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  • Schumer faces backlash after calling for new Israeli elections to oust Netanyahu

    03/14/2024 6:14:28 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 56 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Thu 14 Mar 2024 | Chris Stein
    Senate majority leader says Israeli prime minister has ‘lost his way’ and warns that country risks becoming ‘a pariah’ SNIP In remarks from the Senate floor, Schumer said he had a longstanding relationship with Netanyahu but believed he “has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel”. Noting the prime minister’s inclusion of far-right officials in his government, Schumer said Netanyahu “has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows. Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah”. Israel’s...
  • Trudeau’s Canada: Canadian Police Advise Leaving Car Keys in Front Door to Deter Break-Ins and Minimize Conflict with Thieves

    03/14/2024 7:35:13 PM PDT · by bitt · 61 replies
    gatewaypundit.com ^ | 3/14/2024 | JIM HOFT
    In the face of an alarming rise in car thefts, Toronto Police Service (TPS) Constable Marco Ricciardi has offered a controversial tip to residents: leave car keys in the front door to avoid violent home invasions. During a community safety meeting in Etobicoke, Constable Ricciardi addressed the issue, stating, “To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door because they’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.” In short, don’t make it hard for thieves to steal your car. This is what an unarmed society looks...
  • Lyft, Uber plan to leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to hike driver pay

    03/14/2024 5:01:40 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 38 replies
    nypost.com ^ | March 14, 2024
    Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour. Lyft called the ordinance “deeply flawed,” saying in a statement that it supports a minimum earning standard for drivers but not the one passed by the council. “It should be done in an honest way that keeps the service affordable for riders,” Lyft said. “This ordinance makes our operations unsustainable, and as a result, we are shutting down operations...
  • Black, deaf Google worker who was touted as diversity success story sues tech giant for discrimination

    03/14/2024 4:35:33 PM PDT · by Robwin · 37 replies
    NY Post ^ | March 14, 2024 | Alyona Uvarova
    A black, deaf Google employee – who had been celebrated at corporate events and on social media as a success story for the search giant’s inclusive workplace – has accused the company of discrimination based on her disability and race.In an explosive lawsuit filed in the US Northern District of California, Jalon Hall — the first and only black, deaf hire at Google, according to Wired — slammed Google for limiting her access to sign-language interpreters months after starting the job.In the complaint, the worker painted Google’s management environment as hostile and racially charged.She cited Google’s manager at the company’s...
  • Trans Ideologues Would Rather Revolt Against Reality Than Admit They Were Wrong

    03/14/2024 2:26:32 PM PDT · by chickenlips · 40 replies
    The Federalist ^ | March 14, 2024 | Nathanael Blake
    Gender ideology has a reality problem. Just look at the latest cover story for New York Magazine, in which the trans-identified writer Andrea Long Chu denounced reality itself, writing that “the belief that we have a moral duty to accept reality just because it is real is, I think, a fine definition of nihilism.” Well, that is a … novel philosophical assertion. It is tempting to dismiss Chu’s denunciation of reality as an insane gambit by a flailing ideology, but declaring war against reality might just be crazy enough to work. This approach provides the collapsing gender ideology movement a...
  • Furious parents rip California school board after elementary teacher set up 'secret' LGBTQ club for children without informing them

    03/14/2024 1:57:36 PM PDT · by Morgana · 51 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | March 13, 2024 | Ruth Bashinsky
    Parents at a California elementary school have been left outraged after discovering a 'secret' LGBTQ club set up by a teacher. The third-grade staffer, who was not identified, formed the 'you be you' at Pleasant Grove Elementary School in Elk Grove. The teacher invited students in the fourth through sixth grade to attend the private meetings. Brittani Cortina, who has a second and a fourth grader at the school, said her older child told her the teacher went into class and told the students about the club. Cortina said: 'The teacher came in and spoke about how boys like boys...
  • Anti-Israel protesters swarm The Post, NY Times printing plant before 124 are arrested while shutting down Gray Lady’s Midtown HQ

    03/14/2024 1:11:25 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 32 replies
    NY Post ^ | 03/14/2024 | Snejana Farberov and Larry Celona
    Anti-Israel protesters tried to stop the New York Times from rolling out of its Queens printing facility early Thursday — before 124 were later arrested while shutting down the Gray Lady’s Midtown HQ, sources told The Post. The mob first descended just before 1 a.m. on the 300,000-square-foot printing hub in College Point — which also prints The Post — littering the access road to prevent trucks from collecting newspapers for delivery. The protesters — many masked and wearing traditional Palestinian keffiyeh scarves — laid down, linked together with tubes to create a human chain, blocking one of the largest...
  • 3 illegal immigrants from Guatemala accused of Florida kidnapping, sexual assault on woman abducted by park

