A professor at the University of Southern California canceled her final exams and urged her students to join the anti-Israel Gaza camp on campus. Meanwhile, Arizona State fraternity students tore down a pro-Palestine encampment and booted out the activists who occupied it.
In other news, a Hamas delegation will visit Cairo tomorrow for talks about securing a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Fears About Stagflation Are Mounting in the US. It’s Every Central Banker’s Worst Nightmare
For the past few years, the US economy has been growing at a pace that seemed too good to be true.
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Rust Belt Workers Forced to Find New Jobs as Plant Closes From Lack of Tariffs
Hundreds of West Virginia workers have been thrown back into job hunting in a labor market with slashed wages as a plant in Weirton closed.
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There Are No Fed Cuts Ahead This Year
It is unlikely that the Fed will cut rates at all this year; and, if inflation stays hot, it may find that it will need to begin a new cycle of rate hikes sometime next year.
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20% of 2020 Election Mail-in Ballots Were Fraudulent, Investigation Finds
A bombshell investigation into the 2020 election has found that 20 percent of the mail-in ballots cast in the presidential race were fraudulent.
The shocking discovery was unearthed in a probe by The Heartland Insitute.
The nonprofit think tank worked with Rasmussen to compile data from voters who cast ballots in the 2020 election.
To gather the data, The Heartland Insitute and Rasmussen surveyed voters and asked them to confidentially admit whether they committed some form of fraud during the 2020 election.
The investigation found that one in five mail-in ballots were fraudulent.
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Major cities like San Francisco have hit headlines amid concerns their urban districts are in the grip of a doom loop — but a new report revealed the city where an even worse crisis is unfolding.
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Americans Are Increasingly Negative About China
Data by Gallup shows that Americans’ views of China have continued to worsen after 2018.
The deterioration started with the U.S.-China trade war under President Donald Trump, continued during the coronavirus pandemic that originated in China and has recently taken on yet another dimension among concerns about widespread Chinese tech and industrial espionage and subversion as well as continued human rights abuses and tension surrounding Taiwan.
As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, among American adults in 2024, unfavorable views of China were voiced by 77 percent of respondents after having reached a high of 84 percent in early 2023. In 2005, that figure had stood at just 47 percent.
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Annual Massachusetts Outmigration Hits 39,000, Up 1,100% Over the Last Decade: BU Study
BOSTON (April 24, 2024) — Annual net outmigration from Massachusetts has soared by a stunning 1,100 percent to 39,000 people since 2013, according to a new Boston University Questrom School of Business study. If the trend continues, the researchers found, the state’s net outmigration could reach 96,000 by 2030.
Outmigration cost Massachusetts $4.3 billion in adjusted gross income (AGI) and $213.7 million in tax revenue during the 2020-21 tax year. The majority of that money went to Florida ($1.77 billion), New Hampshire ($1.1 billion), and Maine ($393 million.) Those numbers could rise to $19.2 billion in AGI and $961 million in lost tax revenue by 2030.
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Reagan Gray, 26, sent naked pictures ‘on a daily basis’ to the boy after beginning the abuse in fall 2020 at Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, once attended by ex-President Bill Clinton.
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Californians Overwhelmingly Demand Return to ‘Common Sense’ Crime Policies
A referendum to overturn California’s failed police reform measures has garnered significant support from residents, which lawmakers say is imperative to pass in order to restore public safety across the state.
Proposition 47, which became law in 2014, reclassified several felonies as misdemeanors including retail and property theft, in addition to a wide range of drug possession convictions.
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College Protesters Seek Amnesty to Keep Arrests and Suspensions From Trailing Them
Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours.
But the next evening, the college junior received an email from the university.
Alwan and other students were being suspended after their arrests at the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” a tactic colleges across the country have deployed to calm growing campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
The students’ plight has become a central part of protests, with students and a growing number of faculty demanding their amnesty. At issue is whether universities and law enforcement will clear the charges and withhold other consequences, or whether the suspensions and legal records will follow students into their adult lives.
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Anti-Israel protesters are singing and celebrating as Columbia University squashed rumors of looming campus lockdowns and mass evictions over the ongoing “tent city” demonstration.
The school administration, which has been slammed for repeatedly bowing to protesters, said that negotiations with the students are moving forward despite the Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine group claiming that the university was threatening to lay down the hammer.
“We want to be clear: There is no truth to claims of an impending lockdown or evictions on campus,” the administration said in a statement Saturday night.
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Comedian Alex Stein Assaulted by ‘Trans for Palestine’ Activists at ut Austin
Blaze Media host and comedian Alex Stein was assaulted and robbed during a pro-Gaza event at the University of Texas at Austin on Sunday, which was hosted by an LGBTQ group.
Stein had his phone stolen and was assaulted in the process, video footage revealed.
The incident occurred after Stein confronted the group and asked them to explain their support for Palestinian territory despite Hamas having a history of executing LGBTQ people.
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COVID Shutdowns, Isolation to Blame for Pro-Palestine Protests, Experts Say
Blame it on Covid.
Campus protesters roiling colleges across the nation are part of a generation shaped by the pandemic, who grew up isolated and angered by school shut-downs and social distancing and are desperate to find a connection, community and a voice, experts told The Post.
The pro-Palestinian cause allows discontented youth to express “long-withheld rage,” said forensic psychiatrist Carole Lieberman. It gives them an “opportunity to identify with the ‘oppressed’ against ‘oppressors.’“
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Crackdowns at 4 College Protests Lead to More Than 200 Arrests
More than 200 protesters were arrested on Saturday at Northeastern University, Arizona State University, Indiana University and Washington University in St. Louis, according to officials, as colleges across the country struggle to quell growing pro-Palestinian demonstrations and encampments on campus.
There have been more than 800 arrests of protesters on U.S. campuses since April 18, when Columbia University had the New York Police Department clear a protest encampment there. In several cases, most of those who were arrested have been released.
