Tucker Carlson is visiting Moscow, leading to speculation that he may land an interview with President Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, anti-Russian politicians in the USA are calling him a traitor, and Bill Kristol said that he should not be allowed back into the country.
In other news, King Charles III reportedly has cancer. During a hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement, additional diagnostic tests identified a form of cancer.
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Spain: 6th Highest Inflation Rate in Eurozone
The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for Spain, released by the National Institute of Statistics, reveals a 0.1% increase in prices in January, resulting in a total inflation rate of 3.4%. Simultaneously, the Harmonized CPI, shared with the European Union, rose by 0.2%, reaching 3.5%, slightly higher than Spain’s official data.
The unusual price increase in January, typically a period of sales and price reductions, can be attributed to modifications made to the CPI in January 2023. Despite warnings from experts about the potential consequences, the government benefited, reporting a 3.1% inflation rate instead of the estimated 7.4% with the previous calculation method.
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50 Lawmakers Demand AG Garland Explain Illegal CCP-Linked Marijuana Farms
A bipartisan group of 50 US lawmakers have requested that Attorney General Merrick Garland provide information on illegal marijuana grow operations in the US that are linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Led by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), Jared Golden (D-ME), David Valadao (R-CA), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Sen. Angus King (I-ME), the lawmakers penned a Friday letter to Garland expressing their concerns.
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A former prosecutor in the office of a progressive district attorney in Austin, Texas is running as a Democrat against his former boss and told Fox News Digital the Soros-backed DA’s policies have been “hurtful to the community” and based on political ideology rather than upholding the law.
“I noticed that there were simple things that weren’t being done and I knew that the expertise level had been so diminished with all of the prosecutors who left,” Jeremy Sylestine, a defense attorney and Travis County prosecutor for 15 years, told Fox News Digital when asked why he has decided to run against Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza.
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Bank of America Walks Back Green Agenda Pledge to Stop Financing Fossil Fuel Industry
Bank of America has walked back its pledge to comply with the globalist green agenda by cutting off the fossil fuel industry.
In December 2021, the bank committed to stopping its direct financing of new coal-fired power plants, thermal coal mines, and arctic drilling.
However, the financial services company appears to be reversing course on its pledge to “save the planet” from “climate change,” the New York Times is reporting.
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‘Bidenomics’ Falls Flat With Voters as Trump Takes Huge Lead in New Poll
President Biden is having a difficult time competing with former President Trump on issues such as the economy and the border, despite recent job growth numbers and slowing inflation, a new poll shows.
The numbers come despite Biden’s recent argument that his administration’s economic policies are starting to work, telling voters in Michigan on Thursday that “inflation is coming down” and that they had “created 800,000 manufacturing jobs.”
Here’s a snapshot of where the battle to lead the Republican Party stands.
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Biden Tells Crowd He Recently Met With Mitterrand, Former French President Who Died in 1996
President Biden told a crowd in Las Vegas on Sunday that he recently met with Francois Mitterrand, the French president who has been dead for nearly 30 years.
The comments came while Biden was warning of the dangers of a potential second Trump presidency, as he aimed to shore up enthusiasm ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Nevada.
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Biden Team Denies US President Insulted Netanyahu in Private
(February 5, 2024 / JNS) The Biden administration has denied a report that the U.S. president has a strongly negative view of Benjamin Netanyahu and has used crude language to describe Israel’s prime minister.
A Politico story on Sunday said that the president is “deeply suspicious” of Israel’s leader and had said privately that Netanyahu was a “bad f***ing guy.”
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Biden’s Support From Black Voters Plummets, Democrats Blame ‘Disinformation’
Democrat President Joe Biden has seen his support from black voters plummet since the 2020 election.
However, rather than attempting to address the president’s sinking popularity, the Democrats are wheeling out one of their favorite tired old narratives by blaming so-called “disinformation.”
This month, the Democratic Party in South Carolina is launching a program seeking to “educate” the state’s black voters.
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Biden: America Faces a ‘Nightmare’ if ‘Dictator’ Trump is Re-Elected
Democrat President Joe Biden has issued a warning to voters about the so-called threat to “American democracy” ahead of the nearing 2024 presidential election.
According to Biden, the American people face living in a “nightmare” if they re-elect President Donald Trump in November.
The Democrat president claims that blocking Trump from taking back the White House is the only way that voters can look back and say “We saved American democracy.”
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Blood Clots Are Now America’s Number 1 Preventable Killer
Devastating new data has revealed that fatal blood clots have now soared so high that they are the leading cause of preventable deaths in American hospitals.
According to a new report from the National Blood Clot Alliance (NBCA), the number of deaths caused by blood clots skyrocketed after the rollout of Covid mRNA vaccines.
The spiking number of fatalities means that blood clots now account for 300,000 annual deaths in the United States.
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Connecticut to Wipe $1 Billion in Medical Debt for Residents
Connecticut’s Democrat governor has revealed that the state will wipe the combined total of $1 billion in medical debt for residents.
Gov. Ned Lamont announced his drastic plan to wipe out medical debt for state residents during an appearance on Good Morning America.
However, Lamont has yet to reveal how he intends to pay for erasing the $1 billion bill, which will likely be funded by taxpayers.
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CUNY Axes Panel on ‘Globalizing the Intifada!’ That Was Ripped as ‘Guide for Junior Terrorists’
Embattled CUNY was set to host a panel titled “Globalizing the Intifada!” — before higher-ups got wise and canceled the event as outcry spread Monday.
The City University of New York’s Lehman College had set aside space for the upcoming Feb. 16 session, which was called “Globalizing the Intifada! Mapping Struggles for Palestine between the Streets and our Classrooms” and part of what the university described as a one-day “Engagement, Equity and Antiracism” conference.
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Did Iranian Agent Serving as Pentagon Chief of Staff Cause Death of 3 Soldiers?
In September 2023, Pentagon Chief of Staff Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian immigrant, was accused of having worked as an agent of the Tehran regime. Dissident media outlets produced emails that allegedly showed that Tabatabai had joined an initiative by the Iranian Foreign Ministry to coordinate operations and that she had even run her congressional testimony on Iran’s nuclear program past the head of an Iranian Foreign Ministry think tank.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center and Front Page Magazine had been among those to take the lead in warning about the potential danger posed by her and enemy agents in the Pentagon.
