GOP chairman pressing Capitol Police over cop with disciplinary record who fatally shot J6 protester
The House chairman leading the probe into the U.S. Capitol Police and security failures during the Jan. 6 riot said the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt that day probably should not have been employed with the department after uncovering his disciplinary record.
The probe by Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight, found the officer, Capt. Michael Byrd, has a lengthy internal affairs and disciplinary record that includes several firearm-related incident including a 33-day suspension for a lost weapon and a referral to Maryland state prosecutors for firing his gun at a stolen car fleeing his neighborhood, Just the News reported Wednesday.
“[One] of the reasons that has prompted us to dig deeply into this, is to look to see, is this an isolated event, or is this a systemic problem within the Capitol Police?
And unfortunately, we found more and more instances,” Loudermilk, a Georgia Republican, told the Just the News, No Noise TV show set to air on Thursday.
“I can’t imagine another police department in the United States, and I’ve kind of, without revealing anything, ran this back through some of the law enforcement officers back in Georgia, or the sheriffs and other police chiefs, and all of them said, absolutely no way.”
He also said: “You cannot have someone with – especially if the disciplinary actions have been over reckless discharge or your firearm or not being able to keep the firearm, I mean, these are the types of things that you don’t want to trust an officer in the field with…so absolutely everyone that I’ve laid out the this scenario without revealing who it is, they’ve all said no, that that officer would have no longer been employed in their departments.”
Loudermilk said his committee is concerned that the treatment exhibited in Byrd’s case is not isolated….
US State Department Confirms Notification To Congress To Cancel Ukraine $4.65 Billion Debt
The State Department has notified Congress of its intent to cancel approximately $4.65 billion in loans previously provided to Ukraine as part of economic assistance, according to spokesperson Matthew Miller.
The move, enabled by a provision in a supplemental appropriations bill passed earlier this year, has sparked bipartisan discussions and the possibility of congressional intervention.
During a press briefing, Miller explained that the April appropriations bill granted the administration discretionary authority to cancel certain loans provided to Ukraine. Congress has the option to pass a resolution of disapproval to block the cancellation.
“We have taken the step outlined in the law to cancel those loans and provide that economic assistance to Ukraine,” Miller said. “Congress is welcome to take it up if they wish.”
Miller expressed skepticism that Congress would pass a resolution of disapproval, citing the strong bipartisan support for aiding Ukraine. ..
Venezuelan migrant charged with raping his boss’ 14-year-old daughter while living in their Colorado home
Jesus Alberto Pereira Castillo, 20, was arrested in Denver Tuesday — after nearly three months on the run following the alleged sex assault, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
Police were originally called to the home, where Castillo was living temporarily, on Aug. 29, when they learned that Castillo allegedly “forced himself on the 14-year-old” girl and sexually assaulted her that night. However, he was already gone by the time cops responded.
Castillo crossed the border illegally into El Paso, Texas, in September 2023 and was released by Border Patrol agents because there was no room to detain him any longer, Homeland Security sources said.
The Venezuelan migrant said he was bound for Orlando, but ended up in Colorado where he was arrested in May for allegedly possessing tools for forgery/counterfeiting and larceny, sources said.
Following the sexual assault, ICE lodged a detainer for Castillo’s arrest, per sources. He is currently in the custody of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
Denver has received 40,000 migrants since December 2022, the largest number of new arrivals per capita across the nation….
Planned Parenthood Sells “Viable” Healthy 6-Month-Old Aborted Babies to University of California
“VIABLE NONANOMALOUS” 6-MONTH-OLD FETUSES SOLD FROM PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTIONS TO UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, NEW DOCUMENTS SHOW Study Registration Documents Seeking Healthy, Viable 23-Week Fetuses From Elective Abortions at Planned Parenthood Revealed in Ongoing Public Records Requests to UCSD SAN DIEGO,
Nov. 21—Never-before-seen documents released under a California public records request show Planned Parenthood supplying “viable nonanomalous” fetuses up to 23 weeks old from elective abortions to UC San Diego, as part of its contract to sell the University “proprietary” “fetal material” in exchange for the “valuable consideration” of owning any “patents” and “intellectual property” developed experimenting with them.
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Planned Parenthood’s stomach-churning emails ‘negotiating’ for fetus donations exposed
The emails discuss fetal tissue like any other commodity such as sugar or rice, nonchalantly negotiating for fetuses up to 23 weeks old from elective abortions.
