A migrant from Ivory Coast was arrested in Germany when he crossed the border from Belgium driving a truck carrying a load of fried bats. He was in Europe illegally with no documents, and was driving without a license.
A young man named Jack Teixeira was arrested by federal agents for allegedly releasing classified Pentagon documents about the war in Ukraine and other intelligence matters. Mr. Teixeira is a member of the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.
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As DeSantis Takes on Woke Universities, Key Supporter Gives Harvard $300 Million
Even as Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to galvanize conservatives with his efforts to combat woke political indoctrination in public schools and universities, his largest donor last election cycle is making headlines for a colossal donation to Harvard University.
Harvard announced this week that hedge fund billionaire and GOP megadonor Ken Griffin had donated $300 million to the school’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The university, in turn, intends to rename its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences after him. A graduate of Harvard, Griffin is the CEO of Citadel investing firm.
The fabulously wealthy Ivy League university is one of the nation’s elite educational institutions, but has also earned notoriety for the extent to which woke social causes and ideologies have permeated its instruction and admissions policies.
The university termed Griffin’s donation an “unrestricted gift,” indicating that he imposed no conditions on how the school may use the funds.
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Biden Administration is Sued, Accused of Pressuring Twitter to Censor Journalist Alex Berenson
Independent journalist Alex Berenson has filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden, a Pfizer board member, and others for pressuring Twitter to ban his account.
His account was banned after posting a tweet questioning COVID-19 vaccines.
Initially, Twitter resisted the calls to ban Berenson. However, eventually the social media platform caved to the pressure.
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Cash App Founder Bob Lee’s Alleged Killer Was Fellow Tech Executive: Reports
A fellow figure in the technology industry has been arrested in tech mogul Bob Lee’s stabbing death, according to multiple reports.
Mission Local first reported the arrest, saying police were dispatched with an arrest warrant Thursday morning for a man in Emeryville who Lee apparently knew named Nima Momeni.
Momeni is the name of a man who owns a company called Expand IT, Mission Local added.
San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin also confirmed that an arrest had been made, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Embattled Soros-Backed Prosecutor, Facing Missouri AG Effort to Oust Her, Now Gets 2024 Challenger
The George Soros-bankrolled prosecutor in St. Louis who’s facing a legal effort by Missouri’s attorney general to fire her for allegedly neglecting her duties now has another hurdle to overcome: A challenger for next year’s election who similarly claims the incumbent isn’t doing her job.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner is in a legal fight to hold onto her position as Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey seeks to fire her, claiming the prosecutor isn’t enforcing the law and protecting public safety.
With Gardner under mounting pressure, criminal defense attorney David Mueller announced this week that he’ll run for St. Louis circuit attorney, making him the first person to challenge the Soros-backed incumbent.
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Exclusive: Trump Releases Video Ripping ‘Weaponization’ of US Justice System
Former President Donald Trump will release a video Thursday slamming the “weaponization” of the U.S. justice system, the Daily Caller has learned.
“There is no more dire threat to the American way of life than the corruption and weaponization of our justice system. And it’s happening all around us. If we cannot restore the fair and impartial rule of law, we will not be a free country. As President, it will be my personal mission to restore the scales of justice in America. We want fairness and equality under the law. And to that end, I will appoint US attorneys, who will be the polar opposite of the Soros, district attorneys and others that are being appointed throughout the United States, very unfair to our population very unfair to our country. They will be the 100 most ferocious legal warriors against crime and communist corruption that this country has ever seen. As we completely overhaul the Federal Department of Justice and FBI, we will also launch sweeping civil rights investigations into boxes, local district attorneys, and that’s why we have. They are Marxists in many cases.,” Trump said in the video.
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Ex-Obama Staffer Spills Beans on Joe Biden
A former Obama administration staffer blew the whistle on President Joe Biden and his son Hunter regarding the Biden family business, trading access for cash.
Mike McCormick was a stenographer for the White House for 15 years. Mike said on Fox News: “In February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website. If you do that, and you’re lying to them, you go to jail. I’m not lying. I’m telling the truth, and I’m not going to jail.
“Joe Biden is a criminal. He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family. Jake Sullivan is a conspirator in that, and there’s more Obama officials involved in it, I believe.”
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Fellow Tech Executive Arrested in Stabbing Death of Cash App Founder Bob Lee
A tech executive named Nima Momeni was arrested by San Francisco police Thursday morning in the April 4 killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee, after conducting an operation outside the city’s borders, Mission Local reports.
Momeni, the owner of Expand IT, was arrested in Emeryville, located roughly 11 miles from San Francisco across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The two men reportedly knew each other.
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Global Disinformation Index Withholds Information on Its Own Operations
Authored by Jonathan Turley
Gabe Kaminsky at the Washington Examiner is reporting that two U.S. nonprofit groups tied to the Global Disinformation Index are withholding information on their operations to protect staff and donors.
The redactions of names from 2021 IRS tax returns is being justified on the basis that the GDI is being harassed by critics. It is an ironic move since, as discussed in earlier columns, the GDI targeted and blacklisted conservative groups to drain them of revenue and support.
As discussed earlier, the British group ranked sites to warn people about high-risk disinformation sites. The ten most dangerous disinformation sites turned out to be conservative publications or Internet sites like Reason. Conversely, HuffPost made the top list of the most trustworthy for potential advertisers.
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Guardsman Arrested in Leak of Classified Military Documents
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Massachusetts Air National Guard member was arrested Thursday in connection with the disclosure of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war and other top national security issues, an alarming breach that has raised fresh questions about America’s ability to safeguard its most sensitive secrets.
The guardsman, an IT specialist identified as 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, was taken into custody without incident after FBI officers converged on his Massachusetts home. Attorney General Merrick Garland said he is to be charged with removing or transmitting classified national defense information, a crime under the Espionage Act.
Garland did not reveal a possible motive, but accounts of those in the online private chat group where the documents were disclosed have depicted Teixeira as motivated more by bravado than ideology.
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IRS Warns Time Running Out to Claim $1.5 Billion in Unclaimed Refunds for 2019 Tax Year
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has warned American taxpayers that time is running out to claim tax refunds for 2019.
On Wednesday, the IRS announced that over a million Americans have unclaimed tax refunds for the 2019 tax year.