Tabatabai had served under Robert Malley, Biden’s Iran Envoy, who had been suspended from the Obama campaign for his backchannel contacts with Hamas, and has been under investigation for mishandling classified documents. But the emails appeared to show that she had personally worked for Iran and its influence operations aimed at the U.S. government.
Despite that she continued to be promoted until she is now the Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC).
In January 2024, Iranian-backed terrorists launched their most successful single attack against an American base to date. The target was the living quarters where U.S military personnel were stationed on an obscure support base in the Jordanian desert known as Tower 22.
While the drone attack would normally have been intercepted, the Iranian-backed terrorists had precisely timed the arrival of their drone to match that of an American drone returning home.
In the confusion, the Islamic terrorist drone was not intercepted and 3 American military personnel were killed and over 30 more were wounded. And it could have been worse.
The Iranians had known where the living quarters on the base were, what our procedures for drone arrivals and departures were, and when one of our drones would be coming back.
How were the Islamic terrorists able to precisely coordinate the arrival of their drone and ours?
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Embattled DA Fani Willis Faces 4th Accusation to Disqualify Her From the Trump Case
A fourth co-defendant in the Georgia case against former president Donald Trump has filed a motion for the court to disqualify embattled District Attorney Fani Willis.
Co-defendant David Shafer, who in 2020 served as the Georgia GOP Chairman and a GOP presidential elector for Georgia during the 2020 election, filed a motion in court Monday saying Willis has engaged in a “pattern of prosecutorial, forensic misconduct” which he says should disqualify not only her, but her entire office and prosecution staff.
Shafer’s motion follows co-defendant Michael Roman’s claims that Willis engaged in an “improper” relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade whom she hired to prosecute the sprawling racketeering case against Trump and asked the court to disqualify her from the case.
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Federal Appeals Court Halts Florida Ban on Property Buying by Chinese
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
A federal appeals court has issued a limited temporary block on a Florida law that bans citizens of China from buying property in the state that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said was needed to counteract the “malign influence” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in his state.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order on Feb. 1 that temporarily halts enforcement of a law called SB 264, or the Interests of Foreign Countries Act, with respect to two out of five plaintiffs who sued Florida over the law, claiming unconstitutional discrimination.
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Film Studios Battle Reddit for User IP Addresses
That an IP address is not a person and cannot be conclusively tied to an individual is self-evident, but does a person have the right to anonymous speech?
In a cynical attempt to circumvent First Amendment concerns, film companies are making the case that an IP address is not a person — which is often reiterated by defenders of those accused of content “piracy” — and even by courts.
But film companies are now using the argument just so they could get Reddit to share IP addresses, and then, they could get to the person.
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Glimpse of Sanity: Dartmouth Returns Standardized Testing for Admission After Failed Experiment
In response to the virus pandemic and nationwide Black Lives Matter riots in the summer of 2020, some elite colleges and universities shredded testing requirements for admission. Several years later, the test-optional admission has yet to produce the promising results for racial and class-based equity that many woke academic institutions wished.
The failure of test-optional admission policies has forced Dartmouth College to reinstate standardized test scores for admission starting next year. This should never have been eliminated, as merit will always prevail.
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Government-Funded Entities Build Network to Flag “Misinformation” in Private Messages
More reports are emerging about the various forms in which the Big Tech/government collusion is taking place in the US.
It’s not just directly pressuring, or “communicating with” — as current White House officials like to put it, social sites; reports are now emerging about companies getting hired to make massive databases of supposedly unlawful speech that are compiled thanks to users effectively spying and reporting on each other on messaging platforms like WhatsApp.
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House Committee Votes to Advance Impeachment Case Against DHS Secretary Mayorkas to Full Chamber
The Republican-led House Rules Committee on Monday voted 8-4 to send an impeachment case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the full chamber for a vote.
A vote on the articles of impeachment in the House — which Republicans hold by a slim margin — could come as early as Tuesday.
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Killer Mike Speaks Out After Grammys Arrest: ‘Overzealous Security’
Rapper Killer Mike is speaking out hours after being arrested at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, placing blame on the security at the event and redirecting focus to his achievements.
On Sunday, Fox News Digital confirmed that after winning three awards during the pre-show, the rapper, whose real name is Michael Render, was arrested for his involvement in an alleged altercation with another individual.
“Man, ain’t nobody talking about all that mess. I walked on with three Grammys. I took beautiful pictures, man. I got the job done and it was a beautiful time,” he told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution hours after the kerfuffle on Monday.
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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is demanding that Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis resign over her inappropriate relationship with fellow get-Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade.
Willis has been accused of hiring her lover Wade to help with her politically motivated case against President Donald Trump, despite his lack of experience.
Both anti-Trump prosecutors have been accused of abusing taxpayer funds to pay for expenses related to their relationship, such as dinners and luxury trips.
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Massachusetts Cuts College Degree Requirements for 90% of State Jobs
By Austin Browne of Campus Reform
Massachusetts will no longer require a college degree for a large majority of government jobs due to a new state executive order intended to make the commonwealth more “inclusive.”
Governor Maura Healey signed the order, titled “Instituting Skill-Based Hiring Practices,” on Jan 25. The document asserts that “skills-based hiring practices will strengthen the Commonwealth’s workforce, increase access to quality jobs for nontraditional candidates with varied backgrounds and work experiences, and reduce structural barriers that result in inequities in pay and access to employment.”
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McDonald’s CEO Says Fast Food Chain Will Focus on Affordability Amid Outrage Over Menu Hikes
The CEO of McDonald’s admitted Monday that the sales for the fast food giant have dipped amid increased menu prices that have not gone unnoticed by customers.
The Chicago-based chain has taken heavy criticism over its Big Mac combo that is priced at nearly $18, among other menu hikes, and has promised to focus on affordability, the New York Post reported.