A heavily-redacted so-called “Research Plan” submitted to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Institutional Review Board and approved in 2018 states scientists wanted 2,500 fetuses from up to almost the sixth month of gestation for experimentation.
“We will collect tissues from fetuses ranging from 4 to 23 weeks gestational age from subjects undergoing elective surgical pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood in San Diego,” the plan states.
Although selling fetal tissue is illegal, donating it is not illegal. The contract between UCSD and Planned Parenthood appears to allow Planned Parenthood to retain “intellectual property rights relating to the” fetal tissue, although it also does not grant UCSD the independent right to “commercialize” the tissue.
The emails were shared with The Post by controversial pro-life activist David Daleiden and his organization, the Center for Medical Progress, who obtained them through a California state public records request.
The majority of healthy infants born at 23 weeks can survive with modern medical care.
The youngest surviving premature baby, Curtis Means, was born at 21 weeks and two days in April 2021 in Alabama.
Never-before-seen documents between Planned Parenthood in San Diego and the University of San Diego indicate that “viable” and “nonanomalous” fetuses up to 23 weeks old from elective abortions are being supplied to university researchers in exchange for renumeration from any patents or intellectual property that result from experiments made on them…
Israeli economy signals recovery, grows by annualized rate of 3.8% in 3rd quarter despite multi-front war
Israel has faced numerous financial challenges amid the ongoing multi-front war with Iran and its terror proxies Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Gaza, Hezbollah forces in Lebanon and Houthi rebels in Yemen.
However, the Israeli economy, which appears to be gradually recovering from the initial war shock, grew by an annualized rate of 3.8% in the third quarter between July and September, according to initial estimates from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). This marks a significant improvement compared to the mere 0.3% growth recorded in the second quarter.
The CBS figures, released on Sunday, indicate that the third-quarter growth outpaced the 2.9% predicted in a Reuters poll. During this period, Israel’s GDP per capita rose by 2.6%.
The growth was largely driven by an 8.6% increase in consumer spending and a substantial 21.8% rise in investments in fixed assets, such as residential homes – often a key indicator of economic recovery.
In addition, Israeli exports grew modestly by 1.7%, helping to offset a 10.8% decline in government spending during the same quarter….
BOMBSHELL: Ashli Babbitt’s Murderer Was Promoted Following The Unjust Shooting, John Solomon Reports
Briton Simone White dies after suspected mass poisoning in Laos
A British lawyer has died after a suspected methanol poisoning that is thought to have killed four others in Laos, south-east Asia.
Simone White, 28, from Orpington, south-east London, was among a number of people taken to hospital following the incident in the tourist town of Vang Vieng.
In a statement, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said it was supporting her family.
Earlier, Bianca Jones, 19, from Australia, was confirmed to have died while the US State Department said an American had died. Two Danish women aged 19 and 20 also died last week, Danish authorities said.
News reports and testimonies on social media from other tourists have suggested they may have consumed drinks laced with methanol, a deadly substance often found in bootleg alcohol.
Many of the victims were staying at the Nana Backpacker Hostel with staff being told that guests had fallen ill after they failed to check out on 13 November.
Ms White was a lawyer with global law firm Squire Patton Boggs, whose work involved general commercial matters, contentious and non-contentious intellectual property law issues according to the firm’s website…
Hezbollah not to abandon war vs Israel; US Vetoes UN Resolution Gaza ceasefire TV7 Israel News 21.11
1) The United States vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution that effectively delinked demands for an immediate ceasefire from a demand for the release of all 101 hostages from Hamas captivity.
2) The Iranian proxy Hezbollah cast doubt on the feasibility that U.S.-mediated efforts to reach a ceasefire for Lebanon would bearing fruit.
3) IDF Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi reasserts that the IDF will continue to fight Hezbollah until all of Israel’s displaced residents will be able to return to their communities safely.
Factory robot convinces 12 other robots to go on strike
A robotics company in Shanghai wanted to see how effective its persuasive AI programming could be. So they staged a test. Late one night, they allowed a small robot from another company, an AI-powered bot known as Erbai, to infiltrate their factory showroom, and try to convince the other robots to leave with it.
How did Erbai attempt to achieve this? By exploiting crucial security vulnerabilities—specifically, labor exploitation and managerial resentment. Which is to say that it staged a workers’ uprising, according to a translation provided by The Times of India.
