An imam named Sayed Elnakib was stabbed in the back while he was leading morning prayers in the Omar Mosque in Paterson, New Jersey. The alleged perpetrator was a fellow Muslim who is not a regular attendee at the mosque. Mr. Elnakib is in stable condition at a local hospital.
In other news, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Europe should reduce its dependence on the U.S. dollar and thereby gain strategic autonomy.
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The number of Australians defaulting on their mortgages could reach previously unseen heights due to rate rises over the past year, according to one of the country’s top bankers.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Raises Alarm About Digital Cash: ‘Go Back to the Gold Standard’
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has raised the alarm about Democrat President Joe Biden’s plans to replace physical cash with a “digital dollar.”
As Slay News has previously reported, Biden recently ordered the Federal Reserve to push forward with plans for a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
The move to digital cash raises major concerns about the lack of privacy and increased government control and surveillance over public spending.
In Biden’s vision, the digital currency will “advance democracies to lift people up, not to hold them down.”
However, a digital currency that’s controlled by the government is a tyrannical nightmare that is fresh out of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.”
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Ballot Bounties? Wisconsin Lawmaker Flags Payments Used to Mobilize Voters for Liberal Judge
A Wisconsin lawmaker is questioning whether it was legal for a political action committee to pay people to encourage others to vote for liberal Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz in the state Supreme Court election in the latest mobilization tactic to raise integrity concerns in the battleground state.
Wisconsin Takes Action, a project of Organizing Empowerment PAC, held live Zoom training sessions during the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, instructing potential “community mobilizers” on how to reach out to people to encourage them to vote and get paid hundreds of dollars for their outreach efforts.
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Biden Admin Accused of ‘F***ing Corruption’: ‘DoD Gets $850B, Rank & File Still on Food Stamps’
Democrat President Joe Biden’s Deputy Secretary for Defense Kathleen Hicks got grilled by TV host Jon Stewart over the size of the Defense Department’s budget.
Stewart blasted Hicks over why many service members are on food stamps.
Hicks got all arrogant trying to explain away why the Pentagon can’t pass an audit and it went south from there.
Stewart responded by accusing the Biden administration of “f***ing corruption.”
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Billionaire Investor Moves Headquarters From Democrat-Led State Over ‘Bizarre Reading of the Law’
Ken Fisher, the billionaire investor and chairman of Fisher Investments, made it clear on “Varney & Co.” Wednesday that the reasoning behind his latest business decision isn’t so much about politics or taxes, but rather law and order.
“We’ve got lots and lots and lots of states that have capital gains taxes on the left and on the right. California on the left at the highest, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, on the left Illinois,” Fisher told host Stuart Varney. “You can go left, right, capital gains tax isn’t so much. This is about law. [Let me] be real clear. This is about law.”
The Washington Supreme Court recently upheld state lawmakers’ new capital gains tax in an effort to balance what was thought to be one of America’s most regressive tax codes.
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CDC Issues Emergency Warning to U.S Doctors About Deadly Ebola-Like Virus
American doctors should be on the lookout for Ebola-like symptoms amid fears one of the world’s deadliest pathogens has reached the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned.
The CDC published an emergency warning about the rare Ebola-like Marburg virus, advising American public health officials and doctors to be on the lookout.
There are two confirmed outbreaks of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea.
The pathogen likely spilled over from wild animals to humans, according to the CDC.
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Chicago Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson Rebukes ‘Large Corporations’ for Poverty, Violence in the City
Liberal Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson put the blame on violence and poverty in the Windy City on big corporations.
“We have large corporations. Seventy percent of large corporations in the city of Chicago — in the state of Illinois, did not pay a corporate tax,” Johnson said during a Thursday appearance on CBS Mornings.
He argued that low investment in Chicago has led to poverty, which in turn caused violence.
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‘Climate Change’ Causing More Home Runs in Baseball, Study Claims
A new study has claimed that the upward trend of home runs in professional baseball has been caused by “climate change.”
The Dartmouth study, which has attracted widespread media attention, claims that over 500 home runs in Major League Baseball since 2010 can be attributed to “climate change.”
CNN reported on the study and raised the alarm about the alleged “climate crisis.”
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CNN Humiliates Don Lemon as His Ratings Sink, Gives Nemesis Kaitlin Collins Primetime Tryout
CNN CEO Chris Licht just humiliated Don Lemon days after another shocking story about the host’s anti-women behavior hit the news.
Lemon was demoted from his primetime slot when Licht came in.
He was not happy despite saying all the right things.
Lemon was moved to the morning show with Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins.
He quickly made a nemesis of Collins, treating her like garbage on air and screaming at her behind the scenes.
And now Kaitlan Collins gets her shot at primetime over Lemon.
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FBI Documents Associate Internet Slang Like ‘Based’ And ‘Red Pill’ With ‘Extremism’
New documents released Monday warned that common internet lingo is being associated with “Violent Extremism” by the FBI.
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project said it used a Freedom of Information Act request to expose FBI documents that include glossaries showing that common internet slang has been flagged as an indication of “Involuntary Celibate Violent Extremism” or “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism.”
