Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia will send Britain into the abyss with nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the Russian government announced that it was expelling some 20 German diplomats in retaliation for a similar move by Germany.
In other news, the core inflation rate in Poland rose to a new high of 12.3%.
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Breitbart Business Digest: April Cruelly Crushes Recession Expectations
It looks like we are going to have to wait a bit before we see the most-anticipated recession in living memory.
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Core Inflation Rises to New High of 12.3% in Poland
While Poland’s headline inflation figure recently began to slow, core inflation — a measure that excludes goods with the most volatile prices, such as fuel and food — has continued to accelerate, reaching a new high in March.
The latest figures, released by the National Bank of Poland (NBP), show that core inflation hit 12.3% year-on-year in March, up from 12% in February and the 22nd consecutive month in which core inflation has accelerated. It is now at its highest level since 1998.
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Nokia Warns Over Economic Situation as it Reports Lower Profits Than Expected
The wireless and fixed-network equipment maker reported net profit of 342 million euros (£300 million) for the January-March period.
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In parts of Sydney, Melbourne and regional Australia, 100 per cent of borrowers are in mortgage stress where they can’t pay their bills. Here are the postcodes where 10 rate rises are biting.
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“Entire Downtown is Effectively Dead”: Baltimore City Descends Further Into Turmoil
Downtown Baltimore is plagued with shootings, carjackings, muggings, and out-of-control packs of teenagers wreaking havoc. Baltimore residents can thank five decades of Democrat politicians for mismanaging this once-thriving town.
Earlier this month, the Inner Harbor district was overrun by hundreds of teenagers that resembled an apocalyptic scene from a Hollywood or Netflix movie. The video below might provide some insight into why people are shunning the area, which caused a plunge in foot traffic, making it difficult for retail stores to survive.
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60% of Americans Believe ‘Cheating’ Impacted Recent Elections, Poll Shows
Most Americans believe that the results of the 2022 midterm elections were impacted by “cheating,” a new poll has revealed.
According to the poll, conducted by Rasmussen Reports, a staggering 60 percent of American voters believe that “cheating” played a role in the outcome.
A majority of voters also suspect that officials are ignoring the problem of election cheating, Rasmussen notes.
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AI Will Eventually be ‘As Good a Tutor as Any Human’: Bill Gates
Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Artificial intelligence (AI) may not be advanced enough to replace teachers now, but according to Bill Gates, that time is not far off.
“The AIs will get to that ability to be as good a tutor as any human ever could,” the Microsoft co-founder said at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego on April 18.
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Airman Jack Teixeira Leaked Intelligence Documents to Larger Group, Report Says
Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman suspected of leaking classified Pentagon intelligence on the war in Ukraine, may have posted sensitive information online months earlier than previously known and to a much wider chat group, according to the New York Times.
Teixeira, 21, was arrested on April 13 following an FBI investigation into the “alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information.” A cybersecurity journeyman for the Air National Guard, Teixeira held the highest level of security clearance granted by the federal government for top secret information. He is accused of posting secret intelligence on the Russian war effort to a private chat group on Discord, a social media messaging platform that is popular with gamers. The New York Times reported that the group, Thug Shaker Central, had about 50 members.
However, another Discord user told the paper about a larger, previously undisclosed, chat group with about 600 members where Teixeira allegedly posted additional classified information.
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Anti-CRT Measures Adopted by 28 US States
More than half of U.S. states have passed measures against the teaching of critical race theory — for example in schools or government employee trainings. Another dozen have seen successful initiatives on a smaller scale, with single cities, counties or school districts (or both) establishing such laws and directives. This is according to a tracking project at the University of California Los Angeles law school.
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Biden Admin Preparing Major Crackdown on Power Plants That Fuel Nation’s Grid
The Biden administration is reportedly finalizing a proposal that would force fossil fuel-fired power plants to substantially curb emissions or utilize costly carbon capture technology.
The proposal — which will soon be released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — is expected to require coal— and natural gas-fired power plants to cut or capture the vast majority of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040, The New York Times reported on Saturday, citing officials briefed on a draft of the plan. The regulation, if finalized, would represent the first-ever federal action curbing power plant emissions.
“EPA cannot comment because the proposals are currently under interagency review,” EPA spokesperson Maria Michalos told Fox News Digital in a statement.
