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January 14, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
Immigration
World

Leftist Theater on Brink of Bankruptcy After Hosting Hundreds of Illegals Who Refuse to Leave.

A leftist-run theater is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy after opening its doors to around 250 African migrants who have refused to leave the venue after staying there for five weeks. The Gaîté Lyrique theater in Paris, France, let in around 250 Africans on December 10, when it held a conference of pro-migrant academics and activists. When the conference ended, the migrants refused to leave, and the numbers are said to be steadily increasing, with over 300 now occupying the theater.

Since the theater can no longer operate and put on revenue-generating performances, the management has stated that the venue faces possible bankruptcy. Some have estimated that the theater has lost hundreds of thousands of euros in potential revenues.

“The sanitary conditions are deteriorating day after day, and the teams are facing this situation alone,” the management said. “Although this occupation is forced, it is unthinkable for the Gaîté Lyrique to throw these people out onto the street in the middle of winter,” they added.

Local businesses catering to theater-goers also say they have seen a massive fall in revenues, with one bistro claiming to have lost as much as 30,000 euros in business.

Far-left migrant advocacy groups have organized similar occupations in the past, but usually in public spaces like parks and squares.

France saw over 158,000 asylum applications last year as the country continues to struggle with large numbers of illegal arrivals. Many, however, do not remain in the country long, as their ultimate goal is to reach the United Kingdom by illegally crossing the English Channel.

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A leftist-run theater is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy after opening its doors to around 250 African migrants who have refused to leave the venue after staying there for five weeks. The Gaîté Lyrique theater in Paris, France, let in around 250 Africans on December 10, when it held a conference of pro-migrant academics and activists. When the conference ended, the migrants refused to leave, and the numbers are said to be steadily increasing, with over 300 now occupying the theater. show more
October 16, 2024
William Upton
Corruption
Election 2024
NatSec

Top Kamala Ally Forged Deep Ties to Chinese Communist Party.

A close ally of Vice President Kamala Harris has worked to forge close business ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), promising to leverage the voices of African Americans in the United States to help the colonial-esque aims of the Chinese on the African continent. Ron Busby—the leader of the U.S. Black Chambers business group—has been praised by Harris as an “extraordinary leader” and held numerous official meetings with Biden-Harris government staff, including dozens of visits to the White House.

While Harris and other national Democrats have praised Busby for his work on behalf of black businesses in the United States, he has leveraged that attention to build close ties to key CCP leaders. The U.S. Black Chambers chief’s work with New York Democrats has been especially beneficial in these regards.

In September 2017, Busby joined a delegation of New York state officials and business leaders on a 10-day junket to China, where they met with their Communist Party counterparts in Shanghai, Xi’an, and Beijing.

Earlier this year, a top aide to New York governors Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul was arrested on the suspicion she acted as an unregistered foreign agent for Communist China. The Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in New York, implicated in the foreign agent scheme, underwrote the 2017 junket.

AFRICA & NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS.

Concerningly, Busby appears to have involved himself—and, as a consequence, other leaders in the black business community—in Chinese colonial efforts on the African continent.

“[China understands] the importance of being on the continent obviously, but they also understand that there needs to be a relationship between the people on the continent, and they understand that African Americans have a natural relationship here, and so we [three] will work together to bring their resources that they have along with the ingenuity, creativity that we have in the United States, to bring that here,” Busby said regarding the 2017 junket while at conference in Durban, South Africa. He added: “Collectively, all three continents can grow, and they’re very excited as well as we are.”

Even more troubling, according to documents reviewed by Fox News, Busby promised to share resources between America’s black business community and Chinese Communist officials in Xi’an, raising national security concerns. The Chinese state report reads that Busby’s “[U.S. Black Chambers, Inc.] administered more than 100 chambers, and he is willing to share and communicate the resources with Xi’an in various fields.”

Vice President Harris’s running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), also has extensive ties to China and the Chinese Communist Party, which has prompted a Congressional probe.

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A close ally of Vice President Kamala Harris has worked to forge close business ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), promising to leverage the voices of African Americans in the United States to help the colonial-esque aims of the Chinese on the African continent. Ron Busby—the leader of the U.S. Black Chambers business group—has been praised by Harris as an "extraordinary leader" and held numerous official meetings with Biden-Harris government staff, including dozens of visits to the White House. show more
August 20, 2024
Immigration
World

Illegal Immigration Is Up Over 100 Percent In These Western European Territories.

Illegal migrant arrivals from Africa surged to unprecedented levels in Spain during the first half of August. Data from the Spanish Interior Ministry shows a sharp increase of 126 percent in the Canary Islands, off the African coast, and a 143 percent rise in Ceuta, a Spanish exclave on the coast of North Africa.

