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Africa Subsaharan
UN Judge Lydia Mugamba Found Guilty of Slavery
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] In Britain, Ugandan United Nations (UN) judge Lydia Mugambe has been found guilty of slavery. This is reported by the Associated Press (AP).

"A British jury has convicted UN judge Lydia Mugambe of forcing a young woman to work as a slave and provide unpaid childcare after Mugambe tricked her into coming to Britain," the agency said in a statement.

According to the agency, the prosecution proved that the UN judge "exploited and abused her victim, taking advantage of her lack of understanding of her rights to properly paid work and deceiving her about the purpose of her visit to the UK."

According to UK department lawyer Caroline Howie, Mugambe conspired with Ugandan Deputy High Commissioner John Mugerwa to enable the victim to obtain a visa "under the pretext that she would work in the diplomat's household and office". Once the victim arrived in Britain, she was taken to Mugambe's home, stripped of her papers and forced to work as an unpaid nanny.

Mugambe denied forcing the young Ugandan woman to do housework and said she had "always" treated her with love, care and patience. The trial was adjourned because the defendant appeared "unwell". Mugambe is set to be sentenced on May 2.

Posted by: badanov || 03/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But, but... I've been assured that only Caucasians can be guilty of slavery.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/15/2025 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Preemptively ban her from the US.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/15/2025 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  [AI little Black trans Caesar: "Slavery slavery!"]
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 03/15/2025 10:05 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Facing trade war with Trump, Mark Carney sworn in as Canada’s prime minister
[IsraelTimes] Former central banker takes over from Justin Trudeau at the helm of the Liberal Party, will likely trigger a general election within days amid surging tensions with US

Former central banker Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s new prime minister on Friday, and will now try to steer his country through a trade war brought by US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
, annexation threats and an expected federal election.

Carney, 59, replaces Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North...
, who announced his resignation in January but remained in power until the Liberal Party elected a new leader. Carney is widely expected to trigger a general election in the coming days or weeks.

The governing Liberal Party had appeared poised for a historic election defeat this year until Trump declared economic war and repeatedly has said Canada should become the 51st state. Now the party and its new leader could come out on top.

Carney has said he’s ready to meet with Trump if he shows "respect for Canadian illusory sovereignty″ and is willing to take "a common approach, a much more comprehensive approach for trade.″

Carney, a former Goldman Sachs executive with no experience in politics, becomes Canada’s 24th prime minister.

Trump put 25% tariffs on Canada’s steel and aluminum and is threatening sweeping tariffs on all Canadian products April 2. He has threatened economic coercion in his annexation threats and suggested the border is a fictional line.

The US trade war and Trump’s talk of making Canada the 51st US state have infuriated Canadians, who are booing the American anthem at NHL and NBA games. Some are canceling trips south of the border, and many are avoiding buying American goods when they can.

The surge in Canadian nationalism has bolstered the Liberal Party’s chances in a parliamentary election expected within days or weeks, and Liberal showings have been improving in opinion polls.

Carney, who navigated crises when he was the head of the Bank of Canada from 2008, and then in 2013 when he became the first noncitizen to run the Bank of England — helping to manage the worst impacts of Brexit in the UK — will now try to steer Canada through the trade war brought by Trump.

"He will do very well. He’s respected internationally," former prime minister Jean Chrétien told news hounds Friday. But, he added: "There is no magic solution. This is not a normal situation. We’ve never seen someone who changes his mind every five minutes as president of the United States. It creates problems everywhere, not only in Canada."

A new cabinet is also being sworn in. Francois-Philippe Champagne becomes Canada’s new finance minister, the government’s second most powerful position. He was previously industry minister. Dominic LeBlanc goes from finance to intergovernmental affairs.

