A 19-year-old “woman” named “Lilly” was arrested in Colorado for plotting shooting attacks against three schools and churches. The would-be shooter’s real name is William Whitworth. Police reportedly found his detailed plans for the shootings, and also a copy of The Communist Manifesto.
In other news, Vladimir Putin is reportedly planning to station more nuclear weapons in the Arctic now that Finland is a member of NATO.
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Poland Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged
Poland’s Monetary Policy Council opted against a reduction in interest rates on Wednesday, choosing to stay at 6.75 percent, the same level since September last year.
It is now unlikely that there will be a rate cut by the end of the year, as the decrease in inflation has been slower than expected.
Pressure on rising prices in the economy persists, and core inflation, which excludes energy and food, has significantly increased. In January it hit 11.7 percent, rising to 12 percent in February; it is expected to reach a new record in March and remain high in the coming months.
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U.S. Unemployment Rate for March 3.6%, Essentially Unchanged From Previous Month
The U.S. unemployment rate for March was 3.5%, the Labor Department said Friday.
The unemployment rate for February was 3.6%.
The Bureau of Labor Statistic’s March report also shows employers in March added 236,000 jobs to the domestic economy, despite the Federal Reserve imposing nine interest rate hikes over the past year to try to cool inflation, according to the Associated Press.
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Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz warned Wednesday that former President Donald Trump has “no chance” of getting acquitted in liberal New York City in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s unprecedented legal case.
“There’s no way he can get a fair trial,” he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “I don’t care if Jesus, Muhammad, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thurgood Marshall defended Trump in New York, he wouldn’t win this case. Hung jury? Maybe. Acquittal? Never.”
Dershowitz’s comments came on the heels of Trump’s Tuesday arraignment where he pled not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records linked to 2016 hush-money payments.
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‘At Least 40’ Undercover Informants Were Doing Surveillance on Jan. 6, Defense Lawyer Says
Law enforcement agencies had at least 40 undercover informants engaging in surveillance work among defendants on Jan. 6, defendant Dominic Pezzola’s lawyer Roger Roots said Wednesday.
A Proud Boys member, Pezzola is currently standing federal trial in Washington, D.C. with the group’s former national chairman Enrique Tarrio and members Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl for allegedly conspiring to oppose the Jan. 2021 transfer of presidential power and related charges. The government admitted Tuesday that eight FBI confidential human sources were embedded among the Proud Boys on Jan. 6, Roots reported in a Wednesday court filing, saying the Homeland Security Investigations (HIS) agency appears to have had some 19 informants active at the time.
At least 13 undercover plain-clothes DC Metro Police (MPD) agents worked among Jan. 6 defendants that day, Roots said. He reported that federal prosecutors revealed information involving twelve of the officers on Friday.
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The sister of Rylee McCollum, 20, who was killed by a suicide bomber at Kabul airport in August 2021 amid the chaotic withdrawal, has criticized the Biden administration for blaming Trump.
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Biden Administration Blames Trump for Chaotic Afghan Withdrawal
The Biden administration released a report Thursday on its deadly, final military troop withdraw from Afghanistan in August 2021 that cast significant blame on former President Trump.
“During the transition from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration, the outgoing Administration provided no plans for how to conduct the final withdrawal or to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies,” the 12-page report states. “Indeed, there were no such plans in place when President Biden came into office.”
Thirteen U.S. service member were killed Aug. 13 of 2021 when a bomb exploded outside the Abby Gate and the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, near the end of the withdraw. The terror attack also killed at least 170 Afghan civilians.
Trump’s name appears 14 times in the report. The former president toward end of his four year term negotiated the U.S. military finally leaving Afghanistan — after having invaded the country just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and staying there for roughly the next 20 years.
The departure agreement, which included negotiations with the militant political group the Taliban, fulfilled Trump’s campaign promise to end the United States’ so-called endless wars.
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Bryan Kohberger Being Investigated by Police in Relation to Other Homicides in Pennsylvania: Report
Investigators in two separate Pennsylvania counties, where murder suspect Bryan Kohberger attended school, are now sifting through their cold cases files to see if there might be any link between them and the Idaho college murders that took place in November 2022.
Kohberger, 28, is the prime suspect in the murder of four Idaho college students, Ethan Chapin, Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, and Xana Kernodle, all of whom were killed in their off-campus home on Kings Road, located in Moscow, Idaho.
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CBS Host Pushes Back on Dem Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson as He Tries to Dodge Question on Taxes
CBS News host Vladimir Duthiers pushed back against incoming Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday over the possibility of raising taxes in the city.
Johnson beat Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas in a runoff race Tuesday. Vallas repeatedly accused Johnson of wanting to “defund the police,” which Johnson called a “real political goal” on a December 2020 radio show.
Speaking on CBS, Johnson discussed the need to increase community services such as health care and youth employment in an effort to reduce crime, as well as the need for police. He also called for more social workers, counselors and EMTs to assist police.
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Chicago Braces for Tax Shock After Uber-Progressive Mayor Elected
Residents of the Democratic stronghold of Chicago just elected another Democrat Mayor to replace Lori Lightfoot…
[…]yet, instead of perhaps voting for a centrist, mayor-elect Brandon Johnson is anything but — and the city is now bracing for more taxes.
As Bloomberg notes;
The mayor-elect’s proposed levies on corporations, financial securities and the rich would add pressure on the business community in the nation’s third-largest city that’s already grappling with rising crime, high-profile headquarter departures and fragile finances.
“He wants to put more of the burden on the business community,” said Richard Caccarone, president-emeritus of municipal bond research firm, Merritt Research Services. “There’s some anxiety about the approach that he’ll use and solutions. You don’t want to start a negative spiral.”
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Chicago Police Union Warns 1,000 Cops May Quit After City Elects ‘Lightfoot 2’ Brandon Johnson
When Chicago ran failed Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot out on a rail, the rest of the country hoped sanity had returned to that great midwestern city.
