An ammunition factory in Sweden exploded today, injuring at least one person. A preliminary investigation by the police indicates that the incident was the result of an industrial accident.
In other news, an estimated 150,000 illegal immigrants are reportedly camping out on the southern border of the USA, waiting to surge across tomorrow when Title 42 expires.
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Bank of Canada Asking Public to Weigh in on Digital Currency
The Bank of Canada (BoC) has announced that they are officially considering the introduction of a central bank digital currency and will be taking the public’s feedback on the matter for just over a month.
The BoC says that as the lives of everyday Canadians becomes increasingly digitized, exploring the introduction of a central bank digital currency is increasingly pertinent.
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Eurozone inflation surged to 7% in April in the first increase in the last five months, data released by the European Union’s statistics office Eurostat on Tuesday showed.
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Inflation Rate Eases to 4.9% in April, Less Than Expectations
A widely followed measure of inflation rose in April, though the pace of the annual increase provided some hope that the cost of living will head lower later this year.
The consumer price index, which measures the cost of a broad swath of goods and services, increased 0.4% for the month, in line with the Dow Jones estimate, according to a Labor Department report Wednesday.
However, that equated to an annual increase of 4.9%, slightly less than the 5% estimate and the lowest annual pace since April 2021. The annual rate was 5% in March.
Excluding volatile food and energy categories, core CPI rose 0.4% monthly and 5.5% from a year ago, both in line with expectations.
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17 AGs Move to Block BlackRock From Buying Up Utilities, Citing ESG Concerns
A group of 17 attorneys general is looking to block asset manager BlackRock from making blanket purchases of utilities amid concerns over the firm’s activist investing practices.
Led by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, the group filed a motion on Wednesday with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) challenging the firm’s blanket authorization to purchase large stakes in such companies, arguing that the firm is not a passive investor and will use its stakes in companies to push a political and social agenda.
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An Ex-Marine Stood Up to a Subway Monster. Now He May Go to Jail
by Daniel Greenfield
The media is full of pictures of Jordan Neely performing as a Michael Jackson impersonator.
None show him punching a 67-year-old woman in the face as she was leaving a subway station. The vicious thug broke her nose, fractured her orbital bone, and fell leading to “substantial pain to the back of her head.”
That’s the felony assault case that Neely was still wanted on a year and a half later when he began terrorizing passengers on a subway train in downtown Manhattan.
The videos of him moonwalking in the subway don’t show the time he was arrested for attempted kidnapping after he was seen dragging a 7-year-old girl down the street.
He got off with only 4 months in jail.
They also don’t show any of his over 40 other arrests or the time he threatened to kill his grandfather…
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Biden’s White House Spox Implicated in Effort to Discredit Hunter Biden Laptop: Email
President Biden’s White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates has been implicated in the effort to discredit Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation during the 2020 presidential election, according to emails published by House Oversight Committee Republicans.
According to House Oversight Committee Republicans’ report Wednesday, former CIA senior adviser Nick Shapiro drafted a media pitch for the now-discredited letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials that tried to paint the laptop at the center of the New York Post’s bombshell story as a Russian operation in October 2020.
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Bill Gates’ Lab-Grown ‘Meat’ 25 Times Worse for Climate Than Beef, Study Finds
The lab-grown “synthetic meat” being pushed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is far worse for the environment than beef, a new study has found.
Bill Gates and his allies in the World Economic Forum (WEF) have been heavily pushing for the public to switch to lab-grown meat by arguing it helps fight “climate change.”
In a 2021 interview with MIT Technology Review, Gates argued that “all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef” in an effort to meet the green agenda goals of the WEF.
However, the new study suggests that lab-grown meat’s “green” credentials are not what people have been led to believe.
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Boy, 6, Who Shot Va Teacher Had ADHD; Mom Claims Responsibility
The mother, who was charged after the Newport News school shooting, called him a “great kid” who “really liked” his teacher.
NEWPORT NEWS, VA — The mother of a 6-year-old boy who police said shot his first-grade teacher at a Newport News elementary school claimed responsibility for the shooting in an interview with “Good Morning America” on Wednesday while attributing it to her son’s ADHD diagnosis.
Deja Taylor, 25, who was charged with felony child neglect and failing to secure the handgun her son used to shoot Richneck Elementary School teacher Abigail Zwerner, described her son as a “great” but “very energetic” kid, according to the interview.
“I am, as a parent, obviously willing to take responsibility for him because he can’t take responsibility” for himself, she said in the interview.
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California Prosecutors Decline to File Charges in Beating of Man Over Costco Parking Space: Report
California prosecutors have reportedly declined to charge a suspect in a weekend attack over a parking spot that left a man beaten and injured.
An official in Danville, 30 miles east of San Francisco, told KRON4 that the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office made the decision after reviewing the case of the alleged beating, which occurred between two men in a Costco parking lot Sunday.
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California Reparations Committee Demands State Apologize for Reagan Using Term ‘Welfare Queen’
California’s reparations task force is calling on the Golden State to issue a formal apology for former Gov. Ronald Reagan coining the term “welfare queen” and for a disproportionately low number of Black Californians working as doctors and lawyers as part of a broader effort to make amends for slavery and racism.
The task force, which was created by state legislation signed by incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020, formally approved over the weekend its final recommendations to the California Legislature, which will then decide whether to implement the measures and send them to the governor’s desk to be signed into law.
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California Launches Online Portal for Reporting “Internet Harassment”
We’ve heard this one before: the push to put in place measures identifying and sanctioning acts that are not (f)actually illegal, but will effectively be treated as such, in order to reduce the supposedly dangerous levels of “internet harassment,” etc.
Some variation of the phrase — “acts of hate that may not violate the law but still cause significant harm in a community” — has appeared in new legislation, rules and initiatives across the world — in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Europe.
And now the trend has caught on in California.
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A Chicago pub owner said local police are expecting his business to “police” itself by ramping up security measures, including installing “riot proof” windows after a series of break-ins.
Disenchanted by the proposed solution, Declan Morgan told Fox News’ Ashley Strohmier on Wednesday that the $84,000 price tag attached to the idea is “ridiculous to expect.”
“The city is asking us to police ourselves, and it just doesn’t make sense,” he said while appearing on “Fox & Friends First.”
In the most recent display of lawlessness, Morgan’s Irish Nobleman Pub faced a break-in at the hands of a burglar who broke a window with a brick. The business has dealt with other break-ins in the past, however.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said the panel believes President Biden “has been involved” in his family’s foreign business dealings “from the very beginning,” telling reporters that lawmakers are only “in the beginning stages” of their investigation.
