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Is North Korea Doing Combat Missile Tests In Ukraine?
by Larry Johnson Jan. 7, 2024 9:40 am6 Comments
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The White House National Security spokesman, John Kirby, claimed that North Korea supplied Russia with ballistic missiles that were used in attacks on Ukrainian targets.
Russia has started using ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea to attack Ukraine, Washington and Kyiv have claimed, in an indication that Moscow plans to further expand its arms deals with regimes under sanctions in order to sustain its war effort.
Washington also alleged Russia was in talks with Iran to buy short-range ballistic missiles. The US intelligence assessment is that Iranian missiles have not yet arrived in Russia, but that the deal will eventually be done.
The US reports were endorsed by several Ukrainian officials, including an adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s administration, who said that Russian arms deals with Pyongyang and Tehran made the country part of a new “axis of evil of the [21st] century”.
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So what is going on? A couple of possibilities exist. For instance, this could be part of a coordinated U.S. and Ukraine psy-op aka information warfare ploy to ratchet up pressure on the Republican House of Representatives to cough up $61 billion dollars to fund the losing cause in Ukraine. Or, this could be true.
If true, the United States and Ukraine are playing this up as a sign of Russian desperation and limited supplies of its own ballistic missiles. It is important to understand that a North Korean ballistic missile is not a sophisticated, maneuverable weapon system.
A ballistic missile is a type of missile that uses projectile motion to deliver warheads on a target. These weapons are powered only during relatively brief periods—most of the flight is unpowered. Short-range ballistic missiles stay within the Earth’s atmosphere, while intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are launched on a sub-orbital flight.
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Notwithstanding the continued vain hope in Washington and Kiev that Russia is running out of cruise and hypersonic missiles, there is no credible evidence to substantiate that belief. So why would Russia want to use a North Korean missile and, as reported in the Guardian, Iranian short-range ballistic missiles?
Let me posit one possible explanation — North Korea and Iran want to test their weapon systems in combat conditions. Normally, North Korea and Iran test their ballistic missiles in non-hostile environments, i.e. a launch that is not facing an air defense system. Being able to launch some of these in a real world combat theater like Ukraine gives the weapons engineers in North Korea and Iran a chance to see if those ballistic missiles perform as expected when fired against combat targets in Ukraine.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/is-north-korea-doing-combat-missile-tests-ukraine/
(Richard: There is some good information in this article but some BS also, the BS is mainly about how Russia isn’t drawing down its inventory of missiles and other munitions. The Russian factories are working hard 24/7 to keep their Army supplied with munitions, even so they are throwing a lot of rockets, bombs cruise missiles, drones and small arms ammo at Ukraine. They are also buying munitions from China and Iran, there is no reason that they aren’t also buying munitions from North Korea, in fact it would be surprising if they aren’t buying from them. As for the idea that Nork is using the war to test their weapons in combat conditions the answer is WELL DUH, of course they are the Iranians and the Chinese are doing the same thing and if as I suspect Russia is buying munitions from India they are also using the Ukrainian war as a lab to test their weapons.
Johnson is a Russophile that seems to think that Russia can violate the laws of physics and economics at will, he is a better source them most but he needs to keep in closer touch with reality.
Report: Taliban Visited North Korea Seeking Nuclear Weapons
by Guest Contributor Jan. 7, 2024 2:00 pm
Guest by post by Bob Unruh
‘That is going to be a disaster’
The Taliban in Afghanistan, who took control of the nation when Joe Biden abruptly withdrew American military personnel, leaving behind thousands of civilians and billions of dollars worth of American war machinery, now reportedly are seeking access to nuclear weapons.
Biden a few years ago abruptly pulled American troops out of the troubled nation in a scheme that cost more than a dozen American lives.
Then the Taliban took over control, gaining access to war machinery that the U.S. had stockpiled there for years.
On the Americans’ exit, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled and the Taliban declared victory, taking control of all parts of the government.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/report-taliban-visited-north-korea-seeking-nuclear-weapons/
Well, they’re using something important from NorK besides the 155 ammo. I couldn’t get the details with my shabby Russian, but it’s the same as a powerful, expensive thing that had to be used sparingly. Now they’re pouring this weapon out, same name as in Russian but carries the preface _”Kim”_.
Johnson is more than a Russophile – he’s on the payroll of the department of communications within the Ministry of Defense. That’s the odious Shoigu’s department.
I’ve got a file on him. That conservatives at Gateway Pundit see fit to promote this dubious character is unfortunate. He poses as a veteran CIA agent, but that’s little more than a cover story.
He’s less guarded on his own website. He’s a favorite of a clique that includes Moon of Alabama (a German Communist), Scott Ritter (convicted pedophile who hates us; Russia gifted him with a very young Georgian wife/handler). There are a couple of genuine Western spooks who got turned and had to be exfiltrated chop-chop.
When I have time I’ll add more about him and other good buddies of Judge Nap.
Agam Goldstein Almog, a 17-year-old Girl Kidnapped by Hamas Terrorists, Shares Harrowing Details of Captivity(Video)
by Margaret Flavin Jan. 7, 2024 10:00 am
17-year-old Agam Goldstein Almog was released after 51 days of captivity at the hands of Hamas terrorists.
Agam recently shared her harrowing experiences and recounted the murder of her father, sharing, “My father stood at the entrance to the shelter with a plank from my sister’s bed. They entered and shot him straight away. He yelled, ‘No, no no’ but they shot him straight away. And we sat huddled in the corner of the room. They led us outside and we walked over my father, we saw him lying with his arms up.”
