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Yesterday I went to Parliament Hill with a friend to check out the Palestinian protest.
Walking up O’Connor near Wellington we found many police unloading their fancy bicycles. A short woman in an orange safety vest spoke with a couple of officers. She was an organizer. Their conversation seemed friendly enough.
The majority of protesters were female. A dozen or so ultra-orthodox Jews sat at the front of the protest. My friend, far more courageous than I, walked into the crowd while I waited safely at the back.
Within minutes a strange man singled me out and approached.
“Are you Canadian?” He asked. He was about six-feet tall, olive skinned, and was a very close talker, which I hate.
“Yes.”
“I’m English,” and I must say I am disgusted by all of this. We have this back home but I didn’t expect to see it here.”
I was suspicious of him given the circumstances. Why me? He would go on to repeatedly express his disgust at the protesters. They don’t belong here, he said. They should be deported, he said. He talked and talked and said all the right things, yet I remained on guard. He claimed to have written a book on the subject. He claimed he travelled to many countries to see for himself the state of affairs. He even said some words in Hungarian with very good pronunciation, which made me more suspicious. After at least 20 minutes I could no longer take the close talking. I made an excuse saying I must find my friend. The man asked for any interesting tourist sites I would recommend. I sent him to the War museum down the street.
Walking back to our car we saw the police drone high over Wellington Street. More brownshirts approached the Hill with their Palestinian flags waving, horns honking, and poison placards all immunized by the selective enforcement they enjoyed, granting their truly hateful messaging the protection now enjoyed by them, and them alone.
My friend had known this before jumping into that crowd earlier. He wore a piece of clothing with a communist symbol on it. This enabled him to swim confidently in those waters. Had I been able to see the protest from the Peace Tower looming high above, I would seen in the water below the crescent of Islam frolicking in the surf with the hammer and sickle. The ghosts of Lenin and Stalin and Marx and, and, and…must be proud.
Active measures confound and confuse Joe Blow into paralysis as he is actively subverted. My friend had by now stowed his red symbol garb in his pocket. We were simply civilians, now, on a summer stroll downtown.
https://youtu.be/xxWMhB4Cfm0?si=NzwHU_d63PuVGihe
The “Jews” You saw were a sect anathema to the rest of all Jewish people called Nutura Kartai.
I probably spelled it wrong, and I don’t care.
Thinking about what Jews actually are for years and years, I mean let’s face it even the Nazis could not define it. They had to have a special pre-breakfast meeting to decide on the Holocaust as a thing to do, and in order to do that, they had to actually decide on what a Jew was.
They settled on anyone with one Jewish grandparent. Which means they didn’t know either. It was purely practical. If someone had a single grandparent who looked or identified or practiced Judaism, then they were Jews.
So after a lot of thought, there is only one thing that seems to bind Jewish people together. Secular, Messianic, converts to other faiths, practitioners of Buddhism etc. etc.
And that is a viceral tie to the ancient homeland of Israel and especially Jerusalem.
This would be exactly like the ties Irish people feel to Ireland.
They may have been born in Boston, and they may or may not do anything Irish. But the one thing they know is where they came from.
So the Nutura Kartai are an anathema. They are a tiny sect of highly inbreds, who have been making a living trashing Israel since I’madinnerjacket was president of Iran.
In fact Imadinnerjacket had numerous photo ops with these guys.
Their motives are metaphysical. They want a state of Israel but created magically. So the current state has to get out of the way for that to happen.
Kinda like how SOME Evangelicals want Israel destroyed to bring back Jesus, even though Revelations is pretty clear on not knowing the hour of his coming.
Anyway, that’s Nutura Kartai for ya.
Are they joooz, even technically asajoooz like Medea Benjamin?
Or whatever……..
