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In what's being called an unprecedented step, the United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the U.S. about suspected drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean, as it does not wish to be complicit in the military strikes, believing them to be illegal.
CNN reports Britain's decision "marks a significant break from its closest ally and intelligence sharing partner and underscores the growing skepticism over the legality of the U.S. military's campaign around Latin America."
The U.K. controls numerous territories in the Caribbean where it bases intelligence assets, and for years has assisted America in finding suspected drug vessels so the U.S. Coast Guard could interdict them, sources told the network.
"The intelligence was typically sent to Joint Interagency Task Force South, a task force stationed in Florida that includes representatives from a number of partner nations and works to reduce the illicit drug trade," CNN indicated.
"But shortly after the U.S. began launching lethal strikes against the boats in September, however, the U.K. grew concerned that the U.S. might use intelligence provided by the British to select targets. British officials believe the U.S. military strikes, which have killed 76 people, violate international law, the sources said. The intelligence pause began over a month ago, they said."
Last month, Volker Türk, the U.N.'s human-rights chief, called the kinetic strikes "extrajudicial killing," saying they violate international law, and sources say the U.K. agrees with him.
While the British embassy in Washington and the White House did not respond to requests for comment, a Pentagon official told CNN the department "doesn't talk about intelligence matters."
LibsofTikTok did proffer an opinion, saying: "They don't want us to defend our nation from drug-smuggling terrorists. The UK loves coddling criminals and terrorists."
CNN also reported Canadian officials have "made clear to the U.S. that it does not want its intelligence being used to help target boats for deadly strikes."
To date, at least 75 people have been confirmed killed by the U.S. military in the strikes.
On Monday, U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that on Sunday, "two lethal kinetic strikes were conducted on two vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations.
"These vessels were known by our intelligence to be associated with illicit narcotics smuggling, were carrying narcotics, and were transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route in the Eastern Pacific.
"Both strikes were conducted in international waters and 3 male narco-terrorists were aboard each vessel. All 6 were killed. No U.S. forces were harmed."
Some initial public reaction to Britain's reported suspension of intelligence-sharing includes:
"These boats carry death, so let death beget death, and I think we can manage our own pond without the assistance of British Intel. Hell, we shouldn't trust the Brits with our intel; MI6 has been a leaky ship for decades."
"Isn't America depending on U.K. for intelligence about the Caribbean a little like U.K. depending upon us for intelligence about the English Channel?"
"This is like the NYPD telling me they will no longer monitor the area around my swingset in the backyard of my California home."
"Uhh … I'm pretty sure Britain hasn't actually trusted us since 1776. They're still a little bitter over that."
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The legal fight involves a rubber-recycling company and its alleged securities violations.
But the real dispute is something about which Americans must have concern: Whether those targeted by a government action have a right to a jury decision, or if some government functionary can simply rule against them and order them to pay a penalty.
The fight is being handled by the Pacific Legal Foundation.
"The Arizona Supreme Court's decision to hear this case recognizes that fundamental constitutional rights are at stake," said Adi Dynar, an attorney for the foundation. "When government agencies act as prosecutor, judge, and jury, they violate the basic American principle that everyone deserves a fair trial before an impartial jury of their peers."
It is the EFG America corporation that asked the Arizona Supreme Court to protect the constitutional right to jury trials, and the justices have agreed.
It was a state agency's bureaucrats at the Arizona Corporation Commission that forced the Mesa-based company into unfair in-house tribunals.
Last year, the commission claimed in an enforcement action that EFG America and its founder, Douglas Fimrite, committed securities violations.
"The commission refused to allow the case to be heard in superior court with a jury, instead forcing it through the agency's own administrative process where the same agency that investigated and charged EFG also judged the case," the foundation reported.
It then was the Arizona Court of Appeals that ruled against EFG, claiming that defendants have no right to jury trials.
"This decision eliminates jury trials for a significant portion of civil cases in Arizona, undermining constitutional protections that have safeguarded Americans since the founding," PLF said.
But, it noted, "Both the Arizona Constitution and the U.S. Constitution's Seventh Amendment guarantee jury trials in civil cases where the government seeks monetary penalties. The U.S. Supreme Court recently reaffirmed this principle in SEC v. Jarkesy. Now, the Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the same checks and balances protect the fundamental constitutional rights of Arizonans."
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New York has fallen.
Trevor Loudon, anti-communist researcher and author, joins Elizabeth Farah to expose how a Marxist-Islamist alliance just captured the most powerful city in America. Together, they reveal how immigrant radicalization, global communism, and Islamic networks converged to install a foreign revolutionary as mayor of New York.
