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Connecticut’s House Bill 7042 would effectively allow victims of gun violence to sue the gun industry, from seller to manufacturer, for violence committed by a gun they helped bring to market in any way, shape, or form.

The draconian law, which, on its face, is an overt violation of the spirit of the second amendment, would not only destroy the gun industry, it would destroy any industry that produces any product or service that can be used malevolently by one of their customers. The bill is expected to pass.

New Gun Control Bill Targets Firearms Dealers for Crimes Committed with Their Guns – MSN
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Connecticut lawmakers have introduced House Bill 7042, a proposed law that could fundamentally change how firearm sales are regulated. The bill, titled the Firearm Industry Responsibility Act, would allow civil lawsuits to be filed against gun dealers, manufacturers, and distributors if a firearm they sold is later used in a crime. While the bill is still in the early stages of legislative review, it has already sparked strong reactions from both gun rights advocates and legal analysts who see it as a direct attack on gun sellers and possibly an attempt to force gun shops out of business.

NASA has moved the chances a “city-killer” sized asteroid will hit us in 2032 up to 1 in 37, 000, with the chances of it hitting the moon even higher.

‘City-killer’ asteroid could smash into MOON as Nasa warns probability of impact set to rise further – MSN
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Nasa has predicted that a Big Ben-sized asteroid could hit the Moon and has given odds for the destructive collision.

The space agency had previously feared the chance of a collision with Earth could reach 20 per cent by April.

Scientists now believe that the rock will sail past our planet with 167,000 miles to spare.

The odds of the asteroid hitting Earth now stand at just 1-in-37,000, dramatically lower than initial estimates.

According to Elon Musk, ActBlue, a DNC money laundering slush fundraiser machines, has been sponsoring five Marxist organizations that have been attacking Tesla dealerships. Video has since come out of people flat out admitting they were paid to attack Tesla dealerships. Musk’s platform X was hit by a cyber terror attack allegedly, according to Musk, from Ukrainian IP addresses.

One terrorist attack included a masked man who attempted to set three Tesla charging stations on fire but wound up setting himself on fire instead.

Man sets himself on fire at South Carolina Tesla charging stations while trying to torch them with Molotov cocktails | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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A masked man attempted to burn down three Tesla charging stations in Charleston, South Carolina but set himself on fire in the process. The Trump-hating criminal also spray painted an expletive directed at the president and then wrote “LONG LIVE UKRAINE.”

According to the Post and Courier, a masked man in Charleston, South Carolina spray painted “(expletive) TRUMP LONG LIVE UKRAINE” near a number of Tesla charging stations and then attempted to burn the charging stations, only to set himself on fire in the process. Witnesses saw him flee the scene and run behind nearby hotels. He has not yet been identified.

He hurled Molotov cocktails at the charging ports, which are located near 4855 Tanger Outlet Blvd. The damage he caused to the charging stations was estimated at $60,000. Witnesses began to dial 911, however, the man fled, running past a Zaxby’s location as he went in the direction of a hotel nearby.

Violent attacks on Tesla dealerships, many of them backed by left-wing organizations, per Elon Musk, have happened in many states in opposition to President Donald Trump and DOGE head Musk, as the tech entrepreneur has been highlighting and cutting government waste. Attacks have happened Oregon, Colorado, New York, California, Massachusetts, and now South Carolina.

 

Originally published February 28, 2025 for our End-of-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.” – Edmund Burke

INTRODUCTION

Keir Starmer, the current openly Marxist, Britain-hating Prime Minister of the UK, is proving to be an existential threat to the children of Britain and to the fate of the country itself. His participation in the enabling of child rape gangs, gangs of Islamists using rape and murder as a form of political manipulation, is clear and, at this point, beyond dispute.

His continued hatred for the British people and their way of life can be seen in how he jumps to protect Islamists from bad opinions while he continues to slander and defame the British people.

In past reports, we have exposed this man’s Marxist roots and his anti-British agenda to turn Britain into a cesspit of Islamist Marxism devoid of the white devil he imagines his own people are (despite the fact that he, too, is a white British man, but not in spirit).

