President Joe Biden paid a visit to Ottawa today and gave a speech in the Canadian parliament. During his speech Mr. Biden mistakenly praised China when he meant to say Canada.
In other news, the banking crisis apparently spread to Europe, as Deutsche Bank shares lost 15% of their value.
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1 in 6 Poles Have Second Job to Cope With Rising Cost of Living
One in six Poles have second jobs, and almost 10 percent have recently decided to change jobs in order to increase their incomes, research on the savings habits of Poles by the Santander Consumer Bank has shown.
Just over one-fifth (21 percent) have asked for a pay raise, and 13 percent have managed to secure one.
Apart from curbing their spending, Poles are taking advantage of the buoyant labor market in order to increase their incomes by taking on additional employment. The research reveals that 56 percent of Poles are looking to improve the state of their finances, with the largest proportion being under 40 years of age. Of the 44 percent who are not attempting to increase their income, most are pensioners.
More than one in four Poles (28 percent) are enhancing their personal finances by having an additional source of income alongside their main occupation.
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Biden White House Praises CBDCs, Says They “Have the Potential to Offer Significant Benefits”
Make of this what you will — but the White House now officially hates decentralized cryptocurrencies, and loves centralized digital money (CBDCs).
Not the most shocking of news, but this is a point at which this information has been formalized in a US Council of Economic Advisers Economic Reports, issued for the current year.
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Deutsche Bank sank as much as 15 per cent after the cost of insuring its debt against default soared to a four-year high, which many took as a sign of distress.
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Inflation Reduction Act to Cost US $1.2 Trillion, Goldman Sachs Says
President Biden’s clean-energy law will cost roughly $1.2 trillion, a figure three times more than what supporters initially claimed.
The Inflation Reduction Act was passed last year in an effort to address climate change, security and energy. Lawmakers who voted for the legislation said it would spur trillions in private-sector investment.
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Tech entrepreneur Sam Altman co-founded Worldcoin in 2020, with the stated goal of giving this new form of digital money to everybody in the world — “for free.”
Except, there’s actually what many may consider a rather steep price to pay — Worldcoin users would “pay” for it by giving up their biometric data. That contained in the irises of their eyes.
Privacy-preserving, is how Altman phrased all this — and said that the iris recognition was there to make sure users “do not claim their free share more than once.”
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Bonuses paid to bosses at Silicon Valley Bank increased by millions of dollars as they embarked on a series of risky investments that ultimately contributed to the bank’s collapse.
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Watch Out for These Two Major Tax Hikes on April 1
Canadians can expect things to get even more expensive as two major federal tax hikes will go into effect on April 1.
A scheduled hike on the carbon tax will bring the federal levy up to 14 cents per litre which means households should expect to pay up to $847 more in taxes this year even after rebates are distributed.
On top of that, the carbon tax will lead to a spike in the price of gasoline and could impact the cost of transporting basic goods.
The other major tax hike is the alcohol escalator tax which will go up to 6.3% — the largest alcohol tax increase in over thirty years.
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2 Dead, 7 Missing, 6 Hospitalized After Chocolate Factory Fire in West Reading: Officials
Witnesses reported hearing an explosion coming from the candy factory, then saw flames shortly after.
WEST READING, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Two people are dead after flames erupted from a West Reading chocolate factory Friday evening.
According to Pennsylvania Emergency Management officials, two people are dead, seven are missing, and six have been hospitalized.
Berks County fire crews were on the scene. The fire was reported just before 5 p.m. at the RM Palmer Company.
The explosion is believed to have been caused by a gas leak, but officials are still investigating.
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A California suspect who allegedly posted threats against a school on social media and was allegedly caught carrying stolen guns almost escaped criminal charges under Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, according to police.
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Defense Attorneys in Jan. 6 Case Allege FBI Informant Spied on Legal Team
Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Defense attorneys in the Proud Boys seditious-conspiracy trial in Washington D.C. learned late March 22 that one of their own defense witnesses who was about to testify had worked as an FBI informant for at least 22 months.
They asked for an emergency hearing before U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly and filed a motion to compel the U.S. Department of Justice to disclose if the witness has been spying on the defense team.
Judge Kelly suspended the trial until March 24 and converted March 23 from a day of testimony into a motions hearing.
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Defunded Austin Cops Take So Long to Respond to DUI That Driver Sobers Up, Walks Free
Police in Austin, Texas took so long to respond to a drunk driving incident that the driver was able to sober up and avoid charges, Fox News reports.
Lacey Purciful told the outlet that she was driving with her husband Dustin and two children in North Austin around 4 p.m. on March 18, when a drunk driver cut across two lanes of traffic and hit them head-on.
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Detroit Murder Suspect Out on Bond Accused in Fourth Killing
A Michigan man accused of killing his mother, stepfather and ex-girlfriend after being released from jail on bond has been charged with a fourth murder.
Jonathan Welch, a Detroit resident, allegedly killed Natayla Morse, 24, prior to his original arrest in June, FOX Detroit reported. Morse was found dead on June 4, 2022.
Prosecutors said Welch killed Morse with blunt force trauma to the head, and then stole her car and set it on fire. In the weeks after the killing, he was charged with the other three murders.