Comer listed the Biden family members who received funds, including Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, “Joe Biden’s brother’s wife, Hunter Biden’s girlfriend, or Beau Biden’s widow—however, want to write that—Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, Hunter Biden’s current wife and three children of the president’s son and the president’s brother.”
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US taxpayers are footing the bill for a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) experiment involving the creation of a game-like program whose stated goal is to make sure people make the right real life decisions — especially in terms of what’s known as domestic terrorism, and learn to recognize “signs of radicalization.”
But the obvious political/ideological slant as to who these radicalized domestic terrorists are expected to be — namely, people with values typically associated with conservatives — makes the discovery of the memo controversial.
America First Legal (AFL), which positions itself as an alternative to the ACLU, announced that it has come into possession of internal DHS documents thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request which details the scheme in question.
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Elon Musk Breaks Silence on Tucker Carlson Launching Show on Twitter
Elon Musk has broken his silence on the bombshell news that Tucker Carlson will relaunch his hit show on Twitter.
Musk said he did not sign a deal with Carlson, who will remain a free agent.
He noted that Carlson will be paid like everyone else on Twitter, through subscriptions and via advertising revenue share.
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk took a swipe at Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris and her new role in the Biden administration.
Democrat President Joe Biden named Harris as the White House’s new artificial intelligence (AI) czar.
The move has led many to question Harris’ experience in the field.
CEO of software startup Replit Amjad Masad said after the move: “Did @elonmusk think they’re going to revive Von Neumann and have him head AI regulation?
“You get what you ask for, good and hard.”
John von Neumann was a Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist.
He was one of the pioneers of computer science and quantum mechanics.
Musk said: “Von Neumann … would obviously be a bridge too far.”
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Elon Musk Warns Facebook’s ‘WhatsApp Cannot be Trusted’
Twitter boss Elon Musk has put Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg on notice by warning the public that his company’s WhatsApp messenger “cannot be trusted.”
Along with Facebook and Instagram, WhatsApp is one of the platforms owned by Zuckerberg’s Meta.
On Tuesday, Twitter’s director of engineering Foad Dabri tweeted that he’s discovered suspicious behavior from WhatsApp.
Dabri posted a screenshot showing that WhatsApp has been accessing the microphone on his cell phone, without his permission.
In the Twitter post, Dabri suggested that WhatsApp had been secretly listening to him.
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FBI Admits Hacking Americans’ Computers to ‘Fix Russian Malware’
The FBI has admitted to secretly hacking into the computers of American citizens but insists that the effort was meant to “fix Russian malware.”
The U.S. federal government revealed details of the operation on Tuesday.
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Fox News Poll: VP Harris Approval Rating Sinks to New Low Within Her Own Party
Vice President Kamala Harris is struggling to garner good grades among key demographics, most notably Democrats.
Nearly three-quarters of Democrats (73%) approve of Harris’ job performance, and while that is a low mark among her party, it is still significantly better than the 36% approval she gets from independents and 15% from Republicans.
Her numbers have improved since the start of the year among independents (up 6 points) and Republicans (up 7 points), while Democrats have faltered (down 4 points since January).
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FTX CEO Tries to Get Most Charges Against Him Dropped
Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has tried to get most of the charges against him dropped.
Lawyers for Bankman-Fried are pushing for prosecutors to dismiss 10 of the 13 charges.
Late last year, several firms imploded that were controlled by Bankman-Fried, the Democratic Party’s second-largest donor after radical billionaire George Soros.
FTX collapsed after customers and investors learned that the company had improperly commingled funds with sister trading company Alameda Research.
Lawyers for Bankman-Fried asserted in a Monday court filing that the original indictment levied against the entrepreneur came from a “classic rush to judgment.”
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Illinois Sex Offender on Probation Allegedly Suffocates 15-Year-Old, Throws Body in Dumpster
A 29-year-old sex offender on probation, who was allegedly dating a 15-year-old girl, suffocated her with a pillow before throwing her body in to a dumpster, Illinois authorities said.
The DeKalb Police Department said Timothy Doll was in “a dating relationship” with the high school victim, Gracie Sasso-Cleveland.
Sasso-Cleveland’s parents notified police after they were unable to find their daughter on Thursday, May 4.
Police say that her cell phone records indicated she had been at the home of a registered sex offender in DeKalb, Illinois.
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Investor Arrested for Declaring ‘Bill Gates Loves Children — He Traveled With Epstein’
In shocking scenes, an investor has been arrested for blasting Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates during a Berkshire Hathaway shareholders’ meeting.
The investor was Pete Flaherty, the chairman and CEO of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC).
Flaherty and NLPC have been campaigning for Berkshire Hathaway to have a separate CEO and chairman.
Both of those roles are currently occupied by Gates’s close friend and fellow multi-billionaire Warren Buffett.
During the shareholders’ meeting on Saturday, Flaherty questioned the political motivations of Buffett, a Democrat.
While addressing other shareholders at the meeting, Flaherty called into question the issue of having one person as chairman and CEO by highlighting Buffett’s links to Bill Gates.
He continued by telling the crowd that “we all know how much Bill Gates cares about children “ because he “traveled with Jeffrey Epstein.”
Flaherty’s microphone was then cut off and he was arrested and removed from the meeting by force in front of stunned investors.
Flaherty was arrested and charged with criminal trespassing by police in Omaha, Nebraska, even though his name was on the list of attendees for the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting.
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House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan (R-OH) has revealed that investigations have uncovered damming evidence of shady foreign business dealings involving Democrat President Joe Biden’s family.
According to Jordan, House Republicans have obtained bank records showing millions of dollars flowing into the family’s bank accounts from foreign entities, including when Joe Biden was vice president.
The records apparently show the Biden family had set up multiple LLCs that were used to funnel money into the members’ own pockets.
Congressional investigators have also discovered a new line of inquiry after finding money flowing from Romania that stopped when Joe Biden left office as vice president in 2017.
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Kari Lake Praises Tucker’s Twitter Move: ‘Carlson Saw the Rot at the Heart of Our Mainstream Media’
Kari Lake celebrated Tucker Carlson’s decision to tell Fox News to pound sand and relaunch his show on Twitter.
The bombshell news comes after Carlson’s lawyers ordered Fox News to retain documents in what may turn out to be a nasty legal fight.
