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Greenland mining firm hires Trump-tied lobbyists amid US invasion threats

The company suing Greenland for the right to mine rare earth minerals has hired a lobbying firm deeply connected to the Trump administration, increasing the threat of US action against the territory.

This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic!

Energy Transition Minerals announced yesterday that it hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm run by Brian Ballard, a major donor and fundraiser for Trump, to assert what it says are its claims on the territory. Attorney General Pam Bondi, along with Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, were both hired by Trump straight out of Ballard Partners.

The news comes as the White House steps up its rhetoric over Greenland, saying this week that it was exploring all options to take control of the territory, including a military invasion.

Energy Transition Minerals, an Australian mining company, was given a license nearly twenty years ago to explore the Kvanefjeld deposit, which contains over 11 million metric tons of rare earth minerals, including large quantities of uranium. The size of Kvanefjeld makes it the largest thorium deposit, the second-largest uranium deposit and overall the third-largest rare earths deposit in the world.

In a world hungry for new energy sources, Kvanefjeld’s significance can’t be overstated.

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Fact-Checking All of the Mysteries Surrounding Donald Trump and Penn

t was, it can be said without fear of exaggeration, a day that will live in infamy. When President Donald Trump emerged from his mysterious one-on-one summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July of 2018, the respective visages and body language of the two world leaders could not have been further apart. The Russian president looked smug and sated, like a vampire with a bellyful of peasant blood; Trump looked like a man who’d just received a painful enema. Or, as grizzled, now-banished White House aide-de-camp Steve Bannon describes it in Siege, Michael Wolff’s decadent and depraved follow-up to 2018’s Trumpworld tell-all Fire And Fury, “like a beaten dog.”

Speculation within Trump’s inner circle was that Putin must have something on Trump. The pee tape? Evidence that Don Jr. tried to buy Hillary’s emails? His tax returns? Nah. As Bannon told Wolff, “nobody gives a fuck” about that stuff. But, he wondered, “What if they have his college transcript?”

Ahh, the college transcript. Trump famously graduated from Penn’s Wharton School in 1968 — a fact he reminds audiences of over and over again. (Per Penn’s student newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, he publicly name-dropped Wharton 52 times between June 2015 and January 2018.) But despite all his humblebragging about that Wharton degree, Trump has never allowed his academic performance there to be made public.

“This was a major, major thing with Trump — that people might think he’s stupid,” Michael Wolff told me around the time of Siege’s publication earlier this summer. “The focus of that for Trump is the college transcripts, which are apparently terrible. I’ve spoken to friends of Trump from that time, and this was a guy that was obviously not interested in school and possibly never read a book in his life. For everyone that had known him then and years afterward, the assumption was that he had terrible grades, he was a lackluster student at best.”

In truth, Trump’s Wharton GPA is just one of many mysteries surrounding the 45th president’s relationship with Penn, Philadelphia’s most powerful private institution, which, unwittingly or not, helped unleash Trump on the world. Over the years, there have been rumors about how Trump might have gotten into Penn in the first place, and how much — or how little — he’s donated to the school as an alum. There are tales about Trump’s social life as a Penn undergrad — did he, in fact, have a fling with Candice Bergen? And there are stories — including one particularly juicy one — about the Penn careers of Trump kids Don Jr., Ivanka and Tiffany, all of whom followed in their old man’s red-and-blue footsteps.

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Ukraine’s demographic collapse deepens as war wipes out generations

Ukraine has lost an entire generation in the four-year war with Russia and, if the conflict continues for another two years, it will lose another one.

The latest demographic data and international estimates highlight a huge hole that has appeared in Ukraine’s demographic pyramid at 25 years of age. The number of deaths in the war remains a closely guarded state secret, but the horrific losses Ukraine has suffered shows up clearly in the demographic data. Ukraine is in the midst of a long-term population collapse unprecedented in Europe outside wartime.

The results are worse than the same demographic dent that appeared in Russia’s demographic pyramid from the chaos of the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union when male life expectancy fell to a mere 56-years-old – but Ukraine’s war induced losses are far worse. A healthy population pyramid should be a triangle.

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US used powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees during Maduro raid: witness account

The US used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, “bleeding through the nose” and vomiting blood during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary.

In a jaw-dropping interview, the guard described how American forces wiped out hundreds of fighters without losing a single soldier, using technology unlike anything he has ever seen — or heard.

“We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation,” the guard said. “The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react.”

Moments later, a handful of helicopters appeared — “barely eight,” by his count — deploying what he estimated were just 20 US troops into the area.

But those few men, he said, came armed with something far more powerful than guns.

“They were technologically very advanced,” the guard recalled. “They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before.”

What ensued, he said, was not a battle, but a slaughter.

“We were hundreds, but we had no chance,” he said. “They were shooting with such precision and speed; it felt like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute.”

Then came the weapon that still haunts him.

“At one point, they launched something; I don’t know how to describe it,” he said. “It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside.”

