Author: HP McLovincraft

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Palantir CEO Suddenly Embraces His “Lifelong Democrat” Roots After Cashing In on Trump Administration Contracts Following Democrat Midterm Victories

Well, that didn’t take long.

Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp is executing a rapid political rebrand just days after Democrats seized majorities in the House and Senate.

In a Wednesday interview with Politico’s Playbook, the billionaire tech executive described himself as a “lifelong Democrat” who grew up in a far-left environment, claimed he “knows more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet,” and insisted that “Palantir — all of our products are essentially progressive.”

He reportedly used the word “progressive” eight times and left the door open to supporting a Democrat in 2028, provided the nominee is not a Democratic Socialists of America figure.

The timing has not gone unnoticed. Just months earlier, Karp had positioned Palantir as “the first company to be completely anti-woke,” criticized Democrats as “totally irresponsible” on immigration and Iran, and argued that his company’s AI tools would reduce the economic and political power of “humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters” while boosting vocationally trained working-class men.

In a March CNBC appearance covered by The Gateway Pundit, he described the technology as societally “dangerous” yet necessary for America to prevail.

He has also defended Trump administration priorities, including strikes on suspected drug boats, while declaring that open borders hurt average Americans.

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Canadian Heritage commits $84,080 for ‘youth climate journalism’, $47,959 for ‘BIPOC Internship Project’

Canadian Heritage’s Canada Periodical Fund has committed $84,080 to the Starfish Environmental Society for “Piloting youth climate journalism using a multi-publication approach” and $47,959 to the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association for a “BIPOC Internship Project,” records reviewed by Rebel News show.

The Starfish and Alberta awards appear in the department’s proactive disclosure of grants and contributions for July to September 2026, and the Starfish agreement starts October 1, 2026.

The disclosure lists eleven awards totalling $452,106 under two streams. BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous and people of colour.

Under the Changing Narratives Fund, the British Columbia Association of Magazine Publishers got $32,446 for “Speech is Power: Raising Up Underrepresented Voices to Present to the Magazine Industry,” the Vancouver Association for the Survivors of Torture got $50,000 for “Voices Against Torture (VAT): Changing Narratives through Editorial and Production Mentorship,” the National Media Awards Foundation got $83,757 for “Changing Narratives: Building Career Pathways in Magazine and Digital Media,” the Maple Bamboo Network Society got $21,194 for “NextGen Canadian Filipino Net: Building the Next Generation of Ethnocultural Digital Storytellers,” and the Society of We Are Canadians Too got $20,000 for “Beyond Chinese: Newcomer Storytelling & Community Media Mentorship Initiative.”

Under Collective Initiatives, alongside Starfish, Press Forward got $36,170 for “The Future of Independent Media Summit 2026,” Glacier FarmMedia got $32,000 and $25,000 for a study of agricultural media and a mentorship model for agricultural journalism, and Le Journal Franco-Albertain got $19,500 for “Magazine Plume Jeunesse.”

Canadian Heritage says the Changing Narratives Fund “will not be renewed and will sunset, as planned, on March 31, 2027,” so these awards fall in its final year.

Press Forward launched in December 2020 as a national association to “unify, elevate and advocate for independent journalism organizations in Canada.” Its founding members included The Tyee, The Narwhal, the National Observer and Village Media.

The Starfish’s website tells young people to “Build skills. Connect with changemakers. Lead climate action.” It previously received $10,110 from the same fund for The Starfish Canada Youth Journal in 2024-25.

The department’s guidelines say Collective Initiatives money is meant to “explore and test new business models and digital opportunities for the periodical industry” and to “raise the profile of the periodical industry among advertisers, readers, creators, and as a career opportunity for Canadians.”

Marc Miller has been Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, responsible for Canadian Heritage, since December 1, 2025, when he replaced Steven Guilbeault. The records do not name who approved the awards.

Eleven awards, $452,106, and the titles tell the reader what Ottawa’s magazine fund considers a priority.

