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May 13, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
Education

We’re So Back: Confederate Leaders’ Names Restored in Schools.

A Virginia school board has voted to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school. Following a 5-1 vote, the Shenandoah County school board will restore Mountain View High School’s former name, Stonewall Jackson High School, and Honey Run Elementary’s former name, Ashby Lee Elementary.

The decision overturns the previous school board’s 2020 decision to remove Confederate names amid the violent Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and riots that saw many references to American and especially Southern heritage erased to appease far-left activists.

Senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, Rivka Maizlish, complained they had never before seen school authorities reinstate Confederate-linked names after their erasure by leftist activists. The SPLC keeps a database tracking over 2,000 Confederate memorials nationwide.

Those on the school board who voted for the change have stated that the 2020 vote to overhaul the school names was conducted without sufficient consideration of public opinion or due process. The school board underwent a drastic change after the 2023 elections, instituting the “first 100 percent conservative board since anyone can remember.”

The school board states that private donations will fund the costs of the name restorations.

However, the Joe Biden regime is continuing to drive the BLM agenda elsewhere in Virginia. In December 2023, the 98-year-old Tribute to the Women of the Southern Confederacy statue was pulled down in Jacksonville, Florida. The Biden Pentagon toppled the Confederate Memorial, intended to represent reconciliation between North and South, in Arlington National Cemetery the same month.

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A Virginia school board has voted to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school. Following a 5-1 vote, the Shenandoah County school board will restore Mountain View High School's former name, Stonewall Jackson High School, and Honey Run Elementary's former name, Ashby Lee Elementary. show more
May 13, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News

PSYWAR: U.S. Army Drops Fiery Recruitment Ad Featuring Baphomet Statue and ‘Invisible Hands.’

The U.S. Army has released a recruitment video for PSYOP Soldiers titled “GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE 2,” attempting to lure new members with dark imagery and a suggestion that “invisible hands” move every choice people make.

“The most powerful weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed,” the video declares. “Behind every idea, a belief; behind every choice, invisible hands; behind every emotion, fire,” it continues.

The video contains disturbing imagery, including a human-like mannequin burning, a silhouette of a Baphomet-like figure with the head of an animal surrounded by flames, and a ticking watch with ‘PSYWAR’ written on its face.

Eventually, the video links to the U.S. Army Special Operations Recruiting website GoArmySOF.army.mil, with the page for Psychological Operations front and center.

“Someone who watches it and thinks, wow, that was effective, how was it constructed — that’s the kind of creative mindset we’re looking for,” said the 8th Psychological Operations Group major who created the video.

“We’re all nerds,“ he said of PSYOP Soldiers. Recruits are “writers, they’re great thinkers. They’re idea people,” he added.

While it is technically unlawful for PSYOP Soldiers to use psychological warfare against the American public directly, the Army website notes they can, “when called upon by the President, provide civil authority information support.”

Presently, the government uses its resources to influence or “correct” public opinion, sometimes through third parties. A U.S. government private-public partnership organization called the Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC) tracks Americans with certain political beliefs. During the coronavirus pandemic, the government pressured social media firms to censor Americans and alter the public discourse around the virus and vaccinations.

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The U.S. Army has released a recruitment video for PSYOP Soldiers titled "GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE 2," attempting to lure new members with dark imagery and a suggestion that "invisible hands" move every choice people make. show more
Biden Border
May 13, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Economy
Immigration

What’s Keeping Inflation & Interest Rates So High? Biden’s Great Replacement Policies.

Joe Biden’s high-volume immigration policy is driving the rising housing inflation linked to surges in interest and mortgage rates, concedes the Wall Street Journal. Chief economics correspondent Nick Timiraos says one “key reason market rents have moderated is that the industry is adding a record amount of new apartment supply.” However, industry executives advise that “supply is being quickly absorbed because of increased immigration,” among other factors.

The Federal Reserve has been trying to get inflation down to two percent, but an expected slowdown in the cost of housing has not materialized.

“Fed officials, Wall Street investors, and private-sector economists have expected housing inflation to slow since late 2022,” the WSJ reports, adding, “Housing inflation has indeed slowed from a peak of 8.2 percent one year ago – but only to 5.6 percent in March.”

Jay Parsons, Texas-based apartment owner Madera Residential’s head of residential strategy, says this is “a much slower pace than pretty much anybody anticipated.”

