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https://nordictimes.com/world/gina-carano-sues-disney-for-breach-of-contract/

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Gina Carano sues Disney for breach of contract

Published 10 February 2024
– By Editorial Staff
Gina Carano at a fan convention in 2021.
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Actress and former martial artist Gina Carano announced this week that she has filed a lawsuit against the Walt Disney Corporation and Lucasfilm. Carano claims she has been defamed and falsely accused of bigotry and intolerance by the companies.

X owner Elon Musk has endorsed the lawsuit and is encouraging others to join.

For two seasons, Gina Carano starred as former rebel soldier Cara Dune in the streaming series and Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian.

But in February 2021, Lucasfilm and Disney announced her firing, accusing Carano of “social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural & religious identities” and calling them “abhorrent & unacceptable”.

Not only was Gina Carano fired from The Mandalorian, but plans for the rumored spin-off series Rangers of the New Republic (starring Cara Dune) were also shelved.

In an effort to help and support his cause, X owner Elon Musk, who has previously said that he would cover any legal costs for “anyone who feels they have been discriminated against because of their activity on X”, has said that he will help Gina Carano with her lawsuit.

In a post on X, Carano writes that she contacted Elon Musk after reading his request for financial and legal support. After several months of discussions with attorneys, they agreed to proceed with her lawsuit.

“Demonized and dehumanized”

Gina Carano urged people to look at the social media posts that Disney and Lucasfilm have condemned and released the following statement.

– The truth is I was being hunted down from everything I posted to every post I liked because I was not in line with the acceptable narrative of the time. My words were consistently twisted to demonize and dehumanize me. [This is] a bullying smear campaign aimed at silencing, destroying and making an example out of me.

While Carano was immediately signed to a movie role by conservative producer and political commentator Ben Shapiro, she says it has been difficult to work in the industry “with the lies and labels stuck on me, backed and encouraged by the most powerful entertainment company in the world”.

However, she stressed that she is not aware of any ill will on the part of any of her colleagues.

– Artists do not sign away our rights as American citizens when we enter into employment. I have spoken to all my co-stars since I was fired & there is nothing but care and kind words between us. I respect their right to free speech and do not have to think the same on every issue to be their friends and work with them and I know they feel the same towards me.

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After Israeli bombings – Jewish Power returns to Netanyahu government

The situation in Gaza

Published yesterday 11:21
– By Editorial Staff
Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has previously praised Jewish mass murderers and terrorists, is seen as perhaps the most controversial figure in the Netanyahu government.
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The far-right Jewish Power party left Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition in January in protest against the ceasefire and hostage agreement with Hamas.

However, after Israel resumed bombing Gaza, the party’s leader Itamar Ben-Gvir announced that it would return to government.

According to Palestinian authorities, at least 400 people were killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza overnight on Tuesday – and more than 1,000 people were injured.

Many of those killed were women and children, but Benjamin Netanyahu’s staff claimed the attacks targeted Hamas and were “a consequence of Hamas’ repeated refusal to release our hostages and its rejection of all proposals made to it by US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and the mediators”.

The resumption of bombing is seen as a very positive and necessary step by Jewish Power, and in a statement Ben-Gvir said the party “welcomes the return of the State of Israel, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to intense fighting”.

“As we said in recent months, when we withdrew [from the government], Israel must return to fighting in Gaza. This is the right, moral, ethical and most justified step, in order to destroy the Hamas terrorist organization and bring back our hostages. We must not accept the existence of the Hamas organization and it must be destroyed”, he continues.

Clearing Gaza of Palestinians

Until January this year, Ben-Gvir was the minister responsible for Israel’s national security and has long been a highly criticized figure, not only internationally, but also at home in Israel, where criticism of the Netanyahu government is growing and the prime minister himself is accused of corruption-related crimes.

The criticism of Ben-Gvir stems partly from the party leader’s past open praise of Jewish terrorists and mass murderers, but also from his promotion during the invasion of Gaza of what analysts consider to be large-scale ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the area.

Although the radical Zionist publicly states that Israel should encourage Palestinians to “voluntarily” leave the area, the UN and human rights organizations argue that it is in fact a genocide to open the way for further Israeli occupation and more Jewish settlements.

In the past, Itamar Ben-Gvir has also attracted attention for his very hostile attitude towards Christians, defending Orthodox Jews who spit on Christians and calling the practice an “ancient Jewish custom”.

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https://nordictimes.com/world/eu-pledges-billions-in-aid-to-jihadist-regime-in-syria/

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EU pledges billions in aid to jihadist regime in Syria

Published 18 March 2025
– By Editorial Staff
The terrorist leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani has now reverted to using his original name Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa.
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Last week, The Nordic Timesreported that Alawites and other minorities are being subjected to massacres and purges under Syria’s new Western-backed Salafist regime.

Despite the alarms, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, now announces that it has decided to increase aid to the country and donate an additional Є2.5 billion.

– Syrians need greater support, whether they are still abroad, or they decide to go home, von der Leyen proclaimed according to AFP.

– The EU is increasing its pledge to €2.5 billion for 2025 and 2026 – we call on others to step up, she continued.

