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Post by Tails82 on Jan 27, 2024 4:48:40 GMT -5
www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-mobilizes-drive-us-troops-out-iraqIran Mobilizes To Drive US Troops Out Of Iraq
“Instead of attacking Israel, what we are seeing in Iraq are more attacks on US forces,” Andrew Tabler, a former Middle East director at the White House’s National Security Council, told MEE.www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/01/24/irans-president-heads-to-turkey-to-discuss-annihilation-of-israel/Iran’s President Heads to Turkey to Discuss ‘Annihilation’ of Israel
Both Iran and Turkey celebrated the October 7 attacks, Tehran with a massive street party featuring chants of “death to America” and Ankara with a “Great Palestine Rally” reportedly featuring over 1 million people.www.timesofisrael.com/us-navys-mideast-chief-says-iran-very-directly-involved-in-houthi-attacks-on-ships/US Navy’s Mideast chief says Iran ‘very directly involved’ in Houthi attacks on ships - Vice Adm. Brad Cooper says Tehran ‘clearly funding, resourcing, supplying and training’ rebel group
Since November, the Iranian-backed Houthis have launched at least 34 attacks on shipping through the waterways leading up to Egypt’s Suez Canal, a vital route for energy and cargo coming from Asia and the Middle East onward to Europe.
US forces seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry this month from a ship bound for the Houthis in a raid that saw two Navy SEALs go missing. The US military’s Central Command said Sunday it now believes the SEALs are dead.www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/01/26/houthis-visit-moscow-seeking-russian-support-for-their-war-on-red-sea-shipping/Houthis Visit Moscow Seeking Russian Support for Their War on Red Sea Shipping
The Russian government was among the first to condemn the Biden airstrikes while offering no meaningful criticism of the Houthi attacks on random ships.
At the United Nations, the Russian representatives at the Security Council refused to vote in favor of a resolution demanding an end to the Houthi attacks. Before the vote, the Russians attempted to water down the text of the resolution to render it toothless. The resolution passed anyway, a modest victory for the free world as Russia has veto power on the council and chose not to exercise it.
The Houthis responded to Russia’s support by issuing public assurances that Russian ships — and those flying Chinese flags — were safe from their attacks.nypost.com/2024/01/25/news/these-jewish-octogenarians-survived-the-holocaust-and-hamas/These Jewish octogenarians survived the Holocaust and Hamas. They have a lot to say about it - October 7 “like a second Holocaust — but worse
“It’s the same old antisemitism from back then,” she said. “It’s antisemitism disguised as anti-zionism, but we all know what it really is.”
“What happened in Israel can happen in other places in the world— they won’t be happy to stop just with the Jews,” she said of radical Islam. “It’s like Israel is on the frontline to stop the radical terrorists from reaching the rest of the world.”
“We all say, ‘Never again.’ Well, it happened again”nypost.com/2024/01/22/news/senior-hamas-officer-openly-rejects-two-state-solution-calls-for-israels-demise/Senior Hamas officer openly rejects two-state solution, calls for Israel’s demise
Khaled Mashal — a key figure helping to run the terror organization from Qatar — claimed in a videotaped interview with Kuwaiti podcaster Amar Taki last week that Gazans and Israelis cannot co-exist, a sentiment he said was made all too clear after Oct. 7.
“I would like to say two things about the two-state solution. First, we have nothing to do with the two-state solution,” the 67-year-old terrorist said in a translation provided by MEMRI TV. “We reject this notion, because it means you would get a promise for a (Palestinian) state, yet you are required to recognize the legitimacy of the other state, which is the Zionist entity.
"This is unacceptable,” he added.
Mashal’s adamant rejection of any peace between Israelis and Hamas suggests that the war in Gaza will not end until one of the groups is destroyed.nypost.com/2024/01/26/news/un-fires-staffers-who-allegedly-took-part-in-october-7-hamas-terrorist-attacks-on-israel/UNRWA fires 12 staffers who allegedly took part in October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, US cuts fundingLE GASP who ever could have guessed- oh wait, everyone: The latest developments involving UNRWA come after the agency has been dogged by claims in recent years that it has harbored personnel who have incited violence against Jews.
It has been accused of employing teachers who “regularly call to murder Jews” and teaching from textbooks “that glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite antisemitism,” according to a joint March 2023 report by the non-governmental organization UN Watch and the Israeli nonprofit Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education.
Some GOP lawmakers ripped the Biden administration on Friday for not taking notice of the “extensive evidence” sooner — and only just thwarting the flow of funds to the organization.
The US immediately cut funding to the agency in the wake of the allegations surfacing, the State Department said — marking a significant reversal from the Biden administration’s strong support for UNRWA.
Soon after taking office, the Biden administration resumed the funding to the agency that had been abruptly cut off in 2018 during Donald Trump’s presidency.
Since then, the US has funneled more than $730 million to the organization for refugee assistance in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The fresh allegations sparked prompt calls among Republicans — including Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) — for the US to permanently defund the UNRWA.www.breitbart.com/national-security/2024/01/22/study-china-crowned-worlds-worst-jailer-journalists-2023/Study: China Crowned World’s Worst Jailer of Journalists in 2023
The report noted that China could be even worse than the census indicated because heavy censorship makes it difficult to determine exactly who has been jailed, but Beijing has clearly been on a widening “media crackdown since crushing the Hong Kong democracy movement of 2019 with a draconian “national security law” in 2020.
China’s methods have also shifted slightly toward a growing tendency to charge journalists with espionage or subversion, rather than “spreading fake news.” The report found that 19 of China’s 44 imprisoned journalists are from the oppressed Uyghur Muslim minority, against which China has been committing genocide since at least 2017.
China’s imprisoned journalists often face lengthy “pretrial detentions” that silence them long before they have a day in court. A prime example is Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, who was jailed in Hong Kong for almost 1,100 days before his “trial” even started. Lai pleaded not guilty to sedition and collusion with foreign powers – charges created by the Hong Kong national security law – on January 2.
Myanmar almost caught up to China as a jailer of journalists thanks to the ruling junta’s war against independent media. Belarus likewise went on a reporter-jailing spree after protests erupted over the shady “re-election” of dictator Alexander Lukashenko in 2020. Lukashenko put a twist on the authoritarian mania for accusing reporters of sedition by charging his opponents with “extremism” instead.
In other findings, CJP’s annual report said Iran remains an oppressive environment for journalists, but the regime has jailed fewer of them since the height of the Mahsa Amini protests passed; Africa is getting worse, especially in conflict regions; and Russia has grown more aggressive at “trying to criminalize journalism beyond its borders by issuing arrest warrants and prison sentences in absentia.”
CPJ also looked at the quality of detention and found China, Myanmar, Belarus, Russia, and Vietnam were engaging most prolifically in physically and sexually abusing their prisoners.The Future of Europe www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/22/three-attacked-in-central-london-for-being-jewish-by-gang-of-arabic-speaking-men-victims-claim-police-failed-to-come-to-their-aid/Three Attacked in Central London ‘For Being Jewish’ by Gang of Arabic-Speaking Men, Victims Claim Police Failed to Come to Their Aid
Three people were attacked after enjoying a night out in London’s West End “for being Jewish” by a gang of Arabic-speaking men in the early hours of Sunday morning, while the police took nearly a half-hour to come to the scene despite repeated calls from the victims.
A group of around 20 men, who were “swearing in Arabic”, allegedly attacked a group of three Jewish friends in Leicester Square in central London after they heard the friends “speaking Hebrew” while on their way to a nightclub.
One of the victims, a 28-year-old woman named Tehilla, told The Telegraph: “They heard us talking and said, ‘are you Jewish?’… I said ‘yes, I’m Jewish,’ and then they started chanting ‘Free Palestine’, and f— Jews, all this kind of swearing at us.”
“So we just tried not to get into trouble, to walk away, but they started following us and then all of a sudden, it started with like two or three guys, and all of a sudden, they called all their friends and 15 to 20 guys started attacking us physically.”
“I hurt my leg, they punched me in the neck,” she continued. “I tried to run away and I called the police so many times, at least 10 times and I kept crying to them, ‘I’m a girl, there’s a group of guys attacking me and my friends because I’m Jewish, please can you come, I’m scared I’m going to die’.”
Tehilla claimed that despite her repeated pleas for the police to come to the scene, she was told by an operator: “You are not the only one that called tonight”.
Detective Superintendent Lucy O’Connor of London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed that officers only attended the scene 28 minutes after being called and after the attackers and victims had already dispersed.www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/23/leftists-call-for-the-killing-of-right-wing-voters-at-anti-extremism-protest-in-germany/Leftists Call for Killing of Right-Wing Voters at ‘Anti-Extremism’ Protest in Germany
Left-wing protesters in Germany called for supporters of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to be killed during a rally against political extremism.
Amid nationwide protests over the weekend, in which organisers claimed over a million people rallied against the right-wing AfD party, it was ironically the left which seemingly exposed itself as harbouring extremists.The real future www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/25/french-peasant-revolt-nine-in-ten-support-farmer-protests-against-globalist-government/French Peasant Revolt: Nine in Ten Support Farmer Protests Against Globalist Government
The issues facing European farmers, who have long suffered under tedious regulations and shifting climate standards, have been exacerbated by the soaring cost of fuel, inflation and the EU’s decision to allow tariff-free Ukrainian agricultural products into the bloc.
According to the survey, the French public believes that the green agenda overreach of Brussels has been harming their farming industry, with 78 per cent saying that EU policies have been “rather negative” for the farmers of France. In a bad sign for Emmanuel Macron, his government is seen in an even worse light, with 83 per cent saying that the president does not sufficiently support farmers.
While the French farmers have a long history of staging tractor and other protests, the recent “peasant” uprising has come amid a wider revolt within Europe against the globalist agenda, with tractor protests continuing across Germany, Romania and Poland. European farmers have previously seen success on the backs of their tractor protests, with Dutch farmer revolts leading to the Farmer Citizen Movement becoming the largest party in the Netherlands Senate as well as playing a key role in the sweeping victory of populist Geert Wilders in the November general election.www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/26/sharp-turn-to-the-right-populist-parties-projected-to-win-eu-parliament-elections-in-nine-nations/‘Sharp Turn to the Right’ — Populist Parties Projected to Win EU Parliament Elections in Nine Nations
The surge in populist-nationalist parties will be led by the Identity and Democracy (ID) parliamentary group, which includes the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) in France, and the League led by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini. According to the projections, ID is set to increase its representation in the EU Parliament by 40 seats to 98 in the 720-seat chamber.
This would make the ID coalition group the third largest force within the parliament, overtaking the Renew Europe (RE) bloc spearheaded by French President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party. This would likely be a major political blow to Macron’s globalist government in France and perhaps serve as a blow to his standing throughout Europe.
The predicted surge is redolent of the 2019 European Elections, Britain’s last as an EU member state, when Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party was so successful it became overnight not just the largest party in the UK in the European Parliament, but the single largest party in the whole of Europe.
The authors said that off the backs of successes last year, notably the sweeping victory of Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) in November’s Dutch general election and the surge in power of the National Rally in France, populist parties are set to continue playing an “important role in shaping European politics” during the EU Parliament elections and beyond.
“The results indicate that the European Parliament will likely take a sharp turn to the right after June 2024. While the parliament is not the most significant EU institution when it comes to foreign policy, the way in which the political groups align after the elections, and the impact that these elections have on national debates in member states, will have significant implications for the European Commission’s and Council’s ability to make foreign policy choices, most notably in implementing the next phase of the European Green Deal,” they said.notthebee.com/article/federal-court-canada-rules-trudeaus-emergencies-act-freedom-convoy-illegalFederal Court of Canada rules it was illegal for Trudeau to declare national emergency to stop the trucker convoy, freeze bank accounts
We all know what kind of tyrannical crap was pulled in Canada to dismantle the Freedom Convoy and ruin many people's lives. After being arrested, trampled by horses, pepper sprayed, locked out of bank accounts, and abused by the government, Canadians had to endure a painful 31-day Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) to look into whether the federal government was justified.
After the POEC, the case was brought forward to the Federal Court by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
In a surprise ruling, Justice Richard G. Mosley deemed the decision "unreasonable" and beyond the law's scope.www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/01/26/o-canada-stringent-gun-control-fails-stop-firearm-attack-edmonton-city-hall/O Canada: Stringent Gun Control Fails to Stop Firearm Attack on Edmonton City Hall - Despite numerous gun controls, a 28-year-old attacker–who allegedly made a video mentioning, among other things, the “genocide” in Gaza before attacking–was able to open fire on the Edmonton City Hall Tuesday.nypost.com/2024/01/24/news/trump-collects-most-votes-in-new-hampshire-primary-history/Trump collects most votes in history of New Hampshire primary
With Tuesday’s victory, Trump became the first non-incumbent Republican presidential candidate to win both the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
Polling center volunteers told The Post throughout the day Tuesday that they were seeing “very high” engagement. Parking lots were full and voters stood in line to vote...www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/01/24/donald-trumps-victory-sets-new-hampshire-primary-turnout-record/Donald Trump’s Victory Sets New Hampshire Primary Turnout Record
Tuesday’s election turnout topped the previous record, set in the Democrat primary of 2020, by about 4,000 votes. The high water mark for the GOP primary, set in 2016, was also surpassed by 13,000 votes...
Some precincts had lines of voters wrapped around the blocks, the Times reported.www.zerohedge.com/political/trumps-record-setting-new-hampshire-win-solidifies-path-forwardTrump's Record-Setting New Hampshire Win Solidifies Path Forwardnypost.com/2024/01/23/news/new-hampshire-primary-exit-polls-show-voters-strongly-backing-trump-on-immigration-economy/New Hampshire primary exit polls show voters strongly backing Trump on immigration, economy
As in Iowa, a plurality of New Hampshire GOPers (42%) considered immigration the most important issue in the 2024 race — and Trump won that group by a margin of more than three-to-one over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (73% to 22%), according to the Fox News Voter analysis.
The former president also bested Haley by double digits (53% to 40%) among the 31% of Granite State voters who said the economy and jobs were the most important issues.
Ultimately, a whopping 87% of Granite State MAGA supporters went for Trump, while nearly a quarter of those who said they were not red hat wearers (23%) backed the 45th president anyway. nypost.com/2024/01/24/news/trump-has-favorability-edge-with-these-key-voter-groups-in-swing-districts-as-2024-race-heats-up/Trump has favorability edge with these key voter groups in swing districts as 2024 race heats up: poll
President Donald Trump is viewed more favorably than Biden among both suburban and independent likely voters in 2024 swing districts, according to a new poll.
Notably, neither the independent candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nor replacing Trump with another Republican improves Biden’s standing with the voters.
Another Democratic presidential candidate besides Biden would also lose to Trump by a three-point margin.
“Trump’s absence on the ballot would likely result in lower turnout,” stated Brock McCleary, Cygnal’s vice president of polling. “In other words, Republicans have more to lose than gain without Trump on the ballot.”
The poll further showed Republicans have a higher degree of trust from likely voters in the swing-district races, increasing the likelihood that several New York congressional districts flipped by freshman GOP members in 2022 will stay red.
Generic GOP candidates have a two-point advantage over Democrats with all swing district voters, a one-point advantage with suburban voters and a 10-point advantage with independent voters.
A majority of the voters trust Republicans more to handle border security (56%) than Democrats (26%), and that double-digit lead holds among independent, Hispanic and suburban voters.
A plurality (46%) also have confidence that GOP lawmakers to better handle crime than Democrats (31%) — as well as inflation (45% to 36%).RINOs: why they lose www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/01/23/republicans-waste-167m-losing-effort-defeat-trump-new-hampshire-iowa/Republicans Waste $167M in Losing Effort to Defeat Trump in New Hampshire, Iowa
Trump leads by no less than 30 points in every state after the New Hampshire primary.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/24/arizona-gop-chairman-resigns-after-leaked-audio-relaying-alleged-bribe-powerful-people-stop-kari-lake/Arizona GOP Chairman Resigns After Leaked Audio Relaying Alleged ‘Bribe’ from ‘Powerful People’ to Stop Kari Lake
DeWit claimed that while he said things he regretted in the audio, he believes he was “set up,” accusing Lake of orchestrating the “entire situation to have control over the state party.” He failed to explain, exactly, how Lake set him up, supposedly tricking him into relaying these alleged offers from “powerful people” who do not want Lake to run for Senate.
throughout the audio recording, DeWit made it abundantly clear that the conversation “never happened,” which seemingly debunks his claims of transparency.
The audio in question features a private conversation between DeWit and Lake, in which DeWit essentially asks Lake what it would take to have her at least “pause” her political ambitions.
The audio begins with Lake stating, “They’re gonna have — try to have me murdered.” DeWit responds by mentioning news about the cartel operating in 50 states.
The conversation continues as DeWit explains that “powerful people” do not want Lake to run, which seems to rub Lake the wrong way, as she points out that they do not like her because they do not own or control her.
DeWit — referring to “very powerful people who want to keep you out” somewhere “back east” — said they are “willing to put their money where their mouth is in a big way,” essentially implying a bribe.
Lake responded by pointing out that this effort from these “powerful people” is really about defeating Trump, which she said is “bad” for the country.
DeWit continued to pitch the request from these nameless, faceless individuals, stating that Lake “can’t scratch their back,” and that is how the D.C. swamp works. Essentially, he asked for her price to halt her political plans.
“They’re gonna have to fucking kill me to stop me,” she said. “Either they come around and try to work with me –” she continued before getting cut off.
“I’m not going to let these people back in D.C. tell me not to run. I’m not going to pause for two years. The battle is now. I’m offended by whoever these people are that they’re trying to buy me out,” she said, as DeWit told her she should be “honored,” as “very few people get this” treatment.
“Is there a number of which –” DeWit began, prompting Lake to finish his thought.
“No. No. $10 million, $20 million, 30, no no no. A billion — no. This is not about money. This is about our country. I think it’s disturbing,” she said.
“Just it’s very powerful people that are willing to — they really want someone different,” DeWit pressed.
“I think you should go public with this,” Lake said, urging DeWit to show the world the corruption that goes on behind the scenes. DeWit immediately said “No, no, no, no,” before essentially suggesting that he would be killed if he did so: “Then I turn the key in my car” he said, making an explosion sound.
DeWit made it clear that the conversation “never happened” before asking one more time for a counteroffer from Lake.
“I can’t. I can’t be bought,” she said. “I can’t.”www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/01/24/nolte-donald-trumps-new-hampshire-triumph-defeated-nikki-haley-and-a-meddling-democrat-party/Even with 70 percent of Nikki Haley voters not being registered Republicans, Trump walked away with a victory...Trump still won the state by double digits and a record number of votes because…Trump won New Hampshire’s Republican vote by 46 points.
New Hampshire is not what anyone would describe as a MAGA state. It’s not Iowa. It’s not South Carolina. This is a state that likes its Republicans named Sununu. If there was a primary for Trump to lose, this was that...But let’s not forget that on Tuesday night, Trump won more raw votes than any Republican in New Hampshire primary history, and he soared well over 50 percent.www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/01/23/nikki-haley-spends-31m-losing-new-hampshire-primary-bid/Nikki Haley Spends $31M in Losing New Hampshire Primary BidLiberal priorities www.dailywire.com/news/unauthorized-pro-hamas-protest-erupts-at-columbia-universityPro-Hamas Protest Erupts At Columbia University - calling for the genocide of all Jews and the elimination of Israelnypost.com/2024/01/24/news/dad-rages-at-probation-for-bryn-spejcher-who-killed-his-son/A heartbroken dad warned a lenient California judge (has) established a de facto “license to kill” by sentencing his son’s killer to probation this week after she stabbed him 108 times in a pot-induced frenzy.
“There is no respect and no responsibility for anything anymore,” Sean O’Melia told The Post Wednesday. “If you can stab someone 108 times and get probation, we’re going to have nothing but anarchy and chaos.”
Bryn Spejcher, now 33, had taken a hit of marijuana from a bong while at victim Chad O’Melia’s Thousand Oaks apartment in 2018 when she suddenly began attacking him with a knife...ingesting a single toke of a standard pot leaf, Spejcher was launched into an extended rage, stabbing the 26-year-old accountant 108 times.
Lawyers for Spejcher, an audiologist, argued that she wasn’t responsible for the bloody slaying because of her intoxicated state.thefederalist.com/2024/01/24/this-j6-defendant-was-thanked-for-helping-officers-at-the-riot-now-prosecutors-want-him-locked-up-for-17-years/This J6 Defendant Was Thanked For Helping Officers At The Riot. Now Prosecutors Want Him Locked Up For 17 Years
Sarah said her husband was at the scene where Rosanne Boyland died. Ronald apparently deployed his skills as an emergency responder to assist both a fallen officer struggling in the crowd and Boyland, to whom he gave chest compressions. Sarah uploaded a seven-minute film about her husband’s case including footage of the riot to Rumble.
“Ronald saw that there was a law enforcement officer down, and he told the officers, ‘You have a man down,’ and they didn’t do anything,” Sarah told Kittle. “So Ronald went around the barrier to get this officer up off of the ground. He was completely defenseless with protesters around him. And as he was trying to pick up this officer, another officer came up and struck him with a baton across the ribs.”
As Ronald McAbee was pleading with officers to let him help, Sarah said, Boyland was “being beaten by Metropolitan police.”
“So he did try to assist the officer. He ended up getting him back to the line of duty, but unfortunately Rosanne Boyland lost her life,” Sarah said.
“There was a third officer that watched this entire encounter go down,” Sarah added. “The officer thanked him twice for his assistance, and at the end, he even put his arm around him and said, ‘I got you, man, I got you.'”thefederalist.com/2024/01/23/re-orientation-asks-uw-law-students-to-share-racial-slurs-and-confess-how-deep-racism-goes-in-my-life/nypost.com/2024/01/24/news/university-of-wisconsin-racism-seminar-denounces-whiteness/‘Re-Orientation’ Asks UW Law Students To Share Racial Slurs And Confess ‘How Deep Racism Goes In My Life’ - University of Wisconsin racism seminar tells students ‘there are no exceptional white people’nypost.com/2024/01/24/news/los-angeless-annual-count-of-homeless-residents-begins/Annual count of homeless residents begins in Los Angeles, where tens of thousands live on streetsnypost.com/2024/01/24/news/cvs-store-to-close-after-dc-thieves-ransack-location-for-months-leaving-shelves-bare/CVS store to close after DC thieves ransack location for months, leaving shelves barenypost.com/2024/01/24/news/13-year-old-driver-4-others-arrested-after-mob-loots-california-bakery-in-street-takeover/13-year-old driver, 4 others arrested after mob loots California bakery in street takeover - Officials valued the initial estimates to $40,000 in damage and lost property...Hours after being released, the 13-year-old was a part of a string of other burglaries throughout the county with one back in Compton, and another in the city of Carson."Give him a 20th chance!!" Reuben Ramirez Jr., the man who runs the family-owned business after his father opened nearly half a century ago, was angered by the lack of accountability from the looters.
“We just felt frustrated, we felt that maybe it’s a sign that we needed to close our business because of everything that’s going on, but here we are we reopened and are getting through this,” Ramirez Jr. told reporters after the press conference.www.dailywire.com/news/world-health-organization-named-former-prostitute-genderfking-theorist-to-transgender-health-expert-boardWorld Health Organization Named Former Prostitute, ‘Genderf**king’ Theorist To Transgender Health Expert Board
The World Health Organization (WHO) established an expert advisory group on transgender health, seeking guidance from a transgender former prostitute who called the line of work “empowering” and an academic attempting to popularize “genderf**king” as a critical legal theory.
“Surviving migration, sex work and homelessness, all while being HIV positive and transgender, have made me strong and resilient in the work I do,” Castellanos noted in a biography. “I have had the opportunity to share my insights with young trans and HIV activists.”
Rather than just “surviving” prostitution, however, Castellanos says “sex work was the most empowering thing that ever happened to me,” explaining that he “started working in the streets, offering my sexual services” in Mexico after fleeing home, eventually using drugs and ending up in prison.
Florence Ashley, another transgender activist who was appointed to the WHO’s Guidelines Development Group, describes himself as “metaphorically a biorg witch with flowers in their hair” and is the author of an article set to be published in the McGill University Law Journal titled “Genderf**king as a Critical Legal Methodology,” where he discusses ways to resist “gender governance.”
He also explains that the concept of “genderf**king” is intended for those “whose gender is an eldritch horror adorning a seven-dimensional tentacle c*ck. People whose gender oscillates so fast that it undergoes spontaneous fission.”
Ashley produced an extensive list of largely nonsensical terms that he’s used to refer to his gender, which includes the words and phrases “alien,” “alienby,” “trashgender,” “gender malcontent,” “deception,” and “unfathomable swirling void.”notthebee.com/article/for-the-first-time-the-largest-group-sexually-assaulting-children-is-other-childrenBritish police say the majority of sex crimes against kids are being committed by other kids for the first time ... they directly blame porn and smartphones
The NPCC said 52% of alleged offenders were children, compared with around one third a decade ago. In the United States, that number jumps to 70%.
Boys are watching violent porn on their smartphones then going on to attack girls, police have said..."I think that is being exacerbated by the accessibility of violent pornography and the ease with which violent pornography is accessible to boys and, therefore, a perception that is normal behaviour, and that person can carry out that behaviour that they are seeing online in the most violent way against other peers as well."
I think it's prudent to ask how boys learned to search for such things in the first place. After all, some of the "perpetrators" discussed in these articles are as young as four. I sincerely doubt a four-year-old is looking through pornography without some assistance...They get plenty of help from Dem groomers: notthebee.com/article/well-heres-a-teacher-doing-a-happy-dance-because-one-of-his-students-says-theyre-non-binary-Here's a teacher doing a happy dance because one of his students says he or she is non-binarywww.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/21/nyc-neighborhood-left-filthy-migrants-poop-urine/‘That’s Nasty’: NYC Neighborhood Left Filthy with Migrants’ Poop, Cups of Urine
workers with the city’s Parks Department have been forced to remove three Port-a-Potties from the nearby park because they were left so dirty it became impossible to keep them clean.www.dailywire.com/news/israel-did-9-11-harvard-campus-littered-with-anti-semitic-graffiti-ahead-of-new-semester‘Israel Did 9/11’: Harvard Campus Littered With Anti-Semitic Graffiti Ahead Of New Semester
Harvard University students hoping that campus anti-Semitism would subside with the start of a new semester will arrive to see posters of Israeli hostages desecrated with various anti-Israel messages, including that the Jewish state is responsible for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to video captured by a student.
“It’s the night before the semester begins,” said student Shabbos Kestenbaum in a video of the vandalism. “That’s the John Harvard statue and then right over here we have fellow students defacing and vandalizing posters of Jewish hostages.”
"when Jewish students say they don’t feel safe, let alone welcomed, it’s because of actions like this and we have no faith that Harvard will do anything to stop it,” Kestenbaum added in the video.
Kestenbaum and a few other students filed a lawsuit against Harvard earlier this month, accusing the prestigious university of enabling anti-Semitism and selectively enforcing its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment. The university has parted ways with its former president, Claudine Gay, in the aftermath of congressional testimony in which she failed to deliver a strong message against anti-Semitism at the Ivy League institution.
The lawsuit cites several incidents of mobs occupying campus buildings, promoting violence, and assaulting Jews on campus. It also accuses administrators and professors of promulgating anti-Semitism and the university of partnering with a Palestinian university dominated by Hamas.nypost.com/2024/01/26/news/barista-at-crime-plagued-starbucks-fired-for-subduing-thief/Starbucks fires barista working through paramedic school who heroically subdued robbers after getting pistol-whippedwww.breitbart.com/tech/2024/01/23/unredacted-complaint-reveals-horrifying-level-of-pedos-sexually-targeting-children-on-instagram-facebook/Unredacted Complaint Reveals Horrifying Level of Pedos Sexually Targeting Children on Instagram, Facebook
A New Mexico complaint against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has been unredacted to reveal horrifying claims of sexual harassment against children on Facebook and Instagram. One internal presentation estimated that 100,000 children a day are targets by pedophiles on Zuckerberg’s platforms, including receiving ” pictures of adult genitalia.”
Elsewhere in the thread, Kint points out an internal conversation highlighted in the complaint, in which one Meta employee states that nothing is being done to counter child grooming on the company’s social media platforms, adding, “I’d argue we’re making it worse.”www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/21/chicago-best-organized-retail-theft-burglary-ring-led-newly-arrived-illegal-aliens/Chicago Organized Retail Burglary Ring Allegedly Led by Newly Arrived Illegal Alienswww.dailywire.com/news/the-fbi-said-there-were-pipe-bombs-on-january-6-evidence-points-to-a-coverup-congressman-saysThe FBI Said There Were ‘Pipe Bombs’ On January 6. Evidence Points To A Coverup, Congressman Says
Now a Republican lawmaker who pored over thousands of hours of video footage and other evidence from January 6 alleges that the bombs may have been planted with the involvement of law enforcement. He believes Democrats have backed off from the incidents for fear that the truth would be discovered.
Video identified by Massie shows officers reacting nonchalantly after they were notified of the pipe bomb, milling slowly around the area and even letting children walk in front of it afterward.
Kamala Harris was in the building at the time, a fact that the Department of Justice made misstatements about for months. The video raises questions about how a Secret Service sweep before she entered did not detect a pipe bomb in plain sight some 30 feet from them.
Security cameras also captured a person apparently planting the bomb on the night of January 5, but former top FBI Washington official Steven D’Antuono testified that he was “flabbergasted” to find that video footage turned over by the DNC was of far lower quality than would be expected of modern cameras. The bomb planter can be seen appearing to use a cell phone, but data from a cell phone company was “corrupted,” and the FBI wasn’t able to find any records for the suspect, D’Antuono testified.
The FBI said the suspect walked some six blocks between the two locations, in one of the most heavily policed and monitored locations in the world, but it has not managed to identify even the suspect’s gender...
Both bombs allegedly sat undetected for some 17 hours, until coincidentally being discovered within minutes of each other, virtually at the exact moment that tensions escalated at the Capitol.
The FBI also said the bombs were “viable.” But they were connected to a 60-minute kitchen timer, making it impossible to trigger an explosion the next day. D’Antuono testified....under oath that a 60-minute timer could not set off a device more than 17 hours later.
“We need to talk to the person who allegedly found the bomb,” Massie said, “and I’ve got a lot of questions for them. For instance: How hard did you look for the third bomb? Like, unless you know there are [only] two bombs, why would you quit looking after you found two? Wouldn’t you go into overdrive with a bunch of dogs and start trying to find bombs everywhere?”
“That doesn’t seem to have happened. It’s almost as if, ‘Okay, well, the first bomb has been discovered. Let’s go get that other one. And then we’ll be done with this part of the exercise,’” he added.
“This is an ongoing coverup at this point,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), a member of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, told The Daily Wire. “If there were indeed two operable pipe bombs, that would be the biggest threat that existed on January 6 … It doesn’t make any sense why they wouldn’t be promoting that threat to advance that narrative unless they had something to do with the pipe bombs and they’re trying to memory-hole the whole thing to avoid embarrassment.”Fraud Watch www.dailysignal.com/2024/01/22/that-other-primary-in-new-england-is-a-do-over-after-massive-voter-fraud-scandal/That Other Primary in New England Is a Do-Over After Massive Voter Fraud Scandal
Another New England primary is happening Tuesday, this one outside New Hampshire and between Democrats—and it’s a do-over to one that was stained by voter fraud caught on video.
Bridgeport, the largest city in Connecticut, garnered national attention last year after a judge tossed the results of a September mayoral primary because a Democrat operative was caught on video apparently dumping a load of ballots into a drop box.
“I have no confidence the do-over election in Bridgeport will be more legitimate than last time. The same people are ultimately in charge,” Connecticut state Sen. Robert C. Sampson, a Republican, told The Daily Signal.
There is no interest from the Democrat majority in the Legislature to prevent election fraud, Sampson, the ranking senator on the Legislature’s joint Government Administration and Elections Committee, said.
“Democrats resist any election integrity efforts,” Sampson said last week in an interview. “They voted down amendments to adopt voter ID, for signature verification, and they want to expand mail-in voting and no-excuse absentee voting.”
He said Republican state legislators warned about vulnerabilities to election fraud.
“Bridgeport brought attention to what we talked about,” Sampson said. “We hoped it would stop Democrats from just mocking us when we brought up election security. It didn’t.”
The voter fraud in Bridgeport is isolated only in the fact that it was captured on video, said state Rep. Gale Mastrofrancesco, a Republican who is the ranking House member on the Government Administration and Elections Committee.
“If you talk to the Democratic majority, they would say Bridgeport is isolated, but there is plenty of evidence fraud is happening across the state—in Stamford, in New Haven, and elsewhere,” Mastrofrancesco told The Daily Signal. “The difference here is that this was caught on camera.”
Video appears to show the vice chairman of the Bridgeport Democratic Committee, a Ganim supporter, apparently stuffing ballots into a drop box outside Bridgeport City Hall.
In his opinion, Clark wrote: “The videos are shocking to the court and should be shocking to all the parties.”It's not shocking to Dems. All the Dem barbarians are thinking is "this means we gotta hide the ballot stuffing better next time" thefederalist.com/2024/01/23/docs-cisa-knew-risks-of-mail-in-voting-in-2020-but-got-posts-about-them-censored-anyway/Docs: CISA Knew Risks Of Mail-In Voting In 2020, But Got Posts About Them Censored Anyway
One of these risks is that “Inbound mail-in ballot processes and tabulation take longer than in-person processing, causing tabulation of results to occur more slowly and resulting in more ballots to tabulate following election night.” Under the “compensating controls” section accompanying that specific issue, CISA noted that “Election officials, media, candidates, and NGOs are educating voters and setting the expectation that it will take days, if not weeks, to determine the outcome of many races.”
But it wasn’t just CISA officials who were informed of such risks. An Oct. 30, 2020, email indicates the agency shared the aforementioned concerns regarding mail-in voting with members of the corporate press during an “unclassified media tour” that same day.
Rather than report this information to the American public, self-professed “news” organizations such as The Washington Post — which had staff attend the tour — published articles in the days following the Oct. 30 briefing dismissing mail-in balloting’s many liabilities...Despite its own admission that mail-in voting presented challenges and potential hazards to effective election administration, CISA worked extensively to compel Big Tech platforms to censor posts underscoring such points leading up to the 2020 election. According to AFL, the agency contracted consulting firm Deloitte to “report on ‘Daily Social Media Trends’ relating to the U.S. Election — including narratives relating to ‘Vote-By-Mail’ — and to flag specific social media posts for CISA’s awareness and attention.”
Included in the posts Deloitte sent to CISA was an Oct. 30, 2020, tweet issued by Trump, in which the then-president claimed there were “Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA.” Deloitte also flagged a post from an unnamed conservative pundit who, as the consulting firm described, “accused Twitter of ‘SUPPRESSING’ a story about the Democratic presidential nominee’s son to help the nominee win the election.”
That post was in reference to Big Tech’s censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story. On Twitter (now known as X), users were not permitted to share the story, even via direct message.
Despite having authenticated the laptop in late 2019, the FBI was also heavily involved in these platforms’ suppression of the story.
CISA’s use of Deloitte to flag so-called “disinformation” online further confirms the findings unearthed in an interim report released by House Republicans in November. According to that analysis, CISA — along with the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) — colluded with Stanford University to pressure Big Tech companies into censoring what they claimed was “disinformation” during the 2020 election. At the heart of this operation was the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), “a consortium of ‘disinformation’ academics” spearheaded by the Stanford Internet Observatory that coordinated with DHS and GEC “to monitor and censor Americans’ online speech” ahead of the 2020 contest.
As documented in the interim report, this operation aimed to censor “true information, jokes and satire, and political opinions” and submitted flagged posts from prominent conservative figures to Big Tech companies for censorship. Among those targeted were The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway and Sean Davis.www.zerohedge.com/political/cdc-labeled-accurate-articles-misinformation-documents-showCDC Labeled Accurate Articles As Misinformation, Documents ShowHouthi Joe's corner freebeacon.com/latest-news/biden-admin-considers-backing-out-of-syria-in-face-of-iranian-proxy-attacks-report/Biden Admin Considers Backing Out of Syria in Face of Iranian Proxy Attacks: Report
America maintains about 900 troops in the country who, along with local Syrian partners, attempt to contain the Islamic State terror group and prevent its resurgence. Middle East Institute senior fellow Charles Lister, who authored the report for the magazine, said that taking them out of the country would "create a disaster."
"Given the disastrous consequences of the hurried exit from Afghanistan in 2021 and the impending U.S. election later this year, it is hard to grasp why the Biden administration would be considering a withdrawal from Syria," Lister wrote. "No matter how such a withdrawal was conducted, it would trigger chaos and a swift surge in terror threats."www.dailywire.com/news/25-republican-governors-band-together-to-support-texas-in-its-fight-to-secure-the-border25 Republican Governors Band Together To Support Texas In Its Fight To Secure The Border
Twenty-five Republican governors from across the country released a joint statement Thursday afternoon expressing support for the state of Texas as it fights to secure its border with Mexico.
The statement comes as the Biden administration is fighting to stop Texas from securing its borders and preventing millions of illegal aliens from flooding into the state.
"Biden and his Administration have left Americans and our country completely vulnerable to unprecedented illegal immigration pouring across the Southern border,” the statement, signed by 25 governors, said. “Instead of upholding the rule of law and securing the border, the Biden Administration has attacked and sued Texas for stepping up to protect American citizens from historic levels of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs like fentanyl, and terrorists entering our country.”
“We stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border,” the statement continued. “We do it in part because the Biden Administration is refusing to enforce immigration laws already on the books and is illegally allowing mass parole across America of migrants who entered our country illegally.”
The governors said that the U.S. Constitution clearly says that states have a right of self defense and that since the Biden administration has “abdicated its constitutional compact duties to the states, Texas has every legal justification to protect the sovereignty of our states and our nation.”
Signatories on the statement include: Governor Ron DeSantis (FL), Governor Brian Kemp (GA), Governor Kevin Stitt (OK), Governor Greg Gianforte (MT), Governor Joe Lombardo (NV), Governor Kim Reynolds (IA), Governor Chris Sununu (NH), Governor Kay Ivey (AL), Governor Mike Dunleavy (AK), Governor Sarah Sanders (AR), Governor Brad Little (ID), Governor Eric Holcomb (IN), Governor Jeff Landry (LA), Governor Tate Reeves (MS), Governor Mike Parson (MO), Governor Jim Pillen (NE), Governor Doug Burgum (ND), Governor Mike DeWine (OH), Governor Henry McMaster (SC), Governor Kristi Noem (SD), Governor Bill Lee (TN), Governor Spencer Cox (UT), Governor Glenn Youngkin (VA), Governor Jim Justice (WV), and Governor Mark Gordon (WY).www.dailywire.com/news/mom-whose-daughter-was-allegedly-killed-by-ms-13-sues-biden-administration-for-100-millionMom Whose Daughter Was Allegedly Killed By MS-13 Sues Biden Administration For $100 Million
Tammy Nobles, the mother of 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton, accused the Biden administration of playing “Russian roulette with our lives” in her lawsuit, which was filed late last week.
The $100 million suit accuses the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services of failing to stop the teenage El Salvadoran gang member from entering the country.
“Nobody at the border did their job and checked his background,” she told NewsNation.
Hamilton, who had autism, was strangled with a phone cord on July 27, 2022 in her Frederick, Maryland trailer home, according to police.
“We’re bringing this lawsuit because we’re tired of being held hostage in our own country. We’re tired of DHS playing Russian roulette with our lives,” the family’s attorney told NewsNation.
“All they had to do was make one phone call to El Salvador to know that he was an MS-13 gang member on the list,” she added.www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2819083/housing-unaffordable-half-of-renters-bidenomics/Housing now unaffordable for a record half of all renters thanks to Bidenomicswww.dailywire.com/news/the-country-has-been-invaded-former-fbi-officials-issue-grave-warning-on-bidens-open-border‘The Country Has Been Invaded’: Former FBI Officials Issue Grave Warning On Biden’s Open Border
Ten former FBI officials signed a letter describing the present danger the U.S. faces from Joe Biden’s border policy and raising serious concerns about a “specific threat that may be one of the most pernicious ever to menace the United States.”
the former FBI officials address a “new and unfamiliar” threat facing the country as “military aged men from across the globe” easily enter the U.S. “across a border that has been accurately advertised around the world as largely unprotected with ready access.”
“It would be difficult to overstate the danger represented by the presence inside our borders of what is comparatively a multi-division army of young single adult males from hostile nations and regions whose background, intent, or allegiance is completely unknown,” the letter states.
“In light of such a daunting, unprecedented penetration by uninvited foreign actors, it is reasonable to assert that the country possesses dramatically diminished national security at this time,” the letter continues. “The nation’s military and laws and other natural protective barriers that have provided traditional security in the past have been thoroughly circumvented over the past three years.”
The letter warned that a terrorist attack on U.S. soil “in imitation of 10/7” should be “considered a distinct possibility.” The FBI officials added that while “the warning lights are blinking,” there has been “little discussion … highlighting unsecured borders as a significant cause of this increasingly dangerous environment.”
“The country has been invaded, an invasion that will continue as long as the nation’s enemies perceive it will be tolerated,” the letter concluded. “Until it is stopped the United States is extraordinarily less safe and secure. Knowing all of this, it would be a shameful travesty if some terrible attack, a preventable attack, were to occur against innocent Americans or the infrastructure that keeps the nation safe and functioning. The government will have failed grievously in its duty to protect.”www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/01/26/another-biden-diplomacy-fail-venezuela-kills-presidential-election-after-clinching-sanctions-relief/Another Biden Diplomacy Fail: Venezuela Kills Presidential Election After Clinching Sanctions Relief
In exchange for the apparently defunct promise of elections, the administration of leftist Joe Biden awarded the rogue socialist regime a generous oil and gas sanctions relief package that is presently allowing the state-owned PDVSA oil company to once again freely sell Venezuelan oil and gas in the U.S. and international markets.
Maduro’s statements followed the launch of a crackdown on dissidents this week labeled “Bolivarian Fury,” an alleged response to the purported discovery of “foreign conspiracy plots” to kill Maduro and generate “violent and seditious actions” against the ruling socialist regime.
The first hours of the “Bolivarian Fury” crackdown saw the kidnapping of three of (opposition leader) Machado’s campaign administrators, as well as attacks on the local headquarters of Machado’s party, Vente Venezuela, in at least ten of the nation’s states. Other political parties and civil organizations also reported vandalization.
Machado appealed her ban to the nation’s socialist-controlled courts in December, but the courts are yet to issue a ruling. She thus presently remains banned from running in this year’s “free and fair” election and the Maduro regime has openly expressed its intention to uphold the ban.
Polls released in November suggest that Machado, in an actual free and fair presidential election, would easily defeat Maduro, sweeping roughly 70 percent of the votes.www.dailywire.com/news/trump-advisor-will-spend-4-months-in-prison-for-doing-exactly-what-hunter-biden-didTrump Advisor Will Spend 4 Months In Prison For Doing Exactly What Hunter Biden Did
Kimberly Guilfoyle summed up the comparison in a post on X, saying, “What an absolute disgrace. Peter Navarro sentenced to prison for refusing to play along with the Democrats’ illegitimate sham J6 circus While Hunter Biden defies a subpoena, mocks the entire process, and gets to stroll through Capitol Hill. Justice is dead.”www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/25/report-dress-e-jean-carroll-claims-she-wore-during-alleged-trump-assault-did-not-exist-time/Report: Dress (Biden Toady) Claims She Wore During Alleged Trump Assault Did Not Exist at the Time
“She originally claimed that the ‘event’ happened in 1994, and that she wore the Donna Karan dress on that day. The problem is that New York Times Fact Checkers found the dress wasn’t even made by Donna Karan until long after 1994,” Trump said on Truth Social.
“The truth is that she doesn’t know the day, month, season, year, or decade — because it did not happen. End this Witch Hunt now!"
one of her attorneys is (Biden's Toady) — a Democrat Party activist who led the group Time’s Up. She left the activist group after it was revealed she was aiding former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in attempting to discredit the Democrat’s accusers. It served as a great irony...nypost.com/2024/01/26/news/georgia-rep-moves-to-impeach-da-fani-willis/Georgia rep moves to impeach (Biden Toady), accuses her of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’freebeacon.com/democrats/amid-allegations-that-she-mismanaged-taxpayer-funds-fani-willis-requests-600k-for-new-cars/Amid Allegations That She Mismanaged Taxpayer Funds, (Biden Toady) Requests $600K for New Cars
"I don’t know why she’s requesting vehicles now," commissioner Bridget Thorne said during Wednesday’s meeting. "I met with the district attorney’s office in December. She said that she had requested $5 million in enhancements last year, but she only needed $4 million because she had already purchased vehicles."
"In light of all the recent allegations of her department, I don’t want to approve any money until those allegations have been addressed," Thorne added. "She’s been asked to comment on them. She has not. It is our fiduciary responsibility to make sure that taxpayer dollars are spent wisely."www.dailysignal.com/2024/01/23/exclusive-sen-roger-marshall-tracks-serious-crimes-committed-illegal-aliens-during-biden-presidency/Sen. Roger Marshall Tracks Serious Crimes Committed by Illegal Aliens During Biden Presidency
The body of 11-year-old Maria Gonzalez was found wrapped in a trash bag and stuffed in a laundry basket under her bed last summer. Police report that Maria was sexually assaulted and murdered while her father was at work, according to KHOU 11.
Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez, an illegal alien from Guatemala, is facing murder charges in Texas for Maria’s death. Garcia-Rodriguez was released into the interior of the U.S. in early 2023 after surrendering to Customs and Border Protection.
Maria’s story is one of about a dozen serious criminal incidents Sen. Roger Marshall shared in a long X thread Tuesday. Each recorded crime is alleged to have been carried out by an illegal alien who entered the U.S. under the Biden administration.
“The cartels seem to have more operational control of our border than our own government,” Marshall, R-Kan., told The Daily Signal in an email Tuesday, adding that “fentanyl is now killing over 300 Americans a day, and violent crime is skyrocketing.”
In August of 2023, an illegal alien from Venezuela was charged with raping a woman in front of her young child in Cheektowaga, New York, Marshall reports in his X thread. Around the same time, an illegal alien from the Democratic Republic of the Congo was charged with allegedly sexually assaulting an employee at a Best Western hotel in the same New York community just outside Buffalo.
“By defying the law and undermining our national security, every state has become a border state,” Marhsall said, adding, “this is not a talking point but the unfortunate reality of Joe Biden’s unprecedented border crisis.”
“We’re losing our children,” Dunn told the committee. “We’re losing a generation of children. We’re at war. We need our military at the border. That’s what we need. We don’t need more Border Patrol. We need our military at the border stopping the drugs.”www.dailywire.com/news/immigration-is-now-top-voter-concern-beating-inflation-new-poll-showsImmigration Is Now Top Voter Concern, Beating Inflation, New Poll Shows
Immigration is now the top concern on voters’ minds, bumping inflation, which was previously at the top of the list, to second place, a new poll shows.
About 35% of voters said immigration was their top concern, while about 32% said inflation was their main concern, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll released Monday.
The third biggest concern was “economy and jobs,” with 25% of people citing this as their top issue.
Despite immigration jumping seven percentage points since last month’s poll, inflation was mentioned by the most people as the issue that affects them personally.
About three in five people say the economy is currently weak, and just under half of voters believe their financial situation is getting worse, according to the poll.
Biden’s approval rating remains at a dismal 42%, the poll showed. His approval has not topped 46% since September 2021.freebeacon.com/latest-news/joe-manchin-says-bidens-energy-policy-spits-in-the-face-of-rural-america/Joe Manchin Says Biden's Energy Policy 'Spits in the Face of Rural America'nypost.com/2024/01/23/news/biden-claims-gaza-heckler-is-maga-republican-as-hes-interrupted-10-times-at-rally/Biden claims Gaza heckler is ‘MAGA Republican’ as he’s interrupted at least 10 times at rallynypost.com/2024/01/23/news/biden-calls-defeated-dem-terry-mcauliffe-the-real-governor-of-virginia-prompting-foes-to-label-prez-an-election-denier/Biden calls defeated Dem Terry McAuliffe the ‘real governor’ of Virginia, prompting foes to label prez an ‘election denier’
“Joe Biden — underwater among Virginians by 17 points according to recent polling — came to the Commonwealth today to spout election denialism.”www.dailysignal.com/2024/01/24/despite-bidens-efforts-empower-unions-membership-rate-wage-advantage-fall-all-time-lows/Despite Biden’s Efforts to Empower Unions, Membership Rates and Wage Advantages Fall to All-Time Lows
The percentage of workers who belong to unions in the U.S. notched down to a record-low 10.0% in 2023, from 10.1% in 2022.
Even more noteworthy is the shrinking gap between union and nonunion wages, which fell to a record-low of 15.0% in 2023. That’s roughly half the peak of 29.3% as recently as 2007.
Among private sector workers, the decline in wage differences is even more stark. The gap between union and nonunion wages fell by two-thirds between 2007 and 2023, from 24.9% to 8.4%.
Until recently, the wage differential between union and nonunion workers in the U.S. was around 25%. That gap has plummeted in recent years as nonunion workers’ wages have grown faster than those of union workers. Between 2019 and 2023, nonunion wages rose 22.2% (before inflation) while union wages rose only 15.8%.
And in manufacturing, unions’ wage advantage reversed, from 3.1% in 2019 to -4.0% in 2023, with nonunion manufacturing wages now exceeding union pay.
So, why have unionization rates and union wages been falling despite significant union-organizing efforts at places such as Starbucks, Amazon and Trader Joe’s, as well as President Joe Biden’s “whole of government” approach toward increasing unionization?
Primarily, it’s because unions aren’t providing things that workers want or need. Many workers don’t like unions spending their dues on politics instead of representation, their not infrequent deception and coercion to gain support or their rigid structures that impede flexibility and prohibit performance-based pay.
Meanwhile, by engaging directly with their employers, workers have been able to achieve stronger wage gains (albeit entirely erased by inflation), increased workplace flexibility, expanded benefits (such as paid family leave) and a multitude of educational opportunities.nypost.com/2024/01/25/news/cbs-anchor-found-no-new-hampshirites-that-feel-good-about-economy/CBS anchor admits he could not find a single person outside of New Hampshire grocery store who feels ‘good about the economy’freebeacon.com/latest-news/photo-of-bidens-briefing-book-at-qa-shows-he-knew-questions-ahead-of-time/Photo of Biden's Briefing Book at Q&A Shows He Knew Questions Ahead of Time
Biden has previously been caught knowing questions ahead of time. In April, he used a cheat card that had a question from Los Angeles Times reporter Courtney Subramanian, as well as a pronunciation guide for her name.nypost.com/2024/01/24/news/obama-alum-van-jones-tells-biden-to-stay-hidden-during-2024-election-campaign-not-a-great-messenger/Obama alum Van Jones tells Biden to ‘stay hidden’ during campaign: ‘Not a great messenger’
"Trump's strength, his resilience is really a reflection of Biden's fragility. Republicans are not afraid of Joe Biden...even with 978 felonies he's still neck and neck with Biden."Van Jones looks down on Whoville from communist HQ, buttmad at the truth here, every night www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/26/poll-bidens-3rd-year-job-approval-average-worst-since-jimmy-carter/Biden’s 3rd-Year Job Approval Average Worst Since Jimmy Carterfreebeacon.com/biden-administration/crunch-time-biden-has-less-than-a-year-to-fulfill-his-campaign-promise-of-curing-cancer/CRUNCH TIME: Biden Has Less Than a Year To Fulfill His Campaign Promise of Curing Cancerwww.zerohedge.com/political/biden-warns-trump-dont-mess-uhhiminauhwemericaBiden Warns Trump: "Don't Mess With Uhhiminauhwemerica"Bottom story www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2816802/hillary-clinton-upset-margot-robbie-greta-gerwig-getting-oscars-snub/Hillary Clinton upset about Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig getting Oscars snub
“Greta and Margot, while it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you. You’re so much more than Kenough,” Clinton said in a post on X to her 6 million followers, adding the hashtag #HillaryBarbie.
“I dunno if feminism needs the approval of someone whose Ken was on Epstein’s speed dial,” one woman said in response to the social media message.
“This is so cringe,” another person responded.
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www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/2824773/iran-drug-kingpin-assassinate-critics-defectors/Iran uses drug kingpin to assassinate overseas critics and defectorsfreebeacon.com/latest-news/iranians-enlisted-hells-angels-biker-to-assassinate-dissident-in-us-feds-say/Iranians Enlisted Hells Angels Biker To Assassinate Dissident in US, Feds Say
Naji Sharifi Zindashti, an Iranian national, allegedly coordinated with two Canadian nationals—Damion Patrick John Ryan and Adam Richard Pearson—between December 2020 and March 2021 to kill two people then living in Maryland, one of whom had fled the Islamic Republic, the Justice Department said in a release.
The department claimed that Zindashti enlisted Ryan to organize a team to kill the two victims. Ryan then told Pearson to recruit others for the job, the latter encouraging them to "shoot (the victim) in the head a lot to make example" and telling them to "erase his head from his torso," authorities said.nypost.com/2024/01/29/news/thousands-of-houthis-hold-parade-to-taunt-us-and-israel/Thousands of Houthis trample over US, Israeli flags during parade celebrating terror group’s attacksnypost.com/2024/01/30/news/houthis-chilling-warning-we-are-prepared-for-long-term-confrontation-with-us/Houthi leader warns militant group prepared for ‘long-term confrontation’ with USwww.dailysignal.com/2024/01/29/the-defense-departments-china-military-power-report-the-threat-is-worse-than-advertised/The Defense Department’s China Military Power Report: The Threat Is Worse Than Advertised
In 2022, the Chinese navy continued to beef up what is already the world’s largest fleet, working on delivering its third aircraft carrier and third amphibious assault ship, as well as additional guided missile destroyers, cruisers, and frigates. Beijing’s navy will soon be able to conduct long-range precision strikes against land targets from both its submarine and surface combatants.
The Chinese air force continues to modernize and produce increasingly advanced, domestically built manned and unmanned aircraft. Together with the Chinese navy’s air assets, it now constitutes the largest aviation force in the Indo-Pacific. Led by its fifth-generation fighter, the Ju-20, Beijing’s air force is on its way to becoming the largest in the world.
Perhaps most worrying, the report documents that, over the last 12 months, China built 100 new nuclear weapons—making it the fastest growing nuclear power on the planet. Beijing is on track to numerically match the U.S. nuclear arsenal by 2032.
Finally, the report documents the growing use of Chinese naval assets to intimidate and coerce fishing fleets operating in international waters—not only in the Western Pacific but as far afield as Latin America. All of this is done against the backdrop of an unprecedented number of air and maritime exercises in the waters and skies around Taiwan.freebeacon.com/national-security/iraq-is-choking-off-billions-in-u-s-backed-oil-exports-businesses-are-imploring-congress-to-help/Iraq Is Choking Off Billions in US-Backed Oil Exports. Businesses Are Imploring Congress To Help.
The Iraqi government is choking off the exportation of more than 400,000 barrels of oil per day in the country’s Kurdistan territory, prompting a regional trade association to petition Congress for help pressuring Baghdad to reverse course.
The Association of the Petroleum Industry of Kurdistan warned in a letter sent Monday to the House and Senate foreign affairs committees that U.S. and international investments totaling more than $10 billion "are now at risk" as the Iraqi government prevents the crude oil from reaching the market. More than $7 billion in revenue has been lost as a result of the impasse, according to the group.
The issue has been percolating for more than 10 months, but threatens to further inflame tensions in a region that is already facing the possibility of a broader conflict with Iran-backed terrorist proxies. Tehran’s Iraq-based militants have repeatedly attacked U.S. positions and are responsible for a weekend strike in Jordan that killed three American service members. Iraq’s Kurdish region has served as a stable U.S. ally amid the chaos, but with Baghdad’s government becoming increasingly close to Iran, the lost revenue from these oil sales is jeopardizing stability in the Kurdistan region.
"The halt of crude oil exports from the region, now lasting over 10 months, coupled with the unresolved Federal Budget issues by the (government of Iraq), continue to threaten the fiscal stability and autonomous status of the (Kurdistan region)—a region that has been a steadfast security ally of the United States in the Middle East," the petroleum association wrote in its letter to Congress, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The Kurdish government, which operates autonomously from Iraq’s Baghdad-based government, is already facing budgetary woes, and the halt in oil revenue has exacerbated the crisis, threatening to erode a bulwark against Iranian meddling in Iraq.
"The Iraqi prime minister should demonstrate that he is committed to leading his government to deliver a mutually beneficial solution that will no longer economically strangle the Kurdistan Region of Iraq," Myles B. Caggins III, the association’s spokesman, said in a statement. "This solution includes resumption of oil exports from the Kurdistan Region into the international markets with payment and contractual certainty for western and American companies to resume operations."
Congress has also raised concerns about the situation, with several Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee pressuring the White House late last year "to end the unacceptable treatment of Iraqi Kurds and the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) by Iran-aligned elements in Iraq."
"The closure of the Iraq-Türkiye pipeline," they wrote, "has cut off the KRG from the majority of its revenue. This comes at a time when oil prices are rising and Iran is able to export oil with seeming impunity, despite U.S. sanctions."thefederalist.com/2024/01/31/red-chinas-hong-kong-crackdown-is-about-to-get-much-worse/Red China’s Hong Kong Crackdown Is About To Get Much Worse
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee revealed that the city would be expanding upon a national security law passed by Beijing in 2020 that effectively stripped Hong Kong of its status as a semi-autonomous region. The law criminalized many basic protest activities, such as classifying “groups speaking of potential independence” as guilty of “subversion.” Activities deemed to involve “secession,” “terrorism,” and “collusion with foreign forces” were also outlawed, all of which “carry a range of sentences up to life imprisonment.”
Lee’s proposed legislation would build upon China’s overreaching edict by criminalizing so-called “political activities” and bar local groups from “establishing ties with them...Tuesday’s announcement represents the latest attempt by Hong Kong officials to further suppress basic freedoms across the city. In 2019, the Beijing-backed government’s introduction of a controversial extradition law led to citywide protests and the CCP’s subsequent passage of the aforementioned national security law the following year. To further squash dissent, Hong Kong authorities employed the new dictate to arrest pro-democracy journalists and force several media outlets to cease operations, effectively destroying the city’s free press.
Government officials also overhauled the region’s election systems, wherein only “patriots” who have demonstrated their loyalty to the Chinese government are permitted to run for public office. Authorities also used the outbreak of Covid as an excuse to implement a CCP-style tracking system to further diminish what few freedoms residents possessed.www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/31/chinese-hackers-us-wifi-attack-vital-infrastructure/Chinese hackers infiltrated home wifi routers to attack infrastructure, FBI warns"what me worry, China can build all our electronics and electric cars too! Ooh and put speed controls in the cars so they can remote control them and shut the grid down if they feel like it! Duhh!" -Demotards www.breitbart.com/border/2024/02/01/mexican-president-calls-us-government-immoral-after-multiple-reports-point-to-cartel-funding-his-campaign/Mexican President Calls U.S. Government Immoral After Media Reports Point to Cartel Funding His CampaignThe Future of Europe www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/31/uk-teacher-who-showed-class-image-of-mohammed-still-in-hiding-three-years-later/Teacher Who Showed Class Image of Mohammed Still in Hiding Three Years Laterwww.ncregister.com/news/abortion-ireland-censorshipIrish Abortion ‘Exclusion Zones’ — A Solution for a Non-Existent Problem - Even though police officials and health administrators have stated there has been no criminality associated with pro-life actions outside of abortion facilities, Ireland’s government continues to push forward legislation banning such advocacywww.zerohedge.com/political/eu-wants-all-gendered-language-erasedEU Wants All 'Gendered Language' Erased - including completely innocuous sayings such as ‘Joe Public’, as well as words such as ‘virile’ - Examples of words and terms to be resigned to the dustbin of history include ‘Master of ceremonies,’ ‘No man’s land,’ ‘Manpower,’ and ‘Repairman.’
Conservative MP Nigel Mills commented “This is utter madness. It’s an attack on the English language.”
The EU also suggests swapping around the words ‘King and Queen’, so Queen comes first. The fundamental problem with this is that the reason people put ‘King’ first is because he’s the guy in charge...The Queen is just the woman he married.
Where this gets really creepy, however, is with the call to erase words that have nothing to do with gender.
The document suggests that words like ‘bossy,’ ‘pushy,’ and shrill should not be used because they “have strong connotations that are strongly associated with only women”.notthebee.com/article/youre-not-allowed-to-sing-church-songs-outside-of-church-groundsBritish officer: "You're not allowed to sing church songs outside of church grounds."www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/31/europe-is-finished-condemned-third-rate-elites/Europe is finished, condemned to death by its deluded, third-rate elites
It’s time to mourn the demise of old Europe. The rot is too far gone, the decline too pronounced, the welfarism, decadence, pacifism and self-hatred too ingrained, the doom-loop unstoppable. Once the world’s richest, most advanced continent, Europe is finished, its humiliating fall all too obvious to the rest of the world, if not to deluded Europeans.
Its self-inflicted pathologies – catastrophic economic failure, near-total geopolitical irrelevance, a migration and integration crisis, and a gaping democratic deficit – have now metastasised. They have become too complex, too daunting for Europe’s third-rate elites even to consider tackling, and especially for the selfish, demagogic politicians who have presided with such insouciance over its social disintegration, “degrowth”, Potemkin militaries and appalling demographics. Germany, France, the Netherlands and elsewhere are on the brink of social explosion, with farmers the latest to have become radicalised.
The gulf in living standards between America and Europe keeps on widening. In the final quarter of 2023, US GDP grew by an annualised 3.3 per cent; the Eurozone grew by zero per cent and the German economy shrank again.
The continent’s high-tax, high regulation model has caused decades of under-performance, and now Emmanuel Macron, the EU and the Dutch and German governments are deliberately shutting down swathes of their agriculture to meet net-zero targets. The Germans are destroying their car industry, and Europe will import Chinese electric vehicles instead. Decades of “industrial strategy” and subsidies have failed to create a world-class European tech industry. The continent’s economic suicide is already triggering an exodus of the best and brightest.
Europe’s geopolitical irrelevance is equally striking. Its defence is being shouldered by long-suffering US taxpayers. The French are nowhere to be seen in the fight against the Houthis; its army is a shadow of its former self, and wouldn’t last long in a real war. The Poles and a few others are trying their best, but the German military is a joke, and all the great promises to rebuild European armies made in 2022 have meant nothing. The continent is almost completely demilitarised, lacks personnel and hardware, doesn’t have the capacity to produce more of the latter, has zero long-term answers to contain Putin...It’s a disgrace.
Europe’s greatest legacies to the world – capitalism, individual liberty, the rule of law and the “Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic” (or “weird”) values so brilliantly described by Joseph Henrich of Harvard University – will live on in the US. But there is no way back for a European continent that has embraced nihilism, post-Christian paganism, illiberalism and the politics of envy, that believes that saving the planet requires shutting down successful industries and impoverishing its people, that cannot face down Islamist extremism and anti-Semitism, and that won’t reform its welfare state.
Even Brexit, the ultimate warning signal, failed to change anything. Europe’s ruling class dismissed the UK’s departure as an aberration, an own goal by self-harming British eccentrics, and doubled-down on its failed policies. It refused to listen to voters; no wonder their rage is becoming ever more combustible, inchoate and unfocused.
The EU population will peak at 453.3 million in two years’ time, then slump to 419.5 million by 2100, despite massive immigration, Eurostat predicts. The population will age drastically, driven by a collapse in the birth rate. Welfare states will implode, with taxes rocketing on the young to pay for healthcare and pensions for the old. The Euro-elites’ only answer, even more migration, will empower potentially dangerous extremists. In France, Germany, Belgium and elsewhere, the failure to integrate many recent migrants, and the ruling class’s answer – to lie that all is well – is paving the way for a cataclysm. The rise of Germany’s AfD should worry us all. The European elections will see gains for populists.The real future www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/29/french-farmers-tractor-siege-paris-strike-blockade/French farmers lay siege to Paris with vow to cut off food - Capital 'only has supplies for three days' as tractor protesters angry at EU red tape blockade roads
The protests follow similar action in other European countries, including Germany and Poland, ahead of European Parliament elections in June in which the hard-Right are making gains.
Mr Durand, like thousands of others, said he was struggling against low income, red tape and environmental policies that were pushing costs up.
The main farming unions do not back strangling Paris’s food supplies but on Monday night angry farmers refused to move, setting up barbecues on motorways and sleeping in trailers.
“We’re here because we’ve had enough, we want to defend our pay, we’ve had enough of all the excessive red tape that’s even worse in France than the rest of Europe,” said Robin Leduc, 30, who runs a 200-hectare farm in Canly, not far from the tractor checkpoint.
“The government has to act fast then we can all go home as we have work to do on our farms.”
Henri Haquin, 43, who runs a 300-hectare farm in Bregy, north of Paris, said: “We get the feeling that Brussels doesn’t understand what we do and comes up with new laws every month that are difficult to understand and work with.”
He also has a real estate business to make ends meet, saying he won’t make a profit from his farm until he has paid off bank loans in a decade.
“Life on the farm is more and more difficult to make ends meet. We fear for the new generations. The main problem is unfair competition, lots of products from elsewhere without the same norms,” he said. “This is the only way we’ve found to get the government going”.
However, he insisted: “We clearly don’t want to starve Parisians. Only a small minority wants to block Rungis. For now, 90 per cent of the French are behind us. If we do that we’ll lose that support. We simply want to put pressure on the government and get solutions and go back on some laws we find completely ridiculous and inapplicable.
“All of the farmers in Europe are starting to move and say they can’t work with European laws as they are and I hope this can change things.”
Protests have taken place elsewhere in Europe, including in neighbouring Belgium, where farmers have stepped up their campaign against the administrative burden placed on them, including disrupting motorway traffic at the Daussoulx interchange near Namur.www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/31/next-stop-brussels-french-farmers-vow-to-take-tractor-protest-against-green-agenda-to-heart-of-the-eu/Next Stop Brussels: French Farmers Vow to Take Tractor Protest Against Green Agenda to Heart of the EU
Motivated by the climate change agenda and expansionist visions, the EU has gone from being the friend to farmers as it was in decades past and is slowly becoming a major foe of agriculture, imposing onerous environmental regulations on agriculture while at the same time allowing food produced cheaper in other parts of the world without such stringent standards to freely flow into Europe, and thereby undercutting local farmers.
Currently, there are active farmer protest movements in France, Germany, Poland and Romania. This week, farmers’ organisations in Spain said that they would be joining in on the action against over-regulation from Brussels.www.dailysignal.com/2024/01/31/time-is-now-trucker-convoy-heads-southern-border/www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2828953/take-our-border-back-convoy-protesters/Massive Trucker Convoys Heading South for ‘Take Our Border Back’ Rallies - Take Our Border Back convoy expected to draw 700,000 protestersnotthebee.com/article/once-again-donald-trump-has-been-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prizeOnce again, Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
"President Trump's Abraham Accords were an unprecedented accomplishment in the pursuit of Middle East peace, yet they continue to go unrecognized by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee."
Tenney noted that the 1976 Israeli peace agreement with Egypt and the Oslo Accords in 1994 were both recognized with Nobel Peace Prizes, but so far Trump's role in the signing of the Abraham Accords had not been acknowledged.
This is Trump's 4th time being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but so far no one has had the stones to give it to him!Liberal priorities freebeacon.com/latest-news/not-an-innocent-bystander-pro-palestinian-group-defends-protest-against-cancer-hospital/Pro-Palestinian Group Defends Protest Against Cancer Hospitalwww.timesofisrael.com/video-shows-california-imams-voice-hatred-for-jews-praise-or-deny-october-7/Video shows California imams voice hatred for Jews, praise or deny October 7www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/27/four-year-old-boy-admitted-into-church-of-england-school-as-a-girl/Four-Year-Old Boy Admitted into Church of England School as a Girl, Flashed ‘Their Willy’ at Female Studentsfreebeacon.com/latest-news/dem-aide-gets-off-police-say-no-charges-in-senate-sex-tape-scandal/Dem Aide Gets Off: Police Say No Charges in Senate Sex Tape Scandalnypost.com/2024/02/01/lifestyle/life-threatening-stis-still-out-of-control-across-us-per-latest-cdc-data/Life-threatening STIs are spiking across the US, per CDC data: ‘Out of control’www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/30/six-pro-life-activists-found-guilty-face-11-years-in-prison-for-peaceful-protest/Six Pro-Life Activists Found Guilty, Face 11 Years in Prison for Peaceful Protest - The government presented a clinic employee who claimed they were trapped inside the building during the protest, although the Thomas Moore Society argued that video of the incident shows traffic clearly passing to and from the abortion clinic during the protest.
the DOJ has notably charged more pro-life activists under the FACE Act than pro-abortion activists, despite the fact that FBI director Christopher Wray admitted in November of 2022 that approximately 70 percent of abortion-related threats of violence in the United States since the Dobbs decision have been against pro-life groups.
The Biden administration’s pursuit of pro-life activists has resulted in several high-profile cases, including that of Catholic father of seven Mark Houck, who was found not guilty of federal assault charges brought by President Joe Biden’s DOJ. The DOJ had decided to press charges against Houck, even though local authorities declined to press charges.
There are also several pro-life activists sitting in jail awaiting sentencing, including two women over the age of 70, who were similarly found guilty of conspiracy against rights and violating the FACE Act
In response to these incidents, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced legislation in September of 2023 to repeal the FACE Act...Former President Donald Trump also pledged last year to create a task force, if reelected, to review and potentially pardon or commute the sentences of every “political prisoner who’s been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration.”nypost.com/2024/01/30/news/jamaal-bowman-regrets-spreading-9-11-conspiracy-theories/Unearthed blog posts reveal Jamaal Bowman spread shocking 9/11 conspiracy theories while serving as NYC principal...claimed that Osama bin Laden was “blamed” for the attacks as an excuse
Bowman, who was elected to the House in 2020, also reportedly promoted the conspiracy theory movies “Loose Change” and “Zeitgeist” on the blog. The movies were a favorite of Infowars host Alex Jones — who served as executive director on the final cut of “Loose Change”
In 2015, Bowman went on an online rant that compared standardized tests to slavery and post-slavery racial segregation policies in the US, The Post reported at the time. "Slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, crack cocaine and now standardized testing were all sanctioned by the American government. All designed to destroy the mind, body and soul of black and brown people"notthebee.com/article/report-al-shabaab-terrorist-who-was-caught-at-the-southern-border-last-year-and-then-released-into-the-country-has-now-been-arrested-in-minnesotaAl-Shabaab terrorist caught at border WAS RELEASED BY FEDS to roam freely across America FOR A YEAR - How many others have we let through undetected? How many aren't even on watchlists? The border is wide open!www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/02/01/watch-alderman-blasts-chicago-for-paying-illegals-more-than-9000-a-month-in-freebies-id-come-to-chicago-too/WATCH: Alderman Blasts Chicago for Paying Illegals More than $9,000 a Month in Freebies: ‘I’d Come to Chicago, Too’www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/diversity-exhibition-laughably-claims-original-brits-were-black'Diversity' Exhibition Laughably Claims Original Brits Were Black
An exhibition celebrating ‘diversity’ in London laughably claims that the first Britons were black and that “Britain was black for 7,000 years before” white people arrived...claims that black people built Stonehenge, despite there being absolutely no evidence of this at all.
race activists will seize upon any indication that a historical figure didn’t have porcelain white skin and claim they came from sub-Sahara Africa to push diversity propaganda and attack the heritage of native white Britons.
This all points to the fact that sub-Sahara Africa has actually produced next to nothing in terms of important historical figures, culture, or anything of value, which is why they have to lie so profusely about it via government-funded fake museum exhibitions.nypost.com/2024/01/29/news/lawyer-for-california-woman-dodging-jail-in-marijuana-stabbing-stands-by-psychotic-defense/Girlfriend who stabbed boyfriend 108 times in marijuana-induced episode smoked strain with more than 30% THC...Spejcher also stabbed her dog and then herself repeatedly after deputies were called to their apartment
Outside the courthouse, O’Melia’s father, Sean O’Melia, said the system “completely failed” his son. After being convicted by a jury of involuntary manslaughter, Spejcher received just two years of probation, 100 hours of community service and no prison time.
“The judge didn’t do his job,” Sean O’Melia said. “He didn’t do what he was responsible to do.”
Marijuana is legal in California for prescribed medicinal users over the age of 18 and for recreational users over 21.notthebee.com/article/oregon-declares-fentanyl-state-of-emergency-3-years-after-decriminalizing-drugsOregon Declares Fentanyl State Of Emergency 3 Years After Becoming First State To Decriminalize Hard Drugs - overdose deaths have continued to rise since 2020www.dailysignal.com/2024/01/31/new-research-conversion-therapy-turns-lgbtq-narrative-head/New Research on ‘Conversion Therapy’ Turns LGBTQ Narrative on Its Head
Not only is there no evidence that efforts to change sexual orientation, which Sullins refers to by the acronym SOCE, increase the risk of suicide among those who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual. There also is evidence that such efforts actually decrease the risk of suicide or thoughts of suicide among them.
“What we’re left with is a situation where we’re being fed a lie that somehow attempting to change sexual orientation is going to fail all the time and it’s going to cause harm, and the truth is just the opposite"...it seems the researchers made an elementary mistake in analyzing the data; Sullins caught the mistake because Blosnich and his colleagues published the interviews along with the study.
“I got the data and looked at it and I found that they had ignored one very crucial question, which was, ‘When did you think about suicide?'” Sullins recalls.
When he read the interviews, he looked to see “whether the suicide activity happened before or after the person went to SOCE, and what I found, somewhat to my surprise, was that most of the suicidal behavior happened before the person ever went to SOCE. Two-thirds of the thoughts of suicide happened before they ever went to SOCE.”
“Now, you know, it’s logical that if someone engages in a behavior and then goes through an experience, later, that that experience could not have caused that preexisting behavior,” Sullins explains. “Things don’t work backward in the space-time continuum.”nypost.com/2024/01/31/news/damning-report-finds-us-pandemic-failures-began-at-the-top-and-led-to-state-overreach/COVID ‘failures’ like keeping schools closed led to ‘eye-wateringly’ high death rates, damning report reveals
In some Democrat-run states, schools were closed even after research showed that they could reopen safely with the proper public health measures in place, like improved ventilation.
As a result, the study says, children missed out on learning and socialization — as well as the ability to gain natural immunity to other viruses by interacting with their peers.
Some liberal states also kept parks, playgrounds and beaches closed despite scientific research showing COVID was unlikely to spread outdoors or on surfaces — forcing people to remain indoors with little to no human interaction.
In the aftermath, the US has experienced record high levels of obesity and diabetes, as well as increases in high blood pressure and cholesterol, a Gallup poll that surveyed more than 5,000 adults in all 50 states found.nypost.com/2024/02/02/news/trio-allegedly-blew-fentanyl-smoke-into-newborns-face-to-pacify-her-cries/BBC staffer brands Jewish people ‘Nazis’ and ‘parasites,’ calls white people a ‘virus’ in disturbing social media postswww.zerohedge.com/political/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-house-unveils-impeachment-articles-against-mayorkas-over"High Crimes And Misdemeanors": House Unveils Impeachment Articles Against Mayorkas Over Border Quagmire
Mayorkas is accused of:
- Willful and Systemic Refusal to Comply with Federal Immigration Laws: This includes allegations of repeated violations of immigration and border security laws, contributing to illegal entries and compromising national security.
- Failure to Comply with Detention Mandates: Accusations of implementing catch and release schemes, contrary to specific detention requirements in the Immigration and Nationality Act.
- Exceeding Parole Authority: Claims that Mayorkas paroled aliens en masse, violating the case-by-case basis required by law.
- Misrepresentation and False Statements to Congress: Allegations of making false claims about the security and control of the border.
- Obstruction of Lawful Oversight: Accusations of failing to comply with congressional subpoenas and hindering investigations by the DHS Office of Inspector General.
- Abandonment of Effective Border Security Initiatives: Claims that he neglected established border security measures without adequate alternatives, leading to increased illegal entries.
- Failure to Enforce Immigration Laws and Control the Border: Accusations of failing to control illegal entries and the influx of unaccompanied alien children.
- Diversion of Border Patrol Resources: Allegations that his policies led to the diversion of Border Patrol agents from their primary duties.
- Increase in Encounters with Aliens on the Terrorist Watchlist: Claims of a significant increase in encounters with potentially dangerous individuals during his tenure.
- General Neglect of Duty and Public Trust: Broad accusations of neglecting statutory duties related to immigration and border control.
"Congress has a duty to see that the executive branch implements and enforces the laws we have passed," said House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN), the Washington Post reports. "Yet Secretary Mayorkas has repeatedly refused to do so.""Islam Tumor" Update thefederalist.com/2024/01/30/rep-ilhan-omar-represents-everything-wrong-with-americas-immigration-system/Ilhan Omar Represents Everything Wrong With America’s Immigration System
There’s a clip going around of Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar talking to a group of Somalians about her allegiances and priorities as a U.S. congresswoman. What Omar says is instructive, not just about her general worldview but mostly (and more importantly) about how backward and destructive our immigration system is.
Omar is a woman of the left, but her speech over the weekend was pure blood-and-soil nationalism — for Somalia, not America.
She tells them she’s a Somalian first and a Muslim second. She doesn’t even mention the United States or her citizenship here. She promises to use her power and influence in Congress to protect her nation’s interests. (Again, that nation being Somalia, not America.)
Omar herself is of course an antisemite and a radical leftist. Her remarks are only important because they illustrate how her presence in the United States is a searing indictment of our entire immigration system and much of our foreign policy over the last 40 years. We should never have allowed people like her into our country, and by “people like her” I don’t have race in mind. I mean people whose national allegiances lie with other lands and other people, and whose priorities and way of life are incompatible with American republicanism and our national character.
Every piece of major immigration legislation adopted by American leaders, from the late 18th century through to the middle of the 20th century, was designed to preserve American self-government and our national character. It’s not that they wanted no immigration, it’s that they wanted to prevent the importation of a noncitizen class that would undercut and destabilize the republic. They understood, rightly, that meant a general policy of immigration restriction.
Democrats today don’t really believe in borders, and they denounce all immigration restrictions as racist because they reject the notion that America should be for Americans and that government policy should prioritize American citizens and their prosperity. Their grand project is to undermine and destroy the American republic, and importing mass numbers of noncitizens is one way they are going about it.
In this, they share a common philosophy with Democrats of the past. Today, Rep. Jerry Nadler feels free to talk openly about how we need illegal immigrants to pick our vegetables and harvest our crops. For him, importing a servant class of noncitizen laborers is a necessity, and not at all incompatible with his vision for America. His view is not much different than that of antebellum Democrats, who saw black slaves in much the same light. Then as now, Democrats have no intention that these people would ever become citizens with equal rights as someone like Nadler. Nor do they much care to preserve the character and way of life of their country, which they are constantly trying to destroy, consistent with their revolutionary left-wing ethos.
Indeed, they know that mass illegal immigration will destroy the country — and that’s why they want it.www.zerohedge.com/political/ilhan-omar-needs-be-expelled-congress-investigated-undeclared-foreign-agentIlhan Omar Needs To Be Expelled From Congress & Investigated As An Undeclared Foreign Agent
Ilhan Omar is an ethno-bigoted warmonger who embodies everything that she claims to oppose about the US and Israel, and her removal from Congress is required to prevent her from exploiting her position to provoke a regional war.
Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar accidentally outed herself as an undeclared foreign agent while speaking with her co-ethnics about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ethiopia and Somaliland. The English translation can be watched here at the Somaliland Deputy Foreign Minister’s X account. Omar didn’t refute the translation but only its “interpretation” of her warmongering and admitting to being a foreign agent. The video will now be summarized for the reader’s convenience.
“My answer to Somalians was that the US Government will only do what Somalians in the US tell them to do!” That was already provocative enough since it implied that this diaspora controls the regional policy of the world’s most powerful country exactly as she hypocritically lambasted Jews for doing by clear innuendo in the past.
Omar then removed all ambiguity about her role by adding that “They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interests of Somalia…The US is a country where one of your daughters is in Congress to represent your interest. For as long as I am in the US Congress, Somalia will never be in danger, its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others…Sleep in comfort knowing that I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from within the US system.”
She concluded her rant after a tangent by repeating the genocidal mantra that “Somalia is for Somalis only” and claiming that “over 45% of Somalia’s population are not even ethnic Somalis” in an allusion to the false claim she made at the beginning implying that the Somalilanders aren’t ethnic Somalis. There’s more to what she was suggesting than just a repeat of the late 1980s Isaaq genocide that led to Somaliland’s redeclaration of independence in 1991, however, as her final words from the clip prove.
According to her, “Ethiopia and Kenya have stolen and continue to occupy the Somali Region state, which belongs to Somalia. We will liberate the occupied territories that were stolen. What remains of Somalia cannot be further divided.” Recalling what Omar earlier admitted, she seemingly plans to leverage her role “within the US system” to “order” the world’s most powerful country to back militant Somali irredentism against Ethiopia and Kenya, which could plunge nearly 200 million people into war.
The US’ objective interests are served by getting Somalia to negotiate a “dignified divorce” with Somaliland instead of preparing for a repeat of 1977-1978 Ethio-Somali War that laid the seeds for Somalia’s collapse a little more than a decade later till the present day. Omar is an ethno-bigoted warmonger who embodies everything that she claims to oppose about the US and Israel, and her removal from Congress is required to prevent her from exploiting her position to provoke a regional war.Houthi Joe's corner freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-campaign-chief-courts-pro-hamas-activist-to-boost-muslim-support/Biden Campaign Chief Courts Pro-Hamas Activist To Boost Muslim Support
Siblani, who carries significant influence in Michigan’s Arab community, has an extensive history of praising terrorist groups. In 2022, he urged Arabs at a rally with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) to fight Israel with "stones" and "guns" and praised the fedayeen, or Islamic militants. He has referred to Hamas and Hezbollah as "freedom fighters," according to the Anti-Defamation League.
After Hamas’s attack on Israel in October, Siblani organized an event in Dearborn where a local imam said Hamas’s invasion of Israel lit "a fire in Muslims’ hearts that will burn that state until its demise." He cheered Houthi rebels as "the pride of Arabs" after the Yemen-based terrorist group called for war with Israel.
The White House is well aware of Siblani’s inflammatory rhetoric. Siblani bragged that he refused "to apologize for Hamas firing rockets at Israel" during a conference call with Biden White House officials in 2021.
In 2017, Siblani organized a rally where an activist stated that "whether it's called Hamas, whether it's called Hezbollah, we stand with everybody who stands against the Israeli occupation."www.dailywire.com/news/terror-groups-evacuate-their-positions-after-biden-admin-tips-them-off-to-their-plansTerror Groups Evacuate Their Positions After Biden Admin Tips Them Off To Their Planswww.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/02/01/jewish-groups-slam-biden-executive-order-on-settlers-will-embolden-terrorism/Jewish Groups Slam Biden Executive Order on Settlers: ‘Will Embolden Terrorism’
The new sanctions tools against Israelis announced by the Biden Administration is not about settler violence. First, it does not require acts of violence - anyone vaguely involved in doing or not doing anything the WH thinks undermines "peace" and "security" qualifies...It could also be used to sanction political leaders and political parties with no direct link to violence
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) issued a blistering statement, noting that Biden’s executive order created a false moral equivalence between Hamas and Israeli settlers, the overwhelming majority of whom are peaceful and law-abiding...the executive order is so broad that it could be used to “cut off the entire settler movement from US financial services,” That has long been a goal of the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” (BDS) movement.
It is also only being applied to Israeli Jews — not to Palestinians — even though the Palestinian Authority actively encourages violence against Jews through the “pay-to-slay” policy, which gives stipends to terrorists imprisoned in Israel, and pensions to the families of dead terrorists.thefederalist.com/2024/02/01/joe-biden-keeps-rewarding-the-terrorists/Joe Biden Keeps Rewarding The Terrorists
the State Department is reportedly fast-tracking recognition of an “independent” Arab state, which not only promises to envelop Israel in a three-front terror fight but also pull the United States into a needless quagmire.
Only a few days after the inauguration, Biden brought back Rob Malley to spearhead negotiations with Islamic State. Now, there are many problems with Malley, but the biggest one is that he negotiates for Ali Khamenei rather than the U.S. And I don’t mean this in some abstract, political sense. The administration might be infested with Obama retreads who are keenly interested in making Iran a regional power that can curb Israel (and Saudi Arabia), but Malley, now under investigation for “mishandling” classified documents, assembled a team that literally — we have the emails — promised to help the Islamic State.
Talk about foreign “collusion.” It is stupefying that this subversion isn’t a massive story. One of the Iranian moles still works at the Pentagon.
a month after Malley’s hiring, the Biden administration took Iranian proxies, the Houthis, off the State Department foreign-terror designation list.
Then, as Obama did, Biden released billions to strengthen the deteriorating terror regime and its revolutionary guard. It wasn’t just ransom. Iranians, supposedly under U.S. and EU sanctions, were able to boost oil production to a five-year high last year — which amounts to an extra $10 billion.
All this did was incentivize Iran to further destabilize the region. Iranian proxies have attacked American troops at least 151 times during the Biden years. Last week, three US soldiers were murdered by the regime. Add those lives to the over 600 servicemen murdered by Iran over the past 20 years.
And while Biden was boosting Iran’s fortunes, he was also empowering their allies in Hamas.
Donald Trump bypassed the intractable Palestinians, giving Israel space to make peace with most of the Sunni Arab world. Iran was increasingly isolated and weakened. The first thing the Biden administration did was place Palestinians at the center of Middle East policy-making.
Biden overturned Trump-era policy, releasing hundreds of millions of dollars of funding to UNRWA and the Palestinians. At the time, Antony Blinken claimed it was critical for “Israeli-Palestinian understanding, security coordination and stability.” Really, he might as well have written some checks directly out to Hamas.
United Nations employees in Gaza, whom Washington had long known were actively assisting the terror group, directly participated in killing Jews on Oct. 7 — including, people often seem to forget, 30 U.S. citizens. At least half of the UN staff in Gaza is attached to organizations designated terrorist by the United States government.
Indeed, any ”independent” Palestinian territory is going to be a terror state. History is remarkably clear on this point. Even the PLO, propped up by Western aid and Israeli security in the “West Bank,” hasn’t been able to hold a real election in over a decade because Islamists would inevitably take control.
If Israel can’t stop weapons from infiltrating Gaza now, what does the situation look like when it is dealing with an “independent” state? What does it look like when Iran becomes a nuclear power? What does it look like when the Islamic Jihad — or whatever group pops up to take its place — begins lobbing rockets at civilians?
What is the U.S. going to do if there’s another Oct. 7? Are we going to send in troops and build a democracy in Ramallah? We can’t even close our own borders. The Biden administration, in fact, already opposes the creation of a security buffer zone within Gaza to prevent more attacks.
One of the most preposterous positions of Western foreign policy experts states that if Palestinians only had a state, there would be peace in the Middle East. There is no evidence for this. When Jordan and Egypt controlled the “West Bank” and Gaza Strip, Palestinians still attacked Jews.
Now, there are those, like (Biden), who maintain that the people of Gaza aren’t responsible for the actions of Hamas, even though most polls find overwhelming support for violent Islamic fundamentalism. Fine. If that’s really the case, there should be no problem asking the Palestinians to take the next 5-10 years to build a civilization that proves it can live peacefully with its neighbors — like hundreds of other ethnic minorities in the world who don’t have the benefit of the world’s attention.
Then again, maybe if they all started blowing up Jews, the West would propose giving them a state, as well.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/02/elise-stefanik-bidens-doj-would-rather-target-pro-life-protesters-than-real-criminals/Elise Stefanik: Biden’s DOJ Would Rather Target Pro-life Protesters than Real Criminalswww.dailywire.com/news/record-number-of-americans-are-homeless-as-rent-climbs-reportRecord Number Of Americans Are Homeless As Rent Climbs: Report
A record number of well over half a million Americans are homeless as rents continue to surge, a new report finds.
About 653,000 people reported being homeless in January of last year, according to a report released Thursday by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.
That’s up about 12% from the same time the previous year in 2022, the largest single-year increase ever recorded, the report says. About 71,000 more people were homeless last year than the year before.
Even more striking, last year’s number was about 48% higher than the homeless population in 2015.
Homelessness increased 9% in Los Angeles County in 2023, totaling an estimated 75,000 people. About 38,000 people are homeless in the Bay Area on a given night. That’s up 35% since 2019. More than 7,000 people are homeless in San Francisco itself.
Crime and open-air drug use often accompany the homeless issue, causing businesses to flee San Francisco’s downtown, where foot traffic has thinned. The deadly fentanyl epidemic, in particular, has ravaged the Bay Area as well as other cities, including New York and Philadelphia, which also struggle with homelessness.
In Washington, the number of homeless people rose 11% to 28,036 last year, although that is likely an undercount, according to state data.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/29/nolte-border-battle-69-side-with-texas-over-biden/69% Side with Texas over Biden in Southern Border Battle
The internals are fascinating… On this question, a 51 percent majority of black voters side with Texas, while only 32 percent of black voters disagree. Two-thirds of Independents (66 percent) side with Texas, while only 29 percent disagree.www.zerohedge.com/markets/great-job-biden-ups-plans-12000-layoffs-citing-higher-union-labor-costsJust Months After "Massive Labor Deal," UPS Announces Massive Layoffs
Five months after unionized UPS workers ratified a massive five-year labor deal that included massive pay bumps (read: here), the logistics company announced on Tuesday morning that 12,000 jobs, or about 14% of its 85,000 management jobs, would be cut.
Chief Executive Officer Carol Tomé was quoted on an earnings call by Bloomberg as saying job reductions were due to sliding package demand and soaring union labor costs. She said the layoffs would save the company about $1 billion this year.
Thousands of UPS drivers are about to find out what the natural end result of unionized negotiated raises in a free market means for their employment. This is one development the Biden administration will ignore - and or be forced to deflect blame.thefederalist.com/2024/01/30/bidenomics-is-so-bad-its-a-punchline-but-americans-arent-laughing/Last week, in a campaign stop at a Pennsylvania coffee shop, Biden seemed shocked at the $6.00 price of his smoothie. When asked if he was out of touch with the economic issues facing Americans, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tried to dodge the question. Finally, she answered by explaining that Biden was just “joking around.”
That made it official. “Bidenomics” had gone from failure to punchline.
In 2019, the median household income in the United States was $78,250. Under Biden, real median household income dropped to $74,580. And you can’t blame Covid. Between 2021 and 2022 (after the pandemic ended), median household income dropped under Biden by 2.3 percent, and median household income after taxes dropped by 8.8 percent.
Under Biden, cumulative annual average inflation is nearly 20 percent. For every dollar you had in 2020, you now have only about 80 cents. Incredibly, Biden demands praise for “reducing” inflation to its current 3.4 percent rate. Yet Biden’s best year is 48 percent worse than Trump’s worst year and 70 percent worse than the Fed’s target. When your best is bad, that’s not good. People know when they pay much more for much less.
Not only are your dollars worth less, but you also have less of them. Before Covid, personal savings in the U.S. reached $1.447 trillion. By year-end 2022, that figure dropped to $686 billion. You say, of course, savings were depleted; the economy was closed during Covid. In actuality, savings in the U.S. increased to $2.99 trillion during Covid. That’s what makes the depletion of savings under Biden so staggering — savings dropped from $2.99 trillion to $686 billion during Biden’s so-called “recovery.”
Under “Bidenomics,” credit card debt has soared. In the third quarter of 2023, American credit card debt increased an astonishing 16.6 percent year-over-year. Again, you can’t blame Covid because this increase occurred after Covid under the Bidenomics “recovery.” Not only do you have more debt, but you pay higher interest rates on that debt. According to WalletHub, the average credit card interest rate when Biden took office was about 14.7 percent. By November 2023, that rate rose to 21.47 percent.
When Biden took office, the average interest rate for an auto loan was 4.56 percent, and the average home loan was just over 3 percent. By the end of August 2023, the auto rate rose to 7.4 percent, and the home loan rate had more than doubled. If you could afford a $500,000 house under Trump, you can only afford a $325,000 house under Biden.
“Bidenomics” increased the federal debt to $34 trillion. Paying interest on the debt in 2023 cost the American people $659 billion. This represents close to 25 percent of all 2023 federal income tax receipts. One out of every four of your 2023 income tax dollars paid for … nothing. If the federal government confiscated all personal savings from every American, it might cover next year’s interest payment on the debt. Then again, it might not. This interest figure has nearly doubled since Biden took office. Under Biden, paying interest is the government’s fourth largest spending “program.”
Not only has Bidenomics created more federal debt, but it has also raised the interest rates that taxpayers must pay to service that debt. Bidenomics has caused interest rates to increase for everything, including government debt. The interest paid now is weighted in favor of pre-Bidenomics, low-interest government debt. In future years, interest payments will be weighted more heavily in favor of high-interest Bidenomics debt. People know they, their children, and their grandchildren will have to pay these outrageous bills.
Add to this list that in 2022, the supplemental poverty and supplemental child poverty rates increased by 59 percent and 138 percent, respectively, and that under Biden the number of homeless Americans has reached its highest level since HUD started keeping the figure.
Biden’s “job creation” claims likewise are deceptive. In July 2023, 161.26 million Americans were employed. By December 2023, that number dropped to 161.18 million. Yet during this same period, the Labor Department reported that the economy added more than 1 million jobs. You ask, how can this be? It’s simple, these two statistics measure different things.
The first measures the number of people employed. The second measures the number of jobs people are working. The two numbers reconcile in the following way: More people are having to work more than one job. Under Biden, the number of people working multiple jobs has been on the increase since the spring of 2020. For many Americans, “Bidenomics” is a sentence to hard labor.
People know when their lives are worse and their futures look bleak, no matter how many times Biden claims otherwise.
“Bidenomics” has attained punchline status. Unfortunately for most Americans, it is gallows humor. nypost.com/2024/01/29/news/biden-mocked-for-calling-trump-the-sitting-president/Biden mocked for calling Trump the ‘sitting president’ in embarrassing gaffe: ‘Mash-potato-brain’lol Fruedian slip! www.dailywire.com/news/biden-mocked-for-bizarre-exchange-about-mental-health-with-elmowww.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/01/31/joe-bidens-response-to-elmos-viral-online-wellness-check-backfires-as-americans-fault-him-for-their-depression/Biden Mocked For Bizarre Exchange About Mental Health … With Elmo
“Biden still hasn’t punished Iran for killing three American soldiers. Instead he’s tweeting about Elmo,” one said.
“What Joe Biden really needs to do is stop talking to Sesame Street characters and close the US border.”
“You’re just like Elmo. A puppet,” another wrote to Biden.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/31/nolte-donald-trump-tops-joe-biden-7-of-7-crucial-swing-states/Donald Trump Tops Joe Biden in 7 of 7 Crucial Swing States
Only 29 percent of those polled said the national economy is headed in the right direction, while 71 percent said we’re on the wrong track. This is bad news for Biden because 82 percent said the economy will be “very important” when choosing who to vote for in November.
