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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Illegal migrant involved in Times Square police attack was ordered to be deported 1 year prior: report
[FoxNews] The migrant was ordered deported, left and re-entered the country prior to the attack

At least four of the illegal migrants who swarmed and beat up two NYPD officers in a shocking Times Square attack in January were apprehended by federal law enforcement as far back as July 2022 but were released without being deported, according to an interim congressional report into the incident.

The report also goes on to blast the Biden-Harris administration's record on immigration.

One of the migrants, a suspected Tren de Aragua gang member, had already been ordered to be deported — and then left the country and returned again — before the brutal attack took place.

Another one of the migrants was caught trying to enter Canada illegally after running from U.S. authorities, having crossed the southern border but was still released. A third migrant suspect was also arrested for shoplifting two separate stores and assaulting two store workers months before the Times Square attack and was not ordered to be deported.

The shocking revelations are detailed in a report released on Wednesday by the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, which is tasked with investigating the Jan. 27 caught-on-camera attack on a police lieutenant and officer. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio and Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock, R-Calif, subpoenaed the files on the migrants from Homeland as part of the report.

The incident sparked widespread condemnation and was followed by one of the suspects flipping two middle fingers at reporters' cameras after he was released from police custody. It also drew sharp attention to the migrant crime surge, particularly in New York City, which has catered to housing tens of thousands of migrants at taxpayers' expense. The attack took place in a busy tourist spot close to a migrant shelter.

The report also revealed an apparent inadequate vetting process of migrants, which has led to around 617,000 criminal migrants roaming U.S. streets, and criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for agreeing to plea deals with the Times Square attackers while at the same time prosecting former President Donald Trump over hush money payments.

The committee, citing data from several agencies, says that more than 5.6 million illegal migrants have entered the country under the Biden-Harris administration, with another 1.9 million illegal alien "gotaways" escaping into the country during the same time.

Wilson Juarez-Aguilarte, Kelvin Servita Arocha, Darwin Gomez Izquiel and Yorman Yoel Riveron-Rivero all entered the country illegally during the Biden-Harris administration, per the report, and have been charged with assault on a police officer and obstructing a governmental investigation.

Two have since agreed to lenient plea deals with Bragg’s office and none have been deported, according to the New York Post.

Juarez-Aguilarte, a Venezuelan national and suspected Tren de Aragua gang member, was ordered to be deported from the U.S. in February 2023, nearly a year before the Times Square attack. The report found that he crossed the southern border into Brownsville, Texas, in July 2022, refused to tell border agents why he left Venezuela and told border agents he was heading to Houston.

At some point, he left the U.S. and then re-entered the country in June 2023, near Champlain, New York, with a group of 14 other migrants — yet border agents released him again.

A Manhattan judge set his bail at $1 following the Times Square because the charges against him involved evidence tampering and not participating in the attack.

Servita-Arocha, an alleged Tren de Aragua gang member from Venezuela with tattoos that are "highly associated" with the gang, was apprehended about 10 miles from the northern border in January 2023 while walking with a group of eight other Venezuelan migrants in upstate New York. The group told border agents they "wanted to go to Canada" and had "illegally entered the United States from Mexico through Texas" a week earlier.

Border agents released him with a list of pro bono legal service providers.

A year later, he was one of four suspects arrested and released without bail over the attack. Bragg offered him a plea deal to serve six months in prison for pleading guilty to obstructing a government administration.

Gomez Izquiel, also a Venezuelan national, entered the U.S. illegally near Brownsville, Texas, in August 2023 by way of a raft across the Rio Grande River from Mexico, according to the report. He was picked up by Border Patrol and claimed that he entered the U.S. to seek asylum to find work to help his family financially and to obtain an education. He was processed and released after the National Crime Information Center query returned no criminal history for him.

Days later, and still not detained by ICE, he was said to be part of a group that robbed a Macy’s store in Queens Center Mall and assaulted an employee. Gomez Izquiel was accused of acting as a lookout for a group of three others who stole merchandise from the store. In late July 2024, Gomez Izquiel accepted a plea deal for the Times Square assault.

