Biden’s Inflation Hits 40 Year High

Paul Collier April 13, 2022

The Biden administration is helming a nation that is now officially going through a major economic crisis as inflation has hit 8.5% from year-over-year, a figure that hasn’t been reached since 1981, 41 years ago, when the nation was still reeling from 4 years under the helm of anti-American leftist Jimmy Carter. The Biden administration and the media machine that aligns with it are making every effort to blame the inflation explosion on Putin’s war with Ukraine.

U.S. Inflation Jumped 8.5% in Past Year, Highest Since 1981

From www.breitbart.com
2022-04-12 13:02:08
Breitbart News
Excerpt:

Inflation soared over the past year at its fastest pace in more than 40 years, with costs for food, gasoline, housing, and other necessities squeezing American consumers and wiping out the pay raises that many people have received.

The Labor Department said Tuesday that its consumer price index jumped 8.5% in March from 12 months earlier — the biggest year-over-year increase since December 1981. Prices have been driven up by bottlenecked supply chains, robust consumer demand and disruptions to global food and energy markets worsened by Russia’s war against Ukraine.

The government’s report also showed that inflation rose 1.2% from February to March, up from a 0.8% increase from January to February.

The March inflation numbers were the first to capture the full surge in gasoline prices that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Moscow’s brutal attacks have triggered far-reaching Western sanctions against the Russian economy and have…

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Biden XO Attempting to Destroy American Home Gun Manufacturing

Freedomist Curator April 12, 2022

With the stroke of a pen, the avatar of the DNC-CCP known as Joe Biden waged seditious war on the American people once again, attempting to subvert our 2nd amendment right to bear arms by changing the definition of gun so as to make it suddenly illegal by the wanna-be priest-king’s declaration.

In the name of stopping the spread of “ghost guns,” guns that are made by individuals and not registered with government, President Joe Biden affixed his signature to an anti-American executive order that effectively nukes the sale of partial lower receivers of guns, so-called 80 percent receivers.

The media for their part continue to use the agit prop phrase ‘ghost gun’ in a further attempt to stigmatize firearms altogether, proving, once again, the sedition nature of the corporations that control these media outlets, the same corporations that support the DNC more than 10 to 1 in comparison to any opposition to the DNC.

This move further illustrates the abuse of Presidential power that executive orders have become, as we see the continued evolution of a President bound by Rule of Law to a President that is more akin to Sargon of Akkad, the first recorded priest-king in human history. We shall see in the coming weeks and months just how real the GOP as an opposition party actually is.

All of the states controlled by Republicans should file lawsuits immediately challenging the constitutionality of an executive order that changes the definition of gun so fundamentally without use of the legislature to do so. All of the states controlled by Republicans should immediately pass laws forbidding federal agents from enforcing this unconstitutional law. Any action less than this should help you see how token the GOP opposition actually is.

No actual American political party would tolerate such an open and egregious violation of American law. No actual American political party would acknowledge the authority of any political party and their party leaders to act in American governance when they are so openly opposed to the foundational principles of the very government these Hyksos occupiers currently unconstitutionally hold.

A President that believes he has the right to destroy American home gun manufacturing with the stroke of his pen is not an American but an enemy of the Constitution he pledged to uphold when he was sworn in after being declared the winner of an unconstitutional mass mailer election. A political party that fails to address this man and his party as the seditionist Hyksos occupiers that they are is no American political party at all. Let’s see if the GOP is American or token as we watch their response to this vulgar assault on American liberty by the mass mailer President in the late stages of dementia.

Biden administration takes aim at ‘ghost guns’ with new federal rule

From www.france24.com
2022-04-11 22:44:43
FRANCE 24
Excerpt:

President Joe Biden on Monday took fresh aim at ghost guns, the privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up in violent crimes, as he struggles to break through gridlock in Washington to address gun deaths and mass shootings.

Speaking at the White House, Biden highlighted the Justice Department’s work to finalize new regulations to crack down on ghost guns, and announced the nomination of Steve Dettlebach, who served as a U.S. attorney in Ohio from 2009 to 2016, to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

“Law enforcement is sounding the alarm,” Biden said of ghost guns, briefly holding one up for cameras to see in the Rose Garden. “Our communities are paying the price.”

He promised the new regulations would save lives.

