The Russian-speaking Moscow-backed breakaway region of Transnistria — nominally part of Moldova, across the Dniester River from Moldova proper — has asked Russia for help. Transnistria claims that the Moldovan government is hurting its economy, and there are fears that intervention by Russia may trigger World War Three.
In other news, Muslim voters in Michigan are calling on President Biden to demand an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, or risk being defeated by former President Trump.
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AOC Defends Hunter Biden Amid Impeachment Inquiry Testimony: ‘Abuse of Public Power’
Radical Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took part in a publicity stunt for the corporate media where she accused House Republicans of an “abuse of public power” for calling Hunter Biden to testify.
Hunter was called to testify for a closed-door deposition before the House impeachment inquiry into Democrat President Joe Biden on Wednesday.
Lawmakers on the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees sought to question Hunter about his father’s alleged role in their family’s foreign influence peddling and bribery business.
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Biden Admin Issues Legal Challenge to Block Kroger-Albertsons Merger
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has initiated legal proceedings to block the proposed merger of supermarket chains Kroger and Albertsons.
Biden’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) claims that the deal would result in increased consumer food prices.
The FTC published a press release on its website this week to announce the lawsuit, according to a report by NBC News.
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Big Oil Companies Ask Supreme Court to Intervene in High-Stakes Climate Case
A coalition of major oil companies are asking the Supreme Court to rule on a key aspect of numerous ongoing nationwide lawsuits filed by cities, counties and states, accusing the companies of deceiving the public about their role in causing global warming.
In a petition for writ of certiorari filed Wednesday, the oil companies — including Sunoco, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Marathon Petroleum, ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66, among others — asked the high court to intervene in a climate case filed against them by the City and County of Honolulu. They said a Supreme Court judgment in the case could have far-reaching impacts on the other similar cases filed by other jurisdictions.
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Breaking: White House Releases Health Report Claiming Joe Biden is ‘Healthy’ and ‘Robust’
On Wednesday, presidential physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor released the results from Joe Biden’s annual physical, revealing that he had uncovered “no new concerns.”
O’Connor found Biden to be “fit for duty” and physically able to take on the responsibilities of leading the United States.
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Players for the University of California, Berkley softball team got a rude awakening when they took a knee for the national anthem during a game in Louisiana.
The leftist protest provoked an immediate and brutal response from fans of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s women’s softball team.
Patriots in the crowd were outraged by the disrespectful display and blasted the players over the “liberal wokeness” they were expressing.
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Congressional Leadership Cuts Bipartisan Deal to Avert Partial Government Shutdown
Congressional leaders unveiled a bipartisan plan Wednesday to avert a looming partial government shutdown at midnight Saturday.
Under the deal, lawmakers will work to pass a stop-gap resolution to extend the deadline to properly fund the government to March 8 for six of the 12 necessary spending bills and March 22 for the other six.
“We are in agreement that Congress must work in a bipartisan manner to fund our government,” all four congressional leaders and the four top appropriators said in a joint statement Wednesday evening.
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Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson said Wednesday morning she was back in the 2024 race, just three weeks after announcing she was suspending her campaign, calling GOP front-runner Donald Trump a “fascist” and claiming President Biden is unable to defeat him in November.
The best-selling author and self-help guru received 3% of the vote in Michigan’s Democratic primary Tuesday, ahead of Biden challenger Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), who could only manage 2.7%
[Comment: New Age grand ma to the rescue!]
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Denver Closing Four Shelters, Scaling Back Migrant Services to Save $60M
Denver is scaling back services for migrants, including closing four shelters during the next four weeks to save $60 million in the long term, Mayor Mike Johnston announced Wednesday.
The closures follow the city’s decision in recent weeks to reinstate time limits on its shelters, which were put on pause for several weeks of freezing temperatures. The policy change led to 2,500 people leaving seven hotels and three other buildings during the past six weeks, the mayor said during a news conference.
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The FBI is planning to arrest a Blaze Media reporter on Friday over his coverage of the US Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Steve Baker, an investigative reporter for Blaze Media, announced on Tuesday that his legal team had been notified by the FBI that there is a signed warrant for his arrest. Baker says he has been ordered to self-surrender to federal authorities for “alleged J6 crimes” on Friday in Dallas, Texas.
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Gavin Newsom Dismantles Dams to Protect Salmon, Destroys Their Spawning Beds in the Process
California Gov. Gavin Newsom backed the controversial proposal to remove four Klamath River hydroelectric dams along the California-Oregon border. Now, the same fish he swore to protect could be killed in the process.
The dams had been breached on claims that it would help salmon migrate, but the Klamath River is now full of destroyed spawning salmon beds and pollution including decomposed algae, organic deposition, chemicals, and fine silt which is killing its ecosystem, according to a report from the California Globe.
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After the 2016 election, Google CEO Sundar Pichai pledged that investing in artificial intelligence would be a great opportunity for the tech giant to combat “misinformation.”
These comments, made during an “all hands” employee meeting in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, have received renewed scrutiny after the blunder of Google’s AI tool, which users flagged for its bias against White people.
As highlighted by Michael Shellenberger on “Public,” his Substack newsletter, Pichai told employees upset over Trump’s victory: “I think our investments in machine learning and AI is a big opportunity here.”
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Google ‘Working Around the Clock’ to Fix ‘Unacceptable’ Gemini AI, CEO Says
Google is working to fix its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) tool, CEO Sundar Pichai told employees on Tuesday, calling the images generated by the model “biased” and “completely unacceptable.”
The Alphabet-owned company paused Gemini’s image generation feature last week after users on social media flagged that Gemini was creating inaccurate historical images that sometimes replaced White people with images of Black, Native American and Asian people.
In a note to employees, Pichai said the tool’s responses were offensive to users and had shown bias.
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WASHINGTON — First son Hunter Biden claimed in congressional testimony Wednesday that he was “high or drunk” when he wrote to a Chinese associate in 2017 that he was “sitting here with my father” — shortly before the transfer of $5.1 million into Biden family-linked accounts.
A readout of the 54-year-old first son’s closed-door impeachment inquiry deposition was provided to numerous news outlets Wednesday evening citing Hunter’s claim that President Biden had nothing to do with the shakedown of Chinese state-linked CEFC China Energy.
The readout said “Hunter admitted that he was high or drunk when he sent the ‘sitting here with my father’ WhatsApp message, sent it to the wrong recipient, and is now embarrassed by the message.”
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Hunter Biden testified on Capitol Hill that he “did not involve” his Democrat president father in their family’s shady foreign business deals.
On Wednesday, Hunter Biden appeared before congressional lawmakers for a closed-door deposition at the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees.
During his testimony, Hunter also blasted House Republicans for having “hunted” him in their “partisan political pursuit” of President Joe Biden.
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Ignored by ‘Oppenheimer,’ Atomic Test Victims Speak Out
Wesley Burris was fast asleep in bed when the world’s first atomic bomb exploded just 25 miles from his front door.
A blinding light filled the home in the New Mexico desert, before the impossible force of the blast shattered its windows, spraying glass across the four-year-old boy and his brother.
“It was so bright, I couldn’t see,” Burris recalls. “I can remember asking, ‘Dad, what happened? Did the Sun blow up?’“
The events of 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945 are now best known to millions from their dramatic re-enactment in the Oscar-tipped movie “Oppenheimer.”
But they loom large in the actual memory of Burris, who is now 83 years old and still living just a few miles from the secret location where scientists and military chiefs gathered on that historic morning.
