The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of war crimes for trafficking orphaned children out of Ukraine. The Russian government dismissed the ICC warrant. Neither Russia nor Ukraine are signatories of the treaty that established the ICC.
In other news, liquor stores in Quebec will remove refrigerators from their premises in an effort to fight climate change.
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Banks Are Borrowing Billions to Maintain Liquidity Amid Banking Crisis, Fed Data Shows
U.S. banks are borrowing billions of dollars to maintain liquidity following the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), data published by the Federal Reserve shows.
Banks have borrowed a combined total of $164.9 billion from the central bank in recent weeks amid the banking crisis, according to Fed statistics released Thursday.
During the week ending March 15, banks borrowed $152.85 billion from the central bank using the Fed’s traditional discount window.
Discount window lending provides loans for periods of up to 90 days.
That number is up from $4.58 billion the previous week.
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British people are set to bear the biggest tax burden since the Second World War, with household incomes expected to plummet by record levels after the Budget announcement on Wednesday.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said that six million people would be hit by ‘stealth taxes’, like freezes for tax thresholds, over the next five years, boosting government coffers by £120 billion. The independent economic analysts said this would be the equivalent of a 4p increase in the base rate of tax.
The UK’s tax burden is on track to hit 37.7 per cent of GDP, the OBR added. Freezing income tax thresholds mean 3.2 million people will start paying in the next five years, 2.1 million will move up to the higher 40p rate, and 350,000 more will pay the 45p rate.
Meanwhile corporation tax will rise to 25% from 19%, although businesses will be able to write off investments in the UK against taxable profits under a new £9 billion-a-year scheme.
The OBR expects a record drop in household incomes of nearly 6% over a two-year period, driven by the tax hikes and inflation, which is still rising ahead of earnings, although it is set to come down markedly this year.
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Credit Suisse: Populist People’s Party Refuses to Back State Guarantee for $53 Billion Bailout
Shares in Credit Suisse are tumbling after a forced merger with another Swiss bank were rejected. This comes as Switzerland’s largest political party signals it is against a state guarantee of the bailout for Credit Suisse after it received injection of liquidity from the Swiss National Bank (SNB) on Thursday with a loan of over 50 billion dollars.
Making the determination that Credit Suisse, the second-largest bank in the country and among the largest in the world, was vital to the stability of the Swiss financial system and economy, the SNB stepped in on Thursday to provide the bank with a loan worth 50 billion francs ($53.7/£44.3 billion). The move, they said, was in order to stabilise the lender amid concerns that it could be the second major bank to fail after the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank in the United States last week, the German-language Swiss paper Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported.
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European Officials Accuse United States of ‘Utter Incompetence’ With Bank Bailout
European officials are reportedly outraged by U.S. government officials’ decision to take over Silicon Valley Bank that failed last week — accusing them of “incompetence.”
European financial officials say the United States violated its own rules, particularly the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. covering all deposits, despite guaranteeing individual deposits only up to $250,000, according to The Financial Times.
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First Republic Bank Shares Crash to Record Low on Share-Sale Report
For a few brief hours yesterday, some market participants breathed a sigh of relief as the ‘big banks’ threw $30 billion of deposits to the ‘small banks’ (specifically First Republic Bank) and saved the world.
Today wrecked that dream as regional bank shares continued their recent and rapid demise with First Republic Bank — which had just been saved — leading the charge lower (after rallying yesterday afternoon).
Now, after the market has closed on a Friday evening (St.Patricks’ Day no less), NY Times reports that the bank — freshly stuffed with $30 billion of the big banks’ cash — is in talks to raise money from other banks or private equity firms by issuing new shares, in a desperate bid to bolster its finances.
We wish them luck in their efforts as Wedbush analyst David Chiaverini — who lowered First Republic to neutral today, warned that it’s difficult to “come up with a realistic scenario where there’s residual value for FRC common equity holders” in the event of a sale.
According to three people with knowledge of the process, the terms of the deal are unknown but a full sale of the bank is apparently possible.
First Republic Bank shares are extending losses in the after-market…
The after-hours action has pushed FRC to a record low, below its Oct 2011 lows…
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Philly Fed Index Shows ‘Tempered Expectations’ For Next 6 Months
Manufacturing activity in the Philadelphia area declined again in March, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said on Thursday.
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Ted Cruz Blasts Biden for Bailouts of Corrupt ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ Banks
Senator Ted Cruz has slammed the Biden Administration for effectively bailing out Silicon Valley Bank, labelling it a ‘corrupt Bonnie and Clyde’ like operation.
On his “Verdict” podcast, Cruz stated that the failure of SVB has “called into question a lot of the financing for venture capital, and it has potentially imperiled a significant number of mid-sized banks.”
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Trump Blasts Biden as a ‘Disaster for the Economy’ Amid Bank Failures
Former President Donald Trump on Friday excoriated President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy, contending that his policies had driven inflation and prompted interest rate hikes that in turn caused bank failures and nationwide economic turmoil.
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20% of Americans Back MTG’s Call for ‘National Divorce’: Poll
Roughly one in five Americans agree with Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s call for a “national divorce,” a recent survey revealed.
Greene proposed the idea in mid-February, suggesting a situation in which Republican and Democratic states would be free to pursue their own policies without the need for blanket legislation at the national level.
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Apple Removes Trump’s #1 Hit Song From iTunes, Restores it After Backlash But Sabotages Ranking
President Donald Trump shocked the entertainment industry when his hit single “Justice for All” shot to number one on the charts.