The deadline to make the claims is now looming as a total of $1.5 billion in unclaimed refunds will soon become government property.
In a press release, the IRS said that nearly 1.5 million people across the United States have unclaimed refunds because they haven’t filed their tax returns for the 2019 tax year.
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Joe Rogan Issues Warning After AI-Generated Version of His Podcast Surfaces
Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Joe Rogan has warned of the growing threats posed by artificial intelligence (AI) after a version of his podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” was created entirely through the use of AI technology, sparking concern among listeners.
“This is going to get very slippery, kids,” Rogan wrote on Twitter on April 11 in response to a video of the fake show shared on the social media platform by content creator Farzad Mesbahi.
The fake video is titled “Joe Rogan AI Experience Episode #001” and features “guest” Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the creator of the artificial intelligence system ChatGPT.
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JPMorgan Internally Flagged Epstein’s Large Withdrawals Two Years Before 2008 Pedo Conviction
Employees of JPMorgan Chase internally flagged large cash withdrawals made by Jeffrey Epstein two years before he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
In 2006, the bank’s risk management team noted that Epstein “routinely” took out cash in $40,000 to $80,000 increments, several times a month, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing a filing by the US Virgin Islands in an amended lawsuit against the bank.
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Judge Refuses to Grant Jan. 6 Proud Boys Defendants a Mistrial
Five Proud Boys charged with committing seditious conspiracy on Jan. 6 were denied a mistrial Thursday, CNN reported, in a case marked by allegations that dozens of government informants were embedded with the Jan. 6 defendants on the day of the Capitol riot.
Former Proud Boys National Chairman Enrique Tarrio, and members Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola, are being tried together for allegedly conspiring to oppose the January 2021 transfer of presidential power and related charges. Rejecting their request for a mistrial, Judge Timothy Kelly said that all jurors had indicated they could maintain fair judgement in the case, despite several claiming in March that civilians had approached them outside the courthouse, with one juror expressing worries this month that someone might be following her, according to CNN.
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Judge Sanctions Fox News for Withholding Evidence in Dominion $1.6B Defamation Case
Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis sanctioned Fox News on Wednesday for withholding evidence in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the news outlet.
Judge Davis’s sanction came after lawyers for Dominion highlighted numerous instances of Fox News attorneys’ failure to turn over evidence promptly, according to a person present in the courtroom.
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The leaker of US classified documents told the members of their invitation-only discord server that the government hides “horrible truths” from the public. One such example was a claim that federal agencies allowed the 2022 shooting at a Buffalo supermarket to happen so that they could use the event to argue for more funding.
A report from the Washington Post said that this claim was “baseless.” Charlie Kirk pointed out that “the context here is interesting given that much of what was leaked to this Discord chat turned out to be true.” An investigation at the time revealed many “missed red flags.”
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Musk: Twitter Users Can Now Monetize ‘Any Material’ — and Keep All Profits for 12 Months
After all but declaring war on publishing platform Substack, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced on Thursday that users can now offer their followers the option of subscribing to ‘any material, from longform text to hours long video!’
What’s more, Twitter won’t keep any of the profit, according to Musk.
“For the next 12 months, Twitter will keep none of the money,” he tweeted, adding “You will receive whatever money we receive, so that’s 70% for subscriptions on iOS & Android (they charge 30%) and ~92% on web (could be better, depending on payment processor).”
After the first year, fees for iOS and Android will drop to 15%, and Twitter will “add a small amount on top of that, depending on volume.”
Twitter will also help to promote the work of content creators, with the goal being “to maximize creator prosperity.”
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NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan Book Instead of Bible
The new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center chose to swear her oath of office not on the Bible but on a copy of Carl Sagan’s 1994 Pale Blue Dot.
For her swearing-in ceremony last week, Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, who served as an AIP-ASA Congressional Fellow in the office of liberal Massachusetts representative Edward Markey from 2011-2012, opted out of swearing before the Almighty in favor of the agnostic astronomer Sagan.
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A Nashville-based florist had a meltdown and refused a large order for a Republican National Convention fundraising event this weekend in Nashville. The FLWR Shop wrote a letter to the RNC declining the chance to make a lot of money providing floral arrangements because ‘there’s blood on that money and we can have no part in that.’
The letter sent to the RNC said: “Our community has just lost seven people, including three young children, to yet another school shooting. At this moment, I cannot ignore the work that the RNC has done to create this tragedy and so many others just like it.”
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The Pentagon had 14 special operations forces (SOF) inside Ukraine as recently as three weeks ago, according to recent documents posted online that appear to be leaked intelligence from the Department of Defense.
A U.S. military slide dated March 23, that appears to be a daily update of the U.S. force posture in the region, featured a bullet list of countries who purportedly had special operations forces in Ukraine.
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Polish PM Morawiecki Visits Lockheed Martin and Announces Faster Delivery of F-35s for Poland
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visited the factory of U.S. aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin in the U.S. state of Georgia on Wednesday, where he revealed the F-35 fighter jets ordered by Poland will be delivered next year.
The Lockheed Martin plant in Marietta, Georgia, is one of the most important facilities with regard to the production chain of the F-35 fighter jets. Morawiecki visited the plant in order to ensure that the delivery of these planes to Poland is expedited.
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Poll: Almost Two Thirds of Democrats Want to See Challengers Run Against Biden
A new Rasmussen poll has revealed that among Democratic voters, almost two thirds would like to see challengers run against Joe Biden, with less than 40 percent believing Biden should seek a second term.
The survey reveals that only 39 percent of voters believe Biden should run for reelection as president in 2024, while 48 percent are of the opinion that Biden shouldn’t run again.
The poll also notes that Sixty two percent of Democratic voters believe that if Biden does run for reelection next year, other Democrats should challenge him in the primaries.
Only 21 percent said they don’t want to see Democratic challengers to Biden.
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More than 100 people reportedly protested on the steps of a San Francisco Bay Area courthouse Monday demanding the ouster of a George Soros-funded district attorney over the handling of the case against three alleged gang members charged in the highway shooting death of an Asian toddler.
Jasper Wu, 2, was struck and killed by a stray bullet during a rolling gun battle between rival gang members on Interstate 880 in Oakland, California, in November 2021.
