According to leaked Pentagon documents, Britain and the U.S. already have special forces on the ground in Ukraine, contrary to their public statements. Meanwhile, the British general Sir Richard Barrons said that the war in Ukraine may well last for decades.
In other news, French President Emmanuel Macron was shouted down by protesters while giving a speech in The Hague.
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Australians Are Suffering Astonishing Interest Rates as They Come Off Their Fixed Rate Mortgages
The Reserve Bank of Australia is more worried about fixed-rate borrowers than those on a variable rate, and revealed the true number who would have no savings by mid-2024 even if they cut spending.
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IMF Trims Global Growth Outlook as Banking Turmoil Raises Risk of Hard Landing
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its global growth outlook for the year, warning the world economy faces the increased risk of a “hard landing” due to continued fallout from a spate of bank failures, higher interest rates and stubborn inflation.
The Washington-based institution said in its latest World Economic Outlook that global gross domestic product will grow by just 2.8% this year — which represents a 0.1 percentage point decline from its previous forecast in January — before rising to 3% in 2024.
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IMF Unveils Unicoin — A Global CBDC
As opponents of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are getting more vocal in their criticism of this type of digital version of paper money that many countries are either adopting or are close to doing so. This is one of the pillars of financial globalism, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has made its stance very clear.
The IMF’s Spring Meetings this year saw the announcement of the organization’s own, “international central bank digital currency” called the Universal Monetary Unit (UMU, aka Unicoin).
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Italy Cuts GDP Growth Forecast, Stymied by Inflation, Ukraine
The Italian government on Tuesday cut its economic growth forecast for next year, taking into account the negative impact of rising interest rates, the effects of the war in Ukraine and localized crises in the international banking and financial system.
In its Economic and Financial Document, approved by a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the Italian Treasury forecast that gross domestic product will grow by 1.5% in 2024, down from a previous projection of 1.9% made in November.
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Online Grocery Prices Up 10.3 Percent in March as Inflation Continues to Bite
Authored by Bryan Jung via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Online grocery prices continued to rise by double-digits in March, as inflation continues to bite.
Although online grocery prices have eased over the past six months, costs were up 10.3 percent in March from the previous year, according to the Adobe Digital Price Index on April 10.
Adobe analyzed 1 trillion visits to retail sites and more than 100 million items across 18 product categories to track price changes.
There was a 0.4 percent rise in the growth of food prices from February, which had been slowing since their height last September, when they hit a record 14.3 percent year-over-year increase.
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Poll: 70% Feel Financially Stressed in Joe Biden’s America
Seventy percent of Americans feel financially stressed in President Joe Biden’s America, a CNBC Your Money Financial Confidence survey revealed Tuesday.
Inflation, fueled by Biden’s war on American energy, was the main driver of their stress, as 60 percent of respondents pointed to Biden’s inflation as the main reason for financial stress.
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1 Killed, 3 Hurt in Shooting at DC Funeral Home: Police
Mourners had just left a funeral for a homicide victim when the shots went off outside the Stewart Funeral Home in Northeast DC
One man died and three other people were hurt in a shooting Tuesday at a funeral home in Northeast D.C., police say.
A funeral for a homicide victim had just ended at the Stewart Funeral Home in the 4400 block of Benning Road NE about noon when someone shot people who were standing outside, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee said at a news conference.
Contee said an officer who was nearby heard the gunshots and found four adults were shot.
One man died. The three other victims suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, the police chief said.
Several people who were standing in the block after the funeral were apparently targeted, but police don’t yet know why, Contee said.
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A source who viewed the interior vehicle video recording of the brutal murder of a taxi driver in Portland by a trans suspect is providing exclusive details to The Post Millennial.
Moses Jacob Lopez, 30, has been charged with second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon over the stabbing murder of a Radio Cab driver on Easter Sunday in southeast Portland. Six days before the murder, Lopez was arrested and charged with felonies for allegedly threatening a BiMart shopper with a knife in another Oregon county. Lopez was quickly released without bail before making her way to Portland from Coos Bay, Ore.
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Baltimore Mayor Calls for Citywide Curfew After All Hell Breaks Out
All hell broke out on Sunday night in Baltimore City’s Inner Harbor district when gunshots were heard, causing hundreds of spring break youngsters to scatter through the streets. The mayhem, captured on video, resembled an apocalyptic scene. As a result, Mayor Brandon Scott has proposed a citywide curfew for minors during the upcoming summer months.
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Biden White House Played Role in FBI Raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home: Documents
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Documents obtained by America First Legal Foundation (AFLF) suggest that the Biden White House was involved in the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida by way of a “special access request,” calling into question statements by Biden administration officials that the White House did not interfere and did “not get involved.”
Specifically, the AFLF documents call into question the Biden administration’s claim that the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) made a “referral” to the FBI over the purportedly classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence without any involvement from the White House.
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Bragg Sues Jim Jordan to Stop ‘Brazen and Unconstitutional’ Attack on Trump Prosecution
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday sued Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) in an effort to keep House Republicans from asking questions about federal funds used by the city to indict former President Donald Trump.
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California Police Officers’ Security at Risk as LAPD, DA Fail to Protect Identities
Los Angeles cops are struggling in the wake of the mass release of information on thousands of officers, including hundreds who work undercover, which included their names, ethnicities, assignments and photographs.
The information went out in response to a public records request, however, according to the police union, photos of undercover officers should not have been included with the material.
