The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to open more land crossings into Gaza for food, water, fuel and other supplies. Meanwhile, an AP photo of a young, dead Jewish woman’s mutilated body received a prestigious “Picture of the Year” award.
In other news, a solar farm in southeastern Texas was destroyed by a massive hailstorm.
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Final Q4 2023 GDP Revision Comes in Red Hot 3.4%, Beating Estimates
It’s ancient history by now, but moments ago the Biden Bureau of Economic Goalseeking Analysis reported that in its third estimate of Q4 GDP, the US was estimated to have grown by 3.4% (3.440% to be precise), above the 3.2% reported last month and above the 3.2% estimate.
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Houston Mayor Admits City is ‘Broke,’ Proposes Tax Hikes and Cuts to Remedy Massive Budget Deficit
Democratic Mayor John Whitmire said Houston is “broke” at a City Council meeting last week, offering tax hikes and a 5% spending cut to combat the city’s deficit.
“I think we can all agree on that, we are broke,” Whitmire said at the meeting, according to FOX 26 Houston. “This gives us a chance to discuss the financial picture of this city. It is broken. It was broken when I got here.”
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Moody’s Warns Bridge Collapse is “Credit Negative” for Baltimore as Economic Shock Emerges
Instead of the woke Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott utilizing his precious time by going on corporate media’s leftists Joy Reid’s MSNBC show and asserting that white conservatives “should be afraid” of the consequences of calling him the ‘DEI Mayor,’ perhaps the unseasoned youngster who over-promised about fixing imploding Baltimore City (after fifty years of a Democratic-controlled City Hall) should realize the local economy is on the cusp of meltdown and potential negative credit risk event following the bridge collapse and resulting paralyzed port.
The Port of Baltimore is a significant economic driver for the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland, and an extended closure will spread like cancer through the local economy as snarled supply chains will result in job losses, lower warehouse activity, and tax revenue loss for the government.
“I would say the Port of Baltimore is the leading economic driver for the region in Baltimore,” Anirban Basu, chairman and CEO of Baltimore-based Sage Policy Group Inc., told FreightWaves.
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Philadelphia Fed Admits US Payrolls Overstated by at Least 800,000
The first red flags emerged in the summer of 2022: that’s when the Biden Labor Department started well and truly rigging the labor market data.
Regular readers may recall that it was back in July of 2022, when we first warned that something had “snapped” in the labor market: that’s when a striking discrepancy emerged between the number of US Payrolls (as measured by the BLS’ Establishment Survey, a far more crude and imprecise, yet much more market-moving data series), and the number of actual Employed Workers (as measured by the BLS’ far more accurate Household Survey) . As we showed then, after the two series had tracked each other tick for tick for years, a wide gap opened in March 2022 which quickly grew to 1.5 million jobs in just 3 months…
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CHICAGO (CBS) — A total of 300 women filed a lawsuit against a Chicago OB/GYN employed for decades by NorthShore University Health System and Swedish Hospital.
Fabio Ortega, 77, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two patients in October 2021. He is now a registered sex offender. He was sentenced to three years in prison time and has been off parole since October of last year.
The civil lawsuit details alleged sex abuse stemming back to the early 1990s, and some of the details are quite disturbing.
“Swedish and NorthShore enabled this sexual predator to abuse hundreds of women for numerous decades,” said Parker Stinar, an attorney and founding partner at Stinar Gould Grieco & Hensley.
The lawsuit said Ortega worked at what was then known as Swedish Covenant Hospital between approximately 1989 and 2007. During that time, he had “a pattern or practice of disguising his sexual abuses as necessary medical care through a variety of techniques.”
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Arizona Rancher George Alan Kelly Trial Witness Admits to Drug Smuggling
The state’s key witness in the murder case against Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly admitted during the third day of trial that he previously smuggled drugs across the border.
Santa Cruz County prosecutors called 43-year-old Daniel Ramirez to the stand on Wednesday, but the man, who wore wearing headphones and spoke to the court through a translator, said he had tried to come to the United States between eight and 10 times “looking for the American dream” and had been deported multiple times before trying again, leading up to the Jan. 30, 2023, shooting of Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea.
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Baltimore Union Warns of Job Loss Tsunami After Bridge Collapse Paralyzes Port
A lengthy disruption at the Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest ports on the US East Coast, will unleash supply chain snarls and resulting financial pressures for the local economy of Baltimore, Maryland, as it’s only a matter of time before companies with direct and indirect exposure of the port fire workers.
“I have 2,400 ILA members who are soon going to be without jobs,” Scott Cowan, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association Baltimore local chapter, said in an interview Wednesday, as quoted by Bloomberg.
Cowan said, “Getting them on the payroll, and keeping their families fed, putting food on the table is my first and foremost thought on my mind.”
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Biden Choosing Fundraiser Over NYPD Wake ‘Insulting’, Says Ex-FBI Agent
President Biden’s decision to attend a $25 million fundraiser in Manhattan while the NYPD mourned one of their own 40 miles eastward was denounced by a former FBI special agent who said Biden was also notably absent when two of her then-partners were killed in Broward County, Fla. in 2021.
Retired Special Agent Nicole Parker, who previously said she left the bureau in part over its increased politicization, broke down on Fox News on Thursday as she mourned NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, who was allegedly murdered in Far Rockaway earlier this week by a career criminal.
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Biden Highway Climate Rule Struck Down by Texas Judge: ‘Unauthorized’
A U.S. judge ruled against the Biden administration in a decision about a highway climate rule on Wednesday.
The rule was issued by the Department of Transportation (DOT)’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in December 2023. It requires states to measure and report the greenhouse gas emissions from any vehicles using the U.S. highway system.
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Comeback: New Trump Bio a Go as Publisher Pulls Plug on Biden Book
A best-settling biographer of former President Ronald Reagan has struck a deal to work on a new book with former President Donald Trump’s team, the latest sign that interest in the 45th president remains high.
Washingtonian Craig Shirley, author of several bestselling Reagan biographies, told Secrets he has already started researching for his book due out after the fall election. It has a working title of Comeback, he told us Thursday.
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Death of California Teen Ruled an ‘Accident, ‘ Died From ‘Blunt Head Trauma’ After School Fight
The death of a California teen who died 10 days after she was filmed in a brutal fight at school has been ruled accidental in a preliminary autopsy report.
16-year-old Shaylee Mejia was seen on video being attacked inside a Manual Arts High School bathroom in Los Angeles on March 5, according to the New York Post. Her mom said that this was at least the second time her daughter was beaten by bullies.
