A Congolese migrant in France claimed that he was forced to rape because he does not have a girlfriend. Meanwhile, a US district judge ruled that the federal prohibition on firearm ownership by illegal immigrants is unconstitutional.
In other news, a German entrepreneur has been fined for putting up a billboard that makes Green party politicians look bad.
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Crafts Retailer Joann Files for Bankruptcy After 81 Years
Joann Inc., the Ohio-based fabric and craft retailer, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after 81 years in business.
The company made the announcement Monday, adding it could become privately owned as soon as next month.
Joann Fabrics and Crafts stores and website will remain open and continue operating as normal, according to a press release.
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The Fed (US Federal Reserve, the central bank) does not appear to be one of those institutions whose word you could, so to speak — take to the bank.
Just as it is reassuring the public that it is not focusing on introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the country, the Fed has only recently been telling Congress that steps leading to a digital dollar are among its “7 key duties.”
This is according to Congressman Tom Emmer, who posted a document on X on March 14, explaining that his office received it as the Fed representatives were in Congress for a presentation.
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More Canadians Worried About Defaulting on Mortgage and Will Declare Bankruptcy
A concerning number of Canadians are struggling to make ends meet, with risks of defaulting on their mortgage, declaring bankruptcy, and affording basic necessities, according to a new poll published by Maru Public Opinion.
The March 2024 Canadian Maru Household Index showed that in the next 60 days, 18% of respondents will default on making payments on major loans or a mortgage. This is tied with the highest level ever, September 2023, since tracking began in July 2020.
An Equifax Canada report from March 5 shows that mortgage delinquency rates have increased 52.3% in the last year. Ontario and British Columbia are the largest drivers of this increase at 135.2% and 62.2%, respectively.
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Poland Records Lowest Inflation Rate in Three Years
In Poland, prices for consumer goods and services in February saw a year-over-year increase of 2.8 percent, the lowest the country has seen since March 2021.
The data published on Friday by Statistics Poland (GUS) detailed the consumer price index for February, indicating that inflation had settled at a rate that aligns with the inflation target set by the National Bank of Poland (NBP). The inflation rate in January was reported at 3.7 percent, with a month-over-month increase of 0.3 percent.
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“It’s Like the Wild West”: Crime and Violence on NYC Transit Underreported According to NYPD Source
Authored by Matthew Lysiak via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Crime and violence in New York City’s subway system have spiraled out of control and are “significantly higher” than the agency’s official numbers have publicly indicated, according to a New York Police Department (NYPD) source.
The official number of arrests made in the city’s subway system rose by 45 percent this year, with more than 3,000 arrests made underground in the first two months of the year, many of them of repeat offenders, according to figures released by the NYPD Transit Bureau. However, the publicly released data only scratch the surface of the amount of crime in the nation’s largest transit system, a law enforcement source told The Epoch Times.
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Alec Baldwin Demands New Mexico Judge Throw Out ‘Rust’ Manslaughter Case
Alec Baldwin’s legal team has made a fervent plea to a New Mexico judge to demand that the manslaughter case against the Hollywood actor be thrown out of court.
Baldwin is urging the dismissal of the indictment against him in connection with the tragic shooting incident on the set of the film “Rust.”
The attorneys have leveled accusations of unethical behavior against prosecutors.
They have also alleged that critical evidence was omitted during the grand jury proceedings.
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Biden’s Inner Circle Defends Top Aide Amid Multiple Allegations of Abuse
The inner circles of Democrat President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden have rallied in defense of a top aide hit with multiple MeToo-style allegations of abuse.
Anthony Bernal is facing allegations of bullying and sexual harassment from almost a dozen current and former White House staff members.
Bernal is an assistant to the president and top aide to the first lady.
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Biden DOJ Arrests Conservative Influencer Isabella Deluca on J6 Charges
Conservative influencer and former congressional intern to GOP representatives Isabella Maria Deluca has been arrested and charged in relation to the events of January 6, 2021 at the Capitol building.
DeLuca has reportedly been charged with four misdemeanor counts that have been used against more than 1,000 other defendants facing charges for the day, as well as a fifth misdemeanor count of theft of government property, according to WUSA 9.
DeLuca was taken into custody on Friday in Irvine, California, and her case has been assigned to Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather for an initial hearing in DC.
Court documents state that the FBI received an online tip regarding DeLuca being a possible suspect “who participated in the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol,” with the tipster alleging that Deluca had deleted social media posts about being inside the Capitol building on January 6.
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Bill Maher, John Cleese Rail Against the New York Times: ‘Sad’ it’s No Longer a ‘Great Newspaper’
Comedians Bill Maher and John Cleese tore into The New York Times for no longer being the “great newspaper” they once read.
On Sunday’s installment of his podcast “Club Random,” Maher cited a focus group The Times had recently published featuring young people “saying the dumbest s***” telling Cleese “we’re so f***ed.”
“And it’s printed in The New York Times,” Maher said.
“Well, I used to think that was a great newspaper, but I don’t anymore,” Cleese responded.
“I don’t either,” Maher replied. “I mean, it’s sad because it was like on my breakfast table when I was a kid, it was in my parents’ house.”
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Breaking: President Trump Considering Vivek for Cabinet Position, Not VP: Report
On Monday, it was reported that Vivek Ramaswamy is no longer under consideration to be Donald Trump’s pick for vice president.
The former commander-in-chief told his former competitor that he would instead try to set him up with a cabinet position.
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Elon Musk Clashes With Don Lemon Over DEI Lowering Medical Standards: ‘People Will Die’
Don Lemon clashed with Elon Musk over Diversity, Equity and Inclusion “DEI” policies in medicine in a clip that went viral on Monday.
The former CNN host interviewed the Tesla CEO and X owner for the premiere episode of his new program, “The Don Lemon Show.”
In the episode, Lemon pressed Musk to defend his claim that DEI policies would eventually lead to patients being harmed.
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Elon Musk Reveals Two “Very Mentally Ill” People With Guns Tried to Assassinate Him
On Sunday night, Elon Musk revealed in an X Spaces with Dr. Gad Saad, a professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Montreal’s Concordia University, that two “very mentally ill” people have tried to kill him in Austin, Texas.
Near the end of the one-hour interview, Musk discussed his level of fame and how it’s been problematic when he goes out in public. He said people are super nice, but every time he goes to restaurants, there are lines of people who want selfies with him.
“I can’t easily go to the mall or a movie theater or walk around without creating a ruckus,” the world’s richest man said.
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Federal Appeals Court Blows Up Biden’s Carbon Emissions Disclosure Rule
A federal appeals court paused financial rules issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that will force private companies to publicly disclose their carbon emissions and risks climate change poses to their business.
In a short ruling issued Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit paused the SEC’s climate disclosure rule, but declined to offer any explanation for the decision. The ruling, though, came in response to petitions for review filed by energy companies Liberty Energy and Nomad Proppant Services, the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, and business groups Chamber of Commerce, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers and Domestic Energy Producers Alliance.
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Google has denied a new report by the right-leaning Media Research Center (MRC) alleging 41 instances of “election interference” since 2008.
According to the report, Google has “utilized its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidates…while targeting their opponents for censorship.”
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High-Schoolers Are Losing Confidence in the Benefits of a College Degree
Via Campus Reform
A recently released study that involved focus groups and a national study explores how high school students and non-enrolled adults ages 18-30 view the prospects of a college degree.
New data suggests that prospective college students are finding fewer and fewer reasons to obtain a degree.
Inside Higher Ed recently highlighted a new report by the Gates Foundation-funded HCM Strategists and Edge Research revealing that high school students and young adults have a declining view of the benefits of a college degree.
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Hunter’s Business Partner Eric Schwerin Testifies Joe Biden Used Email Alias While Serving as VP
Hunter Biden’s business partner Eric Schwerin has testified before lawmakers during a hearing on Capitol Hill that Democrat President Joe Biden used an email alias to communicate with him about shady business deals while serving as Obama’s VP.
Schwerin told congressional investigators that then-Vice President Biden used the “Robinware456” private email address to secretly discuss business.
However, Schwerin maintained that he is “not aware” of what Biden’s exact role was in his family business.
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Joe Scarborough Implodes, Doubles Down on Anti-Trump ‘Bloodbath’ Hoax: ‘We’re Not Stupid’
MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough has gone on an unhinged rant after he was caught promoting the false “bloodbath” narrative about President Donald Trump and doubled down on the debunked hoax.
Over the weekend, Democrats, leftists, liberal celebrities, and their corporate media allies pushed a deceitful lie on the American people by taking a statement from President Trump and twisting it out of context.
During a rally in Ohio on Saturday, Trump explained that there would be a “bloodbath” of job losses in the auto industry due to outsourcing if he’s not elected in November.
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America’s first over-the-counter birth control pill is now available online, drugmakers announced.
Dublin-based company Perrigo announced Monday that customers can order its drug Opill from its website and Amazon, and the medication should ship within the next day or two.
Currently, the drug is available on Opill’s website for $49.99 for a three-month supply and $89.99 for a six-month supply.
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Democrat-aligned leftist legal experts have been highly critical of every move made by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.
Cannon is the presiding judge in President Donald Trump’s classified documents criminal case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
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Medical Studies Find No Trace of Physical Harm in Havana Syndrome Patients
Two new medical studies have found that US government officials suffering from Havana syndrome symptoms did not show any discernible physical damage or alteration.
One of the studies published on Monday by the federally funded National Institutes of Health (NIH) examined brain imaging, while the other looked at blood biomarkers and clinical assessments of hearing, vision, hand-eye coordination, cognitive ability and balance.
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New York became just the third state of set up a panel to consider the payment of reparations for slavery when the appointments were made in December.
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Mira Sorvino Laments How Harvey Weinstein ‘Stifled’ Her Career After She ‘Rejected Him’
Mira Sorvino was overcome with emotions while recalling how Harvey Weinstein had a negative impact on her career after she rejected his unwanted advances.
During a panel discussion at 90s Con over the weekend, Sorvino remembered soaring in popularity after winning an Oscar for her role in the 1996 film “Mighty Aphrodite.”
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More & More Americans Turn to TikTok for News
The House of Representatives passed a bill last week that could lead to a nationwide ban of the social media platform TikTok in the United States, unless its Chinese owner Byte Dance sells its stake in the company within 165 days.
U.S. lawmakers had raised concerns over the question of data and national security risks of the app, fearing potential links to China’s government. TikTok, which is headquartered outside of China, says it has never been asked by the Chinese government to provide them with U.S. data and has been actively trying to distance itself from Beijing.
The short form video app is particularly beloved by teenagers and young people around the world.
Now, as Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, nearly one in three (32 percent) young adults aged 18-29 even say that they turn to TikTok regularly for news. This is up from just nine percent who said the same in 2020.
While still low, the overall share of adults in the United States who say they regularly get news on TikTok has more than quadrupled between 2020 and 2024.
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The Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in a case brought forth by the National Rifle Association against former New York Department of Financial Services superintendent Maria Vullo, who the NRA said used her regulatory powers to punish the organization for its pro-gun stance in violation of the First Amendment.
According to ABC News, the NRA is represented in the case by the American Civil Liberties Union, which said that despite opposing the group’s views, the case could be a “playbook” for government officials to target other groups such as pro-abortion ones.
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‘Rust’ Armorer Challenges Involuntary Manslaughter Conviction, Requests New Trial
“Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed’s attorneys are challenging her involuntary manslaughter conviction she received in a Santa Fe, New Mexico, court earlier this month.
According to documents obtained by Fox News Digital, Gutierrez Reed’s legal team filed an emergency motion for a new trial and release on March 15.
Defense attorneys are also requesting the defendant be released from jail while deliberations proceed, according to The Associated Press.
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San Francisco City Officials to Pull Offices From Crime-Infested Downtown
City officials in San Francisco are planning to move their offices out of a building in crime-infested downtown.
The offices are currently in a downtown building near City Hall.
The San Francisco Standard reported Friday that the city will pull the offices due to high rent and a bad real estate market.
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Washington state landlord Jaskaran Singh is outraged by a serial squatter who owes thousands in back rent and has repeatedly thwarted eviction efforts from his rental property.
“He paid for the first month [or] two months rent and basically, after that, he’s living rent-free,” Singh told “Fox & Friends First” on Monday.
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Supreme Court Appears Wary of Blocking Biden Admin-Big Tech Censorship Collusion
During oral arguments in a major First Amendment case on Monday, the Supreme Court expressed reservations about restricting interactions between the Biden administration and social media platforms. This concern emerged during the Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden) case, which delves into the extent of governmental influence over online content.
Brian Fletcher, Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States, presented oral arguments for the petitioners in the case, Biden’s Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy and several other current and former members of the Biden administration.
The respondents in the case, the States of Missouri and Louisiana, and several other individuals who were subject to social media censorship, allege that the federal government had pressured platforms to block or downgrade posts on various topics, including some related to Covid and the Hunter Biden laptop story.
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The Dangerous Language and First Amendment Challenges of the Rushed Anti-TikTok Bill
The question of the TikTok “ban” in the US has jumbled the political landscape, creating unusual alliances and stirring passionate debates across the nation. Although there is a striking unity in Congress supporting a TikTok ban, differing perspectives persist among the American populace.
