All posts by Alec Baldwin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Cancer Diagnosis
Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg has announced she is undergoing chemotherapy for the recurrance of cancer. She has told the press she has no plans to retire. The 87 year old judge is the most senior liberal judge to sit on the Supreme Court.
President Trump has appointed two judges to the court making a 5 to 4 conservative leaning.
“On May 19, I began a course of chemotherapy to treat a recurrence of cancer,” Ms Ginsburg said in her statement.
“The chemotherapy course… is yielding positive results,” she added. “My most recent scan on 7 July indicated [a] significant reduction of the liver lesions and no new disease.
“I am tolerating chemotherapy well and am encouraged by the success of my current treatment,” she said. “I will continue bi-weekly chemotherapy to keep my cancer at bay.”
Read More: BBC
Twitter Investigating High Profile Security Breach
Twitter is investigating a security breach which has seen many high profile celebrities have their profiles hacked. Elon Musk, Joe Biden, and Bill Gates were amongst the individuals who’s accounts were breached.
Posts trying to trick people into sending hackers the cryptocurrency Bitcoin were tweeted by the official accounts of Apple, Uber, Kanye West, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and many others on Wednesday.
“We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools,” Twitter said.
“They used this access to take control of many highly-visible… accounts,” the company said, adding that it was investigating “what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed.”
Read More: France 24
Ghislaine Maxwell Denied Bail in Sex Trafficking Case
Ghislaine Maxwell has been denied bail after being arrested on charges of sex trafficking and grooming minors. The British socialite is accused of procuring young girls for her intimate friend and lover Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein died in custody last year whilst awaiting trial.
Maxwell the well-connected daughter of the controversial media-mogul Robert Maxwell and introduced Epstein to many well-connected men like Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.
Some suggest that Epstein and Maxwell were part of a far wider sex trafficking network providing minors to wealthy individuals.
Read More: The Daily Mail
UN Investigation Says Killing of Soleimani “Unlawful”
A UN investigation into the killing of the Iranian General Soleimani in January was “unlawful” according to international law.
Agnes Callamard, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, stated in her report, which was to be submitted to the to the Human Rights Council on Thursday, “To the extent that evidence points to the U.S. and Iranian strikes being retaliations or reprisals, each would be unlawful.”
State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus asserted, “It takes a special kind of intellectual dishonesty to issue a report condemning the United States for acting in self-defense while whitewashing General Soleimani’s notorious past as one of the world’s deadliest terrorists. This tendentious and tedious report undermines human rights by giving a pass to terrorists and it proves once again why America was right to leave”
The report also saying the attack on Iraqi soil violated Iraq’s territorial integrity. However, the State Department argued that, “The strike in Iraq was necessary to achieve these purposes and, given its limited nature, proportionate to that aim,” The Wall Street Journal added.
The US has said they were acting on intelligence that said Soleimani was planning an attack on US diplomats and military personnel.
Read More : The Daily Wire
Debra Messing Says Kanye West Trying to Steal Black Voters from Biden
Actress Debra Messing has attracted criticism for saying Kayne West is trying to steal away black voters from Biden.
In a tweet from an account that has since been protected, @TheRickyDavila tweeted to Messing: “To be clear, Kanye West is a redhat [sic] wearing MAGA Lunatic, so if he’s wanting to run for the Presidency, it’s probably a plan between [T]rump and Kanye to strip whatever support they can away from Biden as a last ditch effort. That’s what I believe.”
Messing was in agreement and tweeted back, “Absolutely. He’s playing Jill Stein. He’s trying to take you g black voters from Biden. It’s disgusting.”
However, Nina Turner, national co-chair of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) presidential campaign responded to Messing with:
“You just can’t stop dipping can you [Debra Messing]? Your connotation is racist,” said Turner, who is black.
“1. Black voters are not owned by anyone,” she continued. “Our vote should be earned every election cycle. 2. We can think for ourselves & don’t need your help. 3. Sometimes it’s best to stay out of family business.”
This is not the first time Messing has been accused of racism. Last year she tweeted that any black Trump supporter must be suffering from a “mental illness”.
Read More: The Daily Wire
Don Lemon of CNN says Jesus Christ Not Prefect
In a discussion on his show with Chris Cuomo Don Lemon said that Jesus was not perfect when he was on earth:
“Jesus Christ, if that’s who you believe in, Jesus Christ, admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this earth….So why are we deifying the founders of this country, many of whom owned slaves?”
