Daily Shmutz | NEWS  | 3/18/24

NEWS      [Ed.:  Don’t read at your own risk. You don’t have time for it, and you can’t deal with it.]

Epstein Accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell Out of the ‘Snake Pit’, Into a Cushy Wing of Tallahassee FCI – Convicted Sex Trafficker Awaits Appeal While Writing Her Memoirs   By Paul Serran

Mar. 18, 2024 6:40 pm – Convicted of sex trafficking and multiple counts of conspiracy, disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is living the expectation of her bid on appeals court to overturn her 20-year sentence.

But even in case it is not successful, federal prisoner 02879-509 already has something to celebrate in Florida’s Tallahassee FCI.

While she wouldn’t be eligible for release until July 2037, at least she managed to get transferred out of the jail’s squalid B South unit where 120 inmates are crammed into tiny cubicles of four bunks, nicknamed the ‘snake pit’.

Daily Mail reported:

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“Insiders say fights and bullying are routine as convicts squabble over what to watch on TV and face long lines to use phones and computers. But Maxwell’s cushy new digs in D South – the so-called ‘honor dorm’ – are reserved for 30 to 40 of the low-security Florida lockup’s best-behaved prisoners.

There are two bunks per cell but so few occupants that the disgraced British socialite, 62, is almost guaranteed to have her own room as well as four times the storage.”

A prison source in the Florida prison:

“‘The conditions in D South are more like the sort of thing Maxwell will have experienced when she attended boarding school as a young girl. Everything is well-ordered, there’s less problems, less drama, fights are unheard of. Everyone gets along because they are so happy to be there.”

Maxwell’s defense argues that she should never have been tried for grooming Epstein’s victims because of a provision in the pedophile’s 2008 sweetheart plea deal.

FCI Tallahassee has often been portrayed as a ‘Club Fed,’ where inmates can learn new languages, enjoy yoga classes, and take part in softball tournaments.

“But conditions in the aging federal facility are far from fancy for the approximately 750 women and 300 men in a small satellite unit, with a recent inspection uncovering rodent infestations, rotting food and walls smeared with filth.”

Maxwell’s defense argues that she should never have been tried for grooming Epstein’s victims because of a provision in the pedophile’s 2008 sweetheart plea deal.

A series of misadventures have befallen her, from inmates trying to shake her down to others complaining she didn’t shower and stank, up until her complaints about a trans cellmate having ‘noisy sex’ in the bunk above her.

“Maxwell has also made enemies with the staff by constantly filing misconduct allegations, accusing guards, cleaners and pastors of everything from sexual harassment to discriminating against her Jewish faith.”

She is happy in the new unit, but overlooked inmates are really mad she ‘jumped the line.’

Maxwell has been writing a tell-all memoir from behind bars to combat what she describes as ‘misinformation’ about her ties to Epstein’s sick grooming empire. […] Federal inmates are prohibited from cutting publishing deals but there’s nothing to prevent her from writing a ‘private manuscript’ and mailing it to a lawyer or loved one for distribution.”

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[Ed.:  This is partially why we call it the ‘daily shmutz’! Shmutz all day, every day!  What more can you ask?]

 

US Justice Alito Blasts US Government and Facebook “Partnership”—The Government Treats Big Tech “like subordinates”Because They Have “Section 230 and anti-trust in its pocket”   [VIDEO]   By Patty Mcmurray

Mar. 18, 2024 6:20 pm – Today, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Murthy v. Missouri Supreme Court free speech case.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, which concerns communications between federal government officials and social media companies on their content moderation policies and whether this amounts to government suppression or speech censorship. Missouri, Louisiana, and five individuals filed suit arguing that the federal government violated their First Amendment speech rights by influencing social media companies to censor their posts related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 elections.

In a tweet this morning, Senator Rand Paul called the case the most consequential free speech case in U.S. history. He tweeted, “This isn’t just about social media companies; it’s a critical examination of government overreach. The Biden administration and FBI’s efforts to influence Big Tech into silencing dissent tramples on the 1st Amendment. Our focus must be on preventing government censorship, not compelling private entities to actq1 as censors. This case could redefine our free speech.”

Earlier today, we shared excerpts from oral arguments made by US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, whose comments about the First Amendment rocked social media.

“My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways at the most important time. I mean, what would you have the government do? She asked the Lousiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguinaga.

I’ve heard you say a couple of times that the government can post its own speech, but in my hypothetical, you know, kids, this is not safe. Don’t do it is not gonna get it done. So, I guess some might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country, and you seem to be suggesting that that duty cannot manifest itself in the government, encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information.”

This is the most horrifying thing I’ve ever heard from a Supreme Court Justice.

Ketanji Brown-Jackson is concerned that the First Amendment is making it harder for the government to censor speech.

That’s literally the entire point.pic.twitter.com/oqBwVZQB0l

In one of the most blistering exchanges in today’s oral arguments, US Justice Samuel Alito appeared to be admonishing the federal government for treating social media platforms like their subordinates.”

In his comments, Justice Alito referenced the “exchange between the White House and other federal officials and Facebook in particular, but also some of the other platforms.” He continued, “And I see that, uh, the White House and other federal officials are repeatedly saying that Facebook and the federal government should be partners—we are on the same team —officials are demanding answers—I want an answer—I want it right away! And when they’re unhappy, they curse them out!  There are regular meetings there—and the constant pestering of Facebook and some of the other platforms—and they wanna have regular meetings, and they suggest rules that should be applied—and tell us everything that you do so we can help you, and we can look it over. And I thought, WOW!  I cannot imagine federal officials taking that approach to the print media or representatives over there. If you did that to them, what do you think the reaction would be? And I thought, you know, the only reason why this is taking place is because the federal government has got Section 230 and anti-trust in its pocket. And it’s to mix my metaphors— and it’s got these big clubs available to it. And so it’s treating these platforms like their subordinates. Would you do that to the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal or the Associated Press or any other big newspaper or wire service?” he asked US Principal Deputy Solicitor General Brian Fletcher, who was defending the censorship practices of the government and big tech, using the so-called “once in a lifetime pandemic” as an excuse.

