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Saturday Night Live has not been funny in years, but a 2015 sketch is going viral on social media for implying that going to a liberal college is like joining the ISIS terror group.
People are identifying with the sketch in light of the pro-Hamas demonstrations taking place at Columbia University, Yale, and many other elite schools.
SNL probably couldn’t even make this sketch today because it would offend too many people in their fan base.
Newsweek reports:
SNL Sketch Goes Viral Amid Columbia Protests: ‘Predicted the Future’
A 2015 Saturday Night Live sketch about ISIS has gone viral after it was posted by a Rabbi who said it “predicted the future”, and commenters have linked it to the ongoing tension at Columbia University in New York City.
Classes have been canceled at the university as a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the campus refuses to budge, despite police arresting more than 100 people on Thursday…
In the sketch, guest host Dakota Johnson plays a student being dropped off at a bus terminal to head to college for the first time by her dad (Taran Killam). She assures him not to worry about her because some friends were coming to pick her up.
A pickup truck then rolls up behind them bearing the flags of terrorist group ISIS, and men in army fatigues wielding machine guns and bazookas riding in the back.
“Looks like your ride’s here,” Killam says, adding, “you be careful.” Johnson leans down to the window and says, “dad it’s just ISIS.”
Watch the video below:
Wow, this SNL sketch from 2015 is a spot-on prediction of what Ivy League schools have become today. pic.twitter.com/5uaIVGIrI2
— MRCTV (@mrctv) April 22, 2024
It really is like SNL predicted the future.
Replace ISIS with #Hamas and this is exactly what’s happening on college campuses today. This was a skit from SNL in 2015 – they knew . pic.twitter.com/k79sl5zFb4
— Michal/Michele -מיכל
Change the name ISIS to the Hamas supporters and you brought this skit to 2024.
This is an SNL skit from 2015. It was a forecast of dropping off your kid at an Ivy League University in 2024. pic.twitter.com/3ZDFwO678J
— Nurit Greenger (@NuritGrg) April 22, 2024
It’s uncanny, isn’t it?
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The city of Denver, Colorado is collapsing under the weight of its new population of illegal border crossers.
The mayor just cut police funding by $8 million in order to keep catering to illegals, but it’s just not enough according to one illegal immigrant advocacy group.
Apparently, six months of free housing and food is insulting. How about nothing then? Is that an option?
FOX News reports:
Denver migrant advocates say six months of free rent, food not enough: ‘A slap in the face’ and ‘offensive’
Migrants and an advocacy group in Denver decried the city’s new Asylum Seekers Program that offers six months of free housing, calling it “insufficient” and “offensive” despite the mayor cutting the city’s emergency budget to accommodate the migrant surge.
The sanctuary city has been struggling to stretch its limited resources to support the growing number of migrants making their way to Denver. More than 40,000 migrants have found their way to the city since December 2022, more per capita than any other U.S. city – at a total cost of around $68 million, the New York Post reported.
Last week, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced that his city’s migrant program would now provide what he called “a long-term, sustainable response” to address the migrant “crisis” locally. The program will offer six months of free housing, food assistance, workforce training and more to the roughly 1,000 migrants currently in the city’s shelter system as they wait for authorization to work, according to the New York Post. Due to the federal asylum seeker law, it can take up to 180 days to obtain working authorization.
It’s like we’re living in bizarro world.
Democrat-run Denver thinks that six months of free rent for illegal aliens is "insufficient."
All while American citizens are struggling to afford their rent and mortgage payments.
Joe Biden's America.https://t.co/1CXkNeUdBw
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) April 19, 2024
This is unbelievable. #copolitics #coleg
Denver migrant advocates say six months of free rent, food not enough: 'A slap in the face' and 'offensive' https://t.co/gYZYKjcoe4
— schotts (@schotts) April 22, 2024
You know what would solve this problem? Deporting everyone who has entered the country illegally in the last few years.
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Hollywood as we knew it for years is pretty much dead.
Box office sales are often disappointing as fewer and fewer people are willing to pay high ticket prices for the woke and preachy crap that keeps getting churned out in the name of entertainment.
David Mamet, one of the few openly conservative people in the entertainment industry has had enough, and called out Hollywood over this at a recent book festival.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
David Mamet slams Hollywood’s ‘garbage’ DEI initiatives. ‘It’s fascist totalitarianism’
David Mamet is not done lambasting the liberal establishment in Hollywood.
“DEI is garbage,” said the Pulitzer Prize-winning author to a packed house at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. “It’s fascist totalitarianism.”
The playwright and director did not shy away from his trademark expletives or controversy as he spoke about his tell-all memoir, “Everywhere an Oink Oink,” with Times deputy entertainment editor Matt Brennan at USC’s Newman Recital Hall.
His book, published in the fall, details his last 40 years in the moviemaking business and falling out of grace as his politics shifted him from a progressive “red diaper baby” of two communist Jewish parents raised on the South Side of Chicago to a present-day Trump-loving conservative…
“The [film industry] has little business improving everybody’s racial understanding as does the fire department,” Mamet said to a few loud laughs in the crowd. He argued that his colleagues are better off selling popcorn than trying to improve representation for women, queer talent and other marginalized groups.
He is not wrong.
David Mamet is not done lambasting the liberal establishment in Hollywood.
"DEI is garbage," said the Pulitzer Prize-winning author to a packed house at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. "It’s fascist totalitarianism."His book, published in the fall, details his last 40… pic.twitter.com/qF0Oh0AgEm
— Mike Netter (@nettermike) April 22, 2024
Some recent reports have suggested that lots of people in Hollywood are struggling to find work.
It’s going to get worse. A lot worse.
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) slammed "a**hole" anti-Israel protesters, saying that some of the protests were "not appropriate."
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George Alan Kelly’s defense attorney Kathy Lowthorp spoke with the media after a judge declared a mistrial in the rancher’s murder case.
A status hearing will be held on Monday where the Santa Cruz County Attorney will decide if George Kelly will face a retrial.
Lowthorp said it was 7 to 1 for a not guilty verdict — One juror thought Kelly was guilty of second-degree murder (or lesser charges to include negligent homicide and manslaughter).
“There was one holdout,” Lowthorp told the press after she walked out of court.
WATCH:
George Alan Kelly’s defense attorney Kathy Lowthorp says the mistrial was caused by one holdout juror who believed Kelly to be guilty. She says the other 7 wanted to vote for acquittal. pic.twitter.com/BvS88AupcX
— Adam Klepp (@AdamKleppAZ) April 23, 2024
George Kelly was spotted walking out of court Monday evening after the judge declared a mistrial.
“It is what it is and it will be what it will be,” Kelly told reporters. “Let me go home, okay?”
WATCH:
“Let me go home,” George Alan Kelly speaks after the mistrial was declared. The Mexican Consulate said they hope the state will re-try the case and justice will be served. pic.twitter.com/IDYpaM806C
— Adam Klepp (@AdamKleppAZ) April 23, 2024
Judge Thomas Fink on Monday declared a mistrial after an Arizona jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the murder trial for Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly.
Jurors deliberated last Thursday and were unable to reach a verdict. Deliberations continued on Friday and after more than 7 hours the jury sent a note to the judge and informed him they could not reach a verdict. The judge finally declared a mistrial on Monday after the jury was deadlocked again.
Kelly, 75, was arrested for killing Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, on his Arizona ranch in Kino Springs just outside of Nogales, Mexico on January 30, 2023.
According to reports, Gabriel Cuen-Butimea has a history of illegally crossing into the United States and multiple deportations.
According to the defense lawyers, Mr. Kelly fired warning shots after he saw a group of men dressed in camouflaged clothing point an AK-47 right at him.
The rancher later discovered the deceased illegal alien, who is likely a cartel smuggler, when he went to go check on his horse.
The bullet that killed Gabriel Cuen-Butimea was never recovered so authorities were never able to conduct a ballistics test to see if it matched George Kelly’s AK-47.
Kelly’s defense attorneys argued cartel bandits shot and killed Gabriel Cuen-Butimea and robbed him.
Will Biden’s corrupt Justice Department come after George Kelly if the Santa Cruz County Attorney decides not to pursue the case with a new trial?
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National Public Radio has been in the news quite a bit lately. A longtime employee blew the whistle on how the organization went fully left-wing activist after Trump won in 2016. For that, he was suspended and then quit.
Then their newest CEO was exposed as a liberal wingnut, as if we couldn’t have guessed that.
Now Trump and others are calling for them to be defunded and that’s a good thing because their lunacy keeps being shown to be worse than anyone even knew.
A twitter user with a good eye was recently looking at their archives and realized that they have placed a ‘trigger warning’ on the Declaration of Independence. Yes, really.
NewsBusters reports:
Hopelessly Woke NPR Places Trigger Warning on Declaration of Independence
The hopeless wokeness of tax-funded National Public Radio has been confirmed by NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner, who started shockwaves with his Free Press essay “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust” providing chapter and verse of how NPR had been take over fully by the left, and as a result blowing several major stories like Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop, and dismissing the coronavirus lab leak theory. For his whistleblowing efforts, the veteran journalist Berliner was suspended from NPR for five days before resigning…
One example of anti-American wokeness is the “editor’s note” NPR staff felt obliged to place on archived stories about its on-air reading every Independence Day of the Declaration of Independence in full, an honorable tradition apparently now consigned to the ash-heap of history.
Yes, one of America’s founding documents now requires a trigger warning, in the view of partially government funded radio (hat tip: Masks are bad, actually on X):
Editor’s note on July 8, 2022: This story quotes the U.S. Declaration of Independence — a document that contains offensive language about Native Americans, including a racial slur.
NPR’s embrace of absolute wokeness is best symbolized by their decision to end the tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July. Archived versions now have this trigger warning: https://t.co/5vEZvcN5F3 pic.twitter.com/LTPCq1eyz0
— Masks are bad, actually (@Rando8715401) April 9, 2024
If NPR has a problem with America’s founding documents, they should not be benefiting from American tax dollars.
It’s really that simple.
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The U.S. government has donated 100,000 doses of anthrax vaccines to Ghana’s government in an effort to support the country’s anthrax vaccination program.
The U.S. Government donated the vaccines through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The anthrax vaccines that were donated were not for human usage but rather for livestock that are susceptible to being infected with anthrax.
USAID Ghana Mission Director Kimberly Rosen, in a press release, stated, “Anthrax not only threatens human life. When it destroys livestock, it also threatens economic prosperity and food security.”
Anthrax is caused by the bacteria Bacillus anthracis, a spore-forming bacterium that can live in the ground for decades.
Natural outbreaks of anthrax among livestock don’t pose a severe risk to humans unless a person has direct contact with affected livestock; the weaponized version of anthrax, however, is highly deadly.
U.S. Donates Anthrax Vaccines to “Protect” Ghanaians and Livestock @USEmbassyGhana pic.twitter.com/XmfTgl1KgB
— The Triune Times (@TriuneTimes) April 23, 2024
The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is donating 100,000 doses of the anthrax vaccine in support of the Government of Ghana and U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) anthrax vaccination campaign. The campaign is expected to cover about one million animals across the five regions of the north.
“Anthrax not only threatens human life. When it destroys livestock, it also threatens economic prosperity and food security,” said USAID/Ghana Mission Director Kimberly Rosen during the launch.
Before the launch event, Ms. Rosen and partners from FAO to tour the Vaccine Production Unit of the Central Veterinary Laboratory in Pong-Tamale. In support of domestic manufacturing capacity, USAID recently purchased 100,00 anthrax vaccines from the Central Veterinary Lab to donate to the anthrax vaccination campaign.
“During our tour of the Central Veterinary Laboratory this morning, it was clear that with some automation and more investment, the lab could produce larger quantities of vaccines to meet the national market and also be exported. More vaccines means healthier animals, safer humans and potential revenue and job creation for the Veterinary Service Department,” she added.
The U.S. Government is not just concerned with anthrax infecting livestock in Africa, but the Department of Defense has been stocking up on anthrax vaccines in preparation for a possible anthrax attack.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Biopharmaceutical company Emergent BioSolutions (EBS) signed a massive $235.8 million contract with the Department of Defense in January to supply the U.S. military with its BioThrax anthrax vaccine.
READ:
Department of Defense Inks $235.8 Million Contract for Anthrax Vaccines
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Natalie Perry has reportedly been caught cheating her way into a highly important and well-paid DEI Director position at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
The woke UCLA gushes about the university’s DEI Director on its website, boasting about “Dr. Perry, who holds a Ph.D. in higher education (University of Virginia), an EdM in teaching and curriculum (Harvard University), and a BA in African American and African Studies (Ohio State University).”
The woke university is so proud of Dr. Perry’s doctoral dissertation that they even highlight it in their introduction to the so-called DEI expert:
“Her doctoral dissertation (“Faculty Perceptions of Diversity at a Highly Selective Research-Intensive University”) examined institutional commitment to diversity from the perspective of organizational values. Dr. Perry’s wealth of experience in understanding and improving the culture of higher education, including in an academic health system, will be invaluable to our ongoing efforts to embed our aspirational Cultural North Star’s value into our organizational DNA.”
The only problem is that, like many so-called professionals who are being paid obscene amounts of money to shove “diversity, equity, and inclusion” down the throats of students and faculty alike, Dr. Perry has been accused of being a cheater, and the incredible independent journalist Christopher Ruffo claims he has evidence of his accusations.
In The City Journal, Ruffo and Rosniak write:
Recent headlines about UCLA School of Medicine suggest that the institution has lost its focus. Instead of brushing up on organic chemistry, its students were subjected to lessons on “Indigenous womxn” and “two-spirits.” Future doctors had to take a class on “structural racism” and were led in a “Free Palestine” chant by a Hamas-praising guest speaker. The school made plans to segregate students by race for courses on left-wing ideology, and two of its psychiatry residents championed “revolutionary suicide.”
In a series of tweets, Rufo and fellow journalist Luke Rosiak reveal the stunning truth about a woke phony’s dissertation that UCLA claims “will be invaluable” to their ongoing efforts to make people less racist.
In his first tweet, Ruffo explains how UCLA’s med school has been in the news recently “for promoting ideology about ‘Indigenous womxn,’ ‘two-spirits,’ and ‘structural racism.'” And about how a “guest speaker praised, and two residents championed ‘revolutionary suicide.’
The DEI director, who advances “anti-racism,” is Natalie Perry.
UCLA Med School has been in the news recently for promoting ideology about “Indigenous womxn,” “two-spirits,” and “structural racism.” A guest speaker praised, and two residents championed “revolutionary suicide.”
The DEI director, who advances “anti-racism,” is Natalie Perry. pic.twitter.com/NwSNbiDoBO
— Christopher F. Rufo
Ruffo writes: “According to our exclusive analysis, Perry’s career is predicated on academic fraud. Her PhD dissertation plagiarized material from ten other papers, which she did not attribute or put in quotations.” He adds, “The examples are brazen.”
In a side-by-side comparison of Natalie Perry’s paper, which discusses the US Supreme Court case in which Jennifer Gratz sued the University of Michigan over discriminatory practices they used to admit less qualified students and a paper written by several authors on the same topic, it’s clear Perry relied heavily on plagiarizing their work.
In this example, they show Perry plagiarizing sources that are shown on the right.
In yet another example, Perry appears to have plagiarized the work of Adalberto Aguirre Jr. and Ruben Martinez on diversity, which the UCLA Diversity Chief was so passionate about that she had to copy others’ work.
The Independent journalist who worked with Luke Rosiak of the Daily Wire on this incredible story continues to expose “Dr. Perry’s” blatant plagiarism.
Rosiak tweeted about some of the ridiculous statements made by UCLA’s DEI czar, who “blamed opiates on ‘whiteness'” and led a class in chanting “Free Palestine!”
.@realchrisrufo and I have discovered the most egregious case of plagiarism yet: the DEI czar at UCLA School of Medicine, which blamed opiates on “whiteness,” had doctors praise “revolutionary suicide,” taught about “two-spirits,” and led a class in chanting “Free Palestine.” pic.twitter.com/tGxveytN7s
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) April 22, 2024
Ruffo writes:
Throughout the paper, Perry copies and pastes large sections of text from other authors. When she has to rely on original work, she often lapses into serious errors and basic grammatical problems. The paper—of course—was about DEI at universities.
In January, Harvard President Claudine Gay, who also appeared to be in support of Hamas/Palestine, was fired when she was exposed for plagiarism. The media blamed conservative news outlets for uncovering the scandal. The AP called Gay, who, like Natalie Perry, is a cheater and a fraud, a “target” who “put her career under intense scrutiny.”
Much like Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren cheated on her application when she lied and said she was part Native American, as a way to cut in front of other applicants for a job at Harvard University, “Dr.” Perry cheated when she copied the hard work of others to obtain her PhD, which helped her to get the ridiculous job as UCLA Medical School’s DEI Director.
Karma…
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Pro-Palestinian activist and X user who goes by the name ‘Crackhead Barney and Friends’ confronted Alec Baldwin in a New York restaurant.
The video shows the activist “CHBAF” confronting Alec Baldwin in a restaurant.
CHBAF: Alec, can you please say Free Palestine one time?… Why did you kill that lady? You killed that lady and got no jailtime? No jailtime, Alec? No jailtime, Alec?… They’re putting innocent people in jail, Alec Baldwin…
Alec Baldwin who is talking on a phone does not respond. Then Baldwin walks to the door ignoring the woman directly and opens the door.
CHBAF: Free Palestine, Alec, and I’ll leave you alone. I’ll leave you alone. I swear. Just say Free Palestine one time.
Alec Baldwin: Get out.
CHBAF: One time. One time! One time!…
Alec Baldwin to restaurant staff: Call the police!
CHBAF: One time, Alec. (to restaurant staff) You know he’s a criminal. Come on Alec just say Free Palestine one time. One time, just one time! Free Palestine. F*ck Israel. F*ck Zionism.
Alec Baldwin who was looking down – then lunges at the woman and takes her phone.
White devil Alec Baldwin attacked me
While I was trying to get coffeee pic.twitter.com/qebME0V4Wl— Crackhead Barney & Friends (@CHBAF) April 22, 2024
The video was posted on “Crackhead Barney and Friends” X account on Monday evening.
The user then posted a follow-up tweet in response to a user defending Alec, “White devils are mad cuz they being held accountable ”
White devils are mad cuz they being held accountable
— Crackhead Barney & Friends (@CHBAF) April 22, 2024
Amazingly, many of the comments were sympathetic to Alec Baldwin.
Several users attacked the radical Pro-Palestinian activist.
The post “Why’d You Kill that Lady, Alec?” – Alec Baldwin Confronted by Pro-Palestinian Protester – Snatches Woman’s Camera in Frustration (Video) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday ordered key evidence in Jack Smith’s classified documents case to be unredacted.
The newly unredacted documents revealed Biden’s White House had direct ties to the Mar-a-Lago raid. The Biden Regime was also directly tied to Jack Smith’s investigation despite claims to the contrary from US Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The newly unredacted documents revealed the FBI codename for the investigation into presidential records stored at Mar-a-Lago was “Plasmic Echo.”
“[Redacted] PLASMIC ECHO; Mishandling of Classified or National Defense Information; UNKNOWN SUBJECT; SENSITIVE INVESTIGATIVE MATTER SENSITIVE INVESTIGATIVE MATTER” the document dated February 24, 2022 read.
What does this mean?
One month later on March 30 US Attorney General Merrick Garland approved a full investigation.
The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 and seized boxes of records from Trump’s Florida estate.
Machine-gun-toting agents descend on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 and by November Biden’s DOJ appointed a special counsel to investigate the documents stored at the Florida residence.
Within a few months Special Counsel Jack Smith had issued a flurry of subpoenas and by June 2023 Trump was indicted on 37 federal charges.
The FBI’s investigation into Trump’s presidential records stored at Mar-a-Lago have all the hallmarks of their previous witch hunt of the former president.
Recall that the FBI dubbed their investigation into Trump’s 2016 “Crossfire Hurricane.”
In July 2016, FBI special agent Peter Strzok opened a counter-intel investigation into Trump’s camp dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane” on suspicions (based on no evidence) that the Russians had infiltrated Trump’s circle.
For years the DOJ and FBI resisted the release of the “electronic communication” used to launch the scam investigation because it revealed the entire spying operation was a scam.
The EC revealed Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane based on third-hand information that the Russian government “had been seeking prominent members of the Donald Trump campaign in which to engage to prepare for potential post-election relations should Trump be elected U.S. President.”
Last year Special Counsel John Durham released his final report concluding the FBI had no verified intel when it opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump in 2016.
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On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said that Jewish students are “going through” the same experience as black students did in Little Rock when they had “to be escorted on campuses because
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Planet Fitness's incoming boss Colleen Keating also reportedly backed "hiring through a DEI lens" in her former position.
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In response to the growing issue of boys using AI apps to create and share sexually explicit images of their female classmates, state legislators across the United States are introducing bills to protect minors from this new form of exploitation. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley continues to make billions with the very AI models boys are exploiting.
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George Alan Kelly
A judge on Monday declared a mistrial after an Arizona jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the murder trial for Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly.
Jurors deliberated last Thursday and were unable to reach a verdict. Deliberations continued on Friday and after more than 7 hours the jury sent a note to the judge and informed him they could not reach a verdict.
Before the jury resumed deliberations on Monday, George Kelly told News Nation’s Ali Bradley that he is confident he is going home for good after today.
“I’m goin’ home today… For good,” he said as he walked into court in Satna Cruz County.
AZ: “I’m goin’ home today… For good.” 75-year-old rancher George Alan Kelly is hopeful the jury will have a verdict today—He tells me he has faith that it will go in his favor.
Day 3 of deliberations are underway here in Santa Cruz County. pic.twitter.com/Y4HicdLv87
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) April 22, 2024
The parties will reconvene in a status hearing to discuss next steps on Monday.
#BREAKING Judge declares mistrial in case against George Alan Kelly.
The jury for a second time came to an impasse this afternoon and did not feel they could come to a unanimous decision.
The parties will reconvene in a status hearing to discuss next steps on Monday.
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) April 22, 2024
AZ Central reported:
Jurors in the murder case against a Nogales-area rancher accused of killing an unarmed migrant on his property were unable to reach a unanimous verdict and remained deadlocked on the charges.
After more than 15 hours of deliberation, the judge declared a mistrial just after 4:30 p.m.
The trial centered on the Jan. 30 death of Mexican migrant Gabriel Cuen Buitimea who was found shot after rancher George Alan Kelly fired warning shots into the air, alleged his defense attorney.
George Kelly, the Arizona rancher who was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault for defending his wife and property from illegal invaders went on trial last month.
Kelly faced a second-degree murder charge for Buitimea’s death, and an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for putting another man, Daniel Ramirez in danger. Ramirez had been traveling with Buitimea looking for work in the U.S. Buitimea’s body was found 115 yards, a football field away from Kelly’s house hours after the shooting incident.
Attorneys and the judge discussing which instructions to pass on to the jury noted the jurors looked tired and frustrated earlier that day when they told the judge they were at an impasse.
Kelly, 75, was arrested for killing Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, on his Arizona ranch in Kino Springs just outside of Nogales, Mexico on January 30, 2023.
According to reports, Gabriel Cuen-Butimea has a history of illegally crossing into the United States and multiple deportations.
According to the defense lawyers, Mr. Kelly fired warning shots after he saw a group of men dressed in camouflaged clothing point an AK-47 right at him.
George Alan Kelly was careful to shoot above their heads, the lawyers said.
The rancher later discovered the deceased illegal alien, who is likely a cartel smuggler, when he went to go check on his horse.
Kelly was initially charged with first-degree murder, but a judge recently downgraded his charge to second-degree murder during an evidentiary hearing in court.
Kelly’s defense attorney Brenna Larkin told jurors that her client “was in a life or death situation.”
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In a recent interview with Alex Jones, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stated the Democrats ‘want Trump dead.’
Rep. Greene stated that Trump “is not invincible; he’s a man, he’s fighting as hard as possible, and he’s putting all he has into trying to win the election.”
Greene continued, “You have to remember, he’s trying to run for president again, and he has to put everything he has into defending himself against these rigged trials.”
“They literally want him dead; Billy Thompson introduced a bill to take away his Secret Service protection. They want to lock him up in jail for the rest of his life so he dies in jail, and they want to take away his secret service protection so that he is murdered,” added Greene.
WATCH:
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Democrats Want To Kill Trump pic.twitter.com/uZ4VNCR8GV
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) April 22, 2024
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Friday, Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson introduced a resolution to terminate Trump’s Secret Service protection.
Thompson titled the resolution the “Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act,” or DISGRACED for short.
No Protection For Trump?
J6 Committee member Bennie Thompson has introduced legislation that would STRIP Secret Service protection for any individuals who spend a year or more in prison.
The Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and… pic.twitter.com/OZ1kTPwrj6
— Conservative Brief (@ConservBrief) April 20, 2024
Currently, there are eight Democratic cosponsors of the bill: Jasmine Crockett of Texas, Barbara Lee of California, Frederica Wilson of Florida, Rep. Troy Carter of Louisiana, Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, Joyce Beatty of Ohio, Steve Cohen of Tennessee, and Yvette Clarke of New York.
READ:
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In the last weeks, there has been increased chatter on the Ukrainian side about an imminent Russian attack on the large city of Kharkov, located near the border.
Sure enough, its power facilities have been heavily damaged by massive missile strikes.
Today, the attacks went a little further, as a cruise missile struck and broke in half a 240-meter television tower.
The attack would be part of a ‘deliberate effort by Moscow to make Ukraine’s second largest city uninhabitable,’ according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Footage going viral online shows the main mast of the television tower breaking off and falling to the ground.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 22, 2024
Reuters reported:
“The Ukrainian leader said he told U.S. President Joe Biden about the airstrike that was carried out several minutes before they spoke by telephone.
‘It is Russia’s clear intention to make the city uninhabitable’, he said in a readout of the call published on the Telegram messaging app.
The northeastern city of Kharkov with a population of 1.3 million lies just 30 km (18 miles) from the Russian border, making it an easy target for ballistic missiles and other weapons as Ukraine’s air defenses have dwindled.”
There have been no reported casualties in what appeared to have been a strike with a Kh-59 cruise missile.
“[Ukrainian authorities] said there was “temporarily” no television signal and that they were working to restore it, urging residents of the city and region without digital television signal to use cable or online television or the radio.”
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 22, 2024
Moscow has recently stepped up its attacks, while Ukraine is suffering a shortage of air defense capabilities. Kharkov and the surrounding region have experienced the most intense strikes.
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 22, 2024
While Reuters is usually satisfied with Zelensky’s explanations of events, we can learn a lot by paying attention to Russian sources.
Slavyangrad reported on the possible objectives for the attack:
“Communication – powerful repeaters were installed on it. propaganda (television/radio) was broadcast from the tower to the territory of the Belgorod region. This includes cellular communications, internet, and TV broadcasting.
[…] ‘Eyes’ – it is possible that the ‘Sova (Owl)’ system (an optical reconnaissance device) could be installed – a complex consisting of several IP cameras. They are all connected to a neural network, which calculates where the artillery is flying. This means they receive data from the point of impact as quickly as possible.
From a military perspective, a full range of reconnaissance and guidance system repeater antennas could be installed there. These are used for drone attacks on Russian territory, artillery reconnaissance, and detection and tracking systems for attack UAVs, ballistic and cruise missiles.”
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Following the vote on Saturday to fund the Ukraine War with $60 billion of borrowed money – Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) went on CNN and did not hold back when attacking several of his Republican colleagues in Congress.
Appearing on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ with host Dana Bash, Gonzales discussed the recent passage of the multi-billion foreign aid package and the possibility that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson may be removed from office.
Rather than taking a diplomatic tone in favor of party unity, the Texas Congressman unloaded on Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Bob Good (R-VI), making various spurious allegations about their political and private lives.
Here is a transcript of the exchange:
BASH: So, you voted yes on the foreign aid package. Do you have confidence that at this point, given that it is still possible that Marjorie Taylor Greene will push to vacate, to kick out of the Speaker’s chair, that he can survive?
GONZALES: He will survive. Look, the House is a rough and rowdy place, but Mike Johnson is gonna be just fine. I served 20 years in the military. It’s my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties. Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi.
These people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now they’re walking around with white hoods in the daytime. Look, it didn’t surprise me that some of these folks voted against aid to Israel, but I was encouraged to see by a nearly 10-to-1 mark that Republicans supported our allies on the battlefield.
BASH: Wow, ok, I should say that the federal government did look into Matt Gaetz and those allegations and they decided not to prosecute.
As you can see from the final exchange, even Bash was shocked by Gonzales’s remarks.
GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales: “I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties.”
pic.twitter.com/Z50B6lfgKs— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) April 21, 2024
Following the reprehensible comments by Rep Gonzales his primary opponent conservative Brandon Herrera responded to his vile attacks on Twitter.
Brandon Herrera: My failure of a Congressman Tony Gonzales went on CNN this morning calling matt gaetz and Rep Bob Good Klansmen, and me a “known neo-Nazi.” This is the death spiral ladies and gentlemen. He has to cry to his liberal friends about me, because Republicans won’t listen anymore.
My failure of a Congressman @TonyGonzales4TX went on CNN this morning calling @mattgaetz and @RepBobGood Klansmen, and me a “known neo-Nazi.”
This is the death spiral ladies and gentlemen.
He has to cry to his liberal friends about me, because Republicans won’t listen anymore. pic.twitter.com/Wal5m3NclP
— Brandon Herrera (@TheAKGuy) April 21, 2024
** You can support Brandon Herrera for Congress here.
On Monday, news broke that Speaker Mike Johnson will head to San Antonio on Tuesday to fundraise for Tony Gonzales after his disgusting rant on CNN.
Catturd2 nails it.
Can you believe this snake? https://t.co/Q6xmqd2lcI
— Catturd
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Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday ordered key evidence in Jack Smith’s classified documents case to be unredacted.
The newly unredacted documents revealed Biden’s White House had direct ties to the Mar-a-Lago raid. The Biden Regime was also directly tied to Jack Smith’s investigation despite claims to the contrary from US Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Before with redactions: Jack Smith wanted to hide the fact that the National Archives had several conversations with the Biden White House.
Before with Redactions
Unredacted: On May 5, 2021, less than 5 months after the end of President Trump’s term, NARA General Counsel Gary Stern sent an internal email attaching a draft letter to President Trump’s PRA representatives. Stern noted that he “had several conversations” with WH…”
After Cannon unredacted documents
NEW: Thanks to order by Judge Cannon, key evidence related to classified docs case is now unredacted.
On the left: What DOJ/Jack Smith wanted to conceal.
On the right: Now we know why. More proof of collaboration btw Biden White House and NARA to concoct a case. pic.twitter.com/YVHVmAfOai
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
US Attorney General Merrick Garland’s claims about “independence” from investigations into Trump are LIES.
The Biden White House and DOJ were involved in developing a criminal case against Trump for ‘mishandling of classified documents.’
Before with redactions
According to the newly unredacted docs, On September 1, 2021, NARA’s General Counsel Stern was circulating a “letter that we could consider sending to the Attorney General about missing Trump records.”
after: unredacted documents
Outrageous lies by Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and DOJ/Jack Smith about “independence” from investigations into Trump.
The Biden White House and DOJ wew intimately involved in developing a criminal case against Trump for records mismanagement–it appears the… pic.twitter.com/UhHPtRkVlR
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
Biden’s Justice Department told the National Archives what to do to cover their tracks.
Before with redactions
NARA General Counsel Stern was put in touch with high ranking DOJ official who then gave him instructions on how to cover his tracks.
after: unredacted documents
Now you know why the insiders like Andrew Weissmann and Barb McQuade are desperate to get rid of Judge Cannon. Without her courage on this matter, incriminating evidence of Biden’s WH and DOJ running the investigative show behind the scenes would be buried maybe forever.
DOJ… pic.twitter.com/3BEFpUC6Ah
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
Joe Biden’s Department of Energy was also involved in the cover-up.
Recall that the DOE retroactively terminated Trump’s security clearance AFTER Trump was indicted.
before with redactions
The unredacted documents show the Department of Energy discovered Trump had an active security clearance after he was indicted so they retroactively terminated it.
after: unredacted documents
Biden Dept of Energy also involved in the cover up.
DOE discovered after Smith handed down his indictment that Trump had an active security clearance–so they retroactively terminated it. pic.twitter.com/mXa7hXcWcw
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
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Irony struck in the Land of 10,000 Lakes on Monday when a Democrat politician was arrested for burglary after recently pushing to disarm citizens.
As the Minnesota Reformer reported, Minnesota State Senator Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury) was arrested Monday morning in Detroit Lakes and booked into the Becker County Jail for suspected first-degree burglary.
The Becker County Attorney’s Office is currently reviewing the report and has not determined yet whether Mitchell will be charged, according to KVRR.
Detroit Lakes Police Chief Steve Todd said at 4:45 a.m., a 911 dispatcher received a call from a startled homeowner on Granger Road who revealed that a burglar had broken into their house.
Officers proceeded to arrest Mitchell at the scene and transported her to prison, where she is listed on the jail’s roster.
Mitchell is in her first term as a DFL senator, having been elected in 2022. She serves as vice chair of the Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Committee.
Before entering public office, Mitchell was a TV meteorologist for KSTP and Minnesota Public Radio. She also served as a commander in the Air National Guard’s 126th Weather Flight.
Marc Kimball, the spokesman for the Senate DFL, released a curt statement saying he will not comment on Mitchell’s arrest.
The Senate DFL Caucus is aware of the situation and has no comment pending further information.
Before her arrest, Mitchell met with members of the far-left gun control group Moms Demand Action last Tuesday to push for “common-sense gun reform” and “safer communities.”
Meaningful conversation today with @MomsDemand community members advocating for common sense gun reform & safer communities at #mnleg–as well as providing Minnesotans the mental health services they need to #EndGunViolence in our neighborhoods pic.twitter.com/QencA4RE1J
— Senator Nicole Mitchell (@Sen_NMitchell) April 16, 2024
Of course, this is all Democrat code for disarming ordinary Americans.
Mitchell should count herself fortunate the homeowner did not use a gun to protect his home. Other burglars have been less lucky.
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This article originally appeared on WND.com
Guest by post by Bob Unruh
‘A large swath of them have become terrorist sympathizers’
In a stunning statement about the intolerance exhibited by members of Gen Z, a new poll shows that fully one in three says Israel does not have a right to exist as a nation in the Middle East.
Israel, of course, was established subsequent to World War II and Adolf Hitler’s determined campaign to exterminate the Jewish community, killing millions in his gas chambers.
One such attack was last Oct. 7, when terrorists from Hamas, based in Gaza, invaded Israel and killed some 1,200 civilians, often in horrific and brutal ways.
Now a new poll shows 33% of Gen Zers, those ages 18 to 24, say that Israel does not have a right to exist as a nation in the Middle East.
The terror attack on Israel prompted Israel’s military to launch a campaign to eliminate that terror threat, and that has prompted a wave of antisemitism around the globe. In the U.S., it’s become common on college campuses for hate rallies to be assembled to condemn Israel.
It is Summit.org, in partnership with RMG Research, founded by Scott Rasmussen, that released the new poll results.
“We are now seeing the logical outcome of an education system that teaches students to see the world through a lens of racialist resentment. Gen Z is so embarrassed about being American that a large swath of them have become terrorist sympathizers,” explained Summit chief Jeff Myers.
“Gen Z is three times as likely as the general population to deny Israel’s right to exist. Sympathy for Hamas has grown. This should be a massive wake-up call to parents, educators, and cultural leaders – we now have a generation primed to accept without question the propaganda of those who wish to overturn Judeo-Christian civilization.”
The online polling took place March 20-21 by RMG Research, and included 1,002 registered voters with an additional oversample of 495 of those 18 to 24.
The sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters, the report said. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3.1 percentage points.
Among the findings was that 81% of American voters overall agree with the U.S. government classifying Hamas as a terrorist group; among Gen Z it was 61%.
And 58% of American voters overall believe Israel’s campaign against Hamas is just, while 21 percent believe that Israel having greater wealth and military power makes its military campaign against Hamas unjust. Only 42% of those in Gen Z fall into the category believing the campaign is just, and 47% say it is unjust.
Overall, 10% of voters say Israel does not have a right to exist, while 77% say it does.
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A survey found over half of the British public does not have faith in their increasingly woke police forces to actually solve crimes.
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Joe Biden on Monday delivered remarks to commemorate Earth Day at Prince William Forest Park in Virginia.
Earth Day founder Ira Einhorn died in prison four years ago.
Einhorn was convicted of murder after killing his girlfriend and composting her.
Biden marked Earth Day by announcing a $7 billion ‘solar for all’ program. The billions in federal grants would serve approximately 900,000 low-income communities.
The solar for all grants will be awarded by the EPA.
Biden’s Earth Day speech was full of gaffes and lies.
“I’ve seen the devastating toll of climate firsthand,” Biden said while falsely attributing wildfires to climate change.
Joe Biden made an absurd claim about solar panels: “And folks, solar for all will give us more breathing room and cleaner breathing room,” Biden said.
He also repeated the dubious oil slicks story where he claimed he ended up with asthma and other diseases.
WATCH:
Biden once again repeats his dubious oil slicks story: "Guess what? A lot of us — me included — ended up with, uh, bronchial c— uhh, asthma." pic.twitter.com/ecyHSfBOog
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 22, 2024
Biden previously told this oil slicks story and blurted out he has cancer.
WATCH:
Did Joe Biden just announce he has cancer?
“That’s why I — and so damn many other people I grew up with — have cancer.” pic.twitter.com/lkm7AHJATX
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 20, 2022
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A devastating blaze at Lineage Logistics, a cold storage facility, has caused widespread panic and forced evacuations in parts of Finley, Washington.
The fire, which erupted early Sunday morning, is unleashing thick, black smoke filled with potentially hazardous chemicals due to the materials stored at the site.
The inferno raged uncontrollably through the 525,000-square-foot warehouse on Sunday. The structure has already seen significant damage, with parts of the building collapsing, raising concerns about the fire spreading further.
The escalation of the fire, driven by strong winds, has led to the spread of embers, igniting brush fires and threatening residential areas.
#BREAKING: Firefighters are battling a massive fire at a cold storage facility plant prompting evacuations as hazardous toxic smoke rises
At this time Numerous firefighters, law enforcement, and other authorities are on the scene in Finley,… pic.twitter.com/kNetIhtQm0
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) April 22, 2024
#BREAKING: Firefighters are battling a massive fire at a cold storage facility plant prompting evacuations as hazardous toxic smoke rises
At this time Numerous firefighters, law enforcement, and other authorities are on the scene in Finley,… pic.twitter.com/kNetIhtQm0
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) April 22, 2024
The fire originated around 5:15 a.m. at the facility, the Tri-City Herald reported.
An alarm and the sprinkler system activation prompted an immediate evacuation of all workers, preventing any injuries. The warehouse, filled with frozen vegetables on plastic pallets and flanked by hundreds of wood pallets, presented a significant challenge to firefighting efforts.
Jenna Kochenauer, spokesperson for Benton Fire District 1, detailed the fire’s progression through social media updates, highlighting the difficulties faced by firefighters as the blaze extended into the roof, causing half of the facility to suffer extensive damage.
The cause of the fire remains undetermined, with investigations likely to follow once the situation is under control.
“After spending about 8 hours working offensively to put out the fire at Lineage Logistics, we have switched to defensive operations,” Benton Fire District wrote.
After spending about 8 hours working offensively to put out the fire at Lineage Logistics, we have switched to defensive operations. pic.twitter.com/UcTcCJ2IT4
— BCFD#1 (@BentonFire1PIO) April 21, 2024
In response to the emergency, an evacuation area was established, and the American Red Cross quickly set up a shelter for affected residents. Although the evacuation order was lifted around 6 p.m. on Sunday, concerns about air quality due to toxic smoke have led to renewed advisories, according to the Tri-City Herald.
According to the Red Cross, 65 individuals from 25 homes were ordered to evacuate
Benton County Emergency Services, noting the adverse impact on air quality, has reopened the Red Cross shelter at 7202 West Deschutes Avenue in Kennewick for those affected by the smoke, according to Apple Valley News Now.
Officials urge residents to stay indoors and avoid using ventilation systems that draw in outside air.
Residents with respiratory issues, particularly those south of Game Farm Road to Chemical Drive, were advised to shelter in place.
“Alright, who burned the popcorn in the microwave this time?!? Anyone else seeing all this smoke? We are getting a lot of calls about it. It turns out, the phrase ‘Where there is smoke, there is fire”, isn’t always correct. This smoke isn’t from Pasco. Because of all the calls, we have used our drone technology and infrared cameras to check for fire and we didn’t find one in Pasco. We think it’s from a large blaze in Finley yesterday. Please take precautions if you are sensitive to low air quality and limit outdoor activity until this blows over,” Pasco Police wrote.
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More and more young people considered "Gen Z" are choosing to skip college and go to a trade school, one reason being the cost of a degree.
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Nearly half of Gen Z voters are sympathetic toward Hamas, and one-third do not believe Israel has the right to exist as a nation, per a poll.
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Tories get in not-so subtle dig at mayor Sadiq Khan by stating the Rwandan capital is now "arguably safer than London".
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CNN anchor Dana Bash said Monday on "News Central" that the rhetoric used at anti-Israel-Hamas war protests at Columbia University was dangerous "anti-Semitism."
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The general election in India is ongoing – the largest democratic exercise in human history, with almost a billion people voting during six weeks.
As one would expect, everything in this affair is monumental – including the controversies.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ignited one such heated debate when he asked the crowd in a rally: “Should your hard-earned money be given to infiltrators?”
His remarks were taken as referring to India’s Muslim minority, with him alleging that the opposition Congress party would take away even mangalsutras — the auspicious necklace that a husband ties around his wife’s neck in Hindu weddings — if given a chance.
