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Police Bodycam Footage Shows Moment Disabled Woman Flashes Arm Stump After Cop Accuses Her of Texting with Her “Right Hand”

Newly-released police bodycam footage shows the moment a disabled woman flashed her arm stump after a cop accused her of texting with her “right hand.”

A Palm Beach County officer pulled over Kathleen Thomas, 36, for distracted driving earlier this year.

The officer told Thomas that he pulled her over for “holding the phone with your right hand” while she was driving on North Dixie Highway.

Thomas immediately showed the officer her handless arm and flashed her stump.

“So I’m obviously not. So you wanna just call this a day?” Thomas said to the stunned officer.

The officer did not back down from his claims.

“I don’t want to call it a day. You had a hand up,” the officer said.

The officer continued to humiliate Thomas and asked her to put a “hand to God” to promise she wasn’t texting with her right hand.

“Hand to God,” Thomas said as she held up her stump.

“The other hand to God,” the officer said.

The officer issued Thomas a citation; however, the citation was later dismissed after Thomas challenged it in court.

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Five years after the ‘unmarked graves’ claim, Canada still has no bodies — but plenty of demands for silence

The fifth anniversary of the claim that the remains of 215 Indian residential school students had been discovered at Kamloops, BC, has come and gone. Despite the fact that millions of dollars have been spent, and not one body has been found, there have been no apologies from those who made the claim. Quite the contrary, Canada’s Indian chiefs are now demanding the criminal prosecution of anyone who even questions the claim. As they see it, anyone disputing their claim — or even claiming that former residential school students had positive experiences at the schools — should be found guilty of “residential school denialism,” and severely sanctioned — even jailed.

Ottawa appears to be ready to oblige. Bill C-413 would make me a criminal for writing this article — and perhaps you for reading it and passing it on.

But if they get their way, they had better build a very big jail. And they will have to be prepared to throw many former residential school students in that jail. Because it is not hard to find positive residential school experiences described by former students.

Here is an example of a man heaping praise on his residential school and the dedicated people there who gave him a first-class education. According to him, if not for the years he spent at his residential school, he would have died as a drunk on skid row, like so many of his reserve friends. Instead, he went on to become a successful lawyer. He credited the 14 years he spent at a residential school for making that success possible. 

That fellow is Wilton Littlechild, who happens to be one of the three Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Commissioners. He certainly changed his tune later, but for most of his life, he and his family considered themselves very fortunate for his education at the school. Every year, the family and community held a picnic at their rural home, with the chiefs in attendance, to honour the teachers and staff who gave their son and friends the education so many Indians didn’t receive.

Littleton shared this revelation during a 2011 interview with University of New Brunswick students and at a TRC hearing. You can read the full interview at Speak Truth to Power Canada. 

Will Mr. Littlechild be jailed for making these comments about his overwhelmingly positive experience at his residential school?

And while we are on the subject of TRC commissioners, here is what the late Commissioner Murray Sinclair had to say about residential schools.

“While the TRC heard many experiences of unspeakable abuse, we have been heartened by testimonies which affirm the dedication and compassion of committed educators who sought to nurture the children in their care. These experiences must also be heard.”

Would Sinclair have been prosecuted for that?

Sinclair’s grandmother — the grandmother who raised him, and who Sinclair credited for his success — received her education at a residential school. Would the chiefs have her jailed for repeatedly declaring how lucky she had been to have had a residential school education?

Then there is the famous Indian playwright and musician, Tomson Highway, who wrote a book about his experiences at the Guy Hill Residential School near The Pas, Manitoba. He described his experience there as overwhelmingly positive.

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The Big Apple’s Woes Are Not Just the Result of One Election

The destruction of New York is the logic of decades of history and long-forgotten pols addicted to outrageous spending and taxation.

Today’s successors of these big taxers are as myopic as the Bourbon kings who “learned nothing and forgot nothing.”

It didn’t start with the election of socialist/communist Mayor Zorain Mamdani, who followed in their footsteps and said the government should control “the means of production.”

Mamdani is the logical outcome of generations of New York City’s drift toward bigger and bigger government along with destroying the private sector. This leads the most productive citizens and businesses to head for the exits. It’s been going on for generations.

