Man arrested as Buckingham Palace goes into lockdown

Police cordons around Buckingham Palace are being lifted after a man was arrested for throwing what are believed to be shotgun cartridges onto the palace grounds.

A controlled explosion also took place, believed to involve a bag the man was carrying.

Police have said the man was arrested at about 7pm local time (4am AEST).

https://www.9news.com.au/world/buckingham-palace-lockdown-shotgun-shells-controlled-explosion-man-arrested/9ce726d0-d407-4e0f-9023-d890c0896dcd

Democrat Lawmaker Lois Frankel Sold First Republic Stock Before It Crashed by 80% – Bought JPMorgan Stock Which Just Bought First Republic Instead

Investor Matt Allen posted an interesting tweet on how one Democrat lawmaker was able to wade through the collapse of First Republic Bank.

Congresswoman Lois Frankel sold First Republic Bank in March before the stock dropped 80%

After she sold First Republic, she bought JP Morgan Chase which just bought First Republic. She clearly had inside information.

The Free Beacon reported:

Florida Democratic representative Lois Frankel is capitalizing on First Republic Bank’s collapse and subsequent buyout by JP Morgan Chase & Co, according to congressional financial disclosures reported on by Newsweek.

Frankel sold her stock in the San Francisco-based bank on March 16, weeks before the value of its shares dropped 75 percent and U.S. regulators seized the failing bank’s assets, Newsweek reported. A few days later, on March 22, Frankel bought stock in JP Morgan Chase & Co, which on Monday bought most of First Republic Bank’s assets. The exact amount of stock Frankel traded is unknown, but according to the filing, the value for each trade was between $1,001 and $15,000, Newsweek reported.

Frankel’s shrewd trading fuels mounting criticism of members of Congress buying and selling stocks, which allows them to profit from industries they are supposed to regulate. Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D., Ore.) and John Curtis (R., Utah) also reported trading First Republic Bank stocks before its collapse.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/democrat-lawmaker-lois-frankel-sold-first-republic-stock-before-it-crashed-by-80-bought-jpmorgan-stock-which-just-bought-first-republic-instead/

RFK Jr. Promises to Pardon Snowden and Assange If Elected

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made one of the biggest campaign promises yet and that’s he will pardon whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange if he’s elected as President.

In his latest tweet, Kennedy expressed that the United States doesn’t celebrate free speech but rather persecutes journalists and whistleblowers.

Kennedy tweeted “Instead of championing free speech, the U.S. actively persecutes journalists and whistleblowers. I’ll pardon brave truth-tellers like Julian Assange and investigate the corruption and crimes they exposed.”

After stating he plans to pardon Assange if elected, he fired off a secondary tweet promising to also pardon other persecuted journalist and whistleblower’s such as “John Kiriakou, Chelsea Manning, Reality Winner, Daniel Hale, Thomas Drake, Jeffrey Sterling, and Edward Snowden.”

Kennedy is the only Democratic presidential candidate running that has promised to pardon both Snowden and Assange.

As the Gateway Pundit previously reported Eric Snowden is currently in exile in Russia after the Department of Justice filed three charges against Snowden two of which fall under the Espionage Act, because he allegedly released confidential information from the NSA in 2013 which revealed the Obama administration was spying on the American people illegally.

The founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange is currently being held in a London prison and is appealing his extradition to the United States to face 17 charges of espionage for reportedly publishing classified US government documents on WikiLeaks.

Biden is not very fond of pardoning Assange and has publicly stated he will not pardon the Australian whistleblower.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/rfk-jr-promises-to-pardon-snowden-and-assange-if-elected/

Major Banks Could Be Liable For Jeffrey Epstein Sex Trafficking: Judge

Two major banks and a bank executive could be liable for Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking, a judge has ruled.

Plaintiffs have presented enough evidence that JPMorgan Chase, longtime JPMorgan executive Jes Staley, and Deutsche Bank could be liable for Epstein’s sex trafficking, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff said on May 1 as he rejected motions to dismiss cases brought against Staley and the institutions.