Three men — Trevor Green, Ivory Bivens, and Johnny Jackson — were charged by former Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley with offenses including murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle, gun charges and gang conspiracy enhancements. The trio is due back in court in late April.
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Publicly Funded PBS Joins NPR in Quitting Twitter
First, it was the National Public Radio (or is that Ratio) that stormed off Twitter in a huff after being declared “government-funded media” (it says it right there in the company’s title folks, National and Public) and now it is another Public (as in non-private) company that doesn’t like being called out for what it is that has decided to make a dramatic exit stage left: the Public Broadcasting Service has followed National Public Radio in rage quitting Twitter after the social media network labeled both organizations as government-funded media.
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Skiff Launches End-to-End Encrypted Calendar Apps on Mobile
Skiff is one of the projects originating from the past several years of severe focus on censorship and surveillance by Big Tech, and now the platform is announcing the launch of its end-to-end encrypted calendar mobile apps and a new, low-priced paid email plan with added storage and more.
Skiff, based in San Francisco and present on the scene since 2021, started out as an end-to-end encrypted email service and collaboration tool, as for the most part a (mostly) open-source alternative to Google Docs. The offer these days includes encrypted calendars, documents, and files.Google Docs. The offer these days includes encrypted calendars, documents, and files.
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Lawyers for Army Sergeant Daniel Perry accused Travis County District Attorney José Garza of tampering and retaliation against a detective witness. They say the district attorney prevented the detective from presenting evidence to the grand jury supporting Perry’s self-defense claim in the alleged murder of a protester in Austin. The accusation resurfaced on Thursday in a letter from the defense attorneys to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently asked the board to consider a recommendation for a pardon.
Defense attorneys F. Clinton Broden and Doug O’Connell sent a letter to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to present evidence in support of the governor’s requested pardon recommendation. Governor Abbott made the request on April 8 following the conviction by a Travis County jury of murder in the Daniel Perry self-defense trial, Breitbart Texas reported. The letter from the defense team (attached below) reveals exculpatory evidence that was not allowed to be presented to the jury by the trial judge.
The letter resurfaces a previously made accusation that Travis County DA Garza tampered with evidence prepared by the lead investigator during the time leading up to the grand jury hearing. A motion requesting an evidentiary hearing regarding the initial allegation was denied by the trial judge. The judge denied the evidentiary hearing request but did not rule on the merits of the allegations, Fox 7 reported.
“As the Board will no doubt learn, the lead detective in this case was forbidden by the Travis County District Attorney from mentioning a great deal of exculpatory evidence to the grand jury which considered the case in the first instance,” the attorneys wrote. While acknowledging the DA is not required to present exculpatory evidence to the grand jury, the defense team added, “there is a very clear legal distinction between choosing not to present exculpatory information to a grand jury and tampering with the testimony of a grand jury witness by shaping that witness’s testimony as to what that witness is allowed to say under fear of reprisals.”
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Houston’s top prosecutor is proposing a policy that would bar suspects caught in Texas with a certain amount of illegal drugs from being arrested until the drugs are tested and confirmed to be a controlled substance.
The rule proposed by Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg would go into effect April 21, FOX 26 Houston reported. Under the rule, suspects caught with four grams or fewer of drugs would not be arrested until a lab confirms the drug.
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A Texas man convicted of spitting at Lubbock police officers back in May 2022 was sentenced to 70 years in prison on Wednesday, according to reports
KLBK-TV in Lubbock, Texas, reported that police arrested 36-year-old Larry Pearson in May 2022 for domestic violence.
Prosecuting attorney Jessica Gorman told the station Pearson was arrested after the victim flagged down a Lubbock Police Department officer.
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The California Agency That Has Gone So Rogue Even Newsom Can’t Control it
California’s Civil Rights Department was once committed to ensuring safe, harassment-free workplaces. Now it’s the department itself that’s doing the harassing.
The state legislature created CRD in the 1950s. Back then, it was called the Division of Fair Employment and Practices, and its mission was to mediate disagreements between workers and employers. These days, the agency skips mediation and moves directly to warfare — hiring private law firms to sue California companies and funding its operations from the resulting million-dollar settlements. That strategy often deprives plaintiffs of the money you might suppose they’re entitled to. Just as bad, CRD has tried to block settlements mediated by the federal government, delaying cash payments to California workers in workplace cases.
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Trump Busts Democrat Megadonor Secretly Funding Defamation Lawsuit Against Him
President Donald Trump just busted a Dem megadonor secretly funding a lawsuit against him.
Reid Hoffman, the billionaire behind LinkedIn, has been secretly bankrolling E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against Trump, according to court records.
Carroll, a magazine columnist, claimed Trump raped her in the dressing room of a luxury Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
She wrote a tell-all book to cash in and, when Trump called her a liar from the White House, she sued him for defamation.
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Trump Backlash: House GOP Unleashes Legislation to Block Local Prosecutions of Presidents
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s historic indictment, House Republicans are putting the finishing touches on legislation that would restrict state and local prosecutors from prosecuting current or former presidents by allowing such cases to be moved to federal court, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan told Just the News on Thursday.
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s historic indictment, House Republicans are putting the finishing touches on legislation that would restrict state and local prosecutors from prosecuting current or former presidents by allowing such cases to be moved to federal court, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan told Just the News on Thursday.
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U.S. Identifies Suspect Who Allegedly Leaked Secret Pentagon Documents as Jack Teixeira
Washington — Federal law enforcement officials have identified the person suspected of leaking secret defense and intelligence documents that have circulated online for weeks, three U.S. officials tell CBS News.
The officials confirmed the suspect is a man named Jack Teixeira. The New York Times, which first revealed his name Thursday, reported that he is a 21-year-old member of the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.
The report in The New York Times came hours after a story in The Washington Post detailed a small online community on the platform Discord where the documents appeared to have first been shared by the group’s leader. Earlier reporting by Bellingcat traced the documents’ supposed path from that server, known as Thug Shakers Central, to a larger Discord community. They began appearing on 4chan, Twitter and Russian Telegram channels last week, when they first came to the attention of U.S. officials.
