A new report reveals that schools in Wales are allowing children to change gender without telling their parents. Meanwhile, a British lawyer is being sued after expressing the belief that only women menstruate.
In other news, Russian intelligence has reportedly learned that France is organizing a contingent of 2,000 troops to be sent to Ukraine.
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Republican Study Committee Unveils Proposal That Would Balance Budget in 7 Years
The Republican Study Committee recently unveiled their proposed budget, entitled “Fiscal Sanity to Save America,” which would balance the budget in seven years, cut taxes, and bring back energy independence.
The budget would be for the 2025 year and focuses on border security, energy independence, and making living more affordable for families.
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A 13-year-old Brooklyn boy gunned down in an apparent gang hit was killed as revenge after a rival was beaten and forced to strip naked on Instagram Live, sources said.
The NYPD has identified two persons of interest but has made no arrests in connection with the shooting death of Troy Gill a few blocks from his Crown Heights home around 10 p.m. Feb. 29, according to law enforcement sources.
Troy was shot four times by rival gang members after attending a Brooklyn Nets game earlier in the night — and he called his mother in a desperate panic in his final moments, cops said.
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This is part of a series reporting on the So Cal Antifa cell.
Sparks flew at the start of an Antifa violent felony conspiracy trial in San Diego on Monday involving three Antifa riot suspects as one claimed he was insane while a second co-defendant took a last-minute plea deal.
Jeremy Jonathan White, 41, surprised the court and prosecutors by entering a plea of “not guilty by reason of insanity.” San Diego County Prosecutor Makenzie Harvey protested that the plea was “not timely” and complained that she had communicated with Curtis Briggs, White’s leftist pro-bono attorney, just days ago and he made no mention of this change of plea. The prosecutor suggested this move was “gamesmanship” in an attempt to further delay the jury trial for a case stemming from a violent Antifa riot more than three years ago.
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‘Big Guy’ Whistleblower Tony Bobulinski Testifies Hunter Biden Perjured Himself Multiple Times
Hunter Biden’s former business partner-turned-whistleblower Tony Bobulinski has testified on Capitol Hill that the Democrat president’s son has perjured himself multiple times.
Bobulinski, who famously revealed that Democrat President Joe Biden was the business partner known as “the big guy” who took a cut of shady foreign deals, testified before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees on Wednesday morning.
He was called as a witness during a hearing for President Biden’s impeachment inquiry.
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Breaking: BLM Agitators Swarm U of Memphis TPUSA Kyle Rittenhouse Event, Chant ‘Lock His A** Up’
The scheduled appearance of Kyle Rittenhouse at a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter event at the University of Memphis has resulted in rising tension and threats of violence by protestors attempting to disrupt the event.
Black Lives Matter protestors were present on the University of Memphis’s campus on Wednesday, chanting derogatory remarks about Rittenhouse, including “Kyle is a killer,” according to footage posted by TPUSA Frontlines and Julio Rosas. The protestors were later seen entering the event, tapping the names of the men involved in Rittenhouse’s self-defense case on the seats. School officials reportedly did nothing to stop these protestors from carrying out such actions.
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Bring Chicago Home Referendum Being Rejected by Voters
Chicago voters were giving a thumbs down on the referendum to raise the real estate transfer tax on million-dollar properties known as “Bring Chicago Home,” with 54% voting “no” with 96% of the precincts reporting.
Chicago voters were rejecting the referendum dubbed “Bring Chicago Home,” with 54% voting “no” to 46% “yes” with 98% of precincts reporting.
While 98% of precincts had reported, The Associated Press was estimating only 82% of the vote had been counted with another two weeks during which mail-in ballots could be received. Still, the Bring Chicago Home coalition was conceding the election.
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The presidential election fever in the US is rising, and from pretty much every corner its participants are trying to “stack the chips” in their (candidate’s) favor.
Much easier to do, isn’t it, when you’re already in power.
With that in mind, never discount California Democrats, and now Alejandro (Alex) Padilla is attempting to charge ahead with “election misinformation” legislation.
Padilla is not just any California Democrat, either — he was the state secretary for six years until 2021, and a member of the State Senate for the LA City Council, before Governor Gavin Newsom shipped him off to the US Senate to replace Kamala Harris.
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Comer to Invite Biden to Testify Before Oversight Committee
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Wednesday announced that he would soon invite President Joe Biden to appear before the House Oversight Committee and testify as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry into him.
“In the coming days, I will invite President Joe Biden to the House Oversight Committee to provide his own testimony and explain why his family received tens of millions of dollars from foreign companies with his assistance,” Comer posted on X.
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DC AG Drops Charges Against Gold Star Father Who Disrupted Biden’s SOTU Speech
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb has dropped charges against Steve Nikoui, the father of a veteran killed in the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal who disrupted the State of the Union address.
Nikoui attended the State of the Union as a guest of Florida GOP Rep. Brian Mast, Fox News reported. He interrupted President Joe Biden’s speech by yelling “Abbey Gate!” before he was removed from the chamber. He was subsequently arrested by Capitol Police.
Schwalb’s office confirmed to Fox that it had opted against pursuing the case against Nikoui.
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Democrat NY AG Letitia James Calls on Court to Reject Trump’s $454 Million Bond Appeal
President Donald Trump has filed an appeal requesting to reduce or hold off collecting the bond amount of $454 million to cover a civil “fraud” judgment.
However, New York’s Democrat Attorney General Letitia James, who led the politically motivated get-Trump case, has called on the appeals court to reject the 45th president’s request.
Trump has been ordered to post a liquid bond, in cash or securities, to cover the full amount of the fine to pause enforcement of the judgment.
However, 30 surety companies told Trump they would not accept real estate assets as collateral, Trump’s lawyers said Monday.
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A Democrat judge in New York has just handed a big win to George Soros-funded Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg by denying almost all of President Donald Trump’s pre-trial motions.
Trump’s criminal trial in New York is slated to begin next month after a temporary delay.
The case, based on charges of alleged falsification of business records, and how that eventual trial will play out is beginning to take shape.
Presiding Judge Juan Merchan, who has donated to Democrats and President Joe Biden’s election campaign, issued two separate orders on the case.
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DeSantis Signs Law Prohibiting the Homeless From Sleeping in Public Spaces
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Wednesday that will prohibit cities and counties from allowing individuals and families to sleep and camp on public property.
“It will help maintain and ensure that Florida streets are clean and that Florida streets are safe for our residents,” DeSantis said at a press conference held at a Greek restaurant in South Miami Beach.
DeSantis once again emphasized that he does not want any community in Florida to resemble cities on America’s west coast that have had problems handling their homeless population in recent years, first and foremost San Francisco.
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DOJ Mulling Plea Deal for Assange: WikiLeaks Founder Could Finally Walk Free
The Biden administration might be looking for a way to bring the 14-year long legal drama centered on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to an end. Britain’s High Court will at some point in the next weeks finally decide whether to extradite him to the United States, but a surprise breaking story from The Wall Street Journal says the US is exploring other alternatives.
The Wednesday WSJ report says, “The U.S. Justice Department is considering whether to allow Julian Assange to plead guilty to a reduced charge of mishandling classified information, according to people familiar with the matter, opening the possibility of a deal that would end a lengthy legal saga triggered by one of the biggest classified intelligence leaks in American history.”
