A 98-year-old veteran of World War II says if former President Donald Trump were the commander in chief again, he “would reenlist today.” “I would storm whatever beach my country … needs me to,” long-retired Sgt. William Pekrul declared in his speech on the third night of the quadrennial Republican National Convention. Pekrul introduced himself to the audience in Milwaukee on Wednesday night as “a proud Wisconsinite,” husband, and father of 11 children. He shared his war experiences, among them the horrors he witnessed at “the Nazi war camps.” “In the Battle of the Bulge, my friends and I fought to stop the Nazis’ last major portion of the Western Front,” he said. “We found out later Hitler was dead. The Nazis were defeated. We gave thanks to Almighty God for delivering us from evil.” Pekrul noted that he still misses many of his fellow vets, saying that for WWII veterans like him who are still alive, “America is still worth fighting for.” In his speech, the nonagenarian also criticized the Biden administration’s policies. “It hurts my heart to see what our current president and vice president have done to the country I love so well,” he said, citing the U.S.’s abrupt and chaotic military pullout from Afghanistan, terrorists running “wild in the Middle East,” and letting illegal immigrants “overrun” the southern border.  While some people say “America is an idea,” Pekrul said, he believes “America is much more than that. America is our home.”  He recalled how he kissed the ground and thanked God when he returned to the U.S. after fighting in Europe.  “Where I come from, when somebody comes for me, for my home, you dig your boots in the ground and never look back. That’s the attitude that saved the free world,” Pekrul said. The post At RNC, 98-Year-Old WWII Vet Says He ‘Would Reenlist’ Under Trump appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Rumble’s new advertising platform, Rumble Advertising Center, was launched as an alternative to those creators and businesses targeted by blacklisting, alarmingly frequently for political reasons. The most egregious example is the most powerful of the groups accused of such practices: the World Economic Forum-affiliated Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM). While GARM maintains that its sole purpose is to provide “brand safety,” critics see it as a censorship tool, particularly undermining voices, allegedly going as far as to organize boycotts aimed against entire platforms (and the US House Judiciary Committee is investigating these claims). Rumble’s reaction to this situation is to provide an alternative, with CEO Chris Pavlovski explaining in an interview with Breitbart at the Republican National Convention (RNC) that he views GARM as an “advertising cartel” and that he has been aware that his platform would struggle where advertising is concerned because of its focus on free speech. Display "RNC 2024 LIVE: Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski on the Importance of Rumble in the Social Media Landscape" from rumble.com Click here to display content from rumble.com Always display content from rumble.com Open "RNC 2024 LIVE: Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski on the Importance of Rumble in the Social Media Landscape" directly That kind of focus, Pavlovski says, brings with it the risk of facing a boycott that results in large companies not spending money with a given platform. The Rumble CEO went on to liken this sequence of events to a “conspiracy” – but also the point at which his company realized it would not be able to rely on a monopoly-style system like Google, or Fortune 500 companies for monetization and ad revenue. That’s how the Rumble Advertising Center came to be – and its policies are shared with the video platform itself, Pavlovski said. “Just be neutral. Be fair. Don’t treat anybody any differently because of their political views or biases,” the Rumble chief said of the Center, which he describes as part of the Rumble ecosystem necessary to compete against what he sees as cartels and monopolies. Speaking of creating an ecosystem, he noted that another piece of the puzzle, and an important one, is Rumble Cloud – the infrastructure now spanning the US. “We know that if we’re running off somebody else’s tech, then we’re very susceptible to them pushing us around the same way (as ad companies with political agendas),” he noted, stressing the importance of self-reliance both in terms of infrastructure and monetization, and reiterating that Rumble wants to be a platform for free expression, without any inherent bias. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Rumble CEO Discusses Ad Center as Free Speech Solution to Pro-Censorship Ad Cartels appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec and American Principles Project President Terry Schilling want action to protect the free speech rights of Americans on social media.  