Among the topics discussed by Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping during their meeting in Moscow was their joint plan to replace the dollar as the reserve currency for international transactions. Meanwhile, after the British announced they would be sending depleted uranium tank shells to Ukraine, Mr. Putin said that Russia would respond accordingly.
In other news, German Minister of Health Karl “Klaboosterbach” Lauterbach acknowledged publicly that the COVID-19 “vaccinations” cause severe permanent disabilities.
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The futures market now expects the Reserve Bank to begin cutting interest rates in mid-2023. US bank collapses have changed predictions with the RBA hinting at a rate rise pause in April.
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Fed Hikes Rates by a Quarter Percentage Point, Indicates Increases Are Near an End
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday enacted a quarter percentage point interest rate increase, expressing caution about the recent banking crisis and indicating that hikes are nearing an end.
Along with its ninth hike since March 2022, the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee noted that future increases are not assured and will depend largely on incoming data.
“The Committee will closely monitor incoming information and assess the implications for monetary policy,” the FOMC’s post-meeting statement said. “The Committee anticipates that some additional policy firming may be appropriate in order to attain a stance of monetary policy that is sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to 2 percent over time.”
That wording is a departure from previous statements which indicated “ongoing increases” would be appropriate to bring down inflation.
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Polish Retail Sales Slow as Economy Stalls
In another sign of the Polish economic slowdown, Poland’s Central Office of Statistics (GUS) recorded a fall of 3.6 percent in retail sales between January and February. The largest fall was in the sale of fuel (26.2 percent). Sales of furniture and electrical goods also fell markedly (10.3 percent), while food sales fell by 4.6 percent.
There were sectors where sales were up. Textiles and footwear recorded a rise of 9.9 percent, whereas motor vehicles and parts rose by 7.5 percent. Pharmaceuticals and cosmetics sales also rose by a modest 2.7 percent.
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The Price of Refuelling Electric Vehicles in Australia is Rising as Electricity Price Soars
The largest electric vehicle charging network in Australia is raising the cost of recharging from 40 cents per kilowatt hour to 45 cents.
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UK Inflation Shoots Up Unexpectedly as Vegetable Shortages Push Up Food Prices
The Office for National Statistics revealed Consumer Prices Index inflation rose to 10.4% in February from 10.1% in January.
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The U.K. economy suffered a setback on Wednesday with the announcement that inflation has risen to 10.4 percent, undoing the gradual month-by-month decreases the country had experienced since last October’s 41-year high.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) was up by 0.3 percentage points over January, with the Office for National Statistics attributing the climb to “price rises in the restaurants and hotels, food and non-alcoholic beverages, and clothing and footwear divisions.”
Prices have risen in British restaurants and cafes by 11.4 percent year-over-year for February, up from 9.4 percent in January, with the main price increases being in alcohol.
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Credit card spending has reached record levels as the cost of living crisis hits Australian pockets with experts warning of an impending debt spiral if people keep using their plastic.
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American News Outlets That Took Money From TikTok Downplay Fears of Chinese Influence
Major American media outlets that receive funding from TikTok have emphasized the app’s popularity and expressed skepticism about the app posing a potential national security risk in their coverage of efforts to ban TikTok, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.
TikTok bought ads in The New York Times and Washington Post, including a four-page NYT ad with a QR code linking readers to a website boasting of the company’s security investments, and sponsored a popular Axios newsletter, according to Ad Age. The purchases were part of a PR blitz from TikTok ahead of a Thursday congressional hearing as the U.S. considers banning the app.
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Bellingcat Journo Uses AI to Fantasize About Trump Getting Arrested Before His Crying Family
Eliot Higgins, the founder of the “nonpartisan” Bellingcat propaganda outlet that claims to fight “disinformation,” is using Midjourney AI to fulfill his fantasies about former President Donald Trump getting arrested before his crying family.
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Deceased Seattle Gunman Who Shot Sheriff’s Deputy Identified as Trans DSA Leader
The suspect who allegedly wounded a King County Sheriff’s deputy after opening fire while they were serving an eviction notice in Seattle on Monday has been identified as a transgender member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
According to law enforcement, three deputies were serving the notice, but when they encountered the resident being evicted, there was a shootout. The three deputies opened fire and one deputy was shot in the upper torso above his bulletproof vest.
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Dem Lawmaker Threatened to Withhold University Funding Over Conservative Speakers, Watchdog Argues
Democratic Pennsylvania state Representative La’Tasha Mayes requested that University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Patrick Gallagher cancel three upcoming conservative speaker events, which a free speech watchdog alleges could be a threat to withhold funding.
The UPitt Turning Point USA chapter invited Daily Wire Senior Editor Cabot Phillips and former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines to speak on campus this month, while the College Republicans will host a debate between Daily Wire commentator Michael Knowles and transgender professor Deirdre McCloskey in April. Mayes asked for the events to be canceled and said that the speakers “crossed a line of free speech over into hate speech.”
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Denver’s East High School, where a 17-year-old student allegedly shot two administrators on Wednesday morning, was one of dozens of schools in the Mile High City’s education system that removed all school resource officers two years ago over concerns that law enforcement contact with students “directly contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline.”
Mayor Michael Hancock said just hours after the shooting that two armed police officers will be stationed at East High School until the end of the school year.
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DeSantis Says Taiwan a ‘Critical Interest’ To America, China ‘More Powerful’ Than Putin and Russia
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told Fox Nation’s Piers Morgan he believes Taiwan is a “critical interest” to the U.S., and suggested China was a far greater threat than Russia to America’s ability to lead across the world.
DeSantis, who is mulling a run for the White House in 2024, made the comments during an exclusive interview with Morgan, which will air this week on Fox Nation’s “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
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Doctor’s Assistant Fired for Reporting Injuries From COVID Shots to VAERS
A doctor’s assistant has been fired for reporting injuries caused by Covid shots to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).
Physician Assistant Deborah Conrad said she was labeled an anti-vaxxer and fired from her job, despite it being the officially recommended protocol to report adverse events to VAERS.
New York-based Conrad is now speaking out by telling her story at medical freedom conferences throughout the country.
The most recent event was a conference in Mississippi where physicians, scientists, and the vaccine injured warned state lawmakers to pull the Covid shots from the market.
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Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and five other Republicans will introduce legislation Tuesday that calls for the House to halt all spending allocated towards the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) new headquarters outside the District of Columbia.