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Defiant Kristi Noem Defends Killing Farm Pup Amid Criticism From Dems, GOP
A defiant South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem hit back at critics following outrage over her upcoming memoir that reveals she once killed a dog.
“I can understand why some people are upset about a 20 year old (sic) story of Cricket, one of the working dogs at our ranch, in my upcoming book — No Going Back. The book is filled with many honest stories of my life, good and bad days, challenges, painful decisions, and lessons learned,” the Republican wrote in a social media post that was published on X on Sunday.
“The fact is, South Dakota law states that dogs who attack and kill livestock can be put down. Given that Cricket had shown aggressive behavior toward people by biting them, I decided what I did,” Noem continued.
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Duo Sought in String of at Least 7 Robberies Targeting NYC Ride-Share Drivers
The NYPD is on the hunt for two suspects linked to at least seven robberies targeting Uber and Lyft drivers across Brooklyn and Staten Island.
The duo is accused of hailing ride-shares and getting into the cars before requesting the driver’s phone, claiming they want to change the destination — but then using the ruse to try to run off with the cell phone.
Police say the suspects, who hide behind face masks and hoodies, are linked to at least seven incidents that took place between Feb. 26 and March 13, CBS News reports.
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Eric Trump warned that if the Supreme Court brushes aside presidential immunity, prosecutors could line up a case against President Biden over last summer’s White House cocaine debacle.
The Trump scion further cautioned that if his father fails to win his bid for absolute immunity then the floodgates could be open to a flurry of prosecutions against other presidents.
“They’ll probably go after Joe Biden for having cocaine in the White House. They’ll go after Biden for raiding his opponent’s home,” Eric Trump, 40, predicted on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“They will probably go after him … for literally, two weeks before the 2022 primaries, literally depleting the petroleum national — the reserves so he could lower gas prices,” he railed.
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Eric Trump Warns Bragg, Willis ‘Want to Torture My Father’ But No One ‘Is Believing It’
Eric Trump is standing behind his father as legal efforts ramp up against him, most notably in the NY v. Trump trial that’s underway in Manhattan. The vice president of the Trump Organization insisted, Sunday, that progressive district attorneys, along with the Biden administration, are using lawfare against the former president to delegitimize his candidacy.
“Obviously, [Alvin] Bragg is a Soros-paid DA no different than Fani [Willis]. They want to torture my father, but no one is believing it,” he told “Sunday Morning Futures” anchor Maria Bartiromo.
While speaking on the show, he discussed the alleged two-tiered system of justice perpetuated by his father’s political rivals as well as the crumbling state of America under not only the Biden administration, but on a city level, under the influence of those like Bragg.
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Family Relieved After Squatters Set to be Evicted From Their Home
SAN ANTONIO — A homeowner is sharing his relief after getting a squatter in his home evicted.
Abram Mendez has received a writ of possession after dealing with a squatter in his home for more than a month.
He and his wife bought a fixer-upper and signed a contract with a man who agreed to work on their floors.
The man said he could do the work but needed a place to stay for a few days, but he then refused to move out claiming squatters’ rights.
There are certain requirements for squatters to claim adverse possession in Texas.
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Democratic Sen. John Fetterman said Sunday he’s fine with the praise he’s gotten from conservatives — as he took another swipe at the “pup-tent for Hamas’’ protests of anti-Israel US college students.
The pro-Israel pol from Pennsylvania, who earned a reputation for hewing far to the left before landing in the Senate, has drawn some acclaim from the right for his staunch defense of the Jewish state and occasional pushback against progressives — all of which has helped him woo Republican donors.
“I don’t have, like, a litmus test,” the Keystone State Democrat told NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,”referring to issues he backs.
“We don’t have to agree on everything,” he added of himself and other Dems.
Fetterman, who previously backed lefty Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president, has voted roughly in the middle of the pack among Senate Democrats, according to GovTrack.
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Gen Z Opt for Blue-Collar Jobs That Are Safe From Being Replaced With AI
With advances in technology and the cost of college steadily going up, studies have shown that Gen Z is increasingly opting for trade schools in fields that are shielded from the threat of artificial intelligence.
In an interview with FOX Business, Lincoln Tech CEO Scott Shaw explained “These jobs are here to stay.”
“Since COVID, people are kind of catching the wave and understanding the need for trades,” he said.
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Anti-Israeli protesters at Harvard University flew a Palestinian flag at the Ivy League school in spot usually reserved for the American flag as campus demonstrations continue to spiral out of control.
The shocking display on Saturday came as radical students continued to occupy the campus, with video circulating online showing three students raising the Palestinian flag over the iconic statue of John Harvard — where the Stars & Stripes are intended to fly.
According to The Harvard Crimson, the flag-raising incident took place shortly after 6:30 p.m. In total three flags were hoisted at the campus, the report said.
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‘I Will Kill You’: Delirious Woman Stabbed Man With Wawa Deli Knife, Pinellas Park Police Say
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Seminole woman was charged with attempted murder Friday after she stabbed a man and tried to stab a Wawa employee, according to police.
Arrest affidavits from the Pinellas Park Police Department said at about 10:04 p.m. Friday, Christina Crane, 37, entered the Wawa on Gandy Boulevard and grabbed “a large fixed blade” from the deli.
Officers said she then stabbed a man in the hand and then entered a small office where she threatened an employee, shouting “I will kill you!” while raising the knife.
According to police, she then smashed several items, mostly computer monitors, in the office.
The affidavits said the woman was in a stated of “excited delirium” from an unknown substance.
Crane was arrested on charges of attempted murder, criminal mischief, assault, and aggravated battery.
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Justice Kavanaugh Warns of Vicious Cycle of Malicious Prosecutions That Could End Presidency
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times
During Thursday’s deliberations at the U.S. Supreme Court on former President Donald Trump’s immunity claim, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh warned that a decision in the case has future implications for whether future presidents are shielded from vicious cycles of malicious prosecution that could effectively end the presidency as we know it.
