02-29-2024, 08:18 AM
USA
Safer he said!? People get killed, especially in gun free zones, and they're supposed to be safe?
But this gets only worse from here if you read a related article...
And still, we're supposed to believe in global warming.
That actually means that they wanna commit genocide against Jews.
EUROPE
ASIA
MIDDLE EAST
LATIN AMERICA
AFRICA
US Government
Quote:Vice President Kamala Harris revealed on Tuesday that the government could pay college students to register voters.
Harris said that students could receive the funds from the work-study federal program that pays a student’s wages while employed at a part-time job.
“We have been doing work to promote voter participation for students,” Harris said. “For example, we have, under the Federal Work-Study program, now allow students to get paid through Federal Work-Study to register people and to be non-partisan poll workers.”
“As we know, this is important for a number of reasons. One, to engage our young leaders in this process and activate them in terms of their ability to strengthen our communities,” she added.
The vice president’s proposal attracted more than a few detractors, believing it would be a use of taxpayer funds for political purposes.
“Biden signed EO14019 ordering federal govt to use taxpayer $ to mobilize (his) voters,” said Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) on X. “@StephenM has FOIAed details, and I’ve sought them in Congress, but Biden is hiding them. Sounds like the election-year plan is underway.”
Quote:Ocasio-Cortez’s defense of Hunter highlights her change in political disposition from a once lefty populist turned establishment protectorate of the Bidens.
“What we just witnessed over the last hour was, I think, a deep sea fishing expedition,” the Democrat congresswoman alleged. “The Republican case has completely fallen apart over the last several weeks.”
Hunter is a material witness in the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, who denied involvement in the Biden business at least nine times.
The House investigation previously found a massive web of wire transfers, 20 shell companies, and associates who helped the Biden business rake in at least $24 million from foreign nationals over the course of approximately five years.
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“They [Republicans] are now trying to scramble to find anything to substantiate their fairytale — is what we should call this,” Ocasio-Cortez alleged.
She continued, “But I think, more disturbingly, what we are seeing is just a complete and inappropriate expedition into the president’s son and for matters in subjects that are completely unrelated to an impeachment investigation.”
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House investigators launched the probe into the Biden family in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden received money from James Biden and Hunter Biden. They also showed that nine additional Biden family members received payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.
Hunter claimed Wednesday his father’s involvement in the Biden business is merely a “MAGA-motivated conspiracy” despite mountains of evidence. He used careful language during an opening statement to claim he did not involve Joe Biden, 81, in his business.
Quote:Biden said, “I’ve taken more executive actions to stop the flow of illegal guns than any other administration in history. And we beat the NRA when I signed the most significant gun safety law in nearly 30 years.”
He continued, “We’re going to finish the job. We’re going to ban ‘assault weapons’ and ‘high-capacity’ magazines’ next time around because it has to be done.”
Nursing student Laken Riley was found dead on the University of Georgia campus last Thursday, and Breitbart News reported that the man suspected of killing her is a non-U.S. citizen. People magazine pointed out that Riley “died from blunt force trauma to the head.”
But Biden pushed for gun control, and he told reporters, “My administration is going to choose progress over politics, and communities across the country are safer as a result of that policy. There is no greater responsibility than to ensure the safety of families, children, communities, and our nation.”
Safer he said!? People get killed, especially in gun free zones, and they're supposed to be safe?
But this gets only worse from here if you read a related article...
Quote:The Wednesday announcement, however, arrived amid a rush of media reports about brutal crimes committed by the unvetted and unidentified migrants that Biden is releasing into the United States.
In Georgia, for example, nurse in training Laken Riley was murdered on February 22, and the suspect is a Venezuelan migrant who was welcomed into the United States by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
In Virginia, Renzo Mendoza Montes, another illegal alien from Venezuela, was arrested on February 22 for child sexual abuse charges.
In Illinois, four migrant men allegedly attacked and robbed a 48-year-old man on a Chicago train on February 17.
In a western suburb of Philadelphia, police have identified at least three gangs of migrants responsible for the theft of thousands of dollars of merchandise since January, according to WPVI-TV.
Biden did not mention the crime wave by his migrants.