    03/14/2024 11:39:50 AM PDT · by grundle · 19 replies
    Fox News via Yahoo ^ | March 14, 2024 | Danielle Wallace
    Three illegal immigrants from Guatemala were charged in Florida with kidnapping a woman in their pick-up truck near a park and sexually assaulting her twice before she managed to escape. The arrests of Marcos Felipe Ramirez, 31, Darniel Ordónez Jimenez, 30, and Andres Felipe Morales, 29, prompted Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw to torch the federal government under the Biden administration for putting "the American people in jeopardy" during a fiery press conference on Wednesday announcing the charges against the trio. Ramirez, Jimenez and Morales were "apprehended for a series of heinous charges including sexual battery, false imprisonment, conspiracy...
  • Judge Cannon Takes Wrecking Ball to Trump Classified Docs Case Citing Robert Hur’s Report

    03/14/2024 11:11:30 AM PDT · by CFW · 93 replies
    Politics Brief ^ | 3/14/24 | staff
    Former President Donald Trump appeared in a Florida courtroom on Thursday to appeal his classified documents case, while citing Special Counsel Robert Hur’s decision not to bring charges against sitting President Joe Biden. Hur’s report showed that Joe Biden not only willfully and intentionally mishandled classified documents, stored them in multiple insecure locations, and procured them while Senator and Vice President, but he also misled federal investigators, obstructed justice, and divulged national security secrets. Biden’s leaks of classified information are deemed to be so serious that the Intelligence Community is now performing a “damage assessment” to ascertain the extent they...
  • California bullet train project needs another $100 billion to complete route from San Francisco to Los Angeles

    03/14/2024 10:42:19 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 83 replies
    Yahoo! ^ | Tue, March 12, 2024 at 8:17 PM CDT | KCRA
    California's mega high-speed rail project between San Francisco to Los Angeles faces major funding hurdles VIDEO AT LINK.....................
  • Schumer Calls for End of Netanyahu-Led Government in Israel

    03/14/2024 10:10:33 AM PDT · by airdalecheif · 79 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | 3/14/24 | Natalie Andrews
    Netanyahu is “allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel,” Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday. He said Israel “cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world.”
  • McConnell raises pressure on Johnson over Ukraine: ‘Finish the job’

    03/14/2024 9:52:01 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 47 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/14/2024 | ALEXANDER BOLTON
    Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Thursday again pressed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to take up the Senate-passed national security spending package, which includes $60 billion for Ukraine, despite Johnson’s message to GOP senators this week that he’s moving in a different direction. McConnell didn’t express much interest in waiting weeks or maybe months for the House to come up with an alternative proposal to help Ukraine. “The chilling reality here is abundantly clear. Withholding critical weapons has not helped manage [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s escalation. It has only emboldened him,” McConnell warned on the Senate floor. That alternative...
  • What’s Inside Trudeau’s ‘Orwellian’ Speech Law Threatening Jail Time for Thought Crimes?

    03/14/2024 9:31:24 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 23 replies
    Sputnik News ^ | 3/14/24 | Ilya Tsukanov
    Canadians got their first rude awakening about the limits to their constitutional freedoms during the Freedom Convoy protests in February of 2022, when, in a crackdown on truckers objecting to draconian Covid restrictions, the Trudeau government invoked the Emergencies Act, allowing authorities to jail organizers and seize their bank accounts. Sweeping “online safety” legislation in Canada proposed Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government threatening penalties up to life imprisonment for speech crimes, and real sentences for thought crimes, have civil rights groups sounding the alarm. The legislation, known as the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63), was tabled by Justice Minister...
  • EV euphoria is dead. Automakers are scaling back or delaying their electric vehicle plans

    03/14/2024 7:34:50 AM PDT · by george76 · 83 replies
    CNBC ^ | MAR 13 2024 | Michael Wayland
    Automakers from Ford Motor and General Motors to Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin are scaling back or delaying their electric vehicle plans.. consumer demand for EVs hasn’t shown up in the way executives had expected ... The buzz around electric vehicles is wearing off. For years, the automotive industry has been in a state of EV euphoria. Automakers trotted out optimistic sales forecasts for electric models and announced ambitious targets for EV growth. Wall Street boosted valuations for legacy automakers and startup entrants alike, based in part on their visions for an EV future. Now the hype...
  • Schumer: Netanyahu and obstacle to peace, has to go Senate Majority leader gives address from the Senate floor on "a pathway to peace and achieving a two-state solution." attacks Israelli government and calls for new elections