In the course of two-and-a-half hours of oral arguments on April 25, justices on the Supreme Court appeared skeptical of a ruling by a federal appeals court that rejected President Trump’s claim that he has absolute immunity from criminal charges based on his official acts as president.
President Trump was indicted by special counsel Jack Smith in August 2023 on charges of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Pleading not guilty, the former president has argued that he should receive absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for acts that fell within the scope of his official duties. The exception to this immunity, he has argued, is if Congress impeaches and convicts him on charges.
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Justice Thomas Questions Legitimacy of Biden DOJ’s Special Counsel Jack Smith in Prosecuting Trump
As the Supreme Court is heard arguments regarding presidential immunity on Thursday, Justice Clarence Thomas posed a question regarding the legitimacy of the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith to prosecute Donald Trump.
The ongoing proceedings in the court revolve around whether Trump has constitutional presidential immunity from prosecution for actions taken during his presidency. Thomas’ question examined the authority of Smith and the Office of Special Counsel to bring forward charges against Trump, according to Fox News.
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Man Who Threatened to Blow Up GOP Senate Candidate’s Office Donated to Dem Opponent
A Wisconsin man who has been charged with making a bomb threat against the office of a Republican Senate candidate has donated to the campaign of the candidate’s Democratic opponent.
Joseph Quade, 72, was charged with making terrorist threats after sending a message to the Wisconsin campaign office of Eric Hovde, warning that it “might blow up” in an April 4 email, according to a report from the Wisconsin State Journal.
“Hey (EH), you think your building might blow up tomorrow? I don’t think you should have any of your people come to work,” read the message, according to the report, which added that the message was sent in a voice memo attached to an email.
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McKinsey Consulting Firm Probed by DOJ Over Role Advising Opioid Manufacturing Pharma Companies
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has undertaken a criminal investigation into McKinsey & Co, alleging that the consulting firm helped exacerbate the opioid crisis in the United States.
Federal prosecutors have argued that McKinsey advised the pharmaceutical giants that manufacture the drugs, most of whom have since filed for bankruptcy, on how they could push more product on the American people.
According to the Wall Street Journal, while the DOJ and McKinsey both refused to comment, sources have revealed that proceedings, which have been ongoing for years, are moving along.
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Protesters Stage Mock IDF Execution of Palestinians Outside White House Correspondents’ Dinner
On Saturday, Pro-Palestinian activists descended upon the White House to disrupt its annual Correspondents’ Dinner, in which they targeted journalists and mocked their coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
A night traditionally reserved for presidents, journalists, and celebrities to hurl jokes at one another and mock the year’s political scandals was marred by leftist intimidationand incidents of violence.
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Slams DEI Standards as ‘Fascist Totalitarianism’
David Mamet, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, did not hold back when expressing his disdain for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) standards that now restrict him and others in his profession.
Mamet’s blistering critique of DEI standards and the Academy’s inclusion criteria is part of the ongoing debate surrounding the role of diversity and representation in Hollywood, with his comments likely to spark further discussion and controversy within the industry.
Mamet delivered the scathing critique of the current state of the entertainment industry while promoting his memoir “Everywhere an Oink, Oink,” at the University of Southern California’s Festival of Books, during an interview with Los Angeles Times deputy entertainment editor Matt Brennan.
“DEI is garbage. It’s fascist totalitarianism,” Mamet declared, mincing no words in his assessment. His memoir, published last fall, chronicles his life story through a series of anecdotes and traces his political transformation from a self-described “red diaper baby” with communist parents to his current position as a supporter of former President Donald Trump, the Daily Wire reported.
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Soros-Backed La DA George Gascon’s Top Adviser Charged With 11 Felonies: Report
On Wednesday, the California Attorney General’s Office filed 11 felony charges against a top adviser to George Soros-backed Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon.
Assistant District Attorney Diana Teran, who faces the felony counts, oversees high-profile sensitive cases including police misconduct, public corruption, and fraud.
She has been charged with 11 felony counts of illegal use of confidential police records, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Texas Mother Won’t be Charged for Shooting 14-Year-Old Home Intruder
A grand jury has decided not to prosecute a Texas mother after she killed a 14-year-old boy who was invading her home.
The grand jury in Tarrant County did not find enough evidence to charge Aleah Wallace, a mother of four girls. As such, the jury opted to no-bill her, four months after the shooting Wallace was involved in.
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Train Explodes After Major Derailment in New Mexico, Evacuations Ordered
A freight train has derailed near the New Mexico-Arizona state line, triggering a large explosion, according to reports.
Authorities have ordered evacuations after multiple train cars left the tracks in an explosive pile-up.
It is believed some of the cars were carrying propane.
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Trump, DeSantis Meet Privately for Several Hours in Miami
Former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis met privately in Miami on Sunday, a Republican with knowledge of the meeting confirmed to Fox News.
During the several-hour meeting, DeSantis agreed to help Trump as the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee tries to close his fundraising gap with President Biden in their 2024 election rematch, the source confirmed.
DeSantis, who was convincingly re-elected in 2022 before launching an unsuccessful bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has built up a formidable network of wealthy donors who could be helpful to Trump as the general election campaign heats up.
News of the meeting was first reported by the Washington Post, which said the get-together between the two rivals was orchestrated by Steve Witkoff, a Florida real estate broker known to both Trump and DeSantis.
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Trump Trashes ‘Absolute Disaster’ White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Takes Jabs at Colin Jost
Donald Trump on Sunday trashed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after being mocked by President Biden and “Saturday Night Live” star Colin Jost at the annual event.
“The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was really bad. Colin Jost BOMBED, and Crooked Joe was an absolute disaster! Doesn’t get much worse than this!,” the former president, 77, whined on Truth Social.
Trump broke with tradition and skipped out on all of the White House Correspondents’ Dinners during his presidency.
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Trump Holds Significant Lead Over Biden in New Poll
A new poll shows former President Donald Trump with a significant lead over President Joe Biden ahead of their likely November matchup.
