[TENNESSEECONSERVATIVENEWS] Tennessee State Senators voted to pass legislation that will require election coordinators to compare the statewide voter registration database with the Department of Safety database to ensure that there are no illegal aliens registered to vote.
Senate Bill 0137 (SB0137) was brought by Senator Joey Hensley (R-Hohenwald-District 28). Hensley introduced the bill to the floor and requested to substitute and conform to the companion House Bill 0835 (HB0835), sponsored by State Representative Bryan Richey (R-Maryville-District 20).
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Senator Heidi Campbell (D-Nashville-District 20) asked for clarification on what the bill was intended to do.
Hensley explained that existing law allows election coordinators to compare the two databases, so this legislation would just make that a requirement.
“This is a way to ensure that someone is not inadvertently on there if they are not a US citizen,” Hensley said.
After additional clarification was provided at the request of Senator London Lamar (D-Memphis-District 33), the vote was taken.
The legislation passed with 25 ayes and 3 nays. Only Democratic Senators Campbell, Lamar, and Jeff Yarbro (D-Nashville-District 21) voted against the bill.
The House passed the legislation on April 4. The bill will now be transmitted to Governor Lee to await his signature.
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[Regnum] The attack on parishioners and the bishop of a Christian church in Sydney has been declared an act of terrorism. This statement was made on April 15 by the Prime Minister of the Australian state of New South Wales, Chris Minns.
We originally had this story from the Daily Mail as a link in comments two days ago, where the parties on the receiving end were identified as “Assyrian religious leader Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was preaching at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley in Sydney's west …” and the young miscreant was not identified at all…
As Minns explained, state police reported overnight that the attack had been classified as a terrorist incident.
“Operational police units were tasked with investigating the terrorist attack and riots that occurred near the church. Resources have also been allocated to work with other faith-based organizations and structures across Sydney to avoid retaliation or retaliatory violence,” Minns said.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb explained that the 16-year-old who attacked the churchgoers was motivated by “extremist motives” and the decision to label the incident a terrorist attack was dictated by the attacker’s behavior. Webb added that investigators believe the attacker sought to intimidate the public and his motives were “in the nature of religious extremism.”
Regnum previously reported that a man attacked Bishop Marie Emmanuel with a knife during a service at Christ the Holy Shepherd Catholic Church in Sydney's west. The injured clergyman was hospitalized. Two more parishioners were injured.
After the incident, about 500 people gathered near the church, demanding that the attacker be handed over to them. The police officers who arrested him and the doctors who arrived at the scene were forced to barricade themselves in the church building. As a result, two police officers were injured, 20 patrol cars were damaged, and ten cars were completely destroyed.
In Sydney, on April 13, a man with a knife attacked visitors to a shopping center; law enforcement officers eliminated him. As a result of the attack, six people were killed and eight more were injured. The man is believed to have acted alone. The embassy in Australia and the Russian consulate general in Sydney reported that they did not have information about Russians injured in the attack.
The Australian TV channel 7NEWS, citing eyewitnesses, reported that the man who was not afraid to fight back against the attacker in a shopping center in Sydney was a Russian.
[Breitbart] Tens of thousands of Israelis remain refugees in their own country after attacks by Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terrorist army, forced the evacuation of communities near the northern border in October.
Hezbollah, which sits near the Israeli border in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1707 of 2006, has been firing mortars, anti-tank missiles, rockets, and ballistic missiles at Israeli communities ever since Hamas, which is also backed by Iran, launched the October 7 terror attack in southern Israel.
As Breitbart News reported in October, Israel was forced to evacuate some 60,000 or so northern residents within four kilometers of the border.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) initially responded to the Hezbollah attacks by targeting the sources of incoming fire, without escalating. More recently, it has carried out airstrikes sites deeper into Lebanon. On April 1, Israel killed the leading Iranian commander in the region, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, as well as another general and six other Iranian military officials in an airstrike on Damascus, Syria.
The Israeli media reported, and Breitbart News confirmed, that IDF commandos have already begun to operate inside Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah positions near the border and possibly preparing for a broader military invasion. Thus far, Israel is focusing on completing its mission of destroying Hamas in Gaza — and, this past weekend, responding to the massive missile and drone attack by Iran, which Israeli air defenses intercepted with a 99% success rate.
Breitbart News visited some of the border communities on Monday, escorted by Israeli soldiers in an area normally off-limits to journalists. Much of what was seen cannot be published.
The scenes of empty streets and homes were striking.
