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ABC forced to delete story as it’s revealed reporter received $16,000 from a weapons company for travel costs

The ABC is investigating one of its reporters after it was revealed he received $16,000 in travel costs from a weapons company he covered in one of his stories. 

Andrew Greene travelled from Sydney to Germany on business class flights worth about $16,000, and was put up in hotels in Hamburg and Kiel to attend a press event for the German weapons company TKMS. The company paid for his trip.

The senior defence correspondent for the ABC later filed a segment for The World Today about TKMS including quotes from its CEO Oliver Burkhard. After revelations of Greene’s junket came to light, the story was removed from the ABC website.

‘We know what we’re doing,’ Mr Burkhard told Greene in the report.

‘I know our competitors, they never have been exported in the past.’

Greene did not disclose the trip to either his ABC audience or his bosses, according to Media Watch. 

As far as the ABC knew, he was on personal leave and had obtained audio of Mr Burkhard’s press conference by email, rather than travelling to Germany in person.

Media Watch host Linton Besser was highly critical of the veteran reporter, saying that ‘while Andrew Greene might have a long history as a news breaker, he’s now been brought undone by weakness before temptation’.

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‘Not Illegal to Be Undocumented’: Watch Sunny Hostin Flip Out Over ‘Misinformation’

On Monday, co-hosts from “The View” criticized President Donald Trump for sending the National Guard to Los Angeles in order to help quell the rioting.

As noted by Hanna Panreck with Fox News, one co-host, Sara Haines, suggested that President Trump intentionally amplified the rioting to bolster his approval ratings, which she said are “ … dropping like rocks.”

Haines continued, saying, “But there’s one catch here, current support right now, though, is that 66 percent of the American public actually thinks it’s crime enough to be undocumented and therefore deported.”

Co-host Sunny Hostin questioned Haines, asking, “That it’s criminal to be undocumented?”

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin responded, “Even if it’s a civil offense.”

Referring back to Trump and the LA riots, Haines continued, “So what I’m saying is, a massive amount of this country actually agrees with, not how he’s doing it, but with what he’s doing.”

This prompted further discussion, with one co-host remarking, “So there’s misinformation out there.”

Haines said of President Trump, “I think the strategy here is, he’s leaning into a scene right now, creating a bigger thing, because it is the one thing that he remains supported in.”

This exchange visibly agitated co-host Sunny Hostin, who stuttered, “Well let’s, let’s let’s fix that right now, because it is not illegal to be undocumented.”

Turning to speak directly to the camera, Hostin said, “It is not a crime to be undocumented. People are not illegal … We need to put that information out there.”

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Over a Hundred More Christians Massacred by Islamists in Nigeria in Ongoing Genocide Campaign — Where is the Media Coverage?

Fulani Islamic militants have unleashed another round of unspeakable violence on the village of Yelewata in Nigeria’s Benue State.

Over the weekend, attackers stormed homes, locked families inside, and set them ablaze — killing over 100 civilians, including women and children.

The attack, which began late Friday and stretched into the early hours of Saturday, left dozens missing and hundreds injured. With no access to medical aid, survivors watched their communities reduced to ash.

Benue is located in Nigeria’s “Middle Belt,” an important where the Muslim North meets the Christian South.

Foreign-funded jihadist groups and radicalized Fulani herdsmen are pushing southward in deadly waves, slaughtering Christian farming communities under the banner of conquest.

The Yelewata massacre is not an isolated event, but rather a systematic campaign of genocide and extermination.

Just days prior, in coordinated assaults across Benue and Plateau States, Fulani jihadists murdered over 130 Christians in cold blood.

Between May 24th and June 2nd, villages like Gwer West, Apa, and Munga Dasso were turned into charnel houses.

Victims were butchered, burned, or executed as militants moved with total impunity.

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Media Critics Call on CNN to Fire Brian Stelter Over Reckless Tweet Following Minnesota Shooting

Two media critics are calling on CNN to fire ‘media reporter’ Brian Stelter over a reckless tweet in which he clearly tried to politicize the recent shooting of two Democrats in Minnesota by an appointee of Governor Tim Walz.

Before all of the facts were even known about the shooting, CNN correspondent Edward-Isaac Dovere tweeted:

“In the last week, Marines were deployed in an American city,the president has called for a gov to be arrested &the speaker of the House has called for that gov to be tarred & feathered, a senator has been pinned & handcuffed, and 2 state legislators have been shot in their homes.”

