Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/6/2023

Over the weekend dozens of violent Antifa protesters attacked the police with rocks and Molotov cocktails at Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ training center. 23 were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism. Among those arrested was Thomas Webb Jurgens, a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In other news, yesterday a passenger named Francisco Severo Torres tried to open an emergency exit and attempted to stab a stewardess in the neck with a broken-off metal fork on a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Boston. Mr. Torres was subdued and restrained by passengers and the cabin crew. He was held without bail after a court appearance today in Massachusetts.

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Thanks to Dean, DV, Fjordman, Hellequin GB, JW, LP, MM, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Aussies Brace for Even More Mortgage Pain: Interest Rates Could Hit the Highest Level in a Decade Today
» Bad News for Biden: New Survey Shows Majority of Americans More Worried About Inflation Than Taxes
 
USA
» 23 Protesters Charged With Domestic Terrorism After Fiery Clashes at Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Training Center
» A 17-Year-Old Boy in Custody After Bolingbrook Shooting That Left 4 Shot, 3 Dead, Police Say
» AI Facial Recognition Can Find Out Who Your Friends Are Based on Surveillance Footage
» Anger as Djokovic Withdraws From US Open; Still Banned From Entering U.S. Due to Vaccination Status
» Asian-American Lawmakers Say the Demographic’s Shift to the GOP is a Sign They Reject ‘Leftist’ Policies
» Atlanta Bail Fund Rushes to Support Arrested ‘Cop City’ Activists After 23 Charged With Domestic Terrorism
» Breaking: Video Footage Reveals Officer Brian Sicknick Walking Around AFTER Dems and Media Claimed He Had Been Killed by Jan 6 Rioters
» Credibility Crisis: CNN Boss Ordered Staff Not to Chase Down COVID Lab Leak Theory as Pandemic Unfolded
» Delaware Lowers Standards for Bar Exam to Increase Diversity
» DoD Still Probing Causes of ‘Havana Syndrome’ After Intelligence Officials Say No Adversary Linked: Report
» Elon Musk Razzes on Report Twitter Can No Longer ‘Protect You From Trolls: ‘ ‘Centrist Takeover’
» Elon Musk Issues Warning to ‘State-Affiliated’ CNN: ‘It Should be Labeled to Inform the Public’
» Fauci Persuaded Scientists to Fabricate COVID Origins Paper Ruling Out Lab Leak
» Florida Officials Issue Warning After Man Dies From Brain-Eating Amoeba
» Jan. 6 Footage Appears to Show Capitol Police Escorting QAnon Shaman to Senate Floor
» Jill Biden Slams Questions Over Biden’s Mental Competency as “Ridiculous”
» Jim Jordan Subpoenas Former Head of Disinformation Governance Board Nina Jankowicz
» Jim Jordan: Fauci Covered-Up Wuhan Lab Leak Narrative ‘Because They Were Doing Gain-of-Function Research There’
» Marjorie Taylor Greene Moves to Have Antifa Declared Domestic Terrorist Organization
» McCloskeys Speak Out After Escaping Soros-Backed DA Felony Crusade for ‘Defending’ Home From BLM
» Musk Announces Suspensions for Twitter Accounts Pushing ‘Weaponization’ of Copyright Law
» NYC Wants Shoppers to Take Off Masks in Crime-Fighting Measure
» ‘Pedo Island’ Sex Offenders Won’t be Housed in Washington Residential Areas After Backlash
» Portland Real Estate Developer Says Goodbye to City After Bullet Holes Riddle Office: ‘Absolute Madness’
» Portland is Bleeding Businesses, Thanks to Years of Soft-on-Crime Policies
» Ron DeSantis Gets Revenge on Gavin Newsom: “Your Governor is Very Concerned About What We Are Doing in Florida So I Figured I Had to Come by”
» SPLC Lawyer Charged in Atlanta ‘Cop City’ Attack
» Texas Homeowner Turns the Tables on Burglar Who Shot His Dog, Leaves Him ‘Yelling for Help’
» Texit: State Representative Introduces Texas Independence Referendum Act in State Legislature
» Top 5 Worst US Cities to Drive in Are Run by Democratic Mayors
» United Airlines Passenger Tried to Stab Flight Attendant, U.S. Prosecutors Say
» Video: Russell Brand Completely Eviscerates MSNBC “Mouthpiece”
» What We Know About Shamaiya Hall, the Woman Arrested in the Fatal Stabbing of 3 Children
 
Canada
» Breaking: Trudeau Pledges $5.5 Million to Fight ‘Disinformation’ After Accusations CCP Infiltrated Canadian Elections
» Canada’s Police Chiefs Want to Expand DNA Collection Laws to Non-Violent Offenders
» Freedom Convoy Leader Tamara Lich Receives Warm Reception in Alberta Legislature
 
Europe and the EU
» A Pair of Climate Activists in Scotland Smashed and Spray-Painted a Glass Case Housing ‘Braveheart’ Knight William Wallace’s Sword
» German Autopsy Report Proves COVID Jab Caused Heart, Brain Damage to 76-Year-Old
» Great Reset: ChatGPT-Style AI Should Play a Role in Government: UK Science Minister
» Half of Poles Believe Left-Wing Opposition Would Axe Social Programs Instituted by Conservative Government
» High-Flying Conservative FPÖ Gains Ground in Austrian State Election as Popularity Continues to Surge
» Italy: Far-Left Riots in Support of Jailed Anarchist Leader Leave Turin in Ruins
» Kallas’ Reform Party Enjoys Big Win in Estonian Election
» Key UK-EU Gas Pipeline Out of Commission
» Revealed: The Top 10 Fastest-Growing Destinations for UK Pensioners Retiring Overseas
» Scotland: Serious Inverurie House Blaze Treated as Wilful Fireraising
» UK: GB News Host Mark Steyn’s COVID Vaccine Claims Broke Ofcom Rules
» UK: Left-Separatist Scottish Politicians Plot Sabotage of King’s Coronation
» UK: Steyn Found Guilty!
» Unions Vow Total Shutdown of French Economy as Macron Move to Increase Retirement Age
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Hungarian President Insists No Decision Has Been Made on Relocating Israeli Embassy to Jerusalem
 
Russia
» European Parliament President Demands West Send Warplanes to Ukraine, Pushes for EU Membership
» Russian Volunteers in Ukraine Say They Want to Overthrow Vladimir Putin, Breakup Russia
» Russia Claims Missile and Drone Attacks Within Its Borders
» Ukraine Vows to Fortify Bakhmut Defences as Russians Enter Suburbs
» Wagner Boss Hints at ‘Betrayal’, Frontline Collapse as Russian Mercs Run Short on Ammo
 
Far East
» North Korea Warns US Against Shooting Down Missile Tests
» The West Prepares for China to Send Weapons to Russia
 
Australia — Pacific
» ABC Radio Host Accused of Massive Cocaine and Meth Operation is Attacked in Jail ‘Because He Was Snoring’
» Far Right Activist Who Protested Against Islam Becomes a Muslim Because it is ‘Anti-Woke’ And ‘The West Has Lost Its Way to Alcohol, Drugs and Porn’
» How Mum’s Visit to Hospital Ended With Cops Allegedly Finding Her Dead Newborn Baby Stuffed Inside a Freezer
» ‘Thieves’ Look Anything But in Their Revealing Clothes as They Smile After Allegedly Switching Their Old Pram for a Luxury Model — But Cops Have the Last Laugh
» Train Chaos as Young Female Commuter Performs a Baffling Series of Acts While Belting Out Hip-Hop Song ‘Like a G6’
 
Latin America
» How Dangerous Amazonian Drug ‘Promoted’ by Prince Harry Has Become the Latest Trend Adored by Middle Class Brits
 
Immigration
» A Tale of Two French Cities
» Arizona Rancher Pleads Not Guilty to Second-Degree Murder of Alleged Illegal Immigrant on His Property
» Foreign Nationals Automatically Registered to Vote in Washington State: Report
» Illegal Migrants Accused of Shooting Bald Eagle: Nebraska Sheriff Says Community in ‘Uproar’
» Somalian Migrant Convicted of Stabbing Her Own Baby to Death at Asylum Center in Germany
» Sweden: Migrant Man Who Stabbed 10-Year-Old Dutch Girl Has 52 Crimes on His Record
» UK: Border Force Union: No Point Stopping Boats, Migrants Will Come Another Way
» UK: More Channel Boats Arrive as Rishi Prepares to Unveil Crackdown: Ministers Say ‘£3bn’ Scheme With Life Ban on Illegal Immigrants Re-Entering Britain Can ‘Get a Grip’ On Crisis…
 
Culture Wars
» All-Ages Drag Show at Massachusetts Brewery ‘Won’t be Censored for the Kiddos’
» Artur Pawlowski Calls Out Alberta Premier as Fellow Pastor Sits in Jail for Protesting Drag Queen Event
» California Moves to Force Hollywood to Get More Woke Under New Law
» California LGBTQ Democrat Lawmaker Fights for Right of Drag Queens to Read to Kids in Public Libraries
» Canadian Christian Pastor Arrested for Protesting Drag Event for Kids to Stay Jailed for 2 More Weeks
» French State-Backed Media Blame U.S. Conservatives for ‘Culture War’ Over Drag Aimed at Kids
» Josh Alexander Receives Hero’s Welcome From Crowd of Supporters at Catholic School Board Meeting
» LGBT Activist Attacks Lawmaker, Police Officer After Oklahoma House Votes to Ban Child ‘Sex Changes’
» Parents Alarmed by Satanist After-School Clubs Forming Across U.S.
» Texas Supreme Court: Pro-Lifer Has a Constitutional Right to Say Abortion Orgs ‘Murder Unborn Children’
» Transgender Cartoonist With Diaper Fetish Allegedly Attacks Journalist in Manchester
» University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alters ‘Bias Reporting System’ Following First Amendment Challenge
 

Aussies Brace for Even More Mortgage Pain: Interest Rates Could Hit the Highest Level in a Decade Today

Households are bracing for interest rates to hit the highest level in a decade on Tuesday, but at least one economist says that still won’t be high enough to keep the economy strong.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Bad News for Biden: New Survey Shows Majority of Americans More Worried About Inflation Than Taxes

81% of Americans are more concerned with inflation than with taxes in a new survey conducted by WalletHub.

