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Apple sauce poisoned with lead targeting children from a Guatamala factory:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/applesauce-pouches-may-have-been-intentionally-contaminated-lead-fda
Satire is rises inevitably with communist suppression.
https://tuckercarlson.com/the-tucker-carlson-encounter-seth-dillon/
On Red Chinese infestation:
https://youtu.be/yQXJwV56dAE?si=iejJoel19KC4UQBt
IT WON’T BE IN THE SHADOWS ANYMORE …
The Popular Report – December 18, 2023
Canadian small business sector being gutted, and we’re not even officially in recession. As the man says, “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job. It’s a depression when you lose yours.”
https://youtu.be/leJBVAvsExs?si=3EfLv_JvnIkKY-PY
Yes, 430,000 new migrants in the last 3 months, ( vaccinated LOL) food banks stretched beyond belief, terrorists terrifying little children who want to see Santa, roads blocked by Hamas, freaks yelling “as long as there is Israel in the Middle East, there will be no peace”. Feckless freak pointing at police “I’ll put him in the ground” and no arrests.
Imagine how the patriots in Canada, the truckers, feel.
Remember when “Public Safety” Minister Marco Mendicino, called truckers thugs and rapists, suggesting “the threat of rape” justified the Emergencies Act, and NDP MP, Charlie Angus raised concerns of assault? Of course, there were never any charges, there was no threat just political players.
And then we have the Deputy PM/ chairperson of the One World government unelected madmen, Chrystia Freeland, saying YES, I am definitely running in the next election. It is up to my neighbours to decide whether I get elected. And she is fully behind Justine, he has done a very, very good job. Does anyone remember her smirking as she proudly announced what they (the government of, for and by the people) was going to do to the truckers.
Canada is so far gone under these disgraceful, collaborating clowns.
Qur’an 5:51 deceive the Infidels
8:12. kill the infidels
Remember when Barack Obama said: “ Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance”.
Imam for Youth, living and being tolerated in British Columbia, CANADA, Younus Kathrada, on December 23, 2018 : “Congratulating Christians for Christmas is worse than murder”.
And the head clown of Canada when speaking of the unvaccinated asked “Should we tolerate these people”
Shocking 250,000 small businesses are in trouble. Plandemic has certainly helped the Great Reset.
Now go back to sleep La La La La La
Great gift for Christmas, consider giving loved ones a steel collar, they are gonna need one.
Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning
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Are We Becoming Communist China?
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Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson – December 12, 2023
https://rumble.com/v40xnin-are-we-becoming-communist-china.html
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BOOM: Judge Orders Over 100 of Child Predator Jeffrey Epstein’s High Profile Associates to Be Revealed in Next 14 Days – Several Names Linked to Epstein are Emerging – Will Bill Clinton and Bill Gates Be Mentioned?
by Jim Hoft Dec. 19, 2023 10:00 am459 Comments
UPDATE: The Gateway Pundit’s legal counsel provided us with this statement on Monday’s development in the Epstein case.
On December 18, 2023, Judge Loretta Preska of the federal court for the Southern District of New York issued an order unsealing a large number of documents relating to 187 John Does. The identity of the Does, all individuals who are somehow related to the Giufre case, has been kept under seal by the court for years. For the past three years, various litigants, including The Gateway Pundit and other press have fought hard to unseal documents related to the Does. The documents are widely anticipated to shed some light on individuals spending time with Jeffery Epstein and perhaps traveling to his infamous island. While it seems like the public will now finally be able to see at least a portion of records, the public may yet be set for another frustration: Judge Preska froze her order from becoming effective for two weeks, to permit lawyers for the anonymous Does to file objections to the unsealing of the records. The case is Virginia Giufre v. Ghislaine Maxwell.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/boom-judge-orders-100-child-predator-jeffrey-epsteins/
Over 170 of Jeffrey Epstein’s high-profile associates will be NAMED in court documents set to be unsealed in the first days of 2024
Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein’s high profile associates are in for a New Year’s surprise as they will be named in court documents set to be released in the first days of 2024.
The pedophile’s powerful friends are set to be exposed as part of a vast unsealing that a judge ordered on Monday will take place in 14 days.
That will take the release day to January 1 – but as that is a holiday it is likely the files will be made public the following day.
Some 177 people will be identified across hundreds of files which will shed new light on the late financier’s sex trafficking operation and his network of influence.
Judge Loretta Preska wrote ‘unsealed in full’ next to the names of 177 Does who are Epstein’s friends, recruiters, victims and others whose names will be revealed when the material is released within the coming weeks.