The Daily Caller first obtained the legislation, which is titled “The FBI Washington Field Office House Arrest Act.” In December 2022’s Omnibus package, when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House, Congress voted to allocate $375 Million for a new FBI headquarters. Gaetz and the GOP lawmakers do not believe it should be built.
There are reportedly three options for where the new FBI headquarters would be built: two in Maryland, and one in Virginia.
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Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will reintroduce a constitutional amendment Wednesday to ensure only nine justices can serve on the U.S. Supreme Court at a time.
The Daily Caller first obtained the resolution which would go to the states for ratification once it is approved by Congress. Cruz originally introduced the amendment in 2021. Senate Democrats have mostly stayed quiet about whether or not they are in favor of packing the court or adding more seats to the Supreme Court, something Senate Republicans say will happen if Democrats take full control.
“The Democrats’ answer to a Supreme Court that is dedicated to upholding the rule of law and the Constitution is to pack it with liberals who will rule the way they want. The Supreme Court should be independent, not inflated by every new administration. That’s why I’ve introduced a constitutional amendment to permanently keep the number of justices at nine,” Cruz said in a statement to the Caller before introducing the resolution.
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FBI Informant Was Embedded in Jan. 6 Defense Team, Lawyers Allege
At least one Proud Boys member on trial over the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol had a previously-concealed FBI informant set to appear as a witness in their case, a defense attorney said Wednesday.
Former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and members Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola are all on federal trial after being accused in a June 2022 indictment of conspiring “to oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force.” The government revealed Wednesday that a witness scheduled to appear in the defense case Thursday had been an FBI confidential human source from April 2021 to at least January 2023, Rehl’s lawyer Carmen Hernandez said in a court filing obtained by American Greatness’ Julie Kelly.
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Google’s New Bard AI is Riddled With Political Bias
Google’s Bard AI program mimics ChatGPT in that it is riddled with political bias, refusing to comment on Donald Trump or the evils of abortion, while effusively praising Joe Biden and the benefits of abortion.
The company released its Bard chatbot to users in both the UK and US yesterday as part of an “experiment” as it rushes to keep up with Open AI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat.
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‘Have You Vaccinated Your Children?’: Rand Paul Grills Moderna CEO Over Adverse Vaccine Reactions
Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul grilled Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel on Wednesday over whether the shot is safe for teen boys, citing an increased risk of myocarditis.
Bancel testified before the Senate on raising the cost of COVID-19 vaccines.
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A shocking viral video shows a small white child with his parents being racially abused by a black man on the New York subway.
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Leo Terrell Calls on DA Bragg to ‘Drop the Case’ Against Trump as Grand Jury Proceedings ‘Canceled’
Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell has called on New York’s George Soros-funded District Attorney Alvin Bragg to “drop the case” against President Donald Trump.
As Slay News reported earlier, Trump’s case was abruptly canceled today under mysterious circumstances.
The news comes as the case, led by Manhattan DA Bragg, has been under attack from all sides.
Even Stormy Daniels’ anti-Trump former attorney, federal inmate Michael Avenatti, said the case was weak.
The Grand Jury was meant to meet today and take a vote to indict Trump.
However, the Grand Jury was unexpectedly notified Wednesday morning that Bragg has canceled the meeting and placed them “on standby” for Thursday.
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Live Updates: Pasadena Pipeline Fire is Out After Possible Explosion Injures 1; Bridge Open
Emergency responders and HAZMAT crews Wednesday responded to a potential pipeline explosion in Pasadena, officials with the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office said.
A spokesperson for the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office said crews went to the scene around 12:40 p.m., and Pasadena officials reported about 1:20 p.m. that the fire was out.
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On Monday, attorneys gave their opening arguments in the trial of internet meme maker Douglass Mackey, also known as Rickey Vaughn, with his lawyer Andrew Frisch telling a federal jury that Mackey wasn’t looking to trick voters when he posted Hillary Clinton memes in 2016 telling supporters to “vote from home” via text messaging.
Frisch said that Mackey was merely attempting to go viral, according to the New York Daily News, stating that Mackey was “sh*t-posting,” or “stuff-posting” as he told the jury.
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MSNBC: Criticising George Soros is ‘Dangerous’
An MSNBC panel has told viewers that criticizing radical billionaire George Soros is a “dog whistle that is dangerous.”
During MSNBC’s “The Reid Out,” host Joy Reid and her three guests were discussing Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s politically-motivated efforts to indict President Donald Trump.
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Multiple Medal-Winning Olympic Athlete Dies Suddenly at 35
World-renowned Olympic rowing star Angel Fournier Rodriguez has died suddenly at just 35 years old.
Rodriguez was Cuba’s most successful rower in history and has won multiple world championship medals in his career.
Rodriguez passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, March 16 in Texas where he had recently moved to, World Rowing has announced.
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Starting next year, 250 expectant mothers in Philadelphia will receive the no-strings-attached payments from their third month of pregnancy through their baby’s first birthday.
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Portland Transit Workers Have ‘Zero Confidence’ In Far-Left DA to Prosecute Assaults on Employees
The union representing Portland’s transit workers is calling out the far-left Multnomah County District Attorney for not prosecuting offenders after assaults on drivers.
ATU 757, the union for TriMet’s drivers, said there are hundreds of assaults or attempted assaults against their employees every year, including 170 in 2022.
The union’s Vice President Fred Casey told KATU, “I am not aware of any of those going to prosecution on an assault charge. As far as I know, the DA’s office has either dropped the charges or settled on a plea deal with a misdemeanor of ‘interfering with public transportation.’“
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Rand Paul: “People Saying COVID Didn’t Come From a Lab Are Self-Interested”
Appearing on Fox News Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul spoke about how Democrats are acting uncooperatively in the Senate investigation into the origins of COVID, and noted that anyone who still denies the lab leak theory is acting purely in self interest.
“The people of America should realize that the people saying it didn’t come from a lab are self-interested,” Paul asserted, adding that “Tony Fauci approved and gave the money to the lab in Wuhan. So by proving that, he has and shares some culpability in the origins of this virus.”
“He’s always going to deny that it came from the lab, because it comes back to his reputation for having the incredibly poor judgment to send this money to Wuhan,” Paul continued.
“The machinery of government over there is biased, and they’re never going to admit to this. But if you talk to the real scientists — and there’s dozens and dozens of eminent virologists now who have come to the conclusion this came from the lab,” the Senator further noted.
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Red State Gov Signs Bill Banning Ballot Harvesting Ahead of Reelection Bid
Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill Wednesday that bans ballot harvesting in the state ahead of his 2023 reelection bid.
Reeves, who is running for his second term this year, signed Senate Bill 2358 into law, prohibiting ballot harvesting in Mississippi. The bill only allows certain individuals to “knowingly collect and transmit” ballots, including election officials on duty and family members delivering on behalf of their relatives.
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Sean Hannity Finds Skeleton in Michael Cohen’s Closet That Could Sink Bragg’s Case Against Trump
Sean Hannity found a letter from Michael Cohen’s old lawyer that could sink Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump.
Stephen M. Ryan sent a letter to Jeff Jordan, the Assistant General Counsel at the Complaints Examination & Legal Administration for the Federal Election Commission, claiming that Cohen paid Stormy Daniels and “neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was party.”
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Sen. John Kennedy Stumps Another Biden Nominee With Basic Legal Question
Judicial nominee S. Kato Crews failed to answer a basic legal question from Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy about evidence discovery during his Wednesday confirmation hearing.
Kennedy, an Oxford-educated attorney, frequently asks judicial nominees basic questions about the Constitution, important Supreme Court precedents, and legal procedure. Trump nominee Matthew Peterson withdrew in 2017 after flubbing questions about legal standards and motions. Biden nominees have failed to answer Kennedy’s questions about articles of the Constitution and administrative law.
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Stanford Diversity Dean Who Derailed Law School Speaker Event Placed on Leave
UPDATE: This story has been updated with a statement from Stanford College Republicans vice president Stephen Sills.
An elite Stanford Law School (SLS) dean who berated a federal judge during a speaker event earlier this month was placed on leave, the school announced on Tuesday.
Federal Judge Kyle Duncan attempted to deliver remarks about COVID, Twitter and guns on the California campus on March 9 but was repeatedly interrupted by student hecklers. SLS Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Tirien Steinbach responded to his request for an administrator to help silence the room, but instead took the podium to accuse Duncan of causing “harm” and questioned if his speech was worth delivering.
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Thousands of Convicted Sex Offenders in Oregon Not Properly Registered Due to Years-Long Backlog
The state agency in Oregon responsible for classifying sex offenders will miss another deadline to classify every offender unless lawmakers give them more money and staff, according to a new report.
KATU discovered that in 2013, the legislature gave the state parole board 3 years to classify sex offenders already in the registry. 10 years later that still has not been done. Thousands of sex offenders living in the state remain without a classification level.
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Trump Holds Massive Lead Over Biden in Hypothetical 2024 Matchup: Poll
Former President Donald Trump holds a massive lead over President Joe Biden in a hypothetical 2024 head-to-head matchup, according to a recent poll.
Trump is winning against Biden 47% to 41%, respectively, in a 2024 presidential rematch among registered voters, according to a Premise poll. The poll indicates a swing of 8 percentage points towards the former president, as a February Premise poll had Trump down 42% to 44% against Biden.
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Trump Calls DeSantis an ‘Average Governor, ‘ Attacks His Record on COVID-19 in Latest Volley
Former President Trump lashed out again on Wednesday at his top potential rival in the 2024 presidential election, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who took swipes at the former president’s character and leadership style during an interview with Piers Morgan earlier in the week.
“Now that Ron DeSanctimonious is finally admitting he’s in the Race by beginning to fight back, and now that his Polls have crashed so he has no other choice, let me explain the facts,” Trump said in a statement on Wednesday.
“He is, for a Republican, an average Governor, he got 1.2 million less Votes in Florida than me,” Trump continued. “Florida has been successful for many years, long before I put Ron there—It’s amazing what Ocean and Sunshine will do!”
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Twitter Tests ID Verification Feature
According to recent reports from Tech Crunch, Twitter is currently experimenting with a new verification process for its subscribers of Twitter Blue. This process entails the submission of a government-issued identification document.
The system’s technical details reveal that users would need to provide a photo of their ID’s front and back, as well as a selfie, to authenticate their Twitter accounts.
This feature is exclusively available to Twitter Blue subscribers, who also have access to other paid subscription perks, such as tweet editing, longer video uploads, and longer posts.
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Two School Administrators Shot by Student at Denver High School
A male student shot two school administrators at a high school in Denver on Wednesday, and the victims were taken to area hospitals, officials said. Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said the student fled the scene after the shooting at East High School.
One victim was in critical condition and one was in serious but stable condition, Thomas said.
Both of the victims are men, Thomas said. The two administrators were searching the student in the morning and “a handgun was retrieved and several shots were fired,” the chief said. The student was not identified because he is a juvenile, the chief said, but authorities know who he is.
“We don’t have any sense of where he is,” the chief said, adding that investigators were trying to speak with people who may know where he may have gone.
Police haven’t recovered the gun used in the shooting, Thomas said. Authorities were searching his home for evidence.
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The founder of a veteran-led emergency prevention organization has issued a heartbreaking statement after the FBI falsely labeled him as a facilitator of domestic terrorism.
Former U.S. Green Beret servicemember Mike Glover said: “It’s horrible.
“I’m an entrepreneur first.
“That is what I wanted to do after a long time of service, and it just sucks being targeted by a country.
“My mom was targeted,” he revealed.
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Veteran Allegedly Fatally Shoots Soldier, 3 Kids in Domestic Mass Shooting
The children were ages 5, 6 and 11, according to police. One woman survived.
A military veteran allegedly gunned down three children and an active-duty soldier in a domestic mass shooting in South Carolina, authorities said.
The suspect, 42-year-old Charles Slacks, Jr., allegedly carried out the shootings at his ex-wife’s home around 10 p.m. Tuesday in Sumter, which is about 45 miles east of Columbia, police said.
Slacks allegedly shot the soldier, who was sitting in the backyard, and then killed the three children, two of whom were his own, Sumter Police Chief Russell Roark said at a news conference Wednesday.
Slacks then died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Roark said.
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Videos: Biden Literally Can’t Talk Anymore
On Tuesday, Joe Biden attempted to string together sentences in English but completely failed again and again.
Biden attempted to announce the establishment of a new national monument, but he can’t talk.
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‘Abundant Evidence’ That Chinese Communists Are Grooming Canadian Politicians: Former Ambassador
(LifeSiteNews) — A former Canadian ambassador to China said there is “abundant evidence” showing how the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) has in place a long-term plan to persuade and groom Canadian politicians at all levels of government to be favorable to the regime.
