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October 9, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Economy
News
World

Oil Prices Are Now Rising, & Biden Already Drained The Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Global benchmark Brent crude futures soared to $87.20 per barrel on Monday morning, while West Texas Intermediate futures in the United States landed on $85.7 per barrel, having initially passed $86. This represents an increase in oil prices of over 3.1 percent globally and over 3.5 percent domestically, as the markets react to Israel declaring war over the weekend in response to an armed incursion from Gaza.

The United States is particularly exposed to the price surge. President Joe Biden drained much of the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve last year in an effort to hold down the price of gas, after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) openly snubbed him and cut production despite his begging them no to do so.

Worse still, in August, the Biden regime delayed plans to restock the reserve, hoping prices would fall.

U.S.-led efforts to embargo or cap the price of Russian oil in order to starve Moscow of revenue, which have proved unsuccessful, have also left America and its allies more exposed to price shocks caused by events in the Middle East. Anti-energy independence policies such as the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline and pauses on gas and oil leases, too, have undermined national resilience.

Analysts believe the current spike in prices may just be a “knee-jerk” response to the attack on Israel, and markets can recover – but this could change if Iran is drawn into the conflict, disrupting oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

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Global benchmark Brent crude futures soared to $87.20 per barrel on Monday morning, while West Texas Intermediate futures in the United States landed on $85.7 per barrel, having initially passed $86. This represents an increase in oil prices of over 3.1 percent globally and over 3.5 percent domestically, as the markets react to Israel declaring war over the weekend in response to an armed incursion from Gaza. show more
the national pulse
October 8, 2023
Jake Welch
News

The National Pulse’s Top 10 (Oct 2 – Oct 8)

The National Pulse has already published nearly 80 news articles in October, already. 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. WATCH: Trump Blasts Judge, AG in New York Court.
    “Former President Donald J. Trump appeared in court in Manhattan on Monday to personally fight back against the civil suit being brought against him by Democrat Attorney General Letita James.”
  2. And This Year’s Nobel Prize Goes To… The mRNA Vaccine Creators!?
    “The scientists who developed the mRNA technology used in the Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Sweden on Monday morning.”
  3. DeSantis Influencers Say They’ll Write-In Pro-Abortion, Anti-Gun RFK If Trump Wins Primary.
    “A number of Ron DeSantis supporters have taken to social media to announce they will vote for Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before they unify behind Donald Trump…”
  4. POLITICO Runs Holocaust Revisionist Op-Ed to ‘Contextualize’ Canadian Nazi Debacle. 
    “An attempt by the corporate news outlet POLITICO to add ‘context’ to an incident where the Canadian parliament honored Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian World War II veteran who served in a Nazi Waffen SS unit.”
  5. TEFLON DON? DeSantis-Linked Anti-Trump PAC Admits Attack Ads Have Failed.
    “Win It Back PAC’ – directly linked to the RINO Republican-led Club for Growth – has been forced into a humiliating admission that its multi-million dollar summer campaign to undermine former President Donald Trump has been a complete failure…”
  6. WATCH: DeSantis Backker Chip Roy Tells MAGA ‘F***ers’ to ‘Kiss My A**’ During Meltdown Comparing Himself to D-Day Soldier.
    “Texas Congressman and Ron DeSantis surrogate Chip Roy had a full-blown meltdown at the “MAGA camp” after Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as Speaker of the House of Representatives by Matt Gaetz…”
  7. Foreign-Born Workers in U.S. At ‘All-Time High’.
    “The number of foreign-born workers in the United States is now just under 32 million, representing an all-time high and rising nearly 10 million in the past three years alone under the Biden government…”
  8. Rudy Giuliani is Suing Joe Biden.
    “Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has announced that he is suing President Joe Biden for referring to him as a “Russian Pawn” during one of the 2020 Presidential debates with Donald Trump.”
  9. DeSantis’s Raised Just $5M in Q3, Down From $20M in Q2.
    “Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s fundraising woes continued last quarter with his campaign committee only raising $5 million for the Republican presidential primary contest.”
  10. Trump Hauls Whopping $45.5M in Q3, With $36M Primary Cash On Hand.
    “The Trump campaign raised over $45.5 million in the third quarter of 2033, with over $37.5 million cash on hand and close to $36 million of the total cash on hand designated for the primary.”