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EU Moves to Create Facial Recognition Database to Track Dissenters

Paul Collier April 12, 2022

Multiple member states of the EU have decided to pool their resources to better track dissent within their nations. They plan on sharing their growing facial recognition databases with one another so as to eventually form an EU-wide database of faces with attached identities to assure that any dissenters within their lands that are caught on the myriad of surveillance cameras that continue to propagate throughout the lands can be identified and tracked down by authorities who can remove the offending member from society, for the good of the whole.

In the name of safety, once again, Europe turns to the tried and true method of failure, police state control, where the worst of the worst humans will find opportunity to inflict their masochistic bloodlust on the people the police state system alleges to be protecting. The worst of the worst will step forward to be the enforcers of this insecurity, deriving their pleasure and power from having people arrested, locked up, sometimes killed, for challenging the state’s ability to control the masses through terror.

Initially, the police state action will be used, is being used, primarily to target the bad guys we all agree are bad. Who wants to stop a child predator from being caught? Who doesn’t want to stop a terrorist from blowing up a school? But then the tools will be used to target leaders of oppositional thought, like climate change deniers, or people who believe men are men and women are women.

The tactic of inflicting police state terror on a people for the purpose of control of the many by the most powerful few is as old as civilization itself. Watching it unfold in Europe is almost a regular occurrence in world history, and we’re about to watch Europe go full authoritarian police state once again, in the name of safety, for the good of the whole.

EU countries want to pool photos in massive facial recog database : Futurology

From www.reddit.com
2022-04-11 15:29:07
/u/Sorin61
Excerpt:

For the past 15 years, police forces searching for criminals in Europe have been able to share fingerprints, DNA data, and details of vehicle owners with each other. If officials in France suspect someone they are looking for is in Spain, they can ask Spanish authorities to check fingerprints against their database. Now European lawmakers are set to include millions of photos of people’s faces in this system—and allow facial recognition to be used on an unprecedented scale.

The expansion of facial recognition across Europe is included in wider plans to “modernize” policing across the continent, and it comes under the Prüm II data-sharing proposals. The details were first announced in December, but criticism from European data regulators has gotten louder in recent weeks, as the full impact of the plans have been understood.

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Washington Posts Wants Passports to Deny Gender Science

Freedomist Curator April 12, 2022

One of the major organs of agit prop for the DNC-CCP, the Washington Post, is telegraphing the continued doubling down by the party on efforts to destroy the male and the female of the human species in a not-so-subtle attempt to destroy the agentic powers of parents as the primary decision makers in what values, what social constructs, what cultural mores children learn.

The Washington Post is pushing for the state to issue U.S passports that deny humanity itself by denying the biological reality of man and woman, hoping to overnight convert everyone to the nonceness this disturbed writer, Abeni Jones, seems to be advocating for. Consider this a test balloon, as most of these fringe-take articles are that come from the DNC-CCP media.

The DNC-CCP is an ideological anti-Christ that views humans as sacrifical lambs for the elite to continue to sin without consequence. It is an ideology that cannot be the social force of the land so long as parents have agency in determining what their kids will learn. To undermine parental authority, they push for the glorification of transgenderism, demanding that all of social life reflects only the values of transgender, which is really no gender, which is really no parents. A genderless species is a blank slate to be filled by the experts to make children useful avatars of the adults that control them.

The rank and file DNC are opportunists, cowards, perverts, nihlists who either want to murder humanity itself or want to assure that there is no future that can change their present and there is no past at all, for the past is the fruit of pure evil, and it must be wiped out of existence altogether.

These are the Peter Pans of our society, adults who, mostly because the state school system and college education system has brutally conditioned humans to not face the consequences of their personal actions (only the consequences of the actions of people that might look like you), have come to view humanity as an evil that was made evil by whiteness and can only be made pure by murdering all things associated with whiteness, things like father, mother, family, all the things that undermine the will of the state so long as parents have greater agency in deciding what kids learn about value than the state does.

Transgenderism is a mental illness, a deviation from the overwhelming aggregate of human biology, and it’s a vehicle of power for individuals who wish to destroy parenting to control the future, to assure the future is destroyed before it can threaten their present, or forced to become exactly the same as the adults who are brutalizing them.

Transgenderism as an individual expression should always be tolerated, but never accepted, by society, for as we force acceptance of a mental illness as a preferred way of life (and that’s what the DNC-CCP hopes to accomplish) mother and father, man and woman, will become words that can get you removed from society altogether. Children without agentic parents are ten plus times more likely to be abused and raped by adults, and the DNC-CCP knows this and wants this, for few people are more easy to control than the sexually traumatized.