If the legislation passes in its current form, Bytedance will have a 180-day window to divest TikTok or else it will face prohibition.
While supporters of the ban highlight TikTok as a national security threat, opponents argue that the proposed ban is a covert means of controlling other social media platforms. This is mostly due to some of the wording of the rushed bill.
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Trump Reveals Plan to Impose 100 Percent Tariffs on Chinese Cars Made in Mexico
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Former President Donald Trump threatened to impose 100 percent tariffs on Chinese cars made in Mexico once reelected, double the 50 percent he stated earlier.
“Mexico has taken, over a period of thirty years, 34 percent of the automobile manufacturing business in our country,” President Trump said during a rally in Ohio on Saturday. China is building massive plants in Mexico where they plan on building the cars and selling them in the United States, paying no tax at the border, he said, adding that the plan will not work under his presidency.
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Trump, Co-Defendants Request to Appeal Georgia Judge’s Ruling Keeping Fani Willis on Case
Former President Trump and several of his co-defendants are asking Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee for permission to appeal after he ruled against dismissing the case and disqualifying District Attorney Fani Willis.
McAfee last week denied a full dismissal of the case against Trump and Willis’ disqualification. Instead, he demanded that Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade resign from the case. McAfee warned that without Wade’s withdrawal, Willis would be disqualified from prosecuting Trump. Wade withdrew within hours of the judge’s order.
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Trump Unable to Get $464M Appeal Bond to Stop Collection, Attorneys Say: ‘Practical Impossibility’
Former President Trump has not been able to secure a $464 million appeal bond he needs following a New York civil fraud judgment against him, his attorneys say.
In a court filing Monday, his lawyers said obtaining one is a “practical impossibility under the circumstances presented.”
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Trump Leads Biden by 1.7% in Latest RCP Average of National Polls
The latest average of 19 polls by RealClearPolling has found that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump is up by 1.7 points over his Democrat presumptive nominee counterpart Joe Biden.
The RealClearPolling average spans polls that were released between February 21 and March 13, and in the 19 polls included in that timeframe, Trump won over Biden in 13 of them, while one poll ended up in a tie.
Trump won by as much as 8 points, as seen in a Rasmussen Reports poll that was conducted between March 5 and 7, with Biden leading by as much as two points as seen in Reuters/Iposos and Emerson polls.
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TV Series Based on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign Gets Bad Review From CNN
Leftist corporate media outlet CNN just gave a bad review for a new drama series based on failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
The thumbs down came from CNN’s Brian Lowry.
The show, “The Girls on the Bus,” is adapted from a memoir about Clinton’s second failed campaign.
Lowry published a piece criticizing the series titled, “Journalism could use a smart show about reporting. ‘The Girls on the Bus’ isn’t it. “
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WEF-Linked Scientists Unveil Fake ‘Meat’ Made From Mold
A group of scientists linked to the World Economic Forum (WEF) has just unveiled a new fake “meat” product that has been grown in a lab from mold.
The new animal-free synthetic “meat” was created by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California-Berkeley.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Senior Scientific Engineering Associate Joachim Seel is listed as an “agenda contributor” at the globalist WEF.
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Western Kentucky University Preparing for Protests Following Announcement of Controversial Speaker
Western Kentucky University is preparing for protests after an announcement that controversial figure Kyle Rittenhouse would be speaking on its campus.
A Western Kentucky University student organization has invited Kyle Rittenhouse to speak on the university’s campus on March 27. Rittenhouse received national attention after killing two protesters and shooting a third during a racial justice protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020.
Rittenhouse, 18 at the time, was acquitted at a criminal trial in 2021. Fallout from the verdict reverberated across the nation, with critics of the acquittal saying it set a dangerous precedent for vigilantism, and supporters of Rittenhouse saying he exercised his Second Amendment right to carry a gun and defend himself.
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Canada Links Citizens’ Bank Accounts to Social Credit Score
In a major push to seize control of the public’s financial freedom, Canada is radicalizing its banking system by linking citizens’ bank accounts to a tyrannical social credit score.
The Canadian banking system will soon be transformed by a so-called “open banking” framework.
Proponents are framing this as a more “inclusive” way for banks to easily share information and access user data.
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Canadian Government is Accused of Gaslighting Criticism of Its Online Censorship Bill as “Clickbait”
Canada’s government has already had to go on the defensive regarding its latest controversial legislative effort, the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63).
It’s the one that opponents say seeks to legislate for “thoughtcrime” and contains, on the extreme end of the envisaged measures, punishment such as life in prison for specific “(hate) speech offenses.”
And that defense of the bill includes a cabinet minister who is pushing for its adoption dismissing articles critical of the bill as “clickbait.”
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German police took a 16-year-old schoolgirl out of her class after she was denounced by her headteacher for expressing political sympathies with right-wing party AfD in a harmless Smurf video. The incident has caused a national scandal in Germany. Now Loretta and her mother, Annett B., speak out publicly for the first time in a interview with conservative weekly Junge Freiheit. The girl feels humiliated; her mother fears for political freedom and civil rights in Germany.
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Belgium: Wallonian Conservatives Attacked by Far-Left After Meet-Up
A gathering of conservatives in the southern Belgian city of Mons came under attack on Sunday afternoon in an organised assault by left-wing militants, with one youth leader suffering head injuries after being set upon by approximately fifteen ‘antifascists.’
Members of the conservative Libéraux Démocrates party were assaulted shortly after a political meeting in the historically left-wing Francophone city near the Grands Pre’s shopping district. Party literature was also stolen and masked activists took pictures of attendees’ car registrations.
The attack occurred after the meeting, while activists were travelling for food with party president Tony Kacikowsky, who was assaulted by a gang of 15 in what observers described as having the appearance of a coordinated effort.
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British Landscape Can Evoke “Dark Nationalist Feelings, “ Museum Claims
A British museum, run under the aegis of Cambridge University, has overhauled the signage for its historical paintings, one of which says those depicting the British countryside can trigger “dark nationalist feelings” in whoever may glance at them.
The preposterous change is part of The Fitzwilliam Museum’s reopening last week with galleries based on themes (“Men Looking At Women”, “Migration and Movement”, and “Identity”) rather than chronology, which would place historical paintings alongside modern works of art.
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Billionaire Elon Musk has spoken out in the case of 16-year-old schoolgirl Loretta B., who was pulled out of her classroom by police last week because of a TikTok post in support of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
At the end of February, the girl was taken out of class in front of her fellow students and questioned by police, as first reported by German newspaper Junge Freiheit.
In her TikTok post, she asked “What do Germany and the Smurfs have in common: They are both blue.” The post was in reference to the AfD, which has blue party colors.