Because while the film presents the Trinity test site as a vast, empty desert, Burris and his family were among thousands who lived within a 50-mile (80-kilometer) radius.
And like all of their neighbors, the family had no clue what was going on — or why a giant mushroom-shaped cloud was spreading across their horizon.
“We weren’t scared from it. Because it didn’t kill us right there,” he told AFP. “We had no idea what it was.”
Fast-forward eight decades, and Burris knows all too well the true deadliness of that explosion, which sent radioactive material 50,000 feet (15,000 meters) into the air.
The test took place amid thunderstorms, despite scientists’ warnings, in the race to have the bomb ready for a key World War II summit with the Soviets.
Torrential rains brought toxic debris straight back down, where it irradiated the desert dust, the water supplies and the food chain.
Burris has lost his brother to cancer. His sister had it too, as does her daughter.
And he himself has skin cancer, which he tries to treat with traditional Native American medicine.
Despite all this, no New Mexican affected by radiation from the Trinity test has received a dime in compensation.
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Illinois Judge Removes Trump From State Ballot Because of ‘Insurrectionist Ban’
An Illinois judge announced late Wednesday that former President Trump has been removed from the state’s 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot, citing his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots.
Cook County Circuit Judge Tracie Porter barred Trump from the Illinois ballot one month after the anti-Trump challenge was dismissed by the Illinois State Board of Elections. Illinois goes to the polls March 19.
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Key Witness in Fani Willis Case Testifies He May Have Lied in Texts About Friends’ Affair
Former law firm partner and divorce attorney Terrance Bradley testified under oath Tuesday regarding what he knew about Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis and special prosector Nathan Wade’s personal relationship. Bradley took the stand after Judge Scott McAfee determined Bradley couldn’t claim attorney-client privilege.
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A major donor to Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to reap the benefit of an obscure exemption to the state’s new $20 minimum wage regulations for the fast food industry that will allow some of his restaurants to continue paying lower wages.
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Major Banks to Close 31 Branches in One Week Across US
Between February 11 and 17, a number of the United States’ largest banks revealed that they would be closing over 30 bank branches across the country.
During that same time period, 15 new branches were announced.
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Scores of prominent Islamic migrant figures, most with deep ties to the Democratic Party and including donors to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s reelection campaign, alongside a celebrated left-wing journalist, business owners, and government workers, stand accused of wire fraud, money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy to commit those crimes. They allegedly funneled millions of federal dollars, earmarked for feeding underprivileged children, into personal luxuries, ranging from lavish homes and high-end cars to even a beach resort in Kenya.
The Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, uncovered by federal authorities, represents one of the most egregious examples of pandemic-era fraud, with over $250 million stolen from programs designed to feed needy children in Minnesota. The scheme involved a network of almost exclusively Islamic immigrant defendants who exploited the Federal Child Nutrition Program. This program was intended to provide nutritious food to underserved children, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when regular school meals were disrupted.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office recently announced the indictment of ten additional individuals, bringing the total number of defendants to 70. These latest indictments involve charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, and bribery, highlighting the complex web of deceit spun by the accused to misappropriate federal funds. About half of the individuals charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud case have also received tens of millions of dollars in state contracts for services like child care and assistance to seniors and people with disabilities. It has been noted that among the 70 defendants, many attempted to flee their home countries, which are predominantly Islamic-controlled, as authorities closed in on them.
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Michigan Muslims Take Biden Hostage to Save Hamas
While Israeli commandos rescued a 70-year-old man and 60-year-old man who were being held hostage in Gaza, Hamas supporters in America were taking an 81-year-old man hostage in D.C.
Hamas may be losing in Gaza, but it’s winning in Michigan.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is now the latest Michigan Muslim terror activist to urge Hamas supporters in the state to reject Biden in the primary by casting an “uncommitted” vote.
According to Rep. Tlaib, who became the only member of Congress to refuse to vote to condemn Hamas rapes of Jewish women, her goal is to “create a voting bloc” to stop Israel’s campaign to take down the Islamic terror group.
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Michigan Voters Call on Biden to Press for Israel Cease-Fire or Risk Defeat to Trump
Arab Americans and Muslim voters in Michigan are calling on President Biden to demand an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, or risk defeat to former President Trump in November.
Biden’s stance on Israel’s war in Gaza has earned him fierce backlash from Arab American and Muslim community leaders, particularly in Michigan, which is home to one of the largest Muslim communities in the U.S.
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A new poll from Harvard Caps and Harris X has revealed that American voters would vote for 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump over incumbent Joe Biden even if he is convicted in any of the many cases brought forth against him.
The poll asked respondents who they would vote for if Trump is convicted in the Georgia RICO election case, brought forth by Fulton County DA Fani Willis, to which 52 percent said they would still vote for Trump while 48 percent said they would vote for Biden, which is down from 49 percent in January.
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A New York Appeals Court judge has denied former President Trump’s request to delay payment of the $464 million owed to the state after Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit, but said he will temporarily allow the 2024 front-runner and his sons to continue running their business during the appeals process.
Trump and his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were barred earlier this month from operating their business in New York for a range of two to three years. Trump was also found liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in the civil fraud case brought against him, his family and the Trump Organization by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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New: Kamala Harris Says Biden Admin Will Pay College Students to Register Voters
Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Tuesday that the government would pay college students through the federally-funded work-study program to register voters and work as poll workers.
“We have been doing work to promote voter participation for students. And for example, we have under the federal work-study program now allows students to get paid through federal work-study, to register people, and to be nonpartisan poll workers. As we know this is important for a number of reasons, one, to engage our young leaders in this process and activate them in terms of their ability to strengthen our communities,” Harris said.
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Now Nowhere in San Francisco is Safe From Crime — We’re the Proof, Say Shop Owners in ‘Quiet’ Areas
San Francisco’s crime spree has taken a new twist: it has exploded out of its shattered downtown into areas residents thought were still safe — despite its mayor claiming the city is beating the criminals.
Mayor Landon Breed touted declining crime numbers in January, saying in a statement that “our work around public safety is making a difference.”
But police statistics analyzed by The Post show that the city’s previously quieter residential areas are instead being hit hard with burglary — and shopkeepers in those areas told The Post they’re living on edge.
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The recent surge in subway violence came in the months after the number of cops underground plummeted to levels not seen in years, according to data reviewed by The Post.
The analysis also shows crime fell by as much as 8% during past upticks in police patrols on the subways.
The examination of policing power in the subways comes as the NYPD has again boosted its presence in the system by 1,000 officers per day following three homicides underground in the span of a month.
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“Our country is at war,” seven-time New York Times best-selling author Peter Schweizer said during a discussion with Mark Levin, explaining why powerful figures in America turn a blind eye while China kills Americans, as detailed in his latest book Blood Money.
Levin, describing Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans as an “absolutely crucial book,” asked Schweizer why he decided to write it.
Schweizer, the president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and a senior contributor to Breitbart News, said he has watched what has happened throughout the country — from the violence in the streets to the “plague of drugs” and social unrest — and decided to look into the “accelerants” of these issues.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Police are searching for a person of interest believed to have been involved in an explosive device that went off outside the Alabama Attorney General’s Office over the weekend.
On Wednesday, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency released footage of a masked man walking along the sidewalk in Montgomery.
The latest development comes after an explosive device was detonated outside the AG’s office at the corner of Washington Avenue and South Bainbridge Street at 3:42 a.m. Saturday.
