An American journalist employed by The Wall Street Journal named Evan Gershkovich has been arrested in Russia on charges of spying for the U.S. government. The WSJ vehemently denied that Mr. Gershkovich had been engaged in espionage.
In other news, the long-awaited indictment of Donald Trump has finally been handed down, according to a leak from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.
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Apple Launches ‘Pay Later’ Service to Get Americans Even Deeper in Debt
Apple has launched its “Apple Pay Later” feature that will allow users to pay for purchases in multiple installments. The service encourages Americans to take on more debt with loans for items from $50 to $1,000.
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The Sunrise host grilled the Treasurer over fears the ACTU’s demands for a seven per cent wage hike could fuel a wage spiral and sed inflation soaring further.
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China and Brazil Agree to Ditch US Dollar for Trade
China and Brazil have reached a deal that would allow the two nations to conduct trade directly using their own currencies, doing away with US dollars as an intermediary.
The agreement was originally penned in January, but only made official on Wednesday following a business forum in Beijing between the two nations, which boast the largest and strongest economies in their respective regions.
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The EU financial industry and policymakers are rallying around the push to introduce a digital euro — a variety of the central bank issued digital money (CBDCs).
The banks seem on board, and the European Central Bank (ECB) certainly is, judging by statements made by its president, Christine Lagarde, who recently, among other things, remarked that a digital currency “will never be as anonymous as cash.”
The train may have already left the station as far as Europe’s autonomy in many areas — but the ECB chief believes that at least where payments are concerned, that autonomy can be still preserved, and, according to her, this would happen thanks to the digital euro.
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Europe Pushing the ‘Criminalisation’ of Physical Cash, MEP Warns
The European Union is in danger of “criminalising” the use of physical cash with its new anti-money laundering laws, an MEP has warned.
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Fox News Poll: 71% Choose Funding Social Security, Medicare Over Budget Cuts
As Congress considers ways to avoid defaulting on the nation’s debt, the latest Fox News survey finds most voters see the national debt situation as a major problem, if not a crisis. And while majorities also see the funding of Social Security as a problem or crisis, they would rather continue funding entitlement programs than reduce the federal budget deficit.
While a large majority call the debt situation a major problem (50%), if not a crisis (28%) — fewer feel that way than did a decade ago. That 28% describing it as a crisis is down from 40% in 2013 (when the question was last asked). The drop is driven more by Republicans: 39% call it a crisis, while 54% did in 2013. Among Democrats, 17% say it’s a crisis now vs. 25% previously.
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Great Reset Setback: UK’s Royal Mint Drops Sunak’s NFT Scheme
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Great Reset-style plans to introduce a government-backed NFT have beed dropped, the Royal Mint announced.
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Major Australian Bank to End Cash Withdrawals From Its Branches — as the End of Paper Notes Looms
One of Australia’s big four banks has confirmed that some of its branches will no longer allow customers to withdraw money over the counter.
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In the least relevant data point on what will otherwise be a quiet day on the data front, moments ago the BEA reported its third and final Q4 GDP estimate (to be fair this number will still be revised numerous time in coming years), and it continued the trend of declines, having printed 2.9% in the first estimate in January (above the 2.6% estimate), it then dropped to 2.7% in the second estimate in February, and it is now down again to 2.6%, exactly where the original Q4 GDP estimate was primarily reflecting downward revisions to exports and consumer spending, , and a master class in how you can “buy” two quarters of “above average” growth before converging with the original estimates. And for those keeping track, the most recent consensus estimate for Q4 GDP was 2.7% so technically we missed.
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1,000 AI Experts and Tech Leaders Call for Temporary Halt in Advanced AI Development
1,000 AI experts, including Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, have called for a temporary halt on the advancement of AI technology until safeguards can be put in place.
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‘5 Million is Too Little’: Angry Black Residents Demand More in Reparations From California
On Wednesday, the reparations task force created by California Governor Gavin Newsom in June 2021 held a hearing in Sacramento and were told that the plan to pay $5 million to individual black residents by the separate San Francisco reparations committee was not enough and that the amount should be closer to $7.6 million.
The Daily Mail reports, one speaker at the hearing said to the committee, “I believe that $5 million in reparations is too little for the work that foundational black Americans have done for this country and as well for other countries. I believe that $7.6 million is a number that can be used very wisely in our foundational black American communities.”
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America Lost $276 Billion to Fraud and Wasted Pandemic Relief Funds, Inspectors General Estimate
The federal government has lost at least $276 billion in taxpayer money that was designated as “COVID-19 relief funding,” according to the estimates of inspectors general.
The funds were lost due to “fraud” and “waste,” according to cumulative estimates from the inspectors general of the Labor Department, Treasury Department, and Small Business Administration (SBA).
The revelation was revealed during recent testimony before a House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee in Washington, D.C.
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Armed Robber Targets Clothing Store, Clerk With Two Guns Puts Him in a Body Bag
An armed robber left a clothing store in an appropriate outfit after he fatally underestimated the clerk.
Robbers were targeting a Connecticut clothing store, but they did not anticipate that the clerk would be packing two guns and ready to use them in self-defense.
Two would-be thieves attempted to rob the Humble & Paid Co. clothing store in East Hartford around 10:30 p.m. on a Thursday night, according to police.
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Biden’s ‘Summit for Democracy’ Attracts Apathy From Allies, Mockery From Dictatorships
The U.S. State Department’s second Summit for Democracy was a disappointing affair mocked by authoritarian China and Russia.
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Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government., says he may subpoena documents about the IRS’ unexpected visit to journalist Matt Taibbi’s home while he testified before Congress about his research on Twitter’s past censorship.
***Unclosed Item!***”We may look to subpoena the documents, any communications relative to this situation, we may want to talk with folks,” Jordan said Thursday on “America Reports.” “Mr. Werfel {IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel) is a new guy there. I don’t know why he doesn’t come out and tell us what’s going on, what’s going on in your agency.”
Jordan noted that the timing of the IRS’s visit to Taibbi’s home is an obvious red flag.