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Estonia’s Prime Minister Calls on US and NATO Allies to be Tougher on Russia
As continued U.S. support for Ukraine remains in question, European leaders have been ramping up their own defense spending and industry capacity. Leading the charge is Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas who, at 46, is Estonia’s first female prime minister. Kallas is known for being tough on Russia. Some critics joke she even eats them for breakfast. Russia’s interior minister issued a warrant for her arrest earlier this year, for taking down Soviet monuments, but Kallas has not backed down.
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Experts: New Spanish Law Still Wouldn’t Give Blanket Amnesty
The ‘total amnesty’ for Spanish MEP Carles Puigdemont may not be as solid as its supporters had hoped.
The proposed law would grant immunity from punishment to Puigdemont and other Catalan separatists accused of carrying out the 2017 illegal independence referendum, as well as a wide range of related or possible crimes—from looting and rioting to colluding with Russia to break apart the Spanish nation.
Consulted by the Spanish newspaper El Debate, several legal experts—including retired judges—outlined several scenarios in which the constitutionality of the bill could be questioned.
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A riot broke out on Sunday evening at a police station in a multicultural suburb of Paris following the killing of an 18-year-old man during a police chase.
Molotov cocktails, fireworks, and other makeshift projectiles were thrown at the La Courneuve police station, in Seine-Saint-Denis, the home to one of the largest foreign-born communities in France. Trash fires were also set ablaze by the agitants.
Paris Police Chief Laurent Nuñez announced on Monday morning that nine people have been arrested in connection to the riot, Le Figaro reports. Nuñez added that two police officers were injured by projectiles during the incident, however, they did not require hospital attention.
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A 52-year-old German entrepreneur has been fined for putting up a political billboard depicting Green party politicians in a negative light.
The billboard, which was erected in front of the house of German businessman Michael Much, mocked the top Green party heads. Green Party leader Ricarda Lang is pictured on a concrete roller, while Economics Minister Robert Habeck has empty pockets. Underneath the politicians is the slogan: “We’ll flatten everything.” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is also depicted as a little girl, a reference to her lack of foreign policy experience.
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Italy: Mattarella Defends Journalist Targetted by Anti-Israel Protesters
Intolerance should be banned from higher education — president
President Sergio Mattarella on Friday rushed to the defence of (Post-Communist-Left leaning) La Repubblica Editor-in-chief Maurizio Molinari after students protesting against Italian universities having relations with Israel stopped him from taking part in a debate at Naples’s Federico II University.
Molinari, who is Jewish, has been accused by some of being too sympathetic with Israel after it waged war on Hamas following the October 7 massacres.
The students involved held up a banner that read “Zionists out of universities”.
Mattarella’s office said Friday that the head of State had phoned Molinari to expressed his solidarity.
The statement said Mattarella stated that “what must be banned from universities is intolerance.
“Those who claim the right to impose their ideas by preventing people who think differently from expressing theirs are incompatible with higher education,” he said.
Italy’s Jewish community also voiced solidarity with Molinari.
“It is inconceivable and unacceptable that the Federico II University of Naples was forced to cancel a conference due to the intimidation and violence of a group of troublemakers against the speaker, La Repubblica Editor Maurizio Molinari, just because he is Jewish,” said a joint statement by the President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Noemi Di Segni, the President of the Jewish Community of Rome, Victor Fadlun, and the President of the Jewish Community of Milan, Walker Meghnagi.
“Just because he is still trying to act responsibly as a journalist. Universities are, or should be, a place of tolerance, inclusion, freedom of thought, respect for the person.
“These episodes only strengthen our sense of community.
“If anti-Semitism prevails, it is a defeat for everyone”.
Higher Education and Research Minister Anna Maria Bernini sent a message to Molinari expressing her dismay at what had happened and asked the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) to hold an extraordinary meeting on the “intolerance emergency”, sources said.
Molinari wrote about the incident on the newspaper’s website, saying “the best response to every form of intolerance is respect for your neighbour”.
He said he had offered to meet the protesters and listen to their views on the war in the Middle East but was knocked back.
“I remain open to dialogue with them on any issue,” he said.
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Italy: Colombian Priest Has License Seized for Driving Coked Up
Don Daniel Cardenas crashed into guardrail in Abruzzo
A Colombian priest had his license seized this week after testing positive for cocaine after crashing his car in Abruzzo.
Don Daniel Arturo Cardenas, parish priest at the noted skiing resort of Rivisondoli near L’Aquila, drove off the road and crashed into a guardrail at Santa Brigida on Sunday night, police said Wednesday.
He as taken to a hospital in Sulmona where he had three stitches and tested positive for cocaine, whereupon his license was seized and he was cited for driving while under the influence.
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Italy: School Gives Pupils Day Off for End of Ramadan
40% of students are Muslim, head gets death threats
A school near Milan has given its pupils the day off on April 10, the end of the Muslim holy month of fasting Ramadan, sparking a row and even death threats against the head.
The high school, the Istituto Comprensivo Iqbal Masiq at Pioltello, has 40% of Muslim students.
The head, Alessandro Fanfoni, said on social media Monday “I’m afraid and I don’t feel like talking about the case in public at the moment”.
The rightwing League party said it was “more worried about the remaining 60% of students at Pioltello who are not Muslim”.
The local mayor, Ivonne Cosciotti, whose community has a 20% minority of foreign-born citizens, said “closing the school is an act of civility”.
The anti-migrant League replied that “it is not a civilised act but one of intolerance”.
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Italy: PD: M5S Sending Us to Death Like Jews — Azione’s Pittella
Former Basilicata governor apologises, blames stress
(see related story on Basilicata) Marcello Pittella, the former governor of Basilicata and a regional councillor there, has apologized after saying in an audio message that the Democratic Party (PD) and the 5-Star Movement (M5S) wanted to send his centrist Azione party to death like Jews in a concentration camp amid a row over alliances ahead of next month’s regional election.
“(PD leader Elly) Schlein’s right-hand man says that Azione cannot be on the centre-left list because (Azione leader Carlo) Calenda said things that weren’t nice about the PD and (M5S leader Giuseppe) Conte,” Pittella said in the audio message to members of his team.
“And, above all, because he (Calenda) said (centre-right incumbent Governor Vito) Bardi is a good person.
“Their statement has you putting your hands in your hair.
“It saddens me tremendously because it means there’s an effort to hurt, to cause death.
“You know when they deported Jews and had to take them to gas chambers? “There you go, for them I am a Jew who must die”.
Pittella apologized as soon as reports of what he had said came out.
“Days of stress and emotional tension generated an unjustified and totally unintentional hyperbole in private audio,” he said.
“I used those words to describe the way we were treated after having governed the region for the centre left with dignity and honour.
