Germany has promised to deliver another $3 billion in military aid to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave Pope Francis an icon painted on a bulletproof vest.
In other news, British intelligence reported that Russian troops have retreated in bad order from a kilometer of territory outside the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
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Gov. Newsom Announces $32 Billion Budget Deficit, $10 Billion More Than Previously Estimated
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that the Golden State’s budget deficit is $10 billion higher than he predicted earlier this year.
Newsom said during a press conference that California’s budget deficit has grown to nearly $32 billion, which is about $10 billion more than he anticipated in January when he offered his first budget proposal.
“We have a $31.5 billion challenge, which is well within the margin of expectation and well within our capacity to address,” Newsom said.
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NYC Public Employees Sue Public Pensions Over ESG Investment Practices
A group of New York workers who may receive retirement benefits are suing three New York City retirement systems for allegedly violating their fiduciary duties to their beneficiaries by making investing decisions with a mind toward non-financial factors.
The complaint contends that “The New York City Employees’ Retirement System (‘NYCERS’), the Teachers’ Retirement System of the City of New York (‘TRS’), and the Board of Education Retirement System of the City of New York (‘BERS’) (collectively, the ‘Defendants’) are obligated to administer their respective Qualified Pension Plans (the ‘Plans’) solely in the interests of the Plans’ participants and beneficiaries, and for the exclusive purpose of providing retirement benefits.”
“But instead of honoring that obligation, Defendants have breached their fiduciary duties and abused their control over plan assets by divesting the Plans of approximately four billion dollars of holdings in companies involved in the extraction of fossil fuels, in a misguided and ineffectual gesture to address climate change,” the plaintiffs claim. “This unlawful decision to elevate unrelated policy goals over the financial health of the Plans is flatly inconsistent with the Defendants’ fiduciary responsibilities, and jeopardizes the retirement security of Plan participants and beneficiaries. It must be enjoined.”
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Poland’s Central Bank Head Says Interest Rates Won’t Rise and Inflation Will Fall
Poland’s baseline inflation — excluding food and energy prices — was in line with that of the eurozone and, especially, that of the region, said the governor of Poland’s central bank (NBP), Adam Glapinski, during a press conference on Thursday.
The central bank head indicated that the inflation rate is higher in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) because people in this region spend more of their income on food and energy, which is not as much the case in wealthier Western societies.
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Tell Canada What You Think of a Digital Dollar
This week, the Bank of Canada launched an online public consultation on a central bank digital currency (CBDC), which will run until June 19, 2023. The consultation will allow industry experts and the general public to express their views on a Canadian digital dollar. The Bank of Canada said that the consultation was launched for preparation in case one might be required in the future.
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61 House Republicans Demand Biden Take Cognitive Test or Drop Out of 2024 Race
61 House Republicans are demanding that Democrat President Joe Biden take a cognitive test or drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
The effort is led by former White House physician Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX).
Jackson served as White House doctor for Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
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9-Year-Old Boy Denied Life-Saving Transplant Over Vax Status
A nine-year-old Ohio boy’s life is now hanging in the balance after doctors denied his kidney transplant because the organ donor, the child’s father, isn’t vaccinated for Covid.
Tanner Donaldson desperately needs a life-saving transplant after being diagnosed with stage 4 chronic kidney disease.
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Anger as Biden Admin Hands Another $2.3 Million to EcoHealth Alliance to Research Bat Coronaviruses
Republican lawmakers have labeled as “absolutely reckless” a decision to grant a further $2.3 Million to the very same outfit at the centre of the likely coronavirus lab leak that led directly to a the global pandemic.
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Baltimore Highbrows Know Why Auto Thefts Are Up 95%: It’s the Cars’ Fault
If the East Coast were to get a much-needed enema, they’d put the hose in Baltimore.
If you ask someone which U.S. city has taken the biggest beating from Marxist ideologies, they’ll likely say Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Portland (yawwwn), Austin, Memphis, Los Angeles, New York City (I can do this all day), Washington D.C. … You get the point.
But little attention is paid to Baltimore, which one website placed as the 10th most liberal city in America.
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Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ Remerges as ‘Foreign Malign Influence Center’
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has launched a new federal government department tasked with tackling so-called “disinformation.”
The “Foreign Malign Influence Center” (FMIC) is located at the Office of the Director of US National Intelligence (ODNI).
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Biden Family Tried to Hide Over $10 Million in Foreign Payments: House GOP
Summary: House Republicans laid out evidence of a vast network of Biden family dealings which reek of corruption — including;
- The Biden family received, and tried to hide, over $10 million in payments from foreign nationals
- A previously undisclosed $1 million in Romanian-linked payments
- Ties to Romanian ‘influence peddling’
- A ‘web’ of 20 LLCs created while Joe Biden was Vice President with a ‘complicated corporate structure’
- ‘At least 15’ of the LLCs were formed after Biden became VP in 2009 — several of which were owned or co-owned by Hunter
- These LLCs accepted payments ranging from $5,000 to $3 million
- The committee wants to know what legitimate business the Biden family was in
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“Woke” WNBA star Brittney Griner infamously protested the national anthem when it was all the rage among liberals.
But after spending 10 months in a Russian gulag, she is singing a different tune.
Funny how that works.
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Confused Dianne Feinstein Asks ‘Where Am I Going?’ as She’s Wheeled Into Congress by Handlers
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) appeared confused as she was being wheeled into the U.S. Capitol for her return to Congress this week.
