"He's Not Dropping Out": Biden Digs In After Disastrous Debate
President Joe Biden is "not dropping out" of the 2024 race despite his party's collective freakout over last night's debate performance, which put his severe cognitive decline on display, raising questions about who's actually running the country.
"Of course he’s not dropping out," campaign spokesman Seth Schuster told The Hill.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hes-not-dropping-out-biden-digs-after-disastrous-debate
In Blow To Democrats, Supreme Court Allows Crackdown On Homeless
The case is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue of America's rising wave of homeless democrat.
In a 6-3 decision, split as usual along ideological lines, the high court reversed a ruling by a deeply liberal San Francisco-based appeals court that found outdoor sleeping bans amount to cruel and unusual punishment. Which is only appropriate since San Francisco recently has descended into 8th circle of homeless hell territory, with drug needless, piles of human excrement, and armies of homeless zombies covering the streets of the once great city.
The majority found that the 8th Amendment prohibition does not extend to bans on outdoor sleeping bans.
“Homelessness is complex. Its causes are many. So may be the public policy responses required to address it,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority. “A handful of federal judges cannot begin to ‘match’ the collective wisdom the American people possess in deciding ‘how best to handle’ a pressing social question like homelessness.”
Gorsuch suggested that people who have no choice but to sleep outdoors could raise that as a “necessity defense,” if they are ticketed or otherwise punished for violating a camping ban.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/major-blow-democrats-supreme-court-enacts-crackdown-homeless
Yesterday my high school sweetheart, the love of my life for over 35 years, the loving mother of our 4 children, the smartest kindest woman I ever knew, my beautiful and wise queen forever, Rhonda went to Heaven. Thank you for your prayers for our family in this difficult time.
https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1806685880330903837
Worldcoin: Sam Altman’s Crypto Tool for Technocracy?
More than a sketchy cash for biometrics scheme, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and friends’ Worldcoin project is positioning itself as a one-stop shop for identity and financial infrastructure that could upend traditional finance and governance structures as we know them.
“No one told me what they’ll do with my eye…I did this out of need.”
Want $50 worth of cryptocurrency? Scan your irises with one of Worldcoin’s orbs and it’s yours. Such is Worldcoin’s (rather odd) elevator pitch to the public, which has subsequently rolled out its iris-scanning orbs to 38 countries worldwide.
Launched in mid-2023 and described by founder Sam Altman upon launch as “a global financial and identity network based on proof of personhood,” Worldcoin has made a big splash in its efforts to grow an identity and finance network using the unique, orb-based iris scans of every individual on Earth.
Some are excited by the project, many fear it. Debatable optics of using an orb (often stylized in Worldcoin’s communications as “the Orb”) as a project centerpiece aside, Worldcoin’s orb-based iris scans have been suspended in several countries, including Spain, Kenya, and Portugal due to mounting privacy concerns and the organization’s sketchy business practices. But, as Rest of World reports, the scans have recently become popular in Argentina, where pervasive economic crises and record inflation rates have made many hungry for instant cash: in January 2024, Worldcoin boasted it had scanned the irises of about one percent of Argentines.
Amongst the tech world’s most ambitious projects today, Worldcoin is positioning itself as a one-stop shop for identity, finance, and Universal Basic Income (UBI) infrastructure that is poised to undermine, if not subvert, traditional financial systems and governance structures internationally — all in response to problems attributed to the growth of the AI industry, which is arguably led by Altman’s own OpenAI.
Altman’s Solution to Altman’s Problem
Founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman in 2019 and operating as a “stealth” project until Bloomberg reporting broke its cover in 2021, Worldcoin’s website describes its operations as profound for society, yet inclusion-forward:
Worldcoin is designed to become the world’s largest privacy-preserving human identity and financial network, giving ownership to everyone. Worldcoin aims to provide universal access to the global economy no matter your country or background, establishing a place for all of us to benefit in the age of AI.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cryptocurrency/worldcoin-sam-altmans-crypto-tool-for-technocracy
Walgreens to close up to a quarter of its roughly 8,600 U.S. stores.
“The current pharmacy model is not sustainable,” CEO Tim Wentworth told investors on a Thursday earnings call.
With 75% of the company’s U.S. stores accounting for 100% of its adjusted operating income, the company plans to examine the remaining 25% of its stores for closures, which would occur over the next three years, said the executive, who took the company’s helm in 2023. Shuttering 25% of its 8,600 U.S. locations would result in about 2,150 store closures.
