In Germany, the conservative AfD party (labeled right-wing extremists by German Intel) has won its biggest victory since the party was launched in 2013.  The movement has secured an election win in the state of Thuringia by a wide margin and a very close second in Saxony. The youth voted for the AfD. They are […] The post German Chancellor Scholz Becomes Dictator appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The U.S. Justice Department announced criminal charges Tuesday afternoon against six senior leaders in Hamas, an Iranian-backed terrorist organization based in Gaza, over their role in carrying out the October 7 massacre against U.S. and Israeli citizens last year. The six Hamas officials who were charged in the indictment include Ismail Haniyeh, chairman of Hamas’ Politburo; Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas; Mohammad Al-Masri, commander in chief of the al-Qassam Brigades; Marwan Issa, deputy commander of the al-Qassam Brigades; Khaled Meshaal, chairman of Hamas’ Politburo from approximately 2004 to 2017 and who is now the head of Hamas’ diaspora office; and Ali Baraka, 57, Hamas’ head of National Relations Abroad since approximately 2019. Of the six who were charged, three have been killed in recent months in response to the terrorist attack that they carried out. Those killed include Haniyeh, Al-Masri, and Issa. The Justice Department said all of the defendants “have orchestrated, overseen, and supported Hamas’s decades-long campaign of terrorism, including the October 7 Hamas Massacres.” The DOJ highlighted other acts of terrorism that the Palestinian terrorist group is responsible for, including suicide bombings of restaurants, markets, public transportation systems, and other public spaces. “As of the date of the complaint, over 40 American citizens were among those murdered, and at least eight American citizens were taken hostage or remain unaccounted for,” the statement said. “Most recently, Hamas executed a U.S. citizen who was taken hostage by Hamas during the October 7 Hamas Massacres and remained in captivity until he was murdered.” Prosecutors said that Hamas’ ability to carry out terrorist attacks is fueled by the Islamic Republic of Iran, “particularly the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its Qods Force (IRGC-QF) — the element of the IRGC responsible for conducting external terrorism operations and providing support to terrorist groups — which has supported, supplied, and trained Hamas, and by the Lebanon-based Shia Islamic terrorist organization Hezbollah.” “Hamas raises money to fund its terrorist activities through a variety of methods, including by soliciting and receiving cryptocurrency payments, advertising the ostensible anonymity of such transactions,” prosecutors said, noting that the terror group has raised tens of millions of dollars from supporters around the world, including in the U.S., who have knowingly given money to the group for the intent of financing terrorism. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Each of the defendants were charged with conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization resulting in death, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; conspiring to provide material support for acts of terrorism resulting in death, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; conspiring to murder U.S. nationals outside the United States, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; conspiring to bomb a place of public use resulting in death, which carries a maximum penalty of death or life in prison; conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction resulting in death, which carries a maximum penalty of death or life in prison; conspiring to finance terrorism, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison; and conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that the indictment was just one part of the U.S.’ efforts to hold Hamas accountable for its acts of terrorism.

Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh recently joined Megyn Kelly to discuss his upcoming film, “Am I Racist?,” including how he kept from laughing at the absurdity of the conversations he was having. Kelly began by asking Walsh about how he stayed in character for his 2022 smash hit documentary “What is a Woman?,” and again with this latest project, which has the podcast host speaking with people who are fully indoctrinated by DEI propaganda. Walsh said the question he gets asked a lot about the process of making these kinds of films is about how he keeps a straight face. “The truth is, stopping myself from laughing is pretty easy, it turns out, because when you’re actually in the room doing this and you’re in the room with these people in real time … it’s pretty intense. And these are really unpleasant people most of the time.” Walsh said looking back on these conversations may be humorous, but that “in the moment, it’s actually not all that funny” watching “grifters” trying to break down normal people. “It’s like this brainwashing session that you see in the movie that goes on over and over again,” he added. Kelly commended Walsh for putting “all the craziest DEI pushers” into a single film to show people what’s going on in this industry. “They hate America, and they really don’t much like white people,” she said. The pair next discussed Walsh’s disguise and how he didn’t need to go to great lengths to conceal his identity. The podcast host mentioned how it’s probably because most of the people he encountered exist in a bubble and don’t often associate with anyone who disagrees with them. “We’re using their arrogance and false sense of intellectual security against them…” @MattWalshBlog on how he exposes grifters brainwashing Americans in new movie, “Am I Racist?” Watch below, and subscribe:https://t.co/Y12z2uLeBJ pic.twitter.com/2cmzYiso40 — The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) September 3, 2024 Walsh said he and the film crew used the participants’ “arrogance and false sense of security” to secure interviews with a variety of race hustlers, including “White Fragility” author Robin D’Angelo. Next, Walsh spoke about the frivolity of getting a DEI certification card, which requires little effort yet is used by certain individuals to make themselves sound important. “It’s all completely made up and really all it’s about is showing ideological alignment with these race hustlers,” he said. During the same conversation, Kelly debuted a new clip from “Am I Racist?,” which involves Walsh speaking with anti-racist educator Kate Slater, who is proud of developing the “anti-racist road map.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. In the clip, Slater laments how her young daughter prefers “white princesses” when watching Disney movies. Walsh responded by saying his 3-year-old daughter’s favorite princess is Moana. But he points out a challenge with that, mentioning how he’s concerned his daughter would be guilty of “cultural appropriation” by dressing like Moana for Halloween. “Do I go and buy the Pacific Islander native attire for my white 3-year-old?” Walsh asked Slater, referring to it as “The Moana Problem.” “I wouldn’t. I f***ing wouldn’t,” she replied. “It’s almost like no matter which way you go, you end up back in racism,” he pointed out. Slater blamed the issue on “living in a white supremacist society.” “Is America an inherently racist country?” Walsh asked, to which Slater replied, “Fundamentally, yes, America is racist to its bones.” “Am I Racist?” will hit theaters on September 13. Fans can purchase tickets to a showing near them at amiracist.com.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said this week that he believes it is necessary to “fight fire with fire” against the Democratic Party as he warned that the party was “very evil.” Trump made the remarks in an interview that aired Tuesday with podcast host Lex Fridman while discussing how Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is “a Marxist.” Fridman sought to defend Harris, claiming that “a lot of people” don’t think that she is a communist, to which Trump said that she was “a Marxist” and so was her father. “There’s a lot of people that know the way government works and they say, well, none of those policies are going to actually come to reality,” Fridman claimed. “It’s just being used during the campaign to … Groceries are too expensive. We need them cheaper, so let’s talk about price controls. And that’s never going to come to reality.” Trump warned that price controls could absolutely “come to reality” as they have been used in the U.S. before. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. “Look, she came out with price control,” Trump said. “It’s been tried like 121 different times at different places over the years, and it’s never worked once. It leads to communism, it leads to socialism, it leads to having no food on the shelves, and it leads to tremendous inflation.” Trump said that he had no problem calling her a “communist” given all of the terms that Democrats label him with, saying that they call him “a lot worse” names. “It’s interesting though, they’ll call me something that’s terrible and then I’ll hit them back and they’ll say, ‘Isn’t it terrible what Trump said?'” Trump said. “I believe you have to fight fire with fire. I believe they’re very evil people. These are evil people. We have an enemy from the outside and we have an enemy from within. And in my opinion, the enemy from within are radical Left lunatics. And I think you have to fight back.”

