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More on the Assassination Attempt

Bodycam: PA Officer Says He Warned Secret Service to Secure Area Used by Thomas Crooks 5 Days Before Trump Rally

Bodycam footage from July 13, 2024, captures the sound of sirens screaming following the assassination attempt against Donald Trump and the voice of a Butler, Pennsylvania, officer saying, “I f*cking told [the Secret Service] they need to post a guy f*cking over here,” adding that he did so five days before the shooting.

The bodycam footage, released by CNN, captures the hectic moments after the assassination attempt on former President Trump.

A local officer is pacing in frustration and can be heard saying, “I f*cking told them that they needed to post guys f*cking over here.”

Another officer responds to him, asking, “Told who?”

The local officer said, “The Secret Service, I told them that f*cking Tuesday.”

Someone responded, “I thought you guys were supposed to do it.”

The local officer answered, “No, we’re inside.”

He added, “I told them to post f*cking guys over here.”

Throughout the back and forth talk on the bodycam, it was clear that some officers did not worry about certain locations because they thought other officers were there or, as obvious from the Butler, Pennsylvania, officer, they had purportedly warned the Secret Service to be there.

On July 16, 2024–three days after the assassination attempt–Breitbart News spoke with sources who criticized the Secret Service’s supplemental approach to protection details following the attempt on Trump’s life.

The sources indicated that protective details for a former president are not anywhere as extensive as the details that protect a sitting president. Because of this, when a former president travels or holds rallies, such as the one Trump was holding that Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, the Secret Service uses “supplemental” protective personnel to fill the gaps that exist in the existing protective structure.

One source explained that this means the Secret Secret relies on using other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents for protection, as well as local police and/or local advanced units and advanced unit personnel. While DHS agents used by Secret Service may be excellent at the jobs for which they are trained, the source noted that protective detail work is not what they are trained to do.

Democrat Turned Republican

California State Senator Switches from Democrat to Republican: ‘Not the Party that I Signed Up For’

A California Democrat state senator is defecting to the Republican Party, saying that the current state of the left “is not the party that I signed up for decades ago.”

State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, a longtime Democrat who represents the northeastern portion of California’s Central Valley, took to Fox News on Thursday to break the news of her party switch.

“In the past two years that I’ve been working in the Senate, I have not recognized the party that I belong to,” the legislator said. “The Democratic Party is not the party that I signed up for decades ago.”

“I can’t, in good conscience, with the values that I have and my commitment to represent the voters of California, continue to call myself a Democrat,” Alvarado-Gil continued.

Lamenting fighting an “uphill battle” to make positive changes with her fellow Democrats, she stated that her Republican colleagues “have a plan to fix California, and I want to be part of that.”

The state’s fourth Senate district is largely rural and was represented by a Republican since 1993 until Alvarado-Gil was elected in 2022.

“Since my first day in office, I have put the interests of my constituents first. I was elected to serve the public, not a political ideology,” Alvarado-Gil said.

“The status quo under a supermajority Democratic rule in the legislature is simply not working for this state,” the lawmaker said in a follow-up statement that the New York Post obtained.

Alvarado-Gil was welcomed into the California GOP with open arms, as the State Senate’s Republican caucus called her “Pragmatic. Fierce. Strong. Republican”:

“I look forward to continuing the work we do to secure a safe and prosperous California for all our constituents,” said the caucus’s chair, State Sen. Kelly Seyarto.

California Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones ® also celebrated Alvarado-Gil’s party switch, saying it “takes courage to stand up to the supermajority in California, and Marie has what it takes.”

“Her record on tackling crime, protecting communities from sexually violent predators, and prioritizing her constituents speaks for itself,” he added, continuing to say that Republicans need more “pragmatic” Democrats to join them:

The switch has gotten Republicans up to nine seats in California’s 40-member Senate.

Aliens Registered to Vote in November

Thousands of Noncitizen Registered Voters Discovered, Governor Says

On Wednesday, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order cementing election security protocols in the state, noting that since he took office Virginia has discovered and removed more than 6,000 noncitizen registered voters from voting rolls.

With the national presidential election less than 90 days away, the GOP is pushing for stricter voter regulations to safeguard election integrity. Voting in a federal election without citizenship is a federal crime that is punishable by imprisonment and fines. There is no significant evidence of widespread noncitizen voting.

