Canada #77

"Never Heard Of Him": Notable Columbia Prof Says He Isn't Sure Obama Attended Columbia University

By Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform Friday, May 23, 2025

In a recent interview, a well-known professor who taught at Columbia University for 46 years questioned whether or not President Obama actually attended the Ivy League school.

Prominent Columbia professor Henry Graff says he isn’t sure President Obama ever attended the Ivy League school.

“I taught every significant politician that ever studied at Columbia,” said Columbia Emeritus Professor of History Henry Graff, in an interview last week with Wayne Root, a contributor at The Blaze. “Between American History and Diplomatic History, one way or another, they all had to come through my classes.”

“Not Obama,” he continued. “I never had a student with that name in any of my classes. I never met him, never saw him, never heard of him.”

Graff alleged that “none of the other Columbia professors knew him either” and said he is “very upset” to hear Obama referred to as a graduate of Columbia University.

“I am angry when I hear Obama called ‘the first President of the United States from Columbia University,’” he said. “I don’t consider him a Columbia student. I have no idea what he did on the Columbia campus. No one knows him.”

Graff is the recipient of the Kaul Foundation Award of Excellence in the field of education, an honor that is tied to a prize of $100,000. He is the author of multiple books and is known for teaching the first course on the history of the Presidency.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/never-heard-him-notable-columbia-prof-says-he-isnt-sure-obama-attended-columbia

Canada #77

Macron SLAMS His Own Cabinet After Report on Muslim Brotherhood’s Influence in France Gets Leaked – Interior Minister Retailleau Seen as Gearing up To Run for President

by Paul Serran May. 23, 2025

When he gets a little break from his almost non-stop warmongering over the Ukraine conflict, French President tries to do a bit of work on his country’s manifold problems – but unsurprisingly, he finds his government to be a mess.

The latest in an endless list of crises is the new report into the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in France.

Expected for publication on Wednesday (21), it has been delayed after the report was leaked to conservative media.

IN the document, it is stated that the Muslim Brotherhood goes to great lengths to push its fundamentalist agenda across France and Europe.

Politico reported:

“A visibly angry Emmanuel Macron blasted his ministers during a defense cabinet meeting Wednesday after a botched release of a report into the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in France, according to a high-ranking government official.

A second official, who, like others quoted here, was granted anonymity to speak candidly, said the French president accused his ministers generally for not coming up with adequate solutions to counter the threat posed by the Islamist group.”

But Macron’s anger seems directed to Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau.

“Many in the French government have attributed the leak to Retailleau, a hardline conservative whose popularity has skyrocketed since joining Macron’s minority government in September. Retailleau on Sunday scored a landslide win to become the next leader of the Les Républicains, the historically dominant French center-right party relegated to political purgatory after Macron’s 2017 election upended French politics. Early polling indicates he could be a serious contender in the 2027 presidential election were he to run.”

Retailleau has publicly accused the Muslim Brotherhood of ‘trying to tip French society into Sharia law’.

Sources tell POLITICO that Macron threw a ‘fit’ at the meeting.

“The bickering is another sign that the attention of those in power has moved away from Macron toward the wide-open presidential election set to take place in fewer than two years, especially with Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Rally’s prospects in turmoil after her embezzlement conviction. She has repeatedly professed her innocence and could be allowed to run if an appeals court rules in her favor next year.”

When will Retailleau break with Macron and start his campaign ahead of the presidential election? Seems like it will be soon.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/macron-slams-his-own-cabinet-after-report-muslim/

Canada #77

FTC Opens Investigation into Far Left Media Matters and Its Coordinated Attacks on X and Its Advertisers

by Jim Hoft May. 22, 2025

The Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation into Media Matters for America, the far left group that targets conservative media outlets and personalities to put them out of business.

Media Matters for America is funded by the top Democrat Megadonors who value their work.

Soros-funded Media Matters and several leftist groups like Sleeping Giants run by Matt Rivitz have been harassing American corporations for years to quit advertising with conservative platforms, websites and businesses. The Gateway Pundit has been a prime target by these leftist groups and government agencies.

In May 2022, CNN published a hit piece on Elon Musk and Twitter. The article was the far left's attempt to sway advertisers from posting ads on Twitter.

Elon Musk exposed the culprits behind the coordinated attacks on X's advertisers - Media Matters. CNN even admitted that Media Matters sent out a threatening letter to Twitter advertisers to quit paying for ads on the platform.

Elon Musk announced in November 2023, that his company X-Corp will be filing a “thermo-nuclear” lawsuit against Media Matters “the second court opens on Monday.”

Elon added that he will sue “Their board, their donors, their network of dark money, all of them…”

In his statement, he released early this morning, Elon accuses Media Matters of creating a fake account that then curated the posts and advertising appearing on the account’s timeline to misinform advertisers about the placement of their posts.

On Thursday, the FTC announced that it would open an investigation into the far-left advocacy group for their.

The US Federal Trade Commission demanded documents from Media Matters about its coordination with other leftist groups to rid X of its advertisers.