In households in which children are abused sexually and physically by men, more than 80 percent of them are abused by men not related to them, as opposed to being violated by their biological fathers. This statistic alone is more than enough science to prove the true intentions of the pedo death cult that is the DNC-CCP. They want your children naked and exposed to their lustful desires, and the forced acceptance of transgenderism is the most powerful tool in their arsenal to accomplish this task.

I will leave you with this caveat. Transgenderism is a mental illness, which is not good or bad, it just is. The scientific understanding of what transgenderism really is and how to effectively treat it is not very deep. These people are fellow human beings, and, if citizens, fellow Americans, who deserve to live as they wish to live. They just don’t deserve to have their lifestyles, their values, their ways, forced on anyone else. They are human shields being used by bloodthirsty psychopaths to destroy human freedom for all, including the transgendered people that are being used by this perverse group of antihumans.

These types of psychopaths are fine using transgedered people as the scapegoats should their schemes fail. No transgendered person deserves being subhumanized or vilified for merely being transgendered. There are transgendered folks fighting side by side with we Americans, who, like us, want to live and let live, not force their ways on others, as surely as we wish not to force our ways on them, outside of the way of American liberty, where all humans are presumed equal regardless of their ways, beliefs, biology, etc.

it is your willingness to act American with other Americans, regardless of their differences, that makes you equal in these lands, nothing else. So, when you get angry, justifiably so, at the violence being perpetrated by the DNC-CCP, remember, this has nothing to do with transgenderism or transgenderd people. They are merely the useful vehicle of power of the anti-American, anti-human DNC-CCP.

Washington Post column calls for gender to be removed from U.S. passports

From www.foxnews.com
2022-04-11 20:32:17
Nikolas Lanum
Excerpt:

A Washington Post column called for gender, including male and female labels, to be removed from U.S. passports in an effort to advance inclusion for transgender travelers.

In the Sunday column, transgender artist and writer Abeni Jones said that transitioning from male to female has made travel “more difficult” and claimed that transgender individuals are frequently subjected to additional airport screenings.

The U.S. State Department, in conjunction with the Biden administration, announced in June 2021 that passport applicants would soon have the option of marking X as their gender, a third gender marker as an alternative to male (M) or female (F). The change went into effect on April 11 and the department announcement claimed the change was enacted in an effort to “advance inclusion.”

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12 U.S. Cops Fired for Refusing Covid-19 Vaccination

Ivo Fysic April 12, 2022

The state of Massachusetts has just fired 12 state police officers for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine. The State Police Association of Massachusetts has signalled it might be challenging the aauthority of anti-American governor Charlie Baker (a Republican, so remember, folks, seditionists in America aren’t just in the DNC) to make such demands on state employees.

The official response by the State Police Association failed to call a seditionist a seditionist, but that’s a trend that is widespread and indicative of the level of conditioning the DNC-CCP has successfully applied to the American people where such acts by American governors are not immediately recognized as being openly in violation of the basic principles, let alone the actual letters, of American Rule of Law, a government of the people, not the experts or the politicians.

12 Massachusetts State Police Fired For Not Getting COVID Vaccine

From live959.com
2022-04-11 13:58:53

Excerpt:

12 Massachusetts State Police have been fired from their jobs because they refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine. That news is not sitting well with State Police Association of Massachusetts President Patrick McNamara. The twelve that were fired included 11 troopers and one sergeant.

Last summer Republican Gov. Charlie Baker ordered most state employees to be vaccinated against a COVID-19 or else face possible termination – a mandate which McNamara, after the terminations, called “obsolete.”

As part of a statement that McNamara sent out to members of the Massachusetts State Police Association, he did not mince words:

A true leader would never treat the men and women who serve this Commonwealth in such a disgraceful manner! ~ State Police Association of Massachusetts President Patrick McNamara

McNamara shared a very strong-worded statement with the association’s membership on Friday evening and early Saturday morning.

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Divorcing the Left from America and the Public Square

America, It is Time to Divorce the Left

Freedomist Curator April 11, 2022

Leftist Language Game-

Assume hierarchy of sin that begins with being racist as the worst sin ever that is literally killing the children.

Do you hate the children, bruh?

Assume racism is the number one threat to our very existence and that, because of the nature of such a plague-like existential threat to human life itself, we must pursue ending racism by any means necessary. Violence is the only way to end the hate.

