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“Democrat Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont is withdrawing his plan to mandate future electric vehicle (EV) purchases after the proposal received bipartisan pushback from lawmakers on a key legislative panel.”
Analyst Comment: We’re seeing many examples of this reversal globally. The green agenda is falling apart.
“A major Second Amendment decision has been handed down in Maryland Shall Issue et al. v. Moore by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In a victory for the right to bear arms, Maryland’s onerous Handgun Qualification License law was declared unconstitutional in a 2-1 decision”
A federal judge orders Kansas state troopers to stop violating the constitution by illegally extending traffic stops. Since the 2015 Rodriguez case, the Supreme Court placed restrictions on how long a police stop can be. Rather than comply with the ruling, Kansas highway patrol sought to circumvent it: Officers would end a stop by starting to walk away from a car, then turn around and re-engage. They claimed this was a second stop and therefore not subject to the detention length restrictions.
Analyst Comment: This is another example of systemic abuse by police. The police have a “few bad apples” claims by some do not accurately describe police abuses like this. Here, every level of the Kansas highway patrol – from top leaders down to patrol officers – conspired to violate the constitution rather than respect citizen’s rights.
“Seven South Carolina prison employees were indicted amid a handful of investigations to weed out those who allegedly smuggled contraband into state prisons, had sexual affairs with inmates or participated in other illegal activity, the state’s attorney general announced last week. “
“A former Obama-era National Security Council official was arrested Wednesday after a series of videos shared widely on social media showed him using hate-laden, Islamophobic language against an employee working inside a New York City food cart, police said.
Stuart Seldowitz, 64, pleaded not guilty Thursday to two counts of fourth-degree hate crime/stalking and one count of second-degree aggravated harassment, court records show.”
Analyst Comment: Seldowitz was arrested purely for speech.
The right-wing Populist Freedom Party won big in Dutch elections, setting up Geert Wilders – the Dutch Trump – to become the next Prime Minister, assuming his party secures enough votes from parliament.
“Judge Chris Cooper convicted Jeremy Groseclose of nonviolent offenses for J6. At the behest of DOJ, Cooper then warned Groseclose, who has 2 special needs children, not to spend money his common law wife raised to help their family…”
“…a Circuit Court judge in Oregon ruled Tuesday that Measure 114—a gun control measure that was barely passed by voters in 2022—is unconstitutional under the Oregon State Constitution and is therefore permanently enjoined… Measure 114 requires a permit to purchase a firearm, which Raschio rejected as a public safety policy.”
“The wife of an Iowa county supervisor was convicted of 52 counts of voter fraud Tuesday in a ballot-stuffing scheme to help her husband secure the Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020.
Kim Phuong Taylor, 49, was found guilty by a federal jury in Sioux City of 26 counts of providing false information in registering and voting, three counts of fraudulent registration and 23 counts of fraudulent voting in the race which her husband, Jeremy Taylor, ultimately lost. He was running a congressional campaign for Iowa’s 4th Congressional District and finished a distant third.”
“A rule that allows the [New York] state Health Department to lawfully order someone to involuntarily isolate or quarantine to control a highly contagious disease, such as COVID-19, has been reinstated in a unanimous decision by a mid-level appellate court.”
Lawsuit Extravaganza!
- Trump’s Truth Social has filed lawsuits against 20 news outlets for “deliberate, malicious, and coordinated attack” against the platform. The suit seeks $1.5 billion.
- “On Sunday, Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his team is investigating left-leaning news organization Media Matters over allegations of criminal and civil violations.”
- “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has initiated an investigation into Media Matters, a media and online speech watchdog organization, for allegedly engaging in ‘fraudulent activity.’”
- X / Twitter’s lawsuit against the CCDH (Center for Countering Digital Hate) is ongoing.
- “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Pfizer and Tris Pharma ‘for defrauding the Texas Medicaid program by providing adulterated pharmaceutical drugs to Texas children.”
Argentina elected its first Libertarian President, Javier Milei. Milei is “against abortion, pro-gun, vowed to cut ties with China, insulted Pope Francis and says humans are not behind climate change.”
The Department of Transportation is requiring states to highlight how road projects would improve equity and fight climate change in applications for funding.
