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March 22, 2024
News

DATA: 71% of Palestinians Support Hamas’s October 7 Terror Attack.

An overwhelming majority of Palestinians believe that Hamas made the right decision when it attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.

Seventy-one percent of Palestinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank support Hamas’s attack, according to a new poll from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.

Although the percentage of West Bank Palestinians who support the attack has decreased slightly since December — when 82 percent said they agreed with the decision — support in Gaza for the terror attack has increased, rising from 57 percent in December to 71 percent in March.

Palestinians also believe the current Israel-Hamas conflict is increasing the chances of establishing an official Palestinian state. When asked whether “the war on Gaza since October 7 has revived international attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that it could lead to increased recognition of Palestinian statehood,” 75 percent of respondents in both Gaza and the West Bank said “yes.” The survey also revealed that most Palestinians — 91 percent — do not think Hamas has committed war crimes. Ninety-three percent deny that acts of rape and killing civilians occurred on October 7.

A majority of Palestinians in both areas  — 52 percent in Gaza and 64 percent in the West Bank — believe Hamas should continue to rule Gaza once the war ends. Nearly two-thirds of respondents — 64 percent — believe Hamas will defeat Israel in the conflict.

The new poll comes as Western nations appear to be reexamining their once-strong support for Israel. The UK government has indicated its support for Palestinian statehood, and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris recently called for an immediate ceasefire. A majority of Americans now also support ending arms shipments to Israel until the current conflict is resolved.

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An overwhelming majority of Palestinians believe that Hamas made the right decision when it attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. show more
March 22, 2024
Ed Kozak
News

Add It to Your Riot Calendar: Marine Vet Daniel Penny Trial Set for Oct 8.

Marine veteran Daniel Penny will stand trial for second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide on October 8. Penny stands accused in relation to the subway death of an erratically behaving homeless man, Jordan Neely.

The fatal incident happened on an uptown F train in New York City, where, according to onlookers, Penny took action when Neely displayed an uncontrolled and aggressive demeanor toward other riders. Penny, along with another individual, sought to restrain Neely, culminating with Neely being placed in a fatal chokehold. A New York medical examiner attributed the cause of death to neck compression, labeling it a homicide.

Penny’s appeal to have the case dismissed was denied. Thomas Kenniff, Penny’s attorney, expressed disappointment that the case had proceeded but maintained optimism for a not-guilty verdict. “While we still hold out hope that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office will see the injustice in continuing this prosecution, we are prepared to defend Mr. Penny at trial and have every confidence that he will be fully exonerated,” Kenniff said.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley estimates the trial duration to fall between four and six weeks. If found guilty, Penny could face a maximum of 19 years in prison.

The Penny case has become a touchstone in the public debate over crime and public safety. Cities like New York have become increasingly dangerous over the last several years. Many view Perry as a hero.

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Marine veteran Daniel Penny will stand trial for second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide on October 8. Penny stands accused in relation to the subway death of an erratically behaving homeless man, Jordan Neely. show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
That’s convenient timing, isn’t it? Right after the election? Right in the middle of what will no doubt be chicanery to stop Trump taking office, if he wins? A case that will doubtless mobilize millions in cities across America under the same “most peaceful” banners we saw in 2020? Hm
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That’s convenient timing, isn’t it? Right after the election? Right in the middle of what will no doubt be chicanery to stop Trump taking office, if he wins? A case that will doubtless mobilize millions in cities across America under the same “most peaceful” banners we saw in 2020? Hm show more
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March 22, 2024
Crime
Immigration

DATA: Illegal Crossings Surge Unabated In 2024.

U.S. border control is facing increasing challenges under the Biden government as the number of illegal immigrants crossing the border continues to surge. At the start of the 2024 fiscal year, crossings soared to 988,900 individuals between October and December. The record start to the year follows an already record 2.4 million illegal immigrant encounters at the southern border in fiscal year 2023. The number of encounters has drastically increased from approximately 1.7 million in 2021.

