Farmers’ protests against the EU’s green policies continue in Spain and Greece, while new actions have been mounted in Wales and Czechia. All of these demonstrations involve tractors blocking streets in major cities.
In other news, 36% of Alaskans support the state’s secession from the United States to become an independent nation.
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Westpac CEO Shares Proof Aussies Are Really Struggling With the Cost of Living Crisis
Westpac chief executive Peter King has revealed mortgage defaults were getting worse. An increasing number of borrowers are 90 days behind on their mortgage obligations.
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“12 Fellas Down. 1 to Go”: Nikki Haley Has Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Weekend on Social Media
The only thing more hilarious than Nikki Haley continuing to remain in the 2024 presidential race despite zero chance of winning is her completely inept social media team — which suggested she’s more than just a whore for the military-industrial complex.
In Sunday afternoon tweet, ‘Haley’ let the world know: “12 fellas down. 1 to go.”
While we’re sure whatever 22-year-old feminist wrote that had the best intentions, that’s not how it came off…
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5 Bikers Attacked by Cougar in Washington; 60-Year-Old Woman Injured
SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — A group of bikers was attacked by a cougar, and then managed to pin it down in Washington over the weekend.
News of a cougar attack has been startling to those hitting the trails there, KING reported.
“Definitely shocked, never heard of attack of cyclist, I thought they mostly attacked hikers in remote areas of the wilderness,” cyclist Shalev Shahar said.
“It’s pretty surprising because I don’t worry about cougar attacks necessarily. They seem to be pretty rare,” cyclist Tara Beitler said.
But early Saturday afternoon, a cougar attack on a group of five cyclists injured a 60-year-old woman. Her fellow bikers pinned down the cougar until a Washington Fish and Wildlife agent was able to get there.
“They did struggle with this animal; they did fight back, and if it wasn’t for those people, the lady attacked would be in much worse shape,” Sgt. Carlo Pace said.
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Alaska Secession Calls Grow as More Than a Third Want State to Leave US
Some 36 percent of Alaska residents would support the state breaking away from the United States and becoming a fully independent nation, according to a new poll.
The result made Alaskans the most likely to support their state seceding from the Union, with the result substantially above the national average of 23 percent. The survey of 35,307 U.S. adults was conducted by YouGov between February 2 and 5. Those questioned were asked whether they would “support your state seceding from the U.S.?”
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Almost 1 in 4 AZ Republicans Wants to Secede From the U.S.
Nearly one in four Arizona Republicans think the Grand Canyon State should secede from the United States, a recent poll found.
Online pollster YouGov surveyed more than 35,000 U.S. adults in 46 states earlier this month and found that just about a quarter of Americans said they would support their state seceding, ranging from less than 10% in Connecticut to 36% in Alaska.
There are some pretty obvious trends in the data, chief among them that “larger” states — be that in population or geography — are the most willing to secede. Alaska leads the way with 36%, followed by 31% in Texas and 29% in California.
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Americans Believe Trump Will Win 2024 Election, Poll Shows
American voters believe that President Donald Trump will win the 2024 general election, according to a new poll.
The poll, which comes from the Economist and YouGov, reveals that far fewer Americans believe that Democrat President Joe Biden will secure his re-election.
The pollster surveyed 1,671 U.S. Adult Citizens between Feb. 11 and Feb. 13, 2024.
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Black Activist Lawyer’s Idea to Stop Law-Breaking: Just Legalize Crime
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news
During a recent appearance on MSNBC, a black activist lawyer suggested that crime in the United States could be completely eliminated if all crime was just legalized.
Yes, really.
The comments were made by Ben Crump, who specializes in civil rights cases and was the attorney for the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
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During the NBC All-Star Game in Indianapolis over the weekend, commentator Charles Barkley and his co-anchors got into a lively debate over whether they’d rather host the event there, or in San Francisco.
While the Indiana capital was called out for its less-than-desirable weather, Barkley pointed to the rampant crime and degeneracy currently infesting the City by the Bay.
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Chicago Hit by Surging Violence From Criminals Out on Probation and Parole
By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner of Wirepoints
One thing Chicagoans can’t help but notice when scrolling through news feeds: the number of violent crimes committed by defendants while they were out either on parole, probation or awaiting trial.
That’s not surprising given the long-term decarceration trend in Cook County that’s left the county’s jail population at the lowest level in 40 years. Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans started a no bail/low cash bail policy in 2017, resulting in a growing number of pretrial defendants out on bond who are then charged with new crimes, as we reported here. The state’s new SAFE-T Act has taken that policy even further. In September 2023, Illinois became the first state in the country to eliminate cash bail altogether, while the law also reduced the types of crimes for which defendants could be detained before their trial.
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COVID Vaccine Shedding is ‘Real’, FDA & Pfizer Documents Are Proof: Clinicians
Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
The topic of COVID-19 vaccine shedding has long been controversial, but now, some doctors say it is real.
“Shedding is unfortunately real,” said Dr. Pierre Kory at the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in early February. “The FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) knows that.”
Dr. Kory is a co-founder of the FLCCC, a non-profit advocacy group founded by physicians for the treatment of COVID-19, long COVID, and postvaccine syndromes. He is also the co-founder of the Leading Edge Clinic and has treated over a thousand long-COVID and postvaccine patients.
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Crew Busted for Using Drones to Try to Drop Drugs Into West Virginia Federal Prison
Drugs and drones could land this group of alleged dealers in jail.
West Virginia authorities nabbed 11 suspects, including one minor, after they launched a wide-scale probe last year into drones attempting to drop off drugs at a federal prison.
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Critic of Illinois Mayor Tiffany Henyard Believes Embattled Pol Ordered Shooting at Her Home
A vocal critic of embattled mayor Tiffany Henyard believes her home was sprayed with bullets at the behest of the official during a bitter feud between them last summer.
Two cars belonging to tenants of former Village of Dolton Trustee Valeria Stubbs, a retired member of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, were riddled with at least nine shots last July.
