According to a recent CNN poll, former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden nationally by four points. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump and Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake both lead their Democrat opponents in Arizona, according to a new poll.
In other news, U.S. military forces struck targets at facilities in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for last month’s drone attack on Tower 22 in Jordan.
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Biden Blames High Food Prices on Grocery Stores ‘Ripping People Off’
Democrat President Joe Biden has claimed that Americans are “being played for suckers” by the food industry and blames high prices on grocery stores “ripping people off.”
According to the president, his “Bidenomics” policies have been successful at bringing “prices down.”
However, Biden claims that “for all we’ve done,” the food industry has sent prices skyrocketing through “price gouging” and “junk fees.”
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Canada Braces for Wave of Bankruptcies After Ending Pandemic Support
Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said that roughly a fifth of the 900,000 small businesses that took out interest-free loans to survive the government’s civil rights abuses during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic have not repaid the loans yet.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses (CFIB) painted an even grimmer picture, estimating that 25 percent of borrowers have missed the January deadline.
Bankruptcies in Canada began surging as pandemic funding dried up in 2023, so the possibility that more than 200,000 small businesses might not repay their emergency loans is a bad omen for 2024.
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Explosive Jobs Growth: U.S. Economy Created 353,000 Jobs in January
Employers in the United States added 353,000 workers to their payrolls, the Department of Labor said Friday.
The unemployment rate held steady at 3.7 percent in the prior month.
The previous two months were revised upward. The November figure was revised up by 9,000 to 182,000. The December number was revised up by a stunning 117,000 to 333,000.
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Italy: Inflation Erodes Household Wealth by 12% in 2022 — ISTAT
Net wealth relative to income at lowest level since 2005
Inflation eroded Italian household wealth by more than 12% in 2022 compared to the previous year, ISTAT and the Bank of Italy said on Monday.
At the end of 2022 the net wealth of Italian households amounted to 10,421 billion euro, according to the joint report ‘Wealth of the Main Institutional Sectors 2005-2022’.
This represented a drop of 1.7% in nominal terms, but of 12.5% in real terms considering inflation, using the consumer price index as a reference point.
ISTAT and BoI said net wealth also fell in relation to disposable income, from 8.7 to 8.1, “reaching its lowest level in the survey period of this publication”.
Net wealth is the difference between gross wealth (financial and non-financial assets) and financial liabilities.
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Activists for Gaza Scream ‘F*** Joe Biden’ Outside Michigan Campaign Stop
On Thursday, President Biden failed to receive a warm welcome during a campaign stop in Michigan. The Democrat president was met with furious pro-Palestinian activists screaming, “F*** Joe Biden,” in support of Gaza.
Video footage published by BG on the Scene on X shows a group of pro-Palestinian protesters chanting obscenities at President Biden near his event venue in Warren, Michigan.
“F*** Joe Biden,” the group repeatedly chanted.
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Whistleblowers at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) are sounding the alarm on a reported 1,300-page draft document that allegedly justifies a proposed rule that would effectively ban private gun sales, according to a watchdog group.
“The fact that inside ATF sources are blowing the whistle on this draft rule is an indication of what a difficult position it would put the ATF in. ATF agents did not sign up to go after law-abiding citizens for private sales protected under the Second Amendment of the Constitution,” Tristan Leavitt, president of watchdog group Empower Oversight, said in a press release Wednesday.
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Bill Maher Warns Democrats: Trump’s Trials Will Make Him Look Like a ‘Revolutionary Leader’
Liberal talk show host Bill Maher has warned the Democrats that their upcoming trials of President Donald Trump will only backfire.
Maher offered caution ahead of the four criminal trials of Trump, predicting they will make him look like a “revolutionary leader” as the 2024 campaign unfolds.
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A policing bill introduced in Illinois this week that would prevent officers from pulling people over for speeding or not displaying license plates would be a “gift” to criminals and a “backdoor” way to defund the police, a retired Illinois police chief warned.
“Criminals will love it,” retired Riverside Police Chief Tom Weitzel told Fox News Digital of House Bill 4603. “… it’s a ‘here it’s your birthday or Merry Christmas, here’s a gift for you.’“
Democratic state Rep. Justin Slaughter introduced the bill Monday, which would prohibit cops from pulling people over for traffic infractions such as: speeding up to 25 miles per hour over the limit; driving with an expired registration sticker; failing to display registration plates or stickers; not wearing a seat belt; or driving with defective mirrors and excessively tinted windows.
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Body Found in Vehicle Recovered in Virginia Beach, Police Say
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Almost a week after a vehicle went off the edge of the 14th Street Fishing Pier at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront, crews were finally able to remove it from the water Friday morning.
Police said one body was found in the vehicle, and the Medical Examiner’s Office will confirm the person’s identity. On Tuesday, VBPD said this investigation has similarities to a missing person case. They have not reported the name of that missing person.
The vehicle was a red Nissan Kicks SUV, which did not have license plates, police say. It was covered with a tarp after being pulled from the water. The barge it was placed on was taken out to calmer waters to begin forensic analysis, police said.
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Charities That Run Bail-Funds for Suspected Rioters to be Criminalized Under New Georgia Senate Bill
On Thursday, the Georgia State Senate passed a sweeping bill that places new restrictions on charitable groups involved with bailing out riot-related suspects. The bill will also expand the cash bail system, hindering repeat offender’s chances of being bailed out of jail.
This legislation is partly in response to the dozens of criminal riot arrestees who have been hit with RICO and terrorism charges over crimes committed during the ongoing Antifa-backed “Stop Cop City” demonstrations.
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Chicago Mayor Moves to Remove Police From Schools as Violent Crime Runs Rampant
As violent crime runs rampant in Democrat-controlled Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson has declared his support for plans to remove police from the murder-infested city’s schools.
During an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Mayor Johnson announced that he is supporting the decision by the city’s Board of Education to end a contract with the Chicago Police Department (CPD).
Principals were reportedly told by Chicago Public School (CPS) officials to prepare for the potential removal of police officers by next fall.
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Chicago Demands ‘Ceasefire’ in Gaza as Crime Runs Rampant in Democrat-Led City
Chicago has provoked outrage among residents after officials demanded a “ceasefire” in Hamas-controlled Gaza while violent crime runs rampant in the Democrat-led Illinois city.
On Wednesday, the Chicago City Council approved a resolution calling for a permanent “ceasefire” in Gaza.
Meanwhile, crime runs rampant throughout the city.
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CNN Poll: Donald Trump Leads Joe Biden Nationally by Four Points
Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden nationally by four points, a CNN poll found Thursday, underscoring Trump’s momentum heading into the 2024 election.
The poll is significant because Trump’s four-point lead is beyond the 3.8 percent margin of error:
Trump: 49 percent
Biden: 45 percent
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Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb infuriated residents after claiming the city’s rampant crime crisis cannot be dealt with through law and order.
Angry residents met with community leaders in Washington, D.C., Tuesday for a panel to discuss the rise of violent crime in the city, specifically among juveniles, when Schwalb made the controversial comment.
As residents voiced their concerns and frustrations, the Democrat suggested that if district residents want to be “safer in the long run,” they must take preventative measures rather than arrest and prosecute violent criminals.
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Democrat Cori Bush Funnels Another $17,500 in Campaign Cash to Husband, Docs Show
Radical Democrat Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) has funneled another big chunk of campaign cash to her husband, bringing the total to $120,000 so far, new filings have revealed.
