Anonymous ID: 07940a May 18, 2023, 10:38 a.m. No.18867339   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7367 >>7378 >>7392 >>7508 >>7598 >>7691

LIVE STREAM VIDEO: FBI Whistleblowers Testify at Weaponization Committee – Democrats Interrupt, Smear Witnesses, Run Cover for FBI – AMAZING VIDEO

 

The House Weaponization Committee is holding a hearing today on Capitol Hill. Three government whistleblowers from the FBI are testifying before Congress on Thursday morning.

 

On Wednesday Chris Wray’s FBI revoked the security clearances of three agents who espoused questioned the aggressive tactics by the FBI in targeting Trump supporters , conservatives, and pro-Life Americans, according to a letter the FBI sent the subcommittee on Wednesday.

 

FBI agents Marcus Allen, Brett Gloss, and Steve Friend had already been suspended for questioning the agency’s handling of the January 6 case and stating their beliefs that the FBI has been weaponized against conservatives.

 

Democrats on the Committee are running interference for the FBI. The Democrat members are openly hostile to the witnesses and attacking them continuously.

 

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Here are the members of the Weaponization Committee.

 

This is an explosive hearing. It was also reported that the whistleblowers will release more information today.

 

These Democrats are as nasty, offensive and dishonest as you would expect.

 

Here is the live stream video from today’s hearing.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/live-stream-video-fbi-whistleblowers-testify-weaponization-committee/

Anonymous ID: 07940a May 18, 2023, 10:47 a.m. No.18867393   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Home prices have had the biggest drop since 2012, realtors' report shows

Year-over-year sales dropped 23.2%, down from 5.57 million in April 2022, the report states.

Home prices have had the biggest drop since 2012 while home sales fell in April 2023 for the second month in a row, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors.

 

The report shows that existing homes in April, which include townhouses and single family homes, dropped 3.4% from March.

 

Year-over-year sales dropped 23.2%, down from 5.57 million in April 2022, the report adds.

 

"Home sales are bouncing back and forth but remain above recent cyclical lows," said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. "The combination of job gains, limited inventory and fluctuating mortgage rates over the last several months have created an environment of push-pull housing demand."

 

The four major regions of the U.S. have shown to have monthly and annual drops in sales. However, drops continue to be larger in areas with the highest costs, which have witnessed the biggest run-up in prices over the years.

 

CNN reports that prices and competition for homes are mixed across the country.

 

"Roughly half of the country is experiencing price gains," Yun said. "Even in markets with lower prices, primarily the expensive West region, multiple-offer situations have returned in the spring buying season following the calmer winter market. Distressed and forced property sales are virtually nonexistent."

 

https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/home-prices-have-had-biggest-drop-2012-realtors-report-shows

Anonymous ID: 07940a May 18, 2023, 10:48 a.m. No.18867399   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Supreme Court avoids ruling on law shielding internet companies from being sued for what users post

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Google, Twitter and Facebook in lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for terrorist attacks. But the justices sidestepped the big issue hovering over the cases, the federal law that shields social media companies from being sued over content posted by others.

 

The justices unanimously rejected a lawsuit alleging that the companies allowed their platforms to be used to aid and abet an attack at a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people in 2017.

 

In the case of an American college student who was killed in an Islamic State terrorist attack in Paris in 2015, a unanimous court returned the case to a lower court, but said there appeared to be little, if anything, left of it.

 

The high court initially took up the Google case to decide whether the companies’ legal shield for the social media posts of others, contained in a 1996 law known as Section 230, is too broad.

 

Instead, though, the court said it was not necessary to reach that issue because there is little tying Google to responsibility for the Paris attack.

 

“We therefore decline to address the application of Section 230 to a complaint that appears to state little, if any, plausible claim for relief,” the court wrote in an unsigned opinion.

 

The outcome is, at least for now, a victory for the tech industry, which predicted havoc on the internet if Google lost. But the high court remains free to take up the issue in a later case.

