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‘FBI violated American citizens’ 4A rights 278,000 times’: Bureau blasted over attempt to put gloss on Section 702
The FBI is attempting to rehabilitate the public image of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as Congress has until April 19 to reauthorize it. The bureau recently posted a video to X that features FBI Director Christopher Wray attempting to put a gloss on Section 702 as part of this monthslong campaign.
The bureau’s timely propaganda did not escape the attention of critics on X, where the post received a community note that read, “The FBI violated American citizens’ 4A rights 278,000 times with illegal, unauthorized FISA 702 searches.”
Among the critics was Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who wrote, “FBI just got called out in a community note on X. Congress — take note. FISA 702 has been used for warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of times. Yet FBI demands 702 be reauthorized by April 19 WITHOUT a warrant requirement for searches of U.S. citizens.”
Colorado Democrats Pushing 11% Excise Firearms Tax, Other California Gun Controls
There is a public hearing on the excise tax proposal today, and Colorado Springs firearms instructor Ana Flanell is urging the public to rally against the tax.
On Easter Sunday she posted to X: “Join me at the Capitol tomorrow to testify against this “sin” tax. Self-defense is our right and we should not be taxed an outrageous 11% to exercise our Second Amendment rights. I’ve included a screenshot below of what to select when signing up. Let’s fight this Colorado!!!”
In addition to the excise tax, Breitbart News pointed out Colorado Democrats are pushing an “assault weapons” ban that targets 9mm pistols with threaded barrels.
Car Rams Into FBI Office Gate: What We Know About Atlanta Crash
Video from the scene shows a red SUV crumpled into the barrier with tactical vehicles surrounding the vehicle. FBI Atlanta confirmed that the suspect left the vehicle on foot and attempted to enter the facility once the vehicle stopped.
The driver’s name has not been released. Multiple news outlets are reporting that the suspect was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital for evaluation. Video posted just before 4 p.m. by Atlanta’s Fox 5 showed the SUV being towed away by officials.
In a televised press conference just before 4 p.m., Peter Ellis, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, confirmed that the driver attempted to follow an employee into the facility before crashing into the closing barricade.
NEW INTERVIEW: Journalist Steve Baker REFUSES Plea Deal for J6 Charges
According to the mainstream media narrative, January 6 was day this country has ever seen, even greater than 9/11. However, Blaze Media’s Steve Baker was on site and says otherwise.
Facing multiple charges, Baker sits down with Whitlock for a special interview discussing what actually happened on that fateful day and what the ramifications are for Baker and other conservative journalists who speak the truth.
33 shot, 7 fatally, in Easter weekend gun violence across city, Chicago police say
It has been a violent weekend in Chicago as at least 33 people have been shot, seven fatally, in gun violence across the city, police said.
Twenty-one of the shootings happened between 8 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday.
Chicago Police responded to several shootings this weekend, with an large amount of shootings happening on the South and West Sides of the city.
On Friday, a 29-year-old man shot and killed while standing in a parking lot at the 800-block of 87th Street, Chicago police said.
Police say the shots came from a silver sedan in the Gresham neighborhood. CPD’s Area Two detectives are investigating.
LA County Deputy Shoots Man Armed With Precision Pick/Hook at a Gas Station
Video Showing Planned Parenthood Selling Baby Body Parts for $250K Censored by Federal Judge
The federal judge censoring this footage of a National Abortion Federation abortion center projecting $250,000/year from selling fetal body parts actually opened, ran, and funded a Planned Parenthood abortion referral clinic before taking office.
No wonder he continues to censor the footage and order millions of dollars of fines on behalf of Planned Parenthood
Erdogan concedes local elections setback, calling results ‘turning point’ for his party
“March 31 is not an end for us, but a turning point. The Turkish nation has conveyed its messages to politicians by using the ballot box in this March 31 municipal elections,” he told his supporters after partial results indicated major gains by opposition parties in the nationwide polls.
“Nine months after our victory in the May 14-28 elections, unfortunately, we could not get the results we wanted and hoped for in the local vote. As the AK Party and the People’s Alliance, we had intensively prepared for this election race just like the previous ones,” he added.
The Turkish president stressed, “We will open-heartedly analyse the results of the March 31 elections within our party and make our self-criticism boldly.”
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Iran Sanctions | Full Measure
It may seem like there are three separate conflicts in the Mideast, all involving Islamic extremist terrorist groups: Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. But Iran is said to be behind all of them.
Some analysts say it proves that a U.S.-Iran deal made under the Obama administration was a bad idea, and sanctions intended to keep them in line have failed. Lisa Fletcher reports.
Online misgendering ‘could be investigated’ in Scotland under new hate crime law
Scotland’s minister for victims and community safety has said people “could be investigated” for misgendering someone online under a new hate crime law which came into effect on Monday.
