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  • 23 States and District of Columbia File Amicus Briefs in Favor of Joe Biden and Government Censorship and Regulation of Speech in America – via the MO v. Biden Case

    03/14/2024 8:14:53 AM PDT · by bitt · 48 replies
    thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 3/14/2024 | jim hoft
    Twenty-three Democrat run states and the District of Columbia, the home of our nation’s capital, filed amicus briefs in support of government censorship and banning of free speech in the United States. These 23 states and the District of Columbia filed amicus briefs in support of the Biden administration in the SCOTUS case is Murthy, et al v. Missouri, et al, 23-411 (Missouri v. Biden) case. The states essentially argue that they have an interest in collaborating with tech companies to “encourage” the public to behave themselves and “discourage” the public from believing alleged “disinformation” or engaging in online predatory...
  • Report on Government Interest in UFOs Finds No Evidence of Aliens or Recovered ET Craft

    03/09/2024 6:05:06 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 83 replies
    Coast to Coast AM ^ | March 8, 2024 | Tim Binnal
    An extensive Pentagon report looking at the government's interest and investigations into UFOs since 1945 found no evidence of alien visitation nor the recovery and reverse-engineering of downed ET craft. Conducted by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the exhaustive effort (which can be read here) revisits all of the various official programs aimed at studying the phenomenon up until 2023. The study also investigated various claims of clandestine UFO projects or evidence secretly being conducted or held by the US government or private companies as recounted by specific witnesses. The findings of the report will undoubtedly be dispiriting to...
  • America Enters the Samizdat Era

    03/09/2024 2:32:31 PM PST · by CFW · 13 replies
    Racket News ^ | 3/7/24 | Matt Taibbi
    I began studying in Leningrad, in the waning days of the Soviet Union, beginning in the fall of 1989. I was 19 years old, more interested in girls than politics, and thought of life behind the Iron Curtain as more novelty than terror. There was little visible suffering or hardship. * * * * Not until much later, after I’d heard years of stories from Russians who’d lived through harder times, did I start to understand the brutal system whose end I got to witness. Parents of friends talked about going on vacations and trying to guess who was the...
  • Wyoming bill to allow concealed carry in schools, government meetings heads to governor

    03/09/2024 2:25:35 AM PST · by Libloather · 12 replies
    Fox News ^ | 3/08/24 | Ass Press
    A bill that would allow concealed carry of firearms in schools and government meetings is headed to Wyoming's governor after clearing the state Legislature by a wide margin Thursday. What happens next is somewhat uncertain because Wyoming governors traditionally don’t say if they plan to sign or veto bills. Gov. Mark Gordon has not spoken publicly about the bill, but he is a Republican gun rights supporter. Wyoming is among the gun-friendliest states and the bill passed the state Senate 22-8 after supporters dismissed fears about allowing guns where they're currently banned. People carry concealed guns in Wyoming all the...
  • Congress Unveils Appropriations Bills to Avoid Partial Government Shutdown

    03/03/2024 5:06:16 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 15 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/03/2024 | Sean Moran
    Congress unveiled the first six appropriations bills on Sunday to fund the government for most of 2024. The rollout of the appropriations bills follows Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other congressional leaders striking a deal to avert a government shutdown and fund the government for most of 2024. The six appropriations bills would fund the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs, Justice, Commerce, and Energy. The bipartisan package amounts to 1,050-pages and includes more than $450 billion in funding for the fiscal year 2024.
  • Will history repeat itself? (Dated, but very relevant today)

    03/03/2024 11:59:30 AM PST · by eastexsteve · 28 replies
    Schiffgold ^ | April 6, 2020 | Peter Schiff
    Yesterday marked the anniversary of the great government gold heist of 1933 ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. On April 5, 1933, the president signed Executive Order 6102. It was touted as a measure to stop gold hoarding, but it was in reality, a massive gold confiscation scheme. The order required private citizens, partnerships, associations and corporations to turn in all but small amounts of gold to the Federal Reserve in exchange for $20.67 per ounce.
  • Death of McConnell sister-in-law Angela Chao now 'criminal investigation'

