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Trump’s DOJ Sues Orange County, California for Allegedly Hiding Illegal Voter Registrations of Noncitizens

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Orange County, California, election officials, accusing them of concealing voter registrations of noncitizens on its voter rolls.

“Voting by non-citizens is a federal crime, and states and counties that refuse to disclose all requested voter information are in violation of well-established federal elections laws,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement:

Removal of non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls is critical to ensuring that the State’s voter rolls are accurate and that elections in California are conducted without fraudulent voting. The Department of Justice will hold jurisdictions that refuse to comply with federal voting laws accountable.
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The lawsuit accuses the Orange County Registrar of Voters, Robert Page, of violating both the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) by allegedly refusing to hand over voter information to the Justice Department and hiding voter registrations of noncitizens on the county’s voter rolls.

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‘War Industry’ Silenced Democrat Opposition On Iran Strikes: Sen. Murphy

A leading Democratic senator has offered a frank and rare explanation for why many in his party are disconnected from everyday Democratic voters when it comes to foreign policy, which for a brief spell during the Bush years was dubbed ‘anti-war’—a platform which pretty much disappeared during the Obama years and later Biden admin.

Senator Chris Murphy was on MSNBC this week to talk about President Trump’s strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, which was not so much as debated much less formally approved by Congress. Murphy pointed out to Chris Hayes that an overwhelming 87% of Democrats expressed disapproval, according to a recent poll, and that 56% of Americans overall opposed the military action.

“I gotta say, if you just looked at elected Democratic members of Congress I don’t think you would think the voting members of the party were as overwhelmingly against this strike as they are compared to the people they send to go represent them in Congress,” Hayes told Murphy in the Tuesday interview, asking, “Do you feel like there’s a pretty big distance on these kinds of issues, between Democratic voters and democratic electeds?”

“I mean yes,” Murphy responded without hesitation. “That’s because, listen, there is a war industry in this town. There just is. There’s a lot of people who make money off of war.

“The military, I love them, they’re capable. But they are always way overly optimistic about what they can do,” the senator added.

“So the American people get it,” Murphy then said. “This town, you know, has, like I said, a degree of optimism and hubris about military action that is derivative of the fact that the war industry spends a lot of money here in Washington telling us that the guns and the tanks and the planes can solve all of our problems.”

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Teens face hate crime charges for cutting up LGBTQ Pride flags on Pride crosswalk in Atlanta

Atlanta police arrested four teens early Tuesday morning who have been accused of defacing Pride flags outside of a popular LGBTQ bar in midtown. Authorities said the defendants may face hate crime charges, which could result in penalties including jail time. Two suspects remain at large, police said.

According to the Atlanta Police Department (APD), officers responded to reports of vandalism at 1:40 am after witnesses claimed to have observed six men stealing Pride flags hanging in front of the bar and using knives to cut into them. The teens were also seen performing motorized scooter stunts on the notable rainbow-colored crosswalks at the intersection of Piedmont Avenue and 10th Street.

While contacting authorities, a 911 caller stated, “They’re in the middle of the street popping wheelies, tearing up flags.” The six teens fled on scooters when officers arrived on the scene. Shortly after, four of them were apprehended, while two teens remain at large.

Surveillance video released by APD shows the group on scooters at the rainbow-colored crosswalk with Pride flags in hand. The crosswalk was installed in 2017 to honor the 49 victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, the New York Times reported.

During a press conference, APD Sgt. Brandon Hayes stated that the department takes “this community very seriously, and we want to make sure residents feel safe.”

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Canadian PM Carney Calls for ‘Zionist Palestinian State’

In an interview Wednesday Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada would only accept a “Zionist Palestinian state”. Two week earlier foreign affairs minister Anita Anand described Canada’s “unwavering support for Israel’s security” and next week an RCMP commissioner is set to speak at an event to assuage the concerns of Canadians who’ve fought in Gaza that they may be investigated under Canada’s war crimes legislation.

