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June 14, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Crime
Culture

Now NY Wants to BAN Masks on Public Transport. But Look Who’ll Be Exempt…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is considering a partial ban on masks in the New York City subway system. The Democrat admits anti-Semitic protesters and criminals are using them to conceal their identities during illegal activities. This follows recent legislative actions in North Carolina, where lawmakers passed a ban on masks in public places, with exceptions for medical reasons. The North Carolina measure increases penalties for individuals wearing masks while committing crimes.

During a news conference, Hochul claimed she would “not tolerate individuals using masks to evade responsibility for criminal or threatening behavior.” She did not provide specific details about the prospective ban but said there would be exceptions for health, cultural, and religious reasons—meaning Muslims wearing face veils would be exempt.

The concept of banning masks in public is not new in New York. The state enacted a mask ban in the 1800s amidst violent protests, suspended in 2020 by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is backing Hochul’s proposed ban. Adams previously advocated for shopkeepers to require customers to remove masks upon entering their stores, to make thieves and other criminals easier to identify.

“Cowards hide their faces. Dr. [Martin Luther] King did not hide his face,” Adams said.

On Monday, masked protesters chanted anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler slogans on the New York subway. It is unclear whether those involved would be impacted by a subway mask ban, however, as the Palestinian keffiyehs and Islamic veils they wore would likely fall under the “cutural” and “religious” exceptions Hochul referenced.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul is considering a partial ban on masks in the New York City subway system. The Democrat admits anti-Semitic protesters and criminals are using them to conceal their identities during illegal activities. This follows recent legislative actions in North Carolina, where lawmakers passed a ban on masks in public places, with exceptions for medical reasons. The North Carolina measure increases penalties for individuals wearing masks while committing crimes. show more
June 14, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
War
World

So Who’s Going to Rebuild Ukraine? You Guessed It… Migrants!

The neoliberal oligarchy hopes to reap profits from the aftermath of the Ukraine war by reconstructing with Middle Eastern, sub-Saharan, and South Asian migrant labor, believes Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse.

“They’ve created two major problems,” Kassam explained. “One being Ukraine and the war… the other being mass migration… So they find a solution to both of those problems: the idea of mass importation of people from South Asia, from the Arab world, and from sub-Saharan Africa into Ukraine.”

Kassam noted that Western politicians and corporations are already “divvying up” the reconstruction process despite the fact that “the war hasn’t ended, and they keep telling us that the end of the war isn’t in sight.”

“At the same time, you’ve got all these big, corporate, multinational American companies going out there and saying we want a piece of this, we want a piece of that,” he continued.

The corporations will not be going to “old boys” in Alabama or Arkansas for workers, he believes, but will resort to “cheap migrant labor,” who will be rewarded for their efforts with European citizenship. Kassam has previously predicted Ukraine will become the “first African nation in Europe.”

The National Pulse chief believes there has been a firm shift on Ukraine at Mar-a-Lago, however, with Donald Trump telling Republicans on Capitol Hill the Ukrainians are “never going to be there for us” and arguing “we should pay our own troops more” instead of funding Volodymyr Zelensky’s military.

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The neoliberal oligarchy hopes to reap profits from the aftermath of the Ukraine war by reconstructing with Middle Eastern, sub-Saharan, and South Asian migrant labor, believes Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse. show more
June 14, 2024
Corruption
Lawfare

Hunter Biden Drops Laptop Lawsuit Against Rudy Giuliani.

Hunter Biden is dropping his lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani’s former lawyer, Robert Costello. The lawsuit accused the defendants of manipulating data on Hunter’s “laptop from hell.” Jurors recently convicted Hunter of three felony counts for lying about his drug abuse when purchasing a firearm in 2018, with prosecutors using evidence from the laptop to support their case.

Abbe Lowell, representing Hunter Biden, filed a stipulation for dismissal “without prejudice” on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The stipulation requires each party to bear its attorneys’ fees, costs, and other expenses. Attorneys for all involved parties have accepted the dismissal agreement.

