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Kamala Harris claps to Puerto Rico protest song, stops once aide translates what they’re actually singing

Kamala Harris claps to Puerto Rico protest song, stops once aide translates what they’re actually singing

Vice President Kamala Harris was captured on camera clapping to a Puerto Rican protest song during her visit to San Juan on Friday, stopping short once an aide translated what singers added to the lyrics.  After making remarks in Puerto Rico’s capital, Harris visited the Goyoco community center in the Santurce neighborhood of San Juan where she took a tour and heard from center staff and community leaders.  The motorcade was greeted by a mix of several dozen, loud demonstrators and onlookers on the sidewalk. One held a sign that said “Kamala Harris war criminal,” another called the USA and Israel “genocidal.” The vice president stopped in a courtyard within the community center where a six-person group of musicians played. Pool cameras captured Harris clapping her hands and nodding along as she watched and listened. A singer then performed accompanied by a piano. According to RNC Research, Harris was clapping until an aide next to her translated what the band was saying.  PUERTO RICO ABLE TO MAKE FULL TRANSITION TO CLEAN ENERGY BY 2050, FEDS SAY The woman standing next to Harris is Mariana Reyes, executive director at La Goyco, while the man is Frankie Miranda, Hispanic Federation president, according to The Associated Press.  “We want to know, Kamala, what did you come here for? … Long live Free Palestine and Haiti too!” the band said, according to the account managed by the Republican National Committee.  Harris then stopped clapping and instead folded her hands and slightly nodded as the song continued.  VP HARRIS PUSHES GUN CONTROL AT SITE OF PARKLAND SCHOOL SHOOTING AS VICTIM’S DAD CALLS IT ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ Before visiting the community center, Harris had visited a residential home outside San Juan that was damaged during Hurricane Maria but has since been outfitted with solar panels and water tanks, through a federal program. She was joined by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Adrianne Todman, and Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi.   “What we all need to do then is just supply the community and the talent here with the capacity and the resources. And so President Joe Biden and I have been very intentional about what we are doing for the leaders and the people and the families of Puerto Rico. So far, our administration has invested over $140 billion in Puerto Rico,” Harris said, championing new innovations in making technology hurricane resistant. Fox News’ Sarah Tobianski contributed to this report. 

Pro-West candidate beats Slovakia PM’s ally to set up presidential run-off

Pro-West candidate beats Slovakia PM’s ally to set up presidential run-off

Ex-Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok and current parliament Speaker Peter Pellegrini to face off in April’s vote dominated by the Ukraine war. Slovakia’s former pro-West Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok and current parliament Speaker Peter Pellegrini will face off in April’s presidential election run-off, according to the final results. The liberal Korcok led with 42.44 percent backing with 99.9 percent of the vote counted, while former Prime Minister Pellegrini earned 37.07 percent, the Slovak Statistical Office said late on Saturday. The result was expected by analysts as the 48-year-old Pellegrini and 59-year-old Korcok topped the opinion polls before the vote marked by deep divisions on the war in neighbouring Ukraine. The presidential election is a chance for Prime Minister Robert Fico, whose views on Ukraine have angered critics for veering too close to Russia, to strengthen his grip on power. President Zuzana Caputova, 50, who has been a fierce opponent of Fico, did not seek a new term. But the opposition forces want a counterbalance to Fico’s rule. Korcok, a career diplomat who was a minister in a past government, will advance to a run-off on April 6 against Pellegrini, who heads the Hlas (Voice) party. A Russian-leaning former Supreme Court chief, Stefan Harabin, gained the third most votes at just 11.75 percent, after getting support from a nationalist party that is also in the government coalition. His voters could help Pellegrini. “I certainly have to speak to the tens of thousands of voters of the ruling coalition who disagree with where the government is pulling Slovakia,” Korcok told his supporters. Fico and his ruling leftist Smer party won a parliamentary election last September with pledges to halt military aid to Ukraine and maintain support for people hit by price surges. Pellegrini, a former member of Smer, was key in forming a coalition and said the first-round results showed a majority did not want a “liberal-right-progressive” president who would only be in conflict with the government. “The majority in Slovakia expressed an interest in having a president who will defend the national state interests,” he said. Presidents do not wield many executive powers but have a role in government and judicial appointments, can veto laws and shape public debate as the liberal Caputova often did. Voters in the past have rejected giving ruling parties both the government and presidential offices, including Caputova’s win in 2019 when anticorruption sentiment hurt Fico’s party, which was in government then. “This election will show whether mass protests that have taken place in Bratislava and other major cities in recent weeks are also supported by people who usually express their disapproval at the polling stations,” said Radoslav Stefancik, political analyst at the University of Economics in Bratislava. Adblock test (Why?)

Nigerian army rescues 17 students abducted from Sokoto state

Nigerian army rescues 17 students abducted from Sokoto state

NewsFeed Children who were kidnapped in two separate abductions in northern Nigeria have been freed. On Friday the army rescued one group taken from Sokoto, while more than 130 students from Kaduna were released early on Sunday. Published On 24 Mar 202424 Mar 2024 Adblock test (Why?)