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Far-left protesters at Purdue University chanted “f*ck off nazis” while lining the hallway outside of the ballroom where the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles delivered an address Thursday night during an event hosted by Purdue College Republicans and Young America’s Foundation. Some signs call
According to university news outlet The Exponent, Knowles spoke for over an hour in the Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom to a crowd of over 400 attendees. Another large crowd gathered in the South Ballroom to watch the speech on televisions.
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Florida One Step Closer to Giving DeSantis Chance to Make US a Constitutional Carry Majority
The Florida House of Representatives has passed a bill eliminating the requirement for an individual to obtain a permit in order to carry a concealed firearm in the state.
The bill, referred to by supporters as a constitutional carry law, passed the Republican-controlled House with 76 yes votes and 32 no votes on Friday afternoon, Click Orlando reported.
House Bill 543 would allow lawful gun owners in the state to carry without asking the government for a permit and without paying a fee. Those who wish to still obtain a permit can do so if the bill becomes law. The bill would also not change who can and cannot carry a firearm.
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GOP Rep Roils Hearing When Asking Witness Why Hunter Biden Not Prosecuted for Falsifying Gun Buy App
GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany on Wednesday asked a leader of the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety in a House hearing why first son Hunter Biden has not been prosecuted for apparently lying on his 2018 application to buy a gun, rankling those in attendance.
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Donald Trump is set to hold a rally in a Texas town that coincides with the 30th anniversary of the FBI’s raid on the apocalyptic group Branch Davidians there.
The 1993 Waco siege was a 51-day standoff between the US government and the Branch Davidians.
They are said to be excited about Trump’s weekend rally in Waco and consider him to be ‘the anointed of God.’
The Branch Davidians are said to consider the former president as ‘the battering ram that God is using to bring down the Deep State of Babylon.’
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ISIS Recruiter and Marriage Fixer Shaikh Abdullah Faisal Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison
Convicted ISIS recruiter and marriage broker Shaikh Abdullah Faisal was sentenced to 18 years in New York state prison on Thursday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced.
“Shaikh Faisal’s advocacy, recruitment and provision of material support to ISIS helped the terrorist organization perform horrific acts, including the murder and kidnapping of innocent people,” said District Attorney Bragg in a statement.
“Tragically, Manhattan will continue to be a target for those who want to harm this country. Working with our federal and state law enforcement partners, our office stands at the ready to continue combating terrorism,” Bragg said.
Faisal, 59, was described by prosecutors as “one of the most influential English-speaking terrorists of our times” and was found guilty of preaching violent jihad, pushing for ISIS recruitment on his social media platforms and trying to inspire others to commit acts of terror themselves in the name of the Islamic State.
He was also found guilty of working as a matchmaker for women looking to marry Islamic militants.
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President Joe Biden is unhappy with Vice President Kamala Harris’ performance according to current and former White House officials. The officials and some Dem strategists told Reuters that Biden will keep her on the ticket because he has no choice and that he will run again because he doesn’t think Kamala can beat Trump.
“If he did not think she was capable, he would not have picked her. But it is a question of consistently rising to the occasion,” said a former official, speaking on condition of anonymity. “I think his running for re-election is less about her and more about him, but I do think that she and the Democratic bench are a factor.”
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Musk Clashes With WHO Director Over Global Pandemic Treaty
Elon Musk and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), battled on Twitter over the potential dangers of a sweeping, legally binding global agreement under discussion to combat future pandemics.
“Countries should not cede authority to WHO,” Musk tweeted Thursday in response to a video of Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts criticizing the United Nations’ health agency and what both supporters and opponents informally call a “pandemic treaty” that has been in the works.
Ghebreyesus quickly responded to Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, rejecting the notion that a pandemic treaty would undermine national sovereignty and centralize too much power in the hands of the WHO, as critics allege.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi this week publicly called out San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone after he barred her from communion in the churches he oversees.
“I have a problem with my archbishop — well, the archbishop of the city that I represent — but I figure that’s his problem, not mine,” the former speaker of the house said in an interview with Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice in Washington, D.C., noting that she had five children in six years.
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The “social justice reporter” for a Seattle NPR station attempted to garner sympathy for a trans Democratic Socialist of American member who was affiliated with Antifa that allegedly killed himself. However, the “reporter” failed to mention that the activist committed suicide after allegedly shooting a cop while being served an eviction notice.
On Monday, a King County Sheriff’s deputy was shot while serving an eviction notice in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. 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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NPR Lays Off 100 Employees as Company Faces $30 Million Decline in Revenue
On Thursday, NPR disclosed that they were stopping production on several podcasts as part of a larger series of cutbacks the nonprofit news organization has been forced to make as they confront a decline in revenue projected at $30 million.
According to the Washington Post, this week “the Washington-based audio and digital-news organization began laying off about 100 employees, or 10 percent of its staff.”
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Oregon University Hosts Separate Graduation Celebrations Based on Race, Sexuality
An Oregon university is hosting multiple segregated graduation events that specifically exclude students based on the color of their skin, and prioritize ceremonies based on affinity groups.
Linfield University in McMinnville, Oregon posted the schedule of celebrations separated by race, sexuality and gender identity, in addition to the university’s larger commencement ceremony.
