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hunter trump
August 17, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

Poll: U.S. Distrusts DOJ on Hunter Case, Agree Trump Charges Politically Driven.

The American public is losing confidence in the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Hunter Biden investigation and the prosecutions of former President Trump according to a new poll released by ABC/Ipsos. Nearly half of those polled indicated that they are not confident that the U.S. Justice Department is handling its investigation of Hunter Biden in a fair and nonpartisan manner – with just 32 percent expressing confidence.

The poll also revealed an entrenched partisan divide among respondents on questions regarding Donald Trump. Nearly 50 percent of respondents said they believed the DOJ prosecutions of the former President were politically motivated – yet half of those polled also said they believe Trump should suspend his presidential campaign.

Chris Jackson, a senior vice president at Ipsos, explained the near identical results regarding Trump: “The vast majority of Democrats want Trump to suspend his campaign (77 percent), and very few Republicans agree (20 percent). The inverse is true on whether the charges are politically motivated (81 percent of Republicans say yes, 21 percent of Democrats agree).” This partisan split has remained consistent in every poll that was conducted after each of Trump’s indictments according to Ipsos.

Hunter Biden, the son and alleged business partner of U.S. President Joe Biden, is facing prosecution after the DOJ’s proposed sweet heart plea deal fell apart under the scrutiny of U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika less than a month ago. Republican lawmakers have accused the DOJ and special counsel David Weiss of “misconduct and politicization” tantamount to a “coverup” in their investigation and prosecution of the President’s son. Democrats on Capitol Hill have remained evasive on the prosecution – Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) being one of the few that has said publicly that Hunter Biden should be charged.

Former President Donald Trump faces two state and two federal prosecutions across four jurisdictions – Georgia, Florida, New York, and Washington, D.C. respectively. The ABC/Ipsos poll was conducted on August 15th and 16th and sampled 508 U.S. adults.

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The American public is losing confidence in the Department of Justice (DOJ)'s Hunter Biden investigation and the prosecutions of former President Trump according to a new poll released by ABC/Ipsos. Nearly half of those polled indicated that they are not confident that the U.S. Justice Department is handling its investigation of Hunter Biden in a fair and nonpartisan manner – with just 32 percent expressing confidence. show more
chess
August 17, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Culture
News

No Queens Allowed! Chess Bans Trans Women Competing in Ladies Event.

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has ruled that biological males have “no right” to compete with women, regardless of their gender identity.

Transgender activists and their self-styled allies are pushing back against the ban by appealing to feminist sensibilities, arguing that, unlike women’s swimming champion William ‘Lia’ Thomas, biologically male chess players should not have biological advantages over female rivals.

“It’s not just transphobic, it’s anti-feminist,” argued Richard Pringle, a sociology professor specializing in gender and sexuality, complaining that the ban “suggests that males are somehow strategically better.”

Nevertheless, the reality is that there is only currently only one woman among the top 100 chess players worldwide – and she is only the third woman in history to achieve such a ranking.

FIDE’s new rules also state that the championships of women who become transmen will be “abolished” on their transition, but the titles of men who become transwomen will be retained.

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The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has ruled that biological males have "no right" to compete with women, regardless of their gender identity. show more
d.c. war zone
August 17, 2023
News

Iraqi Uber Driver Survives Drive-By in D.C., Calls City a ‘War Zone’.

An Iraqi Uber driver in Washington, D.C. was caught in gunfire during a drive-by shooting over the weekend, comparing the city to a war zone reminiscent of his native country.

The driver, who remains unidentified, was near the Cathedral of St. Matthew on Saturday when his car was struck by a hail of bullets. Two passengers in the vehicle took cover and escaped unharmed, but the driver sustained injuries from broken glass, according to a police report.

A camera inside the car captured the entire incident, revealing another vehicle crashing into a nearby dumpster after the shooting, and its occupants fleeing the scene. Witnesses reported that five or six shots were fired from a silver SUV with tinted windows.

One individual outside the vehicle was shot in the back. Their condition remains undisclosed, and authorities are actively searching for the suspect vehicle.

The Uber driver, originally from Iraq, expressed feeling similar levels of violence and chaos in Washington D.C.

“I thank God I survived,” he said. “For some reason, God saved me.”

Another migrant in D.C., an Afghan who survived ten years serving alongside U.S. special forces, was less fortunate last month, being shot dead by thugs while working as a Lyft driver.