David Mulroney, who served as the lead on Canada’s diplomatic mission in China from 2009 to 2012, posted Thursday on Twitter that “There is abundant evidence of Beijing’s patient, long-term effort to extend its reach into Canadian politics at all levels.”
Mulroney wrote that grooming seeks to “groom and develop people of steadily increasing connectedness and influence.”
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Canadian Arbitrator Rules in Favor of Railway Engineer Fired for Refusing COVID Jab
(LifeSiteNews) — A Canadian federal arbitrator has ruled in favor of a VIA Rail locomotive engineer who was fired for not getting the COVID shots as a condition of employment, saying the government-owned passenger rail line did not have “sufficient cause” to terminate him.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Graham Clarke, who was the case arbitrator, wrote that “VIA did not have just and sufficient cause” to fire Louison Tessier, who worked as a VIA engineer for 19 years.
Noted Clarke, VIA Rail of its “own initiative” decided to add “disciplinary consequences for non-vaccinated employees.”
This, said Clarke, meant that VIA Rail breached the Canada Labour Code over Tessier’s COVID jab status.
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Canadian Study Finds Vitamin D Can Reduce Chance of Dementia by 40%
(LifeSiteNews) — New research by a Canadian university shows that the consumption of vitamin D can dramatically help protect against the development of dementia.
Joint research done over a ten-year period by the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute in Canada and the University of Exeter in the UK, and published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring peer-reviewed journal on March 2023, has revealed that people who take vitamin D supplements are 40-times less likely to develop dementia.
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(LifeSiteNews) —The NDP joined the Liberals under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the House of Commons to vote against a Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) motion that would have compelled a broad investigation into election interference by China.
The CPC motion brought forward by MP Michael Cooper was titled “Opposition Motion (Instruction to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (foreign interference).”
While the motion was shot down with 177 votes against to 147 in favor, it did gain the support of the Green Party, the Bloc Québécois, and two independent MPs.
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Gender Vote Gap: Trudeau Polls Most Favourably With Women Over 55
A poll has revealed that the section of the population of Canada most favourable to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are women over the age of 55, as Canadian men lean far more conservative.
The poll, which was released by the Angus Reid Institute, claims that around 42 per cent of women over the age of 55 support Prime Minister Trudeau and his Liberal Party, while just 21 per cent of women aged 18 to 34 support the current PM.
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Justin Trudeau: ‘Non-Diverse’ AI Engineers May Develop ‘Evil’ Algorithms
During a town hall event on Monday in Ottawa, CA, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said “diversity” is needed among computer engineers developing AI in order to prevent the development of “evil” algorithms.
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Liberals and Conservatives Tied for Vote Intention
A recent opinion poll found that the federal Conservative and Liberal parties are tied should an election happen today.
A third of Canadians (33%) said they would vote Conservative, and roughly the same (31%) said they would vote Liberals — the difference of 2% was considered a tie, as it was within sampling error in Abacus Data’s newest survey.
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Liberal MP Allegedly Advised China to Delay Releasing the Two Michaels
A new report by Global News based on national security sources claims that Liberal MP Han Dong advised a Chinese diplomat to prevent the freeing of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
On Wednesday evening, Dong informed the House of Commons that he would be resigning from the Liberal Party and would sit as an independent MP.
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Ontario Doctor Urges Those Affected by COVID Jab Mandates to Take Legal Action
(LifeSiteNews) — A Canadian vaccinologist known for speaking out against COVID jab mandates said that anyone in Ontario who was fired or not allowed to attend school because they chose not to get the COVID jabs should consider getting legal help to launch a wrongful dismissal case, in light of recent comments made by the province’s top doctor.
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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre said directly that Canada’s intelligence community is in an “open revolt” against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in light of ongoing revelations by a whistleblower from the intelligence community that the Communist Chinese regime is meddling in Canada’s elections.
“First of all, it is clear that Justin Trudeau has lost the confidence of our intelligence community. And there is an open revolt against the prime minister,” noted Poilievre while speaking to media last week.
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“Freedom Has a Price!” Meloni Vows to Increase Military Spending, Continue Support for Ukraine
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has stood by her government’s plan to increase military spending, insisting it is the price that must be paid to ensure freedom.
Reporting to the Senate on Tuesday ahead of this week’s EU summit, the Italian premier made no bones about increasing the country’s defense budget.
“We have never made any secret of wanting to increase allocations for military spending, as previous governments did, perhaps secretly, without owning up to it,” she told fellow lawmakers.
“We do own up to it, as we are convinced that respecting the commitments (to military spending) is vital to defending the national interest. Freedom has a price,” she added.
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British Amateur Boxing Champ Dies Suddenly at 19
Jude Moore, a promising two-time British national amateur champion, was found dead on Friday. He was 19 years old.
Moore’s family confirmed the death of the young fighter who was believed to be a potential world champion. His tragic death comes shortly after his impressive knockout victory over the Polish national champion in his first senior fight, the BBC reported.
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Bulgarian police uncovered a previously unknown artwork by iconic American artist Jackson Pollock after busting a group of art smugglers, according to multiple reports.
Authorities discovered the €50 million (roughly $54 million) painting by Jackson Pollock on Tuesday while conducting an investigation into international art smugglers, according to The Guardian.
Pollock was a popular figure in the abstract expressionist movement that characterized 1940s and 50s artwork. He is known for his “drip technique” of haphazardly pouring paint onto canvases to create random patterns. He struggled with alcoholism and died in a car accident in 1956.
The raid was carried out in Athens and on the island of Crete, according to The Art Newspaper.
Three Greek citizens and one Bulgarian were taken into custody, Bulgarian news outlet Novinite reported.
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Dutch Government Bans Officials From Installing TikTok on Work Phone
The Netherlands will soon ban government officials from installing TikTok on their government phones. Government services will immediately start discouraging officials from having the app on their phone, and soon all work phones will be set up to only allow the installation of pre-approved apps, State Secretary Alexandra van Huffelen said in a letter to parliament.
The list of pre-approved apps does not include “espionage-sensitive apps.” A spokesperson for Van Huffelen confirmed to NOS that TikTok falls under that heading. There are 140,000 government officials and civil servants in the Netherlands. The spokesperson couldn’t say how many of them use a government phone.
Many Western countries are concerned about TikTok because the popular social media app is owned by the Chines company Bytedance. They worry that the company will share TikTok data with the Chinese government. Intelligence service AIVD also recently advised the government that apps “managed by countries with an offensive cyber program aimed at the Netherlands and Dutch interests” have an increased espionage risk.
