According to an NBC News poll, almost 90% of Americans are concerned that President Joe Biden is too senile for a second term as president. Meanwhile, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said he believes that Democrats will swap out President Biden with Michelle Obama on their party’s presidential ticket.
In other news, Greek police have arrested four men accused of possessing explosives a week after a bomb exploded outside the labor ministry in Athens. The suspects are believed to have anarchist affiliations.
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In a First, Moody’s Downgrades Israel Credit Rating as War Takes Toll
For the first time in its history, the State of Israel has seen its credit rating downgraded, as Moody’s on Friday took the country’s rating down one notch to A2, and said the rating outlook going forward is negative.
The country’s ongoing war with Hamas and occupation of Gaza will “materially raise political risk for Israel as well as weaken its executive and legislative institutions and its fiscal strength, for the foreseeable future,” said Moody’s, which added that the conflict will create deficits over upcoming years that “will be significantly larger than expected before the conflict.”
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9 in 10 Americans Have Concerns About Biden’s Physical, Mental Health
A whopping 89 percent of Americans have concerns, to varying degrees, that President Joe Biden lacks the physical and mental health for a second term, according to an NBC News poll.
The poll published Tuesday — ahead of Biden’s press conference Thursday where he was grilled about his age and mental acuity — found that 62 percent of registered voters nationally have “major concerns” that he does not have “the necessary mental and physical health to be president for a second term.” Another 14 percent have “moderate” worries, while 13 percent expressed “minor concerns.”
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A Sniper Killed a Florida Bank Robber as He Held a Knife to a Hostage’s Throat
Authorities say a would-be bank robber in Florida took hostages after law enforcement arrived and was killed by a sheriff’s sniper as he held a woman in a headlock with a knife to her throat
FORT MYERS, Fla. — As officers tried to get a would-be bank robber in Florida to surrender, the man decided instead to take two hostages. Then he put one of them in a headlock and held a knife to her throat — and that’s when a sheriff’s sniper ended it.
The 36-year-old attempted robber, who claimed to have a bomb, died. But the woman he tried to use as a shield, the other hostage and everyone else at the scene just outside Fort Myers escaped without injury.
The robbery attempt, hostage situation and sniper fire brought a bustling suburban area lined with chain restaurants, hotels, an outdoor mall and office buildings to a terrifying halt around lunchtime Tuesday as the Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded with tools including a robotic dog, drones, a battering ram and a SWAT team.
The sheriff didn’t say where the sniper shot from, but SWAT members had surrounded the bank. Video on the sheriff’s office Facebook page shows several deputies standing, rifles raised, near an entrance to the bank alongside a negotiator who talks with the man seconds before a shot rings out. Other video from outside the bank shows a deputy being raised in a platform with an armored front loader.
“I didn’t even know the county had this,” local radio host Charlie Lopez — who observed the scene as he got lunch near the Bank of America branch — told Fox 4 News. He watched the sniper shooting from his car and provided details to his Facebook followers.
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Mexican drugs cartels have expanded all the way North and are targeting America’s ‘last best place’ by preying on vulnerable Native American communities in Montana.
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President Joe Biden continues referring to recent conversations with deceased foreign leaders as he struggles to recall the exact details of previous meetings.
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Biden to Eliminate Meat From Food Supply, Replace With Insects
A group of experts has just published a new report that raises the alarm about Democrat President Joe Biden’s coming policies for complying with the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” agenda.
According to the report from The Buckeye Institute, the Biden administration is pushing policies that seek to eliminate the farming industry and drastically alter the American food supply.
In order to meet the WEF’s “Net Zero” targets, the Biden admin seeks to eliminate meat and dairy products from the food supply.
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Bodies of 6 Family Members Recovered After Pennsylvania Home Went Up in Flames During Shooting: DA
Authorities say the suspect, Canh Le, shot his family and set the fire.
The bodies of six family members were recovered after a massive house fire engulfed a Pennsylvania residence where officers responding to an emergency call were met with gunfire, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said Friday.
The district attorney said, with time, they expect to identify the remains of the suspected shooter, Canh Le. The grandparents of the family told authorities that they believe that he killed his niece, Stollsteimer said. Investigators believe that he likely killed the other members of the Le family as well, he said.
The preliminary investigation suggests that the victims were shot with a rifle, and then the fire was set, Stollsteimer said.
Authorities said three adults and three children who lived in the house were inside during the shooting and subsequent fire, Stollsteimer told reporters during a press briefing on Thursday.
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Breaking: Rep. Mike Gallagher Will Not Seek Reelection After Backlash Over Mayorkas Impeachment Vote
GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher, who voted not to impeach DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas will not seek reelection after Republican Chairmen in Wisconsin sent him a memo that they may seek other candidates.
In an interview, Gallagher said, “I really just feel like I’ve accomplished much more than I even thought I could when I set out, and I firmly don’t believe that the best use for the next chapter of my career is staying in Congress for another decade.”
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom Sends Prosecutors to Oakland Over Raging Crime Blamed on Woke DA
Send in the troops — or at least the state prosecutors.
That’s what California Gov. Gavin Newsom has decreed in the wake of soaring crime in Oakland that’s being blamed on woke District Attorney Pamela Price.
Violent crime is on the upswing in Alameda County, where it jumped almost 20% in 2023 compared to 2019, with businesses including In-N-Out shutting down because of rampant crime.
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Chinese Engineer Allegedly Stole Trade Secret Technology for Detecting Nuclear Missile Launches: DOJ
Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
A Chinese-born researcher has been arrested for allegedly stealing trade secret technologies developed for the U.S. government to detect nuclear missile launches and to track ballistic and hypersonic missiles, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Chenguang Gong, 57, of San Jose, California, was arrested in San Jose on Feb. 6, prosecutors said.