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Emergency personnel have responded after a package with suspicious white powder was delivered to the mail room for the New York City building housing the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, according to police.
A law enforcement source confirmed there was a note saying “Alvin — I’ll kill you” in the envelope. District Attorney Alvin Bragg is currently weighing whether to proceed with an indictment against former President Donald Trump for alleged hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
The envelope delivered by the U.S. Postal Service Friday has been “deemed non-hazardous” at the scene, the mail room to the DA’s office, officials told Fox News.
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Police: Minnesota Man Fatally Stabs Wife During Bible Study
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man is accused of fatally stabbing his wife during a Bible study session.
Police in St. Paul called to a home around 9 p.m. Tuesday found Corinna Woodhull with knife wounds to her torso, chest and arms and people holding down her husband, 40-year-old Robert Castillo, authorities say in charging documents.
Woodhull, 41, was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Castillo, 40, was charged with second-degree murder. It wasn’t clear Friday if he has an attorney. Police haven’t disclosed a possible motive for the attack.
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On Monday, Terrance Spencer, a 30-year-old homeless man, was arrested in Portland, Oregon over an incident where he allegedly sucker punched a young child in the face, sending the kid flying backwards, hitting his head.
Portland police said that on Sunday, the suspect approached a mother and her young son after they exited the Tin Shed cafe and “without provocation” forcefully punched the boy in the face, local news report.
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“No one person should have unilateral authority to make decisions for millions of Americans”
Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul got his revenge on Dr Anthony Fauci when he and Texas Rep. Chip Roy introduced legislation to eliminate the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
The bill is titled the NIH Reform Act and it will replace Fauci’s fiefdom, the NIAID, with three separate national research institutes that would be led by directors subject to Senate confirmation and limited to no more than two 5-year terms.
The three new institutes would be the National Institute of Allergic Diseases, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, and the National Institute of Immunologic Diseases.
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Rand Paul: “I Wouldn’t Vaccinate My Children for COVID”
Senator Rand Paul stated Thursday that he would not allow his children to have a COVID vaccine, citing increased cases of heart inflammation, and calling the risk to children from the virus “non-existent.”
“I, frankly, wouldn’t vaccinate my children for COVID,” Paul told The Hill’s Rising, adding “I think the risks of the vaccine are greater than the risks of the disease. The risks of the disease are almost non-existent.”
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Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida sat down with Newsmax host Eric Bolling and told the former Fox News star that he is not interested in being Donald Trump’s Vice President pick.
When asked by Bolling whether or not he would like to be Trump’s Vice President nominee DeSantis said: “I think I’m probably more of an executive guy.” (See Video Below)
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Joseph Harrell, one of the two Houston teens charged with aggravated robbery with serious bodily injury after police said he was caught on camera body slamming 44-year-old mother Nhung Truon in an attack that left her paralyzed, has made jailhouse phone calls where he has complained about the victim’s GoFundMe page.
Local ABC News reports a source close to the investigation confirmed Harrell was on the call where he said, “The lady probably wants justice and some more ****. They’ll try to max me out 20 years basically. That *****. I ain’t going for it. The ***** already ran up $230,000 off GoFundMe. ***** better run on with her life. Like, ***** you done run up $230,000. Look. They say she ran up $230,000 and she’ll be back walking in no less than a year.”
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This piece first appeared on The Free Press
Decker Paulmeier grew up working nights and weekends in his family’s barbecue restaurant in South Carolina. He took his first double shift when he was eight years old, and eventually hustled his way up from bussing tables to mixing drinks behind the bar.
Like a lot of people who went to Bluffton High School, the medium-sized public school in his South Carolina Lowcountry town, Paulmeier was a working-class kid and the grandchild of immigrants (his mother’s parents immigrated to America from the Philippines).
He considered himself a slacker in middle school, but he wanted to go to college. He thought about going to a place like Georgia Tech, where he could study something cool like aerospace engineering and still have time to play club lacrosse and join a fraternity.
But after a family visit to San Francisco brought him to Stanford’s expansive campus as a high school sophomore, Paulmeier said he was hooked. He shaped his next two years around getting into the elite college—taking every AP class available to him and pursuing leadership opportunities wherever he could, whether it was as captain of the lacrosse team or as president of the National Honor Society.
‘If I didn’t get into Stanford, I probably wasn’t going to go to college,’ he told me.
He ended up getting into the school, which rejects 96 percent of its applicants.
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Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton got demolished on Twitter by the Taliban of all people. Two Taliban members were interviewed by Vice and they said they are bored and sit on Twitter all day.
One said: “All we had to deal with was making plans for ta’aruz [attacks] against the enemy and for retreating. People didn’t expect much from us, and we had little responsibility towards them, whereas now if someone is hungry, he deems us directly responsible for that.
“The Taliban used to be free of restrictions, but now we sit in one place, behind a desk and a computer 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Life’s become so wearisome; you do the same things every day. Being away from the family has only doubled the problem.”
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Trump Warns of “Potential Death and Destruction” If Manhattan DA Indicts
One week after former President Trump told his supporters to “PROTEST” and “TAKE OUR NATION BACK” ahead of a Tuesday indictment that hasn’t happened (yet), Trump is now warning of ‘potential death & destruction’ over the reaction to ‘such a false charge.’