The song features Jan. 6 political prisoners singing the national anthem with Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
The song was reigning supreme in the top spot of the iTunes music store, beating Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, and Tim McGraw.
However, Apple pulled the song from the store which subsequently toppled it from the top of the charts.
After a few hours, Apple later put it back on the platform, claiming the removal was over a “miscommunication.”
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Arguments Are Set to be Made in a Lawsuit That Threatens the Future of Digital Libraries
The Internet Archive, a US digital library that says it’s here to provide free universal access to knowledge while advocating a free and open internet, has been in legal trouble for years now for alleged copyright infringement.
The project — which contains millions of digital copies of books, films, videos, programs, and is also behind the web page-archiving tool the Wayback Machine — was sued four years ago by major publishers — Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House — who oppose the Internet Archive’s project to digitize library books by scanning and lending them.
The case, in a federal court in the US, is seen by supporters of the Internet Archive as a threat to the future of digital libraries and is about to enter the phase of oral arguments, after the filing of reply briefs.
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Biden at St. Patrick’s Day Lunch: ‘I’m Really Not Irish’ Because I Don’t Drink
President Joe Biden evoked on Saint Patrick’s Day an Irish stereotype that drinking is prevalent in the Emerald Isle as he delivered remarks Friday at the U.S. Capitol during a themed luncheon with political leaders.
The president, while speaking at the annual Friends of Ireland gathering, recalled visiting Ireland, saying he had been to the country several times but that he went on one particular occasion to find his “actual family members.”
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Bill Would Ban Sale of 90% of Firearms in Washington, Gun Group Warns
The Washington Senate Law & Justice Committee is scheduled to vote next week on House Bill 1240 creating a state definition of “assault weapon,” which the Gun Owners of America, or GOA, says would apply to most firearms.
One of the reasons is due to the definition of assault weapons in the bill. Although the bill specifically lists 62 rifles by name “regardless of which company produced and manufactured the firearm,” the ban also applies to any semi-automatic rifle with a barrel length less than 30 inches. The gun barrel is the section of a firearm between the action and the muzzle.
Because of this and other firearm restrictions in the bill, GOA Regional Director Monte Bowen told The Center Square that an estimated 90% of firearms would be illegal to sell and purchase. Due to the bill’s grandfather clause, it would also be eventually illegal to own them.
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Black Man Arrested Over Neo-Nazi and Lynching Graffiti at Black Atlanta Church
A 60-year-old black man was arrested in Atlanta last month after he allegedly vandalized a historic Baptist church with spray-painted imagery of swastikas as a hanging.
Atlanta Police arrested James McIntyre on February 19 in connection to the vandalism after surveillance cameras caught him tagging Providence Missionary Baptist Church on Benjamin E. Mays Drive, according to Fox 5. Officials said that during the investigation, they found McIntyre sitting across the street from the scene of the crime.
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Breaking: Reports of Jan 6 Detainees Being Moved From DC Jail Ahead of Congressional GOP Inspection
On Friday, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said she was receiving reports that January 6 detainees were being moved out of DC jails, following a demand from congressional GOP that they be allowed to inspect the condition of the facilities, as reports of “abuse and neglect” had emerged.
“What is the DC Jail trying to hide by moving pretrial J6 defendants out of the jail before we go in?” Greene wrote on Twitter and retweeted American Greatness writer Julie Kelly reporting that “that some J6ers being moved out of DC Gulag in advance of GOP investigation into conditions there.”
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CDC Bought Phone Data to Monitor Americans’ Lockdown Compliance, Documents Show
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought data from cellphone network companies and used the information to track Americans and monitor their compliance with draconian lockdown measures, newly revealed documents show.
The data was purchased from tracking companies, according to contracts with the firms.
The taxpayer-funded CDC paid one firm $420,000 and another $208,000.
The data bought by the CDC provided access to location data from at least 55 million cellphone users.
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Children Dying at Highest Rate in Decades, Researchers Warn
Researchers are raising the alarm after a bombshell new study revealed that American teens and young children are dying at the highest levels seen in decades.
The study’s findings were published this week in the world-renowned Journal of the American Medical Association.
The researchers found that the mortality rate for minors aged 1 through 19 soared by almost 20% between 2020 and 2022.
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CNN’s Ratings Hit Rock Bottom as New Strategy Backfires
CNN’s ratings have hit new lows as the embattled network tries desperately to stop the ship from sinking.
The network is in a ratings freefall and every move they make backfires as the viewer numbers continue to plunge.
Further major shakeups will be looming as CNN’s hosts fail to pull in an audience.
February marked CNN’s lowest-rated month in a decade.
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A man who tried to rob another man at gunpoint outside a Michigan liquor store was shot in the chest by a concealed carry permit holder and eventually arrested.
Police in Detroit, Michigan, say that they responded to a call of gunshots last month and found a victim with his hands raised over his head who told them he had a concealed pistol license, Fox 2 Detroit reported.
The victim told police that a man with a ski mask and a Detroit Lions jacket had followed him and his friend into a liquor store and then back outside before pulling a gun on them.
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Florida House Passes Sweeping Education Savings Account Expansion Bill
The Florida House of Representatives passed a significant expansion of the state’s education savings account program Friday.
House Bill 1, authored by Kaylee Tuck, R-Lake Placid, would expand school choice to all 2.9 million school-aged children. The bill would remove income requirements from the education savings account law and end the waiting list for children with disabilities awaiting a scholarship.
The bill passed 83-27 and is headed to the Senate.