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The leader of the insurgent pro-farmer party that shook the foundations of Dutch politics said that she believes the coalition government is not on firm ground and that she expects elections within the year.
Following her first meeting with Prime Minister Mark Rutte after last week’s shock elections, Farmer—Citizen Movement (BBB) leader Caroline van der Plas, said: “I feel that Rutte has listened. Whether he also heard what I said, we’ll see.”
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EU Already Caving on 2035 Combustion Engine Ban, Considering Allowing E-Fuel Vehicles
It appears the EU could already be giving up ground on its proposed internal combustion engine ban, set to be put into place in 2035.
On Tuesday morning it was reported that the EU has now “drafted a plan allowing sales of new cars with internal combustion engines that run only on climate neutral e-fuels”, according to Reuters. The plan comes as part of a compromise proposal with Germany over the existing 2035 ban plans.
Under the plan, cars that run on carbon neutral fuels would be placed into a new type of vehicle category.
E-fuels are synthetically made fuels that can be made using hydrogen in conjunction with captured carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide. The source for the components of the fuels generally has to be sustainable in nature, such as wind or solar power.
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France: Shortages at the Pump as Refineries Blockaded in Protest at Macron’s Reforms
France has once again been gripped with fuel shortages at the pump this week as a result of trade union strikes and blockades imposed around refineries and fuel depots in response to President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial move to pass through his pension reforms without a vote.
Just over five months after refinery worker unions caused widespread chaos in France by striking over demands for salary increases, unions have yet again caused chaos at the pump, with 13.1 per cent of all service stations reporting that they have either run out of petrol or deisel as of Tuesday.
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German Health Minister: COVID Shots Cause ‘Permanent Severe Disabilities’
German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach has issued an apology to the public and admitted that the Covid shots he once promoted are causing “severe disabilities” that will likely be “permanent.”
Lauterbach previously encouraged the people of Germany to get vaccinated by claiming that mRNA shots are safe and free of side effects.
However, he has just gone on record to admit that he was wrong.
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The footage shows the unidentified girl aged 13, being slapped, spat on and having a cigarette stubbed out on her before she is pushed to the floor and surrounded.
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“Adjustments” must be made to the state’s green agenda programme after the Netherlands’ pro-farmer party won the country’s recent election, a senior government party figure has said.
Pieter Heerma, the parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party, has said that “adjustments” must now be made to green agenda restrictions after the victory of the FarmerCitizenMovement (BBB) party.
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Greek Air Force Veteran and Basketballer Suddenly Died After a Game
Tragedy unfolded as 43-year-old basketballer Tasos Balafas breathed his last in the stadium of Schimatari. In a statement issued today by the Air Force, the 43-year-old was originally serving in the 26th Guided Missile Squadron at Tanagra Air Base.
It is recalled that after the end of the match between Proteas Schimatariou and the Air Force team, the 43-year-old father of two children headed to the locker room to change.
There, reported Proto Thema, he was found passed out by his wife, who is also a former basketballer and now a coach. Massages were done, while the match doctor tried to revive him with the defibrillator, but to no avail.
The 42-year-old was taken by ambulance to the local Health Centre where he was pronounced dead.
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‘Keep Out of Other People’s Business!’ Hungarian Foreign Minister Scolds US State Department
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjartó launched a blistering attack against the U.S. State Department on Wednesday, accusing the United States of continuously encroaching on the sovereignty of independent nations and commenting on issues that should be of no concern to the U.S. government.
Speaking at a joint press conference in Sarajevo with his Bosnia-Herzegovina counterpart, Elmedin Konakovic, Szijjartó was asked to comment on a recent publication by the U.S. State Department, which criticized what it described as “irresponsible comments” from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was re-elected in November last year to serve a third term as president of the Republika Srpska, a majority-Serb entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Large Mob Attacks French Police During Arrest of Dangerous Driver
French police officers narrowly escaped serious injury when they were attacked by a mob of around 20 people while attempting to arrest a dangerous driver last week, according to reports.
The shocking incident unfolded last Wednesday night in Vallauris, a commune on the French Riviera.
Officers observed a “driver with suspicious behavior driving at excessive speed and u-turning with the handbrake at the sight of a police vehicle,” a spokesman told Nice Matin.
Authorities pulled the vehicle over and the driver was being taken into custody under suspicion of operating while intoxicated when a group of around 20 people — which included the father and brother of the suspect — stormed out of a nearby bar and set upon four officers at the scene.
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NATO Sidelines Hungary, Will Convene Ukraine Committee Without Hungarian Approval
NATO ministers should not hold a meeting of the Ukraine committee until the country assures the rights of ethnic minorities living in Ukraine, including those of ethnic Hungarians living in the west of the country, said Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjartó.
“This decision violates NATO’s unity and the procedures for a unified will, but at the same time we cannot do anything other than take note of the secretary general’s decision,” Szijjartó said in Brussels on Tuesday.
“There is enormous pressure on the (Hungarian) government from both sides of the Atlantic to give up the protection of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia, but this will not happen under any circumstance,” he continued.
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Netherlands: Two Face Prosecution for Inciting Violence Against Teacher Over Anti-Jihad Cartoon
Two people will face a criminal court hearing on accusations that they tried to get others to commit acts of violence against a secondary school teacher for his use of a cartoon in support of the controversial French satire magazine, Charlie Hebdo. The Public Prosecution Service (OM) . The two Rotterdammers, now aged 20 and 22, will be prosecuted on suspicion of inciting violence or criminal acts when the incident happened more than two years ago.
The teacher at the Emmauscollege had placed a copy of a Joep Bertram cartoon on a bulletin board at the secondary school in November 2020. The image was of a decapitated person wearing a Charlie Hebdo shirt who was sticking their tongue out at a jihadist. Bertram created the cartoon in response to the terrorist assault on the Charlie Hebdo editorial office in Paris that left 12 dead and 11 injured.
On November 2, the school took part in a memorial for French teacher Samuel Paty who was brutally killed in a beheading in a suburb of Paris a few weeks earlier. The teacher used the occasion to hang a copy of Bertram’s cartoon on a bulletin board. The cartoon angered a group of Muslim girls, according to NRC, who demanded it be removed, saying the teacher was guilty of blasphemy. They disagreed with the teacher, who said that the cartoon showed a jihadist holding a machete, and not the Prophet Muhammad.