The survey, polling 200 Americans on questions related to taxation, reveals some interesting patterns on Americans’ view of tax season.

73% of Americans do not believe the government spends their tax dollars wisely with 28% of Americans preferring their dollars go to charity, 26% to local government, and 13% to religious groups.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

23 Protesters Charged With Domestic Terrorism After Fiery Clashes at Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Training Center

Felony state domestic terrorism charges have been filed against 23 protesters arrested in Atlanta on Sunday after allegedly hurling bricks, rocks, fireworks and Molotov cocktails at police officers near the site of a planned public safety training facility, police said.

After attending a music festival near the site of the soon-to-be Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, a group of people changed into black clothing and entered the construction area at around 5:30 p.m. ET. The “agitators” approached officers there and launched a “coordinated attack,” according to the Atlanta Police Department.

Twenty-three of the 35 protesters arrested Sunday were charged overnight with felony domestic terrorism, a charge Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said reflects the “very violent” nature of the attack.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

A 17-Year-Old Boy in Custody After Bolingbrook Shooting That Left 4 Shot, 3 Dead, Police Say

A 17-year-old boy is in custody after Bolingbrook police discovered two girls and a man fatally shot and another adult woman wounded while responding to an apparent Sunday night home invasion.

The detained boy had been in a dating relationship with one of the killed girls, who police identified as Samiya A. Shelton-Tillman, 17. The two others shot and killed include another girl not yet named and 40-year-old Cartez L. Daniels, police spokesperson Anthony Columbus said Monday afternoon.

Officers discovered the victims while responding to the home at 123 Lee Lane in the southwest suburb around 8:15 p.m.

First responders transported a 34-year-old woman who was also shot to the hospital. Her condition was stable Monday. Two boys, ages 3 and 14, were also inside the home at the time of the shooting, but were unharmed, Columbus said.

Police detained the boy suspected of committing the shooting near his home at 10 p.m. Sunday and are working with the office of Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow to file formal charges, Columbus said.

“All indications are he was the sole offender,” he said.

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

AI Facial Recognition Can Find Out Who Your Friends Are Based on Surveillance Footage

The San Jose-based tech company Vintra, which delivers “AI-powered video analytics,” has developed facial recognition software that identifies who a person’s friends and acquaintances may be through “correlation analysis” and “co-appearance” technology that scans surveillance footage.

According to Tech Xplore, Vintra’s CEO, Brent Boekestein, said in a presentation of the software last year, “You can go up here and create a target, based off of this guy, and then see who this guy’s hanging out with. You can really start building out a network.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Anger as Djokovic Withdraws From US Open; Still Banned From Entering U.S. Due to Vaccination Status

The world’s number one tennis player Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the Miami Open and the U.S. Open because he is still banned from entering the country owing to his vaccination status.

While the news is being reported as a “visa dispute,” the reason Djokovic cannot complete is because he refuses to take the COVID vaccine.

Djokovic has appealed for a special dispensation to play in the tournaments, given that the restrictions are slated to end in April anyway.

Djokovic requested a vaccine waiver, however it was rejected by the Homeland Security Department in a blatant move to once make an example out of the premier athlete.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Asian-American Lawmakers Say the Demographic’s Shift to the GOP is a Sign They Reject ‘Leftist’ Policies

GOP Asian American lawmakers say a new analysis that reveals Asian voters are shifting to the Republican Party is a sign that they are rejecting “leftists priorities” and socialism ideals of the Democratic Party.

The New York Times published a deep dive Monday into New York City’s neighborhoods with the most potential Asian American voters. The study looked into turnout in the 2022 gubernatorial election between former Rep. Lee Zeldin and sitting Gov. Kathy Hochul.

The Times’ study found that although the neighborhoods “remained blue overall,” they shifted Republican by 23 points compared to 2018. And according to the analysis, it was the “largest electoral shift in Asian neighborhoods in the period from 2006 to 2022.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Atlanta Bail Fund Rushes to Support Arrested ‘Cop City’ Activists After 23 Charged With Domestic Terrorism

An Atlanta bail fund jumped to the defense of activists arrested in Atlanta Sunday night after a demonstration against a planned police and fire training facility devolved into vandalism and arson.

The Atlanta Solidarity Fund asked for donations Monday afternoon, saying it was “committed to providing bail assistance and access to legal representation for everyone arrested protesting.”

“We are already coordinating a network of lawyers to respond. Please donate to help us continue this work. Solidarity means nobody faces repression alone!” the fund tweeted.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Breaking: Video Footage Reveals Officer Brian Sicknick Walking Around AFTER Dems and Media Claimed He Had Been Killed by Jan 6 Rioters

Tucker Carlson has revealed never before seen footage that proves Officer Brian Sicknick was alive, healthy, and walking around on duty in the Capitol on Jan 6 after Democrats claimed he had been killed.

“Within hours of January 6, literally hours you began to hear that day described as a deadly insurrection and not described by one news outlet or one politician but in unison by all of them. Almost like it was coordinated a deadly insurrection. That’s how history may record January 6. But the tape that we reviewed from within the building on that day proves it was neither an insurrection nor deadly. Here it is,” Tucker said.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Credibility Crisis: CNN Boss Ordered Staff Not to Chase Down COVID Lab Leak Theory as Pandemic Unfolded

CNN has long referred to itself as “the most trusted name in news” and famously launched its “Facts First” campaign during the Trump era, but like many other outlets, that sentiment fell by the wayside when it came to the COVID lab-leak theory.

In recent days, the theory that COVID originated from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been embraced by FBI Director Christopher Wray and a bombshell report indicated that the U.S. Energy Department believes the virus likely started in the lab, a sentiment expressed by top Trump administration officials nearly from the outset.

But in the early months of the pandemic, then-CNN president Jeff Zucker would not allow his network to chase down the lab-leak story because he believed it was a “Trump talking point,” according to a well-placed CNN insider.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Delaware Lowers Standards for Bar Exam to Increase Diversity

The Delaware Supreme Court cites diversity as a primary impetus in its recent decision to decrease the minimum score, duration, and content breadth in the state’s bar exam.

Data suggests, however, that diversity might not be the only reason for this decision: applicant abilities to pass the Delaware Bar have also significantly fallen, indicating this could be another instance of dwindling academic standards.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

DoD Still Probing Causes of ‘Havana Syndrome’ After Intelligence Officials Say No Adversary Linked: Report

The U.S. Department of Defense is reportedly carrying on with its own research into the causes of the so-called “Havana Syndrome” despite the intelligence community saying last week it could not link any foreign adversaries.

Foreign intelligence officials told Politico that the Pentagon’s research arm is testing weapons systems to try and identify what could cause “anomalous health incidents.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Elon Musk Razzes on Report Twitter Can No Longer ‘Protect You From Trolls: ‘ ‘Centrist Takeover’

Commentators across Twitter shredded a report Monday from the BBC on current and former employees claiming Twitter is more dangerous under new CEO Elon Musk’s leadership.

Musk acquired the platform in fall 2022 after it faced numerous allegations of politically targeted censorship. Musk has since exposed internal Twitter files from before his tenure and purged many of its employees, proclaiming he will reform it into a better platform for public debate.

The British national broadcaster released a report Monday, titled “Twitter can’t protect you from trolls any more, insiders say.” by Marianna Spring, BBC Disinformation and social media correspondent. Spring wrote, “Current and former employees of the company tell BBC Panorama that features intended to protect Twitter users from trolling and harassment are proving difficult to maintain.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Elon Musk Issues Warning to ‘State-Affiliated’ CNN: ‘It Should be Labeled to Inform the Public’

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has put CNN on notice over potential plans to label the network as “state-affiliated media” on his social media platform to “inform the public.”

Musk was responding to the bombshell report that CNN’s former boss Jeff Zucker told staff not to probe the “lab leak” theory because it was a “Trump talking point.”

An irate Twitter user asked Musk:

“CNN told their staff to not share COVID-19 ‘lab leak’ theory due to it being a ‘Trump talking point.’

“Hey @elonmusk: When are you going to label CNN as State Affiliated Media?”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Fauci Persuaded Scientists to Fabricate COVID Origins Paper Ruling Out Lab Leak

Dr. Anthony Fauci persuaded renowned scientists to fabricate a paper on the origins of COVID-19 to cover up the lab leak narrative, congressional investigators have alleged.

Details have emerged to suggest that Fauci sought to cover up evidence that he offshored illegal gain-of-function research to China.

The dangerous research sought to make bat coronaviruses more transmissible to humans.

In wake of the first Covid outbreak in China in 2019, several top scientists raised the alarm that the virus appeared to have been engineered in a lab.

