A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Odesa killed 16 people, among them a medic, and wounded 55 others. Meanwhile, the Estonian defense ministry said that €120 billion a year in military aid is necessary to ensure that Ukraine will win the war.
In other news, a primary school in Germany has banned children from drinking water in their classrooms out of consideration for Muslim pupils fasting during Ramadan.
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Germany is Running Out of Money and Debt Levels Are Exploding, Warns Country’s Finance Minister
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner is warning his own government that state finances are quickly growing out of hand, and the government needs to change course and implement austerity measures. However, the dispute over spending is only expected to escalate, with budget shortfalls causing open clashes among the three-way left-liberal coalition running the country.
With negotiations kicking off for the 2025 budget, much is at stake. However, the picture has been complicated after the country’s top court ruled that the government could not shift €60 billion in money earmarked for the coronavirus crisis to other areas of the budget, with the court noting that the move was unconstitutional.
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A Long Island man accused of slugging a New York City police officer in Times Square allegedly punched his parole officer in the face just three days after making bail.
The assault prompted Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Felicia Mennin to boost 24-year-old Michael Thomas’ bail to $75,000 during a court hearing on Thursday.
Thomas, of Great Neck, was previously bailed out by his mom, who ponied up his $10,000 bond at the time of his arraignment last month on a charge of second-degree assault on a police officer, prosecutors said.
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Appeals Court Panel Blocks SEC’s Climate Disclosure Requirement
A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday blocked a requirement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that would require firms to identify risks they face due to climate change.
The pause will remain in effect while a challenge from oil and gas firms Liberty Energy and Nomad Proppant Services proceeds, The Hill reported. The rule is part of a broader effort from the Biden administration to use the rulemaking authorities of federal agencies to address climate change, according to Reuters.
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Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Reduce Workweek to Just 4 Days
Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced legislation this week which would standardize a 32-hour workweek for the same pay.
“Today, American workers are over 400 percent more productive than they were in the 1940s. And yet, millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages than they were decades ago. That has got to change,” Sanders said in a Wednesday press release.
[Comment: Stupid economics.]
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Boeing Plane Missing External Panel Lands in Oregon Airport, United Airlines Says
A Boeing aircraft operated by United Airlines landed at an Oregon airport on Friday missing an external panel, the airline said.
United Flight 433 departed San Francisco and landed safely at its destination, the Rogue Valley International/Medford Airport in Medord, Oregon around 1:45 p.m., a United spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
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Boeing Whistleblower Warned Before Death: ‘It’s NOT Suicide’
The sudden death of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett is continuing to grow even more suspicious after his close friend just revealed the bone-chilling warning he made shortly before he was found dead of an apparent “suicide.”
As Slay News reported, Barnett died on March 9 at the age of 62.
He was found dead in his vehicle after being killed by, what police have described as, a “self-inflicted wound.”
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More than two dozen Palestinian, Muslim and Arab groups across Chicago boycotted the White House’s invitation to several community groups this week, citing the Biden administration’s stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
In a joint letter to the White House on Thursday, leaders of the groups said there was “no point in more meetings” since the administration “already knows the position of the aforementioned groups and our allies across the nation” to have an “immediate and permanent” cease-fire.
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Climate Protesters Interrupt an Enemy of the People Performance
Climate-change protesters from Extinction Rebellion interrupted the second act of Broadway’s An Enemy of the People at Thursday night’s show, shouting phrases like, “No theater on a dead planet.” Several members of the cast, like Michael Imperioli, who plays Peter Stockmann, helped get the protesters out of the theater while in character. He can be seen yelling “Liars!” to the protesters as ushers escort them out. It caused some audience members to think it was a part of the play, as the show had invited audience members onto the stage for the town-hall scene. The 1882 play, starring Jeremy Strong, Imperioli, and Victoria Pedretti follows Strong as Dr. Thomas Stockmann, a medical officer who threatens to expose harmful bacteria found in the town spa but ends up becoming the enemy of the townspeople. Strong stayed in character as well but seemingly did not interact with the protesters, as Dr. Thomas would most likely agree with the protesters anyway.
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Dollar General Drops Self-Checkout at Hundreds of Stores to Reduce Theft
Dollar General is pulling back on self-checkout as it tries to curtail retail theft across its stores.
The company will remove self-checkout registers from 300 stores that have the biggest issue with shrink — an industry term referring to lost or stolen merchandise — during the first half of the year, CEO Todd Vasos told analysts on a Thursday earnings call.
Currently, the company has self-checkout options available in more than 14,000 stores. However, it is deploying three initiatives to change its self-checkout strategy this year as it tries to reduce the ongoing headwind.
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Don Lemon Demanded Tesla Cybertruck, $5M Advance, Equity in X Before Elon Musk Canned Him: Sources
Don Lemon demanded the sun, the moon and the stars from the SpaceX boss — before being unceremoniously dumped this week, The Post has learned.
The ex-CNN anchor sent over an astronomical wish list to Elon Musk during contract talks to host a show on the billionaire’s social media platform X — including a free Tesla Cybertruck, a $5 million upfront payment on top of an $8 million salary, an equity stake in the multibillion-dollar company, and the right to approve any changes in X policy as it relates to news content, according to a document reviewed by The Post.
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The wife of the Brooklyn subway rider who went off the rails during Thursday’s commute and ended up shot in the head told The Post on Friday she dumped him last year because he was becoming too “aggressive.”
Lisa Sweat, the estranged spouse of unhinged armed straphanger DaJuan Robinson, 36, said her husband had been a construction worker who didn’t exhibit any mental issues when they were together — but that she had to give him the boot because he “changed.”