But in the general election, Chicago voters doubled down and elected radical leftist Brandon Johnson, dubbed “Lightfoot 2” by many.
And now comes the blowback.
The head of the Chicago police union says a majority of the members “do not want to work for Brandon Johnson as mayor.”
The union is now warning that as many as 1,000 officers may quit.
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Connecticut Prison Guard Fired Over ‘ISIS Windchimes’ Meme Reinstated
A Connecticut prison guard who was fired in 2021, several years after posting what the state determined to be an anti-Muslim meme on Facebook, has been reinstated to his job.
An arbitrator ruled in February that Anthony Marlak’s termination was an excessive response by the state Department of Correction and reduced the punishment to a 25-day suspension. He also ruled that Marlak must be compensated for lost pay and benefits.
Marlak, who served as a correctional officer for 14 years, told The Associated Press on Thursday that he returned to his job at the Garner Correctional Institution in March.
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COVID-19 Conspiracy Theorist Rebekah Jones’ Son Arrested for Allegedly Threatening School Shooting
The 13-year-old son of failed Democratic congressional candidate and COVID-19 conspiracy theorist Rebekah Jones was arrested in Florida after allegedly threatening to shoot up Holley Navarre Middle School and stab students who had angered him, according to The Pensacola News Journal.
Jones was lauded in mainstream media as a whistleblower, a title she still claims in her Twitter bio, in 2020 after she claimed she was fired from her Florida Department of Health job for refusing to alter COVID-19 data to make the state’s virus response look better; her accusations have since been debunked. Following her son’s arrest, she suggested Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been personally involved in the arrest as an act of retaliation against her in a viral tweet viewed more than 13 million times.
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Daniel Perry Found Guilty of Murder During 2020 Protest
A Texas jury found Daniel Perry guilty of murder for the death of one man during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest.
While the jury found him guilty of murder, they acquitted him of aggravated assault, according to Kxan. The deadly incident occurred on July 25, 2020, when Perry steered his vehicle onto a crowded Austin street wherein protesters were marching. Many individuals began to surround the car, one of whom was Garrrett Foster, who was carrying an AK-47 rifle at the time.
Perry opened fire, killing Foster and prompting a nearby gunman to fire on his vehicle, though that individual inflicted no injuries. Foster himself never fired his weapon. Perry had claimed self-defense, saying that Foster had raised his weapon prior to his own firing. Witnesses disputed that claim though the trial saw no video evidence to corroborate or refute it.
Perry did not testify during the trial.
Foster’s father, Stephen, celebrated the verdict, saying “[w]e are happy with the verdict and also very sorry for (Perry’s) family as well,” per the Austin American-Statesman.
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DHS Dismissed Free Speech Concerns as “Bad Faith” Attacks
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is accused of having an advisory panel set up to respond to online “disinformation” that was also in the habit of dismissing legitimate censorship concerns as coming from critics that were supposedly “bad faith actors.”
The Daily Caller News Foundations (DCNF) is reporting about this as an exclusive piece of news, explaining that the DHS committee on “misinformation” went after its critics in private.
The goal may have been to intimidate them by painting — and discreditation them instantly — as “malign actors.”
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DHS is Sued for Censorship Records on Meetings With Big Tech
Judicial Watch has decided to sue the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after the federal agency failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records related to meetings with Big Tech representatives where censorship was allegedly discussed.
The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to force the DHS to disclose documents detailing how its Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) worked with companies behind social media platforms in order to censor speech.
We obtained a copy of the complaint for you here.
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Elon Musk Demands San Francisco Takes ‘Stronger Action to Jail Repeat Violent Offenders’
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has dropped the hammer on failed Democrat politicians in San Francisco after a well-known tech mogul was stabbed to death in the city this week.
Bob Lee was the founder of Cash App and the former chief technology officer of Jack Dorsey’s Square.
He recently moved to Miami to get away from all the crime in San Francisco.
However, he was murdered in a supposedly “good” neighborhood in the city on Tuesday.
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Republican North Carolina Rep. Greg Murphy introduced two pieces of legislation Thursday aimed to protect free speech on college campuses and universities in the United States.
The Daily Caller first obtained the resolution condemning compelled speech on college campuses and the piece of legislation titled the Campus Free Speech Restoration Act. The first resolution condemns the practice of requiring the support of an ideology or political movement during the admissions or hiring process. The resolution targets public universities that could make students make a pledge regarding diversity, equity or inclusion.
In 2021, North Carolina State University included an essay question on applications saying the university is ‘committed to building a just and inclusive community’ and rejects ‘unjust or inhumane treatment’ and will denounce it ‘clearly and loudly.’ The school also told students to write a 250-word essay that describes “what those words mean to you and how you will contribute to a more diverse and inclusive environment,’“ The Carolina Journal reported.
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Facial Recognition Company Suggests Deep Fakes Increase the Need for Digital ID
After creating technology — used over years, if not decades in entertainment industry — to produce deep fakes — how about the same industry now warning us about all the dangers of it — and their brand new solutions for that problem, some of them may have ostensibly created in the first place?
There might be an audience for it.
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Fauci: ‘There Will Absolutely be Another Pandemic — it May be Next Year’
Dr. Anthony Fauci has declared that “there will absolutely be an outbreak of another pandemic,” claiming that it could come as soon as “next year.”
Fauci made the prediction during an appearance at a town hall discussion this week with CNN’s Jim Acosta at James Madison University.
According to Fauci, a global pandemic could disrupt the 2024 election year, just as it did in 2020.
During the discussion, Fauci asserts that he’s certain “another pandemic” will strike.
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Elon Musk might think that the US State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) is, in his words, the “worst offender in US government censorship and media manipulation” — but this federal agency is not without its fans.
For example, the George W. Bush Presidential Center has just called for continued funding of the GEC — despite the fact this entity has flagged thousands of Twitter accounts, and funds third parties to censor online speech.
Naturally, the George W. Bush Presidential Center doesn’t say it supports the work of the GEC because it excels at censorship — but instead, you guessed it, to better fight “misinformation.”
