Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/1/2023

After the Trans Day of Vengeance was cancelled, due to a credible threat of violence, trans activists clashed with neo-Nazis in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. At least two people were injured. Meanwhile, left-wing activists for a group called Trans Rights Activists (TRA) shut down intersections in Hollywood.

In other news, the party of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin — the Social Democrats — is expected to come in third in tomorrow’s elections, behind a center-right party and the Finns.

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Thanks to Dean, DV, FouseSquawk, JW, Reader from Chicago, Roger, SS, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Iconic Restaurant Chains From Burger King to TGI Fridays Are Disappearing as They Struggle to Turn a Profit — So is Your Local Closing This Year?
» Spain Inflation Falls More Than Expected to 3.3% in March
 
USA
» 33 Charged With Drug, Violence Offenses in Massive Baltimore Gang Takedown
» Biden Admin Moving Forward With Light Bulb Bans in Coming Weeks
» Bill Gates-Promoted ‘Synthetic Meat’ Made From ‘Immortalized’ Cancer Cells
» Breaking: Trump Supporters Chant ‘We Love Trump’ Outside DeSantis Event in New York
» Breaking: Trump Surges to Biggest Lead Over DeSantis in First Poll After Indictment by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg
» Breaking: Ron DeSantis to Fly to New York for Book Event Tonight Hosted by Dark Money Group Just 2 Days After Manhattan DA Indicted President Trump
» Conor McGregor Calls for Armed Guards at Schools After Trans Shooter Rampage
» Court Sanctions Google for Destruction of ‘Chat’ Communications After Lawsuit
» DeSantis Targets Biden in Swing State Pennsylvania, Says Democratic Party ‘Dead’ In Florida
» Donald Trump Puts Alvin Bragg on Notice, Raises More Than $4 Million in 24 Hours After Indictment
» Doublespeak: State Department Warns About Online Censorship Then Threatens to “Hold Platforms Accountable”
» Federal Judge Strikes Down Minnesota Law Banning 18-20-Year-Olds From Obtaining Gun Permits
» Feds Give Pass to Stanford, Harvard Med for Racial Discrimination Favoring Blacks
» Former Trump Rival Jeb Bush Calls Manhattan Grand Jury Indictment ‘Very Political’
» Half a Million People Left California Between 2020 and 2022
» House Republicans Accuse NIH of ‘Stonewalling’ on ‘Supercharged Monkeypox Experiment’
» Illinois Lost More Population in 2022
» Ivy League Schools Are Now Pushing $90,000 Per Year in Tuition
» New York City Teens Committing Twice as Many Murders as Prior to Pandemic
» Portland Man Arrested After Allegedly ‘Chasing Pedestrians’ With Stolen Forklift
» President Biden Will Not Attend Coronation of King Charles III, Reports Say
» San Francisco Throws in Towel, Asks Federal Government for Help Cleaning Up City: “We Are in the Midst of an Unprecedented Police Staffing Shortage”
» Scuffle at Pro-Trump Rally in Huntington Beach Leaves 2 Injured
» Senator Ted Cruz Asks Big Tech to Hand Over Communications With Government Over “Misinformation” Censorship
» Severe Storms Hit Arkansas, Illinois and Indiana, Leaving Multiple People Dead
» Signature Verification Software Used by Maricopa County Says 10% is ‘High-Confidence’ Match
» Sliding Confidence: Majority of Americans Question the Value of College
» Three Men Arrested on Charges of Drugging, Killing, Robbing Gay Men in New York
» Twitter’s Open Source Code Reveals US Government Can ‘Intervene’ With Recommendation Algorithm
» West Monroe Man Allegedly Threatens to Stab Two Females Who Refused to Purchase Drugs From Him
 
Canada
» Legal Challenge Alleges Irregularities in Cambridge, Ont’s. 2022 Municipal Election
» Not a Joke: MP Pay Raises and Federal Tax Hikes on April Fools’ for Canadians
 
Europe and the EU
» Dutch Government Pauses Nitrogen Emissions Policy After Pro-Farming Party’s Election Win
» England Hit by Wettest March in More Than 40 Years — Met Office
» Finland’s ‘Rock Star’ PM Sanna Marin Faces Defeat in General Election
» Finland’s ‘Party Girl’ Prime Minister Sanna Marin Facing Defeat in Sunday’s Elections
» Germany: Body Blow to Activists: Whopping 82% of Berlin’s Voters Refused to Support Net Zero 2030 as Referendum Fails
» Spain’s Asturias Ravaged by Fires as Authorities Blame ‘Terrorist’ Arsonists
» UK: Exclusive: Vegan Mob Plots to Sabotage the Grand National: Undercover Investigation Exposes Plan by Up to 100 Animal Rebellion Activists to Storm the Event and Glue Themselves to the Course
» UK: Wimbledon Lifts Ban on Russian & Belarusian Tennis Players
 
Russia
» Russia Will Never Recover From This Devastating Collapse
» Schoolgirl, 14, Is Arrested for ‘Arranging Contract Killing’ of Her Estate Agent Mother, 38, Who Was Beaten and Strangled to Death in Russia
» Ukraine Court Puts Orthodox Leader Under House Arrest
» Ukraine Leads Request for Social Media Platforms to Censor “Disinformation”
» Zelensky Govt Demands Orthodox Church Leader Put Under House Arrest
» Zelenskiy Says Russian UN Security Council Presidency is Absurd
 
South Asia
» Sikh Shopkeeper Shot Dead in Peshawar Day After a Hindu Doctor Murdered in a Targeted Killing in Karachi in Pakistan
 
Far East
» “Unprecedented” Chinese Genetic Experiment May Lead to Army of Radiation-Resistant Super Soldiers
 
Australia — Pacific
» Extinct Wooly Mammoth Meatball Made in Lab
» New Zealand Minister Slammed After Blaming ‘White Cis Men’ For Violence
 
Immigration
» Federal Judge Slaps Down Ban on Seattle ICE Deportation Flights, Sanctuary County Immediately Tries Again
» Niagara Falls Mayor Says Feds Are Bungling Asylum Seekers
» Open Borders Germany Halts Afghan Refugee Admissions Amid Claims Migrants Abusing System
 