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Farage Says Democrats Will Ditch Biden Before Convention
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news
Nigel Farage says Democrats will ditch Joe Biden before the Democratic convention in July because he is clearly suffering from “senile dementia”.
The controversy has exploded once again after special counsel Robert Hur concluded that Biden’s memory is so poor that he “did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended, and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began.”
Hur also noted that Biden “did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
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Hillary Clinton ‘Frightened’ by Trump’s Republican Support
Twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says that she finds President Donald Trump’s “hold on the Republican Party . . . frightening.”
Clinton, who suffered a crushing defeat to Trump in the 2016 presidential election, made the remarks during an interview on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight.”
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Investigation Launched After Private Jet Crash-Lands Onto Florida Highway
US federal authorities have launched an investigation after two people died when a private jet attempted to make an emergency landing on a Florida highway.
Five people were onboard the Bombardier Challenger 600 jet when it crashed on Friday at around 3.15pm (local time), according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
It was not immediately clear if the two victims had been passengers on the plane or were on the ground, Collier County Sheriff’s Office said.
The crash took place the near city of Naples, along a stretch of Interstate 75 known as Alligator Alley, and eyewitnesses said the aircraft collided with a vehicle.
An explosion shortly followed after the plane itself became engulfed in flames.
A joint-investigation will be conducted between the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), with a preliminary report expected in 30 days.
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Just in: Trump Calls for End to Foreign Handouts, Says US Should Only Give Loans
On Saturday, former President Donald Trump called for the end to all foreign aid, unless it is a loan and “not just a giveaway.”
In a statement on Truth Social, Trump said, “From this point forward…No money in the form of foreign Aid should be given to any country unless it is done as a loan.”
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Mail-in Ballot Fraud Study Finds Trump ‘Almost Certainly’ Won in 2020
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
A new study examining the likely impact that fraudulent mail-in ballots had in the 2020 election concludes that the outcome would “almost certainly” have been different without the massive expansion of voting by mail.
The Heartland Institute study tried to gauge the probable impact that fraudulent mail-in ballots cast for both then-candidate Joe Biden and his opponent, President Donald Trump, would have had on the overall 2020 election results.
The study was based on data obtained from a Heartland/Rasmussen survey in December that revealed that roughly one in five mail-in voters admitted to potentially fraudulent actions in the presidential election.
After the researchers carried out additional analyses of the data, they concluded that mail-in ballot fraud “significantly” impacted the 2020 presidential election.
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New York Times Editorial Board Demands Biden ‘Do Better’ in Defending His Memory, Fitness for Office
The New York Times editorial board slammed President Biden’s press conference that he gave in response to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s assessment of his “poor memory.”
The editorial — published Friday — declared that Biden’s assurances during the presser that his memory is “fine” “didn’t work,” and that they raised “more questions” about his sharpness.
The board then advised Biden that he needs to “do better” to convince the American people that he’s up to the job, especially as former President Trump has a “very real chance of retaking the White House.”
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New: Donald Trump Gives ‘Shoutout’ to Triggered TDS Protester Who Became Meme After 2016 Election
At a rally for former President Donald Trump’s campaign, while he was retelling his election victory, recalled the woman that eventually became a famous meme who cried out screaming when he was inaugurated.
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See: Map of Soros’s Million-Dollar Prosecutors
A pro-police legal group made public on Wednesday its map of 27 left-leaning prosecutors funded by the soft-on-crime network funded by Democratic megadonor George Soros.
Building on its project to identify Soros-funded prosecutors, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund interactive map shows donations and key stories about the 27 targets.
In March 2023, the group released its bare-bones map of where the Soros prosecutors are located. Wednesday’s map provides more details on the highest-profile favorites of the Soros organization.
The legal group said it is working to identify and map some 70 prosecutors who received $50 million in campaign donations. LELDF has argued that the prosecutors have followed a policy of releasing violent criminals and looking away at some crime.
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Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) on the floor of the Senate on Friday and on Saturday blasted the proposed $95 billion foreign aid package with the lion’s share going to Ukraine aid. One provision in particular he highlighted in the package, among many, included spending $238 million for “deployment of US troops. He filibustered the bill on Saturday for several hours.
During Friday’s session Lee took to the floor to point out various issues he took with HR 815, which is titled the “Removing Extraneous Loopholes Insuring Every Veteran Emergency Act or the RELIEVE Act.” The text of the bill on congress.gov still remains hidden from view. It is set to fund over $95 billion to aid for Ukraine, Israel, and in the Indo-Pacific.
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Supreme Court Rules Biden Administration Must Face False Debt Reporting Lawsuits
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 8 rejected an attempt by the Biden administration to avoid a lawsuit stemming from false debt reporting, with the landmark ruling opening the door for consumers to sue federal agencies.
In a 9-0 decision on Feb. 8, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government is not immune from lawsuits brought under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), a law that lets consumers sue creditors for failing to fix false credit information that the consumer has requested be corrected.
The ruling stems from a lawsuit brought under the FCRA by Reginald Kirtz, a Pennsylvania man whose credit score was damaged when the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Rural Housing Service wrongly stated on his credit report that some of his loans were overdue.
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Tech Executive Dies One Week After Vicious Washington, DC Beating, Suspect Remains at Large
A Virginia tech executive has died nearly one week after he got into a fight on a Washington, D.C. street — and the suspect remains at large.
Dr. Vivek “Vick” Taneja, 41, died Wednesday, WUSA9 reported.
Taneja was found on the pavement outside Shoto Restaurant, at around 2 a.m. on Feb. 2 by authorities responding to a report of an assault, according to the outlet.
