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  • Police searching for former appointee of Tim Walz in connection with fatal shootings in Minnesota, according to reports.

    06/14/2025 11:04:37 AM PDT · by Morgana · 134 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | June 14, 2025 | Samantha Rutt
    A former appointee of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is being sought by police in connection with the fatal shooting of a state lawmaker, according to reports. Police are searching for Vance Luther Boelter, 57, who was appointed by Walz in 2019 to serve a four year stint on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board, sources told The New York Post. It comes after an assailant is thought to have impersonated a police officer when they entered the Champlin residence of Senator John Hoffman and his wife early Saturday, shooting both and leaving them critically injured. The shooter then proceeded to the...
  • Vance Boelter gives sermon in Congo a few years ago.

    06/15/2025 7:37:54 AM PDT · by DFG · 33 replies
    X ^ | 06/15/2025 | Citizen Free Press
    Vance Boelter gives sermon in Congo a few years ago.
  • As U.S. accepts more Syrian refugees, Baltimore Resettlement Center plans for influx

    09/10/2015 7:29:34 PM PDT · by markomalley · 27 replies
    Baltimore Sun ^ | 9/10/15 | Scott Dance, Colin Campbell and Paul Richter
    President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered his administration to accept at least 10,000 Syrian refugees for resettlement in the United States next year, amid international pressure to act as heartbreaking images emerge of sometimes-deadly attempts to escape to Europe. California is the top resettlement destination, but some likely will come to centers in the Baltimore area, where refugees will be provided with furnished apartments, classes in English and American culture and help finding work. The International Rescue Committee office in Highlandtown, which has helped to resettle 26 Syrian refugees this year, anticipates receiving many more. The agency helps to resettle...
  • Protesters attack UN headquarters in DR Congo

    07/27/2022 10:07:09 AM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 12 replies
    Watchers News ^ | 7/26/22 | Staff
    At least 5 people have been killed and around 50 injured on July 25, 2022, after hundreds of protesters attacked a United Nations headquarters in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, demanding that the mission leaves the country for failing to protect the population. The protest started after President Felix Tshisekedi’s party and civil society organizations called for the demonstration in Goma after the president of the Senate, Modeste Bahati, called on the UN’s MONUSCO mission to leave Congo in mid-July. The mission is present in the country for more than 20 years. It is the largest peacekeeping mission...
  • BREAKING: by a police source in Minnesota the suspect in the shootings of MN state lawmakers is Vance Luther Boelter

    06/14/2025 10:32:17 AM PDT · by CaptainK · 130 replies
    X ^ | 6/14/25 | Julio Rosas
    I'm told by a police source in Minnesota the suspect in the shootings of MN state lawmakers is Vance Luther Boelter. It appears it is the same Boelter who was appointed to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board in 2019 by Gov. Tim Walz. He appointed to the Governor's Workforce Development Council in 2016 by then-Gov. Mark Dayton.
  • Police: ‘No Kings’ Flyers and Manifesto Found in Car of Alleged Minnesota Lawmakers Shooter

    06/14/2025 9:58:04 AM PDT · by DFG · 79 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 06/14/2025 | Kristinn Taylor
    The alleged gunman in the deadly shooting targeting two Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party lawmakers and their spouses had a manifesto in his car that listed the two lawmakers and “many lawmakers and other officials”, according to police. The suspect is on the run on foot. UPDATE: A photo was released by the Minnesota State Patrol showing ‘No Kings’ flyers on the seat of the alleged gunman’s car (Photo at end of article.) Police are asking the public to not attend the statewide No Kings protests against President Trump scheduled for today.
  • Biden Scandal Update [Weekly Update]

    12/11/2020 2:09:56 PM PST · by jazusamo · 6 replies
    Judicial Watch ^ | December 11, 2020 | Tom Fitton
    Impeachment Star Witness Was Aware of Burisma Corruption Ex-Con Hired by D.C. as ‘Violence Interrupter’ Charged with Murder Judicial Watch Confronts the Election Crisis President Trump Echoes Judicial Watch Concerns about Dirty Voter Rolls Turns out that one of the Democrats’ star witnesses in their sham impeachment of President Trump – former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch – seemed to have been shading the truth. Are you at all surprised? We just received 210 pages of records from the State Department showing that Yovanovitch had specifically warned in 2017 about corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings. However, during...
  • Death sentence overturned for three Americans over DR Congo coup attempt

