Six alleged members of the Islamic State were killed in a shootout with Russian security services in the North Caucasus. Meanwhile, the crew of a commercial vessel evacuated their ship after allegedly being attacked by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea.
In other news, French police are searching for an assailant who allegedly attacked a man leaving a synagogue in Paris.
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While Georgia Trump prosecutor Fani Willis is embroiled in Fanigate — paying her boyfriend nearly $1 million to help her ‘get Trump’ while he flew the two of them on (allegedly ‘cash’ reimbursed) lavish vacations, New York AG Letitia James has been spending tens of thousands of dollars on all sorts of personal benefits, according to a recent analysis of a recent financial disclosure by X user “Mel” (@Villagecrazylady).
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Austin, Texas residents are expressing outrage over police staffing shortages and longer 911-call response times in the aftermath of the city council’s vote to defund the department in 2020.
In February, a section of the city was notably left without a single police officer for a few hours on a Saturday due to the ongoing shortages.
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Chicago ‘Mansion’ Tax to Fund Homeless Services Stuck in Legal Limbo While on the Ballot
CHICAGO (AP) — An unusual legal challenge may upend the future of a Chicago ballot measure that would hike a real estate tax on high-end property sales to fund services for homeless people.
Such citywide ballot measures are rare in the nation’s third-largest city, but other cities, including Los Angeles, have approved similar so-called “mansion taxes.”
A Cook County judge last month rejected the measure, but backers of the effort, called Bring Chicago Home, hope it will be overturned.
Early voting for the March 19 primary in Chicago has already started, so the measure remains on the ballot as it’s being settled in the courts.
Here’s a closer look at the ballot measure and the issues surrounding it.
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Ex-Bill Clinton Official Pleads Guilty to Decades of Spying for Communist Cuba
A former top official in ex-President Bill Clinton’s administration has admitted to decades of spying on behalf of Cuba’s communist regime.
Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, a career diplomat who rose to prominence during Clinton’s tenure, was criminally indicted in December on charges that he secretly served as a spy for Cuba.
Rocha who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia during the latter part of Clinton’s presidency, informed a federal judge on Thursday that he intends to plead guilty.
He confessed to a charge of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government, according to the Associated Press.
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Fox New Poll: Majorities Say Biden Has Mostly Failed on Top Issues
As President Biden prepares for his State of the Union address, there is an avalanche of bad news hitting him in the latest Fox News survey. Majorities of voters disapprove of the job he’s doing, are unhappy with how things are going in the country, and say the administration has mostly failed at handling national priorities.
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Jewish advocates called on the city’s education chancellor and a Sheepshead Bay principal to be removed following shocking allegations of antisemitism at a public high school.
The call came for the removal of chancellor David Banks and Origins High School interim principal Dara Kammerman during a Sunday press conference after multiple staffers outlined a series of alarming incidents, including a claim that dozens of teens had marched through the hallways chanting “Death to Israel” and “Kill all the Jews” after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel.
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Laken Riley’s Mother Speaks Out About ‘Avoidable Tragedy’ After Daughter’s Funeral
Laken Riley’s mother, Allyson Phillips, on Saturday shared a public message for the first time since her daughter’s Feb. 22 murder, calling it an “avoidable tragedy” in a Facebook post.
Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University, was killed while jogging on trails around the University of Georgia campus. Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuelan national who was living illegally in the United States, has been charged in her murder, which police described as a “crime of opportunity.”
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‘Life-Threatening’ California Blizzard Rages on as More Snow Expected in Sierra Nevada
A powerful blizzard that has dumped huge amounts of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains will continue to slam the region through Sunday, bringing more snow and damaging winds as a second “weaker” system is expected to bring additional snow Monday.
The dayslong storm that has caused treacherous white-out conditions due to its hefty wind gusts has shuttered national parks, ski resorts and parts of a major California interstate.
Up to 10 feet of snow was expected to slam high-elevation areas, creating a “life-threatening concern” for Lake Tahoe residents, National Weather Service meteorologist William Churchill said.
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Major California Mall Places Restrictions on Times Minors Can Shop Unsupervised After Teenage Brawl
New age restrictions are now in place for minors wanting to visit a Los Angeles area mall following a massive brawl in December 2023.
The Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, which is described on its website as the largest shopping center in the western U.S., will no longer allow unsupervised shoppers under the age of 18 after 3 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
The accompanying adult must be at least 21 years old and has to remain with the minor(s) at all times after 3 p.m. If that’s not possible, the minor(s) must leave the property.
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NYC Transit System Sees Massive Increase in Murder, Violence Since 2020
Data shows that more people have been killed on New York City’s subway transit system since the start of 2020 than in the 15 years prior.