 

Just In: Barack Obama Caught on Video Entering Home of UK Prime Minister—Why?   By Patty Mcmurray

Mar. 18, 2024 1:00 pm – The answer is becoming increasingly clear for anyone wondering how Joe Biden is performing his daily duties as “President of the United States.” It appears as though surrogates who were previously working behind the curtain are coming out of hiding, possibly to assure Democrats that despite Joe Biden’s obvious mental limitations, the old guard, anti-American radicals who’ve been running the party for almost two decades, are still in control.

Only moments ago, former President Barack Obama was captured on video walking up to the official residence of Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at 10 Downing Street in London.

 

BLOODBATH: Libs of TikTok Triggers Panic at Planet Fitness Over Trans Row, Stock Price Down and Mass Cancellations  By Ben Kew

Mar. 18, 2024 3:40 pm – The popular X account Libs of TikTok, run by conservative activist Chaya Raichik, is claiming she has caused a “bloodbath” at the popular gym chain Planet Fitness after details of their radical pro-trans policy emerged.

Last week, Raichik revealed that the company was allowing biological males to change and even shave in female dressing rooms and has threatened to terminate the membership of anyone who complains.

Yet after Raichik raised the alarm, people began to take action and started canceling their memberships.

Raichik wrote on her website:

Since Libs of TikTok’s reporting, #BoycottPlanetFitness is trending on X and Planet Fitness stock has TANKED by nearly 7%. A Planet Fitness Insider has even reached out and told me there is internal panic at the company and mass membership cancellations. Now that is a real “BLOODBATH.”

Many popular accounts have also circulated the hashtag #BoycottPlanetFitness, a trend that will likely exacerbate the company’s losses:

[Ed.:  “Planet Sickness“!]

 

The Deep State is Real, Here’s Why it Matters    [30:52]

Trump was Right, the Deep State is Real

Mar 13, 2024With all the allegations about a group of unelected men making decisions that impact the rest of the country, we wanted to dig into the documents and talk to experts to find the truth. Is there a Deep State? And if so, how deep does it go?

 

SHOWTIME! Gateway Pundit at the Supreme Court TODAY for Oral Arguments in Murthy, et al v. Missouri, et al, Case No. 23-411 – The most Important Free Speech Case in American History  By Jim Hoft

Mar. 18, 2024 8:00 am – Today, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments from The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft , the state of Missouri, the state of LouisianaDr. Jay BhattacharyaDr. Martin KulldorffAaron Kheriaty, and Jill Hines (“Free Speech Plaintiffs”) in arguments against the Biden Administration and an army of government agencies.

Before all of the appeals, the case originally started after the States of Missouri and Louisiana, joined by The Gateway Pundit and the other individuals, noted above, alleged that the Biden White House and DOZENS of federal officials and agencies were conspiring with and/ or coercing Social Media Companies such as Facebook, Twitter and others to censor the speech of MILLIONS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS, particularly during COVID and the lead-up to and aftermath of the 2020 Presidential Election.

Evidence clearly showed – and even Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the FBI pressured Facebook to take down the Hunter Biden laptop story – in true Fascist manner, the Feds worked with or otherwise demanded that Big Tech police the speech that they disagreed with and that went against the government’s approved party dogma.

The Gateway Pundit and the other Plaintiffs initially sought out a preliminary injunction and were able to acquire a substantial amount of evidence in support of that injunction.  You may recall that, probably not coincidentally, on July 4, 2023, Federal Judge Terry Doughty issued an order granting Gateway Pundit, et al’s motion for the preliminary injunction, preventing the government from working with Big Tech to censor Americans’ speech while the full lawsuit was being battled (likely to be a multi-year period).  The government immediately appealed this Order to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that the injunction was improper and that the plaintiffs lacked the proper authority to challenge government action.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals substantially agreed with the good guys, and the scheming government tyrants were left with no choice but to appeal their case yet again  – this time to the Supreme Court of the United States.

All of the written arguments on both sides have now been submitted.

Today, the champions for each side will make their case at oral arguments in-person, before the assembled Supreme Court.

Gateway Pundit founder and publisher Jim Hoft and Gateway Pundit attorney John Burns will be present at the oral arguments and will give a first hand reporting of the events from the steps of the Supreme Court immediately after oral arguments conclude.

Last week, Jim Hoft interviewed the other individual free speech plaintiff-respondents in the Murthy v. Missouri case.

See HERE for the interview with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

See HERE for the interview with Dr. Martin Kulldorff.

See HERE for the interview with Aaron Kheriaty.

See HERE for the interview with Ms. Jill Hines.

Each of these individuals is a spectacular advocate for the First Amendment and freedom from tyranny. We hope you can take the opportunity to watch these highly inspiring interviews, which offer firsthand accounts of some exceptional Americans who have and continue to fight against government censorship and oppression.

FREEDOM ISN’T FREE – and neither is fighting tyrants.  The Gateway Pundit needs your help. PLEASE DONATE TO GATEWAY PUNDIT’S legal fund to help our fight against illegal censorship – both governmental AND private.

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A California Synagogue Leased Space to a Muslim Group, Telling Members They Had an Obligation To ‘Strengthen the Bonds’ Between Communities. Things Went South From There.  Adam Kredo

Hamakom synagogue leased space to Islamic group and covered up pictures of Israeli hostages

March 18, 2024 – A California synagogue axed its leadership and is struggling to retain members after leasing its facility to a Muslim group that brought in an anti-Israel speaker who compared Israel to Nazi Germany.

Hamakom synagogue, a conservative congregation of around 900 families located in an upscale Los Angeles suburb, says it was trying to ease tensions between the Jewish and Muslim communities when it decided to lease its space this month to the Islamic Society of West Valley, a neighboring Muslim faith group that needed space to hold services during the holy month of Ramadan.

Hamakom entered into an agreement with the Islamic Society that allowed it to take over the synagogue’s main campus, pushing Jewish members onto a smaller satellite branch. In anticipation of the lease’s commencement, the synagogue’s leadership covered up pictures of Israeli hostages captured by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to photographs reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, sparking anger among Jewish congregants.