After this, assume homophobia, transphobia, non-binary-phobia, not wanting the rich to be killed, not wanting to sexualize children to break the patriarchy, not willing to call a man a woman, not willing to support abortion, not willing to say good things about our party’s platform, are the number one threats to our humanity, after all, ALL OF THIS STEMS FROM RACISM! And we must stop ALL OF THIS BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY to save the children and punish the evildoers who call women women and men men.

Now, you are at their mercy, in their pedo-death cult courts, all because you agreed that racism is the worst sin a human could ever commit and that just having that thought is a threat to your humanity that a bill of rights republic which offers such rights as free speech could never protect humans from, because free speech is racist too.

Don’t participate in their language games. Where violence against thought is justified, you have nothing more to say to these animals, other than cease and desist before the memes turn into something far, far more real, something the online Left has no appreciation for, for they think like children, for adults cultivated their sense of moral supremacist entitelment that can’t imagine any world but the one their masters injected into their uncritical, emotion-led minds.

When you’re talking to a leftist, you’re talkuing to a person who wants people who hate abortion to be removed from society altogether. There is no negotiating or understanding possible between we adult humans and the collection of perverts, nihlists, Peter Pans, and ruthless opportunists the Left is overwhelmingly now comprised of.

They have no moral high ground. Murdering babies is considered a virtue. Telling five year olds that women are anyone who says they’re women and everyone else is just either bleeding people or non-bleeding people is the only acceptable public belief humans can have.

There are no mothers, only persons that can reproduce. This is truly a debased, rebrobate mind, one that cannot be reached or understood save for by other perverts that view children as political weapons of war intended to allow these Leftists to go on sinning without suffering the consequences of their debased antihuman actions.

When a Leftist accuses you of being racist for merely supporting your country, tell them that the opinion of a pedo-death cultist has no merit whatsoever in decent, human society. And if they persist, deal with them as you do one intending to murder you, for surely they already feel entitled to do so to you before they ever saw you.

Read the comments from their perverts online. They preach murder and violence and death on any who would even question the least of their tenets, let alone any of their most sacred ones, like having the ‘right’ to murder babies, having the right to sacrifice the innocent against their will so that humans can keep on sinning. That right there is the relationship leftism always has with children, because of how violently antihuman the whole death cult really is.

Don’t be afraid anymore, fellow adult humans. Silence won’t save you from their murderous designs. You have nothing to lose anymore, and that, my friends, is where the left fucked up.

Biden Family Business Turns Out to be Selling American Power to China

Paul Collier April 11, 2022

The Hunter Biden laptop from heck that the DNC media worked so hard to conceal from voters before the illegal, unconstitutional mass mailer election of 2020 is revealing the connections the entire Biden family had (probably still have) with foreign powers that exchanged millions of dollars with the Biden family in exchange for having American policies altered to benefit foreign interests over American ones.
We in the human adult world would call this sedition, and under any normal circumstances where adults were running a republic such as we have on paper, this entire family would already be facing charges of sedition, fraud, bribery, etc, with Hunter and Joe possibly facing capitol punishment for their willingness to aggressively work in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party (the DNC’s frenemy that has supplied the bulk of the DNC’ foreign funding).
Communism is a spoiled brat child’s religion, so it should not be a surprise that our nation, now under Hyksos occupation by DNC Communists, with most of our major political, market, and social institutions being occupied by police state children in adult bodies, continues to allow openly seditious perverts, rapists, and murderers to serve in positions of American power, pervert seditionists like Weekend at Joe Biden’s and his crack-whore son Hunter. along with all the leadership of the DNC.
The feckless GOP, on their part, refuses to call pedophiles and rapists what they are, possibly because their highest ranks are still filled with the same class of people. They call out the corruption but not the sedition, and they very rarely touch on the pedophilic spirit the whole death cult of the DNC represents. Are they worried they might be misrepresented by the press? The DNC press has been calling anyone that doesn’t support the death cult of the DNC traitors, seditionists, insurrectionists, murders, rapists, bigots, etc, for years now, un inhibited by any press backlash because the “American” press is filled with these immoral agents of pedophilia and murder.
What do they have to lose if they’re innocent? Nothing. But the GOP is guilty of settling in to a comfortable role for the party, getting grift from being a politician in charge of doling out the spoils of war in a ‘safe’ district while assuring nothing is fundamentally done to end the power of the DNC death cult to continue to control Americans using decidedly anti-American actions to do so.
The mouths of the GOP, the leaders that are repeatedly put in YouTube clips for allegedly destroying a DNC death cultist with their vicious words, are just that, mouths, and mouths alone. They are all disembodied mouths with no hands or feet to convert words to action, and Jim Jordan might very well be one of the leading disembodied mouths of the GOP.
His appearance recently on Fox News, where he dared tie the whole Biden family to Hunter Biden’s seditious grift, but did so while refusing to call the family out plainly for what it represents, the seditious DNC death cult that this family has contributed so significantly remained well-funded by America’s enemies, the DNC’s friends, China, Russia, et al, more than willing to fund efforts to destroy an American Bill of Rights republic, ending the last escape route for the free in the world today.