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Billionaire Dem Donor Defends Bankrolling Trump Accuser’s Rape Lawsuit as Judge Seals Funding Docs
A billionaire Democratic megadonor on Friday defended his bankrolling of a rape lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, raising questions about why the accuser’s attorneys are still trying to keep documents about the funding arrangement a secret and why the judge presiding over the case agreed to seal them.
Reid Hoffman, a founder and former executive chairman of LinkedIn, wrote in an online post that he’s backing E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump.
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Charlie Sheen Grovels, Begs Elon Musk for His Blue Twitter Checkmark Back
Hollywood star Charlie Sheen begged Twitter CEO Elon Musk to return his coveted blue Twitter verification check mark yesterday in a groveling display. Sheen certainly can afford to spend $8 bucks a month making the begging even more desperate.
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Two Chicago teens that allegedly caused a fatal crash with a stolen vehicle on Sunday which led to the death of a 6-month-old infant are receiving only misdemeanor charges.
According to Chicago Police, the suspects, 17-year-old and 14-year-old males, are both facing one count of criminal trespassing charges, WGN9 reports.
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A Ring video surveillance system captured the terrifying moment an armed robber, posing as a delivery man, attempted to rob a Connecticut homeowner. The homeowner reacted in lightning speed, quickly defending himself by shoving the would-be thief.
East Haven Police in Connecticut said the attempted home invasion occurred on Friday, April 14 in a quiet neighborhood.
Officers said just before 10:00 a.m., 37-year-old Xavier Otero came up to a home dressed as a deliveryman, wearing a fluorescent orange safety vest and holding a manila envelope in his hand. In the background of the Ring surveillance video, a silver Dodge Ram Pickup truck was seen waiting by the unsuspecting family’s home.
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Court Filing Suggests Troubling CIA Links to Two 9/11 Hijackers
Authored by Kit Klarenberg via The Grayzone
A newly-released court filing raises grave questions about the relationship between Alec Station, a CIA unit set up to track Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and his associates, and two 9/11 hijackers leading up to the attacks, which was subject to a coverup at the highest levels of the FBI.
Obtained by SpyTalk, the filing is a 21-page declaration by Don Canestraro, a lead investigator for the Office of Military Commissions, the legal body overseeing the cases of 9/11 defendants. It summarizes classified government discovery disclosures, and private interviews he conducted with anonymous high-ranking CIA and FBI officials. Many agents who spoke to Canestraro headed up Operation Encore, the Bureau’s aborted, long-running probe into Saudi government connections to the 9/11 attack.
Despite conducting multiple lengthy interviews with a range of witnesses, producing hundreds of pages of evidence, formally investigating several Saudi officials, and launching a grand jury to probe a Riyadh-run US-based support network for the hijackers, Encore was abruptly terminated in 2016. This was purportedly due to a byzantine intra-FBI bust-up over investigative methods.
When originally released in 2021 on the Office’s public court docket, every part of the document was redacted except an “unclassified” marking. Given its explosive contents, it is not difficult to see why: as Canestraro’s investigation concluded, at least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited either knowingly or unknowingly into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation which may have gone awry.
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Florida Man Won’t be Charged in Shooting Death of Tampa College Student
An attorney for University of Tampa student Carson Senfield’s family called the decision a ‘miscarriage of justice’
No charges will be filed against a man who fatally shot a University of Tampa student after the 19-year-old mistakenly got into his car last fall, likely thinking it was his Uber ride, the Hillsborough County state attorney announced Friday.
In a December letter to the Tampa Police Department, State Attorney Susan Shorter Lopez called the “use of force” by the unnamed man, who had claimed he feared for his life when Carson Senfield got into his car, “justified,” FOX 13 Tampa reported.
Lopez wrote at the time to Interim Chief Lee Bercaw, “The office of the State Attorney has completed a review of the investigation of the death of Carson Senfield on September 17, 2022. A review of the facts gathered during the investigation and the applicable law compels the conclusion that [the unnamed shooter]’s use of deadly force against Carson Senfield was justified pursuant to Florida Statute 776.012.(2)” more commonly known as Stand Your Ground. “No charges shall be filed.”
Senfield family attorney Ralph Fernandez called the decision a “miscarriage of justice, clear and manifest.”
“This ain’t right,” he told FOX 13. “Obviously, the kid’s making a mistake. You can’t shoot him like a dog like that. He’s got to at least do something to you.”
