Polls Open in Russian Presidential Election

Polling stations in Russia’s Far East have opened, kickstarting the 2024 presidential election, in which president Vladimir Putin faces three opponents. Voting centers are set to open gradually throughout the country at 8AM local time. The voting is set to take place for three days through Sunday.
This year, four candidates are vying for the top job, which comes with a six-year term. Incumbent Vladimir Putin, who is running as an independent candidate, is up against the head of the right-wing Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) Leonid Slutsky, Communist candidate Nikolay Kharitonov, and Vladislav Davankov, representing the liberal centrist New People.
This will be the first presidential election in Russia following a 2020 constitutional reform, which established a limit of two six-year terms for any one person serving as head of state. However, the change also resulted in Putin’s terms being “nullified,” enabling him to run for office again.
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Apart from voting at polling stations in person, residents of some 28 regions are able to cast their ballots online through the country’s electronic voting system. To take part in the online poll, the voters had to file special requests through the digital platform of the Russian government, Gosuslugi, before Monday. Voters from Moscow, however, are spared this prerequisite and are able to vote online freely.
The election is projected to have a high turnout of some 71% according to estimates by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTSIOM) pollster. Early voting has already taken place in several remote regions of Russia, with around two million people having already cast ballots, official figures show.
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US Imposes 2nd Sanctions Round on Israeli Settlers, Same Day Schumer Attacks “Pariah” Netanyahu

The United States slapped a second round of sanctions targeting Israeli settlers and ‘illegal outposts’ in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. The sanctions mark somewhat of an unprecedented escalation of tensions between Washington and Tel Aviv, given this newest round focuses not just on individual settlers, but entire settlements too.
The Dept. of Treasury’s new action sanctions Moshe’s farm and Zvi’s farm, both described as being used as outposts from which settlers routinely launch attacks on Palestinian civilians.
The two leaders of the settlements – Moshe Sharvit and Zvi Bar Yosef – are also targeted in the new Treasury action. Axios writes that “The sanctions freeze assets the three settlers and two outposts might have in the U.S., ban them from getting a visa to enter the U.S. and block them from using the U.S. financial system.”
Likely the Biden administration took into consideration a recent report by the UN humanitarian office (OCHA), which documented nearly 500 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians between Oct. 7 and Jan. 31 of this year.
A prior initial round of rare sanctions targeting Israelis only dealt with individuals accused of committing acts of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, and not whole communities.
Some of the same settlers were already under sanctions by the United Kingdom, as The Associated Press details:
Moshe Sharvit, a settler also already sanctioned in the U.K., allegedly attacked Palestinians and Israeli human rights activists in the vicinity of his outpost, which is also now sanctioned by the U.S.
British officials in February stated that Sharvit and another settler threatened Palestinian families at gunpoint and destroyed property as part of a “ targeted and calculated effort to displace Palestinian communities.”
Additionally, sanctions were imposed on Neriya Ben Pazi, who attacked and expelled Palestinian shepherds from hundreds of acres of land as recently as August 2023.
Israeli government officials have been angered by these US sanctions, which are small and targeted enough to perhaps be merely symbolic. Yet it adds to the growing distance between the Biden and Netanyahu governments over Gaza and West Bank policy.
And Thursday’s scathing attack on Prime Minister Netanyahu ratchets tensions further, at a moment President Biden has still refused to attach any conditions to Israel’s use of American weaponry:
Schumer delivered what he deemed a “major address” on the escalating situation in the region, headlined by his comments directed at Netanyahu, the polarizing Israeli leader. He pressed that Netanyahu has “lost his way,” pointing to the political and legal battles he has faced recently while also allowing that the off-and-on prime minister’s “highest priority is the security of Israel.”
The Senate majority leader further blasted Netanyahu’s “far-right extremists” and has been “too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows.”
Israeli settlers provoked Palestinian citizen by giving him milk that was in his refrigerator… pic.twitter.com/4GEt1Yw6Pd
— Southland Post (@SouthlandPost) July 27, 2023
“As a lifelong supporter of Israel, it has become clear to me: The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after Oct. 7,” Schumer underscored. “The world has changed — radically — since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past.”
Schumer went so far as to call Netanyahu a “pariah”–but still critics have pointed out that even those US politicians leading the charge against Bibi are by and large unwilling to cut off the arms supplies and billions in funding to Israel…
Schumer to call for ‘new election’ in Israel in scathing speech
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) March 14, 2024
What’s the strategy here?
First, you arm Israel to the teeth, protect it when it commits war crimes, shield it from all international pressure, and NOW you worry it has become a pariah?https://t.co/DhrC14fzup
A big question that remains is whether Israel will launch a full ground invasion of Rafah, despite Biden warnings not to. Israel is pledging to facilitate the safe exit of civilians before the operation, but there’s been little sign of this happening on a large scale.
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WEF Member Demands 94% Less ‘Human Feet’ On Planet To Reach Agenda 2030 Goals

