Nine men have been charged with “grooming” offenses in the northern English city of Rotherham. The case has a Mohammed Coefficient of 56%.
In other news, a multi-story parking garage in Lower Manhattan collapsed, pancaking the upper decks onto the cars in the floors below. One person was killed and four others were seriously injured.
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McCarthy Releases Full Text of Bill to Extend Debt Limit and Reduce Spending
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday released the full text of the bill to extend the nation’s debt limit for one-year and reduce federal spending.
“By limiting government spending, we will reduce inflation and restore fiscal discipline in Washington,” McCarthy said on the House floor. “If Washington wants to spend more, it will have to come together to find savings elsewhere — just like every household in America does.”
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‘There is a Serious Danger With the Global Banking System,’ Musk Warns Tucker
The failure of several banks and a struggling real estate market suggest the global banking system is on the precipice of collapse, Tesla/Twitter/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
The billionaire entrepreneur revealed why he’s concerned over the de-dollarization happening around the world and the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and other financial institutions.
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UK Inflation Remains Stubbornly High at 10.1%
U.K. inflation remained in the double digits last month, falling from 10.4 percent to 10.1 percent in March, as food and drink prices continued to soar at the fastest annual rate since 1977.
The decline was less than expected by city economists, who had predicted inflation would fall to 9.8 percent, but it remains lower than its recent peak of 11.1 percent recorded in October last year.
A decrease in fuel prices contributed to the lower rate, but household gas, electricity, and food and drink all remain an area of concern. Food and drink costs saw an inflation rate of 19.2 percent, a 45-year high.
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US Gasoline Prices Rise to 5-Month High
Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com
U.S. gasoline prices rose for the third week in a row, rising $.076 per gallon from a week ago to $3.65 per gallon yesterday, new GasBuddy data showed, reaching the highest level since November 2022.
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2 Teens Arrested in Alabama Sweet 16 Shooting That Killed 4 and Injured 32
Four people were killed and 32 injured in the gunfire that erupted at the celebration.
DADEVILLE, Ala. — A pair of teenage brothers were arrested in connection with a shooting that left four people dead and 32 injured at a weekend Sweet 16, authorities said Wednesday.
The boys, 16-year-old Travis McCullough and 17-year-old Ty Reik McCullough from Tuskegee, were taken into custody on charges of reckless murder on Tuesday night, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Sgt. Jeremy Burkett told reporters.
The teens are being charged as adults.
Prosecutors and police revealed few details on the arrest, such as the weapons used or possible motive for the attack. The suspects are brothers, an FBI spokesperson said.
Gunfire erupted at 10:34 p.m. Saturday at a dance studio on Broadnax Street in Dadeville where friends and family were celebrating the birthday of a 16-year-old girl, police said.
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Affidavit Says Andrew Lester Was “Scared to Death” by Teen Trying to Pull Open His Door at Night
Lester told police that Ralph Yarl was pulling on the exterior door of his Kansas City, Missouri home in an apparent attempt to break in, prompting him to grab his revolver and shoot the teenager, who is expected to make a full recovery.
The elderly man told cops “he believed he was protecting himself from a physical confrontation and could not take the chance” of the large male “coming in” to his house where he lives all alone, according to the police affidavit.
However, following White House involvement (Joe Biden even met with the injured teen’s family), BLM protests and a concerted media outrage campaign, Lester’s chances of a fair trial are basically non-existent.
The narrative has now been set that Yarl was merely ‘ringing the wrong doorbell’ and that Lester’s reaction was extreme and possibly driven by racism.
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Journalist Alex Berenson believes his First Amendment rights were violated when he was banned from Twitter for expressing concerns about the COVID vaccine, and a lawsuit against President Biden, White House officials and Pfizer honchos who allegedly pushed for his removal could expose their internal communications about the polarizing jab.
“People may remember that in 2021, the White House was very, very vocal publicly about, you know, quote unquote, disinformation. Anybody who raised questions about the vaccines, they were trying to get social media companies to take action broadly against them,” Berenson told Fox News Digital.
“What I didn’t know until last year [was] that they had specifically targeted me,” he continued. “So, this lawsuit basically aims to hold these people accountable for what they did for violating my First Amendment rights.”
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American Black Leftists Charged With Acting as Illegal Agents of Russian Government
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged several American liberal activists with illegally serving as agents of the Russian government.
A federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida indicted four U.S. citizens and three Russian nationals.
The individuals were found to be working on behalf of the Russian government and in conjunction with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
The suspects are believed to have been conducting a multi-year foreign malign influence campaign in the United States.
Among those charged are members of the radical African People’s Socialist Party (APSP).
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Big Tech Companies Are Scooping Up Former DOJ-Employees as Antitrust Fight Continues
The “revolving door” practice in the US — considered as shady at best by many critics — involves government officials and execs and employees from corporations, notably Big Tech, “switching” jobs by joining the other sector.
They inevitably take a lot of knowledge about the one they left with them, and now an analysis by the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) is revealing the sheer scale of some of these “revolving door” instances.
When it comes to the Department of Justice (DoJ) alone — and that’s the one that is spearheading legal initiatives around alleged Big Tech antitrust and other unlawful policies — at least 360 of its former employees have found (past and present) roles with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and HP, and this has been documented to have been going on since 2000.
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On Wednesday, WIRED senior reporter Dell Cameron was permanently suspended from Twitter after he asked for and obtained hacked materials from Matt Walsh’s Twitter account.
“Spoke with the hacker who says he compromised Matt Walsh’s account, and who was able to supply some convincing proof they’d gained access to his personal email account. Story TK,” a tweet from just after midnight on Wednesday read.
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Breaking: Explosion Rocks Downtown Seattle, Hazmat Crews, Bomb Squad Deployed
Police confirmed reports of an explosion in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday.