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Contract Shows How the FBI Purchases Massive Amounts of Online Data
The FBI was a customer of a private company Team Cymru, a contract shows. The company is in the business of harvesting NetFlow — network protocol for collecting IP traffic information and monitoring network flow — data from ISPs in return for threat intelligence, and then selling it on.
The contract became public knowledge thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Motherboard which reveals that the federal agency’s Cyber Division spent “tens of thousands” of dollars to get its hands on this data.
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A Virginia man convicted of providing support to ISIS in 2015 was sentenced Thursday to serve an additional year in prison for breaking his release conditions after meeting multiple times with John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban” and sharing ISIS propaganda online in encrypted chats.
In 2015, Ali Shukri Amin pleaded guilty to providing support to ISIS — posting articles on how ISIS members could avoid detection in online communications and sharing instructions on how the terrorist group could use cryptocurrency for fundraising efforts, according to the plea agreement.
Amin, who was 17 years old when he pleaded guilty, served several years in prison before being released on supervision.
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A lifelong Washington, D.C., Democrat expressed outrage over a new report showing the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia declined to prosecute the vast majority of arrests made in the nation’s capital last year.
Former D.C. neighborhood commissioner Denise Rucker Krepp (D) joined “Fox & Friends” as crime statistics in the city have soared in 2023.
“I’m pissed,” Krepp said Thursday.
“We have 52 homicides this year, 42 sex abuse cases, 628 thefts of cars and 150 carjackings. So crime is going up overall by 22%. We have a U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., that is choosing affirmatively not to prosecute. That’s problematic.”
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Fox News Poll: Majority Says Biden Trying to Cover Up Origins of COVID-19
Majorities of voters think COVID-19 leaked from a lab in China and the Biden administration is trying to cover up its origins.
The latest Fox News national survey finds 62% believe COVID-19 was created by scientists in China, while 33% think it evolved from nature. That’s almost identical to what views were two years ago (60-31%).
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GOP Senator from Missouri Eric Schmitt blew the whistle on President Joe Biden and his team’s scandalous behavior. Schmitt said:
“Biden and his team colluded with social media to censor truthful info on a scale never before seen. The FBI planted false info to deceive social media into censoring Hunter Biden’s laptop. FBI had a 50% success rate in getting info censored.”
The Attorney General of Louisiana Jeff Landry said: “As a result of collusion between social media companies, CDC and NIH, American citizens, scientists, and journalists were censored & de-platformed for their valid concerns about lockdowns, masks, and vaccines while deceitful voices like Fauci were elevated.”
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Footage of the ongoing insurrection was posted online just before 2pm, shows progressive protesters attempting to enter the building, while being batted away by local sheriffs.
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A woman is claiming she was able to infiltrate a conservative-leaning dating app and ended up reporting several profiles to the FBI for saying they’d participated in the January 6 riots.
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) went scorched on Joe Biden accusing the president of a major betrayal and perverting the law to pursue an ideological agenda.
In an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal, Manchin called out Biden’s implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act saying unelected bureaucrats and political appointees are abusing the Act and subverting the law to increase spending levels. Manchin says this is a major “betrayal.”
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Minnesota Town Evacuated After Train Carrying Ethanol Derails, Bursts Into Flames
A freight train carrying ethanol derailed earlier this morning, prompting the evacuation of residents from a small town near Minneapolis, reported Fox News.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway said 22 cars derailed around 0100 local time near Raymond in Kandiyohi County. Of the derailed cars, some were hauling ethanol and corn syrup liquid that caught on fire.
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A New York church is challenging an allegedly unconstitutional ban on firearms in houses of worship which they allege discriminates against religious establishments and makes them vulnerable to outside violence.
First Liberty Institute, a non-profit public interest law firm, and law firm Clement & Murphy filed a lawsuit on behalf of His Tabernacle Family Church, a nondenominational establishment in upstate New York, alleging the law infringes upon citizens’ constitutional rights.
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NYC Prosecutor Behind Trump Indictment Has Faced Repeated Criticism for Being Soft on Crime
Former President Donald Trump was indicted Thursday by a Manhattan grand jury, following a years-long investigation from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and liberal prosecutor Alvin Bragg.
News broke Thursday evening that a Manhattan grand jury investigating a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 election campaign voted to indict Trump. Bragg is also investigating the $150,000 payment made to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, Fox News Digital previously reported.
Amid the focus on the Trump indictment, Fox News Digital examined some instances where Bragg has been accused of being soft on crime.
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Ohio Man, Woman Arrested After Threatening to Shoot Up Bannon Event, Plowing Car Into Raw Sewage
Alfred Ferrara, 59, from Cleveland and Mary Schroeder, 67, from Hudson, Ohio were charged with resisting arrest, inducing panic, and criminal trespass after they threatened to shoot up a restaurant in East Palestine, Ohio on Tuesday where Steve Bannon was hosting his talk show.
According to WKBN News, after threatening Bannon the two drove off and then rammed their car into the local sewer plant where they became stuck in human excrement and assorted raw sewage.
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QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley Prison Release Sparks Speculation
Some conservatives are speculating that unearthed January 6 video aired by Tucker Carlson led to an early prison release for Jacob Chansley, also known as the QAnon shaman.
Chansley, who was seen shirtless and donned Viking headgear and red, white and blue face paint, pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of an official proceeding following his participation in the Capitol riot on January 6. He was originally sentenced to 41 months in prison but now, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), is in a halfway house in Phoenix, Arizona, after serving almost 27 months.
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Rick Scott Wants to Take $80B From IRS to Fund Armed Officers in Schools After Nashville Shooting
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is urging Congress to reroute the billions of dollars earmarked for the Internal Revenue Service in Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act into money to hire armed officers for academic campuses across the country, in the wake of a mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school earlier this week.
“The tragedy in Nashville made clear that more must be done to keep our schools safe,” Scott said Thursday. “Washington spends money on all sorts of wasteful ideas and the massive expansion of the IRS is a prime example of that.”
He was referencing the $80 billion allocated toward the IRS that will be used to hire tens of thousands of employees over a 10-year period.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said his state “will not assist” in any extradition request by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg amid what he called “questionable circumstances” while slamming the charges against former President Donald Trump as “un-American” and as a “weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda.”