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Hostage Killed, CHP Officer and Other Bystander Shot in Roseville Shooting, Officials Say
Police say there is no threat to public
ROSEVILLE, Calif. — A hostage situation and shootout Thursday afternoon left one person dead, and a second person and a California Highway Patrol officer injured, officials said.
A spokesperson with the California Highway Patrol said that officers were serving a search warrant as part of an ongoing felony investigation when one officer was shot around 12:30 p.m. near Mahany Park. Officers who were there returned gunfire.
The CHP said there were seven officers on the scene at the time and investigators are still determining how many fired their weapons.
The Roseville Police Department said it came to help after the CHP officer was shot, and that is when another gunbattle happened between Roseville and CHP officers, and the gunman.
The suspected gunman, 35-year-old Eric James Abril of Roseville, took two hostages before he eventually surrendered, according to Roseville police. Abril was hurt by gunfire sometime during the shootout.
An exact timeline of how and when the events unfolded has yet to be released.
The two bystanders taken hostage were hit by bullets, police said. One of them died at the scene, and the second one was sent to a hospital with unknown injuries and is expected to survive.
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Jim Jordan Subpoenas Former NY DA Who Pushed Investigation Into Trump
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan subpoenaed a former New York County district attorney official Thursday who pushed for the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s finances.
Jordan subpoenaed former New York County Special District Attorney Mark Pomerantz, arguing he politicized the investigation into Trump and encouraged District Attorney Alvin Bragg to charge Trump.
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JPMorgan CEO Suggests Government Seize Private Property to Quicken Climate Initiatives
In his annual letter to shareholders, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon suggested that the U.S. government and climate conscious corporations may have to seize citizen’s private property to enact climate initiatives while there still time to stave off climate disasters.
Dimon declared Tuesday that “governments, businesses and non-governmental organizations” may need to invoke “eminent domain” in order to get the “adequate investments fast enough for grid, solar, wind and pipeline initiatives.”
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McDonalds Hit With Civil Rights Complaint for Allegedly Racist Hiring Practices
A legal group filed a federal civil rights complaint against McDonald’s for allegedly racist hiring practices rooted in its diversity goals.
America First Legal asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to open the civil rights investigation on Wednesday, arguing that McDonald’s publicly available staffing goals show it violated federal law that prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of race and sex. Documents, including one that features a “Diversity Snapshot” breaking down staff by race and sex, show McDonalds created demographic quotas for employees.
These actions are “un-American, bad for business, and patently unlawful,” America First Legal Vice President Gene Hamilton said in a statement.
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Only a Third of Americans Say Biden Deserves Re-Election as President: Poll
Two-thirds of Americans say that President Biden doesn’t deserve to be re-elected, according to a new national poll.
Only 32% of those questioned in a CNN survey released on Thursday said the president deserves a second term in the White House, down from 37% in the cable news network’s December poll. Sixty-seven percent said Biden doesn’t deserve to be re-elected, up from 62% late last year.
Biden, whose approval ratings with all Americans in the CNN poll remain in negative territory, has repeatedly said that he intends to seek a second term in the White House, but he has yet to make any formal announcements.
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A San Francisco Bay Area district attorney funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros is demanding that a judge who rejected a plea deal for a suspect in a string of three killings be disqualified from that case and other criminal matters being prosecuted by her office.
In a video message shared on YouTube Wednesday afternoon, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price argued that Alameda County Superior Court Judge Mark McCannon “overstepped his boundaries as a judicial officer and has created a firestorm of prejudicial comments that do not, in my view, serve justice.” The prosecutor did not cite specifically how.
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Subway Rider Stabbed to Death on Brooklyn D Train; Killer Runs Off
No weapon was recovered and the killer is still on the loose, the NYPD says
An 18-year-old was stabbed to death aboard a Brooklyn D train after getting into an argument with another passenger late Thursday, police say.
NYPD officers responding to a 911 call about a man stabbed on a northbound train as it entered the Fourth Avenue and Pacific Street station, by Barclays Center downtown, around 11:30 p.m. found the victim knifed in the gut.
He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
According to the initial investigation, the victim got into an argument with an unidentified man on the train. It wasn’t clear what they fought about, but the dispute turned violent, and the attacker stabbed the victim with an unknown object. The suspect deboarded the train when it pulled into the station, headed up to the street and ran off.
No weapon was recovered. No arrests have been made.
The victim’s identity is being withheld pending family notification.
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Tennessee House Votes to Boot Two Dem Members Who Joined With Mob in Capitol Protest
Editor’s note: This article has been updated.
Tennessee’s Republican-held House voted Thursday to expel two out of three Democratic members for leading what House leadership called an “insurrection” at the state Capitol last week following Nashville’s school shooting.
The House voted to expel Nashville Rep. Justin Jones 72 to 25 and Memphis Rep. Justin Pearson 69 to 26 for “disorderly conduct” via HR 65 and HR 63 introduced Monday. Jones, Pearson and Knoxville Rep. Gloria Johnson joined a group of gun control protestors in the building last Thursday, and joined in chants via a bullhorn between bills; resolutions to expel the three of them were introduced Monday, according to The Tennessean.
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A bombshell new reports has exposed Tesla staffers as sharing videos of customers, including one showing naked man approaching a car and another showing ‘sexual wellness items.’
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These States Are Pushing to Force Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Programs in Higher Education
As Republican-led states fight for laws to cut Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives on college campuses, other state legislatures are pushing to enshrine the programs into law, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
At least 29 bills have been filed in 17 states to crack down on DEI programs, but states such as New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey are debating legislation that would do the opposite, the Chronicle reported. DEI has become a point of contention as state lawmakers grapple with the role the programs should have on campus, as Democrats argue that the programs help bolster diversity on campuses while Republicans challenge that they stoke division.
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The Pentagon said it is assessing the reported security breach. The documents reportedly contain charts and details about weapons deliveries, battalion strengths and other sensitive information.