The explosion occurred at around 9:30 am, the Seattle Police Department said. Crews evacuated the building in which the explosion occurred in the basement. No active fire was found at the scene. A Hazmat crew is also responding.
Police told KOMO News that officials are working to diffuse a “device” that was found on scene.
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California’s ‘Dream for All’ Home Down Payment Program Ran Out of Money in 12 Days
Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Demand for California’s new downpayment assistance program overwhelmed the system and depleted its $300 million budget in less than 12 days, with applications put on pause effective April 7, according to the housing finance agency.
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Dad of Cheerleader Shot After Her Friend Got Into the Wrong Car Says Suspect Fired Immediately
The shooting unfolded in early Tuesday outside an H-E-B supermarket in Elgin, Texas, as four girls were heading home after cheerleading practice.
The Texas cheerleader who was shot after a friend mistakenly got into the wrong car in a supermarket parking lot is now recovering in the ICU, her father said in an interview Wednesday. The star athlete, born with just one lung, is described by her dad as “tough as they come.”
Payton Washington, 18, was shot in the leg and the back in the gunfire that erupted around 12:15 a.m. Tuesday in an H-E-B parking lot in Elgin, her father, Kelan Washington, said.
Payton, a cheerleader at Woodlands Elite Cheer Co., was heading back home from practice with three other friends when they were shot at by a 25-year-old suspect, who has since been arrested.
Washington said one girl was grazed by a bullet and treated and released at the scene, but Payton suffered more serious injuries. She was transported via helicopter to a hospital in critical condition, Elgin police said.
Payton’s father said doctors removed Payton’s spleen and she’s now stable in the ICU at Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas in Austin.
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Elon Musk: Google Wants to Create an AI God
During his bombshell interview with Tucker Carlson, aired Monday, Elon Musk revealed that Google has long planned to create an AI God and that Musk has repeatedly warned the company’s owners against it.
Musk stated that Google’s ultimate goal is to “create digital super intelligence” or what he describes as a “digital god.”
The Twitter owner said that Co-Founder of Google, Larry Page, told him privately years ago the company’s larger agenda is to work toward Artificial General Intelligence.
Musk claimed that he warned Page about AI safety, but was ignored and even labelled a “speciesist”.
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Elon Musk responded with disbelief when he learned that a satirical article mocking a Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder’s multi-million dollar property empire was actually based in fact.
On Wednesday, Musk commented in response to a Babylon Bee article that mocked BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors.
Cullors has been the subject of widespread criticism after it emerged that she has accumulated a vast personal wealth off the back of the violent 2020 BLM riots that her organization led.
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Suspected felons have walked free in half of cases since Alvin Bragg took office, sparking fears that some of New York’s worst criminals still roam the streets, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The proportion of cases in which the Manhattan DA’s office has not asked for felony suspects to be held on bail has more than doubled since 2018, according to its own data.
It has sparked fears that more suspects will be released before trial, leaving them free to reoffend.
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FDA Withdraws Authorization for Monovalent Pfizer and Moderna COVID Shots
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced new protocols for COVID-19 vaccinations.
In an announcement about the new “simplified” vaccination guidelines, the FDA quietly revealed that the monovalent Pfizer and Modena mRNA Covid shots “are no longer authorized for use in the United States.”
The change was revealed in a press release published on Tuesday.
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Federal Judge Rules Jim Jordan Can Subpoena Ex-Manhattan Prosecutor Who Investigated Trump
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that House Judiciary Committee Republicans can question a former Manhattan prosecutor about the criminal case against former President Trump, saying Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg does not have a legal basis to block the congressional subpoena.
U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil rejected Bragg’s request for a temporary restraining order and injunction after Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz last week.
Bragg almost immediately appealed the ruling and sought a stay of the decision.
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Fetterman Raises Eyebrows With Choppy Opening Statement in Senate Return: ‘Frightening’
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., raised eyebrows on Wednesday with his choppy opening statement after his return to the Senate.
Fetterman returned to the Senate this week after a lengthy stay in the hospital for clinical depression that began in mid-February.
The Pennsylvania Democrat, who suffered a stroke on the campaign trail, resumed his chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics and Research.
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Microsoft said its social media planning and scheduling tools for advertisers will no longer support Twitter, after the Elon Musk-owned social network started charging for access to its programming interface.
Musk responded to the announcement by accusing Microsoft of using Twitter data “illegally” and threatening a lawsuit. The billionaire, who bought Twitter last year, is changing the company’s policy to charge businesses for access to its stream of data.
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Former NFL Player Chris Smith Dies Suddenly at 31
Former NFL player Chris Smith has died suddenly at just 31 years old.
Smith was a defensive end in the NFL for eight seasons before moving to the XFL until his death.
The football star’s unexpected death was announced by West Rowan High School in North Carolina, where Smith attended.
Smith passed away just hours after playing for the Seattle Sea Dragons in the XFL.
The cause of death has yet to be revealed.
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Goldman Sachs: AI Could Automate Two-Thirds of All American Occupations
Goldman Sachs economists have warned that two-thirds of all occupations across America could be partially automated by artificial intelligence (AI).
Top economists Joseph Briggs and Devesh Kodnani issued the warning in a report published on April 5.
According to the report, a new wave of AI systems, such as ChatGPT, could have a “major impact” on employment markets across the globe.
Recent ongoing advances in such technology could trigger shifts in workflows that could “expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs to automation.”
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A good Samaritan who stepped in to help a couple who was brutally beaten during Chicago’s “Teen Takeover” Saturday is speaking out about the downtown chaos, calling out Mayor Lori Lightfoot for “sugarcoating” the chaos.