The former president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday after a years-long investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
“The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head,” DeSantis tweeted Thursday. “It is un-American.”
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The executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association has been charged with attempting to illegally import Fentanyl. The Office of the United States Attorney has filed a federal criminal complaint charging Joanne Marian Segovia with attempt to illegally import a controlled substance in connection with a scheme to bring synthetic opioids into the country and distribute them throughout the United States.
The criminal complaint was filed on March 27, 2023, and unsealed the next day. San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said:…
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Ski Mask-Wearing Teens Stab Straphanger on NYC Subway, Cops Say
A man was seriously hurt when two ski mask-wearing teens stabbed him on board a Brooklyn train early Thursday, cops said.
The victim was riding a C train around 2 a.m. at Pitkin Avenue in East New York when the suspects knifed him in the leg, authorities said.
He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition.
The suspects — believed to be between 15 and 17 years old — fled out of the station, cops said.
Police described them as having dark complexions and wearing ski masks and dark clothing.
One is about 5-foot-8 and the other around 5-foot-6, cops said.
The motive for the attack was unclear.
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Soros Family Helped Push Manhattan DA Bragg Into Power
The Manhattan grand jury indictment Thursday night of former President Donald Trump is sparking new scrutiny of the George Soros-supported district attorney who led the investigation into Trump’s alleged violations of state campaign finance laws.
The former president is expected to surrender to District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office early next week, following his indictment stemming from Bragg’s investigation into Trump’s alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
Fox News Digital previously reported that in May 2021, financier George Soros pushed $1 million to the Color of Change PAC, which turned around and spent big, backing Bragg’s candidacy.
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A federal judge in Texas struck down a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires insurers and employers to cover preventive services for free. The ruling by Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas applies nationwide.
Judge Reed O’Connor said the Obamacare requirement for insurers to cover care and products recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is unconstitutional because members of that panel were not appointed by the president and approved by the Senate.
The judge said that having a task force of 16 volunteers, usually doctors and scientists, make binding decisions violates the U.S. Constitution’s appointments clause.
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Three Democrat State Lawmakers Join Protesters Invading Tennessee State Capitol
Three Democratic lawmakers in the Tennessee state House joined pro-gun control protesters who invaded the state capitol following the tragic Monday shooting in Nashville.
Chants of “no justice, no peace” and “save our children” echoed through the Tennessee House of Representatives chamber as pro-gun control protesters posted up both inside and outside the state capitol building.
Three Democrat state lawmakers — Reps. Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson — brought the Tennessee lower chamber to a halt when they joined in chanting with the protesters.
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Top House, Senate Republicans Outraged About Trump Indictment: ‘A Dark Day in American History’
Top Republican lawmakers reacted with outrage to the unprecedented indictment of former president Donald Trump on Thursday as part of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s years-long investigation.
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Train Carrying Ethanol Derails and Catches Fire in Minnesota, Forcing Residents to Evacuate
The evacuation order for the area around the fiery crash site in Raymond was lifted Thursday afternoon and an investigation is underway into the cause.
A train carrying ethanol derailed and several cars erupted in flames early Thursday in Raymond, Minnesota, triggering an evacuation of residents living near the crash site, officials said.
The Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office was notified about the train derailment around 1 a.m. local time (2 a.m. ET) and an evacuation area within a half a mile around the crash site was established.
Around 22 rail cars “carrying mixed freight including ethanol and corn syrup” derailed, BNSF Railway said in a statement, and several of the derailed tanks caught on fire, the sheriff’s office said.
Ethanol is a highly flammable alcohol. Exposure to ethyl alcohol can cause headaches, nausea, unconsciousness and irritation of the skin and eyes.
Initial reports suggest eight cars were directly involved in the derailment — four containing corn syrup and four containing ethanol — with the ethanol cars bursting into flames, The Minnesota Department of Public Safety said.
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Trump Indicted After Manhattan DA Probe for Hush Money Payments
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted as part of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s years-long investigation, possibly for hush money payments.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been investigating Trump for hush money payments made leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
These include the $130,000 payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, and the $150,000 payment made to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, Fox News Digital has learned.
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Former President Trump on Thursday reacted to his indictment, slamming Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for his “obsession” with trying to “get Trump,” while warning the move to charge him will “backfire.”
The former president and leading 2024 Republican presidential candidate was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday after a years-long investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
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Trump Indicted: NYPD Orders All Officers to Report in Uniform Friday ‘In Preparation for Anything’’
All New York City police officers have been told to show up to work Friday in uniform for deployments around the city following the indictment against former President Donald Trump.
An NYPD spokesperson told Fox News Digital that NYPD officers have been told to be in uniform by 7 a.m. but that there were no credible threats.
“It’s just in preparation for anything that could happen,” the spokesperson said.
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Trump Blasts Biden’s “Horrible” Response to Nashville School Shooting
Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden’s “horrible” response to the Nashville Christian school shooting, after Biden’s initial comments following the outrage amounted to making jokes about ice cream.
28-year-old Audrey Hale killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School on Monday, a private Christian school for students aged three to 11.
Before Biden made a statement about the rampage, he absurdly began making jokes about how he liked chocolate chip ice cream.
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Unprecedented Trump Indictment Eviscerated as ‘Legally Pathetic’
Former President Donald Trump’s historic indictment Thursday was ripped by one legal scholar as “legally pathetic” and a “raw political prosecution.”
“This indictment, if it is reportedly following the theory that we’ve been talking about, is political. It’s a raw political prosecution,” George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said on “Special Report.”
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Video: Rand Paul Explains to Josh Hawley Why His Tik Tok Ban Bill is Unconstitutional
Republican Senators clashed on floor Wednesday over a bill proposing a ban on the Chinese social media app Tik Tok, with Rand Paul schooling Josh Hawley on exactly why the legislation won’t fly.
Hawley’s legislation would prohibit TikTok from operating in the U.S. and ban all commercial activity with TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance.
The topic has become one of contention, being connected with enhanced efforts on China’s part to carry out surveillance.
Paul immediately expressed opposition, however, noting “There are two main reasons why we might not want to do this. The one would be the First Amendment to the Constitution. Speech is protected whether you like it or not. The second reason would be that the Constitution actually prohibits bills of attainder.”
