A young man named Connor Sturgeon entered a bank building in downtown Louisville today and opened fire with a rifle, killing four bank employees and wounding nine other people, including at least two police officers, before being shot dead by police. Mr. Sturgeon was a bank employee, and had reportedly been notified that he would be fired.
In other news, Ukrainian military officials said that Russian military forces are failing to make significant advances anywhere along the entire front line in Ukraine.
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Daniel Andrews is seeking a massive bailout from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as Victoria’s state debt soars amid the fallout from the world’s longest Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns.
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Netherlands: Number of Bankruptcies Increased by More Than Half: Report
The number of bankruptcies in the Netherlands has risen by more than half in the first quarter, the Faillissements Dossier reported. The businesses that filed for bankruptcy mainly concerned cafes, restaurants, retail shops and online retailers, said the website, which extensively tracks bankruptcy trends in the Netherlands.
The website determined that 781 companies and institutions went bankrupt from January to March, compared to 506 in the first three months of last year. This represents an increase of 54.3 percent. The number of bankrupt cafes and restaurants nearly tripled to 54.
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4 Killed, 9 Hurt in Shooting at Downtown Louisville Bank; Shooter Also Dead
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Four people are dead and at least nine others were wounded during a mass shooting Monday morning at a downtown Louisville bank. The shooter is also dead.
Police said officers were called around 8:30 a.m. Monday to Old National Bank on Main Street. They were on scene within three minutes.
When they arrived, they encountered an active shooter inside with a rifle. He has been identified as Connor Sturgeon, 25, an employee of the bank.
LMPD said Sturgeon fired at police, they fired back, and they then “stopped that threat.”
The four people who died were all employees of the bank. LMPD identified them as Tommy Elliott, 63, Jim Tutt, 64, Josh Barrick, 40, and Juliana Farmer, 45.
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Police aren’t sure yet on a motive, or how the shooter got the rifle. They did say he livestreamed the shooting somewhere on social media.
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Andy Ngo Reports: Trans Person Arrested Over Brutal Murder of Portland Cab Driver
The Post Millennial can exclusively report that the suspect in the Easter Sunday stabbing murder of a Portland cab driver is a trans person with a history of threatening behavior.
Moses Jacob Lopez, who identifies as a woman and appears to have addresses in both Portland and Coos Bay, Ore., has been charged with second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon. The deceased victim, who has not been named, was identified by Radio City Cab as one of its veteran drivers.
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‘Assault Weapon’ Ban Passes WA Senate — Governor Signals Support
The Washington state senate on Saturday approved a measure that would ban the sale of so-called “assault weapons.” It does not, however, ban possession.
HB 1240 will make it illegal to sell, transfer, distribute, manufacture or import a long list of prohibited firearms. The billbans several broad categories such as the AK-47 and AR-15 “in all its forms,” and then lists dozens of specific product lines, such as the Smith & Wesson M&P 15 and Bushmaster XM-15.
It also bans the weapons by defining them as semiautomatic, centerfire rifles that accept a detachable magazine and also have at least one of many other listed features, such as a folding or telescoping stock. It also bars such weapons if they have an integral 10-round magazine.
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Biden Signs Republican-Led Bill Ending COVID-19 Emergency
President Joe Biden signed a Republican-led bill Monday ending the COVID-19 national emergency.
The measure passed the Senate for the third time in March in a vote of 68-23, making its way to the president’s desk. At the time, a White House official reportedly stated that Biden would sign the bill despite being “strongly” in opposition.
The bill consists of a sole sentence directing the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020, to be “terminated.”
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Breaking: Tennessee Dem Reinstated to House After Storming State Capitol
On Monday afternoon, Justin Jones, a Democratic Tennessee state representative who was expelled for leading an anti-gun protest into the state Capitol last month, was reinstated to the House.
According to The Hill, the Nashville Metropolitan Council voted unanimously to reinstate Jones. All 36 members of the council voted to reappoint him as an interim representative for the 52nd District.
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Bruce Springsteen’s veteran E-Street band guitarist Steven Van Zandt issued a call to fans and supporters on social media Sunday to “Exterminate the (Republican) cockroaches.”
His rallying cry to target GOP supporters, half of America, came during an expletive-laden exchange on Twitter.
It began when the guitarist ventured forth by abusing what he called “Republican White Supremicist scumbag cowards and pussies that need guns to feel like real men” after TN representatives demanded gun controls.
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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley doubled down on warnings surrounding the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) on Monday after he was falsely accused of sexual harassment by the online bot ChatGPT, which cited a fabricated article supporting the allegation.
Turley, a Fox News contributor, has been outspoken about the pitfalls of artificial intelligence and has publicly expressed concerns with the disinformation dangers of the ChatGPT bot, the latest iteration of the AI chatbot. Last week, a UCLA professor and friend of Turley’s notified him that his name appeared in a search while he was conducting research on ChatGPT. The bot was asked to cite “five examples” of “sexual harassment” by U.S. law professors with “quotes from relevant newspaper articles” to support it.
“Five professors came up, three of those stories were clearly false, including my own,” Turley told “The Story” on Fox News Monday. “What was really menacing about this incident is that the AI system made up a Washington Post story and then made up a quote from that story and said that there was this allegation of harassment on a trip with students to Alaska. That trip never occurred. I’ve never gone on any trip with law students of any kind. It had me teaching at the wrong school, and I’ve never been accused of sexual harassment.”