In his discussion about the founding fathers and slavery he argued that the founding fathers were imperfect, and owned slaves therefore why are they defied. He also seemed to be saying because the Christian founding fathers were imperfect then so was Jesus.
Responding the the comments Pastor Robert Jeffress, the pastor of 14,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, told Fox News, “Don Lemon’s comments are, first of all, heretical….and it contradicts the most basic tenet of the Christian faith and demonstrates how tone-deaf the left is to faith issues.”
Read More: Fox News
Supreme Court Rules Prosecutors Can See Trump’s Tax Returns
The Supreme Court has ruled that the President does not have total immunity whilst in office. This paves the way for his tax returns to be presented to a court. Prosecutors have sought gain access the years of Donald Trump’s tax returns to decide if there are any conflicts of interest. The President has said the case is a “witch hunt”
The case has now been sent to a lower court. The case does not mean however, that the public or Congress automatically have access to the documents. Although Nancy Pelosi is campaigning for this to happen.
As the case is sent back to a lower court the legal wrangling continue. And it is unlikely they will be resolved before the election.
Read More: BBC
President Trump’s Independence Day Speech from Mount Rushmore
Chinese Authorities Make First Arrests Over Security Law in Hong Kong
The Chines Authorities have made their first arrests in Hong Kong with the new security legislation.
Police used pepper stray against protesters in Hong Kong. A man was arrested for carrying a flag of independence and a woman for carrying a card with the same message and a British flag.
Over 180 protesters have been arrested for various violations from unlawful gatherings to possession of weapons.
In the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab accused China of having “chosen to break their promises to the people of Hong Kong and go against their obligations to the international community”.
He pledged the UK “will not turn our backs on the commitments we have made to the people of Hong Kong”
Read More: Sky News
Ocasio-Cortez: NYPD Budget Cuts Not Enough
New York Mayor De Blasio’s $1 Billion cuts to the NYPD budget has been blasted as not enough by New York Democrat Ocasio-Cortez. She has said that the cuts have been made by “budget tricks and funny math”. Adding that de-fund the police should mean de-fund the police.
Already New York has seen a spike in dangerous crime since the move to end the plain clothed crime-unit.
Read More: Breitbart
China Passes New Hong Kong Security Law Amind International Outrage
Beijing has passed the new security legislation for Hong Kong this Tuesday. The move has led to widespread condemnation in the West as well as in Japan and Taiwan.
The law criminalizes any attempts at succession- the breaking away of Hong Kong to form an independent country; subversion- the undermining of the government or authority; terrorism- using violence or intimidation against the police; and collusion with foreign or external forces.
Read More: France 24
BET Founder Robert Johnson Calls for $14 Trillion in Reparations
Billionaire Robert Johnston founder of Black Entertainment Television has called for white America to pay $14 Trillion dollars in slavery reparations to African Americans. He says this will close the economic inequality gap.
His proposal would see the 40 million African Americans in the US receiving $350,000 over 30 years (costing on average $2,900 per white household annually)
“You want a big idea: white America, what would happen if you said, ‘please forgive us and accept our apology. And by the way, we think we owe you what was taken from you for over 300 years of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and denial of economic opportunity and rights,” Johnson said.
“I think that would be a huge emotional assuaging of guilt.”
Read More: Fox News
Facebook Adds Labels in Wake of Major Advertisers Boycott
Unilever has joined the growing list of major companies boycotting the social media site. The companies are called on Facebook and other social media platforms, like Twitter, to be more proactive in removing content deemed harmful.
Unilever has said that they will stop advertising on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, at least through 2020. In a statement they said: “Continuing to advertise on these platforms at this time would not add value to people and society,” the maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, said.” We will revisit our current position if necessary.”
In response Facebook have announced they will add labels to posts that could be deemed harmful, but is also regarded newsworthy. They cited examples of a news piece that may directly quote a politician saying something that could be harmful, but taken in the context of a news article is regarded as news.
“A handful of times a year, we leave up content that would otherwise violate our policies if the public interest value outweighs the risk of harm,” Mark Zuckerberg said. “Often, seeing speech from politicians is in the public interest, and in the same way that news outlets will report what a politician says, we think people should generally be able to see it for themselves on our platforms.
“We will soon start labelling some of the content we leave up because it is deemed newsworthy, so people can know when this is the case,” he said.
Read More: BBC