The Biden regime had planned on being able to count on a general improvement in the inflation situation and the economy generally heading into the November elections. However, the situation is poorer than expected, with inflation figures worse than projected and job growth shaky. Research suggests the “American Dream” has become unaffordable to anyone earning less than $100,000 nationwide and, in many states, less than $150,000.

Illegal immigration, in particular, has been extremely high under Biden, with a majority of voters suspecting the Democrat incumbent is allowing it for partisan advantage.

News that immigration is helping keep housing costs, interest rates, and mortgage rates high in the U.S. comes as a report in the United Kingdom confirms record-breaking mass migration has exacerbated housing shortages and is driving rents and house prices upwards.

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Joe Biden's high-volume immigration policy is driving the rising housing inflation linked to surges in interest and mortgage rates, concedes the Wall Street Journal. Chief economics correspondent Nick Timiraos says one "key reason market rents have moderated is that the industry is adding a record amount of new apartment supply." However, industry executives advise that "supply is being quickly absorbed because of increased immigration," among other factors. show more
May 13, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare

Michael Cohen’s ‘Perverse’ History Of ‘Serial Perjury.’

Disgraced lawyer Michael Cohen, who takes the stand today in former President Donald J. Trump‘s Manhattan-based hush money trial, is not the ideal witness for District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s prosecutors. Cohen has a sordid legal history and served a prison stint for fraud, tax evasion, and lying to Congress.

COHEN THE FRAUDSTER.

In late 2018, following what appears to have been a nearly year-long investigation into tax evasion campaign finance fraud allegations, Cohen surrendered himself to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He pleaded guilty to eight federal charges, including tax evasion, making false statements to a financial institution, violating the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971, and making an excessive contribution on behalf of a candidate. The last charge stems from the alleged $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.

After his conviction, Cohen began speaking to the press through his attorney, Lanny Davis, a long-time Clinton confidant. This, arguably, marked the start of the events that would culminate in the ongoing hush money trial brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. In what appeared to be a ploy to avoid any serious jail time, Cohen sat for over 50 hours of interviews with the Mueller Investigation — with little coming of his testimony. In December 2018, a federal judge sentenced Cohen to three years in prison. The disgraced lawyer was also hit with a $50,000 fine, ordered to pay $1.4 million in restitution, and made to forfeit an additional $500,000.

‘PERVERSE’ AND A ‘SERIAL PERJUROR.’

At the same time, in November 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress. The disgraced lawyer admitted he misled the Senate and House Intelligence Committee during his 2017 testimony. Cohen was ordered to serve a two-month prison sentence. In 2019, Cohen was disbarred as an attorney in the State of New York.

In March of this year, Cohen asked a federal judge to lift the conditions of his early release from prison, citing his ongoing testimony against former President Trump. The judge denied the request by Cohen, calling it the ethics of reasoning “perverse.” In addition, the judge noted that Cohen was a serial perjurer.

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Disgraced lawyer Michael Cohen, who takes the stand today in former President Donald J. Trump's Manhattan-based hush money trial, is not the ideal witness for District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecutors. Cohen has a sordid legal history and served a prison stint for fraud, tax evasion, and lying to Congress. show more

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May 13, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Corruption

Jury Selection in Democrat Bob Menendez Corruption Trial Begins.

Jury selection begins on Monday in the second federal corruption trial of New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez. Menendez and his wife, Nadine, are charged with accepting bribes from three affluent businessmen. The businessmen were charged alongside the Democrat, although one of them, Jose Uribe, had already pleaded guilty. He will testify against Menendez and the other two businessmen, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana.

Prosecutors say Menendez meddled in criminal investigations to benefit the governments of Egypt and Qatar. He is alleged to have used his influence to lobby the U.S. government and interfere in criminal investigations on behalf of Uribe, Daibes, Hana, and the foreign governments and interests tied to them.

Menendez was previously indicted for bribery, fraud, and other offenses in 2015, related to claims he used his position to lobby the Dominican government on behalf of a donor. Jurors failed to agree on any of the charges, resulting in a mistrial, though the Democrat was still found to have “violated Senate Rules, federal law, and applicable standards of conduct” by the United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics.

Nevertheless, the Democratic Party did not expel him, and he retained the chairmanship of the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He lost this after the latest round of indictments but remains a committee member. He bragged in November that his intelligence clearance had not been revoked despite the fact he is being tried as a foreign agent.