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Concerns Mount Over mRNA Vaccines in U.S Beef Supply
Concerns are growing about the possibility of the U.S. beef supply being spiked with mRNA Covid vaccines.
New legislation is emerging that would prevent mRNA products from entering the food chain without consumers’ knowledge.
However, beef lobbyists are opposing the measures while denying that U.S. cattle are receiving the Covid mRNA vaccine.
The National Cattleman’s Beef Association (NCBA) released a statement last week denying that cattle have been tainted with mRNA products, yet.
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Democrats Dealt Another Blow: Third Lawmaker Leaves Party, Switches to Republican Within a Month
Democrats were dealt another blow from within their own ranks this week as yet another state lawmaker declared he was leaving the party.
According to a Monday report by The Advocate, a Louisiana-based newspaper, state Rep. Jeremy LaCombe announced he had left the Democratic Party and would be registering as a Republican.
It was not immediately clear what prompted LaCombe’s departure, however he is now the second Louisiana Democrat in less than a month to switch party affiliations, and the third nationwide after another state lawmaker in North Carolina did the same.
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Doctors Accused of Euthanizing Down Syndrome Teen Against Family’s Wishes
Doctors in Wisconsin have been accused of euthanizing a teenage girl with Down syndrome, against the wishes of her devastated family.
19-year-old Grace Schara died at Appleton’s St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in 2021.
According to the Schara family, Grace had been given a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order without their knowledge or consent.
She was then given a lethal cocktail of drugs that ended her life.
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DOJ Opens Investigation Into Leak of ‘Top Secret’ US Docs
After classified documents have been leaked online, with details about Israel’s Mossad spy agency and Ukraine’s air defenses, US officials are now working to find who might be responsible, and some have suggested that it could be an American.
Reuters reported that the topics covered in the documents include dealings in Ukraine, China, the Middle East, and even Africa. It was reported on Friday that it was likely Russian or pro-Russian actors who were behind the leak of military records, which apparently included a partial, “month-long snapshot” of the war in Ukraine.
Michael Mulroy, a former senior Pentagon official, suggested that the “focus now is on this being a US leak, as many of the documents were only in US hands.”
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Journalist Jake Kanter called out Twitter owner Elon Musk after the platform labeled the BBC as a government funded media outlet.
The British Broadcasting Corporation, more commonly known as BBC, is currently labeled as “Government Funded Media” on Twitter.
But Kanter pushed back on the title in a story published Sunday, arguing that while the BBC does benefit from a “license fee” that is partially set by the U.K. government, that is not the same as being “funded by the UK government.”
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Facebook Censors Karoline Leavitt, Spokeswoman for Trump Supporting PAC ‘MAGA Inc.’
Facebook has told MAGA Inc. spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt that it is deleting her Facebook page with 12,000 followers. The warning came shortly after Leavitt announced she was joining MAGA Inc., a PAC supporting the candidacy of Donald Trump.
In a message to Leavitt, Facebook accused the spokeswoman of maintaining a page that “goes against our community standards.” Following an appeal of this decision, Facebook informed her that it had scheduled her page for deletion.
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Former Feds Fled Twitter Around Elon Musk Takeover
Dozens of former federal agents fled Twitter around the time Elon Musk took over as CEO, a Daily Caller analysis found.
Musk initiated his acquisition of Twitter in April of 2022 and officially took over October 27, 2022. In that time and in the months afterwards, 28 former FBI, DOJ, CIA and DHS executives employed by Twitter left the company, a Daily Caller LinkedIn search revealed.
The company experienced a general staff exodus after Musk’s April announcement, with the employee attrition rate spiking, Reuters reported. Musk then laid off half of Twitter’s full-time employees in November, after giving staff an ultimatum of leaving or committing to being “extremely hardcore,” NPR reported.
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IRS Chief Unveils Plan for Hiring Armed Agents
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel has unveiled the federal agency’s plan for hiring armed enforcement agents.
Werfel has provided details about plans to hire armed IRS agents to serve in the agency’s criminal investigations division.
The announcement comes amid concerns from Republicans about a proliferation of gun-toting tax enforcers.
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Jim Jordan Heading to Manhattan to Expose Alvin Bragg’s ‘Victims, ‘ Examine Crime in NYC
Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is going to New York City to hold a hearing with some of the “victims” of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s radical policies.
In a statement on Twitter, Jordan blasted Bragg’s soft-on-crime policies.
Jordan stated that George Soros-funded Bragg’s policies have caused violent crime to soar out of control in NYC.
“Alvin Bragg’s radical pro-crime, anti-victim policies have led to an increase in violent crime in New York City,” Jordan said on Twitter.
“Next week, the Judiciary Committee will examine these policies during a field hearing in Manhattan.”
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Korean Restaurant Sues Seattle After Suffering Losses During Deadly 2020 CHAZ Occupation
The owner of a Seattle restaurant has filed a federal lawsuit against the city for the loss of business and expenses incurred during the deadly 2020 Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).
The suit is the latest litigation against the city as a result of the zone that according to the Seattle Times, has already cost Seattle over $9 million.
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Louisville Shooting Leaves at Least 4 Dead and 8 Others Wounded, Police Say
At least one “very close friend” of Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was among the victims of gunfire that also left shooter dead.
A gunman opened fire at a bank in downtown Louisville on Monday, leaving four dead — including at least two friends of Gov. Andy Beshear — and wounding eight others, authorities said.
The shooter, described as a current or former employee of Old National Bank, also wounded two responding police officers, one critically, officials said.