Soon after the Islamic Society began using Hamakom’s facility, it hosted anti-Israel activist Hussam Ayloush, who said last year that Israel did not have a right to defend itself following the Oct. 7 attack and compared Israel to Nazi Germany. The invite led many Jewish members threaten to resign from the shul, according to internal emails viewed by the Free Beacon, and prompted Hamakom to sever its rental contract with the Islamic Society within days of inking it.

Hamakom’s two copresidents have now resigned from their posts and the synagogue is promising a “thorough internal review to understand the missteps taken and to implement corrective measures,” according to a statement from rabbis Stewart Vogel and Richard Camras. The incident comes as Jewish communities in America face rising anti-Semitism across the country.

[Ed.:

       

 

It’s The Perfect Storm: Drivers Licenses for Illegals + Noncitizens Voting + Mail-in Ballots + Private Funding of Elections + Partisan Hack SOSs   By Patty Mcmurray

The Perfect Storm Explained: Drivers Licenses for Illegals + Noncitizen Voting + Mail-in Ballots + Private Funding of Elections + Partisan Hack SOSs

Mar. 17, 2024 6:30 pm – Does undocumented immigrant mean illegal alien?

If you hesitated before answering yes, you are a victim of progressive doublespeak. Undocumented immigrants are illegal aliens. Noncitizens, whether here legally or illegally, are not allowed to vote in our nation’s elections. It’s a felony for noncitizens to vote, and the U.S. and state constitutions clearly prohibit foreigners from voting. Even so, “The Department of Justice appears to be using taxpayer dollars to have jails and the U.S. Marshals Service encourage incarcerated felons and noncitizens to register to vote,” stated a letter to the DOJ from Mississippi’s leading election official, Secretary of State Michael Watson (R).

Secretary Watson’s letter, dated March 6, to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland also said,

“It is quite shocking, in the midst of a crisis at our southern border and an unprecedented crime wave, that the Biden administration has chosen to expend tax dollars and vital law enforcement resources on a program that risks bloating state voter rolls with ineligible and non-citizen voters.”

 

Supreme Court Fails to Hold Police Accountable for Firing Tear Gas at Legal Observers Who Filmed Interaction Between Cops and Protesters     The Rutherford Institute

DOCUMENTS

February 29, 2024  – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has failed to protect citizens from retaliation for observing or recording police activity in public. By declining to hear an appeal in Molina v. Book, the Supreme Court neglected to hold police accountable for firing tear gas from an armored vehicle at legal observers who were standing in the yard of one of their homes after lawfully and peacefully filming interactions between police and protesters.

 

Illegal Alien Caught at Border Admits He is a Hezbollah Terrorist, Said “I’m Going to Try to Make a Bomb”   By David Greyson

Mar. 17, 2024 5:30 pm – An illegal alien from Lebanon who admitted to being a Hezbollah terrorist was caught at the US border near El Paso, Texas.

22-year-old Basel Bassel Ebbadi was apprehended by Border Patrol on March 9th. After being questioned, he told authorities, “I’m going to try to make a bomb.”

He intended to go to New York to carry out his plans.

He also confessed that he trained with the terrorist organization Hezbollah for many years and was an active member involved with guarding weapons.

New York Post reported:

A Lebanese migrant who was caught sneaking over the border admitted he’s a member of Hezbollah, he hoped to make a bomb, and his destination was New York, The Post can reveal.

Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was caught by border patrol on March 9 near El Paso, Texas. While in custody he asked what he was doing in the US, to which he replied: “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” according to a Border Patrol document exclusively obtained by The Post.

In a subsequent sworn interview, Ebbadi said he had trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member guarding weapons locations for another four years, according to internal ICE documents.

“Ebbadi’s training focused on ‘jihad’ and killing people ‘that was not Muslim,’ he said, according to the New York Post.

[Ed.:  “I cannot tell a lie!”    George Washington]

 

EUROPEAN FARMERS REVOLT: EU Commission Caves Again to Farmers, Proposes to Scrap More Crippling ‘Green’ Policies   By Paul Serran

Mar. 17, 2024 11:20 am – The great European Farmers Revolt is generating very real results after months of intense mobilization in many countries, with mass protests, roadblocks, attacks on cheap unregulated Ukrainian grain, blockade of ports, a veritable siege of the EU headquarters in Brussels with agricultural workers spraying liquid manure at the police and politicians.

Who doesn’t remember France’s Emmanuel Macron chased by farmers inside the Paris Agriculture Fair? Priceless.

Here at The Gateway Pundit, we have been closely following this process, trying to counter the MSM narrative and show how these protests are legitimate reactions against climate lunacy in the EU.

In Germany: GERMAN STANDSTILL – Major Farmers’ Protest and Railway Strike Freeze Europe’s Powerhouse – Rightwing AfD Surging on Polls, on the Verge of Gaining Power

In Spain: WATCH: Massive Farmers’ Demonstration in Madrid Against Failed and Crippling EU ‘Green’ Policies and Regulations

In Poland: WATCH: Massive General Strike Takes Polish Farmers to Warsaw – Clashes With Riot Police – Globalist Tusk Government and EU Commission Cave, Will Regulate Cheap Ukrainian Grain

In France: WATCH: Angry French Farmers Invade Paris Agricultural Fair, Clash With Police, Chant for Macron To Resign

In Belgium: EUROPEAN FARMERS REVOLT: Tractors Break Through Barriers in Brussels – Agricultural Workers Surround EU Headquarters, Spray Liquid Manure at Police in Major Show of Force (VIDEOS)

Now, for the second time, the European Commission has proposed striking down a series of ‘green’ rules on leaving land fallow or rotating crops.

The Commission, that is the EU executive branch, will send the proposals to the 27 EU member governments and the European Parliament.

