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North Korea executes people for drugs, sharing South Korean media, and religious activities as it stifles its citizens' human rights and freedom, its rival, South Korea, said in a report on Thursday (Mar 30). South Korea's Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, based the 450-page report on testimony collected from 2017 to 2022 from more than 500 North Koreans who fled from their homeland. "North Korean citizens' right to life appears to be greatly threatened," the ministry said in the report."Executions are widely carried out for acts that do not justify the death penalty, including drug crimes, distribution of South...

After attempting to purchase a human liver in the Valencian Community, a millionaire Lebanese mayor and his son were sentenced by the Provincial Court of Valencia. The Provincial Court of Valencia sentenced Hatem Akouche, a millionaire of Lebanese origin, to 8 months in prison this Wednesday, March 29. His son also received 18 months, with both men accused of trying to buy a liver in the Valencian Community. The rest of those involved were sentenced to a total of three and a half years in prison for their participation in the plot. The person who was going to receive the...

North Dakota's Republican governor vetoed a bill that would generally prohibit public schools teachers and staff from referring to transgender students by pronouns other than those reflecting the sex assigned to them at birth. Gov. Doug Burgum's veto on Thursday could be reversed by the state Legislature. If it became law, public school teachers and employees would be barred from using a transgender student's preferred pronoun unless they have permission from the student's parents as well as a school administrator. The bill would also prohibit government agencies from requiring employees to use a transgender colleague’s preferred pronoun. The proposal comes...

Our Rights DC, the group behind Saturday's "Trans Day of Vengeance" protest outside the Supreme Court, has announced that the event has been cancelled due to a "credible threat to life and safety." The event, which was originally scheduled for the "Transgender Day of Visibility," as designated by President Joe Biden, was widely criticized following Monday's mass shooting in Nashville in which trans-identified 28-year-old Audrey Hale murdered six people, including three children. "This action will not be taking place Saturday due to a credible threat to life and safety," Our Rights DC wrote on Twitter. "The safety of our trans...

Update from Ukraine | The collapse of the Ruzzian Federation is more than possible and here is why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkA-7myGPhw ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 400 – Summary March 30, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 30th March 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-400-summary/

For the second night in a row an Israel air strike in the Damascus area of Syria... Breaking News: After weeks of misleading mainstream media reports about its work, the grand jury of New York City (Manhattan) Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicted President Trump... This afternoon there has been Twitter censorship regarding the mob that entered Tennessee's State Capitol in Nashville. Videos have been taken off of Twitter... Also Twitter has removed five thousand posts showing posters for this Saturday's "Trans Day Of Vengeance"... And the New York Post was censored by Twitter... North Dakota Republican Governor Doug...

A pair of would-be teenaged carjackers trying to flee with a stolen car were foiled by old-school machinery: a stick shift. Detectives in Montgomery County, Maryland, say that the two teens — a 16-year-old from Rockville and a 17-year-old from Washington, D.C. — have been arrested for a “strong-arm carjacking” at a gas station in Germantown, around 25 miles northwest of the nation’s capital. Surveillance footage shows the young suspects approaching a blue car shortly after the presumed owner gets inside. The driver is forcibly yanked from the car and is seen quickly walking away as the teens get inside...

To be charged over campaign finance violations, in a locale deemed a bastion of Democratic liberalism, risks turning Donald Trump into a political martyr, says Adrian Ang U-Jin of RSIS. SNIP No one knows for sure how things will unfold. There is no precedent for criminal charges being laid against a former US president and a leading presidential candidate. SNIP After all, Trump’s prosecution may be on flimsy legal grounds. In 2018, federal prosecutors considered but ultimately rejected charging Trump for campaign finance violations, in the belief that there was insufficient evidence against the former president to make charges stick....

Timing is everything, and the timing here is simultaneously transparent and inappropriate. Today the Florida Senate scheduled a change via committee vote of the “Resign to Run” law for next Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 2:00pm. The intent of the change is almost certainly to permit Governor Ron DeSantis to formally announce his 2024 candidacy without having to resign his job as governor.