Culture Wars
» Australia: Non-Binary Activist Hired to Front Seafolly Campaign Launches Trans Lives Matter Movement in Melbourne: ‘Trans Rights Non Negotiable’
» Far-Left Activists Shut Down Hollywood Streets During ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’
» ‘I’m the Expert in the Room!’: Moment University of Pittsburgh Class Erupts in Laughter When Professor Claims There is No Difference Between Male and Female Skeletons
» Is the Millennial Obsession With Going Vegan Finally Over? First Pret, Then Nestlé and Now Innocent… How Best-Selling Brands Are Slowly Axing Plant-Based Offerings
» Maryland School District Says Parents Can’t Opt Their Kids Out of Learning Gender Identity Ideology
» Popular Kids Toy Company ‘Build-a-Bear’ Turns Heads With New ‘RuPaul’ Drag Queen Bear
» Science Journals’ Political Meddling Erodes Trust in Science, Doesn’t Change Political Views: Study
» ‘This is Verbal Sexual Abuse’: Furious Oregon Father Slams School Board Over Assignment Asking Teens to State Sexual Fantasies
» Trans Activists Clash With Masked Neo-Nazis in Violent Brawl Outside Supreme Court — After ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ Was Canceled Due to ‘Credible Threat to Life’ In the Wake of Nashville Massacre
» Trans Activists March on State Capitols Nationwide as Cloud of Nashville Christian School Shooting Looms
 

Iconic Restaurant Chains From Burger King to TGI Fridays Are Disappearing as They Struggle to Turn a Profit — So is Your Local Closing This Year?

Bruce Willis favorite IHOP, unlikely romantic restaurant Cracker Barrel, and Jack in the Box are all experiencing closures, along with Denny’s, Applebee’s, Buffalo Wild Wings and more.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Spain Inflation Falls More Than Expected to 3.3% in March

March 30 (Reuters) — Spain’s consumer price inflation slowed to 3.3% in March, its weakest annual rate since August 2021 and down from 6.0% in February, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute showed on Thursday.

Analysts polled by Reuters had expected a rate of 3.8%.

This drop is mainly due to the fact that electricity and fuel prices increased in March 2022 and decreased this month, the statistics agency said.

Core inflation, which strips out volatile fresh food and energy prices, was 7.5% year-on-year, slightly below the 7.6% recorded in February, the data showed.

Food prices have hit Spaniards’ wallets hard, climbing more than 16% in February from a year earlier.

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

33 Charged With Drug, Violence Offenses in Massive Baltimore Gang Takedown

Maryland Attorney General Athony Brown announced Tuesday that their investigation into several Baltimore neighborhoods led to criminal charges related to gang activity being brought against 33 individuals ranging in age from 21 to 54.

According to WBAL, along with multiple drug charges two members of the organization were also brought up on attempted murder and gun charges stemming from an incident where they attempted to kill another gang member over an internal dispute.

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

Biden Admin Moving Forward With Light Bulb Bans in Coming Weeks

The Biden administration is preparing to implement a sweeping nationwide ban on commonly used light bulbs as part of its energy efficiency and climate agenda.

The regulations, which prohibit retailers from selling incandescent light bulbs, were finalized by the Department of Energy (DOE) in April 2022 and are slated to go into effect on Aug. 1, 2023. The DOE will begin full enforcement of the ban on that date, but it has already urged retailers to begin transitioning away from the light bulb type and, in recent months, begun issuing warning notices to companies.

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

Bill Gates-Promoted ‘Synthetic Meat’ Made From ‘Immortalized’ Cancer Cells

As globalist elites continue to push for the end of meat consumption as part of the “green agenda,” disturbing information has emerged about an “alternative” prompted by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Technocrats appear keen to preclude the masses from eating real meat.

While they claim that ending meat eating is about combatting the specter of climate change, there’s, conveniently, a lot of money to be made from the emerging industry that seeks to replace it.

While there is a significant push underway for people to surrender steaks, burgers, and hot dogs and instead eat bugs and algae, climate alarmists and elites alike are also hyping so-called synthetic “meat.”

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

Breaking: Trump Supporters Chant ‘We Love Trump’ Outside DeSantis Event in New York

On Saturday, a group of supporters for former President Donald Trump gathered outside the Cradle of Aviation museum in Garden City, Long Island where Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is set to give a speech.

The supporters were shouting “we love Trump” outside the event the same day supporters showed up outside Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to show support following the former president’s indictment on Thursday by a Manhattan grand jury.

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

Breaking: Trump Surges to Biggest Lead Over DeSantis in First Poll After Indictment by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg

Former President Donald Trump has surged in the polls following news of his indictment on Thursday and now leads Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the GOP frontrunner for president in 2024 by 26 percentage points.

57 percent of those polled now support Trump in the upcoming Republican primary in a head-to-head contest with DeSantis, who garnered 31 percent support, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

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

Breaking: Ron DeSantis to Fly to New York for Book Event Tonight Hosted by Dark Money Group Just 2 Days After Manhattan DA Indicted President Trump

On Saturday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to deliver a speech at the Cradle of Aviation in Museum in Garden City, Long Island billed on eventbrite as his “Florida Blueprint.”

DeSantis is making the appearance as part of a book tour for his The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival and “the book tour has been widely seen as a soft launch for the governor’s expected White House run,” according to the New York Daily News.

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

Conor McGregor Calls for Armed Guards at Schools After Trans Shooter Rampage

Mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor has called for armed guards at American schools after transgender shooter Audrey Hale’s rampage in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Irishman revealed that, while he is “stateside”, he has his “own armed guard present at the school” his children attend in a Twitter post which he has since deleted — as is his custom.

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

Court Sanctions Google for Destruction of ‘Chat’ Communications After Lawsuit

In a March 28 ruling, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California sanctioned Google for not taking “reasonable steps to preserve electronically stored information that should have been preserved in the anticipation or conduct of litigation.”

The sanctions include monetary costs for coverage of plaintiffs’ reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs in bringing the motion to sanction “including the joint statement that preceded the motion and the evidentiary hearing and related events. Plaintiffs are directed to file by April 21, 2023, a statement of proposed attorneys’ fees and costs with adequate documentation.”

