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Cardiologists Identify COVID-19 Vaccine as Possible Cause of Young Professional’s Heart Problem
by Jim H?ft Apr. 28, 2024 7:30 am
Medical professionals are beginning to take a closer look at the potential adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines, particularly following a series of health complications among younger adults.
Florencia Tarque, a 29-year-old Director of International Recruiting at Puulse Marketing, has come forward with a personal health crisis that her cardiologists suggest may be linked to her COVID-19 vaccination.
“Attention: Cardiologists are now saying my heart problem is more than likely a result of the COVID vaccine,” she wrote on Facebook.
Tarque, an athlete who has maintained a lifestyle centered around wellness, experienced a shocking medical scare earlier this month when she was admitted to the hospital after three electrocardiograms (EKGs) indicated signs of a heart attack.
Despite the alarming EKG results, an angiogram performed urgently revealed no blockages, leaving both Tarque and her medical team baffled. It was later determined that she had developed myopericarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle and surrounding tissue.
The image above shows the wrist of Florencia Tarque following her angiogram procedure. Tarque describes the process as painful, having been awake throughout. (Credit: Florencia Tarque/Facebook)
Tarque expressed her frustration and anger in a series of social media posts, particularly emphasizing the mandatory nature of the vaccination for her job and travel commitments.
“I’m angry because tons of 20-something-year-old athletes now have heart problems,” she said, reflecting a concern that has been echoed in various communities across the globe.
In a follow-up post, Tarque disclosed that an MRI confirmed she had indeed suffered a heart attack, despite the lack of coronary blockages or other typical indicators of such an event.
“Angiogram showed no blockage or coronary problem the day I had my heart attack. Three EKGs showed heart attack. Week later my MRI confirmed heart attack,” she said.
“29 years old, played sports my whole life. No health issues. WTF,” she wrote, encapsulating her shock and disbelief.
There are many similar cases to Tarque. Functional medicine practitioner Jon Mitchell commented, “I have many clients who have had a lot of random health stuff pop up after getting the shot. Autoimmune, clotting throughout the body, brain abnormalities, cardiac issues, iron deficiency, etc. Some docs are acknowledging it, but very few are speaking up. It’s infuriating.”
The majority of the so-called healthcare experts continue to assert the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing severe illness, hospitalization, and death due to the virus far outweigh the risks of side effects.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/cardiologists-identify-covid-19-vaccine-as-possible-cause/
Watch and learn from ‘Screams before Silence’
By Ethel C. Fenig
Terrorists and their useful idiot (at best) supporters are shutting down campuses all across the U.S. in approval of Hamas’s deadly attack on Israeli concert-goers while cowardly campus administrators, afraid of losing all that Muslim oil money, dither — at best.
But Sheryl Sandberg, groundbreaking COO of Meta, is made of stronger stuff. Now retired, so to speak, from Meta, she has released a powerful documentary, Screams before Silence, about Hamas atrocities against Jews in Israel on that evil day, six months ago, in the final days of the fall Jewish holidays, corresponding to October 7, 2023 on the Gregorian calendar.
Never-before-heard eyewitness accounts from released hostages, survivors, and first responders.
During the October 7 attacks on Israeli towns and at the Nova Music Festival, women and girls were raped, assaulted, and mutilated. Released hostages have revealed that Israeli captives in Gaza have also been sexually assaulted.
Despite the indisputable evidence, these atrocities have received little scrutiny from human rights groups and international organizations. Many leading figures in politics, academia, and media have attempted to minimize or even deny that they occurred.
Let’s repeat those last lines, as they are important. “Despite the indisputable evidence, these atrocities have received little scrutiny from human rights groups and international organizations. Many leading figures in politics, academia, and media have attempted to minimize or even deny that they occurred.”
Minimizing atrocities. Denial. Hmmm, wonder why! Afraid that oil money from Muslim countries underwriting so many “civil rights” groups and universities might dry up? Not so latent anti-Jewish bigotry in all its ugliness surfacing, disguised as...concern for another so-called “minority”? A combination of these plus more? Blaming Israel for fighting back and killing hospital patients in the process because Hamas headquartered in hospitals is so much easier. And safer. And approved by all the “right” people.
Now watch this truthful documentary. WARNING: very graphic! Not for the faint of heart! But necessary!
This behavior has reached Europe, too. Ask the French, the Swedes, and other European countries where Muslims have settled.
Coming soon to an American neighborhood near you? Ask the Jews on college campuses such as Columbia and Harvard for starters.
You have been forewarned! Now watch! And learn!
Thank you, Sheryl Sandberg!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/watch_and_learn_from_screams_before_silence.html
Could Democrats find a back door to putting Obama on their presidential ticket?
By Richard Berkowitz
The D.C. Court’s fiendish plan if the Supremes overrule J6ers’ 1512(c)(2) convictions
By Andrea Widburg
The Supreme Court is deciding Fischer v. United States, a case challenging how the DOJ and the D.C. court have been using 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) against January 6 defendants. Because it’s obvious that they’ve violated the most basic precepts of statutory interpretation, it’s likely that the Supreme Court will reverse the conviction. However, the D.C. court just issued an order establishing that defendants other than Joseph Fischer who use the decision to appeal their convictions will suffer an even worse fate. This is a reminder that the “law” in Democrat enclaves is unconcerned with justice. Instead, it exists to further the Democrat party’s power.
Section 1512(c)(2) contains a seemingly magical phrase that the DOJ and D.C. court have used to send hundreds of law-abiding citizens to jail or otherwise destroy their lives: “Whoever corruptly...obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding...shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.” According to the DOJ and the D.C. court, when Americans showed up to protest what they believed was an improper election certification based upon a corrupt election, they were obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding.
However, if one examines the statute, it’s obvious, from the title on down (“Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant”), that § 1512 addresses the crime of destroying or corrupting evidence in a criminal proceeding or investigation. It has nothing to do with exercising free speech in the legislative context. Taking language out of its statutory context to achieve an end the legislature never intended is a big judicial no-no. (See here for a somewhat more in-depth analysis.)
The DOJ and D.C. court know that their interpretation of § 1512(c)(2) is likely to be reversed. Even the most ideologically corrupt Supreme Court justice will have a very difficult time pretending that the statute can be extended beyond its manifest purpose of protecting evidence.
Any reversal will apply only to Joseph Fischer, the J6 defendant whose case is before the Supreme Court. However, once the Court overturns his conviction, the way is clear for every other J6 defendant convicted using § 1512(c)(2) to challenge the conviction. This has the DOJ and the D.C. court in a panic, but they’ve come up with a plan.
For those few J6 defendants convicted only under § 1512(c)(2), there’s nothing the DOJ and D.C. court can do to stop them from tasting freedom and having their records wiped clean. However, most of the J6 defendants were charged and convicted on myriad grounds. (One of the things prosecutors do is stack as many charges as possible in an indictment. This gives them huge leverage in negotiating plea bargains and means a probable win on something—anything—if the matter goes to trial.)
