Catherine, the Princess of Wales joined the other British royals at the balcony of Buckingham Palace to celebrate King Charles’s official birthday in the annual “Trooping the Colour” parade.

TODAY BEGINS Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice and the happiest time of the year for Muslims because of all the throat-cutting that is involved. It’s called “Qurbani,” where the throats of tied-up, fully-conscious animals are slit – without cutting the spinal cord (unlike Kosher slaughter which requires the spinal cord to be cut […]

On Sunday, Ron Johnson joined John Catsimatidis on The Cats Roundtable to discuss January 6. He described three potential scenarios and the corresponding involvement of Democrats in each one. Johnson also implicates Gen. Mark Milley who changed the general heading the National Guard at the last minute. The replacement refused to send the Guard to […] The post Ron Johnson: We’ve Just Begun to Find Out What Happened on J6 appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A new book by Dr. Jerome Corsi and Dr. David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D. appears to prove the three extant JFK autopsy skull X-rays in the National Archives collection are forgeries, altered to mask evidence of two frontal headshots. Dr. Corsi believes bullets from some cold-hearted deep state assassins landed the shots. He believes they […] The post New Evidence: The Government Knew Oswald Wasn’t the Only Killer of JFK appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A House Republican spoke on Sunday about employing inherent contempt of Congress to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland “accountable” for refusing to share audio from the classified documents probe against President Joe Biden. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo about her resolution that, if enacted, could lead to the House sergeant-at-arms taking Garland into custody if the attorney general continues to defy congressional subpoenas. “What that allows Congress to do is really be the punitive arm and really hold Garland accountable by using the sergeant at arms to essentially go and get him, as well as the tapes, bring him to the well of the House,” Luna said. Luna says her resolution to have the House Sergeant at Arms arrest Attorney General Merrick Garland will be coming up for a vote pic.twitter.com/dMpEyizoDK — Acyn (@Acyn) June 16, 2024 Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has vowed to bring the fight to court after the Department of Justice said it would refuse to prosecute Garland for contempt of Congress because Biden asserted executive privilege over the tapes. Luna isn’t getting her hopes up and pitched her resolution as a more viable option for House Republicans to “really be a check and balance” against the Department of Justice (DOJ) with a move that “hasn’t been done since the early 1900s.” She added, “That vote will be coming to the floor. And, hopefully, we will be able to bring some accountability. I know that, if this goes to courts, as Johnson has stated, that’s really going to get stuck there. It’s not going to do anything.” The GOP-led House seeks tapes of special counsel Robert Hur’s two-day interview with Biden and discussion with Biden’s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, after the release of a report describing the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory.” House Republicans obtained transcripts, but they said they still needed the audio to conduct oversight and pushed forward with contempt of Congress proceedings. Democrats claim the actions of their GOP colleagues are tainted by politics. The DOJ claims sharing the audio would impede future investigations and insisted Garland is shielded from prosecution because of executive privilege. Garland had said the House turned “a serious congressional authority into a partisan weapon.” Luna previously said in a post to X that if the DOJ has not indicted Garland by June 25, she will “call a vote to hold him in inherent contempt of Congress, and he will be forced to produce the recordings or be held by the Sergeant at Arms.”

Coastal waters around the United States would be named after former President Donald Trump, who is currently running for another term in the White House, if a long-shot bill proposed by a House Republican gets enacted into law. Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) announced last week that he would be introducing a bill to re-designate the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the United States. References to the EEZ in law, maps, regulations, documents, papers, or other records of the U.S. would be named the “Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States” under the plan. “Floridians know the great value of our coastal natural resources and how important it is to have a president who cares about the strength and resilience of our oceans,” Steube said. “During his time in office, President Trump took several commendable actions for our oceans as part of his work to make America strong, secure, and economically prosperous.” Steube added in the press release, “I’m honored to introduce legislation that will rename our coastal waters after President Trump and serve as a reminder of his many contributions to our nation for generations to come.” The legislation faces long odds as the Senate and the White House are controlled by Democrats. Still, the party divide in the halls of Washington has not stopped Republicans in the GOP-led House from offering measures to promote Trump. That includes recently-proposed legislation from Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) to have Trump’s portrait appear on $500 bills. House Republicans have also put forward legislation this year that would rename Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia — one of the major airports in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan are — as the “Donald J. Trump International Airport” in all laws, maps, regulations, documents, papers, or other records of the United States. Democrats in the House offered a bill seeking to change the name of the Miami Federal Correctional Institution — the closest federal prison to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida — to the “Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution” in a nod to the criminal matters the former president is facing, including a guilty verdict in New York. Steube’s press release described a number of actions Trump took as president related to oceans, including signing bills and proclamations. He also issued a memo directing federal agencies to make a national strategy to map the U.S. EEZ. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. EEZ “extends no more than 200 nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline and is adjacent to the 12 nautical mile territorial sea of the U.S., including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other territory or possession over which the United States exercises sovereignty.” Within its EEZ, NOAA says, the U.S. has: “Sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring, exploiting, conserving and managing natural resources, whether living and nonliving, of the seabed and subsoil and the superjacent waters and with regard to other activities for the economic exploitation and exploration of the zone, such as the production of energy from the water, currents and winds.” The U.S. has jurisdiction “as provided for in international and domestic laws with regard to the establishment and use of artificial islands, installations, and structures, marine scientific research, and the protection and preservation of the marine environment,” NOAA adds, and other “rights and duties provided for under international and domestic laws.”

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) informed NBC’s Peter Alexander that he did not plan to attend an upcoming congressional address from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Khanna joined Alexander, who was guest-hosting the network’s Sunday morning episode of “Meet the Press,” and complained about Netanyahu’s past treatment of former President Barack Obama: “He should not expect reciprocity.” WATCH: WATCH: As Israeli PM Netanyahu prepares to address a joint session of Congress, @RepRoKhanna (D-Calif.) says he “will not attend.” “I’m not going to sit in a one-way lecture. … How he treated treated President Obama, he should not expect reciprocity.” pic.twitter.com/kvgiNwJPsm — Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) June 16, 2024 “I will not attend,” Khanna told Alexander during Sunday’s broadcast. “I said that if he wants to come to speak to members of Congress about how to end the war and release hostages, I would be fine doing that, but I’m not going to sit in a one-way lecture.” “And I agree with Representative Clyburn,” Khanna continued. “I mean, how he treated President Obama, he should not expect reciprocity. That said, I think it should be polite. We’re not going to make a big deal about it. He’s obviously addressing the Congress, and there has to be decorum.” Khanna follows Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in announcing his plans to skip the address. Sanders took things a bit further, however, accusing Netanyahu of being responsible for the civilian deaths in Gaza despite the knowledge that Hamas terrorists routinely use the civilian population as human shields. “What [Speaker Mike] Johnson is going to have to explain to the American people is why he thinks it’s OK to invite somebody to a joint session who is responsible for the deaths of some 38,000 Palestinians at this point, 60% of whom are women and children, elderly people,” Sanders said, citing casualty numbers provided but the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry.