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SNIPErik Prince, founder of the private military contractor Blackwater, has signed a contract to help combat the gangs that now control much of the Haitian capital, according to The New York Times. He is also reportedly working to recruit American military veterans and other mercenaries for possible deployment this summer.The reported development comes as the Haitian government turns to weaponized drones in its fight against armed groups. Police posted video that appeared to show drone strikes targeting gang members, but the footage has since been removed.

If you want to know who’s running the State Department these days, it helps to peruse the website of a relatively new, conservative-leaning organization called the Ben Franklin Fellowship.The group’s roster includes Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau, top officials in bureaus such as consular affairs, and even an acting undersecretary or two. The fellows include current and former members of the foreign service, as well as other international affairs specialists. And while the Fellowship describes itself as nonpartisan, its right-of-center views are obvious: It emphasizes goals such as border security; opposes typical diversity, equity and inclusion practices; and advocates...

SNIPState officials have praised Butler Snow for its experience in defending prison cases – and specifically William Lunsford, head of the constitutional and civil rights litigation practice group at the firm. But now the firm is facing sanctions by the federal judge overseeing Johnson’s case after an attorney at the firm, working with Lunsford, cited cases generated by artificial intelligence – which turned out not to exist.It is one of a growing number of instances in which attorneys around the country have faced consequences for including false, AI-generated information in official legal filings. A database attempting to track the prevalence...

May 21, 2025 LOUISIANA FIRST STATE TO UTILIZE NEW VOTER LIST MAINTENANCE DATABASEBATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana has become the first state to utilize a new voter list maintenance database from the federal Department of Government Efficiency. This database combines information on individuals’ immigration status and death records.“Since taking office, I have repeatedly requested this critical data from the federal government to check Louisiana’s voter registration list,” Secretary of State Nancy Landry said. “After being stymied by the previous administration, I am thankful to President Trump for his quick work in crafting a cost-free, user-friendly database with valuable information that...

Leader of White Supremacist Group ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Recruited Others to Bomb and Poison the Jewish Community and Racial Minorities Defendant Allegedly Planned Scheme to Distribute Poisoned Candy on New Year’s EveGeorgian national Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as Mishka, Michael, Commander Butcher, and Butcher, 21, of Tbilisi, was extradited to the United States from Moldova on May 22, and will be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn today. Chkhikvishvili was arrested in Chișinău, Moldova, in July 2024 in connection with a four-count indictment returned in the Eastern District of New York charging him with soliciting hate crimes and acts of...

A Colombian national was sentenced today in the Southern District of Florida for her role in kidnapping and assaulting two members of the U.S. military who were on temporary duty in Bogotá, Colombia.Kenny Julieth Uribe Chiran, 35, was sentenced to 262 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $24,115 in restitution. She is the third and final defendant to be sentenced and held accountable for this criminal conspiracy. She pleaded guilty in March 2025 to conspiracy to kidnap an internationally protected person.“Uribe Chiran and her co-defendants mercilessly preyed on U.S. soldiers when they...

ransomnote: Two images from the slide show at the article link: https://i.imgur.com/HzHfPGU.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/OxXBtGY.pngOSLO, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian man awoke to find that a cargo ship had run aground and narrowly missed crashing into his home along the Trondheim Fjord’s coast.Johan Helberg told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that he’d slept through the whole thing and only woke up when a neighbor started ringing his doorbell.Images show the ship’s red and green bow just meters (yards) from Helberg’s house. He told NRK the only damage was to a heating pump’s wire.Authorities say they received reports that the NCL Salten had run aground shortly...

The Pentagon is sending 1,115 additional active-duty troops to deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing the number of service members there close to 10,000.The troops will mainly help with sustainment engineering, logistics, medical and construction, U.S. Northern Command said in a statement Thursday.The additional service members mark another increase in the military’s role in supporting President Trump’s aggressive immigration control agenda.There are already just shy of 8,000 active-duty troops at the border, with the added 1,115 bringing the total to nearly 10,000, a figure approved by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this year.

[H/T ExTexasRedhead]SNIPComparing Drug Side Effect Information for 2 Identical Drugs (Ozempic and Wegovy):You have, no doubt, heard about the GLP-1 agonist drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. They are both semaglutide. Ozempic was approved for diabetes and Wegovy was approved for weight loss. From our perspective, the clinical trials should have produced somewhat similar side effect profiles.The official prescribing information reports that 20.3% of the patients on Ozempic complained of nausea while only 6.1% of those on placebo reported nausea. Contrast that with the identical medicine Wegovy: 42% to 44% of subjects on Wegovy reported nausea. Those getting placebo shots of Wegovy...

