"At one point, we asked Hunter about the 10% for the ‘big guy,’" Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Breitbart News following the first son’s six-hour, closed-door deposition.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-finally-admits-joe-biden-big-guy
The Marxist Democrat Party lies when they tell American citizens that the American federal government is a democracy. IT IS NOT! IT NEVER HAS BEEN! The Founding Fathers emphatically established the government of the United States of America as a representative democratic republic and defined the duties and limitations of that government in the United States Constitution. Each state followed the federal formula with a state constitution and state governments are also set up as democratic representative governments. Even most cities and counties have representative forms of government.
This is un-American. It smells like it could be illegal. And it feels like election interference.
This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit and was republished with permission.
Guest post by Jim Hoft
Recently, investigative journalist Yehuda Miller received several FOIA documents that completely reshaped what we were told to believe about the 2020 US presidential election.
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https://vigilantnews.com/post/foia-documents-reveal-secret-2020-election-day-meeting/
"States need to be compelled to pass laws protecting our property rights and a commitment to adherence to 10th Amendment states’ rights. The power of central banks needs to be stopped. Whether they succeed in confiscating everything we own and reducing our standard of living to that of a third-world country will not depend on them; it will depend on us."
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https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-great-taking-the-end-of-property-rights
BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, FEB 14, 2024
With #FalseFlag trending on X, today’s "major, imminent, grave, terrifying security threat" ‘fire-alarm’ in political circles – that by the way the market completely ignored – turned out to be – drum roll please…
*PENTAGON OFFICIAL SAYS SECURITY THREAT ALSO TIED TO SPACE: FOX
it’s freaking Russian space sharks with freaking laser beams attached to their heads
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 14, 2024
According to ABC News, “Two sources familiar with deliberations on Capitol Hill said the intelligence has to do with the Russians wanting to put a nuclear weapon into space.”
The weapon would reportedly be designed to be used to take out satellites.
"This has to do with a threat related to space," says @JacquiHeinrich pic.twitter.com/kdDiIjGNtI
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 14, 2024
Will this be the ‘event’ that triggers some increased crackdown on Russian ‘sympathisers’?
Will this be the ‘event’ that warrants politicians allowed terrified Americans to vote by mail-in-ballot once again (because you’re safe from Russian space-nukes in your home)?
We will wait and see, but without a doubt the timing is a coincidence… and there’s no such thing as coincidence in Washington.
Zero surprise at what will probably be ever-increasing National Security Risk theater up to the election. It’s literally the only play left in the book to try to drum up some percentages of approval for Brandon, trying to scare news addicts.
— bruce says donate to pcrf (@dsxbruce) February 14, 2024
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said “there is no need for public alarm” after House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) called on President Biden to declassify information about a “serious national security threat.”
“I saw Chairman Turner’s statement on the issue and I want to assure the American people, there is no need for public alarm,” Johnson told reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday.
“We are going to work together to address this matter as we do all sensitive matters that are classified.”
The market appears to have been right in shrugging off seen through this latest distraction from Rep Mike Turner as more details are leaked.
First things first, Turner just returned from Ukraine (likely having promised to push for more billions for Zelenskyy).
Second, within an hour of the report, three Members of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee have told Politico that the National Security Threat caused by a New Russian Capability is "Disturbing" but that it is a Longer-Term Concern "Not a Today thing" and that, "It is a Serious Issue but not an Immediate Crisis."
So, the question is – was this:
a) a distraction from Biden’s broken brain, or
2) a last desperate attempt to get more funding for anything-but-the-US-border, or
iii) a path to pitching Putin as the uber-bad-guy again after his interview with Tucker Carlson.
Either way – it seems like a nothing-burger (almost in their own leaked words)… but then there’s this…
Space lasers?
The way we solve this threat is by letting in more illegals and having our tax dollars pay for them.
— Just Browsing 🇺🇸 (@JustBrowsing017) February 14, 2024
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Update (1245 ET): Sources have informed Haley Britzky, a Pentagon correspondent for CNN, that Russian capability is "highly concerning and destabilizing."
Sources tell @NatashaBertrand @KatieBoLillis @AnnieGrayerCNN the national security threat is a "highly concerning and destabilizing" Russian capability https://t.co/8wJahnPkHW
— Haley Britzky (@halbritz) February 14, 2024
Remember, it’s an election year—time for the federal government to amplify fear.
Yup, election year https://t.co/wvq8DVO7Hx
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 14, 2024
Or better, distract! But distract from what?
Here’s what some X users are saying:
🤔 So the CIA is cooking up some new "national security threat".
Who is the most likely "target" of this latest manufactured intrigue?
Russia? Iran? China? "Domestic terrorists"? 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/PlWSKnWku1
— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) February 14, 2024
Zero surprise at what will probably be ever-increasing National Security Risk theater up to the election. It’s literally the only play left in the book to try to drum up some percentages of approval for Brandon, trying to scare news addicts.
— bruce says donate to pcrf (@dsxbruce) February 14, 2024
You mean another "serious national security threat"? Aside from the #BidenBorderInvasion, the fentanyl crisis, runaway debt, Iran and its proxies, and China? https://t.co/ram1FnBWCr
— Alberto Miguel Fernandez (@AlbertoMiguelF5) February 14, 2024
This is the #1 threat to US national security. pic.twitter.com/ih2NRaDEM6
— Darth Shatner (@_DennisBeard_) February 14, 2024
And what might that capability be, hypersonic weapons?
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The chair of the House Intelligence Committee has been warning this week that time is running out for Ukraine in its fight against Russia as Ukraine aid remains up in the air.
On Wednesday morning, House Intel Committee Chair Mike Turner released this statement:
"Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has made available to all Members of Congress information concerning a serious national security threat.
Turner’s statement continued:
"I am requesting that President Biden declassify all information relating to this threat so that Congress, the Administration, and our allies can openly discuss the actions necessary to respond to this threat."
Statement from Chairman @RepMikeTurner: pic.twitter.com/OA9yJuEPlf
— House Intelligence Committee (@HouseIntel) February 14, 2024
More on what this "national security threat" could be about.
UPDATE – A democratic source tells NBC News that "This is a serious issue that could lead to a destabilizing situation and a national security threat", source describes it as "potential foreign threat" https://t.co/mt52wZeXtj
— Faytuks News Δ (@Faytuks) February 14, 2024
Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, told reporters that he had already scheduled a classified meeting with congressional leadership before a top House Republican requested that President Joe Biden "declassify all information" that relates to "serious national security threat," according to ABC News.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says he’s "a little bit surprised" House Intel Committee Chair Mike Turner scheduled a classified briefing for Members of Congress regarding "an urgent matter with regard to a destabilizing foreign military capability" pic.twitter.com/WBfJnLXpXI
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 14, 2024
"I am confident that President Biden, in the decisions that he is taking, is going to ensure the security of the American people," Sullivan said.
Meanwhile, the president suffers from memory issues…
And this statement by Turner could’ve been the catalyst that spooked stocks earlier.
Notice the selling programs that were triggered.
Meanwhile…
Top Intel Committee Dem @jahimes tells us this is not something to panic about. Says it is a "serious" issue that Turner right to focus on, but long-standing https://t.co/rDqZQLksYJ
— Erik Wasson (@elwasson) February 14, 2024
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In my opinion: this was done by Biden as Vice-President under Obama, with or without Obama’s knowledge and restarted in 2020.
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Four Chinese nationals are charged in an indictment in the District of Columbia with various federal crimes related to a years-long conspiracy to unlawfully export and smuggle U.S.-origin electronic components from the United States to Iran.
According to court documents, Baoxia Liu, aka Emily Liu; Yiu Wa Yung, aka Stephen Yung; Yongxin Li, aka Emma Lee; and Yanlai Zhong, aka Sydney Chung, unlawfully exported and smuggled U.S. export controlled items through China and Hong Kong ultimately for the benefit of entities affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL), which supervises Iran’s development and production of missiles, weapons, and military aerial equipment to include Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
“For more than a decade, the defendants allegedly orchestrated a scheme to smuggle U.S. manufactured parts to the IRGC and the Iranian agency charged with developing ballistic missiles and UAVs,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “Such efforts to unlawfully obtain U.S. technology directly threaten our national security, and we will use every tool at our disposal to sever the illicit supply chains that fuel the Iranian regime’s malign activity.”
“Aggressively combating illicit procurement networks that support Iranian military systems like radars and UAVs is essential to U.S. national security,” said Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement Matthew S. Axelrod of the Department of Commerce. “Today’s indictment, tied to the work of the Disruptive Technology Strike Force, reaffirms that proliferators cannot hide behind front companies in third countries to funnel technology to our adversaries.”
“Our indictment alleges a years-long, complex conspiracy to violate U.S. laws by procuring U.S. technology with military uses for entities in Iran who would do us harm – a serious offense that endangers our national security,” said U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves for the District of Columbia. “Our office, along with our federal law enforcement partners, will continue to turn over every stone to find those who break our laws and put us at risk. We are committed to making sure that U.S. technology is kept out of the hands of those taking aim at the United States and its citizens through robust enforcement of U.S. sanctions.”
“Our foreign adversaries use many tactics to gain access to critical U.S. technologies and innovation,” said Executive Assistant Director Larissa L. Knapp of the FBI’s National Security Branch. “In this instance, it is alleged that U.S.-origin equipment was smuggled by front companies to the benefit of end users in Iran. Any circumvention of U.S. export control law is simply unacceptable – the FBI will work diligently with its partners across the globe to hold all accountable who jeopardize our national security.”
According to the indictment, beginning as early as May 2007 and continuing until at least July 2020, the defendants utilized an array of front companies in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to funnel dual-use U.S.-origin items, including electronics and components that could be utilized in the production of UAVs, ballistic missile systems, and other military end uses, to sanctioned Iranian entities with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) such as Shiraz Electronics Industries (SEI), Rayan Roshd Afzar, and their affiliates.
