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WATCH: BREAKING: Video Shows Chilling Moment Masked Gunman Executed United Healthcare CEO By Cristina Laila
Dec. 4, 2024 1:40 pm – Surveillance video showing the chilling moment a masked gunman executed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was released Wednesday afternoon as new details of the targeted shooting death emerged.
As previously reported, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot in the chest Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan in what is believed to be a targeted attack.
Thompson, 50, arrived before 7 am for a conference when he was shot at multiple times by a masked man who police say was waiting for him to arrive, the New York Post reported.
Thompson was pronounced dead at the Mt. Sinai Hospital.
The assailant calmly executed Brian Thompson and then took off down 6th Street on a bicycle.
According to CBS News, the shooter waited for hours overnight and used a silencer when he fatally shot Brian Thompson.
“It appears the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes, and as the victim was walking to the conference hotel, the suspect approached from behind and fired several rounds, striking the victim at least once in the back and at least once in the right calf,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
Video shows the assailant methodically getting into position as Brian Thompson walked in front of the Manhattan Hilton Hotel.
The gunman fired several rounds at Brian Thompson causing him to stumble, before shooting him again.
WATCH: [Video not working (anywhere!) for some strange reason…]
Video of the United Healthcare CEO hit.
Shooter is a pro using a suppressed weapon. Effortlessly cleared three malfunctions (most likely due to subsonic ammo not cycling the slide) and put three rounds into the victim.
Calmly leaves the scene. This thing was well planned. pic.twitter.com/ZkxBX5yIkr
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) December 4, 2024
Brian Thompson’s wife said her husband was being threatened before Wednesday’s fatal shooting.
“There had been some threats,” Paulette Thompson said, according to The New York Post.
When asked about the reasoning behind the threats, Paulette Thompson said: “I don’t know, a lack of coverage?”
“I don’t know details. I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him,” she said.
“I can’t really give a thoughtful response right now. I just found this out and I’m trying to console my children.”
[Ed.: Read Peggy Tierney’s analysis: Another Deep State hit job]
74% of 8th Graders in Trouble Brigitte Gabriel
Our Kids Deserve Better!
DEC 04, 2024 ACT FOR AMERICA
Abolishing the Department of Education: A Critical Necessity
Conservative policymakers have long criticized the U.S. Department of Education, arguing that its centralized authority undermines parental and state control of education. Since its creation in 1979 under President Jimmy Carter, the department has been labeled a costly failure, unable to achieve its stated goals despite decades of effort and ever-increasing budgets.
A Failed Experiment
As federal control over education expanded, the results have been catastrophic. Testing scores have steadily declined, global proficiency rankings have plummeted, and public trust in the system has eroded. In stark reality, only 26% of eighth graders perform at or above grade-level proficiency. The growing disconnect between funding and results highlights the system’s inefficiency. Federal spending per student rose from $11,221 in 1979 (adjusted for inflation) to $17,700 in 2023, yet student performance has stagnated or declined.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports that 13-year-olds recently scored their lowest math proficiency levels in over 30 years. Similarly, the number of high school seniors who did not read a single book for pleasure nearly quadrupled between 1976 and 2021—tragic! These statistics paint a grim picture of a system that fails to prepare students for a competitive and increasingly globalized world.
A Bureaucratic Overreach
Critics argue that the Department of Education prioritizes bureaucratic interests over student success. Despite contributing only 9% of overall education funding, the federal government controls 90% of education policies, stifling local and state innovation. Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has called for its closure, stating, “We spent over $1 trillion…and we’ve gotten nothing but worse results.” She advocates redirecting federal funds directly to parents through block grants, empowering them to choose the best educational options for their children.
The department has also faced backlash for imposing controversial social policies, including promoting gender ideology and critical race theory (CRT) in curricula and forgoing grades or discriminating based on skin tone when grading in the name of race equity. Some school systems stooped as low as segregating students by skin tone in the name of DEI.
Ensuring Safeguards in a Decentralized System
Dismantling the department raises concerns about potential disparities among states. Critics worry that blue states may adopt radicalized policies that could undermine national unity and educational standards. Some propose legislative safeguards to prevent this, ensuring baseline standards that preserve American identity and historical accuracy while banning DEI, CRT, Social Justice Activist Training, All Ages Comprehensive Sex Education, Gender Fluidity, the 1619 Project, Parental Rights Violations, Gender and Sexual Orientation Counseling, Planned Parenthood education programs, and more.
While the task of decentralizing education is immense, it offers an opportunity to lift up America’s children and secure the nation’s future while stripping power from the teacher unions, which have promoted a Marxist agenda in government schools for far too long.
