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“Wow. The “Abandoned Landscapes” YouTube channel managed to smuggle a hidden camera inside an Antifa and Trantifa operations base in Manchester, England.
“The video provides an extremely rare look into the militants’ occupation of the huge Crossley House Youth Centre building. Every inch of the building inside has been vandalized and the space is used to radicalize those who join.”
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1924207986290950648
i see a bunch of kids from wealthy families in this video
they have everything they could want from their parents
they claim oppression while sipping on expensive coffees from
the fancy coffee shops
they wear brand new designer label clothes
they paid hair salons for that punk colored pink hair
they all have access to expensive colleges
they all drive nice cars
they arent going hungry
none of them are sleeping on park benches
they dont even make their own signs..
they paid someone to vandalize the interior of the building..
someone needs to find out who is paying them..
id find out names follow them..bet a lot live in rich neighborhoods
Full video of the visit to the Trans/Antifa hangout. Notice the Pali flags.
https://t.co/RZXcrPmLmv
Mr Producer
@RichSementa
Doctor Gupta Questions Why Prostate Test Was Given To Last 3 Presidents But Not Biden
Vin Gupta: “It is interesting to note that Presidents Trump, Obama, and Bush the second, in their most recent physicals in their terms of office… did comment on their PSA levels.”
https://rumble.com/v6tkuoh-doc-an
https://x.com/RichSementa/status/1924430927708463266
COVER-UP: Urologist Says Joe Biden Likely Knew He Had Prostate Cancer Going Back 5-10 Years (VIDEO)
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/cover-up-urologist-says-joe-biden-likely-knew/
May. 19, 2025 8:30 am
Urologist Dr. Shusterman on Sunday evening said it is “unheard of” for someone with Joe Biden’s Cadillac healthcare to not know he had prostate cancer before it metastasized and spread to his body.
On Sunday, it was reported that 82-year-old Joe Biden was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer.
According to Biden’s spox, the former president was diagnosed with prostate cancer last Friday with the cancer cells spreading to his bones.
“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,” the statement said.
“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” the statement said.
Medical professionals are sounding the alarm and saying there is no way Joe Biden was diagnosed with Gleason 9 and metastasis as his initial diagnosis.
Dr. Shusterman appeared on NewsNation on Sunday evening following Biden’s cancer announcement and he said the former president likely knew he had prostate cancer for the last 5-10 years.
Biden likely knew he had cancer while he was running for president in 2020 and lied about his health.
It appears White House physician Dr. O’Connor also repeatedly lied about Joe Biden’s health.
“It’s very unlikely that someone could get annual checkups and not notice,” Dr. Shusterman said.
“He is a former president, had intensive state of the art care.. It’s unusual to hear that someone has prostate cancer when they’re annually being followed up. The fact that we find it at a Gleason 9 is unheard of,” he said.
“Most likely had it for a long time.. Aggressive prostate cancer grows over a long period of time. Five to ten years.. in the most aggressive form,” the doctor said.
“Definitely evidence that he knew about this for a while,” he added.
Dr. Shusterman also said Biden was likely taking prostate cancer treatment Lupron which can cause fatigue and depression.
WATCH:
Urologist Dr. Shusterman says it’s “unheard of” for someone with Biden’s level of care to not know he had prostate cancer 5–10 years ago.
It was a full-on coverup:
“It’s very unlikely that someone could get annual checkups and not notice.”
“He is a former president, had… pic.twitter.com/L7tSGp9fPg
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 19, 2025
Joe Biden’s entire family knew he had cancer and that it had metastasized long before it was publicly announced.
Recall that Joe Biden’s brother, Frank Biden, raised eyebrows after he told CBS News that Biden’s declining health played a considerable role in his decision to drop out of the presidential race.
He suggested Joe Biden was terminally ill.
Frank Biden told CBS News that he wants Biden back to “enjoy whatever time we have left.”
Trending: President Trump Releases Statement on Biden Cancer Diagnosis
“I’m incredibly proud of my brother. Selfishly I will have him back to enjoy whatever time we have left,” Frank Biden told CBS News.
