NEWS
Millions of Chickens Killed in 5-Alarm Fire at Farina Farms Inc. in Illinois, One of Nation’s Largest Free-Range Egg Facilities (VIDEO) By Jim Hᴏft
May 30, 2024 7:40 pm – A massive fire broke out at Farina Farms Inc. in Marion County, Illinois, on Wednesday night, resulting in the deaths of millions of chickens.
The farm is one of the largest free-range egg facilities in the country.
The fire, which began around 6:30 p.m. along Highway 37, quickly escalated into a 5-alarm fire, requiring the intervention of at least 20 different fire departments from surrounding areas, according to WAND TV.
Described as “humongous” by Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps, the fire engulfed multiple buildings spanning 200-300 yards in length.
The smoke was so dense that it was visible on FOX 2’s Power Doppler radar, reaching altitudes between 13,000 and 15,000 feet and could be seen for miles around, WGN9 reported.
“The fire at the Chicken Farm south of Farina is so hot it is actually producing a rare type of cloud over it. It’s called a “pyrocumulus cloud.” They form over large fires (typically wildfires) due to the intense, upward vertical motion of air cooling and condensing as it moves higher into the sky,” Meteorologist Jacob Dickey wrote on Facebook.
“If fires burn hot enough, they can create clouds that produce lighting and rain, called pyrocumulonimbus clouds. That probably isn’t the case in Farina, but the fire is being spotted on radar between 12,000 to 15,000 feet high!” he added.
The Beckemeyer Volunteer Fire Department alone transported nearly 30,000 gallons of water over a distance of 45 miles to assist in the firefighting efforts, according to Chief Luke Baker.
“You can imagine the amount of water and manpower that was being used,” Baker commented. “Requests like this are made by MABAS (Mutual Aid Box Alarm System) to bring resources in from different areas so as not to deplete a whole county’s fire departments in one place. All in all, it was a massive effort by these first responders to bring it under control.”
The cause of the fire remained unknown. Fortunately, no injuries were reported, but the impact on the local economy and food supply is expected to be significant.
[Ed.: More sabotage of our food chain. Wonder what the payoff is!]
Republican Lawmakers Release Statement Following Verdict in President Trump’s Manhattan Sham Trial By Jim Hᴏft
May 30, 2024 6:20 pm – The political temperature in America has reached a boiling point following the controversial guilty verdict in the sham trial of President Donald Trump.
President Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to a hush-money payment made to adult porn star Stormy Daniels.
This verdict makes Trump the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. The jury reached their decision after a five-week trial and two days of deliberation.
Donald Trump denounced the trial as a “disgrace” and “rigged,” claiming that a “conflicted” and “corrupt” judge presided over the proceedings. He has consistently maintained his innocence, declaring himself a “very innocent man,” and has announced plans to appeal the verdict.
In a united front, some Republican figures released statements to express their outrage and support for Trump.
“This verdict is an absolute miscarriage of justice. While the outcome of this trial will no doubt be subject to appeal, it’s a disgrace to our judicial system that such measures will be necessary. The partisan slant of this jury pool shows why we ought to litigate politics at the ballot box and not in the courtroom. Ultimately, I have faith that the 2024 election will be decided by the American people, not corrupt judges and prosecutors,” Sen. JD Vance wrote.
“It’s a very dark day in American history. This ‘trial’ was a political witch hunt from the start. The fact that the Biden campaign staged a press conference outside the court tells you everything you need to know. Liberal activist Alvin Bragg and Biden-donor Judge Merchan had a shared goal: to put President Trump behind bars. Whether you consider the lopsided jury, the gag order issued to silence only President Trump, the prosecution’s failure to outline the alleged underlying crimes, or the lack of a unanimous verdict required for conviction, this trial was a complete joke and a massive misuse of taxpayer dollars,” Sen. Tuberville wrote.
“This is pure election interference and the American people will see through it. We can’t have a two-tier justice system. If we don’t return to our Constitution, which guarantees every U.S. citizen the right to free speech and the right to a fair trial by an impartial jury, we are no better than Venezuela or communist China.”
“This is a dark day for America. This entire trial has been a sham, and it is nothing more than political persecution. The only reason they prosecuted Donald Trump is because Democrats are terrified that he will win reelection. This disgraceful decision is legally baseless and should be overturned promptly on appeal. Any judge with a modicum of integrity would recognize that this entire trial has been utterly fraudulent,” Sen. Ted Cruz wrote.
[Ed.: Wouldn’t it be a first if: first thing in the morning, Merchan got a call from SCOTUS telling him that they will take on this case as of this morning! (Yes, I am a dreamer…)]
“BREAKING NEWS: I’M A POLITICAL PRISONER!” — Trump’s Donation Page Crashes as Supporters Flood Website Following Guilty Verdict in ‘Sham Trial’ on All 34 Counts By Jim Hᴏft
May 30, 2024 4:55 pm – The American political landscape has been rocked by what many are calling a travesty of justice. After a contentious trial, widely regarded as politically motivated, the jury returned a guilty verdict on all 34 counts against President Trump.
Shortly after the verdict was announced, President Trump’s official website was updated with a bold and defiant message: “BREAKING NEWS: I’M A POLITICAL PRISONER!”
According to the fundraising email:
I was just convicted in a RIGGED political Witch Hunt trial: I DID NOTHING WRONG!
They’ve raided my home, arrested me, took my mugshot, AND NOW THEY’VE JUST CONVICTED ME!
But with your support at this moment in history, WE WILL WIN BACK THE WHITE HOUSE AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Crooked Joe Biden needs to get the message – right here, right now – that his chances of a 2nd term END TODAY!
BUT FOR THAT TO HAPPEN, OUR IMMEDIATE PUSHBACK MUST BE SO MASSIVE, IT WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY! WE MUST MAKE JOE BIDEN REGRET EVER COMING AFTER US!
The message was accompanied by a call to action for supporters to donate and stand against what Trump describes as the Deep State’s latest attempt to undermine his legacy and influence.
No matter how many vicious lies and attacks they throw our way, President Trump will NEVER SURRENDER our great country to the Left’s tyranny! But the Democrats will spend billions and billions of dollars to try and stop our movement, and we’re counting on YOUR support to finish what we started.
Together, we will DISMANTLE the Deep State, WIN BACK the White House, and SAVE AMERICA in 2024! Please consider completing your contribution today. Thank you!
Remember, YOUR SUPPORT IS THE ONLY THING STANDING BETWEEN US AND TOTAL TYRANNY!
So I’m humbly asking for you to please, please, PLEASE join me at this dark hour.
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YOUR SUPPORT IS THE ONLY THING STANDING BETWEEN US AND TOTAL TYRANNY!
So I need 10 MILLION TRUE MAGA PATRIOTS to chip in and proudly shout:
I STAND WITH TRUMP!
Within minutes of the message being posted, President Trump’s donation page experienced an unprecedented surge of traffic, causing it to crash.
New York Jury Reaches Verdict on Trump’s NY Lawfare Trial — GUILTY!! — ALL 34 COUNTS! — EACH COUNT COULD RESULT IN 4 YEARS IN PRISON!… Judge Merchan Tells Jurors He “Admires Your Dedication and Hard Work” By Jim Hᴏft
May 30, 2024 4:08 pm – The New York City jury reached a verdict in Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan’s lawfare case against President Donald Trump late on Thursday afternoon.
The Gateway Pundit contributor Paul Ingrassia is attending the ongoing show trial today in New York City. He will be reporting from the media room.
Ingrassia, who has been live reporting from inside the Merchan kangaroo court for several days now, has observed firsthand the blatant disregard for due process and fair trial standards.
Despite the prosecution’s failure to clearly define the alleged criminal act committed by President Trump, the court appears poised to find him guilty at all costs and send him to prison, irrespective of the evidence or lack thereof.
Welcome to Joe Biden’s America.
[Ed.: Isn’t that special!
WAYNE ROOT: My CIA Sources Say Biden Administration Knows Waves of “Red Dawn” Terror Attacks Will Be Carried Out in USA Any Day. Yet They Refuse to Warn the American People. Why? Op-ed by Wayne Allyn Root
May 30, 2024 3:00 pm – I’ve been warning on my national TV and radio shows for many months about waves of “Red Dawn” terror attacks coming soon to the USA. My warning was not based on any inside information from the government. It was based only on my common sense and gut instincts.
That’s all changed. I now have high-level, inside information from my sources at the CIA confirming what’s coming.
Anyone can see that this O’Biden administration (led by zombie dementia puppet Joe Biden and his boss Obama- the real president) have opened the borders and waved the entire world in. And anyone with a brain knows that among the millions waved in, have been hundreds of thousands, if not millions of terrorists.
Just recently, the National Sheriffs Association claimed there are two million terrorists inside the USA. Please understand all it took was 2,000 terrorists on October 7th to invade Israel and murder, rape, burn, and behead 1,200 innocent souls.
Can you imagine what damage and death two million terrorists could do inside the USA?
That’s an army bigger than our entire combined armed forces (we have 1.3 million active-duty military).
That’s an army bigger than our entire combined police force in the USA (we have 800,000 combined police officers).
I’ve written many commentaries warning what they might have planned for America. My biggest fear is not another massive high-tech 9-11 terror attack. Although that may be coming.
My biggest fear is simple, low-tech attacks that are easy and inexpensive to carry out. I’ve even used the name “Red Damn” to describe what I see coming. Remember the movie “Red Dawn” starring Patrick Swayze? America was invaded by a foreign country (Russia).
Well, today there is no need for an invasion by our enemies. Because the invasion has already happened. Millions of terrorists and Chinese military age males are already inside the USA.
But what are they waiting for? Are they waiting for the right moment to create chaos for our upcoming presidential election?
Are they waiting for the moment China attacks Taiwan?
Are they training inside our country for the perfect moment for a coordinated “Red Dawn” terror attack?
Simple. Inexpensive. All our enemies would need to do is the following: Coordinate 50 groups of terrorists to walk into supermarkets, department stores, train stations, airport terminals, hotel lobbies, restaurants, nightclubs, theatres and schools. 50 groups at the exact same time, in 50 cities across the country. And start killing.
Who would stop them?
It’s already proven successful in Israel on October 7th. That’s the blueprint. By the time enough police, or military get to each terror scene there will be 100 dead, or more, at each scene. What if 100 Americans were murdered in 50 cities at the exact same time?
That’s 5,000 dead Americans.
America would be paralyzed. The economy would come to a standstill. The stock market would crash. No one would leave their house for weeks. Cities would become ghost towns. Our streets would be patrolled by military. This is how you collapse a powerful country.
And this would be easy to do. Just find 100 terrorists in 50 cities. That’s 5,000 terrorists. Armed with only pistols, rifles, and knives. Throw in a few grenades. Low tech.
Is finding 5,000 terrorists hard? It’s easy considering there may be two million terrorists inside the USA. Now keep in mind, this was all from my imagination.
But what if I told you my worst fears and nightmares have now been confirmed?
Days ago, my CIA sources called me to tell me the US government knows a “Red Dawn” terrorist attack is coming any day. That’s their exact words. “Red Dawn.” The CIA is scared to death. Yet they refuse to warn the American people.
Worse, they know exactly why it’s coming. This is the direct fault of the Biden administration. And I’m not even talking about the open border.
It turns out that when Biden (and his boss Obama) ordered the U.S. military retreat from Afghanistan (the worst retreat in US military history)…and ordered them to abandon their bases, leaving behind $85 billion dollars of equipment…guess what was left behind?
First, it appears they left behind sensitive information with names and addresses of US military “special operators” (ie Navy Seals, Green Berets, special forces). Which would explain the incident days ago, in North Carolina, where two Chechen utility contractors illegally in the U.S. were spotted with telephoto lens outside the home of a US Special Forces Major. The Major saw them taking photos of his children playing, confronted them and shot one dead.
How did these alleged terrorists know the name of this Major? How did they find his address? Why were they at his home taking photos of his children? How many families of special forces are in danger right now? Thank Joe Biden- he handed them that information.
But it gets worse.
The NSA in its haste to abandon Afghanistan under orders from Joe Biden (and his boss Obama) left behind sensitive equipment that creates and issues official U.S. passports.
Let that sink in for a moment.
Terrorist enemies of the US now have the capability to issue official U.S. passports to as many terrorists as they want, to come to America and commit mass murder. They don’t even need to sneak in over the open border. Now they can walk right into our country at any airport and breeze right through customs.
My CIA sources used the exact term “Red Dawn.” They know we are facing waves of “Red Dawn” terror attacks.
It’s no longer my imagination. The nightmare is reality. It’s coming any day now. Our government knows that. It’s their fault. They’re petrified with fear. And they refuse to warn the American people.
Consider this your warning.
Trump Trial Judge Could be Disbarred for his Actions. Here is the Case Against Him… (Video 27:13) By Grant Stinchfield
May 30, 2024 12:40 pm – The Judge overseeing President Trump’s New York trial has broken numerous judicial standards that his behavior should lead to his disbarment. Judge Juan Merchan’s bias against President Trump is indisputable. Any “reasonable” person can spot it. We go through each of his missteps, mistakes, and deceitful decisions aimed at swaying the jury to convict.
His behavior is so outside the bounds of standard judicial conduct that he is guilty of not just ethical violations, but he clearly has violated Donald Trump’s constitutional right to due process.
That violation could lead the U.S. Supreme Court to step in. In this podcast, I lay out the exact New York Statutes that prove Judge Juan Merchan’s official misconduct.
WW3 WATCH: Senior Biden Officials ‘Signal Openness’ to Allowing Ukraine to Strike Inside Russia With U.S. Missiles By Ben Kew
May 30, 2024 10:45 am – Senior aides within the Biden administration are moving towards supporting the use of American missiles to strike targets inside Russia.