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Meta Oversight Board Member Says There’s “Not Enough” Election Censorship
An influential member of Meta’s Oversight Board, a group nicknamed the “Supreme Court of Facebook,” Pamela San Martin, has argued that the level of censorship enacted by Meta during the 2020 presidential election was inadequate and that it should be stepped up for 2024.
This viewpoint was criticized by individuals in favor of freedom of expression, who cited a poll conducted by the Media Research Center suggesting that the influence of Big Tech censorship significantly affected the outcome of the election.
In a conversation with WIRED, San Martin argued vociferously in favor of more stringent censorship measures ahead of future elections, including the 2024 one.
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Moderate Democrats Outraise Radical ‘Squad’ Members as Primary Threats Mount
Moderate Democrats are outraising radical House lawmakers as primary threats mount around controversial “Squad” members.
Marxist Democrat Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) have both been entrenched in scandal in recent months.
Bush, a “defund the police” advocate, is currently under criminal investigation Justice Department for funneling tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash to her husband for private security.
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Could a recently discovered “super-Earth” have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life?
The new exoplanet is situated “fairly close to us” — only 137 light-years away — and orbits within a “habitable zone,” according to NASA.
Astronomers say the planet, dubbed TOI-715 b, is about one and a half times the width of Earth and orbits a small, reddish star. The same system also might harbor a second, Earth-sized planet, which, if confirmed, “would become the smallest habitable-zone planet discovered by TESS [the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite] so far,” NASA said in a Jan. 31 press release.
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Nikki Haley Asks for Secret Service Protection After Increase in Threats on Campaign Trail
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has applied for Secret Service protection because of increasing threats she has received on the campaign trail, Haley’s team confirmed to Fox News on Monday.
The former two-term South Carolina governor who later served as U.N. ambassador in former President Donald Trump’s administration is Trump’s last remaining major rival for the 2024 GOP nomination.
Haley discussed the request for protection in an interview Monday afternoon with The Wall Street Journal.
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NYPD officers were assaulted in three separate incidents in as many days — and two of the accused attackers were released without bail by a Manhattan judge Monday — amid a troubling spike in violence against cops.
Schmar Green, 28, and David Daniels, 34, were granted supervised release by Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Valentina Morales, over the objection of prosecutors, after allegedly coming after cops in the subway system over the weekend.
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American journalist Tucker Carlson is in Moscow, and faux Republicans are losing their collective minds over the chance he’s there to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Footage over the weekend showed Carlson talking to a local Russian man and saying, “We’ll see,” when asked if he’s in the country to interview Putin.
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Senator Mark Warner has aggressively gone after speech protections, seeking to seemingly single-handedly reinterpret the First Amendment while complaining that courts dealing with White House/Big Tech collusion are now making the Biden administration “very timid.”
The Democrat apparently proceeds from the rule, “disinformation is whatever we say it is” — in itself too arbitrary to be taken seriously. But that doesn’t stop Warner from building a big case for rethinking the First Amendment and facilitating censorship even further, by effectively strengthening, rather than abandoning, the said collusion.
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State AGs Warn Biden AI Order Could Centralize Control Over Tech, be Used for ‘Political Ends’
FIRST ON FOX: A coalition of state attorneys general is warning that an executive order signed by President Biden last year on artificial intelligence could be used by the federal government to “centralize” government control over the emerging technology and that that control could be used for political purposes — including censoring alleged “disinformation.”
“The Executive Order seeks—without Congressional authorization—to centralize governmental control over an emerging technology being developed by the private sector. In doing so, the Executive Order opens the door to using the federal government’s control over AI for political ends, such as censoring responses in the name of combatting ‘disinformation,’“ the coalition of 20 attorneys general, led by Utah AG Sean Reyes, said in a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
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The Pro-Censorship Activist Group Pressuring Big Tech to Censor “Climate Conspiracies”
Legacy media have a new target designated for tighter censorship — those they call “wellness influencers.”
The usual starting point of discrediting an individual or generalizing a group of people unpalatable to the ruling narratives is there right away — the pandemic, and associated “misinformation.”
But now there’s another accusation — that “wellness influencers” stand in the way of “proper and approved” information being the only that gets through on the subject of “climate change,” and within the realm of “climate science.”
Otherwise, not only media outlets that are little more than government policy mouthpieces but also aligned groups like the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) will brand them as peddlers of “climate conspiracies.”
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These Are the US States Losing (& Gaining) Population
As pandemic patterns of U.S. population growth are normalizing, three states have remained among the U.S. jurisdictions which are shrinking.
Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports that, according to a December release by the Census Bureau, California, Illinois and New York — along with West Virginia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Hawaii and Oregon — lost population in 2023 compared to 2022. Throughout the new Census first released in 2020, all three states have shown continuously sinking population numbers. New York and Illinois even started to see their populations decline under the old Census since 2016 and 2014, respectively, while California experienced a stagnating number of inhabitants in 2019.
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Trump Says AI Might be ‘Most Dangerous Thing Out There’
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Former President Donald Trump said that artificial intelligence, or AI, has “no real solution,” coming weeks after a series of robocalls were made in New Hampshire telling voters not to vote in the primary.
When asked by Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo Friday about proposals for digital U.S. central bank currency, the former president said he was concerned about their possible risks.
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Trump Threatens Federal Takeover of DC After Man’s Shooting Death During Crime Spree
Mayor Muriel Bowser said, “I think it’s kinda disgusting to use this person’s death in that way, and we won’t engage in it”
If former President Donald Trump takes back the White House, he says he wants the federal government to take control of the D.C. government.
Trump’s latest threat comes after the D.C. shooting death of former Trump administration official Michael Gill — the first victim of a string of random crimes last week.
“People are coming here and they’re getting shot. They come here for an evening — ‘I want to see the Lincoln Memorial. I want to see something. I want to see something so beautiful. I want to look at the Capitol building. I want to look at the White House.’ And they go home in a casket,” he said.
“We have to make our capitol safe, and we have to make it clean and respected and beautiful, and that’s part of my plan,” Trump continued. “And we’re gonna run it through the federal government, and it’s gonna be run very tough and very smart and very safe.”
Speaking to reporters last week in D.C., the former president took aim at high crime rates in big, Democratic-run cities including Chicago, New York and the District.
