The FBI said that the alleged would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh had been on its radar since 2019. Meanwhile, a former FBI assistant director told the Daily Mail that Donald Trump’s alleged would-be assassin may have been tipped off about when the former president would be playing golf in West Palm Beach.
In other news, the group “Queers for Palestine” was offered $1 million to host a gay pride parade in Gaza or the West Bank.
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ABC Responds to Viral ‘Whistleblower Affidavit’ Claiming Kamala Harris Received Debate Help
ABC News insists it did not break debate rules after a document claiming to be from an anonymous ‘whistleblower’ said there was close collaboration between the network and Kamala Harris’s team before the presidential showdown.
The unverified document, said to be a sworn affidavit signed by a notary public on September 9, has sparked controversy as it has spread online.
It alleges that ABC News gave Harris questions ahead of the debate, along with agreeing to preconditions to give her a leg up on former President Donald Trump.
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Alex Soros’s White House Access Under Biden Hits Two Dozen Visits
Alex Soros, the 38-year-old son of Democratic megadonor George Soros, has visited President Joe Biden’s White House at least two dozen times since 2021, according to White House visitor logs.
Updated White House visitor logs place the younger Soros, who recently took over his father’s $25 billion empire, at the White House around 25 times between October 2021 and May 2024. His latest appearance was for a state dinner. The high-level meetings and appearances at exclusive gatherings have come as George Soros donates large checks to Democratic lawmakers and left-of-center causes, with Alex Soros also establishing himself as a top federal campaign contributor.
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Biden Administration Denies Targeting Journalists and Congress Member Critical of State Department
The State Department is attempting to discredit the validity of reports that it was funding the formation of a blacklist of conservative papers due to its alleged spread of disinformation for top company advertisers
Matt Taibbi, author behind the Twitter Files, and Washington Examiner investigative journalist Gabe Kaminsky, both brought to light examples of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center being linked to apparent censorship. Taibbi reported that the GEC was pressuring social media platforms, such as X, formerly known as Twitter, and Facebook, to suppress posts and information related to COVID-19, while the Washington Examiner reported on the GEC funding a group blacklisting Republican media outlets.
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Biden Says Secret Service ‘Needs More Help’ After Second Trump Assassination Attempt
President Joe Biden said that the Secret Service needs more assistance after a second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in two months.
“One thing I want to make clear is: The service needs more help. And I think Congress should respond to their need,” he told reporters Monday morning.
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Bill Gates Wants to Shape AI and “Misinformation” Control and Oprah is All Ears
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is very busy these days in the media, promoting his ideas of what the future of humanity should look like, and he is given a chance to do that both on streaming networks like Netflix, and legacy broadcasters like ABC.
It remains a mystery why this man’s opinions on these big topics matter or should matter, let alone be implemented anywhere, given his background. And that’s the already mentioned Microsoft, a poster child for corporate oppression in the tech market, and in many aspects the controversial Gates Foundation.
This mystery was not explained, though, as Oprah Winfrey on ABC let Gates promote regulation that would essentially create a de jure version of what is already de facto happening: the Big Tech-Big Government collusion.
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Former President Donald Trump is set to visit the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in New Britain Township on Sunday, September 22, according to local news. Polish President Andrzej Duda, a conservative leader, is also expected to visit the shrine that same day.
The visit follows heightened security concerns after an attempted assassination attempt the previous Sunday, where a man with a rifle was arrested by authorities. The FBI has accused the man of attempting to target Trump, who had previously survived an assassination attempt in July. Fortunately, no shots were fired.
President Duda is visiting the US next week for the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, where world leaders gather.
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Donald Trump spoke out for the first time on Monday night after a second attempton his life was thwarted on Sunday afternoon. On a pre-scheduled X Spaces to talk about crypto, Trump addressed the assassination attempt, the suspect, the rhetoric about him coming from the opposing candidate and her minions in media, as well as the removal of President Joe Biden from the Democratic presidential ticket.
“They have the man behind bars, and hopefully he’s going to be there for a long time,” Trump said. “Dangerous person, very, very dangerous person.” He detailed the events of Sunday afternoon. He had been playing golf with friends “Everything was beautiful,” he said, “it was a nice place to be. And all of a sudden we heard shots being fired in the air, and I guess probably four or five, and it sounded like bullets. But what do I know about that?” He joked. This was the second attempt on his life this summer, the first being in Butler, PA on July 13, when a gunman fired off rounds and struck him in the ear. One man was killed and two others hospitalized with injuries.
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Chief Justice John Roberts Targeted by Supreme Court Leak
Chief Justice John Roberts became the target of the latest batch of leaks related to the Supreme Court this week, prompting criticism from center-left commentators about Roberts’s apparent efforts to find consensus on cases involving former President Donald Trump.
Last February, Roberts reportedly sent his eight colleagues a confidential memo critiquing a lower appeals court for failing to “grapple with the most difficult questions altogether” in Trump’s bid to claim presidential immunity against at least some of the 2020 election subversion indictment brought by special counsel Jack Smith, according to the New York Times.
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Cornel West Will Not Appear on Pennsylvania Presidential Ballot: PA Supreme Court
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday reaffirmed a lower court ruling that independent presidential candidate Cornel West will not appear on the presidential ballot this November.
West, who originally sought the presidency under the Green Party’s banner, was attempting to get his name on the ballot before early voting begins in the Keystone State, but his efforts were blocked by the Democratic Party.
The candidates that will appear on Pennsylvania’s presidential ballots are Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic Party, former President Donald Trump for the Republican Party, Chase Oliver for the Libertarian Party, and Jill Stein for the Green Party.
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Democrats Accused of “Incitement” After Second Attempt on Trump’s Life
Donald Trump survived “what appears to be an attempted assassination”—the second in as many months—near his Florida golf course, the FBI said.
The former president was rushed to safety when a suspected gunman was spotted hiding in the bushes of his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Sunday. Trump has assured his supporters he is “safe and well,” adding: “Nothing will slow me down. I will NEVER SURRENDER!”
The suspect, who fled the scene in a car but was later stopped and arrested, has been identified as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh.
Unlike Thomas Matthew Crooks, who attempted to assassinate Trump in July, Routh has a large social media footprint—one which has prompted commentators to accuse leading Democrats of “radicalizing” him.
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DeSantis Says Federal Authorities Investigating Thwarted Trump Attack ‘May Not be the Best Thing’
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) detailed his decision to have Florida open its own investigation into the second attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, stressing a need to ensure the truth is told in a “credible” manner.
The former president was golfing at his West Palm Beach golf course Sunday while a suspect, identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, hid nearby with an “AK-47-style rifle” before fleeing the scene, according to law enforcement. When DeSantis was asked if he had spoken with Trump since the assassination attempt, the Florida governor said he had not, though he provided details on the Sunshine State’s own investigation, as he believes there were “multiple violations of state law” with this attempt on Trump’s life.