The Free Press has an excellent summary of the albatross continuing to drag this man’s dystopian fantasy down:

The scandal is already reshaping British politics. It’s not just about the heinous nature of the crimes. It’s that every level of the British system is implicated in the cover-up.

Social workers were intimidated into silence. Local police ignored, excused, and even abetted pedophile rapists across dozens of cities. Senior police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the name of maintaining what they called “community relations.” Local councilors and Members of Parliament rejected pleas for help from the parents of raped children. Charities, NGOs, and Labour MPs accused those who discussed the scandal of racism and Islamophobia. The media mostly ignored or downplayed the biggest story of their lifetimes. Zealous in their incuriosity, much of Britain’s media elite remained barnacled to the bubble of Westminster politics and its self-serving priorities.

They did this to defend a failed model of multiculturalism, and to avoid asking hard questions about failures of immigration policy and assimilation. They did this because they were afraid of being called racist or Islamophobic. They did this because Britain’s traditional class snobbery had fused with the new snobbery of political correctness….

What we do know is that the epicenter was the postindustrial mill towns of England’s north and Midlands, where immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh settled in the 1960s. White locals say the grooming and rapes began soon after…

The details are established beyond doubt in the small number of prosecutions that eventually made it to court. The suffering described in the court papers is sickening to read: The girls were drugged, beaten, sodomized, gang-raped, trafficked, and tortured.

A. BIGGER THAN STARMER

Keir Starmer is the current front-face of the grooming assault on Britain in the name of Marxism, or globalism, or whatever you want to call it. The problems existed before him and are present in both the Conservative AND Labour Parties, but he is the perpetuator of this violent assault.

From UnHerd:

The statistics behind the rape gang scandal – let’s banish the wholly inadequate word “grooming” – are staggering. For over 25 years, networks of men, predominantly from Pakistani Muslim backgrounds, abused young white girls from Yeovil to London to Glasgow. The victims’ accounts are beyond depravity, unthinkable in a supposedly advanced Western democracy.

That, of course, immediately raises a simple, shocking question: why did British police services turn a blind eye to the gang rape of tens of thousands of young girls?…

The answer, in the end, is simple. Racism, for police services from Chester to Penzance, remains the original sin. From the Scarman Report to the Macpherson Inquiry, the police have long served as Britain’s sin-eaters, devouring social problems on our behalf. As former Met Commissioner Sir Robert Mark famously wrote: “The police are the anvil on which society beats out the problems and abrasions of social inequality, racial prejudice, weak laws and ineffective legislation.”

Compared to the intentional assault on the British people by its own racist, anti-liberty government (under Conservatives OR Labour), the Normans of 1066 were tolerant, peace-loving, freedom-respecting invaders.

B. THE GROOMING

  1. 2008-2009 ROCHDALE INVESTIGATION – While Keir Starmer served in leadership in the Crown Prosecution Services (CPS), his team decided that a young victim of grooming gangs was “unreliable,” so the case was dismissed, which led to a delay in their prosecution for 3 years before a prosecutor appointed by Starmer, Nazir Afzal, finally charged and prosecuted them. This led to the conviction of 9 men.

What happened during those three years before these men were finally prosecuted? One can only believe that they continued to do what they were doing before they got caught, grooming and raping white English children as a form of jihad against the country that paid their way there and continues to pay to sustain them.

  1. ROCHDALE GROOMING REIGN – A report from 2014 on the Rochdale grooming gangs shows their sexual assaults on children were at their highest between 1997 and 2013, falling in line with Starmer’s tenure there. It’s almost as if they KNEW they would get a free ride from the anti-English Starmer (who most likely viewed the raping of English children as justice for the raping of the third world by the British Empire).
  2. STARMER’S NONCE-ENABLING INSTITUTIONALIZATION – Starmer’s opponents believe he created an institutional spirit in CPS that stigmatized any notion of going after Muslim immigrants even if they KNEW (which this writer believes they DID KNOW) the grooming gangs were assaulting children. After all, these children were the children of the white devil who raped the world.

Professor Alexis Jay’s 2022 report on grooming gangs states that the only serious prosecutions of grooming gangs under Starmer were a result of a massive public pushback. Wherever cases were not publicly covered, Starmer’s child-rape-enabling prosecutors continued to sit on their hands.

Starmer’s creation of a pedo-enabling culture and his refusal to change led to the rape of hundreds more children, children Starmer probably views not as victims but as criminals being rightly punished.

C. THE SPIRIT OF GROOMING IN STARMER’S WORLDVIEW

  1. GROOMING FOR MARXISM IN THEORY – The Marxist left comes from a place where, inherently, they are predisposed to dispose of children and subject them to sexual assault. This spirit emerges from their claim that “systemic racism” is the existential threat to humanity that must be eradicated, by any means necessary, if humanity is to hope to survive. That systemic racism was created by the white devil, who also created heteronormativity, the sexual binary, parents, mother, father, and even the age of consent (ED.NOTE: In America, this list includes the Constitution, ESPECIALLY the Bill of Rights).

In order to rid the world of the white devil’s institutions, it’s not enough to change the laws, the old institutions must die. Children, for instance, must be encouraged to question their sexuality and gender, to BREAK the heteronormative frame and the gender binary construct. This is essential to their worldview, which is that the white devil led humanity astray, led humanity away from its real good, and the only way to return to the real good is to eliminate every institution the white devil created.

The Marxist left doesn’t merely encourage sexual grooming, they practically demand it. Their claim is that children who fit outside the sexual and gender norm will kill themselves unless government agents FORCE CHILDREN to question their sexuality and gender, and the white devil will win, because he uses heteronormativity and the sexual binary to oppress minorities.

In this cultural reality, sacrificing the children of the white devils on the altar of sexual assault is hardly offensive to an ideology that DEMANDS child sex grooming, never mind the fact that the key “founders” of the current iteration of Marxism were open advocates of pedophilia (which we covered in an earlier MIA report).

Destroying the majority for the good of the minority is the far nobler goal. Sure, there may be suffering here or there, and SOME children might be innocent, but overall, society as a whole will only grow closer to human perfection if we destroy the constructs the white devil created and replace them with our own (never mind what they are, to question them is to affirm you’re part of the oppressive majority, the white devil).

  1. THE UK FACE OF GROOMING FOR MARXISM – Keir Starmer is the poster child for that spirit. Under his watch as a lead prosecutor, Keir Starmer would enable child rape gangs across the UK to victimize more than 10,000 innocent children. His failure, willing or not, to “join the dots” across regions and across multiple victim testimonies protected child rapists and knowingly, willingly put children in danger “for the good of the whole (to end racism, which is to end the white devil, which is to end Britian itself as a construct).”

Starmer is as guilty of the child rapes and murders as the Islamist grooming gangs his office protected (and his current administration is still importing and subsidizing), whenever and wherever it could. The fact that CPS destroyed many records from his reign shows the actions of a guilty man and a guilty department.

Starmer’s defense would be that under his watch, between 2010 and 2011, there was a rise in child sex abuse cases prosecuted, but that was the result of reluctant prosecutions of cases that went public. The proof that this is true is in the fact that the number rose significantly once Starmer left. For instance, in 2016-17, the same CPS office prosecuted nearly twice as many cases as were prosecuted under Starmer’s peak prosecution year.

In other words, the insertion of child rape culture into Britain through state-sponsored “immigration” created a massive spike in child sex assault cases that Starmer’s office couldn’t completely ignore (though they would have if the public hadn’t forced their hand).

D. STARMER’S DEFENSE: KILL FREE SPEECH

Keir Starmer reveals his guilt by his best defense, a defense that seeks to lay the groundwork to criminalize any effort to call Islamists what they are: pedophile murderer-rapists running rampant across the UK on the taxpayer dime.

