German farmers’ protest sparks chaos

German farmers began a week of nationwide protests Monday, causing traffic jams across the country as they blocked streets and highways with thousands of tractors and trucks.

Monday’s actions were the latest in a series of protests venting anger over the coalition government’s decision to cut some diesel subsidies to farmers and transport truckers.

The cuts were due to budget shortfalls after Germany’s Constitutional Court declared Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government could not reallocate tens of billions in coronavirus relief funds for other purposes.

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‘Nil’ research done on impact of foreign students working unlimited hours: Report

Access-to-information records showed that federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller allowed hundreds of thousands of foreign students to work unlimited hours without researching the impact on unemployed Canadians.

The Liberals made sure their Corporate cronies have plenty of low wage slaves.

We are governed by Dickheads.

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Biden: I have been working to ‘significantly’ get Israel out of Gaza

The White House has been pushing Israel to massively reduce its military presence in Gaza, US President Joe Biden said on Monday as Secretary of State Antony Blinken was schedule to visit Tel Aviv on Tuesday to meet with top official about the transition to a low intensity campaign in the enclave.

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Don’t Even Think About Driving One Mile above the Speed Limit

Progressives in the U.K. push 20 mph speed limits, on top of congestion taxes and outright bans of new gas- or diesel-powered cars.

If you want to predict what the next steps in the progressive war on the private automobile will be in the United States, look to elite public opinion.

Electric-vehicle fanatics have pushed nine states into mandating zero-emission cars in the next few years. New York City will begin charging a congestion fee in Manhattan in May. In a new poll, commissioned by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, Scott Rasmussen has just surveyed 1,000 members of what he calls “the elite 1 percent” of Americans, namely those who have a postgraduate degree, live in dense urban areas, and earn more than $150,000 a year. In short, they are the people who frequently wield disproportionate influence over ideas and public policy.

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Race and punishment: truth over facts

It’s an article of faith among Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) that minorities, particularly black people, are far more harshly treated by the Criminal Justice System than whites. The “evidence” usually cited for this, apart from “because we say so,” or “experts say,” is disparate impact. If black people are arrested and convicted in greater numbers than their percentage of the population, that’s prima facie evidence of racism and disparate impact. Why else could so many black people become “justice system-involved individuals?”

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Giving a green light to male violence against women

I’m old enough to remember when being progressive meant opposing male violence against women. When the decent liberal thing to do was to side with battered women against the gross blokes who beat them up. Not anymore. Now the right-on are giving a green light to male brutishness. They’re actively cheering men who fancy punching women in the face. As long as they do it in the boxing ring, that is. Courtesy of USA Boxing’s new trans rules, it is now permissible for boxers who were born male and who went through male puberty – that is, men – to compete against women.

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Will Quality Street lead to a communist revolution?

A much-derided online rant hints at a broader truth

An early contender for Rant of the Year comes from a thus-far anonymous British woman, who made waves on social media at the weekend. The target of her rage is a box of Quality Street — specifically, the replacement of the traditional foil wrappers with lacklustre paper. The redesign is “a travesty”, she says, adding that the manufacturers can “put their chocolates where the sun never shines”.

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Epstein accuser claims pedophile had sex tapes of Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson: new docs

A Jeffrey Epstein accuser claimed former President Donald Trump allegedly had “sexual relations” with one of her unnamed friends at the late pedophile’s New York home “on regular occasions,” according to another trove of court documents unsealed Monday.

Sarah Ransome, in a string of emails in 2016, also claimed that she had copies of tapes Epstein had made of some of his high-profile friends — including Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and British business magnate Richard Branson — allegedly having sex with an unnamed woman.

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Europe 2024: New Year, New War Zone

In response to the carnage, our leaders appear to agree on one thing: it’s best to lie.

As a child of the ’80s, I recall with great fondness the Christmases of my youth: full of stinging cold winters and reassuring fireside warmings up; snowball fights and tobogganing; turkey dinners and endless festivities. They provided the perfect segue into the new year, with its accompaniment of bonfires, piping hot jacket potatoes, and mesmerising firework displays. I don’t think it’s naïve to say I cannot recall a single violent episode, save for a very British exhibition of tutting one year, over the lack of queuing etiquette witnessed at the hotdog stand.

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Toronto leaders call on feds to investigate arson at Jewish-owned deli as a possible act of terrorism

Days after a Jewish-owned deli in North York was set on fire in a suspected hate crime, a Toronto deputy mayor and city councillor are calling on the federal government to investigate the incident as a possible act of terrorism.

“We’re trying to emphasize the need to treat what happened here last week as an incredible escalation of what’s happening in the city. An incredible tipping point,” Deputy Mayor Michael Colle said at a news conference Monday alongside Coun. James Pasternak, calling the arson an act of “hideous, targeted intimidation.”

Terrorism? So are 100 torched churches come to think of it. But the law is never applied equally in Canada.

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Muhammad Ashan Naseer who allegedly shot five in ‘random’ Toronto drive-by shouldn’t have got bail, judge rules

A Toronto man facing multiple counts of attempted murder for an alleged drive-by shooting in Scarborough is back in jail after a judge found that a justice of the peace was wrong to release him on bail pending his trial.

Superior Court Justice Llana Nakonechny ruled Friday that public confidence in the justice system “would be undermined” if Muhammad Ashan Naseer was allowed to remain out on bail. She also found that his release plan was weak.

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