Loudon traces the deep ties between CAIR, the Democratic Socialists of America, and communist regimes in Cuba, China, and Iran. He shows how these forces used immigration policy and ideological infiltration to breach America's defenses from within.
Elizabeth Farah drives the conversation to its core, warning that this is the spiritual and political beachhead of a new world revolution, one now rooted in American soil. What began as an election has become a declaration of war against the Republic.
This is America under occupation.
And the fight for her soul has begun.
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An federal appeals court has ruled that a trial court judge failed to adequately consider President Donald Trump's immunity, confirmed by a Supreme Court ruling, in a dispute created by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg that claimed Trump's description of legal fees as legal fees was wrong in the so-called hush money fight.
Courthousenews said it was a panel from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that returned the case to Alvin Hellerstein a district judge, in Manhattan.
The decision revived Trump's fight against the Bragg-driven case that also featured a number of holes.
The appeals judges did not direct Hellerstein's decision.
They wrote, "We cannot be confident that … the district court adequately considered issues relevant to the good cause inquiry so as to enable meaningful appellate review. For example, the district court did not consider whether certain evidence admitted during the state court trial relates to immunized official acts or, if so, whether evidentiary immunity transformed the state's case into one that relates to acts under color of the presidency."
The Manhattan DA has fought any review of his political case against Trump.
The jury's claim in the case was that Trump was guilty of 34 felonies for falsifying business records.
The report charged, "The jury found that Trump orchestrated his former personal attorney and 'fixer' Michael Cohen to pay $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who Trump was concerned would share details from their 2006 sexual encounter at an inopportune time during the election. When repaying Cohen, Trump disguised the payments as standard legal fees, sometimes signing those illicit checks from the Oval Office during his first presidential term, witnesses testified."
Legacy media reports often ignore the fact that both alleged participants in that encountered denied it happened.
Trump repeatedly has described the case as just another in the Democrat party's weaponization of the courts against him, not without evidence.
Trump already is appealing the same fight in New York state courts.
WND had reported on the state system appeal that the case all erupted because of Bragg.
When Bragg made the allegations, the judge, Juan Merchan, censored Trump's statements about the case. He allowed prosecutors to leave a vague "secondary" crime claim in place without any specifics. He delivered pro-prosecution jury instructions which seemed to allow a verdict without unanimity.
And all the while, Merchan's daughter was making money advising Democrats on issues that could include her father's courtroom rulings.
The basis of the most recent rulings is the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that presidents have complete immunity for actions as president, but not for private actions.
Trump charges that ruling means prosecutors should not have been allowed to say some of the things they claimed about him.
The Washington Examiner reported Trump's legal team confirmed the Supreme Court's decision on immunity "means prosecutors should have been barred from using evidence connected to Trump's 'official' acts as president in the case against him."
It was in 2024 that a jury in leftist-majority Manhattan said he was guilty of falsifying records dealing with a payment to onetime porn star Stormy Daniels, 34 counts total.
The errors made in the trial court, however, mean the conviction should be scrapped, the report said.
Merchan, a donor to a Democrat cause, in fact, barred some of Trump's defense evidence, including statements that appeared to exonerate him from Daniels herself, censored Trump's speech, delivered pro-prosecution instructions, and more.
"One of the mistakes some legal critics believe was committed during the trial involved allegations that the New York district attorney's office, led by Alvin Bragg, never committed itself to what the second crime was. Rather, his office theorized that the crime could have been a New York tax violation, a federal campaign finance violation, or a New York election law violation," the report explained.
The law violation brought by Bragg is a two-part crime, meaning it depends on violation of another statute, and the prosecution never clarified that. That means some members of the jury may have assumed one law, or another, leaving their verdict not unanimous.
"The court permitted the jury to convict if some jurors believed only that President Trump had conspired to violate FECA, while others believed only that he had conspired to help others commit tax fraud, and still others believed only that he had conspired to help others make false statements to a bank," appeals court filings said. "Due process and Section 17-152 do not permit a conviction based on such a haphazard 'combination of jury findings.'"
At sentencing, Merchan spent seven minutes complaining that he was limited in his sentencing, then gave Trump an unconditional discharge, allowing for no fines, jail or probation while continuing the felony convictions.
Merchan, whose daughter is a consultant who was making money off of her father's multiple rulings against Trump, claimed "extraordinary" legal protections handed to the president of the United States required him to hand down a minor sentence that Trump would allegedly not have received without being reelected.