MRC Vice President Dan Schneider spoke to Posobiec and Schilling during the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, asking them about their thoughts on the legacy media and anti-conservative bias on Big Tech platforms. Schilling responded to this bias with a call for action. “Big Tech has been in the bag for the Democratic Party, which is a big deal because Big Tech combined is worth trillions and trillions of dollars and that’s just what they’re worth on paper. Their social and cultural impact is much bigger than that. But this is why we need to reform Big Tech,” he said.  “This is why we need to pass laws to rein them in so they can’t tip the scales or at least force them to start including these in-kind contributions on FEC reports,” Schilling added, responding to a Media Research Center study on Google search results.  MRC VP @Schneider_DC chats with @Schilling1776 about Google's blatant bias and censorship pic.twitter.com/jgj7F9zVzm — Free Speech America (@FreeSpeechAmer) July 17, 2024 Both Schilling and Posobiec agreed that conservatives should not be dissuaded from fighting censorship and Big Tech’s election interference out of misguided free market concerns. Posobiec agreed with Schneider that “common carrier” laws, which waive corporate liability for misuse of their service while prohibiting the carrier from restricting service to anyone, should apply to social media.  Posobiec told Schneider that America needed an “internet bill of rights.” The Human Events senior editor argued that the government exists to prevent interference with our rights as Americans.  Posobiec paraphrased author William F. Buckley to make the point that conservatives need to fight back against both public and private violations of rights: “If my rights are coming under threat from the federal government or General Motors, then it’s still my rights under threat and I will defend my rights, and I will protect my rights from wherever possible.”  MRC VP @Schneider_DC chats with @JackPosobiec about media bias pic.twitter.com/BqTbsESqb0 — Free Speech America (@FreeSpeechAmer) July 18, 2024 Schilling echoed Posobiec’s sentiments, pointing out the existence of several laws regulating private corporations. “We have laws to secure our rights,” he said.  Schilling suggested that Big Tech was not only using its dominant position to harm conservatives but also to prevent free and fair competition in the market. “It is time to reign in Big Tech and you’re not going to get that from Joe Biden because they’re on his team,” Schilling said. Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

So for all the constant backstage whispers on a Biden withdrawal - “Yes he will! No he won’t!- the unasked question is: if Biden drops out, who will the left-leaning media endorse? The Washington Post of all places came close to touching the subject, headlining:  What happens if Biden drops out of the presidential race? President Biden is facing increasing pressure from Democratic leaders to reconsider his reelection bid. Here’s a look at what could happen next. The Post mused on six questions: Who would replace Biden?  How would a new nominee be chosen?  How quickly could a nominee be chosen?  How well does Harris poll against Trump?  What would happen to the money Biden raised?  What would this mean for the DNC convention? The giveaway on media sentiment is easily detected with the answer to the Post’s first question: Who would replace Biden?  The Post answers: Vice President Harris is the likeliest candidate to replace Biden at the top of the ticket, and many in the party have already signaled they’d accept her as the nominee. And at a NATO news conference on July 11, Biden said he wouldn’t have picked her as his vice president “unless I thought she was qualified to be president from the very beginning. Which is to stay, the media are already getting its signals from Bidenland. Harris is the one. Not California Governor Gavin Newsom, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer or any other Democrat who is a known or lesser unknown by the Titans of the Liberal Media. The question then will be: When will the media start digging and digging in the fashion the liberal media does to prominent Republican candidates?  It is not hard to believe that as this is being written or read a collection of liberal media moles are burrowing away to see what dirt they can find on Trump’s vice presidential pick, Ohio’s 39-year old Senator J.D. Vance. A guy who has had as much success in his life in business, book writing, the military and law school? Surely there’s something - something! - that can be found by lefty dirt-diggers to slime Trump’s choice. The Pulitzer Prize judges reward journalists who damage Republican careers. For those who came in late, this business of burrowing into the closets of new high-profile Republicans started decades ago, most probably with GOP 1952 vice presidential candidate, California Senator Richard Nixon. Nixon famously had stirred left-wing animosity as a young congressman who unearthed the Communist ties to left-wing FDR/Truman rising bureaucratic star Alger Hiss. In proving that Hiss, as charged, did in fact have a background with ties to the Communist Party, the liberal media developed a hatred for Nixon that never went away.  