“It’s a crime fest right now, and we can’t have that,” he said.
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Critics Say Carbon Capture Tax Credit Ineffective and Too Expensive
The Parliamentary Budget Office projects that the Liberals carbon capture tax credit could cost as much as $1 billion more than what the Trudeau government had initially estimated.
The independent watchdog said that the carbon capture, utilization and storage CCUS investment tax will likely cost $5.7 billion, despite Finance Canada claiming it would only cost $4.6 billion over the 2022-28 timeframe in several of its federal budget announcements.
The concept behind carbon capture is to curtail the effects of climate change by the oil and gas sector.
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Ottawa Spent $600k on Hotel Rooms for Conference Many Delegates Didn’t Attend
The federal government spent almost $600,000 to host European delegates in luxury Vancouver hotel rooms for a conference many did not end up attending.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly is an annual meeting that typically takes place in Europe, but was hosted in Vancouver from June 30 to July 4 last year.
Of the 700 European parliamentarians who were invited, almost half of them didn’t attend the conference or chose less expensive hotels to stay in if they did.
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Bulgaria’s Farmers Are Joining Europe-Wide Protests
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Hundreds of angry farmers took to the streets in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, on Monday to complain of what they called “the total failure” of the government to meet the mounting challenges of the agricultural sector.
They called on Agriculture Minister Kiril Vatev to step down for not keeping his promises to ease the administrative burden on the farming sector, to seek state compensation for high costs and falling incomes.
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Spain’s proposed amnesty law was voted down by Carles Puigdemont’s Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia), or Junts, on January 30. Pedro Sanchez had agreed to this in exchange for Junts’ help to make him prime minister again. The amnesty law was to free thousands of Catalan separatists from all charges linked to the organization of an illegal referendum on independence in 2017. It is now feared Pedro Sanchez will make more concessions to keep his post of prime minister, extending the amnesty to acts of terrorism.
To get the support of Catalan separatists, a condition Sanchez had to agree to was to create special parliamentary investigation committees to review past actions by prosecutors and judges against them, to make sure their proceedings had not been politically motivated.
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Dutch Authorities Consider Abandoning Facebook
The government of the Netherlands is contemplating a complete withdrawal from Facebook due to the platform’s lack of sufficient guarantees regarding the security of user data, reports the Telegraaf newspaper, citing sources.
The State Secretary for Digitalization at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexandra van Huffelen, reminded that the government has been concerned for many years about how Facebook handles confidential data. According to the publication, the kingdom’s government is preparing for a total ban on the use of the social network, as outlined in an official cabinet memorandum.
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Former Czech PM Babis Agrees With Orban’s Position on Ukraine
The Czech government’s recent approval of the F-35 fighter jet purchase and discussions on the electoral law were subjects of a recent interview with a prominent opposition figure.
In the interview, the opposition member expressed skepticism about the necessity of the fighter jets, citing concerns about the F-35s’ manufacturer’s delayed deliveries to the US military. The opposition representative questioned the need for such aircraft, suggesting a focus on defense systems like Israel’s Iron Dome instead.
Regarding foreign policy, the interview touched upon the government’s support for Ukraine, with the opposition figure echoing concerns raised by Viktor Orban about tracking funds sent to Ukraine. The opposition member advocated for transparency in financial aid and suggested an investigation into the loss of funds allocated for weapons in Ukraine.
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France and Sweden to Launch Nuclear Cooperation
On a state visit to Sweden at the end of January, French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed the establishment of a strategic partnership between the two countries. At the heart of the bilateral negotiations is an agreement—under discussion for several months—to develop nuclear power.
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Germany: Spy Agency Sets Sights on Former Chief Over ‘Right-Wing Extremism’
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s increasingly politicized domestic intelligence agency, has placed its former chief, Hans-Georg Maaßen, under observation over, among other things, his alleged proximity to individuals in the ‘right-wing extremist’ scene.
In a 20-page letter sent to Maaßen’s lawyer’s office the intelligence agency informed its ex-boss as to the reasons for his surveillance, listing information and details it has collected regarding his activities and associations that it believes are indicative of right-wing extremism.
Among other things, the BfV, in its letter, cites an essay co-authored by Maaßen in 2021 titled “The Rise and Fall of Postnationalism,” where he warned of “undemocratic, totalitarian supranational systems” seeking to implement a “new totalitarianism.” For the use of this language, the intelligence agency has accused him of using “anti-Semitic codes and ciphers.”
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German Leftist Newspaper Spied on Its Own Journalists
A media scandal is rocking the left-liberal German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) after it emerged that bosses spied on their own staff and reporters to find a “mole” who had leaked info about the plagiarism affair of the deputy editor of the paper.
Süddeutsche Zeitung is now accused of bigotry and double standards when it comes to ‘whistleblowers.’ NGO Reporters Without Borders criticized the paper’s management and wrote that the protection of confidential sources is in danger.
The scandal has put the reputation of SZ seriously at risk.
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The ten former members of the Bundestag who have broken away from The Left party, now collectively known as the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), have been officially recognized as a group in the Bundestag.
This recognition comes with a substantial annual budget of 4.9 million euros, funded by taxpayers, serving as their starting capital, according to reports from the German press.
The departure of Sahra Wagenknecht and her supporters resulted in The Left losing its parliamentary group status in the German Bundestag. However, both the remaining left-wing politicians under Dietmar Bartsch and Wagenknecht’s breakaway faction have now attained group status.
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Germany: Radical Left-Globalist Interior Minister Pushes for So-Called ‘Democracy Promotion’ Law
Germany’s radical-left globalist Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is actively advocating for the swift implementation of a so-called ‘democracy promotion’ law in the Bundestag.
Emphasizing the crucial need to fortify the efforts of “civil society initiatives,” Faeser contends that it is “high time” to provide financial support to the myriad associations and individuals contributing to the strength and vitality of democracy, as reported by the Rheinische Post.
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German City of Potsdam Seeks Entry Ban of Austrian Identitarian Leader
The city of Potsdam is seeking a ban on the entry of Martin Sellner, the founder of the Identitarian Movement (IB). Mike Schubert, Potsdam’s mayor, emphasized the intention to utilize all legal measures to prevent Sellner from spreading hate speech in the city.
