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Emergency crews responding to Amtrak train derailment near Port Costa, fire officials say | 21 March 2023 | Emergency crews are responding to an Amtrak train that has derailed near Port Costa, according to fire officials. Crockett fire officials tweeted Tuesday just before 3:30 p.m. that the train derailed about a half mile east of the town. The fire department says the train hit a tree and derailed. Fire officials say there were 55 passengers on board train. There are no reports of injuries at this time.

Russia's Putin blasts UK move to send ammo with depleted uranium to Ukraine | 23 March 2023 | Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday condemned British plans to send tank ammunition that contains depleted uranium to Ukraine, saying Moscow would be forced to respond accordingly. Speaking in London on Monday, Minister of State for Defence Annabel Goldie said some of the ammunition for the Challenger 2 battle tanks that Britain is sending to Ukraine includes armour piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium. "If all this happens, Russian will have to respond accordingly, given that the West collectively is already beginning to use weapons with a nuclear component," Putin said in remarks after a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Putin lauds Chinese peace roadmap for Ukraine | 21 March 2023 | Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in the Kremlin for official talks on Tuesday. Speaking after the meeting alongside Xi, the president lauded the 12-point peace roadmap for Ukraine recently floated by Beijing. "We believe that many of the provisions of the peace plan put forward by China are consonant with the Russian stance and can be taken as a foundation for a peaceful settlement when they are ready for it in the West and in Kiev. However, so far we have not observed such readiness on their part," Putin stated. The Chinese president said Beijing continues to strictly adhere to the UN principles over the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, maintaining a balanced position. Xi also reiterated his call on all parties to exercise restraint and for a return to negotiations to seek a diplomatic solution to hostilities.

Breaking: UK to Send Depleted Uranium Ammunition to Ukraine --Russia has previously warned the use of depleted uranium will be considered an attack by a 'dirty nuke' | 21 March 2023 | United Kingdom Deputy Minister of Defense Annabelle Goldie publicly stated today that the UK will supply Ukraine with depleted uranium (DU) ammunition for some of the weapons systems supplied by NATO. Russia has previously warned the use of depleted uranium will be considered an attack by a "dirty nuke" and will result in a nuclear response... On January 25, this web site reported that Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of the Russia Delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has just publicly thrown down the nuclear gauntlet to the collective west, in an official statement. Gavrilov said that he has been instructed by his government to announce: "We know that the Leopard-2 tank, as well as the Bradley and Marder infantry fighting vehicles, are armed with uranium-core armor-piercing projectiles, the use of which leads to [radioactive] contamination of the area, as happened in Yugoslavia and Iraq. If such shells are delivered to Kyiv, we will consider this as the use of dirty nuclear bombs against Russia, with all the ensuing consequences."

'Tremendous Amount of Danger' - Secret Service Recommends Virtual Arraignment of Trump | 21 March 2023 | White House Secret Service reportedly recommended that New York state authorities pursue a virtual arrest of President Donald Trump in a pending case by the Manhattan district attorney, citing a "tremendous amount of danger" by attempting a physical arrest at his residence in Florida. Sources speaking with Fox News said the meeting, held at NYPD headquarters on Monday, encompassed an all-hands-on-deck effort required to execute the first criminal arrest of a president in the nation's history. Should a physical arrest be needed, the Secret Service would take the lead. By leaking news of an impending indictment, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has brought a host of logistical nightmares on officers involved in the case. "That created a lot of security issues. The chance of anyone getting hurt has dramatically increased," the source said.

Craigslist Craig Funded the Censorship-Industrial Complex to Silence Dissent Online | 21 March 2023 | The billionaire founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, is using his fortune to further shape journalism into partisan activism to help Democrats win elections. He is the nation's leading financier of the "mis"- and "disinformation" industries and is now the largest private stakeholder in America’s legacy journalism schools. The most recent Twitter Files released by Matt Taibbi add a deeply disturbing new layer to the story. They show Newmark is at the very heart of an incestuous web of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and corporate media institutions operating in concert to censor political opponents on social media. Newmark is financing the largest coordinated assault on American free speech in living memory. On March 9, journalist Matt Taibbi outlined how pre-Elon Musk Twitter acted as "a partner to government," working in concert with the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Health and Human Services, Treasury, the National Security Agency, and local police. An elaborate system for reporting hundreds of thousands of accounts was set up, and Twitter obliged by deleting thousands of accounts on demand.