MSPs passed the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act in 2021, consolidating existing hate crime legislation and creating a new offence of stirring up hatred against protected characteristics, although sex has been omitted in favour of a standalone Bill designed to tackle misogyny.
Asked whether misgendering someone on the internet was a crime under the new law, Scotland’s minister for victims and community safety Siobhian Brown told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme: “It would be a police matter for them to assess what happens.
Asked why women had not been included in the new legislation, Ms Brown said: “We’ll be going further for the protection of women through our misogyny Bill, which will be laid down in Parliament.”
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell told the same programme the omission of women from the new law was an “astonishing exclusion”.
What’s in a Name | Full Measure
Twentieth-century radical activist Saul Alinsky once wrote, “He who controls the language controls the masses.” Never has that thought been more relevant.
Right now, activists are busily working to redefine select words in real time, manipulating meanings to accomplish social and propaganda goals. How they do it and why is the topic of today’s cover story: What’s in a Name?
Water Wars | Full Measure
For more than a decade, the state of Arizona has seemed to be in a perpetual state of drought. That’s focused attention on the growing battles over the U.S. water supply and on the foreign thirst for American water. Scott Thuman reports.
Prague hospital performs abortion on wrong woman, blames language barrier for mix-up
In an alarming incident at a Prague hospital, a woman underwent an abortion procedure she never consented to. According to CNN Prima News, the woman, who was four months pregnant, visited Bulovka University Hospital for a routine checkup on March 25, only to become the victim of a huge medical error.
In a startling sequence of events, the woman was mistakenly put under anesthesia and operated upon, despite being the wrong patient. Hospital staff, including nurses, doctors, a gynaecologist, and even the anaesthesiologist, failed to accurately identify her. The hospital blamed this catastrophic mix-up to a language barrier.
The healthy pregnant woman underwent a curettage, a uterine surgery typically associated with abortion, which was intended for another patient. As a result of the procedure, the woman suffered a miscarriage.
Vietnam demolishes Buddhist lecture hall at Khmer Krom pagoda | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
Biden-Kishida summit to see deal on repairing large U.S. warships in Japan
Large U.S. warships will be able to undergo repairs at private shipyards in Japan under an agreement expected to be struck by the leaders of both countries during next week’s summit, Nikkei has learned.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington on April 10.
The agreement is meant to strengthen integrated deterrence, which involves wide-ranging cooperation among the U.S., its allies and partners to deter aggression by China, Russia and other countries.
The repair facilities would likely be used by ships belonging to the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet headquartered at the American naval base in Yokosuka, Japan. The fleet contains the USS Ronald Reagan nuclear-powered aircraft carrier as well as missile destroyers.
Chinese navy live-fire drills a ‘timely and forceful response’ to Philippines’ tilt to US, expert says
The drills were also a signal that Beijing had stepped up military preparations to counter Manila’s tilt towards Washington and its allies ahead of their annual Balikatan joint military exercises this month.
Chinese state media said the exercises, conducted by the Southern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), were “high-intensity and multi-course real combat training” aimed at boosting the military’s combat capabilities in “complex battlefield environments”.
According to a report on state broadcaster CCTV on Saturday, several Chinese warships including Xueshan and Lushan were sent to an unnamed area of the South China Sea to sink enemy targets such as armed militia fishing boats.
The paper said training modules included “dealing with complex and changeable enemy situations at sea and in the air – such as suspicious targets, armed enemy fishing boats, weapons threats, and other hostile elements”.
While the drills were part of the PLA’s training routines, Ni Lexiong, a Shanghai-based military analyst and former politics professor at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, said they were symbolically significant at a sensitive time.
Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 45
In the 45th month since Beijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong, the city saw the passage of its own legislation with new offences and tougher punishments, a broader definition of sedition, new restrictions on detainees and tighter rules on early release from prison.
While officials celebrated the “historic” passage of the law, calling it a constitutional duty dating back to the 1997 Handover, foreign governments and groups voiced a range of concerns.
Landmark national security trials continued. By the end of March, the pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai had been on trial for over 50 days, while 47 democrats as well as former editors of Stand News are still awaiting verdicts and sentences.
World Bank issues Ukraine bankruptcy warning
Kiev is reliant on financial aid from its Western backers but foreign support has dwindled in recent months, while a $60 billion US aid package remains stalled in Congress.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was commenting on the latest $1.5 billion tranche of funding which Kiev received last week under a World Bank program. According to the source, the World Bank’s division representing Russia voted against the loan, citing the organization’s charter.
The official added that the senior management of the Washington-based financial institution has acknowledged the “extremely high” risks of cooperating with Ukraine, and noted that as with previous transactions, it has not provided its own funds for Kiev. In the latest tranche, the World Bank “once again took advantage” of guarantees from two of Ukraine’s donors – Japan and the UK – the source said.