The global population must be urgently reduced by 94% to “fight climate change” according to a World Economic Forum Contributor who admitted that he is dedicating his life to ensuring there will soon be “less […]
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Scientists Discover ‘Alien DNA’ Hidden in Blood of Vaccinated People

Scientists at an elite research unit in Spain have made a series of startling discoveries regarding the Pfizer Covid mRNA vaccine, including the disturbing fact that when placed in a reptile incubator at body temperature […]
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Don Lemon Bites The Hand That Feeds Him

Political insider Roger Stone reacts to former CNN anchor Don Lemon’s fallout with X over his disastrous interview with Elon Musk.
Of course, his take was much different when the far leftists who previously owned Twitter imposed an arbitrary ban on former President Donald Trump, defending the ban as the decision of a private company free to do as it likes.
Don Lemon spent the day complaining about Free Speech because he doesn’t have a show on ?, but is allowed to freely post here and monetize.
— ALX ?? (@alx) March 14, 2024
Let’s check out how @DonLemon reacted when a sitting President of the United States was permanently banned from this platform: pic.twitter.com/PMocJQEnkW
Planet Fitness ‘Bans’ Woman After She Calls Out Man Shaving in Women’s Locker Room

A woman who witnessed a man shaving in a women’s Planet Fitness locker room was allegedly banned by the gym for complaining.
The lady documented the incident on social media, complete with a photo of the man.
Woman in Planet Fitness claims she went into the bathroom and this man who thinks he’s a woman was in there shaving.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 12, 2024
Why does @PlanetFitness allow men to use the women’s bathroom and invade women’s private spaces?? pic.twitter.com/qVJ0YUFQvc
The woman elaborated further in a follow-up video, saying she’d confronted the man when she spotted him, noting there was also a 12-year-old girl in a towel who “kinda freaked out a man was shaving in her locker room.”
UPDATE: The woman who exposed a man shaving in an Alaska Planet Fitness women’s locker room with a 12-year-old present just had her membership revoked.
Why is @PlanetFitness prioritizing a man with a p*nis using a woman’s private space over women’s and girls’ safety? https://t.co/2WLOzdpf3J pic.twitter.com/XVg6h8pGlA— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 14, 2024
“Well, I was offended,” the woman who filmed the video stated. “I took a picture of him and I asked him why are you there? ‘You’re a man with a penis. Why are you in the women’s locker room?’”
“And he justified by saying, ‘I’m queer LGB.’ and I said, ‘You shouldn’t be in the women’s locker room.
According to the woman, staff members reportedly defended the man and revoked her membership after complaining.
The woman’s report sparked calls to boycott the company until they address the issue.
I just canceled my Planet Fitness membership.
— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) March 14, 2024
I have been a member since 2017.
I will NOT standby a company that allows FAKE WOMEN in the ladies room. pic.twitter.com/StjBlqKWM8
⚠️⚠️⚠️
— DK????? (@1Nicdar) March 14, 2024
I think it’s time to Bud Light
Planet Fitness by canceling your membership.
Watch this video and decide for yourself. #BoycottPlanetFitness pic.twitter.com/OSTNrNMjRU
Evidently, Planet Fitness’s policy claims they allow “all members, including transgender members,” to use any facility that corresponds with “their self-reported gender identity.”
A woman contacted Planet Fitness to cancel her gym membership when she found a man in the women’s locker room.
— ♥️?? ????? ??♥️ (@CB618444) March 14, 2024
Here’s their statement …
You know what to do America. They pander to the .00000001% we boycott @PlanetFitness
Bud light these bastards ? pic.twitter.com/YPuXj0iyRb
The lady went on to encourage other women who feel like their right to privacy is being stripped to stand up against the transgender insanity.