Denmark has become a participant in the Finnish-led Common Armoured Vehicle System (CAVS) initiative with the Danish government outlining plans to acquire 130 CAVS units from Patria.
The financial commitment is equivalent to roughly €250m ($270.45m). The acquisition strategy involves procuring a smaller quantity of vehicles within the current year followed by a more substantial order in the subsequent year.
The country anticipates that the integration of CAVS vehicles will bolster its national defence capabilities. Furthermore, Denmark regards the CAVS programme as an efficient mode of collaboration among Nordic nations.
Denmark Minister of Defence Troels Lund Poulsen said: “With the purchase of armoured personnel carriers from Patria, we are strengthening the Army broadly with a contribution to both the light infantry battalion and the heavy brigade, so that Denmark’s defence is modernised and the soldiers have updated equipment. At the same time, it is important to strengthen the European defence industry – and that Denmark supports the industry by buying European. We are doing that with this purchase.”
Washington is as active as ever in the military bloc, the secretary of state has said
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reassured NATO member states that Washington remains committed to the military bloc, insisting however that the members must drastically increase their defense spending.
Rubio made the remarks at NATO’s foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Thursday.
President Donald Trump had previously threatened to withdraw the US from NATO if its member states failed to increase their military spending. He has pushed for a hike to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) from the current 2%.
Five Ways Non-Citizens With Social Security Numbers Scam US– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
When Elon Musk and his DOGE colleague Antonio Gracias showed a Wisconsin audience how non-citizens get Social Security Numbers (SSNs), their presentation painted the clearest picture yet of the long-term damage former President Joe Biden’s open border policy will have on the United States.
Standing in front of a huge chart, they showed how the number of SSNs issued to new non-citizens spiked in 2024.
The total SSNs issued in 2021 was roughly 270,000; in 2022 it climbed to 590,000, and in 2023, there were 964,000 SSNs issued to new non-citizens. But in 2024 it more than doubled to over 2 million. This counts only non-citizens who got their SSNs through the Enumeration Beyond Entry program, a system where the Social Security Administration automatically issues SSNs and cards to certain foreign nationals in the U.S., as part of an agreement with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Your data is apples to oranges. The data you show for the 2016 to 2020 period is enumeration for all immigrants in ALL forms. The data we showed in our slide last night in Wisconsin was just Enumeration Beyond Entry (“EBE”) immigrants. The difference is Enumerations at Field… https://t.co/iDaFPbcL0upic.twitter.com/XNNFQb51Di
France’s Le Pen convicted of embezzlement, barred from 2027 presidential race – The Tribune India Source Link Excerpt:
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement on Monday and banned immediately for five years from running for public office, in a watershed moment that will rule her out of the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals beforehand.
The French court’s ruling was a catastrophic setback for Le Pen, the National Rally (RN) party chief who has been a front-runner in opinion polls for the 2027 contest.
The judge also gave Le Pen a four-year prison sentence — two years of which are suspended sentence and two which will be served under home detention. She also received a 100,000-euro ($108,200) fine.
Danish PM heads to Greenland as Trump seeks control of the Arctic territory– abcnews.go.com Source Link Excerpt:
NUUK, Greenland — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is traveling to Greenland on Wednesday for a three-day trip aimed at building trust and cooperation with Greenlandic officials at a time when the Trump administration is seeking control of the vast Arctic territory.
Frederiksen announced plans for her visit after U.S. Vice President JD Vance visited a U.S. air base in Greenland last week and accused Denmark of underinvesting in the territory.
Greenland is a mineral-rich, strategically critical island that is becoming more accessible because of climate change. Trump has said that the landmass is critical to U.S. security. It’s geographically part of North America, but is a semiautonomous territory belonging to the Kingdom of Denmark.
Frederiksen is due to meet the incoming Greenlandic leader, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, after an election last month that produced a new government. She is also to meet with the future Naalakkersuisut, the Cabinet, in a visit due to last through Friday.
“It has my deepest respect how the Greenlandic people and the Greenlandic politicians handle the great pressure that is on Greenland,” she said in government statement announcing the visit.