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An Iraqi Uber driver in Washington, D.C. was caught in gunfire during a drive-by shooting over the weekend, comparing the city to a war zone reminiscent of his native country. show more
chatgpt bias
August 17, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Science
TECH

ChatGPT Has ‘Significant, Systemtic’ Left-Wing Bias, Reveals Study.

Open AI’s ChatGPT has a ‘significant and systemic’ left-wing political bias in favor of the Democrats, Britain’s Labour Party, and Brazil’s socialist President Luiz da Silva, according to research conducted at the University of East Anglia (UAE), confirming that suspicions of many on the political right.

The study, published in the Public Choice Journal, asked the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to impersonate people from across the political spectrum while providing answers to more than 60 political and ideological questions. This was repeated one hundred times, with each time being randomized. Responses were then compared with the platform’s “default answers” to the same set of questions, which enabled the researchers to assess ChatGPT’s political stance.

“Although ChatGPT assures that it is impartial, the literature suggests that LLM [Large Language Model]s exhibit bias involving race, gender, religion, and political orientation,” the study states.

The research “can support the crucial duty of ensuring such systems are impartial and unbiased, mitigating potential negative political and electoral effects, and safeguarding general public trust in this technology,” the study concludes, highlighting the unique difficulty in detecting political bias, compared to gender or race.

The study’s lead author, Dr. Fabio Motoki, argued after publication, “Any bias in a platform like this is a concern,” regardless of whether the preference swings to the political left or right.

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Open AI's ChatGPT has a 'significant and systemic' left-wing political bias in favor of the Democrats, Britain's Labour Party, and Brazil's socialist President Luiz da Silva, according to research conducted at the University of East Anglia (UAE), confirming that suspicions of many on the political right. show more
tiktok
August 17, 2023
William Upton
News
TECH

NYC Wants Govt Employees To Delete TikTok.

New York City, under the advisement of NYC Cyber Command, issued a directive to city employees ordering them to immediately cease accessing the Chinese Communist Party-controlled social media app TikTok on their city-owned devices. Employees were also directed to delete the app within 30 days of the orders issuance (August 16, 2023).

After a review of the TikTok app, NYC Cyber Command determined the popular-if-not-controversial social media app “…posed a security threat to the city’s technical networks.” City officials stressed the need for government workers to always use social platforms and apps in a “secure manner”. The New York state government banned TikTok on all government devices in 2020.

Former President Donald Trump attempted to ban TikTok  in the U.S. outright by issuing an executive order  during the final year of his presidential administration.  The ban came amidst growing concerns about the amount of data ByteDance – TikTok’s China based parent company – had access to and that they might share it with the Chinese Communist Party. TikTok, however, was successful in petitioning the District Court for the District of Columbia to issue a preliminary injunction preventing the Trump administration from banning the app.

After taking office, President Joe Biden rescinded Trump’s executive order banning the Chinese controlled social media app.

Over the last three years there has been increasing evidence that former President Trump’s concerns regarding TikTok were warranted. Leaked audio recordings confirmed that China-based ByteDance employees were able to access data collected by TikTok – something that TikTok executives had originally stated would not happen. In response to the data access revelations, Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr urged Apple and Google both to remove TikTok from their respective app stores.

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New York City, under the advisement of NYC Cyber Command, issued a directive to city employees ordering them to immediately cease accessing the Chinese Communist Party-controlled social media app TikTok on their city-owned devices. Employees were also directed to delete the app within 30 days of the orders issuance (August 16, 2023). show more

Editor’s Notes

Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.

RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
The National Pulse’s extensive reporting on ByteDance and TikTok over the last several years can provide more background for those who want it
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The National Pulse’s extensive reporting on ByteDance and TikTok over the last several years can provide more background for those who want it show more
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south african farm
August 17, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
World

South African Farm Murders Are Up 167 Percent on Last Quarter.

Farm murders in South Africa, where farmers are mostly white, have increased sharply quarter-on-quarter, according to a leading civil rights organization.

“Although the number of [farm] attacks for the first and second quarter is more or less the same, murders increased by 167 percent – from nine in the first quarter to 24 in the second quarter,” reports Jacques Broodryk, community safety spokesman for the AfriForum organization which represents the Afrikaner minority, often referred to as Boers.

The South African authorities appear to be of little help, with just 15 of the 76 farm attacks recorded in the second quarter of 2023 seeing suspects arrested. They may be taking their lead from President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has refused to authorize a commission of inquiry into farm attacks and denies they are being orchestrated to drive white people off their land.