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Uber Passenger Fatally Shoots Driver in Lynwood, Steals Vehicle; Suspects at Large
An Uber driver was fatally shot in an altercation with two passengers in Lynwood early Friday morning, and one of the suspects drove away in the victim’s vehicle. Both suspects remain at large.
The driver was found lying on the pavement with a gunshot wound to the torso at a 7-Eleven gas station on the 2800 block of Imperial Highway in Lynwood.
L.A. County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a shooting at the gas station next to the Imperial Highway onramp to the 105 Freeway just west of Fernwood Avenue at 1:33 a.m., where they found the victim. L.A. County firefighters pronounced the man dead at the scene at 1:51 a.m.
The victim was a man in his 30s who was driving for Uber this morning, according to Sheriff’s Homicide detectives. The Uber driver picked up two unidentified men, and they drove to the 7-Eleven gas station.
The driver and the two passengers reportedly got into an altercation, and one of the suspects shot the victim in the upper torso, according to detectives.
One suspect fled on foot. The second suspect reportedly drove away in the victim’s vehicle. The unoccupied vehicle was recovered about five miles away. Detectives later said both suspects fled in the vehicle. The exact sequence was still under investigation.
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Utah to Force Social Media Apps to Get Parental Consent Before Minors Given Access to Apps
On Thursday, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed two bills into law that make his state the first in the US to mandate that social media companies obtain parental consent for anyone under 18 years of age before they can use their apps.
Cox posted a video response to the legislation on Twitter and said, “Our administration is very concerned about how social media is affecting our children. Youth rates of depression and other mental health issues are on the rise. And social media companies know their products are toxic. They designed their apps to be addictive as leaders and as parents, we have a responsibility to protect our young people.”
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Joe Biden Calls Canada “China” in Cringeworthy Speech to Parliament
US President Joe Biden mistakenly praised China in his speech to Canada’s parliament when he meant to praise Canada.
The 80-year-old president made the gaffe shortly after failing to mention China’s role in fentanyl smuggling. Biden mixed up Canada and China as he applauded the northern neighbor for agreeing to accept 15,000 more migrants per year from Latin American countries. In exchange, the US would consent to Canadian efforts to deport those caught sneaking illegally into Canada.
The gaffe occurred just moments after Biden did not mention China at all while discussing Fentanyl, which is largely shipped from Chinese labs and has its roots around the globe, and is shipped from overseas. Biden did not specify where the shipments were coming from, mentioning Mexico specifically as a common transfer point en route to the US.
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Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre delivered a keynote address to close out the second day of the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference in Ottawa on Thursday.
Poilievre asked whether everyone misses Stephen Harper and noted how nice it would be to have a Prime Minister who doesn’t admire China’s basic communist dictatorship, before turning to the issues facing everyday Canadians such as the housing crisis, the high cost of food and heating, rising crime, and the addiction crisis.
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Poilievre Discussed Chinese Interference and Vaccine Mandate With Biden
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre spoke with US President Joe Biden during his official visit to Canada about Chinese election interference and the ongoing border vaccine mandate.
In a statement released by Poilievre’s office, the Conservative leader outlined his meeting with the US President.
“Poilievre discussed foreign interference in Canadian elections, committed to supporting common national defence interests, and to invest in the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to keep our people safe,” said Poilievre.
“(He) also expressed his desire to end softwood lumber tariffs that hurt both the Canadian and American economies, exempt Canada from “Buy America” rules that drive up costs and drive down wages, and to lift COVID vaccine requirements for Canadians visiting the United States.”
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Peter Loeters, his wife Maartje and their two young children stand forlornly outside the family’s small farmhouse. They are the latest victims of new government net-zero initiatives.
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Fears mounted of yet more unrest on the streets of France this weekend as the government struggled to get a grip on the demonstrations causing nationwide turmoil.
Mounds of rubbish left by striking bin men continued to pile up in Paris, serving in part as makeshift barricades for protesters.
The demonstrations, sparked by president Emmanuel Macron’s attempt to raise the state pension age from 62 to 64, have turned violent in the past ten days.
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Hungary Tells Sweden What Its Problem is as Parliamentary Vote on NATO Bid is Delayed
Hungarian government officials hit back at criticism from Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Thursday after the Hungarian parliament’s ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership bid was delayed.
Hungary and Turkey are the last remaining NATO members to approve the applications made by both Sweden and Finland to join the defense alliance in March last year. Despite the parliamentary debate on the matter commencing in Budapest earlier this month, a final parliamentary vote has been delayed, prompting a sharp response from Stockholm.
Balazs Orban, a Hungarian MP and the political director of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, took to social media on Thursday evening to explain in no uncertain terms Hungary’s reluctance to sign off on Sweden’s membership bid.
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Man Drives at Pedestrians Inside German Airport Garage
BERLIN — A motorist drove at pedestrians and rammed parked cars on Friday in a parking garage at Cologne-Bonn Airport in western Germany, injuring three people slightly, police said.
Two police officers also were slightly hurt as they pinned down the 57-year-old man, who appeared to have mental health issues, according to a police statement.