His rise to GOP nominee Dwight Eisenhower’s ticket launched the then-famously left-wing New York Post to dig into a “fund” that was essentially an open expense account for candidate Nixon provided by rich GOP donors. This was instantly proclaimed a scandal, and Nixon had to take to television to deny any dishonesty and proclaim his innocence.  In the speech, he stated that the only gift he had accepted was a cocker spaniel dog that a donor had sent for his two young daughters. The dog had been named “Checkers” - and ever after any politician who got caught in a scandal was queried as to whether they would make a “Checkers speech” to save themselves. The Washington Post’s famous political cartoonist Herb Block would draw Nixon with a seriously ominous five o’clock shadow of a beard, slinging mud.  But treat some rising Democrat star in similar fashion? Not a prayer.  So assuming all these Democrat whispers are correct and Biden does withdraw, no matter the tussle over his replacement, no Democrat is going to get any kind of serious look under a microscope to find their flaws.  But what if the herd quickly migrates to, say, Harris, and some other Democrat chooses to challenge her anyway? If that happens? And the media is suddenly supposed to cover a Harris vs. Newsom race? Will there be dirt digging by the media targeting a Harris opponent?  Look out, Gavin. 

A street preacher said a Subway worker in Wisconsin recently refused to serve him over his T-shirt displaying a phrase condemning homosexuality as a sin.Rich Penkoski told the Christian Post he was wearing a T-shirt displaying the phrase "Homo sex is sin: Romans 1" when an interaction took place — which was recorded on video — in the Waunakee restaurant. Penkoski was traveling with other pastors after preaching outside the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, the Post added. Waunakee is about an hour and 20 minutes west of Milwaukee.'If the shoe were on the other foot, if somebody walked in and said, 'Oh, I'm gay' or whatever, and I said, 'Nope, I'm not serving you,' this would be all over the place, and I'd be fired, or I'd be getting sued.'David Grisham, apparently also one of the street preachers, posted a Facebook message Tuesday with multiple photos saying, "This person working at Subway in Waunakee Village Mall refused to serve us because of our Christian T-shirts. Christophobic bigotry should not be tolerated. Please give Subway corporate a call." It isn't clear on what date the interaction occurred.One of the photos Grisham posted shows four men outside a Subway wearing T-shirts displaying phrases such as, "Abortion is murder," "Homo sex is sin: Romans 1," and "Planned Parenthood murders children and rapes their mothers."Grisham posted video of the interaction in the Subway, writing in the caption, "Subway Karen refuses to serve street preachers because of Christian T-shirts in Waukanee [sic] Wisconsin." The following is how the exchange went down:"Are you refusing to service customers? She's refusing to serve us," one man says in the clip. "She just said she's refusing to serve us.""What are you talking about?" another man asks."This girl right here said she's refusing to serve us," the first man replies."So we have to go somewhere else?" a third man wonders."I want her to say it again," the first man says."I am refusing you service," the Subway worker behind the counter replies.As for her reasons for the refusal, she soon says it's a "personal matter."The first man asks if it's "because of my T-shirt?"She replies, "Yes.""OK, [I'm] sure Subway Corporate will love to hear that," the first man replies.The Christian Post reported that the Subway employee speaking in the video was referring to Penkoski's "Homo sex is sin: Romans 1" T-shirt."If the shoe were on the other foot, if somebody walked in and said, 'Oh, I'm gay' or whatever, and I said, 'Nope, I'm not serving you,' this would be all over the place, and I'd be fired, or I'd be getting sued," Penkoski told the Post.Penkoski added to the Post, "But these LGBT people are so emboldened that they think just because they're either gay or gay allies, they can say and do whatever they want. So if they really want equality, then they should be OK with me suing them the same way they sue us."Penkoski said he has spoken with his attorney about possible legal action against Subway for a civil rights violation, the Post added.Grisham noted in a Facebook comment that his group "did NOT purposely try to antagonize anyone. We just went in for a sandwich. A local pastor was buying us dinner, and we had only been inside for less than a minute and hadn’t said a word to anyone. She just saw our shirts and blurted out profanity and said she wouldn’t serve us. REASONABLE people are reasonable when it comes to differences of opinion and are professional enough to just serve someone without letting their emotions go into elementary schoolyard mode and whine publicly."Grisham noted in