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March 20, 2025
News

Greenpeace Ordered to Pay Over $650M in Damages.

A jury in North Dakota has ruled that extreme environmental activist group Greenpeace must pay over $650 million in damages for defamation and other claims related to protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Energy Transfer and its subsidiary, Dakota Access, filed the lawsuit, accusing Greenpeace International and its U.S. branches of defamation, trespass, civil conspiracy, and other offenses.

Energy Transfer, based in Dallas, Texas, said the protests caused significant disruption, asserting that Greenpeace funded and trained protesters who engaged in unlawful activities against the pipeline’s construction.

The case is rooted in protests held in 2016 and 2017, which targeted the pipeline’s passage upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation. The tribe has long opposed the pipeline, citing supposed threats to its water supply. The pipeline has been operational since mid-2017, transporting oil across multiple states.

The ruling is a significant blow to Greenpeace, which is known worldwide for its controversial protests in the name of environmentalism. As of 2023, the group’s revenue was around $40 million, with 191 employees, leading to speculation that the ruling could bankrupt the group entirely.

Greenpeace plans to appeal the decision.

Image by Roberta F. 

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A jury in North Dakota has ruled that extreme environmental activist group Greenpeace must pay over $650 million in damages for defamation and other claims related to protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Energy Transfer and its subsidiary, Dakota Access, filed the lawsuit, accusing Greenpeace International and its U.S. branches of defamation, trespass, civil conspiracy, and other offenses. show more
March 20, 2025
William Upton
War
World

This Country Will Soon Distribute Emergency Survival Guides to Every Home.

A survival manual could soon be distributed to every household in France. Once approved, the 20-page booklet will be provided to every French citizen. The government hopes to complete the distribution by summer. According to officials, the manual is intended to help French citizens prepare for imminent threats, including armed conflict within the country’s borders.

“The survival manual aims to encourage citizens to develop their resilience in the face of different crises,” French Prime Minister François Bayrou‘s office stated in a recent media interview. “This includes natural disasters, technological and cyber incidents, health crises like COVID-19, and security crises like terrorist attacks and armed conflict.”

In 2022, the French government launched a website providing instructions on how to prepare for an emergency situation. The manual is believed to feature content similar to that the French government provides online—including strategies to protect one’s family from immediate threats, critical radio channels, and how best to contribute to local reserve defense units. Notably, one section of the booklet will deal with what individuals should do in the case of a nuclear attack.

The French Prime Minister’s office insists that “…the first step in citizen engagement is to be informed about threats and stay updated,” adding: “Engagement can also mean joining associations, such as the reserve forces.”

French President Emmanuel Macron announced at the start of March that the country aims to expand the number of military reservists to 100,000 over the next decade from the current total of 40,000.

France is not alone in distributing emergency manuals to its citizens. Both Finland and Sweden have recently distributed similar booklets with instructions on how to handle extreme weather events, military conflicts, power outages, and other emergency situations.

Image by Alan Levine.

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A survival manual could soon be distributed to every household in France. Once approved, the 20-page booklet will be provided to every French citizen. The government hopes to complete the distribution by summer. According to officials, the manual is intended to help French citizens prepare for imminent threats, including armed conflict within the country's borders. show more
March 20, 2025
Immigration
News

Latinos Back Trump’s Deportation Push.

At a recent city council meeting in the predominantly Hispanic city of Hialeah, Florida, only three residents voiced opposition to a partnership with the federal government to deport illegal aliens. Even though three-quarters of the population are foreign-born, most agree with President Donald J. Trump’s tougher immigration policies.

This reflects growing support for Trump among Hispanic voters, who shifted right in the 2024 election. This change is seen as partly motivated by perceptions that stricter border controls are necessary.

Frank Ayllon, a Miami resident, expressed that while some feel betrayed by these policies, they are necessary. “I feel like a lot of these people are taking it very personal. And it’s not personal. It’s just that you’ve got to understand that this has been an open border for many years,” he said.

In the broader political landscape, Trump’s appeal in Florida has been buoyed by his stance on opposing socialist regimes, attracting support from communities that fled such governments. In the 2024 elections, Trump succeeded in winning Miami-Dade County and making gains in areas with significant Hispanic populations, such as Seminole and Osceola counties.

