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Mom Of 2 Dead Sons Condemns Biden Laughing and Mocking Fentanyl Deaths

Thu, 03/02/2023 - 21:00

Rebecca Kiessling, a mother from Michigan who lost two sons to fentanyl poisoning, wiped away tears during a House Homeland Security Committee about the U.S-Mexico border on Capitol Hill. When called out about the skyrocketing overdose rate of fentanyl deaths as a result of the open US Mexico border, Biden’s laughed at thefentanyl deaths for cheap political points.

He is the worst villain imaginable. Monster. These callous remarks reflect his abject failure as a father.
Mother of two fentayl victims, Rebecca Kiessling, strongly and angrily rebukes and condemns Joe Biden after he laughs and mocks the death’s of her two son’s, dying from Fentanyl poisoning.

My response to President Biden laughing that my 2 sons, Caleb and Kyler, didn’t die under his watch.…

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Biden laughs at Marjorie Taylor Greene pinning 2020 fentanyl deaths of two brothers on him

By Steven Nelson, NY Post, March 1, 2023:

  • Biden’s laugh at fentanyl deaths for cheap political points exposes the real Joe
  • Mom rips ‘despicable’ Biden for laughing at blame claim for sons’ fentanyl deaths
  • Scalise calls Democrats ‘disgraceful’ for skipping hearings, warns fentanyl kills 300 a day
  • AG Merrick Garland claims fentanyl ‘unleashed on purpose’ in US by cartels

President Biden chuckled Wednesday night while knocking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for falsely blaming him for the 2020 deaths of two Michigan brothers — whose mother emotionally slammed the federal response to surging fentanyl deaths.

“A little bit of more of Marjorie Taylor Greene and a few more, you’re gonna have a lot of Republicans running our way. Isn’t she amazing? Whew,” Biden told a gathering of House Democrats in Baltimore of the Georgia Republican.

“I was the reason, she was very specific, I shouldn’t digress probably. I’ve read she was very specific recently saying that a mom, a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl, that I killed her sons. Well, the interesting thing: That fentanyl they took came during the last administration [hee-hee].”

Shocked critics were quick to blast the 80-year-old commander-in-chief for the tone-deaf clap-back.

“@POTUS needs to apologize for this immediately. No person, let alone the president of the United States, laughs when speaking about a mother who lost two sons to fentanyl poisoning,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) seethed.

“What, President Biden, do you find amusing about this?”
Joe Biden
President Biden laughed that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed him for the deaths of two Michigan brothers.

“Biden just laughed while talking about a Mom whose kid was killed with Fentanyl. This is so incredibly inappropriate and vile,” conservative podcaster Robby Starbuck tweeted.

The Republican National Committee’s Jake Schneider added: “Truly the lowest bar possible for Biden — what a disgusting person. Losing children to fentanyl trafficking is never, ever funny. Just vile.”

Rebecca Kiessling, whose sons Caleb, 20, and Kyler, 18, died on July 29, 2020, after taking what they thought was Percocet, testified to the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday that more should be done to stop fentanyl imports.

“If we had Chinese troops lining up along our southern border with weapons aimed at our people, with weapons of mass destruction aimed at our cities, you damn well know you would do something about it,” Kiessling said.

“We have a weather balloon from China going across the country. Nobody died, and everybody’s freaking out about it. But 100,000 die every year, and nothing’s being done. Not enough is being done.”

Taylor Greene apparently missed the date of the tragedy and wrote on Twitter that the deaths were because of bad Biden administration policies.

Democrats barred Greene from House committees in 2021 over a bizarre series of remarks — including speculating that a Jewish space laser caused a wildfire — and she often is used by Democrats as a foil to portray Republicans as ridiculous.

Republicans routinely knock Biden, whose family has had extensive business dealings with Chinese state-linked firms, for not doing enough about fentanyl sourced largely from China, which killed nearly 200,000 Americans from 2018 to 2021 alone — or to determine the origins of COVID-19, which has killed more than 1 million Americans.

Rebecca Kiessling, a mother from Michigan who lost two sons to fentanyl poisoning, wipes away tears during a House Homeland Security Committee about the U.S-Mexico border on Capitol Hill February 28, 2023 in Washington, DC.

Fentanyl deaths jumped under Biden after trending higher under President Donald Trump. Until recently, Biden rarely mentioned the scourge — unlike Trump, who cited deaths to push for a US-Mexico border wall while often boasting he convinced Chinese President Xi Jinping to launch a crackdown.

Fentanyl is used by prescription to treat severe pain, and a dose the size of roughly 10 grains of table salt can be lethal, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency.

The drug is commonly shipped from China to Mexico and then smuggled into the US, though its small size allows it to also be shipped through the international mail system.

CLIMATE HOAX: Biden’s EPA Has Paid Out $1 Billion Into Climate Grants This Year

Thu, 03/02/2023 - 20:26

It’s all one giant scam. The climate grift is the greatest political fraud in history.

Back in 1971, the great American political theorist, Ayn Rand, wrote in her book. “The Return of the Primitive” , “It has been reported in the press many times that the issue of ‘pollution’ is to be the next big crusade of the New Left activists, after the war in Vietnam peters out. And just as peace was not their goal or motive in that crusade, so clean air is not their goal or motive in this one.”

Boom.

Biden’s EPA Has Paid Out $1 Billion Into Climate Grants This Yea

By Liz Sheld, American Greatness, March 2, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced over $250 million in grants are available to fund plans for projects combating “climate pollution” on Wednesday, pushing the total number of climate grants announced this year to nearly $1 billion.