“As president, public safety and crime reduction are a top priority for my administration,” Biden told the White House meeting of police chiefs before listing his massive spending to counter the crime spike that started in 2014, Biden continued:
Our plan is working. We still have much more to do as everyone at this table knows. And that’s why we’re here today. My administration is going to choose progress over politics, and communities across the country are safer as a result [of] policy. There is no greater responsibility to ensure the safety of families, children, communities, and our nation.
Judiciary Section
Quote:Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis subjected her employees to mandatory race training, forcing the entire office to rate “Black” or “White” skin colors as either “Good” or “Bad,” according to training slides and video exclusively obtained by Breitbart News.
“If you didn’t participate in the quiz, you got fired,” a source exclusively told Breitbart News about Willis’s policy.
Sources who shared the race training with Breitbart News wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution due to their direct knowledge of the “corrupt” and “hostile work environment” inside the District Attorney’s Office.
Sources described the race training as a directive straight from Willis, “[who] injected racism [into the office] from the second she got hired.” Willis won election in 2020 and is up for reelection this November. In 2021, she began probing former President Donald Trump.
Dubbed an “implicit bias test,” a Harvard website generated the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” slides that made some sources feel ashamed of being white employees.
“Willis had some guy be live for roughly eight hours,” a source said. “He was a former member of Obama’s White House.”
The training suggested the United States was founded on the sins of white men and the slaughter of native Americans, one source described. “I thought it was so wrong.”
“Willis pulled it off as diversity [training], but it was more so an attack on the race [relations] thing,” a source explained.
One element of the training described by a source was a slide test where users had to choose to move an image of a “white” person to a block that said “bad” in order to complete the program...
Quote:The U.S. Supreme Court has granted former President Donald Trump’s request to decide if he is immune from prosecution on charges of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The court will consider “Whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.”
The Wednesday court order granting certiorari to Trump says oral arguments will begin the week of April 22. The order also instructs the appellate court to keep Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against Trump paused until the Supreme Court reaches a decision on the immunity matter.
That question has already delayed what was an expedited schedule for the prosecution. A federal grand jury in D.C. indicted Trump on four counts on August 1, 2023, and after legal back-and-forth between Smith and Trump’s legal team, the court set a March 4, 2024 trial date.
Before today’s order by the court, District Judge Tanya Chutkan had delayed that trial date, as the case has been on hold since December. Today’s order makes clear that pre-trial work in that prosecution must remain on hold.
Prominent attorney Jonathan Turley said after the announcement that the timeline “is a blow to Smith,” arguing that although the Court did not grant a stay, “It has constructively created such a stay by scheduling the argument. Keep in mind, even if Smith prevails, pre-trial work must wait for the return of the mandate.”
Warning
Quote:The storm will begin on Thursday and will likely continue through Sunday with blizzard warnings in effect for the Sierra Nevada. Per the San Francisco Chronicle:
A prolonged storm will begin Thursday and is anticipated to continue through Sunday. In the Sierra Nevada, blizzard warnings are in effect for potentially historic snowfall, with up to 12 feet possible. While the mountains will take the brunt of the impacts, the Bay Area can expect the same weather system to bring periods of heavy rain, gusty winds and accumulating snow above 2,500 feet.
Snowfall forecasts in the Sierra Nevada have remained consistent over the past few days, with the probability of higher-end totals increasing as the storm approaches. Up to 12 feet of snow is possible along the western Sierra crest, including Donner Pass, with up to 4 feet in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
Locations along Interstate 80 in Placer County, including the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, could set single-day snowfall records, topping the previous high of 49 inches, set at Squaw Valley (now Palisades Tahoe) in 1958. A blizzard warning is in effect from Thursday morning through Sunday morning.
Fox Weather notes that the record snowfall in California’s mountain regions could be as high as 10 feet, with the worst of it being felt in the Sierra Nevada. People have been advised to avoid mountain travel through the weekend. The NWS Reno Office even warned that walking outside could be hazardous.
And still, we're supposed to believe in global warming.
Violence
Quote:Jewish students at University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley) were forced to leave campus after a mob of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters shut down their speaking event featuring Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Ran Bar-Yoshafat.How exactly is the public supposed to accept this Intifada they're promoting like crazy?
