A Polish woman may face up to five years in prison for praising Russian President Vladimir Putin on Facebook. Meanwhile, hate crimes against Russians have increased in the UK, with schoolchildren among the victims.
In other news, two “Swedish” brothers were indicted for allegedly honor-killing their own mother.
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Biden is Accused of Exploring “Authoritarian” Digital Dollar
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) accused The White House of attempting to introduce an “authoritarian-style” and “surveillance-style” digital dollar through executive orders.
In March 2022, President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring the Federal Reserve to research, experiment, and evaluate the risks and benefits of a digital dollar.
Emmer introduced the CBDC Anti-Surveillance Act to ban “unelected bureaucrats” in DC from issuing a central bank digital currency in the US. CBDC critics argue that it can compromise financial privacy, allowing the purchases of every American to be profiled and tracked.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith addressed the province’s recently unveiled budget for the upcoming fiscal year in front of a crowd of dozens of business owners and policy wonks in Calgary on Thursday.
“As premier, I am committed to balancing free enterprise, freedom, and government work. It has been my goal since day one to make Alberta a better place to live — to attract investment and create prosperity for all,” said Smith in her opening remarks.
“As a free enterprise conservative, the government’s role is to create a positive and supportive environment for economic growth so that you can do what you do best.”
Smith pivoted to discussions on Budget 2023 that she said “will secure Alberta’s future.”
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Poland Records EU’s Second-Lowest Unemployment Rate — Eurostat
Data from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, show Poland to have the bloc’s second-lowest unemployment rate, the Ministry of Family and Social Polish has announced.
The ministry posted on its website that the country recorded a jobless rate of 2.8 percent in January, down from 2.9 percent in December 2022.
“The EU statistical office once more confirms the good and stable situation on our labour market,” the ministry wrote. “[…] We achieved the second best result in the European Union, only the Czech Republic is ahead of us with a result of 2.5 percent.”
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3 Fatally Shot, Including Juvenile, After Possible Home Invasion in Bolingbrook, Police Say
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (WLS) — At least three people are dead after four people, including a juvenile, were shot in suburban Bolingbrook Sunday, according to police.
Police responded to the 100-block of Lee Ln. around 8:15 p.m. for a report of a possible home invasion.
When officers arrived, they discovered three adults and one juvenile had been shot.
A woman, man and a juvenile girl have been pronounced dead, according to police.
Another woman was transported to a nearby hospital.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday that fellow Democrat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s election defeat last week should serve as a “warning sign for the country,” rejecting criticism that he is feeding into the Republican narrative on crime in addressing public safety concerns in the Big Apple.
“Public safety is a prerequisite to prosperity. Same as Chicago, like New York, and many of our big cities across America,” Adams said during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“That is why we zero focus double-digit decrease in shootings, double-digit decrease in homicides, which we have witnessed this year, particularly the month of February,” he added. “All of our index crimes are low, low for the entire year. We are focused on public safety because people want to be safe. They don’t feel safe. And they actually say then you’re going to lose control of your city.”
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Alexander Vindman Sought to Profit From Ukraine Arms Deals Worth Millions
Anti-Trump former U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman sought to earn millions of dollars in profits by negotiating arms deals between NATO and the Ukrainian military during the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Vindman is the CEO of a company called Trident Support.
Documents show the organization has been reaching out to the Ukrainian government for a contract in exchange for assisting with the “readiness, repair, and maintenance” of weapons being delivered to the Eastern European nation.
According to a new report from Human Events, Vindman proposed that for $12 million in initial funding, his company Trident Support would bring support closer to the front lines by providing a logistical midpoint from which equipment could be distributed.
Essentially, the retired United States Army lieutenant colonel would charge a massive fee to teach Ukraine’s military how to use and maintain the NATO equipment.
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Another Train Derails in Ohio, Residents Told to Shelter in Place
Another Norfolk Southern train has derailed in Ohio, according to reports.
The train left the tracks in Springfield, Clark County, with an estimated 20 cars out of the 212 having derailed, local media is reporting.
Local authorities have issued a warning to residents to shelter in place.
Norfolk Southern is the same rail company responsible for the toxic train derailment in East Palestine last month.
However, the company claimed that no one was hurt and that no toxic chemicals were involved in this incident.
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Another FBI Whistleblower Says He Was Forced to Inflate Domestic Terrorism Numbers
Another FBI whistleblower has stepped forward to tell the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Federal Government that the agency had him boost domestic terrorism figures by dividing cases into multiple subdivisions.
FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle from the Kansas City field office told Congressional investigators that the agency had him divide a single domestic terrorism case into “four different cases,” so that the FBI could go to Congress and say “look at all the domestic terrorism we’ve investigated,” Fox News reports.
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Arizona Supreme Court to Expedite Kari Lake’s Election Fraud Case
The Arizona Supreme Court has granted the motion for expedited consideration of Republican Kari Lake’s lawsuit against Democrat Katie Hobbs and the state’s 2022 gubernatorial election.
Lake is suing Arizona’s election officials and then-Secretary of State Hobbs over the series of “issues” that disenfranchised Republican voters on Election Day and cost her the race.
The AZ Supreme Court has scheduled March 21 to consider whether or not Lake’s new petition will be accepted.
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Atlanta’s Future Police Training Facility ‘Cop City’ Set Ablaze
Smoke and flames shot and poured from equipment at the future Atlanta, Georgia public safety and training facility dubbed, “Cop City,” on Sunday evening.
FOX 5 Atlanta posted video on its website of a bulldozer and other pieces of equipment on fire, as well as a section of grass.
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Bernie Sanders Says GOP Has More Working-Class Supporters Than Democratic Party
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the Democratic Party abandoned working-class Americans in favor of the elites.
“You say like they abandoned their cause to the beautiful people,” HBO host Bill Maher told Sanders on Friday. “Who are the beautiful people?”
“Hey, Bill, you look really beautiful here tonight here in L.A.,” Sanders said as Maher and the live audience of “Real Time with Bill Maher” laughed.
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In response to ChatGPT and AI-powered chatbots, privacy-focused Brave Search has introduced a feature called “Summarizer.”
Like the name suggests, Summarizer uses artificial intelligence to come up with a brief summary related to what a user has searched.
The summary, which appears above normal search engine results, is based on multiple sources. The feature lists the sources of the summary.
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Breaking: Trump Vows to Prevent World War III, Put America First Again in Epic CPAC Speech
Donald Trump gave the keynote speech at CPAC on Saturday afternoon, the former president and 2024 presidential candidate promised to take back the country from the corruption of the Biden administration and the biased corporate media and represent the people’s interests.
Trump received a standing ovation upon taking the stage. He spoke of his anti-war record, attacked the enemies of America in the Biden administration, the pro-crime district attorneys, the attacks on free speech and a free press, and his “bold, detailed agenda for how we’re going to complete this mission” in his text term.
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The House Committee on the Judiciary has made “several requests” to former Disinformation Governance Board head Nina Jankowicz for “information relating to” the activities of that Board, but as yet, the information has not been forthcoming.
In the event that Jankowicz continues to avoid compliance, “The Committee is prepared to resort to compulsory process,” Jordan writes, “if necessary, to obtain your testimony and this material.
