ROME, Italy — Pope Francis accused the West of racism Friday, insisting migrants are “subdivided” by skin color and country of origin.
“Refugees are subdivided,” the pontiff declared during a lengthy Good Friday interview on Italian television. “There’s first class, second class, skin color, [whether] they come from a developed country [or] one that is not developed.”
“We are racists, we are racists. And this is bad,” the pope stated.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than 900 civilian bodies have been discovered in the region surrounding the Ukrainian capital following the withdrawal of Russian forces — most of them fatally shot, police said Friday, an indication that many people were “simply executed.”
The number of dead is double that announced by Ukrainian authorities almost two weeks ago.
Andriy Nebytov, the head of Kyiv’s regional police force, said the bodies were abandoned in the streets or given temporary burials. He cited police data indicating that 95% died from gunshot wounds.
“Consequently, we understand that under the (Russian) occupation, people were simply executed in the streets,” Nebytov said.
Expert interview: What Russia did in Syria, may predict what happens next in Ukraine
First Syria and Chechnya, and now Ukraine — experts have already drawn many parallels between the Russian approach to conflicts in those areas.
Hanna Notte, a senior research associate with the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, focuses on security issues and arms control with a particular emphasis on where those intersect when it comes to Russia and the Middle East.
DW spoke to Notte about parallels she has observed in conflicts in Syria and now in Ukraine, and how that may help predict what happens next in Ukraine.
“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the motto of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post. It may sound like a warning, but more and more it seems like a summary of the left’s aspirations to control debate and shut down any opposition.
A recent example of those aspirations appeared in a column by former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s big buy of Twitter stock. The original headline — changed after widespread mockery — was this: “Elon Musk’s vision for the Internet is dangerous nonsense: Musk has long advocated a libertarian vision of an ‘uncontrolled’ internet. That’s also the dream of every dictator, strongman and demagogue.”
Update – Twitter Board of Directors Takes Action to Thwart Elon Musk Takeover
Islamization becomes irreversible when the Muslim population reaches 20%. French election results can speed the process or slow it.
“The British will be a minority by 2066”. The banner with those words flew over the heads of the spectators at the football match between Manchester City and Liverpool. A light plane with a banner attached passed over the Etihad Stadium, causing a wave of outrage on social media. “Who pays to fly these racist Etihad banners?”
Unfortunately, the phrase (“the British will be a minority by 2066”) does not come from an old English fascist like Mosley, but from David Coleman, the most important demographer in England, a professor at Oxford. “By 2066, whites born in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be outnumbered,” writes Coleman in the left-wing Prospect magazine. “The 50 percent threshold has no special demographic meanings, but it will have a considerable psychological and political impact and the transition from majority to minority will represent a huge change in cultural, political and religious identity.”
The sinking of the Moskva, which is the Black Sea fleet’s flagship, has both symbolic and operational significance.
Beyond its symbolic role, it is the sole vessel in the fleet equipped with wide-area air defences in the form of the S-300F. The Moskva has thus provided air cover to other vessels during their operations, which have included coastal bombardments and amphibious feints.
In the absence of the Moskva, the fleet lacks vessels with a comparable air defence suite, and will thus find it more risky to conduct similar operations.
There’s been a lot of panic over the “P” word lately. Yes, Pierre Poilievre, but more specifically, populism. The term is being weaponized to villainize candidates who oppose the elite status quo, often implying they have devious ulterior motives, anti-democratic leanings and racist views.
More than 150 Palestinians have been injured in clashes with Israeli police at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, Palestinian medics say.
Israeli police said officers entered the site after coming under attack with fireworks, stones and other objects.
Three Israeli police were hurt, they said.
The flashpoint site is deeply important to Muslims and Jews, who know it as the Temple Mount, and is at the heart of competing historical claims.
Riots on temple mount and inside #AlAqsa mosque. Palestinians throw stones and Israeli security forces fire back. Dozens injured.
Last year hamas fired 7 rockets at Jerusalem following similar riots, prompting an 11 day conflict. Operation guardian of the walls 2.0 gets closer. pic.twitter.com/Z609OAUt4V— Erez Neumark 🇮🇱🇧🇪 (@ErezNeumark) April 15, 2022
Terrorist stabbing attack in Haifa
Teenage Arab girl stabs man in Haifa after father warns of her plans to carry out terror attack in the capital.
Pope Francis to make 3 Canadian stops in July to meet residential school survivors, sources say
Pope Francis is expected to visit at least three cities during a late July trip to Canada, CBC News has learned.