Four days later Mejia collapsed at a party and was taken unconscious to a hospital. She died on March 15.
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Denver Mom Finds Her Own Stolen Car After Dispatch Says There Isn’t ‘Anyone on Duty to Help’
A Denver mom took matters into her own hands and recovered her stolen vehicle on Monday after police said there wasn’t anyone on duty to investigate.
Holly Kaufman said she was able to track down her stolen red Mazda SUV through the car company’s mobile app, which is equipped with a vehicle tracker. It also allows users to shut off the vehicle’s engine and signal the vehicle’s emergency alarms, which Kaufman did.
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Doctors Raise Alarm as Brain Tumors Soar Among Vaxxed
Doctors have begun to sound the alarm after soaring numbers of patients have developed deadly brain tumors after receiving Covid mRNA vaccines.
Medical professionals around the world are now warning the public about the spike.
In some cases, doctors warn that people are discovering tumors within days of being vaccinated for Covid.
However, experts say that most patients had experienced continuous migraines in the days leading up to the disturbing diagnoses.
Doctors have now issued an alert that continued migraines after Covid mRNA injections could be a sign of something much worse.
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Education Dept Investigating Wisconsin University Fellowship Called Discrimination ‘On Its Face’
Following a legal complaint, the Education Department of the U.S. Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened an investigation into a University of Wisconsin-Madison fellowship program that allegedly discriminates against White people.
Cornell University law professor and founder of the legal group Equal Protection Project (EPP), William Jacobson, revealed on Legal Insurrection the OCR began its investigation into the “Creando Comunidad: Community Engaged Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Fellows” fellowship program on Monday after the EPP filed a complaint against it in January.
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Footage of a man holding and biting down on a severed leg from an Amtrak crash site shocked the nation this week and drew speculation that a national drug crisis is to blame.
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Everyone Named in the Latest Diddy Lawsuit
This week, Homeland Security raided Sean “Diddy” Combs’s homes in both Miami and Los Angeles. According to reports, the search warrants were connected to a federal investigation in Manhattan related to allegations of sex trafficking, sexual assault, and the solicitation and distribution of illegal narcotics and firearms. Combs has been facing legal trouble since November, when ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura sued him for physical and sexual abuse.
In February, Combs’s former producer and videographer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones filed a federal lawsuit against the rapper, claiming that Diddy sexually harassed, drugged, and threatened him. Additionally, Jones claimed that Combs and his team were “engaging in serious illegal activity” including drug trafficking, sex trafficking, soliciting sex workers, providing laced drinks to minors, and sexual assault. Jones’s case made headlines again this week after he amended his complaint, adding 25 pages and a new defendant.
In addition to Combs, there are several notable figures named in the suit. In the amended suit, Jones lists an Oscar-winning actor as a defendant, name drops a member of the British royal family, and claims that one of the City Girls personally transported drugs on a private plane for Combs. So who are all the people named in the sex-trafficking lawsuit against Diddy? Here’s what we know.
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Facebook Used “Man-in-the-Middle” Approach to Snoop on Users’ Encrypted Traffic in Secret Project
Unsealed court documents in California — part of a class action lawsuit filed by consumers against Meta and alleging anti-competitive behavior via deceptive data extraction — have revealed that back in 2016, Facebook came up with a secret project dubbed “Ghostbusters.”
We obtained a copy of the documents for you here.
What Facebook effectively did was use man-in-the-middle attack-style ways to intercept encrypted traffic, initially targeting competitor Snapchat (hence the project’s name, referring to the Snapchat logo), to later expand this to Amazon and YouTube.
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday for the massive fraud and conspiracy that doomed his cryptocurrency exchange and a related hedge fund, Alameda Research.
The sentence in Manhattan federal court was significantly less than the 40 to 50 years in prison that federal prosecutors wanted for Bankman-Fried, but it was much more than the five to six-and-a-half years suggested by his attorneys.
“There is a risk that this man will be in position to do something very bad in the future,” Judge Lewis Kaplan said before sentencing the 32-year-old and ordering him to pay $11 billion in forfeiture to the U.S. government.
“And it’s not a trivial risk at all,” Kaplan added.
Kaplan noted he has never heard “a word of remorse for the commission of terrible crimes” from Bankman-Fried.
The judge said that in the 30 years on the federal bench, he had “never seen a performance” like Bankman-Fried’s trial testimony.
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Kari Lake Declines to Defend Defamation Lawsuit Filed by Arizona Election Official
PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake, a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona who says she lost a 2022 race for governor because of fraud, is declining to defend against a defamation lawsuit filed by a top election official.
Lake this week asked a judge to jump directly to the damages phase of the lawsuit filed by Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer. The extraordinarily rare request for a default judgment seeks to bypass the opportunity to argue her statements weren’t defamatory, skipping ahead to determine how much she owes Richer.
The court had already rejected her motion to dismiss the case, and the Arizona Supreme Court declined to take her appeal.
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Residents in the Chinatown district of Los Angeles are being urged to surrender to thieves following a brutal robbery of an elderly woman.
The woman was robbed and stabbed multiple times on Sunday in broad daylight, ABC7 reported.
In response, locals are being told to “just let go” of their belongings if they are targeted by criminals.
The woman, believed to be in her 60s, remains in the hospital, according to ABC7.
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Largest Pennsylvania Police Union Leaders Tell Senate to ‘Oppose’ Biden Judicial Nominee
The walls appear to be closing in for President Joe Biden’s chances to name the first Muslim American judge to a lifetime position on a federal appeals court.
Leaders of the largest police unions, representing 40,000 officers in Pennsylvania, penned a letter to Senate leadership Thursday calling for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to “stand up for law enforcement” and oppose the nomination of Adeel Mangi to the appeals court, citing his affiliation with an organization that called a person who murdered a police officer a “freedom fighter.”
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Left-Wing Nonprofit Interfering in Milwaukee’s 2024 Elections Got $750K From Soros Group
A Democrat-friendly dark money group bankrolling Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s 2024 elections previously received $750,000 from an organization founded by leftist billionaire George Soros.
Earlier this month, Urban Milwaukee revealed that the Democrat stronghold — in a county Joe Biden won by nearly 40 points in the 2020 election — was offered a $786,500 election grant from Cities Forward, a virtually unknown nonprofit organization that markets itself as a “nonpartisan effort focused on helping cities around the country make participation in the democratic process a priority.” According to Claire Woodall, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, the funds will be used to purchase new election equipment such as voting machines that print paper ballots and ballot tabulators, among other items.