LOL – your next comment
I was going to suggest Iran, but was unsure because I don’t have proxemics data.
all over the internet “Americans generally prefer 18 inches of personal space”
It’s funny to me because all a foreign businessman seems to have to do is be better at English than his handlers to persuade them that he is fit to conduct business on their behalf.
https://www.communicationstudies.com/communication-theories/proxemics.
https://rmx.news/article/israel-warned-of-irans-intention-to-attack-by-hungary/
On the EU’s war on Hungary:
https://rmx.news/article/the-european-union-wants-to-break-hungarys-will/
First there was Event 201 in NY on October 18, 2019 just in case there was a pandemic.
Kary Mullis, the man who discovered the Poly Chain Reaction (PCR) and won the Nobel Prize for it, did say the PCR could NEVER be used to diagnose a disease in a human.
Next there is BIRD FLU SUMMIT October 2-4, 2024 website: list of topics
Mass Fatality Management Planning
Surveillance and Data Management
Preparing Communities Strategies
Local Partnership and Participation
Delivery of Vaccine and Antiviral Medications
Medical Countermeasures
Socio-Economic Impact on Poultry and livestock Industries
Benefit-Risk Assessment: Public Health, Industry and Regulatory Perspectives
Prevention Education Efforts and Risk Communication
Command, CONTROL and Management
Emergency Response Management
Business-Based Planning
School-Based Planning
Community-Based Planning
I love Ray Charles singing “Here We Go Again”
Since yesterday, there’s an extremely worthwhile video of Rowan Atkinson, aka Mr. Bean, making the rounds.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1822375229760664018
Criminal gangs in Denmark have begun to recruit “child soldiers” from Sweden to carry out attacks, with 25 such cases being recorded in the past four months alone.
This week, Danish Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard revealed that gangs, such as the Loyal To Familia (LTF) headed up by Pakistani-heritage mobster Shuaib Khan, have taken to outsourcing criminal acts, such as shootings and grenade bombings on the streets of Denmark, to “child soldiers” from neighbouring Sweden.
According to the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), Hummelgaard said that authorities have recorded at least 25 instances of youths from Sweden being used by criminal networks in Copenhagen and other cities,
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/08/11/denmark-criminal-gangs-recruiting-child-soldiers-from-multicultural-sweden/
Eyewitness, Who Secretly Recorded Interrogation with Police, Claims to Have Overheard Police Radio Comms Mentioning ‘Blood in the Bathroom’ and ‘Second Shooter on the Loose’ Following Trump Assassination Attempt
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/breaking-eyewitness-who-secretly-recorded-interrogation-police-claims/
Aug. 11, 2024 11:00 am
Disclaimer: The content of this article is based on eyewitness accounts and personal testimonies. It is intended for informational purposes only and should not be taken as a definitive fact. Readers are encouraged to form their own opinions and conduct further research if desired.
An eyewitness who was detained by the police on the day of the Trump assassination attempt has come forward with explosive claims.
The witness claims that during his time in police custody, he overheard alarming details on police radios that were not disclosed to the public.
The witness, who goes by the name Dave James Stewart or “realDJStew724” on YouTube, claims to have overheard police discussing the presence of blood in a bathroom and a potential second shooter on the loose.
Stewart first posted a video on July 28, fifteen days after the shooting, that shows police reacting to a perceived threat on the roof of the building several minutes before the would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fire.
Two minutes before Crooks’ first shot, an officer could be seen with his handgun drawn as he kept watch on the roof from the opposite side of where Crooks turned out to be.
The man, who appears to be the same man in a suit later seen in police bodycam video talking with officers on the roof guarding Crooks’ body, just wanted to photograph Stewart’s ID. A state trooper would soon take Stewart into custody and take his phone, apparently giving it to the FBI who would keep it for almost a week.
Stewart wrote on his YouTube channel, “Dear PA State Police Trooper who cuffed me and roughed me up: Don’t ever tread on me again. You know what you did. Your partner better have had that bodycam on. That footage better not be deleted. You’re going to pay for what you did to me.”