Department of Government Efficiency@DOGEDuring the previous administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the following grants to spend taxpayer dollars, all of which have been cancelled ($163M in overall savings). NEH grants will be merit-based and awarded to non-DEI, pro-America causes:- $350k for interactive gay travel guides to better understand historical LGBTQ+ spaces - $350k to create a Spanish version of http://Homosauras.org (https://en.homosaurus.org)- $247k to digitize stories of transgender adults in the Pacific Northwest- $75k to examine the relationship between internet live streaming and LGBTQ+ communities- $60k to research how LGBTQ+ cartoonists innovated comics in the 1980s &...

https://x.com/_aussie17/status/1924623826626961651aussie17@_aussie17🤯🤯🤯Former Japanese Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Kazuhiro Haraguchi @kharaguchi just shared analysis of his cancer cells :This is an analysis of my cancer cells. Even two years after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, spike proteins were found in the malignant lymphoma. Conversely, N proteins were not detected. This indicates that I had not been infected with COVID-19.We must put an end to the tragedies caused by the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible.May 19, 2025 · 150.5K Views

Please note: The Pandemic Agreement has been called various names over the years. It has also been referred to as the Pandemic Treaty, Pandemic Accord and WHO Convention Agreement + (“WHO CA+”). To ensure the Pandemic Agreement was adopted by the easiest possible route, WHO had determined that a vote need not take place, and instead it would be adopted by “consensus.”Surprised that a “democratic institution” did not want to have a vote, Slovakia requested that a vote on the draft Pandemic Agreement take place, which Tedros the Terrorist attempted to stop hours before the vote was scheduled.https://x.com/RobertFicoSVK/status/1924473981395988880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1924473981395988880%7Ctwgr%5Eda2097fa6480bcc106dd46d79e58409ee8c862d4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fexpose-news.com%2F2025%2F05%2F21%2Fwhos-pandemic-agreement-is-adopted%2FThe vote was...

https://x.com/doge/status/1923564122463199470Department of Government Efficiency@DOGEContract Update!Over the last 3 days, agencies have terminated 262 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.2B and savings of $230M, including a $13.8M marketing research DEI contract to provide “analytical and initiative support on building the case for health equity”.May 16, 2025 · 567.1K Views

Long story short – the problem began after Microsoft’s August 2024 Patch updates, which included a mitigation for a known GRUB2 vulnerability (CVE-2022-2601). The flaw allowed malicious actors to bypass UEFI Secure Boot protections using a compromised GRUB2 bootloader.To address this, Microsoft deployed a Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT) update (KB5041571) to block vulnerable bootloaders. Unfortunately, this had unintended consequences.While it was supposed to detect and exempt dual-boot configurations from being affected, this detection failed in several scenarios. As a result, many dual-boot users with Windows and Linux on the same machine suddenly found themselves unable to get into their...

SNIPThe picture Zelenskyy presents of Donald Tusk (Poland), Zelenskyy, Emmanuel Macron (France), Keir Starmer (UK) and Friedrich Merz (Germany), represents his “coalition of the willing.” The group who has pledged to send troops to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping coalition, as long as the USA military backstops their presence against Russia.If President Trump does not agree to position U.S. military as part of the coalition, then the “willingness” changes. Hence, Friedrich Merz says “we must maintain good relations with the United States.”SNIPIt’s all about the money! {BACKSTORY}For President Trump and Vladimir Putin to join in strategic interest is to...

WASHINGTON DC – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the top officials leading the National Intelligence Council – whom whistleblowers describe as “radically opposed to Trump” — and has moved the agency to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, to ensure she can block any “politicization of intelligence,” Fox News Digital has learned.Gabbard fired Mike Collins, who was serving as the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council, and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, Tuesday, senior intelligence officials told Fox News Digital.Fox News Digital reached out Langan-Riekhof for comment and did not immediately hear back,...

TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE AT LINK. Click the 'transcript' button to the right under the title (see image below).Excerpt of introductory text below the video at the link:“We've been lied to, and that is how we have been governed for a long time. And we have to learn to distrust what we're told, and we have to get the evidence and find out for ourselves what's really going on…The Goal is to create COVID-like situations where garbage products are injected into us.”Dr. Meryl Nass is an internal medicine specialist with over 42 years of experience in the medical field and the founder...

This week, President Donald J. Trump advanced his America First agenda with remarkable successes that bolster the economy, enhance national security, and promote global stability. From a landmark trade agreement to bold steps to secure our borders and skies, President Trump is delivering results that matter to every American.Here is a non-comprehensive list of wins in week 16:President Trump announced a “breakthrough” trade deal with the United Kingdom that expands market access, curbs non-tariff barriers, and levels the playing field for American exporters. National Cattlemen’s Beef Association: “President Trump has delivered a tremendous win for American family farmers and ranchers...