“We also believe that there is a need to make sure that the truth about all this comes out in a way that’s credible,” DeSantis said at a Monday press conference. “I look at the federal government, with all due respect to them, those same agencies that are prosecuting Trump in that jurisdiction are now going to be investigating this? I just think that that may not be the best thing for this country.”
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The alleged gunman in the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump never fired his gun and wasn’t able to establish a direct line of sight to the former president before fleeing the scene.
New bombshell information about Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old man now charged in the attempt, was disclosed by law enforcement officials in Palm Beach, Florida, one day after the attempted assassination.
It turns out Routh was well known to law enforcement and had been on the FBI’s radar since 2019. A tip came in claiming that the convicted felon was in possession of a firearm, officials revealed at a press conference on Monday, but the tipster never confirmed the information.
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FEC Finally Rules ‘Phantom’ Left-Wing Group Filed False Financial Disclosures in 2020
A progressive super PAC dubbed a “phantom” in 2020 violated federal law by filing false financial disclosure reports, according to the Federal Election Commission.
The FEC’s ruling was detailed in a letter last week to director Kendra Arnold of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, a watchdog group that demanded an investigation into Americans for Progressive Action USA in May 2020. That super PAC, Arnold argued in a complaint at the time, violated the Federal Election Campaign Act with fabrications on its financial disclosures.
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Google Adtech Antitrust Trial: Everything You Need to Know
Google is on trial for allegedly abusing its dominance of the $200 billion digital advertising industry.
The U.S. Department of Justice claimed that through acquisitions and anticompetitive product, Google seized control of the full advertising technology (“adtech”) stack: the tools advertisers and publishers use to buy and sell ads, and the exchange that connects them.
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Idaho Coffee Shop Owner Awarded $4 Million After Being Booted From Campus
An Idaho coffee shop owner was awarded $4 million after she moved her business off campus due to pressure for flying a pro-police flag.
Sarah Jo Fendley, the owner of Big City Coffee, filed a $10 million tort claim against Boise State University, BSU President Marlene Tromp, Vice President for Equity Initiatives Francisco Salinas, and BSU administrators Alicia Estey and Leslie Webb in 2021, after her contract with the university was terminated over displaying a pro-police “thin blue line” flag. While most of the claims were dismissed, the lawsuit against Estey and Webb was given the go-ahead, ending in Fendley’s victory on Friday.
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Jewish Group Expresses Support for Man Who Shot Anti-Israel Attacker in ‘Self-Defense’
Betar, a century-old Jewish organization, expressed support for “American hero” Scott Hayes, a pro-Israel Iraq war veteran who was attacked by an anti-Israel agitator in Newton, Massachusetts, on Thursday and shot his attacker in what his lawyers have called “self-defense.”
Hayes was immediately arrested and has been charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. His attacker, Caleb Gannon, who claims to be Jewish and has a history of anti-American and anti-Israel social media posts calling for violence, was not arrested at the scene but was charged with assault and battery on Friday. After being shot, he was taken to a nearby hospital and is expected to be OK.
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Man Fatally Stabs Wife of 65 Years During Argument in Wright Co. Home: Charges
ANNANDALE, Minn. (FOX 9) — An 85-year-old man is accused of fatally stabbing his wife during an argument at their home in Wright County.
On the morning of Sept. 12, the criminal complaint alleges Rodney Anderson called 911 to report that he had stabbed his wife. When law enforcement arrived at the house in Annandale, they found Anderson sitting on the steps with his hands on his head and said he appeared to be shaking.
While speaking with law enforcement, Anderson claimed he had gotten into an argument with his wife of more than 65 years, and at some point, he took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed her. Authorities reported finding his wife on the kitchen floor along with evidence of blood and a knife in the kitchen sink.
When attempting life-saving measures, authorities reported seeing “several puncture wounds” to the victim’s abdomen and described her clothes as being “soaked with blood.” She was ultimately pronounced dead at the scene.
Anderson allegedly told law enforcement that he and his wife “continuously argued,” and they had a big argument that morning, which lasted up until the stabbing, charges explained.
“I guess I lost my head,” Anderson allegedly said, adding that he called 911 after the incident.
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Matt Walsh’s ‘Am I Racist’ Cracks Top 5 at Box Office, Bryson Gray’s Title Track in iTunes Top 5
Matt Walsh’s movie “Am I Racist” cracked the top five at the box office over the weekend. The movie brought in $4.7 million in revenue from 1,517 theaters. The title track for the movie from Bryson Gray has also hit fifth place on the soundtrack iTunes charts.
The film produced by the Daily Wire has Walsh go on a satirical “journey” to becoming a “certified DEI expert.” The company used only $3 million to make the film and the company partnered with SDG Releasing, a distribution company that was started by writers of “God’s Not Dead” Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, per ABC News.
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‘Mind-Boggling’: Billions Gone and Little to Show for it Years After Rampant COVID Fraud
(The Center Square) — Years after the passage of federal COVID-era relief and the subsequent loss of likely hundreds of billions of those taxpayer dollars, lawmakers are still unsure where that money went, how to get it back, and seemingly have done little to prevent it from happening again.
Federal watchdog and other reports estimate anywhere from $200 billion to half a trillion was lost to waste, fraud and abuse across various federal and state COVID-era programs.
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New Allegations Made About First Trump Assassination Attempt Security Failures
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Monday released the latest in a series of whistleblower allegations on failed security measures during the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
The accusations revealed by Hawley, detailed in a broader whistleblower allegation report, state that the hospital where Trump was treated after being shot in July at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, was poorly secured, the event lacked designated personnel to handle suspicious persons reports, and the lead Secret Service agent in charge was a woman who previously failed an exam during training.
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New: Trump Drops Full Receipts on Democrat Rhetoric That ‘Inspired Another Attempt’ on His Life
The Donald Trump campaign put together an extensive list of different quotes from Democratic politicians that the Trump camp stated, “inspired another attempt on President Trump’s life.”
The list was published on Monday, following a second assassination attempt on Trump while he was on his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday.
Complete with links to each quote, the campaign put together 39 different statements made by prominent Democratic politicians in recent years such as Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, saying that the GOP nominee is “a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms” as well as that he is an “existential threat.”
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Ohio Gov Mike Dewine Reveals All 33 ‘Bomb Threats’ Against Springfield Schools Were Hoaxes
Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) announced at a news conference Monday that there have been 33 bomb threats leveled against schools in Springfield but that all have been “hoaxes” that came from “overseas.” The hoax threats have been used against Donald Trump and JD Vance who publicized concerns about the crisis of a massive, 20,000 person influx of migrants into the small town of Springfield.
