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“We listen to our legislators talk about crime like it’s fantasy. Like it’s not real… We’re asking and demanding help now… This has to end.” Patrick Lynch, the president of the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York
Please keep this officer, and father of two, in your thoughts and prayers as he was shot in the head during a robbery while off duty.
NYPD Officer Shot, in Critical Condition When Buying Car
This is not your father’s FBI, or J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, or Efrem Zimbalist Jr.’s FBI. The new woke FBI of Old Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray and their henchmen is a viciously corrupt tool of the nascent authoritarian state, wielded to silence and destroy dissidents from this criminal regime’s far-Left agenda. And so it’s peculiarly fitting that the FBI is being rewarded for its thorough corruption and politicization by being given staggeringly huge new headquarters, which could end up being bigger than the Kremlin. And why not? The FBI aspires to be just as authoritarian as the Kremlin, if not more so.
Beginning late in the Obama administration and accelerating sharply during the misrule of Old Joe Biden, the FBI took its sterling reputation, stomped on it with muddy shoes, tossed it in the dumpster, took it out and set fire to it, and threw the smoldering remainder into a vat of raw sewage. The survey site Statista reported in August 2022 that “Where 57 percent of U.S. adults said that the FBI was doing either an ‘excellent’ or a ‘good’ job in 2019, this fell to 44 percent in 2021.”
As a reward for thus destroying itself, the FBI will be awarded billions of your taxpayer dollars to enable it to build massive new FBI complex that will be double the size of the Pentagon. The federal government is proceeding with plans to build a new FBI headquarters complex twice the size of the Pentagon building. If you have ever flown into Washington, you can often see the Pentagon from the air, and get a clear idea of how immense it is. Now the feds will have a playground that makes the Pentagon look like some third-tier accountant’s cubicle.
J. Michael Waller, senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy, adds the thoroughly unsurprising news that “riveted into the colossal new project are woke regulations to ensure that the FBI center will comply with diversity, equity, LGBTQ+, and climate change political goals.” The current FBI building, one of the ugliest in Washington, covers two city blocks. The new headquarters “will be built on one of three sites in suburban Virginia and Maryland. Those sites are large parcels of 58, 61, and 80 acres. That means, at minimum, the new FBI headquarters complex would be twice the size of the Pentagon building.” That will be true despite the fact that “covering about 29 acres plus a five-acre courtyard, the Pentagon, until recently, was the largest office building on earth.” The new FBI may even end up being bigger than the Kremlin, which covers 66 acres.
Why does the FBI need all this space? The better to surveil you with, my dear. The better to make your life miserable if you happen to have been in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. The better to hound you if you’re a parent who is angry because your child who has been subjected to the Critical Race Theory in primary school. The better to harass and terrorize you if you’re a prolife activist. The better to manufacture “white supremacist terrorists” so as to justify the bureau’s ridiculous claims about what constitutes the largest terror threat the nation faces today.
Then there is all the space the Brave New FBI needs to coordinate election crimes and stamp out “misinformation,” that is, news that deviates from the Democrat Party line. And if Donald Trump or any other Republican is elected president in 2024, there will need to be a new hoax along the lines of the Russian Collusion fiction in order to portray the dissident president as a traitor or at very least an irresponsible loose cannon who cannot be trusted to lead “our democracy.” That’s going to require a great deal of office space. And even if the Democrats run the table in 2024, which is more likely than not given their mastery of ballot harvesting, mail-in ballots, and all the rest, there will still be pockets of resistance, pesky MAGA Republicans who refuse to submit. Oh yes, the FBI is going to be very, very busy for years to come.
Waller noted that one of the criteria for the new FBI site will be “advancing equity.” How a building complex can do that is unclear, but Waller adds that of the various criteria for choosing where the feds’ new digs are going to be, “cost to the taxpayer is viewed as least important.” Of course! However, “the equity criterion, to comply with diversity and climate-change executive orders signed by Joe Biden, is weighted as 50 percent more important than the cost.” The new site, and the design and structure of the new building or buildings, must “advance racial equity and support for underserved communities through the Federal Government.”
It could be worse. Every minute the FBI spends firing another white male agent is a minute taken away from extending its new and sinister authoritarianism over the American people. So count your blessings, and get your wallet ready: you’re soon going to be expected to pay for the new FBI headquarters, which are certain to be a monstrosity in every sense of the word.
“The U.S. military has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days,” NBC reported. “Military and defense leaders have discussed shooting it out of the sky, according to two U.S. officials and a senior defense official.”
Why didn’t officials inform the public when it crossed into U.S. airspace? And why did the US military shoot the Chinese spy apparatus after it completed its mission, not before?
Even more troubling is why the Chinese would have a surveillance balloon over Montana in the first place, considering Beijing’s advanced satellites in low-earth orbit that provide all the bird’s eye images they need. Are they sending a message before Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to the Chinese capital next week? Is espionage through TikTok not enough? We might not have ever known about the balloon had the press not snapped a photo of it.
By: Robert Spencer, February 5, 2023:
How cowardly and compromised is the Biden regime? We have fresh evidence of just how bad it is, courtesy of the Chinese spy balloon. The world found out about the now-infamous balloon on Thursday, when a Montana resident named Chase Doak spotted it and posted a video. But that was not the first that Old Joe Biden’s handlers heard of the balloon. Now it has come to light that they knew about it all along but kept the knowledge secret so as to avoid a confrontation with the Chinese Communist Party and keep Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s now-canceled trip to Beijing on track. Patriots can thank Chase Doak for the small show of spine from the Biden State Department that the cancellation represented.
“Not gonna lie,” Doak tweeted with his video. “First, I thought this was a #ufo. Then, I thought it was @elonmusk in a Wizard of Oz cosplay scenario. But it was just a run-of-the mill Chinese spy balloon!” But Bloomberg revealed in a bombshell report Friday that “as it turns out, US authorities were well aware of the unidentified object that had entered American airspace on Jan. 28, that had then left and re-entered over North Idaho on Tuesday.” But Blinken was slated to huddle with the ChiComs in Beijing, and Old Joe and his henchmen didn’t want to let something as trivial as what J. Michael Waller of the Center for Security Policy terms “China’s military espionage incursion into the US” get in the way of a friendly tête-à-tête in the Forbidden City.
In fact, Biden had already been informed about the spy balloon long before Chase Doak spotted it, and his handlers were holding nervous discussions about whether or not to shoot it down. Yet Blinken thundered Friday that China’s decision to launch the spy balloon was an “irresponsible act” that represented a “clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law.” He added that China’s “decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have.”
As it turns out, this was all an act, a bit of shameless and dishonest posturing from what must be the most dishonest administration the American people have ever had to endure. When he struck this pose of moral indignation over China’s “decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit,” Blinken actually had planned just days before to go ahead with his visit even though he knew all about the Chinese spy balloon.
Blinken also knew that the thing was likely hovering over Montana because Malmstrom Air Force Base, where a large number of the U.S.’s Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles are located, is there. Nonetheless, Biden’s handlers didn’t dare to do anything that might be perceived as taking a hard line on China, and Blinken’s trip was going to go on as if all were well. That is, until Chase Doak entered the picture.
There is more. Read the rest here.
He can’t condemn the genocide. Islamic Jew hatred is a central tenet of Islam.
The Palestinian Authority is the 21st Century version of the Nazi Party. In a just world, Mahmoud Abbas and his cadre of terrorists would be in a military prison. If not for the Israeli Defense Forces, the Palestinian Authority (and Hamas) would commit a genocide against the 7 million Jews of Israel. Shame on the mainstream media for demonizing Israel when defending themselves against these killers. Call your member of Congress and demand that all aid to the Palestinian Authority is stopped. The aid is used to pay Palestinian terrorists to murder Jews.
Do you condemn the terror attack that killed 7 people at a Jerusalem synagogue?
“No”- Palestinian Ambassador to the UK https://t.co/SseXPOvvgd
— AIPAC (@AIPAC) February 2, 2023
Under President Abbas, the Palestinian Authority has paid $1 billion to terrorists and their families.
$1,000,000,000 to reward and incentivize terrorism instead of building a sustainable Palestinian economy and infrastructure for the future.
— AIPAC (@AIPAC) February 2, 2023
You cannot watch these celebrations of terror and say ‘it’s only a tiny number of extremists’. Face it.
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— Ed Husain (@Ed_Husain) January 28, 2023
This is sick stuff. https://t.co/QPMVS4SOv3
— Richard Goldberg (@rich_goldberg) January 27, 2023
Incitement in #Palestinian ed textbooks glorification of violence
The 2nd of 2 terror attacks last weekend was perpetrated by a 13-YEAR-OLD.
How did a 13-year-old Palestinian become a terrorist? Because of generations of cradle-to-grave indoctrination.#StandAgainstTerror pic.twitter.com/sqOQLrJXNJ
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) February 2, 2023
Palestinian Arab children in Gaza are acting in “plays” imitating the terror attack in Jerusalem in which 7 were murdered by a synagogue. While Palestinians indoctrinate children with violence, the West continues funding it through UNRWA and “aid” to Palestinian Arab leaders pic.twitter.com/rYqG1KuK2N
— Brooke Goldstein (@GoldsteinBrooke) February 2, 2023
Related – Palestinian Authority calls to dismantle Israel
Related – Rashida Tlaib pays lip service to Israeli terror victims, ‘honors’ Palestinian terrorists
Palestinian representative refuses to condemn terror attack in fiery TV interview
By Jewish Chronicle, February 2, 2023
A Palestinian representative to the UK has refused to condemn the terror attack that took the lives of seven Israelis last Friday, despite being asked repeatedly if he would do so.
Appearing on Sky News on Wednesday, Husam Zomlot said “no” when asked directly by presenter Kay Burley if he would condemn the attack, instead blaming Israel for being the “origin” of the violence…..
Americans can’t afford, food, fuel, rent etc. And the Democrats keep coming for us. Frankly, the people who voted for these Democrats thieves should have to pay not those of us trying to save the country.
Covid Aid Fraud Underestimated, CLOSER TO $4 TRILLION
Our founding fathers started a revolution over tea taxes. I think we have long passed that bar.
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In a recent poll, a solid majority of respondents supported the House-passed bill that strips the IRS funding from the Democrats’ $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act.
House-passed bill rescinding $71.5 billion for the hiring of up to 87,000 IRS agents has languished in the Democrat-led Senate for nearly four weeks without a vote.
The funding was part of the $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that Democrats passed last year.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy pledged to schedule a vote to eliminate the funding as his first order of business in the new, Republican-led House. The GOP bill passed along party lines on Jan. 9.
Republicans have argued the funding could be used to target Americans earning less than $400,000 per year with additional audits. In response to the criticism, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote to the IRS instructing the agency not to use additional resources to target individuals or families in that category.
“Instead, new funding will crack down on tax evaders among the wealthy and large corporations, invest in technology upgrades that help taxpayers, and hire more customer support staff to prevent backlogs,” the Treasury Department said in a statement in August.
Ahead of the Inflation Reduction Act’s passage on a party-line vote using budget reconciliation, Democrats defended the roughly $70 billion expenditure for the IRS as a revenue enhancement measure that would help pay for the legislation.
In a Rasmussen Reports poll published on Jan. 17, a solid majority of likely voters queried (56%) supported the House-passed bill that strips the IRS funding from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has criticized the GOP bill, signaling that it will not get a vote any time soon in the Democrat-controlled chamber.
“It is well known that too many wealthy individuals and large corporations — through gaping loopholes — don’t pay their fair share of taxes while average Americans often pay a much higher percent,” the New York Democrat said after the bill passed in the House. “The thousands of increased IRS personnel are aimed at closing those loopholes and forcing the wealthy and well-connected to finally pay their fair share. It is incredible that the first move House Republicans make this Congress is to cut these agents and allow large corporations and wealthy individuals to continue to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.”
Schumer compared the bill’s passage to the 2017 tax reform law enacted under former President Trump and a GOP-led Congress.
“Just as they failed in 2017, when Republicans cut taxes on the rich and tried to scare the middle class, this won’t work either,” he said.
The GOP tax reform cut income tax rates across-the-board and lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.
The Inflation Reduction Act included a 15% minimum corporate tax rate.
Just the News asked Schumer’s office on Friday if he plans to vote on the House-passed IRS bill at some point but did not receive a response before publication.
Last week, the Government Accountability Office reported billions in Covid fraud. And still Biden and his monster party tax and spend, tax and spend. They are killing the American people – and they love it.
Trillions in Covid fraud. For some perspective: one trillion has 12 zeros. There are 1,000 billions in a trillion or 1,000,000 million in a trillion.
Has the Federal government done anything about it? No. Will the Federal government do anything about it? No, just cover their asses.
The Federal government is out of control. Their charge, their reason for being, is to protect and defend not rape and pillage
House bill rescinding $71B for 87k IRS agents stalled in Senate after nearly 4 weeks without vote
I will get the backs of America's taxpayers.
That is why on February 1, @GOPoversight will hold our first hearing titled “Federal Pandemic Spending: A Prescription for Waste, Fraud, and Abuse,” to focus on the rampant waste of taxpayer $$$ in COVID relief programs. @BloombergTV pic.twitter.com/WZWhsrhyrK
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) January 28, 2023
COVID aid fraud watchdogs on Hill: End ‘self-certification’ for funds, tap data to curb aid to dead
Billions in COVID Fraud Under Massive Investigation
By: Issues & Insights Editorial Board
By: I & I Editorial Board, Issues and Insight, January 30, 2023
As auditors and congressional investigators try to figure out just how much federal COVID relief went to fraudsters, they are missing the trillions of dollars in fraud committed by the federal government itself in a war that we had no chance of winning.
Last week, the Government Accountability Office reported that fraudsters took in about $60 billion in unemployment checks. That’s on top of the tens of billions in fraudulent claims made through the Paycheck Protection Program, the tens of billions handed out through a Small Business Administration program, and on and on.
This Wednesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a hearing “to investigate rampant waste of taxpayer dollars in COVID relief programs.”
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chairman of the committee, said “we owe it to Americans to identify how hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars spent under the guise of pandemic relief were lost to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement.”
That’s all well and good. But what we really need is an investigation into how the war against COVID wasted trillions of taxpayer dollars, imposed massive disruptions, handicapped millions of students, and probably didn’t save many, if any, lives.
That sort of investigation, if done honestly, would likely conclude that we would have been better off if we’d done nothing at all beyond asking people to wash their hands and stay home if they’re sick.
Shocking? Impossible to believe? Let’s review the evidence.
Start with the fact that since COVID-19 first landed on U.S. shores three years ago, 1.1 million have died from the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Even now, deaths are averaging around 4,000 per week.
Way back in early March 2020, the CDC met with experts from around the world met to map out COVID-19 scenarios. “Between 160 million and 214 million people in the U.S. could be infected over the course of the epidemic,” reported the Yale School of Medicine. “As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.” That assumed the country did nothing to mitigate COVID’s spread.
So, the U.S. embarked on an unprecedented effort to slow the disease’s spread and develop vaccines in record time, spending trillions of dollars in the process. For months, the entire nation was locked down. People were ordered to stay at home. Businesses were forced to stay closed. Church services were suspended. Students were locked out of their schools. The elderly weren’t allowed to have outside visitors. In many areas, mask-wearing was mandatory, even outdoors.
The economic result was catastrophic. The nation’s GDP collapsed by 30% in the second quarter of 2020. Unemployment, which had just reached 3.5% – a 50-year low – shot up to 14.7% in April 2020.
The federal government rushed through trillions of dollars in relief legislation. In March 2020 alone, Congress approved three aid packages totaling $2.43 trillion. By the following March, COVID relief spending was close to $4 trillion.
All of this spending was with borrowed money, and paying off this monstrous debt is a burden future generations will have to bear. But the harm caused by these interventions goes beyond the explosion in the national debt.
Shutting down schools had a tragic impact on education. Reading and math scores plunged as schools struggled with remote learning. Reading scores saw their biggest drop in 30 years. Minorities suffered the most. Masking children for years will likely have long-term effects on their social development as well.
Meanwhile, depression, anxiety, and suicide all increased. A CDC study found that one in four people between 18 and 24 contemplated suicide during the shutdown.
Even car crash deaths, which had been trending downward for decades, started climbing again in 2020, and have continued to increase, most likely because reckless driving became more common thanks to prolonged shutdowns and more empty roads.
And what did we get for all this? Look at those fatality numbers again. At the start of COVID, experts said doing nothing would result in 1.7 million deaths. We did plenty, but the death count is steadily approaching that number anyway.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University did a meta-analysis of studies done on the effectiveness of COVID mitigation efforts. Their stunning conclusion:
“We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality.”
But the researchers found that all these interventions “have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence and undermining liberal democracy.”
We will concede that the rapid development of COVID tests, three different vaccines, and improved treatment regimens saved lives, although just how many is unknowable.
But what if we’d done nothing beyond that, other than follow standard guidelines when a disease is spreading? Stay home if you’re sick. Wash your hands. Avoid highly congested areas. What if, instead of spreading widespread fear, public health officials focused on the population most at risk: the sick and elderly?
Our guess is that just as many people would have died from COVID. But we wouldn’t be climbing out of the deep economic hole we dug. Our children wouldn’t have lost a year of education. Fewer would have died from suicide, overdoses, and other lockdown ills.
Few of us who’ve lived through the three years of nonstop warnings, mandates, and hysteria would be willing to admit that this war was all for nothing. But if we’re going to avoid repeating these mistakes in the future, we’d better learn from these mistakes now.
The father of one of Palestinian terrorist murderer Ahlam Al-Tamimi’s American victims, Arnold Roth, notes that it is Jordan that is dependent on the U.S. for its economic wellbeing. The huge amounts given annually, that have now risen to $1.65 billion, are what keep the Amman government afloat. At any time the American government could simply decrease that aid, or even more devastatingly, end it altogether, unless and until Jordan hands over Al-Tamimi. The Americans have the upper hand, but seem unwilling to realize it. More on Ahlam Tamimi, and the American failure to force her extradition to the U.S., is discussed here.
While the US might be able to force a deal by withholding aid, the Washington Institute’s Fishman says the nature of the US-Jordan relationship would make that move a mistake.
“We don’t threaten aid to our friends,” he said. “It would shoot ourselves in the foot to withhold this aid, because that’s a critical part of what Jordan needs to survive for the time being and we want Jordan to survive. And dealing with one difficult case in a professional way and a legal way is far better than threatening something that ultimately isn’t in our interest anyway.”
“We don’t threaten aid to our friends”? Why of course we do. In 1953, Secretary of State Dulles suspended aid to Israel after it ignored US and United Nation’s demands that year that it halt work on a Jordan River canal; work on the canal stopped that October, and US aid flows soon resumed.
In 1957, President Eisenhower threatened to end $100 million in annual aid to Israel if it did not immediately withdraw its troops from the Sinai. Israel quickly complied. In 1992, Secretary of State Baker threatened to cut off $10 billion in loan guarantees if Israel didn’t stop building settlements; Israel stopped its settlement building. Joe Biden himself, as a Senator in 1982, harshly threatened Menachem Begin with cutting off aid to Israel if settlement building wasn’t stopped. Begin forcefully replied to Biden:
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
After that response,, nothing more was heard from Biden about cutting aid to Israel.