Throughout the course of the conspiracy, the defendants concealed the fact that the goods were destined for Iran and Iranian entities and made material misrepresentations to U.S. companies regarding the end destination and end users. These deceptive practices caused the U.S. companies to export goods to the defendants’ PRC-based front companies under false pretenses and under the guise that the ultimate destination of these products was China as opposed to Iran. As a result, a vast amount of dual-use U.S.-origin commodities with military capabilities were exported from the United States to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions and export control laws and regulations.
The defendants are charged with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), violating IEEPA, smuggling goods from the United States, and one count of submitting false or misleading export information. If convicted, the defendants face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for violating the IEEPA; up to 10 years in prison for smuggling goods from the United States; and up to five years in prison for each count of conspiracy and submitting false or misleading export information. Arrest warrants have been issued for Liu, Yung, Li and Zhong who all remain fugitives.
The FBI’s Detroit Field Office and Commerce Department’s Office of Export Enforcement Chicago Field Office are investigating the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack F. Korba for the District of Columbia and Trial Attorneys Heather Schmidt and Yifei Zheng of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section are prosecuting the case.
In June 2023, the Department of Justice joined with the Departments of Commerce, State, and Treasury to issue an advisory to share information about the threat posed by Iran’s procurement, development, and proliferation of UAVs. Four months later, in October 2023, the department joined with the same interagency partners to issue an advisory describing the threat posed by Iran’s ballistic missile procurement activities. The advisories gave an overview of the key components sought by Iran, the regime’s use of deceptive practices to acquire certain types of technologies, and recommendations for implementing effective compliance controls to minimize sanctions and export control risk.
Today’s action was coordinated through the Disruptive Technology Strike Force, an interagency law enforcement strike force co-led by the Departments of Justice and Commerce designed to target illicit actors, protect supply chains, and prevent critical technology from being acquired by authoritarian regimes and hostile nation-states. Under the leadership of the Assistant Attorney General for National Security and the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement, the Strike Force leverages tools and authorities across the U.S. government to enhance the criminal and administrative enforcement of export control laws.
An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
Updated February 1, 2024
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Remember, a commentator at the WEF Davos24 some ten days ago, asked something to the extent, “How to avoid an undesired person being elected President?”
No names were named, but it was obvious, the undesired person for the globalist crowd was the non-globalist, nationalist, “Make America Great Again” (MAGA), former President Donald Trump.
Everybody knows, he is the anti-globalist elephant in a room of a globalist cabal. Perhaps the answer to the question was prepared in a closed-door session – and is unfolding rather fast, as we follow the happenings at the Texas-Mexican border.
Is there a false flag in the making?
If we believe the mainstream media, “Republican” Governor Greg Abbott from Texas sent the State National Guard to defend the Texan 2,000 km (1,200 miles) border with Mexico. Did he really?
Unlikely. He sent his National Guard only to defend the official border entry at Eagle Pass and maybe one or two others along the 2,000 km long border.
The influx of illegal Mexicans into Texas is not new. Abbott could have started with border protection already in 2021 – a record year of illegal Central American immigrants (not just Mexicans) into the US via Texas. That record was exceeded in 2023 with as many as 2.5 million illegal immigrants (official stats) into Texas. See this.
Unofficial figures are quoted as high as 6 million.
In January 2024, “Democrat” President Biden contradicts “Republican” Governor Abbott and requests border control agents to access a river front park, near Eagle Pass, a crucial border crossing point, now supposedly being guarded by razor wires built by Texas National Guards, and by the Texan guards themselves. Biden wants this “crucial border crossing park” being controlled by federal Border Control Agents. Biden is known to be lax with immigration.
“Illegal immigrants” love President Biden, as can be seen in the “shadow crossing” 40-min. video below.
Is this a real clash between Texas and the US National Government? Or a fake clash?
Ms. Linda, from WGON TV News, says there are “strange things” going on at the Texan border. She asked, “Are we being played about the Texas border?”
To make her point, she shows a brief video clip, depicting just about half a mile (800 m) of fenced border (called the Trump-fence), showing three unprotected border-crossings. The entire 2000 km Texas-Mexico border has 28 official (protected) crossings – and what it looks like maybe up to hundred gateless openings in the wall. See video below.
See video @ Global Research
Another video by two investigative journalists following the migration route all the way to Colombia, where mafias are organizing mass-migration from South and Central America being funded apparently by the UN system, to Mexico and through the Texan border, where the news cameras are focusing only on the official border crossings, but not on the unprotected open doors in the wall. See this 40-min video.
Muckraker –
https://youtu.be/Bk66WyMBjvQ?feature=shared
The video commentator at about 00:37:00 says that
“The United States is in a state of undeclared war. The United Nations and associated organizations are actively working to dissolve the American Republic by an industrial scale weaponized migration program”…. “Cartels control the southern border. And every day thousands of military age young men enter the Southern border.”
The video portrays a picture of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) with the symbol of UN Agenda 2030. You may recall that the WEF’s Great Reset and UN Agenda 2030 go hand in hand, and that in 2019, Klaus Schwab, WEF Chairman and CEO signed an illegal contract with Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General, on a Cooperation Agreement.
The video is accompanied by a text box giving more details on UN and associated organizations that provided help for the flood of destabilizing immigration to the US.
Does Governor Abbott not know about what is going on at the Texan border?
Mr. Abbott is a WEFer. He is closely linked to Klaus Schwab and the WEF. It is, therefore, likely that rather than being in a clash, Abbott and Biden work together to destabilize the US, bringing about a crisis that could well incite a civil war.
This would be reason enough for the Biden Administration to declare Martial Law – and under Martial Law, the US Constitution allows suspension of Presidential elections.
It is also telling that this happens just a few days after closing of WEF Davos24, where such matters were likely discussed behind closed-doors.
Suspension of elections – wouldn’t that be the perfect answer to the question asked during one of the more than 100 WEF meetings, “What can we do to avoid that the wrong person is elected President?”
While the border clash, the migration crisis is real for the American people, the apparent confrontation between Governor Abbott and President Biden smells more like a “false flag”.
The Texas Government under agreements with other governors is quietly transporting illegals to other US States.
The WEF and its globalist elite cohorts cannot allow a nationalist President to take over, as would be Donald Trump, interrupting Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset. They need a Globalist government – à la Biden, or maybe a come-back Barack Obama, or even Michelle Obama – to carry the diabolical globalist agenda through. And that much faster than 2030.
The Reset’s / UN Agenda 2030 principal goal, population reduction, is going on – through the experimental” covid vaxxes, slowly over years, sudden deaths, turbo cancers, reducing auto-immune systems, drastically lowering fertility and more.
But what still needs to be put in place for total control of the survivors – the transhumans, cyborgs and robots – is the perfect slave-yard through full digitization, AI, programmable Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC); in brief, the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
A civil war in the US would have devastating consequences not only for the people of the United States, but it would also have disruptive and destructive consequences throughout the western world.
And as if the ruling elite would know about the plot that could result in civil war, the US insurance companies have changed their terms as of 1 January 2024, no longer covering damages caused by “War, Riot, or Insurrection, declared or non-declared”. See video below.
Kimberly Guilfoyle @ Rumble
This may well be the plan behind the WEF’s theme “Rebuilding Trust”.
It may also be the WEF’s last effort to rebuild trust, since before such planned unrest occurs, people in the United States may wake up to “being played about the Texas border”, as so adroitly expressed by Linda, the commentator of WGON TV News. And it may also be the end of the WEF – and 8 billion people around the world would be cheering.
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Exactly! This is where my mind went on hearing that stupid judge act like a tv "news" anchor!!
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President Donald Trumps lawyer was asked about presidential immunity on Tuesday, by Federal Judge Florence Pan. The specifics of the question surrounded if President Trump could order SEAL Team Six to assassinate an American citizen (or presidential candidate) and if Absolute Immunity would apply.
President Trumps attorney was prepared to answer the hypothetical question with a qualified yes; however, unfortunately the lawyer was not prepared to give Judge Pan a real-world example of this action that recently took place. Its not a hypothetical; it was done recently. President Obama did exactly this.
President Barack Obama had absolute immunity for ordering the intentional killing of American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaqi. The issue of him being a presidential candidate is a non sequitur.
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Excellent article!! https://www.zerohedge.com/political/politics-so-confusing-right-now-dems-reps-have-switched-sides-now-half-voters-identify
Nearly half of Americans now identify as independent—not necessarily because they’re centrists, or moderates, but because neither party reflects their views.
A must read!
Based on an article I wrote way back on November 3, 2017, it seems that Antifa telegraphed the entire plan when it came to January 6, 2021. A screenshot of the page is at the end of this article just in case Blogger unpublishes it, something they’ve done to many of my past articles already (hence, one of the reasons Political Pistachio moved to my new site at DouglasVGibbs.com).
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A shipment of horses at a New York City rail yard, 1918. (165-WW-280A-050)
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On a chilly November night in 1915, a dockhand crept silently through the darkness near the Newport News, Virginia, shipyard as he approached dockside corrals filled with horses destined to board British or French transport ships headed for Europe to aid in the Allied war effort.
As he neared the Breeze Point wharf, he carried a brown paper package and rubber gloves. He snapped on the gloves and removed from the package two glass syringes containing a yellow liquid.
The dockhand, a stevedore named John Grant, checked out the hundreds of horses and mules in the British remount depot. Taking care to avoid the night watchmen, he went to the first mule corral. Then he jabbed the needles into the hides of as many mules that he could reach. After jabbing many horses in two pens, he dumped the rest of the liquid in the animal’s water basins and food troughs and threw the gloves and syringes into the river.
During 1915–1916, thousands of horses and mules were killed in these horse pens. The yellow liquid, which carried the glanders bacteria, had been cooked up in what was known as “Tony’s Lab” by an American-born German agent named Anton Dilger.