The attacker was killed not long after the 8:30 a.m. ET shooting unfolded at 333 E. Main St., Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said.
Responding officers exchanged gunfire with the gunman, police said, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the shooter died from police gunfire or a self-inflicted wound.
Gov. Andy Beshear fought back tears, telling reporters two of the dead and one of the wounded were friends of his.
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Louisville Bank Shooting Suspect: Who is Connor Sturgeon?
Louisville police have identified Connor Sturgeon as the man who opened fire at the Old National Bank on East Main Street Monday morning.
The 25-year-old worked at the bank, Louisville Interim Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said at a 3 p.m. news briefing. He was livestreaming during the attack, she added.
The first reports of shots fired came in at 8:38 a.m., she said. Sturgeon shot at responding officers.
“We then returned fire and stopped that threat,” she said. “The suspect is deceased. This is the only time that I will mention the suspect name in this case: Connor Sturgeon, white male, 25 years of age, who was employed at Old National Bank.”
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Maricopa County Report Attributes Election Day Issues to Paper Weight, Ballot Length
Maricopa County investigators on Monday released their report into election irregularities during the 2022 midterm contests after the municipality suffered significant ballot-printing issues that attracted intense criticism from Republicans.
Maricopa, the state’s most populous county, has become infamous as the source of election irregularities and alleged voter fraud in recent contests, most notably the 2020 presidential election and the 2022 governor’s race. In the latter contest, the county’s ballot printers and tabulators suffered significant issues on Election Day.
Former Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor led the investigators who authored the report. Their analysis identified changes in the ballot length, in combination with the paper weight, as straining some of the older printers’ abilities.
Between the August primaries and the November general contest, the county expanded the length of the ballots from 19 inches to 20 inches in order to include all of the required information. The increased ballot size in combination with the use of 100-pound ballot paper, the report concludes, was too great a strain on the printers.
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Miami-Area Beach Full of Feces, Officials Warn Public Against Swimming
Health officials in South Florida have advised beachgoers to avoid a popular beach due to excessive amounts of fecal matter in the water. This comes as surrounding beaches are hit with a poisonous algae bloom and a massive blob of seaweed.
Several water sampling tests in the northern part of Crandon Park, near Miami, failed to meet the state and federal water quality standards. The water is contaminated with enterococci bacteria, an indicator of fecal material.
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Most Americans No Longer Think That College is Worth the Cost
Americans’ faith in college has reached a ten-year low, according to a new poll from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and NORC.
The WSJ reported results from over 1,000 respondents on Mar. 31. Since 2013, The WSJ and NORC, a data and research center at the University of Chicago, have documented the dwindling percentage of Americans who think that college is worth its cost. In the latest poll, only 42 percent of respondents say that it is.
Crushing student loan debt, the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, and low graduation rates are cited by The WSJ‘s report as possible reasons behind Americans’ pessimism.
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Putin’s Popularity Reaches Record High in the U.S. — Poll
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s popularity in the United States has reached its highest point since 2020, years before his troops invaded Ukraine, according to new data.
The Kremlin leader’s popularity among Americans, as of the first quarter of 2023, stands at 21 percent, according to pollster YouGov. In the first quarter of 2021, Putin’s popularity hovered at 15 percent, and shortly after Russia began the war with Ukraine, it was registered at 17 percent.
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Radical Democrats Pressure Pete Buttigieg to Reform ‘Racist Traffic Enforcement’
A group of radical Democrat lawmakers has signed a letter to pressure Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to spend taxpayer money on reforming what they describe as “racist traffic enforcement.”
More than two dozen Democrats sent the letter to Buttigieg on Thursday.
The group of 27 Democrats includes “Squad” Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Cori Bush (D-MO), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
They are demanding that Buttigieg condemns America’s “harmful” traffic enforcement practices.
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Sean Reyes, the Attorney General of the state of Utah, has joined 18 other attorneys general calling on the US Supreme Court to reverse a decision by the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the National Rifle Association (NRA) against the former superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services Maria Vullo.
Vullo told financial institutions to stop doing business with the NRA “or else.”
In an amicus brief, the attorneys general said that Vullo violated the First Amendment rights of the NRA, and “engaged in a politically motivated campaign against the financial institutions doing business with the NRA but steered clear of any explicit threats.”
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Report: Big Tech Companies Crawling With Former Feds
Hundreds of former officials at the CIA, FBI, and DHS were hired at Big Tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter between 2017 and 2022, an analysis of LinkedIn data has found.
The analysis, conducted by the Daily Caller, revealed that 248 former officials from the three agencies were hired by Google, Facebook (now known as Meta), Twitter and TikTok during the period, with dozens of the employees appointed to executive positions at the companies.
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Report: Biden to Deploy “Army” of Social Media Influencers, Station Them in White House
According to an Axios report, Joe Biden’s campaign team is readying an “Army” of social media influencers and intends to station them within a briefing room at the White House.
Biden’s handlers have apparently decided that the only way he’s going to win another election against Donald Trump is by securing the youth vote, a tough task given that he’s the oldest President ever.
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The Louisville gunman who shot dead four bank employees live-streamed the massacre and left a note to his parents saying he was going to carry out the attack following his firing, it has been revealed.
Connor Sturgeon, 25, stormed Old National Bank shortly after 8.30am Monday — around half an hour before the downtown branch opened to the public.
The victims included a close friend of the governor Thomas Elliott, 63, and three other bank employees, Joshua Barrick, 40, Juliana Farmer, 45, and James Tutt, 64.