Frank Biden was smeared as an “alcoholic” after he suggested Joe Biden was terminal.
A Biden ‘family source’ immediately came out and threw Frank Biden under the bus after he said the quiet part out loud.
“Frank Biden suffers from alcoholism and hasn’t spoken to his brother in weeks. What he said…is completely untrue,” a source ‘close to the Biden family’ (probably Nurse Jill) told CBS News.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/cover-up-urologist-says-joe-biden-likely-knew/
Medical Expert Says Biden’s Diagnosis Indicates Stage 4 Prostate Cancer
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/medical-expert-says-bidens-diagnosis-indicates-stage-4/
May. 19, 2025 9:15 am
Credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr
The office of 82-year-old Joe Biden confirmed that the former president has been diagnosed with an “aggressive” and “very rare” form of prostate cancer — a diagnosis that top medical experts now say definitively places Biden at Stage 4.
The official statement, quietly released late Sunday morning, admits Biden has a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) — the second-highest rating on the prostate cancer scale — with metastasis to the bone, signaling that the cancer has already spread beyond the prostate and into Biden’s skeletal system.
“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,” the statement said.
But Dr. Alexander Kutikov, chair of the Department of Urology at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, clarified the situation with a blunt assessment on NBC10: this is Stage 4 cancer.
“The fact that the team has told us that the cancer has spread to the bone, stages it as a Stage 4 cancer,” Kutikov said.
Stage 4 prostate cancer, also known as metastatic prostate cancer, means the cancer has spread beyond the prostate gland to other parts of the body. This advanced stage is characterized by the presence of cancer cells in distant sites like the lymph nodes, bones, liver, or lungs.
According to Kutikov, only 5 to 8% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer have it already spread to other organs or bones. Biden’s high Gleason score of 9 — coupled with widespread metastasis — places him in an extremely rare and high-risk category.
“So, this is a very rare subtype, and a very rare scenario that the president is facing,” said Kutikov. “The majority of the cancers are very low-risk. In fact, about half of the prostate cancers that get treated in the United State don’t need to be treated immediately.”
Although Kutikov said Biden’s cancer is “manageable.”
“It’s manageable. This is not a situation, as some cancers are, where we’re fighting to keep someone with us through the next year. Treatment now is an investment for years from now and to make sure that the president is healthy and is with us.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/medical-expert-says-bidens-diagnosis-indicates-stage-4/
US Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protection for Venezuelans
Andrew Chung
Mon, May 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM CDT
4 min read
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court let Donald Trump’s administration on Monday strip temporary protected status from Venezuelans living in the United States that had been granted under his predecessor Joe Biden, as the Republican president moves to ramp up deportations as part of his hardline approach to immigration.
The court granted the Justice Department’s request to lift San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Edward Chen’s order that had halted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision to terminate the deportation protection conferred to Venezuelans under the temporary protected status, or TPS, program.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-supreme-court-lets-trump-163741727.html
Defensive Display Becomes Law in Oklahoma
Ammoland Inc. Posted on May 19, 2025 by Dean Weingarten
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On May 14, 2025, Governor J. Kevin Stitt signed Oklahoma HB 2818 into law. This type of law is known as a Defensive Display law. It codifies and clarifies actions that are allowed during the defense of self, others, and property while being armed. HB 2818 was passed by the House with a 73-16 vote on March 25, 2025. It passed the Senate 39-7 on May 8, 2025. The law took effect immediately. From oklegislature.gov:
4. For purposes of this subsection, “defensive display of a firearm” includes, but is not limited to:
a. verbally informing another person that the person possesses or has available a firearm or any other deadly weapon,
b. exposing or displaying a firearm or any other deadly weapon in a manner that a reasonable person would understand was meant to protect the person against the use or attempted use by another of unlawful physical or deadly force, or
c. placing the hand of the person on a firearm or any other deadly weapon while the firearm is contained in a pocket, purse, holster, sling scabbard, case or other means of containment or transport.
Texas has a defensive display law, Penal Section 9.04, which was last amended in 1993. Arizona passed a defensive display bill in 2009. The Florida defensive display, HB89, was signed into law in 2014.