However, they quickly changed their tune after Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded the scientists with millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants, as Slay News reported.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Florida Officials Issue Warning After Man Dies From Brain-Eating Amoeba

Health authorities in Florida issued a warning late last week to residents about tap water after it was confirmed that a man died from a brain-eating amoeba.

The alert, issued to Charlotte County, said that residents should avoid washing their face with tap water. Officials said the unidentified man was infected with the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, after washing his face and rinsing his sinuses with infected tap water.

But officials stressed that infections from the microscopic single-celled amoeba are very rare. There are no specific treatments for the condition, which kills 97 percent of patients who contract it, according to federal data.

“When making sinus rinse solutions, use only distilled or sterile water. Tap water should be boiled for at least 1 minute and cooled before sinus rinsing,” officials said in a news release to Charlotte County residents. “DO NOT allow water to go up your nose or sniff water into your nose when bathing, showering, washing your face, or swimming in small hard plastic/blow-up pools,” it added.

Officials noted that the infection cannot occur via drinking tap water. The water has to go inside a person’s nose.

“DO NOT jump into or put your head under bathing water (bathtubs, small hard plastic/blow-up pools) — walk or lower yourself in,” it said, adding: “DO NOT allow children to play unsupervised with hoses or sprinklers, as they may accidentally squirt water up their nose. Avoid slip-n-slides or other activities where it is difficult to prevent water going up the nose.”

           — Hat tip: Hellequin GB [Return to headlines]
 

Jan. 6 Footage Appears to Show Capitol Police Escorting QAnon Shaman to Senate Floor

Fox New host Tucker Carlson aired footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Riot on Monday evening that appeared to show Capitol Police did not attempt to stop one of the leading demonstrators from reaching the Senate floor but rather escorted him to the chamber.

The footage shows Jacob Chansley, widely known as the QAnon Shaman, walking through the corridors of the U.S. Capitol with two members of the Capitol Police alongside him, according to the New York Post. The officers have not subdued him and he does not appear to have had his movement restricted via handcuffs.

Carlson, for his part, was livid at the behavior of the police force.

“The tapes show the Capitol police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides,” Carlson lamented. Chansley received a 41-month sentence in connection with his role in the incident.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Jill Biden Slams Questions Over Biden’s Mental Competency as “Ridiculous”

First Lady Jill Biden has slammed concerns about her husband’s mental competency as “ridiculous” in response to presidential hopeful Nikki Haley calling for such tests to be administered to political candidates above the age of 75.

“Ridiculous,” she told CNN in an interview due to air later today, pointing to the president’s recent travel schedule and his surprise visit to Kiev in an effort to dismiss such worries.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Jim Jordan Subpoenas Former Head of Disinformation Governance Board Nina Jankowicz

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Monday announced the issuance of subpoenas to a host of Biden administration officials, among them former Disinformation Governance Board head Nina Jankowicz, as part of the GOP’s ongoing efforts to investigate the “weaponization” of the federal government.

Jordan announced subpoenas, not just for Jankowicz, but for former interim Executive Director and CEO of the National School Boards Association Chip Slaven and National Assessment Governing Board Trustee Viola Garcia. He previously sent interview requests to the trio, along with several other officials, in late January.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Jim Jordan: Fauci Covered-Up Wuhan Lab Leak Narrative ‘Because They Were Doing Gain-of-Function Research There’

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has dropped the hammer on Dr. Anthony Fauci by accusing the former top federal health official of a cover-up.

Speaking during an interview with Fox Business on Sunday, Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Fauci desperately worked to change the Wuhan lab leak narrative because he was involved in conducting dangerous gain-of-function research in the Chinese laboratory.

Jordan highlighted the emails Fauci received from prominent scientists advising him that the virus looked like it was engineered in a lab.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Marjorie Taylor Greene Moves to Have Antifa Declared Domestic Terrorist Organization

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to get Antifa classified as a domestic terror group, amid violent demonstrations in Atlanta in which members of the left-wing group allegedly have attacked police officers and destroyed construction equipment at the site of a future public-safety training facility.

“Antifa are domestic terrorists and I’m introducing my resolution to officially declare them a terrorist organization on Tuesday,” the Republican congresswoman tweeted Sunday. “Antifa attacked the Atlanta future Public Safety Training Facility. This is domestic terrorism. It was planned for weeks and announced on social media.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

McCloskeys Speak Out After Escaping Soros-Backed DA Felony Crusade for ‘Defending’ Home From BLM

EXCLUSIVE — Mark and Patricia McCloskey — two married St. Louis personal injury lawyers in their 60s who faced the “worst days of our lives” after they were slapped with felony charges by a Soros-backed district attorney for “defending” their home during the Black Lives Matter riots — spoke out to Fox News Digital about finally breaking free from restrictions on practicing law.

“The only unforgivable crime in America is standing up against the left,” Mark McCloskey told Fox News Digital.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Musk Announces Suspensions for Twitter Accounts Pushing ‘Weaponization’ of Copyright Law

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday announced that the social media platform would amend its copyright guidelines and implement temporary suspensions on accounts aggressively pursuing unreasonable takedown requests.

“Accounts engaging in repeated, egregious weaponization of DMCA on Twitter or encouraging weaponization of DMCA will receive temporary suspensions,” Musk wrote. “That said, reasonable media takedown requests are, of course, appropriate and will always be supported.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

NYC Wants Shoppers to Take Off Masks in Crime-Fighting Measure

New York City Mayor Eric Adams called on shop owners to require customers to remove their face masks when entering stores to help cut down on retail crime that has surged since the pandemic.

“We are putting out a clear call to all of our shops: Do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask. And then once they’re inside, they can continue to wear it if they so desire to do so,” Adams said Monday in a radio interview on 1010 WINS.

The measure is necessary to help police officers identify suspects who are evading law enforcement by wearing masks while committing crimes, Adams said. The New York City Police Department is also calling for mask removal at stores.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

‘Pedo Island’ Sex Offenders Won’t be Housed in Washington Residential Areas After Backlash

Following community backlash, Supreme Living announced Tuesday that it no longer plans to house sex offenders at a facility in south Thurston County near Tenino, WA.

Last month it was revealed that Washington state Democrats are releasing level-3 sex offenders, including convicted pedophiles, called “the worst of the worst” by the federal government and most likely to re-offend from McNeil Island.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Portland Real Estate Developer Says Goodbye to City After Bullet Holes Riddle Office: ‘Absolute Madness’

Real estate developer and lifelong Portland, Oregon, native Dustin Michael Miller is saying goodbye to the city after walking into his office to discover bullet holes had penetrated the glass close to where he would normally sit while working.

“Alright Portland, I’m done with you. I’m over. This has gotta stop, OK?” he said in an Instagram reel Saturday. Miller panned the camera around to his desk, adding, “I work right here a lot during the day. Well, look what happened last night.”

Bullet holes riddled the window over his shoulder, close to his desk.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Portland is Bleeding Businesses, Thanks to Years of Soft-on-Crime Policies

Residents in Portland, Oregon, have continued to learn the hard way that the soft-on-crime approach they permitted their leaders to institute has consequences as businesses continue to depart the city.

Walmart is closing its last two locations in Portland just months after CEO Doug McMillon warned that rampant thefts would lead the company to raise prices or close stores in some locations. Residents in the neighborhoods of those two locations will have to shop elsewhere, and 580 employees will also be affected by the closures.

Violence has also caused trouble for businesses, with one real estate developer and lifelong resident of the city preparing to move out after discovering his office was riddled with bullet holes. And stealing has been a problem for residents outside of business closures and departures, with 2022 seeing a record increase in car thefts.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Ron DeSantis Gets Revenge on Gavin Newsom: “Your Governor is Very Concerned About What We Are Doing in Florida So I Figured I Had to Come by”

California Governor Gavin Newsom ran ads in Florida when he was running for reelection across the country attacking Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. This weekend DeSantis got his revenge. DeSantis went to California to give a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Southern California.

He said: “I know you’ve got a lot of problems out here, but your governor is very concerned about what we are doing in Florida so I figured I had to come by.

“If you look over the last four or five years, and you look at the performances of individual states, and you compare Florida versus California, New York, Illinois, some of those other states, we have had a great experiment, a great test in governing philosophies.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

SPLC Lawyer Charged in Atlanta ‘Cop City’ Attack

An attorney with the Southern Poverty Lawyer Center is facing domestic terrorism charges for his alleged participation in a violent demonstration against a police training center.

Authorities identified Thomas Webb Jurgens, 28, as one of 23 people arrested during what they call a “coordinated attack” on the facility during which demonstrators allegedly threw incendiaries at the construction site, according to the New York Post.

Jurgens is a staff attorney for the SPLC, a scandal-plagued far left advocacy organization that has long attracted scrutiny for its apparent efforts to label high-profile conservatives such as Dr. Ben Carson as domestic extremists.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Texas Homeowner Turns the Tables on Burglar Who Shot His Dog, Leaves Him ‘Yelling for Help’

A suspected burglar who allegedly broke into an El Paso, Texas, home in broad daylight and shot a dog was sent running when one resident pulled out his own handgun and returned fire.

Bruce Wayne Murphy, 29, is accused of breaking into a Northeast El Paso home just before 9 a.m. March 1. Murphy allegedly fired a gun in the home, which left a dog wounded, according to police.