“We didn’t even get a chance to kiss him or say goodbye. Everything was hazy with their yells. And then my sister fainted and she was shot too.”
“We arrived in Gaza….you’re experiencing death. You don’t know when it’ll catch you or how it will look.You don’t know if it’ll happen with torture or if they’ll shoot you or even from air strikes. The entire time you’re thinking about how you’re going to die, how it will meet you.”
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17 year old Agam Goldstein Almog watched her father get murdered and was then kidnapped by Hamas terrorists to Gaza.
During her 51 days in captivity she witnessed horrific evidence of torture and and sexual abuse of female hostages.
Listen to her cry to bring all of our hostages home.
#BringThemAllHome
https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1743957647353655560
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/agam-goldstein-almog-17-year-old-girl-kidnapped/
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Desperate For Votes: Biden Claims His Administration Approved $132 Billion In Student Loan Forgiveness
by Sharika Soal Jan. 7, 2024 9:20 am215 Comments
Just in time for the election, some might think after reading the headline.
Forbes reports,
Despite this unprecedented level of loan forgiveness, the relief is still only a fraction of the nearly $2 trillion in outstanding student loan debt that Americans carry.
And the amount of debt cancellation so far falls short of the sweeping student debt relief that President Joe Biden had intended to implement as part of his broad-based loan forgiveness plan that the Supreme Court rejected last summer.
Still, top officials are touting the achievements and assuring borrowers that additional relief is coming.
Biden’s staff took to his X account to reiterate the claim
“My Administration has cancelled student debt for 3.6 million people through various actions, bringing the promise of higher education to more hardworking Americans,” said President Biden on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday. “And we’re going to keep going.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/desperate-votes-biden-claims-his-administration-approved-132/
Florida Teacher Facing Federal Charges After Making at Least 28 Sex Tapes With 8th-Grade Student
by Cassandra MacDonald Jan. 7, 2024 8:45 am177 Comments
A teacher in Orange County, Florida, is facing federal charges after the parents of an 8th-grade student found 28 sex videos of them together on his phone.
The teacher, Marie-Jo Gordo, was indicted on three counts of sexually exploiting a minor on Wednesday. The jury determined that she “(enticed) a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct” and then “(produced) a visual depiction of such conduct.”
The Orlando Sentinel reports, “Federal investigators said the student’s parents found video of Marie-Jo Gordo and their underage son, whom she taught in 2019, having sex in what appeared to be vehicles and hotel rooms throughout Central Florida. The videos were taken between June and September of 2023 and three were described in court filings.”
At least one of the videos was over 13 minutes long.
According to court records obtained by WESH, the sex crimes happened in hotel rooms “throughout Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/florida-teacher-facing-federal-charges-after-making-least/
IDF Finds Evidence Iran Aided Hamas in Developement of Cruise Missile Capabilities
by Margaret Flavin Jan. 7, 2024 8:30 am129 Comments
On Sunday, the IDF announced that its intelligence apparatus obtained evidence of Iranian involvement in training Hamas terrorists in the manufacturing of precision rockets and other strategic weapons.
During the raid of a Hamas site in the area of Gaza City’s Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods, Nahal Brigade soldiers and special forces unearthed a tunnel shaft leading to an underground weapons manufacturing plant.
The Israeli military says they discovered technological equipment, including components used by Hamas to build accurate missiles. To this point, it was not believed the terror group possessed that capability.
According to The Times of Israel:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/idf-finds-evidence-iran-aided-hamas-developement-cruise/
Trump Promises Iron Dome for America During Iowa Speech (VIDEO)
by Cassandra MacDonald Jan. 7, 2024 7:30 am111 Comments
Former President Donald Trump promised to build an Iron Dome around America during a speech in Iowa over the weekend.
Trump complained that we are giving billions of dollars to other countries “so they can build a dome” but do not have one protecting our own nation.
The Republican frontrunner discussed his plan during a speech at the Newton, Iowa, campus of the Des Moines Area Community College.
Before discussing his plan for a giant dome, Trump blasted Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Ambassador Nikki Haley as “bought and paid for by the neocons and the warmongers and the corrupt Washington establishment, the military establishment, and they’ve seen a war they didn’t like.”
“We’re losing our blood, and we’re losing our treasure all over the world,” Trump said. “We want to protect our country.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/trump-promises-iron-dome-america-during-iowa-speech/
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DC U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves is making clear that the DOJ is now going to target Americans who were around the Capitol on J6 but did not enter the building
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1743683804261138804
Trump says he has ‘more indictments than Al Capone’
The Republican frontrunner addressed rally in Iowa and accused President Joe Biden of “corruption and failure”
Trump says he has ‘more indictments than Al Capone’
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Mason City, Iowa, January 5, 2023 © AP / Charlie Neibergall
Former US President Donald Trump has dismissed the multiple criminal cases against him, telling supporters that he’s been prosecuted more harshly than infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone. He made his comments at a rally in Iowa ahead of the first contest of the election year.
“I’ve got more indictments than Al Capone, did you ever hear of Al Capone?” Trump asked supporters in Mason City on Friday. “The great Alphonse Capone…but I’ve got it worse than Al Capone and he’s about as bad as you get,” he continued.
“This was never in my plan…I was being indicted so fast we didn’t know where in the hell they were coming from. If I flew over a blue state, the next day I’d get served with a subpoena,” he exclaimed, to laughter from the crowd.
