UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, agreed to buy the troubled Credit Suisse bank and thereby defuse the crisis over the latter’s possible failure. Meanwhile, Warren Buffet is in talks with White House officials about how he might invest in the banking sector and help prevent a financial meltdown.
In other news, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid his first visit to the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol in Ukraine.
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Majority of Investors Worried Inflation Will Cut Into Their Retirement Plans
A new study by the Bank of Nova Scotia has revealed that 55% of investors are concerned about how inflation could cut into their retirement plans.
According to the Scotia Global Asset Management Investor Sentiment Survey involving 1,022 Canadians, 59% of people were pessimistic about their investment plans — a significant jump compared to 33% who said the same in 2021.
A looming recession weighed down on respondents’ minds, as 61% expressing worries about such a possibility.
Another 58% said market volatility was a major issue while 40% cited rising interest rates. 37% said that geopolitical developments were a major risk.
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Musk Responds to $100B Credit Line in $2B UBS-Credit Suisse Deal: ‘Wow’
Twitter CEO Elon Musk responded with one word to reports that UBS would get a $100 billion credit line as part of a $2 billion deal to buy Credit Suisse: wow.
A deal between the two financial institutions was announced on Sunday after the Swiss government reportedly agreed to a deal that allowed the largest bank in Switzerland, UBS, to buy its rival, Credit Suisse, for $2 billion.
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Swiss National Bank chair Thomas Jordan (L, L) met with UBS board figures (R) today to hash out an urgent deal for the sale of Credit Suisse to UBS to reassure markets before Monday.
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The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and bailouts for Credit Suisse and First National have raised wider concerns about financial stability.
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Billionaire Warren Buffett is in talks to invest in the US regional banking sector amidst widespread industry panic not seen since the 2008 financial crisis.
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Biden’s Twitter Account Fact-Checked for Dubious Claim About the Taxes Billionaires Pay
President Biden’s Twitter account posted a questionable statistic on Saturday about how much tax Americans billionaires pay.
“Look, I think you should be able to be a billionaire if you can earn it, but just pay your fair share,” Biden’s tweet read. “I think you ought to pay a minimum tax of 25%. It’s about basic fairness.”
The tweet included a graphic of a Biden quote that said: “You know the average tax billionaires pay? Three percent. No billionaire should be paying a lower tax than somebody working as a schoolteacher or a firefighter.”
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Fatal Shootings on Miami Beach’s Famed Ocean Drive Prompt City to Impose Spring Break Curfew
In what’s appearing to be an annual spring break ritual, Miami Beach, Florida, officials are imposing a curfew after two fatal shootings and rowdy crowds this weekend.
The two separate shootings Friday night and early Sunday on the popular Ocean Drive that left two people dead and “excessively large and unruly crowds” led to the decision, the release said. City officials didn’t provide further information when contacted by USA TODAY Sunday.
This is the third consecutive year that this South Florida vacation destination with more than 81,000 residents and traditionally favored among spring breakers has declared a curfew and state of emergency.
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This year’s curfew starts at 11:59 p.m. Sunday and goes through 6 a.m. Monday. Another curfew likely will be in place this Thursday through Mon. March 27. Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber said the city commission has scheduled a meeting Monday afternoon to discuss further measures.
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Gardner Museum Closes on 33rd Heist Anniversary Due to Climate Protest
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remained closed on the 33rd anniversary of its infamous art heist after learning climate activists were planning to stage a “guerilla art installation” in the museum.
On Saturday, Extinction Rebellion Boston was set to hold a demonstration at the museum protesting biodiversity loss. The activist group had alerted local media of the plan with instructions not to release the information until 1 p.m. Saturday, but the museum apparently got wind of the plan earlier in the day and promptly shut its doors.
The museum released a statement saying the decision to close for the day was made out of an abundance of caution for the safety of staff, volunteers, visitors, and its art collection.
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Giving Up Biometrics at US Airports Soon Won’t be Optional, Transport Security Chief Says
The chief of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) David Pekoske said that the agency is considering biometric technology to reduce traveler processing times and reduce the number of screening officers. He made the comments at the South by Southwest conference, which focused on aviation security.
Pekoske noted that the TSA’s role is maintaining security and the transportation system and staying ahead of threats. For those reasons, it is “critically important that this system has as little friction as it possibly can, while we provide for safety and security.”
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Gunfire Interrupts Memorial Service at Montco Cemetery, Killing a Philadelphia Man
Investigators believe a large group of people had gathered at the grave of 19-year-old Tyreek Fairel, who was fatally shot in Norristown in 2013, when shooting broke out among the group.
