Victoria Nuland announced that she is stepping down as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Meanwhile, in possibly unrelated news, Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) announced that she will retire at the end of 2024.
In other news, Michelle “Big Mike” Obama announced that she will not run for president in 2024.
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Anthony Albanese is being slammed after announcing a $2billion green energy investment fund for South East Asia while Australia is still in a crippling cost of living crisis.
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European Inflation Trends: Peaks, Valleys, and Economic Projections
As January figures unveil a mixed bag of inflationary trends across the European Union (EU), contrasting shifts in consumer price indices paint a nuanced picture of economic dynamics, Euronews writes.
Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU, reports a general easing of annual inflation rates, indicative of a broader trend since its zenith in October 2022, when it peaked at 11.5%. In January 2024, EU annual inflation stood at 3.1%, down from 3.4% in December, a significant drop from the 10.0% recorded a year earlier.
Similarly, the eurozone’s annual inflation rate dipped to 2.8% in January 2024, down from 2.9% in December and notably lower than the 8.6% observed in January 2023, signifying a gradual deceleration in price increases.
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Income Needed to Afford a Home in the US Has Soared by 80% Since 2020
The Biden administration and its fawning PR industry, also known as the mainstream media, have over the past year been desperate to explain to ordinary deplorables Americans why the US economy is ackchyually doing “so much better” than most peasants give the 81-year-old’s handlers credit for (see “The Economy Is Great. Why Do Americans Blame Biden”, “Voters Are More Upbeat on Economy, but Biden Gets Little Benefit, WSJ Poll Shows”, “Is Biden Going Down With the Ship Called Bidenomics?”, “Why Biden Touts Jobs When Americans Care About Prices”, and so on).
And yet, for all the seasonal adjustments, data rigging, propaganda and angry outbursts by the senile president, there may be a very simple reason why Biden will lose the Nov 2024 election not just on the catastrophic debacles that are immigration and foreign policy (Afghanistan, Ukraine, Israel), but also on the economy, and that has to do with the snuffing of what was once the American dream — namely, owning a house.
According to Zillow, the income needed to comfortably afford a home in the US has leapt 80% since 2020, far exceeding what the BLS reports has been a 23% increase in median household income over the same period.
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AG Merrick Garland Calls Voter ID Laws ‘Unnecessary’
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
Attorney General Merrick Garland on March 3 declared that efforts by states to implement voter ID laws are “unnecessary” and “burdensome,” drawing the ire of Republicans.
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Another Soros-Backed DA on Hot Seat as Recall of Oakland’s Pamela Price Advances
Petition organizers have submitted thousands of signatures to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, the latest prosecutor backed by Democratic megadonor George Soros to face ouster over concerns about rising lawlessness.
Save Alameda County For Everyone in Oakland, California, turned in 123,387 signatures to qualify the recall question for the ballot, well above the 73,195 threshold, accusing her of “jeopardizing the safety of every resident and business in Alameda County by failing to enforce the law.”
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Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Will Not Run for Reelection
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) will retire at the end of 2024, clearing the way for a battle between Republican Kari Lake and Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) for Arizona’s Senate seat.
Sinema’s move is significant but not unexpected. She raised only $595,000 in the final quarter of 2023, a fraction of the totals that Lake and Gallego each raised — although Sinema maintains nearly $11 million in her campaign account.
In an announcement video posted to X, Sinema lamented “the constant pull to the extremes by both political parties” while echoing her usual themes regarding her desire to seek bipartisan victories.
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Biden Projected to Lose American Samoa to Entrepreneur Jason Palmer
President Joe Biden is projected to lose the Democratic caucus in American Samoa on Tuesday, marking an unexpected loss to a largely unknown businessman and a blemish on what has otherwise been a clean sweep for the president in party nominating contests.
Decision Desk HQ called the race for Jason Palmer, The Hill reported. The election projector confirmed the results with the Democratic Party of American Samoa.
Prior to Super Tuesday, Biden won every Democratic nominating contest and has thus far claimed every Super Tuesday state that has seen the Associated Press project a winner.
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Bipartisan Bill Could Force China’s ByteDance to Sell TikTok
To address potential national security risks, a diverse coalition of US lawmakers, led by Representative Mike Gallagher (Republican) and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (Democrat), have put forward a new legislative proposal targeting ByteDance’s TikTok.
This bipartisan initiative, introduced today, aims to compel ByteDance to sell the widely-used short video platform within six months or confront a possible ban in the United States.
The bill, co-sponsored by over a dozen legislators and set for discussion at Thursday’s Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, arises amidst escalating concerns over Chinese technology firms and their influence over online speech, politics, and culture.
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America’s oldest gun manufacturer, Remington, is officially closing its plant in New York this month and moving to Georgia after more than 200 years in the Empire State.
“Ilion is Remington. Remington is Ilion,” Ilion, New York, Mayor John Stephens told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview ahead of the plant’s closure.
The phrase and sentiment is one the mayor has repeated over the course of his time in office and before, even as an icebreaker while he was in college introducing himself to a professor and peers.
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Voters are heading to the polls in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday to weigh in on a primary race between the county’s George Soros-backed progressive District Attorney Jose Garza and his Democrat challenger Jeremy Sylestine, in a race where public safety and crime have been at the forefront.
Garza, who took office in deep blue Travis County in 2021 after a campaign backed by progressive billionaire Soros, pledging to “reimagine” criminal justice and prosecute police officers, has defended his record as district attorney saying that he is “doing exactly what Travis County voters elected him to do, fixing our broken criminal justice system by standing with survivors, working to end the excessive use of force by police, and prioritizing treatment over incarceration for nonviolent drug offenses.”
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Electric Cars Worse for Environment Than Gas-Powered Vehicles: Study
A 2022 study conducted by Emission Analytics suggesting that electric vehicles could release more emissions than their gas-powered counterparts has reemerged amid a growing push to phase out the latter in favor of the former on the grounds that they’re better for the environment.
EA found that the biggest polluters on vehicles are the tires, thus heavier cars produce more emissions since they cause the tires to wear down faster. Since EVs weigh on average 30 percent more than gas-powered cars due to the enormous batteries, they may end up being worse for the planet than previously thought.
