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  • Peru Is Losing its Battle Against Organised Crime

    04/09/2025 10:51:01 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 3 replies
    The Conversation ^ | April 7, 2025 | Fritz Holznagel
    The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, declared a state of emergency in the capital city, Lima, on March 18. The decree, which came amid a wave of violence, gives the police and military full control of the security situation there for a period of 30 days. Peru is no stranger to emergencies of this kind. Only last year, in September 2024, Boluarte’s government declared a 60-day state of emergency in 12 districts of the capital. The rationale for declaring the emergency now, as in the past, remains the same: to address the threat posed by criminal gangs. The latest emergency...
  • Wife of Tory councillor jailed for 31 months over social media post stirring up racial hatred

    10/17/2024 10:22:18 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 86 replies
    The wife of a Conservative councillor has been jailed for 31 months after pleading guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred after the Southport stabbings. Former childminder Lucy Connolly published a post on her X account, which she later deleted, that called for "mass deportation now", and for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire, adding: "If that makes me racist, so be it." Her comments were viewed 310,000 times and reposted by 940 other X users. She wrote the post on the day three young girls were killed in a knife attack at a...
  • UK police commissioner threatens to extradite, jail US citizens over online posts: 'We'll come after you'

    08/09/2024 6:35:03 PM PDT · by Wilderness Conservative · 152 replies
    Fox News ^ | 8/9/2024
    London's Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the U.K., but on American citizens as well. "We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News. Riots have broken out across the United Kingdom in recent days over false rumors spread online that an asylum seeker was responsible for a mass stabbing at...
  • UK authorities will round up and charge citizens who retweet any material deemed as "inciting hatred"

    08/07/2024 9:33:52 AM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 77 replies
    UK authorities will round up and charge citizens who Retweet any material deemed as "inciting hatred"
  • Fingerprints’ confirm the seafaring stories of adventurous Polynesian navigators

    04/24/2023 12:29:34 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 21 replies
    Popular Science ^ | 21 Apr 2023 | Laura Baisis
    These expert navigators sailed thousands of nautical miles long before other societies.The 2016 animated family film Moana brought the long-told story of Polynesian seafarers (along with some incredibly catchy tunes) to a much wider worldwide audience. Now, geochemical analysis is confirming the oral history of ancient Polynesia’s incredible sailors in a new study published April 21 in the journal Science Advances. Long before Europeans arrived, Polynesian wayfinders sailed to islands across the central Pacific in canoes, and the stories of their adventures have survived largely through oral history. There has been limited material evidence supporting these accounts of Polynesian societies...
  • France Recalls Ambassadors From US and Australia After Being Sandbagged in Defense Pact Arms Deal

    09/17/2021 6:58:22 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 26 replies
    Red State ^ | 09/17/2021 | Streiff
    Earlier in the week, we were all treated to the announcement of a new and improved trilateral security pact between the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia (called AUKUS). The most memorable thing about the announcement (read Sister Toldjah’s post, Watch: Biden Makes International Headlines for Embarrassing Reason After Awkward Moment With Aussie PM) was Joey Soft Serve forgetting the name of the Australian prime minister.Despite the placid, if short-bus-ish ambiance of the announcement, there was drama brewing out of sight.Biden announced that the United States would allow nuclear submarine technology transfer to Australia. This is significant. It would make...
  • When Biden Insulted Putin on National TV

    03/22/2021 4:18:02 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 15 replies
    American Thinker.com ^ | March 22, 2021 | Lynn Corum
    The Biden administration seems oblivious to the rapid and dangerous deterioration of U.S.-Russia relations. Putin was already vexed over a host of other incidents. On January 26, Biden criticized Nord Stream 2 for "making Europe dependent on Russia for its energy." On February 19, in his speech at the Munich Security Conference, Biden accused Moscow of working to weaken NATO and the E.U. and promised to "resist these attempts." Then there is Biden's move to see new sanctions leveled against Russia over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. There are also numerous economic issues. In a deal sealed in August 2020...
  • Polynesians, Native Americans made contact before European arrival, genetic study finds

