Texas synagogue gunman identified as Muslim from UK, Malik Faisal Akram who had ‘mental health issues’

Well, sure. All jihadis have mental health issues. Nothing they do has anything to do with Islamic texts or teachings. Don’t you know that by now, you greasy Islamophobe?

Feds Identify Synagogue Hostage-Taker as 44-Year-Old British Citizen

by Dia Gill, Daily Beast, January 16, 2022:

The feds on Sunday identified the gunman who was shot dead after taking four hostages in a dramatic 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue as 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram, a British citizen.

The Blackburn Muslim Community in the U.K. confirmed Akram’s death in a Facebook post on Sunday afternoon, asking the community to “avoid taking part in the sin of backbiting” as authorities continue to investigate the attack, which President Joe Biden has called “an act of terror.”

The group shared a statement from Akram’s brother, identified as Gulbar, that condemned the attack.

“We would like to say that we as a family do not condone any of his actions and would like to sincerely apologize wholeheartedly to all the victims involved in the unfortunate incident,” he wrote.

Hours before the FBI’s announcement, a spokesperson for the British Foreign Office said they were “aware of the death of a British man in Texas and are in contact with the local authorities.”

“The FBI’s Evidence Response Team (ERT) will continue processing evidence at the synagogue,” the FBI wrote in its release. “At this time, there is no indication that other individuals are involved. The FBI’s North Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force (NTJTTF), which includes member agencies from across the region, will continue to follow investigative leads. An FBI Shooting Incident Review Team (SIRT) will conduct a thorough, factual, and objective investigation of the events.”…

According to the Gulbar’s statement, the family was aware of Akram’s involvement during the crisis. They said that despite his “mental health issues,” they believed he would not harm his captives.

According to Gulbar’s post, the FBI is expected to fly to the U.K. and meet with the family later today.

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Austria: Hitler photos found on imam’s cell phone

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AWED NEWSLETTER: We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

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Lots of really interesting material in this issue, but particularly note the asterisked items below.


— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

COVID-19 — Repeated Important Information:

My webpage (C19Science.info) with dozens of Science-based COVID-19 reports

*** World Council of Health: Early COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

*** COVID-19: What You Need To Know (Physicians for Informed Consent)

COVID-19 — Therapies:

*** Why suppress early safe treatments for COVID-19? Here’s $24 billion reasons

*** I Don’t Know How You Sleep At Night (a story about ivermectin)

Will curcumin be the next promising antiviral alternative in COVID-19 treatment?

Here’s what you should know about Pfizer’s new COVID drug

5 Things To Know About Bamlanivimab

Doctors Outraged After Biden Regime Shuts Down Monoclonal Antibody Treatments

COVID-19 — Injecting Children:

*** What our leaders have done to young people is unforgivable

*** Sacrificing Children to COVID-19 Injections

*** End Covid Vaccination of Children Because the Risks Outweigh the Benefits, UK Government Told By Doctors and Scientists

COVID-19 — Injections:

*** The Powerful Pfizer Presentation that got Dr. Robert Malone Kicked Off Twitter

*** Are Unvaccinated Lives Unworthy of Life? We Are Slipping into Nuremberg Space

*** Over 1,000 studies published in peer-reviewed medical journals say the COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous

*** Harvard Study: Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States

*** Massive 145-Country Study Shows Sharp INCREASE of Transmission and DEATH After Introduction of COVID Vaccines

Rhode Island went from firing unvaccinated health care workers to allowing the COVID-positive to work

Vaccinated people are dying from autoimmune attacks against their own organs

Study: COVID-19 Vaccines and Neurodegenerative Disease

Bhakdi/Burkhardt pathology results show 93% of people who died after being vaccinated were killed by the vaccine

Treating Disease With Health Not Vaccines

Wealthy man w life insurance for his family’s benefit, died from COVID jab. Insurance company refused to pay out because he took experimental drugs, treatments

Booster Bust: Medical Establishment Changes Its Mind

EMA warns that booster jabs can oversaturate the immune system

A Religious Perspective: Charity and Vaccines

Vaccines Not Durable, Omicron Might Turn COVID-19 Endemic: Bill Gates

COVID-19 — Injection Mandates:

*** Doctors Supreme Court Brief: Injections are not Vaccines, but rather Treatments

*** 146 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to COVID-19

*** Harvard study shows recovered immunity is far stronger than vaccine protection

800+ Members of Boston College Community Demand COVID Booster Mandate Policy Recognize Natural Immunity

Dr. McCullough: Your Right to Optimal Health Now and For Eternity

Justices Hear Case on Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers

Japan health ministry shoots down mandatory COVID-19 injections

Worldwide Bayesian Causal Impact Analysis of Vaccine Administration on Deaths and Cases Associated with COVID-19: A BigData Analysis of 145 Countries

COVID-19 Letter to a Governing Body

A Vaccine so Good, Australia has to Punish the World’s Best Tennis Player?

COVID-19 — Models and Data:

*** Flu deaths reality check

Official UK data shows the Triple/Double Vaccinated accounted for 80% of COVID-19 Deaths in December

Unprecedented: Deaths in Indiana for ages 18-64 are up 40%

Life Insurance CEO: Working-Age Deaths Up Whopping 40%

CDC Sued For Keeping COVID Vaccine Data Secret

CDC new paper that admits that VAERS is underreported by at least 6.5X

Federal judge orders FDA to quickly release all Pfizer vaccine data

Two years of Pandemic have caused excess deaths that need explanation

Reality Versus Fear, Data Versus Delusion

COVID-19 — Omicron:

*** Study: Vaccines and most monoclonal antibodies are not effective against Omicron

*** Dr. McCullough on Omicron Realities; VAERS Reports on Vaccine Injuries & Deaths

Omicron Spurs Media to Reassess Reporting (about time!)

Dr. Campbell video: Science indicates less severe omicron disease

Dr. Campbell video: Symptoms and Sequelae

Omicron Less Likely to Cause Lung Damage or Death, Studies Find

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ Defines Psychology of Covid Hysteria

*** Shame on the US medical and public health establishments

*** Project Veritas Video: Military Documents about Gain of Function contradict Fauci testimony under oath   [Note at 4:23 re ivermectin]

*** SCOTUS Denial of Natural Immunity in CMS Vaccine Mandate ‘Unprecedented in Modern History’: Dr. Scott Atlas

*** Hanson: Politicizing COVID-19 from the start

Video: Three ways government agencies are harming your health

Failed Government Policies Plus Failed mRNA Shots Spell Disaster

Top 12 takeaways from the Joe Rogan and Dr. Robert Malone interview

Forty-Five Years of Mask Studies Prove They’re Worthless

The Day Jake Tapper Sold His Soul to Pharma

Dr. Campbell video: Interactions of health

Mass Formation (Psychosis) and the Coronavirus Narrative

Great Barrington Declaration now has over 900k signatures — please sign!