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‘West Wing’ Actor Accused Of Sexually Abusing 2 Child Actors On Set

An arrest warrant has been issued for Emmy-winning actor and director Timothy Busfield, who is accused of inappropriately touching twin boys who were actors on a TV series he directed, according to reports.

Busfield, known for his roles on “The West Wing” and “Field of Dreams,” is facing two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and an open count of child abuse, according to Albuquerque court documents obtained by KOAT.

According to a police affidavit posted by Variety, the boys’ mother told police that her children disclosed to her that they were “groomed and sexually abused” by Busfield while filming the Fox series “The Cleaning Lady” from November 2022 to spring 2024 in New Mexico.

One of the boys told an investigator that Busfield touched his “private areas” on set when he was 7 years old and again when he was 8, according to Variety.

Additionally, the affidavit describes an investigation conducted by Warner Bros. Following an anonymous complaint made through SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union, about Busfield’s conduct on “The Cleaning Lady.”

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Female prisoner ‘hurled in locked cell’ at Massachusetts prison after complaining that she had been raped by one of at least three transgender sex predators housed there

A female prisoner was thrown into a locked cell at a Massachusetts prison after she told authorities she was allegedly raped by one of at least four transgender sex predators housed there, a report has claimed.

According to an investigation conducted by The Hill, MCI-Framingham, the state’s all-female prison, is punishing biological female inmates who speak up about alleged abuse at the hands of transgender inmates who also call it home. 

One incarcerated woman, who requested anonymity due to fear of retaliation, told the outlet she informed MCI-Framingham officials she was raped by a male prisoner who identifies as transgender in November. The alleged attacker has not been named.

In return, prison authorities have locked her up in restrictive housing and only allow her to leave her dreary cell once a day to take a quick shower, the woman has reportedly claimed. 

‘It feels like I’m being punished for speaking up,’ the female prisoner told the publication. 

‘They are treating me as if I should have kept my mouth shut – as if it’s my fault, or as though I should have defended myself.’ 

Per the extensive report, seriously violent criminals, including sex predators, child rapists, domestic abusers, and killers, can gain access to female inmates just by telling officials they identify as a woman. 

The request is made possible by the state’s 2018 Criminal Justice Reform, which allows biologically male offenders convicted of those frightening crimes to be housed at the female-only prison in Massachusetts. 

Other protections transgender inmates get behind bars in the state include care for how they are searched, housed, and addressed, all according to their self-identified gender. 

While it is not known who the woman’s allegations refer to, a number of high-profile transgender inmates call the prison home.

One inmate who got into the prison because of the guidelines is Kenneth Hunt. 

Hunt, who now goes by Katheena, was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering two women, including a cousin, according to legal documents reviewed by the Daily Mail. 

Hunt’s cousin was found dead in her apartment by her boyfriend on January 5, 1982. 

According to an autopsy, the woman was stabbed more than four dozen times and was sexually molested with a broom, court documents stated. 

Just two years prior, a 29-year-old woman was also found dead in her apartment after suffering multiple stab wounds, the filing said.

Hunt is currently serving a life sentence at Framingham. 

A previously convicted criminal is also serving time there as a level three sex offender. 

Charlese Horton, who formerly went by Charles, was previously convicted of kidnapping and assaulting a child before being taken into custody again in 2019 on several charges, including repeatedly abducting and raping a 14-year-old at gunpoint. 

Horton, who now identifies as transgender, was sent to MCI-Framingham in July. 

A fourth transgender inmate, Wayne ‘Veronica’ Raymond, is in prison for life for raping multiple children. 

Raymond was allowed to live among women at the prison after being denied parole six times for failing to ‘demonstrate a level of rehabilitation,’ The Hill reported. 

Officials determined Raymond was found ‘compatible with the welfare of society.’ 

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Portland Trantifa threatens ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis

A trans-identified male Antifa member in Portland, Oregon has issued a threat against the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday after she attempted to run over the agent in her car.

In a video posted to social media, the “transfemme” previously known as Shawn Michael Bitgood said, “to the ICE agent that murdered that unarmed civilian in Minneapolis: we have your face, we have pictures of you. We will get justice for a fallen comrade, whether it be judicial justice or street justice depends on whether or not you turn yourself in and admit to your crime.”

“That wasn’t self-defense. That was murder, and you know it was murder. Don’t put it off as self-defense,” Bitgood added. Bitgood has also gone by the names ” Jennifer Michelle Bitgood” and “Freya Jode Bitgood,” and is a healthcare worker.

Bitgood previously threatened to kill Trump supporters and said he wished late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s entire family was dead. In response to independent journalist Nick Sortor posting a video of Charlie Kirk’s daughter reacting to a banner of her late father, Bitgood wrote, “Charlie Quirt’s whole family should be wiped out along with you and you’res.”