Russian Tank Attack Crushed Near Avdiivka, Top-End T-90s and Obsolete T-62s Burned by Drones
One of Russia’s most massive armored attacks in months was crushed in the Avdiivka sector over the weekend, with a crack Ukrainian paratrooper unit claiming the destruction of more than 20 of the Kremlin’s tanks and armored fighting vehicles in a single day of fighting.
The March 30 assault by elements of Russia’s 90th Tank Division hit fortifications manned by Ukraine’s 25th Airborne Brigade, a volunteer formation fighting in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas sector for more than two years. The 25th is the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s (AFU) sole regular army paratrooper unit.
Sources on both the Russian and Ukrainian sides confirmed the March Russian attack came across mostly open ground to the west of the city Avdiivka, near the village Tonenke. A reported 36 Russian tanks followed by 12 BMP infantry carriers led off the attempt to break into Ukrainian defenses to the west of the village but failed to do so after hitting fierce resistance, the sources said.
At least nine wounded by Ukrainian strikes on Russian region – governor
The attack damaged several homes, with windows shattered in eight high-rise buildings in the city of Belgorod, with three smaller houses also sustaining damage.
Belgorod, along with other Russian regions bordering Ukraine, is frequently subjected to artillery and drone attacks by Kiev forces.
The situation escalated last month, when the Ukrainian forces repeatedly attempted to breach the border, while ramping up artillery, missile and drone strikes on Belgorod.
Russian Attacks Leave Kharkiv’s Energy Infrastructure in Ruins, City Mayor Says
The relentless shelling by Russian forces in Kharkiv has left almost all public and private energy infrastructure in ruins, according to Ihor Terekhov, the city’s mayor, in an interview with Liga.net.
“Almost all critical energy infrastructure has already been destroyed, and private infrastructure has also been destroyed…The situation for the energy industry is very difficult,” Terekhov said.
The ongoing onslaught on Ukrainian energy facilities by Russian troops has plunged Kharkiv into darkness and disrupted essential services.
Taipei replica in remote Chinese province fans Taiwan invasion fears
The satellite images show a detailed replica of the heart of Taipei – albeit surrounded by the arid landscape of Inner Mongolia instead of Taiwan’s lush vegetation.
First posted on social media by a Taiwanese data analyst, on March 26, they were later picked up by the website Taiwan News, under the ominous headline: “China creates Taipei mockup to train for invasion”.
The satellite images reveal a layout of streets strongly resembling the Bo’ai Special Zone, a restricted area in Taipei’s Zhongzheng District that houses Taiwan’s most important state buildings, including the presidential palace, the supreme court, the ministry of justice and the central bank of Taiwan.
The Bo’ai Special Zone is subject to specific regulations, including a strict ban on overflight.
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Top Iranian IRGC commander said killed in alleged Israeli strike on Damascus
The Israeli Air Force allegedly carried out an airstrike on a building next to Iran’s embassy in Syria on Monday, reportedly killing at least six people including a top Iranian commander.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency cited sources who indicated that at least six people were killed in the strike. It said the number was not yet officially confirmed.
Zahedi has been reported to be a top commander in IRGC’s Quds Force — responsible for the unit’s operations in Syria and Lebanon, and thus the most senior commander of Iranian forces in Syria and Lebanon.
Tasnim reported that Zahedi’s deputy was also killed in the strike.
Israel conducts deadly airstrike near Iran embassy in Damascus: report
Fox News’ Trey Yingst provides details on the strike that Lebanese security sources claim killed a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leader and explains the possibility of a response from Iran.
Israel shares photo of aid build-up in Gaza, says UN is not distributing it
(photo credit: COGAT VIA X)
“Again,” the post reads, “the content of 400 trucks worth [of aid] is waiting to be picked up and distributed from the Gazan side of [the Keren Shalom crossing] post-Israeli inspection.
The post goes on to say that “@UNRWA”—the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, responsible for providing social services to Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and elsewhere—“and @UN agencies lack the logistic capacity for performing their jobs. “They must enhance their logistic capacity and admit their failures.
UNRWA, the agency criticized in the post, has been criticized by Israel and allies for years but has come under particular scrutiny since intelligence emerged earlier this year connecting employees of the agency to the October 7 attacks on Israel that initiated the ongoing war with Hamas.
Revealing the Democrats’ War on Honest Workers
The new ruling class—the bourgeoisie as Marx would put it- is today’s Democrat party. The hundreds of millions of Americans who are not represented by the Democrat’s ideology, are staring down the barrel of tyranny. This is a battle against the middle class, and the Democrat hunger for power and control are itching for a fight.
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