With eleven months to go until the 2024 presidential election, Trump is facing more than 90 criminal counts in two federal cases – concerning his alleged instigation of the January 2021 riot on Capitol Hill and his alleged mishandling of classified documents – as well as two state-level cases and a multitude of civil suits.
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He has dismissed the federal indictments as a “pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election.”
Trump held two rallies in Iowa on Friday, during which he implored residents of the Hawkeye State to turn up at next week’s Republican caucuses and support his bid for the presidency. The Iowa caucuses are the first contest of the primary season, and recent polling shows him with a commanding 32-point lead over his nearest Republican rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Nevertheless, Trump urged his supporters not to get complacent. “Bad things happen when you sit back,” he said, adding that “you have to get out and vote because it sets the tone. It even sets the tone, frankly, for November.”
Hours before Trump spoke in Iowa, President Joe Biden delivered a speech of his own in Pennsylvania, in which he claimed that American democracy was “nearly lost” when Trump’s supporters rioted at the Capitol three years ago.
Trump argued that Biden is the real “threat to democracy,” citing the indictments against him and the harsh sentences handed down to non-violent participants in the Capitol riot.
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“Joe Biden’s record is an unbroken streak of weakness, incompetence, corruption, and failure,” Trump told the crowd at the first rally of the evening. “That’s why Crooked Joe is staging his pathetic fearmongering campaign event in Pennsylvania today.”
Despite the Biden campaign’s efforts to frame the 2024 election as a referendum on democracy itself rather than on his own record, most recent polls show the incumbent Democrat losing to Trump.
https://www.rt.com/news/590205-trump-indictments-al-capone/
(Richard: Trump is correct, if SCOTUS doesn’t rule in his favor the rule of law is dead in the US and may never be revived.)
Trump warns of ‘big trouble’ as Supreme Court agrees to hear Colorado ballot case
Former President Trump warned Friday that there will be “big trouble” if the Supreme Court does not rule in his favor on his eligibility for the 2024 presidential ballot.
The Supreme Court is set to hear the Colorado case after the state’s Supreme Court determined last month that Trump should not be on the primary ballot due to his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“I just hope we get fair treatment,” Trump said at an Iowa rally Friday. “Because if we don’t, our country’s in big, big trouble. Does everybody understand what I’m saying?”
Trump also complained of Democrats casting doubt on the court because Trump appointed three of its justices, claiming that they are attempting to put undue political pressure on the court’s decisions.
“They’re saying, ‘Oh, Trump owns the Supreme Court, he owns it. He owns it. If they make a decision for him, it will be terrible. It’ll ruin their reputations,” he said. “‘He owns the Supreme Court. He put on three judges. He owns the Supreme Court. If they rule in his favor, it will be horrible for them. And we’ll protest at their houses.’”
“That puts pressure on people to do the wrong thing. What they’re doing is no different than Bobby Knight,” he continued, referring to the legendary college basketball coach famous for raucous arguments with referees.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-warns-big-trouble-supreme-144047362.html
(Richard: The Marxists always try to destroy the Middle Class, this class is the group that make the economy work, destroy them and you make more people dependent on the Government for everything.)
Get ready to spend two years in prison
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Hunter Biden most likely isn’t going to jail any time soon despite an obvious track record of fraud and criminality. But if you happen to be a small business owner in the Land of the Free, you are looking at potentially two years in prison if you don’t comply with a new law that just took effect yesterday.
It started nearly five years ago, in the spring of 2019.
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Back then, a member of Congress from the state of New York– a career politician with five decades of experience named Carolyn Maloney– introduced a new bill to the House of Representatives called the Corporate Transparency Act, or CTA.
At first her bill didn’t go anywhere.
But the following summer, during the peak Covid insanity of 2020, the CTA was jammed into the nearly 1,500-page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), i.e. the military budget that Congress is required to pass each year.
The NDAA (and hence the CTA along with it) were passed on January 1, 2021. And now, three years later, the CTA has formally taken effect.
Now, the whole premise behind the Corporate Transparency Act is the classic boogeyman premise that evil criminals and terrorists use US corporations and LLCs to conduct their illicit activities, so therefore the government wants more rules, regulations, and reporting for US companies.
This is the same simple-minded hysteria that we always hear about cryptocurrency, i.e. criminals and terrorists use Bitcoin, therefore it should be tightly regulated by hapless government bureaucrats.
Obviously, it’s true that criminals can and do use crypto– or US business entities like Delaware LLCs– to commit their crimes.
Criminals also use iPhones, Facebook, Gmail, Dell laptops, JP Morgan Chase bank accounts, Ford F-150 pickup trucks, Amazon gift cards, and Verizon Wireless to commit their crimes.
But in this case, in the infinite wisdom of Congress, it’s business entities that are being singled out for additional scrutiny.
So, because criminals sometimes use US business entities to launder money, every law-abiding US citizen with a completely legitimate business now must jump through all sorts of hoops and reporting requirements.
And if you fail to report, you’re looking at two years in prison.
There are so many things about this that are completely stupid.
First off, the United States legal code already has dozens of anti-money laundering laws and regulations on the books. Seriously, dozens.
Yet clearly if Congress saw the need to pass a NEW anti-money laundering law (the CTA), then it stands to reason that those existing laws are ineffective… and hence should be repealed.
But that’s not how the government operates. They don’t strike off ineffective laws. They just keep piling more laws and rules on top of the old ones, creating a mountain of regulation for small businesses to navigate.
And I’m saying “small business” on purpose because that’s who is specifically targeted by the CTA.
Large, publicly traded companies are specifically exempt from reporting under the CTA. So are hedge funds, banks, and other large financial entities. Curiously, tax-exempt charities are also exempt.