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Censorship Bill Would Let Australia Spy On Americans And Europeans And Report Lawful Speech And Private Info To Five Eyes, Including FBI

In September 2025, top government censorship officials from Europe, the UK, Brazil, California, and Australia met at Stanford to discuss ways to coordinate censorship at an international level. The meeting was titled “Compliance and Enforcement in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape.” Australia’s top censor, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, gave the keynote.

Though Grant did not provide her remarks to Public, she had previously told the World Economic Forum (WEF) that she was organising censorship officials around the world because “we know we’re going to go much further when we work together with other like-minded independent statutory authorities around the globe.”

Inman Grant’s efforts appear to be bearing fruit in Australia, where the lower house has passed the Digital Duty of Care (DDoC) Bill, a sweeping piece of censorship and surveillance legislation that would allow the eSafety Commissioner to monitor “lawful but harmful” speech.

Inman Grant, an American who once volunteered to a journalist that she turned down a job with the CIA, can already order a platform to reveal who is behind an anonymous account from anywhere in the world.

But the DDoC bill would also permit her to use fake accounts to deceive users into thinking they are citizens, record their legal speech, and pass what she learns directly to Australia’s spy agencies. Those agencies could then share that intelligence with the FBI and other “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing partners in the US, UK, Canada, and New Zealand.

The bill enables this by granting eSafety the ability to create an unlimited number of AI-generated “sock puppet” identities (effectively bots) under policies set “in consultation with the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police.”

The private information the Australian government could share with foreign intelligence agencies could include a user’s name, address, phone number, and email, along with what the Privacy Act calls “sensitive information,” which includes political opinions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and health records.

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House to Vote on Second Epstein Files Transparency Act After Oversight Committee Report on the Federal Government’s Mishandling of Epstein Criminal Investigation

The House of Representatives is set to vote on a second Epstein files bill after lawmakers forced a vote through a discharge petition.

Politico reports that Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) signed the 218th signature on the petition to force a vote on Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)’s Epstein Files Transparency Act II.

Only four Republicans, Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace (SC), Ralph Norman (SC), and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), signed the discharge petition.

Previously, Massie’s Epstein Files Transparency Act was passed and signed into law, requiring the Justice Department to release the Epstein files to the public.

However, some lawmakers accuse the Justice Department of redacting or withholding over 2.5 million pages of documents.

Politico reports the new bill “allows survivors of Epstein’s abuse and state attorneys general to file federal lawsuits against the Justice Department to force the release of additional materials related to Epstein, among other measures. It also gives members of Congress the ability to demand unredacted files from the department.

This comes after the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released a 137-page report on its 15-month investigation, titled “A Review of the Federal Government’s Mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Criminal Investigations.”

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Democrats rescue War Secretary Hegseth a week after election repudiates war

On Tuesday evening, one week after midterm elections that delivered a massive popular repudiation of the Trump administration and its war against Iran, the Democratic Party saved War Secretary Pete Hegseth from impeachment.

The House voted 211-204 to refer to the Judiciary Committee a resolution containing eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth, killing the measure for the remainder of the lame duck session. Every Democrat who voted opposed the referral, but 11 Democrats did not vote. Had they all cast their ballots, the motion would have failed 215-211, and the House would have been compelled to vote on impeachment itself.

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi left Washington hours before the vote to fly back to San Francisco to receive a “Lifetime Advocate for Veterans Award.” Four others blamed traffic. Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan offered no explanation at all. Nine days earlier, Stevens endorsed Trump-backed Republican candidate Mike Rogers for Senate, against the party’s nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, in particular over the latter’s criticism of the Gaza genocide.

All claims that the missing 11 Democrats were the product of unfortunate traffic patterns or important “lifetime” awards are rubbish. Had the vote been for funding Ukraine, the members would have been raised from their death beds if necessary.

