Luigi Mangione is accused of the cold-blooded, premeditated murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare. The Mangione Family Issues a Statement Mangione’s cousin, Maryland State Delegate Nino Mangione, released a statement on behalf of the family. He said they cannot comment on the news reports or allegations regarding Mangione. “We only know what we have […] The post This Is What’s Known About Luigi Mangione, “A Secret Killer” appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Alongside his attorneys, U.S. Marine veteran Daniel Penny celebrated his acquittal Monday afternoon at a bar in Manhattan while surrounded by security. Penny, 26, was on trial for the death of Jordan Neely, whom Penny restrained on the NYC subway last year after witnesses said Neely threatened passengers. Photos taken by the New York Post show Penny smiling inside the bar, flanked by his attorneys, Thomas Kenniff and Steven Raiser. The images show smiling patrons whipping out their phones to take photos of Penny. Penny did not speak to reporters other than to respond that he was doing “great” after the verdict. During the trial, Penny showed little emotion. However, at one point, he disapprovingly shook his head as the prosecution suggested he was racist. He also reportedly locked eyes with jurors after the not guilty verdict was read, giving a smile and a nod.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Thomas Kenniff (@kenniffthelawyer) Kenniff told reporters on Monday that Penny would now try to “get his life back together” after the long ordeal. “A situation like this, we savor the victory but all the harm that has been done to him just doesn’t vanish,” the attorney said. “That’s true of anyone who is falsely accused.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Kenniff said he wasn’t surprised by the verdict since his client is innocent but said the process was filled with anxiety. “I’m not surprised in the sense that Day 1 we knew that we believed he would be exonerated because the evidence overwhelmingly supported that,” he said, the Post reported. “When you’re in the midst of it, five days of deliberation, it would be inhuman not to be nervous, not to have anxiety. Were we surprised by how it came down, when it came down, the moment it came down? Sure. But were we surprised by the result? No.” Last week, Judge Maxwell Wiley controversially agreed with the prosecution’s request to dismiss the state’s top charge of second-degree manslaughter, which carries up to 15 years behind bars, in the middle of jury deliberations. This left only the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide for the jury to deliberate on Monday. It took the jury about one hour before it returned to the courtroom with the not guilty verdict. When the verdict was read, Neely’s father, Andre Zachery, glared at someone who applauded and said, “Are you trying to f***ing get killed?” Additionally, Hawk Newsome, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, said while looking at Penny, “It’s a small world, buddy.” Moreover, outside the courthouse on Monday, Newsome called for “black vigilantes” to act, The Daily Wire highlighted. “We need some black vigilantes!” New York BLM leader Hawk Newsome after Daniel Penny’s acquittal.pic.twitter.com/lsz5QCphhn — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 9, 2024

When Marjorie Fiterman married Bernie Littman on May 19, 2024, it wasn’t your typical wedding. For one thing, the bride and groom were 100 and 102 years old, respectively. For another, their nuptials actually broke a Guinness World Record! These two lovebirds are officially the world’s oldest newlyweds based on their combined age of 202. Marjorie and Bernie met at a costume party in their senior living facility. They’d both been married before, and they’d both lost their spouses. After nearly ten years of dating, the elderly couple surprised everyone by choosing to remarry! Their ceremony took place at the senior home, where family members showered the newlyweds with love. Bernie’s granddaughter, Sarah Sicherman, hadn’t been expecting the couple to take their relationship to the next level. As she told Fox News, she and her family had “assumed they would just live out their days status quo.” However, she was still very happy for her grandfather. “We were all thrilled that he found someone to do activities and spend time with,” Sarah said. Rabbi Adam Wohlberg had the honor of joining the world’s oldest newlyweds in matrimony. He had some beautiful things to say about the elderly couple, even though he refrained from offering relationship advice. As he pointed out, Marjorie and Bernie had “already amassed a lifetime of wisdom and experience.” Screengrab from YouTube “That’s not to suggest that you won’t continue to learn and develop as people,” he said. “But I think it is safe to say each of you, what you know and understand about each other, is exactly what the future holds for you and your partner. And what you have determined you love about each other — well, those things are not about to change.” Previously, the Guinness World Record holders for “oldest couple to marry (aggregate age)” were Doreen and George Kirby from England. Their combined age when they tied the knot was 194. We hope that new record holders Marjorie and Bernie live out the rest of their twilight years together in health and happiness! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Never Too Late To Find Love: Meet The World’s Oldest Newlyweds appeared first on InspireMore.