[Comment: The article reprints the interesting (to me at least) cartoon.]
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Reported Rapes Up One-Third in 2022, Crime Up Across the Board, Says Spain
Spanish Interior Ministry statistics have revealed that the country saw a large increase in crime last year, with the number of rapes rising by nearly 34 per cent as other sex assaults rose by over 50 per cent.
Overall, crime grew by 18.8 per cent across Spain but some crimes saw very large increases, such as sexual assaults involving penetration which increased by 53.2 per cent compared to 2022, and rapes which increased by 33.9 per cent.
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Swedish Lawmakers Overwhelmingly Back Motion to Join NATO Alliance
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish lawmakers overwhelmingly voted Wednesday in favour of Sweden joining NATO, signing off on the country’s membership along with the required legislation.
The 349-seat parliament authorized Sweden’s accession to NATO in a 269-37 vote, with 43 lawmakers absent. It was the last required domestic hurdle to the country becoming part of the 30-member Western military alliance.
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Mother Nasrine Feraoun, 41, her twin sister Narjisse, her husband Eric David, 40, and their daughter, 8, died after the fall from the balcony of their apartment (pictured) in Montreux, Switzerland.
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UK: Extinction Rebellion Spray London Newspaper Offices With Green Paint in Climate Coverage Protest
Seven Extinction Rebellion activists have been arrested after targeting several newspaper offices on Wednesday, including the Daily Telegraph and the Sun.
Protesters threw green paint at the Telegraph’s offices in Victoria, and unveiled banners reading: “Tell the truth”.
The group also targeted News UK’s building in London Bridge, home of the Sun newspaper, and the offices of the Daily Mail in Kensington with green paint.
It said it had taken the action because it believed the outlets did not cover the climate crisis sufficiently.
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UK: Just Stop Oil ‘Go Slow’ March Planned for Leeds This Saturday
JUST Stop Oil supporters are planning a ‘go slow’ march in Leeds city centre this Saturday.
The group will take to the streets on Saturday morning to demand that the Government stops all new UK oil and gas projects.
It said that the event is being carried out in defiance of the Prime Minister’s recent threat to crack down on ‘go slow’ marches.
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UK: Man Arrested as Second Muslim is Set on Fire on Walk Home From Mosque in Birmingham
A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a second Muslim in as many months was set on fire as he walked home from his place of worship in Birmingham, England.
CCTV footage of the attack shows the victim, who police confirmed is in his 70s, being approached by the suspect on Shenstone Road in the Edgbaston area of the city as he walked home from the Dudley Road mosque shortly after 7 p.m. on Monday evening.
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UK: Ramadan: London’s West End Lit Up for Islamic Festival for First Time
For the first time, London’s West End has been lit up with 30,000 lights to mark the holy month of Ramadan.
Coventry Street, which links Leicester Square with Piccadilly, is illuminated with “Happy Ramadan”.
The lights were switched on by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who is one of the 1.3 million Muslims in London celebrating Ramadan.
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The new U.S. Army garrison in Poland will be the first permanent U.S. army garrison in Poland and the eighth such garrison in Europe. There are currently five U.S. garrisons stationed in Germany and one each in Italy and Belgium. Up until now, Poland was the location for a regional unit, known as Area Support Group Poland (ASG-P). Such units also exist in Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Kosovo.
Poland’s defense ministry noted that the garrison was being set up after a decision taken by President Joe Biden in 2022. The garrison will be involved in logistical and infrastructure support for U.S. troops stationed in Poland. It will also manage the U.S. military’s outposts in the country.
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A White German teenage girl was brutally tortured on video by teenagers, who beat the victim, set her hair on fire, and put out cigarettes on her face.
A video of the incident is spreading across social media, with users reacting with shock to its content. However, a longer version of the video has been made available to German television channel RTL, which states the longer version is far more harrowing and includes the teenagers setting the girl’s hair on fire and putting lit cigarettes out on her.
The girl, who is White, is targeted by girls who appear to have a foreign background. One Black girl is also seen in the background, but it is unclear if she participated in the assault.
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Russia’s former President, security council deputy chairman, and Putin stooge has threatened to bomb the International Criminal Court in the Hague in response to it issuing an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.
Dmitry Medvedev, a former President of Russia who now serves as the trigger-happy deputy chairman of its security council, has issued wild threats that his country could bomb the International Criminal Court in the Hague after it issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.
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China & Russia Cement Alliance, Signal New World Order: ‘Change is Coming’
Communist China and Russia have further cemented their mounting alliance this week and suggested that a new world order is coming.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin Tuesday to discuss their affinities and shared geopolitical aims.
After the meeting, they boasted of a “new era” of bilateral ties and greater cooperation on a number of issues spanning the globe.
Xi told Putin, “Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years.
“And we are driving this change together.”
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Have Some More: IMF Approves $15.6 Billion Loan Package for Ukraine
The Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed to release a $15.6 billion loan package to Ukraine on Wednesday while reassuring contributors Kyiv has strong economic policies and is “fighting corruption.”
AP reports Ukraine’s finance ministry applauded the initiative, boasting the program will “help to mobilize financing from Ukraine’s international partners, as well as to maintain macrofinancial stability and ensure the path to post-war reconstruction after Ukrainian victory in the war against the aggressor.”
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IMF and Ukraine Agree £13bn Loan Package
Ukraine said the programme would ‘help mobilise financing from international partners, as well as maintain macrofinancial stability´.
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Moscow stepped up its onslaught on London after Vladimir Putin said he ‘will have to respond properly since the collective West will be using weapons with a nuclear component’.
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Russian Music Star Found Dead After Criticizing Putin
Russian music star Dima Nova has been found dead after apparently “drowning” on Sunday, according to reports.
34-year-old Nova, real name Dmitry Svirgunov, was a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Nova’s popular electronic group Cream Soda released an anti-war song that called out Putin and became an anthem among those opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In the song, the pop group calls out Putin for owning a mansion allegedly worth $1.3 billion while much of Russia lives in poverty, according to Newsweek.
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The EU is sending one million artillery shells to Ukraine at the eye-watering price of two billion Euros, meanwhile the United Kingdom has confirmed it would be sending depleted uranium anti-tank rounds along with the main battle tanks it is donating to the country.
A long-anticipated arms procurement deal by EU members-plus-Norway through the European Defence Agency to procure and send one million 155mm artillery rounds [pictured, above] to Ukraine has been agreed, ending months of discussion.
