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Mysterious Babbitt shooting witnesses incited rioters, met secretly with Capitol Police on January 6

Analyzing more than 22,000 hours of Capitol Police security video posted on Rumble by a U.S. House committee, Blaze News tracked the movements of Frick and Frack from the early violence on the West Plaza to their meeting with police and to them walking west away from Capitol grounds at 4 p.m.

Babbitt, an Air Force and National Guard veteran who came to Washington, D.C., to hear then-President Trump speak, was shot at nearly point-blank range at 2:44 p.m. by U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd.

She died a half-hour later at a Washington hospital. The death was classified a homicide by the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The U.S. Department of Justice declined to pursue charges against Byrd, who said he feared for his life when the 5’2″ Babbitt began climbing into the window.

The shooting triggered a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. government brought by Judicial Watch Inc. on behalf of widower Aaron Babbitt and his late wife’s estate. The DOJ secured a change of venue from Babbitt’s hometown of San Diego to the friendly confines of federal district court in Washington, D.C. Judicial Watch is appealing the change of venue. The suit is proceeding into discovery.

As that litigation and the extensive investigation that underpins it begin their long journey through the federal courts, questions have grown about the identities of more than a dozen material witnesses who either took part in rioting near the Speaker’s Lobby entrance or captured video that could be valuable evidence in the shooting. Frick and Frack are prominent on that list.

Based on how the DOJ has prosecuted more than 1,560 other cases, the behavior of Frick and Frack would likely be classified as incitement and rioting at the bottom of the Northwest Steps, where they apparently enabled dozens of people to climb onto the staircase and proceed to the Capitol.

Given their early entrance into the Capitol, mere minutes after the breach of the Senate Wing Door and windows, there is a good chance they could have been charged with obstruction of an official proceeding, a 20-year felony count that was all but taken off the table by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark June 28 decision.

Their behavior at a minimum would draw what defense attorneys call the “standard four,” basic misdemeanor charges for alleged trespassing, disorderly conduct, and “parading” at the Capitol.

Since the men do not appear to be a target of Capitol Police, the FBI, or the DOJ, the explanation for their presence and actions before, during, and after the fatal Babbitt shooting will likely fall to the attorneys at Judicial Watch and its $30 million Babbitt lawsuit.

The FBI and DOJ have said they will continue making Jan. 6 arrests leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Trump on Jan. 20, 2025….


(STUDY) Twice-censored research links Covid vaccines to death

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A landmark COVID-19 vaccine autopsy study has been republished in Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law. This follows its controversial withdrawal by two prior journals.

The study, led by Nicolas Hulscher, an epidemiologist at the McCullough Foundation. provides what he describes as “robust evidence” linking the vaccines to fatal outcomes. It claims these findings meet the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) criteria for a “Class I recall.”

A Class I recall is defined by the FDA as necessary when a product poses “a reasonable probability” of causing severe health consequences or death. The study calls for immediate regulatory action.

Hulscher hailed the republication as a “pivotal victory for transparency and accountability in science.” He described it as a blow to the “Academic Publishing Cartel” and their alleged efforts to suppress open debate.

The research team includes prominent figures like Dr. Harvey Risch, professor emeritus of epidemiology at Yale, and Dr. Peter McCullough, a noted critic of current vaccine policies. They have emphasized the need for transparency in vaccine safety data.

The study analyzed 44 papers documenting 325 autopsies and one necropsy.

After screening out duplicates and incomplete data, researchers found that 73.9% of deaths were directly or significantly linked to COVID-19 vaccination.

Most deaths occurred within a week of the last dose, with sudden cardiac death being the leading cause at 35%, followed by pulmonary embolism and myocardial infarction. The findings align with known vaccine injury mechanisms and raise concerns about unexplained deaths in otherwise healthy, vaccinated individuals….


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Zelenskyy asked about potential peace deal with Russia

Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst provides key takeaways from his conversation with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy after Putin lowered Russia’s threshold for nuclear arms.


Israel ups military pressure vs Hamas; Israel offers $5m for every hostage TV7 Israel News 20.11.24

1) Israel aims to deepen its military pressure on Hamas – vowing to ensure that the terror group will never govern the Gaza Strip.

2) EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell fails to garner support from EU Member States to end the European Institution’s dialogue with the State of Israel.

3) The United States urges the International Community to double-down on pressuring Hamas to agree to a hostage release deal, in exchange for a temporary cessation of hostilities.