The funds include $3 million for every state, $1 million for each of the 67 most populated metropolitan areas and a total of $25 million to be distributed among Native American tribes, according to the EPA press release. The grants are among the first in President Joe Biden’s new $5 billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program, which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

In total, the IRA allocated nearly $370 billion to fighting climate change. The act also includes, among other things, $80 million in additional funding for the Internal Revenue Service, $2o billion in incentives for farmers to not grow crops and $2.2 billion in reparations for black farmers.

“We know that tackling the climate crisis demands a sense of urgency to protect people and the planet,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan in a statement. “President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is a historic opportunity to provide communities across the country with the resources they need to protect people from harmful climate pollution and improve our economy. These Climate Pollution Reduction Grants are an important first step to equip communities with the resources to create innovative strategies that reduce climate emissions and drive benefits across the country.”

The first $250 million from EPA's new Climate Pollution Reduction Grants is now available! Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, we are providing resources for states, local governments, Tribes, and territories to cut climate pollution and build clean energy economies. pic.twitter.com/9VL1jbk9CR

— U.S. EPA (@EPA) March 1, 2023

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Cop Killer Was Arrested Last Summer But Democrat Prosecutors Rejected Filing Charges

Thu, 03/02/2023 - 17:15

Chicago police officers are mourning after one of their own was killed in the line of duty Wednesday.

The most basic fundamental role of government is protecting its citizens. That’s over. Buy a gun and start a tax rebellion.

Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso, 32, was shot and killed as he chased an armed suspect who suddenly turned and fired “at close range” in Gage Park, FOX 32 reports.

Man who allegedly killed a Chicago police officer Wednesday was arrested last summer, but prosecutors rejected felony charges

By: CWB, Chicago Citywide, March 2, 2023

Update 7:45 a.m. – The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the officer as Andres Vasquez-Lasso, 32.

A Chicago police officer was killed Wednesday in a close-range exchange of gunfire with a man while investigating a domestic altercation in Gage Park, officials said. The 18-year-old man who allegedly shot the officer received a gunshot wound to his head and remains hospitalized in critical condition.

CWB Chicago has learned that the 18-year-old was arrested last summer after police said he and two other people ran from a car that had just been used in a shooting. The Cook County state’s attorney’s office rejected felony charges against him but approved charges against the other two people.

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said the slain officer had been with the department for five years. Records from the Chicago Office of Inspector General show that no complaints had been filed against the officer during his time on the force.
Armed domestic

Around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, four officers responded to a call of a man chasing a woman with a gun in the 5200 block of South Spaulding during a domestic altercation, police said. Officers saw the 18-year-old man running from the scene, and they chased after him, according to a CPD media statement.

The statement said that the 18-year-old fired his weapon, striking the officer multiple times, and the officer returned fire, striking the man in the head. Police recovered the man’s handgun at the scene, according to CPD. We are not identifying the man by name because he has not been criminally charged. CPD has not publicly identified the fallen officer.

Last summer, witnesses to a shooting in Little Village told police that a white Honda with three Hispanic male occupants pulled up next to the victim and began shooting, prosecutors said during bail hearings for the 18-year-old and the driver last year. The victim, a 29-year-old man, was shot twice in the leg.

A Chicago police homicide support team that responded to the shooting saw a stolen car matching the shooters’ vehicle running stop signs and red lights while being driven by a man wearing a ski mask, the prosecutors said.

When the car stopped, three people allegedly ran from it: the 18-year-old involved in Wednesday’s shooting, a 15-year-old boy, and a 22-year-old man.

Police arrested the two adults on opposite sides of the same street a short time later. Prosecutors said police found two firearms along the path they followed while running from officers. A CPD arrest report for the 18-year-old said the guns were found by Illinois State Police canines in a yard three houses down from where officers found him hiding under a porch.

During the 22-year-old’s bail hearing, a prosecutor said the guns were found in a yard where a police helicopter crew saw the 22-year-old make a “throwing gesture” while running.

He was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, fleeing and eluding, and resisting. He paid a $200 bail deposit to get out of jail and is now facing additional charges for allegedly robbing a woman while having a gun in his getaway car just three weeks later, according to court records.

Prosecutors charged the 15-year-old with aggravated battery by discharging a firearm, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and criminal trespass to a vehicle.

Chicago police detectives asked prosecutors to charge the 18-year-old with aggravated battery by discharging a firearm, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and criminal trespass to a vehicle, CPD records show. But the state’s attorney’s office rejected those charges, leaving the man to face a single misdemeanor count of resisting police, according to the records.

During his bail hearing for the resisting charge, an assistant state’s attorney and the judge both noted that the state’s attorney’s office felony review unit rejected charges against the 18-year-old, who has no criminal convictions in his background.

“I read the arrest report,” Judge Barbara Dawkins said during the hearing. “It has a lot about what he’s not being charged with and not much about what he is being charged with.”

“So, essentially,” Dawkins summarized, “he’s being charged with running from the police … He is not charged with the weapons. He is not charged with the shooting.”

American Fighting for Ukraine Defects to Russia, Blows Whistle on Nazism, War Crimes

Thu, 03/02/2023 - 16:41

An American Army veteran who spent a year fighting in Ukraine’s Foreign Legion has defected to Russia, bringing with him tangible evidence and first-hand accounts of widespread Ukrainian Nazism and war crimes.

