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France deploys 4000 MORE soldiers across nation, claim it's in response to terror attack in Moscow

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© Charles Platiau / ReutersFrench soldiers patrol in front of the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, November 27, 2015
After the recent terrorist attack in Moscow, France has announced the deployment of an additional 4000 soldiers to guard busy locations and buildings across the country, as reported by NOS. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal made this announcement in response to the recent attack, which was claimed by the Islamic State.


Comment: That claim, much purported by the West, and, suspiciously, even before an investigation had been performed, has been shown to be incorrect. Both the evidence and reason point to an attack coordinated by the West and Ukraine.


These 4000 extra troops will supplement the 3000 soldiers already mobilized yesterday as part of the anti-terror operation Sentinel. They will be tasked with securing various sites including stations, schools, religious buildings, and theaters. The additional forces will be rapidly deployable for immediate response to imminent threats.

Remind, the threat level in France has been raised to the highest level, according to President Macron, who also revealed that the Islamic State has made multiple attempts to carry out attacks in France in recent months, two of which were thwarted.

Comment: Is this because they have genuine concerns, or are they hijacking the terror attack in Russia to stoke more fear in the public, and perhaps get them used to troops on the streets?

Of note is how during the last Christmas period Germany increased its security presence: Terror attack concerns cause Austria and Germany to tighten security, churchgoers face checks at Cologne Cathedral


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Ukrainian bar mocks deadly Moscow concert hall attack

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© ofenziva.ps.meThe ‘Crocus City’ snack set on the Ofenziva bar menu.
A bar in Kiev, known for its highly politicized and controversial menu, is now selling a new snack set ridiculing the Crocus City Hall massacre that left over 130 dead.

The 'art-bar' Ofenziva ('Offensive'), located in Kiev, has introduced a new item to its controversial menu, mocking the deadly weekend terrorist attack on Moscow's Crocus City concert hall. The attack has claimed the lives of at least 133 people, though the search for victims is still ongoing and the death toll is expected to grow even further.

The establishment advertises itself as "the first meme-military art bar" in Kiev in an allusion to online meme warfare. It serves as a platform for various performers, most of whom exhibit nationalist views.

Comment: One should be wary of a restaurant with humor in such poor taste. It likely doesn't bode well for the food.


Family

World's population forecast to fall for first time since the Black Death

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Global fertility rates hit an historic tipping point and are unlikely to recover, experts say
The world population is expected to fall for the first time since the Black Death because of plummeting birth rates, a Lancet study has found.

The decline in the number of children women are having has started to slow the growth of the global population, which stands at just over eight billion, and could mean it starts to fall within decades.

It would be the first time that the number of people on the planet has decreased since the Black Death bubonic plague pandemic killed as many as 50 million people in the mid-1300s, including up to a third of the population in Europe.

Comment: With the WEF threatening the world that 'Disease X' is just around the corner, and the very real fact that vast swathes of the Western world are suffering from poor health - more so following 2 years of lockdowns and the experimental covid vaccines - coupled with looming food shortages and economic collapse, it does seem as though population decline (at least in some regions) is inevitable; however, historically, despite the tragedy, it seems that such times are also followed by relatively dramatic revitalization, too: Britain's peasant houses and the Black Death building boom
One of the economic impacts of the Black Death and climate deterioration from the 1340s was to make more land available; population decline meant that those who survived were in demand as agricultural labourers, able to sell their services for hard cash, rather than land or kind. Peasant landholdings doubled in size in the period 1380 to 1540, enabling peasants to produce a surplus for sale in local markets. Many peasants were also able to supplement their income from pursuing such occupations as mining or fishing, or working as artisans or traders. Initially weak and vulnerable, surviving on a subsistence diet of very basic foods, peasants were increasingly able to afford better clothing, tools, utensils, and foodstuffs after the difficult decades of the mid-14th century.
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Bizarro Earth

Police post photos of suspects with Lego heads to protect IDs under new California law

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© Murrieta Police Department
Getting arrested is no child's play — except for these California cops.

The Murrieta Police Department has been posting hilarious arrest and lineup photos with suspects' faces replaced by Lego heads to comply with a woke state law protecting offenders' rights.

Images on the department's Instagram page show the Lego blocks with a variety of facial expressions — crying, frowning, smirking or raging — digitally superimposed onto the bodies of people being busted.

One appears to show two people handcuffed in the back of a squad car — with the Lego face on one angrily looking at the other, whose toy head is crying.

Another shows five people in a lineup — completely unrecognizable because of the toy heads.

People 2

The delusional feminist power fantasy relies on male charity and tolerance

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These days we hear a lot about the concept of the "male power fantasy," usually in reference to accusations of "toxic masculinity." In other words, feminists and woke activists argue that the male power fantasy is a social construct that makes men aggressive, and masculine aggression is supposedly the cause of most of society's ills.

I would point out, however, that we don't really see men talking about or obsessing much over power these days. Instead, it's women (mostly feminists) blithering incessantly about power, institutional power, imbalances in power and how much they want power. If I was to guess by their rantings at the root principle that inspires all of feminism it wouldn't be "equality", it would be the thirst for power.

It's also important to understand that the female power fantasy looks distinctly and darkly different from the average male power fantasy and this is why so many people remain skeptical of women in authority. All we have to do is look at how they express their desires in fiction.