Most people apparently were able to get out of the way of the vehicle, though one of the injured was squeezed between cars.
The driver was detained and taken to the hospital. He was uninjured.
Police said that, before the incident, security officers had twice thrown the man out of the airport “because of his behaviour.” They didn’t elaborate.
He then apparently climbed into a rental company’s minibus that had been parked in the garage for cleaning and drove across the parking garage — shifting gears, going forward and backward over and over again until police stopped him.
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The UK Government-Funded Group That Assists Global Censorship
In the UK, the Foreign Office is spending the equivalent of about $3 million to finance something called a Global Disinformation Index (GDI).
But some observers say GDI is no more than a spearheaded attack on free speech.
Globally.
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UK Should Stay Out of Talks to Halt Russia´s Invasion of Ukraine — Lord Owen
The former foreign secretary said Rishi Sunak should not talk to Vladimir Putin and any peace talks should be conducted by the two warring countries.
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Just Stop Oil activists said they were celebrating ‘a major win’ last night after a group of more than 120 leading lawyers declared they would not prosecute ‘peaceful’ climate protesters.
The eco-campaigners said the declaration could prove a useful tactic in court against prosecutors, who they could ask: ‘You have colleagues who are refusing to prosecute — why are you prosecuting me?’
As the Daily Mail revealed yesterday, a group called ‘Lawyers are Responsible’ have signed a declaration saying they will refuse to prosecute climate activists.
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What Pope Francis Has Planned for His 3-Day Trip to Hungary
Pope Francis is headed to Hungary for three days in April. The Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference released the full details of Pope Francis’ upcoming three-day visit to Hungary between April 28 and 30. The Hungarian Catholic Church first announced the visit on Feb. 23.
During his visit, Pope Francis will meet PM Orban, visit Hungarian Church officials and workers at St. Stephen’s Basilica, and deliver a speech to Catholic youth in the Laszló Papp Sports Arena. He will also celebrate Holy Mass on April 30 in front of the Hungarian parliament on Kossuth Lajos Square.
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Crypto Fugitive Do Kwon Arrested in Montenegro
Famous South Korean fugitive and “crypto-entrepeneur“ Do Kwon, who was behind the $40BN implosion of the terraUSD and luna digital tokens last year which sparked the initial leg of the crash sweeping the crypto space, has been arrested in Montenegro according to local authorities.
In a statement on Twitter, Montenegro’s interior minister Filip Adzic said “the former cryptocurrency king” was detained by police at Podgorica Airport with falsified documents. “We are waiting for official confirmation of identity,” Adzic added.
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Caroline Glick: The Biden Administration’s Sinister Turn Against Israel
On Tuesday, the State Department summoned Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog to demand an explanation for the Knesset’s abrogation of the 2005 law banning Jews from living in four communities in northern Samaria. That law was passed in the framework of Israel’s failed plan to disengage from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria.
In August 2005, Israel expelled 10,000 Jewish citizens from Gaza and northern Samaria in the hopes that the Palestinians would take the areas and build a mini-Singapore. Instead, they built a mini-Afghanistan.
The Knesset’s decision to abrogate the law was a rare example of a democracy acting to correct its prior mistake. But that’s not how the Biden administration saw it.
Around the same time Ambassador Herzog was summoned, the White House said the law was a breach of Israel’s 2004 agreement with the Bush administration. That agreement, which was given expression in an April 2004 letter then-President George W. Bush sent to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, essentially said that in exchange for Israel’s forcible uprooting of the Jewish communities in Gaza and northern Samaria, the Bush administration would accept the permanence of major Jewish communities in the rest of Judea and Samaria.
What is notable about the Biden administration’s accusation is that not only did the Obama administration breach the 2004 deal—it denied the deal existed, in the first place. In June 2009, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “in looking at the history of the Bush administration, there were no informal or…enforceable agreements.”
Merely denying documented history would be bad enough. But the broader policy framework that informed the Biden administration’s outburst is much worse than a dispute about whether northern Samaria should be Judenrein or not…
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Top Doctors Warn Vaccines Turn Immune Systems Against Us
A group of renowned doctors has warned that vaccines can trigger autoimmunity, with a laundry list of diseases to follow, after essentially turning our immune systems against us.
The celebrated Israeli clinician Yehuda Shoenfeld has spent more than three decades studying the human immune system.
He is at the pinnacle of his profession.
Shoenfeld is considered by many as more of the foundation in his specialty, rather than the fringe, as he wrote the texts.
“The Mosaic of Autoimmunity, Autoantibodies, Diagnostic Criteria in Autoimmune Diseases, Infection, and Autoimmunity, Cancer and Autoimmunity”—is one of a list 25 titles long and some are cornerstones of clinical practice.
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Iran-Backed & US Occupation Forces Currently Battling in Eastern Syria, Reports of Casualties
Update(20:00ET): US forces occupying Syria’s northeast are in a high state of alert, and there are reports of ongoing gunbattles with Iran-backed militias into the night hours. It’s being widely acknowledged as the most serious fighting involving American forces there since 2019, with some of the latest rocket launches targeting Omar oil field, which has long been held by US and Kurdish forces.