On favorability, Biden is 20 points underwater.nypost.com/2024/02/01/news/biden-lets-f-bombs-fly-when-talking-privately-about-trump-report/Biden lets F-bombs fly when talking privately about Trumpcry more
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freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-can-build-nuclear-bomb-in-one-week-signaling-extreme-danger-for-western-world-report-says/Iran Can Build Nuclear Bomb in One Week, Signaling ‘Extreme Danger’ for Western World, Report Says
Iran has enough weapons-grade uranium to produce its first nuclear weapon within a week and a total of six bombs within a month, a scenario that is increasingly likely to unfold as conflict in the Middle East reaches critical levels, according to a report from a watchdog group.
"The volatile situation in the region is providing Iran with a unique opportunity and increased internal justification for building nuclear weapons while the United States and Israel’s resources to detect and deter Iran from succeeding are stretched thin," the Institute for Science and International Security, a watchdog group that monitors Tehran’s atomic program, warned in a report published Monday. "Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities are more dangerous than they have ever been, while its relations with the West are at a low point."
The findings signal "extreme danger" for the international community and marks the "first time" the institute has issued such a determination since it began reporting on the Iranian nuclear program’s threat level...The Islamic Republic continues to make "progress on developing sensitive nuclear capabilities, ... increasing its nuclear weaponization efforts beyond breakout."
Iran has the ability to "break out and produce enough weapon-grade enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon in a week, using only a fraction of its 60 percent enriched uranium," according to the report. "This breakout could be difficult for inspectors to detect promptly, if Iran took steps to delay inspectors’ access."
The problem is compounded by Iran’s refusal to give international nuclear inspectors full access to its contested enrichment sites. The level of obfuscation has increased during the past year.
Rafael Grossi, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s director general, warned in January that Tehran is refusing oversight in an "unprecedented way."
With this increasingly large stockpile, "Iran could rapidly produce enough weapon-grade uranium for a small nuclear arsenal," the report concluded. "In addition, Iran has multiple ways to deliver nuclear weapons, including on ballistic missiles."freebeacon.com/latest-news/iranian-agents-plotted-to-attack-jews-in-sweden-report/Iranian Agents Plotted To Attack Jews in Swedenwww.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2840541/china-moving-into-afghanistan-oil-natural-gas-lithium/China moving into Afghanistan for oil, natural gas, and lithium
In the last year, China and the Taliban have inked a 25-year mining contract at Amu Darya, said to have the world’s third-largest oil and natural gas reserves. A Chinese firm is also investing in Afghan power generation and building a major cement factory.www.zerohedge.com/markets/venezuela-deploys-tanks-armored-carriers-guyana-borderVenezuela Deploys Tanks, Armored Carriers To Guyana Border The Future of Europe www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/06/sweden-three-explosions-rock-stockholm-in-four-days-as-country-comes-off-record-year-for-gang-bombings/Sweden: Three Explosions Rock Stockholm in Four Days as Country Comes Off Record Year for Bombings
The latest string of explosions comes on the backs of a historic year for gang-tied bombings in Sweden, with 149 bombings being recorded in 2023, a new grim record for the once peaceful nation. This comes despite efforts from police, who seized an astonishing ten tonnes of explosive material from criminals during the same time period.
“We have never seen anything like this,” Malin Nygren of the National Bomb Data Center said last month.
Since the police began keeping such statistics in 2018, there have been at least 650 recorded bombings in Sweden.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson whose centre-right government came to power in late 2022 on an anti-mass migration platform has blamed the country’s gang epidemic on the open borders agenda of previous left-wing governments.
“It is an irresponsible immigration policy and a failed integration that has brought us here,” Kristersson said in September.The real future www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/09/french-populist-marine-le-pen-leads-field-in-race-to-replace-president-macron/French Populist Marine Le Pen Leads Field in Race to Replace President Macronwww.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/02/05/nayib-bukele-declares-one-party-rule-opposition-pulverized-in-el-salvador-presidential-election/Nayib Bukele's Opposition ‘Pulverized’ in El Salvador Presidential Election
“On this day, El Salvador has broken all records of all democracies in all the history of the world – since democracy began, never has a campaign won by the number of votes that we have won today,” Bukele declared on Sunday. “It is literally the largest percentage in all of history. It is the largest difference between the first and second place in all of history. And not only have we won the presidency of the republic for a second time, with over 85 perccent of the vote, but we have won the legislative assembly with 58 out of 60 representatives, at a minimum.”
The gang crackdown, even critics concede, has been a resounding success, fueling Bukele’s outsized popularity. Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, the most prominent critical voice against Bukele in the country, published a report which has been critical of Bukele’s administration, reported in February 2023 that gangs have virtually “disappeared.” While the state of exception limited some freedom of assembly, the destruction of the gangs expanded previously unexercised freedoms by allowing for the restoration of activities deemed normal in free countries, such as small businesses operating without having to pay extortion fees to gangs or families safely using public parks.www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2837081/nayib-bukele-will-continue-to-transform-central-america/With a mandate that most politicians around the world would only dream of, Bukele is poised to continue charting a revolutionary course in a nation that less than a decade ago had a murder rate among the highest in the world. Today it is among the lowest.
And just how did Bukele achieve this transformational change? By arresting gang members by the thousands and swiftly destroying their grip on the nation’s way of life.
“Salvadorans have given the example to the entire world that any problem can be solved if there is the will to do it,” Bukele told a massive crowd of supporters on Sunday night. It’s hard to argue with him.
But what might be the most enduring effect of Bukele’s stunning success in preserving domestic security is its effect on the rest of Latin America. As the 42-year-old Bukele enjoys envious approval ratings, the rest of the region is looking to his example as it attempts to shake the control and influence that drug cartels and gangs like MS-13 have enjoyed for years.
For decades, Central and South America have been plagued by corruption and organized crime that has turned parts of the region into perpetual war zones and claimed thousands of lives. It is without question a primary driver for illegal immigration to the United States from that region.
But if the countries in that region were to provide people with a safe place to live, earn an income, and raise a family, the need for that migration north would be significantly diminished as the prospects of prosperity at home increase. El Salvador’s neighbors are taking note.
Xiomara Castro, the president of Honduras, has channeled Bukele’s policies in a similar crackdown on organized crime, even announcing the construction of a new maximum security prison on an island to house gang members.
As other Central and South American leaders look to find electoral success, Bukele’s enduring legacy could be the security of the entire continent. And quite poetically, on the day of his electoral triumph, not a single person was killed in El Salvador.nypost.com/2024/02/05/news/el-salvador-president-nayib-bukele-secures-reelection-in-landslide-win/Few doubted the outcome of the elections. Polls showed most voters wanted to reward Bukele for decimating the crime groups that made life intolerable in El Salvador and fueled waves of migration to the United States.
Guadalupe Guillen, a 55-year-old shopkeeper, showed up at the victory party dressed in a tunic and Arab scarf, a nod to Bukele’s Palestinian family heritage.
“We are celebrating, thanking him, thanking God, for getting us out of this gang problem. We don’t want to go back to that horrible past,” said Guillen, who added she no longer pays $300 in extortion to the gangs every fortnight.
Candidates for FMLN and ARENA, two parties that rotated power between them until 2019, were set to receive single digit support as voters once again rejected traditional parties whose rule was marked by violence and corruption for decades.www.breitbart.com/national-security/2024/02/06/under-javier-milei-argentina-toys-bukele-model-against-violent-crime/Under Javier Milei, Argentina Toys with ‘Bukele Model’ Against Violent Crime
(Security Minister) Bullrich recounted that Bukele’s Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro had traveled to Argentina to represent El Salvador at Milei’s presidential inauguration. Both ministers were able to converse on the subject of crime and how El Salvador had been able to solve its problem.
Upon taking office, Bullrich oversaw changes in Argentina’s security policies regarding the handling of protests and violent riots. Leftist rioters have continuously attempted, with little success, to incite chaos in Buenos Aires as the Argentine Congress debates...One of the new policies Bullrich implemented transfers the security costs incurred by the Argentine police authorities to the protesters and rioters themselves. Bullrich estimated that the costs of damages caused by the recent protests outside Congress against the omnibus bill were about 134 million Argentine pesos (roughly $161,530).
“We said that we were going to tally the damages caused by the permanent aggression in Congress,” Bullrich said. “We present the expenses of the operation to the Court so that, once the organizations and those responsible have been identified, they can be charged.”
The Argentine Security Ministry also requested from the nation’s courts permission to seize the properties of the rioters who caused damages outside Congress to help cover the damages.www.breitbart.com/border/2024/02/04/texas-border-showdown-13-governors-join-abbott-at-state-seized-park-along-rio-grande/www.dailywire.com/news/hundreds-rally-in-texas-after-take-our-borders-back-convoy-reaches-borderTEXAS BORDER SHOWDOWN: 13 Governors Join Abbott at State-Seized Park Along Rio Grande - Hundreds Rally In Texas After ‘Take Our Borders Back’ Convoy Reaches Borderwww.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2842832/competition-makes-public-schools-better/Competition makes public schools better, new study suggests
The opponents of school choice and charter schools sometimes argue that private schools don’t deliver better education. Usually, though, they contend that if parents can send their children to a better school, the children left behind in the inferior school will suffer.
A new study suggests that the students “left behind” benefit from charter schools they don’t attend because the charter schools apply competitive pressure to the traditional public schools.
Imagine that — competition makes things better.RINOs: why we lose thefederalist.com/2024/02/07/republicans-would-rather-remain-beautiful-losers-than-win/Republicans Would Rather Remain Beautiful Losers Than Win
Congressional Republicans are history’s most powerful court jesters. More concerned with earning momentary praise and social access from the people who hate them and their voters, they routinely refuse to deliver results for their constituents or capitalize on potential political wins.
Just look at House Republicans’ failed attempt at impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas due to three members siding with Democrats. Republicans walked away from doing something their voters desperately wanted done and fumbled what should have been an incredibly easy political win.
Much like the party’s refusal to take meaningful action in protecting the unborn, Republicans don’t want to impeach anybody. They want to puff their chest, grift donations, then capitulate at the last second so it looks like they fought a real fight.
“The majority of Republicans live in abject horror trying to appease Democrats … they want to be accepted"
Defective Reps. Ken Buck of Colorado, Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, and California’s Tom McClintock, each expressing concerns over Republicans’ use of impeachment for political purposes, evidently find greater value in clinging to the notion that the preservation of norms and procedures that have already been done away with will be rewarded.
Impeaching Mayorkas would show voters they were serious about addressing the lawlessness at the southern border. But because they refused to impeach, the left has another cudgel to use against them when this should have been a unifying moment to hold the left to account.
Had Republicans not expelled Santos, they would be able to overcome this issue, but they prioritized temporary accolades over meaningful results.
The median Republican member is happy simply to dine with lobbyists and get a mention in the legacy press. They aren’t using the institutional and political mechanisms at their disposal to coerce behavior, effect change, or humble their enemies. They prioritize the former, assuming the latter will revoke their status as one of the swamp’s special people.
Just like abortion, health care, and spending, Republicans don’t want to actually deal with the border. They want to grandstand and fundraise off it and remain losers beautiful only to themselves.Liberal priorities nypost.com/2024/02/06/news/squatters-take-over-1200-homes-in-atlanta-terrorize-neighbors/Squatters take over 1,200 homes in Atlanta, open illegal strip clubs and terrorize neighbors: ‘is this even America?’www.zerohedge.com/political/canadian-mp-wants-criminalize-speech-endorses-fossil-fuelsCanadian MP Wants To Criminalize Speech That Endorses Fossil Fuelsnotthebee.com/article/report-activist-judge-in-kentucky-gets-transgender-daycare-worker-sweetheart-deal-with-no-jail-time-after-sexually-abusing-a-babyWhy do you think a Kentucky judge gave no jail time to a transgender daycare worker who sexually abused a baby?
According to witness testimony, a co-worker had asked Childers for assistance in changing an infant's diaper. While Childers was cleaning the baby's genitals, the co-worker noticed that the infant appeared to be in distress and asked Childers if he was hurting the baby. She then witnessed Childers rub the infant's genitals in a 'circular motion,' while saying 'that was her clit area and she likes it. It just made her day.'
While Childers was reported to management at the Academy, he was only given a 'write up.' Police later learned that Childers had also been accused by other co-workers of leaving the children in high chairs for 'hours' without care.
Childers hired a trans-activist Democrat politician in Kentucky named Madison Leach (who is also a male that pretends to be a woman).
First, Leach petitioned for the bond on Childers to be dropped from $100,000 all the way to $5,000 because - GET THIS - Childers couldn't access ESTROGEN in jail.
And the court agreed!
Now to the plea deal: The guy was witnessed sexually touching a BABY, pled guilty, and got off with a misdemeanor and no criminal record.www.dailywire.com/news/bay-area-school-tried-woke-kindergarten-test-scores-dropped-moreBay Area School Tried ‘Woke Kindergarten,’ Test Scores Dropped More - curriculum includes a "woke word of the day"...Less than 4% of students were proficient in math, and less than 12% of students were proficient in English as of last spring.nypost.com/2024/02/08/news/peta-calls-on-amusement-ride-manufacturer-chance-rides-to-stop-selling-animal-themed-carousels/PETA calls on amusement ride manufacturer to stop selling animal-themed carouselswww.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2843616/the-california-democratic-model-for-cities-is-a-failure/They live in filth The California Democratic model for cities is a failure
The latest development in California’s failing cities is in Oakland, with Gov. Gavin Newsom sending an additional 120 California Highway Patrol officers to combat crime. Violent crime rose in Oakland by 21% from 2022 to 2023. What exactly those additional officers are supposed to do is anyone’s guess, though, given that the district attorney in charge of prosecuting criminals in Oakland has no interest in doing anything of the sort.
Meanwhile, homelessness has risen again in Los Angeles. San Francisco brought on record drug overdose deaths last year with its permissive drug policies. San Diego, which replaced its Republican mayor with a Democrat in 2020, is seeing an increasing number of residents looking to leave the state and is the most expensive place in the country to live, according to U.S. News & World Report.
The cities have also been mired in recall elections, as even their Democratic voters have noticed things decaying. San Francisco recalled three school board members and a pro-criminal district attorney. Los Angeles nearly pushed forward with a recall of its pro-criminal district attorney, and Oakland is looking to do the same along with recalling the mayor. Oakland isn’t even the first city to which Newsom sent CHP officers: last year, he sent them and the National Guard to San Francisco amid that record number of overdose deaths.
Would you look at any of these cities and say they are well-run? They are too expensive to live in, too dangerous to live in, or both. They all follow the same California Democratic model, and they are all seeing some combination of people and businesses fleeing, recall elections, or intervention from the state government. In the case of San Francisco and Oakland, they are seeing all three.
The California Democratic model is a failure for business owners, everyday residents, and everyone else other than career criminals or the elitist politicians and activists who typically don’t have to live around the consequences their disastrous policies have created. California’s Democrat-run cities are failures. At some point, you would think the party should be held accountable for that.thefederalist.com/2024/02/07/leftists-lose-their-minds-when-wall-street-journal-notices-michigan-grown-jihadis/Leftists Lose Their Minds When Wall Street Journal Notices Michigan-Grown Jihadis
Last Friday, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed titled “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital,” by Middle East expert Steven Stalinsky. While the usual corners of the political left, including Biden himself, excoriated the article, no one has proven it to contain a single incorrect fact.
The headline is regarded as far worthier of condemnation than the fact that thousands in one city repeatedly celebrated the indiscriminate massacre and rape of men, women, and children.
Stalinsky outlined how, in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel, the Detroit suburb erupted in pro-Hamas protests. At these, thousands in attendance shouted “Intifada, intifada,” “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and “America is a terrorist state.”
The Ford Performing Arts Center in Dearborn hosted a rally on Oct. 10 that local outlet The Midwesterner depicted as “Michigan rally cheers Hamas attack.” At the event, Imam Imran Salha of Dearborn’s Islamic Center of Detroit celebrated the butchery before hundreds of attendees, declaring that Israel’s deeds have ignited a “fire in our hearts that will burn that state (Israel) until its demise.” Stalinsky notes that 16 months ago, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded this Islamic center $150,000 in grants.
Stalinsky also notes various institutions within Dearborn valorizing Hamas, such as the Hadi Institute. That organization oversees an Islamic Montessori school and was found to have hosted a “Commemoration of the Martyrs” in honor of sanctioned Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani and other “martyrs” just last month.
Unsurprisingly, as Stalinsky notes, one of the most prominent jihadist sheiks happens to be a born and raised native of Dearborn and current resident. Ahmad Musa Jibril regularly calls for holy war from his house in Michigan, urging his followers to wage jihad against the “infidel West.” He is regarded as the inspiration for the 2017 terror attack on London Bridge. True to form, retweets from an X account in his name celebrated the Oct. 7 massacre.www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-are-the-fastest-growing-group-illegally-crossing-u-s-borders-reportwww.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2837574/china-is-infiltrating-america-through-its-open-borders/Chinese Are The Fastest Growing Group Illegally Crossing U.S. Borders - China is infiltrating America through its open borderswww.dailysignal.com/2024/02/07/stop-allowing-noncitizens-to-determine-congressional-and-presidential-representation/Stop Allowing Noncitizens to Determine Congressional and Presidential Representation
As president, Donald Trump tried to halt this wrongdoing by ordering the census to exclude all noncitizens from apportionment. But one of Joe Biden’s first acts in office was to reverse this policy as he began to open the border to millions of illegal aliens.
Biden’s intentional border crisis has produced unprecedented apportionment issues, distorting the representation that states have in the House, and how many electoral votes they have in presidential elections.
Congressional and Electoral College apportionment is based on the number of residents, as determined by the census. Currently, the census includes illegal aliens and other noncitizens as residents.
Consequently, a state can gain extra congressional districts and representation in Congress thanks to the presence of a large population that isn’t legally allowed to vote. Since the number of congressional seats is limited to 435, this additional representation comes at the expense of other states.
During a 2021 hearing about Haitian migrants, Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., stated that her district “can absorb a significant number of these migrants,” adding, “I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes.”
These states need to keep their population numbers inflated with illegal aliens because Americans citizens are fleeing in droves due to their disastrous policies. Making it clear to these states and their radical governors that they won’t be able to use illegal aliens to “cook their books” to maintain disproportionate political power (and money) will go a long way toward breaking the sanctuary state trend.
"In a state in which a large share of the population cannot vote, those who do vote count more than those who live in states where a larger share of the population is made up of American citizens. Counting large illegal alien populations in the Census appropriates voting power from Americans and bestows it on others"
Letting states include millions of aliens in their census counts is the equivalent of letting foreign countries determine the political destiny of the United States, which is unacceptable.nypost.com/2024/02/07/news/democrat-run-denver-is-out-of-space-amid-migrant-surge/Denver overwhelmed by migrants, ‘out of shelter space’ — and will start kicking people out: Mayor Mike Johnstonwww.ncregister.com/cna/pediatric-pushback-on-trans-kids-treatmentsPediatric Pushback on ‘Trans Kids’ Treatments - Based on a review of more than 60 studies related to the mental health of adolescents, the American College of Pediatricians has concluded that social transition, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones ‘have no demonstrable, long-term benefit on psychosocial well-being of adolescents with gender dysphoria.’
ACPeds president Dr. Michael Artigues said the organization’s review of the referenced research points to “what many who practice medicine intuitively understand, that young patients experiencing gender dysphoria deserve help in accepting and loving themselves as they are, not interventions that destroy their healthy bodies and put them on track of medicalization for life.”
The principal authors of the research review, led by ACPeds Vice President Jane Anderson, expressed their grave concern “that parents, along with health care and educational professionals who support the transgender ‘transition’ of children and adolescents are, in fact, contributing to increased depression by appearing to validate to the children that ‘something is wrong with their body and biological sex.’”
The group also pointed to studies from various countries indicating that cross-sex hormones “result in little mental health benefit,” while adding that “these chemical interventions were associated with greater use of psychiatric services than patients who were not treated with hormones.”
Citing several studies, the pediatric group found that many adolescents who have undergone either hormonal or surgical transitions “later embraced their biological sex as their gender.”
The University of Toronto conducted a study of 7.5-year-old boys referred for gender dysphoria who were followed for an average of 20 years. Most, 87.8%, had their gender dysphoria stop.www.zerohedge.com/economics/cost-running-mcdonalds-jumps-250000-ca-due-minimum-wage-hikesCost Of Running A McDonalds Jumps $250,000 In CA Due To Minimum Wage Hikes
California already has some of the highest fast food prices in the nation. Expect to pay still more, and not just in California...
“Everyone is going to have to pay more,” said Jack Hartung, chief financial officer of California-based Chipotle Mexican Grill. Chipotle has raised its menu prices four times in the past two years and expects to increase them a further 5% to 9% in its California restaurants to cover the higher pay required for workers.
Burger King aims to install more digital-ordering kiosks in its U.S. restaurants, with California now a focus, said Josh Kobza, chief executive of parent company Restaurant Brands International, in an interview.
Aaron Noveshen, founder of San Francisco-based chicken chain Starbird, said he wants to recruit franchisees to open new locations outside of California, given escalating wage, building and other costs. “I do love it here, but there are a lot of forces that make it difficult to do business in California,” Noveshen said.Fraud Watch www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/08/abortion-activists-allegedly-caught-submitting-fraudulent-petition-signatures/Abortion Activists Allegedly Caught Submitting Fraudulent Petition Signatures
Police issued an active arrest warrant for 47-year-old Jamie L. Johnson, who faces “10 felony counts each of criminal use of personal identification information and signing another person’s name or a fictitious name to a petition.”
Caitlin Connors, the southern regional director of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, accused pro-abortion interest groups of “attempting to lie and cheat their way to the ballot.” The American Civil Liberties Union is leading the groups, she said.
Connors claimed the ACLU is involved in a “national effort to erase protections for babies and moms using the same playbook of deceit and dark money to hide their extreme policy of legalizing painful late-term abortions and attacking the rights of parents.”
“With more than 60% of voters supporting Florida’s law protecting babies with a heartbeat, it’s not surprising abortion advocates used deceptive language in the amendment and engaged in illegal activity,” Connors added, citing a poll her organization commissioned in March. “The abortion industry will not succeed in disregarding the laws and deceiving Floridians into supporting an amendment to enshrine second- and third-trimester abortions when babies can feel pain.” thefederalist.com/2024/02/08/exclusive-see-the-grave-markers-of-long-dead-residents-listed-on-michigans-voter-rolls/See The Grave Markers Of Long-Dead Residents Listed On Michigan’s Voter Rolls
One of these former residents is a woman named Mamie Jones, whose voter file listed a birth year of 1823 — 14 years before Michigan became a state.
Another former resident highlighted in the video is Pauline Schmainda, who died in 1990 and is still listed on Michigan’s voter rolls. “There have been 16 federal elections since Pauline passed away,” said PILF Communications Director Lauren Bis, who visited Schmainda’s grave marker.
Michigan’s voter rolls are so mismanaged that PILF identified generations of residents who are still listed as active electors. Despite having been dead for decades, Theresa Domasiewicz and her son, Thomas, both remain listed on Michigan’s voter registration lists, according to PILF. The former has been dead for so long that her grave marker has sunken into the ground.
“Over 17,000 of the registrants on the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s list passed away over a decade ago,” according to Bis.
PILF’s bid to ensure accuracy within Michigan’s voter rolls began in 2020 when the legal group notified Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson about dead registrants remaining on the state’s voter registration lists. As Victoria Marshall previously wrote in these pages, Benson “did nothing about it.”
This prompted PILF to file a lawsuit against Benson in November 2021 for her failure to remove roughly 26,000 deceased registrants from the state’s rolls, which the group argued constituted a violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. That law requires state officials to make “a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters.”
Despite a federal judge denying her attempt to dismiss the suit in August 2022, Benson has continued to fight PILF’s efforts in court.Houthi Joe's corner nypost.com/2024/02/04/news/biden-called-netanyahu-a-bad-fking-guy-report/Biden called Netanyahu a ‘bad f–king guy’ as war in Gaza costs him votersthefederalist.com/2024/02/07/why-biden-is-threatening-to-veto-aid-to-israel/Biden Is Threatening To Veto Aid To Israel
Biden acts like a statesman in public but simultaneously leaks angry quotes about Netanyahu to placate the growing anti-Israel left. Recently, for example, we learned that Biden supposedly called Israel’s prime minister a “bad f-cking guy.” (Notice that Democrats have tougher words for Israelis than they ever do for mullahs who murder Americans.)
This leak reminded me of the time in 2014 when Obama’s stenographer Jeffrey Goldberg “reported” that White House officials referred to Netanyahu as “chickensh-t.” Now I don’t mean to demean people like Ben Rhodes, who survived a creative writing MFA program at NYU, but Netanyahu did serve in the IDF, saw combat, and led a special force unit that specialized in freeing hijacked planes. Netanyahu was shot in one of these operations. So I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’s less of a coward than anonymous White House officials.
A few weeks ago, good guy Biden was accusing Israel of engaging in “indiscriminate bombing,” which he knows is a lie. “Like everyone in the administration and any Democrat with a pulse,” Politico explains, Biden is “deeply suspicious of Benjamin Netanyahu.” Biden’s “deep-seated fear,” we learn, is that Netanyahu “is eager to drag the U.S. into a wider war in the Middle East.”
This is the favorite blood libel of radical Democrats and far-right influencers...it is peculiar that the same people who are purportedly terrified of being dragged into a Middle East war by Israel have no deep-seated fears about the perils of funding a war against a nuclear power in Europe.freebeacon.com/latest-news/biden-and-dem-leaders-reject-stand-alone-aid-bill-for-israel/Biden and Dem Leaders Reject Stand-Alone Aid Bill for Israel
"Israel is at war, fighting for its very right to exist, while our brave men and women in uniform are in harm’s way on his orders to deter Iran," Johnson's statement read. "In threatening to veto aid to Israel and to our military forces, Biden is abandoning our ally in its time of greatest need. I urge friends of Israel and opponents of Iran to call (his) bluff and pass this clean aid package."
GOP members of the House and Senate slammed (Biden) last week after leaked reports indicated that the administration was considering the recognition of a Palestinian state at a time when Israel is fighting to destroy Hamas.
"As Joe Biden signals that the clock on his support for Israel is running out—a White House endorsement of a two-state solution would be the worst betrayal of our strongest ally in the Middle East, a reversal on decades-long U.S. policy, and a reward to Hamas terrorists who committed the most barbaric attacks against the Jewish community since the Holocaust," Rep. Tom Emmer (R., Minn.) told the Washington Free Beacon.mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240205/p2g/00m/0in/010000cFar-right Israel minister suggests that Trump would give more US support to offensive in GazaObviously "Instead of giving us his full backing, Biden is busy with giving humanitarian aid and fuel (to Gaza), which goes to Hamas," Ben-Gvir said. "If Trump was in power, the U.S. conduct would be completely different."
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned Ben-Gvir's comments as "racist"lol racist against old, white Genocide Joe!? thefederalist.com/2024/02/06/wapo-columnist-says-quiet-part-out-loud-democrats-campaign-strategy-is-jailing-trump/WaPo Columnist Says Quiet Part Out Loud: Democrats’ Campaign Strategy Is Jailing Trumpwww.zerohedge.com/political/dnc-files-fec-complaint-against-rfk-jr-alleging-illegal-super-pac-coordinationDNC Files FEC Complaint Against RFK Jr. Alleging Illegal Super PAC Coordinationwww.zerohedge.com/political/why-burn-books-when-you-can-bury-them-white-house-pressured-amazon-target-dissentingWhy Burn Books When You Can Bury Them? The White House Pressured Amazon To Target Dissenting Booksthefederalist.com/2024/02/09/biden-cried-book-ban-then-pressured-amazon-to-ban-his-opponents-from-worlds-biggest-bookstore/Biden Cried ‘Book Ban,’ Then Pressured Amazon To Ban His Opponents From World’s Biggest Bookstorewww.zerohedge.com/political/fani-fudged-it-homewrecking-da-lied-about-cohabitation-rented-taxpayer-funded-safe-house(Biden Toady) Fudged It: Homewrecking DA Lied About 'Cohabitation' -- Rented Taxpayer-Funded 'Safe House' To Bang (Toady Mimbo) According To Witness
The (Biden Toady) side show in Donald Trump's Georgia election trial is the gift that keeps on giving.
After initially lying about her relationship with (Toady Mimbo), a prosecutor she paid $700,000 to help her 'get Trump,' (Toady) finally admitted to it - after (her mimbo's) estranged wife began dropping receipts from their divorce proceeding.
That said, (Toady) lied again according to Joycelyn Wade's legal team. While the Fulton County CA claimed that her relationship with (the mimbo) didn't begin until after she paid him all that taxpayer money - despite the fact that (the mimbo) filed for divorce the day after he was hired.
According to a new filing, "witnesses will testify" that (the mimbo) "cohabitated with (Biden's Toady) at an AirBNB in Hapeville that was paid for by tax payer money" which served as a "safe house" for their relationship, which began in 2019 - three years before (Toady and Toady's mimbo) said it began.www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/2831351/the-real-reason-biden-keeps-dropping-in-the-polls/The real reason Biden keeps dropping in the polls
A new batch of polls released this week by Bloomberg/Morning Consult shows former President Donald Trump ahead of Joe Biden in head-to-head matchups in seven battleground states. The results are as follows: Arizona, Trump plus-3; Georgia, plus-8; Michigan, plus-5; Nevada, plus-8; North Carolina, plus-10; Pennsylvania, plus-3; and Wisconsin, plus-5.
Trump’s advantage increases dramatically in polls that include independent candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein. The results show Trump’s lead in Arizona expands to 8 points when these candidates are added to the mix; Georgia, 7; Michigan, 6; Nevada, 12; North Carolina, 13; Pennsylvania, 3; and Wisconsin, 8. It’s worth noting that in 2020, Trump won only one of these states: North Carolina, by a margin of 1.34%.
The Bloomberg/Morning Consult survey is only the latest to show Trump’s growing strength in swing states. In November, a New York Times/Siena College poll found that Biden was trailing Trump “in five of the six most important battleground states.” Other polls have yielded similar results.
What would account for Biden’s dismal performance? One of the best explanations I’ve heard lately came from Dr. Sherry O’Donnell, a Michigan physician, pastor, and 2024 U.S. Senate candidate. Speaking with Christian Broadcasting Network war correspondent Chuck Holton at the southern border on Tuesday, she said, “America is in multisystem organ failure.”
O’Donnell explained, “In medicine, we have what’s called multisystem organ failure.” If one system is in failure, she noted, the patient faces a 25% chance of dying. If two systems are in failure, the odds increase to 50%. If three systems are in failure, the likelihood of death rises to 99%. And the physician has only a brief period of time to turn things around.
At the moment, polls show that the most glaring “system failure” America faces is the fiasco at the U.S. border, a topic the majority of voters rank as their No. 1 concern in the 2024 election.
Incredibly, Biden told reporters this week that he’s done all he can do to stop the crisis. But the reality is that he could end the crisis today with the stroke of a pen, the same way he created it by reversing the extremely effective Trump administration immigration policies on his first day in office. Indeed, not only has the Biden administration abdicated its duty to enforce existing U.S. immigration laws, they are suing the state of Texas for trying to protect its citizens.
Another major failure is the collapse of the U.S. criminal justice system. The two-tier system of justice, which began during the Obama administration, has exploded on Biden’s watch. Democrats have abused the law to set a legal trap for Trump in the belief that if he is convicted of a crime during the 2024 election season, he will lose. But this strategy appears to be backfiring.
Many voters seem to be catching on to the illegitimacy of the charges. In fact, less may have been more. One set of indictments against Trump may have had more impact than the four they brought. At a certain point, the law of diminishing returns kicked in, and the new indictments not only failed to move the needle but became a neon sign trumpeting the message that Democrats will do whatever it takes to eliminate this man, even if it means weaponizing the law against him.
The daily images of a former and possibly future U.S. president defending himself in a courtroom on trumped-up charges run contrary to most people’s sense of fairness. It may be that the Democrats’ contrived and relentless persecution of the former president is fueling his rise in popularity. Indeed, most Republicans and a growing number of independents see the indictments for what they are: a desperate attempt to destroy a political opponent by a party that has collectively lost all sense of decency.
A third system failure is the Biden administration’s botched handling of the crisis in the Middle East. Desperate to resurrect the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), his administration has turned a blind eye to the Trump-era sanctions (which had crippled Iran’s economy), tried to release frozen funds to the terrorist regime, and failed to respond to attacks on Americans from Iranian proxies.
After allowing more than 160 missile strikes by Iranian proxy groups on U.S. military targets in the Middle East to go unanswered since Oct. 17, it was only a matter of time before American troops were killed or seriously wounded. Our luck ran out last Sunday, when a drone attack on a U.S. outpost in northeastern Jordan left three service members dead and dozens more wounded. Biden told reporters on Tuesday that he had decided upon a response to the attack. We won’t hold our breaths.
We could name additional system failures, such as the 20% rise in consumer prices that is now baked into the economy despite the slowing rate of inflation and the doubling of mortgage interest rates, but the patient — the United States — is already close to death. And as O’Donnell warned, the physician has only a brief window to turn things around.www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/2837479/bidens-war-on-work-undermines-american-dream/Biden’s war on work undermines the American dream
As Joe Biden’s war on independent work enters its fourth year, the economic butcher’s bill is coming into grim focus. It turns out that government attacks against flexible, independent, freelance work have hammered the very people who most rely on it: women, minorities, and the marginalized.
Independent labor produces $500 billion a year and includes 36% of American workers. Seventy-nine percent of them aren’t even interested in traditional jobs. Three-quarters say the flexibility and independence — the ability to “be their own boss” — is what they like most about it. Freelancers make more money, on average, than traditional employees, too.
The Left’s war on self-employment isn’t reform — it’s paternalism. Out-of-touch elites want to tell 70 million happy, hustling people they don’t know what’s good for them. (It’s also special-interest partisanship, as the war on independent work is fundamentally a project of big labor unions, who hate competition.)
California’s anti-gig law, AB 5, is proof that restricting independent contracting only hurts workers. Across the state, freelance journalists were let go as soon as the law went into effect in 2020. Independent truckers facing unemployment left the state altogether.
Uber estimated they would have to let go of 76% of the drivers in their network. One study projected that outlawing independent ride-share drivers would eliminate up to 87% of current drivers’ “earning opportunities.”
California’s huge entertainment industry was kneecapped, too. Freelance actors, singers, dancers, and musicians suddenly couldn’t work.
And that doesn’t even count the kinds of niche skills that have always lent themselves to “side-hustle” work, such as translating, editing, court reporting, hairstyling, photography, and videography.
Professional associations across the state sued Sacramento on behalf of their members’ right to earn a living. Even California policymakers realized the law was such a spectacular failure that, within months, the legislature passed another law exempting dozens of professions from the catastrophic regulation.
Biden’s Labor Department rule pursues the same goals as AB 5 and would put the monthly incomes of tens of millions of people — disproportionately women (especially mothers) and minorities — at risk.
And yet, despite its economic costs, the real damage being inflicted by Biden’s war on work is on the American dream itself. The freedom to work is what makes America the land of opportunity. It’s how successive waves of immigrants built the most prosperous economy in the world. And it’s why people from around the globe still flock to our shores.
Only privileged elites and out-of-touch politicians talk of work as a hardship. To everyone else, especially the underprivileged, work is a ladder they want to climb. Who are politicians and bureaucrats to tell them they can’t?freebeacon.com/latest-news/democrats-support-among-minorities-hits-all-time-low-gallup-poll/Democrats' Support Among Minorities Hits All-Time Lownypost.com/2024/02/07/metro/tom-suozzi-steers-clear-of-biden-during-presidents-stop-in-new-york-the-democratic-brand-is-in-trouble-here/Tom Suozzi steers clear of Biden during his stop in New York: ‘The Democratic brand is in trouble here’He's just pretending not to be a Dem to lie and get elected. “Democrats have been losing everything on Long Island and northeast Queens for the past three years,” he said. “The Democratic brand is in trouble here, and we have to do a lot to overcome that.”
The National Republican Congressional Committee – House Republicans’ campaign arm – argued that Suozzi’s voting record demonstrates that he and Biden are tied at the hip despite his attempt to distance himself from (Wigger Joe)www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-slam-biden-admin-for-saying-ice-will-reduce-deportations-if-gop-doesnt-pass-border-billRepublicans Slam Biden Admin For Saying ICE Will Reduce Deportations If GOP Doesn’t Pass Border Bill - "This is extortion""I could follow the law, but I'm not gonna" www.zerohedge.com/political/go-fck-themselves-rank-and-file-border-patrol-agents-livid-over-senate-funding-deal"Go F*ck Themselves": Rank-And-File Border Patrol Agents Livid Over Senate Funding Deal
Rank-and-file Border Patrol agents have slammed the Senate's $118B Senate funding bill that would guarantee 1.5 million illegal migrants entry to the United States, while sending the majority of funds to Ukraine ($60B+) and Israel ($14.1B), the Daily Caller reports.
"Now that I’ve seen more of it, they can respectfully go fuck themselves. The more I’m seeing the more it just puts what they’ve been doing in writing. You want to shut this down, it’s real easy. Team up the Department of Defense with DHS and let us enforce like we were supposed to," one agent told the Caller, adding "I feel like we are the only nation in the world that is this dumb about the border."freebeacon.com/latest-news/watch-biden-struggles-to-remember-hamass-name/WATCH: Biden Struggles To Remember Hamas's Namenypost.com/2024/02/05/news/biden-confuses-french-president-macron-with-ex-leader-mitterrand/Biden confuses French President Emmanuel Macron with ex-leader Mitterrand, who died in 1996nypost.com/2024/02/08/news/biden-says-he-discussed-jan-6-capitol-riot-with-former-german-chancellor-helmut-kohl-who-died-in-2017/Biden blunders again — says he discussed Capitol riot with ex-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/02/08/joe-biden-memory-classified-documents-case-age/Joe Biden forgot when he was vice president and when his son died, lawyers say - Federal prosecutors say (Joe) cannot be prosecuted for mishandling classified documents because his memory is so poorfreebeacon.com/latest-news/biden-too-old-to-be-convicted-over-mishandling-of-classified-docs-special-counsel-says/Biden Too Old To Be Convicted Over Mishandling of Classified Docs, Special Counsel Says
The strongest evidence against Biden, according to Hur, was a February 2017 conversation between him and a ghostwriter working on his memoir, in which Biden told the writer that he had "just found all the classified stuff downstairs."
Biden's likely opponent in the November election, former president Donald Trump, faces a 40-count federal indictment for (less)
"We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," Hur wrote. "Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties—of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness."
The details about Biden's memory could also contribute to voters' lack of confidence in his ability to do his job, given his age. In an August 2023 Associated Press poll, 77 percent of respondents said they did not believe Biden could "effectively serve" another term, and 73 percent in a Wall Street Journal poll believed he was too old to run for president. This week, on multiple occasions, Biden mistakenly recounted details of a 2021 meeting with European leaders, saying he had spoken to people there who had died years prior to when it took place.www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/2845770/hur-report-biden-as-elderly-man-poor-memory/www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-biden-willfully-retained-disclosed-classified-materials-but-no-criminal-charges-warrantedHur report portrays Biden as ‘elderly man’ with ‘poor memory’ - Special Counsel: Biden ‘Willfully Retained, Disclosed Classified Materials,’ But ‘No Criminal Charges Warranted’"Imma too stupid to stand trial" oh ok, free pass for Dem criminals babylonbee.com/news/man-ruled-too-senile-to-stand-trial-still-fine-to-run-countryMan Ruled Too Senile To Stand Trial Still Fine To Run Countrynypost.com/2024/02/09/news/by-propping-up-biden-dems-are-committing-elder-abuse/By propping up Biden, Dems are committing elder abuse — and abusing the nation
This guy should be enjoying vanilla ice cream with his grandkids, doing crossword puzzles and picking up a paid speech now and again.
But because he made the worst VP pick in history —based solely on identity boxes — the Dems find themselves in this compromised position.
Now, like Dianne Feinstein, Biden will not be remembered at his best, but as a confused, doddering geezer out of his depth — a picture of growing senility. nypost.com/2024/02/08/news/biden-retained-classified-ukraine-call-documents-after-telling-aide-get-copy-of-this-conversation-for-my-records/Biden kept classified Ukraine call documents, special counsel finds: ‘Get copy of this conversation … for my records’ - "willful retention by Mr. Biden"
The document was found in a box at the president’s namesake think tank – the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC – within a folder labeled, “VP Personal.”
The special counsel determined that Biden’s executive assistant stored both the talking points and the transcript in the “VP Personal” folder. Hur also noted that typically the content of all calls between foreign leaders are “classified by default.”nypost.com/2024/02/08/news/why-biden-ghostwriter-wasnt-charged-in-classified-document-scandal-while-trump-allies-were/But while Biden’s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, will not face criminal charges, two Trump employees stand accused along with the former president.
The 61-year-old (Biden ghostwriter) told investigators he “was aware that there was an investigation” at the time he scrubbed the material, and replied, “I’m not going to say how much"
Looming over Hur’s reports are the optics of the DOJ charging one president for hoarding national security documents and not the other, an especially severe contrast given Trump and Biden are expected to square off in the general election Nov. 5.
One of Trump’s past political rivals, Hillary Clinton, similarly came under scrutiny after a server with thousands of her emails was deleted shortly after the since-defunct House Select Committee on Benghazi issued a subpoena for it back in 2015.
“With one exception, there is no record of the Department of Justice prosecuting a former president or vice president for mishandling classified documents from his own administration. The exception is former President Trump,” it said. thefederalist.com/2024/02/09/democrats-spun-bidens-classified-docs-as-six-items-but-special-counsel-report-reveals-it-was-300-plus/Democrats Spun Biden’s Classified Docs As ‘Six Items,’ But Special Counsel Report Reveals It Was 300-Plus
...And even though “Joe Biden willfully retained classified documents for years in unsecure locations and intentionally disclosed them,” he “faces no consequences for his actions.”
“Americans expect equal justice under the law and are dismayed the Justice Department continues to allow Joe Biden to live above it,” Comer added.thefederalist.com/2024/02/09/either-biden-is-an-elderly-man-with-a-poor-memory-or-he-needs-to-be-charged-pick-one/Either Biden Is An ‘Elderly Man With A Poor Memory,’ Or He Needs To Be Charged. Pick One.
As many people have pointed out, dementia is typically used as a consideration for leniency during the sentencing phase, not an excuse to avoid prosecution.
Biden had documents from the 1970s and knew he was in possession of them since 2017, at least. There were 300 of these documents, not six as the White House initially claimed. All this points to a pattern of mishandling documents over many years, not a single filing "mistake," as so many of his apologists had claimed when the story first broke.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/08/gop-calls-invoke-25th-amendment-special-council-casts-doubt-biden-mental-acuity/GOP Calls to Invoke 25th Amendment After Special Counsel Casts Doubt on Biden’s Mental Acuity: ‘This Man Has the Nuclear Codes’www.zerohedge.com/political/my-memory-fine-biden-fumes-confusing-egypts-sisi-president-mexico"My Memory Is Fine" Biden Fumes, Before Confusing Egypt's Sisi With The President Of Mexicowww.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/2845986/trump-smith-classified-documents-case-biden-avoids-indictment/Trump demands (Biden Toady) drop classified documents case after Biden avoids indictment
The former president declared that Hur’s report was proof of a “two-tiered system of justice and unconstitutional selective prosecution” and additionally accused Biden of “election interference.”
“The Biden Documents Case is 100 times different and more severe than mine,” the former president wrote. “I did nothing wrong, and I cooperated far more. What Biden did is outrageously criminal — He had 50 years of documents, 50 times more than I had, and ‘WILLFULLY RETAINED’ them. I was covered by the Presidential Records Act, Secret Service was always around, and GSA delivered the documents."www.breitbart.com/environment/2024/02/09/joe-biden-climate-change-is-more-consequential-than-nuclear-war/Joe Biden: Climate Change Is ‘More Consequential’ Than Nuclear War
“There is only one existential threat we face in this world, and that’s the environment,” Mr. Biden told guests at a campaign reception in New York on Wednesday.
Catholic League President Bill Donohue pointed out that (Biden's) assessment of the problems facing the nation is wildly out of sync with the views of ordinary Americans.
A recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll found that Americans see immigration as the number one issue facing the country, followed by inflation and the economy.
Climate change and the environment are way down at number ten on the list of issues that worry Americans, below crime, drugs, healthcare, jobs, corruption, and the national debt.
Biden’s words on Wednesday show “how dramatically out-of-touch this administration is with the American people,” Donohue notes. “Their priorities are not the public’s priorities.”notthebee.com/article/biden-i-love-how-trump-is-saying-biden-is-for-abortion-on-demand-thats-not-true-thats-not-what-roe-v-wade-said-it-said-the-three-trimestersBiden: "Trump is saying Biden is for abortion on demand. That's not true. That's not what Roe v. Wade said. It said the three trimesters."
I guess it's hard for you to understand these things when you don't even know only women can give birth!!
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freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-tests-ballistic-missiles-in-preparation-for-strike-on-israel/Iran Tests Ballistic Missiles in Preparation for Strike on Israel
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is behind a series of recent strikes on American and Israeli positions across the Middle East, "simulated destroying hangars housing the Israeli regime's United States-procured F-35 warplanes by using ballistic missiles," according to information about the drills published in Tehran’s official media outlets.
During the war simulation, the IRGC fired "enhanced versions of its Emad and Qadr ballistic missiles against the F-35 hangars located inside a mock-up of the Tel Aviv regime's Palmachim Airbase," located just outside of the major Israeli city. Iran claims its missiles are capable of striking deep into Israel and are capable of traveling more than 1,000 miles.
Iran’s latest war drills come as its terrorist proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon carry out increasingly deadly operations against U.S. and Israeli forces in the region, including a late January strike by the Houthi militant group that killed three American military members and sparked a spate of retaliatory attacks by America.www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2859086/iran-claims-antarctica-plans-military-base/Iran claims ownership over Antarctica and plans military base therewww.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/2856704/us-fears-russia-preparing-to-put-nuclear-weapons-in-space/US fears Russia preparing to put nuclear weapons in space
Top line: It appears that Russia is in the process of deploying (via multiple recent satellite launches), or is preparing to deploy, an anti-satellite-based nuclear weapons system into space. Concerns have escalated amid Russian military-related satellite launches, the most recent of which occurred last week.
My sources say that this is a Russian anti-satellite weapons capability designed to destroy or degrade U.S. and allied satellite constellations. Radiation produced by a nuclear explosion would likely cause widespread disruption to these constellations. As Lt. Col. Robert Vincent noted in 2022, “Most satellites with a line of sight to the nuclear detonation will be destroyed from the resulting x-rays. Military space capabilities for command and control along with reconnaissance assets may still function for a period following the detonation, but the economic impact of degraded informational space products will be immediate.”
Russian physicists have openly theorized plans to develop a space-based nuclear warhead system that would vaporize a second target-facing element to create a plasma wave that strikes targets in space at range. This would fit with Russia’s publicly known focus in recent years to deploy satellites variously designed to destroy other satellites. The intent is to blind an adversary’s command and control apparatus, communications, and weapons targeting capabilities in war.
Vladimir Putin has placed significant emphasis on the development of new strategic weapons. The Russian FSB domestic security service has also greatly increased its supervision of scientists working on these weapons systems. This focus speaks to Russia’s long-standing interest in exploiting the potential utility of space-based nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union previously developed a “Fractional Orbit Bombardment System” designed to deliver nuclear warheads in a surprise attack on Washington, prospectively eliminating the U.S. presidential line of succession and associated nuclear command and control. There are, however, various technical complexities and military weaknesses to this FOBS approach. Regardless, the deployment of nuclear weapons in space would constitute an unequivocal violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, to which both the United States and Russia are parties. At a minimum, this will increase already serious U.S.-Russian tensions.
Again, the key here is the U.S. nuclear command and control chain. That chain relies heavily on satellites, and both Soviet and contemporary Russian war planning centers heavily on high-risk decapitation strikes against an adversary’s leadership in advance of follow-on military operations.freebeacon.com/latest-news/former-israeli-hostage-tells-of-hamas-sexual-abuse/Former Israeli Hostage Tells of Hamas Sexual Abuse
Goldstein-Almog recounts the story of one former hostage who told her a terrorist sexually abused her in captivity..."She went into the bathroom and washed her armpit, and then he came into the bathroom and held a gun to her head," Goldstein-Almog said. "He started kissing her, and she started crying. She told me, 'You know how when you cry, your mouth is like this? This is what it was like, but he wouldn't stop kissing me.' He took off all of her clothes and touched her all over her body. He asked her to touch his genitals in different ways, and he also touched hers."
The ordeal lasted about 30 minutes, Goldstein-Almog said, adding that the hostage she talked to recounted that the terrorist kept his gun out the entire time.
"He never put his gun away from her head," Goldstein-Almog said. "And then he told her, 'Go get dressed,' and left the bathroom. They went back to the living room. She told me that her ears were ringing, and she couldn't stop crying. She was in shock. Then they moved her to a different place, and she never saw him again. He told her not to tell anyone."
Goldstein-Almog is far from the first hostage to tell horror stories about Hamas captivity. One woman told Israel's Knesset last month that she witnessed not only sexual abuse but also torture of her fellow hostages. Another, Mia Schem, gave a December interview in which she described being shut inside a dark room, hardly sleeping at all during her 54 days in captivity, and going multiple days without food. www.timesofisrael.com/hostages-families-file-hamas-war-crimes-claim-at-icc-crimes-cant-go-unpunished/Hostages’ families file Hamas war crimes claim at ICC: ‘Genocide can’t go unpunished’
Yamit Ashkenazi, whose sister Doron Steinbrecher is held in Gaza and was seen in a propaganda video published by Hamas last month, called for the hostages to be immediately released.
“They came into our homes, violated us, raped us and killed us,” she said.
“They took my sister from her bed, from the place that was supposed to be the safest place in the world for her,” she told the crowd.
“The world must wake up. The world needs to open its eyes, to look us in the eyes, and begin acknowledging what we went through,” Ashkenazi said. “The world needs to know that my sister is in a tunnel somewhere, cold, hungry, without medication, and exposed to sexual violence for 131 days.”freebeacon.com/national-security/palestinian-authority-forces-attack-israelis/Palestinian Authority Security Forces Behind Dozens of Recent Attacks on Israelis, Watchdog Finds
An investigation by Palestinian Media Watch, the nonprofit watchdog based in Jerusalem, documented at least 55 attacks by PA security forces against Israeli soldiers or civilians since 2020, including four in the past month alone. In each case, the PA or its ruling Fatah party has eulogized the attacker as one of their own "soldiers."
The findings reveal the extent to which the PA, the internationally recognized Palestinian government in Ramallah, encourages and rewards terrorism against Israel—even in its own ranks. For Israel, such activity proves the folly of the Biden administration’s demand that a "revitalized" PA be allowed to govern Gaza following Israel’s war against Hamas, the rival Palestinian faction that rules the territory.
"The American suggestion to empower these terror forces to rule Gaza after Israel has destroyed the terror infrastructure is inconceivable," Marcus told the Washington Free Beacon. "The PA and its security forces are a fundamental part of the problem; it is absurd to believe they can be part of the solution."
"This is far worse than UNRWA, where at least the leadership claimed they didn't know," Marcus said. "The PA is saying, ‘We know, and we're happy about it. And that's what makes us heroic.’"translatingcuba.com/bad-smells-and-feces-floating-at-the-entrance-force-the-closure-of-a-doctors-office-in-holguin-cuba/Bad Smells and Feces Floating at the Entrance Force the Closure of a Doctor’s Office in Holguin, Cuba
A week ago, after many criticisms and complaints, a vehicle specialized in evacuating the contents of the septic tank arrived at Office 24. “It should have come several times because of the large volume of waste, but it only came once because there is no fuel,” complains another resident.
"there are more than 2,000 people who are now served there”...The Family Doctor program in Cuba, which was originally designed for each office to provide care to between 600 and 700 patients, has been deteriorating with the exodus of professionals, the departure of others on official missions abroad and infrastructure problems.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/15/french-populists-set-to-trounce-macron-in-eu-parliament-elections/French Populists Set to Trounce Macron in EU Parliament Elections as Support Hits Record High
National Rally President Jordan Bardella described the vote as the “mid-term elections” for President Emmanuel Macron, who is a little less than halfway through his second and final term in office.
“We must put Macron’s Europe in the minority because what Brussels decides, the French suffer: energy prices, the end of our agriculture, the Migration Pact, it’s Brussels!” Bardella said.www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/2844966/illegal-immigration-shifting-away-texas-abbott-crackdown/Illegal immigration shifts away from Texas after Abbott locks down border: Data
Claims by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) that Texas’s border security initiative has led to a decrease in illegal immigrants is backed up by the federal government’s statistics, according to a Washington Examiner analysis.
Immigrants traversing Mexico to get into the United States are increasingly bypassing the Texas border to cross into Arizona and California in the wake of Abbott’s stepped-up enforcement.
The numbers show how the percentage of arrests in Texas versus other border states has shifted. In 2021, 69% of illegal immigrant arrests across the southern border occurred in Texas.
As Abbott stepped up security at the start of the Biden administration in 2021, arrests of illegal crossers began to fall and dropped to just 34% last month.
“In Texas, we’ve been able to achieve a decrease in illegal crossings only because of great teamwork,” Abbott said during a press conference in Eagle Pass on Thursday afternoon. “Part of that teamwork is our partnership with the Texas National Guard, and we are currently working with the Texas Military Department to add more razor wire, anti-climb barrier, and personnel.”www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/12/nolte-donald-trump-americas-most-respected-leader-by-wide-margin/Donald Trump Is America’s ‘Most Respected’ Leader (By a Wide Margin) - Trump tops Biden, Obama, and Hillary combined
The internals are even more intriguing. Get a load of this…
A full 28 percent of black voters claim Trump as their “most respected” leader, compared to just 25 percent for Biden…. Trump beats Biden on this question with black voters by three points.
Among Republicans, 75 percent chose Trump. Compare that to the mere 43 percent of Democrats who chose Biden.
Among unaffiliated or independent voters, 39 percent chose Trump. Biden didn’t even come in second. That spot went to Obama with 17 percent. Only 13 percent chose Slow Joe. Trump beat both Obama and Biden combined with independents.
This comes right on the heels of a poll from far-left NBC that shows how the passage of time has been favorable to how voters remember Trump’s presidency.
When asked how the “Biden and Trump administrations meshed with their expectations,” Trump fared much better. Only 14 percent said Biden exceeded their expectations, while 42 percent said Biden did worse than expected.
A whopping 40 percent said Trump exceeded their expectations.
Trump also fares far better than Biden with independent voters — 38% of them say Trump’s administration went better than expected, 43% say it went as expected, and 18% say it was worse. Just 6% of independents believe Biden’s administration is going better than they expected, with 52% saying it has gone worse.www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/2851079/americas-ballooning-debt-is-a-national-security-problem/America’s ballooning debt is a national security problem
According to historian Niall Ferguson, empires usually collapse when the costs of servicing their debt exceed the costs of defending their interests. “Any great power that’s spending more on debt service than defense is probably not going to be great for much longer,” he warned.
Consider the example of the United Kingdom. The British emerged from World War II victorious but deeply in debt. Shortly after the war’s end, the U.K. was forced to make difficult decisions, eventually downsizing not only its vast imperial holdings but its global influence, as well. This had tremendous implications for the global order, with the U.S. becoming the senior partner and leading the West in the battle against communism and other foes.
Yet should the U.S. be forced to diminish its global presence, there is no other friendly power that can step in. Countries hostile to Western interests and the U.S.-led international order, such as China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, would be emboldened.
The iceberg is fast approaching. Some estimates indicate that debt servicing will exceed defense by 2029, if not sooner. America faces the very real risk of losing the ability to project power across multiple theaters — and soon. This will have very real ramifications for Washington’s alliance system.
The U.S. would likely find itself relying on allies to share more of the defense burden. Consequently, the very nature of how Washington approaches alliances will have to change. Washington will likely have to apply pressure to encourage allies to step up and do more. The status quo, in which nations like Germany free-ride, counting on America to provide the bulk of their defense, is unsustainable.
at the height of the Cold War, in 1953, U.S. defense spending accounted for as much as 11% of GDP. For most of the next several decades, it hovered between 5% and 10%. Projected forecasts for 2024 indicate that defense spending will account for a mere 2.7% of GDP. This seems unlikely to change significantly in the immediate future.Liberal priorities www.zerohedge.com/political/outrage-spain-children-paraded-around-lingerie-prideOutrage In Spain As Children Paraded Around In Lingerie For 'Pride' - In addition to the erotic skimpy garter belts and stockings, the children have had black tape “Xs” placed over their nipples...The video shows the children being instructed to mimick adults performing provocative gyrating gestures through the streets of the Alicante town in front of onlooking adult bystanders and other children.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/14/nolte-78-fascist-democrats-want-trump-removed-ballot/78% of Fascist Democrats Want Trump Removed from Ballot
It’s no surprise that the same political party squealing about “democracy” is eager to subvert it. Democrats and their media allies always signal what they are up to by falsely accusing Republicans of that same thing.
So this is what we’re up against. When you have 78 percent of Democrats willing and eager to disenfranchise tens of millions of Trump voters, you’re dealing with a Democrat party that has zero respect for civil rights, voting rights, and the rule of law.thefederalist.com/2024/02/13/colorados-assisted-suicide-bill-would-invite-out-of-staters-to-end-their-lives-in-two-days-or-less/Colorado’s Assisted Suicide Bill Would Invite Out-Of-Staters To End Their Lives In Two Days Or Lessnotthebee.com/article/report-police-identify-lakewood-shooter-as-35-year-old-female-genesse-moreno-who-also-goes-by-jeremyReport: Police identify Lakewood shooter as 36-year-old female who also went by "Jeffrey," had gun with "Free Palestine" written on it
Moreno had a criminal history dating back to 2005, and previously identified as Jeffery Escalante, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety records search. Prior arrests include failure to stop and give information, assault of a public servant, assault causing bodily injury, forgery, possession of marijuana, theft, evading arrest unlawful carrying weapon...If only we had some sort of warning sign here! freebeacon.com/democrats/jamaal-bowman-condemns-israeli-hostage-rescue-mission/Jamaal Bowman Condemns Israeli Hostage Rescue Mission
The ordeal marks Bowman's latest attack on the Jewish state as he faces a difficult primary campaign against pro-Israel Democrat George Latimer. Bowman has routinely disparaged Israel following Hamas's Oct. 7 attack, which he blamed on Israel's "blockade of Gaza." Bowman went on to accuse Israel of "mass murder," "genocide," and "ethnic cleansing."Nigger should go fight for Hamas and get droned Roughly one month later, in early February, a HuffPost report revealed that Bowman as a middle school principal curated a 2014 "Wall of Honor" that featured former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The Georgia Democrat is a prominent anti-Semite—in 2009, she attended a Holocaust denial gathering in London, where she praised anti-Semitic leaders and writers. McKinney has also blamed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on "Zionists," and her father similarly blamed Jews when McKinney lost her congressional seat in 2002.nypost.com/2024/02/12/news/tren-de-aragua-gang-uses-migrants-in-nyc-phone-robberies/Brutally violent Venezuelan ‘Tren de Aragua’ gang is using migrant wave to launch NYC robbery spreewww.zerohedge.com/political/whites-are-psychopathic-uc-speaker-uses-black-history-monthto-launch-racist-attacks"Whites Are Psychopathic": UC Speaker Uses Black History Month To Launch Into Racist Attacks
The University of California (San Francisco) is under fire this week after hosting a racist speaker who attacked white people as psychopaths and claimed that black women can be legally raped.
King said he is not worried about how the whites in the audience react because he does not value or prioritize their feelings or views...There was little need to consider any whites on campus and what they think because “I think Whites are psychopathic. I think there are many lies."
There is nothing new. As we have previously discussed, professors have advocated “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters, and other outrageous statements. University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis defended the murder of a conservative protester and said he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. Last year, Hunter College Professor Shellyne Rodríguez was only fired after being arrested for holding a machete to the neck of a New York Post reporter and threatening to “chop you up.”
Yet, to even criticize an extremist speaker like King is to risk being ostracized and cancelled by one’s colleagues. Instead, you have professors and students sitting and listening to a virulently racist diatribe . . . only to politely applaud at the end. It is hard to see how this is any part of a celebration of Black History month as opposed to its debasement. To use this month to voice racist tropes and attacks should be offensive to everyone.www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/02/14/new-yorks-700-million-annual-giveaway-to-hollywood-is-a-flop-says-state-report/New York’s $700 Million Annual Giveaway to Hollywood Is a Flop, Says State Report
New York taxpayers are getting the shaft yet again — this time in the form of the state’s annual $700 million giveaway to Hollywood in the form of tax incentives for TV and movie shoots.
A new report commissioned by the state found that the program is turning out to be a major flop. For every dollar the state gave in Hollywood tax breaks from 2018 through 2022, the program generated a paltry 15 cents in direct tax revenue.
Gothamist was the first to discover the report, which the state posted without fanfare in late January.
The state’s report also found that most of the TV and movie productions taking advantage of the taxpayer-funded giveaway would have chosen New York even without the incentives.
Among the beneficiaries of New York taxpayer largesse is NBC’s Saturday Night Live, which has always broadcast from New York.notthebee.com/article/chicago-mayor-cancels-contract-with-tech-that-detects-gunshots-because-it-unfairly-targeted-communities-of-color-Chicago mayor cancels gunfire surveillance system because it "unfairly targeted communities of color"It gets even better: Democrats want the "racist" system in place so the DNC is safe....but the Dem/barbarian mayor pulled the plug on the contract already. "REEEE! BRING BACK DA RACISM!!" www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/2853312/maternal-syphilis-cases-rising/Maternal syphilis rates more than tripled since 2016They live in filth www.zerohedge.com/political/do-leftists-now-believe-leftism-doesnt-workIt is hard to destroy a naturally beautiful city like San Francisco, with ideal weather and stunning infrastructure inherited from far better earlier generations.
Yet San Francisco continues its much-publicized and self-inflicted doom loop. The productive classes still flee the increasingly crime-ridden city and its self-induced pathologies. In 2023, more than 40,000 crimes were reportedly committed in San Francisco. The great majority of the perpetrators were either not arrested or never jailed, indicted, or convicted.
Downtown office vacancy rates exceed 35 percent—and are climbing. Tourists have ostracized the city, given the thousands of homeless that occupy sidewalks and downtown. San Francisco claimed to be on the cutting-edge of the woke green movement, proud that it had enacted the most stringent environmental laws and regulations in the world—except when it came to defecation, injection, and urination on the sidewalks, doorways, and parks and during storms, when the toxic, effluviant human waste escapes sewage treatment and flows into the once-cherished bay.
In a mere five years, the city went from being one of the most envied and wealthy in the world with a vibrant nightlife and new high-tech start-ups to a West-Cost Detroit.
Across the bay, Oakland is in even worse shape. The city is on life support as a predictable result of progressive nihilism: do not enforce the law; do not arrest or jail criminals; raise taxes and overregulate businesses; pay exorbitant salaries to unionize public workers and bloated city staff; create toxic racial animosity. And the result is Oakland 2024, a mix between 19th-century Tombstone and contemporary Port-au-Prince.
The city is becoming a veritable ghost town as more overtaxed employers leave and more taxes rise on those who cannot leave. Cities like Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and New York follow the same trajectory. They suffer the symptoms of a collective madness triggered by a combination of the destructive national COVID quarantine that birthed the zoom culture, the systematic attack on police after the George Floyd death, and a nihilist woke epidemic that postulated a binary of stereotyped oppressors and oppressed that saw the so-called punching bag victimizers shrug and move far away from blue states and cities.www.zerohedge.com/economics/not-single-child-tested-proficient-math-67-illinois-schoolsNot A Single Child Tested Proficient In Math In 67 Illinois Schoolswww.dailysignal.com/2024/02/11/teacher-who-criticized-woke-kindergarten-put-on-leave-by-school-district/An elementary school teacher who questioned a California school’s spending $250,000 on a teacher training program called “Woke Kindergarten” was placed on leave Thursday by his school district, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
In comments to the Chronicle for a Feb. 3 article on “Woke Kindergarten,” Craven-Neeley questioned what it meant to “disrupt whiteness” in the classroom.
“What does that mean?” Craven-Neeley told the Chronicle. “I just want to know, what does that mean for a third-grade classroom?”
Scores for English and math at Glassbrook Elementary have fallen since the program’s implementation, with fewer than 4% of students posting proficient scores in math and a little under 12% testing at grade level in English.nypost.com/2024/02/12/news/democrat-fumes-at-super-bowl-crowd-for-not-standing-during-black-anthem/Democrat fumes at Super Bowl crowd for not standing during black national anthemOh excuse me, "The Negro National Anthem" or more commonly known as "the woke joke 'anthem'" Fraud Watch thefederalist.com/2024/02/14/apparent-ballot-petition-fraud-involving-democrat-campaign-discovered-in-another-indiana-county/Apparent Ballot Petition Fraud Involving Democrat Campaign Discovered In Another Indiana County
Tippecanoe County Clerk Julie Roush told The Federalist that a petition carrier working on behalf of the Phillips campaign turned in 42 pages of petitions with approximately 400 names.
“Most of what they turned in to us were not even registered voters,” Roush said.
The clerk added that only 149 of the individuals listed on the petition were registered to vote in the county. Many of the pages included incomplete or suspect information and several signatures appeared to be from the same individual on closer review, she said.
Roush called the police.
“This whole thing is junk,” the clerk said.
West-central Indiana’s Tippecanoe County, home to Purdue University, is at least the second Hoosier State county raising red flags about apparent petition fraud involving Phillips’ campaign.
As I reported last week, Indiana State Police have opened up an investigation in St. Joseph County, where Clerk Amy Rolfes and her staff late last month discovered hundreds of what appeared to be fraudulent petition signatures and addresses.
Many of the signatures appeared phony, and the petitions included street addresses and zip codes that do not exist, Rolfes said. Ultimately, the clerk’s office could only validate 19 of the 530 individuals that signed Phillips’ petition. Modern day vermin www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/migrant-gang-rape-child-italy-prompts-cnn-worry-about-far-rightMigrant Gang Rape Of Child In Italy Prompts CNN To Worry About "Far-Right""If the far right hurts my feelings with words, they might win elections...and then...they will arrest us terrorists and rapists!! And us leftist barbarians can't have that!!! ARREST THEM FOR WORDS AND LET OUR RAPIST BUDDIES GO FREE!!!" freebeacon.com/latest-news/idf-exposes-al-jazeera-journalist-who-moonlights-as-hamas-commander/IDF Exposes Al-Jazeera Journalist Who Moonlights as Hamas Commanderwww.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2851453/unrwa-and-un-should-be-dissolved-for-enabling-terrorism/UNRWA and the UN should be dissolved for enabling terrorism
Israeli forces discovered a Hamas military compound underneath the United Nations Relief and Works Agency headquarters in Gaza. UNRWA officials apparently had no idea that Hamas terrorists had a server room, complete with battery power banks and wires dropping down through the floor of UNRWA’s building.
Then again, UNRWA also apparently had no idea that several of its employees were terrorists who went on to participate in the Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians. The United Nations also was supposedly shocked...Yet the head of UNRWA back in 2004 gave away the entire “secret,” along with the U.N.’s nonchalant attitude toward employing Palestinian terrorists. “Oh, I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll,” then-UNRWA Commissioner-General Peter Hansen said, “and I don’t see that as a crime.”
For decades, UNRWA has perpetuated the “refugee” crisis as a political weapon to wield against Israel, all while Hamas diverted UNRWA aid to its terrorist causes. UNRWA schools have been used to promote antisemitism and UNRWA ambulances have been used as terrorist transport. All the while, both the agency and the U.N. itself have run propaganda campaigns on behalf of those terrorists. The fact that UNRWA’s headquarters was (likely willingly) being used as a shield over a Hamas base is perhaps the least surprising story to emerge during this war.
It is not good enough for the U.S. and other countries to simply temporarily halt funding for UNRWA. The agency has proven that it must be disbanded, as it has been thoroughly corrupted by its pro-terrorist sympathies and by actual terrorists. If the United Nations cannot bring itself to admit this, then it is another drop in the bucket of proof that the U.N. is just as corrupt and ideologically blinded as UNRWA, and that it deserves the same fate.nypost.com/2024/02/12/news/publisher-retracts-chemical-abortion-studies-before-scotus-case-on-fda-approval/Publisher retracts chemical abortion studies before SCOTUS case on FDA approval
On Feb. 5, Sage Publishing retracted a 2021 study in the journal Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology that found a 507% increase between 2002 and 2015 in emergency room visits following chemical abortions with the pill mifepristone, according to an analysis of Medicaid data.
Another 2022 study published in the same journal that was withdrawn showed how complications due to chemical abortions are frequently misclassified as miscarriages and pose “a significant risk factor for a subsequent hospital admission.”
Both studies were cited in US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision to halt the FDA’s approval of mifepristone in April 2023...
All of them told The Post that the retractions were “unprecedented,” with Studnicki saying the expression of concern came across as someone “trying to harass us...I’ve done 50 years in academics working at three different universities, and I’ve never been involved in a retraction,” Studnicki said. “There is absolutely zero, nothing, no suggestions that this science is in any way inadequate or flawed.
Skop also said of their research on the potential risks of chemical abortion complications, “It undercuts their narrative that it is so safe.
“And clearly, I think that’s why we were targeted.”
Longbons said, “This incident points to a larger, newer phenomenon, which is that many of our scientific institutions and publications no longer stand in defense of open inquiry.
“Rather, we’re seeing a biased elite faction across the medical community with all the power attempting to suppress any research that cuts against their approved, pro-abortion narrative. Scientific research and publication should be grounded in science, not driven by ideology.”nypost.com/2024/02/13/news/house-impeaches-homeland-security-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas/House impeaches Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for ‘willful, systemic refusal’ to follow fed law, ‘secure’ US-Mexico border
Mayorkas, 64, is only the second Cabinet official to be impeached after Secretary of War William Belknap, who resigned in 1876 from President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration hours before the House formally charged him with corruption.Houthi Joe's corner www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/02/15/putin-wants-biden-to-win-us-election/Putin says he wants Biden to win US electionwww.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/11/idf-rescues-2-israeli-hostages-in-rafah-after-biden-warned-israel-not-to-go-there/IDF Rescues 2 Israeli Hostages in Rafah — After Biden Warned Israel Not to Go Therewww.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/02/14/us-israeli-air-strikes-in-gaza-white-phosphorus-lebanon/US investigating Israeli air strikes in Gaza, according to reports"How dare you rescue hostages from terrorists! You r duh bad guyz!" www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/02/12/joe-biden-going-public-frustration-benjamin-netanyahu/Joe Biden considers going public with frustration over ‘a--hole’ Benjamin Netanyahu
Speaking to a small group of donors at a fundraiser recently, Mr Biden reportedly said Mr Netanyahu has “been a pain in my a-- lately” or “he’s been killing me lately”."in the polls, I don't give a shit about the dead Jews. What about ME!? What about my RE-ELECTION? Gimme money" www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/02/12/bidens-popularity-plummets-in-uk-especially-among-labour/Joe Biden’s popularity plummets in UK - with just a fifth of Britons holding a favourable viewnypost.com/2024/02/12/news/biden-exploded-at-staff-over-handling-of-border-crisis-report/White House in turmoil over migrant crisis, with Biden Cabinet member mocked as ‘idiot’ and ‘b—h ass’nypost.com/2024/02/11/news/whopping-86-of-voters-feel-biden-is-too-old-to-finish-another-term-poll/Whopping 86% of voters feel Biden is too old to finish another termthefederalist.com/2024/02/13/report-cia-started-russia-collusion-hoax-by-asking-foreign-governments-to-spy-on-trump-campaign/Report: CIA Started Russia Collusion Hoax By Asking Foreign Governments To Spy On Trump Campaign - ‘illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to target Trump advisors'...'multiple US intelligence officials broke laws against spying and election interference'nypost.com/2024/02/13/news/tony-bobulinski-delivers-explosive-testimony-in-house-impeachment-probe-biden-was-the-brand-being-sold/Ex-Biden biz associate says China successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise WH, Biden ‘enabled’ CCP-linked transactions
CEFC, a since-defunct reputed cog in Beijing’s “Belt and Road” foreign influence campaign, paid Hunter and James Biden more than $7 million in 2017 and 2018 for largely unknown business services, according to reports from congressional Republicans.nypost.com/2024/02/13/news/read-tony-bobulinskis-blistering-impeachment-testimony-the-biden-family-business-was-joe-biden-period/Read Tony Bobulinski’s blistering impeachment testimony: ‘The Biden family business was Joe Biden, period’
A former Biden family business partner scorched President Biden in an explosive opening statement at a House impeachment inquiry deposition Tuesday, saying the commander-in-chief is corrupt and that his testimony will help prove it.
A different former Biden family associate, Rob Walker, testified Jan. 26 that the Biden family’s business relationship with CEFC began as early as 2015 when Joe Biden was still vice president and that Joe Biden attended a meeting in early 2017 with CEFC chairman Ye Jianming, who has since gone missing in China amid corruption allegations.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/14/prosecutors-reportedly-met-with-biden-admin-before-3-trump-indictments/(Toady) Prosecutors Reportedly Met with Biden Admin Before 3 Trump Indictments
Three separate prosecutors reportedly met with White House aides before indicting former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden’s political opponent.
The reported meetings suggest a coordinated attack against Biden’s 2024 rival. If coordination occurred, it lends credence to Trump’s belief that the indictments are election interference.freebeacon.com/latest-news/judge-in-trump-election-case-says-fani-willis-could-be-disqualified/Judge in Trump Election Case Says (Biden Toady) Could Be Disqualifiednypost.com/2024/02/13/news/elise-stefanik-demands-tish-james-be-disbarred-over-trump-probe/Elise Stefanik demands (Biden Toady) be disbarred over ‘biased’ Trump probe
The New York lawmaker blasted (Toady) for violating the Rules of Professional Conduct by “attacking President Trump through extrajudicial statements” during a trial.
The alleged extrajudicial remarks (Biased Biden Toady) made on X during the trial included accusations of illegal conduct, comments undermining the credibility of witnesses and personal attacks — thus violating rules on trial publicity, Stefanik argued.
The (toady)’s “extreme partisan hostility” toward Trump stretches back to the president’s first year in office, the complaint notes, when (Toady), who had not yet been elected to statewide office, led “die-in” protests because “we are all being killed by this administration.”I wish When running for office in 2018, she further pledged to investigate Trump...The statements led to rebukes from former federal prosecutors, including ex-Virginia US attorney Chuck Rosenberg and ex-Manhattan assistant US attorney Dan Goldman. Rosenberg also urged (Toady) to recuse herself.
The complaint, which was first reported by NBC News, added that attorneys general are “held to a higher standard due to their unique role as officers of the court” and (Toady)’ conduct “not only constitutes a breach of her professional responsibilities but also risks irreparable harm to the public’s already eroding trust in our legal institutions.”nypost.com/2024/02/15/us-news/comer-subpoenas-records-of-alleged-china-paid-biden-family-credit-cards/Comer subpoenas records of Biden family credit cards allegedly paid for by China energy firm
“Through the interviews and depositions we’ve conducted thus far, we’ve learned that there were several credit cards that were used by members of the Biden family — we believe for personal expenses — and we believe that these credit cards were being paid by CEFC or through CEFC-funded affiliates.”
“The American people deserve transparency, and these subpoenas will be more evidence of the Biden family’s influence peddling around the globe,” the committee aide said.
“The subpoenas issued include financial records for Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Sara Biden; Biden family associates Eric Schwerin, Gongwen Dong, and Mervyn Yan; and several of the Bidens’ companies, including Rosemont Seneca Partners, Rosemont Seneca Advisors, Rosemont Seneca Bohai, Owasco, P.C., and Hudson West III.”
“In addition, we’re getting records related to Rosemont Seneca Partners, an advisory company, operated by Hunter Biden and Eric Schwerin — Joe Biden’s bookkeeper — as well as Hunter Biden’s credit card transactions involving some of his companies such as Rosemont Seneca Bohai, Rosemont Seneca Advisors, and Owasco, P.C.”www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-justice-department-sues-over-tennessees-hiv-prostitution-lawBiden’s Justice Department Sues Over Tennessee’s HIV Prostitution Law
The law, which imposes tougher penalties for engaging in prostitution while knowingly infected with HIV, violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Justice Department claims in its lawsuit.
The department said Tennessee’s law elevates the crime simply “because the individual has HIV, regardless of any actual risk of harm.”"YEAH! Spread HIV all over! This 'law' stuff discriminates against gaypedos! They should be able to rape and give AIDS to any kiddies they want!" The Justice Department’s lawsuit includes details about an anonymous, black, trans-identifying man who found out he had HIV in 2008 and was arrested in 2010 for prostitution near a church or school, ultimately pleading guilty in 2012 to attempted aggravated prostitution.
The department’s lawsuit demands Tennessee get rid of the law and also expunge the convictions...and take them off the sex offender registry.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/14/joe-biden-shields-palestinians-from-deportation-vows-to-give-them-u-s-jobs/Joe Biden Shields Palestinians from Deportation, Vows to Give Them U.S. Jobswww.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2854354/biden-replacing-us-born-citizens-in-workforce-with-migrants/Biden is replacing US-born citizens in the workforce with migrants
On Tuesday, the Center for Immigration Studies published a study revealing a startling fact: migrants (both legal and illegal) are replacing American-born citizens in the labor force.
The study also shows that 183,000 fewer American-born citizens were in the labor force by 2023. However, 2.9 million more migrants have joined.Just as there was never an Obama recovery, and jobs didn't keep up with population growth, there has never been a recovery from the Biden recession. For Americans. US workers remain unemployed while illegals work for pennies and steal their jobs. www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/15/from-calif-to-denver-to-maine-cities-at-breaking-point-over-biden-border-crisis/Cities at Breaking Point in California, Colorado, and Maine over Biden Border Crisis
With more than 40,000 migrants arriving since 2022, Denver is at a breaking point with the weight of the costs of delivering free housing, free medical care, free legal advice, free education for their children, and other things to migrants.
In response, Democrat Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has come down to massive budget cuts to city services to legal residents to address the issue.
Up until last month, Denver has put $42 million into caring for Joe Biden’s flood of illegal aliens that have inundated the Mile High City. The costs may amount to more than $180 million this year, according to the New York Times.
Mayor Johnston said that the $9 million coming from the federal government to be dedicated to the migrant issue was simply not enough to solve the crisis. So, to address the shortfall, Johnston says the city needs to pick up the difference.
Johnston went on to propose cuts in services to city residents.
“This is a plan for shared sacrifice,” Johnston said.
Residents of nearby Lakewood are worried that their town will also succumb to the overflow from Denver...On Monday, Lakewood residents packed a city council meeting demanding that their elected officials create policies to prevent the sort of mess that is swamping Denver, CPR News reported.
“What you see tonight is informed voters who have watched Denver’s decline, and don’t want the same here,” resident Dawn Austin said during the meeting were some toted signs reading, “Don’t Denver Our Lakewood.”
“This community cannot afford this,” said Ramey Johnson, a former city councilwoman who has helped organize the people voicing concerns. “It’s not that we are not a compassionate community. We are,” another resident named Ramey Johnson said. “But we cannot care for the world.”
The Denver area is hardly alone. This budget busting destruction is not happening just in scattered cities. Budgets are being busted across the country as liberal cities race to shift money from police, firemen, libraries, and every other city service to the feeding and housing of Joe Biden’s illegals.
From Los Angeles, to Chicago, to Boston, to New York City, and up into Maine, not to mention in every corner of the southwest, cities are being swamped and outspent by the millions of border crossers who have come here assuming that Joe Biden has created a wide open border.
New York Mayor Eric Adams suffered a major backlash on Nov. when he suggested that he intended to cut hundreds of hundreds of millions from the Big Apple’s yearly budget.
And just this week, Maine state Senator Matt Pouliot warned voters that the state has thrown a hefty $13 million dollars to house just 85 families in hotel in Saco in cooperation with Catholic Charities of Maine.
“It’s really striking to me that the folks in rural Maine are being told to do more with less, meanwhile Taj Mahals are being built for other folks in more urban places that aren’t even Maine residents, Maine citizens,” Stewart said on Feb. 14, according to The Center Square.
Republican House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham noted that more illegals have flooded Maine in just a year than moved to Maine to become legal residents since the year 2000.
Faulkingham blasted Democrat Gov. Janet Mills for putting “migrants over Mainers and added, “Just to put that number in perspective, it’s more people to move in than have moved in since 2000 – and Mainers are footing the bill.”nypost.com/2024/02/12/news/confused-biden-wanders-behind-podium-stares-at-the-floor-as-jordanian-king-speaks/Confused Biden looks lost as he wanders behind podium, stares at the floor as Jordan’s King Abdullah II speaksnypost.com/2024/02/14/us-news/biden-ripped-special-counsel-for-asking-about-son-beaus-death-but-reports-say-joe-brought-it-up/Biden ripped special counsel for asking about son Beau’s death — but report says Joe brought it upwww.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/2851593/white-house-biden-medical-assessment-robert-hur/White House doesn’t commit to making Biden doctor available to attest to mental acuitywww.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2858736/another-nail-58-call-biden-presidency-a-failure/Another nail: 58% call Biden presidency a ‘failure’
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www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/2864183/alexei-navalny-remembered-hunger-thirst-righteousness/Alexei Navalny will be remembered for his hunger and thirst for righteousness
Last Friday, the public learned of the death of Alexei Navalny. He died in a Siberian prison, where he was held ostensibly on charges that included “extremism” but really for his political opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
His demise continues a long-standing pattern of Putin’s enemies conveniently dying, a number that now stands at more than 20 since Putin took power in 1999. Others have been shot or tossed out of windows. Navalny himself was among those poisoned, though he survived the attempt in 2020. Now, he supposedly died from “sudden death syndrome” in prison, though few take this official explanation seriously.
Newspapers, magazines, and online forums have been flooded with paeans to his heroism, laments for his death, anger at the tyrant who had him killed, and debates about how the West should approach contemporary Russia.
Navalny said many good things and did many brave ones. Among his best moments was Navalny’s closing remarks at one of his trials in February 2021. There, he gave a sense of the intersection of faith and politics. He showed how a politics shorn of faith empowers tyrants who treat themselves as gods.
In those remarks, Navalny spoke of his Christian faith. He admitted he had once been “a militant atheist.” He noted the ridicule one receives for being a Christian in Russia because of the number of those who do not believe in God. Navalny related how tyrants seek to make believers feel alone, strange, cut off from the rest of humanity. Tyrants must so act because God’s existence undermines their claims to absolute power, their evil that masquerades as justice, and their whims cloaked in the thin veil of law.
Navalny stated how his faith comforted and strengthened him in the face of such tyranny. The tyrant’s political philosophy is founded in lies, lies not just about God but about human nature, family, justice, citizenship, and anything else the distortion of which keeps the despot in command.
In opposition to this evil, Navalny pinpointed his “central political doctrine” as one found in the Gospels. He quoted Matthew 5:6, in which Jesus says, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.” Many understand these words in relation to personal holiness, to a desire to obey God’s commands. Yet, Navalny saw more. He saw a political manifesto that declared how “power lies in truth.”
From finding the truth, Navalny argued, comes other political goods. The truth will set you free from the bonds of indwelling evil and from political strongmen. The truth will enable better provision for the basic needs of life. The truth will ground education, itself a necessity for self-government. And, finally, Navalny saw the truth as helping lead to a quality he said Russians lack but need. He saw what the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote, what the Declaration of Independence asserted, and what every human heart ultimately knows: that all we do is aimed toward happiness.
Navalny hungered and thirsted for righteousness more than the average human being. Only a desire for truth of particular intensity could remain in the face of the persecution he faced. Only a belief that the truth ultimately resides in a gracious God could sustain him through prison, poisoning, and torture.
May we learn from his example. May all we who engage in some manifestation of earthly politics set our eyes on a celestial city. May we pray, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.” May we hunger and thirst for righteousness day in and day out, pursuing justice for all but especially for the fatherless and the widow. May we trust that the promise is true — that those who, like Navalny, so hunger, who so thirst, one day will be satisfied.www.timesofisrael.com/us-to-issue-major-sanctions-on-russia-over-navalny-death-as-kremlin-shirks-blame/US to impose ‘major sanctions’ on Russia over Navalny death, as Kremlin shirks blamewww.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/02/20/russian-secret-service-arrest-american-woman-high-treason/American woman faces 20 years in Russian jail for 'treason' after donating $50 to Ukraine war effortwww.breitbart.com/asia/2024/02/20/report-angry-north-korean-workers-occupy-chinese-factory-beat-manager-to-death/Report: Angry North Korean Workers Occupy Chinese Factory, Beat Manager to Death
The story was broken by Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, which spoke to a source in North Korea about the January 11-14 incident. The source described it as the first large uprising by dissatisfied North Korean workers sold as virtual slaves to foreign companies, and also a warning sign for the regime in Pyongyang that its younger subjects are growing harder to control.
About two thousand North Korean workers were shipped to the factory under a contract with the North Korean Defense Ministry, which wanted its indentured servants to earn Chinese currency that could be brought back to Pyongyang.
North Korean slave workers typically earn a very meager salary, which they are not paid until they return to North Korea. The money they earn is held by the Communist tyranny, which keeps most of it for “expenses” and “contributions” to the motherland.
The North Korean workers in Helong reportedly heard a rumor that previous work crews were paid nothing when they returned home because the regime decided to keep all of their salaries to finance “war preparations” against South Korea and the United States. Rumors flew around North Korea that most of the money was embezzled by high-ranking officials.
A riot broke out on January 11, during which the North Korean workers, many of them female former soldiers, managed to seize control of the factory and take hostages. Pyongyang dispatched secret police to deal with them and alerted the Chinese consulate, but the workers refused to let anyone enter the factory.
At some point during the worker revolt, the workers physically assaulted one of their hostages, who was described in media accounts as either the manager of the factory or a representative of the company that owns it. The occupation of the factory ended on January 14 after the workers beat this individual to death.
According to Yomiuri Shimbun’s source, the workers were “temporarily placated” when the North Korean regime agreed to pay their wages, but then some 200 of the 2,000 workers were seized by the secret police and dragged back to a North Korean “political prison camp” to receive “severe punishment.”
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and his top henchmen are reportedly “in shock” over the incident, which was one of the most forceful acts of defiance against Kim’s rule since he took power in 2011. The regime is said to be worried that other work crews sent abroad will hear of the Helong incident and contemplate their own acts of defiance.
“It was the first large-scale protest by North Korean workers in China, and it brought to the surface the anti-authoritarianism of North Korean youth who refuse to accept slavery,” said Yomiuri Shimbun.
RFA noted that North Korean defector Ko Young-hwan, who now works for the South Korean Unification Ministry, said last month that North Korean workers in China did indeed conduct “strikes and riots” as word of the January 11 uprising spread, but they seem to have subsided a few days later. Ko anticipated the unrest might resume because “funds to pay back wage arrears have dried up.”freebeacon.com/latest-news/iran-sends-russia-hundreds-of-ballistic-missiles/Iran Sends Russia Hundreds of Ballistic Missiles
An Iranian military official—who, like the other sources, asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the information—said there had been at least four shipments of missiles and there would be more in the coming weeks. He declined to provide further details.
Another senior Iranian official said some of the missiles were sent to Russia by ship via the Caspian Sea, while others were transported by plane.
"There will be more shipments," the second Iranian official said. "There is no reason to hide it. We are allowed to export weapons to any country that we wish to."
U.N. Security Council restrictions on Iran's export of some missiles, drones and other technologies expired in October. However, the United States and European Union retained sanctions on Iran's ballistic missile program amid concerns over exports of weapons to its proxies in the Middle East and to Russia.
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said in early January the United States was concerned that Russia was close to acquiring short-range ballistic weapons from Iran, in addition to missiles already sourced from North Korea.
Ukraine's top prosecutor said on Friday the ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea to Russia had proven unreliable on the battlefield, with only two of 24 hitting their targets.
Kyiv has repeatedly asked Tehran to stop supplying Shahed drones to Russia, which have become a staple of Moscow's long-range assaults on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure, alongside an array of missiles.
Ukraine's air force said in December that Russia had launched 3,700 Shahed drones during the war, which can fly hundreds of kilometers and explode on impact. Ukrainians call them "mopeds" because of the distinctive sound of their engines; air defenses down dozens of them each week.www.timesofisrael.com/three-years-in-ukraine-outnumbered-outgunned-ground-down-by-relentless-russia/Three years in, Ukraine outnumbered, outgunned, ground down by relentless Russia - While still motivated to fight Moscow, Ukrainian troops speak of challenges of holding off larger and better-supplied enemy as support from West slows
“The most immediate problem in every unit is lack of people.”
On the cusp of the second anniversary of its February 24 invasion, Vladimir Putin’s Russia is in the ascendancy in a conflict that combines attritional trench combat reminiscent of World War One with high-tech drone warfare that’s sending tens of thousands of machines into the skies above.
Moscow has made small gains in recent months and claimed a major victory at the weekend when it took control of Avdiivka in the hotly contested eastern Donetsk region. A spokesperson for the Third Separate Assault Brigade, one of the units that tried to hold the town, said the defenders were outnumbered seven to one.
Artillery shells are also in short supply as a result of Western countries’ inability to keep up the pace of shipments for a drawn-out war. On top of the US supply pause, the European Union has conceded it will miss its target to supply a million shells to Ukraine by March by nearly half.
Russia’s artillery was firing at five times the rate of Ukraine’s...“Ukraine is not getting a sufficient amount of artillery ammunition to meet its minimum defensive needs, and this is not a sustainable situation moving forward,” Kofman added.
Ukrainian officials have said their armed forces number around 800,000, while in December Putin ordered Russia’s forces to be increased by 170,000 troops to 1.3 million.
Beyond personnel, Moscow’s defense spending dwarfs that of Ukraine. In 2024 it earmarked $109 billion for the sector, more than twice Ukraine’s equivalent target of $43.8 billion.
Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov recently referred to Ukraine’s artillery ammunition deficit as “critical” in a letter to the European Union, urging its national leaders to do more to bolster supplies.
His letter said Ukraine’s “absolute critical daily minimum requirement” was 6,000 artillery shells, but his forces were able to fire just 2,000 a day, the Financial Times reported.
Limuzyn, the company commander in the 59th Brigade, said Russia’s widespread use of drones had made it difficult for Ukrainian troops to establish or strengthen fortified positions.
“Our guys start to do something, a drone sees them, and a second drone arrives to drop something onto them.”
Drones have also forced the Russians to move valuable vehicles and weapons systems back by several kilometers, according to two Ukrainian drone pilots in different units.
“It’s now very hard to find vehicles to hit… most vehicles are 9-10 km away or more,” said a pilot in the 24th Brigade with the call sign “Nato”. “At the beginning, they were very comfortable being 7 km away.”
Two other Ukrainian drone pilots, “Leleka” and “Darwin”, both serving in the elite Achilles drone unit of the 92nd Brigade, described queues of two or three UAVs sometimes forming above the battlefield, waiting to hit enemy targets.
The same situation is true for the Russians, whose drones now comfortably outnumber Ukraine’s, according to Ukrainian pilots from three units. The Russian defense ministry said this month that the country had ramped up its production of military drones in the past year, without giving figures.www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/02/23/lopez-obrador-nyt-journalist-mexico-cartels/Mexican president releases details of NYT journalist who investigated his links to cartels
Mexico’s president published the number of a New York Times (NYT) journalist who investigated his possible links to cartels as he hit out at the “filthy pamphlet” over its reporting.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s astonishing tirade, delivered at a televised press conference on Thursday, saw him dismiss the US newspaper as an “embarrassment” while he projected Mexico correspondent Natalie Kitroeff’s contact details onto a screen assembled behind him.
The screen also displayed a list of written questions which Ms Kitroeff had sent the Mexican leader about allegations his aides had received millions of dollars of funding from drug kingpins.
Mr Lopez Obrador’s stance towards the drug cartels has long concerned the United States.
His 2018 campaign slogan was “hugs not bullets” as he pledged to tamp down the narco-violence by ordering security forces to avoid shoot outs with the cartels.The Future of Europe www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/18/police-attacked-cars-torched-as-riots-break-out-at-the-hague-as-rival-eritrean-factions-clash/Netherlands: Police Attacked, Cars Torched as Rival Eritrean Migrant Factions Riot at The Hague
The home of the war criminal trying International Criminal Court saw war zone-like scenes brought to its doorstep as supporters of the leftist government of Eritrean dictator Isaias Afwerki gathered in the Opera Hall Centre in The Hague’s city centre on Saturday evening.
A group of anti-government Eritreans gathered outside of the building in protest, however, it quickly devolved into open riots, with the anti-government faction smashing the windows of the hall and setting it on fire.
Cashes between the two groups ensued and the riots continued to rage late into the evening, with several police and fire brigade vehicles being set ablaze and other privately owned cars being burnt during the altercations. Several officers and riot police were injured during clashes with the Eritrean mob, who took to pelting officers with stones.
The chairwoman of the Dutch Police Union (NPB) Nine Kooiman described the riots between the two groups of Eritreans as “devastating and too idiotic for words” and Ramon Meijerink of the ACP police union called them “completely unacceptable”...The local fire brigade was initially prevented from putting out the fires because of the violence from the rioters. A spokesman said: “We initially received a report of a police car that was on fire. We had to withdraw because the situation was not safe. Later, a police van was also on fire at the hall complex.
“There we got stuck and were pelted, damaging vehicles and forcing us to withdraw. We then placed fences on the windows of our vehicles so that we could still extinguish the fires.”
It is not the first time the Netherlands has witnessed riots break out among rivalling groups of Eritrean migrants, with last May seeing a large brawl in the city of Rijswijk, forcing riot police to respond. Similar conflicts among Eritreans have been witnessed in Sweden and in Germany, with dozens being arrested in Stuttgart in September after clashes broke out at an Eritrean cultural festival in the city.
According to government estimates, there are currently approximately 27,000 Eritrean nationals living in The Netherlands, the vast majority of whom are typically young military-age males who often flee the East African nation to avoid being conscripted into the armed forces.
Geert Wilders, the anti-mass migration populist who is in talks to become the next Dutch prime minister, said of the riots: “The Netherlands is really sick of it. Why is half the world allowed in here to tear down our country, fight mutual feuds, throw stones at police officers and set their cars on fire? I want to become the prime minister who finally puts things in order.”www.timesofisrael.com/who-rules-the-uk-parliament-or-the-mob-intimidation-over-gaza-threatens-british-democracy/Who rules the UK, parliament or the mob? Intimidation over Gaza threatens British democracy
There were a number of troubling things about Wednesday night’s debate on a Gaza ceasefire in the House of Commons – but most alarming is the fear for MPs’ safety...demonstrators outside parliament on Wednesday night called for intifada, praised the Houthis, and projected the words “From the river to the sea” onto Big Ben.