Hispanics have shown substantial support for mass deportations of illegals. A poll published last year revealed that around 40 percent of Latinos supported deporting all illegal aliens from the United States. Nearly half supported building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

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At a recent city council meeting in the predominantly Hispanic city of Hialeah, Florida, only three residents voiced opposition to a partnership with the federal government to deport illegal aliens. Even though three-quarters of the population are foreign-born, most agree with President Donald J. Trump's tougher immigration policies. show more
March 19, 2025
William Upton
Economy
Immigration
UK

Vance: ‘Importing Cheap Labor’ Has Made the West ‘Lazy.’

U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance argues that importing cheap foreign labor through mass immigration has led to declining productivity and economic stagnation in the West. Speaking at a summit of venture capitalists hosted by Andreesen Horowitz on Tuesday, the Vice President stated the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom are “addicted to cheap labor,” which has fueled over 40 years of economic policy failures.

“I’d say that if you look in nearly every country, from Canada to the UK, that imported large amounts of cheap labor, you’ve seen productivity stagnate,” Vance told technology industry investors attending the summit. He continued: “That’s not a total happenstance. I think that the connection is very direct.”

Vance contends that high levels of immigration in Britain and the United States have caused both countries’ workforces and innovators to become lazy, leading to plummeting productivity.

TARIFFS.

The Vice President also defended President Donald J. Trump’s tariff policies, stating that the trade measures are a “necessary tool to protect our jobs and our industries from other countries.”

“When you erect a tariff wall around a critical industry like auto manufacturing and you combine that with advanced robotics and lower energy costs and other tools that increase the productivity of U.S. labor, you give American workers a multiplying effect,” Vance said. “Now that, in turn, allows firms to make things here at a price-competitive basis.”

Starting April 2, the United States will impose reciprocal tariffs on nations that have placed high trade barriers on American goods.

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U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance argues that importing cheap foreign labor through mass immigration has led to declining productivity and economic stagnation in the West. Speaking at a summit of venture capitalists hosted by Andreesen Horowitz on Tuesday, the Vice President stated the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom are "addicted to cheap labor," which has fueled over 40 years of economic policy failures. show more
March 19, 2025
News
War

Trump Proposes U.S. Takeover of Ukrainian Nuclear Plants.

President Donald J. Trump has proposed the U.S. take over Ukraine’s nuclear power plants during a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to a statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, “American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure.”

The statement highlighted discussions on Ukraine’s electrical supply and nuclear power plants, including the notorious Chernobyl facility. The U.S. government considers its potential involvement as a potential means of securing stability in the region’s power supply.

This conversation took place amid ongoing efforts to address Ukraine’s energy challenges due to the conflict with Russia. The nature and extent of U.S. involvement in Ukraine’s energy sector will likely require further negotiation and agreement between the nations’ governments.

The call between President Trump and President Zelensky comes just a day after Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 18. During that call, President Trump and President Putin agreed to an energy infrastructure ceasefire in which neither Russia nor Ukraine would target each other’s energy systems.

Just hours later, however, Russia claimed Ukraine had violated the agreement and attacked an oil transfer facility in the Krasnodar region.

Image by Hnapel.

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President Donald J. Trump has proposed the U.S. take over Ukraine's nuclear power plants during a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to a statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, "American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure." show more
March 19, 2025
Immigration

Trump Suspends Federal Funding for Catholic Mass Migration NGO.

President Donald J. Trump has suspended funding initially allocated to a New York nonprofit by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the former Biden government. Catholic Migration Services (CMS) was set to receive over $293,000 to provide naturalization services for immigrants. The grant, effective November 22, 2024, was intended to extend until September 2026.

CMS, which offers a range of services beyond naturalization, provides free legal assistance—including deportation defense—to illegal immigrants in New York. The mission statement of the nongovernmental organization (NGO) emphasizes that it aims to “advance equality and social justice in a changing and diverse population.” Notably, CMS operates four legal divisions, including Removal Defense and Naturalization teams—aimed at supporting illegal immigrants facing legal proceedings.