After signing the order, Youngkin said, "The Virginia model for Election Security works. This isn't a Democrat or Republican issue, it's an American and Virginian issue. Every legal vote deserves to be counted without being watered down by illegal votes or inaccurate machines."

Executive Order 35 mandates a "documented chain of custody for paper ballots," the format in which all Virginians must cast their vote. Youngkin emphasized in the order, "Virginia does not use 'voting machines,' just paper ballot counting machines." The order also stipulates that those paper ballots must be retained by court clerks for 22 months.

In addition, absentee ballots "may not be counted until the last four digits of a voter's Social Security number and year of birth provided on the envelope are matched to the voter's record in the statewide voter registration system." The governor stated earlier in the order that Virginia is one of the few states that require "those registering to vote to provide their full 9-digit Social Security number for registration."

Vice President Hopeful is not a Brave Soldier but a Coward!?

Soldier Who Served Under Tim Walz Says He Knew of His Unit’s Upcoming Deployment to Iraq Before Retiring

A man who served in the military with Democrat vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says that Walz was aware his unit would deploy to Iraq before he decided to retire in 2005, despite some claiming he retired before knowing about the upcoming deployment.

Allan Bonnifield, who supports the governor, has told multiple reporters that Walz’s decision to retire weighed heavily on him because he knew his unit was going to deploy.

According to MPR News, Bonnifield, who met Walz in 1999, said in a 2018 interview that Walz debated focusing on a run for Congress or staying in the National Guard, knowing there was an upcoming deployment to Iraq.

MPR News reported:

“He weighed that decision to run for Congress very, very heavy,” Bonnifield said. “He loved the military, he loved the Guard, he loved the soldiers that he worked with, and making that decision was very tough for him. Especially knowing that we were going on another deployment to Iraq. He didn’t take that decision lightly at all.” [Emphasis added]

Bonnifield also told a News Nation reporter on Thursday that accusations that Walz retired to avoid a deployment were “bullshit” but then confirmed that Walz knew an upcoming deployment for the unit was an “inevitability”:

Bonnifield says the entire unit was convinced it was an inevitability that they WOULD be deployed to Iraq soon. They hadn’t been given the orders to deploy yet. But Bonnifield says they, Walz included, assumed it was coming:

“He told us that he wanted to run for Congress, and he was in a tough spot, because he was pretty sure we were going to Iraq. We didn’t have orders. We didn’t have any kind of orders at all. At this time, he was pretty sure we were going, and he was in a position that pretty sure meant we were going.”

Report: Mother of Soldier Killed in Iraq Says Tim Walz Took the ‘Coward’s Way Out’

The mother of a 19-year-old soldier who was killed on the Iraq deployment that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) was supposed to lead in 2006 expressed anger at Walz for taking the “coward’s way out.”

In an interview with the DailyMail.com on Thursday, Kathy Miller, mother of Kyle Miller, who was killed in Iraq on June 29, 2006 by a roadside bomb, said she will never trust him again, after he retired two months before the unit deployed.

“My son stepped up to the plate. All our sons stepped up,” she told the outlet. “My son wasn’t even 21 years old. He couldn’t even buy alcohol. Yet he took the step to serve our country, while Walz found the best way to run away.”

She added, “It was the coward’s way out.”

At the time, Walz was serving as the battalion’s top senior enlisted leader, which is a position in charge of the welfare of the enlisted troops under his command. It was an important role, as the unit prepared to head into war. Then, Iraq was an active battlefield, with troops facing the worst combat casualties since the Vietnam War.

While his supporters say Walz did not retire to avoid the deployment, they also acknowledge he knew of the upcoming deployment before he decided to retire.

A man named Allan Bonnifield told MPR News in 2018, “He weighed that decision to run for Congress very, very heavy. … He loved the military, he loved the Guard, he loved the soldiers that he worked with, and making that decision was very tough for him. Especially knowing that we were going on another deployment to Iraq. He didn’t take that decision lightly at all.”

Miller also blasted Walz for misrepresenting his rank when he retired.

Walz for decades has claimed to be a retired command sergeant major, which he was serving as at the time as the battalion’s top enlisted leader. However, he retired at the lower rank of master sergeant, or E-8, not a sergeant major, or E9.

Walz has also claimed to have been “in war,” and failed to correct people who identified him as an Afghanistan War veteran.

In a 2007 video clip recently resurfaced, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is heard thanking Walz for his service on the “battlefield.”