 

PSYOP-MUSK & THE GREAT RESET CONVERGENCE: SpaceX Building Global Satellite Surveillance Network for U.S. Intelligence Agency   2ND SMARTEST GUY IN THE WORLD

MAR 17, 2024 – Last week this Substack published an article linking PSYOP-MUSK to the biometric border, AI, Trump, and the usual technocrat suspects wanting to impose a Great Reset global police state:

GREAT RESET CONVERGENCE: Biometric Open Borders, Engineered Crime, AI mRNA “Vaccines,” Food Supply Sabotage, Permanent Martial Law & 15 Minute Cities

MAR 13 – PSYOP-MUSK has recently, for all intents and purposes, become a staunch Trump supporter ahead of the 2024 election. We know as per the above article that Trump will be pushing the biometric border wall (instead of building an actual wall that keeps invaders out) which will serve as nothing more than a rollout of an all-pervasive biometric spy grid to ensnare all Americans, which is precisely why PSYOP-MUSK has been activated to busily post on X the following:

[Ed.:

 

Israeli PM Netanyahu Slams Chuck Schumer’s ‘Totally Inappropriate’ Remarks, Urges Him to Stop Meddling   By Ben Kew

Mar. 17, 2024 1:40 pm – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed Chuck Schumer’s remarks about his leadership as “totally inappropriate” after the Senate Majority Leader called for him to step down.

During a speech on the Senate floor this week, Schumer suggested that Israel should have fresh elections in order to find a new leader.

“The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after October 7,” Schumer declared. “The world has changed, radically, since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past.”

He continued:

 

‘Gloves Off’: Democrat Tennessee State Senator Calls for Riots After Republican Lawmakers Pass Pro-Police Bill   (VIDEO)   By Cassandra Macdonald

Mar. 17, 2024 12:00 pm – A Democrat Tennesssee state senator has called for riots after Republican lawmakers passed a pro-police bill.

State Sen. Charlane Oliver was responding to the passing of legislation that prevents cities from restricting police officers from making certain types of traffic stops.

Speaking to the press on Friday, Oliver, co-founder of the social justice warrior activist group “the Equity Alliance,” vowed that “we’re gonna fight.”

“So yeah, we’re gonna fight,” Oliver said. “Dr. King said the riots are the language of the unheard. You [sic] ain’t seen nothing yet. If you keep silencing us like this, what do you think our districts [sic] gonna do?”

[Ed.:  ‘Cause and Effect’.  This is Democrat logic.  You don’t like having police, or what was voted for, you riot! (Their ‘riots’ are already caught and paid for, anyway.)   We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Badges]

 

Planet Fitness Bans Woman for Taking Photo of ‘Transgender’ Biological Man Shaving in Women’s Locker Room    By Cassandra Macdonald

Mar. 17, 2024 12:40 pm – Planet Fitness has banned a woman for taking a photo of a “transgender” biological man shaving in the women’s locker room at a Fairbanks, Alaska, location.

The gym chain has stood by its decision, saying that a member’s “discomfort is not a reason to deny access to the transgender member.”

Patricia Silva said she was in the locker room on Monday when she saw a “man with a penis” shaving in front of a 12-year-old girl in a towel who was sitting on a bench and looking uncomfortable.

“I just came out of Planet Fitness. There is a man shaving in the women’s bathroom. I love him in Christ,” Silva wrote in a post on Facebook. “He is a spiritual being having a human experience. He doesn’t like his gender so he wants to be a woman, but I’m not comfortable with him shaving in my bathroom. I just thought I’d say it out loud.”

Silva’s posts continued, “I went to planet fitness… Walked in the bathroom, and there stands a MAN shaving… I looked at him, said ‘hey’ … he looked up… and I said, ‘You are a man shaving in the women’s bathroom, and I am not OK with that.”

“He replied… ‘Well, I’m LGB…,” the post said. “Whatever that is… nevertheless, I told him ‘You’re a MAN and you’re invading my space!’”

“He wanted to argue to justify why he can be there… I walked away…” Silva wrote. “I stepped out of the locker room and loudly asked the front desk, ‘Are you aware that there is a MAN shaving in the women’s bathroom… I’m not OK with that ⁉️’ The two men standing at the desk, put their heads down, and their tails between their legs! As I was walking out the door…at my back, a woman shouts ‘it’s a girl’… I shouted back ‘it’s a man!’”

Planet Fitness told Fox News that Silva had violated the rules by photographing in a locker room.

“As the home of the Judgement Free Zone, Planet Fitness is committed to creating an inclusive environment,” Planet Fitness chief corporate affairs officer McCall Gosselin said in a statement to Fox News. “Our gender identity non-discrimination policy, states that members and guests may use the gym facilities that best align with their sincere, self-reported gender identity. The member who posted on social media violated our mobile device policy that prohibits taking photos of individuals in the locker room, which resulted in their membership being terminated.”

Planet Fitness told Fox News that Silva had violated the rules by photographing in a locker room.

“As the home of the Judgement Free Zone, Planet Fitness is committed to creating an inclusive environment,” Planet Fitness chief corporate affairs officer McCall Gosselin said in a statement to Fox News. “Our gender identity non-discrimination policy, states that members and guests may use the gym facilities that best align with their sincere, self-reported gender identity. The member who posted on social media violated our mobile device policy that prohibits taking photos of individuals in the locker room, which resulted in their membership being terminated.”

[Ed.:  They should change their name to ‘Planet Sickness’]

 

An inexplicable wave of leprosy hits the southeastern US…just as prophecy predicted   ADAM ELIYAHU BERKOWITZ

“The Kohen shall examine the affection on the skin of his body: if hair in the affected patch has turned white and the affection appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous affection; when the Kohen sees it, he shall pronounce him unclean.”    LEVITICUS 13:3  (THE ISRAEL BIBLE)

MARCH 17, 2024  BIBLICAL NEWS – Scientists can’t explain the source of a wave of leprosy that is cropping up in the southeastern US. But kabbalists are looking to an esoteric source describing the disease as an end-of-times punishment for evil angels and their celestial allies. The malady is prophesied to precede extreme hyperinflation that will leave the US penniless.