Merchan, in extraordinary fashion, allowed a wide range of inflammatory testimony to come into his courtroom against Trump. A long list of legal experts charged that the case never should have been created by Bragg. Merchan, in fact, inexplicably told the jurors their verdict didn't have to be unanimous.
The "offenses" actually were misdemeanors until Bragg theorized they were part of the furtherance of another, unidentified, crime, and that made them felonies. Experts called Bragg's machinations "legally creative."
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Democrats and other leftists across America have been unleashing rage rhetoric with foaming-at-the-mouth episodes of dysfunction in recent months.
Calling President Trump "Hitler" and his fans "Nazis" no longer seems to be enough.
Now there are insults and sometimes demands for physically impossible actions, even threats.
And the infection has spread even to mostly Republican Montana, where one political candidate, Haley McKnight, seeking to be a city commissioner there, oddly thought her campaign would be enhanced by a vile, vicious verbal assault on Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican.
Editor's Note: Be aware of offensive language from McKnight.
On social media, commenters responded to McKnight with:
"Imagine running for public office and thinking death threats via voice mail is part of the campaign strategy."
"I don't think she gets invited to a lot of parties."
"This voicemail raises issues of potential criminal threats, harassment, and civil liabilities, especially, given McKnight's public role as a candidate."
And, "We're gonna need a bigger mental institution."
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who has a book addressing the issue, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage," commented on the current trend among mostly leftists for "unmitigated hate speech."
McKnight hopes for Sheehy, death, cancer, more death, and yes, more death.
Turley noted in Virginia the Democratic candidate for attorney general, Jay Jones, admitted that he previously expressed a desire to kill a political opponent and his children.
McNight's rant include: "Hi, this is Haley McKnight. I'm a constituent in Helena, Montana. I just wanted to let you know that you are the most insufferable kind of coward and thief. You just stripped away health care for 17 million Americans, and I hope you're really proud of that. I hope that one day you get pancreatic cancer, and it spreads throughout your body so fast that they can't even treat you for it."
She then descended into a "litany" of insults about fertility, Sheehy's children, and threatened the senator not to "meet me on the streets."
"I hope you die in the street like a dog. One day, you're going to live to regret this. I hope that your children never forgive you. I hope that you are infertile. I hope that you manage to never get a boner ever again. You are the worst piece of s*** I have ever, ever, ever had the misfortune of looking at … God forbid that you ever meet me on the streets because I will make you regret it. F*** you. I hope you die…All that you have done since you have gotten into power is do s*** for yourself."
Turley noted that McKnight's response was that her rage was "righteous" and she blamed "conservatives" for making public her threats.
She claimed, "I was responding to some horrible policy with some justified rage." And she blamed the senator for not responding to her call.
"I would hope that if Sheehy was so rattled by my voicemail, he would have contacted me instead of leaking my information to conservative news media the night before an election. It feels like a cheap shot. I'm one of his constituents, and you know, this message is nothing that I'd say to my grandmother or in front of any children, it was meant for Senator Sheehy alone."
The Montana Free Press said McKnight, who wants to be on Helena's city commission, said her "rage" was "justified."
She claimed to the publication she didn't really wish the senator "any harm."
In fact, she now has accused the senator of trying to "bully and harass" her.
Sheehy spokeswoman Jack O'Brien said, "We hope Ms. McKnight gets the help she clearly needs."
She has been described as a "progressive" and records show she's donated money to a Democrat.
Officials confirmed police had been notified.
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A new internal report regarding the British Broadcasting Corp. confirms that its officials lied about President Donald Trump when reporting on the Jan. 6, 2021, speech to a crowd of fans.
That was the day that some of those fans walked to the Capitol to protest what they viewed as the wrongful election of Joe Biden.
Some broke the law by entering the building when authorities barred them. And a few inside vandalized parts of the building.
They later were pardoned by Trump.
But according to the Daily Mail, a new "damning internal report" confirms that the BBC "manipulated" statements "to make it appear as though he encouraged his supporters to break into the Capitol."
Michael Prescott, was an independent adviser to the BBC for years, and sent a dossier to its board last month, the report said.
The documentation accused the BBC, which is paid for by taxpayers in the U.K., of having a widespread bias against Trump, on the Gaza war and on the transgender debate.
"Prescott explained how the BBC – often described as the world's 'most trusted' broadcaster – 'completely misled' viewers during an episode of the program Panorama which aired a week before the election by showing the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to 'fight like hell.'"
The analysis revealed that Trump actually said he would walk with them "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
He ended up not being allowed by Secret Service to walk with the crowd.
