A gunman opened fire earlier tonight in a Jehovah’s Witness church in the German city of Hamburg. At least seven people are dead, and one of them may be the shooter. Authorities have not yet determined a motive for the massacre.
In other news, a 6-year-old boy who shot and wounded his teacher in the classroom of an elementary school in Newport News, Virginia, will not be charged.
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Biden Proposes $6.8 Trillion Budget for FY 2024, Trillion More Than Last Year
President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a $6.8 trillion budget for Fiscal Year 2024, which is $1 trillion more than his budget proposal last year.
Biden proposed increasing taxes in order to fund the budget.
“You have to begin to pay your fair share,” Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young said, Axios reported.
The proposal is unlikely to be passed by Congress.
The budget is four times larger than the $1.7 trillion omnibus budget package Congress passed last year.
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Canada: Federal Government Upcoming Fiscal Numbers Expected to Break Records
The federal government is expected to report a new spending record in its next fiscal statement, according to a new study.
The Fraser Institute study released on Thursday wrote the Trudeau government is expected to report spending of 5% more than the highest non-COVID year in history, seen in the fiscal year of 2019.
“[Spending in recent years] will significantly exceed levels previously experienced in times of crisis, such as war and deep recession,” wrote fiscal researcher Jake Fuss.
Fuss said the government is on-track to report a spending level of roughly $11,500 per person in Canada.
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Companies like PepsiCo. and Wingstop have been cashing on narratives and headlines about global crises to inflate their prices and line their pockets.
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Affirmative Action Ban Passes Arkansas Senate
The Arkansas Senate on Thursday narrowly approved legislation aimed at ending affirmative action by state and local agencies, despite warnings that the move would threaten a host of programs ranging from health initiatives to support for historically Black colleges.
The bill approved by the majority-Republican Senate on an 18-12 vote prohibits discrimination or granting preferential treatment on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin. The measure, which now heads to the majority-GOP House for a vote, would also apply to public schools and institutions of higher education.
Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan portrayed his proposal, which gives state agencies two years to comply, as an effort to address discrimination.
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Anti-Capitalism Meme Comparing Fast Food Chicken Sandwiches Backfires Massively
A meme apparently intended to criticize capitalism resurfaced this week and was met with intense criticism from conservatives, many of whom pointed out that it actually reinforces the benefits of capitalism: abundance, diversity of choice, competition, and prosperity.
The meme, pictured in the Tweet below, reads: “‘Capitalism breeds innovation’“ then under “Capitalism:” it features 12 different fried chicken sandwiches offered by America’s various fast food chains. The chains included Popeyes, Carl’s Jr., Zaxby’s, Chick-fil-A, Sonic, Church’s, KFC, Burger King, Jack, Wendy’s McDonald’s, and Arby’s.
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Biden in Philadelphia Budget Speech Refers to Trump as ‘Maybe Future President,’ Crowd Boos
When discussing his newly unveiled budget blueprint, President Biden referred to his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, as the “maybe future president” of the United States while recalling a “big fight” the two men had during the 2020 campaign.
“I was running for office at the time, and you may remember that I had a big fight with the former president and maybe future president.” Biden recalled at the Finishing Trades Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Bless be Father.” Biden added, while making the sign of the cross.
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Comedian Alex Stein Sues AOC Over Fallout From Heckle
Radical Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been hit with a lawsuit from a comedian after she blocked him on Twitter.
AOC blocked Alex Stein after he heckled her outside the U.S. Capitol in a viral video.
Video of Stein’s heckling stunt quickly spread on social media after he caused AOC to explode with rage by giving her hyper-sexualized “compliments.”
The lawsuit says AOC blocked Alex Stein “in retaliation to Mr. Stein’s exercise of his First Amendment right, because earlier that day Mr. Stein, in the context of political commentary and satire, complimented Ms. Cortez.
“Mr. Stein has a constitutional right to access Ms. Cortez’s Twitter account as part of vigorous public comment and criticism.
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Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, country music singer John Rich, and conservative commentator Larry Elder have bought a bank that they say will promote American values and protect customers from the cancel culture and de-platforming that has been seen in recent times.
The three conservatives acquired the First State Bank of Elmore City, Oklahoma, the state’s oldest bank. They have renamed it to the Old Glory Bank and changed it into a bank that supports “freedom, privacy, security, life, and liberty.”
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Dem Bill Would Prevent Anyone Under Age of 25 Being Charged With Murder Felony
A new ‘racial justice’ bill introduced by Democrats in Maryland would prevent suspected criminals under the age of 25 being charged with felony murder under the justification that their frontal lobes are not fully developed.
Yes, really.
A felony murder occurs when someone is killed as a result of a felony crime, like if a getaway driver hits a pedestrian while fleeing the scene of a robbery.
Democrats appear to think that it’s racist to charge someone for that crime even if they are legally an adult.
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House Democrats on Thursday repeatedly disparaged hearing witnesses Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, two of the media figures behind breaking the “Twitter Files,” implying they were paid off and not true journalists.
On several occasions, Democratic members of the House Judiciary Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government suggested that the two witnesses were unbecoming of their title and had only covered the Twitter Files for monetary gain.
In addition, Taibbi and Shellenberger were accused of “cherrypicking” information from internal Twitter communications to support GOP talking points.
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Pennsylvania Democrats are facing backlash after proposing a bill that would require parents seeking a school vaccine exemption to complete an approved vaccine education course first.
If passed, Senate bill 390 would mandate parents seeking vaccine mandate exemptions for their children on religious or moral grounds to review “scientifically accepted information prescribed by the Department of Health on the benefits and risks of immunization” and submit a form certified by a medical professional.
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Democrats Block Jordan Peterson Testifying Before Senate Hearing
Democrats have blocked renowned clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson from testifying before a Senate hearing on artificial intelligence (AI).
Several outraged Republicans walked out of the Wednesday hearing after Democrats blocked the testimony.
Peterson was invited to testify by Republican members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
He was called on to provide his expert insights about the rise of AI and related threats to liberty.
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Fauci Rejects Claims From Former CDC Director That He ‘Froze-Out’ Lab Leak Proponents
Former National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday rejected congressional testimony from a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director alleging that Fauci had excluded proponents of the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab from major discussions on handling the pandemic.
“I really feel badly about that because I’ve known Bob a long time. He is totally and unequivocally incorrect in what he’s saying, that I excluded him. I had nothing to do with who would be on that call,” Fauci told Fox News’s Neil Cavuto of former CDC Director Robert Redfield’s testimony.
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Feds Weaponized War on Terror’s ‘Psychological Manipulation’ Against Americans, Congress Told
By pressuring tech platforms to remove purported misinformation and unapproved narratives, the federal government combined “established methods of psychological manipulation,” developed by the U.S. military for the war on terror, with artificial intelligence, a writer given access to the Twitter Files told the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
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Florida Law Banning Firearm Sales to People Younger Than 21 Upheld by Federal Appeals Court
A law passed in Florida in the wake of the Parkland school shooting that requires individuals to be at least 21 years old to purchase firearms was upheld by a federal appeals court on Thursday.
