National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam joined investigative reporter Laura Loomer on her Rumble show this week to break down the TikTok bill and explain who in Washington, D.C. is getting rich and how.
The conversation was wide-ranging, but also detailed, with information never previously aired before.
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Russia’s Defense Ministry released a report on Thursday stating that their forces have killed approximately 6,000 foreign mercenaries and volunteers who were fighting for Ukraine. The report alleges that a total of 13,387 “foreign mercenaries” from foreign countries have participated in the war since its commencement over two years ago.
Among the killed foreign fighters, Russia reports 491 were American fatalities. The estimated number of British casualties is 360, and 422 deaths from Canada. The highest number of foreign fighters were Polish, accounting for 1,497 deaths out of the total 2,690 reported.
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss encouraged Western fighters to volunteer for Ukraine during the early stages of the Russian invasion. The U.S. also brazenly endorsed Ukraine’s foreign recruitment efforts via online platforms, even on social media platforms such as Facebook. But as the war hit a stalemate and the casualty rates soared, Western officials appeared to recede from their initial enthusiasm.
The negative repercussions of these endorsements were evident in the case of a young British man. Harry Gregg, who recently committed suicide after fighting in Ukraine, was reportedly motivated by the proclamations of Truss, who described those fighting for Ukraine as participants in a “battle for democracy.”
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Leaders from the Palestinian American, Arab American, and Muslim communities rejected an invitation to meet with several top-ranking White House officials in Chicago on Thursday.
The community leaders expressed their stand in a letter with nearly 50 signatories published on the Council on American-Islamic Relations website. “There is no point in more meetings. The White House already knows the position of the aforementioned groups and our allies across the nation,” the leaders wrote.
“They know because we have made it abundantly clear, including in prior meetings with the White House, but also in press statements, letters to our elected leaders, media interviews, and enormous street action within earshot of the Oval Office,” the letter said.
The refusal follows a series of meeting rejections by Arab and Muslim groups across the country. Citing frustration over the Gaza war, which has resulted in over 30,000 Palestinian deaths since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, these groups declined participation in several key meetings, including a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and another with President Joe Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez.
The Biden government’s support for Israel is seeing Arab and Muslim Americans and progressives abandon their support for Biden in droves. The Democratic primary in Michigan saw the anti-Biden “uncommitted” protest vote take 13 percent overall and beat the incumbent president in Wayne County, home to America’s largest Arab population.
“With a genocide that has flattened Gaza, forcibly displacing 85 percent of its residents, and claiming the lives of 31,000 people, 13,000 of whom are children, the White House has not only refused to call for a ceasefire, but also enabled this blatant campaign of ethnic cleansing to take place by providing financial and military means, as well as diplomatic support at the United Nations,” the letter reads. “A meeting of the minds is nowhere in sight.”
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Judge Scott McAfee, who ruled on Thursday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can continue prosecuting her RICO case against Donald Trump, donated to her in 2020.
Willis faced being disqualified from the case after it emerged that she conducted a lengthy sexual affair with the lead prosecutor she hired, Nathan Wade. It was alleged during a series of dramatic court hearings that Willis lied about the affair and its timing and benefited financially from hiring Wade, with whom she enjoyed several lavish vacations.
McAfee ruled she can remain on the case despite the “appearance of impropriety,” however, as long as Wade is dismissed. There was a widespread expectation she would not receive such a favorable ruling, considering the evidence that emerged during the hearings. The fact that McAfee previously donated $150 to Willis in 2020 — the year she was elected — is now being flagged as a possible conflict of interest.
“Judge McAfee ruled that Fani Willis can keep prosecuting President Trump’s case in Fulton County, Georgia. McAfee has also donated to Fani Willis. This is unreal,” commented investigative reporter Laura Loomer.
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Pakistan-born, Yale-educated theologian Yasir Qadhi predicted Muslims will be approaching a majority in Swedish cities within a single generation, saying that Muslims’ high birth rates are their “secret weapon.”