Canadian policy towards Israel is unique. No other faraway state has received a constant flow of Canadians joining its military. No other wealthy faraway country receives a remotely comparable amount of registered charity funds. No other state has a publicly financed special envoy to deflect criticism of its colonial violence or gets Ottawa to send letters threatening the International Criminal Court on its behalf. Nor is there another country in which the government sues to block proper labels on its wines or the Canadian embassy hosts parties for Canadians fighting in its military or the foreign minister says Canada would act as an “asset” for it on the UN Security Council.

I’ve written extensively about Canadian governments’ violating international law while professing its importance. In the case of Israel, the duplicity is even more glaring. Our governments have repeatedly failed to uphold Canadian law. The Minister of Justice, Global Affairs, RCMP and other government agencies have ignored their legal responsibilities regarding a genocidal apartheid state.

Issuing arms permits to Israel contravenes Canada’s Export and Import Permits Act yet Ottawa refuses to stop the flow of arms. According to the federal government, “Under the Export and Import Permits Act (EIPA), the Minister of Foreign Affairs must deny exports and brokering permit applications for military goods and technology if there is a substantial risk that the items would undermine peace and security, or could be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws.”

By any credible account, the Israeli military has long committed “serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws.” Israel has launched a series of deadly wars on the besieged population of Gaza (2008, 2014, 2021). It’s also killed over a thousand in the West Bank and beginning in 2013 Israeli forces began bombing Syria on a near weekly basis.

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Nebraska Medical Marijuana Regulators Approve Emergency Rules Banning Flower Access For Patients

The Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission on Thursday approved emergency regulations to begin accepting medical cannabis applications as soon as Gov. Jim Pillen (R) gives his final green light.

State law requires him to do so by Tuesday.

The emergency regulations, unveiled for the first time minutes before the 10 a.m. meeting, largely mirror a legislative proposal that lawmakers stalled on last month. The regulations would take effect for up to 90 days, pending Pillen’s approval. The two medical cannabis-related laws that voters approved mandate that applications must start being accepted no later than July 1.

Commissioner Lorelle Mueting of Gretna, an addiction prevention specialist through Heartland Family Service, affirmed that commissioners want public feedback on the emergency regulations through July 15, to inform future, formal regulations.

Public comments may be submitted to lcc.frontdesk@nebraska.gov, the repository for the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission, which will forward the messages onto the state’s new Medical Cannabis Commission.

“The input that the public provides on these emergency regulations will help us immediately begin drafting the regular regulations,” Mueting said Thursday.

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How much have US wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan cost?

The decades-long military involvement of the United States in the Middle East expanded once again this week after its warplanes bombed at least three of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

According to a briefing by US General Dan Caine, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, seven B-2 stealth bombers, each valued at approximately $2.1bn, dropped at least 14 bunker-buster bombs worth millions on Fordow and Natanz.

In total, more than 125 US aircraft participated in the mission, including bombers, fighters, tankers, surveillance aircraft, and support crews, all costing hundreds of millions of dollars to deploy and operate.

The US spends more on its military than any other country in the world, more than the next nine countries combined, spending about three times more than China and nearly seven times more than Russia.

In 2024, the US spent $997bn on its military, accounting for 37 percent of all global military spending, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

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The truth behind Trump’s bombings and the huge Iran secret kept from the world that’s hoodwinked all of America

Two days before American B-2 stealth bombers dropped the biggest payload of explosives since World War II on Iran, trucks were seen lining up outside the primary target at Fordow.

Satellite images showed scores of cargo vehicles outside a tunnel entrance to Iran’s key nuclear base inside a mountain.

Donald Trump has insisted that the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program was destroyed in the precision strikes, an assessment backed by the CIA and Israeli intelligence.

But there was also a frantic effort to move centrifuges and highly enriched uranium before US bombers attacked, the key question for the Pentagon now is: where did it go?

One possibility, according to experts, is a secret facility buried even deeper under another mountain 90 miles south of Fordow: ‘Mount Doom.’

In Farsi, the potential new ground zero for Iran’s nuclear program is Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, otherwise known in English as ‘Pickaxe Mountain,’ located in the Zagros Mountains in central Iran on the outskirts of one of the regime’s other nuclear sites at Natanz.