The Florida legislature passed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act with bipartisan support three weeks after the shooting, in which a 19-year-old shot and killed 17 people.
While the law bans firearm sales to Floridians between the ages of 18 and 21, it doesn’t prohibit them from possessing guns. The bill also banned bump stocks, an attachment that allows semiautomatic weapons to fire at a faster rate.
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Former NBA Superstar Shawn Kemp is Arrested Over a Shooting in a Parking Lot
Former Seattle SuperSonics star Shawn Kemp is facing a felony criminal charge over a shooting involving two vehicles in Tacoma, Wash., that took place Wednesday, according to police records. No one was reportedly hurt in the incident.
The formal charge against Kemp, 53, accuses him of a drive-by shooting. But people close to Kemp tell local news outlets that the case is one of self-defense, after Kemp allegedly confronted someone after tracking a stolen iPhone.
An altercation broke out in a parking lot that escalated into shots being fired, the Tacoma Police Department said. “One car fled,” it stated, and one man was arrested at the scene, adding that its investigation is ongoing.
The police department didn’t name Kemp in its announcement, referring instead to his age, gender, and a drive-by shooting charge. Online records show Shawn Travis Kemp was booked into the Pierce County Jail shortly after the police report, on a felony charge of drive-by shooting.
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The ex-lawyer for Jacob Chansley, the Navy veteran known widely in the media as the “QAnon Shaman” for his outlandish look during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson he had not seen the newly-released footage that could have aided his client against federal charges.
Chansley, who famously went shirtless and donned face paint and a horned hat while carrying an American flag on the day Congress certified President Biden’s election victory, was portrayed as the leader of pro-Trump rioters who violently attacked Capitol Police officers and defaced the Capitol Building. However, the over 40,000 hours of Capitol footage exclusively obtained by “Tucker Carlson Tonight” show him being escorted around by Capitol Police without incident.
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GOP Lawmaker Touts House Passage of Censorship Protections, Warns Against Government Interference
Texas Republican Rep. Brian Babin on Thursday celebrated the House passing legislation to curb government censorship of free speech.
Appearing on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show, Babin discussed the House having passed the Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act by a 219-206 margin on a strictly party-line vote. The bill states that “employees acting in their official capacity should neither take action within their authority or influence to promote the censorship of any lawful speech, nor advocate that a third party, including a private entity, censor such speech.”
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GOP Lawmaker ‘Wouldn’t be Surprised’ if China Deliberately Started Pandemic
Florida Republican Rep. Greg Steube on Thursday indicated that mounting evidence surrounding the notion that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a lab leak in Wuhan had left him open to the idea that Beijing may have deliberately allowed the virus to spread throughout the world.
“I mean, I don’t have any facts or evidence in front of me to show the intent,” he conceded during an appearance on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show. “But if you look at all the substantial and circumstantial evidence here, the timing of the leak, the fact that they denied and denied that it even came from a lab… It wouldn’t surprise me at all, the Chinese Communist Party released this virus.”
Steube outlined two possible motivations China might have for such an action, saying the regime might have sought to gauge “the impact that [the virus] would have worldwide.”
Alternatively, he suggested China might do so because “they hated President Trump because of the tough-on-China policies that he had, not just on the economy and trade, but other military policies that he had, and knew that a huge pandemic taking out thousands and hundreds of thousands of Americans… would very much diminish his chances in reelection.”
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GOP Rep. Darin LaHood Says He Thinks FBI Unlawfully Monitored Him
Illinois Republican Rep. Darin LaHood said Thursday that he thinks that the FBI unlawfully monitored him.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence in December declassified a report stating that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 was abused by the FBI under Section 702, which allows the federal government “to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the United States, with the compelled assistance of electronic communication service providers, to acquire foreign intelligence information,” according to Fox News.
The FBI inappropriately used Section 702 to repeatedly search for a member of Congress, who was not named, the intelligence report stated.
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FIRST ON FOX: Several GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee shared their thoughts on the fiery Twitter Files select subcommittee hearing that took place Thursday afternoon.
The hearing saw Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government ranking member Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., and Texas Democrat Rep. Sylvia Garcia ask testifying journalist Matt Taibbi to divulge his sources under oath.
Taibbi refused to share his sources during the subcommittee hearing, holding his ground even after repeated attempts by both lawmakers to get him to crack.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who also chairs the select subcommittee, told Fox News Digital that the witnesses in the hearing were “just outstanding” and praised Taibbi and fellow testifying journalist Michael Shellenberger as “sharp individuals.”
“But I think the key takeaway is Democrat members of Congress asking journalists to divulge their sources,” Jordan said in the Thursday phone call after the subcommittee hearing. “And I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anything like that.”
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Students are electing to avoid college in the hundreds of thousands since before the pandemic, with many electing to take hourly jobs amid fears of tuition and debt.
What first looked like a pandemic blip has turned into a crisis. Nationwide, undergraduate college enrollment dropped 8% from 2019 to 2022, with declines even after returning to in-person classes, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse.
The slide in the college-going rate since 2018 is the steepest on record, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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JPMorgan Chase has been ordered to turn over additional records regarding its CEO amid an ongoing lawsuit involving Jeffery Epstein, which alleges the bank played a part in late financier’s now-well-known sex-trafficking ring.
Filed by the US Virgin Islands, the suit contends the New York-based bank knew about Epstein’s nefarious behavior for years — and even aided the convicted sex fiend’s sordid exploits while willingly turning a blind eye.
Epstein — who died in 2019 while in federal custody in the Big Apple — ran much of his criminal activities out of his compound on Little St. James Island, a private island he owned off the coast that falls in the Virgin Islands’ jurisdiction.
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Kevin McCarthy Tells Adam Schiff to Pound Sand, Vows to Release Jan 6 Tapes to the Public
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has put Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) in his place and vowed to release the Jan. 6 Tapes to the American people.
The move from McCarthy comes after Schiff complained about McCarthy giving Jan. 6 footage to Fox News star Tucker Carlson.
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Liberal Group Fails to Get Jenna Ellis Disbarred, Woke Judge Files Censure Statement Anyway
Attorney Jenna Ellis has been censured in Colorado after being accused of misconduct and making false claims about the 2020 US presidential election. The intent of the complaint was to have Ellis disbarred, but that attempt failed and resulted only in censure.
“My client remains a practicing attorney in good standing in the State of Colorado. In a very heated political climate, we have secured the correct outcome,” Ellis’ attorney Michael Melito said.
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McConnell Being Treated for Concussion After Fall
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is being treated for a concussion after his fall at a hotel in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, his spokesman said.