“Walking through the streets of Malmö is like walking through Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, or Damascus, the capital of Syria,” Qadhi said of the rapid demographic change in Sweden’s third-largest city.
Qadhi said politicians in the city told him that “if the Swedish population maintains its negative [birthrate] and the Muslim population maintains… the average of, what, five, six, seven kids… within one generation it is very likely [it] will be almost half Muslim.”
The academic called this the “halal secret weapon,” adding: “It’s not our fault that we have more kids, guys, “you wanna do whatever you wanna do!”
“The locals are not reproducing; it’s not our fault; I don’t know why they’re getting irritated at us,” he repeated.
The academic also complained about Islamic schools in the country being shut down over links to Islamist extremism and terrorism, attributing this “Islamophobia.”
show lessPakistan-born U.S. theologian Yasir Qadhi predicts that "if the Swedish population maintains its negative [birthrate] and the Muslim population maintains [having] five, six, seven, kids," Muslims will be nearing a majority in Swedish cities within a single generation. pic.twitter.com/G4JDbXMZBs
— Jack Montgomery (@JackBMontgomery) March 15, 2024
Deceased Boeing whistleblower John Barnett warned a friend before his death that ‘if anything happens to me, it’s not suicide.’ Barnett, 62, was found shot to death this week. The Charleston County coroner’s office ruled his death self-inflicted.
Barnett, who was involved in a lawsuit against Boeing, was previously employed at the company for 32 years and raised serious concerns about its production issues. According to his legal team, he faced a hostile work environment due to his outspoken concerns, particularly about safety problems with Boeing’s flagship 787 Dreamliner model. “He was in very good spirits and really looking forward to putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on. We didn’t see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it,” said his attorneys.
A friend has now come forward with information suggesting that Barnett did not, in fact, take his own life. Barnett’s friend Jennifer said she asked him if he was scared. According to Jennifer, “he said, ‘No, I ain’t scared, but if anything happens to me, it’s not suicide.’”
“I know that he did not commit suicide. There’s no way,” Jennifer said. She claimed that someone “didn’t like what he had to say” and wanted to “shut him up,” adding: “That’s why they made it look like a suicide.”
Barnett’s attorneys remain steadfast in their pursuit of justice and plan to proceed with the case set for June. In light of these events and allegations, there appears to be more to the story than what the preliminary reports suggest.
Boeing has recently faced several scandals related to accidents involving its aircraft. A recent FAA audit uncovered dozens of issues with its production.
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In a promising advance in cancer treatment, scientists at Mass General Brigham have reported successful results in three patients suffering from glioblastoma, a common and aggressive type of brain cancer, following the application of a breakthrough therapeutic procedure known as CAR-T therapy.
Using this personalized therapy, the team extracted the patients’ T-cells, modified them, and reintroduced them into the patients’ bloodstreams. The modified T-cells, known as CARv3-TEAM-E T cells, exhibited the ability to recognize and combat the cancer cells in the patients’ bodies. The results from the clinical trial, dubbed INCIPIENT, demonstrated significant reductions in tumor size, with one patient’s tumor nearly disappearing after a single treatment.
“The CAR-T platform has revolutionized how we think about treating patients with cancer, but solid tumors like glioblastoma have remained challenging to treat because not all cancer cells are exactly alike and cells within the tumor vary,” said Dr. Bryan Choi, a neurosurgeon from Mass General Brigham. “Our approach combines two forms of therapy, allowing us to treat glioblastoma in a broader, potentially more effective way.”
One of the patients, 72, saw his tumor reduce by over 60 percent for six months, while another patient, 57, saw her tumor nearly disappear within just five days of a single infusion.
Despite these encouraging outcomes, there were noted side effects, including fever and mental state alterations in the patients post-infusion. Additionally, the decreases in tumor size were temporary.
