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5+ min ago (1050+ words) Friends in India and abroad wished to have a compilation of documentary evidence of how Indian State and Supreme Court facilitated the Hindutva project of obliterating a historic mosque at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. The following description examines the Hindutva lies with irrefutable facts which were shamelessly overlooked by the rulers and highest judiciary of India. Lie 1:Babri mosque built after destroying Ram birthplace temple This lie has been repeated by PM Modi many times since 2014 when he took over as PM of India, latest being at Ayodhya on November 25, 2025, when he stated: "The wounds of centuries are healing, the pain of centuries is finding an end today, the resolution of centuries is achieving success today. Today marks the final offering of a yajna whose fire burned for 500 years." For RSS, Aurobindo Ghosh, Swami Vivekananda, and Swami Dayanand Saraswati were the…...

9+ min ago (160+ words) Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and his wife both received an official pardon from President Donald Trump earlier this week, and he's now eager to go after the federal investigators who indicted him. "I really think what they did was wrong," Cuellar told Politico. An unnamed source told Politico that Cuellar spoke with Jordan after Trump announced his pardon. The Texas Democrat reportedly encouraged Jordan to subpoena the DOJ for records pertaining to his case, and Jordan appeared open to the idea. "Based on what's there, I definitely feel that there was misconduct by the prosecutors," Cuellar said "So we'll get more in details later on, but I certainly am convinced that this was weaponization." Cuellar is known for his conservative positions on issues like abortion and immigration, and has represented his San Antonio-area district since January of 2005. After Trump announced…...

13+ min ago (331+ words) The White House deleted a controversial social media video promoting Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests that featured pop star Sabrina Carpenter's song "Juno," but quickly escalated the dispute by posting a new video using altered footage from her "Saturday Night Live" appearance. The original video, posted Monday on the White House's official X account, showed ICE agents detaining migrants while repeatedly playing the lyric "Have you ever tried this one?" from Carpenter's hit song. The 21-second clip was captioned "Have you ever tried this one? Bye-bye" with waving and heart emojis. Carpenter, 26, responded Tuesday on X. "This video is evil and disgusting," Carpenter wrote. "Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda." this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda. White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson…...

15+ min ago (353+ words) MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec suggested that former President Barack Obama has been working behind the scenes to insert gay propaganda into Netflix's hit show, "Stranger Things." Posobiec spoke out about his theory in a segment on Real America's Voice on Friday, following Netflix's announcement that it would acquire Warner Bros. "This would become this massive behemoth taking up so much of the audience base," Posobiec explained. "Why do they want to do that? Well, it's very simple because all the way back in 2018, Netflix signed a huge deal with who? Barack and Michelle Obama, and then they put Susan Rice on the board of Netflix." "Does anyone remember around 2018?" he continued. "Where shows that were good, all of a sudden became super woke. You needed LGBT themes and everything. You needed racial themes and anything. Why did that happen? Why?...

16+ min ago (1043+ words) Postal workers in the state of S'o Paulo, Brazil's richest and most industrialized state, voted on Thursday for a strike to begin December 16 amid deadlocked negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement for next year." More significantly, they are also fighting against a "restructuring plan" presented on November 21 by the government of President Luiz In'cio Lula da Silva (Workers Party " PT) that will accelerate plans to privatize one of Brazil's largest public companies. Assemblies have also been called by the other 35 local unions, and in the coming days workers in other regions and states of Brazil may approve further strike action. The Lula administration's "restructuring" establishes a Voluntary Dismissal Plan (PDV) for 10,000 of the 83,000 employees, the closure of 1,000 agencies, and the sale of Brazil's Post Office properties. In addition, it provides for a loan of 20 billion reais (US$3.7 billion) to…...

17+ min ago (674+ words) The Atlantic: "So far, Trump continues to profess support. But he, too, is starting to tire of the scandals surrounding Hegseth and does not push back when others suggest Hegseth is not up for the job, an outside adviser to the White House and a former senior administration official told us." "Trump has not been happy that a number of Republicans on Capitol Hill are using Hegseth's record as a reason to stand up to the White House, a further sign of cracks in what had until recently been unwavering GOP fealty to Trump." "Only two decades ago, all nine Supreme Court justices agreed that extreme partisan gerrymandering could violate the Constitution, though they differed on what courts should do about it," the New" New York Times: "President Trump has shown all year that his second term would make it…...

23+ min ago (870+ words) A federal judge said on Friday that President Donald Trump did not have the legal authority to hold immigrants at the Guant'namo Bay detention facility in Cuba before shipping them out for deportation, The New York Times reported. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, did not immediately order the operation to be shut down, but denied the government's motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, which has vowed to seek a closure order. So far, around 710 detainees have been held at the facility, under guard by U.S. soldiers and Marines, using a setup of tents installed for the purpose. "The court squarely rejected the Trump administration's legal claim that Congress gave it the extraordinary power to detain immigrants in military bases overseas," said ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt. "We will now…...

23+ min ago (414+ words) Those of us who came of age during the "60s well remember the Vietnam War, its horrific toll of human life, its cost, the division it caused, and its long-term effects upon those who served and survived. We also remember the phony incidents and propaganda that threw our young men and women into combat in what became our nation"s longest war " which we lost. As noted in 2008 by the U.S. Naval Institute in reference to the Gulf of Tonkin incident: "Once-classified documents and tapes released in the past several years, combined with previously uncovered facts, make clear that high government officials distorted facts and deceived the American public about events that led to full U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War." Combined with the propaganda that the "Domino Theory" would see all of Southeast Asia under communist rule if the Democratic Republic of…...

28+ min ago (710+ words) After seven years of landing lots of Oscar nominations but never winning Best Picture, Netflix is working to take over the studio that released the clear favorite in this year's race Does the Warner Bros. Discovery deal mean that Netflix will finally win Best Picture at the Oscars? "Somebody asked me, "Do you think they're buying Warners so that they can win an Oscar?" said one veteran campaign strategist on Friday, laughing. On one level, the question is clearly a joke; the chances that the deal would be completed soon enough for Netflix to claim "One Battle" as their own before the March 15 ceremony are essentially nonexistent. And on another level, it's almost irrelevant. "How's this going to affect awards?" said the strategist when the question was put to them. "Forget about that. What about how it's going to affect…...

28+ min ago (238+ words) Netflix's reported acquisition of Warner Bros. might not be a done deal yet. New reporting from The New York Post speculates that Skydance and Paramount are trying to formulate a plan of attack to get shareholders to reconsider Netflix's bid on the company. SCOOP: As reported @paramountco @Skydance is now looking to launch a hostile bid for @wbd because it feels its $30 a share all cash offer is actually higher than what @netflix offered in terms of cash, stock and the value of the spinoff of the cable business'sources. story" The hope for Skydance is that they can poach individual shareholders and cause the negotiation to go back to the drawing board. However, that's a sketchy method. It could prove ineffective after such a large acquisition has been publicly acknowledged. "They are really pissed over at Paramount Skydance," a media…...