another comment that "if we had been homosexuals with rainbow shirts, and they refused us service, there would be riots in the streets."But plenty of commenters on Grisham's Facebook posts about the incident pushed back hard. To wit:"Learn the difference between Christianity and Christian nationalism," one commenter shot back. "[You] all are simply bigots, and that’s why she refused you service.""I wouldn’t serve you, either," another commenter said. "You wear disgusting shirts like that to get a reaction out of people. Good job. You got your reaction.""Subway will not take your side, nor will any reasonably minded person," another commenter declared before adding, "You are not a Christian in any way shape or form.""Having these kinds of shirts on and calling them 'religious T-shirts' is a CRAZZYYY reach," another commenter wrote. "Speaks volumes to the values of your religious priorities, I guess. You're always welcome to have freedom of speech, not freedom of consequence. To everyone saying you should sue based on 'religious discrimination' has (1) never seen the shirts you guys were actually wearing or (2) is grossly misinformed as to how the legal system actually works. The prosecutors would laugh it out the courthouse in an hour."The U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 sided with Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips after he refused to make a cake celebrating a same-sex wedding. But last October, the Colorado Supreme Court said it would take up a lawsuit from transgender plaintiff Autumn Scardina against Phillips after he refused to make a cake to celebrate Scardina's gender transition.The Christian Post said Subway's corporate office did not respond to its request for comment by time of publication.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The crimes of attempted carjacking and attempted vehicle theft are far from humorous.However, when those offenses are derailed because those trying to carry them out can't operate manual transmissions, one likely can't help but giggle at least a little bit.But there was one major problem for the suspect: KENS-TV reported that he was 'struggling to operate the manual transmission vehicle.' Tsk tsk tsk. Kids these days.The lack of that particular skill, as you'll soon read, has shown up at crime scenes from the sunny shores of southern California, up to Colorado and into Chicago — and even in Detroit, a.k.a. the Motor City. The stick-shift challenged among the criminally inclined can be found among our neighbors in the Great White North, too. So feel free to let loose with a little laughter as you read the following 10 tales about crooks whose capers hit the skids — all because they couldn't drive stick.Wet-behind-the-ears carjackers pistol-whip victim, take his keys — then run into a little problem when they try to drive awayA crew of would-be carjackers in Bethesda, Maryland, managed to pistol-whip their victim and take his keys on the night of Nov. 26, 2023, WTTG-TV reported — but ran into a little problem when they tried to drive off in the vehicle.Officers were called to the 7200 block of Wisconsin Avenue around 11:55 p.m. after a report of an attempted carjacking, the station said. Authorities said the victim was in front of a business when three or four individuals approached him and demanded the keys to his vehicle at gunpoint, WTTG said.Investigators said the suspects pistol-whipped the man, who ran back into the business, the station said, adding that the victim told police shots were fired, but investigators said no shell casings were found.However, WTTG said the would-be carjackers encountered a major roadblock when they tried to drive away: They couldn't operate the SUV because it came equipped with a manual transmission. With that, the suspects fled the scene in a different vehicle, the station said, adding that the victim is recovering from his injuries.Two teen thugs drag driver out of his car at gas station, demand his keys, and victim complies. Seconds later the pair high-tail it on foot because they can't operate a manual transmission.A man had just finished pumping gas at a Sunoco station in the 19200 block of Frederick Road in Germantown, Maryland, just after 4:30 p.m. March 25, 2023, and was attempting to re-enter his car when police said he noticed a pair of individuals running toward him.The duo forced the door open, grabbed the victim, and demanded his keys. The victim complied with their demands, and the pair entered the victim’s car and tried to drive away. Unable to drive a manual transmission, however, they exited the vehicle and left the scene on foot. Officers observed the suspects about a half hour later in the 19000 block of Frederick Road and took them into custody after a brief foot chase. The suspects — a 16-year-old from Rockville and a 17-year-old from Washington, D.C. — were charged as adults on charges of carjacking and conspiracy carjacking and were being held without bond.You can view surveillance video of the failed carjacking here.MMA-trained motorist fights