German espionage and sabotage in the United States was going on long before the United States formally entered the war in April 1917. Dilger’s work was just one of many ways the Germans sought to undermine America’s ability to aid its allies. Fewer horses and mules would make moving artillery and other war materiel much more difficult; it had become a strategic priority for Germany.
Anton Dilger’s Early Life Spent Around Horses, Riding
Anton Dilger’s passport photo, attached to his 1916 application. (National Archives, RG 76)
Dilger was born on a horse farm, named Greenfield, near Front Royal, Virginia, on February 13, 1884. He was the son of Hubert Dilger, a German immigrant and a U.S. Army captain who had received the Medal of Honor for his service as a horse artillery officer at the Battle of Chancellorsville in the spring of 1863.
Hubert Dilger, an expert horseman, was instrumental in saving Union forces in the fighting retreat of General Hooker’s troops during Confederate General Stonewall Jackson’s flank attack at the end of the battle. The Confederates won the battle but did not destroy Hooker’s army, due partly to the efforts of Captain Dilger.
At Greenfield, Anton was taught to ride and to hunt and fish. He was also well acquainted with German culture. Four of his sisters married Germans and moved back to Germany. As a boy, Anton idolized his famous great grandfather on his mother’s side, Dr. Freidrich Tiedemann, known as the “great physiologist of Heidelberg.”
Anton’s grandfather was also a German medical doctor, so, unsurprisingly, Anton was sent, at the age of nine, to study in Germany. He stayed at his sister Edna’s house in Mannheim and enjoyed a comfortable life in Germany.
He passed the medical exam at the University of Heidelberg in 1908 and by 1909 was an assistant at the university surgical clinic while researching his doctoral dissertation. While studying microbiology and germ culture, he learned how to set up a tissue-culture lab. Ironically one of his challenges was how to prevent bacterial infections in animal tissue cultures. Later, in Washington, DC, he applied his expertise for the opposite purpose.
German Government Shows Interest in Dilger as Agent
Dilger received his doctoral degree in 1912, a year after Hubert Dilger died. Greenfield farm was in decline, and the family sold off part of the farm to the U.S. government. During the years before World War I, it became part of a U.S. Army Remount Depot, where the Army gathered, evaluated, and trained warhorses.
The young and handsome Doctor Dilger cemented his reputation back in Germany as a superb surgeon and a ladies man. Once war arrived, Dilger served in military hospitals performing battlefield surgery in Serbia and Bulgaria in 1914 and in Rastatt, Germany, in 1915. Seeing family members wounded and killed in the conflict hastened his conversion to a pro-German and anti-Allied outlook.
As a German patriot in possession of a U.S. passport, he was a prime candidate for recruitment by German intelligence to work in America.
According to German records, Dilger left Germany on September 29, 1915, working with the Imperial Prussian War Ministry in America.
Officially neutral, the United States provided loans and other goods and supplies to the Allies. Because America supplied hundreds of thousands of horses and mules to the war effort, the Prussian Imperial War Ministry was very interested in cutting off this supply.
Dilger, Brother, and Sister Leave Farm for Chevy Chase
Anton boarded the Dutch passenger liner Noordam in Amsterdam, bound for New York City and heading toward his final destination of Washington, DC. Among the items he carried was a small briefcase filled with fragile glass test tubes that contained the basis for manufacturing the glanders germ. The glanders bacteria was a primary killer of horses and mules.
With the help of his sister Jo, who lived with her family in northwest Washington, DC, he searched for a rental house where he could establish a physician’s office and set up a small laboratory for his experiments. He hung up his shingle but never saw any patients.
During a visit to Greenfield in December 1915, Anton persuaded his sister Em and his brother Carl to join him in Washington. He asked Em to be the housekeeper and Carl, a former beer brewer, to help in the lab. More importantly to Anton, she could be hostess and consequently discourage any possible gossip. Em had no idea that her brother was a German agent.
Carl had had his own brewery in Montana and knew how to propagate yeast and ferment vats of beer, a useful skill when it came to cooking up cultures. After Anton confided in him the nature of his mission, Carl was eager to help.
Anton settled in a two-story white brick house in the 5500 block of 33rd Street, NW, near Connecticut Avenue, not far from Chevy Chase Circle. Even in those days, Chevy Chase was a fast-growing and fashionable neighborhood, only six miles from the White House.
There was even a tramline connecting Chevy Chase with downtown. Because Chevy Chase was a new neighborhood with lots of strangers, Anton could easily blend in. Most important, the house had a spacious basement with a separate entrance that Anton could turn into a secret lab. It was a case of hiding in plain sight.
Anton Sets Up “Tony’s Lab”
Anton and Carl bought lab equipment and wire cages for the guinea pigs they would use to test the effectiveness of the poison they were to manufacture. They had an incubation oven, sterilizing machine, petri dishes and rows of glass vials. Later, Anton’s associates would call the basement “Tony’s Lab.”
A poisoned horse at Covington, Kentucky. (111-SC-6991)
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For several months, the brothers incubated vials of anthrax and glanders. They were careful not to touch the cultures, since the bacteria in the cultures could also kill men. At room temperature, the cultures would be effective for about a month.
When the cultures were ready to go, German agents (Abeteilung IIB) from Baltimore stopped by the house each week to pick them up. These German agents then delivered the cultures to ports on the East Coast, including Newport News, Norfolk, Baltimore and New York, where hired stevedores would secretly inject the animals or contaminate their food supplies with the deadly germs.
The German agent who picked up the cultures at the little house on 33rd Street was Capt. Frederick Hinsch, one of the leaders of the Baltimore group of German agents. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the cultures, Anton showed him the guinea pigs; they were listless and dying. Hinsch was satisfied. In exchange for the cultures, Hinsch handed over a few thousand dollars to cover expenses, such as equipment, glassware purchases, house rental, and salaries for both Anton and Carl. The money came from Paul Hilken, the Baltimore paymaster.
The Baltimore group worked out of the offices of the North German Lloyd steamship line. Hinsch was charged with organizing dockhands, German sailors, and others for sabotage operations such as planting cigar bombs in U.S. ships carrying munitions, distributing flyers to get dockworkers to strike, and poisoning horses and mules being shipped to the Allies.
This was not the first German attempt at killing American horses. Agents earlier attempted to bomb or derail trains packed with horses or mules headed for British remount depots such as Newport News. In January 1915, the Germans planned to bomb transport trains in Canada that carried ammunition as well as warhorses. As it turned out, the cold Canadian winter made it difficult to lay the explosives.
New York City Police Increase Guards on Horses
Anton Dilger applied for a U.S. passport for his return to Germany in 1916. (National Archives, RG 76)
A letter recommendating that Anton Dilger be granted a passport. (National Archives, RG 76)
After another plan to bomb trains heading out of the Chicago stockyards went awry, the Germans turned to germ warfare as a more efficient method to stem the supply of horses and mules heading to the Allies.
An attempt at germ warfare in May 1915 did not work because the saboteur, Erik von Steinmetz, did not know enough microbiology to keep the cultures alive. It became evident to the German General Staff that they had to have an agent who knew bacteriology and knew what he was doing. That agent was Dr. Anton Dilger.
The Dilgers continued to operate their lab until January 29, 1916, when Anton suddenly returned to Germany using a new U.S. passport he had obtained so he could, as he told the Department of State, work as a doctor in Heidelberg. He had also gotten a letter of recommendation from an acquaintance in the U.S. Army Medical Corps.
What had happened?
Capt. Tom Tunney was a New York City police detective and head of the department’s bomb squad assigned to investigate and apprehend the culprits in the bombing of buildings and ships in New York harbor. In the winter of 1915–1916, he gathered information concerning Steinmetz’s attempted germ attack and wondered if the Germans were going to make another attempt. He had no suspects and no clues—nothing but the fear of another attack.
Captain Tunney ordered doubling the guards at the New York horse corrals and spread the word along the waterfront to be on the lookout for enemy agents who might attempt to poison the animals. He later found out that his vigilance succeeded in preventing a large-scale biological attack.
At a secret meeting in late January 1916, Hilken, being somewhat cautious, told Hinsch and Dilger that “They’re on to us.” He had learned from Paul Koenig, a German agent in the New York area, that New York police were asking questions around the harbor about plots to poison horses awaiting shipment to the Allies. There were also more guards around the horse corrals. At the meeting, Dilger was handed a cable that ordered him back to Berlin “for discussions.” Anton had gotten his wish to get back to Germany, and Dilger’s lab had succeeded in remaining undetected.
U.S. Agents Interview Anton, Deem Him Not a Traitor
After Anton left, Carl Dilger continued the work of the lab with Fred Herrmann, a good friend of Anton’s, who had been living at the house. They added the manufacture of incendiary pencils and other explosives to their repertoire. Some of these incendiaries ended up being used in the Black Tom explosion in New Jersey, a munitions factory that supplied ammunition to the Allies
Because Carl tended to brag about his mission after having more than a couple of beers at the local taverns, Hilken and Hinsch pushed him out of the operation in May 1916. They sent him to Berlin with an important sealed message to the Political Section of the General Staff. The message was to keep Carl in Germany so that he could not undermine the sabotage operation in America, but the message was lost, and Carl continued in service delivering incendiary tubes. Herrman stayed on at the lab.
After the Black Tom explosion in July 1916 and the increased law enforcement scrutiny that followed, Herrmann decided to close up the lab and move to St. Louis. The St. Louis operation failed since Herrmann did not have Anton’s medical and scientific knowledge, and the germ cultures died.
Amazingly, it was the local police, like Captain Tunney in New York, not the national law enforcement entities such as the Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, and Military Intelligence, that were most effective against German sabotage operations. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, lack of law enforcement authority, and lack of staff contributed to their failure.
The Black Tom munitions depot in New Jersey was a prime target for saboteurs. Germany was eventually held accountable for the devastating explosion there. (111-SC-95793)
For example, an agent of the Bureau of Investigation interviewed Anton Dilger in July 1917 while he was visiting one of his brothers at Greenfield. He had come to America to deliver secret coded messages from Berlin to German agents and diplomats. Later in July, he was interviewed again by another bureau agent while he was staying at his sister Jo’s house in Washington. Again, this interview did not raise any red flags, the agent saying in his report that “Dr. Dilger is not a man who would be guilty of any traitorous acts towards this country.” Anton Dilger had slipped through the bureau’s fingers.
