Failed New York Mayor’s city is a crime ridden mess and left-wing policies are destroying the city. New York’s soft-on-crime 2019 bail-reform measures were intended to reduce jail populations and the number of interactions required by authorities but have been an abject failure allowing criminals to continue to operate with fewer consequences.
Last week, The Gateway Pundit reported the ghoulish behavior of a thief in New York who robbed the lifeless body of a pedestrian struck and killed by a tractor-trailer. While the victim lay lifeless and pinned underneath the truck, a person approached the body and robbed him. In a video of the disgusting act, a crowd can be heard cheering on the ghoulish act. “Come on! Go ahead gangster!”
The alleged robber, who is facing grand and petit larceny charges, has been freed without bail. The career criminal has 40 prior arrests.
A career criminal with 40 prior arrests who allegedly pickpocketed a dead man in Manhattan was freed without bail at her arraignment Friday — as sources said she tried to use the victim’s stolen cash but couldn’t because it was covered in blood.
Repeat offender Geniece Draper, 40, stayed mum as she faced charges of both grand and petit larceny for allegedly snatching the wallet of a man who was crushed by a truck last week.
“This defendant appeared on video taking money out of a dead man’s pocket,” a prosecutor said at the arraignment hearing.
As she left Manhattan Criminal Court on supervised release, the brazen Draper denied she did anything wrong and insisted to The Post that she was only snatching back cash that belonged to her from the man, who was also homeless and identified as Jerome Smith, 62.
“He robbed me first,” said Draper. “He got killed after.”
Draper said she had dated Smith before he swiped $120 from her at an ATM, infuriating her.
The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson spoke to Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to the Acting United States Secretary of Defense under President Donald Trump, earlier this week at the Save America Rally in Mesa, Arizona.
In this interview, Patel laid out the consequences of weak Joe Biden, who nobody respects, saying he is actually rooting for Biden on national security “because if he fails, we’re going to fail.”
Joe Biden is an utter failure on the southern border, and we now face another new threat of world war due to his incompetence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month he would defend Russian territory “with all the means at our disposal,” raising concerns that he meant nuclear weapons.
“President Trump didn’t ever have to deal with that because they would never do that to him,” said Kash Patel in the interview.
Patel also spoke about the importance of electing America First candidates to every seat in Arizona to protect the border and Arizona’s elections moving forward.
Arizona will not secure its elections or the southern border without Kari Lake, Abe Hamadeh, and Mark Finchem in office.
The Arizona establishment is already doing everything possible to change the rules, rig, and steal another election in Arizona, and Arizonans must outnumber the expected voter fraud.
Conradson: So, what’s going on in Russia? I know President Trump had it under control, but what’s going on now?
Patel: What’s happening is we’re seeing what happens when you have a weak Commander in Chief. The global leadership doesn’t respect Joe Biden. And I’ll be the first one to say it: I’m cheering for Joe Biden in national security because if he fails, we’re going to fail. He failed at the border, and you see, now we’re on the brink of a possible world war. Let alone the threat of nuclear arsenal attacks from Russia, which has the largest warhead compilation on planet Earth. Those are actual threats and instead of us not dealing with those, President Trump didn’t ever have to deal with that because they would never do that to him. We have to deal with that, plus a failing border, plus a failing economy, plus failing gas prices. And this is why you see all these people out here in Arizona, and yesterday, we were in Nevada to elect America First candidates because they see these decisions impact their everyday lives.
Conradson: Another issue we have out here in Arizona is the wide-open southern border. You know fentanyl is pouring in at a historic rate. Just recently, 1 million pills were found in a single home out here in Arizona. What do you expect from Kari Lake when it comes to the border?
Patel: I think she’s got a great combo. Kari is a dear friend, and Abe Hamadeh is going to be the number one law enforcement officer. Those two know how to put Arizona and border security first. I know we’re in the 21st century, and every state is a border state. But in reality, it’s Arizona and my home state of Nevada where we see it immediately upfront and the hardest, and they’ve championed it. They’ve said Donald Trump’s policies of securing our border and putting drug dealers in prison. With Donald Trump’s policy, he’s putting forward enacting the death penalty for narco-trafficking. I believe Abe and Kari will get together and combat these criminals and not let them out on the streets. I think they have a big plan for the border security operation where Joe Biden’s administration continues to fail. They know that they, as a state, as state officers, and the state chief officer have to take charge of Arizona’s security, and they’re going to do it.