A memorial service for a slain man turned deadly Saturday as gunfire erupted at a Montgomery County cemetery, killing one man and leaving another seriously injured, Montgomery County authorities said.
Investigators believe a large group of people had gathered about 3 p.m. at a grave site to celebrate the birthday of 19-year-old Tyreek Fairel, who was fatally shot in Norristown in 2013 and buried at the Whitemarsh Memorial Park, on Limekiln Pike in Ambler.
Gunfire broke out within the group with more than 30 shots fired, police said, leaving one man — Daniel Elijah Hawkins, 29 — dead and injuring Arian Davis, 33. Both men are from Philadelphia.
Davis was taken to a local hospital with injuries to his jaw, hand and leg.
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Lindsey Graham snapped at an audience member who called him a ‘warmonger’ and ‘not a real conservative’, telling him at a forum in South Carolina on Saturday to ‘shut up’ and ‘get out of here.’
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Home improvement products retailer Lowe’s has started using security robots manufactured by Knightscope in four stores in Philadelphia.
The robots, K5’s — first launched in 2015 — are supposed to help the retailer collect evidence in case of criminal prosecutions, and act like “security guards.”
Even though the K5 can detect persons, has 16 microphones, and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), as well as sonar sensors, along with four 360-degree high definition wide angle cameras, it does not have facial recognition software baked into it.
(But Knightscope offers that feature — “seeing” a person, and knowing who it is — in the K1 Tower and KA Hemisphere models.)
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Numerous media outlets insisted that questions about Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s health concerns after his stroke were much ado about nothing in the run-up to the 2022 midterm election, when he won of the country’s most fiercely contested Senate races.
Now, since he’s been hospitalized for weeks with depression, the tone of the media has been laudatory about his transparency and then mostly silent as questions emerge about how he’s running his office while recovering from serious health issues.
“Mental illness should not be covered any differently than any other illness,” Dr. Marc Siegel told Fox News Digital. “Having said that, the people of Pennsylvania are owed a senator… we certainly deserve more transparency here.”
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North Carolina Anti-Rioting Bill to Become Law Without Gov. Roy Cooper’s Signature
A North Carolina bill, designed to increase penalties for rioting, will become law without the signature of Gov. Roy Cooper (D).
House Bill 40, a piece of legislation designed to create new penalties for inciting or participating in a riot, was presented to Cooper on March 10. Cooper explained in a statement he would neither sign nor veto the bill, having already vetoed similar legislation the previous year.
“I acknowledge that changes were made to modify this legislation’s effect after my veto of a similar bill last year,” he said. “Property damage and violence are already illegal and my continuing concerns about the erosion of the First Amendment and the disparate impacts on communities of color will prevent me from signing this legislation.”
The bill codifies new felony and misdemeanor charges for “[a]ny person who willfully engages in” or incites a riot. The charges vary in seriousness depending on whether certain thresholds for property damage are met, whether the person brandishes a weapon or uses a dangerous substance, and whether the person causes a death “in the course of the riot.”
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State, city and federal law enforcement have been meeting to discuss how to deal with widespread protests following Trump’s anticipated arrest early this week.
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A San Francisco district supervisor is calling for more policing in the crime-ridden city — despite advocating to defund the police in 2020.
Hillary Ronen, a Democrat, represents District 9 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. During a Budget and Appropriations Committee meeting on Wednesday, she made an impassioned plea to add more officers to the Mission District, which she represents.
Ronen was attacking San Francisco’s police chief for spending a large amount of overtime on an anti-retail theft program instead of prioritizing police presence in her district.
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Terrifying Clip of LA Meteorologist Collapsing on Live TV Goes Viral
A Los Angeles CBS meteorologist was hospitalized after fainting on air Saturday in a terrifying moment that has gone viral on social media.
Weatherwoman Alissa Carlson Schwartz stunned viewers when she collapsed on live TV after her KCAL co-anchors cut to her for the weather report on rain in L.A. this week during the 7:00 a.m. hour.
Schwartz, who appeared visibly pale, leaned forward and her eyes could be seen rolling to the back of her head. She seemingly tried to catch herself from falling but her head slumped down on her desk before she lost consciousness and fell to the ground.
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‘Transparency’: Twitter Will Open a Key Part of Its Source Code to the Public, Elon Musk Says
Twitter owner Elon Musk announced Friday the site would open the source code used to provide recommendations for posts on the platform March 31.
“Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st,” Musk posted on the social media site.
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Trump Speaks Out on Possible Indictment: ‘There Was No Crime, Period’
On Saturday, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday over a case out of New York City DA Alvin Bragg’s office that alleges he paid hush money to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election, and on Sunday Trump said “There was no crime, period.”
“When Alvin Bragg first attained office, he made it very clear that, like many other prosecutors, there was no case against Donald J. Trump,” the former president wrote. “Then the Biden Administration, the Democrats, and the Fake News Media began pushing him, and pushing him hard, and low and behold he said that there might just be a case after all.”
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Canada’s government-funded activity book aims to help children understand why an adult would choose medically-assisted death. The country is considering extending its euthanasia program to sick babies.
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The Ontario PC MPP Involved in the Chinese Interference Saga
So farewell then to Vincent Ke, the MPP for Toronto’s Don Valley North and alleged bagman for Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
He can now be found deep in the back benches of Queen’s Park, sitting as an independent.
Ke has resigned from the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario so as not to sully the government and reputation of Premier Doug Ford and to clear his own name. That’s his story.
A March 10 report by Global News referred to intelligence reports and unnamed sources who said that Ke served as a “financial intermediary” in Communist China’s election interference network in Canada.
“While the Global News allegations about me are false and defamatory, I do not want to be a distraction to the government and take away from the good work Premier Ford is doing for the province of Ontario,” Ke said in a statement.
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Paris has been warned of a potential rat invasion as a result of the ongoing garbage collector strike which has seen tonnes of trash pile up on the streets of the city.
Earlier this week, animal toxicologist and specialist in rats and invasive species Romain Lasseur warned that the trash worker strike, which is now entering its third week and has seen some 10,000 tonnes of uncollected garbage pile up on the streets of Paris, has resulted in a “change in the behaviour of rats” in the city.
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‘French Bernie’ Tells Journalists They Haven’t Seen Real Violence Yet Amid Anti-Macron Protests
France has yet to see real violence amid the ongoing anti-Macron riots happening in the country, France’s answer to Bernie Sanders has told journalists.
Prominent French leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon — a man frequently compared to America’s Bernie Sanders — has laughed off journalist questions over ongoing rioting taking place in the country, warning them that they have yet to see real violence yet.
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Great Reset: EU Vote to Implement Digital ID Latest Step in the ‘Chinaficaiton of Europe’ — MEP
A European Parliament vote for bloc-wide digital IDs is the latest step towards the “Chinafication of Europe”, an MEP has claimed.
Cristian Terhes, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Christian Democratic National Peasants’ Party, has described the European Union’s latest push for cross-border digital IDs as another move towards the “Chinafication” of the bloc.
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Interview: Renowned Demographer Stephen J Shaw on Hungarian Family Policies
Internationally renowned demographer and documentarist Stephen J Shaw has kindly agreed to be interviewed by Hungary Today. We have asked the Japan-based expert to give his personal, independent assessment regarding the effectiveness of Hungarian family policies, and to share the broader findings of his multi-year research.
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Study: 22 Per Cent of Female Tinder Users in Spain Experience Sexual Violence
A Spanish study has revealed around 22 per cent of users of the hook-up app Tinder have experienced a form of sexual violence, with a majority of women saying they felt pressure to have sex.
The study ‘Apps Without Sexual Violence’ was conducted by the Young Women Federation (FMJ) and funded by the Spanish Government Delegation against Gender Violence, and interviewed 963 women who use the hook-up app Tinder.
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Finland will have Turkey’s backing in its bid to join NATO after President Erdogan met with Finnish President Niinistro on Friday, which may see the country join without neighbouring Sweden.
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UK: Khan’s London: Man Strapped With Two Japanese Swords and Thousands in Cash Arrested
Police officers have arrested a man strapped with two Japanese-style swords and thousands of pounds in cash in London.
“Another long shift for the officers. Male stopped and found with these strapped to his waist along with [a] few grand in cash,” the Gospel Oak Police team of London’s Metropolitan Police Force said in a social media post, uploaded with a picture of two blue, straight-edged swords printed with Japanese characters.
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A former Acting Commissioner in charge of London’s Metropolitan Police has been referred to the law enforcement watchdog for allegedly saying most rape complaints concern mere “regretful sex”.
