Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the late presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, has announced that he is a Democrat candidate for president, running against Joe Biden in the 2024 election. Meanwhile, despite his indictment, Donald Trump leads Mr. Biden by seven percentage points, according to a recent poll.
In other news, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador strongly criticized the indictment of Donald Trump, saying that it was filed for political purposes.
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Australia: Rental Squeeze Getting Worse as Vacancy Rates Tighten
Australia’s rental crisis has become even harder for tenants, with new data showing prices rising and more difficulty in finding a place to live.The latest…
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Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe said it was ‘premature’ to talk about rate cuts, and hinted there would be another rate increase because inflation was still too high.
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Private Payrolls Rose by 145,000 in March, Well Below Expectations, ADP Says
Private sector hiring decelerated in March, flashing another potential sign that U.S. economic growth is heading for a sharp slowdown or recession, payroll processing firm ADP reported Wednesday.
Company payrolls rose by just 145,000 for the month, down from an upwardly revised 261,000 in February and below the Dow Jones estimate for 210,000.
That took first-quarter hiring to an average of just 175,000 jobs a month, down from 216,000 in the fourth quarter and a sharp reduction from the average of 397,000 in the first quarter of 2022.
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U.S. Bank Deposits Fall for the First Time Since 1940s
Total U.S. bank deposits fell year-over-year in 2022 for the first time since 1948, according to data released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Bank deposits dropped to $19.2 trillion. The plunge follows a year marked by high inflation and rising interest rates — a trend that persists today.
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Families looking to rent homes are having to turn to Airbnb for long-term lets because there are so few properties available, estate agents have revealed.
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Protesters flooded the streets in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, carrying CFMEU shirts and flags and issued a call for worker salaries to increase in line with inflation.
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A family dubbed “America’s most inbred” reportedly started with identical twin brothers whose children married and had more than a dozen children together.
Today, the family has been decribed as living in squalor and communicating in grunts, with heartbreaking genetic conditions thought to have been caused by inbreeding.
It reportedly began over 100 years ago with identical twin brothers Henry and John Whittaker, whose children married and had over a dozen children.
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A 32-year-old Portland man was arrested on Monday after allegedly using a rock to smash up a downtown business and then later taking a hostage.
Portland Police say that David Read Haywood Everding fled the scene of the vandalism attack before being found later in the day in another part of downtown. He ran into an office building near Southwest 5th Avenue and Southwest Oak Street where he took a hostage, police say.
“Once inside, the suspect took hold of a security guard and used the guard as a shield to avoid being arrested,” police said in a statement. The hostage was eventually released unharmed before Everding was arrested.
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As the Chicago Mayoral Election Proves, Blue Cities Have Become Modern-Day Jonestowns
As PJ Media’s Rick Moran reported, the Chicago mayoral runoff on April 4 went the way of the teachers unions, which drove a massive turnout campaign for their anointed radical candidate:
The Chicago Teachers Union rode a massive turnout of its members and spent millions of dollars in union dues to win Chicago’s mayoral runoff.
Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson was a beneficiary of that union largesse. His name was on the ballot, along with former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paull Vallas. Johnson won by three points.
But no one doubts who is calling the shots in Chicago — the first major American city to be a wholly owned subsidiary of a teachers union.
The only quibble one might have with Rick’s article is that the State of Oregon has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the teachers unions and SEIU since the turn of the century, so Chicago may not be able to lay claim to first-in-the-nation status. His conclusion is, however, spot on: radical leftists defeated a moderate who wanted to rein in Chicago’s laughably awful violent crime and education failures.
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Biden Says Whether AI is Dangerous ‘Remains to be Seen’
President Biden said Tuesday that the jury is still out on whether or not artificial intelligence technology is dangerous.
“It remains to be seen. It could be,” the president said, speaking at a meeting with science and technology advisers on Tuesday.
Biden also stressed the importance of addressing potential risks, saying he believes tech companies “have a responsibility” to ensure the safety of their products before releasing them into the world.
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Biden Job Approval Near Record Lows Among Key Voter Demographics
A new poll from Fox News has revealed that Biden’s approval rating among several key voting groups is near record lows.
The poll found that 43 percent of women approve of Biden’s job performance, compared to the 42 percent lowest rating.
Among voters ages 45 and up, 41 percent approve of his job performance, compared to the low of 39 percent. This was the same for suburban voters, with 41 percent approving compared to the 39 percent low. Among suburban women specifically, Biden’s job performance is at a low of 41 percent.
Among rural voters, just 31 percent approve of his job performance compared to the 30 percent low. Democrat voters in general are at 81 percent approval, with 78 percent being the all-time low. Among Democrat men in particular, 79 percent of them approve of Biden’s job performance compared to the low of 78 percent.
Overall, Biden’s job approval stands at 44 percent, with 56 percent disapproving. The last time Biden received positive marks was in September of 2021, at 50 percent approval to 49 percent disapproval.
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Biden Gets Another Democratic Challenger as Robert F. Kennedy Jr Files to Run for President
Kennedy is the son of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
President Biden has another Democratic challenger vying for the presidency following Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday.
Kennedy, the son of late former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of the late former President John F. Kennedy, is now the second Democrat to toss his hat into the race for the White House, joining spiritual advisor and author Marianne Williamson in seeking the party’s nomination.
A Kennedy adviser wouldn’t independently confirm his candidacy, but told Fox News Digital “the campaign will issue a statement tomorrow.”
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Bill Gates Rejects Calls From Top Experts to ‘Pause’ AI Chatbot Development: ‘Why Stop?’
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has rejected calls from some of the world’s most renowned experts to “pause” his efforts to develop more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.
Gates has been pushing forward with the development of new AI chatbots that are even more powerful than OpenAI’s recently unveiled ChatGPT-4.
Experts have been raising the alarm over the rapid pace that the technology is being developed as companies scramble to create more advanced AI tools without addressing the major concerns it raises.
Last week, Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio signed an open letter signed calling for a six-month pause in developing new AI tools.
However, Gates dismissed the concerns and asserted that he will not stop advancing the technology.
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Cash App Founder Bob Lee Stabbed to Death in San Francisco
Rob Lee, a prominent tech executive and the founder of Cash App, was stabbed to death in San Francisco early Tuesday.
