In a unanimous 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court overturned a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that disqualified former President Donald Trump from the ballot. Angry opponents of Mr. Trump, most of them Democrats, responded by calling for the Supreme Court to be abolished.
In other news, a new poll shows that more than 80% of Poles oppose sending Polish troops into Ukraine.
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China Gold Premium Hits Record as Beijing Defends Yuan
Gold in China is trading at a record premium to international prices, a sign of Beijing’s escalating battle to defend its currency.
Bullion on the Shanghai Gold Exchange traded at a premium of more than $120 an ounce on Thursday, according to calculations by Bloomberg. That’s the highest since the exchange was founded over two decades ago, as a weak yuan drove up prices in recent weeks.
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Price of Major Food Staple Spikes 50% in EU
Olive oil prices have skyrocketed across the EU over the past year amid unfavorable weather conditions, which have harmed harvests. According to data from Eurostat, the bloc’s statistics office, costs spiked by 50% in annual terms in January.
Prices rose steadily throughout the entire second half of 2023, with a 37% surge in August and a staggering 51% increase in November 2022.
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Seven in Ten Britons Blame Sunak and Hunt for UK Recession
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt are to blame for the UK falling into a recession, seven in ten Britons believe.
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11 Ceasefire Activists Arrested After Blocking NYPD From Responding to Bomb Threat
On Saturday, pro-Palestinian protesters blocked an NYPD vehicle that was responding to a bomb threat.
The New York Police Department said 11 protesters were arrested and taken into custody over the incident.
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On Saturday, a 15-year-old suspect was critically injured after reportedly firing at officers during brawls at the opening weekend of Six Flags Over Georgia.
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), police fired after the teens shot at officers who were trying to remove them from the vicinity of the amusement park as multiple fights broke out among teenagers.
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A civilian US Air Force employee with a top secret security clearance used a foreign dating website to transmit classified national defense information to a person claiming to be a woman living in Ukraine, according to the Justice Department.
David Franklin Slater, 63, was arrested Saturday after being indicted on charges of conspiracy to disclose national defense information and unauthorized disclosure of national defense information.
He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
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The US ranked 29th out of 71 countries in terms of mood, outlook and self-esteem in 2023, while Canada ranked 40th and the UK 70th. Impoverished African countries scored highest.
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Biden Goes to Court, Demanding Warrantless Surveillance Powers
A request by the Biden administration to the courts for the renewal of contentious warrantless surveillance powers, has stoked controversy.
These surveillance powers, demanded by American intelligence agencies, are on the verge of expiration. Critics argue that this move either reflects business as usual, or reflects a sidestepping of spying reforms.
According to US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the decision of the US Department of Justice to pursue an extension of the FISA Section 702 for a year without congressional consideration manifests a disregard for reforms aimed at safeguarding American rights.
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Biden Draws Criticism for Kissing PM Meloni’s Hair
President Joe Biden is facing criticism for kissing Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s forehead, resulting in a video of the incident going viral on social media.
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Breaking: Trump Wins North Dakota Caucus
President Donald Trump has been declared the winner of the North Dakota caucus by the AP. With 85 percent of the vote at 73 percent of votes cast, Trump is the clear winner to Nikki Haley’s 14 percent.
Haley has only had one primary victory so far, and that was over the weekend when she won Washington, DC. North Dakota’s caucus comes one day ahead of Super Tuesday, when Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Colorado, Utah and California all cast their votes for the GOP nominee.
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Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold suffered an embarrassing loss on Monday when the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously reversed her decision, and the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court, to remove President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot.
In response, Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert announced her intention to remove Griswold from office.
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Donald Trump to Joe Biden: ‘Stop Weaponization — Fight Your Fight Yourself’
Donald Trump addressed Joe Biden directly in a press conference Monday after the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that Colorado cannot disqualify Trump from appearing on the 2024 ballot.
“President Biden, number one: Stop weaponization. Fight your fight yourself,” Trump said from Mar-A-Lago. “Don’t use prosecutors and judges to go after your opponent to try and damage your opponents and you can win an election. Our country is much bigger than that.”
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Electric vehicles may release more pollution than petrol-powered vehicles, according to a report that has recently resurfaced.
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The Federal Aviation Administration said the agency’s 737 MAX production audit into Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems found multiple instances where the companies allegedly failed to comply with manufacturing quality control requirements.
The FAA also said it found “non-compliance issues in Boeing’s manufacturing process control, parts handling and storage, and product control.” The agency on Monday released a summary of its findings to the companies in its completed audit but did not make that public because it is part of an ongoing investigation, it said.
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A new witness could testify Fani Willis warned lover Nathan Wade’s former business partner to stay quiet about their affair, an explosive new court filing claims.
“They are coming after us. You don’t need to talk to them about anything about us,” Willis is alleged to have warned Terrence Bradley in a September 2023 phone call.
The call was overheard by Cobb County, Georgia, prosecutor Cindi Lee Yeager, according to court papers filed Monday by Trump co-defendant David Schafer.
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FBI Hunting for Iranian Spy Who Allegedly Plotted Assassination of Mike Pompeo, Other US Officials
The FBI is hunting for an alleged Iranian spy who is accused of plotting to assassinate former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other American officials.
Majid Dastjani Farahani speaks Farasi, French, Spanish and English and frequently travels between Iran and Venezuela, according to an alert Friday by the agency’s Miami field office.
The 41-year-old suspected member of Iran’s brutal Ministry of Intelligence and Security had been recruiting “individuals for operations in the U.S., to include lethal targeting of current/former [U.S. government] officials,” the FBI said.
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Former USC Football Player DJ Park Dead at 29
Former South Carolina University football player D.J. Park has died at just 29 years old, according to reports.
The unexpected death of Park was announced by Gamecocks coach Shawn Elliott.