With an eye to the charge stacking common in criminal prosecutions, the D.C. court has just issued an order in the case of Larry Brock telling him that, if he dares challenge his § 1512(c)(2) conviction, the court has something much worse in store for him: It will change its initial order so that the various penalties originally imposed upon him will no longer be served concurrently but, instead, will be served consecutively.
Here's what that means. Under the “concurrent” standard, if a defendant was sentenced to two years for Crime A and two years for Crime B, both those sentences will be fulfilled by the same two years in prison. After two years, he’s a free man. However, if they’re switched to a “consecutive” system, the defendant will serve two years for Crime A. Once those two years are completed, the term for Crime B immediately begins. Thus, it will take four years for the prisoner to be freed:
I really hope SCOTUS is paying attention to how DC judges are scheming to keep J6ers in prison on 1512c2 convictions if SCOTUS reverses that charge in J6 cases.
This order is not just a warning to the defendant involved—Larry Brock, a decorated military veteran with no criminal… pic.twitter.com/f9CncQUz8W
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 26, 2024
You may have noticed that what you’re seeing is an order, meaning it comes from the judges. However, the D.C. judges haven’t impressed anyone as a particularly intelligent bunch. They are ideologues. That’s all. That’s why I keep throwing in the DOJ when I discuss this issue. I’d bet good money that the bright minds in the Democrat party, both in the DOJ and among the Democrat cadre of lawyers who lurk behind the scene, are the ones who came up with this idea.
I practiced law in the San Francisco Bay Area. What became obvious very early was that Democrat party judges held themselves to a very special standard. They saw themselves as above the justice-based principles of due process, the facts of the case, and the applicable law.
Instead, almost all of them believed that their black robes put them in direct contact with the higher power of social justice, allowing them to determine entirely upon ideological rather than constitutional and legal grounds. The only surprise for me now is that Democrat judges have become so open in their corruption and so blatantly partisan in their desired outcomes. This is evil and will stop only if they are held to account for their criminal trespasses. It’s to be hoped that when Trump returns to the White House, reforming our broken judicial system is one of his first acts.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/the_d_c_court_s_fiendish_plan_if_the_supremes_overrule_j6ers_1512_c_2_convictions.html
At Emory, civil disobedience ain’t what it used to be
By Andrea Widburg
The University of Washington canceled its planned protest because it was too white
By Andrea Widburg
This sounds like a sit-com set-up, but it’s not: The progressive Democrats at the University of Washington in Seattle, a very white, very affluent public institution, wanted to hold a pro-Hamas, antisemitic rally. However, they had to call it off because there were way too many white kids and way too few actual Muslims to provide cover for these kids’ anti-American activities!
One of the things many have noticed is that the campus protests we’re seeing are mostly taking place at rich students’ colleges and prestigious state institutions, both of which have a combination of rich white kids, affirmative action kids (grants and scholarships), and foreign students (especially beloved at chichi state institutions, where they pay full fare, in cash), many of whom come from Muslim countries. The city and state colleges that normal American kids attend, however, have mostly ignored the whole protest phenomenon.
Fifteen or twenty years ago, I heard a StandWithUs talk at which one of the group’s founders explained what was happening at these affluent American campuses when it came to rising antisemitism. She explained that Jewish kids were at a loss when dealing with anti-Israel and antisemitic protests on campus because they were there to have the college experience—classes and fun—while the antisemitic agitators were professionals.
Thus, these professional “students” were sponsored by Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries and had no interest in either grades or fun. They were there to work, with the work being to build a strong base of hostility on campus to Israel and Jews.
The money didn’t just go to these professional “students.” Muslim countries have been pouring money into academia, money that pays for the institutions’ vast faculty and administration infrastructures. This chart (original unknown) helps explain how much money lies behind this approach to foreign-funded campus indoctrination:
As you can see, other than China, Russia, and Venezuela, every one of the countries flooding campuses with money is Muslim. It’s noteworthy in this regard that the Palestinian Authority (a) isn’t even a country; (b) has no economy of its own; (c) always cries poor; and (d) is using other countries’ money to fund this indoctrination. Nevertheless, it can still pay indoctrination money into American colleges and universities.
The above cash flow is the bedrock of the increased antisemitism on college campuses. When you in the George Soros money funding the top-line agitators, you can see that what’s happening on these campuses isn’t an organic outcropping of American values. It’s a very Astroturfed phenomenon done with overseas cash and heavily funded anti-Western NGOs.
The thing about Astroturf, though, is that you’ll never have enough cash or bodies to go around. There are, after all, slightly shy of 4,000 institutions of “higher education” (a term of dubious descriptive value) in America today. It’s impossible for Muslim countries and George Soros to put together all the money or manpower needed to flood every campus in a way that will create a critical mass for Nazi-style rallies across America.
That gets us to the University of Washington in Seattle. It’s kind of white (36%) and Asian (26%), with only 15% of its students from foreign countries and only 3% being black. It’s also wealthy, with 80% of its students designated as affluent.
But as we’ve learned since 2020, the students who have most absorbed the Marxist indoctrination inculcated beginning in kindergarten are those white, affluent kids. There the ones who perfectly embody Lenin’s two sayings, the first about the “useful idiots” and the second about those “capitalists [who] will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Naturally enough, these rich, white, useful idiots were all set to have a campus occupation in solidarity with the pro-Hamas, antisemitic moving sweeping the progressive Democrat party. To their chagrin, they discovered that the identity altar before which they pray has let them down:
Activists with the UW Progressive Student Union (UWPSU) announced they are postponing Thursday’s “UW Palestine encampment” because there were too many white students involved. The group received criticism for not including Muslim and Arab students in the organizing. And now you have warring factions of extremists quibbling over who will get credit for demonizing Jews and Israel.
The encampment was scheduled for Thursday morning at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. UW administration privately told Jewish leaders that the school did not intend to intervene with the direct action unless “the event escalates and threatens life safety.” Still, the predominantly white UWPSU opted to call off the encampment in order “to make sure this encampment is a better reflection of the UW community, and having even greater unity with Muslim, Palestinian and Arab students.”
“We want to be part of a much larger coalition of groups and make no mistake, WE WILL HAVE A UW ENCAMPMENT! We want to make sure everyone’s voice is included and this action is as safe, secure, and strong as possible,” a UWPSU Instagram statement said.
I don’t have words of wisdom or quips to offer here. What we’re seeing is the inevitable collision of Marxism, crazy white people, antisemitism, academia, and identity politics. The only thing that’s stopping it from going full 1938 is that, so far, the Muslim immigration to America hasn’t got enough warm bodies to go around.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/the_university_of_washington_canceled_its_planned_protest_because_it_was_too_white.html
Are the rats starting to flee Joe Biden's sinking ship now?
By Monica Showalter
Are the rats fleeing Joe Biden's sinking ship now?
Joe Biden is losing a signature lieutenant, Richard Cordray, the guy who runs all his student loan shovel-outs and 'forgiveness' programs. He's quitting in June, in what's officially the end of his three-year term, not wanting another.
According to Politico:
Rich Cordray, the Biden administration’s top student loan official who has been a key ally of progressives pushing for debt relief, will leave the Education Department at the end of June, the agency confirmed on Friday.