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RFK Jr. Calls on President Biden to Show He Has the ‘Cognitive Capacity’ and ‘Mental Acuity’ to Lead
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. called on President Biden Wednesday to show the American people he has the “cognitive capacity” and “mental acuity” to lead the nation for another four-year term.
“I think he [Biden] needs to come out of the White House and show Americans that he has the cognitive capacity, to, and the mental acuity, to handle this job at probably the most challenging time now, at least in recent American history,” RFK Jr. told “The Story.”
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San Francisco Issues Formal ‘Apology’ on Behalf of Residents for City’s ‘Institutional Racism’
Democrat officials in San Francisco have voted to issue a formal apology on behalf of the California city’s residents for decades of “institutional racism.”
In a Tuesday vote, all 11 of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors signed on as sponsors of the resolution to apologize to the city’s black residents.
All 11 members of the board are Democrats.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell Will Step Down as Republican Leader in November
Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history, and one of the most powerful, announced Wednesday he will step down from that position after the November elections — and suggested he may retire at the end of his current term in 2027 to hand off to “the next generation of leadership.”
“I turned 82 last week, and the end of my contributions are closer than I prefer,” a visibly emotional McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor. “I’m filled with heartfelt gratitude and humility for the opportunity.”
“When I got here, I was just happy if anybody remembered my name,” added McConnell, apparently referencing a flub by Ronald Reagan during a 1984 visit to Kentucky, during which the Gipper called him “Mitch O’Donnell.”
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Soros-Backed Group Unleashes Behind-the-Scenes War on Gas-Powered Lawn Equipment, Trucks
A secretive nonprofit with financial backing from liberal billionaire George Soros and linked to the Biden administration is calling for the federal government to resurrect a 1970s law to crack down on gas-powered lawn equipment.
Governing for Impact (GFI), founded in 2019 to help craft and guide implementation of federal regulations, quietly issued a memo late last month alongside the left-leaning Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) calling for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revive the 1972 Noise Control Act. The memo argues that cracking down on loud equipment has “strategic ancillary benefits,” such as reducing carbon emissions.
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‘Stop Cop City’ Agitators Arrested in Tuscon After Allegedly Vandalizing Downtown Banks
Three “Stop Cop City” agitators were arrested in Tuscon, Arizona on Monday after allegedly vandalizing a number of downtown bank branches during a “summit” organized by the anti-police movement that drew around a hundred people.
Arlene Villalobos, 33, Gabriel Parks, 18, and Hassan Hassan, 31, were each charged with arson, criminal damage, and rioting.
“Last night, our community faced unacceptable acts of violence and destruction in downtown Tucson,” the Tucson Police Department wrote in a statement, explaining that the actions of the three suspects “resulted in significant damage and endangered both property and lives.”
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Supreme Court Divided Over Federal Ban on Bump Stock Gun Accessory
The Supreme Court offered divided thoughts and a measure of confusion on Wednesday over whether the federal government can ban so-called bump stocks, a device that increases the firepower of automatic weapons.
The case, Garland v. Cargill, presents whether a “bump stock” device is a “machine gun” as defined by federal law because it is designed and intended for use in converting a rifle into a weapon that fires “automatically more than one shot… by a single function of the trigger.”
After a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas that left 60 people dead and 500 more wounded, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued an interpretive rule concluding that “bump stocks” are machine guns.
The Trump administration initiated a ban on the devices — reversing earlier regulations — and President Biden’s Justice Department is now defending it in court.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review whether former president Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution in the Special Counsel’s federal election interference case, an election-year dispute that will have blockbuster legal and political implications for the nation.
The justices have fast-tracked the appeal, and will hear oral arguments in late April, with a ruling on the merits expected by late June. Trump’s criminal trial has been put on hold pending resolution of the matter.
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A survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China told Tucker Carlson that the US is starting to look more and more like the country where she spent her childhood.
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A new report has shared internal memos and documents from Big Oil companies and plastic makers, revealing thee groups knew for decades that recycling is not a a permanent solution.
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Top Climate Scientist: ‘Global Warming Emergency’ is a ‘Lie’
One of the world’s most prominent and highly respected climate scientists has just dropped the hammer on the entire “global warming” fearmongering narrative by warning the public that it is all a “lie.”
Politicians and activists alike have warned of a looming “climate catastrophe” for decades.
“Biden urged to declare climate change a national emergency,” reported NBC last year.
“Climate Changes Threatens Every Facet of U.S. Society, Federal Report Warns,” announced Scientific American.
Cambridge University climate scientist Mike Hulme disagrees.
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UC Berkeley Lecture by Israeli Lawyer Shut Down by Violent Student Protests
Hundreds of anti-Israel student protesters broke down the door of UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Playhouse on Monday night, smashing a window and preventing an Israeli speaker from addressing a few dozen Jewish students.
Danielle Sobkin, one of the organizers who invited Israeli lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat, said the mob grabbed a sophomore who tried to attend the event, called him a “dirty Jew” and spat on him. She said that protesters also shoved a senior into the auditorium door as she tried to check in attendees, and that they grabbed a freshman by her neck.
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White Powder Spills Out of Envelope Addressed to Judge Arthur Engoron, Who Presided Over Trump Case
A suspicious white powder spilled out of an envelope addressed to the judge who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case on Wednesday, sparking a massive emergency response at the Manhattan Supreme Court building.
The substance spilled onto a New York state court officer’s pants around 9:30 a.m. after he opened the envelope sent to Justice Arthur Engoron from Florida, police and sources told The Post.
The unidentified powder was deemed safe shortly before 1 p.m., police said.
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Canada’s Vaccine Passport, ArriveCAN, Faces Major Investigations
Over last week’s end, Canadian Information Commissioner, Caroline Maynard, announced the inception of a probe into claims of the obliteration of federal government records surrounding the government’s controversial vaccine passport app, ArriveCan.
ArriveCAN is a mobile application that was initially launched in April 2020 as a tool to assist border guards in Canada. It was designed to determine if people were eligible to enter Canada and whether they met strict COVID-19 requirements.
The app became mandatory for all air travelers seven months later and was expanded to include those crossing the border by land in March 2021. It collects personal data such as name, telephone number, address, and vaccination status to help public health officials enforce government quarantine rules .
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Newly Formed United Party of Canada Makes Its Debut in the Durham Byelection
Grant Abraham, the founder of the United Party of Canada, chose the riding of Durham, where former Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole held a seat, as the political battleground to debut his new right-of-centre party.
He’s a father of four boys aged 15 to 26, a husband, a lawyer, and the author of the Battle for the Soul of Canada : Firing the Forge, which he says outlines the necessity of his newly found party.
Abraham believes the current Conservative Party of Canada betrayed social conservatives, a large contingent of the Conservative base.
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Austria Continues to Oppose Romania’s Full Schengen Membership
Austria remains opposed to the full membership of Romania and Bulgaria in the Schengen Area, which would allow both countries to participate in visa-free travel and free movement of goods.
During a press conference in Innsbruck on Monday, Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP/EPP) insisted on his country’s right to veto this decision. Karner spoke about the agreement on lifting controls at seaports and airports, also known as “air and maritime Schengen,” which will enter into force on March 31, 2024.
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Brussels Crime Wave Worries Belgian King
Violent incidents, including multiple shootings, have raised questions about safety in the EU capital.
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Centre-Right Caves as MEPs Pass Nature Restoration Law
EU member states will likely be forced to designate at least 20% of their land area as unfarmable over the coming decade, after MEPs gave their backing to the Nature Restoration Law (NRL) at a plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday. This passed despite hopes that a populist alliance with the centrist European People’s Party (EPP) could scupper the Bill at its last legislative hurdle.