“Plaintiffs have pled sufficient facts to support their allegations that JP Morgan had … knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking venture, either directly or by recklessly disregarding what was plainly to be seen,” Rakoff, a Clinton appointee, wrote in a 54-page decision.

One of the plaintiffs, a woman who says she was abused by Epstein and his associates, has also pled “sufficient facts to support her allegation that Deutsche Bank knew or recklessly disregarded that Jeffrey Epstein ran a sex-trafficking venture,” the judge also said.

The ruling came in cases brought by several alleged Epstein victims and the U.S. Virgin Islands government against JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank. It also covers a claim filed against Staley by JP Morgan.

The banks are accused of violating federal law that prohibits sex trafficking of children by force, fraud, or coercion, with one section of the law allowing for the punishment of people who knowingly benefit financially from participating in a sex trafficking venture.

Defendants have argued they did not participate in Epstein’s venture because they were only providing typical banking services. Participation in a venture requires “specific conduct that furthered the sex trafficking venture,” or conduct that is “more than just passive facilitation,” previous rulings have stated. But plaintiffs have presented evidence that both banks structured the voluminous cash withdrawals Epstein enacted in ways that hid how they were suspicious, the judge said, in addition to delaying or failing to file suspicious activity reports.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/major-banks-could-be-liable-jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking-judge

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These people are SICK

A Teacher tells students they have to call pedophiles minor attracted persons.

"So don't judge people just cause they want to have sex with a 5 year old"

Show this to anyone who says teachers aren’t grooming children.

https://twitter.com/intheMatrixxx/status/1653506347755773952

Google’s new ‘inclusive language dossier’ bans staff from using ‘man hours,’ ‘you guys’

Google leadership recently sent out a new “inclusive language dossier” to its United Kingdom staff, asking them to stop using terms such as “man hours” and “you guys.”

The technology company encouraged its employees to refrain from using potentially offensive language. The style guide targeted common IT lingo, including “whitelist,” “blackhole,” “blacklist,” and “black box.”

It also asked staff to avoid referring to people or things as “chubby,” “dummy variable,” or “crazy, bonkers or mad.”

The language guide was specifically sent to Google developers, the U.S. Sun reported.

It asked staff to be more gender inclusive in the workplace by replacing the term “man hours” with “person hours.”

“When referring to a group of people, use non-gendered language such as everyone or folks,” the document stated.

Conservative Member of Parliament Nigel Mills told the Sun that the language guide is “woke nonsense.”

“This is just woke nonsense. I don’t know where people find the time to come up with this sort of thing,” Mills stated. “Who cares? We should not be ditching phrases and words used for a generation just because some snowflakes might get impacted.”

One anonymous Google employee told the news outlet that the company’s staff is “too busy” to be concerned with the inoffensive terms.

“We’re much too busy to be worried about whether some totally harmless phrase that’s been used for years might upset someone, somewhere,” the staffer stated.

A Google spokesperson told the Sun that the dossier was given to employees as “editorial guidelines for writing clear and consistent Google-related developer documentation.

Last year, the tech company released an inclusive language function to flag certain words and recommend alternatives for writers using its Google Docs program.

When a suspected offensive word is used, the program pops up a message to the writer that reads, “Inclusive warning. Some of these words may not be inclusive to all readers. Consider using different words.”

The computer program, which was launched in April 2022, suggested changing “landlord” to “property owner” or “proprietor.” It also recommended using the term “humankind” instead of “mankind.” The function also flagged “policemen,” “housewife,” and “motherboard.”

At the time, Google told the Sun, “Our technology is always improving and we don’t yet have a solution to identifying and mitigating all unwanted word associations and biases.”

https://www.theblaze.com/news/googles-new-inclusive-language-dossier-bans-staff-from-using-man-hours-you-guys

Rock Bottom: Dan Le Batard Brings Drag Queens on Sports Show to Defend Grooming Kids

Dan Le Batard has fallen massively since his days as a popular host on ESPN…

Sports radio host and former ESPN personality Da Le Batard was joined by a pair of drag queens on his Draft Kings-sponsored program, The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, to defend the grooming of children in protest of Florida legislation that bars children from attending live, sexually explicit performances, including drag shows, which Le Batard says he’s a regular attendee of.