“I am deeply sorry for what happened and I apologize to anyone who may have felt offended.”
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Sending NATO troops into Ukraine would trigger a “Third World War”, warned Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, who went on to accuse French President Emmanuel Macron of exploiting the war for personal political purposes.
Senior Italian government officials castigated President Macron for his recent spate of militaristic suggestions that NATO soldiers could be deployed to Ukraine and therefore potentially engage with Russia.
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Norway: UN Experts Deeply Concerned About Racial Discrimination Against People of African Descent
UN experts have urged the Government of Norway to take the necessary steps to engage people of African descent to ensure their full integration into Norwegian society, without prejudice.
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Spain: “Nobody is Listening to Us”: Farmers Return to Madrid Streets
Farmers again took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday, March 17, to demand changes in EU agricultural policy and an end to the UN’s Agenda 2030 environmental program. About 80 tractors drove through the heart of the capital to the Ministry of Agriculture, where police were guarding the doors and the roof of the building. But the protest was completely calm and peaceful.
Farmers continue to demand more flexibility, less stringent environmental regulations, and lighter bureaucracy from the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which decides on the requirements for farmers’ subsidies.
In solidarity with consumers, the farmers also delivered a donation of 27 five-liter bottles of olive oil to the charity Messengers Of Peace since, as they told the media, the increased price of the Spanish kitchen staple now means that “only people with a very high purchasing power” could enjoy it.
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UK: Barack Obama Calls at Downing Street for Mystery Meeting
Former U.S. President Barack Obama called in at the British Prime Minister’s official residence on Monday, but the office is keeping tight-lipped about the purpose of the one-hour meeting.
Barack Obama surprised when he turned up at Rishi Sunak’s front door on Monday, going inside the historic Downing Street residence for an hour and meeting with the Prime Minister. Former President Obama walked up to the famous black door alone but later emerged alongside the U.S. Ambassador to London Jane Hartley.
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UK: Extinction Rebellion Target GB News as Offices Covered in Paint
The front of GB News’s offices have been doused in paint by furious protestors who accuse the broadcaster of being an “extemist organisation”. It has demanded an “end to their torrent of climate lies and disinformation”.
Earlier today, Extinction Rebellion (XR) campaigners threw purple paint over the front of the premises and held up placards reading: “Cut ties to the fossil fuels”. The eco-mob has been pictured outside Riverbank House, in Paddington, with one lead protestor perched on what appears to be a tripod of scaffold poles.
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UK: Nigel Farage is Set to Make Sensational Political Return ‘To Finish Off Rishi Sunak’
The Brexit champion is being lined up to lead Reform UK’s election charge and is said to be on a mission to finish off Rishi Sunak. Tub-thumping Mr Farage, who is hugely popular among disaffected red wall Tory voters, will likely storm back on to the political stage this summer.
Last night the revelation struck panic into the Conservative ranks. They fear his comeback will crush any lingering hope of clinging on to power at the general election.
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UK: Voters “Indifferent” to Likely Labour Election Victory
British newspapers are filled daily with speculation over the timing of the next general election. But what is already certain is that whenever it comes, voters are not apathetic about any likely Labour victory.
A new analysis of economic and polling data by political consultancy Public First suggests that a Labour landslide is still not in the bag and that its road to victory will be “paved with indifference, rather than … enthusiasm.”
It has been clear for some time that voters—especially those in the more working-class, so-called ‘Red Wall’ constituencies that switched from Labour to the Conservatives in 2019 in the hope of ‘getting Brexit done’—are more than prepared to call time on 14 years of Tory rule which has seen immigration spiral completely out of control and ‘woke’ beliefs treated as though they were the norm.
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Serbia Buys Air Defense Systems From Hungary
Serbia has purchased Soviet-era air defense system components from Hungary; the country has been purchasing a range of military equipment that Hungary no longer needs.
Serbian website Srbija Danas reports that the deal is about the RStON 1S91M target detection and tracking radar stations, which were targeted by AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missiles during the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999. The procurement of the RStON 1S91Ms is necessary to activate the missile systems of the existing 2K12 KuB missile classes of the Serbian air defense.
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EU’s Borrell Says Israel is Provoking Famine in Gaza
BRUSSELS, March 18 (Reuters) — EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday that Israel is provoking famine in Gaza and using starvation as a weapon of war, an accusation Israel’s foreign minister rejected.
“In Gaza we are no longer on the brink of famine, we are in a state of famine, affecting thousands of people,” Borrell said at the opening of a conference on humanitarian aid for Gaza in Brussels.
“This is unacceptable. Starvation is used as a weapon of war. Israel is provoking famine.”
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After years of agreeing with her boss on everything, Kamala decided to make a break for it.
It began with newspaper stories claiming that the VP had been pushing Joe Biden to speak more about the “suffering” of Muslims in Gaza during the war between Hamas and Israel.
The break went even more public when Kamala visited the United Arab Emirates and attacked Israel, implicitly accusing it of violating “international humanitarian law” and claiming that “the scale of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming from Gaza are devastating”.
Then she warned Israel that there could be “no forcible displacement, no reoccupation, no siege or blockade, no reduction in territory”.
At the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Kamala hijacked the civil rights commemoration to rant that “the Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid… No excuses. They must open new border crossings. They must not impose any unnecessary restrictions on the delivery of aid.”
“No excuses,” she barked.
Media stories quickly followed claiming that Kamala’s original draft had been even harsher on Israel but had been watered down. This was the latest in a series of leaks from inside Kamala’s camp which all claimed that she was much more pro-terrorist and anti-Israel in private.
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Putin Warns of ‘Full-Scale WW3’ if West Sends Troops to Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s election victory speech and Q&A with the press was full of familiar themes, but he used the occasion after capturing a record 87% of the vote to warn the US and Europe that a “full-scale World War III” is “possible” should any Western troops enter Ukraine.
The remarks came in response to a journalist’s question on President Macron’s recent statements saying he thinks sending troops to Ukraine should be a realistic possibility. Putin responded on Sunday: “I think anything is possible in today’s world and it’s clear to everyone that this would be one step from a full-scale World War III.”
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Russia Mulls Security Buffer Zone as Ukraine Drones Shut Down 600,000 Barrels of Daily Refining
After Russian President Vladimir Putin’s post-election victory speech and Q&A with the press wherein he first unveiled the possibility of creating a buffer zone between Ukrainian land and Russian border regions, the Kremlin has issued more details of the plan being mulled.
Putin had initially described Sunday, “I do not exclude that, bearing in mind the tragic events taking place today, we will be forced at some point, when we deem it appropriate, to create a certain ‘sanitary zone’ in the territories today under the Kyiv regime.” He referenced the “tragic events” of cross-border attacks in regions bordering Ukraine which have left scores of civilians dead and wounded over the past several months.