So the Corporate Transparency Act deliberately goes after the little guy. Goldman Sachs, Black Lives Matter, and Facebook/Meta are exempt. Bob’s Hot Dog Stand is not.
And this is where it gets really ridiculous. One of the big requirements of the CTA is that small business owners must file a new report to the federal government each year to disclose the company’s shareholders.
But current federal law already requires LLCs to provide this information to the IRS each year. So, the CTA has essentially created a double-burden to send the exact same information– but in a different format– to multiple agencies within the Treasury Department.
You can’t make this stuff up.
And exactly what agency does Bob’s Hot Dog Stand have to report to? It’s called FinCEN, which stands for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
Think about the message they’re sending here; it’s as if owning a business in the United States of America is now some sort of f*ck!ng crime that needs to be reported.
For its part, FinCEN issued nearly ONE HUNDRED PAGES of regulations about how to comply with the CTA. Yes, I’m serious. The Corporate Transparency Act itself was ‘only’ about 20 pages. FinCEN’s rules are five times as long.
And, once again, failure to comply carries steep monetary and criminal penalties, including up to two years in prison.
Even this penalty is idiotic. Think about it– is some guy who launders money for some criminal gang or drug cartel really going to be deterred by the prospect of a two-year prison sentence? Probably not.
It’s far more likely that some completely innocent small business owner has his/her life turned upside down for non-compliance… because, as they always say, “ignorance of the law is not an excuse.”
Look, no one is arguing that criminals don’t often rely on US-registered businesses to conduct illegal activities.
The point is– what is the priority here?
The United States government is in an extremely precarious financial condition; calendar year 2023 saw the national debt increase by a whopping $2.5 trillion, totaling roughly $34 trillion as of today.
The debt is so large that annual gross interest payments are about to reach $1 trillion, which takes up a huge chunk of federal tax revenue. And this interest expense keeps growing at an alarming rate.
Forecasts from both the White House and the Congressional Budget Office show that, by 2031, interest expense, along with mandatory entitlement spending like Social Security, will consume the entirety of federal tax revenue.
Everything else we think of as the US federal government– from military spending to non-existent border security– will have to be funded by more debt… which just makes the problem worse.
That fiscal cliff is just seven years away. Then, two years later in 2033, Social Security’s primary trust fund will run out of money and require a multi-trillion-dollar bailout.
The ONLY way out of this mess is to have an economic renaissance in the United States which prioritizes productivity and growth.
It’s simple math; if real (i.e. inflation-adjusted) GDP grows by 3% instead of 2%, all of these problems will melt away over time. The federal government will be swimming in tax revenue, Social Security will be properly funded, and the US could re-assert itself as the global economic leader.
The solution is straightforward, and the US private sector has the capability to do it.
But then the government passes bonehead legislation like this that makes it more difficult, more cumbersome to own a business in America.
Hunter Biden will likely never see the inside of a prison cell. But if you’re one of the millions of small business owners that are critical to US economic growth, you’re now officially at risk if you do not comply.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-01-05/get-ready-spend-two-years-prison
January 7, 2024
Democrats ‘weaponizing’ weaponizing against Republicans
By Eric Utter
After an improbable — O.K., nearly interminable — amount of time, (former) Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned her post last week after an almost overwhelming amount of scholarly misconduct came to light.
In recent days, Gay has been credibly accused of turning a blind eye to antisemitism … and of multiple accounts of plagiarism.
This prompted the always-unbiased Associated Press to run an article titled, “Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.”
The same headline graced a corresponding post in ‘X.’
So, Democrats, at least the ones working for the Associated Press, are claiming that Republicans somehow “weaponized” plagiarism charges against Harvard’s Claudine Gay, who was recently removed as president of the formerly elite institution? (Though she is reportedly still a professor at the Ivy League’s most infamous famous Indoctrination Center, and an extremely well paid one at that.)
Later in the day, after being subject to some well-earned mockery, the AP changed the title to “Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrage.”
A conservative “attack?”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/01/democrats_weaponizing_weaponizing_against_republicans.html
New York Didn’t Just Attack Free Speech With NRA Assault
Wayne LaPierre is out at the NRA.
For some, that’s cause for celebration and I’m not just talking about anti-gunners. A lot of pro-gun people weren’t thrilled with where the group has been headed for the last little while.
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Anti-gunners seem to think that LaPierre’s exit signals the end of something on the pro-gun side of things. It does not.
Nor does it give New York some kind of pass with the shenanigan it tried to play with the NRA and the exercise of free speech.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/01/07/free-speech-nra-n79099
Say What? Antis Call for Assault Weapons Ban after School Shooting with Pump Shotgun and Handgun
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January 7, 2024
The “Newtown Action Alliance,” yet another gun control shill group funded by dark money came out minutes after news of the Perry, Iowa, mass casualty incident. The turn to their well-worn playbook to screech, “if Congress just passed a ban on popular self-defense firearms and the magazines that feed them we could all live happily ever after.”
https://twitter.com/NewtownAction/status/1742973825724137887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1742973825724137887%7Ctwgr%5E4bdb54bb76b056fb40456a9d252f718f1d47600b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetruthaboutguns.com%2Fsay-what-antis-call-for-assault-weapons-ban-after-school-shooting-with-pump-shotgun-and-handgun%2F
Nevermind that the killer was reportedly a transgendered misfit who stormed the school early in the morning, through the front door, before classes began. And that he didn’t have one of those scary black guns, but rather a pump-action shotgun and a handgun.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/say-what-antis-call-for-assault-weapons-ban-after-school-shooting-with-pump-shotgun-and-handgun/
Polite Chicago Carjacker Becomes Even More Polite As Victim Returns to Put Him At Gunpoint
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Darrius Berry, the polite alleged would-be carjacker. Image courtesy Chicago PD.
