In The News Today:
Pelosi, AOC, Other House Dems Hit with Ethics Complaint – Accused of ‘Repeatedly’ Misusing Funds
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust said the Democrats “repeatedly” used official resources for political gain, according to a news release on its website, naming Democratic Reps. Nancy Pelosi of California, Cori Bush of Missouri, Jamaal Bowman of New York, Sean Casten of Illinois, Greg Casar of Texas, Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida, Ted Lieu of California, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Ritchie Torres of New York.
Although Democratic Rep. Ayanna Presley of Massachusetts was not mentioned in the release, exhibits of her allegedly using official resources for political gain were included in the examples filed with the complaint.
To make its point, the complaint attached 91 pages of examples.
Vancouver Proud Boy gets 6-year prison sentence for Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted Chief Judge James Boasberg before he handed down the sentence, calling him a “clown” and a “fraud” presiding over a “kangaroo court.” The judge warned Bru that he could be kicked out of the courtroom if he continued to disrupt the proceedings.
“You can give me 100 years and I’d do it all over again,” said Bru, who was handcuffed and shackled.
Boasberg convicted Bru of seven charges, including two felonies, after hearing trial testimony without a jury in October.
UK billionaire Joe Lewis cops plea deal on insider trading charges
British billionaire Joe Lewis pleaded guilty to insider trading in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, six months after he was charged with more than a dozen criminal counts for tipping nonpublic, inside information to his girlfriend, pilots and others in his inner circle.
Pursuant to a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Lewis, the former owner of the Tottenham Hotspur Premier League soccer club, entered a change of plea on Wednesday, pleading guilty to two counts of securities fraud and a conspiracy charge for insider trading in a superseding indictment.
While the maximum sentence carried by the three counts is 45 years in prison, prosecutors note in the plea agreement that the stipulated guidelines range is 18 months to two years’ imprisonment, which could be adjusted due to Lewis’ age and physical condition.
Ohio Bans Gender Care and Restricts Trans Athletes Despite GOP Gov’s Veto
The Republican-dominated Senate voted Wednesday to override GOP Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto.
The new law bans gender surgeries and hormone therapies, and restricts mental health care for transgender individuals under 18. The measure also bans transgender girls and women from girls and women’s sports teams at both the K-12 and collegiate level.
Officials expect the law to take effect in roughly 90 days. The Republican-majority House had voted to override the veto earlier this month.
Flight canceled after passenger spotted missing part on wing
Airbus UK chief wing engineer Neil Firth said the missing fasteners had “no impact to the structural integrity or load capability of the wing, and the aircraft was safe to operate.”
Still, the Virgin Atlantic flight “was canceled to provide time for precautionary additional engineering maintenance checks, which allowed our team the maximum time to complete their inspections,” a Virgin Atlantic spokesperson told USA Today.
The safety of air travel has come into the spotlight after the Alaska Airlines incident and a string of close calls on airport runways last year.
Arizona Republican chair Jeff DeWit RESIGNS over bombshell audio bribing Kari Lake to stay out of office
Jeff DeWit resigned as the chair of the Arizona Republican Party Wednesday, 24 hours after DailyMail.com published leaked audio of him offering Kari Lake a plum job or money to step out of politics.
In the tape, he can be heard explaining that powerful people would offer her a job or money if she sits out of politics for two years.
In his resignation statement he accused Lake of setting him up by recording a private conversation.
‘This morning I was determined to fight for my position,’ said DeWit, 51. ‘However a few hours ago I received an ultimatum from Lake’s team: Resign today or face the release of a new, more damaging recording.’
He said he was resigning in the hope that it would end her attacks on him.
Don’t give a DIME to the GOP until they admit who tried to BRIBE Kari Lake
Audio has leaked of a conversation between Kari Lake and Arizona GOP chairman Jeff DeWit that makes Glenn furious.
Glenn demands that the RNC come clean about who “back east” tried to bribe Lake to hold off on her Senate run: “Call and write [the GOP] and say, NOT A DIME to any candidate…unless you clean house on this.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene Touts Impending Mayorkas Impeachment Vote
She also touted having “forced the first vote in the House to impeach Mayorkas which sent my articles to the Homeland Security Committee” back in November.
Greene’s comments come just hours after Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee announced the markup of impeachment articles against Mayorkas.
The markup is slated for next Tuesday at 10 a.m. on Capitol Hill.
“It’s An INVASION” – Immigation Is Officially The #1 Issue For Voters
Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, Tom Ellsworth, and Vincent Oshana discuss a recent poll from The Hill that shows voters are more concerned about illegal immigration then they are inflation going into the 2024 election.
California Woman Avoids Prison After Stabbing Man 100 Times in What She Claimed Was Marijuana Induced Psychotic Fit
A jury in Southern California’s Ventura County found Bryn Spejcher guilty in December of involuntary manslaughter after she had a cannabis-induced psychotic fit that led her to stab and kill 26-year-old Chad O’Melia.