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Elon Musk Urges Tesla Employees to Vote Out Austin’s Soros-Backed DA: Report
Tesla CEO Elon Musk worked to rally Austin, Texas, voters to oust the county’s George Soros-backed District Attorney Jose Garza on Super Tuesday, and reportedly even urged his own employees at the electric vehicle giant’s headquarters in the area to pull the lever for a candidate that will “actually prosecute crimes.”
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Expert Warns of Secret Plan to ‘Ration’ Meat to ‘Fight Climate Change’
A leading American green agenda expert has raised the alarm about secret government plans to eliminate meat from the food supply in order to supposedly stop the so-called “climate crisis.”
According to Marc Morano, Democrat President Joe Biden is planning to drive the price of meat up and then ration it.
Morano warns that the goal is to make real meat a luxury that can only be enjoyed by wealthy elites.
Meanwhile, the general public will be fed with lab-grown “meats” and insect-based “foods” instead.
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A co-defendant in the 2020 Georgia election interference case says a new witness is prepared to testify against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should evidence be re-opened in her disqualification proceedings.
David Shafer, a former Georgia Republican Party chair, filed a notice of proposed testimony in Fulton County Superior Court announcing that Cindi Lee Yeager, a co-chief deputy district attorney for Cobb County, stands ready to appear as a witness, FOX 5 Atlanta reported.
According to the filing, Yeager claims to have had “numerous” interactions with the defense’s star witness, Terrence Bradley, and can corroborate his claims that Willis began an affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade years earlier than they both claimed.
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Hate Crime and Bias Hotline to be Established in Washington State Under New Bill
A bill that would create a new hotline in Washington to report “hate crimes and bias incidents” is headed to the Democrat Governor Jay Inslee’s desk where he is expected to sign it.
Senate Bill 5427 passed the Democratic-controlled State House on Wednesday and was mostly opposed by Republicans.
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Larry Acree Booked Into Jackson County With Multiple Charges in Independence Shooting
Larry Acree, 69, has been booked into the Jackson County Detention Center and faces multiple charges in relation to a shooting Feb. 29 in Independence that killed a police officer and civil process worker.
Acree is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, first-degree assault and three counts of armed criminal action. He is being held on a $2 million, cash-only bond. There is no court date yet scheduled.
Jackson County prosecutors say Acree opened fire on a civil process server who had come to evict him. When officers arrived at the Independence location to help the process server who had been shot, authorities said Acree shot three of them, killing one.
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Maryland Lawmaker Wants to Raise Taxes, Alter Tax Bracket to Fund Reparations for Black Residents
A Maryland lawmaker wants to increase taxes to invest in reparations efforts.
Sen. Jill Carter, D-Baltimore City, sponsored the Maryland Reparations Act of 2024, calling for a “certain amount of revenue from the State individual income tax and Maryland estate tax be distributed to the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund.”
Maryland established the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund in 2023 to provide funds to organizations that would serve the individuals “most impacted by disproportionate enforcement of cannabis prohibition before July 1, 2022.” Carter’s bill would allocate more funding to the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund by changing the state’s tax code.
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Michelle Obama Rules Out Running for President
Michelle Obama will not run for president, her office has said, quashing speculation that she will be parachuted in to replace Joe Biden on the 2024 ballot.
Commentators from the Left and Right suggested the former first lady could try to save the Democrats as the incumbent battles questions about his age and weak support in the polls.
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A group of pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday accosted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her fiancé outside a movie theater in Brooklyn and demanded that she call Israel’s offensive in Gaza a “genocide.”
Video obtained by Fox News Digital shows the protesters, phones in hand, approaching the congresswoman outside the Alamo Drafthouse.
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Radical Los Angeles DA George Gascon Faces 11 Primary Challengers
Soft-on-crime Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon faces a full field of primary challengers on Tuesday after dodging two previous recall attempts aimed at ousting him over his progressive prosecutorial policies.
Eleven candidates — including several of Gascon’s current and former deputies — are competing with the incumbent to be LA’s top law-and-order enforcer in an open-primary race that is expected to lead to a runoff election between the top two vote-getters in November.
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epublican Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is moving to pass legislation that will allow Americans to sue vaccine makers over injuries and deaths caused by Covid shots.
Roy unveiled his new bill on Tuesday which he has dubbed the “Let Injured Americans Be Legally Empowered” (LIABLE) Act.
The bill is aimed at wiping away Covid vaccine manufacturers’ statutory protections, opening them up to civil lawsuits.
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Rep. Thomas Massie Bringing Brother of WikiLeaks Founder Assange to State of the Union
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie has invited Gabriel Shipton, the brother of imprisoned Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, as his guest for this week’s State of the Union address.
The Kentucky Republican decided to bring Shipton as part of his message that the U.S. should drop Assange’s criminal charges and stop seeking his extradition.
“The U.S. government’s ongoing effort to prosecute Julian Assange threatens the First Amendment rights of Americans and should be opposed,” Massie said in a statement to The Courier Journal.
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Republicans Probe GoFundMe and Eventbrite Over Government Transaction Surveillance
The US House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government appears to be trying to dig deeper into the meaning of the subject matter it has been convened to explore.
Specifically — how some private financial entities, egged on by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) — a federal, US Department of Treasury agency — allegedly went on to essentially surveil clearly political terms like “Trump” and “MAGA” on platforms such as Eventbrite and GoFundMe.
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Trump Closes in on Nomination With Early Republican Super Tuesday Wins
Donald Trump closed in on securing his third consecutive Republican presidential nomination Tuesday as he notched early wins over his closest rival Nikki Haley in the 15-state Super Tuesday primaries.
Trump easily won Alabama, Arkansas, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, according to rapid projections by the Associated Press.
The ex-president aims to all but lock down the nomination with strong showings across the country, including in California, the nation’s most populous and delegate-rich state.
Other states with primary elections Tuesday include Colorado, Minnesota and Vermont. Trump held leads in Colorado and Vermont with counting underway as of around 9 p.m. ET.
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Trump Meets With Elon Musk, GOP Donors in Florida: Report
Former President Donald Trump reportedly met with fellow billionaire Elon Musk in Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday.