Conradson: As you said, you know every state is a border state. There are chain reactions, it starts here in Arizona, and we’re are the pipeline for fentanyl. What do people, when you talk to them around the country, want to see from elected officials like Kari Lake, Like Abe Hamadeh here in Arizona, and Blake Masters in the US Senate?
Patel: Blake’s a great candidate for US Senate. I think they want two things: accountability and transparency. That’s literally it. They want our government to not be corrupt. They want our kids to have an education system, that’s not corrupted by the media and things such as gender dynamics, and CRT. They want to be able to teach them about truth, values, mission, and service. There’s nothing wrong with that. That’s the way America was built. And I think they’re starting to see that community engagement matters more than that national engagement. State-level elections are more important than anybody you can send to Washington. I know some people don’t agree with me on some of that, but that’s what impacts your life in Arizona. Who’s your Governor, your State Attorney General, your State Senators, your Secretary of State? Your local city council or education board member. Those are the races that you need to be paying attention to more because they see it every day.
Conradson: Another big national security issue out here in Arizona is election integrity. What do you expect to see from Mark Finchem as Secretary of State? And can you speak to the importance of election integrity and securing our elections?
Patel: If you want 20 minutes of election integrity, go see my new book, “The Plot Against The King 2000 Mules” at plotaagainsttheking.com. President Trump launched it, and the left when nuts because we talk about election integrity. What’s wrong with that? We live in a Constitutional Republic, and I think Mark Finchem is going to follow that ethos and say the state governs federal elections, and the state governs local elections. They decide, are we going to go to paper ballots, are we going to go a month early, are we going to require photo ID, are we going to let illegals vote and get IDs? I think Mark Finchem’s going to stop that, and then we’re going to see our elections return to normalcy. And here’s the thing, I remind people, every European country has a voter ID law. You know, they’re always yelling at us, “why can’t we be more like Europe?” Okay, well, why don’t we just copy their voter ID law? They don’t allow you to vote unless you show a photograph. It’s the same thing in most of the countries in Africa. Most places require you to prove your identity before you vote; your identity, your citizenship, and your residency. Basically, so you don’t have a rigged election like we had. I think Mark Finchem gets that, I think Abe gets that, I think Kari Lake gets that, and Blake Masters does as well.
This is just what we’ve been saying for over two years now!And the fake fact-checkers and Democrat elites called it fake news…
The voting machine hacking threat you probably haven’t heard aboutModems help election officials report results quickly, but security experts say they’re too dangerous to trust.
There are currently several lawsuits involving numerous conservatives and Trump supporters who argued that election machines can be hacked.
There’s a largely overlooked hacking target that could help those who want to sow doubt about vote tallies in the November midterms: cellular modems that transmit unofficial election-night results.
The modems, which send vote data from precincts to central offices using cellphone networks, help election officials satisfy the public’s demand for rapid results. But putting any networking connection on an election system opens up new ways to attack it that don’t require physical access to machines, and security experts say the risks aren’t worth the rewards.
“You’re counting on a bunch of infrastructure to deliver data back and forth, and it’s well within the capabilities of nation-state hackers to break into that infrastructure,” said Dan Wallach, a Rice University computer science professor who has repeatedly exposed flaws in election equipment.
While tampering with unofficial results wouldn’t actually corrupt an election’s outcome, it could fuel misinformation about both the accuracy of the vote tally and the integrity of the process. That’s a particular concern since the 2020 election, in which then-President Donald Trump seized on large discrepancies between early returns and final vote counts to falsely allege widespread fraud.
At least six states — Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan and Minnesota — use modems to transmit results in a combined 36 counties, according to a POLITICO survey. Rhode Island uses them statewide, and Washington, D.C., uses them citywide. Wisconsin, which the nonprofit election integrity group Verified Voting identified as using modem-equipped devices, did not respond to inquiries about whether its counties use the feature.
NATO is playing a dangerous game that poses a risk of escalating into a nuclear war with Russia. Sorry to ruin your day. NATO is kicking off its annual nuclear weapons exercise today–i.e. STEADFAST NOON. Although this exercise has not been ginned up in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it comes at a delicate time and will have Russia raising its nuclear alert level. While it is true that NATO conducts this exercise every year at this time, it is foolish to pretend that the war in Ukraine is irrelevant. Why? Because NATO is exercising deploying nuclear weapons, arming planes with those weapons and simulating an attack on Russia. Do you think the Russians do not care?