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Haley Ends Trump’s Undefeated Run With Victory in DC Primary
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley notched her first victory of the 2024 primary campaign, besting former President Trump in Washington, D.C.
Haley won the contest with nearly 63% of the vote, according to an Associated Press call of the race about 90 minutes after polls closed Sunday. The results mean the former South Carolina governor will walk away with 19 delegates.
Sunday’s primary had a lower turnout than in 2016. The tally now stands at 244 for Trump and 43 for Haley.
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Harvard in Antisemitism Storm Over ‘Genocide’ Talk by Professor Who Appeared With Hamas Leader
A professor who appeared beside a top Hamas leader was due to speak on “genocide” at Harvard Monday — the same day as a deadline for the university to finally comply with a congressional subpoena demanding answers on antisemitism.
Noura Erakat, an associate professor of Africana studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, was scheduled to speak on “We Charge Genocide; The Potential and Limits of International Law,” at the school’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies — after months of making anti-Israeli speeches.
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Hollywood Celebrities Freak as SCOTUS Takes Up Trump Immunity Case: ‘F**k the Supreme Court’
The day after the Supreme Court ruled that it would take up former President Donald Trump’s immunity case, Hollywood celebrities appear to have received their marching orders — to smear and delegitimize the court in the mind of the American public.
With alarming ferocity, Hollywood stars are trying to gin up popular outrage, using the ruling as an opportunity to push the Democrats’ agenda of packing the court and singling out Justice Clarence Thomas for more political persecution.
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Under increasing scrutiny, Google is being pressed by US House Republicans to disclose any government influences that may have swayed the development of its controversial artificial intelligence program, Gemini. The application, recently criticized for its racist ideologies by refusing to depict white people, has been a hot topic and the cause of much criticism.
The House Judiciary Committee addressed a letter to Alphabet, Google’s parent company, over the weekend.
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Jill Biden’s Arizona Speech Disrupted by Leftist Pro-Hamas Protesters
First Lady Jill Biden has become the latest prominent Democrat to come under fire from leftist pro-Hamas protesters.
Anti-Semitic Hamas sympathizers have increasingly taken to disrupting speeches and public appearances by top Democratic and government officials.
The protesters are demanding the cessation of all U.S. support for the embattled Jewish nation and that Israel cease its defense and retaliation against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
During her campaign speech on behalf of Democrat President Joe Biden in Arizona on Saturday, the first lady was interrupted at least twice by pro-Hamas protesters, The Hill reported.
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Masked Shooters Kill 4 at House Party in Monterey County, Police Say
KING CITY, Calif. — Police are searching for three suspects who they say pulled up to a King City, California house party in Monterey County and opened fire Sunday evening, killing at least four people and injuring three others.
Three men died at the scene, and a woman who was shot was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to King City Police Chief James Hunt.
Three other people injured by gunshots were taken to a hospital for treatment, and their conditions were not released.
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Nolte: 9-0 Decision Proves the Corporate Media Liars … Again
If you’re shocked by Monday’s utterly predictable nine-to-zero Supreme Court decision, you must be one of the few remaining morons who believe the corporate media.
The very idea that the Supreme Court would allow the states to remove a presidential candidate from the state ballot was pure hopium being pumped by a corporate media that knew better but didn’t care. These liars only care about one thing: cynically hooking as many suckers, gulls, and dummies as possible.
Even the idea it would be a six-to-three decision was insane. Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson might be far-left extremists, but they can look down the road and see where this chaos would lead. If a judge, bureaucrat, or whomever could remove a presidential candidate from a state ballot…Where would that kind of insanity end? Candidates of both parties would be removed all over the nation. Talk about democracy being dead.
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Students at a Brooklyn public high school shaken by shocking reports of antisemitism say most of the problems come from a specific group of troublemakers who “take it too far.”
Bombshell allegations at Origins High School in Sheepshead Bay that surfaced over the weekend include claims from staffers that one student donned a Hitler mustache while a crew marched through the halls with Palestinian flags chanting “Death to Israel.”
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Pennsylvania Collaborates With DHS and CISA to Monitor Online Election-Related Speech
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor, Josh Shapiro, announced last week that, in an effort to address perceived “threats” to electoral procedures, the state is launching an initiative in partnership with various state and federal agencies.
These partners include the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and, notably, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an organization long accused of aiding online censorship to impede freewheeling online speech.
The revelation about Pennsylvania’s collaboration with DHS and CISA surfaced after The Federalist pressed the Pennsylvania State Department for more information about the new initiative.
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Protesters Use Oppenheimer Cut-Outs to Block Electric Boat Entrance in New London: Police
Five people were arrested after they blocked the entrance to Electric Boat in New London Monday morning, according to police.
Officers responded to Electric Boat on Pequot Avenue just before 6 a.m.
The individuals stood behind a series of connected life-size wooden cut-outs of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb, police said.
An image from a police-worn body camera showed at least 20 of the wooden cut-outs with a sign that read “Don’t be a ‘Destroyer of Worlds.’ Stop the Columbia Sub.
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Raskin: SCOTUS ‘Punted’ on Trump Ballot — ‘It’s Up to Congress to Act’
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that the Supreme Court unanimously overturning a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that disqualified former President Donald Trump from the ballot was SCOTUS punting.
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The new manager of the San Francisco Giants has required every single one of his players to be on the field standing for the National Anthem before every game this season.
Bob Melvin told USA Today, “It’s more about letting the other side know that we’re ready to play. I want guys out here ready to go. There’s a personality to that.”
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Scientists Raise Alarm Over Bill Gates-Led Geoengineering Plans to ‘Reverse Global Warming’
Several geoengineering projects around the world have led to scientists voicing major concerns about the irreversible impacts of drastic weather modification plans that seek to “reverse global warming.”
Several projects are being led by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates who argues that the so-called “climate crisis” can be avoided by triggering “global cooling.”