    03/14/2024 8:47:33 AM PDT · by Nextrush · 68 replies
    israelnationalnews.com ^ | 3/14/2024 | Israel National News
    US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave a speech on "a pathway to peace and achieving a two-state solution" today (Thursday). In his remarks Schumer called for the holding of new elections in Israel, saying that "Netanyahu has lost his way". He further called the Israeli Prime Minister an "obstacle to peace." According to Schumer, Netanyahu is one of four obstacles to peace, among others being Hamas, "radical Israelis", and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Schumer's criticism of Netanyahu centered on the prime minister's "outright" rejection of the idea of creation of a Palestinian state in the aftermath of October...
  • Speaker Johnson: ‘There will probably be a change’ to motion to vacate next Congress

    03/13/2024 7:14:16 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 27 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/13/24 6:26 PM ET | MYCHAEL SCHNELL
    WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday predicted that the House will “probably” change the rules around the motion to vacate in the next Congress, months after eight Republicans banded with Democrats to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) using the procedural maneuver. Johnson — speaking at a kickoff press conference during the House GOP’s annual retreat in West Virginia — said he is not personally advocating for a change to the motion to vacate, but added it’s being openly discussed among lawmakers.“The motion to vacate is something that comes up a lot amongst members and...
  • DOJ Is Using Bidenbucks To Encourage Illegals And Felons To Vote, Says Mississippi Secretary Of State

    03/13/2024 6:40:25 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 18 replies
    The Federalist ^ | MARCH 13, 2024 | SHAWN FLEETWOOD
    The Department of Justice appears to be using taxpayer dollars to have jails and the U.S. Marshals Service encourage incarcerated felons and noncitizens to register to vote, according to Mississippi’s leading election official. On March 6, Republican Secretary of State Michael Watson sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding the DOJ’s compliance with Executive Order 14019, a directive signed by President Biden in March 2021 that ordered hundreds of federal agencies to interfere in state and local election administration by using U.S. taxpayer money to boost voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities. Each department was directed to draft “a...
  • Mexican Military Incursions On US Soil Worry Border Agents

    03/13/2024 5:47:58 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 03/13/2024 | Brad Jones
    As daylight begins to fade at an abandoned illegal immigrant camp at the border wall near Jacumba, in California’s San Diego County, a couple of Mexican soldiers armed with assault rifles patrol the rocky terrain in the hills above.(The Epoch Times)Below them, white tents along the Mexican side of the border wall signal the army presence as Mexican national guard (Guardia Nacional) troops pull up in a truck. They set up camp here in early February.On Feb. 29, a Mexican soldier hides behind a rock as he realizes reporters have seen him on the U.S. side of the border. Several...
  • Fani Willis Case’s Judge Is Probably Too Scared To Do The Right Thing

    03/13/2024 5:27:07 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 38 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 03/13/2024 | Eddie Scarry
    Judge Scott McAfee has let this ridiculous Fulton County prosecution of Donald Trump go on this long, it doesn’t look like he’ll stop it now.Before the end of the week, we’re supposed to know whether Georgia Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis’s ridiculous street-gang prosecution of Donald Trump and associates will be killed off before it goes to trial. But for that to happen, it’s going to take an extraordinary act of bravery from Judge Scott McAfee and, well, the record so far is that he’s not exactly Rambo in a robe.McAfee self-imposed the Friday deadline for his decision on the...
  • Steve Garvey edges ahead of Adam Schiff in California’s U.S. Senate primary

    03/13/2024 3:12:34 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 49 replies
    KTLA ^ | March 13, 2024 | by: Marc Sternfield
    Former Major League Baseball slugger Steve Garvey has moved ahead of U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff in California’s U.S. Senate primary – a significant feat despite the November runoff having already been determined. As of Wednesday morning, Garvey led Schiff by an incredibly slim margin of just 4,801 votes with more than 5 million votes tallied, about 85% of expected returns. Schiff, one of the leading Democrats in the U.S. House, will face Garvey, a Republican, in November to determine who succeeds the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein. California puts all candidates, regardless of party, on the same primary ballot, and the...