Lenora Dennis, who was identified as the woman who stepped in to save a couple under attack by a Chicago mob, pushed back on the city mayor’s claim the social media inspired “Teen Takeover” event “wasn’t mayhem.”
“I’m sorry, Lightfoot. I voted for you… but I can’t be involved in any level of sugarcoating what I saw,” Dennis told Fox News’ Fox News’ Garrett Tenney. “That was mayhem.”
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Hunter Biden Investigation Being Mishandled, ‘Clear Conflicts of Interest’: IRS Whistleblower
An IRS Criminal Supervisory Agent seeking whistleblower protection claims the investigation into Hunter Biden is being mishandled by the Biden administration.
In a letter dated April 19, 2023, attorney Mark D. Lytle of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Nixon Peabody LLP tells members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate that his client has been overseeing the “ongoing and sensitive investigation of a high-profile, controversial subject since early 2020 and would like to make protected whistleblower disclosures to Congress.”
The story was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, and Fox News has since confirmed the story through a source familiar with the investigation that the subject at issue is Hunter Biden.
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Illinois Youth Wrestler Sucker Punches Opponent After Losing Match, Police Launch Probe
Police have launched an investigation into an Illinois youth wrestling match that got ugly after a wrestler suckerpunched his opponent after losing.
During the “Beat The Streets” tournament on April 8 at Oak Park River Forest High School in Oak Park, Ill., Hafid Alicea of Maine West High School was defeated by Cooper Corder of SPAR Wrestling Academy. The final match score was 14-2.
As is custom in wrestling, the referee invited the two wrestlers to the center of the mat to shake hands and announce Corder as the winner.
However, things took a turn when Alicea went to shake Corder’s hand, but instead punched him square in the face, sending him down to the canvas.
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Kansas City Homeowner Accused of Shooting Teen on His Front Porch Turns Himself in, Makes Plea
An elderly Kansas City man accused of shooting a teen on his front porch last week after the minor rang his doorbell pleaded not guilty to two felony charges on Wednesday.
Andrew Lester, 84, appeared in court for his arraignment on first-degree assault and armed criminal action. He posted a $200,000 bond on Tuesday after turning himself in to police.
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Leftist Students Protest University’s Decision to Arm Campus Police
George Washington University students staged a protest Monday against the college’s decision to arm campus police officers with handguns.
Dozens of anti-gun protesters marched on Kogan Plaza near the university in Washington, DC, and on to interim University President Mark Wrighton’s home, calling the decision to arm campus cops excessive and unnecessary.
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Listen: John Solomon’s Exclusive Interview With Lawyer for IRS Whistleblower
Asenior IRS agent has alleged that the Biden Justice Department has blocked criminal prosecution of Hunter Biden. A letter to Congress from Mark Lytle, the whistleblower’s lawyer, indicated that the IRS agent is willing to reveal information about a high-profile tax case to the appropriate congressional committees. Just the News has confirmed that the allegations concern Hunter Biden.
The whistleblower’s evidence would conflict with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s recent congressional testimony that decisions to bring charges against Hunter Biden was being left to the U.S. Attorney for Delaware, Trump-appointed David Weiss.
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Netflix’s Beef Actor David Choe Uses Copyright Strikes in an Attempt to Kill Criticism
Actor David Choe, featured in Netflix Series Beef, is using copyright takedown notices to remove from social media clips of a podcast episode where he alleged he had previously engaged in “rapey behavior.”
In 2014, in an episode of his podcast DVDASA, Choe detailed a story of how he sexually assaulted a masseuse — something he later said was a joke.
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NIH Records Show Feds Funded Research in China to Create Coronavirus ‘Mutants’
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Wednesday announced it had received records from the Department of Health and Human Services showing that the National Institutes of Health granting funding for experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that sought to create mutant coronavirus variants.
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NYC to Impose Restrictions on Public Meat Consumption to Fight ‘Climate Change’
Democrat Mayor Eric Adams has revealed plans to impose restrictions on the amount of meat and dairy products the public can consume in New York City.
Adams, who is vegan, has vowed to limit public consumption of meat and dairy in an effort to fight so-called “climate change.”
According to Adams, reducing meat consumption will help NYC’s “greenhouse gas emissions.”
Adams’ plan seeks to reduce food-based gas emissions by 33 percent in the next 7 years.
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On-Duty NYPD Officer Randomly Hit in Head With Bottle by Attacker With 11 Prior Arrests
An on-duty New York Police Department officer was attacked and smacked in the head with a bottle in an attack by a random passerby that was caught on video.
In a video first obtained by New York Post, the female officer can be seen standing near 231st Street and Broadway in the Bronx on Monday while officers were conducting smoke shop inspections before a man blindsides her and hits her in the back of the head.
The footage shows the man continuing to go after the officer as other officers try to pull him away.
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Pictures: New York City Parking Garage Collapse, One Killed, Several Injured
A Lower Manhattan multi-storey parking garage collapsed on Tuesday afternoon, with decks of cars crashing down killing one and injuring four others.
The building, which dates to the 1950s and is in the financial district of Lower Manhattan just blocks away from Wall Street, collapsed “pancaked collapsed all the way to the cellar floor” a little after 4 pm on Tuesday afternoon. Several people were injured including four who required hospitalisation, and one person was killed in the collapse.
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Poll: 32% of Biden Voters Back Another Democrat or Undecided in Primary
Just under a third of President Joe Biden’s 2020 voters either support an already declared Democrat candidate or are undecided about who they would vote for in a primary, according to a poll.
The Suffolk University/ USA Today poll released Wednesday shows that 67 percent of Democrats who voted for Biden in 2020 want the president to win the Democrat nomination.
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Portland’s First Shake Shack Hasn’t Even Opened Yet, and it’s Already Been Smashed Up
What is to be Portland’s first Shake Shack was hit by vandals before it even opened.