“Tucker Carlson saw the rot at the heart of our mainstream media,” Lake said.
“I saw it too. No more narrative. No more gatekeepers.
“The truth and the people who tell it will NOT be silenced.”
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Man Charged With Punching 6-Year-Old Child in Buckhannon
BUCKHANNON, W.Va (WDTV) — A man has been charged in Upshur County after authorities say he punched a six-year-old child with a closed fist.
Officers went to a mobile home park in Buckhannon on Monday where a six-year-old child was bleeding from the left side of his head, according to a criminal complaint.
Officers say they spoke to one of the child’s parents who said 55-year-old Anthony Gassett had been yelling at children all day.
Gassett allegedly “went crazy” when he was confronted by the child’s parent and punched both the parent and the six-year-old with a closed fist.
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Tucker Carlson announced he’d be bring his show to Twitter, and the legacy media lost their minds.
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Researchers Refine Estimate of COVID Vax-Related Deaths of Young Athletes, Blast Media Hypocrisy
The mainstream media have provided varying explanations for the unexpected rise in blood clots, cardiac events and early death in the past two years: skipping breakfast, falling asleep in front of the TV, “exposure to a sudden gush of water,” napping and high noise levels.
One possibility they continue to rule out or simply ignore: COVID-19 vaccination in populations at negligible risk from SARS-CoV-2 itself.
The authors of a December analysis that found a massive rise in athletes’ cardiac-related deaths coinciding with the global vaccination campaign have issued a revised version that more carefully delineates causes and age range in response to scrutiny.
The original version drew wide attention in the wake of NFL safety Damar Hamlin’s Jan. 2 on-field collapse from a routine tackle.
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RFK Jr. Rejects Prospect of Taking Trump VP Slot
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday explicitly denied that he would consider joining with former President Donald Trump as his running mate in 2024.
“Just to quell any speculation, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will I join Donald Trump on an electoral ticket,” he tweeted. “Our positions on certain fundamental issues, our approaches to governance, and our philosophies of leadership could not be further apart.”
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Santos Fundraising Off of Indictment: ‘The Fight is Real’
New York Republican Rep. George Santos has begun fundraising off of his indictment after pleading not guilty on Wednesday to criminal charges brought by the Department of Justice.
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Texas Soldier Convicted of Killing Armed Protester Sentenced to 25 Years; Greg Abbott to Seek Pardon
The U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murdering an armed Black Lives Matter protester in Austin, Texas, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Lawyers for Daniel Perry, 25, unsuccessfully argued in favor of a 10-year sentence for the killing of protester Garrett Foster, 28, a U.S. Air Force veteran.
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Top Republicans Excoriate FBI for Noncompliance With Subpoena for Alleged Biden Bribery Doc
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley on Wednesday fumed as the FBI failed to meet a subpoena deadline to provide congressional investigators with a form that allegedly details a bribery scheme between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national.
The Republicans revealed in early May that the FBI had an FD-1023 in its possession detailing the allegations and confirmed they had issued a subpoena to obtain the document. Comer and Grassley learned of the form’s existence from a whistleblower. The form allegedly includes a “precise description” of the scheme and its purpose.
The FBI, however, did not honor the subpoena by the deadline. Instead, acting Assistant Director of the bureau’s Office of Congressional Affairs Christopher Dunham wrote to Comer on Wednesday, informing him that the bureau had to be mindful of “executive branch confidentiality interests and law enforcement responsibilities.”
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Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk Hit Jackpot With Relaunch Video, Get 109 Million Views in 24 Hours
Ex-Fox News star Tucker Carlson made Rupert Murdoch cry like a baby when he saw how many views Tucker’s relaunch announcement got. In less than 24 hours the video has been watched 109 million times.
It gets worse for Rupert and Paul Ryan. 30 minutes after posting his video, it had more viewers than any single program on cable news. And in more stunning news, MSNBC beat Fox News in demo ratings at 6 pm, 7 pm, 8 pm, 9 pm, and 10 pm on Friday by an average of 35 percent in each time slot.
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Virginia Terrorism Suspect Reportedly Married to ‘Empress of ISIS’
A northern Virginia man arrested on terrorism charges has a husband-wife relationship with another American who was dubbed by authorities as an “empress of ISIS” for her work to establish an all-female battalion of the Islamic State, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Mohammed Chhipa, 33, of Springfield, Virginia, was arrested last week on charges that he provided support to a terrorist group. Prosecutors allege that he transferred nearly $200,000 in cryptocurrency, with some of that money traced back to the Islamic State, to support Chhipa’s stated goal of helping smuggle female ISIS members from detention camps. Other funds remain unaccounted for.
At a detention hearing Wednesday, prosecutors also disclosed a relationship between Chhipa and Allison Fluke-Ekren, an American from Kansas who is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
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Well-Known Chicago Carjacker Kills Young Black Female Cop After Repeatedly Getting Charges Dropped
A young black female cop has been killed in Chicago after George Soros-funded Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx kept dropping charges against the suspects from their earlier run-ins with the law.
Chicago Police Officer Areanah Preston was murdered by several thugs who should have been in prison rather than roaming the streets.
Trevell Breeland, 19, Joseph Brooks, 19, and Jakwon Buchanan, 18, have been charged with Preston’s murder.
A 16-year-old male, who will be charged as an adult but has not been named, will also be charged for her murder.
All four suspects had juvenile arrest warrants said Interim Chicago Police Supt. Eric Carter.
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Wendy’s Unveils Google-Powered AI Chatbot at Drive-Thru
Wendy’s is reportedly developing an artificial intelligence chatbot powered by Google’s natural-language software designed to automate drive-thrus.
The Wall Street Journal spoke with Wendy’s Chief Executive Todd Penegor, who said the fast-food chain’s chatbot would be rolled out in June at a company-owned restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.
The Wendy’s drive-thru chatbot “will be very conversational,” Penegor explained. He said, “You won’t know you’re talking to anybody but an employee.”
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Canadian Police Officer Who Donated $50 to Freedom Convoy Could be Forced Into Unpaid Work
A Canadian police officer who donated just $50 to the Freedom Convoy protest could face up to 140 hours of unpaid work. The punishment was recommended by his employer, Windsor Police, at a penalty hearing last week.
In February 2022, Constable Michael Brisco donated $50 to the Freedom Convoy protest via the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo.
His lawyer, Shane Miles, said that Brisco did nothing wrong other than donating to a protest, noting that Freedom Convoy didn’t even get the money because accounts were frozen. Miles recommended 40 hours of unpaid work.