“It’s obviously a very difficult domestic issue within Jordan,” he [Fishman] said. “It shouldn’t be. But it is.”
A decent government in Amman would have turned Ahlam Al-Tamimi over to Washington, with or without an extradition treaty. The refusal to do so reflects the Jordanian government’s fear of the response of its majority Palestinian population, for whom Al-Tamimi remains a hero, the girl who managed to arrange a suicide bombing – choosing the target, and bringing both bomber and bomb to the site — that killed 15 Jews and wounded 130.
The Algemeiner reached out to the Jordanian Embassy in Washington for comment about whether the Jordanian government believes it has a valid extradition treaty with the United States and for its views on the Ahlam Tamimi case, but they did not provide a response.
Despite his uphill battle, Roth remains committed to seeing Tamimi brought to justice.
“There’s never been a political dimension in the way we see it,” he said. “It’s not about the Arab/Israel conflict, nor about Dems vs. GOP. It’s not about anything but the doing of justice. On the doing of justice, the fair and honest way to describe what we are experiencing is that we are being betrayed. We’re pushing ahead and have no intention of surrendering — but it pains Frimet and me that we are forced to do this essentially alone.”
The American government has allowed the government of Jordan to continue to shelter someone who is responsible for the deaths of two Americans (as well as of many Israeli women and children). Jordan continues to hide behind the claim that it has “no extradition treaty with the U.S. because our parliament never ratified it.” This deliberately misses the point. Even without an extradition treaty, Jordan can voluntarily hand over someone who is wanted for a capital crime.
The only kind of pressure that can change Jordan’s mind on Ahlam al-Tamimi is for Washington to slash, or to shut down entirely, its aid to Amman. And this is exactly the move that Washington is afraid to make, having convinced itself that a “stable Jordan” is more important than seeing that murderers of Americans are punished. Jordan has been exaggerating its fragility in order to keep the Americans from pressuring it. The King, and his Bedouin troops, are quite capable of suppressing a challenge to his authority. The Bidenites ought to immediately cut the aid to Jordan in half – a move the Republicans in Congress will be glad to support — while promising to restore it when Ahlam Al-Tamimi is handed over. The ball is then in King Abdullah’s court. He’ll have to decide if continuing to give refuge to a mass murderer is worth doing, even if Jordan loses nearly $850 million as a result.
Palestinian Body-Snatchers Enrage the Druze
Tiran Fero was a 18-year-old Druze young man driving in Jenin when, on November 22, he had a car accident, was seriously wounded, and was taken to a Palestinian hospital for treatment. His family members were in his hospital room when 20 to 30 masked men entered. Fero’s uncle identified them as members of the Islamic Jihad. Here the accounts differ: the Israeli military claim Fero was already dead when his body was taken away by those armed militants, who were hoping to exchange Fero’s body for that of a dead terrorist held by Israel. However, Fero’s own family members, who were in his hospital room when the Islamic Jihad members barged in, claim that he was still alive at the time, but the Palestinian body-snatchers, in disconnecting him from his life support, caused his death.
His body was then held by the body-snatchers, who were hoping for a possible exchange with Israel, while both Israel and the P.A. negotiated with those Palestinians for the return of Fero’s body. The Druze themselves threatened to enter Jenin and to attack Palestinian Arabs unless Ferro’s body was handed over. In the Druze city of Yarka, three Palestinian laborers from Hebron were briefly kidnapped by masked men, in an apparent revenge attack after Fero’s body was snatched from the West Bank hospital by Palestinian terrorists. The three laborers were freed quickly, as soon as Fero’s body was returned to his family.
The Palestinian Authority knew that it had to obtain the release of the body, for otherwise its failure to exercise authority in the West Bank would be visible to all. After six hours of negotiations between the PA and the body snatchers of Islamic Jihad, with IDF threats to use force “if need be” always in the background, Islamic Jihad agreed to turn over Fero’s body to the PA, which then turned it over to the IDF which, in turn, delivered the body to Fero’s family for burial. It appears that the threats from an enraged Druze community to act against the Palestinians in Jenin, the kidnapping by angry Druze of three Palestinian laborers from Hebron, and the IDF’s threat that if Fero’s body was not quickly turned over then “other measures” – an IDF assault – would be used to get the body back, finally convinced the Islamic Jihad members to turn over Fero’s body, which was promptly buried by his family in a ceremony attended by hundreds of Druze.
The Druze have expressed their gratitude to Israel for helping to obtain the release of Fero’s body. This reinforces the ever-closer ties between the Jewish state and the Druze. And the most immediate effects of this episode will be felt not in the West Bank, but on the Golan, where more Druze are likely to opt for Israeli citizenship.
There are several reasons why the older Druze on the Golan have continued to display their loyalty to the Syrian regime for so long. First, they worry that in some future settlement between Israel and Syria, that the area might be returned to Syria, and any Druze whom Damascus then perceived as having been insufficiently loyal while under Israeli rule would suffer a harsh punishment. Second, they have wanted to ensure that their Druze relatives inside Syria would remain safe, and that required the Golan Druze to keep their distance from Israel.
In recent years, however, a quiet shift has taken place. After years of near-blanket rejection of Israeli offers of citizenship, the number of Golan Druze applying to become Israeli citizens has begun to tick upwards.
It has been 41 years since Israel annexed the Golan. With each passing year, it has become ever clearer to the younger Druze on the Golan, who have known no other rule but that of Israel, that Israel is on the Golan to stay, and they need not fear that the territory will be returned to Syria. In December 2021, then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced a plan to double the number of Israelis living on the Golan from 25,000 to 50,000; that was another assurance to the Druze that Israel will not let go of the Golan. The Druze on the Golan are also well aware of how their fellow Druze in Israel have fared as loyal citizens of the Jewish state; Israeli Druze are subject to the same requirement to serve in the IDF as Israeli Jews and some have risen high in the ranks of the IDF, such as Major General Ghassan Alian, who served during the Second Lebanon War and has been a commander of the Golani Brigade.
Once again we have an example of the Law of Unintended Consequences:
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) thought it had found a way to exact from Israel a swap of bodies. It chose to seize a Druze man, Tonin Fero, from his hospital bed in Jenin, The PIJ claims he was already dead when they snatched him; his own family members, present in the hospital room when he was taken, are convinced that Fero was alive until the PIJ unplugged him from his life support; the Druze community insists that the PIJ — Palestinian Arabs all — “murdered” Fero. They are not assuaged by the return of his body; the incident widens the gulf between the Druze and the Palestinian Arabs. And Israel, which made great efforts to have his body returned, including threats by the IDF that unless Fero’s body was delivered to his family “other means” would be found — has won the gratitude of many Druze, including those living on that indispensable addition to Israeli territory, which will never be given back to Syria, the Golan Heights.