The material is related to a defamation case brought by Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Roberts in New York against Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12881277/Pedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein-associates-named-unsealed-court-document.html
BOOM: Judge Orders Over 100 of Child Predator Jeffrey Epstein’s High Profile Associates to Be Revealed in Next 14 Days – Several Names Linked to Epstein are Emerging – Will Bill Clinton and Bill Gates Be Mentioned?
by Jim Hoft Dec. 19, 2023 10:00 am459 Comments
UPDATE: The Gateway Pundit’s legal counsel provided us with this statement on Monday’s development in the Epstein case.
Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein’s high profile associates are in for a New Year’s surprise as they will be named in court documents set to be released in the first days of 2024.
But The Daily Mail has already apparently identified the names of multiple individuals connected to Epstein.
read more at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/boom-judge-orders-100-child-predator-jeffrey-epsteins/
(Richard: Yeah right, the boy put in the hospital with a broken skull attacked 5 kids bigger then him and they had to cripple him to save themselves.)
UPDATE: Five Youths Identified and Charged After Savagely Beating Helpless Florida Student – Father of Arrested Youth Claims His Son is the Victim
by Cullen Linebarger Dec. 19, 2023 8:15 am590 Comments
Coral Springs, Florida – The Gateway Pundit reported last week a shocking video emerged showing a helpless teen student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) being ferociously slammed into the ground on his head and then beaten during a brawl.
The victim suffered a skull fracture and multiple other injuries resulting from the vicious assault. The beaten teen was transported to the hospital and is now recovering at home.
Now, justice appears to have arrived for the perpetrators involved, though the father of one of the suspects claims there is more to the story.
As Local 10 News reported, Coral Springs Police have now charged five Florida teenagers involved in the horrific beating. One suspect remains at large.
he teens in custody were identified as 16-year-old Sylvester Hicks, 17-year-old Jahmeer Beauziel, 17-year-old Caleb Hensley, 16-year-old Jordan Thompson, and 15-year-old Chinua Leefatt.
All alleged attackers attend MSD except for Leefatt, who attends Coral Glades High School.
The New York Post reported that officials at MSD and Coral Glades identified the alleged attackers, and police obtained arrest affidavits on Thursday.
Hicks, Leefatt, Thompson, and Hensley were in custody on Friday according to Local 10 News. Beauziel turned himself in on Monday.
Each youth was charged with felony battery.
But the father of one of the suspects dubiously claims the police have it all wrong, and there is evidence that proves his son was acting in self-defense.
Barrington Leefatt, the father of Leeffatt, told Local 10 News reporter Hatzel Vela that the victim instigated the brawl by slugging his son first.
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas School Principal Michelle Kefford sent a letter to parents last week saying she hopes to expel the youths involved in the assault.
We are also doing everything we can through district processes to ensure these students do not return to our campus.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/update-five-youths-identified-charged-after-savagely-beating/
Breaking: Hunter Biden Faces Jan. 11 Arraignment in California on 9 Federal Tax Evasion Charges
by Jim Hoft Dec. 19, 2023 7:15 am178 Comments
The Justice Department filed new criminal charges against Hunter Biden back on December 8th.
Hunter Biden was hit with a 9-count indictment filed in the Central District of California: Tax evasion, failure to file/pay taxes, and false/fraudulent tax return.
The new indictment was handed down by Special Counsel David Weiss after a sweetheart plea deal on tax charges fell apart over the summer.
On Monday, Catherine Herridge from CBS News reported that Hunter Biden will be arraigned in California on Janunary 11, on the 9 new charges.
The Justice Department filed new criminal charges against Hunter Biden back on December 8th.
Hunter Biden was hit with a 9-count indictment filed in the Central District of California: Tax evasion, failure to file/pay taxes, and false/fraudulent tax return.
The new indictment was handed down by Special Counsel David Weiss after a sweetheart plea deal on tax charges fell apart over the summer.
On Monday, Catherine Herridge from CBS News reported that Hunter Biden will be arraigned in California on Janunary 11, on the 9 new charges.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/breaking-hunter-biden-faces-jan-11-arraignment-california/
Letter From Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich Exonerates Cochise County in Felony Witch Hunt – Brnovich Advised County That Alleged Criminal Act of Hand Count Audit is Perfectly Legal
by Jordan Conradson Dec. 19, 2023 7:30 am81 Comments
Cochise County Supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd are facing felony indictments over their efforts to ensure accuracy and integrity with a full hand count of the votes before certifying the stolen 2022 election.
This is a reasonable measure, considering that likely intentional machine failures in the State’s largest county, Maricopa, caused 60% of machines to fail Republican voters who turned out to vote on election day three times more than Democrats. Since when is it illegal to provide transparency in elections?
If this doesn’t further prove that the Arizona Governor and Attorney General, who are still facing active litigation challenging their elections, are illegitimate, what does?