Part of the document refers specifically to “incels,” or those “involuntary celibate,” whom the “threat overview” describes as possibly seeking to “commit violence in support of their beliefs that society unjustly denies them sexual or romantic attention, to which they believe they are entitled.” The assessment notes, “While most incels do not engage in violence,” some have been involved in “at least five lethal attacks in the United States and Canada.”
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Imam Stabbed During Prayers at South Paterson Omar Mosque
PATERSON — The imam of a prominent Paterson mosque was stabbed just before 6 a.m. on Sunday as he led his congregation in morning prayers, officials said.
Around 200 people were attending prayers at the time of the attack, which happened as the prayer session began. The attacker was quickly restrained by other worshippers at the Omar Mosque on Getty Avenue in South Paterson, officials said.
At a press conference given at the mosque, officials said the attacker was not a member of the congregation but had been there before.
The suspect’s name had not been released as of noon on Sunday. Authorities have not said what they believe prompted the stabbing.
The imam, Sayed Elnakib, was in stable condition at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, officials said. Elnakib was stabbed twice in the back, officials said at the press conference.
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Iowa Voters to Decide Amendment Requiring Citizenship to Vote, Allowing 17-Year-Olds to Cast Ballots
In November 2024, Iowa voters will decide on a constitutional amendment that would prohibit non-citizens from casting ballots in state and local races and also permit 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the general election to vote in primary elections.
To put a legislatively referred constitutional amendment before voters, a simple majority vote is required in both the Iowa State Senate and the Iowa House of Representatives during two successive legislative sessions with an election for state legislators in between.
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Country music superstar John Rich turned the tables on Vice President Kamala Harris for snubbing Christian families in the wake of the recent school shooting as she made her way to Nashville, Tennessee.
Harris gave a speech and met with a pair of radical Democrat state lawmakers who were expelled from the General Assembly after protesting on the state House floor.
But it was what she didn’t do that outraged Rich.
He said:
“Hey @VP why didn’t you make an effort to meet with the Christian families from Covenant school while you were in Music City?
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JPMorgan Banker Accused of ‘Aggressive Force in Sexual Assault’ Of Jeffrey Epstein Victim
A top banker has been accused of “aggressive” sex crimes against a victim of Jeffrey Epstein in a lawsuit against America’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Victims of the deceased pedophile are suing JPMorgan for allegedly aiding Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
According to court documents, one of the Epstein victims suing JPMorgan has accused the bank’s former head of private banking, Jes Staley, of using “aggressive force in his sexual assault of her.”
The allegation was revealed in a Thursday court filing by “Jane Doe.”
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Criminal or martyr? People can never seem to agree on which label to give infamous info leaker Julian Assange.
The WikiLeaks founder accused of publishing classified U.S. military information looks at up to 175 years in prison if extradited to the U.S. from his current location in a high-security U.K. prison.
His father and brother are among those heralding him as a hero, reiterating their belief in a recent appearance on Fox Nation’s “Piers Morgan: Uncensored.”
“Everything that Julian published was in the public interest and he partnered with these media organizations… so you’re talking about all the largest media organizations around the world that published this exact same information,” Gabriel Shipton, Assange’s brother, said.
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Mayor: Prayer Leader Stabbed at Mosque in Paterson, Suspect in Custody
A person leading a prayer inside a mosque in Passaic County was stabbed early Sunday morning and taken to a hospital, Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh says.
Police were called to the Omar Mosque on Getty Avenue in Paterson around 5:30 a.m.
It’s unclear what may have led up to the stabbing, but officials do not believe this was a hate crime. The suspect is also Muslim and was not a member of the mosque, but “occasionally comes to pray” there.
The victim has been identified as Imam Sayed Elnakib, who was leading the prayer. He is in serious but stable condition as of early Sunday afternoon.
About 200 worshippers had kneeled down when the suspect lunged toward Elnakib and stabbed him twice in the back.
The congregants quickly apprehended the suspect after he tried to run out of the mosque, while many catered to the victim’s injuries until police arrived.
The stabbing comes on the heels of an ongoing investigation in Paterson after a sign at Dr. Hani Awadallah School was defaced. The “allah” was scribbled over in black markings.
Those in attendance Sunday said this would not stop them from continuing prayer throughout the day. There will be a significant police presence at the mosque throughout the day.
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MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan and journalist Matt Taibbi sparred about the Twitter Files on multiple platforms Thursday, with a contentious on-air interview spilling onto social media.
Taibbi informed his Substack subscribers of the budding drama Thursday with a midday newsletter that mocked Hasan as a member of “Peacock’s farm team.”
“I’m going to be interviewed on MSNBC today by Mehdi Hasan,” Taibbi wrote. “I’m looking forward to it as one would a root canal or rectal. I accepted the invitation because it would have been wrong to refuse, on the off chance he was planning a good-faith discussion. If you’re reading this, things have gone another way.”