The New York Police Department has raised alarming concerns about the upward trend after the start of 2024 kicked off with historic violent crime rates on the Big Apple’s subway systems. This despite an increase in officer staffing and surveillance measures on the city’s transit system, which had been implemented in an attempt to deter criminal activity.
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Pair of Escaped Police Horses Stall Traffic on Busy US Highway
Two police horses on the loose trotted into oncoming traffic on a busy motorway in the US yesterday.
They were caught on traffic cameras as they brought cars to a halt in Cleveland, Ohio, at 12pm on Sunday (local time).
Cleveland police told 3News that the pair escaped during routine care and exercise.
“Mounted officers promptly recovered both horses, ensuring their safety, and no further incidents ensued,” a spokesperson said.
One person commented on the video posted to Facebook saying that she was one of the cars stopped when the “big, beautiful horses” came by.
“They definitely looked like they were having fun.”
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Protesters, Police Injured After Clash in Downtown San Francisco
Police clashed with protesters during a rally Saturday calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in which activists said police pepper sprayed several of the demonstrators.
San Francisco police said the protest began peacefully around 3 p.m. as officers escorted a group of several hundred people “exercising First Amendment rights” outside the Israeli consulate near Sacramento and Montgomery streets.
But the SFPD said in a statement issued late Saturday that the gathering turned violent when some in the crowd began committing crimes such as felony assault and vandalism.
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A Georgia man claims he returned home from caring for his sick wife to find that squatters had changed the locks on his home and moved in — and now local laws are blocking him from evicting the alleged freeloaders.
“Basically, these people came in Friday, broke into my house and had a U-Haul move all their stuff in. It’s frustrating. It’s very frustrating. I can’t even sleep,” DeKalb man Paul Callins told WSB-TV.
Callins had sunk thousands of dollars into the home and renovated with his own hands after he inherited it from his late father, but since squatters moved in he’s found himself facing nothing but obstacles to evict the alleged intruders.
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Students at one of America’s most violent high schools — where administrators begged for the National Guard to help reign in campus chaos — are organizing fight clubs, The Post has learned.
Meanwhile, overwhelmed teachers at Brockton High School, 25 miles south of Boston, are turning a blind eye to the violence out of fear for their own safety after multiple staffers were brutally beaten while trying to stop fights.
“Out of boredom the kids are setting up fights between two individuals, and they’re setting up a location for them to fight, and everybody’s going to watch it,” said Jamal Gooding, a Brockton, Mass., activist who has been speaking with parents and students since the beleaguered school made headlines earlier in February.
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Teens Break Into Clippers’ New $2B Arena, Wreak Havoc in TikTok Footage: ‘Posting This is Crazy’
Two teens in California broke into an unfinished billion-dollar NBA arena in the middle of the night, even shooting some hoops, for the world — and outraged local officials — to see on social media.
The juveniles seemingly entered the Intuit Dome, the future home of the Clippers, in Inglewood, Calif., when they climbed an orange work ladder outside the construction grounds, the over 90-second TikTok video posted Thursday showed.
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They Called Him “Crooked Cohen”: Thacker
Authored by Paul Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle
The COVID pandemic created some of the worst science writing in our lifetimes. Major media outlets failed at providing readers with accurate and balanced news across a host of issues, including vaccines, masks, lockdowns and how the virus likely began spreading through the human population.
It’s critical to call the news we read over the last four years “science writing” and not “reporting” because few science media outlets do any actual reporting. What science writers label “reporting’ is just calling up the known experts and then quoting them as the known experts.
As I’ve noted in the past: Science writers report for, not on science.
Looking back over the last four years of science writing claptrap, I ran across an early article by Science Magazine writer Jon Cohen that illustrates this point quite nicely. On January 31, 2020, Cohen wrote a story for Science Magazine alleging that “most researchers say” the virus could not have come from a lab, an idea Cohen added, had been dismissed as a “conspiracy theory.”
However, Cohen’s “most researchers say” assertion was totally phony. How do we know this?
We have the emails.
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Top Republican Moves to Crack Down Anti-Semitism on College Campuses
Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is moving to crack down on the anti-Semitism that is plaguing many left-wing college and university campuses.
Stefanik, the number 3 House Republican, is introducing legislation that would essentially force colleges and universities to take action to put a stop to this anti-Semitism.
The congresswoman made her plan known on Thursday during a roundtable with Jewish college students, according to Fox News.
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‘Very Bizarre’: Scientists Expose Major Problems With Climate Change Data
Authored by Alex Newman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Temperature records used by climate scientists and governments to build models that then forecast dangerous manmade global warming repercussions have serious problems and even corruption in the data, multiple scientists who have published recent studies on the issue told The Epoch Times.
The Biden administration leans on its latest National Climate Assessment report as evidence that global warming is accelerating because of human activities. The document states that human emissions of “greenhouse gases” such as carbon dioxide are dangerously warming the Earth.