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Freedom Convoy Trucker Released on Bail Without Conditions, Will Return to Court in June
Freedom Convoy trucker Harold Jonker has been released on bail without conditions and will return to court in Ottawa on June 7.
Jonker, who runs Jonker Trucking Inc. out of Niagara, Ont., was told last month to turn himself in to Ottawa police on May 10 for a court appearance and to be fingerprinted.
He faces multiple charges, including one count of mischief for obstructing property; one count of intimidation by blocking or obstructing a highway; and two counts of counsel for an uncommitted, indictable offence.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is representing Jonker.
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Musk Mocks CBC After it Swore Off Using Twitter to Comeback to ‘Resume Some Activity’
After pausing Twitter activity in mid-April because their disagreement with Elon Musk, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has resumed posting.
In mid-April, the Canadian news network condemned Twitter for labeling their organization as “Government-funded media.”
CBC spokesman Leon Mar said in a statement that it “undermines the accuracy and professionalism of the work they do to allow our independence to be falsely described in this way.” He added further, “Consequently, we will be pausing our activity on our corporate Twitter account and all CBC and Radio-Canada news-related accounts.”
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Wildfires to Take 145,000 Barrels of Oil and Gas Offline Per Day
Wildfires have forced many oil and gas companies to halt their operations in Alberta as the fires continue to stretch across much of the province, leading to a state of emergency.
Since Thursday, 29,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, including areas where oil and gas companies operate like Brazeau and Grande Prairie.
The fires are threatening to pull 145,000 barrels of oil per day from the market according to estimates.
Major companies like Cenovus Energy Inc. have had to close down production at natural gas sites in the wildfire area.
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Jordan Bardella now leads the National Rally party from Marine Le Pen, who resigned to become the party’s parliamentary leader. In an exclusive interview with Remix News conducted at CPAC last Friday, the 28-year-old spoke of France leading a new conservative revolution, saying: “In past history, France has always set an example and made its revolution first. I think that the time of the patriots has come in France.”
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Explosion at Swedish Ammunition Factory Injures at Least 1, Allegedly an Industrial Accident
Swedish plant makes ‘small caliber ammunition for use by assault rifles and other light weapons’
An explosion at an ammunition factory in southern Sweden seriously injured at least one person Wednesday, police said.
Police said they were investigating the blast as an industrial accident. The factory in Karlsborg, some 137 miles southwest of Stockholm, was manufacturing small-caliber ammunition.
While there was “uncertainty about how the explosion happened, it probably did not occur in the manufacturing process itself, but probably in connection with maintenance work as a pure accident,” a police statement said.
Police said the injured person was a man who was alone inside the room where the explosion occurred. Officers have not entered the facility because a safety assessment must be conducted first.
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French Police Shoot Jihadist Who Crashed Bus During Attempted Hijacking, Injuring 14 Passengers
A manhunt for suspect who caused a bus to crash during an attempted hijacking ended when the man attacked police while shouting Islamic slogans over the weekend in France, according to reports.
The disturbing string of events unfolded at around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday evening near Mornas, a commune in the department of Vaucluse.
Chaos broke out on a coach bus bound for Lyon when a male passenger tried to take the wheel, causing the vehicle to leave the roadway and crash.
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Germany: Protesters Throw Cake at Volkswagen Shareholders’ Meeting
Berlin (AFP) — Activists hurled cake at Volkswagen bosses on Wednesday, as the German carmaker’s annual shareholders’ meeting was disrupted by protests over human rights and climate change.
Outside the hall where the event was taking place in Berlin, climate protesters gathered to put pressure on Europe’s largest car manufacturer to reduce its carbon footprint.
“The science is clear: the emissions from Volkswagen’s planned car sales are beyond planetary limits,” was the message held up by activists from the group Scientist Rebellion.
Inside, the meeting itself was interrupted when cake was aimed at Wolfgang Porsche, who sits on Volkswagen’s supervisory board and celebrated his 80th birthday Wednesday.
A topless woman also interrupted the speech given by Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume to criticise the group’s operations in the Chinese region of Xinjiang.
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Germany’s Conservative AfD Party Has Room to Grow, According to New Poll
All eight major polling institutes in Germany show Alternative for Germany (AfD) currently at 15 to 17 percent of the vote; however, data from the Insa polling institute also shows that the party has room to grow.
The AfD is currently the third-strongest party in the country, according to Insa, but the Insa poll shows that another 10 percent of voters say they could imagine voting for the party. This is an increase of 2 percentage points from the previous survey. If the AfD were to reach its full potential, it would win 26.5 percent of the vote.
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Ireland’s Controversial Hate Speech Law Paves the Way for an Orwellian Future
A new hate speech bill is being pushed through the Irish parliament despite an initial public consultation revealing an overwhelming number of Irish citizens oppose the controversial reforms to free speech.
Passed through the Dail, the country’s lower parliamentary chamber last month, the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 was roundly endorsed across the political spectrum. Parties including Sinn Fein, Labour, the Green Party, Fianna Fail, and Irish leader Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael all backed the bill, as it received 110 votes in favor to just 14 against.
However, as is often the case, the popular legislation among politicians is less admired by the electorate and has been widely criticized by huge swathes of the Irish public and free speech advocates.
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There are few things the EU Commission (the EU’s executive arm) would like to present more than the bloc and its institutions speaking with one voice, particularly on controversial topics, such as attempts to destroy encryption.
However, documents leaked from the EU Council Legal Service regarding the legality of a proposal known as “chat control” (formally, Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, CSAR), show that there may be “trouble in paradise.”
As digital rights advocate and European Parliament member (MEP) Patrick Breyer of Germany reports, the Service has warned the Commission that its idea probably runs contrary to the fundamental right to respect for private life — meaning that the European Court of Justice would likely annul it.
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Poland is Biggest Threat to Security in Europe, Says Austrian Journalist
Poland is currently the biggest obstacle to the return of peace and security to Europe, an Austrian political scientist and journalist has claimed.
Ronald Barazon, the former editor-in-chief of Austria’s Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper, penned his remarks for the German business news portal Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten.
He criticized the attitude of the Polish authorities, which from the first minutes of the Russian aggression against Ukraine in February of last year, have offered unwavering military and financial support to Kyiv, and insisted that nothing but a crushing Russian defeat will be acceptable as a solution.