Instead of serving time behind bars, Spejcher will serve just two years of probation, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Ventura County Superior Court Judge David Worley told the court that his decision was based on the lack of evidence that held Spejcher morally or legally responsible for her actions.
‘Just plain scary’: Adult male demands girl, 14, send him nude pics, threatens to rape her, kill her and her family, cops say
Once learning his age, the girl stopped replying to McGinness — but a few months later McGinness re-engaged the victim, demanding nude photographs, the sheriff’s office said.
When the victim refused, McGinness “began to make absolutely vile threats to rape and kill the victim and the victim’s family members,” Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said.
“McGinness went as far as to tell the victim he knew where they lived and would be there within an hour if the victim didn’t comply,” Ivey noted, adding that McGinness “demonstrated that he actually knew the victim’s address because the victim’s location services were turned on for the ‘Snap Map’ allowing [him] to see where the victim was.”
IDF ups pressure on Hamas leadership; U.S. seeks humanitarian pause for Gaza – TV7 Israel News 24.01
1( The IDF deepens its operational activity in the Southern Gaza Strip – eliminating over one-hundred terror operatives in less than 24 hours.
2( U.S. Special Envoy Brett MacGurk visits Egypt in a renewed effort to facilitate a humanitarian pause in exchange for the release of hostages.
3( The U.N. Security Council held a meeting – during which the world body’s Secretary General urged Israel to abruptly end the war.
Todd Bensman Breaks Down Europe’s Migrant Crisis: Syrians Top Nationality Immigrating Into Europe
Migrants are sleeping on the floor at Boston airport due to sanctuary state’s overwhelmed shelter system
Healey declared a state of emergency in August, citing the increase in new migrant arrivals. In November, the governor reported that the state’s homeless shelter system had reached capacity after providing accommodations to 7,500 families. Those seeking shelter are being placed on a waiting list. She has repeatedly called on the Biden administration to help address the crisis.
San Diego International Airport also began temporarily allowing migrants to move in after the city’s shelter system was overwhelmed in November.
Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport was converted into a makeshift migrant shelter in September. Asylum-seekers were provided with cots tucked away and hidden from the public behind large black curtains.
More Ivy League Fakery: Top Harvard Cancer Researchers Accused of Scientific Fraud Affecting 37 Studies
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is retracting six scientific studies and seeking to correct 31 others that were published by its top researchers, including the hospital’s CEO, according to a report by Ars Technica.
Data sleuth Sholto David and his colleagues on PubPeer, an online forum for researchers to discuss publications, reportedly brought forward the allegations on January 2, when David posted a lengthy list of possible data manipulation from DFCI researchers to his research integrity blog, For Better Science.
In his blog post, David pointed out several data figures that appeared to feature pixel-for-pixel duplications. Researchers are accused of manipulating images of data that include what are known as “Western blots” — used to see proteins in a complex mixture.
Steve Bannon: The Murdochs And Democrats Have Adopted Nikki Haley As Their “Vessel”
Mitch McConnell Lobbies Republican Senators to Pass Secret Migration Bill
Multiple media reports say the still-secret bill is largely complete. But its release has been delayed until McConnell can lock in at least 20 of the 49 GOP Senators, perhaps by making minor changes.
The draft bill is also being reviewed by the Senate’s Committee on Appropriations because the Biden administration wants roughly $15 billion to operate its migration program in 2024. The money is needed by Democrats to process, transport, feed, house, and hide arriving 2024 migrants –and the 6.2 million migrants already admitted— during the run-up to the 2024 election.
The extra spending can also be used to persuade Senators who do not yet support the giveaway.
Wisconsin judge narrows scope of progressive PAC’s challenge to absentee voting rules
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Ann Peacock answered the parties on Wednesday by dismissing all of the plaintiffs’ claims that the rules are facially unconstitutional, which Peacock noted “are the most difficult of constitutional challenges.”
“Regardless of whether the challenged absentee ballot provisions are wise or necessary, the allegations in the complaint, if proven, would not meet the high hurdle for a facial challenge,” Peacock said.
The judge said that hurdle had not been met because “plaintiffs’ own allegations show that the provisions are not unconstitutional in all circumstances,” offering as examples that the drop box prohibition imposes no burden on voters who do not intend to use drop boxes to vote and the cure deadline imposes no burden on voters with nothing to cure. (Emphasis in original.)
Two North Carolina counties withdraw from ‘Zuckerbucks’ alliance as 2024 election cycle begins
However, both Brunswick and Forsyth counties chose to not take money from the alliance when they became members in 2023.
CTCL poured about $350 million into local elections offices managing the 2020 election, with most of the funds donated to the nonprofit by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The nonprofit has claimed its 2020 election grants — colloquially known as “Zuckerbucks” — were allocated without partisan preference to make voting safer amid the pandemic.
However, a House Republican investigation found that less than 1% of the funds were spent on personal protective equipment. Most of the funds were focused on get-out-the-vote efforts and registrations.
