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Nursing student kidnapped, shot dead by doctor ex-boyfriend who called parents to confess before killing self
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A beloved nursing student in Michigan was kidnapped and killed by her abusive ex-boyfriend, a doctor — who shot her in the head in Illinois and then took his own life in Iowa after first calling his parents.
Gina Nicole Bryant, 25, a student at the University of Michigan-Flint, was killed by Dr. Justin Wendling, 26, of Holly, Michigan, at a gas station in La Salle, Illinois, on Oct. 13, the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office said.
Bryant was reported missing on Oct. 12 after co-workers grew concerned when she did not return to work as a medical assistant after her lunch break and they began receiving odd messages from her phone, the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office said.
An investigation by the sheriff’s office revealed that Wendling was waiting for Bryant when she returned home for lunch.
A neighbor’s surveillance video showed him leading her to his car at 1:42 p.m. that day.
New York Attorney General Letitia James Demands Censorship of Speech Regarding Israel-Hamas Conflict
FIRE, who is already part of a lawsuit against James for a previous New York censorship law that has been accused of violating the First Amendment, wrote to James and requested that she retract her letter.
FIRE, writing in its capacity as counsel for neutral video platform Rumble, demanded the “immediate and unequivocal retraction of [James’] October 12, 2023 investigation letters to six internet platforms, including Rumble.”
In the letter seen by Reclaim The Net, FIRE’s attorneys say James’ demand letters “violate (1) a federal district court’s injunction against the enforcement of New York General Business Law § 394-ccc (the Online Hate Speech Law); (2) the active stay of all proceedings in that case as to Rumble; and (3) the First Amendment rights of the Investigated Platforms and their users.”
James has until the end of the day today to respond.
A trip inside the mind of a Covid jab fanatic
She rolled up her sleeve and took the shot, either her fourth or more likely fifth shot. (Let’s all take a moment to recall Covid jabs have never been tested past three doses in large or even medium-sized placebo-controlled clinical trials for healthy adults. We have no idea what their long-term effects might be.)
Then the story gets hinky. For Maggie admits the side effects from all her previous shots were brutal:
Every dose of the vaccines has hit me hard. I remember trying to peel myself out of bed after the second shot in April, 2021, knowing I had hours of work ahead of me at my home office, even if it hurt to blink. The fall 2021 booster hit me like a ton of bricks, as it wrapped itself in third-trimester fatigue.
Sounds worse than Covid for a healthy thirty-something woman. But Maggie wouldn’t know. As far as she knows, she has never had Covid, making her the last person in in America who has dodged Sars-Cov-2.
The vaccines must work after all!
Though work is relative. Sure enough, last Wednesday’s jab again laid Maggie low:
[I was] miserable on Thursday. I felt so dizzy and hot when I awoke in the morning to send our toddler off to day care that I had to lay down halfway through putting on her shoes. I went back to bed, where I cursed not being able to roll over onto my left side, due to pain at the shot site…
A Terror Apologist Gets the Axe
Bill reports on the New York City doctor who was canned after declaring her support for the killers of Hamas.
Citi banker is FIRED for posting vile anti-Semitism on her Instagram
Citi has fired one of its personal bankers after she defended Hitler and the holocaust in a vile anti-Semitic post following the Hamas terror attacks.
CUNY Brooklyn College graduate Nozima Husainova, 25, sparked outrage with the remark which she posted on her now-deleted Instagram page and she’s since lost her job, the bank confirmed Thursday.
Responding to a post about the Gaza hospital bombing that Israel has denied, she wrote: ‘No wonder why Hitler wanted to get rid of them all,’ complete with a smiley face emoji.
Ebony Alert: Prioritizing Non-White Kids
The Amber Alert system for abducted children isn’t doing enough for non-white minors, allegedly. California has a fix: The Ebony Alert.
No, really. It’s as bad as it sounds. No ivory alert appears to be on the horizon.
Ald. Julia Ramirez, aide “battered” by protesters at rally against plans for Chicago migrant tent camp
A Chicago alderwoman and her aide were battered as they were swarmed by a crowd of protesters Thursday morning, at a rally against plans to build a tent basecamp for migrants in the Brighton Park neighborhood.
Chanting “no camps in Brighton Park,” protesters carried signs and banged on drums as they voiced their opposition to plans to build a tent camp at the site of a vacant lot at 38th and California.
