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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Over 277,000 Adverse Rection COVID-19 Vax Cases in alone 2021 Hidden by CDC
[NTD] The cases were recorded in California, Maryland, New York, Texas, and 28 other jurisdictions in April, May, and June 2021 and reported to the CDC.

The CDC never disclosed the numbers to the public.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/01/2023 11:19 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah'm gonna guess those are reactions and not erections.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2023 12:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Deceit by partial truth, and subterfuge to mask unwanted facts, the hallmark of propaganda and the Puppet Show.

”War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength” (page 4)—are significant paradoxes that are used to reveal the theme of the novel that fear and ignorance allow one to be easily controlled." Wiki cite
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/01/2023 12:40 Comments || Top||


Michigan teacher is knocked out cold by female student who hurled a metal CHAIR at her head during classroom brawl
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The harrowing incident took place on Thursday afternoon at the Southwestern Classical Academy in Flint, Michigan.

Disturbing footage showed the teacher standing in front of the classroom speaking to students before being whacked to the floor with the chair.

The teacher, who was not named, was hospitalized though it is unclear the injuries she sustained in the assault.

She was discharged from the hospital on Thursday and is expected to return to work next week.

The school's Superintendent Kevelin Jones issued a letter to parents informing them that an altercation took place this week between 'two scholars' which led to the staff member getting injured.

It is unclear if the student was arrested or is facing charges.
From the school’s website:
Flint Southwestern Classical Academy (FSCA) is an authorized International Baccalaureate World School in the Flint Community School district. Our diverse student population comprises of students from all areas of the city of Flint, as well as from surrounding school districts and communities within Genesee County. Our students include a number of bilingual students whose native languages include Spanish and Arabic. Additionally, over the past years, FSCA has hosted and educated up to 12 foreign exchange students representing the countries of Germany, China, Japan, and Spain.
The International Baccalaureate program is an academically demanding high school program whose graduation certificate is recognized around the world. I’d looked into it when we first moved back to the States, when we expected we would within the next three years be sent back Out There. I am shocked that students at such a school would would be so disinterested in improving their GPA that they’d indulge in temper tantrums in the classroom, no matter where it is based.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule


#2  Public schools are a great representative example of a community's emotional stability & temperament from which they are filled with.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/01/2023 6:52 Comments || Top||

#3  If she was perceived as was having Scott Adams 'Dilbertian' thoughts of 'WTF am I doing here'....perhaps she deserved to take a chair.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2023 7:01 Comments || Top||


#5  ^^^
Wake me when she is convicted of a felony. My guess this charging action by the local DA, David S. Leyton, to get this out of the news. He is a reliable (D) and the "scholar" has the trifecta card.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/01/2023 12:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh, Daily Mail.

You aren't commenting on who is making those bomb and gun threats. Which of course confirms that boy was totally on his meds.

IIUC, girl got bushwhacked for telling that boy to quit jerking off in the stalls.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/01/2023 13:31 Comments || Top||

#7  As for the main article, going 5/5 on your Of Course chart is easy. I was a bit surprised the attacker isn't morbidly obese.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/01/2023 13:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Chair-tosser wasn't a White Caucasian
Posted by: Frank G || 10/01/2023 16:40 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Are there Black Caucasians - like Black Irish?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/01/2023 16:42 Comments || Top||

#10  only White Hispanics, see: George Zimmerman
Posted by: Frank G || 10/01/2023 16:55 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
In case you were considering a return to Fox News
[Blaze] Dana Perino of the Fox News Channel, who served as one of the moderators for the second Republican presidential primary debate of the 2024 election cycle, recently moderated a session at the Clinton Global Initiative 2023 Meeting and even introduced former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as "the amazing Secretary Hillary Clinton."

Perino, who served as White House press secretary during a portion of President George W. Bush's tenure, co-anchors "America's Newsroom" and cohosts "The Five" on the Fox News Channel.

