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The biggest scam under our noses continues to be not stolen elections, plandemics or any of the other Maoist lines of effort we endure today, but perhaps the oldest of them all: central banks. Inserted interstitially first in Sweden, then in the U.S. in 1791, they allow for a degree of separation between people’s tax dollars and the governments they try to trust. The U.S. has had three iterations of this animal. The first two were 20-year charters. The current creature from Jekyll Island has lasted since 1913.
Central Banks are run not by the governments and the people they are said to represent, but by the bankers who actually own them. It is a parasitic existence mainly because any benefits derived from this architecture are trumped, dramatically, by the astronomical wealth generated by those individuals and corporations positioned closest to the printing presses, resulting in the wealth disparity we see today. Mechanically speaking, printed currency units flow firstly to the Wall Street banking entities in that symbiotic relationship. A portion of those units are then converted to tangible assets before the wider population gets hold of them. Advantage insiders. I welcome any money people in this readership to challenge me on this and set me straight if I am wrong.
The position of quasi-governmental Central Banks allowed monarchies and early governments of yesteryear to partially wipe their hands of the dirty business of setting monetary policies. A percentage cut of a country’s business was a small price to pay for the service of having someone else to blame for economic failings. Yes, elected governments get heat and are eventually voted out of office, yet Central Banks quietly hum along, business as usual, no matter what transpires politically. Remarkable, given that these supposedly arms-length outfits are supposed to operate autonomously. In fact, the U.S. Central Bank is exactly as independent as it appears to be in any election year. Watch the current one from this perspective then decide for yourself.
It doesn’t take a genius to head a Central Bank. Keynesian guidance only has two levers to pull: interest rates and the quantity of currency in circulation. These heads are backed by hundreds of PhD economists on the payroll. Janet Yellen is proof one does not have to be particularly smart to fill those boots, but one must align politically.
What, then, made Mark Carney so special that he went from running the Bank of Canada to being recruited by the Bank of England? After all, any of the thousands of qualified apparatchiks in the U.K. could have done that job.
I submit Carney was imported because of his unique double skill set. Not only is he fluent in the language of Marxist economic central planning, but as Vlad most succinctly wrote yesterday on another matter, England got a Frankfurt School tactician. The superstar was born. Here we see how Carney provides his own plausible deniability by skating between communist dogma and his own fascistic agenda:
https://socialist.net/the-spectre-of-marx-is-haunting-capitalism/
Here, an Austrian-school proponent alerts us to central banks:
https://youtu.be/M8Lc83h10n0?si=QEvCalFE3tLxP7FP
BREAKING! Exposing AHS and Canada’s Healthcare Leaders with William Makis
Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson – January 5, 2024
https://rumble.com/v45c7iz-breaking-exposing-ahs-and-canadas-healthcare-leaders-with-dr.-william-makis.html
Towards the end of the talk Laura-Lynn mentioned Turkey Tail Mushrooms for the Treatment of Cancer
https://makismd.substack.com/p/turkey-tail-mushroom-trametes-versicolor?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Turkey Tail Mushrooms – Vitacost
https://www.vitacost.com/productsearch.aspx?t=turkey%20tail%20mushrooms&mp=1&s=TopSelling
California Judge Rules Families of Dead Children Can Sue Snapchat Over Their Kids Using the App to Buy Fentanyl
by Cassandra MacDonald Jan. 6, 2024 10:00 am8 Comments
A California judge has ruled that a lawsuit against Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, over children purchasing fentanyl can proceed.
The lawsuit involves 60 families who claim that their children purchased the drug on the app and overdosed, many of them fatally.
The families accuse Snap of multiple wrongdoings — including product defects, negligence, and wrongful death.
NBC News reports:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/california-judge-rules-families-dead-children-can-sue/
Disney Ignored Sexual Assault, Pattern of Abuse by Top Executive, Lawsuit Alleges
by Jack Davis, The Western Journal Jan. 6, 2024 9:45 am34 Comments
A Disney employee has filed a sexual assault and harassment complaint against Disney in connection with a former executive.
The lawsuit against Disney, 20th Century Fox, and Searchlight Pictures targets the actions of former Vice President of Distribution Nolan Gonzales.
The suit charges the companies and Gonzales with sexual harassment, sexual assault and/or battery, retaliation, negligence, disability discrimination and other grievances, including failure to investigate and prevent sexual harassment.
The lawsuit claimed that the sexual harassment she suffered was not limited to her.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/disney-ignored-sexual-assault-pattern-abuse-top-executive/
Pentagon Press Association Expresses “Significant Concern” Over DoD Keeping Defense Secretary Austin’s Hospitalization Secret
by Margaret Flavin Jan. 6, 2024 8:45 am221 Comments
On Friday, the Pentagon revealed that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the nation’s top defense official, was admitted to a Washington D.C. hospital on Monday following complications from elective surgery, something the Department of Defense (DoD) kept secret for four days.
Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said, “On the evening of January 1, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for complications following a recent elective medical procedure.”
He added, “He is recovering well and is expecting to resume his full duties today.”
Ryder told Fox News, “This has been an evolving situation in which we [have] had to consider a number of factors including medical and personal privacy issues. We are now in a position to update you.”
The Pentagon Press Association (PPA) sent a letter from its board of directors to Secretary Austin’s personnel on Friday evening expressing “significant concern” about the DoD’s release of the news.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/pentagon-press-association-expresses-significant-concern-dod-keeping/
Communist Authorities Arrest Chinese Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin, Again
by Margaret Flavin Jan. 6, 2024 8:15 am33 Comments
2024 began on a disturbing note for Chinese Catholics. Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin, the 61-year-old Vatican-approved ordinary of the Diocese of Wenzhou in Eastern China, was taken into custody by Chinese authorities on January 2, according to AsiaNews.
Bishop Shao is loyal to the Holy See rather than the Chinese state church and was appointed by the Vatican, not the Communist-Party-controlled “Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.
Because he is not recognized by the Chinese government, he is routinely jailed by local authorities to prevent him from carrying out his ministry.
Bishop Shao was set to be installed as the new senior Bishop of Zhejiang (Wenzhou), with a Catholic population of approximately 120,000.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/communist-authorities-arrest-chinese-bishop-peter-shao-zhumin/
Fetterman: Harvard was always a ‘little Pinko’ but I ‘don’t recognize it’ anymore
Fetterman recently told NBC News that he is ‘not a progressive’
By Andrew Mark Miller Fox News
In an interview this week, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman slammed the BDS movement and said that although Harvard University has always been a little “pinko” he doesn’t “recognize” it 25 years after he attended the school following Claudine Gay’s resignation as president.
“As an alum of Harvard — look, I graduated 25 years ago, and of course it was always a little pinko,” Fetterman told Semafor this week. “But now, I don’t recognize it.”
Fetterman’s comment comes shortly after Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned from her position after struggling to answer a question condemning antisemitism in front of Congress and being accused of plagiarism almost 50 times.
Fetterman also told Semafor that “Israel is really a beacon of the kind of values, the American values and progressive ideals, that you want to see.”
FETTERMAN BELIEVED GOING PUBLIC WITH MENTAL HEALTH STRUGGLES WOULD ‘END’ HIS CAREER
John Fetterman in Congress
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fetterman-harvard-was-always-little-pinko-but-dont-recognize-anymore
Anger, Threats From Fellow Dems as Rep. Wheeler Backs Bipartisan Ban on Gender Surgery for Minors
Posted to Politics January 04, 2024 by Michael Graham
State Rep. Jonah Wheeler (D-Peterborough) wanted his fellow progressives to know why he was joining a bipartisan majority to support a ban on sex-change surgery for minors. So when HB619 came to the House floor, he delivered a speech that the bill’s supporters described as “brave” and “thoughtful” but left many Democrats outraged.
“The question before us is whether or not children under the age of 18 should be able to get these surgeries. And despite being a liberal who believes in [trans] rights, I don’t think that is the case.” Wheeler told his fellow House members. “These are irreversible surgeries. This is not a question of whether you’re with the trans community. It’s a question of whether or not you believe children should be able to get these irreversible surgeries.
“I’ll take all the heat that comes from this,” Wheeler added.
And he got it, too.
After the amended bill passed the House 199-175 — with 12 Democrats and two independents joining every Republican — Wheeler was besieged by outraged progressives in the House anteroom. Multiple sources confirmed to NHJournal that the reaction was so intense that several House Republicans went there out of concern for Wheeler.
https://nhjournal.com/anger-threats-from-fellow-dems-as-rep-wheeler-backs-bipartisan-ban-on-gender-surgery-for-minors/
Replacement Theory
“When DEI is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, Fight Back!!! We stand for Claudine Gay.” — The Rev. Al Sharpton
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Wondering about who the Harvard Board of Trustees might consider for president of that august outfit once Claudine Gay moves to her new professorship in the graduate program for creative writing? The no-brainer, in more ways than one, has got to be Ibram X. Kendi, the founding director of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research, launched in 2020, then un-launched in September, 2023, after BU auditors disclosed that $43-million in donations, endowments, and grants to the center could not be accounted for.
Mistakes were made, BU conceded, mostly by white people seeking to discredit the antiracism movement, proving the persistence of structural racism. Dr. Kendi explained to The New York Times that critics were using the situation “to settle old scores and demonstrate that I’m a problem or that antiracism is a problem,” because blaming the victim is one of the core techniques of those behind structural racism. “Unfortunately, we live in such a polarized, spiteful sort of reactionary moment,” he said.
Surely, the firing of President Gay at Harvard was just such a case of spitefully settling old scores, and Dr. Kendi is the best-qualified candidate to root out the remaining reactionary racists on Harvard’s payroll, who pose the gravest threat to democracy, hate-speech elimination, and equity in academia. We could expect President Kendi to double-down on the institution’s commitment to advancing marginalized people at all costs. Also, consider: Boston U is less than a mile across the Charles River from Harvard, so at least no moving costs to get Dr. Kendi on-board — what with some of the school’s biggest donors (e.g., Wall Street’s Bill Ackman) threatening to withhold future giftings to Harvard’s hedge fund, a.k.a., its endowment.
Perhaps a shrewder hire would be Admiral Rachel (née Richard) Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS, one of the chief overseers (whoops), I mean, administrators of America’s official Covid-19 policies, and chief promoter of mRNA vaccine mandates. Wikipedia tells us: “Levine was commissioned as a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, becoming the first openly transgender four-star officer in any of the United States uniformed services as well as the first female four-star admiral in the Commissioned Corps,” evading the fact that s/he is not actually a female, but rather a male pretending to be a female, with scrupulous attention to hair and costume.
Readers can argue as to whether female is interchangeable with the word woman and whether imagining oneself to be a woman is the same as being a woman. But you see this would be exactly the advantage of putting Dr. (pediatrician) Levine in the president’s chair at Harvard: the nation’s attention would shift dramatically from the quandaries of racism and anti-racism to the even richer perplexities of gender identity, while exposing the baleful influence of men who remain on the Harvard faculty in promoting intransigent patriarchy, often tinged with toxic whiteness.
As president of Harvard, Dr. Levine could elevate and emphasize the importance of pretending in higher education. Of course, pretending is already well-established in academic journals and publishing, and especially lately in the medical science surrounding one of Dr. Levine’s specialties, Covid-19 (and its remedies). One can only hope that the admiral will recruit Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Chief of the Covid Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute, as her chief of staff. As recently as three days ago, Dr. Feigl-Ding tweeted (or X’ed): “Anti-vax campaigns are fueled by disinformation army. Your friends and family are pummeled with disinfo to the point they start to believe it — but don’t fall for it!” Meaning: for goodness sake, go out and get more mRNA booster shots! Especially because, as Dr. F-D also declares on X, “a raging inferno of Covid is surging nationwide.”
One is tempted to ask: if Harvard renewed its Covid vaccine mandate, would Harvard students be intelligent enough to decline the injections? Granted, Harvard’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging policy (DEIB) has front-loaded matters beside intelligence in its admissions procedures. Parents might ask: in the case of a student’s death from myocarditis before the end of a semester, would Harvard refund any or all of the $55,000 tuition? These are some of the perplexities that Dr. (Admiral) Levine is well-equipped to resolve.
Anyone else have some nominations? (hints: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson? Mika Brzezinski? Ilhan Omar, Megan Rapinoe. . .?)