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Chicago Police solve precious few carjackings. Once in a while they will catch bad guys behind the wheel of “jacked rides,” then charge them with Criminal Trespass To Motor Vehicle (CTTV). Why? Because Cook County’s prosecutor Kim Foxx views violent criminals as “victims.” However, earlier this week, CPD got their carjacker. In fact, the only thing that 18-year-old Darrius Berry didn’t have when police arrived was a bow on top of his sorry head.
See Darrius very politely carjacked a man out of his SUV at 6:30am Tuesday. He told the driver to go into his house and apologized for carjacking him.
So the driver did as he was asked – he returned to his residence. And he got his gun
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/polite-chicago-carjacker-becomes-even-more-polite-as-victim-returns-to-put-him-at-gunpoint/
DARPA, Aurora Flight Sciences started building radical prototype plane
DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences’ X-65 prototype aims to pioneer a new type of aircraft that maneuvers using pressurized air instead of physical flight control surfaces.
By Michael Marrow on January 05, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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DARPA’s CRANE program is aimed at developing a test aircraft for demonstrating technologies for active control of air flow that can improve aerodynamics and performance. (DARPA)
WASHINGTON — DARPA this week announced that Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun building an aircraft that can maneuver without the need for traditional flight control surfaces.
DARPA’s Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program announced its Phase 3 award to Aurora on Wednesday, which noted that the company has already started making the project’s X-plane that has officially been designated the X-65. The 7,000-pound prototype with a 30-foot wingspan should be capable of reaching Mach 0.7 and is scheduled to be unveiled early next year.
The unmanned vehicle itself could fly as soon as summer 2025, according to the DARPA release. Aurora is the sole contractor after Lockheed Martin was eliminated following the program’s first phase; a December 2023 Pentagon notice previously listed the cumulative value of the CRANE contract at nearly $90 million.
Through the CRANE initiative, DARPA and Aurora are trying to break the mold of a feature foundational to aviation’s century-plus existence. Whereas aircraft have been operated with flight control surfaces — e.g. flaps and rudders — the CRANE drone is being designed to instead leverage pressurized air using active flow control (AFC) actuators to shape an aircraft’s flight.
The research agency says the AFC actuators can reduce weight and complexity as well as improve performance, though the X-65 will be built with traditional control surfaces and the new actuators. Once the actuators prove themselves, tests will progressively “lock down” the traditional flight control surfaces and gradually expand the role of the AFC devices, DARPA says.
The CRANE program is not the only purpose the X-65 can serve, as DARPA expects the prototype to live on as a valuable test asset, according to program director Richard Wlezien.
“We’re building the X-65 as a modular platform — wing sections and the AFC effectors can easily be swapped out — to allow it to live on as a test asset for DARPA and other agencies long after CRANE concludes,” Wlezien said in the release
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/01/darpa-aurora-flight-sciences-started-building-radical-prototype-plane/
George Stephanopoulos Stunned After Pelosi Suggests States Can Overrule Constitution and Ban Trump From Presidential Ballot (VIDEO)
by Cristina Laila Jan. 7, 2024 1:00 pm58 Comments
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Sunday suggested the states can overrule the US Constitution and ban Trump from the presidential ballot.
Pelosi appeared on ABC’s “This Week” to discuss Trump’s Colorado ballot appeal to the US Supreme Court with host George Stephanopoulos.
Last week President Trump asked the US Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar him from the 2024 ballot.
The Colorado Supreme Court last month disqualified Trump from the 2024 ballot.
On Friday the US Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments in the Colorado ballot case.
The legal theories are based on Section 3 of the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment which states public officials who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the US may be disqualified from public office.
Trump has not been charged with engaging in insurrection or rebellion against the United States.
The US Constitution has three requirements to be president:
Be a natural-born citizen of the United States.
Be at least 35 years old.
Have been a resident of the United States for 14 years.
Nancy Pelosi however on Sunday said the states can overrule the US Constitution and ban Trump from the ballot.
Even George Stephanopoulos, a lifelong Democrat hack and Deep State asset was stunned by Pelosi’s suggestion.
“You believe [Trump] is ineligible to be president?” Stephanopoulos asked Pelosi referring to the 14th Amendment.
“They have different laws from state-to-state,” Pelosi said.
A stunned Stephanopoulos interrupted Pelosi and said, “It’s the Constitution…”
“That’s not the point,” Pelosi said as she explained that every state has different laws.
WATCH:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1744026963126235392
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/george-stephanopoulos-stunned-after-pelosi-suggests-states-can/
(Richard: FYI it is the 14th Amendment not the 14th Article.
How do you defend the Constitution by ignoring it and the rule of law?)
This is not the first time that Pelosi overruled the Constitution.
She did that back in 2008. Just think, this little congresswoman from San Francisco was able to have an Insurrection, a Coup d’état of our government, and nobody said a word.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/dnc-failed-to-certify-obama-as-eligible-in-most-states1
That’s how things work when you control the media.
Hezbollah Threatens Israel with ‘Fighting Without Limits’
by Guest Contributor Jan. 7, 2024 12:40 pm
Guest by post by Bob Unruh
Warns of ‘tens of thousands of fatalities within the enemy entity in retaliation’
As the war the Gaza-based Hamas terrorists launched against Israel rages on, with the Israel Defense Forces promising to wipe out that group so its threat does not recur, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah organization is threatening Israel with “fighting without limits.”