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Trump Tears Into White House ‘Morons’ for Blaming Him for Afghanistan ‘Surrender’…
Republicans tear into ‘disgraceful’ and ‘insulting’ report on catastrophic withdrawal — after spokesman said he was PROUD and there was no chaos
Trump tore into President Biden’s ‘grossly incompetent SURRENDER’ in Afghanistan after the White House blamed his timeline for the withdrawal’s chaos.
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Video: ABC News Blurs Out Trump Donation Number
Allegations of election interference have been thrown at ABC News after the network appeared to blur out a donation text number on Donald Trump’s lectern during his speech from Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night, yet has previously allowed Joe Biden’s donation number to be broadcast.
ABC News obscured the instruction “TEXT TRUMP to 88022” during the coverage.
The text number provides those interested with information on how to donate to Trump’s presidential campaign.
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Water levels fell so low in key reservoirs during the depth of California’s drought that boat docks sat on dry, cracked land and cars drove into the center of what should have been Folsom Lake.
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Your Every Move Tracked: How to Remove Apple and Google’s Location Data
It’s no secret anymore. Nearly everything you do online is tracked or recorded and used to learn more about you.
Many of your data points ends up on creepy people search sites. You’ll be shocked to find your full name, address, relatives, phone number, and more. Here’s a list of sites where you can opt out of this invasion of privacy.
On your phone, apps are likely watching — and reporting — more than you realize. Take back control with just a few minutes in your settings.
Navigation apps use your phone’s GPS location to determine exactly where you are. Every time you navigate somewhere, that location is stored in your profile. Prepared to be shocked at what Apple and Google know about your wanderings.
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Canada Heeds U.N. Call to Repatriate Women, Children From Syria Camps
Canada said it’s in the process of repatriating more than a dozen citizens, including 10 children, from Syrian detention camps.
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Federal Lawyers Claim Emergencies Act Was “Targeted and Limited in Scope”
The third day of the legal challenge to the government’s use of the Emergencies Act saw federal lawyers argue that the powers used to end the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa were “targeted and limited in scope.”
“The use of emergency powers was targeted and limited,” said government lawyers.
John Provart, a lawyer for the attorney general of Canada, claimed that the protests breached the threshold of what is considered lawful and pushed to portray the Convoy protests as going beyond reasonable limits.
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Liberals Demand Rewrite of Report That Shows Carbon Tax is Costing Canadians
The Liberals are demanding that the federal budget watchdog rewrite a report that reveals how most Canadians are being shafted by the carbon tax.
Last week, Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux found that a majority of households would see a “net loss” from the federal levy.
“We estimate that most households will see a net loss, paying more in the federal fuel charge and GST, as well as receiving lower incomes, compared to the Climate Action Incentive payments they receive,” said Giroux.
Unhappy with the outcome of Giroux’s accounting, Liberal MP Lloyd Longfield wrote an open letter demanding that he take into account the unrealized “costs of climate change.”
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RCMP Arrests Two Women After They Return to Canada From ISIS Camps in Syria
Two Ontario women were arrested on terrorism allegations on Thursday after returning to Canada from camps in Syria for captured ISIS suspects.
Dure Ahmed and Ammara Amjad were arrested on terrorism peace bonds upon arriving at Montreal airport, the RCMP said in a statement.
They were then flown to Ontario and appeared by teleconference in a courtroom in Brampton, Ont., north of Toronto.
The case was put over until Tuesday.
The women were among four the Canadian government brought out of Syria on Wednesday, along with their children.
They do not face any criminal charges. Peace bonds impose a list of conditions on suspects that can include wearing an ankle bracelet and taking part in a de-radicalization program.
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Toronto Food Bank Sees Highest Visits in 40-Year History
As Canadians struggle with high costs of living, more Torontonians are accessing emergency food services at the Daily Bread Food Bank than ever before.
According to the Daily Bread Food Bank, close to 270,000 residents visited the food bank in the month of March — the highest in the 40-year history of the organization.
Prior to the pandemic, the food bank saw approximately 65,000 client visits per month. However, that number has quadrupled since then.
The charity is calling on the Ontario government to take immediate action to help address this growing food insecurity crisis.
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“Relevant Signal,” Dutch PM Says About Broadly Supported Motion of No Confidence
The fact that virtually the entire opposition has lost confidence in the Cabinet is “a relevant signal,” Prime Minister Mark Rutte admitted. But after hours of debate on the results of the provincial elections last month, he still did not want to speculate on what it means for his coalition, which needs the support of opposition parties to get laws passed in the Senate.
The left-wing bloc of GroenLInks and PvdA tabled the motion of no confidence. The two parties are usually essential pillars for the Cabinet in the Senate. It got support from BBB, PVV, PvdD, DENK, the Van Haga Groep, JA21, and independent MP Pieter Omtzigt — broad support from both the left and right sides of the political spectrum. The parties that voted in favor together account for about 60 percent of the vote in the provincial elections. Also relevant is the support of BBB, the largest party in all provinces, as well as in the Senate.
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Britain’s Top Police Force Has 161 Convicted Criminals on Its Books
Britain’s top police force currently employs 161 officers with criminal convictions, some of which pertain to serious sexual offenses.
This is just one revelation unearthed from an update by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to the British government on the action being taken by the force to clean up its image after numerous recent reports concluded it was no longer capable of protecting the public.
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British Retiree May Have Solved Decades-Old Geometry Problem: ‘A Really New Idea’
An amateur mathematician in the United Kingdom may have solved a 60-year-old problem in geometry, garnering the attention of researchers.
CNN reported David Smith, a retired printing technician, has discovered a shape known as an “einstein,” which can be tiled over a surface without the pattern repeating. The outlet noted mathematicians first began working on this problem in the 1960s.
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Dutch PM Vows to ‘Accelerate’ Green Agenda Despite Farmer Party Win, No Stopping Rutte
Mark Rutte vowed to “accelerate” plans to implement his anti-farmer agenda despite the surprise victory of the populist tractor protest party.