Anton Receives Iron Cross for His Service to Germany
Anton then went to Mexico to join with the other Baltimore-based agents, specifically Hinsch and Hilken, who had escaped the United States after the declaration of war in April 1917. Taking on the alias “Dr. Delmar,” Anton’s main mission from Berlin was to promote a Mexican invasion of the United States, and he raised money to finance the proposed campaign. Feuding among Anton, the German agents, and Berlin caused the campaign to fizzle, but Anton was still awarded the Iron Cross in January 1918 in recognition of his sabotage and espionage work.
Carl Dilger applied for a passport in 1916 to allow him to travel to Germany. (National Archives, RG 76)
Even so, Anton had made enemies both in Mexico and Berlin. Now in Spain, he feared that Allied investigators were finally catching up to him. Then came the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918–1919, which killed possibly as many as 50 million people worldwide. On October 17, 1918, Anton Dilger died of influenza in Madrid at the age of 34. That was the official story. Ironically, he was a germ saboteur killed by an infectious disease.
There were problems with this version of events. Carl Dilger and Fred Herrmann later claimed that they suspected German agents had murdered Anton—that he had been poisoned “because he knew too much.” In testimony years later to the Mixed Claims Commission, they alleged that Anton’s cover had been blown and Allied agents were closing in. There is still some doubt whether Anton even died in Madrid in 1918. The details of his death remain murky to this day.
The Mixed Claims Commission, U.S. and Germany, was established in 1922 for the purpose of satisfying claims of the United States and its citizens against Germany since 1914. By 1933, most of the claims had been settled. The largest group of unsettled claims were the sabotage claims, which consisted of the 153 claims of U.S. citizens who suffered losses as a result of German sabotage in 1916–1917. The sabotage claims remained before the commission for more than 12 years, and due to German intransigence, it was not until 1939 that a decision was rendered in favor of the U.S. claimants.
According to later estimates, the German germ sabotage campaign in America killed thousands of horses during World War I. Even so, that number was not a significant factor in the war effort since more than over 750,000 horses were shipped to the Allies from America. This was the first modern germ warfare campaign in history. But it was not the last.
The story of Anton Dilger and “Tony’s Lab” are filled with ironies. But the most notable one is that an American-born son of a Civil War hero, who loved horses and was an expert horseman, became a German agent whose germ cultures were responsible for the deaths of thousands of horses in the United States during World War I.
On the steal again…
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s highest court on Tuesday ordered the state to draw new congressional districts ahead of the 2024 elections, giving Democrats a potential advantage in what is expected to be a battleground for control of the U.S. House.
The 4-3 decision from the New York Court of Appeals could have major ramifications as Democrats angle for more favorable district lines in the state next year. Republicans, who won control of the House after flipping seats in New York, sought to keep the map in place.
The state’s bipartisan Independent Redistricting Commission will now be tasked with coming up with new districts, which will then go before the Democrat-controlled Legislature for approval. The court ordered the commission to file a map no later than Feb. 28.
“In 2014, the voters of New York amended our Constitution to provide that legislative districts be drawn by an Independent Redistricting Commission,” Chief Judge Rowan D. Wilson wrote for the majority. “The Constitution demands that process, not districts drawn by courts.”
The ruling is an early, but important, step in Democrats’ plans to retake a handful of congressional districts in New York seen as vital to winning a House majority.
“Today’s decision is a win for democracy and particularly the people of New York. We are eager for the Independent Redistricting Commission to get back to work to create a new, fair congressional map – through the process New York voters intended,” said U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Democrats sued to have last year’s maps thrown out after their party lost seats in the New York City suburbs and handed control of the House to Republicans.
The case came after Democrats in the state bungled the redistricting process for the 2022 elections, and along with what many considered political miscalculations at the top of the state ticket, drew blame for the party’s loss of the House.
The maps used last year were supposed to be drawn by the state’s independent redistricting commission. But the commission, which is made up of an equal number of Democrats and Republicans, failed to reach a consensus and eventually gave up.
The state Legislature then stepped in and drew its own map, which was set up in a way to give Democrats a major edge by cramming Republican voters into a few super districts, diluting GOP voting power in the rest of the state. A legal challenge stopped the Democrats’ map from moving forward and the Court of Appeals ruled that the state didn’t follow proper procedure in adopting the maps.
Instead, the court had an independent expert draw a new set of lines that, along with strong turnout from the GOP, led to Republicans flipping seats in the New York City suburbs and winning control of the House in 2022.
Democrats then filed their own lawsuit to stop last year’s maps from being used in 2024, with the case going all the way to New York’s highest court. They argued that the court-drawn map was never meant to be used in more than one election and that the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission should have another opportunity to draw the maps.
Republicans have argued the districts are politically balanced and should not be discarded.
“We are disappointed but not surprised by the Court’s decision to allow Democrats a second attempt at gerrymandering the maps,” said Savannah Viar, spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “Instead of focusing on policies that appeal to everyday voters, Democrats are trying to cheat their way to power.”
Democrats have dedicated major financial and campaign resources to retake districts in New York next year. Republicans are aiming to hold onto the seats, focusing on issues such as crime and the arrival of migrants that they hope will animate suburban voters.
Still, the redistricting process is far from over. A new map will likely result in another legal challenge, with the commission’s work closely watched by both Republicans and Democrats.
I normally don’t post AJ article. I remember this from 2016.
By Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag, Matt Taibbi Public.Substack.com November 29th 2023
Whistleblower makes trove of new documents available to Public and Racket, showing the birth of the Censorship Industrial Complex in reaction to Brexit and Trump election in 2016. The sum total of the documents is a clear picture of a highly coordinated and sophisticated effort by the US and UK governments to build a domestic censorship effort and influence operations similar to the ones they have used in foreign countries.
Whistleblower alleges Obama White House in 2017 demanded a counter-disinformation project to stop a “repeat of 2016.” — If the world feels different today than before 2018, this is why!
Check out this Article from AmericanThinker
By David Lanza
On November 22, 2023 it was reported that a federal court in Pennsylvania changed the legal requirements for counting mail-in ballots by county boards of elections.. When no-excuse mail-in balloting was permitted in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, we were told that such voting was secure and that safeguards would prohibit fraud. Doubters and skeptics are forcefully reminded that the 2020 election was the “most secure in history.” Last week’s court decision is one more example of the alleged safeguards being eroded.
One year earlier the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that all mail-in ballots must be dated and must be rejected by county boards of election if the date is invalid. This week’s ruling would change that requirement so that undated and misdated mail-in ballots must be counted. Groups pushing for that change claim that the date on the ballot envelope is trivial. Those claims are amplified by a compliant media that obscures the issue.
Few issues are more important than election integrity. That this proposition needs to be repeated is in itself revealing. We all have witnessed crucial contests somehow change winners in the early morning hours following election day. It has become a cliché and a joke. The election law changes that have allowed this to happen have sown widespread suspicion and disillusionment throughout the country.
Fraudulent mail-in ballots are difficult to detect. They are not obvious. Only through safeguards like the date on the envelope can we hope to catch and prevent a small portion of the fraud. Throughout Pennsylvania and beyond, voter registration offices send mail-in ballots to voters who request them beginning more than one month in advance of election day. The voters return those ballots inside one envelope that is contained in an outer envelope. The outer envelope contains a space for a signature and a date. As long as the date falls between the first date that the registration office mails ballots and election day, the ballot is considered valid. In one typical Pennsylvania county, absentee ballots were mailed starting October 4, 2023. Election day was November 7th. The voters had a range of 35 permissible dates with which to date their envelopes. Using one of those dates is not difficult. Ballots dated after election day or before the date of first mailing were not counted.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/legalizing_ballot_fraud_in_pennsylvania.html
A powerful United Nations agency has unveiled a plan to regulate social media and online communication while cracking down on what it describes as “false information” and “conspiracy theories,” sparking alarm among free-speech advocates and top U.S. lawmakers.
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In its 59-page report (pdf download) released this month, the U.N. Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) outlined a series of “concrete measures which must be implemented by all stakeholders: governments, regulatory authorities, civil society, and the platforms themselves.”
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Unlike the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting any governmental infringement on the right to free speech or free press, UNESCO points to various international “human rights” instruments that it says should determine what speech to infringe on.
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The Biden administration told The Epoch Times that it wasn’t involved in creating the plan.
“We will reserve comment until we finish carefully studying the plan,” the State Department said in an email. (But they are already implementing sections of it, "many of the policies called for by UNESCO have already been implemented by U.S.-based digital platforms, often at the behest of the Biden administration")
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Already, the U.S. government has twice exited UNESCO—under the Reagan and the Trump administrations—due to concerns about what the administrations described as extremism, hostility to American values, and other problems.
The Biden administration rejoined earlier this year over the objections of lawmakers.
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In a recent review of the United States, a U.N. human-rights committee called for changes to the U.S. Constitution and demanded that the U.S. government do more to stop and punish “hate speech” in order to comply with the ICCPR.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/inside-un-plan-control-speech-online
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New study forecasts major increases to Medicare Part D premiums in 2024, conflicting with CMS projections of declines.
Retired Americans enrolled in Medicare’s Part D prescription coverage could see their premiums increase by 42-57 percent in 2024, a new analysis by HealthView Services has found.
Early indicators show significant cost hikes for retirees in the five states with the largest senior populations. This is different from an earlier report projecting slight premium declines across Part D plans next year.
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Projected 2024 premiums are $1,404 in California, $1,246 in Florida, $1,154 in Texas, $1,469 in New York, and $1,189 in Pennsylvania. This represents average increases ranging from $269 in Texas to $510 in New York.
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Americans pay for prescription drugs over 2.5 times more than other high-income nations. One in five seniors alter medication use due to high prescription costs, a May 2023 national survey found. They either skipped, delayed, took less medication, or took someone else’s medications.
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With health costs a top concern for retiring Americans, the HealthView analysis shows 2024 increases could outpace the average retiree’s Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) by 70 percent. For those on fixed incomes, outpacing COLA adjustments poses real financial challenges.
A State Department official, Sylvia Yacoub, not only has accused the Biden Administration of “spreading misinformation”, but also of being “complicit in genocide”. Her 5-page memo was signed by 100 State Department and USAID officials in a State Department system that, unfortunately, is not for public view. Still, it reveals that conflict exists within governmental structures. In the case of this memo, the impact is certain to be essentially zero. It’s as if leadership is saying, “OK, you’re critical, but now back to work.” So then, how does someone aware of dangerous or treasonous activity make it known to a larger public that needs it?
There is a vast storehouse of secrets within the hundreds of thousands of people in America’s federal alphabet agencies, e.g. CDC, CIA, FDA, EPA, DHS, FBI. There are many more “3-letters”, of course, but those 6 are high in the public mind. Every one impacts on the public’s perception of the Covid-19 Pandemic — of the early lies about there being no existing treatment thus forcing the world toward an untested genetic therapy misnamed “vaccine”, of the relentless in-your-face lies of “safe and effective”, of the censoring of alternative medical views, of hiding the fact of mortality rates vastly higher in the vaccinated. Things like that. Those 6 agencies alone account for ~600,000 federal employees, many who know much about which We The People are intentionally kept in the dark.
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/praise-whistleblowers/5840991
By Michael Clements
Nov 21, 2023
PEEKSKILL, N.Y.—The Second Amendment debate is academic for many Americans—speculation with friends over what-if scenarios and the concept of God-given rights.
On Oct. 7, those rights hit home for Adam Edelman (not his real name) and others in New York’s Jewish community, who were horrified by the Hamas terror attack on Israel and the massacre of 1,200 people.
Then, days later, while he was sitting in his small business outside New York City, pro-Palestinian protestors were marching just miles from his office.
He began recalling his grandparents’, aunts’, and uncles’ accounts of the beginning of the Holocaust. And how he could protect his family in a state that restricts his Second Amendment rights.
Mr. Edelman spoke with The Epoch Times on condition of anonymity out of concern for his family’s safety.
“Well, look, the parallels are there. They’re openly screaming ‘Death to Jews,’” Mr. Edelman told The Epoch Times. “If they had a chance, they would eradicate all the Jews. They would do it.”
Gun rights activists hailed the June 23, 2022, U.S. Supreme Court ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen that citizens have a constitutional right to carry a gun in public for self-defense.
People walk past the John Jovino gunshop, which claims to be the oldest gun shop in the country, in New York City on April 8, 2013. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)
They see the decision as the bookend to the 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Since Bruen, 27 states have adopted so-called constitutional carry laws, which allow law-abiding citizens to carry a firearm without a license.
Washington, Illinois, and Delaware joined the seven other states that banned certain types of semi-automatic rifles, so-called assault weapons.
Other states added prohibitions on where guns could be legally carried, expanding their lists of “sensitive places.”
The centerpiece of New York’s reaction to Bruen was the Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCIA), announced on Aug. 31, 2022.
The CCIA increased the training required for a license, expanded the number of places where concealed carry was prohibited, made in-person interviews and a review of an applicant’s social media accounts mandatory, and reduced the license recertification period from five years to three years.
The state set up a website to explain the new law.
Marcia Threatt of Anne Arundal County, Chakiar Trotman of Tenleytown, and Adrian Williams of Baltimore all aim downrange during a shooting league at a firing range in Owings Mills, Md., on Sept., 27, 2023. (KENT NISHIMURA/AFP via Getty Images)
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office didn’t respond to an interview request. But in a July 1 speech touting a law mandating background checks for ammunition purchases, Ms. Hochul said New Yorkers’ Second Amendment rights would be protected.
“We know this has nothing to do with lawful gun owners, nothing to do with them at all. These are people who have been convicted of felonies or other categories of people that should be prohibited from firearms and ammunition,” she said.
Mr. Edelman said that the restrictions have turned out to have much to do with law-abiding citizens.
He is a federal firearms license holder, gun dealer, and New York state and NRA firearms instructor. He said that since the Oct. 7 attacks, demands for his firearms license class have increased as the threats from protestors have overridden the political leanings of many in the Jewish community.
“I live in a very, very liberal area. A lot of those people are coming to me like, ‘What do we need to protect the house?’ These are the people who never thought they would ever need to buy a gun,” Mr. Edelman said.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announces new concealed carry gun regulations at a press conference in New York City on Aug. 31, 2022. (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)
Being new to firearms and the laws that apply to them, Mr. Edelman’s students are often surprised at the hoops through which they must jump simply to own a gun. The state requirements can appear daunting, and the process can take anywhere from a few months to years to complete.
As the process plays out, Jewish applicants will be left unarmed as their enemies march, Mr. Edelman said.
“There are a number of laws that are really precluding law-abiding citizens from first acquiring firearms and exercising their right to defend themselves,” Mr. Edelman said.
The city of Peekskill is in the hills on the east bank of the Hudson River, about 10 miles south of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and 43 miles north of New York City.
At 1000 Division Street in Peekskill, The Hat Factory houses a milk distribution company, a yoga studio, and Donahoo Consulting, among other businesses, offices, and art studios.
Steve Donahoo, owner of Donahoo Consulting, is a retired New York City police officer. He’s a gregarious, outgoing man who jokes that if a clean desk is the sign of a sick mind, then he "must be healthy.”
Retired New York City Police officer and New York state firearms instructor Steve Donahoo at his desk in Peekskill, New York on Nov. 8, 2023. (Michael Clements/The Epoch Times)
Like Mr. Edelman, Mr. Donahoo is an NRA-certified instructor and teaches the New York state licensing course. And, like Mr. Edelman, he often has to encourage students to persevere through a licensing process that may seem interminable.
Mr. Donahoo pointed out that the state-required training is only the first step.
Each county and New York City has additional requirements. Failure to comply with them can put the entire process on hold.
He recounted the story of one student whose county required that all application forms downloaded from the internet be printed on both sides of the page. The student printed his forms on one side of each page and was told by county officials he could reapply again in a year.
“It’s a big commitment to get a pistol license nowadays,” Mr. Donahoo said.
And it’s a big commitment to keep one.
Both men said that New York has no stand-your-ground law, or castle doctrine. Licensed gun owners still have a legal duty to retreat, even in their homes. A firearm is considered a means of last resort. Even then, the state often doesn’t recognize an individual’s right to self-defense.
Signage posted around Capitol Square prohibits firearms ahead of expected protests in Richmond, Va., on Jan. 17, 2021. (RYAN M. KELLY/AFP via Getty Images)
Mr. Edelman spoke of a case in which one of his students, who was legally carrying his pistol, was arrested and charged with a crime. The man was the president of a co-op board and had been asked to talk with a person who was acting strangely.
At one point, the co-op board president felt threatened. He drew his licensed firearm and asked the man to leave, which he did. Mr. Edelman said no shots were fired and no one was injured in the nonviolent confrontation.
The co-op board president was arrested and charged with a crime. Mr. Edelman uses the incident in his class to warn his students.
“Know that you will be arrested, there will be charges filed against you, it doesn’t matter if you did it in self-defense or not. This is the state we live in,” Mr. Edelman said.
The owner of a liquor store in North Tonawanda, New York, discovered that New York firearms regulations could cost him his livelihood even when there is no gunplay.
For Ian Brennan, the issue isn’t about self-defense, though he does support the right to carry. The 30-something business owner has always collected unique or unusual firearms, especially antiques.
“I’m a really big fan of history and everything like that.” Mr. Brennan told The Epoch Times as he pointed to the 1857 muzzleloader on the wall above the cash register at Yankee Spirits.
Ian Brennan, owner and manager of Yankee Spirits in North Tonawanda, New York, in his story on Nov. 8, 2023. (Michael Clements/The Epoch Times)
Mr. Brennan’s experience with New York gun laws began more than six years ago, with the death of his fiancée.
As he tells it, the young woman died unexpectedly, plunging him into grief. This led to an incident in which he was hospitalized briefly. Since doctors weren’t sure whether he was suicidal, the state confiscated his firearms as a precaution.
Eventually, Mr. Brennan showed that he didn’t want to hurt himself. After a year, his guns were returned and the case was closed. He thought that was the end of the matter until Oct. 21.
His father, who holds the store’s liquor license, has decided to retire. Mr. Brennan is to take over the business that’s been in his family for 33 years. Those plans and the future of the business are in jeopardy after a date with his new girlfriend.
Mr. Brennan said the woman wanted to learn how to shoot a rifle. He was happy to teach her, so they went to a little country store near his home to pick up a box of .22 caliber ammunition.
It was his first experience with New York’s new ammunition background check system. He had heard of some hiccups, but he expected that any problems would be solved quickly. After all, he has no criminal record.
An AR-15 style rifle is displayed on signage for the Firearms Unknown Guns & Ammo store, in Yuma, Ariz., on June 2, 2022. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
While waiting for the ammunition background check, he noticed the store had an antique Henry rifle for sale, so he filled out the federal background check paperwork for the gun.
He was surprised when federal officials approved the rifle but the state denied the ammunition sale. He left the store without the gun or the ammunition.
Don Kilmer, an Idaho-based attorney who specializes in the Second Amendment speaks at the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Phoenix, Ariz., on Sept. 23, 2023. (Michael Clements/The Epoch Times)
He was even more surprised a few days later when state police arrived at his door requesting his guns. They had no warrant, so he refused their request. Mr. Brennan has appealed the denial of his ammunition purchase while trying to determine precisely what’s on his record.
