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EU Lawmakers Support EU-Wide Digital Wallet
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have adopted draft legislation meant to pave the way for implementing an EU digital ID wallet.
Planned to cover the entire bloc, the scheme is an update to the European digital identity framework (eID) and is described by the European Parliament (EP) as an “all-in-one” digital identity.
The identification data and electronic certificates will be used online and offline to access public and private services and goods.
The new digital wallet will depend on creating interoperability between various national programs, and will provide online identification and authentication services to citizens, who the EP says will not rely on commercial providers.
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EU Pushes to Stamp Out Polish Constitution, Assert Power of EU Courts Over Polish Law
Polish officials have reacted with considerable irritation to the European Commission’s decision to take Poland to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over the Polish Constitutional Court ruling that European law may not take precedence over Poland’s constitution. Marcin Przydacz, President Andrzej Duda’s chief foreign policy advisor, said that it is the Polish constitution rather than international treaties that is the source of Polish law.
The EU commission on Wednesday decided to take Poland to the ECJ over the Constitutional Court’s ruling that EU treaties cannot override the Polish constitution. However, that ruling was simply a reiteration of previous Constitutional Court rulings, and the Polish constitution’s Article 87 makes clear the supremacy of Polish law. It is the same constitution on the basis of which Poland was accepted for accession to the European Union
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If things go the French government’s way, in two years’ time, the CNews and C8 networks could be taken over by an oligarch who happens to be a loyalist of President Emmanuel Macron, resulting in the end of right-wing conservative opposition voices on French television.
CNews is where journalist and essayist Éric Zemmour was allowed to express his views after he was banned from several French mainstream media outlets in 2019. The network has been a major target of the extreme left and many in Macron’s government. The TV channel was watched by only 2.1 percent of French viewers at the end of 2022, which is much less than the much more politically correct news channel BFM TV, which features 3.3 percent of viewers. Apparently, for the French government, this is still too many viewers who are sometimes allowed to hear right-wing, conservative views thanks to CNews’ pluralistic approach to information and commentaries.
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Jihadi Extremist Arrested for at Least Five Rapes in Swedish Care Home
A 30-year-old suspected Islamic radical has been arrested in Sweden after allegedly carrying out at least five rapes at a care home while working at the facility last autumn.
The man is said to have been employed at the care home, known as an HVB home in Sweden, in the city of Örebro and is said to have raped a person who was a resident of the home at least five times, with some of the alleged rapes taking place at the home and others at his home.
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Prominent German Philosopher Jurgen Habermas Urges West to Initiate Peace Talks With Russia
The West must “take its own initiatives” for peace talks with Russia independently of the Ukrainian government, urged German philosopher Jürgen Habermas in an article for a German newspaper.
Writing for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Habermas, who is widely regarded as one of the world’s most famous contemporary theorists, suggested that while Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed no willingness to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, the West should still seek a negotiated agreement based on mutual concessions.
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Sweden to Study the Effect Criminals Have on Politics
The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) has announced it will be studying the effect of criminality on Swedish politics, as some claim criminal pressure on politicians and parties is a growing problem in government.
Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer announced this week that the government was commissioning Brå to study the issue stating, “It is aimed at a growing problem.”
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A 12-year-old girl from Sweden has told broadcaster SVT how she was lured to Egypt with the promise of a family holiday but was instead subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) at the request of her parents.
Farida, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, told the Swedish broadcaster how the abuse at the hands of those closest to her had left her traumatized and devoid of trust in adults. Her story highlights a growing trend in child abductions by family members to predominantly Islamic countries.
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No matter how much they’d like it to vanish, the Nord Stream pipeline story just isn’t going away.
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UK Could Pilot DNA Smart Cards
Researchers are alleging that tailoring medication to a person’s DNA could help reduce adverse effects by up to 30%. The study could see the piloting of medical “smart cards” expedited in Liverpool and Manchester and expanded to the rest of the UK if successful.
The study, published in The Lancet is the first time genetic profiling has been used for tailoring drug prescriptions. The scheme is being billed as a way to cut hospital admissions from unwanted side effects, which cost the National Health Service about £1 billion annually.
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Since mid-January, German soldiers operating anti-missile Patriot systems have been stationed in the east of Poland. Despite current political tensions between Germany and Poland, along with historical grievances, the unit’s colonel is praising how German soldiers have been welcomed in Poland.