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Trump’s Legal Team Blasts DA Fani Willis for ‘Outright Lie’ About Racial Remarks
President Donald Trump’s legal team has blasted Georgia’s radical Democrat prosecutor Fani Willis for promoting an “outright lie” about her critics.
Fulton County District Attorney Willis, who is leading a politically motivated get-Trump against the 45th president and others, initially responded to the impropriety and misconduct allegations against her with a speech disguised as a church sermon.
In the statement, Willis directly accused her accusers of racist motivations in their critiques of her case-related actions and decisions.
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Trump Draws Massive Crowd for Campaign Rally in Nikki Haley’s Home State South Carolina
On Saturday, former President Donald Trump drew a massive crowd while campaigning in GOP primary rival Nikki Haley’s home state of South Carolina.
On top of packing the arena on the campus of Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, the former president had hundreds of people outside in the overflow area watching on screens.
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Two More Research Misconduct Scandals Hit Harvard
Two new research misconduct allegations lodged against Harvard University scholars have been brought to light recently, bringing the total number of academic scandals the premiere Ivy League institution is grappling with to four over the span of just two months.
These latest allegations, which made headlines in recent weeks, implicate a top Harvard University neuroscientist and various researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
They came on the heels of a lengthy and detailed complaint of alleged plagiarism filed against Harvard University’s Diversity and Inclusion Officer Sherri Ann Charleston.
They also came after former Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned in early January amid numerous plagiarism accusations.
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A professor who sued UCLA after he was suspended in the wake of the George Floyd-Black Lives Matter riots after refusing a request to grade black students leniently will soon get his day in court.
UCLA accounting lecturer Gordon Klein is demanding well over $19 million in damages in a lawsuit scheduled to go to trial March 4 in a Santa Monica courthouse.
The two sides have engaged in legal wrangling since September 2021, when Klein first filed suit — including a failed attempt by UCLA’s lawyers to get the case tossed by summary judgment.
The causes of action to be hashed out next month are breach of contract, retaliation, false light, and negligent interference with prospective earnings.
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Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy doubled down on his theory that Democrats will swap out President Biden with Michelle Obama on their party’s ticket following the release of the special counsel’s report.
The bombshell findings from Special Counsel Robert Hur put a spotlight on Biden’s cognitive abilities, saying he would not bring charges against him in part because a jury would find him to be a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,” despite the acknowledgment that the classified documents were “willfully” obtained by Biden both as vice president and as a senator.
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Whistleblowers Rushing to Testify in Probe Over Fani Willis Misconduct Allegations: Report
Georgia legislators revealed whistleblowers are rushing to testify against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as lawmakers launch their investigation into misconduct allegations against the embattled prosecutor.
Republican Georgia state Sen. Bill Cowsert kicked off a state Senate Special Committee on Investigations’ meeting Friday by revealing that multiple employees from the DA’s office are eager to testify against their boss, who is prosecuting former President Donald Trump for election interference.
The Peach State lawmaker, however, insisted the probe has zero political motivations.
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Poilievre Pledges to End “Catch-and-Release” Bail Amid Growing Crime Wave
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he would implement mandatory minimum prison sentences for people convicted of extortion during a press conference in Surrey B.C., where organized crime against businesses has been on the rise.
Extortion increased by 218% since 2015, with violent crime increasing 39% over that same time period.
“In just eight years, there has been a terrifying increase of extortion across Canada. What happened eight years ago? Justin Trudeau was elected,” said Poilievre in a press release on Friday.
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It was recently revealed that Liberal Justice Minister Arif Virani’s government-issued vehicle had been stolen yet again, marking the third time in as many years that auto thieves have targeted the holder of that position.
During a press conference in Vancouver on Friday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre highlighted the “irony” of the situation given the Trudeau government’s soft-on-crime policies.
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AfD MEP Maximilian Krah: The German State Will Never Hold the US Accountable for Nord Stream Attacks
Maximilian Krah is a 47-year-old German Member of the European Parliament( MEP) for the conservative, anti-globalist Alternative for Germany (AFD), a party that sits with the Identity & Democracy (ID) grouping. Krah is the AfD’s top candidate for the upcoming European elections in June. He’s a practicing Catholic and has eight children.
In this interview with Voice of Europe, Krah discusses Tucker Carlson’s visit to Moscow to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as calls from EU globalist politicians to ban the American journalist from entering the bloc. He addresses a recent hit piece carried out by the Soros-backed propaganda outlet Correctiv against the AfD that precipitated large anti-AfD, anti-Right protests, the ruling traffic light coalition’s dismal polling numbers, and migrant rapes in the city of Regensburg.
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Greek Police Arrest Four Men After Explosion Near Ministry
Greek police announced on Saturday that they have arrested four men accused of possessing explosives, a week after a bomb exploded outside the labour ministry in Athens.
The bomb, which was placed in a backpack and hung on railings opposite the ministry, detonated on February 3 but did not cause any casualties. While the arrests were not initially tied to the blast, one of the suspects has been linked to an extremist group known as the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, which is an anarchist outfit that has previously been involved in letter bomb attacks.
Attacks on public establishments, banks, and diplomatic representations have been a recurring issue in Greece, typically attributed to extreme left-wing or anarchist movements.
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Hungarian President Katalin Novak resigned on Saturday after coming under mounting pressure for pardoning a man convicted of helping to cover up sexual abuse in a children’s home.
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Hungarian President Katalin Novak Resigns
Hungarian President Katalin Novak announced her resignation Saturday following outrage sparked by a decision to pardon a man convicted of covering up child sexual abuse.
“I am speaking to you for the last time today as head of state. I am resigning from the office of president of the republic,” Katalin Novak said in a speech on Saturday, acknowledging that she had made “a mistake.”
“I apologise to those who I hurt and all the victims who may have had the impression that I did not support them. I am, I was and I will remain in favour of protecting children and families,” Novak, 46, said.