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France: Paris Protesters Storm BlackRock Building, Dump Dead Rats at City Hall
Protesters in Paris stormed a building housing BlackRock amid ongoing demonstrations against President Macron’s pension reform plans.
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Parisian protesters today set fire to a restaurant favoured by French President Emmanuel Macron, as angry national protests in response to proposed pension reforms continued.
Dozens of trade union members took to the streets of the French capital on Thursday in a stand against the raising of the pension age from 62 to 64, with protestors targeting Left Bank brasserie La Rotonde.
The restaurant’s canopy could be seen ablaze, with plumes of smoke rising into the air as protesters threw bottles and paint in clashes with police.
It comes as President Macron met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on the second day of his state visit to China.
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Germany: Award-Winning Progressive Blogger Found to Have Never Existed
Germany’s legacy media are in shock after it was found that an award-winning progressive blogger may never have existed.
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Hungary: US Ambassador to Budapest is on Warpath Against Orban
The U.S. ambassador to Budapest, David Pressman, has launched yet another attack against Viktor Orban, this time claiming the Hungarian prime minister has identified the United States as an enemy of Hungary.
As reported by the Hungarian Magyar Nemzet newspaper, Pressman said that Viktor Orban’s identification of the United States as Hungary’s adversary at the beginning of March was a cause for concern.
Pressman’s latest remarks were divulged to a journalist at the left-wing Népszava newspaper, who was given permission by the U.S. embassy in Budapest to accompany the diplomat on a visit to the Hungarian city of Szeged on Tuesday.
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Hungary will not support Ukraine’s integration into the European Union or NATO until the rights of the Hungarian national community are restored, said Tamas Menczer, state secretary for bilateral relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, told the M1 news channel on Wednesday.
Menczer stressed that Ukraine’s membership in the EU and NATO is being opposed due to the erosion of Hungarian minority rights in relation to education, culture, and the use of the Hungarian language since 2015.
Hungary’s position remains unchanged, and the integration process requires a unanimous position, whether in the EU or NATO, the minister reminded viewers.
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Hungary: Budapest is the Safest Destination for Women in Continental Europe, New Survey Reveals
Budapest has been labeled the safest city in the world for solo women travelers, according to a survey conducted by the WayAway flight aggregator.
The travel site compared 200 cities across the globe to determine the top 30 safest cities for women, and Budapest listed third globally, topped only by San Juan in Puerto Rico, and the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik.
The results were determined based on interviews with local residents, the latest safety research, and independent city reviews.
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Neary Half of Poles Hold Favorable View of Catholic Church
Polish society is split in its view of the Roman Catholic Church, although opinion appears to be shifting toward a more favorable view of the institution, according to a recent survey.
A study conducted by the Center for Public Opinion Research (CBOS) in March revealed that 47 percent of Poles assess the activity of the Catholic Church positively, up 7 percent from September 2022, compared to 42 percent who view it negatively, down 6 percent.
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NHS Foreign Doctor Hires Outnumber Places for Brits in Medical School, Report Reveals
NHS England recruited more than 12,000 doctors from overseas in 2022, while only around 7,000 Brits began studying medicine across the country.
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Norway: Our IQ is Steadily Declining
Are we scoring lower on IQ tests because of the food we eat? Are schools and teachers the cause? Or maybe computers and mobile phones?
Or is the trend due to something completely different?
The phenomenon of declining IQ scores was detected early in Norway.
Now researchers are seeing the same trend in other countries.
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One in 20 Deaths in Netherlands Last Year Was Euthanasia
The number of euthanasia requests granted in the Netherlands rose by 13.7 percent last year. The Regional Euthanasia Testing Committees (RTE), which assesses whether doctors comply with all the statutory due care requirements, received a total of 8,720 reports of euthanasia. That means 5.1 percent of people who died in the Netherlands last year had chosen the moment themselves and received medical help for their death. A year earlier, that was 4.6 percent.
The upward trend in euthanasia has been visible for some time, though the review committees couldn’t give a clear explanation for it. No scientific research has been done into the causes, and the committees didn’t want to speculate.
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‘Poles and Ukrainians United in Seeking Victory Over Russia, ‘ Zelensky Says in Warsaw
Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky began his address upon his visit to Warsaw on Wednesday in the Polish language, citing Poland’s national anthem, which alludes to recovering lost territories, and also the words of John Paul II, the Polish pope.
Zelensky emphasized that the two nations, Poles and Ukrainians, were united in seeking victory in the current conflict with Russia, and took the opportunity to thank Poland for all it had done for Ukraine while still emphasizing that today’s Ukraine was fighting from a position of strength. He said that the unity shared with Poland would help to defend freedom, independence, and Europe. The Ukrainian president added that he had also visited the square in Warsaw where John Paul II made a historic address in 1979 when the late pope called for a renewal of the country, which later took place.
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The First Minister last night lashed out at ‘conspiracy theories’ from critics who questioned whether Ms Sturgeon knew action was imminent against Peter Murrell when she resigned.
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Inside the home of former first minister Sturgeon as detectives spend a second day probing its secrets in SNP funding probe
The former first minister’s ‘modest’ property in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, is around seven miles south-east of Glasgow city centre.
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The research is expected to analyse previous rulers’ involvement with slave-trading companies, including the Royal African Company and its deputy governor, Edward Colston.
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Fawziyah Javed, a lawyer in her late twenties, walked into a Vision Express in Leeds to help her mother buy some new glasses when she met Kashif Anwar.
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UK: Oxford College Skips St. George’s Day Dinner to Celebrate Islamic Holiday
An Oxford college has been accused of trying to “cancel” a dinner for the Christian patron saint of England in favour of an Islamic holiday.
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UK: One in Four Anglican Churches No Longer Holding Regular Sunday Services
More than one in four Anglican churches are no longer holding regular Sunday services, a report reveals.
Over one-quarter of all Churches within the Church of England are no longer holding regular Sunday services according to data released by authorities within the Christian denomination.