These problems happened as, little by little, the city’s Democrats trended radical left. Even some Republicans moved left. An example of the latter was liberal Republican mayor John Lindsay, elected in 1965 and the author of the city’s first income tax. He later turned Democrat. New York’s popular Republican governor, Nelson “Rocky” Rockefeller—elected four times from the late 1950s to the early 1970s—nearly spent the state into bankruptcy. It was all in the stars. Before winning the statehouse in 1958, a predecessor Republican governor, Thomas Dewey, told a young Rockefeller, “Nelson, I like you but I can’t afford you.” Dewey was prescient.

In some 15 years as governor, he quadrupled the state budget and quintupled the state debt, including substantial authority debt, practices continued by his successors, including governor Andrew Cuomo. “Rocky” raised taxes many times and initiated a state sales tax. These taxes accelerated the departure of industry, with New York state losing some 500,000 manufacturing jobs between 1969 and 1975.

In 1961, two-term New York City mayor Robert Wagner, who successfully sought a third term, faced the same overspending problems as today’s state and city leaders. Like today’s pols, he whined as the bills piled up. Wagner blamed the bankers selling city bonds.

Wagner—in a statement that could have been made by several succeeding mayors—said he was going ahead with this welfare program expansion: “I do not propose to permit our fiscal problem to set the limits of our commitments to meet the essential needs of the people of the city.” About a decade later, the spending bomb he lit blew up. Lindsay’s successor, Abe Beame, campaigned for mayor in 1973 as the man “who knew the buck.”

Yet a 1975 New York Magazine profile described his budgetary practices as “lies and a sham.” William Simon, US Treasury Secretary in his book, A Time for Truth, said New York governor Hugh Carey “ping ponged from position to position,” and demanded a federal bailout.

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Formal Complaint Filed with Texas Secretary of State Challenging Federal Voting Law Compliance

Jeffrey Yuna of Harris County, former candidate for the 38th Congressional District, and Debra Boehm, a voter in Collin County have submitted a formal HAVA complaint with the Texas Secretary of State (SOS), the Hon. Jane Nelson, who is the State’s Chief Election Administrator.

The complaint, supported by Unite4Freedom evidence, seeks a hearing on the record under the longstanding Federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) (§ 402, 52 U.S.C. § 21112, and 1 Tex. Admin. Code § 81.171) to determine whether Texas is complying with HAVA § 303 in its administration of federal elections.

The complainants are not asking to overturn, contest, or alter any election result. Instead, they seek a record-based HAVA determination concerning Texas’s statewide voter registration list, voter history records, participation records, official-source reconciliation; preservation of source records; and future federal-election compliance.

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HAVA Requirements

HAVA § 303 requires Texas to implement and maintain a “single, uniform, official, centralized, interactive computerized statewide voter registration list” that “shall serve as the official voter registration list for the conduct of all elections for Federal office in the State.” This complaint alleges a HAVA Title III violation that has occurred, is occurring, and is about to occur again unless corrected before the next federal election.

This Complaint asks four binary questions about the official Texas record of a single federal election:

  1. Do the State’s four official counts of voter participation reconcile?
  2. Is there documented administrative records showing how they reconcile?
  3. Can the State identify the number that was certified and the source system that produced it?
  4. Can the State produce the record-chain proof of how the certified number was derived and how it relates to the “single, uniform, official, centralized, interactive computerized statewide voter registration list”?

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How Western Intelligence Agencies Built the Global Jihadist Network

Americans have been fed a comforting fairy tale about Islamic terrorism. Radical jihadists attack the West simply because they despise freedom, democracy, and the American way of life. This narrative flatters domestic audiences while conveniently obscuring a far more troubling reality. For decades, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Israel have armed, financed, tolerated, and tapped into Sunni Islamist extremists as geopolitical tools to destabilize rivals. The evidence spans multiple theaters and rests on declassified documents, congressional investigations, and credible investigative journalism.

The most thoroughly documented case is Operation Cyclone, the CIA program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen from 1979 to 1992. In a 1998 interview with Le Nouvel Observateur, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski confirmed that the CIA began aiding mujahideen opponents of the pro-Soviet Kabul government six months before the Soviet invasion—a calculated provocation intended to draw Moscow into an unwinnable war. When asked if he regretted supporting Islamic fundamentalism that gave “arms and advice to future terrorists,” Brzezinski replied:

“What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?”