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California Governor Gavin Newsom called in the National Guard to help clean up San Francisco in a shocking turn of events. Newsom announced a new partnership with the California Highway Patrol (CHP), California National Guard (CalGuard), San Francisco Police Department (SFPD), and the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office (SFDA) to deal with the fentanyl crisis.
Newsom said the agreement between all four agencies will focus on “dismantling fentanyl trafficking and disrupting the supply of the deadly drug in the city by holding the operators of large-scale drug trafficking operations accountable.”
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Homeowner Catches Thief Trying to Steal Catalytic Converter, Stabs Him to Death
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies said a homeowner had enough of the out-of-control crime and decided to do something about it. Around 2:30 a.m. at a home in the 11200 block of Thienes Avenue in South El Monte, the homeowner heard a group of men talking in his driveway.
He was sleeping but the loud voices woke him up. He got out of bed, went into his kitchen, grabbed a knife, and went to check it out. “While the resident was sleeping, he heard several people in the driveway,” Lt. Michael Gomez of the LASD said. “It sounded like suspects were trying to steal possibly his catalytic converter, at which point he came out of the house and confronted the suspect.”
He found a group of four men in the process of stealing a catalytic converter from his vehicle parked in the driveway. Deputies say he stabbed one of them, a 45— to 50-year-old man who was under the car doing the deed, causing the others to flee in a small car. The thief he stabbed was pronounced dead on the scene.
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It’s Official: North Texas Lands Another Headquarters Move From California
Irving City Council has given an economic incentives package for Kelly-Moore Paint Co. the green light, spurring forward the independent paint retailer and manufacturer’s headquarters move from California to Dallas-Fort Worth.
As part of the agreement, Kelly-Moore is expected to receive a $75,000 economic development grant.
Kelly-Moore, currently based in San Carlos, California, plans to move its base of operations to 15,000 square feet within 500 E. John Carpenter Freeway. It must do so by year-end 2024 per the agreement with the city.
The company is required to create 30 new, full-time jobs with an average salary of $100,000, as part of the arrangement.
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James Woods Reaches Limit, Demands to See Manifesto of Nashville Shooter
Hollywood legend James Woods reached his limit with the mysterious silence coming from the authorities about the Nashville shooter. Woods is demanding to see the shooter’s manifesto amid reports it is being held from the public because it is “being processed by the FBI.”
Woods said: “Where is the manifesto of the trans lunatic who slaughtered these beautiful souls?” But Metro Nashville Councilwoman Courtney Johnston does not want it released to the public.
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A judge threw the book at a Chicago carjacker sentencing him to 13 years in prison. Isaiah Jackson, 22, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular hijacking in exchange for the sentence from Judge Aleksandra Gillespie.
He received a pair of consecutive 3-year sentences for different charges of aggravated battery of peace officers. Jackson and his accomplice, Cameron King, 21, confronted a woman loading groceries in her car at Jewel Osco, 424 West Division, on July 23, 2019.
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Kathy Hochul Quietly Stirring Up Support for a Ban on the Sale of Tobacco Products
“What is your opinion about a policy that would ban the sale of all tobacco products to those born after a certain date? For example, those born after the year 2010 or later would never be sold tobacco,” another question on the survey asks.
The nonprofit research organization RTI International is conducting the commissioned survey which is being distributed to “community leaders” statewide.
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Hall-of-Fame NBA coach Phil Jackson overruled LeBron James and said he hasn’t watched basketball since the 2020 bubble in Orlando, Florida because the league became too political.
Jackson won 11 NBA championships coaching the Chicago Bulls, with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, and the Los Angeles Lakers with Kobe And Shaq.
Phil said: “They did something that was kind of wanky, they did a bubble down in Orlando and all the teams that could qualify went down there and stayed down there.
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Oakland DA Pamela Price Faces Backlash and Possible Recall for Soft-on-Crime Approach
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price is facing severe backlash and a possible recall from residents who think she is inept in prosecuting violent crime cases. The California judge joins a handful of district attorneys across the United States who have been blasted for their soft-on-crime approach.
Price succeeded former District Attorney Nancy O’Malley. She won the election in 2022 by promising to eliminate systemic racism in the criminal justice system. However, the community is now calling for a recall, believing Price is too lenient on criminals, particularly accused murderers, and will not take the proper steps to address violent crime.
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Residents in Eugene, Oregon, are at their wits end over RV “squatters” in their neighborhood and say they have been dealing with the issue for two years.
