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trump
September 6, 2023
News
Politics

Jack Smith, Letitia James Want Trump to Stop Defending Himself.

Department of Justice (DOJ) special prosecutor Jack Smith accused former President Donald Trump of making “daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool” in a Washington, D.C. court filing – in an apparent attempt to muzzle the 2024 presidential candidate. At the same time, New York Attorney General Letitia James wants Donald Trump, Eric Trump, and their lawyers fined tens of thousands of dollars for defending themselves against a civil fraud lawsuit she is pursuing, alleging their legal arguments are “frivolous”.

Former President Trump’s defense team is asking for two weeks to review and respond to Smith’s filing before details are made public on the court docket, with the DOJ team arguing that a delay for would “grind litigation in this case to a halt.” The two week response time for a defendant is standard court procedure.

Judge Chutkan asked that both the Trump legal team and Jack Smith submit additional briefs on whether to unseal the Smith filing by next week. The Trump legal team must have their briefs before Judge Chutkan on September 11th, and Smith by September 13th.

Meanwhile, the New York AG claims attorneys for the Trumps and their business associates should not be disputing whether she has standing to bring the case, insisting the question has already been settled. She wants the defendants and their lawyers fined $10,000 each for even trying to make their case.

James’s lawsuit aims to hit Trump’s business with a quarter of a billion dollars in sanctions and effectively prevent it from continuing to operate in the Empire State. The case has been pursued at considerable expense for years now, despite more serious issues such as rising felony assault and grand larceny auto offenses going unchecked.

Newly released data suggests it is almost impossible for Donald Trump to receive a fair trial in Washington, D.C., with two-thirds of residents polled in the nation’s capital say they believe Trump is guilty even though a trial has yet to begin.

Jack Montgomery and Will Upton contributed to this report.

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Department of Justice (DOJ) special prosecutor Jack Smith accused former President Donald Trump of making "daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool" in a Washington, D.C. court filing – in an apparent attempt to muzzle the 2024 presidential candidate. At the same time, New York Attorney General Letitia James wants Donald Trump, Eric Trump, and their lawyers fined tens of thousands of dollars for defending themselves against a civil fraud lawsuit she is pursuing, alleging their legal arguments are "frivolous". show more
tariffs
September 6, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

Trump Plans Baseline Tariff ‘Ring Around Economy’ and Massive Tax Cuts.

Former President Donald Trump is planning to introduce stronger protectionist trade tariffs, make deeper tax cuts, and reverse Joe Biden’s regulation policies if he is re-elected to the White House in January 2025, according to a recent Bloomberg report.

The 45th President has suggested retaliatory measures on countries such as India or Brazil if they decide to impose higher tariffs on American exports, a policy which he terms “reciprocity.” He also supports the idea of a “universal baseline tariff” – what he nicknames a “ring around the U.S. economy” – which would see an automatic ten percent tariff placed on imported goods, a move that is “freaking out” European Union diplomats.

Trump has been discussing the expansion of his successful first-term economic policies with a number of campaign aides in recent weeks, as well as former White House National Economic Council director Larry Ludlow and Heritage Foundation fellow Stephen Moore.

Moore has since argued that Trump should adopt a similar line of argument in the next election to that of Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter by asking the American people, “are you better off today than you were four years ago?”

“As a businessman, he understands that we are the biggest customer. Therefore, we have the most leverage if we are willing to use it,” stated former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Trump ally.

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Former President Donald Trump is planning to introduce stronger protectionist trade tariffs, make deeper tax cuts, and reverse Joe Biden's regulation policies if he is re-elected to the White House in January 2025, according to a recent Bloomberg report. show more
grant shapps
September 6, 2023
Jake Welch
News
UK

WATCH: New UK SecDef Doesn’t Know How Many Ranks There Are in the Army.

Grant Shapps, the newly appointed British Secretary of State for Defence, does not know how many ranks there are in the nation’s armed forces, requiring a news presenter to inform him on live television.