The raid, she believes, stemmed from her public attacks on Henyard, who has been accused of plundering the debt-ridden Illinois town’s coffers to pay for lavish travel, dinners and personal indulgences.
Asked if she believes Henyard, 40, was behind the shooting, Stubbs didn’t hesitate.
“Absolutely,” she told The Post.
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Four United States senators went to the Munich Security Conference to hear Ukrainian soldiers and government official ask for more aid to the country in the war against Russia. They came back pitching Biden’s ask for $60 billion in war funding, but they couldn’t define what a victory would look like.
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Mark Warner (D-VA) were among the senators and other lawmakers who went traveled to the German city the to see what other demands for aid were being asked of the US, according to Politico.
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The contentious US surveillance program’s reauthorization faced a major setback over the last week. The United States House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) played a pivotal role in derailing the process, leading to a stalemate that hindered any progress before Congress’s focus shifts to the impending government shutdown in March.
Negotiations between opposing House committees unraveled on Wednesday when HPSCI members, instead of participating in a key meeting, chose to derail a pre-agreed plan for a “compromise” bill. This development came as a blow to months of efforts aimed at renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial intelligence tool that has, despite promises not to, has allowed the warrantless surveillance of US citizens.
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Driver’s Donut Stunt Crash Causes Power Outage for More Than 1K Cape Coral Homes
CAPE CORAL, Fla. — A driver doing donuts caused neighborhood blackouts. More than 1,000 people lost power in Cape Coral after a driver lost control in an intersection.
The crash happened Saturday around 7 p.m. on Oasis Boulevard and Beach Parkway W. Cape Coral Police officers on the scene told NBC2 someone lost control of their car while doing donuts at the intersection, struck a utility pole, continued up the front yard of a residence and then struck an LCEC power control box. People living in the area say it sounded like an explosion.
Officers told NBC2 there were four people in the car and at least three were taken to the hospital. NBC2 reached out to CCPD to check on their condition and to see if anyone will be facing charges. They have not yet responded.
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Freelance Reporter Threatened to ‘Kill Every Jew’ and Shoot Pro-Israel US Officials: Court Docs
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A freelance reporter based in Fort Wayne, Indiana is facing up to five years in federal prison after allegedly threatening to “kill every Jew” in the city and “shoot every pro-Israel US government official,” according to a federal affidavit filed in court last week.
Jeffrey Stevens, 41, is charged with posting threats using interstate communications, which carries a maximum of five years in federal prison.
He was first reported to the FBI after “multiple concerning Facebook posts” following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, according to the affidavit.
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Ex-Secretary of State and failed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton apparently couldn’t pass up the opportunity to trash former President Donald Trump before an audience of Western defense leaders in Europe. A gathering of elite European defense bureaucrats is perhaps the only venue she remains ‘popular’.
Clinton said during a panel of the Munich Security Conference that if Trump enters the White House again he’ll seek to withdraw the United States from NATO. She told the international audience that Trump must be taken “literally and seriously” after he on the campaign trail blasted NATO countries for lagging behind on defense spending. For many years Trump has been consistent in his message of demanding alliance members fulfill their obligation of 2 percent.
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House Republicans have turned up the heat on Harvard, issuing subpoenas to multiple leaders for failing to produce documents as they stand accused of obstructing the House Education and Workforce Committee’s investigation into alleged antisemitism that reportedly emerged on campus with the Israel-Hamas war in the Middle East.
“We’re asking for things like minutes for the meetings they’re having. Their response to the antisemitism that’s going on,” Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, told Fox News on Sunday.
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House Republicans Accuse State Department of Threats to Obstruct Online Censorship Investigation
House Republicans are claiming that their investigation into government censorship of US companies is under threat by the State Department. The investigation has been focused on the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) providing financial support to the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a UK-based think tank, which has been accused of causing the blacklist of (largely conservative) media outlets from receiving advertising income.
Current evidence suggests that the Biden Administration may limit the Republican-led committee’s access to documentation solely to internal review, a move seen by lawmakers as a discreet obstruction to their investigation.
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How ‘Constitutional’ is Utah’s New Sovereignty Act?
A bill recently signed into law in Utah sets up a process for the state to overrule or otherwise ignore federal rules and decisions, the latest move in a Republican-led push against what they see as federal overreach.
The Utah bill, introduced as the “Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act,” was signed into law by Gov. Spencer Cox on January 31.
A bill recently signed into law in Utah sets up a process for the state to overrule or otherwise ignore federal rules and decisions, the latest move in a Republican-led push against what they see as federal overreach.
The Utah bill, introduced as the “Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act,” was signed into law by Gov. Spencer Cox on January 31.
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Joe Biden’s Brother Used Family Name to Gain Influence in Now-Bankrupt Hospital Scheme: Report
Uncovered emails reveal that President Joe Biden’s younger brother James used his name while he was the vice president to gain influence in the now-bankrupt Americore hospital chain.
According to POLITICO, former Americore executives said James would speak about plans to give the then-vice president equity into the company, place him on the board, and even promote the company during a presidential run.
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Jonathan Turley: Judge Has ‘Seen Enough’ to ‘Disqualify’ Fani Willis & Nathan Wade From Trump Case
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley has said he believes the judge overseeing allegations against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade has now “seen enough” to remove them from their case against President Donald Trump.
Turley, a George Washington University law professor, appeared on “Fox News Sunday” and detailed the “astonishing” facts he found within Willis and Wade’s case.
In particular, Turley highlighted last week’s testimony from Willis and Wade during their evidentiary hearing.
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Kamala Harris: Trump is ‘Bowing Down’ to Putin
Kamala Harris has appeared on national television and accused President Donald Trump of “bowing down” to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
For those unfamiliar with the name, Harris is the vice president.
She was also appointed as Democrat President Joe Biden’s so-called “border czar.”
However, as thousands of illegal aliens flood the Southern Border every single day, many Americans have been wondering where Harris has been for the past three years.