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/replacement-theory/
Ballot Cleansing: Democrats are Moving to Bar Republicans from Ballots Nationwide
Below is my column in the New York Post on the expansion of the 14th Amendment theory to attempt to remove Republican candidates for Congress from the ballots. Dozens of Democratic members have already called for the disqualification of up to 126 Republican colleagues under the same sweeping theory. These efforts show how this theory could place this country on a slippery slope to political chaos if not clearly and finally rejected by the Supreme Court.
Here is the column:
As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Repubfenablican Rep. Scott Perry.
It’s only the latest effort targeting congressional candidates as Democrats seek to bar opponents as “insurrectionists” for questioning the election of President Biden.
We have become a nation of Madame Defarges — eagerly knitting names of those to be subject to arbitrary justice.
Former congressional candidate Gene Stilp, who’s previously made headlines by burning MAGA flags with swastikas outside courthouses, filed the challenge.
Using the 14th Amendment to disqualify candidates like Perry is consistent with Stilp’s signature flag-burning stunts.
But what’s chilling is how many support such efforts, including Democratic officeholders from Maine’s Secretary of State to dozens of members of Congress.
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) sought to bar 126 members of Congress under the same theory for challenging the election before Jan. 6, 2021.
Similar legislation from Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) to disqualify members got 63 co-sponsors, all Democrats, including New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and Ritchie Torres and “Squad” members Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
When Maine’s secretary of state disqualified Trump, three in the state’s congressional delegation — Sens. Angus King (I) and Susan Collins (R) and Rep. Jared Golden (D) — condemned the decision. But others supported the antidemocratic action.
The grounds were virtually identical to those of Stilp. He accuses Perry of supporting challenges to Biden’s election and opposing its certification.
Of course, he ignores Democratic members who sought to block certification of Republican presidents under the very same law with no factual or legal basis.
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) praised the effort then-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) organized to challenge the certification of President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election.
Jan. 6 committee head Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) voted to challenge it in the House.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sought to block certification of the 2016 election result — particularly ironic since he’s a leading voice calling for Trump to be disqualified.
He insisted last week on CNN that the effort to prevent citizens from voting for Trump is the very embodiment of democracy: “If you think about it, of all of the forms of disqualification that we have, the one that disqualifies people for engaging in insurrection is the most democratic because it’s the one where people choose themselves to be disqualified.”
That is akin to treating every criminal charge as a consensual act of incarceration because the accused chose his path in life.
This is also being played out in state races.
The filing against Perry came the same day Pennsylvania Democratic state Sen. Art Haywood made public a complaint to the Senate Ethics Committee against his Republican colleague Doug Mastriano accusing him of playing a role in the plot to overturn the election.
Notably, in his effort to “hold insurrectionists accountable,” Haywood admitted he relied on the same evidence from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington that was used in the Colorado case.
“Insurrectionist” is the newest label to excuse any abuse.
During the McCarthy period, individuals were accused of being Communists or “fellow travelers.”
Now you have Stilp accusing Perry of being “supportive of insurrectionists.”
Democrats and pundits have claimed civil libertarians and journalists who have testified against the government’s growing censorship efforts are enablers of insurrectionists and even “Putin lovers.”
These Democratic members and activists vividly demonstrated the dangerous implications of this unfounded theory.
Figures like Stilp are wrong on the law but right about one thing: There are few real limits once you embrace this theory.
If the challenges work, there is no reason they can’t be used unilaterally against any candidate (and without any criminal charges, let alone convictions).
It is instantly both self-executing and self-satisfying. It would put the world’s most successful democracy on a slippery slope to political chaos.
That is why the Supreme Court needs to take up this issue and put this pernicious theory to bed once and for all.
Until the court rejects this antidemocratic ploy, activists eager to win elections through the courts will keep using it, and it will metastasize throughout our body politic.
With the support of elected officials across the country, they can then join Stilp in moving from burning flags to torching the Constitution in a fit of exhilarating rage.
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/01/05/ballot-cleansing-democrats-are-moving-to-bar-republicans-from-ballots-nationwide/
Alaska Airlines pilot frantically requests ATC help after plane window BLEW OUT over Portland
Heartstopping audio footage captured the moment an Alaska Airlines pilot radioed for help after a window on her new Boeing 737 Max plane blew out shortly after take off.
‘Portland approach, Alaska 1282 emergency! Aircraft is now leveling 12,000 in a left turn heading three four zero,’ the unidentified woman could be heard saying after Friday evening’s drama over the skies of Portland in Oregon.
‘We need a divert. We’ve declared an emergency. We are depressurized. We have 177 passengers on board and a seal is…18,900’ the pilot can be heard explaining.
Alaska flight 1282, a Boeing 737-9 MAX bound for Ontario in California, left Portland just after 5pm local time on Friday when a deactivated emergency door used as a regular cabin window blew out at 16,000 feet. The controversial jet was carrying 171 passengers and six crew.
Its catastrophic failure depressurized the cabin, with the force of the air rushing in ripping the shirt off a young boy, whose mom was seen holding onto him. Passengers also watched as their phones were sucked out into the night sky.
Terrifying footage showed fliers looking out through the gaping hole of the fuselage onto the twinkling lights of Portland below in the eerily quiet cabin.
Miraculously, no injuries were reported on the plane, which had only gone into service in November 2023. Boeing, Alaska Airlines and the National Transportation Safety Board have all launched investigations.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12932631/Brand-new-Alaska-Airlines-Boeing-737-Max-suffers-mid-air-window-BLOW-causing-depressurization-ripped-childs-shirt-jet-returned-Portland-Airport-High-tech-jet-suffered-two-deadly-crashes.html
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BREAKING | Alaska Airlines plane made emergency landing in Portland, Oregon after window blew out mid air
Some peoples belongings, including phones, were sucked out
https://twitter.com/crimewithbobby/status/1743484549311418799
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BREAKING:
An Alaska Airlines plane has made an emergency landing in Portland after a part of the plan disintegrated mid-flight.
Phones and other items were sucked out through the hole, but fortunately no passengers were seated in the vicinity.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1743488160229724529
“Like Carlo In The Car In The Godfather” – Epstein’s Brother Tells Tucker, Pathologists Said “Doesn’t Look Like Suicide”
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by Tyler Durden
Friday, Jan 05, 2024 – 04:20 PM
Earlier in the week, we saw Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark explain to Tucker Carlson how he has struggled to obtain basic documents related to his bother’s death in federal custody.