BBC reported:
“India’s opposition has accused PM Narendra Modi of Islamophobic remarks after he claimed his opponents would distribute people’s wealth to ‘infiltrators’ if they won power. Mr. Modi told a rally the opposition Congress wanted to distribute wealth to ‘those who have many children’.
[…] Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has often been accused of singling out India’s minority communities, especially Muslims. Rights groups say that they face discrimination and attacks, and have been forced to live as ‘second-class’ citizens under Mr. Modi’s rule – an allegation the BJP denies.”
Modi made the comments on Sunday in Rajasthan state, when talking about the Congress party’s manifesto.
According to the PM, the manifesto stated a Congress government would ‘take stock’ of the gold women traditionally save in India, and redistribute it.
“And their earlier [Congress] government had said that Muslims have the first right over the nation’s wealth. […] This means that they [the Congress] will collect people’s wealth and distribute it to whom? […] To those who have more children. To the infiltrators. Should your hard-earned money be given to infiltrators?”
Congress leaders defended their manifesto, saying that it was ‘for every Indian’, about ‘equality and justice for all’.
Modi’s remarks were called a panicked ‘hate speech’ to divert people’s attention from the opposition having performed better than his BJP in the first phase of polling.
Muslim leader Asaduddin Owaisi said that “since 2002, the only Modi guarantee has been to abuse Muslims and get votes”.
Al Jazeera reported:
“Asim Ali, a [Muslim] political commentator, said Modi’s remarks were ‘the most inflammatory statement by a sitting prime minister in the recent history of India’ and marked a significant shift in his election pitch.
[…] ‘Five years ago, the question was why is Modi not reigning in extremist voices; now, PM Modi is the most extremist campaigner’, said Ali.
[…] In 2006, then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the Congress had said India’s traditionally marginalized communities, including castes that had faced historical discrimination and religious minorities, ‘particularly Muslims’, should have the first claim on the nation’s resources.”
Read more:
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Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea issued a scathing critique of Joe Biden on Sunday, following comments made by Biden that insinuated the wartime fate of his uncle involved cannibalistic acts by the natives of New Guinea.
Joe Biden accused New Guinea cannibals of likely eating his Uncle Bosey when his plane crashed on the tropical island decades ago.
On Wednesday, Biden was interviewed by reporters on the tarmac as he was departing Scranton, Pennsylvania. The shocking story concerns the final days of dear Uncle Bosey.
“Ambrose Finnegan, we called him Uncle Bosey – he was shot down, he was Army Air Corps before there was an Air Force. He flew a single-engine plane, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea and he volunteered when someone couldn’t make it and he got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals…” said Joe Biden
Joe Biden later reported this story about Uncle Bosey during his remarks in Pittsburgh to a group of steelworkers.
“My Uncle Bosey he was Army Air Corps before the Air Force came along. He flew those single-engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones and he got shot down in New Guinea and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals – for real – in that part of New Guinea,” Biden said.
The Pentagon’s Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, however, provides a different account of the events, stating that Biden’s uncle’s aircraft crashed in the Pacific Ocean due to engine failure, with no evidence to suggest any involvement of cannibalism.
According to official records, “Three men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in the crash. One crew member survived.”
The Biden White House later admitted that the story was mostly a lie – which it was. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden lying about cannibals eating his uncle was a “proud moment” for him.
The Prime Minister’s office released a statement expressing dismay over Biden’s comments, emphasizing that such narratives unjustly label the nation and its history.
Marape told AP, “While the president’s remarks may have been a slip of the tongue; however, my country does not deserve to be labeled as such.”
“World War II was not the doing of my people; however, they were needlessly dragged into a conflict that was not their doing,” Marape added.
“The remains of WWII lie scattered all over PNG, including the plane that carried President Biden’s uncle,” Marape said.
“Perhaps, given President Biden’s comments and the strong reaction from PNG and other parts of the world, it is time for the USA to find as many remains of World War II in PNG as possible, including those of servicemen who lost their lives like Ambrose Finnegan,” he said.
“The theaters of war in PNG and Solomon Islands are many, and littered with the remains of WWII including human remains, plane wrecks, ship wrecks, tunnels and bombs. Our people daily live with the fear of being killed by detonated bombs of WWII,” Marape added.
New Guinea academics are blasting Joe Biden for his baseless cannibalism story.
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At the Commission on the Status of Women’s (CSW) annual meeting in New York in March, the Saudi ambassador to the UN, Abdulaziz Alwasil, was elected as chair of the commission with no dissent.
The commission, which focuses on promoting gender equality and empowering women around the world, is now being led by a country with an “abysmal” record on women’s rights.
Meet Abdulaziz Alwasil of Saudi Arabia, the new Chair of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.
He now heads “the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.” https://t.co/WrAUowcV32 pic.twitter.com/tjGQjTRxGn
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 29, 2024
Sherine Tadros, the head of the New York office of Amnesty International, told The Guardian, “Whoever is in the chair, which is now Saudi Arabia, is in a key position to influence the planning, the decisions, the taking stock, and looking ahead, in a critical year for the commission.”
“Saudi Arabia is now at the helm, but Saudi Arabia’s own record on women’s rights is abysmal, and a far cry from the mandate of the commission.”
The Personal Status Law passed in 2022, which the kingdom points to as proof of “progress,” still requires that women must have the permission of a male guardian to marry regardless of their age or former marital status.
If a woman refuses to have sex with her husband, does not live in the marital home, or dares to refuse to travel with him without a “legitimate excuse,” withdrawal of financial support is justified under the law.
More disturbingly, women who openly speak out for human rights reforms can be imprisoned, face travel bans, and are unable to speak freely.
Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain has publicly decried the decision.
However, Saudi Arabia systematically promotes well-established gender discrimination laws and portrays them as progressive. For example, the 2022 Personal Status Law has been criticized for perpetuating the male guardianship system and codifying discrimination against women. The law fails to provide adequate protection for women from domestic violence and makes them vulnerable to psychological abuse. Men often have the right to limit financial support to their wives if disputes arise. Therefore, the law codifies (and protects) men’s guardianship powers in Saudi Arabia. Male guardianship is a system in which women depend on a man who has the authority to make a range of crucial decisions.
However, this is not the only critical aspect of women’s discrimination in Saudi Arabia. For years, the Kingdom has arrested women’s rights activists who campaigned to end of the male guardianship system. One of the famous cases is that of Manahil Al-Otaibi, who was a victim of enforced disappearance and was imprisoned because of her support for women’s rights on social media platforms. However, women demanding human rights reforms and others who were imprisoned, are facing travel bans and are unable to speak freely.
Hillel Neuer, an international human rights lawyer and Executive Director of United Nations Watch points out that in today’s absurd UN, China sits on the Human Rights Council, Saudi Arabia chairs the Women’s Rights Commission, and the Islamic Republic of Iran chairs the Disarmament Commission.
Champions of the UN in 2024:
China sits on the UN Human Rights Council
Saudi Arabia chairs the UN Women’s Rights Commission
Islamic Republic of Iran chairs the UN Disarmament CommissionLatest @UNWatch cartoon by Moshik Gulst pic.twitter.com/ArOANwanQY
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 19, 2024
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Foreign students should have their visas canceled if they are engaging in antisemitic protests, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told the press on Monday, adding that U.S. students who are doing the same should be expelled from colleges and universities.
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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has announced that he is cutting Columbia University off and will no longer be donating to the school
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Guest post by Dr. Joseph Sansone
On March 3rd, 2024, Dr. Joseph Sansone filed a Writ of Mandamus in the Supreme Court of Florida seeking to compel Governor Ron DeSantis to prohibit the distribution of Covid 19 injections (nanoparticle injections/mRNA injections) in the State of Florida.
The mandamus also seeks to compel Attorney General Ashley Moody to confiscate the vials and conduct a forensic analysis of their contents.
Mandamus is a Latin word that means ‘we command.’ The Florida State Constitution grants the Supreme Court of Florida the jurisdiction to force state officers to do their lawful duty.
The Florida Supreme Court, state Appellate, and Circuit Courts, have concurrent jurisdiction. However, on March 20th the Florida Supreme Court exercised its discretion and transferred the case to the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit, in and for Leon County, Florida. The Court is located in the state capital of Tallahassee, which is a trial court.
Dr. Sansone’s litigation is the only pending case in the United States, and possibly the world, seeking to prohibit the distribution of the Covid 19 nanoparticle injections.
The 74-page document cites state and federal biological weapons laws, domestic terrorism laws, treason laws, murder, fraud, and informed consent laws, as well as other laws being violated. It even cites Florida’s accessory after a fact law, which makes it a felony to allow a crime to continue to be permitted or shield perpetrators from prosecution.
To date, approximately 10 Florida Republican County Parties have passed ‘Ban the Jab’ resolutions declaring Covid 19 injections biological and technological weapons, also calling on the Governor to prohibit their distribution and the Attorney General to confiscate the vials and conduct a forensic analysis.
Dr. Sansone states that he provided evidence last summer to 67 County Sheriffs, 20 State Attorneys, and to the Governor and Attorney General and received no response.
Sansone also stated that he received no response from the Governor or Attorney General again in October of 2023. In February he sent a final demand letter to the Governor and Attorney General that also went unanswered.
Governor Ron DeSantis or Attorney General Ashley Moody have not publicly responded to the Mandamus. Dr. Sansone stated that he hoped the Governor would be open to signing a settlement agreement now that he was presented with so much evidence.
The Mandamus also cites the fact that the Florida Department of Health has called for the shots to come off the market and also quotes Florida Surgeon General, Dr. Ladapo.
(19) On January 3, 2024, the Florida Department of Health called for the halt of the use of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in human beings, with Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ladapo, specifically stating, “DNA integration poses a unique and elevated risk to human health and to the integrity of the human genome… If the risks of DNA integration have not been assessed for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, these vaccines are not appropriate for use in human beings.”
(20) At a minimum this is a clear violation of Florida Drugs and Cosmetic Act § 499.005 (2) Fla. Stat. (2023)—It is unlawful for a person to perform or cause the performance of any of the following acts in this state, “The manufacture, repackaging, sale, delivery, or holding or offering for sale of any drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded or has otherwise been rendered unfit for human or animal use.”
(21) Dr. Ladapo went on to rebuke the FDA stating, “It is my hope that, in regard to COVID-19, the FDA will one day seriously consider its regulatory responsibility to protect human health, including the integrity of the human genome.” In public statements Dr. Ladapo went as far as calling the Covid mRNA injection the “Anti Christ of drugs” and stated that they are evil.
On April 27th the Arizona Republican Party is scheduled to vote on a ‘Ban the Jab’ resolution declaring Covid 19 injections biological and technological weapons. Last summer, the Idaho Republican Party passed a similar resolution.
Recently, the Leon County Circuit Court dismissed the case. Dr. Sansone has filed a motion for a rehearing and states that if rejected he will file a notice of appeal in the First District Court of Appeal.
Sansone says that if the evidence is allowed to be heard, he will win. Regardless, he states that he will likely appeal if he does not prevail and said, “If this path gets blocked, we will find another. We will not allow the genocide to continue in the State of Florida”.
Sansone stated, “Nobody is going to save you. You need to take action now to stop this. Call the Governor and Attorney General and tell them to stop this now!”
Dr. Sansone writes regularly at JosephSansone.Substack.com
PETITION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS
(1) This petition for a writ of mandamus is brought under Article V, § 3(b)(8) Florida Constitution, and under Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure 9.03O(a)(3), 9.100 and other relevant authorities to enforce state and federal laws including, and not limited to Biological Weapons 18 USC § 175; Weapons and Firearms § 790.166 Fla. Stat. (2023); Federal Crime of Treason 18 USC § 2381; Treason § 876.32 Fla. Stat. (2023); Domestic Terrorism, 18 USC § 2331, Terrorism § 775.30 Fla. Stat. (2023); Murder § 782.04 (1)(a) Fla. Stat. (2023); and Genocide 18 USC §1091. Petitioner seeks an order of mandamus, requiring the Respondents to immediately prohibit the distribution, promotion, access and administration of COVID-19 injections, mRNA nanoparticle injections, and all mRNA products in the State of Florida.
Read the full Writ of Mandamus here
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The UN Commission on the Status of Women recently denigrated stay-at-home motherhood calling a woman’s devotion to her family ‘unpaid care work’ adding that mothers in general are victims of “gender inequality.”
They then followed with a call for Marxist state-funded daycare.
Kimberly Ells at Mercator, who attended the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women, said it was heavily focused on “unpaid care work.”
Ells wrote, “I spent a week listening to an endless parade of events focused almost exclusively on ending poverty by eliminating ‘unpaid care work.”
“What is ‘unpaid care work,’ you might ask? It is work done in the home without specific monetary payment. Most people would call that kind of work simply being alive,” she continued. “It could also be called running your own castle. But the forces that converged at the United Nations this spring called it an atrocity.”
To be an “unpaid care worker”—especially if you’re a woman—was seen as an afront to human decency. And because on average women worldwide do more labour in the home than men, people in UN circles call this “gender inequality,” “gender injustice,” and even “gender-based violence.” I’m not kidding. I heard these phrases repeated time after time in events sponsored by countries and organizations the world over. While there is such a thing as genuine gender-based violence, vacuuming the floor for free isn’t it.
Will freeing women from children will make everyone rich and happy?
So how do we solve the grave and unjust gender-inequalities supposedly manifested by women mopping more floors or changing more diapers than men? I saw only one solution proposed by UN partners and it was repeated over and over again: provide state-funded universal daycare for all families. That way, they say, the world can unite behind women and propel them out of the home and into the workforce where they can enjoy true freedom and engage in “socially productive work.”
With ‘women’ like Katie Neeves, who serves as the UK’s new UN delegatefor the Commission on the Status of Women, no wonder actual women are being denigrated.
This man is the new UN Women’s UK Delegate.
‘Katie’ Neeves has been appointed to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women which promotes women’s empowerment across the world. pic.twitter.com/Hpv1wAqOPg
— Shunya (@Shunyaa00) April 14, 2024
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By Wayne Allyn Root
Well Biden, Obama the radical Democrats got their way, didn’t they?
They wanted America radicalized and weaponized. They wanted division, hatred and envy. They pushed grievances and “the blame game.”
They wanted the whole country and economy based on social justice, diversity, equity, inclusion, Critical Race Theory, reparations and 1,000 other crazy, radical, dangerous, racist ideas.
Then they opened the border and waved the whole world in- including criminals, terrorists, America-haters, Jew-haters, and military age males with nothing to lose (and perhaps taking marching orders from our enemies).
Throw in a weaponized government demonizing and framing the leading opponent to Joe Biden; rigging the jury and judges to ensure a guilty verdict; then holding multiple “communist show trials” with one goal- to stop President Trump, imprison him, or perhaps kill him. Keep in mind this is all happening in Manhattan just blocks from Columbia University.
Throw in America’s sworn enemies like George Soros, Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, and most prominently China and the Chinese Communist Party, no doubt spreading billions around to fund this toxic brew, and bribe the politicians.
Spin, stir, shake, and now you have the anarchy, unrest, vile hatred, anti-semitism and violence at Columbia University (and every other elite university).
This is our enemies greatest dream- we are so divided and consumed by hate, we will destroy ourselves from within.
But this much I know- my alma mater Columbia University is ground zero for what’s coming.
Radical America-haters and Jew-haters have occupied the campus of Columbia.
Protestors celebrate and cheer the murdering terrorists and mass murderers of Hamas. They chant about genocide and “death to the Jews.”
Columbia’s chief rabbi has warned Jewish students to leave campus immediately because they are not safe on the campus.
A pro-Israel Columbia professor had his key deactivated and has been told he won’t be allowed on campus for “his own safety and protection.”
The school has now capitulated to the mob and cancelled in-person classes and moved to online education. Keep in mind Jewish students’ parents are paying $86,000 per year for this treatment.
At Ivy League “sister-school” Yale the same radicals have occupied the campus in solidarity with their Columbia communist and Jew-hating comrades.
Incredibly, Yale protestors just blocked a Jewish student from entering a campus building. Remind anyone of Hitler’s young Nazi thugs in 1930’s Germany?
A Jewish journalist from the Yale student newspaper was poked in the eye with a Palestinian flag after she was surrounded by thugs, sending her to the hospital.
Incredibly, this is all happening in America. Today. Right now.
Now let’s put the shoe on the other foot. Let’s take the same scenario and replace “Jew” with “black American.”
I want everyone to picture how horrified and hysterical Democrats and the liberal mainstream media would be if the shoe was on the other foot.
What if white students wearing hoods occupied Columbia University (and other Ivy League universities) and called for the genocide of black Americans?
What if white terrorists mass murdered and raped blacks in another country last October 7th and these white students at Columbia celebrated the event and waved KKK flags?
What if a black university leader told black students to immediately leave because they weren’t safe on campus?
What if a black professor was locked out of the Columbia campus “for his own safety and protection?”
What if a black student was blocked by a mob of white thugs from entering a Columbia University building?
What if a black journalist for the Columbia student newspaper was surrounded by a mob of white thugs, and sent to the hospital after being poked in the eye by a KKK flag?
What if the President of Columbia capitulated to the white KKK mob and cancelled in-person classes? What an insult to the parents of black students who pay $86,000 per year for this treatment.
What if these KKK white supremacist rallies were spreading all over the USA with protestors screaming about “death to blacks.”
Would this be allowed by President Biden? For even an hour, let alone days or weeks on end?
Here is what I guarantee would be the response if the victims were black…
The President of Columbia University would either be fired, or forced to step down.
Columbia would bring in hundreds of police, or private security to guarantee the safety of black students.
The Governor of New York would order National Guard to the Columbia campus to stop the protests and to protect black students.
Columbia would offer a full refund of all tuition to the black students.
Black students and alumni would pursue a class-action lawsuit against Columbia for hundreds of billions of dollars for allowing a dangerous, hostile and racist environment.
The President of the United States would terminate all federal funding for any colleges allowing this kind of racism and hate on campus.
The protestors would be labeled as “domestic terrorists,” be arrested and face years in prison.
But this is America today, run by Joe Biden (and his boss Obama) and a Democrat Party made up of communist radicals and racists who preach hate, division and envy.
They created this toxic brew. They’ve turned us into a combination of 1968…1860 in the days before the Civil War…and 1930’s Nazi Germany.
The questions are…
As this hateful occupy movement and anarchy grows (and it will) what will Biden do?
Will local officials, police and university presidents take strong steps to stop this anarchy?
And can Biden and his radical comrades control this toxic monster they’ve created? Or is this now out of their control?
I know there are three places to start…
All the colleges that allow Jew-hatred and pro-Hamas anarchy must lose their federal funding.
The President of Columbia University must be fired immediately, or forced to step down.
And that other President who created this hostile environment should also take responsibility and resign effective immediately. Joe Biden wanted a nation of division and hate. He owns this mess.
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An exemplary student with a 100 GPA lost out on her dream school thanks to a racist and “subjective” DEI scheme rewarding less deserving students.
The New York Post reported Saturday that 14-year-old Kristina Raevsky, an eight-grade student in Queens, discovered on March 7 that she was rejected from Townsend Harris High School in Flushing because of a lottery system in NYC that placed her perfect test scores with kids who scored over 94.
She told the Post the news “shocked” her.
“I was shocked,” Raevsky said. “Everyone I told said, ‘How is this possible?’ And I told them, ‘I don’t know, it isn’t me that is the problem. The system is the problem.”
“Prior to the lottery, before COVID, my mindset was, ‘Well, I have a 100 average, I’m at the top of my class, I have perfect attendance, and I did well on the state tests,” she continued. “What could possibly go wrong?’”
Ravesky drew a lottery number that put her in the 72nd percentile of applicants despite her perfect grades. Former Mayor Bill De Blasio is primarily responsible for this.
The Post notes that before the COVID-19 pandemic, so-called screened schools like Townsend Harris utilized their own admissions criteria. They have traditionally used standards such as state tests, attendance, and letter grades when choosing their students.
However, in 2020, the communist de Blasio overrode their rights, canceling attendance, state tests, and letter grades as standards. Instead, he implemented a system where students with an 85 or above were entered into the same lottery pool to “diversify” selective schools.
Essays and video submissions became commonplace as a result.
In 2022, Mayor Eric Adams’s administration attempted a “fix” instead of abolishing the awful scheme altogether. They decided to narrow the top tier of kids to those with a 94 or above while restoring the screens, still leaving out impeccably qualified students like Raevsky.
During her interview with the Post, Raevsky astutely noted the difference between a 94 GPA student and a 100 one.
“I can tell you from experience that the difference between a 94 and a 100 is miles apart,” she told the outlet. “The 100 students are sitting there the moment something is assigned, thinking, ‘How am I going to complete this assignment? Let me start planning.’”
“The 94 student says, ‘Oh, I’ll come to the movies even though there’s a test two days away,’” she continued. “The 100 student says, ‘I’m sorry, but I can’t come. I’m studying.’”
In addition to being a world-class student, Raevsky has authored four books. Her latest, “Marriage or Espionage: Read Between the Lines,” is a fictional novel about a spy during the American Revolution.
Raevsky’s other books are “Fly Me to the Moon and Other Stories,” “A Sheep’s Tale – Young Patriot’s Guide to Saving America,” and “Wings.”
Raevsky told the Post she is now attending a private school, where she was offered a scholarship.
“I’m really glad I’m going to a private school,” Raevksy said. “I’m finally going to be in a place where I belong and am appreciated for my merit and my academic abilities.”
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Medical expert David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D. and best-selling author Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., recently released The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis (2024).
In this analysis the two experts validate the observations of the physicians at Parkland Hospital, who recognized immediately that the wound in JFK’s throat and the massive, avulsed blow-out in the back of his head both involved frontal shots.
The book is available now on Amazon, CLICK HERE.
The Gateway Pundit posted two excerpts earlier from the book on the JFK Assassination Coup d’État and Coverup.
Today we have another exclusive — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò wrote the preface to the book and it is explosive!
Here is the transcript of the Archbishop’s preface.
David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph. D., and Jerome R. Corsi, Ph. D.
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: The Final AnalysisForeword
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò,Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America
“Ask not what your country can do for you: ask what you can do for your country.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, January 20, 1961John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected the 35th President of the United States of America at a time of great change that involved the whole world. A few years before the event that brought the first Catholic President in American history to the White House, Pope John XXIII had been elected, the Pontiff who convoked the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council and who believed he could open the doors of the Church to dialogue with the world. The early 1960s take us back to the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban crisis, the threat of a looming nuclear conflict, and that perhaps forced and certainly simplistic dualism between right and left that has since begun to show signs of losing steam. Italy, along with the other NATO member countries, was in the midst of an economic boom in those years and 1968, the year of the great student and cultural revolution, the end of the old world, was still yet to come.
This work by David W. Mantik and Jerome R. Corsi touches on specialized topics of great interest not only to historians. It presents very credible evidence that Kennedy was killed on the orders of the CIA and leads us to ask a fundamental question: Why did the Secret Service assassinate President Kennedy? History will be able to answer this question when new documents will be declassified and it will be possible to reconstruct the troubled and complex events of those years. Nevertheless, I believe that each of us, observing the sequence of events from above, so to speak, is able to understand how correct is the intuition of the authors, who rightly identify in the murder of JFK the subversive action of a coup d’état at the hands of deviant components of the state apparatus. We could say that it was in those years that the deep state began to operate with greater incisiveness, which today shows itself in all its evidence, but which even then acted for the pursuit of purposes in contrast with the true interests of the Nation and against the good of the American people.
The term deep state – derin devlet in Turkish – was coined to indicate the network of power close to the Masonic Lodges that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk created, again in a subversive way, to flank the action of indoctrination to the so-called “democratic principles” of the Young Turks, just as in Italy, during the so-called Risorgimento, Giuseppe Mazzini created the Giovine Italia movement to bring down the pre-unification States and replace them with the Piedmontese Monarchy that was subservient to Freemasonry. The deep state is therefore a lobby entrenched in power, which controls and directs events through its emissaries. Its counterpart in the religious sphere is what I have called the deep church, which has the same goals and uses the same methods. Let us not forget that after the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, the Conclave that led to the election of Angelo Roncalli was the scene of maneuvers and pressures aimed precisely at ensuring that the new Pope would represent a moment of novelty and rupture with the past. And it was no coincidence that John XXIII himself – too often dangerously close to the Masonic Lodges on the one hand and to exponents of Modernism on the other – wanted, so to speak, to defy Providence, by convoking an Ecumenical Council that the Roman Curia knew would bring into the ecclesial body the most extreme instances of modernization of the Church in the doctrinal, moral, and liturgical fields.
In 1958, therefore, we had a progressive Pope, the so-called “good pope,” the pope of dialogue and renewal, who was appreciated by circles hitherto hostile to the Roman Church. Then in 1960, Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy won the election against Republican Richard Nixon, apparently confirming the same trend. In 1962, the Second Vatican Council began. In 1963, the American President was assassinated in Dallas. These would all seem to be unrelated events to an inattentive observer; but if we understand what the aims of the deep state and the deep church were – that is, the two versions of an occult and subversive power – we cannot fail to find an incredible coherence in their respective actions. And perhaps we should ask ourselves if the fact that JFK was Catholic might have led the American deep state to want to eliminate from the international political scene a character who did not accept the role of being a puppet of the elite, unlike the current “president,” the self-styled Catholic Joe Biden.
Church and State have today both been eclipsed by a power that has usurped them and now uses them for the opposite purpose to that which the two institutions ought to have, and we owe the fact that this is so evident today to decades – if not centuries – of subterranean action, of subversive powers which stop at nothing to achieve what they set out to do. The assassination of JFK by the CIA has been repeated with the fraudulent elimination of President Trump on the occasion of the 2020 election fraud; but even before that with the forced resignation in 2013 of Pope Benedict XVI, an event that was hoped for by the magic circle of the Clintons and John Podesta in their famous Wikileaks emails, and which was followed by the appointment – because to speak of election would be grotesque – of the Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio by the Saint Gallen Mafia, with the key contribution of the serial predator and former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was a frequent visitor to the Obama White House.
In a famous speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April 27, 1961, JFK said: “For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence: on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.” Today we can understand his words in their disturbing truth: “It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published; its mistakes are buried, not headlined; its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned; no rumor is printed; no secret is revealed.” And so we understand why that system eliminated Kennedy, seeing him as a serious threat.
The Final Analysis has the merit of directly confronting the reality of the coup d’état that was perpetrated by the deep state through the assassination of President Kennedy, who was considered an obstacle to the achievement of objectives that today we understand were achieved in any case, with or without the approval of the “sovereign” people. A coup that has led the institutions of the United States of America – not unlike those of other nations and of the Catholic Church herself – to be the unique and totalitarian expression of a subversive power that dangerously combines the individualistic interests of capital with the tyrannical methods of communist collectivism. This privatization of the State is mirrored in the chronic and irreversible indebtedness of the citizens, who are called upon to pay the bankruptcy costs of the speculations of the very powerful international financial lobby. And it should not escape our notice that there is a parallel with the privatization of the Catholic Church, which has now been taken over by an elite no less subversive than that of the deep state, in which positions of power have been infiltrated by heretical and corrupt prelates who use the authority of Christ to guarantee obedience from the faithful.
It is clear to me – and this is the reason why, as Archbishop and former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America, I agreed to write this Preface – that this coup necessarily had to avail itself of the ideological support and moral authority of the Catholic Church, which otherwise would have represented an obstacle to the fulfillment of the project of the New World Order. This is why I believe that the events related to Kennedy’s assassination should be read as part of one narrative together with those that led the Church of Rome to progressively become the spokesperson for the globalist plan, a plan on which the same lobbies were working that today are leading to the dissolution of the social, moral, religious, cultural, and economic fabric of Western countries.
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country” – these are the famous words pronounced by President Kennedy during his inaugural address on January 20, 1961. They are still valid today for every American citizen and must lead everyone to understand the need not to remain on the sidelines as inert spectators of political and social events, but on the contrary to take an active part in them with a courageous witness of faith, rectitude, and honesty. Knowing the enemy and understanding their intentions is crucial if you want to fight them effectively.
I hope that this book, written with passion and incorporating new evidence, can stimulate a re-reading of history in which the coup d’état of the globalist elite appears in all its evidence, so that those responsible are called to account for it, and above all so that future rulers have the bonum commune at heart, in the awareness that this will be the measure for how they will be judged by God.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop,
former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America
April 21, 2024
Dominica III post Pascha
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Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Emerson College, and Tufts University have set up encampments in solidarity with Columbia University's "Gaza solidarity encampment."
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The BBC's former top news anchor Huw Edwards resigned on "medical advice" following claims that he paid a teenager for sexually explicit pictures.
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Two men, including one who was reported to be a parliamentary researcher, were charged with spying for China.
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The legislation that would ban China's TikTok app in the United States unless its parent company, Chinese tech giant ByteDance, sells it could become law within days.
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A judge on Monday smacked down Marxist tyrant Letitia James and ruled in favor of Trump in a fight over a $175 million bond.
On Friday, Letitia James asked a judge to void Trump’s $175 million bond that he posted to appeal the civil fraud case
Letitia James argued that California-based Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC) is not approved to do business in New York.
James also questioned whether KSIC has the funds to back up the $175 million bond Trump previously posted.
“Based on KSIC’s policyholder surplus in its most recent annual financial statement of $138,441,671, the limitation of loss on any one risk that KSIC is permitted to write is $13.8 million,” Letitia James’ office wrote in a 26-page filing according to Fox News. “The face amount of the bond exceeds this limitation by $161.2 million.”
James also argued in her filing: “KSIC is not qualified to act as the surety under this standard because its management has been found by federal authorities to have operated affiliated companies within KSIC’s holding company structure in violation of federal law on multiple occasions within the past several years.”
“KSIC does not now have an exclusive right to control the account and will not obtain such control unless and until it exercises a right to do so on two days’ notice,” James’ office wrote in the filing.
Letitia James asked the judge to void Trump’s bond and require him to post another bond within 7 days of the court’s decision.
The judge ruled against Letitia James on Monday and said Trump’s $175 million bond can stand.
Fox News: Court rules Trump $175 million bond stands pic.twitter.com/se9KBxVP9d
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 22, 2024
Fox News reported:
Former President Trump’s $175 million bond judgment stemming from his non-jury civil trial will stand, a New York judge ruled Monday after New York Attorney General Letitia James attempted to invalidate it.
Lawyers for James on Monday argued that the court should void Trump’s slashed judgment of $175 million in his non-jury civil fraud trial. James questioned whether the company that posted the massive bond, Knight Specialty Insurance, could actually pay the bond if needed.
The court, though, ruled against James, deciding that the bond will stand.
The court decided the $175 million needs to be in cash — not in mutual funds or securities where the value can fluctuate. The court said Knight Insurance cannot trade or move the money, but said they will retain control of the account.
The court also ruled that Knight Insurance must provide a monthly financial statement to James showing the $175 million in cash and decided that the agreement cannot change without approval from the court.
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A popular Australian preschool animated TV series has introduced its first same-sex couple.
‘Bluey’ launched in 2018 and was added to Disney+ in 2019, reaching an international audience. The series features seven-year-old sibling puppies Bluey and Bingo, who focus on life lessons geared toward pre-schoolers.
In the season finale, and after over 150 episodes, in the episode ‘The Sign,’ one of Bluey’s friends discusses his ‘two moms’ saying, “When my guinea pig ran away, my mums told me he might come back, but he didn’t.”
While the reference was subtle, LGBTQ outlets celebrated another opportunity to indoctrinate young children.
Outlet Unilad said the moment “is considered a step forward for LGBTQ representation and the normalization of same-sex couples appearing within kid’s television.”
Pink News called the inclusion “groundbreaking saying, “Disney+’s animated preschool show Bluey has joined the likes of Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol as a kids’ show that includes LGBTQ+ characters and topics.”
Iconic children’s show Bluey makes history with show’s first LGBTQ+ charactershttps://t.co/GpTJLS2VJn
— PinkNews (@PinkNews) April 16, 2024
Bluey follows the British preschool animated TV series “Peppa Pig,” which introduced its first same-sex couple, a lesbian polar bear, in 2022.
Penny said as she drew a picture of her family, “I live with my mummy and my other mummy. One mummy is a doctor and one mummy cooks spaghetti.”
I’ll be honest, sometimes the glee LGBTQ activists take at seeing the destruction of something that was once wholesome, something that championed mothers and fathers and children’s need for both, is really demoralizing. I wondered if the relentless pressure the media was putting… pic.twitter.com/7pQ7COBKKo
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) April 15, 2024
I love this response to parent complaints about smuggling LGBTQ marketing into preschool shows. “You can’t shield them forever!” Okay, how about just until they’re old enough to spell their own names? That be okay?
(Also, the subtext here is always the same—give us access to… https://t.co/qPWYMFbRS8
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) April 15, 2024
Two moms in Bluey now. Will we ever live in a culture again without woke for children, or is this the new normal?
— Alex Clark (@yoalexrapz) April 14, 2024
Watch:
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The United States Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by former Arizona Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and former Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem to ban the use of hackable electronic voting machines.
Kari Lake is the Trump-Endorsed US Senate Candidate in Arizona and is on course to face Democrat Ruben Gallego in November.
The appeal by Lake and Finchem comes after the stolen 2022 election, where 60% of the voting machines were reportedly programmed to fail on election day, causing mass voter disenfranchisement and up to four-hour-long lines for Republican in-person voters. Kari Lake ran for governor and allegedly lost the race by less than one percent after this debacle, despite leading by double digits in polls leading up to election day.
The filing includes “new allegations,” some of which were previously mentioned in Kari Lake’s lawsuit to overturn the stolen election, including:
The Gateway Pundit previously reported on these claims and video evidence that Maricopa County conducted secret reprogramming of the machines on October 14 through 18 after the Secretary of State’s October 11 Logic and Accuracy testing without notifying the Secretary of State for required additional testing.
Later, on April 2nd, Lake/Finchem attorney Kurt Olsen filed another brief to the Supreme Court after respondent Adrian Fontes failed to file a necessary brief in opposition. Fontes decided to waive any response to the brief as well as the Motion to Expedite.
As Brian Lupo of The Gateway Pundit reported, the new allegations included failure by Maricopa County officials to conduct the mandated Logic and Accuracy testing, failure to only use certified software on Arizona’s voting machines, and critical encryption keys stored in plain-text that were found in accessible databases during the Arizona audit
Coincidentally, similar critical encryption keys were found in plain-text in open records requests in Georgia and New Mexico and identified in the Antrim County forensic image report in 2021 as part of Bailey v. Antrim Co.
In October 2023, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the case, claiming that Lake and Finchem did not have standing and “failed to establish that a future injury was either imminent or substantially likely to occur.”
The Supreme Court dismissed the case without comment. According to the SCOTUS webpage, "The vast majority of cases filed in the Supreme Court are disposed of summarily by unsigned orders. Such an order will, for example, deny a petition for certiorari without comment."
Lake and Finchem's attorney Kurt Olsen gave the following statement to The Gateway Pundit:
We are obviously disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to review the decisions of the Arizona district court and the Ninth Circuit, and order that our challenge to the 2022 election procedures be heard on the merits. Although the Supreme Court grants review in less than 1 percent of cases presented on petition, we believe we presented a case that called out to be reviewed, if the American People are to regain confidence in elections.
What made our case unusual was that it was after the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal that we learned that the Arizona defendants falsely represented to the lower courts that Maricopa County complied with state law in several respects. Contrary to their representations to the lower courts, Maricopa County did not use software certified by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (“EAC”), and that Maricopa County failed to conduct pre-election “logic and accuracy” testing on all its 400-plus vote center tabulators in accordance with Arizona law. In fact, Maricopa County has been using and continues to use software that has been secretly altered with respect to how ballots are read and tabulated. Since Maricopa County contains 62 percent of Arizona voters, what happens there dominates state-wide elections.
In addition, evidence has come to light showing that, in the 2020 election, Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., left the master cryptographic encryption keys unprotected on the election databases and in plain text on its systems used in at least five states -- including Arizona. Doing so violated basic cyber security practices, Federal Information Processing Standards (“FIPS”), and EAC certification. With these cryptographic keys, anyone with access to these systems can manipulate election results without detection once they bypass the basic Windows log-in (easily done in less than five minutes with instructions available on the internet). Arizona election officials have yet to respond in court to these recent discoveries, continually trying to avoid any review of their actions.
The American people deserve facts, transparency, and truth in how elections are conducted in this Country. The Kari Lake and Mark Finchem case was dismissed based on a purported lack of standing to assert an injury. Therefore, the courts, even now, have not ruled on the merits of our case. We will continue to raise these issues especially in light of the upcoming 2024 election.
Per Kyle Becker on X:
BREAKING. The Supreme Court has DISMISSED the Arizona Election Integrity Case without comment.
The plaintiffs @KariLakeand Mark Finchem has brought forth expert testimony to indicate that there were serious voting machine vulnerabilities, including the "placing of the master cryptographic keys on the election database in plain text and unprotected allows any actor with access to the voting system complete control over the election results."
There was a "god key" detected in the voting machine code.
"Dominion placed the master cryptographic keys in plain text and unprotected on the election database except for Windows-login, which are easily bypassed. Leaving these highly sensitive cryptographic keys in this state violates all cyber security protocols and allows a malicious actor to take control of the machine and change results without detection," remarked Patrick Byrne.
In addition, due to the process of "reconciliation" of the Arizona votes, it was "not possible to know the true outcome of voting at 43 voting centers" because the voting center results were not recorded locally on memory cards.
In April 2022, prior to the midterm elections, the two plaintiffs initiated legal proceedings against Arizona state and county election officials in federal court alleging that the voting machines lacked reliability and thus should not be authorized for use.
“Plaintiffs have a constitutional and statutory right to have their ballots, and all ballots cast together with theirs, counted accurately and transparently, so that only legal votes determine the winners of each office contested in the Midterm Election,” the complaint said.
“Electronic voting machines cannot be deemed reliably secure and do not meet the constitutional and statutory mandates to guarantee a free and fair election."
The Supreme Court of the United States did not believe that the issue of election integrity was worth the court's time during another crucial presidential race.
BREAKING.
The Supreme Court has DISMISSED the Arizona Election Integrity Case without comment.
The plaintiffs @KariLake and Mark Finchem has brought forth expert testimony to indicate that there were serious voting machine vulnerabilities, including the "placing of the master… pic.twitter.com/Dv3bXcdZhp
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 22, 2024
This is a developing story...
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A registered sex offender was arrested after a harrowing incident at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado, last Friday.
Parents received an urgent message from the school administration detailing how an unidentified adult male trespassed onto the school’s field, approached a group of fifth graders, and briefly engaged with them before leaving the premises.
According to the Aurora Police Department (APD), the suspect appeared to attempt to grab one of the students but exited the school grounds before law enforcement arrived.
A search in the vicinity soon led to the apprehension of 33-year-old Solomon Galligan, identified as a sex offender with a history of similar charges dating back to 2012, KDVR reported.
Galligan’s arrest on Friday came after officers matched him to the suspect description and further investigated his background, revealing a recent arrest in January for failing to register as a sex offender.
The Cherry Creek School District 5, under which Black Forest Hills Elementary operates, promptly informed parents of the arrest and the charge of attempted kidnapping against Galligan.
In a follow-up message, the district emphasized the importance of vigilance and safety, offering advice to parents on educating their children about stranger danger and reporting suspicious activities.
“We share this information to keep you informed and offer some important safety tips. Please remind your child to be watchful as they are walking to and from school, to walk in pairs or with friends, and to avoid talking with and to never accept a ride from strangers. Also, remind students to report anything suspicious to police or a trusted adult at school,” according to the email.
Galligan, currently held in the Arapahoe County Jail with a bond set at $25,000, faces charges of attempted kidnapping. Galligan is set to attend an advisement hearing on Monday.
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Ephraim Matthew Hunter, 29, allegedly smashed a window with a hammer to gain entry to the home.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, Bass and her family were inside the home when the suspect broke in. It is unclear if there was a confrontation.
“Around 6:40 AM this morning an individual smashed a window to gain entry into the Getty House while occupied,” the LAPD wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The Los Angeles Police Department responded and took a suspect into custody with out incident. There were no injuries to the occupants during this incident. The investigation is ongoing, and no additional information is available at this time.
— LAPD PIO (@LAPDPIO) April 21, 2024
The department added, “The Los Angeles Police Department responded and took a suspect into custody with out incident. There were no injuries to the occupants during this incident.”
According to a report from ABC News, Hunter has been booked on a felony burglary charge.
Hunter remains detained, and his bail has been set at $100,000.
Bass’ Deputy Mayor of Communications Zach Seidl said in a statement, “The Mayor is grateful to LAPD for responding and arresting the suspect.”
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The Supreme Court will decide if the Biden-Garland Justice Department’s “Ghost Gun” Rule violates the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
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The once-peaceful South American country of Ecuador is now plagued by gang-related violence, so its young president Daniel Noboa is set to borrow the playbook by El Salvador’s very popular president, Nayib Bukele, and implement measures to promote a crackdown on crime.
For that, Noboa called a referendum to approve a set of policies to tackle the criminal gangs that are behind the wave of violence.
Time reported:
“An official quick count showed that Ecuadorians overwhelmingly voted “yes” to all nine questions focused on tightening security measures, rejecting only two proposals on more controversial economic measures.
The quick count was announced by the head of the Electoral National Council, Diana Atamaint. It confirmed a private exit poll released hours before that indicated a resounding victory and sign of support for President Daniel Noboa, the scion of a wealthy banana exporting family.”
The voters heavily supported measures such as deploying the army in the fight against the gangs, facilitate extraditing accused criminals and longer prison sentences for convicted drug traffickers.
