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I dimly recall reading about the horrible videos and photos released by ISIS that documented their depravity, sexual deviancy, rape/genocide and other war crimes. Additionally there was mention that at least one website was put under pressure to remove this evidence from their pages.
In the past few months some videos of rapes by Hamas have been made publicly available. One even has what appears to be Arabic chanting in the background. Considering what happened earlier with ISIS, these videos are initially made available in the souks. In many cases the violence takes place in well furnished flats, in one case in a high rise apartment building nestled among a few other such buildings. It is a mockery to consider they are supposedly living in refugee camps. Also, note the sarcastic and insulting nature of the videos.
Is there some way to arrange a permanent repository so that evidence is readily available to researchers and members of the concerned public?
Thank you for that comment.
Islamic State (I refuse to use ISIS or ISIL as those terms were designed to hide the true nature of the entity by ‘our leaders’ and if we have to call Peking “Beijing” because that is what China calls it, then the Islamic State is what it is) videos were very slick and clear in intention. They showed brutality at a scale not imagined by the kind sleepy denizens of the West. Not even in films.
But our governments began a program of carefully tailoring what we could see in order to preserve narratives.
When this site found and posted some of these videos, they were removed from the hosting platforms and other consequences followed.
Western nations were determined to prevent the public from understanding Islam as a threat doctrine. They had a program of importing as much of it as they can. They still do that obviously, and will continue to do so until the likelihood of preventing the obvious consequence is near zero.
At this point the only repository for these videos would be on a hard drive not connected to any computer, or perhaps connected to one verifiably air-gapped.
The practice of deleting information from the public view goes back farther than most realize.
I challenge anyone to find a clip of Canada’s fruit fly scientist, David Suzuki talking about “Nuclear Winter” from the 1970s. He was on TV, most notably the dialectical bomber network of the CBC nearly every day claiming that the wolrd was headed towards a new ice-age for precisely the same reasons he now claims we are headed to catastrophic warming. Western, and only western, industry.
It would be interesting to know if Rumble would allow an Islamic State video to live on its platform. Or TwitterX for that matter.
But given that the moves by Brazil and Oz recently to censor information that threatens the Revolution have made, and New Zealand which criminalized having or sharing the video and manifesto of the Christchurch mosque shooter several years before Covid, I think things are more controlled than would allow that possibility.
Still, I am confident that someone, somewhere has these videos on a hard drive.
Maybe the thing for them to do if they are reading this, is to create a torrent with them and get them on a Torrent sharing platform.
So long as everyone uses a VPN and lots of people share it, that could work.
Further to my earlier reply, here are the addresses of two of the videos of Hamas war crimes. The Arabic chanting is in the first. The captions in the second include the sentence “It isn’t rape if she a Jewish” around 42 seconds into the video. Also there is a video elsewhere with the same scene as at second 32 where it is implied that the lady is dead. Her tongue doesn’t move.
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Scientific American: The Last Sleuth for Truth!
https://modernity.news/2024/04/23/scientific-american-claims-it-is-misinformation-that-there-are-just-two-sexes/
It’s easy to forget stuff when we’re overloaded. Remember this?
https://www.wnd.com/2015/07/the-obama-clinton-cloward-piven-legacy/
Metals expert Andy Schectman puts it together:
https://youtu.be/lo3rx9IxUgs?si=HZmeHsL2ieQoOqid
Why? Does Russia plan to attack Poland? No. So why present as if the Russian threat exists when it clearly does not?
Maybe it is just my imagination, but I notice a lot more videos and articles about weaponry lately. Is legacy media preparing us for a major war? A world war? The argument is being made in some quarters that we are already in it. Certainly the financial aspect has gone kinetic with the seizing of Russian assets and sanctions. This also dovetails with the Cloward-Piven Strategy outlined above. War creates refugees.
https://rmx.news/poland/british-fighter-jets-to-patrol-polish-skies/
Need a doctor in Canada? Good luck. Dear Leader’s latest financial budget for the country hammers doctors along with the wealth creators. Capital, and doctor flight will soon follow as they look for friendlier climes. I haven’t watched all of this yet:
“New footage emerges from pro-Palestine demonstration as Met Police under fire” Channel 4 News – April 22, 2024
The Price of Peace – Churchill & Truths of Appeasement
Free To Choose Network – April 10, 2018
Paul Ryan, a member of the Fox Corporation Board of Directors, praised House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for permitting Democrats to seize control of the House last week.