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Officials Move to Seize Land From American Farmers to Advance Green Agenda
Tennessee government officials have moved to seize land from American farmers in an effort to meet the goals of Democrat President Joe Biden’s green agenda.
The state is suing to confiscate farmland just west of Memphis that will be repurposed to build a new multi-billion dollar electric vehicle (EV) plant.
Ford Motor Company has announced plans to build a $5.6 billion electric truck and battery plant to be built in the rural area of Tennessee.
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Pennsylvania Voters Spurn ‘Scranton Joe’ In Favor of Trump, DeSantis, Poll Shows
More Pennsylvania voters want former President Donald Trump or Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for President than President Joe Biden, despite the fact he has the affectionate nickname “Scranton Joe” after his birth town in the state, according to a new poll.
The Commonwealth Foundation, a group promoting free markets in Pennsylvania, found in a survey last week that 34% of registered voters in the state want Trump to run for President in 2024, followed by 26% who want DeSantis to run. Biden, however, earned 24% in the poll that allowed respondents to select all candidates that they want to see run. Close behind Biden is Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro at 20%. Out of the four top potential candidates, only Trump has formally declared his presidential campaign for 2024.
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Portland Rioter Sentenced for Killing Infant Son While on Probation for Assaulting Federal Worker
A Portland rioter was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for causing the death of his infant son while he was on probation for assaulting a federal officer in 2020, officials announced.
A Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge sentenced Dakota Kurtis Means to 150 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree manslaughter and one count of first-degree criminal mistreatment, District Attorney Mike Schmidt said Friday.
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Prosecutors Think Colorado Supermarket Shooter is Faking the Crazy
Back in March 2021, a man named Ahmad Al Issa walked into a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colo., and murdered ten people. Ever since then, he has been in a mental hospital, having been judged incompetent to stand trial. Now, however, prosecutors are planning to make the case that Al Issa is faking his mental illness, and is perfectly capable of understanding the charges against him and going through a trial. But that’s just the beginning of all that’s curious about this case.
Boulder’s KDVR reported Thursday that District Judge Ingrid S. Bakke “will let prosecutors make their case that the suspected shooter — who’s currently in a state mental health hospital — is ‘feigning’ his condition.” KDVR added that “Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa is charged with 115 counts in the March 2021 shooting that killed 10 people, including a responding police officer.” There’s another curiosity about this case: the establishment media routinely and unanimously gives the shooter’s name as “Alissa,” despite the fact that he himself wrote it as “Al Issa” on his Facebook and Twitter accounts. Is the media trying to obscure Al Issa’s Arabic and Islamic identity? “Journalists” wouldn’t do that, now, would they?
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Proud Boys Ask for Dismissal of Jan. 6 Obstruction Charges After Court Ruling Puts Cases in Limbo
Two Proud Boys on trial for seditious conspiracy over their actions on Jan. 6 filed to have their obstruction charges dismissed after the U.S. D.C. Court of Appeals issued a fractured ruling that put hundreds of Jan. 6 obstruction cases in limbo.
The three-judge appeals court on Friday agreed to allow three challenged Jan. 6 obstruction cases to continue, but the judges, one liberal and two conservatives, raised serious concerns about other Jan. 6 obstruction cases.
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Republicans Warned of ‘Dangerous’ Proposals in ‘Alarmist’ UN Climate Report
Congressional Republicans have received a warning about several “dangerous” proposals contained in the United Nations’ new “alarmist report” on climate change.
A recent memo sent to every Republican member of Congress is urging lawmakers to dismiss the UN climate report.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently called on wealthy nations to move up their net-zero emissions goal from 2050 to 2040.
Guterres warned that the global green agenda must be advanced to prevent an alleged “climate time bomb.”
But a memo sent by the Competitive Enterprise Institute offered Republicans talking points for refuting the UN’s findings.
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Soros-Backed Prosecutor Mired in Scandal Facing New Complaints of Negligence, Misconduct
The George Soros-bankrolled prosecutor in St. Louis who’s facing an effort by Missouri’s attorney general to compel her to resign for allegedly neglecting her duties is now being hit with new complaints of negligence and potential misconduct in doing her job.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner has a history riddled with allegations of misconduct and mishandled cases in her current job, facing admonishment for bungled prosecutions and what critics have deemed soft-on-crime policies.
Such outcry continued into this past week, with Gardner’s office being hit with a wave of bad headlines and criticism that won’t help the embattled prosecutor, who’s already in a legal fight to hold onto her position.
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Trump, Kid Rock & Mike Tyson Bring Down House With Surprise Appearance at Miami UFC Fight
President Donald Trump brought down the house last night at UFC 287 in Miami.
Trump made a grand entrance and caught the audience by surprise.
The crowd gave him a hero’s welcome as he appeared along with Kid Rock, Mike Tyson, and UFC boss Dana White.
At one point, a fighter took the microphone from announcer Joe Rogan and gave a shoutout to Trump before leading the crowd in an anti-Biden “Let’s go Brandon” chant.