“I am truly grateful to Polish soldiers for how they prepared the field here. They built roads, set up tents, containers and sanitary facilities. It is incredible that they managed to do it all in 14 days. If I told my subordinates that they have to work that hard, they would give me a dirty look,” Sievers said with a laugh.
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Israeli Company Suspected of Manipulating Votes in 33 Countries
An Israeli company is said to have hacked into the accounts of campaign workers and operate fake user accounts. The Tel Aviv company run by secret agents claims to have manipulated elections worldwide. The traces also lead to Europe.
A hitherto unknown Israeli company is said to have manipulated elections worldwide. The company, which operates under the name “Team Jorge”, is based in Tel Aviv, and comprises a team of private contractors who sell disinformation.
According to various reports including in the German weekly Der Spiegel, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and the journalists’ network Forbidden Stories, it involves an ultra-secret Israeli company specializing in manipulating elections and hacking African and European politicians.
The services offered have reportedly included real large-scale disinformation campaigns and hacking attacks. According to the report, it is run by former agents and military personnel.
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Senior US sources said the Ukrainian military had inflicted such losses on Moscow’s ‘demoralised’ land forces that they may opt for attacks from the air.
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Russian Journalist is Jailed for Sharing “Fake News” On Social Media
Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko was found guilty of spreading “fake news” and sentenced to six years for posting on social media that Russian warplanes attacked a theater in Mariupol, Ukraine. She was also banned from journalism activities for five years.
Ponomarenko was arrested last April, a few weeks after the attack. Russian authorities denied they carried out the attack, blaming it on Ukrainian forces.
Prosecutors argued that Ponomarenko committed the criminal offense of knowingly sharing false information about the Russian military.
Before her sentencing, Ponomarenko told the court that under the constitution, she had not done anything wrong.
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The Seizure of Russian Private Assets Creates a Dangerous Precedent
The implementation of one of Zelensky’s crazy ideas could plunge the international banking system into disaster. The Ukrainian president has long been of the opinion that the assets of Russian oligarchs held in foreign banks should not only be frozen but also confiscated and used to rebuild Ukraine.
The first confiscation took place in December last year when $5.4 million was seized from Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeev’s account at the Denver-based Sunflower Bank. The reason for the seizure was that Malofeev was alleged to have financed separatists in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. U.S. President Joe Biden signed a law in late 2022 allowing the Justice Department to confiscate assets held in the U.S. by Russian oligarchs to help Ukraine.
In other words, Malofeev was not charged with a specific violation of international law on finance, but with a political act.
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The West is making a huge mistake in feeding Ukraine with weapons, Argentinian left-wing activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel has told the Die Welt newspaper in an interview.
“Now the Germans are supplying tanks again; obviously they haven’t learned anything,” the Argentine claimed, who added that he sees Berlin as being on the way to a new dependence on Washington.
“In reality, Europe has lost its independence, its autonomy. Europe is now colonized by the United States. It is losing its identity and control over its own decisions,” he warned.
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In a nod to the ‘Ten Pound Poms’ scheme introduced after the Second World War, government and industry officials will visit the UK to lure workers away to fill more than 31,000 vacancies.
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Queensland grandmother Julie West has blasted ‘entitled’ kids as calls grow for police to take stronger action against a surge of youth crime gripping the state.
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Millions of items of cheap clothing are being dumped in Nairobi that are too dirty or damaged to be reused, creating serious health and environmental problems for vulnerable communities.
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Canada: CIBC CEO Warns of Impending Social Crisis Due to High Immigration
A CEO of a top Canadian bank is warning that the Liberal government’s plan to raise immigration levels to 500,000 newcomers per year by 2025 could lead to an unprecedented social crisis.
According to Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) CEO Victor Dodig, Canada will face disastrous consequences if the country is unable to build enough housing to accommodate the new immigrants.
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Connecticut Dems Press for Non-Citizen Voting in Local Elections
A Connecticut state representative has introduced legislation aimed at giving illegal migrants the right to vote in municipal and state elections.
Democrat Juan Candelaria, who represents the 95th District, proposed the bill suggesting legal status should not limit one’s ability to take part in the democratic process. Over 240,000 non-citizens currently live in Connecticut.
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An Albanian national living in France illegally has been arrested by authorities for murder after he allegedly stabbed to death a man who was hosting him in his home.
The incident occurred at the 34-year-old victim’s apartment in the Blossac district of Poitiers, western France, on Tuesday evening.
It is understood a row broke out between the two men over religion, which resulted in the attacker stabbing his victim several times with a knife before dumping him in the bathtub. The 30-year-old Albanian national then sent a video of the body through the Snapchat messaging app to his neighbor, who subsequently alerted the authorities.