“There have been bomb threats, each one of which has been responded to, and each one of which has been found as a hoax. So 33 threats, I will make that very, very clear, none of these had any validity at all,” DeWine said. Trump and Vance have been blamed for these threats.
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Oregon DMV Mistakenly Registered 306 Non-Citizens to Vote, Officials Say
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times
The Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services (DMV) and the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office both confirmed that the DMV has mistakenly registered more than 300 non-U.S. citizens to vote since 2021.
Officials with the Oregon Department of Transportation said on Sept. 14 that a data entry problem occurred when people who were not citizens applied for driver’s licenses.
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Pipeline Explosion Near Houston Erupts in a Towering Flame, Forcing Evacuations
DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — A pipeline explosion near Houston erupted in a towering flame over neighborhoods for hours on Monday, forcing evacuations and shelter orders and melting playground equipment as firefighters struggled to keep nearby homes from burning.
Operators shut off the flow of natural gas liquids, but so much remained in the 20-inch (51-centimeter) pipeline that firefighters could do nothing but watch and hose down adjacent homes until it burns itself out. That could take hours, perhaps into Tuesday, Deer Park Mayor Jerry Mouton Jr. said.
“The fire, it’s very hot, so a lot of the house structures that are adjacent to that are still catching on fire even though we’re putting a lot of water on them,” Mouton said.
Local authorities would not speculate about the cause of the fire and what role a burned car near the source of the flame may have had. The pipeline’s owner, Dallas-based Energy Transfer, said in a statement that it was “aware of early reports” that a car had struck some valve equipment but did not offer more details, including the origin of those reports.
One firefighter sustained a minor injury, the only one reported so far.
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Police Release Bodycam Footage of Alleged Would-be Trump Assassin’s Arrest
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office released its body camera footage of the moment when authorities took alleged would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh into custody on Sunday.
Routh appeared to have had his sights set on attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump while Trump was golfing at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday.
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Ron Johnson: Trump Needs His Own ‘Head of Security’ to Oversee Secret Service Detail
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said Monday that former President Donald Trump needs his own “head of security” to oversee his Secret Service detail before he travels to venues.
A second alleged assassination attempt on Trump occurred Sunday at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. The alleged shooter did not fire on Trump, as Secret Service agents found him when he was 300-500 yards away from the GOP presidential nominee.
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Ryan Routh Faces Gun Charges After Trump Assassination Attempt
A man involved in an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump over the weekend appeared in federal court in Florida on Monday and is facing federal gun charges.
Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, appeared in prison scrubs and shackles at a federal courthouse in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Routh is charged with possessing a firearm despite being a convicted felon and possessing a firearm with a destroyed serial number, according to charging documents. He will be detained without bond until at least Sept. 23, when the court scheduled a detention hearing. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
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Just one day after a suspected second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) released a whistleblower report on how the Secret Service (USSS) utterly failed to protect the life of the president in the first assassination attempt of July 13 in Bulter, Pennsylvania. This included that Secret Service intelligence units, or agents paired with local law enforcement to handle reports of suspicious people, were absent from the rally.
“I’m releasing a comprehensive Whistleblower Report on the multiple failures of Secret Service & DHS — including new allegations & numerous unanswered questions due to USSS stonewalling,” the Missouri Senator said of the report when it was released.
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Senate Eyes More Secret Service Funding After Second Trump Assassination Attempt
Senators expressed openness to additional Secret Service funding on Monday following another assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
“If the Secret Service is in need of more resources, we are prepared in providing it for them, possibly in the upcoming funding agreement,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in remarks on the Senatefloor.
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Sheriff Suggests “Ominous… Conspiracy” Behind Trump Assassination Attempt
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news
Martin County Sheriff Will Snyder suggested there may be an “ominous” wider “conspiracy” at play regarding yesterday’s suspect in the attempted assassination of Trump given that the gunman appeared to know Trump’s private schedule.
Ryan Wesley Routh appeared to know that Trump was playing golf at a Florida resort despite this not being public knowledge and the decision to play being last minute.
“To my knowledge does he have any ties to Martin County? The answer is no…I think what we’re finding out is he’s not from this area, which of course raises the bigger question is how does a guy from not here get all the way to Trump International, realize that the former president of the United States is golfing and is able to get a rifle in that vicinity,” commented Snyder.
“Is this guy part of a conspiracy? Is he a lone gunman? If he’s a lone gunman, President Trump is that much safer because we have him. But if he’s part of a conspiracy then this whole thing really takes on a very ominous tone,” added the Sheriff.
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Sunlight and Clouds — Not CO2 — Drive Earth’s Climate; ‘Shocking’ New Study Finds
Authored by Katie Spence via The Epoch Times
This year’s summer months were characterized by cold outdoor pools that eagerly welcomed guests, concrete that scorched the soles of bare feet, and popsicles that melted in the relentless, blazing heat.
In August, the European Commission’s Copernicus report found that the global average temperature had reached record highs in the past 12 months, an increase of 1.51 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Similarly, using satellite data, Roy Spencer and John Christy of the University of Alabama Huntsville determined that the average temperature in August was 0.88 degrees Celsius higher than the 30-year average from 1991—2020.
Extreme heat is not just an environmental crisis, it’s a serious threat to our public health—and communities across the country are struggling to respond,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a news release.
“What we’re facing today wasn’t what we were experiencing 30 or 40 years ago. This is a different world we are in.”
On Aug. 14, President Joe Biden released the National Heat Strategy for 2024—2030, fulfilling a July promise to take additional action to address increasing temperatures, which the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states is primarily caused by human-induced increases in carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas.
“Stabilizing the climate will require strong, rapid, and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and reaching net zero CO2 emissions,” Panmao Zhai, a Chinese climatologist, and co-chair of the IPCC Working Group I, stated in a press release.
“Limiting other greenhouse gases and air pollutants, especially methane, could have benefits both for health and the climate.”
Ned Nikolov, a physical scientist and researcher affiliated with Colorado State University, told The Epoch Times the IPCC is incorrect regarding CO2.
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The Four Investigations Into the Second Trump Assassination Attempt
Four groups are investigating the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in almost as many months.
On Sept. 15, a gunman was spotted while Trump was golfing at his West Palm Beach golf course. Secret Service agents fired at the suspect, and the former president was quickly escorted to safety. The shooter, identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, was arrested after fleeing the scene.
The FBI, the Secret Service, the state of Florida, and Congress are all investigating the attempt.
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Trump Not Expected to Alter Campaign Schedule Following Assassination Attempt
Former President Donald Trump will not be canceling any scheduled events despite being the target of an “apparent assassination attempt” that was thwarted at his golf course in Florida on Sunday, according to the FBI. Of the notable swing states this election cycle, Trump is scheduled to visit Michigan and North Carolina.