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Polish Freight Carriers Block Ukrainian Border Crossing Over Unfair Trade
In the latest backlash to preferential trade for Ukraine, Polish freight carriers have been blocking one of the Poland-Ukraine border crossings over the past week.
The protesters, who have rejected an offer from the Ukrainian infrastructure ministry to allow Polish drivers to bring EU goods to Ukraine without permits, have demanded the reinstatement of the mutual entry permit program which was suspended when the war in Ukraine broke out, Notes from Poland reports.
According to the report, several dozen Polish protesters are only allowing five lorries per hour to enter Poland from Ukraine at the crossing in Dorohusk — leaving truck drivers waiting for between six and ten days.
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Teen Girl Killed, 9 Injured During Orphanage Stabbing Spree in Poland
A teenage girl was killed and nine others injured in a frenzied stabbing spree at a Polish orphanage this week, authorities said.
The victims were attacked late Tuesday when a 19-year-old man entered the residence in Tomislawice, near Lodz, armed with a sharp object, authorities said.
“We know that the most serious wounds were suffered by a 16-year-old girl, a ward of this orphanage, who died on the spot,” police spokesperson Aneta Sobieraj explained.
Thirteen people, including one employee, were at the orphanage at the time of the attack.
Four victims were treated at the scene, while five others were hospitalized but are no longer in critical condition.
The attacker, whose identity has not been released, was arrested at his home about an hour after the fatal incident.
One source told the state news agency PAP that the man was the murdered victim’s ex-boyfriend who entered the orphanage through her bedroom window, though these claims have not been confirmed.
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A viral video from the Netherlands shows a lone male victim being kicked, punched, and pushed onto the tracks at Amsterdam’s Bijlmer ArenA station by a large group of males, with the incident garnering attention from the Dutch political sphere.
Police are searching for both the victim, whose condition remains unknown, as well as the perpetrators.
The viciousness of the beating caught the attention of many across the Netherlands, including Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who leads the Party for Freedom (PVV) and commented on the graphic video.
In response to the video, he simply wrote: “The multicultural hell.”
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The UK government is ready to spend some $755,000 (£600,000) on a project involving contractors whose job would be to carry out surveillance on social media, on the lookout for “harmful disinformation and misinformation narratives.”
This is revealed in a notice posted on the government’s Contracts Finder site that contains information about contracts whose value exceeds the equivalent of $15,000 — which is certainly the case with this one, that shows the authorities are looking for a misinformation and disinformation monitoring and analysis service.
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UK: BBC Licence Fee on the Brink as Broadcaster Told to ‘Look at New Funding Sources’
The BBC licence fee has been left on the brink as the UK’s national broadcaster has been told to “look for funding resources”.
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer appeared to initiate the process of looking more closely at the licence fee after calling on the BBC to consider alternative funding methods.
The BBC could potentially move to subscriptions amid reports it generated £3.5billion from the licence fee last year.
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A former backbench MP for the governing U.K. Conservative Party has announced he has launched a defamation claim against former Health Secretary Matt Hancock after being accused of being antisemitic for likening the Covid-19 vaccine to the Holocaust.
Andrew Bridgen, the MP for North West Leicestershire, was initially suspended from the governing party for his remarks and formally expelled last month. He has subsequently become the first ever MP for the Reclaim Party led by actor and campaigner Laurence Fox, a move that was announced on Wednesday at a press conference in London.
In January, Bridgen described the Covid-19 vaccine as “the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust,” a remark that was condemned by Mr. Hancock, who was Britain’s health secretary at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, as “antisemitic.”
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UK: Just Stop Oil’s Square Mile Slow Walk Causes Chaos as Bank and Moorgate Brought to a Halt
Just Stop Oil protestors caused chaos in the Square Mile this morning with a slow walk through Moorgate and Bank, which was eventually broken up by police.
The environmental group forced the closure of roads, prevented buses from getting through and led to police officers issuing a Section 12 order, forcing them onto the pavement.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin released a scathing video seemingly directed at the Russian president, trashing his troops’ lack of ammunition and threatening to strangle those responsible
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The divisions between Russia’s defense ministry and its notorious Wagner group continue to play out in public with mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin suggesting Tuesday that Russian forces have fled their posts in Bakhmut.
In a video posted to the Telegram messaging app, the once top ally to President Vladimir Putin claimed that units from Russia’s military “fled from one of our flanks” and exposed his forces to Ukrainian assaults, which he said were “tearing up the flanks,” according to multiple reports.
Priogzhin’s claims of a Russian retreat were echoed by Ukraine’s Third Assault Brigade, which said that forces from Russia’s 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade fled Bakhmut Tuesday.
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Zelensky Says Central Europe’s Import Ban on Ukrainian Grain is ‘Unacceptable’
The various bans on Ukrainian grains imposed by five central European countries are unacceptable, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a joint press conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday.
“Protectionist measures […] by EU countries neighboring Ukraine are completely unacceptable,” said Zelensky.
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India: Kerala Doctor Stabbed to Death With Scissors by Man She Was Treating
The brunt of the attack was borne by the young doctor while the police personnel who accompanied the man were also injured.
Kollam, Kerala:
A 23-year-old doctor was stabbed to death on Wednesday at a hospital in Kottarakkara area of Kollam district in Kerala allegedly by a man, a school teacher under suspension, who was brought there by police after being involved in a fight with his family members.
According to an officer of Kottarakkara police, while a wound on the leg of the man — identified as Sandeep — was being dressed by doctor Vandana Das, he suddenly got provoked and attacked everyone standing there using a scissor and scalpel.
The incident occurred during the early hours of Wednesday morning and Das succumbed to her injuries a few hours later.
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Pakistan Deploys Troops to Halt Unrest After Ex-Prime Minister Khan is Ordered Held on New Charges
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s government called out the military Wednesday in areas roiled by deadly violence following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was dragged from a courtroom and ordered held for another eight days on new corruption charges that outraged his supporters and deepened the country’s political turmoil.
In an address to the nation, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the unrest by Khan’s supporters “damaged sensitive public and private property,” forcing him to deploy the military in the capital of Islamabad, the most populous province of Punjab and in volatile regions of the northwest.
After Khan was arrested Tuesday, crowds in Islamabad and other major cities blocked roads, clashed with police, and set fire to police checkpoints and military facilities in violence that left six people dead and hundreds arrested. On Wednesday, protesters stormed a radio station in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
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An Australian driver has revealed one of the struggles of owning an electric car after a recent breakdown where he was forced to order a tow truck.