Ever since Metropolitan Police officers were allowed into the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on April 11, 2019 — where he had been holed up for years, Assange has been in the legal fight of his life while incarcerated at Belmarsh prison. If he’s extradited he’ll likely spend life in prison at the infamous ADX Florence supermax prison in Colorado.
A plea deal means the whole crisis for him and his family could finally come to an acceptable and peaceful end after all of these years.
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Former Marine Daniel Penny to Stand Trial on October 8 in Subway Death of Jordan Neely
The trial for Daniel Penny, a former Marine charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the subway death of Jordan Neely, is scheduled to commence on October 8.
Penny, who plead not guilty, was arrested following an altercation on an uptown F train in New York City where he subdued a violent homeless man, Neely, who was exhibiting erratic and aggressive behavior towards passengers, according to witnesses. During the altercation, Penny and another passenger restrained Neely, with Penny ultimately placing him in a chokehold. Neely died as a result, with a New York medical examiner ruling the cause of death as “compression of the neck,” classifying it as a homicide.
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Idaho Inmate Escapes During ‘Coordinated’ Shooting Attack on Officers at Hospital; 3 Injured
A “dangerous” inmate in Idaho escaped from custody at a hospital early Wednesday after a second suspect ambushed officers and opened fire, striking two, authorities said.
The shooting unfolded at 2:15 a.m. as Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) officers were getting ready to return inmate Skylar Meade to jail after he received medical treatment at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, the Boise Police Department said.
An unknown suspect attacked and fired at the officers. One officer struck was in critical but stable condition, while the other officer sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
A third IDOC officer was injured after Boise police responded and fired at an armed individual near the hospital entrance. The IDOC officer was not seriously injured and received treatment.
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Judge Rejects Early End to Probation for Michael Cohen, Suggests He Perjured Himself
Federal Judge Jesse M. Furman on Wednesday denied former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s request for an early end to his supervised release, highlighting testimony in which he admitted to lying under oath.
Cohen received three years in prison and supervised release after pleading guilty in 2018 to a litany of charges, including lying to Congress. The former Trump attorney is expected to be a star witness in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump over a 2016 payment to Stormy Daniels.
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Just in: 2 Squatters Vacate Queens Home After National Backlash, 1 Says He’s Staying
The infamous NYC squatters who have been occupying a home in Queens reportedly removed themselves from the property on Wednesday after feeling the brunt of nationwide backlash.
Two of the three squatters were seen covering their faces with hoodies as they left the home located in Flushing, Queens. However, the third squatter claimed that he is a “legal” tenant and will reportedly stay at the property, according to the Daily Mail.
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Liz Warren and Socialist Pals Want to Normalize Confiscation of Assets With ‘Ultrarich’ Tax
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday reintroduced her ‘Ultra-Millionaire’ Tax Act, by which the government would confiscate 2% from households worth between $50 million and $1 billion, and 3% on households worth over $1 billion.
Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Brendan Boyle (D-PA) have introduced a companion bill in the House.
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Majority of Voters Say Biden Wants to Imprison Trump Before Election: Poll
A clear majority of voters believe President Joe Biden hopes to put his likely 2024 Republican opponent in prison before the election should former President Donald Trump be convicted in any of his criminal cases.
Trump is facing two criminal prosecutions from special counsel Jack Smith as well as one each from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump, for his part, contends that he is innocent of all wrongdoing and that the cases are part of a broader political witch hunt designed to derail his presidential campaign.
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Military Whistleblower Shut Down for Exposing 937% Spike in Heart Failure Among Vaxxed Pilots
A military whistleblower has been shut down after he went public with data exposing a staggering 937% spike in heart failure among Covid-vaccinated U.S. Navy pilots
As Slay News reported in November, Lieutenant Ted Macie raised the alarm about the startling number of troops suffering potentially fatal heart-related problems.
Macie, an officer in the Navy Medical Service Corps, bravely leaked medical data showing alarming numbers of pilots suffering potentially fatal side effects after receiving Covid mRNA injections.
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The Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 is truly a gift that seems to keep on giving to those benefiting from it — but also, to its opponents.
That’s because such as it is, Section 230, it turns out, can be bypassed — at least according to a New York judge. One way to do that is by arguing a “negligent design” theory, which is what is happening now in a lawsuit filed against, among others, social sites accused of “radicalizing” the shooter in the 2022 Buffalo massacre.
A lawsuit originally brought before the New York State Erie County Supreme Court on behalf of one of the victims, Celestine Chaney, lists MEAN LLC, Vintage Firearms, RMA Armament, but also Alphabet (Google, YouTube), Reddit, et al, as plaintiffs.
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OMG: James O’Keefe Confronts Trans Pentagon Employee Who Said 2A Should be Repealed, Border Opened
The latest video released by James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group details the shocking beliefs of a transgender Pentagon official who believes that the Second Amendment should be repealed, all guns should be confiscated, and the border opened.
In a parody of a Black Mirror episode, O’Keefe confronts Grey by showing the undercover footage of their previous conversation where Grey confesses to a desire to repeal the Second Amendment and “take all the guns away.” Grey, holding a position at the Department of Defense and possessing security clearance, is shown in the video making these alarming statements.
After realizing that Grey is speaking with James O’Keefe, Grey begins to quickly walk away as O’Keefe and his camera crew follow.
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Only 30% of New Yorkers Are Happy With City’s Quality of Life, 50% Plan on Leaving Within Five Years
Believe it or not, high prices combined with massive taxation and out of control crime aren’t the keys to keeping the citizens of major American cities happy.
Such was reflected in the results of a new poll, reported on by the NY Post, which revealed this week that only half of New Yorkers plan on staying in the city over the next five years.
A mere 30% said they were happy with the quality of life in the city, the poll — run by The Citizens Budget Commission — also revealed. Additionally, the poll also found merely 37% of New Yorkers now rate public safety in their local area as excellent or good. This marks a significant decline from six years prior, when 50% of residents felt positively about their neighborhood’s safety.
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Portland Moves to Prepare for Upcoming Riots With Vote on Crowd Control Police Unit
On Wednesday, Portland City Council is expected to vote on a proposal from law enforcement to establish a crowd control unit in anticipation of protests and riots related to the 2024 election.
The new unit, which was championed by Mayor Ted Wheeler, would replace the Portland Police Bureau’s now essentially defunct Rapid Response Team.
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The Republican National Committee may not be hiring activist Scott Presler, despite previous comments that he would be leading legal ballot harvesting efforts. A spokesperson for the RNC clarified that while Presler will not be a direct employee, he will remain a “valuable voice” for the organization. Presler will instead be focusing his attention on his non-profit, Early Vote Action.
Newly-elected RNC co-chair Lara Trump stated last Friday that the RNC would be working closely with Presler in an effort to increase voter turnout in the 2024 election. Presler is known for his efforts in registering thousands of voters and conducting voter registration workshops nationwide.
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Researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) warned the global fertility rate — the number of children born per woman — is plummeting.
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Trump Moves Ahead of Biden in Two Key Southern Battleground States, Polls Show
President Donald Trump has taken the lead in the key battleground states of North Carolina and Georgia, two new polls have revealed.
Duel polling published Wednesday shows Trump moving ahead of Democrat President Joe Biden in the critical Southern states.
In the head-to-head general election rematch, Trump is favored 51% to 47% against Biden among registered voters in Georgia.
In North Carolina, the Marist surveys found that Trump leads Biden 51% to 48%.
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Trump Warns Prince Harry Could Face Deportation After Election
President Donald Trump has warned that he may deport Britain’s Prince Harry when he returns to the White House.
