Can She Stand Her Ground After She Made an Unlawful Entry Into His Apartment? Civil Trial Begins for White Dallas Cop Convicted of Murdering Botham Jean

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From [HERE] A Dallas County jury will decide this week whether former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger is liable for using excessive force in a civil wrongful death trial over her killing of Botham Jean in 2018.

Guyger was convicted of murder in 2019 for shooting and killing her unarmed neighbor in his apartment, believing it was her own after she returned home from a shift. Guyger is currently serving a 10-year sentence at a state prison in Gatesville.

Botham Jean’s parents Alison and Bertrum Jean and sister Allissa Findley accused Guyger in a federal lawsuit filed the year of his death of using excessive force that resulted in the 26-year-old’s wrongful death and violated his constitutional rights.

“There existed no justification whatsoever for Defendant Guyger’s use of deadly force,” the suit reads. “[Botham] Jean was in his own apartment and was not committing a penal offense. [Botham] Jean was totally unaware of what was transpiring when Officer Guyger fired the deadly shots. [Botham] Jean was not attempting to harm anyone, nor did he appear menacing, threatening, or dangerous in any manner.”

The Jean family is suing for an undisclosed amount of money in damages for the pain and mental anguish Botham Jean suffered before his death as well as his parents’ mental anguish and loss of companionship after the death of their son. Botham Jean’s parents are also asking the jury to conclude Guyger should pay punitive and exemplary damages for their son’s death.

The lawsuit initially included the city of Dallas as a defendant, with Botham Jean’s family accusing the Dallas Police Department of showing a pattern of excessive force among its police force, failing to adequately train Guyger on the use of force and failing to discipline Guyger for a previous shooting incident while she was on the job.

The city was dismissed from the lawsuit last year after U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn ruled the plaintiffs failed to sufficiently prove their claims against the city and DPD. [MORE]

Attorney says Liberal Fed Prosecutors in NYC Raided Puff Daddy's Prison Cell and Took His Handwritten Notes to Lawyers, in Violation of his So-Called 4th, 5th and 6th Amendment Rights

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From [HERE] Now, the latest development in the lead up to the May 2025 trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is that his jail cell was reportedly raided by the feds, who are said to have seized his handwritten notes to his legal team.

Daily Mail reported:

“Prosecutors are in possession of attorney-client privileged material that was seized from the disgraced rapper’s jail cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, according to court documents obtained by TMZ.”

Combs attorney Marc Agnifilo says it’s privileged material that includes the rapper’s handwritten notes to his legal team concerning both defense witnesses and also defense strategies for his upcoming trial.

Agnifilo says the feds admit to possessing the material, and that ‘the seizure violates Diddy’s Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights’.

“’This search and seizure are in violation of Mr. Combs’ [constitutional] rights,’ Agnifilo said in documents viewed by Billboard.

‘The targeted seizure of a pre-trial detainee’s work product and privileged materials – created in preparation for trial – is outrageous government conduct amounting to a substantive due process violation.

This is a matter of grave concern that, most respectfully, must be addressed immediately, because the U.S. Attorney, and it seems the trial prosecutors, are currently in possession of privileged materials we request a full evidentiary hearing as soon as the Court can accommodate us’.”

Combs has been charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution.

He has pleaded not guilty to coercing and abusing women aided by associates and employees, and to silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.

“The prosecution has accused Diddy of obstructing his sex trafficking case from behind bars by paying off witnesses and enlisting his own children in a ‘public relations campaign’.” [MORE]

A Newly Republished, Previously Censored Autopsy Study on COVID Shots Shows a ‘High Likelihood’ that COVID “Vaccines” Cause Death. Peer Reviewed Paper Finds 73% of Deaths Linked to COVID Injections

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CHD states: The largest COVID-19 vaccine autopsy study to date has been republished in a peer-reviewed journal after twice being censored. The study’s lead author said it provides “robust evidence” that the vaccines can cause death, meeting the FDA’s criteria for “an immediate market withdrawal.”

From [HERE] The largest COVID-19 vaccine autopsy study to date has been republished in a peer-reviewed journal — after twice being censored, according to Nicolas Hulscher, the paper’s lead author and an epidemiologist at the McCullough Foundation.

Science, Public Health Policy and the Law on Nov. 17 published the study, which had been previously withdrawn from Preprints with The Lancet and Forensic Science International.

Hulscher told The Defender the study’s republication signals a “pivotal victory for transparency and accountability in science.” It also marks “a significant setback” for actors in the biopharmaceutical complex and “their Academic Publishing Cartel,” Hulscher said.

Hulscher’s co-authors include Dr. Harvey Risch, Dr. Peter A. McCullough and Dr. William Makis.

