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Vast protests against South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol have rocked the capital Seoul following his short-lived martial law declaration in December. But an image appearing to show a protest banner with an anti-Yoon message alongside a call for the arrest of his chief rival, opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, is manipulated. Multiple news reports featured the original picture, which showed a banner with a different message.”The expression may be rough but this is the next task for the people. This is what our people and judicial system will do,” read a Korean-language Facebook post shared on December…

A yearslong House Ethics Committee investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz found “substantial evidence” that the Florida Republican committed statutory rape, solicited prostitutes and used illegal drugs, according to a copy of the report obtained by POLITICO. The report’s most explosive allegation, which Gaetz has long denied, is that he had sex twice with a 17-year-old girl at a party in July 2017, when he was 35 and serving in the House. Ethics Committee investigators found that he later paid the girl — part of a trend laid out in the report of him paying women after sexual encounters. Gaetz…

EVANSTON, Ill. — Kenneth Wideman has lived in Evanston his entire life, in a neighborhood bordered by a canal and elevated railroad tracks called the 5th Ward.His parents moved there from South Carolina, part of an exodus of 6 million Black people fleeing the Jim Crow South over a 60-year period known as the Great Migration. By the time Wideman was born in the 1940s, Evanston was the state’s largest Black suburb, and 95% of the city’s Black population lived in the 5th Ward.The concentration of Black residents in that neighborhood, however, was no accident.The city began pushing Black residents…

AfD leader Alice Weidel has the support of 24% of those surveyed, the newspaper has reported The co-leader of the right-wing AfD (Alternative for Germany) party, Alice Weidel, is ahead of her rivals in the campaign to become the next chancellor, according to the latest survey conducted by the INSA polling institute for Bild.The results of the poll, published by the tabloid newspaper on Sunday, showed that Weidel has the support of 24% of respondents, putting her ahead of the leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, who received 20%.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who represents the Social Democratic…

Via Visayas Outpost,December 19, 2024By now I suspect you are all fully conditioned to recognize a Psyop. At least we can enjoy some benefit from the last four years of brain fog. The Drone Happening clearly checks all of the boxes on the BS meter, almost like they want you to notice. So good morning, Readers! I hope you are enjoying your best cuppa coffee.With the news and social media feeds going all berserker simultaneously, we are compelled to press on the mix-tape and give it a think. Nothing like a gajillion lock-step headlines and videos to raise the signal flag. I had been…

Matt Gaetz at Turning Point USA Congressman Matt Gaetz has floated the possibility of running for Marco Rubio’s vacated Senate seat. Despite comfortably winning re-election, Gaetz has confirmed he will not be taking up his seat in Congress, raising speculation as to what his next move will be. Addressing the Turning Point USA conference in Phoenix on Sunday, Gaetz said he may launch a bid for the seat after Rubio was selected as Donald Trump’s Secretary of State. “We have been asked which perch I will be fighting from next, and some of you throughout this conference have even given…

FC Barcelona star Raphinha took the blame for his team’s devastating loss to Atletico Madrid in … [+] Montjuic on Saturday.Getty Images FC Barcelona star Raphinha took the blame for his team’s devastating 2-1 loss to Atletico Madrid in Montjuic on Saturday. The two teams went into the top of the table clash even on points. Yet while Barca had suffered back-to-back home defeats to Leganes and Las Palmas, Atleti had won 11 straight regardless of the stadium and also boasted a game in hand. Barca took the lead through Pedri, yet succumbed to two second half strikes from Rodrigo…

By Tyler Durden Billionaire venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale is urging for a shift in U.S. military strategy, criticizing the costly, failed attempts to rebuild nations like Afghanistan while championing tech-driven solutions. Lonsdale, a co-founder of Palantir and investor in Anduril Industries, told podcast host Dave Rubin this week that he envisions a future where autonomous weaponized vessels, AI-powered drones, and microwave-based defense systems replace traditional combat, minimizing risk and maximizing efficiency. Lonsdale argued these innovations can protect American interests without spilling the blood of U.S. troops. .@JTLonsdale Predicts The Future of Warfare: AI Drone Swarms, Autonomous Vessels, and Microwave Weapons…

Police in Spain have made a breakthrough in a year-old missing persons cold case turned murder investigation thanks to incriminating images captured by a Google Street View camera. The Independent reports that images captured by a Google Street View camera car in the small Spanish town of Tajueco may have provided police with the decisive clue needed to solve the year-old disappearance of a 33-year-old Cuban man known only as JLPO. The chilling photos, which have gone viral online, show a man standing over what appears to be a body-shaped package in the trunk of a red car. The case had gone…

The team behind the memecoin HAWK, tied to internet celebrity Haliey “Hawk Tuah Girl” Welch, has been sued by a group of investors for alleged violations of securities laws. TheBlock reports that a lawsuit filed in a District Court of New York last week alleges that the memecoin HAWK, which gained popularity due to its association with viral internet personality Haliey “Hawk Tuah Girl” Welch, acted as an unregistered security and caused substantial financial damage to cryptocurrency investors. The lawsuit follows a massive drop in coin price that wiped out many people foolish enough to invest in her coin. The complaint,…