Democrats steamrolled Johnson by successfully pushing Biden administration’s agenda through the House. Johnson gave Biden “pretty much everything” Biden asked for “without having to concede much in return,” Punchbowl reported.
The Democrat victory was a reminder of how some Republicans often decline to use their capacity to push conservative policies popular with the base. Democrats often appear to use their power without qualms.
Johnson “found his footing, and his voice. … [H]e did it as a statesman, risking his own personal political fortune for the greater good that he believes in,” Ryan told Axios Tuesday.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/24/paul-ryan-praises-speaker-johnson-for-allowing-democrats-to-seize-house/
A group of senior clinical psychologists have apologised for the role their profession played in the promotion of transgender ‘medical’ treatments to children in the UK following a damning report which found that such interventions were done on “shaky foundations”.
In a joint letter published by the left-wing Guardian’s sister paper The Observer, 16 unnamed “senior clinical psychologists”, including some who actually worked in the now-discredited Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinics that prescribed hundreds of children life-altering puberty-blocking drugs, said that their profession led the way in pushing children into such a direction.
“These were psychology-led services. Whether intentionally or not, and many were doing their best in an impossible situation, it was clinical psychologists who promoted an ideology that was almost impossible to challenge,” they wrote.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/24/we-are-ashamed-uk-psychologists-apologise-for-role-in-promoting-transgender-medicine-to-children/
I mentioned last week how capital controls are coming, and are first indicated by flight to their perceived safety:
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/chinese-have-grabbed-gold-throat-capital-flight-accelerates
The problem problem is there isn’t any safe place to flee to
FBI Director Wray Again Warns of Potential Terror Attack in the US, ‘Not That Different’ from Concert Attack in Russia
by Cassandra MacDonald Apr. 24, 2024 9:45 am452 Comments
In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned of a potential terror attack in the United States “which may be not that different from what you saw against the concert hall in Russia a few weeks ago from ISIS-K.”
Wray explained that there are “elevated fears about a coordinated terror attack in a public place” due to people being radicalized by the Israel/Gaza war.
“We are increasingly concerned [about] the potential for some kind of coordinated attack here in the homeland, which may be not that different from what you saw against the concert hall in Russia a few weeks ago from ISIS-K,” Wray said.
The concert attack left 144 people dead and many more injured.
Regarding protests on American college campuses, Wray said, the FBI is “keenly focused on working with state and local law enforcement, campus law enforcement, others to try to make sure that we stay ahead” of the threat of antisemitic violence” and prevent violence against the Jewish community.”
read more at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/fbi-director-wray-again-warns-potential-terror-attack/
DA Bragg’s Attorneys Make Fatal Error When Revealing Underlying Crime in ‘Hush Money’ Case – Trump Attorneys Must Move to Dismiss Now
by Guest Contributor Apr. 24, 2024 10:15 am662 Comments
The attorneys representing the corrupt DA in New York, Alvin Bragg, in their case against President Trump, have made a serious error in their case. President Trump’s attorneys must move to dismiss.
DA Bragg’s case is in serious trouble. The gang behind the prosecution of President Trump made a serious error that should lead President Trump’s team to move to dismiss.
Prosecutors in New York have revealed what the other crime is that Donald Trump was allegedly trying to conceal when he was falsifying business records and they claim it was to unlawfully promote his candidacy. The fatal error is that the NY Statute they cite only applies to elections within the State of New York and not Federal Elections!
Trump was running for the federal office of President of the United States and not a State Office and therefore the premise of what the prosecution is trying to prove as the second crime used to get around the statute of limitations issue and to elevate this business records case to a felony must fail!
read more at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/da-braggs-attorneys-make-fatal-error-when-revealing/
Illegal Alien From Mexico Breaks Into Michigan Home, Sexually Assaults Two Girls Under the Age of 13
by Cristina Laila Apr. 24, 2024 12:00 pm
Joe Biden’s America.