Meet the woman launching multiple legal challenges to make America free from COVID-19 tyranny

Professor’s Powerful Letter to the Israeli Ministry of Health

Greed Energy Economics:

*** How green policies are fueling the energy crisis

*** Calculating The Full Costs Of Electrifying Everything Using Only Wind, Solar And Batteries

A wind and solar electric grid? That’s a terrible idea

Families are “rationing fuel or turning off fridge freezers” due to soaring energy prices

Climate “Leadership” Will Cost New Yorkers More than $5,000 Each

Wind Energy:

*** Finally, Bloomberg Admits Renewables Mania Caused Energy Shortages

Huge wind energy project gets harpooned by new federal lawsuit

A Detailed Submission Against a Great Lakes Wind Project

Will Europe Abandon Green Energy?

Wind turbine dismantling method prompts debate among North Dakota regulators

Feds sued over New Jersey offshore wind turbine leases

Solar Energy:

Farming leaders fear solar projects will steal prime farm land

Alberta Solar and Wind Gave Only 2.5% of Capacity When Vital!

California’s Misguided Rooftop Solar Debate

Storm clouds ahead for solar projects

Lawsuit: Biden-Backed Solar Company Lied About Effectiveness of Solar Modules

Nuclear Energy:

*** Why Greta’s Climate Panic Failed

The EU finally admits nuclear and natural gas are part of the energy solution

Three Reasons Nuclear Power Has Returned to the Energy Debate

Nuclear Power Gets a Fresh Look as Nations Chase Climate Goals

Giving nuclear power a second look to fight climate change

Why Nuclear Power Plant Life Extensions & Uprates Matter

Fusion finance: could private capital deliver energy’s holy grail?

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Life Runs On Energy, Connected by Oil and Natural Gas (Energy TV Commercial)

Climate Industrial Complex Left Clueless as Fossil Fuels Proliferate

Biden’s fuel afflictions

Fossil Fuels Aren’t Going Anywhere, So Get Over Your Vapors

Misc Energy:

*** New York State’s new climate plan is a bunch of electric schlock

Imagine electric vehicles in bad weather

Report: The Net Zero Watch Guide to the Energy Bills Crisis

Ammonia combustion analysis: powertrains, turbines & power generation

Bringing Britain’s woes to America?

Diversity Is What It’s All About When It Comes to Energy Supply

Environmental Justice Is Energy Elitism Wrapped in Condescension

Manmade Global Warming — and Disasters:

*** Global Weather and Climate Disasters 2000 to 2021

Why Disasters Have Declined

Cold still causes far more deaths than heat in India

Geologist: Claims of Accelerating Sea Level Rise And Skyrocketing Rate of Extinctions Are False

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** Report: 10-years-to-save-the-climate is based on flawed forecasting and distracts from real solutions

Two minute video: Recent UN Votes about Climate Change

The New Climate of Panic Among the Panic-Mongers

Multi-billionaires and their Mind-blowing Hypocrisy

Video: Ambulance Chasers Arrive In Colorado

Dutch Lawmaker Refutes the Claim that ‘97% of Scientists Agree on Global Warming’

Climate authoritarians and the lessons of history

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** Tyranny in the Name of Climate Change

*** 140± Scientific Papers Detail the Minuscule Effect CO2 Has on Earth’s Temperature

New study confirms nature controls atmospheric CO2

Good AGW submission to FERC

Measuring Climate Change

Will the Climate Industry Move the Goalposts Again?

US Election — The Freedom To Cheat Act:

*** The Freedom to Cheat Act: The Radical Left’s Latest Attempt to Undermine Our Democracy

*** The 10 worst provisions in Biden, Schumer’s voting rights bills

Dr. Alveda King & Ambassador Ken Blackwell on Biden-Harris Speech Regarding the Freedom to Cheat Act

Media May Again Be Leading Dems Toward Disaster with Radical Election Law Push

Dem ’22 Strategy: Cheat

Democrats skeptical of McConnell’s offer to talk on election law

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

*** Video: An Election With More Rigging Than a Five-Masted Clipper Ship

How anyone with an Excel spreadsheet can prove the election was rigged

Heritage Experts Fact Check Biden & Harris’ Statements About Elections, Voting Rights, and Filibuster

Michelle Obama’s midterm push to recruit thousands of lawyers, 100k volunteers, register 1 million voters

US Election — State Issues:

*** VOTER ID LAWS: And The Many Myths of ‘Voter Suppression’

State by State Guide to Voting Laws

Judge Deals Huge Blow to Democrats: Bans Use of Drop Boxes in Wisconsin

Georgia ‘Ballot Trafficker’ Admits To Being Paid Thousands In 2020 Election Ballot Harvesting Scheme

Georgia opens investigation into possible illegal ballot harvesting in 2020 election

RNC sues NYC Mayor Adams over law allowing non-citizens to vote

Cyber Ninjas CEO Says Arizona Senate Shut Down Firm Not Leftwing Judge

Maricopa County Auditors Speak Out

California Just Became Permanently Democrat

11 executive actions new VA Governor signed on day one

US Politics and the Senate Filibuster:

*** Top Democrats Want to Take Over the Senate to Take Over Elections to Take Over America — Forever

*** Democrats’ Rule-Breaking Senate Takeover Would Silence Millions of Americans and Permanently Damage the Institution

2017 Letter signed by several Senate Dems agains changing the filibuster

Schumer’s Scorched-Earth War to Put D.C. in Charge of Our Elections

Warner says Manchin carrying Byrd’s torch as he fights filibuster changes

US Politics and Socialism:

*** Tucker video: This is worse than we thought

Environmentalism has lost its way

The Democrat Party and The Red [Marxist] — Green [Islamist] Alliance

Welcome to the end of democracy

The Sadly Ubiquitous Karl Marx

Domestic Terrorism: The Nation’s Biggest Threat?

US Politics and January 6th:

*** America’s Justice System Says Jan. 6 Was Neither A Terrorist Attack Nor An Insurrection

Pelosi Owns The J6 Commission, And That’s Why It Failed

RealClearInvestigations’ Jan. 6 vs BLM Riots Comparison

The Real Threat to Democracy: Dems to Want “Rule or Ruin” Once Again

Other US Politics and Related:

*** What Is the Great Reset?

Hunter Biden . . . and the Coverups

Declassified documents show assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders

Biden administration hits the Hill to lobby Dems against GOP-backed Russia sanctions

Where Does NATO Enlargement End?