Our group by AGR. Everyone of these people watched a cop come down from the stage and rough me up and arrest me. They told me I gotta do something about that. So if you’re in his picture or know who is – contact me please! pic.twitter.com/ObfAeqT8AD
— Dave (@realDJStew724) August 10, 2024
Read more:
NEW VIDEO of Trump Assassination Attempt Shows Cop With Weapon Drawn Outside AGR Building Two Minutes Before Shooting
Axios reported:
David James Stewart was trying to get a glimpse of a Trump rally after clocking out from a nearby Sheetz convenience store on Saturday. He ended up becoming a witness to an assassination attempt.
Why it matters: Stewart was standing right below the Butler, Pennsylvania building where the shooter was and took a video, later seized by law enforcement, he told Axios.
Former President Trump was shot in the earon Saturday in an attack that left one rally attendee dead and another two wounded, the Secret Service said.
The suspect was shooting from an elevated position outside the rally’s security perimeter.
Zoom in: Someone yelled AK when they saw the shooter, Stewart said.
Then bullets starting going over Stewart’s head. He took video and continued recording for 10–15 minutes after the shooting.
Stewart told Axios that law enforcement started shooting at the suspect on the rooftop immediately. Another witness told Stewart that he saw the suspect’s head get blown apart.
Between the lines: Stewart was taken on the back of a Homeland Security vehicle filled with other witnesses to a building where he was told not to talk to other witnesses and spoke to Pennsylvania State Police, Homeland Security and others.
Law enforcement told Stewart that 18 total witnesses were held in that building after the shooting.
Stewart had been just released and was back at Sheetz when he spoke with Axios on Saturday night.
On July 30, Dave Stewart released an audio recording of his interrogation by a State Police trooper who followed him to a gas station.
Dave said, “I was sitting in my car in a gas station parking lot with my front sunshade up for about 45 minutes when I noticed a PSP trooper at my window. I started recording audio from a new phone that I bought specifically for this. When I take my sunshade down, I see that a PSP cruiser has my car blocked in.”
This incident happened a day before his scheduled meet-up with the FBI at 10:00 a.m. the next day to retrieve his phone, which was taken by law enforcement.
While sitting in his car. The officers questioned him about his whereabouts and activities on the day of the shooting, at one point showing him a blurry photo and asking if he recognized the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks.
During the recording, Stewart can be heard confronting the trooper about being detained and blocked in.
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Trooper: Where are you staying at, buddy?
Stewart: Am I being Are you being detained right now?
Trooper: Yes.
Stewart: For what?
Trooper: He’ll explain. So you can’t leave right now.
Stewart: Why? Oh f—k. You motherf—ker. You’re smart. F—k… You guys are f—king doing something. You guys are doing something fishy.
Trooper: We’re not.
Stewart: Yeah, you are.
Trooper: No, we’re not.
Stewart: Yeah, you are.
A visibly confused and alarmed Stewart asked the officers how they were able to locate him. A trooper who identified himself as Trooper Glasgow of the Pennsylvania State Police Troop D responded, “We’re good at what we do.”
Stewart: Hey, what did I do Why did you guys block me in?
Trooper: Listen, we need to talk to you.
Stewart: What are you guys trying to do?
Trooper: We’re trying to get you with the FBI to get your phone back.
Stewart: Why this time of night? I was already there. I was already at the police barracks earlier. Got no answers. I was there yesterday at noon. Got no answers. I drove down to the FBI building myself. I understand that. And why are you coming here? How did you even know I was right here?
Trooper: Because we’ve been trying to get a hold of you.
Stewart: How the fuck did you find me here?
Trooper: We’re good at what we do.
Stewart: What?
Trooper: So here’s the way this works. They need to talk to you so we can get this all behind us.
Stewart: You’re not talking to me right now at 10 o’clock at night.
Trooper: Well, that’s what they want to do. That’s what the instructions we were given is.