San Francisco police officers found the 43-year-old at 2:35 a.m. in the 300 block of Main Street with stab wounds and transported him to a hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
Police are investigating the death as a homicide. No arrests have been made.
Lee’s colleagues memorialized him online Wednesday.
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Cash App’s Bob Lee on San Francisco Street Begging for Help Moments After Fatal Stabbing: Report
Cash App founder Bob Lee stumbled down a sidewalk early Tuesday morning, clutching at a wound on his side before a driver ignored his apparent pleas for help and left him for dead on a San Francisco sidewalk, according to a local report.
Lee, 43, was stabbed around 2:30 a.m. in Rincon Hill, just outside the financial district, in a residential area near Google’s headquarters with a few restaurants and bars.
The revelation comes as San Francisco Mayor London Breed officially confirmed widespread reports of Lee’s death.
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A North Carolina state lawmaker sounded off Wednesday after switching affiliation from Democratic to Republican following what she said were unending personal attacks from her own political wing, some of which were focused on her car’s American flag decal and her respect for the Second Amendment.
In doing so, State Rep. Tricia Cotham, R-Mecklenburg, incidentally awarded Republicans in the lower chamber a veto-proof supermajority against North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper — whom they clashed with during his coronavirus lockdown orders, and beyond.
Cotham told “Your World” she entered politics to be a public servant and “stateswoman; do greater good for all of the great state of North Carolina,” — having served previously for a decade and returned to office after time outside politics.
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Chicagoans Complain That Obama Center Causes ‘Harm to Black Families, ‘ Gentrifies South Side
As construction ramps up on Chicago’s $500 million Obama Presidential Center, so to have concerns that the project will harm the South Side residents it originally promised to help.
Many longterm Chicagoans have expressed fears that the center will cause their rent to increase, and eventually gentrify the entire neighborhood.
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Democrats received a major victory in the Wisconsin statewide election on Tuesday, but conservatives wrangled overwhelming support from voters for three ballot propositions that strongly correlate with the GOP’s agenda on crime and welfare.
While control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court was handed to liberals in the Badger State election, voters provided conservatives with wins related to cash bail and welfare benefits.
Judges in Wisconsin will now be able to consider past convictions for violent crimes when setting bail for someone accused of a violent crime following a decision from voters in the state. They also will be allowed to set conditions meant to protect public safety when releasing someone before trial.
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Convention of States Florida Holds Successful Rally in Tally
On April 4, nearly 100 Floridians went to the capitol in Tallahassee for a rally in support of Convention of States Action. Activists from around the state gathered to further their goal to call a convention of the states to propose constitutional amendments to rein in the out-of-control federal government. In the process, the people involved in this effort have created what they call the largest grassroots army in America’s history with a focus on returning America to its founding principle of self-governance.
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DHS Sought Left-Wing Entities and Individuals for “Misinformation” Crackdown Panel
As the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was pursuing the policy of cracking down on “misinformation” one of the ideas was to include more left-wing and Democrat-leaning figures and entities into this effort.
That transpires from internal documents — emails, notes, and minutes — seen by the Daily Caller News Foundation, obtained through a public records request.
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Donald Trump Calls on Republicans to Defund the DOJ and FBI
Republicans in Congress should defund the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), at least temporarily, former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday morning, the day after his arraignment in New York City.
“REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS SHOULD DEFUND THE DOJ AND FBI UNTIL THEY COME TO THEIR SENSES,” Trump wrote in an all caps post on Truth Social, concluding Democrats have weaponized law enforcement and are attempting to interfere in the upcoming election.
He continued: “THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TOTALLY WEAPONIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT IN OUR COUNTRY AND ARE VICIOUSLY USING THIS ABUSE OF POWER TO INTERFERE WITH OUR ALREADY UNDER SIEGE ELECTIONS!”
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FBI Director Wray Warns of Threats From Hostile Nations in University Speech
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday warned of the threat China poses to U.S. security in a speech at Texas A&M.
Wray warned hostile nations would “become even more aggressive in their efforts to steal our secrets and our innovation … target our critical infrastructure … interfere with our democratic institutions … and export their repression to our shores.”
“Front and center in that expanded threat is China,” he declared. “The current Chinese regime will stop at nothing to steal what they can’t create and to silence the messages they don’t want to hear — all in an effort to surpass us as a global superpower and shape a world order more friendly to their authoritarian vision.”
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Hecklers Get Ruthless With ‘Sad Old Drunk’ Pelosi: ‘You Are a War Criminal, You Should be Arrested’
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was confronted by multiple hecklers during a recent speech in Manhattan with Paul Krugman.
Several people yelled out at Pelosi, calling the top Democrat a “war criminal” and “a sad old drunk” who “should be arrested.”
One of the hecklers said: “You know Pelosi, that’s a very good place for you in the depth of hell.
“You lied us into war in Iraq.
“You got us to invade Afghanistan.
“People like you should be arrested.
“You are a war criminal.”
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James Comer: ‘Had Two Calls With Republican DAs Who Want to Go After Bidens’
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has issued a warning to the Biden family after speaking with two Republican county attorneys.
Comer revealed that the two prosecutors were asking him for “ways they can go after the Bidens” following President Donald Trump’s arrest in New York City on Tuesday.
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A federal judge in Chicago held the City of Chicago liable for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act by failing to provide accessible pedestrian signals at signalized intersections throughout the city to those who are blind or have low vision.
“Federal law offers people with visual disabilities the promise of full participation in community life, and safely navigating city streets is a critical part of that,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “We will continue pushing for a remedy that fully addresses the discrimination faced by blind people in Chicago.”
Acting U.S. Attorney Pasqual for the Northern District of Illinois said: “As previously stated, the U.S. Attorney’s Office took action in this case in order to ensure that Chicagoans with disabilities are provided equal access to city services, particularly services where the primary focus is on public safety.
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Pundits and legal experts from all sides have been reacting to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s 34-count indictment against President Donald Trump.
Bragg, a George Soros-funded Democrat, wanted it to be sealed as long as possible.
Now that it has been released, it has become clear why Bragg wanted to keep it under wraps.
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Liberals Will Control the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the First Time in 15 Years
Democratic-backed Janet Protasiewicz has defeated Republican-backed Dan Kelly in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race to determine which political ideology would control the state’s high court.