A speaking event, titled “Israel at War: Combat the Lies,” at Zellerbach Playhouse on the UC Berkeley campus was shut down Monday night after a mob of protesters stormed the area chanting, “Long live the Intifada!” and breaking glass on the doors of the building in which the event was set to be held.
Additional footage posted to social media revealed that some of the anti-Israel protesters had entered the venue before the event could start.
“You guys f*** leave,” a protester clad in a keffiyeh can be heard saying to a student, who replied, “No, this is a private event, you are not welcome here.”
“This is a private event,” the student continued. “You should leave. Stop terrorizing Jewish students. You are the common-day Nazi. You’re a Nazi, leave. My grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Stop harassing us. Leave.”
Other video footage shows protesters banging on the glass doors outside the building.
The anti-Israel protesters were seen holding signs that read, “Students Against Zionism,” “Stop the Genocide,” and “Long Live the Intifada!”
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EUROPE
Ukraine War
Quote:Officials in pro-Russian separatist Transnistria voted at the Congress of Deputies on Wednesday to ask Moscow for protection from Moldova, from which the country split in 1990 and fought a war of independence with until 1992 amid the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Transnistrians claim Moldova is attempting to use financial pressure to force it to reunite and complains of a sharp deterioration in relations this year, accusing Chișinău of trying to destroy their economy.
Transnistria is internationally seen as being inside the borders of post-Cold War Moldova, and has never been recognised as a nation by any other country — not even Russia. Nevertheless, in practice the 1,600-square mile breakaway has been essentially ‘self-governing’ under a ceasefire with Moldova and in a legal grey zone for over 30 years.
While Moldova itself is predominantly ethnically Moldovan-Romanian, the small Transnistrian region has a sizable Russian ethnic minority. The call for assistance to Moscow to protect a Russian minority from alleged discrimination by a pro-European Union government will naturally trigger comparisons to the early days of the Ukraine war in 2014, when ‘little green men’ appeared in eastern Ukrainian regions, ostensibly to protect Russian minorities from Kyiv.
Indeed, it is possible Transnistrian authorities will take calling another referendum on integration with Russia as the next step, again a progression reminiscent of the events surrounding Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.
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Russian state media was also quick to publish material on the vote, noting “Transnistrian leader” Vadim Krasnoselsky asked for support on the strength that “more 220,000 Russian nationals reside in the unrecognized breakaway republic” and claiming “Russian peacekeeping” has been so successful in the past.
The motion’s wording read, Moscow states: “Transnistria will persistently fight for its identity, the rights and interests of the Transnistrian people and will not give up on protecting them, despite any blackmail or external pressure.”
Quote:Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that EU nations have only managed to deliver 30 per cent of their pledged artillery shells, once again underscoring the hapless state of Europe’s military capabilities.
While establishment media, Eurocrats, and Kyiv have all pointed their fingers at the United States and the ongoing dispute over further American funding of Ukraine as a reason for recent battlefield losses to the Russians, President Zelensky revealed that the apparent artillery shortage is in large part due to failures of the EU to meet its commitments.
“Out of the million shells that the European Union promised us, not 50 per cent came, but 30 per cent, unfortunately,” Zelensky told reporters this week according to the EU-funded Euractiv website.
Brussels committed last year to send at least a million shells to Ukraine by March of this year, however, in January, the bloc admitted that it would only be able to meet half that, with around 524,000 shells planned to have been delivered by the end of next month. Yet, so far, only 355,000 ammunition artillery rounds have been sent to Kyiv from EU states. They now claim that they will surpass the million shell mark by the end of the year.
Commenting on the shortfalls, the EU’s top diplomat, Spanish socialist politician Josep Borrell — whose own country has consistently failed to meet NATO spending requirements — urged EU countries to find ways to step up their efforts, saying: “Ukrainian soldiers are determined to fight, but they need ammunition. Urgently and in huge quantities.”
Terrorist Attack?
Quote:Traces of a toxic, colorless gas were found at the headquarters of Sweden´s security agency where a suspected gas leak last week forced authorities to evacuate some 500 people from the facility, a local paper reported Wednesday.
The daily Svenska Dagbladet newspaper said authorities had found traces of phosgene. The gas has a strong odor that can cause vomiting and breathing trouble and was used as a weapon in World War I.