The network created Trump saying things he "never actually said" by editing and splicing footage of his speech, the report said.
The memo's author warned BBC chief Samir Shah of the very dangerous precedent created by the Panorama claims.
"It is now understood that Prescott's report is circulating among senior figures in the British government," the report said.
Donald Trump Jr. said, "The FAKE NEWS 'reporters' in the UK are just as dishonest and full of s— as the ones here in America!!!!' he wrote on X."
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in the report, "'We have Britain's national broadcaster using a flagship program to tell palpable untruths about Britain's closest ally. Is anyone at the BBC going to take responsibility – and resign?"
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Legendary actor Harrison Ford, best-known for his roles in "Indiana Jones" and "Star Wars" films, has developed a full-blown case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, calling the president the greatest "criminal in history" who "scares the s***" out of him.
In an interview with the left-leaning British newspaper the Guardian this week, the 83-year-old Ford launched a scathing attack on Trump, saying the commander in chief "doesn't have any policies, he has whims. It scares the s*** out of me.
"The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he's an instrument of the status quo and he's making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket."
"It's unbelievable. I don't know of a greater criminal in history."
Ford will be at Chicago's Field Museum this Wednesday to receive a conservation leadership award, and he blasted Trump for ignoring so-called climate change.
The president exposed climate change as "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world," in a speech to the United Nations in New York last month. "If you don't get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail. You need strong borders and traditional energy sources if you are going to be great again."
Ford is blaming natural disasters on climate change, saying: "I knew it was coming, I have been preaching this stuff for 30 years."
"Everything we've said about climate change has come true. Why is that not sufficient that it alarms people that they change behaviors? Because of the entrenched status quo."
The actor told the Guardian he was hopeful that Trump's fossil fuel-dominated outlook would not prevail.
"He's losing ground because everything he says is a lie," Ford said. "I'm confident we can mitigate against [climate change], that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies, to concentrate more fully on implementation of those policies."
"But we have to develop the political will and intellectual sophistication to realize that we human beings are capable of change. We are incredibly adaptive, we are incredibly inventive. If we concentrate on a problem we can fix it most times."
During the 2024 presidential election, Ford produced videos of himself endorsing the Democrat ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
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Among the many agenda points begun by Barack Obama in the White House and continued by Joe Biden was the nation's tolerant position on the persecution of Christians, especially in Nigeria.
There, Islamists have been, for years, slaughtering members of the Christian faith.
It has reached a point now that President Donald Trump has taken dramatic action, labeling the African nation a "country of particular concern" because of its death agenda.
"Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria," Trump posted to Truth Social. "Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter. I am hereby making Nigeria a 'COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN' — But that is the least of it."
He called for action against those persecuting people for their faith.
Trump announced he has told Reps. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., and Tom Cole, R-Okla., and members of the House Appropriations Committee to investigate and then report.
"The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria, and numerous other Countries," Trump said. "We stand ready, willing, and able to save our Great Christian population around the World!"
It was an abrupt turnabout from Obama's agenda. Obama, who once went overseas and declared that America no longer was a Christian nation, actually was accused by former Nigerian leaders of no less than facilitating the attacks on Christians.
A WND report from Obama's second term explained how Goodluck Jonathan, then just out of office as Nigeria's president, wrote in "My Transition Hours," that, Obama had taken the "unusual step" of telling Nigerians how to vote for their president.
"In that video, Obama urged Nigerians to open the 'next chapter' by their votes. Those who understood subliminal language deciphered that he was prodding the electorate to vote for the [Muslim-led] opposition to form a new government," the report said.
In fact, when Jonathan won an initial round of ballot counts, residents of Muslim-majority northern states rioted.
Eventually, the Muslim candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, was declared the winner.
"That the Obama administration may have imposed its will on a foreign country's politics and elections is hardly unprecedented. Recall the administration's partiality for the Muslim Brotherhood during and after 2012 presidential elections in Egypt; or its unsuccessful efforts to oust Israeli prime minister Netanyahu with U.S. taxpayers' money; or its efforts – with an admittedly unverified 'dossier' … to prevent then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump from being elected, or by discussing an 'insurance policy' in the event that Trump won," a columnist explained.
"So in Nigeria, the Obama administration, it seems, sought to right the apparently intolerable wrong of having a duly elected Christian president in a more than 50 percent Christian nation."
