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July 29, 2024
William Upton
Culture
Media
News

WATCH: Hundreds of Communists March Through the Streets of Philadelphia, Corporate Media Silent.

Hundreds of members of the Revolutionary Communists of America (RCA) marched through the streets of downtown Philadelphia on Sunday following the conclusion of their first party congress in the United States. The nascent far-left Trotskyist political party is an offshoot of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Great Britain and a member of the Revolutionary Communist International.

The communist group, new to the U.S. political scene, should not be confused with other American communist parties, including the Maoist-aligned Revolutionary Communist Party, USA—a personality cult dedicated to Bob Avakian’s thought—and the Communist Party USA, the country’s oldest communist political party, founded in 1919.

While the U.S. corporate media often focuses on marches organized by neo-Nazi groups—some suspected of being federal entrapment operations—like Patriot Front and the Blood Tribe, the RCA actions in Philadelphia received very little coverage.

According to the RCA’s website, the group embraces violent and militant class struggle in an effort to launch an “American Socialist Revolution.”

“The RCA is a party of class fighters committed to the complete overthrow of capitalism,” the group states. “We fight for a world of material superabundance and reject the artificial scarcity of a system based on the pursuit of profits.”

Additionally, they state that they “fight to build a revolutionary leadership worthy of the name and to establish a workers’ government that can mobilize the working class to tackle the capitalist roots of war, inequality, oppression, and climate catastrophe.”

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Hundreds of members of the Revolutionary Communists of America (RCA) marched through the streets of downtown Philadelphia on Sunday following the conclusion of their first party congress in the United States. The nascent far-left Trotskyist political party is an offshoot of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Great Britain and a member of the Revolutionary Communist International. show more
July 29, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
Immigration
UK

Muslim Cleric Bids for Scottish Island, Plans to Make It an ‘Islamic State.’

A Shia Muslim cleric is raising funds to purchase a private island in Scotland and establish a de facto Islamic state there. Sheikh Yasser al-Habib is a Kuwaiti who came to Britain after his native country imprisoned him for sectarianism, and later stripped him of his citizenship

Al-Habib seeks to purchase Torsa, or Thor’s Island, a picturesque tidal island in the Inner Hebrides, and establish a community for his Mahdi Servants Union, where Shia Islamists awaiting the coming of the Mahdi can gather.

Shia or Shiite Islam is the predominant branch of Islam in Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Iraq, and especially Iran. Its emphasis on the Mahdi, an ageless imam who has been supposedly been roaming the earth since the 800s and will return to public view to bring justice during the end times, distinguishes it from Sunni Islam.

“If you want to live free under the banner of the imam, in a special homeland where you feel everything in it reminds you of the awaited Mahdi, everything is the Shia homeland, support this project,” al-Habib declares in one fundraising broadcast on Fadak TV, a satellite channel he runs out of a converted church hall in Buckinghamshire, England.

He already runs “boot camps” for his followers, garbed in military-style uniforms, in the English county.

“They will have their own army, their own justice system, they will manage their own schools and hospitals and people from around the world will be able to migrate to this homeland,” warned Sarah Zaaimi, a spokeswoman for the Atlantic Council which has been investigating al-Habib and his organization, of their plans for Torsa.

ISLAMIST HAVEN. 

Until recently, Scotland had a Pakistani-heritage Muslim, Humza Yousaf, as its First Minister, notorious for decrying the influence white people have in the country.

Al-Habib is not the only Islamic extremist to use Britain as a bolthole, with Hamas leaders also taking advantage of its easily exploited asylum laws to establish themselves there.

The European Court of Human Rights protects such people from deportation, insisting the government cannot deport even foreign terror suspects to countries where they may face capital punishment or other firm penalties.

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A Shia Muslim cleric is raising funds to purchase a private island in Scotland and establish a de facto Islamic state there. Sheikh Yasser al-Habib is a Kuwaiti who came to Britain after his native country imprisoned him for sectarianism, and later stripped him of his citizenship show more
July 23, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
Fact Check

FACT-CHECK: Female Secret Service Applicants Are NOT Held to ‘Same Standards’ as Men.

The possible contribution of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) to U.S. Secret Service (USSS) failures during the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, was raised during now-former Director Kim Cheatle’s grilling by the House Oversight Committee on Monday.

Some Republican lawmakers questioned why female agents too small to cover Trump, who is well over six feet tall, were assigned to him. Cheatle and several Democratic lawmakers doggedly insisted men and women in the USSS meet the “same standards.”