A post on X claims to show Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth in his underwear at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense. Visiting the 9/11 Memorial in his underwear. The Pentagon has nothing to worry about. Our armed forces have longed to be led by a drunk, […]

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 by Rowan O’Malley  Like most prepper-types, I love my stuff. I own countless gadgets and items that may be useful during an apocalypse. One of my favorites is my Leatherman Wave Plus multitool, which offers a plethora of mini emergency tools and yet folds up so small it will fit in the palm of my hand. You betcha, should the apocalypse roll through in my lifetime, I will have a lot of stuff to throw in my BOB on the run. However, this slow-burning SHTF that we’re in today (frogs in a pot of water, anyone?) has had me questioning my prepper priorities. What if I have to flee and leave everything behind? My hero, Selco, whose writings I first encountered here on The OP has often identified his top SHTF priorities to not be things.  My Most Valuable Prep and Why I now consider my brain to be my most valuable prep. It is, after all, where I store my most important stuff: my knowledge about herbs and medicines and my Irish “get up and go” that has got me through my life thus far. Now, you know what we preppers say, “One is none!” We all only have one brain, my friends! A recent bit of learning completely changed my relationship with my brain and how I treat it. I thought I was eating a pretty decently healthy diet…Heck! I’m a homesteader, for goodness sake! I grow and eat a LOT of kale. What I learned was that eating sugar doesn’t just affect my body in the ways that I was familiar with….risk of diabetes, obesity, and inflammation, to name a few. I learned about new research regarding a potential connection between eating too much sugar and dementia.  Oh no, not my brain! As someone who lives a deeply thinking and reflective life as a writer, this flipped a switch for me. Suddenly, my weakness for chocolate and excessive sugar treats on runs into town looked different. What was I doing to myself? What risks was I exposing my precious brain to? Our Brain and Sugar and Insulin and Alzheimer’s Disease This new research about the relationship between dementia and sugar is in its early stages, and everything is not clear. The term “Type 3 Diabetes” is controversial and not recognized today as a formal diagnosis. However, what we do know is that there is one gene, the APOE4, which appears to be related to around 50% of Alzheimer’s cases.  According to the Mayo Clinic, “a variant of the so-called Alzheimer’s gene, APOE4, seems to interfere with brain cells’ ability to use insulin, which may eventually cause the cells to starve and die.” When someone has this gene variation, their chances of having Alzheimer’s are 10 to 15 times higher. In addition, it is also widely accepted that having type II diabetes also increases someone’s risk of getting Alzheimer’s. The Mayo Clinic article also details the results of a research project in which they confirmed that a new insulin nasal spray not only slowed the decline of Alzheimer’s patients but sometimes even improved their symptoms. You’d think that this would be front-page news. I’m not sure why it’s not out there too much in the MSM.  My New Brain Maintenance Plan In my own family history, I have a grandmother who lost a leg to diabetes and died shortly thereafter. I also have a great-uncle who had dementia and had to live in a secure facility. It was heartbreaking to visit him. The O’Malley women are of big-boned farm stock, and we tend to put on weight as we age. Several members of my immediate and extended family are pre-diabetic or diabetic, and one of these cousins recently had a stroke. I don’t know if I carry the gene mentioned in the research, but I decided that I would take some serious steps to manage my risk and protect my most important prep: my brain. I reasoned that, whatever the relationship between dementia and diabetes and genes, it would help if I did not expose my body and my brain to large spikes in sugar.  I decided to give up all processed sugar entirely. I already ate a pretty healthy diet daily, but I decided to give up my often stress-induced chocolate and sweet binges for good. Now that I know that sugar spikes in my brain may be laying the groundwork for dementia, I would not enjoy them quite as much.  