“I’m always afraid that we might piss the wrong person off by telling them to leave and they might come back and do something like shoot up my house,” resident Donielle Cline told KEZI 9 News this week about people parking their RVs next to her housing unit.
“I don’t know because I don’t know these people.”
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Police Make 6th Arrest in Alabama Sweet 16 Party Shooting
Investigators on Thursday charged a sixth person with reckless murder in connection with a deadly shooting at a Sweet 16 birthday party, saying in court documents they believe gunmen shot into the crowd during the celebration.
Investigators said in court documents filed Thursday that they believe five of those charged were present at the party on April 15 and “discharged firearms into the crowd,” resulting in the deaths of four people.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency on Thursday night announced the arrest of a 15-year-old juvenile from Tuskegee, Alabama, the sixth person charged in the case, but court records were not released because of the person’s age.
All six face reckless murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting, the state agency said.
The Sweet 16 birthday, at a dance studio just off the town square, was in full swing when gunfire erupted. Investigators have not discussed a motive or what they believe led to the shooting.
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Pro DeSantis Super PAC Calls for Trump to Leave Florida After He Called it ‘Among the Worst States’
A pro-Ron DeSantis super PAC offered on Saturday to help pay for former President Donald Trump’s move to California after Trump called Florida “among the worst states” to live in.
“Donald Trump has so deeply disparaged the state of Florida by calling it the ‘worst state,’ we at Never Back Down will help him leave by offering financial assistance to help him move to his beloved California, so he can be close to his good buddy Gavin Newsom, whom he loves so intensely and gets along with so well,” Never Back Down CEO Chris Jankowski said in a statement.
“The good news is that since so many people are moving to the state of Florida, thanks to the incredible success of Governor Ron DeSantis, no one will notice when Trump leaves,” the statement continued. “The state of Florida will be better off when Trump takes his Soros-fueled, dumpster fire of a campaign to San Francisco, where it will fit right in.”
Trump issued a statement Friday, taking a shot at DeSantis’s leadership in the Sunshine State, claiming that Florida “has become one of the least affordable states to live in the country.”
“Florida has become among the worst states” to “live, find economic opportunity, work, retire, raise a family, pay taxes, be safe, rent a home, have a baby, afford energy, die, be a teacher, be a doctor, [or] be a police officer,” the statement continued.
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As Democrats await President Biden’s potential 2024 campaign announcement, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has decided to throw his hat in the presidential ring.
During an appearance on “Cavuto Live,” host Neil Cavuto noted that many Democrats are not “too keen” on his decision to challenge the President Biden, but Kennedy assured voters that he is in a “much better position” to go up against the anticipated Republican nominee, Donald Trump.
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San Francisco Mayor Has ‘No Plans’ to Support Request for $50 Million Reparations Office
The mayor of San Francisco has “no plans” to support a request for $50 million from the city’s reparations committee.
The request from San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which is working on reparations for black residents in the city, asked in March for an appropriation of $50 million to establish an “Office of Reparations” to begin finding eligible participants for the reparations.
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Suicide Attempts by Overdose Among Children Rose During Pandemic
The number of kids who attempted suicide using over-the-counter or easily accessible medications is up sharply, a new study shows.
This research spotlights a pediatric mental health crisis, said researchers from the University of Virginia Health System, who reviewed data on reported suicide attempts that were reported to the National Poison Data System in 2021.
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Texas Cattle Found Dead With Tongues Cut Out
A straight, clean cut had been made with “apparent precision” to remove the hide around the cow’s mouth on one side — leaving the mat under the removed hide untouched, the sheriff’s office said. The tongue had also been completely removed with no blood spill.
The sheriff’s office said there were no signs of struggle, and there were no signs of footprints or tire tracks in the area.
Stranger still, no predators or birds would scavenge the remains of the cow, leaving it to decay for several weeks.
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Trump Offers Energized Crowd Half-Eaten Slice of Pizza After Speech in Florida
Former President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance at a local pizzeria in Fort Myers, Florida, on Friday night, energizing a crowd of supporters after offering them a half-eaten piece of pizza he was enjoying.
Trump made the stop at Downtown House of Pizza after giving a lengthy speech at the Lee County Lincoln-Reagan earlier that night, surprising the restaurant workers and attracting a large crowd. The former president showed off the slice before taking a large bite and jokingly offering it to the crowd.