Trump crossed paths with Musk and a handful of Republican donors but is hoping to have a lengthier one-on-one meeting with the electric car and space tycoon in the future, sources told the New York Times.
Specifics of the encounter were sparse.
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Victoria Nuland Leaving Post While Ukraine on the Ropes, US Policy in Shambles
Ukraine forces are in retreat and the war is going badly from NATO’s perspective, Biden’s $60+ billion for Kiev is halted in the House, and the Democratic incumbent’s reelection chances are looking grim in November. And as if confirming there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, Victoria Nuland is stepping down as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States.
The State Department announced Tuesday morning she is retiring. The Associated Press announcement interestingly enough underscores her hawkish legacy on Russia and Ukraine. “Victoria Nuland, the third-highest ranking U.S. diplomat and frequent target of criticism for her hawkish views on Russia and its actions in Ukraine, will leave her post this month, the State Department said Tuesday,” it wrote.
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On Monday, the Washington Legislature passed an initiative to finally remove Democrats’ disastrous restrictions on police pursuits.
The legislature also passed citizen-backed Initiative 2111, which prohibits state and local income taxes, as well as Initiative 2081, which restores parental rights, including those to review educational materials and opt out of sexual education.
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The authorities in Canada’s British Columbia (BC) province have changed a restaurant’s liquor license as a form of punishment after a row over its refusal to automatically surrender all surveillance footage to the police, in the wake of shooting incidents in a nearby parking lot.
The establishment, a part of the Cactus Club chain in Coquitlam, previously asked that the federal law enforcing agency RCMP come up with a warrant first.
However, none other than the province’s Deputy Premier, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth found the warrant request “just unacceptable.”
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Edmonton City Hall Shooting Suspect Charged With 11 Terrorism Offenses
Edmonton RCMP announced Monday that they are charging Bezhani Sarvar with 11 terrorism offenses in relation to a January incident at the city hall.
Sarvar, 28, is accused of firing a gun and throwing a lit Molotov cocktail in an incident that occurred at Edmonton City Hall in January.
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a snap election in 2021 in order to avoid any scrutiny over a Chinese spy scandal at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
He reminded reporters at a Thursday news conference that China interfered in that election and helped secure a minority government for Trudeau and the Liberal Party. He insisted Trudeau wanted to divert attention from the security breach.
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Rebel News, David Menzies Sue for False Arrest, Imprisonment, and Assault
Rebel News is suing the RCMP for its actions against David Menzies and what the news organization calls “a pattern of intimidation and exclusion against Rebel News journalists.”
The independent media organization and one of its reporters, Menzies, have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, York Regional Police, and five RCMP officers over what they describe in their court filing as the assault and false arrest of Menzies.
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“No Tesla is Safe”: Eco-Terrorists Attack German Power Grid, Causing Outage at Gigafactory
A far-left militant/environmental group, known as “Vulkangruppe” (Volcano Group), has claimed responsibility for an attack on Germany’s electricity infrastructure on Tuesday, paralyzing vehicle production at Tesla’s European Gigafactory near Berlin.
Police in the state of Brandenburg said someone set fire to a nearby high-voltage tower, causing a blaze that cut off electricity to the Gigafactory and more than 60,000 people in the surrounding area.
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British Police Fail to Solve a Single Burglary in Half of Neighbourhoods: Report
British police have failed to solve a solitary burglary in almost half of the neighbourhoods in England and Wales over the past three years, an analysis of policing data has found.
Despite a much-heralded and historic pledge signed by all 43 police constables in England and Wales in 2022 to have officers personally visit the scene of all home burglaries, there has been a decline in the overall solve rate and 48 per cent of all neighbourhoods have seen zero burglaries solved over the previous three years, the Daily Telegraph reports.
According to Home Office data, the charge rate for burglaries fell from 4.6 per cent in 2022 to 3.9 per cent in the year following the pledge, representing less than one in 25 burglaries resulting in charges.
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Decline in Estonian Prison Population and Recidivism Noted in 2023
In 2023, the number of first-time prisoners decreased to less than 2000 and continues to decline. Now there are no minors in Estonian prisons. The head of the prison service, Raivo Kuuse, noted that this is due to investments in preventive work with youth, which reduces the likelihood of their imprisonment in the future and lowers recidivism, as reported by Postimees.
There is also a decrease in the number of individuals under criminal supervision, but the number of prisoners serving sentences under the supervision of the probation service is increasing.
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Eastern Europe Challenges Parity: Debate Over Top EU, NATO Appointments Intensifies
Eastern European nations within the European Union and NATO are raising concerns over the perceived lack of parity in top appointments as Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte emerges as the favored candidate for NATO chief this summer, according to Politico.
The potential appointment of Rutte, backed by major Western powers including the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany, has stirred discontent among newer EU and NATO members, particularly those sharing borders with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
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Estonia, Poland, and France Demand Adequate Funding for the New Defense Strategy From the EU
Representatives of Estonia, Poland, and France, in a joint letter to the European Commission, called for the EU’s defense industrial strategy to be accompanied by “adequate funding,” as a lack of sufficient resources now “will mean higher costs later.” This was reported by Europa Press, which obtained the letter.
The three EU countries noted that a crucial part of the new EU defense strategy would be the plan for its implementation, “which must be developed without delay.”
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EU Divided: Nuclear Energy Debate Splits Member States
The European Union finds itself divided over the issue of nuclear energy, with member states grappling over divergent approaches to energy policy, Reuters writes.
France spearheads a pro-nuclear camp, advocating for the technology, while Austria and Germany lead a faction advocating for a greater emphasis on renewable energy sources.
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EU Nears First Major Law Against Forced Labor
Europe is moving towards implementing its first major law aimed at combating goods produced with forced labor, particularly targeting China’s Xinjiang region, as reported by Politico.
However, campaigners warn that the proposed European Union ban may not be as stringent as existing U.S. legislation, potentially making the EU susceptible to becoming a destination for goods made with forced labor.
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The European Union is set to propose collaborative funding for collective weapon acquisitions, similar to ammunition procurement, aiming to strengthen defense capabilities across member states, as reported by Al Arabiya News.