So, no white flour, no added sugar in anything, no fruit juices, no honey, no maple syrup. Basically, I only eat sugar when it is encased in fiber in fruit. I make Irish soda bread every week with whole wheat and spelt flour, and my crackers are multi-grain rye. Many people might be reading this thinking, what a pathetic doldrum my life must be without sweet treats. I disagree! In fact, I have adapted my favorite treat, Mexican Hot Chocolate, by adding two chopped-up dates to it instead of maple syrup. I find that now I taste the cocoa flavor more and enjoy the fact that it is delicious AND good for me at the same time. Another side benefit has been increased morning energy and a substantial loss of belly fat. Woo hoo! The History of Our Brains: Why is sugar hard to quit? I thought some background would provide context as to what we’re up against here in America regarding sugar. We are literally programmed to eat sweets to survive. Back in our hunter-gatherer days, a rare taste of honey was the sweetest thing a human might enjoy. The rest of our food was not sweet and was hard to acquire. When we found sweet fruit, our brains told us to eat it and not to stop because it helped us survive the lean times. That worked until sugar became too easy to get.  Back around 200 years ago, in the 1820s, Americans ate around 9 grams of sugar per day (just over two teaspoons). Fast forward to the fast food revolution of today, and Americans are estimated to be eating 151 grams of sugar per day. (An increase of 7500%!!!!) Are you certain that’s not you? One 25-ounce bottle of soda has over 80 grams of sugar, which is more than 20 teaspoons, and that is not a large serving by today’s standards. Or would you like a large chocolate shake (32 oz.) from a major fast food chain, which has 168 grams or 42 teaspoons of sugar? Imagine sitting down to eat those 42 teaspoons of sugar in a row. Yikes! We know that this unnatural increase in our sugar consumption is hard to resist due to our brain’s evolutionary programming. However, the new research I have shared shows that the effect on the long-term health of our brain can be devastating. I hope that by sharing my journey regarding sugar and my most important prep, my brain, I have given you some valuable food for thought. Hey Sugar, How About Takin’ a Hike? To sugar or not to sugar? How’s your own brain maintenance plan when it comes to sugar? Do you have any concerns about its long-term effects? What are you willing to give up, and what’s non-negotiable? Please tell us in the comments section. About Rowan Rowan O’Malley is a fourth-generation Irish American who loves all things green: plants (especially shamrocks), trees, herbs, and weeds! She challenges herself daily to live her best life and to be as fit, healthy, and prepared as possible! The post Protecting My Most Important Portable Prep appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. If some of the key picks for President Donald Trump’s cabinet have their way, Edward Snowden might finally get pardoned. Administrations have been coming and going over the past more than a decade in the US. Still, Snowden, an NSA whistleblower who opened the eyes of Americans – and the rest of the word – to the shocking scale of mass surveillance and personal data collection perpetrated by the agency, is still in exile. That’s because in his country, instead of being honored like, say, Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers, Snowden is still treated as a fugitive from justice. Snowden has been indicted as a “spy” and is considered to be one by many, even though the revelations from the leaked documents were not handed to another country, but publicly released to benefit the rights of the citizens of his own. This is something that Donald Trump clearly took into consideration when he was “close” to pardoning Snowden near the end of his first stint in office. However, that eventually didn’t happen, but now, a number of figures likely to hold top positions in the new US administration think the time has come. Among them is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who Trump wants as his Health and Human Services secretary. Another is Donald Trump Jr., who is also in favor of pardoning several other whistleblowers, and a candidate for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who has long espoused a similar stance. The man who originally helped Snowden publish his revelations, lawyer, and journalist Glenn Greenwald, thinks it makes perfect sense for Trump to this time go ahead and pardon Snowden, not least since some of the abuses the whistleblower exposed in 2013 have in the meantime affected the president as well. “And if Trump’s goal is to bring transparency to those agencies there is no one who has done that more bravely and honestly than Snowden,” said Greenwald, who in 2013 worked with several major newspapers in the US and around the world to bring the Snowden files to the public. Some of those newspapers – the Washington Post and the Guardian even won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Will Trump’s Second Chance Bring Justice for Edward Snowden? appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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