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August 28, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

Desperate DeSantis PAC Dumps $12M of Donor Cash Into New Ads.

Ron DeSantis’ super PAC ‘Never Back Down‘ has poured over $12.3 million into a new advertisement campaign in a desperate attempt to reinvigorate the Florida Governor’s 2024 Republican presidential nominee campaign.

The vast majority of the funds was allocated to the state of Iowa, in which the Florida Governor trails former President Donald Trump by over 20 points. Around $11.4 million has been spent targeting media markets in the state, with the rest used for a national buy on the already DeSantis-sympathizing Fox News, according to AdImpact data.

The ads are due to start on September 6 and are expected to run through until Halloween.

Never Back Down’s total spend is up to $31 million, outspending Donald Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc, by nearly $10 million. Only Tim Scott’s TIM PAC has spent more at $37 million.

However, Never Back Down has announced its intention to increase ad spending to as much as $25 million in Iowa and New Hampshire, where DeSantis is polling fourth behind the 45th President, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Chris Christie. The campaign will include TV bookings, digital and direct advertisement – such as mailers and text messages – and will shift focus onto the Governor of Florida’s “personal qualities” and his wife, Jill “Casey” DeSantis.

Despite the staggering financial commitments the super PAC has made to DeSantis, rumors abounded last month that it may look to abandon the Florida Governor due to his crumbling numbers and support.

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Ron DeSantis' super PAC 'Never Back Down' has poured over $12.3 million into a new advertisement campaign in a desperate attempt to reinvigorate the Florida Governor's 2024 Republican presidential nominee campaign. show more

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Tropical Storm Idalia
August 28, 2023
News
Science

Florida Braces for Storm Idalia, Forecasted to Intensify Into Hurricane.

Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to become a hurricane on Tuesday as it moves off the eastern coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula towards the U.S. state of Florida. With maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, the storm is currently moving northeast at just 3 mph.

Throughout the day today, the storm will begin to make a more noticeable northward movement, gaining forward speed as it enters the eastern Gulf of Mexico tonight and into Tuesday. Weather experts predict the storm will intensify over the next 24 hours. It is forecasted to make landfall in Florida as a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday morning. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency for 33 counties along the Gulf Coast as a precautionary measure.

Currently, Idalia is approximately 95 miles off the coast of Cozumel, Mexico. Heavy rain has been reported in parts of the Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba due to the tropical storm. The National Hurricane Center has issued hurricane and storm surge watches for parts of Florida’s Gulf Coast.

A second hurricane, named Franklin, is moving across the western Atlantic and could potentially affect Bermuda in the coming days. It is currently a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph, moving to the NNW at 8 mph. Franklin is about 565 miles southwest of Bermuda. Over the next few days, it is expected to strengthen further, potentially reaching major hurricane status on Monday.

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Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to become a hurricane on Tuesday as it moves off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula towards the U.S. state of Florida. With maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, the storm is currently moving northeast at just 3 mph. show more
boris johnson
August 28, 2023
Jake Welch
News

Boris Johnson Wants to Force The Taliban to Watch Women’s Soccer.

Disgraced former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to force the Taliban to sit down and watch women’s football until they disregard their religious beliefs and learn to appreciate women’s sports. Seriously.

Johnson, who was Prime Minister during the calamitous loss of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2020, argues he would strap the “bigoted and chauvinistic” Taliban into chairs until they understand the excitement that comes along with women’s soccer, regardless of whether they show skin or not. His ludicrous comments came in his latest Daily Mail column, for which the former Prime Minister is understood to earn at least $100,000 a year, writing one (often nonsensical) article per week.

“I would force the quivering men of this all-male government to accept the key point: that the skill and courage of the Lionesses [the English women’s soccer team] are admired by everyone,” Johnson wrote, before adding that the current lack of women’s soccer in Afghanistan is enough to “make you weep.”

The former “Conservative” Party leader went on to defend himself and President Joe Biden over the fall of Kabul on August 15, which witnessed the deaths of more than a dozen American soldiers and hundreds of Afghan civilians, suggesting that Donald Trump was to blame:

“I also understand that Joe Biden felt he had no good choices. His predecessor, Donald Trump, had already agreed to pull out every last American ­soldier, bar none… What was Biden’s alternative?”