I want you to understand the history behind this exercise. Here is the description from the 2020 version of Steadfast Noon, which the Netherlands hosted:
“Today’s exercise shows that allies are determined to ensure that NATO’s nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure, and effective,” said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg while visiting Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands for the exercise on Oct. 16. “The purpose of NATO’s nuclear deterrent is not to provoke a conflict but to preserve peace, deter aggression, and prevent coercion.”
This year, the training flights took place over parts of western Europe and the North Sea.
The annual exercise, known as Steadfast Noon, is designed to practice and assess NATO’s nuclear capabilities deployed in Europe. It is planned far in advance and involves more than 50 aircraft from several allied air forces. The aircraft do not carry live bombs during the exercise flights.
The United States deploys an estimated 20 B61 tactical bombs each at Büchel and Volkel air bases, according to the Federation of American Scientists. About 100 U.S. tactical bombs are believed to be deployed at bases in Belgium, Italy, and Turkey.
The seemingly innocuous phrase, “training flights”, is a euphemism for loading planes with mock-up nuclear weapons and sending them on a flight pattern that simulates attacking Russia. Nothing provocative there, right?
USAF personnel loading a B61 nuclear bomb trainer on an F-16 fighter-bomber at Aviano Air Base
Ditto for 2021, which Italy hosted:
NATO announced Monday that it had started its annual nuclear exercise code-named Steadfast Noon. The week-long exercise is taking place over Southern Europe and involves aircraft and personnel from 14 NATO countries.
According to the NATO statement, “Steadfast Noon involves training flights with dual-capable fighter jets, as well as conventional jets, backed by surveillance and refuelling aircraft. No live weapons are used. This exercise helps to ensure that NATO’s nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure and effective.”. . .
The second nuclear base in Italy – Ghedi near Brescia – that might be part of Italy’s hosting of this year’s Steadfast Noon exercise, is currently undergoing several important nuclear weapons related modernizations that are intended to serve the NATO nuclear strike mission for years.
Of the 14 nations involved, Dutch F-16s and German Tornadoes are operating out of Ghedi AB alongside Italian Tornados, while U.S. and Belgian F-16s and possibly Czech Gripen are operating out of Aviano AB.
Belgium and the UK are hosting this year’s version of Steadfast Noon:
Steadfast Noon, as the exercise is known, runs from October 17 to October 30 and will involve 14 countries and up to 60 aircraft of various types, including fourth and fifth generation fighter jets, as well as surveillance and tanker aircraft.
As in previous years, US Air Force B-52 long-range bombers will take part. This year, they will fly from Minot Air Base in North Dakota. Training flights will take place over Belgium, which is hosting the exercise, as well as over the North Sea and the United Kingdom.
This could be worse. Can you imagine the implications if Poland or Lithuania played host? That would have put a potential nuclear war on a hair trigger. I do not know if the planners intended to use Belgium and North Sea air space all along or if the area of operations was changed six months ago.
These exercises normally are planned 18 months in advance. You start with a pre-planning conference, which is then followed by subsequent planning conferences where the scenario is developed and refined. In addition to NATO personnel, the planning process includes contractors who help write the message traffic that simulates communications between affected nations and the NATO chain of command. When the process is complete there is a MSEL–i.e., Master Scenario Events List–that functions like a Director’s script for a movie. The MSEL dictates who does what, when they do it and where they do it.
What makes this year’s STEADFAST NOON so dangerous is that it is occurring while Western threats of using nuclear weapons against Russia are being tossed around carelessly. In fact, Russia is being accused of threatening to use nukes–it has made no such threat–as further justification for carrying on with this exercise.
The smart move by the West, in light of the heightened tensions with Moscow, would have been cancelling the exercise. The West is not smart:
The main part of the manoeuvres would be held more than 1,000km (625 miles) from Russia, said an official from NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
“It would send a very wrong signal if we suddenly now cancelled a routine, long-time planned exercise because of the war in Ukraine. That would be absolutely the wrong signal to send,” Stoltenberg told reporters on the eve of a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels.
Actually, cancelling the exercise would have eased tensions with Russia. At this point, you have to assume that the Russians believe the West is using this exercise as a pretext to attack Russia with a preemptive nuclear strike. While I do not believe that NATO will cross that line, at least not now, this represents an unnecessary provocation when nerves are on edge in NATO and in Russia. Let’s pray that cooler heads prevail.
