Reader’s Links for August 10, 2024

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  1. BOMBSHELL REPORT! Biden/Harris COLLUDED with Justin Trudeau to CENSOR Freedom Convoy | Redacted News

  2. Former President Donald Trump’s plane was diverted to Billings, Montana, due to a reported “mechanical issue” ahead of his rally in Bozeman.

    Staff at Billings Logan International Airport confirmed that the former president had landed in Billings, though Trump had been scheduled to land in Bozeman, according to the Washington Post.

    The drive from Billings to Bozeman is about two hours.

    A spokesperson from the airport confirmed to the New York Post that Trump’s “aircraft had mechanical issues,” adding that the former president would fly on a private jet to Bozeman.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/09/trump-plane-diverted-billings-montana-mechanical-issue/

    Note: can’t show up to his scheduled events if his plane has ‘mechanical problems’ and has to land elsewhere…

  3. Last night, my husband turned to me and asked: ‘How can Kamala Harris be the first woman President if defining what a woman is is in itself bigoted?’

    • Exactly. I suppose this is all part of: if we say it it’s good, if you- who hate us- say it, you’ll go to prison.

  4. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) formally alleged in court filings this week that Hunter Biden was involved in influence peddling overseas, confirming the reporting of Peter Schweizer in the 2018 book Secret Empires.

    The court filings by the DOJ document payments made to Hunter Biden by Romanian oligarch Gabriel Popoviciu, who is now cooperating with DOJ prosecutors. They state that the deal was structured to avoid the filings required under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/09/schweizer-vindicated-again-doj-to-seek-charges-against-hunter-biden-for-influence-peddling-abroad/

  5. A California Democrat state senator is defecting to the Republican Party, saying that the current state of the left “is not the party that I signed up for decades ago.”

    State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, a longtime Democrat who represents the northeastern portion of California’s Central Valley, took to Fox News on Thursday to break the news of her party switch.

    “In the past two years that I’ve been working in the Senate, I have not recognized the party that I belong to,” the legislator said. “The Democratic Party is not the party that I signed up for decades ago.”

    “I can’t, in good conscience, with the values that I have and my commitment to represent the voters of California, continue to call myself a Democrat,” Alvarado-Gil continued.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/09/california-state-senator-switches-from-democrat-to-republican-not-the-party-that-i-signed-up-for/

  6. U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism Vladimir Voronkov told the Security Council on Thursday that the Islamic State and its affiliates are gaining power in West Africa and the Sahel region. Voronkov said ISIS still wants to carry out terrorist attacks around the world.

    Voronkov warned ISIS could soon take “effective control” over a “vast territory stretching from Mali to northern Nigeria” if current trends continue. ISIS and its allies are also gaining strength in parts of Mozambique, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

    The U.N. counterterrorism chief said the Islamic State has become increasingly decentralized and flexible, enabling it to take advantage of the “complex” political situation in Africa’s Sahel region, where legitimate governments have been overthrown by juntas and ethnic warfare creates constant instability.

    https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2024/08/09/u-n-counter-terrorism-official-warns-islamic-state-gaining-power-africa/

    • So a Russian state sponsor of global terror complains about ISIS. More astroturfing. Soon they will call ISIS far right….

  7. The Clintons Are EVIL, Buzz Patterson EXPOSES Hillary Clinton Abusing Military Service Members

  10. My flower shop friend says the funerals keep coming. Nothing says “flower-shop profit” like dead Italians, he says. This has been noticeable since shortly after the injections began.

    Dr. John Campbell on a big Canadian study finding 31 million excess deaths worldwide, with 17m directly caused by injection. Data withheld from public by government and drug company sources so it seems to be an extrapolation.

    Many, many mRNA shots in the works now. –Reminds me of electric cars. Sexy on paper but a disaster in the end.

    https://youtu.be/yi5Ii9TARis?si=896Vx8uevpLa3f6f

  14. BREAKING: Las Vegas Police Recordings Released from Joe Biden’s Sudden Medical Emergency and Mad Dash to Air Force One — “POTUS IS 421”
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/potus-is-421-las-vegas-police-recordings-bidens/
    Aug. 10, 2024 9:00 am

    Guest post by Miriam Judith.