Referencing his visit last week to the country, one Jewish Tory MP, Andrew Percy, told the House of Commons on Thursday that he “felt safer in Israel than I do in this country at this moment in time.”
Over recent weeks, MPs who have failed to support a ceasefire have been subjected to what one termed “vile abuse”; their offices have been attacked; and their family homes have been surrounded by demonstrators...Some MPs, understandably, are calling it a day. Mike Freer, the pro-Israel Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green in North London, announced last month he was standing down at the next election. His constituency office was set alight in an arson attack in December, and he’s been subject to “serious threats” for several years.
“Members of Parliament now feel that they have to vote in a certain way in order to safeguard their safety and that of their family,” Tory MP Sir Charles Walker said during the debate. “That is a far bigger issue than the debate we are having tonight because if people are changing their votes or their behavior in this place because they are frightened of what may happen to them or their family out there, we have a real problem.”
Sadly, as one target leaves the scene, another emerges. Within hours of his victory in a special election last week, pro-Palestinian activists began to focus on Labour MP Damien Egan. Egan, who converted to Judaism in 2018, is married to Yossi Felberbaum, an Israeli who has served in the IDF.
As David Wolfson, a Conservative member of the House of Lords, suggested in response to Wednesday night’s debate: “So the Speaker took his exceptional decision because of real threats to the safety of MPs, their families and staff. The old rule is proved yet again: what starts with the Jews, never ends with the Jews. Perhaps we can now, finally, stand up to those who threaten our democracy.”notthebee.com/article/france-start-handing-fines-imprison-anti-vaxxersFrance may start imprisoning those who "discourage COVID-19 vaccination"
According to the Western Standard, the legislation includes fines of up to 45,000 euros (approx. $48,600) or even IMPRISONMENT for up to three years for individuals convicted of advising against "medical treatments" deemed "obviously suitable."The real future www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/21/no-farmers-no-food-greek-tractor-protests-head-to-parliament/No Farmers No Food: Greek Tractor Protests Head to Parliamentwww.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/21/tractor-protests-hundreds-of-farmers-advance-on-madrid/Tractor Protests: Hundreds of Farmers Advance on Madrid
The protest, the biggest to take place in the Spanish capital after more than two weeks of daily protests across the country, will include a rally outside the Agriculture Ministry headquarters.www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/20/fmr-obama-fbi-official-terror-watch-list-numbers-at-border-over-10x-what-bothered-me/Fmr. Obama FBI Official: Terror Watch List Numbers at Border Over 10x What Bothered Me when I Was in OfficeLiberal priorities freebeacon.com/california/california-dems-want-to-teach-health-care-professionals-that-men-can-get-pregnant/notthebee.com/article/trans-nonbinary-activist-arrested-on-charges-of--well-you-knowCalifornia Dems Want To Teach Health Care Professionals That Men Can Get Pregnant - "Trans nonbinary activist" arrested on charges of ... well, you knownotthebee.com/article/democrats-unveil-new-hip-hop-task-force-to-address-the-injustices-in-our-societyDemocrats Unveil "Hip-Hop Task Force" To Address Injustice In Society (This isn't satire) - Rep. Jamaal Bowman: "Our goal is to make sure the Hip Hop community has a seat at the table as we work on federal policy."www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/21/watch-trans-activist-assaults-pro-life-students-at-virginia-march-for-life/‘Screaming,’ ‘Barking’: Trans Activist Barrels Into Student Group at Virginia March for Lifewww.breitbart.com/health/2024/02/21/oregon-fentanyl-overdoses-increase-by-1530-largest-spike-in-the-nation/Oregon Fentanyl Overdoses Increase by 1,530%, Largest Spike in the Nation
A new FOX12 report using data obtained from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) exposed the shocking statistics, revealing that 1,268 deaths occurred as a result of the fatal drug between September 2019 and September 2023.
The drastic increase came with the 2020 passing of Measure 110, a drug decriminalization law that most Oregonians now believe to be a grave mistake after seeing the spike in deaths.
Oregon’s fentanyl problem led Democrat officials — Democrat Gov. Tina Kotek, Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson, and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler — to declare a 90-day state of emergency in Portland earlier in February.
“We have drugs that are just rampant, and we’re seeing public drug use daily,” she continued in a recent interview with Fox News. “Extreme homelessness and garbage everywhere. It’s unsafe, and it’s unsightly, but it’s also heartbreaking because, literally, our fellow citizens are dying.”nypost.com/2024/02/21/us-news/nyc-non-citizen-voting-law-struck-down-as-unconstitutional/NYC law that would have allowed 800K non-citizens to vote struck as unconstitutional by appeals court: ‘Enacted in violation’nypost.com/2024/02/23/us-news/more-chinese-migrants-now-crossing-san-diego-border-than-mexicans-report/More Chinese migrants now crossing San Diego border than Mexican nationals: report - the majority of the Chinese migrants are single adults of military agewww.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/20/the-west-is-about-to-hand-victory-to-hamas/The West is about to hand victory to Hamas
Just a few short months ago, the West claimed to stand united with Israel as it launched a war of self-defence after the atrocities of October 7. Now even Jerusalem’s closest allies seem to want to stop the conflict in Gaza before the Israel Defence Forces have achieved its objectives of the destruction of Hamas and the release of the hostages taken by the terrorists.
The West has developed a defeatist tendency in recent years of pursuing negotiated settlements that never really lead to peace, only to running sores that inevitably flare up again and again, or indeed to the victory of our enemies. Iraq and Afghanistan are both cases in point. The US’s new draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the war in Gaza could well be set to become another.
The text says that a major Israeli ground offensive into Rafah should not proceed “under current circumstances” – that is, with a heavy concentration of refugees from elsewhere in Gaza on top of the existing residents. The US is also calling for a “temporary” ceasefire “as soon as practicable”.
It is what the resolution doesn’t demand that is perhaps most telling. The US appears to have little interest in practical solutions...and (in) permitting Israel to achieve victory over Hamas.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that, instead, Joe Biden is no longer committed to Israel finishing Hamas off, largely because of domestic political considerations. And the danger is that what he really wants is not a “temporary” cessation to the fighting, but to impose a “peace” deal that would leave Hamas’s terrorist organisation partially intact and end up solving nothing.
What Biden and his ilk seem incapable of recognising is that the Israeli people can accept no “solution” to the current conflict that leaves the country in a weaker position to the one that it occupied on October 6.
Indeed, the wider West appears to be forgetting how this war started. Israel did not want the conflict. It was the necessary response to the shocking crimes of October 7, the slaughter of civilians, and the taking of hostages – evil terrorist acts that Israel rightly wants to ensure can never happen again.
If the IDF does not move forward with its plans, Israel knows that it will only be a matter of time before we see another conflict in Gaza, as well as emboldened terrorists in the West Bank and on its northern border. Worse, the terrorists would know that the United States would never allow Israel to truly defeat them.
Prime Minister Netanyahu therefore has to act. If Biden does manage to force the cancellation of the planned assault, he will need to turn to a temporary option. That would see Rafah isolated from the remainder of the Gaza Strip, with a strong defensive line established to the east of the city, parallel to the border with Egypt. Inside such an enclave, Hamas could do little to threaten Israel.
But this solution would see some hostages remain in the hands of Hamas, and is also the last thing Egypt wants. Rafah and its terrorist garrison could well effectively become Cairo’s problem.
It would be an infinitely inferior strategy to the obvious alternative: the United States and its allies steeling themselves to help Israel finish the war with the total defeat of Hamas.www.zerohedge.com/political/seattle-activists-declare-homosexual-intifadaSeattle Activists Declare 'Homosexual Intifada'
Seattle’s homosexual intifada flyer is a stark oxymoron as brazen as it is ignorant. It signals LGBT Seattle activists are willing to become more violent in support of a terrorist organization that would order them tossed from the highest rooftop the moment they accuse someone of misgendering them.www.zerohedge.com/political/service-members-speak-out-against-dei-training-militaryService Members Speak Out Against DEI Training In The Military - Almost 91 percent believe DEI training has taken away from training for combat readiness
"it takes time away from more important issues like preparing a soldier for combat,” Lt. Col. Maser said. “I’m supposed to be training and leading my soldiers in knowing how to defend their society and the Constitution—not taking them down a path that undermines our ability to do harm to the enemies of our country.”
Maj. Adams agreed. “Anytime that I go into a training, and we have to spend the first several minutes talking about safe spaces, we’re missing valuable minutes of actual training.”
“When we start looking the other way and making concessions for people who have decided they’re the opposite gender,” she said, “that’s going to start to erode away at the very base of our military strength.”
Having once served with someone who identified himself as transgender, Lt. Col. Maser said the assignment was “uncomfortable” and “very awkward.” For him, “the acceptance of transgenders is a policy that many have the misfortune of enforcing, despite how we might personally feel about it.” He fears that those who support transgenderism in the Army are “trying to reshape the image and mindset of the Army.” When service members are forced to “accept transgenderism and celebrate it,” he said, “it’s like being required to play pretend—and right now, there’s nothing you can do about it.”
“A burly man pretending to be a woman living and showering in the women’s barracks (is a) harmful absurdity,” he said. “The more mature female soldiers can brush it off and avoid him, (but) the young women are being programmed to believe that military life includes sharing intimate spaces with mentally disturbed men,” he said.
Regarding transgenderism, she feels forced to believe in something she doesn’t. “It’s part of the conditioning and propaganda of DEI,” the major said. Over 93 percent of the survey’s 229 participants agreed with Maj. Adams, saying they feel forced to believe in something they do not.
“I have seen preferential treatment given to (non-White) races. I have also seen women who were patently not qualified for a job, but got it anyway.”nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/nyc-subway-crime-jumps-by-nearly-20-this-year-compared-to-2023-data-shows/NYC subway crime shot up nearly 20% this year, driven by jumps in assaults, robberies, moreDems are too busy randomly attacking good people, Christians, etc: nypost.com/2024/02/19/us-news/amazon-driver-fends-off-attack-from-drunk-naked-nyc-migrant-and-ends-up-in-cuffs/Amazon driver fends off attack from drunk, naked NYC migrant — and ends up in cuffs
“I was unloading my stuff, and a guy – he was like a pervert, he had his penis out,” the driver, who asked that he only be identified as Abu, told The Post on Monday.
“He’s in the corner of the street j–king off and I told him, ‘Hey, what are you doing?’” Abu added. “And he went into my van where all my mail and everything was at, and I pushed him away, and he ran towards me like he was going to aggressively hit me.”
Abu said he picked up a piece of ice from the ground and chucked it at the rowdy flasher.
“I really had to protect myself,” said Abu, who said he couldn’t help but think of the recent unprovoked slashing of another Amazon worker in the Bronx.
“So what I did was I looked towards the floor and I saw a big snow pile,” he said. “I picked up a piece and I socked him with it and he went down on his butt.”
Abu said he spotted some cops nearby and ran to them for help — a no-brainer move that somehow backfried.
Abu, who left the would-be thief with swelling and bruising on his face, was charged with third-degree assault and released on a desk appearance ticket, police said.
“He was trying to aggressively hurt me and I just protected myself and my property from my job,” he maintained on Monday. “That’s it. I ended up being taken in, and now I have an open case about this.
“It’s ridiculous because I asked the cops for help,” he added. “I ran to the cops and said, ‘Hey, can you please get this guy. I don’t want to hurt him. I already hit him with a snowball"...he didn’t want to “do him damage” with his hands, which is why he sought help from the police.
“I didn’t want to lose my job. I did things the right way, by the books, and I wound up going to jail,” he railed.nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/indiana-couple-to-supreme-court-after-child-is-removed-from-home-over-gender-identity-squabble/Couple appeals to Supreme Court after child is removed from home over gender identity squabble
Notably, upon completing the investigation, the state determined the allegations of abuse against Mary and Jeremy were unsubstantiated, but still argued that the disagreement over gender identity was distressing to their child.
Lori Windham, vice president and senior counsel at Becket, told Fox News Digital that no parent should ever have to endure what Mary and Jeremy have been forced to go through.
“Keeping a child away from loving parents because of their religious beliefs—even when the state admits there was no abuse or neglect—is wrong and it’s against the law,” she said. “The Court should take this case and make clear that other states can’t take children away because of ideological disagreements.”
“If this can happen in Indiana, it can happen anywhere,” Windhamn said. “Tearing a child away from loving parents because of their religious beliefs, which are shared by millions of Americans, is an outrage to the law, parental rights, and basic human decency. If the Supreme Court doesn’t take this case, how many times will this happen to other families?”www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-bill-changes-definition-of-abused-child-to-include-kids-whose-parents-object-to-abortion-transgender-hormones-and-surgeriesIllinois Bill Changes Definition Of ‘Abused Child’ To Include Kids Whose Parents Object To Abortion, Transgender Hormones And Surgeries - can carry up to $25,000 in fines and 15 years behind barsnypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/texas-girl-scout-troop-robbed-while-selling-cookies-in-front-of-walmart-video/Texas Girl Scout troop robbed while selling cookies in front of Walmart: videowww.dailywire.com/news/mandatory-irs-diversity-training-includes-material-from-trans-academic-who-called-for-death-of-whitenessMandatory IRS Diversity Training Includes Material From Trans Academic Who Called For ‘Death Of Whiteness’ - is the author of an academic article called “‘Dead Honky’www.dailywire.com/news/microsoft-brags-that-it-pays-white-employees-less-than-non-white-employees-despite-same-job-titleMicrosoft Brags That It Pays White Employees Less Than Non-White Employees Despite ‘Same Job Title’www.dailywire.com/news/watch-msnbc-guest-claims-white-people-stole-all-music-except-classical-from-black-peopleMSNBC Guest Claims White People Stole All Music (Except Classical) From Black Peoplewww.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2867381/californias-massive-budget-deficit-is-almost-double-what-newsom-estimated/California’s massive budget deficit is almost double what Newsom estimatedFiscally and morally bankrupt “Today’s announcement isn’t surprising at all,” Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle said in a statement. “We’ve seen wasteful spending for years and Republicans have been sounding the alarm. Sadly, this deficit will continue for years to come as bad policies drive taxpayers out of this state. Newsom needs to stop campaigning for president and focus on serving the people of California.”nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/covid-vaccines-linked-to-slight-increases-in-heart-brain-blood-disorders/COVID vaccines linked to slight increases in heart, brain, blood disorders: study
An increased risk also was identified of a type of blood clot in the brain from viral-vector shots such as the one developed by the University of Oxford and manufactured by AstraZeneca, Bloomberg said.
There was a 2.5 times greater risk of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder in which the immune system attacks the nerves, among people who received AstraZeneca’s jab, according to the study.
myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle — were found in the first, second and third doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines.
Another heart condition, pericarditis, the inflammation of the cardiac muscle, had a 6.9-fold increased risk in those who received a third dose of AstraZeneca’s viral-vector shot, the study found.notthebee.com/article/kevin-oleary-says-the-business-world-is-scared-after-trump-verdict-i-would-never-invest-in-new-york-now-im-not-the-only-person-saying-thatKevin O’Leary goes nuclear on CNN, says the business world is scared after Trump verdict: "I would never invest in New York now. I’m not the only person saying that."
Imagine that you're an investor or a developer or a CEO looking at opportunities in New York. Why would you risk it? You could build yourself a thriving business empire and do everything by the book, but if you are on the wrong side of the Democrats in charge, they'll ruin you.
Gov. Kathy Hochul tried to tamper the fears of spooked investors by essentially saying this punishment was reserved for Trump and Trump alone, because "We'll only destroy certain political enemies" is sooo comforting.
All the smart people with businesses, assets, and capital in New York know that what Democrats consider "rule-following" can change in the blink of an eye when there's a new target to destroy. Why would they stay in a place like that?www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/2866674/investors-pull-business-new-york-following-trump-verdict/Major investors pull business from New York City following Trump verdict
Real estate mogul Grant Cardone announced on Tuesday that his firm Cardone Capital would no longer underwrite New York real estate, one day after Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary vowed to no longer invest in the state as a result of the verdict.
“Immediately discontinue ALL underwriting on New York City real estate,” Cardone ordered his firm in a post on X. “The risk outweigh the opportunities at this time. Recent political decisions will continue to deteriorate price and benefit states that don’t have these challenges. Focus on Texas & Florida.”
O’Leary called New York “a loser state” and told Fox Business on Monday that he “would never invest in New York now, and I’m not the only person saying that...and I’m no different than any other investor, I’m shocked at this,” O’Leary said. “I can’t even understand or fathom the decision at all. There’s no rationale for it.”
O’Leary responded to Hochul’s comments, saying every investor is worried.
“Where is the victim?” O’Leary said. “Who lost the money? This is some arbitrary decision a judge made. This policy … what does this say about the bar? About the legal bar in New York? Aren’t they going to question this judge? What is this?”
“When that (Trump) ruling happened, it was like, ‘Pencils down,'” Cardone said. “‘Don’t touch it. Don’t go there.'”nypost.com/2024/02/21/us-news/hochul-facing-heat-over-ny-green-push-to-ban-key-chemical-in-refrigerator-acs-go-too-far-too-quickly/Hochul facing heat over NY green push to ban key chemical in refrigerator, ACs: ‘Go too far, too quickly’
Small business owners warned the aggressive timetable to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, starting next year, could cripple businesses, icing out jobs and triggering price hikes on food items and other consumer products, as they attempt to comply with the costly mandate.
“The rule will increase the cost of business for us. What we get from the state is nothing but a nightmare. They nickel and dime us everywhere,” said Tariq Khan, 70, who owns a BP convenience store on Nassau Boulevard in West Hempstead, Long Island.
Nelson Eusabio, a representative with the National Supermarket Association, said it could cost grocery stores between $300,000 to $1 million to eventually replace the cooling compressors that power refrigerators.
“It’s going to cost more to operate the new refrigerators,” Eusabio told The Post.
Even eco-friendly Democratic lawmakers said the proposed rules would hurt small businesses and consumers...“It’s going to put some stores out of business and create food deserts"
The last thing New York consumers — who are already reeling from a period of record inflation — need is having to pay higher costs to buy food or appliances just to comply with the green mandate, Conrad said.
Bob Mesmer, who owns a refrigeration business in Buffalo, appealed to Hochul and state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos to relax the draft rules.
“The proposed amendments would force us to replace or retrofit our existing equipment, regardless of its age, performance, or remaining service life, with alternative refrigerants that are not readily available, not proven to be safer or higher performance, and not compatible with our current systems,” Mesmer said in a Feb.19 letter to the governor and DEC boss.nypost.com/2024/02/21/us-news/kathy-hochuls-approval-rating-drops-over-ny-cost-of-living/Hochul’s approval rating plunges over NY’s sky-high cost of living, crime, migrant crisis
the cost of living was their main concern for the governor and the legislature to address, with the migrant crisis, crime, and affordable housing rounding out the other top problems on their minds...a “plurality of voters, including a majority of Republicans,” think Hochul is “out of touch with average New Yorkers"Fraud Watch www.dailywire.com/news/nevada-launches-investigation-after-residents-told-their-ballot-had-been-counted-when-they-hadnt-votedNevada Launches Investigation After Residents Told Their Ballot Had Been Counted When They Hadn’t Votedwww.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/20/watchdog-sues-california-county-for-refusing-to-disclose-foreign-nationals-registered-to-vote/Watchdog Sues California County for Refusing to Disclose Foreign Nationals Registered to VoteHouthi Joe's corner www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2864508/biden-tries-to-save-hamas/Biden tries to save Hamas
Joe Biden is reportedly proposing a separate ceasefire resolution that would also call on Israel to abandon its plan to crush the remnants of Hamas in the city of Rafah.
He should proceed no further in this. Israel has come too far and made too much progress in the laudable goal of dismantling Hamas to stop now. Before Hamas massacred innocent Israelis on Oct. 7, there were 24 Hamas regional battalions in Gaza. These have been reduced to six, and they are in Rafah. The city must be taken. Hamas must not be allowed to survive.
Israel has gone to extreme efforts to minimize civilian casualties. It has done a remarkably good job. Hamas claims that 29,000 Gazans have died since Israel began its counterattack following the terrorist invasion. Israel says 12,000 of those deaths are Hamas fighters. If one takes both sides’ numbers as accurate (even though we know Hamas has included deaths that are inflicted by itself or outright false), that would be near a historic low in the ratio of combatants killed to civilians. According to the United Nations, the average rate for wars is about nine noncombatants killed for every one combatant.
Israel’s success in minimizing civilian deaths is all the more impressive when considering that it is Hamas’s goal to maximize them. That is why Hamas fighters hide underground in tunnels and use civilians as human shields. Every civilian death is a public relations victory for Hamas and a setback for Israel. It is only the Israelis who have any incentive to minimize civilian deaths.
One key Israeli tactic is to maintain humanitarian corridors that allow Gazans to flee battle zones. Hamas has used these passageways for its own ends, smuggling soldiers and weapons to fight another day. But Israel has also been patient, pursuing a deliberate and comprehensive plan to displace Hamas from territory where it can burrow into the ground and hide.
Rafah, a city of more than a million people in the south of Gaza on the border with Egypt, is Hamas’s last stronghold. Once Rafah has been taken, Israel can switch to much lower-intensity tactics, including targeted airstrikes and special forces operations. Those who want to minimize civilian casualties in the long run should support, not oppose, Israel’s pacification of Rafah.
Biden either supports Israel’s goal of eliminating Hamas or he does not. He cannot both claim to support Israel’s war against the terrorists and deny our ally the means to conduct that war.freebeacon.com/energy/bidens-inflation-reduction-act-meant-to-counter-china-prompted-explosion-in-chinese-battery-imports/Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, Meant To Counter China, Prompted Explosion in Chinese Battery Imports - Imports of Chinese lithium batteries have increased more than 500 percent since Biden took office
The 2023 figure likely represents just a fraction of China's total haul from Inflation Reduction Act subsidies, according to James Madison Institute senior vice president Sal Nuzzo.
"There is absolutely no sane reason to funnel taxpayer dollars to Chinese companies," Rubio said following Biden's veto. "Biden should act in the interest of the American people, follow the bipartisan wishes of Congress and stop favoring foreign industry."www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/2863517/biden-cozies-up-closer-to-europes-only-narco-state/Biden cozies up closer to Europe’s only narco state
While in the capital Tirana, Blinken held a joint press conference with Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama. America’s top diplomat hailed our NATO ally as an “extraordinary” American partner, praising Albania’s support to Ukraine, assistance to refugees from our recent defeat in Afghanistan, plus “a shared approach to countering dangerous distortions and lies and build a resilient information ecosystem” (whatever that means).
Does Blinken know what country he was visiting? Did he think he had landed in Denmark?
On planet Earth, the decade-plus of Rama’s rule has seen little Albania become a major global drug smuggling hub as well as the sole narco state in Europe. Under Socialist governance, Albanian criminals have gone global, spreading their tentacles around the world. Wherever Albanian gangsters go, violence and mayhem follow, most recently in Ecuador. This is no secret. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide are fully aware of how alarmingly Albania punches above its weight in organized crime on several continents.
In December, Spanish police broke up an Albanian gang in their country, seizing 11 tons of cocaine. A couple of weeks ago, police in four European countries took down another Albanian organized crime group involved in smuggling drugs from Latin America to Europe, arresting nearly five dozen mobsters. Surely Blinken has heard about all this.
Still, the timing for this visit certainly wasn’t great. The very next day after America’s top diplomat publicly praised Rama and his governance, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced a former senior FBI official to more than two years in prison for taking bribes from — the Rama government. Pursuant to his plea agreement with the Department of Justice, Charles McGonigal, who finished his long FBI career as the chief of counterintelligence in the Bureau’s powerful New York field office, received a 28-month prison sentence for taking $225,000 in bribes in 2017 from a former Albanian intelligence official who was acting on behalf of Tirana. This dirty deal included multiple meetings between McGonigal and Rama. On top of the sentence McGonigal received in December from a federal court in New York on separate charges relating to violating sanctions on Russia, in collaboration with a top Kremlin oligarch, the disgraced G-man is facing a total of 6 1/2 years behind bars when he reports to prison next month.
The Albanian aspect of the McGonigal case, which may be the worst corruption scandal in FBI history, is the more serious one since it occurred while he was still employed by the bureau. What damage McGonigal did to our national security in exchange for cash can’t be said yet, but it may be massive.
Neither does the media seem interested in finding out. As I have previously reported, there are credible accusations that McGonigal was involved in shakedowns of Balkan oligarchs to enrich the Rama government as well as the rogue FBI agent, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. For whatever reason, however, much of the media appears to have no interest in exploring this. Neither does the Justice Department. The FBI understandably just wants this nightmare to go away.
For reasons that are difficult to decipher, the Biden administration keeps running interference for Rama and his gangster-allied government, including Blinken’s public endorsement last week. It may not be coincidental that Rama is in the good graces of Alex Soros, the 38-year-old who has taken over his famous billionaire father’s global mission of funding progressive causes all over the world. The younger Soros makes regular visits to Tirana to hang out with the prime minister, whom Alex Soros calls “my brother,” posting their bros-being-bros photo ops on social media, while Rama is equally effusive about his frequent meetings with “my dear friend.”
Why Alex Soros is so interested in a small Balkan country with less than 3 million people that frankly doesn’t register in the global economy (outside illegal drug smuggling) is something of a mystery. Last week, for Valentine’s Day, Alex Soros made public his new girlfriend, who turns out to be Huma Abedin, the 47-year-old former wife of disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner, plus the longtime factotum/mini-me of Hillary Clinton. This makes Alex Soros part of the extended Clinton family.
If House Republicans can find the time, perhaps they should inquire about what’s going on.thefederalist.com/2024/02/23/cbs-seizes-records-of-investigative-reporter-who-probed-hunter-biden-laptop-scandal/CBS Seizes Records Of Investigative Reporter Who Probed Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal
“The timing of Herridge’s termination immediately raised suspicions in Washington,” Turley added. “She was pursuing stories that were unwelcomed by the Biden White House and many Democratic powerhouses, including the Hur report on Joe Biden’s diminished mental capacity, the Biden corruption scandal and the Hunter Biden laptop. She continued to pursue these stories despite reports of pushback from CBS executives, including CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews.”
In a pending First Amendment lawsuit, Herridge refused to reveal her sources to a federal judge related to an investigation she ran in 2017 when she still worked for Fox News.
“She could be ordered to personally pay fines that could total as much as $5,000 a day,” the New York Post reported. “Insiders said that there are concerns that CBS could be subpoenaed to reveal her source’s identity, which would threaten free press principles.”www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/02/23/donald-trump-legal-case-fani-willis-election-fraud/American democracy won’t survive the anti-Trump witch hunt - The raft of prosecutions against President Trump is undermining faith in our Republic, not strengthening it
Around the world, corrupt political regimes are weaponising the courts to go after political rivals. In one country, a prosecutor is trying to persuade a court to impose a prison sentence of up to hundreds of years on a former national leader on the basis of technicalities about handling official documents. In another lawless, illiberal regime, a partisan prosecutor is using a law intended to prosecute organised crime to destroy a politician of the other party.
In a country in which the rule of law is at risk, a prosecutor and a judge seek the financial ruin of an opposition politician and his family through grotesquely exorbitant penalties for minor business malfeasance. And in a fourth country, election officials of one party have gone so far as to remove a presidential candidate of another party from the ballot.
Pakistan? Nicaragua? Russia? No. All of the examples above actually come from one country: the United States of America. Partisan Democrats have utilised the American judicial system to try to imprison or bankrupt Joe Biden’s likely Republican contender in the 2024 election, Donald Trump.
Why the sudden cluster of criminal indictments in the spring and summer of last year – rather than, say, in 2021 or 2022? Could it be that the timing was related to the emergence of Donald Trump as the clear front-runner in the Republican presidential primary race?
In the old days most Democrats and Republicans alike believed in the rule of law and fair play and the maxim that people are innocent until proven guilty. Today, many if not most Democrats see Trump – and by implication any political candidate of whom they disapprove – as an “enemy of democracy” who is not entitled to be protected by the rule of law and is to be kept off the ballot, sent to prison on dubious charges, or bankrupted by selective prosecution. While claiming to save democracy from Donald Trump, Democrats are trashing American democracy.nypost.com/2024/02/21/us-news/7-2m-illegals-entered-the-us-under-biden-admin-an-amount-greater-than-population-of-36-states/7.2M illegals entered the US under Biden admin, an amount greater than population of 36 states
If the current pace of illegal immigration does not slow down, fiscal year 2024 will break last year’s record of 2,475,669 southwest border encounters — a number that by itself exceeds the population of New Mexico, a border state.
“This unprecedented surge in illegal immigration isn’t an accident. It is the result of deliberate policy choices by the Biden administration,” said Eric Ruark, Director of Research for Numbers USA, a nonprofit that advocates for immigration restrictions.
“In actual effect, the United States government is completing the human smuggling and trafficking process for the Mexican cartels.”www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2864556/biden-releasing-everyone-at-border-in-latest-secret-move/Biden ‘releasing everyone’ at border in latest secret move - "This country cannot succeed if the executive branch is allowed to effectively dissolve huge sections of federal law whenever it wants"www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/02/19/boston-families-furious-kicks-black-children-out-community-center/Boston Families Furious as City Kicks Black Children Out of Community Center to House Biden’s Migrantsfreebeacon.com/latest-news/bidens-approval-on-immigration-reaches-new-low-poll/Biden's Approval on Immigration Reaches New Low: Poll
Biden’s approval rating for his record on immigration has hit a new low, with 67 percent of Americans disapproving of and only 28 percent looking favorably on his handling of the issue, according to a Gallup poll released on Friday.
The Friday poll also reflects Americans’ disapproval of Biden’s performance on other critical issues, showing a 40 percent approval rating for his handling of the war in Ukraine, 36 percent for the economy, 33 percent for foreign affairs, and 30 percent for his approach to Israel's war with Hamas.
Meanwhile, Biden’s overall approval rating as president, which has not exceeded 44 percent in Gallup's polling since August 2021, dropped 3 percentage points to 38 percent, only 1 point above his all-time low.
"Looking ahead to November," Gallup said, "history suggests that Biden has significant work to do to improve his approval rating among independents as well as Democrats if he is to win a second term."www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/21/jim-jordan-rips-doj-for-indicting-biden-fbi-informant-while-letting-steele-dossier-author-off-the-hook/Jim Jordan Rips DOJ for Indicting Biden FBI Informant While Letting Steele Dossier Author Off the Hookwww.dailysignal.com/2024/02/22/bidens-low-marks-economy-reflect-reality/The economy is not adding high-paying, full-time jobs that come with benefits. The number of full-time jobs was roughly flat over the last 12 months, so essentially all the job growth was part-time employment. As the layoffs mount, Americans are replacing their previous job with more than one part-time job.
That increases the number of payrolls without increasing the number of people employed, which helps explain the unprecedented disparity between the two categories. The shift to lower-paying, part-time employment has become so dramatic that it is dragging down average hourly wages.
In fact, December and January marked the biggest two-month decline in full-time employment since the government-imposed lockdowns of March and April 2020.
Aside from those losing their primary job, Americans are increasingly taking second or third jobs to make ends meet.
But even the Bureau of Labor Statistics data on multiple jobholders understate the extent of the problem. When a person gets a second job, that increases the number of multiple jobholders. But when that person gets a third job, it doesn’t.
With 60% of Americans living from paycheck to paycheck, it’s no surprise that so many of them have gotten extra jobs as they rack up a record $1.1 trillion in credit card debt to cover necessities.
Yet the best explanation for Biden’s poor polling on the economy has to do with who is getting these millions of new jobs. It turns out they aren’t native-born Americans.
Although last month’s job data quickly garnered hyperbolic terms like “blowout,” a fairer word would be “depressing” for many Americans. Native-born employment not only was a whopping 5.5 million below its pre-pandemic trend, but also was 121,000 below its pre-pandemic level...It turns out all the job gains since the beginning of 2020 have gone to the foreign-born; on net, native-born Americans have lost jobs.
That native-born Americans have made no progress in terms of job numbers in four years is a key reason why they view the economy so poorly, but it isn’t the only one. Their inflation-adjusted weekly earnings are still down 4.2% under Biden, according to the government estimates.
The reality is even worse because the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grossly undercounted many price increases, such as the cost of homeownership.
It is surprisingly easy to square the circle of good economic headlines and lousy polling on the economy: The benefits of Bidenomics go to a few, and Americans as a whole come last.www.zerohedge.com/political/didnt-stop-me-biden-brags-supreme-court-cant-stop-him-canceling-student-debt"That Didn't Stop Me": Biden Brags That Supreme Court Can't Stop Him from Canceling Student Debt...For an Administration running on saving democracy from his political opponent, the chest-thumping brag that no one can stop him was a moment of impressive political dissonance.www.zerohedge.com/political/president-bidens-transfer-other-peoples-debts-youMadison called debt cancellation “improper or wicked” for very good reasons. Cancellation does not abolish an obligation. It merely transfers it to innocent people. If you are reading this, chances are that you will be one of those victimized by the Biden program.
Cancellation also injures the capital markets. In other words, it makes creditors less likely to lend on favorable terms. This makes it harder for deserving people to borrow.
Cancellation damages the sense of personal responsibility. It frays the social fabric by creating bitterness between different classes of people.
Nevertheless, for centuries demagogues have used debt-cancellation to buy votes. They then find ways to exploit the resulting bitterness for political advantage.
the Constitution did not authorize (and does not authorize) the federal government to guarantee loans for adolescents so they can swell the coffers of universities, or of any other constituency of the National Democratic Party.
Further, as Madison suggested in Federalist No. 10, the Founders did not believe that a single special interest (in this case the universities and their former students) could become powerful enough to generate this kind of self-serving measure at the federal level.
From my long exposure to the Founders’ speeches and writings, I think another reason they did not extend the ban on debt cancellation to the federal government is this: The Founders could not imagine a national leader being so shameless.
History demonstrates that attempts to “cure” a problem by exceeding the federal government’s constitutional powers generally lead to more and worse problems. The federal student loan program is a good example.
In an attempt to make college more affordable, the program has had precisely the opposite effect: The flood of federal money has greatly inflated the cost of tuition. It also has created a generation of debtors, and added billions to the national debt.
Now (Biden)’s administration of the student loan program threatens to victimize hundreds of millions of innocent people by imposing on them an obligation they did not incur—and from which they in no way benefitted.
The Republican majority in the House of Representatives should respond to the latest Biden announcment by defunding federal student loan programs (aside from Veterans’ Benefits), completely and permanently.www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/peter-schiff-household-debt-highest-nations-historyPeter Schiff: Household Debt Highest In Nation's Historyfreebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-cited-indigenous-knowledge-as-reason-to-block-oil-and-gas-leases/Biden Admin Cited 'Indigenous Knowledge' as Reason To Block Oil and Gas Leasesnypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/new-york-times-publisher-admits-white-house-gets-extremely-upset-with-its-reporting-on-bidens-age-poor-polling/New York Times publisher admits White House gets ‘extremely upset’ with its reporting on Biden’s age, poor polling
“He is a historically unpopular incumbent and the oldest man to ever hold this office,” AG Sulzberger said in an interview with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
“We’ve reported on both of those realities extensively, and the White House has been extremely upset about it,” the Gray Lady’s publisher added. www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/2868343/economy-still-weakening/America’s economy is still weakening
Inflation is proving to be increasingly sticky, not transitory as we were promised by the Biden administration in 2021.
When examining the impact of inflation on consumers, it is important to remember that any positive inflation number, no matter how small, means that prices are more expensive than the previous period. Simply put, it is inflation on top of inflation.
The inflation rate in January 2023 was 6.4%, meaning inflation is up by nearly 10% since January 2022. Compared to January 2021, when Joe Biden took office, prices are up more than 17.5%.
More worrisome to the Federal Reserve is that core CPI, which excludes the more volatile food and energy prices, remains close to 4%, meaning inflation is here to stay for the foreseeable future. As we head further into 2024, it is likely to get worse, thanks in part to rising freight rates and increasing energy prices.
Transiting the Red Sea remains dangerous, and more ships are opting to add two weeks to their travel times and circle the southern tip of Africa to avoid attacks from Houthi rebels.
The Panama Canal continues to operate at half capacity. As a result, freight rates are increasing. At the end of 2023, the cost of a 40-foot container moving from Shanghai to a port in the United Kingdom hit $10,000, up from an average of $2,400.
The price of oil is starting to rise as well, with West Texas Intermediate up more than $6 per barrel since the start of the year. The price of gas is following, up nearly 20 cents per gallon over the past month, per AAA.
Food prices continue to be inflationary, with grocery prices up 25% since January 2020.
Credit card delinquencies were up by more than 50% in 2023. The quarter wasn’t any better for homeowners. Foreclosures were up 9% in 2023 and nearly 200% from two years ago.
The only thing keeping the economy above water is that the majority of Americans are still employed...But this may be changing, as several companies, from Amazon to UPS and Mattel to Microsoft, have announced plans to reduce their workforce.www.dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-to-be-champion-of-blue-collar-workers-but-theyre-donating-more-to-trump-reportBiden Claims To Be Champion Of Blue-Collar Workers...But They’re Donating More To Trumpwww.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2870570/america-anemic-under-biden-gallup/After nearly four years of Biden, satisfaction with conditions in the country is a very underwhelming “anemic,” the latest sign that Joe Biden faces an uphill battle to win a second term.
“Today’s 33% satisfaction with the nation’s system of government remains one of the lowest readings,” the latest Gallup survey of the nation’s mood said.
“Since January 2021, public satisfaction has fallen most sharply with the nation’s military strength and preparedness, the immigration level, the nation’s energy policies, and its laws or policies on guns. All four readings are at or near their record lows, with only satisfaction with the military (62% very or somewhat satisfied) holding at the majority level.”www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/23/nolte-economy-immigration-drag-joe-bidens-gallup-job-approval-down-to-38/Among the youngest surveyed, those aged 18 to 34, only 30 percent approve of the job Biden’s doing, while 64 percent disapprove. Biden does best with the college-educated, but even so, only 52 percent approve.
The number that should worry Biden the most is that he’s only a single point above water with “non-whites:” 48 percent approve, 47 percent disapprove.
On the question of the economy, “non-whites” are not pleased. Only 40 percent approve, while 58 percent disapprove.
Two-thirds of Independents (66 percent) disapprove of how Biden handles the economy, as do 27 percent of Democrats.
Nothing about this Gallup poll is an outlier. In the RealClearPolitics (RCP) average poll of polls, Biden’s job approval rating sits at an anemic 39.7 percent, while 56.3 disapprove. He’s upside-down by 16.6 points.
In the swing states, Biden is down 4.7 points in Arizona, 8.4 points in Nevada, 0.6 points in Wisconsin, 4.6 points in Michigan, six points in North Carolina, and 6.8 points in Georgia. In 2020, Biden won five of those states (allegedly). The only swing state where Biden holds a lead is Pennsylvania, where he’s up by less than a point.
In the polling for the 2020 race, Trump never got any closer than four points behind Biden nationally.nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/70-of-ny-voters-say-biden-not-fit-to-serve-another-term-poll/70% of New York voters say Biden not fit to serve another term
“It’s worth remembering just how ‘blue’ New York is. Democrats have a 27-point enrollment advantage over Republicans, Biden beat Trump by 23 points in 2020, and no Republican presidential candidate has carried the state since Ronald Reagan in 1984, 40 years ago,” Greenberg said.
Elsewhere, the poll also found that Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand— who is seeking re-election to a fourth term — could face a real fight if the Republicans field a strong nominee.www.mediaite.com/news/new-poll-finds-bidens-approval-rating-underwater-by-whopping-30-points/New Poll Finds Biden’s Approval Rating Underwater By Whopping 30 Points
Forty-four percent of Americans not only disapprove, but “strongly disapprove” of Biden, and his numbers with key Democratic demographics are poor. Biden’s numbers with women (33% approve, 65% disapprove) are the exact same as his numbers with the general public. He does even worse (27%-71%) with voters between the ages of 18-29, is underwater with college graduates (36%-62%), Hispanics (32%-65%), and Black voters (48%-49%).www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/2867243/biden-appears-confused-at-la-event-when-reporter-asks-about-reelection/Biden appears confused at LA event when reporter asks about reelection - Biden froze and looked puzzled, before being rescued by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass...Bass steps in to answer on his behalf. Then Biden's handlers kick the press out of the room.www.zerohedge.com/political/why-are-there-30-cuts-2-minute-biden-speechWhy Are There 30 Cuts In This 2 Minute Biden Speech?www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/20/report-abraham-lincoln-pardoned-bidens-great-great-grandfather/Report: Abraham Lincoln Pardoned Biden’s Great-Great-Grandfather
When Joe Biden was born, he was closer in time to the Lincoln assassination than he was to his second campaign for President...notthebee.com/article/joe-biden-still-almost-trips-climbing-the-short-stairs-on-air-force-oneI am sad to report that Joe Biden almost fell on the short stairs to Air Force One ... again
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www.timesofisrael.com/gallant-iran-hezbollah-hamas-hope-to-turn-ramadan-into-2nd-stage-of-october-7/freebeacon.com/latest-news/iran-gives-approval-for-hezbollah-to-escalate-attacks-on-israel-report/Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas hope to turn Ramadan into ‘2nd stage of October 7’ - Iran Gives Approval for Hezbollah To Escalate Attacks on Israelwww.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-has-enough-near-weapons-grade-uranium-almost-3-nuclear-weapons-iaeaIran Has Enough Near-Weapons Grade Uranium For Almost 3 Nuclear Weapons: IAEA - Iran's estimated stockpile of enriched uranium is currently at 27 times the limits imposed by the 2015 JCPOAwww.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/national-security/2892149/north-korea-barters-artillery-food-russia/North Korea barters artillery for food from Russia
“You can say that at least several million shells have been sent,” South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik told South Korea-based reporters.
The open coordination between Putin and Kim has stoked U.S. and European unease about an emergent network of autocrats hostile to Western interests.
“The murderous invasion of Ukraine is aided and abetted by a crime family of dictators from Iran, North Korea, but also lauded by, among others, those ruling Cuba, Venezuela, and Syria,” Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Monday at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. “This mix of terrorists and dictators are united by one thing — their hatred of America, the West, and of democracy. … They’re hungry to show that the US is weak, ineffective, and hopelessly divided. That America can no longer act effectively, or be a force for good in the world.”www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/2889635/china-criticism-nato-exhibits-dangerous-multipolar-ambitions/China’s criticism of NATO exhibits its dangerous multipolar ambitions
The Chinese Communist Party had a busy week at the United Nations. At the International Court of Justice, its envoy defended Hamas’s terrorism as a legitimate “armed struggle” against “colonialism.” And in a U.N. Security Council meeting, China sided with Russia to urge the United States to stop supporting Ukraine. The CCP has been taking any shot it gets to trash the West on the world stage.
China’s U.N. ambassador, Zhang Jun, engaged in even more anti-Western animus on Friday with a series of bitter comments about NATO. “We encourage NATO to do some soul-searching, come out of the cage of Cold War mentality, and refrain from acting as an agent of trouble instigating bloc confrontation,” he said before criticizing NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg for “saber-rattling.”
Zhang and other CCP leaders are hypercritical of NATO because they understand any similar security alliance in the Pacific could put a stop to their expansionism. In the last Cold War, NATO was a key element in America’s strategy to contain and eventually defeat Soviet communism. Chinese strategists have learned from the USSR’s mistakes and are seeking to advance a geopolitics of “multipolarity” to break out of containment.
For two years now, China has provided Russia with critical support for its invasion of Ukraine because the country wants to do the same thing to Taiwan. It started mere weeks before the invasion when CCP Chairman Xi Jinping pledged a “no-limits friendship” with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Since then, Sino-Russian trade has exploded, smashing records in 2023.
China has also been secretly supplying Russia with vast amounts of military equipment. Chinese components, for example, are vital to the drones Iran has been supplying to Russia. Xi is providing Putin with all this support because he hopes that a Russian victory in Ukraine will set a precedent. He wants to degrade Western confidence as he prepares his forces to occupy Taiwan.
“Multipolarity,” though, is nothing more than an excuse to terrorize weaker countries. Putin and Xi believe they possess a civilizational right to direct the destinies of peoples with the misfortune of existing within their “spheres of influence.” They are willing to take violent action to prevent any possible pivots to the West, whether economic or political. The Moscow-Beijing Axis simply cannot abide peoples freely choosing to move away from their corrupt and authoritarian systems.
Beyond the mounting tragedy of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, China’s own pattern of behavior also proves that “multipolarity” is not in the interests of smaller countries. The CCP has always treated its imperial victims with extreme brutality. In Tibet, the CCP’s occupation has resulted in thousands of human rights abuses, including torture and illegal killings. In Xinjiang, the CCP is engaged in a terrible genocide against the indigenous Uyghur population. And in Hong Kong, the CPP is viciously repressing its political opponents. Pacific nations should be clear-eyed about the immense danger posed by Xi’s expansionist ambitions.
The only viable answer to CCP aggression is increased cooperation among its prospective victims. The U.S. alone does not have the resources to prevent a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, even leaving aside other regional commitments. China possesses the largest navy in the world, and its shipbuilding capacity is more than 200 times greater than the U.S. But by working together with regional partners such as Japan and the Philippines, America can maintain a level of deterrence while the country rebuilds a military advantage.
China, Russia, and their junior partner Iran hope that multipolar chaos will distract the U.S. They believe that setting fires everywhere will limit America’s ability to project power around the globe. Universal aggression on the part of the Eurasian axis is already alienating their neighbors. But their strategy will backfire if American leaders keep their wits about them — admittedly a big “if.”
Zhang’s recent anti-NATO outburst at the U.N. is an excellent reminder of what the Chinese Communist Party fears the most: strong alliances between free peoples. As one World War II-era poster put it, “United we are strong. United we will win.”www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/26/blood-money-leaked-u-s-federal-law-enforcement-documents-reveal-how-china-is-secretly-arming-american-criminals-with-machine-guns/‘Blood Money’: Leaked U.S. Federal Law Enforcement Documents Reveal How China Is Secretly Arming American Criminals with Machine Guns
The Communist Chinese government has been flooding the United States with illicit gun parts as part of a “Disintegration Warfare” strategy it is employing against America aimed at tearing the country apart from the inside, according to a blockbuster new book by Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer.
In Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, Schweizer reveals how Chinese companies, which are heavily regulated by the Chinese government, are flooding the U.S. with auto sear switches, a small metal device also known as “Glock switches” that can convert handguns into machine guns. They are illegal for most gun-owners in the U.S., but are being shipped in boxes by the “thousands” from China, Schweizer reveals.
It is based on the ancient Chinese strategist and general Sun Tzu’s teachings on how to win a war without fighting. The strategy is aimed at undermining a rival country’s “national will, values, and cohesion.”
Accordingly, between 2019 and 2021, there was a rise of 4,200 percent in incidents involving machine gun fire in 130 American cities, Schweizer reveals. Although some of the illegal auto switches are made on 3D printers in the U.S., “the vast majority on the street” are from China and are of much higher quality that those made on 3D printers, Schweizer writes.
As U.S. law enforcement has become better at identifying these switches coming from China, Chinese producers have switched tactics and increasingly are shipping them to Mexico and smuggling them across the border into the U.S., where they eventually end up in the hangs of gangs, felons, and drug dealers. And drug cartels in Mexico are also starting to manufacture the devices themselves, using machines provided by Chinese companies, Schweizer reveals.
This is a strikingly similar replay of the Chinese government’s strategy with fentanyl: when US authorities successfully began blocking shipments sent from China via mail or parcel, Chinese sellers switched to a land bridge in Mexico to continue supplying these devices to criminals in the United States. This is “delivery saturation around the United States,” warned the Department of Homeland Security in an internal memo obtained by the author, with a map showing that distribution is concentrated in major cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Washington, New York, and Philadelphia.
The Daily Mail, which reported on the Glock switches revelations in Blood Money, noted recent criminal cases involving the illegal devices, including the fatal shooting of 53-year-old accountant Paul Kutz from Poughkeepsie, New York, whose masked assailant sprayed him with 30 bullets using a handgun modified with a Glock switch.
The Daily Mail also quotes East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, district attorney Hillar Moore who says, “We’re seeing Glock switches used all over the place whether it’s murder, attempted murder, witness intimidation… shooting up in a neighborhood or shooting up houses.” In the last two years, Hillar’s office has seen over 80 criminal cases involving Glock switches, the Daily Mail reports.
Schweizer concludes that, as with drug warfare, China is attempting to incite civil unrest in the U.S. similar to its own “Century of Humiliation,” in which Beijing faults Western powers for sowing division in China in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
“In the same way that it flipped the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and created the Fentanyl Wars of the twenty-first century, Beijing now works to create a Century of Humiliation and weaken the United States by fomenting division by putting weapon-enhancing technologies into the hands of felons and criminal gangs, but also fueling social division on US streets,” Schweizer writes.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/28/in-their-own-words-hear-how-ccp-propagandists-are-using-tiktok-to-indoctrinate-americas-youth/In Their Own Words: Hear How CCP Propagandists Are Using TikTok to Indoctrinate America’s Youth
TikTok is run by the company ByteDance, which is “wedded to the Chinese Communist Party military-intelligence-industrial complex.” While the app has “penetrated the heart of America’s culture, becoming a central part of the lives of our children and young adults,” the Chinese government does not permit the app for its own population, he writes. Instead, the CCP harnesses the app’s addictive quality to target and shape the minds of young Americans for its own purposes, all while designating TikTok’s powerful algorithm as a top secret “national security asset.”
In one of the restricted journals, Colonel Dai Xu, a professor at China’s top military academy, People’s Liberation Army (PLA) National Defense University (PLA-NDU), wrote that the real battle between the United States and China is “information-driven mental warfare” and compared apps such as TikTok and social media platforms to a “modern day Trojan Horse.”
Zeng further argued that Beijing can win “mind superiority” through several means, including:
- “Perception manipulation” via propaganda, by changing how people look at the present
- “Cutting off historical memory” by warping their views of their own country’s past so people will be open to changing their values
- “Changing the paradigm of thinking” by targeting people to change the way they view problems and thereby changing their beliefs
- “Deconstructing symbols,” by getting people to reject certain traditional symbols and thereby modifying a nation’s identity
“The ultimate goal is to manipulate a country’s values and achieve strategic goals without an actual overt military battle,” Zeng added.
Chinese propagandists also noted that propaganda is more potent for young Western people when it comes from many sources instead of one. They compared the phenomena to “multiple voices in a choir communication subject sings its own melody.” As Schweizer writes, “the key is to simulate a community — a peer group — as TikTok does.”
“Content control is becoming more important,” said analyst Liu Ying, in “The Advantages, Predicaments, and Approaches of International Communication of “Polyphony”: New Media,” noting that “emotional incitement . . . can affect public opinion more than facts and truth.”
Schweizer found that the Chinese government actually funded a study of “digital propaganda and opinion manipulation in social media platforms,” which found that “emotional content can easily lead the audience to have the illusion of ‘independent thinking’ and attribute irrational emotions to ‘righteous indignation’ or ‘empathy,’ which intensifies the value of delusion.”
A Chinese government study on online manipulation further noted that online propaganda is a “highly concealed propaganda method,” and “its effect can far exceed traditional propaganda.” The study’s authors argue that such propaganda could even “affect the social stability and political security of a target country or region.”
“The evidence is clear: Chinese psychological warfare strategists have Americans, particularly young Americans, in their crosshairs. They believe that not only are young people easier to influence but the effects of the propaganda messaging are longer lasting,” Schweizer writes. “The Chinese government is devoting serious amounts of resources to understanding how to manipulate young users. The Communist government recently opened an external propaganda office to target Generation Z audiences overseas.”The Future of Europe www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/27/battle-of-britain-memorial-charity-claims-to-have-been-debanked/‘Battle of Britain’ Memorial Charity Claims to Have Been Debankedwww.dailysignal.com/2024/03/01/eu-climate-cattle-flatulance-rules-risking-european-farmers-livelihoods-driving-up-food-prices/EU Climate, Cattle Flatulance Rules Threatening European Farmers’ Livelihoods, Driving Up Food Prices
The European Union strategy would devastate farmers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture finds that the EU strategy’s goals of reducing farmland by 10%, fertilizer by 20%, and pesticides and antimicrobials by 50% would reduce total EU agricultural production by at least 12% and force reliance on agricultural imports from counties with lax environmental standards.
The global effects of such a strategy would be catastrophic. Germany, which has a carbon emission reduction target of 65% from 1990 levels, is the world’s third-largest agricultural exporter, the largest EU milk exporter, and the second-largest EU wheat exporter. According to 2020 calculations by the USDA, implementing the strategy solely within the EU would cause a global economic loss of $80 billion, with 22 million people becoming food insecure worldwide.
If their policies were copied worldwide, there would be global economic loss of $200 billion, and 185 million people would become food insecure worldwide.
The Dutch government plans to forcibly buy out 3,000 farms to achieve the mandated 30% reduction in livestock. Having the highest density of livestock in the world with more than 50% of the land devoted to agriculture, the Netherlands and its farmers would suffer significant economic losses from these policies.The real future www.zerohedge.com/political/things-are-heating-farmers-surround-eu-headquarters-building"Like A Warzone": Farmers Surround EU Headquarters Building
Today's protest is the latest in a series of demonstrations by farmers across several EU countries, including France, Italy, and Spain. Blue-collar folks are also furious about imploding incomes and elevated inflation.www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/26/great-reset-fightback-farmers-spray-police-with-liquid-manure-outside-eu-hq/Great Reset Fightback: Farmers Spray Police With Liquid Manure Outside EU HQ
Violent clashes ensued, with farmers using their tractors to bash through the barricades, throwing bottles and makeshift projectiles at officers while others sprayed police with manure, set tyres and straw on fire, and covered the European Union’s Lex building with eggs.
Commenting on the outbreak of violence, the spokesman for the Farmers’ Forum Tijs Boelens said: “The riots here today are the result of a European agricultural policy that always opts against economic security in our sector… If you sow misery, you will reap rage.”
“I am not in favour of the riots, there is a more friendly atmosphere here. But at the same time, it is the result of European mismanagement; farmers are always used as currency to secure economic deals for industry in Europe.
“With this, we do not create food security but rather are ensuring that our own farmers have to live in permanent economic stress. We are here today at the European Quarter because we want to make our point clear to European leaders: we must choose food security and food sovereignty. Neoliberalism’s time is up.”
The anger at globalist governance from farmers was also witnessed in France over the weekend, with enraged farmers breaching security to enter the Paris Agricultural Show on Sunday to confront French President Emmanuel Macron, accusing him of caring more for the people of Ukraine than his own farmers.www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/02/26/hundreds-thousands-flood-brazils-largest-city-protest-persecution-of-ex-president-jair-bolsonaro/Hundreds of Thousands Flood Brazil’s Largest City to Protest Persecution of Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro
Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians flocked to the streets of São Paulo on Sunday to peacefully express their support for former President Jair Bolsonaro in an ongoing investigation into a purported “coup” plot after his defeat in the 2022 presidential election.
The massive Sunday rally saw São Paulo’s roughly 1.7-mile-long Paulista Avenue full of Bolsonaro sympathizers, who predominantly wore the Brazilian flag’s green and yellow colors and the Brazil national soccer team jersey. While the Public Security Department estimated 750,000 people attended the rally, the Center of Operations of the San Paulo State Military Police said 1.8 million showed up. Bolsonaro, prior to the event, had described it as “a peaceful demonstration in defense of the democratic rule of law.”
“I’ve been beaten up since before the 2018 elections, I spent four years persecuted and this persecution increased when I left the presidency,” Bolsonaro said.
De Moraes has opened several investigations into Bolsonaro and ordered police raids on not just Bolsonaro’s home, but on the homes of Bolsonaro’s sons and some of his closest allies. The STF minister was also on the front lines of a widespread censorship initiative against Bolsonaro’s 2022 presidential campaign that favored President Lula’s campaign by silencing reporting on his various criminal convictions.
The former Brazilian president also criticized the removal of “opponents” from electoral events. “We can’t agree to a power removing anyone from the political stage, we can’t think about elections by removing opponents.”nypost.com/2024/02/26/us-news/majority-of-americans-support-southern-border-wall-as-61-see-illegal-immigration-as-very-serious-problem-poll/Most Americans support southern border wall — as 61% call illegal immigration ‘very serious problem’: pollLiberal priorities www.dailywire.com/news/state-universities-are-teaching-students-to-blow-up-oil-pipelines-records-showwww.zerohedge.com/political/leftists-argue-hijacking-planes-legitimate-form-protestState Universities Are Teaching Students To Blow Up Oil Pipelines, Records Show - Leftists Argue That Hijacking Planes Is A Legitimate Form Of Protestnotthebee.com/article/non-binary-singer-creates-all-species-restroom-with-litter-box-for-concertgoers"Non-binary" singer creates "All Species Restroom" with litter box for concertgoerswww.zerohedge.com/political/watch-mother-pushes-theythem-pronouns-15-month-old-baby-gay-pride-eventWatch: Mother Pushes 'They/Them' Pronouns On 15-Month-Old Baby At Gay Pride Eventwww.dailywire.com/news/felon-with-hiv-who-volunteered-for-dem-flint-mayor-to-be-released-on-bond-as-he-faces-allegations-of-sexually-assaulting-a-childFelon With HIV Who Volunteered For Dem Flint Mayor To Be Released On Bond As He Faces Allegations Of Sexually Assaulting A Child
John Cole, 55 — who had volunteered on the campaign of Flint Democratic Mayor Sheldon Neeley — was charged last May with 12 counts, including one count of child sexually abusive activity and three counts of accosting a child for immoral purposes. On Monday, Genesee County Circuit Court Judge Celeste D. Bell granted Cole a personal recognizance bond that was requested by his defense attorney, MLive reported.
The judge’s granting of a personal recognizance bond means the Flint man will be released from jail as he awaits trial without paying bail even though he was being held at the Genesee County Jail on a $75,000 cash/surety bond.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/01/blood-money-gavin-newsom-partnered-with-triad-linked-businessman-on-initiative-that-brought-chinese-mafia-linked-businesses-to-california/‘Blood Money’: Gavin Newsom Partnered with Triad-Linked Businessman on Initiative That Brought Chinese Mafia-Linked Businesses to California
Mayor Newsom worked with a San Francisco businessman named Allen Leung and reappointed him as chairman of the Chinatown Economic Development Group. But Leung was no ordinary businessman; he was the dragonhead of the “ominous” Chee (variously “Ghee” or “Gee”) Kung Tong, “transpacific incarnations of criminal Triad gangs originating in China.” Members of his gang were involved in the drug trade. Leung was brutally murdered in 2006.
Then there is Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, “Leung’s successor,” with whom “Newsom also had a fishy history,” according to Schweizer. The Blood Money author explains that Shrimp Boy was “an organized crime leader in San Francisco’s Chinatown” and served multiple prison sentences in the 1970s and 1980s for armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, respectively. After that, “he worked for leaders in the Wo Hop triad” and was incarcerated again in the 1990s on firearms charges, Schweizer reports. Shrimp Boy cooperated with the Department of Justice, leading to his early release.
Those who skirted criminal charges, according to the lawyers, included individuals “appointed, connected, extremely closely associated with” Gavin Newsom and other political elites.
One of Shrimp Boy’s collaborators was a man named Keith Jackson, who would eventually face a murder-for-hire charge that was dropped when he took a plea deal, according to Blood Money.
Newsom appointed Jackson to his transition team in 2003, when Newsom was San Francisco’s mayor-elect. Jackson was described as “a fixture in the hallways of City Hall” when Newsom was mayor, Schweizer notes. Laurence Pelosi, Newsom’s cousin, even hired Jackson as a consultant for a large real estate project that was important to Newsom, according to Schweizer.
“Jackson was later charged in a murder-for-hire scheme and a gunrunning deal involving Shrimp Boy and the Chinese triads. Those charges were dropped as part of a plea agreement.”
Trina Solar Company was another energy company that Newsom announced would be coming to the Bay Area, and it would later be “embroiled in controversy” surrounding an American company’s intellectual property, according to Blood Money. A CEO for one of Trinar Solar Company’s American competitors levied allegations that “it was likely receiving support from the People’s Liberation Army via hackers who were stealing intellectual property from competitors and giving it to the company.”
Notably, the ChinaSF initiative was being launched at the same time then-mayor Newsom ran a “fake-out” in San Francisco during the passing of the torch relay in the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics after protests in major European cities had “deeply embarrassed” China, Schweizer explains.
“Earlier torch relays in London and Paris had been met by human rights protestors, which had deeply embarrassed Beijing. So Newsom executed an intricate ‘fake-out,’ changing the torch relay route at the last minute, leaving thousands of protestors and supporters at one end of San Francisco while the torch passed through the other side of town,” Schweizer writes. “The protestors were furious, as were Bay Area leaders from Newsom’s own political party.”
“Perhaps part of Newsom’s motive over the years has been financial,” Schweizer contends.
“He sells his wines in both mainland China and CCP-controlled Hong Kong,” Schweizer writes. “In recent years his wife has been a shareholder in several Chinese companies, to the tune of potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
in October 2023, Newsom trekked to China for an eight-day, six-city tour organized by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries rather than the United States because Newsom is only a state official, not a federal official. Schweizer highlights that the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries is affiliated with Chinese intelligence.
Newsom received “superlative treatment” from Beijing during the trip, according to Blood Money, evidenced by his meeting with Chinese Communist Leader Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People, the optics of which were starkly different from Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s visit months before.
“In an unusual move, Newsom was allowed to sit side-by-side with the Chinese leader, a sign of respect. When US Secretary of State Tony Blinken had visited earlier in the year, Blinken sat opposite Chinese officials while Xi was in the center—a position of superiority,” Schweizer writes.
American media was shut out from the meeting, and Newsom completed his visit without publicly criticizing Beijing. He did, however, call on Americans “to tone down their criticisms of China,” Blood Money notes.www.zerohedge.com/political/transgender-space-force-colonel-says-using-pronouns-emails-will-help-win-warsTransgender Space Force Colonel Says Using Pronouns In Emails Will Help Win Warsnypost.com/2024/03/01/us-news/nycs-iconic-charging-bull-statue-graffitied-with-death-to-israel-during-protest/NYC’s iconic ‘Charging Bull’ statue graffitied with ‘Death to Israel’ during protestwww.dailywire.com/news/free-from-the-white-gaze-london-play-featuring-game-of-thrones-star-invites-black-only-audience‘Free From The White Gaze’: London Play Featuring ‘Game Of Thrones’ Star Invites Black-Only Audiencenotthebee.com/article/this-man-is-on-tape-crushing-a-mother-and-daughter-at-100mph-on-a-city-crosswalk-and-he-is-already-out-on-bondPolice say this driver is on tape crushing a mother and daughter at 70mph in a city crosswalk and he is already out on bond
According to court documents, data retrieved from the Jeep indicated that the car was traveling at speeds in excess of 70 mph prior to violating the red traffic signal. The perp, identified by police as 22-year-old Monte Henderson, was released after posting 10% of a $200,000 bail.
This is a trend for St. Louis:
"Teen volleyball player who lost legs in crash sues both drivers and the city of St Louis"
Janae Edmondson was only 17 when a black perp with 90 bond violations crashed into her, causing her to lose both legs. The perp was out on bond AGAIN following an armed robbery charge. As a violent repeat offender awaiting trail, he should have never been out on the streets, but in an effort not to appear racist and to enact Marxist "equity," St. Louis has decided to play games with innocent lives.
In this most recent story, the family of the victims was stunned by Henderson's release:
Rivera reached out to 5 On Your Side in reaction to the bond release with this statement:
'My family is not being allowed time to grieve and we haven't even figured out how to bring Lety and Alyssa home yet and we are at a loss as to how a man can take 2 lives and be out on bond 2 days later able to sit at home with his family. We have MANY questions and demand answers. The police department has failed to reach out to us and the states attorneys office has provided inaccurate information. This man should NOT have been able to go home after ONLY 2 days and he took 2 lives.'freebeacon.com/latest-news/40-year-old-san-francisco-diner-chain-closes-all-locations-cites-economy-and-homelessness/40-Year-Old San Francisco Diner Chain Closes All Locations, Cites Economy and Homelessness...He also blamed inflation, minimum wage hikes in San Francisco, and a lack of support from government leaders from the city and state for his business's closure.
Lee's Diner is one of many notable San Francisco businesses to have closed in recent months. Earlier this month, Jeffrey's Toys, which inspired the movie Toy Story, shut down, with the owner citing crime. Target shuttered nine stores, three of which were in or near San Francisco, in September, due to similar safety threats and theft. A hardware store last week began requiring customers to shop with escorts as a way to deter thieves. And Macy's on Tuesday announced it is closing its flagship store in Union Square, which had been open since 1929.nypost.com/2024/02/25/us-news/rep-jamaal-bowman-once-put-a-convicted-cop-killer-up-on-a-middle-schools-wall-of-honor-and-stands-by-move/Jamaal Bowman once put a convicted cop killer up on a middle school’s ‘Wall of Honor’ — and stands by movenypost.com/2024/02/28/business/panera-bread-exempt-from-california-wage-law-after-newsom-donation/Panera Bread exempt from California’s $20 minimum wage law after owner donated to Gov. Newsom: reportModern day vermin nypost.com/2024/02/29/us-news/msnbc-legal-analyst-says-first-amendment-makes-us-vulnerable-calls-for-common-sense-speech-restrictions/MSNBC legal analyst says First Amendment makes US ‘vulnerable,’ calls for ‘common sense’ speech restrictionsnypost.com/2024/02/28/us-news/victims-of-hamas-massacres-sue-reuters-associated-press/Families of Hamas music festival massacre victims sue Reuters, AP reporters claiming they took part in Oct. 7 atrocities
The four journalists, identified as Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali, were reported to have ties to Reuters, The Associated Press, The New York Times, and CNN.
Eslaiah, who the AP cut ties with in November, was accused of being side by side with Hamas terrorists while they went about shooting and slaughtering innocent Israelis...He was also photographed smiling alongside Hamas commander Yahya Sinwar who kissed him on his cheek and placed his arm around the journalist in a 2020 image that spread online following the attack.www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/02/28/poll-62-percent-back-houses-mayorkas-impeachment/62 Percent Support Mayorkas Impeachment
Three in five voters — and even one in two Democrats — told pollsters that Republican legislators were correct to impeach border chief Alejandro Mayorkas for refusing to enforce Americans’ popular border laws.www.dailywire.com/news/new-study-links-marijuana-use-to-higher-risk-of-heart-attack-strokeNew Study Links Marijuana Use To Higher Risk Of Heart Attack, Stroke
The most frequent cannabis users, those who use daily, had a 25% higher chance of heart attack and a 42% higher risk of stroke compared to people who had never used marijuana, according to the study.
Even smoking cannabis as little as once a month can increase a person’s risk for stroke or heart attack, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Scientific research has linked marijuana to a host of problems, including anxiety, memory problems, lung issues, and even psychosis. Weed has been linked to schizophrenia, especially in people who are genetically predisposed to developing it, according to several studies. One study showed that THC in cannabis makes schizophrenia and psychosis symptoms worse and causes more relapses and hospitalizations.Houthi Joe's corner freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-abused-classification-system-to-hide-iranian-assassination-plots-cruz-says/Biden ‘Abused Classification System’ To Hide Iranian Assassination Plots, Cruz Says
The Biden administration suppressed information about Iran’s efforts to assassinate U.S. officials to ensure Congress and the American public were kept in the dark, according to a lawmaker on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"What Americans don’t know is that the Biden administration has gone to great lengths to hide the extent and persistence of those threats" from Iran, Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) said during a Senate hearing Wednesday on Tehran’s network of terror proxies. Those threats include active plots to assassinate former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and other top U.S. officials.
The administration has been "abusing the classification system" to ensure these plots could not be discussed in a public setting, according to Cruz. "They find public discussion of Iran’s aggression politically inconvenient because it gets in the way of their appeasement of the regime."
The Biden administration, Cruz said, has allowed these assassination plots to continue through a soft approach to Tehran that has given the regime access to more than $100 billion in recent years.
"It is completely unacceptable that the current administration has flowed $100 billion to a regime that is actively trying to murder former senior U.S. officials," the senator said.
A senior congressional source familiar with the matter said the Biden administration has repeatedly used the classification system to obscure information about Iran’s terrorist proxies and the threat they pose to Americans domestically and abroad.
"The Biden administration also sandbags intelligence and reports about Iran's ties to Russia and their control over terrorist groups like the Houthis," said the source, who was not authorized to discuss sensitive information on the record. "They know that if Americans knew the truth about Iran targeting Americans and American allies there'd be a backlash to their appeasement."freebeacon.com/israel/total-betrayal-gop-slams-biden-admin-bid-to-force-ceasefire-on-israel/‘Total Betrayal’: GOP Slams Biden Admin Bid To Force Ceasefire on Israel
This includes petitioning the United Nations to impose a temporary ceasefire on Israel and formally condemn a planned offensive in Rafah...The administration also has leveled sanctions on Israeli Jews
"It would be an act of betrayal if Biden uses the U.N. to jam Israel with a ceasefire," Rep. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Free Beacon. "Hamas is sacrificing the lives of the Palestinian people and its hostages to turn the world against Israel. We have to let Israel destroy these terrorists."
Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), a House Armed Services Committee member, accused the administration of siding "with Hamas terrorists" and criticized the Biden administration’s recent threat to veto a new tranche of aid money to Israel that the House was considering.
"Joe Biden emboldened Hamas by sending Iran billions in sanctions relief before October 7 and has since blocked aid to Israel with a veto threat," Banks told the Free Beacon. "This administration consistently sides with Hamas terrorists. It is a disgrace that will only result in more bloodshed."freebeacon.com/latest-news/biden-suggests-israel-hamas-deal-is-imminent-nobody-seems-to-know-what-hes-talking-about/Biden Suggests Israel-Hamas Deal Is Imminent. Nobody Seems To Know What He’s Talking About...www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/27/biden-leaks-confidential-details-of-hostage-talks-to-late-night-comedian/Biden Leaks Confidential Details of Hostage Talks to Late-night Comedian
Joe Biden divulged details of secret negotiations over Israeli hostages to late-night comedy host Seth Myers on Monday — giving away bargaining positions by a key U.S. ally, while predicting success that all sides in the talks said was premature.
Biden, eating ice cream with the host of NBC’s Late Night with Seth Myers, said that he hoped for a “ceasefire” by next Monday. He did not specify whether he meant a temporary or permanent ceasefire, and both Israel and Hamas said there was no such deal.
Reports, in fact, emerged on Monday that Hamas had rejected the terms of a proposed framework for a deal, throwing cold water on the optimism that had briefly emerged over the weekend for an agreement.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/27/poll-more-than-two-thirds-oppose-bidens-plan-for-gaza-63-back-israel-attack-in-rafah/Poll: More than Two-thirds Oppose Biden’s Plan for Gaza; 63% Back Israel Attack in Rafahfreebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-appeasement-biden-and-harris-decline-white-house-meeting-with-kurdish-leader/'Iranian Appeasement': Biden and Harris Decline White House Meeting With Kurdish Leader
Barzani is in Washington, D.C., this week for a series of high-level meetings with U.S. officials at a time when Iranian terrorist proxies are running rampant across Iraq and launching attacks on American positions there. Iraq's Kurdish region, which operates semiautonomously from the central government in Baghdad, has remained a steadfast U.S. ally as the United States works to beat back Iran's growing foothold in the country.
A meeting with either Biden or Kamala Harris would have signaled U.S. support for the Kurds as they face a financial crunch sparked by the Baghdad government's decision to choke off their oil revenues.
Sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon, including former U.S. officials, expressed concern that neither Biden nor Harris would take the time to meet with Barzani, particularly as Iran funds a multi-pronged war against Israel and increasingly deadly attacks on American forces in the region.
"The White House refuses to meet with U.S. friends and partners from Kurdistan but happily invites an Iraqi prime minister to the Oval Office after he was appointed by Iran-backed terrorists and did not stop 180 attacks against our forces," said Michael Knights, a regional expert with the Washington Institute think tank. "It looks to many as if the United States cannot tell friends from enemies, nor up from down, in the Middle East."
One former U.S. official told the Free Beacon that the White House's position on a Barzani meeting is tantamount to "Iranian appeasement."
"It is quite telling that the White House refuses to meet with the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq—America's most loyal and steadfast partner who has fought with America for over 30 years, including in the defeat of ISIS, and the only part of Iraq that has U.S. government financing for energy projects," said the source, who would speak only on background. "This is Iranian appeasement at the White House."www.timesofisrael.com/pentagon-head-says-over-25000-women-kids-killed-in-gaza-inflating-hamas-claim/Pentagon head says over (x) women, kids killed in Gaza, inflating Hamas claimI x'ed it out because it's blatant misinformation, Biden's toadies are even out-Hamasing Hamas with their lies here. The Dem/barbarians are extremist Jew haters. www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-leader-sinwar-said-to-believe-his-forces-are-on-road-to-victory-against-idf/Hamas leader Sinwar said to believe his forces are on road to victory against IDF
According to Wall Street Journal, terrorist organization’s Gaza leader sent a message to exiled officials claiming the world will compel Israel to end the war due to civilian toll
Hamas has also been using recordings of Israeli hostages pleading for rescue in Hebrew to draw soldiers into an ambush, reported the WSJ, and placing explosives in bags taken from Israeli kibbutzim that soldiers are likely to pick up.www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/2885875/biden-fiddles-while-china-invades/Biden fiddles while China invades
A dramatic surge of at least 113,000 Chinese nationals have entered the United States illegally since President Joe Biden took office. Their numbers equate to seven U.S. Army infantry divisions or, in terms of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, more than 22 PLA Combined Arms Brigades. The vast majority of these illegal immigrants, most of whom are unvetted and unknown, are widely reported by eyewitnesses to be military-aged males.
Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said this month he has information showing connections of some of these illegal immigrants to the Chinese Communist Party and the PLA. Green said he believes military personnel are being deliberately inserted into the U.S.
How many of the illegal Chinese immigrants are sent by the CCP to infiltrate and spy on U.S. technology centers and critical infrastructure? How many are sleeper agents sent strategically ahead of military action or to devastate national infrastructures, key utilities, and communications? How many will be used to distract the U.S. with nationwide, debilitating sabotage if China invades Taiwan?
Here is the significance of the surge: In the 10 years prior to Biden taking office, between fiscal 2010 and 2020, a little more than 15,000 Chinese nationals illegally entered the U.S. in total. It is remarkable that more than seven times that number have entered in just the past three years. And these are only the ones the Border Patrol knows about. 2024 promises to be another record breaker, with almost 30,000 illegal entries recorded so far.
It is not at all unreasonable to assume that the greatest adversary and threat to the U.S. would exploit Biden’s willfully neglected and open U.S. borders to bring spies and saboteurs into our communities. Large numbers of men traveling alone are now the most common profile of illegal entrants into the U.S. And there is no way to vet completely so many thousands before Border Patrol must, under Biden’s abuse of asylum restrictions, release them into the interior of the U.S.
In January, 10 former senior FBI officials wrote an urgent appeal to Congress, warning that the surge of foreign nationals illegally entering the U.S. from adversarial countries fully constitutes a “new and imminent” danger and is an invasion that appears to be accelerated, strategic, and well designed to gain access into the U.S. They concluded that U.S. agencies must work together now to identify and remove them immediately.
FBI Director Christopher Wray likewise told the House select committee on the CCP this month that China’s cyber threat to the U.S. has been made “vastly more dangerous” by a “whole of government campaign” that uses human sources planted within the U.S. to steal data and hide Beijing’s footprint on U.S. financial transactions.
Even more concerning is that China is targeting American citizens and communities to cause “real-world harm” as part of its overall plan against the U.S. For example, China has been pouring fentanyl across our border by selling it to the Mexican cartels. The No. 1 killer of our youngest adults, ages 18 to 45, is now due to fentanyl-related drugs — an integral part of the destruction of U.S. society and, again, not a coincidence.
Some claim that Chinese nationals are fleeing their country because of economic hardship, because COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted, or because China’s communist party leader is becoming more and more authoritarian. These assumptions are also reasonable. But even if only 1% of the Chinese nationals who have infiltrated our borders illegally are controlled by the CCP and here to do American citizens harm, then there are roughly 1,130 communist-led spies, military operators, terrorists, and saboteurs in America at this point. Nineteen terrorists were enough to kill thousands of Americans on 9/11.
It should anger every citizen that even with senior intelligence officials warning of a new and imminent danger to the security of the U.S., Biden blatantly continues to refuse to secure our borders, pretending he lacks the tools to do so. This is an outright lie that shows just how negligent and disinterested Biden is in the safety of the people. www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/29/joe-bidens-white-house-begins-referring-to-illegal-aliens-as-newcomers/Biden’s White House Begins Referring to Illegal Aliens as ‘Newcomers’ - conflicts with federal immigration law...the U.S. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) codified the term into law and defines it as “any person not a citizen or national of the United States.”www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/02/29/national-border-patrol-council-trump-supports-agents-mission-biden-burned-the-border-to-the-ground/National Border Patrol Council: Trump Supports Agents’ Mission; Biden ‘Burned the Border to the Ground’
“President Trump treats BP agents with respect, supports their mission and listens to their ideas,” a post from the union’s official account reads. “Biden falsely accuses agents of crimes, burned the border to the ground and only listens to his radical leftist base. See the difference?”
Americans are “just experiencing the tip of the iceberg with illegal alien crime in this country.”
“When Joe Biden’s Titanic capsizes you’re going to see the real damage he’s done the last 3 years,” it added.www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-alien-who-entered-u-s-under-biden-arrested-for-sexual-assault-on-young-girlIllegal Alien Who Entered U.S. Under Biden Arrested For Sexual Assault On Young Girlwww.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2889913/venezuela-no-longer-takes-biden-seriously-either/Venezuela no longer takes Biden seriously either
Biden’s foreign policy is so pathetic that even Venezuela knows it can tell him what he can and cannot do now.
Venezuela has decided that it will no longer allow the United States to ship its own citizens back. This follows the disruption of an agreement between the U.S. and Venezuela stating that the former would ease sanctions if the latter began holding fair elections.
Once Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro banned his political opposition candidate from running against him earlier this month, the U.S. restored its sanctions on Venezuela.
The number of Venezuelans attempting to enter the U.S. has always been significant, but in recent years, the number has spiked and broken records thanks to Biden’s open border policy. Venezuelans now comprise the largest group of foreign nationals flooding through America’s borders, surpassing even Mexico.
Even more concerning is the fact that a report was released in 2022 revealing that many violent Venezuelan criminals known to have been imprisoned in Venezuela have been spotted traveling among the massive caravans of illegal immigrants crossing America’s southern border, the implication being that the Venezuelan government is knowingly emptying its prisons into the U.S.
Illegal immigrants from Venezuela have also been increasingly involved in high-profile crimes recently, putting them in the spotlight. The sanctuary city of Chicago has had an 11,333% increase in arrests of illegal immigrants from Venezuela since the border crisis began in 2021.
The sanctuary city of New York has become a hotbed for related crimes. A miniature crime ring of seven illegal immigrants staying in a taxpayer-funded facility pulled off grand larceny 62 times before it was busted. Several Venezuelans ganged up on and beat up two officers from the New York Police Department, two of them having been identified as members of a Venezuelan gang. A Venezuelan teenager shot another officer in Times Square.
Maduro only has the audacity to challenge the U.S. over this border problem because Biden is the president he has to deal with. And due to Biden’s awful foreign policy record throughout his term, he knows he can get away with it too.
Biden (and the U.S. by proxy) looks cowardly and incompetent on the world stage. His sloppy evacuation of Afghanistan handed our Afghan allies right into the hands of the bloodthirsty Taliban. China took this as a sign to begin building up its military and pressuring Taiwan. Russia took this as a sign to invade Ukraine. nypost.com/2024/03/01/us-news/joe-biden-got-40k-in-china-funds-brother-james-admits-in-bombshell-impeachment-interview/Joe Biden got $40K from China funds, brother James admits in bombshell impeachment interview
"not only did he lie about his son Hunter making money in China, but it also turns out that $40,000 in laundered China money landed in Joe Biden’s bank account in the form of a personal check.”www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/26/manhattan-da-asks-judge-impose-gag-order-trump/To Squelch Trump’s Criticism of Him, (Biden Toady) Seeks Gag Order
“Today, the 2-tiered system of justice implemented against President Trump is on full display, with the request by another Deranged Democrat prosecutor seeking a restrictive gag order, which if granted, would impose an unconstitutional infringement on President Trump’s First Amendment rights, including his ability to defend himself, and the rights of all Americans to hear from President Trump,” wrote Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump’s campaign, in an email to the Daily Caller News Foundation.www.zerohedge.com/political/obamas-cia-asked-foreign-intel-agencies-spy-trump-campaignObama's CIA Asked Foreign Intel Agencies To Spy On Trump Campaign
The revelation that the U.S. intelligence community, under the Obama administration, sought the assistance of the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Donald Trump’s associates before the 2016 election is a chilling reminder of the lengths to which the Deep State will go to protect its interests and challenge its adversaries. (The Five Eyes countries are the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.) This bombshell, reported by a team of independent journalists, exposes a dark chapter in American political history, where foreign intelligence services were reportedly mobilized against a presidential candidate.
The alleged operation against Trump and his associates, which predates the official start of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation, is a stark example of political weaponization of intelligence. The involvement of foreign allies in surveilling American citizens under the pretext of national security raises serious questions about the integrity of our democratic processes and the autonomy of our nation’s intelligence operations.
If reports are accurate, British intelligence began targeting Trump on behalf of American intelligence agencies as early as 2015, long before the official narrative claims. The implications of this are profound. It suggests an unprecedented level of collusion between U.S. intelligence agencies and their foreign counterparts to influence the outcome of an American presidential election. The use of foreign intelligence to circumvent American laws and surveillance limitations represents a grave threat to our nation’s sovereignty and the principles of democracy.thefederalist.com/2024/02/27/if-trump-can-be-indicted-for-inciting-crimes-biden-should-be-in-jail-for-his-role-in-laken-rileys-murder/If Trump Can Be Indicted For ‘Inciting’ Crimes, Biden Should Be In Jail For His Role In Laken Riley’s Murder
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary was impeached earlier this month for the administration’s efforts to encourage an overwhelming surge in migration. The prioritization of alternatives to parole was a primary motive among House Republicans to charge the DHS secretary for violating the law. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was impeached for “Willful and Systemic Refusal to Comply With the Law” in addition to “Breach of the Public Trust.” In other words, Biden’s initiatives aimed at undermining the nation’s border security not only allowed migrants such as Ibarra to enter and remain in the U.S. illegally, but the initiatives themselves are illegal.
If Trump is culpable for the surge on the Capitol in the final days of his administration, then Biden is responsible for the crimes committed by migrants flooding the southern border. And they’re committing a lot of crime.
A report from the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2021 found 64 percent of federal arrests in 2018 involved non-U.S. citizens, when this group only accounted for 7 percent of the total population...Meanwhile, as migrants such as Ibarra enter the U.S. from Venezuela, the South American nation is witnessing a drop in violent crime. Venezuela has seen violent deaths fall to a 22-year low. In other words, Venezuela is sending its criminals north to U.S. borders. freebeacon.com/biden-administration/police-groups-slam-biden-judicial-pick-for-ties-to-group-that-celebrated-cop-killers-as-freedom-fighters/Police Groups Slam Biden Judicial Pick for Ties to Group That Celebrated Cop Killers as Freedom Fighters
In 2021, the Alliance of Families for Justice called for the parole of former black nationalists Sundiata Acoli, Mumia Abu Jamal, Mutulu Shakur, Russell Maroon Shoatz, Jamil al-Amin, and Kamau Sadiki—all serving life sentences for murdering police officers. The alliance refers to them as "elder freedom fighters"
Kathy Boudin, a member of the terrorist group Weather Underground, served on the Alliance’s board from its founding in 2016 until her death in 2022. Boudin, the mother of ousted San Francisco prosecutor Chesa Boudin, was convicted of murdering two New York police officers during an armored truck robbery with Black Liberation Army members in 1981. The Alliance of Families for Justice established a fellowship in her name last year.
The Rockland County Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the police union that represented the two officers murdered during Boudin’s heist, said Mangi’s affiliation with the Alliance of Families for Justice shows "his lack of care for life and the rule of law."
The White House has accused Republicans of "Islamophobia" for opposing Mangi, who would be the first Muslim to serve on a federal appeals court.www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2890130/pentagon-panicking-biden-proposal-that-would-increase-water-costs-household/Pentagon is panicking over Biden’s proposal that would increase water costs by $10,000 per household
The World Health Organization now recommends that governments limit polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS or “forever plastics” that are resistant to breaking down in either the environment or the human body, at a level of 100 parts per trillion. This is the same level limited by the European Commission...And then, there is America’s Environmental Protection Agency, which is trying to reduce its advisory limit of 70 ppt to a hard limit of 4 ppt for two prevalent types of PFAS, PFOA and PFOS, for all drinking water.
The new standard would be 4% of the WHO’s recommendation and less than one-tenth of 1% of that of Australia and New Zealand. According to a Black & Veatch consulting report commissioned by the American Water Works Association, the EPA’s proposed standards would increase water costs by anywhere from $80 to $11,150 per year for each household.
But according to the Pentagon, it’s not just household budgets that are at risk if this proposal succeeds — it’s also our national security.
"DoD is reliant on the critically important chemical and physical properties of PFAS to provide required performance for the technologies and consumable items and articles which enable military readiness and sustainment,” read a Pentagon report sent to Congress in August. “Losing access to PFAS due to overly broad regulations or severe market contractions would greatly impact national security and DoD’s ability to fulfill its mission.”
According to the DoD, PFAS are found in its infrastructure related to “information technology, critical manufacturing, health care, renewable energy, and transportation,” including within batteries, semiconductors, and most weaponry. Even before the EPA’s new standards come into effect, the Pentagon estimated it would require $39 billion to clean up PFAS past the Obama-era recommendation.
For reference regarding how uniquely stringent the proposed PFAS standards are, the EPA limits arsenic in water at 10 parts per billion and cyanide at 200 parts per billion. Thus the EPA is asking that taxpayers pay tens of billions of dollars to bring the prevalence of some plastics to a level less than a fraction of a percent of what we allow for literal poisons.www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/2889722/bidens-lng-export-ban-threatens-us-energy-security/Biden’s LNG export ban threatens US energy security
Under former President Donald Trump’s leadership, America was energy-dominant. By deregulating the sector, removing red tape, and unleashing domestic energy production, the United States became the largest energy producer in the world. Consumer costs were down, gross energy exports were up, and we were respected on the world stage as an energy powerhouse.
Fast forward three short years and the state of affairs is drastically different. In the first days of the Biden administration, Joe Biden halted energy projects, shut down pipeline construction, and took every step imaginable to discourage the production of American energy resources. As a result, we’ve seen as much as a 60% increase in gas prices and a 20% increase in electricity prices.
The latest attack on our domestic energy capabilities came last month when Biden announced an indefinite “pause” on all pending approvals of liquefied natural gas exports while the administration “conducts a review to consider the climate impacts of natural gas.” Under the guise of climate change, this politically-driven decision will only eliminate American jobs, increase costs for American consumers, and further jeopardize U.S. energy security...
Radical claims that banning American LNG exports will benefit the environment and our economy are completely unfounded and have already been debunked. The Department of Energy commissioned five studies to examine the effects of U.S. LNG exports, and the results unanimously show the benefits to the U.S. economy and domestic natural gas prices. According to the American Petroleum Institute, increasing LNG exports could add as much as $73 billion to the U.S. economy and upward of 453,000 American jobs by 2040.
The DOE also found that U.S. LNG exports are approximately 41% cleaner than Russian natural gas delivered to Europe.
Clean natural gas is a major reason why the U.S. has reduced emissions more than any other nation in the world — completely contradicting the entire premise behind Biden’s shortsighted action.
House Republicans refuse to stand idly by as Biden jeopardizes American energy security. The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security recently held a hearing shining a light on how the administration’s LNG export ban threatens America’s energy and economic security.www.zerohedge.com/political/master-and-commander-biden-dogs-accused-dozens-additional-attacks-white-houseMaster And Commander: The Biden Dogs Accused Of Dozens Of Additional Attacks At White House
We have been writing about the alarming record of the Biden dogs attacking staff and Secret Service agents through the years. At first, the story was a humorous distraction as some of us wondered if the First Family had a vicious dog.
It then became more alarming as each of the dogs were found to be attacking staff and had to be eventually removed. Even more worrisome was the response of the White House and Joe Biden, who dismissed a Secret Service agent’s account and brushed off the incidents. Now, a report indicates that Commander is responsible for at least 24 attacks. The record shows not only a lack of concern by the Bidens for staff, but a bizarre litany of vicious German Shepherds in their care.
We began our discussion of these incidents with Major, who continued to attack staff until the press finally reported on the complaints from staff. Only when it became a public embarrassment did the Bidens send Major to Delaware. Major was adopted in November 2018 from an animal shelter.
Then, after the coverage died down, the Bidens simply brought Major back to the chagrin of the Secret Service.
He then proceeded to continue to bite agents and staff.
It was then discovered that their other dog, Champ, was also chomping on staff and agents.
Again, the White House dismissed the concerns.
Then a book came out that detailed these attacks and (Biden) himself seemed to attack an agent.
The book, “The Fight of His Life,” by author Chris Whipple details Biden’s continued mistrust of the Secret Service and his alleged avoidance of saying anything in front of agents. Biden has long had tense relations with the Secret Service, particularly after female agents complained about his exposing himself to them by insisting on swimming in the nude.
The book claims that Biden has his own “deep state” conspiracy theories. Biden reportedly views the Secret Service as essentially the enemy within, suggesting that it is populated by “MAGA sympathizers” due to the fact that the service “is full of white ex-cops from the South who tend to be deeply conservative.”
However, this is a major escalation in that reportedly strained relationship. In one eight-day period, agents were bitten every day. Indeed, outside of the White House, the Biden dogs would qualify for strict liability under the common law as displaying a vicious disposition...Other agents complained about the disregard of the agents by the Bidens in the repeated attacks.
Then Commander was brought in to replace Major. Commander then started to bite people.
It now turns out that the attacks increased but the press were not informed . . . again.
One Secret Service technician wrote in October 2022, that they were “worried about the family pets behavior escalating and that … something worse was going to happen to others.”
I have taught torts for three decades, including animal liability. In that time, I have never come across a case with such a long history of dog attacks from multiple animals in one family. There is no question that the Bidens would be strictly liable in these attacks, but have been allowed to escape such liability due to the fact that this is the official residence.
It also raises questions of whether this family should have dogs. If there was just one dog, it could be discounted as a problem pet. The Bidens how have multiple dogs which developed the same vicious propensity.
For Secret Service agents, one could understand if they felt that they were high-priced chew toys for the Biden pets.www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/27/bidens-fitness-stand-trial-irrelevant-presidency-says-psychiatrist-who-declared-trump-dangerous/LOL Biden’s Fitness to Stand Trial Irrelevant to Presidency, Says Psychiatrist Who Declared Trump DangerousDOUBLE LOL nypost.com/2024/02/28/us-news/federal-judge-rules-1-7-trillion-spending-bill-passed-by-congress-in-2022-is-unconstitutional/www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/28/biden-s-1-7-trillion-spending-bill-unconstitutional-federal-court-rules/Federal judge rules $1.7 trillion spending bill passed by Congress in 2022 is unconstitutionalDem/barbarians may have just lost months of bills passed by phony vote. All on account of mask virtue signaling. Paxton filed a lawsuit last year, arguing the federal spending package was unconstitutionally passed because over half of the House of Representatives were not physically present to provide a quorum, yet they still voted by proxy.
Hendrix said in a 120-page ruling that for over 200 years leading up to the voting proxy rule’s adoption, Congress understood that the majority of members of the House or Senate were required to be physically present to have a quorum to pass legislation, as stipulated under the Constitution’s quorum clause.
Paxton said Congress acted “egregiously” when it passed the $1.7 trillion funding bill.
“Congress acted egregiously by passing the largest spending bill in US history with fewer than half the members of the House bothering to do their jobs, show up and vote in person,” Paxton said. “Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi abused proxy voting under the pretext of COVID-19 to pass this law, then Biden signed it, knowing they violated the Constitution. This was a stunning violation of the rule of law. I am relieved the court upheld the Constitution.”
The judge’s 120-page opinion walked through each of the Justice Department’s arguments trying to legally justify the spending, rejecting each in turn.
“Texas’s challenge involves ordinary constitutional interpretation of a restriction on congressional power,” Hendrix said when rejecting the political-question doctrine, which says that the Constitution puts certain matters in the hands of the elected branches of government, not the judiciary. He reasoned, “The Court need not engage in policymaking to resolve the merits. Instead, it simply looks to the Constitution’s text, original public meaning, and historical practice, as courts routinely do.”
"Supreme Court precedent has long held that the Quorum Clause requires presence, and the Clause’s text distinguishes those absent members from the quorum and provides a mechanism for obtaining a physical quorum by compelling absent members to attend."www.zerohedge.com/political/sen-kennedy-biden-cancer-american-dreamSen. Kennedy: Biden Is "A Cancer On The American Dream" - Biden is about as popular as chlamydianypost.com/2024/03/01/us-news/biden-twice-refers-to-gaza-as-ukraine-when-announcing-us-aid-drops/Biden twice refers to Gaza as ‘Ukraine’ when announcing US aid as concerns over president’s mental acuity mountnypost.com/2024/02/26/us-news/biden-butchers-line-from-lincolns-inaugural-address/Biden butchers line from Lincoln’s inaugural address after saying ‘I want to make sure I get this quote exactly right’nypost.com/2024/02/29/us-news/mccarthy-details-what-bidens-really-like-behind-closed-doors-he-still-has-a-teleprompter/McCarthy details what Biden’s really like behind closed doors: ‘He still has a teleprompter’
“He still has a teleprompter when you meet behind closed doors,” McCarthy told the “Bottom Line” co-hosts on FOX Business. “But the teleprompter are cards. I found when I met with him, it would just be a couple of them. He would read from the card.”
“He just sticks to the cards,” he said of Biden. “And if you go, if you deviate from the cards, he can’t continue onward there."
Biden is prone to consulting notecards after calling on pre-selected donors who have questions at the closed-door events, Axios reported Friday.notthebee.com/article/joe-biden-lost-to-uncommitted-in-the-city-of-dearborn-michiganwww.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/28/poll-donald-trump-leads-joe-biden-by-double-digit-margin-in-michigan/Joe Biden lost to "Uncommitted" in the city of Dearborn, Michigan - by more than 50 points - Donald Trump Leads Joe Biden by Double-Digit Margin in Michigan
100,000+ Democratic voters chose ‘Uncommitted’ over Joe Biden in the Michigan primary, easily enough to lose the state in November.www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/02/27/polls-donald-trump-leads-joe-biden-in-7-out-of-7-swing-states/www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/02/26/polls-donald-trump-expands-lead-over-joe-biden-nationally/Polls: Donald Trump Expands Lead over Joe Biden Nationally - Trump Leads Joe Biden in 7 out of 7 Swing States
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www.timesofisrael.com/i-captured-one-idf-recordings-show-more-unrwa-staffers-bragging-of-oct-7-crimes/‘I captured one!’ — IDF recordings show more UNRWA staffers bragging of Oct. 7 crimes - intel shows 450 employees are terror operatives
“I’m inside, I’m inside with the Jews,” Mamdouh al-Qali, an Islamic Jihad terrorist whom the IDF says was employed as a teacher in a UNRWA school, is heard saying in one recording.