Hulscher told The Defender the study provides “robust evidence that COVID-19 vaccines can cause death. This means that the FDA’s [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] criteria for a Class I recall have been fulfilled, warranting an immediate market withdrawal.”

The FDA defines a Class I product recall as “a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.”

Risch, professor emeritus of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, told The Defender that the COVID-19 vaccine spike protein “can stay around in some people and continue to do inflammatory damage in any site where it gets to through the bloodstream.”

In ‘striking act of censorship’ publishers withdraw study, shut down debate

The study’s publication in Science, Public Health Policy and the Law is the latest twist in an ongoing saga as the authors have tried to get their research out to the public and scientific community, Hulscher wrote on Substack.

The study results were first made public on July 5, 2023, as a preprint with The Lancet on SSRN, an open-access research platform.

However, Preprints with The Lancet removed the study from the server within 24 hours, posting a statement that the study’s conclusions were “not supported by the study methodology,” The Daily Sceptic reported.

McCullough told The Epoch Times that the study was experiencing “hundreds of reviews per minute” before its removal.

73.9% of deaths reviewed by authors linked to COVID vaccines

As The Defender previously reported, the study authors did a systematic review of studies on autopsy findings following COVID-19 vaccination.

They first searched PubMed and ScienceDirect for all published autopsy and necropsy — another word for autopsy — reports related to COVID-19 vaccination in which the death occurred after vaccination.

They screened out 562 duplicate studies among the 678 studies initially identified in their search. Other papers were removed because they lacked information about vaccination status.

Ultimately, they evaluated 44 papers containing 325 autopsies and one necropsy case. Three physicians independently reviewed each case and adjudicated whether or not the COVID-19 shot was the direct cause or contributed significantly to the death reported.

They found 240 of the deaths (73.9%) were found to be “directly due to or significantly contributed to by COVID-19 vaccination.” The mean age for death was 70.4 years old.

Primary causes of death included sudden cardiac death, which happened in 35% of cases, pulmonary embolism and myocardial infarction, which occurred in 12.5% and 12% of the cases respectively.

Other causes included vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, myocarditis,multisystem inflammatory syndrome and cerebral hemorrhage.

Most deaths occurred within a week of the last shot.

The authors concluded that because the deaths were highly consistent with the known mechanisms for COVID-19 vaccine injury, it was highly likely the deaths were causally linked to the vaccine.

They said the findings “amplify” existing concerns about the vaccines, including those related to vaccine-induced myocarditis and myocardial infarction and the effects of the spike protein more broadly.

They also said the studies have implications for unanticipated deaths among vaccinated people with no previous illness. “We can infer that in such cases, death may have been caused by COVID-19 vaccination,” they wrote. [MORE]

Going Out With A Bang? While Dumbocrats Whine About Trump Appointments, Whoever is in Charge of the Blight House Has Approved Long-Range Attacks Inside Russia for Corpse Biden, May Trigger War

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ANTI-WAR states, If the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, President Biden (or whoever is running his foreign policy) has, in the waning moments of his presidency, agreed finally to allow Ukraine to strike deep in Russian territory with US ATACMS missiles. Putin has warned that such a move could spark WWIII. Is Biden trying to “Trump-proof” his proxy war? Also today, the Pentagon fails its audit… again. [MORE]

President Joe Biden's administration has allowed Ukraine to use U.S.-made weapons to strike deep into Russia, two U.S. officials and a source familiar with the decision said on Sunday, in a significant reversal of Washington's policy in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

The New York Times reported on Sunday that it is an escalation Moscow has made clear risks nuclear war.

Ukraine plans to conduct its first long-range attacks in the coming days, the sources said, without revealing details due to operational security concerns.

The move comes two months before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20 and follows months of pleas by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to allow Ukraine's military to use U.S. weapons to hit Russian military targets far from its border.

US officials told the paper that Ukraine can now use Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), which have a range of up to 190 miles, to strike Russian territory. The ATACMS are fired by US-made multiple rocket launch systems, including the HIMARS. Ukraine can only fire the HIMARS with coordinates provided by or confirmed by the US and its allies, meaning the US will now directly support strikes deep inside Russia.

The US officials said the ATACMS will likely initially be used to hit Russian troops fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Ukraine and the US have also said North Korean troops are deployed in Kursk. The US has said the North Korean troops are engaged in combat, but that hasn’t been confirmed by Moscow.

Earlier this year, President Biden gave Ukraine the greenlight to strike Russian border regions with US-provided weapons, including shorter-range rockets fired by the HIMARS. A few months later, Ukraine launched its invasion of Kursk, and Ukrainian officials began pushing hard for the US to support longer-range strikes inside Russia.