Highlighting the urgency in the face of potential conflict, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stressed the need for Europe to bolster its defense apparatus, citing a long-standing necessity to modernize armed forces following decades of budget constraints since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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EU Proposes Shift to “War Economy Mode” for Arms Industry in Response to Ukraine Crisis
The European Commission is set to propose measures aimed at bolstering the European Union’s arms industry to enable a shift to “war economy mode,” Reuters writes.
Thierry Breton, the European industry commissioner, will present plans to encourage EU countries to collectively procure more weapons from European companies and support these firms in expanding their production capacity.
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European Auto Giants Retreat: Germany Leads Market Exodus
High energy costs, taxes and levies in Germany make the location comparably expensive and internationally non-competitive. This is coupled with bureaucracy, shortage of skilled workers, insufficient digitization and questionable energy policies. This particularly impacts the automotive industry, as stated by Focus.
The future looks bleak for volume manufacturers in the automotive sector as Chinese competitors grow rapidly and offer more cost-effective options. The anticipated electric car boom hasn’t materialized, yet European manufacturers heavily invest in electric vehicles despite low demand.
Southern European automakers like Peugeot, Citroën, Renault and Seat are likely to vanish, while German brands like Opel and VW struggle due to high production costs. Premium brands like Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche might survive in the luxury segment.
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Finland Debates Euthanasia Legalization After 50,000 Signatures
A call to legalize euthanasia in Finland has garnered 50,000 signatures of support and is now set to be discussed in parliament, as reported by YLE News. This citizens’ initiative, spearheaded by a group advocating for the right to die with dignity, aims to address the painless termination of patients with incurable diseases to alleviate their suffering.
The proposal, launched in November last year, hopes to secure a place on the government’s agenda for the next administration, anticipated to take office in 2027. The outcome of this proposal’s passage into law largely hinges on the composition of the future coalition government, with varying degrees of support and opposition from political parties.
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France: Paris City Hall Raided Over Mayor’s Questionable Trip to Tahiti
On March 5th, Paris police conducted raids at City Hall as part of an investigation into the expenses of Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s trip to French Polynesia in 2023, Politico reports.
The investigation into Hidalgo’s trip began in November 2023 by France’s National Financial Prosecutor following complaints from anti-corruption organizations and political opponents of the Paris mayor.
At that time, the official embarked on a two-week business trip to New Caledonia and French Polynesia, located in the southern Pacific Ocean.
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France Urges EU to Mobilize Funding for Defense Spending
France, along with Poland and Estonia, is pushing the European Union to allocate substantial and concrete funding for defense programs, drawing parallels to the joint financing approach utilized during the pandemic crisis, Bloomberg writes.
While the European Commission is set to unveil a new defense strategy aimed at bolstering the bloc’s military capabilities, there remains ambiguity regarding the financing of proposed initiatives, which include securing critical supplies and investing in projects such as integrated air and missile defense.
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France Will Not be Sending Its Troops to Ukraine in the Near Future — Macron
French authorities do not intend to deploy their troops to Ukraine in the immediate future. This was stated by the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with the Novinky portal.
“What we are discussing does not mean that we are considering sending French troops to Ukraine in the near future, but it means that we are starting a discussion and thinking about everything that can be done to support Ukraine, especially on Ukrainian territory,” Macron said.
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German Defense Minister Attributes Leak to Officer’s Insecure Hotel Line Connection
Berlin is attributing the leak of a Taurus call to an officer logging in through an insecure Singapore hotel line, as reported by Politico. Germany is now working to mitigate the repercussions of this breach, where secret discussions among military officers were intercepted by Russia.
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German Officials Tighten Security Measures After Leak of Conversations
Following the leakage of audio recordings containing discussions among high-ranking officials of the German Bundeswehr regarding possible missile deployment to Ukraine and an attack on the Crimean Bridge, German government officials are taking additional measures to ensure security.
According to Bloomberg, future meetings between officials of the Federal Republic of Germany will occur more frequently in person.
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The German Ministry of Defense defended the comment made by the head of the department, Boris Pistorius, regarding the publication of conversations among Bundeswehr officers discussing the delivery of Taurus missiles to Kyiv and a potential attack by Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Crimean Bridge, using the password “1234,” Bild writes.
Regular press releases in the form of text are regularly published on the website of the German Ministry of Defense. However, the comment by Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on the interception of conversations among German officers by Russia was published there today in a new format.
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In Germany, There is a Desire to Reinstate Compulsory Military Service — Pistorius
Germany may reintroduce compulsory military service in the coming years. Der Spiegel reports this with reference to an internal document.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has instructed the development of a conscription model by April 1, “which will make a scalable, threat-adapted contribution to national resilience.”
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In Lithuania Last Year, 14,000 Fines Were Issued for Evasion of Military Service
In Lithuania last year, 14,000 fines were issued for evasion of military service, and authorities opened over 450 pre-trial investigations into cases of repeated evasion, according to Arunas Balciunas, head of the Conscription Service.
Conscripts cite various reasons for their failure to appear for military service, such as forgetting to check if they are on the conscription lists or missing the deadline for medical examinations. There are also legitimate reasons, such as illness and medical leave.
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Italy Spent Three Times More Than the Official Amount on Supporting Ukraine — Il Foglio
According to the Il Foglio newspaper, Italy has allocated a sum for military support to Ukraine significantly exceeding the officially announced figures. The report published by the newspaper states that Italy spent around 2.2 billion euros on armaments and aid to Ukraine, while the officially declared amount is less than 0.7 billion euros.
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Multiple Weather Balloons With Cyrillic Inscriptions Found in Poland
In Poland, a balloon with texts written in the Cyrillic alphabet was noticed, which fell to the ground in Kierwik near Szczytno. This is already the third such incident within two days, reports RMF FM.
The balloon, as reported by RMF FM, likely flew over Poland from the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast, bordering the country from the north. Evidence of this is the inscriptions on the balloon written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
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Netherlands: Amsterdam’s Cannabis Sales Experiment Rejected by Parliament
The expansion of the experiment allowing legally grown cannabis to be sold in coffeeshops in Amsterdam did not proceed, according to NOS. A majority in the Second Chamber rejected the legislative amendment for it. A proposal to halt the entire experiment until after the formation of a new cabinet was also rejected.