    03/01/2024 1:53:10 PM PST · by CFW · 105 replies
    Just the News ^ | 3/1/24 | Joseph Weber
    The recent death of American shipping magnate Angela Chao, the sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is now a "criminal investigation," according to the Texas sheriff's office investigating matter. Chao, the CEO of the Foremost Group was found dead shortly after midnight on Feb. 11 when pulled from a car that had gone into a pond on a private ranch about 40 miles from the Texas city of Austin, CNBC reported Thursday. “This incident was not a typical accident,” the Blanco County Sheriff’s Office told state Attorney General Ken Paxton in a letter. “Although the preliminary investigation indicated this...
  • Congress Strikes Deal to Avert Partial Government Shutdown

    02/28/2024 1:40:51 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 25 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/28/2024 | SEAN MORAN
    Congressional leaders struck a deal on Wednesday that would hope to avert a partial government shutdown. Top lawmakers closed negotiations on the Agriculture, Energy, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; Transportation-Housing and Urban Development, and Interior; and Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bills, setting a deadline for March 8 to pass the spending bills. Leadership hopes to release the text of the bills by this weekend and pass the bills next week. The spending bills would fund related government agencies through September, right before the 2024 elections. The remaining appropriations bills that would fund the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security (DHS); Departments...
  • Data distrust surges as Americans reject government collection efforts

    02/28/2024 8:47:36 AM PST · by Twotone · 9 replies
    The Blaze ^ | February 27, 2024 | Carol Roth
    “There are three kinds of lies,” Mark Twain famously observed. “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” You already know that the government's published statistics are not trustworthy. Federal agencies have shifted methodologies over the years, making it hard to compare data sets. In economic modeling, there is a concept called “GIGO” — garbage in, garbage out. And what we have been seeing does seem like a lot of garbage. Then, the number-crunchers perform adjustments, do other kinds of syntheses, and make revisions to that data. A good case could be made that government data has been politicized, too, and some methodologies...
  • 80% of Americans test positive for chemical found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats that may cause infertility, delayed puberty: study

    02/24/2024 5:13:53 AM PST · by GailA · 28 replies
    MSN ^ | 2/19/2024 | Shannon Thaler
    The “highly toxic agricultural chemical” is federally allowed to be used on oats and other grains imported to the US, according to the EWG. When applied to oat and grain crops, chlormequat alters a plant’s growth, preventing it from bending over and thus making it easier to harvest, per the EWG. Roundup for Breakfast, Part 2: In New Tests, Weed Killer Found in All Kids’ Cereals Sampled A second round of tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group found the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup weed killer in every sample of popular oat-based cereal and other oat-based food marketed to...
  • CBP Siezes 6.5 Tons of Meth in Eagle Pass, Largest Seizure Made at a Port of Entry

    02/23/2024 7:14:19 AM PST · by CFW · 18 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 2/23/24 | Aldgra Fredly
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on Thursday that it seized 6.5 tons of methamphetamine at Eagle Pass port of entry in Texas. It is the largest seizure ever made at a port of entry in a single enforcement action. The methamphetamine had a street value of more than $117 million, according to a press release. The seizure was made at the Camino Real International Bridge on Feb. 18, when a CBP officer referred a tractor trailer manifesting a shipment of drying agents for piglets for secondary inspection. The CBP said that its officers conducted “a canine and non-intrusive...
  • President Biden’s Transfer of Other People’s Debts to You

    02/23/2024 4:54:38 AM PST · by george76 · 16 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 2/22/2024 | Rob Natelson
    History demonstrates that attempts to “cure” a problem by exceeding the federal government’s constitutional powers generally lead to more and worse problems... “A rage ... for an abolition of debts ... or for any other improper or wicked project ....” — James Madison, Federalist No. 10.. The courts, in the exercise of what is called “equity jurisdiction,” have long excused borrowers from obligations incurred through fraud, duress, and other forms of creditor unfairness.. In addition, federal bankruptcy laws (authorized in the Constitution by Article I, Section 8, Clause 4) offer a path to safety for debtors who get in over...
  • 'Sue and Settle' Looks to Some Like Crony Democracy. And Under Biden's Lawfaring Eco-Politics, It's Back

    02/21/2024 10:32:51 PM PST · by CFW · 6 replies
    RealClear Investigations ^ | 2/21/24 | James Varney
    When the Biden administration announced in 2022 that it would remove some 4 million acres of federal land in Western states from oil and gas exploration, environmental groups hailed the decision as a milestone in their fight against global warming. “With the oil and gas industry bent on despoiling American’s public lands and fueling the climate crisis, this is a critical opportunity for the Biden administration to chart a new path toward clean energy and independence from fossil fuels,” said Jeremy Nichols, a director with WildEarth Guardians. But Nichols could just as easily have slapped himself on the back: The...
  • Nation's Oldest Gun Maker Exits New York After 200 Years

