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Insanity: AfD’s Petr Bystron Loses Immunity for Sharing Merkel Photo They Said Wasn’t a Nazi Salute — Until He Posted It

The EU Parliament has lifted the immunity of AfD foreign policy spokesman Petr Bystron because he shared a photo of Angela Merkel on Twitter in 2022.

The reason? Bizarre: since Merkel is seen raising her arm in the image, it’s being interpreted as a Nazi salute – but only because Bystron posted it.

Prosecutor: Waving is not a Nazi salute

This farce has a backstory: In 2022, during a protest against COVID-19 measures, Bystron waved to the crowd.

The public prosecutor immediately launched an investigation: “Nazi salute!”

In response, hundreds of AfD supporters filed complaints against Angela Merkel, who had been photographed waving in a similar manner. But in each case, the prosecutor ruled: “Not a Nazi salute, no investigation.”

Bystron used exactly that photo of Merkel in court to defend himself—successfully. The court ruled that not every raised right arm constitutes a Nazi salute. “Great!” Bystron thought. “Then using the Merkel photo should be no problem.”

Far from it! Now, the prosecutor claims it is a Nazi salute after all – and has indicted Bystron for spreading unconstitutional symbols!

Strange? More than that. The charges came a full year after the image was posted on X.

The alleged violation of §86 of the German Criminal Code only came to the prosecutor’s attention once the EU election campaign began – with Bystron leading the AfD list alongside top candidate Krah. What a coincidence!

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Israel removes all remaining tariffs on US imports

Israel has canceled all previous tariffs on products from the US, a joint statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, Finance Ministry, and Economy and Industry Ministry confirmed on Tuesday.

The Finance Committee approved it, and the Economy and Industry Minister, Nir Barkat, signed the order to amend the Trade Tariff and Protective Measures Order.

A free trade agreement between the US and Israel signed in 1985 had already led to nearly all imported goods from the US being fully exempt from tariffs.

The joint statement clarified that, due to this, the tariff reduction will apply to a very limited number of products, primarily in the food and agricultural categories.

The removal of remaining tariffs would expand the strategic relationship between the two countries, the statement added.

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Wisconsin Votes to Enshrine Voter Photo ID Law in State Constitution

Wisconsin voters approved a ballot measure on Tuesday that enshrines into the state Constitution the photo identification requirement in order to cast a ballot.

Approximately 63 percent of voters supported the ballot measure, while around 37 percent voted against it, according to an unofficial tally by The Associated Press.

Sen. Van Wanggaard (R-Racine), who co-authored the amendment, said the voter photo ID requirement will now become “the law of the land no matter the political whims of the Supreme Court or Legislature.”

“I want to thank the voters for overwhelmingly putting Voter ID into the constitution,” he stated on social media platform X. “Every elected Democrat and Susan Crawford oppose it.”

Judge Crawford is the Democrat-backed candidate who won the Wisconsin Supreme Court race on Tuesday, defeating Brad Schimel, a former attorney general who had President Donald Trump’s endorsement.

The requirement for voters to show valid photo identification before casting a ballot is already mandated by state law, which was passed in 2011 and went into effect in 2016. Adding it to the state Constitution will make it more difficult for the Legislature or courts to change it in the future.

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ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Outside Boston Courtroom as City Defies Feds – Now Judge Slaps Agent with Contempt

A Boston judge has held a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in contempt for executing his duty to detain an illegal immigrant during an ongoing trial.

On Thursday, March 27, 2025, ICE agents, ICE agent Brian Sullivan apprehended Wilson Martell-Lebron, a Dominican national illegally residing in the United States, as he exited the Boston Municipal Court.

Martell-Lebron, a Dominican national residing illegally in the country using fake identity, was on his second trial for charges related to falsifying information on a driver’s license application.

Despite the gravity of his alleged offenses, Boston’s lenient policies had allowed him to remain free until ICE agents, led by Agent Brian Sullivan, apprehended him outside the courthouse.

But instead of applause for upholding our borders, a Massachusetts state court judge—yet another cog in the radical left’s sanctuary machine—had the gall to hold an ICE agent in contempt.

Boston Municipal Court Judge Mark Summerville held Agent Sullivan in contempt, accusing him of violating Martell-Lebron’s so-called rights to due process and a fair trial.