Putin described without elaborating further that the security zone “would be quite difficult for the adversary to overcome with its weapons, primarily of foreign origin.”
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‘Stop Sending Weapons to Kyiv!’ — Russia Rejects Macron’s Call for Olympics Ceasefire
Russia has dismissed calls by French President Emmanuel Macron to observe a ceasefire during the Summer Olympics to be hosted by Paris in July.
In an interview with Ukrainian television, Macron revealed he would be requesting that the Kremlin call a truce for the two weeks of games, which begins on July 26.
“Yes, we will ask for it. The rule of the host country is to move in step with the Olympic movement. This is a message of peace,” the French president was cited as saying.
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Ukraine Official: Cubans Are Arriving in Russia. Are They Workers or Soldiers?
Last year, Dannys Castillo, a 27-year-old from Cuba, traveled to Russia after being offered a job in construction. His family said Castillo was looking to escape the stagnation that has befallen the Caribbean island, with the economy suffering a double-digit fall as a result of the state monopoly of the economy.
So Castillo’s mother, Marilin Vinent, was astonished when photographs of her son in Russian military fatigues emerged on social media. She says Castillo was duped.
The bogus job offer was a carrot dangled to entice him over to Russia. In reality, her son had fallen prey to the close cooperation between the governments of Russia and Cuba.
Likely for show, the Cuban authorities announced last year they had arrested 17 people on suspicion of recruiting unwitting citizens to join its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. However, confirmed reports from Cuba, including videos, show that some of these suspects have already been released, without charges and without trial.
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Voters Are Always Right — Salvini on Russian Election
Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said Monday that voters’ choices should always be respected after Sunday’s presidential election in Russia was won by President Vladimir Putin.
“They voted in Russia, we take note of it,” League leader Salvini said on the sidelines of a conference on public transport in Milan.
“When a people votes, it is always right.
“Elections are always good, both when one wins and when one loses.
“When I lose them, I try to understand where I went wrong and how to do better next time.
“Elections have taken place, we take note of the vote of the Russian citizens, hoping that 2024 will be the year of peace”.
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India: Ramadan Violence Initiated by Namazi Students in Gujarat University
Ramadan dominance of open space Taraweeh Prayers at Gujarat University. While protested, Namazis attacked Hindu Protester. Brawl started with raising Hindutva slogans.
ProtestUpendra Bharti | HENB | Ahmadabad | March 19, 2024:: In a very concerning incident, some Muslim students of foreign countries at Gujarat University in Ahmadabad alleged they were attacked by a mob for offering Ramzan Taraweeh prayers at their hostel on Saturday night. Videos of the attack have been circulated on social media, triggering outrage.
But, the fundamental students were engaged to make a permanent Namaz place outside their hostel by offering special post-evening Namaj before Taraweeh session. Coming from outside with a study visa, the fanatic students tried to proliferate Islam exceeding their role of studentship.
While Ramadan is believed as a prohibited month for violence, Muslim mob are found in a mood to attack others all around.
It is reported that the Gujarat University student clash started after a Muslim Namazi of Afghan origin slapped a Hindu youth. On questioning why they were offering Namaz in the open on hostel ground, one foreign student stood up and hit the Hindu youth. The clash between hostel groups did not start in a silo…
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The Nightingale Marrickville complex in Sydney’s inner west is offering weekly rents of $395 to $440 for a studio apartment with just 22 square metres of floor space.
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Caribbean-Spring? Protests Erupt in Cuba Amid Food Shortages, Blackouts
A wave of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions reminiscent of the ‘Arab Spring’ in the Middle East more than a decade ago is starting to emerge across the Caribbean region, triggered by the ascent of civil war in Haiti.
This past weekend, the latest uprising unfolded in Santiago, Cuba, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) from Havana. Hundreds of residents took to the streets, decrying hours-long power blackouts and food shortages.
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Brussels Funnels €7.4 Billion to Egypt in Bid to Curb Illegal Immigration
The European Union has announced a €7.4 billion funding package for Egypt in an attempt to enhance cooperation with the Arab nation and encourage further measures to stem illegal immigration flowing into Europe.
Six European leaders met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo on Sunday to sign declarations covering commitments to agriculture, financial support for small and medium-sized businesses, infrastructure development, and health.
The package comprises €5 billion in preferential loans, €1.8 billion in investment deals, and a further €600 million in grants to be used in part to tackle migration over the next four years.
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A startling exposé by ProPublica has revealed the pervasive influence of Chinese organized crime within the illegal marijuana trade in the United States. Many victims of the drug trade are smuggled acorss the southern border.
The investigation highlights a series of drug-related incidents currently unfolding in Oklahoma, including a violent shootout by a Chinese immigrant at a marijuana farm in Kingfisher County, resulting in the tragic loss of four lives.
According to Donnie Anderson, Director of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, Chinese criminal syndicates have “taken over marijuana in Oklahoma and the United States,” per ProPublica. Many victims of the drug trade are Chinese immigrants who have been smuggled across the southern border to work on cannabis farms in abusive conditions.
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A church teacher charged with sexually assaulting young girls at his parish was an illegal migrant who was deported twice, immigration authorities have revealed.
Ervin Jeovany Alfaro Lopez, 33, has been charged with more than 20 counts of sex abuse and sex offenses of minors for allegedly assaulting young girls between the ages of six and 12.
Alfaro Lopez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, assaulted his victims between 2014 and 2018 while working as an instructor at a Christian church in Montgomery County, Maryland, according to police.
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Conservative Investment Fund Divests From Tyson Foods Over Migrant Hiring
A conservative-oriented investment fund is divesting from Tyson Foods over the company’s plans to hire migrants and refugees that the fund believes will alienate customers due to the ongoing crisis at the southern border.
The American Conservative Values ETF, an actively managed exchange-traded fund created by Ridgeline Research LLC to cater to ideologically conservative investors, announced Monday that it divested its holdings of Tyson Foods and placed a “refuse to buy” rating on the food giant’s stock. Ridgeline founder and CEO Bill Flaig told FOX Business, “We believe Tyson’s management has blundered into a political minefield (and should have known better).”
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Democrat-Run Chicago Begins Evicting Illegal Immigrants From Housing Shelters
Chicago authorities began evicting illegal immigrants from shelters on Sunday as the city aims to reduce the number of individuals being housed due to an unsustainable strain on resources.
Of the nearly 11,000 individuals currently residing in 23 shelters across Chicago overseen by Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson, 34 of them were evicted on Sunday, according to the New York Times. The process to remove individuals from these shelters is planned to occur gradually, with 2,000 people expected to be removed by the end of April.