“It’s dicey, very dangerous,” said Betsy Brantner Smith, a longtime police sergeant and the spokesperson for the National Police Association. “The photograph part of it is very concerning.”
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Castro Co. Sheriff: Cattle Lost in Dairy Explosion, One Person in Critical Condition
DIMMITT, Texas — The Castro County Sheriff spoke Tuesday on a dairy explosion that occurred Monday night at South Fork Dairy.
“Last night at 7:21, we had received eight 9-1-1 calls to the Sheriff’s Office concerning this fire here at the South Fork Dairy,” Sheriff Salvador Rivera told our affiliate KAMR. He said he and his deputies as well as multiple other fire departments and agencies responded.
Sheriff Rivera said there were no fatalities at the time. He also said the victim who was sent to University Medical Center in Lubbock had been trapped in the building until fire crews arrived to remove the victim; the victim was in critical condition but was “doing okay.”
“According to the witnesses, there was an explosion that spread into a fire and spread into the building where the dairy cattle are held,” Rivera continued.
Unfortunately, the Sheriff said some dairy cattle were lost in the fire, but at the time it was uncertain just how many.
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The benevolently named Public Good Projects (PGP) describes itself as a public health nonprofit with focus on “large-scale media monitoring programs, social and behavior change interventions.”
A new report is now shedding more light of how the system of censorship and deplatforming of Covid vaccine skeptics worked at the height of the pandemic, including the intricate ties between a number of actors, such as the PGP, and their partners.
One of them is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) non-profit called the CDC Foundation (the CDC itself was established by Congress). Other partners include FDA, Kaiser Permanente, Rockefeller, and Humana, as per the Tennessee Department of Health, which cites these as part of the bio of the PGP CEO, Dr. Joe Smyser.
And the Public Goods Project in the past received funding not from lobbyists for just any corporate players but those strongly interested in stomping out any vaccine hesitancy — namely, vaccine manufacturers like Pfizer and Moderna.
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Coffee Shop Set to Close Downtown Portland Location Due to ‘Extreme Violence’ and ‘Crime’
A coffee chain closed a location in Portland, citing the “extreme” violence and crime that its employees have endured.
Portland was once viewed as a quirky city for artists and creatives on America’s west coast, but as crime and homelessness have spiked, businesses and citizens are fleeing for safer locations.
Coava Coffee Roasters, a local Portland chain declared “with a heavy heart” that it will shut down one of its locations due to lawlessness in the area.
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Concealed Carry Holder Stops Chicago Thief Dead in Tracks
A concealed carry holder in Chicago stopped an attempted burglary of a local business by shooting the thief and sending him to the hospital.
The 18-year-old suspected burglar was shot in the leg, hospitalized, and arrested.
However, he almost got away with it if not for some quick-thinking cops.
The thief picked a business in Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood to break into but his plan backfired when an armed man was inside the closed business.
The man said he heard a sound coming from the building’s back door around midnight Sunday.
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‘Democrat’ Daughter of Music Mogul Criticizes ‘Uber-Left, Liberal Politicians’ in Scathing Retort
Sara Foster, daughter of musician David Foster, continues to slam California politicians following the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee last week in the Bay Area.
During a round of questions and answers with her Instagram followers over the weekend, Foster was asked for her thoughts on her name-making headlines.
She turned the Q&A into a grid post on Tuesday with the caption, “I’ve been told my personality is not for everyone.”
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Don Trump Jr. issued a warning to Democrats and all political donors about what his father would do if he wins a second term in office in 2024.
Speaking on the Full Send podcast, Trump Jr. said his dad, because he could only serve one term if he won in 2024, would not be beholden to donors or outside political influence and could “break sh*t up.”
He said: “You don’t have to try and get reelected again. You can just do everything that you need to do. That’s the difference between Trump and being beholden to your donors, being beholden to the establishment class.
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Freedom of Information Request Reveals More About the CDC Tracking the Unvaccinated
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that new medical codes for COVID-19 vaccination status are used to track users. The agency confirmed the use of the codes to track people in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by The Epoch Times.
The new International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes, which were introduced in April 2022, are aimed at tracking people who are partially vaccinated and those who are not vaccinated. The CDC, which introduced the codes, says it does not track people but that health care systems do track people.
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Greenwald: Nashville Shooting Has Been Erased From Memory Due to Inconvenient Narrative
Journalist Glenn Greenwald noted Monday that the Nashville shooting, which occurred less than three weeks ago, has already been “erased from memory” because it was perpetrated by a trans individual and represents an “inconvenient narrative”.
Appearing on SiriusXM with Megyn Kelly, Greenwald succinctly noted how Kamala Harris and others within the Biden administration have attempted to sweep the school shooting, in which three children lost their lives, under the rug.
“This Nashville shooting has been erased from memory even though it happened very recently because it’s such an inconvenient narrative given that the shooter was not just someone who was trans but very possibly acted on behalf of this radical ideology,” Greenwald told Kelly.
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House Republicans Plan Hearing on COVID-19 Origins Intelligence
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold a hearing next week to address intelligence related to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The origination of COVID-19 is not only a public health issue but also a question of national security,” Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, said in a press release. “Examining the intelligence behind where and how this virus began will help our country prepare for future national security threats and hold China accountable for its role in this crisis.”
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Hunter Biden’s Business Associates Visited White House Over 80 Times While Dad Was VP
New evidence has emerged to reveal that several of Hunter Biden’s shady business associates visited Obama’s White House over 80 times while Joe Biden was vice president.