He’s been able to determine that the mental health episode that was resolved years ago is the reason the state denied the ammunition purchase. He said state officials have told him that the FBI considers him a mental health risk.
Mr. Brennan said the issue is no longer about buying ammunition. He has called on local and state officials to help him clear up the matter, which he says could cost him everything.
“In order to own a liquor license, you have to have a clean slate. So basically, with me falling under this category right now. I might not be able to have a liquor license, which means goodbye, career. Goodbye, business,” Mr. Brennan said.
Don Kilmer is an Idaho-based attorney specializing in Second Amendment law. He said this isn’t the first time the United States has been in this situation.
According to Mr. Kilmer, the reaction by some officials to the Bruen decision is similar to that of segregationists to the landmark August 1958 decision Brown v. Board of Education. In that decision, the High Court ruled that public schools in Arkansas must be integrated.
Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus and the state Legislature activated the National Guard to prevent integration. The school board in Little Rock, Arkansas, petitioned the court for a two-year stay because of violent protests and disruptions at Little Rock’s Central High School.
The Arkansas National Guard prepares to prevent African American students from entering Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 after Gov. Orval Faubus defied a decree by the U.S. Supreme Court and refused to allow desegregation of the school. (FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
The Supreme Court’s subsequent decision, Cooper v. Aaron, made clear that the state couldn’t refuse to comply with constitutional law as outlined by the court.
“Now we are facing the reaction, the recalcitrance, the defiance of the Supreme Court in jurisdictions like California, New York, New Jersey, and Hawaii,” Mr. Kilmer said. “It’s a case about enforcing constitutional rights once they have been definitively and finally interpreted by the Supreme Court.
“Folks, we are in the Cooper versus Aaron era of the Second Amendment.”
Mark Smith, a constitutional attorney and host of the Four Boxes Diner Second Amendment Channel on YouTube, agreed. He said the strategy is de facto gun control through the courts.
He pointed out that gun rights activists have sued California, Illinois, New York, and other states. According to Mr. Smith, the plan is to get as many restrictions as possible and keep them in place as long as possible through drawn-out legal fights.
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Ever since Friday’s release of more than 40,000 hours of Jan. 6 Capitol Police security video, dozens of clips debunking the Jan. 6 committee’s ‘violent insurrection’ narrative have been floating around X.
Here’s a January 6 video they’ve never shown the public.
A protester is uncuffed by Capitol police and then fist bumps another officer down a hallway away from everyone. pic.twitter.com/ft1yTOITLr
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 17, 2023
Jan 6 defendants have long argued that the initial entrants were peaceably escorted into the building by Capitol Police, and therefore had no reasonable expectation that their conduct was unlawful
This video, suppressed for almost 3 years, confirms itpic.twitter.com/F24MAf0mXS
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 18, 2023
Evil didn’t fall far…
Following news that far-left billionaire George Soros handed full control over his $25 billion empire to his son, Alex laid out his despotic vision for the future of the internet in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “I’m way more political,” Alex Soros said, comparing himself to his radical father. “As much as I would love to get money out of politics, as long as the other side is doing it, we will have to do it, too,” he admitted.
via @planettoday #PlanetToday: https://www.planet-today.com/2023/06/alex-soros-vows-to-eradicate.html?m=1
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The Supreme Court of the State of Ny, Appellate division overturned Judge Ploetz ruling stating the Ny Legislators have no standing. Hochul gets her quarantine camps.
Attached pdf file.
Sorry, this is what you get now. 
“Isolation and Quarantine Procedures” and can be found at 10 NYCRR 2.13. It is a clear violation of the Separation of Powers because the governor is not supposed to make law.
Soros-Backed Prosecutor Faces Potential Criminal, Civil Charges: Missouri AG
What has been a "radical, left-wing social experiment," according to Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, is over in St. Louis, and he said it’s time for attorney Kim Gardner to face the consequences of her actions.
On Nov. 14, Mr. Bailey filed a 53-page report on Ms. Gardner’s time as St. Louis’s circuit attorney. Ms. Gardner resigned in May under heavy public scrutiny.
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Great read
As a general rule I find that whenever the public scrutinizes any particular agenda being promoted by governments and globalists their first response is to act indignant, much like a narcissist would do when they are up to no good and they get caught.
“How dare you” question their intentions and suggest they might be nefarious.
1. MERYL NASS, MD
@NassMeryl
EVERYONE needs to see this video on what the WHO is trying to do next May 24: gain control of the world through gaining the right to manage pandemics. This is a legal maneuver taking place behind closed doors. The WHO has removed human rights and freedom while giving itself total control over humans, animals, the environment and climate in 2 new treaties. This is the most important thing you will watch all year. For additional information go to http://DoorToFreedom.org and and http://SovereigntyCoalition.com
2. Global Health Project
@GlobalHProject
May 24, 2024: W.H.O. Pandemic Treaty "Judgment Day" The largest, most comprehensive global Communist power grab ever seen is occurring as we speak, and most people have no idea that it is even happening. This is not a traditional communist revolution as we have all been well trained to spot, but rather a sophisticated global, binding, medical "treaty" orchestrated by the W.H.O. which will leave any participating member states essentially POWERLESS in the event of a proclaimed "pandemic". This is not hyperbole or exaggeration. And every man, woman and child on this planet’s lives will be irrevocably changed for the worse on May 24, 2024 if it is not stopped. The W.H.O. is a failed and conspicuously compromised organization on many levels, most notably being their abject failure to alert the world early to the #COVID19 pandemic when it may have still been contained. Many blame conflicts of interest with China as well as significant individual donors such as the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, GAVI, and others for the inexcusable lack of judgment and action during this epic disaster, costing millions of lives. Despite this abysmal track record of performance, the W.H.O. is demanding that their power be EXPANDED, as if making the failed organization larger would in turn make it operate more effectively.
Some of the key proposals include: 1. The ability of the W.H.O. to assume total control of any public health outbreak that they conclude is of global significance. This is not limited to contagious diseases but any concept that might impact health on a global scale (consider Climate Change, Gun Violence, Farming Practices, etc.); 2. The W.H.O. to become the sole decision making, extra-national agency to decide upon any and all approved treatments for such public health crises; 3. The W.H.O. to be declared the sole arbiter of which nations receive which treatments approved by the W.H.O. (and resources such as stockpiled medicines, PPE, additional funding, etc.) should be redistributed from one country to another with the express goal of achieving "equity" (per the W.H.O.’s definition of "equity" at such time); And much more. International politicians are sleepwalking into these treaties believing them to be similar to previous health related treaties in days past, where the W.H.O. is given some limited, non-binding power to make recommendations, etc. but does not interfere with a sovereign nation’s ability to manage public health crises on as they deem fit. This could not be further from the truth. These treaties violate nearly all western constitutions by allowing a foreign power the ability to nullify and void – for indefinite amounts of time – the existing constitutional laws and civil rights protections of these nation states upon proclamation of a public health crisis. These representatives are either too incompetent to understand this or are captured and supportive of the power grab. The citizenry, as usual, has no say in these discussions. Contact your local congress person today and tell them to say #NOtoWHO by drafting legislation precluding our involvement in such unconstitutional treaties vis a vis unelected representatives at the U.N. and the W.H.O. who are NOT representing our interests in this treaty. Protect your health future Protect our country’s national soverignty Say #NotoWHO #TakeBackYourPower Please SHARE WIDELY!
👍👍link to Part 1 in open.
In Part 1 we contrasted the popular misconceptions about so-called “conspiracy theorists” with the well-grounded demographic research done on the individuals who, collectively, have had that pejorative label slapped on them. The demographic research reveals that there is no such thing as an identifiable group of people who can legitimately be called “conspiracy theorists.”
The research also finds no credible evidence that people branded “conspiracy theorists” are prone to hold extremist views or have underlying psychological problems or pose a threat to democracy. These claims are all canards levelled against anyone who questions the Establishment and the power it has amassed.
We noted that political scientist Joseph Uscinski, who is perhaps the foremost scientist in the field of “conspiracy theory” research, cited the work of philosopher Neil Levy as a “simple and consistent standard” by which academics could “demarcate between conspiracy theory and [real or “concrete”] conspiracy.”
Professor Levy’s “simple and consistent standard” was first outlined in his article “Radically Socialized Knowledge and Conspiracy Theories.” In it, he pointed out that “conspiracies are common features of social and political life, common enough that refusing to believe in their existence would leave us unable to understand the contours of our world.” Levy therefore proposed that academics need a way to differentiate between the rational acceptance of acknowledged conspiracies and the supposedly irrational claims made by people who suspect conspiracies that haven’t been officially approved for discussion.
Levy suggested that “[r]esponsible believers ought to accept explanations offered by properly constituted epistemic authorities.” As we explained in Part 1, he defined the epistemic authorities as:
[. . .] the distributed network of knowledge claim gatherers and testers that includes engineers and politics professors, security experts and journalists.
In his listing of “journalists” as epistemic authorities, Levy was almost certainly referring to journalists who work in the state controlled or corporate-owned legacy media (LM), not to journalists in the independent media, who are frequently labelled conspiracy theorists.
Independent media is broadly defined as:
[. . .] news media that is free from influence by the government or other external sources like corporations or influential people.
Read more:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/some-call-it-conspiracy-theory-part-2
Tucker Carlson just challenged one of the left’s most sacred of cows – George Floyd, an ex-con who died with an elephant-dose of fentanyl in his system and a history of health issues, while in custody of Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020.
"Did, for example, a racist white cop actually murder a man called George Floyd, a civil rights leader in Minneapolis on Memorial Day of 2020? Now we’ve been told that that happened, told it relentlessly for more than three years," Carlson says, adding "But the question is, did he [Derek Chauvin] actually murder George Floyd? And the answer is, well, no, he didn’t murder George Floyd, and we’re not guessing about that; we know it conclusively thanks to a new court case now underway in Hennepin County, Minnesota."
