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Iowa GOP governor signs bill allowing local authorities to arrest certain migrants, 'enforce immigration laws'

Kyle Morris and Adam Shaw
Fox News
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:39 UTC
Gov. Kim Reynolds
Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law Wednesday a bill that allows local police to arrest illegal immigrants in the Hawkeye State who had previously been deported.
'The Biden Administration has failed to enforce our nation's immigration laws, putting the protection and safety of Iowans at risk,' says Iowa Gov Kim Reynolds

Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law Wednesday evening a measure that allows local police to arrest illegal immigrants in the Hawkeye State who have previously been deported or denied admission.

Senate File 2340, which makes it a crime for an illegal immigrant to enter or re-enter the state if he or she has previously been deported or denied admission to the United States, is similar to a Texas law that has become the target of a high-profile legal challenge from the Biden administration.

In a statement announcing her signing of the measure, Reynolds said, "The Biden Administration has failed to enforce our nation's immigration laws, putting the protection and safety of Iowans at risk."
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Palestinian murdered by Israeli settlers rampaging in his village and troops fire on stone-throwers

Jack Jeffrey and Julia Frankel
Associated Press
Sat, 13 Apr 2024 18:07 UTC
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© AP Photo/Nasser NasserPalestinians inspect the shattered vehicle of Mohammad Daraghmeh, 26, a local Hamas commander who was killed in a shootout with Israeli soldiers early morning during an army raid, in the West Bank village of Tamoun, Friday, April 12, 2024.
Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed into a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, shooting and setting houses and cars on fire. The rampage killed a Palestinian man and wounded 25 others, Palestinian health officials said.

The violence was the latest in an escalation in the West Bank that has accompanied Israel's war in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli rights group said the settlers were searching for a missing 14-year-old boy from their settlement. After the rampage, Israeli troops said they were still searching for the teen.

The killing came after an Israeli raid overnight killed two Palestinians, including a Hamas militant, in confrontation with Israeli forces.

Palestinian health officials say over 460 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli fire since the war erupted in October.
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The end of merit in med schools will be deadly

Roger B. Cohen
tomklingenstein.com
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
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Editor's Note: America is at war. This is not a traditional war, fought on a battlefield against an external enemy. It is a civilizational conflict against an internal enemy: the group quota regime, a revolutionary threat that seeks to reorganize American society around the principle of outcome equality — what the regime's partisans call "equity."

This cold civil war may go unnoticed by many day-to-day, but its stakes are often as high as life and death. Here, Roger B. Cohen, a celebrated oncologist and professor in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, explains how the group quota regime has taken hold of the American medical education system and asks urgent questions about the consequences for medicine, for the sick, and for the country.

The United States enjoys a reputation as a bastion of excellence and scientific rigor in medical education. Our country also leads the world in medical progress and innovation. That has not always been the case. It is hard to imagine the backwardness of American medical schools before a man named Abraham Flexner set out to transform them into institutions built on rigorous science.

Comment: A fair assessment of the influence of social justice to alter proven medical standards for certification and patient care.

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Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud

Jonathan Head, Thu Bui
BBC
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC

Comment: That's certainly one way to do it...


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© EPATruong My Lan is accused of looting one of Vietnam's largest banks over a period of 11 years
It was the most spectacular trial ever held in Vietnam, befitting one of the greatest bank frauds the world has ever seen.

Behind the stately yellow portico of the colonial-era courthouse in Ho Chi Minh City, a 67-year-old Vietnamese property developer was sentenced to death on Thursday for looting one of the country's largest banks over a period of 11 years.

It's a rare verdict - she is one of very few women in Vietnam to be sentenced to death for a white collar crime.

The decision is a reflection of the dizzying scale of the fraud. Truong My Lan was convicted of taking out $44bn (£35bn) in loans from the Saigon Commercial Bank. The verdict requires her to return $27bn, a sum prosecutors said may never be recovered. Some believe the death penalty is the court's way of trying to encourage her to return some of the missing billions.

The habitually secretive communist authorities were uncharacteristically forthright about this case, going into minute detail for the media. They said 2,700 people were summoned to testify, while 10 state prosecutors and around 200 lawyers were involved.

The evidence was in 104 boxes weighing a total of six tonnes. Eighty-five others were tried with Truong My Lan, who denied the charges and can appeal.
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A tale of two fates: Gonzalo Lira and Rafi Jabar

Russell Bentley
Sputnik
Sun, 14 Apr 2024 17:29 UTC
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© Sergey Baturin/SputnikA hole is seen in the bridge's roadway after a recent shelling by Ukrainian Armed Forces in the course of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, in Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic, Russia.
I have a friend here named Rafi Jabbar, who I served with in 2015 in Vostok Battalion. Rafi earned his DPR and Russian citizenship in combat, where he was known as a brave and expert soldier until he got wounded by a boobytrap in early 2019.

And by "wounded", I mean both his legs were blown off. In 2023, he, like Gonzalo Lira, was arrested in a foreign country on bogus charges, but he was not tortured and he did not die, and in fact, was released in less than a month, on the orders of the very highest levels of the Russian government. Here's Rafi's story - compare and contrast with the horrific fate of Gonzalo Lira, who the latest reports from reliable sources (not yet, but I think soon to be 100% confirmed) was actually extorted for over $250,000 by agents of the SBU, with the the knowledge and connivance of the vice consul of the US embassy, and when Lira tried to contact a lawyer, was beaten and tortured to death in his jail cell.)

Comment:

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Majority of Germans do not believe Ukraine can win - poll


RT
Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:48 UTC
FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Berlin, Germany, on February 16, 2024.
© Global Look Press / dpa / Michael KappelerFILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Berlin, Germany, on February 16, 2024.
Less than a half of those asked in the NATO country want an increase in military aid to Kiev, a new survey has shown

The vast majority of Germans do not believe that Ukraine can prevail against Russia, even with Western arms at its disposal, a new poll conducted on behalf of the broadcaster ZDF has suggested. Only one in ten Germans thinks that Kiev can win, the survey, published on Friday, found.