Cordray’s departure comes as the administration has been scrambling to recover from its troubled rollout of a new student aid system that delayed college financial aid offers for millions of families this spring and drew bipartisan criticism in Congress.
It's an odd departure, given that it leaves his successor just six months to clean up his agency before a new administration takes over. Lucky DEI hire.
Politico noted that it was his agency that was behind the FAFSA student aid bunglings.
Most controversial, however, was Cordray’s leadership of the Office for Federal Student Aid amid its disastrous implementation of a bipartisan overhaul of the federal financial aid process that Congress passed in the waning days of the Trump administration.
The new Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, was meant to provide a simpler, easier experience for millions of families. But the years-long technology project was months behind schedule and failed to work when it launched earlier this year.
The Education Department for months could not process millions of federal financial aid applications and is in the process of re-processing millions more that were processed incorrectly.
Politico noted that congressional Republicans (to their credit) were angry at the botch-up because Cordray's agency was so focused on granting student loand debt forgiveness it never got around to doing its job competently in processing incoming students' applications for financial aid.
I know young people who were affected by this screw-up -- they couldn't tell whether they could enroll in a school they'd been accepted at or not because the FAFSA botch was so extensive.
What an interesting thing that this illegal focus on student aid "debt forgiveness" actually spilled over into the quest of legitimate students to get their financial aid in order to go to those overpriced schools, creating huge backups, and universities extending their deadlines. I know university administrators who said this was a major hassle for them, too.
It seems that for all the brownie points Biden is getting over student aid "forgiveness," and making the lives of the upper middle classes easier, the flip side was that he made life harder for all the young people coming into the system with that FAFSA blunder. Maybe that's why polls are showing that Biden is losing the youth vote. You can bet young people are talking about this to each other.
And sure enough, Cordray has a history of being on the forefront of failed and overreaching federal programs. Not too long ago, he ran President Obama's Consumer Protection Financial Bureau, an agency of unaccountable power. Now he's gotten involved with this.
That he's leaving is the most interesting thing of all, given the legal challenges to most of Biden's debt forgiveness schemes coming up, as well as the FAFSA mess-up. Can it be that Cordray, a political animal if there ever was one, might be reading the tea leaves and want to get out while the getting out is good?
Maybe the rats are starting to flee the sinking ship of Biden now, which means we ought to watch for more of them.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/fafsa_failure_biden_s_student_loan_chief_hottails_it_out.html
Banning American gun exports
By Mike McDaniel
A funny thing happened on the way to the trial
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
The plan was sort of like this. First, we call Trump every name in the book, from racist to fascist. Second, warn everyone that a dictatorship is around the corner if the bad guy is back in the White House. Third, and not least, tie up Trump in the courts and destroy his candidacy.
Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the courtroom. Trump is rising, and Biden is talking about cannibals having his uncle for lunch.
According to news reports, former President Trump is making money sitting in the court. Here is the story:
During an appearance on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom,” Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Whatley discussed Trump’s campaign strategy in New York and elsewhere and said that “every day that President Trump has been in court, he’s been getting a million dollars or more in small-dollar donations that are coming in online.”
There you go. Be careful what you wish for, because the other guy may get all the money.
I see a couple of things going on here. First, Trump’s presidency looks better and better, especially in comparison to the Biden record. Did you hear about the GDP slowing down?
Second, I think more and more Americans are saying, “No banana republic for me.” In other words, if you hate Trump, then vote against him, but don’t destroy the country in the process. My guess is that this is true of people who came here from other countries and saw this kind of political vengeance destroy their countries. I think my parents would say that if they were alive.
Am I the only one thinking that some Democrats are having second thoughts about lawfare? It ain’t working, babe!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/a_funny_thing_happened_on_the_way_to_the_trial.html
Who runs the American agitprop machine?
By James Lewis
“First, conquer the organs of propaganda,” wrote Karl Marx, who was a genius mob agitator and nothing else. Mob agitators were already a kind of specialty in Prussia, Poland, Russia, and Eastern Europe, but Marx wrote the instruction manual, just as Saul Alinsky did in his Rules for Radicals, which became Barack Obama’s manual for political agitators.
Fast-forward half a century, and the U.S. media, which used to have a sane liberal and a sane conservative wing, collapsed into a Uniparty propaganda machine, just like Pravda (Truth) and Izvestiya (News) in Moscow, of which the Russians used to joke, “There is no truth in Pravda and there is no news in Izvestiya,” because they both came from the Kremlin.
Today we wonder why Hamas child-killers always sound far from sanity, and why the North Koreans seem to live in an even more different universe. The answer is simple: if you enforce total uniformity on any group, it turns into a cult. They listen to only one voice. That’s how you make mob cults, exactly how the Columbia faculty created a new Hitlerjugend screaming slogans with no consequences, because all the authorities have surrendered.
Make everybody march to the beat of the same drum, and you’ve got a mass cult. That's why they all yell the same words from the same book at the same mass demonstrations in the same locations. Normal people don't march in lockstep, but today's hateful mobs do, because they have one group mind. You don’t need A.I. to turn people into robots.
Those kids at Columbia have been cultified using Soros millions, and they honestly can’t figure out why anybody could disagree with their internalized lies.
This happens over and over again in history, and it’s how you change normal teenagers into mobsters.
How did the American media, which used to be run by normal people, turn into a Stalinist machine? Forty years after the Soviet Union collapsed?
It’s not as if anybody in 1989 was rationally convinced that race or sex Marxism was the wave of the future. Talk to Poles or even Russians today, and you don’t find many Hamas fans. They’ve been there and done that, and they don’t even like George Soros.
So what happened?
Some good historian (if there are any left) has to look into this twist of history. When Nazi Germany fell after WWII, the world did not decide to follow the Hitler model.
And yet, two generations after the Cold War, a new racist, genderist, and sex-obsessed faith has spread through the West, with women acting oppressed, gays and lesbians also becoming victims, and even children, the most vulnerable among us, getting recruited into the new faith of sexualized victimhoood for all, no matter how young or clueless.
About ten years ago, Tucker Carlson helped to expose a radical propaganda internet list called JournoList, a secret Google group of media influencers who made up the headlines for the next day’s news, in places like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the U.K. Guardian.
Wikipedia tells us,
JournoList (sometimes referred to as the J-List) was a private Google Groups forum for discussing politics and the news media with 400 left-leaning journalists, academics and others. Ezra Klein created the online forum in February 2007 while blogging at The American Prospect and shut it down on June 25, 2010 amid wider public exposure. Journalists later pointed out various off-color statements made by members of the list denigrating conservatives.
That was an actual conspiracy to centralize the U.S. media. Chances are that it is still living in some secret Google group today, because the “mainstream” media are still singing from the same hymnal.
But how does the Biden Gang control the propaganda gang?
Our friends at The Conservative Treehouse propose an answer. TCT reports that Biden has a small cult called “the beach group” running lawfare campaigns around the country to undermine everything Americans believe in. Maybe ordinary Americans can pull a little lawfare on these thugs?
If Trump wins, I want him to start revengefare — the opposite of lawfare, and well deserved.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/who_runs_the_american_agitprop_machine.html
Was it all that Baby Proofing?