The lawsuit, incidental to Floyd and Chauvin, unveiled sworn deposition excerpts from a conversation with County Medical Examiner Andrew Baker, indicating that Floyd’s passing was not due to asphyxiation or strangulation. Instead, factors including drug use and a fatal concentration of fentanyl were significant contributors, reframing his demise from the widely publicized ‘murder’ to an inadvertent overdose.
Derek Chauvin did not murder George Floyd pic.twitter.com/aZj4yDrfuG
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 20, 2023
"In other words, George Floyd, according to the official autopsy, was not murdered. He died instead of what we used to call natural causes, which, in his case, would include decades of drug use, as well as the fatal concentration of fentanyl that was in his system on his final day," Carlson continued – laying out how the initial George Floyd storyline was endorsed and amplified by mainstream media, and ignited nationwide protests, intensive racial discourse, and movements like Black Lives Matter.
Read more:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whole-george-floyd-story-was-lie-tucker-carlson
Check out this Article from AmericanThinker
The House speakership has not been a happy thing for Republicans lately. While Nancy Pelosi was a raging leftist who successfully corralled her party and rammed through the leftist agenda (love her or hate her, she was effective), the same cannot be said for recent Republican speakers. John Boehner and Paul Ryan were RINOs. Kevin McCarthy was much more conservative, and for that he deserves credit, but he reneged on promises, especially about January 6. Since his ouster, though, it’s been one humiliation after another. Now, however, with Byron Donalds having thrown his hat in the ring, there’s hope.
Whether you think Matt Gaetz was bold to punish yet another Republican who failed to work for his base or an idiot to upset the status quo of a decent Speaker is a topic for another day. What we have today is a leaderless Republican party in the House and, given our slender majority, that’s a problem. (There’s a larger problem, of course, which is that we have a leaderless Republican party in toto. Donald Trump should be that leader, but the schism between NeverTrumpers and conservatives is too big for him to fill that role.)
Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan have both gone down in flames, victims of the Vichy Republicans in Congress—and by that, I mean the people who are usually called RINOs. I prefer “Vichy Republicans” because this isn’t your daddy’s Democrat party anymore. As the past few years, and especially the past week, have made clear, the Democrat party has morphed into a stone-cold socialist party that is determined to take over America. Democrats are conquerors, and those who side with them are no longer weak or greedy, they’re complicit.
Read more:
Check out this Article from AmericanThinker
CNN operatives can’t really be so naïve that they actually believe the IRS wouldn’t have been able to collect these taxes without passing the falsely named “Inflation Reduction Act” can they?
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/cnn_praises_the_irs_for_cracking_down_on_tax_cheats_fails_to_realize_they_just_described_hunter_biden.html
Check out this Article from AmericanThinker
On October 7, the day Hamas attacked Israel, Inbal Rabin-Lieberman, a 25-year-old security coordinator at the Kibbutz Nir Am settlement located near the Gaza Strip, saved lives because she had a gun. After the kibbutz came under attack, Inbal hurriedly opened the armory and distributed guns to the twelve-member security team.
She caught the Hamas murderers unawares because they were not expecting to meet armed resistance. Lieberman killed five terrorists while the others gunned down twenty-five before the Israeli Defense Force arrived. Because of her actions, Nir-Am was the only settlement bordering the Gaza Strip that did not suffer Israeli casualties during Hama’s attack.
The number of Israelis killed in the terrorist attack is over 1,400. How many of those deaths could have been averted had more Israelis owned guns? Israel has draconian gun-control laws, worse than those in New York City. Only three percent (3%) of Israeli citizens own guns (compared to about thirty-two percent (32%) of U.S. citizens).
The NY Daily News reports that less than one percent (about 0.5%) of New York City residents have legal handguns. Jews comprise approximately nine percent (9%) of New York City’s population, the largest Jewish community in the world outside of Israel.
Read more:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/hamas_massacres_the_new_face_of_gun_control.html
O’Keefe Media Group this week obtained emails revealing Kingsway Regional School District in Kingsway, New Jersey “has adopted a “tiered” policy for classifying students who want to transition without their parent’s knowledge.”
This is the link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/okeefe-media-group-school-district-new-jersey-socially/
The radar, called Globus III, was built by the United States on the island of Vardøya in Vardø, the easternmost city in Norway, which is across a bay from northern Russia. It appears to be part of a civil defense network called the Space Fence. Details about this site have been kept secret, but I found a Request for Information published on February 22, 2022 on the U.S. government’s website, SAM.gov. It states:
“This system is a one-of-a kind design which will be fielded in 2023. The program is a bi-national, collaborative specialized collection system. The GLOBUS program is a dual band ground-based radar system consisting of an S-band solid state phased array, an X-band dish antenna, an Integrated System Controller (ISC), and a Mission Communications Suite (MCS) hosted at an Outside Continental United States (OCONUS) location.”
Other Space Fence radars are located on Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands, and in Western Australia. These S-band (2 GHz to 4GHz) phased array radars each have 36,000 transmitting antennas, a peak power of 2.7 MW and, when focused into a narrow beam that scans the sky in all directions, a peak effective radiated power of several billion watts.
The conflagration is not confined to Finnmark, or to Norway. Last summer I reported on mass deaths of nesting seabirds in locations near new antennas in the Netherlands and France (Birds on Texel Island; Sea Birds’ Last Refuges). This summer the situation is immensely worse. The continued proliferation around the world of 4G and 5G cell towers and antennas, as well as offshore wind farms, has killed millions of wild birds on five continents, together with foxes, skunks, raccoons, fishers, badgers, martens, black bears, grizzly bears, bobcats, lynx, mountain lions, wild boar, otters, Virginia opossums, seals, penguins, and other animals.
Last year, 40% of the Dalmatian pelicans nesting in Greece died, along with 20% of those in Romania, and large numbers in Montenegro and Albania. By May 2023, more than 50,000 dead wild birds of all kinds had been reported in the United Kingdom, 40,000 in eastern Canada, and tens of thousands in the United States. By July 31, 2023, China was reporting 5,100 dead birds in Tibet.
Reports of mortality have come from every state in the United States, across 129 species of birds. Huge numbers of bald eagles have died. Just in November and December 2022, more than 50,000 seabirds died along the coast of Peru, including 16,890 Peruvian pelicans and 4,324 brown boobies, both endangered in Peru. In Chile, as of January 1, 2023, perhaps 10,000 seabirds had died, including pelicans, kelp gulls, Belcher’s gulls, grey gulls, guanay cormorants, Peruvian boobies, elegant terns, and turkey vultures.
On May 9, 2023, the Chilean government reported the deaths of 27,977 seabirds, and on July 21, 2023, the Peruvian government reported the deaths of 519,541 seabirds. These represented birds of 65 species. In addition, Chile reported the deaths of 2,517 Humboldt penguins, 460 Magellanic penguins, 16,856 sea lions, and smaller numbers of dolphins, porpoises, otters and other kinds of seals, while Peru reported the deaths of 9,314 sea lions and 100 other sea mammals. According to a report by the OFFLU, a global network of expertise on animal influenza, Chile has lost at least 13% of its Humboldt penguins, Peru has lost at least 36% of its Peruvian pelicans, and Chile and Peru together have lost at least 9% of their sea lions.
Ornithologists are all blaming this catastrophe on avian influenza, in spite of the fact that most of the dead birds are testing negative for any influenza virus, and the ones that test positive have all different variants of the virus so could not be transmitting it to one another, let alone to bears and penguins. For example, 233 dead birds were examined for flu virus by the Norwegian Veterinary Institute between August 14 and October 1, 2023. They found highly pathogenic H5N1 virus in 8 birds, highly pathogenic H5N5 in 2 birds, highly pathogenic H5Nx (other subtypes) in 2 birds, low pathogenic H5Nx in 6 birds, “other Influenza A virus” in 8 birds, and no virus at all in 207 birds.
Yet the United States is already stockpiling a vaccine against H5N1 in case it spreads to human beings and causes a pandemic.
The disappearance of bugs has also been in the news. Dr. Norman Leppla, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida, said that state’s lovebug infestation has completely vanished. They used to come in massive numbers in the spring and fall around May and September with a little variation depending on if you are in the northern or southern part of the state. “It’s not subtle, they’re really not here this season,” he said in an interview published October 5, 2023. But no one is blaming that on “avian influenza.”
Wind farms are also devastating birds, as documented by German scientists in an article published in Nature on April 13, 2023. They found that populations of red-throated loons plummeted in the North Sea after five clusters of offshore wind farms were built there between 2010 and 2014. Their populations declined by an average of 94% within 1 kilometer of a wind farm and by 52% within 10 kilometers, with some population reduction at distances up to 24 kilometers.
Wind farms are also killing whales. At least 32 whales have washed up dead on the U.S. east coast in recent months, prompting a group of New Jersey legislators to call for an immediate moratorium on offshore wind farms in the area.
Read more:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-extent-bird-armageddon/5836931
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
Nejwa Ali, an officer with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services is placed on leave. Check out her social media posts praising Hamas…
Today, the New York Post reports Homeland Security Officer on Leave After it was Revealed She Worked for PLO and Wrote ‘F–k Israel’ Post.
This story surfaced yesterday on the Daily Wire: The U.S. Gov’t Hired A Pro-Hamas PLO Spokeswoman To Handle Asylum Claims
Nejwa Ali worked in 2016 and 2017 as a public affairs officer for the Palestinian Delegation to the U.S., which according to its own website, served as the “PLO office in D.C.” That office was expelled from the country by the Trump administration, but Ali landed on her feet, according to a screenshot of her LinkedIn profile, securing a job at DHS as an “Asylum Officer,” where she was tasked with “applying immigration laws and regulations to asylum applications.”
This January, she moved over to being an Adjudication Officer for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS). People with that job, according to the agency, “analyze new or amended legislation and policy, prepare written reports of findings, and review and make determinations on cases for immigration benefits.”