The Post said the person who first shared the documents was known to fellow members as “OG” and worked on a military base. Other members of the group told the Post that OG was not motivated by politics or ideology, and did not expect the documents to be shared outside the Discord community.
President Biden said during his visit to Dublin on Thursday that investigators were close to identifying a suspect.
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US Senate to Debate Digital ID Plans
Legislation for a Digital IDentity verification system in the US has progressed to the Senate for debate. That means that the US could soon have a Digital ID, which is opposed by most digital rights groups over privacy concerns.
The Improving Digital Identity Act of 2023 was introduced by Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and GOP Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming.
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Video: Rubio Boils Down Everything Wrong With Biden’s America in 2 Mins
In a powerful appearance on Hannity, Senator Marco Rubio boiled down everything that is wrong with America today under Joe Biden, labelling his administration an “incompetent band of fools,” and noting that the world hasn’t been this dangerous for 80 years.
“We have a president that can barely put together complete sentences, appears incoherent, oftentimes doesn’t even know where he is in many cases in some of these places that allowed spy balloons to be flown over our head, that abandoned billions of dollars of American military equipment left over into the hands of the Taliban and spends all day talking about electric vehicles and solar panels that he knows we’re going to have to buy from China,” Rubio asserted.
The Senator added that under Biden, the justice system “indicts political opponents,” and attempts to “infiltrate sources to spy on Catholic churches” but at the same time allows criminals to destroy the largest U.S. cities.
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Watch: 21-Year-Old Suspect Jack Teixeira Arrested in Pentagon Leak
Update (1445ET): 21-year-old National Guardsman Jack Teixeira has been arrested in connection with the leak of hundreds of classified documents, according to the Washington Examiner and several other outlets.
Teixeira was identified by the NY Times ahead of his arrest at his home in Dighton, Mass Thursday afternoon. Television footage appeared to show armed personnel leading a male wearing red shorts and a green short with his hands cuffed behind his back, the WSJ reports.
Two police cruisers from the town of Dighton were blocking the road near a residence associated with Mr. Teixeira. They declined to speak about why they had blocked the road. A row of people who say they lived on the street were waiting to pass.
One neighbor said the police began blocking off the street around noon. At least one vehicle outside the police blockade had U.S. government license plates. —WSJ
Update(1255ET): The New York Times says it knows the identity of the leaker of a trove of classified US intelligence documents which has been subject of widespread reporting this week. The Times says he’s a 21-year old member of the Air National Guard.
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Canada’s Government Directly Leaned on Social Media Platforms to Censor News and Tweets
Documents that have become available recently and reports based on them, say that in Canada, too, the government is effectively trying to pressure social media sites to remove certain news articles — but apparently, at least in one case, without success.
The case relates to links to a Toronto Sun article that has not been named, and the “request” for censorship came from the the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada in September 2021.
The board is considered an independent body, but it reports to Canada’s parliament via the immigration minister. The claim made against the article was that it featured “serious errors of fact risking” — and furthermore, it is alleged that this would undermine public confidence in the board’s real or purported independence, and of trust in the system handling refugees.
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Man Stabbed at Southeast Edmonton Bus Stop in ‘Random’ Attack
Police continue to search for the suspect, who fled the area on foot. Investigators believe the stabbing was random.
A man is in hospital after being randomly stabbed at a bus stop in southeast Edmonton Thursday morning, the latest incident as police and politicians continue to raise concerns over crime and safety.
At about 6:15 a.m., Edmonton police responded to an assault call near 38 Avenue and Millbourne Road. It was reported the 48-year-old man was sitting alone at a bus stop drinking coffee when he was approached from behind and stabbed in the back.
The man managed to call 911 before collapsing. Concerned citizens came to the man’s aid and he was transported by paramedics to hospital with serious injuries.
Police continue to search for the suspect, who fled the area on foot. Investigators believe the stabbing was random.
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Poilievre Says ‘Jail Not Bail’ as Canadian Cities Hit With Crime Wave
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is wondering “what’s happening to our cities” following a string of violent attacks and stabbings across Edmonton and Calgary.
Speaking from Edmonton on Thursday afternoon, Poilievre attributed the crime wave to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “costly coalition with the NDP” and their policies that allow the same repeat violent offenders loose on the street to “terrorize innocent people.”
“We’ve got to replace these crazy catch-and-release crime policies with a common sense criminal justice reform, and that’s exactly what a Pierre Poilievre government will do,” he said.
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre asked a Canadian Press journalist if she’s in a conflict of interest after she levied a question about his plans to defund Canada’s state broadcaster.
The Canadian Press is a wire service which large Canadian newspapers, like the CBC, The Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star, pay into.
After a Canadian Press reporter asked Poilievre if he would change the Broadcasting Act to defund english-language CBC, Poilievre said the Canadian Press is the public broadcaster’s “biggest client.”
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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Three western Canadian premiers blasted the suggestion by one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ministers that the federal government could take control of a province’s natural resources, calling the idea “dangerous” for national unity.
In a joint letter released yesterday to Trudeau, Premiers Danielle Smith of Alberta, Scott Moe of Saskatchewan, and Heather Stefanson of Manitoba wrote that he needs to “tell Canadians today that federal Justice Minister David Lametti was not speaking on behalf of the federal government when he said he would look at rescinding the 1930 Natural Resources Transfer Agreements with the Prairie provinces and strip away their constitutional authority and control over natural resources.”
“The prime minister needs to immediately retract these dangerous and divisive comments by his justice minister,” they added.
The premiers wrote that the agreements in place since 1930 giving the provinces full autonomy over their natural resources “recognized the Prairie provinces with the same rights over resources that all other provinces already had.”
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Teen Fatally Stabbed on Bus Was on Way Home, Mom Was Waiting
Police still searching for killer of teenage boy stabbed on Surrey bus
Homicide investigators are working to identify a suspect after a 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed on a bus in Surrey.
Ethan Bespflug was riding transit when the altercation occurred just before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. The teen later died in hospital.
“Ethan did not deserve this,” says his aunt, Andrea Van Der Gracht on a GoFundMe page.
Van Der Gracht says Bespflug was on his way home when the attack happened.
“Ethan was a young, bright loved boy, unarmed and now his mother will forever be waiting for him to get off that bus,” she says. “He woke up and went to school in the morning and never came back.”