Dan Le Batard and Billy Corben were recently joined on his Miami-based sports talk show by fully-costumed drag queens “Karla Croqueta” and “Opal Am Rah,” who Le Batard, apparently a regular attendee at drag performances, described as two “Miami legends.”

“Very exciting, we’ve got a lot of sparkle in here. The scent in here just got a lot better,” Le Batard said as he introduced the drag queens to his audience, for the express purpose of defending the homosexual grooming of children.

“Well, you are, you’re a regular at the drag shows, Dan, aren’t you?” Corben said.

“At the palace?” responded Le Batard. “I went a couple of weeks ago with John Amaechi” (a gay former NBA player), he said, describing the homosexually-charged performances as “great fun,” before joining Corben and the drag queens in slamming the Florida Legislature for barring children from the sexually-charged performances.

In a video clip of the segment posted to Twitter by the @LeBatardShow account, bearded drag queen “Karla Croqueta” openly admits that his performances are meant to expose children to homosexuality and his alternative lifestyle and that he feels justified in doing so because when he was a child, he “didn’t know what a queer person looked like.”

“Here I am, I finally have this opportunity to be loud, authentic, queer, and I have to censor myself,” he went on, complaining about having to “censor” himself in front of children by not performing homosexual acts in front of them.

The legislation that Le Batard and company were protesting on the program is Florida Senate Bill 1438, a bill that bars the admission of children to “adult live performances,” which it defines as “a presentation that depicts or simulates nudity, sexual conduct, or specific sexual activities.”

The bill was crafted to combat the rise in drag shows geared towards children, in which grown men dress as caricatures of women, and sometimes demons, to perform simulated sex acts in front of or even with children and at times expose themselves to them.

In several instances, drag queens who’ve deliberately performed in front of children or have attended “drag queen story hour” events have been outed as convicted child sex predators.

https://nationalfile.com/rock-bottom-dan-le-batard-brings-drag-queens-on-sports-show-to-defend-grooming-kids/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-03/australian-rescue-mission-flight-out-of-sudan/102295460

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1653515785426411528

Top US general predicts Ukraine conflict duration

Joint Chiefs chair Mark Milley said that negotiations might happen in “a year or two”

The US has helped train and equip the Ukrainian military for the upcoming operations, whether offensive or defensive, but the fighting is unlikely to produce a clear winner in 2023, General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has told the outlet Foreign Affairs on a podcast that aired on Tuesday.

Asked what he expected of the much-heralded Ukrainian counteroffensive, Milley told Foreign Affairs that the US and its European NATO partners have helped Ukraine train and equip “about nine brigades worth of combined arms, armor, and mech[anized] infantry type forces” over the past several months, as well as some light infantry.

Kiev’s forces “right now have the capability to attack, they can conduct offensive operations, and they also have the capability to defend, significantly enhanced from what they were just a year ago for conventional operations,” he said. “They’ve got a significant amount of planning and coordination and all of that to do, if they were to do an offensive operation.”

According to Milley, if the Ukrainians do launch an offensive, anything is possible, from collapsing the Russian front entirely to no success at all.

I do think, though, that the probability of either side achieving their political objectives – war is about politics through the sole use of military means – I think that’s going to be very difficult, very challenging. And frankly, I don’t think the probability of that is likely in this year.

Milley claimed the Russian military had suffered 250,000 casualties and that the army, society and economy have all been severely impacted by the conflict. He would not speculate about Ukrainian casualties. The Kremlin has laughed off US estimates of Russian deaths as fabricated “out of nowhere.”

The US general stuck by those claims, however, and also asserted that Russia had “failed” to achieve any of its objectives in Ukraine. Based on that, he argued that “rational folks” in Moscow would be convinced “over either months or a year or two” to negotiate, “because they’re not going to win.”