McConnell, 81, is expected to remain in the hospital “for a few days” as he receives treatment for injuries sustained by his fall. The Kentucky Senator was attending an evening dinner for the Senate Leadership Fund, a political action committee aligned with him, when he tripped and fell, his office said. The dinner was at the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC, formerly the Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C.
“Leader McConnell tripped at a dinner event Wednesday evening and has been admitted to the hospital and is being treated for a concussion. He is expected to remain in the hospital for a few days of observation and treatment,” said David Popp, McConnell’s communications director, in an update on Thursday.
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Oregon Reversing Course? Retail Thefts Could Result in More Jail Time Under New Bill
Oregon lawmakers are considering legislation aimed at curbing organized retail theft by funding police sting operations and changing policies to keep thieves in jail longer.
Police, grocery store representatives and retail lobbyists testified in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday in support of two bills that target organized retail theft. One bill would provide additional, targeted funding to the Oregon Department of Justice and law enforcement, while the other changes policies to make it easier to prosecute cross-county thefts and increase the maximum sentence for organized retail theft.
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Person of Interest in Custody in Fatal Deli Shooting, Series of Bodega Robberies
NEW YORK — A person of interest is in custody after a series of bodega robberies, including one that ended in a deadly shooting.
Earlier, police sources told CBS2 the NYPD recovered a white hazmat suit believed to have been worn by the suspect during the robberies.
The suspect is accused of murdering a bodega clerk on the Upper East Side last week. Investigators said the same suspect tried to rob a deli in the Bronx less than an hour later.
Sources said investigators recovered the suit in a dumpster less than half a mile from the Bronx deli. Surveillance video reportedly shows the suspect throwing the hazmat suit away.
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On Monday, a 21-year-old pregnant Chicago woman, Genesis Escobar, was gunned down during an alleged botched robbery where Escobar and her boyfriend attempted to rob a group of drug dealers, who then opened fire on the pair.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Escobar, who was 7 months pregnant, allegedly met the drug dealers and got in their car to complete a “drug transaction” but then her boyfriend flanked the vehicle in an attempt to rob the crew, prompting the drug dealers to shoot Escobar multiple times before she “tumbled out of the car.”
The shooting occurred around 1 pm on Chicago’s Northwest Side in the neighborhood of Belmont Cragin.
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Report: 6-Year-Old Won’t be Charged After Shooting Teacher
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Authorities in the Virginia city where a 6-year-old shot and wounded his teacher will not seek criminal charges against the child, the local prosecutor told NBC News Wednesday, in a decision that was anticipated by legal experts.
But Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn said his office has yet to decide if any adults will be held criminally accountable.
Newport News police have said that the boy used his mother’s 9mm handgun in the Jan. 6 shooting at Richneck Elementary School. A lawyer for the child’s mother has previously stated that the weapon, which was legally purchased, was secured on a high closet shelf and had a lock on it.
Gwynn did not immediately respond to two phone messages and two emails from The Associated Press seeking comment.
He told NBC that the “prospect that a 6-year-old can stand trial is problematic” because he wouldn’t have the competency to understand the legal system and what a charge means.
Gwynn told the news outlet that his office is still focusing on others besides the child.
“Once we analyze all the facts, we will charge any person or persons that we believe we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt committed a crime,” he said.
The decision did not come as a surprise. Even though it is possible under Virginia law to criminally charge a 6-year-old child, legal experts said it would be highly unlikely that a prosecutor would even try.
A common-law doctrine known as the “infancy defense” holds that children under 7 cannot be prosecuted for a crime because they are too young to be capable of forming criminal intent. A judge also would have to find that the child was competent to stand trial, meaning that he could understand the legal proceedings and assist attorneys defending him.
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A teachers union in Virginia has been called out for promoting a Black Lives Matter organization that allegedly ‘advances racial justice’ and tells kids to ‘work towards a queer-affirming network.’
The Virginia Education Association released a toolkit last month encouraging members to join the Black Lives Matter At School organization’s ‘week of Action’ which began on February 6.
A recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece accused the union of ‘using its pipeline to teachers to promote the teaching of a left-wing political agenda and activism.’
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One of the group of people arrested over the weekend for setting fire to a proposed $90million police training center has been identified as the transgender daughter of a millionaire North Carolina businessman.
James ‘Jamie’ Mariscano, 29, was among the Antifa rioters arrested Sunday night after burning construction vehicles and attacking police officers with fireworks and Molotov cocktails at the site of the future Atlanta Police Safety Training Center, booking documents show.
Mariscano is an outspoken anti-police advocate who is in her first year of law school at North Carolina School of Law.
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Ron DeSantis Rails Against Mainstream Media’s ‘Book Ban Hoax’: ‘A False Political Narrative’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took shocking measures to call out the mainstream media’s “hoax” and push back against the far-left narrative that the Republican leader is trying to ban books.
In a press event Wednesday, DeSantis showed sexually explicit material from books that are readily available in some of Florida’s public school libraries. Local media outlets cut away from the live event due to the graphic nature of the content, inadvertently proving his point.
“There was a Duval County school video where they took a video of empty bookshelves and they say, ‘the state of Florida doesn’t want books, they’re trying to censor books’ and all this stuff. Turned out that was a hoax,” DeSantis said in response to accusations that the state is “banning books.”
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Skiff Launches New Interface for Publishing Docs, Wikis, And Pages
Skiff, the privacy-focused workspace that offers end-to-end encrypted email, calendar, documents, and files, has launched Skiff Pages.
The new interface for users to publish documents and pages directly from Skiff — which started as a Google Docs alternative — joins Skiff Mail and Skiff Drive, launched last year.
The company’s site explains that notes, wikis, articles, blogs, or job boards can be published publicly or privately from any Skiff Page.
Clicking the “publish” button will create an end-to-end encrypted link, which is sharable both with Skiff users and everybody else on the internet.
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Software Engineer Who Allegedly Blew Up Power Station Had Even More Bombs at Home
Peter Karasev, 36, was arrested last week after allegedly blowing up two transformers in the San Francisco Bay Area, knocking out power for thousands.
A software engineer in San Jose has been charged with blowing up two electric transformers in the San Francisco Bay Area, which knocked out power for thousands of residents in December and January.
Peter Karasev, 36, was arrested last week and charged with arson, destroying an electrical line, detonating an explosive device, and possessing bomb making materials. Local police found so many explosive devices and materials in his house that they had to call in help from other agencies, including the FBI, DEA, and National Guard.
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State’s First ‘Satan Club’ Launches at Elementary School, Gets ‘Tons of Support’
An elementary school in Colorado has just launched its first “Satan Club” for children, according to reports.
On Monday, the Satanic Temple’s After School Club at Paonia K-8 in Colorado held its first meeting.
The event was hosted at the school after a parent requested the club for her son.
According to The74, the club is the first of its kind in the state and was initially announced on February 21 via The Satanic Temple’s (TST) Twitter account.
