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The headline from last night is that a potential assassin was stopped before anyone was killed. But it shouldn’t be the takeaway. The real story—highlighted by journalist Miranda Devine—is far more unsettling: “Security seemed lax.” And not in some vague, hindsight way. In basic, preventable ways. She got in...

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Julia 🇺🇸

408,000 views • 3 months ago

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Nicholas Fondacaro

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State of the Union

109,539 views • 3 months ago

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INSECURITY: LET'S TELL PRESIDENT TINUBU THE TRUTH, NOT COMMENDATION Today, the Senate had an elaborate discussion on the security situation in the country, which has worsened in the last few weeks. When the Senate President recognised me to speak, I started by reminding him how I raised this issue with him a couple of days ago, and the need for us to work together. I added that it was good the matter had come up by way of a motion. I felt that the deterioration of the security situation in most communities, the killings and abductions, and even the killing of soldiers and officers — one of them of the rank of Brigadier General — and the way terrorists are abducting students, with bandits attacking several States at the same time, are situations that even nations at war do not experience. Therefore, the matter should be examined with all the seriousness it deserves. I stated that it is very clear that not only our democracy is under threat, but the nation itself is being reduced, belittled, and threatened. I also disagreed with the approach and tone of the motion, and some of the comments from members of the majority party who, in my view, were unnecessarily political. That, in my view, did not match the seriousness of the issue. At this point, the Senate President did not allow me to conclude my comments. But what I was saying was that, yes, as I have said several times, the entire nation is under attack, and we must all unite to address this challenge. I do not agree with the request in the motion, supported by the majority of speakers from the majority party, that the President and the government should be commended. I disagree with it.

Henry Seriake Dickson

84,600 views • 8 months ago

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Reno Omokri

214,314 views • 8 months ago

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CS Murkomen: When I was in the Senate in the last administration, I was a very serious critic of the way the oil prices were being handled by the government. You should give us credit that no life was lost; we never organized a protest. The leaders of the matatu industry at that point in time never protested against the government. You should ask yourselves why did they feel that it was okay to understand Uhuru Kenyatta, but when it is President Ruto, they should go to the streets? There must be a certain level of profiling that applies to William Ruto and not Uhuru Kenyatta

Citizen TV Kenya

349,020 views • 2 months ago

Candace Owens spoke with the family of Charlie Kirk’s assassin Tyler Robinson’s boyfriend In the days before the assassination, there were so many unknown cars out front of the assassins house the people who lived in the neighborhood couldn’t find parking “There was some unusual traffic. A lot of cars that were seen outside leading up to the shooting in the days before the shooting or the week before the shooting.” “Leading up to the shooting, that there were unusual, unusual traffic in the driveway where Tyler Robinson and Lance lived. Cars that were not recognized in the neighborhood. This was not a couple that hosted people. It wasn't like they were expecting them to have parties. And so other people are saying that that is something that struck them as odd. But there were apparently lots of different license plates and it therefore caused a little neighborhood, you know, kerfuffle, because other people were not able to park their cars because there were so many people that were at this house” “We're hearing, there's more people involved.”
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Candace Owens spoke with the family of Charlie Kirk’s assassin Tyler Robinson’s boyfriend In the days before the assassination, there were so many unknown cars out front of the assassins house the people who lived in the neighborhood couldn’t find parking “There was some unusual traffic. A lot of cars that were seen outside leading up to the shooting in the days before the shooting or the week before the shooting.” “Leading up to the shooting, that there were unusual, unusual traffic in the driveway where Tyler Robinson and Lance lived. Cars that were not recognized in the neighborhood. This was not a couple that hosted people. It wasn't like they were expecting them to have parties. And so other people are saying that that is something that struck them as odd. But there were apparently lots of different license plates and it therefore caused a little neighborhood, you know, kerfuffle, because other people were not able to park their cars because there were so many people that were at this house” “We're hearing, there's more people involved.”