“The conflict in northeast Syria escalated on Friday as Iran-backed militias launched a volley of rocket and drone attacks against coalition bases after American reprisals for a drone attack that killed a U.S. contractor and injured six other Americans,” The New York Times reports late in the day Friday.
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Iranian militants launched another attack on US forces in Syria after President Joe Biden ordered US forces to strike back in a tit-for-tat battle in the Middle East.
Speaking in Canada, President Biden issued his first comments Friday on the U.S. air strike in Syria in retaliation to a drone attack on a coalition base that left an American contractor dead and wounded six other Americans, including five servicemembers — saying the country was prepared to act ‘forcefully’ to protect its people.
His remarks, at the top of a joint press conference in Ottawa with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, came after the Pentagon launched an investigation of the drone attack and an air defense system that failed to stop the drone, which crashed into the facility.
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Missiles Slam Into Another US Base in Syria After Biden’s Retaliation
Iran-backed fighters fired three missiles at a U.S. military base in northeast Syria today.
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National Embarrassment: Saudi TV Mocks Biden in Skit
If there was ever any doubt that Joe Biden has made the U.S. an international laughing stock, then look no further than this clip from Saudi TV.
The MBC channel In Saudi depicted Biden as extending his hand to shake a non-existent person’s, getting lost on stage, and falling up the steps of Air Force One, while an equally useless Kamala Harris looks on.
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Russia trolls the US.
Where’s the lie?
Congratulations, idiots.
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Mystery Object Found Near Nord Stream Pipelines Could Point to Culprit
Russia says it is supporting efforts to recover forensic evidence from the underwater site of the Nord Stream sabotage blasts, which may provide clues as to the culprit behind it. Images of a new mystery object have emerged, with Moscow saying it is vitally important that it be carefully examined.
The Kremlin in a Friday briefing called the recovery and examination of the object “critically important” as it has been discovered lying next to one of the damaged Nord Stream pipelines.
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Putin Will be Strangled or Arrested if Russia Loses: Ex-Russian Commander
Former Russian commander Igor Girkin said this week that Russian President Vladimir Putin would likely be “strangled” or stand trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) if Russia loses the war in Ukraine.
Girkin, who is also known by the alias Igor Strelkov, made the comments in a video uploaded on his Telegram channel, which has nearly 800,000 subscribers.
His remarks came several days after the ICC’s March 17 announcement that it had issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes. ICC investigators in The Hague had reportedly worked on evidence against Putin for over a year before the court issued the warrant. It accuses the Russian leader of being “allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
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Russia’s Wagner Group ‘To Refocus on Africa’ Amid Heavy Ukraine Losses
Russia’s Wagner group is reportedly now turning its focus to Africa after suffering heavy losses in Ukraine amid the mercenary group boss’ fall-out with Vladimir Putin.
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The witness had earlier made revelations in his statement regarding numerous meetings he attended of the right-wing outfit Abhinav Bharat, allegedly tagged with ‘Saffron Terrorism’ as ‘perpetrated by the Congress’.
Jyoti Shinde | HENB | Mumbai | march 23, 2023:: In a peculiar turn, another witness turns hostile in the 2008 Malegaon blast case was declared hostile after he did not support the prosecution’s case on Thursday.
The hostile witness initially gave statements under CrPC 161 and 164 when ATS was originally investigating the case. According to the prosecution, this is the 30th witness to turn hostile in the case.
In November last year, the 29th witness had turned hostile in the case.
This person had given statements to the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in 2008 about accused Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Sudhakar Chaturvedi.
Previously, the 28th witness turned hostile on November 5 after he told the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court that he does not remember the statement he had given to the earlier investigative agency Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), which was then operated under a Congress Govt in the state.
This witness had reportedly given a statement against the sitting Bhopal MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and another accused, identified as Dayanand Pandey, of this case during the initial investigation done by Maharashtra ATS.
However, on November 5, he came before the special NIA court and was confronted with the facts of his statement. He said that he doesn’t remember what he had said in his statement to Maharashtra ATS earlier. He told the special NIA court that he is 75 years old and that is why it is difficult for him to remember what he had said in his statement.
Earlier in September and August, two other witnesses of the case had turned hostile during the special NIA court hearing. One of them, who worked at a hotel in Indore, refused to partially say in court what he had stated earlier to the investigating agency.
On September 29, 2008, six people were killed and over 100 others were injured after an explosive device placed on a motorcycle exploded in Maharashtra’s Malegaon city in Nashik district.
On October 23, 2008, the Maharashtra ATS made its first arrest in connection to the case by apprehending BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur…
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Watch: TikTok CEO Admits China Has Access to US User Data
During a fiery appearance in front of United States (US) lawmakers, the CEO of the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok confirmed that China has access to US user data.
The revelation came when Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH) repeatedly asked TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew whether any China-based employees of TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, have access to US user data.
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‘With Its Peace Plan, China Has Set a Perfect Trap for the US and Europe, ‘ Says Israeli Expert
China’s peace plan for Ukraine has left the ball squarely on the U.S. side, said Israeli security analyst Robert C. Castel on Hungary’s KarcFM commercial radio station on Thursday.