‘It is plausible that Iran moved centrifuges and highly enriched uranium (HEU) to secret or hardened locations prior to the recent strikes – including possibly to facilities near Pickaxe Mountain,’ Christoph Bluth, professor of international relations and security at the University of Bradford, told the Daily Mail.

Previous intelligence had showed ‘large tunnels being bored into the mountain, with possible infrastructure for an advanced enrichment facility,’ he claimed.

‘The site may be buried 100 meters below the surface. So it is conceivable that advanced centrifuge cascades have been hidden there, but there is no specific evidence at this time to confirm where centrifuges and fissile material has been moved to.’

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The Coming Police State

A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand the powers of the government and shrink protections for civil liberties – and this shrinkage will somehow keep us all safe.

The premise of this deeply flawed argument is that less liberty produces more safety. That premise is historically and morally erroneous. Even if we had cops watching us on every street corner or FBI agents virtually in every home, who will keep us safe from them? And who would want to live, who could be private and free, in such an environment?

Here is the backstory.

When James Madison referred to the creation of the American republic as an inversion, he must have been met with quizzical looks and curious laughter. He meant that throughout history, popular governments came about by monarchs and despots – the sovereign – begrudgingly giving up power. This was, to Madison, power giving liberty.

In America, however, Madison argued – following his neighbor and good friend Thomas Jefferson, who maintained that individual persons are sovereign – the government came about by an inversion of the old way. In America, liberty gave power.

Thus, at the end of the American war for independence, which began 250 years ago, there was no central government here. The king’s agents and soldiers had been chased back to England, and many of his judicial and administrative officials retreated into private life or suddenly became patriots.

The 13 states were the only meaningful governments, and all persons – actually, all land-owning adult white males – were recognized as sovereign. I say “recognized” because Jefferson’s theory of the primacy of the individual over the state was his understanding of Natural Law Theory, and the natural law is color- and gender- and wealth- and status-blind. It teaches that all human beings possess equal natural rights from birth, recognized at the age of reason, and exercisable upon earliest adulthood.

Hence, because of perverse racial attitudes about Africans and Native Americans and antediluvian attitudes about women and wealth, Jefferson’s iconic language in the Declaration of Independence that “all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” makes no sense unless it is understood to mean that all persons are created equal.

This uniformity of equality, which colonial society here limited to adult, white, landowning males, nevertheless was voluntarily exercised so as to create a limited government. When the Constitution was ratified by voters in the states – in numerous conventions, town meetings and political gatherings – it literally consisted of liberty giving power. This was Madison’s inversion.

But the power that individuals morally gave – legally, the power that the states delegated to the new central government – was not without limits. And those limits were reduced to writing in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Basically, the Constitution established the new federal government, and the Bill of Rights restrained it. In the late 1860s, new amendments were added to the original Constitution that essentially applied the Bill of Rights to states and local governments.

The premise of the Bill of Rights – purely Jeffersonian and Madisonian – is that because our rights come from the Creator, they are inalienable; and hence each of us is sovereign. The Bill of Rights does not create rights; rather it restrains the government from interfering with them.

The key amendments for this discussion are the First (restraining the government from interfering with religion, assembly, speech and writings) the Fourth (guaranteeing the right to be left alone, and prohibiting searches and seizures unless by warrant issued by judges based on probable cause of crime), and the Fifth and 14th, which together guarantee fair trials to all persons whenever the government seeks their lives, liberties or property.

Now back to the coming police state.

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Bunker-busting bunkum: events, conspiracies and the inversion of truth

‘Events, dear boy, events’. So said British prime minister Harold Macmillan on the fallibility of leaders due to unanticipated, uncontrollable factors. ‘Shit happens’, to use a slang version.  But what if events are neither incidental nor – in some cases – real?

Topically, should we believe that Iran had a nuclear weapon base deep in a mountain that was destroyed by American bunker-busting bombs?

Coincidence and cock-up are not as credible or reliable as conspiracy in explaining what is happening in the world today. Critical thinkers are joining the dots, and seeing ulterior motives, false flags and stagecraft to serve the globalists’ agenda. People at the highest rungs of power are inverting reality.