back against hapless carjackers who manage to enter vehicle but can't drive off — because crook behind the wheel can't drive stickStafford County (Virginia) Sheriff's Office deputies were called to Anytime Fitness in Stafford over a disturbance just before 5 p.m. Oct. 12, 2021, WUSA-TV reported, adding that multiple callers reported that three males had attacked a man and tried to steal his car.The three males hit their victim several times with a wooden stick, the station reported, but the victim — trained in mixed martial arts — fought back. Amid the three-against-one fight, an attacker still managed to get hold of the victim's car keys, and he jumped in the vehicle, WUSA said.But the attacker behind the wheel wasn't going anywhere. The station, citing deputies, said he had no idea how to operate a manual transmission.What's more, a number of gym members saw what was happening and rushed outside to help, WUSA said, and so the trio got back into the vehicle that they had driven to the scene and took off.They didn't get too far, though, as deputies learned the suspects were driving a white Acura sedan with Mississippi plates, the station said — and soon a deputy spotted them and tried to pull them over on Garrisonville Road near Interstate 95.But rather than cutting their already embarrassing losses, the trio opted to hightail it north on I-95, according to WUSA. Deputies told the station the chase reached speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour — and soon the suspects crashed through a barrier arm and veered into the high-occupancy vehicle lanes. What's more, they continued north for about two miles in the wrong direction, the Free Lance-Star reported. Stafford Sheriff's Maj. Shawn Kimmitz on Oct. 13 clarified to Blaze News that the HOV lanes in the area are in the middle of the freeway and switch one-way directions in the morning and evening rushes, meaning that the suspects were driving north into southbound traffic at the time. Kimmitz told the Free Lance-Star it was "miraculous" they didn't cause an accidentWhile the suspects finally stopped on their own, they all took off on foot into a wooded median between the HOV lanes and the southbound lanes, WUSA said. Authorities set a perimeter, and a K-9 and his handler tracked down the suspects through the heavy brush, the station said. They were ordered to give up, or the K-9 would be deployed, WUSA said, adding that only two of the suspects complied."The third suspect incorrectly judged his own speed or K-9 Titan's speed and attempted to run away," Stafford County deputies said, according to the station. "This attempt was futile as K-9 Titan was released and apprehended the suspect within 50 yards."WUSA said the suspects were identified as 19-year-old Jabez Clark, 18-year-old Korey Richardson, and 20-year-old Jacob Land. The station added that Clark is charged with carjacking, robbery, conspiracy, malicious wounding, assault, vandalism, and possession of burglary tools; Richardson is charged with carjacking, robbery, conspiracy, eluding, reckless driving, and hit and run; Land is charged with carjacking robbery, conspiracy, and vandalism. All three still were being held without bond at the Rappahannock Regional Jail in Stafford. Land briefly was hospitalized for treatment of a dog bite, WUSA said.Armed carjacker, 23, ditches just-heisted vehicle because he can't drive stick, hops in getaway car — then actually pulls off even more pathetic move An armed carjacker in San Antonio, Texas, most definitely was not up to the task last fall, managing not one but two pathetic mishaps in a row. Police told KENS-TV two people left a bar on the St. Mary's Strip around 2 a.m. Oct. 5 and got into their vehicle when a 23-year-old male came up and demanded their car keys. Police told the station the victims complied and got out of the car. But there was one major problem for the suspect: KENS-TV reported that he was "struggling to operate the manual transmission vehicle." Tsk tsk tsk. Kids these days. Apparently lacking stick-shift skills, the suspect ditched the vehicle, MySanAntonio reported. Officials told KENS the suspect then re-entered a getaway car where a second suspect was waiting — which brings us to the even-more pathetic moment. KENS said the initial suspect began to shoot at the owner of the stick-shift vehicle. But the hapless suspect definitely picked the wrong victim to fire upon, as police told the station the victim returned fire and hit the alleged thief in the head. MySanAntonio, citing police, said the victim fired rounds into the getaway car, piercing the back of a headrest and grazing the head of one of the suspects. KENS said the two suspects fled the scene and called 911 from a home in the 2300 bock of Observation Drive. Police added to the station that the wounded suspect indicated he was involved in an accident downtown. According to MySanAntonio, the mother of the wounded man called for emergency services, after which he was taken to University Hospital in stable condition. As you might guess, investigators put