According to KGW8, someone broke a window in the brand-new restaurant but did not appear to get inside.
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REI to Close Portland Store, Citing ‘Safety of Our Employees’ and ‘Out-of-Control’ Thefts
Add outdoor retail giant REI to the growing list of companies planning to close stores in Portland, Oregon, because of rampant lawlessness in the Democrat-controlled city.
Oregon Live said REI notified customers on Monday about plans to close its store in Portland’s Pearl District early next year. The retailer said its store in Portland “had its highest number of break-ins and thefts in two decades, despite actions to provide extra security.”
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Says Proposed Exchange Act Changes Threaten Free Speech
Securities and Exchange Commission’s commissioner Hester Peirce has criticized the regulator’s proposed amendment to the Exchange Act, aimed at amending the definition of the term “exchange.”
In a statement, Peirce said that the “Commission aggressively expands its regulatory reach to solve problems that do not exist.”
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A George Soros-bankrolled prosecutor in St. Louis already facing a legal effort by Missouri’s attorney general to fire her for allegedly neglecting her duties may also be held in criminal contempt of court after no one from her office showed up for a murder trial, adding further fuel to the push to oust her.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner, a Democrat, is fighting to hold onto her position as Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, seeks to remove her from office, claiming the city’s top prosecutor isn’t enforcing the law or protecting public safety.
Teams of lawyers representing both sides appeared in a St. Louis courtroom on Tuesday for a marathon hearing focused on whether Bailey’s lawsuit should be dismissed and what evidence city prosecutors must provide to the state. The arguments went on for over four hours, with Judge John Torbitzky ultimately saying he’ll make a decision on most of the issues at a later time. He also set a tentative trial date for Sept. 25.
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Suspect Nabbed for Knifing Worker in Manhattan Juice Shop, Leaving Him in Critical Condition
A suspect has been nabbed for knifing a worker in a Manhattan juice shop, leaving him in critical condition, police said Wednesday.
Chala Jamison, 23, was arrested Monday for an unrelated burglary and was then charged with attempted murder for the April 12 attack inside Juice Island on Third Ave. near E. 61st St.
Chala, who lives several blocks away from the store, walked in and argued with the 39-year-old worker, stabbing him in the head, neck back and hands with a knife she grabbed from the counter.
Medics rushed the critically-wounded victim to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
The United Bodegas of America identified the victim as Luis Morocho Vasquez, an Ecuadorian immigrant, and said he’s since been released from the hospital. The group released shocking images of him bloodied in his hospital bed after the attack.
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Texas State University is Sued Over Speech Restrictions
Free speech nonprofit Speech First has sued Texas State University over its “harassment” and computer policies, alleging they violate students’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
The university’s harassment policy bans “unwelcome verbal, written, graphic, or physical conduct” deemed “sufficiently severe or pervasive” targeted at people based on factors like sex, gender, and race.
The lawsuit argues that the policy chills the speech of students by discouraging them from “expressing views that are outside the mainstream about the political and social issues of the day.”
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Trump Unveils Epic Agenda47 Plan to Address Homeless & Fentanyl Crises
Donald Trump issued a video message Tuesday revealing his plan to address the nation’s out-of-control homeless and drug problem if elected president a second time.
Announcing the latest addition to his Agenda47 presidential platform, Trump explained once-great U.S. cities have become nightmares most people don’t want to visit let alone call home.
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Video: Rand Paul Tells DHS Head That Agency’s Practices Are “Like Something Out of Stalin’s Russia”
Senator Rand Paul confronted the head of The Department of Homeland Security Tuesday during a hearing, asking him why some of the agency’s practices are akin to those of authoritarian regimes.
In his opening remarks, Paul noted “in the 20 years since its creation, the Department of Homeland Security has departed from its original mission and used its expansive authorities and funding to impede on the rights of American citizens.”
The Senator continued, “what should terrify every American is that the full extent of DHS’s abuse of its power against its own citizens are still largely unknown.”
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Warning! AP History Textbooks Already Pushing Anti-Trump Lies
During his Human Events Daily podcast Wednesday, host Jack Posobiec commented on a recent article by independent journalist Greg Price exposing five new school textbooks in U.S. classrooms spewing false narratives about President Donald Trump and the 2016 election.
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Washington Legislature Approves Sweeping Ban on Semi-Automatic Rifles
The Washington legislature on Wednesday approved a broad ban on semi-automatic rifles, including AR and AK variants, sending it to the governor’s desk.
The measure would bar the sale, manufacture, importation, and distribution of a range of firearms that discharge one round per pull of the trigger, the Associated Press reported. The measure provides exceptions for law enforcement and the military.
Upon receiving Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee’s signature, the ban would take effect immediately. The governor has expressed support for the measure, saying “[w]e refuse to accept gun violence as normal. Gun violence, in all its forms, can be prevented,” after the ban cleared the state Senate.
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Watch: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Announces 2024 Presidential Bid
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, officially announced his bid for the 2024 United States presidential race in Boston, Massachusetts, Wednesday, becoming the second prospective Democrat to enter the race.
Kennedy Jr., 69, stands out in the race in that he’s openly expressed concerns over vaccines. As the founder of the nonprofit organization Children’s Health Defense, he’s been a prominent figure in the movement for vaccine safety and raising awareness about serious adverse reactions to vaccines.
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Watch: Judicial Watch Sues Homeland Security Over Censorship Abuse
Judicial Watch has announced it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department Homeland Security (DHS) for records showing cooperation between the government and social media platforms to censor Americans.
Last week, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton released a scathing press release where he detailed the “unholy” conspiracy between the Biden administration and Big Tech to silence Americans who voiced concern about Covid, vaccines, election integrity, the Southern Border crises, and so much more.
