National and international media news & headlines compiled by CLG

Fire breaks out at nuclear plant after Ukrainian attack – governor –The Zaporozhye plant has been put into cold shutdown as a precaution while emergency workers fight to extinguish the blaze | 11 Aug 2024 | The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has caught fire after being shelled by Ukrainian forces, the governor of Russia’s Zaporozhye Region, Evgeny Balitsky, announced on Sunday. The fire is under control, the official added. The fire broke out following a Ukrainian attack on the nearby city of Energodar on Sunday and affected the plant’s cooling systems, Balitsky said in a statement. The plant’s six reactors were placed in a state of “cold shutdown” as a precaution, the governor continued, adding that there is “no threat of a steam explosion or other consequences.” “Emergency workers are working at the scene of the fire, and the sources of ignition have begun being eliminated,” Balitsky said. According to the governor, radiation levels around the plant are normal and “there is no threat” to people nearby.

Russian Military Repels Ukrainian Advances in Kursk, Destroys U.S.-Made Stryker Vehicles | 11 Aug 2024 | Russian forces have thwarted attempts by Ukrainian troops on armored vehicles to penetrate deeper into the Kursk region during the day, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Sunday. “Throughout the day, actions by forces of Battlegroup Sever and the reserves that arrived, along with strikes from army aviation and unmanned aerial vehicles, and artillery fire in the areas of the settlements of Tolpino, Zhuravli, and Obshchy Kolodez prevented breakthrough attempts by mobile enemy groups on armored vehicles into Russian territory,” the statement said. “Four armored personnel carriers were destroyed, including three U.S.-made Stryker vehicles, seven armored combat vehicles, and two cars,” the Russian Ministry of Defense noted. Russian forces also launched missile and artillery strikes on concentrations of Ukrainian personnel and equipment in the Kursk region.

UK police commissioner threatens to extradite, jail U.S. citizens over online posts: ‘We’ll come after you’ | 9 Aug 2024 | London’s Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the U.K., but on American citizens as well. “We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News. Riots have broken out across the United Kingdom in recent days over…a mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event that left three girls dead and others wounded. The murders, allegedly committed by a now 18-year-old British citizen born to Rwandan parents, sparked a series of violent protests that tapped into broader concerns about the scale of immigration in the U.K.

Eight cancer doctors ‘who dedicated their lives to saving others’ among the 62 passengers and crew dead on doomed Brazil flight that plunged from the sky and exploded in a fireball when they were on their way to conference | 10 Aug 2024 | Eight cancer doctors were among the 62 passengers and crew who died when a Brazilian airliner plunged dramatically from the sky and exploded in a fireball. Six leading oncologists and two resident medics, in their final year of training, were on their way from their home city of Cascavel to a cancer conference in Sao Paulo when the twin-engine turboprop ATR 72-500 VoePass Airline flight crashed into a gated community killing all on board on Friday. Eduardo Baptistella of the Regional Medical Council said: “Unfortunately, we received very sad news and were able to confirm the death of eight doctors. The doctors were going to an oncology conference. These were people who dedicated their lives to saving others.”

FBI raids NY home of ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter | 7 Aug 2024 | Ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter’s home in upstate New York was raided by the FBI as part of a federal investigation, Wednesday, officials said. An FBI spokeswoman confirmed to The Post that agents conducted a raid on the Delmar home as part of a federal investigation. She declined to comment further, citing the ongoing probe. Ritter, a convicted sex offender [in other words, he dared to take on the deep state], told reporters outside his Delmar home after the raid that the warrant focused on potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the Times Union reported. He recently had his passport seized by the US Department of State as he tried to fly to Russia for a conference — a brouhaha he contended in RT was a spiteful move against his pro-Russia stances.

Biden admits he was pushed out of presidential race, name-drops Pelosi in first interview since exit | 11 Aug 2024 | Joe Biden admitted he was pushed out of the presidential race by Democratic Party elites and specifically name-dropped former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as one of the perpetrators in his first TV interview since the tectonic news last month. Biden said that Dems in the House and Senate were worried that he’d drag down their chances of being reelected. He said he believed his reelection bid would face too many distractions if he carried on. “A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic — you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say [something]…and I thought it’d be a real distraction,” he told CBS News Sunday Morning.