This is excellent news. It's about time this far left group is investigated for its destructive business practices.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/ftc-opens-investigation-far-left-media-matters-coordinated/

>>23074381

Ah, palestinian butthurt

Canada #77

UK Welcomes South African Activist Who Chants About Killing White Farmers

Authored by C.J.Strachan via DailySceptic.org Friday, May 23, 2025

The British Government recently barred French writer Renaud Camus from entering the UK.

His crime?

Not actual incitement, not violence, not lawbreaking, but a controversial idea.

Camus, originator of the ‘Great Replacement’ theory, was scheduled to speak at a Big Remigration Conference organised by the Homeland Party, as well as at the Oxford Union. His Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) had been approved. Then, abruptly, it was revoked. The Home Office declared that his visit was “not conducive to the public good”.

Meanwhile, Julius Malema, a South African political figure who openly sings “Kill the Boer” at rallies, glorifies racial violence and promotes land expropriation without compensation, was welcomed.

This is not a metaphor. Malema was allowed into the UK in May 2025 to address his supporters in London. The only reason for his delayed arrival was the May Day bank holiday. When he protested, the British High Commission issued a grovelling apology, assuring him the visa holdup was merely bureaucratic, not moral.

The message could not be clearer: ideas from the Right are criminalised, but hate from the Left is indulged.

Toby Young has recently laid this out in detail in his excellent interview on GB News in the wake of the Lucy Connolly appeal decision. His conclusion: the UK no longer defends free speech as a principle, it defends only approved speech. You can chant about killing white farmers, provided your politics check the right boxes. But offer a sociological theory about demographic change? You’re banned.

Let’s be clear: Renaud Camus’s theory is provocative. It raises uncomfortable questions about identity, culture and immigration. One can challenge or reject it. But to silence it entirely, while welcoming actual political violence wrapped in revolutionary chic, is not only hypocritical. It’s dangerous.

A society that punishes ideas but excuses incitement is not protecting its values. It is broadcasting its fear.

Camus, an elderly intellectual with no history of violence, was treated like a threat to national security. Malema, who has stood before crowds chanting genocidal slogans, was treated like a minor celebrity inconvenienced by airport queues. This isn’t policy. It’s ideology masquerading as law.

Once again, the UK has exposed the workings of its two-tier system. British citizens have been arrested for quoting Churchill, misgendering someone online or holding placards in silence. But a foreign politician calling for racial uprising is welcomed, because his fury flows in the approved direction.

Britain used to be a place where you could say what you thought, provided you didn’t call for violence. Now it’s a place where you can call for violence, provided you think what you’re told.

Renaud Camus was banned not because he posed a risk, but because he posed a challenge, a challenge to the dominant narrative. That makes him, in today’s Britain, more dangerous than a man who sings about killing his countrymen.

Malema is in. Camus is out. And that, sadly, tells you everything about who we are now.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-welcomes-south-african-activist-who-chants-about-killing-white-farmers

>>23074416

North Korea Launches Probe into Warship Launch Fail

Reuters May 23, 2025

SEOUL, May 23 (Reuters) – North Korea has begun a full-scale investigation into the accident that occurred during the launch of a warship this week, state media KCNA reported on Friday.

Pyongyang has said the incident on Wednesday was caused by a loss of balance while the vessel was being launched, and sections of the bottom of the warship were crushed.

An internal inspection found that there were no holes at the warship’s bottom, but the starboard hull was scratched and seawater flowed into the stern section through the rescue channel, the report said.

The extent of damage was “not serious,” the report said, adding the investigation group was ordered to find the cause of the accident and those responsible for it. The report did not mention any injuries or deaths as a result of the accident.

The isolated state’s leader Kim Jong Un, who watched Wednesday’s launch of the 5,000-ton destroyer at the northeastern shipyard of Chongjin, berated it as a “criminal act” that could not be tolerated, according to state media.

The mishap likely occurred in front of a large crowd, increasing the public humiliation for Kim, military analysts said.

South Korea’s military said on Thursday that the ship was lying on its side in the water.

“The stern is seen swung out into the harbor as a result of the wheeled units placed under the frame sliding into the water while the bow remained on the side slipway,” said the U.S.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), citing satellite imagery from Thursday.

The shipyard in Chongjin has primarily produced cargo vessels and fishing vessels and “undoubtedly lacks significant expertise” in launching large warships such as the new destroyer, CSIS added.?

It would take two to three days to restore the balance of the warship by pumping up seawater from the flooded chamber and around 10 days to restore the warship’s side, the KCNA report said, citing experts’ estimates.

Treating the accident as a serious matter was part of an effort to fight against “incautiousness” and “irresponsibility,” according to KCNA.

Hong Kil Ho, the manager of the Chongjin shipyard, was summoned to the law enforcement organ on Thursday as it began measures to detain and investigate those responsible for the accident, the report said.

https://gcaptain.com/north-korea-launches-probe-into-warship-launch-fail/

>>23074625

A lever type magazine catch in that position?

really?

>>23074687

>Why whats wrong?

Trying to get proper cheek weld and baggy clothing grabs that lever, May not drop the magazine completely but just enough so there's no feed