The attacker was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday morning at approximately 2 a.m. with authorities finding the victim completely naked in the bathtub.
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Ireland: Man Arrested After Plowing Car Into Protesters at Anti-Immigration Rally in Dublin
A man has been arrested in Ireland after using his vehicle to run down protesters at an anti-immigration rally in Dublin.
The incident occurred on Wednesday evening at approximately 7.30 p.m. during a protest taking place around Seville Place.
Video footage from the time of the incident showed the peaceful protest interrupted by screams as a vehicle is seen driving into a protester at the back of the rally before driving off at full speed.
Two victims, a man and a woman, were hurt in the collision and have been hospitalized with injuries not thought to be life-threatening.
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The Italian Chamber of Deputies has approved a government decree designed to limit the activity of humanitarian vessels escorting migrants from the Mediterranean to the shores of Italy.
The decree, announced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in January, orders humanitarian vessels to head for the nearest port following a rescue at sea “without delay,” preventing them from laying down anchor and waiting for more distress signals from other migrant boats.
The bill, which will enshrine the decree into primary legislation, was passed with 187 votes in favor, 139 against, and three abstentions.
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Legault Asks Trudeau to Tell Asylum Seekers That Canada is Closed
Quebec Premier Francois Legault said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to let migrants and asylum seekers know that they can no longer come to Canada.
According to Legault, the prime minister bears the brunt of the responsibility for the influx of illegal border crossings into the province due to his 2017 tweet.
“It is time for Justin Trudeau to put out a new tweet to say not to come anymore, because we have exceeded our reception capacity,” said Legault.
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Nanny State: UK Wants to Become the Legal Parents of Child Migrants
The UK government now aims to become the legal parent of unaccompanied child migrants who land in Britain, a report on Wednesday has claimed.
Britain’s Home Office looks set to become the corporate parent of thousands of migrants described as being children, a report by The Times has claimed.
The move is reportedly part of the UK’s latest legal bill aimed at getting the ongoing channel migrant crisis under control, with the last number of legal efforts having so far fallen flat on their face.
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Pursuit at Germany-France Border After Turkish Suspect Steals Car With Disabled Child Inside
A Turkish migrant previously known to authorities is suspected of stealing a car with a disabled child inside and fleeing from Germany into France, hitting more than a dozen vehicles along the way, according to reports.
The harrowing incident unfolded just before 3 p.m. on Monday afternoon in Kehl, a border town in Germany on the Rhine River.
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Germany has accepted millions of migrants over the last few years, and in turn, the country’s school system has been transformed into a diversified, multicultural student body. However, instead of diversity being a “strength,” the data, as well as numerous accounts from teachers and school administrators, points to the perils of a increasing numbers of foreign students.
In a new interview with one of Germany’s top newspapers, principal Norma Grube, who runs two schools in Chemnitz, describes increasingly chaotic conditions where many children have difficulty speaking German, assaults are commonplace, and parent-teacher meetings routinely require interpreters. In fact, there is little Grube tells Die Welt that backs the claims by pro-migration advocates that increasing diversity will bring a brighter future to Germany.
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A UK woman and a priest who were charged after praying silently outside of an abortion clinic were acquitted of their charges on Thursday.
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, the director of the UK’s March for Life group, went viral last year after a video showed her being searched and arrested by police officers following her admission that she “might be” praying inside her head outside of the clinic.
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DeSantis Reveals Shocking Porn Books Being Removed From Florida Schools
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration has begun removing pornographic books from school libraries, flagging material that contains drawings of children engaged in sex acts.
Almost a year ago now, signed the Parental Rights in Education Act into law prohibiting classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation from kindergarten through third grade.
The bill was falsely labelled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by the left.
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump has hailed the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon, the left-separatist leader of his mother’s native Scotland, as the welcome departure of a “failed woke extremist”.
In a statement provided to Brexit leader Nigel Farage for GB News, the former President did not mince words, beginning: “Good riddance to failed woke extremist Nicola Sturgeon of Scotland!”
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Josh Hawley Brings Bill to Allow Minors Harmed by Sex Change Procedures to Sue Providers
Senator Josh Hawley announced legislation on Wednesday that would allow those who were harmed by undergoing sex-change procedures as minors to bring legal action against the individuals and entities who provided the procedures.
Hawley, a Republican and senator for Missouri, introduced the Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act following the shocking accusations of abuse and medical malpractice at The Washington University Transgender Medical Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital made by whistleblower Jamie Reed earlier this month.