Data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reveals a significant increase in the annualized rate of illegal immigrant arrests compared to numbers from February 2023 and 2022. The most recent reports disclose 5,616 arrests, exceeding 3,030 arrests and 2,424 arrests recorded in February 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Ira Mehlman, spokesperson for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), argues that undocumented citizens face higher crime rates due to the absence of a rigorous vetting process. “All of these things result in people losing their lives because the government isn’t doing its job,” Mehlman told Newsweek in a recent interview, adding: “Sanctuary policies are compounding the danger of being presented. If they were properly implemented, Laken Riley would still be alive today.”

Republican lawmakers at the state and federal levels are pushing to allow local law enforcement to detain and arrest illegal immigrants when encountered. Additionally, some states, like Texas, are even attempting to enact their own deportation process for illegals caught in their jurisdiction.

The Supreme Court recently ruled 6-3 to temporarily allow Texas state officers to arrest, detain, and remove individuals presumed to be in the US illegally — pending a final judgment later this year. However, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals was allowed to issue a new order staying the Texas law.

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U.S. border control is facing increasing challenges under the Biden government as the number of illegal immigrants crossing the border continues to surge. At the start of the 2024 fiscal year, crossings soared to 988,900 individuals between October and December. The record start to the year follows an already record 2.4 million illegal immigrant encounters at the southern border in fiscal year 2023. The number of encounters has drastically increased from approximately 1.7 million in 2021. show more
March 22, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare

Judge Engoron Gives ‘Independent Monitor’ Greater Control Over Trump Org.

The Trump Organization will now face increased scrutiny from former federal judge Barbara S. Jones following a court order on Thursday related to alleged bank fraud committed by former President Donald Trump. Jones has been monitoring the Trump family’s New York real estate empire for over a year. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron instituted the enhanced monitorship when he ordered the former President to pay the shocking sum of $464 million in February after finding him culpable for alleged civil fraud.

Since November 2022, the Trump Organization has been mandated to inform Jones of any capital shifts of more than $5 million or substantial business engagement. Judge Engoron’s new order permits Jones to take additional measures to ensure the Trump Organization doesn’t involve itself in suspect business practices. Jones now has the authority to review the company’s “day-to-day operations,” accounting records, and internal communications. Additionally, Jones may hire outside resources as needed, with the cost being borne by the Trump Organization. Engoron described the new order as “a productive and enhanced monitorship.”

In February of this year, Judge Engoron ruled that Trump reportedly inflated the value of his assets in a bid to make additional financial benefits available to his company through loans and insurance policies. The left-wing judge made several determinations regarding Trump’s property holdings, which have drawn vocal criticism from legal and real estate experts. The most egregious was his ruling that the former President’s private Palm Beach, Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, was worth only $18 million.

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The Trump Organization will now face increased scrutiny from former federal judge Barbara S. Jones following a court order on Thursday related to alleged bank fraud committed by former President Donald Trump. Jones has been monitoring the Trump family’s New York real estate empire for over a year. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron instituted the enhanced monitorship when he ordered the former President to pay the shocking sum of $464 million in February after finding him culpable for alleged civil fraud. show more
March 22, 2024
Corruption
Politics

GOP Probes DOJ Attorneys On Hunter Biden Crimes.

The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), has filed a lawsuit in federal court to compel testimony from two Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) Tax Division attorneys, Mark Daly and Jack Morgan. House Republicans argue the testimony from the DOJ officials is integral to their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s business dealings.

Daly and Morgan are believed to have intimate knowledge regarding the decision to grant favorable terms in the prosecution of the President’s son for alleged tax crimes. The 59-page filing asks a federal judge to enforce congressional subpoenas previously issued for their testimony.

Concerns regarding the sweat-heart deal between Hunter Biden and the DOJ were brought to light by the House Ways and Means Committee late last year. Testimony from IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler alleged the DOJ ignored the severity of Hunter Biden’s tax crimes out of a sense of political favoritism.

The business dealings of Hunter Biden have come under increasing scrutiny as the House Republican impeachment inquiry moves forward. President Biden’s son is accused of hiding income to avoid paying federal taxes and hiding illicit earnings from corrupt business dealings. Additionally, House Republicans allege Hunter Biden used his access to his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to secure lucrative business contracts.