Bush paid her husband an additional $17,500 from her committee in recent months.
The payments are for private security for the congresswoman, who leads the “defund the police” movement and campaigns for fewer police officers to protect the public.
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Ex-CIA Coder Joshua Schulte Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for Leaking Hacking Tools to WikiLeaks
Former CIA officer Joshua Schulte faces 40 years in prison for leaking a trove of classified hacking tools to WikiLeaks, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced Thursday. He was also found guilty of possessing child abuse images.
Prosecutors accused the onetime coder of passing on the CIA’s “Vault 7” tools, which allow intelligence officers to hack smartphones and use them as listening devices in what was variously described as one of the most “brazen” leaks in U.S. history.
Schulte, 35, shared some 8,761 documents to WikiLeaks in 2017, the U.S. justice department found. It was the single largest data leak in the agency’s history.
He denied the allegations, but was convicted on the various counts of espionage at three separate federal trials in New York in 2020, 2022, and 2023.
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Local officials are pointing fingers in response to community backlash following anti-Israel activists blocking intersections in downtown Bellevue, WA on Sunday in their attempt to protest inside a mall after police were allegedly prevented from stopping them.
According to Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jonathan Choe, the agitators “used a car and bike brigade to block 4th and Bellevue Way for nearly an hour.”
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Ex-Federal Judge Calls on Supreme Court to Remove Trump From Ballots for ‘Armed Insurrection’
A former federal judge is using his influence to call on the United States Supreme Court to disenfranchise voters by removing President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballots.
Former Judge J. Michael Luttig is one of the main sponsors of the legal theory behind efforts to remove Trump from the ballots.
Luttig has submitted a brief to the Supreme Court arguing that Trump “disqualified himself.”
He advanced familiar arguments in his amicus brief, which held Trump responsible for an “armed insurrection” that Luttig compared to the Civil War.
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Fani Willis & Lover Nathan Wade Subpoenaed to Testify Over Misconduct Allegations
Georgia’s anti-Trump Democrat Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has just been subpoenaed to testify over allegations she’s engaged in misconduct.
According to ABC News, Willis and her lover, fellow get-Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade, have been subpoenaed “to testify at an upcoming evidentiary hearing set to examine allegations that they were involved in an improper relationship while investigating the former president.”
The bombshell revelation was revealed in a recent lawsuit filing.
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When agents representing Democrat President Joe Biden’s weaponized FBI raided a California safety deposit box business in 2021, they violated the constitutional rights of hundreds of Americans, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The FBI violated private citizens’ constitutional rights when it seized contents from hundreds of safe deposit boxes during a 2021 raid on the Beverly Hills business.
The federal agency claims that the business was suspected of money laundering.
Institute for Justice Senior Attorney Rob Frommer, who represented several plaintiffs in the case, celebrated the ruling.
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FBI: Chinese Hackers Preparing to ‘Wreak Havoc and Cause Real-World Harm to American Citizens’
FBI Director Christopher Wray has issued a chilling warning about an apparent threat from Chinese Communist Party hackers.
According to Wray, Chinese hackers are preparing to “wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities.”
Wray issued the warning to lawmakers during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
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Globalists Unleash ‘Carbon Controls’ to Declare War on Food
The unelected globalist elite is unleashing a new weapon as it declares war on the global food supply.
In early 2020 in the midst of the Covid lockdowns, blue states run by leftist governors pursued mandates with extreme prejudice.
In red states like Montana, after the first month or two most of us simply ignored the restrictions and went on with life as usual.
It was clear that Covid was not the threat federal authorities made it out to be.
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Half of U.S. Adults Say Israel Has Gone Too Far in War in Gaza, AP-NORC Poll Says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Half of U.S. adults say Israel’s 15-week-old military campaign in Gaza has “gone too far,” a finding driven mainly by growing disapproval among Republicans and political independents, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Broadly, the poll shows support for Israel and the Biden administration’s handling of the situation ebbing slightly further across the board. The poll shows 31 percent of U.S. adults approve of Biden’s handling of the conflict, including just 46 percent of Democrats. That’s as an earlier spike in support for Israel following the Hamas attacks Oct. 7 sags.
Melissa Morales, a 36-year-old political independent in Runnemede, New Jersey, says she finds herself watching videos and news from Gaza daily. Images of Palestinian children wounded, orphaned or unhoused by the fighting in Gaza make her mind go to her own 3-year-old boy.
“I just can’t even imagine, like, my son roaming the streets, wanting to be safe. Wanting his mom. Or just wanting someone to get him,” she said.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith has dropped hints that he may be planning to raid President Donald Trump’s home in Florida again.
Smith leaked a story claiming that the FBI missed alleged “hidden rooms” when they raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
According to a leak to ABC News, Smith’s prosecutors have been grilling witnesses about “hidden rooms” and a “locked closet” at Trump’s home.
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Jimmy Kimmel: Concern About Biden’s Mental Fitness is a ‘Crazy Conspiracy Theory’
Liberal TV host Jimmy Kimmel has claimed that growing concerns about Democrat President Joe Biden’s mental fitness are based on a “crazy conspiracy theory.”
Kimmel made the claims during a monologue about the Taylor Swift psyop.
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Joe Rogan Strikes New $250 Million Deal With Spotify
Famous podcaster Joe Rogan struck a major $250 million deal with Spotify, which will allow “The Joe Rogan Experience” to be distributed on multiple media platforms.
An upfront minimum guarantee and a revenue-sharing agreement based on ad sales are included in Rogan’s new contract, which is estimated to be worth up to $250 million over its multi-year term, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Judge Dismisses Case Against Michigan Man Accused of Threatening Biden, Harris
BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a criminal case against a northern Michigan man accused of threatening President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
After a preliminary examination in federal court in Bay City, U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia Morris concluded that there was no probable cause and social media posts attributed to Russell Douglas Warren, 48, of Prudenville, did not pose a “true threat,” The Detroit News reported.
Prosecutors said FBI and U.S. Secret Service agents learned that Warren posted a series of messages last week on X, the social media platform formerly know as Twitter, saying Biden and Harris had been condemned and should be imprisoned and executed. Warren called for Biden to be taken to prison “to await execution. He shall be hanged.”
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Just in: Trump to Appear at CPAC for Record 14th Time, Breaks Reagan Record
On Friday, it was revealed that Donald Trump would once again be making an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
His talk at this year’s conference, set to take place between February 21 and 24 in Washington, DC, will break the record for most appearances set by fellow former president Ronald Reagan.
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The disturbed conspiracy theorist accused of decapitating his dad and then holding up the head in a sick online video had first shot him dead with a gun he bought legally the day before, officials in Pennsylvania said Friday.
Justin Mohn, 32, bought the 9mm Sig Sauer handgun at a store a few miles from his Levittown home on Monday — hours after giving up a medical marijuana card so he could get the weapon legally, District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said.
The next day, he shot his 68-year-old father, Michael Francis Mohn, in the head, before decapitating him with a knife and a machete — and posting a rambling YouTube video holding up the plastic-wrapped head, Schorn said.
Mohn’s mom had come home to find her husband’s headless body Tuesday afternoon, with the head in a cooking pot, officials previously said.