Listen:
Stewart recounts an earlier incident involving a ‘man in a red truck’ who allegedly threatened people near the fence line, claiming to own the property and trying to force people to leave. Dave believed at the time that this man might have been involved in the shooting.
Trooper: Maybe this is a blurry photo, but do you recall seeing this guy [Crooks] ever?
Stewart: No. No. What about the red truck guy? The one that was trying to shoo us away from the building, the one that was causing fights, trying to fight us all like an hour before Trump arrived?
Trooper: Tell me about that.
Stewart: Well, there was a guy in a red truck, probably early to mid-2000s, Ford Ranger, single cab, bright red, white guy, older, 50, maybe almost 60, salt and pepper hair, gray shirt, blue jeans. He was coming up, telling everybody that he owned the building. That this was his area and we were all trespassing. We needed to move away from the building.
He was getting in people’s faces, pointing his finger at old guys’ faces. And then he left, pissed off, got in his truck, drove around the AGR building for 20 seconds, and then drove back around. As he was getting out of his truck, he put something down his pants. I ran back over to the crowd and told them, ‘Yo, that guy that was just harassing you all? He’s coming back, and I think he might have a gun or something. This guy’s fucked.’ And he came back and started harassing people even more. So we started waving the police down from the rally area to come down toward us, toward the fence. And they came down, they talked to that guy.
Trooper: Hold on a second. So this white male, describe him again.
Stewart: White male, probably in his 50s. I would say mid-50s range. Salt and pepper, long hair, maybe about as long as mine, maybe a little bit shorter. Just a gray shirt and blue jeans. And he had a red truck, and it’s a mid to early 2000s Ford Ranger, bright red. A single cab, because I’m pretty sure it was a little thing.
Trooper: You said mid-2000s?
Stewart: Yeah, mid-2000s, mid to early 2000s Ford Ranger.
Trooper: And you said he owned the place?
Stewart: He was claiming that he owned the place. But I was talking to this lady named Val. She lives right behind the farm show. She’s like, ‘I’ve lived here forever. That guy doesn’t own this place.’
Trooper: Okay. So he said that you all needed to leave?
Stewart: That we all needed to leave. He was screaming, ‘Get the fuck out of here. Fuck all you people.’
Trooper: He drove around the building?
Stewart: Yeah, in the parking lot that almost comes up to the fence line. He got back into his truck, and then he drove out of sight. And then he came back. We were like, ‘What was that about?’
Trooper: What did he do when he came back?
Stewart: He kept yelling at people even more, but he was even more pissed off, but more confident. And I saw him have something black in his hand, and he shoved it down his pants.
Trooper: Was this when he came back?
Stewart: Yes.
Trooper: He had something black in his hands?
Stewart: Yes. And he shoved it down his pants. I went over to the crowd and was like, ‘Hey, that guy that was harassing you all earlier? I think he might have a gun. He’s coming back even more angry.’ So then we started flagging down the police from the rally area.
Trooper: Did he leave at that point?
Stewart: The police came and talked to him. And then after they talked to him, basically, I think they told him, ‘Hey, dude, there’s a hundred people down here at this fence line. What are you going to do? Just go. Just leave.’ And then he left.
Trooper: Was it state police or local police?
Stewart: It’s on that video. I videoed the interaction between that man and those police officers. I can’t believe crowd control wasn’t sent down at that point. It was out of control, that fence line. There was a friggin horse there.
Trooper: Was there anything else about this truck, like stickers or anything like that?
Stewart: I wasn’t close enough. I only saw it from the front. And I just—
Trooper: Or anything on his shirt?
Stewart: No, I just know it was bright red, like that candy apple red, that bright red. And it was one of those dark gray, just plain shirts, just regular. He just looked like a regular dude.
Trooper: Around what time do you think this all happened?
