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  • Slovak and Serbian Leaders Defy EU Globalists, Will Join Russia’s Victory Day Celebration in Moscow Despite Consequences

    04/17/2025 1:20:25 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 3 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | Apr. 17, 2025 1:20 pm | Robert Semonsen
    Despite intense pressure from Brussels’ foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, the nationalist leaders of Slovakia and Serbia are resolutely standing their ground, opting to honor their historical ties with Russia rather than yield to the petty whims of unelected and increasingly irrelevant EU bureaucrats.Both Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić have confirmed that, regardless of any backlash that they may face from globalists leading the EU, they will be attending Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9, marking a major symbolic break from the European Union’s official stance.Fico, known for his nationalist, left-populist politics and strong...
  • Democrat Gov. Wes Moore Wants Illegal Migrant ‘Brought Back Home to Maryland’

    04/17/2025 12:55:53 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 33 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/17/2025 | Olivia Rondeau
    Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) has endorsed Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s (D-MD) trip to El Salvador to ensure that an accused MS-13 gang member illegal alien is “brought back home to Maryland” after he was deported in March. Instead of doing the job his constituents elected him to do in Washington, DC, the left-wing senator has taken time off to go on a trip to El Salvador “to discuss the release” of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who illegally entered the United States and lived in Maryland until his arrest by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE): Van Hollen claims...
  • Elizabeth Warren: If They Can Disappear Abrego Garcia, Then They Can Disappear You

    04/17/2025 11:17:39 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 98 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/17/2025 | Pam Key
    Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that if President Donald Trump’s administration can deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they can “disappear” you. Warren said, “The point is, why are they doing this? And the answer is they want to have the American people say it’s OK to just disappear people. And somehow they think if they can make up lies about him, if they can do whatever they want, then the answer will be the American people will settle for this. We do not disappear people in the United States. Because here’s the thing. If they can...
  • Dem Senator Exposes El Salvador’s Cruelty on Kilmar Abrego Garcia

    04/17/2025 10:36:14 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 49 replies
    The New Republic ^ | 4/16/25 | Marin Scotten
    El Salvador won’t let Senator Chris Van Hollen have any contact with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who is being unlawfully detained in a megaprison in the country. Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador Wednesday in search of answers about Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts. The father of three was deported last month due to an “administrative error” by the Trump administration, which continues to claim Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13, despite there being no evidence to prove it.
  • European Central Bank cuts interest rates for seventh time in a year

    04/17/2025 10:39:24 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 5 replies
    RTÉ News ^ | Thursday, 17 Apr 2025 18:10
    The European Central Bank has cut interest rates for the seventh time in a year, looking to prop up an already struggling economy that will take a large hit from US tariffs. The bank announced a cut of one-quarter of a percentage point, which brings its benchmark deposit rate down from 2.5% to 2.25%. The move will immediately benefit tracker mortgage customers and put downward pressure on other rates. The ECB has been lowering borrowing costs as post-pandemic price pressures retreat and recent trade-related turmoil on global markets is adding to the case for further policy easing. […] While US...
  • Angel Moms Torch Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen for Visiting El Salvador for Illegal Alien After Ignoring Their Daughters’ Murders in Maryland

    04/17/2025 10:35:26 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 11 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/17/2025 | John Binder
    Angel Moms Patty Morin and Tammy Nobles are ripping Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) for traveling to El Salvador in an attempt to visit a deported illegal alien, accused of MS-13 gang membership and domestic violence, after ignoring the murders of their daughters in Maryland — 37-year-old Rachel Morin and 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton — both at the hands of illegal aliens. This week, Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador in the hopes of visiting 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien who crossed the United States-Mexico border in 2011 and has since been accused of being an MS-13 gang member,...
  • U.S.' inability to replace rare earths supply from China poses a threat to its defense, warns CSIS

    04/17/2025 10:05:57 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 53 replies
    CNBC News via MSN ^ | 04/15/2025 | Dylan Butts
    As China imposes export controls on rare earth elements, the U.S. would be unable to fill a potential shortfall, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies — and this could threaten Washington’s military capabilities. Amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating tariffs on China, Beijing earlier this month imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth elements and magnets used in defense, energy and automotive technologies. The new restrictions — which encompass the medium and heavy rare earth elements samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium and yttrium — will require Chinese companies to secure special licenses to export the resources....
  • Everything the Democrats Don't Want You to Know About Kilmar Abrego Garcia