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A California district attorney’s office provided training materials to employees teaching that the criminal justice system is rooted in racism and slavery, documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.
The presentation, used by Alameda District Attorney Pamela Price’s office to train victim-witness advocates and titled “A New Paradigm For Public Safety Restorative Justice Racial Justice Act Training,” teaches that “the carceral state grew out of chattel slavery” and makes several references to racial bias in the criminal justice system. Price, who is Soros-funded, currently faces a recall effort after residents expressed frustration with her policies, which they allege led to an increase in crime.
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Government Accountability Office Reports Pentagon Doesn’t Properly Track Aid Sent to Ukraine
Areport from the Government Accountability Office claims that the Pentagon doesn’t have clear standards or rules when it comes to tracking military aid sent to Ukraine amid its war with Russia.
The GAO announced in its report to Congress that it has taken the Defense Department at times weeks to deliver the supplies and the delivery data often is not accurate.
Over $40 billion in security assistance has been sent to Ukraine since the start of its war with Russia began in 2022.
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Harrowing footage captured the violent clash between two men on a Brooklyn subway car — and the sheer panic among commuters after one of the brawlers was shot aboard the rush-hour train Thursday.
The video, shot by a passenger on a northbound A train, corroborated earlier witness accounts shared with police, showing one man provoking another before at least four gunshots rang out on the crowded train as it pulled into the A/C Hoyt—Schermerhorn Streets station.
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Judge Appoints Special Master to Review Women’s Prison Rife With Abuse
A California women’s prison rife with sexual abuse will be subject to a special master review following a judge’s order on Friday.
“FCI Dublin is a dysfunctional mess. The situation can no longer be tolerated. The facility is in need of dire change,” wrote U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, per KTVU. “The Court finds the Bureau of Prisons has proceeded sluggishly with intentional disregard of the inmates’ constitutional rights despite being fully apprised of the situation for years.”
The judge did not name the special master.
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Judge Rules Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis Can Stay on Trump Election Interference Case
Ajudge in Georgia ruled Friday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can remain on the case in which former President Trump and 18 co-defendants are accused of meddling in the 2020 election results.
However, Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee said either Willis or special prosecutor Nathan Wade can stay on case, not both, after hearing arguments that Willis and Wade’s personal relationship compromised the case.
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Kentucky GOP Moves to Criminalize Interference With Legislature After Transgender Protests
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s Republican-supermajority legislature is taking steps to criminalize disruptive protests inside the Capitol, raising concerns among advocates that their right to challenge authority will be chilled.
Before big votes on polarizing issues, throngs of protesters have waved signs and shouted out synchronized chants at the foot of the steps that lawmakers climb to reach the House or Senate chambers, creating a din that echoes throughout the ornate statehouse. Activists sometimes pack committee rooms in the Capitol Annex or crowd the galleries to monitor floor debates.
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New: Lara Trump Announces RNC Will Hire Scott Presler to Lead Its Legal Ballot Harvesting
The Republican National Committee (RNC) under new chair Lara Trump announced on Friday that they will be working closely with Scott Presler to increase voter turnout ahead of the US 2024 Presidential Election in November.
The announcement was made by the RNC’s new co-chair, Lara Trump. Scott Presler is a prominent conservative activist who has become notable for registering thousands of conservative voters and teaching at voter registration workshops across the country.
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The Brooklyn straphanger who shot a berserk man attacking him on a rush-hour train will not be charged, prosecutors said Friday — as new video surfaced of the gunman’s bust on the stairs of the station.
“Yesterday’s shooting inside a crowded subway car was shocking and deeply upsetting,’’ said Oren Yaniv, a spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, in an e-mailed statement.
“The investigation into this tragic incident is ongoing but, at this stage, evidence of self-defense precludes us from filing any criminal charges against the shooter.”
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Only 36% of Voters Approve of ‘Court Jester’ Kamala Harris’ Job as Vice President: Poll
More than half of voters disapprove of Vice President Kamala Harris’ job in the White House and don’t believe she has what it takes to be commander in chief, according to a new poll.
A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll released Thursday shows 52% of registered voters disapprove of the 59-year-old veep’s job performance, while only 36% approve, including a paltry 4% of Republicans and 28% of independents.
Harris’ numbers are worse than President Biden and former President Donald Trump.
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Pence Won’t Back Trump in 2024
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday confirmed that he would not endorse former President Donald Trump after running against him in the Republican primary.
The pair had a high-profile falling out after the 2020 election over Pence’s assertion that he lacked the constitutional authority to reject the results. Trump, for his part, had challenged the outcome, claiming the vote had been tainted by fraud.
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Peter Navarro Asks SCOTUS to Keep Him Out of Prison While He Appeals Conviction
Former Trump advisor Peter Navarro on Friday filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court asking that he be permitted to remain free while he appeals his conviction for contempt of Congress.
Navarro was convicted on contempt of Congress charges in September 2023 over his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 Committee. He was sentenced to four months in prison in January.
His attorneys specifically asked that the court pause a lower court decision denying his bid to stay free, arguing that “Navarro is indisputably neither a flight risk nor a danger to public safety should he be release pending appeal,” according to CNN. They further indicated that he intends to “raise a number of issues” that could result in a new trial or reversal of his conviction.
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School Where Student Was Beaten Into Seizure Has History of Alleged Anti-White Racism
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news
The Missouri school where a black student beat a white girl into a seizure last week has a history of anti-white racism cases and violent confrontations, according to local residents, former students and staffers.
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SCOTUS Determines Rules for Public Officials Blocking Users on Social Media
Public officials can block someone from their social media feed if posting is not part of the person’s official job duties, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a unanimous opinion Friday.