The words were documented by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
The threat came in an article by Ibrahim Al-Amin, board chairman of the pro-Hezbollah Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar.
He threatened if Israel initiates a war against Lebanon, Hezbollah will use unconventional weapons.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/hezbollah-threatens-israel-fighting-without-limits/
The Moon Economic Wars
by Paul Serran Jan. 7, 2024 1:20 pm
Humans haven’t gone back to the moon yet, but it’s already generating controversy.
It’s a given that, no matter how deep into space humans go, they will bring along with them the cultural problems that we face on Planet Earth.
Broadly speaking, the plans for moon exploration involve tapping into the satellite’s minerals and maybe even water to help make the human-built permanent bases viable.
These bases would, in turn, become the stepping stones for further space exploration to Mars and beyond.
The issue of a human presence on the moon divides societies between the proponents of economic exploration of the moon and those whose conservationism – expressed as a way to ‘protect scientific development’.
Besides that, there is course the hard fact that the different nations undertaking the moon exploration are not necessarily friendly to each other – and to expect that these nations will behave in brotherly fashion in space when they fail to do it on Earth requires a large amount of hope.
UK’s The Guardian has an interesting article where they highlight how ‘science and business are heading for an astronomical clash’, right as an early pioneer probe – Peregrine mission one – is set for launch this week in an effort to survey the lunar landscape.
At present, the debate revolves around NASA’s $2.6bn Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative
The plan is to survey the moon for minerals, water, and other resources that can be extracted to build permanent, habitable bases there.
But astronomers took on a conservationist role, and warn that the unbridled exploitation of the moon could cause irreparable damage to ‘precious scientific sites’.
“’The issue has become urgent’, Martin Elvis, of the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, told the Observer. ‘We need to act now because decisions made today will set the tone for our future behaviour on the moon’.
This point was backed by astronomer Professor Richard Green, of the University of Arizona. ‘We are not trying to block the building of lunar bases. However, there are only a handful of promising sites there and some of these are incredibly precious scientifically. We need to be very, very careful where we build our mines and bases’.”
The United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs is expected to enforce the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.
It prevents nations from making territorial claims on celestial bodies, but says nothing about space mining and exploitation of resources.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/moon-economic-wars/
On the Blessed Day of Epiphany, Pope Francis Continued Trying to Gaslight the Faithful Into Buying His Controversial Approach to Doctrine and Dogma.
by Paul Serran Jan. 7, 2024 12:00 pm
At the last major celebration of the Christmas season, Epiphany, Globalist Pope Francis once again tried to reframe the latest, deep self-inflicted crisis of his papacy.
While Francis is the most political Pope of our times, he is always calling out conservative prelates, urging them NOT to take on political stances – which is quite hypocritical of him.
All the time, we see him bashing the people who are protecting the millenary Catholic dogma and doctrine that he is hell-bent on destroying.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/blessed-day-epiphany-pope-francis-continued-trying-gaslight/
High School Girls Basketball Game in New York Cancelled After Antisemitic Slurs Hurled at Jewish Players-“I Support Hamas, You F’ing Jew”
by Margaret Flavin Jan. 7, 2024 11:20 am
On Thursday, a girl’s basketball game between The Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, and Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers, was canceled in the third quarter after players from Roosevelt hurled antisemitic slurs at their Jewish opponents.
According to The New York City Public Schools Alliance, a Roosevelt player said to one opponent, “I support Hamas, you f–-ing Jew.”
In an op-ed for The Lion’s Roar, a student-run newspaper at Leffell, senior player Robin Bosworth shared the details of the disgusting display by the Roosevelt players in her piece, “Antisemitism at the Girls Varsity Basketball Game.”
Bosworth writes,
Throughout the first half of our game against Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, there was a somewhat hostile environment, with substantially more jabs and comments thrown at the players on our team than what I have experienced in the past. Despite this, our team chose to let their aggressiveness fuel us going into the second half of the game, as we continued to play passionately.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/high-school-girls-basketball-game-new-york-cancelled/
Protests erupted over the weekend in the town of Ballinrobe in Co Mayo, Ireland, over plans to bring 50 male migrants to the small town to be housed at the JJ Gannons Hotel.
The Journal reports:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/protests-co-mayo-ireland-plans-house-50-male/
Germany Discovers New Energy Pipelines to Replace Russian Gas Have Been Sabotaged
The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office is investigating “suspicions of unconstitutional sabotage” after holes were discovered drilled into a new gas delivery pipe installed to overcome the country’s dependence on imported Russian hydrocarbons.
Germany believes a number of one-centimetre (approximately half, or 13/32ths of an inch) holes have been “drilled” into a new gas delivery pipeline delivering the energy source to Germany’s national grid, an act of what is believed to be sabotage discovered in November but made public now. The exact cause of the damage or motivation behind an attempt to sabotage Germany’s energy imports is not known, but the Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag reports Dutch-German energy company Gasunie has now confirmed the damage took place, and that they believe it was caused by “third-party intervention”.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/05/germany-discovers-new-energy-pipelines-to-replace-russian-gas-have-been-sabotaged/
A statement on female swimmers and transgenders
https://citizenfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/female-swimmer-2.jpg
BREAKING! Even inanimate objects hate PM’s guts!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-s-plane-breaks-down-during-his-family-vacation-in-jamaica-1.6714040
New Hampshire House of Representatives Passes Defend The Guard Act to Prohibit National Guard Deployment in Overseas Combat Unless Congress Officially Declares War
by Jordan Conradson Jan. 7, 2024 1:40 pm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/new-hampshire-house-representatives-passes-defend-guard-act/
The Moon Economic Wars
by Paul Serran Jan. 7, 2024 1:20 pm
Humans haven’t gone back to the moon yet, but it’s already generating controversy.