Clinton, the wife of former President Bill Clinton, served as a U.S. senator from New York and later as secretary of state during a portion of President Barack Obama's time in office. She was tapped as the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, but ultimately lost the election to Republican Donald Trump.

The session Perino hosted at the Clinton Global Initiative Meeting was titled "Journalism on the Frontlines: How protecting freedom of the press supports all human rights." The panel included Dow Jones CEO and Wall Street Journal publisher Almar Latour, Washington Post opinion writer Jason Rezaian, and Jodie Ginsberg, president of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Caution: This article may lead to pharyngeal (gag) reflex in adults.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2023 12:59 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't need Fox for anything.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/01/2023 18:19 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Israeli man arrested for attempting to sacrifice sheep on Temple Mount
[JPost] An Israeli citizen was arrested near Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday morning after attempting to bring a sheep to the Temple Mount as a sacrifice.

The suspect is a religious activist of the Chozrim L'Har movement, which advocates against the "abandonment of the Temple Mount into foreign hands."

The man was detained by law enforcement officials after being located en route to the Mount.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/01/2023 13:38 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I seem to recall that only a male whose lineage on both sides back to the year dot is of the Cohen sub-tribe — with no divorced parents in the lineage — can perform sacrifices in the Temple in Jerusalem, and then only once the Temple has been properly consecrated in Levitical detail. And then the animal to be sacrificed has to be examined by trained priests to ensure it meets the Levitical standards...

I strongly suspect that our enthusiastic Israeli citizen did not check all the boxes before he started dragging his poor beast up the hill.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/01/2023 22:45 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Miss USA 2023 is - wait for it - a biological female woman human being.
[Bidness Insider]
  • Miss Utah Noelia Voigt was crowned the new Miss USA in Reno, Nevada, on Friday night.

  • She will now represent the United States at the Miss Universe pageant on November 18.

  • Voigt said during the pageant that she's been preparing for Miss USA for seven years.

The next Miss USA is Noelia Voigt of Utah.

Miss USA 2022 Morgan Romano crowned Voigt onstage at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno, Nevada, on Friday night. Miss Hawaii Savannah Gankiewicz placed first runner-up.

Voigt will now represent the United States at the Miss Universe pageant on November 18, 2023, in El Salvador. The current Miss Universe, R'Bonney Gabriel, was the first American to win the pageant in 10 years.

When asked how she would contribute as a brand ambassador for the Miss USA organization, Voigt said that the ability to connect with people "is an incredibly important asset that a Miss USA should have."
One can assume the bomb and death threats have commenced.
Related: The Daily Mail has photos and videos of the married, bilingual Venezuelan-American and her competitors here. Apparently this is the first year married competitors and those with children were allowed to compete; transgender women who have completed their surgeries have been able to compete for several years.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dove's Zyahna Bryant was a runner up.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2023 2:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Skid, there should be a warning sign.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/01/2023 4:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Scary smile.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/01/2023 8:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Wrongthink! Wrongthink!
They'll soon put a stop to this!
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/01/2023 9:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Warning sign
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2023 11:46 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Gabonese react to former First lady 'money laundering' charges
[AFRICANEWS] In Libreville, Gabon's capital residents react as Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin wife of ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba, is charged with money laundering among other offences, according to the public prosecutor.

Placed under house arrest until further notice, the french-gabonese first lady is also accused of manipulating the head of state with her son Noureddine Bongo.

"She deserves this, because no matter what power you have, you can't destroy a whole country, and really, justice must do its work, I think that even her husband must be questioned, because it was her husband who brought her here, and it was her husband who gave her the power. Of course, during his illness, they took advantage of doing all sorts of things."

"It's true that I don't know what role first ladies have to play, but Sylvia (Bongo Ondimba Valentin, ed.), well, I can't see what she's done for Gabon."