The constitutional process to restrict the freedom of movement for the Austrian citizen has been initiated by Potsdam. In advance, Sellner received a fax from the city outlining a planned formal loss assessment under the Freedom of Movement Act, according to reports from German media.
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Germany Finds Increasing Levels of Long-Banned Substance in Humans, Including Children
Germany’s Federal Environment Agency (UBA) is sounding the alarm after finding high levels in humans of a banned plasticiser—a chemical added to a material to make it more flexible and less brittle. The presence of the harmful substance, linked to male infertility and higher risks of diabetes and obesity, was discovered as part of the ongoing 6th German environmental study on health.
UBA toxicologist Marika Kolossa said to Die Welt that the metabolite MnHexP had been found in 28 percent of urine samples so far.
A breakdown product of the plasticizer di-n-hexyl phthalate (DnHexP), MnHexP, has been strictly regulated since 2013 and is largely prohibited in the European Union. It was first discovered in humans in 2023.
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What is happening in Western Europe with protesting farmers is “the sobering up of Europe, the return to normality,” said Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy during an appearance on Kossuth Radio’s Sunday morning program. During his appearance, the minister also openly backed Hungarian farmers and their plan to protest at the Ukrainian border.
According to Nagy, Europe’s agriculture and food self-sufficiency are currently at risk, because “European agriculture has never been so steeped in green ideologies.”
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Greens Double Down: Net Zero by 2040
The Greens/EFA party is seemingly oblivious to what voters in Europe want and may have just shot itself in the foot just five months ahead of the EU elections.
The party’s new manifesto for June’s EU Parliament elections, adopted at its congress on Sunday, February 4th, sets ambitious climate targets that are even more radical than what the Brussels mainstream wants. Instead of the currently decided deadline for reaching net zero by 2050, the Greens advocate for 100% renewable energy use and “full climate neutrality” by 2040.
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Growing Concern With Donald Tusk on the Polish Left
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The first month after taking power was no honeymoon for Donald Tusk’s government. There is already growing criticism within its own camp, both from those who are stunned by his heavy-handed and blatantly unlawful approach to “restoring” democracy and the rule of law after eight years of whining in Brussels on this very issue, and from those on the far left who find him insufficiently radical.
“After October 15, I began to speak more to those in power now than to their predecessors or about them. Maybe such is a lawyer’s soul that the rule of law, which has been talked about so much all these years, is really a very personal matter for us lawyers,” says Professor Marcin Matczak.
This expert in constitutional law has recently become one of the loudest critics of the methods employed by the left-liberal government sworn in on Dec. 13.
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Historic Moment as Northern Ireland Appoints First Nationalist Leader
The restoration of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government by unionist—that is, pro-UK—politicians has brought about the appointment of the country’s first ever nationalist leader. The weight of this occasion was not lost on the new first minister, Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O’Neill, who was all smiles as she “made the most” of the event.
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The prison cell of suspected Antifa terror Ilaria Salis, an Italian citizen, features a flat-screen TV, a separate toilet and four bunk beds, according to the National Prison Service (BvOP). The press was invited to review the prison conditions of Salis over allegations she is being inhumanely treated, including by top Italian politicians.
Salis, a teacher from Milan, is facing 11 years in prison for her alleged role in a number of brutal attacks in Budapest that targeted seven victims in February of last year. Some of the victims, who the Antifa Hammer Gang group thought were far-right activists but were actually civilians who had nothing to do with far-right activism, suffered life-changing injuries.
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Leaked Recording Raises Questions in EU Corruption Scandal
A leaked conversation has emerged, revealing a leading police investigator’s doubts about the integrity of key figures in the Qatargate probe, a sprawling corruption case within the European Union.
The recording, obtained by Euronews, features senior Belgian policeman Ceferino Alvarez Rodriguez expressing skepticism about the credibility of repentant individuals and the judiciary involved in the case.
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New Northern Ireland Deal Restores Power-Sharing Government
A new deal to restore Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government has prompted fears of Brexit betrayal and a weaker United Kingdom.
Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) began its boycott of power-sharing almost exactly two years ago in protest against post-Brexit customs checks on goods arriving from Britain. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak later signed an agreement with the EU to reduce the number of checks, but the DUP was not convinced that this “cut the mustard.”
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The new left-liberal Polish government agreed to cuts to health, agriculture and cohesion funds at the EU summit, which amounts to an outright failure to stand up for Polish interests, criticized Former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
Morawiecki said that the last EU summit failed to come up with the needed new resources and simply rearranged the existing budgets. He criticized Donald Tusk’s government for failing to try and hold Poland’s negotiating position and regretted that the new settlement included cuts to cohesion funds, the common agricultural policy, and healthcare so that more money could be spent on migrants from Turkey and Syria rather than tackling the situation on the eastern border of the EU.
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Poland: Tusk Left-Liberal Government Breaks Campaign Promise as Government Bloat Rapidly Expands
The new left-liberal government under Donald Tusk, which had promised a leaner cabinet structure, seems to be expanding rather than contracting. Contrary to the Civic Coalition’s (KO) famous list of 100 promises for the first 100 days in office, which included reducing the number of ministers and deputy ministers, the count now exceeds 120 individuals.
Social media users, like Emilia Kaminska on X platform, have highlighted the discrepancy by posting a list of all 121 government members, including ministers and their deputies, showcasing the government’s deviation from its initial promises.
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Polish Conservatives’ New Hope for Warsaw Mayor
On Saturday, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the conservative Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party, presented Tobiasz Bochenski, a former prefect in the Mazovia region, as the candidate for Warsaw mayor. He will face the well-known sitting Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who will be the candidate for Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition.
Trzaskowski won in the first round of voting back in 2018 during the last local elections and anything other than a first-round victory this time would be seen as a disappointment to both Trzaskowski and his party.
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Protesters in Italy: Farmers Heading to Rome
On Monday morning, Italian farmers embarked on a journey towards Rome with a convoy of 200 tractors, aiming to stage a sustained protest, as stated by Galgano Palaferri, a representative of the united protesting committee.