    On Friday afternoon, the Heritage Oversight Project released audio recordings from the Las Vegas Metro Police Department’s protective detail during President Joe Biden’s sudden medical emergency on July 17 that was kept from the public.

    Last month, Biden announced he had tested positive for COVID-19 and would be isolating as he recovered.

    The official narrative was that Joe Biden’s trip was cut short due to him testing positive for COVID-19. But, an anonymous source close to Las Vegas Metro claimed the U.S. Secret Service had informed them of an emergency situation involving Joe Biden.

    Kirk’s initial post stated:

    Got a weird lead on a story that people should look into. I got a call from a source close to Las Vegas Metro. The official story was that Joe Biden’s trip was cut short last week due to COVID.

    However, according to this source, US Secret Service informed LV Metro that there was an emergency situation involving Joe Biden and to close necessary streets so that POTUS could be transported immediately to University Medical, which they began to do in earnest.

    Then, mysteriously, there was a stand down order and the USSS informed local Vegas PD that they were going to “medivac” POTUS to Johns Hopkins, which they presumed meant fly him back east ASAP. Apparently the rumor mill in the police department was that Joe Biden was dying or possibly already dead.

    I didn’t think too much about this lead, seemed too wild to be true, but given that Joe Biden has been out of public sight for days and dropped out of the race via an X post, and his brother James indicated health was a factor, I’m beginning to grow more curious if COVID or something else has been more serious than reported.

    It can be recalled that Frank Biden, Joe Biden’s younger brother, was smeared as an “alcoholic” after he suggested Joe Biden was terminal.

    Frank Biden told CBS News that Biden’s declining health played a considerable role in his decision to drop out.

    The recordings were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and confirmed initial reports that Biden had planned to go to Las Vegas University Medical Center after canceling a speaking engagement due to a sudden illness.

    BREAKING – AUDIO OBTAINED

    We just obtained the recording from the Las Vegas Police Department and have decided to immediately release it while we are simultaneously reviewing.

    Links in next post. https://t.co/WUa7DjmFFA

    — Oversight Project (@OversightPR) August 9, 2024

    For some reason, he was later diverted directly to Harry Reid International Airport.

    Report: Las Vegas Hospital Was Put on Standby for Sudden Biden Medical Issue Last Wednesday, Instead, Air Force One Flew to Delaware So Fast “the Plane Shook”

    In two of the new audio clips, officers can be heard being instructed to respond to a Code 3, signaling an emergency motor vehicle response. Soon after, the protective detail received an update, confirming Biden was experiencing a medical emergency and was being seen on-site by medical personnel. Officers were initially instructed to standby:

    “For everyone on the radio, right now POTUS is 421. He’s being seen, so we’re just kinda waiting to see how this is shaping out. So, for everybody’s knowledge, he’s 421 right now; we’re just trying to figure out what’s going on and we’re gonna go from there.”

    Code 421 denotes a sick or injured person, according to the LVMPD’s code sheet.

    Once the emergency was called in, officers can be heard fervently coordinating with Biden’s protective detail to clear the routes and get POTUS medical attention over the next 20 minutes of the clip.

    Biden had been set to speak at MGM Grand when the incident unfolded, prompting his detail to quickly change course and divert him to the hospital.

    Trending: BREAKING: U.S. Secret Service Breaks into Massachusetts Hair Salon and Tapes Over Security Camera, Allegedly to Let People Use the Bathroom During Kamala Harris Fundraiser

    Biden, however, never made it there. He was rushed to Air Force One and flown back to Delaware instead.

    Here is the audio clip via the Heritage Oversight Project:

    You can listen to the full 43-minute audio here.

    https://oversight.heritage.org/240700064903_RADIO_REDACTED.mp3

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/potus-is-421-las-vegas-police-recordings-bidens/

  15. Read more: https://www.nssf.org/articles/president-bidens-swan-song-attack-scotus/#ixzz8iWMPH88a
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    President Biden’s Swan Song: Attack SCOTUS ~ VIDEO
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on August 10, 2024 by F Riehl, Editor in Chief