The race wasn’t even close. Protasiewicz received more than 55% of the vote, while Kelly got 44%. It was the most expensive state judicial race in American history as outside groups poured $45 million into the state.
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Long COVID Questioned: Study of Young People Links Symptoms to Lack of Exercise, ‘Loneliness’
Symptoms attributed to “long COVID” may have nothing to do with the coronavirus infection in adolescents and young adults, according to a new peer-reviewed study that calls into question massive federal outlays for research into the largely self-reported condition marked by fatigue, shortness of breath and brain fog.
Published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open, the “prospective cohort study” tracked hundreds of Norwegians ages 12-25, not hospitalized, who underwent extensive examinations when they were tested for COVID and then again at a six-month followup.
Norwegian, Swedish, British, Chinese and Australian researchers found little difference between infected and uninfected individuals who met the World Health Organization’s definition for “post-COVID-19 condition,” the international name for long COVID, at the six-month followup.
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‘Mega-Batch’ of Contaminated Pfizer COVID Jabs Killed 2 Children, Injured 1,200: Researcher
(LifeSiteNews) — A new study reveals that a large “mega-batch” of Pfizer gene-based COVID injectable product “targeted at children” has killed two ten-year-old boys and injured at least 1,264 youngsters.
A March 31 report by Sasha Latypova — a former pharmaceutical executive turned researcher — highlighted a study performed by Medicinal Genomics (MG) that discovered and documented DNA contamination in Pfizer “mega-batch” number FL8095, which was marketed to children between the ages of 5 and 11.
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New Poll: Trump Surges Ahead of Biden Despite Indictment
A new Rasmussen poll suggests the indictment of Donald Trump is only helping his presidential aspirations, as Trump surges into a 7 point lead over the current incumbent.
According to Rasmussen, the survey results show that Biden “faces an uphill battle for reelection against either of the two leading Republican candidates.”
The national telephone and online survey finds that 47 per cent of likely voters would vote for Trump compared to 40 per cent who would vote for Biden.
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NPR Protests as Twitter Calls it ‘State-Affiliated Media’
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has labeled National Public Radio as “state-affiliated media” on the social media site, a move some worried Wednesday could undermine public confidence in the news organization.
NPR said it was disturbed to see the description added to all of the tweets that it sends out, with John Lansing, its president and CEO, calling it “unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way.”
It was unclear why Twitter made the move. Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk, quoted a definition of state-affiliated media in the company’s guidelines as “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution.”
“Seems accurate,” Musk tweeted in a reply to NPR.
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Retired Firefighter Pulls 2 Children, Puppy From Explosive House Fire in South Phoenix
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — A retired firefighter is being hailed as a hero after saving two children from an explosive house fire in south Phoenix Wednesday morning.
Phoenix fire crews responded to calls of a house fire with explosions near 24th Street and Southern Avenue around 7:20 a.m. As they arrived to find heavy smoke and flames on the patio and backyard, fire officials learned that it was a gas-fed fire, with accelerants making it more difficult to put out. Luckily, a hazmat unit was also dispatched to the fire and was quickly able to secure the gas line. According to Joe Huggins with the Phoenix Fire Department, a number of propane tanks being stored in the backyard had also exploded. Witnesses said they believed the family worked in party rentals.
A retired firefighter, identified as Dana Lambert, told Arizona’s Family that he was driving home from the gym when he saw smoke. When he arrived, firefighters were working to get two young girls and their puppy out of the home. Lambert tells Arizona’s Family he then climbed through the window to help get everyone out.
He said the girls were screaming and crying in their bedroom, and that the parents were not home at the time. “You don’t think about it; you assume the risk, you go in and you pull the kids out,” said Lambert.
No one was hurt. The fire remains under investigation.
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Shootings in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Neighborhood in First Months of 2023 Exceed 2022 Total
Barely four months into 2023, a shooting that injured a 9-year-old boy and killed a Seattle community advocate marks a multi-year high of shooting cases in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, the location of the deadly 2020 “autonomous zone.”
Victoria Beach, a lifelong resident of Capitol Hill, as well as chair of the Seattle Police Department African American Community Advisory Council, told KOMO News that she traces the increase in shootings back to the 2020 riots when six square blocks of the neighborhood were abandoned by city officials and turned over to Antifa and BLM rioters and became the infamous Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).
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Study: Over 72% of NYC Violent Crime Suspects Freed Without Bail Go on to Commit More Crimes
Felony suspects released without bail thanks to New York’s bail reform law are more likely to be rearrested for more felonies, including violent crimes, than suspects who were given bail before the law went into effect.
A study by researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice reviewed cases prior to the New York law taking effect and cases after the law was implemented where most suspects arrested for crimes are not required to pay any bail to be released from jail.
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Sutherland Springs Mass Shooting Victims Reach Tentative $144.5 Million Settlement With DOJ
Victims of a mass shooting that killed 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in 2017 have reached a “tentative settlement” with the federal government for $144.5 million after years of pending civil suits, authorities confirmed on Wednesday.
The agreement, which the U.S. Department of Justice announced in a news release and which CBS News independently confirmed, came in response to a series of legal claims accusing federal officials of negligence and alleging they could have prevented the Sutherland Springs shooting but failed to do so.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s office still needs to approve the settlement amount before it is completely finalized. More than 75 plaintiffs involved in the settlement must also secure “the required court approvals,” according to the Justice Department, which said it has approved “an agreement in principle” to settle the cases.
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SWAT Responds to Report of Armed Woman at Trump Tower Chicago
SWAT personnel arrived at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago on Wednesday morning after a rifle-toting woman reportedly entered the building, law enforcement has said.
Authorities believe the incident was domestic and unrelated to former President Donald Trump or his recent indictment, according to the Chicago Sun Times.
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TSA Expands Digital ID Checks to More Airports
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is continuing to expand its digital ID scheme, according to testimony by Administrator David Pekoske during a congressional budget hearing.
Pekoske said that the agency will continue to offer travelers the option to verify their identities using digital copies of their IDs stored on their smartphones at various trial locations all over the country, FedScoop reported.
Currently, people can pass TSA checkpoints with digital IDs at 19 airports.
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Washington State Burglar Shot and Killed by Armed Occupant of Home He Broke Into
Police in northwest Washington state say a burglar is dead after breaking into a home and being shot by an armed tenant.