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Infamous Former J6 Capitol Police Officer Sparks Fury After Calling on Americans to “Utilize Their Second Amendment Right” Against ICE Agents

A former Capitol Hill police officer who became a star propagandist for the media and Democrats against J6 protesters has sparked outrage after seemingly calling for the assassination of ICE officers following this week’s ICE self-defense shooting.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, chaos erupted on Wednesday after ICE fatally shot a rioter who attempted to run over agents in Minneapolis.

Video posted to X shows the moment an unhinged female was gunned down as she carried out her act of violence. Additional footage clearly shows that an ICE officer was in danger of being run over as Good accelerated.

The Department of Homeland Security called it an “act of domestic terrorism.”

The Star-Tribune later identified the female driver who was fatally shot as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

During a podcast appearance this week, former J6 cop Michael Fanone expressed his fury about the protester’s death and what he perceived as the lack of action on the part of De Blasio and the police.

He then called for citizens to “utilize their Second Amendment right” against ICE officers if public officials failed to act enough for his liking.

You read that right. Fanone called for the assassination of heroic immigration officers.

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Here’s How Professional Activists Use Guerrilla Tactics To Sabotage ICE Arrests

While the accomplice media go about making the next “Maryland Man” out of the Minneapolis woman fatally shot after allegedly trying to ram an ICE agent with her vehicle, more details are emerging about the radical life and times of Renee Nicole Good. 

As the New York Post reports, the 37-year-old woman was known as an anti-ICE “warrior” in a group called “ICE Watch.” The Post describes the resistance movement as a “loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids” in sanctuary city Minneapolis. 

In fact, ICE Watch and radical groups like it have popped up around the country, emerging during President Donald Trump’s first term and exploding in this first year of a second term laser-focused on cleaning up America’s illegal immigration mess. 

‘A Very Thorough Training’

The Post reports that Good joined the Immigration & Customs Enforcement resistance activists last year through her 6-year-old son’s “woke charter school.” Southside Family Charter School is a liberal indoctrination factory described by its co-founder as “unabashedly dedicated to social justice education,” according to the Post. 

Good and her “wife” Rebecca, 40, moved to Minneapolis last year and began getting involved in the local ICE Watch campaign, according to the publication. 

“[Renee Good] was trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends Southside Family, told The Post during a vigil at the site of Wednesday’s fatal shooting.

ICE officers were conducting a targeted operation at the time. Video shows officers instructing the woman to get out of her vehicle, which was moving closer to the agents. At that point, Good’s vehicle backed up before accelerating forward toward an ICE agent standing at the front of the vehicle. He fired his gun at the driver. Good was pronounced dead at the scene. 

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the near-miss “an act of domestic terrorism.” She said Good had been “stalking and impeding” the officer’s “lawful operations” all day. 

“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots,” the agency said in a press release. The unnamed officer “used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.”

The officer, according to DHS, was injured after being dragged by a vehicle some 50 yards during an enforcement effort last June in Minneapolis. Agents were attempting to bring into custody Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala during a traffic stop. The Mexican national was described as a “serial criminal illegal alien,” a child sex offender “who has been committing violent crimes in the U.S. for nearly 15 years.” When Muñoz-Guatemala attempted to flee, the ICE officer’s arm was inside the vehicle. 

The incident, which occurred in a suburban Minneapolis neighborhood, was caught on camera. 

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The Washington Post’s ‘Analysis’ Of The Minneapolis Shooting Is Pure Propaganda

Don’t believe your lying eyes.

That’s effectively what the hoax-peddling Washington Post told its readers when it ran what can only be surmised as the most dishonest piece of left-wing propaganda published (so far) this year.

Splattered across the top of the outlet’s homepage on Thursday was an ” analysis” titled, “Video shows ICE agent in Minneapolis fired at driver as vehicle veered past him.” (An earlier version of the article had the headline, “ICE agent was not in the vehicle’s path when he fired at driver, video shows.”)

Right from the get-go, it’s clear that make-pretend “reporters” Aaron Davis and Jonathan Baran aren’t trying to inform their audience of what actually happened but are instead seeking to advance the Democrat Party’s anti-ICE agenda.

Upon navigating the Orwellian article, readers are immediately bombarded with the presumption that the Trump administration’s central (and well-documented) claim — that the now-deceased woman disobeyed ICE and then hit an agent with her car — is false. In typical legacy media fashion, Davis and Baran play up such framing by asserting that their “frame-by-frame analysis” “raises questions” about the administration’s account of the incident.

“The SUV did move toward the ICE agent as he stood in front of it. But the agent was able to move out of the way and fire at least two of three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him, according to the analysis,” the propaganda-style article reads.

The authors then take readers on a trip through different video frames of the moment in question, in which they even call into question the documented fact that the agent was hit by the suspect’s vehicle. With little hesitation, they write, “Videos examined by The Post, including one shared on Truth Social by Trump, do not clearly show whether the agent is struck or how close the front of the vehicle comes to striking him.”

Really? Readers are supposed to believe that?

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