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  • Stormy Daniels breaks silence on Donald Trump's guilty verdict and says 'jail him now'

    06/02/2024 1:25:13 AM PDT · by RandFan · 5 replies
    Sunday Mirror ^ | June 2 | By Christopher Bucktin, United States Editor
    Stormy Daniels has dramatically broken her silence on convicted ex-President Donald Trump, demanding: Jail him now. Speaking for the first time since White House hopeful Trump was found guilty, the former adult actress told us: “I think he should be sentenced to jail and some community service working for the less fortunate, or being the volunteer punching bag at a women's shelter.” Stormy told how she now feels vindicated - and warns the world ahead of Trump’s fresh bid for office: “He is completely and utterly out of touch with reality.” Ever since stepping down from the witness box in...
  • Shocking new footage emerges of huge wooden 'shantytown' built in Democrat-run city whose name is byword for crime and urban decay (Oakland)

    06/02/2024 1:06:02 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 8 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | June 2 2024 | ISHITA SRIVASTAVA
    Shocking footage has emerged showing a gigantic 'shantytown' that has sprung up in Oakland, as the California city's slide into crime-ravaged squalor continues. Michael Oxford, the host of CaliBased, posted a video on May 31 of massive temporary houses built along service roads that open up into main roads in Hooverville, Oakland. The footage showed trash strewn around scores of houses that were built of wood, tarp and other discarded materials.
  • Jackal snatches baby from ll tent at Ramon Crater

    06/02/2024 1:05:27 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 4 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 2/6/24
    A jackal bit a one-year-old baby in a nearby tent at the Gvanim Stream camping site in Ramon Crater on Friday night. According to the Nature and Parks Authority, the father said that he left a small opening in the tent when he went out at night, and returned after hearing his wife screaming while searching for the child. "Apparently, the jackal dragged the child a few meters before releasing him". Magen David Adom (MDA) teams evacuated the baby to Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva in moderate condition, with bite marks on his face. Later, the hospital reported that the...
  • Rally Security Disarm Knife Attacker, Cops Restrain DISARMER, Freed Assailant Knifes a Cop

    06/01/2024 11:48:40 PM PDT · by CharlesOConnell · 7 replies
    YouTube ^ | 06-01-2024
    Video at click-link. Video opens at 0:59 seconds, as the DISARMER of the knife-wielder is restrained by Police. As soon as the knife-wielder is "rescued" by Police, he stabs a Cop.
  • Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures

    06/01/2024 11:30:02 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 11 replies
    Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals, leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which Tuesday will announce that it is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research fraud. Paywall.
  • Distressing moment petrified Asian man is attacked by gang in DC who try to pull him from his car, punch him and hurl liquid on him while laughing

    06/01/2024 11:20:35 PM PDT · by blueplum · 12 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 01 Jun 2024 | NIC WHITE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
    A motorist was viciously attacked in his car by a group of men who punched him in the head a dozen times before a woman poured liquid on him. The man was ambushed on U Street in downtown Washington, D.C., as he was stuck in traffic on Wednesday night. He was prevented from leaving by people standing in front of his car as one of the attackers pulled open the door and started punching him. ...A man claimed on Instagram that the man was attacked because he was 'recording my little sister.' However, he later made another post retracting her...
  • Salem Media Retracts Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘2000 Mules’

    06/01/2024 9:38:03 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 37 replies
    Deadline ^ | 06/01/2024 | Ted Johnson
    In its statement, Salem said, In publishing the film and the book, we relied on representations made to us by Dinesh D’Souza and True the Vote, Inc. that the individuals depicted in the videos provided to us by TTV, including Mr. Andrews, illegally deposited ballots. We have learned that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has cleared Mr. Andrews of illegal voting activity in connection with the event depicted in 2000 Mules.
  • Steve Bannon Suggests Jim Jordan and James Comer Are Bought