“Changes are imminent,” but some of the specifics are still fluid, Wentworth said of the impending shutdowns. “There’s not one exact number” of closures.
Wentworth added that the company will definitely shutter a number of its underperforming stores, but that other locations could be shifted to profitability.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/walgreens-to-close-up-to-a-quarter-of-its-roughly-8600-u-s-stores/
Pope Francis: Christians, Jews, Muslims ‘Worship the One God’
Pope Francis asserted this week Christians, Jews and Muslims, all worship the one God and are “brothers and sisters.”
“Jesus taught us to welcome one another as brothers and sisters,” the pontiff told a delegation from the Bologna Mosque in northern Italy. “And this is true first of all for us, Christians, Jews, and Muslims, who worship the One God.”
Members of all three faiths refer to Abraham as “our father in faith,” he said, “albeit in different ways.”
“In today’s world, our witness of fraternity is indispensable and very precious,” he added.
Sincere and respectful dialogue between Christians and Muslims “is a duty for us who want to obey God’s will,” he contended.
Every believer “must feel free to propose – never impose! – his religion to other people, believers or not,” he said. “This excludes any form of proselytism, understood as exerting pressure or threats.”
In addition, “marriages between people of different religions should not be an opportunity to convert the spouse to his or her religion,” he declared.
The question of whether Muslims and Christians worship the same God has been hotly debated and is one of the “vexed” issues of interreligious dialogue.
Whereas Pope Francis has voiced his belief that the Christian God and Allah are the same God, other Christian leaders disagree.
Celebrated evangelical pastor Franklin Graham, for example, the son of evangelist Billy Graham, has insisted that Muslims and Christians “clearly” do not worship the same God.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/06/28/pope-francis-christians-jews-muslims-worship-the-one-god/
FOIA Finds Catholic Charities Colluded with City of Chicago to House Illegal Immigrants
A recent FOIA request to the City of Chicago from Terry Newsome of Behind Enemy Lines podcast has found a curious relationship between Catholic Charities organization and City of Chicago officials. In an email from February 20, 2024 a Catholic Charities official sent an update to multiple Illinois government and City of Chicago officials including Chicago Public School and Northwestern employees. The email shows multiple graphs detailing the progress of Catholic Charities efforts to house illegals.
According to Illinois.gov the state is funding the asylum seeker program to the tune of $478 million over FY 2023 and 2024. Of course, that money does not just come out of thin air. The recent state budget announced by Governor Pritzker increased the burden of the Illinois taxpayer by $1B. A significant portion of that will be used to address the immigration crisis in Chicago.
Lost in the chaos of the ever-growing immigration crisis is the day-to-day management of an entirely new class of people. Sanctuary cities such as Chicago are having to house, feed, and care for new people from different countries and walks of life on a daily basis. This type of effort is wholly unprecedented and the government infrastructure needed to manage the crisis is not sufficient. Hence the increased taxes and federal government assistance.
However, there needs to be some organizational infrastructure to manage the logistics of such a vast human migratory enterprise. That’s where Catholic Charities enters the scene. As previously reported by Gateway Pundit and Behind Enemy Lines immigrants were being housed all over the city of Chicago in different facilities. Crime has been rampant including evidence of human trafficking. But where do the immigrants go after the temporary stay in these facilities? In the slide provided to Illinois and City of Chicago government officials Catholic Charities boasts of reuniting 4,800 “new arrivals” with family and lists all the facilities housing illegals.
It is curious to note that Catholic Charities would be so involved with local and state governments in assisting with illegal immigrant logistics. More curious still is the next slide where Catholic Charities details data regarding “moveout services” provided for over 8,800 “ASERAP” eligible individuals since July 2023. Further investigation finds that ASERAP is an acronym for Asylum Seeker Emergency Rental Assistance Program. This program partners with landlords across the city to house illegals for up to 6 months. This timeframe has recently been paired back to three months because of the volume of new arrivals. In order to extend their stay, illegals have to obtain a work permit. According to Borderless – a Chicago based pro illegal immigration magazine – the program is a federal government program. On top of the state funds used to support illegals, Chicago has spent $45 million from the program.
https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/06/foia-finds-catholic-charities-colluded.html
Forget the old jokes, foreign policy was the real debate horror
Two major wars and not a serious or even coherent conversation to be had — we may be in trouble
If one was hoping to distinguish how the two major presidential candidates view the most critical foreign policy issues of our time, the debate last night was a shattering disappointment.
If one’s expectations were so low as to believe nothing but second-hand embarrassment would be gained from the exchanges last night, then maybe not so much.
