On Wednesday, Florida governor Ron DeSantis joined a growing number of state leaders who have been moving illegal immigrants to "sanctuary destinations" across the country, sending two planes full of illegal migrants to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, a state that has supported the Biden administration's open-border policies.

In response to the moves made by DeSantis, as well as Arizona governor Doug Ducey and his Texan counterpart Greg Abbott, the Biden administration is reportedly considering taking legal action.

According to Axios, White House officials are set to hold a previously scheduled meeting on Friday with members from the Department of Homeland Security as well as the State, Justice, and Defense departments to discuss possible remedies to the situation unfolding north of the border.

How the parasites of the European Union utilize your kids to justify scanning your entire smartphone.

Largely unnoticed by the public, the EU Commission is working with the support of European governments to abolish digital privacy of correspondence. Under the pretext of combating child abuse, a regulation is to be adopted that will make it compulsory for providers of communications services of all kinds to search communications content for depictions of child abuse or attempts by adults to approach children (so-called "grooming"). The problem is: This is the trojan horse to out-lever any encryption of digital communication and all privacy.

The BBC has boasted that it triggered the removal of a Facebook vaccine injury support group with over 250,000 members.

The BBC has seen several groups, one with hundreds of thousands of members, in which the [carrot] emoji appears in place of the word 'vaccine'. Facebook's algorithms tend to focus on words rather than images. The groups are being used to share unverified claims of people being either injured or killed by vaccines.

Once the BBC alerted Facebook's parent company, Meta, the groups were removed.

"We have removed this group for violating our harmful misinformation policies and will review any other similar content in line with this policy. We continue to work closely with public health experts and the U.K. Government to further tackle Covid vaccine misinformation," the firm said in a statement.

However, the groups have since reappeared in our searches.

One group we saw has been around for three years but rebranded itself to focus on vaccine stories, from being a group for sharing "banter, bets and funny videos" in August 2022.

The rules of the very large group state: "Use code words for everything." It adds: "Do not use the c word, v word or b word ever" (Covid, vaccine, booster). It was created more than a year ago and has more than 250,000 members.

Marc Owen-Jones, a disinformation researcher, and associate professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, was invited to join it.

"It was people giving accounts of relatives who had died shortly after having the COVID-19 vaccine", he said. "But instead of using the words 'COVID-19' or 'vaccine', they were using emojis of carrots.

"Initially I was a little confused. And then it clicked - that it was being used as a way of evading, or apparently evading, Facebook's fake news detection algorithms."

Russia is prepared to provide 300,000 tons of fertilizers currently amassed at EU ports due to Western sanctions to developing nations free of charge, President Vladimir Putin announced on Friday.

Speaking at a summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Uzbekistan, the Russian leader said he had discussed agricultural export issues with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

"The day before yesterday I informed Mr. Guterres that 300,000 tons of Russian fertilizers had piled up in the European Union's seaports," Putin said, adding that Moscow is "ready to give them to developing countries for free," and that such deliveries would be instrumental in alleviating the global food crisis.

The Kyrgyz armed forces continue to attack Tajik border villages with heavy weapons, the press center of the Border Troops of Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security reported on Friday.

According to its information, as of 10:00 local time (08:00 Moscow time) "in all directions of the state border of the Republic of Tajikistan with the Republic of Kyrgyzstan armed conflicts continue, forces of the neighboring country attack Tajik border villages, <...> using all types of heavy weapons and firearms."

According to the press service, "at 06:30 and 07:30, the Kyrgyz armed forces units carried out a unilateral ceasefire and offered to start negotiations, but the soldiers of the Kyrgyz Republic ignored these offers."

Denmark has banned the use of COVID-19 vaccines for people under 50 years of age, explaining that the ban is because widespread immunity and low risk from Covid mean the benefits from vaccination are too low.

People aged under 50 are generally not at particularly higher risk of becoming severely ill from COVID-19. In addition, younger people aged under 50 are well protected against becoming severely ill from COVID-19, as a very large number of them have already been vaccinated and have previously been infected with COVID-19, and there is consequently good immunity among this part of the population.

Therefore, the general public under the age of 50 cannot get the vaccines, only those considered in high-risk groups or those who work with people in high-risk groups. Apart from that, they are banned.

Minimal benefit is of course a good enough reason for not recommending vaccination. But it is not reason enough to ban it. No product is banned simply because it isn't useful. Products are banned only because they're considered harmful.