By Clarice Feldman
It Still Matters That The George Floyd Prosecutions Were Corrupted By Racial Politics
By John Dale Dunn, M.D.
We are watching the BLM crowd (this time acting under the Hamas banner) gear up again for violence before an election. It’s important to understand that this is all staged. One way to understand how Democrat politics operate is to look back at the political corruption surrounding George Floyd’s death.
On July 29, 2021, Peter Cahill, the presiding Minnesota State Court judge trying the four police officers indicted for George Floyd’s death, ordered the release of the prosecutors’ report detailing how Dr. Roger Mitchell, the then-medical examiner and Deputy Mayor for D.C., coerced the Hennepin County medical examiner, Dr. Andrew Baker.
The memo detailed Mitchell’s threat to damage Baker’s professional career with a critical op-ed in the Washington Post if Baker did not amend the language of his preliminary autopsy report by adding compression of the neck as a cause of death, something Baker had not believed was the case. Doing so would make the death a homicide. Baker’s ultimate report, which he’d changed in response to Mitchell’s political pressure, converted a death from natural causes into a justification for indicting four police officers for murder.
Floyd was pronounced dead on the evening of March 25, 2020. One day later, Baker conducted a careful autopsy that found no physical evidence that the officers applied excessive force. Instead, Baker suggested that Floyd’s death was from natural causes, not excess force, strangulation, or asphyxiation. Floyd had “severe” heart disease that put him at risk for a cardiac arrest under stress and exertion, something medical examiners see frequently.
The matter should have been over then. Three days after they received Baker’s initial report, Hennepin County prosecutors issued a complaint against Chauvin reflecting Baker’s findings: “The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.”
However, Floyd’s natural cause of death had no value for Mitchell, who had a political agenda. To understand this agenda, it’s important to note that the D.C. medical examiner assisted prosecutors in the Aurora, Colorado, case of Elijah McClain and the Tucson, Arizona, case of Carlos Ingram-Lopez. Mitchell was unsuccessful as a prosecution witness against three officers in the 2023 Manuel Ellis trial in Tacoma. In every case, Mitchell was there when the political environment was shaped by a racialist anti-cop mob and media.
Mitchell works under the premise that if a person dies resisting arrest, the police are guilty. In a 2022 Meet The Press interview, Mitchell explained his motives for assisting prosecutions against law enforcement when prisoners or arrestees die. According to him, medical excuses are used to cover up the hundreds of murders that American law enforcement commits against arrestees and prisoners. His mission is to expose those miscarriages of justice.
In medical science, this approach is called outcome bias. The uncertainties surrounding sudden death give him room to maneuver. Many sudden death cases are easily explained by an autopsy (e.g., big strokes, ruptured blood vessels, major clots). When those causes have been eliminated, the likeliest cause of sudden death is cardiac arrest, which doesn’t leave much of an evidence trail. The exception is a type of heart disease that puts people at risk for abnormal rhythms that deteriorate to cardiac arrest and death.
To nail Derek Chauvin, as a prelude to bullying Baker into changing his report, Mitchell had to ignore the hard evidence that Baker discovered. Baker’s initial, unsullied impression after completing the autopsy of Mr. Floyd was that Chauvin and his fellow officers were not responsible for George Floyd’s death. This was not a police homicide. Without homicide, the County of Hennepin and the State of Minnesota could not prosecute the officers for murder.
Mitchell saw Baker’s initial report, called Baker, and insisted that the language had to change to make restraint and neck compression the cause of Floyd’s death. After several days of local and national rioting, Baker knew that it was not just his career on the line (a point Mitchell made very clear). Mitchell also bullied Baker into believing that America’s survival depended on him. Under duress, Baker added “neck compression” to the final report and called the death a “homicide.” This change made it possible for the prosecutors to charge Derek Chauvin, the senior police officer on the scene, with murder, a total miscarriage of justice.
As an emergency physician since 1974 and an attorney since 1979, I was appalled by Mitchell’s interference, and I knew when I read the autopsy that Baker was initially correct—death from natural causes, no homicide. What follows are excerpts of Mitchell’s claims as documented in the state’s exhibit and my commentary on the same. The full text of the original autopsy is here. The link to the memorandum containing Mitchell’s opinions is here.
Mitchell: Autopsy pretty complete but noted Baker did not perform a layered posterior neck dissection”
Dunn response: Wrong. The autopsy report shows that Baker did a thorough and careful autopsy. It revealed that no life-threatening injuries were identified after a thorough dissection of tissues from the scalp to the waist, with particular attention to the neck, mouth, throat, and airway.
Mitchell: “The lack of a hemorrhage in the deep tissue doesn’t necessarily add value but the presents of a hemorrhage can be helpful to understand the amount of pressure”
Dunn response: The fact that there is no sign of injury exonerates the officers but, again, Mitchell dismisses the evidence with a hand wave.
Mitchell: “Mitchell agrees with Baker that the neck compression is a component of the mechanism of death.”
Dunn response: Mitchell talks in circles. He can’t make up his mind if the death was respiratory or circulatory. He only wants the magic words—“neck compression.”
Mitchell also ignores the critical information on the brain tissue exam that shows no evidence of lack of oxygen (hypoxia) that would have been present with respiratory or circulatory death. Thus, Baker’s autopsy said: “Sections of hippocampus, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, and midbrain show the expected microscopic architecture, without hypoxic– ischemic, reactive, neoplastic, or inflammatory changes.”
Mitchell: “With respect to the term Asphyxia (sic), there are typical indicators of asphyxia that are not present but also believes the neck compression played a significant part in Floyd’s death. [snip] Baker’s lack of use of the term asphyxia is a style issue.”
Dunn response: Stop the presses! Style issue? No, it isn’t a style issue. It has to do with a proper cause of death analysis and conclusions. Baker found no evidence of asphyxiation or strangulation. The autopsy found no crushing or constricting injury of the neck and no hypoxic brain injury
Mitchell: “Did not die from overdoes (sic)”
Dunn response: Agreed. This was not a Fentanyl overdose that causes lethargy, stupor, and respiratory failure/arrest. However, Mitchell ignored the cardiac stimulating and irritating effect of exertion, heart disease, agitation, and the stimulating but not lethal 19 nanogram level of methamphetamine.
Mitchell: “--High blood pressure --Dilated heart --Hypertension --Cardiovascular disease puts Floyd at risk for fatal arrhythmia” [Dunn: Cardiac arrhythmia was a risk because of Mr. Floyd’s bad heart disease]
Dunn response: Mitchell makes the case for heart disease and cardiac arrhythmia, so why is he pushing Baker on neck compression? Simple: He had a political anti-police agenda, and he and the prosecutors needed to have a homicide. Baker rolled over for them.
In June 2021, I made a demonstration video showing the restraint that Chauvin used for ten minutes on Floyd. As with Chauvin and Floyd, the individual applying the restraint weighed 170 pounds, and the individual playing Floyd’s role weighed 230 pounds. The individual being restrained suffered no compromise of breathing or oxygen level and certainly no risk to health.