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Trump Leads Biden by 4 Points in General Matchup, Poll Shows
President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden by four points in a hypothetical general matchup for the 2024 election, according to a new poll.
Surveying 2,905 registered U.S. voters between March 22-23, the Harvard Caps Harris poll shows Trump leading Biden 45 to 41 percent.
In a match-up against Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump leads by ten points.
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France: Le Screw Up: Emmanuel Macron Popularity Sinks to Record Low
‘Jupiterian’ French President Emmanuel Macron is less popular than ever before with the general public, polling has revealed.
The general French public no longer like President Emmanuel Macron, polling has revealed, with nearly three-quarters of French having a bad opinion of the country’s head of state.
Such a figure represents an all-time low for the Jupitarian leader, with his poor handling of the country’s pension reforms eclipsing the anger seen during the Yellow Vest protests as well as France’s COVID passport phase.
According to figures obtained for the RTL broadcaster, only around 26 per cent now have a favourable view of Macron, a significant drop on the 46 per cent who held such a position this time last year.
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MEP Exclusive: ‘The EU is Rolling Out a Total Financial Surveillance State’ With Crypto Regulation
The European Parliament and the Council have reached an agreement on the new regulatory framework for crypto assets. The agreement clearly enhances consumer protection and provides legal certainty, but could deter start-ups from setting up shop and doing business in the European Union (EU), and raises serious privacy concerns.
First, new crypto licencing rules called MiCA — Markets in Crypto-Assets — applies very strict and extensive compliance requirements to obtain a license to offer crypto asset services on the EU internal market. Crypto asset service providers (CASPs) need to inform the public about pricing processes and trading volumes in real-time.
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Poland’s Population to Shrink 23% by 2100 and Old-Age Dependency Ratio to Double
Poland’s population, currently 38.5 million, is set to fall to 34.6 million by 2050 and 29.5 million by 2100, according to new Eurostat forecasts. That decline of around 23% is the seventh largest in the European Union over that period.
The predicted population drop would have been even greater were it not for an assumed net migration of 5.3 million people over that period to Poland, which currently has one of the EU’s highest immigration rates.
Meanwhile, Poland’s working-age population is set to decline by 4.5 million by 2050 and 10 million by 2100. That will result in the ratio of the elderly to the working-age population doubling over that period and rising from below the EU average to above it
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Polish Supreme Court Overturns “Poland for Poles” Hate Speech Ruling at Request of Justice Minister
Poland’s Supreme Court has overturned the hate speech conviction of a man who, in a Facebook post, wrote “Poland for the Poles”, called for a “white Poland”, and condemned “rainbow politicians”.
Zbigniew Ziobro, who serves as justice minister and public prosecutor general in Poland’s national-conservative government, has twice appealed to the Supreme Court to invalidate the ruling. While his first attempt failed, he has now been successful.
The decision has been condemned by the anti-racism NGO that first brought the case, which notes that the ruling was issued by a chamber of the court created by the government’s judicial overhaul. It was, however, welcomed by the head of body that organises Poland’s largest annual nationalist march.
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The Tower for Twitter? UK Minister Calls for Jailing Social Media Bosses Who Do Not Censor Speech
Authored by Jonathan Turley
As previously discussed, after Musk decided to buy Twitter, Hillary Clinton called upon European countries to force social media companies to censor Americans.
The European Union quickly responded by threatening Musk and other executives.
Now, UK Technology and Science Secretary Michelle Donelan has announced plans to jail social media executives if they fail to censor so-called “harmful” content on their websites.
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UK: Meghan Not Going to Coronation Over Royal Family’s ‘Unconscious Bias’: Claim
Meghan Markle’s decision not to attend the coronation of King Charles III is said to be partly over “unconscious bias” regarding race, sources have claimed.
Meghan Markle, the wife of wayward British Prince Harry, has reportedly refused to go to her father-in-law’s coronation over an ongoing race row she is having with the UK royal family, sources have told the UK press.
It comes after confirmation that the American actress would stay in California instead of attending the event, with the justification given at the time being that she wants to celebrate her son’s birthday, which falls on the same day.
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Young and ‘Healthy’ British Doctor Died From Severe Reaction to AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine: Coroner
A British coroner recently determined that a healthy, young doctor in the United Kingdom died from a rare reaction to AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Dr. Stephen Wright, 32, passed away in January 2021 ten days after receiving his first dose. He worked as a psychologist in London, according to the BBC.