Trump campaign says internal communications were hacked, including Vance ‘dossier,’ by foreign sources | 10 Aug 2024 | Former President Trump’s campaign confirmed to Fox News on Saturday that some of its internal communications were hacked. Liberal media outlet Politico had reached out to the campaign after the news outlet started receiving internal Trump documents. “These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” said Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign. Cheung noted that the hack allegedly by Iran came “after recent reports of an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump around the same time as the Butler, PA tragedy.” The documents sent to Politico included a “dossier” on Trump’s running mate JD Vance that dated back to February, the outlet said.

Liberal Jersey City mayor fires aide for backing MAGA sister’s campaign | 10 Aug 2024 | Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop axed an aide because the staffer refused to disavow his Republican sister during her controversial run for political office, the lefty Democrat said this week. Jonathan Gomez-Noriega sister is firebrand conservative Valentina Gomez, who sparked controversy on the run up to her failed bid Tuesday to become the GOP nominee for Missouri’s secretary of state, cursing in some campaign ads and in others, encouraging Americans not to be “weak and gay.” When Fulop learned Gomez-Noriega, an aide for six years, contributed an unspecified amount to his sister’s MAGA campaign, he demanded he renounce her online — and even directed Gomez-Noriega on what to say. But Gomez-Noriega refused, saying he was intent on supporting his sister. The final straw for Fulop came when Gomez-Noriega traveled to Missouri Monday to campaign for his sister. A Garden State GOP operative likened the firing “to the great purge in Mao’s China.”

Trump’s plane makes unscheduled landing en route to Montana rally because of ‘mechanical issues’ | 9 Aug 2024 | Former President Donald Trump’s plane suffered “mechanical issues” on Friday, forcing it to make an unscheduled landing in Montana, The Post has learned. Trump’s distinctive Boeing 757, nicknamed Trump Force One, was en route to Bozeman, where the Republican nominee for president will headline a campaign rally Friday night, when it was rerouted to Billings, about two hours to the east, at about 4:30 p.m. “His aircraft had mechanical issues, and he was diverted into the Billings-Logan Airport,” a spokesperson for the airport told The Post. “He’s continuing to Bozeman on a private jet,” they added. The nature of the mechanical issues are unclear.

Trump’s plane lands in Billings after reported mechanical issue | 9 Aug 2024 | The plane of former president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump landed in Billings, Montana at 2:29 p.m. on Friday. According to the Billings Airport, Trump’s plane landed in Billings after a mechanical issue. He took a private plane to the Bozeman area. Secret Service had to do a complete sweep of the airport here before that took place. An individual familiar with the situation told MTN that the second plane flew to the West Yellowstone Airport and landed around 4:00 p.m. Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Bozeman Friday evening with Trump slated to speak around 8:00 p.m. The rally will be at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman.

Fuming cop caught on video saying he told Secret Service days before to secure roof where Thomas Crooks opened fire at Trump: ‘I f–ing told them’ | 9 Aug 2024 | A police officer assigned to the Pennsylvania rally where former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated fumed to a fellow cop that he told the Secret Service to man the roof where the gunman opened fire, body camera footage shows. A fired-up Butler Township Police Department cop can be heard seething over the Secret Service’s decision to leave the roof unoccupied – just 130 yards from where Trump was speaking on July 13, according to footage published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. “I f–ing told them they need to post a guy f-king over here,” one cop is heard saying shortly after a shot rang out. “Who?” another officer asks. “The Secret Service,” the officer responds. “I told them that f–king Tuesday.”

FBI let suspect in plot to kill Trump into U.S. on parole despite terror ties, Iran trip, memos show | 8 Aug 2024 | The FBI allowed Asif Raza Merchant, the Pakistani man charged with plotting with Tehran to assassinate Donald Trump and others, to enter the U.S. in April with special permission known as “significant public benefit parole” even though he was flagged on a terrorism watchlist and recently traveled to Iran, according to government documents reviewed by Just the News. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed Merchant, fingerprinted him and inspected the contents of his electronic devices when he arrived at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston, but then let him leave with the special parole that expired on May 11, the memos state. Merchant wasn’t arrested until July 12, after a confidential human source ascertained he had tried to line up assassins and was planning to leave the United States, the FBI said.