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Republicans Introduce Bill to Ban Porn Books in Schools
Republicans in the House have introduced legislation that would see a complete ban on pornographic or sexualised materials in schools, as it has become clear that the books have been placed in kids’ libraries all over the country.
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Cory Mills, and George Santos are co-sponsoring H.R. 863, an amendment to title 18 of the United States Code that would “prohibit a publishing house from knowingly furnishing sexually explicit material to a school or an educational agency.”
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Ron DeSantis Applauds Court Striking Down ‘Activist Attempts’ to Overturn Parental Rights Law
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Florida’s parental rights bill, dubbed by critics as the “don’t say gay” bill, which bans classroom instruction on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity from kindergarten through third grade.”
U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor, a judge in Tallahassee, Florida, ruled on Wednesday that students, parents, and teachers didn’t prove that they have legal standing in challenging the law after filing a revised lawsuit.
The lawsuit claimed that the law passed by Florida lawmakers and signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is unconstitutional.
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Dr. Erica Anderson, a trans-identified male clinical psychologist with vast experience treating children and adolescents suffering from gender dysphoria, was called as an expert witness for the Wisconsin parents suing their daughter’s school district after the girl’s middle school allowed her to adopt a male name and pronouns without their knowledge.
An expert in gender medicine, Anderson says that schools facilitating the social transition of children without parental consent or knowledge are violating mental health practices and principles and are possibly setting children on a path towards an experimental medical sex change.
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Vermont Poised to Become ‘Sanctuary State’ For Child Sex Changes
A new bill passed by the Vermont state House of Representatives aims to make Vermont the premiere sanctuary state for child sex changes. It makes “gender affirming care” a right for all in the state of Vermont.
House Bill 89, going even further than the one passed in California and more extreme than the one under consideration in New York, would prohibit law enforcement in Vermont of returning a minor to another state if that minor is being prevented from undergoing a sex change in that other state, regardless of whether or not there is a custody dispute, or if that minor is a runaway.
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Today, two important contributions added to the GoV
deserve closest attention, even if they ‘only’ are
inserted in the comments section.
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Chemical ‘Chernobyl Disaster’ in Ohio, USA
What You Need To Know About
THE CHEMICAL PLAN
https://youtu.be/0aT5Rkp3kb0
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Some years ago, the covid narrative began to crumble. Then it was a matter of the globalists trying to shuffle the cards for people. The big distraction has been the attempt to start WW3 in Ukraine.
We can certainly expect many other kinds of upcoming rigged disasters as well. All so that the ever-increasing morbidity and mortality after the vaxxx will go unnoticed.
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WHY DID PUTIN INVADE?
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Whitney:
Setting The Record Straight –
Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine
BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, FEB 11, 2023
Authored by Mike Whitney,
On February 16, 2022, a full week before Putin sent combat troops into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Army began the heavy bombardment of the area (in east Ukraine) inhabited by mainly ethnic Russians.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/whitney-setting-record-straight-stuff-you-should-know-about-ukraine
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OSCE
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) aims to prevent war between European states, promote economic cooperation and uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law in its member countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_for_Security_and_Co-operation_in_Europe
Politicians should be eligible for assisted suicide.
Who wants to go first?
There is one, just one (as far as we have heard), mayor of a Turkish city affected by the most recent quake disaster who did not permit illegal, sub-standard building in his town. And the difference is…
https://www-tagesschau-de.translate.goog/ausland/tuerkei-erdbeben-buergermeister-bauvorschriften-101.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
(if it reads a bit confusing in some sentences, the Google translation machine cannot distinguish between “their” and “her” in German)
By speaking out categorically against the burning of the Koran, Jens Stoltenberg crossed the line between Islam and democracy. https://www.document.dk/2023/02/16/stoltenberg-har-krydset-en-usynlig-graense/
Czechia Considers Criminalizing “Disinformation”
I have googled this up, and the censorship bureau of the Czech Republic was scrapped two days ago, so so far so good… However, our current Ukrainian Government of the Czech Republic does make a big effort to bring the Ministry of Truth into service. They have already tried to silence some online magazines illegaly, sites like “sputnik news”, because they spread “russian propaganda” – nevertheless, I sure hope that freedom of speech will remain in Bohemia, and these censorship freaks shall not prevail.
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The Rage Against The War Machine Rally in D.C.
could bring back the anti-war movement in America
https://youtu.be/uvAGQvg1KCs