After being absent from the Senate for more than two months due to ill health, Feinstein returned on Thursday in a wheelchair.
However, according to left-wing outlet The Huffington Post, the 89-year-old didn’t appear to be fit for work.
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Creepy: Biden Asks “All the Kids Under the Age of 15 Come on Up Here”
In his only public appearance Thursday, Joe Biden shuffled out to the Rose Garden at the White House, commented on the “lovely young ladies,” watching him and then demanded that all the kids under the age of 15 get on the stage with him.
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Daniel Penny Released on Bail After Arrest Over Subway Chokehold Death of Jordan Neely
New York authorities release former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny on $100,000 bail on Friday after charging him with second-degree manslaughter in relation to the death of a transient on a New York City subway.
Penny was further ordered to hand over his passport within 48 hours and may not leave the state without permission from the court, the New York Post reported. He is next due back in court on July 17. Penny surrendered himself voluntarily on Friday morning. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office confirmed it would charge him on Thursday.
His legal team has contended Penny acted in self defense.
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DeSantis Signs Bills Banning Vaccine Mandates, Gain of Function Research
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed four bills in Destin on Thursday that empower doctors, prohibits gain of function research, and protects Floridians from medical mandates, including permanent protections from COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
“Our early actions during the pandemic protected Floridians and their freedoms.” DeSantis said in a news release, adding that the legislation “protects against medical authoritarianism and rejects the hysteria around COVID-19.”
Among the bills DeSantis signed Thursday was Senate Bill 252, which protects Floridians from discrimination over their COVID-19 vaccination status. It will ban businesses and governmental entities from requiring individuals to provide proof of vaccination to enter a business or a government and prohibit employers from discriminating against employees due to their vaccination status.
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DeSantis Promotes Legal Defense Fund for Hero Marine Charged in Jordan Neely Case
This week, the notoriously weak-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg decided to charge Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old Marine veteran, for his role in subduing a deranged homeless man, Jordan Neely, who was threatening to push passengers onto the tracks. Penny was one of three good samaritans who helped subdue Neely, and he can be seen in the video footage of the incident keeping a chokehold on Neely.
While most people would consider Penny a hero for stepping in to keep his fellow citizens safe from a man who was clearly out of his mind, the race hustlers on the left saw another opportunity to inflame racial tensions by protesting the death of Neely — a career criminal with over 40 prior arrests for various offenses, including drug-related charges, disorderly conduct, and fare evasion. At the time of his death, Neely had an outstanding warrant for assaulting a 67-year-old woman.
On May 1, at the Broadway-Lafayette Street station, witnesses reported that Jordan Neely was acting aggressively toward other passengers on a train. Multiple witnesses came forward to state that Neely had made repeated attempts to push people onto subway tracks. There is no doubt that Penny is a hero, and it is widely believed that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office is charging Penny due to public pressure.
A legal defense fund has been set up by the law firm representing Penny, Raiser & Kenniff, P.C. The attorneys set up the page on the crowdfunding site GiveSendGo.
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DHS is Looking for Help Building a Biometric Database Tool on Amazon’s Cloud
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking information on the development of a cloud software tool that would help it manage biometric identity systems.
The procurement notice, obtained by Reclaim The Net here, seeks information on the requirements and development, as well as management tools, that would help its Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) to best perform its biometrics work.
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Disney is Criticized for Installing “Disney Alexas” in Hotel Rooms
Walt Disney World announced that it would install a Disney Magical Companion, colloquially dubbed Disney Alexas, in each hotel room. The move started with a test in select rooms at Disney Vacation Club locations.
The Disney Alexas can allow guests to order room service, set alarms, play music, and inform guests of special events and park hours. The devices can also allow children to hear messages from characters like Mickey, Goofy, and Donald.
Recent guests shared their experience and opinions about the devices in a Reddit post. Some were excited about the technology while some raised privacy concerns.
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Elon Musk Battles Court Over Twitter: Will He be Allowed to Speak Freely About Tesla?
Elon Musk is seeking to overturn his Twitter supervision requirement, in which a Tesla lawyer must pre-approve his social media posts. Musk’s legal team claimed that the deal he agreed with US regulators violate his constitutional rights and has submitted a request for the 2018 agreement to be thrown out or amended. The Tesla CEO’s tweets have become a legal issue for several years since he tweeted that he had secured funding to take Tesla private. The SEC sued Musk and Tesla over claims of misleading shareholders. Musk and Tesla settled for $20 million each, and the Twitter Sitter requirement was introduced.
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Fauci Doomed as Skeleton Crawls From Closet, Exposes Critical Error in Pandemic Response
New information has emerged that exposed a critical error made by Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top health officials during the pandemic.
It has now been revealed that researchers had a simple test that would have changed the course of the pandemic.
However, Fauci was made aware of this test but chose to ignore it.
Fauci has yet to explain why this test was not used widely.
Investigative reporter and author David Zweig discovered that we had a test that could determine whether a person who tested positive for COVID-19 was infectious in May 2020
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FBI Audit Shows “Insufficient Justification” for Two January 6th Surveillance Searches
An audit conducted by the FBI’s Office of Internal Auditing (OIA) found that the bureau had “insufficient justification” for two Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) searches related to the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.
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Florida’s Surgeon-General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo has accused the U.S. federal government of forcing “unsafe vaccines” onto the American people.