We’re in Alice in Wonderland, and it’s a deliberate strategy of shock and awe in pursuit of a new world order

Here, I present a radical reformulation of events, motives and outcomes.In conventional logic, events (as reported on ‘the news’) are real, and conspiracy theories are contrived. This, I believe, has been turned on its head by the scriptwriters, so that it would be more accurate (at least as a tendency) to posit:

EVENTS are contrived

CONSPIRACIES are real

‘The news’ is a curated programme. Events are highlighted to become talking points, often with psychological framing to make people respond in a desired way (e.g. sympathy, horror).  Covid-19 was perhaps the biggest behavioural psychology operation ever, most of its impact arising through mainstream media reporting. Now we have the spectre of World War Three, but is this an actual escalation to hot war, or another stage show?

Events are contrived at three levels. They may be real, unpredicted incidents, but exploited in some way (e.g. a racially prejudiced comment used as evidence of a racist society). At another level are events that are real but designed, with the true motives hidden. For example, we might suspect the Baltimore bridge being struck by a container ship, derailment of chemical freight at East Palestine in Ohio, food warehouse fires and other damage to infrastructure; also forest fires with a hint of arson).  Finally there are events that are fabricated. The latter are the most controversial.

There are two audiences for contrived events. For the majority (‘normies’) the story on ‘the news’ is accepted at face value. These are easy minds to manipulate. Furthermore, the event may contribute to a problem-reaction-solution mechanism, often to advance technocratic surveillance.

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Scientists Use Magnetic Levitation to Search for Ultralight Dark Matter

Rice University scientists have developed a sensor that uses magnetic levitation to detect quantum-level oscillations caused by theoretical ultralight dark matter moving through the Earth.

While dark matter is believed to make up most of the matter in the universe, some theories suggest that ultralight dark matter, which behaves like a continuous wave, exerts rhythmic forces that can be detected if the equipment is sensitive enough.

The research team behind the magnetic levitation sensor’s design and construction says their initial tests did not detect ultralight dark matter. However, the experiments, which were supported by the National Science Foundation, provided critical new constraints that will aid ongoing dark matter search efforts.

“Our approach brings dark matter detection into a new realm,” explained Rice University physicist Christopher Tunnell, a postdoctoral researcher and an author on the study detailing the team’s findings.

According to a statement announcing the research, Tunnell and Dorian Amaral, the study’s first author and lead analyst, teamed up with Dennis Uitenbroek and Tjerk Oosterkamp, physicists from Leiden University, to build an ultralight dark matter sensor capable of detecting movements smaller than the width of a hydrogen atom.

First, the team placed a microscopic neodymium magnet inside a superconducting enclosure cooled to near absolute zero. According to Tunnell, by using magnetic levitation to suspend the magnet in this frictionless environment, “we’re giving it the freedom to move if something nudges it.”

After the device was completed, the team began monitoring their magnetically suspended particle for the rhythmic forces caused by ultralight dark matter. If the theories were correct, they hoped to detect interaction forces that differ based on baryon and lepton numbers. Called ‘conserved quantum numbers’ in particle physics, these figures remain constant in particle interactions within a theoretical model known as B−L. This means even the smallest change should be detectable.

According to the team’s statement, their magnetic levitation sensor did not detect the predicted signal of ultralight dark matter interactions. However, Tunnell says their experiments eliminated interactions at the narrow frequency band of around 26.7 Hz targeted by their study, further narrowing the search parameters for future studies.

“Every time we don’t find dark matter, we refine the map,” Tunnell said. “It is like searching for a lost key in your house — when you do not find it in one place, you know to look elsewhere.”

In follow-up experiments, the team says they hope to try something they’ve affectionately titled after the dance the group performed when they met at a climate protest and realized taking such a measurement was even possible: the “Polonaise.” Built using heavier magnets, more stable magnetic levitation, and boasting broader frequency coverage, the team says the Polonaise will probe areas of the theoretical dark matter landscape that current detectors have not explored, “seeking to identify ultra-weak forces in the most undisturbed environments possible.”

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