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On Friday, eight people from the headquarters in Solna, just north of Stockholm, were hospitalized, following the evacuation. There were no reports of anyone being seriously injured.
Those admitted to the hospital suffered breathing problems, authorities said. Some of them were officers who smelled the gas when they arrived at the scene, police said.
Images showed first responders and police officers wearing gas masks at the security headquarters. Swedish media reported that a zone measuring 500 meters (about 547 yards) in diameter was set up protectively.
Authorities asked people living near the Swedish security agency, known by its acronym SAPO, to keep their windows closed at the time.
After the evacuation, SAPO said Friday that the rescue service “had established that there was no gas either inside the premises or outside the building.”
Motherhood
Quote:The proposed amendment “diminishes the unique importance of the relationship between marriage and family in the eyes of Society and State and is likely to lead to a weakening of the incentive for young people to marry,” the bishops said in a February 25 statement.
The so-called Care amendment “would have the effect of abolishing all reference to motherhood in the Constitution and leave unacknowledged the particular and incalculable societal contribution that mothers in the home have made and continue to make in Ireland,” they note.
“The role of mothers should continue to be cherished in our Constitution,” they add.
Ireland is set to vote in a referendum on March 8 to change the wording of Irish Constitution on Family and Care
Irish citizens will be asked to weigh in on an amendment to Article 41, which currently defines family as “founded on marriage,” to include “other durable relationships.”
“The Family, based on the exclusive, life-long and life-giving public commitment of Marriage, is the foundational cell of society and essential to the common good,” the bishops assert in their statement, reiterating Catholic teaching on the matter.
ASIA
Fatal Elections
Quote:Indonesia takes some pride in holding the world’s largest single-day election, but the toll this takes on overworked election staffers is severe.
At least 114 poll workers died and more than 15,000 have required medical treatment since the February 14 elections.
The Indonesian Health Ministry said the poll workers were mostly killed by exhaustion-related diseases such as hypertension, respiratory disease, and heart failure. Roughly 60 percent of the fallen poll workers were between ages 41 and 60.
Channel News Asia (CNA) noted that 2024’s grim death toll was quite a bit lower than 2019, the first time Indonesia held elections for the presidency and legislature on the same day. Almost 900 election workers died during the 2019 contest.
The General Elections Commission implemented several reforms after the deadly 2019 elections, including a maximum age of 55 for poll workers and mandatory health screenings. The health ministry credited these reforms for the 70 percent reduction in deaths from 2019, but said there was clearly room for further improvements.
Indonesia’s poll workers put in agonizing hours, with some reporting shifts of 26 hours and more. They receive few breaks, and they often have to deal with difficult weather conditions. Election officials were seen walking through shin-deep water in flooded parts of Java on February 14, for example.
Few Births in Several Countries
Quote:South Korea already had the unwelcome distinction of the world’s worst fertility crisis and, on Wednesday, the Population Census Division at Statistics Korea revealed the lowest birth rate on the planet for 2023, a mere 0.72 children per fertile woman. Anything less than 1.3 children per woman is considered “very low fertility,” while a stable population requires at least 2.1.
To use another common metric, the number of South Korean newborns per 2,000 population fell to 4.5, down from an already alarming 4.9 the previous year.
“The number of newborns in 2023 was 230,000, which was 19,200 fewer than the year before, representing a 7.7 percent decrease,” reported Population Census Division chief Lim Young-il.
The latest drop in birth rates came despite enormous spending by the South Korean government to reduce the financial burdens of motherhood and a vigorous public relations campaign to encourage young couples to marry and have children. Turning birth rates around is one of the top stated priorities of President Yoon Suk-yeol’s government.
South Korean politicians and academics have warned the country faces “national extinction” if population decline is not reversed, a warning first issued by Professor David Coleman of the University of Oxford, who predicted in 2006 that South Korea could become the first “population extinction nation.”
The news was not much better in Japan, where the number of babies born last year fell to a record low, and the national population shrank by the largest amount ever recorded.
According to the Japanese health ministry, births fell by 5.1 percent to 758,631, and the overall population declined by 831,872, including foreign residents. The number of new marriages fell to post-World War II lows, while the number of divorces increased substantially.
The figures came as a surprise to the Japanese government, which previously estimated that births would not dip below 760,000 until 2035.