The top health official blew the whistle in a letter where he accuses federal government officials of knowingly pushing dangerous shots onto the public.
Ladapo has sent a new letter to the FDA and CDC.
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Florida Cracks Down on CBDCs: Governor Signs Bill to Limit US and Foreign Use
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that restricts the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) within Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and bans foreign government-issued CBDCs. The governor’s actions were spurred by the Biden administration’s studies of the financial technology. The new law also calls on other states to institute similar prohibitions.
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Former Prosecutor in Trump Probe Pleads Fifth in Refusing to Answer Questions From Congress
Former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who assisted in New York’s criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump, refused to answer questions about the case at a House Judiciary Committee deposition on Friday, according to a Republican lawmaker.
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Georgia Court Revives 2020 Ballot Inspection Case
The Georgia Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit from a group seeking to conduct an external review of Fulton County’s absentee ballots from the 2020 election.
A superior court judge had previously dismissed the case on grounds of standing, but a recent state Supreme Court decision widened the definition, enabling several of the plaintiffs to pursue the case.
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Historian Says Trump Will Win 2024 Presidential Election Based on Past Data
Historian Niall Ferguson said former President Donald Trump is going to win the Republican nomination and will beat Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election.
Ferguson detailed the historical data that led him to his conclusion in an article in The Spectator. Biden and Trump have low overall approval ratings but Trump polls much better on the economy. Ferguson said:
“What this suggests to me is that Joe Biden is in serious danger of following Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush into the bin marked ‘one-term presidents’. Why?
“For the simple reason that no president since Calvin Coolidge a century ago has secured re-election if a recession has occurred in the two years before the nation votes.
“It does not need to be as severe as the Great Depression that destroyed Herbert Hoover’s presidency. A plain vanilla recession will suffice.”
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House GOP Demands Information From Homeland’s Mayorkas on Threat of Chinese Tech at U.S. Ports
House Republicans are demanding information from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to infrastructure at U.S. ports.
They are calling on Mayorkas to provide answers about how the Biden administration are attempting to stop the CCP from using their technology that is embedded in cargo cranes and other shipping infrastructure at American ports for purposes of spying on the U.S. and perhaps sabotaging American interests, according to the Epoch Times.
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Judge Orders FDA to Accelerate Release of COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Data From 23 to 2 Years
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been ordered by a federal judge in Texas to greatly accelerate the process of making public the vaccine trial data that it relied on to license Covid-19 vaccines.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman opened his order with the phrase, “Democracy dies behind closed doors,” an apparent reference to the Washington Post slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
He wants all related documents to both Moderna’s vaccine for adults and Pfizer’s vaccine for children to be made public by mid-2025 — a little over two years from now — as opposed to the FDA’s plan of taking 23.5 years to release it all. That is about 10 times faster than the FDA intended to produce the documents, according to The Epoch Times.
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Kamala Harris Tells Bizarre Story About Coconut Tree, is Only One in Room Who Laughs
Vice President Kamala Harris told a bizarre story about a coconut tree and was the only person in the room who laughed when swearing in commissioners of the “White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics.”
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Kari Lake Brings New Evidence in Hearing as Maricopa County, Hobbs, Fontes Seek to Dismiss Case
As Kari Lake’s legal team provided new evidence in its Arizona gubernatorial election challenge during a court hearing on Friday, counsel for defendants Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) and Maricopa County election officials sought to dismiss the case.
Last Thursday, the Arizona Supreme Court ordered court proceedings to take place “forthwith” regarding Lake’s claim that Maricopa County’s violated its signature verification practices in last year’s general election. The court granted one sanction but denied the attorneys’ fees defendants had requested.
Lake, the Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee, fell about 17,000 votes short in the 2022 election against then-Secretary of State Hobbs. She is suing Hobbs, the current Democratic governor, in addition to Fontes and Maricopa County election officials, requesting that the election results be invalidated or that she be declared the winner.
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More Than $1M Raised for Daniel Penny on GiveSendGo
Donations are pouring in to the legal fund set up for Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran accused of manslaughter over his role in the death of Jordan Neely on board a New York City subway train.
The fund, set up by Penny’s legal team on the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, has reached the $1 million mark and is increasing fast.
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Rather Than Arrest Criminals, Democrat Cities Sue Automakers for Making Cars Too Easy to Steal
Democrats have launched a new effort to tackle car thefts in their crime-infested cities.
Rather than arrest and jail criminals, Democrat cities are now suing car manufacturers for making their cars too easy to steal.
Milwaukee, Rochester, and Baltimore, three cities consumed by crime, are suing Kia and Hyundai because thugs keep stealing their cars.
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RFK Jr. Exposes Links Between Big Pharma Drugs and Mass Shootings
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has exposed the links between Big Pharma antidepressant drugs and mass shootings in America.
Kennedy, a Democrat 2024 presidential candidate, pointed out that there’s a significant connection between SSRI antidepressant users and mass shootings.
RFK Jr. highlighted the links during a recent interview with Mark Steyn.
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Robert Kennedy Jr. is the Only Presidential Candidate to Still be Banned From Instagram
Robert Kennedy Jr., a Democratic candidate for the 2024 United States presidential election, revealed that his account is till banned from Instagram and accused the tech giant of preventing him from accessing the site, despite him being a contender for the White House.
This makes him the only 2024 US presidential candidate that’s unable to post to the influential social media platform and currently being subjected to direct Big Tech censorship.