An illegal alien from Mexico broke into a Michigan home and sexually assaulted two girls under the age of 13.
According to police, 25-year-old Miguel Hernandez-Ruiz broke into a mobile home near Sturgis and sexually assaulted two sisters.
Miguel Hernandez-Ruiz threatened to kill the girls if they tried to scream. He used his hands to sexually assault the girls and exposed himself, according to court documents, Fox 17 reported.The sexual assault happened on March 20. Police finally tracked down Hernandez Ruiz in Fort Wayne, Indiana and arrested him earlier this month. He was arraigned last Friday.
Fox 17 reported:
read more at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/illegal-alien-mexico-breaks-michigan-home-sexually-assaults/
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LAWLESS: Joe Biden Mulling Granting Amnesty to Over 1 MILLION Illegal Aliens By Executive Order Ahead of the 2024 Election
by Cullen Linebarger Apr. 24, 2024 9:00 am351 Comments
Joe Biden is strongly considering granting over one million illegal aliens amnesty by the stroke of a pen just in time for the 2024 Presidential election and amid the worst immigration crisis in American history.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that this executive order would grant legalization to illegals married to U.S. citizens who are barred from receiving green cards.
The pro-illegal alien FWD.us notes that 1.1 million illegal aliens are currently married to American citizens.
The Daily Mail reports that the primary reasons these illegals were denied citizenship in these cases are because the individual has repeatedly entered the country illegally or forged legal documentation in the past.
read more at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/lawless-joe-biden-mulling-granting-amnesty-1-million/
He was hit with multiple charges including first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a child under the age of 13 and home invasion, Fox 17 reported.
Author of Landmark Review of Transgender Treatment Shares She is Under Constant Attack: ‘I Can’t Travel on Public Transport After Gender Report’
by Margaret Flavin Apr. 24, 2024 11:00 am
Pediatrician and consultant Dr. Hilary Cass conducted a comprehensive and lengthy review of international research into gender medicine for children for NHS England.
Dr. Cass concludes that a lack of research and evidence on transgender medical interventions, such as puberty blockers and body-altering surgeries, is failing children.
Cass’s prior findings led to the banning of puberty blockers from children outside of clinical research in the UK.
After the publication of the landmark 388-page report, Dr. Cass shared that she is now under constant attack.
read more at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/author-landmark-review-transgender-treatment-shares-she-is/
A Meeting of Minds: Plus Jimmy from Brooklyn
J.R. Nyquist – April 23, 2024
There Was A Meeting Of Mihds Earlier Today. Jean Robin called it an “Anticommunist Conference,” which he hosted.
Four writers from four different countries: Alex Benesch (Germany), Trevor Loudon (New Zealand), Jeff Nyquist (USA), and Jean Robin (France).
https://jrnyquist.blog/2024/04/23/a-meeting-of-minds-plus-jimmy-from-brooklyn/
Anti-communists conference #1
Jean Robin1 – Streamed 21 hours ago
Dust Storm From Sahara Desert Crosses Mediterranean Sea, Gives Greece a Mars-Like Hue (VIDEO)
by Paul Serran Apr. 24, 2024 9:15 am98 Comments
Skies over southern Greece turned orange on Tuesday (24) with dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa.
A yellow-orange haze of dust from the Sahara desert has blanketed parts of Greece, including the Acropolis and other Athens landmarks.
This prompted authorities to issue health warnings and created oneiric scenes seemingly out of a sci-fi movie.
Associated Press reported:
“Strong southerly winds carried the dust from the Sahara Desert, giving the atmosphere of the Greek capital a Martian-like filter in the last hours of daylight.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/dust-storm-sahara-desert-crosses-mediterranean-sea-gives/
Anti-Israel Mob Assembles Outside Home of Chuck Schumer, Arrests Begin Almost Immediately (VIDEO)
by Mike LaChance Apr. 23, 2024 10:20 pm
An anti-Israel mob formed in front of the New York home of Senator Chuck Schumer tonight and the protesters were arrested almost immediately.
Funny how quickly arrests can be made in a case like this depending on who is being threatened.