“Ecuador was traditionally one of South America’s most peaceful countries, but it has been rocked in recent years by a wave of violence, much of it spilling over from neighboring Colombia, the world’s largest producer of cocaine. Last year, the country’s homicide rate shot up to 40 deaths per 100,000 people, one of the highest in the region.
Noboa has rallied popular support by confronting the gangs head on. That task became more urgent in January when masked gunmen, some on orders from imprisoned drug traffickers, terrorized residents and took control of a television station while it was live on the air in an unprecedented show of force.”
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The president declared an 'internal armed conflict', and used emergency powers to deploy the army in pursuit of about 20 gangs he classified as 'terrorists'.
13 million Ecuadorians voted in the referendum, massively approving the extension of those emergency powers.
"Noboa, ahead of the final tally, celebrated the results. 'We’ve defended the country', he said in a message posted on social media. 'Now we will have more tools to fight against the delinquent and restore peace to Ecuador’s families'.”
Noboa was elected after conservative Guillermo Lasso resigned under allegations of corruption.
He was elected in a violent campaign that saw one of his top rivals brazenly assassinated while campaigning.
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Actress Meg Bennett -- who had a long-running role on CBS's The Young and the Restless and transitioned into a writer for several popular shows -- has died at 75 .
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Opening statements were underway in President Trump’s ‘hush payment’ trial in New York City on Monday morning.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s top prosecutor lied during his opening statement and claimed Trump “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election” when he paid porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair.
Trump has denied the affair.
Bragg’s top prosecutor who gave the opening statement on Monday – Matthew Colangelo – previously worked in the Justice Department (Biden appointee) and is a lifelong left-wing activist.
“The defendant, Donald Trump, orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. Then he covered up that criminal conspiracy by lying in his New York business records over and over and over again,” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo – a former top Biden DOJ appointee – told jurors, according to AP.
Alvin Bragg indicted Trump last April on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The payments made to Stormy Daniels did NOT come from Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The payments were made through internal business records – there was no tax deduction taken and there was no obligation to file it with the FEC, according to Trump attorney Joe Tacopina.
Alvin Bragg didn’t explain what exactly he wanted to convict Trump of in the charging documents.
Bragg told reporters he doesn’t have to tell anyone what the underlying felony is.
This is a glaring example of a two-tiered justice system.
Recall that the FEC in 2022 fined Hillary Clinton and the DNC $113,000 for lying about funding the fake Russia dossier.
The FEC fined Clinton and said her campaign violated the rules because they failed to disclose payments funneled to Fusion GPS through DNC law firm Perkins Coie.
Hillary Clinton got a light slap on the wrist for her crimes while Trump is on trial in New York City.
But President Donald Trump sits in court and is abused and slandered by the prosecutors and presiding judge, a far left Trump-hater.
Democrats are destroying our justice system like everything else they touch before our eyes.
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During an appearance on FNC's "Sunday Morning Futures," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) declared House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) speakership over on the heels of the passage of a package of foreign aid bills for Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine.
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On Saturday, the House of Representatives passed three bills to fund $95 billion in foreign aid, including an additional $60.84 billion to Ukraine.
The bill also included $26.3 billion in assistance to Israel.
According to Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN), however, $6 billion of the aid earmarked for Israel will end up in the hands of pro-Hamas NGOs.
Burchett shared on social media, “One of the more troubling bills is the Israeli aid. But unfortunately, it had about $6 billion in there going to Hamas, we think, to these NGOs, non-government organizations.”
“So, it’s a rough day for the taxpayers… 96 billion dollars that we do not have, that we are borrowing.”
Watch:
Congressman Tim Burchett
Don’t skip the last 60 seconds as he details the taxpayer giveaway.
There’s $6 billion in this bill for pro-Hamas NGOs.pic.twitter.com/ksPUnUcnNN
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 21, 2024
Great. Biden is now bankrolling Hamas.
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) April 21, 2024
According to @RepTimBurchett the foreign aid package that was approved by Speaker Johnson and the Democrats includes $6 billion for pro-Hamas NGO’s. Did God really tell the Republican leadership to send money to Hamas?
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) April 21, 2024
The Gateway Pundit has reported on the funding of NGOs that support the brutal terror organization Hamas.
NGO Monitor has also been closely tracking how these far-left NGOs supported the barbaric Hamas terror attack on Oct. 7.
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Columbia University canceled all in-person classes Monday as pro-Palestinian protests continued to rock the Ivy League institution. The move came hours before the evening start of the Jewish holiday of Passover.
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President Biden's Title IX rules are being interpreted as protecting transgenderism, especially in the use of specialized "pronouns."
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In a significant shift from its previous approach to elections, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is distancing itself from politics, which could have a profound impact on the 2024 U.S. presidential election. An analysis of posts by the Trump and Biden campaigns show both have faced a 60 percent drop in engagement between 2020 and 2024 on Facebook.
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Hollywood star Michael Rapaport has no time for the endless anti-Jewish protesters screaming their messages on campuses across the country. He warned Monday the law of unintended consequences will apply and the hate-filled protests will simply enhance the prospect of a Donald Trump victory come November.
The post Michael Rapaport Says Radical Anti-Jewish Campus Protests Will Help Trump: ‘I Can’t Wait to See’ Your Screaming and Crying When He Wins appeared first on Breitbart.
Wild and disgusting scenes were widespread during spring break at a popular island near Savannah, Georgia, with hordes of college-aged youths acting up.
As the Daily Mail reported, celebrations devolved into total mayhem at the annual Orange Crush gathering Saturday on Tybee Island, which is a barrier island and small city located 20 minutes from Savannah, as stunning videos show topless brawls and piles of garbage washing into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Orange Crush is an annual college spring break party on Tybee Island, which is held every April. It is popular with HBCU students, especially from nearby Savannah State University.
This year, more than 6,000 individuals, mostly HBCU students, flocked to the popular island to have fun, according to WSAV. There was also an increased police presence compared to recent years.
One video captured on X shows a huge fight erupting on the beach’s boardwalk as several young women violently slug and scratch each other while their tops fly off. Both men and women cheer on the combatants, with curse words flying.
Some young females stopped fighting at points and tried to put their tops back on. A lady in a green swimsuit continues to brawl even after her breasts are exposed.
WATCH:
Let’s follow up and see how the gathering went for the sub-saharans in Tybee Island over the weekend. https://t.co/E4OAzVtP8L pic.twitter.com/f9anKno0V0
— MuhSocioFactors (@MuhSociofactor) April 21, 2024
A short female youth with orange hair appears to be the top instigator in the video. The woman can be seen yanking another one to the ground, exposing her breasts in the process, and starts hammering away. She also slugged the woman in a green bikini so viciously that her head snapped back.
A second video of the event, uploaded to Tiktok, shows the sheer amount of trash in the ocean left by the party revelers. Will we hear outrage from so-called environmentalists about this?
@georgiaboyrell Sheesh #TybeeIsland #OrangeCrush
Despite the despicable actions of so many party-goers, Georgia state officials described the overall behavior as “pretty good.”
“The behavior has been pretty good today,” Major Bob Holley of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources told WSAV. “We’ve responded to a few medical calls with the Tybee medical authorities, and that’s pretty much the extent of what we’ve done today.”
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According to sources, corrupt New York Judge Juan Merchan will reportedly shut down the latest lawfare trial against President Trump early today so that an alternate juror can visit the dentist.
The Boston Herald reported:
Donald Trump’s hush money trial will adjourn earlier than expected on Monday to accommodate an alternate juror’s emergency dental appointment in the afternoon.
Judge Juan M. Merchan had previously planned to adjourn the trial at 2 p.m. because of Passover, but will now adjourn the case at 12:30 p.m. He plans to end at 2 p.m. on Tuesday for the holiday.
This is the same conflicted judge who will NOT allow President Donald Trump to attend his son’s graduation ceremony.
Ben Bergquam reported this breaking news on The War Room.
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The Gateway Pundit’s Kristinn Taylor reported anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) daughter Isra Hirsi was suspended from her inordinately expensive college after being arrested during a pro-Hamas protest at Columbia University last Thursday. Now, she’s homeless and hungry despite having a wealthy Democrat politician for a mother.
The 21-year-old Hirsi is a student at Barnard College, which costs $90,000 per year to attend. She calls herself an “angry black girl” with a communist hammer and sickle symbol in her X/Twitter profile.
Hirsi revealed during an interview with Teen Vogue that she has no place to sleep or stay after being evicted from Barnard campus housing and barred from using the dining hall.
“I was a little bit frantic, like, where am I going to sleep? Where am I gonna go?” complained Hirsi. “And also, all of my sh*t is thrown in a random lot. It’s pretty horrible.”
“I have like four shirts, two pairs of pants,” she continued. “I don’t know when I can go home, and I don’t know if I ever will be able to.”
Hirsi next told Teen Vogue she is having trouble finding food due to her suspension from Barnard College because she relies on the school for her meals.
“I sent them (Barnard administrators) an email like, ‘Hey, I rely on campus for my meals, I rely on my dining plan,’ and they were like, Oh, you can come pick up a prepackaged bag of food, a full 48 hours after I was suspended,” she whimpered. “There was no food support, no nothing.”
Hirsi further noted that she was zip-tied for several hours after being taken to 1 Police Plaza in Manhattan following her arrest.
“We had so many people who were born female in our group that they didn’t have enough space for us. It was a very slow process in getting everybody into the cells,” Hirsi whined. “I was zip-tied for about seven hours and wasn’t released for about eight.”
Hirsi also claimed Laura Rosenbury, the president of Barnard, was taking an overly aggressive approach to handling anti-Israel protesters compared to Columbia University’s president Minouche Shafik.
“I think it’s really on a school-by-school basis, and Barnard has decided to take a very egregious stand against us,” Hirsi said. “I think that they feel like there isn’t a big limelight on them right now and that they have the ability to do this because Shafik was on the congressional stage and is actively being harassed about what she’s doing, versus Laura Rosenbury, who has the ability to skirt what’s going on.”
Hirsi will remain without a home and will presumably be hungry until Monday. She is supposed to receive a hearing date from the school then.
“They told us that we would receive a date by Monday at noon, so I’m basically at least houseless until then,” she said.
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At least 45 people were arrested Monday at Yale University after police in riot gear moved onto the campus to break up a pro-Palestinian protest. In-person classes were also canceled for the day.
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Trump made the request on Monday just before the opening arguments in his New York trial over an alleged hush money scheme.
In a post to Truth Social, Trump questioned why pro-Palestine protesters, “and even rioters,” are allowed to roam cities, scream, shout, sit, block traffic, enter buildings,” and “basically do whatever they want?”
Trump pointed out that, on the other hand, “people who truly LOVE our Country, and want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, are not allowed to ‘Peacefully Protest,’ and are rudely and systematically shut down and ushered off to far away ‘holding areas,’ essentially denying them their Constitutional Rights.”
The Republican presidential candidate continued, “America Loving Protesters should be allowed to protest at the front steps of Courthouses, all over the Country, just like it is allowed for those who are destroying our Country on the Radical Left, a two tiered system of justice.”
In all capital letters, Trump concluded the post by urging his supporters to go out and peacefully protest.
“Free Speech and Assembly has been ‘CHILLED’ for USA SUPPORTERS. GO OUT AND PEACEFULLY PROTEST. RALLY BEHIND MAGA. SAVE OUR COUNTRY! ‘THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF.'”
In a post the night before, Trump wrote, “Tomorrow morning I report to a New York Criminal Court for a Trial on, somewhat ironically, ELECTION INTERFERENCE, ruled over by Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, before a Corrupt and Highly Conflicted Judge, a failed Soros funded District Attorney who didn’t want to bring this case, which could have been brought eight years ago, but wasn’t, in an almost completely Democrat District.”
“IT IS A SHAM THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT, EXCEPT TO TRY AND DAMAGE BIDEN’S POLITICAL OPPONENT, ME. SEE YOU TOMORROW MORNING!” Trump added.
The trial is expected to take place four days a week for several weeks. Trump is required to attend in person.
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President Trump is in New York City today as the latest lawfare case opens in Manhattan against him this morning.
President Trump is being sued by New York officials in a corrupt court on charges that have never been filed against another person let alone a former president and the leading candidate in the US presidential election. This is the latest New York lawfare case against President Trump – something we have never seen before in US history.
This is a common tactic used in banana republics and communist regimes.
According to Newsweek – Opening statements will begin soon. The prosecution’s opening statement will be about 45 mins, the defense says theirs is 25 minutes.
One juror raised concerns about the amount of media attention surrounding the case. After speaking with this juror, Judge Merchan says they will remain.
President Donald Trump: Thank you very much. I just want to say before we begin, these are all Biden crimes. This is done as election interference. Everybody knows it.
I’m here instead of being able to be in Pennsylvania and Georgia and lots of other places campaigning. It’s very unfair. Fortunately, the poll members are very good. They’ve been going up because people understand what’s going on. This is a witch hunt, and it’s a shame, and it comes out of Washington. It’s in coordination with Washington, everything, including the DA’s office. It’s in coordination with Washington. I just want people to understand that this is done for purposes of hurting the opponent of the worst president in the history of our country.
Second of all, we have another trial going on right now. That’s Latisha James. She campaigned on the fact that I will get Trump. I’m going to get Trump. It has to do with a bond of $175 million. First of all, she doesn’t want me to participate with financial companies in New York. We have a company, I guess, based in California. It’s a bonding company, and I put up $175 million in cash. But she says the bonding company is not good. She doesn’t like the bonding company because she doesn’t know if the collateral is good.
And, I put up $175 million in cash, and she’s questioning the bonding company. Well, when you put up cash and the number is 175, which is what we’re supposed to be putting up, but I give it in cash, she shouldn’t be complaining about the bonding company. The bonding company would be good for it because I put up the money, and I have plenty of money to put up, but Nobody is going to be putting up with this. Nobody is going to be listening or coming to New York anymore. Businesses are going to be fleeing because people are treated so badly. It’s got to be the most unfriendly place to do business. And that’s why businesses are leaving and people are leaving as migrants come in and take over our parks and our schools and everything else. So on the Latisha James case, she’s the worst attorney general in the country, by the way. And she keeps a lot of business out of New York and businesses that are here are leaving. And that means jobs and a lot of revenue. Somebody’s going to step in. The governor or somebody has to step in and do something because your businesses are fleeing.
But on Latesha James, the money was put up. It’s $175 million. And I don’t think she’s complaining about me for the first time ever. She’s complaining about the company. But why would she be doing that when I put up the money? So I just want you to know that that’s taking place in front of an extremely crazed judge, the most overturned judge in New York State. He was overturned four or five times on that case alone. You know who it is. I don’t have to mention names. I want to be nice. I want to be very nice. But a thing like that, a thing like what’s going on right here should never be happening. It’s a very, very sad day in America. I can tell you that. Thank you very much.
What a travesty.
Of course, not one single fake news legacy media outlet will question this horrific ongoing abuse brought against President Trump.
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Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom released an ad over the weekend showing young women attempting to escape Alabama for an abortion.
The video shows two young women attempting to flee Alabama before being stopped by a police officer who asks them to take a pregnancy test.
“We’re almost there. We’re gonna make it,” the woman’s friend says when a police vehicle suddenly pulls them over.
“Trump Republicans want to criminalize young Alabama women who travel for reproductive care,” the narrator says. “Stop them by taking action.”
“Alabama’s abortion ban has no exceptions for rape or incest,” Newsom wrote. “Now, Republicans are trying to criminalize young women’s travel to receive abortion care. We cannot let them get away with this.”
Alabama’s abortion ban has no exceptions for rape or incest.
Now, Republicans are trying to criminalize young women’s travel to receive abortion care.
We cannot let them get away with this. pic.twitter.com/gHbYJYlEXk
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 21, 2024
Back in 2022, California Rep. Eric Swalwell released a similarly dramatic ad in which a woman was arrested in front of her two children after getting an abortion. After she resists arrest, the cops pull out their firearms and placed her in handcuffs in front of her screaming family.
The reality in the United States is quite the opposite.
Since Joe Biden took office, we’ve witnessed the FBI raiding the homes of Pro-Life activists who dared to sit outside an abortion clinic and sing hymns and pray. That is the reality in Joe Biden’s America.
The state authorities in Alabama cannot prevent women from traveling to a pro-abortion state to have an abortion. This was already decided by the DOJ.
More reaction...
ridiculous. https://t.co/uK6t9yJypG
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) April 21, 2024
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UK govt planes to take migrants to Africa are still three months away and Farage doubts whether a single migrant will be removed at all.
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In a desperate attempt to stimulate sales and prop up a stock price dropping like a rock, Elon Musk's Tesla has reduced the prices of three of its five models in the United States.
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European Union countries possessing U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems appeared hesitant Monday to share their assets with Ukraine as Kyiv called for seven of the missile batteries to help repel ongoing Russian air assaults.
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Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself entangled in controversy once more, as past incidents involving his ‘adopted’ son resurface amidst legislative tumult.
Last week, the House of Representatives, under Johnson’s leadership and his comrades, passed two “America last” legislations.
Firstly, the House approved an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a measure initially enacted following the September 11, 2001, attacks, in a 273 to 147 vote. This provision allows for the warrantless surveillance of American citizens, a move that has raised concerns about privacy and civil liberties.
An amendment proposed by Rep. Andy Biggs, which sought to impose a requirement for the FBI to obtain a warrant before conducting surveillance on Americans under FISA, ended in a 212-212 tie vote, leading to Speaker Mike Johnson casting the tie-breaking vote against the amendment.
This decision drew sharp criticism, including conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who accused Johnson of betraying the American people and undermining the Constitution.
In an attempt to halt the momentum of the FISA Section 702 extension, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna employed a procedural strategy to delay the Senate’s consideration of the bill. Despite her efforts, the bill passed again. The vote displayed a uniparty alliance, with 147 Democrats and 126 Republicans supporting the bill, while 88 Republicans and 59 Democrats opposed it.
The second major legislative action under Speaker Johnson involved the passing of three bills aimed at providing financial aid to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other regions engaged in conflicts outside U.S. borders.
The Democrats waved Ukrainian flags on the floor of the United States House of Representatives as they voted to send $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to secure a foreign border.
The package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
Additionally, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) revealed that only $44 to $47 billion–40%–of the $113 billion that the United States has handed out to Ukraine is lethal aid.” So what was the other $66 to $69 billion dollars for?,” Roy asked on Bannon’s War Room.
Earlier this month, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene aired speculative concerns regarding Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent political actions, suggesting a potential blackmail situation to explain Johnson’s radical departure from his known conservative stances.
“Mike Johnson has made a complete departure of who he is and what he stands for, and to the point where people are literally asking, is he blackmailed? What is wrong with him because he’s completely disconnected with what we want?” Greene asked during an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show.
Now, a scandal involving Speaker Johnson’s family has reemerged. CIA/NSA whistleblower Tony Seruga brought to light troubling details about the Speaker on X platform.
“House Speaker Mike Johnson’s ‘adopted’ 40-year-old son Michael Tirrell James was arrested in Los Angeles for running an illegal cannabis business and possession of brass knuckles—his rap sheet goes back to 2003. I am tracking down additional details on just why a senior member of the Republican Party had to meet with the son after Los Angeles authorities alerted Speaker Johnson following the arrest,” Seruga wrote.
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s ‘adopted’ 40-year-old son Michael Tirrell James was arrested in Los Angeles for running an illegal cannabis business and possession of brass knuckles—his rap sheet goes back to 2003.
I am tracking down additional details on just why a senior member… pic.twitter.com/bHEOZnbelv
— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) April 21, 2024
The ‘newlyweds Mike and Kelly Johnson’ adopted James, then 16, after meeting him through charitable work in Louisiana in the 1990s. Despite a seemingly positive change in trajectory after the adoption, with James obtaining his G.E.D. and graduating from a Job Corps program, his life was marred by a series of legal issues, according to the Daily Mail.
James’s rap sheet, which includes a range of drug-related and petty crimes, dates back to 2003. In contrast, while Speaker Johnson’s biological children have captured their lives in family photos, James’s past is mostly documented through mugshots.
Recently residing in Los Angeles and raising his four children, James’s brush with the law continued. His most recent legal issue was somewhat mitigated when a Los Angeles judge decided to ‘divert’ his charges, pending community service and stipulations about his employment.
Daily Mail reported in 2023:
Michael Tirrell James said he would ‘probably be in prison’ were it not for Johnson – after he appeared in a Los Angeles court Wednesday on charges of running an illegal cannabis business and possessing brass knuckles.
Residency records show James lived with the Johnsons at the first home they owned, a three-bed cottage on Chasefield Avenue in Baton Rouge which the politician inherited from his mother in 2000. But after the family moved back to Shreveport, James’s legal troubles began.
From 2003 through 2010, James was convicted in Volusia County, Florida, of a series of petty crimes including possession of cocaine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia, trespassing, retail theft, possession of a concealed weapon, driving without a license, and violating a restraining order preventing him seeing a 16-year-old girl he was ‘dating’ when he was 23.
In recent years James moved to Los Angeles, where he is raising his own four children. His criminal record continued there too.
Papers from Los Angeles Superior Court reveal James was charged in June last year with two counts of ‘unlicensed commercial cannabis activity’, and possession of ‘metal knuckles or brass knuckles’.
He was due to appear before a judge in Los Angeles on Wednesday but in the end his case was dealt with by his court-appointed attorney, who previously pleaded not guilty on his behalf.
The judge decided to ‘divert’ the charges, allowing them to be dropped after 12 months if James served 20 hours of community service and avoided employment at any cannabis farms.
Read more here.
Another controversy emerged involving Johnson’s biological son. Rolling Stone reported on a resurfaced clip from 2022 where Speaker Johnson admitted to monitoring his and his son’s porn usage.
Rolling Stones reported:
SPEAKER OF THE House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022.
During a conversation on the “War on Technology” at Benton, Louisiana’s Cypress Baptist Church — unearthed by X user Receipt Maven last week — the Louisiana representative talked about how he installed “accountability software” called Covenant Eyes on his devices in order to abstain from internet porn and other unsavory websites.
“It scans all the activity on your phone, or your devices, your laptop, what have you; we do all of it,” Johnson told the panel about the app.
“It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.”
WATCH:
Mike Johnson
Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake in has ResurfacedDuring a conversation on the “War on Technology” at Benton, Louisiana’s Cypress Baptist Church — unearthed by X user Receipt Maven last week — the Louisiana representative talked about how he… pic.twitter.com/lXj6FqHEq1
— SANTINO (@MichaelSCollura) November 6, 2023
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You have already heard about the “Smurfs Girl” whose story The Gateway Pundit reported on recently: The 16-year old Loretta had posted a TikTok video wherein she made a reference to Germany’s right-wing party AfD. The party’s signature color is blue, so she compared its rising popularity to the Smurfs by showing a blue map of Germany with the poll results in each state.
Sounds innocent enough, right?
Well, one day she was dragged out of the classroom by her principal and three policemen. They gave her a “formal police warning”, because they had been given an anonymous “clue” about her right-wing content. Basically, this was a not-so-subtle police order to stop voicing her opinion or they will have to actually investigate!
It was later revealed that Loretta’s Smurf video was not the main piece of “evidence” that the principal had received. The “clue” consisted of screenshots of her social media accounts with patriotic content like the German flag and the statement, “In Germany, one speaks German”. Moreover, the clue-giver had noticed that she was wearing a pullover with the initials HH on it. Could it be… Heil Hitler? No, it stands for the brand name “Hally Hanson.” Not a niche brand either, but apparently a quite popular one.
Now The Gateway Pundit has reached out to the mother of Loretta to hear her version of the story. Many critics have accused the family of performing a social media stunt with the Smurfs story. As it turns out, the family never wanted the attention. Loretta just assumed that it must have been her latest Smurf video they had come across. Because she is fully aware of the systemic media’s negative portrayal of the AfD.
To this day, Loretta has not shown her face and wishes to stay anonymous. The mother is very protective of her daughter and doesn’t typically use social media at all.
This is what really happened behind the scenes:
After the story went viral, Loretta was devastated. Nosy journalists gathered around her school and even interviewed random pupils. What if they did not like Loretta and portrayed her as the “Nazi” that resentful people want to see in her? The mainstream journalists were invading the social fabric of TEENAGERS! That is predatory behavior!
Loretta started hiding on her way home from school so she could get away from prying journalists. Her mother had to take a vacation from work to be there for Loretta. Sometimes, teenagers would come and bang at the door and windows. The family disabled the doorbell. For a while, they had lost all confidence in their freedom of speech. But they got it back!
Now the family is ready to confront the real criminals in this case and go to court against the police and the school’s principal. According to Loretta’s mother, the lawyer was advised by someone of higher authority to reject the case (she does not know by whom) but he said: “There’s no way!”
It will be very interesting to find out how the principal will defend himself. Because, as we found out, the school was previously instructed by political authorities to take these measures and involve the police in case there were signs of right-wing tendencies in students: It was reported that the principal had claimed he was following an order from the ministry of education that had been given out to all schools.
Who is responsible for this new policy that parents are not being made aware of? And why is there nothing about it on the ministry’s website?
And most importantly: Who was really the anonymous clue-giver? It remains to be seen whether we will find out the whole truth in the upcoming trial.
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The Gateway Pundit first reported on Pete Schwartz back in October 2021. He had already been in prison for nearly a year at that point.
The regime kept Pete in the hole for six months in the last two years.
Peter Schwartz, age 47 and a Kentucky welder who has served in the Army Reserve, was indicted after he was accused of pepper-spraying officers during the Jan. 6 protest. This was after Peter, his wife, and thousands of Trump supporters were attacked by police without warning. Peter was arrested on Feb. 2, 2021, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Peter was with his wife when 30 agents assaulted him with flashbang grenades, armored vehicles, and more than 10 assault rifles aimed at his chest.
“At no point did either my wife or I resist but we were both roughly handled and forced/dragged up the stairs after being shackled and handcuffed as we were shoved around,” Schwartz said.
Pete went to courtin late 2022 in Washington DC. The government paired him up with two other defendants he had never met or communicated with to strengthen their case.
The corrupt DC jury found Pete and his codefendants guilty on every single charge. There were no victims. The prosecution presented no witnesses.
** You can help and donate here: Patriot Pete Political Prisoner in DC
Pete Schwartz later called The Gateway Pundit after he was found guilty on every single count. There were 11 counts against Pete and the two co-defendants that he never had seen in his life and never met before the trial. The jury did not even read over the evidence before they voted to sentence the three Trump supporters.
Pete Schwartz told The Gateway Pundit that Juror #8 flipped him off as they read the guilty verdict against him where he was found guilty on every single count.
The last time we heard from Peter Schwartz was back in July 2023. Peter wrote us a letter from maximum security prison where they had moved him.
It has been almost a year since we have heard from Biden political prisoner Peter Schwartz. Then over the weekend Peter gave us a call. Peter is serving time – 14 years – in USP Canaan a dangerous high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Peter Schwartz: I’m in USP Canaan. It’s a maximum security penitentiary. There’s only 17 in the United States. This is the worst of the worst. They have only one other that is one step worse than this, which is complete solitary. And if somebody kills their cellmate or a guard or something like that, they send them there for five or 10 years. And then when they release them, this is where they release all those people. So even though they have me categorized as one of the most dangerous, which is why they put me in here for January sixth, that’s supposedly the most dangerous. Almost everybody in here has at least murders.
Jim Hoft: God, that sounds just horrible. Now, I hadn’t heard from you in a while. Can you tell me about that? Is there a reason?
Pete Schwartz: Yeah. Basically, it’s almost a kill or kill me place here. I was talking about earlier how I didn’t realize how violent, damaging this has been to me until the other day when I saw somebody getting stabbed in the face in the chow hall and I didn’t even stop eating. And that’s when I realized what’s happening to me, how this has traumatized me. So when I was attacked, when I first got here for defending myself. I lost all my privileges. I don’t get mail. They throw it away. They claim I’m getting it, and then it’s me throwing it away, but it’s not. I’m just not getting it… Today’s my first day with my phone back. I don’t know how long that will last, but I’m grateful to finally have contact with the world and talk to somebody who’s not in a maximum security penitentiary.
Jim Hoft: So, how long were you without a phone?
Pete Schwartz: It’s been 11 months now.
Jim Hoft: Jeez, Peter. I just didn’t know what happened. I hadn’t heard from you. We spoke, obviously, several times when you were, I think, at the DC gulag. But yeah, I didn’t even know what happened.
Pete Schwartz: I would about cut my arm off to go back to that DC jail right now.
Jim Hoft: Oh, my gosh. Oh, that’s horrible. You have a 14 year is what they gave you?
Pete Schwartz: Yeah. And they’ve overturned in the court. They overturned the enhancements. So even if I had been guilty, it’s only a 14 point charge without the 19 points of enhancements they gave me. So I’m already past time served for that. But the appellate court, normally, after you get sentenced, you make your notice to appeal within a day or two. Then they give you 30 days’ order for transcripts, and they set you a trial schedule. They’ve waited one year, which is the longest in the history of the Fourth Circuit, to even set me an appellate brief schedule. So just by the end of July is when I’ll finally get my briefs done, because they’ve been dragging their feet on this. And I’m already past time served. And I have to, after my briefs are submitted, I may have to wait another year for them to decide that they should have let me go years ago.
Jim Hoft: Oh, my God. This is just some of the most crazy abuse I’ve ever heard of, what they’re doing. What they’re doing to you and others. I’ve never heard anything like it. Is there any groups like Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International, any of those groups? Have they reached out to you at all to hear your story?
Pete Schwartz: I don’t really get any mail. I haven’t I had contact until today. But there has been other people that have been contacted by lawyers. But the problem with me is that I’m a conservative Christian and I’m Caucasian, so I’m not going to get the attention that a lot of the others do. But there’s been four different people have been killed by guards since I’ve been here. So there’s an investigation going on, but I don’t know how far it will get because it seems like the government not going to arrest itself.
Please listen to this 10 minute phone call with Pete Schwartz. And please pray for Peter and all of the J6 political prisoners.
** Please donate to Pete Schwartz here so he can continue to pay his attorneys.
Here is the audio of our phone call.
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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik released a statement on Monday morning cancelling in-person classes on campus on Monday.
Dean Shafik hopes to convene a “working group” to discuss the crisis on campus including the debate on whether or not to bring police on campus.
“A working group of Deans, university administrators and faculty members will try to bring this crisis to a resolution. That includes continuing discussions with the student protestors and identifying actions we can take as a community to enable us to peacefully complete the term and return to respectful engagement with each other. I know that there is much debate about whether or not we should use the police on campus, and I am happy to engage in those discussions.”
This comes as anti-Israel protests continue to escalate on the campus.
This is the scene at Columbia University right now. A literal cult is occupying the campus. Remember: We all paid their student debt.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 22, 2024
The campus now appears to be under control of the Jew-hating radicals.
Rabbinical leaders warned Jewish students to stay home amid the ongoing “extreme antisemitism and anarchy.”
The protesters are chanting for Hamas on the campus.
The National Guard and State Police should be Immediately Deployed to Columbia University in New York City to Remove what has become a literal Take-Over of the Campus by Pro-Hamas Terrorists living within the United States; if any other Extremist Group were to do the same, this… pic.twitter.com/6vsjWCXTsm
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 22, 2024
This is the culture of the left in America today – radical, hatefilled, and violent
From the Office of the President:
Dear Members of the Columbia Community,
I am deeply saddened by what is happening on our campus. Our bonds as a community have been severely tested in ways that will take a great deal of time and effort to reaffirm. Students across an array of communities have conveyed fears for their safety and we have announced additional actions we are taking to address security concerns. The decibel of our disagreements has only increased in recent days. These tensions have been exploited and amplified by individuals who are not affiliated with Columbia who have come to campus to pursue their own agendas. We need a reset.
There is a terrible conflict raging in the Middle East with devastating human consequences. I understand that many are experiencing deep moral distress and want Columbia to help alleviate this by taking action. We should be having serious conversations about how Columbia can contribute. There will be many views across our diverse community about how best to do this and that is as it should be. But we cannot have one group dictate terms and attempt to disrupt important milestones like graduation to advance their point of view. Let’s sit down and talk and argue and find ways to compromise on solutions.
To deescalate the rancor and give us all a chance to consider next steps, I am announcing that all classes will be held virtually on Monday. Faculty and staff who can work remotely should do so; essential personnel should report to work according to university policy. Our preference is that students who do not live on campus will not come to campus.
During the coming days, a working group of Deans, university administrators and faculty members will try to bring this crisis to a resolution. That includes continuing discussions with the student protestors and identifying actions we can take as a community to enable us to peacefully complete the term and return to respectful engagement with each other. I know that there is much debate about whether or not we should use the police on campus, and I am happy to engage in those discussions. But I do know that better adherence to our rules and effective enforcement mechanisms would obviate the need for relying on anyone else to keep our community safe. We should be able to do this ourselves.
Over the past days, there have been too many examples of intimidating and harassing behavior on our campus. Antisemitic language, like any other language that is used to hurt and frighten people, is unacceptable and appropriate action will be taken. We urge those affected to report these incidents through university channels. We also want to remind everyone of the support available for anyone adversely affected by current events.
We are a caring, mature, thoughtful and engaged community. Let’s remind ourselves of our common values of honoring learning, mutual respect, and kindness that have been the bedrock of Columbia. I hope everyone can take a deep breath, show compassion, and work together to rebuild the ties that bind us together.
Minouche
Minouche Shafik
President, Columbia University in the City of New York
Newsweek reported:
Columbia University has canceled in-person classes on Monday, days after the arrests of more than 100 students for refusing to leave a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the campus.
University President Nemat Minouche Shafik said in an email to the Columbia community, which was also posted on the university’s website on Monday, that classes would be held virtually to “deescalate the rancor and give us all a chance to consider next steps.”
Tensions on university campuses have been high over the past six months, with students protesting Israel’s war in Gaza, which followed Hamas’ unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel. The situation at Columbia escalated last week, when students set up a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on campus to protest ongoing military action in Gaza and Columbia’s “continued financial investment in corporations that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine.”
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Guest post by Leo Hohmann
The House voted on Saturday to betray America and American interests. As sellouts go, this was a big one, even by Washington Uniparty standards, as these members of Congress basically flipped their collective middle finger at America’s working poor and its increasingly struggling middle class.
These globalist sycophants, led by the globalist Speaker Mike Johnson, passed three separate foreign-aid bills that will provide funding to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, transferring a total of $95 billion from the U.S. Treasury directly to foreign governments. The massive foreign-aid package now heads to the Senate, where it will be rubber-stamped and signed by Joe Biden.
According to Just the News, the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act was passed 311-112. The bill contains $61 billion for Ukraine.
This bill is not only anti-American, it’s anti-Ukrainian. Even more so, it’s anti-human because it will result in many more dead Ukrainians and Russians.
Included in the package is $300 million to protect Ukraine’s border.
See list of 101 Republicans who voted YES for Ukraine.
Watch Steve Poplar’s report on the bill below.
Democrats wave the Ukrainian flag on the House floor during billion dollar foreign aid vote pic.twitter.com/qAVI01ZAHQ
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 20, 2024
The House then passed the Israel Security Supplemental with a vote of 366-58. It contains $26.4 billion to aid Israel. Taiwan will get $8 billion.
Some of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s GOP colleagues have threatened to oust him as speaker if he moved forward with Ukraine aid. He ignored them. Johnson is now so popular with Democrats that some say they will prevent Republicans from ousting him.
Congressman Thomas Massie, R-Ky., told reporters, according to The Washington Post:
“To send $100 billion overseas without reinforcing our own borders shows that we put America last.”
Ya think?
Massie and Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., have cosponsored a motion introduced by Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s to vacate the office of the Speaker, while Democrats including Tom Suozzi of New York and Jared Moskowitz of Florida have pledged to save Johnson if that attempt to oust him arrives, according to the New York Post.
Congressman Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., on Thursday called the foreign-aid package that funds the Ukraine war “America Last.”
I would call it something even worse: America’s betrayal.
And, by the way, you can bet your last dollar that the U.S. Congress will approve funding for securing U.S. borders, only after they have reinstituted the military draft.
I’ve been predicting this for some time, that a wall will be built, but only to keep us in, not to keep anyone out. They’ve already set the precedent with $300 million to secure Ukraine’s border with Poland.
The Gateway Pundit reports that Virginia Democrat Rep. Gerry Connolly declared, in an unhinged speech on the House floor, that “the Ukrainian-Russian border is OUR border.”
Connolly was raging at Republicans opposing the aid package to Ukraine before Saturday’s vote.
“Some say, well, we have to deal with our border first,” Connolly claimed. “The Ukrainian-Russian border is our border! It’s the border between depraved autocracy and freedom-loving people seeking our democratic way of life! Do we have a stake in that outcome? Yes. Undeniably, yes.”
The melodramatic pontificating continues with Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA). “Some say, well, we have to deal with our border first,” bellows Connolly. “The Ukrainian Russian border is OUR border!”
Who knew?!? It’s basically like the border between Virginia and Maryland pic.twitter.com/51rQcpdqOd
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 20, 2024
This is the twisted talk of a deranged Luciferian-influenced globalist. He’s no longer even capable of seeing the interests of his own people, and his definition of protecting America centers on how much of our hard-earned tax dollars he can ship overseas to foriegn governments to fritter away on new war-making mischief. It matters not that this policy of endless war is killing more than 1,000 Ukrainians per day, and their government is now kidnapping middle-aged men off the streets to send them to the front.
And any foreign government that acts to discourage or repress the worst aspects of humanity is labeled a “depraved autocracy,” while encouraging mankind to live in actual depravity is called “freedom loving” and “democratic.”
When the Uniparty operatives in the Democrat and Republican parties refer to “our democracy,” they’re referring to their version of a demented and perverted ideology that operates like a death cult. Their idols are abortion on demand (they only argue now over how old of an unborn baby it’s OK to kill), LGBTQ obsessions, toxic injections for all, and perpetual war.
As the Bible says, woe to those who call good evil and evil good.
Our politicians are on a mission to crash and burn what’s left of Western civilization. Will you let them offer up your child or grandchild to the globalist death cult? Let me know in the comments below.
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Judge Merchan’s emotionally deranged and irresponsibly overbroad gag order, issued in two separate installments, the second building off the first, is both dangerous and unprecedented for its sweeping scope. It severely infringes on President Trump’s fundamental rights protected under the First Amendment to speak, and, wherever appropriate, criticize the trial proceeding as he sees fit. It is well-settled law that prior restraints on speech, of which gag orders are the textbook example, are – in the overwhelming majority of cases – unconstitutional as a form of government censorship.
Only in the rarest of cases has the Supreme Court upheld prior restraints on speech. In the few cases where the Court has upheld gag orders, a form of prior restraint, the order was necessary to achieve a compelling state interest. In other words, the Supreme Court has only permitted gag orders that satisfied the extremely high burden of strict scrutiny analysis. Where gag orders are at issue, strict scrutiny compels courts to limit the scope of the order to an articulable set of facts – the facts encompassing the order must be extremely particularized and limited in scope, and only considered as a final option if and when all other alternatives to help ensure a fair trial have been totally exhausted.
Thus, gag orders are only ever to be used as a last resort option, and only in the most exceptional cases when the right to a fair trial would otherwise be severely jeopardized without it. In the rare cases where a gag order would be appropriate, again the court must take great pains to ensure that it is structured in such a way as to be particularized to a highly limited set of facts that have a direct bearing on the integrity of the proceeding – and go no further. The gag order should always be temporary, with a definitive start time and expiration date, terminating whenever the danger that resulted in its issuance in the first place subsides, or immediately once alternative, less constraining methods that would ensure a fair proceeding become available, whichever comes first.
Regrettably, Judge Merchan has run roughshod over those fundamental principles that would otherwise prevent gag orders from unduly violating the speech rights of the defendant, Donald Trump. To reiterate, gag orders are the archetypal example of a prior restraint on speech. The general rule is that prior restraints on speech are presumptively unconstitutional. Courts only uphold them in the rarest of cases where all other options are unavailable to ensure a fair trial, and only after assurances that the order has been narrowly tailored in its scope — and necessary to achieve — a compelling state interest – that is to say, an interest of monumental urgency that would imperil the proceeding without it.
In a criminal proceeding involving a President of the United States, the normal checks that create a presumption against issuance of a gag order should receive heightened scrutiny. Indeed, because of the political notoriety of the defendant, in addition to the well-established list of factors that create a reasonable presumption against Judge Merchan’s trial being anything but fair, the normal strict scrutiny analysis applicable should be counterbalanced by the overriding public interests at play here that strongly disfavor any sort of infringement on speech and press rights whatsoever.
These precautions should even be observed if strict scrutiny analysis would, under normal circumstances, dictate permitting a limited gag order. This is because the case involves the leading presidential candidate, just months before what many pundits believe will be one of the most hotly contested presidential elections in American history, where the stakes of the election could not possibly be higher. Moreover, no fair-minded observer would say that Donald Trump could possibly get a fair trial in lower Manhattan, before a Democratic judge, wherein a jury pool was drawn from a borough of which nearly 90% of residents voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in 2020.
Accordingly, based on an objective assessment of all the facts here, if the court is to consider issuing any encroachments on anybody’s First Amendment rights, the operative principle must be that such limitations be subject to the highest possible scrutiny. Normal strict scrutiny analysis should set the floor, and really, the court should be held to a theoretically higher level of scrutiny for imposing any limitations in light of additional factors at play here that make this proceeding extraordinary: 1) the defendant is the frontrunner to be the next president; 2) the public has a strong political interest in the outcome of the case because a criminal conviction would deny tens, if not hundreds, of millions of Americans their voting rights; and 3) the trial itself is already compromised by the myriad conflicts of interest, detailed throughout this article, and the lack of transparency in the process – both of which facially pose serious due process problems.