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L.A. Prepares for ‘Toilet-to-Tap’; Will Recycle 60% of Wastewater
LOS ANGELES, California — Local water authorities are preparing to implement new “toilet-to-tap” technology by 2032 that could see 60% of L.A.’s wastewater recycled rather than being flushed out to sea.
Three years ago, Breitbart News visited the “demonstration” project at what is now known as the A.K. Warren Water Resource Facility, where a large proportion of L.A. County’s wastewater is treated.
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Liberal Journalists Outnumber Conservatives by 11 to 1, Study Shows
America has more than ten times as many liberal journalists than conservative reporters, a new study has revealed.
The number of journalists who identify as Democrats outnumber Republicans by a staggering ratio of 11 to 1.
The ideological imbalance in America’s news media was exposed in a new study by Syracuse University’s journalism school.
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Megyn Kelly Says She Was ‘Targeted’ by Big Pharma for Speaking Publicly About Vaccine Injury
Former Fox News star Megyn Kelly has revealed that she has been “targeted” by the pharmaceutical industry after she went public about the side effects she suffered after receiving the Covid mRNA injection from Moderna.
As Slay News previously reported, Kelly developed an autoimmune issue after her Covid shot, as Slay News reported.
Kelly revealed in September that she had been diagnosed with vaccine-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (VAIDS).
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Microsoft CEO Says the Company is Working to Address Election “Disinformation and Misinformation”
Concerns are growing over the role of Big Tech companies in moderating “misinformation,” particularly due to the fear that these corporations already wield significant power and influence which could potentially sway political outcomes, including elections.
Many worry that the concentrated power in these tech giants allows them to arbitrarily define what constitutes misinformation, leading to a situation where they could suppress certain viewpoints or information. This raises questions about the impartiality and fairness of such moderation, especially in the context of political discourse and the democratic process. The debate is fueled by the concern that these companies, due to their size and reach, could have a disproportionate impact on public opinion and electoral processes.
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Microsoft Edge Sucks Up Chrome Data Without Permission
Most of those who use Microsoft products — Windows, and the Edge browser included — must by now be well conditioned to accept that the software they run and the data they believe they own isn’t really something they control.
And perhaps this is why a “feature” as astonishing as Edge automatically importing tabs open in Google Chrome — even when Microsoft browser’s import tool is disabled — has been known for months, without getting fixed (assuming it was a bug).
But it looks like a “bug” in the company’s thinking, one of many — not exactly a software one. It’s definitely a feature, after all.
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Microsoft Vows to Stop ‘Disinformation and Misinformation’ Ahead of 2024 Election
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has vowed that his company will fight so-called “disinformation and misinformation” in the run-up to the 2024 election.
Nadella’s comments come as pressure mounts on Concerns Big Tech companies to censor “misinformation.”
However, the role of tech companies censoring wrongthink is a major cause for concern, particularly due to the fear that these corporations already wield significant power and influence which could potentially sway political outcomes, including elections.
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Millions in New Dark Money Funneled Into Biden’s Top Super PAC
Millions of dollars in new dark money funds have been funneled into Democrat President Joe Biden’s primary super political action committee (PAC), financial filings have revealed.
The Future Forward PAC received an $8 million contribution from its affiliated Future Forward USA Action nonprofit arm on December 29.
The funneling of cash was revealed in the PAC’s new filings to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Biden’s team elevated the PAC as the leading external group to raise money for his 2024 candidacy.
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New York City High School Brawl Caught on Video Descends Into Stabbing Spree
Two high school students were stabbed inside a New York City public high school on Thursday afternoon after a stairwell fight, police confirmed.
According to the New York Police Department (NYPD), the violent attack happened at the Martin Van Buren High School on Hillside Avenue in Queens Village, Queens on Thursday afternoon around 1:30 p.m.
According to police, the two 17-year-old students were attacked inside the stairwell.
One student was stabbed in the stomach, and another was stabbed in the shoulder.
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New: Trump Says Fani Willis Went After Him to Get Her ‘Lover Much More Money’
2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump responded to court filings in which Fulton County DA Fani Willis, who is prosecuting Trump and other co-defendants in the Georgia RICO case, admitted to having a “personal relationship” with the special prosecutor hired to lead the case, Nathan Wade.
That relationship is now under scrutiny, with a hearing set for this month on whether Willis and Wade should be disqualified from the Georgia case.
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Nikki Haley Shares Obviously Fake Anti-Trump ‘Fan Mail’
Presidential candidate and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is under fire after posting “kind words” that she has received from what she claimed were Americans supportive of her campaign against Trump in the Republican primary.
On Thursday evening, Haley’s account posted two messages with one from a “Mary A.” reading, “I want to encourage Nikki Haley to keep pressing on!!! We need a competent and committed leader to stay the course in the bid for the presidency.” Another from a “Michael B.” stated, “PLEASE DO NOT GIVE UP YOUR FIGHT!!! In a world that’s become crazy with strife, we need a level headed conservative leader to navigate us through the insanity.”
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NYC Teen Accused of Stabbing 2 Students Acted in Self-Defense, Charges Dropped: Sources
A teen charged with stabbing two fellow students inside their Queens high school will not be prosecuted after social media video backed his contention that he was jumped by a large group, police sources said Friday.
Instead, the two 17-year-olds who were stabbed Thursday inside Martin Van Buren High School— one of whom has been investigated for his role in two shootings, including a murder — have been charged with gang assault, sources said.
The other teen was also charged with gun possession for the Smith & Wesson 9 mm pistol allegedly found in his jacket pocket, sources said.
The stabbing happened at 1:20 p.m. Thursday inside Martin Van Buren on Hillside Ave. near 230th St. in Queens Village following a fight that erupted in the stairwell between the first and second floors, a witness told the Daily News.
“I was trying to walk my girlfriend to her class and as we got to the staircase we saw them get in an altercation,” a 14-year-old student told The News on Thursday. “These two boys had an altercation. One of them was losing bad and he pulled out a knife and stabbed [the other one].”
Medics rushed both teens to Long Island Jewish Cohens Hospital, one with stab wounds to his upper body, the other with two stab wounds to his back and one to his shoulder.
The school, which has cameras but not scanners, was put into a soft lockdown, meaning there was no reason to believe anyone else would be in danger.
Sources said that as school safety agents tended to the stab victims, an agent found a gun inside the pocket of a coat belonging to the teen with back and shoulder wounds.
When NYPD officers arrived on the scene they recovered the knife and grabbed the suspected stabber, a 16-year-old boy police initially identified as 17.
The boy was taken to the 105th Precinct. With his mother present, he claimed self-defense and identified the teens that were stabbed as part of a larger group that jumped into the fight.
He then pointed authorities to social media video taken of the attack that backed up his claim.
The Queens District Attorney’s Office then told police to void the 16-year-old’s arrest, sources said.
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Poll: Trump, Lake Lead Democrats in Arizona in Hypothetical Match-Ups
Former President Donald Trump and Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake both lead their Democrat opponents in hypothetical general election races in Arizona, according to a poll conducted for Lake’s campaign.
The JL Partners poll, outlined in a memo published by Punchbowl News on Friday, finds that 45 percent of the likely voter respondents sampled would back Trump in a head-to-head race against President Joe Biden, who takes 41 percent support. Another ten percent would back someone else, while four percent would be undecided under this scenario.
