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January 25, 2024
William Upton
War

Now Ukraine is Demanding America’s A-10 Warthogs.

Ukraine is demanding the United States government send an array of anti-infantry attack aircraft, including the legendary A-10 Warthog, to bolster its war effort against Russia. Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, who mounted the defense of Kiev, claims deployment of anti-infantry and anti-tank aircraft like the A-10 attack jet could create new opportunities to break through Russian defense lines. He’s also asking the U.S. to send AH-64 Apache, AH-1 Super Cobra, and UH-60 Black Hawk attack helicopters.

“I would talk about A-10s as an option if they’ll be given to us … this is not a new machine, but a reliable one that has proven itself in many wars, and which has a wide array of weapons for destroying land targets to help the infantry,” Syrskyi told Reuters in a recent interview. The Ukrainian military leader implied his country is continuing to mount counter-offensives against Russian positions, though it appears these are only minor engagements.

The Counter-Offensive That Never Was.

Despite significant Western military aid, Ukraine’s attempt last year to launch a major counter-offensive against Russian positions failed, as predicted in early 2023 by The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam.

By the late Fall of 2023, Ukrainian forces had only managed to advance about 10 miles after several months of intense fighting. Last November, General Valery Zaluzhny, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, concluded there would “most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.”

Zelensky Wants More U.S. Aid.

Last month, President Zelensky told members of the U.S. Senate that he may soon be forced to enact military conscription for men over 40. Responding to Zelensky’s request for additional financial and military aid, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) argued Ukraine should sue for peace instead.

“What’s in America’s best interest is to accept Ukraine is going to have to cede some territory to the Russians, and we need to bring this war to a close,” Vance said, before adding: “But when I think about the great human tragedy here, hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans innocent have been killed in this conflict… The thing that’s in our interest and in theirs is to stop the killing.”

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Ukraine is demanding the United States government send an array of anti-infantry attack aircraft, including the legendary A-10 Warthog, to bolster its war effort against Russia. Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, who mounted the defense of Kiev, claims deployment of anti-infantry and anti-tank aircraft like the A-10 attack jet could create new opportunities to break through Russian defense lines. He’s also asking the U.S. to send AH-64 Apache, AH-1 Super Cobra, and UH-60 Black Hawk attack helicopters. show more
January 25, 2024
Breaking
News
Politics

Trump White House’s Peter Navarro Gets 4 Months In Jail From Leftist Judge.

Peter Navarro, a former adviser to the Donald Trump White House, was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday for ignoring a congressional subpoena related to the January 6 select committee’s investigation. Judge Amit Mehta handed down the sentence for the two counts of contempt of Congress on which Navarro was convicted in September last year.

The news is the latest in a long list of banana republic-style convictions and persecutions by the Biden regime, which is widely believed to be acting on the instruction of former President Barack Obama. The prosecution of opposing party politicians is almost unheard of in the Western world, though the Biden government has also given its blessing to the new Polish regime to act in the same fashion.

Judge Mehta has not yet determined if Navarro will be incarcerated while he appeals his sentence.

Before his conviction, Navarro’s legal team argued that federal prosecutors could not conclusively show that he willfully refused to comply with the congressional subpoena. As with the September trial, Navarro again argued he believed he was covered by executive privilege and was not required to comply with the Congressional subpoena.

“When I received that congressional subpoena… I had an honest belief that the privilege had been invoked,” Navarro told the judge before his sentence was handed down earlier today.

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Peter Navarro, a former adviser to the Donald Trump White House, was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday for ignoring a congressional subpoena related to the January 6 select committee’s investigation. Judge Amit Mehta handed down the sentence for the two counts of contempt of Congress on which Navarro was convicted in September last year. show more
January 25, 2024
Ed Kozak
Analysis
News

Shock Report Claims 65,000 Rape Pregnancies Since Roe Termination. The Only Problem? It’s a Planned Parenthood-Linked Fabrication.

A shocking new report has claimed that nearly 520,000 rapes resulted in 64,565 pregnancies across 14 states with abortion bans. However, the research, published in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal and promoted heavily by NBC News, appears to be a work of fiction created by Planned Parenthood abortionist and activist Samuel L. Dickman.

