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Violent demonstrations against pension reform in France led to the postponement Friday of King Charles III's trip to the country, highlighting the growing security and political problems faced by President Emmanuel Macron.

The choice of France for Charles' first foreign visit as sovereign had been intended to highlight warming Franco-British relations, but it has become a high-profile victim of the protests engulfing the country.

Macron asked the British government for the postponement, a UK government spokesperson said in a statement.

The decision was made "in order to be able to welcome His Majesty King Charles III in conditions which reflect our friendly relations", a statement from the French presidency said.

Tags: FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN/ UK
Posted on: Mar 24 08:54

 More than 1 million people demonstrated across France on Thursday against unpopular pension reforms, and violence erupted in some places as unions called for new nationwide strikes and protests next week, coinciding with King Charles III's planned visit to France.

The Interior Ministry said the march in Paris — marred by violence, as were numerous marches elsewhere — drew 119,000 people, which was a record for the capital during the pension protests. Polls say most French oppose President Emmanuel Macron's bill to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64, which he says is necessary to keep the system afloat.

Building on the strong turnout, unions swiftly called for new protests and strikes on Tuesday when the British king is scheduled to visit Bordeaux on the second day of his trip to France. The heavy wooden door of the elegant Bordeaux City Hall was set afire and quickly destroyed Thursday evening by a members of an unauthorized demonstration, the Sud Ouest newspaper said.

Tags: ECONOMY, FRANCE, PROTESTS/ REVOLUTION
Posted on: Mar 24 08:53

One day after posting what many saw as inciteful language on social media, former President Donald Trump took things to the next level, warning of “potential death & destruction” if he were to be charged with a crime.

It’s not clear WHICH crime he is referencing, as he is currently under investigation for many crimes, but it seems like the most likely case is the one being pursued by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for falsifying business documents that allegedly covered up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Last weekend, Trump predicted he would be arrested. However, that never materialized, and the DA’s office pushed back, saying that the former president had misled the public about a looming arraignment.

Tags: CURRENT EVENTS, POLITICS/ ELECTIONS/ CORRUPTION
Posted on: Mar 24 08:53

Donald Trump pushed back on calls for his supporters to be peaceful if he is indicted and told Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to drop the Stormy Daniels hush money case as the grand jury was canceled for the rest of this week.

The ex-President posted a fired-up message on Truth Social insisting he is innocent and calling Michael Cohen a 'nut job' with 'zero credibility' as a decision in his case was pushed back again.

In all caps, he wrote: 'EVERYBODY KNOWS I’M 100% INNOCENT, INCLUDING BRAGG, BUT HE DOESN’T CARE. HE IS JUST CARRYING OUT THE PLANS OF THE RADICAL LEFT LUNATICS. OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED, AS THEY TELL US TO BE PEACEFUL!

Tags: CURRENT EVENTS, POLITICS/ ELECTIONS/ CORRUPTION
Posted on: Mar 24 08:45
World Athletics, the governing body that oversees track and field events, banned transgender ‘women’ (biological males) from competing against women at international events.
By: orraz
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 21:00
Joe Biden reminded us again yesterday he is impervious to the nation’s most pressing concerns and Twitter CEO Elon Musk took note.
By: orraz
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 21:00
A woman was carried off a Frontier Airlines flight in Miami for threatening to beat up a male passenger on Tuesday.
By: orraz
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 20:59
Last month, on February 7th, protesters from the New Federal State of China (NFSC) were shut down by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), despite having been granted a permit to protest. They were there to protest against Shan Weijian, a CCP-tied billionaire that has publicly defended the regime’s human rights abuses, and did so peacefully, holding anti-CCP signs and handing out flyers.
By: orraz
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 20:58
Last year, New York Mayor Eric Adams quietly commissioned a new logo for the “City That Never Sleeps” to replace the world famous logo created in 1977 by Milton Glaser, who passed away at the age of 91 in 2020.
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 20:57
A Seattle transgender member of the Democratic Socialists of America died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after shooting a King’s County sheriff’s deputy on Monday.
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 20:57

At today's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken about records on COVID-19 research funding.

Tags: SCIENCE/ HEALTH/ CLIMATE/ NATURE, WMD
Posted on: Mar 23 16:03

“Pharmaceutical marketers have noticed the power of patient persuasion and begun to leverage ‘patient influencers’ in brand campaigns,” says a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado, alongside the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

With the wider influencer-marketing industry expected to be worth up to $21.1 billion in 2023, the study published in The Journal of Medical Internet Research provides early insights into this growing new area, including its darker side.