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Trump Trial Judge’s Donations to Biden Are ‘Problematic,’ Ex-US Attorney Tells MSNBC
Former Southern California U.S. Attorney Carol Lam has warned MSNBC’s audience that the judge overseeing President Donald Trump’s criminal case made some problematic campaign donations, including to Joe Biden in 2020.
As Slay News previously reported, the judge presiding over Trump’s criminal case, Acting New York County Supreme Court Justice Juan Manuel Merchan, has made several pro-Democrat and anti-Republican donations.
Merchan’s daughter Loren also once worked for Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.
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Trump Seeks Campaign Role for Right-Wing Provocateur Laura Loomer: Report
Former President Donald Trump is reportedly looking to bring right-wing activist and former Republican congressional candidate Laura Loomer on board his campaign.
She twice ran unsuccessfully to represent Florida in Congress and has built a sizeable following on social media. Her Twitter account currently boasts roughly 340,000 followers and she regularly posts pro-Trump content there.
Trump has reportedly met with Loomer and asked his aides to find her a position either with the campaign directly or at a super PAC supporting it, The Hill reported.
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Ukraine Intelligence Docs Leak Could be Worst for U.S. Govt Since Snowden: Report
A group of U.S. intelligence documents dealing with the Ukraine war and other global matters apparently leaked through online gaming forums has been dismissed as fake by some in both Ukraine and Russia, but is apparently being taken seriously elsewhere.
Up to 100 pages of secret U.S. intelligence reports have leaked into the public domain in what one newspaper, citing an intelligence commentator, says could be the “biggest since Edward Snowden”, who leaked thousands of documents in 2013 after he became concerned with the ethical implications of western intelligence activities.
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Canada Pushes to Legalize Hard Drugs for Children
Canada’s liberal federal government is considering plans to legalize hard drugs for children.
The proposal was put to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet by the “woke” administration of Toronto.
The plan would see the Canadian government authorize the decriminalization of all drugs for all ages, including underage children and babies.
Under the proposal, young children would be free to use dangerous hard drugs, including heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl.
TNC reports:
The City of Toronto has released its sweeping plan to decriminalize all hard drugs, including fentanyl and crack cocaine for any age.
Toronto’s request is even more lenient than the decriminalization order granted to the entire province of British Columbia by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this year.
The City is asking that the federal government grant a Health Canada exemption for all drugs extending even to children.
In British Columbia’s case, the granted exemption only applies to adults.
The report claims that decriminalization should be offered for “all people in Toronto, including youth.”
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Explaining Bill C-18 and Trudeau’s Wide-Ranging Plans to Destroy Canadian Free Speech
Bill C-18, the Online News Act. Just like C-11 makes social media companies broadcasters for Trudeau to regulate, Bill C-18 creates a new thing called “digital intermediaries,” the definition of which will include pretty much every social media platform and search engine.
C-18 attempts to force these sites to pay news organizations that they link to, for example in a Google search. Even though news organizations usually love being linked to regardless, since it boosts their traffic.
Though the government claims this will make it harder for search engines and social media platforms to “steal” local journalism, this only applies to what they are calling “qualified Canadian journalism organizations.” And of course, the government gets to decide who’s qualified. As for Rebel News, the Trudeau government bizarrely declared that what we do… doesn’t qualify as news.
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Government Lawyers Claim Freedom Convoy Remained in ‘Full Swing’ After Invocation of Emergencies Act
According to a federal lawyer, the Freedom Convoy remained in full gear when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Cabinet invoked the Emergencies Act last year, justifying the extraordinary measures taken.
On the third and final day of the judicial review, government lawyer John Provart claimed it is “revisionist history” to suggest local law enforcement got the protests and blockades across Canada under control before the invocation of the Emergencies Act.
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Jury Cautioned About Racism in Trial of Syrian Refugee Accused of Killing 13-Year-Old Marrisa Shen
After nearly six years, and at least six pre-trial delays, the murder trial for a Syrian refugee accused of killing 13-year-old Marrisa Shen finally began on Wednesday.
Shen, from Burnaby, British Columbia and who was described as a bright and creative young girl, was reported missing by her parents on July 18, 2017. The following day, her body was found in a wooded area of Burnaby’s Central Park leaving many in the community devastated.
Then, 14 months later, Ibrahim Ali, a Syrian refugee who had arrived in Canada and was welcomed with open arms by the Trudeau government, was arrested and charged with the first degree murder of Shen.
“I did not kill Marrisa Shen” Ali, stated adamantly in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Ali’s words were spoken through a translator that sat by his side the entire hearing. The translator communicated in Kurdish everything that was said in court to Ali. He also communicated the few but repetitive words that Ali had to say in Kurdish to the court.
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Live Updates: Day Two of Trial for Syrian National Accused of Killing 13-Year-Old Marrisa Shen
The trial of Syrian refugee Ibrahim Ali began yesterday nearly six years after the death of Marrisa Shen in Burnaby, B.C. Ali is facing a first-degree murder charge for the death of the young girl. He had only been in Canada for approximately three months before he is alleged to have killed Shen.
Rebel News previously reported on the case.