Ald. Julia Ramirez (12th) and an aide stopped by the protest on Thursday morning, and Video recorded by CBS 2 showed the pair were promptly swarmed by protesters. Police officers escorted her and an aide to a squad car and they left the scene.
Police said the two were “battered” during the protest rally. Ramirez’s aide, identified police only as a 21-year-old man, was taken to St. Anthony Hospital in fair condition. Ramirez declined medical attention
NYC woman shoved into moving subway train is ‘fighting for her life,’ officials say
The incident happened around noon Thursday at the Fifth Avenue/53rd St station and the individual being pursued, identified as 39-year-old Sabir Jones, is known to law enforcement, NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper told reporters at the scene.
“As a train was pulling out of the station, she was pushed, causing her head to strike the moving train. The train departed the station and then she fell onto the tracks,” Kemper said. “Fortunately, there were eyewitnesses and good Samaritans that were on that platform that helped her up back off the roadbed onto the platform.”
As of Thursday, 15 people this year have been pushed onto the subway tracks in New York City, down from 22 at this point last year, according to Fox5 NY.
Police hunt serial sex assault suspect who escaped custody in second attempt
A Tennessee man accused of raping women and children has escaped prison in his second getaway attempt, according to local and federal authorities who are now searching for the suspect.
Sean Williams, former owner of Glass and Concrete Contracting LLC in Johnson City, was most recently charged with 20 counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, three counts of child rape and three counts of sexual battery stemming from three separate cases in Washington County. He also faces dozens of federal child sexual abuse charges.
Williams was being transported from the Laurel County Correctional Center in Kentucky back to his home state of Tennessee when he allegedly kicked open the rear window of a vehicle and ran.
He was wearing a “light tan” prison uniform, and he may have shaved his head, according to the Greene County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee.
Reparations make increasingly less sense as America grows more diverse, think tank report argues
As cities across the country debate whether reparations are justified, Manhattan Institute fellow Charles Fain Lehman examined who would likely be responsible for paying reparations, if they truly serve as a form of compensation for past injustices.
He concluded in his report that the only plausible party from whom you can get the money for reparations is the American government and by extension, American taxpayers.
He argues a key problem of such an argument is that many Americans are not descended from ancestors who were in the U.S. prior to abolition.
California’s reparations task force recommended that eligible Black residents each receive payments totaling $1.2 million and the Chicago suburb of Evanston has committed to paying out $10 million in reparations for discriminatory housing policies to its roughly 12,000 Black residents, according to the report.
Reparations have also been proposed or expect to be implemented in other cities in California; Fulton County, Georgia; Shelby County, Tennessee; Boston, Massachusetts; Detroit, Michigan, St. Paul, Minnesota and Durham, North Carolina.
World News.
Israel war live updates: US destroyer shot down missiles from Yemen possibly targeting Israel, Pentagon says
A US destroyer in the Red Sea shot down three missiles launched by Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen, possibly targeting Israel, the Pentagon said.
Spokesman Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder told reporters: “The crew of the guided missile destroyer USS Carney, operating in the northern Red Sea, earlier today shot down three land attack cruise missiles and several drones that were launched by Houthi forces in Yemen.”
Ryder said there were no casualties to US forces or civilians.
“We cannot say for certain what these missiles and drones were targeting, but they were launched from Yemen heading north along the Red Sea, potentially towards targets in Israel.”
“This attack may be ongoing, so if we have more information to share, we will.”
Migrant curfew ordered in Italian border town after deadly brawl leaves residents feeling unsafe
Local residents of an Italian border town with France are growing increasingly concerned about their security amid rising crime rates that made headlines on Saturday after a brawl between two migrants resulted in the death of a Nigerian national.
Ventimiglia, located in northern Italy just 7 kilometers from the French border, has become a hotspot for migrants traveling from Italy’s southern coast to northwest Europe, and frustration is mounting among the locals at the rising migrant population.
Questions are now being asked of local officials following an incident between two Nigerian migrants outside the Anthony Bar in Cesare Battisti Square, near the train station in downtown Ventimiglia, shortly after 7.30 p.m. on Saturday evening.
According to the Ansa news agency, both men were seriously wounded in a brawl that left one dead after being stabbed in the throat and the other hospitalized at the nearby Borea Hospital with chest wounds.