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West Virginia Signs Landmark Anti-ESG Proxy Reform Bill Into Law
The West Virginia governor signed a landmark anti-ESG proxy voting reform bill into law.
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White House Tight-Lipped as Push for Congressional Intervention Into Rapid AI Developments Heats Up
The White House remains largely on the sidelines of what has become a growing debate among Americans and lawmakers about the rapid developments being made in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry and whether there should be some type of congressional intervention.
Fielding questions from the briefing room on Thursday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not say whether the Biden administration would urge lawmakers to federally regulate AI after she was asked by Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy about an open letter, which was signed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and other tech giants, that cited AI’s “profound risks to society and humanity.”
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Alberta Premier’s Office Hints at Defamation Suit Against CBC
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s office has hinted at a possible defamation suit against CBC News following repeated reports that her office has been in contact with Justice officials over Covid-19 and Coutts border blockade charges.
The latest report came on Wednesday, as CBC, along with dozens of other media outlets, including True North, reported on a newly-released call between Smith and controversial street pastor Artur Pawlowski. On the call, Smith says she’s been in weekly contact with “prosecutors” regarding the pastor’s criminal charges from his involvement with the Coutts border blockade.
CBC’s report argues the call reveals that Smith’s conversations “with top Alberta Justice officials about pandemic-related prosecutions were more frequent and specific than she has admitted publicly.”
Ahead of the report, Smith released a preemptive statement saying that neither she nor her staff have been in contact with the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service.
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Albertans Concerned With Electronic Tabulators Want to Protect Election Integrity
The lawyer representing Albertans concerned with the potential use of electronic voting machines in the upcoming provincial election says voters are taking preemptive action to ensure election integrity.
On Monday, Alberta litigator Leighton Grey of Grey Wowk Spencer LLP sent a letter to Elections Alberta saying he represents many residents who don’t want electronic voting machines used.
Grey said the intention of the letter is to ensure that Elections Alberta intends to hand count the ballots and to keep all ballots for three months following election day, as stipulated under the Alberta Election Act.
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Canadian Lawmaker Says it’s Worth Violating Free Speech to Promote Quebec Content in Algorithms
The debate around Canada’s upcoming Bill C-11 (The Online Streaming Act) is producing some interesting, and at times at first glance shocking arguments in the country’s legislature.
Thus a Bloc Quebecois MP told the House of Commons on Monday that if the bill — controversial for its potential to harm free speech — succeeds in promoting online content originating in Quebec — it’s fine to harm free speech.
“If violating freedom of expression means ensuring that Quebec content is well represented online, then that’s worth it,” MP Andreanna Larouche said, speaking in French.
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Liberals Move to Censor Debate on Internet Censorship Law, Bill C-11
On Thursday, the Liberal government struck down debate in the House of Commons on Bill C-11 to ram the legislation through parliament.
Liberal MPs voted to support closing debate on amendments introduced by the Senate which would protect content posted online by individuals from government regulation.
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‘Random Violence’? Subway Killer Had Years of Prior Arrests, Was on Probation at Time of Slaying
A homeless man accused of stabbing a teenager to death in Toronto has a long criminal history, being arrested several times in the past year for violent assaults and thefts and has an outstanding warrant in Newfoundland since 2021.
Jordan O’Brien-Tobin, 22, was arrested shortly after the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Gabriel Magalhaes at the Keele subway station in Toronto last Saturday in what Toronto police have claimed was a totally unprovoked attack. Media coverage has broadly described the attack as “random”, implying it was unforeseen and could not be prevented, although the facts do not seem to support such a hand-wave dismissal of law enforcement failures.
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RCMP Search Two Camps, Arrest 5 in Connection to Gaslink Pipeline Attack
RCMP executed a search warrant at two campsites in northern B.C. searching for evidence that tied the camps to a swarming attack on a Coastal GasLink worker less than a week before.
During the Wednesday search, RCMP arrested 5 individuals for obstruction of a peace officer. RCMP said four failed to cooperate with police direction and one attempted to prevent the search.
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3 Reasons Why Hungary Didn’t Vote for Sweden’s NATO Membership
After the Hungarian Parliament approved Finland’s NATO application with an overwhelming majority, on Monday, State Secretary for International Communications Zoltan Kovacs gave three reasons why the same did not happen for Sweden.
Kovacs wrote that “Sweden is constantly undermining (international) relations,” its “throne of moral superiority is crumbling,” and the country has shown a lack of “care and respect” towards Hungary.
The state minister for international communications stressed that “As the war in Ukraine ravages, the ongoing strife is punching holes in Europe’s former security fabric.”
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Charles Woodburn, who has been chief executive of BAE Systems since 2017, received more than £9m in bonuses on top of his £1.1m annual salary.
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Belgium: ‘Attention! Your SUV Kills’: Guerilla Climate Activists Target Cars Overnight in Brussels
Earlier this month, drivers of SUVs in the swanky Brussels district of Ixelles woke up to discover that their cars were undrivable: the tyres had been deflated by a guerrilla group of activists who hit the area overnight.
Leaflets were left on their windscreens explaining the action of the group, which goes by the name Tyre Extinguishers.
“Attention! Your SUV kills,” the leaflets read. “Don’t take it personally. It’s not you, it’s your car.”
In response to questions from The Irish Times, a representative described Tyre Extinguishers as a decentralised campaign with more than 100 active groups worldwide that aim to make 4×4 ownership “impossible” in urban areas.
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Grant Shapps said the UK did not have to follow the EU, which has climbed down to allow sales of new internal combustion engine cars that only run on ‘e-fuels’ to continue after 2035.
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Energy Secretary Grant Shapps is set to confirm that families who choose to support onshore wind can benefit directly through lower bills when he unveils his ‘Powering Up Britain’ plan.
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‘Envious’, Would ‘Love to Have’ Return of Conscription Says UK Defence Minister
The British defence minister appeared to have an unguarded moment on Wednesday, heaping praise on Sweden for having brought back conscription and saying he’d like to do the same, before his office moved to walk the comments back hours later.