For several years, Gates has been advancing several methods of modifying Earth’s atmosphere, many of which involve blocking the Sun’s heat and light from reaching our planet.
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The Seattle City Attorney has issued an Affidavit of Prejudice in an attempt to preclude a radical judge from hearing any criminal cases brought by the office.
On Friday, the Seattle City Attorney’s Office (CAO) announced that it will file the affidavit of prejudice against Seattle Municipal Court Judge Pooja Vaddadi.
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SoHo Hotel Slay Suspect Won’t be Extradited to NYC to Face Murder Charges, Arizona Judge Rules
In a major blow to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an Arizona judge said Monday that the brute accused of viciously beating a Queens mom to death inside a Soho hotel room will remain in her jurisdiction and won’t be extradited to the Big Apple to face murder charges.
Court Commissioner Barbara Spencer said Raad Almansoori, 26, will stay in Arizona to stand trial for attempted murder, dashing Bragg’s hopes of getting the accused killer back to Manhattan over the objections of Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, KSAZ-TV reported.
The Manhattan prosecutors can now petition Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs to intervene.
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‘Squad’ Democrats Blasted Over Secret Taxpayer-Funded Trip to Communist Cuba
Radical Democrat lawmakers have provoked a furious backlash after they were found to have made a secret taxpayer-funded trip to communist Cuba.
Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) sharply criticized Marxist “Squad” Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) over the trip.
Malliotakis, whose family has Cuban roots, condemned the lawmakers during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”
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Progressives melted down over Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that states could not disqualify former President Donald Trump from appearing on the 2024 presidential ballot, with some even suggesting that the court be “dissolved.”
In a historic ruling that came Monday, the Supreme Court said only Congress can disqualify a federal candidate from the ballot using the Fourteenth Amendment’s “Insurrection Clause.” The ruling — which comes right before Super Tuesday — overturned a 4-3 opinion from the Colorado Supreme Court in December that banned Trump from appearing on the ballot.
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An unhinged teen viciously attacked six health care workers during a Staten Island hospital rampage over the weekend — just three days after he was released in Brooklyn court for allegedly snatching a woman’s purse, authorities said.
Devonte Loyce, 19, was being evaluated as an “emotionally disturbed person” at Richmond University Medical Center around 4 a.m. Sunday when he lashed out with a knife at a group of security guards, nurses, emergency room staff and EMTs, cops said.
Loyce is accused of slashing three men — 26, 28 and 51 — on their hands during the violent frenzy, which only ended when he was zapped with a stun gun, police said.
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President Donald Trump has issued a fiery statement over allegations that Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis funded her improper relationship with Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade using taxpayer money.
The decision of whether or not to disqualify Willis and Wade from the criminal prosecution of Trump and others over alleged appearances of impropriety and conflicts of interest is now in the hands of the presiding Judge Scott McAfee.
In a fiery social media post, Trump reiterated his demand that Willis and Wade be disqualified and the underlying charges against him be dropped.
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Washington Moves to Introduce ‘Hate Crime Hotline’ to Crack Down on ‘Bias Incidents’
Democrats in Washington State are pushing through new legislation that will launch a new “hate crime hotline.”
The recently passed bill with enact the hotline in 2025 that seeks to crack down on “bias incidents.”
Senate Bill 5427 is sponsored by State Sen. Javier Valdez, a Seattle Democrat.
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Woke Former Methodist Official Caught Drawing Swastika on Jewish Woman’s Groceries in LA
Video has gone viral of the retired West District Superintendent of the United Methodist Church’s California-Pacific Conference allegedly drawing a swastika on a Jewish neighbor’s groceries late last year.
On December 55, 2023, at around 10:15 pm, Leah Grossman captured Mark Nakagawa leaning down and writing on a box of seltzer at her front door, according to KCAL.
Grossman confronted Nakagawa, asking if there was “a problem” and “is that a Nazi symbol” he had just drawn.
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Woke New York Times Accused of Racism by Its Own Union
On Saturday, New York Times management denied allegations of “racially targeting” employees during its investigation into who leaked information about an unreleased podcast episode that discussed the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas and the sexual assaults that occurred during it.
According to The Wrap, the NewsGuild of New York, the union representing Times journalists, accused the outlet of targeting staff “for their national origin, ethnicity and race,” during its internal investigation.
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A twice-convicted sex offender was stabbed to death at a laundromat in Louisiana by a woman he was allegedly trying to assault, according to authorities.
The incident happened around 3:30 p.m., on Sunday, March 3, after deputies were dispatched for a 911 call to a laundromat in the Lacombe-area.
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Majority of Canadians Oppose Coming Carbon Tax Hike: Poll
Seven in 10 Canadians are opposed to the impending increase to the federal carbon tax, according to a new poll.
The Trudeau government will be raising the carbon tax an additional 17 cents per litre of gasoline, 21 cents per litre of diesel and 15 cents per cubic metre of natural gas.
A poll done by Leger for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation found that the majority of Canadians, 69%, were opposed to the hike, while the remaining 31% were in support of it.
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“No Farmers, No Food, No Future”: British Farmers Descend on Canterbury
A nascent agricultural movement is challenging the British government over its trade and Net Zero policies, echoing recent developments in France, Poland, and Spain as well as the international protest in Brussels that gathered farmers from several European countries.
On Sunday, more than 200 tractors caused traffic gridlock in the Kentish cathedral city of Canterbury. The convoy, organised by the Fairness for Farmers campaign group, was primarily protesting against the post-Brexit trade deals, secured by Conservative Party governments, that will ultimately remove tariffs on exports from other countries of goods such as lamb and beef, placing undue pressure on national producers. UK farmers are also critical of poor subsidy rollouts and damaging net zero schemes.
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André Ventura is the president of CHEGA, the third largest political party in Portugal. In polls ahead of the upcoming legislative elections on March 10nth, CHEGA is growing exponentially, increasing its voting intentions to 17-20% (it obtained 7.8% of the votes in the 2022 legislative elections). The party is becoming the key to dislodging socialism from power.