Please take time to watch Andrei Martyanov’s excellent overview comparing U.S. and Russian nuclear and radar capabilities if you want to understand the potential peril that awaits the world:
Dummy doll with AEC pats on the chest for CPR training.
The campus community at Florida State University is encouraged to seek “regular heart screenings” after the university acquired 51 new defibrillators and 300 free ECG screenings to students on Friday.
“To educate people on the importance of heart screenings and how to help someone experiencing cardiac arrest, the Florida State University Congress of Graduate Students (COGS) is hosting the inaugural TOM Project health initiative,” according to the news release.
“The TOM Project is a student-led initiative in honor of the late Toluwani “Tom” Idowu. Idowu was a creative writing major and member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity who passed away at the age of 22 in April 2020 due to sudden cardiac arrest. After his passing, Idowu’s friends and family rallied with FSU students to create the TOM Project and educate people on the importance of heart screenings and how to help someone experiencing cardiac arrest.”
The inaugural event was held in the Globe Auditorium, located at 110 S. Woodward Ave on Friday.
“The TOM Project has grown into one of the largest FSU student-led and student-funded projects and has raised more than $200,000. These funds will cover the purchase and installation of 51 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) across FSU’s campus, as well as 300 free electrocardiogram (ECG) screenings for students and training for 1,500 students on how to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR),” said FSU.
Some have questioned the timing of the new defibrillator and regular heart screenings after the Florida Surgeon General’s warning concerning the increased risk of cardiac-related death among males aged 18–39 due to the Covid vaccination.
Earlier this month, Florida Surgeon General released a shocking report. According to Dr. Joseph Ladapo, there was an 84% increase in the incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination. That is a huge number!
Dr. Ladapo recommended that young males from 18 to 39 refrain from taking the COVID Vaccine.
As the number of migrants crossing the border with Mexico has surged under the Biden administration, with encounters reaching levels not seen in over two decades, the number of dead bodies found by US Customs and Border Protection is also skyrocketing.
The number of deaths at the border has reached a record high.
According to statistics compiled by UCBP, at least 782 illegal aliens have died while crossing the southern border in fiscal year 2022, eclipsing last year’s record by over 240.
The United Nations International Organization for Migration has labeled the border crossing between the US and Mexico the deadliest migration land route in the world.
Law enforcement officials have created mobile makeshift morgues to accommodate the increasing number of dead bodies found along the southern border.
In an interview withReal America’s Voice reporter Ben Bergquam, a sheriff details how law enforcement officials coordinate with border patrol agents to identify the bodies of the dead migrants.
“We are in Brooke County, Texas. The sheriff just brought me over to the morgue they’ve set up. This is in response to the number of bodies, dead bodies, illegal aliens, that have died in the county that they are doing their best to try to identify,” Bergquam explains. “This is what open borders look like.”
The sheriff is seen in the video unzipping a body bag that contains an illegal alien’s skeletal remains.
With the migrant’s body disintegrated, uncovering the fingerprints from the corpse is essential to identifying the body, the sheriff explains.
“We are trying to identify the remains. We look at different things, I mean, one of the things we look at are the hands,” the sheriff said. “What I’m always looking for is to see if I can find a viable fingerprint. These are weathered, kind of leathery. I’ll have to do a two-step process, which is putting the hand — soaking it, trying to rehydrate the hands to be able to get the fingers to pump up so that we are able to get a print.
“Then from there, we won’t be able to print traditionally by rolling it. So, we do what’s called microphotography. We use a specialized lens… that brings up the ridges and everything else off of the fingerprint. We take those, submit the pictures to border patrol so they can submit… to put into their database to have their analysts to look at the fingerprints to see if they can find an identification.”
WATCH:
“This is the reality of open borders. Everyone that says open borders are ‘compassion,’ this is what you’re creating. That is what open borders look like,” Bergquam admonished. “I can’t express to you the smell. It’s terrible. That’s what these guys have to deal with every single day. That’s what you are inviting, more death, more destruction. The destruction of our country and the death of thousands.”
Despite the record number of border crossings and migrant deaths at the border, the Biden administration maintains the “border is secure.”
The Washington Post identified the key witness as Walt Nauta, a 39-year-old who worked valet for Trump and served as a personal staffer at Mar-a-Lago.
Now this…
The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that the FBI is now in contact with a second Trump aide who handled Mar-a-Lago.
The Wall Street Journal identified the second staffer.