The report itself admits to being entirely based on conjecture, stating: “Because to our knowledge no recent reliable state-level data on completed vaginal rapes (forced and/or drug/alcohol–facilitated vaginal penetration) are available, we analyzed multiple data sources to estimate reported and unreported rapes in states with total abortion bans… We also estimated the number of resulting pregnancies based on findings from prior research on rape-related pregnancy rates.”

While claiming a staggering 520,000 rapes, the study’s authors admit this is effectively a guess, extrapolating from a 2016/17 self-reported Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study into National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS).

In Texas, the report estimated that 26,313 Texas women became pregnant over the past year. Data, however, suggests there were 16,510 rapes in total in the state in one year, let alone pregnancies resulting from rape. With Texas’s abortion ban coming into effect on July 24, 2022, the report’s authors would have the public believe that the number of rapes in Texas effectively doubled since 2020, and that every one of them resulted in a pregnancy.

The team that authored the report was headed by Samuel L. Dickman, the medical director of Planned Parenthood Montana and an outspoken abortion activist. In a June 2023 oped, Dickman wrote that “politicians [who have implemented abortion bans] have taken away patients’ freedom to choose their own medical care” and that “it will take all of us to address this public health crisis and restore, protect and expand abortion access for future generations.”

The NBC story was written by Megan Lebowitz, a recent intern with Chuck Todd, and “Meet the Press.”

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A shocking new report has claimed that nearly 520,000 rapes resulted in 64,565 pregnancies across 14 states with abortion bans. However, the research, published in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal and promoted heavily by NBC News, appears to be a work of fiction created by Planned Parenthood abortionist and activist Samuel L. Dickman. show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
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January 25, 2024
Ed Kozak
Health
News

Scientists Wants to STOP mRNA Vaccines as ‘Problems Increasingly Obvious.’

German chemistry professors have sent a letter to the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI), an agency of the German Federal Ministry of Health, writing that “the problems of mRNA-based vaccines are becoming increasingly obvious” and asking the institute to investigate such vaccines further and put a stop to them.

Citing a December 2023 report in Nature, which found unwanted proteins in patients who received modified mRNA vaccines (modRNA), the professors called on the PEI to “draw consequences from all of these listed facts and finally stop this modRNA technology.” The Nature study is “one of a series of worrying developments surrounding the approval of these modRNA substances,” they wrote.

The professors — Jörg Matysik, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig; Gerald Dyker, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum; Andreas Schnepf, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Tübingen; and Martin Winkler, Professor Materials and Process Engineering at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences — also authored a January 2022 letter to BioNTech founder Ugur Sahin requesting information about possible problems in the production process of Covid mRNA vaccines.

The mRNA vaccines used against COVID-19 are coming under increasing scrutiny. They have been linked to myocarditis, and a recent study by Turkish scientists discovered that the offspring of rats that received the Pfizer mRNA vaccine exhibited “autism-like” symptoms.

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German chemistry professors have sent a letter to the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI), an agency of the German Federal Ministry of Health, writing that "the problems of mRNA-based vaccines are becoming increasingly obvious" and asking the institute to investigate such vaccines further and put a stop to them. show more
January 24, 2024
William Upton
Corruption
Politics

AZ GOP Chairman Resigns After Kari Lake Bribery Recording.

Arizona Republican Party chairman Jeff DeWit resigned Wednesday following the release of an audio recording of his attempting to bribe Kari Lake to drop her bid for the U.S. Senate. In the recording, released Tuesday, DeWit informs Lake of financial benefits if she steps away from Arizona Republican politics for two years.  He also asks her if there is a dollar “number” for which she would end her Senate bid.

In his resignation letter, DeWit claimed Lake “selectively edited” the recording in a “deceptive” manner. He called the release of the audio a “betrayal of trust” and said he was merely “looking out for [Lake’s] financial interests.” According to DeWit, the conversation occurred while Lake worked for his company. He claims the recording and its release were “violation[s] of the fiduciary duties of an employee.”

DeWit said the secretly recorded conversation’s release was an “ethical breach” and “raises serious legal and moral concerns.” Arizona is a “one-party consent” state. Under state law, one may record a private conversation if they are party to and present for said discussion. It appears the recording and release of Lake’s conversation all fall perfectly within her rights under the law.

DeWit claims his resignation came only after being informed that additional recordings of his conversations with Lake existed. He claims he was told that the additional recordings would be released if he continued to remain in his role as GOP chairman.