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On Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed major legislation that would ban credit card companies from being able to track consumers’ purchases of guns and gun-related products.
The bill, named Senate Bill 214, makes it so that credit card companies can no longer categorize firearms sales separately from general merchandise or sporting goods. If companies were to still do so, they would be punished through a fine by the state of Florida.
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During a Tuesday interview, Senator Ron Johnson asserted that Congressional Republicans have unequivocal proof that Hunter Biden paid tens of thousands of dollars to an international sex trafficking ring for prostitutes with money given to him by his father.
“Senator Grassley and I, in our September 2020 report, laid out as much evidence as anybody would need to lay out that the Biden family is corrupt,” Johnson told Fox News, adding that it was well known “that President Biden would be highly compromised, but the corrupt media ignored it and censored it.”
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Surveillance Contractor Monitored Vaccine Skeptics, Report Says
Flashpoint, a surveillance contractor for the FBI, infiltrated chatrooms of airline industry groups that opposed vaccine mandates, according to a report by investigative journalist Lee Fang.
In the past, Flashpoint infiltrated Islamic terror groups. But it has since focused on vaccine skeptic groups and other domestic political groups.
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Toddler Dies After Man Opens Fire on Mom, 4 Children During Domestic Dispute
SAN ANTONIO — A toddler is dead after a man opened fire on a mom and her children during a case of domestic violence on the North Side.
The triple shooting happened around 7 p.m. at a home off Robinhood Place near North New Braunfels Avenue.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said 50-year-old Stephen Clare opened fire on a 28-year-old woman and four children. The woman was shot in the neck and the lower torso. Two young children, an 11-month-old girl and a 2-year-old, were both shot and were rushed to the hospital. All three were taken into surgery.
An 11-month-old girl died Tuesday morning at the hospital.
Chief McManus said that there were two other children in the house, an 8-year-old and an 11-year-old, who escaped the violence by breaking windows out in different parts of the house.
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Elon Musk has warned Twitter users that its new WhatsApp-style feature should not be trusted — after launching it just yesterday.
Encrypted messaging was released on Wednesday as part of Twitter’s goal to become he ‘most trusted platform on the internet’.
But Musk has now stressed the privacy feature is ‘not quite there yet’ despite his initial jokes that he could not view messages even with a ‘gun to [his] head’.
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Washington Post Admits Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Zuckerbucks’ Boosted Democrat Votes in 2020 Election
The Washington Post has inadvertently admitted that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s “Zuckerbucks” influenced the 2020 election by boosting Democrat votes.
Zuckerberg pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into left-wing nonprofits that sought to increase voter turnout among likely Democratic Party voters.
Washington Post columnist Philip Bump attempted to “fact-check” claims Zuckerberg may have influenced the election but ended up accidentally admitting that the “Zuckerbucks” did boost Democrat votes.
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Watch: Biden Decries White Suprmacy™ in Commencement Speech at Historically Black College
President Brandon — fond as he is of reminding black people that they “ain’t black” if they don’t vote for him — took to historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C., to lecture them some more about how they ought to behave.
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Elon Musk’s new Twitter CEO has previously suggested that the platform should be a safe space for big corporate advertisers who would have ‘influence’ over content moderation.
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Austrian Conservatives Slam German Government Intent on Leading Europe to ‘Suicide’
The European Union and, in particular, the German government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz are dangerously leading an assault against member state sovereignty and contributing to Europe’s “suicide,” Herbert Kickl, the president of the conservative Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) has said.
In a blistering attack on neighboring Germany, Kickl said the administration in Berlin, with the help of Brussels, is intent on creating a United States of Europe in which national governments are no more than shell administrations subservient to the overarching EU executive.
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European People’s Party Calls for Ukraine to Join NATO
The European People’s Party, the European Parliament’s largest political group, adopted a declaration calling on NATO to lay the foundations for Ukraine’s long-term membership of NATO.
Ukraine’s accession to NATO has been a sensitive issue within the defense alliance for some time. While the Ukrainian side has the will to become a member, integration poses significant risks. Back in 2008, at the Bucharest Summit, NATO made a “vague” promise that Ukraine would eventually join the alliance.
The protracted Russia-Ukraine war since last year has brought the issue back on the table, but it continues to raise tensions between member states.
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Eurovision Rejects Zelensky Speech Request, Insisting Song Contest is ‘Non-Political’
It would not be appropriate for the Ukrainian President to make an address on the Eurovision Song Contest final because the programme is apolitical, organisers have said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskly wanted to address the hundreds of millions of people worldwide expected to watch the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, but has been blocked from doing so by the European Broadcast Union (EBU).
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Finland’s Feminist ‘Party Girl’ Prime Minister Sanna Marin to Divorce Husband
Finland’s outgoing ‘party girl’ Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced she will be divorcing her husband following a series of scandals, including apparent infidelity.
Sanna Marin, 37, who is serving in a caretaker role as prime minister of Finland until a new government can be formed, announced this week that her husband Markus Raikkonen will be getting a divorce. The couple, married in 2020, have a five-year-old daughter.
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Forever War: Germany Commits Another $3 Billion in Military Aid to Ukraine
BERLIN (AP) — Germany will provide Ukraine with additional military aid worth more than 2.7 billion euros ($3 billion), including tanks, anti-aircraft systems and ammunition, the government said Saturday.
The announcement came as preparations were underway in Berlin for a possible first visit to Germany by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since Russia invaded his country last year.