The bus was close to the King George SkyTrain Station at the time of the stabbing.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) has taken over the investigation and believes this was an isolated incident with “no connection to the Lower Mainland gang conflict”.
IHIT’s Sgt. Timothy Pierotti says the investigation is still in the early stages and they are trying to determine if the two knew each other.
“We are still working to identify a suspect, therefore, we cannot confirm any relationship they may have with the victim,” he says.
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Catholics Now Outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland
There are now more Catholics than Protestants living in Northern Ireland, according to the most recent national census data, with a 42.3 percent share of Catholics to 30.5 percent Protestants, and a low 8.2 percent of inhabitants identifying as non-Christian religious.
As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, this is in contrast to when the country was first formed back in 1921. Intended to be a Protestant majority nation, six counties had been partitioned from Ireland, based on religious data from the 1911 census. Then, 34.4 percent of what would be Northern Ireland was Catholic and 61.4 percent was Protestant, a ratio of 1:2.
Just over 100 years later, the switch has finally happened, which according to The Guardian was anticipated due to Catholic birth rates being higher.
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Climate Activists Pour Oily Liquid at German FDP Party HQ
Alongside the demonstration on Thursday, Last Generation activists put up posters seeking to shame the neoliberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) for its support of diesel-powered vehicles.
The demonstration follows after FDP’s opposition last month to the EU’s proposition to stop the sales of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035. Activists have said on Twitter that they aimed to draw attention to the “destruction of our livelihoods.”
It was reported that the oil-like substance could be washed off with water.
Which other locations were targeted?
More than 20 buildings of company and party headquarters and lobbying associations in Berlin were targets of a coordinated “spring rebellion” on Thursday. Bayer, BP, Shell and Deutsche Bank were among the companies affected, according to protesters.
The demonstrations were a cooperation between the German climate group Last Generation and the international Extinction Rebellion and Scientist Rebellion. Last week, Last Generation activists blocked key roads around the German city of Hamburg, causing kilometers-long traffic jams.
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Confused Biden Mistakes Sports Team for Notorious Paramilitary on Ireland Tour
A confused Joe Biden has mistaken a national sports team with a notorious paramilitary group while on his grand tour of Ireland.
Gaffe-prone American President Joe Biden has once again provoked confusion and laughs after he conflated a national sports team with a notorious 20th-century paramilitary group.
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The perpetually confused Joe Biden has taken his greatest hits on tour to Ireland.
He visited Carlingford Castle in County Louth, which was touted as Biden’s ancestral homeland.
He pulled out his number one slogan for some Irish fans, telling them not to jump to their deaths from a high point of the building.
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French Pension Protesters Storm LVMH Building in Downtown Paris
On the same day that LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest maker of luxury goods, reported better-than-expected first-quarter sales, led by Fashion & Leather Goods, and share price jumped to a record high, French pension protesters stormed the headquarters of the company in Paris.
Dramatic videos posted on Twitter shows protesters storming the headquarters of LVMH. This sort of behavior from protesters holding strikes against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform was seen last week when they stormed offices of BlackRock.
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Germany: Nuclear Power Shutdown Risks Causing Power Shortages, Group Warns
Germany’s planned shutdown of all of its remaining nuclear power plants risks causing power shortages, one industry group in the country has warned.
The German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) has warned that the country’s green agenda-loving government’s plan to close the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants in a few days risks causing energy shortages.
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Romanian Nationalists Chant Anti-Hungarian Slogans and Boo Hungarian President During Ceremony
On Wednesday, Hungarian President Katalin Novak inaugurated a statue of Ferenc Kölcsey, who wrote the lyrics to Hungary’s national anthem, in the Transylvanian town of Nagykaroly. However, the radical nationalist movement Calea Neamului (Nation’s Way) and its leader, Mihai Tirnoveanu, were also present to protest, directing anti-Hungarian chants at the Hungarian head of state.
Dozens of Romanian nationalist demonstrators marched in front of the mayor’s office in Nagykaroly, the very spot where Novak, the main patron of the event, unveiled the statue of Ferenc Kölcsey shortly afterward.
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Survey: 2 in 5 Ukrainians Currently Residing in Poland Have No Intention of Returning Home
A total of 38 percent of Ukrainians who have fled to Poland during the ongoing conflict with Russia plan to stay in Poland indefinitely, according to a recent survey.
The polling, conducted by labor agency Gremi Personal in March, has found that another 7 percent of respondents planned to move from Poland to another foreign country.
This data contrasts markedly with that of October 2022, when only 17 percent of Ukrainians said they planned to stay in Poland rather than return to Ukraine. In March, 55 percent were committed to returning home, with over four in five of those planning to do so only once the war was over.
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UK: Study Finds “No Evidence” Face Masks Protect Vulnerable Against COVID
A report published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) found that “no evidence could be presented” to prove medical-grade face masks protected vulnerable people from COVID.
The study investigated whether so-called high quality masks such as N95, KN95 and FFP2 coverings helped protect vulnerable people in the community from catching the virus.
“The review did not identify any studies for inclusion, and so could provide no evidence to answer the research question,” the authors concluded. “No studies matching the inclusion criteria were found, so no evidence could be presented.”
Well, there goes the narrative.
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Ukraine Urges EU to Block Hungary’s Energy Deal With Russia
The new energy agreements between Hungary and Russia will prolong the war in Ukraine, claims Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleg Ustenko. At the same time, Ustenko told Politico that Brussels should block the contracts.
“If you’ve seen the video where Russians cut the head off a Ukrainian soldier — the Hungarians are paying for the knife,” he said, referring to the video circulating on the Internet showing the alleged execution of a Ukrainian soldier. Zelensky called the Russian soldiers who allegedly committed the murder “beasts.”
“You have to be completely blind not to see what kinds of crimes you are sponsoring. Buying more gas from the Russians means you are giving them more capacity to escalate the war,” Ustenko added.
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The U.S.’s decision to launch sanctions against the Budapest-based International Investment Bank (IIB) and its three top officials is the latest sign that the U.S. is ratcheting up its pressure on Hungary to renounce its pro-peace stance on the war in Ukraine.