HGTV star Erin Napier got sentimental in an Instagram post yesterday. She and her husband, Ben Napier, shared a sacred moment in all parent’s lives when their baby outgrows their crib. The couple took to social media to share the bittersweet milestone in a heartwarming post. Erin Napier’s Youngest Daughter Reaches Bittersweet Milestone The couple and cohosts of HGTV’s Home Town Takeover shared individual Instagram posts yesterday about their youngest daughter outgrowing her family crib. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Erin Napier (@erinapier) In her post, Erin shared how the crib came to be. She wrote in her caption: “Minutes after learning we were expecting Helen, in 2017, @scotsman.co started drawing the plans for her crib. He built it from white oak with one tiny plug of heart pine in the top rail that came from inside the wall of our house so his daughter would have a piece of home that belonged to her. Mae slept in it for the last time last night so here, we can remember it.” This is no ordinary crib. It was crafted with love by the hands of the girl’s father. Also with a piece of their actual home within the wood of the crib. Ben also got emotional in his Instagram post as well. Another Emotional Post View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ben Napier | Scotsman Co. (@scotsman.co) In his post, he focused on the passage of time. He recalls making the crib for his and Erin Napier’s first daughter, Helen. Then, he shared how, over seven years ago, as soon as he found out his wife was pregnant, he began work on the crib. Afterward, he shared all that had happened in the crib’s lifetime. “A little over 6 years ao, Helen moved out of her bassinet and into the white oak crib I had built.” He shares how Helen moved out of that crib a little over three years ago, and their younger daughter Mae moved in. Now, that crib stands empty. Ben wrote, “Last night was probably the last night one of my children will sleep in the crib I spent so much time working on.” While the moment is sad, it is also happy. Ben continues, “Mae is currently taking a nap in her big girl bed. It’s a beautiful antique cherry, Jenny Lind.” Although it is sad to see your baby grow out of such a loving gift, watching your child grow and move on to bigger and better things is a gift in itself. What Happens Now? Although the girls may be too big to sleep in the crib now, its job is not done. First, Erin Napier and her husband admit that the crib will live in Mae’s room just a bit longer, “In case she has some trouble with her big girl bed.” From there, Ben shared “The white oak crib will go into storage until my babies become mamas, then it will be used again.” It seems like this lovely crib gets a rest before it will once again bless the babies who sleep in it. He ends the post with a loving sentiment. “nothing makes you more aware of time than having children.” You can the source of this story’s featured image here. The post “Home Town Takeover” Host Erin Napier Gets Sentimental Over Youngest Daughter’s Major Milestone appeared first on InspireMore.

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Silicon Valley has traditionally been a reliable gold mine for the Democratic Party and progressive causes. But a rightward shift is occurring. The first fault lines popped up years ago with Elon Musk, but the shift has been accelerating in recent months, with several movers and shakers throwing their weight and wealth behind Donald Trump. Silicon Valley just isn’t as comfortable being a Democratic lapdog as it once was. Wealthy venture capitalists from hedge fund manager Bill Ackman to Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, the Winklevoss twins, David Sacks, Joe Lonsdale, Doug Leone, and many more are now off the reservation and openly stating support for Trump and opposition to Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party’s agenda for America. Silicon Valley titans want deregulation and a place for AI and exploratory technologies to thrive. Whether that’s an entirely positive or negative direction for the right to head in the future remains an open debate, but the point is that the tech shift to Trump isn’t just about emotions; it’s about business. Even Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is back with a new sun-kissed appearance and less woke outlook. Although he will not be backing anybody this election cycle, Zuckerberg recently admitted that Trump’s defiant, fist-raised reaction to almost getting killed in Pennsylvania was “one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life.” Is it just a coincidence that Meta recently removed its “misinformation tracking tool,” or could it be because Zuckerberg is tiring of the woke charade? Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss fiercely back cryptocurrency and gave $1 million each to Trump (although the donations were later refunded per campaign rules) while also funding a down-ballot attempt to unseat anti-crypto Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) in Massachusetts. They also want her “lapdog,” Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler, gone. Speaking at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville in late July, Trump promised just that if he’s re-elected. He also affirmed his strong support for cryptocurrency, which he previously said seemed like a “scam” in 2021. As Kamala Harris seeks more support in Silicon Valley and strengthens her existing ties, the growing support for Trump isn’t lost on anyone. Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, previously worked for Peter Thiel, who founded Mithril Capital, and reportedly invests in Thiel-supported AI defense technology at Anduril Industries. He also has significant amounts of his own money in tech stocks and cryptocurrency and is keenly interested in tech startups. Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Delian Asparouhov celebrated his selection as Trump's VP pick, praising the choice of putting a “former tech VC in the White House.” Vance’s selection certainly energized a groundswell of support in Silicon Valley and is part of the Ohio senator’s broader pro-tech efforts, including a donor organization named Rockbridge Network that he co-founded with Chris Buskirk to help finance conservative electoral victories across the country. With a budget of about $75 million for 2024, Rockbridge helps conservatives win elections with a PAC and a number of political groups, including get-out-the-vote efforts focused in battleground states and funding for investigative reporters. It includes leftist turned conservative Omeed Malik among its investors and is also reportedly backed by Thiel and Rebekah Mercer, according to Reuters. Despite being clearly left-leaning in many of its broadly shared views, Silicon Valley is a place of innovation and has a business-friendly mentality that doesn’t always mesh well with Democratic ideology. Tech businesses want taxes cut and their industry to thrive. But the majority of the sector is populated by socially liberal individuals of the sort who would be ashamed of and socially ostracized for admitting a conservative or rightist bone in their bodies. As Sacks tweeted of his dislike of Silicon Valley’s censorship culture: “Tech industry publication The Information just casually mentioning that being a Trump supporter used to get you pink-slipped in Silicon Valley. Because, you know, liberals are so tolerant.” Being on the receiving end of a healthy dose of liberal tolerance himself, Sacks has come out swinging against the word and belief police of the left. He’s also come out hard against VCs who back Kamala, saying they are “gaslighting” others in trying to sell such a terrible candidate to the tech industry. A growing number of Silicon Valley and tech sector bigwigs are simply tired of pretending to support the left just to be accepted by their peers. For his part, Lonsdale recently sounded off about the prospect of a Harris presidency, agreeing with a friend who found the Democratic National Convention full of “horrible people / policies” and calling Harris a “dangerous radical.” He urged Americans to “look to the UK & EU and what’s happening there,” adding that “the right direction is obvious.” Things have become rather personal for others such as Horowitz, who recently accused left-wing Sequoia Capital senior adviser Michael Moritz of using a new publication to try to destroy him through character assassination of Horowitz’s wife. “Michael Moritz is now having his fake disinformation ‘newspaper’ fabricate hit pieces on his business rival, me. And, he has chosen to attack my wife, Felicia.” Moritz has said Silicon Valley folks supporting Trump are “deluded” and has been feted on CNN and other media outlets for his pushback against the pro-Trump tech wave. Moritz has insisted that there is no real groundswell of support for Trump in Silicon Valley and that the “small number” of Trump-supporting techies are unimportant fools who have embraced an “authoritarian.” He insists that the few defectors in Silicon Valley have only entered the public’s attention and the media spotlight due to their ability to successfully garner attention and go viral on platforms like X. “I think they’ve been able to amplify their voice and their sentiments far beyond the reality of the particulars in Silicon Valley, which is heavily anti-Trump, as it has been for the last two elections,” Moritz commented in a recent interview, adding that in 2016 and 2020 in Silicon Valley, Trump “barely mustered 20% of the vote, and it’ll be the same result this time.” Dismissive attitudes like Moritz’s are part of the reason several influential tech titans are deciding to back Trump. They are tired of groupthink and tired of being offered only one choice to steer the ship of state. However, the shift toward Trump isn’t just about tech guys enjoying edgy jokes or getting tired of liberal word policing. It’s also about the bottom line: A decidedly Randian bent in Silicon Valley is turned off by many Democratic pitches, including a wealth tax that would harm their bottom line. Silicon Valley titans want deregulation and a place for AI and exploratory technologies to thrive. Whether that’s an entirely positive or negative direction for the right to head in the future remains an open debate, but the point is that the tech shift to Trump isn’t just about emotions; it’s about business. Whether or not Moritz thinks it makes a difference, Peter Thiel and (future Trump Cabinet member?) Elon Musk are at the crest of a very significant pro-Trump Silicon Valley wave.