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Willis
January 15, 2024
Corruption
Election 2024

Georgia DA Fani Willis Blames Racism For Allegation of Improper Relationship With Special Prosecutor, While Not Denying It.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is prosecuting Donald Trump and others for alleged election interference, has claimed that allegations of her having an improper romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade are racist, and that efforts are being focused on Wade due to his skin color.

“First thing they say, ‘Oh, she’s gonna play the race card now,'” said Willis during an appearance at Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta on Sunday.

Court documents filed earlier this month allege that Willis hired Wade, her alleged romantic partner, to work on the Trump case, resulting in personal financial gain for the DA in the form of extravagant vacations the pair went on that were funded by the proceeds Wade’s firm received for working the case.

Accusations against Willis include ‘improper’ and ‘clandestine’ involvement with Wade at the same time as appointments were being made for the 2020 election interference case. The complainant, Mike Roman, a former 2020 Trump campaign official, claims that the integrity of the case was compromised due to the alleged affair. Roman has requested the charges against him be dropped on these grounds, arguing that Willis chose to appoint her romantic partner, who was a married man.

Fulton County records show that since January 2022 Wade has been paid approximately $654,000 in legal fees, a sum directly approved by Willis. A call embodied in the court documents requests that the entirety of the district attorney’s office, including Willis and Wade, be disqualified from conducting the prosecution of the case.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is prosecuting Donald Trump and others for alleged election interference, has claimed that allegations of her having an improper romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade are racist, and that efforts are being focused on Wade due to his skin color. show more
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January 15, 2024
War
World

German Govt Plans Predict 2025 War with Russia.

Germany is readying itself for a potential attack on NATO by Russian forces in 2025, according to leaked plans published by German newspaper Bild.

The secret documents from the German Ministry of Defense detail a step-by-step projection that sees Russia escalating the Ukraine conflict into an all-out European war over the next year and a half. The documents predict that Russia will take Ukraine and then launch cyber attacks and foment violence in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

This violence, the documents claim, would then be used by Putin as a pretense to amass troops in Belarus and Western Russia, before moving more troops and missiles to Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave that lies between Poland and Lithuania. Russian military buildup in the region would then force NATO to engage in a similar troop buildup, which would be portrayed in Russia as proof of an impending attack and used by Putin as casus belli.

“[C]onsidering different scenarios, even if they are extremely unlikely, is part of everyday military business, especially in training,” a German defense official, who refused to comment on the specific doomsday scenario, told Bild.

The secret plans were leaked just days after British PM Rishi Sunak announced a new security agreement with Ukraine and pledged more than $3 billion in additional aid to the country, and also follow a warning by the Swedish civil defense minister that his country could soon find itself in a war.

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Germany is readying itself for a potential attack on NATO by Russian forces in 2025, according to leaked plans published by German newspaper Bild. show more
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January 15, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Breaking
News

SecDef Lloyd Austin Released From Hospital.

Joe Biden’s Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, remained hospitalized at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center until Monday, January 15th, with White House National Security spokesman John Kirby telling reporters: “obviously [his doctors] still feel like he may need some additional care.”

Reports suggest Austin, 70, was released on Monday morning, with Kirby claiming part of his ongoing care is “just physical therapy.” Kirby also said “there is routine regular communication” between the Defense Secretary and President Joe Biden.

The White House was left in the dark when Austin was initially readmitted to hospital on January 1st, following a scheduled, elective procedure on December 22nd related to prostate cancer. Not until the following day was a visit by a junior aide arranged, resulting in the transfer of some of his responsibilities to Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks.

Hicks was not informed of Austin’s condition, however, and was herself on vacation in Puerto Rico at the time. She was only advised of Austin’s hospitalization on January 4th, as the U.S. military was conducting a strike in Iraq. Hicks then passed the information to the White House. Congress was informed of the situation a day later, just minutes before the press.

Biden has agreed that Austin’s failure to inform the White House of his hospitalization was a lapse in judgment but says he still has confidence in the defense chief. Leading presidential candidate Donald Trump believes Austin should be fired, not only for going missing but for his involvement in debacles including the Fall of Kabul.

Austin’s hospitalization comes as the U.S. is embarking on a new military intervention in Yemen against Houthi militants.