“CMS previously shared federal funding with other nonprofits to help lawful permanent residents become citizens. However, the Department of Homeland Security has recently frozen this program,” CMS said in response to the funding suspension. The group added: “In addition to offering various civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers, CMS also assists immigrants who have valid legal claims in removal proceedings.”

The funding suspension comes as the Trump administration aims to curb financial support to nonprofits that promote mass immigration. CMS has criticized the Trump administration for its immigration policies, which they claim instill fear within immigrant communities. The organization describes these policies as an “assault on immigrant communities.”

In previous funding allocations, the Biden government had also provided $1.2 million to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, an organization focused on changing the U.S. immigration enforcement system. Both CMS and similar groups aim to naturalize migrants and encourage political participation, potentially influencing electoral outcomes.

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President Donald J. Trump has suspended funding initially allocated to a New York nonprofit by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the former Biden government. Catholic Migration Services (CMS) was set to receive over $293,000 to provide naturalization services for immigrants. The grant, effective November 22, 2024, was intended to extend until September 2026. show more
March 19, 2025
Education
Sports

Trump Cuts Federal Funding to Ivy League University Over Men in Women’s Sports.

President Donald J. Trump has halted $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania, citing its policies regarding transgender athletes. This action aligns with Trump’s executive order aimed at prohibiting “biological males from joining women’s sports.”

The White House Rapid Response account on X (formerly Twitter) highlighted the move on social media. “The Trump Administration has ‘paused $175 million in federal funding from the University of Pennsylvania’ over its policies forcing women to compete with men in sports,” the Trump White House said. “Promises made, promises kept.”

Additionally, Trump’s Education Department has initiated a Title IX investigation into the university related to the past controversy involving biological male transgender swimmer William Thomas, now known as Lia Thomas. Ending biological males competing in women’s sports has been a top priority of the Trump White House. The National Pulse previously reported that President Trump chastised Governor Janet Mills (D-ME) for continuing to allow biological men to participate in women’s sports in her state in violation of his executive order.

The University of Pennsylvania isn’t the only Ivy League institution facing scrutiny from the Trump White House. Earlier this month, President Trump ordered the cancellation of $400 million in federal grants for Columbia University over its refusal to address rampant anti-Semitism on campus and failure to put an end to disruptive pro-Hamas demonstrations.

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President Donald J. Trump has halted $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania, citing its policies regarding transgender athletes. This action aligns with Trump's executive order aimed at prohibiting "biological males from joining women's sports." show more
March 19, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
Crime
TECH

Hackers Doxx Every U.S. Tesla Owner as Part of Terror Campaign.

Far-left hackers have published the detailed information of every Tesla owner in the United States, including their home addresses, as part of a campaign to terrorize the company and its owner, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) frontman Elon Musk. The website “DOGEQUEST” is reportedly linked to far-left anarchists and lists addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers for Tesla owners.

The website offers to remove Tesla customers’ information, but only if they provide proof that they have sold their Tesla vehicle. The group behind the site also lists the personal information of DOGE employees. The address of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel is also found on the site.

Elon Musk has commented on the site, stating on his social media platform X, “Encouraging destruction of Teslas throughout the country is extreme domestic terrorism!!”

The site appears to be part of a broader campaign against Musk and Tesla, which has included suspected arson attacks against Tesla vehicles in Las Vegas earlier this week at a Tesla service center. The arson attack is just one of at least a dozen attacks against Tesla vehicles, dealerships, and charging stations since President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration in January.

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Far-left hackers have published the detailed information of every Tesla owner in the United States, including their home addresses, as part of a campaign to terrorize the company and its owner, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) frontman Elon Musk. The website "DOGEQUEST" is reportedly linked to far-left anarchists and lists addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers for Tesla owners. show more
March 19, 2025
William Upton
News

JFK Files Appear to Shed New Light on Oswald’s Ties to KGB ‘Assassination Chief.’