Here are a few bonus “Editor’s Picks”:

  1. NYT, MSNBC Freak Out Over Trump-Kassam Interview After Far-Left Complaints.
    “The New York Times, MSNBC, and Snopes are collectively freaking out over The National Pulse’s interview with former President Donald Trump, declaring his rhetoric over the U.S. southern border to be Hitlerian…”
  2. U.S. Fentanyl Deaths Equivalent to Crashing an Amtrak Train Filled With Americans Every 48 Hours.
    “Fentanyl deaths in America, facilitated by Joe Biden’s border policies, are claiming the lives Americans at a rate comparable to a full Amtrak train crashing every two days.”
  3. WATCH: CNN Meltdown Over Trump-Kassam Interview.
    “CNN’s Dana Bash joins a host of corporate media freaking out over The National Pulse’s interview with former President Donald Trump.”
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The National Pulse has already published nearly 80 news articles in October, already. 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

Editor’s Notes

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

RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
Obviously the news has been consumed with the goings on on Capitol Hill, as well as the Israel-Hamas war that was provoked by barbarians this weekend
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Obviously the news has been consumed with the goings on on Capitol Hill, as well as the Israel-Hamas war that was provoked by barbarians this weekend show more
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October 8, 2023
Crime
News

A 23andMe Data Hack Appears to Target Ashkenazi Jews.

Hackers have obtained a vast list of individuals with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry from the genetic testing service 23andMe and have shared it on the internet.

The database, titled “ashkenazi DNA Data of Celebrities,” contains the information of 999,999 alleged users of the service, including their names, gender, and the evaluation of their ancestral origins provided by 23andMe. Despite the title of the database, it primarily consists of non-famous individuals and seems to have been filtered to include only those with Ashkenazi heritage.

23andMe is treating the leak as genuine and is currently investigating the incident. A spokesperson for the company states that it does not believe it was directly hacked. Instead, it suspects that the hackers obtained some users’ passwords from other breached sites, which were then used to exploit the fact that 23andMe allows users access to extensive genetic information from other users. Earlier this week, a hacker on a prominent forum claimed to have a larger database of users for sale, although it remains uncertain whether the individuals who filtered the list by Ashkenazi heritage are the same as those who initially compiled it.

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Hackers have obtained a vast list of individuals with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry from the genetic testing service 23andMe and have shared it on the internet. show more
October 8, 2023
Jake Welch
Media
News

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan is Amplifying Anti-Israel Content Right Now.

Far-left MSNBC presenter Mehdi Hasan is amplifying anti-Israeli sentiment and content on social media by sharing multiple videos and posts on X (formerly Twitter) that seek to downplay Hamas aggression in the region.

Hasan reposted a number of posts that sought to shift the blame from Hamas to Israel, including, one that read: “unprecedented failure of israel intelligence—the most important component of the country’s national security…utter desperation of gaza palestinians, with many seeing no options for their future but the launch of a suicidal war.”

Hasan shared another condemning the same video’s “apocalyptic language,” adding “The scale of Israeli war crimes in Gaza is likely to exceed anything we have seen before.”

He further shared another post that blamed everyone other than Hamas – an internationally acknowledged terrorist organization – for the attack:

“This is a colossal intelligence failure by Israel for sure. But it is also a massive political and moral failure by the US, EU and the rest of the int’l community who have been content to maintain the status quo as long as it was mostly Palestinian that paid the price.”

Hasan spent a vast amount of his time in the UK deriding non-Muslims as “cattle” and “animals” before landing his position as a presenter for MSNBC in the United States. He also infamously stated at an Oxford debate he would not “take lessons in anti-Semitism from someone who’s here to defend the Judeo-Chrisitian values of a continent that murdered six millions Jews.”