This was a political decision made in coordination with the White House and the first major political test since the midterms. Under the banner of “bipartisanship,” the Democrats chose not to inflict a political defeat on the administration over the war in Iran, in the midst of their discussions with the White House on Russia and the military budget.

The Republicans understood what they had been given. Trump hailed the outcome as an “EXONERATION of a Great American Patriot” and declared that the impeachment had “miserably FAILED!” Hegseth, for his part, answered the impeachment effort at a press conference earlier in the day by calling it “sabotage” and implying those who backed it were traitors.

The calculation behind the vote was spelled out the following day in a Newsweek analysis headlined “The 11 Missing Democrats Saved Pete Hegseth—and the Party From Itself.” Its author, senior editor Shane Croucher, argued that Democrats “don’t need the chaos of impeachment to scrutinize Hegseth.” What “chaos” means here is anything that might encourage popular opposition to the war or disrupt the bipartisan operations of American imperialism.

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Which minister’s office at Jobs and Families needed $57,437 in workplace investigators?

Two contracts for workplace investigators at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) are flagged as minister’s office contracts, worth $57,437 together, according to records Rebel News found in the federal contracts database. The records do not say which minister’s office the work is for.

Both appear in ESDC’s disclosure of contracts for the second quarter of 2026-27, dated July 31 and August 12.

The first is a $29,893.50 order to QMR Staffing Solutions Incorporated for work from August 3 to March 31, 2027. Its description reads “Investigation services in a workplace environment.”

The second is a $27,543.75 order to the same firm, with the same description, for work from August 13 to March 31, 2027.

Both were ordered under a standing offer, a pre-arranged supply agreement set up by Public Services and Procurement Canada. The database’s “Ministers Office Contracts” field says “Yes” for both.

QMR, a staffing and consulting firm with a downtown Ottawa postal code, says on its website that it offers “Workplace Investigative Services for C-65 compliance and other workplace-related investigations.” Bill C-65 is the federal law on workplace harassment and violence.

Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu, a Liberal, oversees ESDC. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s May 2025 cabinet also named three secretaries of state in its areas, John Zerucelli (Labour), Anna Gainey (Children and Youth) and Stephanie McLean (Seniors).

The records do not say who complained or what about.

Earlier orders for the same service were not flagged.

ESDC used QMR under the same standing offer, with the same description, in June 2025 ($29,380) and February 2025 ($108,651.37 after amendment), and both say “No” in that field. So does a September 2025 order to Les Enquêtes Henri Inc. for $63,082.25.

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Deploy British and French Armies to Ukraine, Warships to Black Sea, to End Ukraine War Says Former NATO Boss

The only way to end the Ukraine war is for Europe’s largest militaries to immediately deploy their troops there and “push for peace”, the former Secretary General of NATO has said.

U.S. President Donald Trump is “siding with Putin” and European states must use force to bring the Ukraine war to an end and ensure they have a seat at the negotiating table at the end of it, former NATO Secretary General between 2009-2014 Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said in a series of statements. Rasmussen, who was Prime Minister of Denmark before his tenure at the top of the Western security alliance, spoke as trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States took place but where European delegates were kept out of the room, a matter of evident anguish for the defence leader and Ukraine advisor.

Speaking to Euronews earlier this week, Rasmussen said: “Europe is begging for a place at the table, but you cannot beg your way to a seat at the table, you have to make yourself indispensable by bringing assets to the table”. He subsequently added: “Europe will not talk its way to the negotiating table. We must force our way there, with action.”

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The Jumping Corpse of Calaveras County: Dead for Months, He’s Winning a Race for County Supervisor

As my colleague Charlie Martin observed, rather pithily, “Hey, dead people vote; they deserve representation too.”

My response to that is: Why encourage it?

Bruce Giudici, a 68-year-old CFO from Calaveras County in California, was running hard for county supervisor, an office he had been pursuing for several years. On August 30, he was out knocking on doors when he collapsed and died a few hours later. With the election so close, there was no time to remove his name from the ballot.