Columnist Raymond Ibrahim said, "The Obama administration insisted that violence and bloodshed in Nigeria – almost all of which was committed by Muslims against Christians – had nothing to do with religion. This despite the fact that Boko Haram – which was engaging in ISIS type of atrocities: slaughter, kidnap, rape, plunder, slavery, torture before ISIS was even born – presented its terrorism as a jihad. In one instance it even called on President Jonathan to 'repent and forsake Christianity' and convert to Islam as the price for peace."
Obama then refused to designate Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization until years after pressure from lawmakers and human rights groups.
The report noted, "Then when a conference was scheduled in the U.S. for the governors' of Nigeria's states, the Obama administration blocked the visa of the region's only Christian governor."
The Fox report said Trump's action was triggered after "entire villages have been burned to the ground, worshipers killed during Sunday services, and thousands displaced by Islamist groups sweeping through the country's northern and central regions."
Islamists have killed "hundreds" of Christians this year alone.
Fox reported, "According to the international watchdog group Open Doors, nearly 70% of all Christians killed for their faith worldwide last year were in Nigeria. The group warns that Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and Fulani militant herders are responsible for most of the bloodshed, often targeting Christian farmers in the country's Middle Belt."
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The situation already made officials at the Loudoun County, Virginia, school district look bad.
In their pursuit of transgenderism for all, they punished, for alleged sexual harassment, two boys who caught a girl in their locker room, threatening them and worse.
The district was sued, and now a new filing in that case has charged that officials "coordinated" with a local leftist political action committee "to smear" the families of the boys.
According to the Washington Examiner, lawyers for the boys and their families have amended their complaint to charge district officials with "civil conspiracy,"
The school allegedly used the confidential information it had about the situation to give to an organization called Loudoun For All for the purpose of "stoking political outrage ahead of local elections," the report said.
The materials included press releases and a case timeline, and the new filing explains the details were leaked "to assist in issuing statements labeling the families liars," the report said.
The information, containing "false and defamatory allegations," soon appeared on the PAC's website.
"It appears the school board was passing along confidential information to a political action committee for the purpose of further retaliating against our clients," explained Ian Prior, a lawyer with America First Legal, which is working the Founding Freedoms Law Center to help the families.
It all dates back to when a girl who calls herself a boy went into the boys locker room at Stone Bridge High School and recorded the boys objecting to her presence. Even though her recording apparently violated school policy, the school chose to punish the boys.
The newest filing also charges that Loudoun's Title IX process "relied on non-credible evidence, omitted key witness interviews, and deleted video footage that could have supported the boys' account," the report said.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights already has concluded Loudoun violated Title IX by failing to "meaningfully investigate" the concerns raised by the boys – about a girl entering a male-only facility.
Based on the federal conclusions the district could lose federal funding if officials do not protect individuals in single-sex facilities.
Also, a federal judge has ordered the schools not to punish the boys further while the case is pending.
WND reported when students, fed up with the district's refusal to protect boys and girls in such settings, took to the streets to encourage voters to remove from power those with that leftist ideology.
A commentary at Twitchy was prompted to state, "BOOM! VA teens take matters into their own hands to stop school board trans-LUNACY…"
Local broadcaster WJLA said, "For the past four years, LCPS has allowed students to use bathrooms and locker rooms at school based on their chosen gender identity and not biological sex. Several students have protested the policy in the past, but the school board hasn't budged. Since the teens said the school board hasn't listened to their concerns, these students want a new school board and they're asking voters to help."
One teen told the outlet, "I've been sick of it for quite a while. I just can't put up with it anymore. It's not normal. It's not something we should be supporting."
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"You know it's going to be a bad traffic stop, when you have to repeat 'Put your pants on!'"
And it was.
That social media comment followed video of an Arkansas trooper's encounter with a naked truck driver who had parked alongside the road, and apparently was sleeping.
The driver repeatedly exhibits no understanding of English, nor recognition of road signs.
He ended up being pulled off the road, according to the video.
The incident comes at a time in America when multiple foreign drivers have been documented to fail at understanding or speaking English, or recognizing ordinary traffic requirements.
The cost has been multiple Americans' lives, as the drivers repeatedly have triggered massive violent and deadly accidents.
The problem has been defined on social media as California's agenda to deliver commercial driver's licenses to such individuals.
Other social media comments included: "That's freaking scary."
And, "Hold the company accountable."
Not the Bee reported, "This trooper's interaction with a trucker who can't speak English will be the most frustrating thing you'll watch all day."
American Truckers said, "California's treasonous Non-Domicile CDL standards are endangering motorists nationwide. How long before other states revoke all reciprocity for California CDLs?"
The driver responded "California" to the question about his employer, and also "California" when asked if there was anyone else in the truck with him.