The European Union (EU) has agreed that spyware and surveillance tools could be installed on the computers and phones of journalists to identify anonymous sources in the name of ‘national security.’
If journalists are under any form of criminal investigation, whether that be from murder to bicycle thefts or music piracy, European governments are now permitted to install “intrusive surveillance software” on their devices.
The legislation expands on legal “loopholes,” which permitted governments to install spyware on the personal devices for terrorism offenses.
However, France has criticized the intrusiveness of the measures, arguing it is “essential to strike a fair balance between the need to protect the confidentiality of journalists’ sources and the need to protect citizens and the state against serious threats … whoever the perpetrators may be.”
“The particularly exorbitant nature of this immunity raises questions,” argued a confidential French diplomatic document leaked to POLITICO.
A further 65 organizations, such as the European Digital Right (EDRi), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and several human rights groups, have written a letter to the European Commission demanding the proposed laws be scrapped.
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The European Union (EU) has agreed that spyware and surveillance tools could be installed on the computers and phones of journalists to identify anonymous sources in the name of 'national security.'
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John Griffin, a former CNN producer who had a close relationship with former host Chris Cuomo, has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl, with an additional 15 years of supervised release.
Griffin, 46, himself a father of three, paid the girl’s mother $3,000 to fly from Nevada to Vermont so he could sexually abuse her daughter.
One of the text messages between the two includes Griffin telling the mother: “One of the big lies of this society is that women are delicate innocent angels and they are in actuality, naturally, the dirtiest sluts possible, in EVERY metric.”
Griffin was arrested in December 2o21 after an 18-month investigation on multiple charges after inviting girls as young as seven to his home for “sexual subservience” training. However, as part of a plea deal, two additional charges against him of ‘enticement of a minor’ were dropped by prosecutors.
He has also worked as a producer at CNN, ABC, Fox News, and CBS. While at CNN, Griffin “boasted” of his proximity to former leader news anchor host Chris Cuomo.
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John Griffin, a former CNN producer who had a close relationship with former host Chris Cuomo, has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl, with an additional 15 years of supervised release.
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Restricted access to abortions infringes upon the religious rights of Satanists, as well as “other people of faith” including Jews, Episcopalians, and Unitarians, argues POLITICO. The wildly offensive comparison between Satanists and others comes almost a year after the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v Wade.
Challenges against the decision by “clergy members and practitioners of everything from Judaism to Satanism” are being launched in state and federal courts, POLITICO notes, claiming Satanists in Texas, Idaho, and Louisiana, argue “the laws infringe upon their congregants’ belief in bodily autonomy and right to practice abortion as a religious ritual.”
Jewish challengers in Kentucky are citing religious texts that say life begins when a baby takes its first breath, while in Florida, the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, and the Unitarian Universalist Church sued to overturn a recent 15-week abortion ban.
The Satanic Temple’s religious abortion ritual involves, “the recitation of two of our Tenets and a personal affirmation that is ceremoniously intertwined with the abortion.” The affirmation requires a member to say: “By my body, my blood, by my will, it is done.”
By pursuing legal action against abortion bans, Satanists are “chip[ping] away at the assumption that all religious people oppose abortion,” POLITICO states.
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Restricted access to abortions infringes upon the religious rights of Satanists, as well as "other people of faith" including Jews, Episcopalians, and Unitarians, argues POLITICO. The wildly offensive comparison between Satanists and others comes almost a year after the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Roe v Wade.show more
“Julian Assange must not be extradited to the US, for such an action will shame our country,” argues British writer Peter Hitchens in the Daily Mail, claiming “[t]here is still just time for prominent figures in [British] politics and the media to place themselves on the side of justice and liberty, where they ought always to be.”
Hitchens, 71, has long criticized the imprisonment of Assange, the founder of the non-profit Wikileaks, who has now been in Belmarsh prison since 2019, having previously lived in a room in London’s Ecuadorian embassy for years. Assange is perhaps best known for the release of hundreds of thousands of classified documents pertaining to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“[I]f Mr Assange is sent to face trial in the US, any British journalist who comes into possession of classified material from the US, though he has committed no crime according to our own law, faces the same danger,” Hitchens explains.
