Posts on Friday, December 27, 2024
Mexico: On Second Thought ...
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What a difference a day makes! Especially when that day was November 5th.
For the last four years, Mexico stood by while Joe Biden threw open the borders and did nothing about the drug cartels. Millions of people illegally entered during that period and deadly narcotics flooded the country. Now that the American electorate voted for real border security and an end to narco-trafficking, the Mexican government has decided to act -- before Donald Trump and his hardliners act first:
With Trump and his allies this year floating the use of American military force against Mexico’s drug cartels
Michelle Obama was heavily criticized for a New Year's message shared with her followers just weeks ahead of Donald Trump's return to the Oval Office.
The former first lady took to Instagram on Friday afternoon with a minute-and-a-half-long video message wishing her followers a happy holiday season as 2024 officially comes to a close.
But the internet wasn't so keen about her words of encouragement for the American people.The video, which has amassed hundreds of comments within just the first three hours of being posted, showed the former first lady against a white background as she began to address the lens.
Hell must have frozen over because dark billionaire Bill Gates reportedly contacted President-elect Donald Trump in an unprecedented move, requesting a visit to Mar-a-Lago on Friday night. The unusual overture from one of the world’s wealthiest, progressive individuals, who has often championed globalist agendas, raises questions about Gates’ motives. Conservatives speculate whether this is a genuine effort to find common ground or a strategic move to influence Trump on key issues. Regardless, the interaction highlights the enduring influence of Trump in American politics and the curiosity, if not respect, he continues to command even from ideological opponents.
Republican senators slam spy chiefs operating
‘in the shadows’ for ‘politicized’
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‘in the shadows’ for ‘politicized’
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Republican senators slammed US spy chiefs on Friday for operating “in the shadows” to cover up bombshell evidence of COVID-19 leaking out of a Chinese lab — and renewed calls for a thorough independent investigation of alleged meddling by political appointees into the pandemic’s origins.
“For years, we’ve exposed the federal government’s role — especially the Intelligence Community — in concealing the origins of COVID-19, with the Biden administration complicit every step of the way,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) told The Post.
“For this reason, I recently wrote to the Intelligence Community’s Office of Inspector General, giving these authorities records and additional critical support to launch an investigation into potential integrity breaches
Lee Harvey Oswald was being led down a corridor at Dallas police headquarters on the evening of November 22, 1963, when he uttered perhaps the most fateful phrase in the history of conspiracy theories.
‘I’m just a patsy!’ he screamed at reporters demanding to know whether he’d shot dead President John F Kennedy earlier that day in Dealey Plaza.
Two days later, Oswald was himself shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in a moment captured live on television. He could never reveal whose ‘patsy’ he’d been – but there’s been no shortage of suggestions.
Justice Department suspends DEA's controversial
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The Department of Justice is cracking down on the Drug Enforcement Administration's controversial practice of "consensual encounters" at airports after multiple complaints.
The practice includes DEA special agents or task force officers approaching individuals at airports and then asking for consent to search the individual’s belongings.
The DOJ's move comes four years after Scripps News Tampa Investigative Reporter Kylie McGivern highlighted the practice of civil asset forfeiture at airports by the DEA.
Civil asset forfeiture allows federal agencies to seize cash and other property suspected of being involved in a crime, even if charges are never filed against the owner.
President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to delay a law that would effectively ban TikTok from taking effect until after he assumes office.
Trump lawyer John Sauer, who is the solicitor general designee for the incoming administration, petitioned the high court to postpone its hearing on the TikTok ban, arguing that the matter could be redressed “through political means” instead. (Photo) “President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns,” Sauer wrote.
“In light of these interests — including, most importantly, his overarching responsibility
President-Elect Donald Trump won a sweeping victory on Election Day based in part on his pledge to tackle the crime-riddled border crisis he will inherit from President Joe Biden and make it a top priority when he retakes office in mid-January.Among the actions Trump has said he will take to address the problem will be some form of mass deportation of illegal immigrants, prioritizing those with criminal records first and then dealing with the others later.
He reiterated this promise during an early December interview with NBC News, telling them that though, "it's a very tough thing to do ... you have to have, you know, you have rules, regulations,
President Trump must end this scam immediately.
Joe Biden, the alleged president, is on a taxpayer-funded vacation in sunny St. Croix until New Year’s but he managed to give another $1.25 billion weapons package to Ukraine on Friday.
The AP reported:
The United States is expected to announce that it will send $1.25 billion in military assistance to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Friday, as the Biden administration pushes to get as much aid to Kyiv as possible before leaving office on Jan. 20.