The Committee on the Judiciary is authorized to conduct oversight of matters involving civil liberties, including free speech and the First Amendment, pursuant to the Rules of the House of Representatives.”
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Court Strikes Down Biden’s ‘Ghost Gun Rule’
Defense Distributed’s Case in US District Court, VanDerStrok v. Garland was just granted a preliminary injunction. The lawsuit is challenging the scope of ATF’s ability to change the definition of firearms.
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DeSantis Rips Newsom in California Speech, Says State ‘Hemorrhaging Population’ to Florida
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom during a speech Sunday in the Golden State, saying Californians are fleeing the state in droves to live in Florida where he said they can live freely.
“I knew you guys got a lot of problems out here, but your governor is very concerned about what we’re doing in Florida, so I figured I had to come by,” DeSantis joked at the start of his speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
DeSantis said Reagan “understood the vital role that government had to play” and how it could be a “negative force if not applied properly,” and he governed Florida with that same understanding throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Doctors, Scientists Call on Mississippi Officials to Take COVID Vaccines Off the Market
Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
JACKSON, Miss.—The group of physicians, vaccine-injured people, and whistleblowers speaking at the Mississippi Capitol building on Monday and Tuesday weren’t asking state officials to cease all COVID-19 vaccinations and to convene a grand jury to investigate its rollout in the state.
They were demanding it.
“Stop the shots” was the refrain of those who had treated COVID patients over the last three years and those injured by the vaccine.
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Donald Trump: ‘We Will Become Masters of Ballot Harvesting’
On Saturday, former President Donald Trump delivered the closing speech at CPAC and told the crowd that “We will become masters at ballot harvesting,” as he promised to put America first again and win in the struggle against “The sinister forces trying to kill America.”
“We will become masters at ballot harvesting,” Trump said. “We have to beat the Democrats at their own game, and we’ll do it legally. The agenda I’ve laid out today will end America’s destruction.”
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EPA Head Admits Kids Should be Nowhere Near East Palestine Water
The aftermath of the freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, persists, with residents and rail workers reporting illnesses and the Biden administration facing criticism regarding an inadequate federal response.
The 38-car derailment occurred one month ago and resulted in the release of vinyl chloride into the air via a controlled burn, and questions swirl about why testing for dioxins wasn’t conducted immediately after the derailment.
Earlier this week, EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited East Palestine. He addressed reporters about the ongoing situation.
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Ex-NYT Science Editor Sounds Off on Media’s Longtime Disinterest in Lab-Leak Theory
Former New York Times science editor Nicholas Wade sounded off about how, despite his research and expertise in the field, the media largely ignored his hypothesizing about coronavirus’ origins.
In 2021, Wade wrote an essay in the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” exploring the origins of the virus and the idea that “political agendas of governments and scientists have generated thick clouds of obfuscation,” implicitly assisted by the media.
The article largely supported the lab-leak hypothesis, which Wade was asked at length about by “Life, Liberty & Levin” host Mark Levin.
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FBI Faces Continued Investigation Over Surveillance and Censorship of Americans
In a speech at the Conservative Political Action (CPAC) event, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) called for the abolishment of federal agencies like the Justice Department and FBI, partly because they have been weaponized to surveil and censor Americans.
“It seems like every time I turn around, [federal agencies] engage in surveillance … or monitoring,” Gaetz said. “I don’t care if it takes every second of our time and every ounce of our energy. We either get this government back on our side, or we defund and get rid of — abolish the FBI, CDC, the ATF, DOJ — every last one of them if they do not come to heel.”
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The FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO) affirmed that there may have been “undercover officers” and “confidential human sources” inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to whistleblower testimony obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The FBI’s Washington Field Office requested the Boston Field Office open investigations into 140 individuals who took buses from Massachusetts to D.C. on Jan. 6., but denied the office’s request to see video proving those individuals were inside the Capitol, FBI whistleblower George Hill said during a Feb. 10 interview with the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The office claimed they needed to “protect” the identity of possible undercover agents, according to Hill.
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Florida Lawmakers to Tackle Education Savings Account Expansion, Punishing ‘Woke’ Colleges
Florida’s Legislature will be serving up a smorgasbord of issues during the upcoming 60-day regular session which begins on Tuesday.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has said many times that Florida is the place where “woke goes to die” and passage of laws to stop it tops the agenda for the Republican supermajority in 2023.
With the support of Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, and House Speaker Paul Renner, R-Palm Coast, DeSantis announced a law proposal that will ban state and local governments from making financial and investment decisions based on “socially responsible” investing practices.
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Florida Bill Would Require Bloggers to Register With the State to Write About Elected Officials
Florida’s Republican state Sen. Jason Brodeur has introduced a bill that would require bloggers who write about elected officials to register with the state.
The “Information Dissemination” bill would also require bloggers to disclose their source of funding and how much they are receiving to write about an election official.
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Frederick Tanker Explosion: Residents Question US-15 Safety After Deadly Crash
FREDERICK, Md. — Residents in a Frederick neighborhood where a tanker truck crashed and exploded on Saturday are raising questions about roadway safety along that strip of US-15.
According to Frederick County Fire officials, the crash was reported around 12:00 p.m. on US-15 at Rosemont Avenue near Apple Avenue in Frederick. Officials confirmed that a tanker truck, believed to have been carrying gasoline or diesel fuel, crashed into a tree in the area and exploded, causing a large fire and plume of smoke.
Police later confirmed that the driver of the tanker died as a result of the incident. The explosion and flames also destroyed a home and damaged several other houses and cars in the area.
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FTX Collapse: Bankman-Fried May Get Flip Phone Under Tougher Restrictions
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried could be permitted to have a flip-phone for calls and texts only, under a proposal submitted to a judge deciding on bail conditions for the former crypto titan.
Bankman-Fried faces more than a lifetime in prison if convicted on allegations of defrauding investors, wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy and money laundering.
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Georgia Senate Passes Bill to Close ‘Zuckbucks’ Loophole
The Georgia Senate has passed a bill to prohibit local election offices from using private funding to conduct elections, after election officials reportedly used a loophole to accept the money.
The bill stipulates “costs and expenses related to conducting primaries, elections, runoffs, or other undertakings authorized or required by [state law] shall be paid from lawfully appropriated public funds.”
It also states no county or municipal government, government employee or election official shall “solicit, take, or otherwise accept from any person a contribution, donation, service or anything else of value for the purpose of conducting primaries or elections or in support of performing his or her duties under this chapter.”
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Gov. Hobbs Vows to Not Carry Out Execution Ordered by Arizona Supreme Court
Arizona Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs vowed to not execute a man whose death sentence was scheduled by the state Supreme Court over Arizona’s new attorney general’s objections.
“Under my administration, an execution will not occur until the people of Arizona can have confidence that the state is not violating the law in carrying out the gravest of penalties,” Hobbs said Friday, one day after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that Aaron Gunches’ execution warrant must be granted because certain appellate proceedings were finished, The Associated Press reported.
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House Committee Says Fauci ‘Prompted’ Drafting of Medical Paper to ‘Disprove’ COVID Lab Leak Theory
GOP leadership on a House committee said Sunday it uncovered new email evidence suggesting Dr. Anthony Fauci “prompted” the drafting of “proximal origin” publication meant to “disprove” the COVID-19 lab leak theory.