Asian leader warns Putin warrant could spark nuclear war | 20 March 2023 | The issuance of an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court (ICC) could lead to nuclear war, as well as creating other implications globally, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned. The warrant has only sowed further division in the world, potentially jeopardizing diplomatic efforts to reach a settlement of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which has been raging for over a year already, the PM believes. "This ICC warrant to arrest Putin will complicate efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, especially before [Chinese] President Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow during which he is expected to mediate for peace," the PM said in a social media statement on Sunday. ...Moreover, the ICC move has sharply increased the risk of events spiraling into a nuclear exchange in Europe, the PM warned.

Putin-Xi meeting kicks off in Moscow | 20 March 2023 | Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding informal talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as part of the latter's three-day visit to Moscow. The leaders will discuss key global issues and relations between the two countries. Putin and Xi are expected to conclude the portion of the trip devoted to negotiations on Tuesday by signing a statement on deepening bilateral relations and expanding economic ties. This week marks the first time the Chinese leader has traveled to Russia since Moscow launched its military offensive in Ukraine, although the two presidents have been in frequent contact.

French MPs threatened with guillotine ahead of crucial vote --President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms have been followed by days of riots that police have struggled to control | 20 March 2023 | French politicians are being threatened with the guillotine if they attempt to protect President Emmanuel Macron's government from a pair of no-confidence votes in Parliament, according to a handful of MPs who claimed to have received death threats over the weekend. Police told French media that hundreds of such messages had been sent to lawmakers ahead of Monday's vote. MP Agnes Evren, vice president of the Republican Party, posted an image of a death threat that she said was sent to her on Sunday, which vowed "your heads will fall," calling for "the guillotine for your face" for supporting Macron.

Russian Su-35 Fighter Jet Intercepts Two US B-52 Bombers Over Baltic Sea - Defense Ministry | 20 March 2023 | Russian fighter jet Su-35 prevented two US strategic bombers B-52 from reaching the Russian border on Monday over the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry's National Defense Control Center (NDCC) reported on Monday. "On March 20, 2023, the radars of the air defense forces of the Western Military District on duty detected two air targets flying in the direction of the state border of the Russian Federation over the Baltic Sea. The targets were identified as two strategic bombers B-52N of the US Air Force," the NDCC said. In order to identify and prevent breach of the state border, a Su-35 fighter from the air defense forces of the Western Military District was scrambled. After that, the crew of the fighter occupied the established zone of duty in the air. "After the removal of foreign military aircraft from the Russian state border, the Russian fighter returned to its base airfield," the center said.

Bill Pending in Israel Would Criminalize Talking About Jesus - in Person, Online, Print and by Mail: Two Years Prison | 20 March 2023 | Christian Leaders are urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop a bill pending in the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) that would make it criminal to tell people about Jesus, inside Israel. Just days before Good Friday, Palm Sunday, and Easter, the bill would punish believers for sharing the Gospel of Jesus. The bill was introduced by two ultra-Orthodox members of Netanyahu's Coalition -- United Torah Judaism party members Moshe Gafni and Yacov Asher. The bill would make it ILLEGAL to share, in personal conversation, or produce content online, in print, or by mail, talking about Jesus or His Gospel... The punishment for doing so would be "one year imprisonment." If the conversation is with minor - someone under the age of 18 - the punishment would be "two years imprisonment." This bill would apply to people having spiritual conversations with Israelis of any religion. However, in their official explanation of the bill, the two Israeli legislators specifically emphasized the warning to stop Christians, in particular.

Campaigners' fury at Harry and Meghan's charity partner which says boyhood should be 'fluid' and teaches primary school pupils to question 'gender norms' --Archewell has partnered with the initiative which wants boyhood to be 'fluid' | 20 March 2023 | Two London schools have piloted a curriculum about 'challenging limiting gender stereotypes' run by a charity backed by Prince Harry and Meghan, it emerged today. The Global Boyhood Initiative, which wants boyhood to be "fluid," has run workshops with staff at Ravenstone School in Balham and Sherwood Primary School, Mitcham. The organisation "promotes gender equity by fostering positive masculinity in boys and men" and has warned that the phrase "boys will be boys" is dangerous. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's organisation Archewell has partnered with the US-based initiative which also accuses parents of "gendering" unborn children.