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Belgian Police Raids Apprehend Four Teenage Would-be Jihadists
In a country-wide counter-terrorism operation, Belgian police on Sunday raided four residences, arresting four Islamic State (IS) sympathizers previously flagged by state security. The authorities moved into action when it appeared that the group was actively planning a terrorist attack on a Brussels concert hall.
In a press release from the Flemish nationalist Vlaams Belang party, MP and chairman of the Interior Committee Ortwin Depoortere said the foiled attack “evokes painful memories of previous IS attacks,” specifically referring to the 2015 Bataclan massacre in Paris in which 89 concertgoers lost their lives. “That almost a decade later such a tragedy would happen again is alarming.”
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Britons Risk ULEZ Fines Due to Number Plate Spoofing: Strategies to Avoid Penalties
Drivers across Britain are being alerted to a significant issue that could see them unfairly hit with Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) fines, due to a rise in number plate spoofing incidents. This manipulation involves unauthorized copying of licence plates, placing innocent drivers at risk of receiving fines for violations they did not commit. Bryn Brooker, head of road safety at Nextbase, emphasizes the importance of adding identifiable badges to number plates and utilizing dash cam footage as preventative measures against these fraudulent penalties.
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Concessions for Polish Agriculture Up for Grabs? Minister Confirms Warsaw-Brussels Talks
Is Warsaw quietly negotiating with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on granting Polish farmers possible exemptions to the EU’s onerous agricultural regulations? This rumor was confirmed true last Sunday, in a statement from Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna (S&D).
In February, Polish farmers launched a fresh wave of protests against cheap Ukrainian agricultural imports and environmental reforms as outlined in the EU’s controversial Green Deal. (Poland had already instituted a ban on several Ukrainian products, including grain.)
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Criminal Underworld Takes Over Sweden as Gang Membership Soars to 62,000
Authored by Peter Imanuelsen via his Substack, “The Freedom Corner with PeterSweden.”
A new report from the Swedish police has recently been published, and it shows that something has gone terribly wrong in Sweden.
According to the latest police report, some 62,000 people in Sweden are connected to criminal gangs. To put this into perspective, consider that Sweden is a small country with only 10.4 million people.
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Did EU Commission President Break Her Own Campaign Finance Rules?
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has come under fire for allegedly using EU funds for a sympathetic media campaign highlighting her record in the Brussels top job. Legal experts claim that the 65-year-old German Christian Democrat has contravened strict rules on campaign financing while running for a second term in office.
The controversy stems from von der Leyen’s use of Commission funds to publicise the supposed achievements of her presidency, including a 56-page colour booklet documenting her role in various crises such as COVID, Ukraine, and in legislating for the EU’s Green Agenda.
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European Countries Respond to Farmer Protests With National Concessions
European farmers’ protests have led to some changes on the national level in most countries, but the primary demands of protesters concern EU policies that still need to be addressed by Brussels.
According to a map published by Euractiv, visualizing farmers’ protests across the continent, recent farmers’ protests broke out in 22 out of the 27 EU member states, with only Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, and Austria managing to stay clear of the pan-European protest movement so far.
Within these 22 countries where farmers took to the streets, 15 governments have already granted certain national concessions to the agricultural sector, primarily in the form of tax cuts and subsidies for fuel and fertilizer, with some livestock and grain farmers also given one-time financial aid packages to reimburse them for lost profit due to the COVID-crisis and cheap Ukrainian imports.
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France: Le Pen’s Party Downplays ‘Frexit’ in EU Election Campaign Launch
The French Rassemblement National (RN) officially launched its European election campaign at a major rally in Marseille on Sunday, March 3rd. The message from the party’s president and head of list Jordan Bardella was clear: focus the attacks on President Emmanuel Macron.
The party claimed 8,000 participants for its official launch meeting—the first in a series of ten events leading up to the European elections on June 9th.
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Germany has been in continued damaged control in the wake of the audio leak of top German generals discussing sending Ukraine missiles and the potential of destroying the Kerch Strait Bridge.
There’s been yet more revelations, including that the generals, which included commander of the national air force Lt. Gen. Ingo Gerhartz, used off-the-shelf and apparently non-secure video phone technology to discuss highly sensitive matters of national security. One general on the line reportedly dialed in from his hotel room. This made the secretive multi-way call easy for the Kremlin to intercept.
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Germany: AfD Wins Mayoral Election With 59% of the Vote
Anti-globalist right-wing party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) has clinched its third-ever mayoral seat, in a sign that the party is a force to be reckoned with. Rolf Weigand was elected on Sunday, March 3rd, as mayor of Großschirma, an eastern German town near Dresden, with a population of 6,000. Weigand, the AfD’s candidate, won convincingly, getting 59% of the votes in the first round of voting, making a second round unnecessary. An independent candidate came second with 22%, while the centre-right CDU’s candidate only managed to get 18%.
AfD has won mayoral elections in Raguhn-Jeßnitz (9,000 inhabitants) and Pirna (38,000 inhabitants) in recent months—both towns are in the eastern part of Germany, where the party is predicted to become the strongest political force after autumn elections in the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia. The party is also contesting June’s European Parliament elections and polls suggest it could finish second behind the CDU.
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Italy: Vicenza Saved From Flooding by Lamination Basins — Zaia
‘Rainfall comparable to 2018 Storm Vaia and great flood of 2010’
The northern city of Vicenza has been spared the worst effects of the current floods due to the presence of retention basins, Veneto Governor Luca Zaia said on Wednesday.
“We are experiencing a meteorological event with a strong impact due to its characteristics, and which should be catalogued in the history of the Veneto region as a major flooding event, but Vicenza has been saved by the lamination basins,” said Zaia after recent heavy rainfall left several parts of the city under water.