Trump was responding to allegations that Harry lied on his visa application when he moved to the United States.
Harry, the Duke of Sussex, is fighting to stop the release of his immigration documents.
In his memoir “Spare,” Harry admitted to taking drugs.
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Two vigilantes have showed up to evict three brazen squatters who are living at a New York City home after its owner was arrested after she tried to remove them.
Adele Andaloro inherited her family’s home, located in Flushing, Queens, but she was left aghast when squatters moved into her childhood home last month.
Andaloro confronted the squatters herself — and was subsequently arrested when one of the men inside called the police on her for changing the locks.
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Watch: Biden Bizarrely Wanders Off Stage Mid Event to Pull Faces at a Baby
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news
Joe Biden wandered off stage during an event in Phoenix, Arizona so that he could pull funny faces at a baby.
Biden suddenly walked off camera while his campaign manager was introducing him at a Mexican diner in front of literally dozens of people who had shown up to see him.
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Israel Furious After Canada Votes to Halt Arms Exports to Tel Aviv
Via The Cradle
Canada will impose a ban on arms sales to Israel, the country’s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced on Tuesday. “It’s a real thing,” Joly told Canadian newspaper The Toronto Star on Tuesday. The decision follows a vote of 204-117 in the Canadian parliament on Monday in favor of ending the sales. While it originally called for a suspension, it was later changed into a full ban.
“There are a number of existing contracts that are already in place, but this was on a going-forward basis, I think that’s how the minister’s looking at it. There has been a lot of concern expressed with respect to … lethal military sales to Israel during the conflict,” Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair said Tuesday.
Ottawa had previously temporarily suspended export permits for military goods to Israel. However, Global Affairs Canada, the government body in charge of diplomatic and consular relations, continued to receive applications for weapon exports to Israel, reviewing them on a case-by-case basis.
Following the parliament vote on Monday, Canada decided to honor the decision. Tel Aviv viewed the motion as an attack on Israel’s ‘right to self-defense’ against Hamas.
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Catalonia Urged to End Discrimination Against Spanish-Speaking Students
The petitions committee of the EU Parliament has urged the government of Catalonia to end discrimination against Spanish-speaking students in the region’s schools. MEPs from the center-right European People’s Party (EPP), the liberal Renew Europe group, and the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) made up the investigative commission launched in response to a parent appeal after Catalan schools ignored a court ruling.
In Spain’s Catalonia region, whose capital is Barcelona, the regional language is widely spoken. As part of the separatist movement, schools are required to promote “linguistic immersion,” in which teaching for most subjects is conducted in the Catalan language. In theory, the Spanish language is also taught and used in schools, but many families have long complained that, in practice, children and their parents are forced to communicate in Catalan, while Spanish is used minimally.
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Climate Protesters Can’t Use Beliefs as Vandalism Defence, UK Court Rules
Climate protesters accused of criminal damage cannot fall back on phoney excuses to defend their actions, a top British court has ruled.
London’s Court of Appeal clarified on Monday that activists will not be let off the hook if they argue that damage they cause to property owned by companies would have been allowed by said companies if they had known just how serious climate change really was.
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EU Countries Agree on Restricting Ukrainian Imports
A Franco-Polish alliance within the EU has this week secured import restrictions on Ukrainian products after months of grassroots protests from European farmers.
Farmers have been protesting against the rapid liberalisation of trade with Ukraine since the start of Russia’s invasion of the country in 2022, which has resulted in cheap Ukrainian products undercutting prices.
According to Politico, France and Poland pushed for greater restrictions on Ukrainian poultry, eggs, sugar, and wheat, with the deal likely to be rubber-stamped shortly in the European Parliament. The French position on Ukraine has shifted in recent weeks because of farmer protests, leading to President Emmanuel Macron dropping previous support for Mercosur, a free-trade agreement between the EU and South America, as a sign of leaders belatedly listening to farmers’ concerns.
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EU Politicians Dodge Talking Ukraine Membership Before Election
As Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met with the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell on Wednesday to discuss his nation’s future EU membership, behind the scenes, Brussels insiders are tempering expectations.
While Borrell announced that the European Council would discuss “how to further speed up” Ukraine’s accession in their Thursday meeting, one EU official, speaking anonymously, told Politico,
Let’s be honest: nobody wants to talk about this before the European elections.
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Fewer Than Half of British Tories Want Sunak to Remain Party Leader
Just 45% of Conservative voters think that Rishi Sunak should lead the party into this year’s general election, according to new polling.
The Savanta survey for The Daily Telegraph suggested that 37% of the party’s backers believe someone else should take the helm and an incredible 18% “don’t know.”
Perhaps the biggest shock from this polling is that 45% of Tory voters still want Sunak to lead the party; that is, after a string of failures as predictable as they are embarrassing, especially when it comes to border control (or lack thereof) and his mismanagement of the economy.
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Former Iraqi Defense Minister Arrested in Sweden, Accused of Falsely Claiming Benefits
Iraq’s former defense minister has been arrested by Swedish police on suspicion of illegally claiming social welfare benefits in Sweden for years despite living in Baghdad.
Najah al-Shammari, who holds dual Iraqi-Swedish citizenship, was detained by authorities at Stockholm Arlanda Airport on Monday as he returned to the country after a considerable absence, according to public prosecutor Jens Nilsson.
“He has been wanted for almost a year and a half,” Nilsson told Swedish broadcaster SVT.
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German Birth Rate Drops Steeply Against Backdrop of Unease
The Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Germany on Wednesday said it had seen a marked fall in the number of live births in 2023, to the lowest level rate since 2009.
The birth rate fell from 1.57 children per woman in 2021 to around 1.36 in autumn 2023.
The BiB rated this sharp decline within two years as “unusual, as phases of falling birth rates have tended to occur more slowly in the past.”
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German Health Minister Wants to Speed Up Cannabis Legalization
The German cannabis law is scheduled to be discussed by the Bundesrat on Friday, but Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said on Monday that he will lobby all week to ensure that the bill is not referred to the Bundesrat’s conciliation committee. If it does, negotiations could be so protracted that the bill could not be finalized before the next federal elections in 2025.
Lauterbach said a postponement would mean a victory for the black market, and he believes it is time for the federal government to shape cannabis policy.
Legalizing cannabis was a key campaign promise for both the Greens and the Liberals (FDP/Renew).
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Germany: Green Party Demands TikTok Ban of Popular AfD Party
To keep people away from Alternative for Germany (AfD) content, the Green-affiliated campaign network Campact wants to ban the AfD from TikTok. With the AfD the second most popular party in the country, part of the party’s appeal may be tied to its popularity on TikTok, where it is more popular than all the other German parties and has twice as many followers as all other parties combined.
The ruling left-liberal government is desperate to stop the AfD, including using anti-democratic means. While the government works towards banning the party entirely, a part of this all-out effort against AfD means cutting it off from the marketplace of ideas, where the other parties are outright losing.
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Germany: Violence in Berlin Schools Soars Higher in 2023, 5 Police Interventions Every Single Day
Every school day last year, the Berlin police had to intervene an average of at least five times on the playground, in a classroom or on the grounds of primary and secondary schools.
Crimes are soaring in Berlin’s school system after a temporary lull during the coronavirus period. The numbers went from 3,796 in 2021 to 6,113 in 2023 in terms of overall crimes. Regarding violent crimes such as assault, robbery, and dangerous threats, this number jumped from 1,133 in 2021 to 2,344 in 2022, showing that these incidents have more than doubled in just one year.
