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US issues 'do not travel' warning for parts of Mexico as spring break approaches

Greg Wehner
Fox News
Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:12 UTC
MexNatGuard
© APMexican National Guard search for four US citizens kidnapped by gunmen
Matamoros, Mexico • March 6, 2023
Renewal came after four Americans were kidnapped, two of whom were killed, in Matamoros, Mexico...

The U.S. State Department reminded travelers to avoid going to parts of Mexico as four Americans were kidnapped in Matamoros last week - two of whom were killed while the other two returned to the U.S. on Tuesday.

The reminder came just days before college students head off to tropical destinations like parts of Mexico for Spring Break.

The State Department issued a Level 4 travel advisory for six Mexican states in October 2022, and last Friday the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico issued the reminder after reports of a shooting in Tamaulipas.

Comment: Comment: Update 9 Mar 2023:
A faction of the drug-trafficking Gulf Cartel on Thursday apologized for what they called a rogue operation, which resulted in the deaths of one Mexican and two US citizens near the city of Matamoros. Mexican police found five handcuffed men in a vehicle, along with a note explaining the situation.
"We have decided to turn over those who were directly involved and responsible in the events, who at all times acted under their own decision-making and lack of discipline," said the note, provided to media by a police source in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The five men broke the cartel's rules, which included "respecting the life and well-being of the innocent."
The letter was signed by the 'Scorpions' cartel faction, which controls drug distribution in Matamoros, right across the Rio Grande from the US state of Texas.

Police arrested a 24-year-old Mexican they say was guarding the prisoners. He was identified only as "Jose N."


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Georgians protest for third day in a row despite government's pledge to withdraw 'foreign agent' bill


RFE/RL
Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00 UTC
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© WSGPolice use tear gas to dispel protest of draft law on 'foreign agents'
Tens of thousands of protesters have returned to the streets of the Georgian capital for a third straight day of demonstrations despite the ruling Georgian Dream party's pledge to withdraw its controversial "foreign agents" legislation from parliament.

Protesters on March 9 again gathered outside the parliament building in the capital, Tbilisi, where they waved Georgian, Ukrainian, and EU flags and shouted anti-government slogans and called for early parliamentary elections.

The protests began on March 7 as parliament took up the "foreign agents" legislation backed by Georgian Dream and passed it on first reading. Critics have warned that the bill, which would force civil society organizations that receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to be classified as "foreign agents," mirrors Russian legislation and could push the country toward authoritarianism.

The March 7 demonstrations were marked by violent clashes between protesters and security forces, leading to the detention of at least 77 people and injuries to about 50 police and security officers.


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Light Saber

Free speech: Canadian judge rules giving middle finger 'God-given right,' not a crime

Oliver Holmes
The Guardian
Fri, 10 Mar 2023 18:55 UTC
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© Facebook/Radio-Canada InformationQuebec Judge Dennis Galiatsatos upbraided the complainant who accused his neighbor of making threats and harassing him just because he “flipped the bird.”
Gesture may not be civil or polite but 'it is not a crime' and is protected under Canada's constitution, judgment says

Giving your neighbour the middle finger may not be polite but is protected as part of a person's right to freedom of expression under the Canadian constitution, a judge has ruled.

In a 26-page decision, Dennis Galiatsatos dismissed a case against a man accused of harassing his neighbour in a Montreal suburb.

"To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger," he said in a ruling dated 24 February. "Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian," he added, referring to Canada's charter of rights and freedoms.

Comment: There is no end to the snowflakery. It's worth reading the whole ruling, as it is a classic portrait of a petty tyrant melting down in the face of normal people who refuse to bow to his demands. In fact, Naccache, Sr. narrowly avoided a reckless driving charge when caught on camera speeding down the street while children were playing in the vicinity. .

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Proud Boys J6 sedition trial halted after leaked chat logs show FBI agent said her boss ordered her to 'destroy evidence'

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:01 UTC
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The feds' political persecution of the Proud Boys took a wild turn after unintentionally leaked chat logs from FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller revealed she said she was ordered by her boss to "destroy" "338 items of evidence."

The leaked chats also suggest Miller failed to reveal relevant communications to the defense, potentially spied on privileged attorney-client communications and was asked by another agent to "edit out that I was present" during a meeting with a Confidential Human Source Informant.

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Dr Naomi Wolf issues formal letter of apology to conservatives and admits she was duped by the Left

Dr Naomi Wolf
https://naomiwolf.substack.com
Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:49 UTC
Dr Naomi Wolf
There is no way to avoid this moment. The formal letter of apology. From me. To Conservatives and to those who "put America first" everywhere.