Meanwhile, the report also details how Riveron-Rivero crossed illegally into Brownsville, Texas, in May 2023 and was apprehended by border agents, who released him with instructions to report to ICE within 60 days, which he did in New York City in September 2023.

Officers issued a warrant for his arrest shortly before again releasing him on his own recognizance as long as he did not "violate any local, state, or federal laws or ordinances" or associate with known gang members or be associated with any such activity.

It is not clear why ICE officers issued the arrest warrant.

Two months later, Riveron-Rivero was accused of stealing pants at a New York City Nordstrom store and then punching and biting a worker in the face. He then tried to swipe a coat from Macy’s and also punched a store worker there. The report states he was released without bail after both arrests.

Riveron-Rivero is accused of grabbing, pulling and dragging the two cops to the ground in the Times Square attack. He’s been offered a deal for two years in prison in exchange for pleading guilty to second degree assault.

"New York City police officers were attacked because the Biden-Harris Administration allowed these illegal aliens to enter the country," the report states.

The report revealed that the country’s vetting process of migrants is almost non-existent since DHS has no way to determine if an alien has a criminal history in his or her own country unless that country reports the information to the U.S. government or the migrant self-reports.

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2024 04:02 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Is nowhere safe? 'Billionaires Isle' rocked as illegal migrant, 28, is arrested over 'detestable and disturbing' crime
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The ritzy Massachusetts island of Nantucket has been rocked after an illegal migrant was arrested over his 'detestable and disturbing rape' of a child.

Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo, 28, a Salvadorian national, was taken into custody on September 10 over an alleged incident that occurred on July 11 involving a 12-year-old, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Boston Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) office announced Monday.

He faces one count of rape of a child with a 10-year age difference and two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, according to the agency. Aldana-Arevalo pleaded not guilty during his arraignment on July 26 and was held in custody on a $20,000 bail. On July 29 he was released after bail was posted.

The incident allegedly occurred while the mother and daughter visited family in Nantucket. A social worker then contacted NYPD detectives about the assault before the Nantucket Police Department interviewed the minor about the incident involving Aldana-Arevalo - a relative of the child, according to the outlet.

The illegal migrant 'unlawfully entered the U.S. on an unknown date, at an unknown location' and was not 'inspected, admitted or paroled by a U.S. immigration official,' according to the agency.

His attorney, Rob Moriarty, argued for a $2,500 bail for Aldana-Arevalo, stating that was what his client 'could afford,' the outlet reported. Moriarty added that Aldana-Arevalo, who has lived on the island for three years, should not face bail because he remained in Nantucket during the investigation.

A second illegal migrant was arrested by ICE agents on September 11 on the small island and was identified Tuesday as Gean Do Amaral Belafronte, 31. Belafronte was charged with indecent assault and battery on a person 14 years or older, ERO Boston said. The alleged incident occurred on April 13, 2021 and according to the police report, obtained by Nantucket Current, Belefronte allegedly approached the victim, grabbed her, pushed her to the ground and climbed on top of her. During the alleged assault, he told the female victim 'I will rape you,' while 'he licked her lips.'

An arraignment for Belafronte was scheduled for June 9, but he never showed. Because of that, the Nantucket District Court issued a default warrant for his arrest which saw him arrested again. He was released on bail later that day.

The Brazilian national lawfully entered the U.S. on October 8, 2018, but after violating the terms of his admission he 'voluntarily departed' the country on April 18, 2021 - five days after the alleged incident took place, the agency reported.

On an unknown date and location, 'without being inspected, admitted or paroled' by an ICE official, Belafronte re-entered the U.S. On March 12, 2024 he was arrested again and at 3pm that day he was arraigned on the indecent assault and battery charge. Belafronte was then released on $500 cash bail.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  hey...you idiots voted for it...

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.”

King James Version (KJV) Hosea 8:7
Posted by: Warthog || 09/19/2024 8:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Media:
"Not Haitian - in your face!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/19/2024 11:09 Comments || Top||

#3  That type of activity is for the rich people, not the help.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/19/2024 15:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, could just as easy be a P Diddy story.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/19/2024 16:45 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Prosecutors: Chicago Man Robs Woman on CTA Days After Getting Probation for Prior CTA Robbery
[Breitbart] A Chicago man allegedly robbed a woman on the train just 11 days after a judge released him on probation for robbing two people outside of a train station on the same line, prosecutors said.