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Trump Leads Biden in ALL Swing States: Bloomberg/Morning Consult Poll
A new poll released on Wednesday has revealed that Trump is leading Biden in the seven swing states of the 2024 election.
Overall, the Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll of 4956 registered voters in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, found that in a head-to-head matchup, Trump leads Biden 48 to 42 percent. The poll, conducted between January 16 and 22, found that when third-party candidates were mixed in, 44 percent of registered swing state voters supported Trump, 35 percent supported Biden, and 9 percent supported Kennedy, the highest polling third-party candidate.
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Watch: Testing Suggests Highway Guardrails No Match for Heavy EVs
Highway guardrails may be no match for heavy electric vehicles (EVs), preliminary test results released Thursday suggest, raising concerns about the nation’s roadside safety system.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility ran a crash test examination using a nearly four-ton 2022 Rivian R1T.
When the pickup truck crashed through a metal guardrail and barely slowed down before hitting a concrete barrier, it reportedly came as little surprise to the researchers.
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‘What a Sick … F***ing Asshole’: Joe Biden Trashes Donald Trump Behind Closed Doors
President Joe Biden gained a “reputation” during his first three years in the White House for reportedly using curse words when speaking about former President Donald Trump.
Although Biden vowed to restore “decency” to the White House, he failed to make good on his promise, according to Politico’s Jonathan Lemire, Lauren Egan, Myah Ward, and Ben Johansen, who acknowledged Biden’s habit of cursing his political opponents.
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Young Leftists ‘Disillusioned’ With Biden, Report Shows
Young left-wing activists are displeased with Democrat President Joe Biden’s handling of a number of leftist issues, a new report has revealed.
Keanu Arpels-Josiah, an organizer with youth climate group Fridays for Future NYC, told Politico:
“It’s clear that young people are really, really disillusioned with this presidency — disillusioned with [Biden’s] choices on climate and Gaza and beyond that to foreign policy and across the board.”
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Canada’s University of Waterloo Offers Blacks-Only Swim Hour
The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, has launched a segregated pool activity called “Black Folx Swim,” which expressly excludes participation by non-black swimmers.
“The aim is to get more Black Folx into a space where they haven’t always been welcomed, while providing them the opportunity to learn swimming skills,” the school’s website states.
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Canada’s Justice System Failing to Keep Up With Rising Crime: Report
Fewer crimes are being solved and criminal trials are taking longer than ever before as Canada’s justice system struggles to keep up with growing crime rates, a new report finds.
The Canadian justice system appears to be performing much worse today than it was five years ago, according to the latest Justice Report Card released by Ottawa think tank the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
The report found that Canada’s Violent Crime Severity was at its highest point since 2007, rising by 6% in 2021 and 5% in 2022.
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Canada “Founding Member” of Org to Reduce Fertilizer Emissions Globally
Canada has joined a global group to cut fertilizer emissions.
Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay declared Canada as a “founding member” of the Efficient Fertilizer Consortium, an initiative spearheaded by the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research. Canada joins a group of 11 other nations, including the United States and United Kingdom.
In his announcement, MacAulay pledged approximately $1.3 million over four years to support the public-private partnership aimed at funding research to curtail fertilizer emissions globally.
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Canadian Pizza Hut Closes Down Due to ‘Unforeseen Circumcisions’
A Pizza Hut in the small northern Ontario community of Timmins has gone viral after locals spotted what was almost certainly a typo on a notice posted to the front door.
The notice informing prospective customers that the restaurant would be closed for dine-in that evening said the decision was made due to “unforseen circumcisions,” not “unforeseen circumstances,” as is typically the case.
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All New Vehicles in the EU Will be Required to Have “Black Boxes”
Starting from July 2024, all new vehicles sold in the European Union must be equipped with an Event Data Recorder (EDR), operating on the principle of an aviation “black box,” according to a resolution from the European Commission reported by the specialized magazine Motor1.
This requirement applies to all M1-class passenger cars, as well as N1-class commercial vehicles, including pickups and vans with a maximum weight of up to 3.5 tons.
EDR recorders are designed to facilitate the work of the police in determining the circumstances of traffic accidents. The device records certain parameters of the vehicle for a short period — 5 seconds before the accident and 0.3 seconds after impact.
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Belgium: Farmers End Blockade at Zeebrugge Port, Allowing Resumption of Stranded Truck Movements
Farmers have decided to lift their blockade of Zeebrugge port, allowing around 2,000 stranded trucks to resume their journeys, as reported by Brussels Times.
The farmers, who had been protesting and blocking access to the port since Tuesday afternoon, announced the end of their action after hopeful consultations with the Flemish Government. The decision was confirmed by Nick Van Doorne, one of the protest initiators. The port is expected to be accessible again once the farmers leave, with the police taking charge of further arrangements.
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Brussels Mandates Energy Performance Certificates for All Homes by 2030
By 2030, every residence in the Brussels-Capital Region is required to possess an EPB energy certificate to assess the energy efficiency of the structure, as announced by Brussels Environment Minister Alain Maron. A substantial portion of Brussels’ building inventory is outdated and lacks energy efficiency with one-third of the buildings lacking any insulation, as reported by the Brussels Times.
This contributes to over half of the greenhouse gas emissions in the area. Given that more than 60% of Brussels residents are tenants, they are limited in their ability to improve home insulation under existing regulations.
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German Government Reaches Agreement on Cannabis Legalization, Implementation Set for April 1st
The planned legalization of cannabis has resolved previous disagreements within the German traffic light coalition. The Vice-Faction Leaders Konstantin Kuhle (FDP), Maria Klein-Schmeink (Greens) and Dagmar Schmidt (SPD) announced on Thursday evening in Berlin that the law is expected to come into effect on April 1, as reported by Kurier. However, it still needs to be approved by the Bundestag.
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) mentioned the week of February 19 to 23 as the timeframe for the law’s passage in parliament. The plans also need to be reviewed by the Bundesrat.
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Greece Pledges Additional Support for Farmers in Distress
In an effort to assist farmers affected by destructive flooding and demanding relief from high energy costs, Greece has committed to extending a special tax rebate on agricultural diesel for another year, as reported by Reuters.
The extension of the tax rebate is estimated to cost the state 82 million euros ($89.31 million) in 2024. Mitsotakis outlined additional measures to address the farmers’ grievances, as they have been staging blockades in central and northern Greece. Similar protests by farmers have occurred across Europe, with tractor blockades in France and Brussels during the recent EU leaders’ meeting.
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Hungary: PM Orban Indicates Willingness to Join Conservative ECR Group in European Parliament
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban may have told two Italian newspapers that “We are ready and we will join the Conservatives.” Orban signaled the prospect of his party Fidesz joining the political group of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the European Parliament to La Repubblica and La Stampa, in the early morning hours of Thursday, February 1st.
With only five months remaining until the European elections, Brussels is already bracing for a major right-wing shift in EU politics. Both of the anti-establishment right-wing blocs—the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and Identity and Democracy (ID)—are expected to grow significantly, but there’s one currently non-attached major party: the Hungarian ruling party, Fidesz.
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Hungary Stands Firm Against Sending Arms to Ukraine, Focuses on Humanitarian Aid and Peace Talks
Prime Minister Viktor Orban emphasized Hungary’s commitment to maintaining its stance against sending weapons to Ukraine, while highlighting the success of Hungary’s role in preventing the collapse of the economically strained Ukrainian state, as reported by About Hungary.
