Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, who is battling deportation from New Zealand to the United States, said he’s recovering from a “serious stroke.” “I am recovering from a serious stroke. I have the best health professionals helping me to make a recovery. I will be back as soon as I can. Please be patient and pray for my family and I,” he said. UPDATE: I am recovering from a serious stroke. I have the best health professionals helping me to make a recovery. I will be back as soon as I can. Please be patient and pray for my family and I. — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) November 25, 2024 Dotcom’s lawyer, Ira Rothken, confirmed to the Associated Press that the statement is accurate. Dotcom faces an extradition order to the United States as U.S. authorities want to put him on trial for copyright infringement and money laundering. If convicted, he could face decades in prison. From the Associated Press: News of his ill health comes during a protracted battle by the U.S. government to extradite the Finnish-German millionaire to the United States from New Zealand to face charges of copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering. In August, New Zealand ’s justice minister announced that Dotcom should be surrendered to the United States to face trial, a ruling intended to cap a 12-year legal battle. A date for the extradition was not set, and Paul Goldsmith, the minister, said Dotcom would be allowed “a short period of time to consider and take advice” on the decision. Rothken at the time wrote on X that Dotcom intended to challenge the order in court through a judicial review, in which a judge is asked to evaluate whether an official’s decision was reached correctly. The saga stretches to the 2012 arrest of Dotcom in a dramatic raid on his Auckland mansion, along with other company officers. Prosecutors said the once wildly popular Megaupload raked in at least $175 million — mainly from people who used the site to illegally download songs, television shows and movies — before the FBI shut it down earlier that year. “Don’t worry I have a plan,” Dotcom previously said. Oops Don’t worry I have a plan pic.twitter.com/1ow9drHcfv — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) August 15, 2024 “I love New Zealand. I’m not leaving,” he added. I love New Zealand. I’m not leaving — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) August 15, 2024 Per DPA International: In 2018, Dotcom had already stated that he had major health problems after “six years of stress” with regard to the legal disputes. New Zealand’s Minister of Justice Paul Goldsmith signed an extradition order in August – much to the annoyance of Dotcom, who was defiant. “I love New Zealand. I’m not going anywhere,” he wrote on social media at the time. One of his lawyers then announced his intention to take the case to the Supreme Court of New Zealand. The entrepreneur, who was born in the northern German city of Kiel in 1974, has been involved in legal wrangling for years. There have already been several proceedings up to the Supreme Court in Wellington to prevent his extradition. Following investigations by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), it was shut down in 2012.

Macy’s was forced to delay reporting its third-quarter earnings after it was revealed that an employee hid up to $154 million in expenses related to delivering small packages. 