The Lake Forest Park Police Department says officers responded to calls of a burglary in progress on the afternoon of March 29 and found a wounded burglar at the location, KIRO 7 News reported.
Police attempted to render first aid to the burglar, but the man died at the house.
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White House Adviser, Ashish Jha, Says Doctors Need to Combat Online “Misinformation”
Ashish Jha, the coordinator of the White House COVID response team, called on doctors to fill the medical information vacuum. He alleged that there was a continuing COVID death toll caused by “misinformation.”
Speaking at a doctors’ conference in Waltham, Massachusetts, Jha told doctors that they need to be skilled in clearing uncertainty in the way they explain to a stranger what a test or scan means.
He stressed that the uncertainty of COVID-19 is not different, but there are too many sources of information, particularly online, meaning doctors have to contribute and provide reliable information.
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Woman Stabbed to Death in DC Hotel Room by Career Criminal
A Virginia woman was stabbed to death in her Washington, DC hotel room on Friday in what investigators have deemed to be a random attack. Christy Bautista, 31, was in town for a concert and had only checked into the hotel less than an hour prior to the attack.
Her killer, George Sydnor Jr, was arrested at the scene and promptly charged with first-degree murder.
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A Woman or Girl is Killed Every 48 Hours in Canada as Femicide Epidemic Worsens: Report
A new report shows that the rate of homicide for women and girls in Canada, known as “femicide,” is increasing significantly, with data showing that 850 women and girls have been killed in the last five years, equating to a rate of one every 48 hours, reports CTV News.
The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA) released its annual report Thursday which shows a disturbing surge violent deaths of women and girls at the hands of men between 2018 and 2022.
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Ontario Court Clears Freedom Convoy Protester of All Charges Against Her
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Freedom Convoy protester Christine DeCaire was acquitted by an Ontario Court of Justice on of all charges placed against her for participating in pro-freedom protests last year while the Emergencies Act (EA) was in place.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) said in a press release Monday that DeCaire was arrested in 2022 for standing on Nicholas Street in downtown Ottawa after the invocation of the EA.
She was charged with mischief, obstructing and resisting an officer in the execution of his or her work and disobeying a lawful order, according to the JCCF.
DeCaire said in a press release that she feels “very fortunate to have this dealt with and over already.”
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The Ottawa People’s Commission (OPC) called on the government to provide a “transformative” response to the “Freedom Convoy” COVID-19 mandate protests that happened in 2022 and said it can’t “move on” until city and federal governments respond.
The OPC report includes testimony from over 200 residents and businesses, according to CBC News.
“While there are those who suggest the community should ‘move on’ and ‘get over it,’ [the commission] believes it is essential and urgent that the City of Ottawa and other governments provide a substantive — indeed transformative — response,” the OPC report said.
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Retired Spy Says He Has ‘Evidence’ of Chinese Communists’ 30-Year Infiltration Into Canadian Gov’t
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — A retired Canadian spy said every federal government for at least the last 30 years has been “compromised by agents of Communist China” at some point, noting that he is prepared to name “names” and provide “evidence” to prove his claim.
During a recent meeting of the House of Commons ethics committee, Michel Juneau-Katsuya, who used to work for the Asia-Pacific desk for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), noted some federal ridings were “hunting grounds” for Chinese Communist agents.
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Victim of Alleged ISIS Attacker on BC Bus Says Stabbing Was Random and Unprovoked
The victim of an alleged ISIS attack in Surrey over the weekend says the attack was random and unprovoked.
On Saturday, Abdul Aziz Kawam was arrested after allegedly attacking a man while on a bus travelling on the Fraser Highway at 9:30 a.m. Kawam is also alleged to have held a knife to the throat of another individual at a bus stop four blocks away.
The victim of the violent attack told his family in a series of text messages that “there was absolutely no altercation or anything like that before he attacked.”
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Belgian and German Police Raid EPP Brussels Headquarters Amid Fraud Allegations
The Belgian police raided the European People’s Party (EPP) headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, Euractiv reports. According to initial information, police seized computers linked to financial fraud that is believed to involve EPP staff.
German media have reported that the investigation is not targeting the party or its current staff, but Mario Voigt, the regional leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in Thuringia, who is suspected of corruption and bribery.
Police did not give details of the purpose of the raid.
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Eat the Bugs: EU Has No Plan to Clearly Label Food Containing Insects, Official Confirms
The EU has no plans to force food manufacturers to clearly label when a product contains insects, an official from the bloc has confirmed.
Stella Kyriakides, the EU’s Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, has confirmed that the bloc has no intentions of forcing manufacturers to clearly label whether a food product contains insects.
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Europe Has Disarmed Itself at the Worst Possible Time
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius recently spoke out about the terrible state of the Bundeswehr during which he claimed it will take five to six years before modernizing the German military materializes.
The politician was sparse on details, but it is well known that the implosion began a decade ago under Ursula von der Leyen and continued with two other female ministers, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Christine Lambrecht. The three ladies had many things on their minds — refurbishing a warship in dubious conditions, building kindergartens for women’s children in the army, organizing awareness courses — but they just didn’t care about the development of the armed forces.
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Paris, France. March 23, 8 p.m. A demonstration took place; as usual now, riots followed the demonstration and swept through the center of the city, then to other cities. Cars were burned, shop windows smashed, garbage dumpsters set on fire. A garbage collectors’ strike began two weeks earlier; nearly ten thousand tons of garbage, still strewn on the sidewalks, almost completely block some streets. The proliferation of rats threatens disease. Oil refineries are shut down; gas stations are running dry. More demonstrations took place March 28 — and more riots.
France, once again, is on the verge of chaos.
The subject of the discontent is the adoption of a law reforming the pension system in a minimal way: the legal retirement age in France has been set at 62 since 2010; the law raises it two years, to 64.
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France Won’t Hand Over Terrorists to Its EU Partners as Long as They Belong to the Radical Left
Over the past decade, France’s successive left-wing governments have banned or harassed right-wing organizations and individuals without giving evidence that they had resorted to violence or broken the law in any other way.