Isaiah Turner, 18, and two minors were arrested on March 17 — St. Patrick’s Day — after they allegedly robbed a man and a woman at the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Austin Blue Line station in Oak Park, CWBChicago reported.

While demanding the victims’ property, the teens allegedly implied they had a gun, prosecutors said.

Turner was also facing charges for a February 5 robbery he allegedly took part in when he was 17.

Judge Antara Rivera agreed with prosecutors who argued for a detention petition, but Judge John Wellington Wilson allowed Turner to resolve the March robbery case on August 27 by pleading guilty to aggravated robbery.

Court documents obtained by the Chicago crime outlet show that Wilson sentenced the teen to two years of probation following his pattern of allegations.

On September 7, just 11 days after getting off with probation, Turner allegedly again implied he had a gun while robbing a 24-year-old woman on a Blue Line train near the Western station, CWBChicago reported.

The alleged victim, named Lisa, was struck in the face and robbed of her purse, phone, and Apple AirPods, Judge Rivera said in a detention order.

Cops saw a man matching Turner’s description wearing all black and a ski mask and chased him through the neighborhood, a police report stated.

“He ran when the cops tried to stop him,” the outlet said, “but the police caught up with him.”

Police said they found him with headphones with the name “Lisa’s Airpods Pro.”

CWBChicago noted that Rivera’s latest detention order says Turner is also on juvenile probation for an aggravated battery, but it is unclear if that stems from the February robbery.

It is not immediately clear what his new charges related to the latest incident are.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2024 03:56 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Politicians mark one year since the end of cash bail in Illinois
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2024 5:31 Comments || Top||



Biden-Harris DEA Leaves Major Texas Border Drug Corridor Exposed
[Breitbart] According to a source within the Department of Homeland Security, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has all but abandoned its offices in Eagle Pass and Del Rio, Texas. Only one special agent is working in one border office, and a local police task force officer is working in the other. The situation, according to the source, leaves just one DEA agent working a few days per week along the Texas border between El Paso and Laredo.

The 604-mile stretch of United States/Mexico border between El Paso and Laredo is designated as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) under a program created by Congress with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. Traditionally, according to the source, the DEA has spearheaded law enforcement task forces in both cities, responding to drug seizures made by the Border Patrol and other local and state authorities.

According to the source, who was not authorized to speak to the media, the DEA offices, now mostly empty, are no longer able to provide investigative and criminal prosecution services due to attrition and personnel reassignments by the federal narcotics agency.

Now, according to the source, all that remains in one of the two border towns is a local law enforcement officer designated to keep the lights on at the all-but-abandoned DEA office in Del Rio. Only one special agent remains in Eagle Pass, working less than a full work week at times. As of 2024, the agency employs more than 10,000 people, nearly half of whom are special agents. Breitbart Texas visited the Eagle Pass DEA office during normal business hours and found the facility nearly empty.

As the offices sit idle, fentanyl seizures across the United States and along the southwest border continue to rise. According to the DEA, the agency seized more than 80 million fentanyl-laced fake pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. These seizures are equivalent to more than 390 million lethal doses of fentanyl, according to DEA. The current 2024 fentanyl seizures represent 254 million deadly doses.

The Eagle Pass/Del Rio portions of the South Texas HIDTA serve as a major transportation hub to San Antonio and beyond. According to CBP, border fentanyl seizures have increased more than 860 percent between 2019 and 2023. Synthetic drugs like fentanyl kill more than 150 Americans every day according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

The source says it makes little sense to practically abandon the border region where much of the fentanyl originates.

“Rank and file law enforcement officers will still be out trying to get this off our streets, but it sends a message that the federal agency primarily tasked with a national drug enforcement strategy doesn’t care enough to stick around the border,” the source emphasized.

In the case of narcotic seizures made by the Border Patrol, the source says an existing memorandum of understanding (MOU) gives the DEA the first right of refusal to accept a case for investigation and prosecution. Local police and sheriff offices also rely on DEA to assist with investigating and prosecuting larger narcotics seizures. The interdicting agencies along the border rely on DEA special agents to perform link analysis and trace the narcotics back to the corresponding cartel responsible for sending the drug shipments across the border.