According to a report from POLITICO, two senior administration officials have “opened the door” to reversing the current policy, which prohibits the Ukrainian military from firing missiles directly at targets within the Russian mainland.
The report states:
The move, if made, would come as European allies, lawmakers and Ukrainian officials exert pressure on the White House to lift the restrictions, and as Russia has made major advances on the battlefield. It also suggests that President Joe Biden and his team are increasingly worried about Kyiv’s ability to fend off Russia’s attacks, especially its latest advance in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken signaled the possible change during a visit to Moldova when pressed by reporters. A “hallmark” of the Biden administration’s approach toward Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion two years ago “has been to adapt as the conditions have changed, as the battlefield has changed, as what Russia does has changed.”
“We’ve adapted and adjusted, too, and we’ll continue to do that,” he continued.
Shortly afterward, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby, while stating that there’s “no change” in the current policy that says Ukraine can’t use U.S.-supplied weapons to strike inside Russian territory, also noted that America’s “support to Ukraine has evolved appropriately.”
The apparent shift comes just days after Secretary-General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, indicated his support for lifting the ban despite the obvious risks of escalation that propels the world into a Third World War.
“I think the time has come for allies to consider whether they should lift some of the restrictions they are put on the use of weapons they have donated to Ukraine because, especially now when a lot the fighting is going on in Kharkiv, close to the border,” Stoltenberg said.
“To deny Ukraine the possibility of using these weapons against legitimate military targets on Russian territory makes it very hard for them to defend themselves.”
Earlier this month, the Ukrainian government sent a delegation to Washington with a view to persuading the Biden regime to reverse the ban. David Arahamiya, a Ukrainian MP who led the delegation, said that the current U.S. policy was a form of insanity.
“It’s like if somebody were to attack Washington, D.C., from the Virginia state, and you say we’re not going to hit Virginia for some reason,” he said. “It’s crazy. Military people, like generals, they don’t understand. So they are pushing us as politicians, like stop [the policy] this is insane.”
According to a recent report from Reuters, Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to agree on a ceasefire in Ukraine along current battle lines. However, the U.S. and other NATO is currently no signs of taking him up on that offer.
[Ed.: They would prefer WWIII over another Trump Presidency...]
Judge Merchan Issues Last-Minute Jury Instruction Designed to Convict Trump, Even if Jurors Don’t Agree [VIDEOS] By Rachel M. Emmanuel
May 29, 2024 at 1:42pm – The jury is now deliberating on the first-ever criminal trial in history of a former president of the United States.
And by every account, this case has displayed the most egregious use of lawfare against a political opponent the nation has ever seen.
Earlier, Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the hush-money case against the former president in Manhattan, disclosed that his daughter, Loren Merchan, is president of Authentic Campaigns, a digital consulting firm that has worked on the campaigns of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other prominent Democrats, according to CNN.
Two Democratic clients of Loren Merchan raised over $90 million, partly by using Trump’s case in their solicitation emails, according to the New York Post.
However, Merchan refused to recuse himself from the case.
Not only that, but he has also continuously undermined Trump’s defense with his rulings and instructions.
Renowned lawyer Alan Dershowitz wrote last week in the New York Post, “In my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor, I have never seen a spectacle such as the one I observed sitting in the front row of the courthouse yesterday. The judge in Donald Trump’s trial was an absolute tyrant, though he appeared to the jury to be a benevolent despot. He seemed automatically to be ruling against the defendant at every turn.”
But the final instructions to the jury by Merchan take both the cake and the bakery and strip the proceedings of any facade of fairness — not that there was much of that to begin with.
On Wednesday, Merchan determined that jurors will not need to unanimously agree on the underlying crime motivating the alleged falsification of business records Trump is accused of, according to Politico.
Merchan rejected arguments from Trump’s defense team that all 12 jurors should have to agree on what underlying crime Trump was trying to cover up through the alleged falsified records, which is a felony in New York.
“He said that there’s no need to agree on what has occurred,” Fox News’ Harris Faulkner read out as she received the breaking news. “They can disagree on what the crime was, among the three choices. Thus, this means that they could split 4-4-4 and the judge would still treat them unanimously.”
In other words, the jury doesn’t even have to agree on why Trump committed the alleged crime of falsifying documents.
Motive, which is generally a huge part of any criminal trial, goes out the window.
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“Intent means conscious or purpose to defraud. Intent does not require an intent to defraud any particular person or [entity], but a general intent to defraud,” the judge told the jury, according to Fox News.
Satirist Kyle Mann, who writes for the parody site The Babylon Bee, highlighted an eerie convergence of comedy and reality. Mann noted that the Bee had previously published a satirical comic that foreshadowed, almost prophetically, the scenario now unfolding. The judge’s ruling that the jury doesn’t have to find a crime to find Trump guilty shows just how ridiculous the ruling is.
Trump looked almost resigned as he walked out of the courtroom on Wednesday, noting, “Mother Teresa could not beat these charges. These charges are rigged. The whole thing is rigged,” he said.
Trump-endorsed Congressional candidate Jerrod Sessler wrote on social media platform X, “Of the 10 Amendments in the Bill of Rights, half have to do with the criminal justice system. That is because our Founders knew that tyrannical governments would use the justice system as a weapon against their enemies. Clearly they had not envisioned a government as vicious as the current administration.”
“Legal scholar Jonathan Turley called this trial a ‘canned hunt.’ I agree.” Sessler added.
By allowing the jurors to effectively choose from a menu of potential predicate crimes behind the alleged falsified business records, rather than requiring unanimity on a single offense, Judge Merchan has lowered the prosecutorial hurdle.
That, added to the fact that this is an unfriendly New York jury that is more than likely to be biased against Trump to begin with, leaves the former president facing an uphill battle to avoid conviction.
Perhaps the only glimmer of hope in all of this is that Judge Merchan’s numerous unprecedented and unconstitutional decisions almost guarantee Trump an acquittal on appeal.
“It’ll be talked about in the history books,” Trump said during his statements outside the courtroom Wednesday. “It’s a weaponized deal for the Democrats to hit their political opponents.”
“This is all because of Joe Biden,” Trump said. “And I don’t even think it’s him. I don’t think he’s smart enough to think about it.”
“But it’s the people that surround him in the office,” he added. “They’re smart. They’re facists, they’re communists, but they’re smart, and they’re ruining our country.”
Trump is right. History will record this as a time when the fairest justice system in the world turned into a kangaroo court to rig the election for a puppet ruler being controlled by devious and ruthless handlers.
“This Is Insanity”: Judge In Trump Case Issues Unbelievable Jury Instructions BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2024 – 05:45 AM – Update (1345ET): Legal minds are beside themselves at how the judge in the Trump ‘hush money’ case has instructed jurors to rule – first in what constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley called “the coup de grace instruction,” Judge Juan Merchan said that there is no need to agree on what occurred – and can disagree on what the crime was among the charges.
“Merchan just delivered the coup de grace instruction,” Turley wrote on X. “He said that there is no need to agree on what occurred. They can disagree on what the crime was among the three choices. Thus, this means that they could split 4-4-4 and he will still treat them as unanimous…”
“This is absolute insanity,” posted Missouri Attorney General Andrew Baily, in response to another Turley observation – namely that the jury will not be given copies of their instructions, but can ask for them to be read again.
What could be behind this activist judge?
With closing arguments in Donald Trump’s hush money trial having ended on Tuesday, jury deliberations have officially begun, putting the outcome of the case in the hands of a dozen New Yorkers.
A jury of seven men and five women were instructed to begin deliberating just before 11:30 a.m., where they will weigh in on the first criminal trial of a former US president. While the jurors’ discussions will be in private, they can send Trump-hating Judge Juan Merchan notes asking to rehear testimony or review evidence.
“It is not my responsibility to judge the evidence here. It is yours,” said Merchan.
Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with an alleged scheme to shelve potentially embarrassing claims during the 2016 US election – similar to how the Clintons paid Paula Jones $850,000 to drop a sexual harassment lawsuit after more than four years of legal action.
According to Merchan, “Your verdict on each count you consider, whether guilty or not, must be unanimous,” adding “That is, each and every juror must agree to it.”
That said, they do not need to be unanimous on what crime they think Trump is guilty of.
“You should discuss the evidence and consult with each other, listen to each other, give each other’s views careful consideration. And when you deliberate, you should do so with a view to reaching agreement when that can be done without surrendering an individual juror,” Merchan continued.
As the Epoch Times notes further, all the evidence from trial has been loaded onto a laptop, and Juror 4 and Juror 6 volunteered to operate it for the group.
Merchan checked with defense attorney Todd Blanche about whether defense counsel explained to President Trump about evidence being on the laptop for jurors.
Mr. Blanche affirmed that defense counsel reviewed the contents of the laptop and have no objections to this protocol.
“I always watch the jurors. I watch to see who is paying attention and who is not,” said Merchan. “Justice Merchan said. “Each of you is very engaged in this case. But we’re not going to excuse [alternates].”
During closing arguments on Tuesday, Merchan criticized Blanche for telling the jury that the former president could go to prison if they convict – and reminded them that their decision would be based on the word of Michael Cohen, who Blanche described as a “liar” who “lied to” the jury.
“You cannot send somebody to prison, you cannot convict somebody based upon the words of Michael Cohen,” said Blanche – to which prosecutors jumped in and objected.
Merchan agreed, sustaining the objection.
“That was outrageous, Mr. Blanche,” he said. “Someone who’s been a prosecutor as long as you have, someone who’s been an attorney as long as you have knows that it’s highly inappropriate.”
Democrats Target Felon Votes With ‘Bidenbucks,’ Court The ‘Criminal Caucus’ By Pamela Geller
May 29, 2024 – Perfect. Their constitutionality.
Targeting Felon Votes With ‘Bidenbucks,’ Democrats Court The ‘Criminal Caucus’
It’s not about the ‘right to vote’ for the big moneyed interests behind ‘reenfranchisement’ efforts. It’s about voting for the right people.
By: M.D. Kittle, The Federalist, May 29, 2024;
E.B. Jordan spent two years in the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility on felony drug conviction charges. When she was released, long before her maximum 20-year sentence, Jordan went to work getting felons like her registered to vote.
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“I went door-to-door to stress the fact that we’re felons, that we can vote. And a lot of people didn’t even know that,” the activist for the left-wing Voting Access for All Coalition says in a video aimed at getting ex-cons to the polls. “I went through my neighborhood … to inform my neighborhood that I knew there was a lot of felons in my neighborhood and they could vote.”
“I also had a car, and the people that didn’t have a ride I would drive them up to our local voting polls to have them vote and register,” Jordan added.
The video is “brought to you” by a coalition of groups that include the clerk’s office and sheriff’s office of southeast Michigan’s Washtenaw County. Washtenaw County’s seat of government is Ann Arbor, home to the University of Michigan, a critical county in a critical swing state that will likely decide the next president of the United States.
Another coalition partner is the League of Women Voters of Michigan. Interestingly, an official from the Michigan LWV chapter told The Federalist the organization was “not familiar with the video.” Sent a link to the video, the official said the League had no comment.
“We want to ensure that persons in pre-trial situations, folks about to be released from jail and prison, and their families have the opportunity and knowledge they need to exercise their right to vote in all elections,” the video’s narrator asserts.
The ‘Criminal Caucus’
While it may sound like a noble cause, it’s not just about the “right to vote” for the big monied interests behind these “reenfranchisement” efforts. It’s about voting for the right people.
Felons cleared to vote (and some not cleared) have long been a reliable bloc of voters for Democrats. A 2019 study by Ragnar Research Partners found that in Florida, for instance, “Currently incarcerated felons are more than three times as likely to be registered Democrats … or unaffiliated … than Republicans. Ex-felons are four times as likely to be Democrats … or unaffiliated.” In the swing states expected to determine the outcome of the rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, getting felons and those facing felony charges to the polls could mean the difference between the left and the right guiding U.S. policy for the next four years.
Children ‘Piled Up and Shot’: Gruesome Details Emerge of Islamic Genocide of Black Africans in Darfur Sudan By Pamela Geller
May 29, 2024 – There is yet another islamic genocide that continues to unfold to Darfur.
Well-armed Muslims have been massacring thousands of unarmed black Africans, while at the same time driving half a million black Africans from Sudan into Chad.
Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur. No media, coverage. No protests. No rallies or rich kids tearing down statures and institutions calling for ceasefire. No, they call for intifada (Islamic revolution.)
The Masalit massacres. West Darfur is home to the Masalit people, who are Black Africans.
“There Will Be No Dar Masalit, Only Dar Islam”: Sudan’s Ethnic Divisions Destroy West Darfur
Guardian: Gruesome new testimony details one of the worst atrocities of the year-long Sudanese civil war – the large-scale massacre of civilians as they desperately tried to flee an ethnic rampage in Darfur last summer.
Witnesses describe children, still alive, being “piled up and shot” by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as they attempted to escape the regional capital of El Geneina in June last year during a bout of ethnic violence in which thousands of civilians were killed.
Together, the 221 witness statements collated by Human Rights Watch offer the latest evidence that the Arab-led RSF has orchestrated a concerted 12-month campaign of ethnic cleansing against Sudan’s non-Arab Masalit tribe in West Darfur.
The United Nations and African Union should, says HRW, urgently impose an arms embargo on Sudan and deploy a mission with a robust police force to Darfur, the sprawling region in the west of the country, to protect civilians.
A HRW report published Wednesday calls for sanctions for those ultimately responsible for widespread war crimes, including the West Darfur RSF commander Abdel Rahman Joma’a Barakallah, along with the notorious commander of the RSF, Mohamed “Hemedti” Hamdan Dagalo, and his brother Abdel Raheem.