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Joe Biden's Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, remained hospitalized at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center until Monday, January 15th, with White House National Security spokesman John Kirby telling reporters: "obviously [his doctors] still feel like he may need some additional care." show more
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January 15, 2024
News

Judge Allows Trump Testimony In Carroll Defamation Case.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan has given former President Donald Trump the go-ahead to testify in writer E. Jean Carroll’s impending defamation suit against him.

Kaplan’s order, issued Sunday, set Trump’s testimony for Monday, January 22, and followed a filing by Trump’s attorney Alina Habba, who argued that the former president can “still offer considerable testimony in his defense.”

Habba noted that an individual seeking punitive damages in a defamation case in New York must prove libelous statements were made out of hatred or ill will and argued that Trump should be allowed to testify as to whether hatred or ill will were behind his comments that Carroll claims are defamatory. Trump expressed his intention to testify at the trial earlier this month.

This suit against Trump is the second one filed on Carroll’s behalf for defamation. Last year, a jury granted Carroll $5 million in damages for sexual abuse and defamation in a separate lawsuit against him. Carroll brought legal action against Trump after he dismissed her sexual assault claim, which allegedly occurred in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and described her as a deceitful “wack job.”

Trump previously requested a one-week postponement of the trial, due to start Tuesday, to attend his mother-in-law’s funeral, which Kaplan denied. Kaplan also previously ordered that Trump is not allowed to argue that he never raped Carroll, a bizarre ruling given that Trump’s denial of the allegations is at the heart of Carroll’s defamation case against him.

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U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan has given former President Donald Trump the go-ahead to testify in writer E. Jean Carroll's impending defamation suit against him. show more
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trump vaccines
January 15, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

America’s Globalist Junta Openly Brags How It’ll Stop Trump in 2nd Term.

With Donald Trump regularly beating Joe Biden in national and swing state polls, a “loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers is quietly devising plans” to stop the America First leader from implementing his Agenda 47 policies.

“We’re already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types of things that [Trump] might do so that we’re ready to bring lawsuits if we have to,” explained Institution for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection executive director Mary McCord.

Democracy Forward president Skye Perryman said her organization was also “preparing for litigation and preparing to use every tool in the toolbox that our democracy provides to provide the American people an ability to fight back” against a second Trump administration.

“We believe this is an existential moment for American democracy and it’s incumbent on everybody to do their part,” she added – although a reelected Trump would have a democratic mandate, while her organization has none.

Anti-Trump activists and nonprofits are already using lawfare tactics to try and stop Trump from running for the presidency at all, successfully having him removed, at least temporarily, from primary ballots in Colorado and Maine.

The “network” is particularly concerned about Trump using the military to execute his policies, which include immediately securing the border and mass deportations of illegal aliens, by invoking the Insurrection Act.

The leading Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Adam Smith, issued a crass warning that Trump is “going to be one creative motherf***er when it comes to trying to figure out how to abuse [power].”

“Whatever your guess is, open up your imagination a little more,” he said.

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With Donald Trump regularly beating Joe Biden in national and swing state polls, a "loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers is quietly devising plans" to stop the America First leader from implementing his Agenda 47 policies. show more
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germany
January 14, 2024
Ed Kozak
Immigration
World

Alternative for Deutschland Lawmaker: ‘We Will Return Foreigners to Homelands By the Millions.’

René Springer, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) member of the Bundestag for Brandenburg, vowed this week that AfD will deport foreigners from Germany by the millions.

Springer’s comments came in response to a prominent media narrative in Germany that AfD has “secret” plans to deport foreigners. “We will return foreigners to their homeland. By the millions,” Springer posted on X. “This is not a secret plan. This is a promise. For more security. For more justice. To preserve our identity. For Germany.”

The most prominent and successful national-conservative and populist Party in Germany, AfD has been on the ascendency in recent years as the migrant crisis in Europe continues to spiral out of control, and made significant gains in the 2023 local elections in Germany. The success of the pro-Germany, anti-globalist AfD has led to efforts by its opponents to ban it.

Springer, a navy veteran who deployed to Afghanistan, has sat in the Bundestag since 2017 and serves as the personal advisor to AfD co-founder Dr. Alexander Gauland. He, along with several other young AfD members, was part of the “Münzenmaier network” which sought to professionalize AfD’s image and is largely responsible for the Party’s continued success.