American Forces Largely Thwart Drone Attack Headed Toward Base in Syria, Minor Injuries Reported
One drone was shot down, but another caused minor injuries, said one of the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter before an official announcement about the incident.
The attacks follow similar drone strikes over the past few days against U.S. and coalition bases in Iraq amid simmering anger in the region after an explosion at a Gaza hospital killed hundreds of people.
The al-Tanf garrison in southeastern Syria is at a sensitive juncture often used by Iranian-backed militants to ferry weapons to Hezbollah.
In its report on the al-Tanf attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Iran-backed militants launched three one-way attack drones in an early morning strike on the al-Tanf garrison. The report did not specify the group responsible.
Xi pledges new Russia-China economic corridor
China intends to develop an economic corridor linking it with Russia via Mongolia, President Xi Xinping announced at a meeting with his Mongolian counterpart, Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, on Thursday.
The Chinese leader pledged his country would continue to support ‘robust’ economic relations between the three states.
“China is ready to expand the trilateral cooperation with Mongolia and Russia and to continuously work on the establishment of the trilateral economic corridor,” Xi said during the meeting, according to China Central Television.
In mid-September, Moscow also hailed the growing cooperation with China and Mongolia, saying that relations between the three neighbors have been developing “dynamically and fruitfully.”
At that time, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Xi and Khurelsukh on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit.
Israel to fulfill its war goals, regardless of cost; Iran readies its proxies TV7 Israel News 19.10
1) Israel has entered into the thirteenth day of war, since the Islamist terror groups from the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip exacted a massacre on Israel’s southern civilian communities.
2) British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asserts London’s unwavering support for the State of Israel.
3) The Islamic Republic of Iran has reportedly instructed its proxies, throughout the Middle East, to prepare for war.
Israeli Hospital Staffers Stunned by Savagery of Oct. 7th Hamas Attack, Yet Still Treat Terrorists
Israeli hospitals are preparing for an influx of casualties once greater military action begins in Gaza and possibly near the Lebanon border. At the same time, they’re still reeling from the Hamas terror attack on October seventh.
CBN News spoke with Dr. Shlomi Codish, Director General of Sokora Medical Center in southern Israel near Gaza and one of the nation’s leading hospitals. The emergency department doctors and nurses treated nearly seven hundred patients immediately following the terror attack, which is about four times their usual number.
This is the drug Hamas terrorists took to help them slaughter Israelis
Captagon gained notoriety in 2015 when it was discovered to be used by ISIS fighters to suppress fear prior to carrying out terrorist operations. As the influence of terrorist organizations like ISIS diminished, Lebanon and Syria took the reins and began producing and distributing the drug on a large scale.
Gaza, in particular, became a popular market for the drug, especially among addicted young individuals.
Captagon belongs to the amphetamine family and was initially developed to address attention disorders, narcolepsy, and depression. Despite its highly addictive nature and potential for inducing psychotic reactions, it continues to enjoy popularity in the Middle East due to its affordability and ease of manufacturing. In poorer countries, the drug can be purchased for a dollar or two, while in wealthier nations, it may cost up to 20 dollars per pill.
Israel Daily News – War Day 12, October 19, 2023
UK’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak lands in Israel, as the IDF continues targeting Hamas officials, and in light of US President Biden’s visit the Rafah crossing will open for UN trucks carrying humanitarian aid. And much more.
Biden Aid for Gaza Spurs Controversy: ‘There’s No Way Hamas Doesn’t Get This Money’
Trey Yingst: This is the brutal reality of what Hamas did (GRAPHIC)
Hero reporter saves slain journalist’s children after Hamas attack
Ilana Curiel, a Ynet journalist from South Israel, tells FOX News about the loss of her friend and photojournalist Roy Edan who was killed along with his wife after Hamas terrorists raided their home
American journalist arrested in Russia under catch-all ‘foreign agent’ law
Kurmasheva was initially detained at Kazan Airport on June 2 as she was returning to Prague from visiting family in the region.
Security officials took away her U.S. and Russian passports and fined her for failing to register them with the authorities, according to RFE.
She was expecting her travel documents to be given back when she was re-arrested and charged.
RFE, which is funded by the U.S. Congress, said Kurmasheva covered ethnic minority communities in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan reporting on efforts to protect and preserve the Tatar language and culture amid increased pressure on Tatars from Russian authorities in recent years.