A resident of the home, 37-year-old Sean Patrick Suniga, then pulled out his own firearm and shot at Murphy, police said. Two other residents were home at the time of the attempted burglary, according to a press release from the El Paso Police Department.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Texit: State Representative Introduces Texas Independence Referendum Act in State Legislature

A conservative state representative introduced a bill in the Texas state legislature on Monday. If passed, it would give residents a chance to vote on the state seceding from the United States.

Republican State Rep. Bryan Slaton said he was “proud” to introduce the bill, the Texas Independence Referendum Act, or H.B. 3596, because it gives the people of Texas a way to make their voices heard.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Top 5 Worst US Cities to Drive in Are Run by Democratic Mayors

The top worst cities in the U.S. to drive in are all run by Democratic mayors, according to a report.

In 2022, travel through almost any major American city got slower, according to a report in MarketWatch, which listed the top 10 worst cities in the country to drive in.

The top five in that category — New York, Washington, D.C., San Fransisco, Boston and Chicago — are run by Democratic mayors.

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United Airlines Passenger Tried to Stab Flight Attendant, U.S. Prosecutors Say

BOSTON (Reuters) — A United Airlines passenger has been arrested after trying to open an emergency exit door during a flight on Sunday from Los Angeles to Boston and then trying to stab a flight attendant in the neck, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday.

Passengers tackled Francisco Severo Torres, 33, after the attempted stabbing and the flight crew helped restrain him prior the plane landing at Boston Logan International Airport, prosecutors said.

A judge ordered the Leominster, Massachusetts resident held without bail following an initial court appearance on Monday. Torres is set to have another hearing on Thursday. A court-appointed lawyer for Torres did not respond to a request for comment.

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Video: Russell Brand Completely Eviscerates MSNBC “Mouthpiece”

In an appearance on Bill Maher’s Realtime, comedian turned truth seeker Russell Brand completely shut down MSNBC commentator John Heilemann, pointing out that he and others on that network are nothing more than mouthpieces for their corporate overlords.

“It is disingenuous to claim that the biases that are exhibited on Fox News are any different from the biases exhibited on MSNBC,” Brand told Heilemann, adding “It is difficult to suggest that these corporations operate as anything other than mouthpieces for their affiliate owners, Black Rock and Vanguard.”

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What We Know About Shamaiya Hall, the Woman Arrested in the Fatal Stabbing of 3 Children

Information about Shamaiya Deyonshanaye Hall, who was arrested Friday in Italy, Texas, and her twin sister Troyshaye Mone Hall are laid out in Dallas County court documents.

New details have emerged about the woman who was arrested in the stabbing of five children in an Ellis County home, killing three of them and hospitalizing two.

The slayings happened Friday after a Child Protective Services investigator decided to remove the children from the home before they were killed, the Ellis County sheriff’s office said Saturday.

Shamaiya Deyonshanaye Hall, 25, of Forney, was booked into the Ellis County jail the night of the slayings on three capital murder charges, according to jail records. Hall remained jailed as of Monday with a bail set at $6 million for the charges. It is unclear if she has an attorney.

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Breaking: Trudeau Pledges $5.5 Million to Fight ‘Disinformation’ After Accusations CCP Infiltrated Canadian Elections

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he will appoint an “Independent special rapporteur,” who he says will have a “wide mandate and will make expert recommendations on combating interference and strengthening our democracy” amid allegations that his government ignored recommendations from CSIS noting concerns about candidates’ connections to the Chinese Communist Party.

“In the last couple of weeks, Canadians have been reading and hearing a lot” about foreign interference by China in elections, Trudeau said.

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Canada’s Police Chiefs Want to Expand DNA Collection Laws to Non-Violent Offenders

OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police has put its support behind a Senate bill that would allow those convicted of non-violent crimes to have samples of their DNA taken and stored in a government database.

Bill S-231, titled, An Act To Amend The Criminal Code, is sponsored by Quebec Senator Claude Carignan and is in its second reading. If passed, this bill would give police a larger scope in which they could legally collect an offender’s DNA, expanding beyond just violent offenders to include those convicted of any crime punishable by five years or more in prison, such as drunk driving, breaking and entering and theft over $5,000.

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Freedom Convoy Leader Tamara Lich Receives Warm Reception in Alberta Legislature

EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) — Canadian Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich was given a warm round of applause by many, but not all, Conservative Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) after being introduced in the Alberta provincial legislature in Edmonton on Tuesday.

Lich, along with freedom-fighting lawyer Eva Chipiuk, were invited to attend the legislature on Budget Day 2023, on behalf of independent MLA for Medicine Hat-Cypress Drew Barnes.

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A Pair of Climate Activists in Scotland Smashed and Spray-Painted a Glass Case Housing ‘Braveheart’ Knight William Wallace’s Sword

Two activists from an environmental group smashed and vandalized a glass case housing the sword of Scottish knight William Wallace, the hero whose legend inspired the 1995 film Braveheart, at a museum in Stirling, Scotland.

On March 2 around 11:30 a.m., Alexander Cloudley, a food bank coordinator, and Katrielle Chan, a student, entered the National Wallace Monument’s Hall of Arms, and struck the case containing the Wallace sword with mallets, chisels, and two rocks. They then spray-painted the broken glass with the words “This Is Rigged,” the name of their climate activist group.

According to the Stirling Council, which oversees the National Wallace Monument, the sword is currently being assessed for damage. The monument also closed temporarily, but has since reopened.

Cloudley and Chan, both from Glasgow, were arrested on site and charged with vandalism. They have pleaded not guilty. In a statement, Police Scotland said that “inquiries are ongoing.”

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German Autopsy Report Proves COVID Jab Caused Heart, Brain Damage to 76-Year-Old

(LifeSiteNews) — A recent autopsy report from Germany proves that COVID-19 injections caused brain and heart damage in a 76-year-old man.

The autopsy case report was published last October in the peer-reviewed open-access journal Vaccines.

“A causal connection of these findings to the preceding COVID-19 vaccination was established by immunohistochemical demonstration of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein,” it states.

“The findings corroborate previous reports of encephalitis and myocarditis caused by gene-based COVID-19 vaccines,” the author, Dr. Michael Mörz, concluded.

Dr. John Campbell, a popular retired nurse educator and COVID jab skeptic, addressed the study in a recent video. He explained that one can distinguish between injuries caused by a COVID-19 infection and the COVID shots by testing for the spike protein and the nucleocapsid protein.

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Great Reset: ChatGPT-Style AI Should Play a Role in Government: UK Science Minister

Artificial Intelligence systems like ChatGPT should be employed by the government to help run the country, Britain’s science minister has claimed.

Michelle Donelan MP, a government minister for the Conservative Party administration in Britain, has said that AI applications along the lines of Chat GPT have great potential, and that officials should not be afraid of embracing the technology to help them run the country.

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Half of Poles Believe Left-Wing Opposition Would Axe Social Programs Instituted by Conservative Government

Almost half of Poles, 49.9 percent, doubt that the opposition would maintain the social programs introduced by the current government if the opposition wins the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to a recent survey by United Surveys for Wirtualna Polska.

This finding casts doubt on the promises made by the leaders of the largest opposition party, Civic Platform (PO), which has assured it would not withdraw the social programs introduced by the current administration.

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High-Flying Conservative FPÖ Gains Ground in Austrian State Election as Popularity Continues to Surge

The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) retained control of the regional parliament in Austria’s southern state of Carinthia, but the country’s high-flying FPÖ opposition party gained ground as its popularity continued to rise in Sunday’s election.

SPÖ secured 38.9 percent of the vote, down 9 percentage points from the 2018 election, while the anti-immigration FPÖ increased its vote share by 1.6 percent to 24.6 percent.

It’s the second time this year FPÖ has enjoyed electoral success in regional elections after increasing its vote count by 9 percentage points to secure 24.2 percent of the vote in the Lower Austria state election held in January.

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Italy: Far-Left Riots in Support of Jailed Anarchist Leader Leave Turin in Ruins

Far-left protestors wreaked havoc in the Italian city of Turin on Saturday as they demonstrated their support for jailed anarchist Alfredo Cospito by attacking police, smashing shop windows, and defacing the city’s buildings and memorials.

At least two police officers were injured in the riot, while 37 vandals were arrested, including some who had traveled from Germany and France, according to the Ansa news outlet.

The protest began on Piazza Solferino and soon turned violent as several hundred demonstrators marched through the city’s streets.

Footage of the riot shows scores of anarchists in balaclavas setting trash cans on fire, damaging traffic lights and road signs, smashing bus stop and car windows, and leaving graffiti daubed across a number of city buildings stretching for approximately a kilometer.

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Kallas’ Reform Party Enjoys Big Win in Estonian Election

Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas won a landslide victory in the national election on Sunday, securing 31.2 percent of the vote with a manifesto pledging maximum support for Ukraine and NATO.

The Estonian leader’s center-right liberal Reform Party comfortably staved off competition from the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (EKRE), a right-wing, populist party that had campaigned against further arms deliveries to Ukraine and criticized the government’s decision to take in large numbers of Ukrainian refugees.

EKRE secured 16.1 percent of the vote, and the Christian People’s Party (KRE) came third with 15.3 percent.

Both main opposition parties saw a drop in their support from the 2019 election, while Reform’s support increased by 2.3 percentage points.

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Key UK-EU Gas Pipeline Out of Commission

Gas exports from Britain to Europe have been suspended over an “equipment failure” on a major pipeline, according to its operator, Interconnector Ltd. The bidirectional pipeline connects the UK to mainland Europe through Belgium.