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) holds the same view, and its leaders are pushing major global policy changes in response.
But scientific experts from around the world in a variety of fields are pushing back. In peer-reviewed studies, they cite a wide range of flaws with the global temperature data used to reach the dire conclusions; they say it’s time to reexamine the whole narrative.
Problems with temperature data include a lack of geographically and historically representative data, contamination of the records by heat from urban areas, and corruption of the data introduced by a process known as “homogenization.”
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Hands State Republicans Huge Win
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has just handed Republicans a massive win by refusing to hear a Democrat-led challenge to the state’s congressional maps.
Democrats had filed a lawsuit in the hopes of overturning the maps in the battleground state.
However, the state’s left-leaning high court rejected to hear the case.
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Yale University Employs Nearly One Administrator Per Undergrad
Yale University employs more than three administrators and support staff for every four undergraduate students — roughly one administrator per undergrad, according to a College Fix analysis.
Over the last decade, Yale added 631 administrators and support staff to its payroll, according to data provided by administrators to the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.
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The Liberals’ ‘online harms’ bill will leave no stone unturned in their quest to censor dissenting thoughts. Case in point: Dr. Jordan Peterson.
The Ontario Court of Appeals ruled against the former psychologist last month, giving him an ultimatum: take part in remedial social media training or never renew your practice.
The College of Psychologists of Ontario argued for nearly two years that Dr. Peterson made ‘inappropriate’ public statements on social media, even though they did not relate to the practice of psychology. Those statements related to his opinion on politics, public figures, the Freedom Convoy and ‘climate change.’
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Fired Chinese Scientists ‘Lied to Investigators’ About Their Contacts With China: Report
MPs learned Wednesday that two Chinese scientists who once worked at Canada’s top infectious disease laboratory did not disclose their contacts with China to investigators.
The Trudeau Liberals disclosed a 614-page report confirming Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, had top-level clearance at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg despite being security risks, reported Blacklock’s Reporter.
Both lied when questioned by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, according to investigators.
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Ontario Doctor Survives Regulatory Turmoil After Questioning Risk-Benefit of COVID Vaccines
Ontario physician Jean-Marc Benoit remains with his license to practice medicine intact following an investigation launched against him by his college, stemming from 2021 allegations.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) began investigating Dr. Benoit and his practice shortly after he appeared on Rebel News in May 2021.
During that time, Dr. Benoit was simply asking government officials for the data behind the authorization of the novel COVID-19 injections for children, and sharing his concerns over whether the risk really outweighed the theorized benefit.
Dr. Benoit is walking away from the investigation mostly scot free, unlike many Ontario physicians who retired early, left the province, or had their licenses revoked by the CPSO throughout the COVID hysteria.
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Poilievre Claims Trudeau ‘Covered Up’ Lab Leaks, Won 2021 Election With China’s Help
Official Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre took Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to task for dropping the ball on two scientists who gave China confidential, virulent materials.
“We already knew that Justin Trudeau was not worth the cost, the crime, the corruption and the cover-up,” started Poilievre. “But now we know that he cannot protect our people or our country.”
In July 2019, two infectious disease researchers, Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, lost their security clearances at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg after they leaked confidential information to China. The husband and wife collaborated with Chinese military researchers on experiments with Ebola, Lassa fever and Rift Valley fever.
The Public Health Agency gave them their walking papers in January 2021 but never disclosed the reason for their dismissal.
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RCMP Investigates Trudeau’s $60 Million ArriveCAN Boondoggle
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed in a Feb. 21, 2024 letter to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre that it is investigating the Trudeau government’s ArriveCAN scandal.
“BREAKING: RCMP letter to Common Sense Conservatives confirms Mounties officially investigating Trudeau’s #ArriveScam,” Poilievre posted.
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“The EU Acts Like a Globalist Political Steamroller”: An Interview With Tamas Deutsch
Tamas Deutsch is a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the ruling Hungarian conservative party, Fidesz, who has recently been nominated as the party’s lead candidate for its European Parliament electoral list.
He has been an MEP for fifteen years, and has witnessed first hand the evolution of the EU in what he describes as “a sovereignty-decreasing, empire-building aspiration that seeks to transform the European Union into a European empire, a superstate.”
In an interview with The European Conservative, he talked about the battles that will shape the political agenda in Brussels in the coming years, the deep political crisis the EU finds itself in, and the possibility of right-wing parties joining forces.
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25% of Vaxxed Now Have VAIDS, Top Scientists Warn
A group of some of the world’s leading scientists has alerted the public to a devastating discovery regarding those who have been vaccinated with Covid mRNA shots.
Top scientists at the world-renowned Cambridge University in England have published the results of a bombshell study into the impact of the injections on the human immune system.
The study concluded that 25 percent of all people vaccinated with Covid mRNA shots now have Vaccine-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (VAIDS).