U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman announced the sanctions on Wednesday against Hungary at the same time that he detailed a range of new sanctions against more than 50 institutions and individuals, with the majority of the sanctions focused on Russia. The U.S. diplomat argues the bank is controlled by Russian interests.
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US president Joe Biden has been mocked online after mistaking the All Blacks rugby team with Black and Tans, a group of British troops notorious for their brutality during the Irish War of Independence.
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Hersh: CIA Knows Zelensky & Top Generals Are Skimming Hundreds of Millions in US Aid
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com
On Wednesday, Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a report on Substack that alleged the CIA was aware of widespread corruption in Ukraine and the embezzlement of US aid.
The report said the Ukrainian government has been using US taxpayer money to purchase diesel from Russia to fuel its military. Hersh said Zelensky “has been buying the fuel from Russia, the country with which it, and Washington, are at war, and the Ukrainian president and many in his entourage have been skimming untold millions from the American dollars earmarked for diesel fuel payments.”
Hersh said according to one estimate by CIA analysts, at least $400 million in funds were embezzled last year. Sources told Hersh that Ukrainian officials are also “competing” to set up front companies for export contracts to private arms dealers around the world.
The issue of corruption was raised during a meeting between CIA Director William Burns and Zelensky in January. An intelligence official with direct knowledge of the meeting told Hersh that Burns delivered a stunning message to Zelensky.
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The Smolensk air disaster in 2010, which took the life of then Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others, was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revenge for Kaczynski’s defiant visit of Tbilisi ahead of the Russian invasion of Georgia, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has claimed.
In an article received by Saakashvili’s U.S. legal counsel, Massimo F. D’Angelo, and published by Politico, Saakashvili, who is currently in prison in his homeland, maintained that Putin personally was responsible for the former Polish president’s death.
“Putin killed him, and now he is killing me,” the former Georgian president wrote, referring to both Kaczynski and his own recent plight. Saakashvili is currently serving six years for abuse of power and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily injury.
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Russian Mine Explodes Near Control Room at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant: Ukraine
A Russian mine exploded near the generator room of the vast Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Ukraine’s state operator Energoatom said on Thursday.
Ukraine claimed on Thursday that a Russian mine exploded near the control room of the fourth power unit at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
“The Russian occupiers continue to turn the Zaporizhzhia NPP into a military base, mining the perimeter around the station. And these actions cannot but have consequences. According to sources, an explosion rang out near the engine room of the 4th power unit,” a statement by the administration of the city of Enerhodar said on Telegram.
The statement further claimed that the sounds of the explosion were heard by Ukrainian nuclear workers who continue to work at the plant, but that Russians tried to “pacify” the workers and quickly “cover their tracks” so that experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would not see.
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US Doesn’t Expect Ukraine Peace Talks in 2023: Leaked Doc
Among the more interesting content to come out of the trove of Pentagon document leaks is a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment which says the US doesn’t expect there to be any peace talks between Russia and Ukraine until at least 2024.
The Washington Post reported on the document this week, quoting the classified briefing as follows: “Negotiations to end the conflict are unlikely during 2023 in all considered scenarios,” the DIA report reads. The DIA document forecasts that even in a scenario of Ukraine regaining a “significant” amount of territory back and with “unsustainable losses on Russian forces,” this would not lead to peace talks.
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Zelensky Demands Another $14 Billion, Asks Finance Leaders to Take Money From Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the heads of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other finance leaders on Wednesday that his country needs $14.1 billion dollars immediately to begin infrastructure repair, urging them to take some of the money from frozen Russian assets.
Zelensky made the remarks during a teleconference meeting in which he spent much of his time discussing the destruction of civilian infrastructure in cities and the need to return Ukraine to normal in the event that the Russian invasion of the country concludes.
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Pakistan: BOL News Marketing Head Akash Ram Abducted by Suspected Islamists in Karachi
No Coverage in mainstream Pakistani Media to hide the ugly face of Human Rights Violations in Pakistan.
Seema Sahani | HENB | Karachi | April 13, 2023:: Three days back, Mr. Akash Ram, the Marketing Manager of BOL TV and News Network has been kidnapped by Islamist Criminals from his house in Karachi along with two of his house workers and a building caretaker by the suspected Islamist Criminals.
BOL TV has been working with an impartial stand to report the repression of minorities in Pakistan and that is not liked by the fundamental outfits there.
In a press conference, Sami Ibrahim, the Chairman of BOL TV and News Network condemned such kidnapping of his company’s Marketing Manager Akash Ram, and narrated the matter as a gross human rights violation in Pakistan.
Ibrahim highlighted the recurring attacks on BOL TV by the miscreants mentioning the kidnapping of the company’s Manager Nabeel Jakhura last year. “They are following our journalists and they also went to the house of our co-chairman Shoaib Shiekh. Our finance people and marketing people are being followed and a couple of weeks back our staff stopped them but then they were allowed to go. Three days back Akash Ram, who is the head of the marketing department of BOL TV, some unknown people entered his house forcibly and dragged him out, put him in a small truck, and took him away. Besides that they also picked up three more people, one was a cook, the other was a guard, and another guy who was the caretaker of the building, a 25-year-old, a patient of diabetics, we don’t know whether he is getting his medicine or not. I decided to hold this press conference, when I heard the appeal of the mother of Akash Ram, She was crying. It really touched my heart. She is a Hindu by religion. She was appealing to the Chief justice. She was appealing to the Army Chief and she was saying, Oh Muslims, I swear in the name of Allah, please return my son…” An emotional Ibrahim narrated his feelings on Akash’s kidnapping.
In a video published by Narain Das Bheel, a Hindu activist in Pakistan’s Sindh as uploaded to his Twitter handle, the condition of the mother of Akash was seen just in a disaster as saying, ‘Though we are Hindus, even we are Pakistani. Please return my son without delay.”
Interestingly enough, the mainstream media in Pakistan just censored the news of such an attack on the press and media is considered the fourth pillar of democracy. It just proves that there is no democracy or human rights in Islamic Pakistan. Attacks on minority Hindus in Pakistan are not an issue before anybody as it appears.
And international media agencies like BCC, Reuters, CNN, AFP, AF, DW, New York Times, Washington Posts, etc., and selective Human Rights agencies like Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, UN Human rights, etc. are just functioning as the stooge of Islamists in Pakistan by a huge payment of Islamic Monetary Fund as distributed by the Arab World!