The club’s first meeting was held on Monday and was initially requested by a parent.
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Suspect Dead After Allegedly Shooting 3 L.A. Police Officers
Three Los Angeles Police Department officers were shot Wednesday night and a suspect was dead following a confrontation in the city’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood, police officials said.
The incident occurred around 6 p.m. on North Broadway at Mission Road. All three officers were expected to survive.
Officers with the Hollenbeck station were called around 3:50 p.m. to the 3800 block of Broadway on Wednesday afternoon to search for a parolee at large, LAPD Assistant Chief Al Labrada said Wednesday night at a news conference held outside L.A. County-USC Medical Center.
Officers found the suspect, who they said refused to comply with commands, and a K-9 unit was requested from the Metropolitan Division.
Officers used gas on the suspect, who still did not comply with their commands, Labrada said.
“At one point during the search,” he said, “the suspect exited and fired at the officers, wounding three … who are now listed in stable condition here just behind me.”
All of the officers who were shot were part of the Metropolitan Division’s K-9 unit.
After they were hit, other officers pulled them from the line of fire, law enforcement sources said. They were taken to the hospital by ambulances.
One officer was shot in the arm, another in the leg and a third was hit in the torso but his body armor likely deflected the round leaving him with shrapnel injuries, according to law enforcement sources.
Labrada said all three of the officers were able to speak and that their families were at the hospital.
At some point during the incident, an unknown number of officers fired at the suspect, Labrada said.
The suspect was confirmed dead Wednesday night by police officials several hours after the officers were shot. He was identified by authorities on Thursday as Jonathan Magana.
The cause and manner of his death were not disclosed.
The LAPD’s force investigation division is investigating the shooting by police, Labrada said, while the Robbery-Homicide Division is investigating the shooting that injured the officers.
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President Donald Trump is planning to expose the Hollywood celebrities who turned against him by publishing their letters to him in a new book.
Trump’s book will reveal 150 private letters sent to him by celebrities and world leaders when they still loved him.
One letter is from Oprah Winfrey in 2000 where she says: “Too bad we’re not running for office. What a team!”
Trump says that he still considers Winfrey “amazing, but sadly, once I announced for President, she never spoke to me again.”
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Twitter Files: Federal Government Demanded Censorship of ‘Anti-Ukraine Narratives’
The latest installment of the “Twitter Files” has revealed that Democrat President Joe Biden’s federal government demanded that the Big Tech company censor content that it deemed to be “anti-Ukraine narratives.”
The findings from Twitter’s internal communications files were published by journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger.
The new Twitter Files release comes ahead of Taibbi and Shellenberger’s testimony to the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
Thursday’s release has revealed that federal government entities flagged “anti-Ukraine narratives” to Twitter for censorship.
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Video: Tucker Carlson Slams McConnell and Schumer for Trying to Kill His J6 Broadcasts
As questions swirl over whether Tucker Carlson’s ongoing investigation into the January 6th footage is being shut down by higher ups, Carlson himself tore into Democrat and Republican leaders who both called for the host to be censored.
“What you’re seeing is hysteria. The overstatements, the crazed hyperbole, the red-in-the face anger. It’s not outrage, it’s fear,” Carlson told viewers.
“We’re getting close to what they really care about,” He continued, further noting “Here you have people with shared interests. The open borders people. The people like Mitch McConnell who are living in splendor on Chinese money.”
Carlson also mocked Chuck Schumer for melting down on the Senate floor and calling Carlson a “threat to Democracy.”
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WV Gov. Justice Signs Bill Expanding Religious Freedom Protections
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday signed the Equal Protection for Religion Act that aims to enshrine greater protections for persons of faith in state law.
The law states that the state may not “[s]ubstantially burden a person’s exercise of religion unless applying the burden to that person’s exercise of religion in a particular situation is essential to further a compelling governmental interest; and is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.”
Neither may it “[t]reat religious conduct more restrictively than any conduct of reasonably comparable risk; nor [t]reat religious conduct more restrictively than comparable conduct because of alleged economic need or benefit.”
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Discussions around Bill C-18 (Online News Act), which is currently in the second reading phase in Canada’s Senate, are ongoing at the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage (CHPC).
The bill — which promises to “take into account” principles of freedom of expression and journalistic independence — passed in the House of Commons last December and is now just a step away from becoming law, is presented by its sponsors as a way to regulate digital news intermediaries in order to enhance fairness in the Canadian digital news marketplace.
This seems to mostly come down to making platforms like Facebook and Google pay publishers for hosting links to news. And now, a senator is suggesting there may be a way of expanding this mandatory payment for links to platforms where creators just talk about the news.
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China Hearings: LeBlanc and Joly Testify on Chinese Election Interference Allegations
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly testify in front of the Committee on Procedure and House Affairs over reports of a sophisticated Chinese election interference operation in the 2019 and 2021 elections.
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Half of Quebec ER Visits Waited Over 5 Hours: Report
Emergency rooms in Quebec had the average patient waiting longer than 5 hours last year, according to a new study.
The study released on Thursday from the Montreal Economic Institute showed half of all patients in Quebec emergency rooms waited longer than five hours and 11 minutes.
“If you need emergency medical care in Quebec, you’d better learn to be patient,” said study author Emmanuelle Faubert.
Quebec’s emergency wait-time increased by 40 minutes since four years ago — a rise of roughly 15%.
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Military Investigating “F*ck Poilievre” and Anti-Convoy Tweets
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is “determining appropriate steps” to take against four serving members who used their public social media accounts to bash Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, Conservatives at large and the Freedom Convoy movement.
On Wednesday, a Department of National Defence spokesperson confirmed with True North that it is investigating a series of social media posts that appear to violate various portions of the CAF’s code of conduct.
“We can confirm that they are currently serving members,” a DND spokesperson told True North.
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Toronto Launches “Urban Insect Farm” Climate Mentorship
As part of its Women4Climate Mentorship Program (W4CTO), the City of Toronto has selected a specialist in Artificial Intelligence (AI) “urban insect farms” to guide the next generation of environmental entrepreneurs.
On Tuesday, a press release detailed the 11 local women selected to participate in the program “to help mentees advance their climate-related projects or business start-ups.”
One of the mentors funded by the city is the CEO of Bug Mars, Natalie Duncan.
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100-Year-Old Woman Killed and Beheaded in Germany
A 37-year-old man in Germany has been arrested by police after allegedly murdering his 100-year-old grandmother and cutting off her head with a hatchet.
The suspect, 37-year-old Artur B., was taken into custody on Monday morning after he phoned local police in Hamburg-Stellingen at around 4 a.m. to inform them that he had killed his own grandmother, 100-year-old Amalie G.
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Armed police were seen pointing their guns up a stairwell (pictured) in a church in Hamburg after a shooting that has left at least seven people dead.