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Germany Greenlights Chinese Stake in Hamburg Port
The German government has given a final approval to a long-debated agreement that allows China’s state-run company COSCO to purchase a major stake in a container terminal in Hamburg Port despite security concerns and protests from members of the governing coalition.
Berlin gave its go-ahead to the controversial deal in October but announced plans to revisit the decision last month. The review came shortly after the BSI, Germany’s national cybersecurity agency, classified the Tollerort container terminal as critical German infrastructure, meaning the acquisition could have faced heightened restrictions.
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Germany is Using ‘Blackmail’ to Try to End EU Right to Veto, Says Polish President Duda
Polish President Andrzej Duda said he believes that the campaign to use qualified majority voting for most decisions made by the European Council is contrary to the interests of the European community as a whole and represents what he described as German blackmail.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday told MEPs in the European Parliament that issues such as EU foreign and tax policy should be decided by qualified majority voting. He said that it was not unanimity but majority voting that was a sign of democracy.
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The Hungarian National Police is opposed to a recent United Nations report which suggests that decriminalizing pimping under certain conditions could help reduce prostitution and human trafficking, a police official told daily Magyar Nemzet.
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Netherlands: Police Arrest XR Activists in Haarlem After Defacing Monument
The police arrested Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists near the provincial government building in Haarlem on Friday. According to De Telegraaf, the activists had not complied with a request to leave the building.
The activists defaced a monument standing on the site, with which the province commemorates colleagues who died in the Dakota disaster in 1996. King’s Commissioner Arthur van Dijk called it “disrespectful and very bad.” He said he considers the right to demonstrate a high good, “which the Extinction Rebellion eagerly makes use of. With some regularity, they occupy our office. And then they allow themselves to be peacefully taken away again by the police.” Van Dijk argues that by graffitiing the monument, the line of decency was far crossed. “I deeply regret this,” he said.
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Polish Military Under Scrutiny After Russian Air-Launched Missile Was Found Near Bydgoszcz
Poland’s Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak has blamed an operational commander of the Polish armed forces for failing to fulfill his duty after a Russian air defense missile landed on Polish territory in December last year.
Blaszczak presented a report which placed the blame on Operational Commander General Tomasz Piotrowski “for failing to fulfill duties in the reporting of the incident and during the search operation.”
In the report, Blaszczak details rocket debris found in a forest near Bydgoszcz in northern Poland which noted that Gen. Piotrowski failed to order a search operation for the missile and failed to report the incident.
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The Pandemic May be Over But UK Mobile Networks Are Still Monitoring Population Movement
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) recently signed contracts with mobile network operators O2 and BT Group, which owns EE, to track the movements of people. Such data was extensively used during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The deal with BT will run up to April 2025 while the deal with O2 will end after one year.
The location data from BT will be used to provide the UKHSA with data on journeys made by rail and road and footfall in suburban and urban areas. The data will be aggregated.
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A fatal shooting that left two men dead at a Mercedes-Benz factory in Germany may have been the result of political differences between Turkish citizens, according to reports.
The shocking incident unfolded just before 8 a.m. on Thursday in Sindelfingen, a city in the state of Baden-Württemberg known for a large plant owned by the Daimler Group.
Police were called to the facility after a male suspect shot two victims to death inside a production hall known as Factory 56, where luxury S-Class sedans are produced.
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UK: Cost of Radical ‘Net Zero’ Policies ‘Unmanageable’ for Average Homeowner, Charity Warns
Briton’s radical net zero policies carry a cost that is “unmanageable” for the average homeowner, a charity has claimed.
Citizens Advice, an NGO operating in the United Kingdom, has claimed that the government’s net zero policies as currently laid out are simply “unmanageable” economically for the average homeowner.
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UK: Vandals Killed Birds After Spray Painting ‘Disturbing’ Swastikas and Racism at Essex Lake
Birds in the birdbox were killed after the box was spray painted
An Essex fishery club volunteer was left upset after a fishing area was blighted with the “most disturbing” vandalism which killed birds nesting in a bird box. Now an Essex lake has been left covered in racism and swastikas.
Alan Pattison, from Wickford, had a rude awakening on Saturday morning (May 13) after Aveley Angling Club in Upminster was ravaged with racial and derogatory slurs spray painted on a bridge, trees, and birdbox. A picnic table and scaffolding were also thrown into the lake in the attack on the club.
Birds that were occupying the defaced birdbox were found dead when the club secretary, 45, investigated the extent of the damage to their spraypainted home. Alan said he felt very “disappointed” about the situation and believes people responsible are children because of the “juvenile” language being used.
He said: “We were all kids once but it’s disappointing now. The language that was used shows it’s obvious that these kids are not older than 15 years old and for a young kid to be spray painting swastikas all around the place and derogatory language, it’s really sad. It is a really, really sad situation.”
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Ukrainian President Zelensky Met With Pope Francis and the Leaders of Italy in a Show of Support
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with Pope Francis for the first time since Russia invaded his country in February of 2022.
Zelensky was in Rome for a one-day visit, meeting with Italy’s president, Sergio Mattarella, the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and later at the Vatican with Pope Francis, according to The Guardian.
Both Italian leaders emphasized Italy’s continuing and full support for Ukraine “in terms of military, financial, humanitarian and reconstruction aid in the short and long term,” according to the outlet.