On Ukraine and Israel, President Biden and former President Trump inflated, conflated, and bloviated their way through 11 minutes of foreign policy discussion, only turning back to the topics in fleeting moments of taunting incoherence during the rest of the time on the stage.
For Trump, it was surface-level attacks on how, to his mind, Biden’s weakness and lack of leadership in the “disgraceful” Afghanistan withdrawal in September 2021 encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine, and Hamas to attack Israel (he repeated this numerous times during the 90-minute debate, which took place in Atlanta and without a live audience).
Biden retorted by saying Trump openly encouraged Putin to invade in February 2022 and repeated that if not stopped, the Russian president would rampage across Europe to re-establish the “Soviet Empire.” As for Israel, he boasted about a White House ceasefire deal that no one, not Hamas nor Israel, has seen fit to seriously engage in weeks.
“Neither candidate put forth a vision of how the U.S. can positively engage with the world in a manner that advances American interests and addresses the shared existential threats posed by climate change, nuclear proliferation and growing great power tensions,” quipped the Quincy Institute’s Eli Clifton.
That is an understatement. With the immense gravity of two major wars bearing down on the planet simultaneously, the two men vying for the job of commander in chief seemed intent only to talk about these issues within the narrow band of their own choosing. Trump was slightly more expansive — invoking the cost of blood and treasure and the need to end, particularly, the war in Ukraine, while blaming Europe for what he called freeloading. But his boast of being able to end the war in Ukraine while still president-elect was backed up by nothing but his sheer insistence that it would happen.
For his part, Biden made statements that did not comport with current geopolitical reality, but harkened back to the time of D-Day and the Greatest Generation, saying at one point that “we are the most admired country in the world.” His attempt to suggest he is holding back 2,000-pound dumb bombs from Israel for humanitarian reasons was quickly undermined by his assurance that the U.S. was giving Israel everything it wanted and saying the quiet part out loud, that we “are the biggest producer of support for Israel in the world.”
By the end of the debate when Trump was saying Biden “will drive us into World War Three,” the audience was likely too dulled to react. In the morning the spin from both sides will cherry pick and likely dwell on other things: fact-checking Trump, Biden’s age and performance, the cringey exchange over who is a better golf player, and the ongoing disputes over the 2020 election and January 6.
So it is best to put these exchanges out there verbatim, to give folks something to really worry about. This was pretty much all of the foreign policy last night; but answers have been edited a bit for repetition and length (you'll thank us).
CNN Host Dana Bash to Trump: President Vladimir Putin says he'll only end this war if Russia keeps the Ukrainian territory it has already claimed, and Ukraine abandons its bid to join NATO. Are Putin's terms acceptable to you?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/presidential-debate-foreign-policy/
Balloons Land in Southern Lebanon, Warning Locals the Land ‘Belongs to Jews’
Messages in Hebrew and Arabic demand immediate evacuation of all locals
Messages attached to balloons have begun landing in southern Lebanon, demanding that the locals, those not already displaced by the ongoing attacks and looming threat of large-scale war, “evacuate immediately,” declaring the land “belongs to Jews.”
It is not clear who sent the balloons, but the immediate suspicion is on radical settler groups, the same groups that are loudly lobbying Israel not only to invade and occupy Lebanon, but to convert southern Lebanon into another territory of settlements.
The messages don’t identify who is dispatching the balloons but they are written in both Hebrew and Arabic. They landed in villages across southern Lebanon and include a map of Lebanon in the message.
While bellicose rhetoric from settler groups is nothing new, the timing makes this particularly grim, coming as Israel is openly talking about an invasion of Lebanon, and members of the far-right Israeli government talking about making occupation of its south permanent.
The balloons come into Lebanon alongside Israeli warplanes. An overnight attack on the city of Nabatieh alone wounded 21 people. According to reports, the attack leveled a residential building, wounding 7 people within, and 14 others from the ensuing panic.
Israel attacks Nabatieh, and the surrounding towns and villages in southern Lebanon, on a regular basis. The Israeli government did not comment on the overnight attack or what it intended to accomplish by hitting a residence
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/06/27/balloons-land-in-southern-lebanon-warning-locals-the-land-belongs-to-jews/
Rocket, drone sirens triggered across north after IDF strikes Hezbollah air defense site
IDF: Hezbollah launched 3 explosive-laden drones, 25 rockets * US shifts assault ship to Mediterranean to deter Israel-Hezbollah war * Biden: I don’t debate like I used to, but I’ll still win
Three explosive-laden drones launched from Lebanon struck areas in the Western Galilee earlier this evening, the military says.