Since fighting erupted between the RSF and Sudan’s military in April 2023, more than 8 million people have fled their homes amid a humanitarian crisis that the UN warns is one of the largest in decades.
The current flashpoint, El Fasher, is the last city held by Sudan’s military in Darfur. The city is encircled by the RSF, and diplomats fear it is on the “precipice of a large-scale massacre”.
Shocking Map Reveals Vast US Farmland Owned by Chinese Government By Jim Hᴏft
May 29, 2024 9:20 pm – A recent map has revealed the alarming trend of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) acquiring vast swaths of American farmland, raising serious national security concerns.
Foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land expanded to approximately 43.4 million acres in 2022, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
According to the USDA, Chinese investors’ ownership of U.S. agricultural land has skyrocketed from merely 13,720 acres in 2010 to an astounding 346,915 acres by 2022 out of the 43 million acres.
Chinese entities hold ownership of farmland across 29 of the 50 U.S. states.
According to the data reviewed by The Gateway Pundit, Canadian investors hold the largest share of foreign-owned agricultural and non-agricultural land in the U.S., owning 32 percent or 14.2 million acres.
Additionally, investors from four other countries—Netherlands (12 percent), Italy (6 percent), the United Kingdom (6 percent), and Germany (5 percent)—together possess another 13 million acres, accounting for 29 percent of all foreign-held land in the U.S.
The remaining 38 percent, or 17.1 million acres, are owned by various other countries. For instance, China owns 346,915 acres, representing just under 1 percent of the foreign-held acres.
Despite Chinese entities owning less than 1 percent of the foreign-held agricultural land in the U.S., the topic has garnered significant attention.
According to USDA:
Chinese primary-investor filers reported owning 346,915 acres of agricultural land as of December 31, 2022.
Two Chinese-owned companies—Brazos Highland Properties, LP and Murphy Brown LLC (Smithfield Foods)—reported 102,345 acres and 97,975 acres, respectively, and were by far the largest Chinese reporters.
Other top Chinese-owned reporters were Murphy Brown of Missouri (Smithfield Foods) (42,716 acres); Harvest Texas, LLC (29,705 acres); and Walton International Group (USA), Inc. (29,437 acres) (Report 10).
These five companies accounted for 87 percent of all reported Chinese holdings. There were no filings directly by the government of China. Chinese investments in U.S. agricultural land are spread across the country (figure 4).
The states with the largest Chinese holdings are Texas (159,640 acres); North Carolina (44,776 acres); Missouri (43,071 acres); Utah (32,447 acres); and Virginia (14,382 acres) (Report 11).
Together, these five states had 85 percent of Chinese filings associated with U.S. agricultural land. In Texas, in particular, long-term leases associated with wind energy investment predominate, while land ownership tends to be more common in other states.
Chinese entities acquiring farmland in close proximity to critical U.S. military installations have sparked growing concerns, posing potential national security risks.
Steve Bannon could soon learn when he will report to prison BRANDI BUCHMAN
May 29th, 2024, 10:14 am – Former Donald Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon — who is currently issuing a call for a purge within the Justice Department and FBI should the former president win the 2024 election — has been scheduled to appear in federal court next week where he may learn whether he will be sent to prison now that his appeal to reverse two contempt of Congress convictions has been rejected.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, set the hearing for June 6, according to a paperless notice on the docket made Tuesday.
Prosecutors asked Nichols to lift a stay of Bannon’s four-month sentence roughly two weeks ago after his appeal was rejected by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, as Law&Crime reported. The U.S. Attorney’s Office asked Nichols to detain Bannon even if he attempted to advance his appellate arguments any further — a doomed prospect, they noted, given the many failed analogous appeals by Trump adviser Peter Navarro to unwind his conviction and sentence.
Bannon argued the court lacked authority to grant the government’s request.
A remorseless Bannon was sentenced in October 2022 to four months in prison for his failure to comply with subpoenas from the now-defunct House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Investigators wished to probe Bannon’s communications with Trump in 2021, long after Bannon had left the White House. More specifically, Congress wanted to question Bannon about his podcast commentary on Jan. 5, 2021 and to probe him about two brief phone calls he had with Trump on the day of the attack on the Capitol, according to White House diary entries and phone logs obtained by Congress via the National Archives.
Bannon, on Jan. 5, 2021, said on his podcast that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow.”
He added, “I’ll tell you this: It’s not going to happen like you think it’s going to happen. It’s going to be quite extraordinarily different and all I can say is strap in.”
Blinken: Israel must come up with a post-war plan for Gaza
US Secretary of State warns that the absence of a post-war plan could trigger lawlessness, chaos and a comeback by Hamas.
May 30, 2024, 3:23 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday urged Israel to come up with a post-war plan for Gaza and warned that the absence of such a plan could trigger lawlessness, chaos and a comeback by Hamas.
Speaking at a press conference in Moldova and quoted by Reuters, Blinken said that while Israel has had real success in destroying the capacity of Hamas to repeat an attack such as the one that occurred on October 7, the Israeli government now had to ask whether further gains against Hamas would be durable without a post-war plan.
Citing the added difficulty of Hamas being closely embedded with civilians, the Secretary of State said, “And I think this underscores the imperative of having a plan for the day after because in the absence of a plan for the day after there won’t be a day after.”
“If not, Hamas will be left in charge, which is unacceptable. Or if not, we’ll have chaos, lawlessness, and a vacuum,” he warned.
Blinken also said he could not verify whether US-supplied weapons were used by Israel in the recent strike in Rafah, adding that what weapons were used and how would have to be the object of an investigation into the attack.
His comments come amid disagreements between the US and Israel over plans for the day after the war in Gaza, as well as over Israel’s operation in Rafah.
The White House recently confirmed it had paused a shipment of bombs to Israel due to US opposition to a planned Israeli attack on the Gazan city of Rafah.
The shipment which was paused was supposed to consist of 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs, a US official told The Associated Press last week.
A day later, President Joe Biden warned that he would halt shipments of American weapons to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah.
Subsequently, however, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration notified Congress that it is moving forward with more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel.
Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder told Channel 13 News last week that the US has not yet decided whether to transfer to Israel the weapons shipment that was recently delayed.
Related articles:
- Rabbis commend Blinken for commitment to sanction ICC
- Blinken Senate testimony disrupted by anti-Israel activists
- There is no alternative to military victory
- ‘We do not and will not support Israeli reoccupation of Gaza’
[Ed.: The US Foggy Bottom is no one to say what Israel must do. It’s none of your Blinkin’ business, Tony! Go tell Ukraine what to do.]
Biden admin urges UK, France not to censure Iran over growing nuclear program By Josh Christenson
Published May 28, 2024, 2:31 p.m. ET – The White House is begging Britain and France not to formally rebuke Iran over the theocracy’s growing nuclear program.
Administration officials have been pressuring the US allies and other European nations to vote against censuring Iran at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) board of governors next month, diplomats close to the discussions told the Wall Street Journal.
The US is also preparing to abstain from the IAEA vote, the diplomats added, with some suggesting censure could further destabilize Iran following the death of its president, Ebrahim Raisi, in a May 19 helicopter crash.
A State Department spokesperson told The Post that the administration has made “no decisions” about the meeting next month and “any speculation about decisions is premature.”
“We are increasing pressure on Iran through sanctions and international isolation as seen most recently in the coordinated G7 measures taken in the wake of Iran’s attack against Israel last month,” the spokesperson added. “We remain tightly coordinated with our E3 partners [France, Germany and the UK].”
Other Biden administration officials told the Journal that it was advocating for European nations to up their pressure on Iran by removing regime banks from their countries and designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terror group.
In response to earlier reports of disagreement between the US and its allies over the issue, House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said, “It is outrageous that this administration continues to undermine our allies’ efforts to hold Iran accountable for its ongoing [Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons] violations. When is this administration going to wake up?”
The Obama administration relaxed sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits being placed on Tehran’s nuclear program through a 2015 deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA).
The Iran nuclear deal was scrapped by former President Donald Trump in 2018 — and President Biden declared it “dead” in November 2022 despite efforts by his administration to revamp it.
Last month, the Biden administration extended a sanctions waiver that unlocked $10 billion in frozen funds for the Iranian regime by letting Iraq pay for electricity services.
“The Biden/Obama appeasement policy towards Iran has been an abject failure for over a decade, yet they continue to make concession after concession,” Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Post.
“As Iran inches towards a nuke, I can’t think of a more weak and dangerous response than lobbying our closest allies to ignore international efforts to hold the regime accountable.”
Under Secretary of State John Kerry, the Obama administration also blocked the FBI from arresting individuals linked to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, according to whistleblower disclosures revealed last week by Sens. Chuch Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
Some of those named in the disclosures were “known terrorists” and traveled on US soil.
Tehran is building up its supply of weapons-grade nuclear material, according to a Monday report from the IAEA, with 313.2 pounds of uranium having been enriched up to 60%.
Just 92.5 pounds of uranium enriched to that percent is enough to make a nuclear weapon in a few days, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog noted.
In February, the agency recorded a 45.4-pound increase, according to the Associated Press.
US ambassador to the IAEA Laura Holgate said in March that Iran’s “level of cooperation with the agency remains unacceptable” and said the board of governors “must be prepared to take further action should Iran’s cooperation not improve dramatically.”
Iran has claimed its nuclear program is strictly for civilian purposes, but the IAEA governors’ board issued a November 2022 resolution expressing “profound concern” for the regime having ignored safeguards, failing to cooperate with the UN watchdog and harboring nuclear material in “three undeclared locations.”
Without a change in course, US officials expect international sanctions to resume, potentially with a referral of the matter to the UN Security Council.
However, the referral would still face an uphill battle against UN Security Council member states like Russia and China, both of whom have close ties to Iran and enjoy veto power over any Security Council resolution.
FBI Admits: It’s ‘Standard Protocol’ to Set Up Political Enemies, Try to Kill Them by Liz Harrington
May 22, 2024 War Room – In a rare moment of candor, the FBI admitted it is “standard protocol” to entrap their opponents and try to kill them in unannounced raids.
“The FBI followed standard protocol in this search as we do for all search warrants,” the brown shirts said, regarding news that they were prepared to use deadly force in their illegal raid on Mar-a-Lago.
You’d be forgiven for not knowing they always have a combat medic at the scene when they send the Gestapo out to seize papers, except, of course, if they’re kept in an unlocked garage behind a corvette. Then they don’t send anybody at all.
Likewise, it’s standard operating procedure to fake evidence and photograph it for pure propaganda purposes.
Relax. Pre-dawn raids on nonviolent, innocent political foes (and their lawyers) are totally normal in the Trump era. It happens all the time. You can even watch live on CNN. Trade advisors are put in leg irons at the airport, and thrown in prison. Members of Congress have their phones seized. The My Pillow CEO is boxed in at a Hardee’s drive-thru for questioning an election.
And don’t worry. Deadly force is to be used “only when necessary.” In case you’re wondering, the DOJ deems it “necessary” to surveill a 300-pound 75-year-old man, who uses a cane, for months and send dozens of armored agents to break down his door, drive through his window, shoot him, and drag him out to bleed out on the sidewalk for mouthing off on social media and criticizing the Biden regime.
It was also “necessary” for the feds to accost a Black Trump supporter while he was carrying his 2-year-old daughter home from a swimming lesson. Naturally, the agents were from the Washington Field Office.
“There was no departure from the norm in this matter,” the feds said, of a raid into the home of a president of the United States. Yep, this is the norm in the U.S.(S.)A.
It was all “by the book,” just like it always is when they try to frame President Donald J. Trump. It’s what they do. Falsely accuse your political opponent of a non-crime, leak the lies to the media, ruin their political career, and by the time the dust settles and they’re overturned unanimously at the Supreme Court, everyone has moved on to the next target. But it never works with President Trump. He doesn’t quit. He loves the People, and they love him. No one believes them anymore, so they have to resort to other measures.
Naturally they would try to dress up their third world assassination attempt in legalese and suits — or in this case, plain clothes.
But dressing it up doesn’t change the fact that America is now a third world nation. They may bring their thuggery into courtrooms, with compromised, corrupt judges at the helm, but it’s the same old story. They steal elections, and then crack down on anyone who would dissent. They come only to steal and kill and destroy.
The bottom line is this: Legitimate regimes claiming to have received the most votes in history don’t need to send armed feds to raid the home of their political opponents, especially the home of a former president who beat them twice and is getting ready to beat them for a third time. They don’t need to bring in troops and lock down the Capitol for their inauguration, either.
They’re illegitimate. They know it, and we know it. When will Republicans finally do something about it?
Massive 73% Majority of Voters Say America is ‘Out of Control’ Under Biden Admin By Cassandra Macdonald
May 29, 2024 6:20 pm – A massive 73 percent majority of voters believe America is “out of control” and on the “wrong track” under the Biden administration.
The Hart Research/Public Opinion Strategies/NBC News survey released on Wednesday found that the percentage of Americans calling the nation “out of control” was the highest on record under any president since the poll began.
Breitbart News reports:
Seventy-three percent of voters believe Biden’s America is “out of control, on wrong track,” topping the record high that George W. Bush set in 2008 — 70 percent. Barack Obama set the third-highest rating at 65 percent.
The poll noted several additional findings. It reported that Trump leads Biden in six of the six swing states, including Wisconsin, a state where other polls showed Biden leading Trump.
The survey also reported that non-white voters are trending away from Democrats, while the Republican Party is surging among the demographic. In four years, non-white voters shifted about 40 points in favor of Republicans.
Bill McInturff, a veteran Republican pollster, also noted that the survey found more voters identifying as Republicans.