On Tuesday, Trump will travel to Flint, Michigan, for a town-hall-style event with his former press secretary, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR), according to the New York Times. The next day he will head to his home state of New York for a rally in Uniondale at the Nassau Coliseum. On Thursday, he will be in Washington, D.C., to attend an event for a pro-Israel group. This weekend, he will hold a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Trump stalker Ryan Routh may have been lying in wait for the former president for more than 11 hours at the Florida golf course where Donald Trump was playing.
And the high-power rifle Routh had with him may have been purchased overseas.
The new details emerged in the document filed Monday charging Routh, 58, with gun crimes in connection with the incident. Sunday’s incident is the second such attempt on Trump’s life in the past three months.
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Donald Trump’s alleged would-be assassin apparently knowing when he would be playing golf raises the prospect he could have been tipped off, a former FBI assistant director has told DailyMail.com.
In the hours since a Secret Service agent fired on a man authorities said was attempting to assassinate the former president, law enforcement officers have been scooping up information on suspect Ryan Wesley Routh. Still unanswered is how he was able to conceal himself in shrubbery with an AK-47 near the 6th hole of the Trump International golf course in West Palm Beach.
Trump’s golf schedule is not made public in advance — although the game is a regular pass-time for the former president.
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Ryan Wesley Routh, the man named as the suspect in a possible assassination attempt at Donald Trump’s Florida golf club, urged Iran to kill the former president in a book he self-published last year.
In ‘Ukraine’s Unwinnable War,’ he said he had made a terrible mistake in once voting for Trump, whom he described as a ‘buffoon.’
‘I must take part of the blame for the retarded child we elected for our next president that ended up being brainless, but I am man enough to say that I misjudged and made a terrible mistake and Iran I apologize,’ he said, after berating the former president for abandoning the nuclear deal with Tehran.
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Volusia 11-Year-Old Arrested for Making Shooting Threats; Weapons, Kill List Found
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. —
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood announced the arrest of an 11-year-old boy who he said had a kill list and was making threats at two different schools.
Chitwood took to Facebook on Monday to say:
“As promised, we just arrested a Creekside Middle School student who made threats to commit a school shooting at Creekside or Silver Sands Middle School. He had written a list of names and targets. He says it was all a joke.”
He said deputies recovered airsoft rifles, pistols and fake ammunition along with knives, swords and other weapons he was showing off to other students in a video.
The boy will be charged with a felony for making a written threat of a mass shooting, Chitwood said.
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White House Pushes for Collaboration With Big Tech on “Safe” AI
On Thursday, a pivotal meeting at the White House brought together leaders from major tech corporations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, alongside top executives from key American power and utility companies. Although the discussions officially centered on the energy demands of the rapidly advancing artificial intelligence sector, the underlying focus was increasingly on the drive towards developing “safe” and “responsible” AI—a theme that has sparked considerable debate about who gets to define exactly what is safe and responsible.
Among the notable attendees were Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei, Microsoft’s president Brad Smith, Google’s president Ruth Porat, and AWS’s CEO Matt Garman. The discussions aimed to fortify public-private collaboration, ostensibly to support the energy needs crucial for sustaining AI development, yet the gathering also delved deeply into the ramifications of intensified safety and ethical standards.
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Perhaps the most interesting angle to attempted Trump assassin Ryan Routh’s recent history in his Ukraine connection. We documented that when he went to Ukraine to recruit for its International Legion in 2022 he was a Western mainstream media darling for a time, having been quoted on behalf of the cause to get more foreign fighters thrown into the battle against Russia by a who’s who of major media sources from FT to Newsweek to the NY Times.
But when he arrived in Ukraine, according to these media reports, the 58-year old Routh himself was considered too old to fight alongside the Ukrainian army. “So plan B,” Routh described to one outlet, “was to come to Kiev and promote the idea of many others coming to join the International Legion. We need thousands of people here to fight alongside Ukrainians.”
“There are about 190 countries on our planet, and if the governments are not officially sending soldiers here, then we civilians should pick up this torch and make it happen,” he described. He had told Newsweek in a video interview from Ukraine that the war with Russia was as simple as “good vs. evil” and essentially the same as good guys and bad guys in the Hollywood movies Americans grew up with. It was not a gray conflict, he described, but “black and white”.
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Would-be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh Has Truck With Kamala Bumper Sticker in Hawaii, Feds Raid NC Home
Authorities late Sunday night raided the Greensboro, North Carolina home of the the 58-year-old Democratic activist accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump with an AK-47 on Sunday afternoon.
Video released by The Times showed authorities approaching the home in the dark and searching the interior. It is unclear if the officers found anything inside the home, the New York Post reported. “Police! Make yourself seen!” one officer yelled as they went inside the home with flashlights and handguns.
A background check by Fox News stated that Ryan Wesley Routh’s current residence is in Hawaii and that he is a frequent visitor at police stations because of his dozens of arrests. He is originally from North Carolina and his rap sheet includes arrests for simple drug possession, driving without a license, expired inspection and operating a vehicle with no insurance. According to the Daily Mail, a pickup truck parked outside Routh’s Hawaii home was found with a Biden-Harris sticker on the bumper.
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Figures including a senior UK government spokesman, Trump ally Nigel Farage, and former British Prime Minister Liz Truss have expressed thanks President Trump is uninjured after another apparent attempt on his life.
Former president and current Republican Party candidate for the presidency Donald Trump survived another alleged attempt on his life while golfing at his course in West Palm Beach on Sunday, with the FBI saying that it is investigating the incident as an “attempted assassination”.
It comes just over eight weeks after Mr Trump narrowly survived another attempt on his life during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania when he was shot in his upper right ear.
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European Nationalists Express Sympathy for Trump, But Establishment Conspicuous in Silence
European leaders offered prayers and wishes for the health of Presidential candidate Donald Trump after another apparent assassination attempt as well as concern at the emergency of political violence in democracy, but several European capitals seem content to let the attack go unremarked.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, who is running for office again in the forthcoming November election, appears to have been again targeted by a gunman at his golf course in West Palm Beach on Sunday. Officials are treating the shooting as an “attempted assassination” and a suspect is in police custody.
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Finland Detains Trio Suspected of Islamic State Involvement
Three men suspected of involvement in Islamic State (IS) group activities were detained in Finland last week, Finnish police told AFP on Monday.
The three, in their 30s—whose names were not disclosed and who are not Finnish citizens—were detained in Helsinki, police said.
IS is classified as a terrorist group in Finland.
Mikko Salminen, a detective inspector with Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), refused to specify what the men were suspected of, but said the investigated offence was “not common at all” in Finland.
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France’s Court of Audit Slams Macron’s SNU Over ‘Chaotic Management and Underestimated Costs’
The French Court of Audit has published a critical report on the Universal National Service (SNU), President Emmanuel Macron’s civic-military programme, highlighting what the court called significant issues in its management and financial planning.