“How will you get home?” he is asked in the phone call, and he replies with a laugh: “When I die.”
In another recording, an UNRWA teacher can purportedly be heard bragging about kidnapping Israeli hostages.
“We have female hostages, I captured one!” says Yousef al-Hawajara, a Hamas terrorist who worked as a teacher at a UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, according to the IDF. “Everything’s fine I hope,” he later says in the recording. “We will enter Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
He says that he entered into Israel, and “saw the sights… they shot them in the eyes… they did actions for liberations, God willing.” Asked what he found while in Israel, he says, “One thousand shekels.”
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari in an evening press conference said that despite the “difficult content,” the military chose to release the audio recordings to “remind and not forget.”
“The massacre committed by Hamas on October 7 is the most documented massacre in history. Hamas terrorists filmed their own cruelty. As time goes by, more and more testimonies are revealed, more intelligence every day,” he said.
in one of the recordings, a Hamas terrorist who worked as a teacher at a UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, tells his friend that he captured a “sabaya,” a term used by Islamic State jihadists which means sex slave.www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/04/usa-hypersonic-missile-defence-htbss-satellites-aegis-gpi/China’s headlining weapon will probably be obsolete on arrival
China and its new DF-27 hypersonic ‘aircraft carrier killer’ missiles have been a talking point recently, especially among Western military men who want aircraft carriers to be declared obsolete. While the US is rightfully concerned at this evolving threat, the nation that sent men to the moon is more than capable of rising to meet the threat to its ships and, thankfully for the rest of us, to the world order.
How is the US staying on top as a military giant and a science powerhouse? The recent launch of six super-advanced satellites, including the first of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Sensor System (HBTSS) constellation, is a prime example.
One of the problems presented by “boost glide” type hypersonic warheads is that they do not rise high into space like a conventional ballistic weapon. This means that ground based, or even airborne, radars do not detect incoming hypersonics until they are comparatively close.
But HTBSS satellites in orbit will detect future hypersonic DF-27s soon after launch, giving US defences time to respond. This proactive approach, backed by resources that most nations can only dream of...Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the new satellites are designed to track high-speed threats, including manoeuvring hypersonic weapons moving inside the atmosphere at faster than Mach 5. Positioned in low Earth orbit (LEO), these satellites enhance the US’s ability to detect, track, and respond to missile launches with unprecedented speed and accuracy.
This initiative is a cornerstone of the broader US Space Force plan to bolster missile warning and tracking capabilities in the face of increasing threats from adversaries like China and Russia.
Parallel to its advancements in space-based tracking, the US is revolutionising its approach to missile defence with the development of Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) capabilities. This programme, driven by defence industry giants Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Technologies, focuses on intercepting hypersonic missiles during their glide phase — potentially the most vulnerable part of their trajectory. GPI is designed to launch from US Navy surface warships, integrating seamlessly with the Aegis combat system carried by US cruisers and destroyers. Essentially, it’ll be another new weapon for the already potent Aegis ships, which can already knock down targets in space and ones in terminal descent.
The strategic importance of GPI cannot be overstated. As hypersonic missiles like China’s DF-27 pose a sophisticated threat with their ability to evade traditional missile defences, the US is countering with innovation, as it often does best. This ability represents a critical component of the US’s layered defence strategy, offering a solution to intercept hypersonic threats before they can reach their targets.
No other nation can do this at the speed, scale and complexity the US can.
As the dragon sharpens its claws with the development of the DF-27 hypersonic missile, the United States sends a clear message to Beijing. When China’s much-vaunted DF-27 is ready to deploy operationally and in meaningful numbers, the US Navy’s warships and the carrier groups they belong to will be more than capable of neutralising the threat, rendering the missile little more than a paper tiger.translatingcuba.com/venzuela-cancels-dw-cable-channel-for-denouncing-attack-on-press-freedom/Venzuela Cancels DW Cable Channel for Denouncing Attack on Press Freedom - Maduro called DW a “Nazi station"www.breitbart.com/national-security/2024/03/04/pakistan-parliament-revolts-over-return-establishment-pick-shehbaz-sharif-pm/Pakistan Parliament Revolts over Return of Establishment Pick Shehbaz Sharif as PM
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in for another term on Monday, despite opposition protests and allegations the February election was rigged to keep former PM Imran Khan out of office.
Sharif, 72, is the younger brother of yet another Pakistani prime minister, Nawaz Sharif. The 2024 election was supposed to be Nawaz’s chance to rise from the ashes after he stepped down amid corruption allegations in 2017 and spent some years in political exile. Nawaz Sharif enjoys the unique distinction of being Pakistan’s longest-serving prime minister, even though he never completed any of his three terms in office.
Nawaz Sharif’s comeback was driven partly by the powerful Pakistani military establishment turning decisively against Imran Khan, the populist Islamist leader who was himself booted from office by a parliamentary vote of no confidence in April 2022. Khan has been jailed and banned from politics on several of the hundred-plus allegations of corruption and misconduct haunting him since his ouster, but he remains the most popular politician in Pakistan.
The election delivered a nasty surprise for Sharif and his PMLN party in the form of a remarkably strong showing by PTI, which had to run its candidates as “independents” because it was stricken from ballots by court order. PTI leaders alleged the election was rigged to prevent it from winning the single-party majority it needed to form a government on its own and thousands of its supporters demonstrated in the streets for weeks after the election results were announced.
Ayub said Sharif would never be able to ‘win hearts and minds” in Pakistan because “he came to power through a rigged vote.”The Future of Europe www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/03/03/death-to-all-jews-orthodox-jewish-man-stabbed-by-allahu-akbar-knifeman-in-zurich/‘Death to All Jews’ — Orthodox Jewish Man Stabbed by ‘Allahu Akbar’ Knifeman in Zurichwww.dailywire.com/news/dirty-jew-jewish-man-beaten-in-anti-semitic-attack-outside-paris-synagogue‘Dirty Jew’: Jewish Man Beaten In ‘Anti-Semitic Attack’ Outside Paris Synagogue
There has been an increase in anti-Semitic attacks worldwide in the days leading up to Ramadan, including a Jewish dentist who was murdered late last weekend in San Diego by an Islamic man and a teenager who pledged allegiance to ISIS and stabbed a Jewish man in Zurich over the weekend.notthebee.com/article/these-spanish-soldiers-are-changing-their-gender-from-male-to-female-in-order-to-receive-better-benefitsSpanish soldiers are changing their gender from male to female in order to receive better benefits
Perdigones says he was encouraged to change his gender because of "positive discrimination" and has since received a 15 percent salary increase.
"For changing my gender, I have been told that my pension has gone up because women get more to compensate for inequality. I also get 15 percent more salary for being a mother," he added.
The soldier is looking to use his additional privilege as a woman to sue for shared custody of his 16-year-old son, assuming the courts will give him a better chance ...
"I even have a private room in the barracks, all to myself, with a private bathroom. This is because I cannot be with men as I am a woman, and I did not consider it appropriate to be with biological women out of respect for them," Perdigones said.www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-weighs-gaza-ahead-november-firmly-israels-campTrump Weighs In On Gaza Ahead Of November: "Firmly In Israel's Camp"Liberal priorities nypost.com/2024/03/03/us-news/trans-leader-says-she-is-sick-and-tired-of-hearing-about-oct-7-massacre-calls-ny-dems-the-real-terrorists/Trans leader is ‘sick and tired’ of hearing about Oct. 7 massacre, calls NY Dems ‘the real terrorists’www.zerohedge.com/political/doritos-just-hired-self-described-pedophile-brand-ambassadorDoritos Just Hired A Self Described Pedophile As A 'Brand Ambassador' - mocks women who have been victims of sexual abuse, saying they should be spat atnypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/woke-veterans-affairs-official-who-pushed-hospitals-to-remove-iconic-kiss-photo-badly-mismanaged-st-louis-hospital/Woke VA official who pushed to remove WWII kiss photo ‘mismanaged’ St. Louis hospital where vets were reportedly exposed to HIV
Smooch-bashing VA bigwig RimaAnn Nelson headed the department’s St. Louis hospital for more than three years, during which time the facility was rated worst in the country — with patients allegedly left in their feces for days, and more than 1,800 of our nation’s heroes being exposed to HIV and hepatitis from unsterilized dental equipment, reports said...veterans were left sitting in feces for days at a time and nurses said they were retaliated against when they would speak out about the conditions
Nelson is now under fire for sending out a memo to VA hospitals across the country instructing them to remove from agency building the iconic photo of a sailor passionately kissing a woman in a nurse’s outfit in Times Square at the end of World War II.
The photo was deemed “inappropriate behavior” by VA higher-ups because it “depicts a non-consensual act.”
But her memo apparently blind-sided VA Secretary Denis McDonough, who very publicly reversed the edict on X on Tuesday morning — after seemingly learning of it through a tweet.notthebee.com/article/this-arizona-rancher-has-discovered-17-dead-illegal-immigrants-on-his-property-and-thats-not-even-the-most-horrifying-partThis Arizona rancher has discovered 17 bodies on his property and has trees where guides hang the clothes of women they violate. He says it's been a "24-hour nightmare with Biden"www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/05/transgender-influencer-flashed-bare-breasts-white-house-event-now-says-dog-trans/Transgender Influencer Who Flashed Bare Breasts at White House Event Now Says His Dog Is Transnotthebee.com/article/the-national-debt-is-adding-about-1-trillion-every-100-days-so-that-cant-be-goodThe national debt is adding about $1 trillion every 100 days. Let me explain just how bad of a spot we're in...your share of US debt, just the debt, is increasing by $30 per day.
Pretty soon, the debt could be so large that it's physically impossible for the nation to pay it off without going totally bankrupt and the dollar becoming worthless.notthebee.com/article/this-dude-showed-up-to-testify-in-front-of-the-missouri-house-and-im-sure-hes-got-something-important-to-sayThis dude showed up to testify in front of the Missouri House because of a bill that would ban drag shows for kids - dressed like a demonic smurf who asked for the "Heatmeister" haircut...www.breitbart.com/health/2024/03/04/cluster-of-fentanyl-overdoses-ravages-northern-california/‘Cluster of Fentanyl Overdoses’ Ravages Northern Californiawww.ncregister.com/cna/wpath-files-transgender-pseudoscienceLeaked Files Reveal Transgender Group's ‘Pseudoscientific’ Crusade, Ethical Abuse
Leaked internal documents have revealed that members of a prominent transgender advocacy organization admitted that the children who receive permanently life-changing transgender procedures are too young to be capable of giving informed consent.
The documents also show, according to a watchdog group, that the organization’s endorsement of transgender procedures for children is based on “pseudoscience.”
For years the group has advocated for the use of “puberty suppression” drugs and cross-sex hormones for young boys and girls. The group has also advocated for irreversible surgeries such as castrations and mastectomies for adolescents..."we’re often explaining these sorts of things to people who haven’t even had biology in high school yet"
At another point in the May 2022 workshop, Metzger remarked that it is “always a good theory” to discuss “fertility preservation” with 14-year-old patients seeking gender procedures. But in those cases “I know I’m talking to a blank wall,” he said.
“We try to talk about it, but most of the kids are nowhere in any kind of a brain space to really, really, really talk about it in a serious way,” Metzger said. “That’s always bothered me, but you know, we still want the kids to be happy, happier in the moment, right?”www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/05/liver-cancer-teens-reduced-sexual-function-lack-consent-internal-docs-reveal-experimental-nature-gender-affirming-care/Liver Cancer in Teens, Reduced Sexual Function, Lack of Consent: Internal Docs Reveal Experimental Nature of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
Doctors at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health repeatedly struggled with various side effects of what they call “gender-affirming care,” including cancer in teens, reduced sexual function, and the lack of informed consent for procedures with lifelong impacts, newly unearthed documents reveal.
When asked what most shocked him in the files, Shellenberger responded, “That the WPATH members and leaders spoke so frankly about not getting informed consent from their patients.”
Doctors and therapists mentioned how women who undergo “gender-affirming care” to identify as men have pain during sex and suffer uterine atrophy. WPATH members also discussed that men who take estrogen to identify as women experience pain during erections.
Doctors mentioned using false medical codes for prescriptions to shield patients from any scrutiny, assuming that pharmacies or insurance companies might refuse to dispense or cover the drugs if they knew the true reason for them.
A gynecologist wrote about a male patient who underwent a vaginoplasty but who still secreted a fluid that “smells like semen.” Other doctors explained that males who undergo this process will always secrete fluid in this way, even though it no longer contains sperm. “I don’t think there is a remedy,” one wrote.
Others called “the idea of detransitioning” problematic because “it frames being cisgender as the default, and reinforces transness as a pathology.”
Doctors also admitted that cross-sex hormones can cause liver cancer in teenage patients.
Another WPATH member mentioned a female friend who developed “hepatocarcinomas”—liver cancer—after “about 8-10 years” of testosterone use. “It was so advanced that (the female who identified as male) opted for palliative care and died a couple months later.”
In 2020, the medical journal The Lancet published a study of a 17-year-old girl with a large hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of primary liver cancer, after she had been on testosterone for 14 months. Researchers also documented a 47-year-old woman who identified as a man and who had contracted a rare cancer of the bile duct that normally only appears in advanced age.
Many states have moved to ban “gender-affirming care” for minors, largely due to concerns that minors cannot consent to experimental treatments that may leave them stunted, scarred, and infertile. Florida has moved to exclude such “treatments” from Medicaid funding.thefederalist.com/2024/03/06/science-keeps-obliterating-the-lefts-favorite-transgender-narratives/The truth about transgenderism is coming out. On Monday, Michael Shellenberger released a multitude of internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) that “prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical.” WPATH has been accepted by the political, cultural, and medical establishments as the authority on transgenderism, but what its members say in private is not the narrative they sell to the public.
Instead of the rigorous, careful, evidence-based medicine that champions of “gender-affirming care” claim to practice, the WPATH files show doctors who are making it up as they go along, smashing through guardrails even though they know that the children they are chemically and surgically altering cannot really give informed consent. And people are noticing.
No wonder the transgender ideologues are worried. The public has proven more resistant than they expected, especially regarding radical policies such as putting men in women’s prisons and girls’ locker rooms, let alone sexually mutilating and sterilizing children. And transgender activists and their allies have no response except to repeat their same failed arguments, just louder.
From puberty blockers to hormones to surgeries, transition is never medically necessary. Transitioning does not cure any disease or correct any physical ailment or injury. Rather, the point of medicalized transition is to disrupt and destroy the normal functioning of healthy bodies.
Ulrich tries to assuage concerns over these procedures by comparing them to “Pediatric chemotherapy and radiation,” which also “have lasting effects on growth development and reproductive capabilities.” Well, yes, but cancer kills people, which is why we are willing to accept serious side effects to treat it — and even then, doctors and patients have to balance the risks of the disease against the risks of treatment. In contrast, there is no physical risk from not receiving “gender-affirming care,” whereas, as the WPATH files show, there is significant, potentially lethal, risks from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transition surgeries.
This is why the argument for transition always comes down to encouraging people, especially children, to take themselves hostage by threatening suicide. The only harm that can come from not transitioning is self-harm. And so Ulrich deploys the suicide threats early and often, writing that “it is not hyperbole to say that lives are at risk in states pursuing these bans on needed care.” Ulrich offers no real evidence to back this claim up. He simply presumes that the “high rates of suicide, suicide attempts, and suicidal ideation among transgender young people” would be reduced with affirmation and medical transition.
Ulrich cites just one study as “evidence showing the effectiveness of gender-affirming care in reducing depression, anxiety, and suicide attempts.” But, despite hype to the contrary, that study showed no such thing. Rather, as Jesse Singal explained after it was published in 2022, “the kids who took puberty blockers or hormones experienced no statistically significant mental health improvement during the study. The claim that they did improve, which was presented to the public in the study itself, in publicity materials, and on social media (repeatedly) by one of the authors, is false” (emphasis in original).
There is no good evidence that transition prevents suicide, especially for children. Those who identify as trans do have an elevated risk of suicide (though this tends to be exaggerated by activists), but this is best explained by trans-identified individuals also having a much higher rate of mental health problems and trauma — and it doesn’t help to add to these underlying issues the lie that they were somehow born in the wrong body.
This extraordinary claim — that some children are born into the wrong bodies, and therefore must be chemically and surgically reshaped into a facsimile of the opposite sex — is medically unsupported. It is ideological and sexual fantasy masquerading as medicine.www.dailywire.com/news/the-experiment-is-never-ending-chloe-cole-laments-dangers-of-trans-surgery-while-testifying-in-support-of-detrans-bill-of-rights‘The Experiment Is Never Ending’: Chloe Cole Laments Dangers Of Trans Surgery While Testifying In Support Of ‘Detrans Bill Of Rights’
Chloe Cole, a 19-year-old woman who was put through sex change procedures as a young teenager, detailed the horrifying side-effects of transgender procedures on Tuesday while testifying in support of a Tennessee bill called the “Detrans Bill of Rights.”
Cole was in Nashville on Tuesday to testify in support of the bill, which would make gender clinics that perform transgender procedures and take any state money to also perform “detransition” procedures. It would also mandate that insurance companies who cover the transgender procedures also pay for “detranisition” procedures. During her testimony, Cole detailed the life-altering side-effects she still faced after being put through transgender procedures as a child in California.
“They took skin grafts from my areolas that now leak clear fluid and sometimes blood,” she said. “I have to wear bandages every single day to keep it from staining my shirt and bedding. Doctors look at me and they just shrug. The experiment is never ending.”
The bill, HB 2816, was proposed by Republican State Rep. Jeremy Faison, who is the majority caucus chairman. It advanced to the House Health Committee on Tuesday and is also working its way through the Senate.
“I’m proud to carry this legislation that guarantees care to individuals suffering from mental health challenges who were groomed to undergo disfiguring surgeries or experimental interventions,” he told The Daily Wire. “True gender-affirming care is instilling self-worth in how our creator made us. This legislation recognizes the trauma endured by these individuals and helps provide a way back from the medical harm inflicted.”thefederalist.com/2024/03/08/complaint-whitehouse-was-committing-the-ethics-violations-he-projected-onto-supreme-court-justices/Whitehouse Was Committing The Ethics Violations He Projected Onto Supreme Court Justices
Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse allegedly spent the last 17 years in the Senate pushing legislation that directly benefits the environmentalist groups that pay his wife.
A 21-page ethics complaint, filed by Judicial Watch last month, alleges Whitehouse abused his congressional position to enrich himself and his wife, Sandra Thorton Whitehouse, president of the consulting firm Ocean Wonks. She also raked in millions consulting for Ocean Conservancy and sat on the advisory board at AltaSea from 2015 to 2018, says the complaint.
The Senate Ethics Code prohibits members from using the “prestige or influence of a position in the Senate for personal gain.”
Over his nearly two decades in office, however, Whitehouse allegedly orchestrated and sponsored several pieces of legislation that “contains authorization for, and appropriation of, numerous federal environmental programs that fund activities undertaken by his wife’s clients, which constitute a ‘limited class’ of beneficiaries for such federal funds.”
Just two years after taking office, Whitehouse penned a letter for the U.S. Department of Transportation to approve a $22 million grant for a company that planned to lease offshore land in Providence, Rhode Island to Deepwater Wind. Three weeks later, Deepwater Wind hired Whitehouse’s wife as a consultant.
Whitehouse repeatedly denied his wife consulted for Deepwater even after the company issued a press release boasting about her employment and local media outlets highlighted the suspect agreement.
Whitehouse also supported nearly two dozen bills that specifically benefitted either his wife’s companies or her consulting clients. Legislation like the 2020 Save Our Seas Act 2.0 is responsible for funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal grants to Ocean Conservancy, which endorsed the bill. To this day, Ocean Conservancy pays Whitehouse’s wife and features content written by Whitehouse on its website.www.zerohedge.com/political/associate-da-alvin-bragg-arrested-murder-after-severed-head-found-freezerAssociate Of DA Alvin Bragg Arrested For Murder After Severed Head Found In Freezerwww.dailywire.com/news/house-panel-subpoenas-andrew-cuomo-to-testify-on-covid-nursing-home-policiesHouse Panel Subpoenas Andrew Cuomo To Testify On COVID Nursing Home Policies
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who resigned from office in 2021 amid a sexual misconduct controversy, has been subpoenaed to testify about his handling of nursing homes during the COVID pandemic, a GOP-led congressional panel revealed on Tuesday.
The House is compelling Cuomo to appear for a May 24 deposition focused on a mandate Cuomo issued in March of 2020 forcing New York nursing homes and long-term care facilities to admit or re-admit potentially contagious and untested COVID-19 patients, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic said in a statement.
“This order recklessly exposed New York’s most vulnerable population to COVID-19 with deadly consequences,” the statement said, adding that reporting indicated that more than 15,000 individuals died in New York nursing homes and long-term care facilities during Cuomo’s administration. “Evidence also suggests that former Governor Cuomo engaged in a coverup to hide the true New York nursing home mortality rate from the public and shift political blame away from his administration,” the statement continued.
Cuomo “implemented nursing home policies that had deadly consequences for New York’s most vulnerable population. Not only did the former Governor put the elderly in harm’s way, but he also attempted to cover-up his failures by hiding the true nursing home death rate. It appears that politics, not medicine, was responsible for these decisions."nypost.com/2024/03/03/us-news/program-for-at-risk-nyc-students-imperiled-by-loss-of-federal-stimulus-funds-as-city-spends-on-migrants/Program for at-risk NYC students imperiled by loss of federal stimulus funds as city spends on migrantsnypost.com/2024/03/03/us-news/squatters-take-over-home-georgia-mans-home-while-he-was-s-away-caring-for-sick-wife-report/Squatters take over Georgia man’s home while he was caring for sick wife — and now he can’t evict them
A Georgia man claims he returned home from caring for his sick wife to find that squatters had changed the locks on his home and moved in — and now local laws are blocking him from evicting the alleged freeloaders.
“Basically, these people came in Friday, broke into my house and had a U-Haul move all their stuff in. It’s frustrating. It’s very frustrating. I can’t even sleep,” DeKalb man Paul Callins told WSB-TV.
Callins had sunk thousands of dollars into the home and renovated it with his own hands after he inherited it from his late father, but since squatters moved in, he’s found himself facing nothing but obstacles to evicting the alleged intruders.
“I guess they have done this before, because when I called the police, they said since they have a fake lease, that they can’t do anything. That it’s a civil matter,” Callins said.
Situations like Callins’ have become all too common in Georgia.
About 1,200 homes across DeKalb County are occupied by squatters, according to the National Rental Home Council trade group.
The problem is exacerbated by its status as a civil matter, which prevents homeowners from easily evicting intruders, according to critics.
Lawmakers in Georgia are nearing the passage of a bill that would make squatting a criminal offense and using a fake lease a felony, which would allow police officers to arrest offenders.
“These are people that know exactly what they’re doing, and they’re stealing other people’s most valuable capital, which is their home,” state Rep. Devan Seabaugh (R-Cobb), co-sponsor of the bill, told Fox News.
“I don’t know how it took us this long to get here … but no more free rides.”www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2901676/new-york-democrats-dont-understand-how-criminals-think/New York Democrats don’t understand how criminals think
The “logic” at the core of the Democratic Party is that giving criminals no consequences for their actions won’t make crime worse. Unsurprisingly, that just keeps proving to be untrue.
A study from Data for Collaborative Justice, a pro-reform group, evaluated the arrest rates for criminals in upstate and suburban New York under the state’s bail reform law. It found that 66% of those with a criminal record who were released were arrested again within two years. It also found that 67% with a recent arrest for a violent felony were arrested again after release within two years of their arraignment, with almost half being rearrested for a felony.
In fact, the study admits that eliminating cash bail has “increased recidivism for people charged with nonviolent felonies, with recent criminal history, and with a recent violent felony arrest, while it decreased recidivism for people charged with misdemeanors and people with no recent criminal history.” (Emphasis original). In other words, felons, violent criminals, and career criminals have become emboldened while one-time criminals have not.
Human behavior is complex in many respects, but in this one, it is not rocket science. Criminals who are violent or repeat offenders (or both) have no respect for other people, for the law, or for societal expectations of behavior. When they do not have to post bail, they have no skin in the game. When they are let loose right after being arrested and know they are facing weak sentences from weak pro-reform prosecutors, they are emboldened to continue their criminal behavior or even escalate it because they know they face little consequences if defunded police departments with officer shortages even manage to find them.
None of what has happened in New York is a surprise. Anyone who is not totally blinded by their pro-criminal “equity” ideology could have anticipated this. The only question left is whether New York Democrats were simply too delusional to predict that this would be the outcome of their bail reform policies or if they think this is simply the price everyone else should have to pay to fight against the phantom problems of “mass incarceration” or “systemic racism.”Acadumbia nypost.com/2024/03/04/us-news/pro-hamass-prof-genocide-lecture-at-harvard/Harvard in antisemitism storm over ‘genocide’ talk by professor who appeared with Hamas leadernypost.com/2024/03/07/us-news/john-kerry-ripped-for-suggesting-world-may-feel-better-about-ukraine-war-if-russia-cut-emissions/John Kerry mocked as ‘climate clown’ for suggesting world would ‘feel better’ about Ukraine war if Russia cut emissions
“Russia is one of the largest emitters in the world. If Russia wanted to show good faith, they could go out and announce what their reductions are going to be and make a greater effort to reduce emissions,” Kerry, 80, said during a foreign press briefing in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, his penultimate day on the job before leaving to assist Biden’s re-election campaign and teach at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs.
“Maybe that would open up the door for people to feel better about what Russia is choosing to do at this point in time.”
Less than a year into the job, the Gulfstream GIV-SP plane owned by Kerry’s wife reportedly took 48 trips and dispersed more than 300 metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air, compared with the 4.6 metric tons emitted by typical passenger planes.Houthi Joe's corner freebeacon.com/national-security/palestinian-authority-key-to-bidens-mideast-peace-plan-commits-to-pay-97m-a-year-to-hamas/Palestinian Authority, Key to Biden’s Mideast Peace Plan, Commits To Pay $97M a Year to Hamas
Since Oct. 7, the PA has doubled down on its longstanding "pay for slay" policy, which gives salaries and benefits to Palestinians imprisoned for involvement in violence against Israel and to the families of those killed in "the revolution" against the Jewish state. The policy does not distinguish between terrorists and civilians. But based on Israel Defense Forces estimates of enemy casualties and prisoners, the PA has put itself on the hook for more than $97 million in such payments for more than 13,000 Hamas terrorists in the year following Oct. 7.
The PA has moved to ramp up its spending on terrorism even as the West Bank, where the PA governs, spirals into a historic economic crisis. It's a stark display of the authority’s priorities that clashes with the Biden administration's vague plans for a "revamped" PA to govern Gaza—and eventually a Palestinian state that will supposedly lead regional normalization with Israel.
The Israeli government has opposed Biden's post-war plans, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the PA is little different than Hamas, the rival Palestinian faction that rules Gaza. Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, a former director general of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs under Netanyahu, told the Washington Free Beacon that a PA-run Gaza would quickly pose a renewed Oct. 7-like threat.
"There's no reason to believe anything else would happen if the Palestinian Authority took control of Gaza," said Kuperwasser, a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, a think tank. "The Palestinian Authority is responsible for creating an incentive system and a mindset that made Oct. 7 possible in the first place, and they are too weak and unpopular to stop it from happening again."
In addition to running "pay for slay," he noted, the PA continues to promote hatred of Israel and Jews in its education system and media, and has avoided condemning the Oct. 7 attack, during which Gazan terrorists killed more than 1,200 people, most of them Israeli civilians, and took 253 hostages, according to Israel.
The PA under Abbas has long treated "pay for slay" as a near-sacred obligation, generously funding the policy in the face of growing international sanctions. In 2018, the PA allocated $340 million to "pay for slay," according to Kuperwasser's authoritative research. The payments accounted for 7 percent of the PA’s budget and benefited just 1 to 2 percent of the population. That same year, the United States and Israel enacted laws that slashed funding of the PA over "pay for slay," accelerating international divestment from the authority. The PA has since concealed its "pay for slay" budget.
"We will not accept a cut or cancellation of salaries to the families of martyrs and prisoners, as some are trying to bring about," Abbas said in July 2018 remarks that PA officials have often repeated over the years. "Even if we have only a penny left, we will give it to the martyrs, the prisoners, and their families."
According to PA law and decree, the families of "all those martyred and wounded as a result of being participants or bystanders in the revolution" are entitled to an immediate one-time grant of about $1,700 followed by a lifetime annual salary of at least $4,700, similar to the average West Bank income. Prisoners, defined as "anyone incarcerated in the occupation’s prisons for his participation in the struggle against the occupation," receive a monthly salary of at least $420 that increases with the length of incarceration. For example, Abdullah Barghouti, 52, a Hamas commander and mass murderer who has served 21 years of 67 life sentences in Israeli prison, gets a monthly PA salary of more than $2,200. Released prisoners are also guaranteed salaries, benefits, or jobs.
Itamar Marcus, the director of Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli watchdog group, told the Free Beacon it took the PA up to several years to process payments to "martyrs" and prisoners after previous Israel-Hamas wars. But he said the PA will eventually find a way to do so again, even if the authority has to make cuts elsewhere.
All together, the PA has taken on more than $218 million in new expenses for "martyrs" and prisoners over the next year—a more than 50 percent increase in the "pay for slay" budget, assuming such costs increased at the same rate as others from 2018 to 2024.
"They don't care how much their people suffer," he said. "They have made rewarding terror their cause célèbre. It's the most important thing in their budget. That's what they tell their people, and they've convinced their people that no one deserves it more than the terrorists."freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-slams-americas-conduct-during-wwii-in-attempt-to-criticize-israel/Biden Slams America's Conduct During WWII in Attempt To Criticize Israel
Biden criticized the Jewish state's leaders, saying they have become consumed with "rage" in their war against Hamas and have lost "the moral high ground." Biden went on to detail a conversation he had with members of Israel's war cabinet, who defended the war in Gaza by noting "that America had carpet-bombed Germany in the Second World War." Biden responded by suggesting America should not have done so.
"That's why we ended up with the United Nations and all these rules about not doing that again," he said, according to Osnos.
The United States Air Force's bombing campaign against Nazi Germany was a crucial part of the Allied forces' victory, having "wrecked Germany's transportation system and reduced its oil production to a trickle," according to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
"This destruction left the Wehrmacht (German Army) severely weakened from lack of supplies and fuel," the museum's website says. "With its air force defeated and its infrastructure in total ruin, Nazi Germany succumbed to Allied ground advances from the east and the west in May 1945."freebeacon.com/israel/republicans-press-biden-to-explain-executive-order-targeting-israeli-jews/Republicans Press Biden To Explain Executive Order Targeting Israeli Jews - Sen. Cotton and others say admin’s efforts ‘undercut our most valuable’ allywww.timesofisrael.com/biden-caught-on-hot-mic-i-told-bibi-were-going-to-have-a-come-to-jesus-meeting/Biden caught on hot mic: I told Bibi we’re going to have a ‘Come to Jesus’ meetingfreebeacon.com/latest-news/ex-border-patrol-chief-says-he-never-had-one-conversation-with-biden/Ex-Border Patrol Chief Says He 'Never Had One Conversation' With Biden - "I was the chief of the Border Patrol. I commanded 21,000 people. That's a problem."www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/05/court-rules-biden-admin-cant-force-christian-health-care-workers-to-perform-trans-surgeries/Court Rules Biden Admin Can’t Force Christian Health Care Workers to Perform Trans Surgeries
The Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented the Christian Employers Alliance, argued that not only did the mandates require employers and doctors to cover and perform sex-change procedures, but it also demanded that they speak positively of them even if they objected, according to the press release.
“By misinterpreting and improperly enforcing federal law, Biden has far overreached his constitutional authority, to the detriment of people of faith across the country,” Matt Bowman, senior counsel for ADF, said in the press release. “The government cannot force Christian employers to pay for, or physically perform, harmful medical procedures that contradict their religious beliefs. The Constitution protects religious healthcare providers and employers and allows them to go about their work in a manner compatible with their deeply held convictions and faith.”www.zerohedge.com/political/agent-hunter-ex-partner-says-5-million-sought-quash-ukrainian-indictment-undisclosedHunter Biden Held Previously Undisclosed Meeting With The "F**king Spy Chief Of China"
First brother Jim Biden told Congress last week that Hunter Biden held a previously undisclosed meeting with Patrick Ho, an executive with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC China Energy - which, weeks earlier, paid Hunter and Jim Biden $5 million as part of a joint venture to find investments for the Chinese firm, the Washington Free Beacon reports.
The man, Scott Oh, gave Hunter a diamond ring after approaching Hunter in October 2015 to discuss "investment opportunities" involving CEFC.
Meanwhile, a former Hunter Biden business associate has revealed in a jailhouse confession that the first son sought roughly $5 million from fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Dmitri Firtash in order to try and quash a US indictment while his father Joe Biden was Vice President, Just the News reports.
Hunter Biden was unsuccessful – Firtash still faces charges and is fighting extradition to the United States from his safe harbor in Austria – but the efforts ultimately resulted in a $3 million investment in a tech fund called mBloom that Galanis and other Hunter Biden partners had formed.
According to the report, around $300,000 of the $3 million made it into Rosemont Seneca Bohai, one of Hunter Biden's firms - which was also used for payments Hunter received from a second Ukrainian oligarch, Mykola Zlochevsky - president of Burisma Holdings energy firm.
Hunter Biden offered to help Firtash try to “influence or attempt to quash” his federal indictment. Galanis believed either $5 million or $5.5 million was delivered to Boies, where Hunter worked as a lawyer. The payment was to compensate Hunter Biden for trying to resolve Firtash's U.S. legal issues;
According to Hunter's own recent testimony to Congress, Firtash was believed to be aligned with Vladimir Putin.nypost.com/2024/03/04/us-news/james-bidens-forgiven-225k-debt-was-assumed-by-secret-third-party-creditor/James Biden’s ‘forgiven’ $225K debt was assumed by secret third party
Americore’s bankruptcy trustee said in a July 2022 court filing that James Biden “procured the $600,000.00 in loans from Americore … based upon representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/03/04/report-hunter-bidens-legal-client-china-threatens-sue-him-1m-reimbursement/Hunter Biden’s Legal ‘Client’ in China Threatens to Sue Him for $1M Reimbursementwww.zerohedge.com/political/treason-bombshell-report-reveals-biden-has-secretly-flown-320000-illegals-united-states"Treason!": Bombshell Report Reveals Biden Has Secretly Flown 320,000 Illegals INTO The United Statesnypost.com/2024/03/05/us-news/alarming-rise-in-migrant-child-labor-under-biden-up-88-since-2019-gop-senator/Alarming’ rise in migrant child labor under Biden, up 88% since 2019: GOP senator
Federal watchdogs have also disclosed that the Biden administration “weakened” officials’ “ability to vet sponsors” who receive migrant children in the US and “protect” those children “from risks such as trafficking,” he noted.
Nearly 400,000 unaccompanied children have crossed the southern border into the US since 2021, according to HHS data compiled by the New York Times, and almost all were referred by the Department of Homeland Security to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
Reports have indicated that migrants as young as 12 years old are “working in dangerous jobs at all hours of the day and night,” Cassidy added, including as roofers, slaughterhouse workers and sawmill employees.
One 16-year-old Guatemalan national was killed when he was pulled into a deboning machine at a chicken plant in Mississippi last July — but Congress didn’t learn of the tragic incident until January.www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/04/venezuela-is-exporting-its-violent-crime-problem-us-thanks-biden/Venezuela Is Exporting Its Violent Crime Problem to US, Thanks to Biden
Violent crime is going down in Venezuela just as the United States has been hit with a rash of high-profile violent crimes by illegal immigrants.
It’s not hard to figure out why.
It’s a bit reminiscent of how Fidel Castro’s regime in Havana sent thousands of convicts to the United States from Cuba in 1980, the final year of the Carter administration. Is Venezuela intentionally sending criminals over to the U. S.? So far, there’s no direct evidence of that, but the Caracas regime of strongman Nicolas Maduro is preventing Venezuelan illegal immigrants from being sent back.
If the Biden administration had focused on actually securing the border and ensuring that people couldn’t come into the country illegally to begin with, this wouldn’t be a problem. But now it is, and given the scope of the border crisis, this is now a much more widespread issue than what Miami faced in the 1980s.
This is all the result of the self-inflicted, ideologically motivated destruction that’s become a hallmark of the Biden presidency. The Left gets mass, unrestricted illegal immigration, and we pay the price.thefederalist.com/2024/03/04/unanimous-scotus-smacks-down-colorado-lawfare-states-have-no-power-to-kick-trump-off-ballot/Unanimous SCOTUS Smacks Down Colorado Lawfare: States Have ‘No Power’ To Kick Trump Off Ballot
“States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency,” the 9-0 court concluded, in an embarrassing conclusion for everyone who preached from corporate media pages that the case for disqualifying Trump was “strong.”
The court expressed concern that any ruling otherwise would have created a “patchwork” of outcomes that would be subject to partisan whims.
“An evolving electoral map could dramatically change the behavior of voters, parties, and States across the county, in different ways and at different times,” the court held. “Nothing in the Constitution requires that we endure such chaos — arriving at any time or different times, up to and perhaps beyond the Inauguration.”
Trump reacted to the decision, calling it a “BIG WIN FOR AMERICA” in a Truth Social post.
Heritage Foundation senior legal fellows Hans von Spakovsky and Charles Stimson applauded the court for restoring “order” ahead of the election.
“The Supreme Court justices brought order to what could have become a chaotic election season by shutting down this partisan, anti-democratic, and unconstitutional effort in Colorado. They found numerous constitutional and statutory reasons why the Colorado court got it wrong,” von Spakovsky and Stimson said. “Activist courts and partisan bureaucrats should not be able to take away American voters’ right to choose the president. This ruling, which came together with amazing speed for the Supreme Court, should serve as a stern warning that radicals cannot interfere in our election process.”www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2901150/supreme-court-liberal-justices-trump-ruling-insurrection/“Today’s unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court decision is a victory for the American people, the Constitution, and our Republic,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who is considered one of several contenders for Trump’s vice presidential pick.
Kevin Roberts, the president of leading conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, posted to X: “You know the Regime has overreached when even the liberal justices concur.”www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/04/with-trump-ruling-supreme-court-restores-voting-rights-of-millions-of-americans/With Trump Ruling, Supreme Court Restores Voting Rights of Millions of Americanswww.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-biden-official-making-six-figures-to-travel-the-globe-pushing-transgenderismMeet The Biden Official Making Six Figures To Travel The Globe Pushing Transgenderism - 'LGBTQI Special Envoy' has visited 22 countries on 6 continents in position reestablished by Biden - met with a transgender Brazilian government official who refers to himself as a “transvestite sl*t.”www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/2903367/bidenomics-is-a-failure/Bidenomics is a failure
Let’s start with inflation. The Biden administration claims that the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 fights inflation, lowers healthcare costs, fights damaging climate change, and reduces the federal deficit. Not one of those statements is true. Inflation remains elevated above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. Healthcare costs are soaring, with many families struggling to pay their medical bills. Households are spending the most on food in over 30 years. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in green energy, but many nations in Asia continue to build new coal-fired plants. China will build 300 new coal-fired plants before its planned emissions peak.
Deficit spending is out of control. The economy of the United States is running a 6.3% federal deficit at a time when the economy is operating at capacity. Large deficit spending drives inflation. The bill will ultimately come due for the administration’s deficit spending. That likely means tax increases. And tax increases reduce work, savings, and investment. Consequently, economic growth slows.
Other measures of progress are equally uninspiring. The manufacturing sector has been in recession for 16 consecutive months. Despite the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill...The Biden administration claims that the CHIPS and Science Act will reduce U.S. dependence on semiconductors manufactured outside the U.S., but little money has actually been released to semiconductor manufacturers. Moreover, Taiwan Semiconductor, the world’s leading semiconductor fabrication company, is delaying construction of its planned facilities in the U.S., saying it is too expensive to manufacture in the U.S. and that the U.S. lacks the necessary supply of skilled labor. At this point, the CHIPS and Science Act is a failure.
Bidenomics is a clear failure. What is most disturbing is that the bill for all the debt-financed projects has yet to come due. The U.S. net deficit to GDP ratio is around 100%. When the bill comes due and interest rates start to rise, America risks an economic bust.www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2909297/biden-wants-to-hike-corporate-tax-rate/Biden, already an inflation villain, now wants to hike the corporate tax rate
The octogenarian has overseen an 18% increase in overall prices, a 5% decrease in average weekly paychecks, and the lowest popularity heading into a reelection campaign in documented history. Naturally, Biden sees skyrocketing prices ticking off the entire country and will posit a brilliant solution during his State of the Union address: to increase prices even further by raising the corporate tax rate to 28%.
As you may recall, the truly revolutionary facet of former President Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was not the mere simplification of the tax code, which indeed translated to personal tax cuts for the middle class, but rather its reduction of the corporate tax rate. Prior to 2017, our corporate tax rate topped out at an appalling 35%, higher than any other advanced nation and all but three countries worldwide (the United Arab Emirates, Chad, and Puerto Rico). The legislation reduced the rate to a flat and globally competitive 21%, just 2 points lower than the world and OECD average but still higher than Europe overall.
As a result, American corporations repatriated $62.3 billion in foreign-earned profits the year after the rate went into effect, and foreign investment in the United States increased by nearly 9%. A longer-run study by economists from Princeton, Harvard, the University of Chicago, and the Treasury found that total additional investment impelled by the corporate tax rate cut increased the economy by 0.1 percentage points annually or a long-run average wage increase of $750. None of this, obviously, accounts for the reduced price pressure of lower taxes being passed on to the consumer.
Even so, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act coincided with overall increased corporate tax revenue, which has nearly doubled on a federal level since 2017.
Alas, Biden would rather score a headline and make the public pay the price. A 28% corporate tax rate is higher than that of every other continent but South America, but it sure sounds nice to his base.www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-disapproval-rating-soars-59-trumps-lead-biggest-yetBiden's Disapproval Rating Soars To 59%, Trump's Lead Biggest Yet
- Only one in four voters think the country is moving in the right direction.
- More than twice as many voters believe Mr. Biden’s policies have personally hurt them as believe his policies have helped them.
- A majority of voters think the economy is in poor condition.
- About as many Democratic primary voters said Mr. Biden should not be the nominee in 2024 as said he should be — with opposition strongest among voters younger than 45 years old.
- Mr. Trump is winning 97 percent of those who say they voted for him four years ago, and virtually none of his past supporters said they are casting a ballot for Mr. Biden.
- Mr. Biden is winning only 83 percent of his 2020 voters, with 10 percent saying they now back Mr. Trump.
- The historical edge Democrats have held with working-class voters of color who did not attend college continues to erode. Mr. Biden won 72 percent of those voters in 2020, according to exit polling, providing him with a nearly 50-point edge over Mr. Trump. Today, the Times/Siena poll showed Mr. Biden only narrowly leading among nonwhite voters who did not graduate from college: 47 percent to 41 percent.
- Only 23 percent of Democratic primary voters said they were enthusiastic about Mr. Biden — half the share of Republicans who said they were about Mr. Trump. Significantly more Democrats said they were either dissatisfied or angry at Mr. Biden being the leader of the party (32 percent) than Republicans who said the same about Mr. Trump (18 percent).
- Unhappiness with the state of the country is plainly a drag on Mr. Biden’s prospects. Two-thirds of the country feels the nation is headed in the wrong direction — and Mr. Trump is winning 63 percent of those voters.
-The gender gap is no longer benefiting Democrats. Women, who strongly favored Mr. Biden four years ago, are now equally split, while men gave Mr. Trump a nine-point edge.
- The poll showed Mr. Trump edging out Mr. Biden among Latinos, and Mr. Biden’s share of the Black vote is shrinking, too.
- The poll showed that 53 percent of voters currently believe Mr. Trump has committed serious federal crimes, down from 58 percent in December. But viewed another way, Mr. Trump’s current lead over Mr. Biden is built with a significant number of voters who believe he is a criminal.nypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/biden-dogged-by-uncommitted-vote-in-minnesota-amid-mini-progressive-revolt/Minnesota Democratic ‘uncommitted’ vote nears 20% in latest Biden rebuke - a number greater than the margin by which Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the state in 2016nypost.com/2024/03/04/us-news/trump-policies-more-helpful-than-bidens-voters-say-in-sharp-rebuke-of-sitting-prez-poll/Trump policies more helpful than Biden’s, voters say in sharp rebuke of sitting prez: poll
Only 18% of voters told the New York Times/Siena College survey that Biden’s policies benefited them personally, while 40% felt that Trump’s actions helped them out, the poll found.
When asked if they were negatively affected by one of the two chief executives, 43% said Biden’s actions hurt them, while only 25% felt the same way about Trump.www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/03/03/bidenomics-in-crisis-majority-of-voters-say-bidens-policies-will-make-inflation-worse/Bidenomics in Crisis: Majority of Voters Say Biden’s Policies Will Make Inflation Worsenypost.com/2024/03/05/us-news/biden-appears-to-lose-american-samoa-caucus-to-jason-palmer/Biden loses American Samoa caucus to little-known Democratic candidate Jason Palmerwww.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2910155/a-small-speech-by-a-shrinking-president/The big question going into Thursday night’s State of the Union speech was whether or not Joe Biden would appear old and frail, so he shouted his way through the speech apparently to appear vigorous.
But the content of the speech amounted to much less. Biden’s volume was covering up glaring weakness; for every big problem facing the country, his solutions are small.
Interest rates have caused the average monthly mortgage payment to almost double under Biden’s tenure, making houses unaffordable for most people. Biden’s answer? He’s going to eliminate closing costs and give home buyers a $800 tax credit. That’s not going to help.
Thanks to inflation, each of us is now spending more income on groceries than at any time in more than 30 years. Biden’s solution? He’s going to force Mars not to shrink the size of your chocolate bar. This means companies will raise the price of food even higher.
Illegal immigrants are murdering and raping women and children across the country? Biden wants new legislation that would mandate catch and release for illegal immigrants like Daniel Ibarra, charged with killing Laken Riley. That will only make the crisis worse — a crisis that Biden created.
Israel is locked in a life-and-death struggle with Hamas, which is still holding eight Americans hostage. Biden is going to build them a pier to bring in more humanitarian assistance. That is not going to help Israel defeat Hamas and appeases the anti-Israel elements in the Democratic Party that shut down Pennsylvania Avenue on Thursday night.
On his age, Biden did pass the test, barely. He forgot to let House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) introduce him. He accidentally added “Moscow” to a list of cities in which Americans could buy cheaper drugs. He called Laken Riley “Lincoln” Riley. And he said every “American” voted against his inflation-causing stimulus bill when he meant every “Republican.”www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/08/marjorie-taylor-greene-takes-credit-forcing-biden-say-laken-riley-killed-illegal/www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/2910551/state-of-the-union-biden-laken-riley-illegal/Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘I Forced Biden to Go Off Script’ and Admit an ‘Illegal’ Killed Laken Riley...
...Democrats ding Biden for going ‘MAGA’ by calling Laken Riley suspect ‘illegal’lol Old Joe used the un-PC term from his century of birth www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/07/watch-joe-biden-mispronounces-laken-rileys-name-at-state-of-the-union/nypost.com/2024/03/07/us-news/first-excerpts-released-from-bidens-state-of-the-union-speech/nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/mother-of-murdered-nursing-student-laken-riley-slams-biden-for-fumbling-her-name-at-state-of-the-union-pathetic/Watch: Joe Biden Mispronounces Laken Riley’s Name at State of the Union - botches name of migrant-murdered ‘Lincoln’ Riley...Riley’s mother slams Biden for fumbling murdered nursing student’s name at State of the Union: ‘Pathetic’
‘If you are going to say her name (even when forced to do so) at least say the right name!” she insisted.nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/heckler-who-shouted-at-biden-during-state-of-the-union-identified-as-gold-star-father/Gold Star dad arrested after heckling Biden during State of the Union
“Abbey Gate!” Steve Nikoui yelled down...“Second Battalion, First Marines!”
Capitol Police escorted Nikoui, 51, out of the chamber around 10:15 p.m. and took him into custody.
Nikoui’s son, Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, was killed by a suicide bomber outside Kabul’s international airport while trying to process evacuees from the Biden administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021.
Twelve other US service members were also killed in the blast.
“This man and his family have given America more than I could personally bear and to attack him with a BS charge of “demonstrating” is a disgrace.
Public polling shows Biden’s approval rating dipped underwater beginning in August 2021 — and has never returned to net positive.
“He didn’t care. And he left all the munitions behind at Bagram (Airfield),” he added, referring to $7 billion worth of US military equipment that was still in Afghanistan when the Taliban took it over.
“They have every right to say, ‘Where is that explanation?'” Issa said of the Gold Star families. “‘Where is that apology? Where is the legitimate investigation so it doesn’t happen to somebody else’s family?’
“That’s why we’re honored to have them here. It’s why we want them in the audience,” he added, expressing hope that “by some miracle, (Biden) says something that they feel at least meets them halfway.”
(Biden) did not refer to the Afghanistan pullout at any point during his 68-minute speech.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/08/donald-trump-torches-joe-biden-angry-as-hell-this-guy-is-a-psycho/Donald Trump Torches Joe Biden: ‘Angry as Hell, This Guy Is a PSYCHO’ - “Crooked Joe Biden is on the run from his record—and lying like crazy to try and escape accountability for the horrific devastation he and his party have created.”thefederalist.com/2024/03/07/tucker-carlson-biden-address-was-darkest-and-most-un-american-state-of-the-union-ever/Tucker Carlson: Biden Address Was ‘Darkest And Most Un-American’ State Of The Union Everwww.dailywire.com/news/biden-slammed-after-most-partisan-state-of-the-union-speech-ever-one-angry-biden-lie-after-another“So, this was a campaign speech. But it was an exceptionally bad campaign speech,” Cruz said. “So, Biden was angry. He was bitter. He was screaming. He was extreme. And he was completely out of touch. The entire speech reminded me of a grumpy old man standing on his front porch screaming at the kids get off my front lawn.”thefederalist.com/2024/03/08/biden-lied-30-times-during-the-state-of-the-union/Biden Lied 30 Times During The State Of The Unionwww.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/07/watch-biden-gaffes-sotu-asks-anybody-wanna-fly-moscow-with-him/WATCH – Biden Gaffes at SOTU: Asks if ‘Anybody Wanna’ Fly to Moscow with Himnypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/biden-says-hell-get-in-trouble-for-answering-reporters-questions/Confused-looking Biden says he’ll ‘get in trouble’ for answering reporters’ questions"The adults are in charge!" www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/2903840/biden-cookie-monster-complaints-blames-companies-shrinkflation/Joe Biden is name-checking the Cookie Monster as part of his latest attempt to convince the public his administration is doing all it can to counter rising consumer prices before November’s general election, more broadly blaming companies and not his economic policies.
“I’ll tell you who did notice: the Cookie Monster,” Biden said. “He pointed out his cookies are getting smaller, but he’s paying the same price. I was stunned when I found out that’s what actually happened.”
Moments before Biden spoke, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the White House’s response to the Cookie Monster’s complaint regarding the price of his fictional cookies, specifically why it took the Cookie Monster and a general election for the administration to create the strike force.
“It did not take the Cookie Monster,” Jean-Pierre said. “In fact, it feels like the Cookie Monster’s responding to us"
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freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-china-and-russia-run-joint-war-drills-at-sea/Iran, China, and Russia Run Joint War Drills at Seamainichi.jp/english/articles/20240315/p2g/00m/0in/018000cReport claims Yemen's Houthis have a hypersonic missile, possibly raising stakes in Red Sea crisis
The report by the state-run RIA Novosti news agency cited an unidentified official but provided no evidence for the claim. It comes as Moscow maintains an aggressively counter-Western foreign policy amid its grinding war on Ukraine.
However, the Houthis have for weeks hinted about "surprises" they plan for the battles at sea to counter the United States and its allies, which have so far been able to down any missile or bomb-carrying drone that comes near their warships in Mideast waters.
The Houthis don't have a navy, nor weapons reaching into the far distances of the Indian Ocean, making their Cape of Good Hope threat difficult. However, Iran is suspected of targeting Israeli-linked vessels previously in the Indian Ocean. The Houthis have claimed attacks assessed to have been carried out by Iran in the past, such as the 2019 attack on Saudi Arabia that temporarily halved its oil production.
Iran also now claims to have a hypersonic weapon. In June, Iran unveiled its Fattah, or "Conqueror" in Farsi, missile, which it described as being a hypersonic. It described another as being in development.
Fabian Hinz, a missile expert and research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said he wouldn't be surprised if Iran transferred a new, hypersonic weapon to the Houthis. However, the question is how maneuverable such a weapon would be at hypersonic speeds and whether it could hit moving targets, like ships in the Red Sea. www.timesofisrael.com/idf-probe-palestinian-gunmen-killed-gazans-waiting-for-aid-army-did-not-fire/IDF probe: Palestinian gunmen killed Gazans waiting for aidwww.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/2908836/china-rubber-stamps-more-of-xis-economic-delusions/China rubber-stamps more of Xi’s economic delusions
China wants technological supremacy over the United States and other nations and proposes to increase research and development spending by 10%. China also wants economic self-sufficiency and is actively discouraging its population from buying foreign-branded goods and services. A stated goal of the National People’s Congress is to increase exports in order to achieve the 5% GDP growth target.
Elites also reiterated goals around domestic security, national security, and the reintegration of Taiwan into the People’s Republic of China. Notably, China did not say that it would achieve such reintegration peacefully. It will increase spending on its military by a stated figure of 7% but will more likely spend double that after hidden funding is accounted for. By contrast, Joe Biden proposes to increase the American defense budget by only 1%. That is a cut in inflation-adjusted spending.
Still, nonpartisan experts on China are skeptical that the 5% growth rate can be achieved. Critics point especially to the lack of direct support for household consumption. Critics explain that China cannot continue to rely on capital investment...Instead of subsidizing increased household consumption, policy is directed at increasing supply in the manufacturing sector. Subsidies for manufacturing exceed support for household consumption by a ratio of 10:1.
China is focusing on the supply side when the real problem is inadequate domestic demand. China will try to export excess production. That inevitably will lead to increased international trade tensions. Under the 2024 economic plan, China will wrongly continue to focus economic support on state-owned enterprises, which are less efficient and less entrepreneurial than the Chinese private sector.
It is also stated policy that Chinese banks should provide more capital to the already bloated state-owned enterprises sector. Each year, state-owned enterprises increase their share of the economy at the expense of the private sector. That makes the 5% growth target even more unrealistic.
The U.S. must increase tariffs when China attempts to dump excess production into the U.S. economy. The U.S. must respond aggressively when China tries to avoid tariffs by shipping excess production through third countries.mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240311/p2g/00m/0in/019000cHundreds of Tibetans march on New Delhi streets asking China to leave Tibet on uprising anniversary
The Tibetan Youth Congress, which organized the New Delhi protest march on Sunday, said that in 1959, the Chinese Communist regime perpetrated an occupation of Tibet, resulting in Tibetans rising in revolt.
"Since then the Chinese regime has resorted to brutal tactics resulting in the deaths of over a million Tibetans who peacefully protested against oppressive Chinese rule," it said in a statement translatingcuba.com/discontent-grows-in-cuba-with-a-new-record-of-blackouts/Discontent Grows in Cuba With a New Record of Blackouts - "Four hours with power and twenty without"translatingcuba.com/corruption-in-cuba-sacrificing-gil-to-save-diaz-canel/Corruption in Cuba: Sacrificing Gil to Save Diaz-Canel
Gil was the undesirable face of the economic failures of the regime, his loyalty to the dictatorship made him the image most hated by the popular majorities on the Island, victims of inflation, inequality and hunger. It was necessary to get rid of such company and make the most of the situation...This show, with its jesters and lynchings, is everything necessary for a Roman circus but without the bread.
The system must always be kept oiled and ready to survive, but the warning indicators do not stop setting off alarms. The Cuban Revolution has become a media myth where the real results of the policies implemented are irrelevant; the crucial thing is to sustain the idea of solidity, eternity and trust in the project. To do this, techniques are used to control the eventual rage of the masses who, for decades, have been domesticated and dumbed down by propaganda.
Gil is simply a scapegoat used to divert attention from the true roots of corruption in Cuba.translatingcuba.com/the-definitive-collapse-of-the-cuban-economy/The Definitive Collapse of the Cuban Economy?
That the Cuban Government has asked, for the first time, the management of the UN World Food Program, for help to subsidize milk for children under seven years of age is a clear example of the situation that the country is going through, since the Cuban leadership has generally been reluctant to accept food aid from abroad so as not to expose the unsustainability of its economic model.
It has also been announced that recently, with the last reserves of the Cuban State, 500 tons of powdered milk were purchased in the United States, the same country that supposedly maintains an “imperialist blockade” against Cuba. It is scandalous that in Cuba there is no milk even for small children in a country whose livestock farming, in another time, was only surpassed in Latin America by Argentina and Uruguay.
The Government has also declared that the population’s basic food basket will not be able to be maintained until the end of March. It had already been said before that in Cuba not only “is nothing being produced,” mainly due to lack of a labor force in agricultural work, but that there is no way to pay to import the food.
When the Revolution triumphed, the Cuban peso was on par with the US dollar. Today, the national currency is worth less than half of a tenth of one US cent, exactly 0.042, according to an official calculation reported on February 20.
Some 99% of those interviewed in the opinion poll carried out in the fifteen provinces by the Cuba Siglo XXI Ideas Laboratory, agreed that the country’s main crisis is food, and among these, 92% considered that the most urgent thing now is economic freedom, in particular, the elimination of Acopio, a state monopoly on agricultural production. In other words, what we are talking about is not the supposed blockade of a foreign power, but rather the one that the same Government has maintained over its own people for more than 60 years.www.ncregister.com/cna/cuban-priest-communism-won-t-survive-and-the-church-will-remainCuban Priest: ‘Communism Won’t Survive...the Church Will Remain’www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/03/12/everyone-is-afraid-haitis-armed-militias-terrorize-christians-barbecues-bloody-revolution/‘Everyone Is Afraid’: Haiti’s Armed Militias Terrorize Christians in Barbecue’s ‘Bloody Revolution’
Violent gangs in Haiti have kidnapped “a lot” of Catholic priests and churchgoers in the past week as the Caribbean nation descends deeper into gang-led chaos, Christian outlets reported on Monday.
Catholic organizations have urged the faithful to pray for “restored order” in Haiti as organized armed militias led by Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier take control of the country. Cherizier, who in recent years has repeatedly demanded the ouster of all Haitian politicians, publicly made calls for a “bloody revolution” on Monday.
“We’re not in a peaceful revolution. We are making a bloody revolution in the country because this system is an apartheid system, a wicked system,” Cherizier said.
“There are kidnappings everywhere,” Mésidor said. “Everyone is afraid, including the religious. As soon as you leave Port-au-Prince, you are in danger. The gangs even come into the churches to kidnap the people there.”www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2024/03/14/justin-trudeaus-canada-proposed-law-may-allow-life-imprisonment-for-online-speech-crimes/Justin Trudeau’s Canada: Proposed Law May Allow Life Imprisonment for Online Speech ‘Crimes’
Social media users quickly shared their thoughts on the Fox report, one person writing, “Rest in peace free speech.”
Another person levied a criticism of the prime minister, stating, “Trudeau becomes dictator in Canada.”The Future of Europe www.zerohedge.com/political/muslims-will-become-majority-swedish-cities-just-1-generation-boasts-pakistani-bornMuslims Will Become Majority In Swedish Cities In Just 1 Generation, Boasts Pakistani-Born Theologian
“Walking through the streets of Malmö is like walking through Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, or Damascus, the capital of Syria,” said Yasir Qadhi, a Pakistani-born American theologian, as reported in the Swedish newspaper Samnytt.
As Remix News previously reported, ethnic Swedish children are already a minority in the school system of Malmö, with one Swedish academic reacting to the massive demographic transformation known as the Great Replacement by claiming that schools should be taught in Arabic, as Swedish is now a minority language.
Conservatives in Sweden have long pointed to Malmö as a harbinger of a future that the majority of Swedes remain opposed to, as the city has completely transformed from nearly all ethnic Swedes into a multicultural area marked by urban decay, no-go zones controlled by migrant clans, and a city unsafe for women in many areas.
Data also shows that migrants and those of a migrant background are responsible for the vast majority of murders, shootings, gang rapes, and robberies in Sweden.
According to the latest figures from Statistics Sweden, birth rates in the country have sunk to an all-time low in 2023.
Righard’s report also confirms what was once dismissed as right-wing rhetoric and a conspiracy theory. In this European city, the Great Replacement, which describes the demographic displacement of Europeans with non-Europeans in their native countries, is statistically undeniable and ongoing.The real future www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/03/12/le-pens-national-rally-holds-13-point-advantage-over-macron-in-eu-parliament-elections/Le Pen’s National Rally Holds 13 Point Advantage over Macron in EU Parliament Elections
The polling firm noted that 72 per cent of those backing the National Rally said their top issue in the European elections was to show their disapproval of the president and his globalist government in Paris.
The survey also revealed that the National Rally has solidified and strengthened its hold among the working class, particularly those classed as labourers, such as those who work in agriculture, with 57 per cent of such voters backing the populist party.www.zerohedge.com/markets/young-french-voters-are-flocking-right-ahead-eu-electionsYoung French Voters Are Flocking To The Right Ahead Of EU Electionswww.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2915897/will-a-red-wave-hit-the-eu/Will a ‘red wave’ hit the EU?
The EU is about to get splashed hard by a “red wave” during its parliamentary elections in June. Europeans would be wise to capitalize on this.
Amid countless national crises created by leftist globalists, recent years have seen populist, right-wing, and center-right factions soar in polls across the continent. Voter turnout is increasing, and with it, the conservative will of the people.
Portugal’s latest election is seen by many as an omen of what is coming for Europe more broadly. Normally one of its most left-wing nations, Portugal’s long reign under radical socialists was stopped in its tracks. They have conceded defeat to the center-right party and the young populist Chega party, the latter of which has quadrupled its parliamentary seats since the previous election in 2022. Both right-wing parties are now negotiating terms to form a coalition.
Another historically liberal nation, the Netherlands, has reached a similar situation. The conservative Party for Freedom more than doubled its parliamentary seats last year and firmly holds a solid third of popular support. This gives it nearly three times the support of the three runner-up liberal parties that have typically run the show.
Liberals should be shaking in their boots because these are only two recent victories, with many more on the way. The French nationalist party National Rally has dramatically risen above the ruling liberal Renaissance party in the polls. The right-wing Alternative for Germany seized a strong second place last year, and it largely retains that support. The populist Freedom Party of Austria rose to the top around the same time, and holds a six-point lead above the socialist party.
The largely leftist and center-left EU is poised to lose many seats to the Right in its parliamentary elections.www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/12/ireland-rejects-leftist-constitutional-amendments-targeting-family-motherhood/Ireland Rejects Leftist Constitutional Amendments Targeting Family, Motherhood
The Irish Times noted that the proposed constitutional changes were rejected by “the highest percentage of no votes in any referendum in Irish history.” Out of Ireland’s 39 constituencies, one voted “yes,” and by a margin of only 255 votes.
Although the proposed constitutional changes had the support of the majority of Ireland’s politicians and nongovernmental organizations, several organizations campaigned for what they called “NoNo” votes.
Ireland’s Catholic bishops staunchly opposed the constitutional changes, issuing a statement to be read at every Mass across the nation ahead of the vote. The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference warned that the Family Amendment “diminishes the unique importance of the relationship between marriage and family in the eyes of Society and State and is likely to lead to a weakening of the incentive for young people to marry."
Hermann Kelly, Irish Freedom Party founder and president, quipped that the redefinition of family would replace Irish families “with Mohammed and his four wives … a man and his dog, a woman and her cat.”
The conservative political party added: “This NoNo Vote is just the beginning of a Nationalist comeback. It’s a clear statement that we’ve had enough of weirdo Transsexual indoctrination of our kids, mass immigration into our country, and Uniparty instruction."
Laoise de Brún, founder of The Countess, a pro-woman group, said: “It’s a huge victory for the people of Ireland and it’s the first nail in the coffin for this ideologically captured government.” She added: “Ireland has become a testing ground for a whole range of unhinged hard-left policy that people do not want but are being forced onto them"www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/03/11/i-want-my-country-back-nigel-farages-reform-party-gets-first-member-of-parliament-as-lee-anderson-defects/‘I Want My Country Back’: Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Gets First Member of Parliament as Lee Anderson Defects
"like millions of people in this country, I feel like we are slowly giving our country away. We are giving away our way of life, allowing people to erase our history, giving up our streets to a minority of people who literally hate our way of life. We are allowing people into this country who will never integrate and adopt our British values. Parliament doesn’t seem to understand what many British people want, and frankly, some of them need to get out more."
"I made some remarks a few weeks back about the London Mayor, for which I was stripped of the whip from the Conservative Party. And let me be clear right now, that I will not apologise. It is no secret I have been talking to my friends in Reform for a while, and Reform UK has offered me the chance to speak out in Parliament on behalf of millions of people up and down the country who feel they are not being listened to… this may sound offensive to the liberal elite, but it is not offensive to my friends, my family, my constituency…"
Earlier this year Anderson was suspended from the party for agreeing with former Home Secretary Suella Braverman — already a victim of an internal party civil war clawing it back towards the globalist centre — who said in February that “The truth is that the Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites are in charge now”.
Anderson buttressed those remarks by adding the frequent Hamas-Palestine marches in London illustrated the degree to which London was controlled by “Islamists”. London’s Sadiq Khan, who Anderson namechecked in his comments, called the remarks “Islamophobic, anti-Muslim and racist” and Anderson was suspended from the Party and ordered to apologise.
It is not controversial to fight back in a culture war, Anderson said, who insisted concern about high levels of legal and illegal migration, failures by the police, and high levels of crime are not in any way controversial. “I cannot be a part of an organisation which stifles free speech, and many of my colleagues in that place, in the Conservative Party, do back me on this privately”, he said.www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/13/survey-shows-support-for-same-sex-marriage-declining/Survey Shows Support for Same-Sex Marriage DecliningLiberal priorities www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/03/11/poll-majority-democrats-oppose-certification-2024-election-if-donald-trump-wins/Majority of Democrats Oppose Certification of 2024 Election If Donald Trump Wins - Nearly two-thirds of “liberals” said they would oppose certificationnotthebee.com/article/the-va-is-offering-abortions-to-veterans-but-dont-worry-its-laso-going-to-subsidize-rent-a-womb-surrogacy-arrangements-for-homosexual-couples-with-your-tax-dollarsThe VA is now offering abortions and rent-a-womb arrangements for gay couples with your tax dollars - opposition to the policy argued the VA does not have the legal authority to provide abortionsnypost.com/2024/03/14/us-news/uc-berkeley-parents-raise-40k-for-private-security-guards-on-campus/Berkeley parents raise $40K for private security to patrol campus as university plagued by ‘armed robbery spree’www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/14/chinas-role-in-americas-unrest-explained/China’s Role in America’s Unrest, Explained
"They want to defeat the United States, but they don’t want to fight a kinetic war. So they have adopted a strategy called disintegration warfare...It’s not to say that they cause all of our internal problems, but absolutely they exacerbate them, they add accelerants to them. And so this is part of their strategy. Their hope is they can defeat the United States without actually having to fight a kinetic or fighting war.
I think the important thing that people don’t understand is there are two groups very tightly linked to Beijing that are behind a lot of the protests on racial unrest and also today also related to Hamas. These are FRSO (Freedom Road Socialist Organization) and PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation). These are groups that are ideologically beholden to China. They have pledged their loyalty to the CCP...And these groups got involved very early on in Ferguson and then, of course, in 2020 during the BLM protests. So these are the organizations that are seeking to really radicalize these protests.
In the case of PSL, two of the leaders of PSL run an organization called People’s Forum that is funded by an American who lives in China named Roy Singham. Roy Singham is an American businessman who sold his business to a investment firm partly owned by the Chinese government. He promptly moved to China. He has pledged his loyalty to the CCP, and he’s poured some $160 million into radical causes in the United States.
There are two Chinese billionaires, China-based billionaires, who are among the largest funders of the trans movement in the United States. I mean, it kind of emerged out of nowhere. And I think this funding is part of the reason.
The first one is the previously mentioned Roy Singham, who’s poured $160 million into radical causes. That includes the trans movement. He’s, of course, an American that lives in Beijing, is very close to the regime. The second one is a guy named Joe Tsai. Joe Tsai was a co-founder and is the current chairman of Alibaba, which is the Amazon of China. Joe Tsai has put tens of millions of dollars into trans research and trans causes in the United States.
What’s curious about both of these gentlemen is that neither one of them are trans. It does not appear that any of their family members are. But the most curious aspect of it is they don’t actually advocate for these positions in China itself.
And as you mentioned, the situation there for the LGBTQ community is far more, let’s say, perilous than it certainly is in the United States. They even don’t want effeminate men on television because they feel it weakens their society. And yet, these two gentlemen are advocating for these causes in the United States, while remaining silent in China.They live in filth nypost.com/2024/03/11/us-news/weed-smell-in-new-yorkers-apartments-is-unbeartable/New Yorkers can barely live in their apartments because the weed smell is so bad — ‘It wakes me up’
New Yorkers are being smoked out of their own apartments by the stench of marijuana. Since cannabis was legalized in the city in 2021, its pungent odor has become increasingly common on NYC streets, and now Gothamites say they can’t even escape it in their own homes.
“The smell is so strong it wakes me up or makes it hard to relax and go to bed. Sometimes I get nauseous or allergic itchy eyes and a sore throat from how concentrated it is,” said Delaney, 25, a business owner who lives in Cobble Hill. For the past six months, the the odor has been unbearable in her fourth floor walk-up.
“Some nights the smell is so strong that it wakes me up from my sleep at 2 a.m.” www.zerohedge.com/markets/philly-lgbtq-community-center-loses-1m-federal-funds-due-sex-party-allegationsPhilly LGBTQ+ "Community Center" Loses $1M In Federal Funds Due To "Sex Party" AllegationsThis is what "education" looks like to libs: Gil Cnaan, co-founder of The Aviary, offered up this riveting defense: "Almost anything could be a kink. A lot of people are into various forms of spanking."
"We always have an educational space set up. Then we have an open play space where you can try out a whole bunch of different things," he continued. "You have benches you can put people over for spanking. You have places where you can tie people up and suspend them, but we also have a room that's like blanket forts and coloring books."
Under its "Wellness Programs" (we swear we are not making this up), the center says it is also hosting a "series of anti-capitalist financial planning workshops" hosted by someone called River Nice (they/them), described as "an anti-capitalist financial planner, meaning they acknowledge the harms of white supremacist, patriarchal capitalism and help queer individuals and families use their money to get as close to their ideal lives as possible!"notthebee.com/article/they-told-me-trans-kids-would-kill-themselves-if-not-allowed-to-have-their-genitals-removed-but-this-study-out-of-california-says-the-exact-oppositeCalifornia study: Attempted-suicide rate among men who had gender surgery was "twice as high" as it was before operationnypost.com/2024/03/12/us-news/300-people-possibly-exposed-to-measles-after-infected-child-visits-california-hospital/300 people possibly exposed to measles after infected child visits California hospitalwww.dailywire.com/news/new-york-fire-dept-trying-to-identify-which-firefighters-booed-letitia-jamesNew York Fire Dept. Trying To Identify Which Firefighters Booed (Biden's Toady)nypost.com/2024/03/13/us-news/nonbinary-student-nex-benedict-beaten-inside-oklahoma-high-school-bathroom-died-by-suicide-official/Nonbinary student died by suicide, ODing after beating inside Oklahoma high school bathroom: officialLe gasp! Another fake story from the left debunked. The 16-year-old had toxic levels of two drugs in (his) system, the medical examiner determined.www.dailywire.com/news/pittsburgh-police-cuts-staff-between-3-7-a-m-no-longer-respond-if-not-in-progress-emergencyPittsburgh Police Cuts Staff Between 3-7 A.M., No Longer Respond If Not ‘In-Progress Emergency’
Calls not considered “in-progress emergencies” will be assigned by dispatch to a telephone recording unit.thefederalist.com/2024/03/11/women-flee-daughters-of-the-american-revolution-after-it-admits-men/Women Flee Daughters Of The American Revolution After It Admits Menwww.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/12/study-daily-cannabis-smokers-25-more-likely-to-suffer-heart-attack-42-higher-stroke-risk/Daily Cannabis Smokers 25% More Likely to Suffer Heart Attack, 42% Higher Stroke Risk
Roughly three in ten people in the United States have been diagnosed with marijuana addiction, according to statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Fraud Watch thefederalist.com/2024/03/12/connecticut-governor-wants-to-give-noncitizens-ids-that-look-exactly-like-those-used-to-vote/Connecticut Governor Wants To Give Noncitizens IDs That Look Exactly Like Those Used To Vote
“I think this is a bad idea, particularly coming on the heels of what went on in Bridgeport,” O’Dea reportedly continued.
Bridgeport Democratic Mayor Joe Ganim won his primary race in January months after a judge overturned the original primary because evidence appeared to show his campaign affiliates “stuffing ballot boxes.”
Ganim was losing on election night to John Gomes by 487 votes but by Wednesday morning he was up 251 votes, after a flood of absentee ballots came in.
Superior Court Judge William Clark ruled “the volume of ballots so mishandled is such that it calls the result of the primary election into serious doubt” after footage emerged of two Democratic officials shoving ballots into drop boxes, a violation of state law which says “the voter must personally mail or personally return the ballot for it to be counted,” with exceptions for household relatives. thefederalist.com/2024/03/13/michigan-has-more-registered-voters-than-eligible-citizens-in-53-counties-says-rnc-lawsuit/Michigan Has More Registered Voters Than Eligible Citizens In 53 Counties, Says RNC Lawsuit
53 of the state’s 83 counties have more registered voters than they do residents who are eligible to vote. Twenty-three other counties also allegedly have “suspiciously high” voter registration rates of 90 percent or more, which does not comport with the nationwide voter registration rate, according to the suit.thefederalist.com/2024/03/13/doj-is-using-bidenbucks-to-encourage-illegals-and-felons-to-vote-says-mississippi-secretary-of-state/DOJ Is Using Bidenbucks To Encourage Illegals And Felons To Vote, Says Mississippi Secretary Of State
Watson said the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) — which falls under the DOJ — is altering existing agreements with jails to comply with Biden’s directive, now requiring these facilities “to provide voter registration materials and facilitate voting by mail.” In December 2021, the USMS modified “936 contracts or intergovernmental agreements and the agency’s information technology,” mandating that USMS officials “notify prisoners upon their admission into USMS custody of their right to request voting access information from their designated facility.”
“This program creates numerous opportunities for ineligible prisoners to be registered to vote in Mississippi,” Watson wrote. “The program provides prisoners with misleading information concerning their right to both register and vote in Mississippi – a right which they may not have.”
Despite the Biden administration’s best attempts to withhold such information, conservative outlets and good government groups have discovered that many of the so-called “nonpartisan” organizations colluding with federal agencies to register and turn out voters are extremely left-wing, such as Demos and the ACLU.
The Republican secretary also espoused concerns that these policies could further lead to noncitizens registering and voting in elections, highlighting how “everyone in the Marshals’ custody” is provided a form notifying them of their opportunity to partake in the U.S. electoral process. Many illegal border-crossers have found themselves in Marshals’ custody, he explained.
“It is quite shocking, in the midst of a crisis at our southern border and an unprecedented crime wave, that the Biden administration has chosen to expend tax dollars and vital law enforcement resources on a program that risks bloating state voter rolls with ineligible and non-citizen voters,” Watson wrote. notthebee.com/article/hoo-boy-colorados-top-government-dna-analyst-allegedly-manipulated-evidence-for-years-possibly-affecting-more-than-600-criminal-casesColorado's top government DNA analyst allegedly "manipulated evidence for years," possibly affecting more than 600 criminal casesHouthi Joe's corner www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/11/report-biden-trying-to-collapse-netanyahu-government-mid-war/Report: Biden Trying to ‘Collapse’ Netanyahu Government, Mid-war
One Israeli expert frequently consulted by American officials says, “I have been asked by a serious administration figure what it is that will force the Netanyahu coalition to collapse. They were interested in the mechanics, what can we demand which will collapse his coalition.”www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/14/biden-slaps-more-sanctions-on-israel-while-giving-10-billion-sanctions-waiver-to-iran/Biden Slaps More Sanctions on Israel While Giving $10 Billion Sanctions Waiver to Iran
As with four Israeli individuals previously sanctioned, none of the affected individuals has been convicted of any crime in Israel. Accusations of “settler violence” are often created by left-wing organizations, who feed reports to the State Department. Palestinians are not sanctioned for ongoing terror attacks against Israelis in the same geographic areas.
The sanctions, coming as Israel is defending itself from deadly attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah, both funded by Iran, serves to undermine Israel in the middle of a war, and sends a signal that the U.S. is not prepared to support its allies.freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-poised-to-grant-iran-billions-in-sanctions-relief-lawmakers-warn/Biden Admin Poised To Grant Iran Billions in Sanctions Relief, Lawmakers Warn
The sanctions waiver decision comes as Iran and its regional terror proxies—which include Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen—foment chaos across the Middle East, including a series of missile attacks that killed 3 American military members and wounded more than 40. Critics of the sanctions waiver say it will enable Iran to continue funding its terrorist allies amid the worst spate of violence in the Middle East in years.
Richard Goldberg, a former member of the White House National Security Council who worked on the Iran portfolio, said the Biden administration's decision to renew the waivers "subsidized October 7" as well as "the murder of three American soldiers in Jordan."
"It's subsidizing daily attacks on the U.S. Navy in the Red Sea, it's subsidizing drones and missiles sent to Putin, and it's subsidizing the abuse of Iranian women," said Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank.
"Congress can stop the money flow," he said. "The Senate is sitting on a House-passed bill that would freeze the money, lock it down immediately. But if Senate Republicans won't fight for it, Biden will keep subsidizing the mullahs all the way through November."thefederalist.com/2024/03/11/biden-is-spreading-hamas-propaganda/Biden Is Spreading Hamas Propaganda
The Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers, incessantly repeated by our media, are fake.
Anyone with an ounce of sense or basic comprehension of the situation knows they’re fake. They have always been fake. So, we must assume one of three things about people who spread Hamas’ claims: They are 1) irredeemably stupid, 2) propagandists for terrorists, or 3) both.
in a speech celebrating Ramadan, Biden repeated the claim that “30,000 Palestinians have been killed, most of them civilians, including thousands of children.” (Biden) now not only rejects the claims of our allies in Israel but accepts the declarations of a group that is not only on the Justice Department’s terror list — one that recently murdered, raped, and kidnapped American citizens.
In Tablet, Abraham Wyner, a professor of statistics and data science at the Wharton School, lays out the case that the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers are an “obvious fake.” The near-perfect incremental daily uptick, despite the vagaries of battle, is the big giveaway — though there are other aspects that make zero sense. Wyner theorizes that the fake daily numbers vary too little because Hamas does “not have a clear understanding of the behavior of naturally occurring numbers.” Indeed, while Islamists excel at sexual torture and theocratic repression, they are less proficient at math. That does not stop pro-Hamas Westerners from pushing the “genocide” blood libel.
It took Israel, a sophisticated nation with many genuine experts, weeks to wade through the sinister wreckage of the Oct. 7 attack to get a proper tally of the dead. And yet, miraculously, whenever an Israeli attack is carried out, within hours — sometimes within the hour — Hamas can pinpoint not only the number of people who have died in wreckages but their ages and sex.
It should also be remembered that Hamas makes no distinction between civilian deaths and its terrorists. When Biden laments death using these statistics, he is lamenting the death of Hamas.
What’s changed with Biden? His administration was already teeming with Obama-era pro-Iranian voices. Now, Biden is apparently convinced that his 2024 electoral fortunes are bound up in appeasing the hard-left activist class and pro-Hamas faction in Michigan and Minnesota. Knowing that spineless Jewish elected officials in the Democratic Party value partisanship over Israel, Biden, whose appeasement of Iran did much to set the groundwork for Oct. 7, is largely freed from worrying about moderates.
And make no mistake, anyone who is calling for a “ceasefire” — by which they mean unilateral Israeli ceasefire, as the other side doesn’t abide by agreements — is calling for Gaza to remain a terror state. That includes Biden. And he knows it. When Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC asked him this weekend which side really wanted a ceasefire, Biden correctly answered that it was Hamas, which saw it as the only way to “survive” and “rebuild” — before realizing his mistake and wandering off into gibberishland.www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/03/11/joe-biden-marks-ramadan-with-sympathies-for-muslims-and-their-immense-pain/Joe Biden Marks Ramadan with Sympathies for Muslims and Their ‘Immense Pain’
“As Muslims gather around the world over the coming days and weeks to break their fast, the suffering of the Palestinian people will be front of mind for many. It is front of mind for me,” he said.The fuck is this “To those who are grieving during this time of war, I hear you, I see you, and I pray you find solace in your faith, family, and community. And to all who are marking the beginning of Ramadan tonight, I wish you a safe, healthy, and blessed month. Ramadan kareem.”www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/10/watch-netanyahu-hits-back-at-biden-on-war-hes-wrong/WATCH — Netanyahu Hits Back at Biden on War: ‘He’s Wrong’
”The attempt to say that my policies … are not supported by most Israelis is false. The vast majority are united as never before, and they understand what’s good for Israel.”
“whoever tells us not to operate in Rafah, is telling us to lose the war – and that will not happen.”www.timesofisrael.com/senate-leader-schumer-calls-for-israeli-election-says-netanyahu-an-obstacle-to-peace/Senate leader Schumer urges Israeli election, says Netanyahu ‘has lost his way’ - sparked anger and swift condemnation by various figures in Jerusalem
“If Prime Minister Netanyahu’s current coalition remains in power...the United States will have no choice but to play a more active role in shaping Israeli policy by using our leverage to change the present course,” the senate majority leader said.
he framed Netanyahu as one of four major obstacles to peace, alongside Hamas, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and radical right-wing Israelis.
In response to the speech, Netanyahu’s Likud party laid into the senator, saying “Israel is an independent and proud democracy that elected Prime Minister Netanyahu, not a banana republic.”
“Prime Minister Netanyahu leads a determined policy that is supported by a huge majority of the people,” it added. “Contrary to Schumer’s words, the Israeli public supports a complete victory over Hamas, rejects any international dictates to establish a Palestinian terrorist state, and opposes the return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza.
“It is expected of Senator Schumer to respect Israel’s elected government and not undermine it. This is always true, but even more so during wartime.”
War cabinet minister Benny Gantz, one of Netanyahu’s main political rivals who holds a significant lead over the prime minister in polls, wrote on X that Schumer’s remarks were inappropriate..."he erred in his remarks"
“Israel is a robust democracy, and only its citizens will decide its future and leadership. Any external interference on the matter is counter-productive and unacceptable”
Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Herzog criticized Schumer too, saying that “Israel is a sovereign democracy. It is unhelpful — all the more so as Israel is at war against the genocidal terror organization Hamas — to comment on the domestic political scene of a democratic ally. It is counterproductive to our common goals.”
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor immediately after Schumer’s remarks that “Israel deserves an ally that acts like one”
“It’s just plain wrong for an American leader to play such a divisive role in Israeli politics while our closest ally in the region is in an existential battle for its very survival,” the Republican speaker said.www.timesofisrael.com/biden-hails-good-speech-by-schumer-criticizing-netanyahu-says-many-americans-agree/www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/15/pollak-biden-attack-on-netanyahu-causes-worst-crisis-in-history-of-u-s-israel-relations/Biden hails ‘good speech’ by Schumer - Biden Attack on Netanyahu Causes Worst Crisis in History of U.S.-Israel Relations
Biden is also slapping sanctions on Israelis who have not been convicted of any crime; this week, he also sanctioned two geographic areas under Israeli control in the West Bank. At the same time, he gave Iran a $10 billion sanctions waiver.
Meanwhile, the Senate — at Schumer’s direction — is refusing to pass billions of dollars in military aid for Israel. And there are reports that the Biden administration is “slow-walking” deliveries of ammunition already promised to Israel.
This is happening because Netanyahu — like most Israelis — rejects Biden’s plan to impose a Palestinian state after the war, which would reward Hamas for terror. Israelis also want to win the war — not to wait, and allow Hamas to survive.
This is a terrible dilemma, one that has no precedent in the history of U.S-Israel relations. Barack Obama triggered a crisis in 2015 by imposing the Iran nuclear deal on Israel, which Netanyahu opposed publicly because it allowed Iran to emerge as a nuclear power after a decade, and gave Iran money with which to fund terrorism. That was bad enough. What Biden is doing is far worse, involving active political interference in Israel in the midst of an existential conflict.
The message to Israel’s enemies is clear: they are winning, despite Israel’s success against Hamas in Gaza thus war. The Biden Administration is rewarding Islamic terror, as well as the Iranian regime...www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-just-issues-red-line-israel-over-rafah-wont-do-anything-about-itwww.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/defiant-netanyahu-vows-cross-bidens-rafah-red-line-we-are-not-getting-gasBiden Issues 'Red Line' For Israel Over Rafah, But Won't Do Anything About It...
...Defiant Netanyahu Vows To Cross Biden's Rafah 'Red Line': "We Are Not Getting Off The Gas" - "You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is? That October 7 doesn't happen again. Never happens again."
He also addressed the question of a post-war two state solution being pushed by the Biden administration. "You don’t have an issue with me. You have an issue with the entire people of Israel," he claimed. "They’re really united as never before, united to destroy Hamas, and ensure that we don’t have another Palestinian terror state like the one that we had in Gaza that could threaten the State of Israel."mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240311/p2g/00m/0in/017000cBiden has expressed a desire to aides to make another trip to Israel to try to circumvent Netanyahu and take his message directly to the people.
"when (Biden) criticizes Netanyahu personally, he thinks he improves his standing among progressives," Gilboa said.
But Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that pointed criticism of the Netanyahu government has limited value for Biden politically.
"Words without deeds are not going to bring those voters back," Miller said. "The hemorrhaging is going to continue as long as the pictures in Gaza don't change."
Gilboa said that even if a different government were running Israel, such as a more moderate figure like Gantz, Biden would still find a leadership intent on entering Rafah and defeating Hamas.
"They wouldn't do things significantly different," he said. "Is there anyone of sound mind here who is willing to leave Hamas in Gaza? That won't happen."www.timesofisrael.com/us-criticism-of-israel-encourages-hamas-netanyahu-says-in-fox-news-interview/US criticism of Israel encourages Hamas, Netanyahu says in Fox News interview - PM says Israelis united behind war aims and opposition to Palestinian state; not tackling Rafah would be like leaving ‘quarter of the Nazi army in place’
“To the extent that Hamas believes that there’s daylight between us, that doesn’t help,” Netanyahu said...Agreement between the two allies, on the other hand, “helps the war effort, and it helps our efforts to achieve victory and obviously the release of the hostages,” he added.
“we have to destroy Hamas. We can’t leave a quarter of the Hamas terror army in place, there, in Rafah,” Netanyahu said to Fox. “This would be equivalent to saying, you know, after the Allies fought back, gone through Normandy, went through Germany, and you’d say, well, we’ll leave a quarter of the Nazi army in place and we won’t go into Berlin, the last stronghold.”www.zerohedge.com/military/biden-finds-300-million-more-arms-ukraine-even-pentagons-own-stockpile-diminishedBiden Finds $300 Million In More Arms For Ukraine Even As Pentagon's Own Stockpile Diminished
The US Department of Defense has admitted not only that it is out of money to procure replacement weapons after vast amounts of America's weaponry were shipped to Ukraine over the past two years, but the US defense budget is vastly overdrawn, to the tune of $10 billion.
"In a U.S. fight with China, American forces will likely burn through munitions stocks within three weeks. Even with a surge of the U.S. industrial base, replenishing stocks will take more than six months. In the interim, the U.S. will be without sufficient bombs and bullets for its cutting-edge systems, such as fifth-generation fighter jets and High Mobility Rocket Launcher Systems, and anti-air missiles needed to protect our nuclear aircraft carriers and bases in the Pacific."www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/03/09/biden-immigration-border-secret-flights-cbp-one-asylum/Biden hasn’t just opened the Border. He’s secretly flying migrants in en masse
The revelation comes thanks to an extraordinary lawsuit filed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) meant to uncover the details of Mr. Biden’s abuse of humanitarian parole for otherwise inadmissible migrants. Some 320,000 migrants were flown into 43 airports around the United States and were given parole, which grants them authorization to live and work in the country for at least two years. These are all migrants who have no lawful claim to live in the United States based upon the laws passed by our elected representatives.
The point was to ease the embarrassing numbers of migrants crossing the border illegally. But from the start, the administration has sought to conceal everything it can about the program.
Thanks to the CIS lawsuit, we learned that the parole program started 19 months earlier than the administration publicly admitted, and involved far more countries – 93 rather than the several they advertised – and migrants than they’ve previously acknowledged. Now they’re concealing which airports the migrants landed in on the dubious grounds that doing so could “reveal operational vulnerabilities that could be exploited by bad actors”.
I asked Mark Krikorian, the executive director of CIS, about the administration’s excuses and he said that neither possible interpretation is good. “Either they’re exaggerating the security threat at U.S. airports posed by its unlawful parole programs to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information, or it’s telling the truth – meaning it has knowingly compromised the safety of the American people in order to wave in hundreds of thousands of foreigners who have no right to enter the country”, he said.
For months, progressive mayors have blamed Texas governor Greg Abbott for busing migrants north to their cities. But recent estimates of that busing program run only up to about 90,000, so mayors like New York’s Erik Adams ought to be blaming Joe Biden for the mess they’re now dealing with.nypost.com/2024/03/10/us-news/house-speaker-johnson-blasts-biden-as-an-embarrassment-for-apology-to-laken-riley-murder-suspect-cowering-to-his-base/House Speaker Johnson blasts Biden as an ‘embarrassment’ for apology to Laken Riley murder suspect: ‘Cowering to his base’
At the urging of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Biden, during an off-script moment in his State of the Union address on Thursday, decried Riley’s killing by “an illegal.” The president later backtracked during his interview with Capehart, saying he should have instead used the word “undocumented” to describe Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan national charged with murdering Riley, an Augusta University nursing student who was out for a run on the University of Georgia campus last month.thefederalist.com/2024/03/11/biden-should-apologize-to-americans-for-his-open-border-not-to-the-killers-who-cross-it/Biden Should Apologize To Americans For His Open Border, Not To The Killers Who Cross Itwww.zerohedge.com/energy/while-joe-was-vp-hunter-and-pals-aided-chinese-bid-control-global-nuclear-power-market-usWhile Joe Was VP, Hunter And Pals Aided Chinese Bid To 'Control' Global Nuclear Power Market With US Tech: Report
Hunter Biden and his business partners attempted to help Chinese energy firm CEFC purchase Westinghouse, a premier US-based nuclear technology firm, in an attempt to "control" the global market and provide "significant lobbying power in Congress."
"The evidence, which includes a detailed strategy memo, shows Hunter Biden was directly involved in emails and correspondence on the project in 2016 and that the goal was to exploit the future first son's access to power and his family reputation to make Washington and Beijing comfortable with a potentially controversial deal and then to shield the acquisition of Westinghouse by China CEFC Energy behind intermediaries."
According to new memos and testimony about the plan to help CEFC "control this global sector," Hunter Biden "had an interesting last name that would probably get people in the door," former business partner Rob Walker told Congress.
The effort failed despite Hunter's prowess as an international energy expert.
Miscalculations in the construction of two AP1000 nuclear plants in Georgia and South Carolina resulted in a $13 billion cost overrun, bankrupting the company in 2017.
Hunter's relationship with CEFC fits a pattern that Hunter was willing to take money from US adversaries, including an attempt to acquire prize assets such as the Michigan-based Hennings firm, which is tied to the People's Liberation Army.
"The Biden family was all about money," Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) told the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. "There was no sense of of honor or no sense of protection to the country. It was protect the brand, which was the Biden name. Joe Biden."nypost.com/2024/03/11/us-news/biden-unveils-massive-7-3t-budget-with-5-5t-in-tax-hikes-post-state-of-the-union-address/Biden unveils massive $7.3T budget with $5.5T in tax hikes, plans for ‘highest burden’ in US history
"(Biden) isn’t simply raising taxes to close the deficit, he’s raising it to expand government,” Riedl said after having called Biden’s budget last year “the highest peacetime burden in American history.”
“The price tag of Biden’s proposed budget is yet another glaring reminder of this Administration’s insatiable appetite for reckless spending and the Democrats’ disregard for fiscal responsibility,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other GOP leaders said in a statement.
Social Security will also be insolvent within a decade on its current pace, added MacGuineas, forcing cuts of 23% for all beneficiaries due to an immediate payout from the program’s trust funds.
“The deficit doubled last year from $1 (trillion) to $2 trillion … its highest non-war, non-recession level in American history.” www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/03/11/biden-evacuates-staff-embassy-gang-leader-barbecue-becomes-most-powerful-man-haiti/Biden Evacuates Staff from Embassy as Gang Leader ‘Barbecue’ Becomes ‘Most Powerful Man in Haiti’
“Criminals have now taken over the country. There is no government, it is becoming a failed society,” warned Guyana Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/12/special-counsel-robert-hur-confirms-joe-bidens-classified-documents-were-found-in-7-places/Special Counsel Robert Hur Confirms Joe Biden’s Classified Documents Were Found in 7 Places
During Rep. Kelly Armstrong’s (R-ND) line of questioning in Tuesday’s Judiciary Committee hearing, Hur confirmed that federal authorities located classified documents in seven locations.
“Mr. Hur, classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Center?” Armstrong asked.
“That’s correct,” Hur replied.
“They were found in President Biden’s garage?” he asked.
“In Wilmington, Delaware, yes,” Hur responded.
“And in his basement den?” the member asked.
“Also in the same home, yes,” Hur said.
“And his main floor office?” Armstrong asked.
“Correct,” Hur replied.
“And his third-floor den?” Armstrong asked.
“Correct,” Hur again said.
“At the University of Delaware?” the member asked.
“Correct,” Hur replied.
“And at the Biden Institute?” Armstrong asked finally.
“Correct,” he said.thefederalist.com/2024/03/12/hur-biden-white-house-pressured-me-to-change-my-report-findings/Hur: Biden White House Pressured Me To Change My Report Findings
The White House’s pressure campaign on Hur to alter his report before its release to the public appears to fall within the “obstruction of justice” charge Democrats accused former President Trump of committing...www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-special-counsel-hur-testifies-defends-conclusion-biden-cognitive-declineWatch Live: Hur Confirms Biden Lied About Classified Docs During Contentious Hearingfreebeacon.com/biden-administration/transcripts-of-hur-interview-confirm-bidens-memory-lapses-with-special-counsel/Interview Transcript, Congressional Testimony Shed Light on Biden's Memory Lapses During Classified Doc Investigation - Biden failed to recall when his son died, went off on strange tangents during interviews
The transcript also confirms Biden could not recall when his son, Beau, died, and further shows that (Biden) raised that subject unprompted—contradicting his claim during a Feb. 8 press conference that Hur raised the subject.