In January of 2023, I did a similar video demonstration. This time, though, I used myself—a 160-pound, 77-year-old man who broke his neck in 2020—as the person being restrained and had a 220-pound man on top doing the restraining. I continuously monitored my oxygen level and got the same negative findings: no harm and oxygen level normal. In fact, my oxygen level went from 96 to 98% during the restraint period.
“Lying for justice” often occurs in political or ideologically charged matters where the actor is convinced the result is worth the deception. Unfortunately, this is becoming increasingly common among medical professionals, amplifying and promoting the conduct of racialist medical “experts” like Roger Mitchell. This is because medical science and practice have been poisoned by a prism of racialist, critical race theory ideology. Marxist Socialist Racialist Wokeness, which permeates the Democrat party, corrupts society, and medicine is not immune. In fact, organized medicine, from academia to professional organizations, has embraced the corruption.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/it_still_matters_that_the_george_floyd_prosecutions_were_corrupted_by_racial_politics.html
Biden on the Verbal Path of Destruction – ‘No Joke’
Donald Trump finds a new ally in a former nemesis.
by Sarah Cowgill | Apr 28, 2024 |
Joe Biden took a big “pause” this week, demonstrating that he could follow scripted remarks and not toss in any cannibal chat or defeat Corn Pop on the gang leader’s turf. He did, however, tick off and embarrass the Gray Lady by turning down an interview with the elitist East Coast outlet and, instead, sharing his secrets with Howard Stern, bragging shamelessly of feats he never achieved. “This is no joke,” as the president often says when telling a whopper. To top the week off in wild and crazy political theater, Michael Avenatti, the slick-suited former lawyer for Stormy Daniels, claims Trump is being railroaded.
With a few short months left in the big rematch, heartlanders cannot understand why they’ve woken up in Bizzaro World.
Biden Blurts
Storytime with Joe Biden is a long-standing tradition that mostly involves fictitious declarations. One media giant in the Big Apple, once seemingly a shill for the administration, has wanted to ask the president the “silent” questions: Can this guy actually make it to November – and, if so, at what cost? And that makes the administration nervous enough to snub a one-on-one interview and opt for a turn on a Sirius Radio program with shock jock Howard Stern. Ouch.
While entertaining the crass commentator, Joe told a few fibs.
Biden imagined a conversation with dear old mom: “She said, ‘Remember when they were desegregating Lynnfield, the neighborhood … suburbia — and I told you — and there was a Black family moving in and there was — people were down there protesting; I told you not to go down there, and you went down, remember that? And you got arrested standing on the porch with a Black family? And they brought you back, the police?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, Mom, I remember that.’”
Yeah. Fact-checked by CNN and The New York Times alike, it turns out that never happened. Here’s what else never happened: Biden saving “half a dozen lives” as a lifeguard, being “runner-up in state scoring” in football in high school years, and all those “salacious” photos from women in the 1970s he turned over to the Secret Service. Senators did not and still do not have Secret Service protection.
Despite such ridiculous fibs, he did drop a bomb: “I don’t know if you’re gonna debate your opponent,” Stern said. “I am, somewhere. I don’t know when, but I’m happy to debate him,” Biden replied.
Bonnie Layhue in Sandusky, OH, ended that particular discussion: “And it’s going to look like a Saturday night live skit. This is all a big joke. Our country has gone mad. We look more like the national enquirer than we do the United States of America.”
Walk This Way
Biden staffers have scrambled for three years to make the president appear aware of his surroundings and capable of completing a sentence. Some would say it’s smoke and mirrors. Black Hoka sneakers have replaced the ever-polished tassel loafer. He climbs the short steps to Air Force One, is gated on stage by Biden-Harris signs to keep him from wandering off, and doesn’t walk alone in his own yard. Instead, the shuffling through grass optic has been neutralized to prying press eyes by having a gaggle of aides shield the man on his trek from the White House to board Marine One.
Art Maune in Arkansas was not impressed: “Biden stumbles even with his extra wide special help shoes.”
Well, Well, Well
Remember Michael Avenatti,the guy with the slick Tom Ford suits and color-coordinated pocket square with a Brioni tie and pretentious Windsor knot? He was the darling of CNN and an expert at trolling Trump. Well, it appears he has had some time to think while serving a 14-year sentence for wire fraud and a tax offense. Orange does not look so good on a guy who had to abandon his twice-a-day skincare routine.
Avenatti called into Sean Hannity’s program and offered to testify for his nemesis, Donald Trump:
“The case is grossly unfair, Sean. That’s going to come as a surprise to a lot of people, but I strongly believe that. What is happening right now to President Trump – and let me be clear, I disagree with President Trump on about 95% of the issues at a minimum. But one thing he and I agree on, and that is that the politicization of these cases, and this case in particular, is gross, it’s uncalled for, and it’s flat-out wrong.”
Avenatti continued: “This is an effort to deprive millions of Americans of their choice for president. This guy has been indicted now in four cases up and down the entire East Coast. In this country, we don’t have serial killers who are prosecuted at the same time in four different cases. The timing is wrong, the case is wrong, and he’s not receiving due process.”
You know it’s bad when even Avenatti can see the banana-republic politics of the Trump prosecutions. “This whole country is nuts,” claimed Julie Stanhope.
https://www.libertynation.com/biden-on-the-verbal-path-of-destruction-no-joke/
The US Constitution, the Republic, and Presidential Immunity
The Supreme Court has the weight of the Constitution on its shoulders.
by Leesa K. Donner | Apr 28, 2024
A weighty case regarding presidential immunity was argued in front of the US Supreme Court this week, raising many constitutional issues. It is a historic case in the truest sense of the word, and as such, friend of the court briefings (known as amicus curiae) were filed by some of the sharpest legal minds in America today.
Earlier this week, prior to the oral arguments, Liberty Nation published an analysis by Legal Affairs Editor Scott Cosenza of an amicus brief submitted by Former Attorneys General Edwin Meese* and Michael Mukasey, law professors Steven Calabresi and Gary Lawson, and Citizens United. The article detailed the premise for their brief: that Jack Smith has no legal standing as special counsel to bring charges against Donald Trump. Justice Clarence Thomas raised this point during the hearing, bringing national attention to what LN highlighted days ago. While we await the justices’ decision, these documents raise several salient points about the question before the High Court that are worth considering.
Today, we present three more of these briefs – all in support of former President Donald Trump. We do this because we believe there are more than enough news outlets presenting opposing positions.
US Constitution: The Coolidge Reagan Foundation Brief
A brief from the Coolidge Reagan Foundation makes the point that the entire indictment against former President Donald Trump should be dismissed. This claim is based on the fact that his “actions and speech” were made while he was still in office. It only takes one step from there to recognize that if he was president at the time (and he was), then his conduct was an “exercise of executive functions.” Not only that but the authors of this brief believe holding Trump’s behavior unlawful would restrict his political speech, which violates the US Constitution.
New banner Liberty Nation Analysis 1They also point out that Democrats, notably Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams, have had issues with the elections they lost. Yet no claims were forthcoming by the Biden administration that it was unlawful for them to question the legitimacy of their elections. So how do their complaints add up to nothing, yet Mr. Trump is held up for indictment? This is their central question.
Thus, they conclude: “This Court should not open the door to prosecutions of former Presidents by the Administrations of their political opponents—particularly when those prosecutions arise from political speech and matters of executive discretion.”