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An Anti-Semitic Hate Crime Has Occurred in Switzerland
In Zurich, on Saturday evening, a 50-year-old Jewish Orthodox man was critically injured in a knife attack. The perpetrator, according to the police, is just 15 years old.
Police reports indicate that there was initially an argument between the two around 9:35 p.m. The situation escalated when the teenager pulled out a weapon and stabbed the man. He was apprehended at the scene.
As reported by BILD, the perpetrator to be of Swiss-Arab descent. Witnesses claim that shortly before the attack, he shouted “Death to all Jews” and “Allahu Akbar.”
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Belgium Anti-Terror Operation Results in the Arrest of Three Minors and One Adult
As cited by The Brussels Times, three minors and one adult were apprehended on Sunday morning in connection with a federal investigation targeting individuals suspected of ties to violent Islamic extremism.
These arrests took place during Sunday morning raids across Brussels, Ninove, Charleroi, and Liège, where no weapons or explosives were found. The four individuals allegedly maintained contact and conspired to execute an attack.
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Extinction Rebellion Activists Took Over Place de l’Albertine in Brussels on Saturday
On Saturday, roughly one hundred activists associated with Extinction Rebellion took control of Place de l’Albertine in Brussels, prompting police intervention later in the afternoon.
With the Belgian and European elections set for June 2024, the activists emphasized their demand for an immediate cessation of fossil fuel subsidies and the development of new fossil fuel infrastructure, advocating instead for a transition to renewable energies, according to The Brussels Times.
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Farage-Founded Reform UK Hits Polling High, Closes in on Floundering Tories
The populist Reform UK party has surged to its highest-ever recorded position in the polls and is now within striking distance of the Tories as the so-called Conservative Party continues to spurn its own voter base.
A survey from the YouGov polling firm has found that the Nigel Farage-founded Reform UK has climbed to 14 per cent in public support, a record high for the re-branded Brexit Party, doubling the support logged for the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats at seven per cent.
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French Farmers Could Stage More Protests
According to the head of France’s largest farming union FNSEA, there’s a possibility of increased protests and blockades by French farmers in the upcoming weeks to urge the government to fulfill its promises of assistance to the sector.
As cited by Reuters, these protests stem from grievances such as stringent environmental regulations, competition from inexpensive imports beyond the EU, as well as escalating expenses and meager incomes.
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French Police Launch Manhunt for Synagogue Attacker in Paris
PARIS (AP) — French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man leaving a synagogue in Paris, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said late Saturday.
Darmanin said the alleged attack on a man in his early 60s was “a new antisemitic attack that occurred in Paris” Friday evening. “Everything is being done to apprehend the perpetrator of this unspeakable act,” Darmanin said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, Saturday evening.
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Italy Intends to Withdraw the Medium-Range Air Defense System Samp/T From Slovakia
Prime Minister Robert Fico has announced the withdrawal of the Italian air defense system from Slovakia. He made this declaration through a video posted on social media, reports Aktuality.sk.
“I have received notice from the Italian government that the Italian air defense system, which they lent us for a year, will be withdrawn from Slovakia because they need it elsewhere,” the Prime Minister stated on Saturday.
Fico wonders who will protect nuclear power plants and other strategic targets.
[Comment: My hunch is that the withdrawal of the defense system is related to Prime Minster Robert Fico’s stance on the Russo-Ukraine war.]
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Italy: In Florence, Climate Activists Draped Botticelli’s “Spring” With Images
Activists protesting climate chaos draped images of the flooding disaster in Campi Bisenzio near Florence over the protective glass of Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece “Spring,” reports eXXpress.
The museum guards swiftly extinguished the lights, ushered visitors out, and alerted the authorities, bringing the brief action to a halt.
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Pope Francis: Military Disarmament is a ‘Moral Obligation’
ROME — Pope Francis said Sunday that military disarmament is not optional but constitutes a “moral obligation” for all nations.
Following his weekly Angelus address in Saint Peter’s Square, the pontiff recalled that March 5 marks the second International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness.
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Russia’s ‘Grey Zone’ Tactics in Finland’s Snowy Forests
Another crisis involving an influx of migrants is building up on Europe’s border, said Christiane Kühl on Merkur.de (Munich). But this one isn’t in the Mediterranean: it’s occurring along the frozen stretches of the 832-mile frontier between Finland and Russia.
From August to December last year, more than 1,300 refugees from nations such as Yemen, Somalia and Syria crossed into Finland (before that it had been an average of just one a day); thousands more are expected when spring arrives. It’s all part of Russia’s plan to destabilise its neighbour. The tensions between the two countries have a long history, but in April last year they escalated dramatically when Finland joined Nato, and have risen ever since. Using migrants as a weapon is a classic case of Russia using “grey-zone tactics” against a Nato state — a ruse somewhere between political pressure and physical aggression.