two and two together, and the wounded man was booked by proxy for aggravated robbery, KENS said. The station added that the other suspect was at that time unknown but that the investigation is ongoing.Pair of armed males enter Audi sedan in Chicago, order driver to hand over his wallet. Driver complies, exits car — but dynamic duo can't drive stick and are soon collared.Chicago Police told WMAQ-TV a 41-year-old man was sitting in his 2008 Audi sedan in the 1400 block of North Astor Street in the city's Gold Coast neighborhood just after 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16 when two armed males entered the car and demanded the man's wallet. Police told the station the victim complied and exited the vehicle as the suspects tried to drive off — but their getaway was foiled because they couldn't operate the Audi's manual transmission. Both suspects were taken into custody in the 7000 block of South Wood Street after they were identified as being involved in the robbery, police added to WMAQ. No injuries were reported, and an investigation was underway, authorities noted to the station.Police declare 'Stick Shift FTW' after woman tries to steal truck, can't work its manual transmission, then exits vehicle — which crashes into fire hydrant. Cops quickly cuff her.Police in Boulder, Colorado, declared "Stick Shift FTW" before describing a strange tale about a "thief" who wasn't "getting far in a stolen car." Officers just after 4:30 p.m. May 3 were called to Airport Boulevard for a report of a truck that had crashed into a fire hydrant. Police said they spoke to witnesses and quickly took a female suspect into custody. Turns out the woman had been released from jail after stealing a car the previous day, and as she was walking, she looked inside the truck, saw the keys, got inside, and drove off — "sort of," police added. Thing is, cops noted, she couldn’t figure out how to drive the truck’s manual transmission, after which she jumped out and tried to leave the area on foot while the driverless truck crashed into the hydrant. No one was injured, and the truck was returned to its owner. The woman was scheduled for a May 30 court date on new charges of motor vehicle theft, careless driving, driving without a license, and failing to report the crash, the Associated Press reported.It seems like easy pickings for trio of carjackers when victim obeys commands, puts keys on hood, and walks off. But the bad guys soon are hoofing it, too, when stick shift stands in their way.Police in Arlington, Virginia — which borders Washington, D.C., to the west — were dispatched to the 600 block of North Glebe Road around 5:44 a.m. Sept. 4, 2023. Police determined a male victim was exiting his parked vehicle when three males approached him and ordered him to put his car keys on the vehicle's hood. The victim complied and walked away from the vehicle. The problem for the suspects, however, was that none of them apparently could drive stick. Police said the suspects fled the scene on foot after they made their frustrating discovery. Officers searched the area for the suspects with no success, noting that they were described as white or Hispanic males between 18 and 26 years old and wearing all black clothing.Cop gets suspicious after driver of Jeep fails to obey stop sign, and vehicle repeatedly stalls, indicating that motorist 'was not familiar with driving a manual transmission.' Sure enough...Police in Coronado — an island in the San Diego Bay — said one of its officers in early March 2023 pulled over a Jeep for failing to stop at a stop sign. The Jeep also was repeatedly stalling, appearing as if the driver was not familiar with driving a manual transmission. The driver provided the officer a name of an alleged owner, which didn't match the registered owner's name. Turns out the Jeep was just stolen from 10th Street and A Avenue, and the officer found burglary tools inside the Jeep along with a parking receipt for another Jeep that was just recently parked in a parking garage near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. Police said the officer believed that second Jeep also could have been stolen, he contacted San Diego Police, and their officers found the second Jeep with a broken window in the parking garage. San Diego Police confirmed that the second Jeep was stolen earlier that same day. The driver who was pulled over in Coronado was arrested and booked into San Diego County Jail for vehicle theft and possession of burglary tools. Both vehicles were recovered and returned to their owners.Motor City mishap: Trio of crooks have themselves a freshly carjacked vehicle — but are forced to run away because none of them could operate its stick shiftDetroit Police said two male victims were sitting in a blue 2006 Acura TSX in the 11900 block of Radom Street on June 28, 2021, when three armed males who demanded their vehicle just after 8:30 p.m. Police said the suspects tried to flee the scene with the vehicle but "were unsuccessful due to the vehicle having a manual transmission." Surveillance