The court stopped short of “terminating sanctions” instead ruling that “The determination of an appropriate non-monetary sanction requires further proceedings” stating that “This antitrust case will not be decided on the basis of lost Chat.”

The motion for sanctions for destruction of evidence hinges on an ongoing multidistrict litigation (MDL) brought by Epic Games, Inc., the consumer plaintiffs, the Attorneys General of 38 states and the District of Columbia, and the Match Group plaintiffs for monopolizing the smartphone application market in violation of state and federal antitrust laws.

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

DeSantis Targets Biden in Swing State Pennsylvania, Says Democratic Party ‘Dead’ In Florida

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took multiple jabs at President Biden on Saturday during a stump speech in Pennsylvania.

DeSantis, speaking at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference 2023, called Biden a “floundering leader” and said the president’s poor performance contributed to Republican gains.

“We are in the highest percentage of the vote that any Republican candidate for governor has ever received in the history of the state of Florida,” DeSantis told the audience. “We were able to flip Democrat counties or urban counties like Miami-Dade County. And not only did we flip it, we won it by double digits.”

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

Donald Trump Puts Alvin Bragg on Notice, Raises More Than $4 Million in 24 Hours After Indictment

Former President Donald Trump put Manhattan District Attorney on notice by raising more than $4 million in the 24 hours after news of his indictment became public.

The Trump campaign said that more than 25% of the donations came from first-time donors to the former president, “further solidifying President Trump’s status as the clear frontrunner in the Republican primary.”

“Americans from across all 50 states donated to President Trump’s campaign within the first 5 hours of the sham indictment,” the campaign said.

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

Doublespeak: State Department Warns About Online Censorship Then Threatens to “Hold Platforms Accountable”

In a startling display of doublespeak at the Summit for Democracy 2023, United States (US) Secretary of State Anthony Blinken warned about more countries “using the internet to try to control speech” and claimed that the Biden administration is trying to promote an open internet before threatening to “hold platforms accountable” for so-called “harms.”

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

Federal Judge Strikes Down Minnesota Law Banning 18-20-Year-Olds From Obtaining Gun Permits

A federal judge on Friday struck down a Minnesota law that prohibits adults age 18-20 from obtaining permits to carry handguns in public.

Assisted by gun-rights advocacy groups, three individuals who were under 21 challenged a 2003 state law that enacted an age requirement to apply for a permit to carry a pistol. They argued that the law unconstitutionally prohibited young adults from exercising their Second Amendment right to bear arms.

In a 50-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Menendez agreed. Relying on the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, the judge concluded that Minnesota’s law was unconstitutional and blocked the state from enforcing it.

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

Feds Give Pass to Stanford, Harvard Med for Racial Discrimination Favoring Blacks

Much like Stanford Law School’s refusal to sanction or even identify students who knowingly and repeatedly violated its policies against disruption of guest speakers, the federal government shrugged in response to Stanford taking no action against a student government that violated the university’s funding conditions.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights resolved a complaint filed against the university last fall by a former Trump administration education official, Adam Kissel, for racial discrimination by its Graduate Student Council, a branch of Associated Students of Stanford University.

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

Former Trump Rival Jeb Bush Calls Manhattan Grand Jury Indictment ‘Very Political’

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Saturday that a Manhattan grand jury’s decision to indict former President Donald Trump during his third bid for the White House is “very political” and “not a matter of justice.”

Bush, who challenged Trump for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, noted in a tweet that Trump was indicted on case that other prosecutors refused to move forward with before Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office revived it recently.

“Bragg’s predecessor didn’t take up the case. The Justice Department didn’t take up the case. Bragg first said he would not take up the case. This is very political, not a matter of justice,” Bush, the second son of former President George H.W. Bush wrote in a tweet.

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

Half a Million People Left California Between 2020 and 2022

California lost roughly half a million people between the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic and mid-2022.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that between April 2020 and July 2022, California’s population dropped by roughly 500,000, amounting to about one percent of the state’s total population.

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

House Republicans Accuse NIH of ‘Stonewalling’ on ‘Supercharged Monkeypox Experiment’

House Republicans are pressing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for answers after the agency funded research experiments they say could result in a “supercharged” monkeypox virus.

In a letter to acting NIH Director Lawrence Tabak, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and two subcommittee chairmen are demanding that the agency turn over documents and information regarding a government-funded experiment that reportedly involves swapping monkepox genes with a deadlier version of the virus. The lawmakers want to know whether this project was approved by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) review board tasked with oversight of research involving enhanced pathogens that could potentially cause a pandemic.

This letter is a follow-up to an October 31, 2022, letter to which Republicans say the NIH never responded. GOP lawmakers accused NIH of “stonewalling” in a press release.

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

Illinois Lost More Population in 2022

As population growth in the nation’s largest counties rebounded in 2022, Illinois continued to see population losses.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2022 estimates, 92 of Illinois’ 102 counties lost residents from July 2021 to July of last year. Cook County lost a staggering 68,314 people, the second highest total in the country behind only Los Angeles County.

Mark Glennon, founder of the nonprofit Wirepoints, said high taxes are just one of the reasons for the exodus.

“The economy, crime of course, is the big one right now that is driving people out of Chicago and other places,” Glennon said.

Other Illinois counties that lost a large amount of residents include Lake County at around 3,000, St. Clair County at 2,300, and Kane County lost 2,000 people.

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

Ivy League Schools Are Now Pushing $90,000 Per Year in Tuition

Inflation is showing up just about everywhere, but it’s becoming even more prominent and noticeable at the nation’s Ivy League universities where, according to a new report from Bloomberg, prices for tuition are now approaching $90,000.

Prestigious universities like Yale, Dartmouth and Brown have raised tuition between 4% and 5%, the report notes, even as full costs for many of these colleges are already “well into the $80,000” range. This means a full, four year education costs over $300,000 in many cases.

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

New York City Teens Committing Twice as Many Murders as Prior to Pandemic

In New York City, almost twice the number of teenagers were arrested and charged with murder in 2022 compared to 2018 and the rate at which teens were charged with homicide doubled that of adults.