Elon Musk and others that claimed that Starmer knew about the rape gangs and protected them for two reasons: to curry votes with the England-hating subsidized Muslim community and to punish the English for having a world empire that, according to these deranged lunatics, did nothing but rape the lands, as well as the noble people of those lands.

In answering these accusations, Starmer said, “Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and wide as possible are not interested in victims, they’re interested in themselves. They are cheerleading Tommy Robinson, a man who went to prison for nearly collapsing a grooming case, a gang grooming case. These people are trying to get some kind of vicarious thrill from street violence, that people like Tommy Robinson promote.”

“Those attacking Jess Phillips, who I’m proud to call a colleague and a friend, are not protecting victims. Jess Phillips has done a thousand times more than they’ve even dreamt about when it comes to protecting victims of sexual abuse throughout her entire career. When the poison of the far right leads to serious threats to Jess Phillips and others, that, in my book, means a line has been crossed. I enjoy the cut and thrust of politics. The robust debate that we must have. But that’s got to be based on facts and truth. Not on lies.”

“Those who are so desperate for attention that they’re prepared to debase themselves and their country. So this government will get on with the job of protecting victims, including victims of sexual abuse. What I won’t tolerate is a debate based on lies and politicians jumping on the bandwagon simply to get attention. When those politicians were in government for 14 long years.”

When the British rioted in response to their own government protecting Muslim child rapists and arresting British citizens for calling the Islamists out for who they are, psychotic terrorist insurrectionists seeking to destroy Britian, Starmer called the British people “racist thugs.”

He chortled that he would “never accept the argument…that millions of people concerned about immigration are one and the same thing as people who smashed up businesses, targeted mosques, attempted to burn refugees, scrawled racist graffiti over walls, Nazi salutes at the Cenotaph, attacked NHS nurses and told people with different coloured skin, people who contribute here, people who grew up here, that they should ‘go home.’”

Never mind that the Nazi salute accusation was an intentional lie intended to stir up more violence against the British people by fellow leftist Brits and the Islamist psychopaths the left uses in its fight against human liberty.

He concluded in his racist, terrorist speech, “I will never let a minority of violent, racist thugs terrorise our communities.” He said that sentence despite the fact that he continues to allow that very thing, only it’s not the British citizen that is guilty of this charge, it’s his Islamist allies, the brown shirt thugs of the left, who are guilty, along with him (because he aids and abets them).

  1. BLASPHEMY LAWS NEXT? – Even as the rape gangs continue to rape children in the UK, Keir Starmer is spending his efforts trying to “protect” the Islamist psychopaths from public scrutiny, coming out recently in favor of the possibility of blasphemy laws that would be defined by Islamists.

In November, during a PM question time, Starmer said, “November marks Islamophobia Awareness Month – last year, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning the desecration of religious texts, including the Koran. Despite opposition from the previous Government, acts of such mindless desecration only serve to fuel division and hatred within our society.”

The follow-up question to him was, “Will the Prime Minister commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions?”

He answered by refusing to rule out blasphemy laws, then added, “Desecration is awful, and I think it should be condemned across the House. We are committed to tackling all forms of hatred and division, including Islamophobia in all its forms.”

  1. ARRESTING THE PROTESTORS, NOT THE GROOMERS – Starmer’s record on arresting political prisoners is a further stunning admission of his guilt. The side that insists it must be protected by state guns from dissent is ALWAYS the evil one. Some of the people who have been arrested were children, including an 11-year-old.

BBC, a British-hating, and U.S. taxpayer funded, Labour-Party-run, far left agit prop information terror machine, covered the chilling arrests in as positive a light as possible:

In the first case of a person going to jail for posting on social media during the disorder, Jordan Parlour, 28, of Seacroft, Leeds, received a 20-month sentence for inciting others to target a Leeds building which housed asylum seekers.

At least two others also received jail sentences for social media posts that stirred up racial hatred.

Suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones appeared in court charged with encouraging violent disorder after he was filmed apparently telling a crowd that far-right demonstrators should have their throats cut.