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Around 7 pm on April 2 thieves made off with about $500,000 worth of Apple products after tunneling their way into a Seattle Apple store. According to a report by the Daily Mail, the burglars cut open a 12 by 18-inch hole from the neighboring coffee shop’s bathroom, into the store’s storage area.
Employees didn’t know the crime had occurred until they came in to work the next day. When they proceed to notify police.
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Trump Sounds “World War III” Alarm
Donald Trump is once again sounding the alarm bell for “World War III” as tensions in numerous different regions around the world continue to rise.
“WORLD WAR lll,” Trump blasted out on Truth Social.
He was presumably referring to the continuing war between Russia and Ukraine as well as the escalating crisis between China and Taiwan.
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Trump to Face Questioning Thursday in Civil Case Brought by Progressive NY AG Letitia James
Former President Donald Trump is set to return to New York City this week to face questioning by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is probing the Trump Organization’s business practices.
Law enforcement sources revealed to the New York Post that Trump is expected to plead the fifth amendment as he did last year when pressed by James’ office.
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Video Shows Congregants Holding Down Man Accused of Stabbing Imam at Paterson Mosque
PATERSON, New Jersey (WABC) — An Imam is in the hospital Monday after a stabbing during prayers at a mosque in Paterson, New Jersey Sunday.
Faith leaders at the Omar Mosque say the suspect, 32-year-old Serif Zorba, has worshiped with them before, but is not a member.
“They’re heroes, they really are,” said Abdul Hamdan, attorney for Omar Mosque.
Instead of kneeling back down to pray, surveillance video shows a man popping up and dashing to the front of the room, and off camera, the 65-year-old Imam of the Omar Mosque was stabbed multiple times.
Cell phone video from moments later on show a man in a beige hoodie being physically restrained down on the ground by a group of men. The worshippers made sure the suspect did not get away.
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Watch: DOJ Rally on 4th Anniversary of Assange’s Arrest
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange was dragged by London police from the Ecuador embassy on April 11, 2019. He has been in Belmarsh prison ever since awaiting a decision on his extradition to the U.S. A rally will take place at the DOJ on Tuesday at 4 pm EDT. Watch it here.
Watch the rally live at 4 pm courtesy of Ford Fischer’s News2Share. Speakers: Max Blumenthal, Rev. Annie Chambers, John Kiriakou, Joe Lauria, Garland Nixon, Anya Parampil and Misty Winston.
Action4Assange activists will begin the day by lobbying members of Congress to sign the open letter of Rep. Rashida Tlaib to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding that the charges against Julian Assange be dropped. They will meet at the cafeteria of the House Office Building at 10 am on Tuesday.
Please donate to this GoFundMe page to help pay for the rally and the lobbying effort.
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Another Academic Bites the Dust for Faking Indigenous Lineage
Amid scrutiny about her claims to Indigenous ancestry, the president of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador (MUN) was finally turfed in the middle of her seeking shade with a temporary leave of absence.
Vianne Timmons’ apology last month for the hurt she may have caused by invoking Mi’kmaq heritage didn’t cut it with an Indigenous-led roundtable investigating her appropriation.
Her voluntary leave of absence ended with her dismissal.
Timmons joins a growing list of academics trying to put a feather in their caps by falsely claiming Indigenous backgrounds.
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Former CSIS Intelligence Officer Speaks Out on Han Dong Reports
Last month, former Liberal MP Han Dong made headlines when Global News reported allegations from anonymous intelligence sources that Dong was a “witting affiliate” in China’s election interference networks. The sources claimed that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and senior Liberal party officials had ignored warnings from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service about Dong, which Trudeau denied. Former CSIS intelligence officer Andrew Kirsch joined True North’s Andrew Lawton to discuss why he is not happy about the leak of classified documents from his former organization.
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McGill Settles Defamation Suit With Student Falsely Accused of Sexual Assault
A former McGill university student successfully obtained a defamation settlement after being wrongly accused of sexual assault by a female student in 2020.
Declan McCool sought $1 million from a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2020 as well as McGill University, the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) and three of its executives, the Engineering Undergraduate Society of McGill University (EUS) and the publisher of the McGill Daily newspaper and three editors. McCool’s initial suit said their actions or inactions resulted in income loss, pain, suffering and reputational damage.
As reported by the Montreal Gazette, the amount McCool received in his settlement is unknown. However, McCool’s lawyer, Christopher Spiteri, says that he is satisfied.
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More Than 40% of Farm Operators Plan to Retire Over Next Decade: Report
A shortage of Canadian farm operators is looming as more than 40% of farm operators will retire over the next decade, according to a new report.
A report from the Royal Bank of Canada, Boston Consulting Group’s Centre for Canada’s Future and the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph states Canada will be short 24,000 general farm, nursery, and greenhouse operators.
The report estimates that 66% of producers do not have a succession plan in place, leaving the future of farming in Canada in doubt.
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One in Three Canadians in “Bad” or “Terrible” Financial Shape: Survey
Canadians continue to struggle to make ends meet due to the high cost of living, according to a recent survey.
The Angus Reid Institute found that 34% of Canadians are in “bad” or “terrible” financial shape. This is up six percentage points compared to last July.
The survey notes that more Canadians report poor finances compared to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic when governments first implemented lockdown measures.
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Police Chiefs Demand Urgent Meeting With Premiers to Discuss Violent Crime
Canadian police chiefs from across the country are demanding an urgent meeting with all 13 premiers to discuss the violent random crisis.
