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Suicide pods now have a “double dutch” option, where couples can die together in Switzerland. These 3D-printed death pods are designed for two people to climb inside, press a single button at the same time, and pass away within minutes.
Suicide pods were created by Philip Nitschke, often nicknamed “Dr. Death,” and were first introduced in 2024 for single-person use. The individual must meet with a psychiatrist for a mental capacity assessment to determine whether he or she is considered “fit” to proceed.
With the push of a button, the chamber fills with nitrogen, causing the person to lose consciousness within seconds, followed shortly by death. What is being marketed as innovation is, in reality, a modernized gas chamber. Now that same concept has been redesigned to end not one life, but two at once.
Islam in general and Ramadan in particular hold the key for society to prosper if it embraces a “noble vision of hope and peace” that Muslims hold dear, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tells the world in a newly released video message.
The exhortation to heed the example of Ramadan comes as the veteran Portuguese Socialist arrives in Turkey to fast with Muslims and show his support for their religion, as Breitbart News reported.
The Turkey visit comes just days after Guterres used the U.N.’s own International Day to Combat Islamophobia to plead, “The world’s two billion Muslims hail from all corners of the globe, reflecting the vast diversity of humanity itself.”
He said “Islamophobia” is real and growing and the time has come for the world to heed his call, “Let’s eradicate the scourge of Islamophobia from every country and community.”
President Trump revealed during a press conference at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland that the U.S. government knows the locations of suspected Iranian sleeper cell operatives and is closely monitoring them as Operation Epic Fury unfolds in the Middle East.
Most Americans think the country’s economic and political systems are rigged against them — at levels greater than in several decades, according to an NBC News poll released Thursday.
The new survey found that almost 6 in 10 voters presently feel the economic and political systems are weighted against people such as themselves, which ties a record high share over about 40 years of national polling from NBC News. Of those surveyed, 59% agreed with the statement that both systems are stacked against them, while 38% disagreed and 3% were unsure.
Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, reportedly issued his first public “statement” Thursday as swirling rumors claimed he is gravely wounded, possibly in a coma and even missing part of a leg after the U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed his father and shattered Tehran’s leadership.
The message was not delivered in person. Instead, Iranian state TV aired a lengthy statement read by an anchor while an image of Khamenei was displayed on screen.
In the statement, Khamenei vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed to shipping and promised retaliation.
A Canadian human rights tribunal in British Columbia has ordered a former school trustee from Chilliwack to pay $750,000 in damages for insisting there are only two genders.
The tribunal ruled that Barry Neufeld’s public comments about transgender and nonbinary people constituted discrimination under the province’s Human Rights Code.
Iran is escalating its war on the world by attacking multiple oil tankers, sending oil prices skyrocketing.
Iran’s actions came despite a Truth Social warning from President Donald Trump on Tuesday that, “If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far.”
In the early hours of Thursday, three oil tankers were set ablaze, according to CNBC, following three ships attacked on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., says putting the SAVE America Act on the Senate floor for a “one-and-done” vote, as seemingly suggested by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., would be a “disastrous” failure.
“We ignore our base at our own peril, and we don’t want to dispirit our base,” Johnson said. “And right now, that’s kind of the path we’re going on.”
After an enormous amount of pressure from the Republican base and the White House, Thune announced this week that he plans to bring the SAVE America Act up for a floor vote. The legislation would require voter ID and proof of American citizenship to register to vote.
Maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has almost completely stopped in the days since the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran.
Iran sits above this strategic waterway, which is a vital route for exports of oil, gas and other commodities from the Persian Gulf, and has targeted tankers in the area.
Its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has warned ships not to sail through the passageway, saying that vessels “could be at risk from missiles or rogue drones”, according to Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency.
The lust for political vengeance against anyone who provided assistance to Donald Trump in the 2020 election is still in full swing in Wisconsin, as evidenced by an ongoing abusive criminal prosecution that has now reached the state supreme court with motions over possible misconduct by the trial judge and a request for two biased members of the high court to recuse themselves from the case.
Not to be outdone by discredited Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, the Les Misérables Inspector Javert of Wisconsin, has been obsessively pursuing a lawyer, Jim Troupis, along with two other defendants, Kenneth Chesebro and Mike Roman, for engaging in completely lawful political activities.
President Donald Trump has just announced that Iran’s navy and air force have now been completely destroyed following a series of U.S.–Israeli strikes.
On Wednesday, Trump revealed that the Iranian regime’s military capabilities have been significantly weakened during the conflict that began in late February.