“This is the under recognized game changer for 2024,” McInturff wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Republicans competing on a level playing field.”
The Washington Post reports, “The data that McInturff was citing comes from surveys for NBC News that his firm, Public Opinion Strategies, has done jointly with the Democratic firm Hart Research Associates for many years. The slide he posted showed that, among registered voters, 41 percent now identify as Republicans, 40 percent as Democrats. In 2016, Democrats had an advantage of seven percentage points.”
“The lines have crossed for the very first time in a long time, and that’s a very big deal,” the pollster told the Post. “It’s not that Republicans are always going up, it’s that the Democrats are dropping [in party identification].”
House COVID panel requests access to Fauci’s personal email and cellphone ahead of testimony By Misty Severi
Wenstrup said there is new evidence that suggests Fauci used his personal email and cellphone for government communication.
May 29, 2024 6:59pm – House COVID-19 Committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup on Wednesday requested access to former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Anthony Fauci’s cellphone and personal email records.
The request comes ahead of Fauci’s planned testimony next week, in front of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Wenstrup said there is new evidence that suggests Fauci used his personal email and cellphone for government communication.
The request comes after Fauci’s Senior Advisor Dr. David Morens emailed former EcoHealth President Dr. Peter Daszak and stated that he could send messages to Fauci privately to dodge Freedom of Information Act requests.
“I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work,” Morens wrote in the email, dated 2021. “He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”
House COVID-19 Committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup on Wednesday requested access to former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Anthony Fauci’s cellphone and personal email records.
The request comes ahead of Fauci’s planned testimony next week, in front of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Wenstrup said there is new evidence that suggests Fauci used his personal email and cellphone for government communication.
The request comes after Fauci’s Senior Advisor Dr. David Morens emailed former EcoHealth President Dr. Peter Daszak and stated that he could send messages to Fauci privately to dodge Freedom of Information Act requests.
“I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work,” Morens wrote in the email, dated 2021. “He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”
Wenstrup said the new information was concerning, and has prompted an investigation into a “secret back channel” Morens also alluded to in a separate email.
“This new evidence raises additional, serious concerns about public health officials purposefully concealing information and behaving as if they are unaccountable to the American people they serve,” Wenstrup wrote in a press release.
PLANNING THE STEAL: ACLU Sues Pennyslvania to Force Counties to Count Fraudulent Mail-In Ballots By Ben Kew
May 29, 2024 10:30 am – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the state of Pennsylvania in an effort to try and force counties to count votes with errors that would otherwise be invalidated.
PHL17 reports that the lawsuit is seeking to challenge a provision in the law that states that voters must write the correct date on the envelope of their mail-in ballot.
According to ACLU attorney Steve Loney, ensuring the correct date is written on the ballot “means nothing” and should be discounted.
“When something buts up against the Constitution, the Constitution wins,” said ACLU attorney Steve Loney. “So here we have a requirement that people have to sign and date. And include a handwritten date that means nothing.”
“Right, everybody agrees that we’re talking about tens of thousands of ballots that were received on time. They complied with every other step in the process. And this one step means nothing.”
Around 8,000 mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania from the 2022 midterm elections were rejected for errors with dates and signatures.
The lawsuit comes after the U.S. Third US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that mail-in ballots without the correct date cannot be counted towards the final vote tally.
As long reported by The Gateway Pundit, mail-in ballots are the primary method that the Democratic Party uses to manipulate, rig, and ultimately steal elections from Republican opposition.
The COVID-19 pandemic provided a perfect cover for the widespread use of mail-in ballots, which ultimately allowed Joe Biden to steal the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump.
Another federal lawsuit challenging the written date requirement for mail-in ballots remains ongoing.
ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu: Unlikely and Unenforceable By Antonio Graceffo
May 29, 2024 4:20 pm – The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister and Minister of Defense. However, the warrants have not yet been granted, nor has authorization for an investigation, and the ICC has no police force to enforce the warrants if they are issued.
ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan has applied for arrest warrants for five individuals connected with the Israel-Hamas War. Three from Hamas: Yahya Sinwar (Head of Hamas in Gaza), Mohammed Deif (Commander-in-Chief of the Al-Qassam Brigades), and Ismail Haniyeh (Head of Hamas Political Bureau) for war crimes committed in Israel and Palestine from October 7, 2023.
The other two alleged perpetrators are Israeli officials: Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav Gallant, the Minister of Defense of Israel, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza from at least October 8, 2023.
Israel’s specific actions condemned by the ICC prosecutor include closing border crossings, blocking aid supplies such as food and medicine, cutting off cross-border water and electricity to Gaza, and attacking and killing aid workers. Israel states that the aid workers were killed accidentally in the normal context of war.
They justify the other allegations by citing the need to prevent terrorists from entering Israel and to stop weapons and ammunition from getting into Gaza. These measures pertain to Israel’s sovereign borders, and a country has the right to enforce its border policy. Ironically, Egypt is not being charged despite also closing its borders, hindering refugee exits, and preventing aid shipments from entering.
The official statement of the ICC acknowledges that Israel took these actions to (i) eliminate Hamas, (ii) secure the return of hostages abducted by Hamas, and (iii) collectively punish the civilian population of Gaza, whom they perceived as a threat to Israel.
It is questionable whether the third point is true. As for eliminating Hamas and recovering the hostages, the ICC did not offer an alternative solution for how Israel should achieve these goals through acceptable means.
Those in favor of the ICC warrants against Israel point out that the ICC has also issued warrants for nefarious characters like Vladimir Putin and various other dictators and despots.
The rogues’ gallery of high-level offenders who have had ICC warrants enforced on them includes Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi, his son, and brother-in-law for crimes against humanity; Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s finance minister and a deputy prime minister; former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak; former Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt for genocide; former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo for crimes against humanity; and Kosovar President Hashim Thaci for war crimes. Supporters of the ICC warrants argue that if Israel’s allies flout these charges against Israel, it undermines the court’s authority to take action against other violators.
Before issuing an arrest warrant, the ICC must undergo several steps, including a preliminary examination, authorization of an investigation, gathering of evidence, and a review by a Pre-Trial Chamber. An investigation must be conducted to establish sufficient grounds for the warrant.
If Israel refuses to cooperate with an ICC investigation, the ICC can still proceed by relying on evidence gathered from other sources, such as non-governmental organizations, international agencies, or states willing to assist.
Moreover, the UN Security Council has the authority to refer situations to the ICC, even if the country involved is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC and defines its functions, jurisdiction, and structure. However, this referral requires a resolution supported by the majority of Security Council members, which can be difficult to achieve due to geopolitical considerations.
If sufficient grounds are found to issue the warrant, the ICC lacks a police force to enforce it, relying instead on member states to carry out arrests. Only countries that are signatories to the Rome Statute are obligated to enforce these warrants. Israel is not a signatory, which complicates the situation. The State of Palestine, while not a signatory in the traditional sense, has acceded to the Rome Statute.
In contrast, the US, China, India, Russia, and almost all Arab states are not parties to the Rome Statute. This means that unless the individuals in question travel to a signatory country willing to enforce the warrants, the likelihood of their arrest remains low. While signatory countries would be obligated to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister if he visited, no country would invade Israel to make the arrest.
Although the U.S. is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, it holds considerable influence over many ICC member states. The U.S. can leverage diplomatic pressure to discourage countries from cooperating with the ICC in specific cases.
Additionally, the U.S. has passed laws, such as the American Service-Members’ Protection Act (ASPA), which includes provisions to protect U.S. nationals and allies from the ICC’s jurisdiction. This can extend to diplomatic efforts to protect Israel.
If the countries tied to the crime are not signatories to the ICC, the court can still investigate if the United Nations Security Council refers the case, if a non-signatory state accepts the court’s jurisdiction, or if the crimes occurred on the territory of a signatory state. However, Israel is unlikely to accept the court’s jurisdiction, and neither Israel nor Palestine are traditional signatories.
Therefore, obtaining a referral from the UN Security Council would be necessary, but this is unlikely given that three of the five permanent members (the US, China, and Russia) are not signatories and would likely object. Even if Russia and China perceived that they could gain some benefit by agreeing to enforce the ICC investigation, the United States could still veto the resolution.
The bottom line is that the issuance of an arrest warrant is unlikely, and the enforcement even less so.
BREAKING: Stalinist Judge Merchan Directs Jury to Choose Among These Three Crimes to Convict Trump – Jurors Don’t Have to Unanimously Agree! By Cristina Laila
May 29, 2024 11:20 am – President Trump was back in court on Wednesday morning in Alvin Bragg’s ‘hush money’ show trial in New York City.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023 on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The jury deliberations began on Wednesday after Judge Merchan instructed them to choose among the three predicate crimes Trump supposedly committed.
Judge Merchan is allowing the jurors to choose ONE of the three predicate crimes. Jurors do NOT have to unanimously agree on which of the three predicate crimes Trump committed.
Of course, this will make it easier to convict Trump.
Here are the three predicate crimes via Mark Levin:
The grotesque trial charade gets even worse this morning.
The Stalinist clown judge directed the jury that they can choose among three areas of crimes to convict the former president:
1. Violations of federal election law (which no one in that courtroom is familiar with, and the judge specifically prevents Brad Smith from testifying about);
2. The falsification of business records; and
3. Tax violations
Of course, the issue for all of the above is the requirement of a criminal intent.
Furthermore, the idea that jurors can pick 1 of the 3, and they don’t have to unanimously agree on which of the three, is another shocking development.
Moreover, the federal campaign violation has still not been defined.
“I’m Telling You They Are the Gestapo – They Are Organized Crime!- They’re EVIL!” – Courageous Ken Paxton Calls for Dismantling the Corrupt FBI – “They’ve Lost Their Credibility” (VIDEO) By Jim Hoft
May 29, 2024 2:00 pm – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined Steve Bannon on The War Room to discuss the Texas primary election results on Tuesday.
Paxton celebrated the victory of 24 or 25 pro-MAGA candidates in the Texas GOP primaries last night. Paxton also called on an end of the open primary in Texas after Democrats were able to win out seats for RINO candidates like controversial Texas Speaker Dade Phelan.
Ken Paxton then went on to the describe the depths of corruption in the US Department of Justice and FBI.
AG Ken Paxton: This is what happened to me three and a half years ago. Actually, I got a referral from the Travis County district attorney to investigate the FBI and Department of Justice for Corruption, for violating state and federal law. I started that process only to find that the FBI knew about it before I did. They knew about the the referral before I did, and they were already in my office threatening people and scaring the heck out of all of them. And so that’s how the whole coup in my office happened. It was over that issue because I told my staff, we are investigating them. I don’t care what they do to us. If we can’t stand up to the FBI and Department of Justice when they are committing crimes, and they are committing crimes, if I could have finished this investigation, we would have found it and we would have at least exposed it, even though we would have had to get authority to prosecute it.
I guarantee you, they don’t follow any rules anymore. They don’t follow the Constitution. It’s really hard to hold them accountable when they could turn an investigation on me My investigation to them and it went into an investigation on me, and that’s exactly what happened to me.
Medical Authoritarianism: Mayo Clinic Denies Life-Saving Lung Transplant to Mother for Refusing COVID Vaccine By Jim Hᴏft
May 29, 2024 9:00 am – In what many are calling a flagrant violation of personal freedoms and medical ethics, the Mayo Clinic has denied a life-saving lung transplant to a mother based solely on her decision to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine.
The patient, mother of renowned YouTuber Toby Turner, was deemed ineligible for the procedure due to her lack of full vaccination against the virus, according to The Publica.
Turner, widely known as Tobuscus, took to his X account last week to expose this blatant disregard for medical freedom.
“The Mayo Clinic rejected mom’s lung transplant due to lack of a full COVID ‘vaccination,’” he wrote. “Mayo with a side of…. Murder?!?!!”
According to a letter from Dr. Cassie Kennedy of the Mayo Clinic’s William J. von Liebig Center in Rochester, Minnesota, adherence to a full vaccination regimen is mandated for all prospective lung transplant recipients.
The clinic justified this policy by citing guidance from the American Society of Transplantation and the CDC.
The letter read, “Based on guidance from the American Society of Transplantation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we require all lung transplant patients receive full vaccination against COVID-19.”
“At this current time, you indicated that you have not received a COVID-19 vaccination. If you want to be considered for a lung evaluation, you will first need to obtain this vaccination and provide proof that it has been obtained.”
HUGE! Email Discussion Marked “CONFIDENTIAL” Shows Discussion About MI Electors With Trump Impeachment Lawyers and Office of Attorney Norm Eisen, Who Attended Law School With Barack Obama, Architect of Lawfare Cases Against Trump By Patty Mcmurray
May 28, 2024 1:15 pm – On November 12, 2020, only nine days after the hotly contested presidential election, a chain of emails shared with the Gateway Pundit by independent investigator Yehuda Miller showed communications between the unashamed lawfare queen of Michigan, Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel, her then-deputy chief Christina Grossi, two top Trump impeachment lawyers and Senior Counsel for Massachusetts AG Samantha Shusterman.
Why?
According to Newsweek– Berke previously served as special counsel during Trump’s first impeachment. For Trump’s historic second impeachment trial, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Lead Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said that Berke had once again been “retained on a consulting basis” to represent House Democrats.
Notably, he has also represented Deutsche Bank, the financial institution that has reportedly moved to cut ties with Trump after decades of business and billions of dollars in loans to the outgoing president.
Hamas Responsible for Suffering in Gaza By Antonio Graceffo
… “Additionally, the entire situation could have been avoided if they had not attacked Israel in the first place.”
May 28, 2024 6:40 pm – Hamas is calling for a cease-fire. However, they already had a ceasefire on October 6th, but they violated it.