“These results are exciting, but they are also just the beginning. They tell us that we are on the right track in pursuing a therapy that has the potential to change the outlook for this intractable disease,” said Associate Professor Marcela Maus, one of the institute’s directors. “We haven’t cured patients yet, but that is our audacious goal.”
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Illinois lawmakers are signaling their intention to limit two state-funded health insurance programs that currently extend coverage to non-citizens and illegal immigrants. The decision comes after the programs saw skyrocketing costs — fueled by the invasion of illegal aliens at the southern border — surpassing initial projections. The cost of maintaining the Healthcare Benefits for Immigrant Adults and Seniors programs has exceeded $1 billion in the past year alone.
Starting April 1, the coverage will no longer include illegal immigrants and non-citizen green card holders who have resided in the U.S. for less than five years, the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) announced. The HFS says it will ensure that individuals no longer qualifying for these benefits are briefed adequately about other viable coverage options, primarily through the federal ACA Marketplace. About 6,000 individuals are expected to be affected by the state’s coverage changes.
During a recent hearing, Healthcare and Family Services’ chief of staff Dana Kelly informed lawmakers that the state could save over $13 million by excising ineligible recipients. Cost overruns within the program have notably increased, outpacing estimates and surging past the $220 million allocated for FY 2024 in Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzer’s budget last year.
The unchecked flow of illegal aliens across the US southern border has put a strain on state budgets across the country. Some state-level Democrat lawmakers have broken with the Biden government and proposed ending sanctuary city and state status — as well as cutting aid programs that benefit illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, national Democrats aligned with President Biden have pushed back against efforts to crack down on the open southern border — and instead called for more federal aid to be given to illegal aliens.
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Three Guatemalan illegal aliens have been charged with kidnapping and repeatedly sexually assaulting a woman. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw criticized the Biden regime for “jeopardizing” American citizens following the arrest of Marcos Felipe Ramirez, 31, Darniel Ordónez Jimenez, 30, and Andres Felipe Morales, 29.
Bradshaw explained during a press conference on Wednesday that the trio have been charged with a string of serious offenses, including sexual battery, false imprisonment, and conspiracy to commit these crimes. These violent acts occurred in Lake Worth on March 11, when they allegedly kidnapped the woman in a pick-up truck, assaulting her twice before she was able to escape and seek help.
“For them to be in this country, for them to be able to commit these types of crimes is unconscionable,” Bradshaw said, adding that the Biden regime “has put the American people in jeopardy.”
“This is the same thing we saw where the student was killed by the person that was here illegally,” Bradshaw remarked, referring to the murder of Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student who was targeted while jogging on the University of Georgia’s campus.
The suspect arrested for Riley’s murder is Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan illegal who was at large despite a previous arrest for shoplifting and skipping a court appearance.
Sheriff Bradshaw also said his “intelligence section, [working] very closely with the FBI, has also identified that the most dangerous gangs in the world are now in Miami from Venezuela. They make MS-13 look like school kids.”
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Ervin Jeovany Alfaro Lopez, a 33-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador, has been charged with over 20 counts of sex offenses involving minors in Maryland. He was in the country posing as a church teacher despite having been deported on two previous occasions.
Charges against Alfaro Lopez include second-degree rape and two counts of third-degree sex offenses. Police began the investigation in May after a victim came forward. Later, three additional victims reported similar cases of abuse. Aged six to 12 years old, they said the abuse often happened when they were praying with closed eyes. One of them was the daughter of the church pastor.
Alfaro Lopez has a record of repeated illegal entries into the U.S., according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He first unlawfully entered the U.S. in March 2015, being charged and deported by September 2018. He was re-arrested in the U.S. in January 2019, leaving voluntarily in April 2019. In March 2020, after illegal re-entry, he was again caught and deported.
The time of his latest entry into the United States is unclear. ICE issued an immigration detainer against him when he was arrested for the church abuse, but the Montgomery County Detention Center ignored the order and released him from custody on August 11.
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