Documentary: Battleground Melbourne

The ‘New Normal’ and the Assault on Reason

Religion Related:

*** Video: How the Left is Stealing Your Church

Remembering when Josef Stalin’s daughter Svetlana became a Roman Catholic

Biden Administration Institutionalizes Religious Discrimination

Education Related:

100 Reasons to Homeschool Your Kids

How the Woke Mob Captured Business Schools

From Hiring to Admissions, Universities Seek Ideological Conformity in Applicants

More Than 1 Million Fewer Students Are In College, the Lowest Numbers In 50 Years

Restoring Merit to Higher Education: An Entrepreneurial Approach

Science and Misc Matters:

*** The Winner of ‘The Leading Cause of Death’ in 2021 is: Abortion!

*** The Political Hijacking of Science

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty of Fraud and Conspiracy

Baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province

Binary [Science] or Non-Binary [Myth] — That is the Question!

Short good video: In the Dutch Parliament, speaking truth to power


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Texas Synagogue Rabbi and Jewish Congregants RESCUED, Muslim Terrorist DEAD

The best of all resolutions. Don’t mess with Texas.

Meanwhile the media is scrubbing the motive:

“English man with accent.”

Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, was in the middle of Shabbat services that were being livestreamed on Facebook, when a Muslim terrorist burst in and took hostages

“The gunman says he is Muslim and holding at least 6 people says ‘he will kill people if anyone gets close to the synagogue.’” Before the livestream from the synagogue was cut off, the gunman could be heard ranting in a foreign language that, according to journalist and trial attorney Marina Medvin, turned out to be Arabic. Medvin noted that the gunman said, “Are you listening? I am going to die. So don’t cry for me…”

Synagogues and Rabbis are a prime target for Muslim terrorists. The main target of the horrific Islamic attack in Mumbai was a synagogue:

A senior police official, told DNA on condition of anonymity, that the interrogation of Mohammed Amir Iman Ajmal (aka Kasab) revealed as much. Just before entering the city, the terrorists’ team leader, Ismail Khan, briefed them once again about their targets. “But Khan briefed Imran Babar, alias Abu Akasha, and Nasir, alias Abu Umer, intensely on what to do at Nariman House,” the officer said.

When asked during interrogation why Nariman House was specifically targetted, Ajmal reportedly told the police they wanted to sent a message to Jews across the world by attacking the synagogue.

Read the rest.

The chilling words of the Muslim Mumbai killers recorded during their murder spree: “Keep killing, keep killing, the dogs.’ “Insh’Allah” ‘The manner of your death will instill fear in the unbelievers. This is a battle between Islam and the unbelievers”

Robert Spencer writes:

Why would “Lady Al Qaeda’ Aafia Siddiqui’s brother choose a synagogue for his hostage-taking? Actually, a synagogue would be the most likely target for such a person, because of the deeply rooted anti-Semitism of the Qur’an. According to the Qur’an, Jews are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29), among many other slanders.

Meanwhile, the abduction of infidels as hostages is sanctioned in Islamic law and subject to particular rules. The renowned Islamic scholar al-Mawardi succinctly explained Islamic law for hostages: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4).”

There is more. Read the rest here.

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Texas synagogue held hostage by “foreign man during Shabbat services

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TEXAS: Muslim takes hostages at synagogue, says he will kill people if anyone gets close

Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, was in the middle of Shabbat services that were being livestreamed on Facebook, when a gunman burst in and took hostages. As of this writing, the situation is ongoing, but some details have already emerged.

Amichai Stein of Kan, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, reports that “The gunman says he is Muslim and holding at least 6 people says ‘he will kill people if anyone gets close to the synagogue.’” Before the livestream from the synagogue was cut off, the gunman could be heard ranting in a foreign language that, according to journalist and trial attorney Marina Medvin, turned out to be Arabic. Medvin noted that the gunman said, “Are you listening? I am going to die. So don’t cry for me…”

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First with victim card: ‘journalist’ Wajahat Ali warns of ‘Islamophobia’ in wake of Texas synagogue hostage crisis

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Joe and Gavin’s New Normal — Train Robbery, Looting, Vandalism, Protests = Lawlessness

We are now in an age when robbing and looting stores have become the new normal in California. America is now lawless thanks to Democrats.

When you defund the police you empower the criminal.

LOOTING, VANDALISM, PROTESTS: On May 31st, 2020 in San Diego, California we witnessed widespread looting, protests and rioters setting a store on fire at La Mesa Springs Shopping Center.

ROBBERY: On January 13th, 2022 we are witnessing train robbery.

The Bottom Line

Michael Finch wrote this poem in 2020. After seeing the story on the looting of the trains in the rail yards of Los Angeles his words struck us again once again, sadly.

Whence America?

by Michael Finch

Heading northbound, the 170 Freeway, trash heaps and waste, fall down and pile high on roads embankment, tents and filth, human costs and destroyed lives, of illness, drugs and wasted dreams.

Shattered might and factories hollow, rust belt and shredded lawns, boarded up stores, empty lots and broken glass and spent lives and churches barren, of jobs sold off and towns crushed and forgotten.

Global riches and coastal castles of wealth unseen since Rome’s finest of palaces, high upon hills of gold and towers gleaming over the Bay and harbors to the ends of earth, those eyes, hearts and souls gaze over the horizon with loyalties sailed off to faraway lands.

The revolt of the elites.

Spent lives, overdosed and buried in misery and ruin, long forgotten and none forgiven, a heartland once the citadel of power and might, the fortress, the big shoulders of the power of Atlas, of our might unchallenged, the arsenal of democracy, now discarded and shipped to a middle kingdom afar, new empires of fortunes, enriching few and for whose bidding?

This is America?

Coming back to a downtown of refuse, filth and thousands of hopeless lives, wasted and allowed, condoned from our elites and betters, of drugs and crime and to wallow in misery, America once, but America no more, cry our beloved land of God’s fading blessings.

This is a fallen greatness.

Michael Finch is the President of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the author of Finding Home, a book of poems.

Enough said. We are now witnesses to the great fall of America’s greatness.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Gun Control Comes from a Place of Privilege

Assuming we know what’s best for others is rarely a good idea.