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Switzerland Votes for 13th-Month Pension Scheme
The majority of voters in Switzerland have supported the introduction of a 13-month pension scheme, reports Der Spiegel.
This decision suggests that pensioners in Switzerland may receive an extra annual pension payout going forward. Approximately 58% of voters approved this initiative in the referendum, indicating the need for additional support from various cantons. The retirees’ association “Avivo” hailed this outcome as a “historic day” for pensioners.
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Switzerland: Zurich Enhances Security Measures at Jewish Sites Following an Antisemitic Incident
Police in Zurich have heightened security measures at Jewish sites following a severe knife assault on an orthodox Jewish man within the Swiss city overnight, local authorities stated on Sunday.
Authorities took action after a 15-year-old Swiss youth was apprehended for causing “life-threatening” injuries to the 50-year-old Jewish man in central Zurich on Saturday night.
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The Ukrainian Woman’s Robbery Tale in Cyprus Ended With Her Being Arrested for Money Laundering
A 31-year-old woman, originally claiming to be robbed of €420,000 in cash, found herself in handcuffs for money laundering shortly after the incident.
Unveiled on Saturday, the startling turn of events showcased a deeper entanglement in illicit activities, reports Cyprus Mail.
Appearing before the Nicosia District court, the woman, believed to hail from Ukraine, faced accusations of illegally importing over €6 million in cash to Cyprus spanning from last August to the recent Friday. While initially disclosing the funds to Customs upon her arrivals, her explanations failed to convince authorities, now deeming them “insufficient.”
Authorities have raised suspicions regarding the authenticity of the reported robbery, probing the likelihood of it being meticulously orchestrated.
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Hamas, Islamic Jihad Call for ‘Terror’ During Islamic Holy Month of Ramadan
Leaders of the major Palestinian terror groups have called for Arab states and the Muslim world to engage in “terror” during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan — even as the Biden administration aims for a Ramadan truce in Gaza.
Jerusalem Post reported Sunday:
Palestinian Islamic Jihad is calling for Ramadan to be a “month of terror” and seeks to escalate attacks in the West Bank and Gaza. In a recent speech, Abu Hamza, the spokesman for PIJ’s Al-Quds Brigades, said he wants Arab countries in the region and pro-Iranian groups to continue to “unify” various arenas and fronts against Israel.
This is the latest indication that terrorist groups plan to seek an escalation in hostilities over the next month. Hamza’s remarks were published by Beirut-based Al Mayadeen news channel, which is pro-Iranian and frequently highlights Hamas and Hezbollah attacks…
The terrorist group’s comments are also linked to those made by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who has called for an escalation of hostilities during Ramadan.
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Harris Calls for Immediate Cease-Fire ‘For at Least the Next Six Weeks’ in Gaza
Vice President Kamala Harris called for an “immediate cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war Sunday, doubling down on pressure from the Biden administration as negotiations continue for a six-week pause in fighting.
“Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate cease-fire at least for the next six weeks, which is currently on the table,” she said in the Selma, Ala., speech.
President Biden has urged the Israeli government to agree to a six-week cease-fire for weeks, amid tense negotiations with Hamas.
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The World Prepares to Recognize a Hamas Palestinian State
A “Palestinian” state will be a state of the terrorists, by the terrorists and for the terrorists.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PLO’s Palestinian Authority and the other Islamic terrorist groups who make up the official “Palestinian” leadership have been invited for unity talks in Moscow.
The terrorist unity talks scheduled by the Putin regime are a homecoming for a “Palestinian” movement invented by Soviet propagandists. Mahmoud Abbas, the long-serving dictator of the PA, wrote his Holocaust denial thesis while studying at Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University which had trained a generation of third world terrorists.
The invitation to Moscow comes from Putin’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. Materials from a KGB defector revealed that Abbas had worked for the KGB under Bogdanov. Back then Abbas had the KGB codename “mole”, these days, his code name is “president”.
Some of the same ex-Soviet operatives who helped set up and fund the PLO, the PFLP and the rest of the “Palestinian” movement are now trying to unite them all under one single banner.
While the State Department in D.C. and British Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron are talking about immediately recognizing a “Palestinian” state as soon as they can force Israel to stop its campaign to destroy Hamas, the Palestinian Authority is trying to bring Hamas into the state.
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“Crew Evacuates” Commercial Vessel After Houthi Attack in Red Sea
Saturday morning’s headlines are dominated by the news that “Rubymar,” a bulk carrier, that was hit by missiles from Yemen’s Houthi rebels last month, has finally sunk. This marks the first vessel to be fully destroyed in the multi-month Red Sea crisis.
However, there’s more Red Sea crisis news hitting the wires.