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Hunter Biden Files Suit Against Delaware Repair Shop Owner Who Gave First Son’s Laptop to Media
Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit Friday against the owner of a Delaware computer repair shop who gave the New York Post a laptop the president’s son left behind at his business.
The lawsuit claims shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac illicitly distributed Hunter Biden’s personal data and accuses him of six counts of invasion of privacy, according to the suit filed in a Delaware district court and obtained by Fox News.
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‘I’m Back!’: Trump Posts on Facebook After Two-Year Ban
The former US president posted the same clip on YouTube, which announced on Friday that it, too, was welcoming him back.
Former US president Donald Trump has returned to Facebook after a more than two-year ban.
“I’M BACK!” Mr Trump posted on the site weeks after his personal account was reactivated. He also shared an old video clip in which he said: “Sorry to keep you waiting. Complicated business.”
Mr Trump posted the same clip on YouTube, which announced on Friday that it, too, was welcoming him back.
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Judge Orders Trump Attorney to Testify in Classified Documents Investigation
A federal judge on Friday ordered Evan Corcoran, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, to testify before a grand jury related to his client’s handling of classified materials.
District Judge Beryl Howell’s ruling is the latest development in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified materials, CNN reported. Corcoran has previously testified before the grand jury, but cited attorney-client privilege when refusing to answer some questions.
[Comment: Judge appointed by Obama.]
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Latest Twitter Files Tackle ‘Great COVID-19 Lie Machine’ Flagging True Content as ‘Disinformation’
The latest installment of the Twitter Files examined Stanford University’s Virality Project meant to combat “disinformation” but in reality targeted COVID content that defied establishment narratives.
According to its website, the objective of the Virality Project, which was launched in May 2020, was “to detect, analyze, and respond to incidents of COVID-19 vaccine disinformation across online ecosystems, and ultimately mitigate the impact of narratives which would otherwise undermine the public’s confidence in the safety of these processes in the United States.”
On Friday, independent journalist Matt Taibbi showed the project didn’t exactly live up to its mission statement.
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Man Arrested After Reportedly Shooting at Police Helicopter in the Rolando Community
Shortly before opening fire, the 49-year-old man had called 911 and threatened to start shooting people because his car and boat had been towed away
SAN DIEGO — A 49-year-old man suspected of firing a shotgun at a police helicopter in the Rolando community was arrested Thursday afternoon, police said Friday.
The shooting happened around 3:50 p.m. on Tarragona Drive south of Carling Way.
About 30 minutes earlier, the man had called 911 and threatened to start shooting people because his vehicle and his boat had been towed without warning, San Diego police homicide Lt. Jud Campbell said in a news release. A short time later, one of the man’s neighbors also called 911 after hearing gunshots.
A San Diego police helicopter flew to the area, and the crew inside spotted the man in his yard, Campbell said. As the helicopter circled, the man reportedly grabbed a shotgun and fired in the direction of the aircraft.
The helicopter, which contained a police pilot and two tactical flight officers, was not struck, police said. The man went back inside his house and later surrendered to officers who surrounded the place.
The man was booked into jail on suspicion of attempted murder of the flight crew, assault with a deadly weapon, shooting at an occupied aircraft and negligent discharge of a firearm.
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Military Recruitment Flatlines as American ‘Propensity to Serve’ Fades
Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
The United States military is facing recruitment shortfalls with only the Marine Corps and the newly created Space Force meeting 2022 enlistment quotas, an issue that could undermine the Pentagon’s readiness to address the “pacing challenges” posed by the People’s Republic of China and Russia.
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A New York man who expressed support online for the Islamic State is charged with plotting to kill police officers and threatening to kill a mayor on the street where the local St. Patrick’s Day parade was slated to be held, federal prosecutors said Friday.
Ridon Kola, 32, was arrested and charged with making threatening interstate communications, the Justice Department said.
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Pussycat Dolls Star Reveals Her Vaccine Injury: ‘I Was Severely Injured’
A former member of the American all-girl pop group Pussycat Dolls has revealed that she was “severely injured” after receiving her Covid shots.
Jessica Lynn Sutta, formerly J Sutta, has shared her story of how two Moderna shots gave her tremors and neuropathy.
In an upcoming episode of the Epoch Times’s “American Thought Leaders,” the 40-year-old American singer, dancer, and actress spoke out about her condition.
For the first time, she shared what she experienced following the shots and explained why she has decided to speak out.
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Rick Scott Demands Answers on NIH Funding That Went to Wuhan Institute of Virology
Florida Senator Rick Scott on Friday demanded answers from the Biden administration on a watchdog report that said grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was directed to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, and pressed the administration to explain if it is barring future funding to the lab that some think is the source of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a letter sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Scott noted that an HHS report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that NIH failed to properly monitor their grant awards, including one to the Wuhan lab. The OIG report found that HHS grants to the non-profit group EcoHealth Alliance weren’t properly monitored as they made their way to the lab.
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Last week, students at Stanford Law disrupted a Federalist Society event that featured U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kyle Duncan. Duncan was prevented from speaking by unruly protesters and berated by the school’s associate dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Now, some of the protest leaders, many of whom shared the names and pictures of Federalist Society members online and in posters, are unhappy because the Washington Free Beacon published their names.
“NEW: The same students who plastered the names and faces of the Stanford Federalist Society all over the school are now demanding anonymity from the Free Beacon. They say we’ve violated their right to privacy by identifying them. You can’t make it up,” Aaron Sibarium, a journalist for the Washington Free Beacon, tweeted Friday.