But the transcripts also reveal that Biden went off on a number of tangents during his interviews with special counsel Robert Hur, including anecdotes about what sound a car makes, a "risqué" bathing suit his 72-year-old wife wears, and a horrific industrial accident where a young man’s genitalia was burned off.
Early on in his Oct. 8 interview with Hur, the special counsel asked Biden if he ever transferred any documents from his vice presidential residence to his primary Delaware residence. Biden answered that he did "occasionally," and as he provided context to his answer, he deemed it necessary to mention that first lady Jill Biden looks great in a bikini.
During this tangent, Biden revealed a remarkable feat: He hit a target hundreds of yards away with a bow and arrow during a visit to Mongolia in August 2011.
"I’m not a bad archer," Biden said, after referring to Mongolian archers as "gorillas."
"But … I hit the goddamn target."
A video uploaded by the Obama administration of the occasion shows Biden shooting a bow into an empty field.
Later, as Hur attempted to steer the conversation back to how classified documents made their way from Biden’s West Wing office to his personal residences, Biden again veered into an unrelated story about how he "didn’t take law school very seriously,"
"We had a really difficult professor," Biden recalled. "He called on me to—you know how they do in law school, discuss a case, you know, in your first torts class. And I had never read the case, and I stood up and I spoke for 10 minutes. The whole class stood up, started clapping."
Biden, who once falsely claimed he graduated at the top of his class from Syracuse Law School, failed a class after plagiarizing from a law review article about torts.nypost.com/2024/03/12/us-news/biden-forgot-year-of-son-beaus-death-trumps-election-special-counsel-interview-transcript/Biden forgot year of son Beau’s death, Trump’s election in special counsel Robert Hur interview
During a discussion of why he kept sensitive papers after leaving the vice presidency in 2017, Biden launched into a rambling explanation in which he said Beau, who died in 2015, was “deployed or is dying” after he left office in 2017.
Moments later, Biden referenced Trump’s election to the presidency and asked if he had been elected in “November of 2017” rather than the previous year.
He also twice forgot over the course of one of the interview days what a fax machine is and had to be prompted by his staff.
“I had been involved in the civil rights movement,” (Biden) told Hur...Biden has falsely claimed participation in the movement (before) — despite having admitted in 1987 during his first run for the White House that he “was not an activist.”www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/12/hur-transcript-shows-joe-biden-made-car-noises-and-often-meandered-off-topic/DOJ Interview Transcript: Joe Biden Made Car Noises, Often Meandered Off-Topic
Biden then started talking about cars in general, before Hur interrupted with, “Sir, I’d love — I would love to hear much more about this, but I do have a few more questions to get through.”
Biden ignored him, and continued talking about cars, to which Hur finally said, “All right. So let’s — let’s launch into the next subject which relates to the Penn Biden Center.”
Another portion of the transcript shows Hur asking Biden about the time he lived at the Naval Observatory as vice president that ended up with Biden discussing a man losing part of his testicles and penis.
Biden also meandered off on a tangent when asked, “Did you bring classified material with you from the West Wing or the Naval Observatory to the lake house?”
Biden responded, but then veered off into a detailed description of his office and pictures before recalling a trip to Mongolia.
“You know, I went to Mongolia and, and great pictures. I, unfortunately, embarrassed the hell out of the leader of Mongolia.”
“So we’re out in the middle of nowhere and they’re looking up on the hill and we see this tiny line. You know, it’s a 20-mile horse race with all these kids under the age of 16 on bareback racing to come down. And you know, there are sumo wrestlers doin’ everything they do.”www.donaldjtrump.com/news/6fe08181-09f4-4a17-9d5e-d29e456382d9RECALL: In 2021, Biden claimed “long-term inflation” was “highly unlikely” — but he was wrong. In fact, inflation has averaged 5.6 percent year-over-year under Biden, more than double the level of inflation under any of the last four presidents and well above the Fed’s target rate of two percent.
Under President Trump, inflation averaged 1.9 percent — right on target.
Food prices are up 21.2 percent, rent is up 20 percent, and electricity is up 28.4 percent since Biden took office.
Americans have seen a 4.2 percent pay cut under Biden...Real wages remain lower than when Biden first took office.
Under President Trump, real average weekly wages rose 8.2 percent.
Bidenomics has cost the middle class $2.4 trillion from March 2022 to July 2023. The average middle-class household lost over $33,000 in real wealth over a similar time period.
Total household debt is at an all-time high of $17.5 trillion. Credit card debt recently hit a new record high of $1.13 trillion.
The Fed has hiked interest rates 11 times since March 2022 – now at their highest level in 22 years – making it harder for families to buy a home, finance a car, pay off debt, and perform various other financial transactions.
Thanks to higher interest rates, the monthly mortgage payment on a median-priced home is twice as much as when Biden took office.
Biden’s favorite economist – Moody’s Mark Zandi – says purchasing a home or a car right now is “completely unaffordable for the typical American household.”
Under Biden, the price of a gallon of gas has been above $3 per gallon for 1,037 days in a row. Car insurance is now at a new record high, increasing 26 percent from last year.
In fact, under Biden, every state in the nation experienced the highest gas prices of all time.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/12/nolte-post-sotu-poll-bidens-approval-rating-drops-trumps-lead-grows/Post-SOTU Poll — Biden’s Approval Rating Drops, Trump’s Lead Growswww.breitbart.com/economy/2024/03/14/inflation-surges-twice-as-much-as-expected/Inflation Surges Twice As Much As Expectednypost.com/2024/03/13/us-news/black-voters-flocking-to-trump-can-no-longer-afford-to-vote-for-biden-in-2024-reverend-says/Black voters flocking to Trump, can no longer ‘afford’ to vote for Biden in 2024, reverend says
"I hear it is all over, everywhere I go,” Peterson told anchor Trace Gallagher Monday. “For a long time, blacks… were committed to the Democratic Party. That’s no longer the case because the Democrats have clearly tossed blacks to the side, and they’re not looking out for them anymore.”
One black Biden voter recently told BET that he’s considering voting for former President Trump for the first time due to the state of the economy...“The way that these last three or four years have been, this is the worst it’s ever been in my life.”
Peterson blamed Biden’s immigration and economic policies for the pivotal shift.
He argued black communities are mostly impacted by migrant crime as illegal immigrants continue to flood through the porous borders. "aliens are coming in and they are ending up in the black communities… in the schools. The gang violence between the black gangs and Hispanic gangs and other gangs that are coming in is out of control.”
"It started really with Obama. A lot of blacks saw that Obama would do more for them, but he didn’t get jobs. He didn’t provide for them, and under Joe Biden it just wiped them out."www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/03/13/breitbart-business-digest-younger-workers-turning-against-biden-as-unemployment-rises/Younger Workers Turning Against Biden as Unemployment Risesnypost.com/2024/03/11/us-news/biden-asks-staff-if-hes-allowed-to-take-any-questions-press-kicked-out-immediately-after/nypost.com/2024/03/14/us-news/biden-asks-staffer-for-permission-to-take-questions-at-michigan-event/Biden asks staff if he’s ‘allowed to take any questions’ — press kicked out immediately after
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mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240319/p2g/00m/0in/018000cNorth Korea says leader Kim Jong Un supervised tests of artillery systems targeting Seoul
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire drill of nuclear-capable "super-large" multiple rocket launchers designed to target South Korea's capital as he vowed to boost his war deterrent in the face of deepening confrontations with rivals, state media said Tuesday.
The report came a day after the South Korean and Japanese militaries said they detected North Korea firing multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward waters off its eastern coast, adding to a streak of weapons displays that have raised regional tensions.
In a fiery speech to Pyongyang's rubber-stamp parliament in January, Kim declared that he was abandoning North Korea's long-standing goal of reconciliation with the South and ordered the rewriting of the North's constitution to cement its war-divided rival as its most hostile adversary. He said the new charter must specify North Korea would annex and subjugate the South if another war broke out.translatingcuba.com/cuba-reaffirms-its-unique-friendship-with-north-korea/Cuba Reaffirms Its ‘Unique Friendship’ With North Koreafreebeacon.com/latest-news/chinese-envoy-meets-with-hamas-celebrates-ties-with-terrorist-group/Chinese Envoy Meets With Hamas, Celebrates Ties With Terrorist Grouptranslatingcuba.com/ukraine-warns-of-the-high-number-of-cubans-fighting-with-russian-troops/Ukraine Warns of the High Number of Cubans Fighting With Russian Troops
Darío Jarrosay, a Cuban prisoner of war, is a 35-year-old teacher and musician from Guantánamo. He said he had been attracted to Russia by a false offer on Facebook to work in construction, and he was then dragged to fight with the Russian Army on the front. “I joined the Russian Army because, in Cuba, I received a banner (announcement) on Facebook saying that people were needed for construction.”
Jarrosay explained that he traveled to the Russian Federation from Cuba after filling out a form to work in construction. “It wasn’t to enter the war; I never agreed to enter the war,” he said at the event held in the Ukrainian capital. “When I arrived in Russia, I found myself in the war,” he said. This Cuban geography teacher and musician is now waiting for a solution to his case as a prisoner of war in Ukraine.
Petro Yatsenko, from the Ukrainian authority that deals with prisoners of war, said at the same press conference that Ukraine is open to negotiating the return of these fighters to their countries of origin. Jarrosay said he was on the flight to Russia with five other Cubans who were also looking for work in Russia. He found other Cubans In the Russian Army, and he received 250,000 rubles (about 2,500 euros) a month for fighting on the Russian side, a salary much higher than the one he received in Cuba.
Asked about the message he sends to his compatriots, Jarrosay recommended that Cubans “not go.” “Everything is a hoax,” he said. “Overnight when you go to your job you find yourself in the war.”
By making these testimonies public, Ukraine is hoping to prevent other citizens of low-income countries from accepting jobs in Russia or positions in the Russian Army that end up leading them to kill Ukrainians, or to being captured or dying at the front, according to Yatsenko.
According to the Ukrainian official, Russia recruits more and more mercenaries from countries in Africa, Asia and, to a lesser extent, Latin America, to make up for casualties in their ranks. Ukraine has been open to negotiating the return of these captured fighters to their countries.www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/21/asia-pacific/politics/taiwan-china-invasion-2027/China on track to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027, U.S. commander says
The top U.S. military commander in the Indo-Pacific has said that Beijing is maintaining its goal of being able to invade Taiwan by 2027, testimony that came as China sent the second-largest contingent of warplanes around the democratic island in a single day this year.
China is working to build up its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) “on a scale not seen” since World War II, even as the country focuses on reinvigorating a slowing economy, Indo-Pacific Command chief Adm. John Aquilino told the U.S. House Armed Services Committee in prepared testimony Wednesday.
“All indications point to the PLA meeting President Xi Jinping’s directive to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027,” Aquilino said. “The PLA’s actions indicate their ability to meet Xi’s preferred timeline to unify Taiwan with mainland China by force if directed.”
Since 2021, the year he took command, Aquilino said the PLA has added over 400 advanced fighter aircraft and more than 20 major warships, and has more than doubled its inventory of ballistic and cruise missiles.
“Perhaps most concerning,” he added, “has been the rapid pace at which (China) has bolstered its nuclear arsenal, increasing its warhead inventory by well over 100% since 2020.”
Xi, who has cemented his grip on power in recent years, has called for China to build a “world-class military” by 2027, when the PLA marks 100 years since its founding.www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/03/18/starved-without-electricity-hundreds-cubans-nationwide-take-streets-chanting-freedom/Starved and Without Electricity, Hundreds of Cubans Nationwide Take to the Streets Chanting ‘Freedom’
The peaceful protesters – who chanted “Electricity and Food,” “Fatherland and Life,” and “Freedom” – reportedly began to gather on Sunday afternoon, demanding an end to communism and the inhumane living conditions that the Castro regime continues to subject them to. The protest was reportedly initiated by a group of women and their children.
Cuba’s economic situation has deteriorated significantly in the past decade as more than six decades of communist rule have left the nation and its infrastructure in complete ruin, prompting the worst economic and migrant crisis in the nation’s history.
Power blackouts that can last 20 hours per day, which have plagued Cuban citizens for years, have dramatically worsened in recent weeks. Castro regime authorities admitted over the weekend that entire regions of the country are enduring blackouts “practically all day.” The daily blackouts now include the capital city of Havana – which had previously been spared from the worst consequences of the government’s failure to maintain the power grid. Similarly, worsening food shortages and inflation have led to rising hunger in the nation.
In another video smuggled out of the country, the protesters appeared to interrupt speeches by plain-clothes communist officials with chants demanding power and food. The regime’s officials attempted to silence the crowds, with little success.
The protests extended past late evening hours, spreading to other locations such as Bayamo, where participants reported a “perceptibly strong” police presence. The news outlet Cubanet denounced that it received several reports of police violence. Footage posted on social media showed police officers beating and arresting several individuals who were running away to avoid being arrested.www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/caribbean-spring-protests-erupt-cuba-amid-food-shortages-blackoutsCaribbean-Spring? Protests Erupt In Cuba Amid Food Shortages, Blackouts
This past weekend, the latest uprising unfolded in Santiago, Cuba, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) from Havana. Hundreds of residents took to the streets, decrying hours-long power blackouts and food shortages.
According to Reuters, Cuba has plunged into an "unprecedented economic crisis" in recent years, "stoking a record-breaking exodus that has seen upwards of 400,000 people migrate to the United States." translatingcuba.com/cubans-eat-fear-again-and-take-to-the-streets-to-protest/Cubans ‘Eat Fear’ Again and Take to the Streets to Protest
When they woke up yesterday — Sunday — none of the Cubans who demonstrated this March 17 imagined that, a few hours later, they would be in the streets shouting Freedom! The morning passed between blackouts and difficulties finding food, but, by the afternoon, the indignation had escalated to a point that not even the fear of beatings, fines or prison could stop them. In the videos of the protests, they are seen behaving as a single organism in sync.
The popular demonstrations in Santiago de Cuba, El Cobre, Bayamo and Santa Marta show that social fatigue has been more powerful on this Island than the terror caused by the mass arrests and exemplary sentences after 11 July 2021. For the people who he chanted “Electricity and food!” in front of one of the headquarters of the Communist Party in the capital of Santiago, the fear of ending up in a dungeon or with a broken head was not stronger than their rejection of a system that has condemned them to a perpetual crisis.
Cubans took to the squares and streets fed up with a regime that they did not choose and that in more than six decades has shown its incompetence to provide them with a decent life. They booed the officials who climbed onto the roofs to repeat, from above and at a distance from the people, the vain promises of an improvement in the energy supply and the meager ration of food in the rationed market. Protesters sang the national anthem in Bayamo to remember that the nation does not belong to a political group nor should it be the fiefdom of a failed ideology.
Homeland and Life! some exclaimed. We are hungry! others added. No to violence! warned the Bayamese when the Police stood in their way. As a civic body they acted, beat and behaved. As a single entity, moved by the disgust of being condemned to scarcity and lack of expectations, they demonstrated against a model imposed by force. The Cuban streets have spoken again and the message is loud and clear: this dictatorship has to end. Every day under this regime only brings us more poverty, exodus and repression.www.zerohedge.com/military/us-military-desperately-seeking-stay-niger-despite-order-leaveUS Military Desperately Seeking To Stay In Niger Despite Order To Leave
The Pentagon is desperately seeking to stay in Niger despite the military-led government telling US troops to leave in the wake of accusations from American officials that Niger could be poised to transfer uranium to Iran. Niger was outraged at the allegations and rejected them.
American officials are now worried about the major drone base only recently built at a cost of $110 million called Air Base 201, which was crucial for Pentagon drone surveillance operations over the region. Likely it will now have to be shuttered.www.dailywire.com/news/worrying-top-lawmakers-receive-classified-briefing-on-spread-of-chinese-backed-marijuana-farms-in-united-states‘Worrying’: Top Lawmakers Receive Classified Briefing On Spread Of Chinese-Backed Marijuana Farms In United States
In the last several years, Chinese-backed marijuana operations have cropped up across the United States, including major drug busts in New Mexico and Maine. In Maine alone, Border Patrol has reportedly identified at least 270 illegal marijuana grow operations throughout the state that are worth billions of dollars.
“Illicit Chinese-operated marijuana farms have been found across the country and pose significant risks to our nation’s security,” the lawmakers wrote. “In addition, Chinese investors have financed some of these illegal operations, and these investments include cash payment for large swaths of land to conduct these operations.”www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/03/22/reports-ongoing-terrorist-shootout-at-moscow-concert-hall-leaves-at-least-100-casualties/Ongoing Terrorist Shootout at Moscow Concert Hall Leaves at Least 100 Casualties
the terrorists “have reportedly barricaded themselves inside of the burning building. The group has apparently not attempted to take hostages or make any statements, shooting people on sight instead.”Do you want this to be your backyard? www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-alien-caught-at-border-says-hes-a-hezbollah-terrorist-planned-to-make-a-bomb-reportIllegal Alien Caught At Border Says He’s A Hezbollah Terrorist, Planned To ‘Make A Bomb’
He reportedly told U.S. officials that he had trained with Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist group based in Lebanon, for seven years and was an active member involved in guarding the group’s weapons.
two days after he was arrested, medical staff was evaluating him and asked what he was doing in the U.S., to which he responded: “I’m going to try to make a bomb.”
He told officials that his training focused on “jihad” and killing people “that (are) not Muslim,” the report said. He was planning on making his way to New York.www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-migrant-tiktoker-tells-other-illegals-how-invade-homes-americaWatch: Migrant TikToker Tells Other Illegals How To "Invade" Homes In Americanypost.com/2024/03/18/us-news/hezbollah-member-caught-at-border-couldve-been-released-sources/Hezbollah member caught at border could’ve been released into US if he hadn’t admitted terror ties: sources
On March 12, Ebbadi admitted to a border agent he is a member of Hezbollah, according to the Border Patrol document. However, it wasn’t until March 17 Ebbadi was confirmed as a “positive match” on the terror watchlist — raising concerns about whether border agents have enough time to properly screen those coming into the US.
An ICE source told The Post that if Ebbadi had “not admitted to being part of Hezbollah,” Border Patrol could’ve potentially released him into the country freely, with a date to report in to court; or potentially placed him on an ankle monitor as an ‘alternative to detention’ measure.
“The only reason we caught this guy is because he’s a moron and he admitted. If he never said anything, he would’ve gotten through,” the Border Patrol source claimed.
In September 2022, migrant Jose Ibarra was released after less than 24 hours in custody at El Paso due to there being no space in the facility. He was released on parole and given free rein in the US until October 2024, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement insiders. On Feb. 22 Ibarra was arrested and charged with murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. Since that time it has emerged that he and his brother, who he was living with at the time, both have link links to Venezuelan gang El Tren de Aragua. The Future of Europe www.dailywire.com/news/u-k-lawyer-sued-after-saying-only-women-menstruateU.K. Lawyer Sued After Saying Only Women Menstruatewww.timesofisrael.com/spain-ireland-malta-slovenia-agree-to-work-towards-palestinian-state-recognition/Spain, Ireland, Malta, Slovenia agree to work towards Palestinian state recognition"Please do more terrorist attacks, and we will reward you handsomely" www.zerohedge.com/political/scottish-police-trained-target-actors-and-comedians-under-hate-crime-laws-reportScottish Police Trained To Target Actors And Comedians Under Hate Crime Laws; Report
the leaked training material titled “stirring up hatred” also lists ‘protected’ characteristics including age, disability, religion, sexual orientation and transgender identity.
In other words, under First Minister Humza Yousaf’s new law, any performer who for example ‘misgenders’ trans people, jokes about race or religion, or even criticises migrants can potentially be prosecuted.
The training material further states that even those forwarding or sharing material deemed to be ‘hateful’ can also be targeted under the law.
The Scottish government, led by Yousaf, has also floated proposals to punish parents who refuse to accept their children identifying as transgender with up to seven years in jail under a separate new law.www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/03/22/secret-report-trudeaus-canada-slides-toward-poverty-chaos/Secret Report: Trudeau’s High-Migration Canada Slides Toward Poverty and Chaos
The secret and heavily redacted report was prepared by the country’s version of the FBI — the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The partial copy was extracted from the agency by an academic lawyer and was published in Canada’s National Post newspaper.
"The coming period of recession will also accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations. For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live."
“The situation will probably deteriorate further in the next five years,” the report begins.
The vast migration is pushed by Canada’s unpopular prime minister, Justin Trudeau, at the request of business groups. His progressive government is importing roughly 1 million people per year — or roughly three migrants for every Canadian birth. That massive inflow is roughly twice the per-person inflow engineered by Joe Biden and his pro-migration deputies.
The policy is boosting the country’s stock market as it suppressing wages, spiking inflation, making homes unaffordable, deterring marriages and births, creating homeless encampments, and spiking civil strife among Canadians who are losing their livelihood, dreams, political clout, and national culture.
Canada’s productivity has been declining because Trudeau’s migration allows investors to profit from the consumer economy created by the inflow of poor and uneducated foreign workers, consumers, and renters. However, this growth-by-poverty strategy reduces pressure on investors to focus on the growth-by-productivity strategy that raises wages and wealth through greater use of technology, training, innovation, and trade.
The inflow is also importing old ethnic conflicts into what was once a stable, prosperous, and high-trust nation.
The resulting chaos helps politicians divorce themselves from the needs of ordinary Canadians, and it divides public opposition amid the government’s policy of high migration and low productivity.
The policy is so destructive that top economists are spotlighting the damage to Canada’s productivity and technology.
“Lower productivity almost always means lower living standards,” Trevor Tombe, a Canadian economist wrote in 2023.
"Most Canadian provinces lag far behind almost all U.S. states. Ontario, for example, has a per-person level of economic output that is similar to Alabama...The Maritimes are below Mississippi, and Quebec and Manitoba lag behind West Virginia. Only Alberta exceeds the U.S. average"
Currently, Trudeau’s poll ratings are in the toilet, having fallen from 28 percent in January 2022 to just 21 percent in March 2024.www.zerohedge.com/political/restricting-freedoms-may-be-necessary-fight-climate-change-german-ethics-council"Restricting Freedoms" May Be Necessary To Fight Climate Change: German Ethics CouncilThe real future www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/03/20/irish-pm-out-just-two-weeks-after-defeat-in-progressive-referendum/Irish Prime Minister Quits Just Two Weeks After Defeat in Progressive Referendum to Rewrite Constitution
The resignation comes less than two weeks after Varadkar and his government allies suffered a massive and unexpected — by them, at least — defeat in a double national referendum this month. Under the proposed changes, marriage would have been redefined as “durable relationships” in the constitution, and protections for women were to be removed as they were claimed to be “sexist”. Despite a perception the government was definitely going to win the votes, they were actually defeated with 67 per cent and 73 per cent against on the two questions.www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/03/22/conservative-wipeout-farages-reform-snaps-at-heels-of-governing-tories-in-best-yet-poll-labour-soars-above/Farage’s Reform Snaps at Heels of Governing Tories in Best-Yet Poll
While it seems hard to believe the insurgent right-populist Reform UK Party could overtake the historic election-winning machine Conservative party in the polls, present polling trends do suggest things could be heading this way. The Conservatives, per YouGov polling, have lost six points in six months, while Reform have gained eight in that time. At that rate of convergence — although this assumed no other changes or factors in UK politics, which is generally unlikely — Reform would overtake the Conservatives in weeks.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/20/high-schoolers-walk-out-adults-push-transgenderism/High Schoolers Walk Out as Adults Push Transgenderism
Students at John Jay High School staged a walkout on Monday in protest of students being allowed to use restrooms of the sex they identify with, rather than their actual biological sex, according to a report by Spectrum News 1.Liberal priorities www.dailywire.com/news/pull-off-a-leg-or-two-footage-shows-reported-planned-parenthood-employee-discussing-brutal-abortion-practices‘Pull Off A Leg Or Two’: Footage Shows Reported Planned Parenthood Employee Discussing Brutal Abortion Practices
The clips played on Tuesday before the lawmakers were recorded years ago, but were previously unable to be released due to court order...another one of the videos showed then-Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ann Schutt-Aine discussing ways to get around federal law banning partial birth abortions.
“If I’m seeing that I’m in fear that it’s about to come to the umbilicus (navel), I might ask for a second set of forceps to hold the body at the cervix and pull off a leg or two, so it’s not PBA (partial-birth abortion),” Schutt-Aine said, according to the CMP video...Planned Parenthood employee Tram Nguyen says that sometimes an arm is ripped off the unborn baby during an abortion.
Another video showed Planned Parenthood trainer Dr. Uta Landy reading from quotes about people who had been trained to do abortions, according to CMP.
“An eyeball just fell down into my lap, and that is gross,” prompting laughter from the abortionists in the audience.thefederalist.com/2024/03/22/gov-healey-shrugs-off-illegal-border-crosser-who-raped-teen-things-will-happen/Gov. Healey Shrugs Off Illegal Border Crosser Who Raped Teen: ‘Things Will Happen’
Cory Alvarez, a 26-year-old Haitian national who entered the U.S. illegally, was arrested this month after it was alleged he assaulted and raped a disabled teen at Rockland, Massachusetts migrant shelter.
Alvarez didn’t simply cross into the U.S. on his own accord. He took advantage of a taxpayer-funded flight from Haiti to New York City “as part of the Biden Administration’s illegal categorical parole program known as CHNV that ‘allows up to 30,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans to fly into the U.S.’ each month,” House Republicans noted in a recent letter probing the illegal’s presence in the U.S.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/21/michigan-imam-we-muslims-will-yet-slaughter-the-jews-like-sheep/Michigan Imam: We Muslims Will Yet ‘Slaughter’ the Jews ‘Like Sheep’
The Sheikh was apparently referencing a grisly passage in the Islamic text, known as the Hadith, that reads as follows: “Judgement Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews. The Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, and the stones and the trees will say, oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me — come and kill him.” The same excerpt is cited in the Hamas terror group’s charter.
The clip, which was originally streamed live on the mosque’s YouTube channel, has gone viral in recent days, with many expressing outrage over the radical rhetoric being espoused on American soil.
“They are here. Islamists are in the US. They are preaching Islamic supremacy, terrorism and the destruction of our culture,” warned one X user. “Is the FBI on the job? Do you care about uncontrolled, illegal immigration? How long will people wait?”
“Sort of says something that Democrats are tripping over themselves to capture these votes, doesn’t it?” asked another user.
“This is the constituency that Biden is trying to placate with his Gaza policy,” one user remarked.nypost.com/2024/03/22/lifestyle/drug-overdose-deaths-again-broke-a-record-in-2022-cdc-reveals/www.zerohedge.com/political/our-country-being-poisoned-270000-overdose-deaths-catapult-fentanyl-major-voter-topicDrug overdose deaths again broke a record in 2022, CDC reveals - "Our Country Is Being Poisoned"
American voters are increasingly frustrated with progressive policies that have backfired, resulting in the loss of countless American lives, many of them young people...The drug overdose issue trumps abortion, climate change, labor and unions, or the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
Early in Biden's first term, he stated one of the central pillars of his "Unity Agenda" was to solve the overdose crisis. Fast-forward to today, Biden's team of clowns has failed as they prioritize open southern borders over the well-being and health of law-abiding taxpayers. Just think about that for a few seconds... www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/global-population-set-fall-first-time-700-yearsGlobal Population Set To Fall For First Time In 700 Years
A fall in population would mark the first time in seven centuries such an occurrence has taken place.
The last time it happened was after the Black Death...www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/22/maryland-democrat-rep-david-trone-uses-racial-slur-republican-jgaboo/Maryland Democrat Rep. David Trone Uses Racial Slur: ‘Republican J*gaboo’ - No one appeared to call out his speech during the hearing, which carried on as usual.freebeacon.com/national-security/tiktok-supporters-blame-jews-for-congressional-ban/TikTok Supporters Blame Jews for Congressional Ban
"Unfortunately, there are anti-Semitic people in America who will blame Israel and the Jewish people for anything and everything," Rubio told the Washington Free Beacon. "These are the same people marching through cities in support of Hamas and Houthi terrorists. It is sick and evil."
Commentary magazine recently dubbed the pro-TikTok crowd's focus on Jewish-American and pro-Israel supporters "the Protocols of the Elders of Zion for the social media age."www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-strategist-james-carville-if-democrats-lose-in-november-its-israels-faultDemocrat Strategist James Carville: If Democrats Lose In November It’s Israel’s Fault - demonizes Netanyahuwww.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/03/20/drake-bells-father-says-he-was-accused-of-being-homophobic-for-expressing-concern-over-child-molester-brian-peck-at-nickelodeon/Drake Bell’s Father Says He Was Accused of Being ‘Homophobic’ for Expressing Concern Over Child Molester Brian Peck at Nickelodeon
In Investigation Discovery’s recently released Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV documentary, Drake Bell’s father recalled being accused of homophobia after telling a Nickelodeon production crew member that he was “very uncomfortable with this guy, Brian Peck, always being around my son.”
“And she just goes, ‘Oh, well, I don’t know if you knew it or not, but he’s gay, maybe you’re just homophobic and you just don’t understand that he’s a touchy-feely guy,'” Joe Bell recalled.
“And, unfortunately, I started seeing Brian start to just hang around Drake too much, and it didn’t sit well with me,” he said.
Joe Bell recalled seeing Peck “touch Drake” in the dressing room, prompting the father to reply with comments like, “Wait a second, what are you doing?”
“Then he’d maybe walk over to Drake and be feeding him some lines or whatever, and put his arm around his waist, put his hand up on his shoulder and kind of run it down his arm — things like that,” the father added. “This would happen routinely.”
Peck was eventually arrested in 2003 on 11 charges involving child sexual abuse. He pleaded no contest to performing a lewd act with an anonymous 14 or 15 year old, as well as to oral copulation with a minor under 16.
The former Nickelodeon dialogue coach was then convicted of sexually abusing an unnamed child actor and sentenced to 16 months in prison. Peck was also ordered to register as a sex offender.
Drake Bell said in the documentary that he called his father in 2003 to tell him that Peck had been arrested for child molestation.
“And my dad just goes, ‘I am so glad that he was not able to get his hands on you,'” the former child actor said.
The former child star, however, added that he didn’t have the heart to tell his dad that he was Peck’s victim in the case.notthebee.com/article/dei-messes-up-kidney-transplant-waiting-list-some-get-transplants-whether-they-need-it-or-not-some-not-so-muchWoke doctors thought a tool that accounts for ethnic differences in kidney function was racist, so they removed it and screwed up the entire kidney transplant databasewww.dailysignal.com/2024/03/21/wanted-my-breasts-gone-detransitioner-duped-transitioning/‘I Just Really Wanted My Breasts Gone’: Detransitioner Explains How She Was Duped Into Transitioning
Explaining the approval process for getting a double mastectomy, Kiefel said, “The ideology says that you can be trans and have trauma. They’re not accounting for the people who are transitioning because of trauma … it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“I dealt with all these physical health issues after the surgery,” Kiefel said, “and the doctors took me seriously at first, but then became dismissive when they thought it was psychosomatic fever.”
In the face of that dismissal by the doctors, Kiefel took matters into her own hands...“I started adding meat back into my diet and some other holistic treatments,” she said, “and all of a sudden, I was, like, ‘Wow!’ My mental health is getting better!”
“All I needed to do was address my physical health, but nobody was doing that because … you’re depressed. … They just pegged me as someone dealing with mental illness.”
Many detransitioners are suing the medical establishment, accusing doctors and therapists of manipulating them into undergoing brutal sex-change experiments.
“I think a lot of detransitioners have those feelings of, like, we’ve been dismissed. I know many detransitioners who have been told that this is part of their gender journey,” Kiefel said.
Olohan asked Kiefel, “What would you say to doctors and therapists who are considering being a part of these so-called gender-affirming surgeries and interventions?”
“Make sure that no one who is struggling with severe mental health issues should do any of these surgeries,” Kiefel said. “They need to get their mental health under control.”
“Particularly with women who have histories with sexual trauma,” she added, “there’s a lot of them who are transitioning … . It’s partially escapism and to protect themselves.“notthebee.com/article/lol-these-federal-workers-showed-up-at-their-office-to-rally-against-youre-not-going-to-believe-this-going-to-the-officeLOL! Federal Labor Workers Return To Office To Protest Returning To Officewww.zerohedge.com/political/its-wild-west-crime-and-violence-nyc-transit-underreported-according-nypd-source"It's Like The Wild West": Crime And Violence On NYC Transit Underreported According To NYPD Source
Crime and violence in New York City’s subway system have spiraled out of control and are “significantly higher” than the agency’s official numbers have publicly indicated, according to a New York Police Department (NYPD) source.
The numbers they are putting out are a complete joke and everyone knows it,” the source, who requested anonymity out of fear of retribution, said. “The sense of lawlessness (on the subway) is so bad that unless you have personal experience in the system, especially at night, it is impossible to understand.
“It’s like the Wild West.”
NYPD officers have also been incentivized to not report minor offenses in an effort to keep the numbers as low as possible, according to the source, who said pressure has come from higher-ups to maintain the narrative that crime has plateaued or is going down.
However, not even the city’s own agencies can agree on how much crime is occurring in the subway system. After Transit released figures showing that violent subway crimes went up by 13 percent this year, the mayor’s office quickly pushed back, disputing the numbers released by the agency and claiming that crime actually dropped last month.
However, a “significant majority” of the crimes that do occur on the subway go unreported by the victims, according to the source.
“People understand that the majority of those who commit larceny or assaults are never going to be apprehended, so why go through the trouble of making a report?” the source said.
Morale among NYPD officers is at an all-time low as crime and police resignations have been on the upswing, according to officials.
“This is truly a disaster for every New Yorker who cares about safe streets,” Mr. Hendry previously told The Epoch Times. “Cops are already stretched to our breaking point, and these cuts will return us to staffing levels we haven’t seen since the crime epidemic of the ’80s and ’90s.”www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/2926024/eric-adams-accused-sexual-assault-when-police-officer-30-years-ago/Eric Adams accused of sexual assault when he was police officer more than 30 years agoMore phony nonsense when the left ended statute of limitations. They're trying to purge Adams now for not being left-wing enough. They live in filth nypost.com/2024/03/18/us-news/california-beach-off-limits-for-overnight-campers-due-to-excess-of-human-waste/Overnight camping at California beach banned thanks to excess of ‘human waste’www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/19/nolte-survey-reveals-only-half-of-new-yorkers-plan-to-stay-in-democrat-run-city/Survey Reveals ‘Only Half of New Yorkers Plan to Stay’ in Democrat-Run City
When asked, “How would you rate the quality of life in New York City overall?” only 29.8 percent said “excellent” or “good.” That’s down from 51.2 percent in 2017 and 50.9 percent in 2008.
As you can imagine, safety is a major issue. When asked to “rate how safe or unsafe you feel … riding a subway during the day,” only 49 percent said they felt safe during the day. The day! That is a catastrophic drop from 82 percent in 2017 and 86 percent in 2008.
When asked to “rate how safe or unsafe you feel … riding a subway at night,” only 22 percent said they felt safe, compared to 46 percent in 2017 and 45 percent in 2008.
When asked to “rate how safe or unsafe you feel … walking alone on a street in your neighborhood at night,” only 51 percent felt safe, down from 70 percent in 2017 and 69 percent in 2008.
The same Democrats complaining about this voted for this. They voted to end stop-and-frisk. They voted for politicians who declared New York a sanctuary for illegal aliens. They voted to release violent criminals. And now they are all, Ohnoes, our city sucks. How could this have happened?nypost.com/2024/03/19/us-news/less-than-one-in-three-yorkers-planning-to-flee-city-and-just-30-are-happy-with-quality-of-life-survey/“People are fed up with the quality of life. There’s a general sense of lawlessness. You go into the CVS and there’s shoplifting. People’s cars get vandalized,” Queens Councilman Robert Holden told The Post.
The survey also showed steep slides in happiness with the quality of public education, government services and cleanliness in the city.
New Yorkers were also increasingly dissatisfied with traffic, bike and pedestrian safety and subway service.
Holden contended that the seeds of diminished quality of life were planted before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, when progressives in the state Legislature approved the controversial cashless bail law while non-violent crimes were decriminalized by prosecutors and the political class.
“There’s general disrespect for the police. We moved away from broken windows policing that brought this city back,” he said, adding that New Yorkers who can afford to leave the city “can’t wait to get out of here.”
Tom Grech, the president and CEO of Queens Chamber of Commerce, agreed with Holden saying, “In general, it’s pretty ugly out there.
“There’s a free for all mentality over there the last couple of years. There’s a little sense of things spiraling out of control. We’ve got to get back to basics,” Grech said, mentioning that the MTA loses $600 million a year from fare evasion.
He claimed dramatically curbing that figure alone would reduce the need to impose congestion pricing to enter prime Manhattan.
Despite Adams’ appointment of a rat czar to control the city’s millions of rodents, Hizzoner’s prioritization of rat control was not a bright spot on the poll.
Only 27% of residents polled were happy with the city’s efforts to eradicate rats last year, down from 45% in 2017, when Bill de Blasio was mayor.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/18/nolte-burglary-tourists-fly-in-from-south-america-to-rob-dem-run-los-angeles/‘Burglary Tourists’ Fly in from South America to Rob Dem-Run Los Angelesnypost.com/2024/03/19/us-news/moment-nyc-homeowner-is-arrested-after-tense-standoff-with-squatters/Fed-up homeowner arrested after tense standoff with squatters ‘stealing’ house she inherited from parents
“It’s enraging,” the homeowner said of the squatter saga. “It’s not fair that I, as the homeowner, have to be going through this.”
Andaloro claims the ordeal erupted when she started the process of trying to sell the home last month but realized squatters had moved in — and brazenly replaced the entire front door and locks.
She said she got fed up, and went to her family’s home on 160th Street — with the local TV outlet in tow — on Feb. 29 and called a locksmith to change the locks for her.
Under the law, it is illegal for the homeowner to change the locks, turn off the utilities, or remove the belongings of the “tenants” from the property.
“By the time someone does their investigation, their work, and their job, it will be over 30 days and this man will still be in my home,” Andaloro said.
“I’m really fearful that these people are going to get away with stealing my home,” she added.
Andaloro was ultimately given an unlawful eviction charge because she had changed the locks and hadn’t provided a new key to the person staying there, the NYPD confirmed to The Post.
She was slapped with a criminal court summons, cops added.
Andaloro said she is now being forced to start an eviction filing in court to settle the landlord-tenant dispute.
“It’s horrible. It’s her home. I’m glad it’s coming to the forefront, because it’s a disgrace. They can just come and take your house,” a neighbor, who didn’t want to be named, told The Post on Tuesday when asked about the ongoing spat.
“It’s just crazy. We don’t know how they got in, when they got in. We have no idea. How these people found out about the house being empty, I don’t know.” www.zerohedge.com/political/badass-vigilantes-show-evict-squatters-ny-house-where-homeowner-arrestedBadass 'Vigilantes' Show Up Evict Squatters At NY House Where Homeowner Arrestedwww.dailysignal.com/2024/03/22/enviros-cheered-ny-shutting-down-nuke-plant-then-emissions-jumped/Enviros Cheered NY for Shutting Down a Nuke Plant. Then Greenhouse Gas Emissions Jumped.
“In 2020 and 2021, New York State shut down Indian Point’s nuclear plants with the intention of replacing its generation with renewable energy,” J.P. Morgan wrote in its analysis. “That’s not what has happened so far: Three new natural gas plants (Bayonne Energy Center, CPV Valley Energy Center, and Cricket Valley Energy Center) have filled the gap, along with mostly gas-fired electricity imports from states like Pennsylvania.”
In 2019, before the plant was shut down, the power fueling New York City and Long Island emitted less than 600 pounds of carbon dioxide for every megawatt hour (MWh) of electricity generated, a figure well below the U.S. average and the average carbon intensity of electricity powering Texas, according to J.P. Morgan. At the end of 2022, the electricity flowing to New York City and Long Island emitted nearly 900 pounds of carbon dioxide per every MWh generated, significantly more than the averages of the U.S. writ large and of Texas.
“While Texas is more ‘red’ than New York City, it’s now more ‘green’ as well,” the J.P. Morgan report states.
In March 2021, the month before officials shuttered Indian Point for good, electricity in New York City cost consumers about 15 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) on average; as of December 2023, the average cost per kWh of electricity in New York City had increased to nearly 18 cents, according to data aggregated by Y Charts. That jump represents an increase of approximately 20%.Fraud Watch thefederalist.com/2024/03/19/thanks-to-mail-in-voting-california-still-counting-ballots-two-weeks-after-election/Thanks To Mail-In Voting, California Still Counting Ballots Two Weeks After Election
In September 2021, Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation making permanent the state’s policy of mailing a ballot to every entry on California’s voter registration lists. The law also mandated localities make ballot drop boxes available “up to 28 days before election day,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
A Public Interest Legal Foundation report released after the 2022 midterms discovered that, as Victoria Marshall wrote in these pages, election officials rejected 226,250 mailed ballots. At the time of the report’s publication, more than 10 million mail-in ballots were “unaccounted for.”
Delayed election results also stem from California’s embrace of same-day voter registration. Those who register on Election Day are required to fill out a provisional ballot, leaving election workers to verify those voters’ eligibility in the days and weeks that follow.
California also counts mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day and received by local officials up to seven days after the ostensible election date. According to The New York Times, election officials must also “contact the voter to give that person the opportunity to correct,” or “cure,” a ballot if their signature does not match the one on file with the state. Voters have until two days before the election’s certification to correct any errors on their ballot.
Not surprisingly, given such rules, officials are also allowed to take up to 30 days to count ballots in California. Democrats are fully exploiting such “election month” policies passed through the fully Democrat-run state government.
On Friday, Politico reported that Newsom and leftist allies are aiming to use California’s extensive ballot alteration possibilities to salvage a Democrat-supported ballot measure (that was previously failing).www.dailywire.com/news/former-wisconsin-election-official-found-guilty-of-generating-absentee-ballots-for-fictitious-votersFormer Wisconsin Election Official Found Guilty Of Generating Absentee Ballots For Fictitious Voterswww.zerohedge.com/political/rnc-files-election-integrity-lawsuit-against-nevada-secretary-stateRNC Files Election Integrity Lawsuit Against Nevada Secretary Of State
The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Nevada GOP have sued the Nevada Secretary of State, accusing the state’s top elections official of undermining voter confidence by failing to follow federal law on the proper maintenance of voter rolls.
“At least three Nevada counties have more registered voters than they have adult citizens who are over the age of 18,” the complaint reads. “That number of voters is impossibly high.”
The Nevada lawsuit comes after a recent leadership shakeup at the RNC saw Mr. Whatley become the chair and former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, take the post of co-chair.
Both Mr. Whatley and Ms. Trump have said publicly that a key focus of theirs will be election integrity.
The RNC recently filed a similar lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, accusing her of undermining public confidence in elections by failing to properly maintain voter rolls.
An analysis by the RNC showed that 76 of Michigan’s 83 counties have inflated voter rolls, in violation of the NVRA. Among them, 53 counties have more active registered voters than voting-age U.S. citizens.Modern day vermin www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/03/18/keith-olbermann-suggests-hope-trumps-assassination-social-media/Keith Olbermann Suggests ‘Hope’ for Trump’s Assassination on Social Mediawww.dailywire.com/news/trump-slams-fake-news-media-after-spin-on-auto-industry-bloodbath-prediction“The Fake News Media, and their Democrat Partners in the destruction of our Nation, pretended to be shocked at my use of the word BLOODBATH, even though they fully understood that I was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden, which are killing the automobile industry,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. “The United Auto Workers, but not their leadership, fully understand what I mean.”
During his Ohio rally, Trump said that China was building manufacturing plants in Mexico to sell cars in the United States “with no tax at the border.”
“Let me tell you something to China, if you’re listening President Xi, and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal,” he continued. “Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now and you think you’re going to get that, you’re going to not hire Americans and you’re going to sell the cars to us?”
“No. We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going be able to sell those cars. If I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it,” he said.
After the speech, NBC News ran a headline saying, “Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the election,” while CBS News said, “In Ohio campaign rally, Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses November election.” Biden’s campaign also commented, releasing a statement on the “bloodbath” remark without a single mention of cars but repeated mentions of violence.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/18/chinese-auto-executive-predicts-bloodbath-against-american-auto-industry/Chinese Auto Executive: ‘Bloodbath’ Coming for American Auto Industry
Trump’s remark mimicked comments made by Xiaopeng in a letter to XPeng employees obtained by CNBC last month. Xiaopeng suggested that “a bloodbath” is coming for the American auto industry this year.Trump: Here's what the Chinese are saying they're gonna do to us if Joe Biden rolls over for them Liberals: DURR LALALALA ME CANT HEAR YOU! SHOOT DUH MESSENGER! FOREIGN THING ALWAYS GOOD! ORANGE BAD MAN BAD! LALALA! Over the weekend, former President Donald Trump was campaigning in Vandalia, Ohio, when he warned that without fierce new United States tariffs on China-made EVs, the American auto industry will face “a bloodbath for the country” with jobs lost and industry offshored.
“We’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected,” Trump said. “Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole, that’s going to be the least of it, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country, that’s going to be the least of it.”Why is taking action against China a problem to ANYBODY? Probably because the Bidens are bought out by them... www.dailywire.com/news/not-parody-nyt-declares-the-deep-state-is-not-only-real-but-kind-of-awesomeNot Parody: NYT Declares The ‘Deep State’ Is Not Only Real, But ‘Kind Of Awesome’www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-cbs-reporter-horrified-when-black-former-democrats-say-they-will-vote-trumpWatch: CBS Reporter Horrified When Black Former Democrats Say They Will Vote Trump - the economy and the cost of living while trying to raise a family are the overriding factors..."post-Obama I decided that the party just wasn’t suitable to the goals that I have.”Houthi Joe's corner www.dailywire.com/news/more-u-s-embassies-forced-to-evacuate-under-biden-than-any-other-u-s-president-reportMore U.S. Embassies Forced To Evacuate Under Biden Than Any Other U.S. President
During the Biden-era, the U.S. had to evacuate embassies in Burma in 2021, Haiti in 2021, Chad in 2021, Afghanistan in 2021, Ethiopia in 2021, Haiti in 2022, Ukraine in 2022, Belarus in 2022, Russia in 2022, Nigeria in 2022, Haiti in 2023, Sudan in 2023, Niger in 2023, and Haiti in 2024.
“In Obama’s admin (2nd most evacuations in history), 8 embassies were evacuated (over 8 yrs),” said investigative columnist Tony Kinnett. “Biden’s administration evacuated embassies in 11 countries, but evacuated Haiti 4 times, making his total more like 14.”www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2924999/biden-screamed-swore-during-private-meeting-after-being-told-losing-to-trump/www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/17/report-joe-biden-angry-anxious-lagging-reelection-campaign/Biden screamed and swore during private meeting after being told he is losing to Trump: Report
Biden was reportedly “seething” after he was told his handling of the war in Gaza had caused poll numbers in Georgia and Michigan to drop, with the report alleging he shouted and swore. He has also felt “cocooned.” (Biden) wants to speak more with voters and has been frustrated by restraints placed on him.
Things are so bad inside the White House that, at one recent meeting where advisers informed Biden of his falling poll numbers in battleground states like Michigan and Georgia, Biden then began yelling and cursing at staffers.
the facts are clear: Biden is losing this election right now. Biden has only fallen worse since January. Polls across nearly every battleground state show former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president in 2024 and Biden’s general election opponent, leading the (Biden) significantly.
Some other anonymous Democrats are quoted too, suggesting that Biden is angry with himself for not being “more forceful” with White House staff.
“He’s probably a little mad at himself for not being more forceful with the staff,” one person said.www.zerohedge.com/political/how-democrats-plan-steal-electionHow The Democrats Plan To Steal The Election
How can they stop him from losing? Simple. If it looks like he’s losing, the elite forces will create enough fake ballots to ensure victory. Our corrupt courts won’t stop them. They have done this before, and they will do it again, if they have to.
The great Dr. Ron Paul explains one way they did this in 2020. The elite covered up a scandal that could have wrecked Biden’s chances:
“Move over Watergate. On or around Oct. 17, 2020, then-senior Biden campaign official Antony Blinken called up former acting CIA director Mike Morell to ask a favor: he needed high-ranking former US intelligence community officials to lie to the American people to save Biden’s lagging campaign from a massive brewing scandal.
The problem was that Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, had abandoned his laptop at a repair shop and the explosive contents of the computer were leaking out. The details of the Biden family’s apparent corruption and the debauchery of the former vice-president’s son were being reported by the New York Post, and with the election less than a month away, the Biden campaign needed to kill the story.
So, according to newly-released transcripts of Morell’s testimony before the House judiciary Committee, Blinken “triggered” Morell to put together a letter for some 50 senior intelligence officials to sign – using their high-level government titles – to claim that the laptop story “had all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.”
In short, at the Biden campaign’s direction Morell launched a covert operation against the American people to undermine the integrity of the 2020 election. A letter signed by dozens of the highest-ranking former CIA, DIA, and NSA officials would surely carry enough weight to bury the Biden laptop story. It worked. Social media outlets prevented any reporting on the laptop from being posted and the mainstream media could easily ignore the story as it was merely “Russian propaganda.”
Asked recently by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) why he agreed to draft the false sign-on letter, Morell testified that he wanted to “help Vice President Biden … because I wanted him to win the election.”
Morell also likely expected to be named by President Biden to head up the CIA when it came time to call in favors.
Did the Biden campaign’s disinformation campaign help rig the election in his favor? Polls suggest that Biden would not have been elected had the American electorate been informed about what was on Hunter Biden’s laptop. So yes, they cheated in the election.
The Democrats and the mainstream media are still at it, however. Now they are trying to kill the story of how they killed the story of the Biden laptop. This is a scandal that would once upon a time have ended in resignation, impeachment, and/or plenty of jail time. If they successfully bury this story, I hate to say it but there is no more rule of law in what has become the American banana republic.”
But the main way the election can be rigged is by fraudulent “voting.” It’s much easier to do this with digital scanning of votes than with old-fashioned ballot boxes.
“There does seem to be considerable circumstantial evidence of widespread ballot fraud by Democratic Party forces, hardly surprising given the apocalyptic manner in which so many of their leaders had characterized the threat of a Trump reelection. After all, if they sincerely believed that a Trump victory would be catastrophic for America why would they not use every possible means, fair and foul alike, to save our country from that dire fate?
In particular, several of the major swing-states contain large cities—Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Atlanta—that are both totally controlled by the Democratic Party and also notoriously corrupt, and various eye-witnesses have suggested that the huge anti-Trump margins they provided may have been heavily ‘padded’ to ensure the candidate’s defeat.”
Flush with $350 million in Zuckerbucks, the CTCL proceeded to disburse large grants to election officials and local governments across the country. These disbursements were billed publicly as “COVID-19 response grants,” ostensibly to help municipalities acquire protective gear for poll workers or otherwise help protect election officials and volunteers against the virus. In practice, relatively little money was spent for this. Here, as in other cases, COVID simply provided cover.
According to the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), Georgia received more than $31 million in Zuckerbucks, one of the highest amounts in the country. The three Georgia counties that received the most money spent only 1.3 percent of it on personal protective equipment. The rest was spent on salaries, laptops, vehicle rentals, attorney fees for public records requests, mail-in balloting, and other measures that allowed elections offices to hire activists to work the election. Not all Georgia counties received CTCL funding. And of those that did, Trump-voting counties received an average of $1.91 per registered voter, compared to $7.13 per registered voter in Biden-voting counties.
Wisconsin law says voting is a right, but that “voting by absentee ballot must be carefully regulated to prevent the potential for fraud or abuse; to prevent overzealous solicitation of absent electors who may prefer not to participate in an election.” Wisconsin law also says that elections are to be run by clerks or other government officials. But the five cities that received Zuckerbucks outsourced much of their election operation to private liberal groups, in one case so extensively that a sidelined government official quit in frustration.
This was by design. Cities that received grants were not allowed to use the money to fund outside help unless CTCL specifically approved their plans in writing. CTCL kept tight control of how money was spent, and it had an abundance of “partners” to help with anything the cities needed.
Some government officials were willing to do whatever CTCL recommended. “As far as I’m concerned I am taking all of my cues from CTCL and work with those you recommend,” Celestine Jeffreys, the chief of staff to Democratic Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich, wrote in an email.
Once early voting started, Woodall-Vogg would provide Spitzer-Rubenstein with daily updates on the numbers of absentee ballots returned and still outstanding in each ward — prized information for a political operative. Amazingly, Spitzer-Rubenstein even asked for direct access to the Milwaukee Election Commission’s voter database.
When these emails were released in 2021, they stunned Wisconsin observers. “What exactly was the National Vote at Home Institute doing with its daily reports? Was it making sure that people were actually voting from home by going door-to-door to collect ballots from voters who had not yet turned theirs in? Was this data sharing a condition of the CTCL grant? And who was really running Milwaukee’s election?” asked Dan O’Donnell.
Kris Teske, the sidelined Green Bay city clerk—in whose office Wisconsin law actually places the responsibility to conduct elections—had of course seen what was happening early on. “I just don’t know where the Clerk’s Office fits in anymore,” she wrote in early July. By August, she was worried about legal exposure: “I don’t understand how people who don’t have the knowledge of the process can tell us how to manage the election,” she wrote on August 28.
Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich simply handed over Teske’s authority to agents from outside groups and gave them leadership roles in collecting absentee ballots, fixing ballots that would otherwise be voided for failure to follow the law, and even supervising the counting of ballots.
Other emails show that Spitzer-Rubenstein had keys to the central counting facility and access to all the machines before election night.
Sandy Juno, who was clerk of Brown County, where Green Bay is located, later testified about the problems in a legislative hearing. “He was advising them on things. He was touching the ballots. He had access to see how the votes were counted,” Juno said of Spitzer-Rubenstein. Others testified that he was giving orders to poll workers and seemed to be the person running the election night count operation.
“I would really like to think that when we talk about security of elections, we’re talking about more than just the security of the internet,” Juno said. “You know, it has to be security of the physical location, where you’re not giving a third party keys to where you have your election equipment.”
Juno noted that there were irregularities in the counting, too, with no consistency between the various tables. Some had absentee ballots face-up, so anyone could see how they were marked. Poll workers were seen reviewing ballots not just to see that they’d been appropriately checked by the clerk, but “reviewing how they were marked.” And poll workers fixing ballots used the same color pens as the ones ballots had been filled out in, contrary to established procedures designed to make sure observers could differentiate between voters’ marks and poll workers’ marks.
The plan by Democratic strategists to bring activist groups into election offices worked in part because no legislature had ever imagined that a nonprofit could take over so many election offices so easily.
What happened in Green Bay happened in Democrat-run cities and counties across the country. Four hundred million Zuckerbucks were distributed with strings attached. Officials were required to work with “partner organizations” to massively expand mail-in voting and staff their election operations with partisan activists.nypost.com/2024/03/19/us-news/ex-general-recounts-opposition-to-disastrous-afghanistan-pullout-laments-biden-strategic-failure-in-hill-testimony/Ex-general recounts opposition to disastrous Afghanistan pullout, laments Biden ‘strategic failure’ in Hill testimony
While Milley and McKenzie have testified multiple times before Congress about the withdrawal, Tuesday’s voluntary appearances marked the first time they had done so since their retirements — leading lawmakers to believe they would speak more freely about what happened in the days and weeks before the Afghanistan calamity.
“My personal analysis was that an accelerated withdrawal would likely lead to the general collapse of the Afghan security forces and the Afghan government, resulting in a large-scale civil war reminiscent of the 1990s or a complete Taliban takeover,” Milley told the panel.
However, the retired general added, Biden overruled his advice to keep several hundred troops in Afghanistan.
Milley added that he was also “not in favor of a unilateral withdrawal of US forces because of my assessment of the associated costs and risks” of doing so without a permanent cease-fire and power-sharing agreement between the Taliban and the Afghan government.
Milley’s analysis proved accurate when the Taliban overran all of Afghanistan, prompting the Biden administration to hurriedly launch the tragic August evacuation mission, which committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said it had failed to properly organize.
“This committee learned that the State Department did not even request an emergency evacuation until after Kabul was surrounded by the Taliban"
The evacuation mission was marred by the deaths of 170 Afghans and 13 US service members at the Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate on Aug. 26, 2021, four days before the mission ended.
“I’ll be candid,” Milley said. “I don’t know the exact number of Americans that were left behind because the starting number was never clear. Same is true of at-risk Afghans … those numbers varied so widely that they were quite inaccurate, as best I could tell at the time. I would just say, I am not sure, even today, about the accuracy of all those numbers.”
“As the saying goes, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail — and fail they did,” McCaul added.
When Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) inquired further about the fate of Afghans who threw in with the US, Milley answered: “I think some were killed … I think some of the Afghans were tracked down that worked with us, and I think some of them were killed in — I’m pretty certain, some of them in pretty brutal ways. Some managed to escape through various means, others have just laid low and are keeping their heads down.”
Milley summed up the US-led operation against the Taliban, launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, as a “strategic failure.
“The enemy occupied Kabul,” he recounted. “The overthrow of the government occurred, and the military we supported for two decades faded away.”
To date, no Biden officials have been fired or otherwise held accountable for decisions made related to Afghanistan, as Biden and his allies insist the withdrawal was the right course of action, and an “extraordinary success.”www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/19/biden-shifts-the-goalposts-degrading-not-defeating-hamas/WATCH — Biden Shifts the Goalposts: ‘Degrading,’ Not ‘Defeating,’ HamasISIS Part 2! www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/22/biden-pushes-ceasefire-on-israel-at-un-russia-china-veto-anyway/Biden Pushes Ceasefire on Israel at UN; Russia, China Veto Anywaywww.zerohedge.com/markets/terrified-joe-biden-demands-ukraine-halt-strikes-russian-refiners-it-sending-oil-prices"Terrified" Joe Biden Demands Ukraine Halt Strikes On Russian Refiners As It Is Sending Oil Prices Surging
Recall that in recent days, Ukraine has taken its drone attack raids deep inside Russian territory, hitting Putin where it hurts, namely bombing one Russian oil refinery after another. Now granted, Ukraine can do far worse and sink Russian oil tankers, but Kiev understands that this would spark outrage at the White House as it would instantly send oil prices surging, although once Trump is in the White House, Ukraine will have no such concerns as we pointed out earlier this week.
(But now) Helima Croft, a former CIA analyst now at RBC Capital Markets, recently noted that Ukraine had shown it could strike most of the oil export infrastructure in western Russia, putting about 60 per cent of the country’s exports at risk....the Biden admin is freaking out that Ukraine's drone strikes "risk driving up global oil prices" which is why Biden has "urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure."
As the FT redundantly notes, "Russia remains one of the world’s most important energy exporters despite western sanctions on its oil and gas sector." Of course, the "despite" here is a joke: if western sanctions really wanted to halt Russian oil exports they would; instead just like in the case of Ukraine targeting Russian oil infrastructure, "virtuous" western leaders are all about "helping" Ukraine (of course with your money, dear taxpayers) as long as it does not interfere with their re-election chances. Which means keep any sanctions purely in the optical arena...www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/2932361/biden-wont-aid-cuba-revolt-against-communism/If Biden won’t aid Cuba’s revolt against communism, he should at least stay out of the way
Timing is everything. Cubans are hungry, tired of power outages, and, after 64 years of socialism, fed up with tyranny. So they are taking to the island’s streets in droves, demanding food, electricity, and liberty. The trouble is, the Biden administration is in office, and, having botched every foreign policy challenge before it, the likelihood it will get Cuba right is very slim.
Cubans, for example, courageously took to the streets en masse on July 11, 2021, with Joe Biden barely six months into his term. They were the largest protests since the triumph of the revolution on New Year’s Eve 1958 and filled many with hopes that the end of the dictatorship was near.
The government quashed such hopes immediately, unleashing a wave of repression that saw the arrests of more than 1,500. “The authorities arbitrarily detained hundreds of people without informing their families of their whereabouts, kept activists and independent journalists under extreme surveillance, and cut off the population’s internet access,” according to Amnesty International. More than 600 Cubans still languish behind bars three years later.
While the arrests, which included minors, were meant to sow terror in the population, something the Cuban Communist Party has perfected in over six decades, cutting off the internet was done to ensure that Cubans were isolated from one another.
Biden failed to act decisively, spurning a chorus of pleas to provide Cubans with internet access. Many of those calls came from Florida members of Congress, including Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), who said at a congressional hearing 11 days after the 2021 protest, “The Biden administration could enhance the WiFi from the Havana embassy or from Guantanamo, and this can be done in minutes.” Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba hosts a U.S. Navy base.
Another suggested strategy was to float an internet balloon near the island. Biden, again, demurred.
The Cuban government has pledged to stay away from truculent means this time, but there are reports that, in fact, it is behaving exactly as it behaved three years ago.
“The cowardly regime shut down internet access and mobilized its secret police to brutalize and jail the protesters,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), the only member of Congress born on the island, said of this month’s protests. “After 64 years of tyranny and repression, the Cuban people want to be free.”
Gimenez added, “I call on the Biden administration to do the right thing and immediately provide the island of Cuba with satellite internet.”
Again, crickets from the White House.
Biden’s team at the State Department Cuba desk has developed close connections with Cuba’s apparatchiks. Just a few months ago, the administration eased restrictions put on the island because it is on the U.S. government’s state sponsor of terrorism list, never mind an enemy of the U.S., to allow more financial support to flow to the island.
Cuban officials, sensing their end might now be finally near, are desperately “pushing every button at their disposal to get the Biden administration’s attention,” offering concessions on matters they wouldn’t have dared to discuss before, including human rights violations.
If Biden won’t do anything to give Cubans enhanced internet access, he should at least refrain from throwing the regime and its henchmen a lifeline.
It’s not that Cuba’s offer to discuss its gross human rights violations is too little, too late. It’s that Havana doesn’t mean it.www.ncregister.com/commentaries/biden-rewards-azerbaijans-aggression-cop-29Biden Rewards Azerbaijan's Aggression with Climate Leadership Role
Armenia may be the next European country to suffer military incursion and brutal conquest. If so, the Biden administration’s choice of Azerbaijan to lead one of the administration’s top foreign policy priorities, a high-level global climate conference, can share the blame.
Biden is emboldening Azerbaijan as its authoritarian government solidifies control over the Armenian Christian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh, which it seized only months ago in an unprovoked military invasion, and as it now threatens the Republic of Armenia. The State Department has given unconditional U.S. endorsement for Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev to lead COP29, the name of the climate negotiations next November. On Feb. 17, in Berlin, with Aliyev, by his side, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared it is “important” that “Azerbaijan take on the leadership of COP,” and pledged America’s “strong support.” He made no mention of Aliyev having spent most of last year violating the rules-based international order and human rights norms without consequence. Mr. Blinken did not even manage to get Aliyev to sign a peace agreement with Armenia.
The administration expressed relief that a stalemate over leadership had been overcome (it’s Europe’s turn to lead and Russia had blocked any European Union candidate). It may also be sympathetic to Aliyev’s preposterous claim that Azerbaijan invaded to protect Azeri eco-activists, demonstrating against gold mining in Nagorno Karabakh. No matter its rationale, the decision to gratuitously honor Aliyev on the global stage betrays America’s most fundamental foreign policy principles on national sovereignty, religious freedom and other human rights.
A brief review of the facts is in order. In December 2022, Azerbaijan began a nine-month blockade of Nagorno Karabakh, with which it has had longstanding border disputes. Called Artsakh in Armenian, the territory for two millennia was home to a community of mostly Orthodox, Catholic and evangelical Armenians, and, for the last 30 years, existed as a de facto independent state within Turkic Muslim Azerbaijan. The blockade choked off Lachin Corridor, the only route to Armenia, the source of the enclave’s food and medicine. On Aug. 2, 2023, Luis Moreno Ocampo, former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, issued a dire “expert opinion” about impending mass starvation due to the blockade, declaring it “an ongoing Genocide against 120,000 Armenians,” and warning, “Without immediate dramatic change, this group of Armenians will be destroyed in a few weeks.”
On Sept. 19, Azerbaijan’s military invaded Nagorno Karabakh and seized it the next day. Russian peacekeepers protecting the corridor under a 2020 peace agreement (concluded after another Azerbaijan incursion) had abandoned their posts. When the corridor reopened on Sept. 24, some 100,000 Nagorno Karabakh residents fled to Armenia practically overnight, leaving behind their ancestral homeland, property and livelihoods. They also left the churches of their baptism and marriages, with some sites dating from the Middle Ages and containing graves and relics from the time of the apostles and from 301, when St. Gregory the Illuminator converted Armenia into the first Christian country.
I spoke with Artak Beglaryan, the former Minister of State of Nagorno Karabakh. As to why the population left when Azerbaijan assured its safety, he answered that Aliyev’s taking them to the brink of starvation was starkly reminiscent of the early stages of Turkey’s ethno-religious genocide against their people. Starvation was one of the main “weapons of genocide” of an estimated one million ethnic Armenians in 1915, as Moreno Ocampo noted. The Nagorno Karabakh community felt compelled to run for their lives.
Beglaryan also shared photos of Nagorno Karabakh churches hit by Azerbaijan’s guided munitions, and others vandalized, looted or damaged with their domes and bell towers torn down. Thousands of stone crosses marking graves have been destroyed. Azerbaijan’s Cultural Minister boasted of filing off Armenian inscriptions from church walls, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Azerbaijan is erasing all traces of Armenian Christianity from Nagorno Karabakh.
Having conquered one Armenian community, Aliyev is now threatening another. In 2020, he began demanding a new trade route through Armenia’s southern Syunik territory. According to Radio Free Europe: “He called the route Zangezur Corridor (using an alternative name for Syunik) and said Armenians would have no jurisdiction over it. Aliyev followed up with a thinly veiled threat to seize the land for the corridor by force if Armenia didn’t comply.” Last month, a border incident in Syunik that killed four Armenian soldiers caused fears, including among American officials, that Aliyev may be preparing to escalate with a full-scale military offensive. He has begun calling Armenian territory “Western Azerbaijan.”
On Feb. 23, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that, because Russia "hasn’t fulfilled its security obligations," Armenia is “freezing” its two-decade military alliance in the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization. It now desperately seeks to realign with the West. Defense policy analysts at RAND advise that the United States won’t be willing to secure Armenian borders but it could help by providing arms...www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/03/21/former-u-s-ambassador-joe-bidens-immigration-policy-crippled-haiti/Former U.S. Ambassador: Joe Biden’s Immigration Policy Crippled Haiti
In 2021, more than 15,000 Haitian migrants approached the Del Rio river crossing in Texas, creating a TV-magnified political crisis for Biden. At the time, American officials were helping Haiti elect a new government to replace Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who took on the role days before the assassination of the nation’s last president, Jovenel Moïse, that year. Henry did not want to quit, so he told Biden, “I’ll keep taking the deportees but you guys must let me stay in power,” Foote recalled.
Biden stopped pressuring Haiti to organize an election, letting Henry stay in power.
Since the Biden deal canceled the planned elections, Haiti has slid further into chaos. This month, armed gangs that control the streets made it impossible for Henry, who had traveled to Kenya, to return home, leaving him stranded in Puerto Rico. He announced that he would resign following the appointment of a “transitional presidential council” but has yet to do so at press time.
The chaos threatens Biden’s legal ability to keep sending migrants back to Haiti during the 2024 campaign, Foote said.
“He wanted to get past the (2022) midterms ... but it unraveled now in the run-up to the (2024) elections at the worst time,” Foote told Breitbart News on March 18.
"The situation totally changed now, because the gangs are now working together … What is apparent is that the gangs are trying to capitalize on their control of Port-au-Prince, the capital, to become a legitimate political force in the negotiations being brokered by foreign governments including the United States, France and Caribbean nations." To get that deal, “somebody’s gonna have to talk to the gangs,” said Foote...
Haiti’s neighboring country, the Dominican Republic (DR), has an alternative strategy. It has already fortified the border between the two countries and firmly deported many Haitians living illegally on the wrong side of the wall.www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-wants-hike-taxes-7-trillion-dollarsBiden Wants To Hike Taxes By $7 Trillion Dollarswww.dailywire.com/news/biden-finalizes-plan-to-kill-off-gas-cars-in-u-sBiden Finalizes Plan To Kill Off Gas Cars In U.S.
Joe Biden has finalized the most extreme push in history to destroy the gas-powered car industry and force consumers to drive what will be, in effect, government mandated electric vehicles.
The New York Times claimed last month that the administration was going to back off its push to force consumers to only purchase EVs as demand for EVs has nosedived in recent years.
However, the administration ultimately caved to far-Left environmentalist groups and activists...
“Biden’s extreme climate agenda will crush America’s auto industry and its hard workers while making us MORE dependent on China,” said Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick. “And the irony of it all? Biden will increase global emissions by restricting LNG exports and sourcing lithium needed for batteries from China’s mines!”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded: “Biden’s latest ban on gas-powered vehicles and replacement with electric vehicles is another direct assault on consumer choice and the American way of life. It ignores the needs of American families in order to appease the radical environmental lobby at the expense of millions of jobs supported by the automotive industry. It’s time to put an end to this regulatory overreach.”www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/2930887/manchin-slams-biden-reckless-ev-mandate-telling-people-what-kind-of-car-they-can-have/Manchin slams Biden for ‘reckless’ EV mandate telling people ‘what kind of car’ they can have
“The federal government has no authority and no right to mandate what type of car or truck Americans can purchase for their everyday lives,” he said. “This reckless and ill-informed rule will impose what is effectively an EV mandate without ensuring the security of our supply chains from nations like China and without a realistic transition plan that addresses our domestic infrastructure needs.”
“He has been pushed so far left it’s unbelievable. And I have been raising hell from day one. Because I’m trying to say — this is not how you’re going to get reelected,” Manchin said last week.www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/2931178/manchin-launches-his-own-little-filibuster-against-bidens-judicial-nominees/Manchin launches his ‘own little filibuster’ against Biden’s judicial nominees
“Just one Republican. That’s all I’m asking for. Give me something bipartisan. This is my own little filibuster. If they can’t get one Republican, I vote for none."
"I’ve told (Democrats) that. I said, ‘I’m sick and tired of it; I can’t take it anymore"www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-hear-arguments-biden-admins-censorship-social-media-postsSupreme Court To Hear Arguments In Biden Admin’s Censorship Of Social Media Posts
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments in a case that concerns what two lower courts found to be a “coordinated campaign” by top Biden administration officials to suppress disfavored views on key public issues such as COVID-19 vaccine side effects and pandemic lockdowns.
Some of the topics that were targeted for downgrade and other censorious actions were voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the COVID-19 lab leak theory, vaccine side effects, the social harm of pandemic lockdowns, and the Hunter Biden laptop story.
The plaintiffs argued that high-level federal government officials were the ones pulling the strings of social media censorship by coercing, threatening, and pressuring social media companies to suppress Americans’ free speech.
Mr. Hamburger explained why he believes that the Biden administration’s censorship was “far beyond anything that could be constitutional"...For one, he said that the censorship that is highlighted in Murthy v. Missouri relates to the suppression of speech that was not criminal or unlawful in any way.
Mr. Hamburger also argued that “the government went after lawful speech not in an isolated instance, but repeatedly and systematically as a matter of policy,” which led to the suppression of entire narratives rather than specific instances of expression.
“The government set itself up as the nation’s arbiter of truth—as if it were competent to judge what is misinformation and what is true information,” he wrote.
“In retrospect, it turns out to have suppressed much that was true and promoted much that was false.”
The suppression of reports on the Hunter Biden laptop just before the 2020 presidential election on the premise that it was Russian disinformation, for instance, was later shown to be unfounded.
Some polls show that if voters had been aware of the report, they would have voted differently.www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/03/19/rfk-jr-backs-gop-lawsuits-against-biden-administration-over-social-media-censorship/RFK Jr. Backs GOP Lawsuits Against Biden Administration over Social Media Censorshipthefederalist.com/2024/03/22/house-republicans-probe-cia-interference-in-hunter-biden-investigation/House Republicans Probe CIA Interference In Hunter Biden Investigation
“The information we recently received from the whistleblower seems to corroborate our concerns about DOJ’s deviations from standard process to provide Hunter Biden with preferential treatment,” lawmakers wrote. “According to the whistleblower, in August 2021, when IRS investigators were preparing to interview Patrick Kevin Morris, an associate of Hunter Biden, the CIA intervened to stop the interview.”thefederalist.com/2024/03/20/business-partners-confirm-joe-biden-was-part-of-familys-influence-selling/Business Partners Confirm Joe Biden Was Part Of Family’s Influence-Selling
Tony Bobulinski, a former family business partner turned whistleblower who told lawmakers Biden was the “brand” sold to foreign governments, doubled down on accusations of corruption with sworn testimony in public.
“I want to be crystal clear: from my direct personal experience and what I have subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was ‘the brand’ being sold by the Biden family,” Bobulinski told lawmakers. “His family’s foreign influence peddling operation — from China to Ukraine and elsewhere — sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government.”
House Republicans are probing whether to draw up articles of impeachment against Biden for selling the use of his political positions to foreign oligarchs. House investigators have discovered more than 20 shell companies established by the Biden family to funnel tens of millions of dollars from corporate leaders from adversarial nations. Witnesses testified Wednesday that Biden was at the center of the family’s efforts to rake in foreign profits.
Testifying from prison, Galanis said the Bidens aimed to make “billions, not millions” from selling political favors to oligarchs in China and Russia. Galanis is currently serving a 14-year prison sentence for securities fraud, which Galanis told lawmakers last month also involved Archer and Hunter Biden.
Bobulinski (was asked) whether he witnessed the president commit a crime, to which Bobulinski answered with an emphatic “Yes.”
What crime?
“Well, how much time do I have to go through?” Bobulinski answered.www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/20/biden-deals-and-blatant-lies-6-big-highlights-from-impeachment-hearing/Bobulinski went on to talk about younger brother Jim Biden.
“On page 100 of his transcript, Jim is asked specifically: ‘Do you recall having a meeting with Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski, and Joe Biden? Jim’s response, ‘Absolutely no,’” he testified.
“The committee was so shocked by (Jim Biden’s) perjury that they asked him the same question multiple times. Each time, he denied meeting with me and Joe Biden,” Bobulinski said. “After the committee showed him text messages confirming [that] I met with Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Jim Biden at the Beverly Hilton in May 2017, Jim Biden, with a former U.S. attorney lawyer sitting next to him, still denied that meeting took place. “
“Hunter Biden in his own transcribed interview confirmed that that meeting took place,” he added. “Hunter confirmed his uncle perjured himself.”
“I ask this big question: If there’s no evidence of corruption here today, if Joe’s conduct and the conduct of his family are fully legal and proper, then why are they so dishonest about it?”
“If Joe Biden was not involved in his son’s business dealings, why after flying all the way across the country to the Milken Conference, next to Davos probably the biggest conference in the world, why would he take 45 minutes out of his night–it wasn’t a 10 a.m. meeting—it was a 10:40 in the evening meeting,” Bobulinski said. “He’s an elderly man, (yet) flew all the way across the country to sit with me for 45 minutes to an hour to discuss my background, the business we were doing with the Chinese"
“Mr. Zhao was interested in this partnership because of the game-changing value add of the Biden family, including Joe Biden, who was to be a member of the Burnham-Harvest team post-vice presidency, providing political access in the United States and around the world,” Galanis testified.
Galanis alleged that Hunter Biden was involved in the same illegal activity as he was yet wasn’t charged...referring to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York: “I believe the SDNY prosecutors did not indict Hunter Biden on the same deal for political reasons despite then-available documentation that we were partners, were involved in decision-making that involved illegal self-dealing, and all of us had financially benefited from these schemes.”
Hunter Biden’s infamous abandoned laptop included a message from another business partner, James Gilliar, saying that 10% of the CEFC China Energy deal would be “held by H for the big guy.”
During the hearing, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked Bobulinski, “Who’s the big guy?”
Bobulinski replied: “Joe Biden.”
Jordan: “You sure?”
Bobulinski: “I’m 1,000% sure.”
Democrats’ lone witness at the hearing, Parnas, had almost nothing to do with Biden family businesses and was not a fact witness...committee Democrats insisted that negative news stories about (Biden) are the result of a "Russian disinformation campaign."www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/20/tony-bobulinski-testifies-that-hunter-biden-perjured-himself-multiple-times-in-interview-with-lawmakers/Tony Bobulinski Testifies that Hunter Biden Perjured Himself Multiple Times in Interview with Lawmakers
In Hunter’s transcript (Page 42), he states, “I officially began to do work for CEFC when the – when I received a retainer from CEFC in early – or spring of 2017”. Why, then, did Hunter yell at CEFC Executive Director Zang in front of his entourage as I sat right next to him in New York City on Sunday May 7th, 2017? Hunter was adamant that he was owed the rest of the $20 Million CEFC had committed to paying for the work he had claimed he had done in prior years.
On Page 48 of his transcript, Hunter is asked, “He’s never interacted with any of your business associates. Is that correct?” The “He’s” is a reference to Joe Biden. Hunter responds, “Yes”. Hunter arranged the meeting between his father and me at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on May 2, 2017. The sole reason Hunter wanted me to meet his father was because I was the CEO of Sinohawk, the Bidens’ partnership with CEFC. I was a business associate. In his transcript, Hunter confirms that that meeting with Joe took place and incriminates his Uncle Jim for perjury by confirming it.
Hunter lied to the Committee about important details concerning his money demands and threats to CEFC on July 30 and July 31, 2017. He leveraged his father’s presence next to him in that infamous text in order to strong-arm CEFC into paying Hunter immediately and in the process defrauded the partners of Sinohawk Holdings LLC and Oneida Holdings LLC. The threat worked, as a few days later the Chinese wired $5 million dollars into a company of which Hunter owned 50%. It’s important to remember that CEFC considered this money an interest-free loan to the “Biden family”, and planned to send more. I have the email from CEFC to prove it.www.ncregister.com/cna/house-members-highlight-horrific-organ-harvesting-of-aborted-babiesHouse Members Highlight ‘Horrific’ Organ Harvesting of Aborted Babies - Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics throughout the country are selling the organs and body parts of aborted babies in a lucrative biomaterial black market
Hosted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, on Capitol Hill, the presentation included testimony by David Daleiden, founder of the investigative group Center for Medical Progress, and Terrisa Bukovinac, founder of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAUU).
Daleiden, who has released several undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood employees discussing the sale of body parts, called on the House to open a formal investigation into the abortion industry’s participation in organ harvesting.
One undercover video shown by Daleiden during the event showed a Planned Parenthood executive in Washington state projecting her organization would make $250,000 on baby part sales to a single biotech company called StemExpress (now called CGT Global).
He also described Planned Parenthood’s partnership with the University of California and the University of Pittsburgh in which the abortion provider receives money in exchange for providing baby body parts.
One of the experiments uncovered by Daleiden in 2020 revealed that the University of Pittsburgh was grafting aborted baby’s scalps to lab rats, enabling the rodents to grow human hair. This experiment, Daleiden claimed, was funded by federal grants from the National Institutes for Health (NIH), which is taxpayer-funded.
The NIH reports spending an average of $108 million per year on fetal experimentation, according to data gathered by the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
Daleiden also alleged that Vice President Kamala Harris was involved in a “cover-up” of the abortion industry’s organ harvesting scheme, pointing to her actions as attorney general of California.
Following the release of the Center for Medical Progress’ viral videos exposing Planned Parenthood executives, Harris ordered a raid on Daleiden’s apartment to seize “hundreds of hours of unreleased undercover footage,” he said.
Under Harris, Daleiden said that the California justice system prosecuted him, issued an injunction to keep him from releasing the rest of the footage, and ultimately fined his group $25 million.
“The abortion industry, led by Planned Parenthood, is a powerful special interest group in our country; they fight to silence reporting on their black market of aborted baby harvesting and the ongoing cover-up goes to the highest levels of our government,” Daleiden said.
During the panel pro-life activist Bukovinac showed members of her group finding a fully intact, third-trimester dead baby boy stored in a plastic shipping container in March 2022. Bukovinac said that based on the baby’s level of development he was 33 weeks old. She said that the fact that the baby’s body was largely intact indicates he was likely killed after being delivered alive.
The boy was found in a crate outside the Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C. Bukovinac said he was meant, along with the remains of 114 other babies, to be shipped to Baltimore by a company called Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services to be burned “to provide renewable energy for the city.”
The 33-week-old baby was one of five late-term babies discovered outside the Washington Surgi-Clinic, which is operated by Dr. Cesare Santangelo.
Despite outrage over these children, who have come to be called the “D.C. Five,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) has not announced any plans to take action. The office of the D.C. medical examiner, meanwhile, has refused to allow an independent examination of the bodies.
Bukovinac said that one of the members of her group, Lauren Handy, was arrested in 2023 for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act in another protest. Bukovinac decried the DOJ for prosecuting Handy while ignoring the “very likely federal crimes” at the D.C. abortion clinic.
“The DOJ is spending their time instead prosecuting and jailing my friends for totally peaceful, nonviolent direct action when instead they should be going after killers who are committing federal crimes,” she said.
Rep. Mary Miller, R-Illinois, decried the DOJ for ignoring the D.C. Five, saying during the event: “We must call on the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services to enforce federal law and stop Planned Parenthood from their illegal activities, and we must stop funding these centers of death.”
If the heads of the DOJ and HHS refuse to investigate these killings, Miller said Congress has the power to remove them from office.www.dailywire.com/news/200000-deportation-cases-dismissed-because-biden-admin-failed-to-file-paperwork200,000 Deportation Cases Dismissed Because Biden Admin Failed To File Paperwork
In immigration courts in Houston, Texas, and Miami, Florida, both immigration hotbeds, more than half of their deportation cases have been dismissed for that reason since fiscal year 2021.
“These large numbers of dismissals and what then happens raise serious concerns,” the nonpartisan group, affiliated with Syracuse University, said in its report. The percentage of immigration cases that were dismissed skyrocketed immediately upon Joe Biden taking office, rising from 0.1% in 2017 and 1.2% in 2019 to 10.6% in 2021...the actual number of dismissals was far higher in 2022 and 2023 than at any time on record.
If the case is dismissed because the government has not filed paperwork by the time the court date rolls around, the government can simply file a new case against the alien. But TRAC obtained data that allowed it to see that nearly 75% of the time, DHS never bothered to do so.
That has remained constant through Biden’s term. And, in some cases, what would appear to be a clerical mistake is virtually never corrected: At the DHS’ Baltimore location, it made a second attempt at deporting the alien only 2% of the time.
The data experts at TRAC have frequently complained that immigration agencies have been tight-lipped and prone to turning over faulty or incomplete data.
“No information to our knowledge has been publicly released by DHS on why and where these problems occur,” it wrote. “Troubling is the almost total lack of transparency on where and why these DHS failures occurred. Equally troubling is the lack of solid information on what happened to these many immigrants when DHS never rectified its failure by reissuing and filing new NTAs to restart their Court cases.”
TRAC previously reported that 50,000 asylum files mysteriously disappeared, allowing the Biden administration to “falsely report that its asylum backlog had been reduced this past year when in fact it had markedly grown.”www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/21/exclusive-donald-trump-migrant-crime-is-new-category-of-crime-in-america-thanks-to-joe-biden-democrats/Donald Trump: ‘Migrant Crime’ Is New Category of Crime in America Thanks to Joe Biden, Democratswww.zerohedge.com/political/blow-biden-supreme-court-sides-texas-over-enforcement-immigration-lawIn Blow To Biden, Supreme Court Allows Texas To Start Arresting And Deporting Illegal Alienswww.dailysignal.com/2024/03/19/america-needs-retain-energy-dominance/Biden’s Proposed 15-Fold Price Hike to Drill on Federal Land Threatens US Energy Dominance
Although America has been a net energy exporter since 2019, and produced a record 13.3 million barrels of oil per day in December, this hard-won progress is now under direct threat from the bureau’s proposed rule.
The rule would raise the costs of oil and gas exploration, driving small companies out of the oil business and limiting exploration opportunities for larger companies.
If finalized and implemented, the rule would reduce the supply of energy and raise energy costs for Americans.
Amid Germany’s renewable-energy mandates, German consumers pay more than three times more for electricity than do Americans. For German businesses, this means higher operating costs. Europe’s electricity has become so expensive that trade unions are warning of the threat of deindustrialization.
The anti-fossil fuel policies of the Biden administration are steering America toward the same destiny.
The BLM rule would reduce the resiliency of American energy to natural disasters, conflicts, or unforeseen crises that could disrupt global supply chains. It would lower oil and natural gas exports at a time when our allies need them.
The rule is especially ironic because Biden says that his administration is cracking down on “corporations that engage in price gouging”; that is, getting together to fix prices at high levels. The solution to price gouging is to allow more freedom of entry, so new firms come in and provide the product or service at a lower price. Keeping small companies out of any business increases the risk of price gouging.
Through innovative techniques such as horizontal drilling and hydrofracturing, America has vastly increased domestic oil and natural production. At a time of economic uncertainty and turmoil around the world, America should be doubling down on the major competitive advantage provided by our energy abundance—not squandering it at our own expense.www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-only-scotus-pick-cant-define-woman-objects-to-the-first-amendmentBiden’s Only SCOTUS Pick Can’t Define ‘Woman,’ Objects To The First Amendmentwww.dailywire.com/news/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-showBiden’s Top Intelligence Agency Says Crossdressing Makes Man ‘Better Intelligence Officer,’ Internal Docs Showwww.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/19/lawsuit-says-white-house-transgender-star-raped-several-men/White House ‘Drag Queen’ Star Allegedly Raped Men - Darius Jeremy (“DJ”) Pierce, who presents himself as “Shangela"
"four people allege to Rolling Stone that Darius Jeremy (“DJ”) Pierce, the man behind the famous drag persona, either sexually assaulted them or attempted to have sex with them when they were too inebriated to consent. A fifth person claims Pierce attempted anal penetration in a bathroom closet despite rejecting his advances."
Pierce has promoted “drag queen story hour” events for children...www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/20/bidens-unhappy-america-u-s-hits-new-low-in-world-happiness-report/Biden’s Unhappy America: U.S. Hits New Low in World Happiness Report - driven by a large drop in the wellbeing of Americans under 30www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/03/22/joe-bidens-average-approval-rating-well-below-historic-threshold-reelection/Joe Biden’s Average Approval Rating Well Below Historic Reelection Threshold
The dynamics of American politics are currently under realignment, upending the standard Democrat coalition from the 1960s...“In 2020 the richest third of voters favoured the Dems for the first time, and the Republicans improved with the poorest,” Financial Times columnist and chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch explained on X. “The GOP now appeals to working- and middle-class voters of all ethnicities.” Hispanic and black men could vote for former President Donald Trump in proportions not seen in American politics since the 1950s.
Trump appears to spur the realignment, forcing the Republican Party to identify with working-class taxpayers instead of woke big businesses, Patrick Ruffini, the cofounder of Echelon Insights, wrote.nypost.com/2024/03/22/us-news/trump-leads-biden-by-8-points-one-of-the-largest-polling-margins-yet-in-michigan-poll/Trump leads Biden by 8 points — the largest polling margin yet — in Michigan
Trump’s large margin in Michigan is attributed to his 10-point lead among self-proclaimed independents (47% to 37%) and double-digit lead among voters under 35 (51% to 35%).
Meanwhile, just 35% of Michigan voters approve of Biden’s job performance while 64% disapprove. thefederalist.com/2024/03/20/democrats-canceled-their-florida-primary-to-help-biden-it-backfired-and-helped-republicans-flip-local-seats/Democrats Canceled Their Florida Primary To Help Biden. It Backfired And Helped Republicans Flip Local Seats
Florida Democrats chose to award Joe Biden the state’s delegates in November instead of holding a presidential primary vote, presumably to protect the unpopular incumbent. But it appears the move backfired and led to a wipeout of Democrats in local races.
Florida Democrat Party leaders awarded Biden the state’s 224 delegates months ago and cancelled the primary, in a move Biden’s Democrat challengers called “intentional disenfranchisement” and said was “done obviously in secret, obviously to help the incumbent Joe Biden.” The lack of a statewide Democrat primary meant registered Democrats had less reason to turn out on Tuesday than Republicans, who decisively voted for former President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s Republican primary. nypost.com/2024/03/18/us-news/biden-doesnt-acknowledge-fifth-granddaughter-fathered-out-of-wedlock-by-hunter-at-womens-history-month-event/Biden doesn’t acknowledge fifth granddaughter – fathered out-of-wedlock by Hunter – at Women’s History Month eventnypost.com/2024/03/18/us-news/joe-bidens-new-boat-anchor-shoes-meant-for-maximum-stability/Joe Biden’s new ‘boat anchor’ shoes meant for maximum ‘stability’ as falls spark concern...Biden participates in physical therapy to increase his “core stability” at least “four to five times a week,” according to the report from his annual physical.www.donaldjtrump.com/news/9f703933-3688-4da5-9e79-5084e10bd59fwww.zerohedge.com/political/watch-biden-bizarrely-wanders-stage-mid-event-pull-faces-babyCrooked Joe Biden Disrespects Speaker at Hispanic Campaign Event By Wandering Off-Stage Due to Boredom...
...Watch: Biden Bizarrely Wanders Off Stage Mid Event To Pull Faces At A Baby
“Well folks, I have to tell you straight up…I couldn’t resist that little baby.”
The reason Biden was holding this Mexican Diner event is that Donald Trump leads Biden among Hispanic voters 39% to 34%, according to a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll released in January.
A New York Times/Siena College Poll released in February also found Biden losing the Hispanic vote to Trump, 40% to 46%.www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/03/20/joe-biden-played-off-stage-nevada-speech/Watch: Biden accidentally played off stage during Nevada campaign speechcan we get him to march out of the white house like this?
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www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/27/hezbollah-hits-israeli-factory-for-people-with-special-needs-kills-druze-arab-23/Hezbollah Hits Israeli Factory for People with Special Needs; Kills Druze Arab, 23
Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shia terror group, fired rockets into northern Israel on Wednesday, hitting a factory that employed people with special needs, and killing a 23-year-old Druze Arab named Zaher Bashara in the facility.
The Times of Israel reported that Bashara, who worked as a driver at the Alon paper goods company, was set to be engaged and had been his family’s breadwinner since the death of his father, providing for his extended family.
Hezbollah occupies positions near Israel’s northern border, violating United Nations Security Council Resolution 1707, which ended the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Tens of thousands of Israelis have fled their homes.freebeacon.com/israel/in-northern-israels-no-go-zone-oct-7-never-really-ended/'Now Is the Time of the Sword': Israelis Brace for the Big War in the North
It's been more than six months since Hamas terrorists rampaged through southern Israel, but here in the north, Oct. 7 never really ended.
On Oct. 8, the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah picked up where its ally left off, launching an ongoing barrage of rockets, missiles, and artillery shells into northern Israel. The violence has so far killed 14 soldiers and eight civilians in Israel, along with dozens of civilians and hundreds of terrorists in Lebanon. While Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza has enabled most of the some 129,000 Israelis who were evacuated from the south to return to their homes, nearly all of the 48,000 or so evacuees from the northern border area have remained displaced, according to government data obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
"We need to get used to the fact that we will have to wage war on several fronts simultaneously because this is the Iranian strategy," Orna Mizrahi, the former deputy head of Israel's National Security Council. "The Americans don't want a regional war. Nobody does. But for most of Israel's political and military leadership, the question is not if but when we will have to wage a full-scale war in the north."www.timesofisrael.com/israel-kills-top-hezbollah-rocket-commander-in-lebanon-5-others-slain-in-syria/Israel kills top Hezbollah rocket commander in Lebanon; 5 others slain in Syriawww.timesofisrael.com/released-hostage-amit-soussana-reveals-she-was-sexually-assaulted-by-hamas-captor/Released hostage Amit Soussana reveals she was sexually assaulted by Hamas captor - forced at gunpoint to commit ‘a sexual act’ on guard
Soussana, who was released from captivity on the last day of a weeklong truce in late November, recounted to the newspaper how she was held alone, chained up in a child’s bedroom in darkness where she was forced to commit sexual acts for her Hamas captor, who she said went by the name Muhammad.
Sometime around October 24, he attacked her while she was briefly unchained in order to use the bathroom, she recounted.
“He came towards me and shoved the gun at my forehead,” Soussana said. “He sat me on the edge of the bath. And I closed my legs. And I resisted. And he kept punching me and put his gun in my face,” Soussana stated. “Then he dragged me to the bedroom.”
Soussana said that in the lead-up to the assault, her guard asked personal questions, including questioning her about her sex life, and asking when her period was due. When it ended around October 18 after only a day, she said she tried to delay him by lying that it continued for nearly a week.
Soussana also described how she was tortured a few days after being moved to a different apartment bloc, where she was handed over to a man called Amir, and was held with four other hostages.
Soussana said her head was wrapped in a pink shirt by guards, then forced to sit on the floor where guards pummeled her with the butt of a gun. Then, her hands were tied and hung up “like a chicken” from a stick linking two couches, causing immense pain.
Soussana said the guards continued to beat her, focusing on the soles of her feet while interrogating her for information they thought she was hiding. She stated the chief guard pretended to poke her with a spike, pulling away right before it hit her eye.
“It was like that for 45 minutes or so,” she recounted. “They were hitting me and laughing and kicking me, and called the other hostages to see me.” One of the other hostages became so frightened after a guard threatened to kill Soussana if she didn’t provide information, that she asked Soussana if she had any final messages for her family.www.timesofisrael.com/alone-in-a-cell-for-16-days-mother-of-teen-hostage-recounts-horror-of-his-captivity/Alone in cell guarded by terrorists: Mother of teen recounts ‘horror’ of his captivity
Four months after he was freed from captivity in Gaza, Eitan Yahalomi celebrated his bar mitzvah, but his coming-of-age last week was far from a joyous occasion, his mother told AFP.
In her first interview with international media since her son’s release last November, Bat-Sheva Yahalomi said the boy still has nightmares and has not been able to resume normal life.
Eitan, 12 years old at the time, was one of 253 people abducted by Hamas terrorists that day and was snatched from his home in Nir Oz, a kibbutz in southern Israel.
His mother and two younger sisters were also taken, but they escaped after they fell from their captor’s motorbike.
Eitan’s father Ohad, also taken on October 7, is still believed to be in captivity in Gaza.
Despite the precarious situation, the French-Israeli woman said she wanted to testify to the “horror” that her son experienced.
“First, he was beaten, then they put him alone in a cell with bars and he was left alone for 16 days in the custody of armed men from Hamas,” she said.
Bat-Sheva Yahalomi said her son told her everything about his captivity when he was freed, an account she said she still found disturbing.
“They forced him to watch films they said they had filmed on October 7, and when he cried, they threatened him with a gun,” she said.