Double standard? Tulsi Gabbard on watchlist while terror suspect let go to plan assassinations –The FBI allowed Asif Raza Merchant to enter the U.S. in April with special permission even though he was flagged on a terrorism watchlist while the TSA monitored former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard under a separate program. | 9 Aug 2024 | While the Biden regime placed former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on a watchlist, the FBI released into the U.S. on a special parole the Pakistani man who sought to plan an assassination of Donald Trump and other politicians. According to several whistleblowers, Gabbard — a military officer and former Hawaii congresswoman and presidential candidate — was placed on a watchlist under Quiet Skies, a TSA surveillance program designed to focus law enforcement resources on travelers that present an elevated risk to aviation security. Yet, while the government surveilled Gabbard, the FBI allowed Asif Raza Merchant to enter the U.S. in April with special permission known as “significant public benefit parole” even though he was flagged on a terrorism watchlist and recently traveled to Iran, according to government documents reviewed and reported on by Just the News. Merchant would later go on to organize an assassination plot targeting U.S. politicians, though he ended up trying to recruit undercover law enforcement as the hitmen leading to his arrest shortly before his attempt to leave the country.

Rep. Raskin Announces Plan to Deny Trump Presidency Using 14th Amendment, Prepare for ‘Civil War Conditions’ | 5 Aug 2024 | Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.) announced plans to prevent former President Donald Trump from taking office on January 20, 2025, if reelected by invoking the 14th Amendment. Raskin on Feb. 17 said Democrats must prepare for civil war and station bodyguards for all of them ahead of invoking the 14th Amendment to deny Trump the presidency, and blamed the Supreme Court for refusing to rule on whether the former president committed an “insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021. “They want to kick it to Congress, so it’s going to be up to us on January 6, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified and then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions,” Raskin said at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C… Now Raskin is proposing Congress exercise its constitutional authority to pass legislation declaring that Trump committed an “insurrection” on January 6, therefore disqualifying him from taking office under the 14th Amendment.

Michigan is pushing residents to report their neighbors to the government for spreading election ‘misinformation’ | 8 Aug 2024 | The state of Michigan is encouraging residents to report one another to authorities in a misguided attempt to stop the flow of so-called “election misinformation.” Michigan’s Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is behind the campaign, and a document from her office lists an email address people can use to report their neighbors. Residents are being instructed to keep an eye on those around them and report anything they see or hear that they believe is “misinformation” — and they are even being told to include an image if they can. An “Election Misinformation” document published by the state’s Bureau of Elections lists so-called threats to a “healthy democracy.” They claim that misinformation about voters’ rights and the election process could pose a serious threat to the security of elections.

KamaLawfare: Politicized FBI Executes Search Warrant on GOP Rep. Andy Ogles, Who Leads Impeachment of VP Harris | 6 Aug 2024 | The Tennessee Star learned the controversial and allegedly politicized FBI on Friday executed a search warrant at the Maury County, Tennessee, home of Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05). Ogles confirmed in a statement provided to The Star that the FBI executed a search warrant for his personal cell phone in an apparent investigation of his campaign filings. “It has been widely reported for months that my campaign made mistakes in our initial financial filings. We have worked diligently with attorneys and reporting experts to correct the errors and ensure compliance going forward,” stated Ogles, referencing amendments submitted over the course of this year to his earlier Federal Elections Commission (FEC) reports. “Last Friday, the FBI took possession of my cell phone,” Ogles confirmed… Ogles later posted the statement on X.

U.S. to send more military aid to Ukraine | 9 Aug 2024 | Washington will send Kiev another 125 million worth of missiles and ammunition, the Pentagon announced as fierce fighting continued in Russia’s Kursk Region. The U.S. Department of Defense noted on Friday that this was the 63rd batch of aid provided to Ukraine since August 2021 – six months prior to the launch of Russia’s military operation. …The U.S. will send Stinger anti-aircraft missiles; ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS); rounds for 155mm and 105mm artillery; Javelin, AT-4 and TOW anti-tank missiles; small-arms ammunition; and demolitions ordnance, the Pentagon said in a statement. The package also included multi-mission radars, Humvee ambulances, spare parts, services, training and transportation. Washington’s previous batch of military aid, worth 1.7 billion, was sent at the end of July.