Recent revelations leave the blame solely on the American security apparatus’ doorstep, rather than that of the 45th President, as the Pentagon knew an attack on the Kabul airport was imminent, yet nearly nothing was done by the Biden regime to avert the disaster.

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Disgraced former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to force the Taliban to sit down and watch women's football until they disregard their religious beliefs and learn to appreciate women's sports. Seriously. show more
bbc wales
August 28, 2023
Jake Welch
News
World

BBC Bizarrely Edits Election Photo to Turn White Hand Black.

BBC staff have admitted to digitally altering a photograph of a white hand placing a ballot inside a box to make it look like a black person instead, in a bizarre, racially-motivated alteration to an image attached to a story about elections in Wales.

The original photo first appeared on the BBC’s website in 2018 and shows a white hand putting a piece of paper into a ballot box with the Welsh flag across it. Yet, the latest version – deployed shortly after the Black Lives Matter protests – shows the same image poorly photoshopped to make the hand black.

A spokesman for the BBC announced following the complaints, “although there is no intention to mislead, should not have happened and is not acceptable BBC practice. We will be reminding our staff of this.”

Conservative Member of Parliament Peter Bone asked, “Why on earth would anyone want to change the colour of a hand?” before adding: “The BBC has serious questions to answer. First, they have got to explain why on earth that happened. What was the reasoning for it? What was the thought behind it? What were they trying to say? Why did they falsify the image?”

The BBC has not yet given a reason for its replacement of a white hand with that of a black hand.

Wales – a country within the United Kingdom, sitting to the West of England – is overwhelmingly white, with around 94 percent of the population identifying themselves as “white: Welsh, English, Scottish, Northern Irish, or British.” Black people make up less than one percent of the population, according to demographic statistics from the Welsh government.

The bizarre editorial decision emerged just days after the BBC edited its own report on a convicted pedophile in an effort to hide the fact the man was a prominent drag queen.

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BBC staff have admitted to digitally altering a photograph of a white hand placing a ballot inside a box to make it look like a black person instead, in a bizarre, racially-motivated alteration to an image attached to a story about elections in Wales. show more
trump dollar cash money
August 28, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

Trump Campaign Raises Over $20M in 3 Weeks.

Donald Trump raised over $7.1 million since the release of his mugshot on Thursday, with over $20 million raised in the past three weeks. The latest haul comes amidst sales of mugshot merchandise, including the already infamous photo of the 45th President and the words ‘NEVER SURRENDER,’ including shirts, posters, bumper stickers, mugs, and even drinks coolers.

Trump’s presidential campaign raised $4.18 million last Friday alone, representing a record for the highest 24-hour fundraising effort in his campaign to date.

The merchandise, costing anywhere between $12 to $34, forms part of Trump’s dominance over small-dollar donations as his 2024 presidential campaign has been overwhelmingly reliant upon grassroots support.

Last month, the former President’s small-dollar donations made up a whopping 81.8 percent of all his campaign finances – far ahead of second-place Vivek Ramaswamy with 57.5 percent, and Ron DeSantis who counts less than 20 percent of his campaign funds as coming from small dollar donors.

By the end of the 2016 primaries, Ted Cruz, Trump’s top opponent at the time, had spent $163M. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to spend at least $200M in his attempt to defeat the man who got him elected.

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Donald Trump raised over $7.1 million since the release of his mugshot on Thursday, with over $20 million raised in the past three weeks. The latest haul comes amidst sales of mugshot merchandise, including the already infamous photo of the 45th President and the words 'NEVER SURRENDER,' including shirts, posters, bumper stickers, mugs, and even drinks coolers. show more
abaya
August 28, 2023
Jake Welch
News
World

France Bans Islamic ‘Abaya’ Robe In Schools.

France has announced a ban on Muslim girls wearing the abaya – an Islamic robe designed to be loose-fitting and cover one’s body– on the grounds that the clothing contravenes the nation’s secular-based education. The ban will come into force on September 4.

“When you walk into a classroom, you shouldn’t be able to identify the pupils’ religion just by looking at them,” stated the French Education Minister, Gabriel Attal, over the weekend.

“Secularism means the freedom to emancipate oneself through school… [the abaya is] a religious gesture, aimed at testing the resistance of the republic toward the secular sanctuary that school must constitute,” Attal added.

The French government has already banned headscarves in public schools for nearly 20 years, citing similar reasoning. The country has also made the then-unprecedented move among Western nations in 2010 to ban the wearing of full-face veils.