As the identities of Jeffrey’s various ‘associates’ is released this week, it is clear from the ‘eliteness’ of this list of alleged creeps that many people stood to benefit from Epstein’s perpetual silence and Tucker Carlson expressed skepticism about the official cause of death being ruled suicide, writing:
The U.S. government claims Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in a federal detention facility in Manhattan four and a half years ago, just before his trial.
If that’s true, why are there so few records available from that night?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/carlo-car-godfather-epsteins-brother-tells-tucker-pathologists-said-doesnt-look-suicide
An Explainer Of Jan. 6 And Its Aftermath
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by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Jan 06, 2024 – 10:40 AM
Authored by Joseph Hanneman via The Epoch Times,
Worse than Pearl Harbor, 9/11, or even the Civil War, Americans were told.
A bloody insurrection by a wild, ruthless, armed mob of election deniers.
A coup d’etat.
A revolution.
That first Wednesday in January 2021, however, was none of the above.
Yet Jan. 6 will forever be a prominent part of American history—in ways that few people fully realize.
It was most certainly a fork in the road.
Defining and understanding that historic day requires solid information, full context, and a willingness to look beyond the narratives that began before Jan. 6 was even a few hours old.
Jan. 6 is part of a much larger political and societal movement designed to usher in a “new America,” according to Victor Davis Hanson, an American classicist, military historian, and political commentator at the Hoover Institution.
To mark the third anniversary, The Epoch Times offers this guide to Jan. 6 to help the uninitiated and well-versed alike better understand this complex topic.
In an Oct. 28, 2023, interview with Jan Jekielek of ‘American Thought Leaders,” historian Victor Davis Hanson said America is being pulled to places it was never meant to go. (Epoch TV)
What Was Jan. 6?
It was a day of rallies and protests held on the National Mall, the Ellipse, and the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington. The driving force was a widely held belief that the 2020 presidential election was marred by suspicious activity, a lack of security, and alleged widespread fraud with mail-in ballots and electronic voting.
Massive crowds came to Washington to hear President Donald Trump speak and to put pressure on a joint session of Congress to take seriously the elector challenges expected to be filed by representatives of at least six states under Title 3 U.S. Code § 15.
Why Does Jan. 6 Matter?
Jan. 6 and its aftermath has had a broad impact on American society.. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI launched an unprecedented use of federal power that—while currently wielded against people right of center—could easily be unleashed against any group.
The Jan. 6 investigations and prosecutions have raised serious concerns about due process, pretrial detention, jail conditions, equal protection under the law, and—perhaps most significantly—First Amendment guarantees.
How Big Were the Crowds?
Estimates are all over the map, from 400,000 to upwards of 3 million at the Ellipse. At the peak of activity at and near the U.S. Capitol between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., Republican U.S. House investigators estimate crowd size at 250,000. The largest crowds gathered on the west front of Capitol grounds.
When Did the Trouble Start?
At 12:53 p.m., more than 20 minutes before President Trump finished speaking at the Ellipse, a fast-growing crowd kicked over metal barricades guarding the Peace Circle and advanced to the northwest sidewalk of the U.S. Capitol.
Seconds before 12:55 p.m., protesters picked up the bicycle-rack barriers and shoved them into five U.S. Capitol Police officers. Officer Carolyn Edwards was knocked off her feet and her head struck the concrete steps, causing a concussion.
With that barricade down, the crowd moved quickly to defeat two more police barricades and soon swarmed the west plaza underneath the inauguration stage. By 1 p.m., thousands of protesters began pressing against a hastily assembled line of Capitol Police officers.
When Did Violence and Rioting Erupt?
The crowd on the west plaza was amped up and agitated. The conversations along the police line included protesters telling police why they were so angry and questioning why officers would oppose their efforts to get election answers. A few minor skirmishes broke out.
A protester on the north end of the police line screamed into a megaphone: “You can’t kill us all! We are here to stay! We’re not going anywhere! We want in! We want in!”
The true flashpoint came just before 1:06 p.m. when U.S. Capitol Police Deputy Chief Eric Waldow ordered “less than lethal” force be used on the crowd.
Video shot by a protester with a camera on an elevated stick—obtained by The Epoch Times—doesn’t show fighting or projectiles being thrown in the area where Deputy Chief Waldow stood at 1:06 p.m. and where force was about to be deployed.
Just before 1:07 p.m., a Capitol Police grenadier shot protester Joshua M. Black, 47, in the left cheek with a projectile. Mr. Black immediately began bleeding profusely. A large blood stain on the concrete remained visible all afternoon.
Word spread quickly through the crowd that a protester had been shot.
As bystanders pressed Mr. Black’s wound to stop the bleeding, other protesters began screaming at police.
The mood and tenor of the crowd changed at that moment.
When Was the Capitol Breached?
A yet-to-be-identified man known only by the hashtag #RedOnRedGlasses sailed a long 2-by-4 plank through a window near the Senate Wing Door at about 2:12 p.m.
Proud Boys defendant Dominic Pezzola used a riot shield to smash the same window.
In short order, dozens of people were streaming into the Crypt level of the Capitol.
Were There Deaths and Injuries on Jan. 6?
Four Trump supporters died at the Capitol on Jan. 6: Benjamin Philips, 50, Kevin Greeson, 55, Ashli Babbitt, 35, and Rosanne Boyland, 34.
Ms. Babbitt was shot and killed by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd just outside of the House Speaker’s Lobby at 2:44 p.m. Mr. Byrd was subsequently cleared by USCP and the U.S. Department of Justice, but the shooting remains highly controversial. A civil suit against the federal government was lodged on Jan. 5.
Ms. Boyland collapsed at the mouth of the Lower West Terrace tunnel at about 4:22 p.m. and was crushed in a stampede. Police at the tunnel entrance ignored pleas to render medical aid. Metropolitan Police Department Officer Lila Morris inexplicably picked up a wooden walking stick and beat Ms. Boyland in the head and ribs. Ms. Morris faced no discipline for her actions.
Once Ms. Boyland was pulled inside the Capitol, advanced lifesaving care was started by MPD, U.S. Park Police, and Capitol Police. Efforts continued on two levels of the Capitol. Ms. Boyland was pronounced dead at a hospital at 6:09 p.m.
Mr. Philips was determined to have suffered a fatal stroke. Security video obtained by The Epoch Times showed Mr. Philips was not struck by police munitions as widely believed. Mr. Greeson suffered a heart attack, although at least one witness claims he was struck in the head by a police projectile before collapsing.