The concept of privilege gets a bad rap in many circles, and understandably so. Many have taken it way too far, using it as a means of bullying their political opponents into submission. But while the excesses of this rhetoric are certainly problematic, I don’t think we should do away with the concept entirely. Behind all the moral grandstanding lies a kernel of truth, one that can provide some valuable insights if applied correctly.

The principle, essentially, is that certain people have unearned advantages, and those advantages can shape how they see the world. Affluence, for instance, can make someone blind to the needs of the poor. Likewise, those with an above average aptitude, intelligence, or physical appearance might find it difficult to relate to those who were not equally endowed with those gifts.

The problem with this blindness is that it can easily lead to hubris, that is, unwarranted self-confidence. Indeed, one of the hallmarks of privilege is thinking we know the best course of action for a given situation when we really don’t.

The classic example of this is the story of a famous French princess who, upon hearing that the peasants had no bread, simply replied, “then let them eat cake.” She was so unfamiliar with their circumstances that the solution she dismissively prescribed was positively laughable. Another example of privilege was when the lockdown elite told us to “just stay home,” seemingly oblivious to the fact that staying home is simply unfeasible for many working class people.

Now, progressives are typically pretty good at pointing out places where privilege is leading to blindness and hubris (indeed, they often see privilege even where it doesn’t exist). But there’s one occurance of privilege that always seems to get a pass, and that is the privilege associated with gun control.

Consider, for example, someone who’s from a wealthy, safe neighborhood. They know very little about what it’s like to live in a high-crime area. They have probably never been robbed or threatened with violence from a total stranger. And if they do face threats, they have no qualms with calling the (armed) police who are usually responsive and happy to help.

Now compare that to the experience of someone from a rougher part of town. First, the cops there are probably not as responsive. What’s more, the cops can often become antagonistic, poking their nose where it doesn’t belong (see below) and sometimes arresting the very people they arrived to help.

Unsurprisingly, confidence in police is noticeably lower in these communities.

So what do you do if you live in a high-crime area where you can’t trust the police to help you? For many, the answer is to buy a gun. Indeed, 88 percent of gun owners cite crime protection as one of the main reasons they own a gun, and people who have been recent crime victims report higher rates of gun ownership than those who have not been recent victims.

This brings us to the point about privilege. To many people who grew up in these rough neighborhoods, saying “just call the cops” is like saying “let them eat cake.” It isn’t actually helpful advice. It just demonstrates how little we know about their circumstances and how unqualified we are to speak to their issues.

To be sure, the people in these communities are often divided over the issue of gun control themselves. Even so, if someone is buying a gun, there’s a good chance it’s because they don’t feel safe without it. So before we tell them they are better off disarmed, perhaps we should take stock of how privileged we are to not need guns ourselves.

A Decades-Old Problem

The connection between gun control and privilege may sound new to many, but it’s actually an issue that goes back decades. In 1978, for instance, the economist and libertarian philosopher Murray Rothbard drew attention to this problem in his book For a New Liberty. To make his point, he quotes an article written by Don Kates for the Cato Institute’s Inquiry Magazine. Kates, for his part, pulls no punches.

“Gun prohibition is the brainchild of white middle-class liberals who are oblivious to the situation of poor and minority people living in areas where the police have given up on crime control,” Kates writes. “Such liberals weren’t upset about marijuana laws, either, in the fifties when the busts were confined to the ghettos. Secure in well-policed suburbs or high-security apartments guarded by Pinkertons (whom no one proposes to disarm), the oblivious liberal derides gun ownership as ‘an anachronism from the Old West.’”

Kates goes on to highlight exactly what kind of people are being impacted by gun control policies. Citing a 1975 national survey, he notes that the leading subgroups who owned a gun only for self-defense were blacks, the lowest income groups, and senior citizens. “These are the people,” Kates eloquently warns, “it is proposed we jail because they insist on keeping the only protection available for their families in areas in which the police have given up.”

Four decades later, FBI data showed African Americans were still disproportionately impacted by anti-carry laws, accounting for 42 percent of all possession charges even though they accounted for just 13 percent of the overall population.

Of course, none of this will make gun control any less contentious. There is no silver bullet here. But perhaps this paradigm can at least give us a lesson in humility. Namely, don’t assume you know what’s best for someone if you haven’t walked a mile in their shoes.

COLUMN BY

Patrick Carroll

Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education.

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Florida Will Not Enforce Vaccine Mandate Upheld by SCOTUS for Healthcare Providers

Multiple news organizations are reporting the Florida will not enforce the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services’ vaccine mandate. It appears that reason is now returned to fight back against the bureaucracy when it comes to mandating getting vaxxed, in spite of what the SCOTUS ruled.

Here’s what Governor DeSantis said during his State-of-the-State address on healthcare freedom and the biomedical security state:

We’re sure that this may lead to another lawsuit. Time will tell but we hope that Florida once again is leading the way when it comes to choosing to get jabbed or not to get jabbed. Florida is the my body my choice state.

Florida won’t enforce federal health care worker vaccine mandate

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TALLAHASSEE — The Supreme Court has ruled. The Biden administration’s vaccine mandate on health care workers will go into effect.

Except Florida won’t do its part to enforce it.

The rule requires employees at federally regulated health care facilities like hospitals and long-term care facilities to be vaccinated. It conflicts with a state law passed in November that limited employers’ ability to mandate vaccines.

If health care companies decide not to abide by the Biden administration’s requirement that 100 percent of workers be vaccinated or qualify for an approved exemption, they risk losing Medicare or Medicaid funding. Both federal programs are major funding sources for health care providers.

If those companies enact the federal vaccine mandate without offering employees a series of broad, state-specified exemptions, firms with fewer than 100 employees risk a $10,000 state fine every time they fire a worker for being unvaccinated. For larger companies, the fine would be $50,000 per violation.

Read more.

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Howard Dean: Rightwing Zealot Supreme Court is a ‘Threat’ to America

Thursday on MSNBC’s The Beat, former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said that the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for large private companies is a threat to America because millions will die.

“The disturbing thing about this, of course, is in their right-wing ideological zealotry, they have substituted their judgment for public health judgment, which they’re totally unqualified to do,” Dean claimed about the Supreme Court justices. “They did the same in the abortion case in Mississippi, where they look like they are headed that way, where they substitute their judgment for the judgment of doctors and patients. This is an ideologically-motivated court.”

Democrats have no problem with an ideologically-motivated court, unless it’s the wrong ideology.

He continued, “This situation is going to kill probably more Americans than died certainly in World War II. Maybe even, if we keep going at this pace, kill more Americans than died in the Civil War, which is the war that did more damage to this country than any other. The court is not helpful. They’re not using common sense.”