Where is the Legacy media, the feminists on these atrocities. And if they did, their headline would be to applaud Iran’s Pro-Abortion Policies.
Related: Iran imprisons couple for 10½ years after they danced in public
“Iran poised to execute pregnant woman for burning picture of founder Ayatollah Khomeini,” by Ciaran McGrath, Express, January 28, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Iran is poised to execute a pregnant woman for burning a portrait of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic’s founder, reports emerging from inside the country have suggested. Shahla Abdi, an ethnic Kurd in her 20s, from the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, was arrested by the morality police in Urmia in mid-October at the height of nationwide protests triggered by the September death in custody of Mahsa Amini….
A woman inmate at Urmia Central Prison told IranWire Ms Abdi had been held there for about a month, with other prisoners saying she was transferred to Tabriz Prison about three weeks ago. However, there are also claims she has been taken to the detention centre of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence.
The woman explained: “When I saw this woman, she looked very young but weak and abused, and I realised that she was four months’ pregnant.”
Another inmate believed Ms Abdi is aged either 21 or 22.
Ms Abdi was keep in solitary confinement in Urmia, with two officers with her constantly to prevent her talking to anyone.
A second inmate said: “She was in a very shocked state. It was obvious that she hadn’t taken a shower for a long time, and her hair was very messy. She was very scared.”…
More than 500 people have been killed in an Iranian government crackdown since the start of the protests, with in excess of 18,000 arrested – including pregnant women.
Watch the insanity of the Democrats poisoned with Jew hate…..
Related Antisemite Rashida Tlaib flies Palestinian flag in office
BREAKING: After years of unapologetic antisemitism and a startling lack of judgment on foreign policy, Democrat Ilhan Omar has been removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Every Democrat opposed it. pic.twitter.com/v3MwKXHHNE
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 2, 2023
People need to stop calling Rep. Rashida Tlaib mentally unstable
It’s not true pic.twitter.com/bpz6Zi7HLo
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) February 2, 2023
Rashida Tlaib literally breaks down in tears over Ilhan Omar being removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee. pic.twitter.com/Q81minIxvJ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 2, 2023
AOC, We like you better when you don’t speak. pic.twitter.com/ACqbUWkbMN
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) February 2, 2023
Geller Report readers have known this for years.
68% of online antisemitism comes from Palestinians or progressives
Jew-hatred is increasingly focusing on hatred of the Jewish state, Minister Amichai Chikli says.
By Shimon Sherman, JNS,
(January 30, 2023 / JNS) Sixty-eight percent of antisemitic discourse on social media originates from Palestinian or pro-Palestinian progressive circles, a report presented by Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli shows.
The report was presented at the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday, in conjunction with International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the state of antisemitism in the Diaspora, including data on the number and geographic distribution of incidents.
Chikli focused on new anti-Israel forms of Jew-hatred, saying, “Antisemitism is changing its face and is increasingly focusing on hatred towards the Jewish state and the denial of its right to exist.”
Violent antisemitism
Globally, the number of antisemitic incidents decreased in 2022 from the record set the previous year. The exception to this trend was the United States, where there was a significant increase in the number of antisemitic interactions.
Despite the decrease in overall incidents, there was a 13% increase in violent antisemitic attacks in 2022. The countries with the highest rates of antisemitic attacks were the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
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In the United Kingdom, there was a 28% increase in physical antisemitic attacks recorded last year. The majority took place in London and targeted Jewish individuals or institutions with a clear Jewish identity. Additionally, there was a rise in the number of attacks directed at children or schools, as well as in the frequency of hate crimes committed by minors with antisemitic motives.
In France, physical attacks constituted 50% of the total reported antisemitic incidents in 2022. There were three murder cases with suspected antisemitic motives compared to zero cases in the previous two years.
In Germany, there was a marked increase in violent antisemitic incidents, with a 57% rise in reported cases.
New trends in global antisemitism
The report focused on emerging trends in the United States. Chikli noted that recent years have seen antisemitic discourse permeate into mainstream society, resulting in its normalization. This discourse, which was once primarily propagated by fringe elements, is now being perpetuated and legitimized by influential figures such as prominent politicians, celebrities and athletes.
“In the face of a relative decrease in the manifestations of antisemitism in the world, the number of antisemitic incidents specifically in the USA has risen, where a hostile atmosphere is emerging on some campuses towards Jewish students, in particular if they identify as Zionists,” the minister said.
In the former Soviet Union, the main driver of antisemitic incidents in 2022 was the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Antisemitic sentiments and references to the Holocaust have been a persistent aspect of the conflict from its inception.
In March 2022, right after the conflict began, the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs’s Antisemitism Cyber Monitoring System (ACMS)—a fully automated monitoring system based on artificial intelligence and semantic analysis technologies—recorded around 317,000 antisemitic posts on social media, an increase of 40% compared to March 2021. Certain groups may have used the Russia-Ukraine crisis as a means to promote antisemitic messages, the report noted.
According to the report, 2022 also saw a marked rise in online antisemitic discourse compared to the preceding five years. Compared to 2021 there was a 27% increase in the number of antisemitic posts and a 21% increase in the number of users promoting such content. A large portion of this discourse was directed towards the State of Israel, accounting for 68% of all antisemitic discourse on the internet. The cities with the highest levels of antisemitic discourse online included Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Berlin.
Arab antisemitism
In the Arab and Muslim world, the centers for antisemitic discourse on the internet were in Jordan and Egypt, according to the findings. The discourse in the region mainly focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This became even more apparent in the wake of events such as the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin in May 2022 and the aerial war (Operation Breaking Dawn) between the IDF and Islamic Jihad in Gaza in August, both of which led to a massive spike in antisemitic rhetoric on internet platforms across the Arab world.
The spread of antisemitic content in the Palestinian arena continued to escalate last year. These messages, including the demonization of Jews, were widely distributed by prominent political and religious figures as well as official media outlets of the Palestinian Authority. Additionally, the report found that some nongovernment organizations claiming to promote human rights and enforce international law in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were promoting antisemitic views through their activities, publications and rhetoric. Some of these organizations receive funding from the European Union and other European nations.
