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Crystal clear now how Carney lobbies and legislates for “green” policies such as heat pumps while positioning his corporate interests to benefit massively. There ya go:
https://youtu.be/znYf1YeRTRA?si=1ZTxwBQrxmEeE986
Imagine, if you will, you worked for a company and you came up with a brilliant idea to please your superiors, say you pitched an idea and said the cost would be 1.5 million dollars. Somehow, something went wrong with your scheme and it ended up costing 60 million dollars, would you still have a job? NO in the real world you would be out of work with no references.
So who were the peoplekind who approved Arrive Canada?
BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard Drops Bomb on Voting Machines — Says Evidence Shows Voting Machines Can Be Tampered With to Steal Elections
by Jim H?ft Apr. 10, 2025 1:13 pm
In a jaw-dropping moment during a high-level Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard dropped a bombshell: there is now evidence that electronic voting machines have been tampered with to manipulate election outcomes in the United States.
Gabbard gave a detailed update on her sweeping investigations into the politicization of intelligence and election interference.
Her statement confirmed what many conservatives have long suspected — that the very foundations of America’s electoral system have been compromised.
“I’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating. We have the best going after this, election integrity being one of them,” Gabbard said.
Click through for the videos and the rest of the article.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/tulsi-gabbard-drops-bomb-voting-machines-says-evidence/
WHOA! DOGE Makes Three Major Findings Regarding Unemployment Benefits Fraud, Including One Discovery That Left Elon Musk Shocked: “So Crazy I Had to Read It Several Times”
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/whoa-doge-makes-three-major-findings-regarding-unemployment/
Apr. 10, 2025 9:30 am
The fraud within the United States government is so rampant that it is leaving Elon Musk shocked.
On Wednesday, The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced its findings from an initial survey of unemployment insurance claims since 2020 and uncovered three stunning discoveries regarding unemployment fraud.
There is one that even the Babylon Bee would find far-fetched.
What they found will leave you livid:
24,500 people over 115 years old claimed $59 million in benefits.
28,000 people under the age of five claimed $254 million in benefits.
9,700 people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69 million in benefits. In one case, a person with a birthday in 2154 who claimed $41,000 in benefits.
All told, there was $382M worth of employment benefits fraud.
An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:
– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits
– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits
– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed…
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) April 10, 2025
Musk was left stunned as he shared DOGE’s latest findings.
“Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future!” Musk wrote on X.
“This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in.”
Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future!
This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in. https://t.co/U5qqcyUgzo
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2025
As The Gateway Pundit reported, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday revealed during a press briefing that Elon Musk’s DOGE team made a huge discovery.
“There has been a discovery. I hate to leave you hanging on a cliff, but I don’t want to get ahead of the president on that. But I can confirm there has been a discovery, but it’s just not quite ready for release,” Leavitt said.
President Trump also told reporters aboard Air Force One last week that DOGE found something “horrible” but refused to elaborate.
“We have found hundreds – think of it – just hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud and abuse and waste. They’re still going strong. They found something today that is horrible, it’s horrible,” Trump said.
Was Wednesday’s unemployment fraud the discovery Trump was referencing?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/whoa-doge-makes-three-major-findings-regarding-unemployment/
China’s Yuan falls to 17-year low after Trump tariffs kick in
The decline in Yuan comes as a trade war between the world’s two largest economies escalates. US President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries took effect on Wednesday, including massive 104% duties on Chinese goods.
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Trump on Tuesday accused China of manipulating its currency to offset the impact of tariffs.
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Yuan hits weakest level in 17 years amid US-China trade war
Onshore yuan closes at 7.35 per dollar, lowest since December 2007
China plans measures to boost economy and stabilise markets
China’s yuan ended at its weakest level in more than 17 years on Wednesday after its offshore counterpart fell to a record low overnight, as an escalating Sino-U.S. trade war rattled currency markets.
The onshore yuan finished the domestic trading session at 7.3498 per dollar, its weakest close since December 2007.