Russian human rights group OVD-Info said it was alarmed that Kurmasheva had been charged using an article of the foreign agent law agent covering the gathering of information on Russian military activities that “could be used against the security of the Russian Federation.”
UN Human Rights Committee participants turn backs on US ambassador (VIDEO)
Dozens of activists held a demonstration before a sitting of the UN’s independent Human Rights Committee in Geneva on Wednesday, as US Ambassador to the organization’s Human Rights Council Michele Taylor delivered a speech defending Washington’s human rights record.
According to the Associated Press, as many as 140 protesters traveled from Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam, among others, to protest Taylor’s speech.
When she began her address, the activists, who were sitting throughout the chamber, stood up and turned their backs to the US ambassador.
Politics.
US Senator Michael Bennet Invokes EU’s Censorship Demands, Calls For Big Tech to Censor “Misinformation”
The turbulent situation between Israel and Hamas was recently seized upon by Democratic Senator Michael Bennet as another pretext to launch an offensive against the digital landscape.
Bennet targeted X, Meta, TikTok, and Alphabet in a letter dated October 17, imploring them to “extinguish the proliferation of inaccurate and misleading content” related to the Middle East conflict.
On the surface, the Senator’s request appears aligned with social responsibility while mitigating harm. However, the true objective surfaced, revealing Bennet’s obsession with enhancing the influence of censorship-prone entities that preside over content veracity.
Bennet’s stance is in alignment with European Union officials who are exerting pressure on these tech giants to aggressively deal with misinformation, via a letter addressed to the executives.
After House Approval, What Will Massachusetts Senate Do With “Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act”?
While the Democratic majority was willing to exempt off-duty cops from the concealed carry prohibitions included in the bill, they weren’t about to throw lawful gun owners in the state any bones.
Instead, while claiming that the legislation will reduce “gun violence” in the state, the House majority voted to subject legal gun owners to a plethora of new restrictions on their fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
Rep. David K. Muradian, Jr., R-Worcester, called the legislation an “egregious infringement” on all lawful gun owners of Massachusetts. He said that creating further legislation on firearms doesn’t reduce gun violence.
Muradian criticized the gun violence data Day cited because it did not differentiate between someone who was in lawful or illegal possession of a firearm.
“Passing such an overreaching piece of legislation where our laws are already some of the strongest in the country with actual data showing a 2% death rate in Massachusetts, to me, seems extreme,” he said.
Peter J. Durant, R-Worcester, said that legislators need to focus more on prosecuting criminals who would engage in “felonious acts” instead of restricting firearms.
“Firearms of any sort or capacity are perfectly safe in the right hands. Let’s not leave them only in the wrong hands, he said. “Instead, maybe we can focus on the social issues that plague our society.”
Huckabee Sanders Signs Order Banning ‘Woke’ Terms Like ‘Pregnant People’ From State Govt
Jim Jordan Speaks After GOP Meeting On His Bid Speakership
Nicole Malliotakis: ‘I Believe’ There Will Be Vote Today On Jim Jordan For Speaker
Farage: Say NO to refugees from Gaza.
Many Arab states won’t take any refugees from Gaza because they don’t want to import terrorism.
If their neighbours aren’t prepared to take any, I don’t see why we should either.
Republicans blast reported Jordan deal to make McHenry temporary speaker
Some Republicans were immediately critical of the news, which was reported by Punchbowl News. Whether Jordan goes through with the plan or can be dissuaded by other Republicans remains to be seen.
“There is no path for a GOP-only empowerment of a Speaker Pro-Tem so it will necessarily require Democrat votes,”
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “It is, in any event, a fool’s errand – breaking with tradition & setting constitutionally questionable precedent to empower someone who is NOT the duly elected Speaker but will be empowered to negotiate a CR & massive supplemental bills (approx. $100BB) for Israel & Ukraine (& $ to process more illegals).
“It will then set the [House GOP] up for a Xmas omni ‘deal,’” he added. “I strongly oppose.”
State Department official calls it quits after Biden says US will support Israel: ‘Policy disagreement’
Josh Paul, who worked for the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, where he was responsible for transferring arms to key American allies, posted his resignation letter on social media. In it, he said “continued lethal assistance to Israel” prompted his decision to leave.