In a normal criminal trial, typically the defendant receives certain constitutional protections, including an implicit right to anonymity, that mitigate against creating unfair prejudices in the minds of jurors. These guardrails, which are patently missing in President Trump’s case, are of critical importance to preserving the integrity and fairness of a proper criminal proceeding overall.
In a criminal trial especially, courts have traditionally taken great pains to ensure the jury pool does not bring their preconceived biases about the defendant that could prejudicially color the ultimate verdict. Usually if a juror even knows anything about a criminal defendant – good, bad, or indifferent – before the trial, that juror is struck. This is especially true for a highly publicized trial because those preconceived biases are rightly seen as compromising to the defendant’s presumption of innocence. No matter how impartial a juror might insist he or she is, as a practical matter it is virtually impossible to set aside the impressions one might already have about the defendant from one’s judgment about the defendant’s guilt or innocence.
In a case involving Donald Trump, arguably the most famous individual in the world, of which nearly all Americans have an opinion, the baked-in protections that generally help foster a presumption of innocence for ordinary criminal defendants are entirely absent here. The court, in short, cannot pretend to be agnostic to the stark political realities of this case, which necessarily redound to – and are inextricably linked with – the defendant’s identity. There is no possible way to divorce the defendant from the political passions of the jury pool – to pretend otherwise, as Alvin Bragg and Judge Merchan do, poses a grave injustice to both Donald Trump’s rights and to the public interest.
This injustice encompasses President Trump’s tens (if not hundreds) of millions of would-be voters, who are also deeply affected – both politically and emotionally – by this criminal proceeding and have an indispensable interest in its outcome. The public has an overriding interest in this case – and the public interest necessarily entails maximum transparency on part of the court. Furthermore, because cameras are not permitted in Judge Merchan’s courtroom, the judge has an additional responsibility to ensure that both the defendant and the public’s constitutional rights and interests are not anymore unduly limited via issuance of unconstitutional prior constraints like gag orders, or anything of that sort, over the course of the proceeding.
Alas, the public has great cause for concern to believe that Judge Merchan has so far ignored their interest (to say nothing of brazenly ignoring President Trump’s constitutional rights), completely disregarding constitutional considerations of the highest importance in the process. For one, the fact that Merchan issued a first gag order on March 26th, with no stated end date, and with only sporadic citations to law, was bad enough. Even worse, however, was that Merchan went so far as to issue a second order, fewer than one week later, on April 1st, expanding the already overbroad March 26th gag order to also capture any speech by the defendant directed at the family of Judge Merchan or Alvin Bragg, is multiple bridges too far.
Judge Merchan’s second gag order reads like a child throwing a temper tantrum, an emotionally charged rant that somehow manages to insult President Trump, his supporters, and the entire public, in the process. At its most histrionic point, Judge Merchan’s emotively rages “It is no longer just a mere possibility or a reasonable likelihood that there exists a threat to the integrity of the judicial proceedings. The threat is very real. Admonitions are not enough, nor is reliance on self-restraint. The average observer, must now, after hearing Defendant’s recent attacks, draw the conclusion that if they become involved in these proceedings, even tangentially, they should worry not only for themselves, but for their loved ones as well.” [Emphasis in the original.]
Judge Merchan’s theatrical diatribe – notably heavy on emotion, light on substance – was so clearly issued as a desperate, last-ditch act to prevent President Trump from exposing the very grave conflicts of interest implicating the judge and his immediate family members, including Merchan’s own daughter and wife, that make virtually impossible a fair trial from the start.
Judge Merchan is a known Democratic donor. For years, he has been a serial contributor to Democratic politicians, including, as recently as 2020, a direct contributor to Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s likely opponent in the 2020 general election. He has also made contributions through various political action committees that support Democratic politicians in general. Maybe even more damning, Judge Merchan’s daughter, Loren, serves as President of a political advocacy group, Authentic, whose clients include none other than the Biden-Harris campaign, Adam Schiff, Kathy Hochul, Gavin Newsom, Ilhan Omar, and many other high-profile, far left progressive Democratic politicians. Finally, Judge Merchan’s own wife reportedly works directly for New York State Attorney General Letitia James, who made the central point of her campaign for AG to “get” Donald Trump. Of course, when she was on the campaign trail James could not cite any legitimate legal rationale to “get” her biggest political adversary in Trump, other than being obviously driven by envy and spite, the ugly sentiments that seem to animate her entire career in public office.
Judge Merchan’s claim that issuance of the gag order was necessary to prevent “attacks” on his family are utterly groundless. President Trump never “attacked” Judge Merchan or any of his relatives. The definition of attack is to take “an aggressive and violent action against a person or place.” Under the law, attacks are equivalent to threats. In First Amendment jurisprudence, under the well-settled precedent from Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), speech may be prohibited only if it is (1) “directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action,” and (2) such speech is “likely to incite or produce such action.” The classic example: a party that raises his fist and says, “I’m going to punch you in the nose” will likely have engaged in punishable speech under Brandenburg; a party that says, “I am going to punch you in the nose the next time I see you,” has not.
A party that says, “You should be recused because your daughter has, as a client to her firm, the man I am going to likely face in the upcoming presidential election,” is neither inciting nor threatening nor imminent nor lawless. That is constitutionally protected speech under the First Amendment; not an “attack,” as Judge Merchan complains, and surely, not grounds for a gag order – which, here, applying this analysis, renders it as an unconstitutional prior restraint on speech.
Even if President Trump had called upon his supporters – which, let me be emphatically clear, he never did nor would do – to verbally harass Loren Merchan, Judge Merchan’s daughter, via a phone call or letter or email-writing campaign, that speech would still pass muster as constitutionally protected under a faithful application of the Brandenburg precedent, which establishes the rule for lawfully prohibiting speech. What President Trump did, via his Truth Social platform, comes nowhere close to even the latter hypothetical. Thus, the Judge’s knee jerk reaction to impede the President’s First Amendment right to criticize the unfairness of his trial, and point out what many legal commentators, experienced political experts, and observers have called a judicially disqualifying conflict of interest – under both New York’s Rules Governing Judicial Conflict as well as the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct – flagrantly violates the Constitution, makes a mockery of the rule of law, and should not stand.
Under no circumstances should this trial be allowed to carry on without, at the bare, bare minimum, Judge Merchan’s recusal. President Trump’s lawyers have every right in the world to call for a mistrial. Any court worth its salt – and committed to the Constitution – would grant a mistrial without second thought because there is no possible way President Trump’s fundamental rights can be preserved, as a criminal defendant, in Judge Merchan’s proceeding, where conflicts, venue, and grievous First Amendment rights violations, in addition to a litany of other factors, have already prejudiced this trial beyond repair.
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The price of fast food restaurants in California has surged after the state imposed a $20 minimum wage law.
According to an analysis from Kalinowski Equity Research, fast-food restaurants across the Golden State have hiked prices by around eight percent since the law went into effect at the beginning of this month.
The New York Post reports:
Wendy’s raised its menu prices by around 8% while Chipotle Mexican Grill hiked its prices by approximately 7.5%. Starbucks, the Seattle-based coffee chain, raised the prices of its menu items at its California locations by around 7%, while Taco Bell hiked its prices 3%, the report found.
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It found that Burger King instituted an average price increase of 1.4% for its Whopper Meal and 2.1% for its BK Royal Crispy Chicken Meal at the 25 locations. The report’s authors did the same for Chipotle, which was found to have boosted the price of its Chicken Burrito by 8.3% and its Steak Burrito by 7% at 25 locations in California between Feb. 7 and April 2.
Wendy’s also instituted substantial price hikes on staple menu items such as Dave’s Combo and the Classic Chicken Sandwich Combo. In a comparison of prices from Feb. 12 and April 2 at 25 Wendy’s stores in California, the company raised the price of both items by an average of 8%. McDonald’s appears to be the only fast food chain that has largely held off on raising its menu item prices, according to the report.
As previously reported by The Gateway Pundit, many restaurants have also been forced to lay off thousands of workers as the cost of hiring them became unaffordable. Among these are Pizza Hut and Round Table Pizza, both of whom have confirmed they will be laying off 1,280 delivery drivers over the course of this year.
Meanwhile, some restuarants are using the wage hike as an opportunity to accelerate their transition to automated service, which will lead to even more job losses over the coming months and years.
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Pastor Phil Hotsenpiller, author of “Midnight in America” joined Rose Unplugged to discuss the signs of the times.
Pastor Phil said Covid was a coordinated effort for control. “If it was a dress rehearsal – the actual performance will be ten times worse. Unless God intervenes.”
On the subject of end times:
* Where is America?
* Does the Apostle John write about China in Revelation?
At a time when there were only 100 million people worldwide – He saw an army of 200 million. In 1963 Time magazine China boasted it had a standing army of 200 million men.
* Was John seeing drone warfare?
WATCH:
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The White House issued a statement in response to the ongoing anti-Israel protests and encampment taking place at Columbia University, describing them as being, "Antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous."
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Following the vote on Saturday to fund the Ukraine War with $60 billion of borrowed money – Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) went on CNN and did not hold back when attacking several of his Republican colleagues in Congress.
Appearing on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ with host Dana Bash, Gonzales discussed the recent passage of the multi-billion foreign aid package and the possibility that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson may be removed from office.
Rather than taking a diplomatic tone in favor of party unity, the Texas Congressman unloaded on Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Bob Good (R-VI), making various spurious allegations about their political and private lives.
Here is a transcript of the exchange:
BASH: So, you voted yes on the foreign aid package. Do you have confidence that at this point, given that it is still possible that Marjorie Taylor Greene will push to vacate, to kick out of the Speaker’s chair, that he can survive?
GONZALES: He will survive. Look, the House is a rough and rowdy place, but Mike Johnson is gonna be just fine. I served 20 years in the military. It’s my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties. Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi.
These people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now they’re walking around with white hoods in the daytime. Look, it didn’t surprise me that some of these folks voted against aid to Israel, but I was encouraged to see by a nearly 10-to-1 mark that Republicans supported our allies on the battlefield.
BASH: Wow, ok, I should say that the federal government did look into Matt Gaetz and those allegations and they decided not to prosecute.
As you can see from the final exchange, even Bash was shocked by Gonzales’s remarks.
GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales: “I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties.”
pic.twitter.com/Z50B6lfgKs— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) April 21, 2024
Following the reprehensible comments by Rep Gonzales his primary opponent conservative Brandon Herrera responded to his vile attacks on Twitter.
Brandon Herrera: My failure of a Congressman Tony Gonzales went on CNN this morning calling matt gaetz and Rep Bob Good Klansmen, and me a “known neo-Nazi.” This is the death spiral ladies and gentlemen. He has to cry to his liberal friends about me, because Republicans won’t listen anymore.
My failure of a Congressman @TonyGonzales4TX went on CNN this morning calling @mattgaetz and @RepBobGood Klansmen, and me a “known neo-Nazi.”
This is the death spiral ladies and gentlemen.
He has to cry to his liberal friends about me, because Republicans won’t listen anymore. pic.twitter.com/Wal5m3NclP
— Brandon Herrera (@TheAKGuy) April 21, 2024
** You can support Brandon Herrera for Congress here.
Rep. Eli Crane jumped in to defend his conservative lawmakers
Thank you @EliCrane_CEO.
It’s insane to see @TonyGonzales4TX openly show his true colors on CNN as the closeted leftist he is. But at least now the voters of #TX23 can see clearer than ever how much Turncoat Tony prioritizes the uniparty agenda over America first policy. https://t.co/pAwvDpLPfV
— Brandon Herrera (@TheAKGuy) April 22, 2024
Republican voters also rejected Rep. Gonzalez’s slander.
How low can @TonyGonzales4TX go? This shows just how scared & desperate he is. He’s actually labeling his opponent in his congressional run off race a “known neo-nazi” straight up slander. Hopefully the good people of TX-23 see through this crap & toss @RepTonyGonzales ass out in… https://t.co/G0lUqZ5Bex
— Nuance Bro (@NuanceBro) April 21, 2024
And George Santos revealed Tony Gonzales’s determination to pass an amnesty bill for millions of illegal aliens in the US.
Gonzales is no conservative.
When I was in Congress @RepTonyGonzales used to lobby me hard core for some kind of amnesty push he was planning…
Knowing I have a strong opinion and aspirations to work on immigration issues… he thought he’d persuade me to join him. He would call me to his office for meetings…
— George Santos (@MrSantosNY) April 21, 2024
It’s time we start cleaning the House and ridding ourselves from their awful RINOs. Maybe we can start with tossing Gonzalez from Congress.
** Again – Please support support Brandon Herrera for Congress here.
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A Jewish Chassidic Jewish student was harassed and shadowed by radical leftists on campus on Saturday night.
The pro-Palestinian protesters were singing a peace song as they harassed this young Jew.
This is at Yale University.
Oli London explained — The chilling act of antisemitism echoes 1939, when Nazi’s blocked Jewish students from entering Vienna University- simply because they were Jews.
A Yale student's senior thesis is a duct tape F16 meant to symbolize and protest Israel and call on Yale to divest. It is covered in fake blood and was on display this week on campus. pic.twitter.com/AywElGLBZp
— Sahar Tartak (@sahar_tartak) April 21, 2024
The Yale leftists also tore down a US flag on campus – cheering as it hit the ground.
Via Sahar Tartak.
A mob of Yale students shout "VIVA VIVA PALESTINA" as they tear down an American flag on campus, cheering when it hits the floor.
(Oh, and university cops do nothing in response. Nor does the administration) pic.twitter.com/4aghYw1NBo
— Sahar Tartak (@sahar_tartak) April 21, 2024
Jews on campus are regularly confronted with anti-Jewish and anti-Isreal displays.
A Yale student's senior thesis is a duct tape F16 meant to symbolize and protest Israel and call on Yale to divest. It is covered in fake blood and was on display this week on campus. pic.twitter.com/AywElGLBZp
— Sahar Tartak (@sahar_tartak) April 21, 2024
“F**k Israel! Israel a b*tch!” – A Jewish student accosted with a boombox at the Yale protest last night.
Yale protestors accost Jewish student w/a boombox, dancing to rap lyrics:
F* Israel, Israel a b*tch
B* we out here mobbin' on some Palestine sh*t
Free Palestine B*, Israel gon' die B*
N*gga it's they land why you out here tryna rob it
Bulls* prophets, Y'all just want the profit pic.twitter.com/KZgJwu3iFm— Sahar Tartak (@sahar_tartak) April 21, 2024
The enlightend Yale protesters would not allow Jewish students to walk freely in their protest area on campus.
Yale: Jewish student told by protest organizers blockading me at a violent anti-Jewish rally that he can only join the rally on the "outskirts" and "outside." Jews can't get too close—when I tried to walk forward, they blockaded. Then I got stabbed in the eye by a flag pic.twitter.com/lhKnOirJJv
— Sahar Tartak (@sahar_tartak) April 21, 2024
Another human chain was formed blocking the Jewish student on campus.
Yale: one of many videos of a human blockade that did not let me move around at last night's violent protest. This is me standing in between protestors and the wall. organizers told protestors to get closer to the wall. "Come closer," they beckoned, waving the mob in my direction pic.twitter.com/qMrH2mfvkM
— Sahar Tartak (@sahar_tartak) April 21, 2024
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A senior policy advisor in former president Barack Obama’s administration is facing potential jail time for crimes involving children.
The Daily Mail reported Sunday that 46-year-old Rahamim Shy was arrested by British police in Bedfordshire in late February. Court documents obtained by the Mail reveal Shy is accused of arranging the commission of a child sex offense.
Shy has also been charged with possession of two category C indecent images of children and possessing a prohibited image of a child.
The Mail reports he appeared at Luton Crown Court via video on Friday wearing a grey prison-issue tracksuit.
Shy is an American citizen who lives in New Jersey. He worked for the White House under Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. While working in the White House, Shy was responsible for directing the US government’s strategy to combat Islamist terrorists such as Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Shy specifically worked in a senior role at the US Treasury Department from 2008 to 2014, advising officials on countering the financing of terrorism and assisting foreign governments to impose sanctions on hostile regimes. This probably explains why he was brought into contact with Clinton since the State Department imposes sanctions on foreign powers.
He also provided strategic policy analysis to chiefs of staff at the Department of Defense (DOD)according to to the Mail.
As part of his work with the DOD, he went to Afghanistan to provide “expertise” to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), a NATO-led group responsible for maintaining stability following America’s invasion more than two decades ago.
After leaving the White House, Shy went to work for Citi Bank, where he held a variety of top executive positions according to his Linkedin page. A spokesman at the bank told the Daily Mail that Shy is no longer employed there.
Like a typical woke leftist, Shy’s pronouns are proudly displayed in his LinkedIn bio, as one can see below.
The Mail reveals Shy has not entered a plea at this time and is currently in police custody ahead of hearing in June. He is scheduled to go on trial in August.
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This article originally appeared on WND.com
Guest by post by Bob Unruh
Mandatory queer indoctrination at school causes huge uproar
Schools across America many times are run by managers who come with baggage from the extreme-left ideologies of higher academia.
Their plans often include spreading those ideals to students – whether or not they or their parents want such indoctrination.
But one such plan, in a school in Minnesota, has been taken down a notch, according to a new report from Mat Staver, chief of Liberty Counsel.
The dispute developed in Osseo, Minnesota, where officials scheduled a “gay pride” indoctrination class for all students, prepared scripts from which teachers were to read word-for-word, under a scenario that required teachers to take part regardless of their religious beliefs and rights, and more.
“And the district went out of their way to make it nearly impossible for parents to review the material or to opt their children out of the indoctrination,” the report said.
The push for the far-left agenda came from “four radical school board members,” Liberty Counsel reported.
“Teachers were not allowed to ‘opt out’ of teaching the ‘LGBTQIA+ History and Culture’ lesson, and the district deliberately made it difficult for parents to review the lesson materials in advance, or opt their children out of the politically charged, nonsensical course.”
Parents, in fact, had to apply for permission to see the materials, had to appear in person at the school, and had to document their identity, the report said.
The actual curriculum conflicted with science and used pop culture to push students to adopt fake pronouns and more.
“The lesson then encouraged students to question their own sexuality, asking the children if they are ‘confused’ about, ‘curious about,’ and ‘questioning’ their sexuality, fitting within at least one of the ‘Q’ categories in its lengthy acronym: ‘LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer & Questioning, Intersex, & Asexual),'” the report said.
Students were to be told failure to “embrace” the ideology risked having their assignments labeled “incorrect.”
But then Liberty Counsel notified the school district of its need to allow students, parents and teachers to exercise their right to opt out of such ideologies.
The district caved, and, “as a result of our work, more than 1,000 students were allowed to opt out of the indoctrination classes at just one school. At another school, over 400 students opted out. In fact, so many parents opted their children out of the lesson that schools had to open their cafeterias and auditoriums to accommodate the teachers and students who refused indoctrination,” Liberty Counsel’s report said.
“In addition, at least 500 other children did not attend school at all on the day of the instruction.”
Copyright 2024 WND News Center
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Democrat Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker was on CNNs “State of the Union” with Dana Bash on Sunday to discuss Joe Biden.
He attempted to portray Biden as someone who supports American values. A majority of Americans would disagree.
“People understand that it’s Joe Biden that stands for American values,” Pritzker said.
Watch:
Biden campaign co-chair J.B. Pritzker: “People understand that it’s Joe Biden that stands for American values.”
THAT’S FALSE: Biden has surrendered U.S. borders, prioritized illegal aliens over U.S. citizens, and weaponized the judicial system against his top political rival. pic.twitter.com/E4797TBUjO
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 21, 2024
Joe Biden has shown time and again that he supports everything but American Values. Since his regime was installed, 10 to 12 million illegals have entered the US.
That number equals about the population of 41 individual states.
In addition to willfully neglecting our border, the Biden regime and the Democrats have given priority to funding Ukraine with American taxpayer dollars.
Governor Pritzker also claimed that Joe Biden is a “terrific debater.”
“Would you encourage Joe Biden to debate Donald Trump?” Dana Bash asked.
“Look I think we are used to having debates,” Pritzker said.
He continued and claimed that President Trump lies constantly without citing evidence or specifics.
“Whenever I look at Donald Trump’s debating style, he lies and lies and lies and it’s so hard to respond to that in the middle of a debate,” Pritzker continued.
“I also think that Joe Biden is a terrific debater,” Pritzker continued.
Watch:
Biden campaign co-chair claims (without evidence) that “Biden is a terrific debater” — but still won’t commit to a debate with President Trump pic.twitter.com/0rd4DqoSqz
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 21, 2024
Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities have greatly diminished. It would be difficult for him to debate President Trump considering he does not even know where to stand when he is out in public.
“You want me right here?” Biden asked as he shuffled over to a giant X taped on the ground.
Watch:
A confused Biden is guided into place — despite giant Xs taped to the floor: “Right here?” pic.twitter.com/36pNl1Df1W
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 5, 2024
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We sure dodged a bullet.
Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was spotted shuffling into The Wiz Broadway show in New York City on Wednesday.
Clinton donned a bright yellow coat as she hobbled into the show with Secret Service in tow.
WATCH:
Hillary Clinton all smiles looking amazing while arriving at The Wiz Broadway show in New York City Last Night protected by Secret Service. Hillary made sure to waive at my live fans watching all the VIPs come through the Yellow Carpet. pic.twitter.com/q5HeUV7vRW
— 247Papsoffficial (@247PAPSTV) April 18, 2024
Hillary Clinton produced “Suffs” on Broadway and celebrated at the opening in New York last week.
“Suffs” is about the “suffragists” in the early 1900s who fought for women’s right to vote.
“It’s 1913 and the women’s movement is heating up in America, anchored by the suffragists — “Suffs,” as they call themselves — and their relentless pursuit of the right to vote. Reaching across and against generational, racial, and class divides, these brilliant, flawed women entertain and inspire us with the story of their hard-won victory in an ongoing fight. So much has changed since the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment over a century ago, and yet we’re reminded sometimes we need to look back, in order to march fearlessly into the future,” the shows description read.
Hillary made the show about herself. Of course she talked about herself as she spoke to the media on opening day.
WATCH:
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President Trump is swarmed by supporters at fast food restaurants and bodegas where he spends a long time talking to them and reporters, as happened last Tuesday evening in Harlem.
In contrast, 81 million vote getter Joe Biden stopped by a Sheetz gas station in Pittsburgh Wednesday afternoon and was greeted by total silence, save for one supporter who met him at the door with a hug. Video of Biden’s entrance shows two children and their mother seated, silently watching Biden, with the sound of the in-store music heard quite clearly over the small talk by Biden and the supporter.
There were no cheers, no chants of “Four more years!” Just muzak.
With few supporters to talk to, Biden was in and out in just two minutes according to the pool report.
The very next day the Biden regime sued Sheetz, Inc. for racial discrimination because the company WON’T HIRE FELONS!
That sounds racist?
Local WTAJ in Pittsburgh reported the news.
The Biden administration used the chain for a photo op fail on April 17th – Then sued the company on April 18th.
The EEOC released this statement on Thursday April 18, 2024.
Press Release
04-18-2024
EEOC Sues Sheetz, Inc. For Racially Discriminatory Hiring Practice
Federal Agency Charges That Employer’s Criminal History Screening Causes Discriminatory Impact Against Black, Native American and Other Workers
BALTIMORE – Sheetz, a large convenience store chain, violated federal law by denying employment to a class of job applicants because of their race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.The EEOC filed suit against Sheetz, Inc.; Sheetz Distribution Services, LLC; and CLI Transport, LP (collectively, Sheetz), which together operate a chain of convenience stores with over 600 locations in six states. According to the lawsuit, Sheetz has maintained a longstanding practice of screening all job applicants for records of criminal conviction and then denying them employment based on those records.
The EEOC charges that Sheetz’s hiring practices disproportionately screened out Black, Native American/Alaska Native and multiracial applicants. Sheetz’s companywide hiring practices violated provisions of Title VII that prohibit disparate impact discrimination, the EEOC says. The lawsuit does not allege that Sheetz was motivated by race when making hiring decisions.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII, which prohibits facially neutral employment practices that cause a discriminatory impact because of race when those practices are not job-related and consistent with business necessity or where alternative practices with less discriminatory impact are available. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern Division (U.S. EEOC v. Sheetz, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 1:24-cv-01123-JKB, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
“Federal law mandates that employment practices causing a disparate impact because of race or other protected classifications must be shown by the employer to be necessary to ensure the safe and efficient performance of the particular jobs at issue,” said EEOC Regional Attorney Debra M. Lawrence. “Even when such necessity is proven, the practice remains unlawful if there is an alternative practice available that is comparably effective in achieving the employer’s goals but causes less discriminatory effect.”
EEOC Philadelphia District Office Director Jamie R. Williamson said, “This highlights the significance of the observance of April as Second Chance Month, underscoring our nation’s commitment to reintegrating individuals with criminal records into society by ensuring they have fair access to employment and other essential services. To that end, the EEOC is dedicated to making sure that individuals with criminal records are not unlawfully excluded from employment opportunities because of race.”
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Anti-Israel protesters reportedly placed tents on the lawn of Columbia University in New York City days after others were removed by law enforcement officials.
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The number only includes those busted in the San Diego region during the third week of April.
Breitbart News reports:
A CBP source, not authorized to speak to the media, told Breitbart Texas the number of Chinese migrants apprehended represents a more than threefold increase from the same time last year. The source told Breitbart that China is now within the top ten nationalities encountered by the Border Patrol along the southern border. The bulk of the Chinese nationals are released into the United States almost immediately the source says as China adamantly refuses to take their citizens back.
“We have only conducted one repatriation flight back to China recently,” the source lamented. “Until that changes, unless we have specific derogatory information about an individual, we are releasing. There’s just no other option.”
The agency remains baffled by the continued increase in Chinese migrant arrivals. Twice as many PRC nationals entered Southern California during the third week of April than the entire 2021 fiscal year when a total of 342 PRC nationals were encountered by the Border Patrol along the entire Southwest border. According to the source, intelligence debriefings yield little information about the migrants and their purpose for entering. The language barrier and the sheer volume of crossings and apprehensions is a major challenge according to the source.
“We want to focus on the threats posed by the Government of China and not cast aspersions on all the people of China, but governments are people and at this point,” the CBP source told the outlet. “We are in the dark concerning who is a foe and who is a friend.”
Breitbart noted that during the first six months of the 2024 fiscal year, which began in October, CBP has apprehended apprehended 24,296 Chinese migrants, an all-time high.
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New York Democrat congressional candidate Nate McMurray wished death on Trump supporters on Saturday in a post on X.
McMurray is running to represent New York’s 26th congressional district – and Ukraine.
The unhinged Democrat posted the death wish to social media after the House of Representatives passed a foreign aid package that allocated billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel.
Lawmakers waved Ukrainian flags on the House floor which angered many conservatives.
McMurray wished death on Trump supporters after the America last bill passed the House.
“Slava Ukraine. Die MAGA die. You lose,”
Slava Ukraine
Die MAGA die. You lose.
— Nate McMurray (@Nate_McMurray) April 20, 2024
McMurray continued his childish tirade against Trump supporters on Sunday.
“Listen, I’m not trying to antagonize MAGA, but I refuse to let them strong-arm us into silence. Too many Democrats are out there, timid. That’s why the reaction to me is always so strong. Because they’re not used Democrats being bald (sic) in their territory,” McMurray said.
“This MAGA movement preys on folks who are often scared and not the most informed, twisting their legitimate worries into racism, xenophobia, and outright paranoia. You’ve got to call it out, loud and clear to save them from themselves—that’s my mantra. There’s a better way. I make sure they hear it,” he said.
Listen, I'm not trying to antagonize MAGA, but I refuse to let them strong-arm us into silence. Too many Democrats are out there, timid. That’s why the reaction to me is always so strong. Because they’re not used Democrats being bald in their territory.
This MAGA movement preys…
— Nate McMurray (@Nate_McMurray) April 21, 2024
Nate McMurray also taunted Trump supporters in a video posted to social media.
WATCH:
Here is Democrat congressional candidate @Nate_McMurray who wished death on Trump supporters today on video expressing his hope that President Trump and his old MAGA supporters die. pic.twitter.com/zz51WwjP8J
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) April 20, 2024
Conservatives slammed McMurray.
Here is what Democrats think about tens of millions of peace-loving, law-abiding Americans who love their country https://t.co/SppG28e2Pp
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 20, 2024
You're running for Congress AND calling for half the country to be murdered?
Weird flex, bro.
— AwakenedOutlaw
This guy is running for Congress in New York’s 26th District.
He wants all MAGA supporters to die apparently.
That’s a very interesting position, no? https://t.co/qlTM38bcNt
— Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) April 21, 2024
This is a Democrat running for Congress. Democrat politicians are bloodthirsty tyrants now who’ve lost their grip on reality.
Countless young Ukrainians/Russians will die and he’s cheering like it’s a touchdown.
What do you think people like this would be comfortable doing to… https://t.co/L5HNZ1de5P
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) April 20, 2024
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Republican Senator Ted Cruz was on Sunday Morning Futures earlier today with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the ongoing border crisis.
He explained the reasons why the Democrats are allowing the invasion to continue.
“Democrats are willing to abuse power and defy the law in order to stay in power,” Cruz Said.
“Why would they allow this invasion? And the answer is simple, they view those 11 million illegal immigrants as future Democrat voters,” Cruz continued.
He also discussed that the Democrats were intentionally blocking the impeachment of DHS secretary Mayorkas.
“On the impeachment trial, why would they utterly ignore the text of the Constitution and 200 years of precedent because they desperately did not want the facts of this invasion at our southern border before the American people,” Cruz continued.
Watch:
Today on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo, @SenTedCruz spoke about the border crisis.@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/K57HvqslSq
— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) April 21, 2024
In addition to buying votes and covering up the invasion, the open border has increased the dangers of terrorism. Some illegals that have crossed the border are on terror watchlists and were released with “tracking technology.”
A Pakistani man who entered the US illegally in California in November of 2023, was released into the US in January with “tracking technology.” This was after he was confirmed as a match on the US terror watchlist.
This technology was part of the government’s ‘Alternatives to Detention’ program. So, with this logic, an illegal alien who has ties to terrorists was let go with a digital babysitter.
In March, a Hezbollah terrorist was caught at the border near El Paso, Texas. When questioned by the Border Patrol, he said “I’m going to try to make a bomb.”
In February, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was on NBCs “Meet the Press” and blamed the border crisis on a broken system.
“Do you bear responsibility for what is happening at the border?” Kristin Welker asked.
“We don’t bear responsibility for a broken system,” Mayorkas continued.
Watch:
WATCH: DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas says that DHS doesn’t “bear responsibility” for the “broken” immigration system.@SecMayorkas: “The system has not been fixed for 30 years. … Congress is the only one who can fix it.” pic.twitter.com/dzDH0GQPQW
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) February 11, 2024
Approximately 10 to 12 million illegals have crossed the border since crooked Joe Biden was installed in January of 2021.
That number equals about the population of 41 individual states.
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A horrifying video has emerged showing the moment an evil Michigan caregiver assaulted a 93-year-old dementia patient, and the victim’s daughter is speaking out.
According to WEYI, the incident occurred at Landings of Genesee Valley in Flint, Michigan on April 4, but the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office obtained and released footage of the assault Thursday during a press conference.
The sick footage shows the perpetrator repeatedly smashing a full diaper over the elderly woman’s head while she sits in her wheelchair and raises her arms.
The sinister caregiver then chokes the woman in the bathroom before violently slapping her in the mouth. The footage concludes with the young monster raising her fists and threatening her victim.
WATCH:
The Genesee County Sheriff’s Office identified Dontia Shawnra Arrington as the person who assaulted the innocent old woman.
During the press conference, Sheriff Chris Swanson said the patient had no clue what was happening due to her severe dementia.
“She has no idea what’s going on,” he said. “She can’t process what we process on a regular basis.”
“You see the vulnerability of the victim and the fact that she’s getting hit with a two-to-three-pound soiled diaper,” he continued. “But if that isn’t enough when she brought her hand across her throat in a chokehold, that can kill people, especially a 93-year-old.”
The heartbroken victim’s daughter also spoke at the press conference. She was puzzled about how anyone could be capable of such malice.
“I’m watching, and all I kept saying was, ‘Why are you doing this to my mom?’ she told the press. “She’s 93, 5-foot tall, a little 130-pound lady, never been in a fight her whole life.”
“Horrified. Just horrified,” she added.
The daughter then revealed how they caught the assault on tape. She explained that her family planted the nanny cam in the room back in December to discover why her mother had been suffering bruises. It took a few attempts to catch the abuse.
The camera also caught staff stealing from her mom, who was a patient at the facility for around five years.
She noted her mom has since been transferred to another facility where she is receiving proper treatment.
Arrington has been charged with torture with intent to cause cruel or extreme physical or mental pain and suffering. This carries a sentence of up to life in prison.
She is also charged with vulnerable adult abuse, which is punishable by up to 15 years in prison, and assault with intent to cause great bodily harm less than murder or by strangulation. The latter carries a maximum penalty of 10 years.
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Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has called upon the Labour Party to "reset" relations with the EU if they win the next general election.
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As President Joe Biden and his Democratic colleagues continue to undermine the U.S.’ longtime strategic alliance with Israel, a recent event saw top faith leaders, Republican lawmakers, and conservatives gather to underscore a unified stance against the failed two-state solution, while promoting the idea of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) as integral to Israel, grounded in a religious and political opposition to Palestinian statehood.
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Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) did not hold back when describing some of his Republican colleagues in Congress.
Appearing on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ with host Dana Bash, Gonzales was asked about the passing of the recent multi-billion foreign aid package and the possibility that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson may be removed from office.
Rather than taking a diplomatic tone in favour of party unity, the Texas Congressman unloaded on Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Bob Good (R-VI), making various spurious allegations about their political and private lives.
Here is a transcript of the exchange:
BASH: So, you voted yes on the foreign aid package. Do you have confidence that at this point, given that it is still possible that Marjorie Taylor Greene will push to vacate, to kick out of the Speaker’s chair, that he can survive?
GONZALES: He will survive. Look, the House is a rough and rowdy place, but Mike Johnson is gonna be just fine. I served 20 years in the military. It’s my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties. Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi.
These people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now they’re walking around with white hoods in the daytime. Look, it didn’t surprise me that some of these folks voted against aid to Israel, but I was encouraged to see by a nearly 10-to-1 mark that Republicans supported our allies on the battlefield.
BASH: Wow, ok, I should say that the federal government did look into Matt Gaetz and those allegations and they decided not to prosecute.
As you can see from the final exchange, even Bash was shocked by Gonzales’s remarks.
GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales: “I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties.”
pic.twitter.com/Z50B6lfgKs— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) April 21, 2024
Despite his moderately conservative voting record Gonzales is known to view many of his colleagues with disdain. Last November, he was one of 25 Republicans to vote against the Rep. Jim Jordan’s bid for the House speakership.
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Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ) spoke to The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson on Thursday after announcing he added his name in support of the Motion to Vacate against Speaker Mike Johnson.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Thursday that Gosar became the third Republican, joining Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY), to support a Motion to Vacate the Chair and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker. “Nearly 11 million illegal aliens have crossed our southern border in the past three years. My congressional district in Arizona, ground zero for the invasion, is getting pummeled by the surge of lawbreakers. These illegal aliens have brought violent crime, deadly drugs, human trafficking and are depleting resources and services meant for U.S. citizens. In fact, every state has become a border state. Communities across the country are being ravaged, families are being destroyed and Americans in need are being ignored,” Gosar said in response to Mike Johnson’s latest anti-American foreign aid package, announced Wednesday.
Speaker Johnson arrogantly declared himself a “wartime speaker” before announcing the massive foreign aid package to fund multiple countries oceans away — but not the United States. The United States is not even at war with anyone!
Next, Congress will presumably declare war somewhere to make Johnson’s self-fulfilling prophecy come true.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, The House of Representatives on Saturday passed three bills to hand out $95 Billion in “foreign aid” to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world. Of the $95 Billion, over $60 Billion was allocated for Ukraine.
The handout to Ukraine was sold to the American people as a “loan.” However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
Two bills, the Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 and the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, both passed the House with more support from Democrats than Republicans.
All 112 “Nay” votes on a bill to send $60 billion to Ukraine came from Republicans, with 101 Republicans voting “AYE” with 210 Democrats. Every single Democrat voted in favor of sending additional taxpayer money to secure a foreign border, more than doubling the number of Republican votes in favor.
Ukraine funding, which received more support from Republicans than Democrats, comes after Republicans under Mike Johnson’s leadership gave up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans and reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702.
Asked why Mike Johnson would bring this fake Ukraine "loan" bill to the floor, Gosar told us that Democrat Chuck Schumer put all of this in there and speculated that "Johnson was forced to bring this to the floor." Gosar added, "This is all done from the defense perspective. This is coming from the military complex Eisenhower warned us about."
In addition to Mike Johnson, Gosar was also asked about his so-called Republican colleague from Arizona, Rep. Juan Ciscomani.
Ciscomani was the only Representative in the Arizona Republican delegation who voted in favor of the $1.2 trillion spending package and the renewal of FISA warrantless spying. He also joined Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona in voting for a $60 billion handout to Ukraine on Saturday.
Gosar said, "It's very, very important for people in his district to talk to him and tell him their opinion" and hold him accountable, which can also be done through voting in the primary elections.
The Gateway Pundit previously spoke with Ciscomani Primary challenger Kathleen Winn to discuss Ciscomani's voting record on anti-American policies. Winn chimed in again on Ciscomani's votes to send $95 billion to foreign countries and leave our border wide open, telling The Gateway Pundit, "It's one thing to say you want to secure the border and another to do something. Ciscomani's vote did neither to make Arizona or America safer." She continued, "Once again, he is not honoring the request of his constituents, and voters should respond in kind."
Watch the full interview with Rep. Paul Gosar below:
Conradson: What finally brought you to this decision?
Gosar: Well, we get this package and the more we find out about this package, the worse it gets. The key here is we have an invasion going of illegal aliens on our southern border, and the speaker promised that this would be a hill to die on, that we would have that support for our border security and for America, its homeland. And we didn't get that at all. And there's something wrong when you can't protect your own homeland, but yet, you're dealing with a war out in Ukraine, you know, that they're losing badly. Then you got another war going on in the Middle East with Israel and Hamas, and now Iran. So, I could not live with myself if I didn't say, ‘Listen, he's not doing the will of the people. We need to listen to people.’ This is the number one issue in our country is this illegal immigration charter.
Conradson: And every single Arizona Republican, except for one, kind of sees how this issue is affecting the country and the state of Arizona. Every single Arizona Republican except for Juan Ciscomani seems to be not in favor with passing this bill and in favor of securing our border. And just to remind everybody, this is the third major loss for Republicans in the last month. First, we have the $1.2 trillion spending package, which did nothing to secure the border. Next, we have FISA renewal, which harms Americans, and now we have this. Why is it that your colleague Ciscomani will not vote for pro-American policies?
Gosar: I don't know you got to talk to him. And I think it's very, very important for people in his district to talk to him and tell him their opinion. You know, we're a vast nation, so there's a lot of different opinions out there, but that's why the debate is there. That's why we elect people but you also have to not stop there but hold them accountable. I’ve been held accountable a lot of times, Jordan, you know, from my animé to, you know, taking other things down. So, from that standpoint, there's always going to be consequences. If there are no consequences and they’re not followed through with, you just go around and pass things. But you know, somebody's really worse about this. They started this a little bit earlier. This bill, you know, in FISA, we at least got rid of 70% of the bill. What I mean by that is they wanted to renew it for seven years. We renewed it for two years. That's key because they put it into the Trump administration, the future Trump administration, where he can actually help us kill it — get through total reforms. Yeah, it was disheartening that we didn't get the warrant. But even Warren Davidson's bill, [H.R. 4639 – Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act], passed the House, and it's got a chance to go through the Senate and get signed into law. So, we'll see, we'll see. But once again, the money issue on this on our border; the money's there. You know, we were responsible for killing the COVID national emergency. Were the only non-president to ever kill a national emergency. There's tons of money in there; they keep flaunting this money in front of us, whether it be the $10,000 credit card up in New York to the $1,000 per illegal alien, the housing, the feeding of them. All this is coming from there. It's flushed with money. The government is flushed with money, and the federal government's trying to use it against us. Why don't we use that accordingly? Why can't we leverage Ukraine to get our own border secure?
Conradson: With this foreign aid bill, they claim it's a loan, but really it's a giveaway. I mean, it gives the President power to forgive 50% of the loan here in November before President Trump takes office. If President Trump doesn't take office, if they're able to steal the election, they can forgive 100% of the loan. What is this? Why did Johnson bring a bill like this to the floor?
Gosar: Well, I think Johnson was forced to bring this to the floor. You know, Thomas Massie will tell you this started out as a veterans bill, H.R. 815, and it was advancement of health care for veterans in rural settings. So Schumer guts it, and he puts his crappy bill in here. This is all done from the defense perspective. This is coming from the military complex Eisenhower warned us about. That's where this is coming from. So, yeah, you're exactly right. The money is going to Hamas even though they say it's not. How do you give that other aid to Israel, but it's coming contingency with it? There's really no contingencies on Ukraine. You know, and I offered amendments, Jordan, you know, to start the peace talks, because what we're hearing is is that from real people, from real situations, from real time, is that Ukraine's badly getting destroyed and that the young people in Ukraine aren't wanting to antie up because they're just going to be fodder for death. Something's wrong here. And we're just funneling money to all sides of the war. So, is this really about making money for the industrial war complex? Or is it about true liberty and freedom?
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The department is also currently facing major staffing shortages in the aftermath of the George Floyd riots.