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Russian Air Strikes on Two Ukrainian Cities Kill Seven, Officials Say
RZHYSHCHIV, Ukraine, March 22 (Reuters) — At least seven people were killed on Wednesday in Russian air strikes on Ukrainian cities which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said showed Moscow was not interested in peace.
In a series of early-morning drone strikes, six people were killed and 18 taken to hospital when two dormitories and a college were hit in Rzhyshchiv, 40 miles (64 km) south of the capital Kyiv, regional police chief Andrii Nebytov said.
The attack left a gaping hole in the top floor of a five-storey dormitory and a pile of rubble marked where part of another building had stood, a Reuters witness said.
Hours later, two residential buildings were damaged in a missile strike on the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia. One person was killed and 33 taken to hospital, officials said.
The Ukrainian military said it knocked out 16 of 21 Iranian-made Shahed drones fired by Russia.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko today warned the UK ‘will see a fearful response’ that will be a ‘lesson for the whole planet’ if it sends depleted uranium tank munitions to Ukraine.
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Kerala Temple Painted in Green Changed to Ivory After Hindu Protest
Thirumandhamkunnu temple at Angadipuram in Kerala’s Malappuram which was painted in the Pakistani flag color had to change to Ivory color due to a protest of Hindu Aikya Vedi.
B Upendran | HENB | Malappuram | March 22, 2023:: The temple committee of Thirumandhamkunnu Bhagavathy temple at Angadipuram in Malappuram infested with Communist and pro-Islamist elements, has painted the temple with the color of the Pakistani flag — green and white — ahead of the Pooram festival. Even more alarming is the sizable presence of Muslims on the festival committee as patrons and members. The first name on the panel is that of Muslim League leader and Member of Parliament Abdul Samad Samadani who was allegedly instrumental in the fraudulent conversion of eminent Malayalam writer Kamala Das. (Kamala Das was trapped in love jihad on the promise of marriage and after conversion, she was dumped).
Out of the 14 patrons, five are Muslims. The chairman of the committee is Manjalamkuzhi Ali, MLA. One of the vice-chairmen of the panel is Jose Varghese, a Christian.
Attaching the list of Temple Festival committee, one Ambika JK tweeted, “Angadipuram Thirumandhamkunn Puragosh Committee. Secularism can only be established if Hindu-Muslim is half-half. This is not right!”…
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China, Russia Move to Replace the Dollar
Russia supports China’s plan to use the yuan for international trade, which could represent a threat to the dollar’s status as the world’s dominant reserve currency.
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by Daniel Greenfield
Whenever SKDK sends out a press release, it makes sure to mention that Politico had once called it “the loyal opposition where powerful Democrats plot the anti-Trump agenda” and that the Holmes Report had described the firm “the hub of the resistance.”
The “loyal opposition” now works for Communist China. And the “hub of the resistance” is being employed on behalf of a company operating out of one of the world’s most totalitarian regimes.
Faced with a possible ban on its destructive social media app, TikTok has gone out and hired the Biden administration and its “resistance” apparatus. And it probably even got a good deal.
SKDK’s managing director, Anita Dunn, is Biden’s senior advisor and unofficial campaign manager who took control and steered him through the Democrat primaries.Dunn, an Obama vet, is now in charge of crafting the response to Biden’s classified documents scandal.
SKDK people became Biden’s campaign comms and they’ve continued to fill that role in the administration. White House Deputy Communications Director, Herbie Ziskend. was an SKDK veep. As was Biden’s deputy communications director Kate Berner. Biden’s special assistant and senior adviser Jordan Finkelstein was an SKDK associate. Biden’s former press secretary and current Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh was a senior SKDK associate.
TikTok had previously hired a Pelosi senior adviser and another senior adviser to Rep. James Clyburn: the third highest ranking Democrat. Now it decided to go all the way to the ‘big guy’.
Biden’s messaging apparatus consists of SKDK vets. Hire SKDK and you get insights into what the Biden administration thinks and how to best influence its thinking…
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EXCLUSIVE: In his new book ‘Defeating the Dictators’, expert Charles Dunst warns that democracy is now in a fight with autocracy for control of the future, and is in danger of losing.
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JUSTIN BRONK, a research fellow at London’s Royal United Services Institute, says the visit is another reminder of the crucial role China will play in the conflict.
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‘Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years. And we are driving this change together,’ Xi told Putin via his interpreter — words sure to set alarm bells ringing in the West
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The grieving mum has suffered more cruel blows since rushing to Darwin to bring her son’s body home to Cairns in far north Queensland.
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has blasted a movement calling for Australians to pay a weekly rent to Indigenous groups based on their ancestral claims to the land.
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Michael Kable, 62, was hit with an AVO and charged with common assault on Tuesday after a student at Maitland Grossman High School, near Newcastle, was assaulted in his classroom.
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Charges have been laid after a teenage girl was allegedly lured to a fake party before being tortured over five hours by three other girls.
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Mexico’s Leftist President Humiliates Biden, Sides With Trump: ‘Why Not Allow the People to Decide’
Mexico’s leftist President Andre’s Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has publicly humiliated Democrat President Joe Biden.
During a press conference, AMLO decried Biden over the Democrats’ efforts to indict President Donald Trump.
He said Biden can no longer lecture other countries about democracy if Trump is arrested.
“Right now, former President Trump is declaring that they are going to arrest him,” the Mexican leader said.
“If that were the case, it would be so that his name doesn’t appear on the ballot.
“I say this because I too have suffered from the fabrication of a crime when they didn’t want me to run.
“And this is completely anti-democratic.
“Why not allow the people to decide?”
He also called out Biden specifically, saying the United States cannot talk about human rights with Julian Assange detained, cartel violence with Biden bombing the Nord Stream pipeline, or democracy while arresting the leading presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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More than 1,500 migrants are being trafficked into Germany every week by people smugglers, a figure that is expected to rise considerably as warmer temperatures arrive, the chairman of Germany’s largest police union has warned.
Andreas Roßkopf of the GDP police union revealed the concerning figures to German newspaper Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung, claiming that professional gangs are taking advantage of Europe’s porous borders and raking in the profits. “These are full professionals who advertise with a guarantee of success,” he said.
“We are currently detecting around 1,500 illegal entries per week at the borders. It will certainly not stop there. With every month that gets warmer, more people come,” he told the newspaper’s editorial team.
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Record-Breaking Population Growth Driven by Migration, Says StatCan
Canada experienced record population growth last year, almost entirely driven by migrants.