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Lawsuit Claims Fertility Doctor Used His Sperm for Insemination; 22 Half-Siblings Found
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A Connecticut woman and her mother are suing a New Haven fertility doctor for allegedly using his own sperm during insemination back in the 1980s.
“To think 10 to 15 years down the road from now, how many of us will there be?” said Janine Pierson, the woman who filed the lawsuit.
Pierson grew up as an only child, aware her parents went to a fertility doctor, but she said she thought her father’s sperm was used. As Pierson grew curious about her father’s heritage, she decided to take a 23andme DNA test in 2022, not knowing it would impact the rest of her life.
“I clicked on the relatives tab, and 19 half-siblings popped up,” Pierson said.
Pierson paused and remarked on the pain of reliving the moment. At first, she didn’t believe it, but she restarted her phone and found the same number: 19 half-siblings. (That number now stands at 22.) Pierson said her oldest sibling is 50, and her youngest is 35.
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Maura Healey, the Democrat governor of Massachusetts is being called on by educators to deploy National Guard troops to help quell the “chaos and violence” at a high school in the state.
Healey is under pressure to deploy National Guard troops to Brockton High School.
Teachers say the school is suffering from “shocking levels of chaos and violence” among the students there that require military intervention.
School officials warn that the violence has been posing serious security concerns over the past several months.
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Members of a Massachusetts high school committee sent a letter asking their mayor to deploy National Guard troops to rein in violent chaos on campus — spanning from daily brawls in the halls, to frequent drug use and fornication in empty classrooms.
“Recent events at Brockton High School have prompted us to seek immediate assistance to prevent a potential tragedy,” four members of the Brockton School Committee wrote in a February 15 letter.
“Over the past few months, our high school has experienced a disturbing increase in incidents related
to violence, security concerns, and substance abuse. The situation has reached a critical point, more recently we had an alarming 35 teachers absent, underscoring the severity of the challenges we are facing,” it continued.
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Meta is Expanding Its Controversial “Fact-Checking” Program to Other Platforms
Meta’s Threads — the X clone which cynics might call “the social platform nobody asked for” — and which few are (for some reason) using — is nonetheless implementing speech-restricting measures similar to those on Meta’s successful sites like Facebook or Instagram.
And so, those behind Threads are keeping themselves busy by “rolling out a fact-checking program,” said the reports.
They also allege that Threads is “distancing itself from politics” (how does any, even semi-free platform even manage to accomplish that? The answer seems to be — they don’t).
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New York Doubles Down on Democrats’ War on Gas Appliances
New York State is doubling down on the Democrats’ efforts to ban gas appliances in Americans’ homes in order to comply with green agenda goals to “fight climate change.”
The state’s Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul released her fiscal year 2025 budget on Monday which includes provisions for her administration’s “climate” agenda.
Gov. Hochul’s proposed budget includes provisions taken directly from the NY HEAT Act, also known as the Affordable Gas Transition Act, that further curb the public’s use of natural gas in the state.
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NYC Gucci Store Robbed in Broad Daylight by Brazen Gun-Toting Crew
A gun-toting crew pulled off a brazen broad-daylight heist at a Gucci store in Lower Manhattan on Monday — forcing the upscale shop to close for the rest of the day.
The three crooks are still on the loose after speeding away from the scene following the armed robbery at the 14th Street retailer around 12:10 p.m., according to police.
Two men and a woman stormed into the shop, displayed a gun and ordered the employees to get on the ground while they grabbed merchandise off the shelves, police said.
They then jumped into a Honda CRV and sped off westbound on 14th Street.
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Police Search for 20-Year-Old Virginia Tech Student Who Suddenly Vanished
A 20-year-old Virginia Tech student was reported missing after he suddenly vanished on Friday and has not been seen since.
Deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office are searching for Johnny Roop who was last seen at his apartment complex in Merrimac sometime Friday, the university said.
Roop was expected at his parent’s home in Abingdon by 5 p.m. that day to take an online exam but he never showed, according to the school officials.
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Republicans Raise Alarm Over ‘Unholy Alliance’ Between Leaders Schumer and McConnell
Republicans have begun raising the alarm over the “unholy alliance” that has formed between Senate leaders Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
A substantial portion of the GOP voter base has long accused Senate Republican Leader McConnell of ignoring their desires.
McConnell has, instead, been focusing on the wants of the Washington D.C. political establishment, otherwise known as the Uniparty, of which he is a member in good standing.
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Revealed: Suspect in Minnesota Cop Killing is a Left-Wing Felon Barred From Owning Guns
It’s been revealed that the suspected shooter that killed two cops and paramedic in Minnesota on Sunday was a left-wing felon who had previously had his gun rights stripped for crimes he committed in 2008.
Copies of a legal petition posted online for Shannon Gooden, who was also killed in the shootout, were submitted to a Minnesota court in 2020. They revealed that Gooden was convicted of felony assault charges in 2008 and had his gun rights stripped away.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis alleged Nikki Haley is currying favor with “very liberal Democrats” amid her ongoing bid for the GOP nomination.
The former Trump contender joined “One Nation with Brian Kilmeade” on Saturday where he claimed to have spotted interesting voters at some Iowa caucus sites last month.
“The thing was, is there were 7,000 Democrats who showed up and switched to Republican on the night of the caucus. I was at a couple of these caucus sites. These were very liberal Democrats. They had N-95 masks on. They had shirts that had liberal slogans on, and that was a core part of her strategy was to appeal to those people,” he said.
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Straphanger Beaten Unconscious by Stranger With Metal Pipe in Latest NYC Subway Violence: Cops
A Big Apple straphanger was repeatedly slammed in the head with a metal pipe at a Queens subway station — the latest example of the recent outburst of violence in the city’s troubled transit system.
The latest underground assault took place shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday at the Queensboro Plaza station when a thug walked up to the 31-year-old victim and struck him in the head “multiple times” in an unprovoked attack, according to police.
The bearded attacker then fled, leaving the victim unconscious.
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Dozens of Texas families are campaigning against uber-liberal Austin DA Jose Garza who they say is ‘revictimizing’ them after the deaths of their loved ones by not pursuing strict jail-time for their killers and attackers.