In July, Fernando Clavijo—the Canary Islands’ regional leader from a coalition of center-right parties—appealed to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the European Union (EU) for urgent intervention regarding migration. From January to mid-August, the Canary Islands recorded 22,304 irregular arrivals, up 126.1 percent from the same period the previous year.

While the numbers are small compared to the millions of migrants penetrating the U.S. southern border, they are transformative for the islands’ relatively small population, which includes thousands of British and German retirees. The majority of the illegals originate from Mauritania and the Sahel region, spanning the southern Sahara from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. Violence in the region, where American influence is waning under the Biden-Harris government, is spurring large movements of migrants.

From January to August, 31,155 illegal migrants arrived in Spain, representing a 66.2 percent increase compared to the same period last year. Most of these migrants, approximately 29,512 individuals, arrived by sea on small boats. Spain remains a critical entry point to the European Union (EU) for migrants, particularly those from West African countries navigating the dangerous Atlantic route to the Canary Islands and those seeking to break into the exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla through Morocco.

The growing migrant numbers have prompted calls for action from the leader of the opposition People’s Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who requested the government declare a “migratory emergency.” The populist VOX party also frequently criticizes Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s far-left government on border security.

Image via A. Rodriguez.

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Illegal migrant arrivals from Africa surged to unprecedented levels in Spain during the first half of August. Data from the Spanish Interior Ministry shows a sharp increase of 126 percent in the Canary Islands, off the African coast, and a 143 percent rise in Ceuta, a Spanish exclave on the coast of North Africa. show more
U.S. forces in Niger
August 6, 2024
Politics
World

Biden-Harris Regime Throws in the Towel in Niger, Abandons Military Base.

The United States has officially handed over its last military base in Niger, marking the end of its military presence in the African nation. The U.S. Department of Defense and Niger’s Department of National Defense announced on Monday that the withdrawal of American troops and assets from Air Base 201 in Agadez is complete.

Air Base 201, situated near Agadez, underwent significant improvements by the United States, but will no longer be able to enjoy the fruits of these costly investments. U.S. troops had been present in Niger for years, providing military training and supporting missions against Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the region.

Following a military coup in July of 2023, a pro-Russian military junta took over Niger, ousting the Western-backed president. The National Pulse reported that neighboring nations and the Biden-Harris government in the U.S. initially threatened to intervene and restore the country’s former leader. However, by April of this year, Russian forces had begun to move in, with Biden conceding to the junta and announcing a withdrawal of U.S. troops.

GEOPOLITICS.

In recent years, Russia has similarly supplanted the U.S. and its allies in Mali, Burkina Faso, and other states in the region.

The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam noted last year that while reductions to U.S. foreign entanglements are positive—with many Americans opposing foreign interventionism—the Niger situation is more akin to a military defeat.

“In fact, while troops coming home is something to be celebrated, they’re not coming home because they’ve secured any kind of long-term strategic victory in the region—not even by globalist standards,” Kassam said.

“Biden’s apparatus has humiliated America again and leaves dangerous parts of the world in worse situations than when they took office,” he explained.

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The United States has officially handed over its last military base in Niger, marking the end of its military presence in the African nation. The U.S. Department of Defense and Niger's Department of National Defense announced on Monday that the withdrawal of American troops and assets from Air Base 201 in Agadez is complete. show more
July 1, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration

Biden Regime Bringing Back Migrants Deported by Trump.

The Joe Biden regime is actively reimporting illegal aliens deported to Cameroon by Donald Trump. Discovered through interviews with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel and an examination of internal documents, the move remains unannounced to the public.

Memos reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon reveal ICE collaborating with nonprofits to bring back the migrants. An internal email from 2023 shows Fatma Marouf, director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Texas A&M University, informing ICE of an arriving migrant at Washington-Dulles Airport.

Former ICE chief of staff Tom Blank suggests activist groups influencing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) decisions compromises the legal process. ICE’s collaboration with the Immigrant Rights Clinic is unusual. Such returns typically follow strict judicial orders after recognized prosecution errors.

Documents suggest the Biden regime aims to avoid litigation related to alleged abuses of Cameroonian migrants. A pending lawsuit in New York concerning related documents is noted—but no court has mandated their return.

The decision seems tied to a February 2022 Human Rights Watch report alleging mistreatment of Cameroonians deported between 2019 and 2021. Current and former ICE officials say reversing deportations for individuals previously deemed ineligible for asylum is unprecedented.

On his first day in office, Biden halted border wall construction. He also ended the policy of requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for court hearings. Most Americans believe he is “encouraging” illegal aliens to enter the U.S. to “create a permanent majority” for the Democrats.

Projections suggest that, by the end of his term, he will have overseen an illegal immigrant influx on par with all legal immigration from 1892 to 1954.