Update: South Korean Parliament Votes to Block President’s Emergency Martial Law Decree
[Ed.: If they’re only ‘conspiracy theories’, why should you be afraid, Andy?
Colorado Officials Persecuting Tina Peters Worked for Dominion
Trump Asks Key Question About ‘J-6 Hostages’ in Response to Hunter Biden’s Pardon By Jack Davis
December 2, 2024 at 8:29am The Western Journal – Lame duck President Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son was attacked by President-elect Donald Trump as a miscarriage of justice.
tg“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday.
Trump has said that freeing individuals who participated in the Capitol incursion that he feels are wrongly in prison would be one of his first acts as president.
The pardon was also condemned by Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, noting that it caps a year in which the justice system became a political puppet for Democrats.
“The failed witch hunts against President Trump have proven that the Democrat-controlled DOJ and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponizing the justice system,” according to Newsweek.
Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School, trashed Biden’s actions.
“With this pardon, Joe Biden shredded any residue of veracity and credibility as president,” Turley posted on X.
“For years, he was repeatedly asked if he met any of his son’s clients. He lied and denied it. He was repeatedly asked if he was aware of Hunter’s foreign dealings. He repeatedly lied and denied it. He was asked if he would pardon his son. He repeatedly lied and denied it,” Turley wrote.
Turley said giving Hunter Biden a 10-year pardon for whatever he might have done “is precisely the type of sweeping immunity grant that the federal judge balked at in the hearing when the earlier sweetheart deal feel apart. The judge asked the prosecutor if he had ever seen such a deal and he admitted that he had not.”
“Notably, when he was running for reelection and denying that he would pardon Hunter, few believed him. Some of us noted that Hunter’s bizarre legal strategy only made sense if he was told that, in the worst-case scenario, his father would pardon him,” Turley wrote.
“Hunter Biden is hardly the poster child for a victim of over-enforcement of federal laws. He was given a free pass on allegations that he was an unregistered agent and was the personification of influence peddling in Washington,” Turley commented.
In a statement on the White House website, Biden explained his decision.
“I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” Biden said.
“Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.
“The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election. Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room — with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases,” Biden continued.
In fact, the plea deal was thrown out by U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika, who objected to its provisions, according to the Associated Press.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter — who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough,” Biden said.
Biden concluded the statement, saying he was committing justice.
“I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice — and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.”
Trump Slams Biden’s Corruption After Hunter Pardon: ‘Such an Abuse and Miscarriage of Justice!’
RINO Neocon John Bolton Unhappy with Trump’s Kash Patel Pick, JD Vance Responds with Fire
BREAKING: Biden to issue a pardon of his son Hunter Biden before he leaves office, NBC reports. The President and White House had repeatedly said that wouldn’t happen.
[7:30 PM, 12/1/2024]
LIAR IN CHIEF: Biden a few months ago: I will not pardon Hunter
Biden today: I pardoned Hunter
[7:50 PM, 12/1/2024]
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At least one million people without power in Ukraine after ‘massive’ Russian attack
28/11/2024 FRANCE 24 – At least one million people are without power in Ukraine after Russia staged a “massive” attack on the country’s energy infrastructure in the early hours of Thursday. The missile strikes come as temperatures have dropped to freezing, and a UN official has warned that as Russia continues to target Ukraine’s power grid, this winter could become the “harshest since the start of the war”.
“Once again, the energy sector is under massive enemy attack. Attacks on energy facilities are taking place across Ukraine,” Energy Minister German Galushchenko said in a Facebook post.
National power grid operator Ukrenergo had “urgently introduced emergency power cuts”, he added, as temperatures across the country dropped to around 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit).
In western Ukraine alone, more than one million people were without power on Thursday morning.
“As of now, 523,000 subscribers in Lviv region are without electricity,” regional head Maksym Kozytskyi said on social media, while authorities said 280,000 were cut off in the western Rivne region and another 215,000 in the Volyn region.
A senior UN official, Rosemary DiCarlo, this month denounced the rise in civilian casualties in the nearly three-year conflict between Ukraine and Russia, noting Moscow’s targeting of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure may make this winter the “harshest since the start of the war”.
Energy provider DTEK said Ukrenergo was introducing emergency power outages in the regions of Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro and Donetsk.
Ukraine’s military said earlier Thursday that an air raid alert had been declared across the country “due to a missile threat” in a message on Telegram.
Missiles were detected headed for Kharkiv, Odesa and eight other regions, according to other messages from the air force.
“Kharkiv, go to the shelters!” it warned.
Oleg Synegubov, head of the Kharkiv region military administration, said on Telegram that three strikes had hit Kharkiv’s Kyivskyi district, with no casualties reported so far.
