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September 12, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics
TECH

WATCH: Democrat House Hopeful Demanded $$$ for Live Sex Acts.

Susanna Gibson, a Democrat candidate in a highly contested race for the Virginia House of Delegates, spent her spare time demanding payment for livestreamed sex acts with her husband on the internet. The mother of two and nurse practitioner is reported to have performed the sex acts on the website Chaturbate, where she had more than 5,700 followers. She told viewers she was “raising money for a good cause” in at least two of the explicit videos.

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The candidate’s lawyer, Daniel P. Watkins, says they are working with law enforcement and that the dissemination of the explicit videos violates Virginia law which states: “Any person who, with the intent to coerce, harass, or intimidate, maliciously disseminates or sells…” explicit images or videos “…where such person knows or has reason to know that he is not licensed or authorized to disseminate or sell such…” explicit images or videos “…is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.”

At least one individual doesn’t see a problem with Gibson’s secondary career. Adult entertainment industry lawyer, Corey D. Silverstein, responded to the incident saying, “I think it’s fantastic you have someone running who has an open sex life. It’s actually very refreshing.”

Control over the Virginia House of Delegates, the commonwealth’s lower legislative body, will be decided in this November in what is expected to be close election. The Republican Governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, has built a sizable war chest to help ensure Republicans maintain control of the House and hopes to flip the State Senate, ending the current slim Democrat majority.

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Susanna Gibson, a Democrat candidate in a highly contested race for the Virginia House of Delegates, spent her spare time demanding payment for livestreamed sex acts with her husband on the internet. The mother of two and nurse practitioner is reported to have performed the sex acts on the website Chaturbate, where she had more than 5,700 followers. She told viewers she was "raising money for a good cause” in at least two of the explicit videos. show more
September 11, 2023
Jake Welch
Immigration
News
World

Council Removes Nude Lady Statue for Fear of Offending Migrants.

Authorities have requested the removal of a sculpture depicting a naked woman situated outside an asylum center in Germany, with critics arguing they did so over fear of causing offense to the 140 migrants set to move in on Friday.

A spokeswoman for the council stated the sculpture – called “The Sinner” and first installed in 1976 – “has left its usual place and is now situated in the courtyard of a large office complex,” adding that the decision was made to increase space in the area for further development.

The chairman of the centrist FDP party in Saxony, Holger Zastrow, contested the local council’s explanation, however, claiming that “art is banished from public space to the backyard because of assumed sensitivities… This is not acceptable. I demand of the administration that the sculpture be returned to its ancestral place.”

The resulting backlash has already caused the council to re-evaluate the plans, with the Lord Mayor of Dresden, Dirk Hilbert, admitting there was no planning for the decision nor financial resources to redevelop the area outside the center.

The asylum center expects to eventually house up to 280 migrants at a cost of €432,000 ($463,443) a year to local taxpayers, with Dresden’s construction mayor Stephan Kuhn admitting about the facilities, “We are housing only men here — from Afghanistan, Syria, and Venezuela.”

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Authorities have requested the removal of a sculpture depicting a naked woman situated outside an asylum center in Germany, with critics arguing they did so over fear of causing offense to the 140 migrants set to move in on Friday. show more
September 11, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News
TECH

Musk ‘Driven By Demons’ Says Official Biographer.

Walter Isaacson, the official biographer of Elon Musk, claims the “X” (formerly Twitter) owner has a “demon mode” which enables him to deal with the “maniacal intensity” of running six different companies and having almost one dozen children with three different mothers.

Isaacson, asked about Musk’s childhood and early relationships, told an interviewer: “He had a very tough childhood. He learned how to deal with pain, and he learned to love drama that his father instilled in him. He was bullied as a child, and his father sided with the bullies.”

“So, throughout his life Musk has had these dark demons. Sometimes great people have dark demons in their head, and they’re able to channel those demons to become driven,” Isaacson added.

“He is driven by demons,” the biographer of Steve Jobs and Henry Kissinger told the Financial Times.

Isaacson’s new book – out Tuesday – has already caused a stir with claims that Musk “put lives at risk” after he allegedly limited Ukraine’s Starlink to prevent an attack off the coast of Crimea in 2022. Musk says he made the decision to avoid complicity “in a major act of war.”

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Walter Isaacson, the official biographer of Elon Musk, claims the "X" (formerly Twitter) owner has a "demon mode" which enables him to deal with the "maniacal intensity" of running six different companies and having almost one dozen children with three different mothers. show more
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September 11, 2023
William Upton
News

BREAKING: Biden Releases Iranian Agents AND $6bn to Islamic Republic on 9/11.

The United States has agreed to swap prisoners with the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as releasing $6 billion in previously frozen funds. A blanket waiver, issued by President Joe Biden’s State Department on September 11th, will allow international banks in South Korea to transfer $6 billion to Qatar’s central bank for Iran’s use without triggering U.S. sanctions. Congress was informed of the deal on Monday, despite Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly having signed off on the agreement last week.