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Yesterday, we detailed the leak of a wiretapped telephone conversation in which senior German officers discuss the use of German Taurus missiles, training, the capabilities of this system and the possibility of destroying the Crimean bridge.
They revealed many interesting facts. Embarrassing for the Germans, who have now launched an investigation…
As The FT reports, German chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised a full investigation after Russia published a recording of a phone call between senior German air force officers in which they appeared to discuss supplying missiles to Ukraine.
Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting with Pope Francis in Rome, Scholz described the incident as a “very serious affair”.
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Explosions at infrastructure facilities in Russia, including at the substation in Yekaterinburg, are the responsibility of the Russian authorities, according to a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Andrii Yusov.
“Their infrastructure continues to degrade. What explodes in Russia is the responsibility of the Russian government,” he said.
A representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate, commenting on the explosion in Yekaterinburg, stated that among Russians there are “concerned citizens.”
“There are indeed concerned citizens within Russia who cannot tolerate the Putin dictatorship and are doing everything possible to liberate their territory and country from the bloody Putin regime in the only legitimate way,” Yusov added.
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Russians Have Deadly Shootout With Alleged Islamic State Terrorists in North Caucasus Region
(AP) — Six alleged members of the Islamic State group were killed in a shootout in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, in what the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) described Sunday as a “counterterrorism operation.”
According to a statement by the NAC, late on Saturday the six men barricaded themselves in a third-floor apartment in Karabulak, a town of about 30,000 in Russia’s semi-autonomous Republic of Ingushetia. A shootout with security services followed, as surrounding streets were blocked off and residents of the apartment block evacuated to a nearby school, according to Russia’s Interfax agency.
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India: Leaving Islam and Marrying Her Hindu Lover, Mansi Wants to Visit Ram Temple in Ayodhya
After returning home, Mantasha (now Mansi) told that since childhood she has been exposed to Sanatan Dharma and its traditions and for this reason she has a deep love for Sanatan Dharma and Hindu customs.
Kuldeep Kumar Singh | HENB | Rae Bareli | March 1, 2024:: The case of Gharwapsi (homecoming) of Mantasha, a Muslim girl from Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, has come to light. Due to her faith in Sanatan Dharma and its customs, Mantasha returned home to Sanatan Dharma.
What is the whole matter
According to the report, this incident is being reported from Salon Kotwali of Rae Bareli district. Hindu and Muslim families live in this area. Mantasha is also from the locality. She was in love with Ashish Maurya, a Hindu youth living in her neighbourhood. Actually, both played and grew up together since childhood. Later, a friendship also developed between the two. Time passed away and both of them fell in love with each other. When Mantasha’s family came to know that she belonged to a Muslim community and the boy was a Hindu, they became hesitant.
The biggest hindrance in the union of Mantasha and Ashish was their religion. That’s why at first Mantasha tried to convince her family, but when things didn’t work out, she decided to marry her Hindu lover leaving her religion. After this, both of them went to a Hanuman temple located in the area and got married with Hanumanji as the witness. Before that, Mantasha Islam returned home to Sanatan Hindu Dharma and changed her name to Mansi. After marriage, her name was linked to her husband’s name and she became Mansi Maurya.
I am fond of Sanatan Dharma
After returning home, Mantasha (now Mansi) said that since childhood she has been exposed to Sanatan Dharma and its traditions and hence she has a deep love for Sanatan Dharma and Hindu customs. Mantasha says that she returned home because of her love for Hindu religion. She expressed her wish that she wanted to go to Ayodhya with her husband to have darshan of Lord Ram.
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India: Express View on Bengaluru Blast: Follow the Facts
Initial investigations into Friday’s blast at Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Café have revealed that an unidentified man kept a bag at the popular eatery minutes before the explosion. The police are scanning CCTV footage to pick up leads on the suspect who may have left behind an improvised explosive device in the bag.
Eight teams have been set up to crack the case and Karnataka’s Deputy CM, DK Shivakumar, has promised them a free hand and said that the incident “should not be politicised”. Restraint has, however, not always marked the responses of the state’s political outfits, especially those of Karnataka’s main opposition party, the BJP.
The party has rightly called out the government for the law-and-order failure. But some of its members have stepped outside the boundaries of legitimate criticism and appeared to let their prejudices do the loose talking. Senior BJP leader and former CM Basavaraj Bommai has said that “taking this incident lightly would be like encouraging terrorists”. He has linked the blast to pro-Pakistan slogans raised in the Karnataka Assembly last week and insinuated that a “sleeper cell” was behind it.
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The country responsible for turning an Australian politician against their own country and ‘selling it out’ has been revealed.
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Naracoorte Lucindale Council voted to replace the traditional acknowledgement that paid respect the past and present traditional owners of ancestral lands in SA ‘s Limestone Coast region.