The prohibition of religious symbols does not merely apply to Islam as Christian symbols, such as crosses, have been banned in French schools since the 19th century.

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France has announced a ban on Muslim girls wearing the abaya – an Islamic robe designed to be loose-fitting and cover one's body– on the grounds that the clothing contravenes the nation's secular-based education. The ban will come into force on September 4. show more
the national pulse
August 27, 2023
Jake Welch
News

The National Pulse’s Top 10 Articles of the Week (Aug 20 – 27).

The National Pulse has published over 250 news articles in August. In case you missed them, here are 10 of the most important stories of this week. If you haven’t yet joined the Pulse+, come and support our work and enjoy a mountain of extras, here.

  1. WEF Advisor: UK Population Collapse Is a ‘Good Thing.’
    “An advisor to the ‘great reset‘-pushing World Economic Forum (WEF) has claimed the collapse of Britain’s birth rate is a “good thing” for the planet, as it reduces consumption amongst wealthier nations.”
  2. Saudi Guards Gunned Down Migrants Attempting Illegal Border Crossings, Claims Report.
    “Saudi Arabian border guards injured or killed hundreds of mainly Ethiopian migrants attempting to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023…”
  3. Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Threatened to Put POTUS on the Stand.
    “Hunter Biden’s legal team tried to pressure the Department of Justice (DOJ) into cutting a deal with their client by saying they would call his father, President Joe Biden, as a defense witness…”
  4. Biden Sold Off $300M of Border Wall Materials at 99% Discount.
    “The Biden government is selling off $300 million worth of materials intended for Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall for just $2 million in an effort to stop it being used to deter illegal migrant crossings.”
  5. 3 Weeks Since Maui Fires Began, Biden Claims He’s ‘Been There From Day 1.’
    “The false claim did not appear to be challenged by any of the corporate media in tow, traveling with the President.”
  6. EXC: DeSantis’s New PAC Chairman Is… a Democrat.
    “Yet another county chairman for Ron DeSantis’s top super PAC has been exposed as highly questionable, being not merely a Never Trumper with little in common with MAGA conservatives but, in fact, an actual Democrat politician.”
  7. Wildfires Caused by Arsonists, Not ‘Climate Change’, Say Officials.
    “Wildfires that have seen 12,000 flee their homes on the Spanish island of Tenerife were started deliberately, officials say…”
  8. EXC: The Complicated Reason Larry Elder Isn’t on the RNC Debate Stage.
    “Conservative commentator Larry Elder says he’s suing the Republican National Committee (RNC) after being left off the debate stage in Milwaukee.”
  9. Fox News DeSantis ‘Voter’ Was Activist for Anti-Trump Org.
    The official ‘Team DeSantis’ X (formerly Twitter) account posted an interview aired on Fox News on Monday, featuring a “Wisconsin Voter” by the name of Chris Lawrence…”
  10. EXC– Fox Source: ‘We’re Banned from Mentioning Trump-Tucker Interview’.
    “A Fox News source has told The National Pulse the network has “literally banned” any mentions of the upcoming interview between Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump…”

EDITOR’S BONUS PICKS:

  1. DeSantis Hires Open Borders Jeb Bush Acolyte as New Spokesman.
    “Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign appears to be undergoing another reboot with the hire of former Florida Speaker of the House Jose Oliva as a senior advisor and spokesman.“
  2. Brexit Britain? Hardly. UK Migration Reaches New Peak.
    “Immigration to the United Kingdom (UK) has surged to over 1.1 million people – the highest since records began in 2002 – under the far-left “Conservative” Party…”
  3. The (Mug)Shot Heard Around The World.
    “Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump has once again been arrested and booked, this time in perhaps the most brazenly political prosecution yet…”
  4. BBC Publishes Pedo Report, Then EDITS to Remove Pride, Drag History. 
    “The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been caught repeatedly doctoring a report about a man convicted for attempting to have sex with a 14-year-old boy, scrubbing it of references to the fact the suspect is a Pride organizer and drag queen.”
  5. Biden, Still Vacationing, Went to Pilates & Got BOOED.
    “President Biden remains on vacation in Lake Tahoe, Nevada – where he has spent much of the past week at radical environmentalist and billionaire Tom Steyer’s home.”
  6. CPAC Vice Chairman Resigns, Demands Investigation into Matt Schlapp.
    “Charlie Gerow – a long-time ally of Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) chairman Matt Schlapp – has now resigned from his position as Vice Chairman of CPAC’s parent organization, the American Conservative Union (ACU)…”
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The National Pulse has published over 250 news articles in August. In case you missed them, here are 10 of the most important stories of this week. If you haven’t yet joined the Pulse+, come and support our work and enjoy a mountain of extras, here. show more
August 27, 2023
Jake Welch
News
World

WATCH: Ukrainian Judge Says Bidens Accepted Bribes.