On the left, however, it has only just begun to act similarly toward violent and law-breaking far-left organizations. The country’s current interior minister now realizes that the authorities are losing control over those groups that had been so useful in making the Yellow Vests protests and other initially peaceful protest movements turn ugly and discrediting them in the eyes of the general public; this is how they then justified police violence of a kind unheard of in other EU countries.
Concerning France’s record of giving shelter to Italian left-wing terrorists, it must be said that Emmanuel Macron himself supported an end to the “Mitterrand doctrine.” Named after François Mitterrand, the Socialist party leader who was the president of France from 1981 to 1995, that doctrine, which was based on a simple pledge made orally by President Mitterrand in 1985, meant that France would not extradite to Italy far-left activists even if condemned in their country for violent acts committed during the “Years of Lead.”
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Germany Moves to Fine Twitter for Not Censoring Enough Hate Speech
German regulators have launched a procedure to fine Twitter for alleged failures to remove “illegal” content on the platform, such as hate speech and insults.
On Tuesday, Berlin’s Federal Office of Justice (BfJ) announced that it has begun legal action against Twitter under the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG), a 2018 law aimed at combatting so-called hate speech on the internet, which unlike in the United States, is illegal in Germany.
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Hungary to Host Top Conservative Conference Again This Year
Next month, on May 4-5, the Hungarian think tank Center for Fundamental Rights will once again host the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in what will be the largest international action conference for conservatives in Budapest.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been invited to be the Hungarian keynote speaker at the conservative meeting, but there will be no shortage of foreign stars, including Andrej Babis and Janez Jansa, two former prime ministers of the Czech Republic and Slovenia, respectively; Kari Lake, who is being touted as a possible vice-presidential candidate in the United States; Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro; Herbert Kickl, president of the Austrian Freedom Party; and U.S. Congressmen Barry Moore and Paul Gosar.
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Sweden: Violence Against Stockholm Paramedics Triples in Five Years
Violence against paramedics in Sweden’s capital city has surged in recent years, according to reports.
Emergency medical responders in Stockholm are facing increasing threats to their personal safety and even their lives.
The number of documented incidents involving attacks on ambulance personnel has tripled over the past five years, rising from 21 to 67.
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UK: ‘This Machine Kills Kids’: SUVs Hit With Spray Paint in Bristol
Climate activists have welcomed the news that SUVs have been targeted with spray paint in Bristol.
“This machine kills kids” was spray-painted onto the doors and bonnet of around six vehicles on Sunday night in Clifton, Bristol’s most expensive suburb, according to Bristol Live.
Chris Bailey, the owner of one of the vehicles, told the website his Range Rover has been targeted twice in the space of four weeks by climate activists.
“Our car was one of six that I counted. We also had our tyres let down a few weeks ago”, he said.
“It’s getting ridiculous, twice we’ve been hit in a month!”
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UK: Another Day in Lawless London: Moment Gang Try to Steal Deliveroo Driver’s Bike in Canary Wharf
The shocking 40-second video, which appears to have been filmed in London’s Canary Wharf, was posted to Twitter yesterday and has already been viewed by more than 30,000 people.
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The visit to Warsaw by President Volodymyr Zelensky is a signal that Ukraine is determined to become a member of both the European Union and NATO, former Polish ambassador to Ukraine, Jan Pieklo, has claimed.
During his visit to Warsaw on Wednesday, President Zelensky is expected to meet with President Andrzej Duda, hold talks with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and meet with Poles and Ukrainians living in Poland at the Royal Castle Square in Warsaw.
“This is truly an exceptional visit,” said Pieklo in an interview with the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
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by Daniel Greenfield
In the early days of March, a small crowd of leftists gathered outside the U.S. consulate in Tel Aviv holding up signs reading, “Biden help!” and “Biden, Blinken, Our democracy is sinking”.
A speaker at the rally appealed to Biden to “save us from ourselves”.
The consulate rally was held under the banner of “Defend Israeli Democracy” which had organized international protests against democratic judicial reform that would have restored checks and balances. International rallies, including one in Berlin which featured women dressed as the ‘handmaids’ from the TV show and signs accusing Israel of “fascism” and being an “apartheid state”, were not speaking to Israelis, but to the international anti-Israel Left.
Clips from the Tel Aviv rally were remixed by another of the interchangeable anti-democracy groups, Yalla Tikva, urging Biden to save Israeli democracy. The operation was as slick with professional videography, editing and branding as it lacked a clear transparent structure.
Protests like these were not so much appealing to Biden as coordinating with the administration.
The anti-democracy rallies by organizations claiming to be fighting for democracy paralleled an unprecedented degree of interference from the Biden administration…
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Belarus Clears Head of the Delegalized Association of Poles of Criminal Charges
Andzelika Borys, the head of the Association of Poles in Belarus, which has been delegalized by the Alexander Lukashenko regime, has been cleared of the criminal charges against her and released from house arrest.
The Polish Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina said the Polish authorities were content to see that Andzelika Borys had been cleared of false charges and that she would soon be able to visit Poland.
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Bill Clinton: ‘Personal Stake’ in Ukraine Plight, After Agreeing to Deal Taking Away Country’s Nukes
Former President Bill Clinton appears to be expressing regret for his participation in a 1994 agreement among Russia, Ukraine and the United States that asked Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons.
Clinton said Tuesday he feels a “personal stake” in Ukraine’s struggle to thwart Russia’s invasion, which in now roughly 14 months old, after having agreed to the roughly 30-year-old deal.
Clinton, a Democrat president from 1993 to 2001, made the acknowledgement in an interview Tuesday with RTÉ, Ireland’s National Television and Radio Broadcaster.
“I feel a personal stake because I got them [Ukraine] to agree to give up their nuclear weapons,” he said.
Clinton also said nobody believes “Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons.”
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Four Russian Submarines Carrying Covert ‘Doomsday Weapon’ to Enter Service
Russia will soon deploy a total of four nuclear submarines capable of carrying the Poseidon super torpedoes, Russian news portal TopWar.ru reported on Monday, citing defense ministry sources.
The first two ships will enter service with Russia’s Pacific fleet in late 2024 or early 2025 at the latest and will be stationed at Kamchatka. Often referred to as naval drones, the Poseidons are designed for preemptive strike detection and are capable of firing nuclear warheads of up to 100 megatons, reportedly undetected.