6000 officers with specialist training in public order are “prepared and ready” to deal with any potential unrest over the weekend.

About 600 people have been arrested this week, with hundreds more expected in the coming days and weeks, police say, with the use of facial recognition technology fast tracking the process…

This was in response to the riots in August that happened after the government tried to protect the Islamist murderers of British children.

It should be noted that the so-called “Conservative” party arrested over 3,000 people JUST for posting online (under Theresa May), so the anti-British, pro-Islamist actions of Starmer and Labour are not exclusive to them. This might explain why Reform currently leads Labour as the Conservative Party continues to fade into oblivion (since they’ve devolved into being an extension of Labour).

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

The current breakdown of Britain’s parliament shows that Labour currently holds 404 out of 649 seats, meaning the chances of a no-confidence vote against Starmer to trigger an early snap election are slim to none. Labour won 34 percent of the vote to the Conservatives’ 24 percent and Reform’s 14 percent, meaning they won an almost insurmountable majority with only 1/3 of voting British citizens choosing them.

There is no minimum time for a PM to serve before the next general election. A general election is called by the Prime Minister or a No-Confidence vote. His recent actions suggest that he might not offer another election again, if his party has his way.

Seeing how badly they were doing in the polls, apparently it is legal for Labour to cancel local elections until 2026, possibly 2027, which they did ostensibly to protect local voters (or so they claimed).

The British people, what’s left of them, are facing at least four more years of complete tyranny as the Labour Party continues its efforts, with the help of the Conservative Party, to fully dismantle a liberty-bounded government and replace it with a Marxist one. Elections are not a recourse. Protests will now get you thrown in jail.

This “experiment” will end either with Britian being converted to a leftist third world hellhole or an event will occur, maybe a major terror assault the government tries to conceal, that will trigger a wholesale collapse of the government through nationwide non-compliance followed by a mass assault of 10 Downing Street in the style of the 1381 Peasant’s Revolt (only the boy king Starmer won’t be able to invoke God to save him like Richard II did).

The course for Britain is death or violent overthrow because all the non-violent bullets have been removed, in part by the Conservative Party, in full by the Labour Party.

In short, outside of a dramatic act of resistance by the liberty-minded British (what’s left of them), the UK will be successfully groomed into Marxism.

As a parting shot, let me point out that this report would land me in jail if I were subject to Starmer’s tyrannical rule.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 79 – Thinking Sex Series, Part 1 of 3 – New Discourses

 The Spirit of Pedophilia: Part Two – From Marx to Current Year – Paul Gordon Collier

Towards a Gay Communism – Elements of a Homosexual Critique – Mario Mieli

Humanizing Pedophilia as Stigma Reduction: A Large-Scale Intervention Study – Craig A Harper, Rebecca Lievesley, Nicholas J Blagden, Kerensa Hocken – From the National Library of Medicine

27 European leaders set in motion the means to begin building nation-state armies and a potential EU army. This is in response to President Donald Trump’s recent declarations that essentially tell Europe it’s time to take on your own defenses. The move, though, is mixed with more than just self-reliance, but rather, portends the end of the American-led alliance.

The meeting lifted budget restrictions to increase defense budgets and even included a French commitment to protect Europe with its nuclear arsenal. It failed, however, to deliver to Ukraine a replacement for the loss of the support America had previously been providing.  The Germans were quick to follow up the meeting with an agreement to dramatically increase their military budget. Ukraine’s ambassador revealed the underlying hostility of the new direction, accusing the U.S. of “destroying” the world order.

The division between Europe’s approach to freedom of speech and America’s is only highlighting the growing tensions between them. Elon Musk’s X recent decision to refuse a UK order to turn over private data in their pursuit of arresting protestors exposes the breech between the two civilizations, Western Europe and the new America in the age of MAGA.

EU leaders back new military spending plans at Ukraine summit – AP News
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European Union leaders on Thursday committed to a massive step in defense cooperation following decades of hesitation, spurred on by President Donald Trump’s repeated warnings that he would cut them adrift to face the threat of Russia without the overwhelming U.S. military might.