“This is a basic violation of our national sovereignty, and a major threat to our own press freedom. I think that no English court should accept this demand,” he adds.
Earlier this month Assange, who remains imprisoned in London, lost an appeal to the High Court to avoid being extradited and has since appealed again.
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"Julian Assange must not be extradited to the US, for such an action will shame our country," argues British writer Peter Hitchens in the Daily Mail, claiming "[t]here is still just time for prominent figures in [British] politics and the media to place themselves on the side of justice and liberty, where they ought always to be."
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Ukrainian soldiers are displaying Nazi iconography on their uniforms, the New York Times has finally accepted, even admitting that “diplomats, Western journalists and advocacy groups” avoid making mention of it, therefore allowing it to spread.
Army photos “highlight the Ukrainian military’s complicated relationship with Nazi imagery, a relationship forged under both Soviet and German occupation during World War II,” the Times reports, echoing the kind of reporting produced by The National Pulse over a year ago.
As an example, the “Black Sun” symbol, which appeared in the castle of the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, is regularly appearing on the uniforms of Ukrainian soldiers.
Even Jewish groups and anti-hate organizations that have traditionally called out hateful symbols have stayed largely silent. Privately, some leaders have worried about being seen as embracing Russian propaganda talking points.
– New York Times, June 2023
Both corporate and social media have gone to extreme lengths to cover for Nazi and Neo-Nazi activity at the heart of Ukraine’s war effort. In 2022, Facebook created a special exemption for the nation’s Azov battalion, known for using Nazi overtones. The Washington Post finally admitted to the role of Azov and its relationship with Nazism last year. PBS in fact tried to cover-up for some of the Nazi imagery by blurring the background of a Ukrainian politician.
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Ukrainian soldiers are displaying Nazi iconography on their uniforms, the New York Times has finally accepted, even admitting that "diplomats, Western journalists and advocacy groups" avoid making mention of it, therefore allowing it to spread.
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The Atlantic magazine – owned by late Apple founder Steve Jobs’s widow Laurene Powell Jobs – asserts that it is “Okay to Like Good Art by Bad People” – citing pederasts and pedophiles such as Oscar Wilde and Roman Polanski as those who need representation. The article even concludes that the debauched behavior is inseparable from the art.
Judith Shulevitz focuses primarily on Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, a book by Claire Dederer considering whether people should continue to enjoy works by moral “monsters”. Readers are told art “transcends the artist” – however depraved.
Shulevitz leads on Oscar Wilde, the Anglo-Irish author and libertine often heralded as something of an LGBTQ icon due the “gross indecency” conviction he incurred in relation to homosexual activities.
To her at least partial credit, Shulevitz concedes that Wilde was more than an innocent victim of Victorian bigotry, as he did not just “sleep with men” but with “rent boys” and what she dubiously describes as “teenage boys picked up for brief trysts.”
The detail is more unpleasant than she wishes to disclose, however, with Wilde accused at trial of having been caught with a 14-year-old boy in his bed at the Savoy Hotel, of “seducing” a boy aged 16, and of taking advantage of a serving boy the same age – Wilde’s defense in court was that the sevant in question was “very ugly” – among other depredations.
“Fifteen and most sweet… every day I kissed him behind the high altar,” he said of one of his child lovers, Giuseppe Loverde, in a lecherous letter penned in Sicily not long before his death aged 46.
Polanski.
Shulevitz also discusses Roman Polanski, the French-born three-time Oscar winner, who has been a fugitive from the American justice system since the 1970s, when he plied a 13-year-old girl with alcohol and drugs at Jack Nicholson’s house and sodomized her.
Hollywood coddled the 89-year-old pedophile for decades, with Quentin Tarantino, for example, saying he did not believe “13-year-old party girls” should be considered victims as recently as 2003.
In conclusion, Shulevitz returns to the words of Wilde himself to justify indulging in the works of such men, whether unquestionably guilty or under a cloud of suspicion.