Likewise, Joe Biden and his cronies are doing the same thing to Trump in multiple jurisdictions trying to jail or bankrupt the leading presidential candidate before the 2024 Presidential Election partially because of his efforts to overturn the stolen 2020 election.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/letter-former-arizona-attorney-general-mark-brnovich-exonerates/
New Information About James Biden’s $200,000 Check to Joe Biden Emerges
by Cristina Laila Dec. 18, 2023 9:40 pm250 Comments
New details about James Biden’s $200,000 check to Joe Biden emerged after the trustee for Americore’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings testified to the House Oversight Committee.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) recently uncovered a $200,000 direct payment to Joe Biden after he received James and Hunter’s subpoenaed documents.
In 2018, Jim Biden received $600,000 in ‘loans’ from Americore Health LLC, a failing/bankrupt rural hospital operator. According to bankruptcy documents, Jim Biden received the loans “based upon representations that his last name Biden could open doors and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”
On March 1, 2018, Americore Health LLC wired a $200,000 payment to Jim and Sara Biden’s personal bank account. On that very same day, Jim Biden then wrote a $200,000 check to Joe Biden, AKA, “The Big Guy.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/new-information-about-james-bidens-200000-check-joe/
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BREAKING: Prominent LGBTQ+ advocate Kendall Stephens arrested in Philly after rapíng 2 boys under the age of 13
Stephens is a male who now identifies as a woman and has worked together with DA Larry Krasner and others to craft LGBTQ+ policies.
The charges against Stephens include rápe, obscenity to minors, assauIt, corruption of minors, unlawful assauIt to minors, and involuntary deviant sexauI intercourse.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1737009895449182284
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1737009895449182284
Canadian Oil Producers May Wait for Elections Before Cutting Emissions
By Tsvetana Paraskova – Dec 19, 2023, 9:30 AM CST
Several small-sized Canadian oil and gas producers prefer to wait and see if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberals will survive the 2025 election instead of investing a lot of money and cutting production now to start complying with a federal framework to slash emissions by 2030.
“Say that we would have to spend significant capital (to comply), we would have a look at, is this government going to survive and what are the chances of this legislation surviving?” Bonterra Energy’s Pat Oliver told Reuters.
Small producers such as Bonterra Energy and Yangarra Resources are telling Reuters they are waiting to see if Trudeau and the Liberals would survive the next election, as they are currently trailing in the polls to the Conservatives, who oppose the emissions cap.
Earlier this month, Canada’s federal government introduced a draft framework to cap pollution from the oil and gas sector to reduce emissions. The framework proposes to cap 2030 emissions at 35 to 38% below 2019 levels while providing compliance flexibilities to emit up to a level about 20 to 23% below 2019 levels.
The industry and the oil-producing province of Alberta slammed the emissions cap proposal, saying it would effectively cap oil and gas production.
“At a time when the country’s citizens are experiencing a substantial affordability crisis, coincident with record budget deficits, the federal government risks curtailing the energy Canadians rely on, along with jobs and government revenues the energy sector contributes to Canada,” the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) said.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Environment and Protected Areas Minister Rebecca Schulz said in a joint statement,
“With their pronouncement singling out the oil and gas sector alone for punitive federal treatment, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his eco-extremist Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault are risking hundreds of billions of dollars of investments in Alberta’s and Canada’s economies and core social programs, are devaluing the retirement investments of millions of Canadians, and are threatening the jobs of hundreds of thousands of Albertans.”
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Canadian-Oil-Producers-May-Wait-for-Elections-Before-Cutting-Emissions.html
IDF suggests aid stolen after finding $1.3M in cash in suitcases at home of senior Hamas member
By Social Links for Ronny Reyes
Published Dec. 18, 2023, 4:23 p.m. ET
The Israeli Defense Forces have seized more than $1.3 million in cash found inside a pair of suitcases at the home of a senior Hamas member in northern Gaza, officials said.
Members of the IDF’s Multidomain Unit were in the active Jabaliya area as they continued advancing in the few remaining strongholds of northern Gaza when they came across the cash, valued at 5 million NIS, the currency used in the Palestinian enclave and Israel, the IDF said.
The money was located in the home of a top Hamas member and is equal to the total amount seized from the terrorists from Oct. 7 to the end of November, according to the Israeli military.
“These funds—found inside a senior Hamas terrorist’s residence— were designated for terrorist activity,” the IDF wrote on X Monday.
“What could this money have been used for? Provisions of clean water, electricity and fuel for the residents of Gaza,” the IDF added, appearing to suggest the money was looted from Gaza’s aid fund.
https://nypost.com/2023/12/18/news/idf-finds-1-3-million-in-cash-in-suitcases-at-home-of-senior-hamas-member/
What’s Driving Former Progressives to the Right?