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René Springer, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) member of the Bundestag for Brandenburg, vowed this week that AfD will deport foreigners from Germany by the millions. show more
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January 14, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Economy
News

D.C.’s New Min Wage is Driving Prices Up, Employment and Tips Down, and Customers OUT.

The hospitality sector is withering on the vine in Washington D.C., as ill-judged leftist policies on tipped workers drive prices up and employment down, and soaring crime scares customers away.

Led by Mayor Muriel Bowser and a Council comprised entirely of Democrats and “independents” who were formerly Democrats, the U.S. capital recently began implementing Initiative 82, a ballot measure increasing tipped workers’ base wage more than threefold.

As a result, full-service restaurant employment – previously up 17 percent – is down by four percent since the changes took effect in May. A majority of surveyed restaurateurs say they now intend to lay off workers, while almost a third intend to close venues, and half intend to begin operating in neighboring Maryland or Virginia.

Surviving servers have also seen mixed results. With employers increasing prices and adding surcharges to bills to meet the rise in payroll costs, they now have fewer customers, many of whom are less willing to tip generously. Some staff are actually taking home less money now, despite the increase in their base wage.

The capital’s crime wave is also hurting the sector. Homicide is up over a third, and car theft by a staggering 82 percent. The Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL) now intend to leave for Virginia, with the Chinatown area where they once played – supporting an ecosystem of restaurants catering to sports fans – having become increasingly crime-ridden.

Many residents are staying home or driving to the safer, less costly, neighboring states to dine out, rather than risk an encounter with an armed carjacker or robber. Restaurateurs say the “spike in violent crime” has contributed significantly to the sector’s struggles.

Initiative 82 passed with 75 percent support amongst DC’s predominantly liberal and far-left residents.

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The hospitality sector is withering on the vine in Washington D.C., as ill-judged leftist policies on tipped workers drive prices up and employment down, and soaring crime scares customers away. show more
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January 12, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Health
News
Science

Fauci-Funded Wuhan Lab Collaborator Peter Daszak STILL Getting Millions from U.S. Govt to Play with NEW Bat Viruses.

Peter Daszak, the Anthony Fauci-funded researcher whose EcoHealth Alliance group is accused of having potentially been involved in the creation of COVID-19 before it leaked from a Wuhan laboratory, is still receiving millions of dollars from the U.S. government, and still seeking out viruses in bats, pangolins, and other animals around the world with which to experiment.

Americans have pumped $20 million into EcoHealth Alliance since 2020, records reveal, to fund projects expected to run until August 2027, despite Donald Trump’s efforts to pull its funding and end its potentially dangerous virus projects before Joe Biden became President.

The group’s activities extend well beyond China, with projects involving bat viruses in the likes of Burma (Myanmar), Laos, and the Philippines underway. They have already found at least one hitherto unknown bat virus in Thailand, capable of infecting human tissue “almost as well” as COVID-19.

“The U.S. taxpayer is funding recklessness,” warned Rutgers University virologist Dr. Richard Ebright.

“EcoHealth Alliance is currently receiving $50 million in NIH [National Institute of Health] and Department of Defense grants for the same types of reckless research that likely caused the present pandemic.”

Daszak became an infamous figure following the COVID-19 outbreak, not just for his group’s alleged involvement in causing it, but for working vigorously to deny the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had been involved in covering up the initial outbreak of the Wuhan virus, and its true origin. The CCP, for its part, pushed hard for Daszak to be given a prominent role as a pandemic investigator at the United Nations.

Fauci, who also attempted to squash allegations that a lab leak caused the Covid pandemic, has appeared at conferences sponsored by Daszak’s group.

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Peter Daszak, the Anthony Fauci-funded researcher whose EcoHealth Alliance group is accused of having potentially been involved in the creation of COVID-19 before it leaked from a Wuhan laboratory, is still receiving millions of dollars from the U.S. government, and still seeking out viruses in bats, pangolins, and other animals around the world with which to experiment. show more
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desantis
January 12, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media
News
Politics

DeSantis Lashes Out at Conservative Outlets That Won’t Back Him – ‘It’s a Racket!’

Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has expressed irritation at the conservative media for declining to support him uncritically, calling it evidence of a “racket.” The outburst comes just days ahead of the Iowa caucuses, where DeSantis is in a “fight for his life” against Nikki Haley for second place position.