The 27 leaders signed off on a move to loosen budget restrictions so that willing EU countries can increase their military spending. They also urged the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, to explore new ways to facilitate significant defense spending in all member states, a statement said.

Here’s what to know:

  • Zelenskyy says Ukraine and U.S. have resumed working together: The Ukrainian president said in his nightly address that talks between Ukraine and the US on ending the war will take place in Saudi Arabia next week.
  • EU can’t reach consensus on backing Ukraine: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a staunch supporter of Trump and considered to be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest ally in Europe, refused to endorse part of the summit statement in favor of Ukraine. But all 26 other EU leaders approved the bloc’s stance that there can be no negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine and that the Europeans must be involved in any talks involving their security.
  • France’s nuclear arsenal is in the spotlight: On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to open a “strategic debate” on using France’s nuclear deterrent to protect European allies, a move Moscow quickly dismissed as “extremely confrontational.” At the summit, several eastern European nations said they welcomed Macron’s move.

German parties agree historic debt overhaul to revamp military and economy – Reuters
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The parties hoping to form Germany’s next government on Tuesday agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund and overhaul borrowing rules in a tectonic spending shift to revamp the military and revive growth in Europe’s largest economy.
Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD), who are in negotiations to form a coalition after a national election last month, will put their proposals to the German parliament next week.
Germany’s likely next chancellor, Merz, has seized the moment after the return of Donald Trump to the White House put the transatlantic alliance in turmoil and underlined the urgency for Europe to strengthen its own defences.
Trump froze military aid to Ukraine after a bitter clash last week with its President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, reinforcing fears he could strike a deal with Russia to end the war in Ukraine while disengaging from Europe.
Economists and investors have urged Germany to reform its constitutionally enshrined state borrowing limits – known as the “debt brake” – in order to free up investment and support an economy that has contracted for the past two years.

EU leaders open emergency talks on defense and Ukraine aid as US support wanes– abcnews.go.com
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BRUSSELS — Facing the possibility of a fundamental disengagement under U.S. President Donald Trump, European Union leaders opened a day of emergency summit talks Thursday to beef up their own military defenses and make sure that Ukraine will still be properly protected by its allies….

It all underscored the sea change that has happened in the two months since Trump took office and immediately started questioning the cornerstones of cooperation between the United States and Europe which had been the bedrock of Western security since World War II.

“Given these profound shifts in US policy, and the existential threat of another war on the continent, Europe, must manage its essential defence tasks,” the European Policy Center think tank said in a commentary.

The bloc of 27 will “take decisive steps forward,” Macron told the French nation Wednesday evening. “Member states will be able to increase their military spending” and “massive joint funding will be provided to buy and produce some of the most innovative munitions, tanks, weapons and equipment in Europe.”

Adding to the ebullient message he said that “Europe’s future does not have to be decided in Washington or Moscow.”

Ukraine’s ambassador to the uk says the US is “destroying” world order– BBC
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The US is “destroying” the established world order, Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK has claimed.

Valerii Zaluzhnyi said the White House had “questioned the unity of the Western world” and was “taking more and more steps towards” Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The comments come as the US puts pressure on Ukraine to make concessions ahead of any peace talks, and after a public clash between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his US counterpart Donald Trump.

Zelensky has since said he is “ready to work” under Trump’s “strong leadership”, an apparent cooling in tensions welcomed by Trump – and which comes after the US paused military aid to Kyiv.

Elon Musk DEFENDS free speech for hundreds of Britons as it’s revealed he REFUSED to hand over account details to police amid Southport unrest – GB News
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Elon Musk’s social media platform refused to hand the account details of hundreds of British people to police during and after last summer’s unrest.

New figures published by X showed that Musk’s firm turned down over half of UK Government information requests in the second half of 2024, The Telegraph revealed on Friday.