Jewish students don’t get this kind of swift protection. Neither do conservative Supreme Court justices.
Breitbart News reports:
Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters gathered outside of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) home in Brooklyn, calling for the United States to “stop arming Israel.”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1782936921314144452
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/anti-israel-mob-assembles-outside-home-chuck-schumer/
Poorly Managed Toddlers Are Running Elections
OPINION
I know something about toddlers. I have raised five of them. Fortunately, they all went on to become full-fledged, self-accountable adults. There may be a reason for that. I made them suffer the natural consequences of their poor choices with unwavering consistency. They were not poorly managed. So what does managing toddlers have to do with elections, you ask? Everything.
It seems poorly managed toddlers are in charge of everything after decades of heading down this path. You name it, they rule the roost, whether it is our libraries, K-12, our universities, medicine, our government, or our elections. To date, very little in our elections has been fixed because almost no one holds boards of elections, secretaries of state, or county clerks accountable for bad behavior. In the rare cases when someone does make an effort to hold them accountable, the laws and rules are ignored. Courts won’t weigh in. And thus, bad behavior continues because no one pays a steep enough price.
Our elections continue to be a mess because there is no will to correct one’s behavior in an environment without painful consequences for doing something wrong. Little changes because we have become used to expecting easy answers and quick fixes. The long-lasting fixes require all hands on deck, but too many are too busy, weak, or distracted to apply the consistent pressure needed to correct the behavior. The fixes also require a media that is willing to tell the truth. Sadly, most of the time, the media are the toddlers who run interference and create more chaos, making it harder for the few adults in the room to make headway or entertain solutions.
There are those, like grassroots activists Kevin Moncla and Joe Rossi, who are actually adults. If you know anything about their work, it is constructive and well-conceived. He and Rossi do their homework. They understand the data. They show the evidence and punch hard when election officials fail to respond appropriately. They are consistent and persistent. They never give up. They are the parents these toddlers need. They are the opposites of what most of our culture looks like.
Moving on to the reasons for writing this article, the above observations and, frankly, UncoverDC’s detailed reporting on the 2020 and 2022 elections in Georgia oriented my attention to two paragraphs at the end of a letter sent to the Fulton County Board of Elections from Georgia’s State Election Board (SEB). If I weren’t firmly grounded in the absurd reality of where our culture is, I seriously would have thought the SEB was joking.
Kevin Moncla recently posted a February 22 letter to the Fulton County Election Board on X. The subject of the letter referred to a complaint filed in 2022 by Moncla and Joe Rossi about the Fulton County 2020 General Election (SEB Case No. 2022-109). Their complaint was reviewed by the SEB and adjudicated in a January 16, 2024 SEB meeting.
read more at
https://www.uncoverdc.com/2024/04/24/poorly-managed-toddlers-are-running-elections
(Richard: If the declaration is made it will be done so the Dems can once again force massive mail in ballot during the election, if they can’t cheat they can’t win.)
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Biden considers declaring National Climate Emergency.
None of Al Gore’s predictions from 30 years ago have come true.
None. Zilch. Nada.
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1783175921727389819
Worst States to be a Gun Owner (2024 Updated)
Does your state support your 2nd Amendment rights or make it exceedingly difficult to keep and bear arms? We’ve ranked the worst states to be a gun owner below. How? By analyzing each state’s current laws, upcoming laws, concealed carry guidelines, self-defense statutes, and 2A-centric taxes in order to identify the worst states for gun owners in 2024.
Report Highlights:
Hawaii is the #1 worst state for gun owners due to strict purchasing and carry laws, as well as defying the Supreme Court on the individual’s right to carry.
California is the #2 worst state for gun owners due to its permit-to-purchase and reciprocity laws.
New York, Illinois, and New Jersey take the #3, #4, and #5 spot in our list of worst states for gun ownership due to strict purchasing and carrying requirements.
North Carolina, Maine, and Ohio fall into spots #25, #24, and #23 due to new restrictive legislation with some relaxed carry laws.
Some states rank lower than others due to excessive infringements, additional taxes, and the current Governor’s 2A statements.