Dec. 15, 2023
In a new essay in the progressive magazine In These Times, the writers Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet grapple with the contemporary version of an old phenomenon: erstwhile leftists decamping to the right. There have been plenty of high-profile defectors from the left in recent years, among them the comedian Russell Brand, the environmentalist-turned-conspiracy-theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the journalist Matt Taibbi, a onetime scourge of Wall Street, who was recently one of the winners of a $100,000 prize from the ultraconservative Young America’s Foundation.
What gives this migration political significance, however, are the ordinary people following them, casting off what they view as a censorious liberalism for a movement that doesn’t ask anyone to “do the work” or “check your privilege.” Joyce and Sharlet write, “We, the authors of this article, each count such losses in our own lives, and maybe you do, too: friends you struggle to hold onto despite their growing allegiance to terrifying ideas, and friends you give up on, and friends who have given up on you and the hope you shared together.”
Naomi Klein described similar losses in
https://archive.is/qMl1n#selection-549.0-569.39
Progressivism Forces Americans to Forget Their History
America’s collective memory of its greatness is a formidable one for young Americans – and it must be restored
By James E. Fanell and Bradley A. Thayer
December 19, 2023
The difficulties of the presidents of major American universities—Harvard, MIT, and UPenn—to denounce anti-Semitism is both appalling and a symptom of the larger ideological upheaval in the United States between traditional liberalism and progressivism. The consequence of the increasing strength of progressivism is the loss of the country’s ability to meet the challenges that it once possessed. The most important of these waning abilities is how to confront and defeat with great power enemies. Thus, the progressive movement is regressive by its very nature.
Like a dementia patient in gradual decline, the U.S. is regressing, gradually becoming enfeebled and infantilized, losing its knowledge, memory, coherence, and the ability, desire, and willingness to meet challenges. This is due in part to the ageing of the Baby Boomers (1946-1964) and Generation X (1965-1980) who possessed the direct experience of fight against the Soviet Union and its allies in the Cold War. People matter, as does their historical experiences and knowledge. As those fade, the nuts and bolts of American civil society and identity are lost.
But a more significant cause is the rise of progressivism and its deliberate consequence—the decline of political liberalism in the U.S. The advance of progressivism evinced in the shameful testimony of the university presidents entails the diminishment, rejection, or replacement of U.S. history, political ideology and culture, and the regressive transformation of political ideology, culture, and institutions. The U.S. population and leadership either willingly forget or are forced to forget. As a result, Americans are becoming disorientated and detached from America’s liberal foundations and institutions. They do so voluntarily if they are progressives. If they do so with considerable resignation, they are political liberals, and people compelled to go with the progressive flow.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/19/progressivism-forces-americans-to-forget-their-history/
Joe Biden Caught Sneaking Indicted Son Hunter Into White House on Marine One (VIDEO)
by Cristina Laila Dec. 19, 2023 2:00 pm253 Comments
Joe Biden snuck his indicted son Hunter into the White House on Tuesday.
Hunter was spotted exiting Marine One with his son Beau, however, according to Fox News reporter Peter Doocy, Hunter was not on the passenger list.
“Peter Doocy noticed someone hop off the chopper who was not on the passenger list. Hunter Biden is here at the White House after defying the Congressional subpoena,” Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich said on Tuesday.
Hunter Biden last Wednesday arrived in DC and gave a press conference on Capitol Hill where he revealed he will only answer questions under his own rules despite a congressional subpoena.
Congressional Republicans subpoenaed Hunter Biden for a closed-door deposition related to his influence-peddling and family corruption.
Hunter Biden said he will only testify “at a public hearing.”
House Oversight Chairman James Comer last Wednesday announced GOP lawmakers will initiate contempt of Congress proceedings after Hunter Biden brazenly defied a lawful subpoena.
“Hunter Biden today defied lawful subpoenas and we will now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings,” Comer said.
“We will not provide special treatment because his last name is Biden,” Comer added.
Hunter defied the subpoena after he was hit with a new federal indictment.
The Justice Department earlier this month filed new criminal charges against Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden was hit with a 9-count indictment filed in the Central District of California: Tax evasion, failure to file/pay taxes, and false/fraudulent tax return.
A defiant Hunter Biden snuck into the White House on Tuesday.
Hunter and his son Beau exited Marine One on the South Lawn on Tuesday following a return from Delaware.
Joe Biden Caught Sneaking Indicted Son Hunter Into White House on Marine One (VIDEO)
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Joe Biden snuck his indicted son Hunter into the White House on Tuesday.
Hunter was spotted exiting Marine One with his son Beau, however, according to Fox News reporter Peter Doocy, Hunter was not on the passenger list.
“Peter Doocy noticed someone hop off the chopper who was not on the passenger list. Hunter Biden is here at the White House after defying the Congressional subpoena,” Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich said on Tuesday.
Hunter Biden last Wednesday arrived in DC and gave a press conference on Capitol Hill where he revealed he will only answer questions under his own rules despite a congressional subpoena.