Last week, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) sent a letter to Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson calling for an urgent all-premiers meeting.
“In the last six months, we have lost nine officers — eight of them to random violence,” wrote CACP president Chief Danny Smith.
“There is no question that the degradation of discourse around policing and police funding, the lack of accountability in our justice system, and the significant increase in drug, gang, and gun violence have all played a part in escalating the danger for our profession.”
The letter comes after several police officers were killed in Edmonton, Alb. and Louiseville, Que. recently.
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France: Teen Boys ‘Lynched’ by Mob Wielding Hammers, Sticks
Two teenagers were hospitalized following separate attacks carried out by a large mob carrying hammers and other bludgeoning weapons in France last week, according to reports.
The horrifying assaults unfolded late on Tuesday night in Meaux, a commune in the department of Seine-et-Marne.
A 17-year-old boy was ambushed by around 20 people near a shopping center in the town, Actu17 reports.
He sustained severe head trauma after being savagely bashed with baseball bats, sticks, and hammers.
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Macron: Europe Must End Reliance on America, Avoid Conflict With China
French President Macron argued for European “strategic autonomy” from America, including from the dollar and avoiding conflict with China.
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Netherlands: Climate Activists Protest in Schiphol at KLM Check-in Counters; 3 Arrests
About 20 Extinction Rebellion activists are demonstrating at KLM’s counters in a departure hall at Schiphol Airport. The Koninklijke Marechaussee, the Dutch military branch that secures the airport, said it was monitoring the situation. Extinction Rebellion wants KLM to take responsibility for the health and climate damage it caused by blocking Schiphol’s shrinking.
“The Marechaussee has just arrested three demonstrators at Schiphol. One person vehemently resisted the arrest,” the Marechaussee said on Twitter. “The demonstration of about 20-30 people was inside the departure halls and has now moved outside.”
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Police Car Firebombed During Northern Ireland Protest
Demonstrators opposing the Good Friday peace agreement that ended three decades of hostilities in Northern Ireland firebombed a police car Monday in Londonderry during a march on the agreement’s 25th anniversary, officials said.
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UK: Just Stop Oil Activists Arrested Over Dippy the Diplodocus Protest
Two climate change activists have been arrested after attempting to stage a protest at a dinosaur exhibit.
The pair entered Herbert Art Gallery and Museum’s Dippy the Diplodocus display in Coventry at about 10:00 BST.
A video released by campaign group Just Stop Oil (JSO) showed them being tackled by security staff and led away.
West Midlands Police said two people were held on suspicion of conspiracy to cause criminal damage and “two large bags of dry paint” had been seized.
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UK: Parliamentarians Write to Ask US to Drop Extradition Proceedings Against Assange
A letter to the US attorney general has been signed by 35 parliamentarians calling for extradition proceedings to be dropped against Julian Assange on the fourth anniversary of his detention at Belmarsh prison.
Richard Burgon, Labour MP for Leeds East, organised the letter, which has been given the support of MPs and members of the House of Lords from six parties.
They call on Merrick Garland to drop the proceedings, which date back to former US president Donald Trump’s administration and, it is claimed, relate to Assange’s “role as a journalist and publisher in publishing evidence of war crimes, corruption and human rights abuses”.
Assange is being held on remand as he challenges the High Court’s ruling that he should be extradited to the US to face trial after leaking military documents.
Mr Burgon said: “British parliamentarians are increasingly alarmed by the potential extradition of Julian Assange to the United States.
“Any extradition would, in effect, be putting press freedom on trial. It would set a dangerous precedent for journalists and publishers around the world.
“Four years on since Julian Assange was first detained in Belmarsh high-security prison, now is the right moment to draw a line under this outrageous prosecution initiated by the Trump administration, drop the charges against Julian Assange and allow him to return home to Australia.”
Signatories include Conservative MP David Davis, Caroline Lucas of the Green Party, Jeremy Corbyn, Angus MacNeil of the Scottish National Party and Liz Saville-Roberts of Plaid Cymru.
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UK: Playwright and Screenwriter Martin McDonagh Tells Authors to be a Dissenting Voice
Martin McDonagh, an Oscar winner, said that theaters have been rejecting his plays because he won’t agree to changes in his language. The theaters want the language to be changed to avoid online backlash.
Speaking to the BBC, McDonagh said that although he is an established writer, “They wanted to make some words more palatable to them or what they think their audience is.”
He described the situation as a “major problem” and said that theaters were becoming “a dangerous place” for writers.
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UK: Sneinton: Worshipper Stabbed Outside Church on Easter Sunday
A worshipper has been injured in a stabbing which took place outside a church on Easter Sunday.
Police were called to St Stephen’s Church in Sneinton, Nottingham, at about 10:50 BST, shortly after an Easter service.
A man in his 40s was taken to hospital where he underwent surgery for injuries to his stomach.
Officers have arrested a man, 20, on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
The Church of England said that the suspect had been seen at the church on two or three occasions, while the injured man was a regular.
His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Ian Young, from the neighbouring William Booth Memorial Complex, said:” We were just totally shocked, bewildered and we were contemplating that it was just here in our community and how it could have happened to any one of us really.
“You realise sometimes the risks that you take without thinking about it. It’s just the impact with it being somebody that we know in the community but also it could have happened to any one of us.”
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WEF Welcomes “Big Data Models” And “Wearable Sensors” To “Rethink” How the World Accesses Healthcare
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has explained how it envisages the use of “AI” and what’s referred to as digital health in defining healthcare in the future.