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UK: Police Force Redeploys Anti-Terror Officers to Fight Internal Racism and Sexism
London’s police force has redeployed anti-terror officers to help monitor alleged misconduct, including racism and sexism, within the force.
Officers previously fighting serious crime and terrorism within London’s Metropolitan Police (Met) have been pulled from their operations in order to help clean up alleged misconduct within their own force.
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UK: We Visited Area Plagued by Brazen ‘Tyre Extinguisher’ Environmentalists Targeting Posh SUVs
Residents in a posh area targeted by so-called Tyre Extinguishers have expressed fury at the group’s brazen tactics. Last week, we revealed the menacing gang of environmental vigilantes had deflated dozens of tyres on SUVs in Dickens Heath.
The group was said to have let down the wheels of 35 vehicles in the well-heeled Solihull village. Letters left on windscreens following the March 20 operation dubbed “vain” 4×4 drivers a “disaster for the planet”.
And protesters even suggested they could be back to cause more chaos. In a cocky tweet, they boasted: “Nice one! Keep it up.”
Now, locals have hit back and slammed what they called “vandalism”. It was claimed as many as six cars were picked out on one road — forcing a neighbour to go around with a PUMP and get drivers on their way.
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Zelensky Claims the Dispute Over Ukrainian Grain Imports Has Been Resolved
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, upon visiting Warsaw on Wednesday, said that “there must not be problems between such close partners and friends as Poland and Ukraine.” His words were in response to the issue of Ukrainian grain, which instead of being transferred to the developing world has ended up flooding the Polish market.
He claimed that together with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, a solution to the problem had been found that would help both Polish and Ukrainian farmers, but no details of that solution have yet been publicly disclosed.
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Caroline Glick: Israel is Holding the Line on Iran, Despite Biden
On Tuesday, Axios reported that in January, the Biden administration began negotiations with the Iranian regime about the possibility of reaching a partial agreement related to Iran’s nuclear weapons program. It revealed those efforts to Israel, Britain, France and Germany in February.
The report revealed that President Joe Biden and his team have offered Tehran a deal that would see the U.S. remove some economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for the regime temporarily ceasing some of its nuclear activities. The U.S. and the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency assess that Iran is on the brink of becoming a threshold nuclear state. In February, the IAEA said that Iran possessed sufficient quantities of uranium enriched to 60% purity to build a nuclear weapon if that uranium is further processed to 90%, weapons-grade level. Last month, the IAEA reported finding uranium enriched to 84% purity.
Axios didn’t reveal the details of the current U.S. proposal.
But in response to the Axios report, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies recalled that the administration made a proposal for such a deal to Iran last year. Under that proposal, in exchange for an Iranian pledge to temporarily stop enriching uranium to 60% purity, the U.S. would rescind “three executive orders sanctioning Iran’s petrochemical, automotive, construction, iron, steel, aluminum, copper, mining, manufacturing, textiles and financial sectors, including 17 Iranian banks.”
Many of these sectors, FDD noted, “are tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization.”
FDD estimated that rescinding these sanctions “could provide Iran with sanctions-free access to at least $30 billion in annual export revenue.”
Given that Iran already possesses enough enriched uranium to produce a nuclear weapon, and given that under the 2015 nuclear deal the U.S. concluded with Iran, many if not most of Iran’s nuclear installations were out of bounds for UN inspectors, it is obvious that the partial deal Biden is probably offering the Iranian regime isn’t about stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons…
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After Airstrikes, Syria Warns Israel Not to Drag Region Toward ‘Total Escalation’
Damascus accuses Jerusalem of trying to ‘escape its internal problems’ with raids, as Netanyahu vows ‘no dispute will prevent’ Israel from defending itself
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Putin Protection Officer Defects and Reveals Despot’s Intense Paranoia
Gleb Karakulov, 35, is a captain in the Federal Guard Service, who escaped via Istanbul to safety. He revealed Putin is ‘mortally afraid’ of Covid and is isolating for a fourth year.
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Putin Fires Top Russian General Behind Massacre in Vuhledar, West Says
General Rustam Muradov had led Russia’s Eastern Group of Forces (EGF) in Ukraine for almost a year but had presided over two disastrous assaults which saw thousands of his troops slaughtered
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The Nordic country officially joined the world’s biggest military alliance on Tuesday in a historic realignment of Europe’s defences spurred by Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
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‘Secret’ Documents Detailing US and NATO’s Ukraine War Plans Are Fake, Presidential Adviser Says
Kyiv says documents purporting to be classified information about Ukrainian preparations for a counteroffensive are fake, in response to a report by a US newspaper.
“Since the collapse of the USSR, the intelligence services have degenerated to the point where they can only rehabilitate themselves with Photoshop and ‘fake information dumps’,” Ukrainian presidential office adviser Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted.
He said that Moscow was trying to disrupt Ukraine’s counteroffensive but that instead, Kiev’s plans would soon be seen on the ground.
His tweet came after The New York Times published details about the leak of supposedly secret documents saying a Ukrainian counteroffensive was to be completed by April 30.
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Ukraine Deploys Captured Russian Mine Clearing Vehicles to Devastating Effect
Ukraine has deployed a number of captured Russian UR-77 Meteorit mine-clearing vehicles in the Bakhmut region to force a retreat of Russian soldiers, according to a report by the Hungarian Index news outlet.
The vehicles are from the Soviet era. According to battlefield intelligence, Ukrainian troops have managed to capture at least 13 of them, which they have repurposed as an offensive weapon to “literally pulverize the Russian soldiers” into retreat.
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Inside Indonesia’s Plan to Stamp Out the ‘Bali Bogan’ And Find More ‘Classy’ Tourists
Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, an influential senior Indonesian politician, has now stressed that Bali must focus on ‘quality tourism’ instead of ‘mass tourism’.
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Ms Ardern looked back on her time in office in an interview with state broadcaster TVNZ on Tuesday about two months after she announced her unexpected resignation from the top job.