The NRL, which was first proposed by the European Commission in 2022, imposes strict regulations on land, river, and sea use, ostensibly to prevent further environmental degradation.
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EU Ag Ministers Tell Commission: Start Addressing European Farmers’ Concerns
EU agricultural ministers have instructed the European Commission to tackle the regulatory difficulties faced by protesting farmers, following a European Council meeting on February 26.
The EU Council “invites the Commission to quickly complete this set of measures, already presented, with more ambitious ones,” David Clarinval, the Belgian minister leading the meeting, told a press conference.
With farmers protesting en masse right outside—backed by simultaneous protests, from Poland to Spain—the ministers were under pressure to deliver for agriculture.
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EU and NATO Leaders Scramble to Distance Themselves From Macron’s War Cries
French President Emanuel Macron’s recent media stunt that was meant to make him the free world’s self-appointed military leader backfired spectacularly. Instead of backing his hawkish rhetoric, Western countries scrambled to deny involvement and distance themselves from Macron as quickly as possible.
As we also reported, Macron organized an ad-hoc summit in Paris on Monday to discuss how to increase support for Ukraine, after which he said that sending Western troops to the country “should not be ruled out” and even implied that at least a few other EU countries share this opinion.
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EU Commissioner Calls Pro-Peace Conservatives Russian ‘Proxies’
Democracy is in danger from Russian proxies throughout the EU, Values and Transparency Commissioner Vera Jourova said, announcing that she’s embarking on a “democracy tour” of EU capitals to promote action against alleged Russian disinformation and what she refers to as Moscow’s “domestic proxies.”
In an interview published on Wednesday, February 28th, the commissioner claimed that many of Europe’s populist right-wing parties are in fact part of the Kremlin’s propaganda network and are actively spreading Russian disinformation among their supporters.
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EU Plans to Create Defense-Industrial Complex Ready for War
The EU wants to shift its defense industry onto a war footing, laying out its plan in a 27-page draft of a European Defence Industry Strategy seen by POLITICO.
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A new noteworthy instance of what can be described as the UK-style revolving door policy, where those working for the government and private entities switch employers in both directions, has happened in that country.
A former chief of the British Army, under whose watch the 77th Brigade was spying on citizens during the pandemic, has now joined Tony Blair’s organization.
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Germany: ‘North African Man’ Stabs Two 17-Year-Old Girls in Robbery Attempt, 1 in Critical Condition
Police are on the hunt for a man described as having a “North African” appearance who stabbed two 17-year-old girls in the German town of Erkath in a robbery attempt.
The two girls were sitting on a sheltered bench on a remote dirt road when a car pulled up and a man demanded their handbags. When both victims refused, the man reacted by brutally stabbing them both, resulting in severe injuries to both victims.
The man then fled in a Mercedes silver-gray coupe. Despite their wounds, the two girls managed to call emergency services. Paramedics arrived on scene and transported the victims to the hospital, with one of them in critical condition.
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Germany Floats Nuclear Arms Plan in Anticipation of Trump Win
Berlin could be moving away from its historic reliance on American nuclear weapons. Reports in the English-language press suggest that German defence officials are quietly contacting to their British and French NATO counterparts to prepare an alternative to the American nuclear umbrella.
Potential American disengagement from Europe has put pro-NATO governments on edge across Europe. Unease about future changes at the White House is now driving the German government to formulate plans for obtaining nuclear weapons. Senior members of the centre-right CDU and ruling SPD call for a common European nuclear deterrent, ending sole reliance on the U.S.
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German Disinfo Outlet Gets Federal Funding to Fight ‘Fake News’
The Soros-backed, state-financed disinformation outlet Correctiv, recently found by a German court to have spread false information about the Potsdam meeting last November, has launched what it calls an AI-based ‘fact checker’ project to combat ‘fake news.’
The left-globalist traffic light coalition—whose leading officials, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, met with Correctiv’s director before the ‘secret’ Potsdam meeting, and the publication’s subsequent, grossly deceptive reporting on the gathering—is set to fund the project to the tune of 1.33 million euros.
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Growing Rift Over EU Funding of Compromised UN Agency
During a Tuesday European Parliament plenary debate in Strasbourg, European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic called for funding of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) to continue unabated, despite the agency’s links to the Hamas terror group responsible for the October 7th attack that killed over 1,200 Israelis and saw over 250 taken hostage.
Lenarcic argued that failing to fund UNRWA would have “catastrophic consequences” and put regional stability at risk, calling the agency’s work irreplaceable.
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Although the war in Ukraine has divided the Visegrad Four (V4) countries — Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia — in terms of arms and military aid, issues such as migration control and protecting national agriculture remain among the many topics that still make the cooperation worthwhile, the four countries’ prime ministers said at a Tuesday meeting in Prague.
“Today’s meeting convinced me that Visegrad is alive, Visegrad is important. We can acknowledge our differences with due respect, even if we dispute each other’s positions. And we will continue to strengthen cooperation on common issues. Hungary is ready for this,” said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
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Leftist MEP’s Twitter Hacking Ordeal Drags on in Brussels Court
A disgruntled parliamentary assistant working for an Irish socialist MEP has pleaded guilty to falsely impersonating his boss online after using his official Twitter account to search for naked pictures of a female colleague.
Diarmuid Hayes—a 34-year-old filmmaker and former assistant to Left Group MEP Luke Ming Flanagan—potentially faces a year in prison if convicted of data violation and maliciously accessing the politician’s personal Twitter in September 2020.
During a sitting of a criminal court at Brussels’ Palais de Justice Wednesday morning, Hayes pleaded guilty to hacking Flanagan’s account to look for ‘skinny dipping’ pictures of a female colleague and fellow left-wing activist Saoirse McHugh in what is believed to have been an elaborate revenge plot against the MEP for not renewing his contract
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Meta Launches Real-Time Content Censorship Unit for 2024 Elections
When Facebook (Meta) wants to safeguard its “right to censor,” the company presents itself as basically just another private company out there minding its own business.
But when election campaigns get in full swing, especially in the US, but also the EU, the way Meta reacts, announcing all sorts of yet new policies and new units to deal with information related to elections, shows that it could have a massive influence on their outcome.
And while it’s repeatedly said that (mostly arbitrarily “defined”) misinformation is the scourge of democracy, there is another, this time, no doubt about it: censorship, sometimes based on such flimsy excuses as basically somebody’s subjective opinion — for example, “potential threats.”
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“Reporters Without Borders was created to defend pluralism. Today, it is an enemy of pluralism,” says Robert Ménard, a cofounder and long-time chief of Reporters without Borders, or Reporters sans frontières (RSF).
Ménard is now the mayor of Béziers, a city of some 90,000 inhabitants in southern France, where he was initially elected with the support of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally.
He was reacting to a breakthrough ruling by the Council of State, which is France’s highest administrative court, on Feb. 14. This ruling says that the country’s media authority ARCOM should closely monitor the plurality of views expressed on each TV channel.
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The Polish Ministry of Education (MEN) is planning to reduce the content of the curriculum for state schools, including a reduction in the amount of history taught. As part of this, MEN plans to change the way in which students are taught about Polish-Hungarian relations.
According to the Polish-Hungarian History Commission, the curriculum has deleted any content on Polish-Hungarian relations in the 14th and 15th centuries, as well as the reign of King Stephen Bathory.