In a blog post on the site of the Switzerland-based group, WEF’s Shyam Bishen, whose job title is “head of Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare,” writes about the activities meant to “accelerate” work around improving healthcare.
And that will take both the deployment of technology and a comprehensive plan — some of the elements of which should be big data models, tele and predictive medicine and wearable sensors and many platforms and apps, according to this member of the WEF executive board.
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Iran Uses New Surveillance Network to Crack Down on Women Not Wearing a Hijab
The Iranian police said that they have started installing cameras in public places to identify women in violation of the strict headscarf law.
The police said that women not wearing the hijab (headscarf) identified by the cameras would be sent “warning text messages as to the consequences.”
According to the police, the cameras would prevent “resistance against the hijab law.”
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Ukraine’s air defenses could fall to Russia by the middle of next month as Zelensky’s army runs out of weapons to protect its skies, leaked Pentagon papers claim.
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Lukashenko: Belarus Seeks Security Guarantees From Moscow in Case of External Aggression
Minsk requires that Moscow provides security grantees to Belarus to protect the territory of the republic as if its own territory in case of any external aggression, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday.
“In general, we discussed it at the talks [of the presidents of Belarus and Russia] so that in case of aggression against Belarus, Russia protects Belarus as its own territory. That’s what security [guarantees] we need,” Lukashenko was quoted as saying by a Belarusian state news agency at a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu in Minsk.
Lukashenko said that he raised this issues during talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who fully supported Minsk’s ideas on the matter.
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The scar across the countryside — seen from space — is some 45 miles in length so far, as Russia fears a repeat of last year when Ukraine won back swathes of territory.
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Russia is giving a “high priority” to attempting gains near Donetsk, a British intelligence assessment says, noting “minimal gains” made despite “significant resources” committed.
Tank assaults against suburbs of Donetsk are increasing as Russia expends “significant resources for minimal gains” in that area, the British Ministry of Defence had said in one of its regular Ukrainian war intelligence updates. Donetsk itself has been occupied by Russia since the last Ukraine war in 2014 and professes under the leadership of Russian-backed separatists to be the capital of a breakaway people’s republic.
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Russian Forces Failing to Make ‘Serious Advances’ Anywhere on Frontline
After an anticipated Russian spring offensive failed to materialise, pro-war military bloggers have said the occupying soldiers are “shifting towards … [countering] Ukraine’s potential to regain significant ground”.
Russia failed to “advance seriously anywhere” on the frontline in Ukraine despite their long-awaited spring offensives, a Ukrainian military official has claimed, as Putin’s force shift their attention to defending against imminent counter-offensives. Council of Reservists of the Ukrainian Ground Forces Head Ivan Tymochko reported on April 8 that while fighting across the entire frontline waged on, Russian forces are “no longer attacking to break through” but rather to “withdraw” and distract the Ukrainian soldiers in a bid to slow the pace of potential counter-offensives.
He said this followed more than a month of Russian attacks that were “choked” in the eastern regions and, ultimately, achieved little more than marginal gains.
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Bomb Targeting Pakistani Police in SW Kills 4, Wounds 18
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bomb targeting a police vehicle in volatile southwestern Pakistan on Monday killed at least four people and wounded 18 others, mostly civilian pedestrians, a government spokesperson said.
The attack happened in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, said Babar Yousafzai, a spokesman for the provincial government. He said the dead included two police and two civilians.
In a statement, the outlawed Baluchistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack. The BLA, which was designated a terrorist group by the United States in 2019, said its fighters targeted the vehicle of a police officer who was behind the arrest of members of the group.
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India to Require US Social Media Platforms to Abide by Government-Run Fact-Checker
The Indian government amended its IT Law of 2021 to ban social media platforms from publishing and hosting “misleading” or “false information” about the government and to require them to rely on the government’s own fact-checking unit for authentic information.
Non-compliance with the law will result in a platform losing its safe harbor protections in the country.
The law, which was first proposed in January, will see the creation of a “fact-checking” unit of the government that will have arbitrary and over-broad powers to determine what information is authentic.
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Study: Catastrophic Climate Warnings Fail to Shift Attitudes
A simulation based on apocalyptic images designed to highlight “the disastrous effects of climate change” had the opposite impact on those who viewed it and failed to shift attitudes, a study from Singapore Management University details.
The work was based on Hong Kong citizens being shown a life-like 3D depiction of a climate-induced six-metre storm surge on their city.
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The Dalai Lama is under fire after a disturbing video showed him kissing a young boy on the lips and asking him to “suck” his tongue, sparking widespread backlash.
In the shocking footage that was reportedly filmed in February, a young boy asks the Tibetan spiritual leader for a hug. The Dalai Lama then invited the young boy on stage, and after the hug, the spiritual leader forcibly lifts the boy’s head from underneath his chin to kiss him on the lips. The pair pressed their foreheads together in a bizarre scene before it got even stranger.
“Suck my tongue,” the Dalai Lama then said while sticking out his tongue. The boy appeared uncomfortable and began to fulfill the 87-year-old’s request but didn’t go through with it. Once the video went viral, the Dalai Lama issued a statement apologizing to the boy and his family while also downplaying it as playful teasing.
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Leaked Docs: New Chinese Hypersonic Missile Has ‘High Probability’ of Penetrating US Defenses
The People’s Republic of China flight tested a hypersonic missile still in development that has a “high probability” of penetrating U.S. air defenses, according to leaked documents from the Department of Defense (DOD).