If one studies the archetypal ideals of the hero's journey (a hallmark of the male power fantasy), what we almost always find are stories of self sacrifice. Power for most men is meant to be used in service to others; to protect and to provide for those who cannot protect themselves. This symbolism is found everywhere in literature, television and movies centered on powerful and popular male figures. Rather than being "toxic," men are compelled by their inherent relationship to power to achieve something greater for all the people around them.

Comment: Throughout history, bands of men hunted together and fought together. They needed to develop the ability to cooperate well in groups, to self-organize in the manner best suited for the task at hand, and they needed to be inspired to do so, both for their own survival and the survival of their families. The particular pro-sociality of men is built into their very nature, and the anti-social is a deviation from the norm. As Smith notes above, this is built into all of humanity's greatest and most resonant stories. Maybe it's that way for a reason. And maybe the problems feminists see are either a generalization based on the anti-social exception, or a projection of their own deranged mentality.


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Transgender teen sent to prison for killing 12-year-old girl

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© Bensalem Police DepartmentJoshua Cooper
An 18-year-old transgender woman in the US state of Pennsylvania, who fatally shot a young girl and then confessed to the crime on Instagram, has been sentenced to up to 40 years behind bars, local prosecutors announced on Thursday.

Ash Cooper, known as Joshua Cooper at the time of the 2022 murder in Bensalem Township, began transitioning after the arrest. Cooper, who was then 16, told the police that he and the victim - 12-year-old Morgan Connors - were in a sexual relationship.

"Ash Cooper, who previously went by Joshua Cooper, pled guilty Thursday to third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence," Buck's County District Attorney's office said in a statement.

"Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey L. Finley sentenced Cooper to 15 to 40 years in state prison and a consecutive sentence of seven years of probation," the DA office added.

The perpetrator was also ordered to undergo a psychological and psychiatric evaluation.

Comment: No one in the mainstream wants to talk about it: there is a significant link between transgender ideation and personality dysfunction.


Family

Some of nearly 300 abducted schoolchildren in Nigeria's north are freed after weeks in captivity

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© AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, FileParents wait for news about the kidnapped LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga students in Kuriga, Kaduna, Nigeria, on March 9, 2024.
At least 137 of nearly 300 Nigerian children abducted more than two weeks ago from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna were released on Sunday, the West African nation's military said.

An earlier statement from the government suggested that all the students were freed.

Motorcycle-riding gunmen invaded the Kuriga school on March 7 and marched the children into the forests before security forces could arrive, as terrified families watched helplessly. School authorities said a total of 287 students were kidnapped during the attack, at least 100 of them are aged 12 or younger.

At least 1,400 students have been kidnapped from Nigerian schools since 2014, when Boko Haram militants seized hundreds of schoolgirls from Borno state's Chibok village. In recent years, abductions have been concentrated in the country's northwestern and central regions, where dozens of armed groups often target villagers and travelers for ransom.

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Cloud Precipitation

KINSELLA: Toronto's overlords pondering implementation of a rain tax

The City of Toronto plans to consult with 'water users' in April about taxing based on the amount of hard surfaces on a property

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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow arrives to West Block of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 27, 2023. (The Canadian Press)
A rain tax.
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Seriously, they want to tax the rain.

Before we get started on the latest insanity to, um, seep out of Toronto's municipal government, let's give credit where credit is due, shall we?

For sheer gall, for its bottomless brazen brassiness, you can't beat this one: a tax on rain. You almost have to admire the Bolsheviks who presently run Canada's largest city, for their inventiveness and their total indifference to the taxpayer.

Almost.

And, let's make one thing clear: we are not making this up, Virginia. Toronto-stan's commissars have even issued a call for people to participate in what they call, benignly, a "Stormwater Charge & Water Service Charge Consultation."


Comment: It would seem that this is not a Don't Panic! Lighten Up! article.


Target

Swathes of Ukraine go dark after Russia pummels energy infrastructure

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© AP Photo/Andrew KravchenkoFILE PHOTO: Windows of an apartment building are illuminated during a blackout in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022.
We reported earlier on the clear escalation in Ukraine's cross-border strikes on Russia's energy infrastructure, during which time Moscow has in turn ramped up its own major airstrikes on Ukraine's facilities.

The Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) in a press briefing detailed its retaliatory attacks which it described as a direct response to the shelling of Russian territory. The MoD confirmed that it has hit "energy and military industry facilities, railway junctions and arsenals."

Significantly the country's largest hydroelectric plant at Dnieper has been shut down after what appears a major missile strike impacting its vital operations. Various regions impacted have been left without power, and there are widespread reports of new internet outages in Ukraine.

Comment: Note Russia's escalation happened prior to the terror attack.




NPC

Make it stop: UK museum touts claim that dinosaurs have "LGBTQ history" and birds are "queer"

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© Modernity
Says animal queerness has been "hidden from the public"

A museum in Britain has claimed that some birds are "queer" and that the history of animal queerness has been "hidden from the public".

The Hastings Museum and Art Gallery is running an LGBTQ history exhibition funded by Arts Council England which claims that some birds are "queer" because they "change their sex from female to male."

The Telegraph notes that the claims about birds such as pheasants are completely unfounded and have no scientific basis.