Why it matters: The court delineated when a government official can and cannot impose limits on who can see the official’s content in the context of the employee’s duties.
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Senate Intel Chair Warner: US Forces Could be ‘In Combat’ if Congress Doesn’t OK $61B in Ukraine Aid
Democrat Sen. Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is warning that U.S. forces could be “in combat” if Congress fails to pass $61 billion in aid to Ukraine.
“Ukrainians in two years have been really remarkable,” Warner said on a press call Thursday. “They’ve literally destroyed 87%. Russia’s pre-existing ground forces have either been killed or wounded or are basically out of the conflict, and now the world is waiting to see whether the United States is going to honor its commitment to Ukraine.”
The Virginia lawmaker said he “fears” that if the U.S. doesn’t pass additional war funding for Ukraine, Russia leader Vladimir Putin will win his war against Ukraine and move on to invade other countries.
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Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade Steps Down From Trump Case After Judge’s Ruling
Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor whom Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired to pursue her case against former President Donald Trump, officially resigned from the case on Friday after Judge Scott McAfee indicated that either he or Willis must do so.
Willis indicted Trump and 18 co-defendants in August of 2023 over his efforts to challenge the 2020 election results in Georgia, bringing charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) Act.
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Supreme Court Rules to Uphold Mandatory Prison Sentences for Low-Level Drug Dealers
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday that not all low-level drug dealers are eligible for shorter prison sentences, ruling against a convicted dealer who sought a lesser sentence using a 2018 law.
The higher court took up the case of a convicted drug dealer from Iowa, Mark Pulsifer, who sought a shorter sentence under the 2018 First Step Act.
Pulsifer was convicted of distributing 50 grams of methamphetamine, according to ABC News.
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SXSW is Accused of Using Copyright and Trademark Claims to Suppress Criticism
In a contentious battle over the use of copyright claims to suppress speech, South by Southwest (SXSW), an organizer of a popular annual conference and music festival in Austin, has found itself facing some backlash due to its connections with arms manufacturers that supply Israel.
Rather than responding to the criticism directly, or simply ignoring it, SXSW attempted to get the criticism hidden with questionable legal tactics against a local advocacy group, Austin for Palestine Coalition.
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President Donald Trump is facing criminal prosecution by Special Counsel Jack Smith over his alleged unlawful retention of classified documents after he left the White House in January 2021.
Yet, in a Wednesday interview, Trump insisted that he “legally” retained the classified docs.
The documents were in Trump’s possession under the authority of the Presidential Records Act.
Trump asserts that he “wasn’t hiding them” from federal investigators, Breitbart reported.
He also highlighted the substantial disparity in treatment between himself and Democrat President Joe Biden.
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USAID’s “Disinformation Primer:” Documents Reveal Censorship Promotion Across Sectors
The authorities in the US are once again caught red-handed promoting censorship, this time via the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
USAID is normally used by the US government to spread its influence around the world, but now, according to documents from a case against the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), the agency also actively participates in analyzing and spreading various censorship methods.
The lawsuit in question was filed by America First Legal (AFL), alleging that the State Department, via GEC, engages with private media to advance what the non-profit believes is government/private sector censorship and propaganda collusion.
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Utica Teen Sentenced to 20 Years for Shooting Security Guard at Proctor High School Game
The teenager whose bullet struck Proctor High School Security Guard Jeff Lynch outside D’Alessandro Stadium in September was sentenced in court Friday.
According to WKTV, Jahlil Chapman, 17, received the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Chapman admitted in January that he was trying to shoot a 16-year-old outside a football game on Sept. 9, 2023 when instead, the bullet struck Lynch in the back of the head.
Lynch survived the gunshot wound and has since recovered.
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The gun-toting maniac who allegedly launched Thursday’s violent subway fight apparently targeted his victim because he wrongly thought the straphanger was a recent migrant, it surfaced Friday — along with new video showing the assailant illegally entering the transit system.
Ranting rider Dajuan Robinson, 36, was shot through the eye with his own gun after suddenly going berserk on 32-year-old dad of two Younece Obuad on an evening A train as it pulled into the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street station, cops and law-enforcement sources said.
Robinson had first entered the system that evening at Nostrand Avenue, where footage caught him sauntering illegally through an emergency gate.
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Washington Top State in US for Burglary Crime: FBI Data
Spiking crime in Washington has led to the Evergreen State now holding the highest burglary rate in the US.
An analysis of FBI crime data revealed that Washington had 548.4 burglaries per 100,000 residents. That is more than double the national rate of 254.3 and more than seven times higher than New Hampshire, which had the lowest rate of 76.2 burglaries for every 100,000 people.
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Watch: Joe Rogan Mocks Neil Young Over ‘Return’ to Spotify
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news
Podcast King Joe Rogan took a swipe at Rock Grandpa Neil Young Thursday after Young announced earlier this week that he was returning his music to Spotify following a two year hiatus in protest of ‘COVID disinformation’ on Rogan’s output.
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‘You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’: Tennessee State Senator Calls for Riots After Pro-Police Bill Passes
State Senator Charlane Oliver called for riots over the passage of a pro-police bill in Tennessee on Thursday, saying “you ain’t seen nothing yet.”
“It is a slap in the face, and you might as well stomp on the grave of Tyree Nichols for bringing this bill,” Oliver said.
“Yes we are emotionally charged. Why? Because it’s personal for us. [Sen. Brent] Taylor made this personal the minute he introduced this legislation to target one family and one life that was lost. So yeah, we gonna fight.”
“Dr. King said the riots are the language of the unheard. You ain’t seen nothing yet. If you keep silencing us like this, what do you think our district’s gonna do?