In the CNN survey that considers only the two candidates, Trump is polling at 49%, while Biden is trailing at 43%. When including independent candidates such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jill Stein, and Cornel West, Trump’s lead jumps: 42% for Trump, 33% for Biden, 16% for Kennedy, 4% for West, and 3% for Stein.
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Trump Slams ‘Gutless’ Ex-AG Bill Barr After Weak Endorsement
President Donald Trump has fired back at Bill Barr after his former attorney general issued a weak endorsement of his 2024 presidential campaign.
As Slay News reported, Barr revealed this week that he would back Trump in the critical November election.
However, Barr suggested that he is only supporting Trump because the other option is Democrat President Joe Biden.
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A leftist professor at the University of Southern California canceled her final exams and urged students to join the unsanctioned anti-Israel Gaza camp on campus, saying, “Hope to see you out there.”
Sarah Rebecca Kessler, an assistant professor at USC in the English department, told her students about her decision in an email. She criticized the university for mobilizing the Los Angeles Police Department to quell the disorderly mob, which culminated in the arrest of 93 people on Wednesday, and sent a link explaining how students can get involved in unruly anti-Israel direct actions on campus.
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Washington Supreme Court Upholds High-Capacity Magazines Ban
Washington State’s Supreme Court has upheld a ban on high-capacity magazines after it was previously determined to be unconstitutional, according to reports.
In a ruling earlier this month, a lower court found that the ban was unconstitutional.
However, Washington State Supreme Court Commissioner Michael E. Johnston has now ruled in favor of the ban.
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Washington 13-Year-Old Steals Woman’s Purse, Punches Her Outside Seattle Pharmacy, Police Say
A 13-year-old Washington boy was arrested earlier this month after he snatched a woman’s purse at a Seattle pharmacy and punched her in the face when she confronted him, authorities said.
The incident in the 2600 block of Southwest Barton Street on April 6 was captured on the pharmacy’s surveillance camera.
The video shows two teens walking up to a woman near the entrance of the pharmacy when one of the teens swipes her purse from her hands.
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Watch: Arizona State Fraternity Students Tear Down Pro-Palestine Encampment and Boot Out Activists
After years of leftist activists disrupting the speech of groups and individuals they disagree with and threatening people with “cancellation” for having the “wrong” opinions, it’s hard to find sympathy for them when they finally get a taste of their own medicine. Woke protesters have recently sought to bring back the old Seattle CHAZ model of taking over public property and declaring it their own territory; in this case the territory is college campuses around the US.
The problem of western progressives hijacking causes in order to insert their own agendas has been noted by many in the independent media. While some people may be approaching the Gaza protests in good faith, there are many others who are not.
Apologists might argue that the goal of a protest is to “disrupt” but there are still laws in place that activists must follow. These include laws that make it illegal to obstruct other citizens from using public property, public roads and public buildings (the insane actions of anti-oil protesters come to mind). Regardless of how you might feel about the Israel/Hamas conflict, the reality is that it has nothing to do with students trying to go to classes at universities across the country, and stopping them from doing so violates their rights.
This is something that the Gaza protesters seem to have forgotten; their cause is not the only important matter at hand. If they are merely speaking their minds and engaging in fair discourse then they have every right. Once they start taking over colleges and acting as if they own the place, then there’s going to be a problem. It has also been reported that more than half of these activists are not even members of the colleges in question.
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Government of Alberta to Table Report on COVID Data Next Month
The Government of Alberta is expected to table a review of pandemic-era health data next month after condemning “freedom-busting” mandates for nearly two years.
Led by Dr. Gary Davidson, a Red Deer physician who accused the province of exaggerating the impact of COVID-19 on hospitals, Alberta secretly organized a task force to offer recommendations on better managing future pandemics.
It was quietly established in late 2022, with few details released to the public since its inception.
The former chief of emergency medicine at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre claimed hospital admission numbers were overblown and further manipulated to justify public health restrictions during the fourth wave.
Alberta Health Services rejected those accusations as false.
Nevertheless, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith valued Davidson’s “contrarian perspective.”
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Newspaper Chain Lobbying for Media Bailouts Reports $6 Million in Operating Losses Last Year
The architect behind the Liberal media slush fund lost more than $6 million in operating expenses last year, new records show.
FP Newspapers Inc., the publisher for the Winnipeg Free Press, Brandon Sun and other Manitoba publications, received $989,000 in payroll rebates in 2023, reported Blacklock’s Reporter.
“We will have to save ourselves,” then-publisher Bob Cox, chair of News Media Canada, testified at 2019 hearings of the Commons finance committee. “All of us are engaged in transforming our business models so we can continue to fulfill the key role that a free press must play in a healthy democracy.”
However, FP Newspapers reported a $6,258,000 operating loss last year as print advertising revenue plummeted 15% from $24,147,000 to $20,630,000. Circulation revenue fell 3%.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told True North she does not support protests blocking critical infrastructure, regardless of the ideology.
On April 16, a Lethbridge jury found Marco Van Huigenbos, Alex Van Herk, and George Janzen guilty of mischief over $5,000. Their first sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 22 and carries a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment.
The twelve jurors unanimously found the defendants guilty of unlawfully obstructing public access to property, specifically Alberta Highway 4.
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Over 10% of Retirees Still Working Out of Necessity: Report
Hundreds of thousands of retirees are still apart of the workforce, according to a Statistics Canada report. The data revealed 13% of pensioners between the ages of 65 and 68 were still working, with another 5% working into their 70s.
“Those working by necessity represented 351,000 individuals,” the report said, per Blacklock’s Reporter. Married men and renters with a high school education were the most likely retirees to continue working.
Analysts suggested there was a variety of reasons for retirees to continue working into their 60s.
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Struggling Canadians Turn to Expired Food as Food Banks Face Crisis
Canadian food banks are being pushed to the brink and donations are not keeping up to the high demand.
With grocery prices continuing their rise, it’s gotten to the point of unsustainability, says Kirstin Beardsley of Food Banks Canada.