A recent article in The Conversation reported a surge in cases of leprosy in the US. In an interview with  Robert A. Schwartz, professor and head of dermatology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, it was reported that leprosy, also known as Hansen’s Disease, is beginning to occur regularly within parts of the southeastern United States, most notably in Florida.

Caused by a type of bacteria called Mycobacterium leprae, the disease affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, mucosa of the upper respiratory tract, and the eyes. Leprosy is curable and treatment in the early stages can prevent disability. Apart from the physical deformity, persons affected by leprosy also face stigmatization and discrimination.

Classified as a neglected tropical disease (NTD) , leprosy still occurs in more than 120 countries, with more than 200 000 new cases reported every year, according to the World Health Organization. But leprosy “is very rare in the United States, with less than 200 cases reported per year,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“CDC has not issued a travel advisory for Florida, or any other state, due to Hansen’s disease (leprosy),” it stated. “Most people with Hansen’s disease in the U.S. became infected in a country where it is more common. In the past, leprosy was feared as a highly contagious, devastating disease, but now we know that it’s hard to spread and it’s easily treatable.”

To become infected with leprosy, one needs “close contact” with someone with the untreated disease “over many months,” per the CDC. “You cannot get leprosy through casual contact such as shaking hands, sitting next to, or talking to someone who has the disease,” it added, noting that “around 95% of all people cannot become sick, because they are naturally immune.”

The reduction in the number of new cases has been gradual which is why the sudden surge in the US is so troubling. The disease has been associated with contact with armadillos who carry the bacteria, making it more common in the South; however, the more recent outbreaks have not been associated with animal exposure.

Leprosy (tzaraath in Hebrew) was a major theme in the Torah and was mentioned over 20 times. The spiritual cause of this horrific physical ailment was hinted at when Miriam was stricken with tzaraat for her involvement in slandering Moses.

As the cloud withdrew from the Tent, there was Miriam stricken with snow-white scales! When Aharon turned toward Miriam, he saw that she was stricken with scales. And Aharon said to Moshe, “O my lord, account not to us the sin which we committed in our folly. Numbers 12:10

Hechalot Rabbati, an esoteric Hebrew text dating to Talmudic times, describes Rome getting Tzara’at for 6 months at the end -of–days.

“Rav said Hadraniel [an angel in Jewish Angelology assigned as gatekeeper at the second gate in heaven] stated that God has not finished counting and writing the severe punishments that will be received by the wicked Samael [the angel of death] for the revenge he received upon himself when the day of revenge is upon him.”

It is interesting to note that in Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), the letters sin (ש) and samech (ס) are interchangeable. This exchange of letters makes the word smole (שמאל) (‘left’) identical to the name Samael (סמאל).

Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson, a Torah Codes expert, told Israel365 News that the left wing combines the forces of Samael with Amalek.

“Samael is the angel of Amalek. The gematria (Hebrew numerology) of Samael, 131, plus the gematria of Amalek, 240, totals 371,” Rabbi Glazerson pointed out. “This precisely equals the gematria of smole (left). The left takes its strength from both Samael and from Amalek.”

Many, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have associated Hamas with Amalek. Rabbi Glazerson’s explanation reveals the counterintuitive alliance between the left-wing and Hamas.

 

NOT ROCKET SCIENCE: Dominican Republic Seals Border With Haiti, Deports Thousands of Illegal Migrants   By Ben Kew

Mar. 17, 2024 7:45 am – The Dominican Republic is showing America and the wider world that controlling one’s borders is not rocket science.

As neighboring Haiti descends into a state of total anarchy, Dominican authorities have implemented tough security measures aimed at preventing a potential tsunami of migrants crossing the country’s border.

NBC reported:

The border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic has been closed for days as violence in Haiti dramatically escalated following a mass prison break in Port-au-Prince. But on Thursday and Friday, Haitians were allowed into a farmer’s market in the border town of Dajabón, which has a population of 25,000 and is about 120 miles from the Haitian capital.

A robust security presence is visible, with troops manning checkpoints and razor wire topping border fences. And each day, bus after bus is seen deporting Haitians who were in the Dominican Republic illegally.

Meanwhile, the BBC described how Dominican authorities are sending back thousands of undocumented Haitians as the crisis unravels:

Yet here at the border crossing, the Dominican authorities have been sending back hundreds of undocumented Haitians every day. Dominican soldiers unlock the wrought-iron doors, order out dozens, and send them across the Massacre River into Haiti.

Some of the immigrants are furious, shouting indignantly in Spanish and Creole. Others are resigned, holding their children or a few possessions in their arms.The message the Dominican Republic appears to be sending is no matter how bad things become at home, Haitians should not seek refuge on Dominican territory.

While the Dominican Republic successfully controls its borders, the U.S. is also bracing for a potential flow of Haitian migrants, in addition to the already millions of illegal aliens crossing the border each year.

Earlier this week, Pentagon official Rebecca Zimmerman told Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz during a House Armed Services Committee Hearing that they were already drawing up plans to deal with a wave of mass migration.

“I think that we need to be postured appropriately for that,” Richardson said. “I have put in a request for increased capability to do exactly that. And we are ready if we need to deal with a mass migration.”

 

Meet the MO v. Biden Plaintiffs – Jill Hines Spoke Out Against the Government COVID Regimen, So They Silenced Her – Tomorrow She Will Represent Millions of Americans in the US Supreme Court and Will Defend Our Right to Free Speech  (Video)   By Jim Hoft

Mar. 17, 2024 8:00 am – The “most important free speech case in a generation,” Missouri v. Biden (Murthy v. Missouri), is set to be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday, March 18th.

Missouri v. Biden is the case filed by the courageous Attorneys General from Missouri and Louisiana against the Biden Administration for their First Amendment violations.  Specifically, the case complains to the Court that the federal government violated the US Constitution when it specifically directed social media companies to delete and censor comments, articles, accounts, memes, and photos they disliked. The case also alleges the government engaged in a wholesale de-platforming of specific users, specific comments, and specific topics.

The government was purposefully censoring truthful information.

The scale of the censorship regime is massive.