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West Virginia Lawmaker Switches to GOP, ‘Cannot Continue Down the Road’ of Democrat Party
On Monday, West Virginia Delegate Elliott Pritt became the fourth lawmaker in recent weeks to switch from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.
According to Fox News, Pritt, who works as a teacher, is a freshman delegate who defeated the Republican incumbent in the 2022 election.
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BC Mayor Demands Rehiring of Unvaccinated Healthcare Workers Amid 10th ER Closure
The mayor of Merritt, British Columbia wants the provincial health authority to bring back unvaccinated healthcare workers who were fired due to provincial Covid-19 vaccine mandates, as the city faces protests over repeat emergency room closures in the city and across the province.
On Saturday, a group of Nicola Valley residents demonstrated against the 10th closure of the local emergency department since December.
Mayor Mike Goetz has made a request to Interior Health to drop remaining Covid-19 vaccination requirements and hire back the unvaccinated healthcare workers who were put on leave.
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Canada’s Liberals Shut Down Debate Over Online Censorship Plans
The Conservative Party of Canada demanded that the House of Commons hold an emergency debate on the pro-censorship Bill C-11 over concerns that the Liberal government might use it to force platforms to take down “misinformation” and offensive content.
The request was shot down.
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Man Stabbed in ‘Unprovoked’ Attack on the TTC, Suspect Image Released: Police
Toronto police are looking for a man who they say stabbed someone on a TTC bus last week in an “unprovoked” attack.
On April 11 at 11:30 p.m., police said, officers responded to a stabbing in the area of Black Creek Drive and Eglinton Avenue West.
Police said the suspect and victim were onboard a TTC bus travelling westbound on Eglinton when the suspect “approached the victim unprovoked.”
At that point, police said, the suspect stabbed the victim and fled the bus at Black Creek Drive.
Police told CTV News Toronto that the injuries suffered by the victim were non-life-threatening.
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Unvaccinated Woman Denied Organ Transplant Proves Natural Immunity in Bid for Life-Saving Procedure
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms’ lawyer representing an unvaccinated woman who’s been denied an organ transplant is demanding Alberta Health Services (AHS) overturn its decision after patient Sheila Annette Lewis proved she has natural immunity.
Lewis is dying of a terminal illness. She was removed from the top of the organ donor transplant list after refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19. She has been challenging the constitutionality of Covid-19 vaccine requirements for transplant candidates put in place by AHS, an Alberta Hospital, and six transplant doctors for more than a year.
Her counsel is now demanding that health officials accept her newly established natural immunity to Covid-19 as an alternative to vaccination and reinstate Lewis to the high-priority transplant waitlist by April 21.
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Bulgaria on Wednesday became the latest European country to temporarily ban the import of Ukrainian grain and other agricultural produce following protests from local farmers, excluding goods in transit destined for export.
The measure will be in place until the end of June. Officials said it will protect Bulgarian farmers’ competitiveness amid a market glut of Ukrainian grain that has lowered prices, and help them sell their own grain that has piled up, unsold, in warehouses.
Agriculture Minister Yavor Gechev told reporters that Sofia is following the example of fellow European Union members Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia, adding that Bulgaria’s market was “really saturated enough with crops.”
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The average number of employees who received a six-figure sum in total remuneration was 7.9 per local authority, according to data compiled by the TaxPayers’ Alliance.
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The Dutch public prosecutor’s office (OM) has appealed against the sentences handed down last week by a Dutch court to five former ISIS brides who were repatriated to the Netherlands in February 2022.
The convicted terrorists were handed prison sentences between 16 months and three years after being found guilty of membership in a proscribed terrorist organization, namely the Islamic State, and for participating in the preparation of acts of terrorism.
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Mass Stabbing at Gym in Germany by Bearded Suspect With ‘Southern Appearance’
Police in Germany are seeking a suspect of “southern appearance” with a “long black beard” following a stabbing rampage at a fitness club that left four people seriously injured this week, according to reports.
The horrifying incident unfolded on Tuesday evening in Duisborg, a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Police received urgent calls about an attack at John Reed Fitness near the city center, Bild reports.
Officers found four German citizens ranging in age from 21 to 32 years old suffering from severe stab wounds at the facility.
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Poland Backs Down From Ukrainian Grain Ban, Says Grain Transit Will Resume But With Safeguards
Talks between Poland and Ukraine on the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain and agricultural products into Poland were completed on Tuesday, with Poland agreeing that grain transit from Ukraine would resume.
Over the last few days, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia announced they were halting all grain transports from Ukraine, along with a range of other food items. Now, Poland is the first country to step back from its position, which was harshly criticized by the European Union.
Polish Minister for Agriculture Robert Telus said at a press conference with Ukrainian ministers that the “EU had closed its eyes to the problem of large grain imports into Poland.”
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Poland Constructs Advanced Electronic Barrier on Border With Russia’s Kaliningrad
Poland has started construction of an electronic barrier on the border with the Russian-controlled Kaliningrad exclave. According to the Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski, it will be “one of the most advanced borders in the EU.”
Last November, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak announced the construction of a temporary barrier on the Polish-Russian border. Work on the new security measures began on Tuesday.
“This will be an incredibly modern barrier, similar to the one on the border with Belarus,” said Kaminski, a member of the Law and Justice (PiS) party. “There are day-and-night cameras and motion sensors, allowing for a full view of what is happening there.”
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Poland’s Ruling Conservatives Slam EU Parliament’s Decision on Emissions
The Polish ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) has expressed its disappointment by the decision taken by the European Parliament (EP) to increase the rate of emissions reduction.