Over 70 survivors of rape and other violent crimes and the families of those killed in the Austin area have formed a group to air their grievances with Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza.
Backed by liberal billionaire George Soros, Garza swept into office in 2021 in a post George Floyd election — promising to prosecute bad cops and reform the justice system, especially for black and brown law breakers.
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A teacher’s assistant in a Texas high school died over the weekend after suffering head injuries during what the school called an “interaction” with a student. Alfred Jimenez, called Mr. Fred, died in the hospital after succumbing to his injuries. He was 73 years old and had worked with students who had learning and emotional disabilities at Brandeis High School since 2014.
The February 7 incident in which Jimenez suffered a head injury during the interaction is being investigated by Northside ISD police.
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Tinder and Other Dating Apps Fuelling Addiction, Lawsuit Claims
Six users of Tinder, Hinge and others have filed a lawsuit in San Francisco, claiming that these dating apps are designed to make their users addict. According to CBS News, the lawsuit was filed against Match Group Inc — the Dallas-based company that is owner of a bevy of dating platforms — on Valentine’s Day. In the 58-page complaint, the individuals have said that these apps “have altered social reality. A millennium of traditional courtship has been replaced by technology”.
The complaint further said that online dating has made it convenient for people seeking to find connection through relationships, but the users have paid a weighty price. “The truth is the apps are designed to be addictive.”
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Trump-Supporting Truckers Vow Their Boycott Could ‘Shut New York City Down’ After $355M Fraud Ruling
Truckers supporting Donald Trump are warning that their refusal to deliver to the Big Apple could paralyze New York City — as more drivers vow to join the boycott following the bombshell ruling in the former president’s civil fraud case.
“It could shut New York City down,” said Jennifer Hernandez, a trucker who has joined in the protest against Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s decision to fine Trump $355 million for inflating his net worth by billions to dupe banks and insurers.
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US Officials Concede No Active Surveillance on Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines
Authored by Megan Redshaw via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
In a Feb. 15 hearing by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, U.S. health officials side-stepped a question when asked whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is actively conducting extended safety surveillance on those who received early COVID-19 vaccines.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) asked Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, whether the FDA is conducting active surveillance and if there are any specific health markers they’re studying that may signal trends requiring further inquiry.
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CBC’s Failed Lawsuit Against Conservatives Cost Almost $400,000
A failed lawsuit against the Conservative Party filed by the CBC during the 2019 election cost taxpayers almost $400,000, according to newly obtained documents.
Details of the lawsuit were kept behind closed doors for three years, sparking a new conversation about freedom of information procedures in Ottawa.
Conservative leader in the Senate, Don Plett, had to file an access to information request in 2021 to find out how much taxpayers paid in legal fees, after his questions went unanswered by the federal government.
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Rioters torches police cars and a bus outside a government building in the Hague, and Dutch police officers were forced to use tear gas to try and dispel them
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COVID ‘Booster’ Shots Cause Heart Failure in Young Adults, Top Study Confirms
A new peer-reviewed study has confirmed that Covid mRNA “booster” shots are causing heart failure to soar in young adults and teenagers.
The study, published in the world-renowned European Heart Journal on February 15, found that a third dose of the Pfizer or Moderna injections is directly linked to the “increased incidence rate of myocarditis.”
Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle (myocardium), according to the Mayo Clinic.
The inflammation can reduce the heart’s ability to pump blood, leading to blood clots, strokes, cardiac arrest, a potentially death.
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Farmer Blockades Continue to Paralyze Spain on 11th Day, Mass Protest Scheduled for Madrid
For 11 days in a row, Spanish farmers have blocked highways and ports, dumping cheaply imported Moroccan vegetables and cereals on the roads and marching with tractors into the centers of large cities.
Farmers took over Santander on the weekend, while this Wednesday, farmers plan to hold tractor marches and protests in Andalusia, Extremadura, and Castilla and León, with media reports warning of additional road closures and blockaded roads in these regions.
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Hungary: PM Orban: 2024 is the Year to ‘Make Europe Great Again’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban held his annual State of the Nation address on Saturday, February 17th, focusing in part on the coming EU elections and the challenges conservative forces will face during their attempt to reclaim Brussels from the leftist bureaucracy.
“The year ‘24 can be a watershed moment.” Orban said in his speech, referring to the ‘super election year’ when roughly half of the world’s population will have a chance to head to the ballots. “Global politics could look completely different at the end of the year than what it was at the beginning.”
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Julian Assange: His Wife Says He Would Not Survive US Jail if Extradited
Julian Assange’s wife says the WikiLeaks founder would not survive being extradited from the UK to the US.
His final appeal will be heard at the High Court on Tuesday and Stella Assange says he is physically and mentally extremely weak.
She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that “this could very well be the final hearing for Julian”.
Mr Assange is wanted in the US on espionage charges and faces up to 175 years in prison.
The case is about him publishing thousands of classified documents in 2010 and 2011, which American authorities say broke the law and endangered lives.
He argues that the case against him is politically motivated.
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Lithium Battery Warehouse Explodes in France, Triggers Huge Toxic Fire
A lithium battery warehouse has exploded in France, sending plumes of thick black toxic smoke into the air, visible for miles around.
The explosion at the facility triggered a huge fire, with an estimated 70 firefighters deployed to the scene to tackle the blaze.
The warehouse, located in the town of Viviez, Aveyron, was used to store old lithium batteries waiting to be recycled.
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Netherlands: Eight Cops Hurt During Hague Riots on Saturday; MP’s Want Clarification
Eight police officers were injured on Saturday during riots at a conference center in The Hague, Mayor Jan van Zanen wrote in a letter to the city council. Police previously reported that six officers suffered injuries. The mayor said that a group of about 700 supporters of the Eritrean government had a party at the conference center on Fruitweg. Parties in parliament want clarification about what happened.
