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Free speech crises loom with crackdown on Israel criticism
The incoming Trump team appears poised to take a hardline and Congress isn't far behind. And it's just not on college campuses.
As one administration exits and another takes form, a harsh reality is becoming clear for critics of maintaining U.S. support for the Israeli government: in government bureaucracies and university campuses alike, crackdowns and pressure on free expression and assembly will continue in force.
Precisely how the incoming Trump administration will handle such criticism remains to be seen — but views expressed by his congressional allies and recent cabinet picks suggest a further diversion from upholding freedoms of speech and assembly in the name of maintaining support for Israel's war on Gaza and beyond.
Most recently, Trump selected Pam Bondi as his new nominee for attorney general. Last year, Bondi told Newsmax that students demonstrating in support of Hamas should be deported, whether they are here on student visas or as American citizens.
“Frankly, they need to be taken out of our country,” Bondi said. "Or, the FBI needs to be interviewing them right away.”
Trump himself echoed similar sentiments on the campaign trail, telling a group of donors in May that he would “throw out” any student that protests for Palestine and calling on the Biden administration to revoke the visas of foreign nationals who “support Hamas.”
Trump’s congressional allies have echoed the same sentiments in recent weeks. In October, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) met with members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) during which he threatened to revoke accreditation to universities that allow purported pro-Hamas or anti-Israel sentiment. Scalise discussed the various “levers” and “tools” by which the government can crack down on universities, even threatening their existence altogether.
“Clearly this administration doesn’t care, but if you get an administration that actually says ‘we’re not going to play the game anymore,’ there’s a lot of levers and tools that will get [universities’] attention, day one,” Scalise said. “Your accreditation is one the line, you’re not playing games anymore or else you’re not a school anymore.”
The hour-long meeting was framed as a discussion about antisemitism, but no one present attempted to differentiate between prejudice against Jews and criticism of the Israeli government and its actions. Scalise also slammed Jewish students who criticize Israel, asserting that they “just feel guilty that they’re alive.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-protests/
HOUSE REPORT | FBI pressures banks, files 4.6M suspicious activity reports, demands personal details.
The FBI has leveraged the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) to turn banks into information sources by flagging millions of legal transactions as “suspicious.” The BSA mandates that financial institutions keep detailed records of significant cash transactions and report any activities that could hint at illegal activities like money laundering or tax evasion.
In 2023, banks filed 4.6 million Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), a notable rise from previous years. These SARs are used by the FBI for monitoring and investigating potentially suspicious activities.
The FBI takes these reports further by “data mining” them and demanding additional personal details from banks, such as emails, phone numbers, and app data. This deep dive into personal data can track everyday activities like grocery purchases and Uber receipts.
Following the events of January 6, 2021, the FBI requested banks to flag individuals who traveled to Washington, D.C., bought firearms, or booked hotels. Bank of America handed over information on 211 customers, and other banks flagged transactions at airports, Bass Pro Shops, and Starbucks. Even purchasing a coffee near D.C. could get someone flagged.
Looking forward, the government is urging banks to use artificial intelligence (AI) to track spending habits. This AI could potentially flag political donations, religious book purchases, and other personal transactions. Currently, about 27,000 government agents access this financial data daily without needing a warrant, raising significant privacy concerns.
https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-and-regulations/bank-secrecy-act
https://www.fincen.gov/answers-frequently-asked-bank-secrecy-act-bsa-questions
https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination/bsa/index-bsa.html
Iranian embassy in Damascus stormed after Assad's fall - report
Iranian media stated that an armed group, reportedly distinct from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebels who led the offensive across Syria, breached the embassy and nearby stores.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that diplomats had vacated the embassy earlier in the day, prior to the attack. The semi-official Tasnim News Agency also reported that all Iranian staff serving at Damascus’s revered Sayeda Zeinab and Sayeda Ruqqaya shrines had been evacuated to Iran before rebels entered the city.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-832513
China using Mariana Islands to get US birthright citizenship for children, lawmaker warns
Wisconsin GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany said during an interview with the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show that many Chinese nationals come to the Mariana Islands, and have children there in order to get them U.S. birthright citizenship and thus abuse the system.