“I don’t think it’s fair that (Walz) takes credit when he didn’t step up to the plate,” Miller said, according to the DailyMail.com.

“Walz claims a rank he never earned. When he was called to serve and protect our country he didn’t,” she said. “‘To publicly present false prestige of his unearned rank, an inaccurate representation, is a falsehood of who he truly is.”

The DailyMail.com report provided heartbreaking details about her son, such as that before his death, he had recurring dreams of being blown up in an explosion in Iraq.

When he told a chaplain, the chaplain said someone else could go on operations instead, but Miller refused, saying he could not bear someone dying in his place.

The next day, Miller was killed after his convoy hit a roadside bomb. He died on the way to the hospital.

Comrad Tim Walz

Exclusive—Seamus Bruner: Seven Troubling Tim Walz Connections to Communist China

.Minnesota Governor and Vice-Presidential hopeful Tim Walz has an abnormal relationship with China.

“No matter how long I live, I will never be treated that well again…it was an excellent experience,” Walz said upon his return from the first of many trips there. Walz claims that his Chinese hosts lavished him with “more gifts than I could bring home.”

Walz and his supporters would like us to believe that his cozy ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are not unusual. In fact, he is “hawkish” and staunch critic of the CCP’s human rights abuses, his media allies say. The Chinese have an expression for the practice of providing cover for the communist regime while issuing the occasional muted critiques: it’s called “big help with a little bad mouth.”

As Breitbart News reported, Walz first visited China in 1989 under the auspices of a now-shuttered Harvard program called WorldTeach. Walz and became so enamored with the country that he and his wife honeymooned there after their marriage on June 4, 1994, the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Walz “wanted to have a [wedding anniversary] date he’ll always remember,” according to his wife.

The Walz newlyweds brought sixty students with them on their honeymoon, kicking off the first of many student exchange trips to the communist country. Walz and his wife set up a company, Education Travel Adventures Inc., to facilitate the trips to China. They ultimately ended up taking more than thirty trips there.

Walz’s last known trip to China was in 2015, but he continues to meet with communist officials and headline CCP-backed events. Walz’s deep and abiding ties to China—including multiple connections to CCP intelligence front organizations—present troubling national security questions about a potential Harris-Walz administration.

Later on the article lists 7 troubling issues:

1. The CCP approved and even subsidized Walz’s student exchanges.
   
2. A CCP diplomat and other CCP government officials attended Walz’s gubernatorial inauguration in January 2019.
   
3. The CCP Diplomat left the Walz inauguration to meet with Walz cronies at Minnesota’s premier globalist non-governmental organization (NGO), Minnesota Global.
   
4. Walz has close connections to a Twin Cities-based organization that houses an alleged secret CCP police station—one of only seven secret CCP police stations in the U.S.
   
5. Then-Congressman Walz praised a CCP-backed event that he attended with CCP diplomats in 2018.
   
6. Less than one year into his first gubernatorial term, Walz was an honored guest speaker at multiple CCP-backed influence operation events in 2019.
   
7. Walz has a long history of making outlandishly pro-CCP comments.
   

Bank Branches Closing

Major U.S. Banks Shuttered 33 Branches During 2-Week Period in July

Major U.S. banks including Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo collectively closed more than 30 locations during a two-week period in July, a Daily Mail report revealed.

From July 14 to July 28, 33 banks were shut down throughout multiple regions of the country, with Florida being the state with the most closures.

Bank of America axed 11 locations, followed by Chase and PNC which closed seven each.

Axiom Bank, Capitol, Citizens, Dollar Bank, Lemont, and Zions Bancorporation locations also went down across states including Ohio, Virginia, Texas, and Colorado.

Bank of America has become the national bank with the most location closures this year, with more than 100 branches shutting down in just eight months.

In a statement to the Daily Mail, a Bank of America representative explained that the financial institution has recently finished its three-year project to modernize their on-the-ground business structure.

“These shifts in our branch network reflect that, more and more, our clients are using digital banking for their everyday financial needs and coming into financial centers for more significant needs or to have conversations about their finances,” the spokesperson said, adding that many of the closures are the result of consolidating branches.

Bank of America still has 3,800 branches, the representative pointed out.

Wells Fargo also provided a statement to the outlet, saying the corporation has been combining “two older existing branches into one better situated location.”

“Doing so does not take away the importance of our customers and the communities we serve,” the spokesperson assured.