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Athletic Giant Adidas Launches Ramadan Campaign in Sweden
German athletic giant Adidas has launched a new campaign in Sweden ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, featuring tips for Muslim athletes undergoing fasting.
Adidas in Sweden announced the new campaign, named ‘From Sunrise to Sunset’, in which the company will give tips and advice to Muslim athletes wishing to train during Ramadan while also maintaining an all-day fast.
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Austria: Vienna Finally Lifts Mask Mandate — and Bans Masks From Public Transport
The city of Vienna has finally lifted its long-standing masking requirement on public transport — and now those who still wear masks are banned from doing so, and could even face fines.
Vienna lifted its mandatory mask policy on public transportation on March 1st, after the rest of Austria had lifted similar requirements months prior.
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At least seven people were shot and killed inside a church in Hamburg’s Groß Borstel district on Thursday evening, prompting a major emergency alert and manhunt for suspects, according to the latest reports.
Seven others are seriously injured, and 17 individuals have minor injuries according to reports by the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper. The final toll of the killing remains unknown.
According to police, the devastating shooting took place in the “King’s Hall,” which is a church that belongs to the Jehovah’s Witnesses, at approximately 9:15 p.m. Several reports indicate there was more than one suspect, and they remain on the run.
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Deadly Shooting at Hamburg Jehovah’s Witness Hall
A number of people have been killed in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall in the north German city of Hamburg.
Police say a gunman is believed to be dead. It is unclear if the attacker is among six or seven fatalities reported by German media.
As yet, “there is no reliable information on the motive”, police say.
A number of people were also injured in the shooting on Deelböge street in the city’s Gross Borstel district.
Police say they found a dead person at the scene who they believe may have been a perpetrator and investigations are continuing.
Police were called around 21:15 (20:15 GMT) to reports that shots had been fired in the building, police spokesman Holger Vehren said.
Officers who went in found people who “may have been seriously injured by firearms, some of them fatally”, he said.
“The officers also heard a shot from the upper part of the building and went upstairs, where they also found a person. So far we have no indications that any perpetrators fled.”
He said police had not yet identified the victims and work at the crime scene continued.
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EU Becoming ‘EUSSR’ With Green Agenda War on Farmers, MEP Says
The European Union’s green agenda-inspired war against farmers is turning the bloc into the “EUSSR”, an MEP has warned.
Tom Vandendriessche, a member of the European Parliament for the Flemish Vlaams Belang party, has warned that the EU is rapidly turning into the “EUSSR” as a result of its climate war against the bloc’s farmers, in reference to the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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First US Abrams Tanks to be Delivered to Poland in April
The first of 116 used Abrams tanks ordered for the Polish army will be delivered in April, according to Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Mariusz Blaszczak.
In early January, Poland signed a $1.4 billion contract for the purchase of 116 M1A1 Abrams tanks, in addition to a contract for the latest model of those tanks. Nearly $200 million of this purchase is being covered by the United States as military aid based on provisions for additional support in connection with the war in Ukraine.
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France: Pics: Youths Blockade Schools, Colleges as Macron Pushes to Raise Retirement Age
PARIS (AP) — Young people in France — including some who haven’t even entered the job market yet — are protesting Thursday against the government’s push to raise the retirement age.
Students blocked access to some universities and high schools, and a youth-led protest is planned in Paris as part of nationwide strikes and demonstrations against the pension bill under debate in parliament.
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German Police Reportedly Arrest 3 Suspects Involved in Brutal Antifa Attacks in Budapest
After footage of German Antifa members brutally beating a number of citizens in Budapest in February was caught on film, Hungarians were in shock, and a number of suspects are still in Hungarian jail. Now, German police have conducted raids on far-left housing projects in the infamous Connewitz neighborhood in their hunt for more suspects, reports Hungarian media.
The German special police conducted a house search in Leipzig-Connewitz in the building block considered to be one of the centers of extreme far-left radicals in the east of the country. German police seized evidence and reportedly took three suspects into custody. The names of the suspects have not been released and the prosecutor’s office has not made any comment on the arrests, but Hungarian news outlet Magyar Nemzet indicates the suspects are believed to have been involved in the Budapest attacks.
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Hungary would need 500,000 new workers in the next year or two, but foreign workers should not be favored; instead, the focus should be on mobilizing Hungarians, said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a speech on Hungary’s economic situation at an event hosted by the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MKIK).
“Hungary belongs to the Hungarians,” said Orban. “We cannot allow foreign labor to be allowed in for the sake of convenience. Otherwise, we will lose our security.”
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Kowtow: UK Govt Censored Reference to Wuhan Lab Leak in Health SEC’s Memoirs
The British government censored former health secretary Matt Hancock’s references to the Wuhan virus likely being the result of a lab leak in his memoirs, its position being that the outbreak’s location was “entirely coincidental”.
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Poland Will Send MiG Fighter Jets to Ukraine Under One Condition
Poland is ready to hand over MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, but only as a part of an international coalition, Polish President Andrzej Duda told CNN International during an interview.
Duda spoke to CNN International during his stay in the United Arab Emirates, where he was attending a UN conference. He told CNN that Poland was ready to hand over the MIG-29 fighter jets that serve in its air force to Ukraine, and that he was certain Ukraine would be ready and willing to use them immediately.
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Poland has consistently been opposed to an EU ban on the sale of cars with internal combustion engines by 2035, said Polish Environment Minister Anna Moskwa while speaking at a conference on renewable energy in Brussels.
She said that in informal discussions, the number of voices that are skeptical of this reform is rising.
“Countries are waking up and beginning to realize that 2035 isn’t far away, especially smaller states, which as one can imagine will be flooded with foreign technologies, and their societies are beginning to understand the reality and the implications for them,” she said.
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UK Forced to Use Emergency Coal Generators for First Time as Green Energy Fails to Keep Up
The United Kingdom has been forced to use its emergency coal-fired backup generators for the first time as renewables failed to supply enough energy.
Britain’s crusade for net zero saw another major failure on Tuesday, with the country having to resort to using its emergency coal-fired power plants as renewables were unable to keep up with demand.
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UK Running ‘Dangerously Low’ on Ammo After Shipments to Ukraine
The United Kingdom is now running “dangerously low” on ammunition after sending large military aid packages to Ukraine, MPs have been warned.
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UK: Wife of Future King Dons Hijab to Visit London Muslim Centre
The Princess of Wales and her husband William, the future King and elder brother of the troubled Prince Harry, visited a Muslim Centre in London on Thursday, with the princess donning an Islamic hijab for the occasion.
Princess Catherine, still better known as Kate Middleton to most British and Commonwealth citizens, or as the Duchess of Cambridge — as she was before the Queen died and her husband inherited his father the King’s former titles — visited the Hayes Muslim Centre in London with her husband William, the Prince of Wales, to recognise their efforts raising money for the Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal.