Under constant surveillance and in isolation, he knew nothing of the fate of his family and his captors gave him contradictory accounts, plunging him into “terrible uncertainty,” she said.
An Israeli doctor who treated some freed hostages said in December that some youngsters were drugged by their captors and subjected to psychological abuse.
A woman who was detained with Eitan, Doron Asher-Katz, said after her release that they had been moved after 16 days to a hospital building, which the IDF later said was the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
There, he was locked in a small room with 10 other hostages, including five children, Asher-Katz said.
His mother said he showered only twice in 52 days, did not sleep on a mattress once, and during the first 16 days all he had to eat was “a pita and a cucumber a day.”
Although Eitan once again has the material comforts of home, the absence of his father means the family is still in limbo.
“The children ask me about their father, but I don’t have any answers,” said Bat-Sheva Yahalomi, who is still hoping for her husband’s return.
She last saw him on October 7, injured, in front of their home.www.timesofisrael.com/unrwa-textbooks-were-pivotal-in-radicalizing-generations-of-gazans-watchdog/UNRWA textbooks were pivotal in radicalizing generations of Gazans — watchdog
A map of the Middle East in a geography book makes no mention of the State of Israel, showing “Palestine” in its place; a history book narrates a 1968 battle between the Israeli army, the Jordanians and Palestinian fedayeen, extolling the latter’s courage in wearing explosive belts, and praising the “image of a burnt Zionist soldier”; a chemistry book asks students to analyze the type of chemicals contained in phosphorous bombs allegedly dropped by Israel; an Islamic studies book describes the goals of jihad as “terrorizing the enemy” and “achieving martyrdom.”
These are examples from textbooks used in schools in Gaza run by the UN Palestinian refugee agency, UNWRA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA), as highlighted in a recent report compiled by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se). The organization, based in the UK and Israel, has since the late 1990s monitored school curricula around the world, with a particular focus on the Middle East.
“The cooperation between UNRWA and Hamas is absolutely undeniable,” said Marcus Sheff, CEO of IMPACT-se, “both in educating the terrorists that perpetrated the October 7 atrocities, and in being part, as we discovered afterwards, of the terror infrastructure in its schools and in its hospitals.”
“The end result of that radicalization is that among the thousands who went over the border on October 7 and committed acts of murder, rape and abduction, it is statistically probable that the majority went to UNRWA’s schools,” Sheff said. “The UNRWA curriculum is what they were brought up on, and it teaches about jihad and martyrdom being the most important meanings of life, and that Jews are liars and frauds.”
The watchdog uncovered that PA teaching materials not only did not promote education toward a peaceful solution to the conflict, but denied the existence of the Jewish state. Israel was routinely left off maps, and Israeli cities were said to be in Palestine.
In addition, there was no mention of the Holocaust in history chapters on World War II, and Palestinian terrorists who massacred Israeli civilians were glorified.
A recent report by his organization revealed that a school in Beit Hanoun, in northeastern Gaza, uploaded online self-evaluation exercises for ninth graders in which the correct answers to the question “What are the requirements for protecting society’s unity?” were “knowledge” and “weapons.”
Yusef Al-Hawajara was among the 3,000 terrorists that stormed across the border from Gaza into Israel on October 7. In a phone call he made that day, Al-Hawajara bragged to a friend: “We have female hostages, I captured one!” The Arabic term he used for the female hostages, sabaya, is often used by jihadis to mean sex slaves. “Everything’s fine, I hope,” he later said in the recording. “We will enter Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
Al-Hawajara was a member of Hamas’s Central Camps Brigade. He was also a teacher at UNRWA’s Deir al-Balah Boys’ Elementary School in the central Gaza Strip. His double allegiance was not an isolated case.
“The UNRWA employees who took part in the massacre were not just bad apples. It was not a bug. It is a feature of the institution,” argued Sheff.
“UNRWA in Gaza is institutionally an organization that was riddled with Hamas ideas, with Hamas members, and by educating the majority of schoolchildren in Gaza, they have been at the very center of that radicalization process,” Sheff said.
IMPACT-se released a report in November revealing that at least 100 Hamas members who have carried out terror attacks against Israelis in recent years are graduates of the UNRWA education system.
“We see how much support for Hamas was expressed in social media of UNRWA employees. UNRWA is a UN organization; there is absolutely no excuse for the fact that this went on day after day, year after year, under everybody’s noses,” Sheff said.
“For us, the impact of this has been quite terrible, because we warned for years governments and parliaments that if UNRWA continued to teach this material in schools, about jihad and martyrdom, and the dehumanization of Jews and Israelis, something terrible is going to happen,” he added.www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/2936981/us-stop-iran-terrorist-proxies-red-sea/US must stop Iran’s terrorist proxies in the Red Sea
Security in the Red Sea is vital to America’s supply chains — and, therefore, to the country’s consumers. Before these attacks began, more than 23,000 ships passed through the narrow Bab al Mandab Strait, many of which were oil tankers. Now, though, shipping companies are choosing to divert their routes to avoid the region as much as possible, leading to higher costs and insurance premiums. The longer routes are no guarantee of safety, either, as Somali pirates have been targeting diverted ships in recent months.
All told, disruptions caused by the Houthis are leading to higher prices for gasoline and consumer goods here in the United States. Container freight rates have about doubled since the Houthi attacks began, and companies will pass these costs along to consumers. As families recover from the lingering effects of inflation and the pandemic, the last thing they need is to pay more for basic needs.
Containing Iranian aggression is also a real opportunity for the U.S. to develop a system of collective defense in the Middle East. Most Arab states may be conflicted over the war in Gaza, but they understand that the radical Shia ideology Iran seeks to advance threatens their security. Even leaving aside the self-evident danger of a nuclear Iran, the Arab states face immense threats from its proxies. From 2015 to 2022, Saudi Arabia alone faced nearly 1,000 missile attacks and over 350 drone strikes from the Houthis.
As the Abraham Accords showed, leaders in the Middle East are willing to play ball with the West if it means deterring Iran and its proxies. The administration should use the anti-Houthi maritime coalition to rebuild that momentum. At present, Bahrain is the only Middle Eastern naval power openly taking part in Operation Prosperity Guardian. Involving more Arab states in the counterterrorism campaign may require some tough diplomacy, but it is in everyone’s best interest.
Beyond protecting American supply chains and promoting regional stability, fending off Houthi threats is important for establishing deterrence in other potential theaters of maritime conflict. Failing to solve the Red Sea problem will only further embolden Chinese and Russian naval aggression. Adversary strategists clearly sense American weakness on the high seas and are working to capitalize on it.
Oceans are battlefields of future wars. Iran is the weakest link in the Eurasian axis, and hitting back hard against its aggression now will send a serious message to its partners.www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign-policy/2945273/nato-allies-war-with-russia-soon/NATO allies: War with Russia could come ‘very soon’
NATO faces a “pre-war era” in which “literally any scenario is possible” given the potential for aggression from Russia, according to Poland’s prime minister, the latest evidence that allies see a growing likelihood of major conflict.
“Literally any scenario is possible,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told a group of journalists in a newly-published interview. “I know it sounds devastating, especially to people of the younger generation, but we have to mentally get used to a new era. We are in a pre-war era. I don’t exaggerate. This is becoming more and more apparent every day.”
Tusk is the second senior politician from a NATO member-state to suggest that the alliance faces “a pre-war world,” as British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps likewise put it in a January speech. His urgent appeal adds a center-left voice to a chorus of Russia hawks typically populated by more conservative perspectives or the Baltic state leaders who feel acutely their vulnerability to Russia.
“But I would dare to say that it is only now, in the midst of this great war, that it has dawned on all NATO leaders and senior military leaders that all this may actually be needed very soon, that there is a real threat, a real military task, and that we must behave and act in such a way that this machinery, when it is needed, is ready,” Estonian Ambassador Jüri Luik, the Baltic ally’s envoy to NATO, told an Estonian outlet in an interview published Friday. “It seems to me that this final realization has come only after the aggression began.”
“Then the question is, could NATO be challenged? … we’re more technologically advanced, we’re better prepared, we’re better trained, and all the other things,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said Monday at the Hudson Institute. “But Russia is fighting an actual war right now, building up this army and expecting us to be, politically, not prepared — not militarily (unprepared), but politically.”
Tusk, likewise, emphasized that European leaders need to adopt a more hard-headed attitude.
“At the last European Council, I had an interesting discussion with the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez,” Tusk said. “He asked us to stop using the word ‘war’ in statements. He argued that people do not want to be threatened in this way, that in Spain it sounds abstract. I replied that in my part of Europe, war is no longer an abstraction — and that our duty is not to discuss, but to act and prepare to defend ourselves.”
“There is no reason for Europeans not to respect the fundamental principle (of NATO) and spend a minimum of 2% of GDP on defense,” Tusk said, according to a transcript from El Pais. “We have to spend as much as we can to buy equipment and ammunition for Ukraine because we are living in the most critical moment since the end of the Second World War. The next two years will decide everything.”www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/03/28/communist-nicaragua-sentences-christian-pastors-to-12-15-years-in-prison-on-holy-week/Communist Nicaragua Sentences Christian Pastors to 12-15 Years in Prison on Holy Week
In addition, according to the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa, the court imposed a fine of $80 million per pastor arrested – nearly a billion dollars in fines – and two attorneys attempting to aid in the defense of the Christians, Isabel Cristina Acevedo Solís and Maricarmen Espinoza Segura, were sentenced to ten years in prison and similarly fined tens of millions of dollars.
Both Mountain Gateway and ADF International, a faith-based legal advocacy organization, denounced the entire case as a “sham.” ADF International is helping Mountain Gateway appeal the case and presented the case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights seeking measures to protect the prisoners of conscience.
“In addition to being barred from meeting with their legal representation or their families, the lawyers on the case were denied access to case files and other relevant documentation against the pastors,” the organization denounced. “During the sham trial, the government was unable to produce any evidence of the alleged illicit activity or where the alleged unlawful funds that were ‘laundered’ originated.”
The Sandinista regime has previously timed its acts of repression against the Christian faith to align with Christian holidays; the regime abruptly seized Mountain Gateway’s assets and arrested the pastors involved shortly before Christmas. Also in late December, Sandinista authorities arrested Catholic Bishop Isidoro Mora, as he had presided over a Mass during which those congregated prayed for imprisoned and persecuted members of the Catholic clergy.
The Sandinistas have also deployed police officers to silence Christians attempting to participate in traditional religious events such as the celebration in December of the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The repression has not been limited to churches and faith organizations. Ortega has shut down more than 3,500 nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations since 2018, when mass anti-communist protests in the country, in part fueled by Christian teachings, erupted. The Ortega-Murillo regime killed more than 300 people in 2018 in response to the peaceful movement against their ideology.www.dailywire.com/news/cruz-blasts-mexicos-amlo-for-trying-to-extort-americaCruz Blasts Mexico’s AMLO For ‘Trying To Extort America’
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed lefist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, this week over his demand that the U.S. give billions of dollars to Latin American countries and assist Marxist regimes or else Mexico will continue to allow illegal aliens to flood the U.S. southern border.
AMLO demanded earlier this year that if the U.S. wanted help in combating the millions of illegal aliens entering through the southern border, the U.S. must give tens of billions of dollars per year to countries in Latin America, give work visas to 10 million illegal aliens in the U.S., lift sanctions on socialist Venezuela, and end the embargo of communist Cuba.
“Notice his demands. His demands are end the embargo against Cuba. And end the sanctions against Venezuela,” Cruz said on his “Verdict” podcast.
“He’s standing with communist dictators in Cuba and Venezuela,” he said. “That’s who he aligns himself with is the hard-Left anti-American Communist axis through Latin America. That’s who AMLO is. So it’s not surprising. That’s who he’s always been.”
Cruz said that AMLO — whose policy for dealing with drug cartels is “hugs not bullets” — is not afraid of Joe Biden because Biden “is weak.”The Future of Europe www.zerohedge.com/political/german-doctor-refuses-treat-afd-politicianGerman Doctor Refuses To Treat AfD Politician
The doctor’s decision was reportedly sparked when he saw a photo in the local newspaper of the politician, Heiko Nubner, at an event for his party’s city association in Lahr. Based on this photo, the doctor told him to find a new practice due to their “clearly different political views.”
Nubner, who previously served as a Christian Democrat (CDU) politician for 26 years, told Bild newspaper that he was “very surprised by this reaction, as he had never spoken to the doctor about his politics. He described the interaction with the general practitioner as “very undemocratic.”
The AfD politician suffered an accident three years ago that he left him confined to a wheelchair. When he asked the doctor for a prescription at the beginning of March, he was denied treatment.
In 2021, AfD candidate Andrea Zürcher also had her general practicioner cancel her care, also in the state of Baden-Württemberg. In Zürcher’s case, the doctor also learned about her political activity from a photo in a local newspaper.notthebee.com/article/british-pub-of-the-year-stripped-of-its-title-after-a-tiny-swastika-armband-which-a-british-soldier-brought-back-after-defeating-the-nazis-is-found-to-be-on-display-at-the-barBritish pub stripped of award because of Nazi armband that soldier brought back from WWII
Imagine this: Your pub wins Pub of the Year in Cornwall County (UK) for the third time, but then some loser notices a picture online of a tiny little Nazi armband which is on display at your establishment so then they complain and get your title as Pub of the Year taken away by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).
The landlord, who has been behind the bar at the Hole in the Wall for 20 years and has employed more than 100 staff, said the Nazi armband, about four inches by one inch in size, had been in a glass cabinet on top of a pillar in a dimly lit part of the pub among all sorts of curiosities for decades and had been brought back from the front by a returning serviceman of the Duke of Cornwall's Regiment.
FOUR INCHES BY ONE INCH!!!
And now the pub is canceled...The real future www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/03/26/farmer-tractor-convoy-protests-in-london-over-tory-government-betrayal/Farmer Tractor Convoy Protests in London over Tory Government’s Post-Brexit ‘Betrayal’Liberal priorities www.zerohedge.com/political/queer-princeton-alumni-president-arrested-child-porn-charges"Queer Princeton Alumni" President Arrested On Child Porn Chargeswww.dailywire.com/news/89-year-old-holocaust-survivor-imprisoned-in-dachau-at-age-4-heckled-by-anti-israel-protesters89-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor, Imprisoned In Dachau At Age 4, Heckled By Anti-Israel Protesterswww.zerohedge.com/commodities/experts-warn-mass-migration-threatens-us-food-securityExperts Warn Mass Migration Threatens US Food Security
With unfettered illegal immigration—some 9 million encounters since 2021—the normal guardrails for inspection are ignored, raising the likelihood of unwanted diseases being brought across the border.
The threat to the food supply is already apparent from the past cases of tuberculosis (TB) transmitted from illegal immigrants to dairy cows in Texas...Rules meant to keep people who are carrying disease out of the United States have been sidelined under the Biden administration, according to Ammon Blair, a border security advocate at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and former Border Patrol agent.
“We’re really just mass releasing these people into the United States that could be carrying multiple diseases that aren’t even checked,” he told The Epoch Times.
a fever tick outbreak has already driven some ranchers out of business and that any new disease or parasite outbreak could push more ranchers to the financial brink—and endanger food security.
Costa Rica declared a screwworm emergency in February after reporting its first case in July 2023, according to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.
Costa Rica’s animal health authority, SENASA, reported the case in the Corredores region of southwestern Costa Rica near the Panamanian border crossing of Paso Canoas.
The USDA stated that despite a weekly aerial release of nearly 15 million sterile flies, Costa Rica hasn’t been able to halt the pest’s progress, placing not just Costa Rican dairy and beef cattle at increasing risk but also endangering wild animals, domestic pets, and humans.notthebee.com/article/uk-university-trigger-warnings-peter-pan-alice-in-wonderland-white-supremacyBritish university slaps warnings on "Peter Pan" and "Alice in Wonderland" books for "colonialist narratives which center white supremacy"thefederalist.com/2024/03/29/if-diversity-is-our-strength-why-is-our-military-so-weak/If ‘Diversity Is Our Strength,’ Why Is Our Military So Weak?
Our military is in trouble. Chronic recruiting shortages are forcing the Army to cut 16,500 occupational positions, most of them vacant. The Air Force has proposed a reduction of 8,000 troops after missing recruiting goals for the first time in over 20 years. The Navy is short 9,000 sailors, forcing longer deployments for others.
So, what are senior military leaders doing to fix this? They keep claiming without evidence that “diversity is a strategic imperative.”
The argument is absurd, especially since the Supreme Court’s 2023 landmark ruling ending racial preferences in higher education. The military service academies were not parties to Students for Fairness in Admissions v. Harvard and the University of N. Carolina, but the court ignored the government’s objections when it applied its ruling to the civilian universities’ ROTC programs.
In its opinion, the court also exposed the flimsy premises behind decades-old racial categories, describing them as “imprecise … overbroad … arbitrary … undefined … underinclusive … incoherent … irrational stereotypes.”
Justice Neil Gorsuch noted that racial categories such as black, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander, Asian, or white, were devised not by anthropologists or sociologists, but by “bureaucrats.”
The same bureaucrats cautioned in the 1978 Federal Register that their arbitrary racial categories “should not be viewed as determinants of eligibility for participation in any Federal program.” But they are.
The Department of Defense validated racial preferences when it established the 2011 Military Leadership Diversity Commission (MLDC). By taking the advice of nonmilitary organizations and corporate business consultants favoring DEI racial categories, the MLDC turned military values upside down.
This inexplicable shift away from non-discrimination, meritocracy, and “treating everyone the same” contradicted the oath every officer and enlisted person takes to “support and defend the Constitution,” which takes a colorblind approach to race upheld in numerous Supreme Court rulings.
The MLDC report also stated: “Cultural assimilation, a key to military effectiveness in the past, will be challenged as inclusion becomes, and needs to become, the norm.”
This astonishing proposal disregarded military requirements and culture, which requires identical treatment of personnel to build cohesion and mutual trust for survival in combat. Instead, the MLDC relied on a 1996 Harvard Business Review article advising corporate managers on how to stress differences, not unity.
The MLDC also recommended high-level “chief diversity officers” (CDOs) to ensure compliance with DEI mandates. Servicemembers were put on notice that at every step of their careers — from recruitment to promotion to three- and four-star rank and service chief levels — they would be “held accountable for their performance in diversity management and rewarded for their efforts” (or penalized for lack of them).
Like the Wizard of Oz, an intimidating diversity-industrial complex rules the Pentagon with billowing smoke, noise, and hot air. Unlike the fictional wizard, however, high-level DEI advocates are weakening our military in ways that could cost lives.
In August 2022, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and then-Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. co-signed a memorandum calling for a reduction in white male officers from 64 percent to 43 percent. Many mid-career officers, told they were no longer wanted, pleased their families by moving to the commercial airlines. Now the Air Force has a shortage of experienced pilots.
According to the latest annual Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute Survey, public confidence in the All-Volunteer Force has declined from 70 percent to 48 percent since 2018. And a recent Gallup poll reported a drop in confidence in the military from 81 percent to 60 percent since 2010.
The latest Blue Star Families survey reported that only 32 percent of military families would recommend service...So, what has the Army done? West Point officials are removing the historic words “Duty, Honor, Country” from the U.S. military academy’s mission statement, dropping “Country” and obscuring “Duty” and “Honor” in a wordy separate statement of “Army Values.”www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/03/28/watch-antisemitic-riot-at-berkeley-city-council-meeting-on-holocaust-mayor-condemns/WATCH: Antisemitic Riot at Berkeley City Council Meeting on Holocaust; Mayor Condemns - "Heckling people including Holocaust survivors"
An antisemitic riot broke out Tuesday evening at a meeting of the city council of Berkeley, California, that was to have discussed plans for observing Holocaust Remembrance Day in April.
Jewish students report that they are barred by pro-Palestinian activists from entering the main gate of the campus at certain times of day, and that visibly Jewish students are subject to harassment and bullying.
Earlier this month, Congress announced that it is investigating antisemitism at Berkeley, among other campuses.www.dailywire.com/news/less-than-a-year-before-bridge-fiasco-marylands-dem-gov-put-a-dei-consultant-on-states-port-commissionLess Than A Year Before Bridge Fiasco, Maryland’s Dem Gov Put A DEI Consultant On State’s Port Commission
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) put a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultant on the Maryland Port Commission just months before a container ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. The supply chain on the East Coast and beyond now hangs in the balance as authorities will have to swiftly undertake complex feats of engineering to reopen the port and, eventually, the bridge.
Moore named Karenthia Barber to the Commission last August. The headline of the press release announcing the hire hailed her as the “first black woman to serve as Maryland Port Commissioner.” Her Ports Commission bio says she is “the Founder and CEO of Professional Development Associates, LLC. a consulting practice that provides leadership and workforce training, coaching, and diversity, equity and inclusion audits and consulting,” and a volunteer for the Maryland Democratic Party.
The three current commissioners who were appointed by past Republican governors have expertise in managing major transportation hubs or maritime ventures.notthebee.com/article/baltimore-mayor-brandon-scott-says-white-people-should-be-scared-of-him-because-his-purpose-in-life-is-to-put-their-way-of-life-at-riskBaltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says white men should be scared of him because his purpose in life is to put their way of life at riskwww.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/2943542/meet-the-new-marxism-the-same-as-the-old-marxism/An activist at a recent anti-Israel march performed a valuable service when he revealed what the real goal of the protest was. Spoiler alert: it was not “liberating” Gaza, a speck of land that most of today’s radicals would have trouble finding on a map.
Remonstrating with a young YouTuber asking questions at the protest, the activist said, “You’re not doing this for what the actual conversation is, which is getting rid of this country.”
The assertion was so outlandish that at first it did not seem to compute for the YouTuber, who asked in an incredulous tone, “Getting rid of this country?”
The activist set him straight: “Getting rid of America, getting rid of the West. This is what this is for,” he said, motioning toward the demonstrators. “Yes. Everyone here understands that at some level we need to get rid of America completely.”
Elon Musk posted the video on his platform X last week, commenting, “Most reasonable people, because they are reasonable, cannot believe that the goal of the far left is to end America.”
A 21st-century element of NextGen Marxism is the nexus of connectivity between social media and Marxist networks that span the globe. Years before she founded BLM, for example, Alicia Garza boasted that she had helped set up a U.S.-based affiliate of these networks after global Marxists called on their American counterparts to weaken U.S. power from within.
Sex is used, too. We now have a new verb, “to queer.” It is for those “who see the task of queerness as the dismantling such institutional norms.”www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/29/nolte-democrat-run-washington-state-launches-snitch-line-for-hate-crimes/Democrat-Run Washington State Launches Snitch Line for ‘Hate Crimes’www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/03/24/sex-changes-for-children-one-of-the-greatest-ethical-scandals-in-medical-history-finds-french-report/Transgender ‘Treatments’ for Children One of the ‘Greatest Ethical Scandals in Medical History’, French Report States
The practice of sexually ‘transitioning’ children will be remembered as one of the “greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine,” a report commissioned by French senators stated.
A landmark report produced at the behest of the centre-right Les Républicains in the French Senate found that the medical industry embarked upon the practice of giving children life-altering transgender treatments with little evidence of its effectiveness while ignoring the side effects.
The report found that while parents were often pressured by doctors to put their children on puberty-blocking drugs to prevent suicide, there is little proof that this course of action has any better outcomes for the child.
The head of the plastic surgery department at the Georges-Pompidou hospital in Paris, Laurent Lantieri told the report that there was “no evidence” that sex changes for children improved their quality of life because “there are obviously no randomized trials”.
Meanwhile, there was a prevalence of depression and other mental illnesses among children seeking to change their gender. The report found that 70 per cent of those seeking gender reassignment had “anxiety-depressive disorders” and 30 per cent had previously suffered some form of trauma, typically sexual abuse. Most disturbingly, 30 per cent of children seeking to change their gender were found to have been autistic, although they were often undiagnosed.
Concluding the report, the Les Républicains senator wrote: “Ultimately, there is every reason to believe that youth gender transition will be considered one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine. An ethical scandal approved by the medical profession, schools, universities, media and policies.”www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/2943508/euthanasia-pods-logical-conclusion-for-culture-of-death/‘Euthanasia pods’ are the logical conclusion for a culture of death
Exit International, the Australian-based international nonprofit organization that advocates the legalization of voluntary euthanasia, has completed a prototype for a suicide capsule machine that it hopes to soon make available worldwide.
In truth, the invention is mesmerizing. Its sleek, space-aged design is straight out of a “Star Trek” movie. But instead of being hooked up to a jetpack, the pod’s base is a detachable coffin — inhabitants aren’t catapulted into a faraway galaxy but lowered down into the cramped confines of eternal rest.
The magnificently grotesque invention holds the eye like a train wreck — or a bridge collapse. And the implications are revolting. Never before has suicide appeared more alluring or glamorous. A morbid photograph of an elated young woman sitting within the pod, smiling and waving, circulated on social media last month. The image was reminiscent of the final pictures taken of Heaven’s Gate cult members on the eve of their mass suicide in 1997.
Pod users will not need to consume drugs to finish the deed but simply press a button that floods the chamber with nitrogen, which rapidly reduces oxygen levels.
Better still, the pod can be produced using a 3D printer. Nitschke ultimately plans to make the blueprints available for anyone to download.www.ncregister.com/cna/canadian-judge-grants-27-year-old-autistic-woman-s-request-for-assisted-suicideCanadian Judge Grants 27-Year-Old Autistic Woman’s Request for Assisted Suicide
Canadian law stipulates that anyone seeking assisted suicide be suffering from “a serious illness, disease, or disability,” be experiencing “unbearable physical or mental suffering,” and be unable to reverse either the disease or the attendant suffering.
MV’s father argued that his daughter “is generally healthy” and that “her physical symptoms, to the extent that she has any, result from undiagnosed psychological conditions.”
Feasby himself noted that the woman “has not provided any evidence” to contest those assertions, “nor has she identified her medical condition or provided information concerning her symptoms and how they cause her to suffer.”
In his decision, the judge frankly admitted to MV: “I do not know you and I do not know why you seek MAID.” Her reasons for doing so, he wrote, “remain your own because I have respected your autonomy and your privacy.”www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/28/woman-graphically-describes-holding-her-chemically-aborted-baby-on-bloody-bathroom-floor/Woman Graphically Describes Holding Her Chemically Aborted Baby on Bloody Bathroom Floor
“I found myself on the bathroom floor, covered in a pool of blood, wondering if I was going to survive the procedure, completely alone,” Gillette said.
“I reached down and lifted out of my body the perfectly formed transparent sac with a recognizable baby inside,” she told Olohan.
She was between six and seven weeks pregnant when she took unspecified chemical abortion pills, Gillette recalled.
“They said it was going to be like a double period, and that just wasn’t true,” she said. “No one told me that I would hold my child in my hands and would need to decide what to do with that body. I ultimately flushed him down the toilet, into the septic tank.”
“It was so incredibly traumatic,” Gillette said of her own experience with abortion-inducing drugs. “I suffered horrific side effects, not only physical … to this day, I still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.”
“It’s something that has followed me since that day,” she added.
Another woman, Catherine Herring, told The Daily Signal that she “got violently ill” after her husband spiked drinks with an abortion-inducing drug.
“I ended up in an emergency room, with a urine sample that was black in color,” Herring said.
Herring said she had severe abdominal pain, diarrhea, and bleeding after consuming the drugs.www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/28/dem-men-dont-compete-womens-sports-stolen-titles-300/Democrats Claim Men ‘Don’t Compete in Women’s Sports’ as Stolen Athletic Titles Near 300
Does Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., really live in New York or an alternate universe?
People certainly wondered after a House Judiciary Committee hearing where the 76-year-old declared, “Men do not compete in women’s sports.” Is the president’s senility contagious or is Nadler living in complete denial of a global phenomenon that’s plunged communities into chaos?
Nadler was so determined to suppress reality that he actually moved to have evidence of the debate stricken from the record. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., had catalogued a number of times that biological boys had stolen girls’ titles and opportunities in the past several years.
Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., showed a video montage of girls who’ve been physically injured playing against biological boys in volleyball, field hockey, and basketball. From Massachusetts to North Carolina, members watched as girls screamed in pain, lost teeth, were carted off with head injuries. One of the victims, Payton McNabb, still suffers from blurred vision, partial paralysis, and memory loss.
We have examples, Spartz insisted, of “much stronger guys playing sports against biologically not-as-strong women.”
“Girls actually get hurt by biological males playing sports,” she argued. “I mean, it is really unbelievable for me that this is an issue that we cannot stand with women and girls on.” Instead, Spartz went on, “the other side tries to really deter the conversation in a different direction and divert it. … Let’s talk about how we are going to protect our women and girls.”
Nadler, the committee’s ranking member, fired back, “I object to concluding these mistruths in the record.”nypost.com/2024/03/28/us-news/fast-food-companies-seeing-low-income-diners-pare-orders/Fast-food companies seeing low-income diners pare orderswww.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/renting-now-cheaper-owning-all-americas-largest-metrosRenting Now Cheaper Than Owning In All Of America's Largest Metrosfreebeacon.com/national-security/us-intel-agency-bans-terms-radical-islamists-and-jihadist-because-theyre-hurtful-to-muslim-americans/US Intel Agency Wants To Ban Terms 'Radical Islamists' and 'Jihadist' Because They're Hurtful to Muslim Americans
The document outlines other terms that are not racially charged but are nonetheless labeled problematic.
"Grandfathered," for instance, refers to a "statutory and constitutional clause enacted by seven states from 1895 to 1910 that denied suffrage to African Americans, preventing them from the right to vote prior to 1866," according to a list of hurtful words included in the documents.
"Sanity check" is also listed as a term that could offend colleagues because it "implies that individuals with mental illness are inferior, wrong, or incorrect."www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/26/exclusive-obrien-emails-reveal-athens-mayor-saw-laken-rileys-murder-as-a-pr-problem/Emails Reveal Athens Mayor Saw Laken Riley’s Murder as a PR Problemnypost.com/2024/03/27/us-news/anti-israel-protesters-dump-manure-near-lloyd-austins-home/Angry anti-Israel protesters dump manure near Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s home: ‘You ain’t s–t’
On that same day, a similar group of protesters also hurled droppings near the home of White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, 47.
That triggered a Secret Service investigation and a bomb squad response. nypost.com/2024/03/26/us-news/ny-assembly-speaker-heastie-refuses-to-back-tougher-sentences-for-criminals-who-attack-retail-workers/NY Assembly Speaker Heastie refuses to back tougher sentences for criminals who attack retail workersnotthebee.com/article/the-city-of-oakland-is-leveling-thousands-of-dollars-in-fines-against-a-102-year-old-man-because-hes-having-a-tough-time-cleaning-the-graffiti-off-his-propertyOakland officials level fines at 102-year-old man in wheelchair who can't clean gang graffiti off his housewww.zerohedge.com/political/church-england-archdeacon-openly-calls-anti-whitenessChurch Of England Archdeacon Openly Calls For "Anti-Whiteness"
The group is also running a four-week long course titled “Being White” which asks clergy and lay members to consider “the ways we are caught up in a system of white superiority and white advantage in UK society.”
The Church of England has been heavily criticised recently for leaning into this kind of stuff.
The church recently announced it would be hiring a “deconstructing whiteness” officer to form part of a “racial justice unit” being set up by the Diocese of Birmingham.
In 2023 the CofE also established a £100 million fund to “address past wrongs of slavery,” even as some church buildings are literally falling apart.
The CofE has become so infested with wokery in general to the point that it has considered dropping the phrase “our Father” from the start of the Lord’s Prayer, and instructing clergy to refrain from using male pronouns when talking about God.
Some churches have gone as far as erasing references to the nativity and Jesus in a Christmas carol and replacing them with a celebration of “queer” people.www.zerohedge.com/political/government-funded-study-claims-shakespeare-made-theater-too-white-male-and-cisgenderGovernment Funded Study Claims Shakespeare Made Theater "Too White, Male, And Cisgender"
There are not enough black and brown disabled queer transgender migrants in Shakespeare’s plays apparently...www.dailywire.com/news/massachusetts-burning-75-million-a-month-on-shelters-may-soon-run-out-of-cash-amid-migrant-crisisMassachusetts Burning $75 Million A Month On Shelters, May Soon Run Out Of Cash Amid Migrant Crisiswww.breitbart.com/weather/2024/03/28/texas-solar-farm-damaged-in-hailstorm-locals-concerned-of-health-risks/Texans Concerned Over Potential Chemical Leakage from Solar Farm Damaged in Hailstorm
A hail storm that devastated a Texas solar farm has sparked concern within the surrounding community and among energy experts, who are questioning if “green” energy is really that safe.
The March 15 storm shattered “hundreds of panels” at the Fighting Jays Solar farm in Fort Bend County, Fox News reported.
Resident Nick Kaminski expressed worry about the broken solar panels potentially leaking harmful chemicals, such as cadmium telluride, a semiconducting material commonly used in panels that can cause “major health problems in inhalation and ingestion,” according to an iCliniq medical report.
“My concern is, with the hail damage that came through and busted these panels up, we now have some highly toxic chemicals that could be potentially leaking into our water tables,” Kaminski, of Needville, told KRIV-TV.
Daniel Turner, executive director of energy watchdog group Power the Future, highlighted the hail damage as an example of what could happen on a much larger scale if the country is forced into “green” energy.
“There’s this enormous shell game happening by the Biden administration, by the environmental left, presenting wind and solar as perfectly green, clean, and carbon-neutral,” Turner told the outlet. “They use all of these buzzwords. But they’re none of that and they also have enormous drawbacks. And it’s doing the American people a great disservice to obfuscate these very obvious shortcomings.”
He also pointed out that solar panels largely come from China.
“Why would we expect them to race to our aid when our grid is down nationwide, and they are the ones holding the goods that we need to get back up?” he posed.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/26/wsj-california-restaurants-lay-off-workers-as-20-minimum-wage-arrives/California Restaurants Lay Off Workers as $20 Minimum Wage Arrives
California restaurants, particularly pizza joints, have outlined plans to cut hundreds of jobs in the months leading up to the April 1 wage mandate, according to state records. Other operators said they have halted hiring or are scaling back workers’ hours.
labor groups have said they hope to replicate the law in other states.
A wage hike by Seattle to $15 per hour was found in 2017 to have cost the city’s average low-skilled worker $1,500 per year after employers cut working hours, according to a study sponsored by the city. Many of the hardest-hit businesses by municipal hikes in minimum wage laws across the country have been in the restaurant industry.
California’s unemployment rate is the nation’s highest, reaching 5.3% in February, according to the latest jobs report.Fraud Watch thefederalist.com/2024/03/25/tough-on-crime-democrats-lead-shrinks-after-chicago-officials-mistakenly-forgot-9000-mail-ballots/Tough-On-Crime Democrat’s Lead Shrinks After Chicago Officials ‘Mistakenly’ Forgot 9,000 Mail BallotsAcadumbia www.dailywire.com/news/unhinged-vanderbilt-protesters-call-911-for-one-to-change-her-tampon-resort-to-peeing-in-bottles-to-avoid-arrestUnhinged Vanderbilt Protesters Call 911 For Help To Change Tampon, Resort To Peeing In Bottles To Avoid Arrest
Student protesters at Vanderbilt University who were staging a sit-in protest against Israel fell into a state of panic over logistical mishaps, and ended up urinating into plastic bottles and calling 911 because a woman said she’d go into toxic shock if she couldn’t change her tampon.
The protest was derailed when the students realized they couldn’t leave the hall to handle basic bodily functions without getting arrested for their protest. At one point in the protest, demonstrators gathered in front of Kirkland Hall and clapped while chanting “Let them pee.”
Protesters also complained that “Vanderbilt administration is starving protesters” after the officers monitoring the sit-in were brought food from Panera Bread for themselves. “Vanderbilt administration prohibited students from receiving food from outside Kirkland and students are currently peeing in bottles,” one graphic posted by students about the sit-in claims.
Vanderbilt Spokeswoman Julia Jordan explained the reasons for the arrests in a statement, noting that three students pushed “a Community Service Officer and a staff member who offered to meet with them as they entered Kirkland Hall on Tuesday,” going on to add that “a fourth student has been charged with vandalism after breaking a window on the building’s exterior last evening.”
“All of the protest participants who breached the building will be placed on interim suspension,” Jordan went on to say. “Yesterday’s protest at Kirkland Hall was not a peaceful one. It began with the assault of a Vanderbilt community service officer and continued with protesters physically pushing Vanderbilt staff members with the hope of entering and occupying the chancellor’s office.”freebeacon.com/campus/at-columbia-an-israeli-designated-terror-group-teaches-palestinian-resistance-101-and-lauds-plane-hijackings/At Columbia, an Israeli-Designated Terror Group Teaches 'Palestinian Resistance 101'—And Lauds Plane Hijackings
On Sunday, a group of keffiyeh-clad individuals huddled around a computer to discuss the "Palestinian resistance." Charlotte Kates, a member of the Israeli-designated terror group Samidoun, praised Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack for showing "the potential of a future for Palestine liberated from Zionism." Khaled Barakat, a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine activist, lauded airplane hijackings as "one of the most important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in."
While those speakers and other attendees were explicit in their support for terrorism against Jews, the event did not take place in Gaza, Doha, or Tehran. It took place in New York City, where an anti-Semitic Columbia University student group—Columbia University Apartheid Divest—invited the speakers to deliver a lecture on "the fight for liberation," titled "Palestinian Resistance 101."
In addition to Kates and Barakat, the Sunday event featured Within Our Lifetime founder Nerdeen Kiswani, who has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." The three speakers routinely praised Hamas and Hezbollah, advocated for armed resistance against Israel, and encouraged attendees to "be of service … to the resistance movements that are on the front lines fighting Zionism."Modern day vermin freebeacon.com/latest-news/al-jazeera-quietly-deletes-story-falsely-alleging-idf-raped-palestinians-in-gaza-hospital/Al Jazeera Quietly Deletes Story Falsely Alleging IDF (insert a whole bunch of Islamist BS and lies here) Houthi Joe's corner notthebee.com/takes/presidents-biden-obama-clinton-and-trump-were-in-nyc-today-only-one-went-to-the-funeral-of-slain-officer-jonathan-dillerBiden, Obama, Clinton, and Trump were in NYC today. Only one went to the funeral of slain officer Jonathan Diller.nypost.com/2024/03/28/us-news/biden-hits-nyc-for-25m-fundraiser-with-colbert-obama-clinton-as-trump-heads-to-murdered-nypd-officers-wake/Biden hits NYC for $25M fundraiser with Colbert, Obama, Clinton — but still hasn’t commented on NYPD officer’s killing
Comedian and actress Mindy Kaling will host a portion of the event, which will also feature musical acts by Queen Latifah, Lizzo, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo and Lea Michele.
The Biden campaign hailed the celebrity fundraiser as “the most successful political fundraiser in American history” in a press release.
Trump sought to flip the script, writing in an emailed fundraising appeal: “Remember, my campaign isn’t powered by the Hollywood ‘elite’ writing 6-figure checks – IT’S POWERED BY YOU!”thefederalist.com/2024/03/28/house-republicans-ask-joe-biden-to-testify-about-corruption-charges-in-impeachment-hearing/House Republicans Ask Joe Biden To Testify About Corruption Charges In Impeachment Hearing
Comer’s letter outlined investigators’ case against Biden. It identifies $24 million from “foreign sources” as flowing to Biden, his family, and associates for “no legitimate services” provided.
“I want to be crystal clear: from my direct personal experience and what I have subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was ‘the brand’ being sold by the Biden family,” said Bobulinski. “His family’s foreign influence peddling operation — from China to Ukraine and elsewhere — sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government.”
Another primary area of inquiry by congressional investigators is a $3.5 million payment from Yelena Baturina, the widow of an ex-Moscow mayor.
“In February 2014, the richest woman in Russia paid into your son and his business associate’s company $3.5 million days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in an apparent attempt to avoid U.S. sanctions on Russian bank accounts,” Comer wrote. “To date, the Russian oligarch has not been subject to any public sanctions.”
Comer also summarized the Biden family’s scandalous arrangement in Ukraine, wherein Hunter raked in millions from an energy company despite no prior experience in the industry while Joe Biden was vice president. During that time, Biden, who dictated White House policy towards Ukraine, demanded Ukrainian authorities fire a prosecutor who was investigating his son’s energy firm.
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee said earlier this month that lawmakers would most likely be making criminal referrals to the Department of Justice (DOJ). www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/28/house-speaker-sending-articles-of-impeachment-against-dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-to-senate/House Speaker Sending Articles of Impeachment Against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to Senate
On February 13, 2024, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Secretary Mayorkas for high crimes and misdemeanors, including his willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and his breach of the public trust. The evidence on both charges is clear, comprehensive, and compelling, and the House’s solemn act to impeach the first sitting Cabinet official in American history demands timely action by the Senate. [Emphasis added]
This methodical approach led us—and the American people—to the conclusion that Secretary Mayorkas’ actions warranted impeachment. He refused to comply with the requirements of the immigration laws passed by Congress. In fact, he directed, through a series of memoranda, DHS employees to violate U.S. immigration laws. Consequently, the Secretary is responsible for releasing millions of illegal aliens into the interior and creating unlawful massparole programs. Throughout his tenure, he has repeatedly lied to Congress and the American people about the scope of the crisis and his role in it. His unlawful actions are responsible for the historic crisis that has devastated communities throughout our country, from the smallest border town in Texas to New York City.
The constitutional grounds for Secretary Mayorkas’ conviction and removal from office are well-founded, and the historical record is clear. The Framers of our Constitution gave Congress this authority for scenarios where executive branch officials, who are responsible for executing the laws passed by Congress, flout the law substituting their own judgment for that of Congress.
“As we have said previously, after the House impeachment managers present the articles of impeachment to the Senate, Senators will be sworn in as jurors in the trial the next day. Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray will preside,” Schumer’s office said in response.
Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Tom McClintock (R-CA) have asked Mayorkas to hand over records detailing every migrant released during his tenure. The secretary, though, has refused to respond to the request.
“Secretary Mayorkas took an oath to support and defend the Constitution and faithfully discharge the duties of his office — yet he has violated the oath of office, abused his powers, and betrayed the trust of the American people while harming them,” RJ Hauman with the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE) told Breitbart News.
Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker said that “every senator should explain their position to the American people” on Mayorkas’s impeachment.
“Do they want to show the country the evidence against the man responsible for the deadly border crisis, or will they help Biden cover up the truth?” Walker asked.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/25/gop-blasts-bidens-unconscionable-un-vote-abstention-gaza-anti-israel-president/GOP Blasts Biden’s ‘Unconscionable’ U.N. Vote Abstention on Gaza
“Immediately after 10/7, Biden defended Israel. But it was just words from a failed politician,” wrote Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). “After a few bad polls, he has decided to throw Israel under the bus.”
“It’s disgraceful that Biden’s entire electoral strategy relies on his Department of Justice prosecuting Donald Trump,” he added in another post. “More befitting of a banana republic than America.”
"Biden’s lack of leadership and inaction at the UN are a disgrace,” wrote Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). “Instead of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our great ally, the Biden administration has undermined Israel and emboldened Hamas terrorists at every turn.”
“Today, the Biden Administration Facilitated the passage of pro-Hamas United Nations Resolution,” wrote Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). “I am calling on the administration officials, including and especially State Department officials, to reverse these reckless and catastrophic policies.”
“I will continue to hold them accountable until they do,” he added.
“Disgraceful. Joe Biden is siding with terrorists, abandoning Israel and the hostages in Gaza and destroying US credibility with our allies,” wrote Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN). “Most anti Israel president of my lifetime!”
“The Biden administration continues to undermine our closest ally in the Middle East,” wrote Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC).
“Hamas must immediately release all hostages and surrender, or be destroyed,” he added. “That should be the position of the United States.”
“It’s shameful that the US allowed the UN’s resolution to pass, rather than vetoing it,” wrote Rep. French Hill (R-AR). “The Biden Admin failed to stand with Israel today at a time where we must show unwavering support for our strongest Middle East ally.”
“The change in position by @potus is a disgrace,” wrote Rep.Mike Lawler (R-NY). “He is putting Democrat party politics and electoral votes above US foreign policy interests and the safety and security of Israel.”
“Utterly appalling that Biden allowed this resolution, which fails to condemn Hamas, to pass,” wrote Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC). “He’s pandering for the votes of fringe political extremists and those who cover for the actions of terrorists.”
“The Biden Administration turned its back on Israel today at the UN,” wrote Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE). “Demanding a ceasefire from Israel while Hamas continues to hold over 100 hostages including five Americans is repugnant.”
“Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and killed 1,200 innocent people,” he added. “Hamas is a dangerous threat that Israel has every right to destroy.” freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-admin-coordinates-with-unrwa-after-congress-banned-taxpayer-dollars-state-department-says/Biden Admin Coordinates With UNRWA After Congress Banned Taxpayer Dollars, State Department Says - 'Biden administration is trying to flout Congress’s ban on UNRWA funding'thefederalist.com/2024/03/25/february-data-shows-new-record-high-for-bidens-border-invasion/The invasion at the Southern U.S. border intensified last month when more than 189,900 illegal border crossers were caught entering the United States.
That statistic marks the highest number of illegal border crossers recorded in any February since U.S. Customs and Border Protection began tracking apprehensions in 2000. It also comes on the heels of the most single-month foreign trespasser encounters ever, more than 300,000, recorded by border officials in December.
Biden has the power to end the border invasion and many of the complications that come with it, but chooses not to. Instead, his administration blames Republicans. At the same time the White House publicly criticizes Republicans like former President Donald Trump and Greg Abbott, it’s working to strip states of the power to defend themselves.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/25/jd-vance-the-biden-administration-wants-trump-to-die-in-jail/JD Vance: The Biden Administration Wants Trump to Die in Jail
"The Biden administration wants Trump to die in jail and they want to bankrupt his family. It is the biggest assault on democracy we’ve ever seen. If you’re too cowardly to call it out, you’re not ready for his moment in American politics."
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), another Trump ally, called the attempted seizures “profoundly un-American.” He posted on X:
"The egregious attempted seizure of President Trump’s assets for a victimless “crime” will forever taint the legal system of New York and sets a dangerous new precedent for our nation.
"Weaponizing justice to forcibly seize the livelihood of political opposition is shocking, tyrannical, and profoundly un-American"www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/25/nolte-majority-of-56-believe-joe-biden-trying-to-win-by-jailing-trump/Majority of 56% Believe Joe Biden Trying to Win by Jailing Trump
Back in July, 54 percent agreed that Biden should stop interfering in the election via lawfare, while 38 percent disagreed. Today, that difference has widened even further to 58 to 34 percent.www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/03/25/poll-majority-vote-trump-over-biden-convicted-documents-case/Poll: Majority to Vote Trump over Biden if Convicted in Documents Casefreebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-could-use-indigenous-knowledge-to-kill-critical-mining-project/Biden Admin Could Use 'Indigenous Knowledge' To Kill Critical Mining Project
Documents and emails obtained by Protect the Public's Trust and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show that senior Interior Department staff consulted with tribal leaders in an environmental review of the Ambler Access Project, a proposed 211-mile road in northwest Alaska that leads to copper and zinc deposits, considered to be some of the largest in the country. Those two metals are used in a variety of consumer products, such as batteries and wind turbines.
The White House released a draft of its environmental review for the project, which is expected to cost $2 billion, last October. The over 1,000-page draft contains at least 14 references to "indigenous knowledge," a pseudoscientific belief that posits native peoples possess unique insights about the workings of the universe.
"In her first months as Interior Secretary, Deb Haaland promised to 'unleash the science.' Yet, when it matters, her department is using undeniably subjective approaches that are not subject to evaluation, validation, or duplication—that are decidedly not science—in making major decisions," said Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public's Trust.
Senior White House officials have already cited "indigenous knowledge" in the decision to deny oil drilling leases, and the Centers for Disease Control recently added the practice to its scientific integrity guidelines.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/26/report-doj-sought-info-on-james-biden-in-connection-to-medicare-fraud-case/Report: DOJ Sought Info on James Biden in Connection to Medicare Fraud Case
Americore is accused of being part of a scheme to defraud Medicare...investors in the Third Friday Total Return Fund allege that the money manager in charge of the fund looted millions of dollars from it by making sham loans to Americore, then diverted roughly $600,000 of the embezzled funds to Jim Biden.
James Biden admitted to Congress in February that he earned money to organize some of the loans for the company. He received a $200,000 loan from Americore and on the same day, cut Joe Biden a $200,000 check, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) revealed in October.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/28/poll-majority-worse-off-financially-under-joe-biden-up-25-points-since-2021/www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/29/joe-bidens-america-wealthiest-1-set-record-44-trillion-total-net-worth/Poll: Majority Are ‘Worse Off Financially’ Under Joe Biden, Up 25 Points Since 2021...
...Joe Biden’s America: Wealthiest 1% Set Record with $44 Trillion Total Net Worth - while majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck
Under Biden’s leadership, prices across the board surged by nearly 20 percent. Gas prices are also up about 48 percent since Biden took office.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/29/report-white-house-press-corps-loots-air-force-one-wine-glasses-tumblers-gold-rimmed-plates/Report: White House Press Corps Loots Air Force One — Wine Glasses, Tumblers, Gold-Rimmed Plates
“On my first flight, the person next to me was like, ‘You should take that glass,’” one current White House reporter told West Wing Playbook. “They were like: ‘Everyone does it.’”
"When we raised the subject with current and former White House correspondents, stories spilled forth. There’s one about the senator in the front of the plane who — as a chatty aide told reporters — was taking everything not bolted down. Several colleagues of one former White House correspondent for a major newspaper described them hosting a dinner party where all the food was served on gold-rimmed Air Force One plates, evidently taken bit by bit over the course of some time. Reporters recalled coming down the back stairs after returning to Joint Base Andrews in the evening with the sounds of clinking glassware or porcelain plates in their backpacks."
The reported looting of Air Force One reflects poorly on a press corps that already suffers from low trust. Confidence in establishment media to accurately report “news in a full, fair and accurate way” fell to the lowest level since 2016’s record low, a Gallup poll released in 2023 found.
Distrust in the media is well documented. Gallup also found that 50 percent of Americans said the national media intend to mislead, misinform, and persuade the public, as just 35 percent said most news organizations could be relied upon. In addition, six out of ten Americans said the establishment media are to blame for misinformation, another Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights poll revealed.www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/29/bidens-big-bet-on-military-abortions-falls-flat/Biden’s Big Bet on Military Abortions Falls FlatGhoulish, but just goes to show that the military is the least likely group to kill babies: No single related action garnered more attention than Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin‘s announcement that the Defense Department would use taxpayer funds to pay for abortion travel. Now, a new Pentagon report finds that the Biden administration’s abortion travel policy for service members and dependents was used only 12 times from June through December.
Pentagon officials also explain that it’s not clear whether any of the 12 trips actually involved abortion, since the policy also may be used for other fertility-related health services.
On Wednesday, Wicker sent his fourth letter in 12 months to Austin, seeking information from the defense secretary that justifies the Defense Department’s abortion travel policy. So far, the Pentagon has provided no proper justification that the policy is needed for military readiness.
Wicker’s fellow Senate Republican, Tuberville, had given the Biden administration a choice: Double down on the need for this policy of taxpayer-funded travel for abortion, and Tuberville’s holds on hundreds of nominees for promotion would remain. Or follow the law, which prohibits the Pentagon from using taxpayer funds to pay for elective abortions, and the military promotions could move forward.
Austin’s answer was to stand unequivocally by the abortion travel policy, claiming it’s necessary to maintain military readiness...
what the Pentagon’s report proves is that the Biden administration was willing to jeopardize hundreds of military promotions and inconvenience those families over an abortion travel policy used 12 times.
The Pentagon’s report on the abortion travel policy, along with Tuberville’s heroic holds on promotions, allows all Americans to see the true priority for the Defense Department under Joe Biden: Military readiness and fidelity to the law will take a back seat to pro-abortion extremism at any cost.freebeacon.com/biden-administration/joe-bidens-political-origin-story-is-almost-certainly-bogus-and-he-just-swore-to-it-under-oath/Joe Biden’s Political Origin Story Is Almost Certainly Bogus. It May Land Him In Legal Trouble.
For nearly two decades, Biden has told a story about why he devoted his life to politics. He repeated the tale, at the risk of facing criminal charges for lying to a federal agent, while speaking to Special Counsel Robert Hur in October 2023.
It is extremely unlikely that Biden had any involvement in the case. He was 21 years old when Januszewski filed suit in May 1964. At the time, Biden was completing his junior year at the University of Delaware in Newark. He was finishing his law degree at Syracuse University when a federal jury ruled in Januszewski’s favor four years later, and didn’t start working for Prickett, Ward, Burt & Sanders until at least June 1968, according to his memoir. By then, records show, the case had concluded. No appeal was filed.
Some of the language Biden used in recounting the incident to Hur matches that found in an article published by the Wilmington News-Journal, which Biden reportedly reads daily.
Over the years, Biden has told different versions of the welder story. He told Hur that he received several offers from "prestigious law firms," one of which he landed because of his good looks. Biden says he accepted a job at Prickett, Ward, Burt & Sanders but could not begin work until he passed the bar exam and started as a law clerk at the firm.
In his 2007 memoir, however, Biden says he had very few job prospects after his 1968 graduation from Syracuse University Law School and that Prickett took a chance on him, offering him a role despite his poor grades—including the F he received in a torts class after he was caught plagiarizing.
Regardless, Biden began work at Prickett in 1968 and spent about a year at the firm. It was there, Biden says, that senior partner William Prickett tapped him to draft a motion to dismiss a case against the firm’s client, Catalytic Construction Company, which had been sued by a welder who had been engulfed in flames while working inside a chimney at a Delaware plant.
If there was any "slightly contributory negligence," Biden said to Hur, "you were out." So, Biden told Hur that, in his brief, he leveraged the welder’s failure to wear protective gear and argued the worker bore legal responsibility for his misfortune.www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/03/26/biden-recalls-train-destroyed-bridge-no-tracks-gaffe/Biden tells of train journeys over collapsed Baltimore bridge ... that never had tracksAmerican people: *die* Joe: "hmm what bullshit fake story can I plagiarize to make this tragedy about me?"
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www.timesofisrael.com/irans-revolutionary-guard-a-powerful-force-seeking-to-reshape-the-middle-east/Iran’s Revolutionary Guard: A potent terror force seeking to reshape the Middle East - Designated a terrorist group by the US, the IRGC backs Tehran’s allies in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, and founded Hezbollah to export Islamic Republic’s fight against Israel to Lebanonwww.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-says-it-foiled-plot-by-arab-israelis-palestinians-to-assassinate-ben-gvir/Shin Bet says it foiled plot by Arab Israelis, Palestinians to assassinate Ben Gvir - Group allegedly planned RPG hit on national security minister; also said to plan attacks at Ben Gurion Airport, IDF bases, government complex in Jerusalem
Seven Arab Israelis and four West Bank Palestinians were arrested in connection with the plot, the agency said.
The agency said the cell also sought to kidnap IDF soldiers.
According to the Shin Bet, the cell planned to rent a plot of land in southern Israel’s Rahat or an area in the West Bank to establish a factory with an underground complex where it would manufacture weapons and train operatives.
Meanwhile, in a separate case, security forces foiled a plot by three East Jerusalem men who had sworn allegiance to Islamic State and planned to carry out terror attacks in the capital, Israel Police and the Shin Bet general security service said in a statement Thursday.
Two of the men plotted to place explosives and carry out a shooting attack on a police station in East Jerusalem as well as at Teddy Stadium in the capital, which has the largest capacity in the country and hosts some of the national team’s home soccer matches.
The pair, described as being in their 20s, tried to prepare an explosive device for the attacks but were unsuccessful.
They then joined with the third person who advised them on their planned attack and urged them to go overseas for military training, the statement said.www.timesofisrael.com/fatah-accuses-iran-of-sowing-chaos-in-west-bank/Fatah accuses Iran of sowing chaos in West Bank - Faction controlling Palestinian Authority says it will act against outsiders trying to ‘exploit the blood of our people’freebeacon.com/latest-news/former-israeli-hostage-says-every-woman-in-hamas-captivity-faces-sexual-abuse/Former Israeli Hostage Says 'Every Woman' in Hamas Captivity Faces Sexual Abusewww.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/01/report-israel-kills-iranian-commander-in-damascus-airstrike/Report: Israel Kills Iranian Commander in Damascus Airstrike
Israel reportedly killed senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official Mohammad Reza Zahedi in an airstrike in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, a sign that Israel is taking on growing threats from Iran and its terrorist proxies.
The airstrike recalled that of the U.S. against IRGC leader Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad, Iraq, in January 2020 — a successful operation that deterred Iran from further attacks on U.S. facilities and personnel. (Then-candidate Joe Biden criticized the attack, as did all of the other major Democratic Party candidates for president.)
President Donald Trump declared the IRGC a terrorist organization...Iran arms and funds Hezbollah in Lebanon; Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in Gaza and Lebanon; and the Houthi militias in Yemen. It also controls militias in Iraq and elsewhere that have attacked American troops.
Hezbollah has been firing on northern Israeli cities since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. Israel has responded with airstrikes on Hezbollah targets and on Hamas commanders in Lebanon. Israel has also been targeting Iranian proxies for years in Syria as they attempt to move weapons and personnel into Lebanon that can threaten Israel.www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/2947127/israeli-withdraw-shifa-hospital-terrorists-killed/Israeli forces withdraw from Shifa Hospital after killing 200 terrorists
The IDF previously cleared the hospital last year, but restarted those efforts about two weeks ago and have engaged in close combat against Hamas at the hospital. Israeli military officials said they killed about 200 terrorists in this “targeted operation” that began last month, while more than 500 others have been detained.
A central tenet of Hamas’s military strategy is to embed itself within and underneath Gaza’s civilian population, hence their previous use of the hospital and their attempt to get back into it in recent weeks. The result is that Hamas puts Palestinian civilians in harm’s way, forcing Israeli forces to decide whether to risk the possibility of incurring civilian casualties in order to go after the terrorist group.www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/2947383/us-no-ability-see-afghanistan-mckenzie-warns/US has ‘almost no ability to see into’ Afghanistan as ISIS reconstitutes, former general warns
McKenzie’s successor, Gen. Michael Kurilla, told lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee in early March that ISIS-K “retains the capability and will to attack U.S. and Western interests abroad in as little as six months and with little to no warning.”
It has carried out two major attacks in Iran and Russia this year.
"in Afghanistan, we have almost no ability to see into that country and almost no ability to strike into that country. And so, ISIS there is able to grow unabated. There’s no pressure on them.”
“Unfortunately, we no longer place that pressure on them, so they’re free to gain strength. They’re free to plan. They’re free to coordinate and to outreach that hit us in our homelands,” he explained, warning that ISIS, as a whole, has a “strong desire” to attack the continental U.S. and is “going to try to do it.”
The terrorist group has carried out major attacks outside of Afghanistan in 2024. The first was a bombing in Iran near the burial site of slain military commander Qassem Soleimani. Last month, supposed ISIS-K gunmen killed about 140 people in a Russian mass shooting at a concert hall.
McKenzie and several other senior military leaders believed the United States should maintain a small military presence in Afghanistan, but Joe Biden went against their advice and moved ahead with a complete withdrawal. The former CENTCOM commander believed the U.S. may have been safer if the country still had troops there.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), a former Green Beret, wrote in a Fox News op-ed published on Monday that the situation developing in Afghanistan is reminiscent of the consequences of Barack Obama’s decision to withdraw from Iraq, which allowed ISIS to establish a caliphate across Iraq and Syria.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/03/nato-lite-finland-is-latest-member-to-sign-10-year-defence-deal-with-ukraine/‘NATO Lite’: Finland is Latest Member to Sign 10-Year Defence Deal With Ukraine
An agreement that reaffirms Finnish support for Ukraine militarily, financially, and politically while stating Finland will be involved in efforts to prosecute Russian figures for war crimes was signed on Wednesday. The deal is the eighth such agreement, all with reasonably similar contents, signed with a NATO member state this year.
While in many cases the content is essentially reaffirming things Finland is already doing, the document does announce new, further funding for Ukraine worth $203 million.
The agreement is largely one way and very focussed on the dangers of future, repeated Russian invasions of Ukraine and does not call upon Kyiv to come to Finland’s aid, should Moscow invade Europe to the north. Finland has an 800-mile land border with Russia.
Also mentioned is Russian complicity in war crimes against Ukraine, and Finland undertakes to ensure there is no “impunity” for war crimes for Russian leaders. It affirms that: “the Russian Federation must be held accountable for the damages caused by its internationally wrongful acts in and against Ukraine”.freebeacon.com/latest-news/investigation-links-russian-hit-squad-to-us-officials-havana-syndrome/Investigation Links Russian Hit Squad to US Officials' 'Havana Syndrome'
Symptoms of Havana syndrome—which the U.S. government terms "anomalous health incidents," or AHI— include sudden headaches, vertigo, ringing in the ears, nausea, and in some cases blindness or hearing loss. The syndrome was named after U.S. officials in the Cuban capital first reported experiencing these symptoms in late 2016.
The investigation placed suspected Russian agents in the same locations as U.S. officials when they began experiencing symptoms. Journalist Christo Grozev of The Insider also uncovered a Russian document showing a Unit 29155 officer performed work focused on "potential capabilities of non-lethal acoustic weapons," a discovery Grozev called the "closest to a receipt you can have for this."www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/04/02/report-venezuela-using-brutal-tren-aragua-gang-hunt-down-dissidents-abroad/Report: Venezuela Using Brutal Tren de Aragua Gang to Hunt Down Dissidents Abroad
Caracol claimed the documents showed that DGCIM has been acting in Colombia “for years” in alliance with ELN and other criminal groups to access national security secrets and persecute opponents of the socialist regime.
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Granko, the head of DGCIM’s special affairs unit, is described as the “brain” of the regime’s illegal operations on foreign soil. America sanctioned Granko, also known as “Black Hand” and “The Man of a Thousand Faces,” alongside three other DGCIM leaders in 2019 during the administration of former President Donald Trump for systemic human rights abuses and the repression of dissent in Venezuela.
In 2022, the United Nations Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela identified DGCIM as one of the repressive agencies that the Maduro regime uses to carry out crimes against humanity against dissidents, including the use of extreme acts of torture, sexual violence, and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatments to punish them for disagreeing with the government.
Attempts to silence opponents of socialism abroad are part of the regime’s plans to dismantle purported conspiracies to overthrow Maduro. The Colombian news channel identified three dissidents targeted in Colombia and Chile.
The first target was Ányelo Heredia, a former Venezuelan military captain who was reported as kidnapped in December. Caracol reported that ELN terrorists abducted Heredia near Cúcuta and handed him over to the Maduro regime’s intelligence unit.
The second target was Ronald Ojeda, a former Venezuelan lieutenant living in exile in Chile. Ojeda was abducted from his residence in Chile on February 21 by a group of men that reportedly impersonated members of Chile’s immigration police. His body was found buried inside a suitcase under a concrete structure in the Santiago metropolitan region ten days later.
The third target identified is Venezuelan student leader Pablo Parada, who Caracol stated was recently the victim of an attack in Bogotá by a local criminal organization allegedly in the service of the Maduro regime.
Parada told Caracol that he was pursued by six men in the late evening hours of March 10 as he was heading to a house with a group of acquaintances. The men chased Parada, according to his testimony, but he was able to elude them by jumping through a ravine.www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/04/02/colombias-farc-terrorists-boast-youth-recruitment-boom-8-years-after-peace-deal/Colombia’s FARC Terrorists Boast of Youth Recruitment Boom — 8 Years After ‘Peace Deal’
The FARC signed a “peace deal” in 2016 with the government of then-President Juan Manuel Santos and with the support of state sponsor of terrorism Cuba in which it claimed to abandon terrorism in exchange for uncontested seats in Congress, legal immunity, and other perks. Since then, mainstream media refers to the ongoing terrorist activities of the FARC as “dissident” actions, enforcing the fantasy that the only “true” FARC is the leadership welcome in Bogotá. The deal – as evidenced by the announcement this weekend of the expansion of terrorist operations – failed to eradicate the half-century-old narco-terrorist organization.
Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 for the failed effort.
The announcement this weekend alarmed the Colombian conservative opposition after FARC leaders claimed that they were successfully recruiting “youth” to its new unit. The FARC has a long history of using child soldiers and engaging in crimes such as torture and rape of children.
Colombian opposition lawmakers heavily criticized Petro’s administration after the FARC made its announcement, denouncing Petro for allowing the organization to prosper.
Senator Miguel Uribe published a video on Monday accusing Petro of taking Colombia back to the “worst times of violence” and of allowing FARC to recruit minors.
“The FARC has just announced the creation of a new bloc and is calling on young Colombians to join its ranks. They confess that they have recruited dozens of young people during the government of Gustavo Petro,” Uribe said. “That is to say, while Petro offers them impunity, the Farc and the criminal organizations are getting stronger.”
Colombian lawmaker Hernán Cadavid detailed on Monday how the FARC has expanded its presence, increased its armed ranks, and expanded its criminal activities since Petro took office in 2022. Cadavid also stressed that, according to official statistics, there were at least 184 registered cases of forced recruitment of minors and 210 violations to the now-suspended ceasefire agreement by the FARC during 2023.The Future of Europe www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/01/jk-rowling-could-investigated-misgendering-snp-law-scotland/JK Rowling dares police to arrest her over SNP’s new hate crime lawwww.zerohedge.com/political/poland-prepares-new-hate-speech-law-3-years-prison-insulting-lgbt-peoplePoland Prepares New Hate-Speech Law: 3 Years In Prison For Insulting LGBT PeopleThe real future www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/03/woke-fail-leftist-scottish-leader-receives-more-hate-speech-complaints-than-j-k-rowling/Woke Fail: Leftist Scottish Leader Receives More Hate Speech Complaints than J.K. Rowling, as Police Swamped with Reports
Former general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, Calum Steele revealed on Wednesday that Police Scotland received a hate speech report on an average of every two minutes since the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act came into force on Monday, LBC reports.
This, he said, equated to around 3,800 complaints in the first two days of the controversial new law, which criminalises the vaguely worded “stirring up hatred” against protected groups on the basis of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, and transgender identity with a penalty of up to seven years in prison.
Steele claimed that “more than half” of the complaints have yet to be processed, as Police Scotland said that every report would be reviewed, despite the force being stretched thin with actual crimes, such as the drug epidemic in the country, which has the highest drug-related death rate in all of Europe.
According to a police source speaking to The Scottish Sun newspaper, Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf, the architect of the new speech restrictions, received more complaints than J.K Rowling over his 2020 speech in the locally devolved Scottish parliament decrying that there were too many white people...In a further embarrassment for the leftist government in Edinburg, SNP minister Siobhian Brown revealed on Wednesday that police were receiving numerous “fake and vexatious complaints” to stymie the system, including at least one fake complaint made in her name.
Brown, the minister who said “misgendering” would be illegal under the Act, told BBC Scotland: “I was surprised myself on Monday to receive a call from Police Scotland about my complaint – this was a fake complaint someone had done anonymously in my name, and gave my office number.”
Tory Member of Scottish Parliament Murdo Fraser, who has threatened legal action against the police force after it was revealed that he had a “hate incident” recorded against him for comparing so-called non-binary people to those who identify as cats, called on Police Scotland to reveal if they have also made a report against Yousaf.
“And the police have investigated this, they’ve said quite rightly in my view, there was no criminality here. But in line with their policy, the police will have to record each and every one of these complaints as a non-crime hate incident, both against JK Rowling and the first minister Humza Yousaf.”
“There’s actually a fairly significant point, because in relation to the first minister, either the police are going to treat an opposition politician in Scotland like myself differently from the way they treat the SNP first minister which would be an absolute outrage, or the police in Scotland agree to say that Scotland’s first minister is responsible for a hate incident.”www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/lionel-shriver-mania-interview-transgenderism/Lionel Shriver: ‘Transgenderism is a social mania’ - I would scrap all hate speech legislation'
“You cannot survive as a civilisation in a state of cringing shame,” says Lionel Shriver, as she launches into a broadside at the self-loathing that people are supposed to feel about the colonial sins of the West. “I am very suspicious of this whole pose of guilt,” she says, explaining that it’s usually used by white people to “assert superiority over other white people”. I’m with the writer of We Need to Talk About Kevin at her house outside Lisbon; she moved there in October after living in the UK for 25 years. She’s not holding back.
“Real guilt is a terrible sensation. It is not something that you parade, shame. That is not what these people are experiencing. It’s proud guilt. It’s used to shut people up, to essentially deprive you of your right to free speech.”
We’ve been chatting about her latest novel, Mania, which digs into the way that social manias have come to dominate our world. They’re insidious, she believes, from the clamour for Covid lockdowns (“the biggest public health mistake in history. And the biggest economic mistake in history”) to global warming (“anyone who is not on side with climate change is evil”).
In Mania, she goes back in time to depict an alternative history that begins in 2011, “because I think that’s when things started really going to s---”. It’s a dystopian satire, dark and funny in uncomfortable ways, about how society is radically transformed by the Mental Parity movement – “the last great civil rights fight” – which maintains that “stupidity is a fiction” and that it’s “discriminatory” to suggest that anyone is more intelligent than anyone else.
Beyond the comic set pieces, there’s a serious intent in how Shriver depicts society being hollowed out from within, and it’s clear that it is no imaginary world in her sights. “Things start falling apart because functionality no longer matters; all that matters is ideology. And that’s what we’re dealing with right now. You’re watching grand storied universities destroy themselves because they no longer believe in themselves, they don’t believe in the canon they’re supposed to be transferring to the next generation.” The students now have the power, she says. “It was bad enough that the universities had converted into supermarkets, which were offering products. But the administration and faculty are now terrified of their own student bodies.”
Cancel culture, Shriver believes, “is getting worse... there’s nothing moderate about it. It’s aggressive, hostile, angry, deliberately disruptive, vengeful, perhaps vengeful above all... it’s about hunting people’s careers for sport.” The goal, she says, “is to utterly destroy you. And that is the appeal of this stuff – that satisfaction of destroying other people’s lives. And also, in doing so, you don’t have to take any responsibility for being a destructive force. You are the force of righteousness.”
We talk about JK Rowling, whom the Telegraph has described as “the woman who can’t be cancelled”. “Of course, they would have taken her down if they could,” Shriver says. “That’s why she’s been so important. Because she hasn’t apologised, which has been the format, traditionally. She’s stuck by her guns and has helped make it more possible for people who are in less powerful positions to also be forthright about their reservations about this consuming social mania for transgenderism.”
What has particularly disturbed her is “the personal disloyalty between individuals who maybe go back decades,” she says. In the case of the Harry Potter cast, “it’s been really hideous to watch. It’s almost always someone to the Left disavowing someone who’s a little bit to the Right,” she adds.
It happened to Shriver after an appearance on Question Time in 2019: “There was one person in particular who ended our friendship… for purely political reasons. We’d been friends for 13 years, and then suddenly she couldn’t. I always thought there was an undercurrent of she couldn’t afford to be associated with me.”
The novel is about the phenomenon of cultural revolution rather than an attack on the less intelligent. “If there’s any single social mania that this book is based on, it’s really transgenderism,” Shriver says. “I don’t think it’s that much of an overstatement to say it feels like it comes right out of a Nazi concentration camp. Cutting off people’s healthy body parts. I have grown only more horrified.”
“I am very hostile to all this equality legislation,” she continues. “I believe in equality under the law, which is a primitive principle of liberal democratic government. And the UK has abandoned it… This hate speech legislation is evil. It’s about controlling what you can and can’t say. I’m willing to make the sacrifice of living in a world where people are not always nice, because that’s the real world."
In her essay collection Abominations (2022), Shriver wrote that “there have been three concerted attempts at my effective ‘cancellation’”. First, after she donned a sombrero at the end of a speech defending cultural appropriation in 2016. Next, in 2018, when she took issue with publisher Penguin Random House’s drive to diversify its staff. (Has the publishing world forgiven her? “I think that the Left in general is an unforgiving bunch. And most of publishing is occupied by Left-wing women. So, by the transitive property, I’m not forgiven.”) Third, when she questioned mass immigration to the UK in 2021.
I mention the former deputy Labour leader Alan Johnson’s comment to me that same year on how stopping migration across the Channel via France, Holland and Belgium inevitably got worse because of the loss of co-operation when we left the EU. “I don’t think Brexit has been very determinative of immigration,” she says. “The real problem in the UK is legal immigration, and the Tories, rather than tightening immigration policy, loosened it further.” She doesn’t want to get too deeply into that issue, she says, because “that’s the book I’m writing now.” A pause. “That’s the one that’s going to end my career.” A laugh. “Promises, promises.”www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2951762/hundreds-of-overdose-deaths-later-oregon-recriminalizes-drugs/Hundreds of overdose deaths later, Oregon recriminalizes drugswww.dailywire.com/news/usually-just-a-phase-15-year-landmark-study-says-gender-confused-kids-likely-to-grow-out-of-it‘Usually Just A Phase’: 15-Year Landmark Study Says Gender-Confused Kids Likely To ‘Grow Out Of It’www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/03/marist-poll-independents-swing-28-points-toward-donald-trump-in-4-years/Marist Poll: Independents Swing 28 Points Toward Donald Trump in 4 Yearswww.zerohedge.com/political/trump-declares-november-5th-christian-visibility-dayTrump Declares November 5th "Christian Visibility Day"Liberal priorities notthebee.com/article/almost-three-years-after-bidens-disastrous-afghan-withdrawal-the-taliban-reinstitutes-public-flogging-and-stoning-of-womenTaliban restarts public flogging, stoning of women across Afghanistan
"we will soon implement the punishment for adultery. We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public. You may call it a violation of women's rights...(but) I represent Allah, and you represent Satan."
So far, 57 women have been publicly flogged or executed in stadiums.
Attendance for the "punishments" is urged as a lesson to the population, but video and photography has been banned.
"They tested their draconian policies one by one, and have reached this point because there is no one to hold them accountable for the abuses. Through the bodies of Afghan women, the Taliban demand and command moral and societal orders. We should all be warned that if not stopped, more and more will come."
At this point, there is very little difference in the the way Afghanistan was being run before America spent hundreds of billions of dollars there...
Except the Taliban has new roads, vehicles, and guns, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers.freebeacon.com/campus/ucla-med-school-requires-students-to-attend-lecture-where-speaker-demands-prayer-for-mama-earth-leads-chants-of-free-palestine/UCLA Med School Requires Students To Attend Lecture Where Speaker Demands Prayer for ‘Mama Earth,’ Leads Chants of ‘Free Palestine.’ - praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel
Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia, who has referred to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks as "justice," began the March 27 class by leading students in what she described as a "non-secular prayer" to "the ancestors," instructing everyone to get on their knees and touch the floor—"mama earth," as she described it—with their fists.
The prayer also included a benediction for "black," "brown," and "houseless people" who die because of the "crapatalist lie" of "private property."
Gray-Garcia later referred to modern medicine as "white science" and inveighed against the "occupation" of "Turtle Island"—that is, the United States—before asking students to stand for a second prayer.
When one student remained seated, according to students in the class, a UCLA administrator, whom the Free Beacon could not identify, inquired about the student’s identity, implying that discipline could be on the table.
"The net effect was that UCLA staff intimidated first-year medical students into participating in a religious service in derogation of their own personal beliefs," UCLA’s Jewish Faculty Resilience Group wrote to university chancellor Gene Block on Sunday.
"There needs to be an urgent and thorough external review and investigation of the school's curriculum and systemic antisemitism."www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/04/01/sanctuary-massachusetts-repeatedly-shielded-illegal-alien-accused-of-sexually-abusing-children-from-deportation/Sanctuary Massachusetts Repeatedly Shielded Illegal Alien Accused of Sexually Abusing Children from Deportationwww.breitbart.com/crime/2024/04/04/two-chicago-men-accused-luring-children-released-safe-t-act/Two Chicago Men Accused of Luring Children for Sexual Abuse Released Thanks to No-Bail, SAFE-T Act
"Two felons accused of luring children into a van where cops found condoms, lubricant and a mattress were NOT detained"
The two suspects, Kenchi Edwards, 60, and Kraig McCauley, 55, allegedly tried to lure several 14-year-old children into their van with promises of “games” and the promise of meeting a “famous athlete.”
Patrick Kenneally, who helms the AG’s office in the county just to the north east of Chicago, says that at least two suspects he feels are a danger to the community were allowed to simply walk out of jail after their court date.
“The first day operating under the SAFE-T Act resulted in the absurd and incoherent results many predicted,” Kenneally said Monday, according to the Lake & McHenry County Scanner.
“Reports that on the very first day of no cash bail, a violent offender arrested for attacking four Chicago Police Officers, sending two of them to the hospital, was immediately released because the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office didn’t even bother to file a motion to seek detaining the accused are problematic,” Illinois state Sen. John Curran told WFLD-TV.
The law has earned criticism from both sides of the aisle. For instance, Will County state’s attorney Jim Glasgow, who is a Democrat, criticized the law last year, saying, “It will destroy the state of Illinois.”freebeacon.com/courts/biden-doj-slow-walks-slam-dunk-case-against-man-who-allegedly-tried-to-kill-justice-kavanaugh-baffling-experts/Biden DOJ Slow-Walks 'Slam Dunk' Case Against Man Who Allegedly Tried To Kill Justice Kavanaugh, Baffling Experts
(Roske,) a biological male who identified in some online posts as a transgender woman...was eventually found with a suitcase full of guns, ammo, zip ties, and other tools to carry out the attack - Roske’s most recent court appearance was nearly a year and a half ago, and there has been little activity since then...The criminals roam the streets, raping and killing, while the left attacks grandma: notthebee.com/article/72-year-old-great-grandma-faces-prison-for-briefly-entering-capitol-after-praying-on-steps72-year-old great-grandma faces prison for briefly entering Capitol after praying on stepsthefederalist.com/2024/04/05/former-agent-fbi-taught-agents-pro-lifers-are-more-dangerous-than-islamic-terrorists/Former Agent: FBI Taught Agents Pro-Lifers Are More Dangerous Than Islamic Terroristsnotthebee.com/article/trans-athlete-viral-injuring-female-suspended-leering-topless-girl-changing-roomTrans athlete who went viral for injuring female basketball player has been suspended for "leering at topless girl in changing room"
This dude injured three young female athletes before forcing the game to end early before he could hurt more girls. You would think that would have been enough to suspend the guy, but nope!
It turns out that the bearded 6-foot-tall student at KIPP Academy in Lynn, Massachusetts is also on the female rowing and volleyball teams, as well as the hurdles, shot put, and tae kwon do teams.
He competed for a private rowing club in Massachusetts from 2021 to 2022 before an alleged "direct case of harassment" occurred...the player has been suspended from the rowing team for allegedly staring at a girl's exposed breasts in the changing rooms.
According to a March 20 report from Republican Senator Bill Cassidy to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, this student made his teammates SO UNCOMFORTABLE that he was suspended and kicked off the team. The report stated that he "caused many issues for the female athletes" on the team, which caused many of the female rowers to avoid using the locker room altogether.
The male athlete was caught staring openly at one of the female athletes while she changed her clothes in the women's locker room and remarked, 'oooh t*tties!'
The student was named a Commonwealth Atlantic Conference All-Star in Volleyball after he dominated with more "kills" (unreturnable shots) than the other teams combined!
It's almost as if he has an unfair advantage or something...www.zerohedge.com/political/bizarre-reuters-article-warns-climate-change-hurting-indonesian-trans-sex-workersBizarre Reuters Article Warns Climate Change Is Hurting "Indonesian Trans Sex Workers"thefederalist.com/2024/04/03/side-effects-of-transgender-medicine-show-it-isnt-just-junk-science-its-malpractice/Side Effects Of Transgender ‘Medicine’ Show It Isn’t Just Junk Science, It’s Malpractice
Science has confirmed that men squashing their junk is, in fact, painful and unhealthy. A new study found that a supermajority of gender-confused men who “tuck” their genitalia in an effort to avoid a telltale bulge “experienced at least 1 side effect,” with “gonad pain reported most frequently.”
The more a man tucked, the more he risked ill effects, some of which (infection, testicular torsion, infertility) are severe.
This study demonstrates the reality of so-called gender-affirming medicine, which is that it is not actually medicine. As the study and follow-up reporting demonstrate, tucking is painful and risky while providing no physical benefits whatsoever.
In contrast, there is never any physical harm from not transitioning. This is why transgender activists and their allies constantly invoke the threat of self-harm, especially when trying to persuade reluctant parents to approve radical procedures for their children. Without the threat of suicide, the transgender movement collapses. Only the direst of threats — children dead by their own hands — can justify, for example, castrating boys and amputating the breasts of troubled teenage girls.
Using the suicide narrative as cover, activists are pushing gender ideology as far as they can, especially when it comes to children. For example, the retailers who sell specialized underwear and other products for tucking also manufacture them for, and market them to, minors. The same is true for breast binders for girls, which likewise tend to be painful and can cause injuries. Activist teachers and school systems encourage these and other steps in “transition,” which they also work to hide from parents who might object.
Worse still, the physical harm caused by transition is only increased with each new step in the process. The puberty blockers that are given to children inhibit normal development, including of the bones and the brain. The Dutch Protocol, in which puberty blockers are used to inhibit natural puberty in young boys, which is followed by cross-sex hormones, inevitably sterilizes those subjected to it. It also precludes sexual development, leaving them permanently anorgasmic.
These cross-sex hormones are medically unnecessary and physically dangerous, whether given to children or adults. Subjects taking these drugs may suffer significant side effects, which run from the painful (e.g. vaginal atrophy and clitoral enlargement in women taking testosterone) to the deadly (potential heart problems). Thanks to the release of the WPATH files, we also know that some of the medical providers giving them out believe they can cause deadly cancers.
And, of course, “gender-affirming” surgeries have a high rate of complications that can range from the awkward (incontinence) to the incredibly painful to the deadly. For example, Jazz Jennings, the trans-identified reality TV star, suffered severe complications after his genital surgeries. As bad as tucking can be, trying to turn male genitalia into a facsimile of a woman’s (or the reverse) is often much, much worse.
Even though the physicians doing these procedures have admitted that children cannot really give informed consent to them, trans activists are nonetheless arguing that children have a right to all of them, and they are pushing them relentlessly in schools, medicine, and culture while also trying to cut parents out of the loop.
All of this is the result of the superstitious belief that there is an epidemic of children somehow being born into the wrong bodies. This view is propped up with junk science, which in turn is ratified by medical organizations run by cowards who are too afraid to stand up to the radical activists in their midst.Do you want this to be your backyard? www.zerohedge.com/medical/tuberculosis-cases-reported-chicagos-immigrant-sheltersTuberculosis Cases Reported In Chicago’s Immigrant Shelterswww.dailysignal.com/2024/04/02/california-wants-legalize-racial-discrimination-yet-again/Some in California Want to Legalize Racial Discrimination—Yet Again
Their futile cycle has restarted with another effort to legalize racial preferences. The California state Assembly passed a proposed constitutional amendment, ACA 7, that would effectively nullify a provision of the California Constitution that prohibits the state from “discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.”
That anti-discrimination provision, known as Proposition 209, affirms the constitutional right to equal protection under the law for all individuals, regardless of race.
Left-wing politicians and activist groups have assailed it relentlessly and continuously since its adoption in 1996. They want to reinstate racial preferences within California’s institutions, but they have failed every time.
Before ACA 7, California legislators had attempted to overturn the anti-discrimination provision in a measure known as Proposition 16, which was decisively rejected by California voters in the November 2020 general election. A comfortable majority of voters voted “No” on the measure, despite the “Yes” proponents outspending the opposition by more than 19 to 1.
Although California voters emphatically rejected racial preferences in education and hiring, the supporters of racial preferences still have not taken “No” for an answer.nypost.com/2024/04/03/us-news/seattle-public-schools-shuts-down-gifted-and-talented-program/Seattle Public Schools shuts down gifted and talented program for being oversaturated with white and Asian studentswww.dailywire.com/news/north-face-sponsors-lgbt-overnight-camp-for-12-year-olds-where-children-perform-in-dragNorth Face Sponsors LGBT Overnight Camp For 12 Year Olds Where Children Perform In Dragnotthebee.com/article/trailer-full-of-bibles-set-on-fire-outside-tennessee-church-on-easter-sundayTrailer full of Bibles set on fire outside conservative pastor Greg Locke's Tennessee church on Easter Sundaynotthebee.com/article/oh-look-a-hospital-in-prague-performed-an-abortion-on-the-wrong-woman-and-now-her-baby-is-deadPrague hospital kills wrong baby after performing abortion on wrong womannotthebee.com/article/the-state-of-washington-wont-let-this-christian-couple-provide-foster-care-anymore-due-to-new-gender-ideology-requirements-so-now-the-couple-is-suing-the-stateWashington won't let this Christian couple foster anymore due to "gender ideology" requirements, so now the couple is suingnypost.com/2024/03/31/us-news/uc-berkeley-accused-of-segregation-by-allegedly-banning-whites-from-community-farm/UC Berkeley accused of segregation by allegedly banning whites from community farmnotthebee.com/article/watch-chloe-cole-hopped-on-the-disneys-annual-shareholders-meeting-to-let-the-corporation-have-it-for-paying-for-gender-transition-but-not-for-detransitionChloe Cole hopped on Disney's shareholder meeting to rip the company for paying for gender transition but not detransition
Disney pays for gender transition interventions but not detransitioning care. Therefore the company discriminates based on gender identity...
I speak with personal experience as someone who was deceived and harmed at a young age by gender ideology validated by the medical industry and pushed to the masses by corporations like Disney.
Disney has become the Ursula that is stealing the voices of thousands of little Ariels across the world by telling us that we can be something that we can never become.
The lawsuits are coming, sir...www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/05/california-workers-arrive-at-restaurant-to-find-it-closed-thanks-to-newsoms-20-minimum-wage/California Workers Arrive at Restaurant to Find It Closed Thanks to Newsom’s $20 Minimum Wagenypost.com/2024/03/31/us-news/nyc-couple-sued-by-squatters-who-allegedly-took-over-their-930k-investment-home/NYC couple are sued by squatters who allegedly took over their $930K investment home and won’t leave: ‘It’s absolutely absurd’
“These people literally broke into my house. It’s not fair to us as homeowners that we are not protected by the city,” said the Jamaica property owner.
“The court system is not favorable to landlords,” Kurlyand said. “It could take years to evict someone who illegally broke into your house? Where’s the law in that? Why work hard to pay rent or mortgages when you can break into somebody’s house every couple of years and have luxury living?”
“Somebody broke into my house, and I’m in court getting sued by them. How can we be here? How is this possible? There have to be safety precautions in place,” he said.nypost.com/2024/04/01/us-news/4-nyc-boroughs-lost-more-people-since-covid-than-40-of-the-largest-us-counties-with-the-bronx-topping-list-study/4 NYC boroughs lost more people since COVID than 40 of the largest US counties — with the Bronx topping list
Four of New York City’s five boroughs have lost a higher percentage of residents since COVID than any of the 40 largest counties in the country, a startling new review of US Census data shows.
Topping the list is The Bronx — with a 7.2% drop in the past three years, according to the analysis of county-level population estimates.
“Rent is way higher. It’s going up. People move out of state because their apartments of 10, 20 years get too expensive,” Gomez told The Post on Monday.
“The little guy is getting screwed over. It’s not worth it to stay in the city.”
“It’s getting harder to live in New York,” said the owner of a U-Haul franchise in Sunnyside, Queens, who only gave her first name, Renna, to The Post — echoing what New Yorkers have been saying for several years.
A poll from the Citizens Budget Commission fewer than two weeks ago showed that just half of all New Yorkers plan to stay in the city over the next five years, and anger over quality of life has skyrocketed since the pandemic — with just 30% saying they’re happy here.Houthi Joe's corner nypost.com/2024/04/01/us-news/biden-admins-iran-policy-correlated-with-higher-military-spending-nuclear-enrichment-by-regime-report/Iran ramping up nuclear work, executing more people during Biden
Biden’s indulgent stance toward Iran has led to the theocratic regime exporting more oil, spending more on its military, and moving faster toward acquiring a nuclear bomb — while it executes more of its citizens than at any other time in nearly a decade, new statistics show.
The nonpartisan National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI) released a series of tables on Monday charting Tehran’s economic and military expansion since 2021 — and slammed the Biden administration for its posture of “appeasement.”
“When the United States appeases the Islamic Republic, it hurts the Iranian people and harms American interests,” the group posted on X.
Under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi, the Islamic Republic executed more than 1,200 people between September 2021 and August 2023.
The killings, which were reported by Iran Human Rights, included several protesters who were responding to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been taken into custody by morality police for not properly wearing her headscarf, in August 2022.
Iran is also exporting more than 1 million barrels of crude oil per day, data from the International Monetary Fund shows, up almost 50% from when Biden took office in January 2021.
Tehran and its proxies have since ramped up attacks on commercial and US military targets — and reportedly helped plot Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel that killed more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and 13 US citizens.
The Biden administration has gone on to grant Iran at least $10 billion in sanctions waivers since the Israel-Hamas war began, which critics have pointed out will only enable the murderous regime further.
Most alarmingly, NUFDI pointed to a report from the Institute for Science and International Security that found that as of late last year, Iran had stockpiled enough enriched uranium to make its own nuclear weapons.
“Iran’s stocks of enriched uranium and its centrifuge capacity combined are sufficient to make enough weapons-grade uranium … for seven nuclear weapons in one month.”Biden is on the side of the terrorists: www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/03/report-white-house-using-4-part-plan-to-overthrow-netanyahu/Report: White House Using 4-Part Plan to Overthrow Netanyahu
(Left wing) activist Ami Dror: “Government ministers are receiving messages from ‘American friends’ that they will be accused of war crimes. Under our radar, the U.S. and the E.U. have framed the hunger in northern Gaza as a war crime. This is an excuse for seizing control over the territory from Israel (parachuting food continuously, including by the German military, and building a port), but the words “potential indictment” for all members of the government of destruction is the clincher. How does it work? There are many members of the government that don’t want to lose their physical or economic freedom. The immediate targets are (Economy Minister Nir) Barkat (by freezing assets and turning the millionaire into a wanted man), the Haredi parties … they and their communities worldwide have many properties. … Ministers in the government will become potential fugitives if they don’t enable the formation of a government without Kahanists. … Don’t be surprised if (Shas party leader Aryeh) Deri and (Agudat Israel head Minister Yitzhak) Goldknopf bring down the government soon. The Hareidi draft is just an excuse — their Hareidi cronies in America don’t want to get in trouble with Uncle Sam.”
“And the most important thing? Us, and Biden’s request from us: The American method of dealing with misbehaving states, includes the destruction (economic and legal) that is centered on the leadership on the one hand, and driving a wedge between “the nation,” and “the leadership.” In our case … for this to work—the nation of Israel must show (in the streets!) that it is fighting the leadership. … The American administration needs to see the nation in Israel fighting the government of Israel.”
The text messages were first reported March 17, a few days after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called for new elections in Israel to oust Netanyahu, and Biden endorsed Schumer’s statements. Several days later, the Biden administration took the extraordinary step of allowing a United Nations Security Council resolution to pass that accepted Hamas’s terms — ceasefire first, then hostage releases — and isolated Israel.
Several days before that, Israeli opposition figure Benny Gantz — a main rival to Netanyahu, who currently serves alongside him in an emergency government of national unity — visited the White House. According to Dror, Gantz was supposed to have done more to destabilize the Netanyahu government, and was rebuked by the administration. On Wednesday (April 3), Gantz — who had originally criticized Schumer — reversed himself, calling for new elections.
Meanwhile, Israel faces Iranian-backed terrorists on all four of its borders...www.dailywire.com/news/biden-demands-israel-enact-immediate-ceasefire-against-hamas-terrorists-seems-to-blame-israel-for-hostages-not-being-freedwww.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/04/biden-demands-immediate-ceasefire-from-netanyahu-in-phone-call/Biden demanded an “immediate ceasefire” from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call on Thursday between the two leaders, threatening a loss of U.S. support for the war if Israel does not comply.
Biden’s statement confirms that the U.S. has effectively adopted Hamas’s demands...
Hamas’s strategy throughout the war has been to separate Israel from U.S. support. It has done so by using Palestinian civilians as human shields, hoping to maximize civilian casualties and generate international outrage.
Biden’s demand marks the success of Hamas’s strategy...
The shift also comes after The New York Times reported this week that his wife, first lady Jill Biden, reportedly demanded that Biden stop Israel’s airstrikes against Hamas targets inside Gaza.
“Stop it, stop it now, Joe,” Jill Biden reportedly said.www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/2947446/west-must-ostracize-not-reward-hostage-takers/The West must ostracize not reward hostage takers
Hamas might be a designated terrorist group, but moral equivalence, personal animosity toward Israel’s elected leader, and election-year politics infuse their blood. While Hamas could end Israeli operations on Gaza immediately by releasing hostages it has no legal or moral right to hold, Biden’s team rewards the Hamas decision to take hostages by allowing the designated terrorist group to leverage them for concessions. That decision neither brings peace nor does it represent sophisticated diplomacy; rather, it legitimizes terrorism.
Alas, Biden’s willingness to ignore or even reward hostage seizures has become the rule rather than the exception. Azerbaijan continues to hold 55 Armenian prisoners. Some Azerbaijan calls prisoners of war, though this is a misnomer as many are civilians seized from cars at illegal checkpoints or farmers lured or ordered by Azerbaijani soldiers at gunpoint across a demarcated border.
Like Hamas, Azerbaijan leverages its hostages for diplomatic gain. The White House and State Department, for example, pressured Armenia to drop its bid to host next year’s COP29 environment conference in favor of Azerbaijan as part of a deal to get Azerbaijan to release some Armenian hostages. Biden thereby not only allowed his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev to escape accountability for seizing hostages, but he also gifted him a reward worth hundreds of millions of dollars and the prestige of the international spotlight. Blinken and Sullivan might argue as they did to Armenian officials that allowing Aliyev to get what he wants could advance peace talks, but history shows the opposite to be true: when Aliyev feels empowered and immune, war and ethnic cleansing quickly follow. Blood will flow when the COP29 spotlight fades.
Biden also allows Iran to profit from kidnapping. Biden’s willingness both to reward Iran with billions of dollars while leaving hostages like Jamshid “Jimmy” Sharmahd behind suggests a disturbing combination of cravenness and the prioritization of short-term ease over long-term consequences. That the hostages Biden ransoms were mostly businessmen who ran afoul of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while trying to profit from a terrorism sponsor while Iranian security forces kidnapped Sharmahd from outside Iran only adds insult to injury. So, too, does the release of Iranians involved in illicit technology as it establishes false equivalence, betrays the investigators who dedicate their lives to keeping Americans safe, and shows Washington to be unserious about stopping Iran’s nuclear breakout. Indeed, Sullivan’s more than decadelong effort to bring Tehran in from the cold has worsened security, encouraged hostage-taking in Iran and kidnapping of dissidents abroad, and enabled Iran to become a threshold nuclear state.