Some 140 police officers from Capitol Police and MPD suffered injuries on Jan. 6. Some of the injuries were career-ending. An unknown number of protesters were injured, including Dominic Vargo, who was shoved off a stairway ledge by a Capitol Police motorcycle officer just after 2 p.m., and Mark Griffin, whose leg was broken when an MPD officer fired a 40mm crowd control munition at him from point-blank range.
How Did the FBI and DOJ Respond?
The decision was quickly made to launch the largest criminal investigation in U.S. history to pursue protesters and rioters. The ramp-up effort was described by top prosecutor Michael Sherwin as a “shock and awe” campaign, borrowing a slogan from the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the Persian Gulf War.
The FBI set up a web page with photos of criminal suspects, and eager online sleuths excelled at identifying people and turning them in to the FBI. The DOJ established a “rapid-indictment” unit to level charges against a long list of suspects.
Protesters found themselves being turned in to the FBI by neighbors, former classmates, and—in some cases—by ex-spouses and children. Arrests have continued unabated for three years, with the total now approaching 1,250.
How Has the FBI Handled the Arrests of Suspects?
The FBI’s practice of using SWAT teams to apprehend and arrest Jan. 6 suspects in dozens of cases has brought condemnation from civil rights attorneys and current and former FBI special agents.
In one case chronicled recently in The Epoch Times, the Westbury family of Lindstrom, Minnesota, faced two SWAT raids, the first involving only misdemeanor charges. The second raid involved up to 60 agents and the use of drones to fly over the property—even into the backyard chicken coop.
Former FBI special agent Stephen Friend said his decision to protest these tactics led to him being suspended without pay and eventually forced him to resign from his “dream job.” He testified before Congress in May 2023 along with special agent Garret O’Boyle and analyst Marcus Allen.
Are Defendants Mistreated in Jail?
Defendants have reported many cases of abuse by jail guards and terrible living conditions at the District of Columbia jail, referred to derisively by inmates as the “DC Gulag.” Defense attorney Joseph McBride wrote and submitted an 11-page report to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Amnesty International. He said he never received a response.
The U.S. Marshals Service conducted a surprise inspection of the DC facility on Nov. 2, 2021, that led to the removal of some 400 inmates, but the Jan. 6 defendants were not moved. Two days later, four members of Congress demanded access to the jail after being turned away repeatedly by the deputy warden.
Interviews with pretrial detainees on Nov. 4, 2021, led Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to publish a 28-page report, “Unusually Cruel,” detailing conditions at the facility. Jan. 6 defendants reported being forced to sleep with the lights on and having to carry their mattresses around the jail in the dead of night.
Others reported physical abuse, including one detainee who said guards dropped him head-first onto the concrete floor.
Why Wasn’t the National Guard at the Capitol?
According to former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, his pre-Jan. 6 request for the National Guard was squelched because “Pelosi will never go for it,” referring to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Mr. Sund’s comments were spoken at a hearing of the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight on Sept. 19, 2023. The contention about Ms. Pelosi came from former Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger, Mr. Sund testified.
According to former senior Trump aide Kash Patel, President Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard troops for use in D.C. and elsewhere on Jan. 6, 2021, but the use of those troops was later rejected by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the U.S. Capitol Police. Mr. Patel said former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) misled the public by saying Trump never ordered troops to the Capitol.
Mr. Sund detailed his frustrated efforts on Jan. 6 to get authorization to ask for National Guard backup, then having to fight resistance from the Department of Defense. He said the New Jersey State Police arrived at the Capitol to assist faster than the National Guard, which was staged minutes away from the Capitol.
By the time the National Guard put boots on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, police had restored order and pushed most of the protesters out.
What Legal Issues Have Arisen From Jan. 6 Prosecutions?
In December, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the DOJ’s use of a white-collar-crime statute to prosecute more than 330 Jan. 6 defendants for “corruptly obstructing an official proceeding,” a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Federal prosecutors claim that the delay of a joint session of Congress to hear elector objections and count Electoral College votes from the presidential election constitutes a crime under 18 U.S. Code Section 1512(c).
Defense attorneys argue that the statute, enacted as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, was intended only to prosecute corporate fraud in publicly traded companies, not First Amendment political protests. The case of Joseph W. Fischer v. United States is the first Jan. 6 case to make it onto the Supreme Court calendar and could have a major impact on many cases if the high court strikes down the DOJ actions.
Dozens of other cases from Jan. 6 are in various stages of appeal. These include claims that the DOJ withheld exculpatory evidence from defense teams, resulting in unfair bench and jury trials. Other cases cite the refusal by federal judges to grant zero change of venue requests as evidence that defendants are not facing juries of their peers.
What Impact Has the Release of the Capitol Security Video Had?
In 2022, then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave exclusive access to more than 40,000 hours of Capitol Police security video to Fox News, The Epoch Times, Just the News, and columnist Julie Kelly.
The video provided to those media outlets led to some revelations, including an important look at the medical aid provided to Ms. Boyland as she awaited transport via a D.C. Fire and EMS Service ambulance.
Paramedics stop the gurney carrying Rosanne Boyland near the House Wing Door at the U.S. Capitol and move her to the floor to continue CPR on Jan. 6, 2021. (U.S. Capitol Police/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)
However, the House has not fulfilled about half of the video requests made by The Epoch Times, limiting the media’s ability to fully cover the events of Jan. 6.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has decided to hire a contractor to blur the faces of identifiable persons on the video, setting off a fury of complaints on social media. That decision will prevent media and defendants from using facial recognition software to track suspicious actors and determine the numbers of undercover agents and informants in the crowds that day.
What’s Next for Jan. 6 Investigations?
It remains to be seen if GOP House members will successfully press for a new Jan. 6 committee to investigate the myriad issues ignored by the Democrat-controlled House Select Committee in 2022.
Major unresolved questions include what role undercover police, federal agents, and informants played in the crowds on Jan. 6.
Court documents filed by Jan. 6 defendant William Pope of Topeka, Kansas, exposed the presence of dozens of undercover Metropolitan Police Department Electronic Surveillance Unit officers on Jan. 6.
Bobby Powell is interviewed in Terra Ceia, Fla., in November 2022 for “The Real Story of Jan. 6 Part 2: The Long Road Home,” a documentary from The Epoch Times. (Paulio Shakespeare/The Epoch Times)
One of those officers appeared to participate as an agitator, helping protesters over police barricades and urging them to go up to, and into, the Capitol.