“One of your goals in the [USSS] strategic plan is to champion Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and accessibility—you’ve accomplished the ‘accessibility’ part,” said Republican Rep. Michael Cloud, in sarcastic reference to gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks having easy access to President Trump when he shot him.

“Do you keep the same standards for all applicants?” he continued. “Does every Secret Service agent meet the same qualifications, or do you have different standards for different people?”

“Yes, sir, everyone who moves through the application process has to meet the same standards to become a special agent,” Cheatle claimed.

Later in the hearing, Cheatle told Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a black woman, that the “incident on the 13th has nothing to do with DEI.”

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, also a black woman, later claimed women in the Secret Service “are held to the standards as their male counterparts.”

This is not the case. The Secret Service’s ‘Become a Special Agent’ brochure explicitly states that the physical excellence standards for women recruits are significantly lower than the physical standards men must meet:

COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY. 

In a section of the brochure titled ‘Committed to Diversity,’ the Secret Service states that “Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) is a fundamental right of all employees and applicants for employment to compete on a fair and level playing field… without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age (40 or older), disability (physical or mental), gender identity, protected genetic information, or parental status.”

The brochure also advertises that the Secret Service has an ‘Affirmative Action Plan’ and an ‘Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Program’.

Loucious Hires III, executive director of the United States Secret Service‘s Office of Equity, has declared DEI to be “mission imperative” for the agency.

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The possible contribution of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) to U.S. Secret Service (USSS) failures during the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, was raised during now-former Director Kim Cheatle's grilling by the House Oversight Committee on Monday. show more
July 23, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
TECH

Musk Grieves for Trans Son ‘Killed by the Woke Mind Virus.’

Technology billionaire Elon Musk says he made up his mind to “destroy the woke mind virus” after being duped into approving a son’s gender transition. The South African, who owns Tesla, SpaceX, and the X social media platform (formerly Twitter), said he was “essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys, Xavier” in conversation with Canadian psychologist turned media personality Jordan Peterson.

“This is before I had really any understanding of what was going on. We had Covid going on, and so, there was a lot of confusion, and, you know, I was told Xavier might commit suicide [if he was not transitioned],” Musk said.

“Incredibly evil, and I agree with you that people that have been promoting this should go to prison,” he told Peterson. “I was tricked into doing this, and it wasn’t explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs.”

“I lost my son, essentially,” Musk continued, suggesting that “deadnaming”—the supposed crime of referring to a transgender by their previous name—is so-called “because your son is dead.”

“My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus,” he continued. “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that, and we’re making some progress.”

However, X reinstated bans on “deadnaming” and “misgendering” in January, causing many to question Musk’s resolve.

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Technology billionaire Elon Musk says he made up his mind to "destroy the woke mind virus" after being duped into approving a son's gender transition. The South African, who owns Tesla, SpaceX, and the X social media platform (formerly Twitter), said he was "essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys, Xavier" in conversation with Canadian psychologist turned media personality Jordan Peterson. show more
July 19, 2024
William Upton
Culture
Immigration
Media

Wanting to Be Buried Alongside Your Ancestors & Loved Ones Is White Nationalism: MSNBC.

In a new low, MSNBC and Netflix news personality Alex Wagner is accusing Republican vice presidential nominee Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) of dropping an “Easter egg of white nationalism” during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Wagner lamented that Vance’s speech “was not the same red meat, sort of blood and soil nationalism that you might hear in, I don’t know, other parallel universe Republican conventions,” suggesting she intended to smear the candidate regardless of what he said.

“I do think there were some sort of Easter eggs of white nationalism in the speech,” Wagner argued—kicking off what can only be described as an unhinged rant. She continued: “One of the things that stuck out to me was when he started talking about what America is, he said that ‘America is not just an idea, it is a group of people with a shared history and a common future.'”

She claimed that Vance‘s reference to the “plot in eastern Kentucky, where his seven or six generations of his family are buried” was a white nationalist dog whistle.

RANTING ABOUT A BURIAL PLOT.

“And I sort of understand the idea of sharing the burial plot, but it also is, it reveals someone who believes that the history that the family should inherit, and indeed the history that should be determinative in the story of the Vance family, is the history of the eastern Kentucky Vances and not the Vances from San Diego, which is where his wife is from and where her Indian parents are from,” Wagner said.

She continued: “And I just think the construction of, of this notion reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity, and it’s couched in a sort of halcyon, you know, revisitation of his roots, but it is actually really revealing about what he thinks matters and who America is, and that America is a place for people with his shared Western background.”