Shapps appeared on the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sky News on Wednesday morning, where he was asked by the presenter: “so here’s a question for you: do you know how many ranks there are in the [British] army?”

“Not off the top of my head,” Shapps responded before going on to suggest that it’s somehow uncommon for serving British Defense Ministers to have knowledge about their position: “It’s not usual in democracy where we actually pride ourselves on having civilians run all elements of government, including our military, to have people from military backgrounds.”

The presenter was forced to tell him the number was 12.

Shapps, elected to the British parliament as a “Tory modernizer,” first came to national attention after hiding the fact he used several pseudonyms to sell dodgy computer software while working as a Member of Parliament in the early 2010s.

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Grant Shapps, the newly appointed British Secretary of State for Defence, does not know how many ranks there are in the nation's armed forces, requiring a news presenter to inform him on live television. show more
germany
September 6, 2023
Jake Welch
Immigration
News
World

German Illegal Migration Soared to 15,000 in August.

The German federal police registered over 15,000 illegal migrants last month, representing around 500 people arriving every day, and the highest number since the beginning of the year and a whopping 40 percent increase compared to July.

More than 71,000 illegal migrants have arrived in Germany – a country half the size of Texas – this year. This trend has continued since 2022, in which just under 100,000 entered the country. Of the migrants entering illegally, Syrians, Afghans, and Turks comprise around 50 percent.

“We have been warning of this development for months. Nothing has happened so far. This behavior is irresponsible. States and municipalities are abandoned by the federal government,” argued Heiko Teggatz, chief of the German Federal Police Union.

“Nancy Faeser [Germany’s Federal Minister of the Interior and Community] is the only one who could curb illegal migration by introducing stationary border controls. But she obviously doesn’t even think about doing anything,” he added.

This is, however, only illegal migration. A staggering 2.67 million migrants arrived in Germany in 2022, the highest number since records began in the early 1950s. Yet, that has not deterred the government from announcing new migration agreements, which expedite the application process for people from Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kenya, and Morocco to move to Germany.

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The German federal police registered over 15,000 illegal migrants last month, representing around 500 people arriving every day, and the highest number since the beginning of the year and a whopping 40 percent increase compared to July. show more
trump schedule f
September 6, 2023
William Upton
Media
News

Trump Staffing His Own Govt is ‘Extremist, Dark Right Conspiracy’, Claims ‘Journalist’.

The far-left Salon.com website has published an alarmist article slamming President Donald Trump’s plan to replace 50,000+ federal workers, calling the move to staff the government a “conspiracy” while implicating the center-right Heritage Foundation think-tank in what it calls a “dark right-wing network”.

In reality, the idea of the President of the United States picking his own federal workforce instead of relying on the established “deep state” is hardly controversial, though Trump’s plans go further than previous presidents.

Areeba Shah – the author of the Salon.com piece – cites supposed “democracy experts” who point to Heritage’s Project 2025 plan as “…an authoritarian attempt to seize power by filling the federal government… with unwavering Trump supporters, which could potentially erode the country’s system of checks and balances.”

The reality couldn’t be more bland. Heritage is a fairly mundane D.C. think-tank, with no “extremist” tendencies, as Shah claims.

Government bureaucrats, however, are “important bulwarks of democracy,” according to Shah, who is a recent graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. In her own words, Areeba Shah’s job as a ‘journalist’ is to “…focus on far-right extremism,” adding, “as a reporter committed to examining issues through an equity lens, my work often highlights issues impacting historically marginalized communities.”

Prior to joining Salon, Shah worked for the far-left Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which brags on their website that: “On Donald Trump’s first full day in the Oval Office, CREW sued him for violating the Emoluments Clauses.” Their newest project is to try and bar Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot for violating the 14th Amendment.

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The far-left Salon.com website has published an alarmist article slamming President Donald Trump's plan to replace 50,000+ federal workers, calling the move to staff the government a "conspiracy" while implicating the center-right Heritage Foundation think-tank in what it calls a "dark right-wing network". show more
schools mask mandates
September 6, 2023
William Upton
Health
News

DC-Area School Brings Back Mask Mandates.