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Rork Projects has gone into voluntary administration, affecting projects in NSW, Queensland, Victoria and the ACT. Director Brian O’Rourke blamed higher interest rates.
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Hundreds of Inmates Flee After Armed Gangs Storm Haiti’s Main Prison, Leaving Bodies Behind
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of inmates fled Haiti’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility in an overnight explosion of violence that engulfed much of the capital. At least five people were dead Sunday.
The jailbreak marked a new low in Haiti’s downward spiral of violence and came as gangs step up coordinated attacks in Port-au-Prince, while embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry is abroad trying to salvage support for a United Nations-backed security force to stabilize the country.
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One ‘adviser’, a Baptist minister (pictured), told an undercover reporter that for £9,000 he could help her arrange a job in just three days — with ‘100 per cent’ success guaranteed.
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Chinese Spy at Winnipeg Biolab Offered Advice on How to Commit Immigration Fraud
One of the Chinese spies fired at the high-security Winnipeg biolab was giving advise on how to commit immigration fraud using her Public Health Agency of Canada email address.
Then, the fired spy, Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, lied about it. Even with email evidence before her.
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Former United States Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott has blasted Democrat President Joe Biden and accused the White House of punishing him for raising national security concerns over the illegal migrant crisis.
In a revealing critique, Scott lambasted the Biden administration for what he perceives as a significant mishandling of border security policies.
According to Scott, his warning about Biden’s open border policies led to his “early retirement,” Fox News reported.
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A huge group of migrants has been seen walking away from the beach in Calais after their attempt to cross the English Channel failed.
Around 50 asylum seekers saw the small boat they were due to travel in fail to inflate, leaving them stranded on a beach near the French city this morning.
It is not clear what caused this boat not to inflate, but many vessels used by smuggling gangs are ramshackle in nature, often being held together with gaffer tape and ropes.
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Islamist Hate Preachers to be Banned From Entering Britain Amid Increasing Extremism: Report
The UK is set to block radical Islamist hate preachers from entering the country following a “shocking increase” in extremist activity in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks on Israel.
Immigration officials have reportedly been tasked with compiling lists of hate preachers and other extremists from countries such as Afghanistan, Indonesia, and Pakistan to bar them from entering the UK, The Telegraph reports.
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‘Madman’ Illegal Migrant Accused of Targeting Female Docs, Nurses in the Bronx is on the Lam
An unhinged madman with a long rap sheet is allegedly targeting female doctors and nurses in The Bronx — with at least four attacks over the past five years, The Post has learned.
Edward Johnson, 57, an illegal immigrant believed to be from the Caribbean who came to the United States over a decade ago, has been arrested 23 times on charges that include gun possession, according to sources and records. He has another 42 arrests that have been sealed since he arrived in the US.
He skipped out on supervised release and is on the lam, authorities said — and has a dangerous habit of attacking female healthcare workers who try to treat him.
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Migrant Brawl at Reception Center in Panama’s Darien Region Destroys Shelter
PANAMA CITY (AP) — A disturbance among migrants and eventually with Panamanian border police resulted in the destruction of various vehicles and at least 10 modules of a migrant camp in the country’s Darien region, authorities said Saturday.
At least 44 migrants were arrested in the aftermath at a temporary migrant reception center in San Vicente, where migrants emerging from the treacherous Darien jungle that covers the Colombia-Panama border register with Panamanian authorities.
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More Than 8 MILLION Asylum Seekers Will Soon Live in the US…
— a 167% increase in five years as Biden’s lax policies continue to allow flood of migrants across southern border
The U.S. is expected to have over 8 million asylum seekers and migrants in legal limbo by September’s end, marking a 167% increase in five years highlighting the failures of the immigration system.
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Tennessee Governor Sends National Guard to ‘Secure’ Border as Biden Administration ‘Fails to Act’
Tennessee is deploying National Guard members to the southern border as Republican governors continue to support Texas in its showdown with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement.
Gov. Bill Lee, who visited the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, earlier this month, met with Tennessee National Guard members at Millington Tennessee Army National Guard Armory ahead of their voluntary deployment.
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A Venezuelan TikToker generated outrage after bragging that he received a $1,000 prepaid card issued by New York City government and that he had been in the country for a year without having to make any rental payments.
TikTok user @yimderoficial further infuriated followers in the video posted Monday after he flashed the debit card that is part of a pilot program introduced by the administration of Mayor Eric Adams to help migrants cover their basic need expenses.
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Comic Predicts Woke Seattle Club That Canceled Him Will Not ‘Stay in Business That Long’
A Seattle comedy club canceled four comics because they didn’t align with its neighborhood’s “progressive values” — leading one of the funnymen to predict the club would go out of business.