The line that Wagner found so troubling in Vance‘s speech was a recollection of a heartfelt conversation with his wife: “Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law school debt and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky.”

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In a new low, MSNBC and Netflix news personality Alex Wagner is accusing Republican vice presidential nominee Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) of dropping an "Easter egg of white nationalism" during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Wagner lamented that Vance's speech "was not the same red meat, sort of blood and soil nationalism that you might hear in, I don’t know, other parallel universe Republican conventions," suggesting she intended to smear the candidate regardless of what he said. show more
July 18, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
NatSec

Secret Service Office of Equity Chief Declared DEI ‘Mission Imperative,’ ‘Our Ultimate Goal.’

Loucious Hires III, executive director of the United States Secret Service‘s Office of Equity, said diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are the agency’s “ultimate goal” in a podcast last February. “I could talk on and on what the agency is doing to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion… DEI is every action every day,” he bragged.

“Part of the things that we need to continue to do more is to be open and speak openly about diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. And when every one of us within this agency can say this is a mission imperative, then we have achieved our ultimate goal,” Hires said.

In a now-unlisted 2022 podcast posted to the Secret Service‘s YouTube channel for Pride Month, Secret Service Office of Chief Counsel Supervisory Attorney-Advisor Andrew ‘Drew’ Cannady insisted, “We benefit from diversity, and I actually am seeing more openly… trans recruits out of the training center, law enforcement recruits, which is great.”

FAILURES. 

Significant failures by the Secret Service during the assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, are raising concerns that DEI may be impacting its effectiveness.

Director Kimberly Cheatle has suggested the building from which sniper Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on the former president was unguarded despite being identified as a security threat because it had a slightly sloped roof. Multiple reports also indicate law enforcement had been aware of Crooks long before he opened fire and even before Trump took to the stage.

Despite all of this, he was able to get off multiple shots at the America First leader, striking his ear and hitting three rallygoers, one of whom died.

In May, concerns about DEI in the Secret Service were already present after a female agent with a questionable history, assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris, started a bizarre brawl with colleagues involving menstrual pads.

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Loucious Hires III, executive director of the United States Secret Service's Office of Equity, said diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are the agency's "ultimate goal" in a podcast last February. "I could talk on and on what the agency is doing to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion… DEI is every action every day," he bragged. show more
July 18, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Culture
TECH

‘Changing Business Needs’ – Microsoft Lays Off DEI Team.

Microsoft has laid off an internal team dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), suggesting it is no longer important to its ” business needs.” In a leaked email, the DEI team leader expressed dismay, citing that DEI programs are no longer perceived as business critical, in contrast with their perceived importance in 2020.

“True systems-change work associated with DEI programs everywhere are no longer business critical or smart as they were in 2020,” they lamented. The email indicated that the team’s dissolution, effective July 1, was down to “changing business needs.”

This change is in stark contrast to last year when Microsoft bragged about creating Pride themes for Outlook, taking inspiration from various LGBT flags.

Tech giants like Zoom, Google, and Meta have also reportedly scaled back their DEI programs, reflecting a broader trend within the industry. Microsoft spokesman Jeff Jones claims the company’s dedication to DEI—rebranded D&I—is ongoing, stating, “Our D&I commitments remain unchanged.”

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Microsoft has laid off an internal team dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), suggesting it is no longer important to its " business needs." In a leaked email, the DEI team leader expressed dismay, citing that DEI programs are no longer perceived as business critical, in contrast with their perceived importance in 2020. show more
July 17, 2024
William Upton
Culture
News

Musk Moving SpaceX to Texas In Response to California’s New Anti-Family Trans Law.

Billionaire technology mogul Elon Musk will move his SpaceX operations entirely out of California and into Texas after Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced he has signed AB1955 into law. The legislation bans schools from enacting rules that would require the notification of parents if a child identifies as transgender—effectively substituting the state for family.

“This is the final straw,” Musk said in a post on X (formerly Twitter)—the social media platform he purchased in 2022. He added: “Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.”

Musk added, in a separate post: “I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children.”

Under the new law, California school districts will no longer be allowed to notify parents if their child begins using different pronouns or self-recognizes as a different gender. The law makes the state the first to bar school districts from sharing pertinent information with parents regarding their children.

Earlier this year, California’s Democrat Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a legal advisory to schools in the state warning that informing parents of their children’s decision to use different pronouns or change their gender—without the child’s permission—likely violated the state constitution.