video of the incident shows the suspects running away after their plan went to pieces. Police added that the suspects were wanted in connection with the attempted carjacking and that anyone with information about the crime can call police at 313-596-2555.Seems crooks can't drive stick in the Great White North, either: Winnipeg male tries carjacking an off-duty cop — but can't take off due to ye olde manual transmissionThe off-duty officer was driving near downtown Winnipeg police headquarters around 4:15 p.m. June 11 when a 27-year-old male flagged him down as a "person in distress," CBC News reported. Police said the male opened the driver's-side door, began physically assaulting the officer, and tried to pull the cop from the vehicle — despite the off-duty cop identifying himself, the news network said.Soon the officer exited his vehicle, and the male got behind the wheel — but couldn't operate the manual transmission, CBC News said. With that option blocked, the male tried to run, but other off-duty cops in the area stopped and handcuffed him, the news network said. The physically attacked officer suffered minor upper-body injuries, CBC News said.Authorities learned the male had been released from custody about 20 minutes before the attempted carjacking on "probation-related warrants" — but police said they believe the attack was random and unrelated to his previous time in custody, CBC News added. The suspect was charged with robbery, assaulting a peace officer, uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, and failing to comply with a probation order.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. Armstrong’s step out of the spaceship and onto the foreign terrain of the moon has gone down in the history books as one of the most important steps mankind has ever taken — but some are skeptical of its validity. Alex Stein is one of them, so he’s sitting down with a former NASA engineer, Charles Buhler, to get some answers. “How were we able to go to the moon on these Apollo rockets in the 60s, but now today, we don’t have a rocket that can get there or at least send a man there? What’s that all about? Why is our space technology going backwards?” Stein asks Buhler. “I think the biggest thing is there’s a couple of reasons for it. You know, 50 years ago, NASA had 10% of the federal budget. Now, we have less than 1% of the federal budget,” Buhler explains. He also blames the lack of serious competition. “We don’t have a conventional space race like we did against the Russians in the 1960s,” he says. “Now, we’re relying on companies to do it. NASA is funding a lot of companies to do the space race now, so that’s pretty exciting, if you’re a space enthusiast.” According to Buhler, Artemis II is a spacecraft that will be sent to orbit the moon with astronauts as early as next year. “Charles, they always say next year we’re going to send a man to the moon, next year, man on the moon — they’ve been saying that for 50 years,” Stein counters. When Stein presses Buhler on whether or not the moon landing was faked and if so, why, Charles answers that “obviously” it wasn’t faked. He cites moon rocks that he has in his lab at NASA as proof of the moon landing being real — but Stein was ready for that one, referencing the moon rock given to a Dutch museum by Neil Armstrong. The rock was later found to be fake and made of petrified wood. “And isn’t there moon rocks in Antarctica supposedly?” Stein asks, adding, “So isn’t it possible to get moon rocks on Earth?” “It is, it truly is,” Buhler says. “We get Mars rocks too on Earth, whenever there’s a meteor collision. That’s possible.” Want more from Alex Stein?To enjoy more of Alex's culture jamming, comedic monologues, skits, and street segments, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

CrowdStrike's massive blunder, which resulted in worldwide outages, has brought the company back on the radar of the American citizenry, who now remembers its work with the World Economic Forum, Vanguard, and the Democratic Party.On July 19, 2024, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said that a "defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts" had led to a major breakdown in Microsoft operations.This resulted in more than 18,000 flights being grounded across the globe, including 1,200 in the United States.What's more, the crash brings the company back into the spotlight for yet another negative reason: The company has been synonymous with the political sphere for the better part of the last decade.'Why didn't they allow the FBI in to investigate the server? I mean, there is so many things that nobody writes about.'Many will remember CrowdStrike's appearance in headlines during the 2016 electoral campaign when the cyber-security company was called upon to investigate the alleged hacks of the DNC servers. The timeline of its collaboration with government entities is just as troubling today as it was then.According to CrowdStrike's own timeline, "Russian intelligence gained access" to DNC networks at the "beginning