At least 50 passengers were injured when a Boeing 787 jet en route from Sydney to Auckland suddenly nosedived and sent bodies flying into the plane’s roof. In possibly unrelated news, a former Boeing employee named John Barnett has been found dead in South Carolina from a self-inflicted wound. He had recently given evidence against the company in a whistleblower lawsuit, and was scheduled to testify again.
In other news, Ukraine will need more than a billion dollars to rebuild scientific infrastructure, according to UNESCO. The agency said the large amount of money is necessary to cover kickbacks that will be handed out to UN employees and members of the US Congress.
OK, so I made that last part up, but still…
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2 in Custody, 2 Remain at Large in ‘Heinous’ Mass Shooting at Bus Stop, Police Say
Two 18-year-old men have been taken into custody in connection with a mass shooting at a SEPTA bus stop in Philadelphia last week, authorities announced Monday.
Charges against the two 18-year-olds include criminal attempted murder, aggravated assault and conspiracy, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said.
At about 3 p.m. Wednesday, three masked gunmen exited a car parked near the bus stop and fired more than 30 rounds toward high schoolers who were trying to board a bus, Philadelphia police said.
Eight teens — ages 15 to 17 — were shot, and two of them were hospitalized in critical condition, police said. One of the teens was shot nine times, according to police. That victim has since been “upgraded [at the hospital] and is talking,” police said Monday.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel called it a “heinous crime.”
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Adam Schiff Hopes Intel Agencies ‘Dumb Down’ Briefings to Donald Trump
On Sunday, Democrat Representative Adam Schiff said he hopes the intelligence agencies will withhold information from former President Donald Trump during the standard briefings that presidential nominees get from them.
In an interview with NBC, Schiff said, “I have to hope — and knowing the intelligence community, as I do — that they will dumb down the briefing for Donald Trump.”
“That is, they will give him no more information than absolutely necessary, nothing that would reveal sources or methods,” the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee added. “we can’t trust that he will do the right thing with that information. He’s been so reckless.”
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Alaska Supreme Court Rules Surveillance Around Residential Areas Requires Warrant
The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that certain types of law enforcement surveillance in and around residential areas require a warrant.
In a landmark ruling on Friday, the state’s highest court asserted that law enforcement agencies must secure a warrant before employing aircraft, binoculars, or cameras equipped with zoom lenses to conduct surveillance around residential areas.
According to the Associated Press, the court’s decision rebuffed the notion that the commonplace use of small aircraft in Alaska justified law enforcement’s ability to engage in similar surveillance activities.
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Amish Toddler is Only Survivor in Wisconsin Crash That Kills 9
An Amish toddler is the only survivor of a crash in Wisconsin that left 9 people dead, according to reports.
The 2-year-old boy was rescued after the deadly crash between a van and tractor-trailer killed seven members of his Amish community.
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office said the crash occurred Friday.
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Biden Launches New Campaign Ad: ‘I’m Not a Young Guy’
Democrat President Joe Biden has launched a new video ad for his 2024 re-election campaign that appears to tackle concerns about his age and fitness for office by declaring that he’s “not a young guy.”
In a new re-election campaign video, Biden acknowledges the mounting fears over his old age.
The 81-year-old poked fun at what is thought to be his greatest liability as a presidential candidate on Friday.
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Bloodbath at RNC: Trump Team Slashes Staff at Committee
Donald Trump’s newly installed leadership team at the Republican National Committee on Monday began the process of pushing out dozens of officials, according to two people close to the Trump campaign and the RNC.
All told, the expectation is that more than 60 RNC staffers who work across the political, communications and data departments will be let go. Those being asked to resign include five members of the senior staff, though the names were not made public. Additionally, some vendor contracts are expected to be cut.
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Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead in US
A former Boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firm’s production standards has been found dead in the US.
John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017.
In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.
Boeing said it was saddened to hear of Mr Barnett’s passing. The Charleston County coroner confirmed his death to the BBC on Monday.
It said the 62-year-old had died from a “self-inflicted” wound on 9 March and police were investigating.
Mr Barnett had worked for the US plane giant for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017 on health grounds.
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Boeing Whistleblower John Barnett Found Dead Days After Testifying Against Company: Report
The whistleblower that publicly raised doubts about Boeing’s production standards was reportedly found dead, South Carolina officials said.
The Charleston County Coroner’s Office told the BBC that John Barnett, 62, died from a self-inflicted wound on Saturday. According to the BBC, Barnett was cross-examined by Boeing’s lawyers and his own attorney days before he died.
The court planned for Barnett to answer more questions on Saturday, but he did not appear as planned.
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CNN Declined to Air Ad That Faults Biden for Laken Riley’s Murder During State of the Union
A conservative nonprofit, Building America’s Future, hit CNN for not airing an ad that faults President Biden for Laken Riley’s tragic murder during last week’s State of the Union address, but the network insists the commercial didn’t meet its standards.
“CNN and Joe Biden are in lockstep once again,” Building America’s Future Advisor Phil Cox said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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On Monday, a member of the feminist pro-Palestinian group Code Pink disrupted a Senate hearing in which lawmakers were discussing global threats, calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
The activist was promptly escorted out of the hearing and detained by United States Capitol Police.
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Evangelical Group Faith & Freedom, Led by Ralph Reed, to Spend $62M on Trump Get Out the Vote Effort
The Faith & Freedom Coalition, the prominent evangelical advocacy group led by Ralph Reed, is reportedly planning to spend $62 million this election cycle to help likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump get elected.
The money will go toward registering and turning out evangelical voters, according to Politico. And such efforts will include door knocking and texting and calling supporters.
The spending is $10 million more than the group spent four years ago, in the 2020 election cycle.
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‘Fabricated!’ Trump Takes Victory Lap After Secret Service Driver Disputes Democrats’ J6 Narrative
Former President Donald Trump claimed vindication Monday after new evidence released by Congress undercut two sensational claims Democrats made about him during the Jan. 6 investigation, including that he tried to commandeer his Secret Service vehicle that day to go to the Capitol and never offered National Guard troops for extra protection ahead of the fateful event.
“These were made-up, fabricated stories,” Trump told Just the News in an exclusive interview.
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FBI Searches California Federal Women’s Prison Again Amid Sexual Abuse Probe
FBI agents searched a federal women’s prison in California again amid a yearslong sexual abuse probe that has led to charges against employees, including a former warden.
More than a dozen FBI agents came to the Federal Correctional Institution at Dublin during the search Monday as they hauled off computers and documents and removed the warden, an associate warden and a captain from the facility, per The Associated Press.
The FBI confirmed that its agents were at the correctional center but did not give more details.
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FDNY Union Head Weighs in After Staff Cheered for Trump, Booed NY AG Letitia James
The union leader who represents employees of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) spoke with Fox News on Monday about a recent booing incident involving its firefighters.
Last Thursday, New York Attorney General Letitia James was heckled during an FDNY ceremony at the Christian Cultural Center’s Brooklyn location in East New York.