When there are not too many peace plans on the table, all such documents are worth noting and discussing, said Castel, adding that there are two public plans, one signed by Pope Francis and the other by China. According to the security expert, the “ivory tower dwellers” of the West have a clear idea of “how to raise each other’s children” when it comes to peace plans for the Middle East, for example, but this “peacemaking fever” does not seem to be evident in the case of Ukraine.
However, “with its peace plan, China has set a perfect trap for the United States and Europe,” said Castel, who added that the U.S. can only come out of this situation well if it can also put a peace plan on the table.
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US Firms No Longer Safe in Mexico? Army Commandeers US-Owned Marine Terminal
We’ve heard many heartbreaking stories of American tourists venturing into Mexico only to be kidnapped or, worse, killed in crazy cartel drug war battles. It appears these days, no one is safe across the southern border, not even US-owned companies.
Bloomberg reported that Mexican marines and police officers seized US construction firm Vulcan Materials’ port terminal near Playa del Carmen in southern Mexico.
Footage from the seizure showed a long line of police and military units entering the property last Tuesday.
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Germany’s Federal Government Goes Silent on Migrant Crisis
In several incendiary letters, German municipalities are raising the alarm about the country’s ongoing migrant crisis and their inability to take in more newcomers, but the pro-immigration federal government has issued no response.
A first warning letter from the Main-Taunus district in the German state of Hessen was sent last month; it highlighted the overload of cities and municipalities regarding housing and care for migrants. In the letter, District Administrator Michael Cyriax (CDU) and 12 mayors called on the federal government to limit the influx of migrants and begin covering the huge costs being incurred by local authorities.
A parliamentary question from the CDU/CSU parliamentary group has revealed that the letter, along with other letters written since then, have received no response from the federal government, reports daily Die Welt.
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Pro-Migrant Activist Claims Living in German State of Saxony is ‘Worse Than the Syrian Civil War’
The German state of Saxony is one of the most immigration-skeptical states in Germany and known as a stronghold for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which actively campaigns against mass immigration. However, the fact that such a large share of people in Saxony are generally opposed to foreigners flowing into their homeland is a major point of consternation for the left and the immigrants who want to settle in Germany.
Now, at the start of International Weeks Against Racism, the Refugee Council criticized the German state of Saxony, and in a paper signed by 40 pro-migrant and refugee associations, it called for a radical overhaul in migrant benefits and even voting rights. Many of these organizations are lavishly funded by the German federal government and even local authorities in Saxony.
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Roxham Road Migrants Will be Denied Asylum Seeker Status
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed a plan to stop illegal migration at border crossings such as Roxham Road.
During a press conference Friday, the prime minister confirmed Canadian law enforcement will soon reject migrants at illegal crossings, including the road intersecting Quebec and New York State, which led 40,000 migrants into Canada last year.
The deal between Canada and the US becomes active Saturday.
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The Republican-led House voted to pass its Parents’ Bill of Rights on Friday with zero Democrat votes after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called it ‘fascist.’ The controversial bill, which gives parents a stronger role in what’s taught in public schools, is not expected to be taken up by the Democratic-majority Senate.
Critics denounce the legislation saying it has led to book bans, restrictions aimed at transgender students and unhinged board meetings nationwide.
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New York Judge Rules State Can’t Force Parents to Remove Kids From Religious Schools
Parents cannot be required to pull their children from private schools in New York that fail to meet state-designated standards, a judge decided, striking down a key provision of rules recently passed to strengthen oversight of such schools, including those specializing in religious education.
The ruling in a state trial court in Albany came in response to a lawsuit brought by ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools, called yeshivas, and related advocacy groups over education rules enacted last fall. Under the rules, the state’s 1,800 private and religious schools must provide an education that is “substantially equivalent” to that of a public school.
Opponents in the ultra-Orthodox community say the rules improperly target yeshivas, some of which focus intently on religious instruction with far less teaching in secular subjects such as English, math and science.
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Poland: Attacks on Christianity and the Family Cause Youth Aggression, Says Education Minister
Polish schools offer a safe environment outside of school; however, aggression among the young is on the rise because of “attacks on Christianity and the family,” Poland’s Education Minister Przemyslaw Czarnek has claimed.
During a public meeting in central Poland on Wednesday, the education minister said that Polish schools were free of aggression and suicide attempts. However, he conceded that outside of school, aggressive behavior among the young was increasing because Christian and family values are being undermined, something that has been made worse by the forced isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Mariusz Dzierzawski, a member of the board of the Right to Life foundation, was sentenced on Wednesday by a court in Gdansk to one year of community service and a fine of 15,000 Polish zloty (€3,204).
The case involved a publicity campaign by the foundation against the WHO guidelines on LGBT sex education. The publicity included details concerning HIV infections and scientific research on the relationship between homosexuality and pedophilia. According to the court judgment, public information on these matters represented slander against LGBT activists.
The indictment, which covers three issues, was the product of accusations against the Right to Life foundation by the Tolerado association. First, the Right To Life foundation was accused of publishing scientific data alleging that homosexuals were more likely to commit acts of pedophilia. Second, the foundation allegedly published information that homosexuals were more likely to be infected with HIV. Third, the foundation accused LGBT campaigners of engaging in pro-LGBT sex education that encouraged children to engage in homosexual practices.
