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• Putin pledges truce if Ukraine exits occupied areas and drops NATO bid, likely a nonstarter for Kyiv

  06/14/2024 4:45:37 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 83 replies

  CTV ^ | 6/14/24 | Dasha Litvinova

  Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to “immediately” order a ceasefire in Ukraine(opens in a new tab) and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO. Such a deal appears a nonstarter for Kyiv, which wants to join the military alliance and has demanded that Russia withdraw its troops from all of its territory. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine on Putin's proposal.

• Hunter Biden drops laptop lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani

  06/14/2024 4:29:03 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 24 replies

  NY Post ^ | 6-13-24 | Social Links forVictor Nava

  Hunter Biden is dropping his lawsuit accusing Rudy Giuliani and the former New York City mayor’s ex-lawyer of manipulating data found on his infamous laptop. Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell filed the stipulation for dismissal Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The attorney asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit against Giuliani and Robert Costello “without prejudice, with each party bearing its own attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses.” Attorneys for all three parties have agreed to the stipulation, court documents show. The lawsuit claimed that Giuliani, 80, and Costello violated the federal Computer Fraud...

• NATO Aircraft Scrambled Amid 'Busy Night' of Russian Strikes

  06/14/2024 3:34:12 AM PDT · by McGruff · 30 replies

  Newsweek ^ | Junne 14, 2024 | David Brennan

  NATO aircraft were scrambled Thursday overnight as Russian drones and missiles again struck targets inside Ukraine, reaching as far west as the Khmelnytskyi region less than 200 miles from the Polish border. "Polish and allied aircraft" took to the skies above southeastern Poland as Russian ballistic missiles and Shahed attack drones targeted Ukrainian cities, per a report by Warsaw's Armed Forces Operational Command. "This is another very busy night for the entire air defense system in Poland due to the observed activity of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation carrying out strikes using cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles of...

• Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

  06/14/2024 3:26:02 AM PDT · by Chad C. Mulligan · 2 replies

  Krebs on Security ^ | 23 May 2024 | Krebs

  Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. An investigation into Stark Industries reveals it is being used as a global proxy network that conceals the true source of cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns against enemies of Russia. At least a dozen patriotic Russian hacking groups have been launching DDoS attacks since the start of the war at a variety of targets seen as opposed to Moscow. But...

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• GOP women who helped defeat a near-total abortion ban are losing reelection in South Carolina

  06/14/2024 2:56:30 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 41 replies

  AP ^ | 6/13/24 | Jeffrey Collins

  A near-total abortion ban was defeated in South Carolina with the help of the only three Republican women in the Senate, but after Tuesday’s primary, they’re losing their election bids. Voters handed the senators – and winners of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award for people who risk their careers for the greater good – two losses and a runoff after they joined with Democratic women to defeat the measure, saying a pregnant woman shouldn’t lose control of her body as soon as an egg is fertilized.

• Ukraine has a DARK secret, Organ Harvesting, Sex Trafficking, and Ukrainian families are DEMANDING answers | Redacted w Clayton Morris

  06/14/2024 2:46:35 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 32 replies

  Redacted ^ | 6/24 | Clayton Morris

  Ukrainian families are demanding answers from Zelensky's government about their dead family members. This is darker than we imagined.

• Oklahoma primary election puts powerful Rep. Tom Cole on defense (Tuesday)

  06/14/2024 2:42:27 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 5 replies

  Washington Examiner ^ | 6/14/24 | Rachel Schilke

  Oklahoma is one of three states holding key primary races next Tuesday, with newly appointed House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole‘s (R-OK) contest drawing more fireworks than the district has seen in years. Oklahoma is one of several Republican strongholds with competitive primaries for House seats in 2024 as Democrats look to flip the lower chamber back to their side and the GOP seeks to expand its razor-thin majority. Notable House races next week include Cole’s in the 4th Congressional District and Rep. Frank Lucas’s (R-OK) race in the 3rd District. Eyes are on the 4th District in particular, as...

• Biden commits U.S. taxpayers to 10 years of ‘blank check’ funding of war in Ukraine, Organ Harvesting, Sex Trafficking

  06/14/2024 2:41:31 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 19 replies

  leohohmann.com ^ | 6/24 | Leo Hohmann

  Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Zelensky are planning to sign a deal for long-term US military assistance for Ukraine, a country whose government we now know is involved in the trafficking of children for sex and harvesting the organs of its own soldiers for profit.If that sounds too sensational to be true, read on. The evidence is hiding in plain sight. See post below from X, and I will provide a video later in this article that contains more proof of what’s really going on in Ukraine. It will turn your stomach.