The Prime Minister underscored the need for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, emphasizing that the primary focus in Brussels should be on achieving a ceasefire and initiating peace talks. He expressed disappointment with the prevalent war-oriented discourse among European leaders and called for a shift towards diplomatic solutions.
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Irish Farmers Fight Back Against Rising ‘Green’ Regulations
Farmers across Ireland —vowing to overturn new EU green edicts on nitrate emissions and mandatory rewilding—took to the streets yesterday in solidarity with their agrarian counterparts around Europe.
The demonstrations were called by the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), the largest representative body for farmers on the island, and took place in most regional towns. IFA President Francie Gorman claimed the sector is being “regulated out of business by Brussels bureaucrats and Department of Agriculture officials who are far removed from the reality of day-to-day farming.”
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Italy: Ask Yourself Why Nobody Activates ESM — Meloni-Schlein
I see very Italian, ideological debate says PM at PhotoAnsa 2023
Premier Giorgia Meloni posed an open question for centre-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly Schlein at the presentation of PhotoAnsa 2023 in Rome Monday, asking her why no on had activated the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bailout fund, the approval of whose reform has pitted Rome against its EU allies.
“The ESM debate is a very Italian debate and also a very ideological one, testifying to the instrumentality of certain positions: you cannot talk about the ESM if you do not know the context,” said the premier.
“Certain statements make me smile, such as PD secretary Elly Schlein saying ‘we cannot hold the whole of Europe down’.
“Perhaps she doesn’t know that the ESM exists, whoever wants to activate it can easily activate it.
“Perhaps we should ask ourselves why, at a time when we are all jumping through hoops to find resources, no one wants to activate it: this would be the debate to open”.
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Donald Trump is the only leader in the United States or Europe who is “strong enough” to put an end to the war in Ukraine, Viktor Orban said as the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches its second anniversary.
“Peace has a name, that of Donald Trump,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the French news magazine Le Point this week.
Despite fatigue with funding NATO’s proxy war with Russia setting in across the West, globalist politicians appear intent on continuing the war no matter what.
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Photos: Simultaneous Tractor Protests Grip Europe From East to West
Associated Press — Snow-dusted tractors lined up outside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and nighttime protests in Romania marked by vivid national flags have become markers of a farmer protest movement across Europe.
The biggest demonstrations have been seen in France, where farmers blocked highways around Paris with their tractors, but the dayslong protests have spread across the European Union, highlighting deep-seated grievances within the agricultural sector.
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Poland Shifts Climate Stance: Plans Withdrawal of Legal Challenges Against EU Policies
In a notable change of approach, Poland is set to withdraw ongoing legal challenges against several European Union (EU) climate policies, according to sources familiar with the matter, Reuters reports.
The shift comes after years of resistance to EU climate initiatives under the previous nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party. The decision to withdraw the lawsuits, initiated by the former government, reflects a new stance on climate change under the leadership of Centrist Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-European government, elected in October 2023.
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Polish Farmers Have Announced a Complete Border Blockade With Ukraine on February 9
Polish farmers are set to launch a general strike on February 9, planning to block the border with Ukraine as a protest against European agricultural policies, as reported by the organizers from the “Solidarity” trade union.
They plan to initiate the protest action on February 9 by blocking border crossings with Ukraine. Road and highway blockades across the country are also part of their plans.
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Disgraced former first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon has admitted to deleting messages with staff during the Chinese coronavirus crisis, despite claims of being transparent and open about decisions made during the lockdowns.
Arriving at a Covid-19 inquiry in Edinburgh, the former head of the leftist-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP), Nicola Sturgeon was greeted with heckles from the public, with shouts of “Where are your WhatsApps?” as she entered the city’s International Conference Centre, The Times of London reported.
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Spain: Aragón Repeals ‘Democratic Memory’ Law
The regional parliament of Aragón in Spain has repealed the controversial Democratic Memory Law.
The previous socialist-led regional parliament passed the law in 2019. It provided for a range of programs surrounding the regional history of the Spanish Civil War that lasted from 1936 to 1939, including a research center, recreation of cultural routes, and history curriculum in schools. It also included a definition of victims of the civil war that effectively made only those killed by the nationalist side in the conflict—led by Francisco Franco—official victims of the war with the corresponding right to be remembered as such.
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A member of one of Italy’s most ruthless mafia organizations, who staged a daring escape from a maximum-security prison last year, has been captured in France, confirmed authorities from both Italy and France on Friday, as reported by CBS News.
Marco Raduano, recognized as “dangerous” on Europol’s list of Europe’s most wanted criminals, was taken into custody in Bastia on the French island of Corsica. The 40-year-old Raduano heads the rural Gargano clan. According to Europol, he was serving a 24-year prison sentence for charges including membership in a criminal organization, drug trafficking, illegal weapons possession and other criminal activities.
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Top Expert Raises Alarm Over Sudden Death Surge Among Children
A leading expert has gone public after learning of a shocking surge in sudden deaths among children that started in 2021 after kids were given “the magic juice.”
Former BlackRock portfolio manager Edward Dowd, one of the world’s leading data experts, raised the alarm about the findings on The Jimmy Dore Show Wednesday.
Dowd conducted a data analysis study based on official UK government statistics.
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UK: London Judge Acquits Greta Thunberg Over Oil Protest
LONDON (AP) — A judge on Friday acquitted climate activist Greta Thunberg of a charge that she had refused to follow a police order to leave a protest that blocked the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year.
The gallery erupted with clapping as Judge John Law told Thunberg and her four co-defendants to stand and told them they were cleared of the criminal charge of breaching the Public Order Act on the grounds that there were “significant deficiencies in the evidence” presented against Thunberg and the others.
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More details are emerging about the identity of an Afghan man wanted in London in relation to a “horrific” chemical attack in London that injured 12, including his criminal past, failed attempts to claim asylum, and questionable conversion to Christianity.
Police named 35-year-old Abdul Shokoor Ezedi on Thursday as being wanted in connection to a serious attack near Clapham Common in South London on Wednesday which saw a woman run over, a child repeatedly “smashed” into the ground, and a strong alkali chemical thrown, causing severe burns. 12 people were injured, some seriously, including a mother, her daughters, members of the public who went to help them, and police officers responding to the scene.
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Dawn Queva, a senior scheduler and payout planner for BBC Three, shared posts attacking Jewish people, branding them as ‘caucAsians of the Synagogue of Satan’ and ‘thieving squatters’.
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Israel’s Military Threatens to Advance Into Last Gaza ‘Safe Zone’
Israel said troops would soon move into the refugee camp and city of Rafah, the last designated safe zone for Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip where more than a million people are sequestered.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Thursday that after achieving military objectives in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, forces would now enter Rafah, which is even farther south and located at the border with Egypt.
The move into Rafah renewed fears that Palestinian civilians will no longer have any place to flee the violence as nearly all of Gaza has now come under Israeli control. Israel has designated Rafah a safe zone, though critics say nowhere in Gaza is safe.
Some 1.7 million Palestinians are in Rafah after being displaced from their homes in Gaza, according to the United Nations. The city once had a population of around 250,000 people, making it immensely overcrowded.