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Far-left MSNBC presenter Mehdi Hasan is amplifying anti-Israeli sentiment and content on social media by sharing multiple videos and posts on X (formerly Twitter) that seek to downplay Hamas aggression in the region. show more
October 8, 2023
Jake Welch
Media
News

Murdoch Journo ‘Sorry’ After Hailing ‘Bravery, Intensity’ of Hamas.

A journalist for the Murdoch-owned newspaper The Times has referred to Hamas’ violent incursion into Israel by describing the terror group’s “bravery, intensity, and incredible ability…” while interviewing an Israeli diplomat just hours after the attack.

Chloe Tilley, a presenter for Times Radio as well as the British Broadcasting Corporation, later apologized, blaming an incorrect choice of words due to “four hours of live broadcasting.”

Alon Pinkas, the diplomat with whom Tilley spoke, was forced to “correct [her] English” and referred to Hamas’ “audacity” after it launched the assault that has already seen hundreds of Israelis dead and kidnapped and thousands injured as a result.

Pinkas further explained, “[Hamas militants] are coming from the sea, they are coming from the air, they are coming on the ground and are killing children and civilians: so there is not much bravery in doing that.”

Hamas, the organization governing the Gaza Strip, has been designated a “terrorist organization” by dozens of countries throughout the world, including the United States and the 27 countries comprising the European Union.

Tilley’s remarks were quickly criticized by many online, with the Conservative Member of Parliament Brendan Clarke-Smith arguing, “I’m not sure I’d describe what [Hamas] is doing right now as ‘brave’ either [Chloe Tilley].”

The National Pulse reached out to Ms. Tilly for comment, whereupon she highlighted a statement made on X (formerly Twitter) yesterday: “Four hours of live broadcasting sometimes we choose the wrong words in the moment but I’m always willing to acknowledge it.”

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A journalist for the Murdoch-owned newspaper The Times has referred to Hamas' violent incursion into Israel by describing the terror group's "bravery, intensity, and incredible ability..." while interviewing an Israeli diplomat just hours after the attack. show more
biden ukraine
October 8, 2023
Jake Welch
News
World

Biden Wants Whopping $100Bn Aid Package for Ukraine.

The Biden government is planning a whopping $100bn aid package for Ukraine, in an effort to fund the war until the 2024 presidential election and avoid any potential impasse with Republican congressmen.

Biden himself is expected to ask Congress to provide Ukraine with the amount that would nearly double America’s existing commitments of over $113 billion over four congressionally-approved war packages since the war began in February 2022.

The idea is apparently “firmly supported by many throughout the administration,” according to one Biden official, who added, “[s]upporters of Ukraine want this to be a one-and-done big bill, and then not have to deal with it until after the next election.”

Biden will, however, wait until a new Speaker of the House is appointed until any deal is finalized, with voting set to begin later this week.

The Biden government is currently considering a range of options to secure funding for the war, such as using a State Department grant program to send additional military aid.

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The Biden government is planning a whopping $100bn aid package for Ukraine, in an effort to fund the war until the 2024 presidential election and avoid any potential impasse with Republican congressmen. show more
October 8, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

DeSantis Lost 6 Points After GOP Debate, Now Ties Vivek.

Ron DeSantis, who has heavily criticized Donald Trump for declining to participate in GOP primary debates hosted by hostile networks, has lost six points since the most recent contest hosted by Fox and Univision.

National numbers from DeSantis-friendly pollster WPA puts the Florida Governor a distant second, on 13 percent – tied with the previously unknown Vivek Ramaswamy, who has been the candidate most vocally sympathetic to Trump. The former president leads the two by 35 points.

Nikki Haley, who supposedly had a breakout performance at the last debate, with legacy media in America and Britain touting her as Trump’s new chief rival, has actually lost a point, and sits in fourth place on eight percent, just behind Chris Christie.