Stewart: It’ll be timestamped on the video. You guys have it. I would say it was definitely before the motorcade arrived, for sure, because that’s when I started filming. It didn’t stop when the motorcade arrived. But the whole fight and everything between that guy, that was, I’d say, a half-hour. I would say maybe five o’clock. It was shortly after I arrived. Actually, yeah, I would say it was around five o’clock. It was shortly after I arrived, because it took me a couple of minutes to walk across the field right there. I left my car and just walked over.
Listen:
The most alarming part of Stewart’s testimony comes from what he claims to have overheard on the police radio: reports of blood found in a bathroom and a second shooter still at large.
Trooper: Have you ever met or spoken to Mr. Crooks before?
Stewart: No.
Trooper: No?
Stewart: Yeah. Get the fuck out of here. You guys think I’m involved?
Trooper: No, just asking.
Stewart: That’s a weird-ass question. Who are you asking, bro?
Trooper: I’ve asked everyone.
[…]
Stewart: “Yeah, because when we were first ducking… When they moved us all from the back of the AGR building, and Homeland Security and the other guy with the long gun moved us over to the Township police car to take cover there, the door was open, and we could hear the radio communications. And they said, ‘Shooter dead on the roof.’
And then they said, ‘We breached the building. There’s blood in the bathroom, second shooter on the loose.’ Because if the guy climbed the building and shot from there, how was there blood found inside of a bathroom inside that building? So there had to be a second shooter, right? That got shot or something.”
Trooper: You got moved to another building by who?
Stewart: Moved to another area by Homeland Security. I got the cuffs taken from behind me to the front by Homeland Security. And then when we got moved over to Township. The Township Police were like, ‘Stewart?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, please take these cuffs off me.’ And they took the cuffs off me. And then they moved us across the street. And then they were like, ‘This is even a horrible spot over here. If the dude wants to shoot out the windows, get in the trunk of our car over here, and we’ll drive you to the farm show.’
Trooper: Okay. So what was it that you heard on the radio?
Stewart: There was a shooter dead on the roof, and then they were clearing the building, and they found blood in the bathroom. And they said, ‘second suspect at large,’ or something like that, or whatever. I don’t know. But blood was found in the bathroom, I remember that for sure. Because that’s what had us freaked out, because that’s what the cops were telling us. Like, ‘Hey, the second shooter is still around here. So let’s move from this point over to this point where it’s safer.’ And then they’re like, ‘Well, it’s not safe over here. Let’s take you over here.'”
Trooper: So you didn’t actually see any potential second shooter?
Stewart: No, I assumed the red truck guy was because what I thought was when the shots were going off, I thought it was the red truck guy shooting us for being along his fence.
Trooper: You don’t know who the red truck guy is or anything?
Stewart: Hell no. If I knew, I’d tell you. His picture is on the video. I got a close-up of his face.
Trooper: So there was some surveillance footage that indicated you and [Crooks] might have communicated at one point. Do you recall that at all?
Stewart: What?
Trooper: Yeah.
Stewart: No way. Let me see it.
Trooper: I don’t have it with me.
Stewart: Well, f—k.
Trooper: We’ll have somebody text it to you.
Stewart: I want to see that sh-t. Yeah, are you serious? I was within inches from this guy?
Trooper: Potentially.
Stewart: No way. Wow. Not only was I feet from the muzzle, but I was also f—king inches from the f—king guy beforehand? Good Lord. I’m going down in the history books, my friend. F—k. God damn it. This sucks. This is all in my mind right now, bro. Holy sh—t. I can’t believe you just told me that. Oh, my God.
Listen:
Stewart wrote on X, “It would be on the dash/body cam of a Butler Township officer with white sunglasses. I didn’t catch his name. I rode in the back of his car with neon green guy to the front of the building while the others in the group got in other cars.”