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Disturbing footage allegedly shows a boy and his sister in a heated argument with the driver while stopped on Lake Street in Cairns about 6pm before the stabbing.
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Tash Peterson, 29, shared a video of herself shouting at shoppers who were buying chocolate eggs and bunnies at a Coles supermarket in Perth this week.
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Croatian Officials Accused of Using Underhand Tactics to Deport Migrants
A group accused Croatian police of using a clandestine WhatsApp group to share information about migrants trying to enter the country.
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German Man Thrown on Train Tracks by Syrian Migrants
A man was seriously injured when he was thrown into the path of an oncoming train by Syrian suspects in Germany this week, according to reports.
The disturbing incident unfolded on Sunday evening in Jüterbog, a town in the state of Brandenburg.
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One vessel is already being brought in from Italy with plans to moor it at Portland, Dorset, which can house about 500 asylum seekers.
But the controversial plans have left migrants saying they would rather end up without a roof over their head and call for protests against the idea.
Imad, a Sudanese refugee, told Sky News: “I don’t want to go … I [would] go homeless.”
The broadcaster was told how migrants feared the barge would be a holding facility for people sent to Rwanda, if that idea ever gets going.
Another refugee called Sadam said he wanted people to organise a protest outside the hotel he has been staying in.
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The number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats has passed 4,400 so far this year as another 35 arrived in Dover today.
A total of 4,431 have made the dangerous voyage in 107 dinghies this year, compared to 4,550 in the same period last year.
Dozens more migrants made the crossing today despite a change in the weather.
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The Biden administration released on Thursday new Title IX rules that bar schools that receive federal funding from enforcing policies that ban biological males from playing girl’s sports.
The U.S. Department of Education proposed to amend Title IX in order to set out a standard that would “govern a recipient’s adoption or application of sex-related criteria that would limit or deny a student’s eligibility to participate on a male or female athletic team consistent with their gender identity.”
The proposed regulation also would provide needed clarity on how schools can ensure that students have equal opportunity to participate on male and female athletic teams as required by Title IX.
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Breaking: Another Would-be Trans Mass Shooter Arrested
William Whitworth, a 19-year-old male who claims to be female and goes by the name “Lilly,” has been arrested in Colorado Springs, Colo., after threatening various local schools. Whitworth has been charged with two counts of criminal attempt to commit murder in the first degree, as well as criminal mischief, menacing, and more. His case, following so soon after Audrey Hale, a woman claiming to be male, murdered six people at a Christian school in Nashville, once again raises the question: wouldn’t we be better off treating this “transgender” business as mental illness rather than coddling and celebrating people who suffer from these delusions?
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But Will They: UK Government ‘Could’ Ban Transgender Males From Women’s Spaces
The UK government “could” change the country’s laws to ban “transgender” males from women’s spaces, Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has confirmed.
Britain’s Conservative Party government “could” change equality laws in England in order to ban males who identify as “transgender” from women’s spaces after the EHRC confirmed such a change was possible.
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Conservative Justices Issue Blistering Dissent on SCOTUS Decision Not to Take Women’s Sports Case
Two conservative justices dissented from the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to decline to review a state’s law banning biological men from competing in women’s sports.
West Virginia asked the court to overturn an injunction against its Save Women’s Sports Act in early March, which had been blocked by the Fourth Circuit after a challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In a dissent joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the request concerns an issue the court will “likely to be required to address in the near future.”
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Disney Rewrites Classic Songs With ‘Woke’ Lyrics for New ‘Little Mermaid’ Movie
Disney’s live-action remake of the classic animated movie “The Little Mermaid” will feature rewritten versions of the original songs with new “woke” lyrics, according to reports.
Composer Alan Menken has confirmed that the lyrics have been changed for the new film.
The live-action remake of the popular animated 1989 classic will contain several new songs that won’t include the “sensitive” themes that the originals allegedly contained.
Old favorites such as “Kiss The Girl” and “Poor Unfortunate Souls” will be in the new movie but rewritten “woke” lyrics.
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Former NCAA Swimmer, Activist Riley Gaines Was Assaulted After ‘Saving Women’s Sports’ Speech
Former NCAA swimmer and conservative activist Riley Gaines was assaulted Thursday at San Francisco State University after giving a speech at a Turning Point USA and Leadership Institute event on the campus, her husband says.
“She told me she was hit multiple times by a guy in a dress,” said husband Louis Baker, according to Fox News. “I was shaking. It made me that mad. It makes me sick to feel so helpless about it. She was under police protection and was still hit by a man wearing a dress.”
Gaines, among the most vocal of athletes advocating against biological males competing in women’s sports, had posted a video on Twitter that shows people screaming at her as she appears to be making her way down a hallway with at least one police officer on the scene.
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Gone Woke? Feds Create Race, Gender Speech Codes for Scientists to Follow
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal and science technology office, has made race and gender speech codes for its scientists a top priority.
The guidance, for example, tells federal employees not to use the words “blacklist” or “whitelist” because of the racial connotations and also cautions against “using terms that assign a gender to inanimate objects, such as male/female connectors.”
The NIST is a little-known government agency tasked with helping the U.S., among other things, stay technologically ahead of rivals like China. Congress appropriated about $1.65 billion for the group for 2023.
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Fans of the hit 1978 musical Grease have been left shocked after the new TV reboot features characters unrecognisable from the original, choosing instead to tackle gender politics and even featuring a song about white supremacy.
Set in 1954, the series acts as a prequel to the 1978 film despite tackling a host of contemporary topics, including sexuality, racism and gender identity.
The series, entitled ‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’, launched on Paramount+ on April 6 and includes songs fans will know and love — alongside new original numbers.
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Ireland: Police Chief Backs Down on Forcing Officers to Use Trans Pronouns
The chief of Ireland’s national police force has withdrawn a directive forcing officers to use trans pronouns.
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Joe Rogan, left, slammed debates over how to identify transgender Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale during a discussion with journalist Michael Shellenberger, right.