State and local laws defining Stand Your Ground vs. Duty to Retreat vary and should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
https://ammo.com/articles/worst-states-for-gun-owners#virginia
Russian court freezes JPMorgan assets under US$440 million claim
Bloomberg News, Bloomberg News
The JPMorgan Chase & Co. headquarters in New York.
The JPMorgan Chase & Co. headquarters in New York.
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A St. Petersburg court froze the Russian assets of JPMorgan Chase & Co. pending consideration of a lawsuit from the country’s second-largest bank that seeks to recover about US$440 million.
VTB Bank PJSC filed the suit against JPMorgan and its subsidiaries in the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region on April 17, according to the court’s database. While court documents didn’t detail the main basis for the suit, they said VTB had requested provisional steps because the defendants were “taking measures to withdraw their assets” from Russia while the state-controlled lender was seeking to recover about $440 million from JPMorgan.
The court agreed to freeze the money in JPMorgan’s Russian accounts, its stake in a Russian subsidiary bank and property rights related to some trademarks. It set the next hearing in the case for July 17.
JPMorgan declined to comment. VTB didn’t immediately respond to a request to comment.
Russia has retaliated against sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies over the war in Ukraine by limiting the access of companies from so-called unfriendly states to the assets they hold domestically.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/russian-court-freezes-jpmorgan-assets-under-440-million-claim-1.2063321
Hamas publishes propaganda video with signs of life from hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin
video released on April 24, 2024. (Screenshot: Telegram)
The Hamas terror group has published a new propaganda video showing signs of life from 23-year-old Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
In the nearly three-minute-long video, Goldberg-Polin, who is seen missing one of his hands, identifies himself and asks the Israeli government to return them home.
The video is not dated, but Goldberg-Polin says he has been held captive for “nearly 200 days,” indicating it was filmed recently.
Goldberg-Polin was abducted from the Supernova rave near Re’im on the morning of October 7.
Videos from the Hamas onslaught have shown that Goldberg-Polin’s arm was blown off from the elbow down, as the Hamas terrorists lobbed grenades into a shelter where he and others who tried to escape the party hid.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-publishes-propaganda-video-with-signs-of-life-from-hostage-hersh-goldberg-polin/
8 GOP States (And Counting) Ban Biden’s DOJ From ‘Intimidating’ Voters At 2024 Polls
By: Brianna Lyman
April 23, 2024
The DOJ ‘couldn’t provide a reason to be [at the polling places], nor any statutory authority for them to be there.’
Author Brianna Lyman profile
Florida and Missouri refused requests from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to place federal election monitors inside polling locations during the 2022 elections, arguing doing so would be tantamount to federal voter intimidation. The Federalist inquired with other Republican-led states whether they would take a similar stance should the DOJ make the same requests — but not all appeared willing to stand up to Biden’s weaponized agency.
The DOJ announced in 2022 it would send election monitors to 64 jurisdictions across the nation to monitor alleged voter intimidation and threats. Several Florida counties were included in the DOJ’s list, but Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis refused DOJ election monitors to enter polling sites in South Florida, arguing DOJ’s involvement would be “counterproductive” and “potentially undermine confidence in the election.”
https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/23/8-gop-states-and-counting-ban-bidens-doj-from-intimidating-voters-at-2024-polls/
Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2024/04/is-biden-admin-poised-to-exploit-gun-show-loophole-fraud/#ixzz8YLHvV6eL
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Is Biden Admin Poised to Exploit ‘Gun Show Loophole’ Fraud?
Ammoland Inc. Posted on April 24, 2024 by Dave Workman
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Anti-gunners say a new Biden adminmistration rule to crack down on the “gun show loophole” will reduce violent crime. It does not appear such a loophole actually exists. IMG iStock-1182677191
The Biden administration is preparing to enforce a new “rule” requiring thousands of people who buy, sell or swap firearms at gun shows to obtain a firearms dealer’s license beginning May 19, thus closing the so-called “gun show loophole,” as explained by ProCon.org.
An OpEd in the Vancouver Columbian Monday declared the new Biden rule is “attempting to close a sacred portal into American gun culture.”
There is just one small problem. According to Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) surveys of federal and state prisoners revealing the sources of guns used in crime, this “loophole” doesn’t actually exist. These surveys have consistently shown that less than 1% of criminals get their guns at gun shows.