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Australian Lawmakers Meet With US Envoy to Push for End to Julian Assange’s Prosecution
A cross-party delegation of Australian lawmakers said Tuesday they met with U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and called on her to help drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the publication of classified U.S. military documents.
The “Bring Julian Assange Home Parliamentary Group” said it told the U.S. Kennedy about the “widespread concern” in Australia about the ongoing detention of Assange, who they hope to bring home to Australia.
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Scientist Claims to Have Answer to Mystery of Notorious Bermuda Triangle
An Australian scientist says he has uncovered the mystery behind the notorious Bermuda Triangle, known for its urban legends and tales of puzzling ship and plane disappearances in the western North Atlantic.
Situated between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, this precarious stretch of sea is prone to quickly changing weather patterns, varying sea levels and complicated navigational realities that have given it an ominous alternative name — the Devil’s Triangle.
However, Australian scientist Karl Kruszelnicki has argued there are no supernatural explanations for the tales that surround the forbidding region, but rather a matter of “probabilities,” reported Popular Mechanics this week.
“The number [of ships and planes] that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as anywhere in the world on a percentage basis,” he told The Independent in 2017.
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Selling Sunset’s Chrishell Stause has tied the knot with her Australian partner Georgia ‘G Flip’ Flipo after just one year together.
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Jennifer Searson and Mark Goodrick live in Queensland ‘s Sunshine Coast with their 15-year-old daughter. Hadley said taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund their ‘laziness’.
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Mexico President Andres Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday accused the U.S. government of funding organizations that are hostile to his administration.
Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, López Obrador read from a letter he sent to President Biden the day prior.
“The U.S. government — specifically through the [United States Agency for International Development], has for some time been financing organizations openly against the legal and legitimate government I represent,” López Obrador said in the letter, calling such actions “interventionist.”
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Afghan Migrant Smashes Man With Concrete Block at Train Station in Germany
A migrant from Afghanistan was arrested for bashing another man in the head with a chunk of concrete at a train station in Germany this week, according to authorities.
The shocking incident unfolded at around 3:20 a.m. on Sunday in Hamburg.
The victim, age 42, was attacked by a 25-year-old man at the Tiefstack S-Bahn station for unknown reasons.
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Border Patrol Officials Issue Warning Over Title 42 End: ‘The Dam is About to Break’
Several Customs and Border Protect (CBP) officials have warned the American people that the end of President Donald Trump’s successful Title 42 policy will trigger a huge flood of illegal migrants into the United States.
Democrat President Joe Biden’s top border officials in Washington, D.C., have decided to authorize all Border Patrol sectors to begin “safe” mass releases of migrants to city streets if non-governmental organizations (NGOs) don’t have the capacity to hold them, multiple sources reportedly told Fox News.
The consequence of this decision is that migrants will be mass released at bus stops, gas stations, supermarkets, and in towns and cities across the border, according to CBP sources who were not authorized to speak publicly.
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The Dutch government has announced an incredible U-turn on the provision of emergency shelter for rejected asylum seekers, known as the National Aliens Facility (LVV).
Less than a week after State Secretary for Asylum Eric Van der Burg revealed that from next year, €30 million in government funding would no longer be available to the five local administrations running a scheme to house asylum seekers whose applications have been refused, he published a letter late on Tuesday evening confirming the scheme will no longer be scrapped and is set to be extended nationwide.
The plan to ditch the scheme sparked outrage among some members in the smaller parties of the five-party coalition government, namely the Christian Union and D66. They argued it was a breach of the agreement reached which facilitated the formation of the coalition.
However, Van der Burg now appears to have U-turned entirely and caved to coalition parties’ demands to keep the government on track.
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Germany’s 16 States Unite Against Chancellor Scholz on Soaring Migration Numbers
A minor political landslide is taking place in Germany this week. First, the Social Democrat (SPD) Chancellor Olaf Scholz will host the leaders of the 16 German states in a migration crisis meeting, who this time, regardless of party affiliation, from Christian Socialist Union politicians from Bavaria to left-wing Thuringia, are united in asking the Berlin federal government for the same thing: fewer migrants and more money.
Germany’s left-wing government, led by Scholz, has overseen what critics say is a controlled demolition of the country through mass migration, and now, that same government refuses to pay for it.
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Left-Wing German Government Pushes for 250,000 Kenyan Immigrants Amid Migration Crisis
Germany’s left-wing government, led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, is pushing to bring in 250,000 Kenyan migrants to fill what the government claims is a shortage of skilled workers. During a joint press conference with Scholz in the State House of Nairob, Kenyan President William Ruto said that a draft agreement between Germany and Kenya is currently being worked on to facilitate the transfer of Kenyans to Germany.
“In Kenya, we see great potential for the migration of skilled workers in many areas of our economy,” said Scholz after meeting with Ruto. He added that the government wants to “create more regular, legal immigration opportunities for those who want to work in Germany.”
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Meloni Wins Czech Backing for Migrant Proposals
(ANSA) — ROME, MAY 10 — Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in a joint statement with visiting Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni Wednesday that Prague backed Italy’s proposals on migrants.
“On migrants Meloni brings many proposals to Europe, we support Italy’s proposals, we have the same vision”, said Fiala, stressing that a “more active fight against traffickers” is needed.
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Migrant Crisis to be Tackled in Countries of Origin — Meloni
(ANSA) — ROME, MAY 10 — The issue of migration to Europe must be tackled in countries of origin, Premier Giorgia Meloni told reporters after a meeting with her Czech counterpart in Prague on Wednesday.
“Pursuing non-predatory cooperation with African countries is also the most serious tool for tackling the migration crisis,” said Meloni.
“Intelligent and far-sighted Prime Minister Fiala understands that this issue must now inevitably be addressed at the European level, and before it invades European territory,” she continued.
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Migrant Transfers From Lampedusa Continue
(ANSA) — ROME, MAY 10 — A group of 185 migrants and refugees were transferred away from Lampedusa by passenger ferry on Wednesday morning as part of ongoing efforts to relieve overcrowding at the hotspot reception facility for new arrivals on the island.
Two more groups, both of 140 people, were due to fly out later in the day, bound respectively for reception facilities in Bologna and Milan.
Following the transfers, just over 150 people should be left at the hotspot in Contrada Imbriacola, well below the official capacity of around 400.
Italy’s southernmost island comes under regular pressure from migrants and refugees arriving by sea from north Africa.