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Mom of Maine Girl Who Got Chest Binder at School Files Lawsuit
A Maine mom has filed a federal lawsuit against her 13-year-old daughter’s school board after she claimed the girl was secretly given a gender-transitioning device known as a “chest binder” and was referred to as a boy.
Amber Lavigne alleges that the Great Salt Bay Community School Board violated her constitutional rights when school staffers secretly provided gender transition counseling to her daughter, the National Review reported.
The transgender guidelines “are unconstitutional insofar as they provide for the concealment of, or do not mandate informing parents of, a decision to provide ‘gender-affirming’ care to a student,” the suit alleges.
The New Castle resident and lawyers with the conservative Goldwater Institute filed the lawsuit Wednesday in US District Court.
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Ontario Party Pushes Law Banning Protests Near Drag Shows, With Fines Up to $25k
Legislation has been introduced in Ontario, Canada that would seek to enact “community safe zones” that would prohibit protests within 100 metres of a drag show or other 2SLGBTQI+ events with fines of up to $25,000.
The official opposition party in the Ontario Assembly, the Nouveau Parti démocratique de l’Ontario (NDP), introduced a private members bill that would empower the attorney general to temporarily designate specific areas as “safe zones” for 2SLGBTQI+ events such as drag shows.
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Rise of the Killer Robots? ChatGPT Can Influence People to Make Life or Death Decisions, Study Finds
Researchers found people’s opinion on whether they would sacrifice one person to save five was swayed by answers given by ChatGPT.
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Renowned author Juan Manuel de Prada criticized a recently passed Spanish law that allows individuals to legally change their gender based purely on a personal declaration, and called on his compatriots to show the Spanish socialist government just how ridiculous the legislation is by registering en masse as the opposite gender.
In his weekly column for Spain’s ABC newspaper, de Prada said the legislation forced through by Spain’s left-wing administration is “unjust” and claimed the prerequisite for any legislation should be its compliance with the “oldest and first nature of all things.”
He described the law as a poison prescribed by a doctor as a remedy and expressed his concern over the wider implications the legislation could have on Spanish society.
De Prada cited St. Thomas Aquinas, who wrote that it is permissible to rebel against unjust laws, and U.S. philosopher Henry David Thoreau, who warned that compliance with unjust laws inevitably leads to “another kind of slavery” that forces us to “renounce inalienable rights of reason and conscience.”
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Gaines’ husband, Louis Barker, said he had brief conversations with his wife while she was locked in the room for nearly three hours.
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The New Nike Spokesperson for Sports Bras Is… Yeah, That Guy Again
Suddenly Dylan Mulvaney, the fellow who would once have been known as a “flamboyant” homosexual and is in today’s society known as a “trans woman,” is everywhere. He’s advertising Bud Light. He’s also currently the pitchman for Ole Henrikson, Urban Decay, Ulta Beauty, Charlotte Tilbury, and Mac cosmetics; the Plaza Hotel; Tampax; Crest toothpaste; fashion designers and suppliers Kate Spade, Aritzia and Mugler; the dating app OK Cupid; Svedka Vodka; Walmart; and the designer clothing rental firm Rent the Runway. That list will likely be even longer by the time you read this. And Mulvaney has just become Nike Women’s new spokesman for a product that, like Tampax, he does not need: sports bras.
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A transgender teen is in custody after authorities say they recovered a manifesto detailing her plan to attack three schools and churches in Colorado just days after the Nashville shooting.
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Travis Tritt Boycotts Anheuser-Busch Amid Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light Controversy
On Wednesday, Grammy Award-winning country music star Travis Tritt announced his decision to boycott all Anheuser-Busch products in light of the recent partnership between TikTok/trans activist Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light.
In a post shared to Twitter, Tritt revealed that he plans to remove all Anheuser-Busch products from his tour hospitality rider, and indicated that he knows of other artists who will follow suit.
“I will be deleting all Anheuser-Busch products from my tour hospitality rider,” he tweeted. “I know many other artists who are doing the same.”
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UK: Children Watch Transgender Adults Strip Naked in ‘Body Positive’ TV Show
Britain’s publicly owned Channel 4 network has debuted a “body positive” television programme in which full-grown adults, including post-operation transgender individuals, strip down naked in front of children to supposedly educate youngsters on different body types.
This week, Channel 4, the left-leaning publicly owned, commercially funded network, began its six-part series Naked Education hosted by Anna Richardson, known for hosting a variety of other body-based programmes including a naked dating show on the same network.
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‘Unconstitutional’: ACLU Sues Indiana After Governor Bans Transgender Treatments for Minors
The Indiana ACLU filed a lawsuit against the State of Indiana to contest a law banning doctors from providing gender-affirming treatments to minors, according to ABC affiliate WRTV.
The ACLU announced in a press conference Wednesday afternoon they filed a lawsuit against the new bill, Senate Bill 480, claimed as unconstitutional, according to WRTV. Republican Indian Gov. Eric Holcomb signed SB 480 on April 5, prohibiting doctors from knowingly performing gender transition on minors, including surgeries to exchange individuals’ genitalia.
The bill also prohibits a physician to “aid or abet another physician or practitioner in the provision of gender transition procedures to a minor,” allowing the Indiana Attorney General to enforce the law.
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to comment Wednesday when asked if the school shooting in Nashville by a trans individual should be classified as a ‘hate crime’.
The transgender terrorist Audrey Hale specifically targeted Christians, killing three children and three teachers at a private school last week.
Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto Still Not Made Public
Yet KJP stated that “It’s not for us to decide” whether the act constitutes a hate crime, when asked by a journalist.
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Ms Davies, who won silver for Team GB in the 1980 Moscow Olympics in the 400m individual medley, pointed out that Mulvaney is not an athlete.
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1 in 20 death is youth-in-asia
They ate really trying to kill us off aren’t they?
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What is wrong with MRNA-vaccines?
Triggernometry interview, perceptive questions
Dr. John Campbell
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