Sir Stephen House, the first Chief Constable of Police Scotland and the Acting Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis after the resignation of Dame Cressida Dick, is accused or having “used terms to describe — or a term to describe — what he thought the bulk of the rape complaints were, which was the term ‘regretful sex’“ by Professor Betsy Stanko, a Home Officer-appointed advisor dealing with an investigation into the Met’s handling of rape cases, dubbed Operation Soteria.
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Paris saw its third straight night of violent chaos, with clashes breaking out between the police and the people and fires being set across the French capital, as President Macron claimed he “has no regrets” about sparking the largest mass mobilisation since the Yellow Vests after he used a loophole to pass through his retirement age raise without a vote.
At least 81 people were arrested in Paris as violent protests and riots broke out once again on Saturday evening; the third protest of its kind since Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne — the second-highest official in France besides Macron himself — saw the minority globalist government use article 49.3 of the constitution to approve legislation to raise the pension age from 62 to 64 without a vote after it became clear that it might not receive majority support in the National Assembly.
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As 20 Year Anniversary of Iraq War Arrives, Experts Say the Biden Admin is Not Leaving Any Time Soon
The Biden administration Pentagon has not signaled any effort to extract itself from Iraq despite a shift toward countering China that is largely reflected in rhetoric and the Pentagon’s budget proposals for the coming year, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
As March, 19-20 will mark 20 years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein and was soon replaced with a war against terror, the government remains fragile, and the Islamic State (ISIS) and Iran-backed terrorist groups continually target U.S. troops, according to researchers at the American Enterprise Institute. U.S. troops stationed in Iraq are training government forces to prosecute a counterterrorism mission the Biden administration and some experts see as critical for American defense, but others said the Pentagon should better uphold pledges to focus resources on addressing the threat from Beijing.
U.S. military presence “is a security blanket for the government in Baghdad. It does absolutely nothing for American national security,” retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, a senior fellow and military expert at Defense Priorities, told the DCNF.
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Saudi Arabia Invites Iranian President Raisi for Visit After Restoring Diplomatic Ties: Report
Saudi Arabia has reportedly invited Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi for an official state visit after the two sides agreed to restore ties in a peace deal brokered by China.
Per the BBC, the invitation came in a letter from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, but that has yet to be confirmed by Saudi officials.
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International Court Warrant for Putin Has Made Peace Harder: Serbian President
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Issuing an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin will have negative consequences and will only prolong the war in Ukraine, Serbia’s president said Sunday.
The International Criminal Court issued the warrant for the Russian leader on Friday, accusing him of war crimes. The ICC accused him of bearing personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine during Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour that started almost 13 months ago.
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A Russian soprano has won a $200,000 pay-out from the Metropolitan Opera after it cancelled a string of her performances last year when she refused to denounce leader Vladimir Putin.
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Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova claimed to be the ‘saviour’ of children from Ukraine caught up in Russia’s ‘special military operation’.
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Putin Visits Occupied City of Mariupol in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the occupied port city of Mariupol, his first trip to Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September, in a show of defiance after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest on war crimes charges.
Putin arrived in Mariupol late Saturday after visiting Crimea, southwest of Mariupol, to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday. He was shown chatting with Mariupol residents and visiting an art school and a children’s center in Sevastopol, Crimea.
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Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has condemned protestors who performed Nazi salutes at a transgender rights rally in Melbourne on Saturday, vowing to crack down on neo-Nazis.
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The Victorian police have been slammed for not stopping neo-Nazis from doing Heil Hitler salutes on Saturday, while a Liberal MP faces expulsion for attending the same rally.
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Man Forced to Jump From Second-Storey Balcony After Fire Sparked by E-Bike Explosion
A man has been forced to jump out of a second storey window after an e-bike exploded and set fire to his home.
At about 8pm on Sunday, emergency services responded to reports of a fire in Eastgardens, about 9km south of Sydney.
Fourteen Fire and Rescue NSW trucks attended the Mathewson St address after the fire spread from an exploding e-bike to the garage and floor of the home.
Footage of the scene shows major damage to the house and a burnt-out Toyota in the garage.
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Teenage Worker Fatally Stabbed at Bottle Shop
A 19-year-old has been arrested after a bottle shop worker, also 19, was stabbed in Darwin.
Officers were called to a BWS store on Sunday night after reports a man had assaulted an employee.
Police say the worker was stabbed and a 19-year-old man left the scene in a car.
The employee was dead when paramedics and officers arrived.
The chief executive of BWS owners Endeavour Group confirmed the death in a statement.
“Our thoughts are with the team member’s family, friends and loved ones,” Steve Donohue said.