The New York Times reports that forty-five teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 were charged with murder in 2022 according to New York’s Division of Criminal Justice Services and Patrice O’Shaughnessy, the communications director for the district attorney in the Bronx, said these teens “came out of quarantine with scores to settle.”

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

Portland Man Arrested After Allegedly ‘Chasing Pedestrians’ With Stolen Forklift

On Tuesday, 31-year-old Portland, Oregon man Joffre M. Zalinski was arrested and charged with first degree theft and unauthorized use of a vehicle after allegedly stealing a forklift and driving it around the streets and sidewalks to chase residents.

Local news reports that in a 911 call someone reported they saw the suspect in the forklift and “driving erratically and chasing pedestrians” on the city streets and was driving the wrong way down a one-way street.

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

President Biden Will Not Attend Coronation of King Charles III, Reports Say

President Joe Biden will not attend the coronation of King Charles III, according to reports from the British press.

The coronation is set to be held on May 6 in London and other world leaders will be attending.

No U.S. president in history has attended the Coronation of the British monarch, according to Deadline. The Telegraph is reporting that Biden will have a representative attend for the occasion. First Lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are two of the options.

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

San Francisco Throws in Towel, Asks Federal Government for Help Cleaning Up City: “We Are in the Midst of an Unprecedented Police Staffing Shortage”

Three years ago San Francisco Mayor London Breed joined the Dems across the nation and announced a plan to defund the police. It backfired in every way imaginable and Breed eventually reversed the budget cuts but the damage was done.

The city is full of crime, filth, and open-air drug markets and Breed can’t solve the problem because the city is in the “midst of an unprecedented police staffing shortage.”

San Francisco residents replaced their lousy District Attorney to try to bring some sanity back to the town but it is not working and Breed is throwing in the towel and asking the federal government for help.

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

Scuffle at Pro-Trump Rally in Huntington Beach Leaves 2 Injured

On Saturday — two days after a grand jury indicted former President Trump, securing his place in history as the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges — a small group of supporters gathered in Orange County to protest the indictment.

During the gathering near the Huntington Beach Pier on Saturday afternoon, the group of roughly 40 people flew “Make America Great Again” flags and chanted “God bless Trump!” At one point, two demonstrators were hit on their heads with skateboards during a clash.

           — Hat tip: FouseSquawk [Return to headlines]
 

Senator Ted Cruz Asks Big Tech to Hand Over Communications With Government Over “Misinformation” Censorship

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has called on several Big Tech companies to disclose information about their interactions with federal agencies.

Cruz argues that these interactions may have violated First Amendment rights.

His office sent letters to Google, Meta, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Medium, Reddit, Microsoft, Pinterest, and Wikipedia, requesting details about their coordination and communication with federal agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically in relation to misinformation.

These inquiries follow the Twitter Files, a series of reports on internal Twitter communications that revealed the platform’s collaboration with the FBI on misinformation issues.

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

Severe Storms Hit Arkansas, Illinois and Indiana, Leaving Multiple People Dead

Fierce tornadoes swept through the Midwest and southern states, resulting in homes and businesses being destroyed, and so far 11 people have been reported dead.

On Friday, there were at least 40 reports of tornadoes hitting numerous states including Arkansas, Iowa, Tennessee, Illinois, Wisconsin and Mississippi.

The National Weather Service reported that at least 20 million people were under a tornado watch and there was a level 5 “high risk” outlook for severe storms in a number of locations.

Officials told Fox Weather that at least one person is dead and 30 injured in Little Rock, Arkansas.

In Belvidere, Illinois, the storm caused the roof and marquee at the Apollo Theatre to collapse during a sold-out concert killing one person and injuring 28.

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

Signature Verification Software Used by Maricopa County Says 10% is ‘High-Confidence’ Match

With Kari Lake’s legal complaint alleging systematic signature verification failures in Maricopa County remanded by the Arizona Supreme Court to trial court, closer examination of the signature verification software used by the county reveals a strikingly low threshold for signatures to qualify as “high-confidence” matches.

Since falling about 17,000 votes short in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election to Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs, Lake has continued to contest the election results in court, arguing that there were ballot chain of custody and signature verification issues in addition to thousands of Republican voters disproportionately disenfranchised on Election Day, when voting machine errors occurred in nearly 60% of the voting centers in Maricopa County. Lake has requested that the election results be invalidated or that she be declared the winner.

Last week, the Arizona Supreme Court remanded Lake’s claim alleging massive signature verification failure to the trial court, ruling that because Lake is challenging the failure to adhere to current policy rather than the policy itself, her suit was not filed too late, as the lower court had found in dismissing her case. The former candidate must “establish that ‘votes [were] affected “in sufficient numbers to alter the outcome of the election”‘ based on a ‘competent mathematical basis to conclude that the outcome would plausibly have been different, not simply an untethered assertion of uncertainty,’“ the state’s high court ruled.

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

Sliding Confidence: Majority of Americans Question the Value of College

A new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll reveals that a majority of Americans believe a college degree isn’t worth the cost and time. Sliding confidence in the higher education system indicates that the American Dream can be achieved without a college degree. This is an ominous sign for liberal professors teaching meaningless programs, particularly in the humanities.

The poll, conducted with NORC at the University of Chicago, found that 56% of Americans believe a four-year degree is a poor investment, while 42% still have confidence in colleges.

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

Three Men Arrested on Charges of Drugging, Killing, Robbing Gay Men in New York

Three suspects have been arrested and charged for a string of targeted attacks on gay men in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen area where the suspects would allegedly drug and then rob men they met at nightclubs in the area, and in two cases the men were murdered.

According to the New York Post last week 35-year-old Jayqwan Hamilton of Brooklyn, 34-year-old Robert Demaio of Brooklyn, and 30-year-old Jacob Barroso of Manhattan were indicted in the murders of 33-year-old John Umberger and 25-year-old Julio Ramirez.

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

Twitter’s Open Source Code Reveals US Government Can ‘Intervene’ With Recommendation Algorithm

On Friday, Twitter released the recommendation algorithm portion of its code by publishing it on GitHub, where developers post open source software data. Developer Steven Tey dug into the code and found that there is a mechanism through which the US government can “intervene” with the code.