This means that the experiment will remain limited to Breda and Tilburg for the time being
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Swiss Police: Teen Suspect in Stabbing of Jewish Man in Zurich Sympathizes With ISIS
GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss police say the 15-year-old suspect in the stabbing of an Orthodox Jewish man in Zurich over the weekend had appeared in a video expressing solidarity with the banned Islamic State group, and called himself a “soldier” in its self-described caliphate.
Zurich cantonal police security chief Mario Fehr tells reporters that authorities are investigating whether the teen, who is not identified, acted alone or as part of a group. Officials say the suspect was a Swiss national.
“He refers to the IS (Islamic State), describes himself as a soldier of the caliphate,” Fehr says of the video that authorities had authenticated. He denounces the stabbing Saturday as a “terrorist” and “antisemitic” attack. The suspect was arrested at the scene.
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— with fears moves to slash bin collections and dim streetlights will sweep across the country
Birmingham City councillors are set to vote on a ‘devastating’ package that would see taxes rise nearly 10 per cent in each of the next two years — around 21 per cent in total.
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UK: Jews Fleeing Khan’s London Amid Huge Antisemitism Wave, Report Claims
The number of Jewish residents considering leaving London is increasing daily in response to targeted hostility, Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) warned Monday.
The group has exposed a series of antisemitic attacks in the capital amid reports of increasing nervousness among Jewish people about their safety, the London Evening Standard reports.
CAA chief executive Gideon Falter said an earlier opinion survey had already shown about half of Jewish people were considering moving abroad and the trend was growing because of continuing hostility from sections of the community.
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Ukraine War Briefing: Macron Says Don’t be ‘Cowards’ as He Digs in Over Ground Troops Remark
Emmanuel Macron has urged Ukraine’s allies not to be “cowards” in supporting its fight against the Russian invasion. He “fully stood behind” remarks made last week not ruling out the deployment of western troops. “We are surely approaching a moment for Europe in which it will be necessary not to be cowards,” the French president said on a visit to the Czech Republic.
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The First NATO Airbase in the Western Balkans Has Opened in Albania
The first NATO airbase in the Western Balkans has opened in Albania, according to the North Atlantic Alliance.
The base is located 80 kilometers south of Tirana, in the Berat district, on the site of the old military airfield in the town of Kucova. Construction began in 2019.
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Explained: What is the Humanitarian Situation in War-Torn Gaza?
Geneva: The Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has displaced most of the enclave’s 2.3 million people and caused a grave humanitarian crisis including acute shortages of food, water and medicine.
Here are some key facts about the conditions in the Palestinian territory:
Displacement
An estimated 1.7 million people, more than 75 per cent of Gaza’s population, have been displaced, many of them forced to move repeatedly across the enclave, according to the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA).
Israel last month intensified its bombardment of Rafah, a town in southern Gaza on the border with Egypt, where about 1.5 million people are estimated to be crammed.
Most people there have fled their homes further north to escape Israel’s military assault, which was launched in the wake of a deadly rampage by Hamas militants in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
Health and hospitals
The World Health Organization says most of the enclave’s 36 hospitals have stopped working. Only 12 are partially functioning — six in the north and six in the south — and one, the Al Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, is considered to be minimally functional.
Dr. Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for Gaza and the West Bank, said on Tuesday that more than 8,000 people needed to be referred outside Gaza for medical treatment.
He said some 6,000 people needed to be referred for war-related injuries and ailments, while 2,000 others suffered from cancer or serious chronic illnesses.
On March 3, WHO and its partners visited the Kamal Adwan and Al-Awda hospitals in northern Gaza to deliver supplies for the first time since the start of hostilities. Peeperkorn described the situation at Al-Awda Hospital as “particularly appalling” because one of the buildings had been destroyed.
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Why the US is Losing the War to the Houthis
After Biden came home from his Caribbean vacation, the Deputy Defense Secretary came back from hers and the Secretary of Defense was on the verge of being released from the hospital, airstrikes were finally authorized against the Houthi Jihadis attacking ships in the Red Sea.
Biden said that the air strikes sent “a clear message that the United States and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or allow hostile actors to imperil freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most critical commercial routes.”
The message was not very clear since the Houthis then struck a bulk carrier owned by an American company and spent the next two months terrorizing the Red Sea. The Iranian-backed terror group which seized control of much of Yemen due to Obama’s Arab Spring has launched even more devastating attacks on ships and has now reportedly attacked an undersea cable, after previously deploying an undersea drone and warning of further “submarine” attacks.
The Red Sea siege has affected shipping and commodities prices all over the world. The U.S. Navy ended a lot of its cargo runs in the Red Sea and so have a lot of civilian shipping firms.
Why have the Houthis been able to not only survive, but to escalate their attacks? Because the Biden administration was never serious about taking them out. The original attacks targeted less than 30 sites from a terror group that had shot off over 1,000 rockets and missiles in the previous 7 years and was clearly prepared for an extended campaign of rocket attacks…
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Belarus Leader Claims IMF & World Bank Offered Him Huge ‘Bribe’ to Enforce COVID Restrictions
Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has claimed that he was offered almost $1 billion in bribes from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to intentionally destroy his own economy and force major restrictions on his citizens during the Covid pandemic.
In explosive new allegations, Lukashenko claims that the World Bank and IMF offered him a bribe of $940 million USD.
Lukashenko says he was told the payment could be disguised as “Covid Relief Aid.”
The Belarusian claims the globalist organizations offered him the massive bribe in exchange for:
- Imposed “extreme lockdown on his people”
- Force the public to wear face masks
- Impose very strict curfews
- Impose a police state
- Crash the economy
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Russia Now Suffering Highest Daily Casualties in Ukraine Yet, Says UK Defence Intelligence
While the war in Ukraine has become more static over the past year amid failed counter offences and the emergence of major minefields and trench networks, the butcher’s bill continues to mount, with the UK claiming average Russian casualties are approaching 1,000 men a day.
Data published by the British Ministry of Defence’s periodic Defence Intelligence digest claims the war in Ukraine continues to claim an ever higher number of Russian casualties incurred daily, on average, hits new levels. The new average daily loss by Russia estimated by the UK has now hit 983 per day killed and wounded, a considerable increase on the 172 a day experienced in the summer of 2022.