Defensive display is a simple concept. If a person reasonably fears a potential opponent, a defense display allows them to inform the potential adversary they are armed, both verbally or by showing the potential adversary they have a weapon. Pointing the firearm at a potential adversary is usually reserved for circumstances that would allow the use of deadly force.
Some states have confusing statutes that make it legally dangerous to let an opponent and possible attacker know a person is armed. Some are quite severe. In Arizona, before the defensive display law was passed in 2009, showing a firearm could be prosecuted as an aggravated assault, a felony. Prosecutorial abuse of this statute led to the passage of the Arizona law.
As a practical matter, the display or reference to a firearm most commonly results in the aggressor stopping the aggression and leaving. These numbers are difficult to quantify, but appear to happen in about 90-95% of defensive uses of firearms. This is reasonable.
Once an aggressor knows they are facing an armed opponent who is aware of their intent, they stop the aggression. Criminals have often been recorded as saying they fear armed victims more than they fear police.
Professors James D. Wright and Peter Rossi surveyed 2,000 felons incarcerated in state prisons across the United States. Wright and Rossi reported that 34% of the felons said they personally had been “scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed victim”; 69% said that they knew at least one other criminal who had also; 34% said that when thinking about committing a crime they either “often” or “regularly” worried that they “[m]ight get shot at by the victim”; and 57% agreed with the statement, “Most criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police.” (James D. Wright & Peter H. Rossi, Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms [1986]. See Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence or Pandemic of Propaganda? by Don B. Kates, et. al. Originally published as 61 Tenn. L. Rev. 513-596 [1994]).
Making the most effective defensive use of firearms illegal is extremely dangerous for both suspects and victims. In states where the law is still ambiguous, prosecutors have enormous discretion.
HB2818 is a welcome reform of defense law in Oklahoma. The law protects defenders and makes the killing or wounding of a suspect less likely. States that do not have a defensive display law would do well to consider adopting HB2818 as a good example.
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/05/defensive-display-becomes-law-in-oklahoma/
What We Should Take Away from Palm Springs Bombing
By Tom Knighton | 8:29 AM | May 19, 2025
AP Photo/Eric Thayer
There are headlines that, on some level, seem like something that should happen somewhere else. Unfortunately, in this day and age, they happen here often enough that I probably need to get over that.
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The latest example of that is the bombing in Palm Springs, California.
I mean, a car bombing was always something we saw in the Middle East or even in Europe, not the United States.
Now, it’s come a-knocking on the streets of California.
One person was killed and at least four other people were injured after a vehicle exploded outside of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, on Saturday morning, in what the FBI called an “intentional act of terrorism.”
The blast shattered windows and rained debris for blocks.
“Make no mistake, this is an intentional act of terrorism,” Akil Davis, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, told reporters during a news conference Saturday evening. He said investigators believe the clinic was targeted.
So yes, this is domestic terrorism.
Of course, some parties jumped at the chance to blame this on right-wing extremists, trying to claim that the idiots didn’t know the difference between a fertility clinic and an abortion clinic; the reality here is that it was nothing of the sort.
The individual suspected of the bombing–the only fatality in the incident–wasn’t exactly on the right.
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Instead, he ascribed to a couple of extreme left-wing ideologies such as antinatalism–which claims that having children is unethical–and promortalism, which is an ideology that one should die as soon as possible.
A website reportedly left by the bomber shows up on Google with the title “F*** You Pro-Lifers!”
That doesn’t sound very right-wing at all.
Now, in fairness, this twerp doesn’t sound like he was overly stable before he found this nihilistic philosophy, either.
he father of the 25-year-old suspect believed by authorities to be behind the car bombing outside a fertility clinic has revealed his son’s troubling behavior as a child.
The American Reproductive Centers (ARC) clinic in Palm Springs, California, was severely damaged by the blast on Saturday morning, which injured four victims and killed suspected bomber Guy Edward Bartkus.
Bartkus was identified as the key suspect by the FBI on Sunday, and his estranged father, Richard Bartkus later spoke to the media about his son’s past, saying he’d once burned down the family home at age 9.