This is typical fear-mongering from the perpetually-unhinged Dean. Pandemic mandates have done nothing to stem the spread of COVID-19. More patients are dying of it in areas where lockdowns are more draconian and where strict vaccine mandates are in place, than in areas more committed to liberty and choice.

Dean added, “The Mississippi decision, the voting rights decision, the Citizens United where corporations are now people and can put as much money as they want into political stuff and in many cases not be found out, the court is a threat to the United States of America. This is actually a threat to individual lives. There will be a great many of them, in seven figures, as a result of this.”

Translation: the Supreme Court is a mass-murdering threat to America when it doesn’t vote the way radicals like Dean want it to.


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In December 2012, Dean appeared on MSNBC and said the following about Republicans:

“The fact of the matter is you cannot peddle hate of immigrants, gays and lesbians, and women by saying that God’s will was to make women pregnant when they were raped. You can’t — if that’s what you believe, if that’s what conservative principles are, you might as well go someplace else because this country has not bought it anymore. We’re done. The argument is over and these guys are going to have to change their philosophy, not just their ground game …They can win if they change themselves. They have to stop beating up on gays, stop beating up on immigrants, stop beating up on Muslims, and understand what America is really about. And it is really about opportunity. And the young people, who I think voted 65% for Obama, they would vote Republican if it was just on fiscal grounds. But they’re not going to vote Republican when Republicans are preaching hate with the people they grew up and who are their friends. That’s just not going to happen.”

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Sinema Doubles Down On Filibuster Support, Dealing Likely Fatal Blow to Dems’ Steal The Vote Bills

Conservatives – beware. Sinema is no conservative, she’s just not a lunatic.

Senator Manchin also announced on Thursday that he will not support a bill to weaken or end the filibuster. This combined with Biden’s defeat at the SCOTUS over COVID lockdowns, made Thursday the most humiliating day for the Biden Administration since Afghanistan.

Sinema doubles down on filibuster support, dealing likely fatal blow to Dems’ election bills

Sinema is a longtime supporter of the filibuster

By Fox News, January 13, 2022

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said Thursday that she will not vote to weaken the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold, bucking her party leaders yet again and dealing a major blow to Democrats’ election reform effort.

The comments, which match Sinema’s long-held stance on the filibuster, are effectively the final nail in the coffin of Democrats’ longshot effort to pass two elections bills over unified Senate GOP opposition.

“There’s no need for me to restate my longstanding support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation. There’s no need for me to restate its role in protecting our country from wild reversals of federal policy,” Sinema, D-Ariz., said. “This week’s harried discussions about Senate rules are but a poor substitute for what I believe could have and should have been a thoughtful public debate at any time over the past year.”

She added: “But what is the legislative filibuster, other than a tool that requires new federal policy to be broadly supported by senators, representing the broader cross-section of Americans… Demands to eliminate this threshold from whichever party holds the fleeting majority amount to a group of people separated on two sides of a canyon, shouting that solution to their colleagues.”

The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday morning combining both of those original pieces of legislation: The John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. But it won’t get 60 votes in the Senate, which is split 50-50 on party lines.

Any changes to the filibuster would need all 50 Senate Democrats on board. With Sinema taking a hard stance in favor of the filibuster Thursday, it appears Democrats will not be able to get there.

“These bills help treat the symptoms of the disease, but they do not fully address the disease itself. And while I continue to support these bills, I will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division affecting our country,” Sinema also said Thursday.

“Some have given up on the goal of erasing our divisions and uniting Americans. I have not,” she added. “I’ve worked hard to demonstrate in my public service, the value of working with unlikely allies to get results.”

RELATED ARTICLE: Biden All but Concedes Defeat on Voting, Election Bills Biden acknowledges election overhaul bills may fail in the Senate

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Jeffrey Epstein Brought EIGHT Young Girls With Him To See Bill Clinton At The White House

And Hillary covered for that pig terrorizes his victims. That’s the Democrat choice to replace te demented child-perv segregationist in the White House.

Photo: The disgraced financier was first admitted as a guest in February 25, 1993 – just a month after Clinton’s inauguration. He stopped by again months later on September 29, 1993 with Maxwell (pictured) for a reception organized by the White House Historical Association after he donated $10,000.

CLICK HERE for an Infographic on Epstein’s 17 visits to the Clinton White House.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein brought EIGHT young women with him on his trips to see Bill Clinton at the White House: Displayed photos of himself posing at the Briefing Room podium at his Palm Beach mansion

Visitor logs obtained by DailyMail.com reveal Jeffrey Epstein was not always alone when he visited the Clinton White House between 1993 and 1995

Records show he brought along eight women, including his girlfriends Celina Midelfart, Eva Andersson, Francis Jardine, and Ghislaine Maxwell

His relationship with the four other women who accompanied him – Jennifer Garrison; Shelley Gafni; Jennifer Driver; Lyoubov Orlova – is unclear

Flight logs from Epstein’s private planes tally with White House visitor records showing the eight women were with him during his visits

Maxwell’s high-profile trial in New York heard sensational claims that Epstein was seeing Midelfart, now 48, – a Norwegian heiress – in the mid 1990s

Andersson, 61, a physician and former Miss Sweden, was also a witness in the sex trafficking trial where she confirmed she dated Epstein in the 80s and 90s

The nature of Epstein’s accompanied visits is not disclosed in White House visitor logs, but one of them coincided with a swanky dinner in the Blue Room

Never-before-seen photos also reveal the disgraced financier kept pictures of himself at the White House Briefing Room podium at his Palm Beach mansion

Jeffrey Epstein paid more than a dozen visits to the Clinton White House throughout the former president’s first few years in office – even bringing along with him multiple women, including four known to be his girlfriends, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Unearthed visitor logs last month confirmed the late pedophile had visited the Executive Mansion at least 17 times during Bill Clinton’s first term, beginning shortly after his inauguration in 1993.

Additional records exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com now reveal that Epstein was not always alone during his trips to the White House, where he was joined by eight different women between 1993 and 1995.

Never-before-seen footage also shows the disgraced financier – who on three occasions visited the president’s house twice in one day – kept framed pictures of himself at the podium of the White House Briefing Room at his Palm Beach mansion.

The nature of Epstein’s accompanied visits is not disclosed in the visitor logs, however, they show one of them coincided with a dinner in the Blue Room attended by dozens of well-heeled guests.

Records show the late pedophile brought along eight different women, including four of his girlfriends, Celina Midelfart (pictured with Epstein in 1997) Eva Andersson-Dubin (right) Francis Jardine, and Ghislaine Maxwell

Many of the women Epstein took on his trips to Washington were known to have had romantic relationships with him.