According to him, the farmers set out from the southern provinces of Tuscany, and colleagues from other regions of Italy will join them. The farmers loaded their agricultural machinery with water and supplies for a multi-day protest.
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Romanian Farmers Force Concessions From Government
The Romanian farmers’ and truckers’ unions who participated in country-wide protests these past several weeks agreed to stand down in exchange for seats on a new committee tasked with finding long-term solutions to their problems. The public body will launch alongside 25% diesel subsidies and €70 million in grants for animal farmers.
Protesters’ representatives signed the agreement with PM Marcel Ciolacu on Friday, February 2nd. According to an official government press release, the finalized document stipulates that “an inter-ministerial committee will be set up … to analyze and find the best solutions to the protesters’ claims.”
Said committee will be composed of a secretary of state from each “relevant” ministry as well as representatives of the farming and trucking unions. Each specific question will be addressed first by the ministry and a union delegate, then coordinated with the other ministries within the committee.
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Slovak Farmers Are Ready to Join Protests Following Their European Counterparts
Slovak farmers are ready to join their European colleagues in their protest actions, which have stirred many countries in recent weeks. This was stated by the Slovak Agricultural and Food Chamber (SPPK), as reported by Euractiv.
SPPK believes that Brussels and its “green” policies are at the root of the difficult situation facing European farmers. This also includes problems related to the mismanagement of the Slovak Agricultural Payment Agency (APA) and the definition of the national strategic implementation plan.
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UK: King Charles III Has Cancer, Buckingham Palace Announces
King Charles III, 75, has cancer, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday.
“During The King’s recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement, a separate issue of concern was noted,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement.
“Subsequent diagnostic tests have identified a form of cancer.”
On Monday, Charles started “a schedule of regular treatments, during which time he has been advised by doctors to postpone public-facing duties,” the palace said, and during this time he’ll “continue to undertake State business and official paperwork as usual.”
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Outside pressure forced employees of a London theater to cancel a pro-Israel event hosted by British journalist Douglas Murray on Sunday night.
Staff at the Apollo Theater backed out of working the public event after receiving threats via email, Alan Aziz, the CEO of Technion UK, the nonprofit that organized the fundraiser, told Jewish News. Murray and British actress Louisa Clein planned to hold the discussion to raise money for Israeli soldiers.
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Iranian Proxies Attack More US Troops in Syria — as Blinken Launches New Crucial Mideast Tour
WASHINGTON — Iran-backed terrorists launched two more attacks on US and allied troops in Syria over the weekend, according to officials Monday — as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Saudi Arabia in his latest Mideast tour to try to stop the Israel-Gaza conflict from growing.
Iranian proxy militias fired two rockets at Syria’s Mission Support Site Euphrates, targeting US and coalition forces stationed there, on Saturday, according to Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder.
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US Strikes Huthi Uncrewed Surface Vessels in Yemen
The US military said Monday it had struck explosive uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) operated by Huthi rebels in Yemen, days after a wave of joint strikes with Britain aimed at stopping continued attacks on international shipping.
“US forces identified the explosive USVs in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and determined they presented an imminent threat to US Navy ships and merchant vessels in the region,” Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.
The strikes against the two USVs, essentially explosive-laden drone boats, were carried out at 3:30 pm local time (1230 GMT), CENTCOM said, and follow repeated unilateral and joint actions taken by the United States against the Iran-backed Huthi rebels, whose attacks in solidarity with Palestinians in war-battered Gaza have disrupted global trade.
American forces also carried out air strikes against five missiles in Yemen on Sunday — one designed for land attack and the others for targeting ships, the US military said.
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Tucker Carlson’s Visit to Russia Draws Speculation of Putin Interview
Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News host who now has a show on the social media platform X, has been spotted in Moscow in recent days, leading to speculation in Russia and the United States that he is about to achieve his long-stated goal of interviewing President Vladimir Putin.
If so, Carlson would be the first American media figure to land a formal interview with the Russian leader since he invaded Ukraine nearly two years ago.
Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, has indicated that Putin was denying requests from Western news outlets because their countries had been “stupefied” by anti-Russian propaganda. But Carlson has been a defender of Putin while attacking his Western critics, placing him at the vanguard of a pro-Putin wing of the American conservative movement.
Russian media on Monday showed a black Mercedes van said to be transporting Carlson around Moscow entering and then leaving the state administrative building that houses Peskov’s office.
On television and online, Russian state media has treated Carlson as a visiting celebrity, offering a stream of photos and videos of his various stops — arriving at the airport, dining at a restaurant, taking in the Spartacus ballet at the Bolshoi Theater.
In one video in wide circulation, including on X, Tucker told a self-professed fan that he was there because “I wanted to talk to people and look around and see how it was doing — and it’s doing very well.” Asked about a possible interview with Putin, Carlson shrugged and said, “We’ll see.”
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has finally given public confirmation that he is currently considering firing this top military general in charge of the armed forces, after a week of denials by Kiev officials amid an avalanche of reporting and leaks to the press.
It has also been widely reported that Gen. Valerii Zaluzhny has rejected Zelensky’s attempts to dismiss him, leading to speculation that this could be the start of a mutiny, given also Zalushny is very popular and has a loyal following among military ranks.
The Hill has cited a Sunday Italian news interview wherein Zelensky was asked whether he’s going to fire his military commander. Zelensky then said the Ukrainian populace want “a reset” and “a new beginning is necessary” given things haven’t gone well on the battlefield over the past year.
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Steve Ngabunga, 30, was in his unit in Logan Central in Brisbane ‘s south when three men kicked down his door just after 7.30pm on Sunday.
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New Zealand: McDonald’s Says Boycotts Over Israel-Hamas War Have Hurt Sales
McDonald’s has reported weaker-than-expected same-store sales in its fourth quarter, as the fast-food chain became the latest company to warn that boycotts related to the war in Gaza have hurt its business.
The company said that global same-store sales increased 3.4 per cent in the three months to the end of December, short of analyst expectations for an increase of about 4.9 per cent.
However, the miss was greater within the division covering the more than 80 markets internationally where McDonald’s has licensed its franchising rights.