Hunter abandoned the laptop at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware. Shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac initially turned the laptop’s hard drive over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and made a copy, which was later provided to Costello. Giuliani subsequently supplied the data to the media.

The Democrats and their allies worked hard to suppress the laptop, with social media platforms censoring the story and 51 members of the “intelligence community” publishing a letter claiming it appeared to be disinformation. The signatories to the letter have refused to retract these claims despite the fact they have proven false.

Initially filed in September of the previous year, Hunter Biden’s lawsuit sought more than $75,000 in damages in addition to attorneys’ fees and other penalties. The case alleged that Giuliani and Costello had violated the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by hacking and manipulating data from the laptop, amounting to an invasion of Hunter Biden’s digital privacy.

Joe Sibley, Giuliani’s attorney, asserted that the dismissal vindicates his client, Costello, and media outlets that previously faced criticism for reporting on the laptop’s contents in 2020.

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Hunter Biden is dropping his lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani's former lawyer, Robert Costello. The lawsuit accused the defendants of manipulating data on Hunter's "laptop from hell." Jurors recently convicted Hunter of three felony counts for lying about his drug abuse when purchasing a firearm in 2018, with prosecutors using evidence from the laptop to support their case. show more
June 13, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Corruption
News

Biden’s ‘Transparent’ DOJ Redacted EVERY PAGE of Interview Transcript.

Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has found the transcript of Joe Biden ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer‘s interview with federal investigators is so heavily redacted that it is almost incomprehensible. Speaking to Stephen K. Bannon on War Room, Kassam told viewers there is “a redaction on every single page” of the document.

“I want to show the camera what we’re dealing with here,” Kassam said, showing an “average page from the released transcript” almost completely blacked out.

“It’s way more than a third that’s redacted here,” Kassam said, estimating 60 to 65 percent of the transcript was obscured.

Following a lawsuit by the Oversight Project, Joe Biden’s Justice Department was ordered to release a transcript of Zwonitzer’s interview. The interview informed the Hur Report on Biden’s mishandling of classified information.

However, some revealing information slipped through the censorship process. The National Pulse found that the ghostwriter had admitted to deleting numerous audio records of interviews with Biden after learning he was being investigated.

“The outside observer is going to look at this and say ‘Mark Zwonitzer, President Biden‘s friend, ghostwriter, collaborator learned of the special counsel’s investigation, saw this happening and then deleted all these audio recordings,’” an investigator said to Zwonitzer.

“I’m not going to say how much of the percentage it was of my motivation,” Zwonitzer replied.

Special counsel Robert Hur weighed charging Zwonitzer with obstruction of justice but ultimately decided neither he nor Biden should be prosecuted.

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Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has found the transcript of Joe Biden ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer's interview with federal investigators is so heavily redacted that it is almost incomprehensible. Speaking to Stephen K. Bannon on War Room, Kassam told viewers there is "a redaction on every single page" of the document. show more
June 13, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare

Young Thug Rapper Trial Chaos Suggests Fani Willis’s Ethical Lapses Go Well Beyond Trump Prosecution.

The ethical lapses in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis‘s office go far beyond the impropriety of appointing her lover, Nathan Wade, as a special prosecutor on her RICO case against former President Donald J. Trump. New questions of legal ethics violations have arisen in another of Willis’s high-profile prosecutions, with the attempted jailing of defense attorney Brian Steel, who is representing rapper Young Thug.

Earlier this week, Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville held Steel in contempt of court after the defense attorney revealed he was made aware that the judge had held an ex parte meeting with prosecutors in Willis‘s office and one of their star witnesses. Citing the meeting, Steel moved for a mistrial in Willis’s prosecution of the Grammy Award-winning rapper and 27 others for gang-related crimes.

Instead of granting the motion, Glanville demanded that Steel break attorney-client privilege and reveal who disclosed the ex parte meeting to him. Steel refused, resulting in the contempt order.