 

Anna Diakun, staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

 

“The Court will eventually have to answer some important questions that it avoided in today’s opinions. Questions about the scope of platforms’ immunity under Section 230 are consequential and will certainly come up soon in other cases,” Anna Diakun, staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said in an emailed statement.

 

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-terrorism-lawsuits-google-twitter-facebook-60495e2340598057c17f555c9502b596

Anonymous ID: 07940a May 18, 2023, 10:50 a.m. No.18867405   🗄️.is 🔗kun

8 May, 2023 16:42

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Gamers make the best military drone operators – DPR instructor

Recruits who have video game experience tend to learn faster and fly UAVs better, the expert claimed.

 

Volunteers and mobilized soldiers who have experience playing computer games have proved the most adept at learning to operate complex drones, an instructor serving in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has told journalists.

 

The instructor, whose call sign is ‘Cross’, said that gamers made especially good progress in mastering First Person View (FPV) drones, which provide the operator with a real-time video feed that can be used to control the device via a monitor or video helmet.

 

“Gamers ‘fly’ better, it’s a fact,” Cross was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti. He noted that while it took him about two weeks to understand the concepts of flying an FPV drone, gamers could get the hang of it in just one day.

 

“In two weeks they were already flying like ‘adults,” the instructor said. “When an untrained person immediately starts ‘flying’ very well, I always ask ‘have you flown somewhere before?’ They respond ‘no, i just played computer games using a joystick.’”

 

Cross told reporters he is convinced that if gamers were to be recruited through social advertising, they could be useful for military service and a lot more volunteers with this background could be attracted.

 

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/576527-gamers-best-drone-operators/

Anonymous ID: 07940a May 18, 2023, 10:53 a.m. No.18867408   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7413

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Gov. JB Pritzker sworn in for a 2nd term

WBEZ | By Camryn Cutinello

Published January 9, 2023 at 7:26 PM CST

 

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker on Monday was sworn into office for a second term alongside Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton and four other state constitutional officers.

 

The ceremony, held at the Bank of Springfield, 1 Convention Center Plaza, featured musical performances by Tiffany Mathis, the Southern Illinois Children’s Reunion Choir and Uplifting Voices Chicago.

 

During his inaugural speech, Pritzker said his priorities for the upcoming term include expanding preschool and childcare access, making healthcare more affordable and making college tuition free for working class families.

 

Pritzker went on to speak about gun violence, saying that shortly after his 2019 inauguration he went to stand with the victims of the Henry Pratt Company shooting in Aurora. He then acknowledged the shooting at Benito Juarez High School in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, which took place on Dec. 16.

 

“I'm tired of living in a world,” Pritzker said, “where a mass shooting needs a title so that you know which one you’re referring to. Hospitals, high schools, homes, parades, offices, there is no place, geographic or otherwise, that's been spared from the threat of gun violence.”

 

He said Illinois should become the ninth state to pass an assault rifle ban.

 

Attorney General Kwame Raoul also spoke about gun violence in his speech. Raoul talked about the Highland Park shooting on July 4. He also brought up two shootings which took place in the weeks following: one in Washington Park on Chicago’s South Side and one in Garfield Park on the city’s West Side.

 

Raoul said those shootings did not receive as much media attention as Highland Park. He said that’s because gun violence is expected in those areas. But, he said, it shouldn’t be.

 

“I’ll say about gun violence what I said about the opioid and heroin crisis, we weren't troubled when we thought they were quarantined to poor inner-city neighborhoods,” Raoul said. “We actually tolerated the impact of the opioid addiction until it spread to more affluent areas. That should not be our normal and we should be ashamed.”

 

Pritzker and Raoul both touted access to reproductive rights in the state.

 

“Illinois spoke loudly and decisively in 2022,” Pritzker said, “and declared that in the Land of Lincoln, we trust women.”

 

https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2023-01-09/governor-j-b-pritzker-sworn-in-for-a-2nd-term