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CNN’s Walsh: U.S. Strikes Less Than Soleimani Strike, ‘Telegraphed’ Enough to Let Targets Avoid Them
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh stated that the U.S. strikes in response to the fatal drone attack on U.S. soldiers “seem to be essentially telegraphed enough to give those on the receiving end enough time to relocate or lessen the damage that potentially could have been done” and the strikes are smaller than the strike that killed Qasem Soleimani under the Trump administration.
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US Hits Hard at Militias in Iraq and Syria, Retaliating for Fatal Drone Attack, Officials Tell AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend, according the the U.S. military and officials.
President Joe Biden and other top U.S. leaders had been warning for days that America would strike back at the militias, and they made it clear it wouldn’t be just one hit but a “tiered response” over time.
“This afternoon, at my direction, U.S. military forces struck targets at facilities in Iraq and Syria that the IRGC and affiliated militia use to attack U.S. forces,” Biden said in a statement. “Our response began today. It will continue at times and places of our choosing.”
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French Intelligence Has Determined That the IL-76 Was Shot Down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The Associated Press reports, citing a French military official, that the French military has concluded that the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down the IL-76 with American Patriot SAM systems. The firing reportedly occurred from a distance of approximately 50 kilometers.
The French have deduced that the Ukrainian battery apparently managed to go unnoticed as it approached the border, then activated its radars “just enough to hit the target.”
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Putin Casts the Ukraine Conflict as a Fight for Russia’s Survival as He Seeks Reelection
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Friday described Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as a battle for Russia’s survival as he campaigned for reelection next month in balloting that he’s all but certain to win.
Speaking at a meeting with arms industries workers in the city of Tula south of Moscow, Putin declared that the vast majority of Russians support his course.
“If the public hadn’t felt that way, nothing would have happened,” he said. “We are doing what people expect us to do.”
He again argued that sending troops into Ukraine was necessary to protect Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine and stop what he described as attempts by Washington and its NATO allies to encroach on Moscow’s vital security interests. Ukraine and its Western allies have denounced it as an unprovoked act of aggression.
“If we hadn’t protected our people … we would have turned into a weak country lacking self-sufficiency that no one cares for,” he said. “They would have patronizingly patted us on the shoulder and given us rotten potatoes as humanitarian assistance while thinking how to chip away pieces from us.”
Putin said that despite Western expectations Russia would collapse quickly under the brunt of sanctions, its economy has grown and military industries have sharply increased output.
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Russian Missile Corvette Sunk by Swarm of Drones, Says Ukraine
Ukraine claims to have sunk a Soviet-era missile corvette in the Black Sea, releasing footage showing a swarm of drone boats bombing the ship and it sinking.
A Russian Molniya [NATO name ‘Tarantul’] missile corvette, a relatively small and fast Cold War-era attack ship meant for swarming and taking out high-value Western warships with supersonic cruise missiles has reportedly been destroyed in the Black Sea. Ukraine claimed to have sunk the ship with a drone swarm in the early hours of January 1st, achieving “a series of direct hits to the hull” causing the ship to roll over and sink.
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Sabita Mishra | HENB | New Delhi | Feb 1, 2024:: On January 26th (Rajab 1445 14 Friday), the 32nd edition of ‘Voice of Khurasan’, an online magazine affiliated with the Islamic State, was disseminated across various social media and dark web platforms. In this recent release, ISIS issued threats specifically targeting Hindus and Hindutva leaders including BJP key persons, as hinted They warned of repercussions, citing concerns related to the illegal construction of Babri, the Gujarat Riots in 2002, and other issues including alleged Muslim persecution in India. The 32nd edition of ‘Voice of Khurasan’ surfaced on the internet on January 29-30, 2024 as published by Al-Azaim Foundation of Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP).
In an article titled “Would you desire me to slay him?” there was a mention of the National Institute of Technology (Srinagar) matter where a Hindu boy was accused of using derogatory language against Prophet Mohammed.
In November 2023, a student at Srinagar National Institute of Technology (NIT), who was Hindu, faced charges of blasphemy for sharing a video on his Instagram story. The video featured Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of the Hamas leader, criticizing Prophet Muhammad. The Hindu student shared an already viral video where Yousef made critical remarks about Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
On Tuesday, following widespread protests and chanting at the NIT campus over the mentioned video, an FIR was filed against the Hindu student. Even though the video did not showcase the Hindu student and he was not its creator but rather had shared an edited version produced by a YouTuber, Muslim students at NIT Srinagar called for his arrest, alleging ‘blasphemy’.
The Muslims of NIT Srinagar and several other Islamists not only demanded his arrest but also raised ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ slogans against the Hindu boy.
The mentioned student was in a relationship with a girl Muslim student at the same institute. Due to harassment from Islamists, the Hindu student had to leave Kashmir. Following the controversy, several Hindu students were relocated from Srinagar. Importantly, the Hindu student did not engage in any inappropriate behaviour; he simply shared a widely circulated video featuring the son of a Hamas leader.
ISIS highlighted that the incident occurred in a region where Muslims constitute the majority, considering it a “clear provocation to war.” The terror organization further asserted that it signalled a change in Kashmir, a place where non-Muslims, particularly Hindus, once concealed their opinions due to fear for their lives. According to ISIS, this increasing boldness suggests that if Hindus could dominate Muslims even temporarily, they would not allow Muslims to “live in peace.”
ISIS asserted that Muslims are being subjected to various forms of attacks in cities dominated by Hindus, often orchestrated by organizations like the RSS. These attacks, according to ISIS, encompass economic, physical, and psychological dimensions. To support their claim, the terror group referenced an unfortunate incident in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, where a woman was accidentally shot in the head by an Assistant Inspector.
Reports indicate that the 55-year-old woman, identified as Ishrat Nigar, visited the police station for passport verification. During the process, SI Manoj Sharma from a nearby police station arrived to collect his weapon. Unfortunately, the gun accidentally discharged while being handed over by a constable. Despite receiving treatment, the woman passed away at the hospital. Video evidence of the incident suggests it was an unfortunate accident, and legal procedures are being followed. However, ISIS has seized on the incident, portraying it as a case of government employees versus Muslims.
‘We are saying to the government of India…Yes! Indeed, we shall come with swords in our hands to slaughter you collectively—[Yes!] We shall come to avenge Babri masjid, [we shall come to avenge] the persecuted [Muslims] of Gujarat, Kashmir, Muzaffarnagar,” the magazine threatened alongside a picture of an ISIS terrorist wielding a knife and a kneeled captive wearing the archetype orange suit and sitting in front of him.
The ISIS-backed magazine continued to issue a threat of “Sar Tan Se Juda”, or slaughter, at the end of the article. ISIS referred to the statements of terrorist Fahad Tanveer Shaikh, also known as Abu Umar Al-Hindi, who had issued threats against Hindus. In 2016, a video featuring two ISIS terrorists from Kalyan surfaced on the internet.
Fahad Tanveer Shaikh and Aman Naeem Tandel were featured in the video, and reports suggested both were elevated to top leadership positions within the terror organization. Although the ISIS magazine attributed the threat against India and Hindus to Fahad, some reports indicated that the words used in the magazine were those of Aman. He had said, “We will return (to India), but with a sword in hand, the Babri Masjid, and the killings of Muslims in Kashmir, in Gujarat, and Muzaffarnagar.”
Fahad and Aman were among four Muslim boys who fled home to join ISIS in 2014. Fahad was killed in 2017. Aman was killed in 2016.