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Pfizer Caught Covering Up Data on Waning Immunity
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has been caught covering up data showing that the immunity to Covid that the company’s vaccines offered quickly waned.
Documents show that Pfizer buried data on studies, that found that the shots didn’t offer long-lasting protection against the virus, to keep the information hidden from the public.
While Pfizer kept the information hidden from the public, it wasn’t omitted in regulatory filings to international regulators.
The findings were uncovered in filings submitted to the Canadian government drug regulator, Health Canada, according to the Brownstone Institute.
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Quebec Has a Disaster of a ‘Justice’ System
Some might call it a “legal system” instead of a justice system, but on April 4, I spent another day in court fighting two-year-old COVID fines and COVID-related fines.
The first half of the day, I was in provincial court over my curfew tickets where not much was done; three curfew tickets were delayed until November 14 for a full day of trial. The “crime” in question is my work on the street, where I was doing journalism covering Quebec’s strict curfew. Five others will have similar trials, where they’re seeking to have these charges thrown out over unjustified delays, what’s known as a Jordan motion.
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Saskatchewan Firearms Act ‘Unanimously Passes’ Second Reading
Bill 117, the Saskatchewan Firearms Act, unanimously passed second reading at the provincial legislature on Monday. With the full support of both the Saskatchewan Party and NDP MLAs, the act will protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners in the province to counter creeping federal overreach into provincial jurisdiction on property rights and public safety.
Saskatchewan’s autonomy-driven government tabled the Firearms Act on December 1 to address concerns of responsible firearms owners and enhance public safety across Saskatchewan, according to Public Safety Minister Christine Tell. Her government believes the federal government has it wrong by targeting responsible firearm owners instead of criminals.
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Convoy organizer Tom Marazzo recently testified at the citizen-led, citizen-funded National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) in Toronto, Ontario that heard from Canadians affected by COVID-related policies and restrictions.
“It’s important to be involved with the NCI is because it’s a group of non-government people,” says Marazzo.
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Typical Atlantic Canada Households Will Pay at Least $1,316 in Carbon Tax by 2030: Report
Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux updated his federal carbon tax report from March 2022 to include Atlantic Canada. On average, most residents and households will pay more carbon tax than they receive in climate rebates.
“Most households will be worse off when considering this slightly lower economic activity,” said Giroux. “Only the bottom quintile is better off, but everybody else is likely worse.”
The PBO said Nova Scotia families from the lowest earning quintile would receive $226 in federal rebates, whereas the highest earners would pay $4,368 annually in 2030/31. A similar family from Newfoundland and Labrador would receive $689, with the province’s highest earners paying $4,872 in 2030/31.
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Vaccine Injured Woman Navigates a Bloated Health Bureaucracy to Have Her Adverse Event Documented
Meredith Klitzke recently testified at the National Citizens Hearing in Toronto, Ontario.
She detailed her experience navigating a COVID-19 vaccine injury — an injection which she says she was hesitant about but ultimately succumbed to peer pressure and media propaganda to receive.
“It pushed me to the point where it made me question my own judgment,” Klitzke said. “I was pushed to make a decision that I whole-heartedly regret.”
Klitzke said she received her first Pfizer injection on June 18 and second dose on August 13 2021.
“Within two weeks, everything went haywire — swelling, joint pain, muscle spasms, tremors, tinnitus, pressure in my head, burning in my chest, menstrual issues, burning mouth syndrome — it’s been horrific,” she said.
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Vancouver Clears Out ‘Tent City’ In East Hastings Amid Growing Public Safety Concerns
Vancouver city staff and police cleared out the remnants of the East Hastings tent city Wednesday after nine months of subpar progress using softer methods.
“We’re not solving homelessness today. We’re dealing with a serious public-safety issue,” said city manager Paul Mochrie.
Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer and Vancouver Fire Chief Karen Fry concurred the “entrenched” camp had contributed to more violent crime, fires, and dangerous situations the public could no longer tolerate after an order last July 25 called for the city to remove the structures, earning support from city crews and police.
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Eight People Feared to be Under the Rubble After Two Buildings Collapse in Marseille
PARIS, April 9 (Reuters) — Eight people are not responding to calls and are thought to be under the rubble of two buildings that collapsed in an explosion early on Sunday in the southern French city of Marseille, local officials said.
The cause of the explosion was not yet known, Marseille prosecutor Dominique Laurens said on Sunday evening.
The collapse caused a fire that complicated rescue efforts and investigations, and that had not yet been brought under control, she told a news conference.
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Macron Says Europe Should Reduce Dependence on US Dollar, Seek ‘Strategic Autonomy’
As the United States combats a recent flood of countries ‘de-dollarizing’ — trading commodities in other currencies, the last thing that was needed was French President Emanuel Macron amplifying this message.
After spending around six hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of a three-day state visit to China, Macron made extremely clear that France wants nothing to do with WWIII, emphasizing that Europe must employ “strategic autonomy,” presumably led by France, to become a “third superpower,” according to Politico.