Without the special agents present to interview and develop the narcotics cases firsthand, the source says the local agencies will rely on themselves to carry out this task under the auspices of DEA’s authority as task force members.

“It’s like the small town where the mayor is the fire chief, postmaster, and sheriff; we’ll wear the DEA hat as task force members, but there won’t be a DEA special agent anywhere near the action in these two border towns unless things change,” the source told Breitbart Texas.

According to a recent ABC News report, other locations outside the United States have seen their staffing levels decreased. The agency shuttered two offices in China as it continues to struggle to prevent the precursor fentanyl chemicals from reaching the hands of Mexican drug cartel operatives. According to the report, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram, appointed by President Biden in 2021, communicated the closure of a dozen offices worldwide saying, “These closings reflect the need to harness DEA’s limited and strained resources to target where we can make the biggest impact in saving American lives.”

It is not known whether the severe staffing shortages facing the border offices in Texas are related to planned downsizing or simply unchecked attrition. A request for information from the DEA and its parent agency, the Department of Justice. The DEA responded, saying, “For security purposes, DEA does not comment on staffing in its offices.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2024 03:53 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  That stipulation was very important as Kamala’s team negotiated with Hunter Biden. … for some reason.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/19/2024 16:33 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Police Can Search Legal Gun Owners' Homes to 'Check'
[Breitbart] During a May 2007 presser in support of gun storage requirements, then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris stressed that being a legal gun owner does not bar police from searching your home.

FOX News quoted Harris speaking at the presser. “…just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home,” she said, “doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2024 03:52 || Comments || Link || [11123 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, that's what the British at Concord planned too. See how well it worked out for them?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/19/2024 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Speaking of illegal searches and right to due process, but not too off topic.

Does Article 3 prevent the forced housing of illegal immigrants in private residencies?

Can one argue that soldier is one under the employment of a government? The illegal immigrant is given special legal rights unavailable to the US Citizen and is receiving pay and benefits in a determined time period. I say yes, you have a government employee to billet in a private residence in violation of Article 3.

What is a monitoring device? In short, it is the extension of one's senses. A camera, for example, allows a person to see remote locations. A thermostat monitor allows a person to feel an atmosphere.

So if crazy eyes is like, step 1 we aren't going for your guns but you must let our agent enter your home, inspect your storage area, and install a device which monitors when the storage area is accessed and can lock remotely surprise!, is that posting a government employee in a private residence?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/19/2024 10:15 Comments || Top||


#4  Heh, maybe because this is her platform that counts as consent.

Alas, this video must be posted. Read the warnings, they are there for good reason. In short, NSFW.

Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/19/2024 14:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Going to get a lot of cops shot.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/19/2024 16:18 Comments || Top||

#6  I think Kamala has read the 4th Amendment. I just don’t think she understood it. Let’s just say that her educational track in grade school might have included frequent field trips.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/19/2024 16:31 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ And Audio-Visual filmstrip days instead of learning
Posted by: Frank G || 09/19/2024 17:49 Comments || Top||

#8  CNN, some 3 years ago.

Interviewer: "Best rapper alive?"
Harris: "Tupac".
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/19/2024 18:42 Comments || Top||

#9  "What accent do you use to pronounce 'Authentic'"
"Que?"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/19/2024 18:50 Comments || Top||

#10  But that's all about Protecting Muh Democracy.

Democracy would be replacing the current Republic system, which means The Constitution, Bill of Rights, the whole deal, is dissolved and ceases to be a binding contract in favor of the new matrix.

And from Democracy, the power brokers of New England and Left Coast can go where ever they want by playing Majority Says.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/19/2024 18:54 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Tucson Trump Rally Sparks Backlash, Mysterious Illness
See also here.
[Arizona Globe] Rally goers met with hateful rhetoric and unexplained chemical burns to eyes

Last week, former President Donald Trump held his first post-debate rally in Tucson, a predominantly left-leaning city. The event took place at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, drawing attention to Trump’s new policy announcement and the controversy surrounding the rally before and after.