The Rosemary Hills Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland – an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C. – is telling parents that a mask mandate will be in effect for several classes impacted by exposure to three individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19. The masking mandate will last for 10 days, except when students are eating or drinking, according to the school.

Numerous studies have shown that pandemic mask mandates for children at school have caused developmental delays. The Speech and Learning Institute in North Palm Beach, Florida saw a 364 percent increase in adolescent patients struggling with speech development during the pandemic. A study from Spain suggests the learning loss caused by pandemic restrictions were mostly in vain as the use of “[Face Covering Masks] in schools showed no significant differences in terms of transmission.”

With summer vacation coming to a close, parents and students alike face growing concerns that school districts around the country will return to pandemic era mask and vaccine mandates as occasional COVID-19 infections occur. Last week, The National Pulse reported that a high school in Palm Beach County, Florida postponed a Friday night football game “out of an abundance of caution” in response to what they say was an outbreak of COVID-19.

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The Rosemary Hills Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland – an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C. – is telling parents that a mask mandate will be in effect for several classes impacted by exposure to three individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19. The masking mandate will last for 10 days, except when students are eating or drinking, according to the school. show more
Disbanded Police
September 6, 2023
News

521 U.S. Towns Have Disbanded Police in Recent Decades.

“At least” 521 U.S. towns or cities have disbanded their police forces since 1972, according to Rice University Professor of Economics Richard T. Boylan, with the Associated Press (AP) claiming that “[g]enerally, crime rates were unchanged in towns that dropped their departments,” and arguing “[l]eaders of several towns said they’ve been happy with the change.”

But the Rice University study also states that when local police departments are disbanded it “…reduces the available information about cities’ crimes” making accurate reporting difficult. While crime rates may appear unchanged, the data itself is less reliable than prior to departmental closures.

Additionally, the study found that: “…disbanding police departments is associated with an increase in county sheriffs spending which offsets the city savings.”

“In the past two years, at least 12 small towns have dissolved their departments,” the AP reports, with Goodhue County (MN) Sheriff Marty Kelly calling the subject “scary,” and adding: “We are robbing Peter to pay Paul. And we’re not alone.”

At the heart of the problem is the exodus from law enforcement. Officer resignations were up 47% last year compared to 2019 — the year before the pandemic and Floyd’s killing — and retirements are up 19%. That’s all according to a survey of nearly 200 police agencies by the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington, DC.-based think tank.

While anti-police activists and the corporate media champions such changes, residents aren’t as keen.

Ron Goebel, a retired accountant in Goodhue, told the AP: “People can kind of watch out for each other a little bit. We pretty much know our neighbors… [but as] you lose your schools, you lose your businesses and you lose your police force, how much longer can the town actually be viable as a town?”

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"At least" 521 U.S. towns or cities have disbanded their police forces since 1972, according to Rice University Professor of Economics Richard T. Boylan, with the Associated Press (AP) claiming that "[g]enerally, crime rates were unchanged in towns that dropped their departments," and arguing "[l]eaders of several towns said they've been happy with the change." show more
Ukrainians
September 6, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
World

STUDY: Millions of Fled Ukrainians May Never Return.

The number of Ukrainians living abroad as refugees is increasing, and just 63 percent plan to return to their home country, placing the country’s economic and demographic future in jeopardy.

Research by the Centre for Economic Strategy (CES) puts the number of Ukrainian refugees who may never go home around 3.3 million, approaching a tenth of the pre-war population. The total number of Ukrainians living abroad as of the end of June 2023 is estimated at 5.6-6.7 million, up from 5.3-6.2 million people as of the end of 2022.

The CES attributes the increase in part to to Russian strategic missile strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure last winter and the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in June, which flooded swathes of southern Ukraine.

The longer the war drags on, the more refugees are being integrated into their host countries, and the less likely they are to return to a war-torn and corruption-riddled homeland. President Zelensky’s government has expressed concerns over “losing our workforce” to nations like Germany.