We have had it up here, gloves off. Like, we got to fight like hell. You don’t expect us to respond?”
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Austrian Supermarket Giant Spar Turns to EU Concerning Hungary’s ‘Unfair’ Taxes
Austrian supermarket chain Spar has accused the Hungarian government of breaking EU law to cut food prices and called on Brussels to mitigate the devastating impact of the government’s measures, the Financial Times reported.
The supermarket chain claims that the Hungarian government’s 2022 special tax is discriminatory and breaches a number of EU laws, including on the free movement of goods. In its complaint to the EU, Spar wrote that the special tax and other measures aimed at reducing food prices are clearly incompatible with EU law because they “violate the principle of free movement of goods, freedom of establishment and the Charter of Fundamental Rights.”
According to the complaint, the government’s interference has increased Spar’s costs by around €90 million (3.5 billion forints) and will cause a loss of nearly €50 million (1.9 billion forints) for its Hungarian business in 2023. Spar is the second-largest retail chain in Hungary by turnover.
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EU Climate Chief Doubles Down on Unpopular Green Policies
A growing unease is setting in among Brussels’ Eurocrats as a rightist wave is predicted to sweep Europe’s upcoming parliamentary elections in June.
This has however failed to deter some from doubling down on the massively unpopular ‘net zero’ policies that are partly responsible for putting EU elites in their precarious positions in the first place.
In an interview on Tuesday, the EU Commission’s climate chief, Wopke Hoekstra, told Politico that whatever the outcome of these elections, afterward, Brussels must “focus just as much and probably more” on climate action.
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EU Commission Unveils Concessions for Farmers After Protests
The European Commission on Friday proposed further concessions on climate and environmental measures in response to ongoing farmer’s protests in several European countries.
Farmers across the bloc have said proposed cuts to fuel subsidies, along with heavy environmental regulations as part of the EU’s Green Deal plan to tackle climate change, are placing an unaffordable burden on their operations.
“The main goal of these legislative proposals is to further ease the administrative burden for EU farmers and give farmers and member states greater flexibility for complying with certain environmental conditionalities,” said a statement from Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
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EU’s New €5 Billion ‘Top-Up’ of Military Aid to Ukraine is an Illusion
Diplomats from member states meeting in Brussels on Wednesday emerged with a €5 billion deal to revamp aid to Ukraine.
The initial agreement struck by ambassadors will, in theory, pour another €5 billion into the European Peace Facility (EPF) over the remaining months of the year.
The EPF is an “off-budget” scheme since EU funds cannot finance expenditures with military implications. Since the Russian invasion, the fund has been the principal means for the EU to provide military aid to Ukraine.
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In an exclusive interview with Remix News, Magdalena Majkowska, a lawyer for the Ordo Iuris Institute, provides an insider’s view into the police brutality and harsh legal methods deployed against farmers, including the arrest of an elderly farmer whose fingers were so worn from labor that the police device could not read his fingerprints
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German Public Broadcaster: AfD Employs 100 Right-Wing Extremists in Parliament
Social democrat Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) wants to put a stop to the antiglobalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) recruiting parliamentary staff from the party’s youth wing, Junge Alternative (JA). The reason? Bas is concerned about the security of the parliament, especially perceived threats from “right-wing extremist” employees, Junge Freiheit reports.
According to an investigation by public broadcaster Bayerische Rundfunk, every second AfD parliamentarian has a “right-wing extremist” working for him, employing “individuals who are active in organizations classified by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution [BfV] as right-wing extremist.” The broadcaster claims the majority of the ‘suspicious’ employees are members of Junge Alternative or the AfD state associations in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia.
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Germany: Ethics Council: “Restricting Freedoms” May be Necessary to Fight Climate Change
The government may be forced to limit the available choices for citizens in order to battle predicted ‘devastating consequences’ of climate change. That’s the message in an opinion titled “Climate Justice,” published on March 13th by the German Ethics Council.
In the opinion, the Ethics Council—a board of expert advisors established by German law—recommends actions to be taken by corporations, individuals, and the government to ensure the effects of climate change do not unjustly burden “those who are not so well-off.”
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Three police officers stormed a German high school last month and took a 16-year-old girl out of class to question her about a TikTok video she posted in which she called Germany her home and not just a place on a map.
The incident occurred on Feb. 27 at the Richard Wossidlo High School in Ribnitz-Damgarten, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
In an interview with the German news outlet Junge Freiheit, the mother of the student explained how her daughter had been suspected of spreading “unconstitutional content on social media.”
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Germany’s own military and government are painting such a dire picture of the armed forces that there are now calls from some of the most powerful politicians in the country to reinstate mandatory military service.
A video produced by Remix News details testimony provided by Eva Högl, German Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces, who provided catastrophic details about the state of the German military.
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German Kids Banned From Drinking Water in Class During Ramadan
Teachers at a comprehensive school in Germany have banned children from drinking water in their classrooms out of consideration for Muslim pupils fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
As reported by NIUS, fifth graders at the unnamed school located in the greater Frankfurt area, have informed their parents they were prohibited from drinking in class because a handful of students were fasting.
“At dinner, we always talk about how the day was. I asked my daughter what was new at school. She then told us that two teachers had forbidden the students from drinking in class because three of the 27 children were fasting,” a father of one of the pupils told the site.
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Hungary: UAE to Invest €5 Billion in Budapest Real Estate Project
An agreement has been reached between Hungary and the United Arab Emirates on economic cooperation, as part of which a new urban district will be built in the vicinity of the Rakosrendezo railway station with a huge investment of €5 billion, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjartó announced in Budapest on Wednesday.