The declines come as a trade war between the world’s two largest economies escalates. U.S. President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries took effect on Wednesday, including massive 104% duties on Chinese goods.
https://www.indiatoday.in/business/story/china-currency-yuan-falls-17-year-low-donald-trump-us-tariff-125-percent-2706769-2025-04-10
Some People Need a Lesson in What Self-Defense Is and Isn’t
By Tom Knighton | 2:29 PM | April 10, 2025
AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File
A lot of people have ideas of what self-defense actually means, and a lot of people have a very wrong idea.
Usually, this doesn’t matter all that much since it’s largely confined to internet discussions between people who, thankfully, will never need to act in self-defense. Many of those who do find themselves in situations where the actions are clear, so their wrong ideas about the edges of what’s legal and what isn’t don’t come into play.
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Now, I’m not an expert on defensive gun uses. I’m more knowledgeable than many, less knowledgeable than many others, so I my word on where those edges are isn’t gospel by any stretch of the imagination.
But I do feel like I need to talk about this a bit because of the murder of Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet.
We haven’t talked about this case, mostly because this was a stabbing and guns didn’t come into play. We could have, of course, because there are other aspects that I find relevant, but there wasn’t a lot of information at first, then a lot of misinformation, and I wanted as close to the full story as possible before getting into it.
A lot of people have tried to say that Karmelo Anthony, the 17-year-old who is accused of killing Metcalf, acted in self-defense.
But let’s look at what happened, and thankfully, we have the story from the arrest report.
So Austin didn’t just politely ask Anthony to leave and got stabbed for it, and now we know why Anthony was asked to move.
Let’s understand that nothing Metcalf did remotely justified what happened. His initial request was legitimate because Anthony had no business in that tent, but then he escalated the situation. Metcalf didn’t back down, and while he might have pushed him, there was no reason to believe Anthony’s life was in danger as a result. Therefore, lethal force wasn’t warranted.
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There’s no case for self-defense here from what I can see.
Yet a lot of people who don’t understand the law claim it is. Why? Because they don’t know what they’re talking about and this fits their own narrative.
Meanwhile, many of the same types of people are questioning the police response to a recent incident.
Seventeen-year-old Victor Perez, who also has cerebral palsy, remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday after having nine bullets removed from his body and having his leg amputated, Ana Vazquez, his aunt, told The Associated Press. Doctors were planning tests on his brain activity.
“We don’t know if he’s going to wake up,” she said.
The shooting Saturday in Pocatello outraged the boy’s family and neighbors as well as viewers online who questioned why the officers opened fire within about 12 seconds of exiting their patrol cars while making no apparent effort to de-escalate the situation or use less lethal weapons. Dozens of protesters gathered outside the police department Sunday, eastidahonews.com reported.
Now, that framing does make the officers look pretty bad.
The problem is that the framing is meant to do just that. It’s not until much later we get the story.
Perez was still on the ground when police arrived at about 5:25 p.m. Four officers ran to the fence – three pulling out handguns and another pointing what appeared to be a shotgun. They ordered him to drop the knife. Instead, the boy stood up and began taking steps toward them with the knife in his hand. The officers shot repeatedly.
Andres said the police “appeared to be like a death squad or a firing squad,” adding: “They never once asked, ‘What is the situation, how can we help?’ They ran up with their guns drawn, they triggered a mentally disabled person to react and when he reacted … they shot him.”
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Yes, they did, as they should have.
See, when someone is armed, their mental disabilities are irrelevant. I get that autistic people may have communication issues and such, but when someone has a knife, refuses to drop it when ordered by police, then take a step toward them–an action that suggests aggression against the officers–then they’re going to light him up.
As they should have.
While Andres seems to think the police should have done everything differently, the truth is that they were acting in self-defense at that point. All this other stuff is irrelevant. The 911 caller said they thought the teen was drunk. They said nothing about them being autistic, having a mental health episode, or anything of the sort, but it wouldn’t matter if they had. Autistic people can hurt you just as much as anyone else.
In fact, let’s look at another incident that popped up in my news feed this morning, involving the wife of the bassist for the band Weezer.
Jillian Shriner, the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, was shot by LAPD and arrested Tuesday for attempted murder during a search for a hit-and-run suspect.