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Man Faces Multiple Murder Charges in Rockford, Illinois Stabbing Attack That Left 4 Dead, 7 Injured
ROCKFORD, Ill. (CBS) — A man has been charged in connection with an attack that left four people dead, including the suspect’s childhood friend and a teenager, the county prosecutor said Thursday.
The coroner’s office identified the victims: 15-year-old Jenna Newcomb; 23-year-old Jacob Schupbach; 49-year-old Jay Larson, and 63-year-old Romona Schupbach.
Seven others were injured during that rampage that started around 1:15 p.m. Wednesday. Police said some of the victims were stabbed, and three girls were beaten with a baseball bat while they were watching a movie on spring break.
Officials on Thursday confirmed Christian Ivan Soto, 22, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, seven counts of attempted first-degree murder, and three counts of home invasion. He is being held in the Winnebago County Jail without bond.
Winnebago Country State’s Attorney J. Hanley said he expected additional charges once the case was presented to a grand jury. In an interview with detectives, Soto admitted to the killings and claimed he had smoked marijuana laced with an unknown drug that caused him to go on the rampage. Hanley said.
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On Wednesday, a California man was sentenced to 11 months in prison for sending threatening voicemails to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
David Allen Carrier, 44, pleaded guilty to two counts of making threats against a federal official in December after being indicted by a grand jury three months earlier.
According to the Department of Justice, on Thursday, January 21, 2021, Carrier called then-speaker Pelosi’s office and left a voicemail message in which he “threatened to assault the Congresswoman.”
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Man Who Threatened to Detonate Bomb During California Bank Robbery Killed by Police
Police killed a man suspected of robbing a bank in Southern California after he threatened to detonate a device he said was a bomb.
The man, believed to be in his 70s, walked into a Wells Fargo in Fullerton in Orange County wearing a mask on Tuesday afternoon and demanded a bank teller to give him money, the Fullerton Police Department said in a news release. He brought a white box with him with what he claimed to be holding a device that he could detonate.
An officer shot the suspect as he exited the building with the white box containing stolen money and the suspicious device, according to the department. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Missouri High School Where Teen Was Brutally Attacked Refuses to Give Records to State’s AG
After opening an investigation into the Missouri school district where a teenage girl was brutally beaten by another student, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey tells Fox News Digital that the school is refusing to comply.
Last week, Bailey told Fox News Digital exclusively that he would open an investigation into the Hazelwood School District and how their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs contributed to the safety failures following the violent attack.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Twenty students at Vanderbilt University have either been arrested or suspended after protests at the school turned hostile. There’s now there’s a new video that captures some of the intense moments.
Sixteen students were suspended from the school and 4 were arrested as Pro-Palestinian students were protesting the war in Gaza. Officials say students began to forcibly enter one of the buildings on campus.
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Nine States Plan to Ban Gas-Powered Car Sales by 2035
Nine states are planning to ban new gasoline-powered vehicle sales by 2035 as part of an initiative to cut climate-warming emissions.
The Advanced Clean Cars II rules originated in California with the state Air Resources Board. The regulations in California look to phase out the sale of new gas vehicles beginning with the 2026 model year, scaling back over time until 2035 — when a total ban on the sales will go into effect.
Since the rules were first adopted in California in 2022, eight other states have followed suit, with several others considering the plan.
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OMG: CEO of Private Jet Company Admits to Chartering Flights for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
In his most recent investigative report, journalist James O’Keefe contacted the co-founder and CEO of Approved Jets, Kelvin Mensah, in an attempt to find out the whereabouts of Sean “P. Diddy” Combs.
Mensah initially denied working with Combs but then later confirmed to O’Keefe that he had chartered private jets for the recording artist, who is under federal investigation for sex trafficking. Federal agents raided his property on Monday.
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Republican States File Lawsuit Challenging Biden’s Student Loan Repayment Plan
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A group of Republican-led states is suing the Biden administration to block a new student loan repayment plan that provides a faster path to cancellation and lower monthly payments for millions of borrowers.
In a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, 11 states led by Kansas argue that Biden overstepped his authority in creating the SAVE Plan, which was made available to borrowers last year and has already canceled loans for more than 150,000.
It argues that the new plan is no different from Biden’s first attempt at student loan cancellation, which the Supreme Court rejected last year. “Last time Defendants tried this the Supreme Court said that this action was illegal. Nothing since then has changed,” according to the lawsuit.
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A star-studded fundraiser hosted by President Biden in New York City was interrupted multiple times by protesters inside the event, as well as outside, as protesters clashed with New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers on Thursday evening.
The protest, which migrated along Sixth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, took place outside of Radio City Music Hall.
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SEC Scores Big Win in Lawsuit Against Crypto Exchange Coinbase
The Securities and Exchange Commission scored a major win in its lawsuit against Coinbase on Wednesday, as a judge ruled that its claim that the cryptocurrency exchange engaged in unregistered sales of securities could be heard by a jury at trial.
Coinbase’s shares fell around 2.5% on news of the ruling in Manhattan federal court rejecting its bid to dismiss the SEC’s complaint.
The regulator first filed suit against Coinbase in June, alleging the company was acting as an unregistered broker and exchange. The agency also demanded the company be “permanently restrained and enjoined” from continuing to do so.
In her ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla wrote, “The ‘crypto’ nomenclature may be of recent vintage, but the challenged transactions fall comfortably within the framework that courts have used to identify securities for nearly eighty years.”
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The “new unofficial rules” around US elections were set years ago: if one side wins, the integrity of the vote cannot be questioned at all; if they don’t, then it must be questioned.
And for Democrats the preferred way to do the latter is to bring up “foreign meddling.” This is now also done “preemptively,” ahead of a ballot.
And, this is proving to be useful in justifying many things, some of which should be considered blatantly illegal, such as the government colluding with private tech companies to censor speech online.
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Texas Solar Farm Destroyed by Hail Storm, Igniting Concerns Over ‘Green’ Energy Sustainability
A massive hailstorm in southeastern Texas destroyed a solar farm earlier this month, which has garnered dialogue about “green” alternatives and whether or not solar panels are a sustainable source of energy.
Concerns about the broken panels leaking harsh chemicals have also come into play.