Here, same-store sales edged up only 0.7 per cent in the period, sharply missing analyst expectations for an increase of 5 per cent, which McDonald’s primarily blamed on a drop in demand at its restaurants in the Middle East as well as those in predominantly Muslim countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia.
“In [international developed licensed markets], we do not expect to see meaningful improvement until there is a resolution in the Middle East,” chief executive Chris Kempczinski said on an investor call on Monday.
He added that McDonald’s had also experienced challenges in France, one of its main markets, in some areas with large Muslim populations. Shares in McDonald’s were down 4.3 per cent to US$284.30 in early afternoon trading.
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Woman Charged After Teenage Girl Allegedly Stabbed in Random Attack
A teenage girl has been stabbed in a random attack, police allege, with a 34-year-old woman now in custody.
The alleged stabbing took place in Bundaberg, about four hours north of Brisbane, on Monday afternoon outside a dance studio.
“It will be alleged at approximately 4.30pm, the woman approached a 15-year-old girl not known to her at a business along Water St,” police said on Tuesday.
“The woman started a conversation with the girl before allegedly producing a knife and wounding the girl.
“She then left the scene on foot.”
The 15-year-old Avoca girl suffered non-life-threatening wounds to her back and paramedics took her to Bundaberg Hospital in a stable condition for further treatment.
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El Salvador’s Bukele Claims Victory in Presidential Election With Over 85% of Votes
by Sputnik
Incumbent Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claimed to have won the presidential election in El Salvador with more than 85% of the votes on Sunday.
“According to our figure, we won the presidential election with over 85% of the vote and won at least 58 of the 60 seats in the [Legislative] Assembly. The record in the entire democratic history of the world. See you at 9 p.m. in front of the National Palace. God bless El Salvador,” Bukele said on X (formerly Twitter).
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14 Arrested in Italy Following Disturbance at Migrant Detention Center
Fourteen individuals have been arrested in Italy following unrest at a migrant detention center near Rome. The disturbance occurred after the suicide of a young man held at the facility, as reported by Reuters.
During the chaos on Sunday, inmates broke out into a car park, setting fire to mattresses and hurling objects. Two police officers and a soldier sustained injuries during the incident. Tear gas was deployed as authorities struggled to regain control of the Ponte Galeria facility, a holding center for undocumented migrants near Fiumicino airport.
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Canada: Jailed Sudanese Refugee Dodges Deportation for Fourth Time in One Year
A 30-year-old Sudanese man has managed to evade deportation for the fourth time within just over a year.
Illay Mohamed, a refugee from the African nation, was released from jail by a Sudbury judge despite his history of violence.
The recent legal episode centred on a charge of bodily harm resulting from an altercation at the Sudbury jail in September.
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Texas governor Greg Abbott has vowed to expand the razor wire and military presence along the state’s crisis-stricken southern border — as it emerges that TikTokers have been posting videos which alert migrants to the easiest entry points.
The move goes against an emergency SCOTUS ruling which authorized border police to remove miles of the wire — while also presenting yet another barb in his increasingly prickly relationship with President Joe Biden.
Abbott, 66, announced the border crackdown on the eve of the Senate tabling a precarious $118 billion bipartisan deal to ‘close’ the border on Monday.
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Ukrainian refugees moving within the territory of Austria in cars worth more than €250,000 are difficult to consider in need of protection. This statement was made by the Member of the European Parliament Harald Vilimsky, who heads the delegation of the Austrian Freedom Party (AFP) in the European Parliament, to the Heute newspaper.
At the same time, the MEP emphasized that “no one has anything against” the arrival of forced migrants to the republic — “elderly people, women, and the sick.”
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‘Even Worse Than We Expected’: House Speaker Reacts to Bipartisan Senate Immigration Bill
In a scathing new statement Sunday night, House Speaker Mike Johnson said the Senate bipartisan bill to overhaul the immigration system along with providing aid to Israel and Ukraine was dead on arrival if it makes it to the House.
“I’ve seen enough. This bill is even worse than we expected, and won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created. As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, “the border never closes.” If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival,” Johnson said in a statement on X, echoing comments he made before the bill’s release.
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Forty refugees on the Bibby Stockholm have reportedly started attending local churches amid fears that Christianity conversion may be a new ‘loophole’ to remain in the country.
Worshippers in Portland, Dorset — where the barge is moored — claim that a number of migrants are converting to Christianity through UK courses such as Christian Alpha, while others have converted in their home country.
An estimated one in seven of the 300 migrants currently housed on the lighter are said to be attending churches under supervision of faith leaders.
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France: Marion Maréchal Backs AfD on Remigration
In a recent interview on France Inter, the head of Reconquête, the national Right party, discussed Marine Le Pen’s distancing from Germany’s AfD party amid the “remigration” controversy.
This policy advocates sending non-European immigrants, those criminals or those convicted of serious crimes, back to their countries of origin.
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Germany: Bavaria to Replace Cash With Card Payment System for Asylum Seekers
Bavaria is on the verge of launching a groundbreaking pilot project to introduce a payment card system for asylum seekers, aiming to phase out traditional cash benefits.
Prime Minister Markus Söder unveiled the initiative, highlighting Bavaria’s commitment to a faster and more rigorous approach compared to other German states. The proposed system will cap cash benefits at a maximum of €50 for small pocket money, with the payment card limiting purchases to essential goods from physical stores, according to reports from the Austrian press.
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Germany: Tunisian Migrants Are Creating Awful Living Conditions in Regensburg
Following the sexual assault by Tunisian asylum seekers and a school director’s advice for girls to travel in groups, CSU Bundestag member Peter Aumer advocates for an assertive deportation strategy.
Incidents include migrants raiding supermarkets and Tunisians causing disturbances in the old town on New Year’s Eve. Mayor Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer acknowledges removing benches in a park where migrants harassed women, Junge Freiheit reports.
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An Italian teenage girl was dragged into a public toilet and gang-raped in front of her boyfriend.
The girl, 13, was sexually assaulted in the Villa Bellini park in Catania, Sicily, around 7.30pm on January 30 while on a walk with her 17-year-old boyfriend.