It’s a given that, no matter how deep into space humans go, they will bring along with them the cultural problems that we face on Planet Earth.
Broadly speaking, the plans for moon exploration involve tapping into the satellite’s minerals and maybe even water to help make the human-built permanent bases viable.
These bases would, in turn, become the stepping stones for further space exploration to Mars and beyond.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/moon-economic-wars/
8 Times Left-Wing Protesters Broke Into Government Buildings And Assaulted Democracy
Left-wing demonstrators have long made a habit of attacking, infiltrating, and occupying government buildings.
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Self-absorbed congressional Democrats held a group therapy session on Capitol Hill on Thursday as they work tirelessly to immortalize Jan. 6 as an annual day of doom, but the rest of us are old enough to remember a few more times when riots and protests overwhelmed government buildings with no such theatrical response.
More than a few times, actually. The 2020 summer of rage was more or less “incited” by these same top Democrats, who race-baited as if their lives depended on it, and even our vice president, who helped bail violent rioters out of jail. It featured a number of these attacks on the government (which strangely weren’t called attacks on democracy at the time).
Not all of these demonstrations were allegedly a response to the Minnesota death of George Floyd, however. Left-wing demonstrators have long made a habit of attacking, infiltrating, and occupying government buildings. It started long before Jan. 6, 2021, and continued long after.
1. Interior Department Overtaken
Can you spot the difference between these two insurrection photos?
Didn’t think so. One of them was compared to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 by our vice president. The other one barely made the news and was referred to as a mere “sit-in.” Both were attacks by political activists on government buildings.
On Oct. 14, 2021, climate activists breached the Interior Department, with demonstrators who were left outside struggling with law enforcement officers as they reportedly tried to force their way in, shouting “Go inside! Go inside!” Some activists vandalized a building, while others pinned police against a wall. The ordeal resulted in a number of injuries, according to multiple sources, with a police officer being transported to the hospital.
2. President Moved to Bunker After White House Fence Breach
In June 2020, then-President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and their son Barron were reportedly rushed to a secure bunker when a group of protesters breached temporary barricades that had been set up around the White House complex.
Secret Service reportedly arrested and charged at least four protesters with unlawful entry at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
3. Wisconsin Capitol Overwhelmed
In 2011, thousands of people opposed to Republican Gov. Scott Walker filled the Wisconsin state Capitol, screaming in opposition to the governor’s budget repair bill.
4. Portland Federal Courthouse Overtaken by Violence
The federal courthouse in Portland has been a repeated target of violent Antifa rioters. In July 2020, a mob began setting fires inside the fence protecting the courthouse, shaking the fence, launching projectiles over it, and even trying to take it down. Several people even breached it, with rioters launching projectiles and flashing lasers at the federal police officers who responded.
The next month, the courthouse was shut down completely over domestic terrorism threats that someone might drive a vehicle filled with explosives into the building.
Just hours after a security fence was removed from the courthouse in March 2021, rioters broke glass and lit fires once again.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1370281113239891969
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/07/8-times-left-wing-protesters-broke-into-government-buildings-and-assaulted-democracy/
Former Rep. Madison Cawthorn Claims Government is Behind ‘Honeypot’ Operations to Blackmail Politicians — Recounts Personal Experience (VIDEO)
by Jim H?ft Jan. 7, 2024 6:20 pm
In an interview with Benny Johnson, former Representative Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) claimed that the government is employing ‘honeypot’ operations to gain leverage over politicians.
Cawthorn’s allegations suggest a shadowy operation within the government, wherein attractive individuals are used to entice and compromise public officials.
During the interview, Cawthorn described scenarios in which extraordinarily attractive individuals, whom he referred to as “tens,” would appear in unexpected places and show a strong interest in politicians.
“If you are ever somewhere, and you all of a sudden see a ten – you know, I’m just talking about physical attraction – seeing a ten is not an everyday thing. That’s why they’re tens. You know, every woman is beautiful, but, you know, just objectively, that’s… That woman makes a scene when she walks through a room, and you see a ten. It’s somewhere they probably shouldn’t be. You wouldn’t normally expect to see a ten. Like, you’re at a small town bar, and you see a supermodel walk in from Brazil. You’re like, okay, that’s weird.”
“And then, all of a sudden, they’re very interested in you. Just know that that person is probably there on purpose, and they’re very good at their job, and they are trying to put you in a compromising position.”
He suggested that such operations are orchestrated by government agencies to maintain control over members of Congress.
“I have found that the most common thing in Washington, used to blackmail you with whatever organization, is honeypots, and it’s from within our own government,” Cawthorn revealed.
He further insinuated that a recently leaked story about the FBI investigating a high-class brothel was a veiled threat to Congress.
“I mean, you just saw that the FBI got a building built for them, bigger than the Pentagon. And then, all of a sudden, think about it. Ten days before the vote was supposed to happen, when it was likely not going to pass, a story got leaked. Things don’t get leaked from the FBI.”
“A story got leaked that the FBI had been investigating a brothel in Virginia, a very high-class brothel. It’s $25,000 a night to get in, and all the elites go there, among other things. It said several members of Congress were on the list. But if you notice, they didn’t release the names of those members of Congress, and what it was. You can just take my word for it, but this is my hypothesis: they’re basically saying, ‘Go against us, don’t give us this building, and it’s going to be your name on that list.’”