    Opinion
    By Mark Oliva

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    President Joe Biden doesn’t plan on quietly exiting the political arena. He’s taking one last shot – albeit a wild swing – at the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Call it a dog whistle to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party that’s been targeting the U.S. Supreme Court for a wide-variety of issues, a get-out-the-vote ploy to boost Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for The White House as she replaces him on the party ticket or just sour grapes over a series of decisions – including those on gun control – that President Biden despises. Any and all could be true. What’s clear is President Biden’s play to remake the Supreme Court in his image would give gun control supporters an opportunity to wipe out recent rulings by the Supreme Court, including on the Second Amendment and restraining Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) regulatory overreach.
    Parting Shot

    President Biden announced his plan for U.S. Supreme Court that would upset the balance of power between the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches of the U.S. Government. He proposes to do away with lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court that keeps the justices above the political fray and instead, proposes term limits of 18 years, essentially guaranteeing sitting presidents that will follow him in the Oval Office of at least two appointments during a presidential administration.
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    “Term limits would help ensure that the Court’s membership changes with some regularity; make timing for Court nominations more predictable and less arbitrary; and reduce the chance that any single Presidency imposes undue influence for generations to come,” The White House press office published in a Fact Sheet of President Biden’s proposed Court overhaul. “President Biden supports a system in which the President would appoint a Justice every two years to spend eighteen years in active service on the Supreme Court.”

    It would also render the Supreme Court an extension of politics of the day. That’s not what the Founding Fathers envisioned. The Founders wisely wanted a judiciary that was above the political fray. The White House argued that the United States is the “only major constitutional democracy that gives lifetime seats to its high court Justices.”
    Smarter than the Founders?

    That’s because the U.S. Supreme Court is a uniquely American idea. It is “distinctly American in concept and function,” said Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the 11th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. It underscores what Alexander Hamilton and James Madison wrote about the Court’s role in the Federalist Papers. Hamilton argued that the Supreme Court ensured the will of the people, expressed through the U.S. Constitution, would be untethered to the will of the legislature, which can sway back and forth. Madison argued that the Court would protect the Constitution from politics and political bargaining, instead residing with the “reasoned judgement of independent judges.”

    President Biden, though, thinks he’s got a better idea than the Founding Fathers. He’d rather tether the Supreme Court to political wills, an extension of the Executive Branch’s notions instead of being moored to the U.S. Constitution.

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    Just four years ago, when President Biden was campaigning for election, he told CBS’s 60 Minutes, “The last thing we need to do is turn the Supreme Court into just a political football – whoever has the most votes gets whatever they want. Presidents come and go. Supreme Court justices stay for generations.”
    Former Attorney General Warns

    Still, former U.S. Attorney General William Barr is warning that President Biden’s proposals are dangerous.

    “In truth, ‘court reform’ is nothing more than a desperate attack to subvert the legitimacy of the Supreme Court because it contains a majority of justices committed to the Constitution and originalism,” he wrote in a Fox News op-ed. “If this coup succeeds, the rule of law will be over as the judiciary will become little more than a political tool of whomever holds power.”

    Former AG Barr added, “Congress has no business interfering with the actions of the judiciary. It is the separation of powers into three district branches of government that makes our nation strong. To protect religious freedom and all of our cherished liberties, judges must be able to make decisions without fear of partisan retribution from the executive or legislative branches. Biden and Harris’ ‘court reform’ would destroy that.”
    Antigun Congress Complicit

    This isn’t the first time President Biden’s talked about tinkering with the Court. President Biden issued an Executive Order in 2021 forming the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. The commission’s final report was submitted in December 2021 that explored expanding the Court and introducing term limits.

    President Biden wasn’t alone in his agenda to style the court in his image. Capitol Hill politicians have demanded the Supreme Court reflect their political agenda or face their wrath. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) infamously threatened Supreme Court justices while the Court was considering an abortion case in 2020.

    “I want to tell you, Gorsuch… I want to tell you Kavanaugh…, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Sen. Schumer said. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

    That’s not the only time, though, that political zealotry has overtaken the longstanding norms regarding elected representatives’ respect for the independence of the judiciary. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) took direct aim at the Supreme Court, particularly on matters of gun rights and gun control, when he wrote in an amicus brief arguing against NYSRPA v. City of New York, “Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be ‘restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.’ Particularly on the urgent issue of gun control, a nation desperately needs it to heal.” The irony of Sen. Whitehouse’s threat is stunning.
    Vice President Rides Shotgun