    04/17/2025 9:55:02 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 04/17/2025 | Matt Margolis
    At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Karoline Leavitt didn’t hold back. In a clear, methodical takedown, she laid out exactly who the deported suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia is — and it’s everything the Democrats don’t want the public to know. Spoiler alert: This is no innocent victim of Trump’s deportation policy. “When Kilmar Abrego Garcia was originally arrested, he was wearing a sweatshirt with rolls of money covering the ears, mouth, and eyes of presidents on various currency denominations,” Leavitt said. “This is a known MS-13 gang symbol of ‘Hear no evil. Speak no evil. See no...
  • Blue state senator flies to El Salvador to visit deported migrant in prison, only to be denied

    04/17/2025 5:09:24 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 62 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | April 16, 2025 | Greg Wehner
    Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., was denied a visit with a Salvadoran migrant and accused MS-13 member who was deported to El Salvador, after flying to the country on Wednesday morning. Van Hollen intended to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, who was deported to the El Salvadoran mega prison "Terrorism Confinement Center" (CECOT) for being an alleged MS-13 gang member, though his attorneys maintain he does not have any gang ties. Van Hollen spoke to reporters from El Salvador on Wednesday afternoon, when he vowed to continue pressing for access to Abrego Garcia. He met with Vice President Félix Augusto...
  • IRS agreement with ICE to share immigrants' info could lead to billions less in tax revenue 10% fewer undocumented immigrants filing their taxes would mean a decrease of $9.5 billion a year in tax revenue, a tax policy organization found.

    04/16/2025 10:06:22 PM PDT · by xxqqzz · 94 replies
    nbc ^ | April 16, 2025 | Daniela Silva
    Like millions of American citizens and immigrants, Ivan filed his taxes last year. But Ivan, 54, a Massachusetts resident who hails from Colombia, is worried a recent agreement between the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement means he is in danger of being deported for doing what he believed was the right thing. And if taxpayers like Ivan decide not to file taxes because the IRS has said it will share certain tax information filed by undocumented immigrants with ICE, it could cumulatively eliminate billions in tax revenue and create “a massive problem” for citizens and immigrants alike, experts said....
  • ‘The West as We Knew it No Longer Exists’ Says EU Boss in Dig at Trump’s Bid to Remake the World

    04/17/2025 6:26:07 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 52 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/17/2025 | Oliver JJ Lane
    The “end of history” is over and Europe is experiencing a “transatlantic crisis”, says Ursula von der Leyen, former Angela Merkel acolyte turned European Commission supremo. “Another, new European Union” is needed to shape the “new world order” emerging out of power struggles between the United States, China, and Russia the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen told a German newspaper. Speaking to Die Zeit, the top Eurocrat expressed her interpretation of events that “The West as we knew it no longer exists”, stating that beyond the old understanding of what countries were Western and which not,...
  • Italy’s Meloni Bound for White House and Tariff Talks with Trump

    04/17/2025 5:30:28 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/17/2025 | Simon Kent
    Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is due in Washington on Thursday to meet with President Donald Trump. She is expected to make a personal appeal for less punitive tariffs on European Union (E.U.) trade with the world’s biggest economy. Meloni is the first trans-Atlantic leader to sit down with Trump since he announced, and then quickly suspended, 20 percent tariffs on European exports. AFP reports Meloni — described by Trump as a “fantastic leader” who also aligns with his conservative views — has worked hard to keep communication channels open as Trump looks to rework trade with the E.U. through...
  • A Depleted Hamas Is So Low on Cash That It Can’t Pay Its Fighters

    04/17/2025 5:05:48 AM PDT · by karpov · 31 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | April 16, 2025 | Summer Said, Carrie Keller-Lynn and Benoit Faucon
    Hamas is facing a new problem in Gaza: coming up with the cash it needs to pay its rank and file. Israel last month cut off supplies of humanitarian goods to the enclave, some of which Hamas had been seizing and selling to raise funds, according to Arab, Israeli and Western officials. Its renewed offensive has targeted and killed Hamas officials who played important roles in distributing cash to cadres and sent others into hiding, Arab intelligence officials said. In recent weeks, the Israeli military has said it killed a money changer who was key to what it called terrorist...
  • French journalists stage ‘die-in’ solidarity rally for colleagues killed in Gaza

    04/17/2025 3:53:31 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 14 replies
    France24 ^ | April 17, 2025
    More than 200 journalists, including prominent members of the French press, lay down on the steps of the Opéra Bastille in Paris in a symbolic "die-in" as the names of the reporters killed in Gaza were read out on Wednesday. Many wore red-stained press signs and fake flak jackets as they carried photographs of journalists killed in Gaza while trying to report on the war launched by Israel after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack. “Gaza of faces, not just numbers”, read posters bearing photographs of their fallen Palestinian colleagues. “You can see them behind me, showing pictures of those...
  • Tariff Critics Have No Answer To Trump’s National Security Arguments About Chinese Manufacturing