The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to reform the emission trading system (ETS) so as to reduce emissions even more by 2030. The CO2 emission certificates are already a major cost for the energy sector and remain the EU’s main instrument for limiting emissions.
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Private Messaging Apps Push Back Against UK Snooping Proposals
Signal, WhatsApp, and other encrypted messaging services have called on the UK government to drop a proposal in the Online Safety Bill that would require them to undermine end-to-end encryption and allow the government access to messages.
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An inquest into the death of 32-year-old British psychologist Dr. Stephen Wright has determined that he passed away due to “unintended complications of the [Covid-19] vaccine.” His wife, Charlotte, has been on a mission to change his official cause of death from “natural causes” to reflect the findings.
Dr. Stephen Wright died in January 2021 after being diagnosed with a blood clot in his brain. He’d received his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine just ten days prior.
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UK: Muslims Tell Hindu Children to Convert to Islam or They Will Not ‘Survive Long’
Hindu children in the UK have reportedly been threatened by Muslim classmates that they must convert to Islam or they will not “survive long” in school.
Research undertaken by an Anglo-America think tank has found that Hindu children in the UK have been put under pressure from Muslims to convert to Islam, with those who refuse told that they will face serious harassment and bullying in schools.
The threats mirror those behind recent sectarian riots between Hindus and Muslims in the UK, with some Islamic extremists said to have spread false stories of Hindus harassing Muslim girls on the streets of Leicester.
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UK: Nine Men Are Charged With Sexual Offences as Part of Investigation Into ‘Abuse’ in Rotherham
Nine men have been charged with sexual offences as part of an investigation into alleged abuse in Rotherham.
The suspects appeared at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday and were released on bail until their next court appearance on May 17, at the city’s crown court.
The National Crime Agency said that eight of the men are accused of offences alleged to have taken place between 2003 and 2008.
Seven of the men were from Rotherham and two were from Sheffield.
Mohammed Amar, 41, of Elizabeth Way, Rotherham, was charged with two counts of indecent assault.
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UK: Well, What Did You Expect?
A young black man in London thought it would be a fantastic idea to chase a woman down a dark street at night making weird growling noises at her to prove she’s racist.
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UK police have reportedly used the country’s anti-terror laws to detain a French publisher accused of being involved in protests against Emmanuel Macron, and arrested him for refusing to hand over his phone passcode.
Ernest Moret, who works for Editions La Fabrique, was reportedly travelling to Britain in order to attend the annual London Book Fair when he was detained by officers allegedly over concerns that he was “engaged in terrorist acts or in possession of material for use in terrorism”.
Officers reportedly believed he had been involved in recent anti-government protests in France which had occurred in response to President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.
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Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Adaptation Sued by Egyptian Lawyer: A ‘Forgery’
Egyptian lawyer Mahmoud al-Semary officially filed a lawsuit against Netflix’s documentary “Queen Cleopatra” after its recent trailer revealed that the figure would be depicted as Black.
Netflix’s series inspired controversy after revealing a trailer for the series on Apr. 12. In the trailer, Cleopatra is portrayed by actress Adele James, a Black actress, despite several historians and Egyptian critics pointing out that Cleopatra was likely not Black.
While speaking to Egypt Independent, al-Semary’s legal complaint referred to the series as a “forgery” and attacked Netflix for “this crime” of misleading viewers.
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Macron Working With Beijing on ‘Secret Plan’ for Peace Deal Between Ukraine and Russia: Reports
French President Emmanuel Macron is reportedly actively working on a “secret plan” with Communist China to attempt to broker a peace deal by the summer between Russia and Ukraine.
French sources speaking to Bloomberg have revealed that Emmanuel Macron, who recently travelled to Guangdong to hold talks with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, has apparently tasked top diplomats from Paris to engage with Beijing in crafting a deal to end the war in Ukraine.
According to the report, the Elysée believes that such a deal could possibly be struck by the summer should certain conditions be met, namely that Kyiv succeeds in its Spring counter-offensive to such a degree that the Zelensky government would be able to come to the table with Vladimir Putin from a position of strength.
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Russia has been accused of acquiring civilian fishing trawlers to conduct 27 intelligence operations in Swedish waters within the last five years, a joint-investigation by several Nordic broadcasters has revealed.
According to the report published by SVT Nyheter, Russian intelligence operatives modified civilian vessels such as fishing trawlers, cargo ships, and yachts to undertake covert surveillance and reconnaissance missions on behalf of the Kremlin, stopping in at least eight Swedish ports in recent years.
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India’s Population Will Officially Overtake China to be World’s Largest This Year Says U.N.
NEW DELHI (AP) — India is on track to become the world’s most populous nation as its young population soars, and will surpass China by mid-2023, according to data released by the United Nations on Wednesday.
The hope is that India’s 254 million people aged between 15 and 24 — the largest number in the world — can help fuel economic growth for years to come. China, meanwhile, is struggling with an aging population and stagnant population growth, sparking expectations that the demographic changes could pave the way for India to become an economic and global heavyweight.
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Special Inspector Says He Can’t Say That $2B in US Aid to Afghanistan Isn’t Funding Taliban
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko said Wednesday he cannot say whether $2 billion U.S. tax dollars given to Afghanistan assistance are not funding the Taliban.
The United States has appropriated $2 billion in Afghanistan assistance since withdrawing from the country in 2021, Sopko testified to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability during a hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal.
“As I sit here today, I cannot assure this committee or the American taxpayer we are not currently funding the Taliban,” he said.
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China has positioned two WZ-8 rocket-propelled reconnaissance drones at an air base in eastern China, about 350 miles inland from Shanghai, according to a leaked Pentagon document.
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A 300-page document, compiled by the US Senate, suggests Chinese researchers started work on a vaccine programme in mid-November of 2019.