“When needed, the government can intervene with the Twitter algorithm,” Tey wrote. “In fact, @TwitterEng (Twitter Engineering) even has a class for it — ‘GovernmentRequested.’“

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

West Monroe Man Allegedly Threatens to Stab Two Females Who Refused to Purchase Drugs From Him

WEST MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — On March 30, 2023, at 11:06 PM, the West Monroe Police Department responded to a robbery at Americas Best Value Inn on Thomas Road. When officers arrived at the scene, contact was made with two female victims, who explained that a Black male, later identified as 33-year-old Deavery Washington, tried to rob them.

The victims advised officers they were leaving a friend’s room when Washington tried speaking to them after they entered their vehicle. Washington allegedly was trying to sell them drugs and laid out numerous unknown substances on the hood of their car.

The victims began backing up their vehicle to leave when Washington jumped into an open window on the driver’s side and told the victims he had a handgun. Washington pulled out a screwdriver from his pants and threatened to stab them.

Washington allegedly grabbed money out of an open purse that belonged to one of the victims. The female victims were able to run to the motel’s front office.

Officers made contact with Washington at the motel to advise him of his Miranda rights, which he stated he understood. Washington advised officers that the female victims waved him over to their car to ask him if he wanted to purchase tabs.

Allegedly, the women took the money without giving him pills and tried to leave, so Washington jumped into their vehicle. Multiple times, Washington’s story changed and details were inconsistent with one another.

A witness advised authorities that she went outside and saw Washington throw something underneath her truck and throw bags by her motel door. Officers found the screw driver underneath her truck and around 50 grams of suspected marijuana, 1 1/2 hydrocodone, nearly 25 suspected ecstasy pills, clear baggies, a scale, a bag of nine suspected Xanax pills, and money by the witness’s door.

Washington faces six charges and has a bond of $46,000.

           — Hat tip: Roger [Return to headlines]
 

Legal Challenge Alleges Irregularities in Cambridge, Ont’s. 2022 Municipal Election

A city council candidate in Cambridge’s 2022 municipal election has filed an application with the Ontario Superior Court alleging a series of over 30 election irregularities that took place.

Nate Whalen, a candidate for city council in Cambridge’s 3rd Ward, is alleging a multitude of irregularities with the electoral process, from candidate nominations to the tabulation of the ballots.

The alleged irregularities include issues with online voting, eligible voters being unable to vote, issues with the scrutineering process, and candidates being left off of the ballot.

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

Not a Joke: MP Pay Raises and Federal Tax Hikes on April Fools’ for Canadians

Canadians likely won’t be laughing this April Fools’ after they hear that two major taxes are going up while at the same time MPs are getting a scheduled pay hike.

MPs will be getting a taxpayer-funded pay raise ranging from $5,100 for back bench MPs and $10,200 for the prime minister.

As for Canadians, they will have to pay more in carbon taxes and one of the largest alcohol escalator tax hikes in decades.

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

Dutch Government Pauses Nitrogen Emissions Policy After Pro-Farming Party’s Election Win

The Dutch government has agreed to pause its plan to drastically cut nitrogen-based emissions after a pro-farming party delivered a major upset in provincial elections.

Mark Rutte, the Dutch Prime Minister, on Friday announced that the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party, one of his coalition partners, wants to renegotiate the commitment to halving the country’s nitrogen emissions by 2030.

Keen to protect his environmental credentials, Mr Rutte said the public should not think the coalition was putting the brakes on its emissions policy.

“The opposite is true, we are actually accelerating,” he said. “Nevertheless, there are opposing views in the Cabinet.”

Wopke Hoekstra, the CDA leader and Dutch Deputy Prime Minister, said: “2030 is not feasible for us.”

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

England Hit by Wettest March in More Than 40 Years — Met Office

Figures show Wales and Northern Ireland also had one of their top 10 wettest Marches on record.

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Finland’s ‘Rock Star’ PM Sanna Marin Faces Defeat in General Election

Finnish politics could dramatically shift to the far-Right on Sunday as an anti-immigration party aims to replace Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats Party.

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Finland’s ‘Party Girl’ Prime Minister Sanna Marin Facing Defeat in Sunday’s Elections

Finland’s millennial prime minister, Sanna Marin, could see her time in power come to an end after Sunday’s elections, with her Social Democrat Party (SDP) falling to third place in the final survey before voters head to the polls.

In what looks to be a race that will go down to the wire, leftist Finnish PM Sanna Marin, 37, is fighting for her political future, as her party has fallen to third place in the last survey before Sunday’s parliamentary election, now trailing behind the centre-right National Coalition Party (KOK) and the populist-nationalist right-wing True Finns party.

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Germany: Body Blow to Activists: Whopping 82% of Berlin’s Voters Refused to Support Net Zero 2030 as Referendum Fails

Authored by Paul Gosselin via NoTricksZone.com

The results of Berlin’s Climate Neutrality By 2030 referendum tell us that FFF and Last Generation are fringe movements, remote of even Berlin’s mainstream.

It’ll take a longtime for the radical climate activists to recover from this major setback

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Spain’s Asturias Ravaged by Fires as Authorities Blame ‘Terrorist’ Arsonists

SETIENES, Spain, March 31 (Reuters) — The lush region of Asturias in northern Spain was ravaged by more than 90 wildfires on Friday, most of them believed to have been started by arsonists whom the region’s leader called “fire terrorists”.

Over 600 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blazes and several towns have been evacuated as police closed off roads and highways.

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UK: Exclusive: Vegan Mob Plots to Sabotage the Grand National: Undercover Investigation Exposes Plan by Up to 100 Animal Rebellion Activists to Storm the Event and Glue Themselves to the Course

A secret plot by more than 100 eco-activists to sabotage the Grand National has been exposed by an undercover Mail on Sunday investigation.

Militant vegans and animal rights campaigners plan to use ladders and bolt cutters to storm security fences before the race at Aintree, then glue themselves together as a human barricade and sit across the course.

The conspiracy — revealed just two weeks before the race meeting — was uncovered by an MoS reporter posing as a member of the Animal Rebellion campaign group.