Mélanie Joly remains foreign minister. Chrystia Freeland, a former deputy prime minister and finance minister who lost to Carney in the Liberal Party leadership race, becomes minister of transport and internal trade.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Globalist Games: They Play, We Pay
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/15/2025 4:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Suggested reading Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act ?
There is a also a Ronald Reagan video of him discussing the economic effects. .
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/15/2025 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  "Francois-Philippe Champagne becomes Canada’s new finance minister"

Oh dear. Trump will slap a 200% tariff on him.
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/15/2025 7:49 Comments || Top||

#4  The man has spent the last 10 years basically living out of Canada. Can you Globalist?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/15/2025 7:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Carbon Tax Carney is the next Liberal in line to receive the people’s elbow from Trump.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/15/2025 9:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Ronald Reagan, or "Ronald Reagan"?

Not saying I agree or disagree, it looks generated.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/15/2025 12:26 Comments || Top||

#7  It also flooded YouTube magically about a week ago.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/15/2025 12:27 Comments || Top||

#8  #3 What I voted for.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/15/2025 17:57 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Kansas Dem governor slammed for not stopping Satanic 'Black Mass' at Capitol
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Democrat Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has been slammed by critics who have said she is not doing all that she can to stop the Satanic "Black Mass" that will be taking place at the state's Capitol later in March.

The group hosting the event, Satanic Grotto, told the Daily Wire that they will keep pushing to hold the event in the state Capitol building, which has been described by them as an act of "sacrilegious blaspheme." Kelly has ordered that the "Black Mass" take place on the steps of the facility, and not inside.

Michael Stewart, who calls himself the "Devil of Kansas" told the outlet, ''I will be performing that black mass in our State Capitol. If they have to arrest me, then they have to arrest me. I will be putting the call out to every satanist within three hours of Kansas City or Topeka and saying, 'Who wants to march into the Capitol with me?' We'll see how many show up.''

After Kelly ordered the event be moved outside, Stewart said she had only "caved" to Republicans that were pushing her to make the order. The hosts have said that they are inviting all to come to the "Black Mass," a deliberate and explicit mockery of a Catholic Mass.

On Facebook, the event announcement stated, "The Satanic Grotto is proud to present Black Mass at the Capital. An expression of blaspheme and a dedication to Satan," and that the event will take place between 11 am and 1 pm on March 28.

''We have wafers,'' Stewart told news hounds. ''I don't want to comment on whether they're consecrated or not because that would ruin the mystery.''
Posted by: Fred || 03/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The people of Kansas would be making a huge mistake to let them consecrate the state to evil. That is the purpose of the ritual. Allowing that to happen leads to no good. The governor is adopting a strategy of mitigating the optics of having her state consecrated to evil. The state electorate has chosen poorly in her. This isn’t an equal protection situation. The state hasn’t been asked or accepted a consecration to the Sacred Heart of Mary be performed in the Capitol.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/15/2025 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  She was probably the guest of honor.

She was also installed by the Education Machine buffeted by Big Ag illegal voter harvesting. It was 'funny' how many counties flipped red after state voter ID. Her reelection year had very little organized Republican effort for some reason; some say the Republican primary well was poisoned.

She was just as tyrannical as the big names with Covid, just Kansans weren't having anything to do with it, other than the normal NPCs.

Governess Catlady: you ranchers need to stop driving more than a half mile a day!

Ranchers: go fk yourself.

Catlady: OK, then we need the National Guard to go take over Agriculture activities.

National Guard, State Congress, Ag Plants, Sheriffs, Ranchers: Ma'am, can we talk to you in private?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/15/2025 10:45 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Hot Air: German Intelligence Knew All Along That COVID Came From Chinese Lab and Covered It Up
According to several German newspapers, the German Bundesnachrichtendienst (damn those Germans for making things unpronounceable and unreadable!), the foreign intelligence service, has known for five years that the COVID-19 virus was whipped up in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

They assess that it is 80%-95% probable that the virus came from the lab. They are still hiding the documents because it contradicts the preferred Narrative™ that this was all natural and came from eating bats.
For five years, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has assumed that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory. The BND classifies the laboratory theory as "probable" and is "80 to 95 percent" certain. Since then, the German government has kept secret the BND's findings that the virus originated in the biolab in Wuhan. This is reported by NZZ, Zeit, and Suddeutsche Zeitung.