Overcrowding at the hotspot has been a structural problem for many years but in recent weeks the problem has been particularly severe, with numbers reaching around 2,700.
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and Valerio Valenti, head of the Interior Ministry’s Department for Civil Liberties and Immigration and recently appointed commissioner delegate for the state of emergency for migrants, have repeatedly pledged their support to local authorities in tackling the situation and transfers off the island have been stepped up.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a strict immigration bill into law on Wednesday, a day before Title 42 ends and a flood of migrants are expected to cross the Southern border.
DeSantis, who is expected to launch a Republican presidential bid in the coming months, blasted President Joe Biden at the signing ceremony.
‘We are bracing for some turbulent times ahead,’ he said. ‘When you have a president that has turned a blind eye to the border … when you have that, you are likely to see it get a lot worse.’
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Russia is Recruiting Central Asian Migrants for Ukraine War
Russia is trying to recruit Central Asian migrants for the Ukrainian conflict, luring them with attractive salaries and expedited citizenship, says the intelligence service of the British Ministry of Defence (MOD).
The recruiters, some of whom speak Tajik and Uzbek, are said to regularly visit mosques and immigration offices to find volunteers. The migrants are promised high salaries and fast-tracked Russian citizenship, which usually takes five years, but can be obtained in six months to a year under these circumstances.
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Venezuelan Migrant Arrested 3 Times Since Arriving in Chicago 3 Weeks Ago
A Venezuelan migrant has been arrested three times since he arrived in Chicago just three weeks ago, authorities have revealed.
However, each time he was arrested, the migrant gave a different name.
Police said he was identified as Anduesa Cormena, Daniel Jose Garcia, and Danny Garcia Briceno.
With authorities referring to the criminal migrant as Anduesa Cormena, he appeared again in felony court on a retail theft charge.
34-year-old Cormena was arrested Monday at Macy’s, 111 North State.
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Video: 150,000 Illegal Immigrants Are Camping Out, Waiting to Surge the Border Tomorrow
An estimated 150,000 undocumented migrants are poised to surge the southern U.S. border beginning Thursday when the Biden administration will end Title 42, which previously allowed for deportations.
CNN reported that 60,000 migrants are camping out in Chihuahua, with a further 35,000 in Tamaulipas, and another 25,000 in Coahuila.
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A Global Pandemic: The Jihadist Rape of Christian Women
The global targeting of Christian women for rape and sexual violence, according to a new study, appears to be at an all-time high, especially in the Muslim world.
Open Doors, a human rights organization that tracks the global persecution of Christians, recently published reports examining the role of gender. One of these, “A Web of Forces: The 2023 Gender Report,” ranks nations based on the category of “gender-specific religious persecution” and shows how a victim’s gender shapes their respective persecution. According to the report:
“Globally, Christian women and girls often find themselves caught in a particularly complex web of compounding vulnerabilities. They are not only vulnerable as Christians … but their additional gender-determined vulnerabilities overlap and interact to a greater extent than for Christian men and boys in the same contexts. These are environments where all females experience a disadvantaged status as women before the law or in society, bias against their lack of education or an elevated risk of poverty. These multiple vulnerabilities compound one another — like the multiplying forces of compound interest in a bank. Religious persecution exploits the existence of these many interlinking and compounding forces, aggravating the damage to individual women and girls, their families and their communities.”
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Bud Light’s Ties to World Economic Forum Emerge
Bud Light’s parent company Anheuser-Busch has partnered with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to push the radical agenda of Klaus Schwab’s globalist organization.
A new report has revealed that Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (AB InBev) teamed up with the WEF to push globalist guidelines for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, as well as woke diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.
As Slay News has previously reported, corporate America has been engulfed in controversial ESG guidelines.
ESG guidelines pressure companies to follow far-left “woke” policies and have been panned by many.
Twitter boss Elon Musk recently warned that ESG is “Satanic.”
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America’s flagship beer brand has been sent into a steep decline after they used the controversial trans influencer, 26, to promote the beverage.
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Campus Watch: Hockey Seminar Free for People Who “Identify as Underrepresented”
Brock University’s sports team, the Badgers, offered free tickets to a $160 high-performance hockey seminar to individuals who “self-identify as underrepresented.”
This comes as the Niagara-area university boasts about embracing “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” (EDI) ideology at an institutional level.
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Germany Moves to Make it Easier to Change Legal Name and Gender Without Doctor’s Assesment
BERLIN (AP) — The German government on Tuesday presented a proposal for a law that will make it easier for people to legally change their name and gender, ending decades-old rules that require them to get expert assessments and a court’s authorization.
Under the planned “self-determination law,” adults would be able to change their first name and legal gender at registry offices without further formalities.
“We have taken another big step forward with the self-determination act and with it also in the protection against discrimination and the rights of transgender, intersex and nonbinary people,” Germany’s minister for families, Lisa Paus, said.
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A professor reveals that students are citing “mental health” to get 25% extra time in exams, generous coursework deadline extensions, and as a general excuse to just not show up or do anything at all.
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Robert Lachky is the former chief creative officer at Bud Light’s parent company Anheuser-Busch.
Lachky was behind the iconic Bud Light ads that helped propel the brand to the number-one-selling beer in America.
He worked on the famous “Whassup?!” ads and the “Bud-Weis-Er” frogs campaigns.
Lachky is also credited for the iconic Clydesdale ads of the 1990s and 2000s.
He was also behind the “Real Men of Genius” campaigns which received more awards than any other campaign.
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A Norwegian woman who was fired for criticizing gender transition treatment in girls and young women has won her case after she sued her former employer. Rianne Vogels was fired by Papillon after an anonymous complaint about her tweet about the risks of gender transition treatment.
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Quebec School District Apologizes After Teachers Cancel Mother’s Day & Father’s Day
A Quebec school district is apologizing amid outrage over elementary school teachers opting to replace Mother’s Day and Father’s Day with a more inclusive “Parents’ Day”.
The Centre de services scolaire de la Capitale’s (CSS) response differs from school boards in the rest of Canada — many of whom have embraced woke ideology.
The controversy began after Radio X host Dominic Maurais shared a screenshot of an email sent to parents of grade 2 students at the École de la Chanterelle in Quebec City, in which teachers explain that “considering the heterogeneity of our students’ families this year, we have decided not to celebrate Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.”
“However, we still want to recognize you (the parents) before the end of the year. To do so, we will celebrate Parents’ Day,” the teachers added.