It would be on the dash/body cam of a Butler Township officer with white sunglasses. I didn’t catch his name. I rode in the back of his car with neon green guy to the front of the building while the others in the group got in other cars
— Dave (@realDJStew724) August 9, 2024
The Gateway Pundit cannot verify this claim at this time. A body cam video later released by Sen. Grassley showed an officer who allegedly had fallen and cut his hands, with discussions about him possibly needing stitches. Many believe this incident might explain the origin of the “blood in the bathroom” story.
WATCH:
So then when the other body cam footage came out and they talked about the officer who fell and cut his hands (and said he likely would need stitches), many ppl thought that’s where the blood in bathroom story came from pic.twitter.com/v7ZSsY4hNh
— (@KateArete) August 9, 2024
You can watch the full 30-minute video below:
https://youtu.be/p_IB1uDQhwE
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/breaking-eyewitness-who-secretly-recorded-interrogation-police-claims/
The Election Deception Set Up From Beginning
Flash Back to 12/30/20
OFFFICIAL Jovan Hutton Pulitzer – Live
Program began 0:16:35 ago
https://rumble.com/v5ajph9-the-election-deception-set-up-from-beginning-flash-back-to-123020.htmlcom
ROME — Pope Francis prayed Sunday for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a topic he has returned to on numerous occasions.
In these days we have commemorated “the anniversary of the atomic bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” the pontiff told visitors gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for his weekly Angelus address.
“As we continue to commend to the Lord the victims of those events, and of all wars, let us renew our intense prayer for peace, especially for troubled Ukraine, the Middle East, Palestine, Israel, Sudan and Myanmar,” he said.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/08/11/pope-francis-again-recalls-u-s-bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/
Question: what kind of dog-whistle is he blowing? Is this incitement to more nuclear bombing?
Comments about fighting in the Uke-Russ war prove the naiveté of the viewers, swallowing black-OR-white propaganda. In Western legacy media it’s pure Russophobia. Elsewhere it’s pure anti- America/-NATO/-West.
“Oh, shameful! They’re sending their own people as meat for transitory media victories.”
——–They tell you this or that position has/doesn’t have strategic value – depending on whether they’re winning/losing it. Both sides use the same words but we hear only one side.
Nobody knows the strategy that’s determining the tactics. This is a loooong line of contact. Unless it’s as obvious as taking control and holding Odessa or targeting and hitting a nuclear power plant – it’s all spin.
Why did the Kiev regime attack Kursk, the territory that’s undisputedly “old Russia”?
=====>Well, because they could.<=====
Whoever's been in charge of RFA in that region failed to build defensive positions over the *last decade*. One or more corrupt old Soviet officers pocketed the funds allocated for that purpose. NATO has been beefing up Uke defenses since 2014.
– – KURSK, the site of the biggest battle in history, is where the USSR won WW-2. The symbolic impact is enormous, can’t be brushed off by those who lost family members in “The Great Patriotic War”. Or anybody in the region who graduated high-school.
– – Plus, the specific Russian casualties and those taken as POWs mean something extra here.
Russia has not declared war.
“Special Military Operation” is a legal designation: only volunteers or contract soldiers can be deployed in a war zone. So these young Russian conscripts – with little training, few weapons, on Russian home territory – were caught unawares. A numerically significant toll.
Earlier in the Donbass, “Russian-speaking” citizens of Ukraine did all the fighting and dying. Defending their own territory, designated “Territorial Defense Forces”. On and off for years. In February 2022 many were press-ganged by the other side. When they fell in battle, the regime counted them as *dead Russians* and pro-NATO media celebrated the victory of the underdog over the big bad bear.
So this incursion was a juicy opportunity. The Special Forces of the UAF make a big splash, temporary as it will be.
Fact is, Russia cannot lose a conventional war. That’s something Europe should know by now. Our side is more likely to take it nuclear than the other. Especially with Putin at the helm. But remember Russia’s 2020 deterrence doctrine:
The Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it and/or its allies, as well as in the event of aggression against the Russian Federation with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened.