Radio journalist Bobby Powell has spent three years trying to get investigators and journalists to look at a video he shot on the east patio of the Capitol, showing a man who looked like an undercover operative vandalizing a large sheet of glass in a Capitol window. Mr. Powell’s story is told in The Epoch Times’ new documentary: “The Real Story of Jan. 6: The Long Road Home.”
There will likely also be fallout from alleged perjured testimony given at the first trial of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four other defendants that ran from Sept. 27 through Nov. 29, 2022.
Journalist Steve Baker from Blaze Media says his video investigation showed that an alleged confrontation between Oath Keepers and USCP Officer Harry Dunn never happened because the witness—USCP Special Agent David Lazarus—was nowhere near Mr. Dunn or the Oath Keepers at the time.
The revelations cast serious doubt on testimony given by Mr. Lazarus and Mr. Dunn in the Oath Keepers trial. One Oath Keepers defense attorney, Brad Geyer, said the development should lead to Oath Keepers guilty verdicts being set aside.
Perhaps the biggest remaining mystery is the identity of the person who planted pipe bombs at the D.C. headquarters of both the GOP and Democrat parties on Jan. 5, 2021.
The FBI has increased its reward—it’s now at $500,000—for information leading to an arrest, but has reported little progress over the past three years.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has refused to release its analysis of the bombs after The Epoch Times filed a Freedom of Information Act request in 2022.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/explainer-jan-6-and-its-aftermath
Bringing the Roof Down on Anti-Semitism
By J.R. Dunn
Thinking about the recent surge in anti-Semitism (brought to us by the Democrats, Antifa, the NAACP, and Harvard) called to mind my favorite historical instance of a rabid anti-Semite getting his well-earned comeuppance.
The story involves Roland Freisler, one of the most odious human beings of the 20th century. Characterizing Freisler as a fanatic Nazi just won’t cut it. He was more the Platonic ideal of a diehard, foaming-at-the-mouth-in-the-bunker Nazi, the kind that all other Nazi strive to emulate, even amid the bitter knowledge that they will never match him for sheer vileness.
Freisler was a pure opportunist. While a POW in Russia during WW I, he eagerly attached himself to the Bolsheviks following the October 1917 coup. He served as a commissar on their behalf in his POW camp and was also involved with the paramilitary Red Guards.
After the war, Freisler returned to Germany as a full-fledged communist. Yet within a short time, he just as avidly connected with the Nazi party, joining up in 1925. He quickly worked his way into the Nazi hierarchy, culminating in his appointment as the chief of the Reich’s Ministry of Justice in 1934, where he oversaw the Nazification of the German justice system.
Freisler was a key figure at the Wannsee conference in January 1942, in which the planning for the Final Solution was carried out.
Later that year, he was appointed president of the Volksgerichtshof (People’s Court), essentially becoming Adolf Hitler’s hanging judge. Freisler had witnessed Soviet show trials while visiting the USSR during the 30s, and imported Stalinist methods to Nazi Germany for the same purpose. Although legal protocols were followed in form, the trials were circuses, with Freisler shouting insults and imprecations at the defendants while the defense counsel stood meekly silent before hearing the inevitable death sentence. One of Freisler’s tricks was to see that the prisoners in the dock were issued with oversized pants with no belts, allowing him to scream “Stop fiddling with your trousers!” Among his victims was the schoolgirl Sophie Scholl of the White Rose resistance movement.
On February 3, 1945, Freisler was presiding over the trial of Fabian von Schlabrendorff, who as a Wehrmacht officer had been prominent in Ludwig Beck’s underground resistance group attempting to bring down Hitler, and who had helped carry out several failed assassination efforts. Schlabrendorff had been picked up in the vast manhunt following Col. Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg’s bold July 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler. The end result was foreordained. But before
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/bringing_the_roof_down_on_antisemitism.html
(Richard: The gun control movement in the US started as a means to keep, Blacks, Irish and Italians from acquiring firearms, the laws were all local laws. In 1934 the National Firearms Act took the gun control effort Federal and was meant to prevent anyone from having firearms that were useful in self defense. The gun control laws have not succeeded in preventing the citizens from owning firearms but they have made it difficult in some locations, however they have succeeded in accomplishing their other goals which are:
Convincing people that inanimate objects commit crimes for force people to commit crimes, you see this in the reporting of Gun Crimes, with the descriptions of the crime as being crimes the gun committed.
Convincing otherwise intelligent people that you can change the meaning of the Constitution by reinterpreting the meaning of the sections of the Constitution. Doing this destroys the entire Constitution, if the various sections and amendments are carved in stone all of our rights are subject to the whims of Politicians and politically active Judges. Using this idea the left has been attacking all of the First Amendment rights, the Second Amendment rights, the Fourth Amendment rights and the Fifth Amendment rights.
The above attacks have reached the point where the attacks are not just verbal comments and legislative actions but are verging on Kinetic action against the people who are opposing these attacks. )
Growing Number of California Law Enforcement Say They Won’t Enforce New Carry Restrictions
By Cam Edwards | 1:01 PM on January 05, 2024
Growing Number of California Law Enforcement Say They Won’t Enforce New Carry Restrictions
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It’s Day Five of California’s latest experiment in infringing on the rights of lawful gun owners, and while the “gun-free zones” imposed by SB 2 that make it impossible for concealed carry holders to actually bear arms in the vast majority of publicly accessible places can be enforced for the time being, according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a growing number of sheriffs and district attorneys say they have no plans to do so… or at least not in a way that violates the rights of their constituents.
The first cracks in the wall that Gavin Newsom and his fellow Democrats have erected around the right to carry appeared on Wednesday afternoon, when Sutter County Sheriff Brandon Barnes and Sutter County District Attorney Jennifer R. Dupré released a joint statement that encouraged “citizens to obey the law” while vowing to use their discretionary power to not criminalize “constitutionally protected behavior”.
As a Sheriff’s Office, we use discretionary decision making in our investigations and act in accordance with the spirit of the intended law.
As a District Attorney’s Office, we evaluate cases based on the totality of the circumstances and the ability to seek successful prosecution based on the evidence presented to us.