Visitor logs show that four business partners, a vice president, and two assistants at Hunter Biden’s now-defunct firm were frequent guests at the White House.
The discovery comes despite President Biden repeatedly insisting that he has no knowledge of his son’s business dealings.
The president has continued the denials amid dual criminal and congressional investigations into the first son and his family.
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Indiana Mail-in Voting Crackdown Headed to Governor’s Desk
Indiana lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to a Republican-backed proposal that would require voters to submit more identification information to obtain mail-in ballots, rejecting arguments that the tougher rules would make voting more difficult for many people.
Indiana House members voted 64-30 along party lines in favor of the bill previously endorsed by the Senate. The vote sends the bill to Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb for his consideration.
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Joe Biden ‘Jokes’ About Seeking Unconstitutional Third Term
Joe Biden ‘joked’ about seeking what would be an unconstitutional third term during an appearance at the annual White House Easter egg roll.
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Jordan Fires Back at Bragg Lawsuit: He Used Fed Funds to Indict Trump for ‘No Crime’
New York County Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg is the true obstructionist, House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Tuesday after being named the defendant in a suit brought by the Soros-backed prosecutor.
Bragg alleged Jordan is violating the Constitution in an attempt by a federal official to interfere in or undermine a municipal legal case — after Jordan sought to have former Bragg associate Mark Pomerantz testify before his committee.
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Kyle Rittenhouse Unloads on Soros-Backed Prosecutors’ ‘Double Standard’ for Self-Defense
Kyle Rittenhouse called out Soros-backed Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza for charging Sgt. Daniel Perry with murder for shooting an armed Black Lives Matter protester.
Rittenhouse, who defended himself against Black Lives Matter rioters and was acquitted of murder charges, joined “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Monday to discuss how the case parallels to his experience and pointed out the double standard for self-defense.
Rittenhouse stressed that Garrett Foster was armed with a rifle and Perry maintained that he fired when Foster pointed the gun at his vehicle during a nighttime protest in Austin.
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LA, Chicago, New York Counties Saw Greatest Population Losses in US in 2022
More Americans fled the counties that are home to the Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City metros than anywhere else in the U.S. last year, while counties in Arizona, Texas and Florida saw the greatest gains in population, according to new data.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported that California’s Los Angeles County topped the list of counties in numeric decline in 2022, with more than 90,000 residents fleeing after losing some 180,000 people the year before.
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Leaked Documents May Have Origin in Chatroom for Gamers
WASHINGTON (AP) — A major leak of classified U.S. documents that´s shaken Washington and exposed new details of its intelligence gathering may have started…
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Maricopa County Report Identifies Glaring Election Errors as Lake, Finchem Challenges Continue
While Maricopa County released a report on the election failures of the 2022 elections, Arizona election lawsuits continue as 2022 GOP nominees Kari Lake and Mark Finchem file motions for reconsideration in their respective races for governor and secretary of state.
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Melania Trump broke her silence Tuesday and told the media to go pound sand over assumptions about her stance on personal and political matters surrounding President Donald Trump.
The former first lady blasted the corporate media for continuously citing “unnamed sources” in reports designed to smear her and her family.
Mrs. Trump warned her supporters to err on the side of caution regarding reports that make assumptions about her.
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Musk Folds Twitter Into “X Corp” , Fueling Speculation Over ‘Everything App’
While there’s been no official announcement, Twitter owner Elon Musk has folded the social media giant into a newly formed shell company called “X Corp,” fueling speculation that he’s going to integrate his $44 billion acquisition into an “everything app” that could — similar to China’s WeChat, include everything from payment processing, to booking events, to messaging.
Early Tuesday morning, Musk tweeted “X” — in what Bloomberg assumed was a direct reference to the move.
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NYC Mayor Adams, NYPD Reintroduce Robotic Dogs Despite Previous Backlash, Security Concerns
The New York Police Department is reenlisting robots to fight crime, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday. The NYPD experimented with robot policing in 2021, but faced considerable backlash from residents and activists concerned with profiling in minority and underprivileged communities as well as saying the technology is dystopian.
“The prior administration didn’t have a mayor that was a computer geek and that was willing to go where others are not willing to go to keep the city safe,” the New York mayor said in a press conference Tuesday in Times Square. “I made it clear on the campaign trail, I am going to use technology with transparency to keep this city safe. And others just weren’t willing to do that, and I am.”
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Report: Portland Police Held Back Details of Brutal Murder Because Suspect is Trans
Police in Portland deliberately delayed releasing details surrounding the brutal murder of a cab driver on Easter Sunday because the suspect is a trans individual with a history of threatening behavior, according to a report by journalist Andy Ngo.
The driver was found by police stabbed to death on Sunday evening in the Buckman Neighborhood, with Radio City Cab confirming the victim was a long-time employee with an impeccable record.
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Trump More Than Doubles DeSantis in Battle for GOP Nomination: Poll
Former President Donald Trump enjoys a commanding lead over his declared and prospective rivals for the Republican primary in the wake of his indictment in New York.
The former president claimed 56% among potential Republican primary voters in the latest Morning Consult survey. Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has not officially announced his candidacy, trailed with 23% support. The current, 33-point lead marks Trump’s largest lead in that survey this election cycle.
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Trump: I Don’t Think Biden Can Run in 2024 — ‘There’s Something Wrong’
Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that President Joe Biden will not run in 2024 because “there’s something wrong” with him.
Host Tucker Carlson asked, “Do you think Biden will stay in the race?”