Hunter Biden texts ‘tie in the entire family’

From nypost.com
2022-04-10 17:59:00

Excerpt:

Rep. Jim Jordan said The Post’s story revealing how Hunter Biden covered expenses for his president dad shows how “involved” Joe Biden was in his son’s shady business dealings.

Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, spoke out about the messages found on the first son’s abandoned laptop — first reported by The Post last July — on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“One, it sure looks like Joe Biden was involved. This was a family operation, including his uncle, as I said before,” the Ohio congressman said, referring to the president’s brother James.

Texts and emails on Hunter Biden’s computer showed that he had to foot the bill for some of his father’s expenses.

“I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years,” Hunter Biden griped to daughter Naomi in January 2019, referring to his father. “It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.”

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First Woman Charged with Murder after Texas Abortion Law Passed

Paul Collier April 11, 2022

Texas is going through with its experiment in challenging the socio-cultural norms of Leftist America, who would have you believe that the only right and proper view regarding abortion, the ending of human life pre-birth in an effort to avoid the burden of bringing that life to term and then being obligated to take care of that life afterwards.

Reading the DNC media spin on the arrest of a woman who was charged with murdering her unborn child by inducing her own abortion you’d never know any death took place whatsoever. As a matter of fact, the phrase they use to describe the people who support murdering unborn children to free humans from the burden of being responsible for life they created, is ‘reproductive rights advocates.’

This rather Orwellian phrase that uses an appeal to basic human decency that instinctively understands human reproduction is a positive outcome for the very perpetuation of our species papers over, sanitizes the real heart of the action, murder, and efforts by DNC media to continue to avoid the brutal reality of the murderous, selfish, anti-human, anti-child, anti-parenting act of abortion shows just how vulgar, how vile the heart of an abortionist is that they refuse to face the faces of the humans their ideology of human hate murders.

When the abortion law first passed, there were some brave human beings willing to articulate human decency in the face of orthodox vulgarity and genocide. Some business leaders came out in support of the Texas law to protect the most vulnerable in our society, the unborn. The angry anti-human left, using that Orwellian phrase “reproductive rights” as their bloodthirsty battle cry lie, whipped up the bots and the emotionally depraved to actually successfully cause some decent human beings to lose their jobs for daring to be against murdering unborn children.

For many, including myself, this was the death of any desire to understand the anti-human left and its vulgar ideology of murder and thought control. When it became clear that, for the Left, there is only one outcome in the abortion debate, total and free and on demand abortion up to birth, and maybe even beyond, and a violent state and corporate removal of all who dare believe abortion is evil and should be ended.

Two years ago, support for the Texas law and the fruit of that law, a real woman being arrested, held under a half million dollar bail (that will surely be paid by some anti-human sexual deviant org funded by one or more of the many leftist billionaires that support this bilious practice) would be hard to find, even among many so-called Pro-life activists (a phrase we should reject altogether as we should EMBRACE being anti-abortionist, as in, we are anti-murder, anti-rape, anti-pedophilia and most assuredly anti-abortion, which encompasses murder, rape, and pedophilia as well)/

But after we who oppose murdering unborn children saw plainly, not in theory, but in real brutal action, the society the DNC has in store us, a police state society that protects murderers and destroys the lives of anti-murderers for daring to be anti-murderer, well, the gloves are off. It is an all-or-nothing war at this point, with no compromise being possible with an enemy that has long ago decided they have a Satanic justification to choose to murder you and your way of making a living for merely disagreeing with their cult of pedophilia and elitist worship.

Now, it’s all or nothing, and not one person opposed the DNC death cult should feel they have in any way shape or form anything left to lose in a land so thoroughly controlled by adult children perverts in adult bodies with billions of Chinese capital in their back pockets to help fuel their anti-American, anti-human, anti-parenting, anti-child, anti-love death cult. It’s you or our children at this point, and none of us will offer you a scrap of sympathy, mercy, or understanding until such time as we have vanquished the pervert death cultists from every major institution in America today.