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The Joe Biden regime is actively reimporting illegal aliens deported to Cameroon by Donald Trump. Discovered through interviews with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel and an examination of internal documents, the move remains unannounced to the public. show more
May 20, 2024
Jack Montgomery
NatSec
World

CIA Crushed in Congo Coup.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, put down a coup attempt on Sunday. Opposition leader Christian Malanga, described as a “naturalized” U.S. citizen, was killed in the fighting in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, and at least three U.S. citizens have been arrested. Local media have accused the men of being U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents or associates.

“An attempted coup d’etat has been stopped by the defense and security forces,” said General Sylvain Ekenge. He confirmed that “foreigners” had been involved in the putsch. Malenga’s son Marcel, a TikTok influencer who spent much of his life in the U.S., is among the putschists captured by security forces.

Joe Biden’s ambassador in the country, Lucy Tamlyn, claimed she was “shocked by the events [in Congo] and very worried by the reports of American citizens allegedly involved.”

The CIA has been involved in coups and counter-coups in the Congo since at least the Dwight Eisenhower administration and is believed to have been involved in the assassination of the country’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba.

The resource-rich country is one of many in Africa in which U.S. influence has been waning, with a draft military cooperation agreement with Russia being signed in March. The Biden regime has recently been pressured to reduce its presence in Chad and to withdraw altogether from Niger, where outgoing American troops now have to share facilities with incoming Russian forces. Russia has already displaced the U.S. and its European allies from Mali and Burkina Faso.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is not to be confused with its western neighbor, the Republic of the Congo. Russian influence is also growing in the Republic of Congo.

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, put down a coup attempt on Sunday. Opposition leader Christian Malanga, described as a "naturalized" U.S. citizen, was killed in the fighting in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, and at least three U.S. citizens have been arrested. Local media have accused the men of being U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents or associates. show more
April 26, 2024
Jack Montgomery
NatSec
World

ANOTHER Country Boots Out U.S. Forces, As Biden NatSec Plan Crumbles In Real Time.

U.S. forces are being pushed out of yet another African nation in the Sahel region, with some of its already small force of around 100 troops in Chad to be reduced. Like many other African states, Chad has turned away from the U.S. and towards Russia for security assistance.

The Biden regime is attempting to downplay the withdrawal. “USAFRICOM (United States Africa Command) is currently planning to reposition some U.S. military forces from Chad, a portion of which were already scheduled to depart,” said Pentagon press secretary Major General Pat Ryder.

Maj. Gen. Ryder has suggested this is a “temporary step.” However, Chad is strongly signaling its hostility to the U.S. presence. Earlier this month, Air Force Chief of Staff Idriss Amine Ahmed told the U.S. attache U.S. forces should cease their activities on Adji Kossei Air Base. He argues they have failed to justify their presence.

ANOTHER DOMINO. 

These developments in Chad follow confirmation the U.S. will be forced out of Niger. A much larger force of over a thousand troops and recently finished two new drone bases are currently hosted there.

Like neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso, Niger has been taken over by a military junta. They are essential to U.S. interests in the Sahel, which spans the southern Sahara from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. However, all have now realigned with Russia.

The steady stream of geopolitical losses in Africa is a major embarrassment to Joe Biden and his national security team. The U.S. has long sought hegemony in the Sahel. It was expected that diplomatic and economic sanctions against Russia following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine would weaken Moscow’s regional influence. Instead, it has grown, while that of the U.S. and its regional allies, particularly France, has waned.

Niger’s realignment also poses significant challenges to Europe, facilitating an increase in illegal immigration from sub-Saharan Africa.

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U.S. forces are being pushed out of yet another African nation in the Sahel region, with some of its already small force of around 100 troops in Chad to be reduced. Like many other African states, Chad has turned away from the U.S. and towards Russia for security assistance. show more
April 23, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics
World

Another Massive Foreign Policy Own Goal For Biden & Team…

Russia is decisively outplaying the Joe Biden regime in Africa, senior U.S. officials are admitting, as Niger becomes the latest country to push out American troops in favor of Russian mercenaries. Having poured over a billion dollars into Niger, well over a thousand U.S. troops will now have to be withdrawn from the Sahel region state over the coming months, and critical new drone bases will be abandoned.

A senior U.S. military official with experience in Niger described the event as “a devastating blow, both for our regional counterterrorism efforts and to overall peace in the region going forward.” Russian military advisers and materiel are already arriving in the country.

Chad, the Central African Republic, Mali, and Libya, have already turned to Russia to enhance their security, POLITICO reports, with a senior U.S. official telling the news outlet: “Where the Russians have a real advantage over the United States is they have weapons, and they sell weapons, including helicopters.”