Multiple intelligence agencies participated in this operation. MI6 ran covert operations supporting hardline commanders. Pakistan’s ISI served as the critical financial and logistical conduit—operating under the direction of Pakistani President Zia ul-Haq, who controlled ISI policy throughout the war. Saudi Arabia agreed to match CIA contributions dollar for dollar, a commitment secured when Brzezinski visited Riyadh in February 1980 and one that CIA officer Gust Avrakotos and congressman Charlie Wilson (D-TX) would fly to Riyadh to enforce whenever Saudi payments fell behind. Historian Steve Coll documented in Ghost Wars that Osama bin Laden informally cooperated with ISI-run guerrilla training camps on behalf of newly arrived Arab jihadists, with intimate connections to CIA-backed commander Jalaluddin Haqqani. The global jihadist network that became al-Qaeda grew directly from this infrastructure.

The Afghan theater was not an isolated experiment but the opening chapter of a longer story. The same networks it created spread rapidly to the next front. The Chechen insurgency of the 1990s was joined by Arab and Central Asian jihadists who had cut their teeth in Afghanistan. The most prominent was Ibn Khattab, a Saudi-born mujahideen veteran born in 1969 inʿAr’ar, Saudi Arabia, who left for the Afghan jihad at age 18 before entering Chechnya in 1995. Saudi-backed organizations funneled funds, and Gulf state charities developed during the Afghan jihad maintained, in some cases wittingly and in others not, support for al-Qaeda-affiliated groups throughout the decade. Several of the future 9/11 conspirators—including Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Ziad Jarrah, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh—originally sought to travel to Chechnya in 1999 before being redirected to al-Qaeda’s Afghan camps, per the 9/11 Commission.

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Ebola Was Identified Nearly 50 Years Ago — Why Are There No Treatments for the Latest Outbreak?

As health officials work to contain a growing Ebola outbreak in Central Africa, questions are resurfacing about why some strains of the virus still lack approved treatments nearly 50 years after Ebola was first identified.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported 900 suspected infections and 220 deaths through ongoing transmission of the Ebola virus in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda.

The agency warned that outbreaks in conflict-affected and resource-deprived regions can escalate quickly if containment efforts falter.

The virus was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in Zaire, now the DRC. Licensed vaccines such as Merck’s Ervebo have since shown strong protection against the Zaire strain of Ebola, responsible for major outbreaks in West Africa from 2014-2016 and the DRC from 2018-2020.

However, no approved vaccine or specific antiviral treatment yet exists for the Bundibugyo strain, which is responsible for the latest outbreak.

Public health experts say the gap reflects long-standing research priorities that have centered on the most extensive and lethal Ebola variants, leaving less common strains with fewer medical remedies.

Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore, Maryland, said Ebola vaccine development initially focused on the Zaire strain due to both its outbreak history and biodefense interest.

“Vaccines targeted to the Zaire species of Ebola were developed first because this species was the most common form of Ebola and also was the subject of Soviet bioweapons development efforts,” Adalja said.

“In recent years there have been programs developed to target the second most common form of Ebola, Sudan, and there is interest in Bundibugyo countermeasures as well.”

James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D., author of “Ebola: An Evolving Story,” said any countermeasures taken to combat Bundibugyo have lagged due to delayed diagnostics and overall lack of preparedness.

“Everyone pretends the pathogen surprised them,” Lyons-Weiler said. “Bundibugyo did not appear from nowhere. The time to act is before, not after.”

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CDC Frames Bird Flu as Likely ‘Pathogen X’ Pandemic Scenario That Public Health Systems Are Preparing For

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journal has published a new online report repeatedly framing avian influenza and pandemic influenza emergence as the conceptual foundation for future “Pathogen X” preparedness—signaling how public health planners are increasingly positioning bird flu as the next major pandemic scenario around which long-term infrastructure is being organized.

The paper, published yesterday in the CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, is titled “Assessing Evidence to Guide Primary Prevention of Pathogen X.”

The journal is used to communicate the conceptual direction, priorities, and emerging frameworks of the U.S. public health establishment.

Rather than discussing bird flu as merely one possible zoonotic threat among many, the new CDC release repeatedly centers avian influenza spillovers, pandemic influenza emergence, reassortment, and mutation as the core framework through which the authors discuss future pandemic preparedness.

“The COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing spillovers of avian influenza show the magnitude and urgency of threats posed by viral pandemics,” the paper says.