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The Golden Apple — A Socialist Fairy Tale
Once upon a time there was a street fair. Then the government created a Ministry of Street Fairs funded by taxing the produce sold at the street fair. At first the Ministry brought some some order to the street fair. But to justify its expansion, it would periodically launch new “street fair initiatives” paid for by higher taxes on the produce. The higher taxes are passed on to customers as higher produce prices and people stop shopping at the street fair.
After some consultation the Ministry of Street Fairs launches an “Emergency Street Fair Stimulus Plan” to promote shopping at the street fair. The stimulus plan offers people credit for shopping at the street fair. But the credit has to be paid for by doubling the price of all the produce. That and the welter of new hidden regulations embedded in the stimulus plan raises expenses for the sellers, who in turn have to raise prices. There is a short term burst of shoppers excited by the credit, which quickly fades away. The credit goes away soon enough too, but the prices stay just as high.
The Ministry of Street Fairs realizes that people are shopping for their produce at supermarkets instead. And it demands that supermarkets also be classified as street fairs, and put under the jurisdiction and tax authority of the Ministry. A Bill is introduced, “The Supermarkets are now Street Fairs” bill, to put supermarkets under the Ministry’s authority, and tax them at twice the rate of street fairs. Supporters of the bill denounce the evil “Supermarket Lobby” for profiteering at the expense of the starving children who need fresh fruit and the poor street fair sellers, who wish the Ministry would just go away. The bill passes. The Ministry is congratulated for its commitment to fighting for the right of everyone to buy fruit at vastly inflated prices.
Very few people shop for produce anymore because it has become far too expensive. Falling sales mean that merchants have to raise their prices even more to compensate for decreased sales volume. Many supermarkets and sellers go out of business, creating more unemployment and even fewer people who can afford fruit. Fruit growers and importers in turn go out of business or turn to other products. Fresh fruit becomes a luxury that only the very rich can afford.
The Ministry of Street Fairs responds by creating a “Fruit Dole” which entitles every child to one apple and pear a week. This dole comes once again at the expense of the fruit sellers, which raises the general price of fruit once again. Charismatic young politicians speak out demanding “Fruit for the People” and denouncing those who prevent the people from having access to fruit. The blames falls on the fruit sellers. A radical “Fruit People’s Party” is created with a call to equal fruit for everyone.
The Ministry decides to regulate the price of fruit, setting an exact price at which fruit may be sold. The taxes on fruit sellers however remain just as high. Most of the fruit sellers go out of business. The few who remain in business, sell bad fruit at the mandated price to the public, while selling good fresh fruit under the table at much higher prices. Now everyone can afford fruit, but the only fruit they can buy is rotten and moldy…
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Trump Calls Police ‘The Greatest People We Have’ in Mourning Officer’s Death
Former President Donald Trump mourned the death of a New York police officer on Thursday while lamenting the high level of crime the state is dealing with, saying the recent death and others like it “should never happen.”
Trump was attending the wake of Jonathan Diller, a 31-year-old officer who was killed during a traffic stop in Queens on Monday evening. Speaking to the press, Trump expressed frustration that Diller’s suspected killer, Guy Rivera, had 21 prior arrests before Monday night, and that attacks on police are happening “all too often.”
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Trump Leads Biden by 5 Point Among Registered Voters Nationwide: Fox News Poll
A new poll has found that former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in a head-to-head race for the 2024 election by 5 points among registered voters.
According to the Fox News poll conducted from March 22-25, Trump is leading among registered voters at 50 points to Joe Biden’s 45. Per Fox News, this is the largest lead Trump has had over Biden in the outlet’s respective polls.
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Two More Victims Recovered From Baltimore Wreckage, Hazardous Material Onboard
Two more bodies have been recovered from the frigid waters of the Patapsco River but it is thought the four remaining victims may now be entombed in vehicles below the wreckage of the bridge.
A red pickup truck was recovered from 25 feet of water late Wednesday, found to contain the bodies of two members of a road repair crew that had been working on the Francis Scott Key Bridge which was struck by a container ship in the early hours of Tuesday morning, causing a catastrophic failure. This grim discovery takes the total number of workers brought from the water to four, after two members were rescued alive in the moments after the collapse on Tuesday.
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Undated Ballots Cannot be Counted in Pennsylvania Elections, Appeals Court Rules
The state of Pennsylvania has been officially blocked from counting undated mail-in ballots during elections.
On Wednesday the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that only dated ballots can be counted.
The ruling is a major blow for Democrats who frequently use the tactic of counting undated ballots to boost their candidates’ totals after Election Day.
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Watergate Prosecutor Stunned by Trump’s ‘Unusual’ Gag Order: ‘This Never Happens’
A former Watergate prosecutor has asserted that in his 50-some years in law, he has never seen a gag order like the one imposed on President Donald Trump in his New York “hush money” case.
As Slay News reported, New York Judge Juan Merchan, a Democrat donor and supporter of President Joe Biden, issued the gag order against Trump on Tuesday.
Merchan issued the order following a request from Manhattan’s George Soros-funded Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Nick Akerman, one of the prosecutors during the Watergate scandal, said the move to gag Trump is unprecedented.
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YouTube Says it Has a “Responsibility” to Manipulate Algorithms Leading Up to the 2024 Election
“Responsibility” is a good word. It’s even better as an actual thing. But even just as a word, it’s a positive one. It signals that reliable people/entities are behind some project, or policy.
So no wonder then, that the thoroughly disgraced Google/YouTube — as far as censorship and biased political approach — are trying to use the word “responsibility” as a narrative fig leaf to cover what the giant platform is actually up to — and has been, for a long while.
Enter, YouTube’s newest chief product officer, Johanna Voolich. What are the priorities here? It could be summed up as, four R’s and One C — namely, YouTube’s “remove, raise, reward, reduce” content approach — that’s as per a blog post published by YouTube itself.
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Justice Colin Feasby acknowledged that the doctor-assisted death would cause the father ‘profound grief,’ but said the young woman’s right to end her own life trumped his feelings.
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Tires Slashed in Ontario: Tyre Extinguisher Group Allegedly Damages Dozens of SUVs in Kitchener
aterloo police are looking for any information on a spate of tire slashings in Kitchener that all had one thing in common — all the targeted vehicles were SUVs.
An international group known as Tyre Extinguishers appears to be the culprit. In a statement on their website, they take responsibility for flattening the tires of 60 SUVs in multiple locations across the Waterloo Region.