Even though some of the crime data for 2023 has not yet been released, the Berlin police have already announced that there is a significant jump that will be reported, according to BZ newspaper.
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Head of Polish Central Bank to be Put on Trial, Says Tusk
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed on Tuesday that a motion to indict the head of the central bank (NBP), Adam Glapinski, was ready and would soon be brought before parliament. Tusk noted that prosecuting Glapinski was one of the promises his party made to the electorate in last year’s parliamentary elections.
Tusk’s party has repeatedly accused Glapinski of failing in the fight against inflation, of politicizing the central bank, and of illegally supporting the state budget.
Meanwhile, attorney Bartosz Lewandowski from the Ordo Iuris Process Intervention Center points out that the real reason behind the desire to remove Adam Glapinski from the NBP is to enable the introduction of the euro in Poland. This is said to be in the interest of the German economy, which has been in poor condition since the outbreak of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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Ireland: PM Resignation Leaves More Questions Than Answers as Snap Election Looms
The sudden and largely unexpected resignation of the Republic of Ireland’s prime minister (Taoiseach) is causing political shockwaves in Dublin after Leo Varadkar tendered his resignation in an unprompted press conference Wednesday afternoon.
A tearful Varadkar, flanked by cabinet members, made the surprise announcement, declaring that he was “no longer the best person for that job” as he announced his resignation as leader of his centrist Fine Gael party as well as government leader, citing “personal and political reasons” without providing further clarification.
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Italy: No Boycott or Anti-Semitism — Turin University Rector
‘All existing agreements with Israel remain valid’
The decision by Turin university’s Academic Senate not to take part in a scientific tender with Israel in protest at the civilian deaths caused by Israel in Gaza after pro-Palestinian leftwing collectives occupied the Senate building is not a form of boycott or an expression of anti-Semitism, Rector Stefano Geuna said Wednesday.
The decision not to participate in a call for scientific cooperation with Israel issued in 2024 “was an action on a very specific call”, said Geuen on the sidelines of a meeting of the Universities Against Harassment working group.
“All the agreements currently in force with Israeli universities, and there are many, remain valid,” he added.
Earlier Noemi Di Segni, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, sounded the alarm about manifestations of antisemitism at Italian universities amid the war in Gaza sparked by the October 7 massacres by Hamas in Israel, after the decision by the Academic Senate at Turin university and the de-platforming of La Repubblica editor Maurizio Molinari at a Naples university on Friday.
“Every red line has now been crossed and concern about the university situation is overflowing,” Di Segni told ANSA.
She called on Premier Giorgia Meloni, University Minister Anna Maria Bernini and the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) to “ensure that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism is fully implemented by all Italian universities, making it abundantly clear that all forms of boycott and demonization are antisemitism.
“The Italian university system cannot give in to incursions and distortions,” added di Segni.
For her part, Bernini said the university Senate had been “wrong” in its decision “I do not agree with the University of Turin’s decision, even though it was taken within the autonomy of universities,” said the minister for universities and research.
“It is sad that such a choice coincides with the first national day of the universities, which is entitled ‘Open Doors’.
“And it is frankly disconcerting that one can think of closing them.
“I consider any form of exclusion or boycott to be wrong and alien to the tradition and culture of our universities, which have always been inspired by openness and inclusiveness”.
Separately, Premier Giorgia Meloni said she found it “concerning” that Turin university’s Senate had apparently given in to the collectives.
She said that “if institutions bend to these methods we risk having many problems”.
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Italy: Meloni Rejects EU Treating Hungary and Poland as ‘Second-Class’ Nations
If some EU countries are treated as they were inferior, it weakens the continent, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in the upper chamber of the Italian parliament in Rome, ahead of the EU summit that starts on Thursday.
Using an analogy from football, Giorgia Meloni said that until a few months ago, some people had put Hungary and Poland in the “second division.”
She also noted that Poland was treated as a “second-class” nation until Donald Tusk won power and the previous conservative government went into the opposition; only then was it treated with respect.
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Johan Deckmyn has been a Ghent city councillor for the Vlaams Belang since 1995 and a member of the Flemish parliament since 2019.
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Now the EU Wants to Regulate Online Influencers
The Council of the EU, which gathers all heads of government of the bloc’s member states, is laser-focused on further regulating speech online, with its latest target being those who hold considerable sway there: influencers.
Rather than trusting internet users to be able to make up their own minds about the content they encounter online, the Council wants to ‘educate’ influencers about their “responsibility”—that is, teaching them to identify “disinformation” and “hate speech,” phrases commonly used by Eurocrats to clamp down on dissident political viewpoints.
According to a draft document, seen by Euractiv, the Council is trying to formulate a unified approach to rein in influencers’ and online content creators’ dissemination of ‘harmful’ content.
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Poland’s Liberal Government to Release 20,000 Criminals Early
Poland’s justice ministry aims to release approximately 20,000 prisoners “due to overcrowding in the country’s prisons,” Polish Deputy Minister of Justice Maria Ejchart announced in an interview with the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita. She also admitted that the first early releases have already occurred.
Ejchart stated that all 580 cells in Poland holding more than 10 inmates were closed by the end of January.
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Polish Farmers Intensify Protests Against ‘Executioner’ EU
WARSAW, March 20 (Reuters) — Polish farmers blocked roads with tractors and flares on Wednesday in escalating protests against EU environmental regulations and cheap food imports from neighbouring Ukraine which the bloc provisionally agreed to prolong.
Placards depicted a farmer swinging from a gallows next to wind farms and an EU-emblazoned executioner with the words: “Green Deal equals death of Polish agriculture”, referring to the bloc’s plan to tackle climate change.
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Polish PM Fulfils Just 12 of 100 Promises in First 100 Days
Of the 100 pledges Donald Tusk promised to enact in his first 100 days as prime minister of Poland, 88—almost 90%—have not come to fruition.
Tusk said in no uncertain terms in December last year:
The whole of Poland knows these proposals. Poland will hold us to account for this. I am not afraid of that. On behalf of the entire future government, I can tell you, we are not afraid of any of these promises. They will be fulfilled.
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Romanian President Approves Training of 50 Ukrainian Pilots for F-16s
The office of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has sent a letter to parliament announcing that the president has agreed to train about 50 Ukrainian pilots in Romania.
The authorities did not say when the training would start, but according to Digi24 sources, the Ukrainian soldiers should arrive at the Fetesti Air Base this summer.
The Ukrainian pilots are expected to complete their training with the F-16s by the end of the year.
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Romania Set to Build the Largest NATO Base in Europe
Romania has started work to rebuild and extend an air base that will be the largest NATO facility in Europe.
When the expansion of the 57th air base of Romania’s air force is completed, it will be able to permanently accommodate approximately 10,000 NATO soldiers and their families.
“In the new geopolitical context, with the war on the border, the development of the base will thus strengthen NATO’s eastern flank,” Euronews wrote, referring to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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Police training in some countries these days goes well beyond what one would normally expect, to include targeting content — including artistic — deemed to be “threatening” or “abusive.”
It’s not about China — at least this time. It’s about Scotland. There, officers are learning how to put blogs, podcasts, social media posts, and even simply reposts into their proverbial crosshairs.
According to reports, actors and comedians are not exempt from this type of scrutiny if somebody feels offended, and reports them.