In a press release, the minister welcomed the continuous development of bilateral relations with the UAE Minister of Foreign Trade Tani bin Ahmed al-Zejudi, highlighting that the value of trade between Hungary and the UAE has already exceeded $1 billion (€910 million) a year, and that domestic companies are also increasingly active in the food, I.T. and digital industries in the Middle East.
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Italy: Meloni’s Leadership Challenged in Regional Elections
The regional elections held in Italy over the last few weeks provide an interesting snapshot of the changing state of opinion in Italy some eighteen months after the centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni came to power. After a setback in Sardinia, the government majority managed to retain the Abruzzo region at the cost of intense mobilisation. The coalition is being weakened by numerous internal tensions.
On Sunday, February 25th, the united forces of the Left succeeded, by just a few thousand votes, in surpassing the right-wing government coalition and taking the region of Sardinia from it. This is the first major electoral setback for Giorgia Meloni at the local level since it is the first time since 2015 that the Left has managed to take a region from the Right already in power, and the first time since 2020 that the Right has been defeated at the regional level.
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Occasional Dialogues: Frank Haviland Interviews Reform UK’s Richard Tice
Reform UK is making waves at Westminster—both in the opinion polls and with the defection of heavyweight Lee Anderson. Frank Haviland caught up with party leader Richard Tice to find out what is going on behind the scenes.
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Poland: Tensions in New Ruling Coalition as Tusk Tries to Sideline Partners
The leaders of the Third Way alliance are increasingly convinced that Donald Tusk and his party, Civic Platform (PO), want to marginalize them in the ruling coalition and politics in general. On Thursday, Tusk posted on social media telling his supporters that at these local elections, voters do not have to tactically support Third Way but can vote in accordance with their convictions.
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Polish NGO Wins Fight Against Facebook’s Censorship
Spoleczna Inicjatywa Narkopolityki (SIN, the Civil Society Drug Policy Initiative) has triumphed over Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, securing a verdict that significantly curtails the power of internet platforms to indiscriminately censor user content in Poland.
The Polish court’s decision, backed by the Panoptykon Foundation, a digital rights group, establishes a precedent that user blocking must be justified and subject to challenge within the user’s own jurisdiction.
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Polish MEP Exposes Hypocrisy in Media Freedom Debate Amid New EU Legislation
In an impassioned address to the European Parliament, MEP Dominik Tarczynski of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has called out “blatant hypocrisy” among members of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s governing Civic Platform (PO) in relation to their stance on media freedom.
“Unbelievable! The director and founder of TV Belsat was just fired, the station’s budget is being cut, destroying a strategic project for Poland, yet PO deputies Halicki and Adamowicz debate the importance of free media!” Tarczynski shared on social media, attaching a video of his speech during the European Parliament plenary debate in Strasbourg.
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Spanish Congress Approves Blanket Amnesty for Catalan Separatists
The amnesty law resulting from negotiations between PM Pedro Sanchez and Catalan separatists was passed by the Congress of Deputies, the lower chamber of the national parliament, on Thursday, March 14th after intense debate.
The controversial law obtained the expected 178 votes in favor and 172 against. It not only pardons the organizers of the illegal 2017 referendum on the region’s independence from Spain, but also gives a blanket amnesty for all crimes committed by Catalan separatists in connection with the referendum—from street violence and rioting to drug dealing, embezzlement, money laundering, treason, and terrorism.
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Stormy Debate in French Assembly Over Military Agreement With Ukraine
For the first time in many months, French MPs and senators have had the opportunity to discuss the foreign policy directions taken by President Macron in a debate on the bilateral agreement negotiated by the head of state between France and Ukraine. Although the discussions were stormy, the representatives generally voted in favour of France’s strong support for Ukraine. However, a number of grey areas remain, particularly as regards the terms of France’s military commitment.
For several months, some MPs have been calling for a proper debate on France’s foreign policy choices. Such a debate had not been held since June 2021. Up for a vote was now an agreement signed on February 16th between Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron.
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UK Labour Government Would Push to Legalise Assisted Suicide
Sir Keir Starmer will hold a vote on assisted suicide if, as is widely expected, Labour wins the next general election.
Alistair Thompson, a long-time campaigner for improved palliative care, told The European Conservative that if the change is passed by what is likely to be an even more socially liberal Parliament than the current one, the “so-called right to die” will for many soon become “the duty to die.”
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Ukraine War: Polish PM Announces Emergency Summit Between France, Germany, and Poland
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Polish President Andrzej Duda met U.S. President Joe Biden in the White House on Tuesday on the 25th anniversary of Poland’s accession to NATO. After the meeting, Tusk announced that on Friday he will be in Berlin to attend an emergency meeting of the Weimar Triangle, a regional format of France, Germany, and Poland created in 1991. At the summit, they will discuss the current conflict in Ukraine and what was discussed in the meeting with the U.S. president.
Tusk said that the current situation is “fraught with danger,” but that the confirmation of the U.S. commitment to NATO was important and must guide the actions of the nations in the Weimar Triangle.
According to the Polish prime minister, “the focus on this triangle — Paris, Berlin, and Warsaw — will increasingly grow.”
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Ukraine Needs €120 Billion Per Year to Win War, Claims Estonia
Kusti Salm, permanent secretary of the Estonian defense ministry, said that €120 billion a year in military aid is “a generous amount that should be enough to allow Ukraine to win the war.”
The whopping sum would invariably come almost entirely from Western taxpayers, who are already on the hook for an amount approaching €150 billion.
