With Jason Olbourne and Nicola Charles
Breaking News Bulletin
FRANCE
The French leader of the National Rally party Marine Le Pen has been barred from competing for the presidency in 2027 after a court found her guilty of a vast system of embezzlement of European parliament funds and banned her from running for public office with immediate effect.
The RN, the single largest party in the French parliament, reacted with fury, calling the sentence a travesty and an attack on democracy. The party was backed by some politicians on the traditional right.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been convicted of embezzlement and handed a five-year ban from public office.
The sentence will bar Le Pen, 56, from running in the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals beforehand.
The judge also gave Le Pen a four-year prison sentence - of which two years are suspended and the rest served under home detention - and a 100,000 euro ($170,000) fine.
The president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, 29, who could be seen as a replacement presidential candidate despite his relative inexperience, said: “Today it is not only Marine Le Pen who was unjustly condemned: it was French democracy that was killed.”
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MYANMAR EARTHQUAKE
Myanmar announced Friday’s major earthquake had led to the deaths of 2,056 people. A spokesperson said that 270 more people were still missing, with 3,900 people injured.
Predictive modelling estimates by the US Geological Survey, which monitors seismic activity, suggest the death toll could eventually reach well over 10,000.
The WHO said at least three hospitals were destroyed and 22 were partly damaged, while “the scale of deaths and injuries is not yet fully understood”. The agency had earlier issued an urgent flash appeal for $8m (£6.1m) for emergency support.
Myanmar has declared a week of national mourning, with national flags to fly at half mast.
EPSTEIN VICTIM NEAR DEATH
Virginia Giuffre - who was sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and claims she was sexually assaulted as a teenager by Prince Andrew - says she has been given just four days to live after a car crash.
Ms Giuffre, née Roberts, 41, shared a photograph of herself from her hospital bed, covered in bruises she had said she suffered in a smash with a speeding bus.
Posting to Instagram overnight on Sunday, the sex abuse survivor says she has suffered kidney failure and begged to see her children 'one last time' before she dies.
MURDOCH TRUMP HIT PIECES
Murdoch media throws out two more headlines to bash Trump today declaring Greenland plans to be diabolical and that Trump is seeking a third term as president where the write explores pathways to do this, whilst explaining Trump’s ability to grab headlines, whilst making this headline news.
On Greenland, Trump said:
“Denmark has not kept pace and devoted the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops, and in my view, to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China and other nations,” he asserted.
“A lot of other countries have threatened Greenland, have threatened to use its territories and its waterways to threaten the United States, to threaten Canada and of course, to threaten the people of Greenland …
ELECTION AUSTRALIA
Guardian Essential poll: Albanese’s approval rating takes a hit but Labor inches ahead of Coalition
Voters scored both PM and Peter Dutton poorly on key leadership questions including trust, competence and being out of touch
Essential’s “2PP+” measure, which allows voters to remain undecided, put Labor ahead 48% to 47%, with 5% undecided. The survey of 1,100 people was of a piece with recent major polls from Newspoll, Resolve and YouGov, which showed small movements toward Labor in recent weeks.
It continued a small steady uptick in support for Labor, after the last two polls put the race at 47% to 47% in mid-March, and 47% to 48% to the Coalition in early March.
These polls suggest no party is likely to have a majority after the federal election on 3 May.
DUTTON PUB TEST
Peter Dutton faced a pub test interview with Sky News’ Paul Murray and discussed the usual stories of cost of living, rents, tradies and wokeism.
When asked by an audience member about defence her replied,
Mr Dutton said he would support defence acquisition requests, including a further squadron of F35s – a type of stealth strike fighter jet – more funding towards AUKUS, and a boost to the guided weapons enterprise plan, which has been criticised in recent years for the slow pace of its planned rollout.
MUSK SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD LEADS TO ELECTION TAMPERING
Elon Musk dropped a bombshell this weekend during a fiery 100-minute town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Musk unveiled a shocking chart: a dramatic spike in Social Security Numbers issued to non-citizens, soaring from 270,000 in 2021 to a mind-blowing 2.1 million in 2024.
That’s almost 5 million non-citizens now embedded in the system—collecting benefits, draining taxpayer dollars, and, most alarmingly, infiltrating the voter rolls.
“This is a mind-blowing chart,” Musk declared, pointing to the data. “This wasn’t an accident. This was a massive, large-scale program under the Biden administration to import as many illegals as possible—ultimately to change the voting map of the United States, disenfranchise the American people, and lock in a permanent deep-blue, one-party state from which there’d be no escape.”
UK SUSPENDS INFANT FOR TRANSPHOBIA
UK Department for Education data revealed the child, aged either three or four, was suspended from a state school for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity” during the 2022-23 academic year.
The specific school and further details of the case have not been disclosed.
However, the toddler was not alone in facing disciplinary action for such behaviour.
Further data published in the Telegraph shows 94 pupils at state primary schools were suspended or permanently excluded for transphobia and homophobia during the same academic year.
TRUMP COMMUTES BIDEN ASSOCIATE’S SENTENCE
President Trump commuted the sentence of another Hunter Biden associate.
Trump commuted the sentence of Jason Galanis, who was serving a 14-year federal prison sentence for defrauding an Indian tribe.
Hunter’s former business partner Devon Archer and Jason Galanis sought to defraud the Wakpamni Lake Community Corp., the business faction of the Oglala Sioux Tripe of South Dakota’s Wakpamni Lake Community.
Last year Jason Galanis cooperated with House Republicans and testified during a public hearing.
TESLA VANDALS CAUGHT
Tesla vandals are being identified both officially and unofficially in the wake of continued graffiti attacks and damage being caused by left wing activists who consider private property damage justifiable where one middle aged man is confronted who offered to clean the mess he made whilst panicked about being caught.
This is a 70-year-old Christopher Talbot was arrested on Saturday drove his vehicle into a Trump supporter outside a Tesla dealership. Talbot was later charged with aggravated battery with the use of a deadly weapon.
According to reports, Talbot flipped off the man before he attempted to run him over with his vehicle.
AI DISCOVERS PATTERN OF J6 JUDGES BIAS
A team of January 6th research experts, survivors, and advocates are using artificial intelligence software in efforts to expose DC Federal Judge’s ruthless and unconstitutional tactics during January 6th trials over the past few years.
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