Speaking to reporters as he departed the White House aboard Air Force One, Trump said the strikes had dealt major blows to Tehran’s military infrastructure and leadership.
More than three million people have been displaced in Iran since the United States and Israel launched a war against the country late last month, the United Nations says, as concerns mount over a worsening humanitarian crisis.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday that as many as 3.2 million people – representing between 600,000 and one million Iranian households – have been forcibly displaced since the war began on February 28.
Politicians in and around Washington, D.C., posture as guardians of the planet while standing by seemingly unconcerned for weeks as raw sewage from their backyard spills into the Potomac River, flowing through the nation’s capital and into the Chesapeake Bay’s fishery.
The spill started on January 19 with the failure of a 60-million-gallon-a-day pipe in the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) system. While DC Water reported that a bypass around the break had been completed five days later, Betsy Nicholas, president of the Potomac Riverkeeper Network (PRKN), said about 300 million gallons of sewage had gone into the river, and residual spillage had continued to pollute for an extended period.
Americans have the ability to watch from afar. Israelis are “under it”—defending themselves from an onslaught. Ward Clark of RedState: The Israel Defense Forces has announced what it is describing as a “large-scale wave” of missile strikes on Hezbollah in Beirut, after the terror group’s “deliberate decision” to act as a proxy for Iran: The IDF has begun a large-scale wave of strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure in the Dahieh area, Beirut. Interception efforts against Hezbollah projectiles are ongoing. The IDF is operating with determination against the Hezbollah terrorist organization following its deliberate decision to attack Israel on behalf of the Iranian regime.”
Markets on Wall Street retreated and oil prices jumped another five per cent again early Thursday as the war in Iran approached its second week with no indication that the United States and Israel were ready to scale back their attacks.
Futures for the S&P 500 lost 0.5 per cent before the opening bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were 0.6 per cent lower. Nasdaq futures were also down 0.5 per cent. On Wednesday, the Dow declined 0.6 per cent to its lowest level the year.
Oil prices initially shot more than nine per cent higher as supply concerns worsened with Iranian attacks on commercial shipping around the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. campaign of airstrikes in Iran is now in its 13th day.
Federal investigators are examining three phone calls placed from the family home of one of the suspects accused in an ISIS-inspired attempted bombing targeting Christian protesters and a conservative activist in New York City earlier this month.
According to a report from Fox News, the calls were placed from the suburban Philadelphia home of suspect Ibrahim Kayumi in the hours after the March 7 attack.
The calls were made to either 911 or non-emergency law enforcement lines.
For almost two weeks now, the US and Israel have been waging war on Iran. What Washington initially presented as a military campaign that would swiftly alter the strategic balance and put Tehran in a vulnerable position has proven to be far more complex. Over the past months, the White House has maintained that Iran could be on the brink of total defeat by the end of the first, or at most, the second day of a conflict. Apparently, the American side expected a rapid dismantling of Iran’s capabilities and a serious destabilization of its government. However, recent developments tell a different story.
Vladimir Putin’s “hidden hand” is likely helping Iran respond to Donald Trump’s war, the UK defence secretary has said, as it emerged that Iranian-linked drones hit a base in Iraq where some British troops are located.
They were not hurt.
John Healey said attacks by Iranian forces against targets across the Middle East “have the hallmarks” of how Russian troops operate in their war against Ukraine.
US and Israel Strike Basij Checkpoints in Iran; Hitting ‘the regime’s protest-crushing machine’
The Basij are the paramilitary forces (often voluntary) that serve to enforce Sharia law and civil compliance on the streets. They are a key impediment to protestors coming outside and taking their country back. Iranian activist Nariman Gharib: The IDF and US forces delivered precision strikes, surgically dismantling Basij checkpoints in the heart of Tehran’s streets, the very thugs who beat, arrest, and shoot protesters every single night. No civilian casualties. Just clean, targeted operations. And the people? They’re not hiding. They’re back on the rooftops, voices shaking the city: “Marg bar Basij!” (Death to Basij!) “Marg bar dictator!” (Death to the dictator!) The regime’s own enforcers are being eliminated while the people cheer from the rooftops. The fear is gone. (Gharib).
Similar reports coming out of the west, in the province of Ilam: The IDF says it destroyed major bases of Iran’s internal security forces and the Basij militia in Ilam Province. These are the same forces used by the regime to crush protests and brutalize Iranian civilians. In simple terms: Israel hit the regime’s protest-crushing machine (Mossad).