The PRC conducted a test flight for a Dongfeng-27 missile, designed to carry hypersonic glide vehicles, on Feb. 25, according to the DOD document reviewed by the Daily Caller. The DF-27, a successor to the DF-17 still being developed, is aimed at enhancing China’s ability to strike targets beyond the Second Island Chain in the Pacific, and has a “high probability” of penetrating U.S. ballistic missile defenses (BMD).
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The University of Divinity head of the School of Indigenous Studies sees The Voice referendum as a vote about the integrity of Australians and fears a ‘no’ majority is ‘going to kill a nation of people.’
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Roaming youth gangs have become increasingly brazen in the town, with a surging number of violent crimes, thefts, break-ins and acts of vandalism.
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Australian Mayor Threatens to Sue OpenAI After ChatGPT Spreads Election Misinformation
The mayor of Hepburn Shire Council in Australia, Brian Hood, has threatened to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT. The AI accused Hood of being guilty of bribery and corruption in relation to a case where he was actually a whistleblower.
The Washington Post reports that Australian mayor Brian Hood is threatening to sue OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, after the AI chatbot falsely accused him of bribery and corruption. Hood was a whistleblower and key player in exposing a global bribery scandal linked to Australia’s National Reserve Bank. This potential defamation lawsuit may hold AI operators liable for statements made by their chatbots that are defamatory.
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Social media groups are being created by students at private and public schools where videos are posted of boys and girls brawling or ambushing victims.
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Jihadi Machete Attack and Village Massacres Mark Bloody Weekend in Africa
Last weekend saw a rash of mass casualty attacks in Africa, with atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burkina Faso, and Nigeria claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS) and other terrorist groups.
ISIS on Saturday used its channel on the secure messaging system Telegram to claim responsibility for killing approximately 20 civilians in the village of Musandaba in the eastern DRC. A spokesman for the DRC military said the killings were perpetrated with machetes.
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A small north Wales village and ex-military bases across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland are being considered as part of a ‘desperate scramble’ by Home Office staff for new migrant accommodation, it has emerged.
Figures show more than 4,500 people have been detected crossing the English Channel in small boats this year, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak having recently vowed to end the housing of more than 51,000 asylum seekers in hotels.
The Government has already announced plans to establish new migrant accommodation on a barge in Dorset, as well as surplus military sites in Lincolnshire and Essex, and an old prison in East Sussex.
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Exclusive: Biden’s Northern Border Deal With Trudeau Has Major Loophole, Memo Shows
President Joe Biden’s latest northern border deal with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a major loophole that allows for some illegal migrants to skirt expulsion, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Biden and Trudeau announced a new “Safe Third Country” agreement March 24 that would force authorities on both sides of the northern border to return migrants who cross illegally to make their asylum claims in the first country of their arrival. However, the DHS memo instructed federal border authorities to allow illegal migrants that could face expulsion under the new agreement to still have their cases heard by an asylum officer to vet for “credible fear” if one fears persecution or torture, according to the memo.
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Today’s revelation that suspected terrorists have entered Britain posing as small boat migrants brings a whole new context to the Channel crisis.
It was already known that hundreds of criminals had been identified among arrivals from France — raising huge questions about Britain’s porous border and the Government’s ability to protect its citizens.
Now we know that the problem is far, far worse.
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Anheuser-Busch distributors in rural areas of the Heartland and South are “spooked” after widespread backlash to Bud Light celebrating transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney’s “365 Days of Girlhood” with a polarizing promotion, according to the trade publication Beer Business Daily.
Earlier this month, the trans activist revealed that the beer company sent packs of Bud Light featuring the influencer’s face as a way to celebrate a full year of “girlhood” that Mulvaney recently reached. Mulvaney said the cans were her “most prized possession” on Instagram with a post featuring “#budlightpartner.” A video then featured Mulvaney in a bathtub drinking a Bud Light beer as part of the campaign.
The announcement was met with significant criticism, with some Twitter users describing the ad campaign as the latest attempt to push gender propaganda. Many people mocked Bud Light over the partnership, conservative rocker Kid Rock even used several Bud Light cases for target practice in a viral video, and there have been calls to boycott.
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Biden Admin Files Motion to Pause Judge’s Block on Abortion Pill Approval
The Biden administration filed an emergency motion Monday to stay a federal judge’s decision to suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion pill.
Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed its motion Monday with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, calling the block on the pill’s approval an “extraordinary and unprecedented” decision that would “thwart FDA’s scientific judgment and severely harm women.” The DOJ already filed a notice of appeal Friday shortly after U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Texas issued a preliminary injunction that halted the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in a chemical abortion.
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Bud Light Sales ‘Took a Volume Hit in Some Markets’ Over Holiday Weekend, Industry Report Shows
Anheuser-Busch distributors in parts of the Heartland and the South are “spooked” over the backlash to Bud Light’s marketing campaign with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.
Beer Business Daily, a beer industry trade publication, did some research into the campaign and the backlash that followed. The publication discovered that Mulvaney brought in one billion TikTok views from a hard-to-reach fanbase, Gen Z members.
They claim beer companies are “desperate” to reach these young consumers which would explain the huge gamble the brand took. It remains to be seen if those eyeballs will turn into buyers, the publication claims, but in the short term the beer brand took a hit.