Prime Minister Meloni condemned Russia’s “brutal and unjust aggression” at a news conference with Zelensky, and she pledged Italy’s continued support for Ukraine for “as long as is necessary.” She called on Russia to immediately withdraw from Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Gives Pope Icon Painted on Bulletproof Vest
ROME, May 13 (Reuters) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks at the Vatican on Saturday with Pope Francis, who said in late April that the Holy See was involved in a peace mission to end the war with Russia.
“It is a great honour,” Zelenskiy told Francis, putting his hand to his heart and bowing his head as he greeted the 86-year-old pope, who stood with a cane, a brief video of the encounter seen by reporters showed.
Earlier on Saturday, Zelenskiy also met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who promised full military and financial backing for Ukraine and reiterated support for its EU membership bid.
Zelenskiy, who was visiting Rome for the first time since the war began, spoke with the pope for 40 minutes and presented him with a bulletproof vest that had been used by a Ukrainian soldier and later painted with an image of the Madonna.
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Islamic Jihad Leader: Cease-Fire Reached With Israel, But Fighting Persists
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A leader of the Islamic Jihad militant group in Gaza announced late Saturday that a cease-fire deal had been reached with Israel to end five days of heavy fighting. But rocket fire persisted after the deadline, leaving the deal in question.
Islamic Jihad leader Mohamad al-Hindi had told the Al Kahera Wal Nas channel that the Egyptian-brokered deal would go into effect at 10 p.m. local time (1900 GMT).
“Now, this agreement has been reached thanks to continuous Egyptian effort. We appreciate this effort,” he said.
Shortly before the truce was to take hold, Israel reported a heavy burst of Palestinian rocket fire toward southern and central Israel, while Israel said it was striking targets inside Gaza. After the 10 p.m. deadline, Israel reported additional rocket fire, and Israeli media said warplanes were responding.
There was no Israeli comment on the cease-fire announcement. But the Egyptian station had earlier reported a deal was imminent.
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Israel, Palestinian Militants in Gaza Trade Fire for 5th Day as Cease-Fire Talks Stall
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel and Palestinian militants unleashed salvos of fire for a fifth day on Saturday, with the Islamic Jihad militant group launching dozens more rockets and the Israeli military pounding targets inside the Gaza Strip.
Missile shrapnel from a Palestinian rocket that slammed into an agricultural community in Israel’s southern Negev desert severely wounded two Palestinians from Gaza in their 40s who had been working in Israel. Another 36-year-old man was moderately wounded, Israeli medics said. There were no immediate reports of casualties Saturday from Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, where so far 34 Palestinians have been killed, at least 14 of them civilians, according to Palestinian health officials. Over 147 have been wounded.
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The battle for Bakhmut has apparently taken a turn in favour of the Ukrainians, with Russian forces retreating from their tactically “significant” position in “bad order”, according to British military intelligence.
On Saturday, the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said that over the past four days, Russia’s 72nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (72 SMRB) withdrew from its position and Ukranians regained at least one kilometre of territory surrounding the city.
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UK reveals “calibrated and proportionate response to Russia’s escalations” with a donation of long-range cruise missiles, Russia threatens “appropriate” military response.
The United Kingdom has donated an unspecified number of longer-range stealth cruise missiles to Ukraine, saying these were for the purpose of pushing back “Russian forces based within Ukrainian sovereign territory”.
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Aoibhín Bradley, 27, decided to turn her back on the NHS and find a job in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, after hearing about the opportunities Down Under.
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The far-right group were seen performing the Seig Heil, a salute used by Nazis at rallies, which the Victorian Government has pledged to ban.
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Two videos circulating on social media, one involving youths attacking an elderly Dutch man walking his dog and the other featuring foreigners attacking a grandmother’s car and urinating on the street in Germany, reveal some of the commonplace, everyday violence and anti-social behavior mass migration has brought to Europe.
In the first video, which went viral on Twitter this week and was filmed in the Netherlands, a group of Black youths, between the ages of 13 and 15, are filmed attacking an elderly White man and his dog, including trying to kick both victims. The video, which showcases the teens laughing, shocked the Netherlands and has already been seen over 2 million times.
The teens were arrested by police shortly after the incident, which took place in Pijnacker, southeast of The Hague
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Border Patrol Union: ‘Corrupt’ Biden Should be Arrested for ‘Worst Disaster Ever Seen at Border’
The U.S. Border Patrol union has blasted Democrat President Joe Biden over the escalating crisis that is seeing tens of thousands of illegal migrants flooding into the United States.
The union accused Biden of corruption and stated that he should be arrested for facilitating the “worst sustained disaster… ever seen at our border.”
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— as doctor warns the crisis is creating a ‘public health emergency’ due to a lack of screening
The DOJ has appealed a Florida judge’s decision to block the Biden administration’s plan to begin releasing migrants into the community in the wake of Title 42.
As the fallout from the expiration of the order continues, DailyMail.com obtained new photos showing dozens of migrants being apprehended by Border Patrol as they illegally cross into the US.
Biden’s proposed ‘paroles’ were to be triggered when holding centers reach 125 percent capacity, or when authorities stop 7,000 migrants along the border in a day.
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Opponents of a new immigration bill, just passed by the US House of Representatives, say that it is a harmful piece of legislation that represents “a Trojan Horse” to, eventually, enable the E-Verify ID system to take strong root.