Brian Stelter then quote tweeted that message, saying:

“And it all points in the same direction.”

Stephen L. Miller, who hosts a media criticism podcast on Substack named ‘Versus Media’ called for Stelter’s firing over this.

Miller made the point that this was actually worse than a reckless tweet that just got reporter Terry Moran fired from ABC News.

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Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Alex Padilla Just ‘Asking A Question’ Edition

Whatever your feelings are on an obnoxious Democrat leader being restrained by federal security — yeah, I don’t really care, either — the one thing I don’t appreciate is being told that what I saw with my eyes isn’t what happened. But if there’s anything the dying news media excel at these days, it’s precisely that.

Video of Alex Padilla has been on replay everywhere since Thursday after the California Democrat abruptly pushed his way to the front of a press briefing led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Noem was in Los Angeles overseeing federal law enforcement of illegal alien apprehensions and conducting the briefing to explain her department’s work and answer questions from attendees.

In video footage featuring Padilla, the senator is seen advancing toward Noem’s podium, unannounced, and saying something unintelligible before being blocked by security, who attempted to push him back.

“Hands off,” Padilla says. As he continues to struggle with security, he says, “I am Senator Alex Padilla” and “I have questions for the secretary.” He does all this while still pushing himself toward Noem, who was in the middle of speaking. Padilla, a hulking figure standing above six feet — “a big, tall guy,” according to one of his Senate colleagues — was eventually removed from the event while continuing to struggle and ultimately forced to the ground where he was handcuffed.

Afterward, he delivered a Shakespearean on-camera statement where he mustered up a knot in his throat and said he simply had “a question” for Noem. Oh boy, did the dying media take it from there.

New York Times: “The footage shows Mr. Padilla stepping to one side, introducing himself and starting to call out a question …”

NBC: “Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday after he tried to question Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem …”

Reuters: “Democratic U.S. Senator Alex Padilla was shoved, forced to the ground and handcuffed by security after attempting to ask a question at a press conference …”

Politico: “… the handcuffing of Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) by law enforcement after he tried to ask a question at a news conference …”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the white male version of Kamala Harris, said on social media, “If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.”

If Padilla was just “asking a question,” then Kanye West is just thinking out loud.

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Fired ABC Hack Terry Moran Admits He is Liberal Activist — Pledges to Fight Trump During This ‘Dark Time’

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, fired ABC hack Terry Moran has outed himself as a liberal activist.

Earlier this week, Moran was fired by ABC after launching an extraordinary attack on President Trump’s senior policy advisor Stephen MIller.

The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism.

Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy.

But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile.

Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater.

You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.

Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.

Moran’s rant was too much even for far-left ABC, who fired him hours later.

The 65-year-old is now embarking on a new journey as a left-wing activist who will fight for democracy during this “dark time” in American history.

He wrote in a post on Substack.

In institution after institution, from the law firms to the universities to the Senate itself, and beyond the institutions into our everyday lives—force is being applied to your willingness to speak up and tell the truth about what you are seeing and experiencing.

Sometimes it is physical force. Sometimes it is a threat of physical force, or the online mob descending into your digital life. Sometimes it is the threat to people’s livelihoods and the survival of businesses great and small.

In the face of that danger, all of us, sooner or later, will have to make a choice. Many of us will just want to avert our eyes, pretend that the danger is not real or not that bad or will soon pass over. And some already see it for what it is, and cower before it.

It’s a dark time.

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Tucker Carlson Names “Warmongers” Who Want US Involved In Iran/Israel War

As Iranian ballistic missiles rain down on Tel Aviv, and US forces are reportedly helping to repel them, Tucker Carlson has called out those who seem to want the US to get involved as “warmongers.”

The Iranian counterstrike came after Israel launched a massive campaign of precision strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and missile sites.

Scientists involved with Iranian nuclear work were also reportedly directly targeted for assassination, along with Iranian Revolutionary Guard leadership.

President Trump declared Friday morning that Iran must make a deal immediately before it is completely obliterated.

It may already be too late though as Israel says “red lines” have been crossed by Iran targeting civilian areas in Tel Aviv.

Taking to X in response to the escalation, Tucker Carlson wrote “The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians.”

“The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers,” he added.

“Who are the warmongers?” Carlson continued, emphasising “They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct US military involvement in a war with Iran.”

He then went on to name “Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson.”

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PBS Reporter Calls Rioting “Almost Festival Like”

The legacy media is still at it. 