When James walked towards the podium, some audience members began shouting, “Trump! Trump! Trump!”
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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., scorched his Democratic colleagues in the Senate for allowing “sleazeball” Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., to remain in Congress despite multiple indictments stemming from the latter’s alleged bribery scandal.
On Monday, Menendez pleaded not guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to charges of bribery and obstruction of justice. Menendez and his wife are accused of obstructing justice while being investigated for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes, including cash, gold and a Mercedes-Benz, in exchange for using Menendez’s power and influence as a senator to benefit the governments of Egypt and Qatar.
Fetterman spoke to CNN reporter Manu Raju last week, sharing his displeasure that Democrats haven’t expelled Menendez from the Senate.
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Former Trump Aide Peter Navarro Ordered to Report to Prison Next Week
Former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro was ordered to report to prison on March 19 to start his four-month sentence after he was convicted on two counts of congressional contempt.
Navarro’s conviction came after he defied a subpoena from the now-dissolved House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.
The former Trump advisor has been attempting to persuade a federal appeals court to stay, or pause, his sentence as he appeals his conviction.
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Libs of TikTok revealed on Monday that she had been in touch with a former student at the Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis, Missouri, where a brutal fight between female students on Friday resulted in one student hospitalized in critical condition and another under arrest.
That student claimed that anti-white hate had been the cause of bullying against that student 25 year ago. In 2017, a principal alleged that anti-white discrminination was the cause of her demotion. This was reported at the time by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 1975, the school district was at the center of a Supreme Court case where district authorities were accused of maintaining anti-black discrimination policies for faculty and staff.
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House GOP Report Debunks Cassidy Hutchinson Claim That Trump Lunged for Steering Wheel on Jan 6
A newly released transcript from an interview conducted by the January 6 Select Committee has contradicted claims made by prominent witness Cassidy Hutchinson, who claimed that Trump “lunged” for the wheel and attacked a secret service agent while riding in a limo from his rally on January 6, demanding he be taken to the Capitol Building where a riot was forming.
According to the New York Times, a secret service agent who was driving the vehicle on January 6 told House investigators that “the president was insistent on going to the Capitol,” adding “it was clear to me he wanted to go to the Capitol. He was not screaming at Mr. Engel.”
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East Central High School senior Cameron Blasek, a student in Indiana, is speaking out after he said he was told to remove his American flag from his truck.
“The flag itself represents this country, this beautiful country that we live in,” Blasek said in an interview with WCPO. “It also represents the people who fought their lives for it. And I think that’s a really hard thing to talk about, but I think it’s a big thing.”
Blasek said that he was told by his counselor and vice principal to remove the American flag from his truck, which he refused to do.
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Jack Smith Ramps Up Pressure for Pre-Election Court Date in Trump’s Classified Docs Case
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s legal team is aggressively pushing for President Donald Trump to face trial before the November presidential election for his classified documents case.
Smith’s lawyers have vehemently rebutted a series of assertions from Trump aimed at dismissing charges related to allegedly mishandling classified records at his Florida estate.
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LA Judge, Local Officials Launch Bold Review of City’s Homeless Service Provider Amid Growing Crisis
Leaders in Los Angeles are demanding more transparency from homeless service providers as the city’s crisis reaches historic highs.
A federal judge in California wants an independent audit of Los Angeles’ homelessness programs, accusing the city of failing to do enough to significantly curb the problem in recent years. City and county officials are also demanding that its lead homeless service provider release data about its efforts.
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Left-Wing Site That Smeared 9-Year-Old Kansas City Chiefs Fan Cuts Entire Staff After Being Sold
The left-wing sports blog Deadspin, which smeared a 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan last year, has laid off all its staff after its parent company sold it.
In November, Deadspin went viral over an article accusing a child of wearing “blackface” for wearing red and black facepaint and a Native American headdress, Fox News reported. It also accused him being hateful toward “Black people and the Native Americans at the same time.”
The boy has Native American heritage and his parents filed a defamation lawsuit against the company in February.
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Liz Cheney Implodes After Jan 6 Committee Caught Suppressing ‘Exonerating Evidence’ on Trump
Disgraced former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) has issued an angry response after a new report found that the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee suppressed “exonerating evidence” that supported President Donald Trump’s defense.
Cheney, a key member of the anti-Trump House committee, imploded in a social media post after the new evidence, revealed by the Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, provoked outrage on social media.
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Meta’s Stock Drops Twice After Trump Calls Facebook ‘An Enemy of the People’
The stock of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, dropped on both days that former President Donald Trump called the social media platform “an enemy of the people.”
On Monday, Trump did an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” criticizing Facebook after expressing his opposition to a bill going through the House of Representatives that will regulate TikTok.
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Most Voters Oppose Congress Refusing to Certify 2024 Election if Trump Wins: Poll
Arecent poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports and The National Pulse found that a majority of voters would oppose congressional Democrats if they refused to certify a 2024 presidential election victory by former President Donald Trump.
In total, 55% of likely U.S. voters say that if Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, then they would oppose Democratic Congress members who refuse to certify his victory. Meanwhile, 35% of voters say that would support congressional Democrats who refuse to certify a Trump victory, while 10% are unsure.
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NYC Burns Pizzerias With New Rule Cutting Smoky Pollutants by 75%: ‘You’re Going After Pizza?’
New York City has quietly approved a controversial green plan to require pizzerias and matzah bakeries using decades-old wood- and coal-fired stoves to cut their smoky pollutants by 75%.
Mayor Eric Adams’ Department of Environmental Protection said the fresh edict takes effect April 27, with some city businesses having already coughed up more than $600,000 for new smoke-eating systems in anticipation of the expected mandate.
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A leading expert is warning that “radical progressive ideology” has become a “dangerous” influence in America’s healthcare.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is the chairman of the healthcare protection group Do No Harm.
Dr. Goldfarb believes Marxism-based diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the healthcare industry “poisons the American experience.”
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The Hazelwood School District, which saw a female high school student brutally attacked by another last week, has been revealed to have received a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) award while students have been failing at testing in areas such as mathematics and reading.
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Several Wealthy Elites, Including Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, Rush to Sell Off Billions in Stock
Concerns are mounting after several of the world’s wealthy and most influential business elites have been rushing to sell off billions of dollars worth of stock.
The shocking stock dump is sparking fears of an impending financial disaster.
Jeff Bezos — the third-richest man behind Louis Vuitton’s Bernard Arnaut and Elon Musk — unloaded $8.5 billion in Amazon shares this month alone.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg — the fourth-richest — sold about 1.4 million Meta shares worth roughly $638 million.
Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan, also dumped $150 million in his shares in the bank this past week.
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Suing the National Park Service for Not Accepting Cash
The menace of “the War on Cash” is making steady headway across the board.
And that’s whether it concerns big-time international policy-makers pushing for total digitization of financial assets — or individual examples that showcase just how serious this threat is.
Here’s one such case: Elizabeth Dasburg and two others were denied the right to use cash to pay entry fee to the Fort Pulaski National Monument in Georgia, managed by the National Park Service.