Birthright citizenship is a much discussed topic in the media as some Republicans have toyed with the idea of getting rid of it, arguing that it was never constitutional. Congressman Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., earlier this week criticized a loophole that Chinese nationals are reportedly using to get U.S. citizenship through a U.S. territory.
"Under an Obama-era policy, Chinese nationals can visit the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands without a visa," Tiffany wrote on the social media platform, X. "Chinese women visit the islands to deliver their babies who automatically become U.S. citizens."
According to reports, there is a policy that was implemented under the Obama administration that allowed Chinese nationals to visit the northern Mariana Islands without a Visa.
Tiffany said during a Thursday interview with the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show that many Chinese nationals come to the Mariana Islands, have children in order to get them birthright citizenship and abuse the system. "We call it birth tourism," he said. "There are more children being born to Chinese nationals than there are to native people of the Marianas. And that tells you everything you need to know."
He alleged that some of the Chinese nationals had communist ties and were still allowed to come to the islands and participate in the birth tourism process.
During a hearing, Tiffany questioned Ur M. Jaddou, who was appointed as the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2021 about birth tourism.
"Why is the administration allowing this to continue where it is not required of a Chinese communist national coming into the northern Mariana Islands without a visa, having a child and that child becoming a citizen? Do you think that should be the case?" Tiffany asked. Jaddou said she was not a foreign policy expert and according to Tiffany, she didn't seem to be aware of that being an issue.
Conservative scholars have argued that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment doesn't grant citizenship to children of immigrants if they are born in the U.S., while liberal scholars argue it does. Earlier this week, Congressman Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., said he thinks President-elect Donald Trump ought to end birthright citizenship through an executive order because he doubts the Senate will pass such a measure.
"In the Senate, they have a filibuster rule which means for things that are purely policy-related, they're going to need 60 votes," Grothman said on the "Furthermore with Amanda Head" podcast. "They're not going to get 60 votes. So it's going to have to be his just order coming down."
Former Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced legislation in July that would end birthright citizenship for immigrants who came to the U.S. Grothman argued that Democrats misinterpreted the 14th Amendment and said it was aimed at former slaves, not immigrants.
"When they said in the Constitution, or when the amendments in the Constitution were put in, as to who was a citizen, they were aiming at former slaves," he said. "And now, the Democrats misconstrued [it]."
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/wisconsin-rep-slams-china-using-mariana-islands-get-us-birthright-citizenship
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Thirteen Years Ago: The US-NATO-Israel Sponsored Al Qaeda Insurgency in Syria
It Started in Daraa on March 17, 2011
Today, December 8, 2024, our thoughts are with the people of Syria.The coup d’Etat in Damascus, was led by Jihadist terrorists supported by US-NATO-Israel.
President Bashar Al Assad has left the country.
We must understand the history behind the December 2024 Damas Coup d’Etat. The objective of thirteen years of war led by jihadist terrorists sponsored by US-NATO-Israel was to destroy and impoverish an entire country, and install an Islamic State controlled by Washington.
And today, the media in chorus is applauding the Al Qaeda affiliated entities which have been used to destabilize Syria’s secular government and institutions.
There are no pro-jihadist demonstrations in the streets of Damascus.
At the outset of the US-NATO-Israel war on Syria in March 2011, the so-called “opposition”, was largely made up of Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists.
A US-NATO led war of aggression was portrayed as a “civil war”.
President Bashar Al Assad was casually described as a dictator who is killing his own people. The millions of deaths resulting from US-NATO led wars are not an object of concern.
The anti-war movement died in the wake of the Iraq war (April 2003). Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and counterterrorism prevail, which consists in supporting and financing terrorist mercenaries.
The war on Syria started 13 years ago in Daraa on the 17th of March 2011.
I was in Syria in early 2011 studying Arabic. I left the country in early March barely two weeks before the outbreak in Daraa.
The following article first published more than 13 years ago in May 2011 examines the inception of the jihadist terrorist insurgency.
