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‘Radicalized’ Times Square Attacker Was On FBI Watchlist
Update (1331ET):
19-year-old Trevor Bickford, from Wells, Maine, is the kid who injured three NYPD officers with a machete in an unprovoked attack in Times Square. He was on the FBI’ watchlist’ after being radicalized.
UK’s Daily Mail wrote, “the FBI in Boston do have an open case on him,” and “he is on a ‘guardian list’ because of his radicalization.”
Sources told NYPost that Bickford traveled via Amtrak train to NYC with “camping gear, a diary and a last will and testament” before he pulled off the machete attack.
“Published reports reveal that Bickford appeared to be a typical American teenager before he allegedly became radicalized in the years after sources said his father died of an overdose in 2018,” NYPost continued.
Daily Mail published pictures of Bickford via his mother’s Facebook.
Here’s a picture of the young man after the NYPD shot him. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, along with the two cops he injured — all three are expected to survive.
News Center Maine’s Jack Molmud reported the FBI arrived at the suspect’s family home this afternoon.
It seems like the case every time…
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Chaos erupted in Times Square on New Year’s Eve when a machete-wielding man injured three New York Police Department (NYPD) officers.
New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell told reporters early Sunday that a 19-year-old man attempted to strike the first officer in the head with a machete, unprovoked. Sewell said the man hit two other officers on the head with the machete.
Sewell said one officer received a laceration to the head while the other received a skull fracture and a large laceration. Another officer discharged his firearm, striking the suspect in the shoulder.
The incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. ET at West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue. One police source told NYPost that an investigation had been opened to see whether the suspect is a radical Islamic extremist.
“We are working with our federal partners for this investigation, and it is ongoing,” Commissioner Sewell said.
NYPD Crime Stoppers released a picture of the machete.
Mike Driscoll, assistant director in charge of the New York FBI Field Office, who is also investigating, told local news NBC New York that the knife attack appears to be the work of a “sole individual at this time, there’s nothing to suggest otherwise.” The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is also investigating.
Nearby onlookers were startled by the attack and gunfire — many revelers fled amid the chaos.
“No backpacks or umbrellas in Times Square. They forgot to mention machetes,” a police source told The Post.
This post was originally published at Zero Hedge
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Study: Half Of Americans Believe Media “Intend To Mislead, Misinform”
“This study suggests that many Americans… feel distrust on an emotional level, believing news organizations intend to mislead them”
A study has revealed new lows in terms of trust Americans have in the establishment media.
The study by pollster Gallup and the Knight Foundation found that only a quarter of Americans have some level of favourability regarding the media, the lowest figure recorded for five years.
The study also found that half of Americans believe news organisations “intend to mislead, misinform, or persuade the public.”
More than half (52%) also said that they do not believe news organisations have people’s best interests at heart.
Gallup/Knight noted that “This study suggests that many Americans … feel distrust on an emotional level, believing news organizations intend to mislead them and are indifferent to the social and political impact of their reporting. Our analysis demonstrates that these indicators of emotional trust in news are, in fact, distinct from the opinion that news organizations are capable of delivering accurate and fair reporting.”
Trust in media is spiralling downward, with the criminal justice system and banks garnering more trust at this point:
The establishment media has almost completely ignored one of the stories of the decade in the Twitter files.
Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi, who worked on the Twitter Files, and was insulted and attacked by Democrats in Congress last week, noted this week how the media seems completely unconcerned now that real reporting is being suppressed at the behest of the government, where as four years ago it would have been constantly in the headlines.
“These stories are clearly newsworthy,” Taibbi said of the Twitter Files, adding “They are not particularly partisan, the bulk of them. And these attacks on myself and [Michael] Shellenberger. It’s the kind of thing that drove the mainstream media wild when Donald Trump was in office.”
“There would have been days and days of headlines of this kind of thing back then. Now, there is total unconcern about it. But I’ve been really troubled outside this entire period by the lack of esprit de corps among reporters about the story,” Taibbi added.
He continued, “Normally when you get a big story you want the cavalry to come to help investigate and nobody did and I think that’s been a very troubling aspect.”
“This idea of journalists sticking up for one another and sticking up for civil liberties which used to be a no-brainer issue in this profession, again, it’s gone. It’s just something that has disappeared entirely from the business,” the reporter further urged.
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Joe Biden bumbled his way through a speech at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Wednesday, where a tiny crowd could barely bring themselves to applaud when the President pathetically attempted to rile them up.
Biden was delivering a speech on a plan to lower prescription costs, but barely anyone showed up.
Biden came out and, started the speech, then noticed some people above him on a balcony.
You know what happens next…
Why the hell does he continually do that?
After lying about cutting the deficit, toward the end, around 25 minutes into the speech, Biden claimed that many people have told him how amazing it is that the cost of their medications have come down, and promised “there’s a lot more coming.”
The crowd was so low energy and bored witless that only one person clapped:
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The US Army released a new ad last week reviving their old “Be All You Can Be” slogan in a bid to attract the “deplorables” they alienated with woke garbage and vax mandates to enlist but they appear to be running into a wee bit of trouble.
WATCH:
Despite the ad being markedly “anti-woke” (when compared to current standards) and trying to appeal to more traditional American values, the comments on the video are overwhelmingly negative with poster after poster asking why any normal American would want to fight for people who hate them.
“Why would I want to fight for people who hate me?” one commenter said.
“I’m never dying for people who hate me. NEVER,” said another.
“Nobody in my neighborhood speaks english or flies the American flag,” read another post. “Thanks for defending my country.”
Here’s a screenshot of the top responses:
The regime needs cannon fodder for the simultaneous wars they have planned with China, Russia and Iran and there’s simply not enough “cisgender millennial Latinxas” and “little girls raised by two moms” that need free US Army-funded sex-changes to meet recruiting goals.
This post was originally published at Information Liberation-
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