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Study: Half of Americans Believe Media “Intend to Mislead, Misinform”
A study has revealed new lows in terms of trust Americans have in the establishment media.
The study by pollster Gallup and the Knight Foundation found that only a quarter of Americans have some level of favourability regarding the media, the lowest figure recorded for five years.
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Target Shutters Downtown Philly Location Citing “Declining Performance”
Not unlike many other corporations with retail locations in cities nationwide, Target is calling it quits on Philadelphia. They follow in the footsteps of Wawa, who we noted last year had enough of Philadelphia’s crime and also picked up and left shop at several locations in Center City.
Target, located just blocks from one Wawa that recently closed, is taking the same action, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal. Its store at 12th and Chestnut streets in Center City will be closing after 7 years of operation.
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The CEO of the company behind ChatGPT, likely the world’s most famous AI chatbot, admitted that he was “a little bit scared” of his company’s creation during an interview with ABC News.
“We’ve got to be careful here,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during an interview Thursday.
That’s because the technology itself, he explained, was extremely powerful and could be dangerous.
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Trump Would Beat Biden in 2024 by Strong Margin, According to New Poll
Former President Donald Trump would beat incumbent Joe Biden in a landslide, according to a new poll from McLaughlin & Associates polling company and conducted in collaboration with Hungary’s Szazadvég Foundation.
The poll, which is from February and focused on battleground states, revealed that a large majority — 66% — of Americans in these key states believe the country is on the wrong track under Biden. Furthermore, some 41 percent stated they are very dissatisfied, far more than those who are only somewhat dissatisfied (26 percent).
Just 34 percent were optimistic, with only 9 percent claiming strongly that the U.S. is going in the right direction. Meanwhile, 24 percent stated that things were going only “somewhat” well, according to Hungarian news outlet Mandiner, which reported on the poll.
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U.S. Maternal Death Rate Grew 38% in 2021, CDC Data Shows
March 16 (UPI) — The percentage of mothers who died while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of their pregnancy grew at an alarming rate in 2021, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
The new CDC report published Thursday used data from the National Vital Statistics System, and could show how the rise in mortality rates may have been intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the report, the CDC calculated mortality rates as the number of deaths per 100,000 births. The data shows that mortality rates have been rising since well before the pandemic but began to spike after the emergence of COVID-19.
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The US Virgin Islands hit back against JPMorgan’s claim earlier this month that CEO Jamie Dimon had no clue that Jeffrey Epstein was breaking the law.
“Jamie Dimon knew in 2008 that his billionaire client was a sex trafficker,” argued US Virgin Islands attorney Mimi Liu during a late Thursday hearing in front of Manhattan US District Judge Jed Rakoff, referring to the year Epstein was first criminally charged with sex crimes, CNBC reports.
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Quebec Liquor Stores Removing Refrigerators to Fight Climate Change
Quebec’s government-run liquor stores are getting rid of the majority of their refrigerators in an effort to reduce carbon emissions.
The move is being criticized by Quebecers, amid the possibility of having to forgo chilled wine.
As reported by Le Journal de Montreal, the Societe des alcools du Quebec (SAQ) will remove two thirds of the refrigerators in its stores over the next 15 years. This will bring the total number of fridges in the SAQ’s store network from around 3000 to 900.
The changes will vary by store type, with the SAQ’s 279 classic stores going from an average of four fridges to just one. Meanwhile, the SAQ’s 92 “selection” stores, which offer a variety of premium alcohols, will go from having a dozen fridges to just three.
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BBB the Biggest Party in All Provinces; A Clear Signal From the Voters, Dutch PM Says
Farmers movement BBB has become the largest party in all twelve Dutch provinces, according to the provincial results. Utrecht was the last province to get its results in. GroenLinks and BBB were neck-on-neck in the province, but BBB came out on top with 13.2 percent of the votes. GroenLinks is the second largest party there with 12.8 percent, followed by VVD with 11.9 percent, NOS and ANP report.
The turnout stood at 57.5 percent, higher than 2019’s already high 56 percent. According to the broadcaster, the turnout for this provincial election will likely be the highest since the late 1980s.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte called the BBB’s massive victory “a very clear cry to politicians” and a “very clear relevant signal” from the voter. Rutte told ANP he does not yet know how to interpret this cry. He needs more time to think about it. Sixteen hours after the first results is too early for a “full-fledged analysis,” he said.
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Former Advisor to Zelensky Claims Poland is Ready to Forget Volhynia
Back in November, Oleksiy Arestovych, then a close advisor of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said Poland’s authorities were prepared to view the Volhynia massacre as a closed chapter of history for the sake of good relations between Poland and Ukraine. He claimed that such assurances had been given privately by Polish officials.
In an interview with him published on Monday, Do Rzeczy asked him again about these remarks and he doubled down on his revelations. He said that officials were recognizing that the present war was an ideal opportunity to stop reliving the past and to concentrate on the future as the potential benefits from the current alliance were more important than past wrongs.
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French Political Leader: “It Was Obvious That the Americans Were Behind the Bombing”
The leader of France’s Eurosceptic party The Patriots responded to continuing controversy over the Nord Stream pipeline attack by asserting, “It was obvious that the Americans were behind the bombing.”
Florian Philippot made the comments during an interview with RIA Novosti.
Philippot referenced the report published by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, which claimed the explosives were planted in June 2022 by US Navy divers under the guise of the BALTOPS 22 NATO exercise and were detonated three months later with a remote signal sent by a sonar buoy.