Jason Galanis thanks Trump for commuting sentence– www.washingtonexaminer.com Source Link Excerpt:
Jason Galanis, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, praised President Donald Trump for understanding “the law better than any lawyer” in commuting his sentence.
Galanis was serving a 189-month prison sentence for securities fraud until yesterday when Trump announced he had commuted the sentence. Galanis pled guilty to fraud charges in 2020. While serving his sentence, Galanis testified against Hunter Biden and his father, then-President Joe Biden, to the House Oversight Committee.
“I’m delighted to be able to be here to thank him,” Galanis said of Trump on Fox News‘s Hannity Tuesday. “I think that big law is on notice, and the president’s onto them. And so be warned, the president is onto them, and I’ve never seen a lawyer smarter than President Trump who knows the law better than any lawyer.”
Judge Admits ‘Concerns’ About ‘Security’ Of GA Voting System– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia Amy Totenberg admitted in a late Monday ruling that there are “substantial concerns” about Georgia’s voting system but refused to address them, instead dismissing a years-long case that sought to move the state to hand-marked paper ballots for alleged lack of standing.
The case, Curling v. Raffensperger, was brought back in 2017 and has since evolved. Plaintiffs, which include the Coalition for Good Governance and several Georgia voters, asked the court — according to Totenberg’s ruling — “to stop Georgia’s use of its electronic in-person voting system so that it can be replaced with a hand-marked paper ballot system.”
Plaintiffs argued, in part, that the current voting system “makes it impossible for these voters to verify that the QR codes on their printed ballots, which are used to tabulate their votes, accurately reflect the ballot selections they made on the voting machines,” according to the ruling.
Totenberg ruled that “Plaintiffs lack standing to pursue their claims because neither of these asserted injuries constitute an invasion of a legally protected interest under governing precedent.” But Totenberg also ruled that plaintiffs “identified substantial concerns about the administration, maintenance, and security of Georgia’s electronic in-person voting system …”
Voter ID Constitutional Amendment Passes by Eye-Popping Margin in Major Defeat to Democrats– www.westernjournal.com Source Link Excerpt:
Wisconsin voters decisively approved a measure to enshrine voter identification requirements in the state constitution on Tuesday.
Wisconsin Question 1 asked voters whether a new section should be added to the state constitution “to require that voters present valid photographic identification verifying their identity in order to vote in any election,” according to text of the amendment from Ballotpedia.
As of Wednesday morning, roughly 62.7 percent of voters cast their ballots in the affirmative, while 37.3 percent voted against the measure, according to vote tallies from The New York Times.
Wisconsin already requires voter ID, but the constitutional amendment prevents the law from being overturned.
Senate confirms Matthew Whitaker as US ambassador to NATO– www.washingtonexaminer.com Source Link Excerpt:
Whitaker’s approval ensures that a loyalist to President Donald Trump will serve as his de facto surrogate to the U.S.-led alliance while relations with its members are at a historic low. Whitaker will likely use his position to increase pressure on NATO allies to increase defense spending, something Trump has demanded since his first administration.
Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker speaks during a Commit to Caucus rally on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Ankeny, Iowa. (AP Photo/Matthew Putney)
His first major action as ambassador will be to attend a Brussels summit with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“This week, together with @SecRubio, Amb. Whitaker will arrive in Brussels ready to strengthen the Alliance, ensure the security of the American people, and uphold our nation’s role as the beacon of freedom and liberty,” the U.S. ambassador to NATO’s X account posted.
Congratulations to Matthew G. Whitaker on his confirmation as @USAMBNATO.
This week, together with @SecRubio, Amb. Whitaker will arrive in Brussels ready to strengthen the Alliance, ensure the security of the American people, and uphold our nation’s role as the beacon of… pic.twitter.com/ehRbJqdBqN
— U.S. Ambassador to NATO (@USAmbNATO) April 2, 2025
FBI Agent Didn’t Know He Was Supposed to Lie, So He Confirmed Biden Laptop Was Real on Call with Twitter: Report– www.westernjournal.com Source Link Excerpt:
Amid the volley of “now the truth can be told”-style stories coming out about the last days of President Joe Biden’s administration in the run-up to the 2024 election — and those are bad enough — we’re now getting them about the run-up to the 2020 election, too.