Rather than focus to criminalize the hiring of illegal immigrants, the E-Verify system, meanwhile, lets employers confirm the eligibility of employees to work in the United States through a digital ID system.
Introduced in the House this month, the Secure the Border Act of 2023 is there to address issues such as immigration and border security and contains limits to asylum eligibility.
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Danish MEP Anders Vistisen discussed the internal political landscape in Denmark and laid out the key immigration policy of his Danish People’s Party
Remix News sat down with Danish MEP Anders Vistisen at CPAC Hungary last week to take a deep dive into the immigration policy proposed by his conservative Danish People’s Party, as well as question him on the current political landscape in Denmark.
The 35-year-old lawmaker has been with the party for over a decade, having previously been the national chairman of the party’s youth section, and is currently its spokesperson for foreign affairs.
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During an appearance on the Europe 1 television station, the mayor of the French city of Cannes, David Lisnard, warned that immigration has become a major problem in France after it accepted a record 500,000 migrants last year. He says the government must bring immigration under control or risk societal consequences.
“It is communication itself that creates the problem. Immigration has become a major problem in France, we received more or less 600,000 people last year — 600,000. This is a (new) record. Hence, we must close the taps on immigration today, in the interest of the balance of French society,” said Lisnard.
Lisnard was critical of French President Emmanuel Macron and his government, indicating that they focus more on “communication” regarding the issue of immigration rather than actually enforcing immigration law.
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Judge Thomas Kent Wetherell II, a judicial appointee of Donald J. Trump to the federal bench, reached a court decision that halted the Biden administration from releasing illegal aliens without setting court dates for these migrants to appear.
Under Biden’s previous plan, in the event that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection service is unable to accommodate resources for the upcoming large wave of illegal immigration, they would release migrants from custody to parole, according to Just the News. Those under this parole release do not get an alien registration number nor receive a court date, according to Fox News. This process was previously allowed only for emergency humanitarian reasons. The judge’s decision meant that the administration must wait at least two weeks before enacting this plan due to his restraining order.
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Roughly 20 veterans — some from the Vietnam War — were told to pound sand and vacate the hotels they called home, just as New York State is about to open its doors to a surge of illegal immigrants from Biden’s wide-open southern border. Coincidence? Not according to Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, (YIT) who is herself a disabled vet.
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Net Migrations Into Britain Could Top 1 Million This Year, Doubling Previous Record
Home Office officials fear soon-to-be released immigration statistics will show net migration into the U.K. topping 1 million, despite numerous pledges by Britain’s governing Conservative party over the past decade to significantly reduce the numbers.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures due to be published on May 25 are expected to show a huge increase in new arrivals, far above the previous peak of 504,000 recorded in the year to June 2022.
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Ted Cruz Schools Reporter on Illegal Immigration: ‘You Should be Ashamed of Yourself’
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) humiliated a liberal reporter today at the U.S. Southern Border.
Cruz was holding a press conference when an unidentified reporter tried to blame Republicans for Biden’s debacle.
The Texas senator refused to back down, however, and schooled the reporter with facts.
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Texas Sues Homeland Security Over Border Policy as Judge Grants Florida Restraining Order
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the Department of Homeland Security over its plan to release foreign nationals en masse into the U.S. without a court date to appear in immigration court.
The parole policy implemented by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has existed in several variations for nearly two years. It, and the policy of “catch and release,” was ruled to be illegal by a federal judge in a lawsuit brought against DHS by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on March 8.
On May 10, Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz announced the agency was implementing a similar parole policy under a new name, prompting Moody to sue again on May 11. She also asked the court to halt the program. The court did, on the same day, issuing a temporary restraining order for 14 days. A hearing is scheduled for May 19.
Paxton sued Friday over the same policy in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Victoria Division. He also asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order.
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Rishi Sunak has vowed to secure as many barges ‘as it takes’ to house migrants as he tried to face down a revolt from the Right of the Tory Party.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, the Prime Minister dismissed criticisms of his immigration policy by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who said that the plan to send asylum seekers on to Rwanda was ‘morally unacceptable’.
He also pledged to hold twice-weekly cross-governmental meetings to tackle the crisis, modelled on the way No 10 dealt with the Covid pandemic.
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Last Thursday, Chicago city residents were up in arms over the mass amounts of migrants being brought into the city, with citizens complaining about putting migrants’ importance over the residents of the city.
At a recent meeting discussing the migrants being brought into South Shore, members of the community screamed in protest of the decision to turn a former high school within the area into a temporary migrant shelter, according to WTTW. The members of the community arrived in droves to the meeting, insisting that the abandoned high school instead be made into a reserved community space.
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‘You Have No Empathy’ — French Court Condemns Algerian Migrant Who Raped 21-Year-Old
An Algerian man with a deportation order was denied early release for raping a 21-year-old woman near Boulevard Foch in Maine-et-Loire, France, in May 2022. The presiding judge condemned the suspect for his attitude towards the attack.
“You have no empathy,” Bruno Sansen, the judge for the investigating chamber, told the suspect during his hearing.
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Harry Schuhmacher (left) argued that Anheuser Busch’s billion-dollar decline was because the iconic company’s founding dynasty left, and the business moved its focus from humor and sports.
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Exclusive: EU MP Mocks ‘Pathetic’ Attempts to Censor Criticism of ‘Men Who Pretend to be Women’
A sitting MP in the European Parliament has mocked attempts by pro-trans leftists to have him censored for criticising “men who pretend to be women”.