In 2005, Israel withdrew its troops from Gaza as part of a unilateral disengagement plan, which included the evacuation of all Israeli settlers and the dismantling of military bases. Gaza subsequently became a stronghold for Hamas, an Islamist militant group that originated from the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1980s. Hamas, which has not held elections since 2006, took full control of Gaza in 2007 following a violent conflict with the Palestinian Authority. Since then, Hamas has utilized Gaza as a base to launch attacks against Israel, including rocket fire and other militant activities. The international community has condemned Hamas for its numerous suicide bombings, rocket attacks, and other acts of violence targeting Israeli civilians. Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by several countries, including the United States, the European Union, and Israel.
Hamas commits acts of repression and other human rights violations against the people of Gaza. According to Amnesty International, “Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip repressed the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly. Torture and other ill-treatment were reported in Palestinian detention centers. Members of Palestinian armed groups summarily killed several suspected ‘collaborators’. In Gaza, death sentences were passed, and executions were carried out.”
In 1988, Hamas published its official Covenant, which explicitly called for the elimination of Israel and the killing of all Jews. In 2017, Hamas released an updated version, the Document of General Principles and Policies, which removed the specific language about killing Jews but still did not recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli state, referring to it as “a racist, anti-human and colonial Zionist project.” The document states, “The Islamic Resistance Movement ‘Hamas’ is a Palestinian Islamic national liberation and resistance movement. Its goal is to liberate Palestine and confront the Zionist project.” It defines Palestine as the land “from the River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean in the west and from Ras Al-Naqurah in the north to Umm Al-Rashrash in the south.” This definition encompasses the entire territory of the State of Israel, implying the complete elimination of Israel as it currently exists.
Given the ongoing threat that Hamas poses to the state of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asserted that Israel will never be safe unless Hamas is completely annihilated. To this end, he has launched one of the most intense military campaigns since the beginning of the Ukraine War. Israel provided warnings for civilians and non-combatants to leave Gaza. However, their exit is being impeded by neighboring countries. The Rafah crossing, the only border crossing between Gaza and Egypt not controlled by Israel, has frequently been closed or heavily restricted by the Egyptian government. This has severely limited the ability of Gaza residents to flee to Egypt during periods of conflict. To exacerbate the situation, Egypt is also blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza through Rafah, further contributing to the humanitarian crisis.
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) has faced accusations of targeting civilians, with women and children comprising more than half of the casualties. However, given that women and children make up about two-thirds of Gaza’s population, they are more likely to be collateral damage when Hamas is targeted. Additionally, women and children have been involved with Hamas, sometimes as human shields or suicide bombers. The term “children” includes those under 18, and Hamas has used minors in combat roles for harassment by throwing stones at IDF soldiers or using kites for espionage and dropping incendiaries.
Israel has also been criticized for restricting aid shipments to Gaza. The rationale behind this includes the fact that Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups have used aid shipments to smuggle weapons, ammunition, and military equipment. As the governing authority in Gaza, Hamas handles the acceptance and distribution of aid, increasing the likelihood that it will support terrorist activities rather than aid civilians.
There are claims that at least 260 humanitarian aid workers have been killed in the conflict, but this does not demonstrate that Israel is intentionally targeting aid workers. War zones are inherently dangerous, and although aid workers, press, and other noncombatants are not intended targets, they face significant risks by virtue of their roles. Most are aware of these dangers and accept the associated risks. A specific issue with this conflict is that Hamas terrorists have either worked as or posed as humanitarian aid workers. This has led to the suspension of U.S. funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) when it was discovered that several of its employees were involved in the October 7th attack on Israel.
Hamas could alleviate civilian suffering by refraining from using them as shields. They could also release the Israeli hostages and surrender, which would end the current military campaign. Additionally, the entire situation could have been avoided if they had not attacked Israel in the first place. [Emphasis added]
Chase Bank Building Explodes in Downtown Youngstown, Ohio — One Missing, Six Hospitalized (VIDEO) By Jim Hᴏft
May 28, 2024 6:00 pm – A massive explosion ripped through the heart of downtown Youngstown on Tuesday afternoon, injuring six people and leaving one missing.
Initial reports suggest a gas leak may be to blame for the devastating incident. Witnesses described hearing a loud boom followed by thick smoke billowing from the Chase Bank building, located on the ground floor of the Realty Building.
Eyewitnesses, including Debora Flora, executive director of Mahoning County Land Bank, described the scene with harrowing clarity.
“I heard the boom, and I could see dark smoke coming out of the side of the Chase Bank building… but it was such a really strong, strong boom,” Flora told WKBN.
Security camera footage from a neighboring business captured the terrifying moment the explosion ripped through the structure, shattering windows and sending debris flying.
WATCH A massive explosion ripped through the heart of downtown Youngstown on Tuesday afternoon, injuring six people and leaving one missing.
Initial reports suggest a gas leak may be to blame for the devastating incident. Witnesses described hearing a loud boom followed by thick smoke billowing from the Chase Bank building, located on the ground floor of the Realty Building.
Eyewitnesses, including Debora Flora, executive director of Mahoning County Land Bank, described the scene with harrowing clarity.
“I heard the boom, and I could see dark smoke coming out of the side of the Chase Bank building… but it was such a really strong, strong boom,” Flora told WKBN.
Security camera footage from a neighboring business captured the terrifying moment the explosion ripped through the structure, shattering windows and sending debris flying.
WFMJ reported:
Libertarian Party Chair Appears to Insinuate Support for Trump as Party Faces Backlash Over Nomination of a Radical Leftist By Jim Hᴏft
May 28, 2024 4:00 pm – The Libertarian Party is facing internal conflict and public scrutiny after the recent selection of a controversial nominee for the upcoming election, with tensions escalating as the Party Chair appears to be insinuating support for Trump.
The Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, Chase Oliver, is a far-left radical whose views are completely out of step with the party’s principles.
Oliver, a former Democrat who once supported Barack Obama, has called for an end to the “U.S. war machine” and the “genocide in Gaza.” He also supports the Marxist terror group Black Lives Matter, drag queen story hours, open borders, and Big Tech censorship.
Critics have lambasted Oliver as being too progressive for the Libertarian ticket, pointing to his past support for movements and policies such as Black Lives Matter, drag queen story hours, and stringent Big Tech censorship.
Furthermore, his endorsement of controversial policies like open borders and mandatory vaccinations and masks solidifies his stance far from traditional libertarian values.
Oliver’s nomination has caused a major backlash within the Libertarian Party, with many members threatening to vote for Donald Trump instead.
Caryn Anne Harlos, the National Secretary for the Libertarian Party, has taken a hard stance against party members threatening to defect to Trump.
“If you are now alleging voting for Trump because you don’t like Oliver, you were not in the Party for thick and thin. And that’s fine but that’s not how third party movements survive. I am sticking around to carry on our legacy. I’m a Party person and never ever hid that. I remain so,” Harlos said.
However, the most dramatic development comes from Angela McArdle, the Libertarian Party Chair, who appears to be opening the door for an alignment with former President Donald Trump amidst the growing internal backlash.
In a recent statement, McArdle hinted at possible strategic collaborations with Trump.
“Everyone is understandably flipping out right now. I will have more to say this weekend,” said McArdle.
“For now, I will say that I delivered an incredible convention, with the help of my amazing staff and volunteers. All of my critics were WRONG. I made the right call to invite Donald Trump and if libertarians can behave themselves, he will free Ross Ulbricht and put one of us in his cabinet. Ball’s in your court, libertarians. We are getting in that administration,” she said.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump delivered a fiery speech that courted the Libertarian audience.
Despite his efforts to unify, not all attendees were swayed by Trump’s presence or proposals. A vocal segment of the crowd expressed their disapproval through boos and unruly behavior.
The president has had enough and said what needed to be said to the Libertarian Party.
“The Libertarian Party should nominate Trump for the President of the United States,” Trump announced, adding, “Only if you want to win. Maybe you don’t want to win,” he said. “Keep getting your 3% every four years.” [Emphasis added]
Another National Embarrassment: Joe Biden’s $320 Million Floating Gaza Pier Just Broke Off and Is Now Sinking [VIDEO of Israelis laughing] By Jim Hoft
May 28, 2024 11:15 am – With all of the foreign policy disasters under Joe Biden’s watch you have to ask yourself if this is all on purpose? Is the Biden regime intentionally trying to make the United States look feckless, inept and weak?
Joe Biden’s floating Gaza pier broke loose this weekend and is now sinking.
The Palestinians in the video are heard laughing as Biden’s pier sinks.
[Ed.: Another $320 million down the toilet. For nothing!]
Donald Trump Says He Will Give ‘Serious Consideration’ to Pardoning Julian Assange By Ben Kew
May 28, 2024 10:15 am – Donald Trump has said he will give “very serious consideration” to the idea of pardoning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Trump made the comments during an interview with podcaster Tim Pool before his speech at the Libertarian National Convention.
“Well, I’m going to talk about that today, and we’re going to give it very serious consideration,” Trump said.
Assange is currently fighting extradition to the US, where he faces espionage charges carrying a maximum 175-year sentence for obtaining and publishing classified information on his organization, WikiLeaks.
Trump’s comments were welcomed by Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, who told The Sydney Morning Herald: “I think we are reaching a critical point in the fight to free Julian. All presidential candidates have made statements on Julian’s freedom in the past two months.”
“It’s time this scandalous prosecution is brought to an end and, with the help of the Australian government, Julian is brought home to be with his family,” he added.
Back in 2021, Trump told conservative commentator Candace Owens that he came “very close” to pardoning Assange at the end of his last administration.
“You have two sides of it: In one case, you have sort of a spy deal going on, and then another case, you have somebody that’s exposing real corruption,” he said at the time.”I won’t say which one, but I feel a little bit more strongly about one than the other….but I could have done it.”
REPORT: Secret Service Has Met With Local Jail Officials to Discuss Preparations for President Trump to Go Behind Bars By Cullen Linebarger
May. 28, 2024 12:30 pm – A possibly disturbing development has unfolded, leading many to believe the fix is already in for a Trump conviction or imprisonment.
As Gateway Pundit readers know, corrupt judge Juan Merchan has kept President Trump sidelined for a large chunk of the 2024 Presidential campaign while violating his First Amendment rights.
Trump has been charged with 34 felony “falsification of business records.” He was penalized for every payment he allegedly made to his former lawyer and pathological liar, Michael Cohen, regarding Cohen paying off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
The prosecution has not proven Trump committed any of these crimes or even had an affair; he will likely be found guilty anyway, given the rigged jury.
Now, we learn that Secret Service officials have met with jailhouse officials to prepare for President Trump to go to prison. [Emphasis added]
What is possibly even more alarming is that corrections officers will be responsible for protecting agents assigned to Trump. Recall what that Jeffrey Epstein died under suspicious circumstances after guards were assigned to watch and stop him from getting killed.
This means that Trump being thrown behind bars will put his life at stake, a fever dream for Democrats and Never-Trumpers.
From CBS News:
It’s a possibility that officials in state and federal agencies have begun preparing for, according to a New York corrections source, who said the Secret Service has met with local jail officials. As a former president, Trump is entitled to Secret Service protection for the rest of his life, wherever he happens to be. Behind bars, corrections officers would in turn be responsible for protecting those agents assigned to Trump.
Jim Hoft reported earlier this month that Merchan threatened Trump with prison time after $1,000 fines failed to have any impact.
“I want you to understand that I will (throw you in prison), if necessary and appropriate,” Merchan told Trump.
A Trump conviction and imprisonment would be incredibly profitable for Merchan’s daughter Loren, who has already raised $93 million off of the case. She previously worked for the Biden-Harris campaign in 2020.
Saudi Arabia removes anti-Israel material from schoolbooks
The move is “another step towards the transformation of a curriculum into an educational framework which encourages tolerance, peace and greater equality,” said IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff.
(May 28, 2024 / JNS) – Saudi Arabia has removed practically all antisemitism and anti-Israel material from its schoolbooks, in a major shift from the past and a harbinger of a better future, a study released Tuesday found.
The study, conducted by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE)—an international research organization—found a “marked reduction” in anti-Israel content in the Saudi curriculum, which no longer teaches that Zionism is a “racist” European movement, nor denies the historical Jewish presence in the region dating back 3,000 years.
In addition, according to the study, hostile references to Israel in the textbooks have been modified, while the word “Palestine” has been removed from maps of Israeli sites.
The study also noted that all remaining violent interpretations of jihad, which had been in place for years, were removed or altered in this year’s textbooks.
References to homosexuality as a “monstrous atrocity,” or claims that emulating the opposite sex is a “deviation from normality,” were removed, as well. While retaining a traditional approach to gender roles, there has been a notable improvement in the depiction of women, the study revealed.
“Saudi textbooks published for the 2023/24 school year constitute another step towards the transformation of a curriculum into an educational framework which encourages tolerance, peace and greater equality,” said IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff. “Having already removed antisemitism from the textbooks, it is particularly encouraging that Saudi curriculum designers have made further revisions which portray Israel in a more positive light. These changes bode well for the future of the region as a whole.”
[Ed.: This is a BIG DEAL! In fact, it’s HUGE! It will have long-lasting, positive effects for the world over the generations to come.]
Judge denies special prosecutor Smith’s request for gag order against Trump in classified docs case By Nicholas Ballasy
Cannon says that Smith’s request was “wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy.”
May 28, 2024 1:04pm – Federal Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday denied Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s request to impose a gag order against former President Donald Trump in his federal classified documents case.
She said that Smith’s request was “wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy.”
Cannon warned Smith that “failure to comply” with the requirements she has outlined for “non-emergency motions” could result in sanctions.