Wright suffered a cerebral blood clot after getting inoculated. He was described as “fit and healthy” before falling ill.
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In his latest warmongering rant, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev declared that the United Kingdom is the “eternal enemy” of Moscow and said that Britain will be sent into the “abyss” by the waves of a nuclear blast.
Responding to the latest round of sanctions imposed by the British government following the imprisonment of dual UK-Russian citizen and opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Muza, the Kremlin’s top loudmouth, Dmitry Medvedev issued his latest sabre-rattling tirade on the Telegram messaging service.
Medvedev, who previously served as both prime minister and president of the Russian Federation before his current role as deputy chairman of the nation’s security council, fumed that Britain is a “disgustingly damp” island and described the British Monarchy as a “degenerate” institution.
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Reuters Posts Interview With Ukrainian ‘SS’ Soldier ‘Adolf’
News agency Reuters has posted an interview with a soldier nicknamed “Adolf” who serves in the Ukrainian “SS” brigade.
A Reuters interview with a Ukrainian soldier nicknamed “Adolf” has drawn the interest of social media users, with a number of people speculating that the battlefield pseudonym could be a reference to the infamous leader of Nazi Germany.
Such speculation has only been fueled by the rather unfortunate name of the soldier’s “Spartan Storm” brigade, which many have pointed out would be abbreviated to SS, which is reminiscent of Hitler’s Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary organisation that was tasked with carrying out the so-called “final solution” of exterminating Jewish people in concentration camps.
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Russian Apartments Evacuated for Explosive Threat Days After City Was Bombed by Its Own Troops
Over a dozen apartment buildings in Belgorod, Russia, were evacuated on Saturday following an alert regarding an explosive device in the same area where a Russian warplane accidentally dropped a bomb over the city.
The governor of Belgorod province, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported that combat engineers had been examining the site of Thursday’s blast when they found an “explosive object” that was “in the immediate vicinity of residential buildings,” which they decided to detonate. In response, 17 apartment buildings were evacuated, with Belgorod Mayor Valentin Demidov stating that evacuations ended later on in the day, according to the Associated Press.
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Ukraine Planned Attacks on Russian Forces in Syria
Authored by Kyle Anzalone via AntiWar.com
Kiev’s military intelligence agency believed it could carry out attacks on Russian soldiers and Wagner Group forces in Syria, forcing Moscow to redeploy military assets from Ukraine. The story was reported by the Washington Post using documents released by Jack Teixeira.
The Ukrainian defense officials believed they could use Kurdish forces to wage a proxy war against Russia in Syria. According to the Post, the plan never materialized as President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered an end to the planning in December.
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Ukraine Updates: Russia to Expel German Diplomats
Russia said on Saturday that it was expelling more than 20 German diplomats in what it said was a tit-for-tat move after it claimed Germany had expelled numerous Russian diplomats.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel that Moscow was responding in kind to Berlin’s “mass expulsion of employees of Russian diplomatic missions in Germany.”
She later told Russian state-run television that “more than 20” German diplomats would be expelled.
German news agency DPA also reported on Saturday that a Russian aircraft had been granted special diplomatic permission to land in Berlin, but the reason was not given.
The German Foreign Ministry said it took note of Russia’s statements.
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US Embassy Personnel Evacuated From Sudan Amid Violent Conflict: Reports
American military officials have evacuated U.S. embassy personnel from violence-torn Sudan, according to reports.
An unnamed source told Reuters that the evacuation was complete as of late Saturday night.
The Sudanese military has been working with foreign governments to evacuate diplomats as their country grapples with violent conflict.
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LGBTQ immigrants who cross the southern border from Mexico into the United States may not be held in detention under new legislation being proposed by a group of Democratic lawmakers in both the House and Senate.
The extraordinary proposals are aimed at ‘setting minimum standards’ for detention facilities where thousands of illegal aliens are already being kept as they await processing.
The legislation, which is being introduced by Democrats Washington Representative Pramila Jayapal and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, is being framed as ‘an attempt to restore humanity and dignity to the immigration system.’
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DOJ: Tech Manufacturer Micron discriminated against qualified Americans when hiring, importing foreign H-1B visa workers for U.S. jobs instead.