In the kibbutz — collective farm — of Rosh Hanikra, once a bustling community in the northwest corner of Israel, the only signs of life were the Israeli soldiers who patrol the area, as well as stray cats and a mascot dog.
Rosh Hanikra is a popular tourist attraction, as it sits near beautiful cliffs and caves along the Mediterranean coast. The kibbutz had also recently built a swimming pool for residents, which it had hoped to open by the summer.
Now, the grass in the community is overgrown, as the families wait, month after month, for news about when they might be able to return.
Inside the town of Shlomi, a nearby community in northwest Israel, on Monday, the homes and streets were also empty, with weeds sprouting up alongside the roads.
One home had been badly damaged by a direct hit from a 240-mm mortar shell, carrying 20 kilograms of explosives.
The only sign of life was a tractor pulling a cart of avocados. Only farmers are permitted into the evacuated communities, so that they can tend their crops and take care of their animals.
[Townhall] Just days after Iran's unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel, following months of attacks on U.S. troops in the region by Iranian terrorist organizations, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian still holds a valid U.S. visa.
"I write to request immediate action to revoke the visa of Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian ahead of his planned travel to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting on April 18, 2024," Republican Senator James Lankford wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken late Monday. "As documented by United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) in its letter to you last week, Amir-Abdollahian is a senior card-carrying member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and has direct ties to the heinous October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel and the ongoing attacks that Iran continues to orchestrate through Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Houthis. In the wake of Saturday’s direct attack by Iran on our ally, Israel, I urge you to prevent Iran from using American soil as a platform to amplify its anti-Israel and anti-American rhetoric."
"Given his ties to terrorism against Israel and US forces, Amir-Abdollahian should not be welcome in our country. April 18, the day of his anticipated meeting at the UN, also marks the 41st anniversary of Iran-backed Hezbollah’s 1983 bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed 63 people, including 52 Lebanese and American Embassy employees, and injured 120. Several months later, Hezbollah’s bombing of the US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut would end up killing another 241 Americans. Hosting a senior member of the IRGC on the 41st anniversary of Hezbollah’s terrorist attack would be an insult to the victims and their families," Lankford continued
[Breitbart] On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby defended the waiver of sanctions that allow Iraq to purchase energy from Iran “to make sure that the Iraqi people have the power and the energy that they need to subsist and to survive themselves economically.” He also maintained, “We have put a lot of pressure on Iran.”
Co-host Bill Hemmer asked, “In light of Saturday’s events, where Iran hit Israel for the first time — or at least tried, anyway, those that got through — is it time to rethink allowing Iran access to billions of dollars in electricity sales between Iraq and Iran? Will that policy be stopped, sir?”
Kirby answered, “As you know, that’s an item that comes up for extension every few months, Bill. The previous administration also extended it, as have we, because the Iraqi people are just so reliant right now on energy resources from Iran. We don’t want our friend, Iraq, to not be able to power itself. We’re working with them, of course, on improving their own energy infrastructure, but it’s really something that we’re extending to make sure that the Iraqi people have the power and the energy that they need to subsist and to survive themselves economically. We have put a lot of pressure on Iran. The president met with the G7 yesterday to talk about a diplomatic response that’s unified, and to explore other opportunities to hold Iran accountable for what they did.”
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[Regnum] The Iranian authorities promised to provide Russian diplomats with the opportunity to meet with sailor Timofey Kolchanov, who was on board the commercial ship MSC Aries seized in the Strait of Hormuz, the Russian Embassy in Tehran reported on April 16 in its Telegram channel.
“The Iranian side promised to provide access to our citizen in the near future. As soon as this happens, embassy staff will personally visit T. S. Kolchanov,” the message says.
According to Iranian authorities, the ship Aries, which also carries a Russian sailor, was moved to the port of Bandar Abbas. It is also reported that he was given the opportunity to communicate with his family by phone.
As Regnum reported, the naval forces of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captured the MSC Aries on April 13. According to the vessel's operator, there was a crew of 25 people.
On April 14, it became known that Kolchanov called his family. He said that the situation should be resolved soon. The sailor called from an unknown phone, the conversation lasted eight seconds, then the connection was interrupted.
Vice-President of the International Human Rights Committee Ivan Melnikov sent a note of protest to Iran. He called for the sailors to be released and the Russians to be helped to return to their homeland. The social activist accompanied the appeal with lines from the collection of hadiths (traditions) of the Prophet Muhammad, which says that it is necessary to free those who are experiencing difficulties.
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