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Billionaire technology mogul Elon Musk will move his SpaceX operations entirely out of California and into Texas after Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced he has signed AB1955 into law. The legislation bans schools from enacting rules that would require the notification of parents if a child identifies as transgender—effectively substituting the state for family. show more
Baldwin
July 12, 2024
Breaking
Culture

BREAKING: Alec Baldwin Trial Comes to Stunning End as Judge Dismisses Case WITH PREJUDICE.

Actor Alec Baldwin’s trial for involuntary manslaughter has come to a stunning end after presiding Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case with prejudice after Baldwin’s lawyers accused law enforcement of withholding evidence concerning the fatal shooting on the “Rust” film set.

“There is no way for the court to right this wrong,” said Sommer. “The sanction of dismissal is the only warranted remedy.”

The incident in question took place in October 2021. Baldwin, during a rehearsal, discharged a firearm pointed toward cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, resulting in her death and the injury of the film’s director. Hannah Gutierrez, the film’s armorer responsible for loading the gun, is presently serving an 18-month prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter. Baldwin faces similar charges, with prosecutors arguing that he neglected fundamental gun safety practices, leading to reckless behavior on the set.

Alex Spiro, Baldwin’s high-profile attorney, has maintained that Baldwin bore no obligation to inspect the gun’s contents. The defense has primarily focused on challenging the integrity of the police investigation. On Thursday, Spiro introduced evidence suggesting that live ammunition connected to the fatal shooting had been provided to the police but was not disclosed to Baldwin’s legal team. These bullets were turned over to law enforcement by a former police officer and family friend of Gutierrez, who indicated they matched those that killed Hutchins.

Spiro accused police of “burying” the evidence by not recording it under the “Rust” case, which he argued deprived the defense of crucial information. Marissa Poppell, a crime scene technician, testified that she cataloged the bullets yet was instructed not to file them under the “Rust” incident.

Due to the case being dismissed with prejudice, charges may not be brought again. Baldwin escapes a potential 18 month jail sentence as a result.

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Actor Alec Baldwin's trial for involuntary manslaughter has come to a stunning end after presiding Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case with prejudice after Baldwin's lawyers accused law enforcement of withholding evidence concerning the fatal shooting on the "Rust" film set. show more
July 12, 2024
William Upton
Culture

Gaybraham Lincoln? Documentary Claims ‘Honest Abe’ Was a Closet Homosexual.

Filmmaker Shaun Peterson contends that the bulk of scholarly work on the life of President Abraham Lincoln is wrong. According to Peterson, Lincoln was a homosexual who preferred the company of men—a case he argues in a new documentary, Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln, released on July 10.

The documentary “examines the intimate life of America’s most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never before seen photographs and letters, the film details Lincoln’s romantic relationships with men.”

“The film fills in an important missing piece of American history and challenges the audience to consider why we hold such a limited view of human sexuality,” the film’s synopsis states, continuing: “Lover of Men is not only an exploration of gender roles and sexual identity, but also serves as an examination of American intolerance.”

According to Peterson—and allegedly never before seen letters authored by Lincoln—the sixteenth American president slept with more men than he did women. The crux of the contention that Lincoln was a closeted gay man is letters he exchanged with a childhood friend, Joshua Fry Speed. “Dear Speed, I shall be very lonesome without you. Love, Lincoln,” one letter reads.

SO, WAS LINCOLN GAY?

The idea of Lincoln being a homosexual dates to a 1926 biography by Carl Sandburg, which refers to Lincoln’s relationship with Speed as having “a streak of lavender, and spots soft as May violets.”

While some have interpreted Sandberg’s words as suggesting Lincoln was a closeted gay man, in reality, the author was referring to the more vulnerable relationship between two friends, which belied their more public-facing images of masculinity.

Letters supposedly authored by Lincoln explicitly detailing his homosexuality—and ‘found’ by gay rights activist Larry Kramer in 1999—are widely believed to be a hoax.

Recent attempts to ‘queer‘ popular fictional characters have fallen flat with audiences. The National Pulse reported in May that the ratings for the latest season of the British science fiction adventure Doctor Who have crashed following the introduction of the first “openly queer” black Doctor, played by Rwandan migrant Ncuti Gatwa.

Meanwhile, Disney‘s Star Wars: Acolyte—which features predominantly nonbinary and lesbian characters—has been widely panned by viewers and even some critics.

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Filmmaker Shaun Peterson contends that the bulk of scholarly work on the life of President Abraham Lincoln is wrong. According to Peterson, Lincoln was a homosexual who preferred the company of men—a case he argues in a new documentary, Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln, released on July 10. show more