“More than 40,000 hours of Jan. 6 Capitol Police security video will be made public on a dedicated website starting immediately and ramping up in the coming months, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) announced on Nov. 17.”
Virginia who was messaging with an undercover agent about having sex with a nine-year-old boy, opting instead to focus on prosecuting Donald Trump’s supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Less than three years later, the FBI discovered the same man living in Alaska where he appears to have been performing sex acts on a 10-year-old boy, according to court documents.”
Chinese Biolab in California Update From CA Congressman Kevin Kiley: “Following the discovery of a secret, illegal Chinese bio lab in California, I requested an investigation by the House. Yesterday, the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party released its highly disturbing report.
The lab was run by an international fugitive from China named Jiabei ‘Jesse’ Zhu. After running various state-connected companies in China, he moved to Canada, where he set up dozens of corporations to ‘steal valuable American intellectual property and unlawfully transfer’ it to China.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia found he committed ‘fraud on an epic scale,’ resulting in a $330 million judgment. He then fled to America, assumed the alias David He, and set up several more companies, including the one behind the bio lab.
The lab was discovered nearly a year ago, when a code inspector came upon a suspicious warehouse in Reedley, CA. Inside, she found many Chinese nationals ‘wearing white lab coats, glasses, masks, and latex gloves,’ along with ‘thousands of vials of biological substances’ and 1,000 mice.
It was later learned these were ‘transgenic’ mice ‘genetically engineered to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.’ A further inspection found ‘blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums’ along with thousands of vials of ‘suspected biological material.’ Some of the vials were labeled with the names of infectious agents, while others were labeled in a ‘code’ that was never deciphered.
At first, the CDC refused to investigate, and even hung-up on local officials who asked for help. After the local Congressman got involved, the CDC did an inspection and found ‘at least 20 potentially infectious agents, including HIV, Tuberculosis, and the deadliest known form of Malaria.’
Yet the CDC did not bother to test any samples, even those with unknown contents, making it ‘impossible for the Select Committee to fully assess the potential risks that this specific facility posed to the community.’ The Select Committee report calls this ‘baffling.’ Later, local officials discovered a refrigerator in the lab labeled ‘Ebola.’
While the supposed purpose of the lab was to sell test kits, in fact all the company did was buy counterfeit kits from China and re-sell them in the United States. Thus, there was a ‘lack of apparent legitimate (or even profit-motivated criminal) motive in the operation of the illegal facility.’
This raises the question as to the true purpose of the lab – especially given that Jesse Zhuhe, its criminal operator, was ‘receiving unexplained payments via wire transfer’ from Chinese banks. The report further notes that ‘no one knows whether there are other unknown biolabs because there is no monitoring system in place.'”
“Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) announced on Nov. 16 that he wouldn’t run for reelection, less than an hour after the House Ethics Committee released its report finding that there was ‘substantial evidence’ that Mr. Santos had violated federal law…
He has been accused of a number of crimes, including charges of multiple frauds and conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, as well as making materially false statements to the Federal Election Commission.”
Trump Trial News:
- “A New York judge has lifted the gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump in his civil fraud trial stemming from state Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against him and the Trump Organization. Citing concerns over free speech, appeals court Judge David Friedman issued a stay on the order Thursday, which was put in place by Judge Arthur Engoran in October.”
- “Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday filed a motion for a mistrial in the $250 million New York civil fraud case, claiming that Judge Arthur Engoron and his principal law clerk demonstrated bias.”
- “Special counsel Jack Smith’s request to set a new deadline for former President Donald Trump’s lawyers to alert the government of classified information they want to present during an upcoming trial has been turned down by a federal judge… the move means the trial, currently scheduled for May 2024, will happen at a later date.”
“U.S. taxpayers have provided $2.5 billion in humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan to international nonprofit organizations since the United States’ abrupt August 2021 withdrawal… No one knows how that money is being spent except, likely, the leaders of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban.”
“Nebraska lawmakers have created a state Health Information Technology (HIT) Board to collect health information on all Nebraskans in a centralized data and surveillance system that, according to lawmakers, will be used by doctors to improve patient care.
But critics warn the system marks a step toward the oppressive control of digital ID and digital currency that could sweep the U.S.