Opponents of the dictatorial regime — rioting youth from the Eritrean organization Brigade Nhamedu, according to the mayor — showed up at the location to confront the supporters. That led to riots in which the police were pelted with objects. The mayor said that the meeting center had increased security because it has been known for some time that “meetings of the Eritrean community can lead to mutual tensions.” According to Van Zanen, in addition to the police, 13 professional security guards and 20 security guards from the community were deployed to ensure that the party could happen safely.
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On the Eve of Athens Tractor Protest, Greek Prime Minister Rules Out More Concessions to Farmers
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister on Monday ruled out any further concessions to protesting farmers, on the eve of their planned rally that will see tractors converging on central Athens.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis voiced hope that Tuesday’s protest in the capital would mark the end of weeks of unrest among Greek farmers who, like others in Europe, are angry at high production costs.
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Vigilante eco-activist group Tyre Extinguishers claim to have deflated the tyres of another 50 SUVs in Edinburgh.
The guerrilla eco warriors targeted vehicles in the city’s affluent New Town area on Sunday, February 18 — then took to social media to brag about their antics.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Tyre Extinguishers said: “Edinburgh TX are back at it again, undeterred, with their first strike of 2024, hitting the posh New Town area.
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Small Irish Regulatory Authority to Enforce EU’s Digital Services Act for 450 Million Europeans
The Digital Services Act (DSA)—the EU’s new legislative framework to regulate online platforms—came into full force on Saturday, putting the European Commission’s small Irish partner in charge of handling most of the regulatory caseload for the entire bloc. This decision-making process, based at the Coimisiún na Mean, is set to make a major impact on future EU and European elections.
A statement distributed on behalf of Coimisiún na Mean described how the organisation would “empower people and civil society groups to hold platforms to account for dealing with illegal content” with the introduction of the DSA. It “looks forward” to working on digital moderation with the European Commission.
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Spanish PM Takes a Beating as Socialists Crushed in Galician Elections
Local elections over the weekend in the Spanish region of Galicia have once again proved the weakness of the country’s ruling socialist party as it presses forward with an unconstitutional amnesty law and an almost impossible legislature.
However, the elections also saw the rise of a radical Galician nationalist party.
The center-right Partido Popular, Spain’s main opposition party, solidly won the elections with 40 seats, giving them a comfortable absolute majority in the regional parliament. This marks the fifth election in a row that the PP has won with a clear majority in the region, although the party did still lose two seats in this election. Spain’s governing socialist PSOE party, however, won just nine seats, its worst-ever result in the region.
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Tractors Roll Into Downtown Prague as Czech Farmers Join Protests
PRAGUE, Feb 19 (Reuters) — Hundreds of Czech farmers drove their tractors into downtown Prague on Monday, disrupting traffic outside the Agriculture Ministry, as they joined protests against high energy costs, stifling bureaucracy and the European Union’s Green Deal.
Farmers across Europe have taken to the streets this year, including in Poland, France, Germany, Spain and Italy, to fight low prices and high costs, cheap imports and EU climate change constraints.
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Tusk and Duda’s White House Invitation is an Attempt to Calm Political Situation in Poland
U.S. President Joe Biden’s invitation for his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk to jointly visit the White House has been issued because the United States wants to calm the political situation in Poland and protect its interests, according to Warsaw University’s Prof. Jaroslaw Szczepanski.
The U.S. affairs expert told Dziennik.pl that the “dangerous polarization in Poland” around the issues of democracy and the rule of law are the reasons why the White House has taken the unusual step of inviting both the Polish leaders to visit Washington D.C. together.
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UK Labour Abandons Israel; Calls for “Permanent” Ceasefire in Latest Policy Shift
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said a “ceasefire that lasts” must “happen now” in the Israel-Hamas war.
This largely contradicts the (more realistic) position he held recently, where it was claimed that a ceasefire would “embolden” Hamas. The Islamist terror group has no interest in a lasting peace with Israel, and has vowed to repeat the October 7th massacres of Jewish civilians “again and again.”
In reality, neither ad-hoc foreign policy has any influence on events in the Middle East. While any ceasefire would simply buy Hamas time to regroup and attack, Starmer is hoping that this latest shift will help bring an end to quarrelling within the Labour Party’s ranks.
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Wales Farmers Protests: 100 Tractors Pull Up at Debate
Dozens of protesting farmers have pulled up at a Welsh Labour leadership debate in mid Wales.
About 100 tractors and farm vehicles took part in a go-slow protest through Newtown, Powys, before arriving at a hustings at the town’s football club.
“I hope they are going to take heed and listen to us,” said Aneurin Aston, a farmer from Llanbrynmair.
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Fatah and the Islamist Movement Increase Contacts in View of Palestinian Reconciliation
What power should govern Gaza and the Palestinian territories after the war? While Washington and its Arab allies are linking the negotiation of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas to an overall project for resolving the conflict — which could begin with recognition of the Palestinian state by the United Nations — the Palestinian factions are hesitating. Fatah, which is in power in the West Bank, and Hamas, which is bending but not breaking in Gaza, are stepping up their contacts with a view to reconciliation, which has been constantly postponed since their break-up in 2007.
This dialogue was initiated by dissidents and critics of president Mahmud Abbas from his Fatah party, who sent their emissaries to Qatar, where leaders of the Islamist movement are living in exile. Fatah leaders then followed suit. As potential successors to the 88-year-old president, they believe that the two parties need each other to survive.
This unrest forced Abbas to make the trip to Doha himself on February 11. There is no indication that this unpopular president, supported at arm’s length by his Western allies, met with his Hamas rivals, who hope to see him ousted soon. But Abbas did ask emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani about the negotiations that Doha is facilitating between Israel and the Islamist movement. On February 14, in a strongly worded communiqué, the “president” urged Hamas “to rapidly conclude a prisoner exchange” with Israel, to open up a diplomatic sequence in which he sees himself as a key player.
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Crew Abandons ‘Sinking’ Ship Struck by Houthi Missile
The crew of a bulk carrier that had been part of an effort to export Ukrainian grain and which was struck by a Houthi missile at the weekend have now been evacuated from the ship by military assets in the area.