Statistics Canada on Wednesday released data showing that Canada’s population rose by more than 1,000,000 between January 1st, 2022 and January 1st, 2023.
“International migration accounted for nearly all growth recorded (95.9%),” Statistics Canada’s report said.
The country welcomed a record-breaking 437,180 immigrants, and a record-breaking estimated net increase of 607,782 non-permanent residents.
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Arkansas Enacts Law to Protect Right of Girls to Female-Only Spaces in Public Schools
Arkansas has become the latest state to protect the right of school girls to the privacy and safety of female-only restrooms and changing rooms after a bill was enacted Tuesday prohibiting transgender students from using spaces that do not align with their biological sex.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the bill, which applies to multi-person restrooms and locker rooms in public and charter schools from kindergarten through to 12th grade, reports Fox News.
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Ms Keen has been promoting her global ‘Let Women Speak’ tour in Australia with a series of protests in the streets which have led to heated clashes with the public.
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Liberal Senator for Tasmania Claire Chandler intended to share the stories of two women when Ms Keen brought her ‘Let Women Speak’ tour to Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday.
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Charlie Bakhos, leader of the Christian group that violently clashed with LGBTQI+ activists in southwest Sydney, claims it is peaceful, but prominent members called for violence.
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The man wearing a tracksuit top and shorts was pushed to the ground and handcuffed by cops at St Michaels church in Belfield, where Mark Latham was speaking.
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CALGARY, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) — A top Canadian civil liberties group says it is “deeply troubled” by what it says is a new “unconstitutional” bylaw passed by Calgary City Council banning protesting against drag queen story times or other LGBTQ events at public facilities and is now reading a court challenge to fight it.
In a press release Wednesday, the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) said that Calgary’s new “Safe and Inclusive Access Bylaw,” which would disallow “specified protests” both inside and outside all city-owned and affiliated public buildings, is flawed and breaches charter rights.
The CCF said the bylaw was put in place for the explicit purpose to ban protesting against drag queen story times.
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DeSantis Admin Proposes Extending Key Provision of Parental Rights Bill Through 12th Grade
The Florida Board of Education proposed a rule Wednesday to expand the state’s parental rights law to cover grades four through 12.
DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education Act bill on March 28, 2022, prohibiting classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade and mandating that discussions of those topics in later grades be “age-appropriate.” The legislation further requires that educators inform parents of any changes to a student’s physical, mental or emotional health, including a stated desire to socially transition.
The new proposal suggests expanding this ban on classroom instruction on gender and sexuality to the remaining grade levels unless those discussions are part of a state-approved curriculum or a “reproductive health course or health lesson” that parents can opt their children out of.
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French LGBT Activists File Criminal Complaint Against ‘Transphobic’ Feminists
Three French LGBT activist groups have filed a criminal complaint against feminists Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern [pictured, above] over comments on allowing transgenders into women’s-only spaces, such as bathrooms.
The complaint revolves around a manifesto co-authored by Moutot and Stern, who are both well-known feminists critical of the transgender movement in France and make their views known on their own blogs.
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The British anti-trans activist, 48 — who has been supported by JK Rowling — has faced criticism from LGBTIQA+ and feminist groups after Nazis attended her Melbourne rally.
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Poland: Tusk: I’ll Pressure the Media to Broadcast Pro-Abortion Film
Donald Tusk, the leader of the largest opposition party in Poland, has told a public meeting in the southern town of Pszczyna that he would put pressure on the country’s commercial TV networks to show a pro-abortion film that was made in protest of the constitutional court’s ruling making eugenic abortions illegal.
Tusk was asked whether he had actually seen the film. He claimed that not only had he seen it he had been involved in its production, although he did not explain the nature of his involvement. The former liberal prime minister offered to help get the film shown on Poland’s commercial television networks Polsat and TVN.
The film, “No One Should Know,” was financed through Norway grants in Poland and by funding sources in Iceland and Liechtenstein. The film is a documentary showing the views of doctors, midwives and psychiatrists and presents real-life stories of women and their families. It was made from a clear pro-choice point of view.
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Radical Trans Activists to Join Forces With Antifa for Trans Day of Vengeance Event in DC
Radical trans activists and a DC Antifa group are organizing a Trans Day of Vengeance protest on April 1st at the Supreme Court of the United States.
Our Rights DC, an Antifa group that is part of the Antifascist Action (AFA), has joined forces with the Trans Radical Action Network in an attempt to “stop trans genocide” and increase the visibility of the transgender community.
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The Washington state high school football coach who was fired for leading students in prayers on the field after games has reportedly been awarded a $1.7 million settlement and will regain his job next season.
The Bremerton school board unanimously accepted the settlement following a US Supreme Court ruling in June 2022 that coach Joseph Kennedy’s prayer groups were protected under the First Amendment.
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YouTube Blocks Lifesite for 2 Weeks for ‘Hate Speech’
(LifeSiteNews) — YouTube has once more attacked LifeSite, banning us from posting additional video reports on our John-Henry Westen channel for the next two weeks. We are now just one strike away from YouTube permanently deleting the channel, leaving LifeSite with a diminished presence on the giant Big Tech platform.
This is the second time YouTube has issued a “strike” against LifeSite in fewer than 30 days. Why? LifeSite spoke truthfully about the promotion of LGBT ideology embedded in the movie Everything, Everywhere, All at Once after Hollywood last week bestowed seven Academy Awards on the film, including “Best Picture.”
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Ron DeSantis “threat … to America’s ability to lead across the world” — I think if this hubris doesn’t change, it will one day become America’s downfall. Ever larger parts of the world are going to gang up on it, it’s already started. There are specific issues, like China’s threat of initiating aggression against Taiwan to enforce a reunion, Islam’s own claims to lead across the world (if the West would finally decide to even perceive it), and certainly a couple more, which call for a strong response from the US. But with such a generic pretension to “lead the world”, history is not going down well. As a Germany saying goes, the pitcher goes to the well until the moment it breaks.
And right after the above comment was made, drawn from experience rather than second-hand sources, this appears to have a wider recognition already:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/johnstone-us-officials-really-really-want-you-know-us-worlds-leader
An important interview translated from serbo-croatian:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-hypersonic-weapons-change-everything
The puir wee…
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/do-norwegian-muslims-suffer-most-during-ramadan-0
I call it “Ram It All In” so i can be disrespectful toward the most evil culture on planet earth.