It’s turned into, “parks, but no recreation” — because the victims of this violation of US law regulating the use of domestic currency have now opted for litigation.
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Trump and Orban Heap Praise on One Other Following Mar-a-Lago Meeting
Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban heaped praise on one another during a meeting on Friday evening at the former U.S. president’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
In an interview with Hungarian broadcaster M1, Orban explained he had visited the Republican presidential candidate to restore the deteriorating U.S.-Hungarian relations under the Biden administration.
“Given the fact that U.S.-Hungarian relations in the political world today are particularly bad, even though we are allies, I have tried to mend this relationship. So I went to America to restore the Hungarian-American political friendship,” Orban stressed, adding that this is not possible under the current U.S. government.
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Trump Uncovers Evidence Showing Jack Smith Admitted to Following Orders From Biden
President Donald Trump has raised the alarm over evidence that appears to show high-level collusion in the politically motivated classified documents case against him.
Trump revealed that he has uncovered evidence that appears to show that Special Counsel Jack Smith has been taking orders from Democrat President Joe Biden.
The 45th president argues that it proves a direct link between the White House and the prosecution cases against him.
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Trump “Clearly Hasn’t Learned From His COVID-Era Mistakes”, RFK Jr. Says
Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
President Joe Biden claimed that COVID vaccines are now helping cancer patients during his State of the Union address on March 7, but it was a response on Truth Social from former President Donald Trump that drew the ire of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Washington County Sheriff Tells Deputies to Not Enforce City’s New Homeless Encampment Legislation
The King County, Washington sheriff has directed her deputies to not enforce a City of Burien order outlawing homeless encampments within 500 feet of locations like schools and parks until the constitutionality of the order was resolved, without telling city officials.
Now, Burien Mayor Kevin Schilling is examining the inter-local agreement between the city and county sheriff’s office. Schilling said if he determines the agreement was broken, he would consider establishing a city-run police department.
Burien’s city council adopted a new ordinance on March 4, which prohibits people from sleeping overnight on public property from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next day, if a shelter, bed or treatment facility is available.
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Woman Shot, Killed at Texas Rave as Revelers Filmed Her Death, Continued to Party: Sheriff
Authorities in San Antonio, Texas have revealed that after a 21-year-old woman was shot at an illegal rave over the weekend, a number of other attendees recorded her as she lay dying on the floor.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar called their actions “cold-blooded and disturbing.”
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Canadians Are Fleeing the Country. Here’s Why — and How — They Did it
A Halifax couple renting a room in their friend’s house, unable to afford an apartment of their own, feared they would be renters for the rest of their lives.
“That’s a pretty depressing place to be in when you’re in your late 30s,” Ryan, now 40, told True North.
“For eight years we were trying to save and put together a down payment and get into a home and start a family…. As time went on, we were just falling further and further behind. We were making progress, but we could see that the goal was receding over the horizon perpetually.”
On Feb. 14, 2022, amid the debankings of the Freedom Convoy — a movement they were vocally supportive of, Ryan says his and his partner Jessica’s joint bank accounts were frozen.
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Crown Withdraws Charges Against Ambassador Bridge Protest Organizer
All charges have been dropped against the alleged leader of the Windsor protest that blockaded the Ambassador Bridge during the nationwide Freedom Convoy protests in February 2022.
Protestors linked to the Freedom Convoy blocked access to North America’s busiest bridge on Feb. 7, 2022, for almost one week to protest Covid-19 mandates.
Police managed to disperse demonstrators on Feb. 13, arresting 42 people, the bulk of whom received mischief charges.
The Crown attorney withdrew all criminal charges against William Laframboise on Wednesday, according to a press release from The Democracy Fund, a Canadian charity dedicated to constitutional rights, who represented Laframboise in his case.
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Lawfare Project Demands Answers From Trudeau Government Over Funding Hamas-Linked UN Group
The Lawfare Project (LP)has demanded that the Trudeau government explain why it funded the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The LP called this funding “irresponsible” in a release.
The organization notes that UNRWA personnel were “directly and indirectly involved in recruiting, training, funding, and supporting terrorism — including egregiously participating in the Oct. 7 butchering of Jews and the kidnapping and hiding of hostages.”
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More Canadians Than Ever List Gig Work as Primary Income Source
Almost a million Canadians are now looking to the gig economy as a primary source of income, according to a new report from Statistics Canada.
As defined by the report, gig work is “a form of employment characterized by short-term jobs or tasks which does not guarantee steady work and where the worker must take specific actions to stay employed.”
The latest available data from the fourth quarter of 2022, found that around 871,000 Canadians said that gig work was responsible for the bulk of their income.
Another 1.5 million Canadians reported having done some freelance work and short-term gigs in the year 2022.
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Poilievre Calls for Protests Outside Liberal and NDP MPs Offices to Cancel Carbon Tax
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is taking his ‘Axe the Tax’ campaign to the next level by calling for Canadians to protest outside the offices of Liberal and NDP MPs and to bombard them with phone calls and emails.
Poilievre says he’s relying on Canadians to help him in getting the federal government to scrap the carbon tax before the scheduled hike on April Fools’ Day during a rally in Etobicoke, Ont. on Sunday.
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“A Historic Day for Portugal” as Populists Surge to Electoral Breakthrough
The right-wing Chega party broke the mould of Portuguese politics on Sunday, finishing third with 18% of the vote—up from 7% in 2022, and just 1.3% back in 2019. Party leader André Ventura declared that he is open to entering government in a coalition deal with the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD), despite attempts to brand the insurgent conservatives ‘far-right’ and isolate them in parliament.
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Doctors Raise Alarm Over Soaring Young Heart Attack Deaths
Several doctors have spoken out to raise the alarm over the growing numbers of young patients they are seeing dying suddenly from unexpected heart attacks.
Doctors say that up to a staggering 20 percent of all heart attack deaths are among people under the age of 40.
A heart attack is caused by a sudden loss of blood flow to part of the heart, usually due to a coronary artery becoming blocked.
“Between 10 to 20 percent of my heart attack patients are now under the age of 40,” says Dr. Martin Lowe, a consultant cardiologist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and The Portland Hospital, both in London.
“In the US, data shows around one in five heart attack patients is under 40 and we’re catching up in the UK.
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Donald Trump will bring an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine by cutting off American funding, Hungarian President Viktor Orban said following a meeting in Florida with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
In an interview after meeting with former President Donald Trump at his estate at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach last week, President Orban said that the current frontrunner for the White House would not give another “penny to the Ukrainian-Russian war.”
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Former Tory Deputy Chairman Joins Reform UK Party
Lee Anderson, the former Conservative Party deputy chairman who played a vital role in PM Rishi Sunak’s plan to win over socially conservative “Red Wall” voters, has joined Reform UK, saying “I want my country back.”
Sceptics claim that Conservative HQ only kept Anderson on board as a token gesture to its anti-mass immigration, anti-’woke’ supporters. His more traditionalist views on migration and the death penalty may have convinced genuinely conservative voters that the Tories were on their side, but were always rejected by Sunak’s leadership. Anderson’s approach is far more likely to be championed by Reform, which says its mission is to “save Britain.”