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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said she had ‘discussions’ with the opposition leader about becoming the Coalition’s Indigenous Australians spokesperson after Julian Leeser’s resignation.
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Opposition leader Peter Dutton slammed an ABC reporter in Alice Springs on Thursday, ridiculing the journalist by saying ‘that is such an ABC question’.
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Malaria kills over 600,000 each year, most of them young children. The vaccine, called R21, has been approved for the age group at highest risk of death — children aged five months to 36 months.
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African Migrant Caught Bringing Fried Bats Into Germany
An illegal alien from Africa was arrested this week after German police discovered he was transporting cooked bats and unrefrigerated fish, authorities say.
The bust unfolded on Monday morning in Aachen, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia on the border of Belgium.
A federal police patrol pulled over a suspicious van that had entered from Belgium and during a search, they found nearly 2,000 pounds of fish and boxes of fried bats stored under the unrefrigerated seafood.
A veterinarian was called to inspect the load.
She immediately ordered a confiscation and the driver was taken into custody due to lack of registration and insurance.
Authorities discovered he was a 31-year-old citizen of the Ivory Coast who was illegally present in Germany and driving without a license.
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It is not the first time former DGSE director and former ambassador Pierre Brochand has made public calls for a complete change to immigration policies while warning against France becoming poorer and possibly descending into civil war. However, hearing him doing so during a discussion with a top civil servant in the person of the director of the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII) on France Culture, a state-owned radio station that is part of the very left-wing and pro-immigration Radio France network, is something unusual in Emmanuel Macron’s France.
True, the presenter of the April 1 radio show titled “Face à l’immigration” (“Facing immigration”) was Alain Finkielkraut, a philosopher, writer, and radio presenter who is not particularly known for his political correctness, in particular on the subject of immigration.
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A 38-year-old North African man was arrested in Italy on Thursday morning and charged with the double murder of his Italian wife and mother-in-law, stabbing them both to death with a kitchen knife at his family home in the Tuscan city of Arezzo.
Jawad Hicham was detained by authorities after his wife, 35-year-old Sara Ruschi, and her mother, 76-year-old Brunetta Ridolfi, were found dead at the home of the accused.
According to Italian newspaper Il Giornale, the double murder was witnessed by Hicham’s two children, aged 16 and 2, the eldest of whom called and reported the crime to the police.
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Anheuser-Busch Loses $6BN in Six Days After Trans Ad Campaign That Top Execs Never Approved
After reaching a three-year high of $66.73 per share, Bud Light parent company Anheuser Busch Inbev lost more than $6 billion in market cap since announcing its partnership with 26-year-old transgender ‘influencer’ Dylan Mulvaney on April 2, as bar owners and distributors report a sharp decline in Bud Light sales over the past week.
The company’s market cap fell as low as $125.7 billion, down from $132.8 billion six days ago, a drop of more than five-percent.
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Anheuser Busch is trying to distance itself from the mounting backlash over Bud Light’s disastrous campaign featuring transgender Dylan Mulvaney.
The Daily Wire is reporting that “no one at the senior level” at Anheuser Busch was involved in the “woke” Bud Light marketing campaign.
“No one at a senior level was aware this was happening,” a source told the media outlet.
“Some low-level marketing staffer who helps manage the hundreds of influencer engagements they do must have thought it was no big deal.”
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Australian lingerie company Honey Birdette has defended itself after being slammed with homophobic and transphobic slurs for using a non-binary person to advertise a bra.
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Australian Bank Gives Transgender Employees Six Weeks of Paid Leave for ‘Gender Affirming Care’
An Australian bank is now offering six weeks of paid leave to employees who want to change their legal sex, undergo surgery or other steps related to changing their gender.
SunCorp, a banking, finance and insurance corporation, announced the new benefits for transgender employees last month during “World Pride Week.” SunCorp New Zealand insurer announced the same benefits as well.
“Suncorp Group is excited to announce it is introducing new leave entitlements for employees affirming their gender,” the company stated in a press release. “Six weeks’ paid Gender Affirmation Leave, and up to 12 months unpaid leave, will be offered to applicable Suncorp employees, allowing those employees to have the time and financial support required to engage in the steps they need to affirm their gender.”
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DOJ Asks Conservative Supreme Court to Intervene in Abortion Pill Case
It sure is complicated to run the country when you don’t have a Soros-funded DA making the decisions.
A few days after liberals were shocked when a Texas judge suspended the FDA’s approval of abortion pill mifepristone — a drug which was approved by the FDA more than two decades ago but which abortion opponents now contend is unsafe — in a decision which was promptly appealed by Biden’s Department of Weaponized Justice, overnight the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals partially stayed the ruling, instead ordering that while mifepristone could remain an option for patients, it could no longer be prescribed after the seventh week of pregnancy or dispensed by mail.
So in a somewhat self-defeating move, Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland — who himself would have been a Supreme Court Justice had Republicans not blocked his appointment — said the Biden administration will ask the US Supreme Court to protect the availability the abortion pill after the appeals court cleared the way for new restrictions to take effect Friday.
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Elon Musk Expresses Shock at Ontario’s Proposed Ban on Protesting Child Drag Shows
(LifeSiteNews) — Twitter CEO and Tesla/SpaceX mogul Elon Musk responded in a surprised manner to a radical transgender Canadian bill introduced in the province of Ontario last week, which would restrict protesters’ freedom at so-called drag queen story times.
Last week, popular Twitter account “End Wokeness” tweeted about the Ontario bill writing, “Holy s***, New bill would criminalize protests and offensive remarks in parts of Canada.”
On Thursday, Musk replied with a tweet of his own, simply leaving an exclamation mark “!” under the original post.
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Florida Legislature Passes 6-Week Abortion Ban
The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature passed a bill Thursday that would ban abortions after six weeks.
The legislation now heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk, who expressed his willingness to sign more restrictive abortion laws after signing a 15-week abortion ban last year. The Florida Senate passed a similar bill just days earlier.
The Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America organization celebrated the news as a “major win” for life.
