If the projections are accurate, Wilders’s prospects of leading the next government will hinge on his ability to forge alliances with rivals further to the center. In his speech after the results Wilders called for a coalition that would include outgoing premier Mark Rutte’s VVD, which has indicated that it might be prepared to govern alongside him.

“The hope of the Dutch people is that they will get their country back,” Wilders said in a speech after his election victory, adding, “I am willing to compromise in talks with other parties.” Wilders has promised a binding referendum on leaving the European Union. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was quick to congratulate him on his victory on the micro-blogging site X.

“The World Economic Forum (WEF) did not tweet on laws relating to the age of consent, nor say the threshold should be lowered to 13, a WEF spokesperson has told Reuters. A screenshot of the alleged tweet from the verified WEF profile has been shared on multiple social media platforms here, here, here, here, here and here. Dated March 17, it reads: “Should the age of consent be lowered to 13 or less? How age of consent laws may be infringing on human rights.” The tweet also tags the United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, and links to a shortened URL that appears to be invalid.

Reuters was unable to find any record of this tweet existing on WEF’s account, or any article on the official website. There are also no signs of other Twitter users posting replies to such a tweet on or after March 17.

“This is fake,” a WEF spokesperson told Reuters when shown the screenshot. “The World Economic Forum has never published this.” The spokesperson added the WEF had seen several “fake social posts of this kind” in recent weeks. Early iterations of the image can be traced back to mid-June and appear to have originated on a Twitter account that regularly posts memes and fabricated screenshots for satirical means.

On June 14, the user posted the screenshot about the age of consent amid a thread of similar screenshots containing fabricated WEF tweets. In replies to the thread, the user said they were all parody screenshots, acknowledging that some people had been “oblivious” to the joke.

Some sites that publish “satirical” news [ie LIES!]:

• The Onion Magazine
• Snopes
• The Babylon Bee
• The New Yorker Magazine
• The Daily Mash Magazine
• NewsBiscuit
• Daily Squib
• The Daily Bonnet
• + hundreds more.

[Remember – this is the Age of Lies!]

It was also devastating for the Israeli state. On that fateful day, the country’s long-standing security doctrine crumbled in the face of a perfect storm; as a consequence, its intelligence and military institutions were unable to keep citizens safe. For years, the country’s political and military establishment had allowed intolerable threats to gather by seeking to maintain the status quo in the conflict with the Palestinians and to establish a modus vivendi with the de facto Hamas state in Gaza based on deterrence, aiming to extend periods of tranquility.

Israel cannot return to the status quo that existed before October 7. The state’s task now is to bring all the hostages back home and to make it impossible for Hamas and other adversaries, notably the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, to carry out further terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens or pose direct threats to their security. Simultaneously, the government and the political establishment must accept responsibility for their strategic errors. They should prioritize national security interests above political survival and work to foster unity among Israelis, preparing them for the demanding times and challenges that lie ahead. And once the danger posed by Hamas has been eliminated, Israel must renew the process of promoting stable security and political arrangements with the Palestinians.

A necessary paradigm shift is now underway. But a paradigm can shift in many different directions. For the sake of Israel’s future, this one must push the country’s defense institutions and security strategy back toward certain basic principles from which they have strayed in recent years.

They tell us that the unemployment rate is low, but if honest numbers were being used the official rate of unemployment would be about 25 percent right now. There are highly qualified people that can’t even get an interview even though they are sending out hundreds and hundreds of resumes. What are they doing wrong?

Of course the truth is that they aren’t doing anything wrong. The employment market is far tighter than we are being led to believe, and that isn’t going to change any time soon. When a working age American is not working, the government puts that individual into one of two categories. Right now, there are only 6.5 million US adults that are officially considered to be “unemployed”.

But another 99.9 million US adults are considered to be “not in the labor force”. So they don’t count as being “unemployed”. When you add those two numbers together, you get a grand total of 106.4 million US adults that do not have a job right now. So don’t let anyone convince you that unemployment is low.

It comes after Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons slashed their vegan ranges by 10 per cent, according to the Grocer, and Pret A Manger axed 75 per cent of its vegetarian-only stores in December. There were also ‘notably fewer’ patrons at the UK’s biggest indoor vegan event, Vegan Fest, last year, the BBC reported.