“The word that I hear often with food banks across Canada is ‘unsustainable,’“ says the Food Banks Canada CEO.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau again attacked Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on Friday for not denouncing the endorsement of InfoWars’ Alex Jones.
During an event in Bromont, Quebec, Trudeau was asked about an incident regarding an OPP officer providing security information to protesters in Alliston, Ontario. After reminding Canadians that the right to protest “is really important,” Trudeau took the question as an opportunity to attack Poilievre.
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Trudeau’s Ex-Wife Sophie Discusses New Book and Her ‘Imperfect’ Marriage With Canadian PM
In a recent interview, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ex-wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau discussed her new book “Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other” and the separation from the Prime Minister.
Talking to the Times, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau said she did not like to call the separation a “breakup” because it wasn’t “one abrupt change.”
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EU Policy. Can Social Media Swing the EU Election?
Compared to the 2019 election more EU platform rules are in place.
This June, some 365 million people will be eligible to vote in the EU Elections, including many young voters for whom social media is a vital resource for campaigning. Four countries — Belgium, Germany, Malta and Austria — will allow 16-year-olds to vote, in Greece the minimum age to vote is 17.
Five years ago, when the last EU vote was held, the regulatory landscape for online platforms was quite different: there were fewer rules on combating misinformation, and the AI Act did not yet exist. We take a look at how platform regulation in the EU has changed in 2024, compared to the last election in 2019, and its impact on social media companies.
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How Skeptical Are Europeans About Vaccinations?
31 percent of people surveyed in Poland as part of Statista’s Consumer Insights survey say they have little confidence in the safety of vaccinations.
The low influenza vaccination rate among older individuals in Poland points to the potential practical consequences of such attitudes — although the data does not conclusively demonstrate a causal relationship.
As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the following chart, there is a lack of trust in the safety of immunizations across several countries in Europe.
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Italy PM Meloni Announces Candidacy at EU Election
ROME, April 28 (Reuters) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Sunday she will be a candidate at June’s European elections in a bid to boost support for her Brothers of Italy party, though she will not take up a seat if elected.
The June 6-9 European Parliament vote is a key test of strength for her 18-month-old rightist coalition.
“We want to do in Europe what we did in Italy… create a majority that brings together the centre-right forces and send the left into opposition,” Meloni told cheering party faithful at a party conference in the coastal city of Pescara to set out EU policies and launch the campaign.
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Macron Raises Europe Defense Stakes by Suggesting Nuclear Arms
French President Emmanuel Macron raised the stakes in his call for a credible European defense by adding nuclear weapons to the discussion.
After setting out the need for Europe to come up with a plan to defend itself in a more hostile world during a speech last week, Mr. Macron went a step further in an effort to push ahead on talks with other European countries.
“I’m in favor of opening this debate, which needs to include missile defense, long-range missiles and nuclear weapons for those who have them or who have American nuclear weapons on their soil,” Mr. Macron said in a question-and-answer session with European students, organized by a group of French regional newspapers and published in their Sunday editions.
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Polish Conservatives Warn Against ‘Brussels Elites’ Ahead of Election
Conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) presented its candidates for the European Parliament today in Warsaw. During the convention, PiS politicians warned against the so-called European elites.
Poland’s long-standing ruling party PiS (Law and Justice) kicked off the European election campaign at its party congress in Warsaw on Saturday.
Members of the party warned against what they describe as European elites — saying Europe must be defended.
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Russian Man Arrested After Two Ukrainians Stabbed to Death in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Two Ukrainian men were stabbed to death in southern Germany, police said Sunday, and a Russian man was arrested by authorities as a possible suspect in the killings.
The two Ukrainians, who were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, were killed on the premises of a shopping center in the village of Murnau in Upper Bavaria.
Shortly after the slayings on Saturday evening, the police arrested a 57-year-old Russian on suspicion of murder, German news agency dpa reported.
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Spain’s Socialist Party Stands Behind Sanchez Amid Resignation Fears
The Socialist Party met in Madrid on Saturday to express support toward Pedro Sanchez as thousands in the streets call on their prime minister not to resign.
“President, we are with you”. It is one of the powerful phrases that the number two of the Socialist Party and first Vice-President of the Government of Spain, Maria Jesús Montero, said during her speech Saturday at the Federal Committee of the Socialist Party in support of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
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‘Tank of the Future’: German and French Defence Ministers Sign Billion Euro Arms Project
France’s defence minister received his German counterpart on Friday to ink a deal between the two countries to build a next-generation battle tank.
Defence ministers of France and Germany met in Paris this Friday to ratify an agreement on a new joint tank project called the Main Ground Combat System (MGCS).
This formal agreement kick-starts the development of the first phase of the armoured vehicle, dubbed the ‘tank of the future’ — a project worth billions of euros.
The new battle tank is set to replace Germany’s Leopard 2 tank and France’s Leclerc.
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Top EU Leader: COVID Shots Are ‘Biggest Crime Ever Committed on Mankind’
A top European Union (EU) leader has spoken out to blast the global mass Covid mRNA vaccination campaign as “the biggest crime to ever have been committed on mankind.”
The explosive statement was made by MEP Christine Anderson, who represents Germany in the EU Parliament.
Anderson dropped the hammer of the globalist Covid mRNA shot agenda during an interview with reporter Anita Krishna.
Anderson told Krishna that the global roll-out of mRNA Covid injections will go down “as the biggest medical scandal ever.”
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They were the secret negotiations between Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party and shadowy Tory fixer Dougie Smith which sowed the seeds of the disaster facing Rishi Sunak.
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Watch: Protesters Call for Islamic State in Germany
More than 1,000 people marched through Hamburg on Saturday calling for a caliphate in Germany.
Protesters gathered in the northern city for a mostly peaceful demonstration against Islamophobia, but among the masses were calls for an Islamic state.
