https://www.news18.com/news/world/switzerland-voters-look-set-to-approve-burqa-ban-in-referendum-3508991.html

A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland won a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday instigated by the same group that organised a 2009 ban on new minarets. The measure to amend the Swiss constitution passed by a 51.2-48.8% margin, provisional official results showed.

The proposal under the Swiss system of direct democracy does not mention Islam directly and also aims to stop violent street protesters from wearing masks, yet local politicians, media and campaigners have dubbed it the burqa ban.

“In Switzerland, our tradition is that you show your face. That is a sign of our basic freedoms,” Walter Wobmann, chairman of the referendum committee and a member of parliament for the Swiss People’s Party, had said before the vote.

He called facial covering “a symbol for this extreme, political Islam which has become increasingly prominent in Europe and which has no place in Switzerland”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/7/four-large-explosions-hit-equatorial-guinea-city-of-bata-reports

Several large explosions at a military base have rocked Equatorial Guinea’s largest city of Bata, according to local media reports.

The cause of the blasts on Sunday or the number of casualties was not immediately clear. Early reports suggested they might have come from the armoury, according to a journalist with the TVGE channel.

In the blast area, iron roofs were ripped off half-destroyed houses and lay twisted amid the rubble. Only a wall or two remained of most houses. People ran in all directions, many of them screaming.

Equatorial Guinea has been ruled by 78-year-old President Teodoro Obiang Nguema for nearly 42 years.

His son, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, vice president with responsibility for defence and security, appeared in the television footage at the scene inspecting the damage, accompanied by his Israeli bodyguards, according to AFP.

Bata is home to about 800,000 of the 1.4 million people living in the oil- and gas-rich country – most of them in poverty. While Bata sits on the mainland, Malabo is on Bioko, one of the country’s islands off the West African coast.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-jets-escort-american-b-52-during-flyby-in-show-of-force-to-iran/

Four Israeli F-15 fighter jets escorted two American B-52 bombers through Israeli airspace on Sunday in a new show of force by the United States against Iran — with an Israeli element — amid rising tensions in the region.

Recent weeks have seen multiple attacks on American military bases in Iraq by Iran-linked militias, including one last week that resulted in the death of an American contractor, as well an attack on an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman that Israel has blamed on Tehran. Late last month, the US responded to the rocket attacks on its bases with an airstrike on an Iran-linked militia in Syria, killing at least one member.

Sunday’s flyby through the region by the B-52 heavy bomber was at least the seventh such maneuver in the past six months. It marked the first time that Israeli planes were photographed accompanying the US bomber, however.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202103071082278940-how-gov-cuomo-nursing-home-scandal-may-trigger-domino-effect-in-michigan-new-jersey–pennsylvania/

Andrew Cuomo has found himself in a heap of trouble over long-term care facility residents' COVID-related deaths and sexual harassment allegations. Although Cuomo is not going to resign, his cases may have repercussions for his political future and hit Democratic governors who issued similar nursing home orders during the pandemic.

Hiring a prominent criminal defence attorney is an indication that Governor Cuomo is taking the growing scandal seriously, suggests Jason Goodman, US investigative journalist and Crowdsource the Truth founder.

Previously, Charles Ortel, a Wall Street analyst who exposed General Electric's massive financial discrepancies in 2008, raised serious questions about Cuomo’s non-profit, Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged, but no investigation has come about, Goodman recalls. "As a member of one of New York’s best known political dynasties, Cuomo is a protected species", the journalist adds.

Meanwhile, it has turned out that Andrew Cuomo is not the only governor who resorted to controversial COVID orders that allegedly resulted in a spike in deaths at nursing homes. Cuomo's critics cite the 25 March 2020 mandate that said "no resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the nursing home (NH) solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19".

On 4 March 2021, several Michigan GOP lawmakers sent a letter to US Attorney General Monty Wilkinson claiming that Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's COVID nursing home policies had put the staff and residents in danger.

In August 2020, the four Democratic-governed states – New York, Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania – were subjected to scrutiny by the DoJ over "orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents". "New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing", the Department of Justice highlighted on 26 August 2020.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/brave-search-engine-compete-google-big-tech

Brave, which was founded by ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, announced it had acquired an open-source search engine originally developed by the now-defunct Cliqz anti-tracking browser and search platform.

The technology used by Cliqz will serve as the foundation for Brave’s new search engine, which promises to offer users a Big Tech-free experience.

“Tailcat is a fully independent search engine with its own search index built from scratch,” Eich said. “Tailcat as Brave Search will offer the same privacy guarantees that Brave has in its browser.”

Eich also promised that the platform would be free of censorship.

“Brave will provide the first private browser+search alternative to the Big Tech platforms and will make it seamless for users to browse and search with guaranteed privacy,” Eich said. “Also, owing to its transparent nature, Brave Search will address algorithmic biases and prevent outright censorship.”

“Tailcat does not collect IP addresses or use personally identifiable information to improve search results.”

Democrats ask Cuomo to fall on his sword to protect the other Dem govs

Cuomo says "fuck off"

Out comes the Gloria Steinem squad of accusers and they pile on

Cuomo says " fuck off "

We are here. possible responses ?

1 Buys a sword, give in to pressure

2 terrible accident

3 Spills the beans

How badly do Democrats want to protect other Governor's ?

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/07/sunday-talks-john-ratcliffe-biden-created-the-border-crisis-biden-owns-the-border-crisis/#more-209141

Former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, appears on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss HR1 and the escalating border crisis.

Ratcliffe rightly notes the policies of President Trump had stopped the border crisis. U.S. agreements with Central American nations along with diplomatic terms with Mexico were working and the influx of illegal immigrants was essentially halted. However, as Biden has reversed all of the Trump policies the explosion of the border crisis is entirely his responsibility. “Biden has created the current border crisis, and Biden owns the current border crisis.”

Additionally, Ratcliffe discusses how the FBI held back information about domestic issues prior to January 6, 2021, in what seems like a purposeful effort to create the problems in Washington DC. Ratcliffe finishes the interview by discussing the likely result from John Durham’s investigation of DOJ and FBI misconduct.

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/03/space-jam-new-legacy-lola-bunny-redesign-1234621742/

“Space Jam: A New Legacy” promises to bring a contemporary twist to the beloved Warner Bros. live-action/animated hybrid original — and it’s not just because it centers on basketball star LeBron James in place of Michael Jordan this time around. One element that’s getting what the filmmakers see as a necessary refresh is the design of the character Lola Bunny, voiced by Kath Soucie, who plays for the Tune Squad and with whom Bugs Bunny falls in love.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, director Malcolm D. Lee (director on films including “Girls Trip” and “The Best Man”) said he was surprised at how “not politically correct” the character’s original design was.

“Lola [Bunny] was very sexualized, like Betty Boop mixed with Jessica Rabbit,” he said. “Lola was not politically correct…