The Sutter County Sheriff’s Office and The Sutter County District Attorney’s Office will work collaboratively to evaluate circumstances on a case-by-case basis and do what is in the best interest of justice and our community.
We have no interest in criminalizing constitutionally protected behavior. We took an oath to uphold our Constitution and will work to protect the rights of our citizens. This issue is far from being resolved and we are hopeful the courts will rule in favor of our constitution. We will continue to keep our community informed on this important issue.
On Thursday, Yuba County Sheriff Wendell Anderson and Yuba County District Attorney Clint Curry released a joint statement of their own calling SB 2 “repugnant to the United States Constitution” and reassuring their constituents that “until the legal challenges to SB 2 have been definitively settled by the courts, we will exercise our common sense and discretion to ensure the law is not enforced in a way that would violate the rights of our citizens.”
We’ll be talking with attorney Kostas Moros, who’s heavily involved in the litigation against SB 2, on Monday’s Bearing Arms Cam & Co, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more statements from other sheriffs and prosecutors to discuss by then.
This is a very welcome development. It doesn’t, however, change the fact that, as of right now, California concealed carry holders run the risk of committing a crime every time they try to lawfully bear arms in the state thanks to the sheer number and variety of “sensitive places” where concealed carry has been banned under SB 2. I’m glad to see a growing number of law enforcement officials say they’ll use their discretion when it comes to enforcing SB 2, but until the courts do their duty and declare the new law to be a gross violation of the Second Amendment, the rights of their constituents (and everyone else in California) will continue to be infringed and tread upon.
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2024/01/05/growing-number-of-california-law-enforcement-say-they-wont-enforce-new-carry-restrictions-n79059
Sometimes you read about naughty cars that just mow people down. Or VERY naughty machetes that go on beheading jihad. Aloha-snackbar!
(Richard: When I enlisted in the Army in 1966 you could order firearms through the mail, they were mainly WWII surplus weapons but were usually in good shape and excellent hunting rifles or self defense handguns. During my 3 years of active duty I saved up money to buy several surplus firearms, but while I was in Germany in 1968 Congress passed the Gun Control Act of 1968 stopping the purchase of firearms through the mail. This is supposedly done to reduce crimes committed with a gun but has done nothing but disarm the victims of the human predators. )
Today’s Gun Control Isn’t Normal, And We Shouldn’t Pretend That It Is
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One very troublesome aspect of human psychology is normalcy bias, our hesitance to believe that the way things are right now is how they’ll always be, and how they always were. In many ways, that’s how it is with gun control. It’s easy to think that just because something has been a certain way your whole life that it can’t possibly change. Whether we live in denial or not, sometimes the world changes anyway.
After the NYSRPA v Bruen decision, anti-gun politicians and commentators accused the Supreme Court of things like “repealing the 20th century.” But, the truth is that even most of the 20th century wasn’t a gun control paradise. In this article, I’m going to give several examples of things that are “unthinkable” today that show gun control is both relatively new and entirely worthless.
Let’s start with this ad from 100 years ago:
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100 years ago today…
Open up your issue of Popular Science. See ad. Hey.. neat.
Send postcard, don’t send money. To California.
Company sends you pistol(s). From California. To your house.
You pay the postman.
This is the way…
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Not only was concealed carry and gun ownership common in those days, but one could simply send in a postcard requesting one. When the gun arrived, you’d pay the postman for the gun and then have it. There was no waiting period, background check, or any other hoop to jump through. The gun would go straight to your door.
But, if you wanted to go to a store and get one. Hardware stores sold firearms, suppressors, and many other highly-regulated things right on the shelf like a BB gun today. But, this guy thinks such a thing is crazy, despite it being normal only decades ago.
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If you’re against the ban on ghost guns, you in essence believe there should be no background checks on gun purchases whatsoever. You believe you should be able to pick up a gun at Ace Hardware next to the hammers.
It would be nice for RMGO to just admit this. #copolitics #coleg
https://twitter.com/alanfranklin/status/1741927190566981980
Yes, we freely admit it!
If you ask around in your family, you can probably find similar tales of completely uncontrolled guns. In my family, my grandfather (who graduated high school in 1953, just 50 years before I did) says that he would just take guns to school. The teacher would have kids put their rifles in the back of the room or put them in their lockers during class so they could go to the school’s shooting range or go hunting after school.
Nobody got hurt. Nobody shot the place up.
My dad, who was in high school a couple decades later, tells similar stories. They didn’t want guns in the building, but it was completely normal for a gun or two to sit on a rifle rack in the back window of the cab of a pickup. Once again, despite students having guns on school grounds, nobody got them out and shot the place up. Shootings of any kind were far more rare than they are today (and they’re still pretty rare today).
People taught their kids to be responsible with guns. They taught them to be good people for the most part. Schools weren’t like prisons and kids got a healthy dose of personal freedom to grow as they became adults. The country has always had atheists, anarchists, socialists, and queer people (even if we had to hide in the closet), so those social changes don’t explain it, either. After all, the 1960s were a wild time, and we didn’t see anyone shooting people on campuses except the government (and Charles Whitman), right?
Something else changed, but it sure wasn’t the guns. If anything, removing guns and personal freedom from childhood contributed to this problem or caused it entirely.
We Shouldn’t Let People Treat Gun Control Like It’s Normal
When we see gun control activists acting like we’re crazy for not accepting their laws as normal, we need to remind them that what they’ve done to society isn’t normal. We should be able to take a gun just about anywhere we want without having to grovel for permission and pay money. We should be able to order guns online and have them shipped to our door, or go get one from a vending machine if someone wants to offer them and we want to buy one.
Kids should be taught not only gun safety, but marksmanship and an appreciation for human rights and freedom for all in schools. It should be normal for an older kid or teenager who has proven to their parents that they’re responsible to be able to go shooting after school and not have to swing by the house first.
They may have won against us decades ago, but that doesn’t mean we have to pretend that it’s acceptable or normal today.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/todays-gun-control-isnt-normal-and-we-shouldnt-pretend-that-it-is/
Has the Pharmaceutical Industry Manipulated Civid Vaccine Regulations?
Dr. Philip McMillan – January 6, 2024
Susan F. Langlois (Canada), who is now retired from the pharmaceutical vaccine regulatory field, with over 40 years experience working across many companies. Previously worked in the Pharmaceutical industry, interacting with the FDA and Health Canada to bring previous vaccines to the public.
https://philipmcmillan.substack.com/p/has-the-pharmaceutical-industry-manipulated?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Has the Pharmaceutical Industry Manipulated Civid Vaccine Regulations?