The hearing on March 18th will be for oral arguments, which will likely last one day. The Justices will then decide the case, and if a majority agrees, they will issue an opinion on the last day of the Court’s term, typically in late June or early July. The Supreme Court agrees to hear very few cases each year, normally only 100-150 cases of over 7,000 that usually request review.

The Plaintiffs in this case include three prominent doctors, a news website, a healthcare activist, and two states.

    • Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
    • Dr. Martin Kulldorff
    • Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya
    • Jim Hoft
    • Jill Hines
    • The State of Missouri
    • The State of Louisiana
  • Last week The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft interviewed Jill Hines a health freedom activist and co-director of Health Freedom Louisiana.
    Jill Hines is the the fourth plaintiff in the MO v. Biden (Murthy v. Missouri) lawsuit that we interviewed. Jill has a similar experience as a lot of Americans. Jill challenged the official COVID narrative and guidelines and was silenced by social media and her government.
    Jill described the horrible experience she went through after her voice was silenced for offering a different opinion – in America.
    Like all of the plaintiffs, Jill was demoralized and furious by what she experienced, yet she never backed down and will be representing the American people in the Supreme Court on Monday.
    From our interview:

 

Canada is Lost: Toronto Police Arrest Reporter David Menzies at Pro-Hamas Rally for Practicing Journalism   (Video)   By Margaret Flavin

Mar. 17, 2024 9:00 am – On Friday, Rebel News reporter David Menzies was arrested while trying to interview attendees at a Pro-Hamas rally in Toronto, Ontario.

According to Rebel News, the arrest comes just days after the announcement of David’s lawsuit against the RCMP “for a pattern of intimidation and exclusion following shocking displays of police brutality against David.”

Rebel News reports:

What transpired was a blatant disregard for civil liberties.

But David was in full compliance with the law. He presented his identification upon request. We have it all on camera.

Yet he was summarily apprehended and confined for exercising his right to document a public demonstration.

This is an outrageous infringement of freedom of the press and independent journalism where no offence was carried out at all and another example of the two-tiered policing that takes place every weekend.

Watch  

 

Biden Regime Invites Hamas-Linked CAIR to the White House, Then Lies About It   By Robert Spencer 

March 16, 2024 – Every aspect of this story is bad, and each horrifying aspect is competing with the others for which can have the most negative consequences for the American people. After Jews suffered attacks in Chicago, the Biden regime reached out not to Jewish leaders, but to Muslim groups, including open supporters of Hamas. The Muslims, however, enraged at the regime’s continued (albeit hollow) support for Israel, refused to show. Then a Biden regime wonk lied brazenly and denied that one of the worst of the Muslim groups was even invited. This is the state of our staggered, sputtering republic in the fourth year of this radically anti-American and anti-democratic regime.

This latest imbroglio started when Politico reported Thursday that “Illinois leaders in the Palestinian communities angry over how President Joe Biden has handled the Middle East war have turned down a request by the White House to meet in Chicago today.” We can see who is claiming the moral high ground, and who has the upper hand. After Hamas brutally and gleefully murdered 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, Islamic groups and their leftist allies immediately began to claim victimhood at any sign of Israeli self-defense, fabricating casualty numbers before a world that was all too eager to be fooled, and even preposterously claiming that Israel was conducting a “genocide” when independent observers have dubbed the IDF “the most moral army in the world.”

Despite all that, Muslim and leftist leaders around the world know that making wild claims about Israel and affecting a posture of aggrieved victimhood can win them ready concessions from the U.S., the European Union, and the United Nations, and so they’ve been striking victim poses aggressively since Oct. 7. It has worked. The Biden regime is on its heels, desperately worried by threats from the likes of Nihad Awad of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the winsome Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) to withhold the Muslim vote if the regime doesn’t betray Israel. And so it has been doing just that, step by step, in slow motion: $100 million to Gaza, $10 billion to Hamas’ financiers, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and ever-increasing pressure on the Netanyahu government.

Meanwhile, the regime keeps trying to placate the Muslim and Arab groups inside the U.S.: “Tom Perez, a senior adviser to the president, and other advisers had planned to sit down in three separate meetings with various Palestinian, Arab and Muslim leaders and elected officials to talk about tensions in the Middle East. The private meetings were to come on the heels of similar gatherings in Detroit.” The professional victims, however, stayed in character: “But most folks contacted turned down the request, according to six people we talked to. Any meeting being held will be with a smaller group of players.”

Not only did they refuse to meet with White House apparatchiks, but they continued to excoriate the regime for its alleged support of Israel. One Muslim spokesman declared that his group considered “anyone — Palestinian, Muslim, Arab — who takes a meeting with the White House to be an absolute sell-out.” One of those who declined to attend was Ahmed Rehab of Hamas-linked CAIR, who explained: “We believe a thousand percent in civic engagement. We preach it. But this is an unusual moment and requires an unusual response. We have made clear that a ceasefire is needed.”

 

Oh Canada: Parliament Moves To Impose Potential Life Imprisonment For Speech Crimes   by Jonathan Turley,

FRIDAY, MAR 15, 2024 – 11:50 AM – We have previously discussed the unrelenting attacks by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his allies on free speech. There has been a steady criminalization of speech, including even jokes and religious speech, in Canada. Now, the Canadian parliament is moving toward a new change that would allow the imposition of life imprisonment on those who post views deemed supportive of genocide. With a growing movement calling Israel’s war in Gaza “genocide,” the potential scope of such a law is readily apparent. That appears to be its very draw for anti-free speech advocates in the country.

The Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63 increases the potential penalties from five years to life imprisonment. It also increases the penalty for the willful promotion of hatred (a dangerously ill-defined crime) from two years to five years. The proposed changes constitute a doubling down on Canada’s commitment to reducing free speech for citizens despite criticism from many in the civil liberties community.

There is also a chilling option for house arrest if a judge believes a defendant “will commit” an offense. In other words, if a judge thinks that a citizen will be undeterred and try to speak freely again.

Justice Minister Arif Virani employed the same hysteria to convince citizens to surrender their freedoms to the government. He expressed how terrified he was with the potential of free speech, stating that he is “terrified of the dangers that lurk on the internet for our children.”