The pattern repeats with Russia. Not only did Biden reward Russian President Vladimir Putin by trading “merchant of death” Viktor Bout for WNBA star Brittney Griner while leaving a former U.S. Marine to rot, but also, while Biden pays lip service to imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, he ignores Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist with U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.www.dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-tears-biden-a-new-one-over-israel-hostages-have-become-an-afterthoughtChris Cuomo Tears Biden A New One Over Israel: ‘Hostages Have Become An Afterthought’
“You’re treating the war against Israel as if it were another political point of compromise. ‘This is wrong. But this is wrong. And we need to do better here. And there has to be change and blah, blah, blah. Ceasefire.’ A lot of words, a lot of conditional language, a lot of half-speak, a lot of appeasement in a situation that is not about balance. It is about realities,” he continued.
Cuomo went on to explain that he understood the likely political calculus that was going on behind the scenes, saying that he knew the presidential race was thus far shaping up to be a close one and that Biden stood to lose support from within his own party if he did not make some effort to appease the pro-Palestinian voters. But he argued that was “no excuse” for allowing the politics to drive policy when there were still American hostages in the hands of Hamas terrorists.
“I get how worried you are that you’re not going to have the same base you had the last time. But that is not an excuse to be weak. There’s a primary reality, okay? We seem to have forgotten it,” Cuomo added. “Hamas is a terror organization. You designated them as that. They stole people. They need to give the people they stole back to us, to Israel, first. The hostages have become an afterthought and that is wrong. And the reason it has happened is even more wrong. The reason it has happened is because other political exigencies and agendas have overtaken their relevance.”www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-budget-shells-out-320-million-border-walls-oman-lebanon-jordan-egypt-and-tunisiaBiden Budget Shells Out $320 Million On Border Walls... For Oman, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, And Tunisia
Slipped into a $1.2 trillion budget signed by Biden last weekend is about $380 million for “enhanced border security” projects in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, and Tunisia — about $150 million of which must go to border security in Jordan.
Meanwhile, the budget puts strict limitations on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ability to construct physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border to deter illegal immigration.
“The Biden administration wants nothing more than the ability to ‘manage’ an invasion here at home, all while helping nations abroad build walls,” RJ Hauman with the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE) told Breitbart News. “Make it make sense.”
Why, exactly are we paying for some place like Tunisia's enhanced border security, which is a cost they can bear themselves, while failing to build a border wall amid millions of foreign invaders rolling into the U.S. from some of those very same countries?
The irony is incredible here. Biden knows that border security works, which is why he's taking cash from the U.S. taxpayer and handing it over to foreign countries to ensure that their borders stay secure from terrorists and other foreign invaders.
Meanwhile, he spends tremendous time, money and energy to ensure that our border wall is open as can be. He's fighting Texas through the courts all the way up to the Supreme Court to ensure that they can't defend their border from crime and terrorism from "newcomers" from more than 100 countries still rolling on in without papers.
The latest news is that he has a master plan for amnesty and free green cards for those who slipped through the border earlier, and plans to issue an executive order, making illegal immigration nothing more than stop on the express subway to U.S. citizenship and Democrat votes.www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/04/01/argentinas-milei-suggests-rallying-latin-america-sanction-venezuela-biden-failure/Argentina’s Milei Suggests Rallying Latin America to Sanction Venezuela After Biden Failure
Argentine President Javier Milei asserted in an interview on Sunday that he “would not have any problem” imposing diplomatic sanctions against Venezuela’s socialist regime, suggesting he would be willing to convince other countries to support similar measures.
In the interview with journalist Andrés Oppenheimer, Milei – a staunch anti-communist and anti-socialist, who has fiercely condemned Latin America’s authoritarian regimes throughout his career as both a TV fixture and politician – was asked who the “worst presidents” in Latin America are.
The Argentine president answered with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, the “communism that (Colombian far-left President Gustavo) Petro wants to push,” and the Nicaraguan and Cuban dictatorships.
“Those are the worst of it, they are truly despicable,” Milei said.
Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro began to strain the relationship almost immediately after Milei was elected president in November 2023, repeatedly accusing Milei of being a “neo-Nazi.” Maduro is yet to provide proof substantiating his repeated accusations against Milei, who has enthusiastically expressed support for Israel on numerous occasions.
The Maduro regime also accused Argentina of “stealing” a cargo plane linked to a U.S-sanctioned Iranian airline that operated under Venezuela’s state-owned Conviasa line, also sanctioned by the United States. Argentina seized the plane in 2022 during the socialist administration of former President Alberto Fernández, Milei’s predecessor.
Last week, Argentina denounced that the Maduro regime cut power and water utilities to the official residence of the Argentine ambassador in Caracas after Argentina agreed to shelter six Venezuelan dissidents close to opposition leader Machado.
Shortly after the incident occurred, the Argentine government decided, in accordance with international law, to send Argentine Gendarmerie officials to Caracas to reinforce the embassy’s safety. The Maduro regime denied the request, prohibiting the entry of the gendarmes and leaving the embassy without proper security.
“It is a serious issue that they do not let an Argentine force enter to protect the embassy. Now, the total and absolute responsibility is in the hands of the Venezuelan police forces,” Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich told Infobae. “I hope nothing happens, but if it does, they will be responsible.”www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/03/31/joe-biden-easter-transgender-day-of-remembrance-christian/Joe Biden has betrayed Christian America
It was one of those viral social media claims so outlandish it demands independent verification: the Biden Administration had proclaimed that Easter Sunday (the day on which billions of Christians around the world remember the resurrection of Jesus Christ) would be Trans Visibility Day.
Once the claim proved true, it was hardly surprising that Christians across the nation took deep offense. Instead of lifting up the Son of God who died for our sins, Biden called on Americans to join him in “lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people.”
The notion that this was not a deliberate finger in the eye of Christians to honour, on the holiest of Christian holidays, a group whose entire purpose is undermining God’s created order of male and female is preposterous.
But his actions are perfectly of a piece with his continual antagonism of Christians. This is, after all, the administration whose Department of Justice targeted traditional Catholics as potential “domestic terrorists” and urged banks to track the purchase of Bibles as a potential indicator of “extremism.”
While the Biden DOJ has pursued maximum charges against peaceful Christian pro-life activists under the FACE Act, when a trans vandal violated the same statute by hatefully spray painting “F--- Catholics” on a church’s walls and defacing its statute of Mary, the DOJ recommended no jail time.
And three days after a trans-identified shooter killed six Christians, including three children, to whom did it direct its sympathy? Not to followers of Christ, but to trans-identifying individuals like the one who had killed them.
We live in a dark, dark world. A world that honours evil and mocks goodness and appeases the most unscientific ideology ever conceived with the desecrated bodies and destroyed reproductive capacities of even children. But the good news of the resurrection we celebrate today holds true – the light shines in the darkness, and, even now, the darkness has not overcome it.thefederalist.com/2024/04/01/bidens-defiling-of-easter-sunday-with-an-imaginary-transgender-holiday-was-a-punitive-decision/Biden’s Defiling Of Easter Sunday With An Imaginary Transgender Holiday Was A Punitive Decision
Just a decade or two ago, this kind of thing would be seen as a blunder of epic proportions. Conventional wisdom suggests that total disregard for one of Christianity’s most sacred days would be deeply offensive to millions of Americans, many of whom any given presidential candidate would need support from to win a presidential election.
I suppose the fact that the Biden administration chose to do this during an election year might be explained by sheer incompetence. After all, this administration has been a wellspring of bureaucratic ineptitude and ideological zeal, but there’s something else going on here. Because of how easily this mistake could have been avoided, it demonstrates that they simply didn’t care, which speaks to how much progress the left has made in its pursuit of an unbeatable coalition of voters who are either indifferent or hostile toward traditional values, including and especially anything tied to Christianity.
As an increasingly secular Democratic party replaces Christianity with a new creed, it must tread carefully while lurching left without disenfranchising independents and the normal, well-adjusted Americans who still call themselves Democrats. The fact that Democrats have thrown caution to the wind could prove to be a mistake, but it could also be a calculated decision by a party that believes we are approaching a time when the left doesn’t need centrists to win national elections.
Whether their calculation is correct is a question that will be answered in November, but consider who the Democratic party is now largely comprised of. This list includes: disaffected racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities and the guilt-ridden white democrats who infantilize them; naive young people; women who believe that killing their unborn child is the purest form of “freedom;” people who think Donald Trump is a dictator; socialists (who now outnumber capitalists in the democratic party); and a comparatively small percentage of reasonable people who the former groups now overshadow.
There’s a punitive component to this decision. This was a nod to the far left and an attack on a demographic despised by the Democratic party. It was, above all else, an indication that America’s traditions are crumbling and being replaced by the tenets of leftism, and anyone unwilling to convert must be punished and humiliated.
Joe Biden claims to be a Catholic, but self-assessment has limited utility in deciding who is and who isn’t a Christian. At the risk of declaring myself an arbiter, I can say with certainty that anyone who believes a man can become a woman or believes that a mother has an unbridled “right” to kill her child up until the moment of birth is not a Christian in any sense of the word. If they are, then Christianity is now a meaningless concept — an empty husk to be filled with whatever the left believes is fashionable until it bears no resemblance to its origins.
It’s never been more obvious that the left hates this country. They hate its people, which is why they’re replacing them. They hate its values and traditions, which is why they defile them.www.zerohedge.com/political/i-didnt-do-biden-reportedly-has-no-idea-he-issued-trans-day-visibility-proclamation"I Didn't Do That": Biden Reportedly Has No Idea He Issued 'Trans Day Of Visibility' Proclamation
Of course, the biggest takeaway from this is obviously: Who's running the show?...www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/01/d-c-cardinal-slams-joe-biden-cafeteria-catholic/D.C. Cardinal Slams Joe Biden as ‘Cafeteria Catholic’www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/03/catholic-league-joe-biden-the-least-religious-friendly-president-in-u-s-history/Catholic League: Joe Biden the ‘Least Religious-Friendly President’ in U.S. Historythefederalist.com/2024/04/02/rfk-jr-bidens-censorship-regime-is-arguably-a-worse-threat-to-democracy-than-trump/RFK Jr.: Biden’s Censorship Regime Is Arguably A ‘Worse Threat To Democracy’ Than Trump - Biden is weaponizing federal agencies to target free speech
“I can say that because I just won a case in the Federal Court of Appeals, and now before the Supreme Court, that shows that (Biden) started censoring not just me — 37 hours after he took the oath of office, he was censoring me. No president in the country has ever done that,” the independent presidential candidate continued. “The greatest threat to democracy is not somebody who questions election returns, but a president of the United States who used the power of his office to force the social media companies — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter — to open a portal and give access to that portal to the FBI, to the CIA, to the IRS, to CISA, to NIH, to censor his political critics.”www.dailywire.com/news/rfk-jr-doubles-down-on-calling-biden-a-threat-he-has-a-license-for-any-kind-of-atrocityRFK Jr. Doubles Down On Calling Biden A Threat: ‘He Has A License For Any Kind Of Atrocity’nypost.com/2024/04/03/us-news/michael-avenatti-tweets-support-for-trumps-free-speech-after-gag-order-from-federal-prison/Michael Avenatti – who is incarcerated in a federal prison – tweets support for Trump’s free speech after gag order
“We can’t be hypocrites when it comes to the 1st Amendment,” the disgraced attorney wrote.
Avenatti, who at one time represented the porn star, (wrote) “It is outrageous that Cohen and Daniels can do countless TV interviews, post on social, & make $$ on bogus documentaries – all by talking shit about Trump – but he’s gagged and threatened with jail if he responds,” Avenatti added.www.zerohedge.com/political/deep-state-goes-after-trump-and-musks-financial-assets-whos-nextDeep State Goes After Trump And Musk's Financial Assets... Who's Next?
Is America as we know it over? Are we in the middle - or perhaps the end - of the transition from a national republic to a single-party regime that rules by fiat instead of law?
If we look at what’s happening to two, high-profile cases, the answer is less than comforting. It is becoming difficult to argue that the U.S. judicial system has not become a political arm of the Democratic Party.
Nations are either based on the rule of law or the rules dictated by the powerful. The former is meant to restrain, or better said, eliminate the possibility of the latter. But, as we’ve witnessed with the relentless political persecution of former President Donald Trump and, lately, of Elon Musk, laws only work when they’re fairly applied and enforced.
President Trump was found guilty of fraud by a left-wing judge who determined this without considering, or despite, mountains of evidence to the contrary.
Coincidentally, (Biden's toady) ran for the office of attorney general in 2018 with the campaign pledge to go after Trump, showing clear political animus toward President Trump. What’s more, (Biden's toady) has been accused by Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York of violating “political giving rules with financial contributions to Democrats as recently as 2018, and ignored a decision on the appropriate statute of limitations in the case,” according to NBC News. (Biden's toady) prosecuted President Trump in a civil trial, which was by design; criminal court cases require a trial by jury and proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Despite all of this exculpatory evidence that showed no fraud and no money loss or any other determinable damages, the judge refused to allow President Trump to give his closing argument in his own defense and found him guilty of fraud, fined him $354 million plus interest, and forced him to forfeit the profit he made on the deal with Deutsche Bank. President Trump was also ordered to pay $111,000 per day in interest. The financial penalty is excessive under the Eighth Amendment, which disallows “excessive fines,” which is the case because it doesn’t reflect the value of the “damages,” which are nil, nor the profits he made.
What’s more, President Trump is barred from doing business or getting loans in New York for three years, and two of his children are also barred from their executive roles in the Trump Organization for two years. All of this for paying back loans on properties that the bank made willingly, according to its own value assessments, and profited from.
Meanwhile, a Delaware judge voided Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla payout. The judge arbitrarily determined that the record-breaking compensation granted by the Tesla board was an “unfathomable sum” and was “unfair” to shareholders. The payout was the result of a 10-year pay plan that the board agreed to with Mr. Musk back in 2018.
Mr. Musk is not only an entrepreneur extraordinaire, he’s also a fan of America and our constitutional right of free speech. He attracted the left’s wrath after acquiring Twitter (renamed X) and making it a bastion of free speech for conservatives who were formerly censored by Twitter and other social media outlets. In short, Mr. Musk single-handedly broke the stifling monopoly on speech and thought control the left had allegedly in close coordination with the federal government, prior to the acquisition.
So far, Mr. Musk’s response has been to begin moving his companies out of Delaware to the business-friendly states of Texas and Nevada.
Of course, these aren’t the only examples of unconstitutional behavior by the left. The Biden administration is still holding American citizens in jail without bail from the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and has reportedly arrested a journalist for being present, reporting on the incident, and providing evidence that conflicts with the Justice Department’s version.
Sadly, thug rule is becoming more common, not less. So is the celebration of it in the mainstream media. Persecuting political enemies through lawfare and unlawful asset seizure is the stuff of communist regimes, dictators, banana republics, and, apparently, of the United States of America.
Imagine, if the legal system can be used to go after a billionaire former president and the most innovative and wealthiest man on the planet without due process of law, the question that comes to mind is simply, “Who’s next?”nypost.com/2024/04/03/us-news/james-comer-claims-republicans-have-proven-the-crimes-against-bidens/James Comer claims Republicans have ‘proven the crimes’ against Bidens - “we’ve proven the Bidens were influence-peddling...we’ve proven they’ve taken in tens of millions of dollars.”
In the letter inviting the commander-in-chief to testify, Comer claimed, “The Committee has accounted for over $24 million that has flowed from foreign sources to you, your family, and their business associates.”
The chairman underscored, “The Committee has identified no legitimate services to merit such lucrative payments.”
On Wednesday, Comer called the $24 million a “very conservative” estimate, adding that his team gave both James and Hunter Biden an opportunity to explain where it came from, but “they couldn’t do it.”
“His family has committed a lot of crime. He’s been the central figure, according to three of these associates, in these crimes.”www.dailywire.com/news/rnc-unveils-biden-bloodbath-website-highlighting-border-crisisRNC Unveils ‘Biden Bloodbath’ Website Highlighting Border Crisis
“Biden is allowing vicious criminals, illegal drugs, gangs and terrorists into the United States. He alone has the power to reverse course and secure our border to protect our communities, yet he refuses to take action,” said Trump campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez. “Biden is prioritizing illegal immigrants over Americans. That’s why in November, we will vote to send President Donald J. Trump back to the White House to put an end to Biden’s border bloodbath.”www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/03/illegal-alien-rapist-among-nearly-two-million-known-got-aways-under-biden/Illegal Alien Rapist Among Nearly Two Million Known ‘Got-Aways’ Under Bidenthefederalist.com/2024/04/03/biden-has-let-in-almost-as-many-foreigners-illegally-as-ellis-island-did-lawfully-in-60-years/Biden Has Let In Almost As Many Foreigners Illegally As Ellis Island Did Lawfully In 60 Years - an illegal immigration population that rivals entire states like New York
Democrats politically benefit from ignoring this foreign invasion. Congressional and Electoral College apportionment depends on the number of persons residing in a particular area. While former President Donald Trump tried to bar illegal immigrants and non-citizens from artificially inflating the census and diluting the voting power of legal citizens, Biden reversed the policy.
This means states that accept more illegally present foreigners can gain a congressional seat or electoral vote, penalizing states with relatively low illegal immigrant populations. It’s a compelling political motivation for Democrats to promote “sanctuary cities” that vow to defy federal immigration laws.
Democrats use illegal immigrants as political pawns to inflate politically important population counts even when those migrants technically can’t vote. They even say that outright. Democratic New York Rep. Yvette Clark said during a 2021 hearing that her district “can absorb a significant number of these migrants” because she needed “more people in my district, just for redistricting purposes.”
Perhaps more concerning about the lack of urgency from Democrats to secure the border is the lack of election safeguards against fraudulent votes. Current federal law stipulates a voter need not provide any documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in a federal election. They must simply check a form declaring they are a citizen, essentially trusting people who have already broken U.S. law to abide by a voting honor system.freebeacon.com/latest-news/biden-admin-again-cancels-plans-to-refill-oil-reserve/Biden Admin Again Cancels Plans To Refill Oil Reserve
"Domestic crude prices are likely to remain too high for the remainder of the year for DOE to resume its refilling program," Bob McNally, president of consulting firm Rapidan Energy Group, told Bloomberg.
The Biden administration has delayed its replenishment plans, even though it has repeatedly pledged to refill the nation’s oil supply after selling a record 180 million barrels in 2022, including many to the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign entities. The SPR now has only 363 million barrels, down from nearly 600 million at the start of 2022.
"It’s pure insanity to watch the Biden Administration cut American oil production and then claim they can’t refill our critical reserve because of the price," Daniel Turner, founder and executive director of energy advocacy group Power The Future, said in a statement.
"Joe Biden drained the SPR for political reasons, cut our domestic production for his climate agenda and now he’s leaving our critical reserve more vulnerable because he’s incompetent," Turner added. "As a result, Americans are paying more at the pump, more at the grocery store and our SPR is less full during a time of rising turmoil in the Middle East."www.zerohedge.com/markets/bidenomics-failure-shows-polls-gen-z-revolts-against-democratsBidenomics Failure Shows Up At Polls As Gen-Z Revolts Against Democrats
We didn't need a poll to reveal the frustrations of youngsters working two or three jobs just to afford rent, auto payments, and avocado and toast. The writing has been on the wall, especially on social media feeds of TikTok and X.
The new Gallup poll of 18-29-year-olds validates the Biden administration, which seemingly cares more about illegal aliens and the LGBTQQIP2SAA community (not sure what all those letters mean), is quickly losing the young vote.
It's a wake-up call for the Biden administration. A recent Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll reveals a surprising trend: Former Trump is leading President Biden 47% to 40% among voters 18-34 in swing states. This is a significant shift from the last presidential cycle when Biden won 61% of voters under 30.
Youngsters are coming of age in one of the worst economic periods this nation has seen in a generation. Elevated inflation is crushing household finances.
With the election cycle well underway, there are mounting risks inflation could accelerate once again, and gas prices at the pump are rising.
Bidenomics has been a colossal failure, and young people are seeing that and are furious with the elderly, senile (Biden) who should be in a retirement home. Young people are beginning to understand they might never be able to afford the average American home as that dream died a long time ago. These frustrations are showing up in the polling data. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/2944865/biden-faces-fresh-political-peril-latest-student-loans-lawsuit/Biden faces fresh political peril with latest student loans lawsuit
Biden announced in 2022 that he’d “cancel” $10,000 of federal student debt per borrower, only to see his plan ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. He has since announced another $144 billion in student debt writeoffs and created a program to lower future payments, but he was slapped with a new lawsuit by a coalition of Republican-led states on Thursday.
“Last time defendants tried this the Supreme Court said that this action was illegal,” a portion of the suit from Kansas and 10 other states said. “Nothing since then has changed, other than introducing more legal errors into this rule’s underlying analysis.”
Biden is breaking the law for what is effectively a net wealth transfer from people who did not go to college to people who did.
the strategy could prove risky, especially if the courts side with Kansas and Missouri. Biden faced a lot of harsh scrutiny after his original plan was blocked just two days after the midterm elections.
“They used the promise of student debt cancellation to induce young voter turn out — knowing it wasn’t going anywhere (because) they relied on faulty legal authority,” former Bernie Sanders spokeswoman Briahna Joy Gray wrote in a post on X. “Hard to convince me the Biden admin didn’t do this intentionally.”
This time around, the lawsuits are coming seven months before Election Day, meaning they could block Biden’s plans with enough time to leave a lot of voters disappointed and angry.www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/03/bidenvilles-parking-lot-all-americans-can-afford/Automobile ‘Bidenvilles’ Are the New Shantytowns Amid US Housing Affordability Crisis
Much like America’s Great Depression in the 1930s, this marks a serious regression in our national standard of living. But shantytowns were not prevalent in the 1920s (a decade that began with a depression) or the 1910s. Nor were they ubiquitous following the Panic of 1907, which set off one of the worst recessions in American history.
Indeed, Americans in the Great Depression faced such a cost-of-living crisis that many were forced to accept a standard of living below what their parents and even their grandparents had.
Fast-forward about 90 years, and countless families are in the same boat. Many young people today don’t think they’ll ever be able to achieve the American dream of homeownership that their parents and grandparents achieved. The worst inflation in 40 years, rising interest rates, and a collapse of real (inflation-adjusted) earnings mean a huge step backward financially.
That inflation has pushed up rents so much that young Americans are moving back in with their parents at rates not seen since the Great Depression because they can’t make it on their own. Sometimes, they can’t even make it with multiple roommates.
But many people cannot move back in with family, so the car it is.
The housing problem is not limited to wealthy towns in Arizona, however. It is systemic. The monthly mortgage payment on a median-price home has doubled since January 2021, and rents are at record highs. Like the Great Depression, this disaster stems from impolitic public policy.
For the past several years, the government has spent, borrowed, and created trillions of dollars it didn’t have. The predictable result of this profligacy was runaway inflation, followed by equally foreseeable interest rate increases.
The deadly combination of high prices and high interest rates has frozen the housing market and reduced homeownership affordability metrics to near-record lows. In several major metropolitan areas, it takes more than 100% of the median household after-tax income to afford a median-price home.
Since rents and virtually all other prices have risen so much faster than incomes over the past three years, even renting is unaffordable today, so many people have to go into debt to keep a roof over their heads. And for some, that’s a car roof.
This is the kind of story you might expect from a Third World country or somewhere behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, not the largest economy in the world—at least not outside of a depression like the one in the 1930s.and soon, Biden will take the cars away too! www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/2949366/biden-enabling-impending-automotive-bloodbath/Biden is enabling the impending automotive bloodbath
China has been after such dominance for some time. The Chinese government regularly inundates Chinese automakers with subsidies, financing incentives, tax breaks, stolen intellectual property, and even slave labor to make them more competitive. As recently as 2009, the effects were limited. Chinese vehicles remained second rate, and they rarely left the Chinese market. Today, however, Beijing’s non-market policies are paying off in a big way.
Through heavy investment in research and development, China has improved the quality of its products and quadrupled its auto exports since 2020. It surpassed Japan as the world’s biggest auto exporter in 2023. Chinese vehicles have yet to meaningfully penetrate the United States, but it is only a matter of time before Chinese automakers are able to absorb our tariffs. This is a massive threat, not just because of the auto industry’s symbolic role in the U.S. economy, but because vehicles and vehicle parts still contribute more to our exports than any other industrial products.
So, what are our leaders doing to keep America competitive? For Biden, the answer is “not much.” In fact, Biden is strengthening China’s hand, primarily because he is actively trying to ban the auto industry’s most vital sector: cars with internal combustion engines.
Regardless of what Democratic climate activists prefer, nine out of every 10 cars made in America run on gas. These vehicles are also the only profitable cars made in America, even when you factor in federal subsidies.
Meanwhile, the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act has authorized billions of dollars’ worth of tax credits and grants for EVs. Even here, though, Biden is putting American automakers second. Specifically, he is waiving “Buy American” requirements for EV chargers, meaning U.S. taxpayers are funding the deployment of Chinese charging stations across the country.
If this sounds bad, it is about to get far worse. Chinese auto companies are setting up shop in Mexico, where they hope to use the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to bypass our tariffs entirely. U.S. companies are already raising the alarm about what’s coming, calling China’s backdoor in Mexico an “extinction-level” threat. Former President Donald Trump rightly predicted it could precipitate a “bloodbath” for the industry.www.zerohedge.com/markets/hundreds-99-cents-only-stores-liquidated-failed-bidenomics-retail-theft-blamedHundreds Of 99 Cents Only Stores Liquidated, Failed Bidenomics & Retail Theft Blamed
The cost of doing business in the era of failed Bidenomics and disastrous social justice reforms makes it hard for even the most seasoned companies to operate...www.zerohedge.com/markets/behind-todays-stellar-jobs-print-it-was-literally-all-part-time-jobs-and-illegalsBehind Today's Stellar Jobs Print: It Was Literally ALL Part-Time Jobs (And Illegals)
the US hasn't added any jobs to native-born Americans in years, as instead all jobs have gone to immigrants, mostly the illegal variety, but that's good news you see, because if it wasn't for these lovely creatures flooding into the US, wages would be higher (that's a bad thing according to the Fed), and the US economy would not grow by $9 trillion. Just please ignore that that $9 trillion in "growth" will come only thanks to $20 trillion in debt, almost all of it soaked up by these same illegals, and of course, a handful of corrupt, embezzling politicians.
And so the scene has been set: if and when Trump or Republicans finally get their act together and halt the flood of illegals, then and only then, will the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis admit just how ugly the US economy, the labor market and inflation truly are... and then they will blame Trump for pushing the US into a stagflationary recession because he halted the record inflow of immigrantsnypost.com/2024/04/04/us-news/nearly-one-eighth-of-ny-democrat-primary-goers-vote-blank-stick-it-to-biden-in-protest-over-gaza/Nearly one-eighth of NY Democratic primary-goers vote ‘blank,’ stick it to Biden in protestwww.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/03/47000-democrat-wisconsinites-vote-uninstructed-double-margin-of-bidens-2020-badger-state-win/47,000 Democrat Wisconsinites Vote ‘Uninstructed,’ Double the Margin of Biden’s 2020 Badger State Winnypost.com/2024/04/01/us-news/james-carville-warns-of-democratic-partys-horrifying-numbers-among-young-minority-voters/James Carville warns of Democratic Party’s ‘horrifying’ numbers among young minority voters: ‘They’re leaving in droves’
Democratic strategist James Carville warned Sunday that the Democratic Party’s eroding numbers among young minority voters are “horrifying” heading into the presidential election.
“I’ve been very vocal about this,” the former Bill Clinton campaign strategist said on his “Carville’s Classroom” podcast. “It’s horrifying our numbers among younger voters, particularly younger blacks, younger Latinos … younger people of color. Particularly males.”
“We’re not shedding them, they’re leaving in droves,” he added.
The same survey found former President Donald Trump with an edge over Biden with voters under 35 (37%-33%) and Hispanic voters (39%-34%).
“We’re not going to convince under 30, under 35, ‘Oh, we really built a great country for you,’” he said. “You’re looking at this job market … I don’t think you’re going to buy that.” www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2953972/trump-has-double-digit-hispanic-lead-as-black-and-asian-voters-also-shift-right/www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/04/nolte-donald-trump-holds-eight-point-lead-joe-biden/Trump has double-digit Hispanic lead as black and Asian voters also shift right - Trump Holds Eight-Point Lead over Joe Bidenwww.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/04/04/top-democrats-brace-for-donald-trump-victory-we-all-are-prepared-to-lose/Top Democrats Brace for Donald Trump Victory: ‘We All Are Prepared to Lose’www.zerohedge.com/political/just-38-voters-think-biden-lives-through-2nd-term-pollJust 38% Of Voters Think Biden Lives Through 2nd Term: Pollfreebeacon.com/biden-administration/bidens-health-department-allocates-422k-to-treat-diabetes-with-native-american-healing-circles/Biden's Health Department Allocates $422K To Treat Diabetes With Native American 'Healing Circles'
The Department of Health and Human Services allocated more than $422,000 in federal funds for the American Indian Health Service of Chicago to launch the program, which also aims to undo "the damage of colonialism" on the "traumatized mind, body, and soul of (the Native American) population."
The grant description claims that the healing potential Native "ceremonies … is unknown to western medicine."
The grant is the latest instance of the Biden administration's embrace of "indigenous knowledge," a form of pseudoscience that posits American Indians are imbued with secret knowledge about the working of the universe.
American Indians have the highest prevalence of diabetes in the country. More than 16 percent of Native communities have been diagnosed with the disorder, which is often caused by obesity, according to the American Diabetes Association. Diabetics are generally treated with insulin and modifications to diet and exercise.
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www.timesofisrael.com/us-israeli-officials-fear-most-hostages-held-by-hamas-are-dead-report/US, Israeli officials fear most hostages held by Hamas are dead
While the IDF has confirmed the deaths of 34 of the 129 remaining hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7, citing intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza, the report said that “Israeli and American officials estimate privately that the number of deaths could be much higher.”
Hamas has indicated it is unable to provide 40 living hostages...www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/12/us-changes-force-posture-threat-iran-attack-israel/US changes ‘force posture’ over ‘imminent’ threat of Iran attacking Israelwww.timesofisrael.com/us-intel-said-to-indicate-iran-could-strike-israeli-soil-in-next-24-to-48-hours/US intel said to indicate Iran could strike ‘Israeli soil’ in next 24 to 48 hours
Israel has been on high alert amid multiple threats and intelligence assessments that Iran would launch a strike on Israeli targets...But Khamenei has yet to decide on the plans. He is concerned a direct attack could backfire with the projectiles being intercepted and Israel responding with a massive retaliation on Iran’s strategic infrastructure, the Journal reported.
Meanwhile, the United States said it had restricted its employees in Israel and their family members from personal travel outside the greater Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beersheba areas amid Iran’s threats “out of an abundance of caution.”
the French foreign ministry added that relatives of Iran-based diplomats will return to France and that French civil servants are now banned from conducting any missions in Iran, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories.www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/12/israel-hamas-war-latest-news-iran-us-biden/Hezbollah fires dozens of missiles at Israel
Some experts suggested the attack was an attempt to deplete Israel’s supply of surface-to-air missiles before Tehran launches a larger strike...www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-blames-un-security-council-inaction-what-might-come-nextIsraeli Media Says Iran Postponed Attack 'At Last Minute' Due To Threat Of US Interventionwww.timesofisrael.com/report-iran-flooding-west-bank-with-arms-to-foment-unrest-against-israel/Iran has flooded West Bank with arms for 2 years, aims to make it next flashpoint
National security researcher Afshon Ostovar told the Times that “the West Bank really needs to be the next frontier that Iran will penetrate and proliferate weapons into, because if they are able to do that then the West Bank will become just as big a problem, if not bigger, as Gaza.”www.dailywire.com/news/israel-prepares-to-eliminate-irans-nuclear-facilities-if-iran-launches-retaliatory-attack-on-israelIsrael Prepares To Eliminate Iran’s Nuclear Facilities If Iran Launches Retaliatory Attack On Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned last week that the country will not hesitate to take preemptive military action against any threat it faces.
“Iran has been acting against us for years — directly and via proxies. And, therefore, Israel acts against Iran and its proxies — defensively and offensively,” he said. “We will know how to defend ourselves, and we will act according to the simple principle: that those who harm us or plan to harm us, we will harm.”www.zerohedge.com/markets/oil-soars-report-us-sees-imminent-high-precision-missile-strike-israel-iranUS Could Launch Joint Retaliatory Strikes With Israel If It Is Attacked By Iran: Official - "We do not rule out launching joint retaliatory strikes with Israel if it is attacked by Iran or its agents."www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/09/calm-before-the-storm-chinas-shifting-intimidation-tactics-on-taiwan/Calm Before the Storm? China’s Shifting Intimidation Tactics on Taiwan
China expanded its arsenal of intimidation to include what are apparently surveillance balloons. Since Taiwan began to publish sightings in early December, a total of 94 Chinese balloons have been detected flying near the island. At least nine flew directly over Taiwan the week of the presidential election.
China then marked the Chinese New Year on Feb. 10 by sending eight balloons, six warplanes, and four naval warships toward Taiwan...more balloons than were recorded on any previous day. These instrumented balloons fly at altitudes between 11,000 and 38,000 feet, an airspace used for commercial aircraft.
Such incidents remind Americans of China’s invasive opérations last year, when a large spy balloon drifted across the nation before being shot down by the U.S. military.
While eyes were on the sky, tensions escalated at sea. Following then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting in April 2023 with then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., China’s Fujian Maritime Safety Administration announced that it would begin inspecting ships in the Taiwan Strait, ostensibly for only a few days.
Recently, China has begun acting on that promise. In February, Chinese authorities boarded a Taiwanese tourist boat and harassed passengers. This came days after two Chinese fishermen drowned while being chased by the Taiwanese Coast Guard in “restricted waters.”The Future of Europe www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/09/honour-based-crimes-soar-by-more-than-60-per-cent-over-two-years-in-england/‘Honour-Based’ Crimes Soar by More Than 60 Per Cent over Two Years in England - including assaults, death threats, female genital mutilation, forced marriages, and rapeswww.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/10/alleged-islamic-state-members-arrested-in-germany-accused-of-keeping-child-sex-slaves/Alleged Islamic State Members Arrested in Germany, Accused of Keeping Child Sex Slaves
The suspects were married and were members of IS in Iraq and Syria between October 2015 and December 2017, prosecutors said. They allegedly kept a five-year-old Yazidi girl as a slave starting in late 2015 and a 12-year-old from October 2017.
Prosecutors allege that the man raped both girls repeatedly and that the woman prepared the room and put make-up on one of the girls.
The couple also exerted “harsh physical violence” on the girls, who were prevented from practising their own religion and coerced into household work and childcare, prosecutors said. The man on one occasion allegedly hit the older girl with a broomstick, the woman is accused of scalding the younger girl’s hand with hot water and both children were repeatedly forced to stand on one leg for half an hour as punishment.
Last month, a German federal court rejected an appeal by a German convert to Islam against her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband enslaved when they were IS members in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun.www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/12/scotlands-new-transgender-hate-crime-law-already-showing-how-it-leads-to-tyranny/Scotland’s New Transgender ‘Hate Crime’ Law Already Showing How It Leads to Tyranny
Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf said the bill is about “protecting people from a rising tide of hatred.” But who will protect the people’s God-given right to free speech?
Siobhian Brown, Scotland’s minister for victims and community safety, was asked whether intentionally “misgendering” someone would be considered a crime under the law. At first she said, “Not at all,” then continued: “It could be reported and it could be investigated. Whether or not the police would think it was criminal is up to Police Scotland.”
Very reassuring.
The response to the law has been predictable.
Scottish police reportedly “received more than 7,000 online reports of offences in the first week since the introduction of a new hate crime law.”
Police have called the law an unsustainable burden on their force. Frankly, I’m more concerned with the burden this law and ones like it are placing on the fraying threads holding up the fleeting notion that those living under such measures really live in a “free” society.
I don’t buy the premise that this law was created just to protect the vulnerable and that the Scottish people have nothing to worry about.
Let’s call this what it is: a secular, authoritarian blasphemy law...
My feeling is that this legislation was created by left-wing politicians to be a weapon in the hands of their activist base. The institutional-activist partnership is part of the same perverse circulatory system, and the pols are simply putting another prop in place to secure their power to control thought and discourse.
The West’s cultural elites can’t have people willing to say that the emperor has no clothes or that a man can’t become a woman with impunity. That threatens the regime, the interlocking lies that the elites tell themselves and use to secure their positions within its institutional tendrils.
So, what the cultural elites are doing is what plenty of other authoritarian and totalitarian societies have done in the past. They are making the cost of telling the truth high enough that a general mass of people will be afraid to declare it publicly or even privately.
They are dressing up these dictatorial designs in the language of preventing “hate” and by making the penalties seem low enough that they don’t immediately illicit images of other notorious, oppressive states of the past.
“Hey, don’t worry, we won’t prosecute you for misgendering someone, yet. Unless the police and the courts say so, of course, but that’s not my department.”
That’s effectively what Scottish politicians and other proponents of transgender hate crime laws are saying.
Don’t buy it.
Anti-speech laws to intimidate dissenters aren’t the final solution to the problem; they instead are intended to establish a government-mandated norm of what is considered acceptable speech. These laws are a firm but insistent swat directed at anyone who might be thinking of telling the truth rather than spouting the party-approved narrative.
More repressive laws come later if the people don’t comply.
how many people are going to be willing to speak the truth when there’s a chance they could get arrested, face a lawsuit, or even end up in jail?
Most people aren’t Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The creators of these laws know that and are counting on the probability that most aren’t even a Rowling, or a Riley Gaines, or a Ray Shelton either.
That’s why these “small” threats to liberty must be met and defeated now. Now is the time to refuse to live by lies while the stakes still aren’t quite gulags.www.timesofisrael.com/protesters-chant-death-to-israel-and-death-to-america-at-michigan-quds-day-rally/At Michigan Quds Day rally, protesters chant ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America’ - Speakers call to bring down ‘entire system of the United States’The real future www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/10/farage-founded-reform-uk-surges-to-record-level-of-support/Farage-Founded Reform UK Surges to Record Level of Support as Sunak’s Tories Flounderthefederalist.com/2024/04/10/prominent-u-k-doctors-independent-review-finds-no-good-evidence-supports-chemically-castrating-kids/Prominent U.K. Doctor’s Independent Review Finds ‘No Good Evidence’ Supports Chemically Castrating Kids
The report, commissioned by England’s National Health Service in 2020, says chemical and surgical interventions on children deemed gender dysphoric does not lead to positive outcomes...“Transitioning” children socially, cutting off their breasts or genitalia, and chemically castrating them wreak irreversible damage on their bodies and minds. In some cases, it can leave kids with harrowing, life-threatening consequences. www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/10/nolte-more-and-more-voters-identify-republicans-including-hispanics/More and More Voters Identify as Republicans, Including Hispanics
There are two takeaways here… The first is just how much influence the corporate media have lost during the last decade. Despite 16 years of shameless race-baiting that began with the arrival of Barry Obama on the national scene, despite all that giddiness over “demographics becoming destiny for a permanent Democrat majority,” that has not happened. Then there’s the media’s failure to destroy the GOP after eight years of dehumanizing former President Trump, who is currently polling better than any presidential candidate since George W. Bush in 2004.
Secondly, much of this demographic change is due to the Democrat party’s breathtaking shift to the insane left. What had been a working man’s party is now the party of Drag Queen Story Hours, mutilating kids to appease trans loons, queering elementary schools with gay porn, post-birth abortion, an open border, allowing transvestites to destroy women’s sports, imprisoning political opponents, censoring ideas they disagree with, allowing the terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter to burn and loot, and releasing violent criminals from prison. Then there’s all the inflation and insanely high gas prices.
Normal People of all creeds and colors want no part of that.Want this to be your backyard? www.breitbart.com/border/2024/04/09/cartels-in-mexico-use-chemical-weapons-on-rivals-and-civilians-in-turf-war/REPORTS: Mexican Cartels Use Chemical Weapons on Rivals, Civilians in Escalating Turf War
As part of their strategy, the CJNG gunmen had not only been using high-powered weapons but drones that dropped “explosive devices with C-4” and other devices with some chemicals that suffocate people, according to local reports.Liberal priorities nypost.com/2024/04/11/us-news/planet-fitness-member-arrested-after-going-to-ladies-locker-room-claiming-he-identified-as-a-woman/Planet Fitness member arrested after going into ladies’ locker room ‘completely naked’ and claiming he identified as a woman
“It’s a man but he says he identifies as a woman, and he won’t leave the restroom,” the 911 caller told an emergency dispatcher. “But he is just walking around showing us his — and he won’t leave.”
Sources told the outlet that Miller allegedly asked a female gym member in the locker room to lotion him up and take a shower together.
The incident in North Carolina comes after a Planet Fitness in Fairbanks, Alaska, came to the defense of a transgender member who was photographed shaving in the women’s locker room.
Patricia Silva, 67, who took the photo because she said she was alarmed seeing someone “with a penis” grooming themselves next to a young girl, was later banned from the gym (for complaining about the molester)nypost.com/2024/04/08/us-news/nyc-latin-kings-member-arrested-9-times-this-year-but-keeps-getting-cut-loose-due-to-bail-reform-sources/Brazen NYC gangbanger who’s already racked up 9 arrests this year keeps getting cut loose due to woke bail reform
The brazen gangster was most recently arrested after a December heist in the Bronx where he broke into a police officer’s car and made off with an arsenal of gear including gun belts and ammunition, bullet proof vests, a riot shield and baton, mace, handcuffs, and a radio, the law enforcement sources said.
Despite the laundry list of alleged offenses — including at least 31 domestic incidents ranging from alleged assaults to death threats against women — Santiago has repeatedly been let go on non-monetary release, according to the law enforcement sources.
Even after he was re-arrested on bench warrants for ditching required court appearances, Santiago continued to add to his criminal resume.
He is just one of numerous NYC recidivists who have been allowed to walk free without bail — only to soon land in cuffs again once out — since state lawmakers in Albany passed sweeping criminal justice reforms in 2019.
“If this guy is who Albany had in mind when they conceived of this bail reform — then I see it’s going exactly as planned… the march forward for the sake of ideology,” an exasperated law enforcement source told The Post.
Recent crime figures out of the Bronx show a surge year to date.
In the East Bronx, rape has soared by 175%, felony assault by 18%, grand larceny by 70%, and major crimes overall by 27%, according to NYPD figures.
Other numbers suggest that repeat offenders are to blame for chunks of crime — last year, the NYPD reported that a mere 327 people were to blame for 30% of the city’s shoplifting crimes in 2022.
That breaks down to recidivists being arrested a collective 6,600 times — more than 20 times each.
Also in 2022, NYPD numbers showed that just 10 criminals had racked up 500 arrests since bail reform took effect in 2020.www.breitbart.com/health/2024/04/10/chicago-slammed-with-57-cases-of-measles-in-migrant-shelters-one-case-less-than-entire-country-in-2023/Chicago Slammed with 57 Cases of Measles in Migrant Shelters
Health officials also say that some residents may have been exposed to the disease on city mass transit bus and train lines, as well as various stores, clinics, and schools.www.zerohedge.com/political/alex-jones-sue-cia-after-undercover-report-claims-agency-went-after-him-hardcoreAlex Jones To Sue CIA After Undercover Report Claims Agency "Went After Him Hardcore"
Infowars founder and host Alex Jones says he plans to sue the CIA following the release of an undercover sting in which an alleged CIA officer claims that the US intelligence community "took his money away" to "chop his legs off."
The employee, a CIA contracts officer in San Diego named Gavin O'Blennis, tells the undercover journalist: "You can kind of put anyone in jail if you know what to do," adding "You set ’em up."
"Nothing like putting out a fake social media thing to like really get people mad," O'Blennis continued. "You set ’em up. You create the situation...some would call that entrapment."
Following the release of the footage, Alex Jones told journalist Benny Johnson that he's going to sue the CIA.
"He needs to be subpoenaed by Congress," Jones said of O'Blennis. "I am planning to launch a lawsuit against the CIA and the FBI. We have to bring all this out and right as my bankruptcy comes to a close and right as all this stuff is being finalized it’s really God’s work working here that this came out at this time."
Jones says he's speaking with several lawyers to explore options.freebeacon.com/california/california-isnt-tracking-homelessness-spending-or-whether-its-working-auditor-says/California Isn’t Tracking Homelessness Spending or Whether It’s Working, Auditor Says - spent $24 billion in five years as crisis worsensnypost.com/2024/04/08/us-news/elizabeth-warren-believes-top-un-court-will-find-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza/www.timesofisrael.com/french-fm-threatens-possible-sanctions-to-force-israel-to-boost-gaza-aid/Sen. Elizabeth Warren believes top UN court will find Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza - French FM threatens possible sanctionsthefederalist.com/2024/04/10/after-promising-not-to-the-irs-army-democrats-expanded-is-targeting-the-middle-class/After Promising Not To, The IRS Army Democrats Expanded Is Targeting The Middle Class
According to a new audit of the agency, as of just less than a year ago, 63 percent of new IRS audit inquiries were to middle-income earners who made less than $200,000.
A report from Syracuse University published in March 2022 shows the IRS audits the poorest Americans at a rate five times higher than other Americans. And when Republicans proposed an amendment to the IRA in 2022 to “prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service Funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000,” Democrats rejected it.www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2960568/rand-paul-pulls-back-curtain-on-the-great-covid-cover-up/Rand Paul pulls back curtain on the ‘Great COVID Cover-up’ - at least 15 separate federal agencies knew that attempts to create a COVID-19-like coronavirus were being undertaken at the Wuhan Institute of Virology as early as January 2018.
Yet, heads of these agencies did not reveal this information to the public; for years, they actively refused to release information on the project to lawmakers such as Paul, who were attempting to provide congressional oversight.
For years, I have been fighting to obtain records from dozens of federal agencies relating to the origins of COVID-19 and the DEFUSE project,” wrote Paul, who in March revealed he was formally launching a bipartisan investigation into the virus’s origins with Democratic Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan.
The DEFUSE project refers to a proposal submitted by EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based nongovernmental organization headed by British zoologist Peter Daszak, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The purpose of the proposal was to “insert a furin cleavage site into a coronavirus to create a novel chimeric virus.”
More details of what the Kentucky senator calls “the Great COVID Cover-up” are likely to materialize as Paul and Peters continue their investigation. But an abundance of evidence already shows it’s no exaggeration to use that word: cover-up.
Paul is hardly the first government official to use the term.
Nearly a year ago, David Asher, a bioweapons specialist who led the State Department’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19, sat down with New York magazine journalist David Zweig and explained why there has been so little progress made in discovering the origins of COVID: Those with institutional power don’t want answers.
“It’s a massive coverup spanning from China to DC,” Asher said. “Our own state department told us, ‘Don’t get near this thing, it’ll blow up in your face.’”
In August, the CIA confirmed that the agency was “looking into” allegations from a CIA whistleblower who claimed that analysts tasked with determining the origins of COVID were offered “significant” financial incentives to change their assessment that COVID likely emerged accidentally from the Wuhan lab. (It’s worth noting that Fauci allegedly was admitted to agency headquarters “without a record of entry” while the CIA was conducting its investigation into COVID’s origins.)
The reason the government would cover up DEFUSE becomes obvious when one analyzes the nature of the proposal, which British author Matt Ridley weeks ago noted included a great many “wacky” (and reckless) ideas such as spraying vaccines into bat caves to immunize them.
“In the end, what they were doing was making more dangerous viruses, with a view of understanding them,” Ridley said. “It looks very strongly as if in trying to prevent a pandemic they may have caused one.”
Though this result would be shocking to many, especially those who see the state as virtuous and infallible, it’s far less surprising to students of history and economics.
“The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments,” Ludwig von Mises explained in Omnipotent Government. “The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.”
The reason for this is obvious. The more power is concentrated, the less accountable it becomes, and power without accountability is a recipe for disaster.thefederalist.com/2024/04/10/fatness-epidemic-kills-more-people-each-day-than-covid-ever-did/Fatness Epidemic Kills More People Each Day Than Covid Ever DidFraud Watch thefederalist.com/2024/04/09/voters-and-one-alleged-signature-gatherer-say-their-names-were-forged-for-arizona-candidate/Voters — And One Alleged Signature Gatherer — Say Their Names Were Forged For Arizona Candidatethefederalist.com/2024/04/08/media-tacitly-admit-mail-in-balloting-is-not-as-secure-and-reliable-as-they-claim/Media Tacitly Admit Mail-In Balloting Is Not As Secure And Reliable As They Claim
Last Tuesday, CBS News ran an investigative piece detailing the growing problem of mail theft, titled: “Amid surging mail theft, post offices failing to secure universal keys.” According to the outlet, mail theft has “skyrocketed” in recent years, “from fewer than 60,000 complaints in 2018 to more than 250,000 in 2023.”
CBS further discovered that the U.S. Postal Service has failed to take necessary steps to “secure millions of universal ‘arrow keys’ that open bulk mailboxes in apartment buildings and neighborhoods coast to coast.”
Reported cases of assault and robbery against postal workers have also increased year-over-year since 2014, according to data from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
But how is this possible? Democrats have assured the public time and again that universal mail-in balloting is totally safe and secure.
In actuality, the process is prone to errors and malfeasance, as the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency — the “nerve center” of the federal government’s censorship operations — secretly admitted ahead of the 2020 election. Instead of disclosing these issues to the American public, the federal subagency flagged online posts highlighting the problems of mail balloting to Big Tech companies for censorship.
Widespread, unsupervised mail-in voting allows left-wing groups to harvest low-effort votes and accrue Democrat candidates an advantage over Republicans ahead of Election Day. Modern day vermin www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/04/09/senior-editor-npr-employs-87-democrats-in-editorial-positions-0-republicans-in-dc-newsroom/www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-waySenior Editor: NPR Employs 87 Democrats in Editorial Positions, 0 Republicans in DC Newsroom - ‘We Lost America’s Trust’: NPR Veteran Says Network Has ‘Lost Its Way’www.zerohedge.com/political/hidden-behind-climate-policies-data-nonexistent-temperature-stationsHidden Behind Climate Policies, Data From Nonexistent Temperature Stations
The network was established to provide an “accurate, unbiased, up-to-date historical climate record for the United States,” NOAA states, and it has recorded more than 100 years of daily maximum and minimum temperatures from stations across the United States.
The problem, say experts, is that an increasing number of USHCN’s stations don’t exist anymore.
“They are physically gone—but still report data—like magic,” said Lt. Col. John Shewchuk, a certified consulting meteorologist.
“NOAA fabricates temperature data for more than 30 percent of the 1,218 USHCN reporting stations that no longer exist.”Acadumbia freebeacon.com/campus/revolutionary-suicide-ucla-psychiatrists-cheer-self-immolation-in-leaked-audio/'Revolutionary Suicide': UCLA Psychiatrists Cheer Self-Immolation in Leaked Audio
The talk reflects the erosion of what was until recently a bedrock medical norm: From the American Psychiatric Association to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, all professional mental health bodies warn against glorifying self-harm, lest it inspire others to harm themselves.
That norm has weakened with the rise of activist doctors and their capture of medical organizations. Pediatricians got a vivid taste of the brave new world in 2022 when Morissa Ladinsky, in an address at the American Academy of Pediatrics’s annual conference, praised a transgender teenager, Leelah Alcorn, for "boldly … ending her life" and leaving a suicide note that "went viral, literally around the world."nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/sheila-jackson-lee-tells-students-the-moon-is-a-planet-made-up-mostly-of-gases/Space cadet: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee tells schoolkids that moon is a ‘planet’ and ‘made up mostly of gases’ - before adding she still wants to be “first in line” to learn how to live there.
The former top Democrat on the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee badly botched elementary lunar facts while speaking during the gathering at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston.
Jackson Lee made a series of other questionable statements, including saying the moon, which reflects the sun’s light, gives off “unique light and energy” and misstating the scientific reason for the eclipse.
"What you’ll see today will be the closest distance that the moon has ever been in the last 20 years. Which means that’s why they will shut the light down because they will be close to the Earth,” she said of the eclipse alignment.
“I don’t know about you, I want to be first in line to know how to live and to be able to survive on the moon,” Jackson Lee added. “That’s another planet which we’re going to see shortly.”
Jackson Lee is notorious in DC for high staff turnover because of her allegedly unusual and abusive demands of staffers.
In a statement to The Post on Tuesday, she admitted she was wrong to describe the moon, which has virtually no atmosphere, as being composed mostly of gas to the schoolkids.
“Obviously I misspoke and meant to say the sun, but as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid things instead of stuff that really matters."
Jackson Lee has not deleted from her X page the footage of herself providing the miseducation to local students.
The video went viral after it was clipped and reposted by Houston-area radio host Kenny Webster.
“As a local Houston talk radio personality, she supplies us with a never-ending vault of content. She’s better than satire,” Webster told The Post.www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/09/harvards-plan-to-host-segregated-graduation-ceremonies-attracts-pushback/Harvard’s Plan to Host Segregated Graduation Ceremonies Attracts PushbackHouthi Joe's corner www.dailywire.com/news/biden-demands-israel-enact-ceasefire-makes-no-demands-of-hamas-to-release-hostagesBiden Demands Israel Enact ‘Ceasefire,’ Makes No Demands Of Hamas To Release Hostages
Joe Biden continued his turn against Israel this week, demanding that the country unilaterally agree to a ceasefire in exchange for nothing from Hamas.
Biden made the remarks during a Univision interview that aired Tuesday night when Enrique Acevedo gave him a loaded question attacking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking him if Netanyahu “is more concerned about his political survival than he is in the national interest of his people.”
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said that the administration’s “widespread capitulation” was “appalling” and has convinced Hamas that they’ve “won.”www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/10/biden-fails-to-mention-hostages-once-during-univision-interview-on-israel/Biden Fails to Mention ‘Hostages’ Once During Univision Interview on Israelnypost.com/2024/04/10/us-news/mike-johnson-rips-president-joe-biden-as-anti-israel/House Speaker Mike Johnson rips ‘anti-Israel’ Biden for ‘placating the antisemitism in his base’
“Democrats are weak on Israel as well...It’s rather stunning to us that there’s this dramatic shift. Hamas is holding more than 130 hostages,” Johnson (R-La.) chided during a press conference Wednesday.
“Shamefully since Oct. 7, Joe Biden has transformed into an anti-Israel president. There’s really no other way to characterize it."www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2959262/bidens-betrayals-abroad-and-at-home/Biden’s betrayals abroad and at home
It was clear two years ago that Biden’s calculated response just two months after Russia invaded was to send Ukrainians weaponry insufficient to beat Russian President Vladimir Putin’s neo-czarist aggression. It was only enough to stave off Kyiv’s defeat. Some of us argued back then that Biden should be decisive and principled, escalate the battle, and give the good guys the tools to finish the job.
Instead, he dragged out the conflict, demonstrating that he was willing to fight to the last Ukrainian (as sardonic aphorists put it). Now, Ukraine’s prospects in the war have dwindled from a choice between winning and not losing to one between stalemate and clear defeat.”
At a moment when Israel is in the toughest position since its founding three-quarters of a century ago, when the international Left has turned it into a pariah for the crime of being a mass murder victim and having the gall to defend itself, Biden is weakly and duplicitously abandoning our close friend in need. He is congenitally incapable of hanging his head in shame, but the rest of us can hardly help doing so. He is disgracing his country in order to pander to Muslim voters, such as those in Dearborn, Michigan, who recently chanted, “Death to America.”thefederalist.com/2024/04/08/joe-biden-is-now-chasing-the-death-to-america-voter/Joe Biden Is Now Chasing The ‘Death To America’ Voter
It was Al-Quds Day last Friday. To celebrate the occasion, protesters in Dearborn, Michigan, chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” while a speaker named Tarek Bazzi declared the United States — a place that’s afforded him the liberty to openly support rapists, murderers, and terrorists — one of the “rottenest countries” on the planet. “It’s the entire system that has to go,” he explained to cheers of, what I assume, were American citizens.
As Seth Mandel notes, there’s Charlottesville every other day in America, and barely anyone on the left cares. Most progressives, let’s face it, either tacitly or openly support these days of rage.
Al-Quds Day, a kind of international Islamic Nuremberg Rally, was conceived by Ayatollah Khomeini and his gang during the Islamic Revolution, only a few months before Iranians murdered eight U.S. servicemen and took 66 American hostages. I assure you participants aren’t merely “critical” of Israel’s housing policy in Judea or (historically low) civilian-to-commandant kill ratio in the war against Hamas; they want all 7 million Jews in that tiny country dead or scattered into dhimmi...Leftist and antisemitic pro-Hamas “activists” are vandalizing buildings, threatening Jews, cheering on martyrs, and shutting down events.
The same Jew haters who attend Quds Day rallies or write for The Washington Post are the people Joe Biden is now cynically trying to mollify in his effort to win the 2024 presidential race and “save democracy.” Delegations of Democrats are sent to placate these defenders of barbarism and terror...no matter how many ceasefires Hamas rejects, Democrats still demand Israel unilaterally stop fighting the people who hold American hostages. It is a demand we would never make of any other nation — a demand we would never abide by ourselves.
Even that’s not enough. The Biden administration, which creates and spreads myths about Jewish extremism in the “West Bank” to create a fake moral equivalence, is reportedly preparing to force Israel to mark products imported from Judea and Samaria made by Jews with special labels. Vile, indeed.
Biden, it should be noted, is a vacuous political zombie who has never met a position he hasn’t dropped for a vote. Today, he is surrounded by Obama-era advisers and Hamas sympathizers — though I repeat myself — who have long wanted the U.S. to be aligned with mullahs of Iran...And now that Democrats like Chuck Schumer have sold out the Jews to the vultures for a few votes in Dearborn, nothing holds back progressive Democrats from normalizing the antisemitism that already infects the hard left.notthebee.com/article/afghan-man-on-terror-watchlist-spent-year-inside-the-us-was-released-twice-by-law-enforcement-before-being-arrested-a-third-timeThe Biden admin let an Afghani on the terror watchlist roam the U.S. for over a year and only became aware of the issue after NBC reported on it
Amazingly, when Kharwin was initially arrested, agents "suspected he was on the U.S. terrorist watchlist ... because one piece of information matched a person on the list." But they couldn't confirm the information so they just let him go — and "without alerting Immigration and Customs Enforcement about possible terrorism ties." There were no restrictions on his movements inside the U.S.
Kharwin himself is suspected as belonging to Hezb-e-Islami, a "virulently anti-Western insurgent group" that was "responsible for attacks in Afghanistan that killed at least nine American soldiers and civilians from 2013 to 2015."www.zerohedge.com/markets/more-russian-lng-being-exported-europe-asiaMore Russian LNG Being Exported To Europe Than Asiawww.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/09/gas-prices-hit-six-month-high-spiking-more-than-50-under-joe-biden/Gas Prices Hit Six-Month High, Spiking More than 50% Under Joe Bidenfreebeacon.com/latest-news/inflation-jumps-in-latest-bad-economic-report-for-biden/Inflation Jumps in Latest Bad Economic Report for Bidennypost.com/2024/04/12/us-news/electricity-costs-soar-under-biden-administrationenergy-prices-soar-under-biden-administration/Energy prices soar almost 30 percent under Biden — 13 times faster than previous 7 years: analysis
“There is no improvement here, we’re moving in the wrong direction,” Greg McBride, chief financial analyst for Bankrate, told Fox Business.
Fox Business reported that in March the overall cost of energy was a whopping 36.9% higher than in January 2021.
And gasoline prices are still 52.1% higher today than when Biden took the White House, Fox Business reported.thefederalist.com/2024/04/12/biden-plans-giant-expansion-of-two-national-monuments-in-130000-acre-land-grab/Biden Plans Giant Expansion Of Two National Monuments In 130,000-Acre Land Grabwww.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/2962351/biden-officials-successfully-pressured-fact-checker-to-alter-gas-stoves-ban-rating-watchdog/Biden officials successfully pressured fact-checker to alter gas stoves ban rating: Watchdogwww.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2960718/the-authoritarian-biden-presidency/The authoritarian Biden (administration)
On April 8, Biden announced another round of unilateral college loan bailouts without authorization from Congress. The Supreme Court struck down a bigger bailout last year, but Biden told a crowd of cheering Democrats in Madison, Wisconsin, that “that didn’t stop us.”
Biden’s transparent abuse of executive power for electoral gain might be less galling if he and his administration were not botching the job Congress assigned them to do on student loans. In 2020, Congress passed the bipartisan FAFSA Simplification Act, instructing the Department of Education to do what the title of the act suggests: simplify student aid applications.
The department was supposed to have a new system ready last October, but distracted by bailout efforts, it blew past that deadline, rolled out a faulty product, and then made a huge mistake processing the applications it received. Millions of students are now in limbo. “It’s hard to trust anything by now that the department is saying,” David Sheridan of Columbia University told reporters.
If Biden concentrated more on faithfully executing the laws Congress passed instead of inventing new ones that have no legislative backing, our higher education system would be in better shape.
Higher education is not the only area where Biden is abusing executive power in ways that upset the lives of ordinary people. His Environmental Protection Agency recently issued new regulations that functionally ban sales of new gas-powered cars by 2032. No one who supported the 1970 Clean Air Act intended the vote to be interpreted as enabling the abolition of gasoline-powered vehicles. But that is what Biden is using it to do. The result will be higher car prices, higher insurance prices, and millions of hours wasted waiting for unreliable electric vehicles to charge. Congress did not vote for this, but it is what Biden is delivering.
Then there is Biden’s novel definition of who is American. Congress has not passed a law granting presidents the power to release immigrants arrested for illegally entering the country. The law says the opposite: Immigrants arrested for illegally crossing the southern border should be detained until they are deported or until an immigration judge grants them asylum. Biden ignores this law, releasing millions of immigrants into the country where he does not even try to catch them, let alone deport them.
Additionally, Biden has abused his parole authority by seeking out hundreds of thousands of immigrants nowhere near the border and flying them into the United States. There is no congressional authority for this program, yet Biden is abusing his parole power to do it anyway. The immigrants, from around the world, are supposedly here temporarily and will be returned to their home countries in two years. No one believes Biden will let that happen.
So, without legislative authorization and in defiance of courts, Biden has remade our higher education system, banned the future production of America’s favorite method of travel, and permanently altered the demographics of the nation itself.nypost.com/2024/04/12/us-news/dnc-paid-for-bidens-legal-bills-in-classified-documents-case/DNC paid for Biden’s legal bills in classified documents case
The Democratic National Committee used campaign funds to cover more than $1.5 million in legal costs incurred by Biden during the investigation into his mishandling of classified documents — while attacking Donald Trump for using the same mechanism to pay his attorney fees, Federal Election Commission records reviewed by The Post show.
“Joe Biden and the Democrats’ entire campaign against President Trump is based upon lies and hypocrisy — they have repeatedly stated they don’t spend money on Biden’s legal bills while they attack President Trump for having to defend himself from Biden’s witch hunts,” Trump 2024 national spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to The Post.
“Come to find out, the DNC paid millions to cover Biden’s legal bills to a law firm run by the husband of top White House staffer Anita Dunn. Apparently ‘10% for the big guy’ from Hunter wasn’t enough for Crooked Joe to foot his own bill.”nypost.com/2024/04/08/us-news/biden-could-be-left-off-ohio-presidential-ballot-state-election-official-warns/Biden could be left off Ohio presidential ballot, state election official warns
Under Ohio law, presidential candidates must be certified by Aug. 7 – 90 days before the general election – but Biden, 81, will not be formally confirmed as the Democratic Party nominee until the Democratic National Convention, which starts Aug. 19.
Last month, a Florida Atlantic University/Mainstreet Research poll showed former President Donald Trump leading Biden in Ohio by 11 percentage points...Biden's handlers have been so busy trying to rig the election and get Trump off the ballot....they forgot they had to put their own guy on it. nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/biden-could-be-left-off-alabama-general-election-ballot-state-election-official-warns/Biden could be left off Alabama general election ballot, state election official warns
Alabama law requires political parties to certify their candidates “no later than the 82nd day preceding the day fixed for the election.”
“If this Office has not received a valid certificate of nomination from the Democratic Party following its convention by the statutory deadline, I will be unable to certify the names of the Democratic Party’s candidates for President and Vice President for ballot preparation for the 2024 general election,” Allen warned.
Last month, a Florida Atlantic University/Mainstreet Research poll showed Trump leading Biden in Ohio by 11 percentage points and in Alabama by 20 percentage points.www.dailywire.com/news/biden-bleeding-support-from-black-men-in-crucial-swing-states-wsj-poll-findsBiden Bleeding Support From Black Men In Crucial Swing States - Biden’s support among black men in the swing states is 30 points lower than the 2020 election’s national results
57% of black men supported Biden, while 30% said they backed former President Trump. This is a drastic shift from 2020 when 87% of black men voted for Biden, and only 12% voted for Trump, according to the VoteCast national poll.
Biden was blasted during the 2020 campaign when he said that black voters “ain’t black” if they were considering backing Trump.
Commenting on the WSJ poll results, a spokesman for the Trump campaign told WSJ, “Our coalition message to black and Hispanic communities this election is simple: If you want strong borders, safe neighborhoods, rising wages, quality jobs, school choice and the return of the strongest economy in over 60 years, then vote for Donald J. Trump.”www.dailywire.com/news/hes-gaslighting-literally-everyone-2020-biden-voter-has-had-it-with-the-president‘He’s Gaslighting Literally Everyone’: 2020 Biden Voter Has Had It
At one point, he and the others were asked whether they believed they were personally better off under Biden’s economy or under former President Donald Trump’s economy, and every single one of them said they’d be better off with Trump.
But then the group was presented with a follow-up question: “Is there anything Joe Biden could do or say between now and the time you vote that would make you feel differently...or are you pretty much decided that Trump’s policies would be better for the economy?”
One of the women responded first, saying that she didn’t feel like Biden was even addressing the economy in any real way.
“I feel like he doesn’t even take accountability for what’s — at all, with what’s going on. And not even accountability, like he’s in denial that it’s happening!” she said.notthebee.com/article/joe-biden-stalls-as-he-forgets-which-pre-selected-journalist-hes-supposed-to-call-onJoe Biden stalls as he forgets which pre-selected journalist he's supposed to call onnypost.com/2024/04/11/us-news/whoops-biden-speaks-without-press-in-room-as-handlers-leave-reporters-in-hallway/Biden speaks without press in room during meeting with Japanese, Philippine leaders as handlers leave reporters in hallwaynypost.com/2024/04/10/us-news/biden-mocked-for-shuffling-around-white-house-lawn-with-dazed-look-during-japanese-pm-ceremony/Biden mocked for shuffling around White House lawn with dazed look during Japanese PM ceremonywww.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/04/10/joe-biden-makes-case-reelection-elect-me-im-in-20th-century/Joe Biden Makes Case for Reelection: ‘Elect Me. I’m in the 20th Century’www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2961075/simple-statistics-that-biden-wont-complete-a-second-term-mccarthy/‘Simple statistics’ that Biden won’t complete a second term: McCarthyBottom story freebeacon.com/democrats/dem-rep-eric-sorensen-says-climate-change-to-blame-for-border-crisis/ Dem Rep. Eric Sorensen Says Climate Change To Blame for Border Crisis - Illinois Democrat describes himself as 'meteorologist,' though he doesn't meet federal standards for that titleI guess this guy is trying to make Biden's new nickname "Climate Change"
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www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/15/saudi-official-iran-engineered-war-gaza-ruin-saudi-israel-relationship/Saudi Official: Iran ‘Engineered a War in Gaza’ to Ruin Saudi-Israel Relationship
“Iran’s behavior is irresponsible. We all know that Iran is a country that sponsors terrorism, and it should have been stopped a long time ago,” the Saudi official said.www.dailywire.com/news/saudi-arabia-publicly-acknowledges-defending-israel-from-iranian-attacks-reportsSaudi Arabia Publicly Acknowledges Defending Israel From Iranian Attacks
The U.S., U.K., France, Jordan, U.A.E., and Saudi Arabia all participated in assisting Israel in repelling a combination of more than 300 missiles and drones.
A source from the Saudi royal family insinuated to KAN News that Saudi Arabia was involved in “thwarting Iranian attack drones bound for Israel the previous evening, citing that Saudi Arabian airspace automatically intercepts ‘any suspicious entity,'” according to the post on the royal family’s website highlighted by The Jerusalem Post.www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/13/idf-significant-strategic-achievement-as-israel-stopped-99-of-irans-missiles-drones/IDF: ‘Significant Strategic Achievement’ as Israel Stopped 99% of Iran’s Missiles, Droneswww.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-prep-slate-of-sanctions-on-iran-after-attack-on-israelHouse Republicans Prep Slate Of Sanctions On Iran After Attack On Israelwww.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/16/exclusive-alan-dershowitz-time-for-regime-change-in-iran/Alan Dershowitz: Time for ‘Regime Change’ in Iran
Regime change in Iran would benefit the entire region — and it would be legally justified, he said, after Iran’s attack on Israel last weekend. If it wanted to, he said, Israel could legally destroy the entire Iranian military in response.
Dershowitz, who has been critical of Biden’s policies in the Middle East, said he is considering voting Republican in 2024 for the first time in decades, as are many other pro-Israel voters in the Jewish community, many of whom had been reliable Democratic Party voters — until now.nypost.com/2024/04/16/us-news/china-fueling-us-fentanyl-crisis-by-subsidizing-key-chemicals-enriching-companies-tied-to-drug-trafficking-scathing-house-report/China fueling US fentanyl crisis by subsidizing key chemicals, enriching companies tied to drug trafficking: scathing House report
China has been directly causing the deadly fentanyl crisis ravaging communities across America by giving tax rebates to producers and exporters of key precursor chemicals and doling out grants to companies involved in drug trafficking, according to a shocking congressional report released Tuesday.
The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party noted in the 64-page document that many of the substances involved in production of the deadly opiate are illegal under Chinese law “and have no known legal use worldwide.”
However, the report says, Beijing continues to provide subsidies “solely for exporting these deadly synthetic narcotics out of China”...on the rare occasions the US was able to arrest Chinese drug traffickers, Beijing “not only refused to assist the investigation but also published warnings to the … drug trafficking community to avoid ‘falling into US snares and arrest-entrapment.'”
Since Biden took office in January 2021, more than 200,000 Americans have died from fentanyl, which is increasingly cut into non-opioid drugs including cocaine and into counterfeit prescriptions, killing unwitting users.
“While we knew where fentanyl comes from, until now, we did not know why,” the Republican went on, pointing the finger squarely at Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pursuit of “asymmetric warfare” with the US.
“Xi Jinping has stated that it is the role of the CCP to overthrow the liberal democratic system,” the retiring congressman warned. “One of their generals and leading strategists has even discussed ‘drug warfare that causes disasters in other countries while making huge profits’ as an effective tactic.”www.breitbart.com/border/2024/04/15/sinaloa-cartel-moving-fentanyl-labs-closer-to-texas-border/Sinaloa Cartel Moving Fentanyl Labs Closer to Texas BorderThe Future of Europe notthebee.com/article/german-minister-threatens-indefinite-driving-bans-weekends-climate-goalsGerman minister threatens "indefinite driving bans" on weekends to meet climate goalswww.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2967487/brussels-embraces-fascism-in-the-name-of-democracy/Fascism is alive and well in Belgium, as the mayor of Brussels has opted to suppress an assembly of conservative academics, politicians, and commentators.
The National Conservatism Conference started on Tuesday with a who’s who roster of prominent conservatives from all over Europe. British politicians Suella Braverman and Nigel Farage, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, former French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, several members of the European Parliament, and commentators and academics such as Gladden Pappin and Rod Dreher were among the list of speakers.
The conference faced hurdles before it began. First, the conference was forced to find a new venue on two occasions in the week leading up to the event. Finally, after settling on a new venue the night before, the conference began Tuesday morning. But the notoriety of the speakers and the academic nature of the conference was too much for Emir Kir, the mayor of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, the region of Brussels where the conference is taking place, who ordered that the event be suppressed.
Shortly after the conference began, Kir sent a brigade of police officers to shut it down. According to video and reports from the conference, the police ultimately did not stop the conference’s events from taking place but barricaded the entrance to prevent attendees from entering. As such, Zemmour was among those blocked from entering, prompting the conference to postpone his address.
For a nation and a city that prides itself as the heart and seat of the European Union, the authoritarian and fascist act of Kir is an astonishing admittance that in “liberal democracy,” there is no room for the ideas of conservatism or national sovereignty. Kir’s use of the police force to shut down a political gathering he disagrees with should serve as a stark reminder that the “liberalism” of the elite is liberating only for those who support it. For all others, it is a totalitarian prison.
To his credit, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo rebuked Kir and said the attempt to suppress the conference was unacceptable.
“What happened at the Claridge today is unacceptable,” he wrote on X. “Municipal autonomy is a cornerstone of our democracy but can never overrule the Belgian constitution guaranteeing the freedom of speech and peaceful assembly since 1830. Banning political meetings is unconstitutional. Full stop.”
Only time will tell if Kir and his fascist police will heed his words and allow the conference to continue. In the meantime, if De Croo is serious about his defense of free speech, he should do his part to ensure that Kir resigns his post, becomes a social pariah, and is never again allowed to hold public office. Otherwise, this brazen act of authoritarian fascism will only become more common.www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/16/condemnations-pour-in-after-conservative-conference-closed-by-police/Condemnations Pour in After Orban-Farage Brussels Conference Shut Down by Police
"anyone with a bit of sense would see the hypocrisy. They go on about rule of law all the time in relation to Hungary. What about rule of law in Brussels? They use it against political meetings in Brussels, I don’t think you’d experience the same thing in Hungary even if you hold political views that the party in power there might disagree with.”
O’Brien remarked that far from shutting down discussion, the censorious mayors had inadvertently left mainstream journalists who had been expecting to cover the event shocked that such a naked act of censorship could pass in the heart of the European Union. He continued: “There has been a media spotlight, some of the journalists here today might not share the views of the speakers (but they are amazed at what has happened)… I think a lot of people might not have cared, but are seeing that something Orwellian — and I don’t like to throw that word around easily — even the most unsympathetic journalists to the conservative cause have seen a major overstep by the left and by anti-democratic forces.www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/17/exclusive-french-mep-blocked-by-police-from-brussels-conference-says-europe-feels-like-communist-china/French MEP Blocked by Police From Brussels Conference Says Europe Feels ‘Like Communist China’
“When I actually started to understand what was going on this morning, it was like a punch in my stomach as a French citizen, being profoundly attached to Europe, we can’t even have a debate… This makes you think of what it would be like to live under communism in Russia or China but we are in Western Europe, it is really scary.”
“This is the most horrendous, authoritarian, ideologically motivated suppression that you could possibly imagine… You sort of stand there and go; ‘right, all the EU legislation that push through, this is what it all boils down to’.”
“I’m a politician, I welcome debate, I will debate anyone, anywhere on any subject. I believe in free speech, in debate, in opposing ideas, in differing visions of society but I don’t believe that just because I don’t like you, you can’t talk,” she said.
Chagnon argued that the incident demonstrated that globalist elites throughout Europe are “petrified of what’s around the corner… the people taking back control and defending their rights.”Liberal priorities www.dailywire.com/news/man-claiming-to-be-woman-and-vampire-convicted-of-sexually-assaulting-mentally-disabled-teenMan Claiming To Be Woman AND Vampire Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting Mentally Disabled Teennotthebee.com/article/trans-student-arrested-for-plans-to-shoot-up-2-maryland-schools-wrote-129-page-manifestoTrans student arrested for plans to shoot up 2 Maryland schools as detailed in 129-page manifesto. Here are the excerpts that have been released..."I want to shoot up my school. I've been preparing for it for the past few months...all I can think about is my finger on the trigger, taking aim, and killing people."
"As I walk through the hallways, I cherry pick the classrooms that are the easiest targets...I have contemplated making bombs (or) I could make chemical weapons"
"I have also considered shooting up my former elementary school because little kids make easier targets. And, I run the risk of getting attacked or tackled midway through with high schoolers. I also hated elementary school. The teachers were evil and the other students were little assholes. I always got in trouble and had to sit out during recess. It would be the perfect revenge."
"The news reports on it, and protests for gun control happen...It would bring me a lot of joy and satisfaction to kill. If I have enough time, I'll try to decapitate my victims with a knife to turn the injuries into deaths."nypost.com/2024/04/15/us-news/leftwing-activists-chant-death-to-israel-death-to-america-video/Wild video shows left-wing activists cheering Iran’s attack on Israel in Chicago — after chanting ‘death to America’
The activists, who were gathered at the Teamster’s Union headquarters...were filmed taking part in disturbing chants that included “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” in Farsi.
The chants in Iran’s native language were taught to some 80 participants by organizer Shabbir Rizvi, who told attendees they could use the saying if they ever encounter “Zionist freaks.”nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/columbia-student-kicked-and-told-to-kill-himself-for-carrying-us-flag/Columbia student kicked and told to ‘kill himself’ as his US flag is set on fire at NYC pro-Palestinian rally
“I knew the anti-American sentiment was rampant (among protesters),” Baker told The Post Wednesday. “I didn’t know how deadly rampant it was until my shirt was on fire."
Baker, alongside his friend David Lederer, 22, and a few other Columbia students, attended the rally to see how truly bad it was after seeing a similar event take place in Michigan.
Lederer and Baker expected to get a few “death to America” chants thrown their way, but Baker never expected to be assaulted for simply holding an American flag.
“Kill yourself, kill yourself,” Baker remembered them chanting at him.
The unidentified demonstrator then kicked Baker, who was standing next to his friend, in the stomach before running away.
“They think they can block roads and streets with impunity,” Lederer said Wednesday. “The average American should realize (these protesters) hate America. They’re calling for terrorism.” nypost.com/2024/04/17/us-news/shock-moment-nyc-subway-riders-chant-iran-you-make-us-proud/Disturbing moment anti-Israel protesters swarm NYC subway chanting, ‘Iran, you make us proud’
Alarming video shows anti-Israel protesters taking over a New York City subway car and horrifying Jewish riders with sick antisemitic chants — even saying they were “proud” of Iran for attacking Israel.
“Iran, you make us proud!” the group yell in a call-and-response chant as a young woman stares wide-eyed in horror during the vile scenes said to have been filmed Monday, the day American flags were burned in widespread protests.
“Yemen, you make us proud … Rafah, you make us proud. West Bank, you make us proud,” they also chant as scared Jewish riders sit nearby.
“They were so angry and seemed capable of violence,” the tipster wrote. “All I was able to do was document what I saw and this is just a sliver I didn’t even get the worst parts.”
“That was one of the scariest things,” the eyewitness added. “When I was able to look at them, I noticed how easily they were chanting that they wanted to kill Jews, to get rid of Jews, to destroy Israel, destroy Zionists, bring destruction to America. Like it is a completely normal thing to exterminate an entire people! And yet they accused Israel of genocide.”
The video came after anti-Israel protesters once again unleashed chaos across the Big Apple Monday, swarming Lower Manhattan, snarling traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and burning US flags in public while chanting, “Death to America!”www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/04/16/photos-u-s-government-officials-wife-is-teacher-who-allegedly-had-sex-with-teenage-student-in-nebraska/PHOTOS: Nebraska Teacher Accused of Sex with Student Is Wife of High-Ranking Pentagon Officialwww.ncregister.com/cna/wisconsin-man-sentenced-to-over-7-years-in-prison-for-firebombing-pro-life-organizationWisconsin Man Sentenced to Over 7 Years in Prison for Firebombing Pro-Life OrganizationDems are big on babykilling... nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/mom-who-smothered-baby-to-death-while-high-on-meth-walks-free/Mom who admitted to smothering toddler while high on meth walks free thanks to controversial judge
"When the state chooses to charge an individual, they must prove they did something with criminal intent. Poor parenting, by definition, is not criminal.”
Court records show that Lacey gave police a lengthy confession, detailing through tears how she smothered her daughter because she was high on meth and wanted her to stop crying so she could get some sleep.nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/nypd-looking-for-madman-who-randomly-whacked-26-year-old-woman-with-a-hockey-stick-in-manhattan/Madman randomly whacks 26-year-old woman with a hockey stick on NYC streetthey live in filth nypost.com/2024/04/15/us-news/infectious-disease-spread-by-rat-urine-seeps-into-nyc-after-record-high-2023-officials/Infectious disease spread by rat urine seeps into NYC after record high 2023: officials
New York City officials issued a dire warning about the alarming rise of a disease spread by rat urine — after a record-high number of cases in 2023.
Leptospirosis — spread by bacteria in the urine of infected Norway rats — can cause fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea, kidney or liver failure and meningitis, officials said.
Some three million rats live the Big Apple, a study by a pest company found last year. That’s about a third of the city’s human population.freebeacon.com/israel/left-wing-dark-money-behemoth-behind-bail-fund-for-free-palestine-bridge-blockers/Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth Behind Bail Fund for 'Free Palestine' Bridge Blockers - Community Justice Exchange, part of the Soros-funded Tides Center, solicits legal defense donations for arrested protesters
Ahead of the protests, A15 said it identified "major choke points in the economy" that it would "blockade" to "cause pain." The group's website directs users to a "bail and legal defense fund" hosted through ActBlue, the Democratic Party's online fundraising juggernaut.
At the A15 protest on Wall Street, protesters were photographed wearing Hamas bandanas and flying Hezbollah flags. Banks located near the protest were vandalized with red spray paint and graffiti that read "Funder of Genocide" and "Free Gaza." Those protesters later blocked the Brooklyn Bridge.
A15’s "mutual solidarity agreement" outlines ways in which protesters are expected to "act in solidarity with each other in the face of attacks from the media, politicians and the police and the Zionist project."
"If one city faces police repression, other cities will extend or expand their blockades or initiate other actions in response if able to the best of their abilities and capacity," the agreement says.thefederalist.com/2024/04/17/prosecutor-california-da-dropped-bombshell-election-data-case-because-it-might-help-trump/Prosecutor: California DA Dropped Bombshell Election Data Case Because It Might Help Trump
L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon improperly — and for political reasons — dismissed the criminal charges against the CEO of election software services company Konnech, a governmental tort complaint filed Wednesday by the lead prosecutor on the case claims. That eight-page complaint against Gascon with the county Board of Supervisors further alleges the DA retaliated against his lead prosecutor for opposing the dismissal of the charges — and reveals many more previously unknown and troubling details about the entire case.
On Oct. 4, 2022, the L.A. County district attorney’s office announced Eugene Yu, the CEO of the Michigan-based Konnech, had been arrested in conjunction with criminal charges pending in California. In announcing Yu’s arrest, the DA’s office stated that “under its $2.9 million, five-year contract with the county, Konnech was supposed to securely maintain the data and that only United States citizens and permanent residents have access to it.” However, in violation of the contract, “information was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China,” according to the press release.
Yu was later arrested and extradited to California, where the far-left Gascon eventually dismissed the criminal charges against Yu. L.A. County later also approved a $5 million payout to Yu to settle a civil lawsuit the Konnech CEO had filed against the government.
From a legal perspective, the dismissal of the criminal charges was baffling, as the criminal complaint filed against Yu stated that during the execution of a search warrant at Konnech, the government recovered evidence that employees had “sent personal identifying information of Los Angeles County election workers to third-party software developers” The criminal complaint further stated that a project manager for Konnech’s contract with L.A. County “confirmed via the messaging app DingTalk that any employee for Chinese contractors working on PollChief software had ‘superadministrative’ privileges for all PollChief clients.”
The reasonable inference from these facts — that the decision to drop the charges against Konnech was a political one — now has further support by the complaint filed by lead prosecutor Eric Neff.
Neff’s complaint to the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, filed by Neff’s attorney as notice of a “governmental tort claim” — a prerequisite to suing civilly — provides a behind-the-scenes summary of the investigation, the resulting charges, and the eventual dismissal.
According to Neff, Yu, through Konnech, provided services to Los Angeles under a nearly $3 million contract: “As part of this contract, Konnech was entrusted with sensitive and confidential information regarding County election workers…” Following an investigation and the eventual execution of a search warrant at Konnech, Yu’s “computer servers were confiscated,” Neff explained.
District attorney investigations, according to Neff’s complaint, “recovered several explosive pieces of evidence in the form of electronic communications as well as one cooperating witness — an employee with knowledge of the company’s facially inadequate practices and procedures.” That evidence showed, according to Neff, that “Konnech was sending sensitive (Personal Identifying Information) data to Chinese-owned and operated third-party contractors through Chinese-owned and operated messaging applications.”
What happened next was pure politics, Neff’s narrative suggests:
On or about October 17, 2022, DA Gascon was overwhelmingly concerned that since he had inadvertently gained Mr. Trump’s (and the far-right wing, election deniers) support, the outlook of such support by prosecuting Mr. Yu would impact his stance and popularity politically.
Then, according to Neff, on Nov. 10, 2022, Sisak informed Neff “that management from the DA’s Office had ordered the case to be dismissed.”
Neff claims he “verbally complained to Mr. Sisak that there was no legal basis for the dismissal,” and “more importantly, Mr. Neff objected to the dismissal because he had reasonable cause to believe that his participation in the dismissal was against the law"
Two days later, Neff was put on administrative leave...Neff was finally reinstated on April 4, 2024 (18 months later). But according to Neff, “in retaliation to the complaints he made concerning the unlawful dismissal of Mr. Yu’s prosecution, DA Gascon removed Mr. Neff from his position prosecuting political corruption to a much less desirable assignment of Welfare Fraud Unit.” That reassignment adversely affected Neff’s working conditions, his prospect for advancement, and other promotions, his complaint alleges.
The internal complaint against Gascon appears to be a precursor to Neff suing the DA’s office in a civil complaint. And if that happens, it seems likely the public will learn much more about what Konnech and Yu did, or didn’t do — and why the DA dropped the charges.Modern day vermin thefederalist.com/2024/04/17/npr-chief-bragged-about-taking-censorship-orders-from-feds-as-head-of-wikipedia/NPR Chief Bragged About Taking Censorship Orders From Feds As Head Of Wikipedia
Maher joined NPR as CEO of the far-left, taxpayer-funded outlet last month. Prior to taking the helm of the state media outlet, Maher served as CEO of Wikimedia Foundation from March 2016 to April 2021, according to her LinkedIn page. The Wikimedia Foundation runs Wikipedia, the seventh-most visited website in the world. It was under Maher’s tenure that Wikipedia tried to eliminate The Federalist’s online entry.
Maher also said that approach was established as “a model for future elections outside the U.S.”Acadumbia www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2969865/north-carolina-student-suspended-using-term-illegal-alien/North Carolina high school student suspended for using the term ‘illegal alien’freebeacon.com/campus/wife-of-obama-press-sec-shocked-by-proliferation-of-anti-semitism-on-campus-of-obamas-alma-mater/Wife of Obama Press Sec Shocked by Proliferation of Anti-Semitism on Campus of Obama's Alma Mater - Former president's longtime friend, Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi, warned Israel supporters would 'infest' the Trump admin...invoking anti-Semitic propaganda that referred to Jews as "vermin."Houthi Joe's corner www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/2967594/biden-must-resign-if-he-greenlit-irans-strike-on-israel/Biden must resign if he greenlit Iran’s strike on Israelnypost.com/2024/04/15/us-news/biden-admin-knowingly-and-unlawfully-gave-1-5b-in-us-aid-that-helped-fund-hamas-terror-groups-suit/Biden ‘knowingly and unlawfully’ gave $1.5B that helped fund Hamas, other terror groups: suit
But since taking office, Biden and his officials have still pushed for the funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and other groups in the West Bank and Gaza — despite internal warnings about the “high risk” of the cash falling into the hands of terror groups in direct violation of the Taylor Force Act, signed into law in 2018 by President Donald Trump.
The complaint, first filed last year by the conservative group America First Legal, was amended to include new emails obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests that also reveal the administration’s attempts to undermine Israel.
“It’s pretty clear that they came in with an intent and a policy to overturn what the Trump (administration) had done with respect to Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem,” Reed Rubinstein, a lawyer for America First and a former US Deputy Associate Attorney General during the Trump administration, told The Post Monday.
“They knew that by increasing the money, we were going to see increased terror attacks. … And they did it anyway,” he said. “These folks came in with an absolute agenda to empower the Palestinians (and) flood money into Gaza and the West Bank.”
A March 2021 waiver that the State Department obtained from the US Treasury had admitted that American aid funding was at “high risk” of being obtained by Hamas, as well as other terror groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Washington Free Beacon first reported.
“We are currently witnessing the devastating effects of the Biden administration knowingly breaking the Taylor Force Act, which President Trump signed into law,” Jackson (R-Texas) told The Post. “There is no doubt that the world is less safe now under the failed leadership of Biden and Secretary Blinken compared to four years ago under President Trump.thefederalist.com/2024/04/18/biden-wont-condemn-hamas-supporters-because-he-needs-them/Biden Won’t Condemn Hamas Supporters Because He Needs Themwww.dailywire.com/news/cruz-blasts-biden-irans-missiles-and-drones-were-paid-for-by-biden-adminCruz Blasts Biden: Iran’s Missiles And Drones ‘Were Paid For’ By Biden Admin
“It was the first direct attack on Israel from Iran in history and it is an extraordinary escalation of what has been going on,” Cruz said. “This tragically is the result of the Biden Foreign Policy of Appeasement and the entire Democrat Party backing away from Israel and sending billions of dollars to Iran. In a very real sense, the missiles that Iran fired at Israel, were paid for by the Biden administration.”
“They did this in the midst of Iran, funding Hamas, funding Hezbollah, funding October 7, and launching over 100 attacks on US servicemen and women,” Cruz continued. “On October 7, more than 1,200 Israelis were murdered. That included roughly 30 Americans who were murdered. We still have American hostages; we still have Israeli hostages. Not only that we have three servicemen and women, the Iranians have murdered in their more than 100 attacks. And what does the Biden administration keep doing? Shoveling cash to this theocratic, lunatic Ayatollah.”freebeacon.com/biden-administration/white-house-adviser-defends-irans-right-to-defend-itself-blasts-genocide-joe-biden/White House Adviser Defends Iran’s ‘Right to Defend Itself’ - called the United States an "accomplice" (to Israel)
Siblani has a well-documented history of anti-Israel and pro-terrorist rhetoric. He has accused pro-Israel lawmakers of being "bought" by the "Zionist lobby," and in 2022, he urged Arabs to fight against Israel with "stones" and "guns," and praised fedayeen, or Islamic militants.
Citing those remarks, Jewish groups criticized the White House in February for meeting with Siblani as part of Team Biden’s bid to shore up support from Michigan’s Arab- and Muslim-American communities. Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez met Siblani in Dearborn, Michigan, in January, and White House national security officials visited him there in February.freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-wont-commit-to-enforcing-iran-sanctions-lawmakers-warn-its-empowering-putins-war-machine/Biden Admin Won't Commit To Enforcing Iran Sanctions. Lawmakers Warn It's Empowering 'Putin's War Machine.'
A group of GOP lawmakers is pressing the Biden administration to clarify its stance on a set of sanctions waivers that have enabled Iran and Russia to build out portions of Tehran’s most contested nuclear sites, providing Moscow with cash that is powering its war on Ukraine.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and three of his colleagues say the Biden administration has left Congress in the dark about the status of these nuclear waivers, which expired in January, the Washington Free Beacon reported last week. They provided upwards of $10 billion in profit for Russian-state controlled firms, such as the Rosatom energy company, for work at Iran's various nuclear plants, including contested military sites suspected of housing the country's atomic weapons program.
Republicans have been pressing the administration to nix these waivers for years. Now that they have expired, the State Department will not commit to enforcing sanctions that would otherwise apply. This is fueling confusion on Capitol Hill about U.S. policy toward Iran and Russia at a time when both countries are bolstering their military alliance, including a $50 billion investment by Tehran in several new Russian-made nuke plants.
"Continuing to issue these waivers clearly does not serve U.S. nonproliferation objectives or national security interests," McCaul writes in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, along with Reps. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.), Thomas Kean (R., N.J.), and Keith Self (R., Texas), also foreign affairs committee members.
The expiration of these waivers earlier this year "was a welcome step," but the lawmakers are concerned "that by failing to take a clear stance on this, the administration is leaving the door open to future sanctions relief on Iran despite the potential benefits for Vladmir Putin’s war machine."
The lawmakers say the administration’s policy constitutes a "failure to hold Iran to account for its nuclear provocation."
"Iran’s stockpiling of highly enriched uranium and continued installation of advanced IR-6 centrifuges undermines any claim of Iran maintaining an exclusively peaceful nuclear program," the lawmakers write. "Iran is now capable of producing seven bombs worth of fissile material in a month. This level of enrichment has no justifiable civilian purpose."
McCaul and his colleagues are pressing the State Department to clarify its stance on the waivers and enforce "the full scope of the law, including mandatory sanctions" that are required under the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act, a sanctions bill that became law in 2012.
When the sanctions waivers were in place, the lawmakers write, Iran began hiding portions of its nuclear program from international inspectors, leaving them in the dark about Iran's enrichment activities.
Iran’s obfuscation, they said, "raises further concerns about Iran’s nuclear program and our adversaries’ role in enabling it."
Earlier this month, Iran announced plans to expand its Russian-made nuclear plant known as Bushehr, a suspected weapons site, as well as a $50 billion investment in other facilities. Construction is slated to pick up pace in May.
Iran also broke ground on four new nuclear power plants earlier this year, with regional experts suspecting that both China and Russia may be assisting with the projects.thefederalist.com/2024/04/16/the-world-is-paying-a-deadly-price-for-barack-obamas-foreign-policy-legacy/The World Is Paying A Deadly Price For Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy
If a belligerent state launched 186 explosive drones, 36 cruise missiles, and 110 surface-to-surface missiles from three fronts against civilian targets within the United States, would Joe Biden call it a “win”?
Would the president tell us that the best thing we can do now is show “restraint”? What if that same terror state’s proxy armies had recently helped murder, rape, and kidnap more than 1,000 American men, women, and children? What if this terror state were trying to obtain nuclear weapons so it could continue to agitate without any consequences?
This is what Joe Biden and the Barack Obama acolytes, Iranian dupes, and Israel antagonists he’s surrounded himself with demand of Jewish State.
Their worldview is a cancer that’s metastasized within the Democratic Party. To these people, Israel will always be the villain. And if the Iranian regime’s murder of more than 600 American servicemen couldn’t cool that bromance, 1,300 dead Jews certainly aren’t going to do the trick.
To begin with, Jared Kushner’s Middle East policy efforts were, by every measure, more successful than not only Obama’s efforts but the decades of Brookings Institute-endorsed failures the region has endured. The Trump administration undercut Palestinian terror efforts, stifled Iranian ambitions, and created space for the Gulf States and Israel to enhance ties.
Biden immediately reversed those gains, reverting to Obama-era Iranian boosterism. We’re now experiencing the consequences of pacifying Islamic ideologues. Obama might have sent the mullahs pallets of cash in the middle of the night, but the Biden administration openly subsidized the Revolutionary Guard with a $6 billion ransom payment, at least $25 billion in sanction relief, including $10 billion via a waiver, and so on.
Let’s also remember that one of Biden’s first foreign policy decisions was to overturn Trump-era policy by releasing millions to Gaza that would be sifted off by Hamas, releasing funding to Hamas-allied UNRWA, and removing the Iranian-backed Houthis from the terror list.