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Latvian Violinist Quits to Avoid Paying Russian Music
A Latvian violinist has decided to end her tenure at an orchestra where she worked for over a decade, after she was denied a request not to perform music by Russian composers. She argued that promoting the country’s culture is wrong amid the conflict in Ukraine.
The dispute in Latvia’s Sinfonietta Riga state chamber orchestra was revealed to the public last Friday by the ‘Culture Shock’ program on Latvian Television (LTV). The person in question is veteran musician Marta Sparnina, who has been part of the orchestra since 2009. It was founded just three years prior to her joining, with Normunds Schne serving as its artistic director since its creation.
Sparnina objected to Schne’s choice of music by Russian composers for the orchestra’s program.
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Nuclear-Capable Missiles Now Deployed to Europe in Belarus, Claims Russia
Russia is again attempting to threaten NATO, claiming to be making good on parts of Vladimir Putin’s statement that he would be — eventually —moving nuclear weapons into Belarus.
Shorter range but operationally flexible, “Iskander-M tactical missile systems” have been deployed to Belarus, and Belarussian crews have travelled to Russia to receive training in their operation, Moscow has said. The missile can be equipped with several different warheads using conventional explosives for different purposes, or it can carry a small nuclear warhead.
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India: Why Hindus Stopped ‘Taraweeh Namaz’ During Ramzan in Uttrakhand
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Haldwani | April 4, 2023:: A Hindutva mob on Monday restricted Muslims in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani from offering ‘Taraweeh Namaz’ only to stop a ‘new culture’ in the Hindu area as a tit for tat while Hindus were not allowed for Ram Navami processions in West Bengal’s Howrah (Shibpur) and Hoogly (Rishra) including many Muslim dominates places across India.
Stopping of such ‘Taraweeh Namaz’ in Hindu areas is said to be a repercussion of Hindu society as reflected in the case of the violations of Hindu Rights to take out Ramnavami Processions in many areas dominated by Muslims across India.
The disruption took place around 8.30 pm in Sarna Kothi, an area dominated by Hindus and reports came that the Hindu people also thrashed the Imam to lead Namaz despite repeated objections.
As per reports, around 50 to 60 men from the Hindutva organisation Bajrang Dal disrupted Taraweeh — special Ramzan prayers held at night during which long portions of the Quran are read by the congregation. The activists opposed the new set of Islamic programmes during Ramzan, defined as a ‘cultural invasion in Hindu areas’ bringing ‘Muslims from outside’.
A local co-ordinator of Bajrang Dal told HENB, “Muslims never allow Hindu programmes like Devi Jagran or Ram Navami rallies in their areas and even in Hindu areas. Then how do we allow them inside us to invite more troubles connecting new Mosques, madrasas, Mazars and Dargahs in Hindu areas.”
In a new trend, Muslim private houses and business places are being used as Islamic prayers and programmes for a period and then changed to mosques or Muslim Institutions for preaching fundamentalism from there.
In Sarna Kothi, the house of Advocate Zafar Siddique was used for ‘Taraweeh Namaz’ during this Ramzan month. Local Bajrang Dal leader Mukesh Bhat objected to such ‘lengthy’ noise of Taraweeh prayer and the presence of many ‘unknown’ outsiders in Hindu areas frightening the Hindu girls and women of the area.
However, Advocate Siddique claimed that police officials were present during the attack and accused the administration of supporting the mob. But, the agitating Hindutv people raised their voices against the incriminating proliferation of radical Islam in the Hindu localities and the State.
Nanital Senior Superintendent of Police Pankaj Bhatt told the media that a case has been filed against those who opposed the prayers under Indian Penal Code Sections 147 (rioting), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) based on a complaint from Muslims of the area. The probe is going on.
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Midjourney AI Program Bans Criticism of CCP Leader Xi
The founder and CEO of AI image generator Midjourney has recently come out in favor of censorship, seeming to suggest that he would exempt Chinese President Xi Jinping from the AI tool’s capabilities in order to maintain the company’s status in China.
Xi is widely considered to be among the most oppressive and authoritarian leaders in the world, and MidJourney’s David Holz has made known that he would restrict the use of Xi’s image on the site, including a few other prohibitions that he has reportedly not made public, according to TechDirt. The outlet reported that Xi is someone who is “most deserving of political skewering and mockery,” but that this will not be possible, as far as Midjourney is concerned.
The Washington Post reported that Midjourney, a San Francisco-based company that is just a year old, will apparently allow images to be generated of “President Biden, Vladimir Putin of Russia and other world leaders — but not China’s president, Xi Jinping.”
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Indigenous activist and Voice to Parliament supporter Noel Pearson has condemned Peter Dutton for his ‘Judas betrayal of the country’ in opposing the Voice.
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Government agencies in Australia have been making direct informal requests to internet service providers to block websites instead of making formal requests under Section 313 of the Telecommunications Act.
The Purpose of Section 313 is to prevent the over-blocking of websites like the one observed in 2013 where 250,000 legitimate websites were blocked.
However, while there has not been another overblocking incident, the central register of all blocked websites is not accurate, according to IT News.
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Australia’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Stephen Smith has visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in prison in London.
It’s the first time Australia’s top diplomat in the UK has visited Mr Assange since he was locked up in Belmarsh Prison nearly four years ago.
On his way into the high security prison Mr Smith told the ABC he was pleased that he was able to visit Mr Assange.
“No Australian official has seen him since November of 2019,” he said. “That’s a very long time.”
“I’m very keen just to have a conversation with him, check on his health and wellbeing and hopefully see whether regular visits might be a feature of the relationship with Mr Assange going forward.”
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Opposition leader Peter Dutton announced the Liberal Party will campaign against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
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Mexico’s President Slams Trump Arrest, But Most World Leaders Silent
Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday slammed the history-making charges against former President Trump, but as U.S. politics is consumed by the indictment, most world leaders have been largely silent on the issue.
Trump was booked Tuesday on 34 felony counts of fabricating business records related to a hush money payment made shortly before the 2016 election to an adult film actress who alleged an affair.
The former president has blasted the charges, which make him the first-ever current or former U.S. president to be indicted, and called the case a witch hunt meant to thwart his third White House run.
López Obrador spoke Wednesday, doubling down on comments he made last month before charges against Trump were announced and saying the case is political.