A BJS report titled Source and Use of Firearms Involved in Crimes: Survey of Prison Inmates, 2016 revealed the following statistics:
90% did not obtain it from a retail source.
43% obtained it “off the street” or from the “underground market”
7% found it at the scene of the crime
6% stole it
0.8% obtained the firearm at a gun show (emphasis added)
Likewise, this BJS report revealed, “About 1.3% of prisoners obtained a gun from a retail source and used it during their offense.”
Long story short, criminals do not typically obtain their firearms from gun shops or gun shows, and the Justice Department knows it. The BJS is part of the DOJ.
Yet, back in 1996, according to a fascinating history published at Wikipedia, “the Violence Policy Center (VPC) released Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals, a study that identified problems associated with gun shows.”
Elsewhere, the gun prohibition lobby has mischaracterized gun shows as “arms bazaars for criminals.”
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True, the Columbine killers did obtain their firearms from an adult who legally purchased them at a gun show. But the Wikipedia article reveals, “The fundamental flaw in the gun show loophole proposal is its failure to address the great majority of private-party sales, which occur at other locations and increasingly over the Internet (emphasis added) at sites where any non-prohibited person can list firearms for sale and buyers can search for private-party sellers.”
How does this effort to close the alleged “gun show loophole” square with information from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the umbrella organization for the firearms industry? It doesn’t. According to the NSSF website, “Fact: According to a January 2019 U.S. Department of Justice survey of prison inmates, less than one percent (0.8) of criminals that possessed a firearm during their current offense acquired their guns from gun shows. By contrast, nearly 50 percent reported acquiring their guns illegally, such as by theft or on the black market.”
Anti-gunners have come up with another strategy to wage war on gun shows. It’s the 10-day waiting period. It is pretty difficult to complete a firearms transaction taking 10 or more days at a weekend (two-day) gun show.
The “gun show loophole” isn’t the only prevarication pushed by the gun ban crowd. Their effort to ban so-called “assault rifles” might be the mother of all shady efforts, based strictly on homicide statistics.
A look at historic data from the FBI annual crime reports reveals that in any given year, the number of homicides involving rifles of any kind is a fraction of all murders committed in the United States. More people are murdered with knives and cutting instruments. For example:
In 2019, according to that year’s FBI Uniform Crime Report, there were 10,258 homicides involving firearms, of which only 364 were known to have involved rifles of any kind. That year, the FBI data shows, 1,476 people were killed with knives or other sharp instruments.
During the previous year (2018), the FBI reported 10,265 slayings involving firearms, but only 297 of those were committed with rifles. That year, the FBI says 1,515 people were murdered with knives or cutting instruments.
And back in 2017, again according to the FBI report for that year, the country posted 10,982 murders where guns were used. Only 403 of those incidents involved rifles. That same year, 1,591 people were stabbed or slashed to death.*
(*Note: There are no background checks or waiting periods to purchase knives, which are found in literally every household kitchen in America.)
If rifles of any kind are used in such a small fraction of murders across the country in any year, why are so many people so determined to ban semiautomatic rifles? Would it be in order to get the public used to the idea that under the Second Amendment, it actually is okay to ban certain guns?
There are already indications that federal lawsuits will be filed to restrain or enjoin the enforcement of this new Biden administration attack on gun shows and the people who regularly attend them.
The proverbial bottom line appears to be pure show business. The Biden administration wants the public to believe it is doing something major about preventing criminals from obtaining firearms, when in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.
Likewise, banning a whole class of firearms—there are lawsuits seeking certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court challenging semi-auto bans in Illinois and Maryland, both involving the Second Amendment Foundation and others—may seem like a major step in the eyes of network news organizations and ill-informed voters, but it is likely more flash than substance.