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Ukraine Claims to Have Sunk Another Russian Warship in the Black Sea
A modern Russian coastal warship has been swarmed by drones and sunk, Ukraine claims, the latest strike against the dwindling Black Sea Fleet.
Ukraine says it sank the coastal patrol ship Sergei Kotov overnight into this morning in U.N.-recognised, if Russian-contested, Ukrainian territorial waters near the Kerch Strait. The attack, which was undertaken and recorded in real-time by a swarm of high speed marine drones appears to have successfully struck large patrol ship the Sergei Kotov several times, according to footage published by Ukrainian military intelligence.
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The attack on Fernanda, 28, who was on a motorbike trip with her husband Vincente, 63, took place last week in Dumka district in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.
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Officers were called on Monday night when more than 100 local sex workers converged on a Bangkok hotel being used by sex workers from the Philippines
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Balmoral State High School Issues Calendar Featuring Disturbing Images of Teachers
A Queensland high school is come under fire after a calendar filled with explicit pictures from a staff photo shoot were leaked to the public.
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West Gate Bridge Climate Protesters Jailed for Rush-Hour Chaos
Two climate protesters have been thrown in jail for blocking traffic lanes on a major Melbourne freeway, causing significant rush-hour delays on Tuesday.
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A mother was forced to deliver her baby roadside with the help of a high school teacher after Extinction Rebellion activists blocked off an arterial road.
Roshni Lad was being driven to hospital while in the pangs of labour just after 9.30am when she, her husband Bhairav and a family friend were caught in a traffic jam.
Climate change protesters had parked a rented truck across three lanes of Melbourne’s Westgate Bridge, shutting down the city on Tuesday morning. Later that day, one of the protesters was thrown into jail after a late court hearing.
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70 Children Missing in Wake of Mozambique Jihadist Attacks
In the aftermath of recent jihadist assaults in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province, authorities express deep concern over the whereabouts of over 70 children who became separated from their families. Thousands fled to a neighboring province in response to the attacks, leading to fears that some may have been abducted by militants linked to the Islamic State (IS) group, as reported by BBC.
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A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has revealed that the Biden administration has flown at least 320,000 migrants into the United States in an effort to reduce the number of crossings at the southern border, according to Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies.
“The program at the center of the FOIA litigation is perhaps the most enigmatic and least-known of the Biden administration’s uses of the CBP One cellphone scheduling app, even though it is responsible for almost invisibly importing by air 320,000 aliens with no legal right to enter the United States since it got underway in late 2022,” wrote Bensman.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had initially refused to disclose information about the flights, which use a cell phone app, CBP One, to arrange.
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John Ladd’s phone is an archive of life on a ranch beside the Arizona border with Mexico.
He scrolls past photographs of handsome Red Angus and cross-bred Hereford-Brahman cattle, picture after picture of Donald Trump’s 30ft border wall that spans about six-and-a-half miles of his land. Then he stops at an image of a tree.
‘That’s a rape tree,’ he said, pointing out the women’s clothes thrown into the thorny branches.
‘Almost all the women who come across get raped by their guides, who then they throw their underwear in the trees.’
The trees have been spotted up and down the border. Academics talk of them as warnings or trophies in the brutal symbolism of violent gangs.
Ladd, 68, has been a rancher all of his life. In the past 30 years he has learned about such savage displays, as well as the patterns of migrants who cross the border and the cartels who control turf on the other side.
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‘Alarming’ Rise in Migrant Child Labor Under Biden, Up 88% Since 2019: GOP Senator
The Biden administration is overseeing an “alarming” rise in exploitative child labor nationwide — a trend spurred by the ongoing migrant crisis at the southern border, according to Sen. Bill Cassidy.
In a pair of letters to officials at the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services (HHS), Cassidy (R-La.) pointed to reports of an 88% uptick in illegal child labor since 2019, including in “dangerous jobs” such as meat processing.
Federal watchdogs have also disclosed that the Biden administration “weakened” officials’ “ability to vet sponsors” who receive migrant children in the US and “protect” those children “from risks such as trafficking,” he noted.
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Arizona’s Democratic Governor Vetoes Border Bill Approved by Republican-Led Legislature
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a bill approved by the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature that would have made it a crime for noncitizens to enter the state through Mexico at a location other than a port entry
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A Colombian migrant on the terror watchlist was arrested after illegally crossing the border into a Texas city, just hours before Donald Trump visited the area last month.
Colombian national Carlos Obed Yepez-Bedoya, 40, was arrested in Eagle Pass, Texas on February 21 by border agents, the New York post reported.
The arrest came just days before Trump arrived at the border city to be briefed on border security by Texas Governor Greg Abbott on February 29
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Greece Rescues 100 Migrants Found on Boat Off Southern Coast
Greek authorities rescued 100 migrants found on a smuggler’s boat in distress off the country’s southern coast on Monday, according to AP.
The Greek coast guard stated that the migrants were taken from the boat by a tugboat dispatched to the area and safely transported to the southeastern village of Monemvasia. No injuries were reported.
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A plunge in house building approvals after overseas immigration hit record-high levels risks sparking an ‘economic and humanitarian disaster’, a leading think tank fears.
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A retired teacher is organizing a “Make Athens Safe Again” rally in the Georgia college town where nursing student Laken Riley was murdered last month, allegedly by a Venezuelan migrant.
Laurie Camp organized the protest — the name of which is a play on Donald Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” — to take place at an evening meeting of the Athens-Clarke County Commission, which she accused of allowing the college town to become a “sanctuary city” in defiance of Georgia’s anti-sanctuary laws.
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More than 40,000 migrants have now attempted the dangerous channel crossing from England to France since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, figures show.
Home Office figures also revealed 401 people made the journey in seven boats on Monday, the highest number recorded in a single day for 2024 to date.
Meanwhile, footage shows at least 20 people packed into a dangerously-low-lying dinghy which was making the perilous journey across the English Channel.
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Mayor Eric Adams is planning to impose a curfew at the violence-plagued Randall’s Island migrant camp — where one asylum seeker was stabbed to death in January, The Post has learned.
The 11 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew will go into effect March 20.
Residents at the tent encampment will be notified of the new rule on Wednesday, according to the plan.