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European conservatives can make a splash in next year’s European parliamentary elections by supporting those who share Hungary’s vision of a democracy of equal nations, and who reject the current status quo of a European Commission feeding NGOs to which it outsources democracy, Hungary’s Justice Minister Judit Varga has claimed.
Speaking at a conference in Budapest on Thursday, Varga expressed her belief in the cooperative power of democratic, sovereign nations as opposed to the empire-building ambitions of the current European Union.
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Hungarian Parliament Voted Best Tourist Destination in the World
The Hungarian Parliament on the left bank of the Danube River in Budapest has been voted the world’s top tourist destination by travel blog Stasher.
Analysts from the tourism blog have ranked 99 tourist attractions to find out what is worth visiting and what is not. They gathered the most recent city and national data available, including Google ratings and TikTok popularity, and took into account the quality of accommodation and distance to the nearest international airport, as well as the public safety of the host country.
According to these factors, the blog says that the Hungarian Parliament was voted the best tourist attraction in the world, scoring 7.34 on a scale of 10. The parliament boasts an outstanding Google score of 4.8. The quality of accommodation in Budapest is also outstanding, with an average rating of 8.6 on Booking.com.
Hungary as a country also boasts a good safety rating of 1.4 out of 5, where the lower the rating, the safer the location is. Other attractions such as Disneyland in Paris and the Blue Lagoon in Iceland also made it to the top of the list.
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Netherlands: Reset This! Tractor Protest Party Trounces Globalist Govt Green Agenda
A pro-farmer party secured a major victory against the globalist Dutch government and its radical green agenda in elections on Wednesday.
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PM Orban: ‘Europe Suffers From War Psychosis’
The main issue facing Europe today is war, which puts Hungary in a difficult situation, as the effects of war are severe and immediate, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at a meeting of the Organization of Turkic States summit in Ankara.
The prime minister stressed that, unfortunately, Europe was suffering from a “war psychosis,” with the continent drifting further into war day by day. Orban thanked the leaders of the Turkish states for strengthening the voice of peace. Hungary — on account of its population’s Asian origins — is an honorary member of the Organization of Turkic States.
Orban thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who, he said, had so far been able to mediate successfully between the warring parties, and called on him to continue his efforts in the future.
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Poland to Become First NATO Member to Send Jets to Ukraine After Zelenskyy’s Urgent Pleas
Poland is to become the first NATO member to send fighter planes to support Ukraine — in the form of a dozen MiG-29 jets.
Poland’s president Andrzej Duda said his country would send Ukraine four of the Soviet-made warplanes “within the next few days”, but said the rest will need servicing first.
“They are in the last years of their functioning but they are in good working condition,” Mr Duda said.
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Protests Erupt in France Over Macron’s Retirement Age Push
Leaders of the influential CGT union called on people to leave schools, factories, refineries and other work places.
There have been protests in Paris against French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to force a Bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote.
They have disrupted traffic, rubbish collection and university campuses as opponents of the change maintain their resolve to get the government to back down.
Striking sanitation workers blocked a waste collection plant that is home to Europe’s largest incinerator to underline their determination, and university students walked out of lecture halls.
Leaders of the influential CGT union called on people to leave schools, factories, refineries and other work places.
Crowds gathered throughout the day Friday, halting cars along a Paris ring road and blocking university campuses.
Several groups, including the yellow vest activists who had mounted formidable protests against Mr Macron’s economic policies during his first term, called on the president’s opponents to march on the parliament at 6pm (5pm GMT) on Friday.
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Slovakia Follows Poland’s Lead by Pledging Entire Fleet of MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Ukraine
The Slovakian government has pledged the country’s entire fleet of Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine to become the second NATO member to heed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call for warplanes after Poland.
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Eduard Heger told a news conference on Friday that his government was “on the right side of history,” and tweeted: “Promises must be kept and when([President) Zelensky asked for more weapons including fighter jets, I said we’ll do our best. I’m glad others are doing the same.”
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Hungary is a political safe space for conservatives disillusioned with their own government’s unwavering support for progressive ideology and must continue to fight for the promotion of conservatism in Europe, writes Sergio Velasco, a Spanish political scientist and analyst of Hungarian and Polish politics.
In an essay published this week in The European Conservative, Velasco sought to identify the reasons why conservatives from across the world have chosen to find refuge in the land-locked European nation and spoke with several prominent conservatives who believe Hungary “offers them a space in which they can voice their convictions without constantly being hounded.”
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Turkey’s President Agrees to Approve Finland’s NATO Membership Application
The breakthrough came as Finnish President Sauli Niinisto was in Ankara to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will move forward with ratifying Finland’s Nato application, paving the way for the country to join the military bloc ahead of Sweden.
The breakthrough came as Finnish President Sauli Niinisto was in Ankara to meet with Mr Erdogan and 10 months after both Finland and Sweden applied to become Nato members in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, abandoning decades of nonalignment.
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Fifteen protesters from Animal Rebellion, an offshoot of activist group Extinction Rebellion, entered Scott’s seafood restaurant in Mayfair on Friday evening to call for an end to animal farming and fishing.
They sat down at tables reserved for diners at just before 7pm with self-made menus explaining the benefits of a plant-based diet.
They said they also spoke to former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, who they said was “sympathetic” to their cause.
Police officers were present as protesters were seen being carried out of the restaurant.
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UK: Bristol Animal Rebellion Target Supermarket Eggs in Latest Stunt
Activists from Animal Rebellion have been stickering egg boxes in supermarkets across Bristol yesterday (March 16).