“Strict legal measures will be implemented against any individual or firm engaged in the production, storage, distribution, buying, and selling of Halal-certified medicines, medical devices, and cosmetics within Uttar Pradesh,” the state government order said. The ban exempts products created for export, noting that some such goods are shipped to Muslim countries that require imported food to meet halal requirements.

Uttar Pradesh made its regulatory move after police complaints were filed against several companies for “exploiting people’s religious sentiments” to peddle food using “forged” halal certifications. The state government said these efforts to sell halal food created “social animosity” and “violated public trust.”

There were 1,903 active duty soldiers separated for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine while it was mandatory, according to an Army spokesperson. "This was specifically as part of the COVID mandate recession process," Army spokesperson Bryce Dubee told Task & Purpose.

The Army is struggling to recruit, according to reports. The Army was short almost 15,000 new soldiers last year amid reports of service member suicides and issues of sexual assault. In order to overcome the shortfall, the Army is upping sign-on benefits and ad spends with a redirected ad campaign. While just 1,903 were separated over the COVID-19 vaccination mandate, there were thousands more that lost out on religious exemptions, "including 8,945 soldiers, 10,800 airmen and guardians, 4,172 sailors, and 3,717 Marines," according to Task & Purpose.

'This long-term project reflects a concerted Chinese strategy to extend its maritime footprint to all of the key points on the globe,' said Isaac Kardon, a US researcher tracking China's maritime expansion. He has identified 95 ports in more than 50 countries at which a Chinese operator owns or operates at least one terminal — and in many they control the entire port.

China already manufactures 90 per cent of the world's shipping containers and 80 per cent of dockside cranes. The Pentagon fears these cranes — which contain sophisticated sensors and are even used in Nato bases — may track the movement of cargo flows.

"Mike [Beaudry, HERBL’s CEO] and his team did a really good job of hiding that fact from their own brands… that’s how they kept getting our products," said Ali Jamalian, owner of San Francisco cannabis company Sunset Connect, who claims that HERBL owes him $180,000.

Another CEO, Tyler Kearns of Sacramento-based cannabis company Seven Leaves, said HERBL owes his company $880,000. He says he knew the collapsed distributor was in trouble when he found out in June that they were laying off delivery drivers, and that it was going to be near impossible to get that money back. "I knew this was going to be the biggest failure in US cannabis history," he told the outlet.

More Britons support than oppose the Rwanda plan. And despite most of them now being absolutely convinced that our borders are ‘out of control’, an assortment of activist lawyers, pressure groups and unelected judges, cheered on by the radical woke Left, blocked the only thing that might deter people against entering the country illegally.

The recent ugly expressions of anti-Semitism and support for Hamas at these marches represents the creeping and insidious spread of radical Islamism. Its hardcore adherents who are taking to the streets every weekend spout their hatred not only of Jews and Israel but of Western values and our way of life. There have been calls for ‘jihad’ on British streets. Is this what our ancestors, whose memory we solemnly observed last weekend, fought for?

In the Gaza Strip, Israel is still making progress on the ground. Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, has stated time and time again that Tel Aviv will continue to rule the strip until it is demilitarized and deradicalized. Netanyahu also seems to be defying the signal from the Biden administration that Israel should hand over control of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority in the event that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) beat Hamas.

Some commentators, however, contend that Tel Aviv’s ambition to oversee the area is really motivated by an unexplored resource known as Gaza Marines rather than the demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip. At a depth of 610 meters, Gaza Marine is a natural gas field situated 36 kilometers (22 miles) offshore the coast of the Gaza Strip. It is believed to contain 32 billion cubic meters of natural gas, and it is supplemented by a smaller field close to Israeli and Palestinian territorial seas that holds about three billion cubic meters of gas.

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have said there are no citizens from the Jewish state on board and the organisation denied the ship was Israeli, but called it a 'grave incident'. According to one rebel official and maritime source, the ship was seized by the rebels and diverted to a Houthi-controlled coastal area.

It came hours after the Iranian-backed Houthi militia - which has fought a bloody civil war against the Yemeni government since the 1990s - vowed to target ships linked to Israel in the Red Sea in retaliation for the its response to the October 7 attacks.