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American Fighting for Ukraine Defects to Russia, Blows Whistle on Nazism, War Crimes

John McIntyre joined Ukraine’s Foreign Legion, before learning they were Nazi war criminals and defecting to Russia.

By Frankie Stockes, National File, March 1, 2023:

An American Army veteran who spent a year fighting in Ukraine’s Foreign Legion has defected to Russia, bringing with him tangible evidence and first-hand accounts of widespread Ukrainian Nazism and war crimes. He also says that Americans are on the ground in Ukraine, communicating directly with CIA handlers as they help coordinate attacks on Russian troops.

John McIntyre, an American southerner and US Army veteran who joined others from around the world in soliciting his services to the Ukrainian Foreign Legion has defected to Russia and described the war crimes and open Nazism he witnessed in NATO-backed Ukraine during an exclusive sit-down interview with RT in Moscow.
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“When I came [to Ukraine],” McIntyre told RT, “I was really surprised. Everybody had tattoos and Nazi symbolism.”

When he was asked by the Ukrainians why he was fighting in the war as a foreigner, he told them that he was there to stand up against Russian “Nazis” and “fascists,” only to be told that “the Russians aren’t the Nazis, we are the Nazis,” by his Ukrainian comrades and other neo-fascists who poured into the fight from all over Europe.

McIntyre told RT that he personally knew foreign fighters who had committed war crimes by executing Russian prisoners and that others had committed hideous acts of torture, something he says the Ukrainians and their foreign comrades like to laugh and joke about.

“A lot of captured Russian soldiers, they’ll take and cut their genitalia with a knife and everything and cut their stomachs open, slit their throats, cut their heads off and stuff like that. Really horrible stuff,” said McIntyre.

And it isn’t just Russian soldiers who have fallen victim to Ukrainian war crimes. Civilians, McIntyre said, have been targeted by the Ukrainians in pro-Russian separatist regions like the Donbas, and civilian homes and community centers, like schools, are routinely used as shields.

While McIntyre told RT that he was acting as a “spy” against the Ukrainians the entire time he was there, it’s unclear if this is actually true, or if he became disillusioned with the Ukrainian cause after witnessing their conduct first-hand. Nevertheless, the tale of his escape to Russia is harrowing. To escape, McIntyre contacted his family and received $300, before boarding a flight from Odessa to Istanbul, and later to Moscow, fearing for his life the entire time.

McIntyre described to RT how the Ukrainians deal with spies and whistleblowers, saying that they receive a “bullet to the back of the head,” and that it’s quite a regular occurrence, as multiple fighters have simply “disappeared” after being suspected of reporting war criminals.

“And we’re supporting these guys?” McIntyre said of American and NATO involvement in the war. “And these are supposed to be our allies? And we’re supposed to put them in NATO with us? And they can’t even follow the Geneva Convention?”

Far from only supporting the Ukrainians with massive shipments of weapons and cash, McIntyre told RT that the United States has men on the ground in Ukraine, maintaining direct communications with their handlers from the CIA and other American agencies notorious for meddling in global conflict zones and unstable nations.

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Worldwide COVID Litigation Lawyer Directory

Thu, 03/02/2023 - 15:00

Covid vaccine researcher Steve Kirsh is putting together a public directory for people harmed by Covid mandates and lockdowns.

Liberty Counsel has resources as well here.

Worldwide COVID litigation lawyer directory

Please register here if you provide legal services to people who have been harmed by proponents of “safe and effective” narrative.

I’m putting together a public directory so that people worldwide can find lawyers who are willing and able to take on the establishment.

Lawyers: Register your services here

Clients: View the directory here

Areas covered by this directory of legal services:

  • Employer Mandates: State/federal, ADA, worker’s compensation, individual & class action plaintiffs
  • Education Mandates: Public & private K-12 schools, public & private universities, Title 10, coercion, informed consent, fraud, conflicts of interest.
  • Medical License: Medical board certification, tortious interference, First Amendment, fraud, libel, violation of Administrative Procedures (APA or equivalent)
  • Fraud: False Claims Act, pharma fraud, VAERS fraud, SBA and PPP fraud, whistleblower protection
  • Civil Rights: Public access/accommodation, ADA, informed consent (state agencies), due process, religious liberty, First Amendment
  • Censorship: First Amendment, collusion, racketeering (federal agencies)
  • Vaccine Injury: Includes liability, informed consent, mandates by institutions, VICP, CICP
  • Hospital Negligence: Includes Remdesivir, denial of early treatment protocols, vaccine coercion
  • Mass Torts: Includes Covid vaccine injury and hospital misuse of Remdesivir

Iran can make fissile material for a bomb ‘in about 12 days’ – US official

Thu, 03/02/2023 - 14:00

The disgraceful Biden Administration scrapped President Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran, and replaced it with maximum appeasement. This is the result. The only question is when will Israel bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities? Not much longer.

Israel Must Prepare to Save the World from a Nuclear Iran@rich_goldberg in @Algemeiner: https://t.co/ldBK5hTEct

— FDD (@FDD) February 27, 2023

Iran can make fissile material for a bomb ‘in about 12 days’ – US official

While US officials say Iran has grown closer to producing fissile material, they do not believe it has mastered the technology to actually build a bomb.

By Jerusalem Post, Feb 28th, 2023

Iran could make enough fissile for one nuclear bomb in “about 12 days,” a top US Defense Department official said on Tuesday, down from the estimated one year it would have taken while the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was in effect.