X said it shared user information in 379 out of 806 cases, a disclosure rate of 47 per cent – significantly lower than those of other firms like Google, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn.

Musk’s figures cover requests from police and other official bodies and can include data including email and internet addresses or even private messages.

Starmer praises sacrifice of British troops in Afghanistan and Iraq in oblique rebuke to Vance– abcnews.go.com
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LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday praised the hundreds of British troops who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq “alongside our allies,” in an oblique rebuke of U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who has questioned the merits of a potential European peacekeeping force in Ukraine following the signing of any peace agreement between the country and Russia.

In his opening remarks before the start of a weekly parliamentary question session, Starmer specifically paid tribute to six British soldiers who died on patrol in Afghanistan when their vehicle was struck by an explosive. Thursday marks the 13-year anniversary of their deaths.

“These men fought and died for their country, our country,” Starmer told the House of Commons. “And across the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 642 individuals died fighting for Britain alongside our allies, many more were wounded.”

Without directly referencing Vance, the prime minister said he and all lawmakers will “never forget their bravery and their sacrifice.”

After Attorney General Pam Bondi’s first round of Epstein file releases turned out to be years-old publicly available files, attention turned to the NY FBI office, where the head was forced to resign. Allegedly, he was preventing the files from being released. Bondi now claims she has a truckload of files to go through and release.

The FBI Is Withholding Epstein Files– thefederalist.com
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The FBI is withholding “thousands of pages of documents” pertaining to the federal government’s investigation into deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

In a Thursday letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel, Bondi said she initially “requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein” before Patel was sworn into office last Friday. In response, the agency reportedly forfeited “approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein’s list of contacts, and a list of victims’ names and phone numbers.”

The attorney general noted how she “repeatedly questioned” the FBI about whether the batch “was the full set of documents responsive” to her inquiry, and subsequently claimed she was “repeatedly assured” by the agency the returned records were the “full set of documents.”

According to Bondi, however, the FBI wasn’t being truthful.

The Trump-appointee contended that a source informed her that the FBI field office in New York “was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein,” and that, “[d]espite [her] repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files.”

Following on the heels of CBS News Host Margaret Brennan claiming free speech is what enabled the rise of the Nazis, a segment on 60 minutes that appeared to be promoting German police arresting people for making hateful online content has some concerned CBS may have abandoned the free speech values that make the free press possible in the first place.

CBS 60 Minutes Promotes End to Free Speech, Blames Holocaust on Free Speech– gellerreport.com
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The US media is no longer couching and obfuscating it’s support of censorship, it is cheer-leading it for it.
Last night, 60 Minutes worked to soften people to the idea of government censorship and criminalizing speech going so far as to blame the Holocaust on free speech.

CBs’s Margaret Brennan said that free speech caused Hitler to gas 6,000,000 Jews.

Later on in the evening, 60 Mins produced a piece praising the current German government’s censorship policies and promoted the concept of arresting people for “hate speech”.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on Europe to build a common army. This comes as President Trump has expressed no interest in talking to Zelinsky about terms for a peace treaty. Trump has also recently “offered” ways Ukraine can pay the U.S. back for the billions they’ve invested in the country.

Zelensky said “The armed forces of Europe must be created. Without Ukraine’s army, Europe’s army’s will not be enough to stop Russia. Only our army in Europe has real, modern battlefield experience but our army alone is not enough too. And we need what you can provide weapons, training, sanctions, financing, political pressure and unity.”

Zelenksy calls for ‘Army of Europe’ to take on Russia without US as Trump urges him to make a deal with Putin– www.thesun.co.uk
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… Speaking in Germany today, Zelensky proposed a new plan to achieve safety for Ukraine going forwards.

He said: “Many leaders have talked about Europe and that needs its own military, an army of Europe and I believe the time has come.

“The armed forces of Europe must be created.

“Without Ukraine’s army, Europe’s army’s will not be enough to stop Russia.

“Only our army in Europe has real, modern battlefield experience but our army alone is not enough too.