The IDF says it launched interceptor missiles at the drones, but failed to down the devices.
Additionally, some 25 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Western Galilee and the Kiryat Shmona area in separate barrages, according to the IDF.
Damage was caused to a building in the Western Galilee by one of the rockets, the military says.
The rockets also sparked several fires in northern Israel.
No injuries were caused in the drone and rocket attacks.
The IDF says it shelled the sources of fire with artillery.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-june-28-2024/
Security cabinet okays legalizing 5 outposts, sanctioning PA officials
Smotrich will in turn release PA tax funds, extend waiver to let Palestinian banks work with Israel; steps include Israeli building enforcement in Area B, which would violate Oslo deal
The security cabinet on Thursday night approved legalizing five West Bank outposts and a series of sanctions against the Palestinian Authority.
The action was first announced in a statement by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and later confirmed by Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs. The Prime Minister’s Office did not make any immediate comment.
In return for the measures, Smotrich will sign off on moves unfreezing the last three months of tax funds withheld from the Palestinian Authority, a senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel.
The hardline minister will also extend a waiver allowing Israeli banks to work with their Palestinian counterparts for the next four months, the official said.
These two moves were absent from the minister’s statement.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/cabinet-okays-legalizing-5-outposts-sanctioning-pa-officials-minister-says/
Land stealing intensifies
Germany is funding Nazi's in Ukraine
Trump just released a brutal 95 second ad of Joe Biden's debate lowlights:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1806557731244986521
Israeli Meddling in US Politics.
https://youtu.be/5vZKRTN086k
The Sopranos Star Drea de Matteo: ‘Hollywood Actors Getting Paid to Support Biden’
Hollywood star and The Sopranos actress Drea de Matteo says Hollywood is full of ‘quiet’ Trump supporters and questioned how much actors are getting paid to publicly support President Joe Biden ahead of the November election.
She told Fox News’ Jesse Watters on Monday that she believes there are “a lot of quiet Trump supporters” in Hollywood.
The actress, famous for playing Adriana La Cerva in the popular TV show The Sopranos, also reacted to a montage of actors played before her interview, commenting, “That was a tough intro to watch.”
“Was it Jack Black’s legs?” Watters quipped, to which de Matteo replied, “No, it’s the Italians, man. We’re talking about Fauci, we’re talking about De Niro. I am mortified right now by my people. I don’t know understand what we’re doing here.”
“Anyhow, yes, there are a lot of quiet Trump supporters,” she added, before surmising how much money actors are being paid to publicly declare support for Biden.
“I wonder how much these actors got paid to endorse Biden at this point. I’m curious,” she said. “I wonder if De Niro got paid a locations fee, because he had to travel to the courtroom to do that.”
Watters then asked: “Is that how that works? Do you guys get paid?”
“I mean, can you just maybe not give them cash like Bob Menedez or slip them a gold bar, but can you just kinda make it like a silent deal like, ‘Oh, we’ll give you this next role or you know we’ll get you a book deal.’ Is it something like that, or an appearance fee?” the Fox host added.
The actress replied: “I don’t know. I don’t really maneuver inside that industry. I never have. First of all, Sopranos, we were the outcasts, even though we were critically acclaimed, we still were outcasts.”
“So, I’m still an outcast, here I am. They’re going to take me out into the woods and shoot me for not endorsing Biden,” the actress joked.
https://conservativeroof.com/the-sopranos-star-drea-de-matteo-hollywood-actors-getting-paid-to-support-biden/
Bill Ackman Says His Friends Will Be Working in Trump's Administration
Democrat billionaire Bill Ackman, a committed Zionist and open borders globalist who claims to have shifted all his views on a dime in the wake of October 7, endorsed Donald Trump fully on Thursday night after the debate and said his friends will be working inside his administration.
"This is bad news for America," Brett MacDonald warned on Twitter. "This man is not your friend and his friends are not your friends."
MacDonald highlighted Ackman's tweet and shared additional screenshots showing Ackman's positions:
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64514
Adult Film Actor Justin Heath Smith, a/k/a “Austin Wolf,” Charged With Distribution Of Child Pornography
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/adult-film-actor-justin-heath-smith-aka-austin-wolf-charged-distribution-child
The Gaza Project Exposes Israel’s ‘Chilling Pattern’ of Killing Journalists
"This is one of the most flagrant attacks on press freedom that I can remember," said one campaigner. "The impact on press freedom in Gaza, in the region, and the rest of the world is something we cannot accept."