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Advertising executives from major corporations including McDonald’s and Colgate-Palmolive expressed concerns that Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s free speech absolutism is “perpetuating racism,” according to emails reported by Semafor.
In a leaked email thread, North American members of MMA Global’s board of directors discussed Musk’s scheduled appearance at the digital marketing association’s Possible conference on April 18. NBC Universal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino will interview Musk as he attempts to woo back advertisers who fled Twitter in the wake of his $44 billion takeover of the platform.
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Two-Factor Pioneer Looks Toward Using AI to Identify Individuals
Telesign, the company that’s had a big role in two-factor identification (2FA) is now looking to move to developing accurate global digital identity solutions using “AI.”
Telesign CEO Joe Burton revealed that he believes it can be powered by what a report refers to as “fuzzy AI” — at the intersection of “AI” and statistical analysis.
Speaking for TechRepublic, Burton appears to suggest that this is meant to carve up a more sizable market share for Telesign, which, despite its 2FA claim to fame, makes incomparably less money from that tech than the likes of OpenID, LastPass, etc.
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Videos: Biden Gets Lost at Easter Egg Roll, Gibbers Nonsense When Asked if Running in 2024
It’s addictive watching Joe Biden getting lost everyday on stage and having to be directed where to walk by his handlers, but its extra special when he’s flanked by the Easter bunny.
After speaking to a crowd on the South Lawn of the White House, Biden was caught on a hot mic asking his wife “We walk off?” to which she replied in the affirmative.
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Walmart Closing 4 Chicago Stores, Blaming Millions in Annual Losses
Walmart has announced Tuesday that it is closing four of its Chicago stores because they are part of a group of locations that “lose tens of millions of dollars a year.”
The retail giant says the Chatham Supercenter, the Walmart Health center, and the Walmart Academy at 8431 S. Stewart Ave., the Kenwood Neighborhood Market at 4720 S. Cottage Grove Ave., the Lakeview Neighborhood Market at 2844 N. Broadway St. and the Little Village Neighborhood Market at 2551 W. Cermak Road will shutter this upcoming Sunday.
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John Kirby says top secret Ukraine files ‘has no business’ in the newspaper or TV after massive breach
The White House admitted Monday it does not know whether more Pentagon documents about the U.S.’s secret foreign operations will leak.
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Whole Foods in San Francisco Closing One Year After Opening Due to Safety Concerns: Report
Whole Foods Market announced that a store in downtown San Francisco, will be closed after Monday, just over a year after the store first opened, because of crime in the city, according to a report.
The grocery store chain said the Whole Foods located at Eighth and Market streets will be closed temporarily as it deals with crime near the store that impacted its workers’ safety.
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Woman Demands Reparations From Target, Charges Security Staff, Gets Knocked Out & Arrested
A video has surfaced of an Ohio woman demanding reparations from a Target before charging at security staff when her demands were not met.
Video footage shows the suspect, Karen Ivery, getting knocked out when she aggressively menaced store employees after she was denied.
Ivery rolled her cart up to a Target cashier with around $1,000 worth of goods.
She didn’t have enough money and demanded Target pay the balance of her bill, claiming she was owed reparations.
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Entire Board, CEO of Trudeau Foundation Resigns Amid Chinese Donation Scandal
The board of directors for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has resigned due to the “politicization” of a 2016 donation that was allegedly orchestrated by the Chinese government.
In a statement posted on the foundation’s website, President and CEO Pascale Fournier and the board jointly announced their decision to step aside, citing the pressure they faced in recent weeks. The statement explained that “the circumstances created by the politicization of the foundation had made it impossible to continue with the status quo,” leading to the resignations.
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Leaked U.S. Intelligence Suggests Canadian Pipelines Targeted by Russian Hackers
By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com
A leaked package of intelligence information from the Pentagon has suggested that Canada’s natural gas pipeline network may have been targeted by Russia-linked hackers, the Canadian Press has reported.
According to the leaked documents, the hackers claimed to have gained access to the country’s gas distribution network. There was no information about any damage done.
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Poilievre Urges Twitter to Label CBC as Government-Funded Media
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Twitter to list all accounts owned by the CBC as being government-funded media.
“I believe that Twitter should apply the Government-funded Media label to the CBC’s various news-related accounts, including @CBC, @CBCNews and @CBCAlerts,” wrote Poilievre in a letter addressed to the tech giant.
“Twitter’s Platform Use Guidelines refer to a source that describes the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (the “CBC”) as a publicly-funded broadcaster.”
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Prairie Provinces Sign MOU to Boost Economic Growth in Western Canada
Alberta has signed a memorandum of understanding with Manitoba and Saskatchewan to collaborate on joint economic corridors projects to boost economic growth in Western Canada.
Transportation ministers from the three provinces announced the agreement from Edmonton on Tuesday morning.
Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors Minister Devin Dreeshen said the announcement takes existing agreements “to the next level.”
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Trudeau Gets Ridiculed for Suggesting Canadians Use Credit Cards to Make Large Purchases
At a time when Canadians are in more debt than ever and while interest rates are at record highs, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau advised Canadians to use their credit cards to make large purchases in order to grow the economy.
Trudeau faced a fury of criticism online after he made those comments at a townhall in Moncton, New Brunswick over the weekend.
At the townhall, the prime minister explained how borrowing money as a government is similar to using a credit card and suggested Canadians use their credit cards to pay for their tuition and home renovations.
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Donald Tusk Will Not Avoid Being Tied to Corruption Scandal, Warns Polish MEP
Poland’s liberal opposition leader, Donald Tusk, is under tremendous pressure as a Belgian police investigation regarding corruption ramps up, said former Polish labor minister and MEP for the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS), Elzbieta Rafalska.