His dad describes him as “a follower who was easily influenced by others.”
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Those wounded appear to have minor injuries, thankfully.
Now, there’s going to be a lot of discussion about this going forward, and not without good reason. Some of it will be about the ideologies involved here, but we’re likely to stay out of a lot of it.
I will, however, point out that this guy didn’t use a gun. Bombs can kill just as many people, if not more, than firearms can. We saw that in Oklahoma City all those years ago. We already have explosive control that goes well beyond what the anti-gunners claim they want (at least for now).
What we saw was awful and had the potential to be so much worse. The issue here wasn’t a lack of laws, but a broken person whose entire ideological outlook involved a lack of respect for human life.
It was the person, not the laws–or, more accurately, the lack thereof–that led to this.
I can only hope some people wake up to this fact at some point.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/05/19/what-we-should-take-away-from-palm-springs-bombing-n1228632
“Pandemic Treaty”: WHO Dictator-General Ghebreyesus PHONES (!) Slovakian PM Fico to Kindly Ask Him to Betray His People and Humanity in General
https://slovakia.news-pravda.com/en/slovakia/2025/05/19/9574.html
Slovakia
19.05.2025, 17:32 CET
“R. FICO: PHONE CALL WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
A few minutes ago, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus phoned me and asked me to change the position of the Slovak government and not to demand a vote on the pandemic agreement, which is due to take place this evening.
I reiterated that the Slovak delegation is obliged by the instructions of the Slovak government to demand a vote on the pandemic treaty.
The Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic expresses surprise that there are efforts to avoid the basic democratic institution-voting. If the vote takes place, the Slovak delegation is instructed not to support the pandemic agreement, as it undermines the principle of sovereignty of the member states and disproportionately interferes with the sphere of human rights.”
I wonder if the Thug will make him an offer he can’t refuse.
(Richard: This is a must read for those who are doubting Trumps current actions, I don’t know what Trump is thinking [but I can make guesses] anymore the JE does. However she is a trained intel analyst and is explaining the military advantage of what Trumps is doing while explaining that he isn’t stabbing Israel in the back.)
Trumpschlacht debuts with vivid energy
Trump plays his own game.
An update is due on Trump’s pathbreaking movements in divers places over the past couple of weeks. As noted in the previous article on Trump and Qatar, the “Trump and Qatar” dynamic is coming in for heavy criticism. It isn’t my project to talk through what others are very competently treating from the complaints side, so I’ll confine this discussion, which I hope to keep abbreviated, to laying out more optimistic considerations.
The overall topic sits at the juncture of elements in diplomacy that we’ve all but forgotten how to talk about, after eighty years of what has essentially been stasis since World War II. The stasis has been characterized by international mechanisms enforced by U.S. dominance. Most Americans don’t even recognize today that the international mechanisms, including the UN and all its subsidiary bodies, were backed and instituted by the United States after the war, and have persisted in quiescent use because of our investment in them.
Take a moment to recall that we didn’t have to be dragged into the UN because of some momentum it had from other energies – momentum that was going to leave us behind. We started the blamed thing. It wouldn’t exist without us.
Indeed, if you actually read the UN Charter, you discover that its language says about member-states what Americans would say, about sovereignty, responsibility, order, and the prerogatives of nations. The U.S. wrote the Charter on principles that enabled us to be the body’s chief patron. It was later that the UN began wandering away from what Americans could approve.
I make this point to put thing in perspective, as a reminder that there has always been a putative center of the road as regards U.S. participation in international mechanisms, from UN agencies to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the World Trade Organization (WTO), which 30 years ago subsumed its forerunner the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to the NATO alliance, the ASEAN group, which organizes Southeast Asian nations as a trading bloc to negotiate with economic powerhouses like the United States, and international cooperative instruments like the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the UN Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and the Chemical Weapons Convention, or OPCW.
The U.S. has not only participated with a fairly stable legacy of national policies in these instruments of international “norms”; we’ve been
https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/trumpschlacht-debuts-with-vivid-energy/#more-10235