The large package of aid includes a significant amount of munitions, including for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems and
A second Florida Democrat has switched to the Republican party since the 2024 election.
Florida Democrat State Rep. Hillary Cassel announced on Friday she is switching her party to Republican.
“Today, I am announcing my decision to change my party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. This decision was not made lightly but comes from a deep sense of responsibility to my constituents and my commitment to the values that guide my service. I will be joining the Republican Conference of the Florida House of Representatives because I believe in their vision for a better, more prosperous Florida,” Rep. Cassel said in a statement.
Woman of the Year!
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The Associated Press announced its awards for the top women athletes of 2024. Caitlin Clark won the title, as you would expect. But then you have this:
Olympic gymnast Simone Biles was second with 25 and boxer Imane Khelif was third, getting four votes.
What is odd about this is that Imane Khelif isn’t a woman. He is a man who boxed in the women’s division in the Paris Olympics. This came after he was repeatedly disqualified from women’s events because he has male genitalia and XY chromosomes. The Olympics let him compete as a woman, apparently because he says he is a woman, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Germany will join the list of countries headed to the polls next year.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a speech on Friday that he had dissolved the country’s parliament and a snap election would take place in February.
“I have decided to dissolve the 20th German Bundestag to fix the date for an early election for February 23rd,” he said, adding that “political stability in Germany is a precious asset.”
“It is precisely in difficult times like these that stability requires a government capable of taking action and a reliable majority in parliament,” he continued. “Therefore, I am convinced that for the good of our country, new elections are the right way.”
Homelessness surged 18% to a new record
in 2024 amid a lack of affordable housing
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in 2024 amid a lack of affordable housing
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Homelessness in the U.S. jumped 18.1% this year, hitting a record level, with the dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in some regions of the country, federal officials said Friday.
More than 770,000 people were counted as homeless in federally required tallies taken across the country during a single night in January 2024, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said in its new report. The estimate likely undercounts the number of unhoused people given that it doesn't include people staying with friends or
A judge ruled that the Georgia State Senate can subpoena Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for testimony and documents related to its investigation into misconduct during her witch hunt of Donald Trump.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura Ingram ruled Fani Willis has until January 13 to respond to her order over whether the state committee’s subpoenas seek overly broad information.
Excerpt from Associated Press:
A judge has ruled that the Georgia state Senate can subpoena Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as part of a inquiry into whether she has engaged in misconduct during her prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump
Increase legal immigration
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Guess what these people have in common:
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
John Audubon
John Muir
Elon Musk
Nikola Tesla
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Irving Berlin
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Levi Strauss
Dikembe Mutombo
Liz Claiborne
Mariano Rivera
Melania Trump
Andrew Carnegie
Audrey Hepburn
Yo-Yo Ma
Ayn Rand
Elie Weisel
Sergey Brin
Bob Marley
Sammy Sosa
Carlos Santana
Henry Kissinger
Rupert Murdoch
Alexander Hamilton
You’ve probably guessed it – each was born outside the United States, and immigrated here. Most became full, legal American citizens after undergoing the citizenship process, including passing history, civics and English language tests that most American college graduates would flunk.
The list could go on for thousands of pages, but you probably get the drift.
Late-night hosts relentlessly made Donald Trump the focus of nearly all of their jokes before the presidential election, but failed to sway the voting, as revealed by a new study.
A shocking 98 percent of the jokes made by Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and Saturday Night Live in the lead up to Election Day made Trump the butt of the joke, according to media watchdog group Media Research Center.
As many as 1,428 of the 1,463 political jokes on these shows - from September 3 through October 25 - were targeted at Trump, the study found.
Let’s be blunt: 2024 was the worst year ever for legacy media, and it ain’t even close.
Journalism morphed into blatant activism before our eyes.
We were told things we all witnessed or heard didn’t actually happen.
But Americans knew better, and the gaslighting got increasingly hysterical as the year went on.
Amid the relentless madness, some egregious examples deserve special mention.
And if we staged an annual tournament of media malfeasance and meltdowns, my bracket would peg these as the Final Four of 2024. (Photo)
In a groundbreaking legal battle, over 100 January 6 political prisoners have come together to file what is being hailed as the largest lawsuit ever against the Department of Justice.