They include Celina Midelfart, then 21, Eva Andersson-Dubin, then 33, Francis Jardine, who was believed to be in her 20s, and his one-time girlfriend turned madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was 32.

The four other women who also appear in the logs are Jennifer Garrison, Shelley Gafni, Jennifer Driver, and Lyoubov Orlova.

DailyMail.com was unable to reach the four women and confirm the purpose of their visits, however, flight logs from Epstein’s private jet tally with White House visitor records showing they were with him at the time.

Maxwell, now 60, was found guilty last month of recruiting and trafficking underage girls for the disgraced financier between 1994 and 1997, and is currently awaiting sentencing behind bars.

Her high-profile trial in New York heard sensational claims that Epstein was seeing Midelfart – a Norwegian heiress who also once dated Donald Trump – in the mid 1990s around the same time he was dating Maxwell and other women.

Andersson, a physician who won Miss Sweden in 1980, was also a witness in the sex trafficking trial where she confirmed she dated Epstein for 11 years.

The fourth woman, Francis Jardine, a former model, was also said to have had a relationship with Epstein, and was mentioned numerous times in the flight logs that were released as evidence in court.

Footage obtained by DailyMail.com also reveals Epstein had photos of his visits to the White House displayed at his Palm Beach home. They could be seen in video taken by police officers when they raided the house in 2005

Hung in the hallway of his mansion, the picture shows Epstein standing with an unidentified brunette woman at the podium of the White House Briefing Room

Another photo from the same podium, apparently taken on a different date, shows him standing with a blonde woman (lower left)

Below the wall of picture frames, a green fold out massage table can be seen which appears to be the same one Epstein’s victims claimed he used to sexually abuse them

According to visitor logs, Midelfart, now 48, entered the White House with Epstein twice on July 28, 1994, at 2pm and 6:30pm.

Flight records from Epstein’s private plane one day earlier showed he and a woman named ‘Salina’ had flown from Palm Beach to Teterboro, a private airport just outside New York.

The following day, the day of the White House visit, Epstein and ‘Salina’ flew from Teterboro to Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.

The plane repositioned to nearby Washington Dulles Airport and picked up Epstein, ‘Salina’ and ‘1 Female’ who was flown back to Teterboro.

On the day of Epstein’s visit, the White House had hosted a dinner in the Blue Room attended by the president and first lady Hillary Clinton, records show.

According to the president’s daily schedule, Clinton gave a lecture and a toast after which there was entertainment, most likely from a live band.

A lawyer representing Midelfart denied that she ever dated Epstein. However, three witnesses at the Maxwell trial contradicted those claims.

Kyrre Eggen said: ‘My client’s business relation with Epstein was in the period 1994 to 1997 when my client studied at London School of Economics and Stern School of Business respectfully, and ended upon her return to Oslo upon completing her degree.

DailyMail.com previously revealed Epstein had visited the White House on 14 separate days and stopped by twice in one day on three occasions during Bill Clinton’s first term +19
DailyMail.com previously revealed Epstein had visited the White House on 14 separate days and stopped by twice in one day on three occasions during Bill Clinton’s first term

The disgraced financier was first admitted as a guest in February 25, 1993 – just a month after Clinton’s inauguration. He stopped by again months later on September 29, 1993 with Maxwell (pictured) for a reception organized by the White House Historical Association after he donated $10,000 +19
The disgraced financier was first admitted as a guest in February 25, 1993 – just a month after Clinton’s inauguration. He stopped by again months later on September 29, 1993 with Maxwell (pictured) for a reception organized by the White House Historical Association after he donated $10,000

‘That business relation ended 25 years ago, and could thus impossibly have any relevance whatsoever to the very serious charges against Maxwell and Epstein, charges that my client had no knowledge about 25 years ago, a time where Epstein furthermore was regarded as a skilled and highly regarded businessman with good reputation and extremely good connections’.

Epstein would visit the White House again months later on September 26, 1994, this time with Andersson and Jardine, entering at 6:30pm, records show.

Clinton was out of town at the United Nations General Assembly, according to the president’s schedule.

Flight logs from Epstein’s planes showed Epstein, Andersson and Jardine had traveled from Palm Beach to Reagan Washington Airport that day and flew into Teterboro later on.

During her testimony at Maxwell’s trial last month, Andersson, now 61, said she dated Epstein between 1983 and around 1991.

In July 1994, two months before her White House visit, she married hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin with whom she went on to have three children.

Andersson still remained close friends with Epstein through the years, even after his 2008 plea deal for having sex with underage girls.

The couple’s youngest child, also named Celina, became Epstein’s goddaughter and referred to him as ‘Uncle Jeff’, according to reports.

Celina Midelfart, Norwegian heiress and former girlfriend of Epstein, is seen alongside him at a reception at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, March 19, 1995

A spokeswoman for Andersson declined to comment when contacted by DailyMail.com.

During her testimony Andersson also appeared to refer to Jardine, saying she remembered a woman named ‘Francis’ dating Epstein, but was not sure of her second name.

In a statement, Jardine, who lives in South Africa and now goes by Francis Jardine-Deuess, said that she first met Epstein in New York in 1994 through her work as a model.

‘He tried to expose me to a larger world, open my mind and stimulate my belief in myself that I could be many things as I was sorely lacking in true confidence when I first met him,’ she said.

‘I asked Jeffrey for help, he was many things to me over a period of years, trying to address the various areas that were holding me back as a human being, helping me find my way into a future that would suit my level of sensitivity and my proclivity to jump into relationships too quickly.

‘He wanted me to develop skills and shared the importance of making the right choices. People around me misinterpreted my relationship with him because he was definitely more way out than the average man’s idea of what a woman could be or should be to a man’.

Jardine said that she would ‘always be grateful to have known him (Epstein) no matter how people have slated him’.

She said: ‘I loved him and grieve for the way his life has turned out. I would have wished I could have expressed myself in a way that might have saved his life’.

RELATED ARTICLE: Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton – Both Deviants!

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Releases Video Depicting Assassination of Trump

My latest in PJ Media:

It’s readily available on Twitter, of course: the website of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has released a video showing the assassination of Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the golf course at Mar-a-Lago. This comes as Iran has been issuing a barrage of threats against Trump for the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in Jan. 2020. As Biden’s handlers persevere in their attempts to appease Iran at the nuke talks in Vienna, the Islamic Republic grows more emboldened, audacious, and aggressive by the day.