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Israel Denies Palestinian Claim Its Forces Killed 20 Near Gaza Aid Distribution Center
The Palestinian Health Ministry accused Israeli forces of launching an attack near an aid distribution point in war-wracked northern Gaza, killing 20 people and wounding 155. The Israeli military said Friday that Palestinian gunmen opened fire in that attack and that none of its forces fired toward the waiting crowd or the aid convoy.
Some of those in the crowd near the Kuwaiti Roundabout, the aid distribution point, were run over by the trucks, the military said. The Israeli forces were securing a convoy of 31 aid trucks when the violence erupted late Thursday, it added.
Meanwhile, an aid ship loaded with some 200 tons of food was seen approaching Gaza’s shores on Friday morning in a mission to inaugurate a sea route from Cyprus to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the enclave, five months into the war.
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Doha Hunts for Whistleblowers Who Revealed Qatar’s Funding of ISIS
Via The Cradle
Qatar National Bank (QNB) and Qatar Charity (QC) are attempting to uncover the identities of confidential sources that supplied documents to lawyers representing the family of murdered US journalist Steven Sotloff, which allege the financial institutions — acting at the behest of Qatar’s royal family — wired hundreds of thousands of dollars to the ISIS judge who ordered Sotloff’s execution.
QNB and QC filed an application on March 12 in the US to obtain “limited discovery” of the law firm representing Sotloff’s family, specifically regarding the names of those who provided the bank records linking Doha to the murder. In an email to Bloomberg, the general counsel for QNB confirmed the filing and said the bank “is the victim of an effort to tarnish its reputation” and plans to hold the individuals “to account to the fullest extent of the law.” Sotloff and another US journalist, James Foley, were beheaded in 2014 by ISIS in Syria. The terrorist group published videos of its executions online directed at US government officials.
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Putin Vows Ukraine Will Pay for Election Day Attacks on Civilians
Today is election day in Russia, and it is quite obvious who will emerge victorious as the country’s next president. However, Ukraine has chosen the eve of election day and into Friday to send a ‘message’ — while apparently losing a lot of men in the process.
There have been repeat significant cross-border ground and shelling attacks from Ukraine in the past 48 hours. Russia’s defense ministry (MoD) announced Friday morning that it “repelled” the latest major attempted incursion in the Belgorod region on the border.
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Russia Election: Arrests for Vandalism as Ballot Boxes Targeted in Putin Vote
Several people have been detained for vandalism at polling stations on the first day of voting in presidential elections, Russian officials say.
Incidents involved green dye being poured into ballot boxes, the boxes being set alight and fireworks being set off inside polling stations, state media reported.
Vladimir Putin is certain to win six more years in office after the vote.
However, officials have called on law enforcement officers to be vigilant.
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Ukraine-Russia War: Medic Among 16 Killed in Odesa Missile Strikes
16 people and left another 55 wounded, the regional governor has said.
Among those killed and wounded were emergency medical teams.
Ukrainian officials said the first Russian missile hit homes and civilian infrastructure, and when emergency teams rushed to the scene another missile struck the same spot.
Russia has not commented on the attack.
A military spokesman said the missiles were fired from the Crimea region, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Odesa’s regional governor Oleh Kiper said a medic and a rescuer were among those killed when the second missile struck.
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Vladimir Putin Vows to Punish Ukraine for Attacks That Mar Russia Election
Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine on Friday of aiming to disrupt Russia’s presidential election by shelling Russian territory and using 2,500 armed soldiers to try to pierce his country’s borders, and vowed to punish Kyiv for its actions.
The first day of the election was also marred by disruptions including dye being poured into ballot boxes, a Molotov cocktail thrown at a polling station in Putin’s hometown, and reported cyberattacks.
Millions of Russians cast their ballots across the country’s 11 time zones at the start of the three-day election, which is almost certain to hand Putin six more years in the Kremlin.
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Beijing’s Military Hacked U.S. Nuclear Firm Before Hunter Biden Aided Chinese Bid to Acquire it
U.S. officials were acutely aware that Beijing was trying to obtain America’s premiere nuclear reactor technology, including through illicit hacking, months before Hunter Biden and his business partners sought to arrange a quiet sale of an iconic U.S. reactor company to a Chinese firm, according to court records and national security experts.
Hunter Biden’s unsuccessful efforts to help CEFC China Energy acquire Westinghouse, one of America’s most famous electricity and appliance brands, and its state-the-art AP1000 nuclear reactor began in early 2016 while Joe Biden was still a sitting vice president, memos published Wednesday by Just the News show.
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Health Experts Say ‘Long COVID’ Doesn’t Exist, Term ‘Can Cause Unnecessary Fear’
Health experts recently claimed that there is no such thing as “long COVID” despite the term being used to classify alleged prolonged symptoms of people who had been diagnosed with coronavirus.
Australian medical researchers who are backed by the government want people to stop using the term after a newly released study found that those who tested positive for coronavirus did not have a prolonged increased level of impairment compared to those who simply had the flu, The New York Post reported.
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All 5 Attackers Killed, Ending Somalia Hotel Siege in Which 3 Soldiers Died
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Security forces in Somalia say they have killed all five attackers who laid siege to a hotel in a normally secure area of the capital.
Police spokesperson Kasim Roble said Friday that three soldiers were killed and 27 people injured in the Thursday night attack on the SYL Hotel in Mogadishu.
The Somali extremist group al-Shabab said on Telegram on Thursday that its fighters managed to penetrate the hotel, which is not far from the presidential palace and is patronized by government officials.
“The situation is now calm, the hotel is secure now, and lawmakers and other hotel residents started returning, and the security situation returned to normal,” Roble said.
Journalists were barred from accessing the hotel after the siege ended.