Congressman Michael McCaul, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Monday that the offensive needed to present a success so the West could keep funding Kiev, “after which we can then maybe have negotiations, to finally resolve this.”

The bulk of the podcast was devoted to China, with Milley arguing that the US “should do what it can to make sure” that Russia and China don’t set up a strategic military alliance. He dismissed the present level of military ties between Moscow and Beijing as “very, very modest.”

Milley also maintained that both Russia and China were aware of the US military might and did not wish a direct confrontation with Washington.

https://www.rt.com/news/575675-milley-ukraine-conflict-duration/

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Ukraine Inc - Episode 1 and 2

https://www.bitchute.com/video/IdcxcckU3lCi/

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Third party

Trump / Kennedy

Today's race baiting

NYC's Adams: Abbott's Migrant-Busing Targets 'Black-Run' Cities

Texas Governor Greg Abbott migrant bus service to is ramping back up in a big way – and mayors in destination cities are fuming, especially New York City's Eric Adams and Chicago's outgoing Lori Lightfoot.

"More than 57,000 migrants, mostly hailing from Latin America, have arrived in [New York City] since last spring, while Chicago has fielded more than 8,000 newcomers," Politico reports.

In a statement issued Monday, Adams accused Abbott of targeting cities based on the skin color of their elected officials:

“This weekend, we learned that Governor Abbott is once again deciding to play politics with people's lives by resuming the busing of asylum seekers to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, and Washington, D.C.

Not only is this behavior morally bankrupt and devoid of any concern for the well-being of asylum seekers, but it is also impossible to ignore the fact that Abbott is now targeting five cities run by Black mayors. Put plainly, Abbott is using this crisis to hurt Black-run cities."

We pause to note that, where America's largest metropolises are concerned, "black-run cities" is increasingly a redundancy.

Moving on from his implicit accusation of racism, Adams went on to accuse Abbott of shipping migrants to New York against their will, and having security guards "hold them hostage" when they tried to get off in other cities.

He also blamed border states for the overload of immigrants while asking President Biden for help. "With a vacuum of leadership from border states, we need the federal government to step in and provide us with support and to prevent this cruelty from continuing.” That's an interesting angle, given the federal government routinely opposes states taking border security into their own hands.

Even Adams has been increasingly critical of the Biden administration's immigration policies. In April, he said, "The city is being destroyed by the migrant crisis…The national government has turned its back on New York City…This is in the lap of the president of the United States." Reiterating that desperate messaging on Monday, Adams said, "This crisis is more than one city can handle."

Adams isn't the only mayor attacking Abbott for sharing the wealth of northbound diversity pouring into the country. On Sunday, Chicago's Lightfoot, who will exit office on May 15 after a losing reelection bid, sent a letter to Abbott asking him to "stop this inhumane and dangerous action."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nycs-adams-abbotts-migrant-busing-targets-black-run-cities

Dallas Woman Pleads Guilty in $7 Million COVID-19 Testing Fraud

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/dallas-woman-pleads-guilty-7-million-covid-19-testing-fraud

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Scientific American Mag Publishes ‘Embarrassing’ Essay Claiming ‘Human Sex Is Not Binary’

A Scientific American essay deemed “embarrassing” and “pseudo-scientific” is facing backlash after insisting human sex is “not binary,” while arguing claims to the contrary “are not about biology but are about trying to restrict who counts as a full human in society.”

The Monday article authored by Agustín Fuentes, a professor of anthropology at Princeton University, bears the blunt title, “Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary.”

In it, Fuentes argues that “ova don’t make a woman, and sperm don’t make a man.”

The piece begins by pointing to those “politicians, pundits and even a few scientists, who maintain that whether our bodies make ova or sperm are all we need to know about sex.”

“They assert that men and women are defined by their production of these gamete cells, making them a distinct biological binary pair, and that our legal rights and social possibilities should flow from this divide. Men are men. Women are women. Simple,” Fuentes writes.