In a new memo released Sunday, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Majority Staff alerted the rest of the committee members to “New Evidence Resulting from the Select Subcommittee’s Investigation into the Origins of COVID-19 — ‘The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2’“
“New evidence released by the Select Subcommittee today suggests that Dr. Fauci ‘prompted’ the drafting of a publication that would ‘disprove’ the lab leak theory, the authors of this paper skewed available evidence to achieve that goal, and Dr. Jeremy Farrar went uncredited despite significant involvement,” the memo says.
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Illinois Judge Rules State’s Gun Ban and Registry Unconstitutional
An Illinois judge declared the state’s gun ban and registry law unconstitutional on Friday.
The ruling by Macon County Judge Rodney Forbes means the law, signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker in January, cannot be enforced and is now awaiting an appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court. Initially, Forbes intended to take a couple of days to consider his decision but later signed his order after a couple of hours, according to the Center Square.
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Speaking from CPAC on Saturday morning in his first public appearance since being ousted as Project Veritas CEO, James O’Keefe brought out the Pfizer whistleblower that allowed the viral series in February to happen.
Introducing the whistleblower, O’Keefe said “we need brave whistleblowers. We need people on the inside. There were people on the inside of Psizer who helped us obtain this.”
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A judge denied a request from a Jan. 6 defendant to push back the start of her trial to allow time to review about 44,000 hours of Capitol riot footage from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg acknowledged that the ask from defendant Sara Carpenter is “certainly not a frivolous request by any means,” but said the defense failed to clarify why any additional footage would be exculpatory, Politico reported. Carpenter, a retired NYPD officer, is facing two felony charges over the Capitol riot.
Boasberg, who is soon to become Washington D.C.’s chief district court judge, also argued that delaying trials for Carpenter and other Jan. 6 defendants to allow time to review the Capitol and police surveillance footage from McCarthy’s office could “derail dozens of trials that are set in the next few months.”
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Spiritual adviser and bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson officially declared her candidacy for president on Saturday, launching a 2024 Democratic primary challenge against President Biden.
“The status quo will not disrupt itself… that’s our job,” Williamson said at her campaign kickoff event at Washington D.C.’s Union Station.
“We know that this country is plagued by many challenges now, not the least of which is hatred and division, which is greater than any of us have experienced national life. It is our job to create a vision of justice and love that is so powerful that it will override the forces of hatred and injustice and fear,” Williamson said in her speech.
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President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the U.S. federal government.
Flynn, a retired United States Army lieutenant general, is suing the government after he became a political target of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI.
He just filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government for malicious prosecution and abuse of power and is seeking $50 million in damages.
Flynn said on social media: “Absolutely gross abuse of power and usurping the entire justice system.
“People don’t trust the FBI because of this case.”
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A Minnesota Democrat in the state legislature is facing criticism after alllegedly posting online that White Christians who adopt Native American children are contributing to “genocide.”
“I’m sick of white Christians adopting our babies and rejoicing,” Minnesota State Rep. Heather Keeler posted on her personal Facebook page recently, according to Alpha News.
“It’s a really sad day when that happens. It means the genocide continues.
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Prof Demands ‘Black Bereavement’ Leave After Killing of Any Black Person
For the latest evidence that woke academia is dragging Western society into madness, we present Southern Illinois University Edwardsville professor Angel Jones, who argues that black university professors and staff should be allowed bereavement leave whenever any black person is victimized…anywhere.
Writing at Times Higher Education, Jones accuses American colleges and universities of disregarding Black faculty and staff’s mental and emotional well-being in the aftermath of “societal events” involving a black person.
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Researchers Find High Levels of Dangerous Chemicals in East Palestine Air
Despite the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) assertion that residents of East Palestine are safe to live around the site of the February 3 train derailment that led to toxic chemical contamination of the local environment, a new assessment from Texas A&M and Carnegie Mellon University found that the Ohio town’s air contains “higher than normal” amounts of several potentially dangerous chemicals.
The report, published last week, determined that acrolein, benzene, vinyl chloride, butadiene, naphthalene, o-Xylene, trichloroethylene, trichloroethane and p-Xylene were all present in the air in East Palestine as a result of the Norfolk Southern Railroad catastrophe.
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Staten Island Schools Superintendent Under Investigation for Alleged Anti-White Racist Texts
NYC’s Department of Education has launched an investigation into racist anti-white texts allegedly sent by Staten Island’s superintendent, after screenshots of the disturbing messages calling for “no more white people” were leaked to city officials.
According to the New York Post, the screenshots were sent by an encrypted email address to NYC Schools chancellor David Banks and other DOE and city personnel, and appear to show District 31 (D31) Superintendent Marion Wilson, who is black, vowing to “clean up this island” by getting rid of white principals.
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Trump urged Republicans to ‘swamp’ Democrats at the ballot box, with early votes and ballot harvesting of the sort he once condemned, during a speech to the MAGA faithful on Saturday.
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Twitter Challenges Persist as December Revenues, Adjusted Earnings Dropped 40%
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday night that Twitter Inc. sustained a year-over-year decrease of approximately 40% in both revenue and adjusted earnings for December.
The report comes after a Jan. 24 Reuters story, citing data by Standard Media Index (SMI), which showed a collapse in advertising spend on the social media platform by 71% in December. Since Elon Musk’s takeover in October, there has been an exodus of advertisers.
At the time, SMI said Twitter’s ad business was beginning to stabilize after offering a “slew of initiatives to win back advertisers, offering some free ads, lifting a ban on political advertising and allowing companies greater control over the positioning of their ads,” Reuters said.
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The US military is training two Ukrainian pilots on American soil to gauge how much time they would need in order to learn how to fly fighter jets such as the F-16.
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UC Irvine Professor Studies ‘Abolition Medicine’ With Nearly $1,300,000 Grant
A University of California Irvine professor received a nearly $1.3 million research grant from the state system to study “abolition medicine.”
According to a description of the study, the project will examine how “anti-Black racism” and “racist border and immigration policies” contribute to “inequity” in healthcare. The $1,287,993 grant came from the University of California system’s Research Initiatives office.
It also will look at “climate change-related disasters” and decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States that affected “patient autonomy,” presumably in reference to the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
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Trump, 76, took a dig at the president, 80, for his multiple falls, calling it ‘cute’ at the Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) on Saturday night. ‘We all smile when he falls down stairs and things.’
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WHO Urges Countries to Reveal Intel on COVID Origins After FBI Director’s Statements
Following the dramatic narrative shift on Covid origins by US authorities, the World Health Organization is asking any governments with intelligence on the virus’ origins to come forward and present their information.
“If any country has information about the origins of the pandemic, it’s essential for that information to be shared with WHO and the international scientific community,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday, coming quickly on the heels of FBI Director Christopher Wray saying this week that the source of the pandemic was “most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan”.
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Alberta Government to Crack Down on Federal Employees Trespassing on Private Land
The Alberta government will introduce legislation later this month to stop federal government employees from trespassing on private land.
On Wednesday, Government House Leader Joseph Schow announced trespassing legislation will be one of three bills the United Conservative Party government will introduce in the next session.