“We have removed three million cubic metres of water from Vicenza.
It is all water that we stop before it reaches the basements of houses.
This is the way to protect the country,” he added, referring to retention basis built to mitigate flooding along the main waterways.
“We need another billion euro to complete the works. Let’s say we are testing them not with simulations, but with real water. I am pleased. It is an answer to those who say the works should not be done,” he continued.
“Veneto is presenting itself as a national model: if it rains in the wrong place we end up under water, but where we have intervened (with mitigation measures, ed.) we are in the game.
We must invest in a Marshall Plan to finance hydraulic works. It is not true that we must accept what nature brings us, if we have damaged the territory with building, at least we can lower the risk level with hydraulic works,” concluded Zaia.
The governor also said the recent rainfall figures were comparable to Storm) Vaia in 2018, and to the so-called great flood of 2010. “Had the works not been in place we would be facing another disaster,” he continued.
During Storm Vaia 187 millimetres fell in the area in 24 hours, compared to 188 millimetres on Tuesday.
One of the areas worst hit by the flooding is the neighbourhood around the Romeo Menti stadium, where the playing field is however reported to be unaffected.
Flooding has also led to the closure of the city ring road and other thoroughfares and caused extensive disruptions to local and intercity rail services.
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Majority of Poles Against Sending Troops to Ukraine
A new poll shows that a majority of Poles are against sending Polish troops into Ukraine, while less than a fifth of the population supports such a move.
The SW Research agency poll for media outlet Rzeczpospolita asked Poles whether they supported the idea that NATO countries could send troops to Ukraine. The results show that 56 percent of Poles reject any idea of NATO sending troops to Ukraine, with only 19 percent ready to contemplate such a move. Another 25 percent had no opinion.
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Poland: Kaczynski Accuses Tusk Government of Being an Administration of Liquidators
Conservative (PiS) leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has called the present Donald Tusk government “liquidators” because of their skepticism towards ambitious public investment projects.
Kaczynski rallied his party troops at a local government election event in Warsaw at the weekend, urging his supporters to embrace a bold and positive approach to the nation’s development.
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Polish Companies Receive Less Than 1% of All EU Aid to Compensate for Ukraine War
Poland has received 98 times less than Germany in EU aid for companies being compensated for the effects of the war in Ukraine.
Of the €171 billion made available through the Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework (TCTF), 89 percent of these funds have gone to just three EU states. More than half (52 percent) was claimed by Germany, 28 percent by Italy, and 9 percent by Spain.
The funds are designated as public aid and delivered in the shape of preferential credits and projects aimed at compensating for economic turbulence.
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Salis Anything But a Victim Says Hungarian Foreign Minister
‘People almost killed by left wing groups’
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó on Thursday reiterated his “shock” at the Italian reaction to the case of Ilaria Salis, an antifascist militant and school teacher accused of attacking two Neo-Nazis a year ago whose detention conditions in Budapest prompted Rome to protest to the Hungarian government, claiming she is anything but a victim.
“I am shocked by the Italian reactions,” Szijjártó wrote on Facebook.
“This lady (Salis, ed.) has been presented here in Italy as a kind of victim, a martyr.
In Hungary people were almost killed,” he added.
“People were almost beaten to death in the streets, and then this lady is portrayed as a martyr or the victim of an unfair trial. No one, no far-left group, should see Hungary as a kind of boxing ring where they can come to plan to beat someone to death,” concluded Szijjártó.
On Wednesday the foreign minister said after meeting his Italian counterpart Antonio Tajani in Rome that he had been “surprised” by Italian alleged interference in the case after footage of Salis being led into a Budapest court on a chain with her hands and ankles cuffed caused an outcry in Italy.
Salis’ father has been trying to get her moved to Italy under house arrest but Tajani and Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said they could not interfere with the sovereign Hungarian justice system.
Her lawyer therefore filed a plea to have her put under house arrest in Budapest.
The 39-year-old Monza elementary school teacher is facing up to 24 years in jail for the alleged attack on the neo Nazis at their annual commemoration of an allegedly heroic Nazi regiment that fought off Russian troops.
Szijjártó said Wednesday that Salis was a radical who had come to attack innocent people in the street and said he hoped she would get her “deserved punishment”.
He said she was “not a martyr”.
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UK: ‘Net Zero’ is WEF Plot to Destroy Food Supply
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” agenda is actually a plot to destroy the food supply and eliminate the working class, a new report has warned.
An investigation by the Institute for Community Studies (ICS) found that unelected globalists at the WEF and United Nations (UN) are using “climate change” fears to seize control of the masses.
While establishing the UN as a single-world government to tackle “global warming,” the WEF is seeking to destroy the food supply as we know it and replace traditionally farmed meat and dairy with products for mass public consumption that are controlled by globalists.
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UK: Anti-ULEZ Protestors Strike Again as Vandals Use Blowtorch to Destroy Camera’s Lens
ANTI-ULEZ protestors have struck again as one of their latest targets saw vandals use a blowtorch to destroy a camera’s lens.
Supposedly filmed yesterday, vandals struck a camera in London, where the controversial Ultra Low Emission Zone measures have been met with heavy resistance in recent months by a group calling themselves the Blade Runners.
The attack saw a group of men getting creative with their destruction by lifting a lit blowtorch attached to a long metal pole to the top of the camera and incinerating the lens.
Video shows the group performing the vandalism whilst one unidentified man behind the camera commentates and taunts London officials with their actions.
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Dave White waved goodbye to his partner, Vicky, and two young sons with little idea that his life was about to change dramatically. A short time later, the 31-year-old had a heart attack on the pitch.
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Wiretapped: Germany Again Appears to Reveal NATO Troops Active in Ukraine in Leak
Berlin has confirmed a leaked conversation between top military officers about the specifics of British soldiers assisting Ukraine in using advanced missiles took place.