The operator, which is largely owned by Belgium-based natural gas distributor, Fluxys, posted a notice online late on Saturday confirming that the pipeline will remain inactive until March 8 due to “transmission system unavailability” caused by an unspecified “equipment failure.”

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Revealed: The Top 10 Fastest-Growing Destinations for UK Pensioners Retiring Overseas

Poland and South Korea are among the surprise fastest growing destinations of choice for pensioners leaving the UK for a life abroad — with the Isle of Man topping the list.

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Scotland: Serious Inverurie House Blaze Treated as Wilful Fireraising

A serious house blaze in Aberdeenshire is being treated as wilful fireraising, police have said.

Fire crews were called to reports of a possible explosion at the property in Corsmanhill Way, Inverurie, at about 17:00 on Sunday.

There were no reports of anyone being injured.

However Police Scotland, appealing for any witnesses to come forward, said the consequences could have been far more serious.

The fire was set in the garden of the house.

Emergency services attended and the fire was extinguished, however the police investigation is ongoing.

Det Sgt Richard Cooper said: “This fire caused significant damage and luckily no-one was injured, however the consequences could have been much more serious.

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UK: GB News Host Mark Steyn’s COVID Vaccine Claims Broke Ofcom Rules

GB News broke broadcasting rules when former presenter Mark Steyn made “potentially harmful and materially misleading” claims about Covid-19 vaccines, regulator Ofcom has said.

Last April, Steyn said there was “only one conclusion” from official data about the third jab — that it led to a “significantly greater risk to infection, hospitalisation and death”.

In its ruling, Ofcom said that was incorrect and “may have resulted in viewers making important decisions about their own health”.

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UK: Left-Separatist Scottish Politicians Plot Sabotage of King’s Coronation

A number of senior left-wing Scottish politicians are plotting to undermine the forthcoming coronation ceremony of King Charles III.

Senior politicians from the left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP) and Alba Party are reportedly looking to undermine the coronation ceremony of Britain’s new king, Charles III.

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UK: Steyn Found Guilty!

Ofcom has been investigating two Steyn Shows from last April. It abandoned its investigation in the first show, but has now found Steyn guilty for the second.

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Unions Vow Total Shutdown of French Economy as Macron Move to Increase Retirement Age

PARIS (AP) — Roads blocked, oil refineries disrupted, planes grounded and trains halted — unions are threatening to shut down France’s economy this week in what they hope is their toughest riposte yet to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age.

The first actions are expected Monday, as truckers are being urged to block major highway arteries and interchanges in go-slow actions dubbed “escargot” (snail) operations. Unions plan an open-ended strike on the national rail service starting Monday evening.

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Hungarian President Insists No Decision Has Been Made on Relocating Israeli Embassy to Jerusalem

Hungarian President Katalin Novak has insisted that media reports suggesting Hungary will relocate its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem are premature and a decision on the matter has yet to be made.

The Times of Israel reported on Friday that Hungary will move its embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city next month in what it claimed would be a special gesture by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was re-elected last November.

The newspaper reported that an agreement to relocate Hungary’s diplomatic center in Israel was reached last week, citing senior sources within Hungary’s foreign ministry.

However, Novak dismissed reports of an agreement during a news conference in Prague on Friday, telling reporters, “I also read the news in the press. In Hungary, a decision so far has not been made on moving our embassy to Israel.”

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European Parliament President Demands West Send Warplanes to Ukraine, Pushes for EU Membership

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola called for EU governments to send fighter jets to Ukraine as she made a surprise visit to the country on Saturday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Adding her voice to those calling for an escalation in the war with Russia, the European Parliament’s first female president, Maltese politician Roberta Metsola, said that Ukraine should be supplied with warplanes from European Union member-states, just weeks after the first Western tanks rolled into the country.

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Russian Volunteers in Ukraine Say They Want to Overthrow Vladimir Putin, Breakup Russia

A Russian fighter from the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), a unit under the control of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, appeared on Polsat News, a Polish commercial TV channel, and claimed on behalf of his unit that they attacked the Bryansk region inside Russia.

The attack has been met with rage by the Russian government.

The soldier confirmed that he and his comrades want to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He revealed that the RDK is composed of Russians who have lived in Ukraine and who regard it as their home. He said they are all volunteers who felt it their duty to defend their homes. None of them had military backgrounds before the start of this war.

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Russia Claims Missile and Drone Attacks Within Its Borders

The governor of Belgorod, the Russian province on the other side of the border from Kharkiv, Ukraine, said on Monday that at least one person was wounded by falling debris after three missiles were intercepted near the town of Novy Oskol.

Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the one known injury was “a man with shrapnel wounds to his hand.” He also said the debris knocked out some power lines near Novy Oskol.

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Ukraine Vows to Fortify Bakhmut Defences as Russians Enter Suburbs

(AFP) — Ukraine pledged on Monday to bolster its defences in frontline Bakhmut, after reports that Kyiv was withdrawing from the city that’s become a symbolic prize in the war.

The eastern Ukrainian city has been virtually flattened in what has become the longest and bloodiest battle since Russia’s more than year-long invasion.

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Wagner Boss Hints at ‘Betrayal’, Frontline Collapse as Russian Mercs Run Short on Ammo

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group private military company, has suggested a “betrayal” by the Russian authorities as his men run short of ammunition on the Bakhmut front.

Prigozhin, a colourful ex-convict turned hot dog salesman turned restaurateur who eventually became “Putin’s chef” — literally — and somehow parlayed that status into becoming the key player in an international mercenary business, has claimed much of the credit for Russia’s slow advances against the Donbas stronghold of Donbas, whose long-awaited fall to Russian forces had begun to appear inevitable in recent days.

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North Korea Warns US Against Shooting Down Missile Tests

SEOUL, March 7 (Reuters) — North Korea said any move to shoot down one of its test missiles would be considered a declaration of war and blamed joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea for growing tensions, state media KCNA said on Tuesday.

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, warned in a statement that Pyongyang would see it as a “declaration of war” if the U.S. took military action against the North’s strategic weapon tests.

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The West Prepares for China to Send Weapons to Russia

Rumors that China could send weapons to Russia have swirled since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, but Western officials have increasingly signaled in recent weeks that Beijing could actually go through with the move. Western leaders are now planning how they will react if China provides lethal aid to Russia.

The topic of Chinese weapons ending up in Russia will reportedly be one of the top agenda points when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meets President Joe Biden in Washington. The two are expected to discuss aid to Ukraine, but the issue of China will also be looming large.

The West has long feared that Beijing might supply weapons to Moscow, which could mark a major turning point in the war. Although China has sided with Russia regarding U.N. votes and provided some non-lethal aid, the country has refrained from sending lethal aid up until now.

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ABC Radio Host Accused of Massive Cocaine and Meth Operation is Attacked in Jail ‘Because He Was Snoring’

Police allege Ashley Norman Hall used rooms at hotels on Wentworth St and Bond St in Sydney’s CBD to supply large quantities of cocaine, meth, MDMA and GHB to buyers.

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Far Right Activist Who Protested Against Islam Becomes a Muslim Because it is ‘Anti-Woke’ And ‘The West Has Lost Its Way to Alcohol, Drugs and Porn’

Shermon Burgess became a controversial national figure for his role in various far-right groups and once likened Islam and Muslims to a cancer. he has now converted to the religion.

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How Mum’s Visit to Hospital Ended With Cops Allegedly Finding Her Dead Newborn Baby Stuffed Inside a Freezer

Monique Ellen Burton, 32, is accused of putting the baby in a plastic bag before her partner Shaun Balaam allegedly placed the child in the freezer of their home in Geraldton, Western Australia.

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‘Thieves’ Look Anything But in Their Revealing Clothes as They Smile After Allegedly Switching Their Old Pram for a Luxury Model — But Cops Have the Last Laugh

Western Australia Police said the two women walked into the Baby Bunting store on Albany Highway in the southern Perth suburb of Cannington just before 3pm on February 18.

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Train Chaos as Young Female Commuter Performs a Baffling Series of Acts While Belting Out Hip-Hop Song ‘Like a G6’

Footage has emerged of a commuter’s bizarre behaviour while travelling on the T1 line in western Sydney.

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How Dangerous Amazonian Drug ‘Promoted’ by Prince Harry Has Become the Latest Trend Adored by Middle Class Brits

Amazonian tribes have used the psychedelic brew for thousands of years to bring ‘spiritual enlightenment’.

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A Tale of Two French Cities

Nantes before 10 year of pro-immigration socialism and Nantes today

The news about two Catholic nuns having to leave Nantes’ city center after years of growing insecurity is just one more indication of how badly things have gone during the last decade in this formerly peaceful provincial French city of 300,000 inhabitants — 1 million if we include the surrounding metropolitan area — lying next to Brittany, to which it belongs historically and culturally.

“Just yesterday (on Tuesday, Feb. 28, ed.), during my teaching in the church, we had to ask the audience to expel a person from the street who had come in drunk. And it smelled like cannabis in front of the church. It’s a sad reality of our daily lives,” one of the two nuns told French Christian daily “La Croix.”

The two announced their decision to move to another city in a letter published on the parish’s website last Sunday.

Sister Marie-Anne Leroux, 56, and Sister Agathe Dutrey, 44, belong to the Fraternity of Benedictine Apostolic Sisters. In their letter to parishioners, they explain their decision with the climate of growing insecurity in downtown Nantes — a description that many French people throughout the country would say reflects their own experience as well.