of July 2015."On July 13, 2015, CrowdStrike announced a $100 million investment led by firm Google Capital.In September 2015, the FBI allegedly contacted the DNC to inform Democrats of a hack.Months later, in 2016, CrowdStrike said it was hired by the Democratic Party to investigate an alleged hack that resulted in the release of the John Podesta emails, revealing Hillary Clinton's email server. By this point, the company already had former FBI employees on its payroll for some time.This included Shawn Henry, executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, who joined CrowdStrike in 2012. CrowdStrike also announced on April 18, 2024, that it had hired Steven Chabinsky, a former deputy assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division, as its general counsel and chief risk officer.CrowdStrike said it was contacted by the DNC on April 30, 2016, to collect intelligence and analyze the breach. The company added that the DNC was alerted about the hack by the FBI, but CrowdStrike was hired because the FBI doesn't "perform incident response or network remediation services when organizations need to get back to business."CrowdStrike concluded on June 14, 2016, that Russia was "behind the DNC hack" and that its claim was "supported by the U.S. Intelligence community and also by independent Congressional reports."This, of course, led to the "Russia, Russia, Russia" investigation into Donald Trump by a special counsel headed by Robert Mueller. Trump was asked about CrowdStrike in April 2017 surrounding the leak of the Podesta emails. The implication was that Ukraine possibly possessed information that would clear Russia of any wrongdoing in relation to the hacks."They shouldn't have allowed it to get out. If they had the proper defensive devices on their internet, you know, equipment, they wouldn't even allow the FBI," Trump said. He then questioned why the FBI didn't investigate the hacks themselves."How about this — they get hacked, and the FBI goes to see them, and they won't let the FBI see their server. But do you understand, nobody ever writes it. Why wouldn't (former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John) Podesta and Hillary Clinton allow the FBI to see the server? They brought in another company that I hear is Ukrainian-based.""CrowdStrike?" an Associated Press reporter asked."That's what I heard. I heard it’s owned by a very rich Ukrainian, that’s what I heard. But they brought in another company to investigate the server. Why didn't they allow the FBI in to investigate the server? I mean, there is so many things that nobody writes about. It's incredible."Then-President Trump mentioned the company by name in his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the same phone call that led to his impeachment."I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine; they say CrowdStrike ... I guess you have one of your wealthy people. ... The server, they say Ukraine has it," Trump said according to CNN. "[William Barr will call] you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it," Trump added. — (@) 'I wish I could say I was surprised, but I'm not.'Not to be forgotten, CrowdStrike has been involved with the World Economic Forum for some time. In August 2015, the WEF named it a "Technology Pioneer" for "driving visionary leadership and long-standing market value."In 2020, the WEF started its partnership against cybercrime with a stated goal of "harness[ing] AI to Combat Cybercrime."CrowdStrike is one of the companies involved in the partnership. — (@) Also, Americans may be interested in learning that investment giant Vanguard is the largest shareholder of CrowdStrike shares, with a combined 12.41% ownership between Vanguard and Vanguard Index Funds. BlackRock also has ownership but at less than 1%.“I wish I could say I was surprised, but I'm not," Return's Peter Gietl said of Vanguard's ownership. "Unfortunately BlackRock and Vanguard have bought up large stakes in many of the most important companies around the world. It becomes more and more clear that the 'free market' is a mirage on the macro level, and a few select, deep state approved companies have captured control of most industries," Gietl continued."What's particularly concerning about this outage is that CrowdStrike had kernel access to most of the systems around the world. This seems very dangerous, allowing a hacker or an accident to crash systems around the world. Never mind that a WEF partner has that level of system access," he added.It should also be noted that Nancy Pelosi owns significant shares in CrowdStrike, having purchased between $500,000 and $1,000,000 worth of shares in 2020.A page called Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker, which monitors the politician's extremely profitable trading, claimed that she owns "millions in Crowdstrike."Friendly reminder, Pelosi owns millions in Crowdstrike ?— Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ (@PelosiTracker_) July 19, 2024 Like Blaze News? 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