In response to these findings, Ad Kan, an Israeli NGO that combats anti-Zionist groups, said: “The Palestinian terrorist organizations that operate as ‘human rights’ organizations as part of their terrorist campaign against Israel are key players in the rise of antisemitism around the world. In recent months, we have exposed a number of such organizations, which work with and are financed by terrorist organizations.”
Good riddance. She never should have been there. Remember, it was this ISIS sympathizer who asked the judge for leniency in the punishments for American Islamic State terror recruits.
Democrats remove all Republicans when they have the power. It doesn’t warrant one column inch in the enemedia. Democrats wouldn’t allow actual Republicans to sit on the Jan 6th kangeroo court. And yet it it so hard to remove an avowed Jew hater from a critical committee on Foreign Affairs (!). All this whining over a vicious ISIS sympathizer would be funny if it were fiction.But it’s real.
Of course they’re blaming Trump and fictional islamofauxbia Yawn.
Related:Jihad-Jew Hater Ilhan Omar Called A LIAR for Claim She Never Heard of ‘Tropes about Jews and Money’
Omar claimed she is being ‘targeted’ by Republicans for being an immigrant, Muslim
By Peter Kasperowicz | Fox News
Rep. Ilhan Omar blasts GOP’s ‘vengeance tour’ for their ‘master’ Donald Trump
The House voted Thursday to kick Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar off the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a decision that Republicans vowed to take because of Omar’s history of anti-Semitic and anti-American remarks.
The resolution was approved in a 218-211 vote after a heated debate in which Democrats accused Republicans of racism and hypocrisy and claimed that the GOP is only policing Democrats for questionable behavior. Omar and several other Democrats openly accused Republicans of racism.
“I am Muslim, I am an immigration, and interestingly, from Africa,” Omar said. “Is anyone surprised that I am being targeted? Is anyone surprised that I am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about American foreign policy, or that they see me as a powerful voice that needs to be silenced.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., dismissed GOP claims that they were being “consistent” with past practices by seeking Omar’s dismissal.
“Consistency? There is nothing consistent with the Republican Party’s continued attack, except for the racism and incitement of violence against women of color in this body,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America.”
“Why is this member being targeted today?” asked Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y. “Could it be the way that she looks? Could it be the way her religious practices? Because it’s clear if she were on the other side of the aisle, we would not be having this debate today.”
But Republicans said Omar’s past comments make her unsuitable to sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., who chairs the House Ethics Committee, said Republicans are only following the “roadmap previously approved” by the Democrat-controlled 117th Congress, which Democrats used to remove a Republican member from all House committees.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., said she has seen Omar’s anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism firsthand.
“As a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I’ve sat there and heard the representative actually spew anti-American rhetoric as well,” Malliotakis said of Omar. “I’ve been in that committee room where the representative equates Israel and the United States to Hamas and the Taliban. Absolutely unacceptable for a member of that committee.”
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Holy hell. Be prepared for the possibility of China launching a military invasion of Taiwan in the months ahead. Never would have happened under President Trump when American deterrence was rock solid.
Longing for the days of peace under Trump.
Related – Geoff Caldwell: We have a Chamberlain when we need a Churchill
— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) February 1, 2023
Taiwan activates defenses in response to China incursions
By AP, February 1, 2023
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan scrambled fighter jets, put its navy on alert and activated missile systems in response to nearby operations by 34 Chinese military aircraft and nine warships that are part Beijing’s strategy to unsettle and intimidate the self-governing island democracy.
The large-scale Chinese deployment came as Beijing increases preparations for a potential blockade or military action against Taiwan that have stirred increasing concern among military leaders, diplomats and elected officials in the U.S., Taiwan’s key ally.
And still no mass media coverage on this.
For YEARS now Geller Report reported this on the inefficacy of masks. We were suspended and censored. All the left-wing “fact checkers’ eviscerated our new site. Now I ask you, who do you trust for your news and information? Who you choose to edit your news is just as impostant as the news itself. Today’s legacy media is government propaganda -nothing more.
Massive new peer-reviewed study on mask efficacy, based on 78 randomized control trials with over 600,000 participants, concludes that masks made “little to no difference” in preventing infection with COVID or flu.https://t.co/nn6uP1Lnxk
— Michael P Senger (@MichaelPSenger) February 2, 2023
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By: Just the News, February 1, 2023:
Researchers in “gold standard” collaboration struggle to find benefit from surgical over no masks, or N95 respirators over surgical. Findings buoy warnings by PPE expert that even “perfect rate of capture” by N95s can’t stop COVID transmission.
An international research collaboration that reviewed several dozen rigorous studies of “physical interventions” against influenza and COVID-19 through last year failed to find even a modest effect on infection or illness rates from masks of all qualities.
Published in the peer-reviewed Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, run by the British evidence-based medicine charity Cochrane, the study raises new doubts about ongoing mask mandates and public health recommendations worldwide.
The CDC is still recommending masking in areas with “high” transmission levels — fewer than 4% of U.S. counties — as well as indoor masking to protect high-risk contacts in “medium” counties (27%).
Masks are still required in educational institutions in Democratic strongholds such as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington and California, according to the Daily Mail. Boston Public Schools denied its “temporary masking protocol” in early January was a “mandate,” following a public letter against the policy by student Enrique Abud Evereteze.
South Korea is still requiring masks on public transport and in medical facilities after dropping COVID mandates in most indoor settings, including gyms, Monday, Reuters reported.
The researchers for the Cochrane study are affiliated with a geographically disparate range of institutions in the U.K., Canada, Australia, Italy and Saudi Arabia. Half are affiliated with the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Australia’s Bond University. The corresponding author is the University of Calgary’s John Conly.
Unlisted author Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, gave a brief summary of the study population and findings on Twitter.
The team added 11 new randomized controlled trials and “cluster-RCTs,” which randomize groups of subjects rather than individuals, to its prior review from November 2020, for a total of 78 studies. The additions included COVID pandemic trials: two from Mexico and one each from England, Norway, Denmark and Bangladesh, the latter two well known internationally.
The Danish study had trouble finding a major journal willing to publish its controversial findings that wearing surgical masks had no statistically significant effect on infection rates, even among those who claimed to wear them “exactly as instructed.”
Mass murder is what it is.
By Sharyl Attkisson, January 31, 2023:
Autopsies were conducted on two teenage boys, one in Connecticut and one in Michigan, who died within a few days of their second dose of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine. One boy had ADD and the other was obese. The post death examinations showed that both had “global myocardial injury.”