HUGE: Thomas Crooks Trained at Shooting Range, Where Multiple Federal Agencies Reportedly Train, Including DHS — Visited the Club 43 Times Including Holidays Since Last Year, Records Show
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/huge-thomas-crooks-trained-clairton-sportsmens-club-where/
Aug. 11, 2024 1:20 pm
Screenshot: Jesse Watters Primetime
New evidence shows that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man suspected of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump, had been intensely preparing for his attack at the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club, a facility frequented by multiple federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
According to the documents released by Grassley’s office on Thursday, Crooks signed up for a membership at the gun club on August 10, 2023.
His alarming pattern of behavior is highlighted by the fact that he visited the range 20 times within just four months of joining. Notably, his dedication to rifle practice was evident, with 80% of his visits focused solely on honing his skills with long guns.
“He focused almost exclusively on the rifle range throughout 2024,” Grassley’s office said in a statement per the New York Post.
Crooks visited the club 43 times within the past year and even spent major holidays, including Christmas Day, Valentine’s Day, and Halloween, under federal law enforcement’s nose.
Crooks’ final visit to the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club occurred just one day before he attempted to assassinate Trump.
According to ABC News, “The Clairton Sportsmen’s Club previously confirmed to ABC News that Crooks visited the gun club for the last time on July 12 — the day before the rally. He visited the range at 2:45 p.m. local time that day, according to the records released by Grassley’s office.”
Credit: Trib Live
In a recent broadcast, Fox News’ Jesse Watters highlighted the disturbing nature of the evidence.
“It’s been a month since Trump was nearly killed, and the FBI has barely said a word about what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania. Thankfully, Congress is churning out new information to help the American people understand what happened,” Watters said.
He continued, “Turns out that Crooks first joined the Clarendon Gun Club in August of last year, just a year ago, and then visited the range 43 times. Crooks even spent holidays at the shooting range, including Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Halloween. And his parents didn’t think this was strange.”
What’s more alarming is that the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club wasn’t just a local shooting range—it was a hub for federal law enforcement training. Agencies like DHS, which oversees the Secret Service, regularly held training sessions at the facility. This means that Crooks was honing his skills under the very noses of federal agents tasked with protecting national security.
“The shooting range was crawling with feds. Multiple local and federal law law enforcement agencies trained at this facility, including the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Secret Service. Crooks was training under federal law enforcement’s nose. We’re now seeing just how close they got to each other. Just two months before trying to kill Trump, Crooks was at the range within 24 hours of a Homeland Security Office training session,” Jesse Watters said.
WATCH:
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that a mobile ad data analysis revealed that someone who regularly visited Crooks’ Pennsylvania home also visited a building in DC near an FBI office.
The Oversight Project identified nine devices linked to AD-IDs that were located at Crooks’ home and work within the last year.
Per the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project: “We found the assassin’s connections through our in-depth analysis of mobile ad data to track movements of Crooks and his associates.”
“To do this, we tracked devices that regularly visited both Crooks’s home and place of work and followed them,” the Oversight Project said.
Read more:
Mobile Data Reveals Someone Who Regularly Visited Thomas Crooks’ Home and Work Also Visited a Building in Washington DC Near FBI Office
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/mobile-data-reveals-someone-who-regularly-visited-thomas/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/huge-thomas-crooks-trained-clairton-sportsmens-club-where/
Iran Knows It Cannot Win a War against Israel
[T]he likelihood of Iran launching another attack against Israel in retaliation for Haniyeh’s assassination appears to be receding, not least because Tehran is well aware that, in any major military confrontation with Israel, it will inevitably be the loser.
Israeli officials also believe that the initial assault will not originate from Iran. The latest intelligence assessment by Israeli officials, reported on August 7, indicates a shift in expectations regarding the source of the anticipated attack.