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Obama, Bush and Clinton Have Started an NGO to Fly Migrants Into the US
American Express Global Business Travel and Welcome.US have reportedly teamed up with former Presidents Obama, Clinton and George W. Bush’s nongovernmental organization (NGO) called Miles4Migrants to fly migrants to communities across the U.S.
Welcome.US is an NGO that was initially launched to work with President Joe Biden’s administration to facilitate some of the 85,000 Afghans who came into the U.S. in 2021 and 2022 after the debacle created when the U.S. evacuated from Afghanistan, according to Breitbart.
Welcome.US is also linked to billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundation through some of his board members sitting on their “National Welcome Council.”
Now Miles4Migrants and American Express Global Business Travel are reportedly teaming up with Welcome.US to raise money for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Ukraine and Nicaragua to be flown into communities across the country.
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A former Isis fighter smuggled himself into Britain on a small boat across the Channel, posing as a 17-year-old — despite being aged 42, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The man is thought to be the oldest person to pretend to be an unaccompanied minor and is understood to have spent up to a week in a local authority residential facility with other under-18s before his lies were exposed.
The Iraqi, named only as ‘AJ’, is a security threat because of his previous active service with the terror group in his own country.
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Organisers of The Open golf championship have had to change their hotel plans because a venue they planned to use is full of asylum-seekers.
Sources at the R&A, which is running the historic event at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in July, discovered a hotel it would normally book was not available.
It said other arrangements had been made. A source added: ‘We did have to change tack when we realised it wasn’t available.’
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Border Force officials escorted 100 migrants to Dover Docks — one day after Suella Braverman announced ammendments to the Illegal Migration Bill.
The Home Secretary said the changes proposed to her controversial legislation, designed to stop migrants on small boats crossing the English Channel, would help prevent ‘last-minute, bogus claims’.
Photographs from today show migrants braving the wind and cold at sea before they are escorted off the boat by Border Force officials.
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Washington Post: Mayorkas Plans Global Migrant Pipeline
President Joe Biden may open a welcome center for global migrants in the South American country of Colombia, according to a report in the Washington Post.
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Female Student Slams California School Board for Allowing Males Into Girls’ Locker Room
On Wednesday, the Chico Unified School Board in Chico, California held a meeting, later published on YouTube, in which sophomore Claire Mossman told the school board that they violated her “privacy” and “dignity” by allowing biological males who identify as transgender to use the women’s locker rooms and bathrooms.
“Last September about four weeks into the school year, I was shocked and embarrassed to learn that I had been tricked into taking my clothes off while sharing a locker room with a male student,” Mossman said. “I was very upset and extremely confused. I didn’t understand how my school could do this to me. I’m a Christian girl, and I would never choose to take my clothes off in front of a boy.”
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Harry Potter Star Supports JK Rowling and Vows to Confront Her Critics if They Come After Him
Actor Jim Broadbent, who played Professor Horace Slughorn in three Harry Potter films, defended author J.K. Rowling in a recent interview about her position on transgender issues, asserting that he would take on her critics “if it came to it” and called the attacks on her “sad abuse.”
“It’s really sad. I think J.K. Rowling is amazing. I haven’t had to confront it myself, but I would support her in that, I think if it came to it,” the actor said.
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JK Rowling Mocks Harry Potter TV Show Boycott, Quips She’s Stocking Up on Champagne
JK Rowling joked Friday about a boycott planned for the latest adaption of her famous Harry Potter book series.
Rowling, who has become a controversial figure due to her opposition to transgender ideology, made a tongue-in-cheek post expressing concern about a possible boycott of the latest adaption of the series.
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Republican Lawmaker’s Home Vandalized in Utah
A Republican Utah lawmaker’s home was vandalized this week with messages that point to people who are upset at the lawmaker’s position on certain transgender issues.
Republican state Sen. Mike Kennedy’s door was spray-painted red with the words “fash,” short for fascist, and “These trannies bash back.” Kennedy fired back at the vandals on social media saying:
“To those who seek to use violence, vandalism, and intimidation to deter me from standing up for what is right, let me be clear: you will not succeed. I will not be deterred by your cowardly actions.
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Satanic ‘Drag Mom’ Jailed for Multiple Felony Child Abuse Crimes
A satanic drag queen has been jailed by an Oregon judge after he was convicted of 11 felony child abuse crimes.
31-year-old Kelsey Meta Boren, a biological male who claims to be transgender, pled guilty on March 23 to 11 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree.
Another charge of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct was dismissed.