Only effective way to ramp up Gaza aid is by land, UN chief Guterres says

Only effective way to ramp up Gaza aid is by land, UN chief Guterres says

During a visit to Egypt, Antonio Guterres warns of the impact Israel’s months-long war on Gaza is having around the globe. The only effective and efficient way to deliver heavy goods to meet Gaza’s humanitarian needs is by road and includes an exponential increase in commercial deliveries, says the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Speaking during a visit to Egypt on Sunday, Guterres also warned of the impact Israel’s months-long war on Gaza was having around the globe. “The daily assault on the human dignity of Palestinians is creating a crisis of credibility for the international community,” he said in remarks following a visit to the gates of the besieged Palestinian territory at the Rafah border crossing on Saturday. Guterres repeated his call for an immediate ceasefire to alleviate “the plight of Palestinian children, women and men struggling to survive the nightmare” in famine-threatened Gaza. “Looking at Gaza, it almost appears that the four horsemen of war, famine, conquest and death are galloping across it,” he said. “The whole world recognises that it’s past time to silence the guns and ensure an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.” The UN has repeatedly warned of famine in the Palestinian territory, particularly in the north, which has been largely cut off from aid deliveries. Guterres said Palestinians in Gaza “desperately need what has been promised – a flood of aid”. “Not trickles. Not drops,” he added. The Israeli government is under growing international pressure to ease its bombardment and ground offensive in Gaza, which the territory’s Ministry of Health says has killed at least 32,226 people in less than six months, most of them women and children. The bombings began on October 7 after the Palestinian armed group, Hamas, led an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing about 1,160 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli officials. Israel has pledged to pursue its military campaign all the way to Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, where 1.5 million Palestinians have sought shelter, penned in by the Egyptian border. Guterres, who also met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, called the Rafah border crossing and Egypt’s El Arish airport where assistance is sent “essential arteries for life-saving aid into Gaza”. “But those arteries are clogged,” he said, with massive lines of trucks piled up on the Egyptian side, only trickling in as the humanitarian situation worsens. Adblock test (Why?)

Veteran British left-wing disruptor George Galloway slammed for Princess Kate conspiracy theories

Veteran British left-wing disruptor George Galloway slammed for Princess Kate conspiracy theories

George Galloway, a veteran left-wing British political disruptor sho recently won a special election parliament seat, is being slammed for spreading conspiracy theories about Kate Middleton. Members of Parliament have condemned Galloway as a “stain on British democracy,” for “platforming untruths” about the Princess of Wales, even going as far as to speculate that she was “dead,” according to The Telegraph. “It’s clearly not Kate Middleton in the Sun video,” Galloway posted to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter on Friday, along with an interview clip from his talk show. “It’s a woman 20 years younger and the royals haven’t confirmed its authenticity. Kate hasn’t been seen in public since Christmas Day.” Galloway and interviewee David Clews were discussing the video released of Middleton and Prince William enjoying some fresh air at the Windsor Farm Shop nearly three months after her last official royal outing.  KATE MIDDLETON’S CANCER ANNOUNCEMENT SHOWS NEW TRANSPARENCY: OTHER ROYALS WHO BATTLED THE DISEASE Galloway’s post was just hours before Middleton announced Friday that she had been diagnosed with cancer in a video message that appeared to feature subtle symbolism of the fight against the disease. The 42-year-old Princess of Wales was seen sitting on a park bench in front of a field of blooming daffodils, a flower that has become known as a symbol of hope and resilience for cancer patients and survivors. KATE MIDDLETON WAS NOT FIRST PRINCESS TO PULL A DISAPPEARING ACT DURING HEALTH BATTLE In her video, Middleton shared that she has been undergoing preventative chemotherapy treatment after a planned abdominal surgery showed “cancer had been present.” She did not elaborate on the form or extent of the cancer in her video. The princess gave an update on her health after undergoing major surgery earlier this year. “I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you, personally, for all the wonderful messages of support and for your understanding whilst I have been recovering from surgery,” Kate said in the video recorded Wednesday. “It has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family, but I’ve had a fantastic medical team who have taken great care of me, for which I am so grateful.” “George Galloway’s style of politics is a stain on British democracy, and has no place in Parliament,” Wendy Chamberlain said, according to The Telegraph. “”Giving oxygen to conspiracy theories like this is the lowest of the low. He should be ashamed of himself.” KATE MIDDLETON, PRINCE WILLIAM ‘ENORMOUSLY TOUCHED’ BY ‘KIND MESSAGES’ FROM THE PUBLIC AFTER CANCER DIAGNOSIS “Some of the fantasies that have been put around about the Princess of Wales are hurtful and malign and fall well below the standards expected of an MP,” Tim Loughton said, according to The Telegraph.  Fox News’ Tracy Wright, Ashley Hume and The Associated Press contributed to this report.