It is not likely to end there.

Today the rationale is genocide. However, once the new penalties are in place, a host of other groups will demand similar treatment for those with opposing views on their own causes.

This law already increased the penalties for anything deemed hateful speech.

The law comes after Canada blocked a Russian dissident from becoming a citizen because of her violation of Russian anti-free speech laws.

In a telling act, the government said that the same conduct (i.e., free speech) could be a crime in Canada.

Indeed, it may now be punished even more harshly.

 

South American Gangs Target Mansions In Baltimore As Biden’s Border Crisis Spreads Chaos   BY TYLER DURDEN

FRIDAY, MAR 15, 2024 – 11:30 AM – The Biden administration’s disastrous open southern border policies have sparked a catastrophic wave of violent crime committed by illegal immigrants. This comes amid the ten million migrants that have invaded the nation, alongside recent calls from radical progressive lawmakers across crime-ridden metro areas to defund the police and limit criminal prosecution. As a result, many law-abiding Americans express growing concern about insecurity amid a new era of explosive crime and chaos.

Let’s begin with a series of news headlines that show Chilean crime gangs have been on a nationwide burglary spree, targeting wealthy neighborhoods from coast to coast:

  • NBC7 San Diego: “Chilean break-in crew is back, and burglaries are on the rise in La Jolla”
  • Fox 2 Detroit: “High-end Michigan burglaries tied to Chilean crime ring, prompts police task force”
  • NBC 10 Philadelphia: “Another Chilean man arrested as Montco targeted by ‘South American Theft Groups'”
  • ABC 7 Los Angeles: “OC judge throws out plea deal in case involving alleged Chilean burglary ring”
  • NBC 12 Scottsdale: “‘These are professionals’: Latest arrests in East Valley burglary cases tied to Chilean crime ring”
  • Oklahoma News 4: “Million-dollar OKC homes burglarized, possibly connected to Chilean crime ring”
  • ZeroHedge: “South American Gangs Target Dozens Of Mansions In Detroit”
  • AP News: “3 Chilean nationals accused of burglarizing high-end Michigan homes”
  • Vanity Fair: “Thieves in the Night: A Vast Burglary Ring From Chile Has Been Targeting Wealthy U.S. Households”

The latest crime spree these Chilean gangs went on was in wealthy neighborhoods in upper Baltimore County, Maryland.

Local media outlet The Baltimore Banner says a Chilean crime gang burglarized a number of mansions, including one on Tufton Springs Lane in Reisterstown.

On Feb. 3, Baltimore County Police arrested five suspects whom Border Patrol identified as members of a criminal organization known as the South American Theft Group. They all had Chile identification cards.

The group “targets large homes in wealthy areas of often Asian business owners. Detectives know the group to be a traveling, unsettled group who do not reside in the area where they commit their crimes. The group travels around the country committing thefts/burglaries then leave the area before they are identified or apprehended,” police wrote in charging documents.

According to charging documents, one gang member had a phone with an internet search of where to find “millionaire neighborhoods in various cities.”

Investigators also said the gang was responsible for burglaries across North Carolina, Alabama, and Oklahoma.

The unprecedented flood of illegals threatens the safety of communities across this nation. Americans overwhelmingly agree with Trump-era border policies that kept the country safe.

“Once again, honest, law-abiding citizens are being victimized by criminals who should not be in our country.  It was great work by the Baltimore County Police Department to apprehend them. Our country is overrun by groups like the South American Theft Group, and it is largely a failure of our border security. We must do all we can to keep people like this out of our country. And I am pleased that ICE has placed detainers on these 5,” Del. Nino Mangione, R-Baltimore County, said in a statement.

At the same time, Democrats are waging war on the Second Amendment by actively trying to ban guns, which will only leave law-abiding people defenseless.

Americans are demanding law and order – something Democrats and the radical progressives in the White House could not care less.

 

ANOTHER ONE: United Airlines Boeing 737 Lands at Airport with Missing Exterior Panel   By Cristina Laila

Mar. 15, 2024 7:40 pm – Another one!

A 25-year-old United Airlines Boeing 737 landed at an Airport in Oregon on Friday with a missing exterior panel.

Per CNN: United Airlines Boeing 737-800 lands safely in Medford, Oregon with an under-fuselage panel missing. United says the issue was first discovered when parked at the gate.

According to reports, the United Boeing 737 departed San Francisco Friday morning and landed safely at its destination in Medford, Oregon about an hour later with a missing exterior panel.

The missing panel was discovered during a post-flight inspection. It is unclear when the panel came off.

“After the aircraft was parked at the gate, it was discovered to be missing an external panel,” the airline said. “We’ll conduct a thorough examination of the plane and perform all the needed repairs before it returns to service.”

The FAA is investigating the latest incident.

CBS News reported:

 

Tyson Foods Under Fire and Boycott Calls for Replacing Hardworking Americans with Illegal Immigrants   By Jim Hft

Mar. 16, 2024 8:30 am – Tyson Foods Inc., a major player in the global meat industry, has come under intense scrutiny over allegations of terminating American workers’ employment and then favoring illegal immigrants for hiring.

The company’s recent announcement of a plant closure in Perry, Iowa, has added fuel to the ongoing controversy.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the closure of Tyson’s significant pork packing plant in Perry, Iowa, a move that pushes 1,276 employees toward unemployment.

“After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to permanently close our Perry, Iowa pork facility. We understand the impact of this decision on our team members and the local community,” a spokesperson said in a statement.

Taking care of our team members is our top priority and we encourage them to apply for other open roles within the company. We are also working closely with state and local officials to provide additional resources to those who are impacted.”

Perry, located in Dallas County and about 40 miles northwest of Des Moines, had a population of just over 7,800 people, according to the 2020 Census. The impact of the plant’s closure is expected to ripple through the community, affecting not only the workers but also the local economy.

This decision follows the shutdown of two chicken plants and a series of job cuts made last year.

Tyson Foods had also signaled the closure of four more facilities by mid-fiscal 2024, anticipating related costs to be in the range of 300 to 400 million, as per reports by USA Today.