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French Reconquête Launches European Election Campaign
Éric Zemmour and Marion Maréchal officially launched their campaign for the European elections with a major rally in Paris on Sunday, March 10th, designed to recapture the heyday of the presidential campaign when the Reconquête party managed to gather thousands of enthusiastic activists. The pair intend to publicise their determined fight against the Islamisation of France and Europe.
For the activists who made the trip to Paris, the division of roles was clear: the chant “Marion in Brussels, Zemmour in Paris,” could be heard in the aisles of the Paris Dôme, where around 5,000 Reconquête supporters were gathered.
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Italy: Ceccherini Says Sorry for Saying Jews Always Win Oscars
‘Was talking about films about Jews, not by them’
Italian comic actor, director and screenwriter Massimo Ceccherini on Monday apologised for saying “Jews always win” after Matteo Garrone’s migrant drama Io Capitano, for which he co-wrote the screenplay, lost out to Auschwitz-set The Zone of Interest in the best foreign film category at the Oscars, stressing he had meant films about Jews and not by Jews.
“I apologise if anyone was offended, it was not my intention to offend anyone”, the 58-year-old Ceccherini told ANSA after Italy’s Jewish community said it was “extremely serious and unacceptable” that the actor had “revived one of the saddest and most common anti-Semitic stereotypes”.
Ceccherini, who rose to fame as a comic foil in Leonardo Pieraccioni’s Tuscan romcoms, was accused of perpetuating the trope that Jews rule Hollywood, a claim that led to Mad Max and Braveheart star Mel Gibson being blackballed for several years until recently.
While apologising, Ceccherini said his words had been misconstrued and that he had not meant that Jews always won Oscars but that films about Jews and the Holocaust were often favoured Oscar fare as shown by works like Schindler’s List and The Pianist.
He also said he had been speaking off-hand and lightly, and not fully seriously.
“I was slightly joking yesterday,” he said.
“But I expressed myself badly: I was referring to films that talk about the Jews and I wanted to say that it’s not the first time that they’ve won at the Oscars.
“I myself had made a small bet on Io Capitano’s success, but I knew well that the other film was a hot favourite, also because its odds were very short for the bookmakers.
“When I said ‘they always win’, I was talking about films that speak about the issue.
“I said so off the cuff, explaining myself badly.”
Ceccherini said he had got “the biggest telling off from my wife who told me: If you can’t manage to explain yourself, it’s better for you to shut up”.
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Italy: 3 Palestinians Held in L’Aquila for Planning Foreign Attacks
Also accused of proselytism and propaganda
Italian police on Monday arrested three Palestinians in Abruzzo capital L’Aquila on suspicion of planning terror attacks on foreign soil, legal sources said.
A pre-trial detention order was executed against the trio for the suspected crime of “association for the purposes of terrorism, including international terrorism or subversion of the democratic order.” The suspects, police said, alleged carried out proselytising and propaganda for the terrorist association and planned attacks, including suicide attacks, against civilian and military targets on foreign soil.
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Poland: Warsaw Mayor Funds Last Generation Activists Who Destroyed Iconic Warsaw Mermaid Monument
The “Last Generation” organization, whose activists destroyed the Warsaw Mermaid monument, is renting an office in central Warsaw, with the rent heavily subsidized by Warsaw’s local authority.
The group is a climate activist organization whose members on Friday covered the monument of the Warsaw Mermaid with orange paint to draw attention to the “approaching climate catastrophe” on International Women’s Day. They shouted “Alarm!” as they daubed the monument with paint.
The Warsaw Mermaid monument pays homage to the legend of the Warsaw Mermaid from the Vistula River. It was erected before the Second World War and is seen as an uncontroversial piece of art and a popular site for family outings and photographs.
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Police in Amsterdam arrested a man on Sunday for allegedly threatening to kill populist leader Geert Wilders, who has spent over a decade under police protection and is one of the most targeted politicians in the Netherlands.
Geert Wilders, who pulled off a “mega victory” in the Dutch general election in November, thanked Amsterdam police for their swift action in responding to the latest threat against his life, De Telegraaf reports.
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Representatives from several Polish-American communities in the United States have sent a letter to the president and prime minister of Poland ahead of their joint visit to the White House, in which they opposed the “deeper involvement of Poland in the war” in Ukraine.
The letter to Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Andrzej Duda expressed communities’ “firm opposition” to Poland’s further involvement in the conflict and urged Warsaw not to engage in an unwinnable war.
The authors appealed for NATO to remain a defensive alliance, not a “tool for fulfilling the geopolitical ambitions of its dominant members.” They argued that “Poland should not be drawn into or forced into military engagement beyond its borders unless it is first attacked.”
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President: Hungary Must Remain Hungarian
The new president of Hungary stressed that his and his compatriots’ “first and most sacred duty is to devote all our efforts and talents to ensuring that Hungary remains Hungary and that its independence is preserved.” Sixty-seven-year-old Tamas Sulyok was speaking at his inauguration as the newly elected head of state on Sunday, March 10th in front of the presidential residence, the Sandor Palace in Budapest.
Referring to the history of Hungary, Sulyok emphasised that “the Judeo-Christian culture, the Christian faith, and the values that stem from it are inseparable from us, they are the foundation of our thousand-year statehood, an integral part of our past, and the determinant of our present.” He spoke about his own Hungarian identity, his Christian faith, and his Hungarian and European cultural identity as being the sources of his values, his life, his profession, and his viewpoint of the world.
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Celebrities are being targeted across France in an unprecedented wave of “home-jackings,” which are burglaries accompanied by violence and kidnapping. The cases often involve “youths” recruited by experienced ringleaders, such as Kamel Z., who keep their distance from their criminal underlings to insulate themselves from any prosecution.
The country has a history of these violent home invasions, but recent months have seen an explosion of such cases, including well-known French figures, such as Vitaa, Bruno Guillon, Jean-François Piège, Anne-Sophie Lapix, and Nikos Aliagas.
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‘Soldiers From NATO Countries Are Already in Ukraine’ Says Poland’s Foreign Minister
Poland’s Foreign Minister, returned after a ten-year spell in opposition, has said NATO soldiers are already in Ukraine, thanking alliance member states so deployed for taking “this risk”, the latest comments in a growing European conversation on boots on the ground for Kyiv.
Radoslaw Sikorski, speaking in the Polish Parliament on Saturday during an event marking the 25th anniversary of Poland signing the NATO treaty, declared with certainty there are already troops from the alliance stationed in neighbouring Ukraine. Referring to the bullish remarks of French President Emmanuel Macron on the need to keep all options open on fighting Russia, and the apparent slip-ups of the German Chancellor and Military on the direct involvement of the United Kingdom and France, Sikorski stopped short of saying from which states he believed are involved.