The newly released John F. Kennedy assassination files appear to shed additional light on long-suspected ties between the late president’s alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and a high-ranking Soviet Union intelligence officer who is believed to have oversaw political assassinations and communist guerilla warfare operations. Just months before Oswald allegedly assassinated President Kennedy, he is believed to have traveled to Mexico City, entering the Soviet Union embassy in an effort to renew his travel visa to the communist country. This incident has long been clouded in suspicion, with little known about who Oswald met with and what was discussed.

However, intelligence memos in the JFK files reveal that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) came to believe with a high degree of confidence that the Soviet embassy officer who met with Oswald and reviewed his visa application was a man named Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov. Notably, Kostikov was not an actual diplomatic staffer but rather a high-ranking KGB official known for his expertise in targeted political assassinations and training of communist agitators and guerilla movements across South and Central America.

While Kostikov’s potential interaction with Oswald has been the subject of speculation for some time, the memos add a degree of certainty that Oswald indeed met with the infamous KGB officer in late September 1963. Just under two months later, Oswald—according to official accounts—shot and killed Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.

CIA CONCERNED ABOUT KOSTIKOV.

A series of CIA memos from the early to mid-1970s reveal the agency came to believe that Kostikov was deeply involved with the KGB’s 13th Department, which engaged in operations involving assassinations and sabotage. Another memo from 1978 from the CIA exudes a degree of panic when the agency became aware that Kostikov was operating in Beirut, Lebanon—suggesting they had been closely tracking the KGB officer’s movements in the years after the Kennedy assassination.

Although there is currently no definitive “smoking gun” linking Kostikov to Oswald’s actions in Dallas, the files shed new light on concerns American intelligence officials had regarding potential KGB involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy.

Image by Matthew Hickey.

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The newly released John F. Kennedy assassination files appear to shed additional light on long-suspected ties between the late president's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and a high-ranking Soviet Union intelligence officer who is believed to have oversaw political assassinations and communist guerilla warfare operations. Just months before Oswald allegedly assassinated President Kennedy, he is believed to have traveled to Mexico City, entering the Soviet Union embassy in an effort to renew his travel visa to the communist country. This incident has long been clouded in suspicion, with little known about who Oswald met with and what was discussed. show more
chutkan
March 19, 2025
Lawfare

Anti-Trump, Foreign-Born Judge Stops EPA from Ending Biden’s $14B ‘Green Bank’ Scam.

A federal judge has halted the attempts by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revoke $14 billion in grants awarded to three far-left environmentalist organizations. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed the EPA’s claims of fraud against the groups, stating that the government’s allegations were too vague and lacked substantiation. The EPA had tried to terminate the grant program, which originally totaled $20 billion as part of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.

The decision also prevents Citibank, which manages the funds for the EPA, from reallocating the money elsewhere. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin had accused the grant recipients of mismanagement and fraud in announcing the freeze. However, the judge found Zeldin’s evidence insufficient and questioned the rationale for terminating the grants before reviewing the program.

The three climate organizations—Climate United, the Coalition for Green Capital, and Power Forward Communities—had filed a lawsuit against the EPA, Zeldin, and Citibank. They argued that they were unfairly denied access to funds previously awarded for green energy projects. The grant recipients claimed the funds are essential for their ongoing projects and warned of potential layoffs.

Judge Chutkan’s ruling maintains the status quo—but she did not instruct Citibank to unfreeze the funds, leaving future funding in limbo. On social media, Administrator Zeldin asserted that the grants were distributed in a way that undermined federal oversight and vowed to reclaim the funds for the U.S. Treasury. He previously described the program as an effort to funnel taxpayer money to politically connected organizations without proper accountability.

Notably, Judge Chutkan has been a long-standing foe of President Donald J. Trump. Appointed in 2013 by President Barack Obama, Chutkan is a former employee of Trump-Russia hoax dossier firm Fusion GPS and originally Jamaican, from a family of “dangerous subversive agents.” In 2021, Chutkan denied Trump’s claim of presidential immunity in his election interference case, in a decision the Supreme Court later reversed.

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A federal judge has halted the attempts by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revoke $14 billion in grants awarded to three far-left environmentalist organizations. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed the EPA's claims of fraud against the groups, stating that the government's allegations were too vague and lacked substantiation. The EPA had tried to terminate the grant program, which originally totaled $20 billion as part of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. show more