“I don’t believe you can separate [Wilde’s] aestheticism or his buoyant writing from his role as a sexual nonconformist,” Shulevitz says – a curious way to reframe his pedophilic taste in underage boys – and recommends we “heed his warning about the consequences of a triumph of morality over art: ‘Art will become sterile, and Beauty will pass away from the land.'”
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The Atlantic magazine – owned by late Apple founder Steve Jobs's widow Laurene Powell Jobs – asserts that it is "Okay to Like Good Art by Bad People" – citing pederasts and pedophiles such as Oscar Wilde and Roman Polanski as those who need representation. The article even concludes that the debauched behavior is inseparable from the art.
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Donald Trump’s presidential announcement at Mar-a-Lago last November was viewed by around 4.5 times the number of people as that of Governor Ron DeSantis’s on Twitter this week, according to the data.
DeSantis said his glitch-ridden Twitter Space, or a recording of it, had been watched by “probably over 10 million people”. There’s no evidence of this. In fact, the Space managed only just over 300,000 concurrent listeners, with Twitter showing a currently tally of 3.9 million people tuning in.
Trump’s announcement, despite many news networks not carrying it in full, interspersing it with adverts, or not carrying it at all, achieved millions more concurrent viewers. Fox News alone pulled in over 5.16 million people in the time slot, with CNN piling on 2.43 million more.
The number of people who tuned in after the fact is harder to determine, but some indication of the level of interest in Trump’s annoucement can be determined from looking at the numbers for networks which streamed Trump’s announcement on YouTube: Fox News pulled in 1.2m views, Fox Business another 826,000, and CNBC 612,000, for example.
Video of the full speech uploaded to the site by CNN adds 660,800 viewers, ABC Action News another 923,000, with hundreds of thousands more spread out across channels for relatively obscure broadcasters, with uploads of the speech by the likes of Fox 2 Detroit, for example, boasting 117,000 views. Video streaming platform Rumble showed a further 2.05 million views on the official account of Donald J. Trump alone, while the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) announced that it hit more than 3.8 million viewers for the speech.
Trump again demonstrated this “ratings gold” again in April 2023, with a major speech following his indictment in New York being viewed by 6.6 million viewers on Fox alone, with another 2.125 million watching on CNN – “far higher than the network ha[d] seen in prime time in months,” Forbes observed.
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Donald Trump's presidential announcement at Mar-a-Lago last November was viewed by around 4.5 times the number of people as that of Governor Ron DeSantis's on Twitter this week, according to the data.
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Ron DeSantis’s claim that he broke the internet during his campaign launch “because so many people were excited about being on the Twitter space” has failed to catch on both at home and abroad. The spin flopped after an even larger Twitter Space with Trump world advisors and influencers achieved around double the listenership immediately after the Florida Governor’s botched launch on Wednesday night.
The campaign launch was led by Hillary Clinton donor David Sacks alongside Elon Musk on Twitter last night. The first 20 minutes were mostly dead air and saw the app crash and fail several times. Audiences were left in a state of total confusion, with many leaving when they heard nothing, and never coming back.
The vast majority of the coverage across the world has been negative, with words such as “incompetent,” “disastrous,” and meltdown being used to describe it.
A Sampling of the Headlines:
The Guardian (United Kingdom) – Failure to Launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis.”
Sky News (United Kingdom) – “Ron DeSantis claims campaign launch ‘broke the internet’ – but did it hint at an incompetent candidate from the off?”
Frankfurter Allgemeine (Germany) – “A found food for Trump” which is a German idiom. Translated, it refers to something that one can exploit or use to one’s advantage, especially with a sense of opportunism. A more contextually accurate translation might be, “A golden opportunity for Trump” or “easy pickings for Trump.”
Reuters – “Ron DeSantis joins White House race, tripped up by chaotic Twitter launch.”
CBC (Canada) – DeSantis kicks off 2024 U.S. presidential campaign after Twitter event plagues by technical problems.”
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Ron DeSantis's claim that he broke the internet during his campaign launch "because so many people were excited about being on the Twitter space" has failed to catch on both at home and abroad. The spin flopped after an even larger Twitter Space with Trump world advisors and influencers achieved around double the listenership immediately after the Florida Governor's botched launch on Wednesday night.