Houthi rebels claimed responsibility after a large cargo ship passing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — the narrowest and most vulnerable part of the southern Red Sea route connecting Asia to the Mediterranean by sea — was struck by a missile on Sunday night. The ship, identified as the bulk carrier Rubymar was hit in the engine room in the attack, said Bloomberg citing a company official.
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Biden Admin Now Says US May Give Ukraine Long-Range Missiles That Can Strike Russia
It has been revealed that the United States may provide Ukraine with long-range ballistic missiles as part of the latest foreign aid package making its way through Congress, despite promises from the president that this course of action would not be taken, given the risk of escalation.
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Top Putin Ally warns West off striving for a Ukrainian victory, warning that would lead to nuclear strikes on “Kiev, Berlin, London, Washington”, as well as an apocalyptic civil war in Russia with “tens of millions” dead.
Deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, who was also formerly the Prime Minister and President of Russia in service to Vladimir Putin, has threatened Western capitals with the “entire strategic arsenal” of Russian nuclear weapons. Medvedev, for whom absolutely no slight is too small to necessitate a nuclear response, was speaking of Ukraine’s hope to retake its U.N.-recognised national territory which in some cases have been occupied by Russia for very close to ten years.
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Russia Creates Blacklist of YouTubers
As echoed in a report by TASS, a Russian state news agency, a unique strategy is being implemented by Russia’s Civic Chamber to impel bloggers utilizing YouTube, to dislocate and establish their platforms on homegrown Russian social media networks. Alexander Malkevich, a key player in the Civic Chamber’s Commission for the Development of Information Society, Media, and Mass Communications, revealed that the Civic Chamber is in the initial stages of constituting a list of “noncompliant” Russian bloggers, who deliberately bypass Russian social media networks whilst broadcasting their content on YouTube.
Malkevich was vocal about the desired publication of this contentious list, alluding to the rather paradoxical nature of these bloggers defining themselves as Russian, but choosing not to leverage the nation’s indigenous social platforms. Integral to this plan is a blueprint designed to push these bloggers towards Russia’s own shared media networks.
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Russia Accused of Executing Prisoners of War in Avdiivka After Ukraine Withdraws
KYIV — Last week, Ukrainian forces surrendered the eastern city of Avdiivka, which they had for months been desperately defending against a brutal Russian onslaught.
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Ivan’s relatives were sure that he and other soldiers had been taken prisoner. “They didn’t resist,” says Ivan’s sister.
On 17 February, Col Gen Syrskyi ordered a full withdrawal from Avdiivka in order to “preserve the lives … of servicemen”. But it was too late for many soldiers, including the six who surrendered.
The following day, a video appearing to show their bodies was posted by Russian sources to social media.
Relatives of Ivan, Andriy and Georgiy say they have no doubt that they are the men who appear in the video.
“They were killed by the Russians,” says Georgiy’s mother, Inna Pavlova. “But our military leadership allowed it to happen.” — BBC
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Ukraine Becomes Testing Ground for New US Glide Bombs
All the indications are that the United States has started to deliver Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDBs) to Ukraine and that Ukrainian armed forces have probably already deployed these new weapons.
A new video claims to show the first reported use of the GLSDB on a Russian ammunition depot, although this information has not been independently verified.
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Facial Recognition Technology to Hit New Zealand Grocery Stores
Headlines across New Zealand are ablaze with news of facial recognition technology’s swift deployment in the country’s grocery sector. This controversial use of advanced tech in commercial spaces has stimulated impassioned debate and stoked concerns about personal privacy and systemic bias.
Tania Kura, the Deputy Police Commissioner, sparked an appeal for open dialogue this week about the advancements’ implications for privacy and potential bias. Speaking to contemporary societal challenges, she indicated a need for broader, public discourse.
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A Labor Party operator has described Australians who work at a desk as ‘less important’ as a militant construction union negotiates $120,000 pay for traffic controllers on road and rail projects.
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Sydney Harbour Bridge Police Operation: Traffic Slows to a Standstill, Major Delays
A police operation on the Sydney Harbour Bridge has caused lengthy traffic delays as commuters are urged to work from home or expect ‘significant’ delays.
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Amazon Driver Fends Off Attack From Drunk, Naked NYC Migrant — and Ends Up in Cuffs
A Big Apple Amazon driver said he had to slam a naked and drunk migrant in the head with a snowball to keep the deranged asylum seeker from making off with his packages — only to find himself in handcuffs.
The migrant, identified by police sources as Yeison Sanchez, 26, was allegedly stumbling drunk and clutching a beer bottle when the Amazon driver said he caught him red-handed trying to make off with packages he was delivering in Clinton Hill around 4:45 p.m. on Sunday.
That’s when things got out of hand.
“I was unloading my stuff, and a guy — he was like a pervert, he had his penis out,” the driver, who asked that he only be identified as Abu, told The Post on Monday.
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New documents show the rising public cost of sheltering migrants in Massachusetts, as the state grapples with a strain on its emergency shelter system.
The state has 17 contracts totaling $116 million to house migrant families through June, including a no-bid $10 million contract for a company providing meals, CBS News Boston reported, citing documents obtained by the outlet.
In some cases, the state is paying hotels $64 per person each day for meals, including $16 for breakfast, $17 for lunch and $31 for dinner.
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Local families in the predominantly black Roxbury neighborhood of Boston are furious after the city shut down the local community center to instead use it to house more of President Joe Biden’s illegal border crossers.
Roxbury’s Melnea A. Cass Recreational Community Center, which was once a meeting place for Little League ball players, volleyball games, and other sports and community events, has now been dedicated to rows of cots for illegal border crossers, CBS, WBZ-TV Boston reported.
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Breaking: 4 Illegal Immigrants Charged With Strangling Man on Chicago Train
Chicago police have arrested and charged four illegal immigrants with battery by strangulation and robbery of a man on the Pink rail line. The extent of injuries to the 49-year-old victim is still unclear.