• Jailed US reporter Evan Gershkovich to stand trial in Russia on espionage charges, officials say

  06/14/2024 2:07:14 AM PDT · by RandFan · 11 replies

  AP ^ | June 13 | AP

  MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, who has been jailed for over a year in Russia on espionage charges, will stand trial in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, where he was detained, authorities said Thursday. An indictment of The Wall Street Journal reporter has been finalized and his case was filed to the Sverdlovsky Regional Court in the city about 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) east of Moscow, according to Russia’s Prosecutor General’s office. There was no word on when the trial would begin. Gershkovich, 32, is accused of “gathering secret information” on orders from the CIA about Uralvagonzavod,...

• Wendall Pierce from 'The Wire' compares pro-Palestinian Brooklyn vandals to KKK.[Organized by racist Arab "palestinian" Nerdeen Kiswani - WOL]

  06/14/2024 1:33:28 AM PDT · by Freeleesy · 14 replies

  JPost ^ | 14 June 2024

  Actor Wendall Pierce from the hit American drama "The Wire" condemned an antisemetic incident in which pro-Palestinian protesters vandalized the homes of the Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak, along with several Jewish board members, on a Thursday post to X, formerly Twitter. Pierce compared the attack to being "on par with a burning cross warning from the KKK that your life is in danger." "As a Black man from the South, I understand that is a terror attack and not a protest," Pierce wrote about the pro-Palestinian vandalization.

• Executive director of Georgia pride organization caught with meth, crack cocaine, police say

  06/14/2024 1:25:51 AM PDT · by CFW · 19 replies

  WSBtv2 ^ | 6/13/24 | Scott Flynn

  COLUMBUS, Ga. — The executive director of a Georgia pride organization has been arrested on drug charges. The Columbus Police Department said it executed a search warrant on the home of Jeremy Hobbs on Wednesday. When they got to the home, they found crack cocaine, methamphetamine, liquid GHB, and a revolver. Hobbs is the executive director of Colgay Pride in Columbus.

• Amid power grid concerns, Texas lawmakers change tune on bitcoin mining

  06/14/2024 12:41:38 AM PDT · by Oscar in Batangas · 8 replies

  (WFAA) ^ | June 13, 2024 | Matt Houston

  Few states or countries were more welcoming to cryptocurrency miners than Texas. Now, lawmakers are expressing more skepticism. ... "Why is it that the cryptocurrency miners get such a sweetheart deal when we were here first?" asked energy economist Ed Hirs. "The cryptocurrency miners operate as a parasitic load," Hirs continued. "They're the tapeworms of the ERCOT grid." ... "I'm not sure how the legislature is going to deal with it," Hirs said. "Can you put the genie back in the bottle?" ... (Lee) Bratcher argues people who do not believe in Bitcoin can still appreciate the mining operations because...

• SF-based Wells Fargo fires employees for allegedly using keyboards to fake work

  06/13/2024 10:22:33 PM PDT · by thecodont · 34 replies

  San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | June 13, 2024 | By Stephen Council, Tech Reporter

  Wells Fargo, the San Francisco-based banking giant, has fired a small group of employees who allegedly tampered with their computers to fake the appearance of working. The company’s St. Louis-based subsidiary, Wells Fargo Clearing Services, filed five disclosures with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority saying that it had fired workers in early May. Each disclosure said the worker was “discharged after review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work.” Bloomberg, which first reported the firings on Thursday, wrote that “more than a dozen” employees were fired from Wells Fargo’s wealth and investment management arm. SFGATE...

• Fetterman aides concerned by senator’s unsafe driving, including FaceTiming behind the wheel: report

  06/13/2024 9:34:03 PM PDT · by OakOak · 24 replies

  NY Post ^ | 06/13/2024 | Victor Nava

  Sen. John Fetterman’s unsafe driving habits are so alarming that some of his staffers are afraid to get in a car with him when he’s behind the wheel, according to a report. The Pennsylvania Democrat was cited for extreme speeding at least twice before he plowed into the back of a 62-year-old woman’s vehicle on Sunday, an accident that sent him, his wife Gisele and other driver to the hospital, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Fetterman, 54, has also been known to FaceTime and text while driving, behavior that has prompted his staff to implement “an informal practice” of...