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Legacy media outlets appear to be panicking as Donald Trump’s policy platform for 2024 comes into sharper focus, with it now being evident that the gloves will come off if he gets a second chance to “drain the swamp”.
In a brace of stories by former Bloomberg reporter Sophia Cai, corporate-owned news site Axios bemoaned Trump’s “new strong-man agenda” for 2024.
Cai, whose employer claims to be above pushing opinions on readers, complained that Trump’s “grievance-driven campaign” was “fueling a tear-it-all-down agenda” – and warned it could give the former president “control of virtually every facet of life in America.”
Some of the Agenda47 “strong man” policies she cited were:
Trump’s pledge to fire the “Radical Marxist Prosecutors Destroying America”.
Trump’s pledge to pass a law “prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states” and launch an investigation into whether “Big Pharma and the big hospital networks… have [d]eliberately covered up horrific long-term side-effects of ‘sex transitions’ to get rich at the expense of vulnerable patients.”
Trump’s pledge to repeal Biden’s “extremist agenda to destroy America’s suburbs” by pressuring them to construct “giant multi-family apartment complexes” in their midst – a policy designed to forcibly alter communities’ electoral and ethnic make-up, many suspect.
Trump’s pledge to introduce “baby bonuses” to support young parents, similar to those in conservative-led Hungary and Poland, to launch “a new baby boom” and obviate the alleged need for mass migration.
Trump’s pledge to “designate cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations” and use the military to “inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership and operations”.
Axios seemed particularly exercised about Trump’s desire “to give the president the authority to hire and fire federal workers at will” in order to “attack what he calls the ‘deep state.'”
Why it would be a problem for the people’s foremost elected representative be able to dispense with an entrenched bureaucracy of unelected officials thwarting voters’ wishes was left unclear.
New data released Tuesday shows Americans believe the media to be “truly the enemy of the people,” according to Rasmussen, who asked likely voters if they agreed with Trump’s 2019 tweet verbiage.
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Legacy media outlets appear to be panicking as Donald Trump's policy platform for 2024 comes into sharper focus, with it now being evident that the gloves will come off if he gets a second chance to "drain the swamp".
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Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
A majority of likely U.S. voters – 59 percent – believe the media are ‘truly the enemy of the people,’ according to a recent survey by Rasmussen Reports. The quote is taken from a 2019 Donald Trump tweet.
The press is doing everything within their power to fight the magnificence of the phrase, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! They can’t stand the fact that this Administration has done more than virtually any other Administration in its first 2yrs. They are truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
The majority includes 35 percent who “strongly agree” with the statement and another 24 percent who “somewhat agree.”
A whopping 77 percent of Republicans agree with the statement, with 49 percent strongly agreeing. Only 20 percent disagree.
Almost half of Democrats – 44 percent – agree with the statement, with 24 percent strongly agreeing.
Trust in Media.
Rasmussen Reports also asked the 1,002 likely voters: “Do you trust the political news you are getting?”
The majority of American voters – 52 percent – answered “[n]o” to the question.
Almost two-thirds of Republicans are untrusting of the media – 65 percent. Democrats, too, are varied, with 35 percent answering “[n]o” and another 21 percent answering “[n]ot sure.”
Only 30 percent of the electorate answered “Yes,” with less than a quarter of Republicans – 22 percent – trusting the media and less than half of Democrats – 44 percent.
Coverage Bias.
Lastly, Rasmussen Reports asked: “Does the media coverage of politics generally tend to favor Democrats or Republicans.”
The majority of Americans – 52 percent – believe that the media’s coverage favors the Democrats, with 66 percent of Republicans and even 39 percent of Democrats concurring.
Neither Democrats nor Republicans believe that media coverage favors the GOP: only 21 percent of Democrats and 23 percent of Republicans thought otherwise.
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A majority of likely U.S. voters – 59 percent – believe the media are 'truly the enemy of the people,' according to a recent survey by Rasmussen Reports. The quote is taken from a 2019 Donald Trump tweet.
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