The Nebraska Legislature in 2020 voted unanimously to create the Nebraska HIT Board, composed of 17 members appointed by the governor and confirmed by a majority vote of the legislature…
The state law that created the HIT Board designates CyncHealth, a regional health data utility (HDU) that manages the data of more than 5 million patients in more than 1,100 healthcare facilities across the Midwest, to centralize and administer the information on Nebraska’s health exchange.
CyncHealth says its mission is to create a comprehensive health record for every patient that is instantly accessible to patients, their doctors, nurse practitioners, radiologists and other health professionals.
The patient health records include patient histories, physicals, discharge summaries, immunization records, radiology, lab and pathology results and ordering, medication history, allergies and advance directives.”
“Ukrainian police and prosecutors have accused two politicians and a former prosecutor of treason, saying they colluded with a Russian intelligence agency in aiding an effort by Rudolph W. Giuliani several years ago to tie the Biden family to corruption in Ukraine.
Those accused include Kostyantyn Kulyk, a former Ukrainian deputy prosecutor general who had drafted a memo in 2019 suggesting Ukraine investigate Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, for his role serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
Also implicated were a current member of Ukraine’s Parliament, Oleksandr Dubinsky, and a former member, Andriy Derkach, who had publicly advocated for an investigation in Ukraine into Hunter Biden…
The three were indicted on charges of treason and belonging to a criminal organization.”
Turkey and Iran are exploring closer diplomatic relations amid the Israeli-Hamas conflict.
“In response to escalating incidents of harassment, particularly against Jewish and Muslim communities, New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul is today intensifying the state’s counterterrorism measures and is boosting the controversial practice of surveilling social media platforms, and therefore the speech of New Yorkers and other American citizens.
‘…we’re very focused on the data we’re collecting from surveillance efforts, what’s being said on social media platforms, and we have launched an effort to be able to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people,’ Hochul said.”
“Four hundred government officials from 40 departments and agencies within President Biden’s administration signed a letter opposing the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war and demanded a cease-fire…
‘We call on President Biden to urgently demand a cease-fire; and to call for de-escalation of the current conflict by securing the immediate release of the Israeli hostages and arbitrarily detained Palestinians; the restoration of water, fuel, electricity and other basic services; and the passage of adequate humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip,'”
Trump will remain on the Republican primary ballot for Michigan after legal challenge dismissed.
The British Medical Journal alleges that after interviewing a dozen health officials, they’ve determined that: “FDA and CDC essentially maintain two separate VAERS databases: a public facing database, containing only initial reports; and a private, back end system containing all updates and corrections—such as a formal diagnosis, recovery, or death.”
Further, the CDC often does not investigate catastrophic reactions to the Covid vaccine as required by law.
“An attorney for New York City Mayor Eric Adams confirmed on Friday that the FBI seized the mayor’s phones and an iPad as part of an investigation into his campaign financing…
Last week, the FBI raided the home of Brianna Suggs, one of the mayor’s chief political consultants, after which the mayor also issued a statement that he was innocent of any wrongdoing.”
“An 8-month-old infant in the United Kingdom has been given more time to live after an appeal suspended a judge’s mandate that she be removed from life support…
Indi Gregory was born in February of this year and suffers from a degenerative mitochondrial disease that will very likely take her life.
In a bid to escape the mandate to remove life support, the Gregorys made emergency arrangements with leadership at the Vatican for her to continue treatment at Bambino Gesù, a Catholic pediatric hospital in Rome.
The parents also secured Italian citizenship for Indi directly from the Italian prime minister. “
Analyst Comment: The UK hospital admins and Judges have been removing people from life support, despite securing alternative treatment in other countries including the US. Not only do they sentence these people and kids to death, they refuse to let the family pursue treatment outside of the NIH system.
“The EU should look at barring ‘extremist’ Israelis who call for violence against Palestinians from visiting Europe, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Thursday.
The liberal premier pointed to Israeli violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and said the lack of action against such ‘violent extremists’ was ‘unacceptable.'”
“New York police have arrested a man who they say opened fire on a subway platform Tuesday night that scared off a would-be mugger who himself is facing attempted robbery charges.
No one was hurt in the altercation, which erupted after a 49-year-old homeless man allegedly tried to mug an unidentified 40-year-old woman near the exit.”