Published on September 13, the report revealed a disorganised implementation of the SNU and underestimations of its costs.
“The roll-out of the SNU has encountered a number of difficulties, particularly with regard to the reception of minors and the recruitment and remuneration of supervisors,” the report said.
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German ‘Citizens’ Council’ Wants to Criminalise Spread of “Disinformation”
German left-wing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is intent on cracking down on what she describes as “fake news,” and has set up a citizens’ forum that has recommended punishing individuals who spread “disinformation.”
The initiative to silence free speech in the name of preventing “disinformation” seems more like the work of an authoritarian regime than a democratic government—but seeing how the left-liberal ‘traffic light’ coalition of Germany has attempted to silence opposition journalists and rewarded media outlets that have spread fake news, the new proposals should come as no surprise.
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Germany: Explosion Rocks Cologne City Center
A major police operation has been in full swing in Cologne city centre since the early morning hours following an explosion at a commercial building early on Monday morning.
The entrance area of a building on Hohenzollernring was severely damaged, reported the WDR. The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reports that explosion occurred at the Vanity Club Cologne discotheque, but it is not clear whether it was a targeted attack against that business.
The Express reports that it obtained the video from a surveillance camera in the entrance area, showing a person wearing a hoodie putting a bag or sack down in front of an entrance. The building owner told Bild,
This is terror in Cologne. Someone detonated an explosive device, even though he must have seen that there were people there. I estimate that the damage is worth 100,000 euros.
A cleaner survived the explosion and is currently in hospital. According to police, he is considered seriously injured.
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Greece to Give Homeowners Incentives to Ditch Short-Term Rentals
The Greek Government has said it would give a three-year tax break to homeowners who converted their short-term rentals to long-term ones.
As part of a plan to tackle housing shortages, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on September 8 that Greece also planned to increase a tax on short-term rentals and ban new rental licences in central Athens.
Residents in the capital have responded positively. “It’s a huge issue because it’s changing the urban landscape. Where there are traditional buildings, now there’s a modern one next to them, designed to be an Airbnb,” said 58-years old Athens resident Penny Platanitou.
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Hungary: Airbnb Banned in Budapest District After Referendum, Could a National Ban be Next?
One Budapest district has banned Airbnb after 6,083 Terézvaros residents voted in favor of the policy, according to an announcement on the municipality’s website. Now, there are talks of a potential national ban on short-term rental apartments, which could dramatically bring down rental and housing prices.
According to the vote data, 3,265 voted yes, equaling 54 percent of votes, versus 2,818. The vote could set the stage for Airbnb to be banned from the district entirely.
Due to the vote, Terézvaros will ban all short-term vacation apartments as of Jan. 1, 2026. The decision was made by the residents of the district in a decisive vote based on the authorization of the parliament.
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A near-record amount of water will arrive with the flood in Szigetköz, where more than 500 specialists of the National Directorate General of Water (OVF) are already present, said the spokesperson of the OVF, Gabriella Siklós.
“It is more and more certain that a very large amount of water arrives in the country on the Danube,” said Siklós, speaking to the public media on Monday morning.
The specialists of the National Water Warning Service currently believe that the water level in the section up to Budapest and in the capital will be about 40 centimeters lower than during the 2013 flooding peaks. Siklós said that since it is still raining in the catchment areas of the Traun, the Enns, and the Vienna basin, this data will still need to be clarified.
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Numerous newly elected MEPs are earning lots of money on the side, new research has shown.
Despite being paid on average around €120,000 per year, one in three representatives in the European Parliament also enjoy significant other incomes.
Dutch radio station BNR looked into the financial activities of the 362 MEPs who are required by European regulation on transparency to publicly report additional positions and earnings.
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Netherlands: Eight Arrested in Amsterdam After Ajax Protest Devolves Into Riots
The police arrested eight people in Amsterdam after a protest by Ajax supporters devolved into riots and an attack on a local police station. They are accused of “several disturbances of public order,” the police said.
According to the police, “hundreds of people” gathered on the Leidseplein at around 2:30 p.m. for an announced demonstration against police strikes for a decent early retirement scheme. The strikes have resulted in the cancellation of the past two Ajax matches—once against Feyenoord and once against FC Utrecht.
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Poland to Declare State of Natural Disaster Over Mass Flooding as Death Toll Reaches 4
Poland is expected to declare a state of natural disaster after a weekend of mass flooding led to multiple casualties and mass evacuations.
The Polish Chancellery of the Prime Minister announced on Sunday evening that an extraordinary meeting of the council of ministers would be held on Monday at 9 a.m. in connection with the flood situation.
News outlet wPolityce reported that the government declared a state of natural disaster.
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Porn Pawn: Belarusian Sex Worker Convicted of Espionage in Poland
A Belarusian sex worker in Poland has been found guilty of spying for her home country.
During her trial, it was revealed that she made a point of approaching Belarusian dissidents living in Poland to offer her services. She was apprehended by Polish authorities following a drinks party she had attended.
A Warsaw district court on September 10 sentenced Belarusian citizen Daria O to 20 months in prison for collusion with the Belarusian intelligence services. Polish law forbids the surnames of convicts to be publicly revealed without their consent.
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Swedish MP Facing Criminal Charges for Reposting Satirical Cartoons on X
Sweden Democrat MP Richard Jomshof is stepping down from his chairmanship in the parliamentary justice committee after being notified that he is “reasonably suspected” of “incitement against an ethnic group.” Jomshof’s alleged crime? Retweeting two cartoons, created by an Indian satirist and originally posted by a Pakistani atheist living in England. Jomshof has been called to an interrogation by the Special Prosecutors Office on Tuesday, September 17th.
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Thierry Breton Quits EU Commission Citing Reappointment Row
France’s Thierry Breton announced on Monday he was quitting the European Commission with immediate effect, claiming Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen had asked Paris to withdraw his candidacy for the incoming executive.
“In the very final stretch of negotiations on the composition of the future College, you asked France to withdraw my name,” the bloc’s internal market commissioner wrote in a letter to von der Leyen, posted on X. “I am therefore resigning from my position as European Commissioner, effective immediately.”
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UK High Court Revokes Permit for First Coal Mine in 30 Years
Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com
London’s High Court on Friday quashed a planning permission for the UK’s first new coal mine in three decades, ruling that the permit was unlawful as it hadn’t considered the emissions from burning the fuel.
Earlier this year, climate campaigners, including Friends of the Earth, challenged the approval of the coal mining project.
The UK’s previous Conservative government approved in December 2022 the Woodhouse Colliery project in Whitehaven, northwest England, developed by West Cumbria Mining.
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UK: Starmer to “Rush Through” Assisted Suicide Legislation
Labour’s newly elected government will “fast-track” a vote on assisted suicide—which will almost certainly see the practice legalised—despite serious concerns around the PM’s own cabinet table that this will lead to elderly people being urged to end their lives.