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Congressional Republicans subpoenaed Hunter Biden for a closed-door deposition related to his influence-peddling and family corruption.
Hunter Biden said he will only testify “at a public hearing.”
House Oversight Chairman James Comer last Wednesday announced GOP lawmakers will initiate contempt of Congress proceedings after Hunter Biden brazenly defied a lawful subpoena.
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“Hunter Biden today defied lawful subpoenas and we will now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings,” Comer said.
“We will not provide special treatment because his last name is Biden,” Comer added.
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The Justice Department earlier this month filed new criminal charges against Hunter Biden.
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A defiant Hunter Biden snuck into the White House on Tuesday.
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Hunter and his son Beau exited Marine One on the South Lawn on Tuesday following a return from Delaware.
Hunter Biden doesn’t have a care in the world. He was spotted shopping with Joe Biden in Delaware on Monday before returning to DC.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/joe-biden-caught-sneaking-son-hunter-white-house/
The Most Secretive Longevity Lab Finally Opens Its Doors
Retro Biosciences, a startup with $180 million from Sam Altman, has a simple and audacious goal: Add 10 good years to your life. And until now, we haven’t had a glimpse of its best ideas.
By Ashlee Vance
December 19, 2023 at 5:00 AM CST
Joe Betts-LaCroix didn’t have time to wait for architects, construction workers or really any of the normal things that go into building a new office, let alone a new laboratory. It was May 2021, and he wanted to do experiments?…?lots of them?…?right away. And so he and a small team of people took over an abandoned retail building in Redwood City, California, and filled it with shipping containers, which they’d soon fill with mice. They built the heating and air conditioning system for their lab pods by hand and did the same with the air-filtration system and their precisely tuned mouse vivarium. At the end of two months, Betts-LaCroix’s team had its first experiments up and running.
“I was told by a nearby developer that’s been building a similar-sized lab for more than a year that they’re going to spend $15 million on it,” Betts-LaCroix says. “I probably spent, I don’t know, $200,000. I’d just rather figure out how to do it and do it in a way that works.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-19/longevity-startup-retro-biosciences-is-sam-altman-s-shot-at-life-extension?access
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Court Vacates Law Banning Guns in Church as Violation of First Amendment
Ammoland Inc. Posted on December 19, 2023 by Dean Weingarten
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A three-judge panel in the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has vacated the New York law banning the carry of firearms in church, citing the First Amendment.
After the June 22, 2022, publishing of the Bruen decision on the Second Amendment, several states took active measures to defy the Supreme Court. The foremost of these was New York. Governor Kathy Hochul took the extreme measure of convening an extraordinary session dedicated to circumventing the Bruen decision, which she called “reckless and reprehensible.” From ny.gov:
“The Supreme Court’s reckless and reprehensible decision to strike down New York’s century-old concealed carry law puts lives at risk here in New York,” Governor Hochul said. “Since the decision was released, I have been working around the clock with our partners in the legislature to craft gun safety legislation in response to this ruling that will protect New Yorkers. My number one priority as Governor will always be to keep New Yorkers safe.”
New York is one of a handful of states with severe restrictions on the ownership and carry of firearms in the United States. Evidence is decidedly mixed as to whether such laws have any effect on overall homicide or suicide rates.
The laws were passed with excessive speed. They were quickly challenged as violating the Second Amendment as restored by the Supreme Court in the Heller decision in 2008, applied to the states in the McDonald decision in 2010, confirmed to apply to all bearable arms, modern and ancient, with the Caetano decision in 2016, and finally, refined in the Bruen decision to stop lower courts from interpreting the Second Amendment into non-existence.
Several preliminary injunctions were granted with the understanding that many, if not most, of the plethora of unusual restrictions passed in the extraordinary session in New York obviously violated the Second Amendment.
Four cases were combined by the Second Circuit. A three-judge panel of the Circuit published an opinion on December 8th, upholding some preliminary injunctions and striking down others. This article explains one that has escaped the attention of most other reporters. One of the restrictions in the law was a blanket ban on the carry of firearms in religious institutions such as churches and synagogues. As the lawsuits proceeded, the New York legislature met again and changed the law in an attempt to moot the religious challenges. The change allowed churches to have designated security personnel carry firearms on church property.
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The three-judge panel used the change in the law to find several plaintiffs no longer had standing, leaving one religious plaintiff, Pastor Spencer, and his church. The panel found the ban on possession of firearms in church violated Pastor Spencer and his congregation’s First Amendment rights to the free exercise of religion. From the Opinion in Antonyuk v Chiumento p. 157:
The central argument advanced by the Spencer Plaintiffs is that the CCIA impedes their religious duty to protect the congregation by carrying firearms in their church and inviting congregants to do the same. A faith organization has a cognizable interest in eliminating barriers to its religious practice, including when the barriers primarily impact its adherents’ conduct.