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Canada Evacuates Embassy in Haiti After Gang Boss ‘Barbecue’ Issues Threat Against Politicians
Canada evacuated its embassy in Haiti Thursday after gang boss Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier issued seemingly threatening statements directed at politicians planning to join a council that would oversee the transfer of power from former Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who stepped down earlier in the week.
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Three illegal immigrants from Guatemala were charged in Florida with kidnapping a woman in their pick-up truck near a park and sexually assaulting her twice before she managed to escape.
The arrests of Marcos Felipe Ramirez, 31, Darniel Ordónez Jimenez, 30, and Andres Felipe Morales, 29, prompted Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw to torch the federal government under the Biden administration for putting “the American people in jeopardy” during a fiery press conference on Wednesday announcing the charges against the trio.
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Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is pumping $1 billion in taxpayer money into efforts to make the U.S. borders more “climate-friendly.”
The news comes as the United States battles a historic nationwide illegal border crossing crisis.
Thousands of foreign nationals are currently illegally entering the country every single day due to Biden’s open border policies.
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DeSantis Sounds Alarm Over Disturbing Discovery on Haitian ‘Migrant’ Boat Seized Off Florida Coast
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has sounded the alarm after Florida authorities intercepted and seized a Haitian “migrant” boat that was heading for his state.
On board the vessel, carrying dozens of military-aged men from Haiti, law enforcement discovered firearms, night vision gear, and drugs.
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A Haitian migrant who came to the US via President Biden’s controversial parole program has been charged with the rape of a 15-year-old disabled girl.
Cory Alvarez, 26, was arraigned Thursday in Rockland, Massachusetts after allegedly attacking the girl in a hotel-turned-migrant center the night before.
Rockland Police took the Haitian migrant into custody at the hotel, where Alvarez had been living, and the 15-year-old was transported to an area hospital.
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Illegal Immigration Soars 541% Higher on West African Route Into EU, Announces Frontex Border Agency
Europe’s illegal immigration crisis shows no signs of slowing, with the first two months of 2024 showing 31,200 irregular border crossings, which is the same level as last year’s near-record numbers, according to data from Frontex, the EU’s external border agency.
One of the standout data points was the explosive growth along the Western African route into Europe, which jumped 541 percent in the last two months.
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Illegal Immigrant Previously Convicted of Child Sexual Assault Arrested Again in Uvalde, Texas
US Border Patrol has arrested an illegal immigrant from Ecuador in Uvalde, Texas who previously served time in prison on a conviction of sexual assault against a child.
According to US Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens, the illegal immigrant was arrested on Wednesday. He was previously convicted in 2014 of sexual assault of a victim under 13, and served 6 years in prison.
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JD Vance Drops Hammer on Tyson Foods for Replacing American Workers With Illegal Aliens
Republican Senator J.D. Vance has fired back after it emerged that Tyson Foods is replacing American workers with illegal aliens.
Fox News anchor Jesse Watters reported that Tyson is shutting down its Iowa plant and killing 1,200 American jobs so it can shift operations to New York and hire illegal aliens instead.
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The leader of the Massachusetts Republican Party said lawmakers should revisit and amend the right to shelter laws for housing migrants.
Cory Alvarez, 26, was arrested Thursday by Rockland, Mass., authorities and has pleaded not guilty to a single count of aggravated rape of a child. He has been ordered held without bail, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said Friday.
Alvarez’s accuser said he sexually assaulted her at a Comfort Inn that is part of a state and federal program to house migrants. He lived at the hotel, prosecutors said. Massachusetts, like other states, has received an influx of migrants from the southern border, which has strained services and housing resources.
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NYC Reaches Deal on ‘Right to Shelter’ Mandate as Migrant Crisis Reaches Tipping Point
New York City will be allowed to continue limiting shelter stays under a settlement struck Friday in the legal fight over the “right to shelter” mandate — but will still be on the hook to house the thousands of migrants pouring into the Big Apple each week.
Under the deal reached by the Mayor Eric Adams administration and the Legal Aid Society, the city will essentially be allowed to limit whether a single adult migrant can reapply for shelter after their 30-day stay expires.
After their 30 days is up, anyone can reapply but only those who meet a “non-exhaustive” list of “extenuating circumstances” — such as having a medical condition or disability — will be approved on a case-by-case basis, according to the terms of the settlement.
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Ocean Viking Saves Another 135 Migrants Off Malta
Ocean Viking saved another 135 migrants off Malta Friday after the Sos Mediterranee vessel rescued 25 survivors from a wreck that killed around 60 people Thursday.
The latest batch included a pregnant woman and eight children.
The were rescued in Maltese search and rescue (SAR) waters.
In all, the boat operated by the Franco-German-Italian-Swiss NGO is carrying some 359 shipwreck victims, and has been assigned the safe port of Ancona in central Marche, halfway up the Adriatic.
“Such a long navigation should never be imposed on persons rescued at sea,” said the NGO.
The Italian government has been discouraging NGO activities by assigning them ports in central and northern Italy rather than southern Italy.
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Every year, migrants and refugees transfer billions of euros from Germany to family members in their home countries, with the Bundesbank estimating this to be at least €6.8 billion per year.
Now, some German political parties want to crack down on this development, with the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) seeking to “reduce poverty migration to zero” with restrictions on cash payments and social benefits.
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South American Gangs Target Mansions in Baltimore as Biden’s Border Crisis Spreads Chaos
The Biden administration’s disastrous open southern border policies have sparked a catastrophic wave of violent crime committed by illegal immigrants. This comes amid the ten million migrants that have invaded the nation, alongside recent calls from radical progressive lawmakers across crime-ridden metro areas to defund the police and limit criminal prosecution. As a result, many law-abiding Americans express growing concern about insecurity amid a new era of explosive crime and chaos.