Sir Keir Starmer will “accelerate the process” so a vote can take place before Christmas, according to The Mail on Sunday. That’s far sooner than reports were suggesting just a fortnight ago, coinciding with Starmer’s health secretary, Wes Streeting, warning that the horrific state of end-of-life care in Britain means the health service is not ready for legalisation.
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Ukrainian news outlet RBC-Ukraine writes that with devastating flooding affecting most of Central Europe, Ukraine has offered help to several countries, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiha. Among the countries Ukraine claims it will aid is Hungary, which Ukraine has threatened to virtually bankrupt through energy supply cuts.
“Ukraine stands in solidarity with its neighbors suffering from devastating floods,” said Sibiha.
The foreign minister said that with the backing of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and with the coordination of Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Smykhal, the Ukrainian ministry of foreign affairs offered assistance to several countries, including Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.
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Viktor Orban Works Out With ‘Old Friend’ Schwarzenegger in Budapest
The famous actor, bodybuilder, and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the Hungarian capital, where he met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The iconic Terminator actor, a native of Thal, Austria, took a car ride through the streets of Budapest with the politician, visited the Hungarian parliament and the Carmelite monastery, and worked out together in the gym.
The actor went to visit Hungary during his time off, as he is currently filming the second season of the action series Fubar for Netflix in Prague.
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Von Der Leyen’s ‘Commission Crisis’ Escalates Ahead of Strasbourg Plenary
The autumn’s first plenary session in the European Parliament this week is shaping up to be quite a memorable one—and for multiple reasons. President-elect Ursula von der Leyen is expected to present her plan for distributing portfolios in her new cabinet to MEPs but the deadlock that has resulted from her obsessive gender requirements makes it impossible to stay on schedule.
As we explained last week, Slovenia’s progressive government is still unable to finalize its commissioner nomination after von der Leyen is suspected of having pressured it to ditch its initial male candidate in favor of a woman, Marta Kos, possibly offering the enlargement portfolio in return. The parliamentary committee that is supposed to confirm the Kos’ nomination is controlled by the right-wing opposition. It has said it will not schedule the meeting until Slovenian PM Robert Golob releases his correspondence with von der Leyen and admits that the swap was motivated by Brussels’ blackmail.
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Hamas Chief Says Ready for ‘Long War’ in Gaza
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES — Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar said Monday the Palestinian group had the resources to sustain its fight against Israel, with support from Iran-backed regional allies, nearly a year into the Gaza war.
Sinwar, who last month replaced slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, said in a letter to the group’s Yemeni allies that “we have prepared ourselves to fight a long war of attrition”.
Deadly fighting raged on in the besieged Gaza Strip, where medics and rescuers said Monday that Israeli strikes — which the military has not commented on — killed at least two dozen people.
The latest strikes came as Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant warned that prospects for a halt in fighting with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon were dimming, yet again raising fears of a wider regional conflagration.
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Netanyahu Set to Fire Defense Chief as Israel Mulls War in Lebanon: Reports
There is currently widespread speculation in Israeli media that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon terminate Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, which would constitute a monumental reshuffle of his cabinet. The two have reportedly been clashing over war strategy, especially on what to do about the crisis in northern Israel, an area which has come under daily rocket and drone attack from Lebanese Hezbollah.
“The drafts of the agreement have already been drawn up … Netanyahu is preparing for Gallant’s dismissal in the near future … Galant will be fired by Netanyahu,” Israeli news outlet Ynet reported Monday.
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Kremlin on Trump Assassination Attempt: ‘Playing With Fire Has Its Consequences’
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday responded to the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump by suggesting it was a natural consequence of the United States supporting Ukraine against the Russian invasion.
When asked what the Kremlin thought about the incident, Peskov snapped, “It is not us who should be thinking, it is the U.S. intelligence services who should be thinking.”
“In any case, playing with fire has its consequences,” he added.
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Putin Orders Expansion of Russia’s Military to 1.5m Active Troops
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the country’s military to expand to 1.5 million active troops, bringing the total military personnel to nearly 2.4 million, according to a decree dated Monday.
The decree, which will take effect on Dec. 1, would increase the number of active troops by 180,000. It marks Putin’s third official expansion of Russia’s military since the war with Ukraine began in early 2022.
In August 2022, Putin ordered the military to expand by the start of the next year, adding 137,000 troops, bringing the total to 1.15 million. In December 2023, Putin ordered another official expansion of 170,000 active troops, bringing the total to 1.32 million.
The latest expansion comes as the battle with Ukraine intensifies. Ukraine invaded Russia’s Kursk region in early August, capturing miles of territory and hundreds of prisoners. Russia has fought back and vowed to clear Ukraine from the area.
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Russia Ramps Up Air Assault on Ukrainian Cities
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities on Monday said they had repelled a “massive” Russian attack on Kyiv in the early morning hours. They said it was the eighth attack on the Ukrainian capital in just over two weeks, in what appears to be an escalation by Russia of its long-running air campaign against the city.
Serhii Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said Ukrainian forces had shot down nearly two dozen Russian drones around Kyiv, and the Ukrainian air force said it had intercepted 53 of 56 Russian drones overnight.
Popko said that in contrast to recent attacks, “this one was massive,” and that an air-raid alert was announced about 2 a.m. in the capital and remained in effect for about 3 1/2 hours.
The Ukrainian military’s claims could not be independently verified, and there was no comment from Russian authorities.
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Russian Pranksters Release Deepfake Footage of Conversation With Ukrainian Ex-President
Russian pranksters “Vova” and “Lexus” have claimed another victim in the shape of Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski after impersonating former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko in a video conversation.
The fake footage saw Poland’s top diplomat apparently call NATO’s attitude towards Ukraine “hypocritical” and claim that the US knew in advance of the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022.
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Ukraine Asks UN, ICRC to Join Humanitarian Effort in Russia’s Kursk Region
Ukraine said on September 16 that it had asked the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to join humanitarian efforts in Russia’s Kursk region following a cross-border incursion by Ukrainian forces.
Ukraine’s army remains in the Kursk region more than a month after launching the assault, in which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Kyiv has taken control of about 100 settlements.
Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said he had instructed his ministry to formally invite the UN and ICRC to work in the Kursk region when he visited the northeast Ukrainian region of Sumy on Sunday. The ministry confirmed that it had issued the requests.
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Former FBI Agent Says Would-be Trump Assassin’s Devices Likely Already Compromised by Intel Agencies
A veteran FBI agent said Monday that he would be “shocked” if intelligence agencies did not already have would-be Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh on their radar for his travel and apparent efforts to recruit foreign fighters for Ukraine.