House Judiciary Committee demands Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg testify about possible Trump indictment --Jordan said the facts have not changed since 2018 and Trump's 2024 presidential campaign is the 'only intervening factor' | 20 March 2023 | The House Judiciary Committee is demanding that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg testify before Congress in the wake of his "unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority," as he reportedly considers indicting former President Trump on charges related to alleged hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a letter, exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, to Bragg Monday morning demanding his testimony. The letter was also signed by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and House Committee on Administration Chairman Brian Steil, R-Wis. Jordan warned Bragg that if news reports of a possible Trump indictment are accurate, Bragg's actions "will erode confidence in the evenhanded application of justice and unalterably interfere in the court of the 2024 presidential election."

Vision Impairments in Patients After COVID-19 Vaccination, Doctors Caution Possible Risks | 18 Mary 2023 | House Rep. Mike Belcher (R-N.H.) has been suffering from ocular migraines for almost two years. He took his first Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA immunization in April 2021, and things have not been the same since. Around 12 hours after the shot, Belcher recalled developing symptoms of severe flu and neurological symptoms soon manifested in a matter of days. One unusual symptom stood out: His vision became strange. He started to notice that the red and green color balance in his eyes would shift, and dark spots would appear in his field of vision. Belcher would soon be tormented with painful headaches preceded by a blinding light that would cause searing pain at the back of his eyes... After being transferred from specialist to specialist, Belcher was finally hospitalized in May 2021... Alabama-based neurologist and neuroradiologist Dr. Diane Counce told The Epoch Times that since the vaccine rollouts, she has also seen many patients who, after vaccination, would develop migraines, or experience a worsening or increased frequency of symptoms. These migraines would often manifest with temporary blindness.

Bible college fires theologian for tweet against homosexuality, threatens to report as terrorist - lawyers --Dr. Aaron Edwards was told his tweet caused 'distress' among members of Britain's Methodist Church | 19 March 2023 | A Methodist Bible college in the U.K. fired a Christian theologian and threatened to report him as a terrorist because of his tweets in opposition to homosexuality, his attorneys claimed. Dr. Aaron Edwards, who taught theology at Cliff College in Derbyshire, England, was dismissed from the school after being accused of "bringing the college into disrepute" on social media last month. "Homosexuality is invading the church," Edwards tweeted on Feb. 19. "Evangelicals no longer see the severity of this [because] they're busy apologizing for their apparently barbaric homophobia, whether or not it's true. "This *is* a 'Gospel issue,' by the way. If sin is no longer sin, we no longer need a Savior," Edwards added... Edwards was suspended from the school pending an investigation and the college revealed during a disciplinary hearing on March 8 that it was considering referring him to Prevent, which polices allegations of terrorism in the U.K.

7 Children Paralyzed by Polio Virus Derived From New Gates-Funded Polio Vaccine | 17 March 2023 | Seven children were paralyzed by vaccine-derived polio linked to the new nOPV2 polio vaccine developed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, according to health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), which on Thursday announced the news. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [terrorist group], a GPEI partner, funded the development and clinical trials for the nOPV2 vaccine. Burundi declared a national emergency after confirming eight cases of the virus and five samples from environmental surveillance of wastewater, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement... Burundi health authorities also plan to work with the WHO and GPEI to do risk assessments to determine the extent of the outbreak of the vaccine-derived virus.

'They're communists, Marxists, RINOs and losers!' Trump launches scathing attack on 'animals and thugs' who 'are plotting his arrest on Tuesday' --Trump's ally 'prepares to slap down Michael Cohen in court tomorrow' | 20 March 2023 | Donald Trump on Sunday denounced the 'animals and thugs' he said were readying to arrest him, saying they were "purposefully destroying our country." With a Manhattan grand jury believed to be close to making a decision on whether to indict Trump over his payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels -- payments which may have violated campaign finance rules -- the 76-year-old lashed out at those against him. "REMEMBER, THE SAME ANIMALS AND THUGS THAT WOULD DO THIS TO PERHAPS 200 MILLION PEOPLE, BUT ACTUALLY ALL AMERICANS, ARE THE COMMUNISTS, MARXISTS, RINOS, AND LOSERS THAT ARE PURPOSEFULLY DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY!" he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social. Trump on Saturday said he believed he "WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK." Earlier, Trump predicted that the testimony from his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who has turned against him, would be shredded by a witness [Robert Costello] his lawyers had convinced to speak to the grand jury.