“We are seeing federal employees trespassing onto private land in Alberta, and as a result of that, we don’t think that that’s appropriate, so we’re making that an offence in this province — especially with the water testing,” he said.
“Should federal employees decide to trespass on private land, they will be charged.”
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Calgary Mayor Sets Out to Ban Protests From Political Enemies
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra talked about Calgary Pastor Derek Reimer and the vendetta that left-wing extremist Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek has against him.
Pastor Reimer was first ticketed with huge fines in 2020 for ‘illegal gatherings,’ referring to him and others praying for and feeding the cold and hungry out on the streets.
Now, Pastor Reimer is once again butting heads with local government, as he was protesting and preaching against a ‘drag queen story hour’ event targeting young children at a Calgary public library, and was forcefully removed from the building by three big men who subsequently threw him on the ground.
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Canadians Think Feds Afraid to Confront China
The majority of Canadians believe the government is afraid to stand up to China, according to a new poll.
The Angus Reid poll released on Wednesday showed 69% of Canadians believe the federal government is afraid to stand up to the Chinese regime — including 46% of those who voted Liberal in 2021.
Two-thirds (63%) believe China attempted to interfere with Canada’s elections, and half (53%) said the interference is a serious threat to Canadian democracy.
The voter base of every major political party gravitated towards thinking the alleged interference was a serious threat — including 43% of Liberal voters.
Half of all respondents said the government response to interference allegations has been too weak.
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Four TMX Protesters Receive One Month in Prison for Criminal Contempt
Four women protesting the Trans Mountain expansion project will spend time behind bars after being convicted of criminal contempt over an October 2020 incident in Kamloops, BC.
BC’s Supreme Court sentenced Susan Bibbings, 56, Miranda Dick, 45, Heather Lamoureux, 32, and Laura Zadorozny, 61, for breaching the court-ordered injunction on Trans Mountain construction sites.
Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick handed Bibbings, Dick and Zadorozny 28 days each in prison, while Lamoureux received a 29-day sentence.
Police arrested and later released all four women on the morning of October 17, 2020, when they gathered at a gate to a Trans Mountain construction site near Kamloops Airport in Brocklehurst.
The court heard that protesters blocked the gate to the worksite on the morning of October 17, preventing a shift change. When RCMP arrived, the four women did not move, and they arrested them. Three women walked in handcuffs with police, but Lameureax refused, and officers had to carry her to their vehicle.
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On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra spoke to Rebel reporter Angelica Toy about the story she and Syd Fizzard are covering involving pastor Derick Reimer and the Calgary police.
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Shocking Update: Pastor Derek Reimer Remains Behind Bars Following Two Court Hearings
UPDATE (4 p.m. MT March 03, 2023): Rebel News has confirmed that Pastor Derek Reimer remains locked behind bars following what was described as a “contested bail hearing” last night. Reimer was to be released on bail with conditions, which he felt he could not abide by in good conscience. In addition to the mischief and disturbance charges, Reimer is facing eight charges in total, police told Global News. Crown prosecutors are apparently contemplating pursuing hate-related charges as well. The pastor had another court hearing today, and has another appearance scheduled for Monday.
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TC Energy Receives Anonymous Threats of ‘Coordinated Attack’ On Coastal Gaslink Pipeline
A natural gas pipeline under construction in B.C. faces anonymous claims of a “coordinated sabotage attack” by an anarchist website, according to TC Energy Corp. Coastal GasLink expressed concern over “a trend of escalating violence” on its sites across the province.
The article published on an anarchist website claimed an unknown group vandalized the pipeline to “contribute to the small delays” in the already over-budget project.
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University Suspends mRNA Researcher for Four Months Without Pay for Expressing His Concerns
For having expressed concerns about COVID-19 vaccination for children, Patrick Provost is now suspended for four months without pay.
Patrick Provost is a professor in the Department of Microbiology-Infectiology and Immunology at Laval University, and he specializes in mRNA. Many of his discoveries have contributed to the advancement of research and have been praised by his peers.
During the pandemic, Mr. Provost raised concerns about mRNA vaccination, especially the risk it has towards children. On December 7, 2021, Mr. Provost took part in a conference involving several doctors and scientists, produced by RéinfoCovid, which was broadcasted on various social media platforms.
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Vaccinated Senior Sues Ottawa Over ‘Unconstitutional’ ArriveCAN App
Canadians are taking the federal government to court over alleged Charter violations caused by its dysfunctional ArriveCAN app.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) announced they filed a lawsuit in early February on behalf of several Canadians who were penalized for not declaring their COVID vaccination status via ArriveCAN, including 71-year-old Burlington resident Joanne Walsh.
The lawsuit alleges Ottawa breached the plaintiffs’ rights as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter.
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Victoria Ponders Another Ban on Natural Gas — This Time on Rezoned Developments
Victoria, British Columbia is debating a ban on gas ovens and heating for rezoned developments after several city councillors proposed a motion to have them powered only by electricity.
Councillors Dave Thompson, Susan Kim, Krista Loughton and Jeremy Caradonna tabled the motion on Low GHG/Electric energy systems in new buildings, explicitly making two requests.
Firstly, the councillors want rezoned developments to only have electric energy systems, meaning electricity powers heating, cooling, hot water and cooking in each residence.
And secondly, the councillors assert that in the event that “such mechanisms appear impossible or very costly,” to produce reports which “prioritize” electric energy over alternatives.
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Watch Pastor Derek’s Final Interview Before Police Took Him Away!
Today I’m bringing you the story of Pastor Derek Reimer of Mission 7 Ministries.
You may already know that name from our pandemic lockdown coverage, Reimer was client number two of The Democracy Fund’s enormously successful ‘fight the fines’ initiative when he came under fire in Calgary for feeding the homeless, something the city called an illegal public gathering.
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France: ‘African Type’ Man Wanted for Paris Church Desecration Allegedly Vandalised Another Church
Police in Paris are searching for an “African type” man accused of vandalising and desecrating a Roman Catholic church in central Paris, who they say has a prior history of church attacks.
The damage to the Church of Saint-Eustache, one of the largest in the French capital and located in the 1st arrondissement (district), was caused on Thursday, with Yves Trocheris, priest of the Oratory, notifying the public of the attack on Instagram.
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Germany’s First Ice Cream Parlor to Sell Insect Ice Cream
The recent approval of insects as food in the EU primarily caused disgust among the citizens, But there are nevertheless entrepreneurs in Germany who are trying their luck with crickets and the like in their products.
An ice cream parlor in Baden-Württemberg now offers “Barbecue Ice Cream”. In addition to the flour from house crickets used, dried insects are used as a topping, but their taste and texture then has to be masked with extracts of wild honey, vanilla and cookies.
High in cholesterol and dangerous viruses
A new EU regulation recently allowed more insects to be used in food, despite being extremely high in cholesterol, and posing a risk of ingesting dangerous viruses. For example, flour from cricket farms contains 545,67 mg cholesterol in 100 g which is on par with egg consumption.
Despite this, the owner of an ice cream parlor in Baden-Württemberg has come up with a bad idea: He has recently been offering a “barbecue” version in his ice cream parlour.
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New Study Warns of Health Risks From 5G Microwave Radiation
5G will have an impact similar to the introduction of electricity or the automobile, affecting entire economies and benefiting entire societies,” Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf once predicted.