The controversy was sparked by the pardon given last April, amid a visit by Pope Francis to Budapest, to a former deputy director of a children’s home who helped to cover up his boss sexually abusing children and adolescents there.
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Italy: Fascist Salute Crime if Endangers Public Order — Top Court PG
Cassation Court set to rule later Thursday
The fascist salute falls within the punitive perimeter of the ‘Mancino law’ banning apology for fascism and the reconstitution of the Fascist Party when it poses a concrete danger to public order, the supreme court’s Prosecutor General and Attorney Genera Pietro Geta said Thursday.
Hundreds of neofascists recently made the salute at a commemoration of the anniversary of a 1978 Rome attack by far left militants in which three teen neofascist militants lost their lives.
Some government members said in the wake of the highly publicised incident that the salute was not always a crime.
Gaeta made his statement to the Cassation Court in a case in which the high court is set to clear up the interpretation of fascist salutes.
The Cassation Court ruling is expected later Thursday.
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Italy: Deal Signed for 40,000 Family Doctors
3.8% pay increase plus arrears, more maternity leave
A deal was signed by the government and doctors’ groups Thursday that will give a 3.78% pay increase to some 40,000 Italian family doctors.
The national collective agreement for general medicine and continuity of care 2019-2021 has been signed, said Domenico Proietti, secretary general of the Uil-Fpl doctors union.
He said “it is an important agreement that affects about 40,000 general medicine doctors and more than 10,000 MdCA (formerly on-call doctors), which had expired six years ago”.
The agreement, said Proietti, which comes after two years of work, “is an important result and provides for contractual increases of 3.78% with the relevant arrears and greater protection on maternity regulations”.
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Italy: Govt Approves Creation of Foibe Remembrance Museum
Act of ‘historical duty’ says Culture Minister Sangiuliano
Premier Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet on Wednesday approved the creation of a Museum of Remembrance of the Foibe, the massacre of the thousands of Italians and the forced exile of others by Tito’s partisans in ethnic cleansing at the end of World War II.
The ‘foibe’ refers to mass killings of the local Italian population, mainly in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia during and after the war.
Foibe are narrow Carsic pits or gorges into which victims were thrown, sometimes alive.
The new museum was proposed by Meloni and Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano.
“The creation of the museum is a historical duty towards the Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian exiles who suffered under Tito’s communist dictatorship,” said Sangiuliano after the cabinet meeting.
“These tragedies must not be forgotten.
They are an important part of Italian history and must be known and understood by the new generations”.
He said the Lazio region, which Rome belongs to, has pledged to make a building available for the museum.
Many of the ‘foibe’ victims were thrown into the narrow mountain gorges during anti-Fascist uprisings in the area and the exact number of victims of these atrocities is unknown, in part because Tito’s forces destroyed local population records to cover up their crimes.
Italy did not have a Foibe Remembrance Day, held on February 10, until 2005, as the tragedy had been swept under the carpet by anti-Fascists in the postwar years.
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Poland: The Farmers’ Protest in Wroclaw is Ongoing, Causing Disruptions Until February 19th
In Wroclaw, Poland, farmers are protesting against the “Green Deal” and pushing for trade regulations with Ukraine. This protest could persist until February 19th.
While the scale is smaller than Friday’s protests, they continue to block one lane on al. Jana III Sobieskiego, reports RMF24.
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Polish Farmers Stand Up to Brussels in Nationwide Protests
Polish farmers, keeping good on their promise to carry out nationwide protests in response to the catastrophic impact of EU ‘green’ policies, have kicked off a month-long strike, blocking roads across the country as well as border crossings with Ukraine.
As has been witnessed in France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, and elsewhere in recent days and weeks, columns of slow-moving, horn-honking tractors manned by righteously indignant farmers clogged thoroughfares as they descended on more than 250 locations across Poland on Friday, February 9th.
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Spain: Farmers Face Heavy Fines as Weekend Protest Converges on Socialist Headquarters
As farmer demonstrations in Spain went into their third day on Friday, protesters have accused the government of illegally impeding their movement.
Country-wide protests by farmers driving their tractors into cities started on Wednesday, February 6th. Farmers blocked traffic and gathered outside government buildings in major cities, including numerous provincial capitals. State security forces in many places prevented demonstrations, with “express orders to impose high fines,” according to El Mundo.
The largest demonstration took place In Barcelona, Spain’s second city and an important port, where about two thousand tractors blocked the highways into the Catalan capital throughout the day. Regional president Pere Aragonès met with farmers together with his minister of climate action for 90 minutes to hear their demands.
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Spanish Police Scuffle With Farmers, Truck Drivers on Fifth Day of Protests
MADRID (Reuters) — Spanish police on Saturday clashed with a group of farmers and truck drivers in Madrid as they tried to access a main road in a bid to block it, one of several protests sweeping the European Union against the bloc’s environmental rules and what workers see as excessive taxes and red tape.
A group representing drivers, Plataforma Nacional, and a newly created farmers’ group, Plataforma 6-F, on Saturday came together to jointly demand action from Spanish and European leaders. They claim rules to protect the environment make them less competitive compared to other regions.
Members of both groups, waving Spanish flags, wearing yellow vests and shouting ‘Viva Espana’, gathered in a car park near the Atletico de Madrid stadium and voted in favour of joining forces. They will protest together from now on.
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Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news
The London acid attacker is nowhere to be found, which police being ridiculed for saying he could be “north, south, east, west or abroad”.
12 people were injured, including two children, when Abdul Ezedi threw a “corrosive substance” at them in Clapham, south London last week.
Police initially failed to put out a proper description of the suspect for nearly 24 hours, and he has been on the loose ever since.
Now authorities are facing ridicule for basically admitting they have no idea where Ezedi has gone.