“Supposedly legal issues should not be used for electoral, political purposes,” López Obrador said. “That’s why I don’t agree with what they are doing to ex-President Trump.”
“It should be the people who decide,” he added.
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Mexican President Slams Trump Indictment, Says Case Brought for ‘Political Purposes’
Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador derided the prosecution of former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying that legal proceedings ought not to be used to influence elections.
His comments follow Trump’s Tuesday arraignment in which the former president pleaded not guilty to 34 counts brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in connection with a 2016 payment that his then-personal attorney, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels.
“Supposedly legal issues should not be used for electoral, political purposes. That’s why I don’t agree with what they are doing to ex-President Trump,” he said, according to The Hill. “It should be the people who decide.”
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Britain to House 500 Migrants on Barge Docked Off English Coast
Some 500 asylum-seekers in the U.K. will be housed on a barge docked off the south coast of England, the British government said Wednesday of its latest measure aimed at discouraging migrants from crossing the English Channel in small unseaworthy boats.
The housing plan is part of a broader effort by the Conservative government to curb migration and cut hotel bills that cost taxpayers 2.3 billion-pounds ($2.9 billion) a year amid a backlog of hundreds of thousands of asylum cases.
It could take months before the barge, currently in Italy, is anchored at Portland, off the Dorset coast. The government’s plan could face legal challenges along with other forms of opposition.
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Canada: Syrian Refugee Accused of Murdering 13-Year-Old BC Girl Pleads Not Guilty
The trial of the alleged murderer of 13-year-old Burnaby teen Marissa Shen began on Wednesday, six years after the accused was arrested.
Ibrahim Ali, who is a refugee from Syria, was arrested in Sept. 2018, months after Shen’s body was discovered.
Ali pleaded not guilty in a packed courtroom.
“I did not kill Marrisa Shen,” said Ali.
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France: 200 Young Migrants Occupy Abandoned School in Paris
A group of unaccompanied migrant youths have taken possession of a disused school in the 16th arrondissement of Paris with the help of a left-wing charitable organization.
An estimated 150 to 200 migrant teenagers, many of whom have been sleeping rough, took their opportunity to occupy the premises late on Tuesday evening at approximately 9.30 p.m. with assistance from volunteers of the Utopia 56 charity.
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Migrants continued to cross the English Channel today as good weather continued with border force officials guiding another small boat to the safety of the shore.
A group of around 20 asylum seekers are thought to have been brought into the harbour at Dover, Kent before 9am this morning after making the perilous journey across the 21-mile Dover Straits in an inflatable dinghy.
The asylum seekers could be seen dressed in orange lifejackets as RNLI officials escorted them off the vessel amid chilly conditions in the Channel.
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Spain: Suspect in Church Attacks Sent to Psychiatric Center
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a Moroccan man held in the January slaying of a church officer in the southern city of Algeciras.
Authorities identified the alleged assailant in the Jan. 26 machete attack as 25-year-old Yassine Kanjaa. He was arrested after he allegedly killed the worker and injured a priest at two Catholic churches in Algeciras.
A Spanish court told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the judge’s order was temporary and the attack was still being investigated as a possible terrorist act. Police have said they think the suspect acted alone.
Spain’s Interior Ministry said Kanjaa had been under a deportation order since June 2022 because of his unauthorized immigration status.
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Some 500 migrants will be housed on a barge off the Jurassic coast in a landmark 18-month deal, it was confirmed last night.
The vessel will be moored at Portland in Dorset — with Home Secretary Suella Braverman expected to announce similar barges at a later date.
It came as pictures emerged of the interior of the ‘Bibby Stockholm’ barge, which offers ‘luxury living’ and facilities including a gym, games room and bar. It also has ‘delicious, nutritious food’ in its restaurant and Wi-Fi throughout the ship.
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The mayor of the port town where a giant barge housing 500 asylum seekers will be docked today compared it to having a ‘housing estate plonked on them at a moment’s notice’.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman plans to ease Britain’s migrant crisis by putting them in a three-deck ship in Portland Port, at the heart of the World Heritage Jurassic Coast.
But Portland mayor Pete Roper has hit out at the government for not consulting local residents or providing any additional support for the island.
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Gareth Boyd, Marketing & PR Director at Forte Analytica, says Bud Light lit its brand on fire and has lost touch with its core audience with a recent ad campaign.
“I really cannot understand their approach for this because their core audience just cannot relate. Cutting your core audience in the hope you can draw a completely new audience in, who haven’t been exposed before, doesn’t make sense.
“Most US families are exposed to their father drinking the beer, or other family members, but it has never been seen as the cool beer.”
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Canadian Politician Wants to Criminalize ‘Offensive Remarks’ Near Drag Queen Story Hours
On Tuesday, the Ontario NDP (New Democratic Party) called on the government to establish community safety zones to safeguard drag artists and LGBTQ communities from harassment and intimidation during their performances.
According to Kristyn Wong-Tam, who is introducing a private member’s bill, 100-meter safety zones around drag show venues are necessary because drag performances have been the subject of organized protests in both the United States and Canada.
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Inside the WHO Plot to Target “Misinformation” And Expand Its Surveillance Powers
The treaty is being discussed this week.
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Michigan Repeals 1931 Abortion Ban
Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law on Wednesday a measure repealing the state’s 1931 abortion ban that made no exceptions for rape or incest.
The ban had gone unenforced since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a constitutional right to the procedure, while a state judge declared it unconstitutional after the high court overturned that precedent.
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Ontario NDP, Witch, Drag Queens, Non-Binary Persons Call for Public Safety Zones Around Drag Events
The Ontario NDP has introduced a bill seeking to create community safety zones around drag events for children in response to increasing protests and opposition, with one drag performer claiming during a press conference that “a world without drag has never existed.”
Kristyn Wong-Tam, who has they/them pronouns and is MPP for Toronto Centre, introduced a private member’s bill seeking to create safe zones of 100 meters around any establishment that is hosting a drag event, prohibiting “homophobic, transphobic acts of intimidation, threats, offensive threats, offensive remarks, protest, disturbance and distribution of hate propaganda.”
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A new show featured transgender adults who stripped down in front of Dutch tweens to “give them the opportunity to ask questions” about their naked bodies.