In response to those calls and comments from Western officials supporting the idea, Russian President Vladimir Putin said if NATO supported long-range strikes in Russia, it would put the Western military alliance “at war with Russia.”

Putin then ordered changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine that lowered the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons. Under the new doctrine, an attack on Russia by a non-nuclear armed state that was supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack.

The Kremlin said the changes to the nuclear doctrine were meant as a message to the West. “This is a message that warns these countries of the consequences should they participate in an attack on our country by various means, not necessarily nuclear,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

The US appeared to back down on supporting long-range strikes in Russia, but now the Biden administration is looking to escalate the proxy war as much as possible for its last few months in power. President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on ending the proxy war, and the Biden team and officials in Ukraine fear he will just do that. However, some of Trump’s cabinet picks favor escalation in Ukraine, including his National Security Advisor, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL).

To Retrieve Allegedly Stolen Cosmetics, a Brentwood Race Soldier Told His K9 to Attack a Black Woman who Had Surrendered. Dog Ripped Open Her Skull for Over 1 Minute, Caused Brain Injury- Suit Settled

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From [HERE] A Black woman who was mauled by a police dog while being arrested more than four years ago in Brentwood will receive a nearly $1 million settlement from the city, according to her attorneys.

The agreement is a settlement for an excessive force lawsuit filed in connection with the gruesome episode.

At the time, Talmika Bates was wanted in connection with a shoplifting incident at a cosmetics store. Her attorneys said she was surrendering when then-Brentwood police Officer Ryan Rezentes allowed his German shepherd to bite and pull off her scalp.

Police body camera footage of the incident captures Bates screaming that she will surrender, but Rezentes does not release the dog and instead tells her to first come out of the bushes she is hiding in, according to her attorneys.

“By the time Rezentes pulls the dog off, Bates’ scalp is torn from her skull, big pieces of flesh are missing and she is bleeding profusely from the gaping wound,” the attorneys said.

Bates needed more than 200 stitches to repair the damage to her scalp, according to her attorneys. In addition, she has been diagnosed with “mild diffuse traumatic brain injury, mild post-traumatic brain syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder.”

“We need to recognize that K-9s are dangerous, sometimes lethal, weapons that can cause life-altering damage or kill someone even when an officer is trying to get them to release and relent,” the woman’s attorney, Adanté Pointer, said in a statement.

“Here we saw a trained K-9 handler stand by while his dog mauled an unarmed young lady who was surrendering,” he said. “Using a dog to exact street justice doesn’t make the abuse of someone’s civil rights any better — and we want our police to do better.”

According to the complaint:

On February 10, 2020, at approximately 12:40 p.m., off-duty Brentwood Police Officer Ryan Rezentes and his Czech Republic trained German Sheppard “Marco” responded to a call for service to help locate three suspected shoplifters. Officer Rezentes deployed his police canine, “Marco,” and searched a field near Empire Way in Brentwood, CA.

Officer Rezentes’ was directed to take Marco and search a clump of bushes in the field. Without providing any warning or a reasonable opportunity to come out the bushes, Officer Rezentes commanded Marco to go into the bushes where the German Sheppard located Ms. Bates and immediately sunk its teeth into the unarmed woman’s head. Officer Rezentes ignored Ms. Bates’ chilling screams as he stood by and watched his canine viciously maul the young victim. Finally, the Officer began commanding the canine to “heel” in German. The dog ignored the commands while Ms. Bates continued to scream and beg for her life as the dog continued its attack. Nearly one minute later, Officer Rezentes once again command his dog to heel —yet again, the dog ignored his handler’s commands. Ms. Bates continued to cry out for her mother while pleading with the Officers to make the dog stop.

Officer Rezentes eventually came to the obvious conclusion that he had lost control of his attack animal and inexplicably yelled at Ms. Bates to “do something!” The Officer finally went into the bushes and physically removed the dog’s bite from Ms. Bates’ scalp. After over a minute of being attacked by the rogue animal, Ms. Bates was left laying on the ground mangled and paralyzed with fear.

Officers Rezentes and Lou yelled at Ms. Bates to stand up, an impossible task, as leaves and twigs scraped against her open head wounds. Eventually, Officer Lou helped Ms. Bates to her feet and placed her in handcuffs. The Officers berated Ms. Bates for running from police as if getting her head bit and mauled by a vicious canine was a lawful and appropriate punishment for her crimes.