The five Iranian prisoners held by the U.S. to be swapped are reported to be: Mehrdad Moein Ansari, Kambiz Attar Kashani, Reza Sarhangpour Kafrani, Amin Hassanzadeh, Kaveh Afrasiabi.

Kambiz Attar Kashani and Reza Sarhangpour Kafrani were imprisoned “…for conspiring to illegally export U.S. goods and technology to end users in Iran…” in violation of U.S. sanctions according to the Department of Justice. Kaveh Afrasiabi was arrested for acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Iran, having lobbied both Congress and the State Department for policies favorable to the Islamic Republic. Michigan resident Amin Hasanzadeh was imprisoned for stealing a U.S. company’s trade secrets and conspiring to share them with the Iranian military through his brother who still resides in Iran. Mehrdad Ansari was also imprisoned over a scheme to circumvent U.S. sanctions.

At this time it is unclear what, or who, the U.S. will receive from the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of the agreement.

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The United States has agreed to swap prisoners with the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as releasing $6 billion in previously frozen funds. A blanket waiver, issued by President Joe Biden's State Department on September 11th, will allow international banks in South Korea to transfer $6 billion to Qatar's central bank for Iran's use without triggering U.S. sanctions. Congress was informed of the deal on Monday, despite Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly having signed off on the agreement last week. show more
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September 11, 2023
William Upton
News

WEIRD: Watch Biden Smooch John McCain Memorial.

President Joe Biden made a bizarre display in front of gathered media in Vietnam when he leaned in and gave a memorial dedicated to Senator John McCain a long, kiss. Biden made the stop while en route back to the United States following his appearance at the G20 summit in India.

The kissing incident caps off a series of bizarre moments during Biden’s overseas trip. While giving a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, Biden in a moment of confusion shuffled through is notes saying, “I’ll just follow my orders here. Staff, is there anybody that hasn’t spoken yet?” When the media began shouting additional questions, the President angrily snapped, “I ain’t calling on you.”

Later in the press conference, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre abruptly interrupted Biden while he was incoherently describing a conversation he had with Premier Li Qiang at the G20, stating, “Thank you everybody. This ends the press conference.” Before Biden’s microphone was cut off, the President declared, “I don’t know about you, but I’m going to go to bed.”

While in India for the G20 summit late last week, President Biden said that he does not intend to contain China – a country whose recent aggressive actions have drawn increasing concern from its neighbors, and U.S. allies, such as the Philippines and Japan.

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President Joe Biden made a bizarre display in front of gathered media in Vietnam when he leaned in and gave a memorial dedicated to Senator John McCain a long, kiss. Biden made the stop while en route back to the United States following his appearance at the G20 summit in India. show more
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September 11, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

Team DeSantis Bemoans Primary Rules, Says They Aid Trump.

Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign is expected to fight against California’s new presidential primary rules during the state’s Republican Party convention at the end of September. In July, the CAGOP transitioned to a winner-take-all system, instead of allocating presidential primary delegates by Congressional district. Now if a candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote state-wide, they capture all of the state’s delegates. If no candidate reaches that benchmark, delegates are awarded proportionally.

President Donald Trump leads the field in California by over 50 points, appearing to be on track to secure all of the state’s 169 delegates. DeSantis, polling a distant 2nd place with only 16 percent would be awarded no delegates, angering Tallahassee-based consultants such as Erin Perrine, the official spokesman for DeSantis’s Never Back Down political action committee (PAC).

Perrine – who previously worked for the failed Dr. Oz campaign, as well as Trump’s 2020 re-election bid – said the changes were “Trump-inspired rigging”, arguing the California GOP was “making grassroots involvement impossible.”

The CA GOP says the changes are not for any particular candidate, but instead about ensuring the party is in compliance with new Republican National Committee (RNC) rules. The RNC has emphasized the need for primary candidates to campaign across the whole state and not just specific congressional districts in which they’re competitive.

In late August, Never Back Down ended its paid door-knocking operations in California, as well as in Nevada – another state where the DeSantis campaign is accusing the state party of attempting to rig the election for Trump.

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Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign is expected to fight against California's new presidential primary rules during the state's Republican Party convention at the end of September. In July, the CAGOP transitioned to a winner-take-all system, instead of allocating presidential primary delegates by Congressional district. Now if a candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote state-wide, they capture all of the state's delegates. If no candidate reaches that benchmark, delegates are awarded proportionally. show more

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So after months of DeSantis and his online allies slamming Trump for talking about the rigging of 2020, they’re now accusing their own party – in California no less! – of rigging the primary against them? I knew this was all going to get a bit undignified and shameless, but the depths to which they’re now sinking is beyond what any of us imagined, I believe
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So after months of DeSantis and his online allies slamming Trump for talking about the rigging of 2020, they’re now accusing their own party – in California no less! – of rigging the primary against them? I knew this was all going to get a bit undignified and shameless, but the depths to which they’re now sinking is beyond what any of us imagined, I believe show more
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September 11, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

DATA: 3 in 4 Republicans Want Mitch McConnell Out.