In addition, international donors have pledged an additional €5.8 billion in aid – slightly less than the €7.5 billion pledged at the EU donors’ meeting last year.

Representatives of the jihadist regime were also invited to a conference in Brussels on the future of Syria, where the EU stated that “we are all having an interest in the stabilization of Syria”.

Fathers murdered in front of their children

Since Syria’s secular leader, Bashar al-Assad, was overthrown in December, those in power in the West have systematically tried to legitimize the new regime and tried to portray them as a moderate force and legitimate partner.

However, The Nordic Times has previously highlighted how HTS, which seized power in the country, was until recently considered a terrorist organization with close ties to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. It has also highlighted how Syria’s new leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, founder of al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, was listed as a “global terrorist” by the US as recently as 2013.

The ousted leader Bashar al-Assad belonged to the country’s Alawite minority, while the forces in power today are Sunni Muslims. Recently, a number of Alawite villages and communities were subjected to widespread mass killings and cleansing campaigns – in what is believed to be “revenge” for the minority’s past support for Assad.

Witnesses describe how the killers arrived by car in smaller communities and then searched all the buildings and executed all the men they found – often in front of their families.

A large number of clips have also been posted on social media showing Alawites being forced to grovel, bark like dogs or otherwise humiliate themselves before being tortured or killed.

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https://nordictimes.com/world/trump-withdraws-hunter-bidens-secret-service-protection/

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Trump withdraws Hunter Biden’s Secret Service protection

Donald Trump's USA

Published 18 March 2025
– By Editorial Staff
The fact that 18 agents worked to protect Hunter Biden is described as “ridiculous” by Trump.
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Donald Trump has ordered the Secret Service to immediately end taxpayer-funded protection for former President Joe Biden’s scandal-plagued son Hunter and his sister.

Under federal law, former presidents and their spouses are entitled to lifetime protection by the Secret Service – but this privilege does not automatically extend to their adult children.

In a post on his own Truth Social platform, Trump writes that 18 agents have been assigned to watch 55-year-old Hunter and that another 13 have been assigned to protect his 43-year-old sister Ashley Biden.

The President describes the whole thing as “ridiculous” and notes that the bodyguard protection is now withdrawn “effective immediately”. He is also highly critical of the fact that Hunter Biden went on vacation in South Africa with his bodyguard.

“We are aware of the President’s decision to terminate protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden. The Secret Service will comply and is actively working with the protective details and the White House to ensure compliance as soon as possible”, the agency wrote in a statement.

Pardoned his son – despite protests

It should also be noted that Hunter Biden was convicted just last year of tax evasion and of hiding his drug addiction when he filled out documents to buy a gun. Trump and Republicans also accused Biden of engaging in influence peddling and corruption on behalf of his father, a charge denied by both his son and his father.

Before he resigned, Joe Biden also issued a sweeping pardon for his son – despite earlier promises not to interfere in his legal problems. He justified this by claiming that the prosecution was politically motivated and that “Hunter was singled out only because he is my son”.

The outgoing president’s actions were condemned by Republicans and some Democrats and Trump has called it “an abuse and miscarriage of justice”.

The Nordic Times has highlighted Hunter Biden’s shady escapades in a number of articles, which can be read here.

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https://nordictimes.com/world/french-mep-wants-to-take-back-the-statue-of-liberty/

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French MEP wants to “take back” the Statue of Liberty

Donald Trump's USA

Published 18 March 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Raphael Glucksmann says Americans today “despise” the Statue of Liberty and what it stands for.
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French-Jewish MEP Raphael Glucksmann wants France to “take back” the Statue of Liberty 140 years after it was donated to the US.

The reason is that, according to Glucksmann, Americans have “chosen to side with tyrants” and that the American people today allegedly “despise” the ideals that, according to the left-liberal politician, the statue represents.

On October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was unveiled in New York Harbor, on the occasion of the centenary of the American Declaration of Independence. Designed by Frenchman Auguste Bartholdi, the statue was a gift from the French people to the Americans and has since become one of the world’s most famous tourist destinations.

However, Raphael Glucksmann, a member of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, is now calling for the statue to be returned to France – citing his disapproval of the political path taken by the Trump administration.

– We’re going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: ‘Give us back the Statue of Liberty’, the politician proclaimed at a party congress.

The “tyrants” are presumed to refer to Russia and its leadership in Moscow, and Glucksmann, a long-time supporter of Ukraine, campaigned last year to further increase French aid to Kiev.

– We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home, the MEP continued during the party event.

“Welcoming” laid-off American scientists

Furthermore, Glucksmann argues that the Americans who are losing their jobs due to the Trump administration’s public sector cuts are instead very welcome to live and work in France.

– If you want to fire your best researchers, if you want to fire all the people who, through their freedom and their sense of innovation, their taste for doubt and research, have made your country the world’s leading power, then we’re going to welcome them.

However, any “return” of the 46-meter statue is highly unlikely. On social media, many users see Glucksmann’s statement as another example of how difficult it is for many European politicians to deal with the political shift that Trump’s presidency has brought to the US and the world.

Some observers also point to the fact that France, Germany and other European countries have acted as an extension of the United States in foreign policy for decades, and now that US priorities have changed, they no longer have a clear plan on how to deal with the Americans.

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