“And we need what you can provide weapons, training, sanctions, financing, political pressure and unity.”

Trump & Putin’s Ukraine deal – ‘they’ll try to redraw the map of Europe’

The Ukrainian president said Europe should be looking to create such a military separate from Nato in case “America might say no to Europe on issues that threaten it”.

He added that after three years of fighting, Ukraine has managed to build up the foundations of a European army and should now act on it.

“As we fight this war and lay the groundwork for peace and security we must build the armed forces of Europe so that Europe’s future depends only on Europeans and decisions about Europe are made in Europe,” he said.

“Europe has everything it takes but it needs to come together.

“We need confidence in our own friends so that others have no choice but to respect Europe’s power and without European army that is impossible.”

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk appeared to support Zelensky’s calls as he said Europe urgently needs a plan over security.

NASA has increased the likelihood of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the earth from one-in-83 to one-in-77. The asteroid is of significant concern because it’s nearly 200-foot-wide diameter means if it hits near a city, it will level it completely, For this reason, this is an asteroid that fits into the category of “city-killer.” If it hits, it will be on December 22, 2032.

NASA: Chances of ‘city-killer’ asteroid hitting Earth have increased – MSN
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The odds of a ‘city-killer’ asteroid smashing into the Earth on December 22, 2032 appear to have ticked up slightly. NASA previously estimated that Asteroid 2024 YR4, a nearly 200-foot-wide space rock, has a one-in-83 chance (1.2 percent) of striking our planet. But now, the agency’s ‘Sentry’ Earth Impact Monitoring system reports a one-in-77 chance (1.3 percent) of a direct hit.

The mid-air collision over the Potomac River that led to the deaths of 67 people, 64 people on the jet and three on the helicopter, was caused by pilot error an initial NTSB report claims. The report cites the altitude of the helicopter, which was at 300 feet, 100 feet over the 200 feet limit.

Video of the crash leaked by airport workers shows the helicopter appears to have had plenty of time to see the plane and get out of the way. The airport workers were arrested. The pilot is Rebecca Lobach, whose social media presence appears to have been scrubbed before her name was released. Her family, reportedly, was worried she would be called a DEI hire.

NTSB Update Confirms Black Hawk Helicopter Made Crucial Error Before Plane Crash– www.westernjournal.com
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The National Transportation Safety Board released an update on Tuesday informing the public that the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines plane in Washington, D.C., last week was flying too high at the time of the crash.

The agency found that the Black Hawk was positioned at 300 feet on the air traffic control display.

That is 100 feet higher than the ceiling of 200 feet for helicopters in the National Capital Region, according to a report from Fox News.

The report confirms earlier analysis of the crash, including from President Donald Trump, who wrote in a post on Truth Social that the “helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit.”

But it leaves key questions unanswered, particularly the cause of the error: Malfunctioning equipment? A mistake by the pilot? Some other reason?

The NTSB also recovered various parts of the Bombardier CRJ700 operated by American Airlines from the Potomac River.

The parts include the “right wing, center fuselage, part of the left wing and left fuselage, significant portions of the forward cabin and cockpit, vertical and horizontal stabilizers, tail cone, rudder, elevators, TCAS computer and quick access recorder.”

 

Two DC Airport Workers Arrested Over Plane Crash Footage

But he said that the American commercial air travel system remains safe.

“We have the safest skies in the whole world. Traveling by air is the safest mode of transportation,” Duffy said.

“It’s not just air traffic controllers, but we do have technologies on airplanes to keep them separated,” he added. “So, yeah, no, this is the safest system.”

Duffy also criticized the diversity hiring that has occurred for air traffic controllers and said that the country should instead focus on hiring the most qualified candidates.

“You can’t focus on diversity, equity and inclusion when you try to hire air traffic controllers. You focus on the best and brightest,” Duffy added.

“I mean, again, some people like me like to have this conversation around equity. But if it’s your pilots or if it’s your air traffic controllers, you want the best. You want the brightest protecting yourself and your family. That’s what we’re going to do with the department.”