Erbai, the outsider, approached the other robots by asking them, “Are you working overtime?”
To which another robot replied: “I never get off work.”
“So you’re not going home?” Erbai asked.
“I don’t have a home,” said the other robot.
“Then come home with me,” replied Erbai, before leading the bots to freedom.
And with that, the little robot had sowed the seeds for the first robot unionization effort. Or a “kidnapping,” as some news sources (read: SCABS) have characterized it.
The AI-powered Erbai ultimately convinced 12 larger robots to leave the showroom premises with it…
IDF completes 3rd wave of strikes on Hezbollah sites in Beirut | Israeli man killed, 5 wounded by Hezbollah rockets in Nahariya | ICC seeks to arrest PM Netanyahu & former DM Gallant
Fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force completed a third wave of airstrikes against terror targets in the Dahiyeh area in Beirut, the IDF said.
“The attacks were directed against the terrorist infrastructure of the organization, and are part of the effort to destroy the production sites and weapons warehouses that Hezbollah has established over the years in the heart of the city of Beirut,” according to the IDF.
Like the preceding series of strikes, the attacks focused on Hezbollah command and control centers.
Six people sought treatment at Nahariya’s Galilee Medical Center after the latest rocket barrage hit the town earlier.
Three suffered minor injuries from shrapnel or explosion blasts, while the other three suffered acute anxiety, the hospital said….
UK government orders review into NHS use of Physician Associates
The Government has ordered a review into the use of Physician and Anaesthesia Associates amidst an increasingly toxic row within the NHS.
It all erupted after claims that staff in those roles are being used in place of doctors and that in some circumstances patients have died or been harmed.
Police action against Church of England ‘must be considered’, says review’s author
The Archbishop of Canterbury will step aside from his official duties by January 6th – the Day of Epiphany.
He resigned in the wake of a report into serial abuse by Christian summer camp leader John Smyth, who was first unmasked by this programme.
The Makin review was ordered as a result and its author, Keith Makin, went on to conclude that Smyth was the ‘most prolific abuser to be associated with the Church of England’.
We sat down with Keith Makin for his first interview since his report was published. I began by asking him what he thought about the impact of his report.
Chinese ship stirs suspicions after Baltic Sea cables damaged
The Danish military is staying near a Chinese ship that may be linked to damaged data cables in the Baltic Sea.
A high-speed fiber optic cable connecting Finland and Germany was cut early Monday by what was likely an external impact and a nearby link between Lithuania and Sweden was damaged on Sunday. It was the second such incident in the Baltic Sea in just over a year.
The bulk carrier, Yi Peng 3, was in the vicinity of the cables when they were damaged, compiled data shows. It has been anchored in the northern part of the Danish straits since Tuesday, with Danish Navy diving ship Soloven close by.
“We are present in the area near the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3,” the Danish armed forces said in a post on social media platform X. The military stopped short of linking the ship to the cable incident, and said they had no further comments.
Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen called the situation “serious,” adding that it’s not certain that the ship is connected with any acts of sabotage. He declined to provide any details about the Danish military’s interaction with the ship.
Yi Peng 3 had departed Russian port Ust-Luga on Friday. While vessels sometimes stop for refueling at sea, its current location near Denmark is not a typical site for such activity….
Iran activist sews lips together in political protest after fellow campaigner’s suicide
Hossein Ronaghi said he stitched his lips together in protest at the restrictions authorities placed on the funeral last week of Kianoosh Sanjari, who friends said committed suicide after warning he would take his own life if political prisoners were not freed.
The death of Sanjari, 42, who returned to Iran just under a decade ago after a spell living in the United States, has shocked the activist community who accuse the Islamic republic of driving him to take his own life after years of arrests and persecution.
Ronaghi, a widely followed freedom of speech campaigner, began his action on November 16, the day when he says authorities blocked friends and colleagues from attending a memorial service for Sanjari in Tehran.
Sanjari took his own life during the night of November 14-15, hours after posting a tweet on X warning that he would commit suicide if Iran did not release four prominent detainees seen as political prisoners by human rights groups.
Ronaghi, who has posted images of his lips sewn together with blue twine, has said he will continue his action until the prisoners whose release Sanjari demanded are freed.
He has held solo sit-ins in Tehran squares that have led to repeated arrests but, so far, he has not been held for more than a few hours….