Dr. Philip McMillan – January 6, 2024
Susan F. Langlois (Canada), who is now retired from the pharmaceutical vaccine regulatory field, with over 40 years experience working across many companies. Previously worked in the Pharmaceutical industry, interacting with the FDA and Health Canada to bring previous vaccines to the public.
https://philipmcmillan.substack.com/p/has-the-pharmaceutical-industry-manipulated?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Didn’t V. Ramaswampy make his fortune in the pharmaceutical industry?
Enrichment in Antwerp, Belgium. A fight over a parking spot, all involved are the usual suspects. Video:
https://www.dumpert.nl/item/100081425_f25efc2b
PS Note the scenery, the neighborhood looks pretty slummy.
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?#WATCH: As Alabama man gets arrested after taking a dive naked into the fish aquarium at a Bass Pro Shop
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Witness the arrest of a 42-year-old man, Owens, who impulsively dove naked into the aquarium at a Bass Pro Shop in Leeds, Alabama. The incident took place shortly before the store’s closing time on Thursday. Owens, displaying erratic behavior, intentionally drove a vehicle into a pole in the store’s parking lot, as reported by the chief. Following the crash, the suspect exited the vehicle, disrobed, and sprinted into the Bass Pro Shop, ultimately leaping into the aquarium. The man’s family informed the police about his struggles with mental illness. Owens is expected to face a variety of charges, including public lewdness, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, second-degree assault, two counts of criminal mischief for hitting the pole and damaging the patrol car, and two counts of reckless endangerment for his reckless driving.
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1743732175357227256
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New California law allows non-U.S. Citizens to become police officers
With the new year, comes new state laws, including a 2023 law that changed the qualifications to become a police officer in California.
SAN DIEGO — With the new year, comes new state laws, including one that changed the qualifications to become a police officer in California.
Now, anyone who can legally work in the state under federal law, can be a police officer, regardless of citizenship.
CBS 8 cleared up some misconceptions about the new law by going directly to the State Senator who wrote the bill, and we talked with the San Diego Police Officers Association about their concerns.
“The San Diego Police Department has lost over 500 officers since July of 2020. That’s drastic. We need everyone we can to be able to be a police officer. However, we are not in favor of reducing the requirements and lowering the standards,” said Sgt. Jared Wilson, speaking as President and on behalf of the San Diego Police Officer’s Association.
Wilson said they do have concerns about the new California law that changed the qualifications to become a police officer in the state.
Prior to Jan. 1, 2023, you had to be a United States citizen or permanent resident to qualify for the job.
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/california-law-allows-non-us-citizens-to-become-police-officers/509-c10419f3-12b1-475e-a6cf-eba00c5337f7
Defund the Police: A win-win for The Enemy.
We’ll be training and arming the invaders crossing the welcome mat that used to be a border. They’ll get expedited citizenship so they can vote and murder candidates posing as opposition.
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WATCH: This shocking video has gone viral with 5 million views as conservatives across Europe and North America warn against importing Africa’s rape culture to Western nations.
https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1742310436169736216
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Explosion heard near city of Shiraz in southern Iran
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January 6, 2024 at 2:39 pm
A view of the scene after explosions leaving at least 73 feared dead in explosions near slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s tomb, in Kerman City, Iran on January 03, 2024 [Stringer – Anadolu Agency]
A view of the scene after explosions leaving at least 73 feared dead in explosions near slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s tomb, in Kerman City, Iran on January 03, 2024 [Stringer – Anadolu Agency]
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A large explosion was heard on Saturday near Lake Bakhtegan, near the city of Shiraz in southern Iran, Anadolu Agency reports.
Speaking to Iran’s state television, Gulamreza Gulami, crisis management director in the Fars province, confirmed that a huge explosion was heard in Shiraz.
The official rejected claims that the explosion was caused by a plane or helicopter crash in the region.
“The cause of the explosion is unknown, but according to the follow-up from Shiraz airport, there was no passenger plane or helicopter crash in the region,” the official said.
“The army’s air defense unit also confirmed the sound of a large explosion in the area. Local authorities, police and military units are investigating the issue,” Gulami said.
There are no residential areas around Lake Bakhtegan.
At least two powerful explosions ripped through the southeastern city of Kerman on Wednesday, in close vicinity to the cemetery where Iran’s former top military commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani lies buried.
Daesh/ISIS on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the attacks in which 91 people were killed.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240106-explosion-heard-near-city-of-shiraz-in-southern-iran/
But none of Soleimani’s family was there, nor were senior Twisted Ragheads.
“Ep. 61 This the smartest, best informed account of what actually happened on January 6th.” Tucker Carlson – January 6, 2024
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1743724117113602512
Military sends 2nd plane to Jamaica after his plane breaks down. LEAVE HIM THERE, let him have a taste of what is like not to be able to come or go from your own country. We don’t want him to come back. Freeland, Joly, Guillbeault, Carney should go visit him and stay. Doesn’t hurt to dream sports fans.
Otherwise it might’ve been a back up – or fix up “repair” – that’s what took down Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Coal’s Life-Saving Role Ignored By Climate-Obsessed Media
by Guest Contributor Jan. 6, 2024 7:40 pm5 Comments
By Vijay Jayaraj
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On a recent cold winter day, residents of Munich were surprised to see people skiing in the street. Yes, that is how much snow fell in the German city and other parts of Europe during the early winter of 2023-2024.
Despite a disruption to both ground and air travel, the Germans survived the freezing weather with access to heating and basic utilities. But not everyone in our world is as fortunate as those living off reliable energy sources in Western economies.
Billions of people all over the world do not have access to secure sources of heat and electricity. For these, winter can be a death blow. A political war against fossil fuels is making matters worse for those unprotected from frigid temperatures.
Snow is deadly and is not going away
The gravity of winter’s hazard has been overshadowed by the prevailing discourse on purported man-made climate change. We have been inundated with warnings about the perils of warming. But historically, it is the cold that has been disastrous. It has altered the course of history across the world and left people scrambling for food as plant life dwindled.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/coals-life-saving-role-ignored-climate-obsessed-media/
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Ep. 61 This the smartest, best informed account of what actually happened on January 6th
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