Menendez has said he will not run for reelection as a Democrat in November — although he may run as an independent, endangering the party’s slim Senate majority.

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Jury selection begins on Monday in the second federal corruption trial of New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez. Menendez and his wife, Nadine, are charged with accepting bribes from three affluent businessmen. The businessmen were charged alongside the Democrat, although one of them, Jose Uribe, had already pleaded guilty. He will testify against Menendez and the other two businessmen, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana. show more
May 13, 2024
Ed Kozak
Election Integrity

Ballot Drop Boxes May Be Back With State Supreme Court Hearing Oral Arguments TODAY.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will today hear oral arguments on a crucial case involving the future of absentee ballot drop boxes in the state’s elections. The case presents the court’s liberal majority with a chance to reverse a ruling from less than two years ago, which significantly curtailed the number of such drop boxes.

If the court, with its current 4-3 liberal majority, reverses the earlier ruling, it could lead to a return of widespread use of absentee ballot drop boxes in time for the upcoming presidential election. Democrats and progressive groups have filed numerous briefs urging the court to reverse the 2022 decision. Conservative groups, along with the Wisconsin GOP, are pressing to uphold the current restrictions.

The Wisconsin GOP Chairman, Brian Schimming, warned about potential “hijinks” and concerns about the security of drop boxes. Moreover, he indicated that a change this close to the elections could fuel confusion.

The state high court ruled in 2022 that only the state Legislature—currently under Republican control—has the authority to make rules concerning absentee ballot drop boxes and not the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Priorities USA, a Democratic group, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn this ruling. The current liberal majority on the court has agreed to review whether the prior ruling was wrongly decided.

Many of the ballot drop boxes in Wisconsin in 2020 were financed by Mark Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and overwhelmingly favored Democrats. Last month, Wisconsinites voted to amend their constitution to prevent state election officials from using private grants to administer elections.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will today hear oral arguments on a crucial case involving the future of absentee ballot drop boxes in the state’s elections. The case presents the court's liberal majority with a chance to reverse a ruling from less than two years ago, which significantly curtailed the number of such drop boxes. show more
May 13, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Lawfare

Michael Cohen Testifies Today, With Data Showing Half the Country Knows He’s Dishonest.

Michael Cohen, the disbarred lawyer and convicted perjurer due to testify against Donald Trump in Manhattan on Monday, is viewed as dishonest by a plurality of Americans. Almost half, 48 percent, of people polled by POLITICO and Ipsos, say they believe he will be very or somewhat dishonest on the stand, against 47 percent who believe he will be very or somewhat honest.

Poll respondents were informed Cohen “was a long-time lawyer and ‘fixer’ for Trump who has since turned against Trump” and that he “pled guilty in 2018 in federal court to lying to U.S. congressional committees, financial fraud, and campaign-finance violations.”

They were further informed that Cohen “was sentenced to three years in prison as a result and lost his law license” and later “implied that he lied to the federal judge who accepted his guilty plea and that he is, in fact, innocent of some of those offenses.”

Nevertheless, 23 percent of Democrat respondents said they believed his testimony would be “very honest,” and 51 percent of Democrat respondents said he would be “somewhat honest,” suggesting a partisan bias.

HUNG JURY?

POLITICO notes in its report that the Manhattan jury pool is “bad for Trump” — although “not as bad as it is in Washington,” where Joe Biden’s Justice Department is prosecuting him. The news outlet adds an outright acquittal of the former president “seems highly unlikely” but that even a single juror could hang the jury and cause a mistrial.

Adding that Trump “will probably be convicted,” they warn it is still “quite plausible” Cohen’s credibility issues could result in a mistrial if jurors’ views of him “are ultimately in line” with its national poll.

Cohen has been grifting from anti-Trumpers on the China-controlled TikTok app in recent months. He is also a contributor to MeidasTouch, a far-left news organization pushing hoax stories against Trump with White House support, funded by billionaires linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Michael Cohen, the disbarred lawyer and convicted perjurer due to testify against Donald Trump in Manhattan on Monday, is viewed as dishonest by a plurality of Americans. Almost half, 48 percent, of people polled by POLITICO and Ipsos, say they believe he will be very or somewhat dishonest on the stand, against 47 percent who believe he will be very or somewhat honest. show more
May 12, 2024
News

RFK Flip Flops on Abortion AGAIN, Calls Last Week’s Position ‘Gruesome.’