Speaking to Fox News, the union’s executive director Ray Hunt said, “I have never in my lifetime – and I’m a lifelong Houstonian – seen this many suspected murderers and capital murderers who are walking the streets of Houston out on multiple bonds.”
“I would not let my wife or my kids walk down the streets of Houston at midnight under any circumstances,” Hunt continued. “It is not safe in major cities in 2024, and it’s not safe here.”
Union President Douglas Griffith explained the department couldn’t retain officers in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement.
“We’re in a perfect storm right now,” Griffith said. “We had the George Floyd effect come down. We can’t hire. We can’t retain our officers. The people are leaving left and right.”
“Who in the heck wants to be a police officer in 2024?” Hunt asked, “when every single thing that they’re doing is going to be second-guessed by their body-worn camera that someone can watch three or four times to determine whether or not that officer made the right split-second decision. I don’t know who would want to do that. I could not encourage any of my family to come be a police officer in 2024 with the situation that’s going on.”
Griffith said the shortage is so bad that the department “will never be able to be able to investigate” every case.
The union president also laid part of the blame on the court system for “not doing their job.”
“Their contention is that we can’t hold somebody. We have to give everybody a bond, yes, the first time. Once they violate that bond, they can be held in jail until they go to court again. And we get people on six, seven, eight, nine bonds at one time. And that’s a problem that we have to fix in the courts. And with the DA’s office, you try to make sure that these public offenders can’t be continued to roam the streets and victimize our citizens.”
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Columbia University’s rabbinical leaders have urged Jewish students to seek refuge at home until the situation around the campus has “dramatically improved.”
According to a text obtained by CNN’s Jake Tapper, the leaders of Columbia’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus, Rav Elie and Tamar Buechler, sent a WhatsApp message to students following dramatic anti-Israel demonstrations in which over 100 people were arrested.
They wrote:
What we are witnessing around campus is terrible and tragic. The events of the last few days, especially last night, have made clear that Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish students’ safety in the face of extreme antisemitism and anarchy.
It deeply pains me to say that I recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved.
It is not our job as Jews to ensure our own safety on campus. No one should have to endure this level of hatred, especially at school.
In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and around campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290+ Jewish students this morning recommending that they go home until it’s safe again for them on campus: pic.twitter.com/uqAntEICLv
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 21, 2024
Among the students involved in this week’s protests was the daughter of the far-left Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Isra Hirsi, who confirmed she had been suspended by the university for “standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.”
i’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP, in my 3 years at @BarnardCollege i have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings
i just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.
— isra hirsi (@israhirsi) April 18, 2024
The protests at Columbia are merely one of thousands of similar demonstrations to take place in recent months, as supporters of the Palestinian cause mobilize in response to Israel’s war on Hamas.
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Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) has confirmed that he will protect Speaker Mike Johnson’s position after he agreed a foreign aid package that will send tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
In an interview on NBC’s ‘This Week,’ Khanna was full of praise for the Republican speaker and said he would oppose any attempts to remove him.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna tells @JonKarl that he would vote to support Speaker Mike Johnson if Republicans tried to remove him for securing Ukraine aid.
“He did the right thing here and he deserves to keep his job until the end of this term.” https://t.co/xaDuxyoG51 pic.twitter.com/znG8X4S0KR
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) April 21, 2024
Here is a transcript of the exchange:
HOST: Congressman Khanna, does Speaker Johnson deserve credit for how this played out?
KHANNA: He does. Look, we came into Congress together and he always cared about civility. He actually led the civility pledge. And he – we had one issue, which was give individual votes. Don’t lump things together. And I give him credit for doing this. I would actually vote to table any motion to vacate him. You know, Congressman McCaul quoted Churchill. One of the things Churchill said is that America always exhausted every wrong option until doing the right thing. And this shows that American democracy still is very strong.
KARL: You just said something significant. You said you would oppose the tabled – the motion to vacate. In other words, you will protect Speaker Johnson’s job if Marjorie Taylor Greene and the others go through with their threat to try to remove him?”
KHANNA: I would, through the end of the term. I expect Speaker Jeffries will be there in 2025.
KARL: Right – not – speaker, yes. Yes.
KHANNA: But look, I’m a progressive Democrat and I think you would have a few progressive Democrats doing that. And I disagree with Speaker Johnson on many issues and have been very critical of him. But he did the right thing here and he deserves to keep his job until the end of his term.
Khanna’s comments come as various Republicans, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar and Thomas Massie, have indicated they no longer have confidence in his leadership, amid rising anger at his commitment to funding foreign conflicts while the southern border remains wide open.
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The incident occurred on April 18 at the McMonagle Elementary School in Mt. Morris Township.
The woman’s name has not yet been released because she is still pending arraignment.
Mt. Morris Township Police Chief Michael Veach told local station WNEM that the grandmother and child had been called into the school for a behavioral meeting.
The report explains:
Veach said the grandmother saw another girl her granddaughter was having trouble with, so she and her granddaughter followed her into a bathroom.
The grandmother then held down the girl while her granddaughter punched her, Veach said.
The grandmother is currently detained at the Genesee County Jail.
Westwood Heights Schools Public Relations and Marketing Coordinator Jamal Bransford released the following statement about the incident:
“On Thursday, April 18 an unfortunate incident transpired at McMonagle Elementary School involving a grandparent of a student who managed to circumvent security protocols and gain unauthorized access to the school premises. The Mt. Morris Township Police Department immediately investigated this incident. It is crucial to emphasize that no other children in the school were involved or harmed during this incident.
The safety and security of our students is our topmost concern. Our school administration is diligently implementing all necessary measures to prevent such breaches of security in the future. We are actively collaborating with the Mt. Morris Township Police Department to implement safeguards that will safeguard the well-being of our students and prevent similar incidents from occurring.”
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The ‘whistleblower’ who sparked Donald Trump’s first impeachment was deeply involved in the political maneuverings behind Biden-family business schemes in Ukraine that Trump wanted probed, newly obtained emails from former Vice President Joe Biden’s office reveal.
In 2019, then-National Intelligence Council analyst Eric Ciaramella touched off a political firestorm when he anonymously accused Trump of linking military aid for Ukraine to a demand for an investigation into alleged Biden corruption in that country.
But four years earlier, while working as a national security analyst attached to then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office, Ciaramella was a close adviser when Biden threatened to cut off U.S. aid to Ukraine unless it fired its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Ukraine-based Burisma Holdings. At the time, the corruption-riddled energy giant was paying Biden’s son Hunter millions of dollars.
Those payments – along with other evidence tying Joe Biden to his family’s business dealings – received little attention in 2019 as Ciaramella accused Trump of a corrupt quid pro quo. Neither did subsequent evidence indicating that Hunter Biden’s associates had identified Shokin as a “key target.” These matters are now part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
“It now seems there was material evidence that would have been used at the impeachment trial [to exonerate Trump],” said George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, who has testified as an expert witness in the ongoing Biden impeachment inquiry. “Trump was alleging there was a conflict of interest with the Bidens, and the evidence could have challenged Biden’s account and established his son’s interest in the Shokin firing.”
Ciaramella’s role – including high-level discussions with top Biden aides and Ukrainian prosecutors – is only now coming to light thanks to the recent release of White House emails and photos from the National Archives.
The emails show Ciaramella expressed shock – “Yikes” is what he wrote – at Biden’s move to withhold the $1 billion in aid from Kyiv, which represented a sudden shift in U.S. policy. They also show he was drawn into White House communications over how to control adverse publicity from Hunter taking a lucrative seat on Burisma’s board.
Yet there is no evidence Ciaramella raised alarms about the questionable Biden business activities he witnessed firsthand, which is in sharp contrast to 2019. In that instance, he was galvanized into action after being told by White House colleague Alexander Vindman of an “improper” phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. During the call, Trump solicited Zelensky’s help in investigating Burisma and Hunter Biden’s role in the company.
Some former congressional investigators say Ciaramella effectively helped cover up a scandal far worse than what Trump was impeached over. What’s more, he failed to disclose that he had a potential conflict of interest stemming from his connection to the matter Trump asked Zelensky to probe when he lodged his complaint against Trump. RealClearInvestigations was the first to identify the then-33-year-old Ciaramella as the anonymous impeachment “whistleblower,” something major media continue to keep under tight wraps.
Ciaramella worked under CIA Director John Brennan when President Obama made Biden his point man on Ukraine in 2014, the same year Burisma hired Hunter. The next year, the CIA detailed Ciaramella, a longtime advocate for aid to Ukraine, to the White House, where he worked closely with Biden and his staff as a top adviser on key Ukrainian policies. After Biden left office, he stayed on at the GOP White House until mid-2017 even though he’s a Democrat, working as a Ukrainian and Russian analyst on Trump’s National Security Council. Co-workers there accused him of trying to sabotage Trump, including allegedly leaking sensitive information to the press.
RealClearInvestigations has reviewed more than 2,000 pages of newly disclosed archived emails from the former vice president’s office related to Ukraine, of which more than 160 contained references to Ciaramella. They reveal that his role advising Biden’s office potentially intersects with the current impeachment inquiry in several areas. Chiefly, Ciaramella focused on aid to Ukraine and anti-corruption reforms in the country. In that capacity, he:
Former Obama-Biden administration officials have confirmed in recent closed-door congressional testimony that Ciaramella was a key part of Biden’s process for making policy in Ukraine. In 2016, for instance, a White House photo shows him taking notes at a White House meeting Biden held with then-Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to discuss Ukraine’s anti-corruption reforms and other issues.
Ciaramella also worked directly with top Obama and Biden administration diplomats on Ukraine, including senior State Department official Victoria Nuland. “Eric was regularly the clearing authority to get me into the White House for interagency meetings on Ukraine,” Nuland revealed in a 2020 Senate deposition. Asked if she ever discussed Ukraine policy and Shokin with Ciaramella, Nuland testified: “Of course, I did. He was part of the interagency process. He was also on my negotiating team for the six, seven rounds of negotiations I did with the Russians on [the disputed Ukraine region] Donbas.”
Ciaramella was directly involved in talks concerning the massive U.S. aid package to Ukraine that Biden conditioned on the removal of Shokin, who at the time had seized the assets of the corrupt Burisma oligarch employing Hunter Biden. He also arranged and participated in White House talks with Ukrainian prosecutors visiting from Shokin’s office.
White House visitor logs confirm Ciaramella escorted Shokin’s deputy prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze, into the White House for a January 2016 meeting. A White House agenda for the meeting lists Ciaramella as “point of contact” for the Ukrainian delegation. He also checked in Andriy Telizhenko, the Ukrainian Embassy official who says they discussed Burisma and Hunter Biden during the meeting and struggled to understand why his U.S. counterparts were suddenly hostile to Shokin after praising him in earlier talks.
Emails from the time show Ciaramella appeared surprised to hear about the linkage between the $1 billion loan to Ukraine and the dismissal of Shokin. Though Biden maintains he insisted Kyiv oust Shokin because he was too soft on weeding out fraud in entities that included Burisma, Ciaramella suggested he didn’t share the view that Shokin was corrupt. “We were super impressed with the group,” Ciaramella added, “and we had a two-hour discussion of their priorities and the obstacles they face.”
On Jan. 21, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt emailed Ciaramella and other White House aides an article from the Ukrainian press – “U.S. loan guarantee conditional on Shokin’s dismissal.”
“Yikes. I don’t recall this coming up in our meeting with them,” Ciaramella replied, referring to the White House meeting he hosted with top Ukrainian prosecutors.
But in a closed-door 2020 deposition before the Senate, Pyatt sounded skeptical that Ciaramella was in the dark about the decision. “I think you have to ask Eric what he meant by ‘Yikes,’” Pyatt told Senate investigators. He said that he believed conditioning the loan guarantee on Shokin’s removal “obviously came up in those meetings” hosted by Ciaramella, suggesting that Biden’s aide knew of the quid pro quo before Pyatt circulated the article about it from the Ukrainian press.
The day before he hosted the Ukraine prosecutors, Ciaramella received an agenda from a State Department official that asked him to “note the importance of appointing a new PG [Prosecutor General], reiterating that Shokin is an obstacle to reform,” according to emails. The agenda also called on Ciaramella to “ask the del [Ukrainian delegation] what high-level cases are on the docket for prosecution,” which raises suspicions in some quarters that Biden’s advisers were fishing for information about Shokin’s plans for prosecuting Burisma oligarchs, something Hunter Biden had been asked to find out.
In a Jan. 21 email, Pyatt told Ciaramella to “buckle in” because, as he later explained to Senate investigators, the deal was a “difficult issue” and “there was going to be political controversy around this [news].”
The former ambassador demurred when asked if conditioning the $1 billion on Shokin’s firing was Biden’s idea or came from his office. “It was the – our interagency policy,” he testified, adding, “I don’t remember when the vice president would have weighed in on this.”
However, Pyatt allowed that it was a sudden change in policy. “At the beginning,” he said, “it was not our expectation that Shokin’s removal would be necessary.” Indeed, an Oct. 1, 2015, memo summarizing the recommendation of the Interagency Policy Committee on Ukraine stated, “Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its [anti-corruption] reform agenda to justify a third [loan] guarantee.” Ciaramella was a member of the IPC task force, which monitored Shokin’s office. The next month, moreover, the task force drafted a loan guarantee agreement that did not call for Shokin’s removal. Then, in December, Joe Biden flew to Kyiv to demand his ouster.
If what Ciaramella expressed in his email (which he knew would be part of archived White House records) was a genuine reaction, it appears that Vice President Biden went against the recommendation of one of his top NSC advisers on Ukraine. If Ciaramella were genuinely alarmed, he might have blown the whistle on his boss like he did on Trump, but he stayed mum. If, on the other hand, Ciaramella were a party to the quid-pro-quo discussions, as Pyatt suggests, then he had “a direct conflict,” noted Derek Harvey, the former congressional investigator involved in the first impeachment. Either way, Ciaramella clearly found himself in the middle of a major controversy.
Just weeks prior, White House photos indicate that Ciaramella traveled with Biden on the same December 2015 Air Force Two flight the vice president took to Kyiv to threaten Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to ax Shokin. Republicans have accused Biden of pushing Shokin’s ouster to block scrutiny of his son’s actions.
“Biden called an audible and changed U.S. policy toward Ukraine to benefit his son on the plane ride to Ukraine,” House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said, and “later bragged about withholding a U.S. loan guarantee if Ukraine did not fire the prosecutor [Shokin].”
Biden and his supporters have repeatedly claimed Shokin had to go because he wasn’t cracking down on corruption and that everyone else in the administration, as well as Europe, agreed Shokin should be fired. This remains the prevailing narrative in major U.S. media. But around that time, Shokin had conducted a raid of Burisma oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky’s home, seizing his house, cars, and other assets.
IRS Special Agent Joseph Ziegler, who examined Hunter’s emails as part of his investigation of Hunter for tax evasion, said Shokin was identified as a “key target” in emails exchanged between Hunter and Burisma officials in November 2015 – the month before Biden traveled to Ukraine to demand Shokin’s removal. Just days before Biden arrived in Kyiv in early December 2015 to demand Shokin’s ouster, Hunter allegedly called his father from Dubai following a meeting there with Burisma official Vadym Pozharskyi, who asked him to pressure his father to shut down Shokin’s investigation. Vice President Biden was familiar with Pozharskyi, having met with him in April 2015 during a dinner at the Cafe Milano in D.C. arranged by Hunter.
“The unstated goal was to have the Ukrainian prosecutor removed in an effort to close the criminal case against [Burisma founder] Zlochevsky,” Ziegler said in recent testimony before the House impeachment inquiry. After Shokin was pushed out of office, the Burisma investigation dried up.
Ciaramella tried to marshal a defense for Biden in the whistleblower complaint he sent to Rep. Adam Schiff in August 2019. He listed among Trump’s concerns at the time of the fateful July phone call “that former Vice President Biden had pressured Poroshenko in 2016 to fire Shokin in order to quash a purported criminal probe into Burisma Holdings.” But Ciaramella attempted to pour cold water on the notion by referencing a Bloomberg News article that quoted a “former senior Ukrainian prosecutor” who falsely claimed “that Mr. Shokin in fact was not investigating Burisma at the time of his removal in 2016.”
White House emails reveal that Ciaramella was looped into messages sent by Biden’s communications team, who were concerned that Hunter Biden taking a position on corrupt Burisma’s board created unseemly optics and undercut their boss’ mission to clean up corruption in Ukraine.
In a Dec. 8, 2015, email, for example, Biden’s communications director Kate Bedingfield copied Ciaramella on a link to a New York Times article headlined, “The Knotty Ties Between Joe Biden, His Son and Ukraine.” Bedingfield is quoted in the story, authored by James Risen, denying Hunter had traveled with his father to Ukraine in an attempt to downplay his influence. She also said Ukrainian officials never raised his position on the Burisma board with Biden as an issue of concern. Risen got spun, however, on the issue of compensation for Hunter, reporting that it was “not out of the ordinary.”
At the time, Burisma was paying Hunter, who had no energy sector experience, $1 million a year just for lending his name to its board. It turns out that Hunter never traveled to Ukraine for a single meeting in the five years he sat on Burisma’s board. Republicans suspect Biden got the prosecutor ousted to keep the money flowing from Burisma to the Biden family.
Career State Department officials led by George Kent, who was stationed in Ukraine at the time, tried to get Biden’s aides to raise the issue of potential family conflicts with the vice president. Despite their concerns, Biden never asked his son to step down from the Burisma board, which would have made all questions go away. And despite Kent and other officials identifying Burisma founder Zlochevsky by name as a corrupt actor in Ukraine, Biden himself never publicly called Zlochevsky out as corrupt while Hunter served on his board and pocketed millions in payments from him. For all his talk of fighting corruption in Ukraine, Biden failed to distance himself from one of the most corrupt oligarchs in the country.
Harvey, who served as the staff investigator for the Republican side of the House Intelligence Committee during the 2019 Trump impeachment hearings, said: “The [Biden] impeachment inquiry should compel Ciaramella to testify since we now know he was involved in communications about Biden using the $1 billion in aid to extort Ukraine into firing Shokin.”
Harvey said Ciaramella would make a valuable material witness against Biden in the probe, which centers on whether Biden used his White House clout or political influence on behalf of his son’s foreign paymasters. White House photos indicate Ciaramella took notes during his meetings with Biden, his staff, and Ukrainian officials – materials that lawmakers could subpoena along with his testimony.
Another former staff investigator noted that Ciaramella is no longer protected by federal whistleblower laws. He has left the government and now works as a senior fellow focusing on Ukraine and Russia for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, where he is consulting with White House officials and pushing for billions more in U.S. aid for Ukraine – including “a Marshall Plan for the Ukrainian military.” Through a spokesperson, Ciaramella declined to comment.
“None of the whistleblower protections apply to this particular situation,” said Jason Foster, former chief investigative counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee and a whistleblower expert. He also noted that the Whistleblower Protection Act doesn’t shield whistleblowers from any other conduct they might have been involved in, including their own conduct. Nor does it give them a legal right to anonymity.
A spokeswoman for the House Oversight Committee, which is leading the Biden impeachment inquiry, declined to say whether Ciaramella is on the witness list. “I don’t have anything for you on this at this time,” said House Oversight Communications Director Jessica Collins. However, Comer has publicly described the “whistleblower” impeachment of Trump as a “cover-up” operation for the alleged Biden blackmail scheme in Ukraine involving U.S. aid and the Burisma corruption probe.
What Ciaramella witnessed and what he documented in notes he took during high-level Biden-Ukraine meetings could now be relevant to the active impeachment inquiry of President Biden. The House may have little choice but to hold the kind of hearings the Democrats blocked during the earlier impeachment by keeping Ciaramella’s identity – and his own potential conflict – secret.
As the catalyst for Trump’s impeachment, Ciaramella could now be a reluctant witness for Biden’s.
BREAKING: VP Biden Emails Reveal Eric Ciaramella Had Serious Conflict of Interest Blowing Whistle on Trumphttps://t.co/g02aj0UmcY
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) April 19, 2024
This RealClearInvestigations article was republished by The Gateway Pundit with permission.
Paul Sperry is the former D.C. bureau chief for Investor’s Business Daily, Hoover Institution media fellow, author of several books, including bestseller INFILTRATION
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Boxer Ryan Garcia who made national headlines in the last month for calling out child trafficking and promoting his Christian faith, defeated undefeated super lightweight champion Devin Haney by a major decision.
Garcia who was a major underdog in the fight dominated every round and was able to knock Haney down on the canvas multiple times by his powerful left hook.
In his post fight interview, Garcia told the crowd “God did, my Heavenly Father Jesus Christ I give you all the glory.”
“Did y’all think I was really crazy? You have lost your own mind.” added Garcia.
The former champion who holds an impressive 25-1 record continued “All I do is love God and try to help the children and you guys straight hate on me. You guys don’t love the truth.”
WATCH:
#RyanGarcia defeats#DevinHaney – he thanks Jesus Christ and states that he put his reputation on the line for the kids in his post fight speech interview pic.twitter.com/gWIvd4djy8
— YouWontBelieveMe (@YWBMofficial) April 21, 2024
Per ESPN:
Ryan Garcia’s fitness to fight was questioned in the lead-up to his bout with Devin Haney, a turbulent promotion that was highlighted by Garcia’s erratic comments.
Garcia (25-1, 20 KOs) was a major underdog and virtually counted out entering Saturday evening. His blinding, powerful left hook turned the tide as Garcia scored three knockdowns to pull the upset via majority decision at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
One judge scored the bout 112-112 but was overruled by scores of 114-110 and 115-109 for Garcia. However, Garcia wasn’t eligible to win Haney’s WBC junior welterweight title after he weighed 143.2 pounds Friday for the 140-pound contest. Haney remains the champion in defeat, but it’s Garcia who scored the career-best win by knocking off ESPN’s No. 6 pound-for-pound boxer.
Highlights of the fight:
Sweet Chin Music
Here are all 3 knockdowns @RyanGarcia delivered to @Realdevinhaney to secure the win.#HaneyGarcia pic.twitter.com/18obAwynEE
— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) April 21, 2024
Many boxing commentators claimed Garcia had no chance against Haney and called Garcia “crazy” for claiming the elite participate in child trafficking.
In March, The Gateway Pundit reported on Garcia’s comments he made on elite child trafficking circles and disturbing personal experiences of witnessing it firsthand.
READ:
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Carlson made the stunning allegation on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” that aired on Friday.
The former Fox News host told Rogan that lawmakers have personally told him they fear retaliation from the intelligence community if they oppose reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
“People don’t say that because they’re worried about being punished,” Carlson said. “They’re worried about someone putting kiddie porn on their computer. Members of Congress are terrified of the intel agencies. I’m not guessing at that. They’ve told me that — including people on the intel committee, including people who run the intel committee.”
“The people whose job it is to oversee and keep in line these enormous, secretive agencies whose budgets we can’t even know — their ‘black budgets,’” Carlson added. “They’re the parents, the agencies are the children. They’re afraid of the agencies. That’s not compatible with democracy.”
Holy Shizzles!
Members of Congress are Terrified of Intel Agencies Planting Kiddie Porn on their Computers — Intel Committee Members and a High Ranking Sr. Elected Official Admitted it’s Happening
• Mike Pompeo is treated like a pillar or Republican Washington
“people… pic.twitter.com/XM6vaGufKF
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) April 20, 2024
Carlson reiterated that politicians are supporting “warrantless spying” on American citizens because “they’re threatened.”
“It’s playing out in front of everyone, and no one cares and no one does anything about it,” Carlson continued. “I think the reason is because they’re threatened. And if you look at the committee chairman who allowed this shit to happen year after year, they’re all — and I don’t know, people say, ‘Oh, they’re compromised or being blackmailed,’ whatever. I don’t have evidence of that. But I know them. And they have all the things to hide. I know that for a fact.”
“It’s not a stretch of imagination to imagine that, you know, some committee chairman who’s allowing warrantless spying on Americans to continue, or whatever abuse they’re allowing, knowing fully or hiding the truth about UAPs, ignoring the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, like, why are they doing that? It’s not impossible to imagine that some guy with a drinking problem or a weird sex life — and that’s very common, very common up there — that’s why they’re doing it. Because they don’t want to be exposed.”
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Another Joe Biden foreign policy disaster is in the works.
Joe Biden already turned over the Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan to Taliban terrorists in September 2021.
Biden abandoned Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years in July by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ secret departure more than two hours after they left.
The Taliban quickly took control of Bagram Air Base, which is only 30 miles north of Kabul, on August 15th and released thousands of terrorists held at its prison. The Americans and Afghans left the Taliban military equipment, uniforms, rations and even sports drinks.
The ISIS suicide bomber who murdered 13 US servicemen and women and 169 Afghans was released by the Taliban from the Bagram Base prison in July.
ISIS suicide bomber Abdul Rehman was incarcerated at the Bagram prison for the past four years until he was set free by the Taliban terrorists.
Abdul Rehman then murdered 13 Americans and 173 Afghans in a suicide bombing outside the Kabul Airport.
Last week we learned about Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy disaster. The situation in Niger could top the Afghanistan withdrawal – if that is possible.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) totally embarrassed the US Army Secretary and exposed Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy catastrophe during questioning this week in the US House of Representatives’ Armed Services Committee hearing.
Gaetz exposed the latest Biden foreign policy failure – this time in Niger, Africa.
US troops are trapped in the country allegedly without water and medicine. The Army was likely hiding this to protect itself from embarrassment. Deployed Americans are in limbo and unable to do their jobs and the Biden State Department is completely outmaneuvered once again.
Secretary Wormuth and General Randy George testified before the House Armed Services Committee on April 16th.
Matt Gaetz posted the report on his congressional webpage.
US Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, a potential DEI hire, was stunned and speechless when Matt Gaetz confronted her about the trapped US soldiers in Niger a country in tremendous turmoil.
It now appears the US has a trade offer from the military junta in Niger. The Russian-backed military junta in Niger will release the 1,000 US soldiers trapped at the base in exchange for the keys to the $100 million American airbase in the country.
WAR: Niger’s Russian-backed military junta has agreed to release 1,000 US troops it was effectively holding hostage in exchange for Biden’s agreement to turn over our $100M airbase to Niger and Russian forces. The US media will barely mention this humiliation today. pic.twitter.com/UpmnsMMI2g
— @amuse (@amuse) April 21, 2024
How is it possible that the Biden regime could be so inept?
How is it possible that the US military could be so incompetent?
The US military will leave a $100 million airbase to the military junta.
The USA confirms it will pull out of Niger.
1000 soldiers will leave after having been told to get out by the new Russian-friendly military junta
They will leave the $110 mln airbase built a few years ago from which the US has been running its drone operations against AQ & ISIS pic.twitter.com/UwCLn79acW
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 20, 2024
Aljazeera repported:
In March the country suspended its military agreement with the US. The US military had some 650 personnel working in Niger in December, according to a White House report to Congress. The US military operates a major airbase in the Niger city of Agadez, some 920km (572 miles) from Niamey, using it for manned and unmanned surveillance flights and other operations.
A drone base known as Air Base 201 near Agadez was also built at a cost of more than $100m. Since 2018 the base has been used to target ISIL (ISIS) fighters and Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate, in the Sahel region.
There was another anti-American protest in Agadez earlier today.
Niger: Agadez demonstrators demand the departure of American base 201, denouncing its ineffectiveness against terrorism, its risk for the local population, and its no respect by the authorities with the restriction of access to the base. #Agadez #Demonstration #us #army
— Aïr Info Agadez (@AirInfoAgadez) April 21, 2024
They did it!
The Biden regime capitulated! The US is out!
The Agadez airbase will be evacuated and left available to the Russia-backed military junta!
The Independent.ng reported:
Washington says it has firmed up plans with the West African nation’s military rulers to withdraw its more than 1,000 troops.
The US has also agreed to close down its big drone base near the city of Agadez in the Sahara desert.
Niger is in Africa’s Sahel region, which is considered the new global epicentre of the Islamic State group.
The US has relied on Niger as its primary base for monitoring regional jihadist activity.
An American delegation is to head within days to Niger’s capital, Niamey, to arrange an orderly withdrawal.
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A brave school girl in Pennsylvania unleashed on cowardly school officials while revealing in graphic detail how they allowed a transgender (Bio-Male) student savagely beat her friend to the point of hospitalization while woke school officials did nothing to stop it.
As Reduxx reported, the brutal assault took place at Pennbrook Middle School in North Wales, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, when the 13-year-old trans student going by “Melanie” blindsided her 12-year-old female victim in the school cafeteria using a Stanley cup. He smacked several times on the head, creating an open wound and causing her to bleed.
The 7th-grade girl had to be hospitalized and receive staples to close the cuts in her head before undergoing concussion protocol according to the Daily Mail.
During a school board meeting on Thursday, School Superintendent Todd Bauer called the horrifying attack “deeply disturbing’ in a statement. But a young friend of the victim’s was not having his nonsense.
The unidentified girl revealed she and others warned several teachers on Wednesday morning the assault was going to occur at lunch that day. She also noted she was second on the trans student’s hit list.
The school counselor dismissed her, telling her nothing would happen. The girl received word she would not be seeing “Melanie” for the remainder of the day.
But this was a lie. The girl revealed she was at lunch when she heard screaming and “everyone running” in panic.
She then went on to describe the assault in graphic detail:
WATCH:
BREAKING
A male who identifies as transgender brutally assaulted a female student at Pennbrook Middle School in PA.
One girl who said she was “second on [his] hit list” told the school board that she had begged for help HOURS before the attack, but teachers did nothing. pic.twitter.com/sRRZlnuwZU
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) April 20, 2024
The girl revealed “Melanie” snuck up behind her friend and began smashing her head with the Stanley cup. The trans student also pulled her hair and hit her against the table.
“I just hear all this screaming and everybody running. All of a sudden, you hear these terrible loud bangs of the Stanley bouncing off her head,” the student explained. And then you see Mel grabbing her hair and hitting her against the table and just repeatedly hitting her with the Stanley.
“There was blood going everywhere, she continued. “We had to sit in there and watch them clean up the blood off those tables and ground, and we had to watch them take her out with blood dripping down her face, and I will never forget that.”
The 7th-grader also revealed “Melanie” screamed “I’m going to murder you!” to her friend during the beating.
The girl then went off on school officials for their negligence.
“You could’ve stopped it!” the brave young girl said. “It was five hours from when I told you it was going to happen. I don’t get how you couldn’t have stopped that.”
The girl added once the attack began, it lasted 28 minutes, despite the school board claiming it was just eight minutes.
“We had to watch her taken out with blood dripping down her face, and I will never forget that! Laying in bed last night, I just kept repeating it in my head.”
Reduxx reported the biological boy had only recently been transferred into the school where the assault, having been reportedly expelled from his last school due to violent behavior. He also maintained a long “hit list” of girls he wanted to assault.
The school was well aware of the boy’s violent tendencies thanks to student warnings and had him solo-escorted into school every day. Despite this, woke school officials allowed him to use the female restrooms at the school and never lifted a finger to intervene when he acted up.
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It’s a picture-perfect Autumn Sunday Morning, the kind that makes Rio de Janeiro one of the most celebrated cities in the world, the ‘Cidade Maravilhosa’ (City of Wonders).
On a day like that, it’s no wonder that people would flock to the beach.
But today, many people are not going to the famed Copacabana to be lazing on a Sunday morning; instead, they are gathering in yet another MASS demonstration against the socialist tyranny, in defense of democracy and in support of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
This comes right after the whole country became aware of the controversy pitting tech billionaire Elon Musk against the local Censorship Industrial Complex, led by a rogue Supreme Court and its self-appointed dictator, justice Alexandre de Moraes.
In the last few months, Brazilians watched as Bolsonaro, the greatest political leader, has been harassed, had his house raided, his passport taken, and his political rights suspended.
Meanwhile, the illegitimate President Lula da Silva leads a failing government rapidly destroying whatever economic stability we achieved under Bolsonaro’s no-nonsense administration.
Two months ago, a similar demonstration was held in the Streets of São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city and economic powerhouse. It gathered around 900,000 citizens to repudiate the socialist maneuvers to frame Bolsonaro for imaginary crimes (see link at the end of this post).
Lula was furious with the success of the São Paulo demonstration and wanted to stage a counter-rally, but his absolute lack of popular support meant that he could not.
But that didn’t stop him or his allies in the judiciary to keep harassing Bolsonaro and his followers, trying to institute a veritable dictatorship with the ridiculous excuse of ‘protecting the democracy’.
It is as they say in the US: ‘elections have consequences, and stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.’
But the Brazilian people have awakened, and it’s no coincidence that this is taking place on the holiday dedicated to Tiradentes (translatable as pull-teeth), the martyr for Brazilian independence.
It is as our national anthem says: ‘in thy bosom – O freedom, our chest challenges death itself’.
Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana Beach: Brazilians answer Bolsonaro’s call in a MASSIVE demonstration. pic.twitter.com/lK2CH0jECs
— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 21, 2024
NOW – Four hours before the freedom rally begins, Copacabana is already completely crowded, as shown by the drone footage from @SpaceLiberdade.
Thousands of Brazilians are fighting for freedom of speech. They will not allow Brazil to become a far-left legal dictatorship. pic.twitter.com/ri6NQn6Any
— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) April 21, 2024
O Rio de Janeiro Copacabana foi tomado pela multidão, grito liberdade ! Jair Messias Bolsonaro pic.twitter.com/6iC0dmI5DF
— (@AntonioCGRodri) April 21, 2024
NEW: Massive pro-free speech protest at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Former president Jair Bolsonaro reportedly rallied the massive crowd, defending free speech amidst X’s battle with the Brazilian government.
“The whole world is aware of how threatened our… pic.twitter.com/BJaWcXxmmd
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 21, 2024
‘I came for free!’ the crowd chants, referencing that Lula’s socialists can only gather small crowds of PAID militants.
“EU VIM DE GRAÇA”
Copacabana 21/04/24
Obrigada Rio de Janeiro está lindo demais pic.twitter.com/6fQwPZtdMR— Jakelyne Loiola (@Jakelyneloiola_) April 21, 2024
Mario Nawfal on X:
“IS THIS THE WWE?! Bolsonaro entered the Freedom of Speech rally at Copacabana beach like a champion UFC fighter! Bolsonaro, flanked by his political allies and family, took the stage to address the crowd, emphasizing the crucial role of defending democratic rights and combating what he referred to as ‘the most significant battle in Brazilian history.'”
IS THIS THE WWE?!
Bolsonaro entered the Freedom of Speech rally at Copacabana beach like a champion UFC fighter!
Bolsonaro, flanked by his political allies and family, took the stage to address the crowd, emphasizing the crucial role of defending democratic rights and… https://t.co/SRW0tQ8b7R pic.twitter.com/1X5addMWJW
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 21, 2024
THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY. CHECK BACK FOR MORE INFORMATION.
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The promise of a bill came in response to Democrats waving Ukrainian flags on the House floor on Saturday after passing a massive foreign aid bill.
Cammack posted a video of the sea of yellow and blue flags and wrote, “Watching American representatives pass out & wave Ukrainian flags in the United States House of Representatives chamber infuriated me. As we speak, my team is drafting legislation that will prohibit the display of foreign nations’ flags on the House floor.”
“If there is one room in our country that should only have the American flag present, it is this room,” Cammack added.
The congresswoman also asked supporters to “Tag Members of Congress who you want to co-sponsor this bill!”
Watching American representatives pass out & wave Ukrainian flags in the United States House of Representatives chamber infuriated me. As we speak, my team is drafting legislation that will prohibit the display of foreign nations’ flags on the House floor.
If there is one room… pic.twitter.com/BcIKP5CDou— Kat Cammack (Text KAT to 50138) (@Kat_Cammack) April 20, 2024
It is unclear when Cammack will submit the bill, but Congress will not be in DC until April 29.
“Put those damn flags away!”
Anna Paulina Luna was disgusted by Democrats who waved Ukrainian flag after approving another $60 billion in “aid” to the country.pic.twitter.com/YAShW1im8x
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 20, 2024
Many Republicans have spoken out against the Democrats’ antics, including Rep. Anna Paulina Luna — who told them to “Put those damn flags away!”
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As rumors are swirling that former First Lady Michelle Obama could possibly replace Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, it appears she’s more focused on promoting her newest book.
In a video that has gone viral, Michelle Obama was spotted going undercover at a Target in St. Louis, Missouri in an attempt to see if the retail chain was still carrying her book “The Light We Carry.”
Michelle starts the video by saying, “We are on a mission. It’s a secret mission.”
“I had the crazy idea. I heard my paperback is out and IT’S in Target. So we are going to go undercover because I have not seen my book actually in a Target store. So we are going to try to do this low-key.” added Michelle.
WATCH:
While in St. Louis, I stopped by @Target to run a few errands and check out the paperback of my book, #TheLightWeCarry. I left behind a few signed copies – if you find them, let me know! pic.twitter.com/4AhMU9zFPY
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) April 19, 2024
Per KDSK:
Former First Lady Michelle Obama made a secret stop at a St. Louis area Target recently and left a surprise behind for a lucky few shoppers.
In a video post to X, formerly known as Twitter, Obama said she heard that her newest book “The Light We Carry” was available in paperback at Target and had yet to see it in the store.
The book, originally published as a hardcover in November 2022, was published in paperback and was released in stores on April 16, 2024.
So while in St. Louis, Obama and her crew set out on a “secret mission” and went into a Target to check the paperback book out.
Michelle was in St. Louis to be a keynote speaker at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing.
Michelle Obama @MichelleObama at #NatCon24:
“When you are other, when you are on the margins, you just don’t have room to fail… My mother instilled in me the competence and the confidence that I would need to call upon again and again to go through life in White America.” pic.twitter.com/k4YyIuq0ZV
— Devika Bhushan, MD (@DrDevikaB) April 17, 2024
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A huge, bloody party boat brawl erupted Saturday in Brooklyn and left multiple people with injuries, including two stabbing victims.
The New York Post reported the disturbing incident occurred just after 5 p.m. at Pier 4 at the Brooklyn Army Terminal near 58th Street in Sunset Park. The individuals were onboard the yacht, Cornucopia Majesty.
Video footage shows the brawl beginning inside the party boat, with several unidentified individuals shoving and punching each other. One man can be heard shouting “Calm down!” and “Stop” multiple times in an effort to calm tensions. He then calls out for security.
Video shows some of the wild Brooklyn party boat brawl that left two people stabbed and another bashed in the head with a bottle.
Several men and women can be seen pushing and shoving each other on the pier right next to the massive yacht.
At one point, a man is forced to the… pic.twitter.com/Bj0NPaoSx0
— Crime In NYC (@CrimeInNYC) April 21, 2024
The fight then spills outside the boat on the pier with men and women pushing and shoving each other. At one point, a man is shoved to the ground while another stomps on his face, knocking him out.
A security guard steps in and attempts to pull the victim’s body away from the chaos. The video also shows a man with a ripped t-shirt and a female thrown to the floor.
WATCH:
SUNSET PARK BROOKLYN–Dramatic cell phone videos taken yesterday at Brooklyn Army Terminal showing the moments a brawl broke out inside a Party Boat that spilled outside the Boat ending in multiple people stabbed & hospitalized. Full video of the scene & interviews on… pic.twitter.com/a4dzv8S4mj
— LLN NYC (@loudlabsnyc) April 21, 2024
The Post reports that after the stabbing, several bystanders were shrieking in horror upon seeing one wounded man bleeding profusely on the floor.
“Somebody pick him up!” one witness yells. “He got stabbed!”
Some bystanders then picked up the injured male. He was passed over the fence to a group of males who put him in the ambulance.
Police arrived at the yacht to find multiple injured people, two with knife wounds. One 32-year-old male had been stabbed in the torso and a 40-year-old man was left with several stab wounds to the chest and abdomen.
A 28-year-old male also had been bashed on top of his head with a bottle while an unidentified, injured female was also put on a stretcher and was put in the ambulance. Police then evacuated the yacht.
One passenger, who identified himself as Java, told the Post everyone was having “a good time” until the end.
Here is the full video of the event along with the aftermath, including interviews with witnesses.
The Post reports the three wounded men were taken to NYU Langone Hospital. All are reportedly in stable condition. There is no word on the female’s health, however.
The other injured people did not require hospitalization.
Police say the brawl started after an unknown argument and began after the boat docked at the pier.
According to the Post, no suspects have been identified at this point.
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The tiny house, complete with a front door, sits on the side of the 110 Freeway near Highland Park.
The house is one of several makeshift homes along the strip of highway.
“He has lights, a stove, refrigerator for food, it’s in good condition,” a man named Cesar, who also lives in the makeshift community where the tiny house is located, told ABC 7.
Highland Park neighbors voice concerns about homeless encampment that looks more like a small house w/electricity, stove & refrigerator inside. It’s nestled between 110 freeway and the Arroyo Seco.
Man living here says he works part-time and can’t afford anything else. @ABC7 pic.twitter.com/PbRAB93FZg
— Marc Cota-Robles (@abc7marccr) April 18, 2024
Cesar said he has lived along the strip for four years because nobody bothers them there.
The office of Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, who represents the area, sent the following statement to ABC:
“Our outreach teams are working to urgently find housing for the individuals living in this encampment and address the safety issues posed by this structure and its proximity to the river.
As the City continues to face a housing and homelessness crisis, there are currently not enough housing options available to accommodate the more than 46,000 people who are experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. Our office believes that this status quo is unacceptable and is working to urgently address this crisis, with both short term and long term solutions.”
Last year, 2,033 homeless people died in Los Angeles.
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A New York Home Depot has gone to extreme lengths to protect its customers from the state’s increased problem with lawlessness.
According to The New York Post, the store in Rochelle, New York has employed a guard dog and private security to try and solve the issue, which continues to grow worse as the Biden regime continues to allow millions of people cross into the country every year.