    President Biden has already picked up other supporters with his Court reform agenda and it’s not surprising why. For obvious reasons Vice President Kamala Harris publicly supported the term limits that would automatically replace justices that haven’t decided firearm-related cases the way the Biden-Harris administration team would like. That was a departure from nearly four years ago when then-Sen. Harris refused to answer a question about packing the Supreme Court. But now that the Court has ruled several times in the past few years against the wishes of gun control activists – including President Biden, Vice President Harris and those staffing The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention – the very justices this “reform” package targets are the pro-Second Amendment justices that could be the first to go. That’s because they’re the senior-most, longest tenured justices on the bench; including Justice Clarence Thomas (32 years), Chief Justice Roberts (18 years) and Justice Alito (18 years)—all of whom have voted in favor of protecting Second Amendment rights.

    “Are you and Joe Biden going to pack the Court if Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed?” then Vice President Mike Pence asked then-Sen. Harris, explaining Supreme Court vacancies have been filled 29 times during election years. “But your party is actually openly advocating adding seats to the Supreme Court which has had nine seats for 150 years if you don’t get your way. This is a classic case of if you can’t win by the rules, you’re going to change the rules.

    That’s what appears to be happening now. The Founders anticipated that this, too, may come to pass. That’s why they raised a high bar for any such changes if the political players didn’t like how the Supreme Court was deciding the cases before it. To change the lifetime appointments would require a Constitutional Amendment. Refer to Article V of the U.S. Constitution. President Biden’s proposals would require two-thirds approval from both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and then must be ratified by three-fourths of the states. For those who want the numbers, that’s 290 yea votes in the House, 66 yea votes in the Senate and 38 states to agree that President Biden’s idea to subjugate the U.S. Supreme Court to political agendas is a good idea.

    “But for now at least, Democrats are just dreaming (or messaging),” wrote Politico’s Eli Okun. “Either Supreme Court change would require some congressional Republicans to sign on, and a constitutional amendment on immunity would have to go through state legislatures, too.”

    This could be simply dismissed as political pandering to gain votes in a competitive election cycle. However, it’s telling that President Biden, who claims his political opponent is a “threat to democracy,” is willing to burn down the very institutions that guarantee the survival of rule of law and the Republic itself.

  18. (Richard: You don’t wear honors or badges that you haven’t been issued, you never ever wear them all vets and active duty personal know this.)

    Tim Walz Special Forces Hat Worn At New Jersey Springsteen Concert is Upsetting Veterans
    Veterans are now claiming more stolen valor actions by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

    EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who has been under fire this week for claims of stolen valor has been accused of more stolen valor after a photo published by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is raising eyebrows in the veterans community.

    Walz was a guest of Governor Murphy at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford to see a Bruce Springsteen Concert. Beto O’Rourke, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, and Walz were also in attendance.

    Walz, who had claimed he carried a ‘weapon of war’ during ‘war’ has been criticized of embellishing his military service record. He never served in a combat zone. He served in an artillery unit of the Minnesota National Guard, but he was deployed for a short time to Italy during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    https://x.com/search?q=walz%20special%20forces&src=typed_query

    In the photo posted by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, Walz is wearing a hat bearing the U.S. Army Special Forces crest. Walz was never a member of the Special Forces. To the outside, wearing a hat in support of such a prestigious organization could be seen as a kind gesture, within military veteran circles, it is frowned upon.

    https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2024/08/08/tim-walz-special-forces-hat-worn-by-at-new-jersey-springsteen-concert-is-making-veterans-angry/#google_vignette

    • I was told about this after my father died and left me his highest [VERY high] metal in his will.
      A sibling took the flag from the honor guard at the funeral. Can’t wear the flag, but desecration seems to be in style these days.

  19. Here we go again, will they lock us down again, have mail-in voting again, just one more time?

    New York, October 18, 2019 EVENT 201 Elites have tabletop meeting regarding what could they do if there was a pandemic.

    Coincidentally Covid-19 happens. Mail-in voting, lockdown

    And now the International Bird Flu Summit will be held October 2 to 4 in Washington, DC. “They” will be discussing a highly virulent strain of bird flu affecting both cattle and humans. This bird flu promises to be much worse with a death rate of 25 – 50% or at least that is what they are projecting.

    Will there be lockdowns, will we be told to get the safe bird flu vaccine? WILL THERE BE AN ELECTION?

    Oh bluck bluck bluck