    07/08/2020 9:31:46 AM PDT · by rdl6989 · 52 replies
    phys.org ^ | July 8, 2020 | Stanford University Medical Center
    Through deep genetic analyses, Stanford Medicine scientists and their collaborators have found conclusive scientific evidence of contact between ancient Polynesians and Native Americans from the region that is now Colombia—something that's been hotly contested in the historic and archaeological world for decades. (snip) Before the study brought scientific evidence to the debate, the idea that Native Americans and Polynesians had crossed paths originated from a complex—both in its structure and origins—carbohydrate: the sweet potato. It turns out the sweet potato, which was originally domesticated in South and Central America, has also been known to grow in one other place prior...
  • UK trade minister Truss says NHS will not be put up for sale: The Telegraph

    07/28/2019 10:12:21 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 26 replies
    Reuters ^ | July 28, 2019 11:31 PM | Bhargav Acharya
    Britain’s trade minister Liz Truss has said the National Health Service (NHS) would not be put up for sale, as she prepares to discuss a free-trade deal with the U.S. in the next few weeks. “My main priority now will be agreeing a free-trade deal with the U.S., building on the successful phone call between the Prime Minister and President Trump,” she wrote in a Telegraph column late on Sunday. …
  • China's Xi Jinping Brings In More Than $64 Billion In Belt And Road Deal

    04/28/2019 2:31:24 PM PDT · by Jyotishi · 7 replies
    NDTV ^ | April 27, 2019 | Reuters and NDTV Staff
    Data from Refinitiv shows the total value of projects in the scheme stands at $3.67 trillion, spanning countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, Oceania and South America. Initiative to recreate the old Silk Road is to deliver green and high-quality development. BEIJING: President Xi Jinping on Saturday hailed deals worth more than $64 billion signed during China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) this week as he sought to reassure skeptics the project will deliver sustainable growth for all involved. Xi said market principles will apply in all Belt and Road cooperation projects and that his signature initiative to recreate the old Silk...
  • Amazon's creepy plan to put a camera and microphone in every BEDROOM with launch of [tr]

    01/16/2018 9:21:01 AM PST · by C19fan · 58 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | January 16, 2018 | Phoebe Weston
    Amazon wants to put a camera and microphone in your bedroom with the UK launch of its latest Echo home device. The camera on the £119.99 ($129) Echo Spot, which doubles up as a 'smart alarm', will probably be facing directly at the user's bed. The device, which is already available in the US has such sophisticated microphones it can hear people talking from across the room - even if music is playing.
  • Trump wins 9 delegates in Northern Mariana Islands

    03/15/2016 5:00:55 AM PDT · by euram · 69 replies
    Politico ^ | March 15 2016 | Eliza Collins
    Trump took home 73 percent of the vote and will win all nine delegates, according to Jason Osborne, who was the executive director of the local Republican Party.
  • West Warns Russia Not To Disrupt Kiev Polls & America To Not Mess w/ Black Panthers Outside Polls

    05/16/2014 7:41:20 AM PDT · by Laissez-faire capitalist · 26 replies
    5/16/2014 | Laissez-Faire Capitalist
    The WH has issued a stern warning that Russia must not interfere with the May 25th Ukrainian elections, and has also issued some breaking news: Americans must not mess with Black Panthers standing outside polling booths, if this were to occur in the future. They, nor anyone else, are saying that this will occur in the future, they are just 'sayin...Ever-impartial Obama and Eric Holder just want to remind people of this. /s The WH has also said that they are all-knowing, would never mess with elections as pertaining to Tea Partiers organizing for elections, know what is best for...
  • White House petition calls for merger of United States, Australia, to form 'Ameristralia'

    05/12/2013 3:32:14 AM PDT · by Daffynition · 53 replies
    Newsvine.com ^ | May 11, 2013 | danj loromaes
    AUSTRALIA and the US will merge to form one super nation called Ameristralia. Sound like a gag? Maybe not. A petition has been created on the official White House website calling for the Obama Administration to join "America and Australia to form Ameristralia". The "We the People" section on the whitehouse.gov website was launched in 2011 to allow the public, in accordance with the First Amendment of the US Constitution, to petition the US government on issues deemed important.
  • Senate committee approves bill to repeal Defense of Marriage Act