The television show called “Gewoon Bloot” or “Simply Naked” in English, displays nude adults in front of 10-to 12-year-old children who ask the adults questions about their naked bodies and in this case, their “vaginoplasty” and double mastectomies.
“Simply Naked” was harshly criticized ahead of its March 21 debut, but Dutch public broadcaster NOS said the show is meant to promote body positivity and give children a realistic view of the human body.
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Trans Group Demands That Fox News be Removed From Canadian TV
Egale Canada, an organization for “2SLGBTQI people and issues,” released a statement calling on Canada’s regulators, the CRTC, to begin public consultations on the removal of Fox News from the list of non-Canadian programming authorized for distribution in Canada. The group is moving to essentially ban Fox News in Canada, after host Tucker Carlson featured the group on his program.
An open letter from the group states “The coverage aimed to provoke hatred and violence against 2SLGBTQI communities, particularly those who are Two Spirit, trans, nonbinary and gender non-conforming (2STNBGN).”
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Video: “Protect Trans Kids” Flag, BLM Badge on Display in New Spider-Man Trailer
Creators of upcoming feature film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse have snuck in a transgender flag emblazoned with the words “Protect trans kids.”
The message appears for a split second, almost invisible in the background.
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You Never Thought it Would Look Like This
Imagine explaining to George Orwell that this is what the aesthetics of the dystopia would really look like.
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RENT CRISIS seems to be caused by a general attack on property investors by socialist government. Attacks have been by demands for expensive maintenance and requirements, increased tenants rights and land taxes. Socialism is determined that people should only own the house they live in. This will mean government will have to provide housing for renters which will allow for lots of rorting in administration of same.
Robert F Kennedy Jr is an honest and principled man. I have read his book “The Real Dr Fauci” and it is a devastating indictment of that evil man. He cannot sue, because the book is meticulous and fully backed up by documented sources.
For this reason, there is absolutely no chance that RFK will be adopted as the Democrat candidate.
Honest and principled. You are right, he doesn’t have a chance. I also read his book. I highly recommend it.
The problem with Kennedy is that he supports the Globull Warming Hoax and that he is a skirt chaser like the rest of the Kennedy crime family men. He is NOT honest or principled. He was having an affair with his present wife while cheating on his previous wife Mary. She was so distraught over his affair and his filing for divorce that she hanged herself.
He’s a typical democrat like Bill Clinton.
Hello. I have a question for the Americans. One so-called migrant “human rights activist” who used to promote replacement migration was deported from Russia. After spending some time in Armenia, she received asylum in Urbana, Illinois.
Can you tell me what is in this Urbana?
I don’t know anything special about Urbana. It’s an average Midwest city. It has a university, but then, so do a lot of other Midwestern cities.
Warehousing orcs on a barge in England isn’t a bad idea. Only problem is that one is too small; only five hundred of the nasty buggers will fit in it. Just need to get another thousand or so barges to house the rest of them, perhaps lure them on board with rumors of Swedish girls to rape, then tow the whole lot out to sea and open the sea cocks. The resulting wrecks will make ideal habitat for the UK fishing industry.
Perhaps a few deluxe barges could also be provided to lure upper-class invaders like Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel out to sea.
I heard that you can put even more people on cruise ships.
Tell them, they get a free cruise (free food, alcohol and more women they can imagine) and then send the ship to Mogadishu.
And if the ship hasnt had any safety inspection and turned into a soulseller (someone suggested floating coffin – ship where with every voyage you expect it to sink) – inspections costs money and with all the “people” hired for diversity, Inclusion, LGBT… we had to save money somewhere else, so sorry.
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It is now Maundy Thursday all year round.
We must stop talking about “the free world”.
By Lars Hedegaard / snaphanen.dk
Maundy Thursday is perhaps an appropriate time to look at the events of recent decades from a broader perspective than we are used to.
What has really happened since the end of the Second World War in 1945? What fundamental changes can be identified that will have consequences far into the future?
At first glance, many will probably emphasize the end of the Cold War in 1989-1991 with the collapse of the Soviet empire and the apparent victory of the American West over communism and the hope for a free and democratic future that this brought. But this was not to be. As the war in Ukraine shows, the conflict between the US and NATO on the one hand and the successor to the Soviet Union, Russia and its allies, on the other, is alive and well. The détente of the 1990s proved to be a short-lived respite, and today the Cold War has been replaced by a hot war.
Moreover, the collapse of the Soviet Union was not a sign of the triumph of freedom over communism. On the contrary, year after year the rabid left has strengthened its influence in the West, which is now controlled by the far left. Whether the proponents of this left call themselves socialists, liberals or even conservatives is of no real political significance. It is the actions that should be scrutinized, not the marketing.
A sober look at what the old communists in the Kremlin called the “balance of power” shows that an increasingly rabid left controls all the major institutions of society: the media, educational institutions, the dominant giant corporations and capital concentrations, the judiciary, the public administration and the vast majority of political parties – whatever they call themselves. In Denmark, for example, it makes little difference whether one or the other ‘bloc’ is in government.
The left’s almost total control of the state and the main international institutions such as the EU, NATO, the UN and the WHO means that we must stop talking about the ‘free world’. The countries that once adorned themselves with this name increasingly resemble the world that was once called unfree.
Take the United States, where the ruling left, including parts of the Republican Party, is undermining democracy and the rule of law. A populist uprising led by Donald Trump has been crushed and its leaders arrested on false charges. Up to half of the US population may try to resist the tyrannical government, but the prospects are not good.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele made the most telling comment on recent events in the US a few days ago. On Twitter, he wrote the following:
“You can think what you want about former President Trump and the reasons for his impeachment. But imagine if this had happened in any other country where a government arrested the leading opposition candidate. America’s ability to use “democracy” as a foreign policy is gone.”
To consolidate its power, the left has shown itself willing to use any means – legal or illegal. Among the most important of these has been the forced disintegration of national populations through unlimited immigration of foreigners who are guaranteed never to “integrate” and who will therefore continue to serve as clients and voting cattle for the state.
Unfortunately, we are facing difficult times.
By the way, yes. Recently, in one telegram channel, they discussed the beating of disgruntled people in France by the police.
And one woman from Ukraine wrote: And where is Victoria Nuland with cookies? (A reference to 2014 when she handed out cookies to Maidan protesters)
Democracy, but not for all democracy.