One of the reasons the panel found the restriction on carry by Spencer and his congregation was the restriction did not apply to retail establishments.
But more broadly, the CCIA is not neutral because it allows the owners of many forms of private property, including many types of retail businesses open to the public, to decide for themselves whether to allow firearms on the premises while denying the same autonomy to places of worship. By adopting a law that applies differently as to places of worship (alongside the other enumerated sensitive places) than to most other privately owned businesses and properties, the CCIA is, on its face, neither neutral nor generally applicable.
The three-judge panel affirmed the preliminary injunction (finding the ban on firearms in the church to be unconstitutional), but only for Pastor Spencer and his church.
For the reasons set forth above, we VACATE the district courts’ preliminary injunctions in Antonyuk and Hardaway against enforcement of § 265.01-e(2)(c) but AFFIRM the preliminary injunction issued by the district court in Spencer, which prohibits enforcement of§ 265.01-e(2)(c)against “Pastor Spencer, the [Tabernacle Family] Church, its members, or their agents and licensees.” 648 F. Supp. 3d at 471.67
The arguments against the ban of firearms in churches because of the First Amendment guarantee of the free exercise of religion are robust. This correspondent has made the argument in several other articles over the years. Several states have laws banning firearms in churches. Those laws are likely to be struck down following this argument.
Individual churches retain their power to restrict the carry of weapons on their property. It is unconstitutional for the state to ban the carry of weapons in churches under both the Second Amendment and the First Amendment
https://www.ammoland.com/2023/12/court-vacates-law-banning-guns-in-church-as-violation-of-first-amendment/#axzz8MIN0OKbA
The Real Claudine Gay Scandal
By Robert Weissberg
Dr. Claudine Gay, current President of Harvard University, is one lucky woman or, as she might describe herself a “a lucky woman of color.” She first survived her dreadful testimony before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, where she refused to unambiguously denounce calls from Harvard students and faculty to kill all Israeli Jews. It was an embarrassing performance filled with weasel words and amorphous defenses such as “it all depends on context” as if genocide might be legitimate in some circumstances.
Gay’s second lucky break was to survive clear-cut evidence that she was a career plagiarist, and this scholarly dishonesty far exceeded inadvertent sloppiness. Side-by-side comparisons of Gay’s writings with the published work of others displayed smoking-gun proof, and the official Harvard definition of “plagiarism” offered zero wiggle room due to substituting a new word or two for the original. No student or faculty member of Harvard could possibly accept Gay’s excuses and, ironically, as a Harvard dean Gay had presided over the expulsion of 27 undergraduates for plagiarism. Predictably, she denied everything: “I stand by the integrity of my scholarship,” she wrote. “Throughout my career, I have worked to ensure my scholarship adheres to the highest academic standards.” Keep in mind the former Harvard president Larry Summers suffered defenestration for merely opining that men and woman differed in mathematical abilities.
But, once again, luck was with her. The Harvard Corporation, Harvard’s governing body, praised her work (blatant plagiarism was referred to as “a few instances of inadequate citations), 700 faculty members signed a letter of support, and a group of former Harvard presidents proclaimed, “As former Presidents of Harvard University, we offer our strong support for Claudine Gay as she leads Harvard into the future. We look forward to supporting President Gay in whatever ways we can as Harvard faces this challenging moment for higher education and the wider world.”
Harvard’s malfeasance runs deeper, namely how did Claudine Gay become Dr. Claudine Gay, Ph.D., and this tale goes to the very core of Harvard’s intellectual integrity.
Schools like Harvard depend on admitting graduate students to perform vital “grunt work” such as grading undergraduate papers or teaching sections of large classes. They are vital to the university and are attracted to Ph.D. programs in the hope of eventually becoming a professor but unfortunately, in today’s diversity-obsessed market, many will fail to find academic jobs or be underemployed part-time teachers.
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By contrast, recruiting Blacks, especially Black women, into a Ph.D. program is highly tempting, even if their academic records are less than stellar. A Black woman will undoubtedly receive full financial support, and if she eventually receives the Ph.D. will find a decent job, and this placement will reflect well on the school awarding her the doctorate. In short, Claudine Gay was a prize recruit for Harvard’s Department of Government where she earned her Ph.D. in 1998.
It is also an open secret among academics that faculty enjoy enormous leeway in shepherding graduate students toward the degree. The Ph.D. formally signifies an ability to conduct independent research but how this “independent work” is executed can vary. In some instances, graduate students assist their supervisor’s research, and receive their degrees as rewards for their contribution. Elsewhere professors may provide considerable help in choosing topics, securing funding, directing them toward the relevant literature, resolving research quandaries, even helping to draft the final product, so the final dissertation heavily reflects the professor’s contribution. All this is academically acceptable, often commendable, but the process can resemble sausage making — the Ph.D. label itself can never fully certify how the product was manufactured.