Before the rally, Pima County Supervisor Adelita Grijalva sparked backlash by posting a profane sign on social media. The sign, which read "F you MAGA, no more Orange" in Spanish, was captioned, "Welcome to Tucson." At a subsequent Pima County Board of Supervisors meeting, constituents demanded an apology from Grijalva. However, she stood by her actions, stating, "I’ll acknowledge wrongdoing when Trump apologizes for the racist, misogynistic, sexist, inflammatory comments he’s made about women, people of color, LGBTQ..."

Grijalva wasn’t the only notable Tucson figure to oppose the rally. Music legend Linda Ronstadt, whose name adorns the venue, also disapproved. Taking to social media, Ronstadt criticized Trump for holding the event at a building associated with her legacy, stating her deep opposition to his policies.

While the rally drew a large and enthusiastic crowd, it ended with an unexpected turn of events. Approximately 20 attendees, primarily members of the "Latinos for Trump" group who had been onstage, reported becoming ill with mysterious symptoms shortly after the rally concluded. All those who reported falling ill were seated on the side of the stage where Trump made his entrance before approaching the podium.

Pastor Eli Moreno, who opened the rally with prayer, and his wife, Francesca Moreno, were among those affected. Pastor Moreno said that he experienced mild discomfort, but his wife’s symptoms were far more severe. On their drive home, Mrs. Moreno’s nose began to run, her vision blurred, and her face swelled up. They stopped at a Walgreens and encountered another rallygoer with similar symptoms. Mrs. Moreno stated that emergency room doctors flushed her eyes earlier and referred her to an ophthalmologist. Five days later, she was just beginning to feel better.

Mayra Rodriguez, another attendee, also fell ill 30 minutes after leaving the rally, experiencing burning eyes and a severe headache. By the time she arrived at the emergency room, she could no longer open her eyes. After performing a dye test, the doctor informed her that she had suffered a chemical burn. Days later, she continued suffering from blurry vision and light sensitivity.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Mrs. Moreno’s nose began to run, her vision blurred, and her face swelled up.

Gosh, that almost sounds like a nerve agent. Or the worst case of hay fever ever.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/19/2024 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  A nerve agent is not something the general public would have access to.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/19/2024 15:54 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Democrat Senator Panics over Report That Anti-Stock Trading Bill Will Not Apply to Her Partner
[Breitbart] Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) released a campaign ad in response to a report that revealed her bill banning senators and their spouses from buying stocks would not apply to her spouse.

In a campaign advertisement, Baldwin accused Republican businessman and real estate mogul Eric Hovde, who is running to unseat Baldwin, of owning a $3 billion California bank that allegedly “takes millions from unknown foreign interests.”

Baldwin’s campaign video comes as Hovde called for the Wisconsin senator to reveal her partner, Maria Brisbane’s assets. Brisbane works as a wealth adviser with Morgan Stanley. Baldwin was also criticized in a video from the Fix Washington PAC for failing to “report” her “jointly owned assets” with Brisbane or Brisbane’s clients “who get rich off industries” that Baldwin reportedly regulates.

Under the Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act, which is sponsored by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and co-sponsored by Baldwin, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), among others, “each Member of Congress” would be required to “divest or place in a blind trust any specified investment owned by the Member,” or their spouse and a dependent of them.

A report from Daniel Lippman, a reporter with Politico, found that if passed, the bill “would not apply to relationships like Baldwin and Brisbane”:

A new bill to ban senators and their spouses from buying individual stocks that Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) touts in a new ad wouldn’t apply to Baldwin’s partner because the couple is not married, Daniel Lippman reports.
There’s a cost to not putting a ring on that, too.
Her opponent Eric Hovde has called on Baldwin to disclose her partner’s assets. And after a super PAC ad attacked her for not reporting jointly held assets with partner Maria Brisbane, a wealth adviser at Morgan Stanley, Baldwin responded with her own ad saying that she was “leading the fight to ban senators from purchasing any individual stocks.”
The lady’s lady is a wealth advisor, a fancy term for a stock tout. She’d not have been pleased had she been limited to recommending plain vanilla index funds to her terribly sophisticated clients.
But if the Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act passed, the law would not apply to relationships like Baldwin and Brisbane, even though in 2021 the couple bought a $1.3 million home together in Washington, splitting the cost of the property. As written, the law would prohibit senators, their spouses and their dependant children from trading stocks but not apply to less official relationships. The Baldwin campign noted that the bill uses the same standard for spousal and child reporting that has been in place since the passage of the Ethics in Government Act in the 1970s.