As she emerged from the bushes, the assembled Officers could see large chunks of Ms. Bates’ scalp were ripped from her head, exposing bone and tissue. 15. In an apparent effort to cover-up this shocking display of police brutality, Officer Rezentes failed to include significant facts from his official police report detailing the encounter. In his report, Officer Rezentes claims that he did not have the benefit of a cover officer which prevented him from physically removing the dog from gnawing on Ms. Bates’ head. However, Brentwood Police Officer Lou’s body worn camera (BWC) proves this is patently false. In fact, the BWC clearly showed that he was standing next to Officer Rezentes with his gun drawn while reassuring Officer Rezentes, “Don't worry, I won’t shoot your dog.” Indeed, Officer Rezentes knowingly omitted the multiple failed attempts to get his canine to release its potentially deadly grip. Officer Rezentes failed to mention that Marco was out of control. 16. Following this tragic event, Ms. Bates was transported to John Muir Medical Center Walnut Creek for emergency medical care. Fortunately, surgeons were able to reattach her scalp however, Ms. Bates continues to suffer from headaches, memory loss and depression as a result of the horrific experience.[MORE]

In a statement, Brentwood police Chief Timothy Herbert (in photo) said the city agreed to settle the lawsuit to avoid further litigation and appeal costs. The settlement, he added, was “obtained while the matter was on appeal in the Ninth Circuit on the issue of qualified immunity for the involved officer,” who is now retired from the force.

Herbert said Bates was one of several suspects who allegedly committed felony retail theft at Ulta Beauty on Feb. 10, 2020, and then fled in a vehicle. After crashing into a police car, the suspects abandoned their vehicle in a field, according to the police chief.

Rezentes’ police dog found Bates hiding in dense shrubbery in a nearby wooded area.

“She did not obey officers’ instructions to come out, and the officers had no way of knowing whether she was armed,” Herbert said in the statement. “The canine made contact with Ms. Bates, who could not be seen through the thick bushes, and eventually the canine was removed and Ms. Bates was placed in handcuffs and arrested.”

Justice Department Opens Investigation into White Police Officer's Murder of Sonya Massey in Sangamon County - Shot Unarmed Black Woman in the Face as She Knelt Down with Her Hands Up w/o Provocation

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From [HERE] The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the fatal shooting by a sheriff’s deputy of Sonya Massey, a woman who had called the police because she thought a prowler was outside her home and was killed after an exchange with responding officers over a pot of hot water.

In a letter to officials in Sangamon County, the Justice Department said that it had reviewed reports about the shooting of Ms. Massey, who was Black, and that they raised “serious concerns” about the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office’s interactions with Black people and people with behavioral health disabilities.

The Justice Department is also investigating the county and its central emergency dispatch system for possible violations of federal nondiscrimination policies, according to the letter, which a Sangamon County spokesman shared with The New York Times on Sunday.

The deputy, Sean Grayson, who is white, shot Ms. Massey, 36, inside her home in Springfield, Ill., on July 6.

The day before the shooting, Donna Massey, Ms. Massey’s mother, had called 911 and asked for help, saying that her daughter was having a mental breakdown and was vulnerable, according to call recordings that Sangamon County released in August.

The Sangamon County State’s Attorney’s Office said that evidence showed that Mr. Grayson, who has been charged with murder and fired from the sheriff’s office, had not been “justified in his use of deadly force.”

Mr. Grayson was also charged with aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct. [MORE]

Black Man Killed in Faith Unit at Elmore is the 5th Alabama Prison Homicide Victim in 3 Months

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From [HERE] Jamal Wilson, 38, died on November 1 after he was assaulted at Elmore Correctional Facility in Elmore County, Alabama.

Mr. Wilson had served nearly 15 years of a 20-year sentence and would have become eligible for parole in April. At Elmore, he was designated as minimum custody and was living in a faith-based honor dormitory designatedfor individuals who have maintained a clear disciplinary record and are committed to participating in programs that develop “life skills, personal growth, and accountability with outcomes of positive personal, family, institutional, and community relationships.”

Witnesses reported to EJI that Mr. Wilson was assaulted near his bunk in the honor dorm on October 29. He was taken to the hospital but the Alabama Department of Corrections refused to allow his family to see him until after he died on November 1. 

Mr. Wilson is at least the fifth person killed in an Alabama prison in the past three months, and at least the fifth person killed at Elmore in the past two years.

Marquis Hatcher, 31, was killed in an assault in an Elmore dormitory on November 4, 2022. Stephone Marshall, 38, was stabbed to death in a dormitory at Elmore on May 16, 2023.  Rubyn Murray, 38, was beaten to death in a holding cell at Elmore on July 26, 2023, after correctional sergeant D’Marcus Sanders allowed other incarcerated people into the cell to assault him. Derrek Martin, also 38, was killed in his dormitory at Elmore on December 12, 2023, when witnesses told EJI the officer assigned to the dormitory was asleep and no staff responded to Mr. Martin’s cries for help.