Cristian Terhes, a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament, has mocked attempts by leftist politicians to have him censored after he criticised transgenderism in the European Parliament.
The Romanian politician publicly voiced his criticism of the ideology during a recent parliamentary debate on the ratification of the 2011 Istanbul convention against gender-based violence, warning that the body’s sudden inability to define what the word “woman” even now serves as a significant obstacle to protecting them as a sex.
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A new bill passed in New York City is set to protect people from discrimination based on their “height and weight.”
The New York City council passed the bill, Thursday, that would make it illegal to discriminate against people based on these characteristics when they’re applying for housing, jobs, and public accommodations.
The proposed legislation, which has been championed by weight activists in the city, will be signed into law by New York City Mayor Eric Adams later this month. Though one major Republican New York City warned the future law will allow people to “sue anyone and everything.”
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Russia Fines Google for Not Deleting Content About Same-Sex Relationships
Russian authorities have once again fined Google for refusing to remove content. This time, the tech giant was fined for refusing to remove content promoting homosexuality and so-called misinformation about the invasion of Ukraine. On Thursday, Google’s parent company Alphabet was fined 3 million rubles (approx. $39,000). In December 2021, the company was fined 7.2 billion rubles. The court that penalized Google cited several videos on YouTube about the lives of LGBT individuals in St Petersburg posted by a blogger who was labeled a “foreign agent” by authorities. The court also noted that Google refused to remove content discrediting Russia’s armed forces over the invasion of Ukraine.
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Target Launches Transgender Clothing Line for Babies
Major American retailer Target has just launched a “woke” new clothing line for “transgender” babies.
The new clothing line is part of Target’s new range that is dedicated to “PRIDE.”
The section includes rainbow-themed items and “gender-fluid” clothes.
Target says its “new LGBTQ ‘pride’ clothing collection” is aimed at children of all ages, including infants.
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The threats came after a group of parents spoke out at a recent school board meeting and critics have threatened to get them fired from their jobs.
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An elementary school teacher in the UK reportedly lost her job after refusing to use a “transgender” eight-year-old’s preferred pronouns.
A Christian teacher in Britain, who cannot be named for child protection reasons, was reportedly fired from her job after refusing to use the preferred pronouns of an 8-year-old, whom other adults had judged to be “transgender”.
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UK: Starbucks Fires Trans Barista for Screaming at Customer Who Misgendered Him
Why is misgendering a crime? Looking at this person, I can’t tell if they’re pretending to be a man or a woman. But even if one can determine the gender of an individual on sight, why is it such a big deal if they get it wrong? Why not simply smile and tell the person who is misgendering you that they got it wrong, I’m actually he/she/they or whatever?
If someone treated me with enough respect to politely correct my error, I would apologize and that would be the end of it without any unpleasantness.
Not so this barista at a UK Starbucks. Not only did he/she scream at a customer for “misgendering” him/her, he/she then attacked a man who was recording the whole thing on his phone.
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Do you want your blood to boil:
Do want to see Europe’s perfect democracy at work,
Do want to see how grateful the guests are,
Do you want to see why the west is unique in its civilization and does not discriminate against muslims:,
Ah yeah human rights for muslims to colonize, the west.
Do politicians have any honor in the west?
One victim at a time:
Then watch this:
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savages
“Beer Analyst Says Anheuser Busch Went Off Rails When Last Family Member — August Anheuser Busch III — Retired and Focus Went From Humor and Sport to Miami Art Fair and Dylan Mulvaney”
– There are two towns in Bohemia, Pilsen and Budweis, where the Pilsner Beer, and the Budweiser Beer have come into existence. Pilsner is a bitter beer (don’t know if bitter is the right word in English) – and when they made first pilsner beer in Pilsen it was too Bitter for the Budweisers in Budweis, but still better than the sweet beers that they used to make – so they made a mix: A slightly bitter, slightly sweet – Budweiser Beer.
The Budweiser Brewery in Budweis is still making beer, still of infinitely higher quality than anything from Anheuser Busch, who had spent a lot of effort trying to buy the original Budweiser Brewery, but the town of Budweis is not selling. Which is a good thing, for the original Budweiser from Budweis is still a good beer, unlike it’s proud and gay American offspring.
“We have a $31.5 billion challenge, which is well within the margin of expectation and well within our capacity to address,” Newsom said.
Let me guess how this “challenge” will be addressed by Newsom:
1. Declare “migrant emergency” and get federal aid (taxpayer bailout)
2. Declare “homeless emergency” and get federal aid (taxpayer bailout)
3. Declare “climate emergency” and get federal aid (taxpayer bailout)
4. Declare “fantanyl emergency” and get federal aid (taxpaier bailout)
5. Have dinner at French Laundry
Have you heard about the explosion of weapons depots in Khmelnitsky? Terrible explosion.
Telegram channels write that there were British missiles with depleted uranium.
The good thing about it is that those weapons won’t be getting used to kill Russian men or target civilians in Donetsk whom the Ukrainians have been randomly shelling since 2014. And in a way it means fewer Ukrainian men will die as well, for the faster the Ukraine runs out of Western supplied weapons the sooner the war ends.
This is an ecological catastrophe for the whole of Europe. As they write in the comments: The British ALWAYS do nasty things away from their home.”
The fertile lands that were the cause of discord will become unusable.
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I’LL BE BACK SOON
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…something must have changed?
HOW TO SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS’
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