Sources involved in the planning of the trip say the Pope will likely make stops in Edmonton, Quebec City and Iqaluit during what is scheduled to be about a four-day trip to the country. CBC News is not identifying the confidential sources because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The pontiff initially announced plans for the visit during his Vatican meetings on April 1 with Indigenous delegates from Canada, where he offered an initial apology for the actions of individual Roman Catholic Church members in Canada’s residential schools.
I wonder if Francis will participate in a ceremonial church burning?
Moscow says it will respond to any Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory by striking Kyiv with more missiles.
The “number and scale” of attacks will go up if its own settlements become targets, the ministry said.
The warning came as Russia announced a missile strike on a military factory near Kyiv, which it claimed was in response to a Ukrainian helicopter attack on a Russian village.
Ukraine denies it carried out the attack.
Russia near to defaulting on overseas debts, says ratings agency
Russia’s switch to making debt payments in roubles has brought the heavily sanctioned country to the brink of defaulting on its debts, according to a leading credit rating agency.
Heaping further pressure on Vladimir Putin’s beleaguered government, Moody’s said that without a return before 4 May to making payments in dollars as agreed under the terms of Russia’s loans, Moscow could be in default, allowing creditors to claim insurance payouts and tainting the country’s reputation as a reliable counterparty.
The warning by Moody’s of an impending default is expected to be met with an angry response from Putin’s administration, which has denied that the rules governing its loans prevent Russia making interest payments in roubles.
#Ukraine: A Ukrainian BTR-4 took out a Russian tank with 30mm autocannon fire in #Donetsk Oblast recently. pic.twitter.com/PCukpUjw3r
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 14, 2022
The FBI sought and obtained both subpoenas and orders prohibiting the subpoenaed parties—Apple and Google—from disclosing the existence of the subpoenas in the bureau’s investigation into a diary from Ashley Biden, President Joe Biden’s daughter, according to newly released documents.
The court filings show the FBI was seeking “evidence of communications regarding or in furtherance of the subject offenses, such as communications regarding Ashley Biden … and/or Ashley Biden’s associated regarding her stolen property.”
The bureau also was working to find evidence showing “the location of Ashley Biden’s property.”
My teenage daughter has decided that she is “trans”. So have all her friends. Not some of them. Not most of them. Every. Single. One.
She had never heard of trans, and had no signs of gender dysphoria, until she was moved to a new, cool trans-friendly school by her unsuspecting, politically liberal parents. There she met a group of geeky (or dare I say nerdy?), smart, slightly (but not very) gender nonconforming, artsy kids. As I understand it, they all discovered “trans” together. The old “cis” friends were swiftly discarded in favour of this exciting new peer group.
On the news of “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk’s hostile takeover bid of Twitter, the Washington Post’s Max Boot took to social media, along with many others, to claim that the threat of unregulated speech undermines “democracy”
“This Is an Organized Crime Story”: Putin Critic Bill Browder’s New Book on Corruption in Russia Finds New Relevance
… For years, Browder has been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, and devoted his life to exposing corruption in Russia after his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was tortured and beaten before he died in a Russian prison after being denied proper medical care for pancreatitis. For the past several years, he has urged the passage of the Magnitsky Act, in the U.S. and countries around the world, to punish those who commit human rights abuses. In Browder’s telling, he was analogously trapped in a glass box; he claims his warnings about Putin fell on deaf ears. “If we had used sanctions before the invasion, we could have done a much smaller amount of sanctions and it would’ve had a much bigger effect and the reason I say that is because Vladimir Putin has had a history over the last 20 years of doing terrible things and not having robust reactions to his terrible things,” he had told me earlier in the day at the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District. The U.S. should give Volodymyr Zelenskyy the no fly zone, he added.
Not every desire deserves to be empowered
Does progress have to mean the sexual liberation of children? Michel Foucault thought so, as did many of the now high-ranking Labour Party members who once supported the Paedophile Information Exchange. Sexual interest in children is hardly unique to the modern world, of course, or indeed the West. Child sex slaves were socially acceptable in ancient Rome, and the longstanding practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan still sees young boys feminised and abused by adult men.
Nor is paedophilia unique to the progressive Left. Just this week, Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy, prompting fellow Tory MP and LGBTQ advocate Crispin Blunt to declare angrily that Khan’s conviction was a “dreadful miscarriage of justice” and “nothing short of an international scandal”.
The transgender prisoner who got a fellow inmate pregnant is a 27-year-old killer serving 30 years for the manslaughter of his foster father, DailyMail.com can reveal.
And one of the women Demitrius Minor impregnated is a double murderer who killed a couple as they returned home from their engagement party.
The forbidden love inside the walls of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility will result in lifer Latonia Bellamy, 31, giving birth in early fall.