Joe Adade Boateng, leader of Muslim Interaktiv which organised the march, said in a speech at the march that Germany needed a “righteous caliphate” to remedy the misrepresentation Muslim groups have faced in the media.
He was greeted with cheers of “Allahu akbar”, or God is great, by a mostly male crowd, some of whom were holding up signs reading “Caliphate is the solution” and “Stop the media hate”.
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‘We Need Hope’ Says German Chancellor at EU Election Campaign Kick-Off
On Saturday, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) launched its European election campaign in Hamburg, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and lead candidate for the European elections Katarina Barley both in attendance.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ‘s centre-left Social Democrats, or SPD, launched their official campaign for the 9 June EU election with a rally in Hamburg, under the mantra “we need hope.”
Scholz tried to alleviate German voters’ fears their country could be drawn into Ukraine’s war with Russia if it’s too proactive in its military support for the eastern European country.
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Caroline Glick: Now is the Time for Choosing
On Wednesday, hikers around the southern Israeli city of Arad discovered the remains of an Iranian ballistic missile from the April 13 overnight assault. Israel’s Channel 11 identified it as a Khader-1 missile. The Khader-1, like the Imad missiles, which Iran also used in its strike, are nuclear capable.
The fact that Iran used two ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads should sound every alarm bell. In an interview with Deutsche Welle on Tuesday, International Atomic Energy Agency chairman Rafael Grossi said that Iran is “weeks rather than months” away from having enough enriched uranium to develop a nuclear bomb.
Israel’s war is not a war of choice. It isn’t a conflict that Israel can shrug its shoulders and walk away from, or opt for a limited goal of blocking incoming strikes. This is a war for national survival. Hamas made clear the genocide it aims to achieve on Oct. 7. Its appalling cruelty to the hostages it has held captive for more than six months demonstrates still further that there is no way to fight to a draw with this jihadist terror regime. There is no “deal” to be had with Hamas leaders. The same is true of Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon. And, of course, the same is true of Iran.
Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and their terror partners have used all the resources at their disposal to expand their capacity to annihilate Israel. They have not done this to jockey for stronger negotiating positions. They are putting everything they have into building these capacities because they really want to destroy Israel and kill the Jews. The calls for Israel’s destruction are not mere slogans. They are solid commitments.
The good news is that Israel has the military and economic power to defeat its enemies completely. The bad news is that in their efforts, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and their other partners are not fighting alone. While the United States and other Western nations are willing to speak out against Hamas and Iran from time to time, they completely oppose Israel’s effort to defeat its enemies. Israel is permitted to defend against incoming attacks. But it is prohibited from taking decisive offensive action…
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Hamas Delegation Due in Cairo on Monday for Gaza Ceasefire Talks
CAIRO, April 28 (Reuters) — A Hamas delegation will visit Cairo on Monday for talks aimed at securing a ceasefire, a Hamas official told Reuters on Sunday, as mediators stepped up efforts to reach a deal ahead of an expected Israeli assault on the southern city of Rafah.
The official, who asked not to be named, said the delegation will discuss a ceasefire proposal handed by Hamas to mediators from Qatar and Egypt, as well as Israel’s response.
He did not disclose details of the latest proposals.
Another senior Hamas official told Reuters the delegation will fly to Cairo from Qatari capital Doha, adding it will be led by Khalil Al-Hayya, deputy to Hamas’ Gaza chief.
The talks will take place between the Hamas delegation and the Qatari and the Egyptian mediators to discuss remarks the group has made over the Israeli response to its recent proposal.
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Hamas Has ‘No Major Issue’ With Israel’s Gaza Truce Counter-Proposal
A senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday that the Palestinian militant group had “no major issues” with the latest proposal from Israel and Egypt for a Gaza ceasefire.
“The atmosphere is positive unless there are new Israeli obstacles. There are no major issues in the observations and inquiries submitted by Hamas regarding the contents” of the proposal, said a Hamas official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A Hamas delegation led by the movement’s senior leader, Khalil al-Hayya, would deliver the group’s response to the truce proposal during a meeting with Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Cairo on Monday, the official said.
Hamas has previously insisted on a permanent ceasefire — a condition that Israel has rejected.
However the Axios news website, citing two Israeli officials, reported that Israel’s latest proposal includes a willingness to discuss the “restoration of sustainable calm” in Gaza after hostages are released.
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The open-air museum, which commemorates Germany’s defeat in the Second World War , has been transformed into a glorification of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine .
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Russian Drone Strikes Set Hotel Ablaze in Ukrainian Black Sea City
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drones early Sunday struck the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv, setting a hotel ablaze and damaging energy infrastructure, the local Ukrainian governor reported, while ammunition shortages continued to hobble Kyiv’s troops in the more than 2-year-old war.
Vitaliy Kim, the governor of Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv province, said that Russian drones “seriously damaged” a hotel in its namesake capital, sparking a fire that was later extinguished. Kim also reported that the strike damaged heat-generating infrastructure in the city, but gave no details. He added that there were no casualties.
Russian state agency RIA carried claims that the strike on Mykolaiv targeted a shipyard where naval drones are assembled, as well as a hotel housing “English-speaking mercenaries” who have fought for Kyiv. The RIA report cited Sergei Lebedev, described as a coordinator of local pro-Moscow guerrillas. His claim could not be independently verified.
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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Issues Fresh Plea for Patriots, EU Accession, NATO Entry
KYIV, April 28 (Reuters) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy issued a fresh plea to the international community to hurry up and deliver more air defences, start formal talks for his country to enter the European Union, and invite Ukraine to join NATO.
Ukrainian forces face a worsening position in the east and await delivery of U.S. weapons following the April 23 approval by Congress of a $61 billion aid package after months of delay. Zelenskiy has repeatedly pleaded for further air defence systems, particularly the Patriot system.
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Ukraine’s Army Chief Reports Tactical Retreat in the East, and Warns of Front-Line Pressure
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s troops have been forced to make a tactical retreat from three villages in the embattled east, the country’s army chief said Sunday, warning of a worsening battlefield situation as Ukrainian forces wait for much-needed arms from a huge U.S. aid package to reach combat zones.
Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi reported that Russian forces continue to attack “along the entire front line” of more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), with pitched battles raging west of Avdiivka, the eastern city they took in February after a grueling, monthslong fight.
“The most difficult situation is in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove directions, where fierce battles continue,” Syrskyi’s said in an update posted to the Telegram messaging app, referencing two Ukrainian-held cities in the war-torn Donetsk region, once a hub of industry.
“The enemy has engaged up to four brigades in these directions, is trying to develop an offensive west of Avdiivka and Marinka, making its way to Pokrovsk and Kurakhove,” Syrskyi added. “Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, preserving the lives and health of our defenders, moved to new frontiers west of Berdychi, Semenivka and Novomykhailivka.”
Two of these front-line villages lie less than 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Pokrovsk, while the third is located just over 30 kilometers (19 miles) by road from Kurakhove.
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‘You Have a Beautiful Daughter…’: The Persecution of Christians, March 2024
Russia: On March 22, Muslim terrorists armed with automatic weapons launched an attack on Crocus City Hall near Moscow, massacring at least 139 people and wounding more. Boasting of “killing Christians,” ISIS quickly claimed the attack in a statement that said the assault was intentionally designed to target “thousands of Christians.” Two months earlier, ISIS issued a communique to the “Lions of Islam” — presumably Muslim “avengers” around the world — to terrorize and slaughter Christians and Jews, including by targeting churches and synagogues. An excerpt follows:
“Chase your preys whether Jewish, Christian or their allies, on the streets and roads of America, Europe, and the world. Break into their homes, kill them and steal their peace of mind by any means you can lay hands on… [S]hoot them with bullets, cut their throats with sharp knives, and run them over with vehicles. A sincere person will not lack the means to draw blood from the hearts of the Jews, the Christians, and their allies, and thus ease the suffering in the hearts of the believers. Come at them from every door, kill them by the worst of means, turn their gatherings and celebrations into bloody massacres, do not distinguish between a civilian kaffir, and a military one, for they are all kuffar and the ruling against them is one… Intentionally seek easy targets before hard ones, civilian targets before military one, religious targets like synagogues and churches before others, for this will satisfy the soul.”
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India: Muslims Give Threats Those Who Returned to Hindu Dharma in Indore (Madhya Pradesh)
In Indore, Muslims adopted Hindu religion, women also became Sanatani, Parveen got the name Pallavi, Haider got the name Hari.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Indore (MP) | April 28, 2024:: Eight people from Muslim community in Indore have adopted Hindu religion. They were formally inducted into Sanatan Dharma on Saturday afternoon at Khajrana Ganesh Temple in the city. Among these people, one is a citizen of Khajrana area of Indore and the rest are residents of Mandsaur district. Three women are also included among these seven people who returned home of ancestral Hindu faith. They wilfully embraced Hindu Dharma out of love and respect to the Hindu root only after gathering knowledge and studying about Hindu religion.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad’ Indore unit leader Santosh Sharma said that these people were made to return home with chanting of mantras in Khajrana Ganesh temple. Before coming to Khajrana temple, all of them were purified by the pundits in the Dharamshala of Patidar community with cow urine, soil and 10 types of baths. After this, they were made to wear saffron clothes and brought to Khajrana temple through a procession.
Haider adopted the name Hari
Maintaining the scriptural rituals, Parveen has been named as Pallavi, Irfan as Ishwar, Ghaffar as Govind, Mohammad Yunus as Mohanlal, Ruqaiya Bi as Rukmini, Haider as Hari and Tamanna as Tannu. The person who became Hari from Haider of Khajrana said that he is very influenced by Sanatan Dharma. He said that Hindu religion respects all religions and being influenced by this, I have adopted this religion. All of the participants in the Suddhi (Hindu conversion) took the oath to maintain righteousness according to the Hindu culture and traditions.
Threats received after religious conversion
Hari said that after the religious conversion, he is continuously receiving threat calls. I am being threatened with dire consequences. Some people are also abusing me. I know my decision is absolutely right. I have taken this decision after careful consideration.
VHP gave the assurance to protect
Vishwa Hindu Parishad’ Indore unit leader Santosh Sharma told HENB that VHP and Bajrang Dal would be able to take any challenge to give the safety and security of Hindu brothers and sisters in touch with the Hindu organisations.
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The Prime Minister told the rally in Canberra that violence against women is a ‘national crisis’ and providing funding for just a few months would not be enough to solve the issue.
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Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel Delivers First Mass Since Alleged Stabbing at Sydney Church
A bishop who was stabbed during a mass in Sydney’s south-west has returned to the same church and given his first sermon since the alleged terror incident.
A fortnight ago, Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was allegedly attacked with a knife by a 16-year-old boy during the Monday service being live streamed from the Christ The Good Shepherd Church at Wakeley.
Following the incident hundreds of people rioted outside the church which saw dozens of police officers injured and vehicles damaged.
The teenager has since been charged with terrorism offences and remains in custody.
On Sunday night, Bishop Emmanuel addressed those who attended the Assyrian Orthodox Palm Sunday mass wearing an eye-patch, after recovering in hospital from several stab wounds.
In the sermon, which was also live streamed, Bishop Emmanuel spent several minutes thanking worshippers, mayors, church leaders and even a Croatian opera singer who sent him letters and flowers saying he was “absolutely humbled”.
He also said he was praying for his alleged attacker.
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Pauline Hanson Hate-Speech Trial Set to Open After She Told Greens MP to ‘P*** Off Back to Pakistan’
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson made a hateful tweet against a Greens senator because of her decades-long tendency to make similarly racist remarks, a Federal Court judge is expecting to be told.
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has started her own fish and chip van, and provided meals to Australians struggling with the housing crisis.