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl made the comment to a House of Representatives hearing when pressed by a Republican lawmaker why the Biden administration had sought to revive the deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

America First: Trump Presents Anti-Globalist Trade Policy Agenda That Will End Dependence on China

Thu, 03/02/2023 - 13:00

President Trump is the only candidate with a proven track record of successfully fighting China. Trump is also the best candidate to take on the Globalists, Iran, North Korea, the Left et. al. Watch below. #Trump2024!

#Agenda47: @realDonaldTrump takes a SLEDGEHAMMER to Globalism with America First trade platform for 2nd term.

➡ Universal Tariffs
➡ Total Independence From China
➡ Patriotic Protectionism
➡ Reviving Mercantilism for the 21st Century pic.twitter.com/nqgFnw1ToI

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) February 27, 2023

America First: Trump presents anti-Globalist trade policy agenda that will end dependence on China. 

BY RSBN, February 28th, 2023

President Trump busted right out of the gate on Monday by unveiling a bold America First trade policy approach for a second presidential term that would end the United States’ dependence on China.

“Joe Biden claims to support American manufacturing, but in reality he’s pushing the same pro-China, globalist agenda that ripped the industrial heart out of our country,” Trump stated…..

Jim Jordan Demands to Know Why DOJ Has Not Appointed Special Counsel in Hunter Biden Investigation

Wed, 03/01/2023 - 18:00

As if we don’t know why this  treacherous coup of government hasn’t appointed a a special counsel into the most corrupt President in American history.

Washington Examiner: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is demanding documents and answers from Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding the Justice Department of Justice’s investigation of Hunter Biden. In a letter to Garland on Tuesday, Jordan expressed his concern about the “appearance of a conflict of interest” by the DOJ in not appointing a special counsel for investigations into President Joe Biden’s son. The Justice Department has been resistant to cooperating with the Jordan-led Judiciary Committee, with the department missing deadlines for requested documents relating to classified documents investigations of Joe Biden and Jordan accusing the department of being “scared to cooperate” with investigations (Daily Mail). Spencer Brown: Clearly, House Republicans are not messing around after their return to majority party status in the lower chamber of Congress, and the number of areas the Judiciary Committee — as well as Oversight and other committees — intend to bring some sunlight to the Biden administration’s machinations is refreshing after two years of uninterested Democrat “oversight” (Townhall).

WATCH: Teacher’s Union Top Dog Randi Weingarten’s PSYCHOTIC MELTDOWN Is One for the Ages

Wed, 03/01/2023 - 17:00

AFT President Randi Weingarten, union cartel boss and Democrats’ biggest campaign donor, was at the Supreme Court yesterday screaming in support of stealing from hardworking Americans and illegally canceling $400 billion in student loan debt.

Imagine if Randi and teachers unions were this passionate about allowing kids to go to school during the pandemic or raising the failing rate of our students.

The bigger question is; if the leftists are so committed to this socialist communist mugging, why aren’t the Marxist universities and colleges, sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars in endowment money, ponying up?

Supreme Court to Hear Student Loan Forgiveness Case

Randi Weingarten & co. doesn’t deserve to lecture anyone about education. She greatly contributed to the collapse of the public education system, & is directly responsible for student learning loss & record level increases in the academic achievement gap. pic.twitter.com/0r4tJUyYIp

— Nicholas Giordano (@PasReport) February 28, 2023

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FBI DIRECTOR WRAY: FBI Knew ‘For Quite Some Time That COVID Came From A Lab

Wed, 03/01/2023 - 16:00

Trump was right. And they knew. Now think about how many people, the best people, who were destroyed by the government (the FBI) and their stooges in the tech and corporate worlds for saying this very thing.

What is not being said is it was an act of war.

Six months ago CIA + FBI were censoring lab leak hypothesis via a special portal created for FBI by Twitter. And now …https://t.co/VnHm7xUUok

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) March 1, 2023

Wray: FBI ‘For Quite Some Time’ Determined Lab Incident Is ‘Most Likely’ Origin of COVID

By: Ian Hanchett, February 28,2023:

During an interview with the Fox News Channel released on Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray publicly confirmed that the FBI assessed that the COVID virus most likely originated from a lab by stating that the agency has, “for quite some time now, assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”

Wray said, [relevant remarks begin around 16:45] “[T]he FBI has, for quite some time now, assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”

He continued, “Let me step back for a second, the FBI has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists, etc. who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses like COVID and the concerns that, in the wrong hands, some bad guys, a hostile nation-state, a terrorist, a criminal, the threats that those could pose. So, here, you’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans, and that’s precisely what that capability was designed for. I should add that our work related to this continues, and there are not a whole lot of details I can share that aren’t classified. I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here…and that’s unfortunate for everybody.”

US DROPS AGAIN: We’re #25 in Annual Global Economic Freedom Index ‘Amid Mounting Deficit and Debt Burdens’

Wed, 03/01/2023 - 15:20

The United States has slipped to 25th place globally for economic freedom amid excessive government spending and a mounting debt crisis, according to The Heritage Foundation.

Another poison consequence of the Democrats’ war on America.

We’re No. 25: US slips again in annual global economic freedom index ‘amid mounting deficit and debt burdens’

The global economy is ‘mostly unfree,’ according to a new index of economic freedom

By Jon Brown | Fox News March 1, 2022:

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Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram has more on the fiscal trajectory as the Congressional Budget Office warns the country could default sometime between July and September on ‘Special Report.’