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Slovakia Dismantles Partisan Special Prosecutor’s Office
Slovakia dismantled its special prosecutor’s office on Wednesday, March 20th, in what is seen by Brussels Eurocrats as a violation of the ‘rule of law.’ Critics of the move are eager to punish Robert Fico’s government for its sovereigntist, pro-peace talks, and anti-immigration stance.
Fico, who was returned to power for a fourth time in October, has angered the Western liberal elites in Europe for taking a similar stance to his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban on a number of issues. He has criticised pro-migration policies, EU-federalisation attempts, transgenderism, the woke culture, and sanctions against Russia, while calling for peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
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Katarina Roth Nevedalova is a Member of the European Parliament for the governing Slovakian party Smer, led by Prime Minister Robert Fico. Smer won parliamentary elections held in Slovakia last autumn, with Fico returning for his fourth tenure as head of government. Just like his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban, Fico has held opposing views to that of the mainstream on many issues that have dominated European politics in the past few years. He has criticised pro-migration policies, EU-federalisation attempts, transgenderism, woke culture, and sanctions against Russia, and has called for peace talks to end the war in Ukraine. His stance has caused outrage in the Western liberal world and the corridors of Brussels, and has led to strong criticism of Slovakia. EU institutions did not take long to follow up on their threats to punish Slovakia with action: the European Parliament adopted a resolution in January, and the European Commission has threatened to withhold EU funds from Slovakia.
Katarina Roth Nevedalova talked to The European Conservative about these issues.
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There is increasing tension between the coalition parties governing in Germany’s three-way government, with the Free Democrats (FDP) turning up the heat in the dispute over freedom of expression, especially when it comes to the country’s controversial interior minister.
The German law enforcement structure and domestic spy agencies are looking to reshape the country with the new “Democracy Promotion Act,” which will contain a number of measures that will allow the government to take action against those critical of the government, including the ability to prosecute expressions of opinion that typically fall below the criminal liability threshold.
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King’s Cross station bosses today hit back at critics after an Islamic message appeared on its customer information board displaying train times.
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Year 13 pupil Raphaël Pryor was playing the historic Field Game — a variation of football — at the school when he became unwell. His parents have today paid tribute to their child.
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The entire population of Gaza is experiencing ‘severe levels of acute food insecurity,’ Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday, the first time ‘an entire population has been so classified.’
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Israeli Air Strike Kills Three in West Bank: Palestinian Ministry
JENIN, Palestinian Territories: An Israeli strike on Wednesday killed three Palestinians in a car in the occupied West Bank, including a senior Islamic Jihad militant, the Palestinian health ministry said.
AFP journalists saw a crowd gathered around the charred remains of a vehicle and blood on the pavement in the northern West Bank city of Jenin after the army said “an aircraft struck two senior Islamic Jihad operatives.”
The military said it had “eliminated” Ahmed Barakat, whom it accused of a May 2023 attack that killed an Israeli settler.
Three other militants were also “struck” in the attack, according to a military statement.
According to the Palestinian ministry, the strike killed three people including Barakat and wounded one.
Islamic Jihad’s armed wing confirmed in a statement that Barakat, whom it said headed its military operations in Jenin, had been killed.
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Turin Uni Wrong to Pull Out of Israel Tender Says Bernini
Exclusion is alien to tradition of our universities says min
University Minister Anna Maria Bernini said Wednesday that Turin university’s Senate was “wrong” in deciding not to take part in a scientific tender with Israel in protest at the civilian deaths caused by Israel in Gaza, after pro-Palestinian leftwing collectives occupied the Senate building.
“I do not agree with the University of Turin’s decision, even though it was taken within the autonomy of universities,” said the minister for universities and research.
“It is sad that such a choice coincides with the first national day of the universities, which is entitled ‘Open Doors’.
“And it is frankly disconcerting that one can think of closing them.
“I consider any form of exclusion or boycott to be wrong and alien to the tradition and culture of our universities, which have always been inspired by openness and inclusiveness”.
Earlier Premier Giorgia Meloni said she found it “concerning” that Turin university’s Senate had apparently given in to the collectives.
She said that “if institutions bend to these methods we risk having many problems”.
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Jared Kushner, Donald Trump´s ex-adviser and his son-in-law, praised ‘very valuable’ potential of Gaza´s ‘waterfront property,’ suggesting Israel should remove civilians while it cleans up the area.
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Schumer Warns Israel to Spare Hamas or Face Sanctions
The political hack who calls himself “the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in our government” took half a year after Oct 7 to begin denouncing Israel’s war on Hamas.
Senator Chuck Schumer stood at the Senate podium and laid out his vision of the “four obstacles to peace”. These, according to the Senate Majority Leader were, Hamas, “right wing Israelis”, PLO terrorist leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Having equated Israeli conservatives to Hamas, Schumer demanded that Israel call a new election and remove its current government from power. And if Israelis did not choose to obey, he warned that the “United States will have no choice but to play a more active role in shaping Israeli policy by using our leverage to change the present course.”
That is an obvious euphemism for anything from the withdrawal of aid to economic sanctions.
If the Israelis vote wrongly again, the Biden administration “should use the tools at its disposal to make sure our support for Israel is aligned with our broader goal of achieving long-term peace and stability.” Peace and stability paradoxically means a ‘Palestinian’ terrorist state.
What did Netanyahu do wrong? According to Schumer, he won’t commit to a terrorist state and insists on finishing off Hamas in Rafah. Or as Schumer put it in his Orwellian tortured diction, he “won’t commit to a military operation in Rafah that prioritizes protecting civilian life.” The kind of operation the Biden administration has in mind is a few targeted strikes on Hamas leaders when no civilians are around. That’s the way we fought and lost in Afghanistan. Biden would like to turn Israel into another Afghanistan with Hamas as the Taliban.
In plain language, Schumer is warning Israel to stop its war on Hamas or face sanctions.
The subtext is that Schumer and the Jewish Democratic leadership have come around to giving Hamas a pass in order to appease the Hamas supporters of Dearborn, Michigan.
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Polish General: ‘The Ukrainians Are Losing the War’
In a candid discussion on Polsat Television, General Rajmund Andrzejczak, the ex-chief of the Polish General Staff, said the Ukrainians have lost millions, not hundreds of thousands, and are losing the war.
“More than 10 million people are missing. According to my estimates, losses should be in the millions, not hundreds of thousands. The country has no resources, no one to fight. Ukrainians are losing this war,” said the general.
As a result of events in Ukraine, he voiced concerns over the imminent threat of war, suggesting Poland has a two to three-year window for preparation.
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Russia Claims France to Send 2,000 Troops to Ukraine
Russian intelligence has determined that France is organizing a military contingent, initially planning to send 2,000 troops to Ukraine. Paris has not yet responded to these reports. Recent statements by French President Emmanuel Macron regarding the potential presence of French soldiers in Ukraine have alarmed allies.
Although the French president acknowledged the lack of consensus on sending ground troops to the war-torn country, he suggested that nothing could be ruled out. The Kremlin reacted to these declarations, and now, new details have been unexpectedly provided by Russian military intelligence.
Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, stated that France is preparing to send about 2,000 personnel to Ukraine, but more may arrive later.
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Russia’s Belgorod Region is Under Attack Again From Ukraine. What Makes it a Repeat Target?
Russia’s Belgorod region has come under increasing Ukrainian attacks this month as the invasion by Moscow grinds into its third year.