The American Center for Law and Justice
The brief by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) addresses the issue of the alleged criminality of the former president. Its main point is that personal immunity for the actions conducted by a president not only applies when he is in office but should be extended past his term. The ACLJ claims that “immunity is only meaningful if it survives the President’s tenure.”
At the center of their argument lies the interest of the people who elected him:
This immunity protects no mere private interest, but instead protects the public interest of the people to have their chosen leader able to execute his duties not out of fear of personal reprisal, but “for their benefit.”
Christian Family Coalition (CFC) Florida, Inc.
The Christian Family Coalition of Florida takes a different tack from the other two briefings cited in this article. Dennis Grossman, who authored the amicus curiae for the CFC, argues:
“[T]he immunity issues raised in the present appeal are closely related to and overlap with the First Amendment issues raised by the underlying indictment. The issues relate to a President’s ability to address his supporters and the decision-makers who certify and control his re-election – and his First Amendment freedoms in that effort.”
The CFC believes the US Supreme Court should reverse the DC Circuit Court opinion because it violates the First Amendment of the Constitution as well as “by reason of Presidential Immunity.”
There were multiple briefs filed in this case for and against the petitioner, i.e., former President Donald Trump, which now sit in the hands of the nine justices. Although these are just a few of the briefs in support of the former president, each, in its own way, put forth considered legal reasons to either send this divisive case back to the lower courts or decide the case in favor of Mr. Trump.
According to US Supreme Court tradition, the justices take a private vote on the Friday of the week in which the oral arguments are made. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they must stick to this decision – they can change it during the time between the public hearing and when they release the final judgment.
During the oral phase of this crucial case, justices discussed many categories of presidential immunity. Still, these briefs illustrate that many tentacles of this case must be addressed. As such, they should carefully navigate such turbulent waters because this decision will ultimately affect the future of the Republic.
https://www.libertynation.com/the-us-constitution-the-republic-and-presidential-immunity/
The EV ‘Bloodbath’ Arrives Early
EVs are becoming the red shirts of the automotive world
David Blackmon
Apr 27, 2024
Ever since March 16, when US presidential candidate Donald Trump created a controversy by predicting Joe Biden’s efforts to force Americans to convert their lives to electric vehicle (EV) lifestyles would end in a “bloodbath” for the US auto industry, the industry’s own disastrous results have consistently proven him accurate.
The latest example came this week when Ford Motor Company reported that it had somehow managed to lose $132,000 per unit sold during Q1 2024 in its Model e EV division. The disastrous first quarter results follow the equally disastrous results for 2023, when the company said it lost $4.7 billion in Model e for the full 12-month period.
While the company has remained profitable overall thanks to strong demand for its legacy internal combustion SUV, pickup, and heavy vehicle models, the string of major losses in its EV line led the company to announce a shift in strategic vision in early April. Ford CEO Jim Farley said then that the company would delay the introduction of additional planned all-electric models and scale back production of current models like the F-150 Lightning pickup while refocusing efforts on introducing new hybrid models across its business line.
GM reported it had good overall Q1 results, but they were based on strong sales of its gas-powered SUV and truck models, not its EVs. GM is so gun-shy about reporting EV-specific results that it doesn’t break them out in its quarterly reports, so there is no way of knowing what the real bottom line amounts to from that part of the business. This is possibly a practice Ford should consider adopting.
After reporting its own disappointing Q1 results in which adjusted earnings collapsed by 48% and deliveries dropped by 20% from the previous quarter, Tesla announced it is laying off 10 percent of its global workforce, including 2,700 employees at its Austin plant, where its vaunted Cybertruck is manufactured. Since its introduction in November, the Cybertruck has been beset by buyer complaints ranging from breakdowns within minutes after taking delivery, to its $3,000 camping tent feature failing to deploy, to an incident in which one buyer complained his vehicle shut down for 5 hours after he failed to put the truck in “carwash mode” before running it through a local car wash.
Meanwhile, international auto rental company Hertz is now fire selling its own fleet of Teslas and other EV models in its efforts to salvage a little final value from what is turning out to be a disastrous EV gamble. In a giant fit of green virtue-signaling, the company invested whole hog into the Biden subsidy program in 2021 with a mass purchase of as many as 100,000 Teslas and 50,000 Polestar models, only to find that customer demand for renting electric cars was as tepid as demand to buy them outright. For its troubles, Hertz reported it had lost $392 million during Q1, attributing $195 million of the loss to its EV struggles. Hertz’s share price plummeted by about 20% on April 25, and was down by 55% for the year.
If all this financial carnage does not yet constitute a “bloodbath” for the US EV sector, it is difficult to imagine what would. But wait: It really isn’t all that hard to imagine at all, is it? When he used that term back in March, Mr. Trump was referring not just to the ruinous Biden subsidy program, but also to plans by China to establish an EV-manufacturing beachhead in Mexico, from which it would be able to flood the US market with its cheap but high-quality electric models. That would definitely cause an already disastrous domestic EV market to get even worse, wouldn’t it?
The bottom line here is that it is becoming obvious even to ardent EV fans that US consumer demand for EVs has reached a peak long before the industry and government expected it would. It’s a bit of a perfect storm, one that rent-seeking company executives and obliging policymakers brought upon themselves. Given that this outcome was highly predictable, with so many warning it was in fact inevitable, a reckoning from investors and corporate boards and voters will soon come due. It could become a bloodbath of its own, and perhaps it should.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-ev-bloodbath-arrives-early?publication_id=712558&post_id=144077332&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
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Right. She is going against the narrative.They never listen to common sense.
Ilhan Omar was right!
By Bill Hansmann
There are few more despicable individuals in the U.S. Congress than the so-called Squad, of which Ilhan Omar is a charter member. She and her confederates have garnered far too much attention for their idiotic views of our society and their attempts to remake our nation in the image of those horrendous banana republics from which people like Omar escaped. She even allegedly married her brother to aid in his escape from the Somali hellhole, which they so proudly, now that they’re gone, call their homeland.
Back in 2019, Omar tweeted that “it’s all about the Benjamins, baby,” regarding Israel’s influence on U.S. foreign policy. She later tried to walk back her antisemitic tweet, claiming that it was taken out of context. But that bell was rung, and the toothpaste was out of the tube. It was obvious that the snows of Minnesota were a hotbed of antisemitic sentiment.
So why are we now seeing some strong resistance to the antisemitic protests on our college campuses? I’d like to think that we, as a nation, are morally gut-punched by this display of derisiveness toward “Never Again,” the determination that nothing remotely resembling the Holocaust should ever again occur. But let’s look at whose pushback against the antisemitic protests is being heeded.
Sadly, there is far too little objection being raised by those one would expect to point out the outrageousness of the campus behavior, both the students and the administrations in many cases. That should be coming from the media and from our leaders. Instead, we see media sympathizing with the vile behavior and encouraging its acceleration. And our leaders are doing no better. President Biden has found it almost impossible to ask for civil behavior on the part of our college students. That should come as no surprise, since he has asked even less of the Iranians and Palestinians.