It adds to evidence that the country attempted to cover up early infections before the World Health Organisation (WHO) was informed on December 31.
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ABC Under Fire for Not Covering Lidia Thorpe’s Outburst Outside a Melbourne Strip Club
Australia’s national broadcaster is under fire for its lack of coverage of Senator Lidia Thorpe after she was filmed screaming vile insults at patrons outside a strip club in Melbourne.
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Australians will vote in the referendum between October and December — after Prime Minster Anthony Albanese revealed the wording of the proposal last month.
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Mariam Deng, 20, was arrested by undercover cops while dropping drugs to a customer in Randwick, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, on December 9 last year.
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France: Algerian Migrants Jailed After Over 100 Thefts and Burglaries in Just 3 Months
An Algerian national, already the subject of a deportation order, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of committing approximately 80 thefts and burglaries across France in the space of just three months.
The 26-year-old named Souleyman B., who has no fixed residence, appeared before a French court on Monday to be sentenced for a multitude of crimes committed between June and August last year across Laval, Saint-Berthevin, and Changé in northwestern France.
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Meloni Promotes Family Policy for Italy Instead of Migration
The Italian government is determined to increase domestic birth rates through a targeted family policy instead of supporting migration, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday.
“Europe is waking up to problems for which some were recently condemned as dangerously sovereignist,” Meloni, president of the right-wing Italian Brotherhood (FdI) party, said in Milan on Tuesday.
Meloni continued, saying: “Italy has more and more people to support and fewer and fewer people to work,” and the Italian government “does not think exclusively in terms of migrants.”
“The problem can be solved in several ways and the government is not thinking only of migrants, but of the great untapped reserve of women in the workforce and of stimulating births,” Meloni said.
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A council is opposing the Home Office by saying the need to accommodate more asylum seekers is not an ‘emergency’ under planning law, the High Court has heard.
Braintree District Council is bringing legal action against the Government’s proposed use of Wethersfield Airfield in Essex to house up to 1,700 asylum seekers for up to 180 days each.
On Wednesday, lawyers for the local authority asked for an injunction preventing the use of the site to house asylum seekers.
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The UK’s ‘Conservative’ government will use a special provision in emergency legislation allowing it to ignore normal planning laws to build migrant camps in areas where locals are resisting them, a report claims.
Suella Braverman, once hailed as a red-meat Conservative with a genuine drive to tackle the migrant crisis impacting the United Kingdom, is due to use emergency legislation to force a migrant camp onto a rural community which has attempted to resist it.
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Videos: DHS Head Grilled by Senators for ‘Facilitating Child Slavery’
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was relentlessly grilled and exposed by Senators during a hearing Tuesday regarding child trafficking across the southern border leading to forced labor.
Senator Ron Johnson ripped into Mayorkas, telling him “you ought to resign,” and asking that if border security is “a priority, how did we let four or five million people into this country in a little more than two years?”
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While Denmark Tightens Its Asylum Policy, it Opens Its Doors to Foreign Workers
Denmark has gone from being one of the most accommodating EU nations for asylum seekers to one of the least, newly published government figures have revealed.
Data released by the Ministry of Immigration and Integration showed the conservative approach to immigration by the typically left-wing administration led by Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats is working, as the country dropped last year to 19th place in the EU in terms of the number of asylum seekers received per capita.
The change is substantial when compared to 2014 when Denmark was the fifth-highest EU member state with regard to welcoming asylum seekers, a position it had held for several years prior.
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‘Abort God’: Ohio Pro-Life Pregnancy Center Attacked by ‘Jane’s Revenge’
A pro-life pregnancy center in Bowling Green, Ohio, was spray-painted with messages saying, “fund abortion,” and “abort God,” in another attack claimed by a radical group called “Jane’s Revenge,” Fox News reported on Monday.
Other phrases painted on the walls of the HerChoice pregnancy center, included “liars,” and “fake clinic,” a label that far-left, pro-abortion politicians often give to pregnancy resource centers that actually work to help women prepare for motherhood. Rochelle Sikora, the executive director of HerChoice, told Fox News Digital the attack happened on the morning of April 15.
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The triple Australian Olympian weighed into an upcoming story-time event to be held at Oakleigh Library in Melbourne’s south-east hosted by drag queen performer Sam B.
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Twitter boss Elon Musk has taken to social media to ask why the manifesto of transgender mass shooter Audrey Hale hasn’t been published.
As Slay News reported, Hale, a biological woman who claimed to be male, murdered six people, including three children, at a Nashville, Tennessee Christian school.
Typically, the corporate media scrambles to publish information following a mass shooting in the hope of somehow linking the event to President Donald Trump or using the tragedy to advance the Democrats’ anti-gun agenda.
However, the story from Nashville, which saw a radical leftist murdering innocent Christians, has quickly faded from the news cycle.
And despite authorities confirming that Hale produced a manifesto before the massacre, it has yet to be made public.
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Riverview Elementary School in Snohomish, WA has canceled Mother’s Day and Father’s Day events to avoid “triggers” for students but is promoting a Pride event featuring a drag show. Parents are triggering, apparently, but Pride is all the rage.
During the most recent meeting of the school’s Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) on April 11, Principal Derek Larsen announced that there will be no Moms and Maple Bars event which was scheduled for May 11, nor Dads and Doughnuts on June 8, and asked that the events be removed from the PTO calendar and website.
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Protests broke out at the University of Pittsburgh after Daily Wire host Michael Knowles and journalist Brad Polumbo visited the school to debate transgender ideology, a hot topic on college campuses across the country.
The anger directed against the topic of discussion, “Should transgenderism be regulated by law?,” turned into fear as a “loud explosion was heard and felt in the debate room,” according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
“The explosion prompted Pitt to send an emergency alert to students about a ‘public safety emergency,’“ the newspaper added.