Noureddine Bongo Valentin is already charged and incarcerated for corruption and embezzlement of public funds, with several former young members of the presidential cabinet and two former ministers.

Following these charges, "Mrs Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin appeared on Thursday, September 28 before the investigating judge who charged her with money laundering, concealment, forgery and use of forgery (...) before a house arrest was ordered", announced Friday the prosecutor of the Republic of Libreville, André Patrick Roponat.

On the night of August 30, less than an hour after the announcement of the re-election of Ali Bongo Ondimba, the army, citing an obvious fraud, was "ending the regime", also accused of massive corruption. General Brice Oligui Nguema, leader of the putsch, was proclaimed the day after President of the Transition.

"BONGO DYNASTY"
A month later, he remains adored as on the first day of his putsch by the vast majority of the population and the political class, who applaud the military for having "released" them from 55 years of "Bongo dynasty". Ali was elected in 2009 on the death of his father Omar Bongo Ondimba, who had ruled the country for more than 41 years.

Ali Bongo had been placed under house arrest on the day of the putsch but declared free of his movements a week later. The military seemed to quickly dismiss him considering that he had been "manipulated" notably by his wife and their son Noureddine after a severe stroke in 2018. Since then, Mr. Bongo, whose President Oligui says that he is "free" to go to follow his care abroad, preferred to stay in Gabon at home, according to the new power.

On the very night of the putsch, Noureddine Bongo and several of his young relatives and relatives of the former First Lady in the presidential cabinet had been arrested and shown at the foot of countless trunks, suitcases and bags overflowing banknotes for hundreds of millions of euros seized at their homes.

"HOUSE ARREST"
Sylvia Bongo Valentin had been placed under house arrest but isolated from her husband. His French lawyers had denounced a "hostage taking" and filed a complaint in Gay Paree for "arbitrary kidnapping".

"No one is above the law, but the law must be respected for all. What about a justice that keeps people in absolute secrecy for weeks before charging them, without access to a defense?", one of them, Francois Zimeray, asked AFP on Friday.

"Investigations are continuing and further arrests and charges are being considered," Prosecutor Roponat warned.

Noureddine and nine members of the so-called "Young Team", had finally been charged three weeks after their arrest and six others incarcerated with him for "corruption, embezzlement of public funds, money laundering, criminal association, falsification of the signature of the President of the Republic and disruption of electoral operations".

Two former ministers (Oil and Public Works), close to Noureddine, were also arrested.

"The First Lady and Noureddine have squandered the power of Ali Bongo," said General Oligui to the Elite Republican Guard on September 18. Because since his stroke, they forged the president’s signature, they gave orders in his place", in addition to "money laundering and corruption". Who ruled the country", then? He wondered.

Mr. Oligui Nguema summoned the bosses of Gabonese companies or operating in the country, accused of systematically "extra-billing" against retro-commissions paid to bigwigs of the fallen power, to "stop these manoeuvres" in the procurement of public contracts.

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DRC: Opponent Fayulu confirms presidential candidacy
[AFRICANEWS] The opponent Martin Fayulu, who has maintained suspense in recent weeks, confirmed Saturday in Kinshasa his candidacy for the presidential election of December 20 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
(DRC).

He will face the current president, Félix Tshisekedi, in power since January 2019, candidate for re-election.

"The Lamuka coalition ("Wake up", in Lingala) decided to run for president," Fayulu told news hounds.

"We will continue to fight for transparency in elections. We did not get it by the audit of the electoral register, we will have it in the surveillance" of the vote, added the opponent, who says for five years that the victory was stolen during the presidential election of December 2018.

By July 2022, his party Ecidé (Engagement for Citizenship and Development), which belongs to the Lamuka coalition, had made Martin Fayulu his official candidate for the next presidential election, coupled with the legislative, provincial and municipal elections.

But a year later, while refusing to talk about a "boycott", he assured that if he did not obtain a new audit of the electoral register, his party would not file candidacy files for the elections.