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In the largest demonstration to date since the protests began on Feb. 9, Polish farmers and their supporters waved red and white Polish flags and carried banners reading “Without us, you will be hungry, naked and sober” and “I am a farmer, not a slave.” Warsaw City Hall estimated the number of demonstrators taking part in the march at just over 10,000.
There were some anti-Ukrainian banners with slogans such as “Take care of your family’s health. Don’t eat crap from Ukraine,” with another one declaring “Enough hospitality towards ungrateful sons of bitches,” with the banner displaying a Ukrainian being kicked out of Poland.
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Polish Soldiers in Ukraine War Would be a ‘Suicidal Step,’ Warns Top Polish Commentator
Polish President Andrzej Duda revealed that the most heated debate that took place in Paris during a meeting of heads of state called by French President Emmanuel Macron concerned the issue of sending troops to Ukraine. Duda admitted that there was no consensus on the issue.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico had earlier revealed that there was discussion about some NATO member states sending troops to Ukraine on the basis of bilateral agreements with Ukraine. According to Reuters, the White House denied that the U.S. was planning to send troops to Ukraine.
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Polish Foreign Minister Admits His Son is in the US Military
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski during his speech to the Atlantic Council in Washington on February 26 had something very personal to say.
“Even though I am Poland’s foreign minister, my wife, as many of you know, is American. But I suspect most of you are not aware that our son is an American soldier,” revealed Sikorski.
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Polish Truckers to Rejoin the Farmers in Border Crossing Blockades
Polish truckers are to resume their border blockade protest on March 1 after having previously suspended their protest actions at the turn of the year. Truckers are demonstrating once again because they are not satisfied with what has been done to stop Ukrainian trucking companies from creating unfair competition in the Polish transport market.
The ongoing farmer protests are also about trade relations with Ukraine, with the farmers protesting about the European Commission’s decision to extend the trade agreement with Ukraine, allowing Ukrainian agricultural products to flow into the EU despite these products failing to adhere to EU standards.
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Polish Post-Pandemic Projects Under Threat Over EU Delays in Releasing Funds
Out of the 56 investment projects to be funded from the post-pandemic allocation from Brussels, 43 may not be realized by Aug. 31, 2026, the cut-off point for refinancing from the EU, according to an estimate made by CRIDO consultants.
Last week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen came to Warsaw and said that all the EU funds due to Poland will now be unblocked, but just because they are unblocked may not mean that they will actually all be spent.
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Alejandro Macarrón is an engineer, business consultant, and director general of the Fundación Renacimiento Demografico (Demographic Renaissance Foundation). He is the author of the books El suicidio demografico de España (Spain’s Demographic Suicide) and Suicidio demografico en Occidente y medio mundo (Demographic Suicide in the West and Half the World).
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UK: As Conservatives Tear Themselves to Pieces, Farage’s Party Continues to Rise in Polls
The UK is grinding closer to this year’s general election and new polling shows the Conservative Party continuing to fall, but also Nigel Farage’s Reform UK achieving new levels of predicted support.
Pollsters continue to say the United Kingdom’s left-wing opposition Labour Party is predicted an overwhelming win at the national elections expected later this year — serious antisemitism problems notwithstanding — and the presently governing Conservatives continuing to dwindle. Yet new figures form Savanta pollsters show the right-insurgent Reform UK Party — better known to most as Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party — is picking up steam.
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Poland was already spending close to 4 percent of GDP on defense and, if the need arose, was prepared to double that figure, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told CNN during an interview on Sunday.
Sikorski specified that if Russian President Vladimir Putin “really threatens us,” Poland will “double” its defense spending.
“We will not be a Russian colony again,” added Sikorski, signaling that on this issue, Poland was not prepared for any compromises.
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World War III? NATO Head Claims Individual NATO Countries Could Send Troops Into Ukraine
NATO has no plans to send troops to Ukraine, but individual decisions by each country do not require unanimous support from all member states, Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO’s secretary general, told the AP news agency on Tuesday.
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The families of five victims who were killed during Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre at the Nova music festival in Israel have sued Reuters and the Associated Press over accusations the outlets employed journalists who were connected to the terrorist group and involved in the atrocities, according to a report.
The filing claims that two agencies, who are among the world’s largest news wire services, hired Hamas-affiliated journalists from Gaza who knew that the surprise attack was coming and failed to prevent horrific crimes from happening, World Israel News reported.
Reuters and AP allegedly published reports and photographs taken by the Hamas-affiliated journalists as they actively partook in the attacks on Israel. The news organizations “are liable for the direct and indirect damage and actions of their ‘journalists’,” according to the lawsuit.
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Is a Gaza Ceasefire Deal in Sight?
At the Nova festival site in southern Israel, attacked by Hamas gunmen on 7 October, the families and friends of Israeli hostages began a long march to Jerusalem on Wednesday.
The festival site, near Kibbutz Re’im, is where hundreds of Israelis were killed and hundreds more dragged away into Gaza.
The marchers, carrying pictures of those still missing, are demanding that their government do more to bring the remaining 134 hostages home.
Their hopes have been raised by talk of a ceasefire.
“One hundred and forty-five endless days and nights of yearning for our loved ones,” Ronen Neutra said, addressing the crowd.
Ronen’s 22-year-old son, Omer, is somewhere in Gaza.
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‘Move Gaza’s Arabs to Ireland’: Former U.S. Jewish Spy Pollard Endorses Israel’s Far-Right Ben-Gvir
Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in an American prison for spying for Israel, spoke about far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir saying, “He says some pretty wild things sometimes, but he’s a man of high emotion. I trust him. I believe his heart is in the right place.”
Pollard’s praising of Ben-Gvir was part of a recent interview for the Jerusalem Post’s ‘At the Table,’ a weekly column where J-Post Deputy CEO Maayan Hoffman and editor Erica Schachne engage in “intimate conversations with leading Jerusalem personalities.”
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Delinquent Europe: Zelensky Claims EU Only Delivered 30 Per Cent of Promised Artillery Shells
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that EU nations have only managed to deliver 30 per cent of their pledged artillery shells, once again underscoring the hapless state of Europe’s military capabilities.
While establishment media, Eurocrats, and Kyiv have all pointed their fingers at the United States and the ongoing dispute over further American funding of Ukraine as a reason for recent battlefield losses to the Russians, President Zelensky revealed that the apparent artillery shortage is in large part due to failures of the EU to meet its commitments.
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US Watching Breakaway Moldovan Region ‘Very Closely’ After Request for Russian Help
The US is watching the Moscow-backed breakaway region of Transnistria “very closely” after it asked Russia for help over claims that the Moldovan government is hurting its economy.
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Video: First Abrams Tank Destroyed by Russian Forces With Kamikaze Drone
A photo and a video of a burning Abrams tank are circulating on the internet, allegedly showing the moment when the tank was hit and caught fire after being hit by a kamikaze drone.
According to reports, the U.S.-made tank was hit with an FPV drone with an RPG attached. The Russian soldiers involved in destroyed the Abrams are reportedly from the 15th Motorized Rifle Brigade from Samara.
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WW3 Watch: Eastern European Breakaway Republic Transnistria Asks Russia for ‘Protection’
Transnistria, a linguistically and ethnically distinct sliver of land to the west of Ukraine which has been a defacto if unrecognised breakaway republic since 1990 is asking Russia to step in for protection from the threat they claim to feel from pro-European Moldova.