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UK ‘Allowed’ Killing of Own Citizens to Protect Undercover Agent — Police Chief
by RT
British security forces had knowingly failed to prevent several murders of UK citizens in order to protect an informant in an armed resistance group active in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a high-profile report published on Friday said.
The interim report about Operation Kenova — an independent investigation into the activities of an alleged government agent known as Stakeknife — was presented by the probe’s former head, Jon Boutcher. Launched back in 2016, the inquiry specifically dealt with the agent’s alleged involvement in the kidnappings, torture and murders committed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).
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UK Government Climate Watchdog Tried to “Kill” Negative Net Zero Story
An advisory body that spends its time urging the UK government to do even more to get to carbon net zero tried to “kill” a negative newspaper story with “technical language.”
The story, which follows a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by The Daily Telegraph, has prompted calls for the government’s climate watchdog to be dissolved. Socially conservative commentator and editor of the similarly placed TCW website Kathy Gyngell said it was “high time” the body was “disbanded completely,” while author Steve Milloy described the disclosure as further proof that “honesty is the death of the climate hoax.”
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UK: London Police Under Fire After Arresting Man “For Telling the Truth” on Hamas
As London again became the centre of pro-Palestine protests over the weekend, Metropolitan Police officers arrested a man who held up a sign reading “Hamas is terrorist”—a statement which the UK government describes as fact.
Niyak Ghorbani, who was holding the banner, was pulled to the floor and handcuffed after being assaulted by pro-Palestine protesters who took offence to his message.
Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, told The European Conservative that the fact anti-Hamas activist Ghorbani was arrested—rather than those pro-Palestine demonstrators who attacked him—”feels like a prime example” of “two-tier policing.”
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UK: Princess Kate Spotted Leaving Windsor Castle With William After Admitting to Editing Photo
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, was spotted leaving Windsor Castle in a car alongside her Prince William on Monday after she admitted earlier in the day to editing a photo that she posted for U.K. Mother’s Day.
Princess Kate has not made a public appearance since she underwent abdominal surgery and spent nearly two weeks in the hospital in January. Kensington Palace, the home of the future British king and queen, said at the time that she is unlikely to return to her public duties until after Easter.
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At Least 67 Palestinians Killed by Israel’s Airstrikes in Gaza as Ramadan Begins
With no end to fighting sight, Palestinians in Gaza began fasting on March 11 for the holy month of Ramadan as hunger worsens across the strip and pressure grows on Israel over the growing humanitarian crisis.
The United States, Qatar and Egypt had hoped to broker a cease-fire ahead of the normally joyous month of dawn-to-dusk fasting that would include the release of dozens of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and the entry of a large amount of humanitarian aid. However, the cease-fire talks stalled last week.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the bodies of 67 people killed by Israeli strikes were brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to more than 31,112 since the war began. The Ministry doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count, but says that women and children make up two-thirds of the dead.
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Coup Plot: Biden’s Intel Agencies ‘Expect’ Protests to Topple Netanyahu for ‘Moderate’ Leader
U.S. intelligence agencies are claiming that they “expect” protests to bring down the Israeli government and replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been an obstacle to President Joe Biden’s plans for the Middle East.
The claim emerged in the latest “Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community,” and was published by both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Monday evening, suggesting a coordinated leak to the media.
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Israeli Military Says Troops Killed Palestinian Man, Foiling Suicide Attack Plan
Israel ‘s military said on Monday its forces killed a Palestinian from the occupied West Bank who was on his way to carry out a suicide attack in Israel.
“Muhammad Jabar, a resident of Jenin, was eliminated in the town of Zeita while on his way to Israel in order to carry out a suicide attack in the immediate future. Jabar was armed with a weapon and a ready-to-use explosive device,” the military said.
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Italy: Milan Jew Quits PD Over ‘Genocide’ Use for Gaza
City councillor announces exit over climate in some circles
A prominent member of the Milan Jewish community on Monday said he was leaving the centre-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) over the use by some PD fringe groups of the term “genocide” to describe the Israeli campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
PD municipal councillor Daniele Nahum announced during the municipal council meeting that he will leave the party “in protest at the choice of some fringes of the PD to use the word genocide to describe what is happening in Gaza.
“I announce today in this chamber that my experience within the PD has ended,” he said.
“I declare this without resentment also with gratitude towards this political community that has accompanied my life for ten years.
Various ambiguities on foreign policy and the climate produced in various left-wing circles after (the Hamas attack on) 7 October have weighed heavily”.
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Netanyahu Says Israel Will Defy Biden’s ‘Red Line’ on Rafah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he plans on continuing Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip by entering Rafah, which President Joe Biden called his “red line” in the Israel-Hamas War.
Biden has been sending humanitarian aid to Gaza, where six Americans have been held hostage since Oct. 7, 2023, as he has been increasing pressure on Israel to protect Gazans. Tensions most recently flared between the two global leaders during Biden’s MSNBC interview that aired Saturday.
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Elite Units of Ukrainian Armed Forces Discuss Overthrowing Zelensky — Source
by Sputnik
Following the recent reshuffle in Ukraine’s military leadership, discontent is brewing among elite units, with discussions of ousting President Volodymyr Zelensky and reinstating Valery Zaluzhny, the former commander-in-chief, a source has revealed to Sputnik.
Commanders and soldiers in elite units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are dissatisfied with the reshuffle in the country’s military leadership and are seriously discussing the ousting of Volodymyr Zelensky, a representative of the Russian security services has told Sputnik.
He explained that specialists had gained access to a closed Telegram channel called “ParaBelum,” which consists of radically-minded fighters from the elite units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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‘He Will Kill Us All’ — New Head of Ukrainian Forces Nicknamed ‘The Butcher’ by His Own Troops
The new head of the Ukrainian army, Oleksandr Syrskyi, is known as “the butcher” by his own troops, and there are fears his aggressive style will lead to massive losses for Ukrainians in the east on top of already high casualties.
While President Zelensky claims that Ukraine has suffered only 31, 000 soldier deaths, most analysts, and those in Ukraine, know that number is far from reality. In fact, Ukraine’s ally, the United States, estimates that Ukraine had lost 70,000 men already last summer, on top of many more severely wounded or psychologically traumatized. The number of missing also remains high.
In a new interview with Politico, one soldier who wished to remain anonymous warned about the 58-year-old Syrskyi, saying: “He will kill us all.”
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Italian Artist Jorit Poses With Putin in Sochi
‘Don’t pinch me to see if I’m real’ Russian leader tells artist
Ciro Cirullo, a well-known young Italian street artist who goes by the pseudonym Jorit, spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin and posed for a photo with him during a youth forum in Sochi late on Wednesday.
“A lot of strange things are said about you in Italy,” the artist said, to which Putin replied: “sure, just don’t pinch me to make sure I’m a real person”.
Jorit’s works include a mural of a child in tears under bombs in Mariupol, the Ukraine Red Sea port in the Donetsk region conquered by Russian troops in 2022.
“The idea was to show the problems of the Donbass children to the whole world,” he said.
“The Western media often distorts reality.
They talk about the suffering of children in one country, for example, but remain silent about what is happening in the neighboring one”.