The warmongers and industrial-military complex are hard at work escalating the war with Ukraine and not-so-subtly threatening Donald Trump to continue it. Israel has agreed to a peace deal with Hezbollah, but the war in Ukraine is heating up, and South Korea might be drawn into it. The so-called national security circles wonder aloud if […] The post Trump Threatened with a 1799 Law As US Escalates Ukraine War appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The US, which currently does not have a working president or vice president, is in talks to return Ukraine’s nuclear weapons to them. This is a dangerous escalation. According to the Wall Street Journal, returning nuclear weapons is on the table. The US leaders, whoever they are, plan to send billions of dollars in weapons […] The post US Puts Nuclear War on the Table: The World Would Be Destroyed appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would bring Sebastian Gorka, a conservative firebrand and commentator, back into the White House in a national security role. Trump posted a statement to Truth Social on Friday that he had selected Gorka to be deputy assistant to the president and as senior director for counterterrorism, a role housed within the White House National Security Council. Gorka served in the White House during Trump’s first term as strategist to the president. “Since 2015, Dr. Gorka has been a tireless advocate for the America First Agenda and the MAGA Movement,” Trump said in the announcement. Gorka said in a post on X that he was “honored beyond words” to serve “in what will be the greatest Administration of the modern age.” Honored beyond words to serve President @realDonaldTrump once again, in what will be the greatest Administration of the modern age. #MakingAmericaGreatAgain pic.twitter.com/Y0wvlrwGvh — Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) November 23, 2024 Gorka, born in the United Kingdom to Hungarian parents, has earned a reputation as a pugilistic political commentator. During his political rise under the first Trump term, he took hardline positions on terror groups and immigration. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The firebrand taught national security courses for years, including at military institutions, before gaining prominence in the Trump campaign and the White House with his tough stances against Islamic fundamentalists. After his return to the White House was announced, some of Gorka’s recent statements expressing support for Israel began to circulate online. “There is no clean solution to the problem of Gaza and the West Bank … when 70% of the population you are trying to deal with wants all of you murdered, there is no political solution,” Gorka said in one clip on the potential for a two-state solution in Israel. “The only thing you have is problem management – not solution, but management.” WATCH⚡️ Sebastian Gorka, appointed by Trump as Senior Director for Counterterrorism: “There is no clean solution to the challenges in Gaza and Judea and Samaria. The only viable path is as David Friedman suggested—a single Jewish state. This is not a political issue; the… pic.twitter.com/5tGzO8CyPd — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) November 25, 2024 Gorka’s return to the White House has been controversial among some of Trump’s former national security team. Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, who fell out with the president and now is a vocal Trump critic, said he would not have Gorka in “any U.S. government.” Alongside Gorka, Trump announced that Alex Wong will be assistant to the president and principal deputy national security adviser, roles for which Gorka was believed to be in the mix. Florida Rep. Michael Waltz, Trump’s pick for national security adviser, praised Wong’s choice. “I am thrilled to have Alex Wong on the NSC as President Trump’s Principal Deputy National Security Advisor. Alex has a proven record of delivering results during President Trump’s first term, where he helped negotiate the historic summits with Kim Jong Un that stabilized relations,” Waltz wrote in a post on X. “He will have an essential role in helping keep America safe!”

Daniel Penny’s defense team rested its case on Friday without the defendant taking the stand. Penny chose not to testify in his own defense, which would have subjected him to cross-examination from a prosecution that referred to him as “the white man” and claimed race was a factor in his decision to put Jordan Neely in a chokehold. Daniel Kenniff, one of Penny’s defense attorneys, said after court adjourned on Friday that jurors did hear from Penny – through his recorded statements to police, the Associated Press reported. “Virtually everything he said then is consistent with credible testimony of his fellow passengers,” Kenniff said, according to the outlet. Penny’s first interrogation with police – during which he was not told that Neely had died – showed him telling detectives that he never wanted to hurt Neely and was just trying to keep him from harming other passengers. “Some guy came in, and he’s like with his jacket off and he’s like, ‘I’m gonna kill everybody. I’m gonna go to prison forever. I don’t care,’” Penny told detectives in the video played in court. Penny then tells the detectives that he asked the person next to him to hold his phone, and he removed his earbuds before getting behind Neely and placing him in the hold. “I just kind of, like, grabbed him from behind,” Penny said. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE “Because he was acting like a lunatic, like a crazy person,” he continued. “So, and he was rolling around the floor. And at that point, the train stopped. I was like, ‘Someone call the cops,’ and he’s still, like rolling around, still going crazy. I had two other guys kind of help me just kind of keep him from going nuts. And yeah, that’s when you guys came.” Penny faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of manslaughter or up to 4 years if he’s convicted on the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. The defense has been aided in its case by numerous witnesses who all said they feared for their lives as Neely threatened them in a subway car in May of last year. Those witnesses were called by the prosecution, which made the New York Post editorial board ask the question: What was Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg thinking in pursuing this case. Penny’s defense also brought in a forensic pathologist to dispute the medical examiner’s findings that Neely died as a result of Penny’s chokehold, The Daily Wire previously reported. Dr. Satish Chundru, who reviewed thousands of pages of Neely’s medical records, said that “the combined effects of sickle cell crisis, the schizophrenia, the struggle and restraint, and the synthetic marijuana,” caused Neely’s death, not Penny’s chokehold. Closing arguments are set to begin on December 2.