    04/02/2025 12:31:00 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 12 replies
    BBC ^ | 04/2/2025 | Wycliffe Muia
    Three Americans convicted for their role in a failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo last year have had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment, the presidency has said. They were among 37 people sentenced to death last September by a military court. The three were accused of leading an attack on both the presidential palace and the home of an ally of President Félix Tshisekedi last May. The overturning of the sentences comes ahead of a visit to DR Congo by the newly appointed US senior advisor for Africa, Massad Boulos. Boulos, father-in-law to President Donald Trump's daughter,...
  • Desperate for Peace, Congo’s President Offers Trump Control of $24 Trillion in Minerals to Bring Peace in the Region

    03/22/2025 9:19:58 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 66 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | March 22, 2025 | Staff
    The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, has reached out directly to President Donald J. Trump with a historic proposal: help defeat a brutal rebel force terrorizing his nation, and in return, America will gain direct access to one of the world’s richest untapped troves of critical minerals—worth an estimated $24 trillion. According to a letter obtained by The Wall Street Journal, President Tshisekedi offered Trump exclusive mining opportunities through the newly launched U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, a Trump-led initiative aimed at reshaping global investment through pro-American partnerships. “Your election has ushered in the golden age...
  • S. Africa’s chief rabbi slams world’s religious leaders for silence on Christian beheadings in DRC

    03/03/2025 5:38:09 PM PST · by Freeleesy · 13 replies
    X ^ | Mar 2, 2025
    Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein @ChiefRabbiSA · The recent beheadings of 70 Christians in a church in the DRC is not an isolated incident. There is a continent wide war being waged by Jihadists against Christians in Africa. Each year, thousands of Christians are murdered, raped, kidnapped and beheaded for their faith, burned inside in their churches across the continent. The world must act now to stop this brutality.
  • News Summary-Intelligence Report 2/27/2025*Newsdump Thursday*First Epstein Files Released*Steep NASDAQ Drop*Ruling For British Woman In Rape Case Involving Israelis*Trump Imposing New China Tariffs*Tate Brothers Leave Romania*

    02/27/2025 9:01:02 PM PST · by Nextrush · 3 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 2/27/2025 | Nextrush/Self
    In Canada's most populous province Ontario today an election...Ford's Progressive Conservatives the projected winners... Israel's military out with an internal report concerning the Hamas attack of October 7th... North Korea says it conducted cruise missile tests off its west coast this week... The US Justice Department releasing files related to...Jeffrey Epstein...called the 'first phase'...more material still in the hands of the FBI... "everything was calculated, everything was planned" Those words from Calin Georgescu Romanian populist presidential candidate...taken into custody yesterday...six charges announced against him... At the White House and exchange between Vice-President JD Vance and visiting British Prime Minister... US...
  • Did Obama officials force Pope Benedict’s resignation? Open letter calls for Trump investigation

    02/20/2025 12:24:21 PM PST · by ebb tide · 18 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | February 20, 2025 | LifeSite News
    Did Obama officials force Pope Benedict’s resignation? Open letter calls for Trump investigationWe are asking for an investigation into the affairs of our own government. It is not unprecedented for a corrupt government to attempt to insert itself into the life of the Church.Shortly after the first inauguration of President Trump in 2017, an open letter was published in The Remnant Newspaper requesting an investigation into potential involvement by the Obama Administration in the affairs of the Catholic Church. Specifically, the authors asked whether the U.S. Government was involved in the sequence of events that resulted in the resignation of...
  • Seventy Christians were found beheaded in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    02/20/2025 12:33:17 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 27 replies
    X.com ^ | Libs of TikTok✓@libsoftiktok
    They were reportedly hostages of the Islamist group ADF— an ISIS affiliate Why isn’t the MSM covering this story??
  • Congo conflict: Inside DRC prison days after inmates burned alive (Video)