Here’s a look at the region and its role in the war:
What is the Belgorod region?
The region of forests, farmland and rolling hills has a 540-kilometre border along Ukraine’s northeastern edge. It has an area of over 27,000 square kilometres, and has a population of about 1.5 million.
It holds about 40 per cent of Russia’s iron ore and other minerals and is home to several major industrial companies and farms…
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Ukraine Drones Again Target Strategic Bomber Base Deep Inside Russia
On Wednesday a wave of Ukrainian drones targeted a well-known airbase deep inside Russia which is home to strategic bombers. The air base, called Engels 2, is near the Russian city by the same name, and nearby residents reported hearing at least four explosions during the attack.
The Main Directorate of Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) has since owned up to the attack, with sources in Russia confirming to international media that “targets had been hit” and the damage is being assessed.
Some drones may have been intercepted, however, with Roman Busargin, the governor of the Russian region of Saratov, describing in a statement that a drone attack was “repelled”. This attack is significant given Engels is located over 600km from the Ukraine border. But it’s not the first time it has come under attack during the war.
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India: Two Muslim Barbers Slit the Throats of Hindu Kids and Drink Their Blood During Ramadan
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Budaun | March 20, 2024:: A Muslim barber in Uttar Pradesh’s Budaun allegedly hacked two Hindu children to death living in the neighbourhood and critically injured another, the police said on Tuesday.
Two children were killed brutally by their neighbour, a barber, in Uttar Pradesh’s Budaun in a gory scene. The accused was later killed in a police encounter. Though, Muslims say, the month of Ramadan is a prohibited month for violence, the Muslim culprit allegedly drunk the blood of tow children after slitting their throats.
The incident took place in the Baba Colony under the Mandi Samiti police station. The accused barged into his neighbour’s house and slit the throats of the two brothers, aged 11 and 6, while injuring the third boy.
The accused, identified as Sajid, 22, fled the scene after killing the two children. A manhunt was initiated by the UP Police and Sajid was killed in an encounter. Sajid’s brother Javed was also named an accused in the case, and a search for him is underway.
Budaun SSP Alok Priyadarshi said, “The accused Sajid…entered the house yesterday at around 7:30 pm and went to the terrace where the children were playing. He attacked the two children and murdered them. He then came down where the crowd tried to hold him back but he escaped. According to the family, the accused had demanded Rs 5,000 from the father of the deceased children.”
The children’s father Vinod Kumar denied any personal enmity with the accused. “Sajid had asked for a loan of Rs 5,000 for his wife’s delivery, and we agreed. He came to our home for the money, and while my younger son was fetching him a glass of water, he took aside my eldest son and killed him. After that, he attacked the younger one.”
According to the police, the accused has been identified as Sajid, who had a barber shop opposite the house of the victim in Baba Colony and was an acquaintance of the children’s father, Vinod.
The man on Tuesday evening (Mar 19), entered their house and asked for tea from the family members, said the police.
Once the elders left the room, the man climbed to the terrace where three children of Vinod — Aayush (13), Ahaan (7) and Piyush (6) — were present.
While Aayush and Ahaan lost their lives in the incident, Piyush suffered minor injuries.
The man slit the throats of the two elder children and also attacked Piyush before running away from the crime scene, said the police.
Family Members of Vinod Kumar saw that the culprit Sajid was looking insane with a huge amount of blood in his face and that was dripping out from his mouth.
Vinod Kumar’s wife, who runs a salon, was alone at home with her three children when Sajid entered the house with his another friend Javed. But Police did not say anything about the whereabouts of Javed so far.
According to their neighbours, the accused came to Vinod’s house and started attacking his sons Ayush, Piyush, and Honey.
The children’s mother was downstairs in the salon. Upon hearing screams, people rushed upstairs, but the accused had fled.
The police rushed to the scene, but the agitated locals did not allow them to take the bodies. Relatives sent back the ambulance that came to take the bodies.
Later, heavy police security was deployed in the area and the bodies of the children were sent for post-mortem.
Meanwhile, Bareilly Inspector General Rakesh Kumar said the accused tried to escape and fired at the police, but was killed in retaliatory fire.
“Today evening an unfortunate incident took place. The police reached the spot and the accused tried to escape. The accused fired at the police and was killed in retaliatory fire. The accused died on the spot. The accused is aged between 25-30,” Rakesh Kumar said.
The reason for the murder is not known yet. Further investigation is underway from different angles.
The police deployed heavy police security at the Baba Colony which is located near the Mandi Samiti outpost as angry people took to the streets and protested against the ghastly murders.
The agitators also set a shop on fire after the incident in Baba Colony. The police said that the situation had been brought under control.
Budaun District Magistrate Manoj Kumar said that they were informed about the murder and the protest by the locals.
The police have detained the father and uncle of accused Sajid for questioning.
Police have appealed to the locals to maintain peace.
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Infectious Disease Scientist Fired From Infamous Canadian Virology Lab Resurfaces in China
It has been revealed that the infectious disease scientist fired from Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Lab for allegedly having “intentionally transferred scientific knowledge and materials to China in order to benefit the PRC government” is now living and working in China.
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu had her security clearance revoked in 2019 and her employment was terminated two years later. Her husband, Keding Cheng, a biologist who is believed to be with her in China, suffered the same consequences for his actions.
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Scientists Raise Alarm Over COVID-Vaccinated Blood Transfusions
A team of leading scientists has raised the alarm after discovering severe risks associated with using blood from people vaccinated with Covid mRNA shots for transfusions.
Additionally, the researchers are now calling for all Covid vaccination programs to be halted after they uncovered evidence of the complications caused by these contaminations in the blood.
Japanese researchers published a pre-print paper that warned about the risks associated with using Covid-vaccinated blood for transfusions.
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The driver was at the wheel of the 250 bus in the Brisbane suburb of Cleveland at about 1pm on February 18 when three teenagers boarded the vehicle.
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A stunning map has unveiled that Native Title, a legal recognition of Aboriginal rights over an area, covers nearly half of Australia’s landmass.
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Residents of a small town claim a deal to hand over ‘95 per cent of their town’ to an Indigenous body is ‘treaty’ by stealth as they begin a petition to oppose the move.
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Protests have continued this week in Cuba over one of the island’s worst ever economic and energy crises as food shortages and blackouts push the country toward the “verge of collapse.”
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio took to X on Tuesday to say the disastrous situation was down to Cuba’s long-standing Marxist policies.
“The reason Cuba is on the verge of collapse is because Marxism always leads to hunger, poverty and shortages,” Rubio said.
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First of Florida’s State-Sponsored Flights for Americans Fleeing Haiti Lands in Orlando
The first of Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis’s state-arranged flights out of Haiti to help Floridians fleeing the chaos in that nation has touched down in Orlando.
Haiti has no effective government following the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Earlier this month, gangs stormed the prisons and freed roughly 3,700 inmates, leading to a considerable uptick in violence. The U.S. has urged Americans to leave the country, though many have had difficulty, prompting the governor to organize the flights.
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Haiti’s civil war has exploded as masked vigilantes fight back against Barbecue’s bloodthirsty gangs — leaving the island nation teetering on the edge.
Hundreds of dead bodies now lie unburied in the streets as residents band together to protect themselves against armed factions bolstered by thousands of convicts freed from stormed prisons.
Chaos escalated since Prime Minister Ariel Henry was forced from office last week amid attempts by armed gang leader Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier to seize power.