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UK: Wimbledon Lifts Ban on Russian & Belarusian Tennis Players

Wimbledon on Friday announced it has lifted its ban on Russian and Belarusian tennis players, reversing the decision put in place one year ago as a punitive measure in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Russians and Belarusians didn’t compete in the 2022 tournament, the most visible tennis tournament and championship in the world, but they will for 2023. The All England Club and the Lawn Tennis Association has now explained that keeping the ban in place would have “damaging and far reaching” impact on tennis in England.

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Russia Will Never Recover From This Devastating Collapse

Last June — on the day the UN gave a Ukrainian civilian casualty count of 9,931 so far in Russia’s war — I sat at the UN Human Rights Council as the Russian ambassador excoriated Israel over its latest defensive operations in Gaza. Such unjust condemnation of Israel is common fare at the Human Rights Council and we are all used to the Kremlin’s hypocrisy, but how could the Russian Federation use the council as an international platform for its anti-Western bile, despite being suspended in April last year?

In the parody of international order that is the UN, that is no more surprising than Russia’s assumption yesterday of chair of the Security Council, despite its president being indicted for war crimes. It epitomises the failure of the UN, formed to bring world powers together to maintain international peace and security. There have been more wars in the 78 years since its founding than in the equivalent period beforehand. The Security Council has failed to put any kind of brake on nuclear proliferation, with Russia’s accomplice Iran now on the cusp of becoming a nuclear state. Its impact on the war in Ukraine, the most deadly in Europe since 1945, has been zero.

The danger of the Russian Security Council presidency is more in optics than reality. Foreign Minister Lavrov can use his temporary platform to grandstand, but the inbuilt impotence of the Security Council means he can do nothing to advance Russia’s cause. With the exception of China, the other permanent members are likely to show their contempt by downgrading diplomatic representation while Russia is in the chair. Lavrov’s lack of authority in the council reflects his country’s marginalisation. The successor to a superpower — albeit a malign one — is no longer even a great power…

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Schoolgirl, 14, Is Arrested for ‘Arranging Contract Killing’ of Her Estate Agent Mother, 38, Who Was Beaten and Strangled to Death in Russia

A woman named as Anastasia Milosskaya (pictured), 38, was beaten and strangled to death when she arrived home. Two days later her body was dumped in a garbage skip in Balashikha.

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Ukraine Court Puts Orthodox Leader Under House Arrest

Metropolitan Pavel is the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery.

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Ukraine Leads Request for Social Media Platforms to Censor “Disinformation”

Ukraine has spearheaded a collective call to action, joining forces with seven other Central and Eastern European nations to combat “disinformation” on social media platforms.

In an open letter, the prime ministers of these nations urge prominent tech companies, such as Meta, to implement effective measures that curb the spread of misleading content and foreign interference, which threatens peace, stability, and democracy.

The letter, signed by the leaders of Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, alleges a danger of disinformation campaigns aimed at destabilizing their countries and undermining the European Union’s support for Ukraine amidst Russia’s aggression.

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Zelensky Govt Demands Orthodox Church Leader Put Under House Arrest

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s top security agency notified a top Orthodox priest Saturday that he was suspected of justifying Russia’s aggression, a criminal offense, amid a bitter dispute over a famed Orthodox monastery.

Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, Ukraine’s most revered Orthodox site, has strongly resisted the authorities’ order to vacate the complex. Earlier in the week, he cursed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, threatening him with damnation.

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Zelenskiy Says Russian UN Security Council Presidency is Absurd

KYIV, April 1 (Reuters) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday said it was absurd Russia had assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, adding this showed the institution’s “total bankruptcy”.

On Saturday Russia took over the presidency of the U.N.’s top security body, which rotates every month. The last time Moscow held the post was in February 2022, when its troops launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

“Unfortunately, we … have some obviously absurd and destructive news,” Zelenskiy said in an evening video address, adding that Russian shelling had killed a five-month-old boy on Friday.

“And at the same time Russia is chairing the U.N. Security Council. It’s hard to imagine anything that proves more the total bankruptcy of such institutions,” he said.

The Kremlin said on Friday it planned to “exercise all its rights” in the role.

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Sikh Shopkeeper Shot Dead in Peshawar Day After a Hindu Doctor Murdered in a Targeted Killing in Karachi in Pakistan

Udita Pal Singh | HENB | New Delhi | March 31, 2023:: Incidents of people from minorities being killed in Pakistan do not seem to be stopping. In Peshwar’s Dir Colony on Friday, unidentified gunmen shot and killed a Sikh shopkeeper named Dayal Singh. According to the city police, a group of men arrived at Singh’s shop at approximately 3 pm, discharged their firearms at him, and promptly left the area.

Taking his twitter handle, Sikh leader and unity activist Manjinder Singh Sirsa conveyed, “Deeply pained with the News of Sikh shopkeeper Dayal Singh killed by unknown motorcyclists in board daylight by gunmen in Dir Colony of Peshawar in #Pakistan Sikhs & Hindu Minorities are facing constant attacks in Pakistan. Shocking fact is that 28 Sikh shopkeepers have been shot down in last few years, but not a single person arrested by @GovtofPakistan in such cases. Pakistan is a hell for minorities”.

The Peshawar killing occurred a day after a Hindu doctor was deliberately targeted and killed in Karachi. Dr. Birbal Genani, a respected eye specialist and senior health director of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC), was fatally shot on Thursday while returning home from his clinic near Layari in Karachi…

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“Unprecedented” Chinese Genetic Experiment May Lead to Army of Radiation-Resistant Super Soldiers

Reports out of China continue to confirm that scientists there are still seeking to push through barriers with Frankenstein-like experimentation on genes with an eye toward the manipulation of human DNA — any and all ethical considerations be damned. What could go wrong?

The Hong-based South China Morning Post has a doozy of a headline out this week based on a breakthrough announcement by a team of scientists linked to the Chinese military, working in Beijing: “Chinese team behind extreme animal gene experiment says it may lead to super soldiers who survive nuclear fallout.”

The project was first unveiled in the Chinese-language journal, Military Medical Sciences, and has been gaining more and more media attention and interest within the scientific community, but is also raising serious ethical quandaries, despite the experiment being defended by its overseers as “totally legal”.

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Extinct Wooly Mammoth Meatball Made in Lab

The Australian company “Vow,” specializing in cultured meat, recently made headlines for producing a giant meatball from a lab using the DNA of the long-extinct woolly mammoth.