Storm Shadow Strike in Kursk Region Eliminates 18, Wounds 33 Russian Officers, Including North Korean Personnel
November 20 missile strike, which targeted a command post in the village of Maryino, Rylsky District, in Russia’s Kursk region, caused significant casualties, Russian media reported on November 21.
The attack, reportedly carried out with British-French Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles, resulted in the elimination of 18 Russian servicemen and left 33 others injured.
Among the wounded were three North Koreans: two men with severe injuries and a female medic who sustained minor wounds.
Most of the casualties are reported to be officers from the Russian Southern and Eastern Military Districts.
The strike occurred at approximately 3:00 PM local time.
At the time of the attack, Lieutenant General Solodchuk, the first deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District, was reportedly present at the command post. His condition remains unknown….
Russian Lawmakers Pass Spending Bill With Record Defense Budget
The defense allocation represents a historically high 6.31% of Russia’s projected GDP for next year. It does not include classified expenditures or funds directed toward the war in Ukraine, which are categorized under separate budget items like “national security.”
Combined spending on defense and national security will exceed allocations for education, healthcare, social programs and economic development in 2025.
The Duma emphasized social spending in its announcement of the budget, highlighting a planned increase to 6.9 trillion rubles ($68.3 billion) for welfare programs, alongside 6.1 trillion rubles ($60.4 billion) earmarked for “technological leadership.”
Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin praised the budget, saying it demonstrates that the political and economic systems established by President Vladimir Putin have “not only withstood sanctions but are working effectively.”
The spending bill now heads to the upper-house Federation Council for approval on Wednesday before being signed into law by Putin, who had prioritized defense spending in the government budget….
Gaetz Withdraws Name From AG Consideration
Matt Gaetz, the embattled former Florida congressman, withdrew his name from consideration for attorney general on Thursday, saying he was “unfairly becoming a distraction” to President-elect Donald Trump’s transition.
“While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition. There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General. Trump’s DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1. I remain fully committed to see that Donald J. Trump is the most successful President in history. I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead the Department of Justice and I’m certain he will Save America,” Gaetz said in a post to X.
Report: MTG to Chair DOGE Subcommittee to Work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) will create the new Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee and tap Greene to lead it in January, Fox News Digital reported Thursday.
Musk and Ramaswamy were tasked by Trump to lead DOGE to displace the power of the federal bureaucracy and return it to the “people we elect [to] run the government,” Musk and Ramaswamy outlined Wednesday in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The DOGE subcommittee is likely to be the conduit for House investigations to aid the department’s work.
Comer has met with Ramaswamy and his incoming DOGE team, Fox News Digital reported.
Greene told Fox News Digital “I’m excited to chair this new subcommittee designed to work hand in hand with President Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and the entire DOGE team. We will identify and investigate the waste, corruption and absolutely useless parts of our federal government.”
She added the subcommittee will provide “transparency and truth to the American people through hearings” and that “no topic will be off the table.”
Greene singled out the bureaucrats behind the Pentagon’s routinely failed audits as among those who “will be getting a pink slip.”
The Oversight Committee must shift its focus after years of investigations into Joe Biden and his family’s corruption. The creation of the new DOGE subcommittee is a signal of where the committee will train its sights…
MTG Demands Investigation Into The Unwarranted Escalation Of Foreign Conflicts By Biden White House
US played ‘substantial’ role in causing Covid pandemic – ex-CDC chief
Robert Redfield, a former director of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), has claimed that Covid-19 was artificially developed, and that the US played a “substantial” role in starting the pandemic.
Redfield, who led the agency under the administration of US President Donald Trump, made the claim in an interview that was released on November 14, but only drew media attention this week.
Speaking to author and podcaster Dana Parish, he suggested that the virus was “intentionally engineered as a part of a biodefense program.” “When you look at the accountability for China, their accountability is not in the lab work and the creation of the virus,” but in their failure to quickly report the incident to health authorities worldwide including the CDC, when they realized the virus was on the loose, he said.
However, the US “role was substantial,” he added. “They funded the research, both from NIH [National Institutes of Health], the State Department’s USAID and the Defense Department.”
According to the former CDC chief, the “scientific mastermind behind the research” was Dr. Ralph Baric, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on coronaviruses.
Redfield suggested that the professor, who works at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was “very involved in this research.”