Wall Street Apes

456,879 views • 10 months ago

"Let there be no doubt. This is Britain's flagship documentary, BBC Panorama, having got caught out deliberately splicing the video of a sitting president to give the impression that he was inciting riots. That same occupant of the White House, the sitting president at the time, was then kicked off social media, banned for being accused of inciting an insurrection against the Republic of the United States of America. And yet the entire narrative was forged. It was a fake narrative put together maliciously and dishonestly by mainstream corporate media, including in this instance the BBC, to give people the false impression that President Trump was inciting violence. The implications of this story are huge because this is the story that led to a sitting president being kicked off social media. It's the same story that formed part of the case, for example, against me on LBC for why I was kicked off LBC by being notified on Twitter with three months remaining on my contract that LBC still owes me money for. It was a major turning point for those at the time who were calling out the now failed global palace coup against MAGA, against President Trump, against all those that were opposing the COVID mandates in addition, at that time." Maajid Nawaz, WARRIOR CREED.
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"Let there be no doubt. This is Britain's flagship documentary, BBC Panorama, having got caught out deliberately splicing the video of a sitting president to give the impression that he was inciting riots. That same occupant of the White House, the sitting president at the time, was then kicked off social media, banned for being accused of inciting an insurrection against the Republic of the United States of America. And yet the entire narrative was forged. It was a fake narrative put together maliciously and dishonestly by mainstream corporate media, including in this instance the BBC, to give people the false impression that President Trump was inciting violence. The implications of this story are huge because this is the story that led to a sitting president being kicked off social media. It's the same story that formed part of the case, for example, against me on LBC for why I was kicked off LBC by being notified on Twitter with three months remaining on my contract that LBC still owes me money for. It was a major turning point for those at the time who were calling out the now failed global palace coup against MAGA, against President Trump, against all those that were opposing the COVID mandates in addition, at that time." Maajid Nawaz, WARRIOR CREED.

أبو عمّار

35,601 views • 9 months ago

I was at both the Butler assassination attempt and the WHCD last night. The scary moments were shockingly similar—clear gunshots heard, a few seconds of silence, some started to scream, and everybody got down. What’s different is the security perimeter and the speed of crowd evacuation. My reporting last night from the White House, after rushing from the Washington Hilton. (biked over in my evening gown)
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I was at both the Butler assassination attempt and the WHCD last night. The scary moments were shockingly similar—clear gunshots heard, a few seconds of silence, some started to scream, and everybody got down. What’s different is the security perimeter and the speed of crowd evacuation. My reporting last night from the White House, after rushing from the Washington Hilton. (biked over in my evening gown)

Iris Tao

22,870 views • 3 months ago

Bob Njagi, Abductee: my story is very similar to the Longton’s because we were abducted on the same day and we were released on the same day. When they got me inside the car, they did a lot of torturing, my face was punched up, I was water-bordered in the car. We were not given any food, just a bottle of water once a day #JKLive Jeff Koinange, MBS
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Bob Njagi, Abductee: my story is very similar to the Longton’s because we were abducted on the same day and we were released on the same day. When they got me inside the car, they did a lot of torturing, my face was punched up, I was water-bordered in the car. We were not given any food, just a bottle of water once a day #JKLive Jeff Koinange, MBS

Citizen TV Kenya

28,528 views • 1 year ago

Absolute bullshit yet again. There was NO THREAT to anyone at the event. A group was flying a drone over the event seeing as its banned in many other countries. Also several of the arrests were in connection with a shooting last week in Bradford, they were thought to be hiding at the event, believe it or not the main suspect is still on the run.... his name is Luqman Khan and he's a muslim 🤬. Disgusting that ur spreading misinformation as usual
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Absolute bullshit yet again. There was NO THREAT to anyone at the event. A group was flying a drone over the event seeing as its banned in many other countries. Also several of the arrests were in connection with a shooting last week in Bradford, they were thought to be hiding at the event, believe it or not the main suspect is still on the run.... his name is Luqman Khan and he's a muslim 🤬. Disgusting that ur spreading misinformation as usual