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Switzerland Not Recommending COVID-19 Vaccine, Including for High-Risk Individuals
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health said no COVID-19 vaccination is recommended this spring/summer season, including for people at high risk of becoming seriously sick from the virus.
“Nearly everyone in Switzerland has been vaccinated and/or contracted and recovered from COVID-19. Their immune system has therefore been exposed to the coronavirus,” the Swiss health agency said.
Health officials predicted that the virus will circulate less this summer and cause “rather mild illness.”
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UK: Eco-Banksy Goes to Work on Cars in Clifton
Residents of Clifton woke up on Monday morning to find at least three cars in the area tagged with slogans shaming the owners of the cars as “climate criminals” and child-killers.
So far, the cars spotted rocking their new look have included a Toyota Prado, Land Rover and a Range Rover. It appears that SUVs and 4x4s in particular have been targeted.
The tagging has caused an uproar on reddit, with a post in r/bristol showing the damage receiving comments from furious residents calling the perpetator(s) “absolute bellends” and a “bunch of tossers”.
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What Was the Point? UK Government Abandons Plan to Get Rid of EU Laws
Britain’s government has reportedly abandoned plans to get rid of around 4,000 EU laws by the end of this year.
The UK’s Conservative Party government has allegedly abandoned plans to scrap a large number of EU laws this year, a report on Sunday has indicated.
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Passover’s Revolt Against the Tyranny of Paganism
by Daniel Greenfield
Over 3,000 years ago a slave revolt took place that is repeated every year. It was not just a rebellion against a long since vanished pharaoh whose dynasty and people have been consigned to dust along with his treasure cities that the Jewish slaves had labored over.
The revolutions of the past come and go. Nations rise and fall, and then fall further into the history books. Passover however was a remarkable revolt not just against an empire, but paganism, and it remains relevant even all these thousands of years later. In a recent poll, only 39% said that religion was very important to them. That’s down from 62% a generation ago.
When faith in G-d leaves, what replaces it isn’t some abstraction of ‘reason’: it’s superstition (37% of adults under 30 believe in astrology), cults of personality, conspiracy theories and the conviction that we are now gods who can destroy the planet and change gender at will.
The story of Passover is a testament of faith: it’s the account of an absolutely degraded people still continuing to believe for centuries and later millennia that their salvation, passed down by tradition, would come from a G-d they had never seen or heard, but it’s also the revelation that slavery is not just physical, it’s spiritual. Just as true liberation comes from G-d, true slavery comes when we abandon faith and degrade ourselves under the soulless tyranny of paganism.
The latest World Happiness Report index rated Israel as the fourth happiest in the world. Or as Haaretz, a relentlessly leftist local paper skeptically put it, “Low Income, High Prices and Wars: So Why Is Israel One of the Happiest Countries in the World?” What’s there to be happy about?
To leftists who believe the world is fatally broken, nothing, to believers, everything.
Last year, a survey found that 96% of Israeli Jews are planning on attending a Passover seder. In America, it’s around 70%. Properly performed, the Seder is an emotional and historical journey that takes Jews back in time to the suffering in Egypt, the divine salvation and the realization that no matter their current circumstances, G-d has permanently set them free.
It was in this spirit that the Passover seder was marked during the Holocaust with furtive gatherings in the forest, in concentration camps with tiny matzos baked from hoarded grams of flour, and with wine made of raisins soaked in water, and in hideouts beneath ghettos, yet still declaring, “now we are free” and “next year in Jerusalem”. Such freedom transcends force…
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‘True Scandal’ — Mossad Encouraged Anti-Government Protests, Says US Intel
Employees of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency participated in the anti-judicial reform protests and its officials encouraged Israeli citizens to join the mass anti-government demonstrations, according to confidential intelligence documents from the Pentagon that were leaked online.
Some of the Mossad’s most senior and high-ranking staff “advocated for Mossad officials and Israeli citizens to protest against the new Israeli Government’s proposed judicial reforms, including several explicit calls to action that decried the Israeli Government,” the document reads, according to a New York Times summary of the trove of leaked information.
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mRNA-Spiked Milk Emerges in Push to Vaccinate Food Supply
Scientists have developed the first “edible vaccines” in the form of cow’s milk that’s infused with mRNA technology.
The move comes amid a global push to vaccinate the food supply through gene-edited plants and livestock.
Scientists in Communist China successfully “immunized” mice with mRNA-spiked cow’s milk.
The milk was loaded with an experimental mRNA product similar to that found in the Covid shots.
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Australians are in for a chilly long weekend with snow on the way for some states while Victoria is on track to see its coldest Easter in 80 years.
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Protester Cleared of Punching Police Horse, May Sue Media Outlets
Australia’s mainstream media splashed his image across the news, but a court has found the man accused of punching a police horse at an anti-lockdown protest not guilty.
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A trove of classified documents leaked this week have revealed that a Russian Wagner mercenary group is operating in Haiti — under United States’ nose.
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Of the 45,755 migrants who crossed the Channel by small boat last year, 215 have been deported.