Governor Hochul Files Appeal in Quarantine Camp Lawsuit | 14 March 2023 | Late in the day on Monday, March 13, 2023, just hours before the deadline, New York Attorney General, Letitia James, filed an appeal to try to overturn our successful lawsuit that struck down Governor Kathy Hochul's (D-Deranged) unconstitutional "Isolation and Quarantine Procedures" regulation. The case, Borrello v. Hochul, which we won last July, was brought against the Governor and her Department of Health, on behalf of a group of NYS Legislators, Senator George Borrello, Assemblyman Chris Tague, Assemblyman (now Congressman) Mike Lawler, together with our citizens' group, Uniting NYS... For anyone unfamiliar with this regulation, it allowed the Department of Health to pick and choose which New Yorkers they could lock up or lock down, with no proof that you were ever even exposed to, let alone actually sick with, a communicable disease. They could have locked you down in your home, or they could have removed you from your home and forced you to quarantine in a facility of their choosing. There was no time restriction, so you could have been quarantined for however long they required -- days, weeks, months. There was no age restriction, so they could have done this to you, to your child, to your grandchild, etc. In the true fashion of a totalitarian regime, they could have told you what you could and could not do while in quarantine. They literally could have controlled your every move.

Black DEI director: I was called white supremacist for questioning woke policies | 18 March 2023 | Since becoming the faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Education at De Anza College in August of 2021, Dr. Tabia Lee said, she endured "non-stop hostility" on campus. Now, she claims, she's out of a job after colleagues retaliated against her for questioning certain diversity, equity, and inclusion policies at the Cupertino, California, school. But her vision of diversity and inclusion, it seems, was the wrong one. "I'm trying to create safe spaces for everyone," Lee said. "But some people wanted me to create spaces that were just safe for them, and that’s not my mission as an educator. That's not what I'm here to do." ...Citing the recommendation of the National Association of Black Journalists, she suggested all racial groups be capitalized. "For that, I was accused of being a white supremacist," she said.

Top Republican Orders Probe Into Whether Federal Funds Were Used in Potential Trump Indictment | 18 March 2023 | U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on March 18 ordered Republicans to investigate whether federal funds were used in the reported looming indictment against former President Donald Trump. "Here we go again--an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump," McCarthy said in a statement after Trump said it looks like he will be arrested soon for an alleged misclassification of a payment. "I'm directing relevant committees to immediately investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions," McCarthy added.

Reparations Are a Statist Cudgel for Bludgeoning Property Owners By CLG Founder, Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. | 16 March 2023 | (Opinion) San Francisco's panel on reparations has issued a recommendation that qualified black residents in that city receive $5 million in reparations for the financial effects of slavery and/or racial discrimination. There was never slavery in the city of San Francisco, but the panel nevertheless suggested that city inhabitants must atone for racial discrimination. Such calls for reparations to black people are based on the notion of collective white guilt. But collective guilt is a false notion, and reparations based on it would violate the property rights of those whose ancestors gained nothing from slavery, even if such parties benefited from so-called discrimination... Just as class guilt is a fatally flawed concept, so too is race guilt. If one gained nothing from slaveholding or trading, one does not owe a debt to a nebulous class of slave descendants. The execution of reparations on the grounds of collective race guilt would amount to theft of property from the rightful holders of it.

99% of Bay Area, 64% of California is drought-free after winter storms | 16 March 2023 | The latest drought monitor is out Thursday morning with major improvements in the San Francisco Bay Area and California. Ninety-nine percent of the Bay Area is now drought-free which is the best condition since February 2020. Dry conditions remain in portions of Sonoma, Napa, and Lake Counties. Statewide, California is now 64% drought-free, up from just 1% of the state at the start of the water year on Oct 1, 2022.

DOD spends nearly $50 million a year 'to do nothing' with Trump's border wall materials, drawing GOP backlash --DOD is spending around $130,000 a day to store materials after Biden canceled Trump's border wall construction project | 16 March 2023 | The Biden administration spends about $130,000 per day to store and maintain unused border wall panels at the southern border, and Senate Republicans are demanding answers. Republican members of the Senate Armed Forces Committee -- using details provided to them in a request for information to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) -- sent a letter Wednesday evening to the Defense Department asking why nearly $50 million is being spent each year to store the Trump-era border materials. Led by ranking member Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and signed by Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, along with nearly every other Republican on the committee, the senators wrote that they "are disturbed to learn the Department of Defense is paying private landowners to store border wall materials procured under the Trump Administration instead of fortifying the southern border with those materials."