Though Ali’s job at DHS included vetting people to make sure they were not a threat to the country before letting them in, it’s not clear that anyone from the agency vetted her. That her primary allegiance was to the Palestinians, not the United States, was evident from her social media profiles, where she posts as “Falastine Mi Amor.”
She has posted extremist rhetoric continuously to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for years — rhetoric that intensified this month as Palestinian terrorists murdered over 1,000 Jews on October 7 and Ali cheered. “F*** Israel, the government, and its military. Are you ready for your downfall?” she wrote on Instagram after the attacks.
Ali has made several posts glorifying the terrorist attacks on Israel, including one depicting armed terrorists paragliding into the Jewish state with the caption, “Free PALESTINE.”
“Palestine will be free one day. F*** APARTHEID Israel and any Israeli that supports that bulls***. F*** you, may Allah forgive you. and spare us the crocodile tears, I sure as hell give zero f***s,” she wrote on Instagram.
USCIS declined to say why it would hire someone who previously worked for a foreign quasi-government that was expelled from the United States and put them in position to determine who was allowed to come into the country.
It said, “applicants seeking employment with USCIS are thoroughly vetted and subject to extensive security and background checks before they can receive a permanent position with the agency.”
“F*** APARTHEID Israel and any Israeli that supports that bulls***. F*** you, may allah forgive you,” she wrote, alongside pictures of violent leftist Americans Assata Shakur and Malcolm X. In 2017, she posted a picture of herself grinning in front of a statute of Che Guevara, the murderous Communist militant.
Read more:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/homeland-security-immigration-officer-leave-after-fk-israel-post
No one wants to admit it but we’ve been in a hot war for a long time.
If 2024 doesn’t have a strong, America First leadership country wide, imo forget Taiwan, China will start targeting mainland America.
China Aggressively Intercepted US Military Aircraft 180 Times in Two Years, Pentagon Says https://www.ntd.com/china-aggressively-intercepted-us-military-aircraft-180-times-in-2-years-dod_948666.html?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=email_share
BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, OCT 16, 2023
In a widely panned article, The Telegraph, which is owned by British elites, just tried to cancel George Orwell for being a "sadistic, misogynistic, homophobic and sometimes violent" person whose life was "at odds with the "decency" of his writing."
George Orwell was ‘sadistic, misogynistic, homophobic and sometimes violent’ https://t.co/GAps4MA8pM
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) October 15, 2023
By Tim HinchliffeOctober 14, 2023
With its fusion of our physical, biological, and digital identities, the fourth industrial revolution under the great reset is poised to program people like central bank digital currencies.
Both digital identity and CBDC are part of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) overall great reset agenda to harness the power of the so-called fourth industrial revolution (4IR) as the technological driving force for revamping all aspects of society and the global economy.
While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran — the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well.
The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic.
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/iran-1953-coup-cia-218323db3cc1aca6bde1e54827527e8d
Read more:
https://canadafreepress.com/article/rush-sending-message-from-above-on-canadian-thanksgiving
California Canada Free Press reader Renee sent the late, great Rush Limbaugh rushing headlong back into our hearts today on Canadian Thanksgiving.
“I am sure y’all know whose bumper music this is, which is perfect for a tearful catharsis right now. I have never heard the words before — did not even know that there WERE words!” Renee wrote.
Here are the hauntingly beautiful lyrics of the 1984 Pretenders song, ‘My City Was Gone’ that millions of listeners heard announcing the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show for more than 30 years:
I went back to Ohio
But my city was gone
There was no train station
There was no downtown
South Howard had disappeared
All my favorite places
My city had been pulled down
Reduced to parking spaces
Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
Well, I went back to Ohio
But my family was gone
I stood on the back porch
There was nobody home
I was stunned and amazed
My childhood memories
Slowly swirled past
Like the wind through the trees
Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride
The farms of Ohio
Had been replaced by shopping malls
And Muzak filled the air
From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls
Said, ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
Thank You profoundly, Renee for sending this message—not just to Canada Free Press—but to all reading Canada Free Press on this day.
To us, and them, it was the equivalent of the unforgettable el Rushbo sending us a message from above.
Thank you Renee. You made my day!
By A. Dru Kristenev October 9, 2023
Legacy media commentators are quick to call the largest faction of the republican party “rebels.” They call conservatives poison, but who are they?
They are mouthpieces of the elitists, and the elitists themselves (those who consider themselves superior, having stolen the mantle of rulership). They are the media, educators, politicians, and government workers, paid lackeys following orders from the higher-up they, the whip-cracking donors and lobbyists.
And they are not the majority, but are a handful of flunkeys and sycophants waiting on the funding class, who nervously clutch their billions as the truth is unpeeled, one layer at a time.
…..
Color of law
Color of law refers to the appearance of legal authority or an apparently legal right that may not exist. The term is often used to describe the abuse of power under the guise of state authority, and is therefore illegal.
Read more:
https://canadafreepress.com/article/were-not-the-rebels-we-are-the-party-mccarthy-is-they
BY DEBBIE LERMAN NOVEMBER 3, 2022
In previous articles I discussed the probability that Deborah Birx, the White House Coronoavirus Task Force Coordinator, was not a representative of the public health agencies but, rather, was appointed by the National Security Council. I now have proof that this was, indeed, the case. I have also uncovered documents that show:
On March 11, 2020, at a Heritage Foundation Talk, Trump’s National Security Advisor, Robert O’Brien, when discussing what the White House and NSC were doing about the virus, said:
“We brought into the White House Debi Birx, a fantastic physician and ambassador from the State Department. We appreciate Secretary Pompeo immediately moving her over to the White House at our, well at the President’s, request.” (min. 21:43 – 21:56)
An astonishing government document dated March 13, 2020 entitled: “PanCAP Adapted U.S. Government COVID-19 Response Plan” (PanCAP-A)(embedded at the end of this piece) reveals that United States policy in response to SARS-CoV-2 was set not by the public health agencies designated in pandemic preparedness protocols (Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act, PPD-44, BIA), but rather by the National Security Council, or NSC.
Read more:
https://brownstone.org/articles/governments-national-security-arm-led-the-covid-response/
Zerohedge
BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, OCT 05, 2023 – 06:48 AM
The Biden FBI has ‘quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump’s army of MAGA followers’ ahead of the 2024 election, according to prolific (and well connected) anti-war journalist and political commentator, William Arkin, who has previously reported on the FBI’s efforts to "Fight MAGA Terrorism."
In a Wednesday Newsweek article, Arkin reveals that the vast majority of FBI investigations into "anti-government" activities are of Trump supporters.
"The FBI is in an almost impossible position," a current FBI official told Arkin, who added that the agency’s stated intent is stopping a repeat of January 6th type incidents (which was riddled with feds), while balancing the Constitutional right of Americans to protest the government "Especially at a time when the White House is facing Congressional Republican opposition claiming that the Biden administration has ‘weaponized’ the Bureau against the right wing, it has to tread very carefully," the official continued.
Newsweek spoke to over a dozen current or former government officials who specialize in terrorism in a three-month investigation to understand the current domestic-security landscape and to evaluate what President Joe Biden‘s administration is doing about what it calls domestic terrorism. Most requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly, were reluctant to stray into partisan politics or feared the repercussions of speaking frankly.
Newsweek has also reviewed secret FBI and Department of Homeland Security data that track incidents, threats, investigations and cases to try to build a better picture. While experts agree that the current partisan environment is charged and uniquely dangerous (with the threat not only of violence but, in the most extreme scenarios, possibly civil war), many also question whether "terrorism" is the most effective way to describe the problem, or that the methods of counterterrorism developed over the past decade in response to Al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups constitute the most fruitful way to craft domestic solutions.
BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, OCT 04, 2023
Authored by Bobbie Anne Flower Cox via The Brownstone Institute,
If you have not yet read the book 1984 by George Orwell, you absolutely must.
I loathed that novel when I read it as a teen, because I hated the entire idea of an authoritarian government controlling its people so deftly. The dystopian world it described was just so depressing, so wrong, from the first page to the last. And yet, here we are, almost 75 years after Orwell first penned the book, and we see how that hellish science fiction novel is now playing out before us.
Now let’s fast-forward to the present day. I will begin with this profound statement that keeps churning over in my head:
They must really think we are stupid!
The “they” is our government (federal and state). The “we” is you and me, and the other 300+ million Americans across our country.
Alas, here we are, entering the final quarter of 2023, and we have the United States government, and many state governments (including New York’s former Governor Andrew Cuomo, current left-wing Governor Kathy Hochul, and the super-majority Dem legislature) proclaiming for all to hear that they did not force anyone to do anything detrimental these past 3.5 years. UNBELIEVABLE!
Read more:
https://canadafreepress.com/article/rush-sending-message-from-above-on-canadian-thanksgiving
California Canada Free Press reader Renee sent the late, great Rush Limbaugh rushing headlong back into our hearts today on Canadian Thanksgiving.
“I am sure y’all know whose bumper music this is, which is perfect for a tearful catharsis right now. I have never heard the words before — did not even know that there WERE words!” Renee wrote.
Here are the hauntingly beautiful lyrics of the 1984 Pretenders song, ‘My City Was Gone’ that millions of listeners heard announcing the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show for more than 30 years:
I went back to Ohio
But my city was gone
There was no train station
There was no downtown
South Howard had disappeared
All my favorite places
My city had been pulled down
Reduced to parking spaces
Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
Well, I went back to Ohio
But my family was gone
I stood on the back porch
There was nobody home
I was stunned and amazed
My childhood memories
Slowly swirled past
Like the wind through the trees
Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride
The farms of Ohio
Had been replaced by shopping malls
And Muzak filled the air
From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls
Said, ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
Thank You profoundly, Renee for sending this message—not just to Canada Free Press—but to all reading Canada Free Press on this day.
To us, and them, it was the equivalent of the unforgettable el Rushbo sending us a message from above.
Thank you Renee. You made my day!
I’m sure my video attached won’t play for anyone but me but I added it for myself. Who knows when censortube will ban it.
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