The number of homicides in Alabama’s prisons is likely higher. A lack of supervision by officers and the absence of video monitoring means that many assaults and deaths are unobserved, and family members frequently report they are unable to get any information from the Department of Corrections about what happened to their loved ones. [MORE]

New DPI Report Connects Modern Use of Federal Death Penalty to its Racially Biased History

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From [HERE] On Thursday, the Death Penalty Information Center (“DPI”) released a new report detailing the troubling racial history of the federal death penalty. Fool’s Gold: How the Federal Death Penalty Has Perpetuated Racially Discriminatory Practices Throughout History documents how racial discrimination has been a throughline in the application of the federal death penalty since the 1800s. The report explains that, despite often being mischaracterized as the “gold standard” of the death penalty, the same systemic problems of racial bias, ineffective counsel, and arbitrariness that exist in state level death penalty systems are also found in   the federal death penalty system.  

DPI’s review of modern statistics reveals the continuing legacy of racial disparities in federal death prosecutions and sentencing. 73% of all cases selected for death penalty prosecution between 1989 and June 2024 have been authorized for non-white defendants. Furthermore, a study of these modern statistics found a correlation between cases with white female victims and the likelihood of a defendant receiving a death sentence. This is consistent with many state-level reports detailing the profound effect of the race of victim bias, which is one of the most persistent forms of racial bias found in the death penalty. 

Black and Native American people were disproportionately subject to federal executions for over a century. Between the start of the Civil War and the turn of the century, the majority of people federally executed were Native Americans, many of whom were punished for resisting colonization. Black Americans were also disproportionately subject to the federal death penalty during the Reconstruction era; there was a 488% increase in the number of Black people executed after the Civil War. Both groups were often subject to mass executions (defined as three or more executions at once) after being tried based on circumstantial evidence with poor legal representation. [MORE]

Hypocritical, Lawless Elite Liberals Ignore PA Supreme Court, Count Ballots Missing Signatures

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From [HERE] and [HERE] Before the Nov. 5 election, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled that provisional ballots must be signed in two required places and that mail-in votes must be dated. Yet elected Democratic officials in Philadelphia and three other counties — Bucks, Centre and Montgomery — voted this week to defy these and other court decisions at the request of lawyers for Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, who trails GOP challenger Dave McCormick by about 24,000 votes, with almost all of the roughly 7 million ballots cast having been counted. These Democrats’ decisions will almost certainly be overturned on appeal, but the mere attempt to defy judicial rulings is corrosive to democracy and invites similar behavior in future elections.

Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia, a Democrat, offered this breathtaking rationalization on Thursday: “I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country,” she said, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. “People violate laws anytime they want. So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention. There’s nothing more important than counting votes.”

Democrats would surely protest if a Republican commissioner made the same statement to justify tipping the scales for their party’s Senate nominee — and they would be right. Elections need rules, established in advance of the voting, and those rules must be applied equally and consistently. Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, by the way, includes five justices elected in partisan elections as Democrats and just two elected as Republicans. Even if that partisan balance were reversed, however, the court’s authority would be equally legitimate.

Counting mail and provisional ballots has been a contentious issue in Pennsylvania since the pandemic-year election of 2020. Though multiple lower courts have ruled that it’s unconstitutional or illegal not to count ballots lacking formally required signatures or dates, the state Supreme Court blocked those decisions from going into effect before Nov. 5 — most recently on Nov. 1. Democrats argue that they’re refusing to let constituents be deprived of their constitutional right to vote over an “immaterial” issue, as Montgomery County Commissioner Neil Makhija put it during a public meeting. His frustration is understandable, to a point. Votes are being discarded over seemingly mundane clerical errors. The Casey campaign notes that, two years ago, Mr. McCormick sued for an order to count undated or misdated mail ballots during his hard-fought GOP primary battle with Mehmet Oz (who eventually won the nomination), but now he’s arguing they should be invalid. Back then, it says, the McCormick campaign attacked the requirements it now defends as “games of ‘gotcha.’”

There’s hypocrisy on both sides of this dispute — this is politics, after all — but it is irrelevant to the legal merits. Mr. Makhija and other county officials do not get to decide whether a legal requirement is “material” and must be followed. Courts do. And they have spoken clearly.

Mr. Casey has almost certainly lost this race. The Associated Press called it for Mr. McCormick on Nov. 7. Mr. Casey’s deficit still appears insurmountable. The three-term incumbent sees it differently and has every right to plead his case in court. State law also entitles Mr. Casey to a statewide recount because Mr. McCormick’s margin of victory is smaller than half a percentage point, though not by much. A recount is unlikely to change the outcome.