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Syria: Israeli Airstrike Reportedly Hits Weapons Depot Linked to Iranian-Backed Terror Group

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Israeli fighter jets allegedly destroyed a weapons depot belonging to an Iran-backed terrorist group in Syria, the local media reports say.

“A UK-based monitoring group put the death toll at 41 and reported that the strikes hit a weapons depot and other locations in and around an area inhabited by families of Iran-backed militia fighters,” the BBC reported. “The Israeli military said it did not comment on foreign reports,” the broadcaster added.

Other terrorist targets were also reportedly hit in the strike. Israel carried out strikes “targeting a number of buildings in the city of Palmyra” located in central Syria, a regime-owned broadcaster said.

The strikes come a day after The Wall Street Journal revealed that the Israeli military was uncovering a large cache of Russian-made weapons as it moves deeper into Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon…


Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Greg Laurie Discuss Mortality and the Afterlife

This is a clip from our recent podcast release with Greg Laurie.

In it, He and Dr. Jordan B. Peterson discuss the conceptual and literal heaven and what makes life “real” in the deepest sense, contemplating an afterlife that is full of potential.


Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson Headlining Event Featuring Educators Who Backed the October 7 Massacr

On Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will give the “keynote address at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention.”

The speakers include anti-Israel activists who justified Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023: Sawsan Jaber and Hannah Moushabeck.

The organization represents K-12 to college English language arts and literacy educators.

Moushabeck claimed anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism. Another post said, “Friends don’t let friends support Israel.” She wanted you to fight her if you disagreed that “Zionism is racism.”

Of course, Queers for Palestine!

Apparently, NCTE in 2023 tried to force people to remain neutral. Moushabeck bragged how teachers “still spoke about Palestine on our panels because we will NOT BE SILENCED in the face of genocide.”

Sawsan Jaber

Oh look. Sawson Jaber is in the Chicago area. What a shock. She’s the English Department Chair at Maine West High School in Park Ridge, IL, and an educational consultant for Google.

On October 11, Jabar posted on X, “But we cannot fault Palestinians, especially Gazans living in a modern day concentration camp for over a decade, for fighting for their humanity. That doesn’t make them terrorists. It makes them human.”

Jabar’s X account is littered with anti-Israel sentiments….


British farmers revolt over Starmer’s new inheritance tax changes

Independent journalist and Rebel News alumnus Lewis Brackpool discusses why farmers in the U.K. are taking to the streets in opposition to Keir Starmer’s inheritance tax changes.


1 dead, hundreds of thousands without power as bomb cyclone hits Pacific Northwest

1 of 4 | Responders on Tuesday night work to extraciate two people trapped in a trail by a fallen tree in Maple Valley, Wash. Photo courtesy of Puget Sound Fire/X

The National Weather Service had warned of a once-in-a-decade bomb cyclone hitting Washington, Oregon and northern California starting Tuesday afternoon and continuing through Wednesday morning.

On X, it warned that prolonged heavy rains from an atmospheric river would persist over far northern California into southwest Orgeong into Friday. Damaging winds in excess of 60 mph were to cause power outages and down trees in coastal areas.

Late Tuesday, South County Fire, located in Snohomish County just north of Seattle, said on Facebook that a woman in her 50s had died when a tree, felled by strong winds, toppled onto a homeless encampment…


Latest Biden policy reversal further escalates Ukraine conflict ahead of Trump inauguration

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Another lame-duck authorization found the Biden-Harris administration further escalating the conflict between Ukraine and Russia in spite of the will of voters.

Lost amid corporate media’s pablum punditry about the 1,000-day mark of the Eastern European war was the ongoing mission creep under President Joe Biden. What started with “historic” sanctions that failed to deter an invasion and paved the way for tens of billions of dollars, tanks, fighter jets, and missiles led to the authorization of anti-personnel land mines Tuesday.

CBS News confirmed that the latest policy reversal from the White House would allow the U.S. to provide mines to Ukraine with a commitment that the devices would not be used in areas populated with Ukrainian civilians.

It also came only days after the president authorized the use of the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) for Ukraine to strike targets within Russia, a strategy utilized for the first time Tuesday.