It now appears, however, that many of these effects may be negative, according to two recent reports by Swedish researchers Mona Nilsson, director of the Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation, and Dr. Lennart Harddell, an oncologist and professor at Orebro University who has published dozens of papers on the effects of non-ionizing radiation.
“If 5G is not halted,” warned Nilsson, “we will probably see more people suffering from microwave syndrome, i.e. deprived sleep, headache, tinnitus, dizziness, fatigue, heart problems, as well as a range of chronic diseases among them, including more cancers and degenerative diseases.”
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Polish Woman Faces Five Years in Prison for Praising Putin, Russian Invasion of Ukraine
A 59-year-old woman in Poland is facing up to five years in prison for posting pro-Russian sentiments on Facebook last year.
Marzena T. appeared this week before a court in the city Wroclaw accused of praising a “war of aggression”, which can come with a hefty five-year prison sentence in Poland, which like most European Union member-states does not have First Amendment-style freedom of speech protections.
In the posts, which were read before the court by Judge Artur Kosmala, she said: “I believe in the victory of Russia and help us Slavs, thank you in advance and pray for Russia”.
“For freedom, this is what Putin is fighting for his people,” the teacher also wrote, going on to claim that “President Putin leads all nations oppressed by Zionism, he leads all Slavs, maybe Poland will free itself from the power of these torturers”.
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Rise in Anti-Russian Hate Crime in UK, School Kids Among Victims
Police forces in England have disclosed a rise in anti-Russian hate crimes since 2022, which young schoolchildren among the victims.
Broadcaster Sky News submitted Freedom of Information requests to the British Transport Police (BTP) and all of the territorial police forces across the United Kingdom — over 40 in total — asking about “race hate crimes” and similar incidents involving Russian people since last February, when President Vladimir Putin announced his “special military operation” in Ukraine.
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Police in Britain have finally gotten around to investigating a number of Islamist death threats made against a boy linked to a damaged Quran.
British police are reported to be investigating a number of Islamist death threats made against an autistic boy who is said to be the owner of a Quran which was lightly damaged, apparently accidentally, in a school in Northern England last week.
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Sweden: Ten Arrested Following Latest Stockholm Shootings
Ten people have been arrested in the Stockholm region this week following two shootings that took place within an hour of each other on Tuesday evening.
Police were alerted to the first shooting on Tuesday evening at around 8:30 p.m. in Rissne, a neighbourhood in the municipality Sundbyberg just north of the city of Stockholm. Five men aged between 20 and 25 were arrested in connection with the incident, which has been classified as attempted murder.
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Sweden: Brothers Indicted for Alleged Honour Killing of Their Own Mother
Two brothers have been indicted in the Swedish city of Gothenburg for killing their own mother and injuring her boyfriend in an apparently honour-motivated murder.
The two brothers aged 17 and 22 are accused of hitting their 38-year-old mother Nadja Blom and her boyfriend with a car as she was walking down the street last summer, killing Blom and injuring her boyfriend Lolo Kwiek.
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The Man Who Keeps Getting Arrested at Extinction Rebellion Protests in Wales
Last week activists from the climate change group Extinction Rebellion chained themselves to the doors of law firm Eversheds Sutherland at One Callaghan Square in Cardiff.
Demonstrators wrote “defending climate criminals” in graffiti on the glass at the front of the building. A black liquid, seemingly used to represent oil, was poured on the front steps of the law firm, and other banners have been placed alongside.
At the beginning, three people were blocking the door. However when the police moved in to arrest them two voluntarily stepped aside. One of them stayed firm and was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, although he was later released without charge.
His name is Marcus Bailie and he is 68. Originally from Northern Ireland but living in the Valleys for the last 25 years. He has been described as the “most prolifically arrested” members of the group in Wales.
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UK Health Secretary Wanted Dissenting Health Adviser Fired for a Tweet
Thousands of messages obtained by The Telegraph reveal how former UK Health Minister Matt Hancock considered a plot to get Sir Jeremy Farrar, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group of Emergencies (SAGE), fired over a tweet.
Hancock and others in the ministry and advisory groups had an issue with Farrar’s opinions on some COVID-19 topics.
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UK: Father of Actress Florence Pugh Pushes Back Against Surveilled “Low-Traffic Neighborhoods”
64-year-old Clinton Pugh, father of actress Florence Pugh, has been threatened with a £2,500 ($3,000) fine for putting up a sign on his business opposing the surveillance-driven anti-traffic measures in the city of Oxford, England.
According to Pugh, the Low Traffic Neighborhoods (LTNs) policy is affecting businesses in the city where he owns three restaurants. In November he began opposing the measures by putting up a sign at the side of one of his restaurants Café Coco.
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Viktor Orban: “In a War Taking Place in Europe the Americans Have the Final Word”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said in a fresh interview with Swiss weekly Weltwoche that his country’s leadership is “strong enough to keep the war away from our country” while also stressing that Washington has become prime the decision-maker over the conflict in Ukraine.
He further addressed the proxy war nature of the conflict in saying, “There are some who want to force Hungary into the war, and they are not picky about the means with which to achieve that goal.”
“Ukraine is our neighbor where Hungarians live as well,” he continued. “They are being conscripted and are dying by the hundreds on the front.” The Hungarian government has long protested this practice and presented its complaints to Kiev.
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Russia has tried to cast the relocation of the children as saving orphans — but Ukrainians say children are either being abducted outright or their parents are pressured or tricked into giving them up.
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Scientist Behind World’s First COVID Vaccine Found Dead
A renowned scientist who developed the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine has been found dead in his home, according to reports.
Russian scientist Andrey Botikov, a senior researcher at the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, was found strangled to death in his Moscow apartment.
Russia’s investigative committee has now launched a murder investigation over the gruesome discovery.
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Ukraine War: The Moldovan Enclave Surrounded by Pro-Russian Forces
A short drive from Ukraine’s southern border, hundreds of Russian troops guard a vast Soviet-era ammunition depot in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria.
This depot, these soldiers and this pro-Russian separatist region are under increasing global scrutiny.
In the past few weeks, accusations have flown between Russia, Ukraine and Moldova over alleged plots to destabilise Moldova, and warnings about the potential for conflict to erupt here again.
Moldova’s prime minister, Dorin Recean, has said Russian troops should be expelled from the region, amid warnings from President Maia Sandu that Moscow is planning to topple her pro-western government.
Russia, meanwhile, has been talking up the threat of a “false flag” attack by Ukrainian forces — and warned that any attack on its troops in Transnistria would be seen as an attack on Russia itself.
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Ukrainians Blow Bridges Out of Bakhmut, Russian Fighters Now in the Streets
KHROMOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Pressure from Russian forces mounted Saturday on Ukrainians hunkered down in Bakhmut, as residents attempted to flee with help from troops who Western analysts say may be preparing to withdraw from the key eastern stronghold.
A woman was killed and two men were badly wounded by shelling while trying to cross a makeshift bridge out of the city in Donetsk province, according to Ukrainian troops who were assisting them.
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Bakhmut has for months been a prime target of Moscow’s grinding eastern offensive in the war, with Russian troops — including forces from the private Wagner Group — inching ever closer
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India: Khajrana: Youth Stabbed to Death Over Social Media Comment
Indore:Khajrana police have arrested two persons for stabbing an 18-year-old youth to death after an argument escalated over commenting with smiley emoji on a social media post.