To date, it remains officially unclear whether the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is of natural origin or originated in a laboratory. Despite intensive research, no intermediate host has been identified that naturally transmitted the pathogen from animals to humans. At the same time, controversial experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) that supported the laboratory theory came into focus.

Virologists meeting at the foreign intelligence service?

According to reports, several scientists at the German foreign intelligence service, the Federal Intelligence Service, have been meeting in recent weeks, initiated by the Federal Chancellery. The first meeting took place last year, with the participation of renowned virologists. A central topic of these discussions was the possible origin of the virus. According to Zeit, the Federal Chancellery has been keeping relevant information under wraps for five years.

What do you want to bet that the CIA knew this too, and that the Germans, the CIA, MI6, and all the big intelligence agencies assessed this to be the likeliest explanation around the same time but decided to hide the fact for...reasons?
Since they likely financed the 'off-shore' research through Fouci and NIH cutouts, of course they knew.
Hmm. I wonder what those reasons could be...

In the United States, a Republican-led congressional investigative committee has been investigating the origins of the pandemic and policy measures such as lockdowns in recent years. Immunologist and longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Anthony Fauci, has testified several times. Thousands of pages of documents have been released during the investigation, providing a new perspective on the events.

Particularly explosive are the findings from so-called gain-of-function (GoF) experiments conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. These experiments involve deliberately modifying viruses to increase their transmissibility or virulence. Official data from the US government platform USAspending.gov show that the EcoHealth Alliance received approximately $94.3 million in taxpayer funds from NIAID—the agency Fauci headed for 38 years—between 2008 and 2024. It is striking that, starting in 2014, increased funding was provided for research into bat viruses.

Surely it had nothing to do with the fact that the United States FUNDED THE RESEARCH THAT CREATED THE VIRUS and that all these governments have deep ties to the US intelligence "community," which was busily covering up the true origins of the pandemic.

Not to mention that all these governments were using the crisis to implement sweeping changes to their societies, impose draconian restrictions on citizens, and bully any dissenters who just happened to be less inclined to submit to government fiat.

You have to simultaneously admire and despise the way they talk out of all four sides of their mouth on both their faces when they release another half-truth



The Daily Mail's reporting gives some details on how the Germans came to the conclusion. Not that common sense wasn't enough to make it more likely than not that it came from the lab, but the evidence piled up to increase the probabilities.
In Wuhan, the BND agents 'struck gold,' coming 'as close to the origins of the pandemic... as possible in China,' German media Die Zeit reported.

They found unpublished dissertations from 2019 and 2020 that allegedly discussed the effects of coronaviruses on the human body.

Additionally, uncovered materials revealed Chinese scientists had 'an unusually large amount of knowledge about the supposedly novel virus available at an unusually early stage.'

Based on the materials BND agents found and analyzed, they used a 'Probability Index' to measure the reliability of information, which determined the lab-leak theory was 'probable' with an '80 to 95 percent' certainty.

Further, the agents also accused Chinese scientists of actively carrying out dangerous experiments with the deadly coronavirus MERS.
Dr. Richard Enbright, long accused of being a COVID "conspiracy theorist" said the obvious: everybody knew that it came from the lab, but covered it up.

Sic. Dr. Richard H. Ebright, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University. You can follow him on x here: https://x.com/R_H_Ebright.
People involved in Saaremaa told the German media outlets they took their findings to German officials in 2020, including the Federal Chancellery and the state secretary responsible for intelligence services.

A federal chancellery secretary was also briefed, the agents claimed, and then Chancellor Angela Merkel was also reportedly made aware, according to Die Zeit.