An expression of admiration for Sweden and Finland conscripting their young people into mandatory military service, which leaves all with shared military experience and a high proportion continuing to serve in the reserve forces in their civilian lives, came from the British defence minister Wednesday.
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EU Bans New Gas Powered Cars by 2035, But Germany Immediately Carves Out Exemption
European Union countries have agreed to end sales of CO2-emitting cars by 2035, although Germany has carved out its own exemption with e-fuel-powered cars not being part of the new policy.
EU member states agreed to phase out the sales of internal combustion engine (‘ICE’) cars by 2035 in a bid to conform with the bloc’s stated green politics ambitions, but Germany — whose economy is heavily focussed on the production of cars — has managed to find its own exemption to the rule by advocating for the sale of cars that run on so-called e-fuels.
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Finland Clears Last Hurdle, Will Become the 31st Member of NATO
Late Thursday night (local time), Turkey’s parliament approved Finland’s NATO application, which puts the Nordic country on the verge of formal membership in the Western military alliance as the 31st nation. This comes after on Monday Hungarian parliament ratified Finland’s for NATO membership.
The unanimous Turkish vote was the last hurdle in the process, after for months both Ankara and Budapest stalled the application — but in the case of Sweden it will be left behind, this despite the Finland-Sweden bids being initially launched as a package deal. Turkey’s relations with Sweden continue to be at a low-point, suggesting its application will not move forward for a Turkish vote anytime soon.
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Here’s What We Now Know About Side Effects of the COVID-19 Vaccine
Billions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been injected into the arms of a large percentage of the world’s population.
Many researchers in many countries are now working to identify side effects, says Gunnveig Grødeland, a vaccine researcher at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital. “What is crystal clear from all this data is that it is very rare for there to be serious side effects from the Covid-19 vaccine,” Grødeland said.
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Netherlands: Amsterdam Urges Rowdy Brits to “Stay Away”
This week, Amsterdam will launch a digital campaign to discourage young British men from organizing parties centered around excessive alcohol and drug consumption.
The new campaign, called “Stay Away,” will target British men between the ages of 18 and 35 searching “stag party Amsterdam,” “cheap hotel Amsterdam” or “pub crawl Amsterdam” online, with advertisements dissuading them of the consequences of drinking too much, taking drugs or causing mayhem in Netherlands’ capital.
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Norway: TikTok is Stopping Us From Producing Ammo for Ukraine — Arms Company
A TikTok data centre is using so much electricity there isn’t any spare to power the expansion of an arms manufacturing plant, they claim.
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UK: Risk of Cardiac Death Tripled for Young Women Following AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccination: Study
Authored by Lily Zhou via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
The risk of sudden cardiac death in young women more than tripled following an AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot, according to a study using England’s official data published on Monday.
Vahé Nafilyan, senior statistician at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), said researchers found “receiving a first dose of a non-mRNA vaccine was associated with an increased risk of cardiac death in young women.”
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UK: Scientists Observe Flattest Explosion Ever Seen in Space
Astronomers have observed an explosion 180 million light years away which challenges our current understanding of explosions in space, that appeared much flatter than ever thought possible
An explosion the size of our solar system has baffled scientists, as part of its shape — similar to that of an extremely flat disc — challenges everything we know about explosions in space.
The explosion observed was a bright Fast Blue Optical Transient (FBOT) — an extremely rare class of explosion which is much less common than other explosions, such as supernovas. The first bright FBOT was discovered in 2018 and given the nickname “the cow”.
Explosions of stars in the universe are almost always spherical in shape, as the stars themselves are spherical. However, this explosion, which occurred 180 million light years away, is the most aspherical ever seen in space, with a shape like a disc emerging a few days after it was discovered. This section of the explosion may have come from material shed by the star just before it exploded.
It’s still unclear how bright FBOT explosions occur, but it’s hoped that this observation, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, will bring us closer to understanding them.
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‘Hate crime experts’ are to study whether the English countryside is ‘racist’.
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Watch: Austrian Lawmakers Stage Mass Walkout During Zelensky Speech
As we and others have observed recently, Western populations have grown weary of “sacrificing” their hard-earned money and tax dollars for Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky himself has this week acknowledged that ‘Ukraine fatigue’ is setting in, and waning enthusiasm and support for the war effort against Russia, which is clearly evident even to him, apparently.
This was also on display during Zelensky’s latest speech. He addressed the lower house of Austria’s parliament via video-link on Thursday. Not far into the speech, a large group of Austrian lawmakers from the conservative Freedom Party (FPO), often dubbed in mainstream media as “far right”, staged a group protest and walked out all together. They left placards on their desks with the words “space for neutrality” and “space for peace”. They are not happy at the current European and US stance which has blocked negotiations.
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Mohammed Razaq, 29, (pictured) groped one flight attendant and threatened another that he would ‘burn her like Guy Fawkes’ during the 4,500-mile Emirates flight from Dubai to Manchester.
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Turkey: A Belated Farewell to Erdogan?
Nearly a month and a half before the most critical presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey’s modern history, it is still too early to make a guess as to who will win: all indicators show that May 14 will be an extremely tight race. The results may even be inconclusive: there may be chaos, vote rigging, allegations and objections from both sides, the electoral board having to struggle with which side it should politically favor, potential re-runs in disputed districts, further disputes and even potential street violence.
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Authorities in Kyiv have reportedly expelled a large number of Christian monks from a historic monastery amid suspicion they are “pro-Russian”.
Around 1,000 Christians residing in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery complex have reportedly been ordered to pack their bags and leave by the Ukrainian government amid claims that they hold “pro-Russian” views.
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The first of 14 Challenger 2 tanks (pictured in Ukraine) supplied by Britain have arrived in Ukraine: part of the West’s colossal commitment to defeat the Russian invasion.
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Russia Has Suffered 220,000 Casualties in Ukraine So Far, Says UK
Russia’s casualties including dead and wounded in Ukraine is on the road to hitting a quarter-million people, the United Kingdom says.
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The Russian detainment of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has sparked outrage from all sides of the journalism industry and political spectrum.
Gershkovich, who is an American citizen, has been accused of spying on behalf of the U.S. government. Russian state news agency TASS has reported that he was ordered to be held in custody until May 29.