The U.S. has fallen again in a recent index of global economic freedom that noted economic freedom worldwide has declined to its lowest point in two decades.

The Heritage Foundation’s 2023 Index of Economic Freedom, which evaluated economic policies and situations in 184 nations from July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022, found a worldwide economy that is “mostly unfree,” according to an executive summary of the report provided to Fox News Digital.

The report made special note of the declining position of the U.S., which slipped to 25th place globally because of what researchers described as the country’s runaway government spending amid “mounting deficit and debt burdens.”

“This really should be a wake-up call if you’re looking at the United States,” Joel Griffith, a research fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital. “We’ve been doing this report now since the 1990s, and based on our metrics, this is the lowest the United States has ever ranked in the index as far as the total score.”
The U.S. federal government will accumulate $19 trillion in debt over the next decade, according to a recent estimate from the CBO.

The U.S. federal government will accumulate $19 trillion in debt over the next decade, according to a recent estimate from the CBO. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)

“Especially notable is the continuing decline within the ‘mostly free’ category of the United States, whose score plummeted to 70.6, its lowest level ever in the 29-year history of the Index,” researchers wrote. “The U.S. is now the world’s 25th-freest economy. The major causative factor in the erosion of America’s economic freedom is excessive government spending, which has resulted in mounting deficit and debt burdens.”

The U.S. dropped from the 20th to the 25th spot in the index since last year. Other nations experienced worse downward trends, which reportedly prevented the U.S. from sliding further down the rankings.

The U.S. federal government will accumulate $19 trillion in debt over the next decade, according to a recent estimate from the CBO.

39 Republicans Sponsor Bill To Cut Off Funding of UNRWA

Wed, 03/01/2023 - 14:00

The Taylor Force Act, passed by Congress unanimously in 2018, was designed to cut off all economic aid to the Palestinian Authority as long as the PA’s “Pay-For-Slay” program remained in operation. That is the program according to which the PA provides generous subsidies for imprisoned terrorists and for the families of terrorists who died while engaged in terrorist attacks. The Bidenites have been dead set on renewing aid to the Palestinians, and knowing that Mahmoud Abbas will never stop funding the “Pay-For-Slay” program, they decided on a work-around: they would provide funding not to the PA directly, but to UNRWA, which is not mentioned in the Taylor Force Act. Some of that money could be used by UNRWA to pay for schools and hospitals that the PA would otherwise have to pay for; funds given to UNRWA could even be transferred by UNRWA directly to the PA. Congressional Republicans are determined to end this violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the Taylor Force Act, and now 39 0f them, from both Houses of Congress, have introduced a bill to drastically cut down on American aid to UNRWA. More on this proposed legislation is here.

An external audit of UNRWA is called for because some of  UNRWA’s most senior executives, including a recent Commissioner-General, have  been involved in scandalous behavior, involving money and sex, which ended in a half-dozen being forced to resign. The allegations against them included “sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation…and other abuses of authority” which led to an “exodus of senior and other staff” and a toxic and dysfunctional work environment.”

One of those made to resign in 2019 was UNRWA’s Director-General, Pierre Krähenbühl, who was accused of a multitude of serious infractions. The allegations against him included:

  • Conducting a romantic affair with UNRWA employee Maria Mohammedi.
  • Fast-tracking the appointment of Mohammedi to the newly-created role of Senior Advisor to the Commissioner-General, so the two could be closer.
  • As a result of the inappropriate personal relationship with Mohammedi, creating a toxic environment for colleagues and embarrassment with donors.
  • Bringing Mohammedi on the majority of his business trips.
  • Misusing his authority to obtain waivers for Mohammedi to travel business class while most other management traveled economy class.
  • Being away from his duty station in Jerusalem and at Mohammedi’s duty station in Amman for 28-29 days per month, claiming a daily subsistence allowance for those days.

This Congressional legislation will require an outside audit of UNRWA before any American aid to the agency will be released.

Americans must wonder why they should be expected to continue to give more than 20 times as much to UNRWA as any of the Arab states. If those states – many of them the fabulously rich oil states of the Gulf – don’t care to support their Palestinian Arab brothers, why should Americans take up the slack and provide twenty times as much for them? We have, after all, a lot on our plate: since the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have directed nearly more than $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine, which includes humanitarian, financial, and military support, according to the Kiel Institute. It makes sense, in our straitened circumstances, for the US contributions to UNRWA to be no greater “than the highest contribution made by a member of the League of Arab states.” Assuming Qatar doesn’t increase its current contribution, that clause in the legislation will decrease Washington’s aid to UNRWA by a factor of twenty.

UNRWA also continues to use schoolbooks dripping with antisemitic venom, even though it has repeatedly promised in the past to get rid of all such material. Its educational materials also glorify individual terrorists, suggesting to Palestinian young people that these terrorists are worthy of emulation. Unless and until all such materials promoting antisemitism and terrorism against the Zionists are removed, this bill would prohibit all American aid to UNRWA.

The praise in UNRWA schoolbooks of the Palestinians who “sacrifice their blood to liberate Jerusalem,” and calling on the entire umma, or Muslim nation, not to be negligent in “protecting al-Aqsa” from “the Jews” who would “defile” it by their very presence, clearly promote both antisemitism and violence. If this bill passes, UNRWA will have to decide: will it clean up its schoolbooks and other educational materials, or will it forego the hundreds of millions of dollars the Bidenites have been sending it each year ($940 million in the Biden Administration’s first two years)?  