House Republicans, moving to the next phase of the impeachment inquiry, expected to begin increasing their focus on the Biden family’s business enterprises and allegations they traded off of Joe Biden’s name and political access.

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The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), has filed a lawsuit in federal court to compel testimony from two Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) Tax Division attorneys, Mark Daly and Jack Morgan. House Republicans argue the testimony from the DOJ officials is integral to their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s business dealings. show more
March 22, 2024
William Upton
Immigration
Politics

WATCH: Drone Footage Exposes 2000+ Illegal Migrant Tent City in America.

Officials in New York City have been keeping a massive tent shelter for illegals in Brooklyn shielded from the public. However, new details emerged regarding the facility, which is believed to house upwards of 2,000 illegal immigrants. Drone footage taken by citizen journalists has revealed the shocking extent of the tent facility.

The sprawling tent complex is located at Floyd Bennett Field, situated in the Marine Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. Corporate media coverage of the facility has been relatively scant. Only a handful of outlets provided detailed or consistent reports on how many illegal immigrants at the location.

Floyd Bennett Field began as a civilian-use airfield before being turned into a naval air facility. After the U.S. Navy closed its operations at the airfield, it was transferred to the National Park Service and added to the Gateway National Recreation Area’s Jamaica Bay Unit. The New York Police Department (NYPD) maintains a helicopter landing pad and facility on the property.

Since the start of the southern border crisis under President Joe Biden, New York City has seen an estimated influx of an estimated 175,0000 illegal immigrants. The massive number of illegals has placed tremendous strain on the city’s budget and sent rents skyrocketing as demand for housing has increased. It is unclear if any of the facility’s residents are scheduled for deportation.

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Officials in New York City have been keeping a massive tent shelter for illegals in Brooklyn shielded from the public. However, new details emerged regarding the facility, which is believed to house upwards of 2,000 illegal immigrants. Drone footage taken by citizen journalists has revealed the shocking extent of the tent facility. show more
March 22, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics
TECH

KASSAM: ‘Here’s What Could Kill The TikTok Bill in the Senate. Even for Me.’

Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes a House bill forcing Chinese Communist Party-controlled ByteDance to divest from TikTok could be tighter, warning against Senate changes broadening its scope.

Kassam, who has previously debunked some of the myths around the TikTok bill targeting the likes of Elon Musk’s X, warned that there are some issues with “loose language” in the bill in comments to Puck News.

“Folks are rightfully concerned that these bills contain loose language that could be used to target other platforms or individuals,” he said.

“It’s unnecessarily muddying the waters on what could otherwise be a clean hit against the Chinese Communist Party and its propaganda interests, just because Biden and the [Department of Justice] said so,” he added.

Kassam expressed concern that “[i]f the Senate bill is any worse or broader than the House bill, there will be even wider-spread disquiet.”

The National Pulse chief does not agree with objections to the House bill raised by the likes of Senator Rand Paul — bankrolled by ByteDance investor Jeffrey Yass — that the CCP has no control over TikTok or that it amounts to nothing more significant than “a few dance videos.”

Concerns around provisions in the bill targeting companies “indirectly” held by a foreign adversary state may have more substance to them, however, with some fearing they could be used to target platforms such as Rumble and Telegram that have been less keen to censor conservatives than Silicon Valley.

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Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, believes a House bill forcing Chinese Communist Party-controlled ByteDance to divest from TikTok could be tighter, warning against Senate changes broadening its scope. show more
March 21, 2024
News
TECH
UK

AI Could Take Over 80% of Repetitive Civil Servant Jobs.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) could assume responsibility for over 80 percent of repetitive civil servant tasks in the UK, according to a study by The Alan Turing Institute. This adoption of AI automation could affect well over 100 million operations, ranging from passport processing to voter registration, and has significant implications for time-saving and efficiency.

The study examined the approximately one billion citizen-facing transactions conducted by the British government annually across 57 departments and 400 services. The researchers examined half of these services involving decision-making and information exchange between an official and a citizen. They found that the most time-intensive tasks possess the greatest potential for time-saving if automated.