Andrew Murray, the lead data researcher at GOBankingRates, told the Daily Mail that Americans are moving away from brick-and-mortar banking institutions.

“The majority of Americans, from Gen Z to boomers, are in less need of a traditional bank, which may explain the rising number of physical branches that have been closing over the past year,” he explained.

Homeless Camp in Portland

VIDEO — ‘It’s Getting out of Hand’: Portland Neighbors Reach Boiling Point over Homeless Camp

The situation has reached a boiling point for neighbors of a homeless camp in Southeast Portland, Oregon.

KGW 8 reported Wednesday that the area on Southeast Knapp Street where RVs and tents line the roadway is considered dangerous due to backed-up traffic and drivers allegedly trying to run over the homeless.

A neighbor, Angie Toops, said the camp has worsened in the past few years, noting, “We have garbage and stuff impeding into the street, and it’s getting out of hand.”

Another resident, Nancy Shannon, said she feels deeply for the homeless living there and has called city officials numerous times about the situation to try and get help. According to Toops, no one from the city ever returns their calls, and it makes the neighbors feel “defeated.”

In July, another Southeast Portland resident who spoke with KATU said he does not believe officials “really give a damn” about the homeless situation:
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In June, Breitbart News reported that an analysis found that in the counties of Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas, local governments and nonprofit groups apparently spent $531 million for homeless interventions in 2023.

The outlet also noted that Portland city leaders bought 100 tiny home pods at $16,510 each for homeless people in the area.

One neighbor concerned about homeless vehicles lined up on Southeast 94th Avenue said his two children have seen drug deals from their home’s window.

“We have issues with human waste and drug paraphernalia in our yard, in our neighbor’s yard. Our kids can’t play out front. There’s a general level of danger pretty much at all times,” the man said. He also claimed some of the people living in the vehicles carry weapons, such as machetes and bats:
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Mexico's Lawsuit Against Gun Makers

Federal Judge Dismisses Majority of Mexico’s Lawsuit Against U.S. Gun Makers

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor dismissed the major portion of a lawsuit brought by Mexico against several American gun manufacturers and a wholesaler.

On August 4, 2021, Breitbart News reported the government of Mexico was suing six U.S. gun makers and one Boston-area wholesaler, claiming “massive damage” created by “unlawful trafficking” of firearms to cartel and criminal elements.

The Mexican Government’s suit opened with trafficking claims and named the six manufacturers and the wholesaler:

Plaintiff Estados Unidos Mexicanos (the “Government”), a sovereign nation, brings this action to put an end to the massive damage that the Defendants cause by actively facilitating the unlawful trafficking of their guns to drug cartels and other criminals in Mexico. Almost all guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico — 70% to 90% of them — were trafficked from the U.S. The Defendants include the six U.S.-based manufacturers whose guns are most often recovered in Mexico — Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Century Arms, Colt, Glock, and Ruger. Another manufacturer defendant is Barrett, whose .50 caliber sniper rifle is a weapon of war prized by the drug cartels. The remaining defendant — Interstate Arms — is a Boston-area wholesaler through which all but one of the defendant manufacturers sell their guns for re-sale to gun dealers throughout the U.S.

The number of entities being sued eventually reached eight in total.

A district court judge decided against Mexico in September 2022, saying that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) shields U.S. gun manufacturers from such suits. However, Mexico appealed the ruling, and CNN noted that a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled “that Mexico’s complaint plausibly alleges a type of claim that is statutorily exempt from the PLCAA’s general prohibition.”

The BBC reported that “Smith & Wesson Brands and Witmer Public Safety Group remain defendants following the judge’s ruling.”

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has been leading a charge among state AGs to seek Supreme Court intervention in the case against American gun makers.

Following Wednesday’s dismissal, Knudson told Breitbart News, “I’m glad the District Court agreed with us. The Mexican government cannot weaponize U.S. courts in an attempt to deflect from Mexico’s own failed policies. Perhaps now Mexican leadership can focus on the real problems: drug cartels and rampant government corruption.”

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Ukraine on Tim Walz

Ukrainian State Media Cheerlead for Tim Walz amid Stolen Valor Accusations

Ukraine’s state-run Ukrinform news service on Wednesday reported that Ukrainians who live in Minnesota are pleased with the “firm pro-Ukrainian stance” of Gov. Tim Walz (D), who is currently embroiled in a scandal due to exaggerating his military service for political gain after being tapped as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate.