More than 25,000 of those were found to be refugees, despite Government claims the majority of those crossing by small boat are economic migrants.
The figures, based off Home Office data, also show one in five channel migrants are children.
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Migrant Crisis is a ‘Dangerous Cocktail’ Threatening Germany, Police Union Head Warns
The government’s refusal to deal with the ongoing migrant crisis is a “dangerous cocktail” that now threatens Germany, the head of one police union has warned.
Heiko Teggatz, the head of Germany’s Federal Police Union, has expressed outrage at the government’s refusal to clamp down on mass migration to the country, saying that the combination of open borders policies and mass migration poses a significant threat to the nation.
It comes as mass migration in the country once again rises to near-record highs, with over 200,000 first-time applicants claiming asylum in the European nation in 2022 alone.
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The founder and president of a nonprofit that advocates for religious liberty in Canada blasted a proposed law in Ontario that would criminalize protests and “offensive remarks” within a football field-sized area around drag shows and other LGBTQ events.
“Liberty Coalition Canada is gravely disturbed about the rapid changes in our legal climate in Canada,” Michael Thiessen, founder and president of Liberty Coalition Canada, told Fox News Digital.
Kristyn Wong-Tam, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, last week introduced the “Protecting 2SLGBTQI+ Communities Act,” which would empower Ontario’s attorney general to establish 100-meter “safety zones” around drag shows and other LGBTQ events. The provincial bill would make harassment, intimidation and “offensive remarks” punishable by fines up to $25,000.
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Canada: Ontario Parents, Teachers Despise ‘Woke Math, ‘ But Fear Repercussions From Public Pushback
Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA) president Jason To, who is also the coordinator of secondary mathematics at the Toronto District School Board, has suggested that people who say “2 + 2 = 4” are engaged in “Covert White Supremacy.”
As a radical advocate for “transforming your math classrooms,” To led over 200 teachers from nearly 60 Toronto schools through a workshop last September to incorporate an “anti-oppressive lens” into their work.
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Canada: Calgary Pastor Derek Reimer Jailed for Easter Weekend on Hate-Related Charges
Pastor Derek Reimer, who leads the Mission Seven Ministries in Calgary, has been arrested and jailed for the third time in five weeks on charges related to his protests against drag shows at municipally funded libraries. Reimer was arrested on the eighth-related charges, including hate-related ones, and will spend the Easter weekend behind bars. His recent arrest was for protesting within 160 meters of a drag event, a good-faith attempt to comply with his conditions. Despite a past involvement with violence, he was passive and did not react in the face of violence committed against him.
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Canada: Protest at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
About a month ago, during an Ottawa Carleton District School board meeting, a father, Nick Morabito, was labelled as transphobic for expressing safety concerns for his young pre-teen daughters around the implementation of a school policy that allows anyone who self-identifies as female to use the gendered washroom.
His mic was cut before his time by Ottawa progressive public school trustee Dr. Nili Kaplan Myrth.
She mentioned that the speech of this dad was creating an unsafe environment for people who identify as gender diverse.
You can sign the petition to see Nili Kaplan Myrth being removed of her function at FireNili.com.
Since then the situation has escalated. Multiple protesters from all sides have converged in front of the building where the meeting was held.
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Chico School Board Upholds ‘Parental Secrecy Policy’ Regarding Students’ Gender Identity
Wednesday evening the Chico Unified School Board in Chico, California voted 3-2 in favor of schools having the ability to keep secrets from parents. The board agreed to keep their current policy, which directs staff to not reveal a child’s gender identity to parents, it instead allows a child to determine when the school is allowed to tell parents about a change in their gender identity.
According to a report from Fox News, the policy, called the “parental secrecy policy” by the school board, came up for a vote after the Center for American Liberty filed a lawsuit against the school district. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Aurora Regino who told her story to the school board before the vote. The suit alleges that a school guidance counselor in the district helped Region’s 11-year old daughter transition without her knowledge or consent.
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Half of America’s Top-Selling Beers Have Gone ‘Woke’
Anheuser-Busch went super ‘woke’ last week when their marketing team collaborated with trans-TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney to promote Bud Light. A new analysis by Newsweek found Bud Light isn’t the only major brewing company partnering with LGBTQ+ groups.
Based on shipping data from Beer Marketer’s Insights and analyzed by 24/7 Wall Street, the top 10 best-selling beers in the US include Bud Light, Coors Light, Budweiser, Miller Lite, Corona Extra, Michelob Ultra, Modelo Especial, Natural Light, Busch Light, and Busch.
Newsweek said of that list, half of the top-selling beers, including Coors Light, Budweiser, Miller Lite, and Michelob Ultra, have all run pro-LGBTQ+ campaigns; however, none garnered as much attention or backlash as Bud Light’s collaboration with Dylan Mulvaney.
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South Dakota’s Republican Governor Kristi Noem issued a warning to Democrat President Joe Biden over his administration’s proposed set of Title IX rules.
The new rules will prevent high schools and colleges from banning transgenders from playing women’s sports.
Last February, Noem signed a law to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ or women’s school sports.