But to truly comprehend how demented our foreign policy has become, consider this: Iran reportedly informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, and the U.S. told Iran through Ankara that the attack should be “within certain limits.” This is a longtime ally of the United States we’re talking about — and a foe that’s murdered and kidnapped Americans for decades.
It should be mind-boggling that Biden likely knew Iran was moving forward with its attack but still gave his goofy and impotent “don’t” when asked about it by the press.
Indeed, the Biden administration’s position seems to be that Israeli military and defense forces exist to allow Iran to have a hissy fit and save face. The Iranian attack is only “symbolic” because it failed. According to officials, the attack, indiscriminately aimed at civilian centers, was designed to cause “mass casualties.”
Just because you shoot at someone and miss doesn’t mean you’re not trying to kill them.
virtually every conflict against Israel unfurls the same way: Its enemies threaten or attack the country. Israel responds and heads for a victory. Only then does the world demand “restraint.” Finally, the antagonists demand Israel rewind history to a more convenient spot. (Modern Democrats demand that Israel show restraint before it even has a chance to respond. That’s a new twist.)
Those, for instance, who contend that Israel started the conflict when it hit a “diplomatic mission” in Syria last week are engaged in restarting the historical clock when it suits them. There are no Iranian diplomatic missions in Syria. There are buildings where IRGC terror leaders coordinate attacks on civilians — against Arabs as well as Jews. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the “general” Israel killed last week, helped plan the barbarism of Oct 7.
Democrats blamed their strawman, Benjamin Netanyahu, not Hamas or Iran, for trying to “drag” the world into war...(However), Axois reports that Netanyahu was reluctant to strike back while his cabinet wanted to move immediately. Anyone who’s paid five minutes of attention to Israeli politics knows that Netanyahu is frustratingly cautious. The “war hawk” perception of him is a myth, created by the left because of the prime minister’s open opposition to Obama’s mullah bootlicking.freebeacon.com/latest-news/biden-admin-determined-a-national-address-on-israel-would-provoke-iran/Biden Admin Determined a National Address on Israel Would Provoke Iran
While CNN initially reported Biden would address the nation following the attacks, the outlet retracted the report shortly after.
Former national security adviser John Bolton called Biden an "embarrassment to the United States" for not supporting a stronger response to Iran’s aggression.
Democratic senator John Fetterman (Pa.) also told CNN's Jake Tapper, "I don’t agree with (Houthi Joe)" saying the United States "should have Israel’s back in this situation."www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/04/14/marco-rubio-biden-telling-israel-not-to-respond-encourages-iran/Marco Rubio: Biden Telling Israel Not to Respond ‘Encourages Iran’www.dailywire.com/news/senator-kennedy-slams-biden-go-to-amazon-and-buy-a-spine-onlineSenator Kennedy Slams Biden: ‘Go To Amazon And Buy A Spine Online’
“And today, the White House has already leaked to the press early this morning that they’re not going to participate in an Israeli response to what Iran just did. Let me say it again. More sheep is not going to solve the wolf problem.”
“With respect, go to Amazon and buy a spine online! Peace through weakness never works. Not with these hard, hard men.”www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/18/nightmare-niger-exclusive-biden-administration-leaves-hundreds-us-troops-hostage-niger/Nightmare in Niger — Biden Administration Leaves Hundreds of U.S. Troops ‘Hostage’
More than 1,000 U.S. troops are effectively being held “hostage” in Niger with medical supplies running low — stuck between the military junta-controlled government’s demands for them to leave and the Biden administration’s refusal to let them go home after the end of their deployments, according to a report prepared by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.
In addition, the report accuses Biden administration officials of trying to cover up the situation to lawmakers, as well as to troops deployed there and their families anxiously awaiting their return.
“Our troops are currently sitting on a powder keg caused by political indecision at the top of the Department of State and Department of Defense. With a military junta in charge — who detests our presence and considers us unserious and predatory — the situation seems to be setting the groundwork for catastrophic diplomatic collapse like we saw during the 2012 Benghazi attack. Additionally, these troops are already running short on necessary, life-saving supplies, such as blood and medications,” the report by Gaetz’s office said.
“They are, in effect, hostages of an indecisive Commander-in-Chief,” the report said.
There are about 450 personnel at Air Base 101. Until the takeover by the junta, the base was a major hub for U.S. intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) against terrorist groups Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in West Africa, Boko Haram, and Ansaru. It was also a hub for U.S. military advisers supporting Niger’s forces.
Just a few months before, Secretary of State Antony Blinken had praised Niger as “a model of resilience, a model of democracy, a model of cooperation.” The junta declared in March 2024 a cancellation of the military accords with the United States..." leaving our troops stranded without any indication of relief or return home, as replacements aren’t authorized to enter Niger"
In addition, Niger is prohibiting other allies in the country from providing relief or logistics support to U.S. troops. “There is no end in sight,” the report said...“We’ve received reports that they’ve run out of medicine in May,” Gaetz retorted.
To add insult to injury, unidentified “near-peer adversaries” — believed to be Russian forces — are given “unfettered access” to Niger.
“it’s a cover-up. Because the U.S. Embassy in Niger is covering it up because of Secretary Blinken’s embarrassment. Because Blinken went there in March of 2023 and said this was the centerpiece of our Africa strategy…I’m looking at what could erupt as another Benghazi,” he added.www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2970914/military-whistleblower-us-niger-relationship-downfall/Military whistleblower accuses US leaders of suppressing Niger relationship downfallnypost.com/2024/04/17/us-news/biden-impeachment-probe-criminal-referrals-coming-within-weeks-comer-says/Biden impeachment probe criminal referrals coming ‘within weeks,’ Comer says
“I don’t think there’s ever been in the history of Congress, criminal referrals to an immediate president of the United States and their family,” he said.
Comer was adamant that “impeachment is still on the table.”freebeacon.com/biden-administration/the-biden-administrations-top-criminal-prosecutor-helped-lead-a-group-that-defended-cop-killers/The Biden Administration's Top Criminal Prosecutor Helped Lead a Group That Defended Cop Killers
Nicole M. Argentieri, the acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s criminal division, served on the board of the Legal Aid Society of New York from January 2019 to May 2022, according to the nonprofit’s tax filings. During her tenure on the board, the Legal Aid Society of New York endorsed "the movement to #DefundNYPD" and promoted a "March to Defund the NYPD" rally.
The Legal Aid Society also represented some of New York City’s most notorious cop killers when Argentieri served on the board. In 2019 and 2020, lawyers for the nonprofit represented Black Liberation Army members Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim in their parole cases. The pair were convicted of assassinating two New York City police officers in May 1971 and murdered a San Francisco police officer inside a patrol station in August 1971. They were granted parole over the objections of their victims’ families and then-New York City mayor Bill de Blasio.
"Argentieri being selected to run the Criminal Division in an acting capacity is a slap in the face to every brave law enforcement officer," Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told the Washington Free Beacon. Argentieri’s ascent to the assistant attorney general post highlights "the Biden administration’s policies putting criminals ahead of law-abiding citizens," Cruz said.
Argentieri’s tenure at the Legal Aid Society overlapped with that of Adeel Mangi, Biden’s nominee for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said this week Mangi’s position with the Legal Aid Society and another group, the Alliance of Families for Justice, make him unfit for the lifetime judicial appointment. Mangi serves on the advisory board of the latter group, which has hailed six convicted cop killers as "freedom fighters." Its founding board member is Kathy Boudin, a member of the terrorist group Weather Underground who was convicted of murdering two police officers in 1981.www.zerohedge.com/political/shadowy-ngo-mexico-tells-border-invaders-vote-bidenShadowy Mayorkas-Linked NGO In Mexico Tells Border Invaders To "Vote Biden"
"Reminder to vote for Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open," part of the flyer read. RCM has connections with Soros-funded non-profits operating across the US.
"Mayorkas is in bed with the open borders lobby," Nate Hochman, senior advisor of America 2100, wrote on X.
One X user asked: "Is this not racketeering in addition to election interference?"www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/15/report-biden-campaign-plans-to-spend-every-day-until-november-focusing-on-abortion/Biden Campaign ‘Plans to Spend Every Day’ Until November Focusing on Abortionfreebeacon.com/latest-news/white-house-weighs-declaring-climate-emergency-to-crack-down-on-oil-industry/White House Weighs Declaring Climate Emergency To Crack Down on Oil Industryfreebeacon.com/latest-news/biden-admin-limits-drilling-in-alaska-in-latest-oil-industry-crackdown/Biden Admin Limits Drilling in Alaska in Latest Oil Industry Crackdown
The Department of the Interior announced on Friday that it will prohibit any new oil drilling project in the U.S. Arctic Ocean as well as on 11 million acres of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve and nearly 3 million acres of Alaska’s coastal waters, according to Politico.
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R., Alaska) accused Biden of caving to "the far-left radicals he feels are key to his reelection" and letting America’s geopolitical rivals get ahead. "The message this administration is sending to the dictators in Iran, China and Russia is this: We won’t use our resources to strengthen our country—but you can use your resources to strengthen your country," Sullivan said at a Thursday press conference.thefederalist.com/2024/04/18/more-than-two-dozen-ags-sue-biden-administration-over-ev-mandate/More Than Two Dozen AGs Sue Biden Administration Over EV Mandate
In March, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new emissions demands for carmakers to reduce “fleetwide average carbon emissions” by 56 percent in eight years. The regulations would require car manufacturers to sell more electric vehicles.
Daren Bakst, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center on Energy and Environment, called the new emissions rules “one of the most extreme rules ever finalized by a federal agency.”
“The EPA’s rule would restrict the ability of Americans to buy gas-powered vehicles, a chilling abuse of power and a wanton disregard for individual freedom,” Bakst said when the regulations were unveiled.
“The Biden Administration is willing to sacrifice the American auto industry and its workers in service of its radical green agenda,” the Kentucky attorney general said in a statement. “We just aren’t buying it. Demand for EVs continues to fall, and even those who want to buy one can’t afford it amid historic inflation.”
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, whose state won a landmark decision against the administrative state’s lawmaking that bypassed Congress two years ago, called the EPA’s latest emissions rules “legally flawed and unrealistic.”
“With the high prices of electric vehicles, this would have devastating effects in the daily lives of consumers—many of whom are already suffering from the burdens of historically high inflation,” Morrisey said in a statement. “This is an attack on rural America and rural Americans who are working really hard to make ends meet—they are going to get bludgeoned by this rule.”thefederalist.com/2024/04/15/joe-bidens-signature-achievement-is-his-list-of-broken-promises/Joe Biden’s Signature Achievement Is His List Of Broken Promises
Joe Biden’s Energy Department canceled its plan to purchase millions of barrels of oil to refill the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The cancellation means the Biden administration is unlikely to fulfill its promise of fully replenishing the SPR by the end of the year, and the SPR will remain at a historically low level after the administration depleted it in 2022.
The depletion of the SPR was caused by the Biden administration’s own failed energy policy. Shortly after he came into office, President Biden issued a series of anti-fossil fuel energy policies, including canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline project and halting leasing on federal lands for oil and gas production. Biden’s energy policies strangled American energy production and supply and caused energy prices to soar. According to the Heritage Foundation, “from January 2021 to January 2022, crude oil prices increased 45 percent, blowing past records set in 2008. Gasoline and diesel prices are the highest on record since the Energy Information Administration started keeping track in 1993.”
Rising energy prices inflicted economic pain on Americans but were a gift to Russia, the world’s largest natural gas exporter and one of the leading oil suppliers. Revenue from the energy sector has helped Russia’s Putin build up his foreign exchange reserves and enabled him to finance his invasion of Ukraine. Biden conveniently blamed the Russia-Ukraine war rather than his energy policies for rising energy prices.
Seeking to appease American voters before the midterm elections in 2022, the Biden administration sold off more than 40 percent of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in 2022 in a futile effort to help limit energy prices from rising too high too fast. The administration’s action did little to lower energy prices meaningfully but left the SPR at its lowest levels since the 1980s.
When he signed the misleading Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, he promised that the IRA’s new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding would only empower the agency to crack down on wealthy tax evaders, leaving the middle class alone. Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen insisted that the additional IRS funding from the IRA “shall not be used to increase the share of small business or households below the $400,000 threshold audited relative to historical levels.” Additionally, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig reassured the U.S. Senate that the 87,000 new IRS agents he would hire (funded by the IRA) would “absolutely not” increase audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle-income Americans.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the most recent IRS audit shows, “As of last summer, 63 percent of new audits targeted taxpayers with incomes of less than $200,000. Only a small overall share reached the highest earners, while 80 percent of audits covered filers earning less than $1 million.” In other words, the IRS indeed stepped up its audit scrutiny against small business owners and middle-income Americans, contrary to what Biden and his cabinet officials promised.
Biden’s other broken promises include vowing to “deliver economic relief for working families.” Yet his administration’s excessive spending sparked inflation rates to rise to a four-decade high in 2022.
Food inflation hit working families especially hard, as “prices for hundreds of grocery items have increased more than 50 percent since 2019,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
The Biden administration restarted the nuclear negotiation with Iran, promising to curb Iran’s nuclear ambition and bring peace to the Middle East. The U.S. released billions of dollars to Iran and removed Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen from the global terrorist list without asking for anything in return. Flushed with cash and weapons supplied by Iran, Hamas launched the worst attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel was forced to respond militarily. Iran-backed Houthis launched missiles and drones against Israel and U.S. targets and terrorized shipping traffic in the Red Sea, causing disruptions in international trade. It is fair to say that under President Biden, America’s global image is diminished, and the Middle East is on fire.
Despite Biden’s colossal policy failures and broken promises in his first term, he will undoubtedly make more outlandish promises as he runs for reelection. The American people will be wise not to forget those broken promises when casting their votes in November.www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/14/exclusive-poll-trump-leads-biden-in-5-of-6-swing-states/Swing Voters Deliver Harsh Verdict: Biden Administration Is a Failurenotthebee.com/article/bidens-latest-student-debt-forgiveness-plan-will-give-households-earning-over-300k-an-average-of-25000-in-debt-reliefwww.dailysignal.com/2024/04/19/record-breaking-flood-of-comments-condemns-bidens-latest-student-loan-scheme/Biden's latest student debt forgiveness plan will benefit households earning over $300,000 the most...
...Record-Breaking Flood of Comments Condemns Biden’s Latest Student Loan Schemenypost.com/2024/04/15/us-news/biden-cheat-sheet-for-iraq-pm-meeting-caught-on-camera-including-instructions-to-pause/Biden cheat sheet for Iraq PM meeting caught on camera — including instructions to ‘pause’
Biden, 81, turned to the script — which included an all-caps stage direction on when to pause in his comments to allow for an interpreter to translate — to make his first public statement since Iran launched an unprecedented direct missile and drone attack on Israel over the weekend.
Al-Sudani did not rely on note cards of any kind when he made brief remarks following Biden.
Biden has also leaned on note cards for private fundraisers, something that has rattled some donors, Axios reported in February this year. nypost.com/2024/04/17/us-news/biden-suggests-uncle-eaten-by-cannibals-in-new-guinea-but-military-says-his-wwii-plane-lost-at-sea/Biden suggests uncle eaten by ‘cannibals’ in New Guinea — but military says his WWII plane lost at seanypost.com/2024/04/15/us-news/biden-praises-this-country-for-backing-ukraine-but-uses-name-from-over-30-years-ago/Biden on Monday praised “Czechoslovakia” for supporting Ukraine against Russia’s two-year-old invasion — referring to a country that hasn’t existed since the end of 1992.
73% of registered voters believe Biden is too old to be president...notthebee.com/article/i-promise-it-happens-all-the-time-biden-tells-story-about-how-a-little-kid-gave-him-the-fingerBiden says little kids giving him the finger "happens all the time" as he's driving through rural towns
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www.timesofisrael.com/un-nuclear-chief-iran-weeks-not-months-from-enough-uranium-to-make-a-bomb/UN nuclear chief: Iran ‘weeks, not months’ from enough uranium to make a bombwww.dailysignal.com/2024/04/26/irans-nightmares/Details of Israel’s recent limited retaliatory strike against Iran‘s antiaircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions.
Israel’s small volley of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in on the very launchers designed to stop such incoming ordnance. The target was near the Natanz enrichment facility. That proximity was by design.
Israel showed Iran it could take out the very antimissile battery designed to thwart an attack on its nearby nuclear facility.
The larger message sent to the world was that Israel could send a retaliatory barrage at Iranian nuclear sites with reasonable assurances that the incoming attacks could not be stopped.
By comparison, Iran’s earlier attack on Israel was much greater and more indiscriminate. It was also a huge flop, with an estimated 99% of the more than 320 drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles failing to hit their planned targets.
Moreover, it was reported that more than 50% of Iran’s roughly 115 to 120 ballistic missiles failed at launch or malfunctioned in flight.
Consider further the following nightmarish scenarios: Were Iranian nuclear-tipped missiles ever launched at Israel, they could pass over, in addition to Syria and Iraq, either Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the West Bank, Gaza, or all four. In the cases of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, such trajectories would constitute an act of war, especially considering that some of Iran’s recent aerial barrages were intercepted and destroyed over Arab territory well before they reached Israel.
Iran’s strike prompted Arab nations, the U.S., the U.K., and France to work in concert to destroy almost all of Iran’s drones. For Iran, that is a premonition of the sort of sophisticated aerial opposition it might face if it ever decided to stage a nuclear version.
Even if half of Iran’s ballistic missiles did launch successfully, only a handful apparently neared their intended targets—in sharp contrast to Israel’s successful attack on Iranian missile batteries. Is it thus conceivable that any Iranian nuclear-tipped missile launched toward Israel might pose as great a threat to Iran itself or its neighbors as to Israel?
And even if such missiles made it into the air and even if they successfully traversed Arab airspace, there is still an overwhelming chance they would be neutralized before detonating above Israel.
Any such launch would warrant an immediate Israeli response. And the incoming bombs and missiles would likely have a 100% certainty of evading Iran’s countermeasures and hitting their targets.
Now that the soil of both Iran and Israel is no longer sacred and immune from attack, the mystique of the Iranian nuclear threat has dissipated.
It should be harder for the theocracy in Tehran to shake down Western governments for hostage bribes, sanctions relief, and Iran-deal giveaways on the implied threat of Iran’s successfully nuking the Jewish state.
The new reality is that Iran has goaded an Israel that has numerous nuclear weapons and dozens of nuclear-tipped missiles in hardened silos and on submarines. Tehran has zero ability to stop any of these missiles or sophisticated fifth-generation Israeli aircraft armed with nuclear bombs and missiles.
Iran must now fear that if it launched two or three nuclear missiles, there would be overwhelming odds that they would either fail at launch, go awry in the air, implode inside Iran, be taken down over Arab territory by Israel’s allies, or be knocked down by Israel’s tripartite antimissile defense system.
Add it all up and Iran’s attack on Israel seems a historic blunder. It showed the world the impotence of an Iranian aerial assault at the very time Iran threatens to go nuclear. It revealed that an incompetent Iran may be as much a threat to itself as to its enemies. It opened up a new chapter in which Iran’s own soil, thanks to its attack on Israel, is no longer off limits to any Western power.
Its failure to stop a much smaller Israel response, coupled with the overwhelming success of Israel and its allies in stopping a much larger Iranian attack, reminds the Iranian autocracy that its shrill rhetoric is designed to mask its impotence and to hide its own vulnerabilities from its enemies.
So Iranians will learn their homeland is now vulnerable and, for the future, no longer off-limits.
And Iranians will conclude that Israel has more effective allies than Iran and that their own ballistic missiles may be more suicidal than homicidal.www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/24/hamas-releases-video-of-american-israeli-hostage-hersh-goldberg-polin/Hamas Releases Video of American-Israeli Hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin; UPDATE: Parents Respond
The video is the latest in a series of videos that Hamas has released in which it shows emaciated, suffering hostages, reading scripted accusations against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and accusing him of neglect.
The Israeli media refuses to share the videos, since they are Hamas propaganda videos in which the hostages appear under duress, but they spread on social media regardless.
Goldberg-Polin was maimed in the October 7 terror attack, losing his left hand to a Hamas grenade as he hid among other victims in a bomb shelter near the site of the Supernova music festival in southern Israel.
He has become one of the iconic faces of the hostages, 133 of whom remain in Gaza. “Free Hirsh” graffiti appears all over Jerusalem.
The Biden administration does not appear to be taking any action to free or rescue the hostages, among whom are several Americans.www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-will-target-us-nuclear-weapons-poland-if-they-appearRussia Will Target US Nuclear Weapons In Poland If They Appearwww.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/23/poland-fears-it-will-be-buffer-state-sacrificed-by-d-c-wants-nukes/Poland Fears It Would be Buffer State ‘Sacrificed’ by the United States, Wants Nuclear Weapons to Guarantee Safety
Poland is in talks with the United States about hosting nuclear weapons and has been for some time, the country’s right-wing President has said, while citing increasing militarisation by its eastern neighbour and former Cold War occupier Russia. President Andrej Duda, of the Law and Justice Party which held Poland’s government until last year and who is now generally at loggerheads with its new globalist-centrist Eurocrat Prime Minister Donald Tusk said this week that Poland is “ready” for nuclear weapons.
He said, in an interview with Polish media, Do Rzeczy reports: “This has been a topic of Polish-American talks for some time… If our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons as part of Nuclear Sharing also on our territory to strengthen the security of NATO’s eastern flank, we are ready for it. We are an ally in the North Atlantic Alliance and we also bear obligations in this respect, which means we simply implement a common policy”.
Discussing the issues around the matter of American nuclear weapons in Europe, General Bogusław Samol — former NATO Commander of Multinational Corps Northeast responsible for all “Allied operations across the north-eastern flank” — said it is important for Poland to become a host for U.S. nuclear weapons. Becoming a nuclear nation — if only by proxy — means Poland would be saved from a Ukraine-like fate, he said, being an Eastern European state that could be given up to the Russians, sacrificed to keep a wider peace.
General Samol’s comments touch upon the difficult point of nuclear non-proliferation. When Russia extended its nuclear umbrella to Belarus last year, it did so to a chorus of condemnation from the international community for its flagrant violation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of 1968. The treaty bans new nuclear powers from being created by an existing power giving or lending its weapons to another.
The general said he doubted the U.S. would be rapid to respond even to Russian nuclear aggression in Europe. He told Polish television: “The superpowers are making sure that there is no global conflict. We, as a buffer country and our military units, will probably be sacrificed on the altar of the security of the United States or even Western Europe”.
“At least one American division should also be stationed here. We have to demand it.”www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign-policy/2974668/india-sends-supersonic-missiles-philippines-can-hit-chinas-ships/India sends supersonic missiles to Philippines that ‘can hit’ China’s shipswww.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-philippines-kick-largest-ever-joint-drills-chinas-doorstepUS & Philippines Kick Off Largest Ever Joint Drills On 'China's Doorstep'translatingcuba.com/in-cuba-the-number-of-vehicles-has-been-cut-in-half-in-five-years/In Cuba the Number of Vehicles Has Been Cut in Half in Five Yearswww.breitbart.com/asia/2024/04/26/iran-russia-move-sri-lanka-after-chinas-belt-road-disaster/Iran and Russia Move into Sri Lanka After China’s Belt and Road Disaster
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited Sri Lanka on Wednesday to inaugurate a hydropower plant and irrigation project, while Russia took partial control on Friday of an airport built by China – two signs that other members of the axis of tyranny are stepping in to clean up the wreckage from China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) debacles.
Sri Lanka is a prime example of a developing nation lured into ruinous debt by BRI, which tends to saddle China’s client states with loans they can never repay for infrastructure projects that prove much less profitable than promised. Sri Lanka infamously handed over control of its Hambantota Port to China in 2017 when it was unable to make its BRI loan payments.
Sri Lanka’s finances continued to crumble after China collected the port as collateral, leading to a fiscal meltdown, rolling blackouts, a fuel crisis, and food shortages.
Another notorious Chinese-funded project in Sri Lanka was the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA), a $209 million boondoggle that became operational in 2013 despite the low number of flights Sri Lanka needs to service.
Forbes dubbed it “the world’s emptiest international airport” in 2016, noting that only a handful of planes arrive or depart on any given day and the facility gets most of its traffic from tourists who merely want to gawk at the “stunning, fully modern airport in the middle of the jungle.”
China apparently had little trouble convincing former President Mahinda Rajapaksa that the sleepy fishing hamlets of his hometown, Hambantota, could be fused into a gleaming ultramodern wonder city in which half of the buildings would be named after his family, if he only borrowed about five billion dollars from Chinese banks to finance his vision.
China was eager to pry strategically important Sri Lanka from its longtime partnership with nearby India and turn the island into a trade hub of the New Silk Road, China’s effort to rebuild the fabled trade route of old.
Five billion dollars in loans bought Rajapaksa’s support for a while, but much of the money vanished into thin air, construction of the airport was an environmental disaster that wiped out thousands of acres of elephant habitat and disrupted bird migration routes, most of the flights announced with much fanfare at the inaugural ceremony were quickly canceled, and the facility began losing $18 million a year. Several of the few planes that tried to use the airport were grounded when migrating birds flew into their jet turbines and the military has been called out to chase away elephants and buffalo that decided to camp on the runways.
Angry Sri Lankan voters bounced Rajapaksa out of office in 2015, stalling his effort to realign the island away from India and toward China. Sri Lanka defaulted on its external debt in 2022 and appealed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a $2.9 billion bailout.nypost.com/2024/04/27/world-news/iraqi-tiktoker-shot-dead-outside-home-by-man-posing-as-delivery-driver-reports/Iraqi TikTokker shot dead outside home after Baghdad launched campaign against ‘offensive’ social media content
Other prominent female influencers in the Middle Eastern country have also been arrested and targeted.
Noor Alsaffar, a 23-year-old TikToker, was shot dead in September 2023 and Tara Fares, a 22-year-old model and influencer, was murdered by gunmen in 2018, according to reports.
In January 2023, YouTube star Tiba al-Ali, 22, was strangled by her father in an alleged “honor killing.”The Future of Europe www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/25/france-jewish-woman-kidnapped-and-threatened-with-sex-slavery-and-murder-by-man-vowing-to-avenge-palestine/France: Man Vowing to ‘Avenge Palestine’ Kidnaps Jewish Woman, Threatens Her with Sex Slavery, Deathwww.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/28/watch-radical-islamists-rally-in-hamburg-calling-for-caliphate-in-germany/WATCH: Radical Islamists Rally in Hamburg Calling for Caliphate in Germanywww.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/aussie-prime-minister-calls-ban-memesAussie Prime Minister Calls For Ban On Memes
The Australian Prime Minister appeared to call for a ban on memes on social media Wednesday, as his government continues a full on assault on freedom of speech online.nypost.com/2024/04/28/world-news/sydney-bishop-who-was-stabbed-during-service-returns-to-mass-with-fiery-sermon/Sydney bishop who was stabbed during service returns to mass with fiery sermon: ‘Where is humanity?’
The Bishop who was stabbed in an alleged terror attack on the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in western Sydney has delivered a fiery sermon on his return to the pulpit, calling out Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in an impassioned defense of freedom of speech and religion.
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, carrying a gold cross and sporting a white eye patch after he suffered lacerations to his face in the alleged April 15 attack, said he could not “fathom” how freedom of speech could not be possible in a democratic country.
“I say to our beloved, the Australian government, and our beloved Prime Minister, the honorable Mr Albanese, I believe in one thing and that is the integrity and the identity of the human being,” he said.
“This human identity, this human integrity, is a God-given gift, no one else.
“Every human being has the right to their freedom of speech and freedom of religion.”
“Also the Christians have the right to express their beliefs, and for us to say, that free speech is dangerous, that free speech cannot be possible in a democratic country, I’m yet to fathom this. I’m yet to fathom this. We should be able as civilised human beings, as intellectuals, we should be able to criticise, to speak, and maybe, at some certain times, we may sound, or we may come across offensive to some degree, but we should be able to say, ‘I should not worry for my life to be exposed to threat or to be taken away’.
“A non Christian can criticize my faith, can attack my faith. I will say one thing, ‘may God forgive you, and may God bless you.
“This is a civilized way, an intellectual way, to approaching such events.
“But for us, to say that because of this freedom of speech, it is causing dramas and dilemmas, therefore everything should be censored, then where is democracy?
“Then where is humanity, where is integrity, where are the morals, where are the ethics, where are the principles, where are the values which the Western world, more so, have been fighting for human rights, which is the value of the human.”
It was the Bishop’s first time back at the pulpit following the alleged April 15 terror attack, in which a 16-year-old boy allegedly stabbed the bishop while he was giving a livestreamed sermon, with video of the violence quickly spreading online.
The Bishop suffered lacerations to his face and body and paramedics took him to hospital for treatment.
On Sunday, he said “love never fails”, referencing a passage from the Bible.
“This is our Christian faith, but above all this is our Christ, who is all”
“And always taught to love one another, because God is love, and the Lord Jesus, he is God, revealed in the flesh, period.
“He taught us to love everyone, without any differentiation. This will never change.”
The Bishop also delivered a message to his alleged attacker.
“I’ll say it again, this young man who did this act, almost two weeks ago, I say to you, ‘my dear, you are my son and you will always be my son’,” the Bishop said.
“I will always pray for you, I will always wish you nothing but the best.
“And for whoever was in this act, in the name of my Jesus, I forgive you, I love you, and I will always pray for you.”the real future www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/26/trump-addresses-cpac-hungary-were-in-an-epic-struggle-to-liberate-our-nations-from-sinister-forces/Trump Addresses CPAC Hungary: We’re in An Epic Struggle to Liberate Our Nations from Sinister Forces
“Together, we’re engaged in an epic struggle to liberate our nation from all the sinister forces who want to destroy them. Every day we’re battling to preserve our culture, protect our sovereignty, defend our way of life and uphold the timeless values of freedom, family and faith in Almighty God,” Trump said in a video address at gathering for conservatives in Europe.
“As President I was proud to work with Prime Minister Orban, by the way a great man to advance the values and interests of our two nations. We cracked down on illegal immigration protected our borders, created jobs and defended our traditions, and Judeo Christian values. That’s so important — Judeo-Christian values,” he said.
“I look forward to working closely with Prime Minister Orban and once again when I take the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States,” Trump added.
“As long as we remain united in our vision, true to our principles and fearless about defending our values, conservatives will win the battle to save our civilization from the communist Marxist and fascists and restore the reign of conservatism and common sense to the world,” he said.notthebee.com/article/milei-announces-brazil-has-just-had-their-first-budget-surplus-in-16-yearsMilei says Argentina just had its first budget surplus in 16 years after gutting government bloat
Well, who would have guessed it?
The man who ran on slashing the government just achieved the unthinkable.
Javier Milei announced that for the first time in 16 years, Argentina's government has a budget surplus.
When he came into office, Milei immediately cut the number of government-run ministries and departments in half.www.zerohedge.com/markets/tennessee-first-state-criminalize-adults-who-help-minors-receive-gender-affirming-careTennessee Is First State To Criminalize Adults Who Help Minors Receive "Gender-Affirming" Care Without Parental Consentwww.zerohedge.com/political/these-states-are-making-it-illegal-illegal-immigrants-enterThese States Are Making It Illegal For Illegal Immigrants To Enter
Conservative states across the country—Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and Oklahoma—are taking border security matters into their own hands, proposing or passing legislation targeting illegal immigration.nypost.com/2024/04/25/us-news/donald-trump-meets-with-construction-workers-before-hush-money-trial-in-manhattan/Union workers cheer Trump’s return to NYC after he stopped at construction sitewww.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/27/exclusive-lee-zeldin-new-york-has-been-trending-right-donald-trump-should-keep-the-strategy-up/Lee Zeldin: New York Has Been Trending Right; Donald Trump Should ‘Keep the Strategy Up’Liberal priorities www.zerohedge.com/political/harvey-weinstein-conviction-overturned-appealHarvey Weinstein Conviction Overturned On Appealnypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/trans-sex-offender-busted-allegedly-trying-to-kidnap-elementary-school-student/Trans sex offender busted allegedly trying to abduct child playing outside elementary school - The nearly abducted child later told cops the alleged perp had white powder smeared on his face and smelled of alcohol.www.zerohedge.com/political/former-obama-white-house-senior-policy-advisor-charged-child-sex-offensesFormer Obama White House Senior Policy Advisor Charged With 'Child Sex Offenses'
As well as working as a senior adviser to the late US diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who served under the last three Democrat presidents, Shy provided strategic policy analysis to chiefs of staff at the US Department of Defence.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/24/illegal-migrant-arrested-by-ice-agents-charged-with-alleged-sex-crimes-against-minor-released-multiple-times/Illegal Migrant Arrested by ICE Agents, Charged with Alleged Sex Crimes Against Minor, Released Multiple Timeswww.breitbart.com/education/2024/04/22/illinois-library-hosting-pronoun-seminar-for-children-considering-cross-dressing-sex-change-surgery/Illinois Library Hosting ‘Pronoun’ Seminar for Children Considering Cross-Dressing, Sex-Change Surgerywww.zerohedge.com/political/activist-who-called-trans-women-arm-enraged-conservative-media-coverageIs biological men forcing their way into women's bathrooms really a hill worth dying on? Transgender activist "Tara Jay" (originally named Thomas Jay White) seems to think so. A year ago Thomas made a TikTok that went viral, calling on trans women (men) to 'arm up' and be ready to die (or possibly kill) in the event that they are prevented from using public bathrooms reserved for legitimate females. The tirade was posted in response to people who asserted they would never allow a man to enter a woman's lavatory while their daughters were present. Thomas claims this would be 'the last mistake they ever make.'
The trans movement increasingly represents people who are already deeply disturbed and unstable, people who latch onto trans identity as a way to act out on their darker impulses thinking they will be protected because of their status. Then there are the people who simply want as much attention as possible.
Nearly every major study on the psychology of people identifying as trans, or as gender dysphoric, has found the majority have been diagnosed with at least one mental illness besides a disconnection from their gender. Notably, trans women (men) had far higher rates of narcissism than the societal average.
It's not enough for people to tolerate trans activists - Everyone is required to embrace them, affirm them, celebrate them and submit to their every demand. And, if you don't submit, then you're a "bigot" and thus fair game for violent retaliation.freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-judicial-picks-law-firm-touts-an-arsenal-of-legal-tactics-to-help-clients-accused-of-murder-child-rape/Biden Judicial Pick's Law Firm Touts an ‘Arsenal’ of Legal Tactics to Help Clients Accused of Murder, Child Rape
Murphy & Rudolf, a criminal defense firm Murphy founded in 2011, touts its "notable case results," including a dismissal of charges for clients accused of rape, child rape, and murder. In one post on its website, Murphy & Rudolf touts its "50 years of combined experience to defend clients in cases of sex crimes against children."
The firm highlights those victories to suggest its "arsenal" of legal tactics can help clients accused of the most serious violent crimes. To defend domestic violence charges, Murphy’s firm offers a range of defenses, including "challenging the accuser’s credibility." To defend against sexual assault charges, "it is especially important to look at the psychological history of the accuser," the firm says.nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-news/columbia-rabbi-warns-jewish-students-to-go-home-dont-come-back-to-campus-because-of-extreme-antisemitism/Columbia rabbi warns Jewish students to go home, don’t come back to campus because of ‘extreme antisemitism’nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-news/jewish-yale-student-stabbed-in-the-eye-with-palestinian-flag-during-protest/Jewish Yale student journalist stabbed in the eye with Palestinian flag during protest
Tartak, who was shopping for an eyepatch when speaking with The Post, said she tried to report the assault to campus police but they told her there was nothing they could do.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/22/adams-jewish-students-are-facing-what-black-students-faced-in-little-rock/Adams: Jewish Students Are Facing What Black Students Faced in Little Rock - they had “to be escorted on campuses because they were afraid for their lives.”www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-likens-us-campus-encampments-by-antisemitic-mobs-to-1930s-nazi-germany/Netanyahu likens US campus encampments by ‘antisemitic mobs’ to 1930s Nazi Germany - “When you listen to them, they say not only ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to the Jews,’ but also ‘Death to America.'”www.breitbart.com/education/2024/04/28/protesters-remove-american-flag-raise-palestinian-flag-in-harvard-yard/Protesters Remove American Flag, Raise Palestinian Flag in Harvard Yardfreebeacon.com/campus/palestinian-terrorists-declare-support-for-columbia-encampment-call-for-escalation/Palestinian Terrorists Declare Support for Columbia Encampment, Call for 'Escalation'
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a senior Hamas leader declared their support for the unsanctioned tent encampments roiling Columbia University and other elite American universities.
The Popular Front, a U.S.-designated terror group, released a statement Tuesday evening affirming the group’s firm support for "our students at American universities." The statement called for "the escalation of their struggle"...The terror group specifically praised the student protests at Columbia and Yale University.
The terror group’s statement coincided with a separate statement from a senior Hamas political leader, Izzat Al-Rishq, published Wednesday morning by the Resistance News Network.
Protesters were captured shouting "We are Hamas" and "Zionist pig" at pro-Jewish bystanders, while another keffiyeh-clad individual held a sign pointing toward a group of Jewish students with the caption "Al-Qassam’s Next Targets," a reference to Hamas’s military wing. Students at Yale and other universities have formed similar encampments in solidarity with the Columbia protesters.
Students at Columbia have expressed fear for their physical safety and some have indicated to media outlets that they have decided to flee campus amid the anti-Jewish sentiment that is rearing its head during the ongoing protests. A rabbi who heads Columbia’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus recommended to Jewish students that they leave campus due to the anti-Israel agitators. A number of people on Columbia’s campus have called on the school to bring in the National Guard to quell the unauthorized protests.
"Jewish students at Columbia University don't feel safe. It’s become so dangerous that students were forced out of the classroom," said Republican speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who is expected to meet with Jewish students at Columbia Wednesday afternoon. "Let’s be clear: these are not peaceful protests, these are antisemitic mobs."www.dailywire.com/news/zionists-dont-deserve-to-live-meet-the-leader-of-columbia-universitys-anti-israel-encampment‘Zionists Don’t Deserve To Live’: Meet The Leader Of Columbia University’s Anti-Israel Encampment
James, who states in the hearing that he goes by “he/she/they” pronouns, live-streamed his meeting with Columbia’s Center for Student Success and Intervention, where he doubled down on an Instagram post that sparked the report. In the report, which he reads aloud at the start of the meeting, James warned Zionists who may want to “meet up and fight” and that he “fights to kill.”
James said that sometimes it is necessary to murder people..."it may come to a point where I don’t know when to stop.”
James went on to say that “there should not be Zionists anywhere.”
James continued to rant on his livestream after the meeting concluded and made some of his most unhinged statements.
“Zionists don’t deserve to live comfortably, let alone Zionists don’t deserve to live,” he said. “The same way we are very comfortable accepting Nazis don’t deserve to live, fascists don’t deserve to live, racists don’t deserve to live, Zionists, they shouldn’t live in this world.”
“Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists,” James also said.
Just a few months later, he called into a school committee meeting and stated, “I, too, hate white people,” while defending two members accused of anti-white racism.nypost.com/2024/04/24/us-news/columbia-continuing-dialogue-for-next-48-hours-after-midnight-deadline-for-anti-israel-protesters-to-reach-agreement-to-dismantle-encampment/Anti-Israel protesters urge others to break into ‘platoons’ as Columbia University extends deadline for them to leave
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has said she has no plans to call in the National Guard to respond to the protests, according to City & State NY.www.zerohedge.com/political/george-soros-paying-student-agitators-whip-anti-israel-protestsGeorge Soros Paying Student Agitators To Whip Up Anti-Israel Protests
the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).
USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”
They are trained to “rise up, to revolution.”
The radical group received at least $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and also took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019. -NY Postnotthebee.com/article/university-of-washington-protesters-cancel-encampment-because-it-was-too-whiteUniversity of Washington protesters postpone encampment for being too whitenypost.com/2024/04/24/us-news/palestinian-radical-at-columbia-nothing-wrong-with-hamas/Pro-terror radical launched 2-hour anti-Israel tirade at Columbia University event weeks before protests exploded: ‘Nothing wrong with being a Hamas fighter’
Barakat is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is a designated terrorist organization responsible for a string of attacks on Israeli civilians and closely allied to both Hamas and Hezbollah. Among the outrages for which it has claimed responsibility is a 2014 attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in which attackers armed with meat cleavers killed four rabbis, three of them Israeli Americans.
The PFLP took part in the October 7 massacres and previously murdered a 17-year-old Israeli girl while she was hiking.
“What these universities don’t understand is that you can suspend us, evict us, fire us, arrest us, do whatever to us, but we will not stop fighting for Palestine,” Parisi posted on X — where their handle is “It’s Aidan bitch” Monday.nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/ucla-protesters-call-for-intifada-decry-genocide-but-cant-define-either-video/Oblivious UCLA protesters call for ‘intifada,’ decry ‘genocide’ but can’t define either, video shows
chants of “We are Hamas!” and “Hamas, make us proud” were previously heard...“Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
In another shocking moment, he was bluntly told, “We don’t like white people” by a protester.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/26/watch-activists-assault-breitbart-news-journalist-at-ucla-palestine-solidarity-encampment/WATCH: Activists Assault Breitbart News Journalist at UCLA ‘Palestine Solidarity Encampment’
after a few seconds, activists surrounded this journalist and attempted to obstruct filming. A group of about a dozen of them linked arms and pushed this journalist several times toward the entrance, in full view of the media.
"Freedom for Palestine does not mean freedom for Americans, evidently. These people are violating the United States Constitution, as well as the laws of the State of California, as well as committing common assault. I’m a member of the media, and a member of the public. I have every right to be at a public university. This is the First Amendment."www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/26/the-marxists-come-out-at-george-washington-university/The Marxists Come Out at George Washington University
“We must have a revolution so we can have a socialist reconstruction of the United States of America,” said rally speaker Sean Blackmon, member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation
What would George Washington think if you told him that a university bearing his name would one day be inculcating protesters who sought the demise of the United States?
That reality was on full display Thursday night on the campus of George Washington University, located in Washington, D.C.
Ultimately, the protesters made clear what their goals are here in the United States: to smash the whole thing.
What does America’s future look like if her universities, the grounds of education for so many young Americans, host protesters who champion her demise? nypost.com/2024/04/25/us-news/clueless-columbia-student-at-nyu-rally-why-are-we-protesting/Anti-Israel protesters at NYU admit they have no idea what they’re protesting: ‘I wish I was more educated’
“I think the main goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stop … I honestly don’t know all of what NYU is doing,” one admitted when asked about the protest’s purpose.
She then turned to her friend and asked, “Do you know what NYU is doing here?”
The friend, who was wearing a face mask, then bluntly asked: “About what?”
“About Israel. Why are we protesting, here at NYU specifically?” the student asked.
“I wish I was more educated,” her friend confessed.www.breitbart.com/education/2024/04/25/panic-as-automatic-sprinklers-soak-harvards-anti-israel-encampment/Panic as Automatic Sprinklers Soak Harvard’s Anti-Israel Encampment
Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, and pro-Hamas protesters who camped out in Harvard Yard on Wednesday received a rude awakening overnight as automatic sprinklers switched on, soaking tents and sending the activists into a panic.
The Harvard Crimson reported that sprinklers began to turn on after 2:00 a.m. in 36º Fahrenheit weather.nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/progressive-ny-rep-jamaal-bowman-duped-by-fake-rabbi-of-gaza/Progressive NY Rep. Jamaal Bowman duped by fake ‘Chief rabbi of Gaza’
Under Hamas rule Jews were not allowed in Gaza, and the only ones there now are hostages and IDF soldiers attempting to rescue them — something Bowman evidently didn’t pick up on when he began corresponding with the account.
Bowman, a member of the far-left House “Squad,” has become one of the most vocal critics of Israel and defenders of Hamas in Congress.
He is currently locked in a fierce primary battle with Westchester County Executive George Latimer, with polls suggesting Latimer could beat him badly.
Goldstein’s schtick as an over-the-top Palestinian-loving rabbi has won her a cult following.
“I’m organizing an aid convoy to the @columbia campus,” Goldstein posted last week. “We need: Glamp Tents; Volunteer Baristas; Oat Milk; Keffiyeh’s; Canada Goose Jackets; and Alo Leggings.”
In other tweets she has condemned Passover as Israeli “genocide” against Egyptians; and posed with photoshopped terrorists in front of a “Menorah for Justice” made of rockets.
She has urged Hamas fighters to practice social distancing in terror tunnels.
The account is operated by a pro-Israel attorney named Michael who declined to provide his last name.
“Antisemitism is a low IQ disease,” Michael quipped to The Post when asked about the exchange.www.dailywire.com/news/criminal-prosecutions-of-illegal-immigrants-stopped-when-coronavirus-hit-they-never-resumedCriminal Prosecutions Of Illegal Immigrants Stopped When Coronavirus Hit. They Never Resumed
Illegals who re-enter the country after they have already been deported once are committing a felony. In 2019, the DOJ charged 27,000 people with that crime. In 2023, the number was about half that, at 14,000. This comes as the number of illegal crossings has skyrocketed, making the decrease even more striking.www.zerohedge.com/political/migrant-child-rapist-wont-be-deported-because-it-would-harm-his-mental-healthMigrant Child Rapist Won't Be Deported Because It Would 'Harm His Mental Health'
This is far from an isolated case.
As we previously highlighted, an Afghan illegal migrant sex offender was recently granted refugee status in the UK because it was argued that exposing himself in public wouldn’t be tolerated if he was sent back to Afghanistan.www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-migrants-gone-wild-streets-midtown-manhattanWatch: Migrants Gone Wild On Streets Of Midtown Manhattan
"Wait until they stop housing & feeding them. That's when the chaos will begin..."www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/26/adam-schiffs-luggage-clothes-stolen-in-san-francisco/Adam Schiff’s Luggage, Clothes Stolen in San Francisco
Democrats are struggling to face the consequences of their own policies, as “criminal justice reform” has turned San Francisco and other California cities into havens for petty crime and smash-and-grab thefts...One of Biden's mangirls was stealing the luggage. Maybe it was him! www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/24/dc-homeless-encampments-permitted-remain-does-mean-tourists-can-camp-too-resident-asks-mayor/DC Resident to Mayor: Since Homeless Encampments Are Permitted, Can Tourists Camp Too?
Hankinson explains that he moved last year to the District of Columbia after visiting the city for many years. But, he adds, “until the past few years, I do not recall seeing informal camping sites outside the Kennedy Center, in Georgetown, and outside the State Department on Virginia Avenue.”
“City-provided trash cans, not intended for residential waste, are not able to absorb the domestic trash of all the camp inhabitants—even should they choose to use them, as many evidently do not,” Hankinson writes to Bowser. “Rats are as common as squirrels in the camp areas.”
“If … it is your policy to continue to allow individuals and groups to sleep, cook, and live on city-controlled grassy areas, then you should announce this opportunity to both American and foreign visitors so that they can enjoy the experience and savings as well"nypost.com/2024/04/24/us-news/crackhead-barney-says-she-was-maimed-by-alec-baldwin/‘Crackhead Barney’ says she was ‘maimed’ by Alec Baldwin during coffee shop incident as she dons diaper, bares chest in surreal Piers Morgan interview
“I’ve been waiting for you Piers f–king Morgan!” the popular ambush interviewer, who boasts nearly 100,000 followers on Instagram, screamed after she was introduced on the program.
Crachead Barney’s face was painted white with bright red lipstick. She wore a messy blonde wig, a neck brace and a thick pair of sunglasses. Her top was pulled up to her neck revealing her nearly bare chest.
The anonymous personality from Jamaica, Queens, held a single crutch and her right arm appeared to be in some sort of cast or sling — and she wore a diaper, which she told Morgan she’d put on especially for him.
“What did I do to Alec Baldwin? Piers, do you see the damage that Alec did to me?” she asked, pointing to her crutches.
“Do you see the damage? Look at my arms! Look at my arms, Piers! Look at my neck! I was maimed by a white man on Monday!”
Morgan assured her she wasn’t “maimed.” She called the host “another white devil” during a tirade that was so animated it sent her wig flying.
“This is the third white man to beat me this week,” she said, insisting she was attacked.
“Yesterday my white boyfriend beat the s–t out of me.”
Morgan suggested that Crackhead Barney was making a joke out of a serious war that has left more than 34,000 people dead.
“Why are you making it a mockery?” Morgan asked as she shoved food in her mouth.
“I’m always serious,” she shot back, pretending to cry.
“I’m a victim. I’m a victim, Piers,” she said as the food dribbled over her face and chest.
Morgan tries to respond but struggled to over Crackhead Barney’s yelling...“You’re British, you’re f–king annoying, you eat tea and crumpets, you have your pinky in the f–king air, you support the queen. F–k the crown, f–k Buckingham Palace,” she ranted.
Morgan calls her appearance ”one of the most pathetic things I’ve had to endure” before he cut her off.
Her recent videos largely consist of her swearing at cops and telling pro-Israel demonstrators such things as “You know they’re not coming home, right?” referring to hostages kidnapped by Hamas.www.ncregister.com/commentaries/catholic-charities-isn-t-religious-so-sayeth-the-wisconsin-supreme-courtCatholic Charities Isn’t Religious? So Sayeth the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Another Tax Day has come and gone, but a big taxation question in Wisconsin remains unresolved, in the wake of a recent ruling that Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Superior isn’t religious enough in the eyes of the state’s Supreme Court to qualify for a religious tax exemption.
The nonprofit organization, called Catholic Charities Bureau (CCB), provides a host of social services, including job training, and housing support for people with mental and physical disabilities.
As Bishop James Powers explains in a 2023 press release, “As our diocese’s social-ministry arm, Catholic Charities Bureau and their subsidiary ministries provide essential resources to the most vulnerable members of our community. These ministries carry out the redeeming work of Our Lord by reflecting Gospel values; everything they do is steeped in the mission of the Church.”
Wisconsin’s position is puzzling, to say the least. A big part of the problem is that state lawmakers did such a ham-handed job of writing the tax act in the first place. Why even offer a religious exemption if the criteria are so narrow that even St. Mother Teresa wouldn’t have qualified? Isn’t the point of such tax exemptions to encourage charities to render the kind of social services the state would otherwise have to provide (and pay for) itself?
But there’s a larger issue at stake here. Slowly but surely, hard-core secularists are trying to narrow religious-liberty protections to cover only explicit expressions of religious faith, such as worship, religious instruction and evangelization. This wrong reading of the First Amendment is blind to the notion of putting one’s faith in action.
Fortunately, Becket, the religious-liberty-focused law firm, is representing CCB and the other charities and plans to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. One hopes that the federal justices will demonstrate greater common sense.www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-and-environment/2974064/sheetz-sued-by-eeoc-criminal-background-checks/Sheetz sued by EEOC for conducting criminal background checks on applicantsHouthi Joe's corner freebeacon.com/latest-news/terrorists-attack-us-humanitarian-pier-construction-site-off-gaza-report/Terrorists Attack US Humanitarian Pier Construction Site Off Gaza: Report
Gazan terrorists on Wednesday launched mortar shells at a site off the coast of Gaza where the United States is planning to construct a floating pier to deliver humanitarian aid, according to a report from Israeli outlet i24NEWS.
Republican lawmakers have expressed concern that the humanitarian pier would endanger U.S. troops deployed to manage it, with over a dozen members of the Senate Armed Services Committee last month warning Biden that the plan "appears to ignore force protection issues entirely, against an enemy that tries to kill Americans every day."thefederalist.com/2024/04/26/a-second-biden-term-would-be-a-gift-to-red-china/A Second Biden Term Would Be A Gift To Red China
In the South China Sea, Chinese military vessels have spent the past several months harassing the Philippines, a U.S. treaty ally. The Philippines currently has sailors stationed at an abandoned warship stationed at the Second Thomas Shoal, a submerged reef in the South China Sea. Manila intentionally grounded the ship there in 1999 to assert its sovereignty over the region.
During recent routine re-supply missions to the shoal, Philippine vessels have come under siege from the Chinese coast guard, whose ships have deployed “grey-zone” tactics “such as use of water cannon, collision and ramming tactics,” according to Reuters. Much like Manila, Beijing claims sovereignty over the region.
Meanwhile, Chinese aggression towards Taiwan has noticeably increased since Biden took office. The island’s defense ministry reported in January it tracked 1,709 Chinese warplanes entering Taiwan’s air defense identification zone in 2023.
Notably, China deployed several warplanes and naval ships near Taiwan following a phone call between Biden and Xi earlier this month.
Taipei’s defense ministry has also reported incursions by People’s Liberation Army Navy vessels in the waters surrounding the island. Following then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August 2022, China conducted live-fire military exercises in and around the Taiwan Strait. Beijing has used the incident to alter the status quo in the Taiwan Strait by frequently sending its military craft across the Strait’s median line, which had acted as a buffer zone between the two nations for decades.
These actions don’t even include China’s repeated harassment of U.S. military assets in the Indo-Pacific or challenging of Japanese control of the Senkaku Islands.
China’s increasing aggression abroad isn’t surprising given the destructive behavior and policies Biden has orchestrated at home.
On top of crippling the U.S. economy through massive government spending and restrictive regulations, the Delaware Democrat and his team of Marxist malcontents have done little (if anything) to counter Beijing’s growing interference in America’s domestic affairs. In February 2022, for instance, Biden’s thoroughly corrupt Department of Justice shut down a CCP anti-espionage program because — wait for it — agency officials were worried it would be perceived as racist.
Biden’s “Let everyone in!” immigration policies have also created U.S. national security problems, including an alarming increase in the number of Chinese nationals apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border. And don’t forget when a Chinese spy balloon drifted into U.S. airspace and the Biden administration waited to shoot it down until after it traversed the entire Lower 48 and collected data from U.S. military installations.
These lax enforcement policies are also posing risks to military bases in U.S.-controlled territories such as Guam, where authorities have raised alarm bells in recent weeks about the influx of Chinese nationals attempting to access the island. According to Pacific Daily News, “118 Chinese nationals have been documented trying or succeeding to illegally enter Guam since 2022, and several have been identified on federal watchlists as potential security threats.” Island officials claimed the Biden administration’s deportation restrictions are making it difficult to address the problem.
America — and the world — cannot afford another four years of Biden...The destruction wrought by his administration has not only led to suffering among millions of Americans; it’s completely destabilized the global security environment.
Whether it’s botching the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan or leaving America’s border wide open, Biden’s suicidal policies have invited the world’s greatest threats to lash out and advance their agendas without fear of repercussions.
Adversaries such as China recognize weakness — and in Biden, that’s exactly what they see.www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-anti-israel-protests-at-universities-are-all-bidens-fault-and-everybody-knows-itTrump Says Anti-Israel Protests At Universities Are ‘All Biden’s Fault And Everybody Knows It’www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/21/exclusive-she-survived-death-camp-facing-biden-doj-charges-shes-prepared-die-prison/She Survived a Death Camp. Facing Biden DOJ Charges, She Is Prepared to Die in Prison
Eva Edl turned 10 years old in a World War II-era death camp.
She believes she may die in a United States prison.
Charged by Joe Biden’s Justice Department with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, Edl faces up to 11 years in prison and $350,000 fines. She is about to turn 89 years old.
She was inconsolable that America would even consider aborting its unborn.
“America, in my eyes, was this country of justice and opportunity and everything that is good,” she said. “A beacon for us, over there, that didn’t know what all that meant, because we had nothing but oppression from whoever was ruling us at the time.”
Edl describes a rescue in the following way: “We would put our bodies in front of the entrance of the abortion clinic, which I call the ‘death camp,’ so nobody could come in and kill the babies.”
“This is what people should have done for us.”
Now, she faces prison time.
“To the best of my knowledge, I am facing around 11 years in prison and $350,000 fines,” she said.
“Let me liken it to something,” Edl explained thoughtfully as we discussed her arrests around the country. She referred back to her time in Gakowa. “When we were rounded up to be killed, we were placed in cattle cars, and our train was headed toward the extermination camp. What if citizens of my country would have overcome their fear, and a number of them stood on those railroad tracks between the gate of the entrance to the death camp and the train? The train would have to stop. And while the guards on those trains would be busy rounding up the ones that were in front of the train, another group could have come in, pried open our cattle car and possibly set us free, but nobody did.”
She has heard stories that people stood by the roadside and wept as the cattle cars went by. “But that didn’t help us any,” she said.
“So, when we place our bodies between the woman and the clinic, we buy time to get our sidewalk counselors the opportunity to speak with women, and hopefully open their hearts with love for their babies and let their babies live,” the death camp survivor said.
“After all,” she added, “we offer them everything there is, including adoptions. I’ve offered to adopt babies on the spot … we’re standing between the killer and the victim.”
“I feel very strongly, because of my background, that human life is sacred,” she said simply. “Government does not have the authority to permit what God forbids.”
“And murder is forbidden by God.” www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-forced-out-of-second-african-nation-dealing-another-blow-to-national-security-under-bidenU.S. Forced Out Of Second African Nation, Dealing Another Blow To National Security Under Biden
the withdrawal of U.S. forces in both countries “comes as Niger, as well as Mali and Burkina Faso, are turning away from years of cooperation with the United States and forming partnerships with Russia — or at least exploring closer security ties with Moscow.”www.breitbart.com/africa/2024/04/26/biden-diplomacy-chad-niger-kick-american-soldiers-out/Biden Diplomacy: Chad, Niger Kick American Soldiers Out
Last Friday, the administration of leftist President Joe Biden announced that over a thousand U.S. military personnel would be withdrawn from Niger. The civilian government of Niger was overthrown in a July 2023 coup, leaving power in the hands of Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani.
Western powers and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) soon ostracized the junta. ECOWAS imposed sanctions against the Tchiani regime but lifted them in February 2024 due to humanitarian concerns.
Niger formed a coalition with two other military-controlled governments, Burkina Faso and Mali, which collectively had enough clout to face down ECOWAS and shrug off the Biden administration’s demands for a swift return to civilian government. As relations with America and Europe soured, Niger increasingly turned to the axis of tyranny – Russia, China, and Iran – for security and economic assistance.
Last week, the Nigerien junta signed a $400 million deal with China’s state-owned CNPC oil company to secure its cash flow after losing the U.S. and France as oil customers. At around the same time, Russian troops began arriving in Niger with anti-aircraft weapons, which Niger’s military rulers consider invaluable for preventing ECOWAS or Western forces from invading to restore civilian government.
The Biden administration’s last-ditch diplomatic mission in March was a disaster, as junta officials sneered the American delegation was “condescending” and refused to arrange a meeting with Tchiani. Administration officials mumbled off-the-record about the junta possibly allowing small numbers of U.S. operators to conduct counter-terrorism missions from its soil after the main force withdrawal is completed in a few months.
One of the major points of contention between the junta and U.S. officials was a rumored deal to allow Iran access to Niger’s considerable uranium reserves. Progress was reportedly made on this arrangement when junta-appointed Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine visited Tehran in January.
According to some sources, Niger already signed a secret deal with Iran. Junta officials reportedly became very “tense” when U.S. representatives mentioned the uranium deal during the March diplomatic mission.
A senior U.S. Air Force officer deployed to Niger filed a private whistleblower complaint with Congress last week, accusing the Biden administration of negligence for leaving American forces at risk in Niger as virtual “hostages” and covering up evidence that Niger’s relationship with the U.S. was rapidly deteriorating.
Biden diplomacy in Africa became a full-blown disaster when the Pentagon announced on Thursday that about 75 U.S. Special Forces operators have been evicted from Chad.
The Chadian withdrawal came as a much bigger surprise than the one in Niger. Gen. Amine Idriss, chief of staff for the Chadian air force, bypassed the usual diplomatic channels to send a memo written in French on his official letterhead to the U.S. defense attache that threatened to terminate Chad’s Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the United States.
while Chad is not ruled by a junta like the Niger-Mali-Burkina Faso bloc, it is not quite a blooming garden of democracy either. It will hold elections on May 6, but the likely winner will be “transitional” President Mahamat Deby, who has held the office since his father Idriss Deby Itno expired in 2021 after 30 years of autocratic rule.
It is possible that Chad wants leverage against the U.S. to secure Deby in power, or at least wants Washington to remember that the axis of tyranny is waiting to welcome dodgy regimes that do not measure up to American standards of democratic purity.
Washington Post foreign affairs columnist Ishaan Tharoor saw “grim tidings” for American security interests in the news from Chad and Niger, as the Biden administration was pushed into “retreat” from the terrorist-infested Sahel region.
China is notching record-high approval ratings in African public opinion polls after pouring billions into development projects and resource deals, while Russia’s eagerness to rent itself out as a Praetorian guard for junta strongmen has made it a popular alternative to former European colonial powers and American moralizing.
At the beginning of the year, the Biden administration thought it was securing its relationship with Chad by warning its government that Russia might be plotting to assassinate President Deby or overthrow his government – while Russia was hosting Deby on an official visit to Moscow and boasting that “expanded cooperation” with Chad and other African nations was coming soon. Russian diplomats murmured that America’s “extreme pressure” on the Chadian government was creating an opportunity for Russia to move in.
The story out of Africa right now is the Biden administration’s ongoing surprise that Russia and China have outmaneuvered it across the continent by offering protection and prosperity for juntas and strongmen instead of lecturing them about democracy. Even if one believes Africa’s military dictators and presidents-for-life could stand to hear a few lessons about political freedom, it should be no surprise that they might prefer to deal with amoral and ruthless competitors who promise to keep them in power indefinitely.thefederalist.com/2024/04/26/associated-press-admits-new-indictments-are-campaign-to-deter-gop-from-questioning-elections/Associated Press Admits New Indictments Are ‘Campaign’ To ‘Deter’ GOP From Questioning Electionswww.dailysignal.com/2024/04/26/trump-trial-judge-belongs-conflicted-jurist-hall-fame/(Biden Toady) Judge’s Conflicted Political Ties Raise Eyebrows in Trump Trial
First, the judge’s daughter is a Democratic Party activist. Before her LinkedIn page went private, it listed her as director of digital persuasion for the Kamala Harris for the People campaign in 2019.
Under New York State’s Judiciary Law Article 2 §14 (the judge, as a) first-degree blood relative, should recuse himself since “he is related by consanguinity or affinity to any party to the controversy within the sixth degree.”
Second, even if this law included an “I don’t discuss business with my daughter” clause, (Biden Toady) is a Democrat donor.
Third, unlike federal judicial assignments, the chief administrative judge picked (Biden Toady) for Trump’s trial due to his supervision of other Trump-related cases. This needlessly deepens suspicions.
“There was not a random selection of a judge in this case, and there should have been,” former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Christopher Brennan told The Wall Street Journal. “He actually should be the last person selected, given the potential conflict.”nypost.com/2024/04/28/us-news/eric-trump-warns-biden-could-bump-into-charges-for-white-house-cocaine-if-scotus-rules-against-immunity/Eric Trump warns Biden could be hit with charges for White House cocaine if SCOTUS rules against immunitywww.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/25/ftse-100-markets-latest-news-anglo-american-sainsburys/nypost.com/2024/04/25/us-news/trump-campaign-warns-stagflation-on-the-way-after-disappointing-gdp-report/Wall Street plunges after US inflation shock, amid fears of stagflation...
...Trump camp warns ‘stagflation’ on the way after disappointing GDP report: ‘Numbers are very bad’
Trump himself told reporters outside his criminal trial in Manhattan Thursday: “Gasoline is going way up, energy costs are going way up and the stock market is in a sense crashing. The numbers are very bad. This is Bidenomics,” the 45th president needled his opponent, referencing White House economic messaging that surveys showed fell flat with potential voters.
Seven in 10 voters from seven battleground states told a Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday that they felt the US economy was headed in the “wrong direction,” with a majority of voters also having an unfavorable opinion of Biden.www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2977370/trump-trial-isnt-hurting-swing-state-leads/Trump’s trial isn’t hurting his swing state leads
Trump’s lead has actually expanded to 7 points in Arizona (up from 5 points in March), 8 points in Nevada (up from 2 points), 4 points in Wisconsin (up from Biden actually leading by 1 point), 1 point in Pennsylvania (up from a tie), and 10 points in North Carolina (up from 6 points). Trump’s leads only shrunk in Georgia, from 7 points to 6...if the polling were correct and the election were held today, Trump would win the Electoral College with 293 votes, and he only needs 270 to win.www.ncregister.com/cna/pew-research-biden-in-trouble-with-catholic-votersPew Research: Biden in Trouble With Catholic Voters - only 35% of Catholics hold a favorable view of Biden while 64% have an unfavorable viewnypost.com/2024/04/24/us-news/biden-trails-trump-in-six-swing-states-as-70-say-economy-is-going-in-wrong-direction-poll/Biden trails Trump in six swing states as 70% say economy going in ‘wrong direction’
“Americans realize if they want to make gas cheap again and keep more money in their pockets, they must vote Trump,” campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told The Post. “Joe Biden’s economic policies are robbing people of thousands every month and Biden is doubling down, promising to sign the largest tax hike in American history if given another four years in the White House.”www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/04/25/ny-union-leader-my-members-back-trump-31-over-biden-leftist-policies-driving-voters-right/NY Union Leader: My Members Back Trump 3:1 over Biden; Leftist Policies Driving Voters to Right
Bartels, whom Kilmeade noted plans to vote for Trump, further emphasized that union workers “are very tired of the situation with groceries, inflation, gas prices, illegal immigration, crime; we’re living it every day in New York City,” he said.
“I want what’s right for the citizens, and my members want that, also. They are very agitated. They’re living week to week. Some of them are not affording their bills, and I think things need to change,” he added.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/28/donald-trump-takes-biggest-lead-ever-over-joe-biden-in-cnn-poll-third-party-candidates-expand-trump-lead/Donald Trump Takes Biggest Lead Ever over Joe Biden in CNN Poll, Third-Party Candidates Expand Trump Lead
Biden’s approval ratings on key issues like the economy and inflation, 34 percent and 29 percent respectively, is abysmal and seems to be working against him harshly. “In the new poll, 65% of registered voters call the economy extremely important to their vote for president, compared with 40% who felt that way in early 2020 and 46% who said the same at roughly this point in 2016,” Agiesta wrote. “Those voters who say the economy is deeply important break heavily for Trump in a matchup against Biden, 62% to 30%.”
“Looking back, 55% of all Americans now say they see Trump’s presidency as a success"www.zerohedge.com/political/worst-70-years-biden-approval-rating-absolutely-dismalWorst In 70 Years: Biden Approval Rating Absolutely Dismalwww.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/04/24/poll-only-21-of-voters-strongly-approve-of-biden-49-strongly-disapprove/Poll: Only 21% of Voters ‘Strongly’ Approve of Biden, 49% ‘Strongly’ Disapprove...Biden’s approval index rating is -28 points
Throughout the summer of 2022 gas prices and inflation soared. While the rate of inflation decreased in 2024, costs continue to steadily climb and experts predict costs will not return to pre-Biden era norms. Today, a Big Mac burger, a medium beverage, and a medium fry meal cost 18 dollars in some locations, up $10 from 2018 when former President Donald Trump was president.notthebee.com/article/whoops-msnbc-accidentally-put-someone-on-air-who-says-the-truthWhoops! MSNBC accidentally featured someone who told the truth about why young people resent the economy right now
"For the first time in our history, a 30-year-old man or woman isn't doing as well as his or her parents were at 30. That is the social compact breaking down."
"People aged 30-34, 60% of them in 1990 had one child. Now it's 27%. People are opting out of America, they're not optimistic about it, they're not having kids."
"They (millennials and Gen Z) look up, they see wealth, exceptional wealth, across my generation and people in certain industries, and they are really struggling. Their purchasing power is really going down...We (boomers) get very concerned with housing and traffic once we own the housing. Housing permits are sequestered from young people, housing prices have gone from 290 to 420 in the last 4 years."
"So a young person, a house, stocks that I don't own, skyrocket in value, let's have Covid relief and flush the markets and take assets way up because a million people dying would be bad, would be tragic if I got less wealthy, and we're doing it on their credit card."www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2979694/biden-pandering-young-voters-on-issues-most-dont-care-about/Biden is pandering to young voters on issues most don’t care about
Joe Biden’s pandering to young voters is embarrassing, especially when you realize he is pandering to the smallest pocket of young voters there is.
Biden and the Democratic Party view young voters as the key to their permanent dominance. As the hypothesis goes, any day now, generation after generation of young Democratic voters will dominate the voter pool and render the GOP extinct, a prediction that was likely being made before this writer was born. In reality, people change, which is why the 18-29-year-old voters who backed Barack Obama by 34 points in 2008 became 30-44-year-old voters who backed Biden in 2020 by just 7 points.
When you look at just how Biden is pandering and on what issues he is focusing, you see that he is doing nothing but following activist hype. A Harvard poll found that the top three most important issues according to people between the ages of 18 and 29 are inflation, healthcare, and housing. The youth issues that Biden and Democratic politicians focus on are student debt, Gaza, and climate change.
Biden has continuously tried to abuse his power to erase student debt for predominantly wealthy graduates and postgraduates, but student debt ranks 16th out of 16 issues in Harvard’s poll...Biden’s pandering to the terrorist sympathizers on college campuses tackles Gaza, the 15th biggest issue out of 16 on the list. Climate change is the most popular of the three, and yet it sits in a tie for 12th with taxes, ranking behind immigration and crime.
and youth turnout is consistently underwhelming...In other words, Biden is pandering to a smaller group of voters he already enjoys large margins from, and doing so with issues that rank far lower on their list of priorities than things such as the economy or housing. It is a pathetic level of desperation that has left Biden pandering to terrorist-supporting activists, among other things, because he thinks he needs to run up bigger margins to make up for just how unpopular he is. Perhaps the decision-making that led to this campaign choice is the problem in the first place.notthebee.com/article/new-report-shows-food-insecurity-hunger-spiking-in-joe-bidens-economyGallup: U.S. now has "highest rate of people who are under stress to afford enough food" among G7 countries
After more than three years of Joe Biden, how are you doing?
For many people, the answer is "hungry."notthebee.com/article/hoo-boy-did-new-york-union-workers-have-thoughts-for-biden-todayHOO BOY did New York's working men send a message to Biden today
New York union leader Bobby Bartels says most of his Union workers are Democrats but they are supporting Trump in 2024.
Bartels said he conducted a poll of his 9,000 members and Trump is leading Biden 3 to 1.www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2979821/biden-is-a-stunning-10-points-away-from-reelection-lock/Biden is a stunning 10 points away from reelection lock - Biden’s approval rating is about 10 points under the previous record low of a winning incumbent
The closest presidential approval rating of an incumbent to Biden today is former President Jimmy Carter, who had a 37% approval rating entering the election. He lost in a historic landslide to former President Ronald Reagan.www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2979672/biden-pennsylvania-write-in-votes-pass-60000-primary/Biden efforts to pocket Pennsylvania in jeopardy after write-in votes pass 60,000 mark in primary
The protest votes are a warning sign for Biden as the “Abandon Biden” movement that started during the Michigan primary spread to Super Tuesday states and beyond.www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/2980917/rfk-jr-biden-refuses-protection-despite-death-threats/RFK Jr. says Biden refuses to offer protection despite death threats and break-ins
“I provided them 68 pages of material death threats of, you know, actual incidents where people coming with guns to my events and trying to get into my green room with hidden weapons,” Kennedy told author and journalist Raymond Arroyo.
Kennedy has also suffered multiple break-ins to his own home, which included a near miss that could have harmed his family, he added.
“I think four break-ins at my house since I announced,” Kennedy said. “Including one intruder who got to the second floor when my family was there.”
Emails released in February showed that the Secret Service was ordered to ignore Kennedy’s request for security.www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/26/report-biden-81-walks-aides-marine-one-draw-less-attention-awkward-stride/Report: Joe Biden, 81, Walks with Aides to Marine One to ‘Draw Less Attention’ to Awkward Stride
Biden has neuropathy in his feet and a stiffened gait, White House physician Kevin O’Connor found after the annual physical in February.
The health challenges might explain why he struggles to remain upright. Biden has tripped, tumbled, and stumbled at least five times during his presidency.
Social media accounts constantly share videos of Biden walking awkwardly. Those videos forced him to introduce a new routine, which began in mid-April... Starting April 16, Biden was joined by staff or lawmakers nine out of 10 times he walked to and from Marine One.
It is not the first strategy Biden implemented to change the image of his age. He previously began boarding Air Force One from the shorter steps at the rear of the aircraft, instead of the taller staircase at the front.
Biden also does not wear typical dress shoes with his suits. He wears a specially crafted sports shoe to help him walk, a typical wardrobe change for the elderly.www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-abandons-plan-ban-menthol-cigarettes-avoid-angering-black-votersBiden Admin Abandons Plan To Ban Menthol Cigarettes To Avoid 'Angering Black Voters'
The White House is willing to ignore the potential (science-driven data) death of 650,000 mostly African American voters to improve its chances in November?
This couldn't possibly have anything to so with the fact that minorities in America are starting to look for alternatives to the Democrats they have been indoctrinated to vote for all their lives... or the fact that swing-state polls shows black voters abandoning Biden in favor of Trump is huge numbers...nypost.com/2024/04/22/us-news/papua-new-guinea-pm-nation-does-not-deserve-to-be-called-cannibals-after-biden-says-uncle-eaten-in-wwii/Papua New Guinea PM says nation ‘does not deserve’ to be called ‘cannibals’ after Biden says uncle eaten in WWIIBIDEN, reading from his teleprompter: "Four more years? Pause?"lol, he read the staged Dem audience response AND the staged action prompt
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www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign-policy/2987737/state-department-russia-banned-chemical-weapons-ukraine-war/Russia using banned chemical weapons in war on Ukraine, State Department sayswww.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-troops-enter-air-base-hosting-us-soldiers-post-coup-nigerRussian Troops Enter Air Base Hosting US Soldiers In Post-Coup Niger
US diplomats and the Pentagon have been in retreat from the West African nation of Niger, while also scrambling to maintain some influence there, following the junta seizing power in a coup in July 2023. Niger's military toppled the US-friendly government of President Mohamed Bazoum, who was taken hostage.
Among the first orders of the junta was to tell US troops in the country to pack up their stuff and get out. The US is commonly estimated to have had 1,100 troops in the country. At the same time the junta is displaying its warmer relations with Russia and its forces, declaring an alliance with 'anti-imperialist' nations. French troops have already exited the country.
On Friday there are widespread reports that Russian troops have actually entered American military bases, with US troops in the process exiting, but some still present. This is said to already be happening at Air Base 101 in Niamey, the capital city.www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2990382/why-the-uk-says-ukraine-can-now-target-russia-with-british-weapons/UK says Ukraine can now target Russia with British weapons
In a clear response to a Russian intelligence service arson attack on a London factory, the United Kingdom has said that Ukraine can use British weapons to strike targets inside Russia.
Russian intelligence services have launched a covert sabotage campaign against Western targets that Moscow deems to be providing support for Ukraine. Germany recently arrested two people suspected of plotting attacks on targets inside that country. And in March, a Ukrainian-owned warehouse in London was set alight by a group led by a person acting under Russian direction. Further incidents of this kind are anticipated across Europe in the coming weeks. As an extension, an unexplained fire on Friday at a major Diehl Group factory (Diehl is supplying military equipment to Ukraine) in Berlin will have to be investigated carefully.www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/29/islamic-state-resurgence-four-assad-troops-killed-syria-ambush/Islamic State Resurgence: Four Assad Troops Killed in Syria Ambush
The incident reportedly occurred in the province of Raqqa, whose eponymous largest city was once the capital of the Islamic State “caliphate” established over significant portions of both Iraq and Syria. It occurred in the context of growing concern that, after the eradication of ISIS from Raqqa in 2017, the Sunni jihadist terror group has found a way to regroup in the Middle East, in addition to increasing its activity throughout Africa and South Asia.
Much of the contemporary focus on the Islamic State is placed on ISIS-Khorasan Province, its local cell in Afghanistan. ISIS-K reportedly claimed responsibility for a massive terrorist attack on the Crocus City music venue and mall outside of Moscow, Russia, in March, and has shown signs of expanding under the rule of the Taliban terrorist organization. The Islamic State has also expanded its influence throughout Africa, particularly in nations with weak governments such as Nigeria and Mozambique. In the past year, however, monitors have documented growing ISIS activity in the territory that was once its “caliphate.”
“Just-released data from U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. forces across the Middle East and South Asia, puts the number of Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq at about 2,500 — more than double estimates from late January,” Voice of America reported.
Voice of America also cited a report by the Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit that moinitors global terrorist activity, that concluded “March was, by every metric, the most violent month of ISIS’s Badia (central Syrian desert) insurgency since late 2017, when the group first lost control of its territory.”www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/05/01/u-n-says-venezuela-rapidly-disappearing-dissidents-ahead-sham-election/Venezuela Rapidly Disappearing Dissidents Ahead of Sham Election
The majority of the disappeared, the report stated, are “members of the main opposition political party, as well as members of the Army.”
“As the country gears up for the presidential election in July 2024, enforced disappearances could have a chilling effect and hinder the people’s right to vote freely,” the U.N. Working Group’s experts said.
“These prolonged incommunicado detentions amount to enforced disappearances. They appear to follow a pattern whereby individuals are deprived of their liberty by State authorities, taken to recognized detention facilities and denied fundamental rights and protections such as contact with the outside world and access to legal assistance,” the experts continued.
In the past few months, the regime launched a fierce dissident crackdown known as “Bolivarian Fury.” Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro has claimed that the crackdown is necessary to “dismantle” purported foreign conspiracies against him and other members of his authoritarian regime.
The crackdown has so far targeted more than a dozen members of Venezuela’s only mainstream center-right party, Vente Venezuela, and people close to opposition leader María Corina Machado, as well as other civilians and members of the military.
Among the best-known cases of forced disappearances by the Maduro regime is that of Venezuelan activist and lawyer Rocío San Miguel, who was arrested in February and has not been publicly seen since.
The U.N. Human Rights Office expressed concerns over San Miguel’s arrest — to which the Maduro regime responded by banishing the office’s stationed staff in Caracas.
Rojas is believed to be presently detained in one of the many detention centers of the SEBIN Bolivarian Intelligence Service, known for its use of torture, sexual violence, and other inhumane treatment against dissidents. Rojas has reportedly been denied the right to a private attorney, has no communication with the outside world, and his physical state is presently unknown.
The most recent disappearance is that of Oscar Castañeda, a Venezuelan citizen and sympathizer of Machado and the Vente Venezuela party, who was forcefully dragged out of his home by SEBIN agents on Sunday due to his participation in one of Machado’s rallies held on Friday, April 26.
Charly Rodríguez, Castañeda’s cousin, told local media that Castañeda was taken out of his town with his face covered by a black hood and has been missing since then.The Future of Europe www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/28/germanys-radical-law-allows-parents-to-trans-their-infants-from-birth/Germany’s Radical Law Allows Parents to Trans Their Infants From Birthnypost.com/2024/05/02/lifestyle/us-issues-travel-warning-for-germany-terrorist-groups-keep-planning-attacks/US issues travel warning for Germany: ‘Terrorist groups keep planning attacks’www.zerohedge.com/markets/every-conservative-party-europe-needs-prepare-mass-censorship-warns-flemish-mepEvery Conservative Party In Europe Needs To Prepare For Mass Censorship, Warns Flemish MEP
Conservative political parties across Europe should begin contingency planning for the inevitable time in the near future when right-wing platforms are the victims of mass censorship by an increasingly desperate liberal establishment, a senior Belgian nationalist lawmaker told Remix News at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Hungary last week
“Globally, we expect that we have to seek alternatives. That’s why we now organize visiting homes on a very large scale. We are shifting toward means that give us the opportunity to reach the electorate even if we are cut off on social media,” said Vlaams Belang MEP Gerolf Annemans.
“We have new means to talk to the people. People want to hear us. So, the people are open to hear and to listen to us and we adapt to the situation. We expect social media to be shut down for normal political communication,” the MEP warned.
Vlaams Belang is a Flemish nationalist party that proposes independence for the region of Flanders from the rest of Belgium. It has had considerable success on social media in recent years, particularly on Facebook where it has amassed 620,000 followers, helping the party push its core messages and propel itself to the top of the polls in the region. Furthermore, the party is the most popular party with young people, and a key element of that popularity is the party’s efforts on TikTok and Facebook, including substantial monetary investments into the platforms.
However...Annemans warned that a major crackdown was coming against those across the European Union whose views deviate from the typical left-wing mainstream and that conservative parties need to find workarounds, including face-to-face meetings with the public.
The Digital Services Act is the European Union’s attempt to regulate social media, placing requirements on digital platforms to monitor content and remove that deemed to fall short of being “socially desirable.” The vague definitions of “harmful content” and “disinformation” could result in tech platforms acting in an overzealous manner in order to avoid financial penalties imposed by the European Commission for failing to comply with the regulation.
Annemans accused the European Commission of giving Thierry Breton, the French commissioner leading the social media crackdown, “the means that are part of a Soviet dictatorship model to intervene with the political communications of opponents. Macron’s opponents, but in Belgium, of course, the opponents of the left-liberal regime.”
It isn’t just social media where conservatives are being suppressed, and a typical example of the censorship of political opponents was evident in Flanders itself just a week before Remix News spoke with Annemans, namely at the National Conservatism conference in Brussels where an order by the local mayor to shut down the event was only overturned by judicial intervention.
“It was a mistake,” the lawmaker said about the attempts to silence political opponents in the de facto EU capital. “I, sadly enough, have to tell you that this is a usual occurrence for Vlaams Belang. We have existed for almost 40 years and have always had trouble when organizing meetings in Brussels or in the region of Brussels.
“There is always trouble with communists, socialists, mayors, etc. So for us, it’s a daily struggle, unfortunately. They thought they could treat the conference like they usually do with us and label the conservatives attending as fascists and racists, but they didn’t realize that they would become world news within a few hours.
“As soon as they saw that, they got phone calls from even the Belgian prime minister himself and had to pull the brakes,” Annemans explained...but believes that his own party will continue to be stifled by the country’s establishment when the world’s eyes aren’t monitoring the situation.
“They will continue to do so with Vlaams Belang. This is not a democracy. Belgium is not a democracy. That’s what I said during my speech. Don’t trust Belgium, don’t trust the Belgian kingdom.”The real future www.zerohedge.com/political/scottish-first-minister-quits-after-disastrous-hate-crime-law'Anti-White' Scottish First Minister Quits After Disastrous 'Hate Crime Law'
As we have detailed again and again, his hate-crime law was an utter disaster - that everyone saw coming - and before his resignation, just 29 per cent of Scottish National Party voters believe Yousaf is doing a good job...He then failed to secure enough support to survive votes of no confidence against him expected later this week.
The hate crime law received backlash from every corner of the UK, including from more liberal personalities like Harry Potter author JK Rowling.
Calum Steele, the former general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, declared that officers “are genuinely embarrassed,” adding that “They feel that the service and by extension they as individual police officers will catch some of the public brunt.”nypost.com/2024/04/29/us-news/nearly-60-of-voters-say-border-is-top-issue-for-congress-to-tackle-poll/Clear majority of US voters pick border security as top issue for Congress to tackleLiberal priorities notthebee.com/article/witness-the-moment-a-trans-sex-offender-tried-to-kidnap-a-kid-from-the-yard-at-a-a-colorado-elementary-schoolWitness the moment a trans sex offender tried to kidnap a kid from this Colorado schoolnypost.com/2024/04/30/us-news/columbia-university-protesters-take-over-hamilton-hall/Violent pro-terror rioters shouting ‘Intifada!’ smash their way into Columbia University academic building in latest campus chaoswww.dailywire.com/news/stomp-on-that-s-protester-drags-american-flag-through-new-york-city‘Stomp On That S***!’: Protester Drags American Flag Through New York Citywww.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/05/03/palestine-protesters-new-york-campus-eric-adams-mayor/Almost half of protesters arrested on New York campuses have no connection with university - Officials from Northeastern University in Boston also reported that more than half of the 98 people arrested at its pro-Palestine demonstration last weekend were outsiders.nypost.com/2024/05/03/us-news/texas-university-anti-israel-protestors-not-from-the-school-report/Majority of anti-Israel protestors arrested at University of Texas weren’t from the school - in addition, protestors “headbutted” police, hit them with horse poop, and slashed their car tires with knives
“This is calculated, intentional and, we believe, orchestrated and led by those outside our University community,” the school said.Daddy Soros paying mentally unstable people their meth money nypost.com/2024/05/02/us-news/university-of-tehran-professor-foad-izadi-says-us-college-protesters-would-support-iran/Iranian college offers free tuition to US students expelled for participating in anti-Israel protests: ‘Our people’
An Iranian college is offering free tuition to US students expelled for taking part in anti-Israel protests, as a professor there called them “our people” who would support Iran in a war with America.
A professor at the University of Tehran said Iran was thrilled to see such uprisings — because pro-terror students would likely support Iran if it went to war.www.dailywire.com/news/its-trending-patriotic-students-drown-out-pro-hamas-anti-american-activists-at-lsuIt’s Trending: Patriotic Students Drown Out Pro-Hamas, Anti-American Activists At LSUwww.zerohedge.com/political/californias-perpetual-drought-manmade-and-intentionalCalifornia's Perpetual Drought Is Manmade And Intentional
"California reservoirs are full, and runoff from snowpack melt is still to come" (but) California wastes tens of billions of dollars’ worth (at a conservative $100–$200 an acre-foot) of precious fresh water to save handfuls of delta smelt and “restore” salmon runs where salmon never ran before.nypost.com/2024/05/01/us-news/suspect-accused-of-socking-mother-of-3-and-breaking-her-jaw-cut-loose-again-in-nyc-court-despite-upgraded-felony-charge/Suspect accused of socking mother of 3 and breaking her jaw cut loose again in NYC court despite upgraded felony charge
Jeudy allegedly socked Pichardo in the face unprovoked, leaving her with fractures on both sides of her face and knocking out several of her teeth on March 24, prosecutors said.
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office requested $25,000 cash bail or $50,000 bond on the upgraded charges, but Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew Sciarrino turned down that request.
Sciarrino faced heat last year after he ignored a prosecutor’s request to keep a career criminal in jail and instead granted bail in an attempted murder case.
The suspect, Ousmane Diallo, then allegedly wounded two in a shooting once he was freed...nypost.com/2024/04/29/us-news/once-bustling-nyc-flatiron-district-struggles-with-empty-stores-theft/NYC’s once-bustling Flatiron District now a wasteland of empty storefronts as rampant shoplifting wreaks havoc
“People just walk in, grab bottles and run away. Someone tries to walk out with a bottle at least once a week,” Tsethar, manager of The Wine Gallery, said of the surging thefts.
“Calling the NYPD does not help at all. They just ask us if we’re ok and tell us not to confront the thieves,” he claimed.
“Some people have tried opening up new businesses in the empty stores on Sixth Avenue, but most didn’t survive four or five months.
“Inflation is through the roof,” he noted. “How can you balance your expenditures and income? Work from home has also hurt our businesses because so many corporate buildings are vacant.”
The Post counted nearly a dozen empty storefronts along Sixth Avenue between West 16th and West 21st Streets on Monday.
Those included one-time anchor stores like Bed Bath & Beyond, which was located at 620 Sixth Avenue, between West 18th and West 19th streets, before shuttering last July.
“There’s been a domino effect of store closures,” said local resident Bobby Lewis. “On Sixth Avenue between 14th and 23rd, a few businesses are coming in but most are going out. It’s sad.”
State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar called the scourge “the sign of a decaying community.”
“It’s like a cancer. The more stores close, fewer want to return. The Flatiron District is not the same,” Kassar told The Post.
“It’s not just the storefronts,” he added. “It’s the declining real estate values, which reflect the decline of the area. There’s a general sense that the quality of life isn’t what it used to be.”www.zerohedge.com/political/if-you-want-people-have-babies-youre-now-far-rightIf You Want People To Have Babies You're Now "Far Right"www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2985646/californias-fast-food-minimum-wage-hike-is-backfiring/California’s fast-food minimum wage hike is backfiring
Pollo West Corporation, the largest franchisee of El Pollo Loco restaurants in California, has said that its franchises went from profitable to losing money overnight when the fast-food wage hike went into effect. It also said that the franchises have reduced worker hours by 10%. Meanwhile, the restaurants had raised prices in February to prepare for the wage hike, leading to a 3% decline in business.
fast food prices have gone up in California by 10% since September, a larger increase than in any other state. Restaurants have already passed those prices on to consumers, as was expected, and are cutting hours and adding kiosks. Fewer hours for employees means less money, fewer sales to consumers means less business, which means fewer hours for employees, and automated kiosks mean a reduced need for employees, which means fewer hours (or jobs) for employees.
This is always how the minimum wage song and dance goes. When congressional Democrats wanted to impose a one-size-fits-all $15-an-hour federal minimum wage on the country, the Congressional Budget Office determined that it would lift 900,000 people out of poverty. Less mentioned was the (low-end estimate) 1.4 million people it would throw into poverty via unemployment. Even California Democrats knew this, which is why politically connected businesses managed to be granted exemptions...www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2985153/red-states-are-better-at-saving-the-planet-than-blue-states/Red states are better at saving the planet than blue states
Georgia has completed the second of two nuclear reactors, the first two new nuclear reactors built in the United States since 1996. On the downside, the plant came in over budget and behind schedule. The plant cost $35 billion instead of the projected $14 billion and was completed seven years behind schedule. On the bright side, Georgia is now the largest generator of clean energy in the country. How is that for a trade-off?
California has been going through a bit of an energy crisis, with state leaders backtracking on closing the state’s last nuclear plant, backtracking on closing a gas storage facility, and relying on “dirty” energy to keep the lights on after several years of rolling blackouts gave Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) a political black eye.
But California has its own grand climate-saving plan in the form of the high-speed rail. Like Georgia’s nuclear plant, California’s high-speed rail is over budget and behind schedule. In 2008, the project was projected to be done by 2020 and cost $33 billion. Now, it has shrunk the line from its 500-mile Los Angeles-to-San Francisco dream to a 170-mile Merced-to-Bakersfield line, which is projected to be done by 2033 and somehow cost more, at $35 billion. The total project sits at an “optimistic” estimate of $128 billion.
Georgia’s plant is completed and operational, while California is yet to begin even laying track despite breaking ground in 2015. Georgia’s project made it the largest clean energy producer in the country, and California’s made it the largest laughingstock in the country.
Given that California has its own clean energy needs that are going unmet, perhaps the state could have taken a cue from Georgia to build something that is actually useful and can actually be built in this generation.Fraud Watch thefederalist.com/2024/04/30/poll-election-shifting-percentage-of-voters-admit-to-illegal-voting-in-2020/Poll: Election-Shifting Percentage Of Voters Admit To Illegal Voting In 2020www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2990783/trump-rnc-sue-nevada-mail-ballot-deadline/Trump and RNC sue Nevada over mail ballot deadline: ‘Clearly violates federal law’
The RNC alleges that the acceptance of mail ballots after Election Day “undermines the integrity” of the election and violates federal law by extending the election past Nov. 5.
“The result of Nevada’s violation of federal law is that timely, valid ballots are diluted by untimely, invalid ballots, which violates the rights of candidates, campaigns, and voters under federal law,” the suit claimed.Houthi Joe's corner nypost.com/2024/05/01/us-news/biden-pursued-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-against-diplomats-advice-ex-negotiator-says/Biden pursued botched Afghanistan withdrawal against diplomats’ advice: ex-negotiatorfreebeacon.com/national-security/us-greenlit-talibans-kabul-takeover-and-had-no-contingency-plan-when-hell-broke-loose-former-envoy-says/The Biden administration gave the Taliban terror group a "green light" to seize control of Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul, in mid-August 2021, setting the stage for the terror group to retake control of the country amid America's botched withdrawal, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.freebeacon.com/latest-news/bidens-pier-in-gaza-to-cost-320-million/Biden's Pier in Gaza To Cost $320 Million
the cost has roughly doubled from initial estimates earlier this year, according to a person familiar with the matter.
"The cost has not just risen. It has exploded," Sen. Roger Wicker (Miss.), the top Republican on the Democratic-led Senate Armed Services Committee, told Reuters, when asked about the costs. "This dangerous effort with marginal benefit will now cost the American taxpayers at least $320 million to operate the pier for only 90 days."
"How much will taxpayers be on the hook once—or if—the pier is finally constructed?" Wicker asked. "For every day this mission continues, the price tag goes up and so does the level of risk for the 1,000 deployed troops within range of Hamas' rockets."nypost.com/2024/04/29/us-news/onlyfans-creator-farha-khalidi-claims-she-was-paid-to-spread-political-propaganda-for-biden-admin/OnlyFans creator Farha Khalidi claims she was paid to spread ‘political propaganda’ for Biden admin
“I was doing full-on political propaganda,” the social media personality said during a recent podcast interview with commentator Richard Hanania.
“The funny thing is they’re, like, ‘Do not disclose this as an ad’ because they [were], like, ‘Technically, it’s not a product, so you don’t have to disclose it’s an ad.’ Because I think they just wanted, like, some edgy girl of color to just tell people — like when they nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson, they’re, like, ‘Can you say “as a person of color,” you know, that you feel “reflected”?’”notthebee.com/article/biden-vows-to-do-something-about-gun-violence-in-his-second-term-calls-jeffersons-tree-of-liberty-quote-a-bunch-of-crapBiden vows to "do something about (guns)" in his second term, calls Jefferson's "tree of liberty" quote "a bunch of crap"www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/02/investigation-biden-executive-order-focuses-registering-convicts-vote/Investigation: Biden Executive Order Focuses on Registering Convicts to Votefreebeacon.com/columns/joe-biden-is-2024s-chaos-candidate/Joe Biden Is 2024's Chaos Candidate
Higher prices, a broken border, raging wars, violent campuses—is this what Joe Biden promised Americans four years ago?
Consider how far away America is from Biden's gossamer vision. Here is a man who pledged a restoration of national unity and global tranquility if he became president. Not only has he failed to achieve his goals. His very policies put them out of reach. We were promised competence. We got chaos.
The widespread sense of confusion and disappointment, the general feeling that the country is a mess, best explains why Biden is losing to Trump.
Trump has a double advantage. Not only is he a challenger whose record is viewed more favorably than Biden's. He is also associated, rightly or wrongly, with authority, with law and order, with the police and the military and the working-class elements in American society. Biden, on the other hand, leads a party highly dependent on the college-educated and advanced-degreed, on campus culture, on pro-Palestinian and even pro-Hamas factions, on activists who desire nothing more than to take to the streets, harass "Zionists," and tear down the established order.nypost.com/2024/05/02/us-news/biden-lumps-us-ally-japan-with-adversaries-russia-china-as-xenophobic-nations-weeks-after-state-dinner/www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/2988691/white-house-damage-control-biden-japan-xenophobic/Biden lumps ally Japan with adversaries Russia, China as ‘xenophobic’ nations...White House does damage controlwww.zerohedge.com/political/fk-joe-biden-anti-israel-counter-protesters-university-chant-solidarity-democrats-panicwww.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2989911/trump-in-blowout-territory-leads-biden-by-10-12-points/'Unity': Pro-Israel And Pro-Palestine Supporters Chant "F**k Joe Biden" In Solidarity As Democrats In 'Panic Mode'...Trump in blowout territory, leads Biden by 10-12 points
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