Officials in pro-Russian separatist Transnistria voted at the Congress of Deputies on Wednesday to ask Moscow for protection from Moldova, from which the country split in 1990 and fought a war of independence with until 1992 amid the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Transnistrians claim Moldova is attempting to use financial pressure to force it to reunite and complains of a sharp deterioration in relations this year, accusing Chisinau of trying to destroy their economy.
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In Their Own Words: Hear How CCP Propagandists Are Using TikTok to Indoctrinate America’s Youth
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using TikTok as a “modern day Trojan Horse” to inject its propaganda into the minds of America’s youth, according to restricted Chinese military journals uncovered in Peter Schweizer’s new book: Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.
In Blood Money, Schweizer, a Breitbart News senior contributor and the President of the Government Accountability Institute, reveals the words of Chinese strategists themselves, who tout using TikTok in “information-driven mental warfare” against the United States.
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Apex Homes Australia Collapses: Victoria-Based Construction Company is Ordered Into Liquidation
A Victorian construction company has collapsed placing the fate a slew of projects up in the air.
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A distraught family member of a baby-faced tradie shot dead outside his family home in a ‘targeted’ attack was seen wailing at cops to be allowed through to the crime scene.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate ‘Unlawful’ for Emergency Services, Queensland’s Supreme Court Finds
A court has found Queensland police and ambulance workers were given unlawful directions to get Covid-19 vaccines or face potential disciplinary action.
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An Adelaide widow has told an inquest her distressed husband would return home from the hospital in tears because he’d been treated badly and told to ‘man up’ by paramedics.
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Jacqui Lambie Loses it After Your Tax Dollars Were Spent on Teddy Bears for Politicians
Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie has slammed the use of $3000 in public money to send teddy bears to politicians that promote a key Albanese government health policy.
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Nationals senator Matt Canavan has doubled down on controversial claims that national pay gap data was ‘useless’, claiming men are overlooked for promotions because of their gender.
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Supreme Court Rules Australian Vaccine Mandate Was Unlawful
A Supreme Court in Australia has just ruled that draconian Covid vaccine mandates issued against emergency responders were unlawful.
Australia’s Queensland Supreme Court has ruled that the COVID vaccine mandates implemented on police and ambulance workers violated their Human Rights Act.
In 2022, both police and ambulance service workers questioned the constitutionality of the mandate.
Multiple lawsuits were filed against the state over the mandate that was issued in December 2021.
In a landmark Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday, Justice Glenn Martin of the Queensland Supreme Court found the Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll’s direction for mandatory Covid vaccination to be unlawful under the Human Rights Act.
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Argentina: Milei Bans Government From Using Woke ‘Inclusive’ Language
Argentina announced on Tuesday that President Javier Milei ordered a ban on the use of leftist “inclusive” language across all public administration offices and documents.
The announcement was made on Tuesday during presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni’s press conference. Adorni added that “everything related to the gender-based perspective” will also be banned throughout the national public administration.
“They are going to proceed, to initiate, the proceedings to ban inclusive language and everything related to gender-based perspective throughout the national public administration,” Adorni said. “Of course, you already know all the details. You are not going to be able to use the letter ‘e’, the ‘@ symbol’, the ‘x’ and avoid the unnecessary use of the feminine in all documents of the public administration.”
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During Tuesday’s edition of the War Room, Owen Shroyer talked with Brazilian journalist Paulo Figueiredo Filho about why he had to flee his home country to escape communism.
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Athens Police Refuse to Release Laken Riley 911 Call
It has been revealed that Laken Riley tried calling 911 before she was killed. Jose Antonio Ibarra is suspected in Riley’s murder and is an illegal immigrant from Venezuela. Riley was killed while out for a walk at the University of Georgia campus in Athens.
Authorities have refused to release the audio from the 911 call despite numerous public records requests.
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A Georgia mayor was brutally heckled at a press conference Wednesday over his perceived “sanctuary city” policies following the murder of nursing student Laken Riley, allegedly at the hands of a Venezuelan migrant.
“You’re a liar!” one man shouted at Athens Mayor Kelly Girtz, according to a report by Fox News Digital. “You’re the one who is guilty and got blood on your hands for this murder, sir!”
Athens does not have an official sanctuary city policy, but Girtz has come under fire for what critics call a soft stance on immigration, including signing a 2019 city resolution that declared the county “is welcoming to people from all lands and backgrounds.”
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Dozens of Migrants Brave Thick Fog and Strong Winds to Cross the Channel…
— as the number of asylum seekers illegally reaching UK on small boats this year soars past 2,000
Dozens of migrants have been brought ashore today at the Port of Dover — after battling thick fog to get across the Channel.
The mainly-male group of around 50 asylum seekers arrived despite poor conditions including strong winds in the Dover Straits — and they were brought into the harbour in Dover by a Border Force catamaran around Midday.
Upon arrival, the migrants were spotted at the former jetfoil terminal wearing bright orange life jackets as they went inside for processing.
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Eric Adams Demands New York Walk Back ‘Sanctuary City’ Status So Criminals Can be Deported
During a town hall event on Monday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that New York’s sanctuary city status does not provide the ability for officials to deport illegal immigrants and asylum seekers who are found guilty of criminal acts. Adams said there should be more options for lawmakers when it came to deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes.
Under the current santuary system, local laws in the numerous sanctuary cities, counties, and states, including New York City, prevent local officers from working with federal immigration officials for the purpose of deportations. The city essentially protects illegal immigrants from federal authorities who may seek to deport them. This concept was reinforced during the Trump administration, when so many Democrat-led cities and states wanted to push back against his federal curbs to illegal immigration.
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Illegal Immigrant, 19, From Honduras is Accused of Raping Girl, 14, in Louisiana…
— as outrage grows over Georgia student Laken Riley ‘murdered by undocumented border crosser’
An illegal immigrant from Honduras has been accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in Louisiana — as outrage grows over the tragic death of Georgia student Laken Riley who was ‘murdered by undocumented border crosser.’
Angel Matias Castellanos-Orellana, 19, was arrested on Sunday around 3.15am after he committed armed robbery and stabbed a man on Phoenix Street in Kenner.
Officers from the Kenner Police Department soon realized that Castellanos-Orellana was also wanted for raping a 14-year-old girl at knifepoint after she reported the incident to police on Tuesday.
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A man was stabbed Wednesday at a migrant shelter across the street from Central Park in New York City, police said.
The New York Police Department responded to the shelter at 31 Central Park North just after 11:30 a.m. after a caller phoned 911 to report the stabbing.
Responding officers found a 24-year-old man who was stabbed in the back and stomach, police said.
He was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in stable condition, the NYPD told Fox News Digital.
A person of interest was taken into police custody. It was unclear what led to the stabbing.
The incident came a day after Mayor Eric Adams said the city would install metal detectors at a migrant shelter on Randall’s Island following multiple stabbings at that location.
Adams has also called on the Biden administration to grant migrants work papers and said he wants to make changes to New York’s sanctuary city law, which prevents local law enforcement from cooperating with immigration authorities.
“I don’t believe people who are violent in our city and commit repeated crimes should have the privilege of being in our city,” Adams said perviously. “You don’t have the right to be in our city and tarnish the overwhelming number who are here following the rules.”
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A migrant has been stabbed ‘multiple times’ in the stomach and back in a frenzied attack at a New York migrant shelter.
The incident took place at 31 Central Park North in East Harlem, the site of a former correctional center opposite Central Park.
The 24-year-old victim was rushed to hospital in a stable condition, police said.