While searching a home in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon for a hit-and-run suspect, authorities spotted Jillian Shriner in the front yard of her house, located next door, holding a pistol. Police asked her to drop the weapon multiple times, but she refused, instead turning it on the officers, per the LAPD’s report on the incident. LAPD then opened fire and she was hit in the shoulder. No officers or members of the public were harmed during the incident, according to the LAPD report.
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Now, Shriner wasn’t killed. She ran back inside her home and came out later with her babysitter.
Let’s think about this one for a moment. The police show up and see someone armed. They order them to drop the weapon, but rather than do so, the individual makes an aggressive action.
Shiner got shot for it.
The fact that she survived is actually irrelevant to this discussion. If the police are justified in using force, whether the suspect lives or dies doesn’t matter. They’re to shoot to stop the threat, and whether that also involves stopping the heart and brain activity is beyond their control.
These actions by the police, though, are clearly self-defense. An armed person acted aggressively toward them. The police have to order someone to put the weapon down whereas private citizens generally don’t–other requirements might come into play, though–and they not only failed to comply but moved in a way that suggested they wanted to hurt someone.
Shriner, for the record, is charged with attempted murder for her actions.
Austin Metcalf, though, didn’t do anything of the sort. A kid who wasn’t where he was supposed to be was asked or told to leave. When he refused, it escalated into a physical altercation between near-peers, and rather than leave or engage in a fistfight that would likely have been stopped by school officials before it got out of hand, Anthony allegedly decided to draw out a knife and stab Metcalf in the chest.
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That’s not self-defense.
You can’t kill someone because they push you. “Texas is a Stand Your Ground state!” someone might try to respond, but that only means you don’t have to retreat from a threat a reasonable person believes could be deadly. What happened at that track meet didn’t meet that definition at all.
Don’t believe me? Ask Michael Drejka of Clearwater, Florida.
He got pushed. He was pushed down on his butt, even. He then drew his weapon and shot and killed a man. He’s now serving time for manslaughter.
Self-defense doesn’t mean that you can just wantonly kill people because they scare you. It doesn’t mean that you can escalate to lethal force simply because you don’t want to take a butt-whooping.
Yes, the two counterexamples I gave were police shootings, but the point still applies. Reasonable people have to be able to look at the situation and say, “Yeah, there’s a good reason someone thought they were going to die or be seriously harmed if they didn’t shoot.” That’s at a minimum. In Duty to Retreat states, you also have to show that you couldn’t escape from the attack via some other means, but that’s a whole other story.
Stop saying Anthony acted in self-defense. While he’s only accused of killing Metcalf, it seems pretty clear no one is disputing that he stabbed him in the chest. The only point of contention is that some people don’t understand what is and what isn’t self-defense.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/04/10/some-people-need-lesson-in-what-self-defense-is-and-isnt-n1228269
Firearms Instructor Offers Simple Reason for National Carry Reciprocity
By Cam Edwards | 9:31 AM | April 10, 2025
AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane
If we’re going to keep our Second Amendment rights secure, it’s critically important that we as gun owners aren’t just talking to ourselves but are also offering cogent arguments and explanations to non-Second Amendment supporters about why the right to keep and bear arms is so important.
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Pennsylvania firearms instructor Nayara Andrejczyk has done just that in an op-ed at PennLive.com, where she delivers a sensible take on the importance of being able to exercise our Second Amendment rights across state lines.
Eleven years ago, I was a stay-at-home mom living in the outskirts of Philadelphia. My two young children utterly depended upon me because their father, who was working full time while getting his master’s degree, was rarely home. I knew that if something were to happen, I was the first responder in our home and I would need to protect myself and my children. That’s when I decided to get my concealed carry permit.
Many states don’t require a special permit to carry a concealed firearm, but Pennsylvania, 20 other states, and the District of Columbia do. The requirements to apply for a permit vary from state to state, sometimes widely. What is problematic is that some states, like New Jersey, do not recognize concealed carry permits issued by other states, including its neighbors.
To put it plainly, I can lawfully carry a concealed handgun for self-defense anywhere in Pennsylvania, but if I make a wrong turn and innocently end up in New Jersey – as many have done – I could be facing felony charges and a substantial mandatory prison sentence.
I travel once or twice a month to Massachusetts to visit family or to help a pro-Second Amendment group (Gun Owners’ Action League) with events. Because New Jersey and surrounding states (New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island) do not have reciprocity and, therefore, don’t recognize my Pennsylvania permit, my ability to defend myself is limited every time I leave the state.