The irony here is that the data suggesting all of this is little more than showmanship comes from the Justice Department, which presently is under control of the Biden administration.
https://www.ammoland.com/2024/04/is-biden-admin-poised-to-exploit-gun-show-loophole-fraud/#axzz8YLHZqBlu
“You Are Not Allowed to Speak the Truth”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUhNb6TtByU
Short, describes hate speech laws and their one-way implementation
The link I posted above is an excerpt from this longer one, by Jordan Peterson:
BILL C-63 – Everything You Need to Know | Bruce Pardy & Konstantin Kisin | EP 442
Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2024/04/should-anti-gun-lobbyists-be-prosecuted-for-restrictive-gun-laws/#ixzz8YLL7AkLu
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Should Anti-Gun Lobbyists be Prosecuted for Restrictive Gun Laws?
Ammoland Inc. Posted on April 23, 2024 by Dan Wos
It’s ironic how the anti-gun crowd tries to hold firearm manufacturers responsible for deaths that involve their guns but claim no responsibility for the deaths of innocent people who were rendered unarmed and helpless due to restrictive gun laws.
The political left is always using “mass shootings” as justification for more gun control laws. The propaganda and media hype behind so-called “gun violence” is nothing more than fake rhetoric created for the purpose of gaining support for more gun regulations. The idea that the gun-grabbers continue to push is that “if the killer didn’t have a gun, he wouldn’t kill.” This couldn’t be further from the truth and has been proven to be a false claim time and time again.
The term “mass shootings” is a propaganda term that was created by a man named Mark Bryant, a 66-year-old retired computer systems analyst. Bryant is also the founder of “The Gun Violence Archive” (GVA) and claims to have coined the term as if it was something to be proud of, regardless of the fact that it is a misleading term designed to give only four people hit by a bullet, the appearance of being a much larger event. Bryant has been accused of including gang-related shootings and home invasions in his “studies.” Of course, he would. Bryant has claimed his group views hundreds of websites a day seeking gun-related incidents. It would appear that if those incidents can be used and compiled to contribute to the anti-gun hysteria, GVA will document them, and left-wing media sources will use them as “reliable” data from a “reputable” source. Bryant has admitted that in his data research, he has made mistakes as extreme as reporting a victim as an adult male when it was really a female child, yet anti-gun lobby groups, left-wing politicians, and anti-2nd Amendment Activists will use Bryant’s data to alter the firearm narrative.
What the media won’t tell you is that violence is never the result of a gun, but anytime a gun is used, they will position it as the cause. There is no such thing as “gun violence.”
For example, Australia had two major gun bans under the guise of preventing suicide, yet after the bans, the trajectory of the suicide rate didn’t change. Giffords is notorious for pushing a false narrative that guns shoot all by themselves.
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England is virtually a gun free zone, but continues to experience violence and bloodshed, although guns have essentially been banned. A comparison study was done on London and New York City, resulting in the fact that London exceeded New York City in murder in 2018. In those killings, guns were replaced with knives. This proves that violence does not decrease in the absence of guns. Many would argue violence increases in the absence of good people being able to carry a gun in public.
Recently, in Sydney, Australia, a man stabbed six people to death at a shopping center. During the attack, shoppers fled for their lives, and no one shot back. The reason no one shot back was because everyone had been disarmed. It was a gun free zone, but apparently, the killer didn’t read the sign.
A similar situation played out recently at a concert hall in Moscow,Russia. Several were killed because they couldn’t defend themselves.
The idea of disarming lawful citizens as an attempt to stop violence is an absurdity, yet we continue to have conversations with those who perpetuate such nonsense. We have learned that gun free zones are of the deadliest places on earth, yet left-wing politicians, anti-gun groups and uninformed American citizens, continue to push for more of these killing zones.
Some conversations about holding anti-gun legislators and lobby groups, like Mom’s Demand Action, Everytown For Gun Safety, Gifford’s Group, and March For Our Lives, accountable for deaths due to self-defense restricting gun laws, are starting to occur. Do we think those who disarm American Citizens and block access to self-defense should be responsible for the deaths and damage they contribute to? Statistics show that most of the gun-related deaths occur in gun free zones. The reason is obvious. When good people are disarmed, bad guys are emboldened.