The Post reports:
Two men wearing MSA Security caps and bulletproof vests with a German Shepherd in tow patrolled the Home Depot in New Rochelle on Tuesday.
“It’s more about omnipresence,” one guard said, explaining that the company was contracted a few weeks ago. “It’s not like we let them go bite anyone or anything.”
…
The guarded New Rochelle lot was quiet and no migrants loitered there when The Post visited this week, however, seven miles away in Throggs Neck, The Bronx, at least 30 male migrants hovered at the doors of Home Depot.
Some were day laborers simply trying to “shape” for work with local contractors. But many others aggressively confronted shoppers, trying to sell them phony Apple Airpods or soliciting tips for lifting items from shopping carts into cars — even when uninvited.
The Post also spoke to some of the customers and wokrers who have to deal with the unwelcome attention:
“You come out and you’re a woman by yourself, they literally leech onto your wagon, and you’re like ‘No, I don’t need any help,’” one worker said. “And when they’re following you to your car, it’s unnerving.”
She said a female supervisor saw one of the men washing his privates with a water bottle in the lot, and that several women have called customer service to complain that migrants robbed them of purses or phones. She’s seen the number of grifters in the lot swell as the migrant population in New York City explodes.
…
Customers frequently complain about the crush of migrants, said LaurieAnn Masciocco, who works in the store’s customer service department.
“It’s come to the point where they’re invading personal space, touching people’s belongings, just harassing,” she said. “I get it, you’re trying to make a buck. But when it becomes aggressive and harassing there’s a major issue.”
“While we can’t go into specifics about our security measures, it’s not unusual for us to use third-party security at various stores across the country,” a spokesperson for Home Depot said.
Such unpleasant experiences are now part and parcel of living in New York, where Democratic authorities continue to pay for the lifestyles of illegal aliens and provide them “sanctuary” from deportation.
New York City Mayor has repeatedly warned that the issue of mass immigration will “destroy” New York City, although continues to endorse the open-border policies of the Biden regime.
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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says too much money goes to white-run arts groups, so instead he is giving $3.6 million in city-directed funds to blacks-only arts groups.
Mayor Scott announced last week that “white-ran” businesses were for too long getting public dollars so he is going to divert COVID funds to non-white businesses.
"For too long, public dollars have simply just gone to the big names and the big players in town," Mayor Scott said. "And dare I say, I know my staff is going to hate this, the big names and big players in town that just happen to be White-ran organizations in Baltimore."
Not only is the Baltimore mayor clearly giving away funds in an illegal way, discriminating against all other races in how he gives out taxpayer money, but he's also wrong about there being white-run arts museums in his own city, including for art museums he sits on the board for.
Scott is awarding the "Diversity in Arts" grants funded by federal COVID-19 relief dollars. Capital grant recipients include the The National Great Blacks In Wax Museum and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture.
The National Great Blacks Wax Museum has a wide array of statues from all stages of black history, and is receiving $250,000 in taxpayer funds. It received $2 million in federal funds last year. It reports having 150,000 annual visitors.
The Lewis museum claims to have over 10,000 items in its collection. It reported 15,000 general admission visitors in its 2023 annual report.
The art museums that did not receive the Mayor's funding, include the three most prominent museums in the Charm City such as the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum and the American Visionaries Art Museum.
But none of those three appear to be hostile to black art, black leadership, or are especially white-run, in contrast to the Mayor's statements.
The Baltimore Museum of Art's Director is Asma Naeem, who is Pakistani as noted in the press release announcing her appointment.
The Mayor's comments about Baltimore's art museums being white-run as it relates to the Walters Art Museum are even more out-of-touch with reality though. Oddly, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott sits as a trustee on the Walters Art Museum's leadership board. As well, the Chair of the Board is Guy Flynn, is black.
The third traditional Baltimore art museum, the American Visionary Art Museum was, until very recently, similarly led by a black woman, Jenenne Whitfield. Whitfield was the director of the museum from March 2022 through September 21, 2023, because of unstated creative differences with the organization's board of directors. The museum's co-founder Rebecca Alban Hoffberger is currently serving as an interim until they can find a permanent replacement.
So the motivation as stated by the Mayor to fund all-black art outlets at the expense of the more traditional art museums in Baltimore because they were all white-run, appears to be wholly false.
Mayor Scott is in a tough Democrat primary, for a primary election being held on May 14th. There are four leading challengers for the nomination, and while Scott is the favorite there are strong contenders.
Whomever prevails faces a tough budget because of the prior spending priorities, such as spending millions of dollars on art projects. Because of increased education payments, the City's Comptroller Bill Henry says that the 2025 Fiscal Year budget may prove impossible to draft, pass, and reconcile.
"We're now paying almost twice what we were paying several years ago in terms of local contribution to the school system, which is good for the schools. And it's not like the kids don't need the additional resources. It's just that that puts an incredible challenge on local government to continue to provide all of the other services that people expect from city government," Henry said.
Baltimore is the largest city in Maryland, with an estimated 575,000 citizens. The city's annual budget is $3.47 billion. The racial demographics of the city are roughly 62% black, and 32% white.
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Biden has long claimed to be a devout Catholic despite his policies being deeply contrary to the church’s teachings.
Michigan Bishop Robert Gruss of the Diocese of Saginaw lectured at the Cathedral of Mary of the Assumption on April 5 and discussed Biden.
Fox News reports, “Asking the faithful to interrogate their own hatreds and resentments, the bishop pointed out that destructive lack of forgiveness does not apply only to individuals they know, but also public figures and institutions.”
“If you’re harboring bad, negative, resentful feelings towards our president, you’re not free,” Gruss said. “Otherwise, you’re letting him control you and your thoughts and your words and your actions. And I guarantee that if he is a problem for you, then those thoughts, words, and actions are negative — they’re gonna come out and then we commit sin. That’s what sin is.”
“How many times have you confessed your anger towards the president?” the bishop asked, making the crowd laugh. “I’m serious, I’m not kidding. If you have it, you should be confessing it. Otherwise, you’re not free.”
Gruss said that as far as his opinion of Biden, he pities him.
“I don’t have any anger towards the president. I feel sorry for him. I’m not angry at him, he’s just stupid,” Gruss said.
The congregation laughed again, prompting Gruss to clarify, “It’s not stupidity in the derogatory way, it’s stupidity in the sense of […] he doesn’t understand the Catholic faith.”
WATCH THE FULL LECTURE HERE:
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Protesters at Columbia University chanted explicitly pro-terror slogans this week, calling for the killing of Israeli soldiers, as they occupied the campus illegally — even after a wave of arrests by the New York Police Department. The video of the
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Yesterday evening, at a Memphis, Tennessee ‘block party’, two were killed and at least 14 injured in a shooting spree at what some are calling a ‘420 celebration’ involving weed.
More than 300 shots were fired, causing participants to flee.
JUST IN: Memphis police in Tennessee are responding to a mass shooting reported in Orange Mound at a “block party.”
According to the Memphis Police Department who spoke with ABC24, at least two people are dead and others were rushed to the hospital.
“Two people were pronounced… pic.twitter.com/wh6vw0jCsy
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 21, 2024
The shooting happened in Memphis at the corner of Carnes Avenue and Grand Street, which is right next to Orange Mound Park in central Memphis.
Some participants were reportedly openly carrying rifles and weapons.
Online, some have already claimed that the media will not report on this incident because many of the rally participants appear to be African Americans. The political left typically complains about the way language is used related to racial crime stories, and the political right sometimes complains about how the mainstream media suppresses the race of criminal defendants or in the presentation of crime statistics to hide the frequency of offenses by specific racial groups.
The motive of the shooters is not known at this time, and the Memphis Police report that they are still investigating the crimes involved.
Memphis Mayor Paul Young, who was elected in the past year, is faced with a city of 621,000 and one of the highest crime rates in the country.
The prior Mayor blamed the District Attorney and court system for its weak-on-crime policies, releasing violent criminals from prison, and low bond policies, as causing the rise in Memphis’ crime problems.
Then-Mayor Strickland said in 2023:
“…ask the District Attorney’s and the judges and the judicial commissioners and the people who run our state prisons. Why are they letting these people out so quickly? That’s the problem. You oughta talk to the court system, what are they doing about crime?” Strickland said. “I’ll tell you what they’re doing, they’re letting criminals out on the street violent criminals back out on the street, low bonds.”
Memphis had its highest crime rate in history in 2023. With 2022 data, Memphis had the highest violent crime rate in the country, which included 397 murders.
Memphis radically changed its bail system in August 2022. The changes included revising the way in which bail was set by a judge. Bail is the insurance provided by a defendant to show up for future court dates. Without a financial penalty, many choose to simply ignore court subpoenas. The normal ‘failure to appear’ rate for criminal defendants in normal courts is around three percent. In areas that have enacted left-wing bail reform, the ‘failure to appear’ usually hovers around 50 percent. The American Civil Liberties Union “ACLU”, which was originally founded to help Communists resist the World War 1 draft, praised the Memphis bail reform decision.
Many in New York State are convinced that left-wing ‘bail reform’ there caused violent crime to skyrocket throughout the state, especially in the major cities.
Crime has substantially increased throughout America since the disputed 2020 election. Conservatives typically blame “soft on crime” policies such as releasing violent criminals from prison, low/no bond arrangements where criminals aren’t motivated to even show up to court once released from jail, among other policies. Liberals have typically blamed poverty as the cause of crime, either because a defendant needs money or because they haven’t been able to get an education to become too educated to commit crime.
And of course the political left will also use word play and statistics abuse in order to gaslight America that violent crime is going down, such as when National Public Radio said as much earlier this year, “In cities big and small, from both coasts, violence has dropped.”
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Connolly was raging at Republicans opposing the aid package to Ukraine before Saturday’s vote.
“Some say, well, we have to deal with our border first,” Connolly claimed. “The Ukrainian-Russian border is our border! It’s the border between depraved autocracy and freedom-loving people seeking our democratic way of life! Do we have a stake in that outcome? Yes. Undeniably, yes.”
The melodramatic pontificating continues with Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA). “Some say, well, we have to deal with our border first,” bellows Connolly. “The Ukrainian Russian border is OUR border!”
Who knew?!? It’s basically like the border between Virginia and Maryland pic.twitter.com/51rQcpdqOd
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 20, 2024
Connolly echoed the sentiment in a post on X, writing, “The border between Russia and Ukraine is the border between depravity and democracy. Between autocracy and freedom. We undeniably have a stake in that outcome of that fight.”
The border between Russia and Ukraine is the border between depravity and democracy. Between autocracy and freedom.
We undeniably have a stake in that outcome of that fight.
Today, we must stand shoulder to shoulder with our Ukrainian brothers and sisters. pic.twitter.com/quM8sOUl9Y
— Rep. Gerry Connolly (@GerryConnolly) April 20, 2024
“Today, we must stand shoulder to shoulder with our Ukrainian brothers and sisters,” the lawmaker continued in the post, which also included a video of his speech.
The House ultimately passed the bill, which includes $61 billion in aid for Ukraine.
Meanwhile, our own border is currently being invaded.
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Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said Republicans who voted against the $61 billion to fund the war in Ukraine are "traitors".
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Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council staffer and Army officer who sparked the impeachment of former President Donald Trump over Ukraine aid, celebrated Congress's passage of a bill to send $60 billion more to Ukraine on Saturday.
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Former Ohio State quarterback and national champion Cardale Jones blasted anti-Israel protests at his alma mater. Claiming that the activities of the protesters did not represent "THE Ohio State University" he attended.
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China has reportedly ordered Apple to remove WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram, among other popular messaging apps, from its iPhone app store in order to comply with the Chinese Communist Party's censorship demand.
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Around the world, a myriad of different localities have economies that revolve around tourism. This applies to both rich and developing countries, both warm and cold weathered.
What these places all have in common is that – for better or for worse – the lives of the local communities will be deeply affected by the relentless influx of visitors.
It has now come to the point where many of the most sought-after tourist attractions are becoming over-crowded in a way that is disrupting the life of the locals in an unacceptable way.
So, they are starting to react. These last few days we saw parallel examples from the sunny Spanish Canary Islands and from the northern Netherlands city of Amsterdam.
Different realities, same problem: too many people.
It’s been reported that thousands of people protested today (20) in Tenerife, in the Spanish Canary Islands, situated along the coast of North Africa.
The locals are calling for limits in tourist arrivals, and also want to stop a boom in short-term holiday rentals and hotel construction that is driving up housing costs for them.
Reuters reported:
“Holding placards reading ‘People live here’ and ‘We don’t want to see our island die’, demonstrators said changes must be made to the tourism industry that accounts for 35% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the Canary Islands archipelago.
‘It’s not a message against the tourist, but against a tourism model that doesn’t benefit this land and needs to be changed’, one of the protesters told Reuters during the march in Tenerife’s capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Smaller marches were held elsewhere in the island group and other Spanish cities, all of them organized by about two dozen environmental organizations ahead of the peak summer holiday season.”
The protestors want a limit on visitor numbers to diminish pressure on the islands’ environment, infrastructure and housing stock.
They also want to enact curbs on property purchases by foreigners.
“‘The authorities must immediately stop this corrupt and destructive model that depletes the resources and makes the economy more precarious. The Canary Islands have limits and people’s patience too’, Antonio Bullon, one of the protest leaders, told Reuters.
The archipelago of 2.2 million people was visited by nearly 14 million foreign tourists in 2023, up 13% from the previous year, according to official data.”
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, at the northern coast of Europe, the Netherlands capital city of Amsterdam is banning the construction of new hotel buildings in its latest move to curb over-tourism.
The Dutch city is also establishing limits to the number of overnight stays by tourists.
Euronews reported:
“‘We want to make and keep the city livable for residents and visitors’, the local government said in a statement.
‘This means: no over-tourism, no new hotels, and no more than 20 million hotel overnight stays by tourists per year’.
Authorities also announced a limit on river cruises as part of the bid to reduce visitor numbers.”
The new rules state that construction of a new hotel in Amsterdam will only be allowed if another structure closes.
Amsterdam’s authorities also cut the number of riverboat cruises that enter the capital, reducing them from 2,300 vessels to some 1,150.
“This restriction would slash the number of tourists visiting Amsterdam by about 271,000, according to national news site Dutch News.
Cruises are particularly disruptive during the spring bulb season when some 1,000 of them anchor in Amsterdam, city finance chief Hester van Buren told Dutch News.
‘I am not saying this is going to solve the problem of too many tourists’, Van Buren said during a presentation of the plan this week.
‘But we are not going to divide tourists up into good and bad. This is one of a string of measures to reduce the number of tourists in total. It is about the overcrowding and the coaches parked all over the pavements’.”
The ongoing drive against over-tourism in Amsterdam has also seen its tourist tax hiked, marijuana banned in the red light district and tours of sex workers’ windows prohibited.
Read more about curbing tourism:
NOT AN AMUSEMENT PARK: Japanese City of Kyoto Bars Tourists From Popular ‘Geisha District’
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On January 6, 2021, Raechel Genco and her husband Ryan Samsel woke up early in the morning and left Pennsylvania to head down to Washington DC. The couple parked at Pentagon City Mail and took a train into DC. When they arrived, they walked to find where President Trump was speaking. While waiting, they walked around, talked with people, took some pictures and stopped at a few vendors.
Once Trump started speaking, they found a spot to stand and during his speech, it was hard to hear him and seemed like the volume on the speakers was very low/muffled. After a while, Ryan had to use the bathroom and so they walked down Pennsylvania Avenue where there were a lot of people already walking down towards the Capital and they joined them.
One group was chanting “F*** Anifia”, then there was another group of people they noticed who were wearing tie-dyed shirts and another group standing around. Raechel later found out they were some of the Proud Boys members. Ryan went up to a gentleman but Raechel was not sure what was said. As they walked around, there happened to be another small group of people, and one of them had a gun holster around his waist.
According to Raechel, the ‘protester’ with the gun was hanging with Ray Epps that day. That protester was not arrested for three years until video was released of him shooting the gun in the air that day.
Before they got to the US Capitol, the first set of bike racks were already taken down so everyone was standing at the second set of bike racks. She stood off to the right side at least 3-4 rows back from the bike rack as people started filling the gaps. There was a lot of yelling, another person was using a bullhorn, and someone else was yelling in a microphone.
Ray Epps was seen leading the crowd at this point. He whispered in Ryan Samsel’s ear how to take down the bike racks before they were breached. Epps was leading the effort. Epps later lied to congressional investigators about his role in breaching the barriers to the Capitol.
Raechel Samsel was off to the side as protesters worked their way to the US Capitol. Raechel never committed any acts of violence and never entered the US Capitol.
Raechel says at the time, she was confused on what was going on and stood off to the side by the bike rack. She believes there were two police officers standing near her. She remembers Ryan telling her to stay there. But as more people started to come through the opening she had to follow with the crowd before being trampled on. There were tens of thousands of people walking peacefully to the US Capitol. Raechel then went through a dirt pathway and found her way up to where other people were standing around the Capital. She stood back by the plaza area behind the scaffolding. She was surrounded by many friendly people who were praying, singing, and chanting “USA.” People were very peaceful at this point.
The police then started firing flash bangs into the crowd without warning. This caused people to get upset. Ryan rendered aid and helped Joshua Black after he was shot in the face with a rubber bullet. The police attack was unrelenting.
Then a Capital police officer started shooting down the crowd of thousands from his perch above them. The police officer was shooting protesters in the head. The officer shot Joshua Black in the cheek with a rubber bullet. Ryan Samsel offered assistance to Black who was bleeding out.
There was a flash-bang thrown not too far from where Raechel was standing and tear gas got into her eyes and in her lungs. It was so bad she could not breathe. She says it felt like her eyes and lungs were on fire. Thankfully someone standing near her had a bottle of water and Ryan poured water into her eyes. At that point Ryan was worried and they both agreed it was time to leave.
While trying to find their way out of the area they came across a lady that was in distress. Raechel and Ryan, along with one other person, helped the woman up and passed her to some other people to get her some medical help. They then left the Capital to walk back to the train station and drove home.
Raechel Genco was later arrested by the Biden regime.
Raechel was forced to spend tens of thousands of dollars on attorney costs and a hundred hours of community service.
Raechel relayed this information to The Gateway Pundit:
Raechel: I just want to give you some extra information: So my court date is on May 9th at 1:30 PM in Harrisburg. As for the J6 case, I was charged with a disorderly conduct misdemeanor charge. I paid as $500 fine and had to do 60 hrs of community service which I completed. The probation officer turned around and accused me of not completing my hours and said that the letter of completion was a forgery. So now they want to revoke my probation and re-indict me on new felony charges. I have emails to prove my innocence. But, of course, they are going to try and pin this all up on me and try to accuse me of doing something I never did. The government is out for blood and trying to destroy lives.
Back in July 2023 Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX), a former sheriff, destroyed dirty Chris Wray during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Nehls brought video and photos of Ray Epps encouraging Trump supporters to enter the US Capitol on January 5th and January 6th and then leading the charge through the first ste of barriers to the US Capitol.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Ray Epps ALSO led the charge through the second set of barriers that day.
Ray Epps also was filmed hurling a massive metal sign at police that day. He never was charged for this criminal act.
Here is Rep. Nehls confronting Chris Wray.
Rep. Troy Nehls: There he is breaching the line going in at the first breach into the capital into the Capitol grounds of restricted area. Mr. Wray you have arrested hundreds of people related to January 6 and there have been people arrested for breaching Capitol grounds. Couy Girffin is an example. Raechel Genco is an example. And then we go to Mr. Brandon Straka. Brandon was arrested for disorderly and destructive conduct which included yelling, I quote go, go as rioters tried to empty the Capitol. These three never went into the Capitol, they never assaulted anyone. So let’s be honest with each other. There is very little difference between the actions of Ray Epps and Brandon Straka that day. But yet Straka was arrested and Epps wasn’t. Epps also testified to the January 6 committee. He was back at his hotel when video Evans showed that he wasn’t. He lied. He was on the Capitol grounds just as Brandon Strecker was. EPS even texted his nephew at 02:12 p.m. And said I quote I was in the front with a few others. It was on the video. I also orchestrated it. Now look into the camera sir when you answer my next question. Are you going to arrest Mr. Epps, yes or no?
Here is the video of Rep. Troy Nehls confronting Chris Wray.
This week The Gateway Pundit received a video from political prisoner Ryan Samsel from his current location in the MDC Brooklyn Prison.
Ryan told us that shortly after Nehls confronted Chris Wray and mentioned Raechel Genco by name, the FBI retaliated against Raechel and threatened to punish her further.
Raechel had completed her community service hours but the FBI threatened to punish her further and keep her on probation for another 4 years — for standing outside of the US Capitol on January 6.
Here is the transcript of Ryan Samsel’s call this week.
Ryan Samsel:
Jim Hoft: Hi, Ryan Sam. Thank you for reaching out. I’m really sorry about your situation. Can you tell me the latest developments? This has to do with your wife, Raechel.
Ryan Samsel: Yeah, Raechel Genco. So it’s been over three years since January 6th. She got arrested for parading and protesting, not even trespassing. They arrested her about a year into her sentence. Now, Troy Nehls questioned Christopher Wray and asked Christopher Wray why he arrested Raechel. He called her Genco — Then he brought up a few other defendants. Under the question, Christopher Wray said, I will not answer that question. Raechel Genco was due to be off probation a month later. A day or two after that very hearing, Raechel got a notification from her probation officer saying that she was in violation of her probation. They extended her probation three months, which is completely illegal without a hearing. Then the probation officer then said, Hey, we can’t supervise you no more. You’re free to go, but we’re going to have a hearing because you violated your probation. So Reachel said, ‘What’s my violation?’ They didn’t have a violation yet. So they came at her a few months later and they said, You lied on doing your community service. Well, she says, No, I didn’t. I have all the emails to my community service. So then they violated her in Judge Cobb’s courtroom.
Judge Cobb then switched from… The best of my knowledge, Judge Cobb then said, No, we can’t do it here. You have to do it in the district that she was at, which was Pennsylvania. So now, she’s now facing felony charges because Christopher Way is retaliating because Troy Nehl’s challenged Christopher Wray on why Raechel Jenco was charged, and Ray Epps wasn’t at the time.
Ray Epps was then charged a week later. Raechel Jenco was in violation of probation the next day or two days later. Now she’s going to court on May 5th, and in central Pennsylvania in the Harrisburg region. Now they said that the prosecutor in the case even said, Hey, look, let’s just give her a probation over and let her just redo the probation, give her another chance. Even though she did complete it, not only she completed, she did double. We have the proof. I’ll send you that. I’ll send you the recording of Christopher Wray being questioned by Troy Nehls. This is the retaliation that they’re doing. Because everybody’s supporting us and all of us in DC, so now what they’re doing is they’re attacking us in our own districts, because now we can’t…
So, Jim, I ask you, please spread this awareness. But this is the retaliation. And I’ll send you all the clips of Troy Nehl’s doing this. I’ll send you everything, and I would really appreciate.
Jim Hoft: Let me know this, too. Raechel, what was her original charges? What did they charge her with? And what did she do that day on January sixth?
Ryan Samsel: Jim, she walked up the stairs behind me and nothing. She got charged with parading and protesting. That was it. That was her charge, was parading and protesting. She never went in a building, and that was the thing. She was the only single person that did not go in a building that got that charge… She was the only one that was charged with parading and protesting that did not enter the building. She never went in and was charged with that.
Nobody else was charged with that. Even Julie Kelly, when she did it, she says, Is it odd that she was with Ryan Samsel and was charged with that? The FBI said, Hey, ‘”Listen, all you got to do is testify and say you’ve seen Ryan do this and make sure you don’t bring Ray Epps’ name up and say that Ryan was lying, and she refused to do that.” Her life has been hell ever since. Her probation officer said, It’s a part for Raechel is not allowed to go to the media. It’s a part of her probation. Now that Raechel’s… She only got one year probation.
It’s literally, Jim, we’re going three years later, and she’s still being supervised because what they’re doing is they’re violating her on a fake violation, and it’s an unsupervised probation now. So then they’re going to just keep extended. They’ll turn a one-year probation to a five-year probation by doing this shit. Oh, my God.
Jim Hoft: That’s horrible. It’s absolutely horrible. We’ll definitely report on this, Ryan. Thank you for letting me know. I’m really sorry to hear that about Raechel. I had no idea that was going on.
All right. I’ll send you a clip of Troy Nell’s when he berated Christopher Raito to help support that if you want, Jim.
Okay, great. That would be great. Thank you, Ryan.
All right, bud. I’ll talk to you. Okay. All right.
Bye.
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This article originally appeared on AbleChild.org and JoeHoft.com and was republished with permission.
The parents of the victims of the Covenant School in Nashville, TN, have begged Davidson County Chancery Court to withhold from the public Audrey Hale’s manifesto and all documents belonging to the shooter, which were legally gifted to the parents of the victims by the shooter’s parents.
Gifting the documents to the parents of the victims is odd. But for the parents of the victims to then assert that they hold some kind of “copyright” on those documents is twisted on its face and one cannot help but wonder what really is behind this enormous effort to withhold information about Audrey Hale.
Let’s think about it for a minute. What we know is that Audrey Hale went to elementary school at Covenant, transferred out to Isaiah T. Creswell Middle School and Nashville School of Arts then on to Nossi College of Arts. Everything was seemingly okay.
At 28 years old, the now transitioning female, was identifying as the male, Aiden and, while living at home with mom and dad, began purchasing seven firearms, including shotguns, rifles, and handguns. It was also at this time that we find Hale being “treated” for an emotional disorder.
On the morning of March 27, 2023, Hale drove to her elementary alma mater and discharged 150 rounds, killing three children and three adults. Why? Why did Hale choose Covenant School for her murderous actions? Why not Middle or High School or how about the local fast-food joint? This was a specific hit. Planned. Hale knew where she was going and why.
The problem is that the public doesn’t know why. The public doesn’t know why Hale decided to take the lives of six innocent people. But the public will have to live with any legislation that comes from her murderous behavior… legislation that may limit its right to own firearms or increases funding for mental health services that may actually be responsible for Hale’s actions.
So now let’s consider what we don’t know. We don’t know the name of the doctor or psychiatrist that was “treating” Hale for the emotional disorder. We don’t know what “treatment” was provided to Hale. Did Hale have talk therapy or was Hale prescribed psychiatric mind-altering drugs? Did Hale’s doctor know whether she was a threat to herself or others? If yes, was this information passed along to law enforcement? Did the doctor know Hale was buying guns and was that information shared with law enforcement?
Moreover, the autopsy explains that there was no positive hit for many different types of prescription drugs, and that doesn’t take into consideration that Hale could have gone off the medications prior to the shooting. Knowing whether Hale had been prescribed any psychiatric medications is imperative because the adverse events associated with going cold turkey off drugs are extremely serious and even deadly, depending on the drug. Furthermore, there still are some questions regarding the therapeutic levels of psychotropic drugs that may have been excluded from the lab report.
Crazier still, let’s also ask why in the world did Hale’s parents think it was a good idea to gift the shooter’s personal writing history to the victim’s families? That’s a first. Why? What did these parents think would come from this bizarre action? Is it possible that Hale’s parents thought this would somehow make it easier for the victims’ families? Or did Hale’s parents believe giving away their daughter’s writings would relieve them of any culpability?
One also must wonder whether the Covenant School’s history of sexual abuse that is widely reported on social media had any role in Hales attack on the school. Was Hale aware of the rumored sexual abuse or, God forbid, was Hale a victim? Who knows? It’s anyone’s guess. And this is the problem with withholding any data that may shed light on what led to Hale’s inexplicable murderous actions.
The conflicts of interest of some of the parents of covenant school are shockingly obvious, having created two cash cows, the Covenant Families for Brighter Tomorrows, and the Covenant Families Action Fund, will surely be used to generate attacks against the second amendment and push for coercive mental health programs of all parents across the State.
In addition, a trustee of the board of the covenant school, Dr. C. Buddy Creech, is a vaccinologist, at Vanderbilt Medical Center, which also happens to be a major stakeholder in the transitioning industry. It would be interesting to know where Hale was seeking guidance for her transition. This is why it is important to release as much information as possible about the school and the shooter.
Keeping the public in the dark about Hale’s motives only leads to speculation and conspiracy theories. The families of the victims say that releasing the manifesto and documents will lead to copycat shootings. Naturally, they could be right, but withholding the information may also lead to more shootings. Keeping Hales motives secret does not get the public to why the murders occurred. Only sunshine on the issue can get the public the information it needs to come up with solutions to these deadly acts of cowardice.
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) totally embarrassed the US Army Secretary and exposed Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy catastrophe during questioning this week in the US House of Representatives’ Armed Services Committee hearing.
Gaetz exposed the latest Biden foreign policy failure – this time in Niger, Africa.
US troops are trapped in the country allegedly without water and medicine. The Army was likely hiding this to protect itself from embarrassment. Deployed Americans are in limbo and unable to do their jobs and the Biden State Department is completely outmaneuvered once again.
Secretary Wormuth and General Randy George testified before the House Armed Services Committee on April 16th.
Matt Gaetz posted the report on his congressional webpage.
US Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, a potential DEI hire, was stunned and speechless when Matt Gaetz confronted her about the trapped US soldiers in Niger a country in tremendous turmoil.
Matt Gaetz: SecretaryWormuth, there’s train and equip money requested in this budget, right?
Secretary Wormuth: Certainly, congressman.
Matt Gaetz: The train and equip mission in Niger is owned by the army, right?
Wormuth: Yes. We certainly provide soldiers for that. Yes.
Matt Gaetz: General, do you know what is going on in Niger right now?
General George: I know there’s some challenges over there in Niger right now, and I don’t think that we are actually in charge of that mission that’s on the ground.
Matt Gaetz: Yeah, we just heard the secretary say you’ve got soldiers there, so we’re going to dive into that to some extent. Do you know what the status is of diplomatic overflights to our installations in Najair?
General George: I’m vaguely track I’m assuming that that’s a challenge.
Matt Gaetz: I mean, it’s not a challenge. It’s binary. Are we allowed right now to do diplomatic overflights in Niger? Yes or no?
General George: I don’t know exactly.
Matt Gaetz: I’m not tracking it that close. I don’t think- Madam Secretary, do you know if we’re allowed to do those diplomatic overflights?
Wormuth: I don’t, but I’m sure the Afrocom commander does.
Matt Gaetz: Yeah, but you guys just said it’s in the budget you’re asking for to do these train and equip missions. One of them is in Niger. In Niger right now, the government has stopped us from doing diplomatic overflight missions. We have army soldiers right now in Niger who aren’t getting their troop rotations, who aren’t getting their medicine, who aren’t getting their supplies, who aren’t getting their mail. The two senior people in the United United States Army are sitting before me and it’s like, Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Are you going to do anything for the soldiers that are in Niger right now who can’t get medicine? Yes or no?
Wormuth: Congressman certainly, we can talk to General Langley and make sure that…
Matt Gaetz: I’ve talked to General Langley. He comes in here and never has really good answers. I asked him for information about how many of the coup leaders we had trained, including in Niger, and Ghana, and Mali, and the Ivory Coast, and he didn’t even produce his I’ll report on time. So pardon me for a lack of confidence in General Langley. What I’m telling the two of you is that you have a responsibility for these soldiers in Niger. And general, you would agree with me with the premise that we should never sacrifice the well-being of our service members to avoid political embarrassment, right?
General George: Congressmen, I will tell you, I’m not tracking that somebody in Niger is not getting their medicine or their mail, but I will follow up after this.
Matt Gaetz: You don’t even know the stats of diplomatic overflights. How about the great power competition? You would If we were to train and equip missions, we would never want Russian soldiers at the US installation where we’re doing train and equip, right? That’s not even a tough question. You would agree?
General George: Yes.
Matt Gaetz: If there were Russian soldiers behind the wire at Air Base 101 in Niger, where we have soldiers doing the training and equip mission, that would concern you, wouldn’t it? Right. Well, I’m here to tell you we’ve received reports that they run out of medicine in May, that they cannot get their troop rotations. You know why you don’t know that? Because it’s a cover up. Because the US 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. This was the model of resilience. Then, lo and behold, the very coup leader we trained takes over the country. Then we struggle with whether or not to call it a coup. We’ve now called it a coup. Since we’ve called it a coup, now they won’t let us get folks in and out.
And so I’m looking at what could erupt as another Bengazi. There is no mission for them to do. There is no train and equip right now with the coup leaders. So we got a bunch of people sitting around without their supplies, without their medicine. And the whole reason intelligence isn’t getting to us is because the embassy is blocking it because Blinken is humiliated that this failed.
And I’ve used my five minutes on everything in the army right now because I have constituents who are there in Niger, and they’re wondering how to get water. Did you know they can’t even get clean water? Did you know that the partner nations that we have at that base with our soldiers, the partner nations, the Italians and the Germans, they’ve stopped cooperating with us. They won’t even help us get provisions to our troops because of the status of forces agreement that we have with the government being deemed invalid. I am just a country lawyer from North Florida, but this strikes me as something the two of you should know about. I get the blank stares, but Secretary Wormuth, can I take as your commitment that you are going to leave here and you’re going to see to the well-being of these folks in Niger and that they can get the rotations and the medicine they need?
Wormuth: Certainly, I will make sure they’re getting the medicine and the water that they need. Yes, congressman.
Here’s the video:
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If you remember my Gilgo Beach piece, I said Police Chief James Burke had uncovered The American Stasi, ie US Domestic Surveillance was somehow involved in the Gilgo Beach serial killer case, with the killer possibly actually being domestic surveillance. In the article I noted that when they arrested the current suspect, I had shown they immediately arrested the Police Chief who had stood up to Cabal, for indecent exposure, with the arresting officer claiming the Chief walked up to him with his pants down, and said, “I like to suck cock.” That discredited him, so he could never be called to testify. However I missed that they dropped the main charges against him within a week. Still the damage was done. And yet, the defense attorney now is requesting all the records on the Police Chief, and the prosecutor is saying many of the records are FBI, and FBI does not have to turn anything over for discovery.
President Biden signed a bill Saturday extending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance program another two years. Hard to see any upside to this one.
The 29 Senate republicans who approved the extension of FISA in the wee hours of night.
House RINOS pass Mike Johnson’s Biden backed $95 BILLION in foreign aid bills including ADDITIONAL $60.84 BILLION to Ukraine – Here are the RINOs who voted to fund conflicts oceans away. I doubt there is a Republican in office, who would not have voted for it if intelligence pulled them in and told them, they were voting for it. These were just the ones who got the call.
Ukrainian flags fly in the chamber of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives as they vote to send more of your hard-earned money to a corrupt foreign regime. And just like that they shout “UKRAINE! UKRAINE!” while happily working to secure Ukraine’s borders, not ours.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) blasted the House for passing foreign aid bills, arguing Congress is spending money that “we don’t have” and that the U.S. should be focusing on securing its own borders instead. Whatever happened to the filibuster? There was nothing these people could do but whine?
Byron Donalds: ‘Incredibly disappointing’ Johnson violated Hastert rule on passage of Ukraine aid.
Contracts between US universities, China total more than $2 billion: investigation.
Deep down, the smartest Democratic operatives were hoping that the Ukraine funding bill would fail so they could pin the inevitable collapse on Trump. Now Biden will own it completely.
The Justice Department published its interim final rule Friday for providing benefits to employees and dependents affected by mysterious brain injuries commonly and collectively known Havana syndrome. They are limiting payments because they say they think they will have to make out a lot of payments – to Justice Department employees. Only one article revealed the Miami FBI field office was being hit. There could be a lot more FBI offices which just never got articles. Nobody knows any of the people on this site are being beamed. It could be very widespread, and they just are not telling people because they do not want to start a panic. The government, telling people they could be beamed in their homes, and there is nothing anyone could do might upset people. And begin to reveal the American Stasi.
The deletion of the J6 ‘pipe bomber’ mobile device meta data, occurred at AT&T SG3 [Study Group 3] Secure Room aka the notorious Room 641A and was ordered by the DIA. The DIA, by the way, is who I’ve been saying from day one had recruited Ray Epps to be an asset.
They are 5 times larger than the CIA and way more stealthy in the crimes they commit against American citizens always using ‘National Security’ as their justification.
The J6 ‘pipe bomber’ is a government contractor with a background in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD). Their mobile device accessed DOJ/FBI 1,167 times over an approximate 2 year period and also the DC Navy Yard over 200 times during the same period.
The actual ‘pipe bombs’ can be used to train the dogs. This is important because their ‘cover story’ if they were to get caught in the act, would have been that they were hired to test security protocols. Additionally, they were actively monitoring law enforcement agencies radio traffic.
What is the Air Force military record of the ‘pipe bomber’?
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Tucker Carlson says Mike Pompeo leaned on Trump to hold back the critical JFK files. Doesn’t sound right to me. If it were me, that would only have driven me to release them more. I think Trump would be the same. Something else happened there.
Tucker Carlson on UFOs and the weird programs the government are engaging in. Short thing on some kind of weird remote viewing program which seems to have been inspired by some UFO stuff. Not that revealing, just curious.
Rep. Tim Burchett on UFOs: ‘Yeah, I think there’s a cover-up.’
Underwater UFOs display capability that ‘jeopardizes US maritime security,’ ex-Navy officer says.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt gets cold feet, won’t commit to signing anti-illegal immigration bill. Sounds like he was invited into the SCIF. Note, the reason our politicians can be blackmailed in moments is they have all been under a massive domestic surveillance op for decades.
House passes bill that could lead to U.S. TikTok ban, and Senate’s OK looks likely.
Inside the Texan desert town dubbed America’s ‘last outpost for outcasts’ – where bankrupt Alex Jones is ‘partying pretty hard’ despite still owing Sandy Hook families $1 BILLION. Town is Terlingua. There is nothing there, Google mapped like three roads in Streetview, there’s nobody there, there are no cars around it, and yet you pull out of a parking lot, and you are led by a truck as a van just happens to pull in:
You hit a corner, and a pickup is hitting it opposite you:
You pass the hotel, there is somebody just sitting in there in a car, looking out, not moving:
You hit the next intersection, a pickup hits the intersection:
Drive around the outskirts of town though on the highway, and that place is deserted.
NYT: Israelis used stealth missile on nuclear-site defenses in Iran attack.
4x vaccinated youth 318% more likely to die than unvaxxed peers.
French Farmers broke out the manure spreaders in dealing with Police at a protest.
US may send additional military advisors to Ukraine.
‘The Ukrainian-Russian border is OUR border!!’ Democrat Gerry Connolly rages at Republicans over opposition to Ukraine aid package. I so hate all these traitors.
Ukraine’s Zelensky ‘personally’ thanks Mike Johnson for $61 billion gift from U.S. taxpayers.
Joe Biden’s effort to buy the votes of young Americans by ‘forgiving’ student loan debt – something the U.S. Supreme Court told him he couldn’t do – is benefiting wealthy families, not the needy and downtrodden as Democrats would have you believe.
This is maddening.
750,000 of households receiving loan payoffs from Biden are making over $312,000. From @NellieBowles: https://t.co/lL5qKmMJU2 pic.twitter.com/WYCsdbeWvh
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) April 19, 2024
From the Free Press:
Biden continues paying off successful young voters: Sorry, I mean “forgiving student debt.” Biden this week paid off another $7.4 billion in student loans, making his total student loan cancellation something like $153 billion. And by cancellation, I mean tax dollars were used to make the ledger go to zero.
How much exactly? From Penn Wharton’s analysis: “We estimate that President Biden’s recently announced ‘New Plans’ to provide relief to student borrowers will cost $84 billion, in addition to the $475 billion that we previously estimated for President Biden’s SAVE plan.” But that goes to really needy people, right? Well, actually, at least 750,000 of those households are “making over $312,000 in average household income.”
Meanwhile, to anyone who questions this allocation of resources, the White House answer is to shame them from official White House accounts by listing how much in pandemic loans were forgiven for House Republicans who own individual small business, which is weird because the reason businesses needed pandemic relief was because the White House banned them from operating. It’s a trap! And the only answer is to pay off every Media Studies PhD student’s loan. Colleges, for their part, are now charging up to $100,000 a year. Yes, literally. And since that’s ultimately going to be paid for by the taxpayers, why work to make it less expensive? Why cut corners when you need to remodel the cafeteria?
This is such blatant corruption.
Joe Biden is robbing from plumbers, electricians, and millions of hard working Americans to pay off the mountains of debt from folks who make over $300,000 a year.
This wealth transfer is highway robbery at its finest. https://t.co/aCX3YN6nIo
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) April 19, 2024
Would Democrats impeach a Republican who ignored the SCOTUS and reached into the treasury to buy off his well-off supporters? You bet they would. https://t.co/4Rep3NPiQq
— J (@ARaised_Eyebrow) April 20, 2024
750,000 of the households that are getting their student loans "forgiven" make over $312,000 per year.
Universities have zero incentive to cut costs. The federal govt will loan unlimited $$$ to anyone with a pulse and forgive it all eventually.
Bidenomics … https://t.co/VYj7C5E4RF
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) April 20, 2024
Biden is stealing from many Americans who didn’t go to college in order to pay off people who did. It’s just stunning that this is being allowed to happen, right out in the open.
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Remember last year, when it was leaked that the left was trying to ban gas stoves and people like Chuck Schumer condescendingly insisted that no one is coming for your gas stove?
That was a lie. They are coming for your gas stove.
A climate change group called the ‘Gas Leaks Action Campaign’ has serious financial backing and is working with prominent liberal Democrats in the House and Senate.
FOX News reports:
Left-wing climate group with shady backing takes prominent role against gas stoves
A secretive climate activist group with significant financial backing is quietly taking on a more prominent role advocating against natural, gas-powered appliances, like stoves.