WHAT IS WONG WITH FULTON COUNTY?

Ex parte—a legal term meaning decisions are made without all parties present—meetings, like the one involving Glanville and prosecutors, are often considered improper in a trial setting. Ethical rules typically bar an attorney from meeting with a judge or witness without legal representatives from the other party being also present.

Complicating matters, Judge Glanville on Wednesday ordered prosecutors from Willis‘s office, along with witness Kenneth Copeland and his Kayla Bumpus, to appear at a June 25 hearing to determine whether they should also be held in contempt. The judge indicated he believes one of these three parties disclosed the ex parte meeting to Steel.

Even before the most recent ethical controversy, Willis‘s prosecution of Young Thug was mired in accusations of sloppiness, which caused extensive delays in the case. The degree of impropriety by the District Attorney’s office and Judge Glanville echoes the ethical breaches that have plagued Willis’s RICO prosecution of former President Trump.

FANI’S TRUMP TROUBLES.

In March, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ordered that either Willis or special prosecutor Nathan Wade would have to resign from the Trump production. The order came after extensive evidence was presented showing that Willis and Wade had engaged in a romantic relationship prior to the latter’s appointment as a special prosecutor on the case. Wade subsequently resigned from the District Attorney’s office.

Despite initially denying the accusations of impropriety due to her relationship with Wade, Willis eventually acknowledged that he was her lover—though both have disputed the timeline as to when they became involved. With Wade’s resignation, Willis has been allowed to remain as the prosecutor in the RICO case.

However, attorneys representing former President Trump and several of his co-defendants have appealed McAfee’s ruling. Last week, the Georgia Court of Appeals put Willis’s prosecution of Trump on hold until after the 2024 presidential election as they weigh whether the District Attorney should be disqualified from the case.

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The ethical lapses in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's office go far beyond the impropriety of appointing her lover, Nathan Wade, as a special prosecutor on her RICO case against former President Donald J. Trump. New questions of legal ethics violations have arisen in another of Willis's high-profile prosecutions, with the attempted jailing of defense attorney Brian Steel, who is representing rapper Young Thug. show more
June 13, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare

WATCH: Shock Moment Fani Willis’s Nathan Wade is ‘Signaled’ During Live CNN Interview.

Former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade—who carried on a workplace romance with his boss, District Attorney Fani Willis—shockingly got up in the midst of a live CNN interview after being “signaled” by his attorney. The interruption occurred as anchor Kaitlan Collins pressed Wade for specifics regarding his affair with Willis.

“To… to say that, okay, these… these exact dates are… are… are at issue, and these exact dates are…” Wade said while nervously swaying and glancing about. As he began to trail off, the former Fulton County special prosecutor abruptly told Collins, while turning his attention to an individual off-camera, “I’m getting, I’m getting signaled here.”

At this point, Wade removes his microphone and steps away from Collins to consult with an individual who appears to be his attorney. The CNN cameras continue to roll while Wade and his associate huddle in a corner of the room—the content of their discussion, however, is inaudible.

After nearly half a minute, Wade returned to the interview set with Collins, asking: “Everything okay?” The CNN anchor pressed again as to when Wade’s relationship with Willis began; this time, however, the former special prosecutor delivered a deflective answer stating: “I believe the public has, through the testimony and other interviews, the public has a clear snapshot that this is just a distraction.”

Wade dismissed the matter of his relationship with Willis as being “irrelevant” to the District Attorney’s RICO prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump and over a dozen other individuals for allegedly interfering in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. In March, Judge Scott McAfee forced Wade to resign from the prosecution due to the “appearance of impropriety” regarding his relationship with Willis.

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Former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade—who carried on a workplace romance with his boss, District Attorney Fani Willis—shockingly got up in the midst of a live CNN interview after being "signaled" by his attorney. The interruption occurred as anchor Kaitlan Collins pressed Wade for specifics regarding his affair with Willis. show more
June 13, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare

Here’s How GOP Leadership Can Keep Bannon Out of Jail… If They Want To.