Following the initial escalation, it was reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin released a revised doctrine on the threshold for his country to authorize the use of nuclear weapons in retaliation…


Douglas Macgregor: Putin Issues FINAL Nuclear Warning, Ukraine At Risk Of TOTAL DESTRUCTION


CDC Director Blows Whistle: Fauci Facing ‘Life in Prison’ for Creating COVID As Bioweapon

Dr. Anthony Fauci has operated with shocking impunity for decades, running cruel and unusual experiments on children and animals, funding gain of function research to make viruses deadlier, all while profiting immensely from the widespread distribution of his devastating vaccines.

His actions, eerily reminiscent of the horrors committed by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, have been covered up by the complicit mainstream media. But now, high-level whistleblowers are stepping forward, and Fauci’s dark past is being dragged into the light.

As the new administration takes shape, there’s growing determination to hold him accountable for crimes against humanity. Fauci’s supposed “retirement” is actually the beginning of a very different kind of reckoning.


Exclusive: Idaho Man Paralyzed 10 Days After Getting J&J COVID Vaccine

Doug Cameron, who previously avoided getting a COVID-19 vaccine, was 64 and healthy when he received his first and only Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine on April 5, 2021.

He was a manager at TLK Dairy Farms in Mountain Home, Idaho, where he had worked for 15 years.

COVID-19 vaccines had been available for months at local pharmacies when TLK Dairy Farms hosted an on-site vaccination clinic to encourage vaccination.

“They were seeing that a lot of people weren’t getting the shot, and they decided to bring the shot to the farm,” Cameron told The Defender. His company’s leadership team didn’t mandate that he get the shot. “They just strongly implied” that they expected it, he said.

Cameron said the “intimidation” to get a COVID-19 shot “was extremely strong all the way around” for him and his co-workers.

“People can deny it all they want,” he said, “but the fact of the matter is that if they had never brought it and never pushed it on people, I know a lot of people would’ve never got it — I am one of those people.”

Cameron told them he didn’t want a COVID-19 shot. “They said, ‘Well, you’re a manager and it’d be good if your name was first on the list of people’” who signed up to receive a shot.

Cameron said, “Well, OK,” and got the shot. He sat for 15 minutes as instructed by the clinic workers, then hopped back in his pickup truck to continue working around the 10,000-acre farm.

That was Monday. The next day, he didn’t feel quite right. His hips hurt a lot. Sitting or lying down was uncomfortable. “That just kept getting worse,” he said….


Former Acting AG Matthew Whitaker Tapped by President Trump as NATO Ambassador

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President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Matthew G. Whitaker, former Acting Attorney General and Iowa native, will serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Trump praised Whitaker’s qualifications and character in a formal statement, calling him a “strong warrior and loyal Patriot” who embodies the values needed to defend and advance America’s interests within NATO.

Trump said in a press release:

“I am pleased to announce that former Acting Attorney General, Matthew G. Whitaker, from the Great State of Iowa, will be the United States Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Matt is a strong warrior and loyal Patriot, who will ensure the United States’ interests are advanced and defended. Matt will strengthen relationships with our NATO Allies, and stand firm in the face of threats to Peace and Stability – He will put AMERICA FIRST.

I have full confidence in Matt’s ability to represent the United States with Strength, Integrity, and unwavering Dedication. I look forward to working closely with him as we continue to promote PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, Freedom, and Prosperity around the World.

Matt is also the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, and is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a B.A., MBA and J.D., where he played football, and received the Big Ten Medal of Honor.”


Rep. Nancy Mace stands by Capitol Hill bathroom bill


Man found guilty of murder in the killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley

Laken Riley poses for a photo posted to Facebook. Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia, was found dead near a lake on campus on Feb. 22.  (Laken Riley/Facebook)

Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, was convicted on three counts of felony murder and counts of malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault with intent to rape and “peeping Tom.” He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

During the trial, prosecutors argued that Ibarra killed Riley after she fought off his attempt to rape her. The prosecution pointed to DNA and other evidence that they said linked Ibarra to Riley on the day of her murder.

In closing arguments Wednesday, prosecutor Sheila Ross told the judge that Laken Riley “herself has given you all the evidence you need alone to find this man guilty of every single count in this indictment.”

Ross said Riley fought her attacker and “it is a direct result of that fight that gives you all the physical evidence you need to convict.”…


Laken Riley murder suspect Jose Ibarra found guilty on all charges

Suspect Jose Ibarra was found guilty on all charges for the murder of Laken Riley, a nursing student who was attacked while out for a run at the University of Georgia earlier this year.