Meanwhile, for nearly two decades, Hamas has been using UNRWA schools and hospitals in Gaza to hide weapons, rocket launchers, ammunition,  and fighters. UNRWA has pretended not to know about this use of its buildings as hideouts and storehouses for the terror group’s weapons and fighters, but it knows perfectly well what is going on. Far from complaining, UNRWA approves of this use of its facilities by Hamas in Gaza to hide both men and weapons. Indeed, UNRWA has among its 30,000 employees  many Hamas and PIJ members, as former PLO spokesman and Hamas apologist Rashid Khalidi has revealed. And the aid given to UNRWA allows it to fulfill tasks – such as housing, education, medical care, financial support for the poor – that otherwise would be the responsibility of Hamas alone, as the ruler of Gaza. Money is fungible; what is given to UNRWA to spend  in Gaza is money that Hamas itself need not spend.

This bill deserves to be supported. It puts the Bidenites on the spot. They will have to guarantee to Congress that UNRWA is free of financial scandal, which the agency has seldom been in the past. They will have to ensure that UNRWA removes all of the antisemitism and violence in its schoolbooks, which UNRWA for years has promised, but never has managed, to do. There is little reason to think that it will be able to do so now. And the Risch-Roy bill caps American financial aid to UNRWA, which cannot exceed the amount of aid given to UNRWA by any Arab state.

This legislation closes the “UNRWA loophole” that allowed the Bidenites to get around the provisions of the Taylor Force Act, that applied only to American aid to the PA. Now aid to UNRWA, too, will be subject to all sorts of scrutiny and disabling provisions that will either put UNRWA on the straight and narrow, or deprive it of nearly $500 million annually in aid from the Bidenites who, because of this legislation, will no longer be able to violate the spirit of the Taylor Force Act by lavishing such largesse on an unsupervised UNRWA.

Lori Lightfoot LOSES Big in Chicago Mayor Election

Wed, 03/01/2023 - 13:41

She came in third place. Even that crooked, thoroughly corrupt Democrat city had had enough.

Lightfoot lost in her bid for a second term, trailing former public schools executive Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson, a county board commissioner, both of whom advance to a runoff election on April 4.

BREAKING: Lori Lightfoot concedes in Chicago Mayoral election

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 1, 2023

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot concedes defeat in reelection bid

Chicago mayoral candidates Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson are projected to advance to the April runoff election.

By; Just The News, February 28, 2023:
Chicago Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot has conceded defeat in her reelection bid after failing to qualify for the runoff.

“Obviously we didn’t win the election today, but I stand here with my head held high,” she said Tuesday night, per NBC News.

Chicago mayoral candidates Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson are projected to advance to the April runoff election, according to the New York Times.

Lightfoot’s tenure was marred by significant crime concerns, an issue that stood at the forefront of the mayor’s race. Vallas, in particular, campaigned on addressing the city’s crime levels and earned the support of

Vallas claimed 34.9% of the vote in a nine-way race while Johnson claimed 20.2%. Lightfoot trailed in third place with 16.4% of the vote.

Democratic Illinois Rep. Jesús García holds fourth place with 13.9% of the vote.

Chicago’s elections are officially nonpartisan, though candidates typically align with one of the major parties and the city’s last Republican mayor left office in 1931.

Chicago Inmates Being Pressured to Illegally Cast Ballots in Lori Lightfoot’s Mayoral Election.

Tue, 02/28/2023 - 18:03

The Democrat criminal party doesn’t even hide their election fraud anymore. The fix is in.

On a side note, even her criminal constituents doesn’t want to vote for this cretin. Chicago is a hellhole.

EXCLUSIVE: Chicago inmates claim jail guards are pressuring them to illegally vote in the mayoral election

  • Inmates claimed guards at Cook County Jail were pushing them to illegally vote
  • Guards are allegedly getting orders from higher up and ‘doing what they’re told’
  • It sparked fears of ballot harvesting because jail was an ‘ideal environment’ for it
  • And raised fears it may propel Lori Lightfoot back in office, despite poor polling

By William J Kelly In Chicago For Dailymail.Com, 27 February 2023

Chicago inmates have claimed they are being pressured to illegally vote in the city’s mayoral election.

The inmates, some who are accused of murder, argued guards at Cook County Jail were pushing them to vote – despite some being registered in a different jurisdiction.

They claimed the guards were receiving orders from higher up and were ‘just doing what I’m told’ when confronted over the move.

It comes amid fears of ballot harvesting as insiders claimed the jail was the ‘ideal environment’ due to no cameras or election observers.

It also raised concerns it could propel Lori Lightfoot back into office, despite her languishing on just 13 percent in the polls.

One inmate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told DailyMail.com the guards didn’t seem to care that they might be breaking the law.

He said: ‘I asked him [the guard], ‘Did you ask people first if they’re registered to vote?’ And he said ‘no’.
Chicago criminals have claimed they are being pressured to illegally vote in the city’s mayoral election. One inmate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told DailyMail.com the guards didn’t seem to care that they might be breaking the law.

Chicago criminals have claimed they are being pressured to illegally vote in the city’s mayoral election. One inmate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told DailyMail.com the guards didn’t seem to care that they might be breaking the law.

‘I said but you should because if I’m registered to vote somewhere else like I am, you are asking me and enticing me to vote even though I’m registered somewhere else and that’s a felony. I can’t be voting in two different jurisdictions.’