    06/01/2024 9:32:40 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 41 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Rachel Dobkin
    The conservative talk show host called out House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan of Ohio, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer of Kentucky and House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana for not doing enough to help the MAGA cause. "Once again. I beg of you. Where is Jim Jordan, where's Comer, where's Polly Pockets Johnson. Where are the subpoenas? Where is an investigation? Why are people not being held accountable? Why does it take [conservative activist] Mike Davis and [former Trump aide] Kash Patel and the same people over, and over, and over again. [Former Republican Nevada attorney general candidate]...
  • Video: Rosie O’Donnell’s reaction to Trump verdict

    06/01/2024 9:03:02 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 10 replies
    Warning: take your blood pressure medicine if prescribed before watching Rosie O’Donnell's reaction to Trump verdict
  • ‘Non-starter’: Netanyahu says no permanent Gaza ceasefire until Hamas destroyed

    06/01/2024 9:01:35 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 06/01/2024 | TOI STAFF, JACOB MAGID
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday there would be no “permanent ceasefire” in Gaza until Hamas’s military and governing capabilities were destroyed. His comments, in a rare statement published on the Sabbath and only in English, came after United States President Joe Biden announced Friday that Israel had proposed a three-phase deal for a ceasefire in Gaza in exchange for Hamas releasing hostages, told the terror group to accept it and urged the Israeli government to stand behind it. “Israel’s conditions for ending the war have not changed: The destruction of Hamas military and governing capabilities, the freeing of...
  • Female Hardliner Politician Registers to Run for Iran’s President

    06/01/2024 7:37:32 PM PDT · by Right Wing Vegan · 27 replies
    Iran International ^ | 6/1/2024 | Maryam Sinaiee
    Former female lawmaker Zohreh Elahian has registered to run in Iran's June 28 snap presidential vote, potentially becoming the first woman ever allowed to stand if approved by the Guardian Council. Elahian, 57, is a physician and former member of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee. She was elected to parliament twice on the hardliners’ slate. In her speech following registration, Elahian declared her motto: “Sound government, sound economy, sound society,” and pledged to combat corruption. Like other hardliners, Elahian supports compulsory hijab rules. In March, Canada imposed sanctions against her for endorsing the death penalty for protesters...
  • UFC, Dana White welcome Donald Trump to UFC 302 in wake of 'hush money' conviction

    06/01/2024 7:22:08 PM PDT · by Reno89519 · 39 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | June 1, 2024 | Simon Samano
    Donald Trump made his first public appearance since becoming a convicted felon at a high-profile UFC event – naturally. ... On Saturday night at UFC 302, Trump was escorted to his cageside seat in grand fashion by UFC CEO Dana White, with the crowd cheering him on at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. ...
  • Bernie Sanders Boycotting ‘War Criminal’ Netanyahu Speech Before Congress

    06/01/2024 7:13:12 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 36 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/01/2024 | ELIZABETH WEIBEL
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he would “not attend” a speech given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Republican and Democrat lawmakers invited Netanyahu to speak before a “Joint Meeting of Congress.” Sanders issued a press release on Saturday describing Netanyahu as a “war criminal” and stating that he “should not be invited to address a joint meeting of Congress.” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wrote a letter addressed to Netanyahu on Friday, inviting him to speak before a “Joint...
  • China turns to private hackers as it cracks down on online activists on Tiananmen Square anniversary

    06/01/2024 6:54:36 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 5 replies
    The Conversation ^ | May 31, 2024 | Christopher K. Tong
    Every year ahead of the June 4 commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Chinese government tightens online censorship to suppress domestic discussion of the event. Critics, dissidents and international groups anticipate an uptick in cyber activity ranging from emails with malicious links to network attacks in the days and weeks leading up to the anniversary.Much of this cyber activity by Beijing is done covertly. But a recent restructuring of China’s cyberforce and a document leak exposing the activities of Chinese tech firm i-Soon have shed some light on how Beijing goes about the business of hacking.As a China expert...
  • Trump won’t lose his right to vote unless Judge Merchan locks him up