Officially named the January 6 Restitution and Wrongful Incarceration Lawsuit, this $50 billion class action is spearheaded by Jake Lang, a January 6 prisoner who has been incarcerated for nearly four years. Lang, through his new organization, Federal Watchdog, the Anti-Lawfare Group, is joined by an esteemed team of conservative attorneys, including Steven Metcalf, Anthony Sabatini, Stephanie Lambert, and Jonathan Gross. Together, they aim to expose the injustices faced by January 6 prisoners
The National Archives has finally released photos showing then-Vice President Biden meeting with two of first son Hunter Biden’s Chinese government-linked business partners — again proving that the president lied about not interacting with his family’s foreign patrons.
The cache of photos, released long after their potential political salience and days before Biden retires on Jan. 20, also show Chinese President Xi Jinping grinning as then-Vice President Biden introduced his son during the same December 2013 trip to Beijing. The Xi-Hunter Biden encounter, which had not previously garnered much attention, appears to have been at a meal Hunter described in an email to his former associate Devon Archer
Elon Musk is unabashedly pro-legal immigration, and on Christmas of all days, he ignited a firestorm by noting that a dearth of engineering talent in Silicon Valley is holding up progress on some of America's most critical technological projects.
Elon is, of course, an immigrant--one of the most famous African Americans in the world, as are several high-profile entrepreneurs in the tech industry.
To me his observation seemed anodyne, even obvious. America has a huge problem with illegal immigration, and there are plenty of indications that the H1B visa process is broken and needs to be fixed. But it is also true that America has been
A cross country survey in Europe has found that support for a forever war in Ukraine is falling, perhaps not coincidentally given President-Elect Donald Trump telegraphing he expects Europeans to pay a greater share of the bill for their own defence.
Total Ukrainian victory at any cost feeling appears to be waning in Europe, with a YouGov survey this month finding that support for Kyiv “until it wins” against Moscow has steeply declined throughout western Europe, the Guardian reports.
Amid growing realisation that they may soon be on the hook to foot the bill,
A Nebraska man is getting title to his home back, years after losing it over a $588 tax debt, one of his lawyers said Thursday.
Kevin Fair of Scottsbluff has been involved in a legal dispute since 2018, when he lost title to the home he had owned for nearly three decades for failing to pay $588 in overdue property taxes. Scotts Bluff County sold the lien to a private investor, as allowed by Nebraska law at the time.
When Fair couldn’t repay the money along with interest and fees, the title went to the investor, though Fair was allowed to stay in the home while the legal dispute played out.
Team Biden is slamming a report that warns of famine in northern Gaza.
What a difference an election makes.he report Monday by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (an independent outfit created with Uncle Sam’s support) claimed 65,000-75,000 people lack access to sufficient supplies of food.
“Israel’s near-total blockade of humanitarian and commercial food supplies” has triggered mass starvation in northern Gaza, FEWS Net preached — fresh fodder for Israel-haters to sling unhinged accusations about the Jewish state perpetrating “genocide.”
Sorry, there’s no “near-total blockade,” and never has been.
Large fossil fuel companies will now have to hand over punitive reparations to help New York fight the effects of “climate change” under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul (D).
AP reports a state fund for infrastructure projects meant to repair or avoid future damage from climate change has been set up to benefit from the payments.Lawmakers approved the bill earlier this year to force big oil and gas companies to contribute to the cost of repairs after extreme weather events critics attribute directly to fossil fuel companies and their wares.
“The Climate Change Superfund Act is now law, and New York has fired a shot that will
"Dear Bob, Nice fake news network you have there. It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it. Love, Brendan."
That isn't quite what incoming FCC chair Brendan Carr wrote to Disney CEO Bob Iger this week, but it was pretty dang close.
Carr has served on the Federal Communications Commission since 2017 and is President-elect Donald Trump's choice to serve as chairman next year. And he's taking no gruff from Disney-owned ABC News, which just agreed to pay $15 million in damages (and another million in legal fees) for defaming Trump during a "This Week" segment earlier this year.
Six months ago, I was asked my opinion of the Silicon Valley alignment with MAGA. I said at the time I thought it would last around 18 months and finally climax with a large fracture in the political movement around 2026. I had no idea at the time, the group of technocrats would begin publicly advocating for replacing American workers before Trump took office.
For the past several days I have watched Vivek Ramaswamy, David Sacks, Elon Musk and his big tech influencers debating with their followers about the importance for them to continue expanding H-1b visas for foreign tech workers.