A conversation that allegedly took place on March 1st involving a group of senior German officers including the head of Luftwaffe (Air Force) Generalleutnant Ingo Gerhartz [above, left] that took place on an open, unsecured line was intercepted by Russia and published over the weekend. Discussing options Germany had for deploying an advanced cruise missile against Russia in support of Ukraine with plausible deniability, one officer reflected in apparently prophetic words: “Just imagine the uproar if the media were to find out”.
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Explosion at Rail Bridge Deep Inside Russia Shows Ukraine’s Reach
KYIV — Ukraine hinted Monday that its agents were responsible for an explosion on a Russian railway bridge used to transport ammunition, in what appears to be the latest successful operation targeting infrastructure deep behind enemy lines as Ukrainian forces struggle against advancing Russian troops.
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, the GUR, said Monday that the explosion on the railway bridge in Russia’s Samara region — about 650 miles from the Ukrainian border — occurred about 6 a.m. local time. “Its use in the next few weeks is impossible,” the agency said in a post on the Telegram social media app.
The GUR did not directly assert responsibility for the attack, but this wouldn’t be the first time Ukraine’s security services have targeted military rail routes in Russia — a hybrid warfare technique that has increased as Russia has regained the offensive initiative along the front line in Ukraine.
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G7 Cannot Agree on Plans to Permanently Confiscate Frozen Russian Funds
There is greater divergence than ever among G7 finance ministers concerning a proposal to confiscate frozen Russian assets, according to Hungarian news outlet Mandiner.
Although U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen indicated weeks ago that a way had been found to permanently confiscate the funds seized under sanctions imposed by the West, international legal experts and the world’s leading financial gurus have expressed their concern over the plan with many issuing statements warning of the negative consequences of such an unprecedented aggressive decision.
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Ukraine Claims Responsibility for Blowing Up Railway Bridge Deep in Russian Interior
Ukraine has taken responsibility for “disabling” a railway bridge in the Russian mainland region of Samara after explosions were seen in the early hours of Monday morning.
Apparently continuing with the strategy to take the war closer to home for Russians, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) confirmed “disabling railway bridge in Russia’s Samara region,” state media Ukrinform reported.
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Report: CCP Orders Destruction of ALL Covid Data Nationwide
The Chinese government has demanded a nationwide purge of all COVID-19 data within its healthcare system, according to reports.
A source from Changsha, Hunan, who goes by “Mr. Chen” told the Epoch Times that a connection who holds a high rank at a local hospital disclosed that information to him.
“He told me directly: the government is instructing health departments across the country to eradicate all COVID-19-related data, including information on the entire epidemic prevention process and vaccination records. They must obliterate all data without leaving a trace, and computer records must be deleted entirely,” said Mr. Chen.
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West Gate Bridge Protest: Extinction Rebellion Protesters Cause Traffic Chaos on Melbourne Freeway
Climate activists have blocked three lanes of traffic on one of Melbourne’s busiest freeways, sparking a nightmare commute to work.
Extinction Rebellion members brought peak hour traffic to an abrupt standstill with a truck blockade on the West Gate Bridge on Tuesday morning.
Activists climbed onto the roof of a hired Budget truck to let off flares and held banners declaring that ‘climate breakdown has begun’ and ‘declare a climate emergency’.
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Argentina’s President Javier Milei Suspends State-Run Leftist News Agency for ‘Propaganda’’
The chainsaw-wielding Argentine president Javier Milei has consolidated eighteen government ministries into nine, fired 5,000 government workers, devalued the peso near market rates, and introduced economic reforms to overhaul the faltering economy after a series of devastating financial crises.
The latest fat Milei has trimmed from the bloated government’s books is the largest and most prestigious news agency in Argentina, Telam. The state-run media outlet has served as a mouthpiece of “propaganda” for previous progressive administrations.
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There’s Chaos in Haiti. Powerful Gangs Are Attacking Key Targets Like Prisons as Alliances Shift
Increasingly powerful gangs have attacked prisons and the airport serving Haiti’s capital in recent days, forcing businesses and schools to close as hundreds of people fled.
Heavily armed gangs have grown more powerful than Haiti’s weak government and they now control some 80% of the capital, according to the United Nations.
The latest attacks began Thursday as Prime Minister Ariel Henry flew to Kenya to push for the U.N.-backed deployment of a police force to help fight the gangs.
Heavy gunfire has echoed daily in the capital, overwhelming government forces. Frantz Elbé, director of the National Police, told Radio Caraïbes late last week that the recent attacks had left many of his officers unable to respond.
“The city center was at war,” he said.
Most residents were already staying indoors at night for self-protection. Government officials imposed a three-day nightly curfew that began Monday in an effort to help curb the violence.
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2023 European Asylum Claims at Highest Level Since 2015-2016 Crisis
The combined number of migrants seeking asylum in the European Union, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, and Liechtenstein rose for the fourth consecutive year in 2023, climbing to a seven-year peak. A staggering 1.14 million people filed claims, a year-over-year increase of 18%.
The latest statistics highlight further the scale of migration into Europe and the potential for more rapid demographic and social change. Going into a busy electoral year, these numbers are likely to influence, if not anger, many European voters.
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Austria: Afghan Migrant Who Beheaded Prostitutes in Triple Homicide Cites Quran to Investigators
An Afghan migrant who slaughtered three prostitutes in Vienna last week, including beheading two of them, cited the Quran and Jihad as a motivation for his attack.
“Prostitutes are under the guise of Satan,” said Ebadullah A. while confessing his crime during the police interrogation. “I read in the Quran that I should engage in jihad.”
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CBP refuses to disclose information about Biden’s program that last year secretly chartered flights of thousands of illegal immigrants from foreign airports directly to U.S. cities.