The Capitol Hill Comedy Bar, which celebrates the “vibrant voices of the queer community” with a weekly “Queers to the front” open mic. had booked Jim Florentine, Dave Smith, Luis Gomez and Kurt Metzger for upcoming dates before the about-face, which the owner said was to “maintain the harmony within our community.”
Florentine, who voiced a mentally disabled teenage character named Special Ed on Comedy Central’s prank call show “Crank Yankers,” told The Post in a recent interview why he thinks he was snubbed from the club, which has a Dungeons and Drag Queens Pride Month brunch on its calendar and requires performers to use “respectful behavior and language.”
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Google ‘s AI programs are still generating woke and controversial answers despite the company claiming to have stripped the tech of its liberal biases.
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The Microsoft artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Copilot said it can be okay to teach nursery school children about a variety of potentially age-inappropriate topics, including diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), transgenderism and sex.
Microsoft Copilot is one of many multimodal large language models (LLMs) currently available to the public. As is the case with all LLMs, the human-like responses offered by these AIs can change from user to user. Based on contextual information, the language and tone of the prompter, and training data used to create the AI responses, each answer can be different even if the question is the same.
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Report Reveals Mental Illness Crisis Among ‘Non-Binary’ Australians
Recent statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shed light on mental health trends among ‘non-binary’ Australians.
According to the 2020-2022 National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing, non-binary individuals are grappling with mental health challenges at a disproportionate rate compared to their male and female counterparts.
The ABS data indicates that a staggering 85.2 per cent of non-binary Australians have experienced a mental disorder during their lifetime, more than double the rates observed among men and women. Additionally, nearly four in five (79.6 per cent) have contemplated suicide, highlighting a deeply troubling aspect of their mental well-being.
Furthermore, the report underscores the prevalence of self-harm within the non-binary community, with approximately 72.8 per cent admitting to self-harm behaviours.
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Finland gives green light for attacks on Russian cities
Published on 4 March 2024 in Fria Tider
After Estonia’s incoming commander-in-chief proposed that Ukraine be allowed to use Western weapons on Russian territory, the Finnish government now gives the green light for such use.
Finland has no restrictions on where weapons supplied to Ukraine can be used, according to statements from the Ministry of Defence and the chairman of the parliamentary defence policy committee, Yle reports.
Estonia’s incoming Supreme Commander Andrus Merilo previously criticised Western countries for restricting the use of weapons for defence operations on Ukrainian territory.
The restriction has been an attempt to avoid direct confrontation with Russia and is applied, among others, by the US, which does not want to be involved in such a war. Meanwhile, countries such as Sweden, Estonia and Finland have been assigned a more provocative role.
Like Sweden, Finland is part of the US combat planning for a regional war in the Baltic Sea region, as reported by Aftonbladet and others. In this context, Finland’s new statements are important.
Jukka Kopra (NCP), chair of the Finnish Parliament’s defence committee, stresses that Finland has not set any limits on how Ukraine can use the weapons contributed by Finnish taxpayers.
– Ukraine has the right to use these weapons against military targets even on Russian soil,” he told Yle.
In the event of a Russian attack, Swedish politicians intend to send a brigade to counter the Russians in northern Finland and one to Latvia. A total of 10,000 Swedes will lose their lives initially, according to the Swedish Defence Forces.
– This is a reasonable contribution for a country of our size, says Vice Admiral Jonas Haggren to Aftonbladet.
Finland has been a member of NATO since 5 July 2022.
WWIII
Douglas Macgregor on NATO
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Muzzlims call for terror attacks during ramadamadingdong. That’s a shocker.
“Joaquin Arambula, a Democratic assemblyman from California, introduced Assembly Bill 1840 earlier this year, which could create an alternative way for ILLEGAL immigrants to achieve homeownership.” —Fox News (2 Mar 2024)
“WANTED: 800,000,000 people to help me PUSH Mexifornia as far out to sea as possible.” —posted to fb (Jan 2022)
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A new net-hate-inspector on multisteroids
Compare the Swedish miniscule variant:
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https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/12/a-nation-of-snitches/
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/denny-abrahamsson-experiences-the-full-force-of-swedish-justice/
Throw Their Neighbors IN PRISON
Glenn Beck
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mars 2024
Canada is now considering whether to pass a new bill that would turn it into the most authoritarian state in the western world. The “Online Harms Act” is billed as a social media law meant to protect Canadians from harmful content. But it includes some extremely draconian changes to “hate speech” laws that would allow anyone to anonymously charge someone with a hate speech crime — and if they’re successful, they could pocket $20k. Rebel News founder Ezra Levant joins Glenn to explain how this could turn into a massively corrupt industry that would make the Democrats’ persecution of Donald Trump look like child’s play. Plus, he explains how this bill, if passed, would destroy not just free speech, but the free press: “Soon there will be only two kinds of journalists in Canada: government journalists and BANNED journalists.”
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