The establishment media has been dragging its feet about covering the threats from Iran. After all, it isn’t as if Khamenei threatened Old Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi. Threats to Trump? Big deal. So it was perhaps understandable that a reporter was slow on the uptake regarding the blizzard of threats the Iranians have issued against Trump and others.

A reporter asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Monday if there had been any threats at all: “Jake Sullivan had a statement over the weekend with regards to Iran and sanctions and he alluded to the threats against American officials. Should we interpret from that that the U.S.’s intelligence — that there have been threats, in particular against Trump officials who were involved in the Soleimani strike?”

Psaki answered tepidly, without naming the dreaded Trump: “Well, I’m not going to get into intelligence here, from the podium.  But we’ve certainly seen concerning public rhetoric from Iranian officials about individuals from previous administrations, even before sanctions from this weekend, and that’s unacceptable.” Previous administrations? The Iranians are actually threatening to murder people from only one administration, the one that didn’t bend over backward to appease the bloodthirsty regime in Tehran.

Psaki did go on to suggest that Biden’s handlers would be working to protect those who were threatened, even their nemesis Trump: “As the National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, said in his statement over the weekend that you just referenced: ‘As Americans, we have our disagreements on politics…on Iran policy,’ and other issues, of course. ‘But we are united in our resolve against threats and provocations.  We’re united in the defense of our people.’ And we’re going to protect and defend our own people. But I’m not going to get into more specifics.”

Nor did Psaki bother to explain that the Iranians are only bold enough to issue all these threats because the Biden administration has been so supine and appeasement-minded. The Iranians even saw this coming: it is enlightening to remember what former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Nov. 5, 2020: “the next U.S. administration will surrender to the Iranian nation.” This wasn’t just tough talk. In light of Biden’s handlers’ apparent willingness to give the mullahs all they want and more, it was a sober assessment of the geopolitical situation.

There is more. Read the rest here.

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FLORIDA: Teen converts to Islam, murders 13-year-old boy for ‘disrespecting his Muslim faith’

The murder of Jovanni Sierra Brand should have been the occasion for a national discussion about the phenomenon of converts to Islam becoming violent, which keeps happening, and what should be done about it. Instead, the whole thing was swept under the rug, as always.

Note the ever-witless Daily Mail’s headline: “White ISIS enthusiast…” The Mail always tries to make jihad a racial issue. It is not in this case, nor in many others where the media coverage plays up a race angle.

White ISIS enthusiast and Muslim convert, 21, is sentenced to life in prison for murdering boy, 13, and knifing two others at a birthday sleepover in 2018 after the victims ‘disrespected his faith

by Andrea Blanko, DailyMail.com, January 13, 2022 (thanks to Henry):

A white ISIS enthusiast and Muslim convert who killed a 13-year-old boy during his birthday sleepover party and injured two other people in Florida in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison.

Corey Johnson, 21, was found guilty of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in November 2020.

Johnson was 17 years old when he killed Jovanni Sierra Brand and knifed Elaine Simon, 43, and her 13-year-old son, Dane Bancroft, at Jovanni’s birthday sleepover, claiming that the victims had ‘idolized celebrities and disrespected his Muslim faith.’

Johnson, who considered Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Kim Jong Un as his role models, was known for making disparaging remarks about Jews and homosexuals, expressing support for the KKK and was described by others as a white supremacist.

His defense tried to argue the violent attack had been sparked by Johnson’s traumatic childhood and mental health issues, local news station WPBF reported.

Palm Beach County Judge Cheryl Caracuzzo sentenced Johnson to life in prison and said on Thursday she did not believe rehabilitation was likely for Johnson after he remained emotionless during the heartfelt testimony of Jovanni’s mother.

The gruesome attack happened in March 2018, at the BallenIsles Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens, where Simon and Dane, one of Jovanni’s friends, lived.

Johnson was at the sleepover because he was a friend of Dane’s older brother, Kyle Bancroft. Before the tragedy, the boys had been to dinner to celebrate Jovanni’s thirteenth birthday and had decided to spend the night at Simon’s.

Johnson told police he read the Quran on his phone to give him ‘courage’ to carry out the bloody stabbing spree during the sleepover.

During his statement in court Thursday, Johnson said he wanted to apologize to the victims for his radical and violent attack, adding that he couldn’t begin to imagine the pain he had caused.

‘I wish I could take it back, I wish I could do something to make this right,’ Johnson said. ‘I’d like to apologize not because it will change anything, but because I’m really truly sorry.’

His defense had attempted to argue insanity, citing that both his parents had also dealt with depression and that, as a child, he had witnessed the verbal and physical abuse his father perpetrated on his mother….

Johnson also said he regretted following the Islamic extremist group ISIS, and that he hoped to help people to compensate for the crimes he had committed.

At the time of his arrest for the killing of Jovanni in 2018, Johnson already had federal charges pending against him for threatening a Catholic school in England.

In January 2017, local law enforcement agencies and FBI agents met with staff at William T Dwyer High School, where Johnson was a student at the time to discuss information suggesting that the teen had reached out to ISIS online saying that he wished to join the murderous terrorist group.

A sheriff’s detective interviewed the 17-year-old to assess his mental state and concluded that Johnson was a terrorist sympathizer, according to the report.

The FBI later informed the Jupiter Police Department that an unspecified European counter-intelligence agency was investigating Johnson in connection to threats that were made in Instagram threats that were made in October 2016 against McAuley Catholic High School in Doncaster, England.

Authorities said the threats were so serious that up to 100 students withdrew from the school for fear of an attack.

One of the threatening posts read: ‘We have our sights set on you, and by Allah we will kill every infidel student at this school inshallah) #McAuleySchoolMassacre.’ The threatening message came from an account named 81daesh48. Daesh is an alternative name for ISIS….

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Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton – Both Deviants!

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The evidence that Prince Andrew is deeply embroiled in a pedophilic ring along with the disgraced and gladly now dead kingpin Jeffrey Epstein and his as guilty mistress Ghislaine Maxwell, is clear.

No Royal connections will or should prevent this greatly privileged pervert from receiving his just deserts. He needs to be fully investigated with no holds barred and as evidence is found, criminal charges should be filed. Here and also in any other country he committed those crimes. Prison time must be the result. No stone must be left unturned.

The Queen has made a decision yesterday that sets the stage. She did the right thing – albeit a little slow but rather late than never.

She stripped him of all his military and royal titles but unfortunately cleared him still to undertake any public commitments. I hope that any citizens that were planning on attending those functions either stay away as a protest or actually protest them with signage and/or block out his words and speeches by shouting out and requesting justice for the young women he took advantage of and destroyed their lives.