Boren, who describes himself as a “drag mom,” mentored an 11-year-old at a Satan-themed pub in Oregon.
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I remember that in Soviet times there was such a bio-firmware “Who does not work, he does not eat.”
Now we brought home my very elderly mother-in-law with dementia and after a stroke. She started working at the age of 15. She behaves very calmly, only every day she asks: What am I doing here? She also refuses to eat. She says: I do not work and do not deserve this food.
Why don’t Muslims have this bio-firmware?
It’s over and NATO is finished –
Redacted with Clayton Morris
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Clayton Morris is a real estate scamming dirtbag. I wouldn’t believe a thing that lying creep says.
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SAVE WHAT CAN BE SAVED
April 23, 2023
Sweden is evacuating “Swedes”, which should be the same as Sudanese Swedes on vacation, and Swedish embassy staff in Sudan, where the security situation has deteriorated but there is now a fragile ceasefire. This is according to the government, which has sent Swedish troops to the area to secure the evacuation.
Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said the Swedish Armed Forces are already deployed in Sudan and ready to evacuate Swedes.
The military has begun the operation following a parliamentary decision that gives Sweden greater scope for action in the event of a deteriorating security situation.
The evacuation is taking place in cooperation with international partners and through dialogue with the warring parties.
If the rebels work fast enough, they can eliminate those so called swedes most riki tik.
He who does not work, does not eat. But actually, that was repeated through the Ages. the Soviets put it in words. I remember in 19 55 I was about 15 years and I wasn’t very industrious or hard-working, but for eating I was like a cookie monster especially for delicious foods and I was harassed and bothered and deprived of food many times for not working. you can say I was a little bit lazy during my teenage years but extremely hard-working after 25
Off topic ;
or probably relevant: there was in 2017 a new created party in Italy the motto was to oppose islamization of Europe but in the West in general politicians don’t believe in any High virtues. they create logos just to come to power. islamization of Europe and the world is afoot no one can stop it no one is willing to stop it no one is courageous to talk about it.
people don’t oppose it they join it, encourage it, promote it. zombies do not have any principles to defend and die for. freedom needs martyrs not hypocrites and ball-less, boneless people.
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The Biden scandal is worse than Watergate
23/4-23
American voters went to the polls without knowing the depth of Biden’s corruption.
By Lars Hedegaard / snaphanen.dk
According to The Washington Examiner, President Richard Nixon was let go for breaking the law for political reasons, while Joe Biden – and his entire crime family – has had both political and financial motives. To put it bluntly, the Biden clan has enriched itself by selling out American interests to foreign and hostile powers.
The latest revelations, which have now been confirmed by the testimony of senior officials from the Internal Revenue Service and the CIA, are still not getting the attention in the dominant, left-wing American media, and probably not in the Danish media either, that they should, but they must give pause for thought in the Danish and other European governments. How safe is it to be allied with a great power led by a great criminal who wants to sell out Western interests?
During a hearing in the House of Representatives, former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell said that current Secretary of State Antony Blinken initiated the letter issued by 51 intelligence experts a few weeks before the November 2020 presidential election. The intent was to discredit the information on Hunter Biden’s computer – with the incriminating evidence that Joe’s son had received large sums of money from foreign powers and that Joe received 10% of the loot – as “Russian disinformation”. That was the story the media ran with. As a result, American voters went to the polls not knowing the depth of Biden’s corruption.
And then the Danish media claim that there was no election fraud. There are many ways to commit election fraud. One of them is to mobilize state agencies to cooperate with the media to suppress the truth.
Republican leaders in the House of Representatives announce that more whistleblowers will come forward. In this context, it should be noted that telling the truth about Joe Biden and his corrupt government comes at a great personal cost. If you do so, you can expect to face the harshest accusations in the mainstream media and have your life and career destroyed. So there are no benefits to telling the truth – other than facilitating collusion.
Among those who have already testified before the House of Representatives is a senior federal tax official (name withheld) who can testify that the Justice Department is interfering with the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden, who has not paid taxes on his foreign income. Attorney General Merrick Garland has stated under oath that this was not the case.
It is illegal to lie to Congress, and Garland therefore faces prosecution. If the House of Representatives were to decide to prosecute Garland for lying under oath, it would be difficult for the mainstream media to keep it quiet.
Be careful not to hurt him, Swedish gov and allah are his protectors.
Does anyone dare smash his skull?
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