Why Harris Lost

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From [HERE] This was an angry election; none of that “which candidate would you rather have a beer with” stuff here. Trump is an angry man representing angry constituents. Harris was angry that things were not going her way and constantly expressed the Hillary-esque idea “How could I possibly be losing to a guy like Trump?” Both sides prioritized personal attacks over policy. At times it felt like elementary-school playground stuff, name-calling, but in the end it was much more serious than that. Harris lost because she tried to make “Trump is a fascist” her closing argument, and no one was listening anymore. The girl had cried wolf for the last time.

Now, to be fair, Harris’s fate also rested on the fact that she is wholly unqualified for the toughest job in the world, having distinguished herself as Vice President of Nothing. She was an empty suit and kept showing it. A candidate created whole in the womb by the media with a past that supposedly did not matter and a future as vague as her recollections of that past. She had one job—the border—and made a royal mess out of doing nothing about the many problems there to the point where thousands of migrants (we use the word as a generic term because no one in the Harris house cared whether they were legal, illegal, asylees, protected peoples or whatever witches’ brew our immigration system could cook up) poured in.

Harris did nothing of substance as VP; she made matters worse by having no real plans or policies for her presidency besides giving away money. Softball questions from the ever-so compliant mainstream media were met with ever-vaguer answers, bits of biography, and the odd nasty remark about Trump. It was Orange Man Bad all over, and the electorate had had enough. Trump’s shortcomings were baked in after what seems like an eternity of campaigning, never mind four years in the White House itself. The Never Trumpers had had their day four years ago. Most Americans had taken Trump’s measure, for good or ill. By contrast, many Americans remained unsure who Harris was and what she stood for. In the background, Biden's inflation and the fastest rise in interest rates since the early 1980s nagged. And working people worry much more about payday than they do January 6.

January 6 was an embarrassing day for America, but a) it had no chance of making Trump the election winner and b) two weeks later, with not much in between, Biden was inaugurated. It was all about a day of rage, an angry expression of an unfavorable situation not unlike the BLM protests one summer that burned down pharmacies and convenience stores but accomplished little more. The system worked. The riot was put down. Congress, including Republicans, reassembled and certified Biden as the next president. Rage is not insurrection, and while the people seemed to have figured this out by Election Day 2024, Harris and her ilk never did. It made Harris seem uninformed and out of touch, desperate enough to get elected to cry broadly that the sky is falling over and over. It was a tactic that did not work in 2016, was not decisive in 2020, and had little air left in it for 2024, except for the MSM and the Harris campaign, basically one and the same anyway.

Still, some of it might have stuck had it not come on the heels of the seemingly endless and seemingly pointless lawfare campaign. Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist wrote, 

This lawfare against Donald Trump has been their beginning argument, middle argument, and ending argument. It obviously has backfired completely. The whole goal was to make sure that Donald Trump would be imprisoned, bankrupted, so discouraged, so distracted by being off the campaign trail dealing with these various examples of lawfare from Democrat prosecutors at the federal and state and local level, that he wouldn't win. Well, he's about to win, most likely, and it is a stunning rejection by the American people of that lawfare campaign.

“Should Trump defy history and return to the White House as a convicted felon, he will send a message to the world that elections don’t matter,” added the Daily Beast, quite unaware of how democracy and elections work.

There were other factors. History may regard 2024 as a peak for gender-based politics, wrote the Wall Street Journal: “Mr. Trump’s all-out appeal to a controversial model of masculinity that emphasizes toughness and strength is mobilizing hard-to-reach men, including members of racial and ethnic minorities. This prospect obviously worried the Harris campaign, which rushed out an agenda for black men.”

The media has so little credibility left its endless formal and informal endorsement of Harris not only did not matter but was tiresome. So desperate for an October surprise, they beclowned themselves with stories like this. The Atlantic had published a similar Hail Mary story in September 2020 citing anonymous sources claiming Trump canceled a 2018 visit to a French cemetery where American troops are buried, declaring that they were “suckers” and “losers.” The credibility of that story has also been refuted, with former national security adviser John Bolton denying Trump uttered those words and asserting the former president did not visit the cemetery for reasons related to weather and security. So why not try a failed move again?

And Liz Cheney—in what alternate universe did it seem like a good idea to bring in the Cheney family to help support a Democrat with progressive followers? Dick is personally responsible for the deaths of millions and Liz does not believe in abortion (or she didn’t used to, anyhow). Where are the Democratic votes in that pile of war-mongering neoconism?

But the worst was saved for last, a Harris campaign closing argument based on a coordinated effort to proclaim that Trump is an actual fascist, a real-life Dr. Evil who seeks the presidency so that he can rule as a dictator, destroying the Constitution and the rule of law as he goes about his nefarious tasks. It is the ultimate expression of Trump Derangement Syndrome, the apogee of Orange Man Bad. And it is what the Harris campaign chose to run on in the campaign’s final days.