Trump is already under a gage order in another criminal trial, the ongoing one in a Manhattan courtroom in which he faces 34 counts related to allegedly trying in 2016 to falsify business documents for a hush money payment to porn start Stormy Daniels for alleged sexual encounter about 11 years earlier, to prevent the matter from interfering with his ultimately successful bid to become president.
In the classified documents case, Smith asked Cannon on Friday to limit the comments Trump could make about the law enforcement officers who searched his Mar-a-Lago resort, in search of classified documents from his presidency.
The former president faces allegations that he illegally retained national defense information, that he took part in a conspiracy to obstruct justice, and that he made false statements, according to Yahoo News.
“Holy F**K”: US Military Hid Quantico Breach Attempt By Jordanians In Box Truck In Possible Dry-Run BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, MAY 27, 2024 – 02:20 PM
Weeks ago, two individuals in a box truck attempted to breach the gates at Quantico Marine Corps Base in Triangle, Virginia. Armed guards immediately stopped them, and the base’s top brass quickly covered up the incident.
The reason for burying this incident? It’s an election year for President Biden – and this type of news is politically explosive. The suspects were two Jordanian nationals, one reportedly on the FBI’s terrorist watch list, raising suspicions that they entered illegally through the Biden administration’s open southern border, as one report says, adding this could’ve been a dry run for a potential vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attack.
Potomac Local News first reported the incident. Since then, the New York Post has exposed how the May 3 incident was potentially covered up, even for those on the base for two weeks.
Matt Strickland was the first to report the incident to the local media outlet. He told NYPost, “After I [raised the alarm], I had people who work at Quantico messaging me saying, ‘Holy f—k, when did this happen?”
He said, “Two weeks after it happened, Quantico finally put an email out to employees on base letting them know.”
“It was basically ‘F—k, guys, I guess we aren’t going to be able to keep this secret, we should try to do some CYA’ [cover your ass],” said Strickland, a former Blackwater contractor and combat incident analyst at the National Ground Intelligence Center.
Strickland said, “Every American has a right to know what happened at Quantico,” adding, “Citizens have a right to know what is going on in their backyard.”
Why is that, you ask?
Well, as the NYPost explained:
Some reports speculated the two men arrested had recently crossed the southern border into the US, and one was [said to be] on the US government’s terrorist watch list.
Strickland was told one of the people involved had a Virginia ID, while the other was a terrorist. The Post has not been able to independently verify either rumor.
Both men are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Authorities would not comment further, only saying the two will remain in ICE custody until deported.
Strickland continued:
“Who would they be keeping that information from? The reasoning would be so the terrorists, or whoever the Jordanians are working for, don’t know all the information. But whoever those two Jordanian men are working for already know what they planned to do and that they were apprehended.
“The only people who don’t know what happened are the American people.”
This is why Strickland believes the incident was abruptly covered up:
“The secrecy is purposeful because it was illegal immigrants, one of who was on the terror watch list, who breached the gates.
“And they’re allowing these illegal immigrants to come across the border.”
The NYPost’s Editorial Board asks…
Pentagon Admits None of the Aid From the $320 Million US Built Pier in Gaza Actually Got to Gazans By Pamela Geller
May 27, 2024 – Biden built a pier for Hamas. And put American soldiers in the crossfire of the world’s most brutal terrorists.
RINO GOP Urges Trump to Consider Running Mate with Never-Trumper Appeal — Maybe Even Haley By Geller Report Staff
May 27, 2024 – Absolutely not. The Neocon and globalist Nikki Haley is universally despised by President Trump’s voters. President Trump should select a VP candidate who expands his coalition, and not one who alienates his voters as Haley would. There are much better options for the VP pick such as Byron Donalds (my pick), Governor DeSantis…..
Yesterday’s men with yesterday’s impotent, or worse, subversive (think Pence) ideas.
GROSS: France’s Brigitte Macron and German President’s Wife Laugh During State Visit to Holocaust Memorial By Paul Serran
May 27, 2024 8:40 pm – Apparently, the state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron and his older wife Brigitte to Germany is going as ‘well’ as you would expect.
During a visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin – no less – German press highlighted ‘moving words from French President Emmanuel Macron – and an irritating gesture from his wife’.
Bild reported:
“On the second day of his state visit to Germany, Macron (46) and his wife Brigitte (71) laid a wreath at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, walked through the field of stelae and were guided through the museum beneath the memorial site. At his side: Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (68) and his wife Elke Büdenbender (62).
There was a brief, irritating moment on the sidelines: After visiting the museum, Brigitte Macron and Elke Büdenbender were photographed laughing in the field of steles. The gesture also caused confusion abroad: ‘France’s First Lady (…) laughs at a joke together with the wife of the German President (…) at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin’, wrote the British Daily Mail.
What made the two First Ladies laugh in this situation? It’s unclear.”
[Ed.: “Hee-haw!!”]
Islamic Leader Declares Muslim Domination of U.S. Politics Imminent — Vows to ‘Rule’ America from Congress to White House By Jim Hᴏft
May 27, 2024 10:00 pm – Osama Siblani, a prominent Arab-American community leader and publisher, announced that Muslims are poised to take control of key political positions across the United States, including the Congress and the White House.
During his speech earlier this month at a dinner honoring former Lebanese security chief Abbas Ibrahim, who has known for ties with Hezbollah, Siblani said, “We have the best we can offer to the United States of America – not only in Michigan but across the country – and we [have] offered our best… The best is yet to come. I can be very confident to tell you that we are on the road to the White House, to Congress, to decision-making everywhere in the United States,” he said.
According to Memri TV, Siblani’s remarks referenced a historical grievance dating back 40 years when a local mayor allegedly spoke of an “Arab problem” in Dearborn. He contrasted that with today’s reality where, according to him, “The Arabs are ruling Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, and Hamtramck.”
“So, brothers and sisters, we are on the road. I am saying this because yesterday when we welcomed our brother and leader, [fmr. Lebanese security chief] Abbas Ibrahim, at the airport, he has seen and witnessed the kind of power and connections that we have,” Siblani said.
The enemy is within. Last month on Al-Quds Day, the last day of Ramadan, Muslim protesters chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” in Dearborn, Michigan.
Radical Muslim activist Tarek Bazzi spoke to Muslims in Dearborn.
Tarek Bazzi: We’ve been asked in the past, why are our protests on the international Day of Quds, why are they so anti-American? Why don’t we just focus more on Israel and not talk so much about America?
Gaza has shown the entire world why these protests are so anti-American. Because it’s the United States government that provides the funds for all of the atrocities that we just heard about.
This is why Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Day of Quds, this is why he would say to pour all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America!
Dearborn Muslims: “Death to America! Death to America! Death to America!”
Tarek Bazzi: “Malcolm X said, and I quote, We live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this Earth! It’s not Genocide Joe that has to go. It’s the entire system that has to go. Any system that would allow such atrocities and such devilry to happen and would support it, such a system does not deserve to exist on God’s earth. And so when these fools ask us if Israel has the right to exist, the chant, “Death to Israel!” is the most logical chant that is shouted across the world today.
Muslim crowd: “Death to Israel! Death to Israel!…”
Muslim Cleric: Iman Khomeini recognized that Israel is an evil settler, colonial project. He realized it is a cancer, and he established this day, Israel, before this, brothers and sisters, was a sacred cow. Nobody could criticize Israel. Everybody was terrified of being anti-Semitic. Everybody was afraid of them. But now, the people of conscience, very openly, will criticize Israel. They recognize Israel for what it is. Israel is ISIS. Israel, they are Nazis. They are fascists. They are racist. The people of the world now know this.
Muslim crowd: “Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine!… From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free…”
[Ed.: Feeling ‘Islamophobic’ yet?]
Biden’s FBI Justified Its Deadly Force Policy in Mar-a-Lago Raid Because of “Life Threatening” Kitchen Utensils, Resort Gym Equipment By Cristina Laila
May 27, 2024 7:20 pm – Judge Aileen Cannon last Tuesday unsealed numerous motions related to Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Trump.
One filing revealed Biden’s FBI authorized the use of deadly force during their raid on Mar-a-Lago authorized by US Attorney General Merrick Garland in August 2022.
Armed FBI agents were prepared to confront Trump!!
“Should FPOTUS [Trump] arrive at MAL [Mar-a-Lago], FBI MM EM and OSCs will be prepared to engage with FPOTUS and USSS Security Team,” the document read. “Should USSS provide resistance or interfere with FBI timeline or accesses, FBI MM EM will engage with [redacted] and [redacted] will engage with USSS POC’s per existing liaison relationships.”
“Law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force only when necessary, that is, when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person,” the document read.
In an appalling statement released Tuesday evening, the FBI claimed the authorization of deadly force on former President Trump is just “standard protocol.”
The stenographers in the media also came out in defense of the deadly force policy and claimed it was just standard operating procedure.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland claimed the same deadly force policy was in effect when the FBI searched Biden’s Delaware homes. Of course, Merrick Garland did not offer any documents to back up his claims.
The goalposts have moved again.
Joe Biden’s FBI justified its authorization of the use of deadly force during their Mar-a-Lago raid because of “life-threatening” contraband in the kitchen and gym.
But wasn’t it just standard policy?
“Without no basis whatsoever, in the affidavit or otherwise, FBI agents searched the private bedrooms of the First Lady and President Trump’s youngest son. See Walter v. United States, 447 U.S. 649, 657 (1980) (“[A] warrant to search for a stolen refrigerator would not authorize the opening of desk drawers.”). The FBI’s photo log demonstrates that the agents took extensive photographs of those rooms—42 and 27, respectively—for no apparent reason. See Ex. 5 at USA01285293-300. There was no factual basis for the agents to rummage through rooms not specified in the warrant and, not surprisingly, they seized nothing from these other rooms,” according to Trump’s motion for relief relating to the Mar-a-Lago raid and unlawful piercing of attorney-client privilege.
“Nor was there any basis for the FBI to bring firearms into Mar-a-Lago. There were no threats and no risk to agents’ safety arising from their allegations relating to possession of documents at a premises already guarded by the Secret Service. But the agents appear to have done so, based on documents produced in discovery, in order to search for alleged contraband they pretended was life threatening in Mar-a-Lago’s gym and kitchen (five and four pictures, respectively),” the motion read.
JUST IN: United Plane Engine Catches Fire Just Before Takeoff at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport (VIDEO) By Cristina Laila
May 27, 2024 7:40 pm – A United Airbus A320 engine caught fire just before takeoff at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Monday.
Video taken from a passenger showed smoke coming from the wing of the plane.
“I felt the impact on my window. As I looked, the engine was on fire and smoke was coming out,” passenger Ivan Paloalto told ABC 7 Chicago.
Biden’s FBI Justified Its Deadly Force Policy in Mar-a-Lago Raid Because of “Life Threatening” Contraband in Kitchen, Gym By Cristina Laila
May 27, 2024 7:20 pm – Judge Aileen Cannon last Tuesday unsealed numerous motions related to Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Trump.
One filing revealed Biden’s FBI authorized the use of deadly force during their raid on Mar-a-Lago authorized by US Attorney General Merrick Garland in August 2022.
Armed FBI agents were prepared to confront Trump!!
“Should FPOTUS [Trump] arrive at MAL [Mar-a-Lago], FBI MM EM and OSCs will be prepared to engage with FPOTUS and USSS Security Team,” the document read. “Should USSS provide resistance or interfere with FBI timeline or accesses, FBI MM EM will engage with [redacted] and [redacted] will engage with USSS POC’s per existing liaison relationships.”
“Law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force only when necessary, that is, when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person,” the document read.
In an appalling statement released Tuesday evening, the FBI claimed the authorization of deadly force on former President Trump is just “standard protocol.”
The stenographers in the media also came out in defense of the deadly force policy and claimed it was just standard operating procedure.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland claimed the same deadly force policy was in effect when the FBI searched Biden’s Delaware homes. Of course, Merrick Garland did not offer any documents to back up his claims.
[Ed.:
Libertarian Party Nominee Oliver Chase is a Radical Leftist, Supports Black Lives Matter, Drag Queen Story Hour and Big Tech Censorship By Ben Kew
May 27, 2024 6:20 pm – Chase Oliver, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president, is a woke leftist.
Oliver, a 38-year-old openly gay former Democrat, was chosen as the party’s nominee on Sunday evening after multiple rounds of voting.
According to Politico, he is “aligned with a more traditionalist faction of the Libertarian Party, the Classical Liberal Caucus,” and “defeated a more hard-line Mises Caucus candidate by less than 1 percent in the penultimate round of voting.”
However, it has since emerged that far from being a libertarian, he is an ultra-progressive who supports the Marxist terror group Black Lives Matter, drag queen story hours, open borders, and Big Tech censorship.
Evidence of Oliver’s views circulated around the X platform, including one post in which he celebrated Donald Trump’s banning from Twitter back in January 2021 and called for the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
Memorial Day 2024: The memes of the greatest generation. D PARKER
One-panel cartoons were the ‘memes’ of the men and women fighting in WWII, they speak volumes for that generation.
MAY 27, 2024 – There are certain reference books that you like to keep around, One of these is Up Front, by Bill Mauldin, the cover features the image of Willie and Joe, the two main characters in his one-panel cartoons. They represent the infantrymen of the greatest generation, the rank-and-file foot soldier – the ‘dogfaces’ – that took the brunt of the fighting of the war and came back to raise another that now wants to erase their sacrifices. The book is a commentary and background for his drawings that showed the humorous, dark, and gritting side of that part of the war.
We call those cartoons the memes of the greatest generation because that is in essence what they are. Fulfilling the same function in a slightly different form, but well worth a look on this particular occasion.