    04/16/2025 9:58:49 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 04/16/2025 | Ben Weingarten
    The onus is on those whose favored policies have left us imperiled to present a better plan than Trump’s to defend America’s interests.If the status quo in global trade were to persist, would America remain the world’s dominant power, or would we more likely be eclipsed by our worst adversary, Communist China?That is the key question the globalists, financiers, and their corporate media mouthpieces who ginned up hysteria and market panic in the days following President Donald Trump’s announcement of reciprocal tariffs on dozens of trade partners should have to answer.For they have developed and been the primary beneficiaries of...
  • Mother of Woman Killed by Immigrant Speaks at White House Briefing

    04/16/2025 8:50:10 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 21 replies
    The New York Times ^ | April 16, 2025, 8:36 p.m. ET | David E. Sanger
    The appearance by Patty Morin came as a federal judge threatened the Trump administration with a contempt-of-court investigation over its deportation flights to El Salvador.Just hours after a federal judge threatened a contempt-of-court investigation over the Trump administration’s deportation flights, the White House sought to freeze the legal debate by reminding Americans of a heartbreaking case of a mother killed by an unauthorized immigrant.White House officials called a special briefing on Wednesday in the press room to bring Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, who was killed while jogging on a trail in Maryland in 2023, to the podium....
  • UK’s Labour PM Starmer Must Embrace Trump’s Free-Speech Agenda and Repeal Censorship Laws To Secure a Trade Deal: REPORT

    04/16/2025 8:40:42 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 10 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | Apr. 16, 2025 4:00 pm | Paul Serran
    UK’s Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer is tragically set on imposing censorship in social media as a last resource to silence his own citizens and impose their hated Globalist agenda unimpeded.However, if he wants to get a trade deal with the US, Starmer will have to embrace Donald J. Trump’s free speech agenda, and repeal ‘hate speech’ and censorship laws, sources close to chief negotiator VP JD Vance have told British paper The Independent.This report follows statements by Vance hinting that a UK-US agreement ‘may be close’, with the White House ‘working very hard’ on it.Vance to UnHerd:“I think there’s...
  • Israeli Intel Coup Against Netanyahu Exposed: “Shin Bet Has Turned into a Private Militia of the Deep State”

    04/16/2025 8:37:24 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 61 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | Apr. 16, 2025 5:40 pm | Collin McMahon
    The Israeli government is exposing a malicious Deep State plot by the domestic security forces to bring down the Netanyahu government, similar to the US Deep State campaign against Donald Trump 2016-2024. At the center of the plot is the head of the Shin Bet security service Ronen Bar, who refuses to leave his post after being fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Observers had been mystified by the massive security failures of the vaunted Israeli secret service on October 7, leading to antisemitic conspiracy theories claiming Israel actually was responsible for the horrific terror attacks taht killed over 1200 people....
  • Judge Boasberg Finds Probable Cause to Hold Gov’t in Contempt in Deportations Case

    04/16/2025 8:15:32 PM PDT · by george76 · 36 replies
    Epoch Times, ^ | Apr 16, 2025 | Sam Dorman
    The Supreme Court vacated the order and said the lawsuit was brought in the wrong court. District Judge James Boasberg has issued an opinion stating that he has found probable cause that the federal government was in criminal contempt by refusing to comply with his order prohibiting certain deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. “The Court ultimately determines that the Government’s actions ... demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt,” Boasberg said in an April 16 opinion. He said the government would have...
  • Report: Canada’s Immigration Lawyers ‘Overwhelmed’ with Transgender Asylum Requests from U.S.

    04/16/2025 2:27:39 PM PDT · by packagingguy · 86 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 16 Apr 2025 | Frances Martel
    Canadian media reported this week that immigration attorneys and LGBTQQIAAP2S+ activists have noticed a significant spike in the number of requests for information from Americans identifying as transgender seeking to move to Canada, claiming persecution under the administration of President Donald Trump. The Globe and Mail quoted multiple Canadian lawyers on Tuesday who said they were “overwhelmed” by the number of calls from alarmed transgender Americans seeking a way to claim political asylum in Canada. Some calls are also from parents whose children are being subjected to medical procedures in response to alleged gender dysmorphia, which the Trump administration has...