The number of skeptics in Germany continues to grow, according to the survey results from Politbarometer. While in August, 70% of respondents said they did not see Kiev winning, currently as many as 82% of those surveyed do not believe it can prevail.

Less than half of Germans want their government to send more military aid to Ukraine, the poll showed. According to the data, 42% of respondents are in favor of stronger support, while 31% want it to remain at the same level and 22% believe that it should be reduced.

Comment: Wars are not decided by public polls, but the polls do show that most people in Germany and the EU think that their politicians are trying to
beat the odds.

However, despite the poor odds as perceived by the public, if one takes the following statement: "42% of respondents are in favour of stronger support, while 31% want it to remain at the same level and 22% believe that it should be reduced" then on the balance of opinions, the more war party is twice the size of the less war party. From this perspective the leading German politicians by pushing for more aid/war to Ukraine are, it would seem, doing what their voters want, come hell or high water (link to dictionary explanation).

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Germany electric car sales plummet 30% as country floats idea of weekend driving ban!

P.Gosselin
NoTricksZone
Sat, 13 Apr 2024 23:19 UTC
There's been a drastic drop in the registration of new electric cars in Germany as sales of the "clean" electric cars have slumped nearly 30% compared to a year earlier, reports Germany's online Blackout News here.
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© greencarreports.comAlso: Germany’s transportation minister, Dr. Volker Wissing, threatens weekend driving ban (Fahrverbot) in order to meet climate targets!
The massive sales drop is bad news for the current German socialist-green government, which aims to have 15 million vehicles on the road by 2030. Currently there are just 1.4 million!

The dismal trend underscores the unpopularity of electric cars and consumers' hesitancy when it comes to purchasing them. Electric vehicles are plagued by limited range, sparse charging infrastructure, steep upfront purchase price and their huge environmental impact, which involves the largescale mining of rare earths.

"Their market share has fallen to just 11.9%. This casts a harsh light on the mismatch between Germany's political goals and the reality of the automotive market. It is clear that political incentives and measures are inadequate," reports Blackout News. "The abolition of the electric bonus at the end of 2023 has revealed another problem. The sector's dependence on state subsidies became apparent. This has further exacerbated the crisis of confidence in the electric car market."
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10 examples of the censorship industry suppressing factually true information


Foundation for Freedom Online
Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:32 UTC
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The era of online censorship was fueled by media-driven panics about "fake news" and "disinformation." The focus of fear switched many times, from the spy-thriller narrative of Russian agents spreading disinformation intended to undermine U.S. elections, to "conspiracy theorists" questioning the official response to COVID-19 and undermining "election integrity" by raising concerns about mail-in ballot fraud.

Eventually, these narratives led to the censorship of true information. The Foundation for Freedom Online has compiled some of the top examples:

1. Targeting of Domestic "Malinformation."

There are three categories used by the censorship industry and its government partners to distinguish between speech violations on social media: dis- mis- and mal- information (MDM). The DHS's Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) has been at the forefront of popularizing the MDM framework. They maintain an entire website for MDM resources (as documented by FFO, it was later scrubbed to remove all mentions of targeting domestic speech).

They define disinformation as speech that is deliberately created to mislead, harm, or manipulate. Misinformation is information that is factually incorrect, but not on purpose. The third level of bannable speech - "malinformation" - is defined as factually accurate, true speech that is deemed to be taken out of or lacking context. In other words, malinformation is information that is completely true or accurate, but used in the wrong way.


Comment: Excellent example of doubleplusgood doublespeak. Orwell had nothing on these folks.

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Sydney mall knife attack: 6 dead, several wounded, incl. baby, perpetrator was known to authorities

Tiffanie Turnbull
BBC
Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:56 UTC
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Eyewitnesses have described scenes of chaos as they fled a busy Sydney shopping mall where a knifeman killed six people and wounded several others.

"It was carnage," said a witness, who was in a cafe nearby with his two young children as the attack began.

The man, who did not want to be named, told ABC News he saw a man suddenly "stabbing people indiscriminately".

Crowds poured from Westfield shopping centre in Bondi when the terrifying incident began just after 3pm.

"It was insanity," a visibly upset woman said, as she described seeing a wounded woman lying on the floor.

Comment: If it is indeed correct that the perpetrator was known to authorities, it's reasonable to question whether someone had foreknowledge that an attack like this might happen. Because, in a number of instances, there's strong evidence showing that the establishment actually facilitated the attack. That said, it's also possible that the perpetrator just 'went off': For other examples of where the attacker was known to authorities, see:

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'1930s Germany': Police shut down Palestine conference, block Gaza doctor from entering country

Thomas Escritt
The New Arab
Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:13 UTC
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© John Macdougall/AFPPolice officers stand guard in front of the entrance to the venue of the Palestine Congress in Berlin
Renowned Palestinian-British doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah was barred from entering Germany on Friday where he is due to speak at a now cancelled pro-Palestine conference in Berlin about the challenges faced by medics in Gaza.

The New Arab correspondent Rabeea Eid, who is covering the conference, spoke to Abu Sittah who confirmed "they didn't let him in and he cannot now make a statement until the evening".

Abu Sittah, who was recently appointed rector of Glasgow University, is currently being held at a Berlin airport and will not be able to make the conference.

Comment: Former Minister of Finance of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, who was also scheduled to speak had this to say:


And the doctor:


So those are some examples of what Germany is stopping, and the below are just a few, recent, examples of what Germany is supporting:




More on the ICJ case against Germany:




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