As a local center-right opposition councilor told reporters from the weekly “Valeurs Actuelles” in an article that was published under the title “Nantes, a lost territory of the Republic” last September, the number of crimes and the level of violence in Nantes do not differ much from other French cities of that size. However, what is shocking is the metamorphosis this provincial city has gone through, with a sudden degradation of the situation during the past decade.

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Arizona Rancher Pleads Not Guilty to Second-Degree Murder of Alleged Illegal Immigrant on His Property

Appearing in court on Monday, Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly pled not guilty to downgraded charges in connection to the shooting of a Mexican man on his property in January.

73-year-old Kelly was arraigned on Monday on a second-degree murder charge for the January 30 shooting of Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, downgraded from the first-degree murder charge that prosecutors were seeking after public criticism, according to the Daily Mail.

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Foreign Nationals Automatically Registered to Vote in Washington State: Report

The Washington Department of Licensing (DOL) received numerous reports of foreign nationals being automatically registered to vote in the state during recent election cycles. Some reports were even in cases where the foreigners insisted to the department itself that they were not legally allowed to vote.

The Democratic-controlled Legislature passed House Bill 2595 in 2018, which automatically registers people to vote when they are issued a driver’s license or renew an existing license. Additionally, state law does not allow the Washington Secretary of State’s Office (SOS) to verify citizenship when they receive a voter’s registration.

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Illegal Migrants Accused of Shooting Bald Eagle: Nebraska Sheriff Says Community in ‘Uproar’

A Nebraska sheriff is calling on federal authorities to act after two Honduran migrants allegedly killed an American bald eagle in the state with the intention of eating it.

Stanton County Sheriff Mike Unger told “Fox & Friends First” Monday that he has yet to get an answer from federal officials on their handling of the incident that has the community in an “uproar.”

“We find this very alarming, I’m sure nationwide, but locally it’s been very alarming to the citizens,” Unger said.

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Somalian Migrant Convicted of Stabbing Her Own Baby to Death at Asylum Center in Germany

A migrant from Somalia has been convicted of murdering her own baby at a refugee accommodation center in Germany last year, according to reports.

The horrifying incident took place in August in Geldersheim, a municipality in Bavaria.

A Somalian national estimated to be 28-years-old was staying at a facility for asylum seekers with her 3-month-old daughter and the child’s father.

The woman told the Regional Court of Schweinfurt she was feeling ‘desperate, hopeless, that nobody had helped her,’ according to BILD.

“It was all too much for me,” she said.

“Then I decided to kill my daughter.”

The woman stabbed the infant at least eight times with a knife she obtained from another resident.

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Sweden: Migrant Man Who Stabbed 10-Year-Old Dutch Girl Has 52 Crimes on His Record

The Iranian migrant who attempted to murder a 10-year-old Dutch girl in Gothenburg last week has been identified as Milad Salari, who has a tremendous 52 convictions on his record, including theft, assault, robbery and drug offenses. Despite violating his parole on numerous occasions, Swedish judges continuously issued him new parole terms, which allowed him to avoid prison.

Video of the stabbing attack went viral last week, with the 36-year-old suspect stabbing the girl in the neck before pedestrians tackled the man. It is unclear why he targeted her, but pedestrians claim he screamed “Allahu Akbar” during the incident. The victim is said to be in serious but stable condition.

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UK: Border Force Union: No Point Stopping Boats, Migrants Will Come Another Way

The British government’s latest scheme aimed at ending the Channel migrant crisis will just end up fueling it, a union official representing Border Force members has claimed.

A spokesman for Britain’s Immigration Services Union (ISU), whose members serve in the country’s Border Force, has criticised the government’s latest plans to end the ongoing Channel boat migrants crisis.

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UK: More Channel Boats Arrive as Rishi Prepares to Unveil Crackdown: Ministers Say ‘£3bn’ Scheme With Life Ban on Illegal Immigrants Re-Entering Britain Can ‘Get a Grip’ On Crisis…

— but Tories fear Sunak has ‘over-promised’

More Channel migrants reached the UK today as Rishi Sunak prepares to unveil his plans to ‘get a grip’ on the crisis.

The RNLI brought in around 40 migrants to the harbour at Dover — the first in more than a week found making the perilous crossing.

The news came the day before the government’s tough new measures are made public, with indefinite re-entry bans on all migrants coming to Britain by ‘irregular routes’.

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All-Ages Drag Show at Massachusetts Brewery ‘Won’t be Censored for the Kiddos’

A brewery in Massachusetts is holding an “all ages” drag show that came with the warning that it “won’t be censored for the kiddos.”

The Castle Island Brewing Company is hosting an event with drag performer Cherry Lemonade on March 19th at the Norwood Taproom. According to the brewery’s Facebook page, the event is free and open to all, but “may include adult language and themes that are not appropriate for all ages. Parental discretion is advised for anyone considering bringing the kids.”

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Artur Pawlowski Calls Out Alberta Premier as Fellow Pastor Sits in Jail for Protesting Drag Queen Event

Christian pastor Artur Pawlowski blasted Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for what he said was her silence regarding the arrest and jailing of Christian pastor Derek Reimer, who is in prison for protesting at a children’s drag queen story time at a public library a week ago.

“Where is Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith? Will she stand for rights or not? Will Danielle Smith condemn this arrest for not,” Pawlowski said last Friday while speaking in support of Reimer of Mission7 street ministry.

“Is the UCP (United Conservative Party) and NDP united in this attack against Christianity in our province? Is there any politician that will defend our Charter of Rights and Freedoms?”

Pawlowski, who like Reimer has been involved for years in street ministry feeding the homeless, asked if there were “two sets of laws” in Alberta, “one for the perverted, and another for the Christians.”

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California Moves to Force Hollywood to Get More Woke Under New Law

On February 28, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office submitted the budget for their 2023-24 Film Tax Credit, a program designed to incentivize Hollywood productions to stay in the Golden State, and the new proposal included mandates that increase “workplace diversity.”

According to the report, “Productions receiving credits under this program are required to set ethnic, racial, and gender diversity goals and to develop a plan to achieve those diversity goals. Those productions are eligible to receive an additional 4 percent tax credit if they meet or make a good faith effort to meet their diversity goals.”

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California LGBTQ Democrat Lawmaker Fights for Right of Drag Queens to Read to Kids in Public Libraries

California Senator Scott Wiener demonstrated his solidarity with the San Francisco drag community by attending a Night of Ideas event at the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) in celebration of drag queens and gender-themed books, as well as giving his support for a newly-launched SFPL “Drag Laureate” program.

Wiener tweeted photographs of himself at the Night of Ideas event on Saturday in the company of drag performer Juanita More, a local “drag legend.”

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Canadian Christian Pastor Arrested for Protesting Drag Event for Kids to Stay Jailed for 2 More Weeks

Christian pastor Derek Reimer will remain jailed until at least March 14 after saying he cannot abide by bail conditions which prevent him from protesting at future children’s drag queen story time events.

Reimer last week was hit with a slew of charges, including those related to so-called “hate speech,” for protesting a children’s drag queen story time at a public library in Calgary, Alberta.

Today, Reimer, of Mission7 street ministries, had a bail hearing in court via video conference and was granted bail at $3,000.

However, his release conditions also made it so that he had to promise to not protest at any drag queen events and stay at least 500 meters from where they are being held.

His lawyer, Ben Allison, noted that such conditions “would be impossible for him to satisfy,” and as a result, Reimer’s bail hearing was adjourned until March 14.

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French State-Backed Media Blame U.S. Conservatives for ‘Culture War’ Over Drag Aimed at Kids

French state-backed media say American conservatives, not LGBT activists, are to blame for the “culture war” over drag queen events aimed at small children.

France 24, a government-owned news organisation which produces English, French, Spanish, and Arabic content aimed at foreign audiences, was one of many outlets which published a pro-drag article acquired from Agence France-Presse (AFP), a news agency founded as a state enterprise and still deeply entangled with the French state.

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Josh Alexander Receives Hero’s Welcome From Crowd of Supporters at Catholic School Board Meeting

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PEMBROKE, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A crowd of supporters gathered at the Renfrew County Catholic District School Board office in Pembroke, Ontario to support Josh Alexander, who had been arrested after defending female students against biological males using female washrooms.

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LGBT Activist Attacks Lawmaker, Police Officer After Oklahoma House Votes to Ban Child ‘Sex Changes’

OKLAHOMA CITY (LifeSiteNews) — On February 28, a trans activist wearing a “pride” flag screamed himself hoarse in the stairwell of the Oklahoma State Capitol and fought with police after dumping water on state Rep. Bob Culver and another state legislator. Other protestors followed as he was removed from the Capitol. Culver released a statement announcing that he would be pressing charges to ensure that there would be consequences for the assault of a police officer.

Chris Elston, the dad activist who fights gender ideology and is better known as “Billboard Chris,” video-recorded the arrest, noting: “The sounds of wailing and gnashing of teeth are like a lullaby to me, as legislators put an end to this child abuse.”

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Parents Alarmed by Satanist After-School Clubs Forming Across U.S.

As curriculum awareness grows across the United States, parents are now sounding the alarm over the Satanic Temple (TST)’s efforts to create after-school clubs for students.

Parents say they are worried about the impact it may have on young children’s view of faith.