They say they are calling out the government on “failing to act to prevent a bird flu pandemic” as the virus continues to spread throughout the country.
The stickers, that have been put on egg boxes in Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Coop and Waitrose shops in Clifton and other parts of the city have a QR code which links to a video “explaining the reality” of factory farming chickens and hens, the solution to which they state is a “plant-based food system”.
Activists from the animal and environment movement, who are in alliance with Extinction Rebellion, have also targeted shops in Exeter, Cheshire and Manchester.
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US Tourists Jailed in Italy for Killing Police Officer to Get New Trial
Two American citizens who killed an Italian police officer during a botched sting operation will stand a new trial in Rome, the country’s highest court has decided.
Finnegan Lee Elder, 23, and Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 22, were convicted in 2021 for the death of Carabiniere Mario Cerciello Rega while the Americans visited Rome in July 2019. They were initially sentenced to life but the terms were reduced to 24 years for Elder and 22 years for Natale-Hjorth last year.
Cerciello Rega, 35, was stabbed 11 times by Elder with a knife he had brought with him from the US while Natale-Hjorth scuffled with a second police officer. They testified in court that they acted in self-defence because they believed Cerciello Rega and his partner — who were in plainclothes — were thugs.
Elder and Natale-Hjorth had earlier tried to buy $115 worth of cocaine from a drug dealer but were instead sold crushed aspirin, according to the Associated Press. They robbed the drug dealer of a backpack and arranged to meet with him to get their money back but instead, the officers showed up.
On Wednesday, the Court of Cassation ruled the Americans must stand a new trial. The court upheld Elder’s guilty murder verdict but ordered a new trial due to some allegations that were not sufficiently proved during the previous trial, NBC reported.
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Caroline Glick: Gal Luft’s Distressing Predicament
On Feb. 16, Israel Defense Forces Lt. Col. (retired) Dr. Gal Luft was arrested at the airport in Cyprus as he was about to board a flight home. Three days later, Luft posted a stunning claim on his Twitter account. He wrote: “I’ve been arrested in Cyprus on a politically motivated extradition request by the U.S. The U.S, claiming I’m an arms dealer. It would be funny if it weren’t tragic. I’ve never been an arms dealer. DOJ [Department of Justice] is trying to bury me to protect Joe, Jim and Hunter Biden. Shall I name names?”
Luft’s description of the charges was accurate. He is also accused of lying to the FBI and violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). If convicted of the charges on his arrest warrant, he would face up to 96 years in prison.
Obviously, the crimes he is accused of committing are serious and require investigation. If he is guilty, he should be punished in accordance with U.S. law.
But before Luft is extradited, his allegation needs to be investigated as well.
Luft was in the IDF for 15 years and left active duty after serving as an artillery battalion commander. He moved to Washington to study at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. He received a Ph.D. in international security under Professor Eliot Cohen.
After completing his studies, in the early 2000s, Luft formed a think tank called the Institute for Analysis of Global Security (IAGS). It focused on developing and advocating to replace oil and other fossil fuels with renewable and clean fuels. It served as a rare meeting ground for environmentalists on the left concerned with climate change and security hawks on the right concerned with U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil producers. Jim Woolsey, a former director of the CIA under Bill Clinton, and Robert McFarlane, a former national security advisor under Ronald Reagan, led the IAGS board of directors. Luft’s work with IAGS wasn’t limited to the United States. He worked in many countries.
In 2014, the China Energy Fund Committee-USA was registered as a 501(c)(3) organization in Virginia. It was the nonprofit arm of the Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC China. As a New York Times profile of CEFC China from 2018 explained, CEFC’s founder chairman, Ye Jianming made gaining “access to the corridors of power in Washington” a key goal.
CEFC-USA apparently worked as the nonprofit lobbying arm to bring senior U.S. officials into the company’s orbit. According to the write-up in the Times, it gave as much as $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation and “at least $500,000 to a Columbia University research center.” It also gave $350,000 to IAGS. According to Luft’s associates, during those years, the U.S. Department of Energy contracted CEFC-USA to carry out a project on clean coal technologies…
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Arrest Warrant Issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin Over Alleged War Crimes in Ukraine
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over alleged war crimes carried out in Ukraine.
The ICC said the Russian president “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation”.
An arrest warrant has also been issued for Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Russia.
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China’s Xi Jinping to Travel to Russia in Show of Support for Putin
China’s leader Xi Jinping is planning to travel to Russia in an apparent show of support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Chinese Communist Party announced that Xi will visit Russia from Monday to Wednesday.
The move comes as a declaration of support for Putin as he faces global pressure to end the invasion of Ukraine.
The Kremlin confirmed the visit, saying it will take place “at the invitation of Vladimir Putin.”
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International Court Issues War Crimes Warrant for Putin
THE HAGUE (AP) — The International Criminal Court said on Friday it issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine.
The court said in a statement that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of (children) and that of unlawful transfer of (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
It also issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, on similar allegations.
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The Kremlin said the fighter jets would be ‘destroyed’ before insisting that the deployment of Western arms — including warplanes and tanks — would not change the course of the war.
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Scientists Create Mice Using Cells From Two Males for First Time
Very few mouse embryos developed into live mouse pups and no one knows whether it would work for humans, say experts.
Scientists have created baby mice from two males for the first time, raising the possibility of using the same technique for people.
Experts cautioned that very few mouse embryos developed into live mouse pups and no one knows whether it would work for humans.
Scientists described their work in a study published in the journal Nature.