As several studies have already shown, the risk of serious adverse effects from the COVID-19 vaccines is higher than their benefits for younger people. This is of course the most probable reason Denmark has banned them.

Have you ever wondered how come that people, especially young people, almost in uniformity walk around in torn jeans? This includes highly educated university students and graduates. They have become lasting fashion models over the past two decades - and the fashion prevails. To the point that people pay more for ripped and used-looking pants than for new ones. Common sense has totally disappeared from the mainstream.

There are lots of every-day trend-setting facets, indoctrinated by media and propaganda - not only for commercial purposes, but for reasons of subtle but targeted mind-bending.

"Their" plot is brilliant. Gradually forging people's minds into one direction, one template - is needed for eventually achieving total control.

Another little example, you may or may not know about: Car colors. Have you noticed, during the past two decades or so, the vast majority of cars - actually about 90% to 95% - are either black or white, or shades in between? All with the same purpose. We, the people, ought to think in a black and white pattern.

Some 15 years ago, responding to my remark that he had only black and white cars in his lot, a car dealer smiled and said, yes, that's the norm. He added that about 90% or more of all the cars in Europe and the US (and maybe elsewhere) were black or white or shaded in between. He noted, this was done on purpose to influence people's thinking. I was flabbergasted. But then observing it myself and today connecting the dots - it all makes sense. Brilliant. No coincidence.

Member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) must work with each other to prevent outside forces from organizing color revolutions in their countries, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned on Friday.

Speaking at the SCO summit in Samarkand, President Xi said that member states should "support each other's efforts to protect security and development interests," noting that the world is undergoing "accelerating changes unseen in a century," and has entered a phase of uncertainty and transformation.

He added that it is paramount to "guard against attempts by external forces to provoke a color revolution, and jointly oppose interference in other countries' internal affairs under any pretext," referring to Western-backed protests that have aimed to overthrow governments in post-Soviet countries.

Xi's statement came as Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed the growing influence of "new centers of power" that cooperate with each other and have the capacity to challenge the West's global dominance.

The Chinese and Russian leaders had previously discussed foreign policy issues on the sidelines of the summit on Thursday. Putin noted that recent attempts to push for a unipolar world have taken "an absolutely ugly form" which is being rejected by most of the world.

"Russia and China stand together for a just, democratic, multipolar world order based on international law and the central role of the UN, and not some rules that somebody invented and attempts to impose on others without even explaining what they are."

According to Department of Justice sources, Facebook has been spying on the private messages and data of Americans who questioned the 2020 election results and reporting them to the FBI.

Since the election, Facebook has worked in conjunction with the FBI to report on "subversive" private messages, sending them to the FBI's domestic terrorism operational unit, supposedly in redacted form, a direct violation of Americans' First and Fourth Amendment rights.

One of the sources told the New York Post:

"It was done outside the legal process and without probable cause. Facebook provides the FBI with private conversations which are protected by the First Amendment without any subpoena.

"These private messages then have been farmed out as 'leads' to FBI field offices around the country, which subsequently requested subpoenas from the partner US Attorney's Office in their district to officially obtain the private conversations that Facebook already had shown them."

However, when FBI agents in local field offices investigated the targeted Facebook users, they found nothing criminal or violent. "It was a waste of our time," one source said. Everyone targeted by Facebook and reported to the FBI were "conservative right-wing individuals."

Hungary is no longer a fully functioning democracy, members of the European Parliament declared on Thursday in a non-binding but highly symbolic report. Instead, the country should be considered a "hybrid regime of electoral autocracy" in which elections are regularly held but without respecting basic democratic norms.

"There is increasing consensus among experts that Hungary is no longer a democracy," the lawmakers said, citing a series of international indexes that have in recent years downgraded Hungary's status.

In their resolution, MEPs point the finger directly at Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has been in power since 2010, and condemn his government's "deliberate and systematic efforts" to undermine the EU's core values.

Lawmakers raise concerns about a long list of fundamental rights they believe to be under threat, including the electoral system, the independence of judiciary, privacy, freedom of expression, media pluralism, academic freedom, LGBTIQ rights and the protection of minorities and asylum seekers.

MEPs also criticised the EU institutions for allowing democratic backsliding to go unchecked. The interim report reads:

"The Parliament expresses deep regret that the lack of decisive EU action has contributed to a breakdown in democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights in Hungary, turning the country into a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy."

The text passed by a wide margin on Thursday: 433 votes in favour, 123 against and 28 abstentions.