When I leave my home state, my gun and magazine must be locked up separately in different locations in my car, which means that I can’t readily defend myself. That’s nerve-wracking during stops along the way late at night or early in the morning. And I’m always concerned about being pulled over or getting into an accident while transporting my firearm. Despite having it safely stored and following the law, I worry about how things might go wrong.
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Andrejczyk says she maintained a non-resident permit for Massachusetts for several years, but eventually gave it up because of the expense and time-consuming paperwork that was involved. But as she notes, even when she had a LTC from the Bay State, she was still forced to be disarmed while traveling through New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut on her way to Massachusetts.
She didn’t lose her First Amendment rights when she crossed the Ben Franklin Bridge into New Jersey. Her Fourth Amendment right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures remained intact when driving through the Empire State. The only right she lost when crossing a state line was her right to bear arms in self-defense. Until that no longer remains the case, the Second Amendment is essentially the bastard stepchild of the Bill of Rights, and a second-class right compared to all the other liberties we possess.
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/04/10/firearms-instructor-offers-simple-reason-for-national-carry-reciprocity-n1228259
‘We May Be Dealing With an Artificially Engineered Virus’: Hungarian Senior Official Says Outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the Country May Be BIOTERRORISM Attack
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/we-may-be-dealing-artificially-engineered-virus-hungarian/
Apr. 10, 2025 6:00 pm
Viktor Orbán’s government is working to quell the outbreak.
Hungary is fighting foot-and-mouth disease. Again.
For the first time in over 50 years a case of foot-and-mouth disease was reported in March, discovered on a cattle farm near the border with Austria and Slovakia.
‘These things happen’, one may say. Or maybe, think that Hungarian health inspections and procedures were sub-par, leading to this.
Budapest has a different explanation: bioterrorism.
Reuters reported:
“Hungary on Thursday suggested a ‘biological attack’ as a possible source of the country’s first foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in more than half a century, which has triggered border closures and the mass slaughter of cattle in the northwest.”
Thousands of farm animals buried near the Austria-Hungary border due to a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Levél. Swift action taken to contain the spread. #FootAndMouthDisease #Levél #AnimalHealth #AustriaHungary pic.twitter.com/3waelbESIx
— Dr. Subhash (@Subhash_LiveS) April 5, 2025
Animal health authorities inspected around 1,000 farms across Hungary today, with only four returning positive results, all in the in the previously affected northwestern region.
“’At this stage, we can say that it cannot be ruled out that the virus was not of natural origin, we may be dealing with an artificially engineered virus’, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas told a media briefing.
Responding to a question, Gulyas said he could not rule out that the virus outbreak was the result of a biological attack, without giving information on who might be responsible.”
A foot-and-mouth outbreak in Hungary that has caused border restrictions and the culling of thousands of animals could have come from an artificially engineered virus, the prime minister’s office has suggested https://t.co/Sl4mJxy5pE pic.twitter.com/ECPUdRY6ow
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 10, 2025
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/we-may-be-dealing-artificially-engineered-virus-hungarian/
Musk Confirms SpaceX Starship Set To Depart to Mars in Late-2026, Carrying Tesla’s Optimus Explorer Robots
by Paul Serran Apr. 10, 2025 5:20 pm
At this point in time, most of us are aware of Elon Musk’s dream of taking civilization and human consciousness to Mars in our lifetime.
What we may not be aware is just how soon he expects to be doing it.
Back in March, Musk wrote on X: ‘Starship departs for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Optimus. If those landings go well, then human landings may start as soon as 2029, although 2031 is more likely’.
And today, the tech billionaire confirmed this perspective, adding an unexpected twist: Tesla’s Optimus robots are to be used to explore the surface of Mars in this first trip.
Click through for the videos
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/musk-confirms-spacex-starship-set-depart-mars-late/
NYC Hudson River helicopter crash victims are identified as tech boss, his wife and three children
by Rachael Bowman, Emma Richter and Ruth Bashinsky
Published April 10, 2025
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14597525/nyc-hudson-river-helicopter-crash-victims.html