Ramaphosa has himself championed a bill authorizing the seizure of white people’s farmland without compensation, which stalled after then-U.S. President Donald Trump intervened in 2018 but has been revived now that Joe Biden occupies the Oval Office.

The plight of South Africa’s white minority has been elevated overseas in recent days by Elon Musk, the South African-born owner of the X (formerly Twitter) social media platform.

Musk publicly denounced Ramaphosa over his failure to challenge Julius Malema, the Marxist-Leninist leader of South Africa’s third-largest political party, for leading a packed stadium in chants of “kill the Boer, the farmer!”

Musk also slammed The New York Times, which ran an article suggesting the chant should not be “taken literally,” for “support[ing] calls for genocide.”

Malema’s rally was followed by a brutal farm attack in which a 79-year-old man was murdered by intruders who beat him with a pipe and slit his throat.

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Farm murders in South Africa, where farmers are mostly white, have increased sharply quarter-on-quarter, according to a leading civil rights organization. show more
romney
August 17, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

Romney’s Anti-Trump Jabs Lead Utah on Search for New Senator.

Mitt Romney, the junior U.S. Senator from Utah, has seen his popularity among Utah Republicans plummet as he weighs whether to run for re-election in 2024.

A vocal and obsessive critic of Donald Trump – who has publicly accused the former President of inciting a violent insurrection against Congress and attempting to corrupt the the 2020 Presidential election – Romney has managed to simultaneously alienate Utah’s conservative grassroots and the state’s Republican Party leadership. Robert Axson, chairman of the Utah Republican Party, accused Romney of betraying the principles of the party, stating: “I think the party is trending towards people who are committed to our platform and show up. And this is a place where I would invite Senator Romney to start showing up.”

The criticism from the state leader of his own political party is just the latest in bad news for the embattled anti-Trump Senator. Romney’s approval rating among Utah voters slid 11 points between March and June of this year according to polling conducted by the Deseret News and Hinckley Institute of Politics. Voter opinion of Senator Romney is now underwater with only 41 percent of voters saying they approve of his performance, while 49 percent disapprove.

Romney’s lack of popularity in Utah has already drawn one challenger into the 2024 U.S. Senate primary. Trent Staggs, the mayor of Riverton, announced his candidacy earlier this summer, stating Utah “…needs another proven fighter and conservative in the Senate… someone unafraid to stand against the Washington establishment.” The Staggs campaign has hammered Romney for his vote to impeach former President Trump, as well as his support for open-borders and “establishment wokeness”.

Should Romney decline to run for re-election, Utah political observers suspect the Republican primary for U.S. Senate to become much more crowded with former Congressman Jason Chaffetz, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, and Utah state House Speaker Brad Wilson all considered potential candidates.

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Mitt Romney, the junior U.S. Senator from Utah, has seen his popularity among Utah Republicans plummet as he weighs whether to run for re-election in 2024. show more
russian vehicles
August 17, 2023
News
World

Ukraine Counter-Offensive Reliant on Captured Russian Vehicles.

A frontline mechanic who uses the call sign “Hammer” has revealed Ukraine’s counteroffensive would not be possible without captured Russian vehicles. Hammer, who is the head of weapons and maintenance for the 35th Marine Brigade, stated that troops fighting in southern Ukraine have been using captured weapons and armor out of necessity.

He reports that without the Russian vehicles, Ukrainian forces would not be able to continue their operation. Over the past six weeks, his brigade has captured more than 20 Russian vehicles, including T-72 tanks and multi-purpose fighting vehicles.

Last week, Deutsche Welle reported that since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over 17 months ago, Kiev has recovered over 800 enemy artillery systems and 300 tanks and put them back into use on the battlefield.

Colonel Oleksandr Saruba, who works for a Ukrainian military center analyzing captured weaponry, quipped that Russia is now competing with Western countries to supply weapons to Ukraine.

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A frontline mechanic who uses the call sign "Hammer" has revealed Ukraine's counteroffensive would not be possible without captured Russian vehicles. Hammer, who is the head of weapons and maintenance for the 35th Marine Brigade, stated that troops fighting in southern Ukraine have been using captured weapons and armor out of necessity. show more
desantis pac
August 17, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

EXC: DeSantis PAC Chair Blasts ‘Racist, Bigoted, Insufferable, Brainless’ South.