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Luxury lingerie brand Honey Birdette defended their use of “non-binary” model Jake Dupree in an Instagram post Wednesday. The company that used the slogan ‘by women, for women,” made an update on the post saying they “support the LGBTQ+ community, women, and anyone who wants to feel fabulous in our lingerie.”
“Honey Birdette fosters an inclusive and diverse environment” they continued, “While thoughtful and constructive discussions are important to push culture forward, hate speech and bullying will not be tolerated on our channels. Comments of this negative nature will be deleted.” They then shut off comments for the post.
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The superintendent of Fox Chapel Middle School announced the school would be investigating an incident where a transgender teacher allegedly threatened to shoot up the school, according to a letter provided to the Daily Caller on Thursday.
On March 24, 2023, an officer responded to a report that a teacher had allegedly made statements about harming himself and possibly shooting students, according to an incident report obtained by Moms for Liberty’s Hernando County chapter. A mental health coordinator then conducted a threat assessment on Alexander Renczkowski, determining that he was not a threat and did not meet the criteria of the Baker Act.
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UK: TV Show Exposing Children to Naked Adults Sees Broadcast Regulator Inundated With Complaints
The UK government broadcast regulator has received near-1,000 complaints over Naked Education, a television programme which purports to push “body positive” ideas by exposing children in their mid-teens to naked adults.
Channel 4, the UK state-owned but commercially funded broadcaster which has generally prided itself on producing edgy content as a foil to the more mainstream BBC offering has moved to defend its latest pushing of the envelope with Naked Education, in which teenagers look at naked adults and discuss their bodies. Per The Daily Telegraph the broadcaster called the programme “valuable public service broadcasting”.
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Woke Mob Rages After J.K Rowling Boards HBO Max ‘Harry Potter’ Series
Wokesters have already let their hate be known after reports confirmed HBO Max greenlit a new Harry Potter series based on the books by British author J.K. Rowling, who has been stalwart in her defiance of transgender radicalism.
According to The Hollywood Reporter (THR), the new series from HBO Max will “cast new leads and include far more detail from the seven novels, which were often rather truncated in their previous adaptations into Warner Bros. feature films.”
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Women Are Burning Their Bras to Protest Dylan Mulvaney’s Nike Endorsement
Women who feel they are being demeaned by biological male Dylan Mulvaney partnering with Nike to promote sports bras have launched a new “Burn Bra Challenge” on TikTok.
Mulvaney, who is now pretending to be a woman in order to get attention and make money, recently announced a number of different brand endorsement deals, which include female-specific products like Olay skin cream and Nike sports bras.
Last week, the transgender-identified celebrity activist posted a video of himself prancing around in a Nike sports bra and leggings.
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It’s interesting to note how all these people who like to babble about ” inclusion” just love to exclude everyone who doesn’t agree with them.
These same people also like to babble about
“diversity ” but hate diversity of thought or opinion.
Shall I go on…?
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Swedish society is now devoid of any seriousness – instead, it has become
big and macabre HUMOR for the whole thing.
Here – in the News, for example – entirely in Swedish:
https://swebbtube.se/w/6oCofsHQdyinCfricv87Xa
and below in a translated news clip from Fria Tider.
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Pastor preached against cultural Marxism – now the church’s contribution can be withdrawn
Published on April 14, 2023 in Fria Tider
The free church Furuhöjdskyrkan in Alunda risks losing its subsidies after its pastor preached against cultural Marxist “lies” about gender and marriage.
– You will hear something completely different at school. I know I won’t be popular when I say this.
This is how Pastor Lukas Ternborg began his admonition about political correctness during a service at Furuhöjdskyrkan in January.
Addressing the confirmation students in the church, he noted that they were ‘being fed lies’.
– There are lies about gender. The Bible is clear. There is one man, there is one woman, created by God in the image of God to belong together. These are lies about marriage. The Bible’s view of marriage is clear. It is between a man and a woman.
The pastor’s sermon, which was posted on the church’s YouTube channel, has sparked strong left-wing anger after being shared on social media.
– “People say I’m stupid and sick in the head. Other members are being told that they should be kicked in the groin. I’m happy to meet people and talk about this, but it doesn’t work to respond on social media,” Lukas Ternborg told Upsala Nya Tidning.
He stands by what he said during his sermon.
Ternborg told the newspaper Dagen that he is “confident” that he has stuck to the church’s statutes and “to a classic Christian interpretation of the Bible”.
Östhammar municipality has previously paid association grants to Furuhöjdskyrkan, but this may now be over. Due to the current incident, the municipality has decided that politicians rather than officials should decide on further grants to the church, writes Dagen.
Furuhöjdskyrkans preschool Smulan will now also be examined.
In addition, the Swedish church in Alunda has decided to no longer allow confirmation students to make study visits to Furuhöjdskyrkan and risk having to hear what the pastor said.
– We want all our confirmation students to feel safe and welcome during their confirmation time. Based on the sermon at our last study visit, we do not feel that we can guarantee this at the study visits, says Micaela Clasdotter at the Church of Sweden to Dagen.
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Other news headlines from the same page.
Smuggled Arabs to Sweden – sentenced to prison and deportation
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Man in niqab exposed at women’s chess competition
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Left-wing icon was racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic
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US diplomat predicts mass white flight from Western to Eastern Europe
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Hundreds of thousands will flee diversity,
according to the veteran.
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Eastern and Central Europe could become a new haven for white Christians.
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Jumps out of car – and knocks down dancing 12-year-old boy
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Albanian cocaine gang caught red-handed in the harbor
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SVT’s climate reporter lectured “white middle-aged man”
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First prosecutions in the Rosengård Koran riots
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Swedish inflation drops to 10.6 percent
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African criminologist faked studies on “racism” for 16 years
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Fredrik Andersson’s killer freed
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Kent Ekeroth: Equal mass immigration despite SD-backed government
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Government holds “LGBTQI conference” for the EU
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Unclear whether the Koranic riots were related to Islam
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Feminist (Fi) profile wants to demolish statue of naked woman
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Deportation chaos: “In principle you never have to leave Sweden once you cross the border”
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Afghan ripped off female doctor’s hair
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Said “negress” – had to leave Robinson
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Kurds expected to crack the census
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“Capitalism’s fault” that young men avoid women
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Hungary: Relations with Sweden at rock bottom
The End