While Andrew Mamo, a campaign spokesperson for the Baldwin campaign explained to the outlet that Baldwin “follows all ethics guidelines when it comes to her financial disclosure reports,” Brisbane has not appeared on Baldwin’s Financial Disclosure Reports, though the couple has been together since 2018 and purchased a $1.3 million condo in Washington, DC.

Brisbane was reportedly given power of attorney in order to purchase the condo, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Baldwin apparently previously reported the assets with her former partner, Lauren Azar, according to the New York Post.
That one was an attorney specializing in the energy industry, at one point a senior advisor to the US Secretary of Energy, and no doubt very aware of the political side of such things.
Brisbane founded the Brisbane Group, which is described as being a “wealth management team within Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management,” according to the Brisbane Group’s website. Brisbane also works as an Adjunct Professor of Finance with the Columbia Business School.
To be fair, lots of people are adjunct professors in their spare time. It’s a nice way to share your knowledge with the next generation — or possibly the one after that.


Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2024 03:47 || Comments || Link || [11124 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Zakharova stated that a dictatorship has already arrived in the US
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Dictatorship has already arrived in the United States, the question is whether it will be destructive or whether the country will be returned to normal. This was stated to journalists on September 18 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, on the sidelines of the Eurasian Women's Forum.

She recalled the words of American businessman Elon Musk that if the elections in the United States are held “with a different result than this one,” then a dictatorship will come to the country.

"That's his point of view. In my opinion, the dictatorship [in the US] has already arrived, the question is whether it will be an absolutely destructive story for the US or whether they will still try to fight for a return to normality," she said.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on September 17, Musk said that the United States would “ slide into tyranny ” if the country’s former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump were to lose.

On September 2, Musk called the US Democratic Party "the party of criminals." He noted that the Democratic Party is too soft on criminals. According to him, this situation is explained by the fact that this category of citizens, as a rule, votes for representatives of the Democrats, and therefore they "do not want to offend their customers."

Musk also said he was looking forward to being appointed to Trump's team, saying the current US government has too much unnecessary spending and regulation that needs to be "gotten rid of as soon as possible."

On August 20, Trump said that he was considering Musk as an employee of the American administration if he won the US presidential election. According to the former head of the White House, he is ready to offer the entrepreneur a post of adviser or member of the cabinet of the head of his administration, if he is not against it.

Posted by: badanov || 09/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump needs to find a consultant with skills about and insight into draining the swamp.
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 09/19/2024 17:51 Comments || Top||

#2  hello Elon
Posted by: Frank G || 09/19/2024 18:28 Comments || Top||


Biden's Department Of Energy Short On Cash To Refill SPR At Low Prices
[ZeroHedge] The price of the U.S. WTI crude oil has finally stayed in the low $70s per barrel for a sustainable period of time, allowing the Biden Administration to ramp up the refill of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), which it had said would do at prices of $79 a barrel or below.

WTI Crude is now at $70 per barrel as of Tuesday morning, after spending days below that threshold.

But the Energy Department has just $841 million left to buy crude for the SPR, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing an estimate by ClearView Energy Partners, a consulting firm. That money would be enough to buy only around 12 million barrels of crude at today’s prices, per Bloomberg’s calculations.

This would be a drop in the ocean, considering that the SPR is only just over half full compared to its capacity of 700 million barrels.

DOE's Office of Petroleum Reserves has recently announced a call for bids to supply up to 1.5 million barrels of oil to the Bayou Choctaw site in January 2025. An additional solicitation will follow on August 12, 2024, for another 2 million barrels destined for the Bryan Mound site, also for delivery in January 2025.