The duo — Arshad and Shahabuddin— had injured Sahilby attacking him with a knife on March 1 night. Sahil had sustained injuries on legs, thighs, and hips and was admitted to MY Hospital, where he died on March 4. The death occurred due to excessive loss of blood after the attack, police said.
The police said that Sahil had commented with a smiley (emoji) on a social media post of the accused. Sahil was in Mumbai when he commented on the post. Later, he came to Indore and went to meet the accused when they got into an argument over the comment and hurled abuses at each other. Subsequently, the accused attacked him there causing multiple injuries to Sahil.
A case was registered under section 323, 294 of IPC for voluntarily causing hurt against the duo, police said.
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China announced it will boost its military budget by nearly $230 billion this year amid concerns it will launch an invasion of Taiwan.
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Japan’s Population in Freefall as Twice as Many People Die as Are Born
Japan’s population is in freefall.
In 2022, the number of births registered in Japan plummeted to another record low last year according to statistics released by the Ministry of Health — the latest worrying statistic in a decades-long decline that the country’s authorities have failed to reverse despite their extensive efforts.
The country saw just 799,728 births in 2022 — the lowest number on record and the first ever dip below 800,000 — and about half of the number of deaths, which at more than 1.58 million, was a record high. The number of births in Japan has nearly halved in the past 40 years: in 1982, Japan recorded more than 1.5 million births, a number which was then more than double the number of deaths. This ratio has since reversed.
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Top Japanese Scientist Blows Whistle, Warns ‘Fraud’ of mRNA Shots ‘Threatens Our Very Existence’
One of Japan’s leading scientists has blown the whistle during a recent hearing, warning that mRNA shots have been rolled out onto the public due to “fraud.”
Dr. Masanori Fukushima has filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government in an effort to prevent any more mRNA Covid vaccines from being given.
During a statement on the case, Fukushima warned that the shots are “a historically serious problem that threatens the very existence of Japan.”
However, he also warns that the harms caused by the vaccines are now a worldwide problem.
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Coles Finally Drops Vaccine Mandate for Staff
Coles has announced it will drop its Covid-19 vaccine mandates for staff.
The company’s announcement comes in the wake of comments by NSW State Premier Dominic Perrottet who told Sydney radio listeners that there was “no evidence” the vaccine stopped transmission of the virus.
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It’s a wild week of weather ahead with a heatwave set to push temperatures on the east coast up to levels not seen since 2020 while rains threaten flooding in the Top End and Tasmania could even see snow.
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The woman had hitched a ride in a taxi before she was dropped off at Rhodes, in Sydney’s inner west.
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French City Has to Launch Police Brigade to Deal Exclusively With Minor Migrant Crime
Police in the French city of Bordeaux have had to launch a specialised brigade to tackle minor migrant criminals, with around a third of burglaries and nearly half of pickpocketing now committed by migrant minors, for example.
The officers of the new brigade are tasked specifically with dealing with migrant offenders who claim to be underage, several hundred of whom operate on the streets of the city and are greatly overrepresented in various types of crimes.
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French Senator Faces Trial for Tweet Saying ‘Immigration Kills’
Populist French Senator Stéphane Ravier faces a criminal trial after publishing a tweet in January of last year in which he stated that “immigration kills the youth of France.”
Ravier, a former member of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) who joined political pundit and writer Eric Zemmour’s Reconquest party last year, faces trial on March 9th in the criminal court of Marseilles on charges of incitement to discrimination, hatred, or violence.
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From Ottawa to Niagara, Trudeau is Shipping Roxham’s Illegals Across Ontario
Niagara Falls, Ont., is the very definition of a tourism town, attracting some 35 million visitors per year. But this wondrous place was hit hard these last few years. First, there was the COVID-19 lockdown, which turned this bustling city into something almost resembling a ghost town.
Thankfully, COVID is in the rear-view mirror these days. But now Niagara Falls is struggling with another issue: namely, a potential hotel room shortage thanks to the federal government shipping illegal aliens to the Falls from the notorious Roxham Road.
There are about 16,000 hotel rooms in Niagara Falls and almost 2,000 of those rooms are currently accommodating asylum seekers. And tourism season is but a few months away.
Recently, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada told mainstream media outlets that they have transferred 2,841 asylum seekers to Niagara Falls out of the 5,557 claimants that have been moved to Ontario. Other claimants are now being accommodated in Cornwall, Ottawa and Windsor.
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Illegal Migrants Flock to Canada, ‘Just Walk Across the Border, ‘ Trump Interior Secretary Warns
Montana Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke told Just the News that the Biden administration is neglecting the security of the United States’ northern border.
Zinke, the interior secretary under former President Trump and cofounder of the new Northern Border Security Caucus, said illegal migrants and deadly fentanyl are both flooding into the U.S. via the northern border.
“We are not paying attention to our northern border,” Zinke said in an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “As an example, about 3.1 million lethal doses of fentanyl were intercepted in the northern border — that’s enough to kill Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas.
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Italian Intelligence Says ‘Rescue’ Ship NGOs Help Smugglers, Lead to More Migrant Deaths
An Italian intelligence report released this week says NGO migrant “taxi” ships help people-smugglers and cause more deaths at sea.
The Italian Department of Security Intelligence (DIS) report released this week to the Italian parliament says the presence of migrant “taxis” claiming to be conducting rescue operations helped people smugglers and led to more migrants setting sail in hopes of coming across them.
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UK PM Sunak Vows to Deport All Illegal Immigrants: ‘You Will Not be Able to Stay’
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned illegal immigrants entering the country that they would be deported and “will not be able to stay” on Sunday.
Sunak made the vow in a Sunday interview as the U.K. faces a steady flow of migrants crossing its borders from Europe. Sunak’s government is expected to push legislation cracking down on illegal immigration later this week, with a special emphasis on illegal immigrants arriving in boats across the English Channel.
“Make no mistake, if you come here illegally, you will not be able to stay,” Sunak told U.K. media.
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UK: Anti-Illegal Immigration Protest in Dover
Anti-illegal immigration protesters gathered in Dover on Saturday 4 February to raise awareness about the growing level of illegal immigration into the UK. The protest was intended to highlight the government’s inaction when tackling the growing problem of migrants crossing the English Channel via dingy.
The protest marched along Townwall Street leading towards the Dover Ferry Terminals before being met by protestors from Stand up to Racism and Antifa. The two groups of protesters had a brief standoff with each side chanting slogans and insults at the other.
After a tense few minutes the police separated the two groups and the anti-illegal immigration protest was redirected into the town centre where several speakers addressed the crowd. Citizen Journalist, Steve Laws, was in attendance and gave a the final speech to a loud applause from protestors and members of the public who had stopped to listen.
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Woke’ Ben & Jerry’s Caught Profiting From Migrant Child Labor
“Woke” ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry’s has been caught using migrant child slave labor in its supply chains, according to a new report.
A recent New York Times exposé revealed that Ben & Jerry’s suppliers violated labor laws by utilizing migrant child labor to process milk.