Rafalska said the Civic Platform (PO), the main Polish opposition party led by Tusk, has decided to cancel a planned session of the European People’s Party (EPP) in Poland. This action shows that the grouping is seriously concerned about the evolving corruption scandal, which recently saw the EPP offices searched by Belgian police.
According to Rafalska, Polish opposition politicians are concerned that the affair could affect Tusk and the party he leads in Poland. This, Rafalska feels, is inevitable given the fact that the police investigation covers the period when Tusk was the leader of the party.
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EU Nations Quarrel About 1 Million Artillery Shells Promised to Ukraine
A few weeks ago, the European Union was quick to prepare a solution on the growing ammunition shortage in Ukraine. Under the decision of the member states, the European Peace Facility, which is now directed towards war, will be swelled by 2 billion euros to fund two separate plans, the main aim being to send 1 million rounds of ammunition to Kyiv over the next 12 months.
It should be noted that while Hungary will pay into the fund, the country wishes to exercise its right of constructive abstention.
There was a compelling reason for the mad rush. Ukrainian arms stocks are dwindling, and Western supplies cannot replace artillery shells as fast as the Ukrainian army is using them up.
The biggest problem is the 155 mm rounds, which have proven the most effective so far in what is now clearly an artillery war. However, production capacity is very tight (Ukraine shoots the annual U.S. production volume in a month), and a problem has emerged that significantly reduces potential quantities: Arms manufacturers would insist on long-term contracts because of the huge investment risk, which governments in the U.S. and the EU are reluctant to sign.
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On Friday, the agriculture ministers of Poland and Ukraine reached a preliminary agreement on resolving the grain crisis. However, representatives of the protesting farmers do not intend to end the protest.
“Nothing changes,” said Wladyslaw Serafin, president of the Agricultural Circles Association, during an interview with RMF FM commercial radio. “We will not back down in Szczecin, Warsaw, or any other region, if the government does not postpone specific documents and regulations by April 15. We are not interested in political schemes and declarations. We will organize protests and blockades in every region,” he added.
As announced, a three-day protest is scheduled to begin at the Dorohusk border crossing on Wednesday, April 12. Farmers want to block the flow of goods from Ukraine to Poland.
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Protestors Disrupt President Macron’s Speech in the Hague
Demonstrators disrupted French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech on Tuesday in The Hague. Several protesters shouted at him from the balcony, while holding unfurled banners. On one, Macron was described as the “president of violence and hypocrisy.” The demonstrators referred to the ongoing large-scale protests in France in response to a controversial law extending the retirement age from 62 to 64 that Macron pushed through last month without a vote by the National Assembly.
Macron had only just begun his speech on the future of Europe as part of his state visit to the Netherlands when he was interrupted by a man in the audience, saying, “Sorry to interrupt you, Mr. President.” He was applauded by two women elsewhere in the audience.
“Where has French democracy gone?” cried out one of them. Macron listened to them and tried to deliver a response, but the protesters shouted him down.
“I can answer this question if you give me the time,” he told the protesters.
After about 30 seconds, the three activists were removed from the Amare concert hall. One of the women resisted her removal, and left screaming loudly.
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Ryanair CEO Slams Hungary’s Plan to Nationalize Budapest Airport
The outspoken CEO of Europe’s largest budget airline, Michael O’Leary, lashed out at the Hungarian government for its plans to nationalize the Budapest airport, news and opinion portal Mandiner reports.
In a cover story interview with the Hungarian edition of Forbes magazine, O’Leary said governments are notoriously poor owners of airlines and airports.
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UK: Conservatives to Time Tax Cuts for Maximum Benefit in 2024 General Election: Report
The UK government is planning to time badly-needed-now tax cuts and wage rises to give the maximum feeling of uplift at the next general election, which it is claimed will take place next Autumn.
While the government has until January 2025 until a general election must be called, politicians are generally wary of winter votes and Conservative party insiders speaking to establishment-adjacent newspaper The Times say rumours of an early Spring election are not correct and a Fall-Autumn election in 2024 is more in chime with the ruling Conservative Party’s thinking.
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EXCLUSIVE: Pub landlord Chris Ryley, who is at the centre of a row over golliwogs, has denied that he is racist after he faced a social media backlash over a string of historic Facebook posts.
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UK: Tens of Thousands of Doctors Walk Off Job for Four-Day Strike Over Pay
LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of doctors walked off the job across England on Tuesday, kicking off a four-day strike billed as the most disruptive in the history of the U.K.’s public health service.
The walkout by junior doctors, who form the backbone of hospital and clinic care in the National Health Service, is due to last until 7 a.m. on Saturday.
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Caroline Glick: Netanyahu Speaks to the Generals
The Israeli public reasonably expected a dramatic announcement was coming when the Prime Minister’s Bureau announced Monday afternoon that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would give a prime-time press conference that evening from the Prime Minister’s Office at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv rather than the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Over the past several days, Israel has found itself in the midst of a simultaneous and coordinated assault. It has suffered terror attacks countrywide and rocket volleys from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.
And Iran is on the cusp of independent military nuclear capabilities.
On its face, though, Netanyahu’s press conference did not provide the expected drama. His rendering of the situation was minimalist and descriptive, rather than analytic or thematic. He noted Iran in passing. He described with near antiseptic spareness the retaliatory attacks Israel has carried out against rocket stores and other military infrastructure in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, and its counterterror operations in Judea and Samaria. He praised the IDF and Israel’s other security services. Netanyahu did not gather the public in front of their television sets at 8:15 in the evening to declare war.