According to him, out of 43.9 million registered voters, there would be "10 million fictitious". " This time, it will not pass... We refuse to launder fraud (...), we must mobilize to prevent the electoral parody in preparation from happening," he told the press.

In fact, his party has not aligned any candidates in the legislative and provincial elections, which could suggest that Mr. Fayulu, 66, former executive of the oil major ExxonMobil, would not be on the presidential ranks either.

The electoral register was not subject to a new audit, but Mr. Fayulu nevertheless considered that the "pressure" had made progress. The chairman of the electoral commission, he noted, for example, recently said that the election results would be published "polling station by polling station".
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:


There's been a murder a week on farms in South Africa this year. Now a race-baiting Marxist who loves singing Kill the Boer is set to become Vice President
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] They came at breakfast time to murder Theo Bekker, smashing an iron bar stolen from his own farmyard into his skull before slitting his throat so he bled to death. His four teenage attackers then tied up his wife, Marlinda, and put a plastic bag over her head before she slipped into unconsciousness. Mercifully, she survived.

Twenty-four hours before Mr Bekker's killing, the nation's most controversial politician, Julius Malema (leader of the Marxist-Leninist Economic Freedom Fighters party (EFF)), had chanted an anthem entitled 'Kill the Boer' — a term for white farmers — at a rally of 90,000 followers.
In South Africa, where the murder rate is soaring, the killing of 79-year-old Mr Bekker on July 30 still had the capacity to horrify. This week at the Afrikaans Dutch Reformed church half a mile from the Bekkers' cream-coloured farmhouse, Minister Johan Bouwer told the Mail: 'The couple came here to Sunday services. Marlinda was a regular every week; Theo would attend if he was not busy on the farm.

'At a memorial service for him, the church was packed, with white Afrikaans farming families and black people from the area who paid their last respects to him.'
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Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Left unchecked, the communist Julius Malema will do a great deal more than chant a racist song. He will bring about a large scale genocide of whites in South Africa.

Regrettably many will not escape Malema's grip.

Perhaps the Boer War (1899-1902) British concentration camp cemetery at Norvalsport (one of dozens) can be expanded to accommodate the dead. Hopefully the graves of dead children can be properly marked this time.

Link found here.


Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2023 2:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Why Russia is wooing South Africa’s white farmers

Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/01/2023 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  A cautionary tale about taboo thoughts and where they might lead! I think the Russians have a good idea in this case.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/01/2023 12:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Number 2 without Paywall or Signup found at IOL.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2023 12:44 Comments || Top||

#5  "We need a new constitution; one like South Africa."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/01/2023 13:42 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Free Ride's Over: Mexico Trying to Get Cuba to Pay for ‘Donated' Oil
[Breitbart] The Mexican state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company is evaluating ways to start charging Cuba for the multimillion-dollar oil shipments Mexico has been donating to the island nation’s communist regime, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
Isn’t Cuba pretty much broke?
The decision reportedly stems from rising oil prices, as prices head towards the $100 barrel mark, as well as Pemex’s and Mexico’s own fiscal deficit problems. Mexican far-left President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government has so far donated over a million oil barrels in “humanitarian aid” to the Castro regime during 2023.

López Obrador is a vocal ally of the Castro regime. The Mexican president awarded the Castro regime’s figurehead president Miguel Díaz-Canel this year with the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest decoration that Mexico awards to foreigners.

Cuba continues to undergo a severe fuel shortage, one of the many symptoms of the continued systematic collapse of the nation and the inhumane living conditions that Cubans have been subjected to after six decades of communist rule have left the country in ruins.

For the past two decades, Cuba has depended on consistent oil shipments from Venezuela’s socialist regime to cover its local demand as part of the agreements signed between late dictators Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez in the early 2000s. Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba have significantly decreased in recent months as Venezuelan oil exports to the United States, which the regime profits from, have steadily increased thanks to oil sanctions relief granted by the administration of President Joe Biden last year.