“We wanted to create something that was totally different from anything you can get now,” Vow founder Tim Noakesmith told Reuters, adding scientists believe the animal’s extinction was sparked by climate change 10,000 years ago (So climate change can occur without humans use of fossil fuels?).

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New Zealand Minister Slammed After Blaming ‘White Cis Men’ For Violence

New Zealand’s so-called “violence prevention minister” is taking heat after saying it’s “white cis men who cause violence in the world.”

For those who aren’t up on the thesaurus of gender identity politics, ‘cis’ is short for ‘cisgender’ — or people whose ‘gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth’ — or 99% of the population.

Minister Marama Davidson is refusing to publicly apologize for her comments, which have received at least 90 complaints. She has allegedly apologized in private to Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, according to news.com.au.

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Federal Judge Slaps Down Ban on Seattle ICE Deportation Flights, Sanctuary County Immediately Tries Again

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been cleared to resume deportation flights from Boeing Field in King County, Washington, after a years-long legal battle.

King County Executive Dow Constantine, however, issued a new executive order Friday in a last-ditch effort to prevent deportations from the regional air field.

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Niagara Falls Mayor Says Feds Are Bungling Asylum Seekers

The federal government’s refusal to tackle illegal border crossing has placed demands on the border cities where asylum claimants are housed, Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati says. Despite the agreement between Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden to close the Roxham Rd. loophole, Diodati isn’t convinced it will deal with the problem.

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Open Borders Germany Halts Afghan Refugee Admissions Amid Claims Migrants Abusing System

The typically open boarders government of Germany announced a temporary halt on admissions of asylum seekers from Afghanistan after claims that some migrants may have been abusing the system.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stated that the country would be halting asylum applications for Afghan nationals on a temporary basis after sources within Berlin indicated that some may have tried to abuse the system.

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Australia: Non-Binary Activist Hired to Front Seafolly Campaign Launches Trans Lives Matter Movement in Melbourne: ‘Trans Rights Non Negotiable’

A non-binary model, fronting a campaign for one of Australia’s most celebrated swimwear brands, has launched a Trans Lives Matter movement in Melbourne.

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Far-Left Activists Shut Down Hollywood Streets During ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’

On Friday, Trans Rights Activists (TRA) shut down the intersection of Hollywood Blvd and Highland in Los Angeles for almost an hour to “protect trans lives” and police looked on the actions but did nothing to prevent the activists from stopping traffic.

Chants of “trans lives matter” and “trans rights are human rights” filled the air as part of their “day of vengeance” rally and activists later marched to the police station with more demands for “trans rights.”

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‘I’m the Expert in the Room!’: Moment University of Pittsburgh Class Erupts in Laughter When Professor Claims There is No Difference Between Male and Female Skeletons

An anthropology professor denied the difference between male and female bone structure during a speaking engagement from college swimming champion Riley Gaines.

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Is the Millennial Obsession With Going Vegan Finally Over? First Pret, Then Nestlé and Now Innocent… How Best-Selling Brands Are Slowly Axing Plant-Based Offerings

Last week, UK-based drinks company Innocent announced it was scrapping its dairy free milks after disappointing sales. So has millennials’ love for veganism suddenly soured?

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Maryland School District Says Parents Can’t Opt Their Kids Out of Learning Gender Identity Ideology

A Maryland school district informed parents via email that they are not allowed to opt their children out of “engaging with any instructional materials” related to gender identity ideology.

Last week, parents in Montgomery County Public Schools received an email that informed them that they would not be notified anymore about the instructional materials used for that subject matter.

The email said that students could not opt out of the lessons like they used to be able to, in order to create a more “inclusive environment.”

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Popular Kids Toy Company ‘Build-a-Bear’ Turns Heads With New ‘RuPaul’ Drag Queen Bear

Popular build-it-yourself children’s teddy bear store “Build-a-Bear Workshop” is turning heads with its new drag queen teddy bear.

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh pointed out on Twitter, Thursday, that “Build-a-Bear Workshop,” the toy store where kids — and adults apparently — can customize their own stuffed animals, had advertised a new drag queen teddy bear.

Sharing a screenshot of the website depicting the new drag product, Walsh tweeted, “Remember: there’s absolutely no agenda to groom your kids. Don’t be ridiculous. On an unrelated note, @buildabear is selling a drag queen stuffed bear for children.”

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Science Journals’ Political Meddling Erodes Trust in Science, Doesn’t Change Political Views: Study

Science is supposed to be based on objective facts, not opinions. Typically, these facts are introduced to the public via peer-reviewed scientific journals. In recent years, however, once highly respected journals have deviated from this time-honored norm, opining on political campaigns and controversies that have little, if anything, to do with science.

The diversion of science journals into the political arena has not only harmed these publications’ own credibility, it has also further eroded the public’s trust in the larger scientific community, according to a new study published in Nature Human Behavior by economist Floyd Zhang. The study focuses its criticisms on Nature, one of the world’s leading journals and the flagship publication of the portfolio that includes Nature Human Behavior.

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‘This is Verbal Sexual Abuse’: Furious Oregon Father Slams School Board Over Assignment Asking Teens to State Sexual Fantasies

A furious Oregon father slammed the Eugene 4J school district recently over a sexually explicit assignment given to his daughter by her health teacher that asked students to state with whom they would like to perform various sexual acts.

The unidentified father began his speech by calling the board liars for suggesting that the assignment was a rumour, saying he had the proof stored on his phone. He went on to explain that, according to his daughter, health teacher Kirk Miller, also a football coach at Churchill High school, had put a wheel on the board with options such as anal sex and oral sex, and said he wanted the students to write down the initials of a boy or a girl that they would like to do these activities with.

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Trans Activists Clash With Masked Neo-Nazis in Violent Brawl Outside Supreme Court — After ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ Was Canceled Due to ‘Credible Threat to Life’ In the Wake of Nashville Massacre

A fight broke out in front of the Supreme Court Saturday between pro-transgender activists and masked neo-Nazis despite the cancelation of the ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ in the wake of the Nashville mass murder.