    02/19/2025 11:59:20 AM PST · by RandFan · 14 replies
    Horrifying details of atrocities are continuing to emerge from the Democratic Republic of the Congo 12 days after the Rwandan-backed armed group, M23, seized the eastern city of Goma. Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the fighting - around 2,000 bodies are still to be buried. As rebels entered the city, Goma’s Munzenze prison became a centre of the violence. It was set on fire, prisoners were burnt alive - and thousands escaped. The UN says female prisoners were raped by male prisoners.
  • [Rwanda Pres] Paul Kagame: I asked America to kill Congo rebel leader with drone

    05/19/2013 5:53:18 PM PDT · by Pan_Yan · 2 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Saturday 18 May 2013 | Chris McGreal in Kigali
    Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, has rejected accusations from Washington that he was supporting a rebel leader and accused war criminal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by challenging a senior US official to send a drone to kill the wanted man. ... "I told him: 'Assistant secretary of state, you support [the UN peacekeeping force] in the Congo. Such a big force, so much money. Have you failed to use that force to arrest whoever you want to arrest in Congo? Now you are turning to me, you are turning to Rwanda?'" he said. "I said that, since you...
  • More than 150 female inmates raped and burned to death during Goma jailbreak in DRC

    02/07/2025 11:14:21 AM PST · by RandFan · 16 replies
    CNN ^ | Feb 7 | By Nimi Princewill, CNN
    More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said. UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Seif Magango told CNN that most of the 165 female prisoners who were raped by escaping male inmates died in the fire. Between nine and 13 female inmates, “all of whom had also been raped,” survived the blaze, Magango added, citing a judicial source in the DRC. “We did not independently verify the judicial official’s...
  • Your phone, a rare metal and the war in DR Congo

    02/01/2025 9:26:58 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 8 replies
    bbc ^ | 02/01/2025 | Damian Zane
    The tantalum within your device weighs less than half of the average garden pea but is essential for the efficient functioning of a smartphone, and almost all other sophisticated electronic devices. The unique properties of this rare, blue-grey, lustrous metal – including being able to hold a high charge compared to its size, while operating in a range of temperatures - make it an ideal material for tiny capacitors, which temporarily store energy. It is also mined in Rwanda, Brazil and Nigeria but at least 40% - and maybe more – of the element's global supply comes from DR Congo...
  • What the Hell Is Angola Doing With These State-of-the-Art Fighters?

    09/21/2017 9:52:00 AM PDT · by sukhoi-30mki · 22 replies
    War is Boring ^ | September 21, 2017 | Robert Beckhusen
    The first two of 12 Sukhoi Su-30K fighters Angola ordered nearly four years for $1 billion have arrived in the country, giving a country with one of the most formidable air forces in the region some of the best military hardware Russia has to offer. Angola enters the club of African states possessing Su-30s along with Uganda and Algeria. The planes bounced around a lot before they got there. In 2013, Angola inked the purchase with Russia for the fighters, which served with the Indian Air Force from 1998-2005 before returning to Russia in exchange for more modern Su-30MKIs. Via...
  • D.R. Congo's mining capital is at the heart of Biden's bid to counter China in Africa

    12/04/2024 8:22:27 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 21 replies
    npr ^ | 12/042024 | Emmet Livingstone
    KOLWEZI, Democratic Republic of Congo — Little about Kolwezi, a small city in southern Democratic Republic of Congo, hints at its global importance. Nondescript and ringed by slag heaps, pits and quarry lakes, the city is home to some of the largest copper and cobalt mines in the world. Now, Kolwezi is at the center of U.S.-Chinese competition over critical minerals. Earlier this year, mining firms began shipping ore along a U.S.-backed railway that terminates in Angola's Atlantic port of Lobito. A massive infrastructure project is focused on this rail line -- which is viewed as a bid to counter...
  • Alarmed by Mpox Surge, Africa CDC Is Poised to Declare a 'Continental Emergency'

    08/11/2024 1:05:19 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 38 replies
    NPR ^ | August 9, 2024 | Gabrielle Emanuel
    The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has never done anything like this before. The agency is poised to declare a “public health emergency of continental security” as early as next week. Since the beginning of last year, mpox cases have been surging in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with children making up the majority of the 14,000 reported cases and 511 deaths so far in 2024. Those numbers roughly match the number of cases reported in all of last year in the country. Why Africa is so worried In the last couple weeks, there’s been a new and...