“He could have gone north, he could have gone east, south, west, or he could have gone abroad,” said Metropolitan Police Cmdr Savile, adding that his body could also be in the River Thames.
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UK Home Office Staff Invited to Celebrate ‘World Hijab Day’, Claims Whistleblower
A Home Office whistleblower has claimed that the UK government department urged staff to celebrate “World Hijab Day” while claiming that the Islamic headdress is a “personal choice”, despite its own refugee guidance stating that many women face “persecution” for refusing to wear the religious garb and are therefore entitled to asylum status in Britain.
An email reportedly sent to civil servants from the Home Office’s Islamic Network (HOIN), a group of Muslim volunteers among the department’s staff, extolled the virtuous aspects of the Islamic Hijab, claiming that it was “brought to women as a way of protection” and that it was not the case that men force women into wearing the headdress but rather that “many Muslim women choose to wear the hijab for various reasons, and mainly to grow closer to their faith and Allah.”
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Little Hind Rajab had phoned rescue workers pleading for help after her family’s car came under fire in Gaza City after reportedly encountering Israeli forces during their war with Hamas.
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has issued a warning regarding the potential consequences of any Israeli incursion into Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip.
As cited by Haberler, Saudi Arabia adamantly rejects and condemns the forced displacement of civilians from Rafah, reiterating its call for an immediate cease-fire. The kingdom underscores the urgent need for the UN Security Council to convene to prevent Israel from precipitating a humanitarian crisis in the region. This ongoing violation of international law underscores the shared responsibility of those supporting the aggression.
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Turkey Aims to Achieve “Complete Energy Independence, “ President Erdogan Asserts
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey declared on Saturday that the nation’s primary objective is to achieve “complete energy independence,” reports Anadolu Agency.
“Our main goal is to achieve complete independence in energy. We are determined and courageously implementing initiatives that will guarantee Turkey’s energy security,” Erdogan stated during a speech at a gathering held in Zonguldak, a province in Turkey’s Black Sea region.
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Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson branded Tucker Carlson a “traitor to journalism” and asserted that his Vladimir Putin interview was “straight out of Hitler’s playbook” after the Russian strongman accused Johnson of scuppering a peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv during the early days of the war in 2022.
Responding to the interview with Putin, which he compared to interviews conducted with Adolph Hitler in 1940, Boris Johnson wrote in his column in the Daily Mail that the interview was “straight out of Hitler’s playbook” and that Tucker Carlson served as a “stooge of the tyrant, the dictaphone to the dictator and a traitor to journalism,” adding: “In his fawning, guffawing, slack-jawed happiness at having a ‘scoop’, he betrayed his viewers and listeners around the world.”
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Putin Claims Russia Won’t Invade Poland to Start WW3, Says NATO Using Him to ‘Extort’ Taxpayers
A war between Moscow and NATO, a subject of frequent speculation among NATO leaders in recent months, would bring “all humanity to the brink of destruction” and consequently the Russian Federation is not interested in invading Poland, President Putin has claimed.
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Russian Drone Strike on Kharkiv Kills at Least Seven People
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, killed at least seven people overnight, including three children, Kharkiv region governor Oleh Syniehubov reported Saturday.
He said the Iranian-made Shahed drone hit civilian infrastructure in the Nemyshlyan district on the city, causing a massive fire that burned down 15 private houses.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said more than 50 people had been evacuated and that emergency workers had contained the blaze by Saturday morning.
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Russia Increases Drone Production During Ukraine War: Defense Minister
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu revealed his nation has increased its production of military drones over the past year, but it still needs to overcome some tech issues, according to footage published by his department Saturday.
Russia has regularly used drones during a two-year war on Ukraine, but has often resorted to deploying cheap, Iranian-made Shahed UAVs.
“The production capacities that have been created allow us to complete most of the tasks that we are faced with today,” Shoigu said during a tour of drone production facilities in the central Russian region of Udmurtia.
During a meeting with officials, Shoigu said that Russia still had to tackle issues regarding electronic warfare and using artificial intelligence in drones.
In recent months, Moscow has been hinting that it had ramped up drone production as it looks to break its deadlock on the battlefield with Ukrainian forces.
| — Hat tip: Dean | [Return to headlines] |
Passenger Dies Mid-Flight After Liters of ‘Blood Erupts From His Mouth and Nose’
A passenger on board a Lufthansa flight from Thailand to Germany died Thursday, after his fellow travelers watched in horror as blood gushed out of his mouth and nose.
The unidentified 63-year-old German man was seen boarding the Airbus A380 in Bangkok shortly before midnight visibly sick, with “cold sweats” and “breathing much too quickly,” Karin Missfelder recounted to Swiss German outlet Blick.
At first, she said, his wife claimed they had to rush to catch the flight — which is why he wasn’t feeling well.
But after watching the man for a few moments, Missfelder — who is a nursing specialist at University Hospital in Zurich — said she informed a flight attendant that he needed to be examined by a doctor.
A young Polish man answered the call, but he reportedly only asked the man how he was feeling, felt his pulse and said he was OK.
“They gave him a little chamomile tea, but he already spit blood into the bag that his wife held out to him,” said Missfelder’s husband, Martin.
Soon, blood started spilling out of his mouth and nose.
“It was absolute horror, everyone was screaming,” Martin said.
He claimed that the man lost liters of blood, some of which splattered the walls of the plane.
For about half an hour afterward, flight attendants tried to perform CPR — even as the nurse said she knew it was hopeless.
When he finally went still and the captain announced the man’s death, “it was dead quiet on board,” she said.
Staff then carried the man’s body into the galley of the plane, as it turned and headed back to Thailand.