In December of last year, a TST “After-School Satan Club” was approved at a Virginia elementary school, resulting in backlash from parents distributed by the push to indoctrinate young children into Satanism.

Since then, TST has announced plans to create new clubs in New York, Pennsylvania, and Colorado, with religious advocates taking note of the trend.

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Texas Supreme Court: Pro-Lifer Has a Constitutional Right to Say Abortion Orgs ‘Murder Unborn Children’

AUSTIN, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — In a major First Amendment victory, the Texas Supreme Court unanimously ruled February 24, 2023 that pro-life advocate Mark Lee Dickson was expressing a constitutionally protected opinion — and therefore cannot be sued for defamation — when he called pro-abortion groups “criminal organizations” that “murder unborn children.” Dickson’s attorneys included Former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, Martin Whittaker, and Tom Brejcha, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Society.

The director of Right to Life of East Texas and founder of Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative, Dickson was sued in two separate lawsuits by The Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, the Afiya Center, and Texas Equal Access Fund for defamation after he made statements accusing the pro-abortion groups of participating in the “murder of innocent unborn human beings.”

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Transgender Cartoonist With Diaper Fetish Allegedly Attacks Journalist in Manchester

A British journalist alleges that he was attacked by the Canadian transgender cartoonist who creates diaper fetish art after he attended an event in Manchester on February 26.

Jack Hadfield, a writer for Valiant News, went to listen to Sophie Labelle speak at a bar in Manchester’s Gay Village. Labelle’s speaking tour of England recently came under scrutiny after it was discovered that the biological male who speaks openly about having a diaper fetish was scheduled to give a talk at a “family friendly” event hosted by Sheffield library.

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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alters ‘Bias Reporting System’ Following First Amendment Challenge

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) updated its bias reporting system (BRS) following a legal demand letter sent by Southeastern Legal Foundation’s (SLF) which warned that the university’s BRS infringed on students’ First Amendment freedom of speech.

The university’s bias reporting system encourages students and faculty who have experienced an incident of bias or hate to submit a report to the institution’s Office of Equity/Diversity Services. “The purpose of the reporting system is to provide support and resources to affected parties,” the university’s website states.

Previously on its website, UWM did not explain that hate speech and offensive speech are protected by the First Amendment and that students cannot be punished for engaging in so-called hate speech.

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    A year of Russian de-militarization
    of Ukraine and US/NATO |

    By Rainer Rup

    Released: March 3, 2023
    (translation LN)

    Part 1 of 3

    A year ago, on 24 February, with the launch of the Russian special operation, the war in Ukraine, which Washington launched in 2014, took a decisive turn towards a catharsis. This catharsis will end with Ukraine’s inevitable defeat and NATO’s consequent political and geostrategic defeat.

    By early last summer, the first league of Ukrainian army personnel, along with their war machines, had already been largely destroyed in the Russian special operation.

    Then, in the summer of 2022, several hundred thousand men were called into Ukraine as part of a major mobilisation and a new Ukrainian army was hastily built up. The new military equipment consisted largely of Soviet weapons (tanks, guns, anti-aircraft systems, ammunition) from the stockpiles of Eastern European NATO countries. The Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Poland, for example, gave Ukraine their T-72 heavy tanks in exchange for a promise – from Germany and others – to receive modern Leopard 2 tanks in exchange for the T-72s of Soviet origin that had been given away. In Germany, the whole thing was misleadingly called RingTausch. At the same time, the West supplied Ukraine with all the artillery ammunition and portable anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles it could possibly spare, confident that Ukraine would win and that Russia’s government would soon collapse.

    But even this second edition of the Ukrainian army was largely destroyed in the autumn of 2022 during the offensive, which was much praised in the West but in practice very costly in terms of men and materials. The rest was burnt out in the positional war along the Donbass fortress line. By the beginning of this year, however, the Ukrainian front in the Donbass had withstood growing Russian pressure, albeit with increasingly unacceptable losses.

    There are three main reasons for Ukraine’s initially very successful defence of the Donbass front:
    The Donbass front had developed over eight years since 2014, with NATO financial support and military technical expertise, into a huge fortification, a kind of Maginot Line, with underground and above-ground bunkers, hidden artillery emplacements, prepared fighting positions, trenches and connecting tunnels, and giant underground stores of ammunition, food and medicines. This fortification, several hundred kilometres long and several kilometres wide, is located in the middle of the densely populated, hilly industrial area of the Donbass with mines and iron and steel processing giants, each of which employed thousands of workers before the war.

    The other reason why the Ukrainian Maginot Line has only been cracked step by step in recent months has to do with the fact that the Russians have long fought there with one arm tied behind their backs because of the high density of civilians, as described by former US intelligence officer and military historian Scott Ritter last summer. This was because casualties among the Russian-speaking and Russian-sympathising civilian population along the Ukrainian Donbass fortification line were to be avoided if possible, as instructed by the Kremlin, even if this increased the losses of Russian soldiers in operational incidents.

    The third reason was that the Russian artillery available in the Donbass during the first months of the special operation would not have been sufficient to storm the vast fortifications for infantry attacks. But this was the only way to avoid politically unacceptable losses of soldiers. And to destroy the underground bunkers of the fortress line, the Russian air force would have had to use heavy gravity bombs. But there was a problem for the Russians in that the formidable Ukrainian air defences were far from neutralised. This consisted of the famous Soviet anti-aircraft weapons, deployed in accordance with the complex Soviet air defence doctrine, which has always been feared by Nato. It was not until the end of February 2023, just a few weeks ago, that there were increasing reports of increased use of Russian bombers over the battlefield in the Donbass.

    For a long time, the Russian leadership had also opposed a large-scale attack on the Donbass strongholds and surrounding areas because Ukraine had no intention of evacuating the predominantly pro-Russian civilian population from the threatened region. In other words, the Ukrainian army used the local civilian population as a shield, just as it did earlier in Mariupol.

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    part 2

    On their own initiative, however, most of the population has since fled the danger zone. For example, the currently hotly contested town of Bachmut still had about 60,000 inhabitants a year ago. Of these, only a few thousand remain in the town due to a lack of other alternatives.

    Even without aircraft, Russian artillery has gradually pushed some of the Ukrainian Donbass strongholds largely ready for infantry to storm over the past three months. To the outside observer, this has sometimes been done with paralysing but obviously methodical slowness. Casualties on the Ukrainian side increased exponentially. To plug the holes, the military leadership in Kiev had been bringing in new Ukrainian units for months, only for them to be almost invariably destroyed by Russian artillery.

    Daily casualties of several hundred dead Ukrainian soldiers in the Donbass alone are now the norm due to the incessant fire of Russian artillery. Western reporters, such as those from the New York Times, who have visited Ukrainian military hospitals report that the dead and wounded almost invariably show injuries caused by artillery fire. Gunshot wounds, on the other hand, were rare. This means that most Ukrainians died without even seeing the enemy or having the opportunity to fire on him.

    Conversely, this means that Russian casualties must be much lower, also because in infantry battalions, or in house and street battles in the urban environment of the Donbass, professional soldiers and militarily already well-trained reservists on the Russian side are increasingly confronted with a kind of Ukrainian genocide. This is because most of the well-trained soldiers of the Ukrainian army’s First and Second Divisions have already gone through the meat grinders in Kherson, Soledar and currently Bachmut, or have been burned out.

    In recent weeks, videos have increasingly circulated of snatch squads in Ukrainian villages and towns picking up teenagers and older men off the street, forcibly dragging them into cars or beating them into them, and then dragging them off to a fairly certain death. After a week or two of farcical military training, they are thrown into the meat grinder in Bachmut with no military purpose whatsoever, where these novices have virtually no chance of survival.

    Even senior Pentagon officials have urged the greatest Ukrainian commander of all time, Grofaz Selensky, to withdraw as quickly as possible the Ukrainian troops deployed in and around Bashmut – an estimated 20-35,000 men – to save them for a later counter-offensive. Time is running out, as the Russian ring around the town is getting tighter and tighter and the encirclement could end in the next few days. But like Gröfaz Hitler at Stalingrad, the leader in Kiev today insists that Bachmut must be defended to the last man.

    Already in the next few weeks the strategically important parts of the Donbass front may break up. The rest will then either surrender or – cut off from all supplies – be rolled up from behind and destroyed. For Russia, Ukraine is far superior, not only in terms of trained soldiers but also in terms of armaments. Ukraine, for example, has consumed NATO-supplied ammunition and missiles faster and lost NATO weapons faster than the entire US/NATO arms industry can produce in years.

    In other words, Russia has not only largely demilitarized Ukraine, but also those NATO countries that have depleted their stockpiles for Ukraine.

    Currently, according to neutral observers, Russia’s superiority over Ukraine in terms of artillery is estimated at 10:1. While the Russian ammunition supply seems unlimited and the average daily consumption of 155 mm shells is 20,000, Ukrainian reserves are drying up. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is desperately looking around the world for ways to buy 155mm shells. In Pakistan, the Americans found what they were looking for and bought 40,000. That would last the Russians just two days. Instead of more ammunition, Ukrainian artillerymen are now getting good advice from the Pentagon, namely to shoot less and hit more accurately.

    The war against Russia using Ukraine as a battering ram is already lost for the US/NATO, but ideologically hardened Russophobes in politics and the media have apparently still not grasped this. And that is why the killing will continue in Ukraine and every day hundreds more Ukrainian soldiers will be sacrificed for a criminal illusion.

