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https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/ "A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration. Dr. Joanne Liu, the former international president of Doctors Without Borders, said the abrupt cancellation speaks to the “climate of fear” universities in the U.S. are now living under in which they preemptively “self-censor” themselves to avoid retaliation." "Liu, a pediatric emergency physician at Sainte-Justine Hospital and professor at McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health, was due to give a presentation on challenges in humanitarian crises on March 19 at NYU, her alma mater. " " The night before the presentation, she said she got a call from the vice chair of the education department who had raised concerns with the contents. A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” while the USAID section might be perceived as “anti governmental.” Liu, who was already in New York when she got the call, offered to make edits to those slides but then three hours later, after some deliberations, she said the university apologized and said they had to cancel."

Trump said a couple of days ago, after appointing his personal lawyer as the US Attorney for New Jersey, that he expected the Courts to go after "very bad people of crime". He also said he had pardoned a convicted fraudster because "he was one of the first people to support a gentleman called Donald Trump for President". Having removed the Associated Press from the White House press corps, because they refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by another name, he has appointed in their place a right wing blogger who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Kremlin to parrot Russian propaganda. Trump following Putin's playbook, page by page.

Marine Le Pen banned from public office for 5 years, so out of the next French Presidential election.

Trump has said that whilst they are putting up barriers to immigration, Afrikaaner "refugees" from South Africa will be welcomed if they want to escape the "egregious racial discrimination" being enacted by the SA Government..

They play at the Etihad on April 12th.

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Disney being investigated by the FCC over it's diversity and inclusion processes.

ICE have started revoking people's visas without informing them, so that the first they know of it is when they are snatched off the street by ICE agents and shipped to an out of State prison, which means that they are denied any access to lawyers or due process, and their friends and families have no idea where they are.

Ukraine may have to choose which dictator it wants as overlord; https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/donald-trump-control-ukraine-critical-minerals-energy/ "A new draft US deal sent to Kyiv on Sunday reportedly sets out the fresh requirements, which include no security guarantees for Ukraine, The Financial Times reports. Senior Ukrainian officials told the outlet the proposal could undermine the country's sovereignty and ramp up its dependence on the US. The draft reportedly states that the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund will control Ukraine’s “critical minerals or other minerals, oil, natural gas (including liquified [sic] natural gas), fuels or other hydrocarbons and other extractable materials”. It says the US will also control infrastructure linked to natural resources “including, but not limited to, roads, rail, pipelines and other transportation assets; ports, terminals and other logistics facilities and refineries, processing facilities, natural gas liquefaction and/or regasification facilities and similar assets”. The new draft mark a huge increase on Trump's demands in an initial minerals deal accord drawn up earlier this month."

One of the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador for being a violent gang member was picked up by ICE because of his 'gang related' tattoos. He has 2 tattoos, one says "Brother" alongside his brother's name, and the other, alleged to denote gang membership, is an autism awareness ribbon.

Europe has still not weaned itself off Russian oil and gas.

Given Putin's comments this morning regarding the Ukrainian Government, maybe Zelensky should suggest that there is a democratic election in Russia, under the supervision of the UN, and then peace talks could take place with Russia's new 'legitimate' leadership.

They must have been confused because the map was the wrong way round

Maybe Trump was right about the Department of Edukayshun.

Why can't we just pay him Statutory Sick Pay ?

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MTG only cares about 3 things; guns, guns, and kissing Trump's arse.

Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, is the person who "accidentally" invited Jeffrey Goldberg into the SIGNAL chat. Waltz says he does not know Goldberg, yet to add him into the chat he must have had his phone number listed in his contacts on his phone. ( Goldberg says they have met several times ). And now Elon Musk has been tasked with finding out how Goldberg happened to be included. I think our 5 year old Granddaughter could manage that. Maybe one of Musk's pubescent DOGE agents could explain it to the group, perhaps using emoticons.

OK, Thom, now tell us how you really feel.

Democrats trolling Hegseth and Waltz

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The National Security Advisor, Director of National Intelligence, Head of the CIA, Head of the FBI, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, Middle East Special Advisor, and others, have all admitted the SIGNAL exchange happened. Even Trump has said so. Today the Atlantic has published the entire SIGNAL exchange - in response the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has called the new article a hoax. She must be living in a parallel universe.

Greenland would be my choice.

Tulsi Gabbard in front of the Congressional Committee investigating the SIGNAL group chat was asked to confirm that she was TG in the thread. "I don't want to get into specifics" was her reply, and when pressed on the question repeated this response. Other senior officers who were also involved were asked if they had participated in other SIGNAL chats potentially involving classified information, to a man they all replied "Not that I can recall". Surely they would know if they had used an unsanctioned, insecure device. The use of SIGNAL in these cases is a breach of the Espionage Act, and against Congressional rules that all communications must be retained. The use of SIGNAL in violation of these rules is to ensure that nothing is retained that might later be subjected to Freedom of Information requests.

Look at it from the other perspective, should people who are not in Government be given access to secret information ? I personally think certain individuals should, such as the leaders of the opposition parties in the HoC, but Trump has a far more simplistic, peurile and spiteful personality.