Only a few people on either side of the transgender culture war attended after the event was called off due to warnings of a ‘credible threat to life and safety’ by pro-trans activists.

The video, captured by a reporter for The Post Millennial, shows a man in a red shirt confronting two masked men with a sign that said ‘Revolt Against F***otry 1488,’ a combination of two known Nazi code numbers

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Trans Activists March on State Capitols Nationwide as Cloud of Nashville Christian School Shooting Looms

Transgender activists this week have been occupying state capitol buildings across the country to protest legislation placing restrictions on gender transition procedures for children and the teaching of gender identity in the classroom.

The protests came the same week police identified a transgender individual as the shooter responsible for murdering six people, including three 9-year-old children, in Monday’s shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville.

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12 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/1/2023

  1. “The letter, signed by the leaders of Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, alleges a danger of disinformation campaigns aimed at destabilizing their countries and undermining the European Union’s support for Ukraine amidst Russia’s aggression.”

    The “call for censorship” has been signed by the Ukrainian Prime Minister of the Czech Republic – Petro Fialenko…

    …That guy actually makes me ashamed – that we share the same “Protectorat”

    It’s the age old saying “from bad to worse” I guess – for we had the Old Mafia Boss, an ex communist secret service billionaire for a prime minister before Petro Fialenko – but even that money grabbing criminal was not such an “ideological useful idiot” of the “international interests” like Petro these days. I wasnt’ “disgusted” by the former prime minister, Andrej Babis – but I am disgusted by this Ukrainian creature we have for a prime minister now 🙁

  2. Russia is winning the war in Ukraine. Wagner has almost taken Bakhmut. The Russian economy is doing well. They have supported China to become the new Global Peacemaker taking the place of the US. They have supported and enabled dedollarisation which will hamper the US in being able to continually increase their debt levels. If the US has to live within its means the country will collapse. Russia and China have masses of gold, the US does not.
    BRICS is growing with Saudi Arabia joining. Saudi Arabia will be selling oil in other currencies, no longer locked into US dollar. US has lost support of global south especially Africa.
    China has reduced its holdings of US debt no longer seeing it as a good investment.
    The US is looking more and more like a loser and a empire in decay.
    There will be a multipolar world.

    • That outcome is the best possible thing that could happen to ‘muricans.

      A loss of the dollar as the reserve currency would end imperial adventurism of the American elites and force the drastic downsizing of the US military and closure of hundreds of military installations worldwide.

      Second, a devalued dollar and lack of the ability to print them and export our inflation to the rest of the world would end the political power of the elites here in the US, and the end of almost all federal programs and handouts. It would be the end of the welfare and police states, both of which cannot function without endless sources of funds to pay administrators and guards. Some would argue that the police state would continue, since the feds would continue to pay the guards or just use fear and tyranny to motivate them similar to the methods used by Stalin. I don’t believe that will work in the US, since far too many private citizens are armed for those tactics to work here. Even local warlordism would be subject to the same issues, namely paying thugs and finding enough in the first place, since there would be a very high attrition rate were they to start trying to loot the populace for their remuneration.

      Third, a worthless dollar would force the manufacturing of almost every item here in the US since it would be prohibitively expensive to import anything. Assuming a neutered federal government and cowed bureaucrats, manufacturing would come back in short order minus almost all the regulatory mickey mouse that has made it all but impossible to do until now. Financial ownership of the economy and rentierism would likely go away, since a crash of the dollar would wipe out every financial institution, and rentierism would be very difficult to maintain were those subject to it able to act against the agents of it using violence or threats of violence with relative impunity due to a nonexistent enforcement arm of the federal government.

      Lastly, a dollar crash would wipe out entire classes of people who have become dependent upon handouts or just kept around subsidized by the government. Elderly without families, boomer retirees living off of 401k’s, the morbidly obese, those with addictions, almost every leach on welfare, WIC, foodstamps, single mothers with no skills, and otherwise dysfunctional people who populate the Walmarts and public housing will all disappear. I could easily see half the population of the US dying from starvation or from their afflictions that have stopped being serviced by federal dollars. Those who survive will be those with families and support networks, good health, intelligence, weapons, training to use them, and ruthlessness to employ violence when necessary. After six months or so, most social pathologies will simply be gone along with the individuals who perpetuated them. Were the elites to be successful in provoking a nuclear war then so much the better, as the cities and Mordor-on-the-Potomac would all have been vaporized alomg with most of the most rabid leftists, who preferred to congregate in them. Overnight, the country would have changed to one that is overwhelmingly white, christian, and conservative.

        • Poor doesn’t necessarily mean without resources.

          A support network, family, perhaps some useful skill or hobby like gardening or knowing how to raise rabbits or chickens; perhaps something immediately useful to a society where law and order has broken down. Skills such as making ammunition, black powder, basic first aid or sutures and poultices, or just being willing to stand guard at night for a small community would make someone who is poor in money nevertheless valuable and worth feeding in a society where everything has broken down.

          And for what it’s worth, I suspect almost everyone will be poor after the dollar has been destroyed. And if someone isn’t, such as in having lots of gold or silver, or even horded food, that’s something that could get someone killed and one would have to be extremely careful who they share that information with.

        • Welcome to the coming land of the wolves Mark, and boy are they going to feast like no tomorrow.

  3. Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev’s interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta (March 27, 2023)

    🇷🇺Security Council Secretary Nikolay #Patrushev: Just how Anglo-Saxons nurtured Nazis in 1930s in hope of using them against Soviet Union, today #US & #UK, having reaped financial & geopolitical benefits from WWII outcomes, are again conniving with Nazism and fascism.

    https://telegra.ph/Security-Council-Secretary-Nikolai-Patrushevs-interview-with-Rossiyskaya-Gazeta-03-30-2?fbclid=IwAR1bcZsie4MR7k-_UMRNP5LT4wsx-XbLWrEXmkyOyMSLpW0PjcAxlcNqvj4

    • The anglo’s, especially those English poofters from Cambridge were communists and took to the Soviet Union like a duck to water, so taking anything from Patrushev should be taken with a truckload of salt. They hated the Germans. Ole Churchill hated the Germans from the Boer war because the Germans supplied the Boers with brand new shiny Mausers and arty.

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