House Republican leadership can use a little-known congressional mechanism to render the contempt of Congress charges against former Trump advisors Stephen K. Bannon and Peter Navarro moot. Speaker Mike Jonnson (R-LA) can use the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) to file an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declaring that the Democrat-run January 6 Committee was improperly constituted and thus had no subpoena authority.

This argument was first advanced by Bannon’s lawyer, David Schoen, and expanded on by Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz in an appearance on Tim Pool this week.

“I believe the only way Steve Bannon does not go to jail is if there is a vote at an entity called the BLAG—the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group,” Gaetz said, adding: “It is made up of the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader, the Majority Whip, the Minority Leader, and the Minority Whip. So the Republicans hold a three-two in this.”

“Bannon is going to petition for an en banc review of this determination to revoke his bail. When he does, I believe the BLAG should—and will—take a three to two vote for the House to seek to leave to file an amicus brief with the en banc court that the January 6 Committee was illegitimate,” the Flordia Republican added.

IMPROPERLY CONSTITUTED.

The BLAG is a non-legislative committee within Congress that directs the actions of the House Office of General Counsel.

House Republican leadership can use the BLAG to direct the General Counsel to file a brief with the appeals court stating that the House believes the January 6 Committee was improperly constituted by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, among others, contends the January 6 Committee was constituted in violation of Section 2(a) of its authorizing resolution. The provision in question states: “Appointment of Members—The Speaker shall appoint 13 Members to the Select Committee, 5 of whom shall be appointed after consultation with the minority leader.”  However, Pelosi rejected the slate of committee members proposed by then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), with the committee ultimately only being comprised of nine members instead of the 13 required in its authorizing resolution.

An amicus brief laying out this argument from the House Office of General Counsel would be difficult for the federal appeals judges to ignore. Still, the move isn’t guaranteed to work—as the appeals court can ignore or disagree with the House counsel’s determination.

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House Republican leadership can use a little-known congressional mechanism to render the contempt of Congress charges against former Trump advisors Stephen K. Bannon and Peter Navarro moot. Speaker Mike Jonnson (R-LA) can use the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) to file an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declaring that the Democrat-run January 6 Committee was improperly constituted and thus had no subpoena authority. show more

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June 13, 2024
Immigration

Chicago Homelessness Surges Amid Migrant Crisis.

Homelessness in Chicago has surged dramatically within the past year, reflecting a broader crisis rooted in continued economic challenges and a flood of migrants arriving from the southern border. According to the city’s annual snapshot, the number of homeless individuals has increased by 200 percent, rising from 6,139 in 2023 to 18,836 in 2024.

A significant portion of this increase comes from 13,679 “sheltered new arrivals” and 212 “unsheltered new arrivals.” The latter represents a 960 percent jump from last year’s count of 20. Additionally, 1,422 “unsheltered non-new arrivals” and 3,523 “sheltered non-new arrivals” were documented. Notably, almost 30 percent of the homeless population comprises children under 18.

The rise in homelessness coincides with the arrival of buses of migrants sent from Texas amid the Biden government’s border crisis. Chicago officials, including Maura McCauley from the Department of Family and Support Services, report efforts to resettle over 43,000 migrants.

McCauley cited the end of pandemic-era support measures and increasing housing costs as contributing factors. “We anticipated this increase and expanded our shelter capacity fivefold. Without these measures, the situation could have been unprecedented and tragic,” McCauley said.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has been a focal point of criticism due to the crisis. Community frustrations boiled over in April when Johnson proposed allocating $70 million to migrant care. Meanwhile, Johnson’s administration has imposed a 60-day limit for migrant stays in city shelters. However, officials do not foresee a mass exodus from shelters, citing staggered exit dates and residents possibly re-entering temporary shelters if necessary.

Despite public anger, Johnson continues to defend the city’s sanctuary policies. Tensions remain high as citizens demand more resources for local communities and transparency around city expenditures.