The replenishment strategy comes in the wake of the SPR's critical role in stabilizing the market during global supply disruptions, notably the release of more than 180 million barrels of oil from the SPR starting in 2021, as gasoline prices remained high. The Department of Treasury claims that these releases, along with coordinated international efforts, helped reduce gasoline prices by up to 40 cents per gallon in 2022.

The SPR currently houses 375 million barrels of crude—a figure that is 263 million barrels less than oil in the SPR at the beginning of President Joe Biden’s term in office. The SPR, capable of storing as many as 714 million barrels of crude oil, is kept in underground salt caverns at four sites in Texas and Louisiana and was designed to protect the economy and American livelihoods during oil shortages.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11124 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fed fiscal year starts Oct 1
Posted by: Frank G || 09/19/2024 9:19 Comments || Top||

#2  "Unless the Republicans won't pass a spending bill derrrr derrr derrrr! then its your fault, you bigot!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/19/2024 14:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Buy high. Sell low.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/19/2024 15:52 Comments || Top||


Small Town Alabama Residents Silenced For Questioning Sudden Flood Of Haitian Migrants
[ZeroHedge] This week U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its latest statistics showing at least 530,000 migrants flew into the U.S. and were paroled into the country as part of the Biden administration’s controversial mass parole program for those migrating from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (the CHNV program). The program essentially expedites the transfer of migrants from these countries with minimal vetting under refugee laws and allows them to stay in the US for at least two years with a work visa.

The CBP also notes that at least 800,000 more migrants have applied for the program at US ports of entry, meaning they are likely already in the country. The numbers are not counted as illegal border crossings. The CBP has warned that once the two-year work period ends they do not have the manpower to track down those migrants that refuse to leave voluntarily.

Concerns over this immigration agenda are being raised after presidential candidate Donald Trump highlighted the flood of 20,000 Haitians into Springfield, Ohio (a city of only 60,000 people) during his recent debate with Kamala Harris. Reports are mounting and suggest this issue is not limited to Ohio; small towns across the US are being inundated with third-world immigrants. Native-born residents feel powerless as their communities are trampled by decisions made at the federal level.

One such town is Sylacauga in Alabama with a tiny population of 12,236 people southeast of Birmingham. Reports indicate at least 2000 Haitian migrants have been dumped into the area with little or no communication with the locals.

Sylacauga city council member Laura Barlow Heath says she's worried Sylacauga will become the next Springfield. She criticized her colleagues after they abruptly shut down a council meeting when residents raised concerns over the overwhelming influx of migrants and she worries 'civil unrest' may be the result.

Citizens continued to approach council members after the meeting, and many of the exchanges became heated.

Mayor Jim Heigl confirms that the immigrants were brought in "legally" for employment. He said they have been "model citizens," and there are no issues with the current number of immigrants living in the city. However, this is the same rhetoric from the leadership in Springfield, Ohio, and reports from native residents conflict dramatically with the claims made by local politicians. They say crime is on the rise, and of course, pets are disappearing.

Evidence shows that animal abuse is indeed an issue. After the media claimed the accusations have been "debunked", police reports have been exposed and confirmed recordings of migrants in Ohio cooking cats have surfaced. A video of has surfaced of Springfield city officials from March of this year discussing migrants doing "horrible things to domesticated animals" while council members argued that the events are not confirmed.

NEW: African migrants in Dayton, Ohio caught grilling cats.

The footage was obtained by @realchrisrufo who interviewed the man who took the video.

“It was some Africans that stay right next door. This African dude next door had the damn cat on the grill”https://t.co/YmmV79TKOn

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 14, 2024
Now we have the Springfield City Manager acknowledging on video that they’ve heard of complaints of domestic animals being eaten back in March.

We also have a call report showing this.

Why would they lie about there not being complaints?

Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/ejktkvxIRo

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 17, 2024
SHOCKING report from Rebel News’ @TheMenzoid, who visited Springfield, Ohio, reveals local residents sharing their stories of Haitian migrants killing pets and causing chaos in their city.

“They did kill my daughter's cat.”