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Employers Frequently Overlook Resumes Which Include “They/Them” Pronouns
One of the apocryphal conspiracy theories floated in recent years is that the establishment’s — and corporate America’s — fascination with pushing an LGBTQ agenda while minimizing (and in some cases openly ridiculing) traditional family-focused Judeo-Christian values, is that this is a core spoke of the World Economic Forum’s great reset. After all, what easier way to “depopulate” the world (as World Economic Forum participant Jane Goodall famously suggested in 2020 when she said “we can solve all the world’s problems if we reduce the world population to where it was 500 years ago”, at the 27 minute mark of the linked video) than to convince hundreds of millions to pair with a member of the same sex and thus avoid having children. One certainly wouldn’t need World War 3 or even a global viral pandemic to achieve a depopulation outcome if enough people are L, G, B, T, Q, “they/them” and so on (at last check, over 7% of the US population now identifies as LGBTQ). One just has to wait a generation.
There now appears to be another potential twist to this: it appears that workers who identify as the cool du jour pronoun pair of “they/them” are being systematically ignored by potential employers, and face far fewer job offers compared to their less pronoun-sensitive peers.
According to a new report from Business.com, a business resource platform, over 80% of nonbinary people believe that identifying as nonbinary would hurt their job search.
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Latin American Country Rejects Same-Sex Marriage in Landmark Court Case; Not a ‘Human Right’
Panama’s Supreme Court has ruled against same-sex marriage, saying that it is not a human right, closing the door to establishing the practice through judicial ruling.
“There is a reality, and it is that, until now, the right to equal marriage is no more than an aspiration, even though a legitimate one for the groups involved, and it does not fall into the category of a human right or a fundamental right,” said the court, in the ruling dated Feb. 16 but released on Mar. 1.
The case resulted from same-sex couples who were married in other countries seeking to have their unions recognized in Panama.
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LGBTQ Slurs Found at MIT Done by Students Protesting School’s New Pro-Free Speech Efforts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology students behind flyers and chalkings recently found at the school that included slurs against LGBTQ people were protesting the university’s emerging policies in support of free speech.
The incident came in the wake of a two-month-old MIT faculty resolution that defends freedom of speech and expression — even speech some find “offensive or injurious.”
A Feb. 23 memo from MIT administrators stated flyers posted across campus and some chalking outside a school entrance “contained slurs directly targeting the LBGTQ+ community.”
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Satanic Temple’s ‘Weekend of Blasphemy’ Sells Out in Boston
The Satanic Temple (TST) has announced that SatanCon 2023, “a weekend of blasphemy” to be held in Boston this April, has sold out.
SatanCon 2023 will be held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place on April 28-30, the TST website states, hyping the meeting as “a weekend of blasphemy and remembrance in Boston.”
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by Daniel Greenfield
We live in a strange world in which the weather is a subject of furious political debate. People have been arguing about the weather ever since the first rainstorm caught the first man without the umbrella that he did not yet know how to make, but they didn’t hold political debates over it.
For the last fifty years, the anti-weather side has been insisting that the world is headed toward a Frostean apocalypse of ice or fire. The calm biblical assertion that “Seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” was replaced by the terrifying certainty that the planet would soon turn into Mars or Venus; either too hot or too cold.
The end of weather was here. Instead of stable rhythms and cycles that might last for months or centuries, there was a runaway weather apocalypse that would culminate in unlivable conditions.
The doomsday predictions roll out daily without any regard to scientific or experiential reality. The more the predictions fail to match up, the more urgently Warmists insist on immediate action. The harder it snows, the more articles appear warning that snow may soon be a thing of the past.
Never mind the weather; the end of weather is almost here…
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A simple xylitol based nasal spray can prevent COVID-19 infections according to a new double-blind, placebo controlled trial as the health benefits of the sugar alcohol continue to be discovered.
Cardiologist and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough shared the findings from Balmforth et al. recently on his substack where he refers to such strategies as simple, affordable and readily available.
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UK: Woke Christianity: Historic London Church to Host Drag Queen Performance
A historic Anglican Church in the heart of London will for the first time put on a drag queen performance featuring former RuPaul’s Drag Race UK contestants to “celebrate artistry and ingenuity in every walk of life”.
The 17th-century St James’s Church, Piccadilly in London, which claims to have demonstrated a “pioneering welcome of LGBTQAI+ communities and other marginalised people and groups”, will for the first time in its 340-year history put on a “drag night” dubbed PREACH! within the church.
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USA Powerlifting Loses Court Battle Against Transgender Athlete, Ruled Guilty of Discrimination
USA Powerlifting has lost a two-year legal battle after a judge ruled that the organisation had discriminated against a transgender athlete. JayCee Cooper, who is biologically male, was barred from competing in women’s competitions.
The court has ordered the sports organisation to “cease and desist from all unfair discriminatory practices” based on sexual orientation and gender identity and revise its policy related to these issues within two weeks,” NBC News reported.
Following the ruling, Cooper expressed relief at the decision, saying “I think we needed a win here, and it feels good to get that.”
Meanwhile, USA Powerlifting President Larry Maile said his organisation disagrees with the court’s decision and may appeal.
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WEF Unveils Plan to ‘Track’ Public’s Every Move for ‘Individual Carbon Footprint’
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has unveiled a disturbing new plan that seeks to “track” the public’s every move in order to record individuals’ “carbon footprint.”
The agenda was revealed by WEF member J. Michael Evans, the Canadian president of Chinese online retail giant Alibaba.
During a recent WEF event, Evans boasted that the tech to surveil the masses in such a way is currently in development and will be rolled out soon.
Evans said that the plan is to introduce a global system, called an “individual carbon footprint tracker,” to monitor people’s every move.
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The World Health Organization (WHO), an unelected global health organization that receives hundreds of millions of dollars in annual funding from a foundation tied to billionaire Bill Gates, is moving forward with plans to increase its surveillance capabilities under international law.
The WHO is attempting to push through these increased surveillance powers via an international pandemic treaty that will impose legally binding conditions on its 194 member states (which represent 98% of the world’s countries) if finalized.
The global health agency has been working on this treaty since 2021 and a WHO intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) held a meeting this week to discuss a recently released zero draft of the treaty.
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Xylitol nasal spray. Does it also prevent the flu and other airborne infections?
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Astrid Stuckelberger og pandemitraktaten
6/3-23
The following is a really good conversation with Astrid, including:
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-c3sbt-13a5eb3
Her background,
the history of the WHO,
the WHO’s clever wordplay and changing of the definition of “pandemic”,
the Pandemic Treaty and why it’s dangerous, and
Bill Gates’ vaccine group called GAVI and its immunity from investigation.
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The WHO International Pandemic Treaty was signed in the days 27. February to 3 March
I ( Steen of snaphanen.dk ) have talked about this Pandemic Treaty from WHO before, when after their last meeting I found their working sheet from their meeting in July 2022…
However, now they have held the third meeting and out of this meeting have come all the documents below which are to be further discussed in Geneva 5-7 December 2022.
The most important document is the treaty itself, which is also called the “Conceptual zero draft for the consideration of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body at its third meeting” and if you start to go through it you will come across many (in my eyes) downright insane measures.
To name a few of the worst:
A new “government” that takes over and overrides the local governments of member states in the event of a Pandemic.