The publication signals that bird flu is increasingly being positioned as the operational “Pathogen X” scenario around which future pandemic infrastructure, surveillance systems, countermeasure programs, and public expectations are already being organized.

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Fidel Castro’s Daughter Asked Whether Justin Trudeau Is Actually Her Brother — Gives VERY Telling Response 

The daughter of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is doing little to quell rumors that Justin Trudeau is her biological half-brother.

Speculation has abounded for years that the former Canadian Prime Minister is the biological son of Castro because of their younger resemblance and the close relationship his mother was said to have had with him.

During NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich Tonight, Castro’s exiled daughter, Alina Fernandez, was brought on to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Cuba and the potential threat of military action.

However, Pavlich ended the conversation by asking about the possible Trudeau connection.

“For years, we’ve heard rumors that Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, could be your half-brother. What do you think about it?” she said.

“The only thing I can say is that his mother used to visit the country very often,” Fernandez responded with a wry smile.

“Well, that may be a tell then,” Pavlich responded.  “I guess that’s a half-answer.”

“Yes,” said Fernandez.

“Do you plan to call him and maybe find out?” Pavlich followed up.

“No, no,” Fernandez said. “If he wants, he’s welcome but I won’t, I won’t. I think he keeps that to himself, and you have to respect that.”

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Inflation Jumps to 3-Year High as Critics Say Trump Economic Promises Have Turned to Dust

A key federal inflation measure released Thursday shows that US prices jumped to a three-year high last month as President Donald Trump’s illegal Iran war and tariffs continued to push up consumer costs at gas pumps and grocery stores across the country.

The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index, closely watched by the Federal Reserve, rose at an annualized clip of 3.8% in April, the fastest pace since May 2023. Even when food and energy prices were stripped out of the measurement, the index rose 3.3% last month compared to a year ago—the highest level since November 2023.

“Today’s numbers tell the story: Families are paying more for gas, food, and housing and utilities,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). “Donald Trump promised to lower costs ‘on day one,’ but instead inflation is running ahead of wages as his failed economic agenda hollows out Americans’ paychecks.”

The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) also found that Americans’ personal savings rate fell to its lowest level since June 2022, plummeting to 2.6% as higher prices force households to spend more on basic necessities.

“This is stunning,” Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, wrote on social media, noting that the personal savings rate was 5.5% in April of last year. “That’s a sharp plunge. It underscores how squeezed Americans are right now with higher prices and incomes not keeping up.”

Consumer spending grew by $111.1 billion last month, according to BEA data, with “gasoline and other energy goods” making up the largest portion of the increase. Trump administration officials have attempted to spin rising consumer spending as evidence of broad optimism about the US economy, even with consumer sentiment at an all-time low.

“Prices remain stubbornly high because President Trump refuses to bring down the cost of living for working families,” said Breyon Williams, chief economist at the Groundwork Collaborative. “Trump is making Americans pay more, first via his tariffs and now because of his war in Iran, causing prices at the pump to skyrocket. At the same time, he remains fixated on his lavish billion-dollar ballroom that the taxpayers will fund and a $1.8 billion slush fund for his supporters.”

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The evidence for a planned covid pandemic starts in the UK in 1966

In 2023, Dr. David Martin presented evidence to UK Parliamentarians that the covid pandemic was a 56-year plan in development, starting in the UK in 1966 when the Wellcome Trust decided to use the coronavirus as a method of human manipulation.

In 1967, the US and UK agreed to modify and manipulate coronavirus, and by 2011, a document showed an anti-trust collusion between the Wellcome Trust, Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation and others to establish a universal vaccine by 2020.

The covid pandemic was not a public health emergency, but rather an orchestrated assault on liberties.  And the evidence points to a conspiracy to commit acts of terror, with key players including Peter Daszak and the World Health Organisation.

On 4 December 2023, Andrew Bridgen, then a Member of the UK Parliament (“MP”), hosted an event in the Wilson Room of Portcullis House, a building opposite the Houses of Parliament which provides offices for 210 MPs and their staff, supplementing the limited space in the Palace of Westminster and surrounding buildings.

16 MPs attended the event titled ‘For Democracy, Truth, and Freedom’ when Dr. David E. Martin said: “Covid was a 56-year plan in development that began in the UK when Wellcome Trust decided to use the coronavirus as the ‘preferred method of human manipulation’.”

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