When asked to confirm if she was informed, Merkel declined to answer, Die Zeit reported.

People involved in Project Saaremaa told the media outlets the German government took no action and the World Health Organization was never informed: 'The BND was sworn to secrecy.'

Dr Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told DailyMail.com: 'The main points are clear: All informed persons - without exception - knew by early 2020 that SARS-CoV-2 likely entered humans through a research-related incident in Wuhan.

'But most chose to lie or to stay silent.
Convenient that. Revealing that the virus was concocted through the collaboration of Western governments--the UK was implicated as well through the EcoHealth Alliance--might inspire a bit less trust in the good faith and competence of government authorities. So they lied.

Best hide the facts lest you and I think less of governments. The conspiracy was not a "theory," but a fact.

There is lots of evidence that Anthony Fauci was deeply involved in changing the CIA analysis of the virus' origins, and allegations (which I believe to be true, but cannot prove) that the CIA altered its analysis at his behest. Far be it from me to allege that the CIA or other intelligence agencies might be anything but 100% transparent and truthful, but it appears that in this specific case at least they might have, gasp!, lied to all of us.

Shocking, I know. Truly unprecedented.

What is so personally frustrating to me and surely is for others, including many of you, is that we all pretty much knew this and were slandered, censored, and banished from polite society for stating a pretty obvious truth. It was forbidden to say, and so many of our fellow citizens not only went along with the lie, but cheered on the authorities for punishing us for speaking up.

They used the might of government to censor us, encouraged others to shun us, and did it all with our own tax dollars. The Pravda Media went all-in on pushing the lie--and surely they suspected it was a lie--and called us racist and conspiracy theorists.

Most of those same people will now shrug and move on, never acknowledging or paying a price for gaslighting us all and furthering the divide in society.

The original files behind all these assessments and the notes of the discussions should be released. Lay out all the facts. Expose all the lies. Hide nothing.

None of this should be swept under the rug. Not this time.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11146 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "damn those Germans for making things unpronounceable and unreadable!"

You never heard about "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" (Beef Labeling Monitoring Task Transfer Act), did you?
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/15/2025 6:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course, if the names of laws are too complicated, use their abbreviations. How about "SozSichAbkÄndAbk2ZAbkTURG", the "Gesetz zu dem Zusatzabkommen vom 2. November 1984 zum Abkommen vom 30. April 1964 zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Republik Türkei über Soziale Sicherheit und zu der Vereinbarung vom 2. November 1984 zur Durchführung des Abkommens vom 11. Dezember 1986" (Law on the Supplementary Agreement of November 2, 1984 to the Agreement of April 30, 1964 between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Turkey on Social Security and to the Agreement of November 2, 1984 on the Implementation of the Agreement of December 11, 1986”).

Elon, are you busy right now?
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/15/2025 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Do you think that we simply make this stuff up ?



Posted by: Besoeker || 03/15/2025 8:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Say what you want about German, at least it's got an easy R. Try saying "Secretario de Desarrollo Rural" cinco tiempos espeedio without being born to it, eh?
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 03/15/2025 9:39 Comments || Top||

#5  So the German bought into the American plan to obfuscate the American funding of the creation of the Covid virus in a weapons lab of our most threatening enemy. I’ld like to see Fauci in jail ASAP as the Biden’s absolute power to pardon does not extend to a proxy clown doing shenanigans with an auto pen.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/15/2025 10:15 Comments || Top||

#6  So the German bought into the American plan to obfuscate the American funding of the creation of the Covid virus in a weapons lab of our most threatening enemy. I’ld like to see Fauci in jail ASAP as the Biden’s absolute power to pardon does not extend to a proxy clown doing shenanigans with an auto pen.

I'll try to be simple so people will actually get it:

The German government, lead by Merkel, bought into the American bureaucracy's war against the American people.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/15/2025 20:36 Comments || Top||



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