But our congressmen and senators, especially those of the Jewish faith, have been the most disappointing to the nation of Israel as well as the citizens of this country who sincerely mean “Never Again.” Jewish members of Congress have allowed Iran and the Palestinians to feed at our expense, both by appropriations to the Palestinians and the lifting of economic sanctions on Iran. They are “real Jews” just like how Joe Biden is a “real Catholic.”
The media, educated by and for leftist progressivism, have little reason to discourage the protesting students. This kind of thing is good for ratings, and good ratings are good for revenue. The few editorial writers who do decry the antisemitism are the exception rather than the rule we might hope for.
Where we have seen effective pushback is when wealthy donors, mostly but not all Jewish, cut off or threaten to cut off their often huge donations to their alma maters. When someone like Robert Kraft takes aim at Columbia University and ceases to donate, it hurts the university where it counts — in the wallet. There will be a decided reduction of Benjamins flowing into those institutions of higher learning.
So, as much as we would prefer to believe that moral outrage caused the pushback on the protesters, that is clearly not the case. The colleges that have allowed the police to clean up their mess have done nothing to make anyone proud. Their only concern was protecting their endowments. It really was “all about the Benjamins, baby.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/ilhan_omar_was_right.html
Anybody notice how many hardhats are rallying around Trump in New York?
By Monica Showalter
In the midst of trials, President Trump is campaigning, for president.
That's not how his legal persecutors planned it. Their idea with their rushed and perfectly timed prosecutions has always been to keep President Trump tied up in court and unable to campaign.
But that doesn't stop President Trump. Since he can't go anywhere while the trial is on, he's campaigning where he is, in deep blue New York City, making lemonade out of a load of very sour lemons.
And the results are shocking:
Leftists go nuts when they see this, but the fact is Donald J Trump is the most loved President in our lifetime 👇
pic.twitter.com/L9TLO22yKR
— Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) April 26, 2024
Donald Trump meets with construction workers who broke into chants of ‘USA!’ before ‘hush money’ trial https://t.co/cVxrQfBpxt pic.twitter.com/WtgALYpW1r
— New York Post (@nypost) April 26, 2024
Donald Trump meets with construction workers who broke into chants of ‘USA!’ before ‘hush money’ trial https://t.co/cVxrQfBpxt pic.twitter.com/WtgALYpW1r
— New York Post (@nypost) April 26, 2024
NY Union Leader: We're Changing Side.
Remarkable quotes from the Liberal Mecca known as New York City
Great Video by NEWSMAX pic.twitter.com/ilLOnCoFF9
— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) April 26, 2024
Look at those hardhats. Those are working people, normal voters, the kind of people the left claims to champion.
With far-left pro-Hamas protestors overrunning big campuses in New York, campuses such as Columbia University and New York University, those workers greeting Trump create a weird deja vu feeling of the Hard Hat Riots of 1970, which spontaneously emerged to everyone's surprise in the wake of the far-left lunacy engulfing, yes, Columbia University, in those years earlier. The working men were sick of it, and rallied hard around Richard Nixon. Now the same damn thing is happening in New York, this time with the same stupid protestors running circles around their university and attacking the very idea of a Liberal (in the classical sense) education, while bloodthirsty prosecutors and judges attempt to destroy Trump legally, rendering him a victim. Now he's ramming a fist down that alligator's mouth and if he takes New York in November, it will be the greatest self-own comeuppance ever seen in American politics, all completely preventable from their point of view, but put into place by their own rage.
Chris Queen at PJMedia noticed the curious make-do quality of Trump's campaign:
Trump couldn't attend the SCOTUS arguments since Judge Juan Merchan is keeping him on a tight leash in New York City, but that's not stopping him from improvising some campaign appearances. Victoria told us about it:
Trump asked for the day off from the New York City trial of the incomprehensible bookkeeping case to attend the argument but was in effect ordered to sit down and shut up by the judge, who said his court was a "very big deal" too.
So, because he couldn't go to watch the oral arguments in D.C., Trump did what came naturally: he campaigned.
Before he went into the courthouse, he stopped to talk to construction workers and onlookers on the streets of New York. He signed hats and heard the crowd shout, "We love Trump!" and "USA! USA!"
Unable to go to places like Iowa, Indiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida or Tennessee, where many Trump voters are, he's planning to go big in New York:
While he's in the Big Apple, Trump wants to create a rally to top all rallies, as Victoria explained:
Trump said he's ironing out details for the Madison Square Garden rally, though MSG reported they have not inked a deal as of yet. It's fair to say that you shouldn't bet against him, however. Nor should you dismiss his desire to stick his finger in the eye of official New York, whose governor has told conservatives to leave and admitted that the lawsuits against him are unique to him, and players at all state, borough, and city judicial levels are arrayed against all things Trump.
Even the New York Times is noticing that the courtroom persecutions are backfiring. In an op-ed written by a former operative of George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, and probable #neverTrump, he warned Democrats they were showing off Trump to voters to his best advantage:
The Manhattan courtroom will be the setting for Mr. Trump to play the role of a familiar American archetype: the wronged man seeking justice from corrupt, powerful forces. The former president is good in this role, and that’s no small thing.
Presidential campaigns pay a great deal of attention to scheduling — where, when and how many events should a candidate do on any given day. But here’s the most important element of scheduling: putting a candidate in a setting that gives them a chance to excel. ...
Mr. Trump loves big rallies. He feeds off the crowd like a vampire at a blood bank. But his act is getting a little old. ... the trial gives Mr. Trump the benefits of renewed interest from voters and the media with no burden on his team to increase campaigning or produce a newsworthy event.
I feel like I have spent half my life in campaign headquarters, staring at a map and a calendar. The map is always too large, and the calendar too short. Time is the one resource allocated to campaigns in exactly the same amounts. But there’s a dirty little secret to presidential campaigns: Where you campaign may be of little consequence. A courthouse could be as valuable as the swingiest swing district in the swingiest swing state.
Seems it's getting obvious to everyone that Trump could put even New York into play, as well as all the states he wanted to campaign in.
If that happens, it will be Democrats' own fault. The intriguing thing is, they can't stop it. They can only sit by, paralyzed by their own venom as working Americans rally around Trump. That's coverage they don't want and there's not a thing they can do about it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/anybody_notice_how_many_hardhats_are_rallying_around_trump_in_new_york.html
Shadow financiers of ‘spontaneous’ student campus protests
By Gerald McGlothlin
Recent revelations about the financial contributions of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to organizations like IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace have sparked debate about the nature of pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. college campuses.
Over the past five years, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has donated significant sums — $100,000 to IfNotNow and nearly $500,000 to Jewish Voice for Peace. These organizations openly advocate for the cessation of U.S. support for what they describe as Israel’s "Apartheid" system.
Financial Support and Its Implications
The funding from such an established philanthropic entity raises questions about the grassroots nature of these student-led movements. Critics argue that the significant financial backing suggests these protests might not be as organic as they appear. The support from a major fund could be seen as bolstering the operational capabilities of these organizations, enabling more structured and widespread campus activities than might otherwise be possible.