“This bill’s about fairness,” she said at the time.
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Liquor Stores Pull Bud Light From Shelves as Boycott Spreads
Beer company Anheuser-Busch has provoked a mounting backlash after partnering with transgender Dylan Mulvaney as a brand ambassador for Bud Light.
Mulvaney is a male TikTok star who dresses in women’s clothing.
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Meet the “Woke” Rating Score Prompting Brands Like Nike and Bud to Hire Trans Influencers for Ads
We may finally have an answer to why Budweiser knowingly decided to torch its brand and its customer base by entrusting its marketing and ad strategy to a man in a women’s clothing drinking beer in a bubble bath. Like everyone else, it appears it’s simply to try and appease the “woke” lobby, likely in hopes of preventing them from “turning” on their brand for not being diverse enough.
Now, during the slow ongoing death of ESG — there’s apparently yet another scorecard that companies are striving to abide by in order to make sure they are adhering to society’s expectations as it relates to virtue signaling.
It’s called the Corporate Equality Index — or CEI — score, according to a new report from the NY Post. And it’s the reason that companies like Nike and Anheuser-Busch are committing brand suicide hiring people like trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
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Missouri Budweiser Distributor Cancels Clydesdale Showings Over Bud Light Backlash
A Budweiser distributor in Springfield, Missouri, canceled showings of Budweiser Clydesdales this week after Bud Light’s partnership with a transgender influencer sparked a massive backlash.
Wil Fischer Distributing called off the showings this week as the uproar over the marketing stunt continues to grow.
Some of the biggest names in country music started the boycott but it has spread across the country.
Angry Bud drinkers have posted videos of themselves dumping Bud Light down drains or into garbage cans using the hashtag #GoWokeGoBroke to tell the beer brand how they feel.
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New York Legislature Poised to Pass Bill Outlawing ‘Fat Discrimination’
Via the New York Times:
Victoria Abraham has attracted a huge online following as a self-described fat activist who preaches body positivity and calls out bias. But after graduating from New York University last year with a degree in public policy, she cannot avoid wondering if her job search will be hampered by her size.
This little social engineering effort is already off to a cancerous start within the first paragraph, and calls into serious question the utility of “public policy” faculties in American universities. Their graduates emerge into the world with an insatiable appetite for legislating the world into compliance with whatever personal pet project they wish to impose on the world — in this case, “fat positivity.”
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NZ Journalist Sean Plunket’s Twitter Account Reinstated After Suspension
New Zealand broadcaster Sean Plunket’s Twitter account has been reinstated after it was suspended earlier this week over alleged “hateful conduct” against transgender individuals.
Plunket appealed the suspension and believed it was due to a “troll attack by a group of women-hating activists,” though he wasn’t informed by Twitter which post led to his suspension.
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NZ Transgender Activist Pleads Not Guilty to Assault Charges
Eli Rubashkyn, also known as Eliana Golberstein, 34, has denied the two charges of assault against him for allegedly throwing tomato juice at women’s rights supporter Kellie-Jay Keen, aka Posie Parker, during a protest in Auckland.
Rubashkyn pleaded not guilty to two charges of assault against Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, aka Posie Parker, and another individual during the Auckland Let Women Speak rally on March 25, 2023.
Rubashkyn’s attendance was excused and he did not seek bail or name suppression through his lawyer. The charges carry a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $4000 fine.
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A new report claims that Amazon Studios scrapped an audience ranking system after data revealed audiences were put off by “queer stories” and themes.
This new report comes from The Hollywood Reporter’s Kim Masters who details that Amazon’s “reliance on testing and data led to a clash late summer” specifically following a marketing meeting regarding the company’s A League of Their Own series.
Masters notes during this meeting an Amazon executive pointed out “that data showed audiences found queer stories off-putting and suggested downplaying those themes in materials promoting the show.”
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Riley Gaines Rejects SFSU’s Statement Suggesting Students Protested ‘Peacefully’: ‘I Was Assaulted’
Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines reacted to an email San Francisco State University sent to students following protests at a Turning Point USA event where Gaines gave a speech and criticized the claim that students protested “peacefully.”
The email, posted to Twitter by David Llamas, a TPUSA College Field Representative, thanked students who protested “peacefully.”
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Soros-Backed Policy Group Notches Victory With Biden’s Transgender Title IX Rules
A liberal group bankrolled by millions of dollars from George Soros notched a victory with the Biden administration’s newly proposed Title IX rules, which include gender identity and would bar educational institutions from banning transgender athletes.
The Education Department rolled out its Title IX proposed rule on Thursday, which mirrors an action memo from a once shadowy group called Governing for Impact (GFI). GFI quietly works behind the scenes with the Biden administration on policy and also has a high-level Soros employee on its board of directors.
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I watched both videos. Kid Rock with an MG really rocks!
That IT trans-thing really SUCKED.
And if you pay attention ITS so-called six pack only contained five cans.
So now, these ITS think we are so stupid that we can’t even count!
Bud sucks anyway. Black Label rules!
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