Then, through a process that involved growing them and treating them with a drug, they converted male mouse stem cells into female cells and produced functional egg cells.
Finally, they fertilised those eggs and implanted the embryos into female mice. About 1% of the embryos — seven out of 630 — grew into live mouse pups.
The pups appeared to grow normally and were able to become parents themselves in the usual way, research leader Katsuhiko Hayashi of Kyushu University and Osaka University in Japan told fellow scientists at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing.
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Primary school aged children and even parents have been caught taking part in the sickening phenomenon at Casino, in the Northern Rivers region in NSW.
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Jacinda Ardern is Tipped for Top Internet Censorship Role
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern may have recently stepped down from that office, but her “internet censorship” days don’t seem to be over at all — in fact, she is likely to “move” her experience relevant to this activity to an international role.
Having most recently made a name for herself outside her own country as one of the most ardent supporters of extremely strict Covid restrictions, Ardern was previously known as the co-sponsor of the so-called Christchurch initiative (along with another politician of a similar and particular ideological background, Emmanuel Macron.)
The initiative (“Christchurch Call”), which critics say is too heavy-handed in censoring social media, with the Christchurch shooting of 2019 taken as its justification, should now apparently be implemented worldwide, and with Macron still serving as France’s president — who better than Ardern to do it.
The former New Zealand PM has the support for this from the new head of New Zealand’s government, Chris Hipkins. The Christchurch initiative managed to get some 120 countries and Big Tech to agree on how to best deal with, and get rid of what is perceived as online misinformation, disinformation, and extremism.
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Julian Assange’s Brother and Father Speak Out Over His Detainment, Call for Charges to be Dropped
The family of Julian Assange is speaking out about his detention at Belmarsh, a high-security prison in the UK, the push to extradite him to the U.S. over the publication of classified materials and a new documentary about his case, stressing that his prosecution could have a chilling effect on press freedom.
The WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen faces a sentence of up to 175 years in an American maximum security prison if he is extradited and will face several charges, including espionage.
Assange is accused of publishing classified information detailing crimes committed by the U.S. government in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Iraq and Afghanistan, and reveals instances in which the CIA engaged in torture and rendition.
John and Gabriel Shipton, Assange’s father and brother, said he isn’t any closer to being released from prison but is receiving more support from the international community.
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A community rallied behind the family of Brandy the cat after the beloved 17-year-old feline was allegedly stolen and then murdered by teenagers last week in Glenwood, western Sydney.
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Frontrunner for Scotland Leader Puzzled by Lack of Men Among Ukraine Refugees
Humza Yousaf, the frontrunner to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister of the Scottish Government, was left with egg on his face this week after thoughtlessly asking a group of Ukrainian women in Edinburgh: “Where are all the men?”
While the overwhelming majority of allegedly “desperate” migrants from Albania, Africa, and Asia setting out for Britain from France — a safe European Union member-state — are fighting-age males, Scottish National Party (SNP) politician Yousaf found that a group of Ukrainian refugees he met with in an Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain centre in Edinburgh really were all women, leaving him apparently puzzled.
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Illegal Immigrants Flood Into US From Canada as Biden’s Border Crisis Deepens
The number of illegal border crossings between Canada and the United States has increased nearly tenfold over the past five months in the region between northeast states and Canada, local law enforcement officials say.
From October 1 to February 28, around 2,000 migrants illegally crossed the border between Canada and New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York, south through forests, compared to just 200 crossings in the same period the previous year, according to NBC News.
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Dozens of migrants were intercepted by Border Force crossing the Channel in small boats today — the largest group since the government unveiled its controversial Illegal Migration Bill was announced last week.
At least 100 people including women and children were brought ashore on two Border Force vessels at the harbour at the Port of Dover in Kent on Friday morning.
The majority were brought in on large catamaran Volunteer while a smaller group could be seen on board the Defender.
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Rwanda will be able to take ‘thousands’ of migrants as soon as removals flights begin, Suella Braverman said last night.
The Home Secretary, who arrives in Kigali today to ‘reinforce commitment’ to the asylum deal, attacked Labour and other critics who claim the scheme will only be able to take a few hundred Channel migrants.
The Rwandan government will be able to bring large numbers of beds on-stream as soon as removals flights from the UK are cleared for take-off, Mrs Braverman said. She also described Rwanda as ‘one of the world’s safest countries’ ahead of a series of top-level meetings to discuss next stages of the scheme.
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Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro went viral on social media when he trashed the Oscar-winning movie “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”
Shapiro appeared to strike a chord with the American people who largely agreed with his takedown of the movie.
He argued that the Hollywood elite refused to nominate movies that people actually “like to watch.”
He said: “In five years, nobody will watch ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once.’ The movie is meh.
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Biden Admin: Sex-Change Surgery for Children Will Soon be Normalized — ‘Wheels Will Turn on This’
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has pledged the “highest support” for putting children through sex-change surgery and other transgender treatments, a top health official has confirmed.
Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Rachel Levine has promised that medically changing kids’ genders will soon be normalized.
Levine, a biological man who claims to be a “transgender woman,” praised so-called “gender-affirming care” at the Pediatric Grand Rounds session at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford.
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Canada: Candidate Blocked by ‘Conservative’ Party for Pro-Life Views
A candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) was allegedly disqualified by the party over his pro-life views, according to a pro-life group, while the party maintains the candidate did not disclose information.
Pro-life group RightNow has claimed that prospective CPC candidate Gerrit Van Dorland was disqualified by the National Candidate Selection Committee (NCSC) of the National Council of the Conservative Party of Canada this week over his pro-life stance.