Russian government’s Federal Security Service claimed it arrested the journalist while he was “trying to obtain secret information” on the activities of one of “the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.”
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Russia-Ukraine Live Updates: Russia Detains Wall Street Journal Reporter on Spying Charge
The reporter is accused of collecting “state secrets” on behalf of the U.S.
The Wall Street Journal said on Thursday that it “vehemently denies” the spying allegations brought by Russia’s intelligence service against its reporter.
“The Wall Street Journal vehemently denies the allegations from the FSB and seeks the immediate release of our trusted and dedicated reporter, Evan Gershkovich,” a spokesperson for the WSJ said in a statement to ABC News. “We stand in solidarity with Evan and his family.”
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Zelensky Invites Xi Jinping to Ukraine Again: ‘I Want to Speak to Him’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky once again invited communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping to speak to him directly.
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Zelensky: D.C. Knows We Lose Without U.S. Help, Public Will Push Me to Make Peace if Bakhmut Falls
President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that defeat in Bakhmut, despite the narrative that it is strategically unimportant, would result in the international community and a “tired” Ukrainian public pressuring him to compromise with Russia — which he does not want to do.
In an interview with Associated Press executive Julie Pace, Zelensky made not only a frank admission that the Joe Biden administration in the United States “really understands that if they stop helping us, we will not win,” but warned that defeat in Bakhmut could be a bigger blow to the Ukrainian war effort than some analysts believe — likely intended to put pressure on America not to slacken the pace of its financial and military aid.
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Hindutva activists are not happy with the recital of Quranic verses at a temple festival in Hassan district as Quran does not believe in any Hindu God and Quran flowers destroyed thousands of temples in India.
B Upendran | HENB | Hassan | March 30, 2023:: Hindutva activists on Tuesday demonstrated against a peculiar ‘90-year-old tradition’ of the recitation of Quranic verses at a temple festival in Hassan district, at a time BJP leaders and Sangh Parivar outfits have been trying to polarise voters ahead of the Assembly polls, as alleged by the Congress party. Strange enough that such a ‘secular stance’ is only seen in Hindu temples, but no Mosque or Chruch India allows the reading of the Gita, Ved, Upanishads, Ramayana, or Mahabharat in those Semitic festivals.
Members of the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) Bajrang Dal and the little-known Kesari Yuva Pade (Kesari Youth Army) protested near the 12th-century Chennakeshava (Vishnu) temple in Beluru town, some 220km from Bangalore after government and temple authorities ignored their demand to scrap the Quran recital.
This year’s Quran recital, which kicks off the two-day annual Rathotsava or chariot festival, is scheduled for April 4.
“We had submitted memorandums to the festival organising committee, executive officer of the state Muzrai (religious affairs) department and the local tehsildar, explaining our objection to the recital of Quranic verses at the Hindu temple festival. But none of them responded,” Bajrang Dal state coordinator Raghu Sakleshpura told HENB on Tuesday. The Hindutva organisations took the matter of Quran reading in temples as a symbol of ‘Islamic aggression’ in the cultural and dharmik autonomy of Hindus.
A Muzrai department document says, without elaborating, that the Quran recital was started in 1932 as a nod to communal amity. But, the department has not had sufficient documents on how such a peculiar move was introduced in a Hindu temple and trend afterward as a ‘tradition’.
“Earlier, Congress governments made it an integral part of the festival itself, giving the Quran recital so much primacy,” Raghu said. “Our question is, will Muslim religious places allow Hindu chants?”
He added: “Alauddin Khilji’s general plundered the temple in the 14th century. The Congress governments ignored this fact to encourage the Quran recital.”…
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India Says Exports Hit Record-High $750 Billion
Indian commerce minister Piyush Goyal told attendees at an industry event on Tuesday that his country had surpassed $740 billion in exports.
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The Victorian government denies the premier could be manipulated by the Chinese government during his first visit to the country since the COVID-19 outbreak.
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The Obamas were given special VIP access to do the bridge climb without the usual jumpsuit and harness normally required to be worn by customers paying up to $408 each for the unique experience.
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Western Australia is returning to Covid-style police checkpoints at all entry points for travelers coming into the state in an attempt to stop the importation of meth by bikie gangs.
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Wurundjeri Elder Joy Murphy, 78, was set to perform the Welcome to Country ceremony for the ex-US President’s speech in Melbourne on Thursday night.
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A Housing Commission property in Tewantin, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, was burnt to the ground in the early hours of Wednesday morning, after a 13-year-old claimed she was tortured inside.
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A single clause in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament constitutional amendment could render it unworkable, legal experts are concerned.
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Cruz: Dems “Perfectly Willing to Turn a Blind Eye” to Child Rape and Murder at Border
Appearing on Hannity Wednesday, Senator Ted Cruz expanded on his comments earlier in the week to the head of the Department of Homeland Security, charging that Democrats are ignoring serious criminality at the border in the hope that illegal immigrants will become future voters.
“They are allowing it because they made a political choice,” Cruz said, asserting that the plan only works with the complicity of the establishment media to also ignore the crisis.
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DeSantis Trolls Trump, Says US Needs to ‘Finally’ Build Border Wall
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a shot at former President Donald Trump, his potential 2024 presidential primary opponent, by saying it’s time to actually build a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
“And I just think that, you know, we’ve talked a lot, but I think we need to get serious and finally build a wall along the southern border — needs to be done,” DeSantis said from the podium at an event in Georgia on Thursday to promote his new book, “The Courage to be Free.”
A main thrust of Trump’s 2016 campaign was the immigration crisis at the southern border and his promise to construct a wall to prevent mass immigration from Mexico and other countries. But even with two years of Republican-controlled Congress after first winning the White House, Trump wasn’t able to complete the wall; about 450 miles of new, replacement or secondary border wall was built, and most of that replaced existing barriers.
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In Serbia, several smuggling networks have recently operated and are still operating, one of which has grown so strong it has established its own “kingdom” in Vojvodina, named after one of the leading traffickers, Mohammed Tetouani, reports Hungarian-language, Balkans-oriented news site Balk.hu.