According to information from the Mexican port authority and ship movements tracked by Bloomberg, the Mexican government sent 350,000 barrels of Pemex-refined oil as donations to Cuba in June and an additional 700,000 barrels in July. Both shipments are estimated to have been worth $77 million total, according to average Mexican oil prices estimates in those two months.

June and July’s shipments marked Mexico’s first oil exports to Cuba since 2019. Mexico did not renew oil donations to Cuba during August.

Reuters reported on Tuesday that Pemex’s six oil refineries in Mexico are struggling to boost its oil refining output and are presently operating at barely half their capacity, which in turn is forcing Mexico to import fuel to supply its local market.

By August, Pemex’s crude oil processing amounted to nearly 797,000 barrels per day (bdp), down from last year’s 816,000 bdp. When it comes to gasoline, however, Pemex was only able to produce 242,000 bpd in August, marking the month with lowest output levels in 2023 so far. Pemex’s crude oil processing output has been progressively dropping for the past 15 years.

Pemex is also considered to be the most indebted oil company in the world. Pemex’s short-term debt has exceeded its own cash resources since 2020 and the company’s debt liabilities have surpassed $110 billion as of June.

The drop in crude oil and gasoline output has forced Mexico to increase its fuel imports by 17 percent last month. Coupled with Pemex’s own severe fiscal deficits, this has reportedly prompted the country to evaluate the possibility of charging Cuba for the oil it had so far been giving away for free to the communist Castro regime.

Bárcena explained that the oil donations to Cuba were made through the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation but, as crude oil prices have increased by up to 25 percent over the past three months, in addition to Mexico facing its largest fiscal deficit in more than three decades has forced the country to find new sources of income to offset is growing deficit and alleviate the pressure that the oil donations to Cuba represents to the Mexico’s public finances.

Mexico’s 2024 budget project, presented this month, expects a deficit of nearly 1.7 billion Mexican pesos ($96.5 million) for next year, an amount that is equivalent to 4.9 percent of the country’s GDP. Mexico has not experienced a deficit of this nature since 1989.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Sucker. You expect Communists to honor agreements?
Posted by: magpie || 10/01/2023 11:04 Comments || Top||

#2  And here Russia is trying to set up tourist facilities and hotels in Cuba. (I'm totally serious about this.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/01/2023 13:28 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ All kinds of Canuckistanians go there in the winter because IT'S CHEAP!!!!!!
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 10/01/2023 16:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Also, I suspect, because going to Cuba is a poke in the eye of their southern neighbour, Canuckistan sniper.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/01/2023 22:47 Comments || Top||


Economy
UAW Strike Expands to 25,000 Auto Workers as Talks Stall Over Job-Killing Electric Vehicle Mandates
[Breitbart] More than 25,000 auto workers are now striking against General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis as negotiations stall over worries that President Joe Biden’s Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates will spur massive job losses and wage cuts down the road.

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain announced that about 7,000 auto workers at GM’s Lansing Delta Township Assembly in Lansing, Michigan, and Ford’s Chicago Assembly in Chicago, Illinois, were joining the strike against the Big Three.

The UAW strike now includes auto workers at 43 plants across 21 states. Meanwhile, Fain said the UAW is making significant progress with Stellantis.

"We will win. Our strategy is working," Fain said. "... over the last ten years, the Big Three have made a record quarter of a trillion dollars in North American profits. Over the last six months, the Big Three have made a record $21 billion in total profits."

Holding up negotiations, new reports reveal, is automakers’ commitment to carrying out Biden’s EV mandates that seek to shower billions in taxpayer-funded subsidies on companies producing EVs over gas-powered cars.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2023 13:20 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Shocking number of Europeans say you should only be able to fly 4 times in your life due to climate change
[FOX] A new poll shows that a shocking number of French citizens support banning people from flying more than four times in their lives due to climate change.