The coordinated fascist line began with Generals Kelly and Milley announcing that Trump is a flat-out fascist who seeks to be a dictator. Kamala Harris called an “emergency” press conference to tell the world that he is the second coming of Adolf Hitler. “Donald Trump is out for unchecked power. He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him, not our Constitution,” she said. “He is unhinged, unstable, and given a second term, there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses.” 

“‘He’s Talking Like Hitler’,” blared a headline for the Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum, who warned that Trump wants “absolute power” in his second term. She also spoke about the similarities between Trump’s rhetoric and what she found in her research from the archives of East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi.

“Trump is Hitler,” claimed James Carville. 

“Donald Trump’s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden. There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the 1930s at Madison Square Garden,” Tim Walz said during a campaign stop. 

Other Democrats such as Hillary Clinton made similar comparisons. Liz Cheney declared with authority either you vote for Harris, or this “may well be the last real vote you ever get to cast.” Whoopi Goldberg even explained how Trump is committed to being a dictator who will “put you people away… take all the journalists… take all the gay folks… move you all around and disappear you.” The October Surprise was the Dems ran out of ideas and could only fling around the f-word. So much for the convention-era Harris’s promise of joy.

The public did not buy it. When asked whether Trump or Harris “would do a better job” of “defending against threats to democracy,” 43 percent picked Trump, while 40 percent chose Harris. This was the same result when Biden was the nominee. While over half said that threats to democracy were important to them, the voters trusted Trump (44 percent) more than Biden (33 percent) to protect democracy. Voters, featured on Mark Halperin’s 2WAY platform, commented that Harris’s Hitler remarks were off-putting or unlikely to help her win the November election, while none raised their hands when Halperin asked if the vice president should be campaigning on this issue.

Most damning of all, Harris’s Hitler remarks were called out by an actual Holocaust survivor. In a powerful video clip circulating on social media, Jerry Wartski blasted Harris and her fellow Dems for comparing Trump to Hitler and his supporters to Nazis. 

“Adolf Hitler invaded Poland when I was nine years old. He murdered my parents and most of our family. I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes,” he said. “For Harris to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing I’ve ever heard in my 75 years living in the United States.”

When your campaign is based on insulting the memories of actual Holocaust survivors for political gain, it has run out of gas. Kamala Harris ended up where she did most of all because she had no real connection to the American people. She was a manufactured entity, full of catchphrases at first, paranoid, bitter insults at the last. Her disappearance from public life will not be missed.

NJ Rep Watson Coleman: "Democrats have neglected the communities and people who are the backbone of our party”

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In the photo is the intersection of Retreat Street and Druid Avenue in Baltimore in 2024. The property and the block has just been left to collapse and deteriorate. It is reasonable to assume that elite white liberals own or owned the above - not Black people. Whatever happened or did not happen in Baltimore and many other places where most Black people reside is the result of the decisions made by elite white supremacists/racists, as they control everything in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war). Neely Fuller explains that "in a socio-material system dominated by White Supremacists, all major decisions involving non-white people are made by White Supremacists. "Whatever a Black person gets, and/or is allowed to keep, is the result of decisions made by White Supremacists. This is the functional meaning of White Supremacy (Racism) that many people — particularly non-white people — prefer not to acknowledge." [MORE] 

From [HERE] Donald Trump‘s victory over Kamala Harris in the presidential election nearly two weeks ago disappointed and saddened many Black Democratic voters in New Jersey. Now as the president-elect forms his cabinet and plans to take power, some of that disappointment is now focused on a Democratic Party many activists say worries about Black voters only at election time.

Harris, who was vying to become the first woman and second Black president in American history, carried New Jersey, but by a margin of only about 5 percentage points — much closer than expected.

The election and and having New Jersey nearly put into swing state territory has prompted Black Democrats on the local and federal level to do soul-searching, questioning whether the party has functioned in Black people’s best interests — and wondering if the feeling of apathy they warned about for decades finally caught up with the party.

“Don’t lose hope,” were the first words New Jersey African American Chamber of Commerce president John Harmon said when asked about the election.

Harmon supported Harris, whose campaign did focus on Black voters in the campaign’s final stretch. But he said this goes beyond the presidential election. The Democratic Party, he said, has taken the Black vote for granted. He also contends Black elected officials were more loyal to the Democratic Party machine than the Black communities they represented.

In the wake of the election, U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-11th Dist., echoed Harmon’s sentiment while endorsing Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for governor.

“Yes, Trump gained a few thousand more votes, but Kamala Harris lost half a million (in New Jersey). Why? Because Democrats have neglected the communities and people who are the backbone of our party,” Watson Coleman said in her gubernatorial endorsement statement in the New Jersey Globe.