The mayor of Lutsk in northwestern Ukraine, Igor Polishchuk, said that “explosions were heard again” in the city.
Trump’s envoy
The latest missile salvo comes a day after US president-elect Donald Trump named staunch loyalist and retired general Keith Kellogg as his Ukraine envoy, charged with ending the Russian invasion.
Trump campaigned on a platform of securing a swift end to the Ukraine war, boasting that he would quickly mediate a ceasefire deal between President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
But his critics have warned that the incoming Republican will likely leverage US military aid to pressure Kyiv into an agreement that leaves it ceding occupied territory permanently or agreeing not to join NATO.
A fixture on the cable news circuit, 80-year-old national security veteran Kellogg co-authored a paper this year calling for Washington to leverage military aid as a means of pushing for peace talks.
Ukraine has received almost $60 billion from Washington for its armed forces since Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, but with the more isolationist Trump taking over the White House, supporters fear the spigot will run dry.
“The United States would continue to arm Ukraine and strengthen its defenses to ensure Russia will make no further advances and will not attack again after a cease-fire or peace agreement,” Kellogg’s research paper for the Trumpist America First Policy Institute think tank said.
“Future American military aid, however, will require Ukraine to participate in peace talks with Russia.”
Troop shortages
Kellogg told Voice of America at the Republican convention in July that Ukraine’s options were “quite clear”.
“If Ukraine doesn’t want to negotiate, fine, but then accept the fact that you can have enormous losses in your cities and accept the fact that you will have your children killed, accept the fact that you don’t have 130,000 dead, you will have 230,000-250,000,” he said.
Trump’s announcement came as the outgoing administration of Democrat Joe Biden was hosting a news conference to urge Ukraine to enlist more recruits by reducing the minimum age of conscription to 18 – in line with the US benchmark.
Facing a much larger enemy with more advanced weapons and with stocks of volunteers dwindling, Ukraine is facing an “existential” recruitment crunch, a senior administration official told reporters.
“The simple truth is that Ukraine is not currently mobilising or training enough soldiers to replace their battlefield losses while keeping pace with Russia’s growing military,” said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
He added that an additional 160,000 troops would be “on the low end” to fill out Ukraine’s ranks – but “a good start”.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby later clarified that the White House would not make the huge flow of US military aid to Kyiv dependent on a conscription age change.
[Ed.:
South American Gangs Target Professional Athletes’ Homes in Robbery Spree
CPAC Argentina 2024: A Global Conservative Gathering at a Pivotal Moment for Hispanic America MARIA HERRERA MELLADO
DEC. 1, 2024 7:22 AM – On Wednesday, December 4, Buenos Aires will become the epicenter of conservative and libertarian thought with the arrival of CPAC Argentina. This major event will bring together prominent political, economic, and social leaders from both Argentina and around the world.
Originating in the United States as a platform for debating conservative ideas, CPAC has expanded internationally, and its arrival in Argentina comes at a crucial time, bringing together influential figures from across the globe. Here’s a preview of some of the key speakers and what makes them central to this important event.
International Speakers:
[Ed.:
Man Regains Consciousness Moments Before Cremation; Three Government Hospital Doctors Suspended
[Ed.: Quack-quack! Would it be premature to declare medicine dead?]
REPORT: Trump Wants Hostages Released by Hamas by Inauguration Day
Please Remember Gold Star Mom Tina Peters Who Is Unjustly in Prison This Holiday Weekend
GOOD NEWS! Trump Officially Nominates Kash Patel For FBI Director
[Ed.: Everyone will tell you that Russia’s losing the war. They’re wrong because they use the wrong news sources. Imagine Russia losing to Ukraine! Ridiculous!]
[Ed.: Remember, the ‘Biden-Harris regime’ claims 10-15 million invaders, but the number is over 50 million since Obama.]
Trump Picks Kash as FBI Director CLANDESTINE
NOV 30, 2024 – You might not agree with 100% of Donald Trump’s appointees, but it’s clear there is a gameplan in mind.
Kash as FBI Director is more proof that eradicating the Deep State is atop the agenda. Those claiming Trump is compromised, can be swiftly disregarded moving forward.
We have Elon and Vivek deleting 80%+ of the federal government, RFK Jr. in charge of health and the Covid reckoning, Tulsi in charge of all intelligence, Homan shutting down the border and deporting illegals, and now Kash is going to gut the FBI.
Sign me up. If you can’t get excited and/or hopeful about this, then you’re just blackpilling for the sake of blackpilling. Trump and his team are, at the very least, attempting to address the corruption and destroy the Deep State.
Will it work? We shall see. But it’s clear Trump is not messing around this time.
BREAKING: Did Russia and China Sever NATO Cables to Block an Attack and Delay World War 3?