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Migrants at Shelter on Arizona Border Say Joe Biden is ‘Best for Illegal Immigration’
A group of migrants told “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy that they favor President Biden over former President Trump when it comes to policies toward illegal immigration.
Campos-Duffy joined “Fox & Friends” to discuss what she learned from migrants who left their home countries for America. There have been nearly 7.3 million illegal southern border encounters since Biden entered office.
Campos-Duffy said the migrants were “asking for Joe Biden to help us, to help us accomplish our dreams here, so we can get ahead.”
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Residents and GOP politicians are slamming Maine officials for lavishing millions of dollars on ‘Taj Mahal’ homes for asylum seekers while the state’s veterans and US-born homeless are struggling.
Republicans say the Democrat-run state has spent $34 million on shelters, hotels, and ‘luxury apartments’ for migrants, even as Maine Veterans’ Homes and other shelters for ex-servicemen face cash shortfalls.
Much of the anger is directed at the 24 one— and two-bedroom apartments in attractive, three-story clapboard blocks that were recently given rent-free to 60 migrant families on the edge of Brunswick.
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Salvadorian Illegal Immigrant Arrested in Maryland in Connection With Murder of 2-Year-Old
Police have arrested a fifth suspect in connection with the murder of 2-year-old Jeremy Poou Caceres.
On Monday, The Prince George’s County Police Department announced charges against Nilson Trejo-Granados (25) for first and second-degree murder.
James Covington, spokesperson for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Baltimore told FOX 5 that Trejo-Granados is a Salvadoran national and an illegal immigrant.
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DEI Disaster: Harvard Plagiarism Scandal Deepens With Allegations Against Diversity Administrator
Harvard’s plagiarism problem continues as the spotlight shines on other faculty members at the Ivy League university in the wake of the school’s former president, Claudine Gay, being ousted amid dozens of plagiarism allegations being unearthed and multiple antisemitism scandals.
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Florida Bill Would Allow Satanic Temple ‘Chaplains’ in Schools
The Satanic Temple released a statement on the proposed Florida bill that would allow volunteer chaplains in public schools, stating that it looks forward to the opportunity.
Penemue Grigori, the Satanic Temple’s director of ministry, wrote about the bill in an email and said: “Any opportunity that exists for ministers or chaplains in the public sector must not discriminate based on religious affiliation,” according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
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Indiana’s Ban on Gender Treatments for Minors is Enforceable, Federal Court Rules
A federal court has backed Indiana’s efforts to protect children in the state by ruling that officials can now legally enforce bans on gender “transition” treatments for minors.
The ruling is a major win for Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb and GOP lawmakers in the state.
A three-judge panel from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled to remove a temporary injunction issued by a judge last year.
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Irish Bishops Protest Constitutional Amendment ‘Abolishing All Reference to Motherhood’
The Irish Catholic bishops have voiced united opposition to a proposed amendment that would eliminate all references to motherhood in the Constitution.
The proposed amendment “diminishes the unique importance of the relationship between marriage and family in the eyes of Society and State and is likely to lead to a weakening of the incentive for young people to marry,” the bishops said in a February 25 statement.
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Microsoft Brags About Paying Minorities More Than Whites for the Same Work
Microsoft is facing backlash after bragging in a recent diversity report that it pays white employees less than racial minority employees in similar roles. The report boasts that asian employees make more than both black and white employees with matching job titles, levels, and tenure.
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Three Quarters of Transgender Prisoners Are Sex Offenders or Violent Criminals in Britain
Nearly three-quarters of all transgender prison inmates in Britain were convicted of sexual offences or other violent crimes, which campaigners say demonstrates the dangers of housing biological males in female prisons.
According to Ministry of Justice figures, 74 per cent of British transgender prisoners, or 181 out of 244, were convicted of sex offences including rape and child sexual assaults. The data, reported by The Telegraph, goes on to say that currently 144 biologically male transgender prisoners are being housed in male prisons in Britain compared to five being housed in female jails.
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“Diana Zogaric never imagined that she was making herself a target of crime when she bought the candy store her children had loved when they were young in 2020. But SHE’S SINCE BEEN ROBBED AND VIOLENTELY ASSAULTED.” —San Francisco shop owner
“I’m living in constant fear as a small business owner in San Francisco…It’s the crime, it’s the vandalism, it’s the theft, it’s the beggars harassing customers. You can’t run a business like that.” —San Francisco shop owner
https://nypost.com/2024/02/28/us-news/now-nowhere-in-san-francisco-is-safe-from-crime/
“Memo to Americans: Get out of the major, democrat-controlled metropolitan areas now! It’s time to git whilst the gittin’s good; and before the BTYO commie-toddlers’ suicidal death wish drives every major city into a scene outta “Escape from New York”, but on a nationwide basis. Just sayin’..” —posted to fb (June 2020)
“Prediction: As the commie-toddlers assume more power, under the auspices of their BLACK Lunatic Madness comrades, Obamericans should prepare for nationwide electrical brown- and black-outs, shortages of food and supplies, runaway inflation (as previously predicted), ubiquitous violence and crime and an overall LOWER standard of living. As’s been said, it’s not a mistake, it’s Obamerica….it’s The [Party’s] Plan.
Watch this space..” —posted to fb (Sept 2021)
Obamerica: The Art of Collapse.
A little late to the party, but whatever..
“I think he [Biden] needs to come out of the White House and show Americans that he has the cognitive capacity, to, and the mental acuity, to handle this job at probably the most challenging time now, at least in recent American history.” —Robert F. Kennedy, Jr (28 Feb 2024)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rfk-jr-calls-president-biden-show-he-has-cognitive-capacity-ental-acuity-lead
“I’ve come to the conclusion that electing Joe “running for US Senate” Biden is the ONLY fitting way to punctuate the 2020 chapter of this Kafka novel.” —posted to fb (July 2020)
“[Repeat] Prediction: The question will be: Is Joe Biden [mentally] competent to stand trial?” —posted to fb (April 2020)
Is a bump stock a machine-gun?
“The Supreme Court offered divided thoughts and a measure of CONFUSION on Wednesday over whether the federal government can ban so-called bump stocks (Garland v. Cargill).”
https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-divided-over-federal-210429645.html
“Shortly after the Las Vegas mass shooting…Donald Trump…issued a memorandum directing ATF to move expeditiously on the rule making…This time, the agency rule concluded bump stocks fell within the definition of “machineguns.””
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/is-a-bump-stock-a-machinegun-the-u.s-supreme-court-takes-up-the-question
Sadly, this whole mess is Trump’s fault as he INSTRUCTED ATF to reclassify bump stocks as “machine guns” (after ATF (TWICE!!) looked and found them NOT to fit the definition of a “machine gun” under the National Firearm Act—”any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, BY A SINGLE FUNCTION OF THE TRIGGER”.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/5845
Having listened to the entirety of the Court proceedings, I can say that, as usual, most of the people making (the legislative branch) and testing (the judicial branch) US “gun control” laws know NOTHING about firearms; and I would consider their foundational understanding of existing firearm law as being, at best, upside-down (I’m being kind).
I can usually predict how the Court will rule in these types of cases, but, based on the truly V-A-S-T range of MISINFORMATION contained within the justices’ heads on this subject, I reckon their final decision(s) could go any which way.
“Second Amendment will always be safe with me as your president.” —Donald “take the guns first, due process second” Trump (10 Feb 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga7thDlGbs8
Just sayin’..