Technically, every dissertation is subject to scrutiny by the graduate student’s main advisor and their dissertation committee bur again, variations exist. Dissertation defenses can consist entirely of softball questions or be gruesome inquisitions. Much leeway exists and a friendly committee can easily assume that the data were not faked, interviews were not invented, and works cited were read, and so on. Everything depends on trust, and it is often the case that only the most egregious stupid errors will be caught, but even then, corrections can save the day and the degree awarded.
When experienced academics see how Claudine Gay got away with multiple plagiarisms they can only conclude, to use the lingo of boxing, that the fix was in. Her dissertation committee and top administrators took a dive. I personally suspect that her dissertation was just skimmed, not carefully read.
To be blunt, here was a Black woman in a discipline (“Government” at Harvard) in high demand thanks to her Harvard Ph.D., so her ascent to academic stardom was assured. No matter that her scholarship was almost exclusively about Black politics, and not particularly original while hewing to the radical orthodoxy on Black politics. She was a trophy, so in today’s political environment, few might risk putting her scholarship under a microscope to find fault. Why ruin a good thing?
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This entire episode appears to be a breakdown of quality control, and in the final analysis, it exposes a deeper scandal than her morally tone-deaf congressional testimony. This scandal that strikes at Harvard’s most valued asset — its reputation for academic integrity.
Adding insult to injury, this breakdown of the most minimal scholarly quality control was purposeful, not something resulting from overwork or laziness. Intellectual integrity is part of every professor’s job, and Harvard routinely expels students caught plagiarizing, so expelling one more miscreant — namely Claudine Gay — would not be out of character.
The professors reading her plagiarized papers probably knew it when they saw it, or if they had their doubts, could have used any number of plagiarism software programs to confirm their suspicions. More relevant, experienced professors — and this would certainly include her eminent advisors — have a fine nose for detecting material that stands apart from the rest of the paper. To those familiar with their discipline’s published literature, it is simple to recognize the work of fellow scholars. Professors pride themselves on knowing “the literature” is it is bizarre to suggest that those reading Gay’s writings failed to recognize the uncited original sources. Maybe once or twice, but not repeatedly.
Harvard needs an official inquiry into how all these distinguished, tenured academic luminaries failed at their quality-control responsibilities. No different than when the FAA investigates an airplane crash. Let each witness explain how they permitted a serial plagiarizer to earn a Harvard Ph.D. when similar offenses would have brought expulsion for lessor mortals. What facilitated this academic incompetence? Was it Gay’s skin color? Her past strident racial radicalism? Perhaps her winning charm? Ample evidence suggests that everything was about “diversity.”
This trial would include dozens of Harvard faculty and administrators would testify, and, no doubt, the public would relish watching the best and brightest hem and haw regarding why they failed to notice blatant plagiarism and then remained silent. Put the Harvard miscreants under oath so if these distinguished scholars commit perjury, they will lose their tenure and be fired.
Surely a scandal for prime-time TV, and who knows, future Harvard students accused of plagiarisms may now invoke “the Gay rule” in their defense: it takes at last two dozen instances of intellectual thievery for a conviction. A whole new meaning of colorblind justice
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/the_real_claudine_gay_scandal.html
Also Not the Bee: Housecats are a ‘murderous’ threat to biodiversity when left up to their own devices
By Olivia Murray
An NPR journalist gave it the old college try… and produced an exceptionally mock-worthy essay published last week at the outlet. According to Manuela López Restrepo, housecats are “murderous” creatures, and when given a carte blanche check to roam at will, they are a “big threat” to biodiversity.
Let’s just get the obvious one out of the way: murder is a legal term that exclusively applies to human beings. Cats hunting fieldmice, birds, squirrels, or any other little outdoor critter cannot be “murder” and their predator behavior is not “murderous” because they’re all animals.
Now, as you probably could have guessed, Restrepo fits the leftist stereotype of women who fill their childless voids with pets to which they refer as their “children.” (Ironically, it’s likely that a number of these childless leftists are that way… because of real murder.) Restrepo calls her own cat her “son” but it has no bearing on reality, and neither cats nor their prey are people. A person might love an animal like a human, or treat them as though they were a “child,” but at the end of the day, animals are pets.
Secondly, this girl’s concern over biodiversity is exactly why so many people have kept cats—where have Restrepo and these “scientists” been?—they’re exceptional hunters that categorically “threaten” the “biodiversity” of nasty little creatures like rats and mice, that destroy human property and food, and spread diseases. Cats “threatening biodiversity” is a net positive, not a net negative.
But, the crux of Restrepo’s piece was that “free-ranging cats” are a serious threat to a thriving environment buzzing with life—and I laughed, thinking how the assertion was the perfect parable for Democrats.