However, he claims, the notion that human sex “rests on a biological binary of making either sperm or ova” — the concept underlying the previous claims — is, in Fuentes’ words, “bad science.”

According to him, “the production of gametes does not sufficiently describe sex biology in animals, nor is it the definition of a woman or a man.”

He continues:

The animal kingdom does not limit itself to only one biological binary regarding how a species makes gametes. Scientifically speaking, animals with the capacity to produce ova are generally called “female” and sperm producers “male.” While most animal species fall into the “two types of gametes produced by two versions of the reproductive tract” model, many don’t. Some worms produce both. Some fish start producing one kind and then switch to the other, and some switch back and forth throughout their lives. There are even lizards that have done away with one type all together (sic). Among our fellow mammals, which are less freewheeling because of the twin constraints of lactation and live birth, there are varied connections between gametes and body fat, body size, muscles, metabolism, brain function and much more.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/02/scientific-american-mag-publishes-embarrassing-essay-claiming-human-sex-not-binary/

SPLC sued for defamation after labeling conservative group an 'anti-immigrant hate group'

The SPLC had asked the judge to dismiss King’s defamation case against them, but US Judge W. Keith Watkins has refused to toss it out.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has recently come under fire for stamping a group with the “hate” status for allegedly being anti-immigrant, and now the accused group is taking legal action against the organization, per the Washington Times.

DA King, the founder of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, has claimed that SPLC has defamed the group by referring to it as anti-immigrant. While the group does express opposition toward illegal immigration, King has made known that the group supports legal immigration, noting that there are legal immigrants on the board of the organization.

The report stated that SPLC had asked the judge to dismiss King’s defamation case against them, but US Judge W. Keith Watkins has refused to toss it out. The judge said that he would give King the opportunity to form a case against the SPLC.

“Plaintiffs have ‘nudged’ their defamation claims - premised on SPLC’s designation of DIS as an ‘anti-immigrant hate group’ - ‘across the line from conceivable to plausible,” Watkins said.

A report noted that it is going to be difficult for King to prove that the SPLC had deliberately acted with malice in labeling his society as a hate group, noting that the defamation case is going to be nearly impossible to win, per the Marietta Daily Journal.

However, Tyler O’Neil, author of “Making Hate Pay,” said that it is significant that a judge would even allow such a case to proceed, saying: “This is the very first defamation lawsuit specifically challenging the SPLC’s ‘hate group’ accusation to make it to discovery.”

“Conservatives who have faced routine defamation may finally get some justice, and the American people may finally see behind the curtain how the SPLC runs its ‘hate group’ scam.”

The FBI has actively worked alongside the SPLC in making decisions about who to target, including keeping a close eye on what they have characterized as “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology.” When this information was eventually revealed, the FBI was forced to recant the memo that contained the worrying information.

https://thepostmillennial.com/splc-sued-for-defamation-after-labeling-conservative-group-an-anti-immigrant-hate-group

Foreign Ministry: Israeli hostile policies are nothing but disparate attempts to shuffle cards of the region

Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said on Tuesday that the Israeli aggression on Aleppo international Airport yesterday comes within a series of attacks on civilian and vital utilities including Damascus international airport, Lattakia commercial port, other scientific and culture centers.

“Those Israeli hostile policies are nothing but disparate attempts to shuffle cards of the region and confuse the diplomatic current movement, this movement which aims to restore security and stability to the region,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The statement added that Syria condemns, in the strongest terms, the Israeli latest aggression and warns of the continuation of perpetrating such attacks and calls upon the UN and Security council to break their silence, assume their responsibility and put an end to the Israeli hostile policies and bring their perpetrators to justice.

A soldier was martyred and seven others, including two civilians, were injured in and Israeli aggression that targeted the vicinity of Aleppo city on Monday night.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=307373

Reporter Confronts Merrick Garland on IRS Whistleblower Claims of “Political Interference” in Hunter Biden Investigation

https://youtu.be/T0T_5Z85f8E

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