The court accepted the assertion of the LGBT activists that the foundation’s publications were in effect defamation against people of a homosexual orientation, lowering their reputation and thereby affecting their educational activities.
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Shorter People Develop ‘Darker’ Traits, Study Shows
People who are shorter than average tend to have “darker” traits, a new study has found.
According to the researchers behind the study, shorter people who wish they were taller are more likely to possess these “dark” personality traits.
The research, published in Personality and Individual Differences, suggests shorter people gain traits related to the “Dark Triad.”
They become “darker” in order to try to offset the inadequacy they feel regarding their height.
The Dark Triad is a term used to describe a trio of personality traits that have gained attention in recent years: psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism.
Psychopathy is marked by a lack of empathy and remorse, impulsivity, and a disregard for social norms.
Narcissism is defined via an exaggerated sense of self-importance, entitlement, and need for constant admiration.
Machiavellianism, on the other hand, refers to a propensity for manipulation, cynicism, and a lack of moral principles.
“One of the reasons these traits have become so popular to study is the contention that they might be adaptive — albeit socially undesirable — solutions to attaining status/mates/survival calibrated on both dispositional features like the ability to compete and the context one grew up in (especially) and one’s current circumstances (less so),” said Peter K. Jonason, who led the study.
Jonason is part of the University of Padua and The Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw.
In the study, researchers recruited 367 adults from the U.S.
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A Virginia professor revealed a shocking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) course where staff members were asked to choose what intersectional identities they would leave behind to die in a hypothetical scenario.
Doug Ponder, a biblical studies professor at Grimke Seminary, claimed his friend, who works at a public university, sent him a worksheet titled: Whom to Leave Behind?
The worksheet, which is produced by the Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) in New York, listed a group of 12 potential passengers for a spaceship that is leaving the Earth because it is ‘doomed for destruction.’ However, there are only eight seats available on the lifesaving flight, and those attending the seminar are tasked with choosing the fittest.
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Those With Higher Cognitive Ability Are Less Likely to be ‘Woke, ‘ Study Finds
People with higher cognitive ability are more likely to support individual freedoms and less concerned with being “woke,” according to a new study.
A group of researchers led by Louise Drieghe surveyed 300 North American adults.
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United Nations: Green Agenda Must be Advanced to Stop ‘Climate Time Bomb’
The United Nations has warned that countries around the world must ramp up efforts to comply with the green agenda in an effort to stop an alleged “climate time bomb.”
According to the UN, Net Zero targets must be brought forward by a decade.
The UN issued the warning at the launch of a major new climate change report, The Telegraph reported.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims that rising emissions in recent years mean cuts in the next two decades will have to be more extreme than current plans.
An 80% global reduction in CO2 emissions is needed to limit warming to 1.5°C, the upper aim of the Paris Agreement, its new report says.
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US Embassy Promotes LGBT in Poland With Big Bucks
The U.S. embassy in Warsaw has offered grants of up to $50,000 for programs aimed at supporting the LGBTQI+ community in Poland, highlighting the growing role of U.S. influence operations in conservative countries.
Details on applying for such grants are being publicized on social media, but the link published on the Embassy’s Twitter account is inactive.
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US Embassy Promotes LGBT in Poland With Big Bucks.
Such support by the US to LGBTQI in Poland will eventually destroy what Poland has.
Brave courageous people now being pressed into the WOKE mentality which certainly rules the United States seemingly.
“The United Nations has warned that countries around the world must ramp up efforts to comply with the green agenda in an effort to stop an alleged “climate time bomb.”
Complete and utter bilge. The UN is renowned for its stupidity and crass statements but this is looniest of all.
The UN is filled with Muslim Dictators.
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Paludan: Swedes are “stupid in the head”
24 March, 2023 Main News, Swebbtv
Rasmus Paludan may have burned his last Koran in Sweden. He says so himself in an interview with SVTV Uppdrag granskning (Mission Review). Swedes are too stupid to be helped.
It is in an interview with Uppdrag granskning that the Danish-Swedish lawyer Rasmus Paludan says he is unsure whether he will continue to burn Korans in Sweden.
He believes that security in Sweden is too poor and that Swedes are too slow.
“They don’t understand what’s going on and don’t want help.”
Paludan’s Koran burning in Sweden, which led to violent riots during Easter last year, did not have the consequences he wanted.
– “I had expected riots. The only people who didn’t get it were the Swedes. They were probably too stupid,” he tells Uppdrag granskning.
His purpose in burning Korans is to provoke a reaction to show that some people do not accept freedom of expression.
– “It is necessary to burn the Koran because unfortunately there are thugs who think they can decide how to criticise Islam”.
No, they can’t decide that,” he said during a Koran burning ceremony in May last year.
According to Mr Paludan, he will only win if the Swedish people get it, but they don’t.
– “I think I will probably focus more on Denmark, because some Danes want the help,” he told SVTV.
Rasmus Paludan ran with his party Stram Kurs in the 2022 Swedish parliamentary elections but only received 156 votes.
Not a single bastard was expelled
https://swebbtube.se/w/m33s8cuY3ExXEufKpKJUrL
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From Dumb to Dangerous
https://www.amren.com/features/2023/02/from-dumb-to-dangerous/