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Homeland Security Advisory Council Co-Chair and former Police Commissioner of Boston, Los Angeles, and New York Bill Bratton said that the crime problem in the U.S. “has been created by the politicians in many of our cities and states,” and the consequences have been seen. Bratton said “during the height of the defund insanity in this city,” there was a push to take police out of schools. “I speak out frequently…about the need for more, the stupidity of the defund the police movement that they quickly retreated from. We have almost 100,000 fewer police officers today than we had several...

Policies and practices designed to drive either individuals or Nation-States into debt have long been a preferred method for political coercion, cooptation, enslavement, incremental dominance and control. A form of subtle, creeping indentured servitude. Neither individuals, communities, businesses nor Nation-States can be free when they are indebted (financially or otherwise) to another. This subtle method of control of both Nation-States and their citizens has been consciously, intentionally, and strategically deployed by central banks for centuries. This is the method which the World Economic Forum, itself a guild representing the interests of the largest corporations (and their controlling owners), seeks to...

At midnight, the state is expected to submit its answer regarding the proposed evacuation of the Homesh community in Judea, which has become one of the sticking points threatening the future of the current Bennett-Lapid coalition. Channel 12 News received a draft of the government's reply to the Court on behalf of Defense Minister Benny Gantz, stating that the community will be evacuated - but not in the immediate future. According to the report, Gantz will be provided flexibility as far as the timing of the demolition, regardless of the political situation and cracks in the coalition. On Tuesday, Prime...

Twitchy US NEWS MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT CARTOONS Premium Content My Account × Search twitchy.com.... Andrew Follett says ‘the media is telling you two major lies’ about mass shootings and gun control Posted at 6:23 pm on May 25, 2022 by Brett T. We forget who said yesterday — maybe a senator or congressman — that the availability of guns is what makes the United States an outlier in mass shootings, not mental health. Every country has its share of sickos, but in the United States, it’s easier for those sickos to get their hands on an assault rifle because there are...

President Joe Biden’s administration has contemplated the lifting of sanctions on Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in a bid to secure the export of Ukrainian grain without risking the maritime confrontation with Russia that some other allies deem necessary to avert a horrific famine. U.S. officials have broached the Belarus idea with European officials in recent weeks, as trans-Atlantic policymakers endeavor to escape a dilemma created by Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s ports on the Black Sea. Yet other members of NATO have a growing interest in a maritime operation to challenge that blockade, given the limited amount of grain that...

Since leaving the Obama administration in 2015, former Attorney General Eric Holder has gone on to make a living off of heading the so-called National Democratic Redistricting Committee, an organization with the stated purpose of ending partisan gerrymandering. Holder has filed lawsuits throughout the country tying up statehouse redistricting efforts claiming particular segments of the electorate had been disenfranchised by alleged gerrymandering.

"Shihab told [Confidential Source 1] that the four Iraqi nationals Shihab wanted to smuggle into the United States are planning to kill former president George W. Bush," the complaint said. He repeatedly made claims to a separate confidential source that he'd be able to get a fake passport and be able to smuggle that source's brother through the U.S.-Mexico border. He said an upfront payment between $10,000 and $40,000 was to be made in order to smuggle people in. The U.S. Secret Service said it was prepared to handle any threat to the president. "The U.S. Secret Service takes all...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) took to the Senate floor in the hours after the Robb Elementary School attack and made clear he does not support allowing school personnel to be armed for classroom defense. “After delivering an impassioned and anguished plea to his colleagues calling for stricter gun control measures, Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, objected against the idea of armed staff on sites like school grounds,” the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Murphy tweeted: “As we look for solutions, this is important. Because over and over – from Parkland to El Paso to Dayton to Uvalde –...

Whenever I listen to Klaus Schwab and his Davos Death Cult buddies openly discuss their plans for world domination, I always think, "Are we really going to let another power-hungry German walk us into global conflagration?" For a while there, I believed that Western allies had endured enough death and slaughter from the first two world wars to forge an informal understanding among themselves that uncontrolled German megalomania invariably leads to malignant outcomes for all. Then came German reunification, and the nation's inevitable economic dominance over all of Europe assured its status as the most powerful member of the European...

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) is digging into his own pockets to fund a handful of Republican candidates running for state legislative seats this year in an effort to reshape the politics of one of the most conservative states in the country. Burgum, serving his second term, has contributed nearly $1 million to a political action committee run by a former top staffer that is said to be spending big on key legislative races across the state ahead of next month’s primary elections. In a state where Democrats are an afterthought, Burgum allies say putting a thumb on the...