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Some Loudoun County, Virginia residents — including one community member who spoke out against teaching LGBT practices in local schools — has received death threats online, according to WJLA.
“It shocked me,” Loudoun County resident Mark Winn said after he learned of messages threatening his life and his livelihood from a Facebook group called “Loudoun Love Warriors.”
Winn wasn’t the only person affected by the online threats. “They went after my job,” Scott Mineo, a Loudoun County parent said. “That happened in early February. They referred me to the FBI, IRS, and DHS all because they don’t like my opinion.”
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Apparently, a US congressman (Seth Moulton) recently said on a conference somewhere that the US would blow up TSMC (semiconductor manufacturing company in Taiwan) in the event of a China invasion. This is the Taiwanese reaction:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/taiwan-will-defend-tsmc-from-us-bombing-in-the-event-of-a-china-war
With friends like that, who needs enemies? If they conclude to take this statement seriously, it unravels pretty much everything.
Migrant Workers and product quality. Apart from greedy businesses does anyone with a brain think that third world uneducated migrants can produce the same quality products as the native Swedes and Germans? I’ve said to people I would rather buy German product made in Poland than Germany as the German product is no longer made by Germans and no longer meets the same quality standards. The Swedish factory fire is just another symptom of that whole population replacement program. Native Swedes would be more assertive about safety procedures. Businesses deserve these problems. “Reap what you sow”.
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BOYS AND GIRLS
Have you watched the videos with and about
F. Roger Devlin,
launched here on GoV in the last few days?
That man has some truths to tell about
man vs. woman relationships.
More is planned to follow.
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Trump in the department store,
Trump Lawyer: He will fix our country
https://youtu.be/bFTtzwOJB88
Newsmax
Trump lawyer Alina Habba reacts to the decision today in the E. Jean Carroll case – more on NEWSMAX’s Rob Schmitt Tonight.
Anyone got some napalm?
Quote:
Modern is the time when ideas owned the masses. This is the time when global values were imposed on the masses as real, and seemed real
to the majority. Postmodern highlighted the dubiousness of these values, he removed the veil and romantic veil from global ideas, and in postmodern global
Ideas are nothing more than simulacra. Although this does not negate the fact that some individual person can be passionate about some idea. But the masses in the postmodern are not passionate about ideas.
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Is everything clear to everyone? An anthropological division has taken place. Some people have evolved, while others have remained archaic. And therefore, those who have evolved must be replaced by savages.
Therefore, there is a replacement of the population.
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The limitless evil of the ruling class
May 10, 2023
By Lars Hedegaard / snaphanen.dk
It is time we talked openly about it. Almost everywhere in the Western world, the borders are wide open and have been for many decades. The population shift that the media refuses to talk about is a reality, and it is not an unintended consequence of an otherwise well-meaning policy, but the meaning of the policy itself.
The ruling class hates the indigenous peoples of the West and imports all kinds of foreigners to marginalize, displace and demoralize Danes, Germans, Swedes, Americans and all the others who a few decades ago constituted the national populations. We will be powerless minorities in our own countries by the end of this century. That is the plan.
Unfortunately, most people are fooled by politicians’ constant talk of “integration” and “firm immigration policies”, while their real goal is to undermine the homelands. No other conclusion is possible. In politics, as in law, the rule is that the foreseeable consequences of an action must be the intended ones.
Tomorrow Title 42 expires in the United States, which has to some extent prevented the influx of people who have been in a country with contagious diseases. This removes the last weak barrier to fully open and free border crossings.
Since Joe Biden and his far-left puppeteers were installed just over two years ago, an estimated six million migrants have poured through the US border with Mexico, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott estimates that 4.7 million are already waiting in the wings. No one knows who they are or what will happen to them once they enter.
What is known, however, is that the countries to the south of the US have emptied their prisons and mental hospitals and exported the inmates to the big neighbor to the north. The hapless border guards report that Mexican drug cartels already control parts of the US-Mexican border, and after Joe Biden repeals Title 42, they expect the cartels to take control of the entire border.
The cost in human lives will be high. Already, more than 100,000 Americans die each year from overdoses of the drugs brought in by the cartels. The sex trade will also flourish. Tens of thousands of unaccompanied children have already arrived and no one knows what has happened to them, but many have undoubtedly been sold to pedophile networks.
The US population at large will also suffer economically, as wages will be squeezed by the large number of immigrants, who will also take an increasing share of welfare and health care spending. This is of course the intention.
And no sooner have the new human millions arrived than the Democrats demand that they be allowed to vote in the elections. They will of course vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats, their benefactors.
To counter the invasion, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives has proposed the Secure the Border Act of 2023, which would require asylum seekers at the border to either be detained, moved to a safe country or sent home.
Joe Biden has announced that he will veto the bill.
In the EU, the situation is not much better. As Snaphanen.dk points out, since Schengen, Europe has neither internal nor external borders. The EU’s ultimate goal is to dissolve the nations and set up a world government.
Ironically, the “capital” of the EU is in Belgium, which is expected to become Europe’s first Muslim nation.
Its obvious what’s being done.
That begs the question what to do about it.
If its impossible to vote out those puppets doing this at the behest of their masters, then that leaves only surrender, or we must kill our way out of this.
Mystery illness kills nine, leaves 80 ill in Kenya
At least nine people have died, and over 80 others are seriously ill in Kargi Location, Marsabit County, following an outbreak of an unknown disease.
https://www.africanews.com/2023/05/11/mystery-illness-kills-nine-leaves-80-ill-in-kenya/
Mystery illness kills nine, leaves 80 ill in Kenya
At least nine people have died, and over 80 others are seriously ill in Kargi Location, Marsabit County, following an outbreak of an unknown disease.
https://www.africanews.com/2023/05/11/mystery-illness-kills-nine-leaves-80-ill-in-kenya/
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Nyans: “Ban SD now”
Published on May 11, 2023 in Fria Tider
The Sweden Democrats must be banned immediately, according to Muslim immigrant party Nyans party leader Mikail Yüksel.
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“All people have the right to freedom from racist expressions and racist propaganda in the public space. Ban the Sweden Democrats now!”
This is what Nyans leader Mikail Yüksel wrote in a Twitter post on Thursday.
The 40-year-old Turkish politician has made it clear that he does not comment on Fria Tider because he considers the newspaper to be racist. He was initially trained as a member of the Center Party.
Nyans managed to grab a lot of clan votes from the Social Democrats in so-called vulnerable areas in the election last fall.