The former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin believes that he was fired as a result of President Joe Biden’s pressure on the Ukrainian government, and says that Biden and his son Hunter were accepting Ukrainian bribes in connection with Burisma – the Ukrainian holdings firm for which Hunter Biden and his former best friend Devon Archer acted as executives.

Shokin, who was fired in 2016 by then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, told Fox News in an interview on Saturday evening:

“I have said repeatedly in my previous interviews that Poroshenko fired me at the insistence of the then Vice President Biden because I was investigating Burisma.”

“There were no complaints whatsoever and no problems with how I was performing at my job. But because pressure was repeatedly put on [then-Ukrainian President Petro] Poroshenko, that is what ended up in him firing me,” Shokin added.

Shokin went on to explain that if he were allowed to continue his investigation into Burisma, he would have uncovered the various “corrupt activities that they [the Bidens and Devon Archer] were engaged in.”

Asked whether the Bidens were accepting bribes, Shokin responded, “I do not want to deal in unproven facts, but my firm personal conviction is that, yes, this was the case. They were being bribed.”

Shokin’s statements add further to the mountain of evidence against the Biden’s over their crooked financial affairs, the covering up of which likely swayed the 2020 presidential election.

WATCH:

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The former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin believes that he was fired as a result of President Joe Biden's pressure on the Ukrainian government, and says that Biden and his son Hunter were accepting Ukrainian bribes in connection with Burisma – the Ukrainian holdings firm for which Hunter Biden and his former best friend Devon Archer acted as executives. show more
August 27, 2023
News

Republican Debate Ratings Couldn’t Compare With 2016.

Roughly 12.8 million people tuned in to watch the first Republican primary debate on Fox News, Wednesday night – in line with expectations for the first debate of the 2024 presidential cycle. However, viewership fell far short of the 24 million people who watched the comparable debate eight years ago.

The debate, held in Milwaukee, saw frequent clashes between newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy and the other presidential hopefuls, particularly former Vice President Mike Pence and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Despite its lower ratings, Fox News claimed that the debate was the most-watched non-sports cable broadcast of the year.

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner with a commanding poll lead, did not participate in the debate but instead had a pre-taped Twitter interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, which had earned well over 250 million views as of the time of publication.

In an interview prior to the Fox News debate, co-moderator Bret Baier acknowledged that Trump’s presence may have boosted viewership.

Trump’s absence has impacted Fox News before, as his withdrawal from a Fox-hosted debate in 2016 resulted in lower viewership compared to the first debate of that cycle.

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Roughly 12.8 million people tuned in to watch the first Republican primary debate on Fox News, Wednesday night – in line with expectations for the first debate of the 2024 presidential cycle. However, viewership fell far short of the 24 million people who watched the comparable debate eight years ago. show more
August 27, 2023
News

FBI Contractor Indicted on Child Sex Crimes.

Former FBI contractor Brett Janes, 26, has been indicted with multiple charges related to alleged sexual exploitation of children. The charges include two counts of sexual exploitation of children and production of child sexual abuse material, one count of attempted coercion and enticement, as well as one count of receipt of child pornography.

It is alleged that Janes groomed several young boys over the internet by contacting them through social media platforms like Discord and Snapchat. Janes purportedly posed as an intelligence agency worker and threatened self-harm if the boys did not comply with his demands.

He reportedly coerced and enticed minors to engage in sexual activities via live video calls, and also purchased numerous photos and videos depicting child sexual abuse. The case is being investigated jointly by the FBI and Arlington County Police, and will be prosecuted by Trial Attorney McKenzie Hightower of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. If convicted, Janes will face a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison.

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Former FBI contractor Brett Janes, 26, has been indicted with multiple charges related to alleged sexual exploitation of children. The charges include two counts of sexual exploitation of children and production of child sexual abuse material, one count of attempted coercion and enticement, as well as one count of receipt of child pornography. show more