Oil prices rose back above $100 and stocks sank Thursday as Iran’s attempts to hit supplies in the Middle East and bring down the global economy overshadowed a record release of strategic crude reserves by the International Energy Agency.
Stock markets in Asia closed down Thursday and European markets opened with losses as investors saw few signs the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran would end soon, despite President Trump’s repeated assurances that it would.
U.S. Energy Secretary Christopher Wright announced on Wednesday that the U.S. would release 172 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve, while the International Energy Agency — which has 32 member nations, including the U.S. — announced it would release 400 million barrels from its own reserves.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), battling a runoff challenge from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), is touting support for his Senate campaign from pastors who are signatories of the Evangelical Immigration Table, a group linked to George and Alex Soros’s Open Society Foundations, and which has a record of backing amnesty for illegal aliens living in the United States.
This week, Cornyn rolled out his campaign’s Faith Advisory Council, which comprises five pastors across Texas. Among those pastors are Max Lucado of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Dr. Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, and Dr. Gus Reyes of Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission in Dallas.
President Trump addressed reports of Iran potentially launching drone strikes on California.
As WLT Report previously covered, the FBI sent out warnings to dozens of police departments in California, warning that Iran may attempt to attack the West Coast with drones.
In the bulletin, the FBI warned police departments in California to be vigilant of a potential retaliation attack from Iran in the form of military drones.
Italian Military Base in Erbil Struck by Drone Wanted in Rome
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Stuck in a do-nothing U.S. Senate, the SAVE America Act would be safer in a Canadian euthanasia clinic.
And Senate Majority Leader John Thune has become a laughable Pawn Stars meme, effectively telling President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans, ‘The best I can do is a Screw America Act.”
He’s helpless. That’s the South Dakota Republican’s answer to the urgent call from actual conservatives warning him that the window for critical election integrity reform is quickly closing. Just call him John “Very, Very Difficult” Thune.
China passes new ethnic minority law, prioritise use of Mandarin language Reuters
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China passed a law on a “shared” national identity among the country’s 55 ethnic minority groups on Thursday, a move critics say will further erode the identity of people who are not majority Han Chinese and risk making anyone challenging that “unity” a separatist punishable by law.
Called “Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress”, the ethnic minority law aims to forge national unity and advance the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at its core, a draft copy of the law showed.
FRANCE 24’s François Picard is pleased to welcome Dr. Rouzbeh Parsi, Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Lund University in Sweden. According to Dr. Parsi, the current political situation in Iran should be approached with caution, too much attention is being paid to the potential rise of Mojtaba Khamenei. Yet the Islamic Republic is not a system built around a single person, especially during a time of war. Decision-making power lies with institutions such as the Revolutionary Guards and the broader security establishment.
This institutional dynamic also complicates efforts to understand Khamenei himself, explains Dr. Parsi. Whether he intends to maintain continuity with the political baseline established by his late father or eventually chart his own course remains difficult to assess. For now, the Islamic Republic is fundamentally focused on survival, and that struggle will likely shape both internal politics and foreign policy.
Militarily, there is also a tendency among outside observers to misinterpret Iranian behaviour. A reduction in missile launches, for example, should not automatically be interpreted as a lack of capability. It may simply reflect a deliberate strategic approach aimed at weakening defensive systems first, thereby increasing the effectiveness of later strikes. Ultimately, Iran’s objective appears to be political as much as military: to demonstrate that attacking Iran carries costs, and to ensure that any eventual negotiations with the United States occur under more serious terms than those previously attempted. And so, Dr. Parsi argues, “the Iranians are going to play this game their own way”.
Canada’s department in charge of Indigenous relations essentially censored what it calls “confidential” files related to a First Nations community spending millions searching for alleged mass graves at former Canadian residential schools.
Canada’s Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations recently placed as “confidential” all files relating to $12.1 million paid to the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation for an alleged grave dig that turned up nothing to date.
The “confidential” file ruling comes, as reported by LifeSiteNews, after the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation recently admitted that its quest to find graves of hundreds of children on the site of former residential schools, which sparked massive arson attacks on Catholic churches across Canada, has come up empty.
The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations recently released the censored reports from 2023; all of the main details were redacted as “confidential.”
Another violent illegal alien has taken the life of an innocent, beloved American woman.
Stephanie Minter, a 41-year-old mother, was stabbed to death at a bus stop in Fairfax, Virginia in late February.
Police arrested 32-year-old Abdul Jalloh for the brutal murder.