• Opinion: What’s wrong with a little revenge?

  06/13/2024 8:46:46 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 37 replies

  The Hill ^ | June 11, 2024 | MICK MULVANEY

  Nearly twenty years ago, long before she was in office, a current Democratic U.S. senator wanted to buy a vacation home. She used an online mortgage broker based in North Carolina. On her loan application, she listed her own estimate of what her primary residence was worth. She got the loan and ultimately paid it back early. Fast forward to today. Would it be wrong for the Department of Justice to start examining that loan application with an eye toward civil action against her? What about the North Carolina attorney general? Does the answer change if the attorney general ran...

• Poll: Support for Hamas on the rise among Palestinians, now double Fatah’s

  06/13/2024 8:31:16 PM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 15 replies

  Times of Israel ^ | 6/13/24 | Gianlucca Pacchiani

  A poll released Wednesday found rising support for the Hamas terror group among Palestinians, both in the West Bank and in Gaza. The poll, conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) between May 26 and June 1, found that overall support for Hamas in the Palestinian territories stood at 40%, a six-point increase from the previous survey three months ago. Only some 20% support the Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, which governs Palestinian areas of the West Bank. Before the war, overall support for Hamas stood at 22% and support for Fatah stood...

• Jon Stewart skewers corporations for pandering, exploiting gays during pride month

  06/13/2024 8:04:41 PM PDT · by NetAddicted · 26 replies

  Breitbart.com ^ | 6/11/2024 | David Ng

  <p>Comedian Jon Stewart gave voice to the growing number of Americans on both sides of the political divide who have become fed up with corporate pandering during Pride Month.</p><p>On Monday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Jon Stewart skewered corporate virtue signaling as just a cynical marketing ploy.</p>

• Electoral College Rating Changes: Half-Dozen Moves Toward Republicans in What Remains a Toss-up Race

  06/13/2024 7:35:50 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 25 replies

  Center for Politics ^ | June | Kyle Kondik

  Table 1: Crystal Ball Electoral College rating changesStateOld RatingNew RatingAlaskaLikely RepublicanSafe RepublicanGeorgiaToss-upLeans RepublicanIowaLikely RepublicanSafe RepublicanME-2Leans RepublicanLikely RepublicanOhioLikely RepublicanSafe RepublicanPennsylvaniaLeans DemocraticToss-upTable 2: Crystal Ball Senate rating changeSenatorOld RatingNew RatingBob Casey (D-PA)Likely DemocraticLeans DemocraticAn updated look at the Electoral CollegeToday we’re making a half-dozen changes to our Electoral College ratings, all of them benefiting the Republicans. These moves don’t significantly change our overall outlook, which is that we don’t really see a clear favorite in the presidential race, but they do better align our ratings with that overall outlook.Map 1 shows the updated ratings, which now show 251 electoral votes at least...

• Biden repeatedly watched his dog attack Secret Service as staff wished each other ‘safe shift’: docs

  06/13/2024 7:27:56 PM PDT · by thegagline · 43 replies

  The New York Post ^ | 06/13/2024 | Steven Nelson

  President Biden repeatedly watched his German shepherd Commander attack Secret Service members, who wished each other a “safe shift” as the number of incidents mounted — with one exasperated workplace safety professional urging the use of a muzzle, agency records show. The number of dog attacks involving Commander, who the White House said in February was given away after more than two years terrorizing professionals assigned to protect Biden; and former first dog Major, who was rehomed in 2021 after also attacking personnel; could top three dozen, the newly surfaced records suggest.The 81-year-old president, who reportedly accused a Secret Service...

• Trump hints he has settled on his VP pick: ‘Sort of a pretty good idea’

  06/13/2024 7:16:16 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 58 replies

  Nypost ^ | 06/13/2024 | Victor Nana

  Former President Donald Trump hinted Thursday that he’s close to deciding who he will pick as his running mate for the 2024 presidential election. “I have sort of a pretty good idea,” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee told Fox News reporter Aishah Hasnie after meeting with congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill, noting that his potential choice was “probably” in the room with him at some point during his Thursday meetings. “Look, we have some really talented people,” he added. “I have a pretty good idea.”

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