Another mural, meanwhile, portraying Ornella Muti was unveiled in Sochi in the presence of the veteran actress as part of a street-art festival in the city featuring 25 artists from 11 countries.
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Pope Francis Criticised for Peace Talks Call
Pope Francis has been criticised by Ukraine and many of its Western hemisphere supporters for saying that Ukraine should have the courage to start negotiating and show the “white flag” to end its war with Russia.
The reactions to the pontiff’s comments has illustrated the political fault lines within Europe as to what steps different states are willing to take in defence of Ukraine.
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Shock Poll: Zelensky Would Lose Ukrainian Presidential Election to Dismissed General
General Valery Zaluzhny, the former chief commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces dismissed by Zelensky and currently Kyiv’s envoy in London, would emerge victorious over incumbent President Volodymyr Zelensky if the presidential elections were conducted today in Ukraine, according to a recent poll.
Originally scheduled for March 31, the next elections have been indefinitely postponed due to the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine.
The survey by the Center for Social and Market Research (SOCIS) on behalf of the “censor.net” portal, sheds rare light on the current political mood within Ukraine amid its defense against Russian aggression. The results indicate a clear preference for General Zaluzhny, who would garner 41.4 percent of the votes in the first round, with President Zelensky trailing at 23.7 percent of the respondents’ support.
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Ukraine Needs More Than a Billion Dollars to Rebuild Its Scientific Infrastructure, UN Agency Says
PARIS (AP) — Ukraine will need more than a billion dollars to rebuild scientific infrastructure that was damaged or destroyed during two years of Russia’s war on its neighbor, the United Nations’ cultural and scientific agency said on Monday.
More than 1,443 scientific facilities, many attached to the country’s universities, have been damaged or destroyed along with 750 pieces of vital technical equipment, most of which is beyond repair, UNESCO said in a report released Monday.
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Zelensky Says ‘Build the Wall’: Ukraine Erecting 2,000km of Fortifications on Front Lines
Ukraine’s President Zelensky has more or less indicated he’s ready to build the wall—to borrow the old Trump phrase…
He announced on Telegram Monday that he has ordered the construction of some 2,000 kilometers of fortifications in order to solidify the front lines with Russian forces. He touted the good “pace of construction of new defense lines.”
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Pakistan’s Blockade of X Enters Its Fourth Week
In the face of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party leveling allegations of vote rigging against the PML-N at the February 8th polls, and calling for protests, X has remained inaccessible to Pakistani citizens.
Regardless of a directive from the Sindh High Court to restore access, X has, curiously, been offline for just around three weeks.
Top government official Liaqut Chatha’s accusations that Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja and Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa partook in extensive election interference on February 8th triggered a nationwide outcry.
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50 People Injured After Boeing 777 Hit With Mid-Flight “Technical Event”
Update (0927ET):
Following the LATAM Airlines 787-9 Dreamliner mid-air incident on Sunday, flight tracking website RadarBox reports a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 777-306ER from Amsterdam to São Paulo has declared an emergency via Squawk code 7700 and is “currently diverting.”
Squawk code 7700 is a general emergency. There are no reasons yet why pilots declared the emergency.
Following a series of incidents involving Boeing aircraft in the US last week, a South American LATAM Airlines 787-9 Dreamliner en route from Sydney, Australia, to Auckland, New Zealand, encountered a “technical event” that led to significant turbulence, which injured at least 50 passengers.
LATAM told AP News that Flight LA800, involving a 787-9 Dreamliner, experienced a “technical event during the flight which caused a strong movement” but did not elaborate further on the incident. The local newspaper, the New Zealand Herald, explained that the plane suddenly lost altitude.
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A passenger on the Boeing jet which suddenly nosedived and sent bodies flying into the plane’s roof revealed he “felt like it was all going to end,” on the horror flight.
Brian Jokat, a 61-year-old Canadian who lives in London, England, was traveling on LATAM Airlines Flight LA800 from Australia to New Zealand as part of a three week holiday around the world when the terrifying incident unfolded on Monday.
“I had passed out sleeping on the plane and the next thing I know, bodies were flying past me and onto the roof of the plane and it was pretty scary really,” he told The Post.
“It actually felt like it wasn’t happening, it felt like a dream … but then a gentleman went from the roof down to hit the arm rest next to me and it became very real, real quick.”
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Pro-Vax Doctor Drops Dead of Heart Attack at 43
A prominent doctor, who used social media to pressure the public into taking Covid mRNA vaccines, has died suddenly at just 43 years old, according to reports.
Dr. Vicky Jennings, from South Africa, was an internationally recognized trauma surgeon.
The mother of two passed away unexpectedly last week after reportedly suffering a fatal heart attack.
Jennings’ death was announced by Netcare, the healthcare company that she worked for.
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Approves New Censorship Rules
Brazil’s struggles with generally speaking, “election integrity” and censorship associated with a particular frame of political mind — and so, trying to suppress voices opposed to the country’s dominant political centers, look set to continue.
The country’s Superior Electoral Court, and its powerful president, Alexandre de Moraes (who is also a Supreme Court judge), have mandated more rules around elections, this time focused on the use of “AI.”
These are now tied to anything from “hate speech” and “disinformation” to stripping people running for office of their candidacy — or of their mandate, if they had already been elected.
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US Pledges an Additional $100M for a Multinational Force Awaiting Deployment to Violence-Hit Haiti
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced an additional $100 million to finance the deployment of a multinational force to Haiti following a meeting with Caribbean leaders in Jamaica to halt the country’s violent crisis.
Blinken also announced another $33 million in humanitarian aid and the creation of a joint proposal agreed on by Caribbean leaders and “all of the Haitian stakeholders to expedite a political transition” and create a “presidential college.”
He said the college would take “concrete steps” he did not identify to meet the needs of Haitian people and enable the pending deployment of the multinational force to be led by Kenya. Blinken also noted that the U.S. Department of Defense doubled its support for the mission, having previously set aside $100 million.
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12-Year-Old Missouri Boy Dies After Illegal Immigrant Hit Family Car at Over 70mph in Wrong Lane
A boy who was seriously injured in a car accident in Hazelwood, Missouri involving an illegal immigrant in December has passed away after being taken off life support.
12-year-old Travis Wolfe was traveling with his family on December 20, the night before his birthday, when the car they were in was struck by another vehicle traveling at over 70 miles per hour in the wrong lane, according to Fox 2.
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The aunt of a Texas teenager allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant with a criminal history is calling for stricter laws to stop offenders from being given a “long leash” with probation.
Rafael Govea Romero, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, is accused of stalking and then stabbing to death 16-year-old Lizbeth Medina in the Edna apartment that she shared with her mother in December 2023.
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A second measles case has been confirmed in a migrant shelter in Chicago, marking the first cases in the state in the last five years and highlighting the public health risk overcrowded migrant housing poses.
The Chicago Department of Public Health confirmed the second case on Sunday and said the patient is hospitalized but stable.