Trump’s New Jersey vote total wasn’t that much larger than what he got in 2020, but far fewer voted for Harris compared to President Joe Biden.

“We have to turn a page,” Watson Coleman said. “We can’t keep going back to nominating the same old politicians backed by the same old special interest groups, corporate mega-donors, or single-issue organizations with big money.” [MORE]

Jury Awards Tortured Abu Ghraib Prisoners $42 Million in Lawsuit Against Military Contractor

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From [HERE] A jury on Tuesday awarded $42 million to three former detainees of Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, holding Virginia-based military contractor CACI Premier Technology Inc. responsible for contributing to their torture and mistreatment two decades ago (article available here(link is external)).

The three testified that they were subjected to beatings, sexual abuse, forced nudity and other cruel treatment at the prison.

The jury awarded plaintiffs Suhail Al Shimari, Salah Al-Ejaili and Asa'ad Al-Zubae $3 million each in compensatory damages and $11 million each in punitive damages.

The case is Al Shimari v. CACI Premier Technology Inc., No. 08-cv-827 (E.D. Va. Nov. 8, 2024).

"Vaccine" Makers See Stocks Fall After RFK Jr. Announcement

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From [HERE] Vaccine makers saw stocks fall Friday after President-elect Donald Trump announced that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, was his choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Kennedy Jr. has advocated against processed foods and the use of herbicides. He has long criticized large commercial farms and animal-feeding operations. But his stance on childhood vaccines is perhaps most notable. He has said that he believes in the debunked idea that vaccines cause autism and said in a July podcast interview, “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” However, he has said that he is not anti-vaccine.

On Friday morning, hours after Trump chose Kennedy Jr. as his pick for HHS secretary, Pfizer’sstock dropped 4.3% while Moderna’s fell 3.1% and Novavax saw a 2.8% dip in its stock.

Michael Nevradakis, Ph D: COVID Injections Pose 112,000% Greater Risk of Brain Clots, Strokes Than Flu Shots

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From [HERE] A peer-reviewed study published last week in the International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science found reports of 5,137 cases of cerebral thromboembolism after COVID-19 shots over 36 months, compared with 52 reported cases following flu vaccines and 282 cases for all vaccines over the past 34 years.

COVID-19 vaccines pose a 112,000% greater risk of brain clots and strokes than flu vaccines and a 20,700% greater risk of those symptoms than all other vaccines combined, according to a peer-reviewed study that calls for a global moratorium on the vaccines.

The study, published last week in the International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science, found reports of 5,137 cases of cerebral thromboembolism after COVID-19 shots over 36 months. This compares to 52 reported cases following flu vaccination and 282 cases for all vaccines over the past 34 years.

According to the study, this represents an “alarming breach in the safety signal threshold concerning cerebral thrombosis adverse events” following COVID-19 vaccination.

The study’s authors — independent researcher Claire Rogers, obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. James A. Thorp, independent researcher Kirstin Cosgrove and cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough — used data from the U.S. government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), for their analysis.

The data also indicated 9,821 reports of atrial fibrillation — an irregular heart rhythm that is “the most common identifiable cause of cerebral arterial thromboembolism” — following COVID-19 vaccination in 41 months, compared to 797 cases reported in 34 years for all other vaccines combined.

Rogers told The Defender the findings confirm anecdotal evidence of an increased incidence of stroke seen during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Peter McCullough: “I Have Never Seen Something So Injurious to the Human Body” as COVID Injections. "It is a Bioweapon."

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From [HERE] “I have never seen something so injurious to the human body,” Dr. Peter McCullough said speaking about the mRNA (or spike protein) in the covid injections.

“It invades the brain. It invades the heart. It causes brain and heart damage,”  he said.

The list of damage the spike protein causes goes on. 

“It invades the bone marrow. It stimulates antibodies to actually attack our own platelets and other cells in our body.  It causes blood clotting and damage to blood vessels like we’ve never seen.  Like we’ve never seen.  Data from the University of Pittsburgh suggests it causes cancer,” Dr. McCullough said.

“Since when do we have a protein that actually injures the brain, injures the heart, the bone marrow, the immune system, causes blood clotting and potentially causes cancer in a single protein?” he asked.

“It’s a weapon,” he said. “According to strict military criteria, it’s a bioweapon.”

The video above is clipped from the first episode of ‘Propaganda Exposed! [Uncensored]’, the most important documentary series The Truth About Vaccines has ever created and their latest endeavour to uncover the truth and dispel the lies told by corporate media and the medical industry.   The 9-part series highlights statements made by over 50 health and freedom experts.

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