So why did Netanyahu do it?
To understand his purpose, and why despite the absence of any major statement, Netanyahu’s press conference was a dramatic event, it has to be viewed in the context of news that hit Israel like a thunderclap the day before…
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AI Generated Newsreader Debuts in Kuwait
An AI generated newsreader has been revealed by a media outlet in Kuwait.
Kuwait News posted a video to their Twitter account over the weekend showing the computerised anchor introducing “herself” as “Fedha”.
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British General Says Ukraine War Could Last for ‘Decades’
General Sir Richard Barrons is a former commander of the British Joint Forces Command and is now chairman of the defense and security company, Universal Defense & Security Solutions.
He spoke to RFE/RL’s Georgian Service about the constraints on both sides of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the importance of industrial transformation in a drawn-out conflict, and offered a bleak forecast for the course of the war.
RFE/RL: What have we learned after one year of warfare in Ukraine? And where are we now?
Sir Richard Barrons: There are some lessons at a very high level, particularly for Europe. And the first of those is that we haven’t somehow grown out of fighting in a way that some people wanted to believe at the end of the Cold War in 1990. And we’re being reminded by the war in Ukraine that war is part of the human existence. And even if you would prefer it was not so, there is no guaranteed immunity from it. And as [Prussian] General von Clausewitz says, “You may not choose war, but war can choose you.” And when it occurs, it is the same brutal, feral, dangerous, usually disappointing business it has been for millennia. And yet, at least once a generation, we feel the need to reacquaint ourselves with that thought.
And the second thing it has reminded us [of] is that big wars — and the war in Ukraine is a big war — are fought, won, and lost by civilians, as the war becomes not something that is just conducted by the professional, regular armed forces in the way Western armies principally took part in Iraq and Afghanistan and Balkan interventions in the 1990s. These big wars, where the survival of the state is at stake, which is the case in Ukraine, are fought by citizens who are mobilized and industry that is mobilized. And you can see that actually now, on both sides, in this war in Ukraine, that it’s being fought by Ukrainian citizens who a year ago, in many cases less than a year ago, were teachers, nurses, mechanics, whatever; and increasingly, on the Russian side, the manpower is being mobilized from civil society. So again, people who were not professional soldiers.
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Leaked War Document Says U.S. and NATO Have Special Forces in Ukraine
Biden’s promise not to put “boots on the ground” in Ukraine was a lie, according to a leaked document from the Pentagon.
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Over 1 Million Young Russians Left Workforce as Putin Focused on Ukraine Conflict: Report
Russia may have lost as many as 1.3 million young workers since the start of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a new report.
The Finexpertiza consulting firm released its findings after analyzing official statistics, reporting that working citizens under the age of 35 in Russia fell by 1.33 million people between December 2021 and December 2022, marking the lowest share since the start of data collection in 2006.
Young workers make up only 21.5 million out of the total 72.1 million workforce — a startling figure when Russia has also reported a record low unemployment rate.
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Russia Using Space Weapons in Ukraine: US General
Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times
Russia is using space weapons in the Ukraine war by jamming GPS signals from American GPS satellites used by Ukraine’s armed forces, according to a leading general in the U.S. Space Force…
However, Russia has stopped short of attempting to destroy space hardware, in part because its space capabilities are not fully developed and could not sustain a conflict with a major power, one expert believes.
Russia has Earth-based lasers capable of attacking satellites, electronic jamming equipment, and anti-satellite missiles, according to Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force.
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Ukraine Resumes Electricity Exports Despite Russian Attacks
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine began resuming electricity exports to European countries on Tuesday, its energy minister said, a dramatic turnaround from six months ago when fierce Russian bombardment of power stations plunged much of the country into darkness in a bid to demoralize the population.
The announcement by Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko that Ukraine was not only meeting domestic consumption demands but also ready to restart exports to its neighbors was a clear message that Moscow’s attempt to weaken Ukraine by targeting its infrastructure did not work.
Ukraine’s domestic energy demand is “100%” supplied, he told The Associated Press in an interview, and it has reserves to export due to the “titanic work” of its engineers and international partners.
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After 14 months Hindu girl Meena Kolhi returned home to Khipro Sanghar after being forcefully converted-married-and-gang-raped by Muslim criminals and police.
Ranjeet Rana | HENB | Karachi | April 11, 2023:: A few days ago, the kidnapped Hindu girl Meena Kolhi reached her home at Khipro Sanghar in Sindh after 14 months. In a video uploaded by Narain Bheel of the ‘Hindus Organisation of Sindh’, it is seen that the victim is narrating her ordeal that she was abducted within three days after her marriage and forcefully converted to Islam. Then she was married to one of her abductors Iqbal Bambhro. But the matter was not ended in such a condition, she was kept captive for fourteen months when she was being gang-raped day and night. All these were done Islamically by peaceful Muslims.
In the video, Meena told: After 3 days of my marriage, when I came to my parent’s house, one Iqbal Bambhro took me to the court by blackmailing me and told me to convert to Islam, or else he will shoot me.
When the interviewer asked Meena, Had you accepted Islam out of your own happiness? Meena replied:
No, I did not accept of my own free will, I was threatened and threatened to be shot. When I was married to a man Iqbal Bhanbhro, other people used to rape me.
Meena took the names of 5 _6 people who used to rape regularly including Mustaq and Razzak.