The indictment of former President Donald Trump on Thursday by a grand jury in Manhattan is an assault on democracy. There is no evidence of a crime being committed in the Stormy Daniels affair; even if there were, the statute of limitations on the supposed charge has expired, and the state cannot evade it by inventing a federal crime. The indictment is simply an attempt to prevent the leading opposition candidate from contesting the 2024 election. Worse, the indictment was purchased by notorious left-wing billionaire George Soros, who hates Trump and spent $1 million to elect Manhattan District Attorney Alvin...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that the Manhattan indictment of Donald Trump was “un-American” and that his state would not help hand the former president over to New York officials. The conservative Republican, who is expected to challenge Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, said District Attorney Alvin Bragg was weaponizing his office by bringing charges after impaneling a grand jury to look into hush money payments to pornstar Stormy Daniels “The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head. It is un-American,” DeSantis said on Twitter.

A Message from Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United StatesThe Left thinks that if they bury me with enough witch hunts and intimidate my family and associates that I’ll eventually throw up my hands and give up on our America First movement.Let me be as clear as possible: I WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR YOU.I walked away from a very nice life where the media never said a single mean thing about me.I knew the price I’d have to pay for running a campaign that promised to take on the Deep State, the Open Borders Lobby, global...

It was great while it lasted. Twitter once again locked out The Post on Thursday in a stunning replay of the epic blunder the social media giant admittedly made over the revelation of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop. Twitter deletes thousands of tweets about planned ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ protest The company’s Kafkaesque move came after The Post tweeted out a story about Twitter’s deletion of more than 5,000 tweets about a planned “Trans Day of Vengeance” protest in front of the US Supreme Court on Saturday. It prevented The Post from posting any tweets to its main account, which has...

South Korea’s famous/notorious work culture is in the spotlight after the conservative government of President Yoon Suk Yeol on March 6 proposed expanding the allowable maximum working week from 52 hours (40 hours plus 12 hours of overtime) to 69 hours, or an average of slightly over 9.85 hours a day, seven days a week. The 52-hour cap was instituted just five years ago by President Moon Jae-in, whose opposition Democratic Party of Korea still controls the National Assembly. “The age of growth by squeezing the people is now over,” thundered DPK leader Lee Jae-myung, who favors a 4½-day week....

March 30, 2023On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, WREC radio host Ben Ferguson fills in for Mark Levin. (Mark Levin isn't on tonight but calls in live at the top of the show as he just spent 2 hours interviewing Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago for his Sunday Fox show. Then he left and within an hour he hears on the radio about this indictment.) Donald Trump is the first former president to face criminal charges now that a Manhattan Grand Jury has decided to indict Trump. We’ve turned the corner from talk to action, and we are in an extremely troubling...

It's not sola scriptura. It's not sola fide. It's a doctrine most people don't even know by name.

Not afraid to speak his mind and stand with Russia. Archbishop Vigano, once Papal Nuncio to the United States and Secretary General of the Vatican government, has written a letter of congratulations and friendship upon the establishment of the International Movement of Russophiles. His comments, at once factual and conciliatory, may surprise some who would expect no support or faith in the Russian cause from the West. This is the same Archbishop Vigano who has made multiple revelations in recent years regarding cover-up and scandals involving high ranking pedophile clergy, including revelations about the treatment and disposal of defrocked Cardinal...

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: 34 COUNT INDICTMENT AGAINST TRUMP OVER STORMY DANIELS 'BUSINESS PAYMENTS' 8:14 PM · Mar 30, 2023

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called on Russia Thursday to release a Wall Street Journal reporter detained on espionage charges — and suggested the Biden administration’s prisoner swap to rescue WNBA star Brittney Griner may have encouraged Moscow tyrant Vladimir Putin. ​”Russia needs to release this journalist,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) told Fox News Digital at an event on Capitol Hill. “It just shows what Putin is doing.” “And it also shows, when the president pays ransom, they’ll go after and take more Americans,” the speaker said of the detention of Evan Gershkovich. In December, the US exchanged convicted international arms dealer Viktor...

The Vatican repudiated the ‘Doctrine of Discovery,’ stating that it was political and non-doctrinal in nature.(LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis’ Vatican has issued a new statement repudiating three 15th century papal bulls that many Indigenous groups in Canada have accused of paving the way for the European settlement of North America. The statement, published Monday by the Vatican’s Dicasteries for Culture and Education and for Promoting Integral Human Development, renounced the “Doctrine of Discovery,” a non-doctrinal, political concept found in the papal bulls Dum Diversas (1452), Romanus Pontifex (1455), and Inter Caetera (1493). “In our own day, a renewed dialogue with...