We report the autopsy results, including microscopic myocardial findings, of 2 teenage boys who died within the first week after receiving the second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 dose. The microscopic findings are not the alterations seen with typical myocarditis. This suggest a role for cytokine storm, which may occur with an excessive inflammatory response, as there also is a feedback loop between catecholamines and cytokines…The first week after the second vaccine dose was found to be the main risk window.”
The Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine published an analysis of results, Aug. 2022
Read the full analysis at the link below.
Autopsy Histopathologic Cardiac Findings in 2 Adolescents Following the Second COVID-19 Vaccine Dose
Pull the vaccine. It’s killing people.
“With respect to reports of people experiencing debilitating illnesses, we are aware of these reports of people experiencing long-lasting health problems following COVID vaccination.”
By: Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times, February 2, 2023;
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials are aware of reports of long-lasting problems following COVID-19 vaccination, an official recently disclosed.
“With respect to reports of people experiencing debilitating illnesses, we are aware of these reports of people experiencing long-lasting health problems following COVID vaccination,” Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office, said on Jan. 26.
“In some cases, the clinical presentation of people suffering these health problems is variable and no specific medical cause for the symptoms have been found,” Shimabukuro added. “We understand that illness is disruptive and stressful, especially under those circumstances. And we acknowledge these health problems have substantially impacted the quality of life for people and have also affected those around them. And we hope for improvement and recovery, and we will continue to monitor the safety of these vaccines and work with partners to try to better understand these types of adverse events.”
Shimabukuro was speaking during a Jan. 26 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) meeting that discussed COVID-19 vaccine safety and effectiveness.
Dr. Hayley Gans, a pediatrics professor at Stanford University Medical Center, had asked how federal authorities were tracking problems that have cropped up after vaccination and might not be “amenable” to rapid cycle analysis, or one way of monitoring vaccine safety.
Shimabukuro noted that any person, including health care workers, can submit reports of adverse events to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which the CDC manages, “and we accept all those reports without judging the clinical seriousness or how plausible the adverse event may be with respect to causation.” Other systems also monitor safety beyond the rapid analysis, he added.
“We take vaccine safety very seriously,” Shimabukuro said.
Shimabukuro’s comments are unusual among federal officials, who have been reluctant to connect adverse events with the COVID-19 vaccines.
Brianne Dressen, who was injured by AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, said that the response was welcome but wondered whether it was enough.
“This was an unprecedented move but also was a carefully worded response. Instead of a little whisper in an FDA meeting, this really needs to be communicated to the medical community,” Dressen, co-founder of the support group React19, told The Epoch Times in an email. “They have said these very words to us privately so it’s good they are finally leaning in the right direction to start the conversation publicly, but is it too little too late?”
“Injured Americans have been begging these agencies for acknowledgement for over two years. This small utterance should have happened long ago. By now we should be openly discussing and researching these Covid vaccine reactions,” she added.
Few Events Acknowledged
U.S. officials have only acknowledged a handful of serious adverse events as being caused by one or more COVID-19 vaccines.
Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine causes a combination of low platelet levels and blood clotting known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, the CDC says on its website. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines cause severe allergic shock, or anaphylaxis, as well as a type of heart inflammation called myocarditis.
The CDC and FDA primarily monitor safety by examining data from surveillance systems to see whether adverse events are happening at high rates.
Both agencies have withheld or delayed disclosure of the results of some of the monitoring.
Hundreds of events met the safety signal criteria in VAERS, according to CDC records recently obtained by The Epoch Times. The CDC pointed to studies showing research is being done on some of the signals. It has also said the CDC analyses were done to corroborate results from analyses the FDA performed and that the CDC analyses revealed “no additional unexpected safety signals.” The FDA has refused to release the results from its analyses. A lawsuit was filed for the records on Jan. 26.
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We were right.
By: TGP, February 2, 2023:
After three years of the pandemic, looks like the “conspiracy theorists” and “anti-vaxxers” were right again.
Last week, a small official study reveals that receiving both the flu shot and Pfizer’s Covid bivalent booster at the same time may increase the risk of stroke.
On December 2022, FDA admitted that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine had been linked to blood clotting in older individuals based on the results of one of the largest studies of elderly persons aged 65 years and above.
On January 2023, CDC and FDA announced that it is going to investigate the link between Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 booster and ischemic strokes in people aged 65 and older.
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“Following the availability and use of the updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines, CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), a near real-time surveillance system, met the statistical criteria to prompt additional investigation into whether there was a safety concern for ischemic stroke in people ages 65 and older who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent,” CDC said in a statement.
“Rapid-response investigation of the signal in the VSD raised a question of whether people 65 and older who have received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent were more likely to have an ischemic stroke in the 21 days following vaccination compared with days 22-44 following vaccination,” CDC continued.
“Neither Pfizer and BioNTech nor the CDC or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have observed similar findings across numerous other monitoring systems in the U.S. and globally and there is no evidence to conclude that ischemic stroke is associated with the use of the companies’ COVID-19 vaccines,” Pfizer claimed, according to Reuters.
According to FDA, most of the patients who developed stroke had also gotten their flu shot on the same day, which could be a contributing factor, per Daily Mail.
It can be recalled that White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha urged the public again to receive both the COVID shot and flu shot, adding, “That’s why God gave you two arms.”
“…but it’s going to take all of us to make that happen. So please don’t wait. Get your COVID shot. Get your flu shot. That’s why God gave you two arms and one in each arm if you want. Go to vaccines.gov, and let’s do everything we all can to protect the American people,” Jha said.
Former ABC News producer James Gordon Meek was arrested Tuesday night on criminal charges related to his alleged transportation of images of child sexual abuse. No wonder the media is so on board with all the child sexual deviancy…..
These are your news curators. Makes sense.
According to the Department of Justice, law enforcement “seized multiple devices that allegedly contained evidence of the transportation of images of child sexual abuse” in a court-authorized search of Meek’s residence, located in Arlington, Va., in April 2022.
Several of Meek’s devices allegedly held images depicting children engaged in “sexually explicit conduct,” as well as numerous “sexually explicit” chat conversations with other users who “expressed enthusiasm for the sexual abuse of children.” According to the DOJ, “in two of those conversations, a username allegedly associated with Meek received and distributed child sexual abuse materials through an internet-based messaging platform.”
By: Department of Justice, February 1, 2023
A Virginia man was arrested last night on criminal charges related to his alleged transportation of images depicting the sexual abuse of children.