According to a Chicago Police news release, the four were identified as Fernando Loyo-Rodriguez, 22, Wilker Gutierrez Sierra, 21, Carlos Carreno-Carreno, 20, and 18-year-old Yonnier Guasamucare Garcia. The four live at an illegal immigrant shelter at 300 block of South Plymouth, according to CWB Chicago.
The four illegal immigrants allegedly robbed and strangled the 49-year-old male while they got close to Kostner station in the afternoon on Saturday.
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New images from the borer show the growing number of Chinese migrants arriving at the border.
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Germany: Liberals Threaten to Collapse Government Over Migrant Benefit Card Dispute
The German coalition government is on increasingly shaky ground, with the Free Democrats (FDP) warning that they could pull out of the three-way left-liberal government if the Green party blocks a new rule mandating benefit cards instead of cash payments to migrants.
While the Greens argue that ending the current cash payments would be discriminatory, the Free Democrats, which are the smallest party in the government, are under pressure to stand up to the pro-migration policies being promoted by the Greens and the Social Democrats (SPD).
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ICE Arrests Illegal Immigrant Wanted for Child Sex Crimes in Rhode Island
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) team arrested an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who was wanted for child molestation in Providence, Rhode Island.
According to ICE, the man was arrested by Providence police in March 2023 and charged with felony child molestation. The ERO Boston division lodged an immigration detainer against him to prevent him from being released.
In April 2023, the Adult Correctional Institute of Cranston, RI ignored the detention request and released the man into the public at the order of the Sixth District Court of Providence.
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Infighting Emerges Among Democrat Leaders Bussing Illegals to Each Other’s ‘Sanctuary Cities’
Infighting has emerged among Democrat governors and mayors as local leaders attempt to offload illegal border crossers to other so-called “sanctuary cities.”
According to a new report from the Chicago Sun-Times, Democrat leaders are fighting among themselves while bussing illegal migrants back and forth from their cities as their own “sanctuaries” become overwhelmed.
The news comes as sanctuary cities are now overflowing with illegals as thousands of foreign nations flood the Southern Border every day amid Democrat President Joe Biden’s migrant crisis.
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Migrants Continue to Flock Into Unofficial Border Camp Near Remote California Town by the Hundreds
Hundreds of migrants continue to illegally cross the border into California near the remote town of Jacumba Hot Springs daily, who then gather at an unofficial camp to wait for Border Patrol.
People smugglers, known as Coyotes, drive migrants — increasingly those arriving from India and China — to places where there are gaps in the wall on the Mexican side of the border.
From there, they cross into the US and walk approximately a mile to the camp where humanitarian charity workers offer them water and a cluster of hastily constructed shelters from the elements stand.
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More than a hundred migrants crossed the English Channel by small boat over the weekend despite thick fog.
A total of 111 people made the perilous journey in three boats on Saturday, despite French authorities claiming that they stopped 132 more attempting to make the journey.
The latest arrivals reached the UK in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions across the 21-mile Dover Strait — with poor visibility along the Kent coast due to heavy fog.
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New York Rule Change Makes Thousands of Migrants Eligible for Cash Payments
The state of New York has been giving cash payments to thousands of migrants who typically would not qualify for the state’s welfare program.
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration quietly changed the state’s “Safety Net Assistance” program eligibility rules in May to allow non-citizens who have pending applications for asylum to receive benefits, making thousands of migrants eligible for the payments, according to a report from the New York Post and confirmed by Fox News Digital.
The move was made through the state’s Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, which sent a message to social services agencies in the state, the report notes, though the agency would not say how many migrants are currently receiving payments.
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Over 15,000 out of 272,700 births recorded in Poland in 2023 were migrants, meaning that 5.5 percent of all births in Poland last year were of foreign origin, according to data from Poland’s Central Office of Statistics (GUS). Back in 2021, out of that year’s 331,000 births, only 7,000 were the offspring of migrants, representing 2 percent of the total. Out of the over 15,000 foreign births in Poland for 2023, 12,800 were Ukrainian and 775 Belarusian.
Out of the total number of births in 2023, for the first time, one in 20 came from foreigners. Meanwhile, the trend for births in Poland is abysmal. The total number of births in the country, which was 375,000 in 2019, shows a clear decline. In 2020, it was 355,000, while 331,000 were born in 2021, 305,000 in 2022, and now in 2023, it fell another 33,000 to 272,700, representing an annual decrease of 11 percent.
The figures from 2023 represent the lowest number of births in the country since the end of the Second World War.
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Swiss Populists Secure New Migration Referendum in Record Time
The conservative Swiss People’s Party has announced that a petition to ensure the country’s population does not exceed 10 million before 2050 has crossed the 100,000-signature threshold needed to initiate a nationwide referendum.
Party representative and member of the Swiss National Assembly Thomas Matter was quick to trumpet his party’s success gathering 110,000 signatures in record time—almost a year ahead of the final deadline to do so.
The petition advocates for a new clause to be inserted into the Swiss constitution calling for “sustainable population development” and increased powers for authorities to clamp down on asylum claims should Switzerland cross the nine-and-a-half million mark.
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Residents living near the United States-Canada border in Vermont have been told to watch out for illegal immigrants with criminal records amid an increase in crossings via unofficial ports of entry.
Customs and Border Patrol agents urged locals to carry a firearm just in case, noting that while the vast majority of undocumented newcomers are peaceful and simply in search of a better life in the US, there will be some who have a propensity for violence.
According to the New York Post, most of the illegal crossings from Canada into the United States occur in the Swanton Sector, a 295-mile section spanning northeastern New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
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Dem Candidate for Utah Governor Votes Against Bill Banning Sexualized Drag Performances for Children
Utah Rep. Brian King (Dist. 23) who is running as a Democrat for Utah governor, as well as other Democrats in the Utah legislature, voted against a bill that criminalizes purposefully exposing children under 14 to sexualized performances at drag shows and in other venues. Specific acts banned in the bill for children include performances that act out simulated masturbation, intercourse, and erotic touching of fake or natural breasts, as well as involving any child in an act containing these actions.