He said the company would be providing counselling and support to its Darwin employees and the worker’s family.
NT Deputy Chief Minister Nicole Manison said the incident was a tragedy, but declined to comment further.
Police arrested a 19-year-old man on Monday morning and he is expected to be charged.
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A top defence expert has slammed the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal as amounting to a promise that Australia will follow the US into a war against China.
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16 Terrorists on FBI Watchlist Crossed US Border in February: Report
Data from Customs and Border Protection has revealed that sixteen people on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s terror watch list were apprehended by border patrol agents in February as they attempted to illegally cross into the United States from Mexico.
Over the past few years, there has been a marked increase in the number of encounters between agents and those on the terror watch list at both United States’ northern and southern borders.
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When the 15-year-old arrived in Belgium by bus, carrying an EU visa, he paid people-traffickers £4,500 to take him on the sea journey from France to Dover.
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Italy: Foreign Gangs Using Gay Dating Apps to Lure Men to be Beaten and Robbed
A group of three foreigners were arrested in Rome after allegedly using dating apps to lure homosexual men to areas where they ambushed and robbed them.
The three men, all said to be from Romania, had been engaged in the scheme for months prior to their arrest in and around the Lazio region, which contains Rome and its surrounding area, mostly focused in Castelli Romani, just south of the Italian capital.
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More Immigration is Not a Brexit Betrayal, UK Govt Insists
British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has insisted that new, even laxer rules for immigrant workers are not a betrayal of Brexit as migration into the United Kingdom reaches record highs.
Mr Hunt, who serves as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, stated that the Brexit vote to Leave the European Union — which he did not support — was not based on completely restricting immigration, arguing that “people who voted for Brexit didn’t vote for no immigration.”
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More than 150 illegal migrants were intercepted by UK Border Force crossing the Channel in small boats on Saturday — the same day Home Secretary Suella Braverman inspected a Rwanda deportation centre.
The Home Office confirmed today that a total of 155 illegal migrants were detained, while four dinghies were intercepted.
It is the latest group to arrive in the UK since the Government unveiled its controversial Illegal Migration Bill earlier this month.
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New York City’s first Drag Story Hour Read-a-Thon officially kicked off on Sunday, hosted by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The Drag Story Hour with James was attended by several other elected officials and LGBTQ advocacy groups. According to a press release from James’ office, nearly 200 other guests, including families, “enjoyed four back-to-back Story Hours” at The LGBT Community Center.
James celebrated the occasion on Twitter, featuring pictures of herself alongside elected officials, New York families and drag queens.
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A New Jersey mother is suing after she was allegedly reported by a high-ranking U.S. military official as a safety concern for complaining about sexually charged posters at her children’s elementary school.
Angela Reading, a mother of two who served as a member of the Northern Burlington Board of Education, made headlines in December after Maj. Christopher Schilling of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst reportedly flagged her post to local police when she alerted parents in a local Facebook group about posters promoting polysexuality at the entrance of her 7-year-old’s school.
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The Oregon high school teacher at the center of a “sexual fantasy” assignment controversy has been placed on leave pending an investigation.
Kirk Miller asked students at Churchill High School in Eugene to write about their fantasies during a health class. While the assignment was quickly scrubbed from the curriculum, the fact that it was included to begin with drew ire from many parents.
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The Alberta Roundup: Arrested for Protesting Drag Queen Story Hour (Ft. Pastor Derek Reimer)
This week on the Alberta Roundup with Rachel Emmanuel, Rachel interviews Calgary Pastor Derek Reimer who was arrested and charged after protesting at a drag queen story hour at a public library.
Rachel and Reimer discussed his case, as well as a new bylaw in Calgary which prohibits “specified” protesters from coming within 100-metres of a public building, and which expands the harassment bylaw to include intimidation.
Reimer was arrested in Calgary for a second time just one day after Rachel spoke with him.
Tune into the Alberta Roundup now!
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Masculinity has been in crisis for as long as anyone can remember. The usual explanation is that post-industrial society doesn’t much care for brawn.
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A Methodist Bible college in the U.K. fired a Christian theologian and threatened to report him as a terrorist because of his tweets in opposition to homosexuality, his attorneys claimed.
Dr. Aaron Edwards, who taught theology at Cliff College in Derbyshire, England, was dismissed from the school after being accused of “bringing the college into disrepute” on social media last month.