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Commonwealth Bank announced last week that it would close three more branches before March 1, including Rundle Mall in Adelaide , Coolangatta on the Gold Coast and Coogee in Sydney ‘s east.
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Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa has been charged with attempted murder, assault, attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon. He will be tried as an adult in court
| — Hat tip: SS | [Return to headlines] |
Denver Mayor Blames Republicans and Trump for $5M Cuts to Pay for Migrant Crisis
Denver is cutting $5 million from public services used by its residents in order to pay for its spiraling illegal immigration costs, with the city’s mayor pinning the blame on Republicans and former President Donald Trump.
Mayor Mike Johnston, a Democrat, announced on Friday that hours will be cut at recreation centers, and in-person vehicle registration renewals at the DMV will end, while the planting of spring flower beds will also be stopped to save the much-needed cash.
The cuts follow the mayor’s decision last month to divert $25 million from the city budget to the migrant crisis. That plan included pulling $10 million from a contingency fund and $15 million from a building remodel. Those actions followed the city’s decision to hold many positions vacant and review new or expanded contracts and programs.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
EU Approves Migration Pact; Central Europeans Call it “Serious Violation of Sovereignty”
A qualified majority of EU ambassadors have approved a provisional deal reached in December between the European Council presidency and the European Parliament on the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact. The deal, fine-tuned and adopted on Thursday, February 8th, is strongly opposed by Central European countries, as it essentially attempts to ‘manage— not stop—migration, forcing member states to accept unwanted migrants or pay a fine.
“We Slovaks, Hungarians, and Poles, voted against legislative acts that speak of so-called solidarity. Unfortunately, we were overruled by several member states,” Slovak Interior Minister Matús Šutaj Estok said of the deal that includes a ‘mandatory solidarity mechanism’—forcing countries to choose between accepting migrants or paying hefty sums into a common fund.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Matteo Gazzini is a 38-year-old Italian Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the center-right Forza Italia, a party that sits in the European People’s Party (EPP). Before joining Forza Italia late last year, he was a member of Matteo Salvini’s Lega (ID). Outside of politics, Gazzini is a pilot and real estate entrepreneur.
In this interview with Voice of Europe, Gazzini speaks, among other things, of the reasons why he left Lega, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s plan to stop mass migration into Italy, her unkept campaign promises, his new party Forza Italia, and the recent gang rape of a 13-year-old Italian schoolgirl by 7 illegal immigrants from Egypt.
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GOP Senators Block McConnell’s Migration Bailout for Sanctuary Cities
GOP Senators blocked a hidden migration bailout for the Democrats’ sanctuary cities and states when they voted against the border bill pushed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
The GOP revolt leaves Democrat mayors and city politicians scrambling for funds they need to support and hide President Joe Biden’s growing population of poor migrants during the 2024 election year.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
New York Dem Governor Gives Illegal Immigrants Welfare Benefits
The state of New York is giving thousands of illegal immigrants, with pending asylum applications, payments under its Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) “Safety Net Assistance” (SNA) program after a rule change in May of last year.
According to its website, SNA is available to “Non-citizens who are eligible for TA, but who are not eligible for federal reimbursement.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
— Video shows dozens being welcomed to Christianity off windy beach amid fears conversions are used to support bogus claims to stay in UK
A church minister last night revealed he has baptised up to 500 asylum seekers in the sea — but more than half disappeared after their Christian conversion.
Pastor Phylip Rees told the Mail on Sunday that he arranged mass baptisms of migrants on a beach in South Wales during winter months as a ‘litmus test’ of their faith.
An extraordinary video posted on YouTube shows up to 40 asylum seekers being baptised on a windy beach in Barry Island.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
France: LGBT Activist Appointed Deputy Minister for Family
A deputy minister for children and family has returned to the structure of government, with an LGBT activist in the role. After painstaking negotiations, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal—who took office on January 9th—has made a second wave of ministerial appointments.
Élisabeth Borne’s previous government did not include a secretariat of state or a ministry responsible for the family—proof of how little Emmanuel Macron’s teams valued the family as a political concern. Gabriel Attal is resurrecting the job, but the choice of the incumbent has all the makings of a provocation.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
‘Gender Affirming Therapy’ Does Not Help Youth Mental Health: American College of Pediatricians
On Wednesday, the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) said “There is no long-term evidence that mental health concerns are decreased or alleviated after ‘gender-affirming therapy,’“ after it reviewed more than 60 studies on the effectiveness of sex changes on minors.
In a statement, The ACPeds revealed, “Adolescents who have a gender identity not congruent with their biological sex have an increased incidence of mental health issues, including depression and suicidal ideation.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Photos: Elon Musk Tweets Out ‘Racist, Sexist, Discriminatory Laws Enforced by Disney’s DEI Gestapo’
Billionaire Elon Musk this week shared photos of what he claimed were Disney’s alleged Diversity, Equity, Inclusion policies that he referred to as “mandatory, institutionalized racism and sexism.”
Musk said he received the purported policies for Disney’s “General Entertainment Content” from an “anonymous source” as he shared the photos on his platform X. Disney General Entertainment (DGE) includes the company’s many television brands, including ABC, ABC News, FX Networks, Hulu Originals, and National Geographic. As noted by The Epoch Times, a “one-page document uploaded on Disney’s ‘Reimagine Tomorrow’ website—a campaign launched in 2021 to amplify ‘underrepresented voices’—appears to include the same list of inclusion standards.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Planned Parenthood Recommends Toddlers be Asked if They Are ‘A Boy or a Girl’ by Parents
Planned Parenthood has published parental guidance on gender identity that encourages asking toddlers between the ages of 1 and 3 how they identify.
The guidance titled “4 Facts You Need to Know About Your Kids, Gender Identity and Being Trans,” which is listed on Planned Parenthood’s website under “gender identity,” states as a “fact” that “gender identity, for everyone, is formed in the toddler years.”