In fairness, we probably should have seen this coming; the Biden administration spent four years protecting the swamp at all costs and invoking the specter of the worst day in the history of all of humanity — Jan. 6, 2021, obvs — to ward off anyone who shined a light into the D.C. bog.
But now, thanks to a report from Catherine Herridge and Michael Shellenberger, two prominent independent journalists, we can see inside the FBI’s response to Hunter Biden’s laptop in regards to social media — and, surprise, surprise, it’s every bit as bad as we thought it would be.
The report said that federal investigators confirmed that, yes, they told Twitter the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop — i.e., that it was real — before Twitter throttled a story from the New York Post about its unseemly contents.
The Border Crossing Numbers That Democrats Don’t Want You to See – PJ Media– pjmedia.com Source Link Excerpt:
In his speech to Congress last month, President Donald Trump called out Joe Biden and the Democrats for falsely claiming that it would take new legislation to secure the border because border crossings went down significantly on Trump’s watch, proving that “all we really needed was a new president.”
Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border dropped once again in March, plummeting to a historic low, with Border Patrol encountering just over 7,000 for the entirety of March.
Border Czar Tom Homan praised Trump’s leadership for achieving a stunning drop in illegal border crossings in a post on X.
“President Trump’s leadership continues to break records! Border Patrol encounters for the month of March were just 7,181 total,” Homan wrote, emphasizing the historic significance of the figures. “I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984, which was 41 years ago. I cannot recall a single month since then that the numbers have been that low.”
San Francisco Tesla Owner Nearly Run Off Interstate in Latest Seeming Attack– www.westernjournal.com Source Link Excerpt:
Telsa owners are now on high alert as their cars are being targeted across the country.
In a video posted to social media platform X on Thursday by Tesla Owners Silcon Valley, a man narrated a moment he captured on his Tesla’s sentry camera, appearing to show a red Chevy Trailblazer running his car off the road.
BREAKING: A Red Chevy Trailblazer just ran me off the road in the middle of the highway.
Newsom’s California Has Sent Nearly $18 Million in Taxpayer Funds to Soros-Backed Tides Center– freebeacon.com Source Link Excerpt:
California has doled out nearly $18 million in taxpayer funding to the left-wing Tides Center since Gavin Newsom (D.) became governor in 2019, a Washington Free Beacon review of state spending records found. Thanks to the way the dark money behemoth operates, it’s a mystery whether the money goes to any of the far-left groups it supports.
That setup allows the state to obscure which group actually gets taxpayer dollars after it awards contracts or grants to the Tides Center. The Golden State’s spending database shows that 18 agencies, ranging from health departments to workplace regulators, sent payments to the George Soros-backed nonprofit. The database does not reveal which project gets the cash in the end. State officials also told the Free Beacon that the database is missing information from some departments, meaning total payments to the Tides Center could eclipse the nearly $18 million shown.
The Tides Center essentially acts like a middle man, funneling hundreds of millions of dollars every year to a network of seemingly independent charitable organizations—primarily progressive activist groups. But unlike traditional nonprofits, these groups are housed within the Tides Center as so-called fiscally sponsored projects, enabling them to operate as charities while sidestepping the IRS’s robust financial transparency requirements for tax-exempt groups.
Army Reserve ‘Taking Appropriate Action’ Against Captain Who Accused Trump Admin Of Erasing Trans People– dailycaller.com Source Link Excerpt:
The U.S. Army Reserve is taking “appropriate action” against a captain who claimed the Trump administration is attempting to erase transgender people, the Daily Caller can confirm.
On “Transgender Day of Visibility,” a soldier who identified as Christina Winters posted a video on TikTok criticizing the Trump administration under the username “alexandrahamilton01.”
Captain Winters slammed the Trump administration for its recent actions related to transgender individuals, including a prohibition on transgender people serving in the military and a ban on medical facilities providing sex changes for minors.
“The current administration wants us to not be visible, they want us to be invisible, they want to remove us from society,” Winters alleged. “They want to ensure that we are disenfranchised, that we no longer have a voice, that we no longer have the right to enter any space that is safe.”
NYC Socialist Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Admitted ‘Nepotism’ Landed Him Plum Disney Job—While Using a Fake South African Accent– freebeacon.com Source Link Excerpt:
He’s a nepo baby and he knows it.