Without Democrats, who would champion the “death to babies” cause?
Without Democrats, who would open the borders for millions of migrants to pour across, trampling fragile desert flora and killing endangered desert fauna?
Without Democrats, who would promote nihilism?
Without Democrats, who would dismantle law and order, and facilitate anarchy?
Without Democrats, who would erase God from every facet of the public and civic sectors?
Without Democrats, who would sign America on to globalist agendas of communism and tyranny?
Without Democrats, who would force a transition to E.V.s at the overwhelming expense of the environment?
Without Democrats, who would declare cross-sex hormones and mutilation of sexual organs “healthcare”?
Without Democrats, who would suggest that lobotomizing pharmaceutical drugs are “medicine”?
Without Democrats, who would demand Satan’s representation during Christmas—oops, I mean the “holidays”?
Apparently, unsupervised cats can cause a lot of trouble, and obviously, so can Democrats.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/also_not_the_bee_housecats_are_a_murderous_threat_to_biodiversity_when_left_up_to_their_own_devices.html
Domestic Violence Survivors Speak Out Against Gun Control
By Tom Knighton | 8:29 AM on December 19, 2023
Gun control advocates often make all kinds of arguments against people having guns. It’s funny because many of those arguments are about how it’s so important to keep guns from those who commit domestic violence, but then many are also saying victims of domestic violence shouldn’t have gun, either.
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So, basically, despite their claims to the contrary, no one should have guns.
After all, if a woman who has been beaten by her partner shouldn’t have the means to defend herself–someone who has a known threat against their safety–then who should?
Luckily, a lot of survivors of that kind of relationship spoke out against gun control recently.
Late last week, several women, including survivors of domestic violence, spoke in a congressional hearing about how gun control laws rob women of their right to self-defense.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance hosted the hearing titled, “Second Amendment Rights Empower Women’s Rights.”
“Female firearm ownership continues to grow in the United States,” committee Chairman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said. “Women are turning to themselves to be their own first responders.”
Shirley Watral, the state director of the Florida Women For Gun Rights Organization, is a domestic violence survivor and professional firearms instructor. In the hearing, she shared how her views on gun ownership changed after how the man she was in love with kidnapped her and tortured her for 15 hours (via Judiciary.House.gov):
Attempts I made to escape were met with beatings. I was no match for his size and strength. I was forced to stay seated or kneeling on the floor of the master bedroom. As the hours went by, I found no way out. I thought my salvation came when he brought out a gun and set it on the bed. Hours prior to this, no one heard my screams or came to my rescue. I saw the gun as my way to freedom. I could either use it to defend myself or get a shot off that the neighbors would hear.
Lack of knowledge of the fundamentals of a firearm were a disadvantage for me. My only goal was to get to the gun and press the trigger. I lunged for it and pressed the trigger to only hear myself screaming. It was like having the wind knocked out of me. The gun did not go off. I had lost my freedom in the blink of an eye, and now I lost my will to fight to regain it. I was defeated. I told him I give up and will do whatever he wants. He must have believed he had won and had control over me, so he let me go.
After surviving the beating, the biting, the whiplash from being thrown around by my hair, I took actions I believed would keep me safe. The restraining order I got did not stop him from contacting me and stalking me. I moved into a gated community, which did not stop him from gaining access and finding out where I lived. These things did nothing more than give me a false sense of security, just like gun-free zones and gun control laws. They are an illusion of safety.
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Watral’s testimony was powerful. She’s someone who survived the kind of thing nightmares are made of, and she’s come out determined to never be a victim again.
I have to respect that.
She also offered this in counter to a popular argument I’ve seen and heard more times than I can count. “Gun control groups voice the possibility if a woman has a gun in a violent situation, it will be taken and used against her. That is a possibility,” Watral conceded. She added, “What is more probable is that she will be overpowered by a man based only on his strength. I need a tool to be my equalizer to defend myself, and I choose a firearm. I want it to be my choice, not that of the government. I want to be my own protector.”
Exactly.
Is it possible that a gun might be taken from her? Sure. It’s possible. It’s possible it might be taken from any of us.
But that doesn’t mean she’s necessarily safer. Someone who commits domestic violence isn’t going to go easy on his victim because she doesn’t have a gun. He’s not going to give her a pass because she opted to be disarmed.
He’s going to beat her and possibly killer her with his own bare hands. The average man is quite capable of doing that to the average woman.
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A firearm isn’t a talisman for warding off evil. It’s a tool that can benefit the person possessing it. Hell, just presenting it is often enough to change someone’s mind.
Domestic violence doesn’t get better when you try to prevent the victims from being able to protect themselves. It never has and it never will.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2023/12/19/domestic-violence-gun-n78534