“The bottom line here is that patient influencers act as a form of interactive direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising, sharing their knowledge and experiences on pharmaceutical drugs with communities of followers in which they wield great influence,” said author Erin Willis, an associate professor of advertising, public relations and media design.

“This raises ethical questions that need more investigation.”

DTC advertising allows drug manufacturers to target consumers directly, rather than through physicians. This method of advertising emerged in the 1980s, and is only prevalent in the US and New Zealand. In these countries, about half of all people who ask their doctor about a new drug do so after seeing a television commercial for it.

Tags: COMPUTERS/INTERNET, CONSUMER RIGHTS / PRODUCT REPORTS, SCIENCE/ HEALTH/ CLIMATE/ NATURE
Posted on: Mar 23 16:03
By: orraz
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 14:18
Patient backlogs and staffing shortages have stretched New York City’s hospital system to the breaking point, leaving patients to suffer long waits surrounded by garbage and human waste.
By: orraz
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 14:18
The main reason why Elon Musk’s Tesla doesn’t take massive losses on its electric vehicles is because a) that’s the only kind of vehicles the company makes; and b) Musk long ago scaled production of Tesla EVs to demand.
By: orraz
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 14:16
The head of the U.S. Space Force, Gen. Chance Saltzman, says that China has launched numerous satellites in the past six months and currently possesses 347 orbiting crafts capable of gathering intelligence on American armed forces.
By: orraz
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 14:16
The dominoes will fall. Have no doubt whatsoever, Silicon Valley, Signature, and Silvergate banks are just the first three banks in a long, long line of banks that will not just need bailing out, but will completely collapse in the coming days, weeks, and months of 2023 and on into 2024. This is a mass bank run, and the whole system is set to collapse. It’s a plan, not a byproduct or pitfall. It’s a total system collapse, and the FDIC $100 billion bailout is just a tiny band aid on a deep, gaping wound that will bleed out its victim – America. Who’s ready for what follows?
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 14:14
OpenAI claimed the group’s most robust AI to date is accurate in generating language responses and even better at solving problems.
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 14:12
According to the biotech industry, genetically modified (GM) foods would help reduce pesticide use and increase the nutritional content of various food products. They also promised that GM crops could help farmers by boosting their profits and feed the world by increasing crop yields.
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 14:12
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was caught lying Wednesday when Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked a question about Chinese payments going to the Biden Crime Family.
By: orraz
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 13:55
President Trump called the recent meeting between China’s Xi and Russian leader Putin “maybe a low point in history for the USA.”
By: orraz
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 13:55
New laws are being proposed to increase access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in educational institutions in the states of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.
By: orraz
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 13:54
On March 28, 2023, Walmart will begin charging 42 cents per bag for delivery orders and 10 cents per bag for pickup or in-store purchases in the state of New Jersey.
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 13:53
President Trump came out with a series of Truths about Ron DeSantis yesterday. They were pretty devastating.
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
Posted on: Mar 23 13:53

Loss of confidence in the US Dollar is growing. Saudi Arabia has begun earnestly dumping US Treasuries, with the Oil-rich nation now having fewer US Treasuries than anytime in the past 7 years.

This trend with Saudi Arabia is being mirrored by many other countries which are fearful the US has already over-spent itself (into oblivion) and will NOT be able to actually repay the money it owes.

Other countries have also been unloading US debt notes.

Tags: ECONOMY, SAUDI ARABIA
Posted on: Mar 23 13:52

On Tuesday, it was revealed that despite the FBI investigating over two dozen different instances of parents and parents’ rights groups protesting school boards, not a single credible or legitimate threat was discovered at any point.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, the House GOP released its findings on the FBI’s 25 different preliminary investigations, all of which were based on tips submitted to the National Threat Operations Center. Of these 25, six were assigned to the FBI’s counterterrorism division. In the end, only one of them led to a full investigation, and this single probe did not discover any serious threat to schools or school board members.

The House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government came to its conclusion after subpoenaing the FBI, determining that the Biden Administration abused its power by using counterterrorism tools to target conservative parents and parents’ groups, following the rise of a grassroots protest movement at school board meetings across the country. These protests were often in opposition to far-left curriculum, including the teaching of Critical Race Theory and transgenderism, as well as coronavirus-related mandates on masks and vaccines.

Tags: CONSUMER RIGHTS / PRODUCT REPORTS, CURRENT EVENTS, DICTATORSHIP, EDUCATION
Posted on: Mar 23 13:52
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS, POLITICS/ ELECTIONS/ CORRUPTION
Posted on: Mar 23 13:50