EPA orders states to accept waste from Ohio train derailment site | 17 March 2023 | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered states with approved and available toxic waste facilities to accept materials transported from the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The move, announced by EPA director Michael Regan at a news conference Friday morning, comes after governors in Oklahoma, Michigan and other states have recently turned away shipments. The EPA also ordered Norfolk Southern to move faster to get the toxic waste out of the area. The two new EPA orders requires Norfolk Southern to speed up the removal process and requires contractors to take legal action against EPA-licensed disposal facilities that refuse to honor their contracts. Every state has been notified that states cannot stop shipments of out-of-state waste from East Palestine, Regan said.

'I'm Back!': Trump makes first post on Facebook in years as YouTube restores account | 17 March 2023 | Former President Donald Trump on Friday made his first post on Facebook since the platform restored his account in February. The short, 12-second video post, titled "I'm Back!," included a clip from the 2016 election night, showing the moment Trump first appeared to celebrate his win. "Sorry to keep you waiting, complicated business," he said. The post comes the same day that video-sharing platform YouTube restored former Trump's account after a more than two-year suspension. The platform, like virtually all other social media companies, suspended the former president in January of 2021, following the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot.

Wyoming governor signs law outlawing use of abortion pills | 17 March 2023 | Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon on Friday signed into law a bill outlawing the use or prescription of medication abortion pills that was passed by the state's Republican-controlled legislature earlier this month. Gordon, a Republican, signed the law as a federal judge in Texas considers ordering a nationwide ban on the abortion pill mifepristone in response to a lawsuit by anti-abortion groups. The crux of the two-page Wyoming bill is a provision making it illegal to "prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion."

CDC Bought Phone Data to Monitor Americans' Compliance With Lockdowns, Contracts Show | 16 March 2023 | The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) purchased data from tracking companies to monitor compliance with lockdowns, according to contracts with the firms. The CDC paid one firm $420,000 and another $208,000. That bought access to location data from at least 55 million cellphone users. The contracts, approved under emergency review due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were aimed at providing the CDC "with the necessary data to continue critical emergency response functions related to evaluating the impact of visits to key points of interest, stay at home orders, closures, re-openings and other public heath communications related to mask mandate, and other merging research areas on community transmission of SARS-CoV-2," the contracts, obtained by The Epoch Times, state.

NYC Security Preps Underway for Possible Trump Indictment as Soon as Next Week - Sources --Law enforcement agencies are conducting preliminary security assessments | 17 March 2023 | Local, state, and federal law enforcement and security agencies are preparing for the possibility that former President Donald J. Trump could be indicted as early as next week, according to five senior officials familiar with the discussions. Law enforcement agencies are conducting preliminary security assessments, the officials say, and are discussing potential security plans for in and around the Manhattan Criminal Court at 100 Centre Street in case Trump is charged in connection with an alleged hush money payment to Stormy Daniels and travels to New York to face any charges. The officials stress that the interagency conversations and planning are precautionary in nature because no charges have been filed. The agencies involved include the NYPD, New York State Court Officers, the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, officials say.

U.S. 'obviously' blew up Nord Stream - French politician --Norway also had a profit motive to join the alleged American plot, Florian Philippot has claimed | 17 March 2023 | French political party leader Florian Philippot believes it has long been obvious that the U.S. was behind last year's sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian natural gas to Western Europe. "Even before the war in Ukraine, the US for years fought against Nord Stream, it was a permanent part of their policy," he told RIA Novosti in an interview published on Friday. "In early February 2022, [Joe] Biden said the Americans could make it so that the pipeline was no more. That's what happened. And it was in the interest of the Americans," according to Philippot, who heads the right-wing The Patriots party in France... Philippot also urged France to leave NATO, saying the military alliance "needs to be disbanded because it has no reason to exist." "We have to stop this agenda of world war against Russia and China, it is absolutely insane," he told the Russian news outlet, blaming the U.S. for increasing global tensions.

Federal Reserve to Raise Interest Rates 25 Basis Points Amid Banking Crisis | 17 March 2023 | The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates another 25 basis points -- or 0.25% next week amid the banking crisis. Two U.S. banks failed in the last week after they were unable to produce enough cash for depositors. Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank collapsed within the last week. Moody’s cut the outlook for the entire U.S. banking sector after the banks failed. The banking crisis stems from the Federal Reserve’s decision to hike interest rates seven times in 2022. [Not to mention, corrupt imbeciles running these banks, forking over billions to promote the WEF's agenda.]