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Ukraine has secret nuclear doomsday plan, according to former Zelensky adviser

Ukraine has a secret last-ditch “scorched earth” plan to render its entire territory uninhabitable in the event of a Russian victory in the war – and perhaps the rest of Europe with it.

This is according to Oleksiy Arestovych, a former adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

In an interview with a Ukrainian journalist that he gave last month, Arestovych claimed that Ukraine’s current head of military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, has floated a plan to blow up all of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, and possibly some of Russia’s as well, if all other defensive measures fail.

Ukraine currently operates four nuclear power plants with a total of 15 reactors. One of them, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, is the largest plant in Europe and has been under Russian occupation since March 2022. Russia, for its part, has 37 reactors divided among 11 power plants.

If all or even some of these reactors were attacked and destroyed simultaneously, the destructive impact would be beyond calculation. The Chernobyl nuclear accident that occurred in Ukraine in 1986, and which remains the worst disaster involving nuclear energy in history, killed dozens and led to long-term health problems for thousands of others. It also led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and rendered the surrounding area permanently uninhabitable, spreading radioactivity over a large area and even into Western Europe.

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Radical Biden-Appointed Judge Sides with Illegal Aliens, Blocks Trump Administration’s Effort to End Taxpayer-Funded Legal Aid for Illegal Alien Minors

Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín has once again chosen open borders over American taxpayers, issuing a temporary restraining order late Tuesday to block the Trump administration’s commonsense move to defund legal representation for unaccompanied illegal alien minors.

At the heart of the controversy is a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decision—aligned with Trump-era priorities—to terminate contracts that funneled millions of dollars to left-wing immigration groups under the guise of helping “unaccompanied minors.”

In February 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to identify and eliminate programs providing financial benefits to individuals without legal status. This order also sought to prevent federal funds from supporting “sanctuary” policies at state and local levels.

As a result, HHS and its Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), issued a cancellation order to the Acacia Center for Justice, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.

Last week, the Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, Social Justice Collaborative, Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, Estrella del Paso, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project, Immigrant Defenders Law Center, National Immigrant Justice Center, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, and Vermont Asylum Assistance Project sued the HHS.

These groups whined to the court that HHS’s decision to terminate their gravy train of federal funds would leave them unable to bankroll lawyers for unaccompanied migrant kids. Apparently, they think American taxpayers should foot the bill for every border-jumper’s day in court.

Judge Martinez-Olguin, a known far-left darling tapped by Biden in 2023, didn’t hesitate to flex her activist muscles.

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Butler Assassination Attempt Documents Locked Down in Congressman Kelly’s Office, as Case Goes Cold on Link to ‘Crooks’

Republican Congressman Mike Kelly who Chaired the Congressional Task Force investigating the July 13th attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, whines about law enforcement withholding important data, but he also continues to face scrutiny for withholding critical investigative documents from the public.

AbleChild contacted Congressman Kelly’s office requesting a copy of the PA State Police Report and a copy of the Allegheny County Coroner’s Autopsy on Thomas Matthew Crooks and was told to “FOIA it.”

Why should any American have to FOIA reports that were obtained during a Congressional Task force investigation? In addition, there are no laws preventing their release.

The documents were used to complete the investigative report. Why should Congressman Kelly have the final say in what Americans are allowed to know about the Butler assassination attempt?

The American taxpayers paid for the Task force to conduct the investigation and should be entitled to see all the documents collected as part of the investigation. The Congressman’s office is well aware that any FOIA request could take months, if not years, to get a response.

Make no mistake, Kelly’s refusal to release requested documents raises serious concerns about transparency and accountability in this high-profile case.

Unfortunately, despite the Task force’s efforts in its final 180-page report, no specific information identifying the alleged shooter and motive for the attack has been made public.

Talk about waste and abuse. The Task force “investigation” produced literally no new information about who the shooter is and why the attack occurred. It didn’t even provide physical evidence to prove the alleged shooter was Thomas Crooks.

Given the admittedly “insubstantial” report, Chairman Kelly blames law enforcement for refusing to provide requested information.