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Russian Embassy on Telegram:
“Russia will take countermeasures of a political and military-technical nature”
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The Russian Embassy reacts to the fact that Sweden is about to join NATO within hours or a few days. Swedish media in turn react to the reaction with strong emotions, as reflected in Aftonbladet and Expressen, among others.
NewsVoice reports what the Russian Embassy actually posted on Telegram.
“Comment by the Russian Embassy in Sweden in connection with the country’s imminent entry into NATO.
The powers-that-be in Stockholm and the Swedish media are not hiding their delight at the Hungarian Parliament’s long-awaited “yes” to Sweden’s application for membership in the North Atlantic Alliance.
Although a number of formalities remain to be completed before the Swedish flag will be raised at NATO headquarters in Brussels, it is clear that Sweden’s entry into NATO as its 32nd member is a fait accompli.
As rational Swedes, we cannot help but regret this development. We perceive as hardly flattering, not to say humiliating for Sweden, certain remarks in the Swedish “independent” mass media that the country, as if it were someone’s prodigal daughter, is “finally coming home” after having rediscovered the benchmark of its foreign and security policy in the form of the values formulated in the North Atlantic Treaty 75 years ago.
It is clear to us that the Swedes, accustomed to a peaceful life, would rather focus on the values of military non-alignment, formulated over 200 years ago by Napoleon’s Marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, who was called to the Swedish throne and later became King Karl XIV Johan.
It should also be noted that the foundations of the European security order of the time were formulated through his close dialog with the Russian Emperor Alexander I.
It is no coincidence that these fundamental values of Swedish politics were zealously defended by such world-famous and respected Swedish statesmen as Per Albin Hansson, Tage Erlander, Olof Palme, Ingvar Carlsson and others.
It is very sad that today’s Swedish leaders who care so much about the image of Sweden abroad have torn down the foundation of the country’s national identity and authority in the international arena.
We believe that the Swedish political elite is in fact unsure whether this idea has the support of the majority of the Swedish population despite the results of the published opinion polls. If this is not the case, why were the Swedish authorities so afraid to give Swedish voters a democratic opportunity to express their views on this vital issue?
What lies behind this – political cowardice or Stockholm’s desire to flatter the “big brothers”, who certainly encourage this kind of sycophancy, and to “tease Russia” at all costs, including at the expense of the security and well-being of its people.
As for Russia’s attitude towards “a further addition to the NATO family”, we have repeatedly published our official position: it is Sweden’s sovereign concern to choose its security policy.
At the same time, the country’s entry into a military alliance hostile to Russia will have negative consequences for stability in Northern Europe and around the Baltic Sea, which remains our common area and will never become a “NATO hinterland” despite whatever Sweden’s future “NATO relatives” say in their self-righteous statements.
Russia will take countermeasures of a political and military-technical nature in order to minimize threats to its national security. Their concrete content will depend on the conditions and extent of Sweden’s integration into NATO including the possible deployment in this country of NATO troops, munitions and weapons.”
Ole Olaf Palme was a traitor and got what he deserved, good riddance, hopefully more to follow.
If you don’t wanna sit through Trump’s dribble, this link begins with the salient part referencing bump stocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga7thDlGbs8&t=103s
Come on Fred, nobody is 100% all the time ideological. So give ole Trump a break, I think he learned his lesson where everything weapon is concerned.
I think Coulter’s spot-on here, explaining why Trump so often says such ‘toddler-like (i.e., mindlessly infantile) things (e.g., “I like to take the guns first, due process second”)..
The entire following video is highly recommended viewing, but I’ve queued the salient portion for those who don’t like Coulter..
“He’s [Trump] impulsive. He says things off the top of his head. He bears the impression of, like, a couch, bears the impression of the last person who sat on him. It’s just whoever gave him the last piece of advice, he goes out and says it, which is why it’s kind of important who he surrounds himself with.” —Ann Coulter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXOFHr6tGMQ&t=1917s
Britain getting closer to a blasphemy law:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIXM6qOu3mA
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Why love of country is faltering in Sweden?
Love for the nation is not unconditional in the same way that love for one’s children is. If the requirements are not met, love will falter.
by Magnus Söderman / Free Sweden
28 February 2024
from Swedish by LN
It feels like the love of country is faltering in Sweden. Swedes don’t seem particularly interested in even trying to deal with things. Anti-Swedishness is accepted and the slowly creeping ethnic selfhate is ignored by many. You don’t want children. Abortions, however, are a woman’s right. Love for Sweden and its people has cooled. Why is that?
Requirements for love of country
A father’s love for his child or children is present from day one and no matter what the children do, that love will remain for the rest of their lives. All other love is conditional, even though it may be strong. Anyone who has been unhappily in love with another person knows how the feeling remains, even if the person the love is directed at has perhaps even hurt you badly. But in the end, the feeling is gone because it is not reciprocated. Love must be reciprocated to stay alive. One-sided love withers and dies sooner or later.
Author Gustav von Schantz writes this about love of country in ancient Greece:
“It was there that one saw a nation of citizens, forming as it were a single family, all animated by an equal love, an equal ardent zeal for a common fatherland, all ready to risk everything, to sacrifice their very lives, for its independence and honour. But there were also powerful laws, justice zealously administered, customs without which no laws would fulfil their purpose, equality of citizens in rights and duties: in a word, there was everything that should attract the interest of the multitude to the State.”
The family – the people – the state, as a unit, as it should be.
von Schantz writes further:
“Without a just and good government, which connects the interest of the subject with that of the superior, it would be vain to expect from the former a true affection for the latter, or from the latter a sincere determination to promote the aims of the former.”
This leads to the following statement:
“The experience of all ages has witnessed that only a person who feels happy in the country he inhabits, under the government and laws he obeys, can have a true love of country.”
No wonder there is a lack of love of country
With these wise words in mind, we can easily understand why so many people’s love for Sweden is fading. We Swedes serve under unworkable laws and incompetent politicians who obviously do not want us to fall. For decades they have filled Sweden with foreigners who have been put on a pedestal and called “the future of Sweden”. We have heard that they will “save welfare”.
Swedishness has been questioned, and in every place where our national pride could be challenged, it has been. Even the first Swedes were black Africans with blue eyes, according to SVTV. We have hardly been recognised as Sweden as our homeland.
So it is not surprising that Swedes no longer feel any love for their homeland.
Fatherland or nation state?
I believe, however, that love of country can be awakened because it has no reason to be dead. What can and should be dead is the “love” for the nation-state as it has appeared.
The nation state of today is Sweden Inc., which distributes citizenship and welcomes strangers as “Sweden’s future”. It is the politicians, regime media and values. It is multiculturalism and simplicity. It bows the knee to globalism. But it is not the fatherland Sweden!
This is an important distinction to make. Especially for those of us who talk about a free Sweden. Free Sweden is the fatherland Sweden, the land of the past.
You know, the one we had in the good old days. Free Sweden is not a new invention, if anyone thought so. Free Sweden is the homeland, firmly rooted in the Swedish soil and as eternal as the bedrock on which our country rests.
If we manage to explain this to our people, I believe that love of country will grow strong again.
The times of the gentiles are coming to an end because loyalty to the nations will be poitless since the concept of “nations” has been stolen by unelected globalist bureaucrats as a sort of Potemkin Village – a screen that covers that unelected bureaucracy – but not “the people” themselves.
The gentiles will be around as long as this world exists. We will be around when you are no longer on this earth.
Nationalism will continue to exist because countries are sick and tired of their demented liberal leaders.
Conservative governments are flourishing all over the world despite the New World Odor.