“The period over the next six years or so until 2030s, when the younger population will start declining rapidly, will be the last chance we may be able to reverse the trend. There is no time to waste,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi Yoshimasa warned on Tuesday.
Japanese researchers focused on the decline of marriages as a key factor in the population slide, given that like many Asian societies, Japan has a strong cultural aversion to out-of-wedlock births. China has begun experimenting with efforts to lift the social stigma against single-parent families and provide them with more generous subsidies, but Japan seems reluctant to take that step.
In Singapore, the fertility rate dropped below 1.0 for the first time in its history last year, after dropping to 1.12 in 2021 and 1.04 in 2022.
Singaporean officials blamed some of the decline on marriages and pregnancies being delayed by the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, although those trends should have long since begun reversing.
MIDDLE EAST
Saudi Arabia & Ukraine
Quote:Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky briefly visited Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, receiving a warm greeting from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and engaging in what Zelensky called a “candid and meaningful conversation.”
The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a large set of photos of the crown prince welcoming Zelensky and his delegation to the country on Tuesday, shaking hands and smiling together.
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The Saudi Press Agency offered that the Crown Prince “affirmed the Kingdom’s keeness and support for all international endeavours and efforts aimed at resolving the Ukrainian-Russian crisis” during the meeting.
Zelensky published several posts on social media describing the nature of his visit and thanking his hosts for their hospitality.
“I had a meaningful and candid conversation with His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,” he wrote in a message published on Twitter. “We discussed the Peace Formula’s points and the progress that can be made in implementing them. Saudi Arabia’s leadership can assist in finding equitable solutions.”
Ukraine introduced a plan to end the Russian invasion it calls the “Peace Formula” in late 2022 that consists of a full embargo by nearly all world states on business with Russia, the establishment of special court systems to try Russians accused of war crimes in Ukraine, and mapping out “security guarantees” for Ukraine following the end of the hostilities.
Zelensky noted in his statement on his visit to Saudi Arabia that he will again promote the plan in an imminent “Global Peace Summit” in Switzerland. He insisted that Ukraine enjoyed “ongoing active support” from Saudi Arabia on the issue of the “peace summit.”
Iran's Antimigration Policies
And guess what's the most ironic of this situation: they're building a wall just like Trump did in America back in his administration!
Quote:Iran’s top diplomat on Afghanistan issues reportedly claimed in an interview on Wednesday his country is studying the best way to construct a border wall to protect itself from terror threats emanating from its eastern neighbor.
Iran has supported the Taliban, the terrorist organization that governs Afghanistan unopposed, geopolitically since its ascent to power in August 2021 – the result of leftist President Joe Biden extending the 20-year Afghan War with seemingly no coherent plan for withdrawal. Iran recognizes the Taliban as an “interim” government, one of the few countries to do so, and has repeatedly condemned the United States for its anti-terrorist operations in Afghanistan.
The bilateral relationship with the Taliban has been much more challenging for Tehran. The two countries share a border along the Helmand River. Iran has repeatedly accused the Taliban of using a dam on Afghan territory to block the flow of the river and deprive Iranians of critical water access. The Taliban insists that it has not done so and any water shortages are the result of droughts that affect both countries.
The dispute erupted in violence last year as border guards shot at each other. A senior Taliban commander threatened to “conquer” Iran in May.
The Afghan news site Khaama Press translated the remarks by Special Representative for Afghanistan Kazemi Qomi to the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) in which he claimed the border plan was “essential for national sovereignty” in light of mounting issues with the Taliban government across the border.
Israel & Lebanon
Quote:Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant called Wednesday for ultra-Orthodox men to be drafted into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for the first time in more than 75 years of the State of Israel’s existence, due to current military needs.
Ultra-Orthodox men who are studying religion have been exempt from military service under an arrangement first made by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first leader. Since then, the religious population has boomed.
Some religious men do serve in the military, often in conjunction with religious study, but their service is voluntary. Some Israelis resent the additional burden the religious exemptions place on other citizens.
Gallant spoke as the IDF prepares for an increasingly likely war with Iranian-backed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which has been firing missiles at Israeli communities since Hamas terrorists launched a war on Israel on October 7.