“Homosexuality is invading the church,” Edwards tweeted on Feb. 19. “Evangelicals no longer see the severity of this [because] they’re busy apologizing for their apparently barbaric homophobia, whether or not it’s true.”
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UK: Drag Queen Who Said ‘Love Has No Age’ Gave ‘Story Time’ Lessons to 11-Year-Olds
A British comprehensive school has come under fire for hosting a controversial drag queen who has said that “love has no age” in lessons for 11-year-old children, in which he explained to the pupils the meaning of “queer identity”.
On Monday, the leading figure of the Drag Queen Story Hour UK organisation, 27-year-old Sab Samuel, who performs in drag under the stage name Aida H Dee, was invited to host a series of lessons for 11-year-old children at the Lewis School Pengam comprehensive school in Wales.
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Utah Pro-Life Orgs Take Victory Lap Over Abortion Clinic Ban, Eye More Legislation
Utah pro-life organizations are taking a victory lap over the recent passage of anti-abortion legislation in the state and are now setting their sights on further legislative efforts, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed H.B. 467 into law Wednesday, which will shut down all abortion clinics in the state by the start of 2024. Now that a major legislative victory has been secured, the Pregnancy Resource Center (PRC) of Salt Lake City, Pro-Life Utah and Abortion-Free Utah are looking to expand pro-life legislation in the state by enacting Alternatives To Abortion (A2A) legislation and further regulate mail-order medicated abortion, the groups told the DCNF.
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I.m.o. a great article written by a German expat in NZ: “All the world can see it now: the Emperor is naked”
https://www-anderweltonline-com.translate.goog/klartext/klartext-20231/alle-welt-kann-es-jetzt-sehen-der-kaiser-ist-nackt/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Torture in the EU Paradise Garden
https://www-russland-jetzt.translate.goog/2023/03/folter-im-eu-paradiesgarten.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Interestingly, about half of the text is missing when using Google Translate. Here is the complete text through DeepL:
Torture in the EU Paradise Garden
Kirill Fyodorov, a blogger from Latvia, told in an interview (see video below) how Latvian law enforcement officers tried to beat a confession out of him about “working for the FSB.”
“… I did not resist, but immediately raised my hands. I was thrown face down on the floor and kicked in the neck with shoes. As they say, everything was in the best tradition. In addition, I was called an enemy of the people and a traitor. I did not offer any resistance. At first I was only fixed. My father was locked up in the next room. Then they tried to disable Face ID on my phone. There were a lot of passwords there, which made them very angry. Then three fighters showed up and were told, “Okay, do it!”. They took me to another room and demanded that I confess to being an FSB agent and that I give them all the passwords. After that, they started torturing me with a stun gun. They put me on the floor and pulled up my shirt. First there was the first run. I felt uncomfortable. They lifted me up. Then the second approach. It took much longer. At the same time, they said they would not stop until I said what was required of them. On the third approach, I lost consciousness. Then I vaguely remember some wires being inserted into a socket and pressed against my lower back. At some point they realized I wasn’t doing well at all and called an ambulance. They told the doctors not to treat me too eagerly, the main thing was “not to let him die, he is an enemy of the people anyway.” That’s a quote. All this was heard by my father, who was locked up in the next room. Honestly, I can’t imagine how he got through it all.”
Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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“THE HORRORBOOK IN FLAMES”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1637413855885238273
Paludan wants to burn the Koran in England
Published on March 20, 2023
The Danish Islam critic Rasmus Paludan has announced that he will burn a Koran in England.
The Koran burning will take place in Wakefield in the north of England on Wednesday at the start of Ramadan.
Paludan announced it in a video that his Stram Kurs party has posted on social media.
– “Ramadan in Wakefield will begin with the whorehouse going up in flames,” he says in the video.
Wakefield has been in the spotlight since a 14-year-old autistic boy received death threats after dropping a Koran on the floor, causing minor injuries. He had been allowed to take the book with him as punishment for losing a game of the computer game Call of Duty against other students.
The innocent incident led to rumors that the Koran had been desecrated or burned, and the school’s administration responded by suspending the four students involved, according to the Daily Mail.
The headmaster condemned the boys and the 14-year-old’s mother was forced to apologize to the Muslims.
According to Stram Kurs, the Koran burning will be carried out in cooperation with the local police and the local authorities.
Rasmus Paludan coming to England, that’s great!
How is he going to cme here though? Using visaa?
I’d love to see him coming to West Midlands :).
Perhaps in a dinghy.
I hear thats all the rage now and the British roll out the red carpet for those choosing this route.