Telling her ordeal, Meena added: I was kept locked in a room for 14 months. As soon as I got a chance, I ran away from there and came to my parent’s house. Those people harassed me during the day and the police harassed me at night.
When asked how she came to her parents, Meena replied: My parents have not brought me, I have come here on my own.
It is not the case for Meena, hundreds of minority Hindu girls and women are abducted in Sindh in Pakistan at gunpoint and forcefully converted, married, and raped by the friends and family members of the Muslim abductors.
Taking his Twitter handle, for the last couple of days, Narain Das Bheel uploaded many videos in which the pathetic conditions of Hindu minorities of Pakistan clearly made a severe shock for the people concerned for the minority rights in Pakistan.
Narian Das conveyed: *Justice could not be served to the Daya Bheel…….* Face, hair, and body blood samples could not match those of all the accused. It is noted that only relatives of Daya Bheel were arrested to save the real culprits.
Daya Bheel was murdered and beheaded by Muslim culprits in December last year. The accused are freed but police and investigation agencies kept their lip tightened to say something to apprehend the murderer(s) of Daya Bheel.
On April 10, Narain Das reported through tweeter that Hindu Woman Kimi Kohli daughter of Prabhu Kohli has been forcibly married to Abdul Qadir Jamaili, and converted to Islam in Odero Lal Village, Matiari, Sindh…
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called the rise of vaping in Australia ‘completely unacceptable’ as the younger nicotine users turn to e-cigarettes rather than traditional tobacco products.
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Police raided the illicit crop, which was being grown by a suspected criminal tobacco syndicate on a property in Murga, roughly 55km east of Parkes, last Wednesday.
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The man, from Eagle Vale in Sydney’s southwest, specified that renters who applied for the square of grass in his backyard would have to pay $130 a week and provide their own ‘tent or small shed’.
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Australia’s number one Putin supporter has done ‘a Julian Assange’ and is hiding in Sydney’s Russian Consulate to avoid prison.
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Shocking footage of students being kicked, pushed to the ground and stomped on has surfaced on a notorious Instagram page as a violent ‘fight club’ erupts at a string of Melbourne high schools.
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Sky News Australia Removes Itself From ‘Spy Network’ TikTok
Authored by Nina Nguyen via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Right-leaning news channel Sky News Australia has announced that it would discontinue publishing to the popular Chinese app TikTok in an effort to protect its reporters and audiences from security risks.
Sky called TikTok a “spy network masquerading as a social media platform,” saying the risks of being on TikTok are “far too great for any serious news publisher to ignore” while the gains are “negligible at best.”
The media also criticised other outlets and journalists who reported the platform’s use as a tool for soft power and foreign interference, then later jumped on TikTok themselves. Sky News described TikTok as a “vanity exercise” for media companies who deemed “arbitrary viewership figures” more important than the fact that they “cannot be monetised in any meaningful way.”
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Sydneysider Sean revealed he and his roommate were forced to find a new place after his landlord decided to hike the price of their apartment in the middle of Australia’s devastating rental crisis.
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Hamdi Alqudsi, 48, was last year found guilty by a jury of directing the activities of a terrorist organisation called ‘Shura’ over a five-month period in 2014.
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The defense lawyer of an Afghan migrant accused of stabbing a woman to death in Ireland last week has claimed his client should be given bail as the prison service may not adequately accommodate his religious needs during Ramadan.
Habib Shamel, a 26-year-old who arrived in Dublin from Afghanistan in October 2020 and claimed asylum, appeared before Belfast Magistrates’ Court on Saturday after being charged with the murder of Geila Ibram, a 27-year-old Romanian national.
The court heard how the victim’s mutilated body was found at an apartment building in the Irish city of Limerick on Tuesday. She died from multiple stab wounds during what police say was a “vicious and frenzied attack.”
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Italy Threatens Border Checks With Slovenia Over Refusal to Readmit Migrants
The Italian government will be left with no option but to reinstall strict border controls if Slovenia continues to refuse readmission of migrants who enter Italy, deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini has warned.
Speaking on Tuesday, the leader of the anti-immigration League party, one of Italy’s governing coalition partners, insisted its northeastern neighbor is failing to adhere to previous agreements between Italy and Slovenia over the re-acceptance of migrants crossing the border illegally, and warned that Italy will soon have no choice but to reinstall border checkpoints.
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Migrant Boat With 400 People Aboard is Adrift in Mediterranean, Taking on Water
On Sunday, a distress alert was issued that a ship from North Africa with 400 migrants on board was drifting out of control between Malta and Greece. It is reported the ship must have sprung a leak, as there are reports the ship is taking on water. The barge set sail from Tobruk in Libya and is currently in Maltese waters, according to EurActiv.
The German NGO SeaWatch has located the stranded barge with the help of two merchant ships. The Maltese authorities have instructed the two civilian vessels to only provide fuel to the vessel and not to carry out any rescue operations or take people on board.
NGOs have reported that many of the migrants on board the barge are panicking, as the ship’s fuel has completely run out, the lower deck is full of water, the captain has abandoned the boat, and there is no one to steer the vessel.
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Over 1000 migrants crossed the English Channel on small boats last week with the government’s new Immigration Bill currently powerless to slow the numbers.
Last week, 1,056 people made the crossing with 180 crossing in four boats of 45 each on Easter Sunday alone.
The numbers make a mockery of the government’s new shift towards deportation and migrant detention centres based in army bases with the number crossing last week enough to fill the Home Office’s controversial floating barge in Dorset twice.