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EU-Egypt Deal Best Way to Stop Migrants Says Meloni
Areported 7.4 billion development-for-stopping migration deal signed by the EU with Egypt Sunday is the best way to stem migrant flows from the North African country to Europe, Premier Giorgia Meloni said after a summit in Cairo Sunday.
Meloni said the initiative between the EU and Egypt was “the best way to tackle the migratory flow, and we appreciate Egypt’s efforts in this direction.
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Federal Judge Rules Gun Ban for Illegal Immigrants is Unconstitutional
The right to keep and bear arms has long been considered a fundamental aspect of American identity and liberty. However, questions arise when considering whether this right extends to individuals who are in the country illegally. The recent ruling by US District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman challenges the federal prohibition on firearm ownership for illegal immigrants, sparking debate over the intersection of immigration status and Second Amendment rights.
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In a massive crackdown on patriotic activists working to halt mass immigration to France, 12 arrests have been made of former Generation Identity members for “reforming” an illegal group under the name Argos. The French Interior Ministry indicated that four more individuals were being sought by police.
As Remix News has documented, the Generation Identity organization was banned in 2021 by French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin after it staged several peaceful and legal demonstrations against the government’s pro-migration stance. In a series of interviews, a number of the activists involved in the organization spoke to Remix News about the ban, the legal consequences, and the repression of their right to protest.
However, some of these activists created a new group known as Argos, which has been involved in several prominent protests. Now, Darmanin is targeting the new group, with the Paris prosecutor’s office indicating the Argos members are being charged with pursuing the “offense of maintaining a dissolved organization.”
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A Congolese migrant due to stand trial in France for the double rape of two elderly hospital patients and the rape of a minor two days later has claimed that because he does not have a girlfriend he is “forced” to rape.
Ali Gandega, 28, was arrested in September 2022 after entering the Max-Fourestier Hospital in Nanterre on July 27 and sexually assaulting a 78-year-old patient in bed before fleeing to another ward on the premises and raping a 68-year-old woman suffering from a neurodegenerative disease just minutes later.
Video footage from the hospital showed the abuse suffered by the two elderly victims and DNA evidence taken after his arrest linked him to another rape, this time a 12-year-old girl, that occurred two days later in the same city.
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Voters have slammed Washington lawmakers for allocating more than $32 million to house asylum seekers in Airbnbs, hotels and shelters when rising numbers of veterans and US-born homeless sleep in muddy tents.
The funds are for shelter and other costs for ever more asylum seekers to the Evergreen State, who live in Airbnbs, church-run shelters and a $129-a-night Hilton DoubleTree, with woodland views, an outdoor pool and a golf simulator.
Critics of the mostly-Democratic politicians who voted for the funding say it is ‘opening the floodgates’ to more migrants, when the money would be better spent on ‘homeless veterans and then our homeless natural citizens.’
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A Malian woman living in Germany illegally has been detained by authorities for lashing out and attacking several people after being ordered to leave an inter-city train because she was riding without a valid ticket.
The incident occurred on Friday at Magdeburg Central Station where the 39-year-old woman had been told to disembark from the train traveling from Schönebeck.
A ticket inspection during the journey revealed the woman had not purchased a ticket, leading to a dispute with the train conductor, who informed the railway control center that the suspect would be exiting the train at its next stop in Magdeburg.
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Haitians attempting to escape the escalating violence and fled to neighboring Dominican Republic have been rounded up and deported.
Photos show migrants, including children, held in caged vans being sent from the Dominican Republic to the other side of the island, which is Haiti.
The deportations come even as gang violence has erupted in Haiti, spearheaded by a gang leader named ‘Barbeque.’ The violence has come as the country is without a full-time leader and has led to concerns of famine in the Caribbean nation.
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Laken Riley’s Dad: Illegal Alien Killer ‘Might Not Have Been Here’ if Border Was Secure
The devastated father of murdered 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley has suggested that Democrat President Joe Biden’s open border policies may have been to blame for his daughter’s death.
Jason Riley said Monday that the Venezuelan illegal alien accused of murdering the innocent young woman last month “might not have been here” had the border been secure.
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Poland: 4 Nigerian Cyber Criminals Detained for Defrauding Elderly Victims and Companies
A Polish cyber crime police unit from the town of Lublin says they have detained four Nigerian citizens who were operating as an organized criminal group committing online fraud in Poland and other countries.
There are various methods for extorting money in Poland. One of the most frequently used methods is extracting money from a victim under the guise of pretending to be a member of the victim’s family, most often an elderly person.
Another increasingly popular method used by fraudsters is the extortion of foreign soldiers, most often American ones, mainly due to the fact that a large number of them reside on Polish territory. The extortionists claim that they need help because, for example, they have returned from a peacekeeping mission or have been injured.
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Supreme Court Extends Block on Texas Law That Would Allow Police to Arrest Migrants
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday continued to block, for now, a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out.
A one-page order signed by Justice Samuel Alito indefinitely prevents Texas from enforcing a sweeping state immigration enforcement law that had been set to take effect this month. The language of the order strongly suggests the court will take additional action, but it is unclear when.
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A Swedish lawmaker who previously advocated in favor of mass arrivals of asylum seekers during the migrant crisis of 2015 has admitted the influx of immigration has fundamentally changed the country and now wants to pull up the drawbridge.
Louise Meijer of the now-governing Moderate Party penned her thoughts on the Swedish government’s need to crack down on migration and signaled a U-turn from her previous desire to welcome an unprecedented number of new arrivals into the country.
Writing in the Expressen, Meijer acknowledged that during the migrant crisis in 2015 she “took a stand for openness ‘Refugees Welcome,’“ opposing her party’s call at the time for stricter rules to curb immigration.
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UK: 200 Migrants Identified for First Rwanda Flight as Rishi Sunak Confirms Flights Timeline
Rishi Sunak has confirmed he expects migrants will be deported to Rwanda this Spring — with as many as 200 migrants already having been selected.
The Prime Minister has insisted he is still committed to his timeline — despite a protracted Parliamentary battle over the Rwanda Bill.
And Downing Street on Monday revealed officials have “identified the cohort of people” who will be removed to Kigali.
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Gen-Z OnlyFans ‘Creator’ Quits as She Dedicates Life to Jesus Christ
OnlyFans has become a site for adult entertainers and amateurs to deliver pornographic content straight to their horny fans. Gen-Zers have flocked to the site, many of whom are young women seeking ‘female empowerment.’
The platform boasts about young female superstar “models” making six— and seven-figure earnings, aspiring (or corrupting) an entire generation of young people to give up on education and degrade themselves as a sex worker. This trend exploded during Covid as many youngsters have lost all memory of why sex work is shamed in society.