He claims another guard told him that he was ‘just doing what I’m told’.

An inmate being held on murder charges, also says 21 of the 48 inmates in his Division 11, have already voted but none were asked if they were registered or eligible to vote.

‘They just say who wants to vote? Line up to vote,’ he said.

An unnamed source familiar with Cook County Jail said it is the ideal environment for ballot harvesting.

‘Cameras inside the Jail notoriously don’t work. There aren’t any election observers. If an inmate complains, who would believe them? So, if you wanted to manipulate a ballot, who would know?’

There are 7,480 inmates under the custody of the Cook County Sheriff, with 72.3 percent being black, 19 percent Latino and 7.8 percent white.

Inmate offenses range from murder and carjacking to sexual assault of a minor and armed robbery.

Chicago voters say that violent crime is their top concern in the mayor’s race, with it continuing to rocket under Lightfoot.

With nine candidates – including Mayor Lightfoot – vying for Chicago mayor, the source said the political stakes are high and pressure is coming from top Cook County jail officials to turn out the prison vote for this week’s mayoral race.

Last week, Lightfoot was criticized for telling voters on Chicago’s South Side they should not vote at all if they do not vote to re-elect her. She now insists she misspoke.

She said: ‘If I said anything other than everybody everywhere needs to vote, then I misspoke in the heat of a campaign rally.

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Pentagon Asks Troops to Stop Displaying Big US Flags

Tue, 02/28/2023 - 16:00

The Biden regime is at war against America. 2020 was a coup.

The Defense Department has urged military service members to stop using the U.S. flag in popular patriotic demonstrations that are nonetheless violations of the national flag code.

By: Justin Cooper, American Military news, Fevruary 28, 2023:

A memo issued Feb. 10 said it is no longer acceptable for troops to carry the U.S. flag horizontally, such as on the field at sporting events, or for the flag to land on the ground after flying behind a parachutist, Stars and Stripes reported.

The memo bars uniformed troops from directly participating in the “unfurling, holding, and/or carrying of giant horizontal U.S. flags.” It also prohibits military jump teams from using the flag in their performances if it “cannot be caught reliably and handled respectfully by ground personnel.”

“In recent years, some sporting events have asked military members to hold large, horizontal flags during events, and some military units have carried them in parades,” DoD spokesperson Cmdr. Nicole Schwegman said in a statement. “While many, including service members, find these events moving and patriotic, according to the code, the flag should never touch the ground or be carried flat or horizontally.“

Title 4 of the United States Code, also known as the Flag Code, specifies that “the flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.” That section also states that “the flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground.”

The new memo was sent to military public affairs offices. Chris Meagher, assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs, encouraged “public affairs officers to work with sponsors of community events to develop other ways to showcase the patriotism and capabilities of our military that comply with DoD policy.”

The Pentagon also revisited flag rules in 2020, when Secretary of Defense Mark Esper issued a military-wide policy specifying which flags can be flown at military installations, buildings and vehicles. That policy was seen as prohibiting the flying of Confederate flags without specifically naming them, as reported by Stars and Stripes.

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Mark Zuckerberg Gave $2 MILLION to Georgia Elections Board

Tue, 02/28/2023 - 16:00

Big tech buying elections. Never in the history of mankind have so few wielded such immense power.

How is this even permissible?

Zuckerberg-funded group violated Georgia law with $2M for elections board: watchdog
Two Georgia officials told Fox News Digital that investigation has been opened

By Andrew Mark Miller | Fox News

“Outnumbered” panelists weigh in after the House voted to block a Democratic resolution that aimed to allow non-citizens the opportunity to vote in local elections.

FIRST ON FOX: A Georgia elections board may have violated state law when it accepted $2 million from a Mark Zuckerberg-linked group, a watchdog group claimed in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital.

The Honest Elections Project is calling for an investigation into the DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections for a “flagrant and egregious” violation of a state ban on private funding that was put in place after accusations that donors used money to push left-wing influence ahead of the 2020 elections.

The funding in question originated from the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, the project said in a letter last week calling for a probe by the state attorney general, secretary of state and state elections board.
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“We’re now fairly well convinced this is an attempt to do two things,” Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead told Fox News Digital. “To get around those bans on private funding by doing either what they did in DeKalb County, by looking for loopholes and end-a rounds, doing what they can to get money into these offices; or by doing what I think they feel is even more important work, which is to pump influence into these offices.”

The letter outlines how in the lead-up to the 2020 election, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) received a $250 million donation from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan for programs to provide grants to local election boards across the country. That funding came with the stated goal of helping jurisdictions deal with the coronavirus pandemic by providing ballot drop boxes, voting equipment, additional manpower, protective gear for poll workers and public education campaigns on new voting methods, among other expenses.

“This massive influx of funding – which ultimately topped $400 million – was met with heavy criticism driven by post-election analysis that revealed the money was overwhelmingly funneled to Democrat-leaning jurisdictions,” the letter stated. “Criticism that CTCL does not deny.”

Georgia was one of dozens of states that sought to ban outside groups from funneling money to election boards and possibly peddling influence. Part of Georgia’s 2021 reform law “banned election offices from receiving funding from outside groups.”

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Iraq DROPS Dollar In Trade With China

Tue, 02/28/2023 - 15:00
Diminishing American power. The move away from the dollar (and petrodollar for oil sales) is gaining momentum in the wake of the Biden’s catastrophic foreign policies.
 