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Support for Mass Immigration Among French Left Has Plummeted in Last 5 Years
The number of those on the left of French politics who believe the level of immigration into the country is too high has almost doubled in the last four years, according to a new study.
An in-depth survey, conducted by French research and consulting group, BVA France, observed a hardening on the topic of immigration across the French public when compared with the same study conducted in 2018.
Nearly seven out of ten French people (69 percent) believe “there are too many immigrants in France today,” a view that has seen an increase in support by six points compared to the 2018 study. However, when analyzing the attitude of those who affiliate with left-leaning political parties, this statement is supported by 48 percent, up 21 points in just five years.
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$4 Billion Wiped From Anheuser-Busch’s Value Amid Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney Backlash
Brewing company Anheuser-Busch has seen a staggering $4 billion wiped from its value amid the backlash over Bud Light’s new ad campaign featuring transgender Dylan Mulvaney.
The beermaker has suffered a bloodbath in sales over the controversy that has seen music stars, sports fans, bars, liquor stores, and events boycotting its products.
Consumers nationwide have been revolting against the nation’s top-selling beer brand after it stepped “recklessly” into the culture wars last week, according to bar owners and beer-industry experts around the country.
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As the parent company of Bud Light is seeing sales drop after stepping into a culture war, one conservative activist and commentator explained the marketing move may not have been intended to please customers.
“What stands is the fact that there is so much money that is being pushed into things like this because corporate America is so woke,” STOPWOKE founder Rob Smith said on “Varney & Co.” Tuesday. “And so what we have to do is, we have to cut the beast off by its head and sort of target all of those funds that are going to this.”
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Shame on Nike, Bud, Olay and other brands for buying into this madness
DAN WOOTTON:I absolutely believe trans people should be able to live happy and fulfilling lives, but not at the expense of women (I refuse to refer to them as biological or cis gendered).
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Federal Judge Rules Against Two Teachers Who Sued School District Over Mandatory Diversity Training
A federal judge on March 31 ruled against two teachers who challenged Springfield Public Schools’ [SPS] mandatory anti-racist training.
Two educators in Springfield, Missouri, Brooke Henderson and Jennifer Lumley filed the first-in-the-nation lawsuit in August 2021 against a mandatory district-wide “anti-racism” training that occurred the prior year, alleging that the school district compelled their speech and acted out viewpoint discrimination.
Henderson and Lumley also alleged that district employees were required to complete the training or lose pay and that they were required to commit to equity and being “anti-racist educators” as a result of the training.
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Turns out the Bud Light farce was a deliberate policy dreamt up by an executive girl boss to jettison the company’s existing customer base because it wasn’t diverse enough.
Genius.
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The new Super Mario Bros Movie raked in a record breaking $377 million dollars despite the two lead stars being… gasp …two white men!
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Performing Arts School in England Criticized Over £11,000 Master’s Degree in ‘Queer Performance’
A renowned performing arts college in England has garnered criticism for offering a master’s degree in “Queer Performance.”
Rose Bruford College (RBC), whose alumni include Gary Oldman and Tom Baker, will offer the 15-month course starting in September 2023, which will cost £11,000 for UK students and over $22,000 for international students.
The MA course described as “the first of its kind worldwide” is aimed at “training students to create, explore, examine and expand queer performance practice.”
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‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Producer Wants to Take the Show Global; to Russia, Iran
Fenton Bailey, whose company World of Wonder produces RuPaul’s Drag Race, wants to take the LGBTQ-themed show global.
Speaking with iNews, Bailey talked about about the conservative opposition to transgender radicalism and drag shows for children, likening them to school bullies aiming to pick on the weak.
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Woke AI Means the End of a Free Internet
by Daniel Greenfield
Big Tech has a great big dream of destroying the internet. And it’s mostly a reality.
The vision of the internet was an open universe while Big Tech’s vision is the internet reduced to the feed on a few proprietary apps preloaded on your locked phone. Trying to censor the internet of the 90s or the 00s was a laughable proposition, but censoring today’s internet is laughably easy. Want to eliminate a site from the internet? Just wipe it from Google, ban a point of view from Facebook, a book from Amazon, or a video from YouTube. It’s still possible to browse a site off the Big Tech reservation, for now, at least until your browser goes away.
Then content will be limited to the permitted apps on Google and Apple’s proprietary app stores. But Big Tech has even more ambitious plans to replace the internet with itself.
Big Tech has dramatically simplified the user experience off the internet. It did so by moving users from ‘pulling’ content by browsing the internet to ‘pushing’ content at them by displaying a feed. When your computer or phone shows you a news feed you never wanted, that’s ‘pushing’. Big Tech loved pushing, but people resisted it until the arrival of social media reduced everyone to scrolling down a feed selected by secret algorithms and pushed through a proprietary app.
Search, as we used to know it, has been disappearing. People still think that they’re searching the internet the way that they used to in the 90s and the 00s when what they’re actually doing when ‘googling’ is scrolling through a feed derived from a much smaller index of corporate and leftist sites prioritized by Google’s algorithm. In the past, it was possible to get past them by scrolling through page results but that is increasingly becoming meaningless or impossible…
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“…British general Sir Richard Barrons said that the war in Ukraine may well last for decades…”
The Russians and the Ukrainians (formerly known as Russians, Poles, etc.) have already been going at, on-and-off, for the past 200+ years, so, what’s another few decades?
But not for Europe. It may be the second 30-years war after 1618-1648.