A group of young men forced the girl and her boyfriend into a public bathroom, where some of them held the boyfriend back while two others gang-raped the girl.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has now claimed he wants to track down the migrants who allegedly attacked two NYPD officers before a judge released them with no bail.
Bragg claimed that his office will present evidence on Tuesday to a grand jury on the 12 suspects they believe were involved in the melee against police outside a shelter in Times Square on January 27.
‘Our office continues to work with law enforcement to bring everyone responsible for these heinous attacks to justice. It is clear from video and other evidence that some of the most culpable individuals have not yet been identified or arrested, and we are working hand in hand with the NYPD to find and hold them accountable for their despicable acts,’ Bragg said in a statement on Saturday.
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The illegal immigrants who fled to California after allegedly assaulting a pair of New York City police officers are part of a wider conspiracy of stealing phones to make lavish purchases in their home countries, according to a New York Post report.
A police source told the Post the illegal immigrants routinely steal phones and use the Apple Pay and credit card information inside to purchase cars, pools and other luxuries back home.
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New Jersey Illegal Migrant Gang Charging Other Migrants $6,000 to Illegally Migrate
A migrant gang based in New Jersey is helping a flood of future Democrats pour into the United States through the Canadian border for a princely sum of $6,000 per head, the Daily Mail reveals.
Several of the ringleaders settled in New Jersey after being released by ICE — where they’ve moved “dozens if not hundreds” of migrants into the US using secret techniques along the poorly-guarded boder between Quebec and Vermont.
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Report: Denver Police Officer Warns Whistleblower About Sleeper Cells From Open Borders
A concerned American citizen took to social media to blow the whistle on disturbing reports of terrorist sleeper cells in the U.S. he claimed to hear from a Denver police officer.
“So I just had a conversation with a Denver police officer at the airport, and we were talking about the crime that’s going on, not only in Denver, but our country,” the man begins.
“And he says, the media will not tell you this. I’m not even supposed to talk about this, but I don’t care anymore. The Denver police in Denver has arrested over 50 Al-Qaeda members in the last 2 months.”
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While the House has gone full ‘Israel or Bust’, the Senate has come up with a $118 billion bipartisan agreement which would allow 1.5 million illegals to enter the US every year, allocates $2.3 billion towards NGOs and other organizations which traffic them, gives $14.1 billion in security assistance to Israel, and a whopping $60 billion in support to Ukraine.
The bill also locks in green card giveaways until 2030.
The agreement was reached by Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), whose own state legislature censured him last week for striking such a crappy border deal, along with Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ).
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The moment a migrant on a moped dragged a woman along a New York City street to steal her phone was caught in horrifying footage shared Monday by police.
Three migrants were arrested by the NYPD after they allegedly went on a crime spree that saw them stealing wallets and cellphones from at least 62 women across the city’s five boroughs.
Police say they arrested the migrants, all believed to be from Venezuela, in a safe house in the Bronx after executing a search warrant.
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Spain Reports Arrival of Over 1,000 Migrants in the Canary Islands Within 3 Days
Over the span of the last three days, Spain has reported the arrival of over 1,000 migrants from sub-Saharan countries in the Canary Islands. This surge in migration, with 18 boats making the perilous journey, has raised concerns as the archipelago witnesses an increasing number of arrivals, particularly from West Africa. The recent discovery of a body in one of the boats adds to the gravity of the situation, as reported by AP News.
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Spanish Immigration Chief: Most Illegal Boat Migrants on Mallorca Are Committing Crimes
The chief inspector of Spain’s National Police’s immigration brigade, José Maria Manso, who is retiring after 44 years of service, revealed concerns about the influx of asylum-seeking migrants on the island of Mallorca.
Manso highlighted the escalating problem of irregular stays by migrants, emphasizing that many engage in criminal activities, often avoiding imprisonment for minor offenses, the Spanish press reports.
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Easter Painting Depicting Jesus as ‘Effeminate’ & ‘Homoerotic’ Sparks Furious Backlash
An artist was commissioned to paint a work of art to celebrate the coming Easter week, but the painting of a semi-naked Jesus Christ he produced has provoked a furious backlash.
More than 22,000 people have signed a petition protesting against the painting that depicts Jesus as “homoerotic” and “effeminate.”
Local artist Salustiano Garcia was commissioned to paint the piece to celebrate Easter week in the southwestern Spanish city of Seville.
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German Fans Mock Woke Football Association
Football fans in the German city of Dresden have mocked the German Football Association (DFB) for conforming to woke ideology. Fans of Dynamo Dresden displayed a banner during a match on Sunday, February 4th, aimed specifically at the DFB. The banner read: “There is only one ridiculous DFB … and two genders.”
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Trans Crowd Angry at Chappelle Winning Yet Another Grammy
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news
Comedian Dave Chappelle won Best Comedy Album for a second year running at the Grammy Awards Sunday, prompting the transgender crowd to go into a meltdown on social media.
The award is Chappelle’s fifth overall, yet drew anger from fans of trans because his special “What’s in a Name,” taken from a portion of a speech he gave at Duke Ellington School of the Arts contained references to so called ‘transphobic’ jokes he has made in the past.
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“Tucker Carlson is visiting Moscow, leading to speculation that he may land an interview with President Vladimir Putin….Bill Kristol said that he should not be allowed back into the country.”
“Sometimes my inner democratic socialist struggles to be (re)born.” —Bill Kristol (24 Jan 2019)
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1088428401633955840
“In stunning defeat, House Republicans fail to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas over border” —ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-vote-gop-led-push-impeach-dhs-secretary/story?id=106967588
I get that the Senate would’ve rejected ANY negative action taken against ANY member of The Party, but if the Republican-controlled House’s unable to jettison Mayorkas, a proven, series perjurer like Mayorkas—who’s LIED to me on two conference calls!—I think it’s time for non-hyphenated American CITIZENS to have a VERY frank talk amongst themselves and consider the VERY real possibility of a “November Surprise”….and NOT the good kind.
Increasingly, I’m envisioning Mrs. President Affirmative Action winning the presidential election…..and the voters of Obamerica putting her there WILLFULLY; and without having had a gun pointed at their [collectivist] heads.
Clock’s ticking..