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for the second time in a year, revisited his position on abortion limits in the U.S., following severe criticism from his own campaign members. In a podcast with Sage Steele, he endorsed the idea of full-term – aka “up to the point of birth” – abortions.

However, owing to campaign backlash, Kennedy pivoted, posting on social media that abortion legality should be upheld to a specific number of weeks, thereafter imposing restrictions.

“Even in the reddest of red states, voters reject total abortion bans,” Kennedy tweeted, adding: “And on the other end, almost no one supports gruesome third-trimester abortions except to save the life of the mother.”

Kennedy’s shift came after Angela Stanton King, a campaign adviser, expressed shock at his backing for late-term abortions.

Even Kennedy’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, shared that she wasn’t privy to his initial perspective. She insisted that Kennedy believed in imposing abortion limits.

The campaign subsequently issued a statement stating that Kennedy believed in the mother’s final decision-making right, creating yet another contradiction.

Kennedy’s tendency to alter his stance on abortion was observed previously when he initially supported a federal abortion ban after three months, only to retract this support mere hours later.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for the second time in a year, revisited his position on abortion limits in the U.S., following severe criticism from his own campaign members. In a podcast with Sage Steele, he endorsed the idea of full-term – aka "up to the point of birth" – abortions. show more
May 12, 2024
War

Russian Forces Push Deeper Into Ukraine.

Russian forces persist in making headway across the northern region of Ukraine, according to Sunday morning reports. A series of smaller border settlements are now under Russian control, with Ukrainian soldiers abandoning long-held positions.

“Today, during heavy fighting, our defenders were forced to withdraw from a few more of their positions, and today, another settlement has come completely under Russian control,” said Hostri Kartuzy, a Ukrainian special forces unit. “The Russians are dying in droves. But they are pressing on regardless and succeeding in some areas.”

Russian troops are moving further into Ukraine, posing a threat to a few small towns on the periphery of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.

The recent Russian offensive, launched unexpectedly on Friday, involves fighter jets, artillery units, infantry, and armor. These forces have been rapidly crossing the northeastern border between Russia and Ukraine.

Meanwhile, cross-border fire continues to escalate in the area. On Sunday, Russia accused Ukraine of hitting a multi-story building in the Russian city of Belgorod, located approximately 45 miles from Kharkiv. Russian state-run news outlet, TASS, reported a presumed casualty count of 17, though the number of deaths remains to be specified.

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Russian forces persist in making headway across the northern region of Ukraine, according to Sunday morning reports. A series of smaller border settlements are now under Russian control, with Ukrainian soldiers abandoning long-held positions. show more
May 12, 2024
News

Migrants Send Mayor List of 13 Demands, Including Culturally Appropriate Ingredients for Meals.

Denver Mayor Michael Johnston is facing a formal demand from local migrants. A list of 13 conditions was submitted earlier this week, pressing the city to accommodate their needs to vacate the overcrowded encampments and relocate to shelters. Among these demands were calls for free immigration lawyers, fresh ingredients for self-preparation of meals, unlimited access to showers, frequent medical checkups, and uniform housing support.

Additional demands by the migrants encompass an orderly and just process for their eviction, job support, ensured privacy, the eradication of abuse, school transportation, and family unity. The migrants also requested a meeting with Denver city officials and a helpline to report the instances of mistreatment, tying these conditions to their relocation to shelters.

The demands emerged in light of the recent implementation of the Asylum Seekers Program by Mayor Johnston. Under this policy, recent migrants lodged in city-funded shelters in Denver receive food and rental aid for six months, as well as free legal assistance. However, the time span for their stay in shelters, which used to range between two weeks and 42 days, has been sharply curtailed to 24 to 72 hours.

This change, in addition to Denver’s accommodation of over 40,000 migrants last year at an expense of $68 million, has sparked intense criticism. Republican Representative Lauren Boebert condemned the migrant proposal, describing it as utterly unreasonable, and articulated her disapproval of Denver’s invitation for residents to host migrants in their residences.

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Denver Mayor Michael Johnston is facing a formal demand from local migrants. A list of 13 conditions was submitted earlier this week, pressing the city to accommodate their needs to vacate the overcrowded encampments and relocate to shelters. Among these demands were calls for free immigration lawyers, fresh ingredients for self-preparation of meals, unlimited access to showers, frequent medical checkups, and uniform housing support. show more