The researchers concluded that AI could potentially carry out an estimated 84 percent of 143 million “complex but repetitive transactions.”

“AI has enormous potential to help governments become more responsive, efficient, and fair,” said Dr Jonathan Bright, the artificial intelligence expert at The Alan Turing Institute. “Even if AI could save one minute per transaction, that would be the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of hours of labour saved each year,” he said.

Automating predictable environments such as machine operation could save the UK government an estimated £24 billion ($30.6 billion) per year, further facilitating the path to a smaller state and improved delivery of services. In the U.S., local governments have begun experimenting with incorporating AI into their daily workflow.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) could assume responsibility for over 80 percent of repetitive civil servant tasks in the UK, according to a study by The Alan Turing Institute. This adoption of AI automation could affect well over 100 million operations, ranging from passport processing to voter registration, and has significant implications for time-saving and efficiency. show more
March 21, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Lawfare
Media
News
TECH

REVEALED: MeidasTouch Host Linked to Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith.

Karen Friedman Agnifilo, of the MeidasTouch network behind the “bloodbath” hoax, worked for five years with Jack Smith, the special prosecutor attempting to convict Donald Trump over January 6 and the alleged mishandling of classified documents, The National Pulse can reveal.

Agnifilo, who hosts a MeidasTouch podcast alongside network founder Ben Meiselas, was approached by the press when Smith was appointed to go after Trump by Joe Biden’s Justice Department. When asked for comment on her time working with him as an assistant district attorney in New York, she said: “He was someone you could rely on. Some people are always too busy, or always too important, or smarter than anybody else. He was humble, helpful, smart. He wasn’t a gunslinger. But he wasn’t afraid to go.”

“Some people just can’t pull the trigger. They get really scared. Jack wasn’t,” she added.

Agnifilo has used her MeidasTouch platform to push for her old friend to take a more aggressive line on Trump, whom she denigrates as the “orange Bully-in-Chief.”

She praised Smith for asking a judge to gag the former president. “It’s about time someone is finally trying to put an end to this dangerous rhetoric,” she said. “And, if [Trump] violates this order he should be put in jail,” she added.

Agnifilo is also a CNN contributor and hosts a show called “LegalAF” for the MeidasTouch network, which has been supported by E. Jean Carroll and Nikki Haley funder Reid Hoffman.

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Karen Friedman Agnifilo, of the MeidasTouch network behind the “bloodbath” hoax, worked for five years with Jack Smith, the special prosecutor attempting to convict Donald Trump over January 6 and the alleged mishandling of classified documents, The National Pulse can reveal. show more
trump
March 21, 2024
News

DATA: Trump Surging With Women and Minorities. Here’s Why…

Former President Donald Trump has said that polling shows “numbers we’ve never seen” in terms of support from women and minority voters.

In an interview with Breitbart News, Trump credited this surge to concerns about “Safety and security,” which “more than anything else” are driving voters to the Trump camp as voters “don’t feel safe” with “lunatic” Joe Biden in office.

“They don’t feel safe with this lunatic,” Trump said. “He’s a terrible president. He’s the worst president in history. He’s the most incompetent and most corrupt president we’ve ever had,” Trump continued. “He’s willing to weaponize the Justice Department to go after his opponent. Nobody ever thought that was ever going to be happening in our country. It happens in a lot of countries in the third world, banana republics. But nobody ever thought they’d see that. But above all, I believe they want security.”

Public polls show a significant shift in support among women and black and Hispanic voters. New York Times polling indicates even support between Trump and Biden among women voters, with Trump effectively bridging the 11-point advantage Biden had in the 2020 election.

With Hispanic voters, Trump’s position is looking even stronger. The Economist recently highlighted Biden’s diminishing support in the Hispanic community, with current polling suggesting Trump is set for further gains. For Black voters, Trump’s support has grown significantly from eight percent of the black vote in 2016 to current polling projecting a 17 percent preference for Trump over Biden.

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Former President Donald Trump has said that polling shows “numbers we’ve never seen” in terms of support from women and minority voters. show more