“The aides, Walt Nauta and Will Russell, are witnesses in the Justice Department’s investigation into the handling of presidential and classified records taken from the White House but aren’t formally cooperating with the probe,” The Wall Street Journal reported citing “people familiar with the matter.”
Federal investigators contacted at least two aides to former President Donald Trump months before the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago resort and have sought to talk to them again in recent weeks, people familiar with the matter said, as the Justice Department examines possible obstruction of its efforts to retrieve hundreds of government and classified documents.
The aides, Walt Nauta and Will Russell, are witnesses in the Justice Department’s investigation into the handling of presidential and classified records taken from the White House but aren’t formally cooperating with the probe, the people said. Mr. Russell hasn’t personally spoken to investigators, who are communicating directly with his counsel.
Mr. Nauta, a former military valet who went to work at Mar-a-Lago after Mr. Trump left the White House, was seen on surveillance footage moving boxes from a storage room before and after investigators issued a subpoena in May seeking the documents’ return, the people said. Mr. Nauta told investigators that he did so at Mr. Trump’s request, one of the people said.
The federal interest in Mr. Russell hasn’t been previously reported. He served in the Trump White House, including as a coordinator of presidential travel, and went on to work for the former president in Florida after he left office. Mr. Russell had previously been subpoenaed in connection with the Justice Department’s investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. The FBI’s questioning of Mr. Nauta was earlier reported by the New York Times.
Creepy Joe was at it again today at an event in California.
Biden grabbed a little girl by her shoulders and spoke into her ear like a complete pervert. There are now HUNDREDS of clips like this with Joe Biden creeping on little girls AND boys.
Not once has the fake news mainstream media condemned this.
After surviving Hurricane Ian, some homes in Florida are facing a new danger: electric vehicles catching fire due to their batteries being corroded by the floods.
State Rep. Bob Rommel and state Fire Marshal Jim Patronis have been particularly vocal about the threat of EV fires in the aftermath of the hurricane.
Rommel tweeted on Monday about a house that had managed to outlast the hurricane, but couldn’t survive the EV fire that later started in the garage.
“This house survived Hurricane Ian with very little damage that was until the Tesla in the garage caught on fire. House is now destroyed,” Rommel wrote.
Patronis later tweeted pictures of the destroyed house.
“This is the house [Rommel] pointed out yesterday that caught fire from an EV. Burned to the ground. Caught the neighbor’s house on fire too,” he wrote on Tuesday.
“Electric vehicles are catching on fire due to electrical system failure caused by saltwater storm surge from Hurricane Ian, catching homes on fire, endangering first responders and FL families. I’m calling on EV companies to partner with us to find solutions. We must take action,” Patronis tweeted.
In a video Patronis shared along with those comments, firefighters can be seen fighting a Tesla fire. A woman is heard saying that the firefighters had already dumped 1,500 gallons of water on the car, but the fire just kept burning.
Patronis pointed out in another tweet that “if an EV catches fire, there’s not a lot fire teams can do. The second you stop dousing an EV with water, it flames up again.”
Last week, Patronis wrote a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to ask for more information about the risks to EVs from saltwater damage.
“On October 6th, I joined North Collier Fire Rescue to assess response activities related to Hurricane Ian and saw with my own eyes an EV continuously ignite, and continually reignite, as fireteams doused the vehicle with tens-of-thousands of gallons of water,” Patronis wrote.
“Subsequently, I was informed by the fire department that the vehicle, once again reignited when it was loaded onto the tow truck. Based on my conversations with area firefighters, this is not an isolated incident. As you can appreciate, I am very concerned that we may have a ticking time bomb on our hands.”
As Patronis has pointed out, EV fires are notoriously hard to put out due to their lithium-ion batteries. Bloomberg noted that this is one of the major obstacles facing EV adoption.
The technological advancements of electric vehicles are amazing. But there are still a lot of kinks to work out.
“Lithium-ion is a technology that has really been a revolutionary advance for us as a society. … I think there are some surprises about some of the challenges that we are going through,” Haresh Kamath of the Electric Power Research Institute told Bloomberg.
Kamath noted that although battery fires are not frequent, “in rare cases when you have a problem — it’s very dramatic.”
EVs are getting more popular and, one day, maybe they will completely take over the auto industry.
But it’s important to remember that there are still a lot of problems to overcome and technology has to keep advancing to develop safe and effective EVs.
This doesn’t spell doom for the EV industry. It’s simply a serious growing pain.
It’s all part of technological evolution. But in the midst of that evolution, consumers need to be aware of the risks.