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Daily Mail Pushes Progressive ‘Child-Free Women Are Happier’ Narrative
As Mothering Sunday approaches allegedly ‘conservative’ newspaper claims “resounding” evidence women who remain childless are happier.
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Elon Musk Hits Back at ‘Protect Trans Kids’ Democrat Lieutenant Governor
Twitter owner Elon Musk called out the Democrat lieutenant governor of Minnesota for making comments about transgender surgery on kids being “life-saving health care.”
Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan donned a “Protect Trans Kids” t-shirt with a dagger on it at an event following the signing of an executive order that will force state agencies to push “gender-affirming” health care.
Flanagan stated “Let’s be clear: this is life-affirming and life-saving health care,” adding “When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That’s what it means to be a good parent.”
Musk responded, tweeting “Not when they’re fed propaganda by adults.”
“Moreover, every child goes through an identity crisis before their personality/identity crystallizes. Therefore, we shouldn’t allow severe, irreversible surgery or sterilizing drugs that they may regret until at least age 18,” Musk, who has a child identifying as trans, added.
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Ireland’s Gay St. Patrick’s Day: A State’s Quest for Transgenderism
For Ireland’s progressive government, transgenderism and other “LGBTQ+” talking points have become central elements within modern St Patrick’s day celebrations.
“Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone. It’s with O’Leary in the grave.” So says, William Butler Yeats, one of the greatest artistic minds my country has ever produced. The line comes from a poem titled “September 1913”, a work that mourns the degradation of Ireland as the island slowly but surely became wealthier. At a time when many living on the island were finally starting to see some sense of financial prosperity, Yeats felt that they were becoming less and less like the heroic souls who came before them, and perhaps more and more like their then-fellow subjects living in Britain.
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J.K. Rowling: ‘There’s Something Dangerous’ About the Transgender Movement
Author J.K. Rowling continued to prove she will not back down in her criticism of transgender radicalism in a recent podcast episode in which she called the movement “dangerous.”
Speaking on the Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling podcast, the acclaimed Harry Potter author said she tried listening to transgender activists to better understand their views but ultimately concluded that something “dangerous” lurked within.
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Kentucky Legislature Passes Bill Including Ban on Gender-Affirming Procedures for Minors
The Kentucky Legislature has passed a measure that includes a ban on state education agencies providing gender-affirming care for minors.
The bill states Kentucky’s Board of Education and Department of Education shall not require nor recommend policies or procedures for the use of pronouns that do not match the student’s gender on their original birth certificate, regardless of their pronoun preference, according to local NBC-TV affiliate Lex18.
The measure also outlaws surgical or non-surgical gender transition care.
Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear is expected to veto the bill, but lawmakers will be able to override the veto.
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MA High School Girls’ Track Team Wins With Help of Trans-Identified Biological Male
A Massachusetts high school recently came under fire for a girls’ track and field team win at last month’s state indoor championships, aided by a biological male athlete.
Chloe Barnes helped Brookline High School win Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association Division 1 Indoor Track and Field Championships after competing in the girls 55m hurdles, with the school winning the title over three other schools, according to the Daily Mail.
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There has been much talk of “women’s rights” in Spain this month. There was Women’s Day on March 8, which in Spain is something very important in the media and in the streets, but there are also four new laws championed by the self-styled “progressive” parliamentary majority related to those rights: the “trans” law, which came into force at the beginning of March; the “only yes means yes” law; the gender parity law; and a reform of the abortion law, which will allow minors to have an abortion without informing their parents.
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Oxfam has released an “inclusive language” guide which apologizes for using the English language before going on to deem a number of words ‘offensive’, such as “headquarters,” “local,” “people,” “mother” and “feminine hygiene.”
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Top Archbishop Warns: Soros, Schwab, Gates Pose ‘Immense Threat to Survival of Mankind’
A top Catholic archbishop has issued a warning about the “immense threat” that globalism poses to the future of civilization.
Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, one of the most powerful leaders in the Catholic Church, issued the warning during a speech at the Founding Congress of the International Movement of Russophiles (MIR) this week.
Viganò gave his speech via video connection.
The focus of Viganò’s speech was the battle against globalism and the threat from “woke ideology and Agenda 2030.”
During his address, Viganò specifically named radical billionaire George Soros, World Economic Forum (WEF) chairman Klaus Schwab, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
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Violent Trans Criminal Barbie Kardashian Sent to Irish Women’s Prison
An extremely violent trans-identified male who has sworn to rape and kill women was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for threatening to torture, rape, and murder the individual’s own mother, and has been sent to the women’s section of Limerick prison in Ireland.
The sentence, handed down by Judge Tom O’Donnell at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court, was backdated to May 9th, 2022, which is when the defendant, Barbie Kardashian, was convicted after a four-day trial, reports The Irish Times.
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The Welsh government has suggested private residential landlords will lose their license to rent out their own property if they refuse to undergo woke ‘anti-racism’ re-education classes.
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Putin has done his job. He cleared the territory of Ukraine from the population and brought the Russians under genocide and carpet bombing. Botox rat can go on trial.
Come to Quebec for a nice warm beer.
Perhaps daylight only sales will be next. Moonlight sales maybe. Candles contribute to climate change. I would suggest lightning bugs but there is PETA. But if they really want to do something here you go
https://www.rackhousewhiskeyclub.com/blogs/blog/solar-spirits-a-sustainable-solar-powered-approach-to-distilling
Climate Change is a flawed religion of the unlearned.