Mohammed, who was the leader of one of the smuggling gangs in Vojvodina, hails from the Mediterranean port of Tetouan in northern Morocco. He set up his own “haraba,” or smuggling camp, near Horgos, which was dismantled by Serbian police in November 2022. Due to Mohammed’s network being located near Horogos, his criminal enterprise began to be known as the “‘Kingdom of Horgos.”
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A record-breaking number of immigrants will arrive Down Under in the next few years, but even recent migrants are questioning where the newcomers will live.
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Sixteen Migrants Facing Deportation Escape French Detention Center
More than a dozen migrants illegally present in France were on the run after escaping from a detention center this week, according to reports.
The disturbing incident unfolded during the overnight hours between Wednesday and Thursday in Oissel, a commune in the Normandy region.
Illegal aliens are held at an administrative detention center (CRA) in the town after being released from prison as they await expulsion to their country of origin.
On Thursday, authorities revealed 16 migrants had managed to break out of the facility and were on the loose, France Bleu reports.
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Residents across the country are up in arms at plans to turn disused former military bases into detention centres housing thousands of asylum seekers.
Sites as varied as RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, Bexhill in East Sussex, Catterick in North Yorkshire and Wethersfield in Essex have all been earmarked as locations to accommodate large groups of migrants.
The plan for Scampton — former base to the Dambusters and the Red Arrows — has already jeopardised a £300m regeneration project at the airfield announced earlier this month.
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Belief in Traditional American Values Plummeting: WSJ Poll
Authored by Eric Utter via American Thinker (emphasis ours)
According to a depressing new poll from The Wall Street Journal, belief in the importance of traditional American values has plummeted in the United States in recent decades.
The poll queried U.S. respondents about the importance of patriotism, religious faith, having children and other traditionally American values in their lives. Only 39% of Americans surveyed said their religious faith is very important to them, and just 38% said patriotism is very important.
The Journal compared those numbers to the results from the first time it ran the poll in 1998… when 62% of Americans said religion was very important to them, and 70% said patriotism was. And that was during the Clinton administration!
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Breaking: ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ Cancelled Due to ‘Credible Threat to Life and Safety’
Our Rights DC, the group behind Saturday’s “Trans Day of Vengeance” protest outside the Supreme Court, has announced that the event has been cancelled due to a “credible threat to life and safety.”
The event, which was originally scheduled for the “Transgender Day of Visibility,” as designated by President Joe Biden, was widely criticized following Monday’s mass shooting in Nashville in which trans-identified 28-year-old Audrey Hale murderd six people, including three children.
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Canada: Bearded Man Makes Protest, Enters Women’s Weightlifting Event and Breaks Record
Avi Silverberg, the head coach for Team Canada Powerlifting, reached his limit with the nonsense going on today and entered a woman’s weightlifting competition in Canada to make his point.
He set and set a new record easily passing the previous mark that was held by a trans lifter. Silverberg, beard and all, entered Saturday’s Heroes Classic tournament in Lethbridge, Alberta, after identifying as a female.
He easily bench-pressed nearly 370 pounds and beat the current Alberta women’s record by almost 100 pounds. The old record was 275 pounds. It was held by trans athlete Anne Andres.
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Canada: Taxpayer Funded Theatre Hosts Drag Queen Camps for 7-Year-Olds and Up
A Vancouver theatre that receives taxpayer funding from provincial, federal and local governments is hosting a drag queen camp for kids as young as seven where adults groom them to become drag performers.
This summer, the Carousel Theatre for Young People is advertising a “Junior Drag Camp” for ages 7 to 11 and a “Teen Drag Camp” for ages 12 to 17 this July.
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Cardinal Confidant to Pope Francis Urges Relaxing Ban on Gay Sex
ROME — A key advisor to Pope Francis, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, has called for relaxation of Catholic teaching on gay sex, insisting that the Church should not ask “impossible things” of homosexuals.
Earlier this month, Pope Francis named Cardinal Hollerich — a Jesuit like himself — to his inner cabinet of advisors despite the cardinal’s open rejection of central elements of Catholic moral teaching.
“How can you condemn people who cannot love except the same sex?” Hollerich asked during an interview with Glas Koncila, a Croatian Catholic weekly, published March 27. “For some of them it is possible to be chaste, but calling others to chastity seems like speaking Egyptian to them.”
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The Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN) is pushing forward with their protest on Saturday in DC after a rally to raise money for firearms training in March.
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Florida Pro-Life Pregnancy Center Sues Jane’s Revenge for Financial Retribution
The non-profit public interest firm First Liberty Institute issued a press release revealing a lawsuit on behalf of Heartbeat of Miami, Inc. against Jane’s Revenge for financial and legal retributions.
Wednesday’s announcement targeted the pro-choice organization following an attack on the pregnancy center on July 3. This attack was one of many acts of vandalism and violence against pro-life organizations and crisis pregnancy clinics in the wake of the Supreme Court Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade being leaked.
According to the complaint filed, Heartbeat of Miami, Inc., aims to “enjoin Defendants” from damaging or going near Heartbeat facilities, order “the dissolution of the Jane’s Revenge criminal enterprise” and award “compensatory, punitive, and nominal damages” as well as “costs and expenses” for the lawsuit.
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J.K. Rowling Declares Gender Changes for Kids ‘One of the Worst Medical Scandals in a Century’
Enabling children in attempting to change their gender will be seen as “one of the worst medical scandals in a century,” Harry Potter author and ardent feminist J.K. Rowling said this week.
Rowling, 57, who was once hailed as a feminist hero by the left — particularly because she wrote the first of the Harry Potter books while on unemployment benefit, which has been used as an argument for state handouts and even universal basic income ever since — before becoming an object of disdain over her rejection of modern transgender ideology, has once again called out the medical establishment and the woke left for pushing novel theories surrounding gender on young children.
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Several current and former members of the University of Wyoming’s Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority are suing it for allowing a “peeping” biological male identifying as a woman to join.
According to the suit, the trans woman, 21-year-old Artemis Langford, has been “watching” the female members of the sorority house. It alleged that during one of these peeping incidents, Langford had a visible “erection.”