“It used to be, ‘Oh, Republicans, you know, don’t like the liberal media, the NBC, CNN, all that stuff or whatever, but that the conservative media were like the good guys, right? They’re fighting for us,’” DeSantis said at an event in Clive, Iowa on Thursday.

“Well, let me tell you, it’s all a racket. OK? It’s all a racket,” he complained. “They’re trying to get clicks, they’re trying to do all this stuff. There’s as much fake news on the right as there is on the corporate press now.”

He claimed the alleged situation was “fine” with him, as “that’s just the way it works.”

“It’s ultimately a business. You gotta do that. But if we’re not able to speak as individuals and if we have to rely on those filters, whether they’re traditional liberal media or kind of the more conservative media that’s done, look, I mean, I think it’s just the case people have said, you know, any great movement, you know, great causes start out as a movement, you know, end up a business, and degenerate into a racket,” he rambled.

DeSantis is reported to have been especially aggrieved at Fox News for not defending him when Donald Trump challenged his pandemic record during a recent town hall, which significantly outdrew the Floridian’s parallel debate with Nikki Haley.

Previously, the governor received much favorable coverage from Fox, but this was reduced as he crashed in the polls, with sources indicating that the Murdoch family, which runs the network, “can smell a loser.”

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Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has expressed irritation at the conservative media for declining to support him uncritically, calling it evidence of a "racket." The outburst comes just days ahead of the Iowa caucuses, where DeSantis is in a "fight for his life" against Nikki Haley for second place position. show more
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January 12, 2024
William Upton
War
World

Trump Declared Houthis a ‘Terror Org’, But Biden & ‘the Adults’ Undid It ‘As Priority’.

Just days after taking the oath of office, President Joe Biden directed his government to delist Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” (FTO). On January 28, 2021 — just eight days after Biden’s bizarre inauguration —  Secretary of State Antony Blinken was asked during a press conference which policies enacted by President Trump were a priority for the State Department to reverse. He responded that reversing the terrorist designation and lifting sanctions on the Iranian-backed Houthis was “the priority in my book.”

The Biden government argued that the terrorist designation and sanctions prevented humanitarian aid from reaching Yemeni civilians — roughly 80 percent of the country’s population lives in territory controlled by the Houthi rebels. Reversing the terror designation was also a decision taken to make a news splash and distinguish their foreign policy from Biden’s predecessor.

Former President Donald Trump had signed the designation declaring the Houthis a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” on January 11, 2021 — just ten days before Biden took office — and the issue still had some legs in the news cycle.

By January 25, 2021, the Biden government had put into effect a temporary suspension of sanctions on the Houthis, and on February 5 of that year, they announced that the terror designation had been officially revoked — although the official announcement was not made public until February 12. Almost immediately, the Houthi rebels renewed hostilities against Saudi Arabia and launched attacks against Yemeni civilians in territory under the control of the country’s internationally recognized government.

The Biden White House communications team was able to head off any bad press in the immediate fallout from revoking the terrorist designation by both stonewalling and lying to an already complacent media, and by hamstringing Congress through an Obama-era tactic of mixing classified and non-classified information — making it difficult for lawmakers to discuss White House actions publicly.

Trump responded to Biden’s latest foreign policy flub early Friday, stating: “So, let me get this straight. We’re dropping bombs all over the Middle East, AGAIN (where I defeated ISIS!), and our Secretary of Defence, who just went missing for five days, is running the war from his laptop in a hospital room. Remember, this is the same gang that “surrendered” in Afghanistan, where no one was held accountable or FIRED. It was the most embarrassing “moment” in the history of the United States. Now we have wars in Ukraine, Israel, and Yemen, but no “war” on our Southern Border. Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Crooked Joe Biden is the worst President in the history of the United States!”

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Just days after taking the oath of office, President Joe Biden directed his government to delist Yemen's Houthi rebels as a "Foreign Terrorist Organization" (FTO). On January 28, 2021 — just eight days after Biden's bizarre inauguration —  Secretary of State Antony Blinken was asked during a press conference which policies enacted by President Trump were a priority for the State Department to reverse. He responded that reversing the terrorist designation and lifting sanctions on the Iranian-backed Houthis was "the priority in my book." show more
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