A poll from research firm Consumer Science and Analytics Institute (CSA) found that 41% of citizens would support such a limit. That number rose to 59% support among 18-24-year-olds. The suggested limit, proposed by engineer Jean-Marc Jancovici, would apply to air travel for business and pleasure.

The poll surveyed 1,010 French residents over the age of 18. It found that support for air travel restrictions was far higher among younger age groups. While a majority opposed the four-flight lifetime maximum, 64% of the respondents said they would be willing to limit their air travel in the near or medium term to combat climate change.

Climate activists across the globe have pushed for wide-ranging restrictions aimed at reducing carbon emissions, from limiting car travel to banning plastic straws.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2023 12:15 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OK, next meeting at Davos, just shoot down any aircraft leaving. Occupants have already used up their four.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/01/2023 14:31 Comments || Top||

#2  I second that
Posted by: Chris || 10/01/2023 20:51 Comments || Top||

#3  That number rose to 59% support among 18-24-year-olds.

French? That’s because many of that age group are still at university, and the rest are already on the dole.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/01/2023 23:03 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Today Is Jeremy Brown's Birthday – He was Sentenced to Over 7 Years in Prison After He Refused to Work as an Undercover FBI Operative on January 6
[Gateway] Green Beret and Republican congressional candidate Jeremy Brown attended the Stop the Steal protests in Washington DC on January 6, 2021. Jeremy joined the Oath Keepers in November of 2020 following the controversial presidential elections and went to Washington DC to provide security at the many protests and rallies that were planned and scheduled that week in Washington DC.

In March of 2021, Jeremy Brown began speaking out about how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) contacted him in December 2020 and attempted to recruit him to spy on patriots and everyday Americans on January 6th.

In December 2020 FBI-DHS agents contacted Jeremy Brown at his home for "posting some things online."

Jeremy later released video surveillance of the FBI contacting him at his home. And Jeremy then later released the audio recording of his actual meetup with the FBI.

Jeremy struggled for months about whether or not to go public with this information. But according to his Facebook page — "After listening to politicians and the FBI Director, Chris Wray, tell lie after bald-faced lie to the American People, he could not stay silent any longer."

Jeremy decided his desire to protect and defend the American people and the TRUTH was more important than privacy or personal safety.

So in March 2021 Jeremy joined Brandon Gray on Banned.TV to explain what happened to him after he joined the Oath Keepers in November.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2023 13:46 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2023-10-01
  Terrorists On Motorbikes Kill At Least 12 Niger Republic Soldiers Near Mali, Burkina Faso Border
Sat 2023-09-30
  Security forces thwart TTP attempt to infiltrate from Afghanistan into Pakistan: ISPR
Fri 2023-09-29
  Leb military court sentences IS group official to 160 years in prison
Thu 2023-09-28
  Libya orders 8 officials arrested after flood disaster
Wed 2023-09-27
  Mosque burned into ashes in Sweden
Tue 2023-09-26
  Major Daesh official captured in US helicopter raid in Syria
Mon 2023-09-25
  Iran’s intelligence ministry says it has detained 28 “terrorists” linked to ISIS
Sun 2023-09-24
  Central African Republic sentences ex-president Bozize to life imprisonment (in absentia)
Sat 2023-09-23
  16 killed in Burkina 'terrorist' attacks: Local, security sources
Fri 2023-09-22
  Azerbaijani Armed Forces on the outskirts of Khankendi
Thu 2023-09-21
  Eagle Pass, Texas declares state of emergency with 4,000 streaming across border TODAY
Wed 2023-09-20
  Nonstop shelling in Karabakh, Azerbaijan demands Armenian surrender
Tue 2023-09-19
  Sudanese army, RSF clash in Khartoum, El-Obeid, Zalingei
Mon 2023-09-18
  Sudanese army repels RSF attack on its command centre
Sun 2023-09-17
  Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger establish an alliance of Sahel states


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