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Czech Officials Say Dutch Politicians Were Offered Cash to Back Russian Propaganda
An investigation by Czech intelligence service BIS uncovered payouts by a website based in Prague to politicians in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary and Poland. The website, Voice of Europe, was accused of spending hundreds of thousands of euros in 2023 to get politicians and opinion makers in those countries to spread Russian propaganda points. Dutch far-right political leader Thierry Baudet, who threatened violence in Parliament when questioned over funding sources for his Forum voor Democratie (FvD) party, declined to show up in person for a meeting on Thursday to discuss his outbursts.
The Czech investigation announced on Wednesday did not specifically identify any politicians suspected of accepting money from Voice of Europe. The website promotes pro-Russian news and viewpoints in more than a dozen languages, including English and Dutch. Baudet has been frequently featured by the media outlet, and was often quoted in their articles, especially last year.
[Comment: I can’t reach Voice of Europe website now.]
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EU Commission Wants to Condition Cohesion Funds on ‘Performance’
Cohesion funding for poorer EU member states could in the future be approved not based solely on need, but conditioned on performance, if the von der Leyen Commission gets its way. In a Wednesday meeting, the 27 commissioners produced a signed document that proposes altering how cohesion funds are allocated. The change purportedly comes in preparation for EU expansion—but with the side effect of increasing the Eurocrats’ power over the national domestic policies of its members.
“There is broad support for performance-based funding,” the document states, according to Politico.
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Germany to Impose Security Checks on All Its Borders During Soccer’s European Championship
BERLIN (AP) — Germany will carry out border controls at all its frontiers during soccer’s European Championship in June and July, the country’s top security official told local media.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told the daily Rheinische Post in comments published Tuesday that checks will be carried out at all German borders during the tournament “to be able to prevent possible violent criminals entering.” She added that “this is necessary to protect this major international event as best possible.”
Authorities’ focus is on protection against Islamic and other extremists, hooligans and others, and securing networks against cyberattacks, she said.
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Authored by Drieu Godefrei via The Gatestone Institute
In a preparatory impact report, a copy of which has been obtained by the Financial Times before official release, the European Commission estimates that to achieve the target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040 then 100% in 2050 — the main objective of the “European Green Deal” — Europe will need to invest €1.5 trillion a year from 2031 to 2050.
1.5 trillion euros a year. That is equivalent to 10% of the Europe Union’s entire GDP for 2022 — every year! Apart from a war effort, there is no objective of any kind that has ever required the diversion of 10% of a continent’s GDP by political decree.
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Italy Raises Security Alert Level for Easter Weekend Following Moscow Attacks
The Italian government has expelled from the country around 50 people said to have links with terrorist organisations since October 7.
Italy has joined France and other European countries in raising its security alert level following Moscow’s terrorist attacks. The Interior Ministry announced this week that surveillance and checks will be strengthened, with particular attention paid to crowded places. Additional measures will be implemented specifically in the Italian capital from Good Friday to Easter Sunday.
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Russian Money in Dutch Politics is “Very Worrying, “ Says Rutte; Investigation Started
An investigation by the Czech Republic’s intelligence service concerning Russian money distributed to European Union politicians is “very worrying,” said Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. He would not say whether the uncovered evidence was known to the Netherlands, as this is a case for the AIVD and MIVD, the Dutch domestic and military intelligence services.
The Czech authorities said money was funneled to politicians in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary and Poland in exchange for them promoting Russian propaganda. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs placed the blame with Prague news website Voice of Europe, which was alleged to be Russian-controlled.
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Spanish Prosecutors Seeking 2.5-Year Jail Term for World Cup Kisser
Prosecutors are gunning for a former Spanish Football Federation chief, seeking a two-and-a-half year prison sentence after he grabbed a female footballer and kissed her on the lips. With Spanish laws allowing terrorists to avoid prosecution and rapists to walk free before serving their sentences, a conversation on proportionality might not go amiss.
Last year, football captain Jenni Hermoso led the Spanish team to an August World Cup victory, culminating in an unwelcome kiss from Luis Rubiales, The event led to an outraged discussion on sexism across the West. Hermoso said the kiss was both unwanted and demeaning. Rubiales has denied any wrongdoing.
If he is convicted of kissing Hermoso against her will, he could spend 30 months in jail.
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U.S Embassy in Paris Issues Warning to Americans After France Raises Terror Alert to Highest Level
The U.S. Embassy in Paris has urged Americans in France to remain alert after the nation stepped up security measures over concerns of an imminent terror attack.
The terror alert follows the suspected terrorist attack in Russia’s capital city Moscow last week.
Other nations across Europe have stepped up their security measures in case there are additional planned attacks soon.
That includes France, which prompted the U.S. Embassy in Paris to issue a security alert to all American citizens living in that nation to similarly be on guard against possible attacks, Fox News reported.
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UK Officials Knew London Chemical Attacker Lied — So Why Did They Let Him Stay?
As if the case of convicted sex offender Abdul Ezedi—who was smuggled into Britain in 2016 on the back of a lorry before going on to commit a violent chemical attack—couldn’t get any more ridiculous, it has emerged that an asylum judge knew of his lies—but still let him stay.
Journalist Christopher Snowdon argues that “everyone involved in allowing this man to stay in the country should be sacked.” “Or jailed,” added financier Ben Goldsmith. Migration Watch UK Chairman Alp Mehmet also told The European Conservative that “the closer one looks at how Abdul Ezedi came to being granted permission to stay, the more baffling the actions of those involved become.
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UK: A Snapshot of London: Children Witness Stabbing in Broad Daylight
A knife attack on a train in the middle of the day left a man with life-threatening injuries and “traumatised” onlooking school children. Not in some wartorn developing country (officially, anyway), but in the capital of England.
The incident took place before 4 p.m on Wednesday on a train in southeast London. Police said the two men boarded the train while fighting. The victim is still receiving treatment in hospital, while the attacker, who is understood to have been caught on CCTV footage near the station holding a large knife, remained at large until police announced the arrest of a 19 year-old male.
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Nearly one in five teachers in England has been hit by a pupil so far this year, with spitting, swearing and chair-throwing commonplace.
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If everyone ate one more portion of fish a week than at current levels, the NHS could save up to £600million every year, the University of East Anglia study estimates.
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A picture of a young, dead Jewish woman’s mutilated body surrounded by terrorists on Oct 7 that was taken by Associated Press “journalists” who have been accused of working with Hamas was given a prestigious “Picture of the Year” award. The woman was named Shani Louk, and the photo spread quickly on social media.