    02/21/2024 5:43:13 PM PST · by RetiredArmy · 35 replies
    Newsmax.com ^ | Wednesday, February 21, 2024 | Jim Morley
    Remington, the nation's oldest gun manufacturer, which has been located for more than 200 years in Ilion, New York, will move to LaGrange, Georgia, on March 4."Two hundred and eight years of history. Gone, gone," Ilion Mayor John P. Stephens told the New York Times. "Ilion is Remington. Remington is Ilion."
  • Government Bureaucrats Could Use 'Kill Switch' to Stop People From Driving Because... Reasons

    02/17/2024 1:13:50 PM PST · by CFW · 60 replies
    Red State ^ | 2/17/24 | Wes Clark
    A provision in the 2021 "infrastructure" spending package, as it turns out, includes a provision that directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to come up with a way to stop you from driving your car or truck if the government doesn't want you to. The measure is sold as a way to keep people from driving while impaired, but the implications are chilling. "A provision in the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signed in 2021 directed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to come up with a rule by this year requiring new...
  • Biden admin braces for possible Trump win, installs 'roadblocks' to stop him from reshaping government: Report

    02/16/2024 3:40:28 PM PST · by Libloather · 82 replies
    Fox News ^ | 2/16/24 | David Rutz
    resident Biden's administration and liberal supporters in Washington are bracing for a possible Donald Trump victory in November by installing "roadblocks" to limit the latter's ability to fire thousands of government workers, according to a new report. The Associated Press reported that a cabal of left-leaning experts, legal advisers and others are confident Biden will be re-elected but are urging him to prepare for the worst: another Trump presidency beginning in 2025. "My impression is the Biden administration is taking very seriously that potential threat and is trying to do things now," Michael Linden, former executive associate director of the...
  • Your Government Needs You Angry At Foreign Tyrants So You Won’t Notice The Ones Ruling You

    02/16/2024 10:17:02 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 30 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 02/16/2024 | Sean Davis
    In response to reports that Putin critic Alexei Navalny has died in a Russian prison, your rulers in Washington want you to be angry. Your corrupt government, which is at this very moment working to put your Christian neighbors in prison for protesting abortion, wants you to be very angry at a foreign leader nearly 6,000 miles away so you won’t pay attention to what your leaders are doing to you in your own backyard.Your government, which wants to disarm you and prevent you from defending yourself, wants you angry at a leader who has no power over you whatsoever....
  • AMERICA Prayer Vigil February 14, 2024 ~PRAYER~

    02/14/2024 1:03:08 AM PST · by Norski · 20 replies
    FreeRepublic ^ | February 14, 2024 | FreeRepublic Intercessors
    Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, Religious Freedom and the Media. "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness." (1 Timothy 2:1-2) Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.
  • 12 Absolutely Insane Examples That Show Just How Far The U.S. Has Fallen

    02/06/2024 5:57:19 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 41 replies
    End of The American Dream ^ | 2/5/24 | Michael Snyder
    When I was young, I often wondered what it must have been like to live during the fall of the Roman Empire. Unfortunately, now I have a pretty good idea. Just like the Roman Empire, the United States is falling. Every day our decline gets even more pronounced, and you can see evidence of this all around us. Virtually all of our major institutions are crumbling, and virtually all of our most critical systems are failing. We tend to blame our problems on our politicians, but the truth is that the rot that is rapidly spreading throughout our society runs...
  • Over 60 current and ex-NYCHA workers cuffed in historic bribery and extortion bust

    02/06/2024 8:46:17 AM PST · by thegagline · 14 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 02/06/2024 | Craig McCarthy et al
    More than 60 current and former NYCHA workers have been busted in a bribe-and-extortion scheme that authorities say involves the largest number of federal bribery charges in a single day in Department of Justice history. The suspects — accused of accepting cash payments from contractors in exchange for lucrative New York City Housing Authority contracts — were hauled off in handcuffs in a widespread raid Tuesday morning, according to the Southern District of New York. The charges may be linked to “micro-purchase” projects, or contracts for smaller repairs and other construction at city housing developments, sources told The Post. As...