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Big Short billionaire investor Kyle Bass reveals the three states where he’s snapping up real estate to capitalize on migration trends
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Colorado Democrats Lay Off Americans and Mull Giving Illegals Government Jobs, Violating Federal Law
Last week, news broke that the city of Denver was preparing to lay off citizens who work for the city due to financial pressures because of Joe Biden’s illegal alien crisis. Now some state Democrats are urging officials to violate federal law and hire illegals for government jobs even as Americans are dismissed.
After the news that Denver was laying off employees went viral, the city bristled at the term “layoffs” and hastily told reporters that it was not actually eliminating people. Instead, some employees were to have their hours reduced to zero, according to KUSA-TV.
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The city of Aurora, Colorado, is rejecting taking in migrants from nearby Denver as the Mile High City struggles to provide services to the mass influx of illegal immigrants from the southern border.
Last week, the Aurora City Council passed a resolution stating it has no intention of assisting migrants and other homeless individuals transported to their community from nearby municipalities.
“It’s been pretty tense here, we’re feeling it,” city council member Danielle Jurinsky, a sponsor of the resolution, told “America’s Newsroom” Monday.
“We will not be aiding into this migrant crisis.”
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Dr. Phil Reveals Facebook Censored His Video on Child Trafficking at the Border
In an interview on “The Breakfast Club,” well-known radio and TV show show host, psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw, usually known as Dr. Phil, called out Facebook and Instagram for their censorship practices.
He shared this during a conversation with the show’s host, Charlamagne tha God. Dr. Phil highlighted the significance of social media platforms in shaping public opinion, particularly among young Americans.
Dr. Phil’s encounter with censorship began after he posted a video clip from his visit to the US-Mexico border on Facebook and Instagram. The clip, which quickly garnered tens of thousands of views, featured Dr. Phil discussing child trafficking.
However, just 50 minutes after going live and experiencing rapid viral growth, the video was abruptly taken down.
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France: African Migrant ‘Serial Attacker’ Beat and Robbed 17 Elderly Women
A homeless migrant from the African country of Djibouti has been arrested after beating and robbing an astounding number of elderly victims, with some of them over the age of 90.
Labeled a serial attacker of the elderly, the 36-year-old man has attacked 17 elderly women in Rennes in recent weeks, often with extreme violence. Due to the series of assaults, police set up surveillance checks around the area of attacks in the hopes of catching the man.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has flatly rejected serving as Donald Trump’s running mate for 2024 in favor of remaining in his state to deal with the border crisis.
The governor warned the US is in ‘imminent danger’ due to an ‘invasion’ of ‘known and unknown terrorists, who cross every single day’.
He said he could best aid Trump, ‘by being a great governor of Texas’.
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Migrant Grooming Gang Jailed in Britain for Year-Long Abuse of 13-Year-Old Sex Slave
A migrant grooming gang who plied a 13-year-old schoolgirl with alcohol and made her their sex slave, using her as a “toy” in a year-long campaign of sexual abuse, has been jailed in Britain.
Four men were sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court on several counts of rape, sexual assault, and actual bodily harm for the abuse conducted between August 2018 and April 2019.
Three of the attackers, now aged between 21 and 26, arrived in the northeast English city from Syria, while a fourth fled Kuwait and claimed asylum in Britain.
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During an interview with CBS News on Sunday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas addressed the murder of 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, but failed to admit that her suspected killer, illegal immigrant ;Jose Antonio Ibarra, should never have been allowed into the United States in the first place.
His comments drew backlash from many on the right, including Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who pointed out that if the federal government had done its job properly, Riley would “still be alive today.”
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More Than 8M Migrants Will Soon be Living in the US — a 167% Increase in 5 Years
The population of migrants living within the US will surge to 8 million by the end of September — a dramatic 167% increase over five years driven by President Biden’s handling of the border crisis, according to government data.
At the end of fiscal year 2023 on Sept. 30, more than 6 million asylum seekers and other migrants were listed on what is known as the “non-detained docket” — a court docket that consists of cases involving noncitizens who have been temporarily released from ICE custody.
The Biden Administration anticipates that number will swell to 8 million by Oct. 1, according to Department of Homeland Security documents sent to Congress and obtained by Axios.
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Sea Watch Rescues 70 Migrants, Requests ‘Nearby Port’
Migrant rescue NGO Sea Watch on Monday called on the Italian authorities to allow its Sea Watch 5 vessel to disembark 70 rescued migrants and refugees at a nearby port after being assigned Reggio Calabria, four days’ sailing away.
“Last night we rescued 70 people travelling on two boats in distress.
They are now all safe on board the Sea-Watch 5,” said Sea Watch Italia on X.
“The Italian authorities have assigned Reggio Calabria as the port of disembarkation, and it would take us four days to reach it.
“At the moment, however, four-metre waves are blocking the route northwards and it is not safe to continue.
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Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Texas Law That Allows Police to Arrest Migrants
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ plan to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally is headed to the Supreme Court in a legal showdown over the federal government’s authority over immigration.
Justice Samuel Alito on Monday issued an order that temporarily halts Texas’ immigration law from going into effect until next week so the full court can decide what steps to take next. The law was set to take effect Saturday under a lower court’s decision. Alito’s order putting it on hold until March 13 came just hours after the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to intervene.
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Texas Democrat’s Illegal Immigration Positions Could Come Back to Haunt Him in Bid to Oust Ted Cruz
The likely Democrat nominee in Texas’ upcoming Senate race has taken a number of positions on illegal immigration that could complicate his aim of unseating incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz as the border crisis sits front and center on voters’ minds.
Although Democrat Rep. Collin Allred, who represents Texas’ 32nd Congressional District, wants to “surge resources” to help Border Patrol, he has consistently opposed efforts to ban sanctuary cities, supported a pathway to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants residing in the U.S., referred to the border wall as “racist,” and opposed multiple pieces of legislation aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration.
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Democrat President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just announced plans to pour vast sums of taxpayer cash into a radical new scheme.