Cooperation between Israel and Russia has often resulted in the Russians turning a blind eye when Israel attacks Iranian positions in Syria, even though Russia and Iran are supposed to be allies working together in their joint venture to keep Syria’s Assad regime in power.
In responding to Iran’s desperate plea for more arms, therefore, Putin may be reluctant to take any action that could upset his delicate relationship with Israel.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20851/iran-cannot-win-war-against-israel
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Iran: A Grin and Bear it Game?
A repeat of the recent comedy of launching 400 flying objects against Israel while making sure none reaches a target would be one hoax too many, even from a master of all hoaxes.
Even if the ayatollah manages to kill many Israelis and Palestinians in an initial raid, he may be putting his whole regime at risk.
Exposed as a big talker and small achiever, he could face an internal popular uprising that might wish to seek a different way of life.
Khamenei knows that, and yellow being his favorite color, he is trying to step back from the brink with a minimum loss of face.
Khamenei’s new shying-off tactic could give Israel the chance to follow the destruction of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza with the crippling of the Houthis, the next laggard. That could be followed by “downgrading” the laggards in Iraq, with tacit support from the Iraqi regular army and Israel’s allies inside Iraq. That would put Hezbollah next in line for downgrading.
All that, of course, is speculation. But the fact is that anyone who thinks Khamenei would risk his own skin for Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, Hashd al-Shaabi and Hezbollah needs to have his head examined.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20850/iran-a-grin-and-bear-it-game
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WSJ: Detailed article worth reading in full.
Iran Wants to Strike Back at Israel but Can’t Afford a Wider War
BEIRUT—Iran and its allies are weighing how to retaliate forcefully for a pair of killings attributed to Israel in Beirut and Tehran without igniting an all-out war none of them want.
Iran can’t afford a war with Israel, which would likely pull in the U.S., just as a new presidential administration takes over in Tehran with problems including a reeling economy. Iranians still hold painful memories of the country’s last extended conflict, an eight-year war with Iraq […and] has preferred to harry its rivals in the region through a network of foreign militias.
Hezbollah… also has more to lose from escalating its 10-month cross-border battle with Israel into a full-scale war. While Hezbollah has a missile arsenal that could punish Israel severely, its leaders have watched Israel demolish much of Gaza…
Both suffered major embarrassments recently that analysts say they will feel they must respond to…
https://archive.ph/eWBYF
FBI confirms explosion along a Maui highway caused by improvised explosive device
Open Source Intel @Osint613
WILD REPORT
“Due to the war,” British postal services have stopped sending mail to Israel but continue to send to the Palestinian Authority. @RotterNet
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1822370503127949593
British postal services, eh?
That’s entered into The Big Book in the sky.
Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000
https://t.co/hdUjpAqpCi
Please stop everything you are doing for a moment and watch this video which was censored on YouTube following a backlash from Hamas sympathizers.
The pro-Palestinians are trying to get this trailer censored, so let’s make it go as viral as possible here on X: first retweet this video and then write your country’s name in the comments below to let us know how far it has gone.
Palestinian Jihadists and their allies in the West are in panic mode over Pierre Rehov’s new documentary film “Pogrom(s)” which completely destroys the Palestinian narrative regarding the conflict and the heinous crimes that Palestinian terrorists committed in Israel on October 7, 2023.
This documentary which exposes the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th (ie, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust), also provides accurate, fair and unbiased information about the Palestinians’ ongoing war against Israel’s existence.
The documentary will be officially released on October 7th, 2024. But, you can watch it right now before everyone else. For more information please visit the following link: https://pogroms.info
I highly recommend following the filmmaker here on X:
@rehoov
https://x.com/LizaRosen0000/status/1821931478655091177
NOTE: I won’t watch it.
Nor have I listened to or read graphic descriptions of 10/7. I get it: I read Jeremiah’s Lamentations every year on Tisha B’Av (tomorrow). No need for a contemporary rendition or movie.