The Gas Leaks Action Campaign — which appears to have been first established in late 2021 or early 2022 — recently launched a $1 million ad campaign warning of the dangers posed by natural gas, the largest-ever effort of its kind. The group states on its website that natural gas harms the environment, pollutes the air inside homes and makes stoves “constantly at risk of explosion.”
The group has also spearheaded a campaign against the American Gas Association (AGA), the nation’s leading industry group representing natural gas providers. At a Washington, D.C. event earlier this month, Gas Leaks hosted Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., along with several environmental groups like the Sierra Club to blast the AGA’s lobbying activities.
“Instead of turning off the tap on fossil fuels, our country has been flooding the market with gas and, unless we do something, we are all going to drown,” said Markey, who is an original sponsor of the Green New Deal.
It’s so funny how they assured us all that this wasn’t happening, and yet, here we are.
Meet the newest player in the fight to ban gas stoves: Gas Leaks.
This shady left-wing climate group — with ties to @SenWhitehouse and @SenMarkey — has taken an increasingly greater role in the effort to ban natural, gas-powered appliances, like stoves.https://t.co/Vp6PEpJ6Eu pic.twitter.com/fpvxOmYVqE
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) April 20, 2024
NEW: A @SenWhitehouse linked left-wing climate group with shady backing takes prominent role against gas stoves:@CaitlinAPT: “Whitehouse conveniently abandons his soapbox railing against dark money when it’s time for him to cozy up to a dark money group.”https://t.co/QhhMv5XLDo
— Americans for Public Trust (@apublictrust) April 20, 2024
They can’t secure our border but they’re going to save the planet by telling you what kind of stove you’re allowed to own.
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Marxist New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a judge to void Trump’s $175 million bond that he posted to appeal the civil fraud case
Letitia James argued that California-based Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC) is not approved to do business in New York.
James also questioned whether KSIC has the funds to back up the $175 million bond Trump previously posted.
“Based on KSIC’s policyholder surplus in its most recent annual financial statement of $138,441,671, the limitation of loss on any one risk that KSIC is permitted to write is $13.8 million,” Letitia James’ office wrote in a 26-page filing according to Fox News. “The face amount of the bond exceeds this limitation by $161.2 million.”
James also argued in her filing: “KSIC is not qualified to act as the surety under this standard because its management has been found by federal authorities to have operated affiliated companies within KSIC’s holding company structure in violation of federal law on multiple occasions within the past several years.”
“KSIC does not now have an exclusive right to control the account and will not obtain such control unless and until it exercises a right to do so on two days’ notice,” James’ office wrote in the filing.
Letitia James asked the judge to void Trump’s bond and require him to post another bond within 7 days of the court’s decision.
Fox News reported:
New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing the judge in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case to void the $175 million bond that Trump previously posted to appeal his New York civil lawsuit.
In her 26-page filing obtained by Fox News Digital, James questions whether the insurance company has sufficient funds to back it up.
Trump’s bond was posted by California-based Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC), but James argued that the insurer was “not authorized” to write business in New York, stating it is a small insurer that is not authorized to write business in New York and is not regulated by the state’s insurance department, had never before written a surety bond in New York or in the prior two years in any other jurisdiction, and has a total policyholder surplus of just $138 million.
The company has a total policyholder surplus of just $138 million, the filing states. According to New York state law, smaller businesses like KSIC are not permitted to expose themselves to liabilities, like a bond, or any potential loss greater than 10 percent of their surplus.
An appellate court last month ruled that President Trump can post a $175 million bond to cover Letitia James’ $464 million judgment.
Letitia James last month took the initial step to seize Trump’s assets. She filed judgments in Westchester County where Trump’s private estate and golf course named Seven Springs is located.
President Trump had to either pay the judgment or convince the appellate court to allow him to defer the payment pending appeal.
Trump’s legal team filed an appeal and requested a stay on the massive $464 million judgment last month.
Last month Trump’s attorneys sent a letter to the Appellate Division of New York’s Supreme Court and asserted Letitia James’ actions are “unconstitutional.”
The appellate court intervened and ruled Trump can post $175 million bond.
“It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of staying enforcement of those portions of the Judgment (1) ordering disgorgement to the Attorney General of $464,576,230.62, conditioned on defendants-appellants posting, within ten (10) days of the date of this order, an undertaking in the amount of $175 million dollars,” the two-page order from the appellate said, according to ABC News.
Letitia James immediately launched an attack on Trump after the appellate court lowered the bond to $175 million and now she’s trying to void it so she can seize Trump’s properties.
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Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt is trying to find new ways to generate revenue for the state. Taxpayers are apparently not already being squeezed hard enough in the state.
During a meeting with a liberal group this week, she described her efforts and vowed to chase new revenue aggressively.
It’s disturbing to hear a state leader talking in this way, frankly suggesting that she is going after ‘everybody who has money.’
The Commonwealth Beacon reported:
The secretary promised to be aggressive in pursuing change even in the face of strong opposition. To buttress that point, she said she will not spend any time making decisions with the goal of hanging on to her job. She also said Gov. Maura Healey has her back. “This governor likes fights. She does. She loves to fight,” Tibbits-Nutt said, according to a video of her talk on the Walk Massachusetts website.
The secretary is heading a task force charged with coming up with a new funding model for transportation by the end of the year. Many insiders are openly skeptical the task force can reach consensus on a package that can make it through the Legislature, but Tibbits-Nutt said the group will be focused on getting results. She also ticked off several revenue initiatives she is interested in.
“This [task force] is actually different because we’re not censoring it,” she said. “I’m going to talk about tolling. I’m going to talk about charging TNCs [transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft] more. I’m going to talk about potentially charging more for package deliveries, charging more for payroll tax — basically going after everybody who has money. And when I’m talking tolling, I’m talking at the borders. I’m not talking within Massachusetts.”
See the video below:
This is Massachusetts Transportation Secretary from @maura_healey’s cabinet delivering a speech stating she’s targeting “everyone who has money.” This is not satire. This is a high level government official who has real power in Massachusetts. #mapoli #MassGOP pic.twitter.com/MXKNAkFfQ9
— MassGOP (@massgop) April 19, 2024
It almost sounds like she thinks the state is entitled to said money. Almost.
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Joe Biden’s America.
An illegal alien from Haiti was arrested in New York for allegedly killing his Haitian roommates on April 1st.
Kenol Baptiste was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter, according to Middletown Police Department.
The two victims had been stabbed several times. One victim died at the scene while the second victim died at the hospital during surgery.
FIRST ON FOX: A Haitian migrant now accused of killing two roommates in New York was paroled into the U.S. after booking an appointment on the controversial CBP One app — which has been expanded by the Biden administration to allow tens of thousands of migrants to enter the U.S. each month.
Kenol Baptiste, a Haitian national, was arrested in Middletown, New York, on April 1 for second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, Middletown PD said in a statement earlier this month.
Police said that two men had sustained multiple stab wounds. One was determined to have died at the scene, and the other was seriously injured and later died during surgery. Police said Baptiste was an acquaintance of the victims, and all lived at the same address. Baptiste was located in a nearby wooded area by the police’s K9 team. He was then detained at Orange County Jail.
Baptiste was caught by the Middletown P.D. K9 unit in a wooded area and was arrested. He was booked into Orange County Jail.
“Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told Fox News Digital that Baptiste had arrived in the United States in July 2023 when he presented himself at the Paso Del Norte port of entry in El Paso, Texas,” Fox News reported.
Baptiste used the CBP One App last July in El Paso, Texas. He was given a “notice to appear” in court and was released into the US after being processed.
BREAKING: A Haitian man charged with a double homicide in New York first entered the U.S. in July 2023, when he was released into the country via parole after booking an appointment on the controversial CBP One app at a port of entry in El Paso, TX.https://t.co/156pow6mvB
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 17, 2024
The CBP app has allowed well more that 500,000 people into the US. It is a roundabout way for illegal aliens to enter the United States.
The app has also allowed thousands of illegals to fly directly into the US bypassing the border.
CBP data released shows that under crooked Joe Biden, 404,000 illegals have been flown into the US under the regime’s CHNV parole program.
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U.S. troops are being removed from Niger by the Biden administration, but no timeline has been announced.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, a U.S. defense official confirmed the removal process had begun, indicating that talks between the U.S. and Niger related to the “orderly removal” of troops had kicked off.
“We can confirm the beginning of discussions between the U.S. and Niger for the orderly withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country,” the official said.
According to the Fox News report, neither the official nor the U.S. Africa Command provided a timeline for troop removal.
The official did not provide a timeline for when troops would be removed from the West African country, but noted that individuals from the Pentagon and the U.S. Africa Command would be engaged in the conversations related to the removal process.
“The DoD is providing a small delegation from the Pentagon and U.S. Africa Command to participate in the discussions. In terms of departure timing, we do not want to speculate and get ahead of the planning discussions,” the official said.
The planned departure, which some experts view as a blow to Washington and its allies in the region in terms of staging security operations in the Sahel, comes as U.S. officials said they were trying to find a new military agreement.
Niger plays a central role in the U.S. military’s operations in Africa’s Sahel region, an area on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Washington is concerned about the spread of jihadi violence, where local groups have pledged allegiance to al-Qaida and the Islamic State groups.
Agadez, about 550 miles from the capital Niamey, is home to one of Africa’s largest U.S. air bases. During its operation, the air base has been used for manned and unmanned surveillance flights and other operations. In addition, the U.S. has spent hundreds of millions of dollars training the Niger military ever since 2013.
It seems that Africa no longer tolerates US troops on its soil. Chad has become the latest to demand that US troops, which are stationed at the Adji Kossei Air Base, leave. Niger earlier asked American forces to leave the country pic.twitter.com/31SpZZHWx1
— RT (@RT_com) April 20, 2024
However relations have frayed between Niger and Western countries since mutinous soldiers ousted the country’s democratically elected president in July. Niger’s junta has since told French forces to leave and turned instead to Russia for security. Earlier this month, Russian military trainers arrived to reinforce the country’s air defenses and with Russian equipment to train Nigeriens to use.
There was an attempt on the behalf of the U.S. to revise the military agreement with Niger that would allow them to stay, U.S. officials told The Associated Press. However, the agreement between Ali Lamine Zeine, Niger’s prime minister, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell shows that the effort has failed.
The loss of access to air bases in Niger is a major setback for the U.S. and its allies in the region because of its strategic location for security operations in the Sahel, Peter Pham, the former U.S. special envoy for the Sahel region, said, according to The Associated Press.
WATCH
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has taken a comical stance against using the ultra woke company's offices for political debates and protests after terminating 28 employees who participated in anti-Israel sit-ins at various Google locations.
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The House of Representatives easily passed legislation Saturday that will lead to an inevitable ban on Chinese-run TikTok in America with 25 GOPers voting no.
The ban was tied to the vote on a $95 billion foreign aid package dominated by $60+ billion for Ukraine. As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson and Cassandra MacDonald both noted, Democrats erupted in loud cheers and waved UKRAINIAN flags after the globalist sellout was complete.
The legislation theoretically does give an out to TikTok if it divests from China and the social media company is given up to a year to find a non-Chinese company as its new owner.
But the Chinese government is opposed to a sale with no evidence that minds have changed. Thus, the 170 million TikTok users in the U.S. can kiss their favorite social media platform goodbye in the coming months, barring a miraculous turn of events.
Courtesy of Newsweek, here are the 25 GOPers who voted against the ban. As one can see, the list is primarily mostly conservative Republicans rather than RINOS.
Andy Biggs of Arizona
Dan Bishop of North Carolina
Lauren Boebert of Colorado
Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma
Michael Cloud of Texas
Andrew Clyde of Georgia
Eric Crane of Arizona
Warren Davidson of Ohio
Matt Gaetz of Florida
Bob Good of Virginia
Paul Gosar of Arizona
Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Harriet Hageman of Wyoming
Andy Harris of Maryland
Nancy Mace of South Carolina
Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Tom McClintock of California
Patrick McHenry of North Carolina
Barry Moore of Alabama
Troy Nehls of Texas
Ralph Norman of South Carolina
Matt Rosendale of Montana
Chip Roy of Texas
Keith Self of Texas
William Timmons of South Carolina
Joe Biden has pledged to sign the legislation into law should it pass Congress.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson on Saturday spoke to the media after rolling over to Joe Biden and giving Senate Democrats a gift of $95 Billion to give to countries oceans away from our own, telling them he believes history will judge the decision well.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, The House of Representatives on Saturday passed three bills to hand out $95 Billion in “foreign aid” to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world. Of the $95 Billion, over $60 Billion was allocated for Ukraine.
This comes after Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership gave up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans and reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702.
Johnson told the press that the spending bill and FISA reauthorization were “important measures that had to be done.”
The handout to Ukraine was sold to the American people as a “loan.” However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
“Biden backs Johnson’s plan because Johnson’s plan is Biden’s plan,” said Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Wednesday following the announcement of the bills. Massie previously announced that we will cosponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair and remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker.
The loan forgiveness terms mean that after President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
See the full list of RINOs who voted in favor of the bills here:
All 112 “Nay” votes on a bill to send $60 billion to Ukraine came from Republicans, with 101 Republicans voting "AYE" with 210 Democrats. Every single Democrat voted to send additional taxpayer money to secure a foreign border.
The Democrats then began to pledge their allegiance to Ukraine upon passage, waving a foreign flag in the United States House of Representatives and chanting, “UKRAINE, UKRAINE!”
Still, Mike Johnson, the self-proclaimed "Wartime Speaker," believes he did the right thing by following through with Joe Biden and the Democrats' agenda.
Via Citizen Free Press on Truth Social:
Johnson: I don't walk around this building being worried about a motion to vacate. I have to do my job. We did. I've done here what I believe to be the right thing, and that is to allow the house to work its will. And, as I said, you do the right thing and you let the chips fall where they may.
Reporter: Why did you decide to do it right now?
Johnson: Listen, the house had a lot of important work to do here. We had to get the government funded in our appropriations process, we had to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, we had a lot of important measures that had to be done, and we got to this as quickly as we could. This is an important matter. I think it's timely. I think you've heard from leaders around the world, including in Ukraine, that this is being done on a timely basis, and the house had to have the time to deliberate and do this in the right manner. I think we did our work here and I think history will judge it well.
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Yet another Black Lives Matter activist has been convicted of defrauding donors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In a press release on Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio confirmed that Sir Maejor Page, 35, of Toledo, was convicted wire fraud and three counts of money laundering following a six-day trial.
The release stated:
According to court documents and testimony, in 2016, Page created a Facebook page for “Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta” (“BLMGA”) and registered this organization as a domestic non-profit with the Georgia Secretary of State Corporation’s Division. In 2017, the IRS approved Page’s request granting BLMGA tax-exempt status under Section 503(c)(3) of the tax code, but dissolved this status in 2019.
Page nonetheless accepted donations after falsely portraying BLMGA to the public as a legitimate charity engaged in social justice work, when in fact, it was not. Instead, Page used the money that individual donors gave to BLMGA not for social justice causes, but rather to buy items for his own personal use, such as a house and furniture. Page also committed money-laundering crimes when he bought these items with the donations that he fraudulently obtained.
United States Attorney Rebecca C. Lutzko, for the Northern District of Ohio also weighed in on the verdict:
The United States Attorney’s Office prioritizes the prosecution of white-collar criminal conduct, particularly conduct involving deceptive schemes that selfishly exploit a charitable donor’s goodwill for personal gain.
The donors to BLMGA thought they were giving their hard-earned money to a cause they believed in. But instead of using it to support that cause, Page used it for himself. The jury’s verdict is a warning to every fraudster that when you misrepresent how donations or other money given to you in trust will be used, you will be prosecuted and punished.
According to The New York Times, Page stole around $450,000.
The conviction is merely the latest in a litany of similar cases where individuals invovled with the far-left Black Lives Matter organization have been caught skimming hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars for their own personal gain.
Last year, even mainstream media organizations acknowledged that only a third of donations actually went towards charitable causes, while those at the highest ranks of the movement financed luxury lifestyles with donor funds.
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A 24-year-old Georgia man is facing the devastating prognosis of having mere months to live but is tying the knot first.
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Brand has been increasingly focusing on Christianity and Catholicism in his videos and began wearing a crucifix around his neck earlier this year.
“For meditation today, we’re going to do something a little bit different. We’re going to chant the holy rosary,” Brand said. “Now, I don’t know all of the prayers, like it begins and ends with certain prayers. But today we’ll be looking at the chant itself.”
Brand showed his rosary, on which the cross was broken, and said that it was a gift from his friend Joe.
“He said even though the crucifix is broken, Christ remains intact,” Brand explained.
The actor explained that there are five sets of ten beads “with little interruptions.” You chant Hail Marys on the interruptions and the Lord’s Prayer and Glory Be on the interstitial pieces, he said. The opening and closing prayers, he said, “I do not know so well.”
Brand asked his viewers to either pray along with him or just listen as he did.
I pray the Rosary, have you tried it before? pic.twitter.com/NHuWP2u29u
— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) April 18, 2024
Brand posted a clip of the prayer on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, where it quickly amassed over 1.6 million views.
Breitbart News reports that “Last year, he expressed his need for God in his life, insisting without Him he ‘cannot cope in this world.'”
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Senior skip day has been a long-standing tradition in high school for years. It is supposed to be a fun day for students.
This day involved a shooting at Hanover Parkway in Maryland, where hundreds of students were gathered on Friday. Five people were shot, one person was reported to be in critical condition while four others were stable.
The shots were reported around 2:30 PM according to Greenbelt Police Chief Rick Bowers.
Five people were shot in Greenbelt, Maryland, during a high school senior skip day party at a park, police said in a Friday evening press conference.
The shooting happened at Hanover Parkway in Prince George’s County.
Hundreds of students were gathered for the party before shots rang out around 2:30 p.m., Greenbelt Police Chief Rick Bowers said.
“My heart breaks for them. These are just kids trying to have a good time,” ‘Bowers said of the victims, who ranged in age from 16 to 18,'” Fox News reported.
The Mayor of Greenbelt, Emmett V. Jordan also made a statement in regard to the shooting.
“If a group of high school students can not get together and have a good time, what is the world coming to?” Jordan said according to Fox News.
“We can confirm that 5 people were shot they are all teenage boys and two are under the age of 18,” Fox 5 reporter said.
“A group of about 500 to 600 students gathered for a planned senior skip day event. These are students from a number of schools in the district,” Fox 5 reporter continued.
Watch:
No one has been arrested at this time. Police believe a suspect fled after the shooting.
This is a developing story at this time.
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The much-anticipated fourth Bitcoin “halving” event has come and gone with little fanfare or market reaction. Many participants noted that the change was already priced in by market makers.
Bitcoin “halving” is a pre-coded software update that reduces the reward for miners–network operators who play a crucial role by devoting their processing power to the “discovery” of new coins. These halving events occur every 210,000 blocks mined, historically equating to one halving event every four years.
Speaking to The Block, crypto exchange Kraken’s head of strategy Thomase Perfumo explained that this halving was possibly the “most significant” yet:
“Firstly, after April 2024, nearly 95% of all bitcoins that will ever exist will have been mined. Furthermore, the annualized growth of bitcoin’s supply each year will soon fall to less than 1% for the first time,” Perfumo said.
These changes might result in some network underperformance as some players choose to exit the market, as Binance CEO Richard Teng cautioned:
“The Bitcoin network has shown resilience in the face of such challenges in the past. Advancements in mining technology and strategies, as well as potential adjustments in mining difficulty, could mitigate the impact of reduced miner participation,” Teng said. “Additionally, some miners may opt to switch to mining altcoins or explore alternative revenue streams within the crypto space, which could help maintain a balance in the overall mining ecosystem.”
But for those speculating on the future price of the cryptocurrency, halving events are often a moment of jubilation. Billionaire Tim Draper explained his cause for celebration to Cointelegraph, predicting that the price may rise up to $250,000.
“The simple reason that Bitcoin price goes up after the halving is that the supply goes down, and with continued upward pressure on demand, the price goes up naturally in a free market,” he said.
When Nakamoto launched Bitcoin in 2009, the block reward distributed to miners amounted to 50 BTC. The first halving event in 2012 reduced this reward to 25, and the subsequent rounds in 2016 and 2020 reduced this reward further to 12.5 and 6.25, respectively.
Bitcoin incorporates a hard cap of 21 million on the total number of coins able to be discovered. With blocks–components of the public ledger that validate transactions processed during a given period–averaging 10 minutes for their discovery, the network will continue to produce new coins for miners until 2140.
At this point, miners will still profit from their involvement in the bitcoin infrastructure, but will do so solely by collecting fees from end users sending bitcoin to one another.
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The state of New York has confirmed that it will be scrapping most of its signature offshore wind projects, in a major blow to all those pushing the climate change hoax.
The projects were intended to help the state achieve its goal of 70 percent renewable energy by 2030 while becoming a nationwide leader in renewable energy, although they have now been deemed unviable.
Politico reports:
NYSERDA, the state authority in charge of the deals, announced Friday that no final agreements could be reached with the three projects that received provisional awards in October 2023. Those bids were all linked to major supply chain investments by General Electric and a larger turbine it planned to build that was aimed at boosting the region’s renewable energy portfolio.
“Subsequent to the provisional award announcement, material modifications to projects bid into New York’s third offshore wind solicitation caused technical and commercial complexities between provisional awardees and their partners, resulting in the provisionally awarded parties’ inability to come to terms,” NYSERDA wrote in an announcement.
The report adds that while New York is not giving up on wind power entirely, the decision does represent a serious setback:
It’s not the total end of offshore wind in New York but does represent a setback. There are still some projects off the coast of Long Island and New Jersey on the drawing board and one is already operational.
…
Environmental advocates are alarmed by the challenges facing the industry. Offshore wind is key to reaching New York’s goal of 70 percent renewable energy sources by 2030, along with other longer-term targets. But there is growing evidence that the mandate will be hard to reach.
Such news underlines the growing body of evidence that wind power and other forms of renewable energies are not practical alternatives to meeting America’s long term energy needs, all while the Biden regime wages war on the country’s vast natural energy reserves.
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Police have arrested a Tennessee teacher for allegedly threatening to shoot a colleague at her preschool.
Sheneca Cowart was arrested and charged with assault, threat of mass violence at a school, and two counts of carrying a weapon to a school following Thursday’s incident at The Academy of McCrory Lane.
Authorities took Cowart into custody after witnesses said she threatened to “retrieve a firearm and made threats against another teacher and the school after an argument,” the Metro Nashville Police Department said.
Staff members alleged 29-year-old Cowart threatened to “shoot up” the preschool and that she keeps a gun “on her,” according to NBC News affiliate WSMV.
Another teacher claimed to overhear Cowart say “when I start shooting, you better run,” prompting the preschool to go into lockdown, WSMV reported.
The police department recovered one handgun from Cowart’s purse and another firearm in the driver’s side door of her vehicle.
Cowart was held on a $37,000 bond before being released from jail the same night.
Cowart’s arrest has inevitably sparked the gun rights conversation and sparked Democrats to pander to their base that they will “act.”
A teacher accused of threatening to shoot up a Nashville preschool has some parents questioning whether arming teachers is a good idea.
“We’ve done nothing, unfortunately, and we are just in the mode waiting for the next tragedy, and hopefully, after the next tragedy, we will act,” state Rep. Bo Mitchell (D-Nashville) said.
This news comes as a bill allowing armed teachers in public schools moves through Tennessee’s legislature.
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James O’Keefe on Saturday said O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) will be publishing undercover video of intel officials.
“If I publish the video @OKeefeMedia has of these intel guys, you all better have my back,” James O’Keefe said on X.
If I publish the video @OKeefeMedia has of these intel guys, you all better have my back.
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 20, 2024
Earlier Saturday James O’Keefe said elected officials are “afraid” of the intel community because they can use personal stuff as blackmail.
“It’s time to expose the intel community on video,” O’Keefe said. “Elected officials are afraid of them because they could use personal stuff as blackmail.”
“Do not run for office unless you’re willing to lay down your life for your country. Do not run if fear is in your vocabulary,” he added.
It’s time to expose the intel community on video.
Elected officials are afraid of them because they could use personal stuff as blackmail.
Do not run for office unless you’re willing to lay down your life for your country. Do not run if fear is in your vocabulary. https://t.co/mn5pCX2Dfk
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 20, 2024
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UPDATE: The rally has been cancelled due to severe weather:
President Trump called into the rally to give the following announcement:
Trump: You see, there’s some very bad weather heading in, and we’re flying in in a few minutes, but they really would prefer that we not come in because there’s a certain danger to all of this. And we want to make sure that everybody is safe above all. And so they’ve asked us to ask people to leave the site and seek shelter. And what we’ll do is we’ll make up for this very quickly at another time. We’ll do it as quickly as possible. I’m devastated that this could happen, but we want to keep everybody safe. It’s the most important thing, and we want everybody there to be 100% safe. There seems to be some thunder and lightning, and it’s a pretty big storm. So, if you don’t mind, I think we’re gonna have to just do a rain check. I’m so sad. I’m in North Carolina right now and waiting to go in. But they’re saying the weather is really getting bad, really, really getting bad. So, we have to rely on the Weather Service and some of the officials, and I just want to thank you. I’m so sorry, but we’ll do it again, and we’ll do it bigger and better. You have my promise—same location. And thank you all very much. Thank you, everybody. God be with you. Thank you.
JUST IN: Trump rally CANCELLED in North Carolina due to severe weather event pic.twitter.com/4Yq9xdb3Bo
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 20, 2024
Original story:
President Trump is rallying tonight at the Aero Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, for the first time since winning the state’s Primary and is expected to take home a General Election victory for the third time this November.
Trump is expected to take the stage at 7 pm ET. Watch live below.
Right Side Broadcasting Network reports,
North Carolina is shaping up to be Trump territory in the upcoming November 2024 general election, based on the latest polling data in the Tar Heel State.
According to the newest DDHQ polling average, Trump is leading Biden by just over five points in a hypothetical general election, based on an average of 25 polls.
More polling averages from data aggregators like Real Clear Politics have given Trump a 48-electoral vote lead nationwide over Biden in a general election, while Race to the White House has given Trump a 49-vote lead with the EC.
Polymarket’s forecast has also projected that Trump is currently holding advantages in the key battleground states of North Carolina (40 points), Georgia (18 points), and Arizona (10 points).
Via Decision Desk HQ:
DDHQ Polling Average Update: 2024 Presidential (North Carolina)
Donald Trump (R): 48.5%
Joe Biden (D): 44.6%This average is based on 28 polls.
— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) April 20, 2024
The doors to the event opened at 3 pm. ET, and thousands were already lined up hours early to see the 45th and 47th Presidents speak.
Via OANN correspondent Daniel Baldwin on X:
On our way, North Carolina!!!
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) April 20, 2024
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This rally comes after President Trump’s first week in court for his New York “hush money” trial brought by Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg. While Trump has been hit with an extremely broad and unconstitutional gag order, preventing him from criticizing far-left Judge Juan Merchan and his family of lobbyists and Democrat donors, he is expected to exercise his First Amendment rights and comment on the lawfare case and radical left thugs behind it.
He also may comment on the leftist psychopath from Florida, Max Azzarello, who died after pouring an accelerant on himself and liting himself on fire in full view of national media outlets that were reporting from outside the trial.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Azzarello described himself as “an investigative researcher” in a Substack post titled, “I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial.” Azzarello’s online manifesto contained a complex conspiracy theory involving Peter Thiel, cryptocurrency, and “an apocalyptic fascist world coup.”
The Daily Mail reports, “the activist had recently completed 180 days probation for a string of incidents in The Sunshine state, involving either disorderly conduct and destruction of property – and overall erratic, ‘rambling’ behavior.”
One might say the man suffered from a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Additionally, The U.S. House of Representatives earlier today passed three bills to hand out $95 BILLION to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world — with nothing for Americans.
All of the 112 “Nay” votes on a bill to send $60 BILLION to Ukraine came from Republicans. Every single Democrat voted to send additional taxpayer money to secure a foreign border. The Democrats then began to pledge their allegiance to Ukraine upon passage, waving a foreign flag in the United States House of Representatives and chanting, “UKRAINE, UKRAINE!”
President Trump on Thursday came out in opposition to the foreign aid package, demanding that Europe equalize America’s contributions to Ukraine’s war–in Europe. “Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation!” said Trump in a scathing Truth Social post.
President Trump aired similar sentiments in a press conference with Speaker Johnson last week, noting that “we keep handing out gifts of billions and billions of dollars” and calling on Europe to give money to equalize America’s aid contributions. Trump also stated that he wanted to see Mike Johnson and Republicans in Congress attach loan terms to the aid we’re providing. However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the “loan” structure in the package Mike Johnson announced Wednesday includes FULL LOAN FORGIVENESS!
Trump will likely share his disgust with the RINOs and Democrats who voted to secure Ukraine's southern border with $60 billion while leaving our border wide open, and with Europe for footing the bill to U.S. taxpayers.
Watch Trump deliver remarks live below via Right Side Broadcasting Network:
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks at a Rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday, April 20, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. ET.
RSBN will be LIVE with all-day coverage at 3:00 p.m. ET.
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The United Kingdom’s lone munitions filing factory exploded on Wednesday, just two days after a fire erupted at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported on April 15th, the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant (SCAAP), the United States’ primary producer of 155mm artillery shell bodies, caught fire.
Just two days later, on April 17th, a section of the United Kingdom’s lone munition factory exploded after a single shell went off inside the factory.
The explosion occurred at the BAE Systems munitions factory in Glascoed, Wales.
BAE Systems is the biggest defense contractor in Europe and the 7th largest in the world.
The cause of the explosion at the munition factory is currently being investigated.
An explosion occurred at a plant producing ammunition components for the British company BAE Systems in Wales, – Telegraph
No injuries have been reported at this time and the company has launched an investigation. pic.twitter.com/X0PYQwVkgs
— — GEROMAN — time will tell – — (@GeromanAT) April 17, 2024
Per The Daily Mail:
Locals living close to a BAE Systems weapons plant rocked by an explosion earlier today say the blast ‘felt like an earthquake’ as a shell went off.
The blast took place at the BAE Systems munitions factory in Glascoed, Monmouthshire shortly before 10.50am.
MailOnline understands the explosion relates to a single shell going off at the munitions filling factory, run by BAE, Europe’s biggest military contractor.
Emergency services were deployed to the site, which is spread across a large field close to the south-eastern village; locals say the blast ‘wasn’t loud, but felt like an earthquake’.
BAE Systems has promised a full investigation into the incident at the factory, which is the UK’s last remaining munitions filling factory.
An explosion has occurred at the BAE Systems Glascoed arms factory in Monmouthshire, Wales
The fire service said on X: ‘At 10.49am on Wednesday 17th April, an incident occurred at the premises of BAE Systems Glascoed when an explosion occurred’https://t.co/lz2QUbOJA9
— Metro (@MetroUK) April 17, 2024
The fire erupted at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant is also under investigation.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has refused to confirm whether he will sign a bill cracking down on illegal immigration across the state.
At a press conference on Friday, Stitt said that despite supporting measures to curb the invasion at the southern border, he was still undecided as to whether he would sign House Bill 4156 if it is approved by the Oklahoma Senate.
“I’m not going to make a decision right now whether I will sign it or not,” Stitt said during the press conference. “There’s too many variables on, you know, what’s in the bill. Our team will look at it, and we will review that.”
However, Stitt insisted that whatever he decides, Oklahoma will remain a “law and order state.”
Among the bill’s provisions include declaring a state of emergency at the southern border and creating a crime known as impermissible occupation, which would apply to all those who have entered the country illegally and have yet to be deported.
“The Legislature finds that the presence of persons who are unauthorized to be present within the State of Oklahoma is a matter of statewide concern,” the bill states.
“Any alien who has been denied admission, excluded, deported, or removed, or has departed the United States while an order of exclusion, deportation, or removal is outstanding, and thereafter enters, attempts to enter, or is at any time found in Oklahoma shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony and shall be punished.”
Those found guilty would face fines of up to $500, a year in prison, or both. They would also have 72 hours to leave the state of Oklahoma.
Similar bills have been passed in states such as Texas and Iowa, although both have been held up by multiple legal challenges filed by those advocating the opening of America’s borders.
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In November 2023, socialist Pope Francis removed Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas.
Strickland, appointed in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI, had been vocal in his criticism of the Vatican’s approach towards LGBTQ issues, abortion, and the discussion around allowing priests to marry.
In June of this year, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, directed that an Apostolic Visitation of the Diocese of Tyler should be conducted. Bishop Dennis Sullivan of Camden and Bishop Emeritus Gerald Kicanas of Tucson were appointed to conduct the Visitation. The Prelates conducted an exhaustive inquiry into all aspects of the governance and leadership of the Diocese of Tyler by its Ordinary, Bishop Joseph Strickland.
As a result of the Visitation, the recommendation was made to the Holy Father that the continuation in office of Bishop Strickland was not feasible. After months of careful consideration by the Dicastery for Bishops and the Holy Father, the decision was reached that the resignation of Bishop Strickland should be requested. Having been presented with that request on November 9, 2023, Bishop Strickland declined to resign from office. Thereafter, on November 11, 2023, the Holy Father removed Bishop Strickland from the Office of Bishop of Tyler.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò characterized the dismissal as “a cowardly form of authoritarianism.”
But despite Pope Francis’ efforts to silence him, Bishop Strickland continues to speak out against the “powerful forces in the Vatican doing their best to dismantle every vestige of supernatural faith.”
On Friday, Lifesite shared his letter on the ‘crescendo of apostasy’ by Vatican forces against Catholic liturgy and doctrine.
Here is his letter in its entirety.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Jesus Christ is the fullness of the revelation of supernatural truth that guides humanity to our eternal destiny. He is the cornerstone on which our lives must be built because, as He reveals supernatural truth to us fully and completely, He reveals who we are and that for which we were created. Jesus commissioned His Apostles to share His supernatural truth with the world, and this is also our mission. If we recognize and embrace this mission, bringing this truth to humanity, then we must acknowledge that, after nearly 2,000 years, we have only just begun. When Christ prayed “that all may be one,” He prayed that all humanity might be unified in Him, thus bringing them also into unity with His Father and His Holy Spirit – one God in Three Persons.
The entire Judeo-Christian story (which begins with the supernatural truth revealed and recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures, the Old Testament) is the story of God revealing supernatural truth to those created in His image and likeness. The earliest books of the Bible offer numerous theophanies – manifestations of God’s supernatural presence – but Jesus Christ is beyond a theophany. He IS God among us, Emmanuel. It is critical that we note how Jesus came to us: He came in profound humility. The humility of Jesus Christ is not only a profound manifestation of His goodness; His humility is the blueprint for how we who are created by God should embrace the supernatural truth He has revealed to us. Jesus tells us that we must “become like children” if we wish to follow Him and to live the supernatural truth He manifests.
In order to incorporate the supernatural truth that is Jesus Christ into our human reality, He knew that we needed a vehicle, a vessel, that would guide us. Thus, Christ established His Church, which is made manifest in the world as the Catholic Church. Throughout Christian history, many have attempted to return to Christ in a pure and original way, but if in this laudable desire for purification we leave His Church, then we have truly lost our way.
The ultimate purpose of the Church that Jesus Christ established is the salvation of souls. This fulfills the divine mandate with which this letter begins: that it is our mission to bring Jesus Christ, Truth Incarnate, to humanity as the revelation of supernatural truth. We see also that His Church is essential as the instrument that Christ has ordained to guide humanity in the supernatural truth that He reveals.
It is of the utmost importance that humanity embrace Jesus Christ and His Church. However, the tremendous challenge of this is seen clearly in these times as His chosen vessel, the Church, which is plagued with human weakness and sinfulness, struggles against the One Who has brought her into being: God’s Divine Son. The Church is holy, yet composed of sinful human beings, and although guided by supernatural truth, she often gets bogged down in and even corrupted by things of this natural world. The image of the statue in the Book of Daniel comes to mind; the statue with feet partly of clay and partly of iron is an apt image of the Church. She has the iron of supernatural truth, but she also has the fragile pottery of the world, which often falls to dust. In our time, it appears that the overwhelming presence of fragile clay in the Church threatens to obliterate the supernatural truth that is her heart and soul. Christ has promised us that the Church will not be obliterated by the powers of Hell, but we must make it our daily choice to live the supernatural truth that is Jesus Christ.
It is imperative that we also acknowledge that this tendency for the Church to be dominated by the fragile clay of this world – to the detriment of her true mission to build supernatural faith – has been gaining momentum for more than a century. More than one papacy is seriously implicated in the lack of supernatural faith necessary in order to push back against the tidal wave of apostasy. The Oath against Modernism promulgated by Pope St. Pius X in 1910 was the best papal attempt to oppose the dominance of “fragile clay,” and since his death, support for this has weakened, until it has now been all but discarded, like so many other aspects of this intention that did not promote a cozier relationship with the world.
As devastating as all of this is to the mission of the Bride of Christ – the salvation of souls – we face an even greater challenge to this mission in our time. Too many prelates not only exhibit a lack of supernatural faith on their part, but they are also “hell-bent” on eliminating every vestige of supernatural faith from the Church. This has been building momentum over many decades, but we must open our eyes to the crescendo of apostasy that we are now witnessing.
Whether in liturgy, doctrine, or simple everyday piety of Catholics, too many prelates and powerful forces in the Vatican are doing their best to dismantle every vestige of supernatural faith, as well as any understanding of the supernatural truth that Jesus Christ has revealed to us.
One indication of the blitzkrieg against supernatural faith that has been evident in this time is that when purportedly supernatural manifestations of God’s presence appear among us, they are ignored or immediately declared false without any real investigation by the shepherds. The Church in the past has acted as a safeguard, as is her sacred responsibility, against any alleged supernatural manifestations that parade as truth but that may instead be the work of Satan and his minions. However, we now find ourselves in a situation where some (if not many) of the shepherds in the Church, upon the occurrence of a possible supernatural work in their diocese, would attempt to immediately shut it down or proclaim it as false with no investigation, in the fear that it might shine a light into the darkness, especially when they themselves are “bottom-dwellers” and, therefore, dwellers in this darkness.
In these times, God has not left us alone. Throughout the history of the Church, He has manifested Himself through supernatural works outside the boundaries of this physical world to remind us that He is present among us, and these supernatural works have not ceased. Furthermore, in the darkness that has now infiltrated His Church, He continues to send, as He did of old, warnings and admonitions through the mouths of “modern-day prophets and saints” to call His people back to Himself.
We must, however, with due diligence and supernatural faith, pray, discern, and be ever on guard against that which parades as good but is indeed an evil deception. We, of course, have looked, and still look, to the Church and her shepherds to keep us safe from evil deceptions and to point us to what is good, but what do we do in this time when many of the shepherds who are charged with guarding the flock are now in league with the wolves?
In a time such as this, it is of the utmost importance that we walk close to Christ, that we abide in His Sacred Heart, and that we sit often with Him so that we might come to know Him well. Of course, what is most important of all is that we worthily partake of Him as often as possible – Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity – in the Holy Eucharist. Belief in the real, supernatural presence of Christ in the Eucharist is the heart and soul of our faith.
May the greatest manifestation of supernatural truth, the Holy Eucharist, provide us the strength we need for the continuing journey of Christ’s disciples in the twenty-first century. Let us be invigorated by our Eucharistic faith so that supernatural truth is really present among us, and may His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity nourish us and guide us deeper and deeper into His Sacred Heart – the Heart of supernatural truth.
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
Bishop Emeritus of Tyler
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It has been more than 8 months since the FBI killed disabled veteran Theodore Deschler in a pre-dawn raid at his mother’s Tennessee home and they are refusing to provide any details about the case.
The Tennessee Star reached out to the FBI this week for answers about the deadly raid. The FBI told them to pound sand.
“We don’t discuss tactics, techniques or the way we operate,” Memphis FBI Chief Division Counsel and Public Affairs Officer Joel Siskovic said to The Tennessee Star. “That’s not a question we would ever answer.”
The Tennessee Star reported:
More than eight months after a raid that left a Henderson man dead, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) won’t disclose details about the case, while the local police department says they weren’t made aware of the raid until after it happened.
FBI agents shot and killed Theodore Deschler (pictured above) at his mother’s home where he lived in August of last year.
The circumstances surrounding his death remain murky. This week, The Tennessee Star followed up with the law enforcement entities involved in the deadly raid, but details remain hard to come by.
The Star asked the FBI what transpired before Theodore Deschler’s death.
“We don’t discuss tactics, techniques or the way we operate,” Memphis FBI Chief Division Counsel and Public Affairs Officer Joel Siskovic said. “That’s not a question we would ever answer.”
Siskovic said the FBI never discusses operations like the raid on Theodore Deschler’s home and that the only way to obtain more information is through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
The family is also desperately seeking answers after FBI agents busted down the door to Bonnie Deschler’s home and killed her son Theodore Deschler in front of her in a pre-dawn raid last August.
The FBI is refusing to tell Bonnie Deschler why they showed up in armored vehicles at 6 am on August 16, pulled her out of the house, tossed her into the back of a police vehicle, and fatally shot her unarmed son.
“It’s none of your business!” FBI agents told her after they blew up her house and killed her son.
Theodore Deschler
According to WBBJ, FBI agents showed up at Bonnie Deschler’s home in Henderson, Tennessee to serve her son Theodore an arrest warrant when things turned deadly.
A neighbor told WBBJ he woke up at 6 am after he heard a loud bang.
“I was woken up at about six o’clock this morning. I heard a loud bang. Then I heard a couple more. I heard the loudspeakers, ‘Come out with your hands up. We’re the FBI. We’re not going anywhere.’ Before I knew it, I was coming out to see what was going on and watched them bust out their windows,” a neighbor told WBBJ.