It is an embarrassing state of affairs for Biden and his NATO allies — France, the former colonial power, has already had its forces ejected from Niger — at a time when a diplomatic and sanctions blitz against Russia following the onset of the Ukraine war was supposed to curb its influence on the world stage. Instead, the U.S. is being further pushed back in a region where neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso had already undergone military coups, brought in Russian mercenaries, and realigned with Moscow.

Cameron Hudson, a former intelligence officer for Africa at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), described how the U.S. had tried to fill the vacuum in “all of these countries” when French influence waned following decolonization.

“All of that is clearly not working. We are now out. Russia is now in,” he lamented.

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Russia is decisively outplaying the Joe Biden regime in Africa, senior U.S. officials are admitting, as Niger becomes the latest country to push out American troops in favor of Russian mercenaries. Having poured over a billion dollars into Niger, well over a thousand U.S. troops will now have to be withdrawn from the Sahel region state over the coming months, and critical new drone bases will be abandoned. show more
U.S. forces in Niger
April 22, 2024
NatSec
World

U.S. Troops Forced Out in ANOTHER Humiliating Biden Diplomacy Fail.

In a win for Russia and an embarrassment to the Biden government, the U.S. military is hurriedly withdrawing over 1,000 deployed personnel from Niger. With more than $1 billion spent over a decade, the withdrawal represents another major failure for President Joe Biden and his “national security” team.

The region’s instability, amplified by alliances of local militias with international terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS, poses a significant risk to peace and counterterrorism efforts. The decision of the U.S. departure follows Niger’s recent military coup and the subsequent refusal of the nation’s leaders to cooperate with U.S. discussions regarding governance.

The African nation is instead moving towards partnerships with countries traditionally considered U.S. adversaries, focusing on Russia for security services and Iran for uranium reserve deals. In August 2023, the head of Russia’s Wagner Group mercenaries was seen in the country after its leaders requested Russian assistance.

Gen. Michael Langley, head of the U.S. military’s Africa Command, warned Congress in March about the risk of countries like Niger aligning with the Kremlin. His trip to Niger to meet with the country’s junta leadership proved futile as the nation’s joint military collaboration with the U.S. was suspended shortly afterward.

Last week, a Russian transport plane, reportedly carrying 100 Russian military trainers and a new air defense system, arrived in Niger’s capital. Russia is expanding its influence in several African countries once seen as critical to U.S. interests in the region. In March, Russia expanded a former Wagner Group base in Mali, and the Kremlin has stepped up recruitment efforts for Russia’s Africa Corps.

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In a win for Russia and an embarrassment to the Biden government, the U.S. military is hurriedly withdrawing over 1,000 deployed personnel from Niger. With more than $1 billion spent over a decade, the withdrawal represents another major failure for President Joe Biden and his "national security" team. show more

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Migrants March NYC
April 17, 2024
Immigration
Politics

WATCH: Illegals March On City Hall Demanding More Taxpayer Cash.

Hundreds of illegal aliens marched through New York City on Tuesday, eventually massing in front of City Hall. The protestors demanded the city extend a program housing illegal immigrants in hotels instead of temporary shelter facilities and provide them with work permits. According to a report from Savanah Hernandez, who was present at the protest, the crowd was composed largely of French-speaking single males who appeared to be from Haiti and Africa.

The protest was in response to a New York City Council oversight hearing, which aimed to address the quality of life and experiences of Black immigrants in the city. Council member Alexa Avilés echoed the protestors‘ calls in a post on X (formerly Twitter), stating: “We must uproot the anti-Blackness that plagues our systems of care—this work requires dedication, creativity, and a city willing to fund our short, mid, and long-term needs.”

Protestors expressed their discontent with a recent city decision to relocate them from luxury hotels, where they had previously been accommodated, to city shelters. Additionally, the illegal immigrants claimed the city’s 30-day limit on shelter access would leave many of them without housing options in the near future. New York City, which currently provides housing and other services for around 67,500 illegal immigrants, has struggled with the financial costs caused by the Biden government’s border crisis.

Work permits were also a top issue for the demonstrators. Democrat politicians on both the local and federal levels have pushed for increasing work permits as a partial solution to the ballooning taxpayer burden that providing food and shelter for illegal immigrants has brought. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has pushed the Biden White House to begin issuing additional permits. Meanwhile, several Democrats in the U.S. Senate are pushing legislation to grant permits to illegal immigrants working in agriculture.

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Hundreds of illegal aliens marched through New York City on Tuesday, eventually massing in front of City Hall. The protestors demanded the city extend a program housing illegal immigrants in hotels instead of temporary shelter facilities and provide them with work permits. According to a report from Savanah Hernandez, who was present at the protest, the crowd was composed largely of French-speaking single males who appeared to be from Haiti and Africa. show more