The threat in the article further read, “At last, it is obligatory upon the people of knowledge to safeguard the honour of the Prophet g and make it evident to the masses in time of fitna, and they are those who possess the knowledge to take a firm stand against that which demands attention!!”
Voice of Khurasan, an ISIS-backed magazine, commenced publication in 2021 and has released 32 issues as of January 2024. The magazine has consistently issued threats against Hindus and the Government of India in its previous editions. Additionally, it actively encourages Muslims to join and contribute funds to terrorist organizations.
Earlier, the same ISIS magazine ‘Voice of Khurasan’ issued threats to Indian PM Modi, RSS Chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat and Hindutva leader Dr Pravin Togadia to face dire consequences under Islamic dictum.
Quran, the Hand Book of Jihad, orders to kill infidels (Kuffars) in its various verses (ayats) openly.
Interestingly, such threats to Hindus, Jews or Christians and Ex-Muslims from the Islamist organizations never amount to any meaningful repercussions to denounce such a type of barbaric acts of a section of Muslim people by any international Judicial body, Peace Foundations or Human Rights forum.
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Once-Hesitant China Lends Full Support to Russian Invasion of Ukraine as Anniversary Nears
Defense Minister Dong Jun of China reportedly declared that Beijing would “not change or abandon [its] established policy” in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this week — a full-throated endorsement presenting a shift from the Communist Party’s prior attempts to remain “neutral” in the conflict.
The Russian state outlet RT reported that Dong made the remark during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Shoigu on Wednesday. Dong’s meeting with Shoigu marked his debut on the international stage, as communist dictator Xi Jinping appointed him to the position of defense minister on December 29. His predecessor, Li Shangfu, disappeared without explanation in August and subsequently lost his position in October, leaving China with no defense minister for two months. Li’s whereabouts, or why he disappeared, remain a mystery at press time.
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Benjamin Hickey, 31, passed away in his sleep on January 22 while lying next to his girlfriend in their home in Davoren Park, north Adelaide.
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A Fire Set Off by a Gas Explosion in Kenya Kills at Least 3 People and Injures 280 Others
A truck loaded with liquid petroleum gas cylinders has exploded in a depot and set off a late-night inferno that burned homes and warehouses in Kenya’s capital
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Liquid petroleum gas cylinders exploded in an illegal depot in a residential area of the Kenyan capital, officials said Friday, setting off a late-night inferno that killed at least three people and injured 280 others. The death toll was expected to rise.
The depot in Nairobi had twice been demolished, and the owner had been found guilty of operating an illegal gas refilling business in May, but continued to do business, officials said. That raised suspicions — in a country where corruption is endemic — that bribes were paid to ignore the operation.
At least 24 people were critically injured, the Kenya Red Cross said, after a huge fireball erupted from the gas depot and rapidly spread, burning homes and warehouses. Some gas cylinders were thrown hundreds of meters (yards), sparking separate fires in the neighborhood.
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A Brazilian fugitive, who was wanted in his home country for rape, has been arrested and has a pending deportation after he was released into the interior of the US in 2021 with a pending asylum court date.
Thalles Mendes Ribeiro was apprehended on June, 10, 2021, when he entered the United States near San Ysidro, California. After being processed and charged with inadmissibility, he was transferred to Enforcement and Removal Operations (EROI) San Diego’s custody.
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A law enforcement officer told CNN that illegal immigrants are deterred by Florida’s laws and do not look upon the state as a safe haven in which to commit crime sprees.
John Miller, Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst, told CNN that among the 175,000 illegal immigrants that have flooded into New York City in recent months, there is a “criminal element that looks at a different opportunity here. These individuals—I went over their rap sheets yesterday—multiple charges: grand larceny, robbery, attempted robbery, grand larceny, grand larceny.”
These are the men Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg sought fit to release without bail.
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A Border Patrol center for migrants in Eagle Pass, Texas was evacuated after threats to burn it down were made by people who joined the ‘Take Back Our Border’ trucker convoy to protest the Biden administration’s border policies.
Up to 175 migrants were relocated to other holding centers in Texas on Thursday after law enforcement learned of the threats, sources confirmed to DailyMail.com.
The Border Patrol’s version of SWAT units, BORTAC, and a separate mobile response team were activated to provide additional security, the sources added.
[Comment: Those on our side must not resort to illegal actions.]
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Elon Musk Backs Deportation of Illegal Immigrants Convicted of DUIs
On Thursday, Elon Musk came out in favor of deporting illegal immigrants who get convicted of drunk driving while in the United States.
His comments came following the passing of a bill by the House that would make driving under the influence a deportable offense, legislation that 150 Democrats voted against.
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German Authorities Introduce New Law on Illegal Migrants
Today, the Bundesrat is considering a comprehensive set of measures for the deportation of illegal migrants from Germany. The new proposals suggest extending the detention period, while simplifying the deportation process for serious offenders, as reported by Bild.
Under pressure from the Greens, a provision was added to the draft law requiring that all deportees be provided with legal representation in advance. There is now a risk that states under the control of the CDU/CSU might reject the entire proposed package due to this addition.
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A group of House Republicans has demanded that Democrat President Joe Biden use executive action to fix the “catastrophe” at the U.S. Southern Border.
64 GOP members of the House of Representatives are demanding that Biden use his executive powers to address the border crisis that the president’s “actions alone created.”
The call is a pointed message as White House and Senate negotiators work on a compromise to tackle the issue.
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FIRST ON FOX: Four men charged in Saturday’s attack on two NYPD officers are believed to have fled to California on a bus, and unwitting taxpayers appear to have paid for their tickets, a law enforcement source told Fox News Digital.
The city and Mayor Eric Adams have been struggling with a massive influx of illegal immigrants under President Biden.
With many new arrivals making their way to blue sanctuary cities, New York in October began offering one-way plane tickets to migrants who wanted to leave.
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Illegal Alien Flips Middle Fingers at America After Being Set Free for Violently Attacking NYPD Cops
An illegal alien let the taxpaying American people know what he thinks of them as he walked free from police custody after being arrested for attacking two NYPD officers in Times Square.
Violent illegal migrant Jhoan Boada was arrested for taking part in a mob attack on two NYPD officers.
However, he was released from custody on Wednesday.
As walked free from the police station, 22-year-old Boada flipped his middle fingers at the American people, seemingly showing no remorse for his crimes.
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NYC Launches $53M Program to Give Pre-Paid Debit Cards to Migrants to Spend in BODEGAS:…
— Users must sign affidavit promising only to use card for food and baby supplies, with family of four set to get $1,000-a-month
Migrants housed in one of New York City’s hotels will receive pre-paid cards with which to buy food and baby supplies, instead of the city providing meals the migrants often did not want.
Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, estimated the $53 million scheme will save the city $600,000 a month, or $7.2 million annually.
The pilot program is being rolled out at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, with 500 families involved, The New York Post reported. A family of four will get a card loaded with $1,000-a-month, equivalent to $35 a day.
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Some of the migrants accused of assaulting two NYPD officers in Times Square have had previous encounters with police.
A total of six migrants have been charged since the Saturday attack on cops, but five have been released with no bail. Police are still on the lookout for at least eight other suspects they believe were involved in the melee.