We don’t seek to offer mercy while you yet seek to murder us all. That comes only after we have vanquished your power and restored human decency to a land where it once flourished more than anywhere else in the world, before it or since.

Let this woman be the division we need to see, we who are not followers of the DNC death cult, so we can separate ourselves from the death spirals these supporters of the DNC and abortion are heading down, with no assistance from us even being necessary. It is enough to step out of their way, out of their businesses, their homes, their lives, so as to not be dragged down to Hell with them.

Abortion is absolutely the litmus test of human decency. Those who support it, no matter their stated reasons, have revealed to you that they have no sense of sacredness of the individual. Humans are expendable when they inconvenience those with power. They will always be a security risk to anyone who loves human individuals for their sacredness alone, for human sacredness is not a belief that allows them to make man in their perverse anti-Christ image, sacrificing the innocent against their will so that they can keep on sinning.

Woman faces murder charge over ‘self-induced abortion’: Texas official

From rssfeeds.usatoday.com
2022-04-10 14:42:34
USA TODAY
Excerpt:

Reproductive rights advocates are voicing their outrage after a woman in Texas was arrested and charged with murder for what law enforcement called “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.”

The Starr County Sheriff’s Office in southern Texas arrested Lizelle Herrera, 26, on Thursday. It is unclear whether Herrera is accused of having a self-induced abortion or whether she helped someone else get an abortion.

“Herrera was arrested and served with an indictment on the charge of Murder after Herrera did then and there intentionally and knowingly cause the death of an individual by self-induced abortion,” sheriff’s Maj. Carlos Delgado said in a statement to the Associated Press.

Delgado did not say under which law Herrera has been charged. Herrera remains at a Starr County jail on a $500,000 bond, according to the jail’s roster.

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Macron Finishes First, but Must Face Le Pen Again in Runoff

Parker Davis April 11, 2022

French President Macron managed to beat all comers in the recent Presidential election, but failed to win more than 50 percent of the vote, hitting just 28 percent in voter support, with his next-closest rival, Marine Le Pen finishing at 23 percent. The two will now face off in a winner-take-all runoff election.

French presidential election: Macron projected to finish ahead of Le Pen in first round

From www.washingtonpost.com
2022-04-10 19:23:39
Rick Noack
Excerpt:

PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron was projected to finish in the top spot in the French presidential election on Sunday, for the moment holding off a far-right challenge that would shake global politics. But far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s gains and second-place finish set up a competitive runoff election on April 24.

As polls closed and votes were being counted on Sunday, a projection by Ipsos-Sopra Steria for France’s public broadcaster showed Macron ahead with 29 percent of the vote share and Le Pen at 24 percent. Far-left contender Jean-Luc Mélenchon was projected to come in at 20 percent — higher than expected, but not enough to make the runoff.

Macron, a centrist running for a second five-year term, faces far tougher race than when he trounced Le Pen by more than 30 percentage points in the 2017 presidential runoff. The latest polls of voter intention suggest he would now win by only four to six percentage points in a second round against her — reflecting…

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India’s US Relations Tested by How They Respond to Russia-Ukraine War

Parker Davis April 11, 2022

The Biiden administration will be sending ‘strong overtures’ to India’s PM Modi that any effort to aid the Russians against the Ukrainians, any effort to not follow the sanction plan targeting Russia will be viewed most unfavorably by Washington. President Biden is expected to share these warnings directly with Modi in his next meeting scheduled for today, Monday, April 11th, 2022.

Biden set to speak with Modi as U.S. warns India on importing Russian energy – National

From globalnews.ca
2022-04-10 16:00:17

Excerpt:

President Joe Biden will meet virtually with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, the White House said, at a time when the United States has made clear it does not want to see an uptick in Russian energy imports by India.

“President Biden will continue our close consultations on the consequences of Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine and mitigating its destabilizing impact on global food supply and commodity markets,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement on Sunday.

Daleep Singh, U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economics, who visited India recently, said the United States will not set any “red line” for India on its energy imports from Russia but does not want to see a “rapid acceleration” in purchases.

Lured by steep discounts following Western sanctions on Russian entities, India has bought at least 13 million barrels of Russian crude oil since the country invaded Ukraine in late February. That compared with some 16 million barrels for the whole of last year, data compiled by Reuters shows.

This meeting will precede the “U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial” meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, India External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and India Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, the White House said.

Biden, who last spoke to Modi in March, recently said that only India among the Quad group of countries was “somewhat shaky” in acting against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.