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“According to an NBC News poll, almost 90% of Americans are concerned that President Joe Biden is too senile for a second term as president.”
“Prediction: If elected, I think there’s a possibility that Joe “running for US Senate” Biden might put on his hat one day and just walk away, vanishing into the DC streets…” —posted to fb (Apr 2020)
“Joe vanishing into the DC streets.” If he was to do this then he would be robbed and beaten up within 5 minutes.
“If he was to do this then he would be robbed and beaten up within 5 minutes.”
Karma doesn’t have a menu, you get served what you deserve.
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Sunday column:
“The world’s best Carlson” *)
Published on February 11, 2024 by Karl-Olov Arnstberg
from Swedish by LN
Today it will be an American focus, but the column is just as valid for Sweden, with the addition that unfortunately we have no journalist of Tucker Carlson’s kind in Sweden. There are some who are on the same line, but the Swedish media ignores them, which the American mainstream media cannot do with Tucker Carlson. Since his time as a news anchor on Fox News, his following is too large.
At the time of writing, Tucker Carlson has released a two-hour and seven-minute interview with Vladimir Putin on his own website. It has been preceded by a huge media frenzy. American mainstream media are calling Tucker Carlson a traitor and Putin lover.
https://rumble.com/v4c9a1i-exclusive-tucker-carlson-interviews-vladimir-putin.html
Hillary Clinton calls him the Kremlin’s useful idiot.
https://swebbtube.se/w/jyxq6ghnTa1fQ5Cqg9zPVo
Carlson has previously tried to go to Moscow for an interview, but claims he was stopped by the US government. One wonders why he is so excited about interviewing Putin. That’s what journalists do – or are expected to do. Dan Rather interviewed Saddam Hussein, Robert Fisk interviewed Osama bin Laden and Barbara Walters interviewed both Fidel Castro and Moammar Khadaffi. SVT’s Stina Dabrowski also interviewed Gaddafi.
Putin has also been interviewed several times in the past by American journalists. John Daniszewski did it for AP News in 2014, Charlie Rose did it the following year for 60 Minutes and Megyn Kelly in 2017 for NBC. Add to that film director Oliver Stone’s interviews. There are more examples, but all before the invasion of Ukraine.
In a short piece from Moscow, which Tucker Carlson posted on his own website, he says that he is not doing the interview because he loves Putin, but because he loves America and that this is what a journalist is supposed to do: inform on important issues. Briefly, but also mercilessly, he states that journalists are corrupt when they only serve the American people with pro-government propaganda.
This is why Americans in general have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine or what he wants to achieve. They are entitled to accurate information about a war in which they are involved and which they are paying for. Tucker Carlson concludes, “You have the right to free and accurate information so that as a free citizen, not someone’s slave, you can make your own decisions.”
Big CNN, which broadcasts news 24 hours a day, calls Tucker a “far right journalist” and very mockingly reports that the interview gives Putin a chance to sit down with a big fan. I check the first ten of 6,765 comments and they all go in Tucker’s favor. Some examples:
Cleaners and toilet paper should be plentiful in liberal media newsrooms, as they spread their verbal diarrhea all over the US.
About the CNN news reporter: This lady is leaning hard on the hope that her audience is ignorant of the reason why there is a war in Ukraine. Her bitterness can also be explained by the fact that Tucker gets more views per video than CNN’s daily viewers.
He is not a Putin supporter, he is an unbiased journalist, which you are not, he gives both sides of the story and finds out what the people need. Your propaganda does not.
I also watch how another major media channel reports, MSNBC. They too are broadcasting news around the clock. There, too, the comments are contemptuous. When Biden’s political advisor Jen Psaki is put on the air: That woman doesn’t have to die in these wars. She is perfectly fine with sending other people’s children to endless and pointless wars.
The American-Polish journalist Anne Applebaum, whom the Swedish Dagens Nyheter culture editorial team deeply admires and is happy to publish, tweets: “Tucker Carlson has been useful to Viktor Orbán because he helps him hide his corruption behind the term ‘culture war’, which I wrote about in September. Now Carlson is in Moscow doing the same service for a much bloodier and even more dangerous autocrat.
Aftonbladet is also critical, quoting a Norwegian professor of political science who calls Tucker Carlson an anti-Western ultra-nationalist: “Who would have thought that the American right would go over politically to America’s arch-enemy in the last 80 years? It’s like pissing on Ronald Reagan’s grave.
Under the headline “Fired TV personality interviewed Putin”, Dagens Nyheter published on Thursday TT’s announcement that the Kremlin has confirmed that Tucker Carlson interviewed Putin. Last sentence: He is known for spreading conspiracy theories and false information about COVID-19 and the capitol storm.
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Western journalists have virtually feasted on completely uncritical and admiring interviews with Zelensky, while not a single one of them has managed to interview Putin since the war started two years ago.
Almost every time, Zelensky repeats his most important argument for getting support in the form of weapons and money: “If Putin wins, Europe is threatened.” I believe he says that, but why is it him and not Putin who is being interviewed? There is no one better than Putin to explain why Russia invaded Ukraine.
Incidentally, we know what Putin demanded in order to sign a peace agreement just over a month after the invasion. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet negotiated a peace agreement in Istanbul. Russia would withdraw if it retained control of part of the Donbass region and all of Crimea, i.e. ethnically Russian and Russian-speaking parts of eastern and southern Ukraine. In exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership. A meeting between Putin and Zelensky was about to be arranged, where they were expected to sign this agreement. Then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson showed up, like the old man in the box. On behalf of the US, he called on Zelensky to resign because Putin was a war criminal. In addition, the US and UK threatened to turn their backs on Ukraine. No more money. This made the choice easy for Zelensky.