TV7 Israel News – Sword of Iron, Israel at War – Day 110 – UPDATE 24.01.24
Israel-Hamas war: Israeli govt gives daily briefing LiveNOW from FOX
Today marks 110 days since the war between Israel and Hamas started on October 7th. Since this the war has spewed into other parts of the world including the U.S., Yemen and Iran. Here’s the latest briefing from the Israeli government as the war continues.
Tensions rising in the Middle East as the war between Israel and Hamas continues, with the US and other forces being sucked into the equation. Overnight we learned the US sent strikes at Iraq and Yemen in retaliation to airstrikes in the red sea. Then followed by Israel sending strikes at Hezbollah after 21 IDF soldiers were killed in the largest attack on the force since October 7th. FOX News correspondent Trey Yingst has the latest from Tel Aviv.
GOP Sen. EMBARRASSES Biden’s Unqualified Air Force Nominee During Tense Confirmation Hearing
The Trudeau Regime Just Got a Whole Lot Worse
Whatever happened to the truckers who dared to protest Justin Trudeau? Some of them are still in jail, years later. Trucker Gord Magill joins Tucker Carlson to explain how darkness has descended on Canada.
19 Republican AGs ask SCOTUS to uphold Florida and Texas social media laws
The Florida law would make it illegal for large social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to ban politicians, while the Texas law prohibits social media companies from moderating content based on a user’s “viewpoint.” NetChoice, a lobby group for tech companies, challenged both laws in court.
The Supreme Court is set to decide whether the laws pass Constitutional muster in a case that examines “whether the First Amendment prohibits viewpoint-, content-, or speaker-based laws restricting select websites from engaging in editorial choices about whether, and how, to publish and disseminate speech—or otherwise burdening those editorial choices through onerous operational and disclosure requirements.” Arguments are scheduled for February 26.
The brief supporting Florida and Texas was submitted by the attorneys general from Missouri, Ohio, Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia. All 19 are Republican.
Canadian Court Rules Trudeau’s ‘Unreasonable’ Crackdown On Trucker Convoy Violated Federal Law
The use of the Emergencies Act “does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness — justification, transparency and intelligibility,” Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley wrote. “I conclude that there was no national emergency justifying the invocation of the Emergencies Act and the decision to do so was therefore unreasonable and ultra vires.” As the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) explained, “ultra vires” is a term courts use “to refer to actions beyond the scope of the law.”
“The potential for serious violence, or being unable to say that there was no potential for serious violence was, of course, a valid reason for concern,” Mosley wrote. “But in my view, it did not satisfy the test required to invoke the Act, particularly as there was no evidence of a similar ‘hardened cell’ elsewhere in the country, only speculation, and the situation at Cou[r]ts had been resolved without violence.”
Mosley further ruled that the government’s financial crackdown violated demonstrators’ Charter rights “by permitting unreasonable search and seizure of the financial information of designated persons and the freezing of their bank and credit card accounts.”
This J6 Defendant Was Thanked For Helping Officers At The Riot. Now Prosecutors Want Him Locked Up For 17 Years
Sarah McAbee’s husband, a former sheriff’s deputy in Tennessee, was incarcerated for 26 months before he was given a trial for his role in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Ronald McAbee now awaits sentencing after being convicted of five felonies in a D.C. district court. Mr. McAbee had already pled guilty to another felony and a misdemeanor related to the riot, and prosecutors are now asking the judge to give him 14 to 17 years behind bars.
When asked by the radio show’s guest host, Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle, why her husband remains behind bars 29 months later, Sarah blamed the lengthy incarceration on what her husband saw at the riot.
Sarah McAbee is now running a nonprofit called “Stand in the Gap Foundation” to offer financial assistance to Jan. 6 defendants and their families as they await trial and sentencing.
A Boeing passenger jet’s nose wheel fell off just before takeoff
Delta Air Lines Flight 982 was moments away from taking off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta on Saturday when the wheel “came off and rolled down the hill,” according to a preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration published Monday.
The plane had 172 passengers — as well as two pilots and four crew members — and was bound for Bogotá, the Colombian capital, Delta said Wednesday.
But passengers were instead removed from the plane and later put on a replacement flight. There were no injuries.
Polio vaccines introduced RSV into populations and now Pfizer’s RSV vaccines carry health risks
It has been known for a long time that polio vaccines contained a monkey virus called the coryza virus, which was later renamed respiratory syncytial virus (“RSV”).
In humans, RSV causes mild, cold-like symptoms but may be severe in a small number of people, especially in infants and older adults.
Since August last year, regulators in Western countries have approved Pfizer’s RSV vaccine for use in pregnant mothers that increases the risk of pre-term birth, which carries risks of short and long-term health complications for the baby.
Biden still a no-show at the disaster: East Palestine resident
East Palestine, Ohio resident Misti Allison discusses how president Biden has still not visited the aftermath of the chemical spill in East Palestine on ‘The Evening Edit.’
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