It can be recalled that a day before 70 GOP representatives, along with Democrats, approved $300 million in funding for new FBI headquarters, the Justice Department announced arrests in a high-end brothel network used by elected officials, military officers, doctors, and more.
The politicians, military officers, and government contractors who visited high-end brothels in eastern Virginia and Boston may have been lured into a ‘honeypot’ scheme by Israel, Russia, China, or South Korea, according to intel officials.
“Three individuals have been arrested in connection with operating sophisticated high-end brothels in greater Boston and eastern Virginia. Commercial sex buyers allegedly included elected officials, high tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors that possess security clearances, professors, attorneys, scientists and accountants, among others,” the US Attorney’s Office of the District of Massachusetts said.
According to the DOJ, the following defendants have been charged with conspiracy to coerce and entice to travel to engage in illegal sexual activity.
Cawthorn recounted personal experiences where he suspected being targeted by such schemes. He described instances of being approached by multiple attractive women, which he found suspicious.
“I’m telling you, these people are very creative. I’ve had a lot of women who, I’m like, ‘That wasn’t that funny of a joke, and you’re laughing way too hard.’ But I’m going to tell you right now, I accept that I’m a decently good-looking guy. I’ve got blue eyes, a decent jawline. But I also accept the fact that I’m in a freaking wheelchair. And I’m like, ‘I don’t know why three tens would all show up at one time, suggesting we should all go back together.’ And I’m like, ‘No, actually, I don’t think you guys are real.’”
Madison Cawthorn recounted an incident in Texas that he suggests was an attempted ‘honeypot’ trap.
“I’m at this bar, everything’s going great, and then I see a pretty girl,” Cawthorn recounted, suggesting that the situation developed in a way that seemed too orchestrated to be coincidental.
He further explained his suspicion by noting how the women, who claimed to be friends, were not interested in anyone else at the bar but him. Cawthorn, sensing a setup, decided to leave the situation, stating, “I looked at them, smiled, and I was like, oh, as fun as that sounds, I’m a man of God, so I got to get out of here.”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1744079019471954122
In 2022, Cawthorn exposed the scandalous activities in D.C., revealing invitations to orgies and drug parties he received, as stated during an interview.
“The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington. I mean, being kind of a young guy in Washington, the average age is probably 60 or 70.”
Following his interview and his open discussion on the perversion and filth in Washington D.C., House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy DID NOT ask for an investigation.
Instead, GOP Leader McCarthy met with Madison Cawthorn and told him he needs to turn his life around or “there will be consequences.”
“The fact that there’s some of the people that are leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country, and then you watch them do a key bump of cocaine right in front of you, and it’s like, this is wild.”
Following his interview and his open discussion on the perversion and filth in Washington D.C., House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy DID NOT ask for an investigation.
Instead, GOP Leader McCarthy met with Madison Cawthorn and told him he needs to turn his life around or “there will be consequences.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/former-rep-madison-cawthorn-claims-government-is-behind/
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Imagine being in President Trump’s shoes for a moment on J6 as you get word the Capitol is getting swarmed…
– You were considered a near lock to be a two-term president in February of 2020
– You delivered one of the best economies ever seen for 3 years before China unleashed a lab grown virus on the planet
– You warned states repeatedly of the dangers of mass mail-in voting, but Democrats forced the measures through anyways
– You watched as election officials caved to COVID fear mongering to relax election integrity measures violating election laws and state Constitutions
– You witness 51 “intelligence officials” collude with Big Tech to censor a bombshell story about a laptop that directly implicated Joe Biden
– You campaign tirelessly to sold-out arenas crisscrossing the country with historic enthusiasm
– Your opponent is a two-time failed candidate, disqualified for plagiarism, who barely survived the primary, and then barely left his basement during the campaign
– You win 74,222,958 votes, more than any other presidential candidate has ever won
– You learn that somehow 159,633,396 people voted, the largest turnout in U.S. history, breaking the previous record by 20 million votes — the first time more than 140 million people voted and the highest % turnout in 120 years
– You somehow “lose” by 42,000 votes in 3 states among a host of irregularities, drop box scandals, and controversies and despite winning practically every bellwether county and state
– You think back and remember they spied on your campaign, invented a fake Russia hoax, impeached you and constantly smeared and lied about you in the media
– You remember that anarchists and race hustlers unleashed months of riots and chaos in a possible domestic color revolution
– You remember that you offered National Guard troops on J6 but the offer was denied by Nancy Pelosi and Muriel Bowser
– You remember that you said just hours before to peacefully and patriotically march
– You remember everything you’d given up in your previous life to be hated, attacked, and vilified by the DC snakes, insiders, and elitists
– Your own VP just fist-bumped Nancy Pelosi inside the Capitol
– You realize the entire DC cabal has conspired and plotted to hand the White House to a puppet they could control
Is it any wonder why Trump might have been a little upset on J6?
He wasn’t responsible for what happened despite what the media says. It was four years of lying, cheating, and betrayal by those who wanted to get Trump at all costs.
Nevertheless, he gathered himself and released a video telling people to go home—an act the illegitimate J6 Committee tried to criminalize.
Then they impeached him again.
Despite all of it, he’s decided to come back to retake the White House and finish what he started, a decision that provoked Biden’s DOJ to indict him multiple times for 700 years in federal prison.
Who else could endure what Donald Trump has?
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1744136981616243045