 

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Arizona Republican Party chairman Jeff DeWit resigned Wednesday following the release of an audio recording of his attempting to bribe Kari Lake to drop her bid for the U.S. Senate. In the recording, released Tuesday, DeWit informs Lake of financial benefits if she steps away from Arizona Republican politics for two years.  He also asks her if there is a dollar "number" for which she would end her Senate bid. show more

Editor’s Notes

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
January 24, 2024
William Upton
News
Politics

The Democratic Socialists of America are Broke, In Debt, and Beginning Mass Layoffs.

Leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are admitting the far-left political organization is broke and running significant deficits — throwing the group’s future into question. DSA’s National Political Committee members acknowledged the group had seen a “decline in revenue, membership, and overall excitement” in an announcement to the organization’s Bread & Roses Caucus. Layoffs are being floated to solve the group’s fiscal situation.

$2 Million In The Hole.

Budget documents show the DSA is on track to incur $7 million in expenses for 2024, while the group only anticipates total revenue at $5 million. The organization’s Treasurer believes the group can buy itself another year to bring its books in order if it narrows its 2024 deficit to between $821,000 and $921,000. This still leaves a roughly $1.2 million gap that needs to be closed.

Layoffs Seen As The Only Way Out.

Taking a page from the corporate America playbook, the DSA is suggesting the organization adopts voluntary buy-outs for employees — beginning with non-union director-level staff but moving to unionized staff. Additionally, they say they believe the group should delay hiring a new executive director following the departure of Maria Svart.

Addressing concerns that laying off unionized staff runs counter to the DSA’s pro-union political stances, the leaders argue “the situation is more complicated for ‘movement staff’ — that is, staff for democratic membership organizations like unions, grassroots NGOs, and parties.” They contend that organizations governed by “members” have greater legitimacy in enacting layoffs over a business run by a singular CEO.

The DSA Is “Treading Water.”

The current political moment, the DSA leaders argue, should favor the far-left group. However, renewed labor strikes, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and President Joe Biden’s cratering support among voters haven’t translated to success for the DSA. Instead, the DSA leaders argue the group has “been treading water” and claim “[w]orking people are inspired to transform the world, but they are doing it elsewhere.”

While left-leaning political populism might be in decline, populism continues to surge on the American political right — with some caveats. Even some unions allied with Democrats are waking up to the change, with the Teamsters Union having recently sat down with former President Trump to discuss a shared vision.

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Leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are admitting the far-left political organization is broke and running significant deficits — throwing the group's future into question. DSA's National Political Committee members acknowledged the group had seen a "decline in revenue, membership, and overall excitement" in an announcement to the organization's Bread & Roses Caucus. Layoffs are being floated to solve the group's fiscal situation. show more
January 24, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
World

Pakistan Proves Mass Deportation is Possible as 500,000 Afghans Ejected in Just 4 Months.

Pakistan has removed half a million Afghans from its territory in just four months, with most of them self-deporting after the government in Islamabad threatened to arrest people without legal status en masse.

An estimated 1.7 million Afghans were living in Pakistan illegally before the authorities announced a November 1, 2023, deadline for illegals to leave or face arrest. Most of the Afghans who returned to their homeland did so before this deadline, but a steady stream of illegals who missed it are continuing to cross back.

“Since the initial peak around November 1, the number of individuals crossing these official border points have consistently decreased but remains higher than pre-September 15th,” said the United Nations Migration Agency, also known as the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Other Afghans were flown to Western countries such as the United Kingdom. The British government was paying the hotel bills of thousands of Afghans in Pakistan but began chartering flights to bring them to Britain in response to the Pakistani deportation order.

The UN has complained returning Afghans to their home country puts them “at risk of persecution” by the Taliban, but Islamabad says the deportations are necessary for national security.

Afghanistan is often used as a staging ground for terror attacks on Pakistan, and Afghans often lack proper identification.

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Pakistan has removed half a million Afghans from its territory in just four months, with most of them self-deporting after the government in Islamabad threatened to arrest people without legal status en masse. show more
January 24, 2024
Ed Kozak
Immigration
News
World

EU Border Chief Says ‘Nothing Can Stop’ Migrants – ‘No Wall, No Fence, No Sea, No River’.

Hans Leijtens, the recently appointed Executive Director of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency commonly known as Frontex — has proclaimed that borders don’t work, and that Europe should shift away from the “narrative” of “stopping people.”