Exemptions to the curfew include work, travel to school, legal or medical appointments, and emergencies.
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The Number of Ukrainian Refugees in Lithuania is 41,422, Unchanged From Last Year
The Migration Department reports that the number of Ukrainian war refugees living in Lithuania has remained virtually unchanged over the past year, as reported by LRT.lt. According to data as of March 4, a total of 41,422 individuals hold temporary residence permits under temporary protection, similar to last year’s figure.
The statistics provided by the department indicate that the number of Ukrainian war refugees is stabilizing this year compared to previous years. While 41,933 temporary protection permits were issued last March, approximately 12,000 new refugees arrived in Lithuania this year.
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America First Legal Sues Fairfax County Schools for Forcing Students to Use Preferred Pronouns
America First Legal has sued Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Virginia for forcing students to use preferred pronouns, allowing boys to use the girls’ bathroom, as well as sex and religious discrimination.
The lawsuit is on behalf of a female high school student in the Fairfax County school and alleges the policies at FCPS compelled the student “to speak in a manner that violates her sincerely held philosophical and religious beliefs” as well as discriminate “against her because of those sincerely held philosophical and religious beliefs, and discriminate against her on the basis of sex, all in violation of her rights guaranteed to her by the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia.”
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Biological Male Player Leads Vermont Girls’ High School Basketball Team to Championships
A Vermont girls’ basketball team is heading to the state’s finals, coming into their final game of the season with an overall win streak of 21-1—but those victories were made with the help of a biological male athlete. They go into the final game with a 10-win streak.
Long Trail’s varsity girls’ team won in Monday evening’s division four game against Williamstown with a score of 43-40. The team will now head to their first state championship game in the school’s history, according to the Bennington Banner.
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Catalonia in Spain Provides Free Reusable Menstruation Products for Women and Girls
Catalonia, a region in Spain, has launched an innovative initiative to support women and girls by providing free reusable menstruation products. Under the program titled “My Period, My Rules,” around 2.5 million females in northeast Spain can access menstrual cups, period underwear and cloth pads at local pharmacies without any cost, as reported by AP News.
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Doritos Just Hired a Self Described Pedophile as a ‘Brand Ambassador’
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news
Oily GMO tortilla chip brand Doritos is facing widespread backlash after some genius within the Spanish arm of the company decided to hire a non-binary transgender person who appears to have previously endorsed pedophilia to sell its snacks.
Yes, really.
The ‘transgender artist’ Samantha Hudson, formally known as Ivan Gonzalez Ranedo, has been given the role of brand ambassador for Doritos, and featured in a sponsored program called “Crunch Talks.”
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The world’s largest transgender health group has been advocating hormonal and surgical transitions for kids, including painful experimental operations meant to produce sexless bodies akin to department store mannequins, according to a massive internal data leak from WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health). WPATH is the group whose standards of care are in use in children’s hospitals and medical practices across the United States and the world for treatment of so-called trans kids as well as gender dysphoric adults.
Leaked videos and documents show that the organization is run by gender-fanatical activists who disregard questions about whether minors can give their consent for medical procedures that, as WPATH members know in private, frequently have severe and long-lasting side effects.
Nonetheless, the WPATH guidelines are still used by the US government, US physicians, and well-known organizations when making treatment decisions for our children.
Journalist Michael Shellenberger received the data, which included jaw-dropping exchanges from a WPATH internal message board and a video of a panel discussion at the Identity Evolution Workshop. On March 4, Mia Hughes published The WPATH Files: Pseudoscientific Surgical and Hormonal Experiments on Children, Adolescents and Vulnerable People with the byline “World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) members demonstrate a lack of consideration for long-term patient outcomes despite being aware of the debilitating and potentially fatal side effects of cross-sex hormones and other treatments.”
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Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Other Wall Street Firms Pulling Back on DEI Initiatives: Report
Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, Wall Street firms rushed to institute policies and practices aimed at promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, and increasing the number of people from underrepresented groups in positions of power.
That trend now appears to be moving in the other direction with corporations that once championed the cause quietly doing away with DEI initiatives and reverting to a merit-based, non-discriminatory system of hiring.
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A new self-ID law introduced by Spain ‘s government in 2022 has made it easier to formally change genders.
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VA Denies Removal of Iconic WWII Kissing Photo After Rogue Woke Memo Circulates
The top official at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has denied rumors that an iconic WWII of a US Navy Sailor kissing a woman in Times Square will be removed.
“Let me be clear: This image is not banned from VA facilities — and we will keep it in VA facilities,” wrote VA Secretary Denis McDonough in a post to X.
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On Monday, the coach of the Mid-Vermont Christian School (MVCS) girl’s basketball team spoke out for the first time after the team was banned from competing in more state tournaments after he decided to forfeit a playoff game because the opposing team had a trans-identified male athlete on it last year.
In an interview with Fox News, Chris Goodwin discussed the decision to forfeit the game, and why the school has since filed legal action against the state’s ban.
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X Backtracks on “Misgendering” Policy, Makes it Country-Specific
The course of action taken by the social media giant X in response to objections raised against its “misgendering” policy has prompted reassurances from its owner, Elon Musk.
The pushback against the policy, led vociferously by podcaster Tim Pool, saw Pool vent his ire via a Friday post, instigating disruption to his ad obligations and verified accounts, lest the policy was revived.
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Houthis – solution would be to stop bombing Gaza and give the Palestinians food. Dont have to waste billions on bombs.
Why give those GD savages food? Those bloody savages celebrated 9/11 and partied like there was no tomorrow, they celebrated and desecrated Israeli hostages alive and dead and celebrated the event, so they all can get bloody stuffed. If I was in charge, I would use napalm and Willie Pete very liberally until none are left. As for the Houthis, we have 4 Battleships in mothballs that can be quickly converted into shipshape to use for coastal bombardment until they quick lobbing missiles. Appeasing islamic savages only invites more aggression, so yeah, bombs are cheaper in the long run, you will soon learn this in your country as they continue to assert themselves. The only way you deal with these bloody savages is eliminate them, until none are left.
Hmm, who organised 9/11 so the US could embark on forever wars? Saudi Arabia and ?? CIA is what many people think. What about the other building coming down later after sustaining no damage? Insurance scam.