Matt Wells, a chairman in Ron DeSantis’s Never Back Down PAC, lambasted the U.S. South and Southerners, bemoaning the “climate of racism and bigotry” and the “hate and distrust emanating from the people,” in comments unearthed by The National Pulse. Wells is best known for recently disparaging MAGA conservatives as “degenerates” and telling leftist reporters he wouldn’t “piss on Donald Trump if he was on fire.”

Wells locked his X (formerly Twitter) account shortly after the first National Pulse report, penning a lengthy blog post refusing to apologize for his comments, which led to the discovery of his heinous, 2016 comments about his fellow Americans.

“I can normally talk to anyone that has more than a few brain cells to rub together. That wasn’t the case in South Carolina and Georgia,” he wrote of his time there, adding: “People in the South are incredibly suspicious of those that are different from them while at the same time being insufferably polite to your face while holding you in contempt as soon as you turn your back.”

Wells also bemoaned, much like the pages of the New York Times, “the still alive climate of racism and bigotry that has long dogged the American South” claiming some towns “are still almost entirely voluntarily (or not) segregated.”

“…the racist climate [in the South] is still alive and well.”

– Matt Wells, DeSantis PAC Chairman.’

Claiming to have been shouted at for “supporting someone with a ‘Cuban’ last name.” Wells also claimed in his lengthy diatribe: “Confederate flag flying homes, almost 100%, could be counted on as a home of a Combover devotee. His supporters speak like him. They use the same empty words and phrases (all with a southern drawl). ‘We’re going to build a wall’, ‘We’ll be so great’, ‘America doesn’t win anymore’, ‘He’ll make good deals’, etc.”

Having described Trump supporters as cultists, Wells concluded by declaring the “‘Bible Belt’ is frayed and the buckle is highly tarnished and the people need true spiritual revival. The one saving grace I cling to is Ted Cruz…”

“I don’t really have a desire to visit the south ever again,” he wrote, expressing hope that “the younger generations are turning away from the backwards thinking down South.”

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Matt Wells, a chairman in Ron DeSantis's Never Back Down PAC, lambasted the U.S. South and Southerners, bemoaning the "climate of racism and bigotry" and the "hate and distrust emanating from the people," in comments unearthed by The National Pulse. Wells is best known for recently disparaging MAGA conservatives as "degenerates" and telling leftist reporters he wouldn't "piss on Donald Trump if he was on fire." show more

Editor’s Notes

Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.

RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
So, which is it? Did ‘Never Back Down’ never vet these PAC chairman across Iowa’s 99 counties, or do they stand by Matt Wells and his comments
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So, which is it? Did ‘Never Back Down’ never vet these PAC chairman across Iowa’s 99 counties, or do they stand by Matt Wells and his comments show more
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August 17, 2023
William Upton
News

Court Rules That D.C. Selectively Enforced Law Against Pro-Lifers, But Not BLM.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that city officials engaged in “selective enforcement of its defacement ordinance” when it arrested two pro-life activists for chalking public sidewalks while turning a blind-eye to the defacement of public property by Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters – reversing an earlier district court ruling. The court stated in its opinion that:

In the summer of 2020, thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the District to proclaim “Black Lives Matter.” Over several weeks, the protesters covered streets, sidewalks, and storefronts with paint and chalk. The markings were ubiquitous and in open violation of the District’s defacement ordinance, yet none of the protesters were arrested. During the same summer, District police officers arrested two pro-life advocates in a smaller protest for chalking “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter” on a public sidewalk.

The two pro-life activists who were arrested were in D.C. participating in a protest organized by The Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America. After the arrests, the two organizations filed a lawsuit against the city alleging that the unequal enforcement of the city ordinance was viewpoint discrimination and violated the First Amendment rights of the two arrested protestors.

The opinion of the court, authored by Judge Neomi Rao, held that:

The First Amendment prohibits discrimination on the basis of viewpoint irrespective of the government’s motive. We hold the Foundation has plausibly alleged the District discriminated on the basis of viewpoint in the selective enforcement of its defacement ordinance.

Judge Rao went on to note the multitude of incidents where D.C. public property had been defaced by BLM rioters, yet the city had made no arrests in any of these incidents. The Washington, D.C. BLM riots that took place in the summer of 2020 cost the city an estimated $14.5 million.

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that city officials engaged in "selective enforcement of its defacement ordinance" when it arrested two pro-life activists for chalking public sidewalks while turning a blind-eye to the defacement of public property by Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters – reversing an earlier district court ruling. The court stated in its opinion that: show more