As millions of migrants have come to America under President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, experts have warned that over crowded shelters and low vaccination rates in other countries could leave the US vulnerable to outbreaks of disease.
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California Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D) wants to give free, taxpayer-funded legal aid to illegal migrants who have “been convicted of, or who is currently appealing a conviction for, a violent or serious felony.”
The bill, AB 2031, would also “expand those qualifying services to persons having an intent to reside in and having a nexus to the state,” and would include “legal representation and related services for removal defense.”
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Canada: Liberals Considered Upping Immigration to One Million Annually
The Liberal government had initially created a proposal to raise Canada’s annual immigration rate to one million people per year, according to newly obtained internal documents.
The current rate of 400,000 permanent residents per year had originally been part of a three-option plan drafted by a deputy minister about how many permanent residents to accept annually. One of those options was a target of one million newcomers each year.
According to the documents obtained by the Toronto Star, the Liberals rejected the option of having one million permanent residents for 2023.
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Elon Musk Says Democrats Allow Illegal Immigration to Build Political Power
Billionaire Elon Musk said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that Democratic politicians are permitting illegal immigration to build and consolidate political power through the congressional apportionment process.
Musk weighed in on an appearance by Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., on FOX Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” in which Hagerty said that Democrats “want these illegal migrants to create more electoral power for them in their blue states” and that with an estimated 10 million illegal immigrants in the country, it’s the equivalent of 13 House districts depending on how they’re allocated.
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FBI Director Wray Warns of Southern Border Smuggling Network With ‘ISIS Ties’
FBI Director Christopher Wray told senators on Monday that there are “very dangerous threats” coming from the U.S.-Mexico border, including a smuggling network with “ISIS ties.”
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., asked Wray during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Monday regarding threats at the southern border, Fox News reported.
Wray responded, saying, “From an FBI perspective, we are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border. And that includes everything from drug trafficking — the FBI alone seized enough fentanyl in the last two years to kill 270 million people — that’s just on the fentanyl side.”
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Georgia Sanctuary Cities Could Lose Taxpayer Funding Under New Bill Passed After Laken Riley Murder
The Georgia Senate Public Safety Committee passed a measure that could cost local jurisdictions state taxpayer money if they declare themselves a “Sanctuary City.”
The committee passed an amended version of House Bill 301, which the state House passed last year as a measure initially related to motor vehicles and traffic. The push has become a priority in the wake of last month’s murder of a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student on the University of Georgia campus in Athens.
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How Shadowy Network of NGOs Supplies Mega-Corporations With Migrants to Exploit Cheap Labor
One week ago, we wrote a note describing how illegals are obtaining jobs through a federal government loophole enabled by the Biden administration as they await deportation proceedings. This caught the attention of Elon Musk, who said, “Wow, learn something new every day.”
Now, we’re revealing how corporate interests have become deeply interconnected with immigration through a non-governmental organization called Tent Partnership for Refugees. This NGO comprises more than 400 major multinational companies committed to hiring “refugees.”
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Mississippi SOS Warns Biden is Registering Illegal Aliens to Vote With Executive Order
Mississippi’s Republican Secretary of State Michael Watson is raising the alarm after discovering that Democrat President Joe Biden’s executive order is registering ineligible convicts and illegal aliens to vote.
Watson has sent a letter to Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) asking it to stop enforcing the executive order.
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A New York City nurse sounded the alarm on the Big Apple’s “soft-on-crime” policies and the surge at the southern border after she was brutally assaulted by a migrant who entered the United States illegally.
Chelsea Mora was reportedly attacked by Edward Johnson, a repeat offender, in January at Jacobi Medical Center. Mora said when she went to take Johnson’s vitals he hit her in the face, giving her a corneal hematoma and PTSD from the assault.
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Big Tech Coalition Pushes Online Age Verification and Digital ID
Governments and global organizations may have arrived at the winning formula for making Big Tech play along threaten them with the stick of huge money fines, and dangle some carrot they like best in front of them at the same time.
And that latter could just be — giving access to even more personal data tech juggernauts are allowed to harvest and exploit. Harmful as it may be to everybody else in the world, that is absolutely key to their business models, massive bottom lines, and the power arising from it all.
Now, we’re hearing that a Big Tech group called Digital Trust & Safety Partnership (DTSP) has come out in support of age verification in its response to the UN’s wide-ranging Global Digital Compact.
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Dylan Mulvaney Accuses Bud Light of ‘Bullying’ for Rejecting His Pitch for Another Beer Commercial
Transgender “influencer” Dylan Mulvaney has accused Bud Light of supporting “bullying” because the company rejected his pitch for another beer commercial after already losing a whopping $1 billion in sales.
During the SXSW festival, Mulvaney revealed that he met with executives at Bud Light’s parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev after a major backlash against his first campaign had caused severe losses for the brand.
Mulvaney said he had a plan to win back Bud Light customers by doing a commercial featuring a cowboy and a transgender.
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France: Macron Unveils His Drastic Plan for Euthanasia
After several months of procrastination, French President Emmanuel Macron accelerated legislative changes designed to authorise euthanasia and assisted suicide in France. He unveiled his plan—due to be presented to parliament and voted on by May—to the press on Sunday, March 10th. After enshrining abortion in the constitution, he is once again deliberately opting for a culture of death.
In a double interview, published by both the Christian newspaper La Croix and the left-wing newspaper Libération, Emmanuel Macron outlined the contours of his long-awaited bill on “aid in dying.” The project has been in the pipeline for many months, since reforming the legislation on ‘active aid in dying’ was one of his campaign promises for his election in 2022. Until now, the president has given the impression of hesitating when it came to taking action.
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Leftist Consulting Firms Exposed as Hidden Hand Behind the Wokification of Video Games
How the tables have turned in the past decade. If you were involved at the inception of the culture war around a decade ago then you probably remember an abrupt and distinct change in popular media from 2015 to 2016. There was a surge of far-left and feminist propaganda in movies, television, commercials and even video games that was highly aggressive, perhaps even militant. Some people spoke out at the time and questioned the motives behind the trend, only to be smacked down by angry mobs of activists and corporate journalists with accusations of “conspiracy theory” and “bigotry.”
In other words, their claim was that you were not seeing what you thought you were seeing. There was no feminist agenda. There was no gay or trans agenda. There was no socialist messaging. It was only in your head.
If there is one rule that encompasses all political endeavors, it is this: If you have to hide your intentions and lie about your goals when trying to spread your ideology, then something is probably very wrong with your ideology.
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On Sunday, a blog associated with Portland’s Rose City Antifa issued a claim of responsibility for an attack launched on a butcher shop in northeast Portland.
The owner of the butcher shop, Pasture PDX, voiced left-leaning political views on social media, and the shop displaying an LGBTQ Pride flag on its storefront windows.
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The trans-identified male founder of former Washington, DC-based LGBTQ+ non-profit Casa Ruby has been arrested and hit with a slew of charges following allegations that the founder took a cut of federal assistance funds destined for the business and deposited the money in private Central American bank accounts for personal use.