If someone cuts the brake lines on your car, should they be held accountable for any death or injury that occurs? That death or injury was a direct and intended result of their actions. Their actions caused you to be unable to stop your car. The same is true for gun control laws. The actions of the anti-gun activists and lobbyists are intended to keep you unarmed and result in you not being able to protect yourself in public. Anti-gun activists keep Americans unarmed, and criminals take advantage of the situation.
https://www.ammoland.com/2024/04/should-anti-gun-lobbyists-be-prosecuted-for-restrictive-gun-laws/#axzz8YLHZqBlu
Dave Rubin: The One Question Democrats Can’t Ask Themselves | Peter Boghossian
Things Turn Ugly at USC as Pro-Hamas Protestors Face Off with Campus Police – Outside Forces Infiltrated to Kickstart Riot (VIDEO)
by Cristina Laila Apr. 24, 2024 6:00 pm44 Comments
Violent, pro-Hamas protests erupted at universities across the US on Wednesday after Columbia University was shut down and forced to go online due to pro-Palestinian riots.
Chaos erupted at the University of Southern California (USC) campus on Wednesday as pro-Hamas protestors tried to set up an encampm
Many twitter/X videos at site
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/things-turn-ugly-usc-as-pro-hamas-protestors/
(Richard: The left is trying to replay the so called peace protests during the Vietnam War, those protests were really Communist funded protests against the West defending itself against the communist aggression. The current protests are being carried out to provide and excuse for the Fascist Government created by the left to seize total control and usher in pure communism in the US. This riot is a prime example of what is happening, non student infiltrators (probably ANTIFA members who were taught combat skills during their stay in the Middle East.) used the students as cover while they started fighting the police.
We will see many more riots in the Big Cities during the summer as the leftist agitators use the indoctrinated students to create Chaos during the Primary and General elections. The violence this summer will exceed that during the 2016 and 2020 elections and will grow in size and intensity once Donald Trump is elected, if everyone has learned the lessons of the 2020 election this is the lefts last good chance of taking over the US.
The people who are living in the US need to be aware of what is happening and to stay away from the locations where the left is rioting.
It is getting very scary out there, Keep your Musket clear, your Powder dry, your Bugout Bag packed and your E & E routes plotted out.)
The “New Equation” in the Middle East
Jeemes Akers
Jeemes Akers
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April 21, 2024
It is now going on a week since Iran’s massive attack on Israel. That left the situation in the Middle East more fluid and dangerous than ever. As I was putting the finishing touches on this piece, word came in that Israeli warplanes and drones had conducted a calibrated and limited attack on an airbase near an Iranian nuclear site at Isfahan in central Iran. Israel sent five important messages with its limited retaliatory strike: it retains autonomy of action, wants to limit an escalatory cycle of violence (if possible), can operate with relative impunity over the skies of Iran, has the ability to hit Iran’s most secretive nuclear facilities, and will not play by the rules of Iran’s “New Equation.”
But make no mistake about it, “New Equation” or not, events over the last few days indicate a huge genie has escaped the Middle East bottle, and it will be difficult, if not impossible, to stuff it back in.
What does Tehran’s “New Equation” look like? Perhaps it slipped by you, like an elusive thief in the night, but Iran’s unprecedented aerial attack on Israel on the evening of April 13 and into the morning of April 14—employing some 170 kamakazi drones stuffed with explosives, 120 ballistic missiles, and at least 30 cruise missiles—has changed the face of war, and diplomacy, in the Middle East.
Perhaps forever.
read the rest at
https://intelreform.org/the-new-equation-in-the-middle-east/
Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe
By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez
PHOENIX — An Arizona grand jury on Wednesday indicted seven attorneys and aides affiliated with Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign as well as 11 Arizona Republicans on felony charges related to their alleged efforts to subvert Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, according to an announcement by the state attorney general.
Those indicted include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman. They are accused of allegedly aiding an unsuccessful strategy to award the state’s electoral votes to Trump instead of Biden after the 2020 election. Also charged are the Republicans who signed paperwork on Dec. 14, 2020, that falsely purported Trump was the rightful winner, including former state party chair Kelli Ward, state Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, and Tyler Bowyer, a GOP national committeeman and chief operating officer of Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of the pro-Trump conservative group Turning Point USA.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/24/arizona-2020-election-charges-meadows-giuliani-ellis/
Ww3 prep:
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-convert-pacific-oil-rigs-military-bases