Telegraph: Iran’s Regime on Brink of Collapse By David Israel
[E. Rowell: From Amir Tsarfati’s Telegram channel on 20/5: “Intellitimes blog reveals that Iran fitted President Raisi with a government helicopter based on a military Bell 412EP equipped with 4 rotors, depending on the size and number of passengers in this version, but on the day of the crash it was observed with only two rotors, similar to the Bell 212, indicating a change which was made in a helicopter possibly because of shortage of original parts or a poorly made upgrade. This means that the helicopter that was originally designed to carry 10 passengers using a propulsion force created by 4 rotors took off that morning, with 9 passengers, with propulsion power from only 2 rotors and in weather and wind conditions that did not match its original design.”]
26 May 2024 JEWISH PRESS – The Telegraph Defense and Foreign Affairs Editor Con Coughlin, on Sunday, reported that “The rotten Iranian regime is on the edge of collapse,” and suggested that “Instead of appeasing its leaders, the West should be helping to bring about its downfall.”
Iran’s leadership places blame for the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of President Raisi, the foreign minister, and six others not on any failings in aircraft operations or maintenance, but on the West and its sanctions, notes Coughlin. These economic restrictions, they argue, have cruelly denied Tehran the ability to procure the necessary aviation parts to properly maintain the US-made Bell 212 helicopter in which the Iranian president met his untimely demise. This deflection of responsibility reveals the warped perspective through which Iran’s rulers view such catastrophic events.
“It’s hard not to see the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last week as a reflection of the Islamic Republic’s institutional decrepitude. As is generally the case when the mullahs find themselves under pressure, their default position is to blame the West,” Coughlin writes.
And so, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s portrayal of “business as usual” rings increasingly hollow, the regime’s glaring inability to ensure even the basic security of its highest elected official lays bare the stark reality facing Iranians, rapidly solidifying the perception of a government in terminal decline.
The mullahs’ faltering grip on power is becoming more apparent with each such incident that exposes their diminishing control and competence. As this pivotal event casts further doubt on the regime’s viability, the Iranian people’s eroding confidence in their leaders’ capacity to govern effectively only intensifies.
The regime’s fundamental fragility has not escaped the notice of ordinary Iranians, who have increasingly voiced their discontent through widespread protests, argues Coughlin. Denied a legitimate avenue to register their contempt for the leadership at the ballot box, the citizens have sustained a constant wave of anti-government demonstrations, braving the wrath of Iranian security forces. The regime’s desperation to suppress this simmering unrest is palpable, as executions have soared to record levels. Protesters, bloggers, and notable dissidents face death sentences under the catchall charge of “enmity against God” – a measure of the extremes to which the authorities will go to quell dissent.
The people’s defiance, undeterred by the brutal crackdowns, underscores the depths of their disillusionment with the ruling establishment. Despite the risks, Iranians continue to take to the streets, their relentless demonstrations a resounding rejection of the regime’s legitimacy and an expression of their unwavering demand for change. As the chasm between the populace and their leaders widens, the regime’s tenuous grip on power is laid bare, fueling escalating unrest that poses an existential threat to the once-formidable revolutionary government.
Coughlin concludes: “Rather than virtue-signaling their remorse, as the UN Security Council did by observing a moment of silence in honor of one of Iran’s most notorious killers, the West should be doing its level best to highlight the fact the regime’s days are numbered.”
Louisiana House Passes Bill to Allow Law Enforcement to Arrest Illegal Immigrants By Jordan Conradson
May 27, 2024 1:40 pm – The Louisiana House of Representatives last week, by a vote of 74-23, passed State Senator Valarie Hodges’ bill that will allow police to arrest illegal aliens.
Per NOLA, “SB 388 needs one procedural approval from the Senate, which passed the proposal before the House amended it.”
“If SB 388 takes effect, violating the statute would be punishable by up to one year in prison and a $4,000 fine for a first offense, with harsher penalties for a second offense.”
The Governor is reportedly likely going to sign this bill into law.
A similar proposal was brought to the desk of Katie Hobbs earlier this year, and she vetoed the bill calling it “Anti-immigrant legislation.”
Louisiana is slated to join Texas and Iowa in putting American citizens before illegal immigrants who have no right to be in this Country.
KRVS reports,
BREAKING: North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile Towards Japan – Residents of Okinawa Told To Hide in Shelters [VIDEO] By Paul Serran
May 27, 2024 10:20 am – North Korea has reportedly fired a long range missile in direction of Japan.
The emergency J-alert system has been activated all over the country.
Residents of Japanese prefecture of Okinawa received a warning about a possible missile launch from North Korea and were instructed to take shelter inside buildings or in underground premises.
Japanese Prime-Minister Office confirms that North Korea has apparently launched a possible ballistic missile.
Japan’s NHK News on Twitter/X:
“At around 10:45 pm, a video captured by a camera shooting the skies above North Korea from the Chinese side showed a thin red light rising into the sky, and after a few tens of seconds, the light grew larger.”
Memorial Day 2024 – Today More Than Ever Americans Are Under Threat of Losing Our Freedom [VIDEOS] By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2024 7:30 am – Happy Memorial Day 2024!
Today, more than at any other time in US history, we are in jeopardy of losing our country.
We have an Democrat administration that is:
** Persecuting the leading opposition candidate and former president with numerous lawfare cases
** Jailing Christian pro-lifers who sing hymns outside an abortion clinic
** Censored opposing voices like The Gateway Pundit who were speaking the truth – we are fighting back!
** Jailing Trump supporters for years without trial in dangerous prisons
** Jailing Trump supporters for allegedly disrupting Congress while leftist radicals are allowed to disrupt Congress on a weekly basis.
America today is under threat of a Marxist takeover!
Let us always remember – in the words of Ronald Reagan – “Freedom isn’t free and America is the last stand on Earth.”
Those words are more important today than any time in recent history.
A Time for Choosing speech Oct 27, 1964
Pentagon Says Aid to Gaza Will Flow Soon From Pier
May 27, 2025 Conservative Valor – A new pier has been moored to the beach in Gaza, and the Pentagon has declared that humanitarian assistance will soon begin streaming onto the coast, reaching the people in need.
After seven months of fierce conflict between Israel and Hamas, the 2.3 million people living in Gaza are in dire need of food and other supplies. Unfortunately, according to the United Nations, fuel imports have almost halted, making it exceedingly challenging to transmit relief to Gaza.
More than two months ago, President Joe Biden authorized the $320 million pier project to aid the hungry Palestinians. Food and other supplies are unable to reach Gaza due to Israeli restrictions on border crossings and severe fighting. Aid organizations will disperse the cargo when it is placed at a port facility constructed by the Israelis, which is located immediately southwest of Gaza City. The United States and Israel have been in regular communication over the best way to ensure the safety of the ships and beach workers, as up to 500 tons of food are expected to reach the shores of Gaza in the coming days.
U.N. authorities estimate that 700,000 Palestinians have been displaced as a result of fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian terrorists near Rafah in the south and Israel’s return to combat operations in northern Gaza. Even as it was being built, a mortar fire hit the location. Hamas has warned to attack any foreign troops who “occupy” the Gaza Strip.
Australians Abandon Physical Cash and the Freedom It Protects J.D. TUCCILLE
Digital payments are easy to use, but also to monitor and block.
5.27.2024 7:00 AM – The end of cash has been heralded for years—mostly by government officials eager to end the expense of minting coins and printing banknotes while pushing transactions to digital forms that can be tracked and taxed. The transformation has met varying degrees of acceptance or resistance from people around the globe. But Australians appear to be eagerly advancing down the road towards a cash-free world.
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Disappearing Banknotes and Coins
“Cash was once a staple in the economy, but it’s fast becoming a relic of the past,” according to an April report on Australia’s financial evolution from SBSNews. “Just a decade ago, more than half of transactions were cash. Now it’s just one in seven, and it’s happened at an alarming rate.”
Various forms of digital payments now account for the lion’s share of transactions, with a growing number of merchants now refusing coins and banknotes, and ATMs disappearing around the country. That means cash is increasingly difficult to find and use even for those who prefer physical money.
The transformation was turbocharged by COVID-19, as people moved away from any sort of contact. But usage of cash was already plunging, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia, from almost 70 percent of transactions in 2007 to less than 30 percent in 2019. “Cash payments accounted for 13 per cent of the number and 8 per cent of the value of all consumer payments in 2022,” the bank finds.
While Australian consumers and central bank bureaucrats embrace the shift, there are serious downsides to an all-digital economy.
WHO Global Pandemic Treaty Fails After Two Years of Negotiation, Commie Chief Says He Will ‘Try Everything’ to Reach Fresh Agreement By Ben Kew
May 26, 2024 5:40 pm – After two years of negotiations, an effort by the World Health Organization to agree on a global pandemic treaty has failed.
The plan, which sought to agree on a framework for how countries would respond to the next pandemic, would give the WHO the power to mandate lockdowns, vaccines, and vaccine passports and other forms of authoritarian control.
The effort was led by WHO Director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, an Ethiopian politician with links to Marxist guerilla movements whose “recommendations” shaped the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
ABC reported:
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On Friday, Roland Driece, co-chair of WHO’s negotiating board for the agreement, acknowledged that countries were unable to come up with a draft. WHO had hoped a final draft treaty could be agreed on at its yearly meeting of health ministers starting Monday in Geneva. “We are not where we hoped we would be when we started this process,” he said, adding that finalizing an international agreement on how to respond to a pandemic was critical “for the sake of humanity.”
Driece said the World Health Assembly next week would take up lessons from its work and plot the way forward, urging participants to make “the right decisions to take this process forward” to one day reach a pandemic agreement “because we need it.” The draft treaty had attempted to address the gap that occurred between COVID-19 vaccines in rich and poorer countries, which WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said amounted to “a catastrophic moral failure.”
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The accord’s aim was to set guidelines for how the WHO’s 194 member countries might stop future pandemics and better share resources. But experts warned there were virtually no consequences for countries that don’t comply. The co-chairs of the treaty-drafting process didn’t specify what caused the logjam, but diplomats have said vast differences remained over sharing of information about pathogens that emerge and the sharing of technologies to fight them.
UPDATE: Chinese Nationals Breached US Military Bases and Sensitive US Sites Over 100 Times in Recent Years By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2024 12:00 pm – The US Fleet Forces Commander Admiral Daryl Caudle warned FOX News viewers that there have been an uptick in foreign nationals attempting to penetrate US military bases around the country. These attempted breaches are taking place two to three times a week now.
Journalist Lara Logan reported on attempted breaches at several US bases by Chechens, Jordanians and Chinese.
Of course, the blame for this goes back to Joe Biden and the Democrat Party’s organized plan to open the borders to millions of unknown aliens.
U.S. Fleet Forces Commander Admiral Daryl Caudle told Bill Hemmer on America Reports that attempted penetrations of U.S. military bases by foreign nationals are taking place ‘two or three times a week.’
But this appears to be a much larger problem than what is being reported.
Chinese nationals have breached US military sites and sensitive areas like Kennedy Space Center over 100 times in recent years.
The New York Post reported on this back in 2023.
Chinese nationals have snuck onto military bases and other sensitive US sites more than 100 times in recent years — sparking federal investigations into possible spying, according to a report Monday.
Alarming cases include people crossing into a United States missile range in New Mexico — and scuba divers swimming near a rocket launch site and Kennedy Space Center in Florida, officials told the Wall Street Journal.
Some have also used drones to take detailed aerial footage of sensitive military sites — while the Pentagon confirmed cases of people “speeding through security checkpoints.”
Many would-be intruders, however, claim to be confused tourists who think they have a reservation at an on-base hotel — and they often use what appears to be scripted language when confronted by security, the report said.
Trump Brings Nikki Haley Into the Fold, Announces Former Rival Will Likely Be on His Team By Jack Davis
May 26, 2024 9:20 am – A day after former rival for the Republican presidential nomination Nikki Haley said she would vote for him for president, former President Donald Trump said there would be a place for Haley on his team.
“Well, I think she’s going to be on our team because we have a lot of the same ideas, the same thoughts,” Trump said in an interview with News 12.
“I appreciated what she said,” Trump said, referring to her support for his candidacy.
“You know, we had a nasty campaign; it was pretty nasty. But she’s a very capable person, and I’m sure she’s going to be on our team in some form. Absolutely,” the former president added.
A day after former rival for the Republican presidential nomination Nikki Haley said she would vote for him for president, former President Donald Trump said there would be a place for Haley on his team.
“Well, I think she’s going to be on our team because we have a lot of the same ideas, the same thoughts,” Trump said in an interview with News 12.
“I appreciated what she said,” Trump said, referring to her support for his candidacy.
“You know, we had a nasty campaign; it was pretty nasty. But she’s a very capable person, and I’m sure she’s going to be on our team in some form. Absolutely,” the former president added.
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‘Groom These Women’: The Persecution of Christians, April 2024 by Raymond Ibrahim
May 26, 2024 at 6:00 am
- On April 26, a Muslim man named Muhammad Shehroz, led a 4-year-old Christian boy, Moosa Masih to a field where he brutally sodomized and then sought to strangle the child to death. — britishasianchristians.org, May 3, 2024, Pakistan.
- Even though it is illegal in Pakistan to marry underage girls, the authorities refused to act on the Christian family’s pleas to recover their daughter, due to a birth certificate that had obviously been forged, which claimed she was 18. A court subsequently ruled that, being of age, Ameen had willingly converted to Islam and married a Muslim man. — britishasianchristians.org, April 28, 2014, Pakistan.
- “On April 5th, members of the jirga [Pakistani conflict resolution team] forcibly arrived at my residence and coerced me to accompany them to the police station. They threatened to abduct my daughters if I dared to resist,” said the father of Kainat Pervaiz, a 16-year-old Christian girl who was abducted and raped. They coerced him to drop the case in exchange for 50,000 rupees (USD $180) and the proposed marriage of his daughter to her rapist as a form of “compensation.” — britishasianchristians.org, April 28, 2014, Pakistan.