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Florida Extends Ban on Gender, Sexual Orientation Lessons Through Grade 12
The Florida Board of Education on Wednesday increased its restrictions on public school lessons discussing gender identity and sexual orientation, almost completely barring mention of the subject.
Under the state’s Parental Rights in Education Act, which LGBT groups have maligned as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, public schools may not instruct children from kindergarten through grade 3 on such topics.
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Police in Windsor, Ontario have located the suspect in an alleged sexual assault case that took place in a women’s shelter on April 4.
On April 18, Windsor Police put out a call to the public for information regarding a suspect after a female victim reported that she had been sexually assaulted while staying at a Windsor women’s shelter.
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A trans-identified male accused of spying on girls in a women’s changing room in Nanaimo, British Columbia has been identified by local residents as a convicted pedophile.
In February, Janayh Wright was threatened with arrest after confronting a male wearing a wig whom she alleges was peeking under her daughter’s stall at the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre. The male claimed to be entitled to be in the changing room on the grounds of “human rights.”
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SCOTUS Delays Abortion Pill Restrictions Through Friday
The Supreme Court on Wednesday delayed the implementation of restrictions on the availability of abortion drug mifepristone through at least Friday.
Associate Justice Samuel Alito announced the delay, according to The Hill. Alito is responsible for appeals from the 5th Circuit.
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Study on Trans Athletes in Sport Shut Down After Researcher Calls Biological Males ‘Males’
Research on transgender athletes has been shut down because one of the professors called biological males that identify as women “males.”
Dr. John Armstrong, a professor at King’s College London (KCL), applied to conduct a survey of elite athletes and volunteers to investigate opinions on whether trans-identified males should be allowed to compete in female track and field categories as well as whether people felt they could freely express their beliefs on this issue, reports The Telegraph.
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Transgender Athlete Barred From Australian Women’s Basketball League
Authored by Daniel Y. Teng via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Transgender athlete Lexi Rodgers has been barred from playing in the NBL1 South women’s basketball league in the Australian state of Victoria.
The decision was handed down by an expert panel after former NBA star Andrew Bogut broke the news of Rodgers’ involvement.
In a statement on April 18, Basketball Australia said former AFL Chief Medical Officer Dr. Peter Harcourt, Olympian Suzy Batkovic, and Associate Prof. Diana Robinson concluded that Rodgers was ineligible to play for the Kilsyth Cobras.
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Here it is now:
“Thou shalt not own anything…”
The first step towards the “Great Reset” –
now in neon light.
I must admit that I have long been looking for the first unmistakable signs of the World Economic Forum’s “New World Order” project.
But now there is no longer any excuse for not recognizing that something is threatening Europe in more than one respect.
Ursula von der Leyen is there this time in the name of “climate”. Well, what else? Now they can no longer bang the drum of “covid pandemic” and run off with poisonous syringes, as too many of the more educated know and understand the backstory.
But now the faithful servant of the faithful is once again being pulled out of the stands, namely the climate, because it is always good to have a plan B. This is why the EU has adopted a text that questions private property rights.
Let us make it clear from the outset that the global warming claim has a particularly large number of skeptics and outright opponents, including many scientists.
Heating of homes
It should be noted that “Europe emits only 9 % CO2 in the world, while China and the US together emit 50 %” (see link).
An EU directive was adopted on March 14, 2023 in the European Parliament. It was the “Directive on energy consumption in buildings”, which is now to be amended.
In a text from Riposte Laïque (see link)
the following could be read:
“For the construction sector to be climate neutral by 2050, all new buildings must have zero emissions by 2028. On the A to G energy scale, existing residential buildings must now have at least class E by 2030 and at least class D by 2033.
Class G buildings are those in the worst condition, representing 15% of the buildings in the Member States”.
The energy classes are nothing new, but now all buildings must be climate acceptable by 2050 and “all dwellings must be at least class E by 2030, while all buildings must be at least class D by 2033”. How was this supposed to be achieved?
What happens if this plan cannot be followed? And what happens to buildings that are classified as class G? Will people be evicted? Think for a moment.
It just sounds too crazy. But we are also in the company of madmen and we should report it as soon as possible.
Besides, if you want to sell your house/apartment, you will be in a hurry. It cannot be sold – or bought – after the closing date.
The same applies to tenancies in apartments or houses. If you do not respect EU rules, the property cannot be rented out.
And to be sure to make it hell for ordinary people, it should be added that “heating with coal, fuel oil or gas will be prohibited, as will the construction of thermal power vehicles”.
So we will have to cover our roofs with solar panels or wind turbines and get used to power cuts when there is no sun or wind.
This could look like expropriation in the classic sense. But how can the EU command center make such decisions in the Member States? When did we hand over this decision-making power to the EU?
Even if it is a question of deciding whether or not there should be flower-lined roadsides along highways, it is a matter for the EU.
An unelected German person with no competence whatsoever has taken over the jurisdiction of European sovereign countries.
This is absurd!
http://Www.synthese-éditions.com
Von der Leyen and her EU want to kill owning private property
in the name of ecology.
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published 20/4-23
By Bitten-Kirsti Nielsen / snaphanen.dk
Wait a minute! When the twin towers collapsed a floor and then pancaked their way down floor by floor, people said that was impossible. Is it just parking structures that pancake? What other building types (excluding towers, of course) are capable of this?
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HIGHER EDUCATION IS BRAINWASHING, PART I
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ExmGwibBpz0I/
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Higher Education is Brainwashing, Part II
Posted on April 13, 2023
https://www.bitchute.com/video/o1AId7fdzSx0/
The only way to stop it.
https://www.amren.com/videos/2023/04/higher-education-is-brainwashing-part-ii/