On Tuesday evening, election officials released the latest tranche of counted ballots, and Giudici appeared to have an insurmountable lead. He held 57% of the vote against his opponent, with just 500 votes yet to be counted. That gives him a 497-vote lead over his opponent, Clyde Clapp.

The people of Calaveras County have apparently elected a dead guy. Mark Twain would have loved it.

His campaign website paid tribute to his character.

“Bruce was beloved by many. His passing has been met with an overwhelming outpouring of sympathy for his family, community, co-workers, and the organizations he supported through tireless dedication over the years.”

The man was certainly involved in the community.

Throughout his career, he applied his financial and organizational skills to various organizations and non-profits, including Catholic Charities, the Stockton Homeless Shelter, public education initiatives, Heald Business College, MACT Health, San Joaquin Head Start, and the Amador Tuolumne Community Action Agency.

In addition to his career in finance, he was deeply committed to community service and activism. He notably founded and ran the Valley Food Coalition out of a passion for food security, and was heavily involved in organizing local events like the Stockton and Calaveras County Earth Day festivals. He was also a talented musician who played the trombone in a variety of local jazz, concert, and big bands.

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Report: Dem Rep. Jonathan Jackson Caught Lying About Why He Was Absent from Hegseth Impeachment Vote

The Democrats who failed to show up to the vote to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth are now groveling to the media and their constituents, with Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) allegedly getting caught in a lie about his whereabouts.

Nearly a dozen House Democrats missed the vote on outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY) effort to oust Hegseth, which failed 211-204. As a result, a lot of backlash from their own party has been thrown at Reps. Julia Brownley (D-CA), Lou Correa (D-CA), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Haley Stevens (D-MI), Marilyn Strickland (D-WA), and Frederica Wilson (D-FL).

Some of the absent members were attending a reception for Elect Democratic Women (EDW), a PAC co-founded by Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), when the vote was taking place on Tuesday evening.

A range of excuses were offered by some of the missing members. Correa said he had a medical procedure, Horsford claimed he had an unspecified “family emergency,” and Pelosi’s spokesperson said she was attending a Veterans Day event in California.

Pettersen stated that she was simply “denied the ability to vote” — presumably because she showed up too late.

Jackson made the amazing error of speaking with TMZ just outside of the Capitol ahead of the vote, which he somehow missed and blamed on traffic.

After telling TMZ’s Charlie Cotton that he “can’t wait” to impeach Hegseth, he failed to show up to vote and claimed on X that “a traffic incident and a police-escorted bus caused a delay that resulted in the vote closing before I, along with other Members, could reach the chamber.”

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GOP Sen. Kennedy: I Think ‘There’s a Lot of Truth’ to Reports Trump Knew About Huang, Alleged Spy

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that while he isn’t sure that President Donald Trump knew about former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s involvement with an alleged Chinese spy, he thinks “there’s a lot of truth” in the reporting.

Host Kasie Hunt asked, “Sen., the President was reportedly briefed by his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, about this alleged affair. And then Jensen Huang — well, this was while Jensen Huang was flying on Air Force One to the state visit to China. Should the President have let Jensen Huang fly on Air Force One, knowing that he was involved with an alleged Chinese spy?”

Kennedy responded, “Well, I’ve seen the allegations about the President. I don’t know if they’re true. I heard a clip of the President being interviewed last night — I think it was on CNN — where he had denied knowing that the CEO was cheating with a Chinese spy.”

Hunt then cut in to ask, “But if he knew, as the reports say, that Rubio told him?”

Kennedy answered, “Let’s cross that bridge if we come to it. I don’t want to accuse anybody of doing something they didn’t do. But the reporting on this is pretty detailed, and people aren’t denying it. And that tells me there’s a lot of truth in this. And I just want to get to the bottom of it, but not in two weeks or two months or two years. We need to do this now, before Christmas. The whole world is watching.”

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