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St Kilda: Iconic Palm Trees Damaged by Fire Along Seaside Promenade in Melbourne
Dozens of locals watched on in horror as the fire engulfed four palm trees on the popular foreshore at St Kilda in Melbourne’s south-east.
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Stabbed Bishop Returns With a Scathing Message for the Australian Government
In his first day back at work after a shocking terror attack, Assyrian Christian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel didn’t hold back, taking a swipe at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and advocating for free speech and religious freedom.
The bishop, who was allegedly stabbed multiple times during a sermon livestreamed on April 15, returned to Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, Western Sydney, on Sunday to a warm reception from worshippers.
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Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel made a surprise return to the Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley in Sydney’s south-west to deliver a sermon for Palm Sunday.
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Majority of British Public Does Not Back ‘Rwanda Plan’
A survey by YouGov conducted on April 24 has found that six in ten people in the United Kingdom think that the Rwanda plan will not be effective in stopping migrants from crossing the English Channel between France and the UK.
As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the following chart, this figure rises to over seven in ten respondents among Labour voters and Lib Dem voters.
While Conservatives were more tied, only a third of the party’s politically-aligned respondents said that they thought the Rwanda plan would be effective.
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A Florida company that wants to open a new immigrant detention center in Newark is suing to overturn New Jersey’s ban on the facilities — claiming the policy violates the Constitution.
The GEO Group said in its lawsuit that the state ban is torpedoing its plans for Delaney Hall, a privately-run, 1,196-bed facility that has variously held county, state and federal detainees over the last 25 years.
That could cost GEO a lot of money — namely, a contract with US Immigration and Customs and Enforcement worth more than $100 million, the lawsuit said.
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Non-Binary Library Worker Charged With 7 Felony Counts of Child Sex Crimes
A non-binary public library worker in Illinois has been arrested on child pornography charges in DuPage County.
Steven Krage, 32, who works at the Addison Public Library, has been accused of uploading child sex abuse material on Discord and X, formerly known as Twitter, and possessing the content on his devices.
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Pennsylvania Community Outraged Over Transgender Student With ‘Hit List’ Beating Female Student
Parents and students of North Penn School District in North Wales, Pennsylvania, called out teachers and administrators after a student, a biological male identifying as a female, brutally beat an unidentified middle school girl with a Stanley cup in the school cafeteria last week.
The victim was hit so severely that she was hospitalized due to a head injury.
Emily, a female student at Pennbrook Middle School and a friend of the victim, told the school board last Thursday that she was “second on his hit list” and recounted that she had begged for help from school officials numerous times before the attack.
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Victimhood is an Oppressive System of Relative Rights
We are two years and spare change away from the American semiquincentennial which will celebrate 250 years since some brave men ratified the foundational document of our nation.
The Declaration of Independence’s bold assertion that the people were “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” is all the more relevant in the age of relativism where fewer people believe in a ‘Creator’ or in unalienable rights. That radical document is why America remains the only place on the planet where freedom of speech is absolute.
Other nations have their constitutions and human rights charters which run longer than an old-fashioned telephone directory, but their rights are granted by the government and then taken away by the government. Under the guise of buzzwords like ‘stakeholders’ and ‘evolving social contracts’ your rights are constantly reevaluated by committees according to leftist doctrine.
Unlike the absolute rights of the Bill of Rights, the reevaluation of rights follows a Marxist paradigm in which the existing state of rights is an imperfect system imposed by the privileged on the underprivileged, and must be constantly shaken up to liberate the new oppressed.
Your rights are not absolute, they are relative to how oppressed the committee thinks you are. And if you’re only as free as your oppression, then you have to be oppressed to have rights.
These rights are not a gift from the Creator, but from systemic racism, that you have rights is not something to be proud of or grateful for, but a mark of shame that indicts you for having benefited from whiteness, being adjacent to whiteness, the patriarchy, heteropatriarchy or cisheteropatriarchy, and the only way to atone is to cede your rights to the next group.
The clash between traditional feminism and the transgender movement clearly shows the difference between absolute and relative rights. In the absolute rights model, equality for women would have been a permanent victory, but in the relative rights model, by winning equal rights, women stopped being the oppressed and instead became the oppressors of transgender men.
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Popular travel destinations are often overrun with people — but these hidden gems promise the beauty of the beauty of an famous location without the crowds.
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Any viewing of Fox News proves that….The Cultural Marxists Are Winning
“Nine years ago, my group, America’s Survival, Inc., held a national press conference in the Zenger Room of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. titled “Crimes against Nature and the Constitution: Cultural Marxism and America’s Moral Collapse.” Our warnings about the cultural decline of America were ignored by the conservative establishment. They defunded me for my principled conservative stand.”
https://newswithviews.com/why-the-cultural-marxists-are-winning/
As’s been said, if American citizens had a way to [peacefully] save AMERICA from commie-toddlerism, I reckon that window closed some time ago. And those who’re predicting The Great Arising amongst the armed citizenry….well, at this point, I reckon you’d most likely be shut (or shot) down by the majority of your own party (Republicans). Just sayin’..
Obamerica.
“News4 I-Team has the federal documents proving a concerning number of guns the Metropolitan Police Department helped bring into the District ended up at crime scenes.”
https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/dc-police-dealt-thousands-of-guns-atf-demands-answers-after-concerning-number-found-at-crime-scenes/3582252/
“D.C. Metropolitan Police Department has been listed among a group of “bad apple” Federal Firearms Licensees. When gun-hating bureaucrats and politicians finally ran the last gun store in Washington, D.C., out of business back in 2020, the Metropolitan Police Department took over the chore of transferring firearms. What happened after that has drawn the attention of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—and not good attention, either.”
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/d-c-police-department-draws-atfs-ire-over-gun-transfers/
Way to go Arizona! These spoiled babies aligned with Palestinian victim mongers need to face force to stand down. Violence only grows when not put down. That’s why Gaza attacks Israel so often. The corrupt international community pressures Israel to stop a war before victory and the Israelis and Palestinians suffer again and again.
Think the industrial military complex is profiting much??