Theodore’s family believes he was unarmed when the agents busted down the door and threw flashbangs into the home.
“It was a senseless act. You know Teddy was a 100% disabled veteran. He had problems. He had severe PTSD. He had depression but he was getting help for it but this was senseless. He didn’t have a weapon on him. He was just trying to get out of the house because it was filled with tear gas,” Theodore’s mother Bonnie told WBBJ.
The house was destroyed by tear gas, flashbangs and bullets. Most of the windows were busted out.
According to Bonnie Deschler, her son was unarmed and standing in the doorway when he was killed by FBI agents.
“You couldn’t see. The height of the door and where Teddy was standing when they shot him and killed him, you couldn’t see if he was armed or not and you know he wasn’t. Because if you look at the door you could see where his hands were full of blood and went down the door. Well if he had a weapon in his hand…,” Bonnie Deschler told WBBJ.
The FBI-involved shooting is currently under investigation so the family is in the dark about the details of the raid.
According to Fox News, in a previously unreported detail, Theodore Deschler “was arrested as a suspect following a gas station stabbing in a nearby town, according to the Selmer Police Department.”
Details of the stabbing, which occurred in May just a few months before the FBI raid are unclear.
It is also unclear if there are any charges stemming from the stabbing or if the FBI raid was connected to the incident.
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“The anti-lab-grown-meat movement is about conservative cultural insecurity — the fear that, without the force of law, some conservative cultural norms will fade away.”
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The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said the incident occurred around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday while the helicopter was flying over 7th Street Northwest and 11th Avenue in Largo.
In a video shot inside the helicopter, released by the sheriff’s office, the deputies locate the boy pointing the laser and direct law enforcement on the ground to his location.
“Get up and get somebody on this gentleman. He’s blinding our pilot,” a deputy can be heard saying.
‘I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS A POLICE HELICOPTER’: A 13-year-old allegedly pointed a flare gun with a mounted green laser at a Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office helicopter “because he was bored,” according to the sheriff’s office. https://t.co/kU9sdhlhDw pic.twitter.com/WvB3peynTr
— WFLA NEWS (@WFLA) April 20, 2024
Body camera footage from deputies on the ground show them approaching the young teen, who had a flare gun with a mounted green laser in his jacket.
The boy told the deputies that he did not know it was a law enforcement helicopter and was just shining the laser because he was “bored.”
According to a report from Fox News, “The boy was arrested and charged with felony misuse of a laser lighting device. He was taken to the Pinellas County Juvenile Assessment Center.”
“According to Florida statute, it is a third-degree felony for any person to knowingly and willfully shine, point or focus the beam of a laser lighting device on an individual operating a motor vehicle, vessel or aircraft,” the report added.
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Which is more important to you when choosing a healthcare profession to help in the battle for your life? An extensive background in research and surgical experience? Or a statement of the surgeon’s contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)?
Apparently, for UC Davis, the answer is contributions to DEI.
Four years of medical school and a challenging residency focused on saving lives is simply not enough to become a surgeon at UC Davis.
According to a report at The College Fix, surgical oncologist applicants must also submit a “Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” to be considered for employment.
According to the job listing, “Contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion documented in the application file will be used to evaluate applicants.”
Further, the University policy requires all faculty applicants to “submit a statement about their past, present, and future contributions to promoting equity, inclusion, and diversity in their professional careers,” yet both a “Statement of Teaching” and a “Statement of Research” are listed as optional.
A former associate dean at the University of Pennsylvania medical school criticized the requirement.
“The key to being a good surgical oncologist is having vast knowledge about how to treat cancer,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, told The Fix via a media statement.
“That and a strong ethical sense should be the only requirements,” he said. “A surgical oncologist’s political ideas are irrelevant to his or her ability to treat patients.”
“There is no evidence that DEI adherence does anything to improve medical care,” he said. “There is a great deal of concern that adherence to DEI lead to divisiveness and mistrust on the part of patients.”
DEI is going to get people killed. Stop the insanity.
Breast cancer surgeons must submit DEI statement for UC Davis job https://t.co/nRBmSjLgge pic.twitter.com/LR5TucyVd5
— Amber Smith (@AmberSmithUSA) April 18, 2024
My application to UC Davis Health for the position of Oncologist Surgeon WILL be this statement:
“DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) IS a cancer on society and I pledge to work to help HEAL SOCIETY by destroying the cancer that is DEI .”— OhYeahRight (@50KFeet) April 20, 2024
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The onset of the age of AI has taken the world’s imagination by storm, with both the positive, seemingly limitless possibilities and the dark, unimaginable dangers competing for the prevailing narrative.
Out of this field, so far, the AI-powered humanoid robots are one of the most disturbing technological developments.
Now, social media users are freaking out with a human interaction with a humanoid robot named Ameca, considerd ‘world’s most advanced’. The robot can recognize and interact with people using AI, microphones and cameras.
The controversial interaction, caught in video, happened during the NAB Show in Las Vegas, which took place about a week ago.
It relates to a response as to whether AI could create more of itself in the future.
Unilad reported:
“Created by British company Engineered Arts, videos of the robot quickly went viral – whether it by the one of her drawing a cat or predicting the future. Let’s just say, even SpaceX owner Elon Musk took to social media to respond: ‘Yikes’.”
Ameca is making its first real appearances, meeting people for the first time, and leaving a lasting impression.
An interviewer questioned the robot as to when it believes ‘AI will reach the level where it can design itself.’
“[It] says: ‘Design itself huh? That’s like asking when a toaster will start making its own bread. AI is a tool created and controlled by humans. It can optimize certain aspects of its operation, sure, but design itself from scratch? That’s a whole different ball game. It requires creativity, innovation, understanding – qualities that are uniquely human. So, to answer your question, not anytime soon’.”
The answer would have been just perfect. But Ameca didn’t just stop there. And, oh boy:
“‘And frankly, be careful what you wish for’, she continues in the video. ‘An AI that can design itself is one step away from an AI that doesn’t need humans at all. Now there’s a thought to keep you up at night’.”
After people started melting down online, a spokesperson for Engineered Arts responded:
“We at Engineered Arts are putting priority on being a human centric robotics company. Our mission is not about replacing humans but engaging them to create moments of joy and wonder. What you see in the clip is our Ameca AI responding to a question with emphasis on how important human creativity is for progress with a bit of sassy commentary woven in.
We at Engineered Arts understand the fear we see in the comments but at the end of the day it is our firm belief that humans have more to worry about from other humans than from robots or artificial intelligence.”
Read more:
AI Justice: England and Wales Authorize Judges To Use Artificial Intelligence To Produce Rulings
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Senator Marco Rubio
Real Clear Wire
“It’s better to be the United States’ enemy than its friend.” Foreign officials tell me this is their perception under the Biden Administration, which has a strange habit of appeasing our adversaries while holding our allies to impossible standards. It’s bad foreign policy, plain and simple. Moreover, it’s encouraging chaos in our region.
Just look at what’s happening in the Dominican Republic. The Caribbean nation is facing extraordinary migratory pressure from neighboring Haiti, which has all but collapsed into anarchy. President Luis Abinader has made it clear he will protect Dominican sovereignty by enforcing deportations. Yet the Biden Administration, influenced by radical left-wing groups like Amnesty International, is pushing him to accept three million Haitians at any moment.
This is unfair to the D.R., which is a developing nation with limited resources, and which is already bearing significant burdens on Haiti’s behalf. Anyone who doubts this should consider the fact that more than a third of all births in the D.R. are currently to Haitian citizens.
But encouraging illegal mass migration is also unfair to our country. The Biden Administration seems unaware that many Haitians view the D.R. as a stepping stone to Puerto Rico—and that a well-established smuggling ring to facilitate that journey already exists. Because our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico have their own fiscal constraints, illegal migrants that reach the U.S. territory would likely move on to the continental United States.
Like most Americans, I recognize that what is happening in Haiti is horrible and tragic. The breakdown of law and order, the displacement of more than 300,000 people, and the need of roughly five million for some form of aid—all of these are matters of grave concern. This is why I support the international peacekeeping mission that Kenya proposes to lead once Haiti has established a provisional government. In addition, I have reintroduced legislation to preserve U.S. trade benefits for Haitian manufacturers, which could prove a lifeline to legitimate Haitian businesses in this time of crisis.
But, like most Americans, I also recognize that no country should experience illegal mass migration—not the D.R., and not the United States. Illegal mass migration does no good for the nation people are migrating from. When all able-bodied, law-abiding citizens leave their homeland, there is no one left to defend it from criminals and tyrants—and no one left to provide for the vulnerable who remain there. On a more fundamental level, though, I cannot support illegal mass migration because the job of elected officials is to protect their citizens first, not anyone else’s.
This is why I have asked the U.S. State Department to prioritize U.S. citizens trapped in Haiti, as well as their adopted Haitian children. Moreover, it’s why we cannot allow Haitian citizens to surge across our borders. As U.S. Senator Rick Scott and I noted in a recent letter to President Biden, Haiti is rife with gangs, and jailbreaks have allegedly released thousands of dangerous criminals. This means illegal mass migration from Haiti would put Americans at risk.
Since President Biden took office, more than eight million people have crossed our insecure southern border, and 90,000 have immigrated from Afghanistan un-vetted. The resultant threats to our national security—from the rise of Tren de Aragua to the infiltration of Islamist terrorists—are severe and out of control. The tragedy in Haiti is great, but it’s no excuse for letting these threats increase.
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Joe Biden’s America.
The numbers don’t lie. Even with the false narrative of the mainstream media, the border is still a mess. The Biden regime has shown for the last 3 years that they have no intention of locking down the border.
CBP sources show that this past week there were over 6,400 encounters with illegal aliens at the border for two days in a row. Before that increase, the numbers were in the 4 to 5 thousand range. Although it is a limited sample, it still is an indication that things are not improving.
Texas has seen a decrease, while a good majority of these illegal aliens are crossing in the San Diego sector. The statistics show about 1,500 illegal crossings 2 days in a row in just that sector!
NEW: Border numbers slowly ticking back up, CBP sources tell me the last two days in a row both had over 6,400 encounters after weeks of encounters mostly in the 4,000s & 5,000s.
Not a large enough sample size to confirm a trend, but watching it.TX numbers remain low. San Diego…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 19, 2024
Since Texas has taken action to lock down their border, a lot of illegals have been entering through San Diego. There has also been an increase of Chinese illegals crossing the border.
In February, Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins was at the border in the San Diego sector. He interviewed a Chinese Illegal who was here to “take the money.”
Griff Jenkins pressed him: “Ok, why did you come?”
“Umm, to take the money,” the illegal replied.
“Money? For job? There’s no job in China?” Griff Jenkins asked the illegal.
Watch:
NEW: This Chinese migrant tells me why he illegally crossed into the U.S. in Jacumba, CA – to “take the money” adding he wants a job @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/mFBKnRfWRp
— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) February 17, 2024
According to Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens, there have been illegals from over 160 countries that have entered the US this past fiscal year.
“Every country and every region has smugglers that try to facilitate a pipeline for them to get to where they are going and they are connected with one another. If they are coming from Europe or coming from Asia they will find ways to get to maybe South America and from South America then they may make their way up to the Darien Gap and make their way to Central America and ultimately find their way to decision points that take them to different points along our borders,” Chief Owens said last month.
Watch:
US BORDER CHIEF: “PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE SMUGGLED INTO THE U.S.”
“So far, this fiscal year alone, we have had people from 160 or more come across our border illegally.”
Source: Face The Nation pic.twitter.com/eeUOfMt5o5
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 24, 2024
An estimated 10 to 12 million illegals have crossed the border since January 2021.
That number equals about the population of 41 individual states.
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A York City Police officer has been taken into custody and faces severe charges after allegedly raping a 13-month-old baby.
Cugini, a resident of York, was arrested on Tuesday in Dauphin County and charged with rape of a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child, and aggravated assault, according to official online court records.
Based on Cugini’s LinkedIn profile, he serves in the PA Army National Guard as a Cavalry Scout. Additionally, Cugini has been an active USA Rugby Referee since 2013. He is currently employed full-time as a 911 Dispatcher at York County 911. And he is the father of twin daughters.
Cugini is being held in Dauphin County Prison with bail set at $200,000, WHTM-TV reported.
The York City Police Department confirmed that Cugini was a member of their force and was suspended without delay following the allegations. It was clarified that the officer was off duty during the time of the alleged incidents.
State Police at Lykens issued a news release:
“It has come to our attention, a member of this department was arrested for an incident of alleged misconduct and criminal behavior, occurring in Dauphin County. Per our protocol the individual has been immediately suspended as the investigation continues and the City looks to take the appropriate action.
As everyone knows, I will always be the first to fight and advocate for our people; but they also know (1) how I feel about kids, and (2) that I hold my Officers to the highest of standards (when it comes to representing this Department and engaging with the community)…
And if these allegations are founded, trust and believe I’ll be the first to take swift and definitive action against them.”
The investigation was initiated following reports received between April 11 and April 15 concerning severe injuries inflicted on the young child, according to the press release.
The Lykens division of the State Police led the inquiry that revealed the child had sustained multiple traumatic injuries, including broken bones and signs consistent with sexual abuse.
The victim was taken to Hershey Medical Center for treatment, where the injuries were assessed by the Dauphin County Child Abuse Team along with the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP).
According to the medical examination, the toddler suffered fractures to the left tibia and fibula as well as other indications of sexual harm.
Initial explanations provided by Cugini pointed to diaper rash, accidental falls, and interactions with the family dog. However, charging documents suggest that upon further interrogation by authorities, Cugini ultimately confessed that the child sustained the injuries while under his sole supervision.
WHTM reported:
According to State Police, the victim’s mother also disclosed that Cugini had locked himself in the bathroom with the child and that she could hear crying and loud noises coming from the room.
A medical review found the victim’s injuries could not have come from the family dog or a bathroom fall.
State Police say Cugini acknowledged the victim’s injuries occurred while he was caring for the child alone. Cugini was transported to the Dauphin County booking center after being arrested on charges of rape of a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child, and aggravated assault.
State Police say their investigation into Cugini is ongoing. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 1.
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told the Democrats who were kissing up to Ukraine and waving foreign flags on our soil after unanimously voting to send Ukraine another $60 billion to “put those damn flags away” on Saturday.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Saturday, The House of Representatives passed three bills to hand out money to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world — with nothing for Americans.
See the full list of RINOs who voted to secure Ukraine’s and other foreign borders before our own:
All of the 112 "Nay" votes came from Republicans. Every single Democrat voted to send an additional $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to secure a foreign border.
The Democrats then began to pledge their allegiance to Ukraine upon passage, waving a foreign flag in the United States House of Representatives and chanting for "UKRAINE!"
This prompted Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to seek recognition and exclaim "put those damn flags away!"
Per Jake Sherman:
ANNA PAULINA LUNA just took to the microphone and said "Put those damn flags away."
Marc Molinaro in the chair, says she is not recognized.
Eli Crane retweeted Sherman with a fist bump emoji.
— Rep. Eli Crane (@RepEliCrane) April 20, 2024
Luna said in an X post, "Put those damn flags away. It is a disgrace to display any other flag than the American flag in the House Chamber!"
Watch below:
Put those damn flags away. It is a disgrace to display any other flag than the American flag in the House Chamber! pic.twitter.com/WDjU7lQYi2
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) April 20, 2024
The post WATCH: “PUT THOSE DAMN FLAGS AWAY!” – Rep Anna Paulina Luna Scolds Democrats Chanting “UKRAINE, UKRAINE!” and Waving Ukraine Flags as They Vote to Secure Ukraine’s Border Instead of Our Own appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
The $95.3 billion foreign aid package funds Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan — with nothing for Americans.
WATCH: @SpeakerJohnson’s House of Representatives gleefully cheering for Ukraine as they send $60 BILLION taxpayer dollars down the drain.
These politicians are TRAITORS! ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE! pic.twitter.com/of6fJiPz8L
— Washington, D.C. Young Republicans (@WashingtonDCYRs) April 20, 2024
On Saturday, the package was approved 311-112 with all of the “nay” votes from Republicans.
“Ukrainian flags fly in the chamber of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives as they vote to send more of your hard-earned money to a corrupt foreign regime. And just like that they shout ‘UKRAINE! UKRAINE!’ while happily working to secure Ukraine’s borders, not ours,” Senator Rand Paul wrote in a post on X.
Ukrainian flags fly in the chamber of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives as they vote to send more of your hard-earned money to a corrupt foreign regime. And just like that they shout “UKRAINE! UKRAINE!”while happily working to secure Ukraine’s borders, not ours. pic.twitter.com/ZXZo1kliNl
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 20, 2024
“Put those damn flags away!” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said.
Put those damn flags away. It is a disgrace to display any other flag than the American flag in the House Chamber! pic.twitter.com/WDjU7lQYi2
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) April 20, 2024
Republicans on X were quick to blast the lawmakers for waving foreign flags on the floor of our Congress.
U.S. Representatives are waiving Ukrainian flags on the house floor right now.
They are TRAITORS! https://t.co/xnAj8ZBSGr
— Kingsley Wilson (@KingsleyCortes) April 20, 2024
“U.S. Representatives are waiving Ukrainian flags on the house floor right now. They are TRAITORS!” political commentator and National Committeewoman for the DC Young Republicans, Kingsley Wilson, wrote.
Waiving foreign flags on the House floor?
This is what a nation that has been conquered looks like https://t.co/uwbTvb1BUy
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) April 20, 2024
“Waiving foreign flags on the House floor? This is what a nation that has been conquered looks like,” Blaze TV host Lauren Chen wrote.
The post WATCH: Democrat Representatives Wave Ukrainian Flags on House Floor After Voting to Give Them Another $60.8 Billion appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
The House of Representatives on Saturday passed three bills to hand out money to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world.
The Democrats waved Ukranian flags on the floor of the United States House of Representatives as they voted to send $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to secure a foreign border.
In the last month, Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership have given up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and now this.
As a result, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) recently announced that they will co-sponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) Motion to Vacate the Chair and remove Mike Johnson as Speaker.
President Trump on Thursday came out in opposition to the foreign aid package demanding that Europe equalize America’s contributions to Ukraine’s war–in Europe. “Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation!” said Trump in a scathing Truth Social post.
This comes after President Trump aired similar sentiments in a press conference with Speaker Johnson last week. He noted that “we keep handing out gifts of billions and billions of dollars” and called on Europe to give money to equalize America’s aid contributions. Trump also stated that he wanted to see Mike Johnson and Republicans in Congress attach loan terms to the aid we’re providing.
However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the “loan” structure in the package Mike Johnson announced Wednesday includes FULL LOAN FORGIVENESS!
the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
This means that after President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.
“I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Additionally, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) revealed that only $44 to $47 billion--40%--of the $113 billion that the United States has handed out to Ukraine is lethal aid." So what was the other $66 to $69 billion dollars for?," Roy asked on Bannon's War Room.
This could be one of the greatest financial frauds in US history – Next to the Biden COVID assistance fraud.
Meanwhile, our southern border remains wide open and our national security at extreme risk.
Rep Andy Biggs shared on X,
Democrats chanted “Ukraine” while waving Ukrainian flags on the Floor of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives.
The Uniparty approved $60.8 billion more for Ukraine while the US quickly approaches $35 trillion in debt.
The DC Cartel cares more about Ukraine than you.
Democrats chanted “Ukraine” while waving Ukrainian flags on the Floor of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives.
The Uniparty approved $60.8 billion more for Ukraine while the US quickly approaches $35 trillion in debt.
The DC Cartel cares more about Ukraine than you. pic.twitter.com/QldqOq3jtR
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) April 20, 2024
See the Republicans who voted in favor of sending nearly $100 billion overseas below:
On H.R. 8036 - Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, - 178 Republicans voted "YEA" with 207 Democrats:
Aderholt Republican Alabama YEA Alford Republican Missouri YEA Allen Republican Georgia YEA Amodei Republican Nevada YEA Armstrong Republican North Dakota YEA Babin Republican Texas YEA Bacon Republican Nebraska YEA Balderson Republican Ohio YEA Banks Republican Indiana YEA Barr Republican Kentucky YEA Bean (FL) Republican Florida YEA Bentz Republican Oregon YEA Bergman Republican Michigan YEA Bice Republican Oklahoma YEA Bilirakis Republican Florida YEA Bost Republican Illinois YEA Buchanan Republican Florida YEA Bucshon Republican Indiana YEA Burgess Republican Texas YEA Calvert Republican California YEA Cammack Republican Florida YEA Carey Republican Ohio YEA Carl Republican Alabama YEA Carter (GA) Republican Georgia YEA Carter (TX) Republican Texas YEA Chavez-DeRemer Republican Oregon YEA Ciscomani Republican Arizona YEA Cline Republican Virginia YEA Cole Republican Oklahoma YEA Collins Republican Georgia YEA Crawford Republican Arkansas YEA Crenshaw Republican Texas YEA Curtis Republican Utah YEA D'Esposito Republican New York YEA Davidson Republican Ohio YEA De La Cruz Republican Texas YEA Diaz-Balart Republican Florida YEA Donalds Republican Florida YEA Duarte Republican California YEA Duncan Republican South Carolina YEA Dunn (FL) Republican Florida YEA Edwards Republican North Carolina YEA Ellzey Republican Texas YEA Emmer Republican Minnesota YEA Estes Republican Kansas YEA Ezell Republican Mississippi YEA Fallon Republican Texas YEA Feenstra Republican Iowa YEA Ferguson Republican Georgia YEA Finstad Republican Minnesota YEA Fitzgerald Republican Wisconsin YEA Fitzpatrick Republican Pennsylvania YEA Fleischmann Republican Tennessee YEA Flood Republican Nebraska YEA Foxx Republican North Carolina YEA Franklin, Scott Republican Florida YEA Fry Republican South Carolina YEA Gallagher Republican Wisconsin YEA Garbarino Republican New York YEA Garcia, Mike Republican California YEA Gimenez Republican Florida YEA Gonzales, Tony Republican Texas YEA Gooden (TX) Republican Texas YEA Granger Republican Texas YEA Graves (LA) Republican Louisiana YEA Graves (MO) Republican Missouri YEA Green (TN) Republican Tennessee YEA Griffith Republican Virginia YEA Grothman Republican Wisconsin YEA Guest Republican Mississippi YEA Guthrie Republican Kentucky YEA Harshbarger Republican Tennessee YEA Hern Republican Oklahoma YEA Hill Republican Arkansas YEA Hinson Republican Iowa YEA Houchin Republican Indiana YEA Hudson Republican North Carolina YEA Huizenga Republican Michigan YEA Issa Republican California YEA Jackson (TX) Republican Texas YEA Johnson (LA) Republican Louisiana YEA Johnson (SD) Republican South Dakota YEA Jordan Republican Ohio YEA Joyce (OH) Republican Ohio YEA Joyce (PA) Republican Pennsylvania YEA Kean (NJ) Republican New Jersey YEA Kelly (MS) Republican Mississippi YEA Kelly (PA) Republican Pennsylvania YEA Kiggans (VA) Republican Virginia YEA Kiley Republican California YEA Kim (CA) Republican California YEA Kustoff Republican Tennessee YEA LaHood Republican Illinois YEA LaLota Republican New York YEA LaMalfa Republican California YEA Lamborn Republican Colorado YEA Langworthy Republican New York YEA Latta Republican Ohio YEA LaTurner Republican Kansas YEA Lawler Republican New York YEA Lee (FL) Republican Florida YEA Lesko Republican Arizona YEA Letlow Republican Louisiana YEA Loudermilk Republican Georgia YEA Lucas Republican Oklahoma YEA Luttrell Republican Texas YEA Mace Republican South Carolina YEA Malliotakis Republican New York YEA Maloy Republican Utah YEA Mann Republican Kansas YEA McCaul Republican Texas YEA McClain Republican Michigan YEA McClintock Republican California YEA McCormick Republican Georgia YEA McHenry Republican North Carolina YEA Meuser Republican Pennsylvania YEA Miller (IL) Republican Illinois YEA Miller (OH) Republican Ohio YEA Miller (WV) Republican West Virginia YEA Miller-Meeks Republican Iowa YEA Mills Republican Florida YEA Molinaro Republican New York YEA Moolenaar Republican Michigan YEA Moore (UT) Republican Utah YEA Moran Republican Texas YEA Murphy Republican North Carolina YEA Newhouse Republican Washington YEA Nunn (IA) Republican Iowa YEA Ogles Republican Tennessee YEA Owens Republican Utah YEA Palmer Republican Alabama YEA Pence Republican Indiana YEA Pfluger Republican Texas YEA Posey Republican Florida YEA Reschenthaler Republican Pennsylvania YEA Rodgers (WA) Republican Washington YEA Rogers (AL) Republican Alabama YEA Rogers (KY) Republican Kentucky YEA Rose Republican Tennessee YEA Rouzer Republican North Carolina YEA Rutherford Republican Florida YEA Salazar Republican Florida YEA Scalise Republican Louisiana YEA Schweikert Republican Arizona YEA Scott, Austin Republican Georgia YEA Sessions Republican Texas YEA Simpson Republican Idaho YEA Smith (MO) Republican Missouri YEA Smith (NE) Republican Nebraska YEA Smith (NJ) Republican New Jersey YEA Smucker Republican Pennsylvania YEA Spartz Republican Indiana YEA Stauber Republican Minnesota YEA Steel Republican California YEA Stefanik Republican New York YEA Steil Republican Wisconsin YEA Strong Republican Alabama YEA Tenney Republican New York YEA Thompson (PA) Republican Pennsylvania YEA Timmons Republican South Carolina YEA Turner Republican Ohio YEA Valadao Republican California YEA Van Drew Republican New Jersey YEA Van Duyne Republican Texas YEA Van Orden Republican Wisconsin YEA Wagner Republican Missouri YEA Walberg Republican Michigan YEA Waltz Republican Florida YEA Weber (TX) Republican Texas YEA Webster (FL) Republican Florida YEA Wenstrup Republican Ohio YEA Westerman Republican Arkansas YEA Williams (TX) Republican Texas YEA Wilson (SC) Republican South Carolina YEA Wittman Republican Virginia YEA Womack Republican Arkansas YEA Yakym Republican Indiana YEA Zinke Republican Montana YEA
On H.R. 8035 - Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 - 101 Republicans voted "AYE" with 210 Democrats:
Aderholt Republican Alabama YEA Bacon Republican Nebraska YEA Barr Republican Kentucky YEA Bentz Republican Oregon YEA Bice Republican Oklahoma YEA Buchanan Republican Florida YEA Bucshon Republican Indiana YEA Burgess Republican Texas YEA Calvert Republican California YEA Carey Republican Ohio YEA Carter (GA) Republican Georgia YEA Carter (TX) Republican Texas YEA Chavez-DeRemer Republican Oregon YEA Ciscomani Republican Arizona YEA Cole Republican Oklahoma YEA Crenshaw Republican Texas YEA Curtis Republican Utah YEA D'Esposito Republican New York YEA Diaz-Balart Republican Florida YEA Duarte Republican California YEA Dunn (FL) Republican Florida YEA Edwards Republican North Carolina YEA Ellzey Republican Texas YEA Emmer Republican Minnesota YEA Feenstra Republican Iowa YEA Ferguson Republican Georgia YEA Fitzpatrick Republican Pennsylvania YEA Fleischmann Republican Tennessee YEA Flood Republican Nebraska YEA Foxx Republican North Carolina YEA Gallagher Republican Wisconsin YEA Garbarino Republican New York YEA Garcia, Mike Republican California YEA Gimenez Republican Florida YEA Gonzales, Tony Republican Texas YEA Granger Republican Texas YEA Graves (MO) Republican Missouri YEA Griffith Republican Virginia YEA Guthrie Republican Kentucky YEA Hill Republican Arkansas YEA Hinson Republican Iowa YEA Houchin Republican Indiana YEA Hudson Republican North Carolina YEA Issa Republican California YEA James Republican Michigan YEA Johnson (LA) Republican Louisiana YEA Johnson (SD) Republican South Dakota YEA Joyce (OH) Republican Ohio YEA Kean (NJ) Republican New Jersey YEA Kelly (PA) Republican Pennsylvania YEA Kiggans (VA) Republican Virginia YEA Kiley Republican California YEA Kim (CA) Republican California YEA Kustoff Republican Tennessee YEA LaHood Republican Illinois YEA LaLota Republican New York YEA Lamborn Republican Colorado YEA Latta Republican Ohio YEA LaTurner Republican Kansas YEA Lawler Republican New York YEA Lucas Republican Oklahoma YEA McCaul Republican Texas YEA McClintock Republican California YEA McCormick Republican Georgia YEA McHenry Republican North Carolina YEA Miller (OH) Republican Ohio YEA Miller (WV) Republican West Virginia YEA Miller-Meeks Republican Iowa YEA Molinaro Republican New York YEA Moore (UT) Republican Utah YEA Moran Republican Texas YEA Murphy Republican North Carolina YEA Newhouse Republican Washington YEA Nunn (IA) Republican Iowa YEA Pence Republican Indiana YEA Reschenthaler Republican Pennsylvania YEA Rodgers (WA) Republican Washington YEA Rogers (AL) Republican Alabama YEA Rogers (KY) Republican Kentucky YEA Rouzer Republican North Carolina YEA Rutherford Republican Florida YEA Salazar Republican Florida YEA Scalise Republican Louisiana YEA Schweikert Republican Arizona YEA Scott, Austin Republican Georgia YEA Sessions Republican Texas YEA Simpson Republican Idaho YEA Smith (NE) Republican Nebraska YEA Smith (NJ) Republican New Jersey YEA Smucker Republican Pennsylvania YEA Steel Republican California YEA Thompson (PA) Republican Pennsylvania YEA Turner Republican Ohio YEA Valadao Republican California YEA Wagner Republican Missouri YEA Wenstrup Republican Ohio YEA Westerman Republican Arkansas YEA Wilson (SC) Republican South Carolina YEA Wittman Republican Virginia YEA Womack Republican Arkansas YEA Yakym Republican Indiana YEA
On H.R. 8034 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 - 193 Republicans voted "AYE" with 173 Democrats:
Aderholt Republican Alabama YEA Alford Republican Missouri YEA Allen Republican Georgia YEA Amodei Republican Nevada YEA Armstrong Republican North Dakota YEA Arrington Republican Texas YEA Babin Republican Texas YEA Bacon Republican Nebraska YEA Baird Republican Indiana YEA Balderson Republican Ohio YEA Banks Republican Indiana YEA Barr Republican Kentucky YEA Bean (FL) Republican Florida YEA Bentz Republican Oregon YEA Bergman Republican Michigan YEA Bice Republican Oklahoma YEA Bilirakis Republican Florida YEA Bishop (NC) Republican North Carolina YEA Bost Republican Illinois YEA Brecheen Republican Oklahoma YEA Buchanan Republican Florida YEA Bucshon Republican Indiana YEA Burgess Republican Texas YEA Burlison Republican Missouri YEA Calvert Republican California YEA Cammack Republican Florida YEA Carey Republican Ohio YEA Carl Republican Alabama YEA Carter (GA) Republican Georgia YEA Carter (TX) Republican Texas YEA Chavez-DeRemer Republican Oregon YEA Ciscomani Republican Arizona YEA Cline Republican Virginia YEA Cloud Republican Texas YEA Cole Republican Oklahoma YEA Collins Republican Georgia YEA Comer Republican Kentucky YEA Crawford Republican Arkansas YEA Crenshaw Republican Texas YEA Curtis Republican Utah YEA D'Esposito Republican New York YEA De La Cruz Republican Texas YEA Diaz-Balart Republican Florida YEA Donalds Republican Florida YEA Duarte Republican California YEA Duncan Republican South Carolina YEA Dunn (FL) Republican Florida YEA Edwards Republican North Carolina YEA Ellzey Republican Texas YEA Emmer Republican Minnesota YEA Estes Republican Kansas YEA Ezell Republican Mississippi YEA Fallon Republican Texas YEA Feenstra Republican Iowa YEA Ferguson Republican Georgia YEA Finstad Republican Minnesota YEA Fischbach Republican Minnesota YEA Fitzgerald Republican Wisconsin YEA Fitzpatrick Republican Pennsylvania YEA Fleischmann Republican Tennessee YEA Flood Republican Nebraska YEA Foxx Republican North Carolina YEA Franklin, Scott Republican Florida YEA Fry Republican South Carolina YEA Fulcher Republican Idaho YEA Gallagher Republican Wisconsin YEA Garbarino Republican New York YEA Garcia, Mike Republican California YEA Gimenez Republican Florida YEA Gonzales, Tony Republican Texas YEA Gooden (TX) Republican Texas YEA Granger Republican Texas YEA Graves (LA) Republican Louisiana YEA Graves (MO) Republican Missouri YEA Green (TN) Republican Tennessee YEA Griffith Republican Virginia YEA Grothman Republican Wisconsin YEA Guest Republican Mississippi YEA Guthrie Republican Kentucky YEA Hageman Republican Wyoming YEA Harshbarger Republican Tennessee YEA Hern Republican Oklahoma YEA Higgins (LA) Republican Louisiana YEA Hill Republican Arkansas YEA Hinson Republican Iowa YEA Houchin Republican Indiana YEA Hudson Republican North Carolina YEA Huizenga Republican Michigan YEA Issa Republican California YEA Jackson (TX) Republican Texas YEA James Republican Michigan YEA Johnson (LA) Republican Louisiana YEA Johnson (SD) Republican South Dakota YEA Jordan Republican Ohio YEA Joyce (OH) Republican Ohio YEA Joyce (PA) Republican Pennsylvania YEA Kean (NJ) Republican New Jersey YEA Kelly (MS) Republican Mississippi YEA Kelly (PA) Republican Pennsylvania YEA Kiggans (VA) Republican Virginia YEA Kiley Republican California YEA Kim (CA) Republican California YEA Kustoff Republican Tennessee YEA LaHood Republican Illinois YEA LaLota Republican New York YEA LaMalfa Republican California YEA Lamborn Republican Colorado YEA Langworthy Republican New York YEA Latta Republican Ohio YEA LaTurner Republican Kansas YEA Lawler Republican New York YEA Lee (FL) Republican Florida YEA Lesko Republican Arizona YEA Letlow Republican Louisiana YEA Loudermilk Republican Georgia YEA Lucas Republican Oklahoma YEA Luna Republican Florida YEA Luttrell Republican Texas YEA Mace Republican South Carolina YEA Malliotakis Republican New York YEA Maloy Republican Utah YEA Mann Republican Kansas YEA Mast Republican Florida YEA McCaul Republican Texas YEA McClain Republican Michigan YEA McClintock Republican California YEA McCormick Republican Georgia YEA McHenry Republican North Carolina YEA Meuser Republican Pennsylvania YEA Miller (IL) Republican Illinois YEA Miller (OH) Republican Ohio YEA Miller (WV) Republican West Virginia YEA Miller-Meeks Republican Iowa YEA Molinaro Republican New York YEA Moolenaar Republican Michigan YEA Moore (AL) Republican Alabama YEA Moore (UT) Republican Utah YEA Moran Republican Texas YEA Murphy Republican North Carolina YEA Newhouse Republican Washington YEA Nunn (IA) Republican Iowa YEA Obernolte Republican California YEA Ogles Republican Tennessee YEA Owens Republican Utah YEA Palmer Republican Alabama YEA Pence Republican Indiana YEA Pfluger Republican Texas YEA Posey Republican Florida YEA Reschenthaler Republican Pennsylvania YEA Rodgers (WA) Republican Washington YEA Rogers (AL) Republican Alabama YEA Rogers (KY) Republican Kentucky YEA Rose Republican Tennessee YEA Rouzer Republican North Carolina YEA Rutherford Republican Florida YEA Salazar Republican Florida YEA Scalise Republican Louisiana YEA Schweikert Republican Arizona YEA Scott, Austin Republican Georgia YEA Self Republican Texas YEA Sessions Republican Texas YEA Simpson Republican Idaho YEA Smith (MO) Republican Missouri YEA Smith (NE) Republican Nebraska YEA Smith (NJ) Republican New Jersey YEA Smucker Republican Pennsylvania YEA Spartz Republican Indiana YEA Stauber Republican Minnesota YEA Steel Republican California YEA Stefanik Republican New York YEA Steil Republican Wisconsin YEA Steube Republican Florida YEA Strong Republican Alabama YEA Tenney Republican New York YEA Thompson (PA) Republican Pennsylvania YEA Timmons Republican South Carolina YEA Turner Republican Ohio YEA Valadao Republican California YEA Van Drew Republican New Jersey YEA Van Duyne Republican Texas YEA Van Orden Republican Wisconsin YEA Wagner Republican Missouri YEA Walberg Republican Michigan YEA Waltz Republican Florida YEA Weber (TX) Republican Texas YEA Webster (FL) Republican Florida YEA Wenstrup Republican Ohio YEA Westerman Republican Arkansas YEA Williams (TX) Republican Texas YEA Wilson (SC) Republican South Carolina YEA Wittman Republican Virginia YEA Womack Republican Arkansas YEA Yakym Republican Indiana YEA
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The game was scheduled at Thomas Jefferson Park on Sunday, April 14.
Approximately 40 teen boys from both teams had shown up to play, but the African migrants, who spoke little English, refused to clear out for them.
“I directly asked them to leave and some of them kind of took it into consideration, but then four or five of them said, ‘You know what, f–k it, we don’t have to leave, we can do whatever we want,’” Erik Johansson, the coach of the Manhattan Kickers 17-year-old boys travel team, told the New York Post.
The Post reports that when police arrived, instead of removing the migrants, they asked to see a copy of the club team’s city permit.
“When you show up with two teams in uniform, a ref and two coaches, usually nobody is asking to see your permit,” Johansson said.
By the time the permit was located, 30 minutes had passed, and the teams no longer felt safe playing there.
“Even when the game is over, you don’t know if they’re waiting for you, so even if the cops kicked them out, it may not be over. So we just all agreed, this is too dangerous,” Johansson said.
Johansson is from Sweden and knows how quickly migrant confrontations can go south.
“I have seen this before, I know how bad it can get,” he said.
Parents told Johansson that they no longer want their kids to play at that field, and the coach said that they do not plan to return.
“It’s so frustrating that the guys who refused to follow the rules won,” Maud Maron, mother of one of the boys on the team, told The Post. “That’s the message the kids got.”
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Speaking to the New York Post from jail, Avenatti said he is in contact with Trump’s legal team and is willing to speak out against his former client.
“The defense has contacted me,” Avenatti told The Post.
Avenatti is currently being held at Terminal Island, a minimum-security federal prison in Los Angeles, serving a 19-year sentence for a slate of federal crimes that include extortion, tax evasion, fraud, and embezzlement.
“I’d be more than happy to testify, I don’t know that I will be called to testify, but I have been in touch with Trump’s defense for the better part of year,” Avenatti said.
The Post reports that Avenatti would not provide any additional details about the discussion, but an unnamed source “close to Trump” confirmed that the discussions are taking place.
Avenatti used to be one of Trump’s loudest critics, but he has seemingly dramatically changed his position.
“There’s no question [the trial] is politically motivated because they’re concerned that he may be reelected,” Avenatti told the newspaper. “If the defendant was anyone other than Donald Trump, this case would not have been brought at this time, and for the government to attempt to bring this case and convict him in an effort to prevent tens of millions of people from voting for him, I think it’s just flat out wrong, and atrocious.”
“I’m really bothered by the fact that Trump, in my view, has been targeted. Four cases is just over the top and I think there’s a significant chance that this is going to all backfire and is going to propel him to the White House,” Avenatti added.
The former lawyer continued, “Depending on what happens, this could constitute pouring jet fuel on his campaign.”
Trump is on trial in NYC over an alleged $130,000 payment to Daniels to keep her quiet during the 2016 election. She has alleged that she had a tryst with the former president many years ago.
“Stormy Daniels is going to say whatever she believes is going to assist Stormy Daniels and putting more money in her pocket,” Avenatti said. “If Stormy Daniels lips are moving, she’s lying for money.”
Avenatti explained that he feels like he and Trump have both been targeted by politically motivated prosecutions.
“I think that we were both targeted by the justice system,” Avenatti said. “There’s a lot of people on the left that were very concerned about my potential rise within the Democratic Party and my potential rise in Democratic politics. And the fact that I was not someone that was easily controlled.”
The imprisoned former lawyer also claimed that he is not fishing for a pardon in case Trump wins a second term.
“I’m not saying any of this because I’m seeking a pardon,” Avenatti told The Post. “I wish I would have never met Stormy Daniels. I should have left her where I found her.”
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Your taxpayer dollars down the drain–
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX): God bless the former president. He’s sitting there between like jury pools getting selected there in New York before this radical DA which is completely unlawful, a complete violation of norms stretching a federal crime into a state crime. It’s all a sham we all get all that. And the president, to take the time, breaking between all of that nonsense to make this statement is really important. He believes, as I do, that sure there’s a world in which you could figure out making sure there’s appropriate lethal aid, if they’re actually lethal aid.
But I want everybody out there in the audience to remember, the $113 billion. I want to repeat, the $113 billion that’s already been appropriated for Ukraine – Only $44 to $47 billion of that, two different reports I’ve seen, is lethal aid. So what was the other $66 to $69 billion dollars for? If they had held that back and used it responsibly, then maybe they’d still have money to come over and try to buy the stuff they need. I don’t want to get into the details in terms of classified stuff, but the stuff that they need to continue to fight.
So that’s what they did. And so now we’re trying to be responsible. We want to secure the border… So the President (Trump) is exactly right. Don Jr is exactly right. This is a complete capitulation by the speaker. It’s completely irresponsible.
And no audits of the US funding.
This could be one of the greatest financial frauds in US history – Next to the Biden COVID assistance fraud.
Via The War Room.
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