With more than 100 media professionals – nearly all of them Palestinian – killed in Gaza since October, a group of 50 reporters from 13 international organizations this week shared the results of a new investigative journalism initiative aimed at exposing the deadly toll Israel’s onslaught has taken on those reporting it to the world.
The Gaza Project – led by the Paris-based nonprofit Forbidden Stories – “analyzed nearly 100 cases of journalists and media workers killed in Gaza, as well as other cases in which members of the press have been allegedly targeted, threatened, or injured since October 7,” when Hamas-led attacks on Israel left more than 1,100 people dead and over 240 others kidnapped.
“Faced with what is being reported as the record number of journalists killed, Forbidden Stories, whose mission is to pursue the work of journalists who are killed because of their work, set out to investigate the targeting of journalists,” the group said.
“For four months, Forbidden Stories and its partners investigated the circumstances of their killings, as well as those who have been targeted, threatened, and injured in the West Bank and Gaza,” it added. “These investigations point to a chilling pattern and suggest some journalists may have been targeted even though they were identifiable as press.”
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/06/27/the-gaza-project-exposes-israels-chilling-pattern-of-killing-journalists/
Secret Israeli Government Intelligence Machine Seeks to Redefine US Law, Silence Protesters, Manipulate Government Officials
Wait, so the Jews are trying to take our freedom of speech?
I didn’t even know it was like that.
(Why isn’t American media reporting on this? Why do I have to read it in the Guardian?)
The Guardian:
Last November, just weeks into the war in Gaza, Amichai Chikli, a brash, 42-year-old Likud minister in the Israeli government, was called into the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to brief lawmakers on what could be done about rising anti-war protests from young people across the United States, especially at elite universities.
“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again now, that I think we should, especially in the United States, be on the offensive,” argued Chikli.
On the offensive against the freedom of speech of college students? In a foreign country?
Seems almost diabolical.
I wouldn’t have expected something like that from the chosen ones.
Chikli has since led a targeted push to counter critics of Israel. The Guardian has uncovered evidence showing how Israel has relaunched a controversial entity as part of a broader public relations campaign to target US college campuses and redefine antisemitism in US law.
Seconds after a smoke alarm subsided during the hearing, Chikli assured the lawmakers that there was new money in the budget for a pushback campaign, which was separate from more traditional public relations and paid advertising content produced by the government. It included 80 programs already under way for advocacy efforts “to be done in the ‘Concert’ way”, he said.
https://www.unz.com/aanglin/secret-israeli-government-intelligence-machine-seeks-to-redefine-us-law-silence-protesters-manipulate-government-officials/
KyivPost Reports Zelensky Preparing to Capitulate: “Ukraine does not want to prolong the war. We do not want it to last for years,”
"Ukraine does not want to prolong the war. We do not want it to last for years," President Volodymyr Zelensky said, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
"We have many wounded and killed on the battlefield. We must put a settlement plan on the table within a few months," Zelensky added.
https://x.com/KyivPost/status/1806304876621664329
Major 7.2 earthquake strikes Peru
https://citizenwatchreport.com/breaking-major-7-2-earthquake-strikes-peru/
On June 28, 2024, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southern Peru. The epicenter was 8 kilometers (5 miles) west of Atiquipa, which is south of the capital Lima near the borders of Chile and Bolivia. Fortunately, there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center confirmed that there was no threat of a tsunami.
abc7news.com/post/powerful-72-magnitude-earthquake-hits-peru-immediate-reports/15007776/
phys.org/news/2024-06-magnitude-earthquake-southern-peru.html
edition.cnn.com/2024/06/28/americas/peru-earthquake-intl-hnk/index.html
One big club - I wonder who avoids criminal prosecution now?
Supreme Court ruling allows officials to accept gifts for past favors
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that state and local officials may accept gifts and payments for past favors without violating federal anti-corruption laws. In a 6-3 decision, the justices overturned the conviction of a former Indiana mayor who received a $13,000 payment from a local truck dealership after helping them secure city contracts. The court distinguished between bribery (requiring proof of an illegal deal) and gratuities (gifts or rewards for past actions). While officials can still be charged with bribery, accepting money for past favors without evidence of an illicit deal is no longer a crime under federal law. This ruling could impact approximately 20 million local and state officials, including those at hospitals and universities receiving federal funds.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/supreme-court-ruling-allows-officials-to-accept-gifts-for-past-favors/