New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani suggested that he only received a plush job on the 2016 Disney film Queen of Katwe because his mother was the director. Mamdani, 33, made the admission with a smile during an interview with the South African radio station Kaya FM 95.9 in October of that year. The aspiring mayor served on the flick as a music supervisor and “third assistant director,” according to IMDb. He was also given a cameo screen role.
“I actually created a playlist for Mira, who also happens to be my mother—you know, nepotism and hard work goes a long way,” Mamdani told Kaya FM interviewer Kgomotso Meso. Throughout the 11-minute interview, he speaks with an affected South African accent, at times adjusting his grammar to reflect the local patois. “Come watch this film, you get the sound proper,” he says at one point.
Police arrest U.K. parents for criticizing school leaders in private social media group – Standing for Freedom Center– www.standingforfreedom.com Source Link Excerpt:
The increasingly authoritarian nature of the British government is back in the spotlight this week after news broke that police arrested, interrogated, and jailed parents in Hertfordshire, England, for complaining about school policy and criticizing school leaders in a private group chat.
All this comes as the town’s new constable is set to release a report on the incident.
It all started in May 2024, when Maxie Allen, whose daughter Sascha, 9, was attending Cowley Hill Primary School, contacted the chair of governors of the school to question the hiring process of its new head teacher. Allen noted that despite the former head teacher having retired six months earlier, the school had not publicly posted the job and had instead given it to the former deputy head teacher.
Allen says that the chair’s response was “evasive,” so he sent a letter to all the school governors asking about the decision not to open recruitment to other candidates.
Allen posted the letter in a private WhatsApp parents’ group.
The next month, Jackie Spriggs, who is the chair of governors, wrote a letter to parents claiming that parents were using WhatsApp “to make inflammatory and defamatory comments about senior leaders in the school.”
Greece to ban having children via surrogacy for single men and male same-sex couples– abcnews.go.com Source Link Excerpt:
ATHENS, Greece — Men in Greece will be barred from having children via surrogacy if they are single or in a same-sex relationship, the justice minister said Tuesday, asserting that it’s intended to eliminate legal ambiguity over the concept of inability to carry a pregnancy.
Giorgos Floridis said the proposed changes will be submitted to parliament soon as part of broader civil code reform.
“We are now clarifying unequivocally that the concept of inability to carry a pregnancy does not refer to an inability arising from one’s gender,” Floridis told reporters. “In other words, a woman may be unable to carry a pregnancy whether she is in a male-female couple, a female same-sex couple or on her own.”
Greece legalized same-sex marriage last year — the first Orthodox Christian-majority country to do so. The marriage equality law was opposed by Greece’s powerful Orthodox Church and conservative groups. Parliament approved civil partnerships for gay couples in 2015.
In contrast to growing consensus in support of same-sex marriage, Europe’s legal landscape for surrogacy varies widely. Many countries prohibit all forms of the practice or impose restrictions.
NASA shocker: Asteroid feared to strike Earth now on course to obliterate the Moon, scientists warn – The Economic Times Source Link Excerpt:
NASA researchers have updated their estimates for asteroid 2024 YR4, which was previously thought to hit Earth. New estimates suggest that the space rock might crash into the Moon instead.
Although the danger to Earth has been averted, scientists are still monitoring the path of the asteroid, as there is still concern about a potential lunar impact. NASA has provided an update on the location and predictions of a concerning asteroid that is speeding through the universe.
Is there still a chance the asteroid will hit Earth? No, NASA has ruled out an Earth impact in 2032, but the asteroid may strike the Moon instead.How powerful would an asteroid’s impact be?
If it had hit Earth, it could have emitted energy equivalent to 8 megatons of TNT, more than 500 times the Hiroshima bomb.
How is NASA tracking 2024 YR4?
However, scientists think there may be a possibility of impact on the lunar surface because of fresh observations made by NASA’s potent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as quoted in a report by The Daily Star.
In a research memo, an international team of astronomers stated, “An impact on Earth by 2024 YR4 on December 22, 2032, has now been ruled out, but it still has a non-zero probability of impacting the Moon at this time.