Ruby Corado, 53, was taken into custody on March 5 and subsequently charged with bank fraud, wire fraud, laundering of monetary instruments, monetary transactions in criminally derived proceeds, and failure to file a report of foreign bank account.
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Yes to Life: 35,000 March Against Abortion in Madrid
Under the motto ‘Yes to Life,’ tens of thousands marched through the streets of Madrid on Sunday to take a stand against abortion.
According to Si a la Vida, which organized the demonstration, more than 35,000 people from all over Spain turned out at the capital to proclaim that “there are no people who have less value due to their health or capacity.”
Participants carried signs reading, “Thank you mom, for letting me be born,” “The embryo is a human being,” “Listen to the heartbeat, I’ll tell you I’m alive,” “The right to life for all without exception,” and “Young people say yes to life.”
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Posted on March 11, 2024 by Baron Bodissey
Swiss and Iranian Yummy bits
A self-inflicted wound? Of course it was.
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Mandatory vaccinations to be introduced in the EU”
12/3-2024
http://www.snaphanen.dk
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“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (George Orwell)”
Von der Leyen promised us mandatory vaccinations two years ago: The EU must consider mandatory Covid jabs, says Von der Leyen.
A monthly fine for anyone over 60 who refuses to be vaccinated is said to be “fully constitutional”.
Denmark has just gone through a “state funeral”, proving that we are a people who prefer to live in lies rather than truth. But will we prefer the lie to such an extent that we let the EU kill us? It will be interesting to see.
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Søren Pape Poulsen, born 31 December 1971 died 2 March 2024 in Odense, was a Danish politician who was the party leader of the Conservative People’s Party from 2014 until his death. He was a member of the Danish Parliament from 2015 to 2024 and Minister of Justice in Denmark from 2016 to 2019.
Pape Poulsen died on 2 March 2024 at the age of 52 after suffering a brain haemorrhage (aneurysm) the previous day. Mr Poulsen was reportedly vaccinated against COVID-19.
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We don’t know for sure what S. Pape died of, of course, but we know it with overwhelming probability when we add up all the different factors, not least his frequent advertising of the syringes, “all party leaders should film them”.
There is a 90 per cent chance that this is the truth about S. Pape’s death, but we must not think it, let alone say it. I did it ￤nd￥, mostly because no one can yet determine what I should think or say.
But that will come soon, when you listen closely enough to the globalists’ signals and what Dr Michael Nehls says in his book The Indoctrinated Brain.
“Humanity’s choice is between freedom and happiness, and for the vast majority of humanity, happiness is better.”
It is urgent to submit your truths, if you have any in stock.
In France, criticising vaccines can now lead to a year in prison or a €15,000 fine. Three years in prison “if someone dies as a result of your advice.” No word on how much it costs to die from the advice of the state or your own doctor.
A healthy society would have taken Søren Papes’ death as an omen and a warning, but we do not live in a healthy society. None of the media truthers and commentators dared to mention the possibility that the injections killed Mr Pape. This despite the fact that three years of scientific evidence has made it as irrational to deny that death is dangerous as it is to deny that the sun rises and the earth is round.
We must come to terms with the fact that we now live under a spiritual regime where we must accept the denial of objective truth by those in power, and it is this that gives the national mourning for Pope a flavour of sentimentality and falsehood.
Leading British cancer researcher Angus Dalglish describes our times in a book with the striking title ‘The Death of Science: The Retreat from Reason in the Post-Modern World’.
Prominent doctors do not even hesitate to call the vaccine “a biological weapon” and that statistically people are dying (and being seriously injured).
I recommend Dr Richard Fleming, a “nuclear and preventive cardiologist”. He, like many others, has no doubt that we are dealing with a biological weapon. This is what the danger deniers need to argue against, not the people who quote them.
The totalitarianism under which we now live has bathed us in lies from above, and the lies serve the interests of power.
It is the business of Pfizer and von der Leyen, and it also tyrannises all commentators who imagine they are writing from the heart. It even successfully bullies doctors. But most of the opinion machine’s readers apparently prefer to live in the dark, because what did one of the favourite authors of my youth say about it? “Humanity’s choice is between freedom and happiness, and for the great mass of humanity, happiness is better.”
What is an aneurysm?
A bleeding in the brain. Anyone can read about this, and you can have a vaccine-induced brain haemorrhage at the age of 20. You don’t have to be 52 years old:
Oncologist William Makis on Sofia Padoan, who was forced to be vaccinated: mRNA Injury Stories – 20-￥year-old Sofia Padoan, third￥year student at California State Polytechnic University, died on 23 February 2024 after a dinner with family – COVID-19 Vaccine Mandated ‘BRAIN ANEURYSMS’.
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Strong anger and outrage. Is there n￥one r￥d donor in place?
You can see this in many places if someone dares to say it about the cause of death, as I say here. People are not completely out of touch with reality. They know something is terribly wrong.
An example can be seen on Søren Pape’s own Facebook page. How do you view the anger that you see in many places? It doesn’t seem rational, so we probably have several complicated psychological reasons. Why this huge amount of anger?
Have they researched it properly? Do they know what they are talking about? They never do. If someone wants to kill you, am I not allowed to warn you that it sounds so unlikely to be an insult?
OK, if there is someone who doesn’t want to be insulted, listen to Dr Fleming and you might wonder if there is someone who wants to kill you: “About the biological weapon called Covid-19 and the associated “vaccines”. Maybe it was worth investigating whether you have a life-threatening condition?
No one belittles Søren Pape or all those who have been vaccinated. There is no shame in dying, no matter what. It could have happened to anyone and quite easily to myself when I think back to the months when the “vaccine” came. Is it fear of death? Is there a psychologist present? Notice the words “sick, hateful, disgusted, disgusting, crazy, shame, fanatic.” That’s an emotional punch. Written by Rene De Fleron
“Søren Pape Poulsen dead 💔
The internet and especially Facebook is full of claims that he died from side effects of a vaccine….
The Covid deniers and vaccine haters have established that Søren Pape died from the Covid vaccines.
But they would have done the same if the man had died in a road accident or had fallen out of the window of a high-rise building. 😉.”
EVERYTHING is wrong with the covid vaccines, and they use every opportunity and tragedy to suit their sick and crazy agenda. They have absolutely NO shame in life and don’t give a damn about the people who died and the people who lost them.
I am disgusted in every cell of my body that such incredibly unintelligent people can seriously believe this nonsense…. I have had 23 blood clots, long before vaccines were even invented …. Explain that?
In your world that shouldn’t be possible
If you are one of these “fanatics” you are in the wrong place ….. I don’t give a shit if you are vaccinated or not, it’s about respecting each other’s choices l￦that’s as far as it goes
… Mette Abildgaard Rasmus Jarlov receives my deepest condolences in this difficult time.
Source
https://www.snaphanen.dk/2024/03/12/tvungne-vaccinationer-i-eu/#more-201367
Another reason to get out of the EU.
Also, your post led me to discover Angus Dalglish’s book The Origin of the Virus .
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