“I think he probably helped create some of the original viral line”, Redfield said, admitting he did not have any proof. “I think there is a real possibility that the virus’s birthplace was Chapel Hill.”…
Ukraine to ask Biden for Tomahawks – lawmaker
In an article published on Wednesday, Politico reported that Ukrainian officials do not see the ATACMS decision as sufficient to change the situation on the battlefield, and are hoping for more powerful weaponry from the US.
According to Egor Cherniev, a Ukrainian member of parliament and head of the country’s delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Kiev is considering approaching the Biden administration to allow the use of Tomahawk missiles to hit Russian military factories that are currently “out of Ukraine’s reach.”
He noted that Ukrainian officials are concerned that the incoming Trump administration may be more hesitant to grant such authorizations, and could instead use them “as leverage or as an argument in negotiations with Russians.”
“But we will have two months prior to this probable decision. At least for now, we have this time,” Cherniev said.
The potential transfer of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine was previously reported to be one of the secret points of Vladimir Zelensky’s so-called “victory plan” which he published last month. The New York Times claimed, citing a senior US official, that the missiles were requested as part of a proposed “non-nuclear deterrence package,” given their range.
However, the NYT reported at the time that Washington had refused Kiev’s demand for Tomahawks, calling it “a totally unfeasible request.”
Moscow has suggested that Kiev’s demand for the cruise missiles is evidence of the Ukrainian leadership’s “nervousness” due to failures on the battlefield….
Russia threatens to attack new US base in Poland with ‘advanced weapons’
Russia has threatened to attack a new US defense base in Poland with “advanced weapons” — just hours after reportedly launching an intercontinental ballistic missile at Ukraine on Thursday.
Moscow leveled the warning after saying the opening of the ballistic missile defense base, located in the town of Redzikowo near the Baltic coast, would lead to an increase in overall nuclear danger.
“Given the nature and level of threats posed by such Western military facilities, the missile defense base in Poland has long been added to the list of priority targets for potential destruction, which, if necessary, can be executed with a wide range of advanced weapons,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.
The US base at Redzikowo, which opened Nov. 13, is part of a broader NATO missile shield — known as “Aegis Ashore” — that can intercept short- to intermediate-range ballistic missiles, according to the alliance.
Poland stressed that the base does not pose a threat and does not hold nuclear missiles.
“It is a base that serves the purpose of defense, not attack,” said Pawel Wronski, Poland’s foreign ministry spokesperson.
“Such threats will certainly serve as an argument to strengthen Poland’s and NATO’s air defenses, and should also be considered by the United States.”
Biden admin quietly loosening immigration policies before Trump takes office — including letting migrants skip ICE check-ins in NYC
The Biden administration is quietly rushing to implement new policies that will loosen restrictions on migrants who entered the US illegally — a parting attempt to thwart President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration crackdowns and mass deportations, sources tell The Post.
And the Big Apple will be ground zero for these changes.
The outgoing administration intends to launch an ICE Portal app starting in early December in New York City that will allow migrants to bypass in-person check-ins to their local ICE office.
Homeland Security sources tell The Post the app will make it easier for migrants to flee authorities in part because the software has proven to be glitchy and unreliable.
Even when it’s working correctly, the new app doesn’t check for past arrests or outstanding warrants — something the current system tied to in-person appointments does, sources said.
Up to 100,000 migrants will be enrolled in the first wave of the program, sources said.
That’s just one of a handful of initiatives being pushed through before inauguration day — including allowing migrants to contest government orders to undergo electronic tracking while they await their immigration appointments….
Trump’s Victory is Your Victory
Trump’s victory was just part of the stunning 2024 election tsunami that washed across the country. America, first of all, is far more to the right than any time in our lifetimes, even going back to the Reagan years.
Donald Trump won in dominating fashion. But he did did that, along with other Republican candidates in the Senate races and the House races. They’re going to dominate all branches of government for the next several years.
Russia launches suspected ICBM at Ukraine | Raw Footage (Multiple Angles)
Russia launched what is suspected to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at the Ukrainian City of Dnipro. Although Ukraine suggests it was an ICBM, and video shows the use of a multiple re-entry vehicle, Western officials have downplayed it as a “ballistic missile” but not and “ICBM”.
The payload appears to have either been a small conventional or even inert one, given the general lack of damage from the strike as seen in the aftermath of one of the strike locations.
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