Ukrinform’s article was built around an interview with Luda Anastazievsky, who chairs the Ukrainian American Advocacy Committee of Minnesota. Anastazievsky said she met Walz at a rally in St. Paul shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and was favorably impressed by his words of devotion to the Ukrainian community.

“Without Ukrainian residents of Minnesota, there is no Minnesota, and today we are all Ukrainians,” she recalled Walz saying.

Anastazievsky went on to testify before the Minnesota legislature in support of a bill that banned state investments in Russia and its ally Belarus. The bill passed and Walz subsequently ordered Minnesota agencies to terminate their contracts with Russian entities.

“Walz then raised the Ukrainian flag over his residence as a sign of support for Ukraine,” Ukrinform interjected.

Anastazievsky saluted Walz as a “strong supporter of Ukraine” and claimed his true strength is “that he can find, as they say, a middle ground, an opportunity to negotiate with both sides.”

Harris’ opponent, former President Donald Trump, has been skeptical of heavy funding for the Ukraine war. Trump has also expressed confidence he can end the war through negotiations, even before he takes office – a pledge he made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July and repeated in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Thursday.

Russia Invaded Ukraine, Now Ukrainians Returned the Favor

Russia Declares Emergency in Region Invaded by Ukraine as Zelensky Says Russia Needs to ‘Feel’ War

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared on Thursday that Russia “should feel what it has done to his country,” apparently obliquely referencing an ongoing reported invasion of Russian territory by Ukrainian troops that began this week.

The Russian government claimed on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces entered Kursk Oblast, a previously uncontested Russian territory, and began expanding attacks into towns near the Ukrainian border. On Friday, the Russian government declared a “federal-level” state of emergency in Kursk and announced a robust military reinforcement of the region to respond to the new Ukrainian operation.

Zelensky himself has not directly addressed the reports of Ukrainian military activity in Kursk. In remarks published by the state outlet Ukrinform on Thursday, however, he reiterated that the war “was not our choice” and that Russia must “feel what it has done” to his country.

“Ukrainians know how to achieve their goals. And achieving the goals at war was not our choice. Russia brought the war to our land, and it should feel what it has done,” Zelensky said. “We strive to achieve our goals as soon as possible in peacetime – under just peace conditions. And it will happen.”

Zelensky’s comments have been widely interpreted to be a reference to the decision to move troops into Kursk, forcing Russia to redirect attention away from the Ukrainian territories it has colonized.

Elsewhere on Thursday, Zelensky said that he had received an update from his top military commander, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskiy, and celebrated the developments of the past week as “exactly what our country needs.”

While Zelensky has not directly referred to Kursk, one of his top advisers, Mykhaylo Podolyak, posted a message on Twitter on Thursday expressing appreciation to the international community for not condemning the incursion.

“Absolutely calm, balanced, objective, and based on an understanding of the spirit of international law and the principles of defensive warfare – this is the international response to the events in the Kursk region of the Rf [Russian Federation],” Podolyak wrote, adding that “a significant part of the global community considers Rf a legitimate target for any operations and types of weapons.”

The Russian government has been in irregular combat with Ukraine for more than a decade following the illegal colonization of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014 but formally announced a “special operation” into Ukraine in February 2022, allegedly to “de-Nazify” the country by overthrowing Zelensky. Efforts to topple the government have failed, but Russia has greatly expanded its presence on Ukrainian territory and “annexed” four more regions of the country in September 2022: Donetsk and Luhansk, which collectively form the Donbas region, and Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

Zelensky appeared to apply the same playbook in January, signing a decree that identified parts of Russia previously uncontested as “historically inhabited by Ukrainians.” The decree identified six oblasts, or Russian state-level divisions, as “historically” Ukrainian, including Kursk.

American Rapper Arrested in Paris

Rapper Travis Scott Arrested in Paris for Alleged Assault

US rapper Travis Scott was arrested early Friday over a fight at a five-star hotel in the French capital, prosecutors said.

“Policemen were called to the Georges V hotel and arrested Travis Scott for violence against a security agent. The latter had intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

It was not immediately clear if the 33-year-old singer was being detained.

Scott was seen attending the Olympics men’s basketball semi-finals on Thursday evening.

The music star, whose real name is Jacques Bermon Webster, was arrested in Miami Beach in June for trespassing and disorderly intoxication, records showed.