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Airlifted to Airport After Protesters Block the Roads, Netanyahu Departs for Rome
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed for Rome on Thursday afternoon for a diplomatic visit, after being helicoptered to Ben Gurion Airport because protesters against the government created huge traffic jams to prevent him from being driven there.
Organizers of protests against the Netanyahu government’s proposed judicial reforms encouraged demonstrators to block the roads around Ben Gurion Airport. For hours ahead of his flight, large convoys of vehicles blocked the entrance to the airport.
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UN Signs Deal to Salvage Stranded Oil From Tanker Off Yemen
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations announced Thursday it signed an agreement to purchase a very large vessel that can transfer more than 1 million barrels of crude now stranded in a rusting tanker off the coast of war-torn Yemen.
The deal is the first step in an eventual operation to evacuate the cargo and eliminate the threat of massive environmental damage from a possible oil spill or explosion.
Achim Steiner, administrator of the U.N. Development Program, told a news conference that the deal was signed with Euronav, the world’s largest independent tanker company, to secure the purchase of a large crude carrier for the endeavor.
The double-hulled carrier, found “following an intense search on an extremely stressed global market,” is expected to sail within the next month to Yemen’s Red Sea waters and park alongside the FSO Safer, he said.
“If all things go according to plan,” the ship-to-ship crude transfer would start in early May,” Steiner said.
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Russian missiles have hit the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa and Kharkiv, the leaders of the cities said on Thursday. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said 15 percent of the city was without power.
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Barack Obama’s White House was peppered with questions about Hunter Biden when he joined Burisma’s board and kept track of coverage of his Navy Reserve dismissal for cocaine use.
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We are drawn into the day-by-day uncertainty and incomprehension as the bewildering nightmare of Nazi bestiality unfolds around him with its total contempt for human life/
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Rejected: Academy Awards Won’t Give Ukraine’s Zelensky Air Time
The Academy Awards has reportedly rejected Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky’s request to appear on Sunday’s broadcast, signaling a cooling off of the love affair between Hollywood and Zelensky.
WME agent Mike Simpson made a plea to the Academy to include Zelensky but was rejected, according to a Variety report. Simpson reportedly represents documentarian Aaron Kaufman, who co-directed the pro-Zelensky documentary Superpower with Sean Penn.
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Russia launched a major missile barrage on Ukraine early Thursday morning, striking dozens of residential buildings, leaving at least six people dead, and compromising a major nuclear plant, Ukrainian officials said.
The attack included more than 80 missiles and eight drones striking targets across Ukraine, including the capital city of Kyiv. It was the largest of the attacks in recent weeks.
Ukraine’s Chief Commander of the Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi said about three dozen missiles had been intercepted, and half of the drones were shot down.
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Ukraine Insists it Had Nothing to Do With Blowing Up Nord Stream Pipeline
The Ukrainian government has insisted they had nothing to do with an attack that blew up part of the Russo-German Nord Stream gas pipelines.
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Ukraine Crisis Could Become New Hundred Years’ War if West’s Arms Aid Doesn’t Stop, Le Pen Warns
The West’s decision to continue arming Ukraine threatens to turn the conflict into a long and brutal conflagration, French opposition leader Marine Le Pen has warned.
“There aren’t fifty different solutions; apart from a peace agreement, all the rest will be bad. Ukraine will not be able to win unless NATO comes to its aid. But if NATO enters the conflict on Ukraine’s side, the whole world will be at war. China will likely also enter the conflict,” the senior National Rally politician said in an interview with French radio on Thursday.
“If we continue to send weapons — which we don’t have, by the way, depriving our own army, then what we have before us is a Hundred Years’ War,” Le Pen warned, referencing the brutal series of conflicts between France and England during the Middle Ages between 1337 and 1453, which cost the lives of between 2.3 and 3.3 million people, and culminated in England’s loss of nearly all of its continental European possessions.
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3 Arrested in Bangladesh Building Explosion Case as Death Toll Rises to 21
Three people were arrested and remanded to custody in connection with the deadly explosion in a multi-storey building in Bangladesh.
By Press Trust of India: Bangladesh authorities arrested three people in connection with the deadly explosion in a multi-storey building at a crowded area here in the national capital as rescue workers on Thursday recovered one more body from the rubble, raising the death toll to 21.
The “earthquake-like” explosion at the building at Old Dhaka’s crowded Gulistan area on Tuesday also injured over 100 people.
Three people including the owner of the building were arrested and remanded to custody, the Dhaka Tribune newspaper reported.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbub Ahmed on Thursday placed building owner Wahidur Rahman, his brother Matiur Rahman and businessman Motaleb Mintu each on a two-day remand.
Meanwhile, rescue workers on Thursday recovered one more body from the rubble of the building, raising the death toll to 21.
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Netherlands Joins U.S. Efforts to Restrict Semiconductor Exports to China
The government of the Netherlands is joining a U.S.-led effort to restrict the export of semiconductor chips to China, a campaign aimed at slowing the growth of the communist country’s military.
In order to be effective, U.S. restrictions need to include key suppliers in the European country, as well as Japan.
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Australia’s Heart Attack Deaths Skyrocket to Highest Level in 80 Years
The number of excess deaths in Australia is continuing to skyrocket, with the country now recording the highest levels of heart attack-related fatalities in 80 years.
Overall, the number of Australian deaths has gone through the roof and has been soaring over the past two years.
Over 174,000 deaths were registered in Australia last year.
The number is a whopping 12 percent higher than was predicted.
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An elderly Melbourne couple who’ve been fined $370 for dropping a lolly wrapper out of a car say they’ve been falsely dobbed in by someone with a grudge.
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Radio talkback host Ben Fordham has produced figures showing coal remains the dominant source of energy for NSW, providing two thirds of the power by the state used during a heatwave.
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Islamic Extremists Kill 25 Fishermen in Northeast Nigeria, 9 Escape
Islamic extremists killed at least 25 fishermen during an attack in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state, the police told The Associated Press on Thursday,
The rebels attacked the fishermen in the remote Mukdolo village of Borno where the years-long extremist violence is concentrated, said the local police chief Abdu Umar. Some of the bodies in the Wednesday attack were recovered and buried on Thursday, he said.
“There is no single human being in that place because it has been abandoned but the villagers from Dikwa go there to fish. Unfortunately, this time, Boko Haram (extremists) surrounded the place and killed 25 of them and nine escaped,” the police chief said of the attack. Locals reported more than 30 killed in the attack.
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A letter purportedly from the Mexican cartel allegedly behind the kidnapping and subsequent killing of Americans last week claimed it has dealt with the members “involved and responsible” for the incident, handing them over for authorities to detain.
“We have decided to turn over those who were directly involved and responsible in the events, who at all times acted under their own decision-making and lack of discipline,” the letter from the Gulf Cartel, reviewed by The Associated Press, states.