The legal complaint noted that Langford is clearly “interested in women.”
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Michigan State University (MSU) has a style guide objecting to, and assigning alternate words for, some of America’s most fundamental phrases, such as “frontier” and “pioneer.” These words are deemed to be “colonial language.” Other problematic examples include holiday themed mentions of “Christmas trees,” “reindeer,” “eggs” and “bunnies.”
As first reported by Campus Reform, Michigan State University declared in its “Inclusive Guide” that the institution “values communications practices that support belonging for all Spartans. In alignment with strategic efforts around diversity, equity and inclusion, the Inclusive Guide provides best practices for communications in gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, global identity and disability.”
Rather than merely condemning common words that have a controversial origin in America’s racial history, many of the changes discourage terminology for historical concepts. One section in particular warned against “Indigenous stereotyping and colonial language” being used such as “tribe,” “low man on the totem pole,” “bury the hatchet,” “on the warpath,” “shaman,” “rain dance,” “savage,” “barbarian,” “off the reservation,” “spirit animal,” “scalped,” “peace pipe,” “hold down the fort,” “frontier,” “pioneer,” “founder,” and “conquer and divide.”
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Parents Push to Recall Oregon School Board After Reports of ‘Disgusting’ Sexual Games, Explicit Book
Parents in Oregon are calling to replace a local school board following reports of a sexually explicit book in the curriculum and at least two instances where a teacher organized activities discussing sexual acts.
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Terror Triumphant? Anti-Religion Firebrand Dawkins Falls Silent After Rushdie Assassination Attempt
Richard Dawkins left interviewer Piers Morgan stunned after refusing to give any comments regarding radical Islam and the attempted assassination of author Salman Rushdie.
World-famous atheist Richard Dawkins has shocked many after point-blank refusing to discuss matters relating to the topic of radical Islam during an interview.
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Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto Will be Released Publicly
The transgender shooter’s manifesto will be released publicly, but only after the FBI has combed through it to build a psychological profile of the killer.
28-year-old Audrey Hale was shot dead by police after killing three children and three adults at The Covenant School, a private Christian school for students aged three to 11.
Authorities say Hale deliberately targeted the school after considering but then rejecting two other public school targets because they had better security.
Police initially said Hale’s transgender identity was a factor in motivating her rampage, but it seemed the manifesto she left might remain secret after lobbying from LGBT groups.
However, Nashville Council Member Robert Swope told the New York Post that the manifesto will be released publicly after all.
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Twitter Removes Over 5,000 Tweets About Radical Group’s ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’
A Twitter official confirmed they removed over 5,000 tweets depicting a poster for a planned “Trans Day of Vengeance” this Saturday, saying the tweets violated their rules for inciting violence. Many of these tweets were from conservatives warning about the protest.
Twitter safety said that the tweets were removed through automated processes without considering the context for efficiency’s sake due to the large amount of tweets.
News that the Trans Radical Activist Network (“TRAN”) will hold a #Trans Day of Vengeance” on April 1 in front of the U.S. Supreme Court sparked outrage from some Twitter users in the wake of the mass shooting by a transgender shooter at a Nashville Christian school on Monday.
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Video: Biden Says if We “Protect LGBTQ+ Individuals, Our Societies Are Stronger”
Speaking to scores of world heads of state at a virtual event titled ‘Summit for Democracy’, Joe Biden decreed that leaders need to protect the LGBTQ+ community in order to create a ‘fair and stronger’ society.
“When we advance equality and racial justice and invest in young people, protect the LGBTQ+ individuals, our societies are not only fair but they’re stronger and more successful,” Biden said.
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White House Says ‘Trans Community’ is ‘Under Attack’ After Nashville Shooting
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that the “trans community” in America is “under attack,” just days after a transgender former student opened fire in a Nashville, Tennessee, school and killed six people.
“One of the things that we saw during the midterm elections is that people don’t want their freedoms to be taken. They want us to fight for their freedoms,” Jean-Pierre said to reporters as she answered questions from the briefing room. “It is shameful, it is disturbing, and our hearts go out to the trans community as they are under attack right now.”
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Women Sue University of Wyoming Sorority for Allowing Trans-Identified Male to Join
Seven past and present members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority are bringing legal action against the sisterhood after it made the decision to allow a trans-identified male to join the University of Wyoming chapter.
According to the legal document filed to the US District Court for Wyoming Monday obtained by Cowboy State Daily, Artemis Langford, the trans-identified male admitted to the female-only chapter, has not undergone any medical intervention, has been watching the young women in states of undress, and has even been observed to be sexually aroused in their presence.
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War mongering Prime Minister in Ukraine – helding a press conference with Zelenskyi.
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Veteran Saves Mother’s Life With Chlorine Dioxide:
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Retired Veteran David Oates, who served for nearly 25 years, cured his asthma, acid reflux, ringing ears, and COVID – 19 using small dosages of chlorine dioxide. Oates’ mother contracted the bioweapon, and her body began shutting down rapidly, dropping her oxygen levels to 73. Oates gave her small amounts of the chlorine dioxide – within days, she sprung back to health.
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Veteran Saves Mother’s Life With Chlorine Dioxide:
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Retired Veteran David Oates, who served for nearly 25 years, cured his asthma, acid reflux, ringing ears, and COVID – 19 using small dosages of chlorine dioxide. Oates’ mother contracted the bioweapon, and her body began shutting down rapidly, dropping her oxygen levels to 73. Oates gave her small amounts of the chlorine dioxide – within days, she sprung back to health.
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Those angry black citizens are going to get a lot angrier when they realize they won’t get anything.
That is the plan BLM ,Burn ,Loot , and mayhem into civil war a chance to take away the rights of all citizens by the ruling elites .Go full China style social rating system ,the great uneducated under class of illegal invaders ,5th generation welfare baby moms , feral young males with no meaning or adult male role models are all useful idiots used to this end is my personal belief. WE are being “lead” by an installed senile idiot that does as he told or his handles will lower the boom on his whole grifting Biden clan. The only bright side is the Trans mafia will be the first to be thrown into the ovens by the overlords after they take over because they have zero to offer society as a group after they have served in their disruption on normal western civilization and family unit destruction .