Scott’s “Utopia” was a nominee for best rap album at this year’s Grammy Awards.

Other endeavours include merchandising deals with Nike, video game maker Epic Games and McDonald’s fast food.

Scott has two children with social media giant and business mogul Kylie Jenner.

A Terrorist Act That Never Took Place

Narrowly Averted: Taylor Swift Terror Plotter Pictured, Confesses to Officers in Interrogation

The prime suspect in bomb plot to kill Taylor Swift fans at a concert in Vienna “today or tomorrow” has been revealed, and has made a full confession to police, the Austrian state says.

Two migrant-heritage teenagers are in custody in Austria after a series of Taylor Swift concerts at a Vienna city stadium were cancelled at the last moment, having been meant to have gone ahead tonight and the next two nights. Some 60,000 ticket holders and up to 200,000 fans in total were expected to attend over the three nights, given the large numbers expected to arrive without a ticket but in hope of getting one.

It is these groups of non-ticket holders who were expected to congregate outside the Happel stadium in Vienna that were to be the targets of the alleged attack, it is stated. “Functional explosives” and machetes were found when officers raided properties, it is stated.

19-year-old ‘Beran A.’ [pictured top, right], his full identity strictly protected in line with Austrian law on anonymity before conviction, was revealed at a government press conference on Thursday. He was born in Ternitz, Austria but is of Macedonian heritage. Beran was said to have recently quit his job stating he had “big plans”, and recently adopted a new name of “Mo” — Mohammed — while changing his appearance to take on a more stereotypically Islamist mien.

Beran A. has made a “full confession”, Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said. The politician said the security situation “was serious… is serious” but nevertheless stated “Our state security is working!”, reports the nation’s best-selling newspaper Kronen Zeitung.

Also arrested was an as-of-yet unnamed 17-year-old of Turkish-Croatian heritage, allegedly a co-conspirator, who was employed at the Happel stadium where the attack was said to be planned to take place. He has not made a confession. A report in the Kurier newspaper states the company employing the 17-year-old was contracted to provide “cleaning and security” services to the stadium, although what role he performed was not revealed.

Police have also questioned a 15-year-old, but there is no definite indication of involvement yet.

Head of the Austrian secret service Omar Haijawi-Pirchner said of the plan of the confessed would-be Islamist terrorist: “His goal was to kill himself and a large crowd of people today or tomorrow”. Beran A. “has clearly been radicalized and thinks it is right to kill ‘infidels”, Haijawi-Pirchner stated.

The spy chief said it was certain the attack was going to use explosives and bladed weapons, and that it was possible it could have been started by driving a vehicle into crowds first, like many other terror attacks in Europe in the past decade, but that has yet to be conclusively proven. Nevertheless, the press conference stated when officers raided properties associated with the suspects, “functional explosives” and machetes were discovered, as well as hydrogen peroxide, knives, anabolic steroids, blank-firing ammunition, and counterfeit money.

A Peace Rally Inspires Politician to Call for "Cutting All Their Throats"

London ‘Peace’ Rally Marred by ‘Cut All Their Throats’ Rhetoric, Labour Politician Suspended

British legacy media came together to celebrate an evening of left-wing activists turning out across the country to confront a “far-right” that didn’t seem to meaningfully exist, but one of the largest rallies, billed as “preaching a message of peace”, saw one of its speakers shout a call to kill.

An activist said to have been identified as Labour Party politician Councillor Ricky Jones has been suspended by the party after apparently calling for political opponents to have their throat cuts at a left-wing rally in London on Wednesday night. The development has somewhat dented the establishment media narrative that the evening had seen a flowering of brotherly and open-minded feeling across England, in defiance of days of riots.

Hundreds of people gathered in Walthamstow, East London, on Wednesday night after the government claimed it was bracing for “100 riots” across England and Wales, with police reportedly calling the intelligence “a credible picture”. What actually happened nationwide and why remains contested, but like an earlier “far-right” protest in Birmingham which seemed to have been a fake and which only resulted in a group of journalists being intimidated by the “Muslim” counter-protesters, the alarmism over a huge surge in protests appears to have either been seriously mistaken, or an outright hoax.

Who would be faking the existence of right-wing protests and why remains and open question at the time of publication.