And to think…..all that blood and treasure.
 

Iraq To Drop Dollar In Trade With China

By ZeroHedge, February 23, 2023:

  • Iraq’s central bank is set to allow trade with China to be settled in yuan.
  • Iraqi imports from China have previously been financed in U.S. dollars.
  • Last year, US regulators began enforcing controls on transactions by Iraqi commercial banks which caused a dollar shortage in Iraq.

The Iraqi central bank announced Wednesday that, for the first time, it plans to allow trade from China to be settled directly in yuan instead of the US dollar to improve access to foreign currency.

“It is the first time imports would be financed from China in yuan, as Iraqi imports from China have been financed in (US) dollars only,” the government’s economic adviser, Mudhir Salih, told Reuters.

According to a statement released by the Iraqi central bank, carrying out transactions in the Chinese currency would boost the balances of Iraqi banks with accounts with Chinese banks. However, this option depends on the size of the central bank’s yuan reserves.

A second option to boost local banks’ yuan balances would involve converting US dollars held in the central bank’s accounts with JP Morgan and the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) to yuan before paying the final beneficiary in China……

Brazil Allows Iranian Warships to Dock in Rio Despite US Pressure

Tue, 02/28/2023 - 14:15

Further diminishment of American power. Pressure can’t exist without credibility and respect. The Biden Administration is a joke.

Brazil allows two Iranian warships to dock in Rio despite US pressure

By Reuters, Feb 27, 2023

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Two Iranian warships docked in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government granted permission despite pressure from the United States to bar them.

The IRIS Makran and IRIS Dena warships both arrived on Sunday morning, Rio’s port authority said in a statement.

Reuters earlier this month reported that Brazil had bowed to U.S. pressure and declined Iran’s request for the vessels to dock in Rio in late January, in a gesture from Lula as he flew to Washington to meet U.S. President Joe Biden.

School Board Members Battle Over Dad Exposing ‘Kinks, Porn, Sending Naked Photos To Peers ’ Book

Mon, 02/27/2023 - 22:00

Why is the left so sexually obsessed with children? It’s SICK.

This is why sex education does not belong in schools, in any form. The degenerates take over.

Related: 11-Year-Old Confronts School Board By Reading Pornography Available in the School Library

School Board Members Battle Over Dad Exposing ‘Kinks and Sexting’ Book

By: Rachel Gibbons, Tredning Newswire, February 25, 2023:

In Anchorage, Alaska, tensions ran high at a school board meeting on February 7th when a father spoke out against sexually explicit material being available to children in the school district’s libraries.

During the meeting, Jay McDonald, the father, discussed a book called “Let’s Talk About It” which contains pornographic imagery, sex advice, and instructions on how to send naked photos to peers. McDonald noted that the book was labeled as “diversity, inclusion, and equity material” and was intended for children.

“We don’t often see specific examples of what diversity, inclusion, and equity looks like, though. So today I brought an excellent representation. This is like the archetype of diversity, inclusion, equity material that it’s one of the books that was just recently purchased for our libraries,” McDonald continued.

McDonald read from a portion of the book that provided tips to kids on sending naked pictures to their peers.

“There’s nothing wrong with enjoying some porn, it’s a fun sugary treat,” the book said. “When consumed right, porn can help you discover new aspects of your sexuality.”

“A great place to research fantasies and kinks safely is on the internet,” the book said. “There’s tons of people and communities out there who share your interests and have all kinds of advice.”

“So before you start sending your naughty masterpieces around the world, take some time to get friendly with photo editing, software and apps,” the book stated.

“This is a book for kids!” the rightfully angry father said.

This did not sit well with the school board’s vice president, Carl Jacobs, who attempted to shut down McDonald’s comments. Jacobs said, “I’m going to interrupt you at this point. Just sounds like you have a concern about a book, I’d be glad to get connected to the superintendent or team to go through the appropriate processes.”

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Illegal Migrant Encounters at Southern Border Hit 1,000,000 Mark for FY 2023, Outpacing Prior Year

Mon, 02/27/2023 - 21:00

This regime continues to smash records in their war against Americans.

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Migrant encounters at southern border hit 1,000,000 mark for FY 2023, outpacing prior year: sources

That 1,000,000 number is greater than the same time last fiscal year

By: Fox News, February 27, 2023:

Migrant encounters at the southern border have already surpassed the one million mark for Fiscal Year 2023, multiple Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources tell Fox News, marking an unprecedented pace for encounters.

As of Friday, the total migrant encounters at the border were at 1,008,217 for the fiscal year, which began in October. Of those, 87.8% were single adults. Just 328,454 were expelled under Title 42 — the pandemic-era protocol that allows border agents to rapidly expel border crossers.

There were more than 1.7 million encounters overall in FY 2021 and over 2.3 million in FY 2022. The first months of FY 2023 have outpaced those of the prior fiscal year. This time last year, numbers for FY22 through March 1 were 839,819 — well under the 1 million mark.

Meanwhile, there have been 354,522 known “gotaways” — illegal immigrants who have evaded Border Patrol agents but have been detected on another form of surveillance. In FY 2022, there were nearly 600,000 gotaways.

Despite the high number of encounters, the Biden administration has pointed to a sharp drop in numbers from the historic high of 251,000 in December to over 156,000 in January. While that figure is the highest on record for the month of January, officials still linked the drop to a number of measures rolled out by the administration last month — including a humanitarian parole program that allows 30,000 migrants from four nationalities into the U.S. each month.

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