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George Soros Pledged $1 Million to ‘Hamas Propaganda’ Organization Linked to Terrorism
The philanthropy of Democratic megadonor George Soros has awarded at least $1 million combined in grants over the last decade to a group in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip with deep ties to Palestinian terrorists, financial disclosures show.
In its own telling, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights exists “to promote respect for and protection of human rights,” particularly in Palestinian territories. Public records tell another story: Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, which is accusing Israel of genocide for retaliating against Hamas after its Oct. 7 attack last year and calling on the United Nations and other bodies to investigate the Jewish state, hosts events with terrorists and is led by people with sprawling connections to Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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Israel Must Open More Land Crossings for Gaza Aid, UN Court Says
In a legally binding order, the top United Nations court says Israel must open more land crossings into Gaza for food, water, fuel and other supplies.
The International Court of Justice issued two new so-called provisional measures Thursday in a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of acts of genocide in its war in Gaza — charges Israel strongly denies.
The U.N. has reported that 100% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are at severe levels of food insecurity.
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Putin Threatens to Attack Western Air Bases Hosting Ukrainian F-16s
This week Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Torzhok air base in Tver Region which hosts the 344th Training Center for Russian combat pilots. Some or many of these aviators who will likely go on to fly missions in Ukraine.
In an address to the pilots, Putin referenced accusations frequently voiced by Western leaders that he intends to expand the war in Ukraine by attacking NATO and other European countries. He called the claim “utter nonsense” but went on to issue a warning about US-made F16 fighters jets.
Describing that US “satellites” in Eastern Europe (for example, Poland) have no reason to be afraid, he said, “The claims that we are going to attack Europe after Ukraine — it is utter nonsense and intimidation of their own population just to beat the money out of them.”
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Russian Network That ‘Paid European Politicians’ Busted, Authorities Claim
A Russian-backed “propaganda” network has been broken up for spreading anti-Ukraine stories and paying unnamed European politicians, according to authorities in several countries.
Investigators claimed it used the popular Voice of Europe website as a vehicle to pay politicians.
The Czech Republic and Poland said the network aimed to influence European politics.
Voice of Europe did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment.
Czech media, citing intelligence sources, reported that politicians from Germany, France, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Hungary were paid by Voice of Europe in order to influence upcoming elections for the European Parliament.
The German newspaper Der Spiegel said the money was either handed over in cash in covert meetings in Prague or through cryptocurrency exchanges.
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Russia Announces ‘Substantiated Evidence’ of Ukraine Link to Crocus Hall Terrorists
Russian authorities say they have found a firm link between the suspects in last week’s terror attack on the Crocus City Hall complex and “Ukrainian nationalists” — according to a Thursday announcement.
The Russian Investigative Committee has unveiled preliminary findings, stating that the perpetrators who last Friday killed 140 people and wounded many more had received “significant sums of money” from Ukraine.
Investigators claim to have in their possession “substantiated evidence” that the attackers received payments from Ukraine in the form of cryptocurrency.
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US ‘Backed Itself Into Corner’ by Blaming ISIS for Moscow Attack as Fires Burned: Kremlin
Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Wednesday gave an interview to Russian state-run English language media wherein she continued to advance the Kremlin’s claims that the Ukrainian government or its Western partners likely had something to do with the the Crocus City Hall terror attack.
She described that it was strange that a Western media narrative coalesced around ISIS being behind the attack even as the mall and concert hall was still on fire and emergency crews were still responding. She said the US government has backed itself “into a corner” given that officials made bold statements too quickly in the aftermath.
“The very fact that within the first 24 hours [after the attack], even before the fire was put out, the Americans started screaming that it wasn’t Ukraine, I think, is a piece of incriminating evidence. I can’t classify it otherwise; it is evidence in and of itself,” Zakharova told Sputnik.
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Australian Lawmakers Pass Bill to Roll Out WEF’s Digital ID for Public
Lawmakers in Australia’s Senate have just passed a new bill to roll out the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) digital ID system for public use.
The legislation easily passed with virtually no resistance.
Australia is officially on the path to having a national, government-regulated, WEF-controlled digital identity system.
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A family of four have become the latest victims of what some are calling a crime spree in an affluent suburb, as a famous local slammed the state Premier over the issue.
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RMIT ABC Fact Check — a collaboration between RMIT University and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation — is continuing to lose whatever credibility it had left after a series of previous scandals.
And, this case once again sheds negative light on the phenomenon that is the fact-checking industry, one of the by-products of the censorship and information control that’s dominated the media over the past years.
The latest scandal saw businessman Dick Smith directly accusing RMIT of being the actual spreader of misinformation and lies — after the group came out with its “fact-check” of his remarks related to nuclear and renewable energy.
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A Vanuatuan fruit picker charged with murder after amputating a Queensland grandfather’s leg with a circular power saw has been ordered to face court two years after the incident.
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Americans Say States Should Have a Say in Border Security Efforts
(The Center Square) — Americans want states to have a role in stopping the flood of illegal immigration, which comes as the federal government and Texas grapple over who has the right to secure the southern border amidst the ongoing crisis there.
The Center Square Voter’s Voice Poll asked likely voters: “Who should have the final say on immigration policy?”
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Appeals Court Extends Block on Texas Arrests of Illegal Immigrants
Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
A divided appeals court has upheld a preliminary injunction against the State of Texas, continuing to stall the enforcement of Senate Bill 4 (S.B. 4), a state law targeting illegal immigration that allows the state to arrest and deport suspected illegal immigrants.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision, in which one member of the three-judge panel dissented, follows conflicting rulings over the law that the Supreme Court briefly allowed to take effect last week.
The high court sent the case back to the 5th Circuit, which then halted enforcement while it considered the latest appeal.
The majority’s opinion said, in part, that “The United States has broad powers and rights granted by the Constitution and Congress regarding immigration matters.”
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Georgia Mayor Privately Praised ‘Sanctuary’ Policy After Laken Riley Murder, Emails Show
Two days after the murder of Laken Riley, the Democrat mayor of Athens, Georgia privately praised his city’s “sanctuary” policies, according to damning emails.
Mayor Kelly Girtz praised the policy after he publicly insisted they were not in effect when the young nursing student was brutally killed by an illegal alien.
The exchange between Girtz and Clarke County Sheriff John Q. Williams was revealed in emails obtained by Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI).
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Half of Europeans Disapprove of EU Migration Policy and Demand Stronger Border Controls, Poll Shows
Europeans give a thumbs down to the European Union’s efforts to control irregular migration and demand stronger border controls.