🤍𝕁𝕆🤍

10,799 views • 27 days ago

The events of Saturday night were horrifying. It is difficult to believe that this is the third time President Trump has faced an assassination attempt. I am thankful for the many law enforcement officers who responded, in particular those who secured the shooter before he could harm the president or anyone else at the event. Political violence is never the answer, and it must end.
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The events of Saturday night were horrifying. It is difficult to believe that this is the third time President Trump has faced an assassination attempt. I am thankful for the many law enforcement officers who responded, in particular those who secured the shooter before he could harm the president or anyone else at the event. Political violence is never the answer, and it must end.

Leader John Thune

244,463 views • 3 months ago

Wow. I just got off the phone from THREE sources that Club Lambda BK’s final night was shut down early by NYPD and FD because a group of gays from Pittsburgh l, CT, and Queens called them because they got tired of waiting outside in line for over 45 minutes — only to discover the club was less than half full with a low key “masked” party happening in the basement area. Allegedly, there was a prepaid fee to get inside before a certain time, which most of the people in line paid, but was held up outside so that they might have to pay additional to get in, despite them showing up early and the venue being less than half full. Damn. It shouldn’t have gone out like that. This is supposed to be the last hurrah of the only Black gay nightclub in Brooklyn. 🤷🏾‍♂️ video taken by Jeremiyahhh
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Wow. I just got off the phone from THREE sources that Club Lambda BK’s final night was shut down early by NYPD and FD because a group of gays from Pittsburgh l, CT, and Queens called them because they got tired of waiting outside in line for over 45 minutes — only to discover the club was less than half full with a low key “masked” party happening in the basement area. Allegedly, there was a prepaid fee to get inside before a certain time, which most of the people in line paid, but was held up outside so that they might have to pay additional to get in, despite them showing up early and the venue being less than half full. Damn. It shouldn’t have gone out like that. This is supposed to be the last hurrah of the only Black gay nightclub in Brooklyn. 🤷🏾‍♂️ video taken by Jeremiyahhh

The G-Listed

21,461 views • 5 months ago

Sen. Josh Hawley calls it a miracle President Trump survived recent assassination attempts, warning the Secret Service must do better to protect the president and everyone around him: “I think when you have three attempts on the life of a President in two years—and they got as close as they did—it’s a miracle of God that President Trump wasn’t killed in that first attack in Butler. That was an absolute travesty. Now, I commend the president for changing out the leadership, but I think we need to know: is the Secret Service getting all the resources they need? Are they getting the cooperation they need? Are the right protocols in place? We’ve got to be able to protect the life of the president and protect the lives of the people around him, including the public. I think there’s still work to do here.”
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Sen. Josh Hawley calls it a miracle President Trump survived recent assassination attempts, warning the Secret Service must do better to protect the president and everyone around him: “I think when you have three attempts on the life of a President in two years—and they got as close as they did—it’s a miracle of God that President Trump wasn’t killed in that first attack in Butler. That was an absolute travesty. Now, I commend the president for changing out the leadership, but I think we need to know: is the Secret Service getting all the resources they need? Are they getting the cooperation they need? Are the right protocols in place? We’ve got to be able to protect the life of the president and protect the lives of the people around him, including the public. I think there’s still work to do here.”