While enthusiastic media coverage praised the broadly unopposed counter-rallies as “preaching a message of peace”, easily geo-located footage captured at one meeting by an independent journalist showed a dark side to events, with an organiser handing the microphone to a self-professed trade unionist who went on to call for the killing of their political enemies while making the motion of drawing his finger across his neck.

The activist was later said to have been identified to be Labour politician Councillor Ricky Jones and suspended by the party.

In the footage, a woman wearing a ‘Stand up to Racism’ organisation vest introduced a speaker from the transport worker’s union TSSA, handing him the microphone. Making claims about right-wing extremists planting razor blades on trains to hurt staff and the public, the man said to be Jones shouted: “these people don’t give a shit about who they hurt… they are disgusting, nasty fascists. We need to cut all their throats, and get rid of them all”, before leading a chant of “free free Palestine”.

The crowd enthusiastically cheered and applauded the speaker after he called to cut the throats of their enemies, and a woman wearing a tabard identical to the official garments used by Amnesty International UK activists stood next to the speaker smiled happily. Nevertheless, at least one person at the rally had the presence of mind to realise the speaker had said the quiet part out loud, with who appeared to be the rally convenor — the woman controlling the microphone — immediately pulling a panicked face before bursting into awkward laughter at the remark.

 And why did the organizers of a "peaceful" protest think that a bloodthirsty guy should ever address the crowd?

Labour Politician Arrested for Purportedly Shouting ‘Cut All Their Throats’ at ‘Peace’ Rally

A now-suspended Labour Party councillor who allegedly called for the throats of right-wing activists to be cut has been charged with encouraging violent disorder.

57-year-old Ricky Jones has been arrested and charged with with one count of encouraging violent disorder, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. The arrest follows the publication of footage purportedly recorded at a “message of peace” rally held by left-wing activists in Walthamstow on Wednesday, where a man appeared to make a “gesture to encourage others to act violently towards far-right protestors.”

A man introduced to the crowd as a trade unionist and handed the microphone by the protest convenor told those present about information he’d received from railway industry colleagues alleging the placement of razor-blades on trains to cause injury to staff and the public. Responding to this news, the man was recorded to have said: “…these people don’t give a shit about who they hurt… they are disgusting, nasty fascists. We need to cut all their throats, and get rid of them all”, while making a gesture of drawing his finger across his throat.

Subsequently, the Labour Party said they had withdrawn the whip from one of their elected politicians, a Kent Councillor, named as Ricky Jones. The party said then: “This behaviour is completely unacceptable and it will not be tolerated. The councillor has been suspended from the party.”

The Metropolitan Police said on Friday that following the arrest, Jones had appeared in court this afternoon and was remanded in custody pending his next appearance, scheduled to be at Inner London Crown Court on September 6th.

Former Scottish First Minister Wants to Leave UK

Oh No! Anyway… Ex-Scottish Leader Humza Yousaf Threatens to Leave UK over Migration Riots

Failed left-wing politician and former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has said that he is considering leaving the United Kingdom with his family as a result of the anti-mass migration riots that have erupted over the past week in Britain.

Humza Yousaf, a member of the far-left Scottish National Party (SNP) and who served as Scotland’s first minister, said that he has questioned if his family can have “an existence” in the UK. Unrest and violence broke out last week in response to the mass stabbing at a children’s ‘Taylor Swift’ dance party last week in Southport, which left three young girls dead and several others seriously injured.

Despite no riots occurring in Scotland so far, the Member of the Scottish Parliament told The News Agents podcast: “It is a strange feeling when your very sense of belonging is questioned.

“I’m about as Scottish as they come. Born in Scotland, raised in Scotland, educated in Scotland, just welcomed my third child here in Scotland, was the leader of the Scottish Government for just over a year.”

“But the truth of the matter is, I don’t know whether the future for me and my wife and my three children is going to be here in Scotland or the United Kingdom, or indeed in Europe and the West, because I have, for some time, really worried about the rise of Islamophobia.”

Yousaf went on to claim that as a child, he had been critical of his father for maintaining his Pakistani citizenship after moving to the UK over supposed concerns about perhaps needing to flee the country back to his homeland, but now he no longer considers it a “ridiculous suggestion.”

The former Scottish first minister, a role similar to that of governor in the United States, maintained that it is not his preference to leave the country, which he hailed for having a “strong history and heritage of multiculturalism,” citing his own time as an elected leader as well as the elevation of former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and current London Mayor Sadiq Khan.