Reservists have been withdrawn from the Gaza Strip, even as the regular army continues to fight there, but it is clear that many may be called back to service within a few months if the IDF mobilizes to deal with the threat in the north.
LATIN AMERICA
Argentina
Quote:Argentine prosecutor Mario Villar asked the nation’s courts on Monday to increase the six-year prison sentence imposed on former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who was convicted of corruption in 2022, to 12 years.
Villar is also proposing that the courts reject Fernández de Kirchner’s appeal in the case, commonly referred to as Causa Vialidad (Road Case), which presently prevents her from serving the original sentence.
Argentine courts sentenced Fernández de Kirchner to six years in prison in December 2022 for defrauding the Argentine state of upwards of $1 billion through dozens of public road work contracts granted to Argentine businessman and close friend Lázaro Báez during her two presidential terms from 2007 to 2015.
Additionally, the court banned her from holding any public office in Argentina for life. Fernández de Kirchner was also facing illicit association charges as part of the Road Case, but the court ruled to acquit her, only convicting her of the corruption charges.
Fernández de Kirchner has not served her sentence as she was both the nation’s vice president and the head of the Argentine Senate at the time of her conviction, which granted her immunity from the court’s ruling.
Fernández de Kirchner then initiated a lengthy appeal process. The process presently protects her from serving jail time even after losing her immunity status following the start of President Javier Milei’s presidential term in December 2023. The Argentine legal system requires the Criminal Cassation Chamber and then the Supreme Court of Justice to review the appeals before she goes to prison.
Quote:The announcement was made on Tuesday during presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni’s press conference. Adorni added that “everything related to the gender-based perspective” will also be banned throughout the national public administration.
“They are going to proceed, to initiate, the proceedings to ban inclusive language and everything related to gender-based perspective throughout the national public administration,” Adorni said. “Of course, you already know all the details. You are not going to be able to use the letter ‘e’, the ‘@ symbol’, the ‘x’ and avoid the unnecessary use of the feminine in all documents of the public administration.”
Argentina’s official language is Spanish, a romance language that is gendered by nature, where nouns, pronouns, articles, adjectives, and even objects have a defined masculine or feminine gender. Masculine words tend to end in -o, while feminine words tend to end in -a. Leftist movements have attempted to replace the o and a with “inclusive” replacements such as -e or -x – for example, saying “Latine” or “Latinx” instead of “Latino” or “Latina” – which render the language incoherent.
In the United States, the most widespread known case of “inclusive” language is “Latinx,” a word that is not just unpronounceable in Spanish’s language rules, but is widely rejected and reviled by Hispanics. The “@” symbol, which is not a letter, has also been used by leftists to replace the letters “o” and “a” as well to denote “gender neutrality,” even if the word itself is rendered not pronounceable in Spanish as a result.
These “inclusive” leftist modifications to the Spanish language are widely frowned upon by organizations such as the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), a Spain-based institution founded in the 18th century that is dedicated to the preservation and correct use of the Spanish language.
AFRICA
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Quote:ECOWAS ministers met in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, on Saturday for closed-door emergency talks on the junta crisis. The West African economic bloc imposed tough sanctions against Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali after juntas overthrew their civilian governments between 2020 and 2023.
In response, the three junta governments announced in late January they would quit ECOWAS because they said the bloc had lost the “spirit of pan-Africanism” and had fallen under “the influence of foreign powers.”
The juntas said ECOWAS sanctions against them were “illegitimate, inhumane, and irresponsible.” They said they intended to create their own trilateral confederation called the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).
Niger additionally accused the bloc of interfering with its “existential fight against terrorism and insecurity.” Niger’s junta leaders claim they had to seize power because deposed President Mohamed Bazoum was too weak against terrorism.
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ECOWAS emerged from its closed-door session on Saturday to announce it would lift sanctions, unfreeze Niger’s financial assets, lift restrictions on commerce with Niger, and reopen the border immediately. According to ECOWAS President Omar Touray, some “targeted” and “political” sanctions against the Niger junta would remain in place, but he did not specify which ones.
The statement also lifted some sanctions against Guinea, which fell to a coup in 2021 but did not join the other juntas in quitting ECOWAS. The Guinea junta claimed that it dissolved its “interim government” but did not say what it would be replaced with or if elections would be held.
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