As U.S. military veterans sleep rough on the streets and American families struggle to make ends meet under “Bidenomics,” Biden’s HHS is pumping $2 million in tax dollars into a shady California public health nonprofit that claims it will use the funds to encourage “racially diverse trans women” to take HIV prevention medication.
The organization was previously known as Public Health Foundation Enterprises before it recently changed its name to Heluna Health.
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Pro-Beijing groups financially backed by two China-linked billionaires are pushing the radical transgender movement as a means of advancing a Marxist agenda in the United States, seven-time New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer reveals in his new book Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.
In Blood Money, Schweizer, who is a Breitbart News senior contributor and the president of the Government Accountability Institute, reveals China’s multi-pronged, covert attack on America. In Chapter 6, called “Destabilizing Democracy,” Schweizer explores how two billionaires, China-based American Neville Roy Singham and Alibaba co-founder Joseph Tsai, prop up radical activists groups that use transgenderism as a weapon against the “capitalist order.”
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France Enshrines Abortion in Its Constitution
France has responded to the rollback of abortion rights in the US by becoming the first nation in the world to constitutionally guarantee that its women can terminate their pregnancies.
Lawmakers voted in a joint session of both parliamentary houses on Monday to approve the constitutional amendment by a margin of 780-72. The landslide approval followed through on President Emmanuel Macron’s pledge last year to make the right to abortion in France “irreversible,” protecting against the sort of restrictive measures that have been imposed in some US states.
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The sentencing of a man who told police he identified as a woman when caught filming women in a U.K. public restroom caught the attention of J.K. Rowling over the weekend.
The Harry Potter series author posted about Kurtis Mawson being convicted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday, writing, “That thing only evil, nasty bigots claim happens, and that never, ever happens, has happened. Again.”
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Spain Officially Adopts and Promotes ‘Inclusive’ Language in Congress
The Spanish government has altered the regulations of the Congress of Deputies into what it calls ‘inclusive language.’
Critics point out that changing the terminology according to political imperatives will also make the wording of public documents and discussion both unwieldy and unclear.
Reports in La Gaceta highlighted this often tortuous task, since Spanish is renowned for being heavily gendered. It’s a language where, like other Romance languages, the masculine form of nouns is also generic, and is used when referring to both men and women.
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Top Scientists Agree Gender is Binary
The majority of scientists at some of the world’s leading universities have agreed that gender is binary and not “fluid,” a new poll has revealed.
According to a report published by the UK’s Telegraph, almost 200 scientists at British universities were polled about the issue from 2023 to 2024.
The newspaper conducted the survey with Censuswide, a market research consultancy headquartered in London.
The poll of scientists found that a majority of respondents view gender to be binary as it is determined by a person’s biological sex.
However, most of the scientists also said they believe “gender identity,” where a person lives their life as a gender that isn’t their biological sex, can be “fluid.”
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The United Kingdom’s tax system is already hostile towards single-income families but that still hasn’t driven enough mothers away from their children and into work, the government signals as it prepares to announce the budget this week.
The British government is looking to increase “female participation” in the workforce to generate “more taxes being paid”, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) Jeremy Hunt says. While the continued push, launched last year, was initially framed as being a matter of increasing choice for those who want to go back to work and find the cost of childcare prohibitive, the politician then fell back on now well-worn Tory Party hostile rhetoric on mothers which has branded staying at home to raise one’s offspring as being economically “inactive” or “wasted”.
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The town of Cambridge, Ontario is in the process of developing a new recreation center, which according to blueprints obtained by Reduxx, will ditch regular sex-segregated change rooms in favor of a glass-walled “universal gender-neutral common area.”
During a recent city council meeting at which the proposal to go ahead with the plans was approved 7-2, a woman from nearby Kitchener tried to draw attention to the potential misuse of such a space, but had her concerns dismissed and was ordered to stop talking.
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(DR. ERIK ENBY)
Here’s what we found inside THE COVID PFIZER VAX;
moving particles, flakes, – something alive?
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“This is the price an honest doctor must pay for telling the truth. Erik Enby has been called one of Sweden’s most dangerous doctors. He claims that under the microscope he has made discoveries that are worthy of further study. If his findings are correct, they could change the medical paradigm. In his long career, Dr Enby has treated 30-40,000 patients (from around the globe), often “abandoned as hopeless cases” by the health service. Thanks to Enby, many of these have had a new lease of life.
Dan Larhammar, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, is one of Erik Enby’s most strident opponents.
In this film, I take a closer look at the Enby case. Who is he? What does he claim? Why has he been so violently attacked? Who initiated the ten year long media hunt against Erik Enby, leading to him losing his licence and subsequently to police investigation, even to having his home searched?
Is he so dangerous because he may be right?
Börje Peratt producer and director.”
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March 5, 2024
Victoria Nuland resigns suddenly
Top US diplomat Victoria Nuland – the brains behind the US foreign policy strategy in Ukraine – is suddenly resigning from her top diplomatic job.
This was announced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a press release.
Victoria Nuland became known to the world in early February 2014 for her “f*** the EU” comment in a recorded and leaked phone conversation with the then ambassador to Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt.
In the conversation, the two American diplomats – in the midst of the ongoing protests in Kiev – discussed in detail which politicians and oligarchs they would allow to rule Ukraine once the coup d’état against the elected President Viktor Yanukovych was completed.
Since then, Victoria Nuland rose to the third most senior position at the US State Department and is strongly associated with the war hawk faction of the US diplomatic corps. She is married to the well-known neoconservative Robert Kagan.
Neoconservatism is the ideology that the US should be used to start wars against Israel’s enemies.
Today’s press release from Antony Blinken gives no reason why Victoria Nuland suddenly decided to end her 35-year career at the State Department.
“Victoria Nuland has let me know that she intends to resign in the coming weeks,” he says.
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https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-victoria-nuland-announces-resignation-as-bidens-undersecretary-of-state
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