This is one of the eye-catching takeaways from an exclusive Euronews poll conducted by Ipsos among almost 26,000 respondents across 18 member states ahead of the elections to the European Parliament, which will be held between 6 and 9 June.
The first-of-its-kind survey shows that 51% of Europeans have a “negative” assessment of the bloc’s impact on migration policy, while only 16% have a “positive” view. Meanwhile, 32% say the impact has been “neither positive nor negative.”
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Ireland: Left Opposition Drops Support for Asylum Pact and Hate Speech Bill
The political tide appears to be turning in the Republic of Ireland after Sinn Féin, the country’s largest opposition party, reversed its stance on proposed hate speech laws aimed at curbing the rise of the populist right. Additionally, the left-wing party hinted at adopting a Danish-style approach in opposing new EU open border policies.
Last week, Sinn Féin, the former political wing of the IRA paramilitary group, was criticised by both the Left and the Right as it signalled that it would drop support for controversial hate speech legislation that would see those convicted face up to five years in prison. This comes despite previous support for the very same legislation in the Irish Parliament.
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This is the moment a panga boat filled with migrants washed up on a San Diego beach as Customs and Border Protection agents arrested 10 passengers.
The fishing boat made its way to the shore of Solana Beach, a costal city in San Diego, around 6.50am Wednesday.
It was detected by the U.S. Customs Border and Protection’s San Diego Air and Marine Branch, Michael Scappechio with CBP told KUSI.
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Portland is scrambling to find homes for 64 asylum-seeker families after the overpriced taxpayer-funded motel they were staying became infested with cockroach, as Maine’s migrant crisis deepens.
The state Department of Health and Human Services revoked the lodging license of the Motel 6 on Riverside Street, Portland, where more than 100 rooms were are used as emergency shelter for asylum seekers.
Inspectors found a cockroach infestation and other code violations at the motel — one of the few in Portland that accepts General Assistance vouchers for homeless, asylum seeker and other recipients.
The city is now working to rehouse the families by July 1.
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[…]and there are 172,000 new foreign-born arrivals every month
A wave of illegal immigration under President Joe Biden’s tenure has contributed to a record number of foreign-born living in the United States, a new study found.
The United States now has 13.7 million illegal immigrants living in America and 3.7 million of them came in since Biden took office in January 2021, according to a new study from the Center for Immigration Studies.
Overall, the total foreign-born population — both legal and illegal — hit a new record of 51.4 million in February 2024, which is an increase of 6.4 million under Biden.
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UK Population Rose by More Than 4 Million Since 2011 to Record 67.6 Million Amid Mass Migration
The population of the United Kingdom rose by nearly seven per cent between 2011 and 2022 to an estimated 67.6 million, an increase of over four million people mostly as a result of the mass migration policies of the supposedly Conservative government.
Population figures released on Tuesday from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the first snapshot of the country’s size since the 2021 Census, found that the population of the UK rose by 6.7 per cent to an estimated 67,596,281 people by mid-2022 from just a little over a decade prior in mid-2011.
England saw the largest increase of the four UK nations, jumping by 7.5 per cent over the time period, or an increase of four million people, the ONS said.
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UK: Nigel Farage’s Reform is Now More Trusted Than Tories on Immigration Policy, Polling Finds
The British people are dissatisfied with how the government is handling immigration, with a majority saying the number of arrivals both legal and illegal should fall.
Reform UK notes its opposition to “rampant immigration” is seeing it pick up support as UK politics realigns itself, the party deputy chair has told Breitbart London in response to new figures.
Research by Ipsos Mori with the pro-immigration and pro-integration think tank British Future into public attitudes on new arrivals reported this week dissatisfaction in how the government is handling the border, with voters from different political camps bringing their own concerns.
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The mugshot of the Venezuelan migrant who shares tips on how to live off the US government on social media has been revealed.
Leonel Moreno, 27, has been on the run from immigration since he crossed the border at Eagle Pass, Texas, illegally in April 2022, ICE told DailyMail.com.
ICE had lost track of Moreno until his videos telling migrants how to live off the state started going viral. They now have him listed as possibly living in Columbus, Ohio.
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Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is facing intensified heat from critics over her state’s “newcomer rental subsidy” giving up to $500 to landlords that rent to migrants following the alleged murder of a woman by an illegal immigrant in Michigan.
“Many refugees and other newcomers face critical housing challenges, and this program will increase access to better and more affordable housing opportunities while supporting a more rapid social integration to refugees and other newcomer populations to Michigan,” the state’s website says regarding the program that was reported on this week by The Midwesterner.
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Flying Bats FC won every game they played over the course of the Beryl Ackroyd Cup, a pre-season tournament in Sydney , Australia, winning the grand final 4-0.
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Canada: First Nations Feminist Says ‘Two Spirit’ Gender Expression is a Colonial Invention
A First Nations feminist scholar told a crowd in Burnaby, British Columbia recently that the “two spirit” concept is a colonial invention and was first promoted in 1990 by gay rights activists as a way of depicting people who identify as both gay and indigenous.
Dr. Cherry Smiley criticized the entire transgender movement for attempting to undermine women’s rights and erode the feminist creed that women have historically been oppressed by men, according to a report in The New Westminster Times.
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An attorney for Oklahoma LGBTQ advocacy group Free Mom Hugs issued a cease and desist letter to Moms for Liberty on Thursday, threatening legal action after the conservative group called the organization “groomers.”
Free Mom Hugs is a group that offers hugs to LGBTQ people at Pride events who have been estranged from their families. The idea is to create a new, more “affirming” or accepting family.
An attorney on behalf of “Free Mom Hugs” alleges that the comments made by Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice are considered “illegal defamation and harassment,” and that they will be obliged to take legal action if Moms for Liberty does not “cease and desist.”
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Oklahoma Teen Nex Benedict Left Notes ‘Suggestive of Self-Harm’ Prior to Death: Autopsy Report
A final autopsy report revealed that Oklahoma teen Nex Benedict died by suicide from a “combined toxicity” stemming from antidepressant and antihistamine medications. Reports around the teen said that Benedict identified as non-binary prior to passing away.
The report found “no lethal trauma” to the head despite Benedict, 16, being involved in a fight at school the day before, the New York Post reported.
Furthermore, Benedict left handwritten notes “suggestive of self-harm” before the death occurred.
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Princeton Grad, LGBTQ Activist Who Led Queer Alumni Charged With Possession of Child Porn
An LGBTQ activist who led Princeton University’s Queer Alumni Club, and also held degrees from Yale and Harvard, has been accused of downloading child pornography.