Haley pushed Ramaswamy hard during the debate, criticizing him for using TikTok to try and reach younger voters and declaring “we can’t have TikTok in our kids’ lives” – though it later turned out her own daughter posts to the Chinese social media platform.

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Ron DeSantis, who has heavily criticized Donald Trump for declining to participate in GOP primary debates hosted by hostile networks, has lost six points since the most recent contest hosted by Fox and Univision. show more
October 8, 2023
Jake Welch
Media
News
World

Mike Pence Blames Hamas Terror on Trump, Vivek, and DeSantis?

Former Vice President Mike Pence has bizarrely suggested that his Republican opponents in the 2024 nominee race – former President Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – are responsible for Hamas’ violent terrorist incursion into Israel over the weekend.

Pence made the remarks during an interview with CNN on Sunday, initially blaming President Joe Biden’s foreign policy on issues ranging from Afghanistan to the Iran nuclear deal before taking aim at his GOP adversaries.

“I also believe this is what happens when we have leading voices like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis signalling retreat from America’s role as leader of the free world. What happened in Ukraine was an unprovoked invasion by Russia, what happened this weekend was an unprovoked invasion by Hamas into Israel,” claimed Pence.

The former Vice President has become increasingly critical of Donald Trump’s populist policies in recent weeks, despite himself having worked side-by-side with the 45th President throughout the administration. He even claims that Trump’s populism is a “road to ruin.”

Pence’s presidential campaign has hitherto completely failed to get off the ground, and has not been able to poll consistently higher than five percent.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence has bizarrely suggested that his Republican opponents in the 2024 nominee race – former President Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – are responsible for Hamas' violent terrorist incursion into Israel over the weekend. show more
October 8, 2023
Jake Welch
News
World

Israel Formally Declares War, First Time Since 1973.

Israel’s government has confirmed the country is “at war” with Hamas after the nation’s security council voted in favor of invoking Article 40 Aleph for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the nation’s armed forces are now able to undertake “significant military activities” as a result.

Terrorist organization Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, claiming the lives of up to least 600 Israelis so far, with thousands suffering severe injuries and many believed to be hostages.

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Israel's government has confirmed the country is "at war" with Hamas after the nation's security council voted in favor of invoking Article 40 Aleph for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. show more
October 7, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

Biden is Now Blaming the Media For His Awful Economy.

President Joe Biden blamed the media for American discontent with his handling of the economy while fielding press questions on the September jobs report at the White House on Friday.

“You all are not the happiest people about what you report. You get more legs when you report something negative,” Biden said. “I think [Americans] know they’re better off financially than they were before. It’s a fact,” he concluded, before going on to make a strange point about throwing a dog in a lake.

Recent polling on the economy has been abysmal for the 80-year-old Democrat, who is ostensibly seeking re-election in 2024.

Two weeks ago a Washington Post-ABC News poll found just 30 percent of Americans approve of the Biden economy. For the first time in 32 years, Republicans lead Democrats – 53 to 39 percent – on the question of who would handle the economy better in Gallup’s tracking poll. A late-September Marquette Law School poll showed 52 percent of voters think former President Donald would better handle the economy – only 28 percent said Biden would handle it better.

Despite the Biden White House repeatedly claiming Americans are better off financially now than ever before under, mounting evidence suggests unease about the state of the economy is justified. Under Biden, nearly two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck. Home mortgage rates have soared to the highest levels in 23 years. In August, credit rating agency Fitch downgraded its AAA U.S. government debt rating to AA+.

Biden’s decision to center his campaign on the success of “Bidenomics” increasingly looks like a blunder. Fears over the state of the economy is driving down support for Democrats across key constituencies, including among Black and Hispanic voters. In a historic speech in Michigan, Trump made the case for “patriotic protectionism” – a relentless effort to reshore jobs from China and combat foreign trade manipulation.

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President Joe Biden blamed the media for American discontent with his handling of the economy while fielding press questions on the September jobs report at the White House on Friday. show more