Let’s begin with a series of news headlines that show Chilean crime gangs have been on a nationwide burglary spree, targeting wealthy neighborhoods from coast to coast:
- NBC7 San Diego: “Chilean break-in crew is back, and burglaries are on the rise in La Jolla”
- Fox 2 Detroit: “High-end Michigan burglaries tied to Chilean crime ring, prompts police task force”
- NBC 10 Philadelphia: “Another Chilean man arrested as Montco targeted by ‘South American Theft Groups’“
- ABC 7 Los Angeles: “OC judge throws out plea deal in case involving alleged Chilean burglary ring”
- NBC 12 Scottsdale: “‘These are professionals’: Latest arrests in East Valley burglary cases tied to Chilean crime ring”
- Oklahoma News 4: “Million-dollar OKC homes burglarized, possibly connected to Chilean crime ring”
- ZeroHedge: “South American Gangs Target Dozens Of Mansions In Detroit”
- AP News: “3 Chilean nationals accused of burglarizing high-end Michigan homes”
- Vanity Fair: “Thieves in the Night: A Vast Burglary Ring From Chile Has Been Targeting Wealthy U.S. Households”
The latest crime spree these Chilean gangs went on was in wealthy neighborhoods in upper Baltimore County, Maryland.
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Venezuelan ‘Killers’, Gang Members Heading to US After Release From Prison, Official Warns
Some of Venezuela’s most violent criminals have been released from prison and US officials warned that they could be headed to the United States.
Those released allegedly include convicted killers, thugs, and members of the infamous Tren de Aragua gang. Venezuelan illegal immigrant, Jose Ibarra, who has been charged in the killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, is reportedly an “active member” of the same gang.
Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice Magistrate Edgar Gavidia announced that 100 prisoners have been released and the country is looking to release more on a case-by-case basis.
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Victims Who Fled Gang Violence in Venezuela Sound Alarm Over Tren De Aragua’s Presence in US
Over the past few weeks, a number of high-profile violence incidents across the United States have been traced back to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan street gang whose members have been able to enter the country illegally.
Now, victims of the gang who fled the South American nation seeking safety in the US are sounding the alarm over what could happen if they establish a greater presence north of the border.
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Update: After the drag show hosted by “Daddy Satan” was reported on by several outlets online and drew heavy backlash, the event was canceled “due to unforeseen circumstances,” according to an Instagram post.
A bookstore in Arizona has invited children and parents to a “Drag Show for Palestine” hosted by drag performer “Daddy Satan” planned to be held on Saturday.
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‘Demanding the Right to Kill’ — Polish President Duda Firmly Opposes Easing Abortion Law
Abortion is taking the life of a small human being and there is no room for compromise on Poland’s strict abortion legislation, Polish President Andrzej Duda has declared.
In a recent interview with liberal television network TVN, President Duda articulated his unwavering stance on abortion, emphasizing his belief that abortion deprives a small human being of life. When asked whether he would consider a compromise to allow abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy, Duda highlighted the current law’s provision for terminating a pregnancy if the woman’s life is at risk, asserting that women’s safety is thereby protected.
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Marriage Promotes ‘White Supremacy, ‘ According to White University Professor
“Marriage fundamentalism” promotes the ideas of “White supremacy,” according to a White George Mason University professor.
Professor Bethany Letiecq wrote in the Journal of Marriage and Family about her theory “that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy.”
“Marriage fundamentalism can be understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family,” she wrote. “But it is also a hidden or unacknowledged structural mechanism of White heteropatriarchal family supremacy that is essential to the reproduction and maintenance of family inequality in the United States.”
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Planet Fitness Recasts Gender ID Policy Following Photo of Alleged Male in Women’s Locker Room
Planet Fitness changed its description of its gender identity policy in responses to questions Friday about why the budget fitness club revoked the membership of a female customer for having taken a picture of a male in a women’s locker room who allegedly called himself “queer.”
The fitness chain confirmed to Just the News it revoked the membership because the female member violated its “mobile device policy that prohibits taking photos of individuals in the locker room” and posting them on social media.
However, the response appears to be raising more questions than answers.
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The Supreme Court on Friday denied a university student group’s emergency petition to allow a charity drag show to take place on the West Texas A&M University campus in Canyon later this month.
“The application for writ of injunction pending appeal presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied,” the court said in its ruling.
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UN Pushing War on Farmers to Seize Control of Food Supply, Top Researcher Warns
The unelected United Nations is pushing the worldwide war on farmers as part of a plot to seize control of the global food supply, a leading researcher has warned.
The warning was issued by researcher and expert Sandi Adams.
Adams spoke with Colchester Council Watch about this United Nations-led program to control global food production.
She says the plan is being ushered in under the guise of a “food transition.”
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This news only for the people who are so self-involced and brainwashed by msm that they are still not aware.
All Bets: now switched off.
“Google has started the rollout of restrictions on what kind of election-related questions its AI chatbot Gemini will answer as it tries to prevent the spread of fake news during a year when billions of people will vote worldwide.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/google-starts-rollout-restrictions-ai-171542517.html
“There is nothing inherently dangerous about AI…..unless—as is the case with ANY powerful tool—it falls into the hands of commie-toddlers. Then, all bets’re off. Trust me on this (I’ve worked in AI since the ’90s).” —posted to fb (May 2023)
Rama- lama-ding dong is a false holiday.
Angela Merkle caused this evil to prevail in Germany, once a great Christian country where the Protestant movement began.
It really saddens me how this world is being destroyed by people who really behave as if Satanism has overcome them.