It's tempting to sweep this confrontation with my own gullibility under the rug — to "move on" without ever acknowledging that I was duped, and that as a result I made mistakes in judgement, and that these mistakes, multiplied by the tens of thousands and millions on the part of people just like me, hurt millions of other people like you all, in existential ways.

But that erasure of personal and public history would be wrong.

I owe you a full-throated apology.

Comment: Kudos to Dr Naomi Wolf for questioning her own deeply engrained belief system and for the willingness to look at the evidence objectively. It can't have been easy for her to strip away those false beliefs and accept the truth, but hopefully this also sets an example for others who have been duped by the Left.

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Snakes in Suits

Biden DOJ's crusade to jail young man for anti-Hillary memes just got much uglier


Revolver
Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:01 UTC
US court shadow hillary
Last month, Revolver profiled the Biden Administration's persecution of former Twitter anon Doug Mackey, who was a famous pro-Trump voice back in 2016 under the moniker of Ricky Vaughn.

For those whose memory is foggy, a quick review: In the late stages of the 2016 race, Mackey posted several memes, designed to resemble Hillary Clinton campaign images, claiming that supporters could vote by simply texting a phone number.

publius gaius meme

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Cloud Grey

Tucker Carlson is arguing with fog

Chris Bray
chrisbray.substack.com
Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:17 UTC
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but let's clear some of that fog with court documents and see what's there

What did Jacob Chansley do? What did the government say he did?

Chansley was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison, to be followed by 36 months of supervised release — a total of six and a half of years of punishment. Tucker Carlson maintains, with video to support his description, that Chansley did nothing much to earn that sentence: He walked through the Capitol with police who didn't try to stop him. But what's the other side of the argument?


Comment: See: Tucker Carlson releases exclusive Jan. 6 footage, says politicians, media lied about Sicknick, 'QAnon Shaman'


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Airplane

Malaysia asked to reopen MH370 probe after claims of new evidence


RT
Thu, 09 Mar 2023 08:21 UTC
Malaysia Airline passenger jet parked on the tarmac at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014
© Getty Images / How Foo YeenMalaysia Airline passenger jet parked on the tarmac at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014
Families of the victims have called for a renewed search after the findings of a US-based marine robotics company emerged.

Malaysian authorities are being asked to launch a new search for flight MH370, nine years after it disappeared from radars over the South China Sea. The request comes after US marine robotics company Ocean Infinity claimed to have found new evidence of the plane's possible location.

The Boeing 777 was en route from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing with 239 passengers on board on March 8, 2014, when it vanished from the grid less than an hour into its journey.

For three years, Malaysia, China, and Australia searched for the plane in the Indian Ocean, where it was believed to have crashed, only to come up empty-handed. The search was officially called off in January 2017, with no conclusion made about what could have happened to the mystery flight.

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Matt Taibbi: My statement to Congress

Matt Taibbi
Racket News
Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:52 UTC
Capitol Hill
Editor's note: at around 10 a.m. EST this morning, Michael Shellenberger and I will be testifying at the "Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files" for the House Judiciary Committee, in the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Just before, around 9:00 a.m., we'll also be releasing a TwitterFiles "Statement to Congress" thread, which will be submitted to the record. It contains some surprises. My opening:
Chairman Jordan, ranking member Plaskett, members of the Select Committee,

My name is Matt Taibbi. I've been a reporter for over 30 years, and an advocate for the First Amendment. Much of that time was spent at Rolling Stone magazine. Over my career, I've had the good fortune to be recognized for the work I love. I've won the National Magazine Award, the I.F. Stone Award for independent journalism, and written ten books, including four New York Times bestsellers. I'm now the editor of the online magazine Racket, on the independent platform Substack.

I'm here today because of a series of events that began late last year, when I received a note from a source online.

It read:
"Are you interested in doing a deep dive into what censorship and manipulation... was going on at Twitter?"
A week later, the first of what became known as the "Twitter Files" reports came out. To say these attracted intense public interest would be an understatement. My computer looked like a slot machine as just the first tweet about the blockage of the Hunter Biden laptop story registered 143 million impressions and 30 million engagements.

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Sherlock

Several dead in shooting at Jehovah's Witness church in Hamburg

Fabian Bimmer
Reuters
Thu, 09 Mar 2023 23:51 UTC
jehovah shooting
Images from the scene
Several people have been killed or seriously injured in a shooting at a Jehovah's Witness church in the northern German city of Hamburg, with the motive for the attack unclear, police said on Thursday.

There were no indications that a perpetrator was on the run, a police spokesperson said, declining to say how many people were dead.

The Bild newspaper reported that seven people were dead and eight others injured in the shooting.

"Several people were seriously injured, some even fatally. We are on site with a large contingent of forces," said Hamburg police on Twitter.

Comment: Notably, at the end of January this year a man in Spain stormed a number of churches killing a church offical and injuring a priest.

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