A photograph of five men face down on the pavement and bound accompanied the letter. The letter also apologized to residents of Matamoros, Mexico, where the kidnapping occurred, and for the death of an innocent Mexican woman during the incident.
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A 44-year-old Afghan migrant who sexually assaulted three young French women in four days in the city of Douai has been sentenced to prison.
The assaults occurred just at the end of last year, taking place between Jan. 9 and 13, 2022. Three teen women were targeted, Léonie, Amélie and Nadine, who were between the ages of 15 and 17.
The convicted person, only identified as HA, reportedly said, “No problem,” in English to all three girls before sexually assaulting them.
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Asylum Seekers ‘Coming in Thousands’ to Niagara Falls, Says Charity Director
The executive director of an emergency shelter intended for refugees says he has never seen so many newcomers, and is hoping for more than band-aid solutions from government.
Director John Mtshede said that after working fourteen years with emergency refugee shelter Matthew House, now is the busiest.
“I haven’t seen this large, large number we are experiencing,” he said to True North. “We have people coming in thousands in Niagara Falls. Housing is now a big challenge.”
“A very very big challenge.”
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President Joe Biden’s budget provides $7.3 billion for refugees but only funds an additional 350 border patrol agents to deal with a surge in migrants illegally crossing the northern and southern borders.
Biden’s $6.8 trillion plan, which he unveiled on Thursday, makes clear his priorities heading into the next fiscal year.
Included in his plan to hike taxes on the wealthy and corporations to pay for a plethora of social programs is the money for migrants and a mere $40 million to combat fentanyl trafficking, a growing issue of concern for Americans.
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Channel Migrant Stabbed Student Because He Wanted to be Deported From Britain
Iraqi Rebaz Mohammed attacked teenager Ellis Wheeler in a leafy park, leaving him fighting for his life
This is the moment an Iraqi immigrant stabbed a university student because he wanted to be deported from Britain.
Ellis Wheeler, a teenager, was left fighting for his life after Rebaz Mohammed attacked him as he walked through a leafy park on his way back from the gym.
Footage shows Mohammed pulling out a kitchen knife from his coat before lunging at the 18-year-old’s back and puncturing his lung in broad daylight.
The Iraqi can be seen approaching the student shortly before the attack, speaking to him briefly and asking if he knew kickboxing before swinging at him.
Mr Wheeler managed to run away but passed out before being rushed to hospital, where he underwent surgery.
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Italy: Illegal Migrant ‘Targeted Woman’ in Stabbing, Robbery Rampage
An illegal migrant from Africa already known to Italian authorities was arrested after attacking half a dozen people during a frenzied stabbing spree near one of Europe’s busiest train stations this week, according to reports.
The shocking incident unfolded on Monday evening near Milan Central Station in Italy.
Armed with a knife, a male suspect launched a series of armed robberies in the streets around the city center, La Repubblica reports.
A total of six people were injured during the rampage, five of whom were stabbed.
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Emmanuel Macron is expected to refuse Rishi Sunak’s demands that Britain be allowed to return migrants who cross the Channel in small boats back to France at today’s summit in Paris.
Britain hopes to secure his active support at the summit for a long-term deal, similar to the EU’s existing ‘Dublin’ rules, to return illegal immigrants who cross the English Channel.
But European diplomats said the request would be rejected at a time when France is accusing other member states, such as neighbouring Italy, of failing to take back migrants.
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UK: Boat Migrant Living in Free Hotel Stabs Student, 18, in the Back
A boat migrant living in a hotel at taxpayers’ expense stabbed an 18-year-old student in the back at random, supposedly so he could be deported.
Twenty-eight-year-old Rebaz Mohammed has received a short sentence at Southampton Crown Court for stabbing 18-year-old Ellis Wheeler, a complete stranger to him, in the back with a kitchen knife in broad daylight.
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The Home Office has reportedly been forced to shore up an extra £2million to pay for hotel rooms for asylum seekers after the Government admitted there was no deadline in sight to stop their use.
For the first time, the number of migrants in hotels has reached 50,000, a vast increase from the 2,600 reported in March 2020.
The cost of the hotel accommodation is reported to be £6million per day, The Telegraph reports.
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Germany is increasingly evicting its elderly residents to make room for refugees as the country deals with an extreme housing crisis brought on to a great extent by mass immigration. However, those protesting this trend are being labeled far-right and xenophobic by government officials. At the same time, they are complaining they can no longer partake in such evictions “silently,” as public outrage grows over a practice that has long been used in the past without as much scrutiny.
As Remix News has previously reported, the city’s municipal housing association evicted dozens of long-term residents in the German city of Lörrach, many of them senior citizens, to accommodate migrants. In Berlin, a Christian organization forced out over 100 seniors to make room for migrants there. It is a well-known secret in Germany that even non-profits now prefer to house migrants rather than the elderly, as they can earn more money doing so, which can also be a motivating factor for cash-strapped non-profits.
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EXCLUSIVE — Arizona’s Washington Elementary School District was sued for allegedly impugning on the religious rights of a Christian university after they terminated a partnership that had been ongoing for 11 years after multiple board members attacked them for their religious beliefs on Thursday.
“[N]ot only did the School District end its agreement with Arizona Christian and its students at the February 23, 2023, board meeting, it disparaged their religious beliefs, questioning how one could ‘be committed to Jesus Christ’ and yet respect LGBTQ students and board members,” the lawsuit, filed by Alliance Defending Freedom, said.
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Canadian Government Makes Anyone Convicted of Abortion or Indecency Crimes Eligible for Expungement
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — The Canadian federal government under pro-abortion Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that people with past abortion and “indecency”-related criminal code convictions before the practices became legal will now be eligible to have their crimes erased in a move blasted by Canada’s top pro-life group as “perverted.”
On Tuesday, Canadian Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino announced that the government has enabled convictions under the Criminal Code for “abortion-related, bawdy house and indecency-based offences to be eligible for expungement.”
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Canadian Father Outraged After Teen Daughter Saw Naked Man in Girls’ Public Pool Changeroom: Report
CALGARY, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) — A 15-year-old Canadian girl says she is appalled after she saw the penis of a naked man, who now lives as a “transgender woman,” in the women’s changeroom at a public swimming pool in Calgary last month.
According to a recent report by the Western Standard, the girl said that she was finishing up changing when “a man came in” to the women’s changeroom at the Canyon Meadows Aquatic and Fitness Centre, in Calgary, donning “an arrogant look on his face.”
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Deni Todorovic, 34, who was assigned male at birth but uses they/them pronouns and identifies as non-binary, tells Daily Mail Australia of the abuse they’ve received after new campaign for Seafolly.
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The biggest age group to think the government wasn’t *authoritarian enough* during lockdown is young people aged 18-24.
What the hell has happened to the ‘rebellious’ youth? They’re all bootlickers now.
