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The British people are celebrating the prime minister’s resignation, the former MP has told RT Outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has turned the UK into an “authoritarian hellhole,” with more people being jailed and arrested for social media posts than in any other country in the world, former MP George Galloway has told RT.Starmer announced on Monday that he would step down as prime minister and Labour Party leader by September, citing a widespread internal revolt against his leadership.Speaking to RT’s Rick Sanchez, Galloway, who was expelled from the Labour Party in 2003 for his vocal opposition to the…
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA) said that keeping the blockade of Iranian oil would have kept “choking out the economic lifeblood of the [IRGC]. That would put additional pressure on Iran. But I also realize the realities of this five-month window of leverage with the upcoming elections, the impacts on global oil prices.” Co-host Boris Sanchez asked, “Notably, Iran has only agreed to let them in, inspectors are not yet in the country. We don’t know what they’re going to have access to. And yet, today, the administration signed a 60-day waiver allowing Iran…
Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX climbed five percent on Tuesday morning after briefly falling below its $150 debut price following several losing sessions that erased investors gains over its first week trading. CNBC reports that Elon Musk’s space and AI company has experienced significant price swings, with shares dipping under their IPO price before later turning positive. The initial decline also pushed the company’s market capitalization below the $2 trillion threshold. The recent turbulence follows a dramatic sell-off on Monday, when SpaceX stock plummeted 16 percent, representing approximately $400 billion in lost market value. This steep drop came after consecutive…
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Michael Waltz said that some Iranian funds were unfrozen “to keep Iran at the table.” But they’ll buy American stuff with it. Host Laura Ingraham asked, [relevant exchange begins around 2:45] “Mr. Ambassador, a sticking point for a lot of people is point 11 of the MOU about the unfreezing of the funds for Iran. So, the wording says that funds would be unfrozen ‘upon the implementation‘ of the agreement. But then U.S. officials later said it’s kind of a pay for performance framework, they…
Still hurting over her crushing loss to President Donald Trump in the 2016 election, long-time election denier Hillary Clinton is bashing the Electoral College, which she is now calling an “abomination.” Clinton is seen ripping the way America has elected its presidents from the very beginning of the Republic in a new Netflix documentary entitled, The American Experiment. The former first lady, turned Secretary of State under Barack Obama, is still incensed over losing her 2016 bid for the White House to then first-time candidate Donald Trump, and it’s clear she thinks the 239-year-old Constitutional election system is illegitimate. In…
Shipping traffic transiting the disputed waters of the Strait of Hormuz continued to flow at a faster pace Monday than before the U.S.-Iran talks opened in Switzerland to end the war. The boost comes after reports surfaced Tehran had closed the vital waterway only for President Donald Trump to warn the Iranians, “You close it, and you won’t have a country. You won’t even make it back to your fucking country.” Clearly they heeded his blunt and very public caution even as they continued their negotiations. “The latest figures suggest a cautious but visible rebound in traffic following the MoU (memorandum of understanding…
LONDON (AP) – The estranged husband of former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was sentenced to five years and three months in prison on Tuesday for embezzling more than 400,000 pounds ($540,000) from the Scottish National Party to fund a luxury lifestyle when he was its chief executive. Peter Murrell, 61, admitted using party funds to buy a high-priced motorhome and two cars including a Jaguar. He also bought luxury goods such as Bremont watches and household items that included two toilet seats. He was given credit for time served. “All told, this was a calculated crime of dishonesty,” Judge…
An elite tactical unit was deployed to disarm an 82-year-old man after his wife called the police An 82-year-old retired craftsman opened fire on French gendarmes after declaring that a revolution was underway and insisting that President Emmanuel Macron had been deposed, local media have reported.The incident took place on Saturday, when the elderly man’s wife called police to report that her husband had taken a hunting rifle and gone into the garden, convinced that the French government had fallen.France’s elite GIGN police tactical unit was deployed to disarm the retiree. When five gendarmes arrived at the property near Nogent-le-Rotrou…
Google has invested $75 million into the movie studio A24 to develop AI filmmaking tools and new AI-powered technologies. The Wall Street Journal reported that the investment from Google will be tied to A24’s partnership with Thrive Capital, which will give the studio DeepMind’s researchers and technology. “We believe breakthroughs happen when you get technology into the hands of the best minds in the field,” Eli Collins, a vice president of product for DeepMind, told WSJ. Google will not have access to A24’s IP library to train its models. “The deal represents the latest marriage between a Hollywood studio and AI…
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – Police in Hungary have arrested a 30-year-old man who investigators say collected human body parts that he’d gathered from abandoned cemeteries and from his workplace at a hospital. Hungary’s National Bureau of Investigation arrested the man in Budapest on June 17 after receiving information that he’d been storing the body parts at work and at home. The man is employed as an orderly at a hospital, police said in a statement on Tuesday. During a search of the man’s apartment, investigators seized skulls, a complete lower leg and a hand, as well as a reconstruction of…