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Appeals Court Reinstates Hold on Texas Immigration Law
Authored by Caden Pearsen via The Epoch Times
A federal appeals court issued an order late on Tuesday that reinstates a hold blocking Texas from enforcing a law that enables local law enforcement to arrest suspected illegal immigrants.
This decision came from a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, voting 2-1 to overturn a previous ruling made by another panel of the same court that granted an administrative stay of the law’s implementation.
The prior 5th Circuit ruling had temporarily halted an injunction from a federal district court judge in Austin, who had blocked Texas from implementing the law.
The Austin judge’s rationale was that such a law might pave the way for other states to enact their own immigration legislation.
Following the Tuesday night order, the 5th Circuit will now hear arguments on whether to stay the preliminary injunction pending appeal on Wednesday, according to the order.
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EU Centrists Look to Fend Off the Right With Egyptian Migration Deal?
As the pivotal European elections draw near, and with anti-mass migration parties projected to secure as many as a quarter of parliament’s seats, Eurocrats, after years of encouraging and facilitating the ongoing migration crisis, are hastily trying to project the image that they, too, care about halting the civilization-altering influx of migrants.
To convey this impression to the European public, who increasingly appear to view the national Right as the only political camp with the will to address the issue, six EU leaders traveled to Cairo on Sunday, March 17th, to ink a €7.4 billion agreement with Egypt’s government aimed, nominally, at stemming migration flows.
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In December of last year, the story broke in Germany of a Pakistani family targeted in an arson attack by right-wing extremists on Christmas Day. It had the makings of a perfect story for use by the left, including “Nazis” targeting an innocent foreign family on Christmas day.
Police now say it was all a lie and that the arson attack was carried out by the foreign family against their own house for insurance money. Five family members have now been arrested, including the house owner and his brother-in-law. They are also accused of spraying racist graffiti in the house, including “foreigners out” twice.
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The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been under sustained pressure from the media and government in recent months, but it appears to have hardly dented its polling numbers. In fact, its position in Saxony appears to be as strong as ever, with the prominent Insa polling firm reporting the party is in first place with 34 percent of the vote.
Perhaps even more consequential for the party is that the traffic-light government, which consists of the Greens, the Social Democrats (SPD), and the Free Democrats (FDP), would be nearly entirely removed from power if the vote in Saxony were held today. The Greens are scoring just at 5 percent, SPD has 6, and the FDP would be completely removed with just 2 percent.
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Germany: Foreigners to Blame for Sky-Rocketing Crime Stats, Says Bavarian Interior Minister
An increasing migrant population has contributed significantly to a spike in crime across the German state of Bavaria, the state’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann claimed on Monday.
Speaking after his ministry’s publication of the state police’s crime stats for last year, the CSU politician assured the public that Bavaria remains a particularly safe area of the country, but bemoaned the fact that crime had increased across the state and attributed much of this increase to foreign nationals.
“We will not accept the increase in crime, even if it is a nationwide trend for which foreigners and immigrants are particularly responsible,” Herrmann said in a press release on Monday.
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Bill Flaig, CEO and co-founder of the $79 million American Conservative Values Fund (ACVF), told DailyMail.com that he has divested from Tyson and won’t buy any more stock in the company.
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NYC Residents Blast AOC for ‘Abandoning’ Constituents Amid ‘Unbearable’ Migrant Crisis
New York City residents in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) district have blasted the congresswoman for being “obsessed with climate change” while her constituents are left battling with an “unbearable” illegal migrant crisis.
AOC’s constituents are expressing outrage over the surge in illegal aliens and crime in their Queens, NYC neighborhood.
Residents say they feel let down by AOC, arguing that the celebrity Democrat is “abandoning” the people who got her elected to the House of Representatives.
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Pauline Hanson has repeated her most infamous slur in a parliamentary speech where she called for the country to halt immigration.
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Dozens of migrants were brought to shore by a Border Force vessel in Dover this morning.
The arrival comes just hours after an overloaded boat was seen motoring away from the French coastguard in dramatic video footage.
At around 8am, the Border Force crew brought in the group of mainly men to shore, who were seen on a gangway at the immigration processing centre at the Port of Dover at the former jetfoil terminal.
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Several boatloads of illegal migrants from North Africa pulled up undetected on a beach in Mallorca on Sunday as the Spanish island continued to experience high volumes of new arrivals from across the Mediterranean.
Amateur footage posted on social media captured the moment around a dozen adult males and one minor disembarked near the town of Colonia de Sant Jordi to the south of the island.
Mallorca Diario reported the group had not been picked up by the authorities. The Security Forces and Corps was actively seeking to locate the cohort and requesting any information that could lead to its whereabouts.
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Watch: Migrant Tiktoker Tells Other Illegals How to “Invade” Homes in America
The Marxist destruction of private property rights is on full display after a viral video circulating TikTok, then posted on X, shows a migrant informing other migrants how to “invade” unoccupied homes across America and take advantage of progressive squatting laws.
“I found out that there is a law that says that if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it,” the migrant said in a video on TikTok, which Collin Rugg first posted on X.
The migrant said he has African friends who have taken over seven homes thanks to squatting laws.
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A Baby in a Mother’s Womb ‘Is a Parasite,’ Claims Polish Gynecologist
During a debate on abortion organized by web channel Zero, Dr. Anna Orawiec, a gynecologist, likened pregnancy to a form of parasitism that women consciously decide to engage in.
“From the point of view of biology, parasitism is a situation in which one organism takes from another and gives nothing in return. Pregnancy is such a situation in a way because the fetus does not nourish the woman in any way, so it is a parasite. But most women, however, decide to engage in this parasitism and are happy with the parasite that is inside,” said Orawiec.
Orawiec also explained that she advocates for the legalization of abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy.
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Drag Queen Feted by Kamala Harris Accused of Multiple Sexual Assaults
Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness
A drag star feted by Kamala Harris at the Biden White House and Vice President’s residence has been accused of multiple sexual assaults between 2012 to 2020.
Darius Jeremy “DJ” Pierce, better known as “Shangela,” has appeared on numerous television series and is best known for competing on RuPaul’s “Drag Race” and Dancing With the Stars.
The accusations are described in sordid detail in a Rolling Stone exposé following a 16 month investigation researching the allegations, reviewing court documents, and interviewing several accusers.
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French Senators Call for Ban on Gender Transition for Minors
While the British National Health Service has just announced a ban on prescribing puberty blockers to minors, French senators have published a report that expresses alarm at the excesses of child gender transition and have proposed a bill to put an end to it.
A lengthy investigation initiated by centre-right Les Républicains senator Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio has just been made public. It is alarmed by what has been described as “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine”—namely sex reassignment in minors, made possible by the administration of puberty blockers and surgery.
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Texas police physically removed a pastor from the Midland Independent School District board meeting on Wednesday after he raised concerns about an inappropriate book available to high school students which consists of rape, pedophilia, incest, abuse, molestation, and more.
Speaking behind the podium to board members, Pastor John K. Amanchukwu Sr. described the vulgarities found in the book titled “Push” by Sapphire and declared, “This needs to be removed tonight!”
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Planet Fitness’ valuation has plummeted $400 million in five days after they banned a member who shared a photo of a ‘trans woman’ using a female locker room.
The company’s value dropped from $5.3 billion on March 14 to $4.9 billion on March 19, and its shares are down by 13.59 percent compared to a month ago.