Roy “Trey” Farmer, 53, was charged with a count of third-degree possession of child sexual abuse material after Mercer County, New Jersey prosecutors received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that he’d downloaded a file depicting child sexual abuse, according to NJ.com.
Police found pieces of evidence after searching his condo in Princeton near the school’s main entrance on Friday, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Prosecutors filed a motion to keep Farmer behind bars before his day in court, with a preliminary hearing delayed until next week, Patch.com reported.
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Trantifa Activists Arrested in Atlanta After Climbing Crane in ‘Stop Cop City’ Protest
Two trans-identified males were arrested in Midtown Atlanta on Wednesday after climbing to the top of a construction crane and chaining themselves to it to protest the construction of Atlanta’s Public Safety Training Center, which activists have dubbed “Cop City.”
According to Fox 5, the incident occurred at a construction site on 11th Street and Bellingrath Avenue.
Police arrested 23-year-old Parker Demos and 22-year-old Frederick Hetzel. At the top of the crane, the two unfurled a banner that read “Drop Cop City.” The two were charged with Criminal Trespass, False Imprisonment, Obstruction, and Reckless Conduct.
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Clergymen Brett Murphy made the comment when discussing the appointment of Rachel Mann as the archdeacon of Bolton and Salford to his 14,000 YouTube subscribers last year.
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A Washington couple filed a lawsuit against state officials who allegedly denied the renewal of their foster care license because they would not adhere to gender ideology regulations that conflict with their Christian faith.
Shane Degross told Fox News that when he began the process of being re-licensed, there were new rules and regulations including specific policies about “gender ideology” that had not been present in previous years.
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Some comments about the article “AP Wins Award for Photo of Half-Naked, Murdered Jewish Woman Shani Louk Taken by Hamas-Affiliated ‘Photojournalist’ on Oct. 7”. If you compare this picture with the ones when Shani was brought into Gaza and spat upon, you may notice a difference in size of the clothing covering her bottom. In the latter case, it may very well be just her underwear. If so, there might be a question as to how this happened.
a. Shani Louk just captured. https://postimg.cc/3WCrDzp3
a. Spitting in Shani’s body. https://postimg.cc/21Nqfn45
b. Shani in truck. https://postimg.cc/SjYHz9Mq
“If you compare this picture with the ones when Shani was brought into Gaza and spat upon, you may notice a difference in size of the clothing covering her bottom. In the latter case, it may very well be just her underwear. If so, there might be a question as to how this happened.”
Yada, yada, yada.
The ONLY photo I wanna see—for Shani and all other Jews who’ve been harmed by these feral monsters—is the one of a [huge] mushroom cloud rising miles above Mecca (for starters). Now, that’d be a CROWDPLEASER!
I would use plenty of napalm and Wille Pete and cluster munitions and make Gaza Fakey free, until none are left. No more muzzy’s = No more problems. Simples
What a sick joke this “International Court of Justice” has become. Did it order the Palestinians to release all hostages, at once and without conditions? Unless and until it does, it has no standing whatsoever.
Last time I looked, I am and you are sovereign citizens of a sovereign country, since when did we become so called internationals citizens when they have jurisdiction on a damned thing? Hang the court, they have zero jurisdiction on you or I or anyone else for that matter, burn that building to the ground and hang the lawyers and so called judges for good measure and a lesson to anyone else who thinks they rule over you or I.
regarding the eating of a severed human leg in broad daylight in the heart of Enlightenment territory, there is a carved wooden figure in the Stuttgart Landes Museum as part of the Dukes of Wurttemberg collection that depicts a naked German woman in good physical condition eating a leg roughly severed above the knee that looks remarkably like the one from this week’s event. The figure predates the arrival of the ostensibly responsible recreational drugs into Stuttgart that the producers of certified opinion (aka psychiatrists) provide as explanation every single time that it is wanted or needed by Power. There is an adjacent carved figure that is almost certainly made by the same person depicting a peasant lady bashing into a devil with a club. I assume that the later is intended as prophylactic against the former behaviour. The same collection has an iron mask not so different to the silence of the lambs which likewise might have seen service in their treatment of cannibalism. Nothing new?
The economic system is no longer fit for the purpose of providing social stability hence the merchants are set to be replaced by the warrior caste in accordance with a millennial-scale cycle (Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan; David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years). What is new is that the linear process of technological development allows circumvention of the cyclic process. Those with sufficient control of the atom and of biology, and who employ total surveillance and control over primary human needs have no intention of being subject to the cycles that operated under prior conditions.
The popularist political movement attempts to bring the power of technology under a meaningful degree of control by the masses. Notably the only success has been in collaboration with Elon Musk who has experienced civil war chaos, and for some reason does not despise humanity. Assuming that the technologists prevail and plug the useless eaters into virtual reality, then we will probably discover imagination so wild that virtual cannibalism quickly becomes blase (as with the big bang, will it dissipate out into nothingness or collapse back into sludge)? Alternatively if the technologists prefer their world purged of the useless eaters, then some of the west that persists will rediscover the utility of some aspects of the medieval mindset under the new conditions. So called traditional societies can return to their currently celebrated foundations. After all, you can’t eat money.
Again: “The nature of civilization is such that it serves as a framework within which people may live together, however fractiously. Great wars may be fought, but a few rules essential to the preservation of any organized society will prevail. The truly barbarous know no such rules, cannot be made to live with the civilized, and must be EXTERMINATED as a threat to all mankind no less dangerous (or deserving of compassion) than a plague. There are relatively few things that separate the civilized from the truly barbarous. We would argue that paramount among these is a respect for the sanctity of innocent life, especially women and children, and when possible, civilian populations as a whole. Historically, this line has seldom been crossed by any tribal, royal or national entity. This sanctity is not an absolute thing. It is quite common for innocents to be injured and killed as “collateral damage” in a strike against a legitimate military target, but the deliberate, wholesale slaughter of women and children clearly separates the terrorist from mankind, rends their humanity nominal, and LEGITIMIZES THEIR EXTERMINATION.” —”Terrorism Isn’t Rocket Science” (2002)
http://www.triumphpc.com/psst!/jul02/rocket1.shtml
History keeps repeating itself and only the names and dates change….BECAUSE only the names and dates change.
Just sayin’, again….ad absurdum.
You will live to see of the return of wars of total annihilation. Civilized rules of war were for civilized people, the 3rd world is not civilized, therefore the rules go out the window. Only the vanquished whine about how the Victors won.