“I asked about it in almost every case I had, especially in counterterrorism Division at the FBI when I was there, what did the other intelligence agencies know about this American citizen out on the battlefield and who was recruiting in Afghanistan?” Jeff Danik told the John Solomon Reports podcast Monday.
“These are target countries, high criteria intelligence collection points for—are legitimate collection points—for our CIA, our NSA and our five eyes partners,” he said.
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Why Do So Many Young Africans Want to Leave?
Nearly three in five young Africans said that they are either very or somewhat likely to consider emigrating to another country in the next three years, according to the African Youth Survey 2024 by Ichikowitz Family Foundation.
As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, this marks a seven percentage point increase from 2022, when the last survey wave was conducted, likely driven by the improving freedom of movement post-pandemic.
Where young people from Rwanda who are considering emigrating said that it would likely only be temporary (90 percent), those in Nigeria (45 percent), Ghana (44 percent) and Congo Brazzaville (41 percent) were among those more likely to say they would make a permanent move. The 2024 poll included 5,604 people aged between 18 and 24 year olds across 16 countries: Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
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G20 Ministers Meet in Brazil to Discuss “Disinformation” Censorship Agenda
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong group — or quite the opposite, depending on the point of view. But G20 ministers were meeting in Brazil last week, just as the country keeps putting its own democracy and laws to the serious test in an escalating “war” with Elon Musk’s X.
It took no time for G20 to show which side it’s taking in the battle between a government given to online censorship and in clear need of controlling the political and media narratives, versus a major social platform that has broken ranks with its peers as an obedient executioner of censorship, including on behalf of various governments.
G20 ministers who converged on Maceio in northern Brazil late last week didn’t quite spell all this out (does anybody speak clearly anymore? The higher, the fewer, as they say).
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“Defending Italy is Not a Crime”: Salvini Reacts to Prosecutors’ Request for Six-Year Sentence
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s right-wing deputy prime minister, is hitting back after Italian prosecutors requested on Saturday a six-year prison sentence against him for blocking migrants from disembarking at one of the country’s ports in 2019.
“Six years in prison for blocking landings and defending Italy and Italians? Madness. Defending Italy is not a crime and I will not give up, not now, not ever,” Salvini wrote on X.
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250,000 Kenyans for Germany? Far-Left Government Issue Panic Denial as State Elections Loom
The German media was abuzz throughout the weekend about the news that 250,000 Kenyans were headed to Germany to work as skilled or semi-skilled workers. With Brandenburg state elections a week away, and with immigration the number one topic as voters head to the polls, the news arguably could not have come at a worse time for the far-left government.
Now, there are panic denials coming from the government, with the interior ministry contradicting the claims. Kenyan President William Ruto was the one who first broke the news, telling Deutsche Welle that he had signed an agreement with Germany that would allow Germany to return illegal immigrants, and in exchange, Kenya would send skilled labor as migrants.
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Eight Migrants Dead in Attempted English Channel Crossing
Eight migrants died in a failed overnight crossing on Sunday, September 13th. The men, from Eritrea, Sudan, Syria, Egypt, Iran, and Afghanistan, died when their boat broke up on rocks near the coastline of Ambleteuse in the Pas-de-Calais area. Local authorities reported rescuing an additional 51 migrants from the same vessel.
The tragedy coincides with 2024’s second largest recorded migrant Channel crossings to date, where 801 migrants reached UK shores in 14 boats. It has focused further attention on government policy, following the failure of the previous Conservative administration under Rishi Sunak to ‘stop the boats’ and the eventual scrapping of the much-hyped ‘Rwanda plan’ for offshoring asylum applicants.
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People smuggling gangs are packing larger numbers of migrants onto flimsy boats, shocking new figures analysed by MailOnline have shown.
On average, gangs are squeezing an average of 52 migrants on each boat — increasing the danger for those making the hazardous crossing. Almost 1,100 migrants arrived in the UK over the weekend.
So far this year, at least 39 migrants have died while making the crossing — with eight losing their lives on Saturday.
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The migrant influencer who showed other illegal immigrants how to squat in US homes will not be deported back to Venezuela, despite being ordered out of the country due to a diplomatic spat.
An Ohio judge ordered Leonel Moreno, 27, to leave the United States on September 9, the New York Post reports.
But earlier this year, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stopped accepting deportation flights from the US and Mexico after Washington reimposed economic sanctions.
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Hungary Prepares to Sue EU to Reimburse Border Control Expenses
Hungary will seek reimbursement of border police costs from the European Union, and is even prepared to file a lawsuit to this end, Hungarian cabinet minister Gergely Gulyas said at the weekly government press briefing.
“We will also demand reimbursement of border policing costs from the Commission during the negotiations. The Ministry of Justice is also conducting preparatory work here. We want to receive these costs from the Commission by legal means, so we are even prepared to sue the European Commission,” said Gulyas.
The government has given a mandate to Janos Bóka, minister for European Union affairs, to negotiate with the European Commission, on the judgment condemning Hungary over migration.
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Hundreds of migrants scaled barbed wire fences in a desperate attempt to storm into a Spanish enclave in Morocco before being pushed back by riot cops.
The swarm of people, including Moroccans and minors, were seen throwing rocks at security forces as they tried to break into Spain’s African enclave of Ceuta, near Fnideq in northern Morocco, on Sunday.
Local media reported another mass crossing attempt was also made earlier on Sunday, but was similarly intercepted by Moroccan police.
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The far-right Proud Boys descended on Springfield, Ohio, as Donald Trump doubled down on his promise to visit the town at the center of pet-eating rumors.
Members of the group were spotted marching amid reports that the KKK has been distributing recruitment leaflets in a town that has been hit by a wave of bomb threats directed at schools and colleges.
Around 20 members of the Proud Boys, some seen carrying flags and placards, were seen in video and photos posted to social media.
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UK Mulls Italy-Style Deal for Asylum Seekers
The UK Government has used the Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s current visit to Italy to open the door on a deal similar to Rome’s third-country processing agreement with Albania.
Asked if the government could adopt a similar model as the British PM breakfasted with business leaders in the Italian capital, UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said on Sky News breakfast television: “We have always said we will look at anything that works.
“Clearly things have to be workable, they have to be financially viable and they also have to meet international standards as well,” she said.
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Watch: Resident of PA Manufacturing Town Exposes Reality of Haitian ‘Great Job Replacement’
While Americans were hyper-fixated on the 20,000 Haitians the Biden-Harris administration dumped into Springfield, Ohio, through an expanded Temporary Protected Status program for migrants from the collapsed Caribbean nation, former President Trump shifted the conversation during a campaign rally last week to Charleroi, Pennsylvania.
Ahead of Trump spotlighting the Haitian surge in the tiny blue-collar town of Charleroi during a rally last week in Arizona, we cited the think tank America 2100, which first revealed that the town’s population of Haitian migrants exploded by 2,000% over the past two years.