NEW: Extensive COVID-19 Origins Cover-Up
Revealed, and the Biden Admin Was Pulling
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Revealed, and the Biden Admin Was Pulling
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It's long been known, at least through basic intuition, that U.S. government officials went to great lengths to cover up the origins of the COVID-19 virus. Former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci infamously spent years publicly deflecting blame from China. Emails would later emerge showing Wuhan Institute of Virology funder Peter Daszak had emailed Fauci to thank him for dismissing the lab leak theory.If you aren't familiar with the entire saga, which is long and winding, be sure to check out Scott Hounsell's extensive reporting on the matter. The level of corruption will blow your mind.
Mayor Eric Adams wants to rein in excessive overtime in the NYPD, the FDNY and two other Big Apple departments in the wake of the alleged sex-for-overtime scandal that has rocked the police force.
Hizzoner, in a Monday directive, laid out a set of new rules aimed at cracking down on sky-high OT in the police and fire departments, as well as the Department of Correction and Department of Sanitation — as he announced City Hall will oversee compliance.
Adams wrote in the memo that the four departments “represent a disproportionate share of overtime spending,”
Greta Thunberg, once the darling of the climate change movement, has revealed herself as virulently anti-Israel, which should make her a pariah in any legitimate social or political cause. Since the October 2023 Hamas slaughter of Israeli civilians, including children and infants, Thunberg, now 21 years old, has called for “crushing Zionism” and repeatedly accused Israel of “genocide.”
Her latest episode of malevolence was on display earlier this month in Mannheim, Germany, when she publicly cursed out the nations of Israel and Germany. She targeted the German government with public profanity over its support for the Jewish state.
2024 was a good year for proponents of a universal basic income (UBI). Following the 2019 experiment in Stockton, UBI pilot programs are underway across cities in California including Fresno and Sacramento. This is unfortunate.
Advocates such as former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs argue that “we need a social safety net that goes beyond conditional benefits tied to employment, works for everyone and begins to address the call for racial and economic justice through a guaranteed income”. A UBI allegedly fills this gap by providing income security, encouraging work, and improving low-income families’ quality of life.
Literally "flat, dark calm," Dunkelflaute is characterized by a simultaneous lack of wind and sun in winter, when demand for electricity in Germany is at its highest... On December 12 of this year, for example, German electricity production from wind and solar power was thirty times lower than the demand for it.
But this is "for the planet", right? Not even close. Despite its commitment to so-called green energies, Germany still has a high carbon footprint due to its increased reliance on coal and lignite to make up for energy shortfalls.
The State Department’s controversial Global Engagement Center (GEC) shut down this week after congressional lawmakers nixed reauthorizing the agency in spending legislation to keep the government open.
“The Global Engagement Center closed on December 23, 2024,” read a message on the agency’s website.
The GEC came under fire from House Republicans after journalist Matt Taibbi uncovered evidence that it pressured US social media platforms early in the COVID-19 pandemic to censor Americans online, purportedly to counter “disinformation,” such as theories that the virus leaked out of a laboratory in China.
Spy chiefs “silenced” researchers in the Defense Department and FBI who discovered strong evidence that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a Chinese lab, The Post has learned.
As a result, their findings were kept out of an August 2021 report to President Biden on the origins of the global pandemic.
That report concluded that the virus behind COVID “was probably not genetically engineered.”
Wuhan Institute of Virology
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New evidence has emerged of top spy brass allegedly stifling evidence to back up the lab leak theory during the early pandemic days.
AP After the pandemic erupted in Wuhan, China,
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly voted Friday to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo despite vehement protests by governing party lawmakers, further deepening the country’s political crisis set off by President Yoon Suk Yeol’s stunning imposition of martial law and ensuing impeachment.
Han’s impeachment means he will be stripped of the powers and duties of the president until the Constitutional Court decides whether to dismiss or reinstate him. The court is already reviewing whether to uphold Yoon’s earlier impeachment. The impeachments of the country’s top two officials worsen its political turmoil, deepen its economic uncertainty and hurt its international image.
We're counting down the days until Joe Biden and his wife/handler Jill finally have to leave the White House.
But they seem to be intent upon milking every last bit they can before they are out the door. He's no longer "working" after January 20, but how much has he actually "worked" since the election? His time seems to have been full of vacation. There's his time in Delaware, plus he also took his regular trip to Nantucket over Thanksgiving. Jill snuck in a trip to Italy and France earlier this month. Joe is planning on visiting the Pope next month before he leaves.
Mexico is gearing up to take back its citizens who have been living in the US illegally — and officials are planning to open more than 12,000 beds in shelters across the country to house the new arrivals.