Only Yohenry Brito, 24, remains behind bars after being charged with the attack of the officers, which was caught on video. Police say he was resisting arrest when the other migrants jumped in to attack the two officers.
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Sarah Palin and rock legend Ted Nugent came to support the trucker convoy in Texas that wants to shame Biden into ending the migrant crisis.
The pair joined the rally for the ‘Take Our Border Back’ movement in Dripping Springs, central Texas, yesterday alongside about a thousand of attendees from all over the state.
The former governor of Alaska and one-time vice presidential candidate, 59, condemned the immigration policies of the Biden administration as ‘unconscionable.’
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Topeka Entices Migrants to Come Fill Jobs, Offering Some $15K to Move
The city of Topeka, Kansas, wants migrants with permission to work in the United States to make themselves at home in its communities.
Officials say the city is struggling with almost stagnant population growth and a low unemployment rate while it has approximately 6,600 job openings, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, 35, is on the run from police are being suspected of carrying out an attack on the mother and her two daughters, aged three and eight, on Wednesday night in Clapham.
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Vermont Resettled Somalis, Shootings Are Up 185%
Shootings are up 185% in Vermont from 2021 to 2022.
“We are not used to this level of violence in Vermont,” Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger complained after the city racked up 5 murders. That may not sound like much, but it gives the normally sleepy city, where Bernie Sanders got his start, a higher murder rate than Philly.
When James Eaton, a mentally unstable leftist who had praised Hamas, shot and wounded three Arab Muslim men outside his home, the media eagerly diverted attention from the crime wave to the shooter, who was conveniently white, while falsely blaming it on ‘Islamophobia’.
The discredited hoax was not only trying to rally support for terrorists, but also to distract attention from the real perpetrators of the violence that has overtaken Bernie’s old city.
The shooters in Burlington, VT are much more likely to be Muslim male teens.
Another recent shooting out of Burlington made the national news when Hussein Mohamed, the underage son of Somali immigrants who don’t speak English, shot and killed Madden: a local 14-year-old boy. It was reported that “state police were able to make an arrest despite at least two eyewitnesses from the car providing multiple false statements about the crime.”
The murder wave in Burlington was touched off in 2022 when Abdiaziz Abdhikadir, 19, shot and killed Hussein Mubarak, 21.
Abdiaziz Abdhikadir had been part of a Somali Muslim refugee family profiled by the New York Times under the headline “U.S. a Place of Miracles for Somali Refugees.” Of that family, one son was convicted of assault with a firearm, another of “aggravated assault for shooting a man in November 2020” and Abdiaziz Abdhikadir was the grandson of that same family.
Abdhikadir had allegedly become a member of a Somali gang that stole cars while “wearing surgical gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints behind” and two of them had attacked a man in broad daylight while wearing ski masks.
Mubarak had been born in a refugee camp before being his family was resettled in America where his “older and younger siblings” spent time in jail, while he turned to selling drugs.
The reporting on the incident and other violent encounters in Burlington are littered with mentions of drug dealing, stolen cars and guns, shootings in garages and names like Abdirahman Mohamed, Ahmed Mohamed, Badal Khadka and Abukar Hilowle.
| — Hat tip: Daniel Greenfield | [Return to headlines] |
Chicago’s 9th Ward Alderman Anthony Beale is fed up with City Hall handing out freebies to illegal aliens and says that the large amount of welfare border crossers are allotted is serving as an advertisement for even more to come here.
During a recent address made on the floor of the Chicago city council, Beale said that illegals are being paid more than $9,000 a month in free childcare, housing vouchers, food, clothing, education, legal help, and other services.
“Now, I’ve said this before. If you give me 3 meals, housing, childcare, education, a voucher for $9,000. You know what? I’d come to Chicago too,” he said during a floor debate
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Biden Spends $200,000 Taxpayer Money on Transgender App Teaching Men How to Sound Like ‘Women’
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has just invested $200,000 of American taxpayer money on a transgender app that teaches men how to sound like “women.”
The huge grant was approved by Biden’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) in November.
The grant, first reported by The College Fix, will be used to fund research for the smartphone app.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
New York Times Shows the Teens Victimized by Transgenderism
The New York Times bucked powerful pressure from the transgender lobby to showcase some of the teenagers who were pushed and harmed by irreversible surgery and body-changing hormones.
The landmark article may help many other progressives quietly recognize the cruelty of converting unhappy teenagers into lifetime subjects for use by the political lobby and its medical allies.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has voiced concerns about censorship, as their recent investigative report revealed that approximately 85% of prestigious US institutions impose speech restrictions.
This rise signals a worrisome trend in the aftermath of progress spanning over a decade during which the frequency of stern speech regulations in colleges and universities was on the decline. However, these regulations are now gaining prominence for the second consecutive year.
Laura Beltz, FIRE’s director of policy reform, emphasized the problem, stating that free speech at higher educational establishments continues to deteriorate. She expressed concern over the predominant colleges and universities, who are increasingly exerting controls and employing highly controversial policies to regulate their students’ freedom of speech.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
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Swedish Håkan Bergmark’s 3rd Interview
with Col. Douglas Macgregor
February 01 2024 – Swedish undertexted
https://rumble.com/v4aq93u-bergmarks-interview-with-col-douglas-macgregor.html
Re. UK: London Chemical Attack Suspect is ‘Good Muslim’ Who May Have Faked Christian Conversion to Get Asylum
Is there such a policy in the UK to grant asylum to people from Islamic countries if, or even only if, they leave the faith? The possibility of betrayal notwithstanding, this would be a good move. Is it true?
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What do you do when everything is a lie?
2/2-24 – http://www.snaphanen.dk
from Danish by LN
By Lars Hedegaard
I’ve been wanting to write more about the media and the damaging effects of its transition to being a conduit for various far-left obsessions.
I have noticed with sadness that some of my friends on the “right” have started subscribing to a number of conspiracy theories:
The Hamas massacre on 7 October was instigated by evil Jews who wanted an excuse to carry out mass murder of Palestinians.
The planes that took out the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 were remotely controlled by the US and had nothing to do with fanatical Muslims’ desire to kill infidels.
Corona was invented by Bill Gates to exterminate the majority of the world’s population.
I’ve even heard from – now former – friends that Auschwitz was just a labour camp and that the Holocaust is a lie and Jewish propaganda.
How did it come to this? I was asked this question yesterday, and my best explanation is that otherwise right-thinking people, after many years of listening to the systematic lies of the media, have concluded that everything else is probably lies as well.
And on Google you can easily find “experts” who can provide convincing explanations that in all cases the opposite of what we believed has happened.
This is one of the most striking feats of the lying press.
We also know it from our private lives. If your wife has cheated on you, you think all women are like that. And maybe they are.
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“We shall have Swedish Television back!!”
– Back to the people – back for the people.
– No more lies! — No more omissions!
Demonstration against SVT – Saturday February 2 in Stockholm!
https://swebbtube.se/w/nrFDFkPpvC4xZLT5n2Wbsq
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Mikael Willgerts tal vid Kärleksmanifestationen
“Ta tillbaka SVT – Rädda Sverige!”
vid TV-huset i Stockholm
https://swebbtv.se/w/hT7fXYNDcxZ5cnSiC7tiJg
“Bring back SVT – Save Sweden!”
… at the TV house in Stockholm
https://swebbtv.se/w/hT7fXYNDcxZ5cnSiC7tiJg