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A site in a German town earmarked for a children’s daycare center has been repurposed as a container village for migrants, leading to protests from locals enraged by the decision.
Around 150 residents of Kirchheim, Upper Bavaria, took to the streets at the weekend against the asylum accommodation that will comprise 32 two-story containers housing 192 asylum seekers.
The accommodation should be available for occupancy from mid-October.
Local authorities were taken aback by the response of residents when they were invited to conduct an on-site visit of the accommodation, planted in the heart of a new residential estate. The buildings will actually border the gardens of terraced houses.
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Dueling Abortion Ballot Measures at Center of Battle for Key Nebraska District
Nebraska is not a traditional swing state, but the state’s 2nd Congressional District could be one of the most hotly contested races to decide the fate of three pivotal races in November.
The race for the White House, control of the House of Representatives, and determination over abortion law in Nebraska will be heavily dependent on the critical congressional district dominated by Omaha, the Cornhusker State’s most populous city. Here is how the three battles will intertwine on Nov. 5.
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Maryland Parents Urge Supreme Court to Allow Children to Opt-Out of LGBT Storybooks
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times
Maryland parents have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to restore their right to opt their young children out of having storybooks that promote LGBT lifestyles read to them.
The petition in Mahmoud v. Taylor was filed after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit turned away the parents’ request for an injunction to halt the Montgomery County Board of Education’s policy of promoting the books.
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‘Queers for Palestine’ Offered $1 Million to Hold LGBTQ Parade in Gaza
A group wanting to callout the alliance of some pro-Palestine protesters with LGBTQ advocates said Monday that it is offering $1 million to “Queers for Palestine” or any similar outfit to host a gay pride parade in Gaza or the West Bank.
Anti-Israel groups such as “Queers for Palestine” often march or protest with the tacit or explicit support of LGBTQ promoters, joining forces since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Yet homosexuality and all of the gay agenda are often illegal and discouraged in all Muslim countries.
New Tolerance Campaign (NTC) President Gregory T. Angelo, who is the former president of the gay-identifying Log Cabin Republicans, said the offer is no publicity stunt but a “wake-up call” to anyone who sees no discrepancy in titles like “Queers for Palestine” or “Gays for Gaza.”
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US Navy Introduces ‘First Gender-Neutral Submarine’
On Saturday, the USS New Jersey was commissioned into the US Navy’s Submarine Force. The Virginia-class submarine, which has a crew of nearly 135 Navy personnel, is being touted as the first “gender-neutral” submarine in the fleet.
New Jersey’s commanding officer Cmdr. Steve Halle said during a ceremony at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Middletown, New Jersey to mark the commissioning, “You operate the most complex platform on the planet and you continuously strive for excellence. I’m amazed and humbled at what we have accomplished. Our superior professionalism is enhanced by our crew integration and our diversity. We have exceeded expectations at every turn and overcome every obstacle set before us,” Fox News reported.
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Ukraine Claims it Will Help Hungary With Flooding After Threatening to Cut Off Hungary’s Oil and Gas Supplies
– the Ukrainians offered to help also in the Czech Republic. A word is that they raised about 55 Euro to help the Czechs, and there was about 1500 comments “F U Czechs, why would I help you?”
But I don’t blame them. They live here semi illegally, they work for below minimum wages, and they come from zero trust failed society – why would they be helping anyone?
The biggest fault is on our side, that the West portrays Ukraine as some shiny democratic country, when in fact, it has been a failed state for at least 10 years already, and everyone who can is trying to get away.
Just figured that out, huh?
“There is nothing left of America. As Western civilization has been exterminated, I wonder why I continue to defend what no longer exists. It only takes one more dumbs**t decision from Washington, and none of us will exist…A country in which students must be protected from the literature and art of their civilization because it is “racist.” Today in America it is possible to have a handful of Ph.D. degrees and to know nothing of your country’s past except that it is racist, evil, and exploitative. Shakespeare is demonized as racist and anti-semitic. No one dare read him and learn from his use of the English language, another racist creation.” —Institute for Political Economy (16 Sep 2024)
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/09/16/america-today-compared-to-the-america-i-grew-up-in-does-not-exist/
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“As Predicted. America -> Obamerica.
After two generations of progressive “education” (i.e., Bolshevik two year-old indoctrination), the result should surprise nobody who’s been paying attention…” —posted to fb (Apr 2019)
“The U.S. is Heading Toward a Second Civil War.” —Time Magazine (Oct 2022)
https://time.com/6222633/second-civil-war-us-how-to-avoid/
“There are Americans who are engaged in…propaganda….they should be civilly or…criminally charged.” —Hillary Clinton (16 Sep 2024)
https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/hillary-clinton-suggests-americans-spreading-propaganda-be-criminally-charged-donald-trump-politics-2016-election-russia-election-interference-vladimir-putin
“The more Trump’s supporters believe “they” are capable of endless misdeeds — up to and including trying to murder a presidential candidate — the scarier the political conditions become.” —MSLSD (17 Sep 2024)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-reach-consensus-are-definitely-villain-rcna171490
Two Questions (both rhetorical):
1) Since Time’s observation two years ago, has the level of LIES, vitriol and violence increased or decreased?
2) Can we peacefully vote or sue our way back to America?
To answer your rhetorical question no 2, nope, civil war is inevitable, we are Balkanized to the point of no return and the national debt can no longer be paid off, thus setting the conditions for a really nice hot very uncivil war, where only the winner takes all, to the Victors go the spoils.
just another fake attempt to murder trump
Recommended reading:
“Donald Trump can’t save the nation; and our votes may now only matter at the local and state levels in red states that have adopted specific measures to secure elections….This is because if Trans-o-bama wins, Agenda 2030 will accelerate into a global digital panopticon via Executive Branch mandates. And if Trump wins, the die-hard Commies and Swifties will be going Woke for Broke, Bolshevik-style. Either way, Tea Party Patriots turned MAGA Deplorables, and non-woke Christians, will be in the crosshairs.” —The Burning Platform (18 Sep 2024)
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/09/18/the-revolution-comes-for-those-who-cant-believe-it-it-always-does/
If camel toe heels up Harris wins( God Help us) her first executive action will be to outlaw the sale, manufacture and possession of all semi-auto rifles, shotguns and pistols, thus setting a wonderful set of circumstances of a nasty hot war to start.
Netanyahu in his speech to Congress said,” Gays for Palestine are like chickens for KFC.”
They would be slaughtered in Gaza and the West Bank. Gays there run away to Tel Aviv to not be “honor” killed by their own families.
Well I think we should send our alphabet people to gaza and west banks to tell those Meany Israeli’s how wrong they are, just grab a lawn chair, some bourbon and a good cigar and watch Darwin in action in real time. the ultimate entertainment.