Boris Johnson is complicit in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of young people in a war that Ukraine never had a chance to win, despite NATO, despite EU support, despite a big strong USA. As I write this, over a thousand Ukrainian soldiers are being killed or injured every week.
Boris Johnson’s efforts were not reported in the Swedish media until SvD became aware of them through an article in the Ukrainian Pravda a few months later. They then quoted a call from Boris Johnson on April 6 to the Russian people to learn the truth about the war. There is no indication that SvD reporter Jan Majlard understood the extent of what he was reporting on. He devoted most of his article to what would happen to Boris Johnson in England after “Partygate”.
Here it is appropriate to quote a letter written by the author Pirkko Lindberg from October 18, 2022 in the Finnish Swedish-language newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet:
– Why can we not read about why the two Minsk agreements disappeared into thin air? Minsk I was signed by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics in September 2014. Minsk II was negotiated by Germany and France and signed in February 2015 by Russia and Ukraine. It provided for the withdrawal of heavy artillery from the frontline in return for greater autonomy for eastern Ukraine.
– Why has it not been reported that during his unannounced visit to Kiev on April 9, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in his meeting with President Zelensky, asked him not to continue with the peace talks going on in Turkey, claiming that Putin must be defeated? This was reported by the Ukrainian news media Ukrajinska Pravda, quoting officials from the Ukrainian President’s office.
– Why aren’t the headlines reporting that 66 nations, representing more than half the world’s population, at the UN General Assembly meeting in September, urged diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine through peaceful negotiations?
– Why are the media not reporting that professors, lawyers, economists and other intellectuals from around the world have issued an appeal for peace. They call for diplomacy and talks to avert a third world war with nuclear weapons. This includes the escalating conflict between the US and China.
– Why is it not reported that former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, proposes that the US and NATO offer to withdraw their bases in return for Russia leaving Ukraine in peace?
/…/ Surely it must be possible to report such things in the Finnish media without being labeled as Russian propaganda.
There were many “whys”.
Here is another one: Why did the US government stop Tucker Carlson’s earlier attempt to get an interview with Putin? I also have an answer: The West risked losing control of the narrative. They did not want Tucker Carlson to show their lies through an interview with Putin.
The biggest and most dangerous of all the lies that the media and politicians spread about what Putin and Russia want to do is that if Putin wins the war against Ukraine, he will continue to take the Baltic states, Finland, Sweden and certainly all of Europe.
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This is not true.
If it were, Putin would have started with Georgia, which gained full independence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Russia did not accept Georgia’s ambition to become a NATO member. The confrontation with Moscow ended in 2008 with a war in which Russia forced Georgia to postpone its application for NATO membership. Although Russia controls the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Georgia remains an autonomous republic. It would not have been if the Western narrative of Putin’s imperial dreams had been true.
That Russia does not threaten Europe is also confirmed in Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin. Putin says that the Kremlin “has no interest in invading Poland, Latvia or any other country”. He also says that the war in Ukraine could be over in a few weeks if the West stops supporting the Kiev regime.
When it comes to the Swedish media’s totally government-loyal and thus grossly untruthful reporting, it is perhaps most puzzling that they report day in and day out about Sweden and NATO without asking the question what happens to NATO after Ukraine has surrendered?
So what is the point of Sweden and other countries being members? Two NATO countries are already more on Russia’s side than on NATO’s: Hungary and Slovakia. I am not alone in believing that NATO is a dinosaur that will be consigned to history. So Sweden’s much sought-after membership may be short-lived.
Something that could also pull the rug out from under NATO is if Donald Trump wins the election this fall. At the Davos meeting in January 2020, he said “the US will never help Europe if it is attacked. We will leave NATO, which is already dead.”
The Biden government’s lack of concern for Europe was made crystal clear by the sabotage of Nord Stream. Germany accepted both the cover-up and the recession into which it fell. When I watch Wednesday’s Rapport, on the occasion of Sweden closing its investigation of Nord Stream, they broadcast a long feature with the almost ridiculous hypothesis that the attack was carried out by a sailboat. SvD writes much the same with the addition that it may be the Russians who are behind it. Not a word about the most likely, that the US carried out the terrorist bombing, after a promise from none other than Joe Biden that it would happen.
Although Israel is not a member of NATO, its war against Hamas also threatens NATO, as there is a risk that the major NATO member Turkey will be drawn into the war on the side of Hamas. With the US on Israel’s side, what happens then?
What of this is discussed in the Swedish media? Nada, nada, nada.
What Tucker Carlson says about American journalists also applies to Swedish ones: They are corrupt.
Karl-Olov Arnstberg
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“The worlds best Karlsson”
beautiful, kind, fairly thick Karlsson,
wise, wonderful Karlsson!
No wonder everyone likes me.
Of course it happens sometimes
that someone gets mad at me
and creates a heavenly life,
when I destroy something.
But what’s the fuss about,
it is a worldly thing!
And guess who comes here
and has an engine in the back
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Well-known fairy tale character by Astrid Lindgren
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A preemptive nuclear strike
us friends in between?
“Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map”
https://www.snaphanen.dk/2024/02/11/preemptive-strike/#more-201189
There hasn’t been a Soviet Union for many years.
“I am ready to serve. There’s no question about that.” —Kamala Harris (Feb 2024)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/kamala-harris-says-she-is-ready-to-serve-as-biden-faces-age-scrutiny-8f39c442
“Memo to The Blacktivist Queen: It’s time!
Declare Prince Aricept incompetent and get it over with. I know that’s The Plan, you know that’s The Plan and, most importantly, The Party put you in office to execute The Plan. I think you’re a commie-toddler bent on revolution, but at least you’re mentally competent. C’mon Kamala, it’s time.” —posted to fb (June 2021)