The Educational Gap
There is also skepticism regarding the depth of understanding and commitment of the protestors themselves. Some critics speculate that many participants in these protests might lack basic geographical knowledge about Israel, perhaps not even being able to find Israel on a map. This critique points to a potentially superficial engagement with the complex issues at stake, possibly fueled by the organizational momentum provided by external funding rather than a deep personal conviction or understanding of the historical and political context.
The Role of Philanthropic Funding in Activism
The involvement of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund highlights a broader issue of how philanthropic funding influences activism. On one hand, such funding can empower voices that might otherwise struggle to be heard, amplifying important perspectives on international issues like human rights. On the other hand, it can lead to questions about the independence of these movements and whether financial dependencies might steer their agendas.
This begs the question: Are the current 'low information protestors' seeking true justice or are they being recruited and funded by a shadow agenda seeking to exploit and foment hate and rage in the form of impressionable young human capital, resulting in raw antisemitism?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/shadow_financiers_of_spontaneous_student_campus_protests.html
Joe Biden flubs J6 date at a fundraiser because his brain is stuck in 1944
By Olivia Murray
At 2,000 illegal crossings a day, San Diego becomes new ground zero for Joe Biden's open border
By Monica Showalter
Texas has made it clear that it will do all it can to halt illegal border crossings.
That makes San Diego the new destination of choice for illegal aliens taking advantage of Joe Biden's open borders, given the hostile desert climate of Arizona, New Mexico and California's Imperial County. And sure enough, they are coming.
According to The Hill:
A San Diego official on Thursday dubbed his city the “new epicenter” for the border crisis and criticized California for “inflicting this upon ourselves.”
“San Diego is the new epicenter for migrants and illegal immigration,” San Diego District 5 Supervisor Jim Desmond posted on the social media platform X. “The surge in illegal crossings has propelled San Diego to the unfortunate position of leading all nine southern border sectors in April, a trend unseen since the 1990’s.”
Desmond said Wednesday that in just one day, Border Patrol agents apprehended 2,000 people who were illegally crossing the border, “including 206 Chinese nationals.” Since October, there have been nearly 215,000 apprehensions from 75 different countries, his post said.
“People are just walking across the border. Border Patrol agents are not empowered to stop them,” Desmond said in an interview with NewsNation. “All they’re doing is processing them once they … walk across the border.”
Desmond, who's a rare and lonely conservative, one of the Reagan Country originals, couldn't be more correct about the disaster unfolding in this county.
Crime, for one, looks like this:
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The man who was arrested for breaking into a Linda Vista home and sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl appeared in court for the first time Wednesday afternoon.
Alejandro Confessor, 22, faces charges of sex crimes, burglary and trespassing. He pleaded not guilty and denied the allegations in court.
“These parents, these kids experienced something no one should have to,” Deputy District Attorney Eric Bodnar said after the arraignment Wednesday. “It truly is a parents’ worst nightmare.”
Confessor faces 25 years to life behind bars if convicted on all charges.
On Thursday, the suspect entered a residence located on Wellington St. through an open door, where he then assaulted the five-year-old while she was sleeping. He then fled the scene on foot.
Just a few days after the first incident, on Sunday, surveillance footage appeared to capture the same man again at the property on Wellington St. around 3:30 a.m. However, authorities said he did not enter into the home and no one was harmed.
Because he went back to the same residence, prosecutors argued in court that he should not be offered the $1 million bail that was previously set. The judge agreed.
And sure enough, reports are getting out that he's here illegally:
High-ranking officials are telling me that the person who raped a 5-year-old in Linda Vista is a known gotaway who illegally entered the country. The public must know if this is true.https://t.co/N5A0lDzk7g
— Bill Wells (@MayorBillWells) April 26, 2024
Wellington Street, where the sick crime happened, is quite close to where I live. It's no border badlands outpost, nor is it a broken-window slum where all kinds of bad things happen. It's either at or next to an enclave of middle-class Navy housing, which is kept spic-and-span, if featureless, in its midcentury modern array, its lawns gleaming.
It doesn't surprise me that a door was left open at one of the homes for the monster to enter, because nothing ever happens in such a place -- that is, until Biden opened the border, which is 24.4 miles south.
Of course the crime is shocking, and that the dirtbag returned to the scene of his previous crime of invading an innocent five-year-old's bedroom and molesting that child is even creepier. Someone like that never should have been allowed into the country. But sure enough, he was.
But it doesn't stop at just pervert crime.
Wells, another rare conservative in this county, also notes that illegals get cold out there at the crossing points and they build fires:
Fire danger is the latest unintended consequence of an open border. The cartels are pushing people out east into fire country, and of course, it’s cold, so they are lighting fires. I remember the horrors of the Ceder fire. Many don’t even have fire insurance anymore because most… https://t.co/ylwpmigIuG
— Bill Wells (@MayorBillWells) April 26, 2024
Lots of fires. And this surge video from a guy with a car on his dashcam at night must be seen to be believed:
Hey @CALFIRESANDIEGO these are all illegal foreigners violating important fire laws on our side of the border AS SOON AS THEY GET INTO OUR COUNTRY in Boulevard, San Diego, CA.
If an American citizen were to do this, what would the penalty be?
Video from @CoryGoat pic.twitter.com/ZxV1yqLX4k
— rooted.wings (@BrittRooted) April 24, 2024
Little update: It's all fire country out here, the 2003 Cedar fire came within a couple miles of my home, as far as Clairemont, I remember how firefighters heroically stopped it before it could reach a string of gas stations.
The abundant canyonlands around here, even in the heart of the urban part of San Diego where I am all get dry as dust in summer but offer convenient refuge to illegals and homeless encampments, given the hostile terrain. Think any of them might now camp out in these parts and start a campfire among the tinder to rise upwards and take out a few canyonside homes?
It's more than likely it will happen.
Meanwhile, out on the surfer side of things, the illegal immigrant boats that surfers must dodge are now coming in two to three a day according to reports.
And of course, the cartels have been busy, stewmaking their rivals and taking their killing act as far north as La Jolla.
There's lots of Navy activity for incoming Chinese nationals to spy on and lots of state and NGO cash for those seeking free housing, free medical care, free food, free transport, free college and all the other things that migrants reportedly are coming for. What could go wrong?
It's interesting stuff because this is the first time we have seen the open borders migrant surge hitting a large, mostly blue, city in a direct hit, and it can't be anything other than Biden's open borders policy doing it. That's because San Diego is much further away from the parts of Mexico that migrants reach first on their cross-country journey up the belly of Mexico, which is Texas. You have to travel something like an extra 1,000 miles to get to the San Diego County borderline, but that's what they are doing, because obviously, Texas is making it much harder to enter in that state.
It sounds like these 2,000 migrants a day are just the start of a big wave of them, given the sharp acceleration in their numbers. Desmond says they're coming as it's the "path to least resistance." The crimes and mayhem now coming in with them are just the beginning of a long stream of events that will render San Diego as damaged and distressed as Texas's border communities.
Maybe the blue voters here will wise up, but don't bank on it. Most are fine letting the place turn into an unliveable county.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/at_2_000_illegal_crossings_a_day_san_diego_becomes_new_ground_zero_for_joe_biden_s_open_border.html
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