Everyone knows that for four days unhinged leftists and criminal opportunists caused anarchy in LA, rioting, attacking police and looting stores. Yet the media is still proclaiming everything is not only peaceful, but happy and joyful.

They’ve had reporters on the ground standing in front of burning cars with explosions going off around them while claiming it’s all ‘mostly peaceful’, ‘fun’, ‘joyful’, ‘pretty quiet’, ‘relatively mellow’, ‘celebratory’ and all about ‘hope and community’.

Now here’s the latest from PBS. It’s “almost festival like” while flashbangs explode right next to this moron.

Note how they always say “almost.” 

It’s almost festival like, but not quite because of all the burning cars, assaults and looting.

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Media Coverage of ICE Operations: Disconnect Between Headlines and Facts, The Cary López Alvarado Incident

On June 8, 2025, multiple news outlets reported the arrest of Cary López Alvarado, a nine-month pregnant U.S. citizen, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Hawthorne, California. The mainstream media portrayed the ICE raid as either inhumane or a mistake, or both. However, the reality is that López Alvarado was arrested for attempting to prevent ICE officers from arresting her undocumented husband. She was held temporarily and then released with no charges filed.

The takeaway most people received from the headlines and superficial news coverage was that ICE had accidentally or maliciously arrested an American citizen and held her for hours. The media reports implied she was detained on suspicion of being an illegal alien, rather than being held for obstructing federal law enforcement officers. News coverage also concentrated heavily on the fact that she required hospital treatment for stomach pains, while ignoring the fact that a nine-month pregnant woman should not have attempted to physically interfere with federal agents conducting a lawful arrest.

This case provides a clear example of how media framing can obscure the factual circumstances of immigration enforcement operations. Major news outlets characterized the incident with headlines emphasizing López Alvarado’s pregnancy and citizenship status, including Rolling Stone’s “Masked ICE Agents Detain 9-Month-Pregnant U.S. Citizen in L.A. Crackdown,” Newsweek’s “ICE Detains Heavily Pregnant US Citizen, ‘Shield My Stomach’,” and NBC’s “Pregnant US citizen detained by ICE.”

However, according to Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, López Alvarado “was arrested because she obstructed federal law enforcement by blocking access to a car that had two Guatemalan illegal aliens in it.” The DHS statement provided additional operational context that was often absent from initial media reporting: ICE agents were conducting a targeted operation following a vehicle with two undocumented Guatemalan nationals. During the incident, federal agents were reportedly assaulted, and a third individual was arrested after allegedly pushing an officer. Projectiles including wrenches and batteries were thrown at the agents during the confrontation.

This case represents part of a recurring pattern in immigration enforcement coverage, with headlines and reports designed to portray ICE as jackbooted Nazi thugs while omitting important details, such as the fact that the operation was legal, planned, and warranted, and that during the course of the operation, officers were attacked. All persons arrested or detained were done so with proper justification. Furthermore, it is important to note that the media consistently tries to portray ICE as having made mistakes, whether through accidentally raiding the wrong location, detaining or deporting citizens, or wrongfully detaining citizens or legal immigrants and then only releasing them when pressured to do so.

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71st Bilderberg Meeting Agenda and Attendees REVEALED

The clandestine Bilderberg Group’s 71st annual meeting kicks off on Thursday, where 120-140 heads of state, industry, media, finance and technology will convene to plot global policy behind closed doors.

Bilderberg’s 2025 confab will be held June 12-15 in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Grand Hotel.

While the organization on its face appears powerless, the secretive group – whose discussions are held under Chatham House rules – has been accused of steering world events, including the creation of the European Union and its euro single currency. It’s even rumored to have helped install heads of state like former US Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, all of whom reportedly attended Bilderberg prior to their rise.

Other attendees have included top media figures from outlets like The New York Times, Politico, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Guardian and more, making it all the more bizarre that the convention receives little to no press coverage each year.

Via The Nordic Times:

The public denied for a long time that the meeting was organized, or even existed, and was dismissed in the mainstream media for many years as a “conspiracy theory”. In the 21st century, as a result of independent media coverage, it has since been recognized that the meeting has actually been taking place since 1954, with high-profile lists of participants typically ranging from 120-150 specially invited participants.

Check out the full list of attendees and key discussion topics below, via BilderbergMeetings.org. This year’s conference includes such key figures as Palantir’s Alex Karp, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, CNN’s Fareked Zakaria, and Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, to name a few.

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