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    part 3

    It was just over a year ago, at the 58th UN “security conference” in Munich, that the transatlantic warmongers’ expectations of the war in Ukraine, which they themselves had provoked, reached their temporary peak. If you look at video clips from that time and compare the speeches and comments with those of a few weeks ago, you can see the euphoric mood of the participants then. The time had finally come to get back at Putin for depriving them of access to Russian resources again, after they had already believed during the Yeltsin years with the Wild East that they had Russia and its ruling class firmly in their pocket.

    The shrill and sometimes hysterical cries of Western governments a year ago about the supposed protection of democracy and sovereignty in Ukraine could not be further from the truth. For the war in Ukraine is a creation of the American imperialists’ world order based on neoliberal American values. It is, at the same time, a product of US imperial overstretch, where it is becoming increasingly clear to Western elites with each passing day that Ukraine – even with all the help of the US and NATO – not only cannot win, but will lose, or, given the latest facts, has already lost.

    This realisation obviously contributed to the depressed mood among some participants at the recently concluded “UN” security conference in Munich, which contrasted sharply with the optimistic mood in the run-up to the war in Ukraine a year ago.

    Meanwhile, the national security cabal around US President Biden continues to refuse to admit a single mistake, to back down or to engage in serious negotiations with the Kremlin – if they can even find a Russian willing to believe a single word of what they say after the shameful Minsk II betrayal by Chancellor Angela Merkel and Presidents Hollande, Poroshenko and Selensky. But the neoliberal hawks who dominate the White House and the US State Department are still not serious about negotiations. They are so stuck in their ideological labyrinth that they give the impression they would rather risk a limited nuclear war in Europe than admit their mistakes and withdraw from their Ukraine adventure.

    As in the past in Afghanistan, the warmongers in Washington and here at home will only be forced by the facts on the ground either to change course and let Ukraine go or to double down and possibly directly confront the Russian army in Ukraine with Polish and their own soldiers.

    US President Biden’s three-day visit to Poland on 20-22 March, which, according to the British news agency Reuters, is about more troops, may indicate that the war cables in Washington are thinking of a new escalation, this time extremely dangerous.

    For a direct confrontation between US and NATO troops and Russia in Ukraine, even if such a thing were possibly only to be presented by Washington as a bluff, could very quickly turn into bloody seriousness between the two nuclear powers. Even if this insane cabal around Biden would be fully capable of such a thing, there seems to be no majority for such a dangerous escalation among the professional military leaders at the top of the Pentagon, but also in the US Congress.

    Even in deeply anti-Russian circles in Washington D.C., doubts are now growing as to whether the cabal around the senile Joe Biden has not gone too far with its Ukraine adventurism, especially since all the cabal’s promises and predictions about the war and Russia’s supposedly hopeless future have turned out to be completely false.

    The cabal has thus been absolutely certain that the Russian currency and thus Russia’s economy would collapse as a result of the sanctions. At the same time, the Kremlin would be completely isolated internationally due to Western pressure on so-called “Third World” countries, the Russian defence industry would be crippled due to the lack of technical parts manufactured abroad, and so on and so forth. The opposite of all this has happened.

    The Russian currency is stronger than before the sanctions; according to the International Monetary Fund, the Russian economy is growing again this year by more than 2%. Instead of the dramatic collapse in gross domestic product (GDP) of up to 20 percent last year, which was hoped for in the West, Russian GDP actually fell by only slightly less than 3 percent in 2022.

    However, in contrast to the ailing West, the Russian economy is now growing again. And Russia is by no means isolated in the world; instead, more and more countries in the global South are refusing to jump the Washington cane and support Western anti-Russian sanctions. Meanwhile, the hopelessly over-indebted Western economies are facing very difficult times – partly because of their own sanctions, but also because of many other serious economic and political mistakes.
    To make matters worse, the Russian arms industry has been able to increase the production of the entire necessary supply of weapons of all kinds, including ammunition, many times over at short notice, while the West’s ammunition depots are becoming increasingly depleted. By early 2024 at the earliest, Ukraine can hope that the West will supply some of the arms and ammunition it needs. It would need them now, however, to stand up to Russia a little longer.

    All this is not pro-Russian conspiracy theories, but these conclusions can be found in studies from leading Western think tanks, such as the latest report from the US military’s most important think tank, the RAND Corporation, or from the US Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS, or from the Royal United Services Institute, the British military’s oldest and most reputable think tank, to name but a few.

    Sources and comments

    Thanks to the author for the right to publish this article.
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    • A fine summary, thank you. It must be noted that there is an anti-Christian and anti-Slav undercurrent in the US designs. Since 1905, our banksters financed a Japanese fleet to defeat Christian Russia and then finished off the Christian regime in 1917, immediately executing thousands of clergy and instituting abortions. As soon as Marxism was replaced in russia, our noose tightened. Soros said that Christian Slavs should ight our neo-colonial wars since others were worn out. Meanwhile, we applaud the transgender-drag queen ideology while Russia embraces Christianity again. The NWO crackpots will never allow that. Those being ed into our meatgrinder are 90% Orthodox Christian, the same group we bombed in Serbia to take part of their nation away so that old churches could be made into pig sties or public urinals.

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    Is it really that bad?
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    The true impact of a year of war on Russia’s economy
    DW Business Special

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    Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld from Yale School of Management joins us to discuss the true impact of a year of war on Russia’s economy. The likes of the International Monetary Fund say they expect Russian GDP to grow this year. Professor Sonnenfeld argues that those predictions are not based in reality. We discuss the work of Professor Sonnenfeld’s team in keeping track of which companies have pulled out of Russia and which remain. Also hear why the professor believes Russia’s hands have been tied by sanctions against its oil and gas sectors.

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    • The fact that he is a professor from the Yale School of Management should automatically disqualify the validity of anything that escapes his pie-hole.

      That fool and countless ones he has trained over the years can’t even get the American economy right and yet they presume to pass judgment on the strength of the Russian economy? Has he ever been there? Westerners consistently underestimate the russian world since superficially they look a little like Americans (without the morbid obesity) and enjoy the same luxury goods that wealthy Americans buy, but yet they are very different and their outlook on the world and life is very different from Western values.

      A diploma from that buffoon should be printed on toilet paper so that the holder of it might get a small measure of value from the fortune squandered on it.

      • I’m happy to be corrected, but I understand Russia has around the same population as Italy, and the same GDP as Spain, notwithstanding its huge land mass. During the Cold War, the (larger) USSR could enrich itself by exploiting its “satellites”, but must be struggling now to sustain a large military?

        • Russia is very rich in natural resources, and strategically important resources like oil and gas are not outright state controlled like it was under communism, but heavily controlled by Moscow with most of the profits going to the government coffers. This gives Moscow the ability to finance a very powerful military as well as many other projects.

          The russian armaments industry is likewise heavily state controlled and the biggest difference between the western MIC and the russian arms industry is that profit is not the primary motive or driver of arms development and production. Western observers see huge inefficiencies in that factories are far larger than necessary, inventories are far greater than comparable Western factories, human resources are not 100% utilized all the time, and the weapons themselves tend to be simpler, more robust, and far less expensive than similar western weapons. What this does is give Russia the ability to surge production when necessary and sustain it, which is why they are outproducing the entire West on artillery shell production by an order of magnitude.

          The deliberately ignorant western economists like to point at the GDP of the Russian economy as proof that they are economically weak. This ignores the fact that factors such as a low cost of living and lower labor force costs relative to the West, extremely low energy costs and raw material costs, and lack of expensive and complex supply chains like most Western countries have distort the economic strength of Russia when using a flawed metric like GDP. Western countries have high GDPs not because they are necessarily more productive or efficient but because the basic costs for everything including labor is so much higher in the West than in the rest of the world.

          There are many very expensive rackets in western countries such as legal, medical, educational, financial, and government/managerial rackets that exist to absorb the excessive numbers of higher education graduates without engineering or scientific degrees, and produce little to nothing of value while conjuring the appearance of prosperity from thin air and financial sorcery as well as extracting parasitically profits from real industry. All of this conjured economic activity adds to the high GDP in western nations and gives the appearance of prosperity while creating nothing of value in contrast to Russia which has very little of the aforementioned cancers fraudulently inflating its economic statistics.

          Russis also has a very highly educated and skilled workforce with excellent vocational and higher education tracks for the students its schools produce. Government and business debt is low; extremely low by western standards. Lastly, the modern world runs on energy, and as the foolish European nations are beginning to realize, necessary for a functioning economy. Since Russia produces so much energy and can therefore rely on extremely low energy costs for its industries and economy, it has a huge competitive advantage over western nations when it comes to cost of production. Russian energy and resources combined with Chinese production and technological prowess is a nightmare scenario for Western power and dominance, which is precisely why there is so much chest beating and bellicose grunting against Russia and China from the simians running every western country.

          Yes, I don’t believe that western economists have the slightest idea what they are talking about with regards to Russian economic strength.

  5. Why are the neo-nazis upset about that guy converting to Islam? Anyone who has read books about hitler would tell you that he preferred Islam over Christianity for the German people.

    • But, the German High Command and Waffen SS didn’t, they hated the muslims and it showed when the muslims turned on them since they saw that the Germans were going to lose the war, so the Germans did what they always did when faced with treacherous muslims, they had them properly shot by the hundreds of thousands including the villages they came from, and, not to be outdone, ole Tito had hundreds of thousand more shot for really good measure, for even that bloody commi Croat knew you couldn’t leave these rabid animals to live to fight another day.

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