Taking selfies or videos of feet, asses, boobs, and or pornographic scenes with others isn’t real productive work and is self-destructive behavior (daddy problems much?). Normalizing online prostitution is terrible for civilized societies. Also, sex workers are not respected in society, leaving very limited future opportunities in life after OnlyFans.
Recent data from OnlyFans shows that about 70% of creators are women, and 30% are men, translating to about 1.4 million American women and 600,000 American men.
The OnlyFans phenomenon could be a bubble as one top Gen-Zer creator has allegedly given up on her hugely successful account for a life of Christ, or at least she says…
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GLAAD Opposes Term ‘Homosexual’ as ‘Derogatory and Offensive’
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has come out against the use of the term “homosexual,” suggesting it is “derogatory and offensive.”
It is just one of the many terms deemed unacceptable by GLAAD in its revised Media Reference Guide.
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J.K. Rowling ripped into the activists who pushed puberty blockers after the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) banned their use on minors dealing with transgenderism.
NHS England based its decision to ban puberty blockers for children this week on there not being enough evidence on the procedure’s safety or clinical effectiveness. The U.K. government also endorsed the “landmark decision,” hailing at as being in the “best interests of children.” NHS England proposed a ban on the procedure last June and issued the definitive decision following a review from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
Author J.K. Rowling, who has been an outspoken critic of transgender radicalism since 2020, celebrated the decision on social media and called out the activists who pushed this on children.
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In 2021, the Metro Nashville Police Department signed on to an initiative aimed at recruiting more women, with the eventual goal of achieving a 30 percent female force by 2030. The MNPD has made a number of changes since then to create a more female-friendly workplace, including replacing the physical fitness requirements with physical ability tests, and adding “lactation rooms” to its precincts.
While the moves have resulted in an uptick in women joining the force, many have raised concerns about whether altering the requirements will have an adverse impact on officers’ ability to apprehend criminals.
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New: Drag Queen Invited to White House by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Accused of Sexual Assaults
Drag Queen “Shangela,” who was invited by Kamala Harris to be the first drag queen at her residence for a pride event, invited to the White House, and also invited by President Joe Biden to attend the signing of the Respect for Marriage Act, has been accused of multiple sexual assaults.
According to a report from Rolling Stone, the drag performer was one of RuPaul’s Drag Race’s most well-known contestants. “Shangela” has also appeared on the show “We’re Here,” which would visit small towns such in red areas such as St. George, Utah.
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Radio-Canada HQ Vandalized Over Coverage of Underage Gender Transitions
Radio-Canada’s headquarters in Montreal was vandalized by far-left extremists last Wednesday, an act claimed online as a rebuttal to the controversial report on gender transition therapy for minors.
An anonymous submission was published to Montréal Contre-Information’s website titled “Radio-Canada has blood on its hands: a look back at the shop windows destroyed on the night of March 12-13.”
The letter confirmed that activists destroyed the windows of the Radio-Canada building in response to the organization’s “decision to use its broad platform to amplify transphobic rhetoric akin to that of the extreme right.”
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Woke Mind Virus Causes ‘Anxiety & Depression’, New Study Reveals
A new study from psychological researchers in Finland, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, finds a positive correlation between an individual’s commitment to social justice beliefs, including “intersectionality,” “antiracism,” and “wokeness,” and experiencing a life full of anxiety and depression.
As the ‘woke mind virus’ spreads like cancer across Western nations, there are new concerns about a developing mental health crisis. This is because the study, titled “Construction and validation of a scale for assessing critical social justice attitudes,” finds an elevated risk of anxiety and depression in the Finnish population who practice the so-called “woke” religion.
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“US district judge ruled that the federal prohibition on firearm ownership by illegal immigrants is unconstitutional.”
That’s the way it appears..
“The noncitizen possession statute, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), violates the Second Amendment as applied to Carbajal-Flores,” U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, appointed under President Barack Obama, wrote in her 8-page ruling.” —Epoch Times (18 Mar 2024)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/illegal-immigrant-can-carry-guns-federal-judge-5609497
So an American CITIZEN loses his [Second Amendment] civil rights if convicted of a serious crime, yet entering the US ILLEGALLY does NOT appear to be considered by this ‘toddler “jurist” to be a serious crime. Looks like [yet] another case for the Supremes to smack down (hopefully)..
They want to do to Russia what they did to Germany back in the day:
https://leohohmann.com/2024/03/14/how-nato-powers-are-using-the-u-k-s-world-war-i-model-to-lure-russia-into-the-next-big-global-war/
Not the first time the thought occurred to me, but now I see it beginning to be expressed in some places. We’ll see how far they get this time around. Last time it ended not only the targeted empire, but everyone’s who got involved. Only today, unlike the West, Russians learn history. And they are extra sensitive to it since that was obstructed under socialism. They’re not going to repeat this mistake.
“Total Stupefication: Physics Education Without Physics”
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I am leafing through the foreign press about the elections held in Russia. They write that this is the “choice” of Russians, and not clownery unprecedented in cynicism. The West writes us all down as Putin’s accomplices.
Elena: Not the West, in general. Just the western media, which is modern version of the former Soviet Union’s “Pravda.”
Being Free to Applaud or Boo is a First Amendment Concept New York Attorney General Letitia James Cannot Comprehend https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/being-free-to-applaud-or-boo-is-a
That is like a Muslim who raped a little boy in a swimming pool bathroom who told the judge that it was a sexual emergency.
The judge found him innocent of the charges
That is one reason that I despise all Muslims and muslim lovers.
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“That is one reason that I despise all Muslims and muslim lovers.”
That is one reason I avoid bathrooms containing Muslims…and others wearing black coverings.
I have despised muslims since I was a young man in Vienna walking with my Grandfather, who stated to me after a dozen young turks tried to rob and beat us to death, we had our war with our own, you will have your war with the muslims, he also told me, make sure you let none of them live. I have never forgotten that to this day. As for the young turks that tried to rob and knife us? My Grandfather calmly pulled his Walther and shot them and then we walked away like nothing happened, it is a policy I have religiously followed into my professional life ever since.
As I said, G, I like your style.
Karma doesn’t have a menu, you get served what you deserve.
April 2021: “United Airlines is accepting applications for its new flight school and promises to FOCUS ON DIVERSITY [my emphasis]” —United Airlines (Apr 2021)
March 2024 (today’s rhetorical question): “United Airlines Planes Have Seen 8 Incidents in 2 Weeks. What’s Going On?” —New York Times (18 Mar 2024)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/travel/united-airlines-boeing-airplane-safety.html
When your pilot is an affirmative action hire
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7rT6BZLP5M
Just order the Happy Meal and keep takin’ the pills, comrades…just keep takin’ the pills.