According to court documents, the investigation into James Gordon Meek, 53, of Arlington, was initiated from an investigative lead sent by Dropbox and ultimately received by the FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force. That lead ultimately led to a court-authorized search of Meek’s residence in April 2022 by members of the task force, where law enforcement seized multiple devices that allegedly contained evidence of the transportation of images of child sexual abuse.
According to court documents, several of Meek’s devices allegedly contained images depicting children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and multiple chat conversations with users engaged in sexually explicit conversations where the participants expressed enthusiasm for the sexual abuse of children. In two of those conversations, a username allegedly associated with Meek received and distributed child sexual abuse materials through an internet-based messaging platform.
Meek is charged with transportation of child pornography. If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Jessica D. Aber for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Special Agent in Charge Wayne A. Jacobs of the FBI Washington Field Office’s Criminal and Cyber Division made the announcement.
Trial Attorney Whitney Kramer of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Zoe Bedell for the Eastern District of Virginia are prosecuting the case.
This case was investigated by the FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, with significant assistance from the Arlington County Police Department. The task force is comprised of FBI agents, along with other federal agents and detectives from northern Virginia and the District of Columbia. The task force is charged with investigating and bringing federal charges against individuals engaged in the exploitation of children and those engaged in human trafficking.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.
A criminal complaint is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
New Yorderss voted for this. They always vote Democrat. You reap what you vote.
There were more activists than migrants at the Watson Hotel last night.
It was more of a block party for far-left activists than a humanitarian crisis. There was food, party favors, and the migrants seemed to be in good spirits. pic.twitter.com/ZmoC0k6YFf
— Jason Curtis Anderson (@JCAndersonNYC) February 1, 2023
NYC: Migrants refuse to leave Watson Hotel for transfer to shelter.
No Joke: Migrants want to stay at the hotel, or have Mayor Adams open luxury apartments that are vacant. pic.twitter.com/Y5gXrIJ8dJ
— Carol Clarke (@neverlosetruth) January 30, 2023
he Democrats that opened the floodgates to these ingrates is the same party what refused entry to Jew fleeing
By David Propper, Joe Marino, Larry Celona and Bernadette Hogan January 30, 2023 12:15am Updated
Dozens of migrants stood their ground outside the Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen on Sunday night and refused to leave for a new shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.
Cops had mobilized around the hotel around 10 p.m. as more than 50 migrants were standing outside with activists assisting with food, water and translations.
Single men were supposed to be brought to the new shelter over the weekend that would provide the same services they’ve been receiving, city officials said.
At one point, a city bus arrived and a small number of migrants jumped on, though the vast majority stayed put in front of the hotel on West 57th Street. Activists argued the migrants were being forced out of the hotel.
One Manhattan activist told The Post the men outside were staying at the hotel and were prepared to stay outside overnight. Some were moved to the new shelter earlier this weekend, but opted to return to the Manhattan site, she said.
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The White House has reportedly failed to disclose the FBI searched the Penn Biden Center think tank offices in November 2022 after President Joe Biden’s personal attorneys discovered documents marked as classified from his time as vice president earlier that month. (read more).
Today, FBI agents were searching President Joe Biden’s beach home, according to a lawyer who represents the president.
“Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Delaware,” Biden’s personal attorney Bob Bauer said in a statement. “Under DOJ’s standard procedures, in the interests of operational security and integrity, it sought to do this work without advance public notice, and we agreed to cooperate.” (read more)
Why did it take so long to search Biden’s Rehoboth beach home?
Just so you all get how this works…
While the National Archives set up an entire section on its website dedicated to the Trump raid, the National Archives has been ordered NOT to issue a single press release on Joe Biden's doc scandal.
And Biden's own DOJ issued the order.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 2, 2023
DEVELOPING: House investigators want to know why DOJ official Bratt,who raided Trump's home,left it up to Biden's people to cont to search for classified docs when they dragged their feet for 7 weeks before searching Wilmy home. They waited another 3 wks before searching Rehoboth
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 24, 2023
https//twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1620824251954774017?s=20&t=BNGQMGFV9snyHrm7LeuUjg
BREAKING: The Biden administration blocked the National Archives from releasing a statement on his classified document scandal.
We are witnessing a cover up.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 1, 2023
By Daniel Chaitin • DailyWire.com • Feb 1, 2023 •
FBI agents searched President Joe Biden’s home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday, expanding their hunt for classified documents.
The search, confirmed by Biden’s personal attorney, comes after classified materials were found at Biden’s think tank office in Washington, D.C., and later his Wilmington, Delaware, residence.
Breaking: FBI searches Biden's Rehoboth Beach home for classified documents, @kwelkernbc reports. pic.twitter.com/0dPT37TP3M
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) February 1, 2023
“Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Delaware,” Biden’s personal attorney Bob Bauer said in a statement. “Under DOJ’s standard procedures, in the interests of operational security and integrity, it sought to do this work without advance public notice, and we agreed to cooperate.”
“The search today is a further step in a thorough and timely DOJ process we will continue to fully support and facilitate. We will have further information at the conclusion of today’s search,” Bauer added.
Biden beach house Rehoboth Beach Delaware pic.twitter.com/ReSYhdxomG
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) February 1, 2023
The discovery of classified materials began as early as November, days before the 2022 midterm elections, when the president’s attorneys say they found sensitive documents at the Penn Biden Center in D.C. However, the discovery did not become known until January when CBS News broke the story of an inquiry by U.S. Attorney John Lausch. Attorney General Merrick Garland later appointed former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur as special counsel to examine whether “any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter.”
Biden’s personal attorneys and the White House have insisted throughout they are cooperating with the National Archives and Justice Department. “I think you’re going to find there’s nothing there. I have no regrets,” Biden told reporters last month.
Classified documents have been found at Biden’s Wilmington home on at least three separate occasions and in different parts of the residence, including in the garage. On January 20, the FBI executed a nearly 13-hour search of Biden’s Wilmington home, which Biden’s lawyers and the Justice Department described as consensual. During this search, Bauer said the Justice Department took multiple documents with classification markings, including those dating back to Biden’s time as U.S. senator and vice president.
Despite multiple timelines being provided by the Justice Department and Biden’s teams, the known series of events keeps shifting. On Tuesday, CBS News revealed federal investigators searched Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center months ago after Biden’s legal team reported finding classified material there.
Another special counsel is investigating former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents. Last week, the public learned classified documents were also discovered at the home of former Vice President Mike Pence.
Amid the fallout from the documents scandal, the National Archives asked former presidents and vice presidents to check for classified and personal documents in their possession, according to CNN.
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