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FBI Used Undercover Employee to Gain Information for Memo Targeting Catholics, Jim Jordan Reveals
The FBI used an undercover employee to inform its leaked analysis on domestic extremism among Catholic Americans, House Judiciary Committee Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan revealed in a letter addressed to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to Wray on Monday requesting records relating to its probe into the FBI’s “domestic violent extremism investigations against Catholic Americans,” CBS News reported. The investigation was initiated after the leak of a Jan. 23 FBI Richmond Field Office memo suggesting Roman Catholic groups who prefer the Latin mass are at risk of “anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.”
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Aussie state parliament is getting rid of all gender-specific terms in its official and ceremonial language meaning that King Charles will not be called ‘His Majesty’ but rather ‘the sovereign’.
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Non-Woke Super Mario Bros. Movie Smashes Opening Weekend Records
The new animated film “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” smashed box office records during its opening over Easter weekend.
The movie, which refused to include “woke” messaging, defied expectations and smashed records by pulling off the most lucrative opening weekend at the box office for an animated film.
The record was previously held by the 2019 Disney sequel “Frozen 2.”
According to Axios, between Wednesday and Sunday, “Super Mario” brought in $377 million in global box office sales and $204.6 million in domestic sales.
That also makes the movie the highest-grossing film of the year so far.
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Report: Trans Teacher in Georgia Runs ‘Queer School, ‘ Says Most Students Are Trans
A transgender teacher in Georgia runs a school in which most students are reportedly trans and participate in political activism, according to Insider.
Thea Canby runs a “queer-centered micro-school” where most students are between the ages of 11 and 17, Insider reported. At this school, students are active in LGBT politics.
Canby takes students on field trips to the Georgia State Capitol where they meet lawmakers and “describe the hate they’ve faced in public schools and on the streets,” according to Insider. Canby shared the story in relation to Georgia lawmakers voting on Senate Bill 140, which bans minors from having access to sex-change procedures.
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Survivors of the Trans Panic: Detransitioner Reveals Horrors of Gender ‘Cyber-Sect’
Transgenderism is being portrayed as a progressive form of self-expression by the political, media, and business complex, but it is also damaging and marring — in many cases irreparably — the girls who come into contact with it. This series is exploring some of the cruelty experienced by people who have interacted with the “cyber-sect” of radical gender ideology, through testimony in their own words.
About 20 percent of Generation Z is likely to identify on the “LGBTQQIP2SAA” spectrum, and “LGBTQIA+” identification overall has become much more common in the United States in the past decade, according to 2022 polling by Gallup. Over five percent of Americans from 18 to 30-years-old identify as “transgender” or “nonbinary,” according a Pew Research Center survey published in June.
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Since I can’t seem to reply to Vera on “Fear Itself”, I’ll do it here. I send CA quite a bit of stuff for WRSA, because I just don’t have time with a busy surgical practice to blogpost to my own page. He posts about half of what I send him. I know others feed info/memos to him as well. I would remind Vera that she’s never seen an ad or click bait on WRSA (like GoV); he spends a LOT of time doing this because he is generally CONCERNED. As am I. As you are, sir.
No one makes any of us do this. I know many of these folks personally and virtually. I credit CA at WRSA with saving my sanity after my blackpilling in 2008. These are all rational, seasoned individuals who are desperately trying to wake enough people up to stem the tide, or at least enough so that they may survive the potentially inevitable. Like many, I don’t obsess over this. It doesn’t consume my psyche. But it colors my world. Irrevocably so.
Vera, put down the phone. Take a day, or a few. Reach out and I’ll send you down beachside for a few days with the Khaleesi. Take a deep breath. Nothing may happen. Everything may collapse. But at least you now have the frame of mind to recognize what’s happening and, just like the Hoffman Lenses Roddy Piper wore in They Live, you’ll never look at things the same way again.
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SILENC£D – Tommy Visits The Danish Parliament
#UrbanScoop
https://www.youtube.com/live/K0w__MIS_cQ?feature=share
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Today’s seriously practiced idiocy in Sweden
was already invented 47 years ago.
The Two Ronnies: The Ministry of Sexual Equality
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Nobody in today’s Sweden, neither new nor ‘old’ = ethnic Swedes have knowledge of elementary grammar. They should therefore, in true socialist spirit, be spared any laborious choice situation.
Not to mention gender selection – anything that is not feminist must be unisex – ‘masculine’ and negro do not exist.
Instead of saying grammatically correct
they or them, say thom, i.e. say
‘dom’ instead of ‘de’ or ‘dem’;
Instead of grammatically correct say
he or she, that is ‘han’ or ‘hon’,
say ‘hen’;
‘parents’ must not exist – the new term is ‘vårdnadshavare’ = caretaker.
And so on ad infinitum.
I think I figured out a secret agenda to bud light and Dylan Mulvaney. They put Dylan’s picture on the can so as you drank more, your beer goggles might see a woman. Someone might say something like 6-7 more of these and I’d do’er. Edward Bernays would be proud.
Or this is secretly a campaign to dissuade rednecks and others with no taste from drinking nasty beer.
They forget that Budweiser isn’t the only tasteless beer out there (it’s only the worst of the genre). Perhaps there’s parallel campaigns being planned for Coors, Miller, and Pabst as well. I stopped drinking Heineken long ago when they started agitating for importing more orcs into Europe, and I don’t see the Mexican brands going woke anytime soon.
You could drink a case of that [urinous] water “beer” and go blind Dylan Mulvaney would still look like a large flightless bird prancing around like an idiot in those Bed light adds.