The UK Green Party’s Mothin Ali had just been elected to Leeds City Council in the Gipton and Harehills ward, when he punched his fist in the air and yelled out: ‘Allahu Akbar!’ Draped in a Palestinian keffiyeh, he told his supporters in his victory speech on Friday: ‘We will raise the voice of Gaza. We will raise the voice of Palestine!’
As May takes hold, the crisis brewing inside America’s political system shows no signs of abating; if anything, recent events have only confirmed how serious things have become. On May Day itself, the police moved in to quash the occupation at Columbia University in New York. Many miles from there, on the other side of the continent, their peers helplessly watched on as counter-protestors at UCLA set off fireworks and attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment.
Pennsylvania pastor survives attempted shooting during service
A Pennsylvania pastor survived a shooting in the middle of his Sunday sermon when the attacker’s gun jammed, giving congregants time to subdue him.
Footage of the attack shows pastor Glenn Germany diving behind his lectern after a man approaches, raises his arm and aims a gun at Mr Germany.
Police identified the gunman as 26-year-old Bernard Polite.
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” that the Department of Justice should investigate “right-wing organizations” who supported former President Donald Trump “training up in the hill” for a civil war.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has said the operation in Rafah will go ahead and that a ceasefire proposal agreed to by Hamas does not meet Israel’s demands.
Hamas had earlier announced that it accepted the terms of a ceasefire deal in Gaza. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader, called Qatar’s prime minister and Egypt’s intelligence chief to inform mediators that the group accepted the ceasefire terms, Hamas said in a statement.
At a time when troubled electric vehicle startup Fisker is looking for a life raft to stay afloat in 2024, the company hired to build its Ocean crossover doesn’t seem terribly optimistic about its prospects.
Magna International, the contract auto manufacturer that builds the Fisker Ocean, doesn’t expect to build the electric crossover anymore this year. During a recent earnings call, CEO Swami Kotagiri revealed that Magna had to adjust its outlook for 2024 after “assuming no additional Fisker Ocean production and lower sales on program delays and mix.”
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA — When Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered her budget speech last month, she gave a nod to the workers on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, a $34-billion, government-owned project more than a decade in the making that, after multiple cost overruns and delays, will this month finally begin carrying Alberta oil to the West Coast.
Freeland used the opportunity to take a shot at those who, she said, think government only stands in the way of development.
Man films himself pouring milk over Just Stop Oil activists pic.twitter.com/aC9Au1oxrl
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) May 6, 2024
MONTREAL – The company building a major plant for electric vehicle batteries in Quebec says “homemade bombs” were found this morning at the construction site east of Montreal.
Paolo Cerruti, co-founder of Swedish manufacturer Northvolt, says company employees discovered bombs had been placed over the weekend under machinery “with clear intent to harm our workers.”
He says the triggering devices did not work and the company contacted police.
ICE Fans or Eco Nutters who know EV’s are not environmentally friendly?
Incredibly strong, brave, and probably starving, this young person at Princeton has gone on a hunger strike.
This action will deliver world peace. Won’t you give up eating in solidarity? pic.twitter.com/eMR9c2Zc3l
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 5, 2024
TORONTO – Ontario Premier Doug Ford says encampments set up on university campuses by pro-Palestinian protesters “need to move.”
Ford says he’s getting messages from parents expressing concerns that their kids will be harassed or bullied because of the encampments, which have cropped up on several campuses in recent weeks.
The premier says some of what he’s seen and heard about the protests is “unacceptable,” and universities need to “move them on.”
Watch to the end 😂😂😂 https://t.co/MVvkVF7CW3
— Esme Vee (big dragon energy) (@esme_saysno) May 6, 2024
A Wednesday CBS News report informed us that President Biden and his crew were considering flying an unknown number of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the U.S. to be resettled here as refugees.
Such an astoundingly bad idea could only come from Old Joe’s kakistocracy.
Imagine the reaction in a NATO state if their soldiers were sent to fight for a country whose own young men are too feckless to take up arms against their invader
Emmanuel Macron warned recently that Europe is in “mortal danger.” The French president said that Russia cannot be allowed to win its war with Ukraine. He reiterated the idea he first floated in February of sending soldiers to Ukraine, saying: “I’m not ruling anything out, because we are facing someone who is not ruling anything out.” Macron’s comments come amid reports of an upsurge in draft dodgers in Ukraine. They are frightened because their government has launched a crackdown on men avoiding the draft.
Over 1,000 anti-Israel demonstrators marched through upper Manhattan towards the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the star-studded Met Gala is in full swing — but were quickly blocked from reaching the event by dozens of cops in riot gear who began making arrests.
The still-growing crowd was marching north on Fifth Avenue Monday night — blocking traffic along the way — before cops stopped them at the East 79th Street Transverse in Central Park.
#NOW ARRESTS after Police call LEVEL 3 MOBILIZATION as Pro-palestine protesters break through the barricades and are now facing off with the cops outside of #MetGala in NYC as part of 'DAY OF RAGE'
Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 Desk@freedomnews.tv to license pic.twitter.com/Z7AblcKB9l
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) May 6, 2024