King, who announced his bid for Utah governor in December, as well as Democratic Utah State Reps. Gay Bennion, Joel Briscoe, Brett Garner, Sarah Hayes, Sandra Hollins, Ashlee Matthews, Angela Romero, and Mark Wheatley voted against the bill, titled “Lewdness Involving a Child Amendments.” The law was sponsored by Republican Rep. Collin Jack and was passed in the Utah House last Thursday 59 to 9.
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Drug-Induced Transgender ‘Chestfeeding’ as Safe as Milk From Mothers, Claims NHS Trust
A local trust of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) has proclaimed that pharmaceutically induced lactation in biological males is just as healthy for babies as milk produced by mothers.
The University of Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust (USHT), which runs the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital, Royal Sussex County Hospital, and the Worthing Hospital told campaigners that “milk” produced by so-called trans women (biological males who identify as women) is “comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby” by biological women, The Telegraph reported.
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Girls’ High-School Basketball Team Forfeits After Trans Player Injures 3 Players in Massachusetts
A Massachusetts charter school ended a girls’ varsity basketball game at halftime on February 8 after multiple players were injured by a trans-identified male on the opposing team.
The coach of the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell Girls’ Basketball Team made the decision to end the game against KIPP Academy “after watching a third player injured in the game,” a press release from the school states.
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Three medical research reports, which pieced together an alarming set of data showing the abortion pill mifepristone is very dangerous to girls and women, were retracted by the publisher, Sage, just weeks before the Supreme Court is slated to hear arguments against the safety of the drug. The publisher cited a conflict of interest but The Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), which funded the research, is fighting back.
“This case has been painted as a pro-life vs. pro-abortion case, but in its essence, it is about the FDA performing its job to protect the American public from dangerous drugs,” Dr. Ingrid Skop, a 25-year veteran obstetrician-gynecologist who serves as vice president and director of medical affairs for the pro-life CLI, told Decision.
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Poland’s Catholic Church Comes Out Against Government Plan to Cut Down Religious Classes in Schools
The Catholic Church is opposing the government’s proposed cut in the number of hours for religious classes, while also rejecting plans to drop grading for religion courses.
The classes, which are optional but attended by most students, are hosted and funded by public schools but with teachers and curriculums chosen by the Catholic Church.
The new education minister, Barbara Nowacka, is claiming that two hours a week of religious classes “is excessive” given that it is more than students have for some other subjects. In December of last year, she announced plans to reduce that number to one hour a week.
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Progressive SD Cardinal Slams Conservative Catholics for Anti-Gay ‘Animus’
Cardinal Robert McElroy, the progressive archbishop of San Diego, has slammed conservative Catholics who oppose blessing gay couples, suggesting they are anti-gay.
Opposition from U.S. Catholics to the recent Vatican declaration lifting a ban on blessing gay couples is the result of “an enduring animus among far too many toward LGBT persons,” Cardinal McElroy stated this weekend at the Religious Education Congress sponsored by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
The cardinal caused an uproar in 2023 when he suggested sodomy is not necessarily serious sin, despite the well-known biblical condemnation of the act as an “abomination” and enduring Catholic teaching condemning homosexual acts.
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Riley Gaines Slams Trans New Jersey Swimmer Who Smashed Another Collegiate Record
Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines says Title IX “literally means nothing” after a trans New Jersey swimmer who competed on the men’s team for three years smashed a collegiate record for the second time in three months.
Gaines, a vocal critic of trans athletes in schools, blasted the latest victory of Meghan Cortez-Fields, a senior at Ramapo College of New Jersey who on Friday finished the 200-meter individual medley with a time of 2:08:20 — shattering the previous records in the NJ Athletic Conference.
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On Monday, Tim Pool announced that he had sent $10,000 to the legal defense fund set up for the 19-year-old Florida man charged with a felony for doing burnouts at an intersection that was painted with the LGBTQ colors.
“Here’s a headline for the woke cult,” Pool wrote on X. “I just sent $10k for homies legal defense. He was charged with a felony for burning out as he turned while driving over a cultist flag painting.”
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“In other news, 36% of Alaskans support the state’s secession from the United States to become an independent nation.”
History keeps repeating itself and only the names and dates change.
S.B. 57 Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act (in effect as of 31 Jan 2024): “Establishes a framework for the Legislature…to prohibit the enforcement of a federal directive within the state by government officers if the Legislature determines the federal directive violates the principles of state sovereignty. This bill enacts the Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act.”
https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0057.html
“History’s shown that it generally takes a decade of demonization of an “enemy” to incite war. By my reckoning, it’s been just about a decade since ‘Affirmative Action’s first election, which inspired and released his comrades of violent, anti-American Muslim-leaning hyphenated-infantile Bolshevism upon the United States of America. Eventually, as is always the case, there was gonna be an equal and opposite reaction—whether real or feigned—to the violence and demonization. It’s human nature. We’re now at that crossroads.
As’s been said before: ASSIMILATE, SEPARATE (Two-State Solution) or ASSASSINATE (War)—those’re the options. Hopefully, in the long-run, cooler heads’ll prevail and we’ll [peacefully] choose one of the first two before the third option’s foisted upon us by events. But once large numbers of Americans’re unable to work—either due to widespread protests/riots, financial calamity or political chaos—I fear that the collectivists’ cheese’ll slide off the constitutional cracker.
The clock’s ticking..” —posted to fb (Oct 2018)
Aloha Snackbar!!
We won’t be separating, for it is not in our European mind to let anyone have what is ours by right of conquest. History is full of what happens when the white man gets angry and that is why the left and 3rd worlders hate us. To the Victors always go the spoils, despite what the left/ 3rd worlders say. They are about to find that out to their horror.
Before war does break out in the streets of Obamerica, I’d [strongly] encourage all [who seek truth] to watch Beck’s interview with Carlson. Test on Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64r6ko9o51o&pp=ygUKZ2xlbm4gYmVjaw%3D%3D