Joe Biden and Democrats weren’t kidding about their pledge to transform public institutions into gender dysphoria contagion zones. K-12 schools must allow boys into girls’ private areas to obtain federal funds for lunches, breakfasts, and snacks, the Biden administration announced this month. A U.S. Department of Education spokesman told The Federalist the Biden administration’s press releases from several agencies announcing this policy will be followed by formal rulemaking in June. “It seems to be playing politics with feeding poor kids, which is really unfortunate,” John Elcesser, executive director of the Indiana Non-Public Education Association, said via phone amid weeks of...

'We cannot exhale once again, make excuses, and accept these tragic realities as the status quo' Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey called for an end to gun violence in the wake of a mass shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas. The “Dallas Buyers Club” actor posted a statement on Instagram on Tuesday urging Americans to ask themselves "what small sacrifices can we individually take today, to preserve a healthier and safer nation, state, and neighborhood tomorrow?” following reports of a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in his hometown. "As you...

Deranged Texas mass shooter Salvador Ramos may have hinted at his plan to gun down school children in a verbal rant after losing a violent video game, a report said. Threats from a male player that he would “shoot up a school” using an AR-15 disturbed one fellow gamer so much she reported it to the FBI, The US Sun reported Wednesday. The threats reportedly came after the player lost the video game Dead by Daylight just hours before the carnage at Robb Elementary School Tuesday, The Sun reported. Another source told The Sun Ramos threatened to shoot up schools...

Campus Watch Research Originally published under the title "Georgetown University Whitewashes Islamism and Smears the West (again)." [Caption] Erdoan Shipoli (l) and John Esposito (r) of Georgetown Univ. use their positions to whitewash Islamism and attack Western civilization. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was former President George W. Bush's "teacher at Yale," stated Erdoan A. Shipoli at an April 27 Georgetown University webinar. While Rice was indeed a child prodigy on the piano, her intellectual prowess was not quite so grand as to land her an Ivy League teaching position as an adolescent. Born in 1954, she was only...

US Customs and Border Protection issued a press release on May 17, 2022 to announce the arrest Norma Elizabeth Rivas-Villacorta of Riverdale, Maryland. The 23-year-old was met at the gate of her arriving flight from El Salvador at Washington Dulles International Airport. FBI agents and officers from Prince George County were present for the arrest. She is now being charged with one count each of first and second-degree murder in connection with the May 2021 shooting death of her boyfriend, Kayshaun Daly, who was 20 at the time of his death. While there is very little detail regarding the circumstances...

The McBride Fire ripped through Ruidoso in April, destroying hundreds of homes and killing two people. Now, there are some new calls for accountability. A new lawsuit claims a mismanaged area near a PNM power line is to blame for that deadly fire. The lawsuit outlines findings from an independent investigator. The civil suit claims PNM neglected an area where a tree blew over, causing the deadliest wildfire in New Mexico history. Joe Lovell represents three Texans who lost their vacation home on Gavilan Canyon Road in Ruidoso. “Well, it’s heartbreaking,” Lovell said. “For this particular group, they were largely...

Oklahoma has officially enacted the United States' strictest abortion law, which bans terminations from the moment of conception. The state's GOP Governor Kevin Stitt, 49, signed the new legislation on Tuesday, which allows Oklahomans to sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion. 'I promised Oklahomans that as governor I would sign every piece of pro-life legislation that came across my desk and I am proud to keep that promise today,' Stitt said in a statement.

Everyone has awful thoughts, things that cross our minds out of nowhere that were we to act on them would have us on the express train to Hell. While we don’t know where these thoughts come from, we don’t act on them so it doesn’t matter – the brain works in mysterious ways. And then there are horrible, evil people who walk among us every single day who do actually do horrible things and are on their way to Hell. Then there are those who see the evil done and think, “I can use that to get what I want.”...

The Lebanese Al-Mayadeen news website, which is affiliated with Hezbollah, reported on Wednesday that Palestinian Arab terrorist groups have informed Israel, through mediators, that they will not remain silent and respond militarily to Israel's attempts to establish new facts in Jerusalem and in particular in the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Palestinian Arab sources in Gaza told the website that Israel sent a message through the mediators that the Flag March, scheduled for this Sunday in Jerusalem, would take place along the same route that has been customary in recent years. The message also stated that the Israel Police will limit the number...

For God's sake, Mister President, don't turn this tragedy into cheap political capital. ... After that, it became a political stump speech: "When in God's name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?" he demanded. "When in God's name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?" Ten times he named God in a seven-minute speech. In seven of those, he called on God's name in what could easily be taken as an epithet...