The vast majority of Republican voters – 74 percent – agree that GOP Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell should resign from his position, with a whopping 49 percent “strongly agreeing” and another 25 percent “somewhat agreeing”, according to a recent survey of 1,062 likely voters from Rasmussen Reports.

Just one in five Republicans disagreed, with only three percent telling the pollsters that they “strongly disagree,” and want McConnell to stay. A further eight percent answered that they were not sure.

The same respondents were asked what their impression of McConnell is, to which only 34 percent of Republicans gave a positive response. Just seven percent answered “very favorable,” with 27 percent answering “somewhat favorable.” In fact, more Democrats have a “very favorable” impression of McConnell than GOP voters, at 12 percent.

The majority of Republicans have an unfavorable impression of McConnell at 56 percent, with 29 percent having a “very unfavorable” impression and 27 percent answering “somewhat unfavorable.”

McConnell’s health has been increasingly questioned over the past several months after he has twice fallen into a catatonic state while giving press conferences and having to be dragged away by his aides.

Meanwhile, McConnell-world is openly panicking about their D.C. grift coming to an end, with chief McConnell consultant Josh Holmes and his “partner” Michael Duncan having full-fledged X (formerly Twitter) breakdowns and threatening to deport right-wing reporters who stand against McConnell or his friend Brian Kemp in Georgia.

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The vast majority of Republican voters – 74 percent – agree that GOP Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell should resign from his position, with a whopping 49 percent "strongly agreeing" and another 25 percent "somewhat agreeing", according to a recent survey of 1,062 likely voters from Rasmussen Reports. show more
September 11, 2023
William Upton
News
Podcast

AIDSurrection! Protesters Storm Speaker’s Office at U.S. Capitol.

Demonstrators demanding that Congress reauthorizes the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) – an international HIV/AIDS relief program – stormed the office of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Monday. Six of the activists who entered and then occupied the Speaker’s office were arrested by the Capitol Police. Their hands were bound with zip ties instead of handcuffs, a common practice used for mass arrests during political protests where the arrested individuals are booked on minor charges and promptly released.

Conservative commentator Byron York pointed out on X (formerly Twitter) that the six arrested protestors could be charged, albeit unlikely, with several serious crimes including “1) Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; 2) Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; 3) Impeding Passage Through the Capitol Grounds or Buildings; 4) Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building…”.

The punishment for the charges vary, though each carries a maximum 6 months to a year in prison.

Protestors who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 have been handed sentences far in excess of those usually handed down for unlawful behavior in government buildings. Over 1,000 of the protestors present that day have been arrested, nearly 500 have received sentences, and 277 have been given prison time. The prison sentences have ranged from as little as 3 years to upwards of 20 years or more.

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Demonstrators demanding that Congress reauthorizes the President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) – an international HIV/AIDS relief program – stormed the office of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Monday. Six of the activists who entered and then occupied the Speaker's office were arrested by the Capitol Police. Their hands were bound with zip ties instead of handcuffs, a common practice used for mass arrests during political protests where the arrested individuals are booked on minor charges and promptly released. show more
September 11, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Analysis
News

Zelensky Orders All ‘Medical Women’ to Register for War Service.

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky is beginning to draft women for the Ukrainian war machine, beginning with those with some sort of medical background.

“All medical women, these are doctors, nurses, dentists, midwives, pharmacists, ages 18 to 60, will be required to register for military service starting October 1st,” reads a missive from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, citing a government decree.

“Such women perform military duty on an equal footing with men. The legislation does not distinguish between women and men conscripted into the military,” the missive adds, framing the draft as a triumph for sexual equality.

Some 60,000 Ukrainian women are already under arms on a voluntary basis, with over a hundred of them confirmed dead. They have faced significant problems with equipment and health issues in the field, and in some cases bullying and sexual harassment. One female platoon sergeant has alleged a senior male commander was intimidating servicewomen into having sex with him, threatening that he would start “sending their husbands who were also in the brigade to their deaths” if they refused him.

Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 are already subject to conscription, and legally barred from leaving the country.

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Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky is beginning to draft women for the Ukrainian war machine, beginning with those with some sort of medical background. show more
September 11, 2023
News
World

Biden: I Don’t Want To Contain China.

Joe Biden has expressed his desire for China’s well-being during his visit to Asia, emphasising that his goal is not to contain China but to establish a better relationship with the country.

The comments come against the backdrop of many allegations of bribery and corruption involving Biden, his son Hunter, and a vast swathe of Congressional Democrats and Republicans and their links to the Chinese Communist Party.

The President visited India for the G20 summit before arriving in Vietnam to attempt to entrench the relationship between the two nations.

Biden also said the purpose of building partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region is not to isolate or harm China, stating that such thinking is rooted in Cold War mentality. Biden said he wants to see China succeed economically.

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Joe Biden has expressed his desire for China’s well-being during his visit to Asia, emphasising that his goal is not to contain China but to establish a better relationship with the country. show more