“Nothing can stop people from crossing a border, no wall, no fence, no sea, no river,” said Leijtens, advocating for “more openness” towards migrants.

In reality, nations that have erected physical barriers have witnessed the almost total cessation of migrant invasions, including the United States under President Trump and Hungary under Viktor Orban.

Leijtens made the shocking comments during an interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. The former Commander of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, the Netherlands’ national gendarmerie force, Leijtens, has helmed Frontex since March 2023.

“This talk of ‘stopping people’ and ‘closing borders’ cannot be our narrative all the time. My job is to create a balance between effective border management and compliance with fundamental rights,” Leijtens told Die Welt.

The EU faces a massive migrant crisis, affecting nations across the bloc, including the UK, Ireland, and Italy. The crisis is driving an increasing number of Europeans to support populist and nationalist parties promising to tackle the crisis head-on, such as the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom (PVV), helmed by Geert Wilders, and Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD).

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Hans Leijtens, the recently appointed Executive Director of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency commonly known as Frontex — has proclaimed that borders don’t work, and that Europe should shift away from the "narrative" of "stopping people." show more
January 24, 2024
Election 2024
News
Politics

70% Haley Voters in New Hampshire Not Registered Republicans.

New Hampshire exit polling revealed that a significant percentage of voters who participated in the Republican primary in the Granite State were not Republicans, with the vast majority of non-Republican voters voting for Nikki ‘Nimarata’ Haley.

CNN exit polling found that approximately 70 percent of voters who supported Haley were not registered Republicans. Comparatively, 70 percent of voters for former President Donald Trump, who secured victory in the primary race after a record-setting win in the Iowa caucuses, were registered Republicans.

According to the same exit poll, 27 percent of Trump’s voters were registered as undeclared or independent, with only 3 percent unregistered before the vote. Only 27 percent of Haley’s voters were registered as Republicans.

NBC exit polling showed similar results, with Haley winning 60 percent of New Hampshire voters identifying as independent and 73 percent of those identifying as moderates.

Exit polling conducted by Edison Research found that just over half — 51 percent — of those who participated in the Republican primary in New Hampshire identified as Republicans — a 55 percent drop from 2016. Forty-three percent of those who participated in Tuesday’s primary identified as independents.

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New Hampshire exit polling revealed that a significant percentage of voters who participated in the Republican primary in the Granite State were not Republicans, with the vast majority of non-Republican voters voting for Nikki 'Nimarata' Haley. show more
January 24, 2024
William Upton
Immigration
News
Politics

Feds Blow Through $20 BILLION for ‘Refugee Assistance’ in Just 2 Years.

Joe Biden’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has blown through a whopping $20 billion in taxpayer dollars over the past two years. Overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the ORR is a program directed by the HSS subagency, the Administration for Children and Families.

A record number of illegal immigrants crossed the U.S. border in 2023 — with some estimates suggesting the Biden government knowingly released upwards of 100,000 illegals into the United States each month. The surge in crossings is reflected in Biden government appropriations, with refugee and entrant assistance costs rising from $8.925 billion in 2022 to $10.928 billion in 2023. Since Biden took office in January of 2021, it is believed over 10 million illegal immigrants have crossed into the U.S.

The ORR’s expanding budget has drawn additional scrutiny from watchdog groups. A dramatic upsurge in discretionary grant spending occurred between 2021 and 2023. In 2021 the ORR granted $33 million, but this figure rose to over $400 million in 2022 and escalated to over $600 million in 2023.

Concerns have been raised regarding potential conflicts of interest between ORR leadership and major grant recipients. ORR director Robin Dunn Marcos’s relationships with two nonprofit groups – among the agency’s top grantees – are attracting the interest of watchdogs and government ethics groups.

Before joining the ORR, Marcos spent twenty-three years with the International Rescue Committee‘s branch in Phoenix, Arizona, and four years with Church World Service. Both non-profits have received over $100 million in grant money from the ORR over the past decade.

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Joe Biden's Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has blown through a whopping $20 billion in taxpayer dollars over the past two years. Overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the ORR is a program directed by the HSS subagency, the Administration for Children and Families. show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
Nearly $5 billion for ORR was allocated through the emergency Continuing Resolution passed by Congress in 2022 under former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
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