The decline follows Planet Fitness’ refusal to walk back its decision to ban a member who exposed a ‘trans woman’ shaving in a female locker room earlier this month.
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A group of lawmakers has introduced a new bill to ban diversity, equity and inclusion practices from medical schools.
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Spain: Legal Sex Changes Increase by 400%
A year after Spain passed a law that allows for changing legal gender through a simple administrative process at the request of the citizen, the number of Spaniards requesting the change has increased by almost 400%.
The law is the most extreme legislation in Europe regarding legal sex changes. In some, but not all cases, minors require the consent of their parents, while, for adults, a simple request is enough. Spain had previously allowed for changing legal gender only in cases where a person had received a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and undergone cross-sex hormone treatments or surgical interventions.
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Spain’s Government Blocks Attempt to Protect Minors From Hormone Therapy
Spain’s central government, led by socialist Pedro Sanchez, is pressuring the regional government of Madrid to back down on its reform of the law regulating legal sex changes.
El Debate reports that Sanchez’ government wants regional president Isabel Diaz Ayuso to give up her attempt to ameliorate the national “trans law” that passed a year ago, allowing the most radical form of self-identification regarding sex. Sanchez has opened a procedure that forces the regional government to come to the negotiating table with the central government over the law before it challenges the regional revisions to the law in constitutional court.
The government claims the “concrete aspects” of the regional reform “mainly violate the rights of LGTBI people and especially of trans people.”
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UK: Lawyer is Sued After Expressing the ‘Belief That Only Women Menstruate’
Among the reasons given for the lawsuit, she says the claimant cites a statement made during a seminar on ‘Women and Autism’ in which she said ‘only women menstruate’.
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Welsh Labour “Facilitating” Children Changing Gender Without Telling Parents
Just days after Britain’s National Health Service banned puberty blocker prescriptions for under-18s, a report has revealed that schools in Wales are allowing children to change gender without telling their parents—the very definition of one step forward, two steps back.
The Family Education Trust research institute told The European Conservative it is “horrifying that so many schools in Wales have become completely ideologically captured and are ignoring parent’s wishes.” Others described the actions of these schools, which operate under the watch of the ruling Welsh Labour Party, as “a glimpse of the nightmare awaiting Britain under a national Labour government.”
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“Our politicians are like children” – living in a bubble disconnected from reality
March 20, 2024 – SvebbTV News
The Western elite’s mass psychosis over Ukraine continues. Instead of seeking peace, they continue to incite war. Politicians can no longer distinguish between fantasy and reality. They are “like children, fools or simply liars”, says Professor Karl-Olov Arnstberg.
What are the Western world’s “power elite” really up to? Now a number of Swedish ambassadors, senior military officers and a “Russia expert” are writing on SvD Debatt that Sweden’s government must greatly increase military aid to Ukraine. Russia must not win the war in Ukraine, because then a bigger conflict awaits. The desperation is clear. The article authors bring up Adolf Hitler and claim, among other things, that the war will not end as long as Russian President Vladimir Putin remains in power and that “the only way to end the war is for Putin to lose power”.
Karl-Olov Arnstberg, professor emeritus in ethnology, has published a video response to the SvD article.
– Increasingly, our politicians appear as children, fools or simply liars, says Arnstberg in Swebbtv. They don’t know why Russia invaded Ukraine. They do not see the risks of joining NATO and they make crucial decisions regarding Sweden’s future as if they are sitting in a bubble completely separated from reality. They appear like political children’s butts compared to Russia’s Vladimir Putin and (Foreign Minister) Sergei Lavrov. This criticism can also be directed at our media elite. When this, without reflecting on the consequences, rambles on with his mantra that Ukraine must win the war, I wonder how it is up there in the brain office.
– Even if Sweden sent all its weapons including my old air pistol and diluted the entire Swedish defense budget, Ukraine would still not win the war. Apparently they can’t tell the difference between what sounds good and what relates to reality.
Sweden’s military capacity in this context “is not even a shrimp, rather a mite”, continues Karl-Olov Arnstberg.
According to the authors of the article in SvD, “fascism” prevails in Russia. But this is just a misleading designation, Arnstberg points out. Russia is rather an authoritarian democracy.
– To compare with the USA which is no longer the liberal democracy it pretends to be, but a liberal oligarchy. It is the billionaires and the super-rich who control foreign policy in the United States.
– An elite that does not dig into history to find explanations for what is happening today and also does not think long-term ahead is incompetent, says Karl-Olov Arnstberg.
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In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, two colonies are being closed due to the sending of convicts to the Special Military Operation (this is the name of this war)
https://www.gazeta.ru/social/news/2024/03/21/22601593.shtml
The Krasnoyarsk Ombudsman spoke about the closure of two correctional colonies in the region due to the sending of convicts to the SVO. The Commissioner for Human Rights in the region, Mark Denisov, announced this at a session of the regional legislative assembly, the Kommersant newspaper reports.
According to the Ombudsman, several penitentiary institutions in the Krasnoyarsk Territory will be liquidated this year. The reason for the upcoming closure of correctional colonies was the decrease in the number of people in prison.
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Colonel Larry Wilkerson:
NATO is now digging its own grave as the war in Ukraine has been lost.
https://swebbtube.se/w/jbKbCGppDTKqGx1kVrHK9h
In retrospect it can be added that
Colonel Larry Wilkerson’s resume is atrocious:
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson’s final government positions were as Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell (2002-05), Deputy Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff under Ambassador Richard N. Haass, and member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, Politico-Military and Legislative Affairs (2001-02).
Prior to serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army. During that time he was a member of the faculty at the U.S. Naval War College (1987 to 1989), Special Assistant to General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93) and Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College in Quantico, Virginia (1993-97). Wilkerson retired in 1997 and began working as an advisor to General Powell. He has also taught national security issues at George Washington University.
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“Our politicians are like children”
No, they’re NOT children; to be precise, they’re two year-olds with plump Pampers pushing Bolshevism (aka commie-toddlers….or just ‘toddlers, if, to paraphrase, The Dude (Jeffrey Lebowski), you’re into that whole brevity thing). Admittedly, a small detail to be sure, but an important distinction when diagnosing (and attempting to eradicate) the problem.
“Q: Whaddya get when you eliminate all the smart, effective people in favour of more politically fashionable people?
A: More Bolshevik two year-olds.” —posted to fb (Nov 2018)
“Regrettably, we must conclude that our culture is being dictated by two-year-olds. I do not literally mean children of two years of age, some of whom are among my favourite conversationalists. I mean people with the mental age of a two-year-old. That is, people who have never been told ‘no’ and have gone through their adult lives behaving as such.”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-put-the-toddlers-in-charge/
“It’s like a Kafka novel where you wake up and the two year-olds’ve become the mommies…and they’re all authoritarian commies. But it’s not a novel, it’s not a mistake…it’s real, it’s the plan…it’s PAA’s “remaking America”…it’s Obamerica.” —posted to fb (June 2020)
Just figured that out, huh?
“It’s an attack on America. And I don’t know how you can look at it, as any other way. And as an investor…no one is going to put any money to work in New York…The whole world is watching, and everybody is waiting for the one thing they haven’t got yet. ADULT SUPERVISION. Where is it?” —Kevin O’Leary, “Shark Tank” (21 Mar 2024)
https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/us-news/shark-tank-star-kevin-oleary-rips-trumps-454m-civil-fraud-penalty-as-an-attack-on-america/