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The number of Ukrainians living abroad as refugees is increasing, and just 63 percent plan to return to their home country, placing the country's economic and demographic future in jeopardy. show more
sweden quran burning
September 6, 2023
Jake Welch
News
World

Riots Rage Amidst Quran Burning Protests.

Violent riots were sparked in the Swedish city of Malmö on this week after an anti-Islamic activist publicly burned a copy of the Quran, requiring dozens of police officers to quell the unrest.

Swedish authorities said they were pelted with rocks by the rioters, who also set dozens of cars and an underground garage on fire. Crowds of predominantly young men in the notorious Rosengård district of Sweden’s third-largest city also burned tires and debris and threw electric scooters, bicycles, and barriers at the police. Several rioters were arrested as a result.

The burning was staged by Salwan Momika, a former Christian Iraqi refugee who has staged several similar protests throughout the country in recent months.

“I understand that a public gathering like this arouses strong emotions, but we cannot tolerate disturbances and violent expressions like those we saw on Sunday afternoon,” stated Petra Stenkula, a senior police officer.

“Regardless of the reason behind these riots, the car fires, the harassment, violence against police officers… regardless of the reason, I think that all Swedes find this completely unacceptable,” announced Swedish Prime Minister Elf Kristersson.

Sweden has come under intense pressure from Muslim countries to ban public burnings of the Quran, with Turkish President Recep Erdogan even threatening to stall the country’s admission into NATO such acts continue.

Denmark recently caved into similar demands and announced it will impose Islamic blasphemy laws on its citizens.

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Violent riots were sparked in the Swedish city of Malmö on this week after an anti-Islamic activist publicly burned a copy of the Quran, requiring dozens of police officers to quell the unrest. show more
congress
September 6, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

House, Senate GOP at Odds Over Expiring Funding For Deep State.

Members of Congress returned to Washington, D.C. this week with only sixteen legislative days to pass a temporary budget fix to avert a government shutdown on October 1st, when the new fiscal year begins. Congress is not expected to pass any of the twelve massive budget appropriations bills before government funding runs out; with the House and Senate instead expected to take up a Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the government funded while negotiations continue.

The House Freedom Caucus, comprising upwards of a quarter of the House Republican majority, is doubling down on calls for a return to pre-COVID spending levels in exchange for supporting Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his stop-gap funding measure. Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), a Freedom Caucus member, posted more expansive demands on X, stating:

“Gov’t funding hinges on whether or not the Establishment will continue bankrolling open borders, weaponized agencies, a woke Pentagon, & an escalation of the war in Ukraine.”

– Rep. Eli Crane, September 2023.

Senate Republicans appear at odds with their House colleagues, with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) posting: “The federal government will shut down in less than a month unless a funding bill is passed by Sept. 30. That’s only 16 legislative days away (and even fewer for the House) under the current schedule. The House and Senate are in completely different universes when it comes to how lawmakers should fund federal agencies in both the short and long term.”

Cornyn is a rumored successor to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) whose struggles during several recent public appearances have sparked fresh health and leadership concerns.

Stephen Miller, a senior advisor to former President Donald Trump, called the funding fight, “…the most important legislative battle of the Biden presidency,” adding that if rank-and-file Republicans dig in and refuse to pass the blanket short-term funding bill, “…the Deep State expires at midnight on September 30th. After that, it’s up to Congress to decide which salaries, programs and activities to fund.”

Negotiations over the Continuing Resolution are expected to take up much – if not all – of September, while the remainder of the legislative session will be dominated by the 12 budget appropriations bills that will fund the government in its entirety for the next fiscal year.

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Members of Congress returned to Washington, D.C. this week with only sixteen legislative days to pass a temporary budget fix to avert a government shutdown on October 1st, when the new fiscal year begins. Congress is not expected to pass any of the twelve massive budget appropriations bills before government funding runs out; with the House and Senate instead expected to take up a Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the government funded while negotiations continue. show more