Watch the documentary Seven (2020) made with structural engineers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJPuWy9utss
The documentary shows the whole thing was a scam and the people who died were “sacrificed” for the MIA.
Have you heard of the Hannibal protocol? Letting some jews die is OK.
Many festival goers on 7 October killed by friendly fire from tanks ….. to prevent them being taken hostage? Hamas had no tanks on their little flying machines or motor bikes.
You should read more. Most conspiracy theories are becoming true like the Covid scam, the climate change scam… It is all about money. Ask who benefits to find the guilty party.
The real enemies are the people trying to block the sun and reduce photosynthesis and food production. Hamas is just a pawn in the game like we are.
Let me assure you that 9/11 was entirely a muzzy affair. Those Israeli tank crews killed muzzys, not their own. As for the chink flu and globull warming, we are in agreement. Hamass are islamic scum and the same with the fakestinians.
“Why give those GD savages food?”
So they’ll plump-up, making them easier targets for thermal to get a fix on.
Aloha Snackbar!!
Skinny or fat, they show up just fine on thermal.
Victoria Nuland:
Why did she resign?
Is the defeat of Ukraine so near that she wants to dis-associate herself from it or did she anger the wrong person? The one with the power to say “Get lost or…!” or even sent her to a retirement home six feet under.
Perhaps she is moving on to bigger and better things within the agenda.
“but those victories were made with the help of a biological male athlete.”
The media perpetuate this nonsense. It’s just a male athlete.
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— extraordinary and worthy of imitation —
14 honourable and resolute pro-Sweden citizens have sent an open letter to
politicians and members of parliament with 21 questions to which answers
are required.
The letter will be partially published here on GoV.
Today we start with the letter’s introduction and its point 21.
(from Swedish by LN)
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Open letter to politicians in the Swedish government and parliament
This letter is written by 14 Swedish citizens and is addressed personally to you as a politician in Sweden’s government/parliament. The 14 of us have different backgrounds and are very politically interested (not party political involved), we have an average age that guarantees that we have long term insight into the political development in Sweden and globally.
We believe there are many Swedes who support the questions we ask below. We look with great concern about what is happening in the development in our country and on Earth and know that the majority of Swedes do the same! We require answers from you to the following 21 questions, which are listed in numerical form to make it easier for you to respond. We want to know the general views, opinions and expertise of our parliamentary government and we hope you will answer our questions honestly! Your response will also reveal how you view your your political task and your voters!
We will compile and disseminate your answers (including non-answers) to the public via the media. We expect responses by 15 April this year, after which we will compile and present them. We will not accept that your party and its members jointly compile the answers, the answers should be from you personally!
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21. Islamisation in Sweden has come a long way! In some cities and towns, sharia law is in force, and legally there have been courts that have judged according to these laws! Women are isolated and treated brutally,
daughters are thrown from balconies for talking to a Swedish boy! In Malmö, Swedes are now a minority! The police now believe that there are about 62,000 gang criminals in the country, but the figure is probably underestimated; they are part of clans that operate completely outside Swedish laws, sell drugs, rape, shoot and bomb!
The places these clans have made “theirs” in society have meant that, for example, the emergency services, ambulance or police do not dare to visit these neighbourhoods when necessary, there is too great a risk to life and limb!
It is not Pelle, Göran and Lisa who are part of these clans! They are young people with a completely different mindset from a completely different culture, they will never adapt and live according to our culture! The police know who they are, but do not have the resources to deal with the problems, the gangs have the power!
Is that what we want?
But their culture actually provides the opportunity to remedy the problem! For these
young people, honour is a guiding principle that none of them want or dare to abandon! If young people (including children) participates in criminal activities, the whole family including relatives should be immediately expelled from Sweden, any citizenship should be taken away from them! There is not a single young person who dares to cause such a such an insult of honour to their parents, this is the solution!
The method requires legislative changes, why not make these changes? What do you as a politician want to do about this problem, what have you done so far?
to be continued
What Tucker Learned From Surviving a Plane Crash
“This country is being devoured by a violent revolution and…our middle class are refusing even to acknowledge that it’s happening and the ruling class against whom it is aimed are sympathizing with it. If this doesn’t remind you of BLM I don’t know what it does.” —Tucker Carlson (18 Feb 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOs3DGD_D1o
“Prediction: As the commie-toddlers assume more power, under the auspices of their BLACK Lunatic Madness (aka BLM) comrades, Obamericans should prepare for nationwide electrical brown- and black-outs, shortages of food and supplies, runaway inflation (as previously predicted), ubiquitous violence and crime and an overall LOWER standard of living. As’s been said, it’s not a mistake, it’s Obamerica….it’s The [Party’s] Plan.” —posted to fb (Sept 2021)
Ask yourself Fred, where the heck has diversity ever worked without it devolving into massive bloodshed?
“where the heck has diversity ever worked without it devolving into massive bloodshed?”
The United States of America….before it was turned into Obamerica; and E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One)—suggested as the nations’ motto by committee on 4 July 1776—was replaced with the likes of “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race” (President Affirmative Action) and “White supremacy is the single most dangerous terrorist threat in our homeland” (Prince Aricept).
“Americans want you to ask what you can do for their country. We—The Party [of BLACK Lunatic Madness]—will give you free in exchange for your vote.” —posted to fb (2020)
America was doomed the minute the commiecrats pushed the immigration act in 1965 along with Johnson’s Great Society abortion.
“Attorney General Merrick Garland on March 3 declared that efforts by states to implement voter ID laws are “unnecessary” and “burdensome,” drawing the ire of Republicans.”
It must cause a lot more work for those Democrats trying to rig the next election – as they did the last one.
The proverbial ship of state may be sinking, for the rats are beginning to jump off in ever-greater numbers….
I’ll say this for Nuland, she sees the writing on the wall is fleeing, next stop is a foreign country is my prediction, for she started this Ukraine war and knows Trump is going after coming for scalps if he gets re-elected..
“I’ll say this for Nuland, she sees the writing on the wall is fleeing, next stop is a foreign country is my prediction”
Of course, that would make sense. But I think it more likely that she’ll end up as a CNN commentator or heading some college for “women” (and their genetically-male counterparts).