Bloomberg reported that days after the mass layoff, Tyson Foods partnered with Tent Partnership for Refugees to hire thousands of illegal immigrants.

The company allegedly held a job fair in Iowa targeting immigrants while the displaced American workers are left without paychecks.

Tyson Foods is accused of creating a database with tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, offering wages of $16.50 per hour along with free legal services for immigration.

 

Report: ‘Healthcare workers’ raped innocents; UN ‘peacekeepers’ shelled civilians    by Eliyahu Tulshinski

Mar. 16, 2024 7:45 am – Healthcare rapists

As shocking as the revelations about mass rapes of women and children by UN “peacekeepers” and “teachers” may be, even more distressing is that UN employees supposedly dedicated to healthcare have carried out those very same atrocities and are led by an actual terrorist.

As Frontline News previously reported, the World Health Organization (WHO), a UN agency, is headed by a terrorist who keeps rapists and pedophiles on staff giving them the power to abuse the poorest people in the world.  He even flies these staff members to towns in the developing world, with fancy rental cars and hotel rooms waiting for them, and with far more cash than the local residents have – a perfect recipe for exploitation.

Actual terrorist at the helm

Even hardcore anti-globalists might be tempted to write off such charges as ludicrous, yet it is hard to ignore the evidence Frontline News has detailed about WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s past:

Tedros [was] a leader of Ethiopia’s brutal minority party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, a wing of the ruling Marxist-rooted Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front …The United States State Department has categorized TPLF as a terrorist organization due to its “violent activities …

During his tenure as Ethiopia’s health minister and then foreign minister, Tedros risked the health of citizens for political gain:

[H]ealth experts in Ethiopia noticed a strange phenomenon: The government was refusing to acknowledge cholera outbreaks. Instead, the authorities labelled the outbreaks as “acute watery diarrhea” … the Ethiopian government was pressuring its health workers to avoid any mention of cholera, which could damage the country’s image and deter tourists.

That’s from Tedros’ pre-WHO days. What of Tedros today?

Actual rapists on the healthcare staff

Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts argued on the floor of Parliament that the WHO, far from having well-meaning leaders unaware of the child rapes carried out by their subordinates, “is rotting from the head,” Frontline News reported. Here’s his textual introduction to the video of his speech, posted on his YouTube Channel:

Former terrorist Tedros Ghebreyesus will not fire 83 WHO staff engaged in abuse including rape and forced abortions, with one victim 13, claiming rape and forced abortion do not violate WHO’s policies because the victims were not receiving WHO aid. [Emphasis added.]

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Roberts’ accusation was based on an AP report on Congolese victims of rape and pedophilia at the hands of WHO staff, as he detailed:

 

DeSantis Announces Florida Agents Captured Vessel With 25 Illegal Haitian Immigrants With Guns And Drugs

March 15, 2024 – In an emergency press conference, Governor Ron DeSantis announced Florida agents intercepted a vessel that contained 25 illegal immigrants from Haiti.

In his press conference, DeSantis revealed the illegal immigrants had guns, drugs, and night vision goggles.

DeSantis administration has already sent members of the National Guard to the coast of Florida to prevent any Haitians from illegally entering the United States.

DeSantis’s move comes as gang violence has taken over Haiti as violent gangs have taken over the country in recent weeks.

 

There Goes Latin America: Iran’s Regime in America’s Backyard   by Majid Rafizadeh
March 16, 2024 at 5:00 am

  • The Iranian regime, which… has been calling for “Death to America,” now has ballistic missiles which it says can reach the US, and claims to have a hypersonic missile that, according to one report, “Can Destroy US In 40 sec.”
  • Venezuela appears to have willingly embraced Iran’s overtures.
  • The Iranian regime, in addition to Venezuela, has evidently also been exploring avenues for military cooperation with Nicaragua and Cuba.
  • It is critical to recognize now the gravity of this exponentiating national security threat.

A threatening development has been brewing largely under the radar of the Biden administration and the mainstream media attention: Iran’s calculated expansion into Latin America, from Argentina to Mexico.

With alarming nonchalance, the Biden administration appears to have turned a blind eye to the Iranian regime’s concerted efforts to establish a military foothold right in America’s backyard. The ramifications of this complacency are profound. The Iranian regime, which, since it began in 1979, has been calling for “Death to America,” now has ballistic missiles which it says can reach the US, and claims to have a hypersonic missile that, according to one report, “Can Destroy US In 40 sec.”

 

Foregone Conclusion   By Pamela Geller

March 15, 2024 – The biggest news story that the media, let alone the Democrat media axis – the most powerful propaganda apparatus in the world, is not covering, has not covered and will not cover is that the 2024 election is a forgone conclusion. The Democrats stole 2020. They stole it right before our eyes. They stopped counting in the battleground states in the middle of the night when Trump was all but declared the winner. Yes, he was that far ahead, and then, when the machines came back online hours later, the coup was complete and what followed was a revolution, an overthrow of we the people culminating in the prosecution and imprisonment of those who protested against the steal on January 6. I don’t think they will be as messy this time. The election system itself in blue/purple states, the infrastructure is a Democrat apparatus. They have a good deal of practice under their belts. There is nothing they love more than the constant drone of nonsensical flapping tongues talk, talk, talking about the election on TV, in social media, anywhere and everywhere. “The polls show…..” As if.

How does anyone believe the Republicans will be able to win in November? It’s not possible. Why is everyone talking about the race like it’s viable or fair or possible? It’s mass delusion. The election machinery is immense, meticulous, tentacles everywhere even in the GOP. And the enemy of the people controls it.  [Emphasis added]  If I’m wrong, tell me what I ain’t seeing.

The reason why they are keeping a rotting, demented corpse who sniffs, fondles little children and walks into walls on the ticket, is because it’s in the bag. It doesn’t matter who they put on the ticket. He’s not running the country anyway.

The Republicans are useless. They have done nothing for four years. Controlled opposition.

The answer is simple. Paper ballots. One day voting. And that will not happen.

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