    11/10/2011 2:34:39 PM PST · by NYer · 34 replies
    Life Site News ^ | November 10, 2011 | MATT ANDERSON
    WASHINGTON D.C., November 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a narrow vote Thursday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would grant federal recognition to homosexual “marriages.” The bill, titled the “Respect for Marriage Act,” passed the Democrat controlled committee by a 10-8 vote, with the members of the committee voting along party lines. The “Respect for Marriage Act” was introduced in the Senate in March by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) with the goal of repealing the “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA). DOMA asserts that states where homosexual “marriages” are not currently recognized are not required to recognize same-sex...
  • Tracking Left wing funding of NPR

    01/02/2010 5:41:39 PM PST · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 40 replies · 3,045+ views
    As you start to read all this, you'll laugh at how incestuous it all gets. Let's start with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which as I've noted in the past is tied in with the Soros foundation. Together, the two worked on something called The Project on Death in America.(PDIA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2341083/posts And speaking of Mr Soros, he himself(his foundations) have given directly to NPR. Compared to some of the other numbers I'm seeing, it's a small amount of $250,000. But it doesn't matter. Soros money is soros money in my book. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2396058/posts Additional information about RWJF can be found here....
  • Orwell's 1984 is 25 Years Late, but It's Here

    08/15/2009 8:04:01 AM PDT · by nysuperdoodle · 7 replies · 936+ views
    Evil Conservative Radio ^ | 15 Aug 09 | EC
    Phil Elmore had a great opinion piece in WND today where he pointed out the similarities between George Orwell's 1984 and today. We don't just read about the tyrannical, controlling, manipulatively mendacious society Orwell portrayed in 1984- we get to live in it.
  • Our Road to Oceania: Orwell was on to something.

    08/13/2009 9:26:54 PM PDT · by Iam1ru1-2 · 21 replies · 929+ views
    nationalreview.com ^ | Victor Davis Hanson
    In George Orwell’s allegorical novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the picture of “Big Brother” appears constantly in the adoring media. Perceived enemies are everywhere — supposedly plotting to undo the benevolent egalitarianism of Big Brother. Citizens assemble each morning to scream hatred for two minutes at pictures of the supposed public traitor Emmanuel Goldstein. The “Ministry of Truth” swears that the former official Goldstein is responsible for everything that goes wrong in Oceania. In Orwell’s Oceania, there is a compliant media that offers “Newspeak” — recycled government bulletins from the Ministry of Truth. “Doublethink” means you can believe at the same time...
  • Oceania Visible On Horizon 25 Years Later

    08/13/2009 6:09:33 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 19 replies · 1,117+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | August 13, 2009 | VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
    In George Orwell's allegorical novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," the picture of "Big Brother" appears constantly in the adoring media. Perceived enemies are everywhere — supposedly plotting to undo the benevolent egalitarianism of Big Brother. Citizens assemble each morning to scream hatred for two minutes at pictures of the supposed public traitor Emmanuel Goldstein. The "Ministry of Truth" swears that the former official Goldstein is responsible for everything that goes wrong in Oceania. In Orwell's Oceania, there is a compliant media that offers "Newspeak" — recycled government bulletins from the Ministry of Truth. "Doublethink" means you can believe at the same time...
  • Our Road to Oceania

    08/13/2009 6:18:10 AM PDT · by Servant of the Cross · 19 replies · 1,057+ views
    National Review ^ | 8/13/2009 | Victor Davis Hanson
    In George Orwell’s allegorical novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the picture of “Big Brother” appears constantly in the adoring media. Perceived enemies are everywhere — supposedly plotting to undo the benevolent egalitarianism of Big Brother. Citizens assemble each morning to scream hatred for two minutes at pictures of the supposed public traitor Emmanuel Goldstein. The “Ministry of Truth” swears that the former official Goldstein is responsible for everything that goes wrong in Oceania. In Orwell’s Oceania, there is a compliant media that offers “Newspeak” — recycled government bulletins from the Ministry of Truth. “Doublethink” means you can believe at the same time...