NATO member to join genocide case against Israel | 7 July 2024 | Türkiye intends to formally join a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has announced, at a news conference in Cairo. The ICJ case was launched in December by South Africa, which accused the Jewish state of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Since then, over a dozen countries have announced their intention to join the case. The Hague court has yet to issue a final ruling, but has ordered Israel to refrain from any acts that could fall under the UN Genocide Convention. Fidan stressed that the Middle East can no longer tolerate Israel’s “provocations,” including its attacks on Lebanon and Iran, and accused the Jewish state of pursuing violence and “expansionism” while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aims “to set the entire region on fire.”

Gov. Tim Walz accused of ‘massive overreach’ as his COVID record is slammed by critics: ‘Complete and utter failure’ | 6 Aug 2024 | Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will have to defend draconian decisions and glaring errors he made as a state leader in the COVID pandemic after being selected by Kamala Harris on Tuesday as the 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate. Walz, 60, was one of several Democratic governors accused of “massive overreach” in wielding executive power to shutter schools, businesses, and churches during the [deep state’s lab-generated] pandemic. The Minnesota governor in 2020 even set up a hotline through which law enforcement received more than 10,000 emails from residents snitching on neighbors ignoring lockdown measures during that first year of the pandemic, Alpha News reported.

Trump edges ahead of Kamala Harris with surprising group in this deep blue state | 6 Aug 2024 | Donald Trump has taken a surprising lead among Jewish voters in deep blue New York, a new poll found. The Republican gained support from 50 percent of likely Jewish voters in the state, compared to 49 percent who opted for Kamala Harris, according to a Siena Research Institute poll. Harris’s results show a slip among the electorate group since Joe Biden stepped aside in the presidential race, who previously led Trump among New York’s Jewish population 52 percent to 46 percent in June.

Biden Admin Suggests Spending $78 Trillion to Achieve Net-Zero Global Carbon Emissions by 2050 | 6 Aug 2024 | U.S. Treasury Secretary [WEF lunatic] Janet Yellen said during a speech in Belem, Brazil, on Saturday that the price tag for a global transition to a low-carbon economy amounts to 78 trillion in financing through 2050. Yellen said that in order to achieve the goal of net-zero global carbon emissions, there would need to be 3 trillion globally in annual financing for the cause, which she said is a top priority for the Biden administration, according to the speech. In order to contribute to this, Yellen vowed to finance green initiatives in developing countries through multilateral development banks and develop “clean energy technologies.” “The transition will require no less than 3 trillion in new capital from many sources each year between now and 2050,” Yellen said during the speech.

Biden said he ‘cured the economy’ days before recession fears spark market selloff –Wall Street’s fear gauge is at a 4-year high | 5 Aug 2024 | Joe Biden claimed to have “cured the economy” last week, days before global stocks plummeted Monday. Biden made the comment while speaking to reporters outside the White House, saying the economy would be part of his legacy as president. “Mr. President [sic] What do you want your legacy for Gen Z to be?” a reporter asked. “That I cured the economy. And the environment. And a few other small things,” Biden responded. The comment quickly became the subject of ridicule online Monday when a global market meltdown caused Wall Street’s fear gauge to spike to the highest level in four years on Monday.

Calls grow for emergency interest rate cut by Fed as recession fears surge: ‘They’ve got to respond’ | 5 Aug 2024 | Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was urged to step in and cut interest rates as early as this week to soothe investor fears of a possible recession following last week’s disappointing jobs report and the massive stock market selloff on Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq were both down more than 1,000 points to start Monday’s trading session on Wall Street. The U.S. markets were reacting to the bloodbath in Japan, where the Nikkei fell by more than 12% — its worst one-day performance since the “Black Monday” crash of 1987.

Cori Bush loses primary in latest blow to progressive ‘squad’ | 6 Aug 2024 | Rep. Cori Bush (D) lost her primary in Missouri on Tuesday in the latest blow to the progressive “squad” on Capitol Hill, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Bush’s loss to St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell in the 1st Congressional District’s Democratic primary makes her the second member of the group to lose reelection after Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) earlier this year. Pro-Israel special interest groups spent the most on the race, with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the United Democracy Project (UDP), AIPAC’s super PAC, dropping some 9 million to defeat Bush, who has been critical of Israel’s war against the terrorist organization Hamas.