It recounts the events of March 17-18, 2011 in Daraa, a small border town with Jordan.
It was not a protest movement, it was an armed insurgency integrated by US-Israeli and allied supported “jihadist” death squads
From Day One, the Islamist “freedom fighters” were supported, trained and equipped by NATO and Turkey’s High Command. According to Israeli intelligence sources (Debka, August 14, 2011):
NATO headquarters in Brussels and the Turkish high command are meanwhile drawing up plans for their first military step in Syria, which is to arm the rebels with weapons for combating the tanks and helicopters spearheading the Assad regime’s crackdown on dissent. … NATO strategists are thinking more in terms of pouring large quantities of anti-tank and anti-air rockets, mortars and heavy machine guns into the protest centers for beating back the government armored forces. (DEBKAfile, NATO to give rebels anti-tank weapons, August 14, 2011)
https://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-who-is-behind-the-protest-movement-fabricating-a-pretext-for-a-us-nato-humanitarian-intervention/24591
Bombshell Study Confirms Covid 'Vaccines' Alter Human Behavior
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=300004
The study found that Covid shots triggered a 68.3% spike in depression, a 43.9% increase in anxiety disorders, and a 93.4% surge in sleep disorders.
The researchers recruited 50% of the Seoul-resident population.
The participants were randomly selected from the government's Korean National Health Insurance Service (KNHIS) claims database.
The total of included participants was 2,027,353.
Psychiatric adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination: a population-based cohort study in Seoul, South Korea
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-024-02627-0
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Breaking: Former Trump Administration HHS Senior Advisor Provides Affidavit: "mRNA nanoparticle injections, are in fact biological and technological weapons of mass destruction"
“Dr. Joseph Sansone
Former Trump Administration Health and Human Services (HHS) Senior Advisor, and epidemiologist, Dr. Paul Alexander, provided an affidavit stating that mRNA nanoparticle injections are biological and technological weapons. Dr. Alexander, a Trump loyalist, provided the affidavit in a new case in the State of Florida.
Case # 2024-CA-001977 initiated by psychotherapist, Dr. Joseph Sansone is seeking an injunction to prohibit Governor Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody from allowing the continued distribution of COVID-19 and mRNA injections in the State of Florida because they are biological weapons. The complaint also seeks declaratory judgements that the COVID 19 injections and all mRNA nanoparticle injections violate Weapons of Mass Destruction § 790.166, Fla. Stat. (2023); Fraud § 817.034 Fla Stat. (2023); and Florida Medical Consent Law § 766.103 Fla Stat. (2023).
Dr. Alexander has a bachelor's degree in epidemiology from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and a master's degree from Oxford University. And a PhD from McMaster University's Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. Dr. Alexander’s master’s degree is in clinical epidemiology and community health from University of Toronto, a masters in evidence based medicine and clinical epidemiology from Oxford, a doctorate in evidence based medicine.
Dr. Alexander served as a pandemic advisor to The World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization (WHO, PAHO) as it related to COVID in 2019 and 2020 and also was then taken on by the Trump administration; and served in the Trump administration as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the COVID pandemic 2020.
At the height of the COVID hysteria Dr. Alexander was a calm voice of reason opposing draconian measures such as masks, social distancing, and lockdowns. Dr. Alexander also stood in support of Canadian truckers and the freedom convoy that was later crushed by Canadian dictator Justin Trudeau.
Dr. Alexander’s affidavit is the ninth expert affidavit provided in the case stating the injections are bioweapons. Affidavits were provided by Francis Boyle, J.D., PhD; Karen Kingston; Ana Mihalcea, M.D., PhD; Rima Laibow, M.D.; Andrew Zywiec, M.D.; Marivic Villa, M.D., and Avery Brinkley, M.D., and Dr. Ben Marble, M.D.
https://lawyerlisa.substack.com/p/breaking-former-trump-administration
Craig Murray: Fall of Syria About Greater Israel
Speaking from Beirut in this video on Sunday, the former British diplomat explains the fall of Damascus within the context of the project for Greater Israel.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1865816995788136789