Sean Hannity 🇺🇸

89,701 views • 3 months ago

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Johnny St.Pete

308,943 views • 3 months ago

“Hey, I’ve got a story for you. My coworker told me today about an incident that happened on March 28 (which, admittedly, she took far too long to mention). She ordered food and a coffee through Uber. When the driver arrived, security cameras captured him cleaning a spill from the coffee lid by licking it. He then blew his nose into a napkin and used that same napkin to wipe the lid, just seconds before handing it to her. Security stopped her from drinking it before it was too late. I have video of the incident and photos of the driver. I thought it was important for people to be aware that their food may not always be safe, especially when it isn’t in a sealed bag. My coworker contacted Uber. They said they would investigate and offered her a refund, but nothing further. EPS said it was a civil matter that has to go through Uber.” - Submitted in the DMs.
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“Hey, I’ve got a story for you. My coworker told me today about an incident that happened on March 28 (which, admittedly, she took far too long to mention). She ordered food and a coffee through Uber. When the driver arrived, security cameras captured him cleaning a spill from the coffee lid by licking it. He then blew his nose into a napkin and used that same napkin to wipe the lid, just seconds before handing it to her. Security stopped her from drinking it before it was too late. I have video of the incident and photos of the driver. I thought it was important for people to be aware that their food may not always be safe, especially when it isn’t in a sealed bag. My coworker contacted Uber. They said they would investigate and offered her a refund, but nothing further. EPS said it was a civil matter that has to go through Uber.” - Submitted in the DMs.

YEGWAVE

68,637 views • 3 months ago

A ten-year-old girl on a beach in Thailand saw the sea start to behave strangely, and because of something she had learned two weeks earlier, around a hundred people got off that beach in time. Her name is Tilly Smith, a schoolgirl from Surrey in England. On the morning of 26 December 2004 she was on holiday with her parents, Penny and Colin, and her seven-year-old sister Holly, walking along Maikhao Beach in Phuket. It was their first big family trip abroad, a Christmas treat, and the morning looked completely ordinary. Then Tilly noticed the water. The tide was not going in and out the way it should. It kept rushing in, further and further, and the surface had turned to a strange froth, like the foam sizzling in a frying pan. To everyone else on the beach it was just an odd-looking morning. To Tilly it set off an alarm, because she had seen those exact two signs before. About two weeks earlier, her geography teacher, a man named Andrew Kearney, had shown her class a video of a tsunami that hit Hawaii in 1946, and had explained the warning signs that come right before the wave. The receding water and the frothing sea were the two things she remembered most. She started telling her parents they had to get off the beach, that a tsunami was coming. At first they were not sure, but she was insistent enough that her mother flagged the hotel staff. The beach and the lower floors of the hotel were cleared in the few minutes that remained. Then the wave came. That stretch of coast was one of the only beaches in Phuket where everyone made it out safely. A geography lesson she had sat through a fortnight before, almost by chance, turned out to be the reason a whole beach full of strangers got to safety in time.
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A ten-year-old girl on a beach in Thailand saw the sea start to behave strangely, and because of something she had learned two weeks earlier, around a hundred people got off that beach in time. Her name is Tilly Smith, a schoolgirl from Surrey in England. On the morning of 26 December 2004 she was on holiday with her parents, Penny and Colin, and her seven-year-old sister Holly, walking along Maikhao Beach in Phuket. It was their first big family trip abroad, a Christmas treat, and the morning looked completely ordinary. Then Tilly noticed the water. The tide was not going in and out the way it should. It kept rushing in, further and further, and the surface had turned to a strange froth, like the foam sizzling in a frying pan. To everyone else on the beach it was just an odd-looking morning. To Tilly it set off an alarm, because she had seen those exact two signs before. About two weeks earlier, her geography teacher, a man named Andrew Kearney, had shown her class a video of a tsunami that hit Hawaii in 1946, and had explained the warning signs that come right before the wave. The receding water and the frothing sea were the two things she remembered most. She started telling her parents they had to get off the beach, that a tsunami was coming. At first they were not sure, but she was insistent enough that her mother flagged the hotel staff. The beach and the lower floors of the hotel were cleared in the few minutes that remained. Then the wave came. That stretch of coast was one of the only beaches in Phuket where everyone made it out safely. A geography lesson she had sat through a fortnight before, almost by chance, turned out to be the reason a whole beach full of strangers got to safety in time.

Lemma the Optimist

397,133 views • 2 months ago