- [A] massive riot broke out in an asylum shelter after some Muslims noticed a resident wearing a cross necklace. — medforth.biz, April 13, 2024, Germany.
The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of April 2024.
The Muslim Slaughter of Christians
Uganda: On Apr. 10, a Muslim man murdered his mother for refusing to leave the Christian faith. Two months earlier, Sulaina Nabirye, a 50-year-old widow, had put her faith in Christ. Immediately, her 31-year-old son, Arajabu Mukiibi, began to pressure her to return to Islam, according to a relative (name withheld for security reasons):
“During the month of Ramadan, she complained of her son pressuring her to stop attending church and revert back to Islam, since he was studying to become an imam at Bugembe Mosque. When she refused to convert back to Islam, he stopped visiting her at her house and threatened to chase or even kill her.”
Due to these threats, the anonymous relative began to visit the mother more often, and was present on Apr. 9, when the son visited. After pretending that he had reconciled himself to his mother’s Christian status, he said that his wife was preparing dinner for them:
“At 7 p.m. he came with food, which he gave to us, and he left. I was praying and fasting, so I did not eat the food. Shortly after eating the food, Sulaina started vomiting, and then followed diarrhea. I tried what I could, but things were worsening, I called a nearby clinic officer who came with medication. He tried to put her on drip, but all was in vain.”
Nabirye died that night, around 2 a.m. The food was discovered to be laced with methanol, a toxic chemical. “Her son did not come to help his mum,” the relative said. “He and his wife who were living close by did not show up. This made me conclude that he is the one who planned the poisoning.”
Muslims, sadly, have poisoned their Christian relatives in Uganda on many occasions over the years.
United Kingdom: On Apr. 11, Ahmed Alil, a Muslim man, stood trial for the Oct. 15, 2023 murder of a 70-year-old pensioner and the attempted murder of his housemate, Javed Nouri, a convert to Christianity. According to the prosecutor, Alil considered Nouri an “apostate” and “therefore somebody who deserved to die.” During the trial, prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford said that Alil, armed with two knives, had kicked open the door of his housemate Nouri’s bedroom while shouting “Allahu Akbar,” then lunged at him, and repeatedly stabbed him. Nouri managed to fight him off and escape Alil, still armed and irate, stormed out of the house and randomly stabbed—six times—a passerby, Terence Carney, 70, who died at the scene. Even though his violence and murder were prompted by his housemate’s apostasy to Christianity, on being arrested, Alil tried to present his behavior as a product of wanting “Palestine to be free from the Zionists.”
Nigeria: Some April headlines from the ongoing Muslim genocide of Christians in the African nation:
HERE WE GO: Navy Commander Confirms DOZENS of Penetration Operations by Foreign Nationals Reported at US Bases Over Last Few Weeks (Video) By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2024 6:15 pm – The US Fleet Forces Commander Admiral Daryl Caudle warned FOX News viewers that there have been an uptick in foreign nationals attempting to penetrate US military bases around the country. These attempted breaches are taking place two to three times a week now.
Journalist Lara Logan reported on attempted breaches at several US bases by Chechens, Jordanians and Chinese.
Biden Doesn’t Want Trump to Talk About the Raid his Regime Ordered Against Former President Trump.
May 25, 2024 – Last week, newly unsealed court documents revealed a startling directive: President Biden’s FBI, under the explicit authorization of Attorney General Merrick Garland, sanctioned the use of ‘deadly force’ during the unprecedented raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. While both Garland and the FBI hastily labeled the ‘deadly force’ language as standard protocol, this revelation, first reported by independent journalist Julie Kelly, sent shockwaves around the globe. The raid itself had already stunned the nation back in 2022, but the notion that Biden and his Attorney General could authorize such extreme measures against a former president and his family is deeply troubling. Why would the Biden administration go to such lengths, knowing the potential for violence? This question weighs heavily on the minds of many Americans, amplifying concerns about the misuse of Biden’s executive power for political ends.
While the ‘deadly force’ language might be standard boilerplate, the FBI’s need to modify the directive to account for the target being a Secret Service protectee should have highlighted the abnormality of this situation to everyone involved. Nothing about a raid against a former president is normal. [Emphasis added]
New Illinois Bill Mandates “Climate” Brainwashing in Schools By Margaret Flavin
May 25, 2024 3:00 pm – In yet another surrender to the global agenda of the far-left UN and the World Economic Forum, a new proposed bill in Illinois seeks to mandate climate change brainwashing in public schools across the state.
Illinois House Bill 4895 would require students to be taught that human activities are causing global warming and provide state-supported “solutions” to the alleged crisis.
From the bill:
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, every public school shall provide instruction on climate change, which shall include, but not be limited to, identifying the environmental and ecological impacts of climate change on individuals and communities and evaluating solutions for addressing and mitigating the impact of climate change and shall be in alignment with State learning standards, as appropriate. Provides that the State Board of Education shall, subject to appropriation, prepare and make available multi-disciplinary instructional resources and professional learning opportunities for educators that may be used to meet the requirements of the instruction. Effective July 1, 2025.
The Illinois State Board of Education will also prepare “multidisciplinary instructional resources” and “professional development” opportunities for teachers to ensure the agenda’s permeation.
While the state pushes “climate change,” Critical Race Theory, and the sexualization of children in schools, academic rigor in the state continues to slip lower and lower.
The Illinois State Board of Education’s report card is dreadful.
In 30 schools in Illinois, not a single student can read at grade level, 22 of which are in the City of Chicago.
In 53 schools, not a single student can do math at grade level, 33 of which are in Chicago.
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War Room: British Member of Parliament Reveals UK and US Soldiers Are Active in Ukraine Firing Advanced Missiles at Russia (VIDEO 23:24) By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2024 3:40 pm – British MP Andrew Bridgen recently went on the Doc Malik podcast to discuss the current developments in the Ukraine War. According to Bridgen, the US and UK have soldiers in Ukraine who are operating advanced missile delivery systems that are raining down on Russian forces.
Andrew Bridgeon: Rishi wants out. We are actually at war with Russia now. We’ve got- They just haven’t told you… We’re actually at war with Russia now. I met with Andrey Kelen, the Russian ambassador in London a couple of months ago. And he said that we know that your people are firing those Stormshadow missiles at us out of Ukraine because you couldn’t train the Ukrainians to do it. We know you’re doing it. And I mean, everything everybody Everybody knows that there are lots of US, UK, French. The French are in there.
Doc Malik: I thought it was the Brits were down on the ground and special advisors training sessions and teaching them and showing them… That’s how we started with the Vietnam War. Vietnam War, yeah. Dude, what the f*ck are we doing poking the bear? That’s really stupid.
Andrew Bridgen: They’re determined to get us into a war with Russia. And thank God, we’ve got someone in Putin who at least as a has got some brains.
Doc Malik: Now you sound like a Putin lover.
Andrew Bridgen: Well, I’m not. I’m not convinced any of them are any good. But at the end of the day, if you look at the facts, since ’91, we’ve moved NATO a thousand miles nearer to Moscow. They haven’t moved nearer to us. No, they haven’t. And if you think about what we were trying to do, the EU wanted to bring in Ukraine for whatever reason, and NATO wanted it, and they’d have put missiles on the border of Russia. Well, I mean, what did America do when the old Soviet Union tried to put missiles in Cuba, 90 miles off the Florida Coast?
Doc Malik: Yeah, exactly.
Andrew Bridgen: And if you look back, the Russians have told us for long enough, Ukraine has got to remain neutral. We’re not going to let it get… They’ve told us this for a very long time.
This news is not exactly new. Back in 2023 dozens of documents were leaked online that revealed the US and US were among several Western nations with special forces operating in Ukraine.
Our elites are already at war with Russia. It’s happening.
Ben Harnwell brought this clip on The War Room on Thursday.
San Diego #1 Illegal Border Crossing Sector! Brigitte Gabriel
Including Special Interest Nationals
MAY 25, 2024 ACT FOR AMERICA – San Diego has become the new epicenter of illegal immigration, sparking major national security concerns as it surpasses all other southern border sectors in illegal crossings. Recent entries have included individuals from high-risk countries such as Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China, with no Mexican nationals among them. These individuals often discard their legal identifications, and except for Turkey, none of these countries cooperate with the U.S. government in providing criminal background checks. Many of these migrants fly to Mexico from Turkey.
Border Patrol policy mandates that all undocumented individuals should be treated as inadmissible and immediately returned if they fail to provide a passport or legal identification. However, this protocol is being grossly neglected.
In January, 25 state governors joined Texas Governor Greg Abbott in attributing the border challenges to the Biden administration’s failure to enforce existing immigration laws and its policy of granting mass parole to migrants who entered the country illegally. This includes a record number of inadmissible aliens who intentionally dispose of their identification documents before entry.
A San Diego patriot, Cory Gautereaux, who lives minutes from the border, has taken it upon himself to collect discarded passports and identifications. He has found many documents that illegals have attempted to destroy, cut, and burn to prevent their true identity from being documented at the border, where they receive automatic parole and disappear into the interior of the country.
It is deeply disturbing that Border Patrol is not making a serious effort to collect the piles of discarded identifications to compare to the biometric data they create on each inadmissible parolee, which includes their reported name, country of origin, and reason for seeking asylum.
Private citizens in San Diego are resorting to installing their barbed wire, zip-tying wood pallets, and erecting other materials to prevent illegals from simply walking through gaps in our border barriers left open due to the cancellation of the border wall.
San Diegans have a vested interest in securing the border as the gateway for California’s illegal immigrants, who tend to stay in the state more than in any other border state. California has the highest number of illegal immigrants, with more than 3 million reportedly residing here and 10% of the labor market.
INJUSTICE: Pro-Life Grandmother Who Suffered Stroke in Prison – Sentenced to Two Years Behind Bars for Protesting Peacefully at Abortion Clinic Mike LaChance
May 24, 2024 9:20 pm – Heather Idoni, a 59 year-old grandmother and mother of 15, has just been sentenced to two years in prison for protesting at an abortion clinic.
Meanwhile, Marilyn Mosby, the corrupt former state’s attorney from Baltimore who was found guilty of perjury and mortgage fraud, is walking free with no jail time.
Under Biden, the DOJ weaponized the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a 1994 law that prohibits interfering with anyone obtaining or providing “reproductive health services,” as a punishment for the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
After the Supreme Court ruling, Biden formed the DOJ-led Reproductive Rights Task Force to enforce the act.
According to The Epoch Times, The FACE Act has now been used 130 times against pro-life individuals but only used three times against pro-abortion protesters.
Idoni was also convicted for praying and singing hymns in the hallway of a clinic in Tennessee, and she currently awaits trial for two additional FACE violations in Michigan.
Idoni recently spoke with LifeSiteNews and shared the abuses she alleges she has faced while incarcerated.
Heather Idoni, a defendant in the Washington, D.C., FACE (Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances) Act trials, told LifeSiteNews that she has been subjected to 22 days of solitary confinement. In an exclusive interview, she said that she received this punishment for sharing food with fellow prisoners. Idoni alleged that she was allowed to walk outside her cell only for two hours in the middle of the night each day and that the lights of her cell were continually kept on. Idoni has been in prison since she was convicted last autumn.
Earlier this month, the Pro-Life activist Heather Idoni suffered a stroke after her 22 days of solitary confinement in prison for sharing food with fellow prisoners.
Breitbart News reports:
Montana Parents Who Lose Custody of 14-Year-Old Daughter for Opposing Gender Transition Say Government Took Their Child to Canada Without a Warrant By Jim Hᴏft
May 25, 2024 8:00 am – Todd and Krista Kolstad of Glasgow, Montana, filed a lawsuit against the Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS), accusing it of egregious civil rights violations.
The couple asserted that their 14-year-old daughter was unlawfully removed from their custody and sent to Canada by her biological mother without due process or a warrant.
The lawsuit, filed in Billings, targets DPHHS social workers Cyndi Baillargeon and Crystal Whitmore, accusing them of seizing their daughter unlawfully—without due process or a warrant.
The couple contended that state workers violated the law by removing the child from their custody without obtaining a judge-signed warrant.
Daily Montanan reported:
Court documents filed Monday also allege that the Kolstads had been supportive of finding a hospital bed for H.K., in Montana, and believed the teen would be taken to Billings Clinic. However, they said with little notice, the state switched plans, sending H.K., to a psychiatric treatment center in Casper and then forbade contact. The Kolstads also maintain that both the in-patient Wyoming hospital and the youth group home in Billings allowed their child to be addressed by a male name, allowed male clothing and toiletries as well as provided chest binders — all things to which they objected.
Attorney Matthew Monforton, who represents the Kolstads, argues in court filings that the child was “not in any danger of serious bodily harm when CPS seized her.” Moreover, according to the doctor’s notes in the court documents, H.K. was “not an active threat” of suicide or harm when moved to Wyoming.
However, the lawsuit argued that CPS workers falsely testified in an affidavit that the teenager faced “an imminent risk of physical harm.” Monforton said that Child Protective Services was also silent about the Kolstads’ deeply held religious beliefs.
“This omission was material because, under Montana law, a finding of child neglect cannot occur ‘for the sole reason that a parent or legal guardian, because of religious beliefs, does not provide adequate health care for a child,’” the court documents said.
The Kolstads also claimed in the court filing that they were told by Child Protective Services that they would not regain custody “of their daughter unless they accepted her transgenderism.”
This legal battle comes to light following initial reports by The Gateway Pundit earlier this year, which brought national attention to the Kolstad family’s plight.