“My neighbor’s neighbor went over to his house crying… pic.twitter.com/5qBOsklaIe

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) September 13, 2024

Democrats assert that these communities have no say in the process of immigration and that however many foreigners arrive and where they come from is none of their business. But maybe it should be their business. Laura Heath of Sylacauga gets to the root of the problem:

“When is enough enough? When do they stop coming in? How many are there going to be? There’s no answers. We have none. The unknown and uncertainty is scary. We have 12,236 people in our community, and we just do not have the adequate resources to handle an influx of migrants. It’s going to take away from resources that are already struggling here.”

It should be noted that many of these migrants have been suspiciously relocated to deep red conservative districts and, as we recently witnessed in Oregon, some states are "accidentally" giving migrants voter status when they get their state IDs and drivers licenses.

Employers are incentivized to hire migrants because of lower wages, but they can also get tax subsidies for every refugee under a lesser known provision of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC). In other words, companies are getting extra-cheap labor the more they add refugees to the payroll. This is why we often see corporate CEOs in places like Springfield, OH avidly defending mass immigration and denying any problems exist.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

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Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/19/2024 15:45 Comments || Top||

#2  From what I have read on the Ohio situation, an NGO was engaged in human trafficking, but they are immune from interference because they either paid off the politicians or the politicians are being influenced by donors making bank off of the trade.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/19/2024 15:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember allllll that money which went to all those NGOs in that Infrastructure Bill. Then again, in the Inflation Reduction Act?

Red Cross has been accused of being among the worst by volume of the flesh traders.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/19/2024 18:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Catholic Charities™ as well...and I'm Catholic
Posted by: Frank G || 09/19/2024 18:27 Comments || Top||

#5  I am as well. I stopped responding to the Diocean Appeal after the McCarrick whitewash. I ceased Catholic Charities contributions over the trafficking.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/19/2024 19:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Catholic Charities been involved in trafficking since 9/11. Typically, they would remain in contact with individuals for 6 weeks only and then move on.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/19/2024 20:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Border patrol faces subpoena threat for allegedly hiding Harris' role as border czar
[JustTheNews] Comer sent a letter to Troy Miller, the acting commissioner for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, requesting documents and communications regarding Harris' role in working with CBP to address the border crisis.

House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., threatened Tuesday to subpoena the head of border patrol, saying he has not received answers when asked about Vice President Kamala Harris' role as border czar.

Comer sent a letter to Troy Miller, the acting commissioner for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, requesting documents and communications regarding Harris' role in working with CBP to address the border crisis.

"The deadline to produce has passed, and CBP has failed to provide the Committee with any responsive documents, communications, or even a timeline for when CBP intends to comply with the request," the letter said.

CBP did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

"If CBP continues to withhold documents and communications on this matter, the Committee will consider alternative measures to obtain this information, including through the compulsory process," Comer said in the letter.

Harris has tried to distance herself from her role in handling the border issue for President Joe Biden, in part because the border has been in crisis throughout the administration with millions of illegal immigrants pouring into the U.S. in just under four years.

Several high-profile crimes committed by illegal immigrants have helped push the issue to the forefront as the number of migrants coming into the U.S. under the Biden administration alone has surpassed the total population of most U.S. states.

Now, lawmakers want answers about what exactly Harris did, or didn't do, to handle the border crisis.

"It is important the Committee and the American people understand Vice President Harris's role as the border czar in the ongoing border crisis," the letter said. "The mass illegal entry and release of illegal aliens into the United States under the Biden-Harris Administration has contributed to murders, sexual assaults, and serious bodily injuries committed against numerous Americans at the hands of illegal aliens. These crimes should have never happened."

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11124 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "A recently retired Border Patrol Chief says that the Kamala-Biden admin ordered him to cover up the increase in suspected terrorists arrested at the southern border."

https://x.com/i/status/1836772000322248909
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/19/2024 14:02 Comments || Top||

#2  I saw that article early this morn. Thought for sure it would headline the burg.
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 09/19/2024 14:06 Comments || Top||

#3  At the moment we’re spoilt for choice for headline of the day, dear Ebbuger Whuque4103.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/19/2024 14:34 Comments || Top||

#4  I don’t think those documents exist. Mayorkas and Blinken and their staff did all the work to fast track the invasion. I think it will be hard to document Kamala doing anything but drinking and tormenting her staff during working hours.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/19/2024 15:46 Comments || Top||



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