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A chaotic scene unfolded at an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) meeting Tuesday when a father attempting to raise concerns about trans-identified male students using female washrooms was shut down just one minute into his four-minute speech.
After raising the issue of male students being allowed to use the same bathroom as his 12-year-old daughter, and pointing out how “sexually driven” adolescent males can be, the concerned father was interrupted by trustee Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth, who asked him to end his delegation on the grounds that it created “an unsafe environment for people who identify as gender diverse.”
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by Daniel Greenfield
Next year a racist country will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Segregation has made a comeback at colleges with racially separate dorms and graduation ceremonies. Corporate employees are expected to join the affinity groups of their race and employers and activists closely scrutinize the race, gender and sexuality of officials, executives and creatives.
Call it wokeness, equity or anti-racism, they all amount to a country that has within a short span of time talked itself into constructing the most racist system since segregation. The sixties were trending away from racism while the twenties are rushing headlong into it. Boomers prided themselves on their tolerance while Zoomers make intolerance into their identity.
Rodgers and Hammerstein had a point with “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught”. Americans have been carefully taught to hate by the highest institutions of learning. No Southern educational institution at the height of slavery could have ever conceived of systemically dedicating entire departments and fields of study to asserting why an entire race must be hated.
A range of academia from ‘Whiteness Studies’ to ‘Critical Race Theory’ does just that. Students can attend Harvard or Yale and come away with little else than the knowledge that white people are a primeval evil and that everything they have built must be destroyed. When they graduate, they find lucrative careers in the DEI industry, in the media, in entertainment and in academia…
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UK: Christian Preacher Refered to Terror Police for Calling ‘Transwoman’ a Man
A Christian preacher was reported to counter-terrorism police for saying that a so-called “transwoman” was really a “man in woman’s clothing”.
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David McConnell, 42, had been found guilty of a public order offence after calling Farrah Munir, 20, a ‘gentleman’ when she asked him a question as he preached in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
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Public figures are only punished for ‘controversial’ tweets when they challenge establishment narratives.
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Anti-PK profile leaves German Left Party
March 7, 2023
Sahra Wagenknecht has plagued the German left-wing party Die Linke with her criticism of mass immigration, political correctness and arms supplies to Ukraine.
Now she is finally leaving the party – and may be founding her own.
Free media has reported on how Die Linke tried to have its top politician Sahra Wagenknecht expelled after she criticized the cultural Marxism that permeates German society.
In her book
Die Selbstgerechten (“The self-righteous”)
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Emotions replace arguments,
Who is poisoning the climate of opinion?
Left-wing liberalism: neither left nor liberal,
Illiberalism and intolerance,
Loss of common ground,
Winners see the game differently,
In the filter bubble of their own environment,
Reducing division and fear,
Dealing with the majority,
Part I
THE DIVIDED SOCIETY
AND ITS FRIENDS
MORALISTS WITHOUT COMPASSION
GREAT STORIES
SOLIDARITY, TRIUMPH AND HUMILIATION:
THE WORKERS’ STORY.
THE NEW ACADEMIC MIDDLE CLASS
LEFT-WING LIBERALISM – MAGGY THATCHER’S
GREATEST SUCCESS.
IMMIGRATION – WHO WINS, WHO LOSES?
THE RIGHT-WING ZEITGEIST IN A FAIRY TALE.
Part II
A PROGRAM FOR TOGETHERNESS, COHESION AND PROSPERITY
WHY WE NEED COMMON SENSE AND TOGETHERNESS
THE NATION STATE AND THE SENSE OF ‘WE’:
WHY A DEAD IDEA HAS A FUTURE.
DEMOCRACY OR OLIGARCHY:
HOW TO END THE RULE OF BIG MONEY?
PROGRESS INSTEAD OF BLUFF:
OWNING PERFORMANCE FOR A MORE INNOVATIVE ECONOMY.
A DIGITAL FUTURE WITHOUT DATA SNOOPERS
CONCLUSION
ANNEX
FURTHER READING
NOTES
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she harshly criticizes the politically correct so-called woke culture of the contemporary left. She talks about a “lifestyle left” that has scared away the left’s traditional voters.
Lately, she has made herself even more hated by the party leadership by criticizing the arms shipments to Ukraine and the sanctions against Russia, which she considers harmful to the German economy and the working class.
Recently, Wagenknecth co-wrote a “peace manifesto” with author Alice Schwarzer, which was signed by over 700,000 people, including German academics, politicians, activists and intellectuals.
She also held a large anti-war demonstration in Berlin at the end of February.
Sahra Wagenknecth has finally announced that she is leaving Die Linke.
Rumors have been circulating for some time that she might form her own party, according to Remix News.
While she is hated by the Left Party leadership, she has been very popular among Left Party members, especially in eastern Germany.
Her popularity made the party leadership reluctant to take action against her for fear that the party would implode.
According to opinion polls by Kantar, a new party headed by Sahra Wagenknecht could get up to 19% of the vote, and she is described as one of the most popular politicians in Germany.
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https://youtu.be/7a4aCoU571I (simultaneously translated)
https://youtu.be/7Yokl6_klgs
https://youtu.be/3nGT9tWBWHA
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Sweden – can only dream of such a
parliamentarian!
This has to be taken with more than just a little grain of salt. It’s a big, heavy stone, really. Sahra Wagenknecht was, is and remains a staunch socialist. That she is able to tell some uncomfortable truths which that pigsty of a party and the wokeness-deluded plebs can’t stand to hear, does not suddenly make her a potential saviour for us all. Her core values are firmly in enemy territory. If she manages to gain influence with a new leftist party, her admittedly superb capability will only make it much more dangerous than the suicidal chaos they are is now. She would be great to have on the side of liberty but this won’t happen.
Ukraine war can only continue if other countries send their young people to die. There are almost no Ukrainian men left. They send disabled, old bearded men and teenage boys who barely fill the uniforms.
Wagner captured some and posted pictures.
All this is very sad.
In the morning when we go to work we listen to the radio.
“So many Ukrainian nationalists have been destroyed today…” they say in a cheerful voice. What terrible Orwellianism. I turn it off. I can’t handle this nightmare anymore.
The heat keeps increasing…
https://thecradle.co/article-view/21729/judaizing-jerusalem-israels-demographic-plan-to-ethnically-cleanse-the-holy-city
“The biggest age group to think the government wasn’t *authoritarian enough* during lockdown is young people aged 18-24. What the hell has happened to the ‘rebellious’ youth?”
Truth be told – the “youth” are always impressionable and as I am getting older, I’d move the voting age up to 40 or something, because the “under 30” guys are so easily swayed by group pressures and the mass media propaganda…
The “youth” are never rebellious without a cause, and even the “rebellion” of the 1960’s was a planned rebellion, IMHO, the goal of which was to destroy the western “christian patriarchy” – very much in the same way today “climate rebels” want to destroy “western industrial base”.