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Homelessness in Chicago has surged dramatically within the past year, reflecting a broader crisis rooted in continued economic challenges and a flood of migrants arriving from the southern border. According to the city’s annual snapshot, the number of homeless individuals has increased by 200 percent, rising from 6,139 in 2023 to 18,836 in 2024. show more
June 13, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
UK

SHOCK DATA: 2 in 3 Brexit Voters REFUSE to Vote for UK Conservative Party.

Just one in three Brexit voters intend to vote for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative (Tory) Party in the July 4 snap election. Poll data also shows only 47 percent of the governing party’s 2019 voters intend to vote for them again.

In 2019, the Conservatives under Boris Johnson won their fourth general election in a row, with their biggest majority since the 1980s. They achieved this on a pledge to ‘Get Brexit Done’ and reduce immigration, but Brexit was only partially delivered, and immigration greatly increased. This support appears to have collapsed, with polling conducted by Professor Matt Goodwin on June 12 showing the opposition Labour Party leads them by 20 points.

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party is within two points of the Tories nationally, which Goodwin notes is “within the margin of error.” Separate polling shows a gap of just one point. When voters are asked who they would prefer to be running the country post-election, Farage and Reform outpace Sunak’s party.

Over a quarter of the Conservatives’ 2019 voters have switched to Reform, and one in three Brexit voters. When specific demographics are considered, Farage is preferred to Sunak among the Conservatives’ 2019 voters, Brexit voters, working-class voters, Northern English voters, and men.

Farage has outlined a plan to take over the Conservatives post-election by outcompeting them, forcing a merger between the dying right-establishment party. He cites the example of former Canadian premier Stephen Harper’s Reform Party, which absorbed the establishment Progressive Conservative Party into a new formation after rendering it electorally unviable.

HOLLOW SUPPORT. 

Despite being on course to win an unprecedented parliamentary super-majority, Goodwin’s research suggests the Labour Party’s support is still relatively soft.

The leftist party ranks first overall in terms of who voters want to see running the country after the election, but its support stands at just 22 percent, behind ‘None of the Above.’

The July election will be the first British general election in which photographic identification will be required for in-person voting. However, mail-in voting on demand remains in place, leaving the system vulnerable.

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Just one in three Brexit voters intend to vote for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative (Tory) Party in the July 4 snap election. Poll data also shows only 47 percent of the governing party's 2019 voters intend to vote for them again. show more
June 13, 2024
William Upton
Media

Data Reveals New York Times ‘Bestseller List’ is EXTREMELY Partisan.

A study by The Economist has found that The New York Times‘s bestseller book list is biased against conservative authors. The study found that books authored by conservatives were at least seven percent less likely to make the newspaper’s weekly bestseller list. However, the analysis excluded household right-wing names in nonfiction like Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, who have generally made the list—meaning less known names in conservative political publishing are most impacted.

The study also found that conservative books that make the bestseller list “…rank 2.3 notches lower on the nonfiction list, on average, than those published by other presses with similar sales… .” Low-volume conservative publishers—whose books sell less than 5,000 copies a week—were found to have a much less likely chance of having titles make the list than non-conservative publishers.

In 2017, conservative publisher Regnery stopped communicating its sales data with the New York Times after finding it editorialized its list in order to exclude conservative authors Dinesh D’Souza and Raheem Kassam (the latter now the Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse).

Responding to the study, The New York Times disputed the allegations of bias. “The political views of authors or their publishers have absolutely no bearing on our rankings and are not a factor in how books are ranked on the lists,” the newspaper said. It added: “There are a number of organizations with bestseller lists, each with different methodologies, so it is normal to see different rankings on each.”

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A study by The Economist has found that The New York Times's bestseller book list is biased against conservative authors. The study found that books authored by conservatives were at least seven percent less likely to make the newspaper's weekly bestseller list. However, the analysis excluded household right-wing names in nonfiction like Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck, who have generally made the list—meaning less known names in conservative political publishing are most impacted. show more