The 25 planned shelters — which will each have the capacity to hold 500 people — will open their doors on President-elect Trump’s inauguration day, Baja California Gov. Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda announced on Monday, according to Border Report. (Photo) “This is a strategic plan to accommodate exclusively people who get deported after Jan. 20,” Olmeda said.
Olmeda said she takes Trump’s threats of a mass deportation seriously.
Radiation levels have dramatically increased in New York City after the “mysterious” drone sightings were discovered hovering around the East Coast in recent weeks. The new revelations result in officials warning According to GQ Electronics' Geiger Counter World Map, high emissions levels were detected near the Bronx and the Upper West Side of New York City. The radiation reading scale measured 1048 counts-per-minute (CPM), or the number of particles detected. This exceeds the average number of particles detected by the 200 counts-per-minute safety threshold. In comparison, the average person is usually exposed to background radiation that measures about five to 60 CPM. Americans to “prepare for the worst.”
Former Bush-Cheney political strategist Matthew Dowd said Thursday on “MSNBC Reports” that President Joe Biden was trying to box President-elect Donald Trump in with his last official actions as president.
Guest host Richard Lui said, “Matthew, it’s been a busy week for the president. We’re talking of the commutations that came at the end of last week, but we had many bills signed by the president. There is also the issue of more judges.”He asked, “What do you expect to see him do in the next three weeks of lasting effect?”
Dowd said, “I mean, I think he’s what he’s trying to do is trying to corner Donald Trump
Since the 2024 election, ratings at the far left cable news networks CNN and MSNBC are way down. Joy Reid is even looking at a potential pay cut to stay on the air. It’s easy to see why.
These networks told their faithful viewers that there was no way Trump could win, right up until they were forced to admit on election night that Trump had not only won, but that he had won big.
Their viewers felt betrayed, and a massive number of them simply walked away and have not returned.
MSNBC is down more than 50 percent. CNN is down 45 percent. FOX News is the only cable news network
Liberals lose their minds as border czar
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Liberals have gone into meltdown after Donald Trump's border chief confirmed that illegal immigrant families with children will be held in detention centers.
Tom Homan, who will oversee Trump's mass deportation plan, was unsparing in a recent interview with the Washington Post, telling the publication that the onus was on the parents of the children.
'You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position,' Homan said as he defended using detention centers. But his robust position on Biden's border crisis sparked fury from liberals who accused the former ICE director of advocating for 'concentration camps.'
Chuck Schumer has revealed how he has been working in the shadows to pack America's federal courts with liberal judges in a bid to block Donald Trump's policies.
Democrats are set to be largely shut out of power for the next two years, with special elections to replace Trump's Cabinet nominees their only shot at recovering any of the Senate, House and White House.
Schumer, who will remain Senate Minority Leader, offered a reason for optimism: the 235 federal judges Biden appointed during his term, one more than Trump. 'I don't know exactly what he'll do. But I can tell you this: The judiciary will be one of our strongest -
Vladimir Putin Claims He Has Not Spoken
to Trump in Four Years, Contradicting
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to Trump in Four Years, Contradicting
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Russian President Vladimir Putin claims to have not spoken to President-elect Donald Trump in four years, which would appear to contradict a book by reporter Bob Woodward that claimed the two world leaders spoke several times after Trump left office.
Putin issued his claim during a lengthy news conference on Thursday in which he spoke about Russia’s mission in Syria and its war in Ukraine.
“You asked what we can offer, or what I can offer to the newly elected President Trump when we meet,” Putin said in response to a question from NBC’s Keir Simmons. “First of all, I don’t know when we will meet. Because he hasn’t said
Say, remember when the government and the media treated the lab-leak hypothesis of COVID-19's origin as a conspiracy theory? At the time, social-media platforms suppressed discussion and debate over that explanation. The media treating anyone who noticed that a deadly and novel coronavirus had emerged in the same place where biologists just so happened to be conducting gain-of-function research on --ta da! -- coronaviruses.
The question of origin became so important to foreign policy and epidemiological strategy that Joe Biden ordered the US intel community to do an analysis to pin down the origins of the deadly pandemic. That review concluded with "low confidence'"
I really shouldn't say that Democrats gave up on news, because MSNBC and CNN don't really qualify as news coverage anymore.
But you get the idea: Democrats are so done--at least for now--with obsessive Trump coverage and the steady stream of propaganda that the other major news networks have been pushing. Whether that is because they are depressed by the election outcome--and no doubt many are--or whether they feel burned by the constant reassurances about the campaign that turned out to be gaslighting, we may never know.
But the ratings tell the tale. About half the viewers for both MSNBC and CNN have left the networks,