Two days ago a US Judge refused his request to dismiss a lawsuit against this Pervy Prince by an American woman who claims she was sexually abused at the age of 17. Pictures and evidence abounds including photographs of this sicko with his arms around this young girl.

Not to be outdone by the British pervert we have our own former President Bill Clinton, another known philandering piece of human excrement, who was known to fly in the Lolita Express, Jeffrey Epsteins flying brothel which was stocked with young girls as well as food and drink!!

There appears to be ample evidence that this lowlife who disgraced the highest office in the land, lied and cheated, flew to Epsteins private island several times, with and without security, where partying with underaged girls, many sourced by Ghislaine Maxwell, and illegal activities were partaken in by these rich and powerful men. There are flight manifests that will prove this. Why in Gods name is it not being investigated? You know if it were Trump or DeSantis involved, all hell would have broken out.

It seems like the last three Democrat presidents were, let’s say, sexually confused. We had Clinton who was a serial womanizer with a penchant for young girls, Hussein Obama was seriously testosterone challenged and the stories of his gay exploits abound, then you have old demented Sniffer Joe who seems to have a hair sniffing fetish!! Hmmm …. More proof that liberalism is a mental disease?

Perverts are perverts. Pedophiles are pedophiles. Both are wrong but the latter probably the worse of the worse. If I had my way they would all be strung up but unfortunately we live in a kinder gentler world. One where the insane extremists, and some not so extreme left, are trying so hard to convince our kids and youth that known perversions are just life choices and perfectly acceptable. The whole LGBTQI ( any other letters I missed? ) is a shining example of this. Wokism.

It is time not only to retake America and return it to its rightful position as the shining light on the hill by which all countries could follow our examples of work and moral codes, of freedoms and liberties, of strength and justice. All aspects our Founding Fathers gave us from the very founding of this once great nation.

It’s time to bring down the rich and powerful world criminals and their evil organizations who feel they can get away with anything and everything because of their wealth, power, position and friends. It is time to fill our SuperMax prisons and if needed build more and fill them with traitors and criminals and perverts who have been working to destroy our beloved Constitutional Republic. Order more of the execution drugs!

You know who they are. The enemy within is our greatest threat and our elected officials fill many of those categories. The Oath Breakers. Destroy them.

©Fred Brownbill. All rights reserved.

RELATED ARTICLE: Prince Andrew loses military titles and use of His Royal Highness

PODCAST: No One’s Pushing This Sheriff Around

Sheriff Jody Greene is unapologetic and Walking Tall.

A North Carolina sheriff is refusing to be bullied into removing a Bible verse from his Columbus County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina.

Sheriff Jody Greene sat with Christian Action Network’s Shout Out Patriots podcast to talk about a thuggish atheist group and other challenges of police work in 2022.

The challenges aren’t just the epidemic of drug use, overdoses, domestic strife and crime poisoning every state in the nation. There are also people like the Freedom From Religion Foundation of Madison, Wis. who are standing ready to attack people of faith for the things they lean on for strength.

Here’s the verse Sheriff Jody Greene had inscribed in big, black letters on the wall of his department – which is not coming down:

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. (Philippians 4:13)

The picture went viral enough for someone to see it, and see a way to attack the first Republican ever to elected sheriff in a “theoretically Democratic county,” as Greene put it.

“It’s a political attack,” he said in the Shout Out Patriots episode.

Greene, who is a former North Carolina state trooper, said the United States faces much, much larger problems in 2022 than words on a sheriff’s office wall: Society is emasculating men!

“It’s already happening. They’re breeding manhood out of our society. A child gets in a fight at school now. What happens to them? They’re expelled, they’re charged or whatever. They don’t learn how to be men, so the first thing you want to do is grab a gun.”

“So if they’re held to that standard, and all they want to do is play video games, how are they going to be productive?”

Listen to and watch the entire discussion on the Jan. 4 edition of Shout Out Patriots.

Obama Calls for End of Filibuster to Pass Voting Rights Bill

In an op-ed published in USA Today on Thursday, former President Barack Obama urged Democrat Senators to make changes to the filibuster rule so that the upper chamber can pass stalled voting rights legislation.

The legislation, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act, passed the House last summer but has failed to pass in the Senate, where Democrats have a slim one-vote majority.

“In recent years, the filibuster became a routine way for the Senate minority to to block important progress on issues supported by the majority of voters,” the radical ex-President wrote. “But we can’t allow it to be used to block efforts to protect our democracy.”

Obama complained in his op-ed that lawmakers in 49 states have introduced more than 400 bills “designed to suppress votes.”

“These partisan attempts at voter nullification are unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times, and they represent a profound threat to the basic democratic principle that all votes should be counted fairly and objectively,” he wrote. “The good news is that the majority of American voters are resistant to this slow unraveling of basic democratic institutions and electoral mechanisms. But their elected representatives have a sacred obligation to push back as well – and now is the time to do it.”

As we’ve noted innumerable times here at Discover the Networks, the voter integrity legislation not only does not suppress votes, it expands voting rights. The only thing these laws are designed to suppress is voter fraud, and that’s why Democrats like Obama have been working so hard to demonize the legislation and their lawmakers as racist — because the Democrat Party knows it cannot win presidential elections anymore without widespread voter fraud.


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Obama on America’s “Fever of Racism”

In a November 2020 interviewNational Public Radio host Michel Martin asked Obama to speak about the “fever of racism” that allegedly plagued the United States. “That fever, as you said, that’s been a defining feature of a lot of our life,” Obama replied, adding that many American racists had resented his presidency simply because he was the first black man to hold that office:

“I think that what did happen during my presidency was yes, a backlash among some people who felt that somehow, I symbolized the possibility that they or their group were losing status not because of anything I did, but just by virtue of the fact that I didn’t look like all the other presidents previously…. It would surprise me if you didn’t have a big cross-section of the country that was still carrying around a bunch of baggage and still a little disturbed by the advances that African Americans had made. It would surprise me if changing demographics and the growing Latino population didn’t scare a certain segment of this population, just because I know enough about American history to know that that’s always been a fault line in American history.”

In the same interview, Obama lauded the nationwide protests and riots sparked by the May 25, 2020 incident in which George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, had died shortly after a physical encounter with a white police officer in Minneapolis. Lamenting America’s intransigent “systemic injustices” in “inequities,” Obama said: “I think what happened this summer with George Floyd was so important, where you saw at least some shift in the general population in recognizing that there’s real racial bias in how our criminal laws are applied and how policing operates in this country.”

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