The word Pandemic is not further defined therein, so they can effectively cram anything under that term.
The term “Social equity” is used throughout, without defining what is meant by it.
There is a push for local strategic “Pandemic Response Preparedness” stocks of some kind worldwide.
All the talk about natural minerals and vitamins NOT existing therein.
Point 7 deals with the possibility of pushing out more experimental drugs, completely untested.
Point 16 brings to mind the book 1984, as it sounds like a “Ministry of Truth” is being mentioned.
Fuld download af dokumenterne
https://zeroq.one/who-pandemi-traktat/?fbclid=IwAR0Y-c4Z2Wi_
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Nord Stream gas pipeline:
REVIEW by News VOICE
Meet Mats Ljungqvist, the Stockholm prosecutor the government is pointing the finger at for Sweden’s failure yet to present the extensive evidence he claims to have about who was behind the September 2022 blowing up of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the southern Baltic Sea – Europe’s energy lifeline.
The risk of continued cover-up is that Nord Stream’s owners: Russia, Germany, the Netherlands, and France, as well as the rest of the world, will begin to see Sweden as somehow involved in the blow-up of biblical proportions that is, at the time of writing, de-industrialising continental Europe.
Not because Sweden is guilty of the blast itself – but because after the attack it assumed the role of enabler and accomplice and cleaned up the crime scene of the evidence leading to the perpetrator.
Against other countries there are, so far, only suspicions and allegations. Well-founded they may be – but as yet no evidence from the crime scene.
In English, the Swedish claptrap is called “accessory after the fact” – “protection of the criminal”.
Criminal Code 17 Chapter 11 §: [1]
“If a person conceals a person who has committed a crime, helps him or her to escape, conceals evidence or in any other similar way prevents the discovery of the crime or the prosecution of a person for it, he or she shall be sentenced for protection of a criminal to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.”
We called Ove Bring, one of the Swedish government’s top experts on international law.
“It is clear that you can be criticised under international law for not cooperating with other states and saying what it is in international relations.”
Could it be about more than just criticism of Sweden?
“It’s not of the calibre that it could be the subject of an international judicial process in the Hague Tribunal. First of all, there is not enough to take on. There are political accusations from one side against another. That is not the same as proof that this is correct. It will fall on that bit already.
We need to know much, much more and have proof of things before it’s worth asking what can happen to this under international law.”
We asked about the English legal concept of “accessory after the fact”.
“It doesn’t exist as a rule written down in a treaty, but it’s clearly quite possible to make a thing of it in international relations and in international negotiations and talks. … ‘General principles of law’ are to be observed by the International Court of Justice in The Hague and they have to judge by ‘General principles of law’ and should one state accuse another of something in this form that you are after, it’s not impossible, it’s not that.”
So what does Sweden know?
Quoted from the Prosecutor’s Office’s latest press release, published over three months ago:[2]
“Extensive seizures were made during the on-site crime scene investigations in the Baltic Sea and the area has been thoroughly documented. Analyses that have now been carried out show residues of explosives on several of the foreign objects that were found. The advanced analysis work continues in order to draw more reliable conclusions about the incident,” says Mats Ljungqvist.
In other words, by the end of October 2022, Sweden had already found murder weapons, gunpowder spatter and fingerprints, after which it cleaned up the crime scene.
The only thing Nord Stream found, when it was allowed to make its own inspection in early November 2022, was just craters on the bottom where the pipes had been blown up. No mention of foreign objects.[3]
We contacted the security police, who referred us to Mats Ljungqvist, the Chief Prosecutor, who could not be reached. Instead, we sent our questions by email.
NewsVoice first round of questions to Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist:
What is the number or equivalent of the investigation?
Some of the authority’s press releases mention the presence of “foreign objects” at the crime scene. Is this to be understood as objects not belonging to Nord Stream AG being discovered at the site, i.e. not just parts of the destroyed infrastructure/gas pipelines?
Press reports also mention the presence of explosive remnants. Which, which labs did the examination? SKL, other private, foreign?
What type of explosives were found at the scene?
In the last press release 2022-11-18, over three months ago, it was said that “analytical work continues”.
Has the technical part of the investigation reached its goal yet? If not, when is this estimated to have happened.
Six months have almost passed since the incident itself and when you took over the investigation from Henrik Söderman.
Mats Ljungqvist’s reply:
“I leave the same message to you as to everyone else. I have nothing to say and will not answer any questions on the grounds of the confidentiality of the investigation.”
NewsVoice second round of questions:
“When is the preliminary investigation expected to be completed? More than three months have passed since the crime scene investigation was completed.”
Mats Ljungqvist:
“I don’t have any announcement to make in that regard.”
NewsVoice now contacted the government, which also declined to participate in a telephone interview:
Is it a good idea for a Swedish prosecutor to conduct Swedish foreign policy by being given veto power over an important issue concerning the country’s foreign relations and security policy, while Europe seems to be teetering on the brink of a major war?
Is the prosecutor, Mats Ljungqvist, coordinating his actions with the Foreign Ministry/government?
Has the government/UD considered the consequences that may follow from Prosecutor Ljungqvist’s continued unwillingness to close a case whose forensic phase was completed as early as the end of 2022 and present the findings of the agency he works for made at the United Nations?
Government’s response:
“The responsible authorities in Sweden are conducting a preliminary investigation that has not been completed. Questions relating to the preliminary investigation are referred to the relevant authorities.
The continuing preliminary investigation will show whether anyone can be suspected and later prosecuted. The government does not speculate on possible motives or actors.”
Since Mats Ljungqvist is so secretive (or anxious) that not even the prosecution’s press service claims to have a picture of him, this hidden Swedish power-holder is represented as a pixelated placeholder image (beginning of article).
Readers who may have a picture of him are welcome to contact the editorial office, which believes that Swedish rulers in democratic countries should be known to the public, and therefore might consider paying for the photo(s).
Mats Ljungqvist’s place of work, according to the authority he works for, is Hantverkargatan 25A in Stockholm.[4]
“Nordstream police”. Montage: K. Hell based on photos from CGTN.com (CFP) and Avon-protection.com
“Nordstream police”. Montage: K. Hell based on photos from CGTN.com (CFP) and Avon-protection.com
Text: Kristoffer Hell
https://newsvoice.se/2023/03/kammara%cc%8aklagare-mats-ljungvist-haller-pa-att-dra-in-sverige-i-krig/
Interesting article.
“Employers Frequently Overlook Resumes Which Include “They/Them” Pronouns”
Anyone with ANY pronouns goes into my “reject” pile automatically. As do anyone indicating far-left tendencies, anyone with a “Gender Studies” degree, etc.
So I’m not surprised in the slightest. I’m just more open about it :-).
There were two young women trying on clothes in our shop on Friday, apparently eastern European, so I asked one. Turned out she was Russian, her friend Ukrainian.
A glimmer of sunshine in a bleak world.
Perhaps.
A lot of Russians living outside of Russia don’t necessarily have any love for Putin, and quite a few Ukrainians can’t stand elinsky either.
I know quite a few Ukrainian and Moldovan women through my wife’s circle of friends and none of them really have a clue about politics or an opinion on the war except that they don’t like Putin. But that’s most women, who tend to have a very superficial understanding of world events if they think about such things at all.