Greene requests Capitol Police preserve footage, police reports from House protest demanding Israel-Hamas cease-fire
“By launching an insurrection in the Capitol complex, these actors caused elevators to be shut down, staircases and hallways to be blocked, exits to be made inaccessible, and official legislative business to be obstructed, putting Members of Congress, their staffs and Capitol visits at risk,” Greene wrote in the letter.
The Georgia Republican called on the House Administration Committee to investigate the incident and review all footage and evidence from Capitol Police, writing that the “insurrectionists involved must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Greene railed against the protests in a series of posts on X, calling the protest “an insurrection of Capitol Hill.”
Victor Davis Hanson warns America is having ‘complete meltdown’
Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the flow of disinformation out of the Middle East and the Hamas sympathizers in America on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
Reports: Jim Jordan Will Not Hold a Third Ballot for Speaker
Newsmax has learned that Jordan remains interested in the chamber’s top job and plans to use the time from now until shore up votes between now and January.
President Joe Biden, a Democrat, is expected to ask Congress this week to approve as much as $60 billion for Ukraine and $10 billion for Israel, and funding for U.S. government operations is also due to expire in less than a month.
DEMS ‘OWN THIS’: Rep. Rashida Tlaib is ‘going to get people killed,’ panelist warns
FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo, Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher, Kaylee McGhee White and Strategic Wealth Partners CEO Mark Tepper discuss Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s response to the Gaza hospital attack, pro-Paletstine protesters swarming the Capitol building and the impact of the Middle East war on national security.
Sidney Powell Takes Plea Deal In 2020 Georgia Election Case
Powell pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference during a live streamed court hearing Thursday morning, just a few days before she was set to begin trial on October 23rd with co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro.
According to the agreement read in court, she will get 12 months of probation for each count, as well as a $6,000 fine. Powell will also be required to testify at future trials and write an apology to the people of Georgia.
Powell becomes the second person in the case to plead guilty to charges after a grand jury indicted Trump and 18 others in August.
Bail bondsman Scott Hall pleaded guilty in September on five counts, after being accused of willfully collaborating with other co-defendants, to tamper with electronic voting machine equipment.
Commentary.
Does Iran Realize Its Own Growing Danger?
If the two huge American carrier groups parked in the Eastern Mediterranean are attacked by either Iranian or Hezbollah missiles, public opinion will force even Biden to retaliate. And the response will not be street-fighting block to block in Tehran or Beirut.
Instead, it will be a medieval rain of destruction on either or both from the air.
After the Afghanistan humiliation, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese flagrant spy balloon mission over the American heartland, eight-million illegal aliens waved in across the southern border, and woke hysterias, Americans may have finally woken up that they dangerously—almost fatally—have squandered prior hard-won deterrence and must reboot.
To play its global jihadist role, Iran must always keep upping its terrorist ante and constantly louder threats.
It assumes the Middle East is business as usual—when it is insidiously becoming just the opposite. An appeasing Biden is not driving events but being driven by them, whether he knows it or not.
The Iranians have little clue that that they and their vassals are one stupid missile volley, or one reckless intervention away from a devastating Western response that would not necessarily be “proportionate.”
And such a retaliation would be welcomed by Iran’s numerous enemies, privately applauded by its small number of supposed “friends,” and largely shrugged off by its even fewer allies.
Did Rashida Tlaib lead an ‘INSURRECTION’ on Capitol grounds?
For the second time in recent history, a mob of protesters stormed a building on Capitol Hill and disrupted official proceedings.
But Glenn doubts anything will be done in response to this “insurrection” because it can’t be blamed on Donald Trump.
This time, it was pro-Palestinian protesters, including a Jewish group, fueled by Democratic politicians including Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
But this is just one of many recent protests in support of Palestinians and Hamas over Israel. Others on college campuses have called for Palestinian revolution “from the river to the sea.” Glenn reviews the latest news and asks, are university campuses breeding antisemitism?
After the Slaughter on Oct 7, How Could You Not Call Hamas, Nazis?
In the aftermath of the atrocious slaughter of Israelis by the terrorist group Hamas, anti-Israel groups have attempted to lionize the Palestinians in their battle against Israel. Now, Mark exposes the Palestinians’ history of their aid to Hitler and the Nazi party.
Tucker Carlson Talks With Vivek Ramaswamy On Avoiding WWIII
Tucker Carlson spoke again with presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
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