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Transactional Weakness Tips the Balance of Power – ‘Hold to No Illusions; There Is Nothing Beyond This Reality’

A U.S. economic ‘re-balancing’ is coming. Putin is right. The post-WWII economic order ‘is gone’

The post-WWII geo-political outcome effectively determined the post-war global economic structure. Both are now undergoing huge change. What remains stuck fast however, is the general (Western) weltanschauung that everything must ‘change’ only for it to stay the same. Things financial will continue as before; do not disturb the slumber. The assumption is that the oligarch/donor class will see to it that things remain the same.

However, the power distribution of the post-war era was unique. There is nothing ‘forever’ about it; nothing inherently permanent.

At a recent conference of Russian industrialists and entrepreneurs, President Putin highlighted both the global fracture, and set out an alternate vision which is likely to be adopted by BRICS and many beyond. His address was, metaphorically speaking, the financial counterpart to his 2007 Munich Security Forum speech, at which he accepted the military défie posed by ‘collective NATO’.

Putin is now hinting that Russia has accepted the challenge posed by the post-war financial order. Russia has persevered against the financial war, and is prevailing in that too.

Putin’s address last week was, in one sense, nothing really new: It reflected the classic doctrine of the former premier, Yevgeny Primakov. No romantic about the West, Primakov understood its hegemonic world order would always treat Russia as a subordinate. So he proposed a different model – the multipolar order – where Moscow balances power blocs, but does not join them.

At its heart, the Primakov Doctrine was the avoidance of binary alignments; the preservation of sovereignty; the cultivation of ties with other great powers, and the rejection of ideology in favour of a Russian nationalist vision.

Today’s negotiations with Washington (now narrowly centred on Ukraine) reflect this logic. Russia isn’t begging for sanctions relief or threatening anything specific. It is conducting strategic procrastination: waiting out electoral cycles, testing Western unity, and keeping all doors ajar. Yet Putin is not adverse either to exerting a little pressure of his own – the window for accepting Russian sovereignty of the four eastern oblasts is not forever: “This point can also move”, he said.

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PATHETIC: Journalists of White House Correspondents Association Considered a ‘Sit-In’ Protest Over Changes in Seating Chart

As the Gateway Pundit recently reported, the Trump administration is planning to take over the seating chart in the briefing room, a power once held by the far-left White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA).

Members of the WHCA, who are apparently a bunch of toddlers throwing a tantrum over the change, considered doing a 1960s style ‘sit-in’ protest in order to object to the changes.

The left views the entire world as a liberal college campus. This is just more proof of that.

From Semafor:

Journalists consider briefing room sit-in as Trump clashes with White House press corps

The Trump administration’s proposal to take over the seating arrangement within the White House press briefing room has rattled the journalists who cover the president and left them mulling how exactly to push back.

The White House plans to impose its own seating chart for reporters in the briefing room, seizing control of a prerogative long managed by the journalists in the room through the White House Correspondents’ Association, Axios first reported Sunday.

The WHCA’s current system reflects the 20th century media power structure: wire services and broadcast and cable television networks occupy the front row, major newspapers and radio get the second and third rows, and a more fluid collection of news organizations sits further back. The White House proposal would upend the arrangement in a move White House officials reportedly believe will be a “fundamental restructuring of the briefing room, based on metrics more reflective of how media is consumed today.”…

According to two people familiar with the discussions, among the proposals raised by members was a potential Civil Rights era-style “sit-in” protest, in which members would return to their old seats and refuse to leave them.

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Demented Democrat Demands Deported “Gangbangers” Be Returned To US

Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin demanded during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday that the Trump administration organise the immediate return to the US of illegal alien “gangbangers” deported to an El Salvador mega prison.

“I call on my colleagues right now to call off their campaign to impeach federal judges for doing their job,” Raskin said, referring to Republicans criticising Federal District Court Judge James Boasberg for ordering illegal alien deportation flights to be turned back when already in the air.

“I call on them to demand that the Trump administration comply with all judicial orders while appealing whichever ones they want to appeal,” Raskin added.

“And to demand the return of people unlawfully taken to El Salvador on that so-called plane full of gangbangers,” he further proclaimed.

While those on the flights were known to be violent criminals by ICE, a leftist talking point is being pushed that an alleged innocent father from Maryland, wrongly associated with one of the gangs, was aboard one of the flights.

Vice President Vance pointed out that an immigration judge previously outlined evidence that the illegal alien was associated with the violent MS-13 gang.

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