    06/01/2024 6:24:11 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 22 replies
    Washington Times ^ | Saturday, June 1, 2024 | Alex Swoyer
    Although Mr. Trump was convicted in New York, he’s a Florida resident residing at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.“Florida defers to other state laws when it comes to disenfranchising voters who are tried and convicted elsewhere. … [In New York], those convicted of felonies who do not go to prison never lose their voting rights,” said Blair Bowie, director of the Campaign Legal Center’s Restore Your Vote project.The only way Mr. Trump wouldn’t be able to vote is if New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan sends him to jail for his conviction. Sentencing is set for July 11.The former president...
  • GOP faces internal battle over defense spending

    06/01/2024 5:59:22 PM PDT · by RandFan · 29 replies
    The Hill ^ | 05/31/24 5:30 AM ET | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON
    Republican lawmakers are facing an internal battle over defense spending as prominent Republicans including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Sen. Roger Wicker (Miss.), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, are pushing for big increases while conservatives are raising alarms over the debt. The battle within the GOP over how much to increase defense spending to deter threats from Russia, China and Iran will burst into public next month when the Senate is set to debate the annual National Defense Authorization Act. McConnell and Wicker are laying the groundwork for that debate by calling for major...
  • German defence expert urges army to recruit 900,000 reservists

    06/01/2024 5:47:05 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 62 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 6/1/24 | DPA
    The chairwoman of the Defence Committee in the German parliament, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, has called for the recruitment of 900,000 German reservists in light of Russia's belligerent stance under President Vladimir Putin. "Putin is training his people for war and positioning them against the West. We must therefore become capable of defence as quickly as possible," Strack-Zimmermann of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), a junior partner in Germany's governing coalition, told the Funke media group in remarks published on Saturday. Russian industry is focused on manufacturing weapons, the defence expert said. "School books are printed that portray Germany as an aggressor...
  • [Former] FEC Commissioner Blasts Trump Conviction, Debunks Claim He Violated Election Law

    06/01/2024 5:44:43 PM PDT · by CFW · 27 replies
    The Politics Brief ^ | 6/1/24 | staff
    Former Commissioner of the Federal Elections Commission, Brad Smith, a preeminent expert on campaign finance law has taken to social media to lash out against the Manhattan trial that led to the conviction of former President Donald Trump. Judge Juan Merchan had prevented Trump’s defense team from seating Smith as a witness or even submitting his testimony to the jury. Smith had planned on testifying that Donald Trump’s filing of a “hush money” payment as a “legal expense” was not a crime against federal elections law. Indeed, federal prosecutors had passed up on the case prior to Alvin Bragg, the...
  • Keir Starmer announces plans to lower legal migration

    06/01/2024 5:19:41 PM PDT · by RandFan · 9 replies
    Sky News ^ | June 1 | Tim Baker
    Labour has announced its plans to reduce net migration - with Sir Keir Starmer accusing the Conservatives of having "repeatedly broken their promises" to get the number down. It marks another attempt by the Labour Party to appeal to Conservative voters. Figures published after Rishi Sunak called the general election showed a net of 685,000 arrived in the UK last year - down from a record of 764,000 in 2022. The 2023 figure is still three times the number in 2019 when the last election took place. The Conservatives promised in their manifesto that year to get net migration down....
  • Confirmed: Biden Lied About Israeli ‘Proposal’; Right-wing Ministers Threaten to Quit

    06/01/2024 5:16:20 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 41 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 1 Jun 2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK1
    Reactions from parties in Israel’s governing coalition confirmed Saturday that U.S. President Joe Biden lied to the world when he claimed a proposal for a ceasefire and hostage deal had come from the Israeli government.As Breitbart News reported, Biden presented a three-part proposal on Friday and claimed, four times, that it was Israel’s proposal.Biden waited until the onset of the Jewish Sabbath to make his remarks, making it more difficult for the Israeli government to respond. Notably, the proposal did not call for the destruction or disarmament of Hamas, and Biden told Israelis in his speech that they could not...